Once they were done with petting the Maw and he had flown off to find an Otter or two, Jaime and Alexia exited the garden. Then Jaime took her mum to where most of the companion bedrooms were situated, showing her a door that led to a new room before going off to look for J.D. Along the way she ran into the Doctor and Jenny who was getting her own room. Jaime grinned when she could feel that her sister now knew a lot more about Time Lords and Gallifrey.
"Hello!" Jenny uttered when she saw Jaime and hurried over to give her sister a hug. "I sensed you were upset earlier. What was wrong?" The young Time Lady asked.
"Uhh…" Jaime shifted awkwardly on her feet. "Me and mum were just having a serious chat, that's all. Nowt to worry about." She doubted her mum wanted her alcohol issues known to everyone.
Meanwhile Jenny and the Doctor both noticed the difference in accent. "And the accent?" The Doctor asked. "Why the sudden change?"
"Because mum couldn't understand me," the Scots-girl replied. "So I toned it down a little."
The Doctor nodded, getting what Alexia meant. Sometimes her accent had fluctuated to near incomprehensible levels. He just hadn't wanted to say anything for fear of upsetting her.
"I like it," Jenny told Jaime. "You sound more like David now."
The Scots-girl grinned at the compliment. "Thanks." She said. They soon arrived outside a door.
"Right, this is your room," the Doctor stated, looking at Jenny.
Without another word she reached out, opened the door and walked into the room, with Jaime and the Doctor following her inside. They heard Jenny gasp and they both felt and sensed her excited happiness. Instead of a cramped little cell, she had her own bedroom. And it was huge!
"It's huge!" She said this out loud with a happy laugh.
"And it's all yours." The Doctor told her, smiling.
Looking around the room, Jaime noticed it looked very Time Lord, similar to the Doctor's room but noticeably different. There were window doors leading out to a balcony and the outside view showed an area of Gallifrey that had mountains. There was also a projection of the Kasterborous Star System on the ceiling above Jenny's bed. And that happened to be a queen sized open topped four poster. On the other side of the room was a mini-library with both levels stacked full of books. And they didn't appear to be the type for light reading. The Doctor watched with a smile as Jenny squealed with delight and jumped onto the bed, snuggling into the warm quilts.
Jaime laughed at this and then left the room knowing she was happy. Now she had to find J.D and she felt he wasn't in the console room anymore.
The Doctor remained for the moment, watching as Jenny continued to explore her room. He could feel that she was okay for now but he decided to let her know where she could reach him. "If you need me, just call," he pointed at his head. "Or you can find me across the hallway."
"Okay, dad, I will." Jenny replied before bounding over to the library and picking up a book.
Still smiling, the Doctor left her room and walked across the corridor to his own room. When he entered his room he found Rose snuggled under the covers snoring away. The Time Lord sighed. Of course she was sleeping. It had been a long tiring day for all of them. After taking off most of his clothes he joined Rose in bed.
Alexia was in her room currently lying on top of the bed, wide awake. She didn't feel sleepy for several reasons. The first was because she'd already wasted several weeks being forced to sleep. The second was this bedroom. Even though it looked like her most recent bedroom in Swansea, Wales, it didn't feel like it. Especially when the view outside the window was of a beachside view of The Mumbles. They'd never lived around that area, it was too well known and full of tourists. They'd actually lived in a rural village called Glais and it was not far from Cardiff. Just fifty minutes away by car. This room just felt all wrong. And lastly the third reason was because she was an insomniac and had been ever since she'd gone on the run with her daughter.
The constant noise form the partially open window was too much and Alexia sat up with an annoyed grunt and shook her head. "This isn't right!" The woman muttered and stood up, quickly exiting the room.
There was nobody in the corridor and Alexia had no idea what the time was because she currently didn't have a watch. All her belongings she had on her were still at the hospital in the other universe. So she decided to explore the Time Ship while she thought things over.
As Alexia walked along endless corridors, including sets of stairs, she thought about her mum and dad, Eric and Ava MacInarah, and how they would always be worrying about her, wondering where she was and thinking she was being held by MI6 with Jaime. They had no idea she was in another universe, safe and sound. And to be honest that only made her feel even more further away than ever. And the most weirdest thing about this whole situation? She was in a universe where The Doctor was an actual person and not just a TV character. Where all the enemy's were also real and she was travelling on the TARDIS alongside her daughter, who was dating the Metacrisis Doctor.
If Alexia was able to speak to her mum and dad would they really believe her if she told them this? Probably not!
Then her thoughts turned to the possible dangers of visiting other planets. What if they came across the Daleks? They weren't the type to not take victims alive. The Weeping Angels displaced people in time. Would they able to find her again if that happened? What about the Silence?
Alexia suddenly halted in her steps, realising something serious. At what point were they in the Timeline? They were obviously passed 'Journey's End' and 'The End of Time' because Rose and the Metacrisis Doctor was still here. And somehow the Doctor had not regenerated. She remembered Jaime telling her she'd been in the Pandorica instead of The Doctor. Did that mean they had met Amy and Rory? If they had, then where were they? But that also meant they were heading into series 6 and the Silence!
Alexia shuddered in fear and shook her head before looking around at her surroundings in surprise. Instead of the corridors being their usual coral-like look, they were instead all stone. It felt cold and it was clearly not an area that was regularly visited.
"Where the bloody hell am I?" Alexia exclaimed, looking back along the corridor she had come.
Deciding to retrace her steps she walked back along the corridor until she suddenly came across a familiar stone room she remembered from the episode 'Logopolis' and sat down on a stone bench. She recognised it as a Cloister Room. Well, technically it was the old Cloister Room as it was probably somewhere else now. When she looked around, Alexia noticed it was overgrown with ivy. Even the fountain in the middle of the room was overgrown with the stuff. It was clear this place hadn't been visited in a long time.
With a sigh, Alexia looked up at what appeared to be the roof. "Are you doing a Tegan on me?" She asked the TARDIS. "Because I am nothing like her!"
Ahh, poor Tegan. Wandered into the TARDIS thinking it was an actual police box and found herself on an adventure she'd never forget. But in the end it all became too much for her and she left on her own terms, albeit abruptly.
The TARDIS hummed in a cheeky way and Alexia felt it, almost like an odd sensation, in her mind. The woman shook her head at all the weirdness.
"In that case you want to be careful," she replied in a warning tone. "You don't want to mess with me. I'm a Mackem, born and bred." She wondered if threatening the TARDIS was a good idea or not. Especially when it felt like said TARDIS was laughing at her. "Fine," Alexia sighed and stood up. "Brave-heart, Lexie!" She muttered and walked out of the old Cloister Room into the stone corridor. "Which way?" She mumbled to herself, frowning.
She wanted to go right but an odd thought made her go left and she walked back up the corridor. It did feel like she was going the right way but she couldn't tell if it was herself or the TARDIS manipulating her. She certainly never had these weird feelings before, she was not like her daughter because her only ability was talking to animals, an inherited ability. Alexia found herself walking through another open doorway and this time she let out a gasp of surprise. The room looked like a cathedral, except it wasn't. It was an old Console Room used by the Seventh and Eighth Doctors.
"Okay, this is actually impressive in person, but it's not where I want to be!" She stated and Alexia turned around to leave, only to halt in her steps. "For the love of Sanity!" She exclaimed in annoyance. Where there had been a doorway was now just a wall. "You really are trying my patience here!" She muttered and walked off through the console room.
She walked out through another door into another big cathedral-like area. Ignoring the stairs, Alexia turned right and walked through a darkened corridor. Well, it wasn't all dark as there was light at the end, so she hurried through the dark part and out into the light part. When she looked left she halted in her steps and gawped. Somehow Alexia found herself at the top of the stairs where previously she had been at the bottom of them.
"What?" She exclaimed, confused and bemused.
How had that even happened? With a shake of her head and an annoyed grunt, Alexia avoided the stairs, walking across the landing into the next darkened corridor. When she came out the other side the woman sighed in disbelief. She was once again at the bottom of the stairs. And now she couldn't leave this area to go back into the old Console Room because the door wasn't there anymore.
"That's it! That is it!" Alexia glared around the TARDIS with her hands on her hips. "I'm not playing silly buggers here!" She stormed over to the stairs and sat on a step halfway up. "I'm staying here until you stop being a bloody arse." The TARDIS made a noise as if to say she was offended.