I think the Doctor thought I'd frozen when he had to come back to me along the pavement and guide me by the hand to the door of the TARDIS gently.

It was sat on the corner of my street, sandwiched between the phone box and the post box.

Long ago as a child, I would dream of it landing there.

Now it was, I could barely believe it and I had to just stand there and stare for just a moment to get my head round it.

Taking a deep breath, I let the Doctor open the door for me, pushing it wide.

My first step into the TARDIS echoed around the cavernous space, the soft light seeming to flutter at my presence. The engine made a funny grinding noise as I walked into the control room properly, making me jump, my heart hammering.

"She recognizes you!" the Doctor beamed, closing the door and sliding his coat off.

There was a hat stand that he could have hooked his coat on, but instead he walked right past it and threw it over the odd Y- shaped protuberance from the side of the interior that looked like it was made out of coral.

Typical man.

"She recognizes me?" I repeated, walking further into the huge room and looked up at the huge tube of light.

The TARDIS made the strange noise again and the Doctor grinned wildly.

"Oh yes! Well… she recognizes that you belong to Madeline's family. You gorgeous, clever girl."

I looked at the Doctor with a look of shock, then realised he was stroking the console of the TARDIS with a fond grin.

He was talking to her.

I gave a little laugh and reached out to touch the console myself. It was warm to the touch and if I really concentrated it almost seemed to pulse under my hand. Grama always did say that this thing was alive.

"She is gorgeous." I whispered.

The Doctor gave a wide grin and chuckled.

"Careful, she gets very full of herself when people compliment her. Ends up forgetting where she's going. Parks in stupid places. I think she gets flustered by it."

"I was only telling the truth."

The light in the middle of the console glowed brighter and the TARDIS made a little shivering, sighing noise.

"So! Where do you wanna go?" the Doctor asked with a big bright smile.

My mind went blank.

All of time and space and I had no bloody idea where I wanted to go.