I procrastinate, that fact has been established, but it's so I can make every chapter great (but mainly because Internet).

This is the end of Episode 1. I'll post episode 2 (part 1) either later tonight or tomorrow, but definitely in the next 24 hours.

Musical Accompaniment:

Today's piece is Marwa Blues by George Harrison; it's beautiful, it's relaxing, it's psychedelic, and it's good.

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Also a song that you should listen to right at the end of the Chapter, not before. (Both come from YouTube)

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Episode 1: The Madman and the Recluse: Part 5

Chell opened her eyes to a white ceiling and she found she was in a bed with white sheets. She was in a hospital. She felt soar but she slowly got up and looked around to see the Doctor chatting with two nurses. She looked out at the open door, seeing various doctors and nurses of various species walking down the hall. There was also a woman who looked distinctly not like a Doctor or a nurse (though maybe like the Doctor) who had copious amounts of blond, curly hair on her head.

"Chell your awake!"

"Where am I?"

"The Sisters of the Infinite Schism; it's the greatest hospital in the Universe; even though It's only 5122."

"How long was I out?" Chell was sitting on the edge of the bed, yawning

"Oh 6-12.4 days; hard to tell sometimes when you go between Alternate Universes. The nurses told me that your burns are completely healed except for your right hand. "

Chell looked at her hand, noticing that what adorned her forearm, which got blacker as it reached the wrist, was metal. She tried to move it. It moved as her hand normally would. She tried picking up the sheets, and they felt the same as any bed sheet would but more defined.

"They said that the nerve endings weren't even there, indeterminable from the rest of the char that was only held together by heavily singed, hollow bones. Doctor Lomax said that that is one of the best prosthetics he's ever crafted; complete with full touch sensory; better than that of a human. It also can sense temperature, but doesn't induce pain."

"What did it cost you?"

"What do you mean?"

"How are you paying for this hand!?"

"Oh, I stopped an Attack from the 12th Cyber legion 6 years ago and they said this was the least they could do."

"So this is the best hospital in the universe that lets you in for free."

"No, I just so happen to get in for free at the best hospital in the universe; oh hello Doctor Lomax."

A women then walked into the room in a white lab coat; Doctor Lomax. She would have looked completely ordinary to Chell, except she was not exactly human. Rather she was a bipedal, sentient, reptile who was covered in green scales. Her appearance oddly enough seemed to be very natural and sleek; maybe even, attractive. She noticed that Chell was sitting up.

"You're awake!"

"Hello?"

"Sorry, it's just that this development was unexpected. Comas normally do not end so quickly when accompanied with third degree burns in apes."

"Apes!?"

"My apologies; I've been trying to break that habit. I mainly work with Terileptils and other Silurians akin to myself, and only recently have I started working with humans. I'm Kaya Lomax, you're Doctor. Now if you would ask your Doctor friend please step out, I have to check your vitals."

"It's not a problem," Chell sighed.

Kaya appeared to be immensely stressed and tired, though she smiled a bit at the sound of Chell's voice. After Kaya ran some tests, she left the room leaving Chell alone. She looked around for the Doctor, but he had disappeared; but where t? The door to her room was closed while Kaya ran her tests, and she would have heard it open.

"Hello Chell!" The Doctor burst out of his Tardis in the back corner of the room that Chell had not spotted. On his head was a beret. "I just stopped by Paris to get this medicine for Kaya. The Nazis were in the process of invading though, so I got a bit delayed."

"Where did; why; how did I not notice your, Tardis."

"Oh, my Tardis has a perception filter. It makes it so people look away from it when they are around it unless they're looking for it; or are around it a lot. That and the chameleon circuit make it completely inconspicuous."

"What does the chameleon circuit do?"

"It makes the Tardis turn into an object that blends in with its surroundings so it's not noticed."

"And no one would notice a blue box inside a hospital. How exactly does it work?"

"Well, it scans the surrounding 1000 and figures out the object that would best fit in with the surroundings in the first microsecond of landing. And it then turns into a police box from the 1950's."

The door to the room opened and Doctor Lomax reentered the room.

"Chell I have good news, according to my reports, you're health is perfect."

"Are you sure; did you check to see if there were any problems with the tests." The Doctor was surprised.

"Yes I did Doctor; they all said the same…" her voice trailed off as she eyed his hat. "What are you wearing?"

"Oh I wear a beret now, berets are cool. Oh and here is the medicine you wanted." He handed her the medicine.

"Stupid ape" *facepalm*

"Hey! I told you I'm not an ape; and they definitely are cool.

"Wonderful; the lizard and the walking fashion nightmare can't be bothered to care about troubles in my health for longer than 10 seconds."

"It's not that the test results are troubling," said Kaya, "it's just that such a quick recovery would not be expected considering your injuries. Either way, I have other patients to attend to. Thank you for the medicine Doctor; and Chell, you're free to go; just check in if anything is wrong."

Kaya left the room leaving the Doctor and Chell alone.

"I believe we have some unfinished business Doctor."

"Chell, I'd like to show you something."

"Why do you keep trying to change the subject on me?"

"Chell, I need you to see this, please. "

His tone was not his usual one, but a much more serious, somber, nonthreatening voice.

"Fine" Chell sighed.

The Doctor entered the Tardis followed by Chell. He flipped a few switches, pressed a few buttons and stopped with his hand on a lever.

"I'd hold on to the railing if I were you."

"What?"

The Doctor pulled the lever and the Tardis began violently shaking as it took off; nearly knocking Chell off her feet. The Doctor continued to work the Tardis controls until the Tardis stopped shaking. They had landed. Chell, dressed in only a white gown that the hospital had given her, steadied herself against the Tardis railing.

"There recently has been a lot of turbulence around here; since the Earth was stolen anyway. Now let's go out." The Doctor grabbed Chell's right hand and led her to the entrance. "You know what's behind this door?"

"What."

"Everything!"

The Doctor opened the door to reveal a swirling nebula of many colors that was quite beautiful to behold. Chell was not one to gawk at much, though she did marvel at the spectacle laid before her.

"Come on, out you go." The Doctor pushed Chell out of the door and she began floating through space; contained in oxygen from the Tardis. Eventually they both settled on the Tardis doorframe; sitting out looking at the stars.

"Why did you take me here to the, what did you call it, the Medusa Cascade?"

"The Medusa Cascade was a rift in time and space. I remember first flying out here when I was 90; only a child then. You remember reading about the moment, when I ended the war."

"Yes?"

"This is where I did it. I used the rift to kill millions of innocent lives; Time Lord and Dalek alike. And then later, the creator of the Daleks, Davros, escaped the jaws of the Nightmare Child and stole 27 planets; including Earth. He put them all in perfect alignment to amplify a weapon called the Reality Bomb. It would have destroyed the whole of reality if not for my friend Donna. I didn't just invite you to travel with me out of pity, or to fulfill some hero complex. When the entire universe is your backyard, you get board and it just becomes a backyard. You could point out any star, and I've probably been their when it formed and when it ended twice. You don't see all of the Death here; you see it for its beauty. And when you see its beauty, I can see it too. If you want, I can take you back to anywhere to the universe you want to settle if you want to leave. I could even take you back to your own Earth though it will take a bit of time. The only reason I easily got back to this dimension is because we were still close to the wormhole that got be to your Earth. But I'll do it if you want."

They both remained silent for a few moments. Chell had never needed to speak during her time at Aperture labs because no one ever asked her to make decisions. Even Wheatley never asked her to choose what they would do; he just relied on the fact that she would.

"No."

"What?"

"No, I'm coming with you. If there's one thing that I can be certain about with you; it is that you get into trouble when you're on your own."

"I still get into trouble when I travel with companions, there is plenty of Danger."

"What fun would it be if there wasn't?" Chell smiled

The Doctor smiled, his serious face thrown out the door. He walked over to the Tardis consol and began to pull a few levers.

"As I said earlier; all or time and space, everything that ever was or will happen is right out that door. My question is; where would you like to start?

"How about what Earth is supposed to have looked like when you found me; can you show me that."

"90's Earth it is then." He pulled a few more levers and looked at Chell.

"Ready?"

"Yes," he pulled another lever.

"Geronimo!"

The Doctor and Chell are thrown into British politics when they crash land into the ministry...of magic. But what does the mysterious , quiet, supposedly 29 year old Canadian have to do with it? And what do the Weird Sisters have to do with it? See next time on episode 2, Time Travelers (Three Different Ones).

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