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Chapter 2
"The TARDIS never always looked like this" The Doctor said from the steps he was dangling precariously from as he tinkered with some wiring. As much as he enjoyed the way the console room was now, with its organic form and bish bosh of console instruments from the lever to the very old phone handset to even the bell, he sometimes did wish for the simplicity of the old console – white roundels on the wall, white walls, white ceiling, white floor and white console. He even missed the fact that there were double doors before you went outside with the red balled lever to pull down to open them. Granted yes, he did have to thump the console every so often to get them to open but he sometimes missed it. The only thing that he had brought from the old console room was his trusty hammer. He was going to call it Bessie but he remembered that his car was called that.
"Hmmm I really should go back and collect her from the Brigadier"
"Who" asked a blonde woman lying with her feet up on the TARDIS chairs
"Bessie"
"Bessie? Is that a dog or cat of yours?" asked Rose Tyler looking for once since she entered the TARDIS to be plainly bored out of her skin. She realised that the TARDIS did need a bit of repair. Having a Dalek shoot its beam in the room did cause some damage and smacking off a Royal Mail van didn't help much either, she just wished that it could've been when they were at her mum's. Instead the Doctor had taken them off to a place where there was no people just grass and water. What did he call it? The Eye of Orion or something. The green green grass of boredom she called it.
"It's my car. Very nice too. Early 20th century. Goes from 0-60 in 4 ½ seconds. I let the Brigadier keep an eye on it for me that last time I saw him"
"What were you saying about the TARDIS"
"Oh that, yes well there's another console room to the old girl, it's on the other side of her, I don't visit that place much anymore. Smaller type room, scanner on the wall, another set of doors, that type of thing"
"So why don't you use that one then?"
"Long story."
Rose knew not to ask anymore. She definitely had an idea that it had something to do with the time lords and daleks and she didn't want to open that old wound again.
" how much longer are you gonna be? Not only is it taking forever but you do look a complete prat with that red light on your head"
"Nearly finished. Just got to put this on" Sparks flew as the Doctor attached the last wire together and the steps he was dangling on slowly fell backwards. Rose closed her eyes expecting to hear the grunt as he fell but all she heard was the landing of his white ( and in her eyes very out of fashion) trainers hit the grill in front of her.
" there. All done"
"The TARDIS is workin' again?"
"Yep. The old girl is back to her normal self"
If Rose didn't know better she would've laughed when she saw the Doctor pat the console affectionately. But she knew more. She had learnt more.
"Well, lets get going then"
"just give me a couple of minutes to get cleaned up"
The Doctor went to the door and disappeared through it. So Rose done the only thing she could.
She waited. She was just about to go back to her comfortable position when she noticed a sign she had not seen before on the LCD screen on the console. She waited to see if it would disappear thinking that it was part of what the Doctor had done to the TARDIS. But it was blinking mauve and that worried her.
The Doctor came back in, clothes all clean. She called over to him
"Doctor?"
"ahuh?"
" There's a mauve sign on the screen here"
"mauve?"
"MAUVE"
" That cant be good."
The Doctor moved along beside her and looked. His expression changed from interest to shock. And then he went very pale.
"What is it?"
"It is something that should not be"
"meaning?"
" remember in Van Statten's basement, I said that I could tell there were none of my people left"
"yeah"
" Well, it seems that I'm not quite accurate in that statement".