Chapter 3 The Doctor- I'm just as confused

I knew I was in trouble when the TARDIS locked onto Earth and made a crash landing. I hadn't expected to have landed on a ship, then again it wasn't the first time I had run into a ship. This time though, I hadn't been making repairs. In fact, I had been planning on visiting the 1889 World's Fair but I'd ended up here and the TARDIS had no plans on leaving any time soon. She'd planted herself onto the deck and I had no idea how to get her unstuck so I'd gone outside. Eleven guns were immediately trained on me and I was surrounded by a group of men who most would have called uncivilized. Then she joined them, the Captain. I'd figured out I was on a pirate ship but then she walked out with her jeans and band tee shirt and turned on all kinds of lights, not things normally found on Earth pirate ships. I thought I had been very upfront with her but I'd still ended up in the brig. I could have gotten out earlier but since the TARDIS hadn't wanted to move, I stayed put.

Jack followed me up on the deck. "Captain?" I heard one of them yell to her seeing me out of my cell.

"It's okay," she assured them. A rifle was offered to her but she waved it off. Maybe she was a little less barbaric than I'd thought. "Okay, what do you want me to see?" She asked impatiently as we walked up onto the deck. The sunlight was almost blinding but it was nice, good to see sunlight and brightness for a change. I looked over this Captain Jack in the light finally getting a good look at her. She had a long black sweater pulled over her shorts, cutoff denim to the knees. Her long blonde hair was still as wild as it was the night before sticking up in various places like she hadn't brushed it in days. She was smaller than I had thought from last night, almost a foot shorter than me with a softer face even though she was frowning at me.

"This," I told her looking away and back to the TARDIS. I pulled open the door and waved my arm for her. "Ladies first."

She rolled her eyes and poked her head in. "Holy hellfire," she exclaimed. Definitely American. "It's bigger on the inside." She walked in.

"Yeah I get that a lot," I smiled and followed her in.

"You weren't lying?" She said that as more of a question as she spun around to face me. "Who the hell are you?"

"I'm the Doctor," I repeat nearly laughing as her eyes went back to wandering. "I'm a Time Lord."

"I don't know what that is."

I looked down at the floor wondering if it was always going to be like this. The humans never knowing anything about the universe around them. It seemed like I was always explaining that I was the last of my kind and them never understanding what that's like. Jack leaned against the center console and looked at me. "How did it get here?"

"I don't know, she picked here and rooted herself," I looked over the monitors. She was still stuck. "You wouldn't have anything extraterrestrial aboard would you?" She shook her head no quickly. "Okay, nothing odd that would attract something like my ship?"

She turned her head away from me. She was hiding something. "Not that I know of. We just run cargo. I don't ask about the cargo but it wouldn't be anything like that."

"Yet you have a ship from the 18th century?"

"Found her in shallow waters 15 years ago and restored her," Jack said. She was still lying to me but it looked like I had plenty of time to figure out what about.

"My turn," I said and sat down across from where she was leaning. "Where am I?"

"My ship, the Sunset Ambrosia, Atlantic Ocean heading for Mexico, Earth, 2010," she looked at me with her piercing green eyes and I wondered how many men had fallen into that trap. She kept looking at me like she was trying to figure me out and I wanted to tell her I was just as confused as she was about our situation but she stood up. "I have things to do. Since I trust you won't be staying in the brig any longer, you can at least make yourself useful. Joey can find you something to do or you can focus your attention on getting this thing off my ship."

"Yes ma'am," I told her trying to be serious as she walked back out into the bright sunshine. She didn't seem like the type to joke about all the time. "Well," I said to the console," time to go find what brought us here." Assuming Jack didn't shoot me for wandering about her ship.