I said I was going to wait, but I just couldn't. Here is the new chapter.

Eight years had passed in for Isilee since these mysterious people had defeated the hungry shadows, and much had changed. She knew by now that they weren't princes or princesses, so who were they? And the box... Wasn't it bigger on the inside? But that was absurd.

It was what consumed most of her free time these days, the question of the big blue box. When she tried to remember what it looked like that was all she remembered. It looked like a phone bow, but there weren't any windows that she remembered, and if there were then certainly not as many. When she tried to picture the inside, the only part she remembered was that it was filled with lights of all different colors. Maybe the box was just an entrance to the building though, because she was certain that there was plenty of room to play and hide in, even if she was tiny back then, she couldn't do all that in a phone box.

She tried to put it out of her mind while she and her friend made their way to their secret lair (which in reality was a hole that they had dug in the ground, reinforced with wooden walls and a ceiling, and covered back up for the most part so that the entrance was in a clump of tall grass). They knew their way to the hideout by heart, it was just past the sheep pasture at the base of the hill. It was where they spent almost all their time when they weren't at school, and the best part was that no one else knew it was there. It was probably bet that it stayed that way too, they didn't know whose property it was on, or really even if it belonged to someone, but if they found out that someone was using it then they would both be in big trouble.

Isi was walking backwards (a remarkable feat considering she could barely walk in a striaight line when she was facing forward) and talking to Miranda, her best and probably only real friend. She was the only one who seemed genuinely interested in her usual ravings about the blue box and it's two, or actually three inhabitants. As usual, it didn't take long for Isi to trip (probably over her own feet again) and she rolled all the way down the hill, somehow managing not to run into any of the three trees in her path. Her luck ran short though as she hit her head on an object that she thought must be wooden judging by the sound it made, and which should not have been there. Clutching her head, she looked up to see what it was.

What lay before her was not at all what she had been expecting. There on top of her lair was the blue box. She was certain this was it. Bigger than a normal phone box, but not by much and with no windows aside from on the top. Yes, this was definitely the one. She climbed to her feet and called up the hill excitedly, "Miranda! MIRANDA! It's the blue box! The one I told you about! Come see!" But her friend was laying on the ground laughing so hard that she was almost crying, and soon got the hiccups. Isilee rolled her eyes, "It wasn't even that funny." she muttered, as she walked up the hill and dragged Miranda to her feet.

Miranda Boyer was fifteen, the same age as Isilee. She had short light brown hair and wore glasses. Like most people, she was quite a bit taller than her friend, and pretty skinny. She didn't really care about fashion, and always wore jeans and a T-shirt, and usually some kind of athletic shoes. Today she also wore a jacket with the Hufflepuff crest on the back (which Isilee was very jealous of).

Isilee herself had changed quite a bit in the past eight years, she was 5'2", a height she felt was quite tall, a bit chubby (her mum called it curvy, but then again mothers do tend to try to make their kids feel better looking than they are) with a long face and grayish green eyes. She had slept until almost noon today, but the dark circles under her eyes were still present. Her hair almost reached her elbows now, but had become very poofy so that it stuck out far from her head making it look very large. She seemed to have something real because she rarely wore anything but shorts, skirts, or leggings. Presently she was wearing a green and white sweater, knee high tan boots, and a pair of her usual grey leggings.

After lugging her friend to her feet, she walked back down the hill to the box, which she could now see said 'POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX'. She tried the doors, and found them locked.

"I want to get in there and see him." Miranda was right next to her ear and caused Isilee to jump and nearly fall to the ground, at which she added, "Sorry, I forget how jumpy you are sometimes."

"I am not jumpy. You just startled me is all." Isi argued, frowning.

Her friend rolled her eyes, "Whatever you say." She knocked on the door. "There is a sexy man in that box, and I want to meet him."

"How would you know if he's sexy or not? You haven't even met him." Isi pointed out, poking her in the arm.

Miranda shrugged, "Aren't all mysterious men in blue boxes sexy?" She seemed to think this explained everything.

"Well it's been eight years since I last saw him, and he was an adult then. Who's to say he isn't old and gross now?"

"No one, but we won't know unless we meet him." She knocked on the doors again.

"I don't think he's there." Isilee pulled on her arm.

"No, it seems he isn't." Miranda admitted reluctantly.

"Then lets hurry up and get some food and water and blankets and stuff so we can wait in our lair for him. He can't get past without us noticing, he's right above our heads." She seemed anxious to leave now so she could get back in time, and Miranda agreed.

"Your house is closest. You get the stuff and I'll stand guard at the top of the hill. If he comes, I'll call you." She pulled out her cell phone, "Got it?"

"Sounds good." Isi sprinted up the hill and all the way home. She grabbed a duffel bag, stuffed it with blankets and spare clothes and things. Then dashed out of the house. She was almost all the way back to the lair before she realized she hadn't gotten anything to eat or drink, and had to run back and get them. She was coming out of her adrenaline rush by the time she got back to the hill and almost tripped and fell again, but caught her balance and kept on going.

"Back already? You were only gone about five minutes." Miranda told her.

"Any sign of him yet?" She panted, hands on her knees.

"None." Her friend watched her with a mildly concerned expression, as though she thought there might be something wrong with her.

"Then into the lair we go." She took the duffle bag off of her shoulder, and dropped it down the small hole. "Shall we?"

"Yup, sounds good." Miranda went down first, using the wooden ladder they had built into it. Isi followed her down.

The lair was a hole about seven feet deep, it was circular and probably about 15 feet in diameter. Quite large really, considering they had dug it by hand. The entrance was in the center, with a wooden ladder attached to the floor and the roof. The inside was comfortable, with wooden walls floors and ceilings partly to keep it all from being mud and partly to make it comfortable. They had used treated wood, of course, the same stuff you would use to build a fence, to make it a more lasting structure, and painted it so that each blank was a different color and the floor and ceiling were white. It had no furnishings, aside from two large sacks of straw, which they covered with two of the blankets and flopped down onto. The only lights came from the entrance and a glass coke bottle like they used to make, which had been refilled with water and had a waterproof LED flashlight inside with the on/off button left out of the top, which Miranda had switched on. They called the light fixture 'The Light of Elendil', naming it after the ever so famous star in a vial off of Lord of the rings.

"So tell me about this Eric guy." Miranda spoke up, sitting forward with her head in her hands.

"His name isn't Eric. I just used to call him that." She corrected, fidgeting uncomfortably.

"Well you don't know his real name, do you? Until we can ask what it is we can stick with Eric."

Her friend had a point there. If he had mentioned his real name then she didn't remember it. Rory was probably the right name for the other man, but the other two she had no idea. "Fine." She thought for a while. "He wore a bow-tie, and he had funny hair. I think he was pretty tall."

Miranda looked at her expectantly, "AND?"

"Well he was really nice. I think he might have kids. He acted like a father."

"Probably married then. Oh well, doesn't stop me from looking." She shrugged.

"What are you talking about? You haven't even seen him!"

"Shut up!"

"Hey. You started it."

"No! I hear something!"

"What?"

"SHUT UP!"

They were both quiet now and they heard footsteps up above, they sounded like they were coming towards the entrance of the lair. There was a weird buzzing sound and a "Looks normal." Before a head popped down, "Hello there, what an interesting shelter. What will they think of next?" He spoke quickly in a way that reminded Isi of a distracted five year old.

"It's you!" She explained.

"Me? Yes, I suppose it is. Remind me though, who am I exactly?"

"Prince Eric." She hesitated a moment, wondering if he would even remember being called that, and added "That isn't your real name, of course, but since I don't actually KNOW your real name..."

"Prince Eric..." He looked like he was trying to remember something, "Of course! It's Icy, I should have known." He paused, "May I come down?"

Isi hesitated, and Miranda jumped up and nudged her in the arm, "Isilee Duke, where are your manners?" She scolded. "Of course you may. Sexy men with blue boxes are always welcome here."

The Doctor smiled appreciatively, "Well then, I appreciate your hospitality... Um, friend of Icy." He climbed down the ladder, turning to face them as he reached the bottom and trying not to be too distracted by the very interesting underground structure.

"Miranda Boyer." She shook his hand once he was standing in the lair beside them. "Like she said, that isn't your real name. May I enquire as to who you really are?"

"I'm the Doctor." He announced, straightening his bow tie proudly.

"Doctor who?" Isilee seemed to have finally gotten her voice back.

"Just the Doctor, actually."

"Where are the other two? The one with the pretty hair, and the other guy... Rory, wasn't it?"

"Amy and Rory, yes. Well they aren't here, not anymore. Just me now." He looked around as if trying to find something he could use to change the subject. He settled on the light of Elendil. "What an interesting lighting system. Fascinating, really."

"I guess so, yeah." Miranda looked at him suspiciously and opened her mouth to ask where they had went, but before she could do so Isi punched her in the arm.

"Can't you see he doesn't want to talk about it?" She hissed.

"Right, sorry."

"What are you doing here then, Doctor?" Isi questioned, coming over closer to him and the light. "You don't live around here, and you can't live in a box."

"Also, what kind of a rubbish title is 'The Doctor?"

"I'm not sure why I'm here. The TARDIS just kind of landed." He explained choosing to ignore the last question.

"TARDIS?" Miranda wasn't going to stop asking questions until he started answering them.

"The box is called the TARDIS, it stands for… Well really it's hard to explain. What do you say I let you see for yourselves?" He didn't wait for an answer as he climbed up the ladder and out of sight while the girls, filled with curiosity, followed him. He was just stepping through the doors when they were both out.

At a nervous look from Miranda, Isi whispered "We can trust him."

"Well okay then, but if he kills us I blame you." She sighed reluctantly, following her friend as they both followed him inside the blue police box and did a double take.

"It's bigger on the inside!" both of them exclaimed simultaneously.

This got them a smile from the time lord. "Yes it is. TARDIS. Time and relative dimensions in space. It can go anywhere in space and time." He looked at their excited faces with a grin, "So where's our first stop?"