Chapter 3 – Meet Abe

"What's all this about then?" The Ninth Doctor exclaimed

"Who are you?" a male voice, the only one standing said in a Kentuckian accent

"We're just three normal civilians" The Tenth Doctor replied

"I don't believe you" the voice said again

The figure strolled over; he had straight black hair and a thick black beard on his chin. He was wearing a black coat over a white shirt and a black tie ruffled up to his neck. It was Abraham Lincoln.

"What are these two strange boxes?" Lincoln asked demandingly

"What's it with you?" The Ninth Doctor asked seriously

"Considering I'm the President I think I have the right to know" Lincoln replied

"They're props for a Jules Verne play that's on tonight at the Ford's Theatre" The Tenth Doctor explained hopefully

"Oh really" Lincoln replied with a smile "Which one?"

"Well…" Both of the Doctors were stumped

"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea!" Rose thought

"Never heard of it" Lincoln said confused

"Five years too early" The Tenth Doctor whispered

"Sorry?" Lincoln questioned

"We don't know what play it is, really we don't, we were just asked to keep the boxes safe" The Tenth Doctor replied

"Oh yeah, is that why the owner's of that house over there said it appeared barely an hour ago" Lincoln replied with a wry smile

"You knew all along, didn't you" The Ninth Doctor figured

"This is the second weird thing that is happened in the last two days, only yesterday we found a strange black metallic object hidden in a nearby barn, now two blue boxes saying… Lincoln read "police box, appear out of nowhere, now I want the truth"

"Okay, we'll tell the truth, but only to you" The Ninth Doctor explained

"Fine" Lincoln reasoned "troops, you can go now"

All of the men on horses put down their muskets trodded away over the wooden fence of the garden. Rose and the Doctors put their hands down.

"You can't tell anyone what I'm about to tell you" The Ninth Doctor began

"I won't" Lincoln promised

"We're time travellers from the future" The Ninth Doctor explained "we're here to prevent the assasination of… someone, that black metallic object belongs to the assassin"

Abraham Lincoln gave a quick laugh.

"I can't believe this, it actually exists, time travel actually exists!" Lincoln exclaimed in amazement

"So who's this assassin trying to assassinate, someone famous I'd know?" Lincoln asked

"If you let us get to work, we'll be able to prevent it" The Tenth Doctor replied

"Yeah, but firstly I want to see this black metallic object" The Ninth Doctor explained

"Do the words Volkswagen Type I mean anything to you?" Lincoln asked

"Yes, but it shouldn't to you" The Tenth Doctor replied

"I couldn't help seeing it, it was scrawled on the object, is this some type of futuristic carriage?" Lincoln asked

"I think you should take us to this "futuristic carriage"" The Ninth Doctor asked

"We were going to send it to Nevada straight away, but I think we'll wait until we get they two boxes

"Hey, don't touch they two boxes" The Tenth Doctor replied "you'll not be able to get inside them anyway, they're both locked"

Lincoln lead Rose and the Doctors towards the front of the small white wooden house, out of the gate towards a coach standing on the dirt track road. They all got in and took a seat.

"To the White House" Abraham Lincoln said to the carriage rider

Lincoln was sitting beside Rose.

"You're a little underdressed are you not?" Lincoln asked her rhetorically

"Not where I'm from I'm not" Rose replied

The coach pulled up in front of the White House. Outside the main steps of the White House on the green grass was an object under a large grey cloth. Abraham Lincoln walked over to the cloth and lifted the grey cloth from over the object. Underneath was a black Volkswagen Beetle from 1938, with some alterations however.

"We've tried every locksmith in the state and nobody can open the lock" Lincoln said "it's impossible"

"Let me try!" The Two Doctor's said in unison

Both of them looked towards each other and the Ninth Doctor gave in. The Tenth Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver, he put it towards the lock, it gave off a noise and small blue flashing lights and it opened immediately.

"How did you open that?" Lincoln asked

"Well how about the fact that we're time travellers from the future?" the Ninth Doctor asked

The Tenth Doctor opened the glove compartment, inside was a file, on the front page there was a long list written in black pen on some futuristic silver paper. The list read:

1. Prince Haz Duzxloy – 5003 – PREVENTED

2. Mau Lobo – 4397 – FAILED

3. Breeg Scheeham – 3892 – FAILED

3. Captain D. R. X. – 3111 - FAILED

4. Al Kreer – 2007 – FAILED

5. Ronald Reagan – 1981 – PREVENTED

6. John F Kennedy – 1963 – FAILED

7. Abraham Lincoln – 1865 – TBP

9. King Edmund I – 946 – TBP

9. Claudius – 54 – TBP

10. Julius Caesar – 44 BC – TBP

"What's that?" The Ninth Doctor asked

"It's his file of completed assassination preventions" The Tenth Doctor replied "wait a minute, it's got plans for how he's going to approach each one, the assassination we're going to prevent, it's different from what you think"

"What do you mean?" The Ninth Doctor replied grabbing the file "it's not tonight he's going to prevent the assassination, it's ten minutes from now!"