To the guest who said I moved them to tears reading the previous chapter, I am not sorry whatsoever because really, it makes me happy. I made someone experience an emotional high -even negative- with my words alone. Although, I am sorry I made you upset. In a way. It's a weird sort of emotions that I experience when I'm told I made people cry.

To those that have followed and favorited this fic as reviewing, you know that you are my inspiration to keep writing. I love you all. I do have an interesting place to take this and I hope you'll be surprised.

This is my new disclaimer: if I owned anything fandom I wrote about EVER I wouldn't need to work five days a bloody week. Doctor Who belongs to it's owners, while Alice belongs solely to me. You want to use her adventures with The Doctor? Ask me first. I just might let you.

"Speaking"

Thinking

Kidnap the Sandy Claws

Alice woke up stretching from her spot on the couch in the library of the TARDIS, covered by a light blanket becoming curious as to how that got on her, as she hadn't been the one to do that and wondered if the Doctor guy had done so. That had been nice of the stranger. She folded the blanket up and lay it on top of the couch she liked knowing that if allowed, it would be her spot to sit at, and she liked to be comfortable. Blame being a twenty-first century woman who liked the finer things but could do without them. She walked through the console once more at the entrance wrapping herself deeper into the jumper. Was it just her or did the temperature drop? She thought to herself rubbing her arms wondering if this was normal. She turned her head as the TARDIS made a sound and looked at the screen curiously as an image showed on it. Oh, they had moved! She hadn't even noticed. Then again, if tired enough and in deep sleep, she knew that not much could get her awake and aware of being in that state, and yet once woken up, she wouldn't be able to go back to sleep. She looked around glad that she had something warm in the suddenly cold atmosphere zipping up the jumper to conserve her heat. "Oh my gosh! My parents!" She said out loud grabbing her phone out of her pocket and saw that she did indeed have battery life, but absolutely no signal. "I really should have guessed. I mean it looks like a winter wonderland out there, and there seems to be no telephone poles that I saw." She said knowing how worried her mother was going to be if she didn't call. She looked up as the TARDIS made another humming sound and showed the outside of the box. "Oh, it's a call box so you must have a phone!" She said with a smile glad to know that so far, she was doing a good job at guessing what the TARDIS wanted to tell her. It was really educated guesses and common sense. Plus she had a feeling that the sentient time and space machine had an attachment to her. Which was pretty cool now that she had the time to think about things. She shook her head trying to concentrate. "Alright. I need a better jacket than this and gloves if I'm going to go out there." She said and walked out and was instantly shown a door and rose an eyebrow. "Well, I feel honored. I have a feeling you're not as lenient with all the other visitors. You're very kind. Thank you very much." She thanked the machine and got out a heavy coat and found a box of gloves, putting them on as well, as she headed outside the TARDIS. "I won't be long out here. Would you mind not locking the doors until I come back in?" She asked as she got out and closed the door, not wanting the snow to get inside and bother the machine. It was after all still a working machine and shouldn't be exposed to the cold for long. She opened the compartment with the phone in pulling the hood over her head as she dialed the number that she could say backwards. It rang for a few moments.

"Hello?" Her mother, Jessica Cater answered the phone worry in her tone.

"Hey mom." Alice said as calmly as possible.

"ALICE JANE CARTER WHERE IN THE BLAZES HAVE YOU BEEN?!" Her mom demanded. "I WAS WORRIED SICK ABOUT YOU!"

"I know, I'm sorry, I really should have called once I was safe, but I was so distracted by the Cybermen attack and getting to safety and moving somewhere else, that I completely forgot to call you until this very minute. I promise I'm very safe." Alice promised knowing that was true for the moment. All she was, was cold. She was somewhere it was winter after all, so wasn't all that surprised.

"Where are you?" Her mom asked.

"I...uh...don't know. All I know is that we landed somewhere that's snowing. I was lead to a safe ship and we must have taken off while I fell asleep at the library." Alice explained as best as she could. She figured she could get away with a small white lie. Besides, she hadn't been completely lying. She had been lead to a safe ship and she had fallen asleep at the TARDIS' library. "I would have called on the cell phone but there's no reception. I had to use the captain's phone."

"Great how much is that going to be?" Her mother harped but there was a tone of joking there that made Alice giggle.

"Dunno. We'll see I guess. Well I can't stay on too long." Alice said as she had said she wouldn't be too long. All she had needed to do was make sure her mom knew she was safe.

"How about the captain? Is he trustworthy?"

"I'm not too sure. I haven't met him yet. But I'm told he's a doctor. I explored the ship and fell asleep at the library like I said. So I'm certain he's trustworthy. After all, he hasn't kicked me off yet. And if he does, I'm certain it'll be back to London." Alice says for it was the least this Doctor could do right? If he didn't want her on, that was. She hoped he would.

"Be safe okay Alice?" Her mother asked.

"Of course. I miss you. Tell dad I said, 'hello' alright?" Alice asked and hung up the phone turning around, after closing the box and saw a reindeer. "Uh...hi there. Far from home aren't you?" She asked the animal but realized this could be it's home. She did after all have no idea where she was. It was highly likely. And realized she was speaking to an animal...but then realized she had a one-way conversation with a sentient time and space machine so this wasn't as different as that in all actuality. She shook her head with a small laugh. "This is completely nutters." She says softly going inside the box, closing the door after her. Wait...reindeer? Snow? No. No way. "Can't be." She said to herself shaking her head. They couldn't be in the North Pole could they? But..."Santa can't be real can he?" She asked but then a voice said: well just yesterday you would have sworn that metal men that wanted humanity dead wasn't real. So why can't Santa be real? And she had to agree with it.

[~]

Alice was in the kitchen when the machine made a groaning noise like a car would with it's parking break on, grabbing onto something as the machine moved and wondered just how in the heck she had slept through this the first time this happened, the water thankfully not spilling over. She was making something warm to drink warming her hands over the heat. When the ship landed with a soft thud Alice let go of her death grip on whatever it was she was holding and got, strangely enough three cups and filled two with hot cocoa, and the second with Grey tea. How could she know what they would want, she would never be able to say. She went to the console just as another woman came inside the doors. The other woman was shorter than Alice, with chocolate brown hair and eyes, dressed in pajamas. Alice's eyes widened. "You must be freezing half to death! Come here, and have some cocoa." She said with a smile as she offered the cup to the other woman.

"Who are you?" The woman asked.

"I'm Alice, Alice Carter. I'm sorry, I'm sort of a...unplanned visitor." Alice said sheepishly with a small smile as if to say she didn't mean any harm. "But I'm nice. I promise. Here." Alice said grabbing the cup she had extended to the other woman in her as occupied hand with her own cup of the hot liquid and placed the woman gently onto the seat that she had seen and gave the cup to the woman wrapping the cold fingers around the cup and then taking off the jumper after placing her own cup somewhere safe and out of the way and wrapping it around the woman's shoulders lounging on the ground grabbing the cup again with a smile. "So who're you?" Alice questioned.

"You're American." The woman pointed out.

"And you're British." Alice said with a shrug as if to say, 'how does that matter any?' looking at the woman expectantly.

"Clara. Clara Oswald. I didn't think I'd see The Doctor again. How did you get on board the TARDIS and when?" Clara asked still looking at Alice as if she had yet to prove her trustworthiness. Which was perfectly understandable.
"Well, I asked to come in." Alice answered with the truth.

"And the TARDIS just let you in?" Clara asked incredulously.

"Yeah. Oh, and I was lead here. During that Cyberman raid." Alice offered the information willingly, sitting on the ground.

"Happy Easter." An older sounding Scottish accent snarls and a man enters the TARDIS annoyance clear on his face. "I see you're finally awake. Good. Now you can tell me where you can be dropped off." He said going to the console seeing the cup laying there with a dish of sugar cubes.

"It's a peace offering and a 'thank you' for not disturbing my rest. I hope I got it right. I have only begun to learn the 'proper' English way of preparing tea a few days ago." Alice said at the curious face he wore sipping at the hot drink after adding six sugar cubes. He had a sweet tooth! They'd get along famously, Alice hoped for she adored sugar as well.

"One more thing...hello Alice. I have something for you." A man in a red fluffy suit, a white beard and a highly recognizable hat said as he stood in front of the open doors. Alice stood up and went towards Kris Kringle, a bright smile on her lips.

"You do exist. It's an honor to meet you, sir." Alice said with a childish gleam in her eyes.

"As it is to meet you. Here. You're going to need this." Santa said giving her a piece of paper with what seemed to her to be complete nonsense. "It's coordinates. You have something of importance to deliver don't you? This is where he is." He said kindly.

"Oh thank you. You didn't have to do that. I'm not overly sure I'll be welcome here." She admits with a 'that's life' shrug.

"Well, you didn't exactly ask did you?" Santa asked tapping his nose with a cheeky grin and closes the doors of the TARDIS. She giggles and glances between the man and the woman.

"Right. Well, I'll leave the awkward here, for you two to get over. If you need me, I'm going to once more explore the TARDIS. And, by the way the TARDIS is bigger on the inside. And is beautiful." She complements as she left the two alone uncomfortable in the awkward feeling that they were broadcasting. Hopefully it wouldn't take too long to clear the air.

Kris sighs as he watched the blue box disappear. He knew Alice Jane Carter. Oh yes. Especially the fact that she was adopted. He even knew her birth parents.

"I do hope The Doctor never finds out." He said under his breath a bit of a worried expression in his eyes as an image of The Mistress showed in his magic snowball that allowed him to see everyone.**

[Next time on Alice in the TARDIS]

"Look at this! The writing kinda looks like it says Wonderland don't it?" Alice asks with a grin to the man beside her.

"I'm Lewis Carroll. It's nice to meet you."

"OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!"

I wanted to write this and get it published before Christmas but during is alright, yeah? For during the New Year, I will not get anything done until January. I hope you my readers have a great holiday, may your new year be blessed with happiness, and I love each and every one of you. I really do.

Double bullet: Hmm...I wonder what that means? -evil grin-