"What about Alice, you idiot?!" I stood up in front of the console, to be faced with a very shocked Nine. Frankly, I didn't even bother about that. "She got pulled in, did you notice?!"

"Oi, how did the two of you get here?!" I groaned as Nine pulled out his sonic and pointed it at Dylan, who looked like he was about to explode, "Who are you? Are you spies or something?"

"Are you the Slitheen?" Another voice sounded from the other side of the room. Oh, of course, "Yeah, we're totally Raxacoricofallapatorians, that's why his readings say human! We need to get back now!" I yelled.

"You know what the Slitheen are!" Dylan looked at me as the Doctor looked at his sonic. "Human... " He muttered, "But how can you know about aliens?! And how did you get here? Transmat? Huon particles?"

"You bloody materialized around us!" I yelled, and went toward the console, "Now, get me back to wherever and whenever we were!"

"You're actually the Doctor, like the actual Time Lord, with a TARDIS," Dylan said, and I looked at the console to see if there were any buttons that could help me. "And Alice is in a mirror! Why do you fail to notice that?!"

"Who's Alice? And what's the deal with mirrors?" The Doctor walked around and started bleeping me with the sonic. I found a bunch of blue switches with a button that said "past". I was about to press it, when the Doctor grabbed my hand and pushed me back, "What do you think you're doing?"

"Going back to exactly where I came from since you're so helpful!" I started to go back to the console, but he grabbed my wrist and pushed my back, "This is my TARDIS, only I get to fly it,"

"But what is the deal with the mirrors?" Rose walked from behind the pillars towards the Doctor.

"Like I said-" The Doctor interrupted me and pointed to Dylan, "Not you, he'll tell me,"

Dylan looked at the Doctor as if he was about to explode. "Well, uh, the mirror, it- it came to life, sir, it was pretty fascinating and-"

"My best friend was being pulled into it!" I was irritated with the whole incident and just wanted to go back and save Alice. The others seemed to ignore me, though, and continued to listen to Dylan who was bumbling on.

"And it was all metallic and rubber looking, and there was something coming out of it, sir-"

"Call me Doctor, and what was the thing like?"

"Um, excuse me?" I waved my hand around, and got no response. "My best friend just got sucked in, and you're worried about what got out?"

Still no response. "It was like a hand shaped thing, trying to get out of it,"

"Fantastic!" The Doctor said, throwing his sonic up and down. I raised an eyebrow and waved my hand around again. "Hello? Is anybody listening?"

They were still talking to each other about the mirror creature when I sighed. I walked toward the console and closed my eyes. I took a deep breath and looked at the past button. I was about to press it when-

"What's wrong with you?!" The Doctor seemed to have noticed me, and he rushed toward me. "Why would you do that, I just told you that I'm the only one who can fly the TARDIS!"

"Excuse me, my friend is in danger and is potentially dead, so I don't have the time for a chat right now!"

"Listen, kid-"

"Liza Cole to you!"

"Yeah, whatever, Liza Cole, like I was saying, people die, and you have to accept that!"

"No way I'm gonna accept that!"

"How dare you talk back to him?!" Rose glared at me from the other end of the console, next to Dylan who looked scandalised at my reaction to the whole situation. "He's the only chance you've got of staying alive!"

"I never asked for that chance, did I?" I turned back and glared at the Doctor, who was glaring back with equal intensity. "Listen, maybe your whole genocide- planet destruction stunt has clouded you, but individual lives matter too! Not everything is about some sort of flashy heroic planet saving act, or about you and your stupid obsession with cynicism and how 'people die and I have to accept that' or whatever. I grew up idolising the Doctor-"

"But he is the Doctor!" Dylan said, pointing toward him and the TARDIS.

The Doctor, on the other hand, had his hands folded and was looking at me, an unreadable expression on his face. I looked back at him and gestured to him, "This isn't the Doctor! The Doctor knows that people die, but he never accepts it, and tries to prevent it from happening! This," I gestured to the Doctor again, "Is a brooding teenager who specializes in angsty pessimism, which literally nobody asked for!"

Dylan gasped, his eyes wide, while Rose glared at me, gripping onto the console. I took a few shaky breaths to calm down as blood flowed through my arteries, rushing through to my brain. I looked up at the Doctor, who stared at me with a hard expression, his hands folded tightly. "How do you know? That I destroyed a planet and committed genocide?"

His voice was dangerously low, and his glare was boring through me. I gripped onto the console. My throat felt dry, and I had to grip onto the edge of the console to not fall. I took a deep breath and tried to sound as steady as possible, "It doesn't matter, now, take me back,"

"How did you know?"

"It doesn't matter!"

"Yes, it does! It does matter!" He yelled, staring right into my face. I shrunk back, shocked by his tone (although, it shouldn't have been surprising, I'd just brought up the worst topic in the history of worst topics), "I'm asking you again, how did you know?"

"Um, there's a er, TV show based on your life-" Dylan said, clearing his throat, his voice shaking a little.

The Doctor looked at him in what looked like disbelieving anger, and turned back to me, contempt etched onto his face. Brilliant, Liza, his treatment toward you and that lone Dalek have no difference. "Typical ape behaviour," He shook his head. "Watching all sorts of violence on your telly and enjoying wars as so many others suffer,"

"The war wasn't televised, we just heard about it from Christopher- I mean, you," Dylan shook his head as he accidentally almost said 'Christopher Eccleston'.

"Who's Christopher now?" Rose asked, folding her hands, "The director for your show?"

"No, he's the guy who played him," Dylan gestured to the Doctor, who was looking indifferent to how he was five seconds ago, except the anger was much more hardened and cold. "But you know what happened and you," He gestured to Dylan, who shrunk back a bit, "Seem to idolize me. For committing genocide. Typical humans, all bloodthirsty and all,"

"Excuse me?" I stood up straighter to look at him. He turned around, almost challenging me. I looked back at him defiantly, "We never idolized you for committing genocide," Even though you hadn't even done so in the first place, but spoilers, "It's how you coped and learnt from your mistakes that made us idolize you. The fact that you still remained the Doctor and didn't turn into a ruthless soldier is why Dylan and I even admired you in the first place! Looks like we were wrong, or at least, I was wrong, I have no idea what Dylan expected,"

"I killed billions of people!"

"You saved billions more! Sometimes we make mistakes, and sometimes they seem irredeemable, but that doesn't mean you end up acting all mopey and ignore the things that can be fixed! You're the Doctor, for God's sake, so act like the Doctor! It's not that hard to be yourself, you know!"

"She's right, Doctor," Dylan whispered, "You had to choose between Gallifrey and the rest of the universe. You did the right thing, choosing the universe, and the universe couldn't thank you more for that,"

"If you call genocide 'doing the right thing'-"

"You were faced with two wrong things to do! You just chose the less wrong option!" Dylan said, but the Doctor seemed unconvinced.

"And that doesn't justify what you're doing now! The Time War was bound to end badly and you're moping about it now! I understand it's your trauma or whatever, but there's an actual person who's dying now and can possibly be saved so buck up, and be the Doctor because that's who we need now!"

He raised an eyebrow at me and I continued looking up at him. After a few moments, he sighed, "Okay then, where do you live?"

"Apartment 3W, Rainier Enclave, Stonebrooke- or do you need space time coordinates or something?" He ran around the console, flipping switches. Dylan looked at him, mesmerized, while Rose stood there, waiting for him to ask her to do something, probably. I followed him around, looking at all the things he was doing. I attempted to flip a switch titled, 'speed', but he slapped my hand away.

"Only I do the flying here, and no, we don't need space time coordinates. Also, broody teenager who specializes in angsty pessimism?"

I stopped in my tracks as the blood rushed to my cheeks. I gritted my teeth, "That was a moment of weakness, now take me home,"

"Really, because it looked like you were yelling at me," He shrugged. "Anyway, we're here- about two seconds after I materialized around you, exactly where we were,"

I dashed through the doors, pushing them open. "Alice, hold on, we're-"

The blonde in question stood there, pulling some grey sticky stuff off her. When she looked at me, her eyes widened. "Liza, thank goodness! I thought something horrible happened to you! Who's that?" She frowned at the Doctor and Rose, who had just gotten off the TARDIS.

"It's the Doctor, how do you not know that? You said you were a fan if the show-"

"Is that really the biggest of priorities right now?" I sighed, and ran toward Alice. I threw my arms around her. "Oh my God, I thought you were done for, I'm so glad you're safe!"

She hugged me back and murmured, "So am I, I got so worried when you disappeared!"

"You mean when the TARDIS materialized around her, I thought you said you were a Doctor Who fan!"

I pulled back and looked at Dylan. "Dude, seriously, that's your biggest concern?"

"Wait," The Doctor, who was leaning against the TARDIS wall, walked toward us, sonic in his hand as he scanned around, "You," He pointed it at Dylan, "You said you saw something coming out of the mirror, didn't you?"

"Y- yeah," He shoved his hands into his pockets, "The hand thing, why?"

"If you said it was coming out two seconds ago, then where is it?" The Doctor scanned the mirror with his sonic.

"Is that really our biggest priority now?" I looked at the Doctor, who frowned at Alice.

"Yes it is, there was something coming out of the mirror two seconds ago, it can't have disappeared,"

"Maybe Dylan was imagining things, he tended to have his head in the clouds a lot like Liza," Alice said, holding onto my hand.

"I didn't-"

"Then how did you pull yourself out? Liza here was yelling her head off because she thought you were pulled into the mirror when she let go, how did you pull yourself out in two seconds without her?"

"The mirror just let go after that-"

"Really? Just after Liza let go? I don't know about you, but that's a massive coincidence to me," He looked at me, "And I don't know about you, but that seems a little unrealistic,"

"It let go of me, I swear! Why can't you believe me?!" She looked at me and him, "After the thing materialized around you or whatever, it just stopped! It rippled for a moment and then stopped! Liza, tell him!"

"Liza, do you really think that what she's saying is-"

"Hold on, I'll find out myself," I said, and turned to Alice, "What happened after I went into the TARDIS?"

"I just told you! The mirror shook around for a few moments, rippled, and stopped! I was thrown back and there was this mirror stuff around my hand and it was so sticky as I tried to pull it out! I got up and started pulling it off when you came, do you believe me?"

"Liza, please, she's lying!"

"Liza, I'm not! I swear, it's me, please tell me you trust me!" Alice had tears in her eyes. I moved closer to her, "Doctor, I think you're being paranoid, she's crying," I said.

"Liza, she's toying with you, please, don't believe her!"

"Liza, listen to me! I told you, I was thrown back as it rippled and stopped! There was sticky stuff all over my hands and I was pulling it off! The mirror was alive and rippling one second and then it went still!" Alice gripped onto my hand. The tears were flowing freely now.

"Doctor, she's crying now, you said that there's hope wherever there's tears! She's not lying!"

"Not when they're fake!" The Doctor was about to use the sonic on her. "Don't bleep her, Doctor!"

"Liza, please, listen to me! How did she manage to get out of the mirror? Think about it! Do you really think her description of what happened was true?"

"Liza, I told you exactly what happened, don't listen to him, please believe me!"

I stared at her. Come to think of it, she did describe everything exactly. Almost too exactly. Truth is singular, lies are words, words, words. Was she lying? Was the Doctor telling the truth? I took a deep breath and looked up at her. Time to pull a leaf out of a lizards book, looks like. "Tell me why I should," She opened her mouth while the Doctor groaned. I held up a hand, "But tell me in one word. Not more than that,"

"But that's ridiculous, how can I-"

"Tell me why I should believe you in one word," I bit my lip and balled up my hands into fists, "Alice, please, that's the only way I can,"

"How can I tell you that in one word, Liza, you're being ridiculous!"

"Alice, please," I whispered, digging my nails into my palm. "I just want to make sure,"

"I can't believe you don't trust me, I thought you were my best friend!" Alice was sobbing now, and I moved closer to her.

"Liza, don't, please! She's lying, you were going in the right path till now!" The Doctor was literally begging me. His expression was desperate.

"Alice, I am your best friend-"

"But you think I'm a liar, what does that say about our friendship?"

"Liza, she's meddling with your emotions, please-"

"Alice I never said you were a liar-"

"Then why are you asking me to tell you this?"

"Alice, it's just a precaution, just please tell me, I swear, I believe you-" I reached out to her, but she pulled her hand away.

"Did you ever trust me? How many more times has this possibly happened? Do you even care about me?"

"Alice, I- That's not true, I care for you so much, why would you even think that?"

"Then prove it and believe me,"

"Liza, don't do it!"

"Doctor!" I turned back to him, "I'll do what I like! She's my best friend, maybe I should believe her,"

"Liza, she's clearly lying to you, why can't you see it?! She's just playing with your emotions right now! How could she describe the whole event of her falling off the mirror so accurately, think about it, please!"

"Doctor, I can handle this!" I held up a hand and looked back at Alice. "I believe you," I then pulled her into a tight hug. I pulled back, only to see that my hands were coated in mirror stuff. I wiped it off and turned to her, Want a coffee after all this?"

She nodded, and we walked outside to the living room. It looked completely normal, like none of this had happened. The same sofa, table, and TV. Which was still paused at the scene where Mickey was being pulled into a trash can.

"Hold on, that's Mickey!" Rose, who was in front of the TV with Dylan, pointed at it.

"That's where the two of you disappeared off to!" I said, walking beside them. "Oh, and yes, that's Mickey,"

"My boyfriend is being pulled into the garbage in your show!"

"Well, Nestene Consciousness," Dylan scratched his chin and sat down. "You've already resolved the Alice thing, then?"

"The Doctor is still pissed because she had the common sense to trust me, I think he's in his box now," Alice came beside me and slung an arm around me.

"Oh no, I think he's coming out here," Dylan adjusted himself as the Doctor indeed did walk in and sat next to Dylan, looking at Alice warily.

She stared back at him, while Rose stared back and forth between me and Alice, her eyes narrowed. Dylan, like me, looked extremely uncomfortable with the situation. "Ahem!" I cleared my throat loudly. Everyone looked at me, and I forced an awkward grin, "Coffee, anybody? I'll be back with it right now, so just, er- excuse me for a moment,"

I backed out slowly and ran into the kitchen as soon as I was out of view (somewhat, they could probably still see me and think about admitting me into a mental hospital).

A/N: She spent her whole life idolising the Doctor, and when she finally meets him- *smh so much but actually not because I wrote it and I'm an idiot* Anyway, I did update a little sooner than expected, which is a huge accomplishment judging by how much I procrastinate (My conscience points out the fact that I've already pre-written this and just copy-pasted it.. let's just ignore that).

Anyway, Thank you all so much for reading! Leave a review if you want to, and have a great day! Bye!