Welcome to the TARDIS, Miss Marcus
The Doctor led Charlie back into an alley, where no one could see them, "Huh, this isn't weird at all!" Charlie said, "A stranger taking a defenseless girl into the deep pits of an alley, where have I seen this before?"
"Come along, Charlie." He pulled her in front of a blue police box. "Isn't she magnificent?" He smiled.
Charlie blankly stared at the box before her, scanning it over with her eyes of sapphire, "Um…"She blinked, "It's a phone booth."
"It's more than a phone booth. Correct term is a police box." He pulled out the key and unlocked it.
"If it looks like a phone booth, shaped like a phone booth, guess what? It's probably a phone booth." She nodded her head.
"But it's not a phone booth, it's the TARDIS." He opened the door and led her in.
Charlie couldn't believe it. There was the console in the center of it all. The bright gold walls made the room shine even brighter. "Wow…"She sighed.
"Go on, say it. 'It's bigger on the inside.'" He chuckled.
"Do you have a bathroom?" She bit her lip.
The Doctor's jaw nearly dropped. After hearing everyone's reaction for hundreds of years, he never heard anything like that. "Um…I…" He was at a loss for words.
"Cause the place is basically your house, right?"
"Yes." He was flabbergasted.
"Then it would be pretty dumb of you not to have a bathroom in your house. Or TARDIS, whatever you call it."
"Of course, I…"
"Where is it then, cause I really gotta go!" She bit her lip once more.
The Doctor was defeated, "Up those stairs, down the hall, first door on the right."
Charlie looked up at the stairs and looked back, "Thank you! Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go!" She muttered to herself as she ran upstairs.
The Time Lord leaned against his console, "Many people comment on the TARDIS itself, but she comments on the loo? Who does that?"
Five minutes later, Charlie came downstairs and found the Doctor playing with a paddleball, "Bored?" She looked over his shoulder.
"No, I've done at least 258 so far." He kept his eye on the paddleball.
Charlie snatched the paddleball from his hand and gave him a serious look, "We have a problem."
"Oh?"
"This necklace, it won't come off."
"What? Let me see." Charlie threw her jet black locks over her shoulder and exposed the gold chain on the back of her neck. "Okay, here we go." The Doctor twiddled his fingers and touched the chain, only to be shocked by a green spark, "Ow!" He shook the pain off his fingers.
"What?"
"You shocked me!"
"No, it wasn't me! It was the necklace! Get this thing off me!"
The Doctor sat down and looked at her with defeat in his eyes, "It can't."
Charlie sat down next to him, "You told me you knew was this thing was. What is it?"
The Doctor looked at her and smiled, "That, my dear Charlotte, is the Gem of All."
"Gem of All?" She looked down at the emerald. "All of what?"
"All of everything there ever was. Long ago, there was nothing. Completely nothing. No time, no space, just nothing. Complete darkness. Until this beauty here started it all."
"It created everything. The galaxies, the planets, and the stars?"
"Everything."
"And it's still here after all this time?"
"Of course, the royal family of Corsect were the guardians of the Gem. But the Gem has no protector now since the King and Queen were killed long ago."
"Who's the King now?" Charlie asked.
"I believe you met him in the café."
"Oh. Fine, then. I'll find him and give him the necklace." Charlie headed for the door.
The Doctor ran ahead of her and blocked it, "Are you mad? Giving yourself up to Thalos? Is that your plan?"
Charlie nodded her head, "Yep, pretty much. The sooner I get this off my neck, the sooner I can get on with my life. Now get out of the way."
"Life? Ha!" The Doctor laughed, "What life, Charlotte? Going to school, your job in the café, and staying in at home? I wouldn't call that a life! I call it dull!"
Charlie looked down at her feet for she knew the Doctor was right about her life. According to her, it wasn't completely right. "So, what do we do?" Charlie sighed.
"Well, the true heir to the throne is in this town, as well. All we have to do is find him."
"Okay, who is the true heir?"
"Mikquin. He was the boy you met today. Before he left Corsect, Mikquin took the Gem of All to protect is from his older brother. He was supposed to bring me the Gem to protect it since Thalos found him on Earth, but instead he gave it to you."
"Was it because you were late or something?"
"I am never late. Everybody else is simply early, that's all. I always have track of time. I'm a Time Lord." He showed Charlie his golden watch that rested on his wrist.
Charlie looked closely at the watch's face, "Oh…um, you forget to set your watch an hour back. Daylight Savings Time, you know." She smiled as she pulled out her cell phone, which showed the correct time, "See."
The Time Lord looked at her cell phone and back at his watch, flabbergasted, "I…Well, I…Time doesn't matter!" He threw his hands in the air, "Well, it does in this dilemma because Thalos could find Mikquin and who knows what kind of chaos will happen!"
"Do you happen to know this Prince Mickey?"
"Mikquin." The Doctor corrected.
"Whatever." Charlie rolled her sapphire eyes.
"I met him when he was little. I was good friends with the royal family, saving their race for at least three times. I remember this one time-"
"Doctor!" Charlie snapped him out of his rambling, "Get to the point, please."
"Mikquin was fond of the beach near the palace. He would always go there to collect his thoughts."
"The beach, the one here is not too far away." Charlie said.
"The beach it is, Miss Marcus." He pressed a few buttons, "Since it's your first time inside the TARDIS, I recommend holding on to something." He said as he flipped the switch.
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