Journeying to the Thames proved difficult and Matt found himself unable to go any further, construction, road closures, you name it, and he had to go around the road towards Ripley's shop, because he didn't want to risk her spotting him.

Keeping an eye on the time, Matt hoped he'd get to the Thames and deliver Starlight and make it back before Ripley arrived.

Jodie wouldn't tell on him as Ripley made it clear that she'd keep an eye on him and prevent him from doing something like this.

Of course, Ripley never would've considered the chance of a lost ferret.

Or the fact there's another Doctor present.

As Matt thought about it, he'll have to think of what to say to Ripley when it inevitably comes to mind that he'll have to tell her the truth about what really happened in her absence.

"Oy, it's like a maze!" Matt complained about the traffic as he checked ahead. Sighing, he sat back in his seat as he realized that he'll never make to the Thames to check for the other TARDIS.

"By the time I get there, they'd already left!" Matt mused.

Starlight poked him with her paw and Matt looked down to her as she responded, "He won't leave me behind, I'm a present, remember?"

Stuck waiting, Matt spent the time at the red light discussing the origins of Starlight and her siblings.

They're from a rescue on the Ulysses Station and the Doctor adopted them as presents for a boy of a friend of his. It'll be his tenth birthday and his father felt he needed more responsibility. Having an electronic pet's nice and all, but nothing compared to the real thing.

What better gift than four ferrets, born and bred?

"I hope you're spayed," Matt spoke up.

He heard about female ferrets having issues if they don't mate every year, fatally even, and spaying's the only way to prevent the incident from occurring.

Starlight stated that they're not earth ferrets.

They're Utopian ferrets, they don't have that biological problem.

"But you are spayed, right?" Matt pointed at her.

Starlight huffed and chattered, "Well, of course, it's rescue policy!"

Shaking his head as he exhaled, Matt took hold of the wheel and continued to travel throughout New London, trying to find his way to the Thames.

Eventually, he came to a stop at a parking lot for the park near the Thames and parked at the end of the row of vehicles.

Stepping out of the vehicle, Matt closed the car door and locked it, he walked around the railings to the steps that took patrons to the concrete steps near the Thames where he began walking.

Walking beside the Thames as it shimmered in the dim grey light, Matt looked around for Jodie's counterpart, he kept moving his head as he walked with Starlight bunched up in his shirt.

She complained it'd gotten cold for her that she hid in his shirt wile he walked. It looked awkward when he's walking with a noticeable lump in his chest, and he continued to walk until he noticed something odd in the distance.

Matt couldn't describe the sight properly.

It… looked like…

"You're kidding!" Matt exclaimed as he made his way towards a disjointed organ player sitting near the Thames. It looked pristine, like it wasn't abandoned, and Matt almost didn't think about it until he felt Starlight move and poke her head through his neckline and said, "We're home!"

Walking towards the organ player, Matt's confounded at the sight.

Looking around, there's no way anyone could've dropped it off where it's sitting, boats can't use the Thames, and there's no way to get anything bigger than a person down the steps.

Starlight poked him with her paw and chattered at him, "Well, what're you waiting for!"

Hesitantly, Matt stepped forward, near the organ player and saw the perfectly white keys. He asked sheepishly how he's supposed to knock and Starlight poked him.

"Around the back!" Starlight chattered at him.

Nodding, Matt went around the organ player to the smooth back and froze. Something about it looked off. Like there's a door in the back, and as he stepped near it, he saw faint etchings where the police sign was.

"Now, I know why she didn't want to tell me," Matt blinked.

Starlight chattered and said that one day, out of spite, it turned into one of the things the Doctor hated.

"He hated organ players?" Matt's quizzical.

Starlight nods.

She told him that as a child, the Doctor's forced to learn it, and grew to hate it well into his adult years.

Shaking his head, Matt exhaled, "Oh, what am I going to do with our little time machine?"

If she's willing to turn into an organ player of all things, it made Matt wonder what other things she can turn into, and how she'll pick the one thing that annoyed him the most.

"Hey everyone, let's run back to the apple tree!" Matt sighed.

Knowing Jodie, she would turn herself into one to spite Matt.

Knocking on the door, Matt called out.

"Hello, I need to speak to the Doctor. I found something of his," he called out to the TARDIS. "It's the missing ferret, Starlight, she's okay."

Matt knocked on the door one more time and the door opened inward.

Disappearing into the TARDIS, Matt watched as he entered the console room, decorated differently.

Glimpsing around, Matt called out for the Doctor, but he never answered, so he guessed that he's still looking for Starlight.

"Now, what?" Matt looked down to Starlight.

Starlight rubbed her paw under her chin before suggesting Matt take the Doctor's TARDIS to him, meeting him halfway.

"I don't know, it seems rude," Matt hesitated at the idea.

To him, it sounded rude to take another Doctor's TARDIS. Even if the TARDIS eventually came under Matt's possession later.

"Please?" Starlight begged. "I just wanna see my siblings again!"

Matt brought up the Doctor and Starlight shook her head.

"He's always grumpy," Starlight brought up.

When Matt pointed out that he'll get angry about someone else messing with the console, Starlight scoffed.

"Aren't you the Doctor, too?" Starlight challenged.

Matt felt the ferret pawing at him and he groaned as he approached the console.

Looking at the console, Matt winced when he realized that's different than the one he uses.

It looked like an entirely new console and Matt's unsure how he's supposed to use it.

Granted, Matt barely learnt how to use the console in his TARDIS.

"Uh, well," Matt scratched his chin.

He felt Starlight's eyes on him and he admitted to her that he isn't sure how he's supposed to use the console.

"It doesn't look like mine," he professed. "I can't use it!"

Starlight groaned and asked if he's really the Doctor or not.

No matter what, the Doctor knows how to the use the console in the TARDIS.

It's rudimentary!

"How do you know?" Matt sharply asked her.

Starlight raised her paws as she responded, "Well, I learnt it from the Doctor!"

Starlight insisted that Matt won't have problems using the console. If he's the Doctor, it's second nature to him to use the console of the TARDIS, regardless of what version.

Matt wanted to argue against using the console, but the ferret's in his shirt, and he felt the claws prickling his skin.

She has him by the claws and Matt didn't want to explain to Ripley how he ended up clawed.

Already, that conversation sounded awkward, and Matt wanted to avoid it.

"Alright, all right, I'm the Doctor. I should know these things," Matt sighed as he rolled his eyes.

Stepping close, Matt's hands outstretched as he looked over the controls that looked foreign to him.

He didn't know what he was doing, but if he didn't do something, Starlight would've clawed him.

"Alright, how about, this?" Matt pulled on a lever and pushed two buttons.

He didn't know what he did, but the TARDIS sprang to life. It didn't make the sound that his TARDIS made as it slowly shifted from the spot near the Thames.

When it stopped, Matt went towards the door and opened it, only to jumped backwards in fright as a fist nearly connected with his mouth.

"On guard!" Matt heard a refined man shout.

He fled from an angry man wearing an odd outfit, accompanied with a short cape that draped over his ruffled black collared shirt.

Holding up his hands, Matt begged for the man to cease, but he didn't.

Matt fled from the man as he attacked him and he dodged the fists as the man threw them quickly.

"There's some misunderstanding, I swear!" Matt shouted.

Cornered, he turned around to face the ire of the man as he balled his fists and his eyes filled with rage.

Panicked, Matt didn't know what to do and closed his eyes.

"Wait!" Matt opened his eyes as he felt Starlight push herself upwards, her whole head poking through the neckline.

Sneezing, the ferret chattered at the man and he lowered his fists.

Whatever Starlight said calmed the man and he looked annoyed with her.

"Young lady!" he shouts at the ferret. "I have the mind to punish you for giving me a scare!"

Matt stood quietly as Starlight climbed out of his shirt and scurried towards the man, climbing up his trousers into his arms.

"You gave us a heartache," the man sighed heavily as he petted the ferret on the head. "Where'd you run off to?"

Starlight told him that she saw something shiny and needed to investigate it, only to find that it's just some fake jewelry.

When she tried to go back, he wasn't there with the carrier.

"You're a troubling one, young lady," the man shook his head, his pale hair barely moved.

His eyes moved towards Matt as he's frozen in place and looked annoyed.

"And who is this?" the man asked Starlight.

When Starlight told him, he recoiled.

"The Doctor?" the man tilted his head.

He rebuffed, "I'm the Doctor!"

Matt weakly responded, "Different universe."

Putting Starlight in the carrier with her siblings, the Doctor sighed as he remarked, "Bad habit of ours, unfortunately!"

Matt blinked as he asked what the Doctor meant and the Doctor told him that it's not uncommon for Doctors to "bump" into each other.

Judging how Matt reacted, the Doctor guessed that Matt's new to it.

"Well, I sorta met another one, well only over the phone," Matt gestured.

He didn't meet that Doctor in person, but he met a Doctor. Now, he met the second Doctor in his adventures, in person, this time.

"Hm, you better get used to it," the Doctor pointed at him. "It's quite important, maybe lifesaving."

The Doctor explained that there's always a Doctor afoot at any given time, maybe not in the same universe, such as him and Matt, but always elsewhere.

Matt's curious and asked, "So, where did it all come from?"

It's rather intriguing that there's specific sets of people who go by the title and travel in the TARDIS, another on the origins of the idea.

The Doctor shrugged as he responded, "My boy, you've much to learn. Consistency is key to keep up the narrative. Our enemies none too bright most of the time to notice the difference between me and you."

Even he didn't know the origins of the idea, just that one day, on a particularly bad day, he wound up face to face with the TARDIS.

Didn't know why it was there, didn't know where it came from, just was, and the moment the Doctor stepped inside, his life changed forever.

"Don't know how or why, just was," the Doctor shrugged.

Matt pointed as he remarked, "So, you're really are human, too?"

The Doctor nodded.

Matt pointed at himself, "I'm one, too. But I'm told there're alien Doctors as well?"

Chuckling, the Doctor nodded. He held up a finger and said, "His son's the one I'm delivering these rambunctious little ones to!"

Wanting more information, Matt's told that he couldn't know all the details about every Doctor, just the important parts.

He's the Doctor. He travels in the TARDIS.

"You got a Sonic Screwdriver?" Matt heard the Doctor ask him.

He reached into his tweed pocket and pulled it out, showing the Doctor.

"Ah, good, you're not as green as you look!" the Doctor seemed pleased that Matt had one.

When he heard where Matt found it, the Doctor's bemused. He sighed eventually and said that it's probably for the best that neither of them look hard into it.

"What's the point to all this?" Matt wanted to know what's the point of him being the Doctor.

The Doctor replied that point, for Matt to do the unthinkable, travel around, saving worlds, helping others, restoring balance, etc etc.

"You've handled the controls, well," the Doctor pointed out.

Matt shrugged as he admitted that he just guessed and went with his gut. Quite frankly, he's surprised he got the TARDIS where the Doctor was and he acknowledged it.

"Once you use the TARDIS' controls, you never forget," the Doctor said to Matt as he turned around, his cape fluttering in the breeze, as he went up to the controls.

The Doctor attempted to bring them back and drop off Matt so he could then return to his duties in dropping off the ferrets.

As is the life of the Doctor, it wasn't as easy as the men made it out to be when they started hearing flute playing overhead, and froze.

They didn't know where it was coming from until Matt had the idea to turn on one of the monitors and another man appeared on screen, holding a black flute.

He had a black bowl cut hair, stitched trousers, and a black jacket that looked like Matt's tweed jacket, but black.

Pulling the flute out of his mouth, he greeted the men, "Hello, boys!"

TO BE CONTINUED…