Chapter 2

_Ebony looked at the others and grinned wickedly, this was going to be awesome. "Come one Sweetie! Let's get at it!" she laughed to the Doctor.
"We would love a tour Doctor, but first, allow us to quickly grab our camera! We'd love to document it, beside photos are great!" Beth said with a smile on her small face.
Nodding for them to do as they please, the Doctor watched as they climbed out of the T.A.R.D.I.S and scrambled to fix their clothes and find the camera. Grinning, the Doctor grabbed Rose's hand and pulled her so they spun around in excitement.

Rose was laughing wildly, overjoyed to be with both her Doctor and her friend once more. She watched, trying to hold in her giggles, as the teens climbed back into the T.A.R.D.I.S, but as Claire fell in, landing on her butt with an 'ooomph' she couldn't help it and once more burst into laughter.

Pulling herself to her feet, Claire stood indignantly and pointedly ignored Rose, till she couldn't help it, catching the contagious giggles. Smiling, she finally turned around, wiping tears from her eyes and said "So How about that tour?"

The Doctor nodded.

"Alright this way please"

He walked them in a full circle around the T.A.R.D.I.S console.

"So this is our console, where we make stuff happen! So you have the Imobulator which is right here," he gestured to it. "The manual, press this button and it will pop up. Give it a go"

Laughing Beth's hand darted around the Doctor's to hit the button and the manual popped out. For some reason, it flew around the console to hit Claire, who obviously didn't see it coming from her position.

"What the actual hell?!" Claire complained. She threw it to Darcy who grinned opening it up, wanting to read it, before the Doctor took it back.

"You can read it later!" he laughed placing it back in the grip, allowing it to be pulled back into the console.

Darcy walked over to one of the panels which had a large button in the center of it.

"What's this button do?" he asked curiously.
The Doctor ran round to where Darcy was and laughed.

"Oh that's broken, it was part of the chameleon systems that she had. Hasn't worked since my first regeneration" he sighed wistfully.
"Alright then! Okay!"

He nodded to Rose who replied "Really? Can I?"

The doctor nudged his head to the side, silently saying go ahead. Rose grinned cheekily, turning back to the others with a glint of mischief in her eyes.

"Alright with me then!"

Rose laughed pulling the Doctor into the nearest hallway, with Claire and Ebony close behind, followed by Beth, then Darcy and Michelle bringing up the rear.

Turning round, Michelle told the others she'd catch up on their exploration. Shrugging, they continued on, leaving Michelle alone. A grin flicked across her face as she looked up and laughed at you.
"You. Yeah you, reading the words right now. Yes, thank you now I have your attention,"
She (or I) looked directly at you because this next bit is, and was, pretty awesome.
"Continue on fair reader, I'll let the person in your head narrate from here." Grinning Michelle left the reader in peace, to allow them to continue on, the narrator now the small voice in your head that probably isn't even your voice... Shit, who is it? MICHELLE!
Right, sorry, moving on.

Rose and the Doctor led them down a hall in which they stopped in front of a giant ball pit. "Across this is the sleeping dorms, there are various rooms and such through here" the Doctor said an excited grin crossing his face. He continued forward, wading through the chest height balls, the others following. Or so he thought.

Behind him, Claire had gotten distracted by a curious hallway to her right, and with a suggestive look at Rose they went down said hallway. It seemed a little darker down there as they walked, the silence almost engulfing. Stepping closer to Claire, Rose murmured in her ear "We're not meant to come this way. This is the way to the Doctors study, and he doesn't want anyone in there."

She looked around worry on her face, as if they were going to get caught. Pulling Claire's arm, she started to drag her back towards the others

"Come on, were not meant to be here, let's go back"

Claire was really curious as to what was so bad behind the door, that the Doctor kept it hidden, so she quickly pulled her arm free.

"Hold on, my shoelace, keep going I'll be right behind you." she said with a fake but convincing smile on her face.

Rose nodded and headed back the way they came, leaving Claire alone in the corridor. A grin coming to her face, Claire jumped back onto her feet, a mischievous look crossing her face. She turned back towards the door and hurried down the corridor, stopping in front of the door. Up close it was a lot bigger than it had looked before. She reached out and hesitantly rattled the handle, but unsurprisingly found it locked. A wide smile spilt her face as she whispered "Challenge..."

She laughed softly pulling her lock picks from her pocket; this was going to be fun.

…...oOo...Back with the Doctor, he was losing his companions rather quickly...

Michelle's POV

As the tour started, Michelle realised it was probably a mistake for her to be at the end of the line, easily distracted as she was. As they started off, she heard the Doctor say something about not wandering off and noticed Claire and Rose immediately veer off into a room. She rolled her eyes at them, and continued on with the others as the Doctor talked continuously.

Walking down the corridor, Michelle ran her hand along the wall, barely listening as the Doctor prattled on. Suddenly, she felt a change. The smooth wall was gradually getting warmer. She stopped and turned to face the wall curiously.

She moved her hand up and down the wall to see if there was any change at different spots on the wall. Behind the wall, she could feel a slight humming. She glanced away from the wall and saw the others had continued along on the tour and as she went to catch up to them, she noticed a room.

About 10 feet down the hall from where she stood, was an open door. The humming got louder as she approached, the room seemed to be calling to her; nay the whole damn ship seemed to be calling to her.

She glanced back to the others and slipped into the room. The door slid closed behind her, encasing her in darkness. She turned quickly and then the lights slowly came on, allowing her eyes to adjust.

The room was huge at first glance, and superawesomemegafoxyhuge once you looked closer. In the far corner of the room was a big, round swimming pool that had an island in the middle with a bridge leading to it.

From this distance, Michelle couldn't tell what was on the island, and quite frankly right now she didn't care. For in the centre of this room was a giant, I guess thing is the only way to describe it. It reminded her of the T.A.R.D.I.S console, but instead of being surrounded by buttons and things, this was surrounded by several wicked awesome computer set ups.

It was then that Michelle realised it. "So this is what you wanted to show me," she muttered stroking the wall next to her before she walked towards the "thing" at the centre of the room. She had found the Wi-Fi room.

…...oOo...Beth's P.O.V

I continued along with the tour group, but I heard a small miaow come from somewhere off to my right. I stopped and looked around, when I heard the noise again, this time I knew where it was coming from. Looking down I saw a small brown kitten at the corner of a corridor. The Doctor, Rose, Ebony and Darcy had moved on, so I decided it wouldn't hurt to play with the kitten for a bit. Crouching down I patted I and it rubbed up against me, purring.

"Aren't you a good little kitty?" I spoke to it while petting.

I felt something metal underneath its chin; it was a name tag.

"Ace hey? So how did you get on here?" I felt a bit silly talking to cat, but I'd lost the other companions. She trotted off back down the hallway, nails clicking against the polished tiles. With nowhere else to go, I followed her. She led me to a door that was slightly ajar. She slipped in, so I opened the door. What was there surprised me more than the other rooms in the T.A.R.D.I.S.

There was an entire animal nursery in there! It was mostly made up of kittens, each with a different name tag, like Ace's. There were also a number of puppies, rabbits, lizards and even a white pony.

I stepped in and started to play with the animals, giving them belly rubs and treats from a specially labelled "treats box".

Even as I sat there playing I could see the T.A.R.D.I.S. always catered to each animal's needs. Their toys seemed to be able to move by themselves and food seemed to just "appear" at mealtimes. Sitting in this room comforted by all these creatures, seemed almost calming and definitely reassured me that this would be the best adventure I would ever go on.

…...oOo...Ebony's P.O.V

Ebony opened two large wooden doors and smiled to herself, she had found the library. There were books wall-to-wall floor to ceiling, the four-storey room covered in every book imaginable. Her eyes fell upon a huge leather bound book by a window, the light streaming in and hitting it.

Ebony walked forward, her eyes gleaming over its contents, the Gallifreyan words shining in gold, the stories of the time war written in detail below, and in the bottom right hand corner of the page, a name.

She grinned to herself and said "Hello there…" as everything fell into place. She pulled out her little blue book, that had every detail written down in it, and wrote down the last piece that she was missing.

She shut the leather bound book and then looked up at the huge Library.

"How have you been Sexy? Long time no see"

She remained there as she slowly caught up on what she'd missed, editing the Book of Gallifrey as she read.

…...oOo...

Darcy's POV

As I followed the Doctor back into the console room, he finished up the tour by saying,

"And back into the console room, so now that you've seen her, what do you think?"

He turned around "Wait what, where'd the others go?"

"Well" I started off "Claire and Rose walked off pretty much as you were saying not to wander off, Ebony left around the library, Beth sometime just before that, and Chelle got distracted by that warm room we passed"

The Doctor raised a hand to his face and inhaled, "And why didn't you walk off?"

"'Cause someone had to tell you where everyone else went" I replied

The Doctor let out a huge sigh.

" Alright, let's go find them all again"

…...oOo...

Back by the study door, Claire broke in finally. Pushing the door open, she silently crept in, closing it behind her and hurried across the floor to the large desk. Looking around her she quickly began to open the drawers and search through them hurriedly. The Doctor was a strange man, and she had the feeling that there was more to him than she or anyone else there knew, so she planned to find out. Running her hands along the bottom of the drawer she found what she was looking for. Being a mischief maker herself, she knew all the tricks for hiding something. Laughing softly to herself she lifted the false bottom out of the drawer and pulled the manila folder out from it. Sitting at the desk she opened the file and spread it out.

In it there were photos and stories, placing the writing aside Claire looked through the photos, a frown appearing as she looked at them. There were 10 in all...and they all had similarities...maybe, she thought to herself, maybe they were the Doctor's.

Unsure of what she was seeing, Claire left the file sitting on the desk and began looking through the Doctor's books, with the hope one of them would hold the answer she was looking for. Stepping backwards while reading one, she knocked the head of a statue back. Jumping, startled Claire watched as the statue stopped falling, as if on a hinge, and a door opened behind the pedestal it was rested on. Looking through the now opened, and not so secret, secret doorway, Claire could see a long hallway, with what appeared to be paintings...or mirrors. She had a strong feeling not to go in, like a complete and utter loathing of the room itself, but her curiosity got the better of her. Stepping through the doorway, she passed through a barrier, and walked down towards the first painting. In it was a dark door with the inscription 221 B on it, from an old show she once watched. She reached forward her fingers brushing the painting...then going through it. Not a Painting...but a doorway... That's when the lights switched off. Turning, Claire looked around her, her heart pounding like drums in her chest as an alarm went off, and the room around her began to melt away...

…...oOo...The T.A.R.D.I.S was not happy, this stranger had entered the Doctor's hall of Universes, and it was her duty to shut it down and transport the human to a holding room... but something was happening. Something she couldn't control...NO Red Alert! The T.A.R.D.I.S began to shake as her insides moved without her say. This human was not a normal human...the human was cancelling and reversing her ability to shut down the portals. They were merging! NO IT CAN'T...In a final attempt to stop the human The T.A.R.D.I.S knocked her out by taking the oxygen away...but it was too late, the damage was done and the human girl inside was no longer a threat. All that was left of the hall of universes was a single doorway, and the girl's foot was inside it...