"Ugh, what is wrong with you, girl?"
Yas hears a cry of protest from the console room right when she is stepping in.
While Doctor needs no sleep, she and Ryan and Graham always require to have some shuteye to keep up with the blonde madwoman.
"What happened?" Yas asks from the Doctor, who had shed her coat next to a yellow pillar and is staring at the central crystal of the TARDIS. As soon as she hears Yas's voice, she turns around with a start and stares at the dark-haired woman, hand on one of her hearts.
"Oh geez, you gave me a fright," she breathes out, smiling at Yas.
"Sorry," Yas mumbles. "I didn't mean to. I just heard you talking. Who were you talking with?"
Doctor glances back at the crystal and frowns. "I was just talking to the old girl. She has been acting weird lately."
"Who?" Yas frowns in confusion.
"The TARDIS," Doctor says, while turning back to the console, staring it intently. "She doesn't make sense anymore. I know that she sometimes brings me to places where I need to be, but this is getting ridiculous. It's like I have no say anymore, she does what she wants."
The yellow central crystal let out a whirring sound and moved up and down. The Doctor squinted her eyes and looked at the console and burst out, "Really? I know how to drive!"
The crystal whirred again and the TARDIS shuddered.
The Doctor slides her hands across one of the keyboards and murmurs "Come on, please? What's wrong with you?"
But the TARDIS remains silent and the control room stands still. Even Yas doesn't want to move in fear of ruining a moment, whatever this moment is.
The Doctor seems to have forgotten that Yas is there and starts pulling out some wires from the open panel to her right. She seems to be in the middle of fixing whatever the problem she thought there was with the TARDIS.
"So," Yas asks softly, "What is the problem with your ship?"
Doctor, who ,managed to distract herself again, startles again with the sudden noise. "Oh, sorry."
Yas apologizes again and steps closer to the panel, standing next to the Doctor. She is fiddling with the wires but looks up to her and beaming a smile.
"No worries, Yas. When I am working, I get distracted easily. I am not used to people hanging around the control room. Usually you lot sleep more."
Yas smiles at her ramblings and shrugs. "I just woke up. I was searching for the kitchen but the layout has changed, so I ended up in here."
The Doctor smiles proudly. "Ah, she tends to play with the corridors sometimes. Seems that she gets bored from time to time."
Suddenly she looks sharply up at the crystal. "Is that what it's about? You are bored and just playing with me? What do you have me do?"
The TARDIS doesn't answer this question either and Doctor just groans in frustration, while continuing to work with the panel. One of the wires touches the panel and zaps Doctor with energy. She pulls her hands out of the way and pushes her thumb into her mouth to soothe the pain, groaning in discomfort.
"Really?" she whispers to the TARDIS.
Yas chuckles at the antics of the Doctor. She and the gang had been travelling with the Doctor for quite a while now, she is slowly getting used to the woman.
"Can I help?" Yas asks, sitting down to one of the benches nearby, keeping an eye on the blonde woman.
The Doctor turns around to face her and scrunches her nose. "No, not really. I was just finishing up anyway. Seems like she doesn't let me rewire the telepathic circuit to the main energy crystal like it used to be, instead she wants it to go through the capacitors first. I don't know why. Well, it's her choice anyway, makes her life harder, not mine."
Yas nods at this information, small smile playing at her lips. "So, no?"
Doctor beams a bright smile to her and waves her hand for her to come closer. "Not really, yes. You can watch. I will teach you how to close off the crystal circuits. Not everyone can do that!"
And so they stand side by side the main panel, Doctor stopping and explaining some details to Yas and her listening all the information she can memorize.
It takes half an hour to finish the job at hand. There's only few wires left to attach back to the crystal panel underneath.
"So THIS here," the Doctor points at the pink ribboned copper wire, "Should be connected to here, so the information from here," she points at the keyboard for navigation system, "could travel through the first board, to the main circle."
"So, basically when you input the data from here," Yas points at the same keyboard and then to the wire "this cable is responsible for relaying the info to the TARDIS main frame."
"Yes, exactly", the Doctor beams another blinding smiles to her young companion. "You are surprising me, Yas. You learn very fast."
"Thank you," Yas blushes slightly at Doctor's praise. "I just think all of this," she waves her hand around the TARDIS, "Is very interesting. I want to know as much as possible."
"That is a very positive attitude," the Doctor nods and sighs. "Necessary for survival in this universe. Sometimes negativity can cloud your judgment and then you can take wrong decisions and end up in places you don't want to be."
"Has that happened to you?" Yas prods a little bit.
Doctor has not shared too much about her past or what her life has been. Sometimes she shares a little but never enough to get the full picture.
"Yeah," Doctor gives her a sad smile. "Many times."
"Oh." Yas mumbles. "I am sorry."
"No, don't be sorry, Yas." Doctor shakes her head and her sad smile brightens up a little bit. "Tough times help you learn valuable lessons."
Yas looks her companion with a curious eye while the person of her interest just shakes the sad memories away, perks up and turns her attention to the console again.
"Let's finish this up, shall we?" Doctor asks. Yas nods with a smile and they start the long process again.
Just as they are finishing attaching the last wire, the TARDIS lets out a shudder and a groan and all of a sudden, they are in flight in the time vortex. Doctor and Yas both grab hold of the console to keep them upright and look up to the main crystal.
The familiar whooshing sound fills the air and as suddenly as the flight started, they land.
"What did you do?" Doctor asks aloud.
Yas shakes her head. "I didn't do anything, I swear!"
"I wasn't talking to you." The Doctor continues. "I was asking from the old girl. She just activated herself and landed somewhere new."
She peeks at one of the screens and pushes two or more buttons.
"Interesting," she murmurs.
"What's happened?" Yas steps closer, trying to peek at the screen. She finds herself disappointed when there is only these round circle-y things moving around on the screen.
"She landed us on 11th century England."
"Why," Yas asks.
"Is the right question," The Doctor nods and smiles to her companion. "Let's find out, shall we?"
Doctor starts walking towards the door, grabbing her coat and sonic along the way. She has almost reached the door when Yas catches up with her.
"Hey wait!" she calls the doctor "what about Graham and Ryan?"
Doctor stands there for a second, thinking. "They are still asleep, we will only check a little bit, we will be back by the time they wake up."
"Are you sure?" Yas asks, a doubt on her features. There has been many times when their short adventures end up being days to a week long trying times.
Doctor slips the sonic out of her pocket and points to the console. Whirring sound fills the entrance area and Yas hears a row of beeps from the machine.
"I left them a message in case they wake up early. Let's go," she grabs Yas's hand and pulls her out of the TARDIS with a glee on her face.
Yas has to blink rapidly several times to actually see around, when they reach outside. The sun is bright in the blue sky and she covers her eyes with one hand, while the other is still pulled by the Doctor.
"Where are we exactly?" she asks, taking in the beauty of the nature. It doesn't look like England to her. Too many mountains and lochs.
"Are we in Scotland?" Yas wonders out loud.
"It seems so," Doctor nods. "Why would she lie about that?" she mumbles to herself.
The Doctor doesn't really stop walking, nor does she let go of Yas's hand. Yas smiles at that and keeps walking behind the blonde, trying to keep up with her wild pace.
All of a sudden, the Doctor stops without any warning, making Yas to plow into her. The dark haired girl lets loose a muffled squeak and tries to find her bearings. It takes her some few seconds and she notices that the Doctor is almost motionless and her eyes are pinned to something up the hill.
Yas looks towards the Doctors line of sight and there she sees it too. A human-like figure standing there, looking at them. Clothed in almost unearthly garb, it stands there, motionless, eyes full of surprises and shock.
"Hello?" the Doctor suddenly yells out. "Can you tell us where we are?"
The human-like form startle svisibly.
It turns around slowly.
… and runs.