Mwhahahaha. Here we go my lovelies. Let's start this ball rolling in the right direction shall we. I'm so excited!
I must have fallen asleep because I wake up in my old room on the TARDIS. Meta is sitting in the bed next to me, specs on his nose and book in his hands. "Morning sleepy head."
"Mmm. Where's...the Doctor?"
"The library. He's quite fond of philosophy."
I smile as Meta wrinkles his nose in distaste. "Like you don't philosophize all the time."
"Exactly. I leave that to Aristotle and Plato. Now that man knew how to party. One time..."
I plant a quick kiss on his lips to shut him up. "What did you boys talk about while I was sleeping?"
"Can we talk about it later," he asks, looking me over with roaming eyes.
"Nope. It's important."
He sighs. "We discussed the matter of the Masters...Missy's TARDIS. We can't leave it with UNIT. He insists we need to take it. Said that he would explain it to both of us after you woke up."
"Well, there isn't any time to waste then." I jump out of the bed and slip my shoes back on before heading out the bedroom door. Meta isn't far behind me as we head to the library.
We do indeed find the Doctor there. His gray eyebrows are furrowed in concentration as he goes over his notebook, making scratch marks with his pencil. He looks up us as we enter. "Right. You're awake. That's good."
"Yes. So is sleep." I smile cheekily. I plop down on the arm chair in front of him. Meta rests on the arm next to me. "So, another TARDIS?"
The Doctor sets his pencil down. "Yes. I can't tell you much but the basic gist of the thing is this. You're going to take that TARDIS and travel to a point in my past. From there, things will happen, blah blah blah, until we catch up to each other's time lines."
We sit in silence trying to process that. "Not one for subtlety are you," Meta breaks it first.
"No. I prefer to get to the point."
"And that's fine. Less time wasted that way. Where in your timeline?" I ask.
"Find Rory Williams. That's all I can say for that."
I huff in frustration. "Yeah that's real helpful. He's practically everywhere he dies so much." His face falls. "I didn't mean that. He and Amy live the rest of their lives just fine."
"I'm sorry," he says again. I have no idea why he keeps on apologizing. I'm about to start grilling him about it but meta quickly changes gears. We start making plans.
We go to UNIT headquarters and see that they had found the TARDIS we were looking for. "We can't stop you from taking it can we?"
I turn and see Osgood. I sigh and smile. "Oh good. You're alive." I'd completely forgot about her until just now but I refuse to feel guilty.
"No. You can't stop us," Meta tells her.
"All right. I'll just...See you later then." She turns to walk away.
The Doctor stops her. "Osgood." She looks at him. "...you did well."
She smiles. "Thank you Doctor." And then she leaves us to our own devices.
We say our goodbyes to the latest version of the Doctor Junior. He's not so very affectionate. I tell him to tell Clara the truth. He says he'll think about it. He's going to do more than that though. He's mistaken if he thinks I'm going to let him off that easy in the future. And I will be there. I have no reason to believe otherwise. Except for one phrase that's bothering me. The light will return to the dark. What's that suppose to mean?
Our TARDIS is beautiful. She's not like sexy but she is gorgeous in her own right. And thankful as ever to be rid of the Master. It makes it easy to bond with her because of it.
We begin to follow Rory's timeline just as the Doctor instructed. And then we hit a snag. Rory drops off our radar. I do a historical check and find him at stonehenge. Oh great, this means we have to deal with the pandoraca doesn't it? I loved that episode but it was hard to follow when seeing everything going on. This would be different. The road is rocky at best. Metaphorically speaking for the TARDIS'.
We bump around as the cloister bells ring. "You still suck at driving!"
"More fun that way!" He shouts back and we laugh in delight. The landing is rough but we survived. Time to face the outside world. "Ready?"
I smile up at him. "Always." He takes my hand and we move out the doors together. We turn to see the disguise that our ship has taken for herself. A red telephone booth? "Did you have to go with the Bill and Ted thing?" She hums a response in my mind that is almost pure sass in its execution. She's definitely younger than sexy.
We take in our surroundings. A quiet street with plenty of trees and still buildings. I turn to walk into any direction and I run smack into River. "Oh!"
She smiles. "Hello sweetie."
"Hello Darling. You mind giving me a heads up where I am. Totally lost."
She smiles. "Well you're a bit under dressed for a wedding."
"Ooh I love weddings. Who's the happy couple?" Meta starts bouncing on his feet.
Comprehension dawns for me. "Ah. Reset button. Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue."
"Very well done." River winks.
"Right. Well I'll see you later than River." I grab the lapels of metas jacket. "Come on. We don't want to be late to the party. But I need to get dressed first."
"See you around Drift, Professor."
"Nice seeing you River." With that, we stumble into our ship and set off to find appropriate attire. We have a wedding to crash.
