A friend and I role played this. She's the Doctor and the woman. I'm Melanie. Comment and vote! Hugs- Isabel
"What's so special about Ginchegregtie?" The Doctor started to fly the TARDIS. "Any idea?"
"No, it's just where we have to go." Melanie said standing next to the doctor. "It's like it's calling to me. It's just. My dream. It didn't make sense." Melanie continued shaking her head. "Have you ever been to Ginchegregtie?"
"I don't think I have," the Doctor answered after giving it some thought. "Wanna pull that lever down?" He pointed to her left.
"Yeah, sure." Melanie said walking over to pull the lever. "Have you ever heard of it before? It was just so weird..." Melanie says going into a daydream of her dream.
"I have heard of it, once," he recalled. Then he remembered, and stopped dead in his tracks. "Melanie, we can't go there."
Melanie came back to reality. "Why not?" She asked looking at the Doctor confused.
"It's the land of dreams. The kind you don't wake up from," He said seriously, "Nightmares of the worst variety."
"It didn't seem like a nightmare. Not at all, it was almost mesmerizing." Melanie said thinking back to the beautiful music.
"Even the best of dreams can..." He trailed off, his tone turning from serious to curious. "Have you seen this place? Been there?"
"Only before,in my dream. That's where I saw it. It was amazing." Melanie began saying, almost being sucked in by the images of the wondrous place.
"Dreams can be tricky." The Doctor turned back to the console, pressing a blue button to stop the flight.
"But it was so real. The woman, she showed me a mirror." Melanie paused, deep in thought. "She went on to the other side. I so wanted to know what was there. The second I touched that mirror I woke up." Melanie said more to herself than the Doctor.
"Sorry, what woman?"
Melanie looked up to the Doctor. "In my dream. She was in my dream, telling me something, but I don't know what." Melanie said. She looked at the console. "Where and when are we going?"
His eyes lit up with shock. He had gotten so distracted, he had forgotten to keep flying. "No idea!" He reached for a lever, but he's too late. The TARDIS shook slightly, sending him stumbling over.
"Ouch!" Melanie yelled as she fell to the ground. "What do you mean 'no idea'?" She asked getting off the floor.
"I mean," he stood, "I don't know." He pulled the screen around. "Earth, 1715."
"1715? What happened then?" Melanie said walking toward the TARDIS door.
"Prussia goes to war with Sweden, King Louis XIV of France dies, Sweden invades Norway. Really active year for the Swedish..." He rambled, grabbing his coat and walking out the door. He was trying to distract Melanie from Ginchegregtie. A trip should do the trick.
Melanie walked out following the doctor. "So... What should we do?" She asked. She thought it was intereasting how the doctor dropped the subject of ginchegregtie. He NEVER dropped subjects when an adventure was involved.
"Well..." He took a minute to decide where they were more exactly. "Anything you want in eighteenth century Cardiff."
She looked up at the tall man and sighed. "Really Doctor. you should know the one thing that I'd like." She raises her eyebrows." Adventure!" She yells, as she stops trying to be serious. She grabbed the doctors arm and led him to a building with giant cakes in it.
She dropped the subject. Good. The Doctor let out a laugh in relief, going along with her.
"Have you ever seen a cake as big as this?!" She exclaimed. For once she was almost acting like a teenager. It made her giggle. "Oh, I love this year. It's just so fantastic!" She said with a little too much drama. She went back to her old self and looked up at the Doctor. "So, what do you suppose we do?" She asked.
"Well..." He scratched the back of his neck. "Cakes as big as this don't just show up every day... What do you say we get one?" He smiled, then looked up at the man working behind the counter. "They smell delicious."
Honestly Melanie didn't want to eat the cake, she just thought they were amazing. "I suppose. What flavor do y..." Melanie stopped mid sentence. She saw a woman, the same woman that was in her dream. She was standing by a small shack, watching them. Melanie stared at her, and when she walked away, she stared at that same spot.
He noticed Melanie's silence. "Mel?"
Melanie ignored him and started to walk off where the woman had headed.
"What do I say? I tell them 'don't wonder off...'" He muttered to himself, running to catch up with her.
Melanie turned a corner just in time to see the woman turn another. She began to speed walk. All her attention was on the woman. Nothing else mattered, but following this woman. She turned again and could see the woman disappear into a small tent like thing. It seemed out of place in this time. She began walking to the tent.
"Melanie!" he called, turning a quick corner. He lost her at a fork in the road. "Blimey... Where's she gone?"
Melanie walked into the tent to see a mirror wasn't really even a mirror. It was silver and you couldn't see yourself in it. Melanie went up to it in curiosity and touched it. She regretted that. The second her finger touched the sliver-like material she fell. Hit the ground hard on her back. Her body may have been on the floor of the tent, but her mind was millions of miles away.
It took him nearly an hour, but he found her. The Doctor found Melanie lying on the floor of a tent, apparently asleep. He knelt down next to her. "Melanie?" When she didn't respond, he shook her shoulders lightly. "Hey... Mel?!"
Melanie was suddenly in that place again. The same place she had seen the woman. She saw the woman smiling at her. She was frightened by her, but didn't show it. One minute Melanie was in the tent and the next somewhere else. She could only guess she was in Ginchegregite. She walked up to the lady. "Hey." Melanie said awkwardly.
"Melanie Tyler," the woman's smile faded a little. "What are you doing in this universe?" She cocked her head a bit.
Melanie looked around. "I. I don't know, well I do, but I don't." Melanie said quickly. "Who are you? How do you know who I am?" She looked around, wondering where the doctor was.
"Doesn't matter." The Woman shook her head. "Do you know where we are, Melanie!"
Melanie thought for a second. "Ginchegregite? And Yes, it does matter! Who are you?" Malanie yelled. She was confused, and hated being confused
The Woman simply smiled and turned away, not saying anything.
Melanie walked closer to the woman. "What? Why are you smiling?" Melanie had no idea what was going on and wished with all her heart that she had the doctor with her.
"You're a lot like him, that's all."
"Who?" Melanie asked looking to the woman.
"Your father." The woman said simply.
"My father." Melanie said quietly. She tried not to think of him much, but of course it was hard when the Doctor looked like him. "You knew him?"
"In a way. He knows me at the very least," she admitted, her voice sweet yet frankly monotonous.
Melanie was so interesting in knowing who she was. "Well, who are you? Maybe I've heard something." She said excited. She wanted to know more and more about this woman.
"No." The Woman laughed, looking down at the ground. A thunderous noise clashed overhead. "Ah, any minute now."
Melanie flinches from the sound. She knew something was up. She was too excited to realize it before, what an idiot! She became serious and tried to hide her fear. "What was that? Who are you?" She needed answers and by the sounds she heard, she need them soon. "And what's any minute?" She said getting closer to the strange woman.
A flash of lightning lit up the northern sky. The Woman began walking that way, not acknowledging that Melanie had spoken at all.
"Hey! Where are you going? Answer me!" She yelled, following the woman.
The Doctor woke up lying in the middle of the forest, a patch of clouds clearing overhead. A figure approached in the distance, but it was blurry and he couldn't tell what it was.
Melanie looked at the figure that just appeared. "Doctor!" She yelled running to him. "Are you okay?" She said, her voice filled with worry.
He nodded as he sat up.
"You fell a bit harder than Miss Tyler here," the Woman said, making her presence known. "Nice to see you again, Doctor."
The Doctor looked up slowly, and his vision cleared. "No... No, that's not possible," he stammered.
Melanie looked at the doctor and back at the strange woman. "Doctor?" Melanie said, staying close to the doctor. Her fear growing seeing the look in the doctor's eyes. "Who is she?" Melanie said, staring at the woman.
"Lucy Saxon," the Doctor tells her through gritted teeth.
"Glad to see you remember." She said smiling.
Saxon, Saxon. Something about that name bugged her. Than she remembered what her father had said. He only told her the story once. About the year that never was. "The year that never was..." Melanie whispered under her breath. She was frightened, but at least it wasn't 'Him'.
The Doctor nodded, surprised John had told her the story.
"So, what do you want?" Melanie asked, trying to sound not as scared as she was.
"Not entirely sure." Lucy rocked on her heels. "A way out? I'm not even sure how I got here."
"Lucy." The Doctor stood, walking over to her. "I'm sorry, but you're dead. Back home, I mean. Your physical self is gone."
Lucy's face filled with a mixture of shock and loss. "And what is this, then?"
"I don't know." He searched through his pockets for his screwdriver, but couldn't find it. "Melanie, you didn't grab my sonic, did you?"
Melanie looked to the doctor. "No, why would I take your sonic?" It took her a second but than she realized. "Oh, shit."
"Melanie!" She wasn't his daughter, not really, but he still felt responsible for her now. Rose trusted him to look after her, and if that meant acting like a father every once and a while, well then that's what he'd do.
Lucy raised an eyebrow and folded her arms.
She looked at the doctor. "Sorry. It's just that I realized how we got here, or at least how I did."
Lucy didn't give the Doctor time to react. "How?!"
"The mirror. The one in my dream." She looks to the doctor. "I touched it, when I ran off. I touched the mirror and woke up here."
The Doctor remembered. "When I found you, I touched it as well."
"That doesn't explain me," Lucy pouted, looking to the Doctor for answers.
Melanie looked at her. "But I saw you..." Melanie stopped to think. "Yeah, I saw you, in my dreams and here. At the cake shop." She says looking back at the doctor. "Yeah, you were watching us and I started following you and then I found the mirror..."
"I did what?" Lucy said, at the same time the Doctor started speaking; "I didn't see her."
Melanie looked confusedly at Lucy. Then she looked at the doctor. "That's probably because you were to busy watching the cake." She said, unsure of herself.
"I followed you out the door." The Doctor was confused.
"I haven't left here in about a year," Lucy said, lost.
Melanie sat on the ground her head in her hands. "I don't understand. It doesn't make sense. We looked at the cakes and I saw her. Then I followed her. How..." Melanie shakes her head. "No sense..." She says under her breath.
"I'm just as lost as you," the Doctor said, looking around. The sun was beginning to set.
"Oh no," Lucy muttered, as she noticed the state of the sky.