Lines Between Reality and Dreams
Victoria lay on one of the chairs curled under a red and white-checkered blanket. Her sapphire blue eyes looked out at the stars outside. The Doctor looked over at her to see of she was asleep so he could close the doors of the TARDIS but she wasn't.
"Doctor?"
He knelt down beside her and nodded. Victoria rubbed her eyes and turned on her side. "If I fall asleep can you promise me something?"
The Doctor nodded again.
"Can you promise me when I wake up this won't be a dream?"
"It is not anything other than what you make of it."
The rush of the Time Vortex made Victoria's head spin. Her brain ached and her stomach smacked against her lungs. But she didn't mind it. They came to a screeching halt and the sound of the TARDIS whirled in her ears.
"So where are we?" She just about yelled in excitement. She ran towards the door but the Doctor blocked it. He's a-bit-to-long arms stretched across the doors. "Rules." He said, "They're made to be broken but mine are important."
Victoria was quickly reminded of school trips when she was little, and how the teachers would get all the children excited before saying "Rules."
"Rule one: I lie." The Doctor said, "Believe me, but don't believe me. Rule two: don't do anything that may make the world cave in on itself, start a war, or destroy your own species."
"Is that it?" Victoria sighed, she crossed her arms over her chest and tapped her foot against the flooring.
The Doctor opened his mouth to speak again but the sound of her tapping made him pause. Froze like stone.
Tap, tap, tap, tap… tap, tap, tap, tap.
"Drumming…" the Doctor murmured.
Victoria rolled her eyes "Ok I get it, now can we go?"
Four beats are ordinary right? They're just beats. So the Doctor did his best to hide his manic thoughts in the back of his head and opened up the doors.
"Earth, circa 1786. America. Newly founded country, starting with chucking a bunch of tea into the ocean. Actually helped with that. A bit drunk… Don't get drunk, another one of my rules." The Doctor rambled before dragging Victoria out of the TARDIS.
People scurried along the cobblestone roads. Horses trotted past and the screams and laughs of children made her head hurt worse as they ran past.
Victoria was so shocked she couldn't even think of where she was, she only thought of her headache which made her feel weird, like she was neither conscious or unconscious.
"So? Whatdoya think?" The Doctor smirked. Proud of what his TARDIS could do.
"It's…" Victoria looked over the landscape, the air was cleaner than it was where she lived, hundreds of years in the future. But the only thing she managed to say was "I've never been to America before!"
