This chapter is a bit short because it was meant to be a part of a different chapter. But it didn't feel right.
The TARDIS door opened and the Time Travelling troupe entered the Time Machine. "I can't believe that blokey was selling burgers made out of Zygons," Alexia uttered in disgust as she walked up the ramp. "And the one's he had taken were only young."
When they had gone to investigate the burger place they found it was mildly popular, and then, once they all sat down at an empty table, both Jaime and Jenny started acting strangely to their surroundings. Even Rose seemed finely tuned at one point, mentioning that somebody was hurt, and scared, yet it was none of the customers. Then Alexia watched as Jaime silently communicated with Jenny, pointing discreetly at several people sitting down until a Waitress came along. Alexia thought the poor woman looked harried and knew that feeling all too well.
Only she noticed Jaime seem to get angry for some reason and she, along with Jenny, decided to follow the Waitress into the building. Confused, she had asked the Doctor what was going on and J.D was the one who answered, saying that she was having a friendly chat with the proprietor. It was anything but friendly, and all hell broke loose after that, followed by UNIT turning up.
Turned out they had the fast food place under surveillance when they'd tracked several kidnapped Zygons to that location. Not to mention that the people who'd been eating at the burger place were getting food poisoning and dying. The Doctor had asked why UNIT were tracking Zygons and the young woman, who Alexia recognised as Osgood, told the group that the Zygons were under protection of UNIT and had been ever since the Zygon/Human treaty of 2013. Meanwhile Jaime had persuaded the owner of the burger place, in her own unique way, to tell them what he was doing with the Zygons. And he told them, which quite frankly disgusted everyone.
"Aye, that's the thing, ma'. Not all monsters are aliens," Jaime replied as she walked past her mum and sat down on the jumpseat. "Sometimes it can be the human race!"
Alexia raised her brows at this, remembering that The Master said a similar thing about humans in 'The Last of The Time Lords'. The fact that Jaime was saying this surprised her quite a bit. "Maybe," she replied. "But it's got to be worse than the Horse Meat Scandal of 2013!"
"The what?" Rose asked, her eyes wide.
"Horse meat," Alexia repeated. "Wrongly labelled as Beef it was used for burgers, lasagne, Ravioli, etc. It was a big thing at the time." Rose not knowing about that, yet knowing about 'selfies' was rather telling. Perhaps things happened differently in Pete's World.
"Ewww…" Rose vocalised her disgust at the thought of people not knowing they were eating horse meat.
"In the Andromeda System horse meat is a popular delicacy," the Doctor spoke up as he sent them into the Vortex. "The Andromedan Royal family eat it all the time."
Alexia grimaced at this. It was such a typical Doctor reply, his alienness made him indifferent to a situation like horse meat.
"It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'could eat a scabby horse'!" J.D added and Jaime chuckled.
"No!" Jenny gasped in horror. "Why would they want to eat such beautiful animals like horses?" She asked her dad, her blue eyes wide.
"Maybe because horses of Andromeda are not used for racing or riding and look drastically different to horses of Earth." The Doctor replied. "They're more smaller in stature and have terrible tempers."
"Not to mention sharp teeth and growling when threatened." The Half-Time Lord added.
"Oh, wow!" Jenny uttered, trying to figure out what a growling horse with sharp teeth might look like.
"As for the Zygons," the Doctor continued thoughtfully. "Since when have they been under UNIT protection?"
He was scowling now and Alexia could tell he was trying to understand what was going on. She expected Jaime to say something but it appeared she was pre-occupied with John. And Jenny didn't seem to know which led her to believe she hadn't seen 'The Day of The Doctor'.
"Maybe it happened when you, your Eleventh incarnation and another incarnation forced UNIT and the Zygons to sit down and come up with a deal!" Alexia spoke up. It was followed by silence and everyone staring at her, which made her feel uncomfortable. "Oh! Has that not happened yet?" She wondered, hoping she hadn't caused some kind of universal paradoxical destruction.
"I would know if I had met a future version of myself," The a Doctor denied. "However there were some Zygons hanging around 16th Century England, but we managed to banish them."
A frown appeared on Alexia's face as she wondered how The Doctor could forget such an important thing like that? Especially when it also involved Gallifrey and the Time War. "And that was also when you met Queen Elizabeth the 1st the first time," the woman uttered.
"Yeah, and the Doctor proposed to her because he thought she was a Zygon!" Rose spoke, giving a glare at the Doctor who winced at her look. A puzzled Jenny could see that Rose was jealous. It came out in an ugly black colour and it was hard to look at.
Alexia smiled wryly. Of course! He'd married the Queen, then ran off as fast as he could afterwards, which led to the older version of the Queen wanting his head. But now she was getting off track.
"Yes, but if it wasn't for Jaime I really would have ended up marrying her!" The Doctor defended himself before Alexia could say anything else.
Now that was surprising because it wasn't supposed to go that way. What was she doing by changing the timeline? "So you've already met Queen Elizabeth but you've forgotten what really happened!" Alexia looked over at her daughter. "Tell them what happened in the episode with the multiple Doctors."
Jaime seemed surprised. "You mean 'The Day of The Doctor'? It's okay to mention them by name, within reason. They're cool with it." She told her mum with a grin. "And if you're asking me to tell them what happened that day, then I can't tell you much because I don't know. I only know what happened in the actual episode."
"What?" Alexia vocalised and turned her attention to her daughter. "How do you forget something like that?" She asked.
"Like the Eleventh Doctor said in the episode, the Time Streams correct themselves and we cannae retain the memory. It made us all forget." Jaime told her mother.
"Even you?" Alexia sounded very surprised.
"Aye," Jaime nodded. "And with that Zygon/Human deal made in the episode it seems to be actually progressing well in real life." Once she said that, Jaime stood up, took a hold of J.D's hand and they both exited the console room.
Alexia frowned after them, suspicious of their activity.
"What happened with Queen Elizabeth?" Jenny asked The Doctor. "If you didn't marry her, like you referenced to Ood Sigma, then did she still want to take your head off after you met Shakespeare?"
The Doctor narrowed his eyes at Jenny's question. "Why would she want to chop my head off? No, she just wanted to have a friendly chat. It surprised me that she knew who I was, yet didn't know Martha. And at one point she asked me where everybody else was. It was a question that puzzled me…"
Shaking her head, Alexia was surprised yet again by the change in Timeline and decided to look for Jaime. Exiting the console room she looked left and then right before looking up at the corridor roof. "Right, now that we're on the same page you can tell me where Jaime and John have buggered off too." She requested, followed by a "please." The TARDIS granted her request and she was given a hint of where she needed to go. "Thank you!" Alexia said and followed the pathway in search of her wayward daughter and the Metacrisis Doctor.
