"So! Canton Everett Delaware III! Who's he?" The Doctor was asking Sabrina more than anyone, she knew these things and it was a quicker process.
"Ex-FBI. Got kicked out. "
"Why?"
"He just wanted to get married. They call it a 'problem with authority' I call it 'a load of rubbish'. Six weeks after he left the Bureau, the President contacted him for a private meeting."
"Yeah, 1969, who's President?"
"Nixon."
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"This is a personal matter. I need someone on the outside, someone with FBI training, but is not in contact with them," The president stood like a stone wall, addressing Canton who slumped down in a chair before him.
"I'm flattered. "
"You were my second choice for this, Mr. Delaware."
"That's okay. You were my second choice for President, Mr. Nixon. Play the message," He did so, pressing the play button on the recorder. The Doctor stepped from the invisible TARDIS when they both had their backs turned.
"Hello? Who is this? This is President Nixon. Who's calling? Is this you again?"
"Mr. President?"
"A child?"
"This is the President, yes."
"I'm scared, Mr. President. I'm scared of the Space Man."
"A little girl?"
"Boy."
"How can you be sure?"
"What space man? Where are you phoning from, where are you right now? Who are you?"
"Jefferson Adams Hamilton"
"Jefferson, listen to me..."
The connection is cut and the only thing heard in the room is the dial tone.
"Surely this is something the Bureau could handle, sir?"
"These calls happen wherever I am. How do I know the Bureau isn't involved? I can't trust any.." He turns to see the Doctor writing down notes in a small notebook. He doesn't notice and continues to scribble notes down, furiously. He feels their eyes on him and he looks up.
"Oh, Hello! Is this a bad moment? Oh, look, this is the Oval Office. I was looking for the Oblong Room. I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, just be off then, shall I?" He turns directly into the cloaked TARDIS and falls to the floor.
Nixon pushes a red button behind his desk to alert security.
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The TARDIS rocked when the Doctor knocks into it.
"Give me a second!" Sabrina shouts, pressing buttons and pulling levers. It was as if she didn't have any control over her own movements. She had never used the TARDIS before, yet, somehow, she got the screen working to see the Doctor pinned to the floor by security guards.
"Sabrina, have you got my scanner working yet?"
"Oh, I hate him! "
"No, you don't!"
"Get the President out of here! Sir, you have to go with them now!" Security guards were rushing to the President's side who seemed more curious than alert.
"Make her blue again!" Sabrina did just that, moving around the console to take the cloaking off.
"What the hell is that?"
"Mr. President! That child just told you everything you need to know, but you weren't listening. Never mind, the answer's yes. I'll take the case! Fellas, the guns, really? I just walked into the highest security office in the United States, parked a big blue box on the rug. You think you can just shoot me?"
Sabrina decided this was the right time to exit, "Jack, get rid of any weapons, they'll check," She watched as he pulled at least a dozen different sized handguns from various places. She gave him a look. He sighed, pulling another from his trousers, "Thanks, let's go. Don't put your hands up, be confident and smart, alright?" They exited the TARDIS, Sabrina was particularly confident, striding in as dozens of security pointed their weapons at her, "Oh, now boys. Is there really a need for violence? We four just climbed out of a telephone box that we snuck into the most powerful country in the entire world; don't you think that we've got a few tricks up our sleeves?"
"Do not shoot them! They're with me, my 'crew' if that's how you want to put it."
"Who the hell are you?"
"Sir, you need to stay back."
"But who, but who are they? What is that box?"
"Like I said, Mr. President. A Police Box, don't you listen? Now, would you kindly listen to the strange man sitting at your desk and this thing will be over, quick and easy. As for who we are, I'm Sabrina, that's the Doctor. Rory and Jack. We're your new secret agents. Now, please put down the guns."
"What are you doing here?" The Doctor answered this one.
"Boring question. Who's phoning you, that's interesting. 'Cause Canton Three is right, that was definitely a girl's voice. There's only one place in America she can be phoning from."
"Where?"
"Do not engage with the intruder, Mr. Delaware."
"You heard everything I heard, it's simple enough. Give me five minutes, I'll explain. On the other hand, lay a finger on me, or my friends and you'll never, ever know."
"How'd you get it in here? I mean, you didn't carry it."
"Clever, eh?"
"Love it."
"Do not compliment the intruder."
"Five minutes?" Canton asks, ignoring the agent.
"Five."
"Mr. President, that man is a clear and present danger."
"Mr. President, that man walked in here with a big blue box and three of his friends and that's the man he walked past. One of them is worth listening to. What say we give him five minutes, see if he delivers?"
"I like him!" Sabrina whispered to Rory, but he heard. Canton looked over, winked, and turned back to the Doctor. Sabrina saw the angry look on Rory's face, "Don't worry. I'm not really his type. Jack might have a great chance, though," She gave him a kiss and a smile; "We're together, Rory Williams. Nothing will ever change that."
"Well, I wouldn't say 'nothing'," He looked at the Doctor who was already looking over.
The Doctor had been listening. He listens to everything they say. Rory was suspicious, angry. Not the best match, in his opinion. He was in love with her. But she was a mother to be, eventually a wife to be. She wasn't his.
"Five minutes," Canton reminded.
"I'm going to need a SWAT team ready to mobilize, street level maps covering all of Florida, a pot of coffee, 12 jammy dodgers and a fez!" The Doctor ignored his own thought and answered with fake enthusiasm.
"Get him his maps!"
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"Doctor, can I talk to you?" Sabrina asks, moving him away from the rest of the group and the maps.
"You can always talk to me, Sabrina. What's wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong. I'm just, nervous."
"About?"
"Well, Rory and I were going to keep this a secret. But, you're my best friend. It's not fair for you to not know."
"Know what?" She pulled on her necklace, at the end, which had previously been tucked into her shirt, was a diamond engagement ring.
"The day before we got the letter, actually. He proposed. I said yes," She waited for a reaction, and he smiled.
"Oh, Sabrina!" He took her in his arms, hugging tightly. He placed a kiss on the top of her head, "I am so happy for you two! Now, since you just wasted some of the time they've given me, would you kindly like to point out where it is we are supposed to be heading?" She laughed and pointed, "Thank you. How are you, with the baby? With Rory?"
"I don't know, honestly. It's moving really quickly. I'm a little scared, to be honest."
"Sabrina Campbell, you are going to be a fantastic mother!"
"And a wife?" He was trying not to think of that part. She would be a great wife. She would cook and love you like no other. She would be the perfect wife, for Rory. He reminded himself. For Rory, she will be Rory's wife.
"The best."
"Why Florida?" Canton asked, walking up behind them.
"NASA, it's where NASA is. She mentioned seeing a spaceman. There's also another lead I'm following."
Rory walked up behind Sabrina, wrapping his arms around her waist and placing his head in the crook of her neck, "Spaceman? Like the one we saw at the lake?" He whispered in her ear.
"Maybe. Probably."
She turns towards him and over his shoulder, and sees the same creature she saw at the lake in the doorway, "I remember!" She whispers to herself.
"What do you remember?" She looks again and there is nothing in the doorway.
"I don't know, I jus-," A pain shoots through her stomach, stopping her midsentence.
"Sabrina, what's wrong?"
"Sabrina?" Jack is now there, and she is gripping one of his shoulders in pain.
"You all right?" The Doctor comes up and catches her when she collapses.
"I don't know. Is it the baby?"
"Babies don't usually make you collapse in pain unless you're going into labor."
"Can I go to the restroom?" She asks the security guard.
"Sorry, ma'am, during this procedure, you must remain within the Oval Office."
"Shut up and take her to the rest room. She's pregnant," Canton orders.
"Thanks," Sabrina responds.
"Rory, go with your fiancé. Keep her out of trouble, would you?" Rory isn't surprised that Sabrina had already told the Doctor, and he listens, following and soon catching up to them.
They arrive at the restroom and she stops them from following in, "I think I can manage it from here."
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"Your five minutes are up."
"Yeah, and where's my fez?"
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There it was. The same creature from before.
"I saw you before. At the lake, and here. But then I forgot. How did I forget? What are you?"
A woman emerges from the restroom."
"Get back! Stay back from it!"
She turns to the creature and screams, then laughs it off, "Oh, my God, what is that, is that a mask? Is that a Star Trek thing? Ben, is that you?"
"Get back from it, now!"
"Back from what, honey?"
"That!"
She turns back and screams again, as if surprised by the monster, "Oh, my God, look at that. Is that a Star Trek mask? Ben, that's got to be you! Hang on; did I just say all that?"
"No, please, you've got to stay back!"
"Back, honey? Back from what?" The lights start to flicker, and she waves it off, "Oh, those lights. They never fix them."
"Look behind you!"
"Honey, there is nothing..." The creature is now reaching at her with its arm outstretched, the electricity from the lights seem to be gathering onto its fingertips and the woman was suddenly just a pile of ashes.
"You didn't have to kill her, she couldn't even remember you! How does that work? We can only remember you, while we're seeing you, is that it?," She started fumbling with her cell phone and eventually manages to take a picture of it, "Why did you have to kill her?" The creature responds in a deep, throaty voice.
"Joy. Her name was Joy. Your name is Sabrina. You will tell the Doctor."
"Tell him what?"
"What he must know. And what he must never know."
"How do you know about that?"
"Tell him," The creature moves forward and is less than a foot away, she breaks contact and rushes out of the bathroom.
"Are you okay?" She ran directly into Rory who looked at her, worried. She stopped for a moment, not sure how to respond. She had lost her train of thought.
"I'm fine. Much better, thanks. I have to tell the Doctor," She stops there, not sure where she was going with the sentence. Her mouth just formed the words and they just seemed to have slipped out of her mouth.
"Tell him what, Sabrina?"
"Sorry. I don't know why I said that."
"Alright, let's go back," The agent led them back to the office and they were immediately greeted by Jack.
"You alright, darling? Just some pregnancy problems?"
"Yeah, bit of a stomach ache. Nothing to worry about. It's gone, now. Whatever it was," He nodded and returned to the Doctor's side. The Doctor looked at the two, expectantly.
"You two alright?"
"Yeah. It just seems like I've forgotten something. Something really important," Just when she was about to form a thought in her mind, the telephone rang.
"The kid?"
"Should I answer it?"
"Here!" The Doctor pointed to a street corner on the map, "The only place in the United States that call could be coming from. See? Obvious when you think about it."
"You, sir, are a genius."
"It's a hobby."
"Mr. President, answer the phone."
"Hello. This is President Nixon."
"It's here! The Space Man's here. It's gonna get me. It's gonna eat me!"
"There's no time for a SWAT team, let's go! Mr. President, tell her help's on the way. Canton, on no account follow me into this box and close the door behind you." Together the Doctor, Sabrina, Jack and Rory jump into the TARDIS and Canton soon becomes curious, how did they all fit?
"What the hell are you doing?" He soon follows, shutting the door behind him. As soon as the door was closed, the Doctor took off.
"Mr. President, please help! Please help me!"
"Jefferson, it's all right. I'm sending my best people."
"Jefferson isn't a girl's name or her name either. Jefferson Adams Hamilton... Sabrina?"
"Surnames of three of America's founding fathers."
"Lovely fellas, two of them fancied me."
Meanwhile, Canton is turning back and forth, moth open and opening and closing his eyes several times, seeing if this is real.
"You okay? Coping?" Rory consulted the man.
"The President asked the child two questions. Where and who are you? She was answering where."
"It's bigger on the inside," Canton interrupted.
"You get used to it," Rory replied with a shrug.
"Now where would you find three big historical names in a row like that?"
"Where?" Jack asked.
"Here! Come on!" Together, they filed out of the TARDIS, Sabrina following afterwards. Canton stops her.
"It's er..." He didn't know how to really phrase his words.
"Are you taking care of this?" Sabrina poked Rory on the nose.
"Why's it always my turn?"
"'Cause you're the newest," She kisses him and continues to follow the Doctor.
"Where are we?" Jack asks, turning around, "It looks like a rundown space station."
"About five miles from Cape Kennedy Space Centre. It's 1969, the year of the Moon. Interesting, don't you think?"
"Why would a girl be here?"
"I don't know. Lost, maybe," Sabrina picks up the phone that is sitting on the desk. She hears nothing, not even a dial tone.
"Not working," She comments, placing the phone back and turning on her flashlight to have a look around.
"The President asked where she was and she did what any lost little girl would do. She looked out the window," The Doctor peeked through the shutters at the street signs.
"Streets. Of course, street names!"
"The only place in Florida, probably all of America, with those three street names on the same junction, and, Sabrina, you've got that face on again."
"What face?" She remembered this joke from watching the show and decided to play along.
"The "he's hot when he's clever" face."
"This is my normal face."
"It is."
"Oh, shut up."
"Not a chance," At this time, Rory butted in.
"Um, excuse me. That's my fiancé you're flirting with."
"We've moved. How, how can we have moved?" Canton is still shocked, thinking he is dreaming or something along the lines of that.
"You haven't even got to space travel yet?"
"I was going to cover it with time travel."
"Time travel?"
"Brave heart, Canton. Come on!" The Doctor has a childish grin on his face as if he is hunting for Easter eggs.
"So we're in a box, that's bigger on the inside and it travels through time and space?"
"Basically."
"How long has Scotland Yard had this?"
