A/N: Thanks again to my one reviewer. I've finally seen season 4 of Gilmore Girls now, there are so many 'I can't believe she did that' s on my part! Wow. But now that I know what Rory and Lorelai discussed while back in Star? Hollow. So this story is based after they arrived in London and instead of their trip to Ireland to spot Bono. It will become clearer in this chapter. Please read and review!
Chapter Three
" Er, hello." The Doctor said calmly. The Doctor studied to two women standing inside the Tardis. Both were brunettes and looked alike. Both dressed for the cold and the wet of Scotland, and had rosy cheeks. He recognised them, but he didn't know why.
" This is your place?" Rory asked him.
" Yes. Home sweet home. Can I ask what you're doing in here?"
" Exploring your spaceship of course." Lorelai said sarcastically.
" I wouldn't call it a space ship."
" Well, what do you call it?" Rory asked him.
" It's called the Tardis." He replied.
" Funny word!" Lorelai commented.
" It's home."
" Yes, I believe you said that already." Rory told him. The Doctor was a smartly dressed man, wearing an old fashioned suit with converse. Rory respected him on his choice of shoes immediately.
" You were the ones who bumped into me earlier, right?"
" On the meadows, yes. Accidentally, of course." Rory replied.
" Of course. And now you're here. What a coincidence." The Doctor was surprised.
" It's fate actually. So are you an alien?" Lorelai came out with.
" Of sorts. Although I take human form and have done for many years now. I speak all sorts of dialects too. The Tardis helps me with that though. It translates all alien languages once you've been in here. For example, you could now understand an Ood talking. It's incredible!" He was now very excited at all the possibilities.
" Yes, yes, sure. We're definitely going to run into an Ood or whatever that is you said, one of these days. Entirely possible." Rory said in wonder. This was not possible, she was thinking, not at all. Really.
" Do you want to take a trip?" The Doctor proposed.
Rory panicked. " We only came in here for coffee. We were on our way to see Bill Bailey. We're only simple humans, nothing to trifle with. Please don't eat us or kidnap us." She pleaded.
" I don't eat humans," The Doctor said seriously. " All I'm asking is if you want to see the universe. A simple choice really."
" Are you sure? You want to take us to some alien planet for fun? You don't even know us!" Lorelai spun at him.
" I know. But how would you ever make friends if you didn't talk to strangers once in a while?"
" I like you're reasoning. I'm Lorelai, and this is my daughter, Rory."
" Pleased to meet you, I'm the Doctor."
" Doctor who?"
" Just the Doctor. My own name is far too long and complicated, so I just go by the Doctor."
" Sure thing, Mr Doctor." Lorelai charmed him. " It get's confusing for us too. What with us both being called the same name." She motioned to herself and Rory.
" Except this one has one hell of a good nickname."
" Just call me Doctor, just like John or Roy."
" Roy's a weird name." Rory thought out loud.
Lorelai called over to her, " Remember that you dated a boy called Jess."
" I always thought that was a girl's name, you know, short for Jessica." The Doctor commented.
" Me too. Time's change." Lorelai told him. " Now, if you'll wait just a moment while I talk with my daughter, we'll come up with an answer for your proposal."
" Fine. Take all the time you need." The Doctor amused himself while he waited by considering the two young women as new companions from afar while playing around with the buttons and strange knobs on the control panels. He remembered then that Rory was also a boy's name in Europe.
Over by the door, Rory and Lorelai were rapidly discussing the pros and cons of a trip like this.
" Nobody would ever believe us." Rory told her mother.
" We'll just tell people that we tried to call upon Bono or something. I've heard U2 owns a hotel in Ireland."
" Why didn't you tell me that before? We could've gone there first!"
" It's only a suggestion to say that we were there instead of here."
" Oh my god, did I raise you to lie? I can't believe you're telling me to lie to the people we love."
" It's a white lie. They would never believe us. And most likely put us into a psych ward. I don't see why not. They would totally believe the Bono thing! I am open to this being possible, I want to be proved wrong. I'm not a total physics whizz but this can't be possible."
" Then where did people get the ideas for Back to the Future and the Time Machine?" Lorelai told her.
" Good point. Shall we go and have fun, but make sure that we're delivered back here like we've never left?"
" Nobody knows where we are at the moment, we aren't due back for a while yet. As long as we get back in time for our flight, I don't mind not seeing the rest of the UK."
" I do! I still want to see so much."
" Fine. We want to be back so we can still have time to explore these five countries."
" So those are our rules? We haven't entertained the possibility yet of not going." Lorelai told Rory.
" I think it would be cool. Imagine the places we could go. We could go to alien planets, but we could also go to the past and the future on this dear old planet of ours."
" I thought you said that this wasn't possible, missy."
" And I told you I wanted to be proved wrong."
The Doctor came over and interruped the women here. " I didn't mean to but in, as you say, but I would just love to prove you wrong, Rory, if you'd let me."
" Go on ahead. Our only consideration for this trip is to be back in time to explore the rest of the UK before our flight back to Boston in two weeks. We still have a lot of the UK to see. We've only seen London, Edinburgh and the very dull trip on the train from London to Edinburgh."
" Fine. Oh, and even though it was dull, be thankful you didn't fly, even more dull, but quick and you see nothing at all."
" So you'll let us get back in time for all that?"
" Of course. Hopefully. I can't always control this machine exactly, but I will try and get you back here in plenty of time."
" Thank you. Now, where would this trip be exactly? Where could you take us?"
" Everywhere and anywhere. I usually offer first time time-travellers a trip to the past and a trip to the future. Oh and we'll add some aliens in here and there too. Anywhere you'd like to go? Off the top of your heads?" He asked them.
" That would take a lot of thought, Doctor," Rory told him. " I'm sure anything and everything is extremely interesting. What do you think, mum?"
" How about we see where this machine might take us?" Lorelai told them-
" Okay. Well, if you'd like to hang up your winter coats in the cloakroom, out back," He pointed. " Wait a minute, where is the rest of your things? We could pick them up before we leave so you have it all with you in case I don't get you back exactly on time."
" In the nearby hostel. Should we go and get them now?" Rory asked him, fearing the cold outside.
" The Tardis can do a little manouvre to right outside the hostel if you like. You would have that big hill to come back up with all your things."
" Thanks." Rory answered him.
The Tardis did exactly that, and with a bit of button pushing and a shudder, the girls managed to walk out the door of the Tardis and into the hostel.
The paid up for their stay and took their things back to the Tardis. The woman at the desk wished them a pleasant journey. She would had been extremely jealous if she had known where they were really going.
Once all their belongings were on board, and their coats in the cloakroom, the Doctor made them drinks and told them to sit back, hold on, and enjoy the ride to their first destination. He was about to pull a lever on the fourth control board when he noticed a flashing light on the second.
" Ah," he muttered, unworriedly.
" Is that a bad ah or a good ah?"
" Neither. It just means that I need to refuel. This baby of mine took a bit of a beating on it's last trip." He told them.
" What did you do?"
" We dragged the earth from one alternate universe back to this one."
" Okay." Rory accepted his answer, now welcome to any other strange answers. " Where do we have to refuel?"
" Cardiff. In Wales. We could pop in and see a few friends of mine at the same time at Torchwood, their place of business."
" Cardiff. Cool. So your friends, alien or otherwise?" Lorelai asked him.
" One is alien, the rest are pretty normal. One used to be my travelling companion actually, that is until she joined forces with Captain Jack. That's his name, by the way."
" So, one trip to Cardiff then one trip to the past and one to the future."
" Yes. Although those might be in any old order."
" Sounds fun anyway. I love the mystery of it." Lorelai said.
" The Famous Five go on an adventure again." Rory said.
" You read those books as well?" The Doctor asked.
" Best kids books for definite."
" Well, let's go then. Although we're not the Famous Five. We're the Terrible Trio." Lorelai made up.
" That makes us sound awful though. We need to come up with something better and more, well, cool." The Doctor said.
" It's a working title. It'll be better eventually!"
" Sure thing, mum."
The Doctor pulled a lever and all of a sudden they were twisted and pulled in odd directions, and landed five minutes later with a bump. Rory unclenched her hand from the bar she had been so tightly gripping. Her drink was all over the floor although it vanished through the holes within seconds. Lorelai picked herself from up off the floor and stood unsteadly. The Doctor grinned at both of them. He strolled to the door and opened it wide. Bright sunshine beamed in and he looked up at the buildings that surrounded the Tardis.
The Doctor led the two women outside and said, " Welcome to Cardiff."
" This is Cardiff?" Rory asked him, looking at the rough water ahead of them, men in sharp suits marching past and a car zooming past in mid air. " Are you sure?"
" I didn't say it was still 2003." He told them brightly. The two Gilmore Girls looked around them with shock.
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