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There was another massive crash and the TARDIS tilted. The Doctor, with Evie in his arms, had no chance to grab hold of anything to stop them sliding along the ground and falling towards the library; the library with the swimming pool.
"What?" Evie murmured as they fell. She opened her eyes, saw the closeness of the Doctor and the blurred walls rushing past her and closed them again. "Brilliant."
There was a splash and they bombed into the water, shooting downwards. The Doctor was glad that it was so deep as, although they'd gone in with so much force, they didn't even touch the bottom. Keeping a firm hold on the teenager, the Doctor swum strongly to the surface, gasping for air when he got there.
Evidently the shock of the water had brought Evie firmly back into consciousness and she stared around miserably. Somehow the inside of the TARDIS had shifted. Looking straight up Evie could see the console room, titled to the wrong angle, with the open doors directly above her. She could see the stars in the sky through the gap.
"Here…" The Doctor muttered, grabbing hold of a rope with some kind of anchor on the end. He swung it round and round his head, causing Evie to have to move quickly to avoid being hit in the head, before releasing it towards the open door. The metal end sailed outside, securing itself to something out of sight.
"You…" The teenager muttered shaking her head, half exasperated and half impressed. He winked.
"Come on, Jones. Let's see where we are."
"Jones? You never call me Jones." Evie knocked on his head gently. "Did you bang your head?"
"Oh… shut up!" He laughed, starting to climb up the rope towards the exit. The teenager shook her head, laughing as well, before following him. He stopped at the top, meaning that Evie either had to wait for him to move or she could step across and scramble up the floor beside him. As long as she held on, she'd be fine. Otherwise she'd end up back in the swimming pool.
The rope was starting to burn her hands, so she swung across carefully, grasping the lip of the TARDIS just beneath the door. Popping her head over the edge, her mouth fell open, mirroring the expression of the small, ginger girl staring at them. She pointed her torch into the teenager's face and Evie screwed up her eyes against the light. The girl must have realised the reason for the female's discomfort because she moved the beam slightly. Evie smiled gratefully, shifting her grip on the wooden box.
"Can I have an apple?" The Doctor asked the girl. Both she and Evie looked at him, puzzled. "All I can think about… apples. I love apples. Maybe I'm having a craving? That's new, never had cravings before." Evie rolled her eyes and shook her head again; he had regenerated into an idiot.
"Don't mind him." She told the girl who was watching him as though she'd never seen anything like it. Which, the teenager told herself, she almost definitely hadn't. The child made no sign she'd heard Evie speak, still staring at the Time Lord.
The Doctor hoisted himself up and sat astride the lip at the bottom of the TARDIS, staring down inside the ship. Evie, still clinging on with one foot pressed against a ridge as her only form of support, growled softly.
"WOAH!" He exclaimed, ignoring her discomfort and looking past her into the TARDIS. "Look at that!"
"Are you OK?" The little girl asked cautiously.
"Just had a fall all the way down there, right to the library. Hell of a climb back up." He told her swinging his leg over and rolling up his sleeves.
"Excuse me?" Evie muttered. "Little help here?"
"You're soaking wet." The little girl said, ignoring the teenager as well.
"Oh brilliant, another one who ignores me." The teenager said, shaking her head. Then she realised; the little girl probably couldn't even see her. She still hadn't got used to that idea and she shivered, hanging on tightly, as the Doctor and the girl continued their conversation.
"I was in the swimming pool."
"You said you were in the library."
"So is the swimming pool."
"Are you a policeman?" The child asked.
"Why? Did you call a policeman?" The Doctor replied, his face showing signs that he was slightly apprehensive. Evie felt her hands slipping.
"Doctor… seriously, I could do with a hand." She told him, more loudly this time. He leant down to take hold of her as the girl spoke again.
"Did you come about the crack in my wall?" She asked, making the Doctor forget all about helping Evie. He turned back to the little girl and leant forwards eagerly.
"What cra–" The Doctor fell off the ledge of the TARDIS onto the ground in front of it with a small cry.
"You alright, mister?" The child asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. It's OK. This is all perfectly norm–" He said, jolting forwards. His voice cracked, as though he had lost his breath.
"Doctor?" Evie shouted. She couldn't see him over the edge of the TARDIS and used her remaining energy to pull herself up and over, falling heavily on the ground. Panting as the air rushed back into her lungs after being knocked out of them by the impact, she sat up. "What is it?"
Rather than answering, he opened his mouth and a stream of the golden particles she'd seen during his regeneration spilt from his mouth. The teenager smiled; the left over bio-energy. Then she furrowed her eyebrows; how had she known that? Obviously that must have been something she'd learnt from Donna.
"Who are you?" The girl asked.
"I don't know yet, I'm still cooking." The Doctor said, his hands glowing golden as the energy settled. "Does it scare you?"
"No." The girl said shaking her head. Even before she'd uttered the words Evie had slapped him on the arm; she was just a kid, there was no need to scar her for life. "It just looks a bit weird."
"No, no, no. The crack in your wall, does it scare you?"
"Yes." She replied. The Doctor beamed. Evie put her hands on her hips; apparently she was invisible to him as well now.
"Well then, no time to lose." He said, leaping to his feet. "I'm the Doctor. Do everything I tell you, don't ask stupid questions and don't wander off." He turned and walked straight into a tree. The teenager sighed, hiding her head in her hands in exasperation.
Clearly the little girl was just as mystified by the man's actions as she was, because she just looked at him lying on his back on the ground. "You alright?"
"Early days… steering's a bit off." He said, not moving. Then he leapt to his feet. "Where's the food?"
"This way." The girl turned and started walking towards the house. Then she stopped and looked behind her. "Is she your girlfriend?" She asked, looking directly at Evie.
The teenager and the Doctor looked at each other in absolute disgust at the very idea and answered in unison. "No!"
"Ewww! No way." Evie said, making the Doctor pull a face as she battered his ego. "Sorry."
"No, this is definitely not my girlfriend. This is someone who doesn't do everything I tell her, does ask stupid questions and is always wandering off. So, considering that, don't listen to anything she says."
"Great, thanks." Evie moaned, rolling her eyes.
