This chapter is almost standalone, it is not part of any multi-chapter plot, but it is part of the story.

Chapter 7

"Doctor, where are we going?" Jennifer asked as the Doctor placed her boater hat on top of the center column and took her frock coat off. She hung her coat on the hat rack in the corner.

"We'll be landing on Earth in the year 1868. Would you please fetch me my trainers, my boots are beginning to hurt," the Doctor said, sitting down on the floor next to the console and wrenching her boots off of her feet. Jennifer walked to the corner, where the Doctor had set up a shoe rack, and grabbed the Time Lady's white trainers. Jennifer handed them to her and she tugged them on.

"Thank you so much," the Doctor said, standing.

"I know how you feel. Heels always hurt after a while," Jennifer said. "'S why I wear trainers all the time."

"I'm just not used to it. Men don't usually wear heels, at least I didn't, so those are my first pair of heels," the Doctor said, making sure everything was clear and good, until the TARDIS shook.

"What's happening?" Jennifer asked as she grabbed the wall.

"No idea!" the Doctor said, catching her hat as it slid off of its perch. The TARDIS righted itself and the Doctor hung the hat next to her coat on the hat rack. She turned knobs and flipped switches, until running into someone who was also trying to work the TARDIS.

"Oh, excuse me," the Doctor said to the person, then looked up at their face. The recognition dawned on her face, as the realization hit the other person's face.

"Who the hell are you?" the other person said.

"Oh my god!" the Doctor said, her hands covering her mouth.

"How did you get in my TARDIS?" the man asked.

"It's you! Well, me, but it's you! With the colorfully mismatched coat and the curly hair and the spats! This is brilliant! Well, other than the fact that the universe goes bang in five minutes, but brilliant!"

"Will you stop blathering on and tell me who you are?!" the man said.

"I'm you."

"Nonsense, I'd know if you were me!"

"I'm you! Really, I'm you, in a future regeneration!"

"Then why are you a woman?" the younger Doctor touched the older Doctor on the nose, then went back to flipping switches.

"Because that's just what happened! It was bound to happen sooner or later!"

"I don't believe you."

"Honestly, I am! What must have happened was my TARDIS and your TARDIS, well the same TARDIS in different points in its time stream, collided and things are wibbly wobbly, this has happened to me before, other than when I was you, of course, and-"

"This has happened before, too! In my last incarnation, I met my tenth self!"

"I remember both ends of it. I'm your fifteenth incarnation."

"Doctor, who is this man?" Jennifer asked.

"Me, in my sixth incarnation," the older Doctor said.

"ABSOLUTE NONSENSE! A Time Lord can only have thirteen lives!" shouted the younger Doctor.

"A bunch of special circumstances; I can't reveal too much," said the older.

"But the universe goes bang in three minutes!"

"And this time it'll blow a hole the size of…" the older said as both Doctors consulted the older Doctor's monitor. "Well, the exact size of Texas."

"Bigger than last time. Anyways, I remember this from last time," the younger said, then began pulling levers.

"Venting the thermobuffer, drawing the Helmic regulator, and just to finish off, let's fry those Zeiton crystals."

"Eh, remembering well. Well, I'd have issues remembering it seeing as I'm the older version."

"'Older version!' Ha! Still not convinced you're me!" the younger said.

"Well, it worked," the older said. "Supernova and black hole in the exact same instant. Explosion cancels out implosion."

"Still not convinced you're me. How can you be me?"

"Believe me, I'm you! I'm you! Check out this face, Doctor, because one day you'll be putting makeup on it!"

A cloister bell dings.

"Sorry, Doctor, time's up. Where are you now? Peri? Mel? The Rani? Oh, she just showed up again," the older said as she flipped switches.

"Oh, really? What's she like now?"

"Still awful, but she's ginger this time. Helped me blow up the Daleks."

"Oh, really? Well, I seem to be off!" the younger said.

"All my love to long ago," the older said as the younger faded off.

"By the way, put your shields up, Doctor!"

The Doctor pushed a button, and the TARDIS shook again as it crashed down to Earth.

"Earth, in the year 3596, here we cooooooome!" the Doctor shouted.

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