Chapter 28

Doctor POV

'I'm so scared of losing Ayla. I have a contingency plan if worse comes to worst concerning Ayla. I really don't want to. But I will if I have to, I will'. I am designing a teleport device that if she is in danger, it will be activated to send her to a stasis chamber on the TARDIS.

The room itself is where time passes four times slower than what time normally does. It's on a different time stream so to speak.

I have a stasis pod in there that will receive Ayla once activated. It's a pod filled with clear liquid, it looks almost like water but is thicker. The pod will preserve her until I know that she will be safe. It can heal her from just about any injuries. She will be able to breathe in the liquid, it is oxygenated liquid.

If Ayla finds out, she will hate me. But hopefully she will forgive me. I am doing this for her. I can feel something coming, a change. I haven't voiced my concern yet. But the teleportation device will be ready by then. I am disguising it as a bracelet.

Ayla POV

The Doctor is quiet, too quiet for my taste. He has been like this since The Wire incident. I really hope he knocks out of it soon, I'm starting to worry. This is not like him.

We have been traveling all over the place, they all have been safe so far, we even went to the moon again. 'That's because the Doctor is worried about your safety little tot', I hear in my head, it's not the Doctor and not Bad Wolf. 'It's the TARDIS herself'. I feel excited, this is my first time actually talking, talking to her. I am sitting on my bed, chatting with the TARDIS

'But why? I can handle myself' I think to her, knowing that I'm lying to myself.

It's strange the way she answers. It's like a feeling, mixed with words and images, like a way a person thinks but better.

She shows me that I can't handle myself. 'I don't look like a headless chicken running around'. She feels amused.

'I don't want the Doctor to stop on my account' I say to her.

'You are important' is all I hear from her. 'You have a larger role to play than what you know'.

'That does not make me feel any better' I say.

I get this feeling from her that you it can't be mistaken for anything other than "Deal with it".

'Why haven't we spoken before?' I ask her.

'Your mind, not ready' she says.

'That makes total sense' I think sarcastically. All of a sudden, yellow and red rubber chickens start to rain from the ceiling onto my head. It looks like hundreds of them.

I can hear her laughing at me. "That's not nice" I grumble at her. Then one last chicken fell from my roof onto my head. A real live one, clucking away like it didn't just come from my roof.

Do you know what I hear in my mind? More laughter.

I'm sitting here in shock, "I'm telling the Doctor you attacked me with chickens".

And just as the chickens came, they disappeared with a sudden pop, all gone except the live one. 'What the hell?"

The chicken stares at me, still on the bed like I am. It looks ready to attack, I jump off the bed as quick as I can and it charges at me, why? I don't know. 'This is the TARDIS's fault, she made a mad chicken. What's next, Goats?'

I run around the room with the chicken hot on my tail. I hear a knock at the door, and the chicken disappears.

"Ayla, what are you doing?" The Doctor enters, looking at me, well more like my hair that looks like a bird's nest.

"There was a chicken. The TARDIS threw rubber chickens on my head and then there was one that was alive and it chased me" I tell him.

He stares, he comes towards me slowly, raising his hand to my forehead. "You don't feel too cool, you feel a bit warm, probably because you have been running around. Are you okay?"

"I'm fine. There were hundreds of chickens, I promise. The TARDIS made them disappear".

I see him with a concentrated look on his face, he is talking to the TARDIS. All of a sudden he bursts out laughing.

"I believe you Ayla. She showed me all of it". He says, still laughing.

"Careful what you say to her" He tells me, still laughing. "Your face, it is hilarious"

"Thanks" I say in a flat tone.

'Don't be like that Ayla. It's a joke'

"I know, but being chased by a chicken isn't that great".

The rest of the day, all that was spoken about was me, chickens and the TARDIS's capacity for pranks.