"What?" Tabatha's voice went up an octave.

The Doctor cocked his head, not knowing why an adventure was something hard to grasp.

"An adventure Tabatha. Y' know, I've got a time machine, we could go anywhere!"

Tabatha hopped off the counter top, not saying a word, and began to pace her kitchen floor.

"But I have school, and those paintings I have to finish for the local gallery" She started to mumble, "whose going to look after my house while I'm away? And I just bought groceries…"

"Tabatha?"

Tabatha halted in mid stride and looked up at the Doctor.

"It's a time machine. We could go, and then come back later this evening."

She just looked at him, almost like she was processing his words. And then, a smile spread across her face.

"That's true isn't it?" She began to giggle, "That's true! Okay! Wait here Doctor I'm going to change into trousers and slip on some sensible shoes!" Tabatha dashed up stairs. "Terrific!" She hollered down to the Doctor.

There was shuffling and trampling and tossing about up stairs as the Doctor sat and waited.

"I do have a whole wardrobe on the TARDIS." He called out to her.

Tabatha emerged sporting red plaid pants that went with her sweater and yellow lace up shoes.

"I would very much like to see that." She smiled at him as she rebraided her hair.

"Are we all set then?"

She nodded.

As they left her house she locked up, blowing a kiss goodbye to her cottage. They stood at the door of the Doctors blue Police Call Box.

"Take a look at this." He said as he opened the door.

Tabatha's jaw almost dropped to the ground. The Doctor smiled at her reaction, that never gets old, he thought.

She took a few steps inside, grasping the opal pendant on her lucky necklace.

"It's…" Excitement welled up inside of her. She dashed around the TARDIS's main platform. "It's bigger on the inside!" She exclaimed. She gazed at its' control board, all the knobs, switches and blinking lights. Her face lit up like a child's on Christmas morning. "This is terrific!" her hands hovered over all the controls, shaking with anticipation. "How does this work?" She gazed up at the doctor like he was her favorite professor.

"Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey...The real question, Tabatha Wheat, is where do you want to go?"

She looked back down in thought.

"Anywhere?"

Yup."

"Anytime?" She asked.

"Oh yeah." He replied

Tabatha thought, maybe something knowledgeable, something she could learn from.

"A museum!" She exclaimed.

The Doctor looked at her, "A museum? Are you sure?"

She nodded with a full face smile, "Mmhm! But you pick! Like a fancy one with a ton of neat thingies!"

"Okay." The doctor flipped a switch. "I know," and he punched some buttons, "Just the," The Doctor flipped a few more switched a punched a couple of buttons in this sort of weird ritual dance as he dashed around the platform. "Place!" He flipped on last switch and the TARDIS began to shake and rattle, making that weird sound again.

And then it stopped.

The Doctor grabbed Tabatha's hand a lead her to the door.

"We are on the planet Dawei in the year thirty fourteen. It's home to one of the most intellectual creature in time and space, the Fluvan." He pushed open the TARDIS's door to reveal a bustling planet, its surface glimmering with the shine of silver chrome. There were flying vehicles and dome buildings everywhere. Tabatha was in complete awe. She was almost afraid to step out of the TARDIS.

"Hello Doctor." A seemingly female creature approached them. Her eyes were huge, a deep glossy blue, and she had…no…mouth. She wore a silver headdress and a long silk gown to match.

"Ah! Jodo! It is very nice to see you again." He took her outstretched hand and placed it against his forehead. Her fingers were long and slender and her skin a pale green. Jodo's eyes darted over to Tabatha and she suddenly became very nervous under this strangers gaze.

"Jodo, this is my new friend Tabatha!" Jodo presented her hand to Tabatha the same way she did to the Doctor.

"Oh, uh," She took her hand and mimicked the Doctors actions.

"Hello Tabatha, new friend of the doctor. I am Jodo and this, is Dawei."