"Now, Samantha Carter, why would you want to look in this plain old blue box?" asked the Doctor with a twinkle in his eye.

"Because." Sam replied defiantly. "I won't believe it until I see it."

"See what?" asked Jack wondering what the hell everyone was talking about. That blue box? A spaceship? Not a chance in hell. So what was all the fuss?

"You'll see." The Doctor said in an all-knowing sort of way, which to be honest was beginning to annoy Jack slightly.

The Doctor moved closer to the box and took a regular looking key from a pocket deep within his leather jacket, put it in the lock, turned it and then, once all that was done, he opened both doors in a rather dramatic fashion to reveal something unbelievable.

It was huge! A massive alien space in a tiny plain blue box.

There was silence as the Doctor stood proudly next to the entrance with Rose close at his side. He was practically beaming but neither Jack nor Sam noticed at this point as the innards of the TARDIS captivated them.

Beyond the doors was a dome shaped room with a huge computer looking thing in the very centre. The walls that seemed to curve up to a amazing heights and twisting supports stretched from the floor to the almost limitless heights of the room like the joining of stalactites and stalagmites all the color of orange rust, but even then the blue light coming from the computer in the centre of the room seemed to distort the entire image and gave you the feeling that you couldn't quite be sure of anything within that room.

"Wow." Said Sam, she had expected something along these lines but no matter how much you expect something when it's standing before you, real and touchable you can't help but be amazed.

Especially, it seems, when it comes to the TARDIS.

"How… how does it do that? How's it all big on the inside and it's a little on the outside?" Said Jack, his mind a little more confused than normal.

The Doctor took a breath as if about to answer but Sam started hypothesizing before he could begin.

"I'd imagine it has a constant space field fluctuation, almost like the time dilation device of the Asguards." Said Sam the scientist already putting theory to what was in front of her, "Then again, Time is Space, if you go by Einstein's theories, which makes it all relative, really."

"How are those guys doing?" the Doctor asked genuinely.

"Pretty well," answered Jack despite the question being directed at Sam, still unable to take his eyes from the sight before him "Still got a slight problem with pesky bugs and sex, but other wise my old buddy Thor is en form."

"Colonel!" Sam reprimanded, despite the fact that he was her commanding officer.

"What? It's true." Jack replied, albeit a little sheepishly.

At which point the Doctor grinned.

Again.

"I know but sometimes you're so…"

"Direct?" Offered Rose.

"Thick?" Suggested the Doctor.

"Blunt." Said Sam completing her sentence.

Jack looked around at the rest of the group, slightly aghast and a little left out. "And you're all geniuses are you?" Then looking between the Doctor and Sam, he muttered, "Wrong crowd."

"I'm not." Said Rose smiling in a strangely proud sort of way, "Just another stupid ape with an urge to explore."

For a reason that neither Sam nor Jack could work out at that point the Doctor and Rose grinned at that last comment sharing some secret joke.

"Sir," Added Sam, "Remember, I'm the one the Asguard come to for a 'stupid idea', it's all…"

"Relative. Yes I'm starting to get the feeling that everything is becoming relative at the moment." He said slightly annoyed. "So, we going inside or what?"

"Ah, well I think it should be ok, the TARDIS seems to be in a pretty good mood today." The Doctor said lightly, glancing through the doors to the structure in the centre of the room and rubbing the doorframe in a slightly adoring fashion.

"So it's alive?" said Sam, "I had my suspicions. The most efficient things tend to be organic and with the power requirements of... this… " he voice trailed off with the look the Doctor was giving her.

The Doctor smiled warmly, and then said "I like you."

"Thanks." Sam said a little awkwardly at the sudden comment, and then she smiled equally warmly in his direction seeing only sincerity and kindness in his eyes.

"Well, shall we?" Jack said a little impatiently, but Sam could also detect a subtle tone of something else but she decided to let it slide due to the tantalising doorway to the biggest most complicated doo-hicky ever, he then added with a slight bow Teal'c would have been proud of, "Ladies, first."

The Doctor and Jack watched as Sam followed Rose inside as the young girl began explaining all that she knew about the ship, this left the two of them outside and 'relatively' alone. Jack could tell the Doctor had something to say, so he waited, observing the strange man in the leather jacket.

"So are you two…?" The Doctor started but left the question open.

"No." Jack replied automatically, then as he looked inside as Sam tilted her head back in wonder and happiness at the sheer size and beauty of the TARDIS he added with a hint of sadness in his voice, "No," He then turned to the Doctor and asked, "How about you?"

"No." The Doctor replied equally dejected as Jack's second 'no'.

At which point their gazes met and they both knew this would be the beginning of a great friendship.

"Colonel, you should see this, it's amazing!" Called Sam from inside the great machine.

"Coming, Carter." Said Jack, stepping inside and walking further in, the Doctor following close behind, "Don't forget Dad's gonna be here in 10 minutes so it's gonna have to be a short visit."

"What? You're not staying for tea?" asked Rose grinning.

"Oh come on Jack, in 10 minutes we could go to the end of the universe and back, it's all…" said the Doctor, just pushing that little bit further.

"RELATIVE! I get it!" shouted Jack, "Jez, I swear between you and Carter a man could go crazy!"

"Nuts," Started the Doctor, his grin spread from ear to ear, as he looked towards Jack "Bonzo, no longer in possession of one's faculties, insane, three fries short of a happy meal, wacko. Would that be about right Jack?"

Needless to say Rose and Sam had no clue what he was on about, and shared a similar look and shrugged, but from the look on Jack's face he seemed to know what was going on.

Jack was seriously caught of guard; never mind the whole big inside small outside ship or the fact that he knew who they were but how in the hell did he know that?

Sam could see that the colonel was almost visibly shaken with the Doctor's words and she was a little worried to say the least, "Colonel?"

"I'm alright. Carter," Then turning he replied to the Doctor with a distinct tone of petulance in his voice, "Maybe."

"Don't worry Jack, my boy, I won't say a word." The Doctor said still grinning, and tapping a long digit against his large nose.

Jack nodded mutedly, glancing in Sam's direction, before going on his own little exploration of the ship, while Sam was ever watchful for his habit of touching things he wasn't supposed to.

"My boy?" Sam said in a questioning voice. Jack certainly looked older than this Doctor person, not that she minded terribly of course.

"Yeah, he's only 51." The Doctor said simply.

"Hey!" Jack said indignantly. The only people who really knew his age where those who read his file and due to it's highly classified nature very few had read it, hence very few knew his age and he hoped to keep it that way. At this rate he could look forward to a birthday cake with 52 on it a few months.

What a waste of good cake.

"What?" the Doctor said without pronouncing the 't', before continuing, "Getting a bit old for this chasing aliens business, but then again being over 900 years old I'm one to talk!"

"Did you just say 900?" Sam said confused and intrigued. Jack, neglecting further inspection of something on the computer control panel thing that resembled a bicycle pump, turned towards the Doctor with a look of shock on his face.

"Yeah." He replied nonchalantly. Rose grinned as she stood next to him.

"As in 900 years, with 365 days in a year and 24 hours in a day and 60 minutes in a hour and 60 seconds in a minute?"

"Yeah." He replied nonchalantly and grinning. Then catching Rose's eye they beamed at each other seeing the disbelief on the officers faces.

"How…?" Said Jack, again confused, that seems to be happening a lot today.

At this the Doctor looked pointedly at Sam, to which she replied. "Not how, what. What are you?"

For this she received a quick smile, the he replied softly, "I'm a Time Lord."


Authors note; this is a two part work with each set in different points of view of two shows, both Stargate SG-1 and the most recent series of Doctor Who (i.e. Doctor number 9), this other part should you wish to read it is called 'The TARDIS and the Stone Ring'. NOTE this will mainly be an SG-1 fiction at the moment then hopefully move into more Doctor Who.