Chapter 9

It's the Face of Boe, not the Face Curtain!

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Lily's POV

Blue shirt, or gray shirt? Blue shirt? Gray shirt? Oh Mother of McDonalds! Just pick a shirt! Okay, then, gray shirt!

I pulled on my gray loose neck shirt over my black tank and slid into some sandals. Since no one was watching, I strutted out of my room, swaying my hips overdramatically and flipping my hair over my shoulder.

"Um, what are you doing?" A voice from behind me asked. I released a womanly shriek and spun around, striking the Grasshopper pose from Kung Fu Panda. Oh, it was just Allison, guess I didn't hear her. Curse her, and her sneaky ninja skills.

"Uh…" Think of an excuse! Something! "Nothing…" I said as returned to standing like a normal person. It was meant to be a statement, but it kinda came out as a question though. Oh, well if that wasn't the guiltiest answer in the universe then I don't know what is. "What, um, what are you doing?"

"Trying to fix the chameleon circuit." She said while pulling her charcoal brown curly hair into a messy bun.

"Okay, cool." I said even though I didn't know what that thing was.

"Well, as much as I love this hallway, I'm gonna go do something." She said before walking down the hallway. What was I doing anyway? Oh yeah, food, that's probably something important.

I walked down the hallway and after a few failed attempts to find the kitchen (apparently Allison has a POOL), I finally found it. I walked over to the fridge, to see what Allison had to eat when I was suddenly thrown into the countertop.

"Sorry!" Allison's voice faintly echoed from somewhere. I sighed aloud, realizing that I would have to figure out what that was. Breakfast can wait, I thought as I straightened my glasses on my nose.

I took off running to the control room, one thought pounding in my head: What the heck did she do now?

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Allison's POV

Alright, just one more turn and this stupid little chameleon circuit will finally be fixed. I steadied my silver wrench over the tiny knob, if I wasn't carefully enough, I could over tighten it and it would snap off, leaving my beautiful TARDIS stuck as a tree or something.

I was suddenly jerked to the side, slamming into a jumble of other wires and over-tightening the knob. Oh for Chuck's sake! The knob snapped off completely and I pocketed it before untangling myself from the mess. I had decided that I would try to fix the now broken circuit as my first mechanical job in this regeneration.

"SORRY!" I yelled at the top of my lungs because if I know Lily, and I do, she would be eating breakfast right now.

I sighed as I looked down at my wrench. It seems that in this regeneration, I wasn't very handy with tools, similar to what I was in my eighth but I did know a bit more than she did. Gavin could probably figure this out, and he would have that cute little smile on his face while he worked and- No! Allison, the Guardian, you already cried about him. He's gone and you need to move on.

"You're stupid." I said to my wrench before tucking it into the tool pocket on my little swing. The under controls had a little, faded gray swing for me to maneuver in whenever I needed to fix something.

"Allison, where are you?" Lily's voice rang out from above me.

"Down here." I answered pulling myself along the pulley system of the swing to get to the stairs. Lily dropped to her knees.

"What are you doing down there?" She asked cocking her head to the side and making her glasses slide down her nose slightly.

"Messing stuff up." I said, finally reaching a point where I could easily reach the stairs. "Can you check the monitor to see what caused the tremor?" I asked while trying to un-strap myself from the swing.

"Look at you, using big words. And sure." Lily said before standing up and running somewhere on the console floor.

I finally managed to escape the death trap of the swings and I jumped onto the stairs, onto the step that just ended the progress of steps and led to a thirty foot drop. I don't know why the TARDIS built it that way, probably to make it more difficult for me to 'fix' her as a precaution because I once tried to fix my TARDIS in my last regeneration, and accidently shut the power off for a whole two months.

"What is it?" I asked, reaching the top of the stairs to where the console was laid out and sliding my sonic into my bun as a habit. I would probably forget about it later and freak out because I couldn't find it, but that didn't bother me right now.

"Um, it's a message actually." Lily said, squinting at the monitor screen as I walked over next to her.

"Let's read it shall we." I said a second before the message finally loaded. "Here we go. 'Guardian, I know that you most likely still despise me. And you every right to, but I need your assistance this one final time. The following co-ordinates will lead you to where I am. Please, it is of dire emergency. ~Your Colleague, the Face of Boe'." I read from the screen. The Face of Boe? Jack! Wait, why would Jack Harkness know how to contact me on my TARDIS. Perhaps I knew him in the future, yes that seems logical.

"Al," Lily said, snapping me from my thoughts. "Who's the Face of Boe?" She asked, turning her head to look at me.

"Give me a second." I said, furiously typing on the TARDIS keyboard. A few seconds later a picture of the Face of Boe showed up and, next to him, all the information ever collected on him about him and his life.

"What's that?" Lily asked, staring at the picture with an extremely confused look on her face.

"La Face de Boe." I replied, typing in the co-ordinates which were sent with the message. I ran over to the other side of the console to start sending to where Jack was.

"It looks like a face on a curtain." Lily commented nonchalantly. I stopped immediately before looking at her from around the console, my eyes narrowed.

"What?" I asked, still not moving, even though I had only done half of the things that would send us to Jack, so we were just still floating in space right now.

"It looks like a face on a curtain. A Face Curtain." Lily elaborated.

"It's not the Face Curtain, it's the Face of Boe." I said more than slightly angry. Lily was breaking Nerd Girl rule #2 again, five consecutive violations any of the Nerd Girl rules and you lose your membership.

"It looks like a Face Curtain to me." Lily remarked while smirking at me. I turned back to the console, pressing the buttons that would let us travel. I felt my left eyebrow twitched as I tried to keep calm. Don't react, Allison, don't react. Just calm down, don't punch her in the tummy, even though it would be totally justified. "You think other people have called Boe a Face Curtain before? Seeing as that's what it look like-"

"Another word," I growled out before making my voice sound my normal level of threatening. "And you'll be taking a swan dive into a black hole. Am I clear?" I spoke through clenched teeth. Yes, I know what Boe looks like, he looks like a severed head in a jar, not a damn Face Curtain!

"Yeppers." Lily replied with a salute. I just sighed as I pulled down the final lever, setting us off to where Boe was. I swear, this girl will be to blame if I die from high blood pressure.

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Lily's POV

The TARDIS finally came to a stop and I ran to the doors, only to find that they were locked.

"What's up?" I asked turning around to Allison who was slowly walking towards the doors. She had that thinking look on her face, and I knew that I would have to save my joking for later. But I swear that thing is a FACE on a CURTAIN. I don't know, it was weird and had tentacles or something and was just floating in a jar.

"Listen," Allison said while shrugging on her trench coat and then turning to look at me. Her face was serious, so I knew I should probably listen to her. "Some people in this universe know me as the Guardian, because that's what my name was when I popped up here." I knew all of this, because she told me last night. I just nodded my head in a way that said, 'continue'. "So, you're gonna have to refer to me as the Guardian."

"I think I can do that." I replied.

"And just a few rules, if you see someone who you don't know, don't talk to them."

"I got it, mum." It's weird how British people say, 'mum', and Americans say, 'mom'. Mum, mom. Focus!

"Especially if you see the Doctor."

"Doctor who?" I guess I must have said something funny because she snorted before returning to the subject at hand.

"Just the Doctor. He's a Timelord like me, but he can't know that I'm alive. He has to believe that he is the last Timelord left." Allison stated somewhat reluctantly.

"But why?" I was confused, if there was another alien like Allison, sorry the Guardian, out there, shouldn't they know of each other so they know that they aren't alone.

"It interferes with things, it just makes it more complicated."

"Al, whatever is happening to us right now, is complicated. I don't think it can get any worse." Oh, why did I just say that?

"You know, someone always says that, and it always gets worse. You just jinxed us. Something bad is gonna happen and I'm gonna blame you." Allison said crossing her arms. Just let me explore this place woman!

"Get back on topic, please." I said, trying to change the subject.

"Alright. So, the Doctor, stay away from him."

"Okay, so what do I look for, what should I stay away from?"

"The Doctor looks like me, like a human, and he also wears a trench coat but his is a darker brown. He wears a brown pinstripe suit and a blue tie and he has this like gelled up brown hair." That sounded really familiar… Oh, yeah! It was that weird guy who ran up to Martha and me and took off his tie.

"Is he like, really skinny?" I asked.

"Yes, exactly." Allison replied before taking her sonic out of her bun, which I didn't know that she hid there, and unlocked the TARDIS door. "Wait!" She yelled when my hand was on the door handle. I just groaned and looked back at her. "What are the rules?" Allison asked, acting like the mother she was.

"Don't talk to anyone I don't know, call you Guardian, and if I see the Doctor, run." I said while bouncing on my toes. Even though I didn't have breakfast I was practically bursting with energy, probably from all those sweets I ate before I left my room and they were finally kicking in.

"And…" Allison coaxed, cocking an eyebrow. I sighed before accepting my fate and saying it.

"If anything bad happens, it's my fault. Now can we go?" I was about two seconds away from kicking this door down.

"Yes, go." Allison sighed like an exhausted parent.

"Woo," I exclaimed, throwing open the TARDIS door. "Let's go see the Face Curtain!" I announced as I started running in a random direction. Oh, yeah! I brought it back!

"It's the," Allison said while getting out of the TARDIS and closing the door I had left wide open. "It's the Face of Boe, not the Face Curtain!" Allison yelled at me because I was already on a set of stairs, taking them two at a time.

"Whatever!" I yelled back, while still running. Man, I feel awesome! I am loving this sugar high!

"Ugh!" Allison groaned as she followed me up the stairs, though she was only taking them one at a time. "I'm just gonna see what's going on and help Boe, then we're gone. That's the plan."

"I know that." I replied, slowing to just running up the stairs one at a time.

Well, let's just say that the plan didn't work out too well.