I stared at the man.
He stared back with a smile.
"The Doctor? Doctor who?" Zhara asked.
"Just the Doctor. What might your names be?" he asked.
"I am Haven Gray, and that is Zhara Mild," I answered.
I looked at him more closely. He was tall, and very attractive. I mean very, very attractive. He looked energetic and wise. But most of all he looked attractive.
"Nice to meet you, Haven and Zhara," he said walking over with his arm extended.
I stood up, took his hand, and shook it. Zhara stood up behind me and stepped at my side. The Doctor offered his hand to Zhara an she shook it, as well.
"Well then! You two seem to be having weird dreams, am I correct?" he said.
I gapped at him.
"How did you know?" Zhara asked, shocked. She then looked at me. "Why haven't you told me you were having weird dreams, too?" she asked. I heard a hint of cold betrayal in her voice.
"Because I didn't want to freak you out…" I said. "I was eventually going to tell you."
She didn't say anything to me. She only looked back to the Doctor.
"How did you know?" she repeated.
"Well, it's a bit complicated to explain. Let's see… my TARDIS gets distress signals from anyone who is in distress and I got one telling me about your dreams. So I came here to help you with your… distress," he explained.
Again. I gapped.
"TARDIS? What is a TARDIS?" Zhara asked.
"Do you see the big blue police box behind me?" he asked.
"Yes," Zhara and I said the same time.
"That is the TARDIS," he concluded.
I once again looked at the blue box. This thing was in my dreams, and by what Zhara described, it was in her dreams, too. That thing was called the "TARDIS"?
"What does it do?" Zhara asked.
"It travels through time and space," he answered.
"Wait… it travels through time and space and it gives you distress signals? I didn't even send a distress signal, well, we didn't anyway," Zhara said. She was confused and scared, but she hid that with anger and being defensive. I know her, that's how I can tell.
"You didn't send it on purpose. I just got the signal that someone was in trouble. Now calm down and tell me about your dreams," he said. "But first come into the TARDIS where it's warm. I'll get you some towels and some blankets to dry off and get warm."
I looked at Zhara who shrugged. He didn't seem bad. So we followed him into the blue box, the TARDIS.
As soon as I stepped in I froze and gasped. The inside was way bigger than it was on the outside. There was a large round console in the middle of a room at least three times bigger than my living room. It had all different colors such as orange, god, green, and blue.
"It's beautiful…" I breathed. I guess Zhara was speechless because she only agreed with a nod.
"I'll be right back," the Doctor said and stepped out of the room for less than a minute and then came back. With him he carried two blue towels and two large blue blankets.
He handed us the towels first and we dried ourselves off. Then he wrapped the blankets around us. They were very warm.
"Thank you," I said with a smile.
"You're most welcome," he said, smiling back. He gestured to some chairs and Zhara and I sat in them.
"So now tell me about your dreams," the Doctor said.
"Which one first?" I asked.
"You, if you don't mind."
"Well… I dreamed about this blue box, the TARDIS. And about these large stone angels and at first they looked like they were crying but then they would change and look scary. It was almost like it was real, and Zhara was in them, too," I explained.
The Doctor looked a bit worried. Then he turned to Zhara. "What about you?"
"Everything that Haven said, except I am not traveling with myself, I am traveling with Haven," she said.
"Interesting… very interesting," he said, looked at us for a bit and then grabbed this thing from his coat. It was long and it had a green tip light.
"What is that?" I asked.
"This is a sonic screw driver," he answered.
"What does it do?"
"It sonics," he said and then he pointed it at Zhara. It made this weird noise, poped, and then he looked at it. "Very, very interesting," he said. Then he pointed at me and it did the same thing. "Nope, you girls are fine. I don't understand why you would be having these dreams."
I looked at him confused. "Then what is interesting?"
"Well, you are having these dreams of things you have never seen before, and then today you see them. Well, you see the TARDIS. Let's pray you never see the Weeping Angels," he said.
"Weeping Angels? Is that what those stone angels called?" Zhara asked.
"Yes, and they are very, very evil," the Doctor said.
I looked around the place. Then I got an idea.
"Do you think we could travel with you?" I asked.
He looked at me. "No, it is way too dangerous for girls at your ages to be traveling around in space where there are hundreds of bad things. There are things that could eat you, kill you, maim you and countless of other things."
"I don't care! I don't want to go back home! We are moving away to a place I have never been before when I have known this place all my life! I don't want to leave Haven all by herself with her parents!" Zhara said fiercely.
"Not now, Zhara," I pleaded.
"I don't want to go to my mom! She is so mean, you cant even have a conversation with her without her yelling!"
"Zhara."
"I never see my dad cause he ran off when I was five! I have always wanted to run away, and Haven is the only one who keeps me here! If it wasn't for Haven I wouldn't even be here! If we move, I will run away either way!"
"ZHARA!" I said loudly. "Stop…" I then looked up at the Doctor.
He looked stunned. It was one of those faces of a person you couldn't guess what they would do next.
He looked like he was thinking. Yeah, that's it. He looked like he was thinking.
Then, after a long, long awkward silence he said, "Okay… you two can travel with me."
I was so happy! I jumped up and hugged the Doctor tightly.
"Thank you so much," I said, my voice full of tears. These were happy tears though.
Zhara jumped up and down giggling loudly.
"You're welcome," he said, hugging me back. You could hear the smile in his voice.
When we parted, he winked, and twirled around to the console. I giggled as I watched him.
"So, girls, Where do you want to go?" he said with an adventurous smile.
