Blood Lines
Chapter 2
As Clara and the Doctor entered the second Tardis, they were almost blinded by the brightness of the interior. As their eyes adjusted, they gazed in awe at the blue and silver walls that seem to create the lighting. It was beautiful. In the center of the room was a bright blue console that seem to go from the base where the controls were to the top of the ceiling like a trunk of a great tree. Under the console was where the sparks were coming from, the Professor was standing within the sparks with her arms crossed as well as a similar look on her face.
"I haven't got all day you know, I really need to get back to my Universe so I'm reluctantly letting you help me." She said, "The faster I'm out of here the better it is for all of us."
The Doctor strolled towards her, "What's your rush? I don't get the opportunity to meet another Time Lord, even though she's quite young."
"Oi! Again with the age thing, You'd think a Time Lord wouldn't be so obsessed with it." She answered back, "What does it matter that I'm young?"
"He gets obsessed with the silliest of things." Clara giggled.
"You're not helping." The Doctor sneered, "Professor, please indulge me for a time. I am a lonely Time Lord that just wants to forget for a time that he's alone in this world."
The Professor's eyes seem to soften at his plea, she understood that statement more than he realized. Perhaps a little time wouldn't hurt, this was a chance of a life time for her, to talk to the actual Doctor... The Doctor! The man that has been such a large part for her life.
"Alright, you win. After we get my Tardis fixed we can have a nice spot of tea and crumpets or something." The professor mocked as she knelt down to the open panel below the console, the sparks whisked past her head, "Here's where the problem is, I tried to disconnect the main power coil in the trans-dimension engine when it wouldn't shut off from the console."
The Doctor knelt beside her as Clara carefully looked around the room, "Did you try the manual override first?"
The professor gave him a dirty look, "Of course I did, I'm not a blooming idiot! I know how to operate a Tardis!"
"Don't take it so offensively, just want to go through every detail. Now, what happened before you went through the rift, as much detail as you can give me would be best."
"Well..." She thought for a moment, "...I was in the garden, I noticed the Tardis calling me so I thought she wanted to go for a trip so I thought I should get it out of her system since she hadn't gone out for a bit. So We went off and everything was fine until she just started to open a rift! I tried everything to get her the stop but she wouldn't. I know they are sentient but to take control like that? Well that just blew my mind! She never did that before so I had to stop it before we went through. So I did the only thing I could think of, I pulled the power coil out of the trans-dimensional engine. It worked for a moment but then it started all over again. And next thing I know we're here. I never knew they could have a mind of their own."
The Doctor smiled, "Oh they can, my own never takes me where I want to go, only where I need to go. So it's always a surprise every time. I like surprises, do you?"
"Depending on the surprise." She gave him a weird look.
"Alright now, what we need to do is completely turn off the power to all the engines and take a good look."
The Professor got up and stretched, "I'll go shut it off in the power room, don't touch anything while I'm gone!"
She walked to the closest door to them and walked through it was the door opened and closed without a touch.
"Well that's something your Tardis doesn't do." Clara commented as she stood beside the doctor, "Can we theories now?"
The Doctor looked up to her with a wide grin, "Oh I love to theories with you."
"Good!" Clara said as she knelt down beside him and the Doctor took out his screwdriver and started to work on the console, "So, who do you think she is?"
"Oh she is such a surprise!" The Doctor stopped and took a good look at his screwdriver, "Oh this is spectacular!"
"Well don't keep it to yourself, tell me what you think!" Clara demanded.
The doctor gave her a serious look, "She's my daughter...from the future! I'm sure of it!" He let out his excitement a bit.
Clara gave him a puzzled look, "Really? What makes you think that?"
The doctor extended his arms out, "This! This Tardis IS an offspring from my very own Tardis! Oh and that fierceness! Oh it's got Pond written all over it! That sass that I miss oh so much"
"Pond?" Clara asked.
"Yes, Pond! River's mother was a former companion, Amy and Rory Pond. A long time ago. Oh River is going to be so exited! But we can't tell her...spoilers..."
"But I thought Time Lords can't have children..." Clara asked.
"And I never thought that River could be possible until she was. If it's one thing I have learned in my very long life is that nothing is impossible."
"Really?" Clara looked back at the door to make sure that the professor was not coming back too soon, "Can you just scan her and check her DNA or something?"
The Doctor looked at her strangely, "Why? And ruin the excitement and adventure of discovering the truth? Oh I couldn't spoil that!"
"Well this is was I think, she could be a Time Lord from way back before you trapped them in that time bubble and she got stuck in another dimension or in the actual void. Since you've stated that the Tardises were removed from activity long before you were born. I'm sure your Tardis had lots of babies before she was put in that museum..."
The lights under the console turned off, The Doctor looked back at the damaged engine, "Well, that does make very good sense..."
"Then it's settled, a bet then?" She smiled at him as she extended her open hand to him.
"You want to make a bet? What do I win?" He grinned.
Clara sighed, "I'll let you take me disco dancing, in the 70s."
"And if you win?"
Clara grinned, "Then you'll take me to Great Library of Alexandria."
The Doctor shook her hand, "Deal! I've always enjoyed Cleopatra's company."
The Professor entered back into the console room, "Well everything seems to still be running in tip top shape, but I'll need to fuel up before I leave. The crossing drained a lot of her power."
"No surprise..." The Doctor said as he and Clara got up to their feet, "I'm quite shocked that you didn't blow the transistor hyperlinks inside. The shock of loosing that power could have shorted it out but since she used the bulk of her power to open the rift that saved it from surging. Very lucky indeed."
The Professor crossed her arms, "Then explain me this smarty pants, If cutting the power to the trans-dimensional engine would stop the rift from opening, then how did I still come through? The Tardis couldn't keep it open, it should have closed right after but it stayed open. Explanation please?"
The Doctor rushed around Clara and to the Professor's side, "Easy Professor, because another Tardis from the other side kept it open."
The young Time Lord starred at the Doctor with eyes wide open in shock, "But that's not possible! You're Tardis can't open a rift..."
"No..." The Doctor grinned, "...but she can keep one open."
"But why would she? It seems that they are conspiring...why?" The Professor asked confused in her revelation.
"As I have said before my dear Professor, my Tardis takes me where I need to be... the real questions is why I needed to meet you, any ideas why both the Tardises had the same intentions?" He stared at her with intense concentration, as if he was examining her.
"How the bloody Hell should I know why your Tardis helped my Tardis kidnap me..." The professor threw her hands in the air to break the tension between them, "...that's it! I've been kidnapped by two time machines! Oh this is going to be one for the books."
"Now now..." Clara chimed, "...there's no need to get excited, the Doctor will be able to short it out and you can go back on your way home...right after tea...!"
"Clara's right." The Doctor smiled, "I have a spare coil in my Tardis you can have. I don't use my trans-dimensional engine so we can certainly use the parts. No fear dear, we will get your Tardis repaired."
"Then what are we waiting for?" The professor asked as she started to walk out of her Tardis, "Lets get her working. I've been here for less than ten minutes and I'm already not liking it here."
"Oh I hope it's not because of us..." Clara asked, "It seems to bother you a lot that we want to help you so much."
"I'd rather not get into things..." The professor began as they all exited the Tardis and walked into what seemed like a patrol of black armor guards.
There were at least 20 of them, black helmets and goggle, couldn't see their faces. They all had an energy riffle pointed at them. A tall dark skinned man walked calmly from the armed men dressed in a black suit with a bright red tie.
The Doctor and Clara raised their hands as the Professor groaned and crossed her arms in frustration, "Are you serious? I need this as much as I need a crack in my skull..."
"I suggest you raise your arms..." the Doctor said as she raised her arms up.
The man in the suit smiled at them, "We've been expecting you..."
To be continued...