First off this is the shortest chapter, but it had to be done to fit everything in and ave everything make sense. Secondly I would like to thank Prowlie for the first review and also thank you for the favorites =] well enjoy. Note: numbered notes are at the bottom, you'll see what I mean when you read.
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I tried my best to cling to the beige seat as the Doctor drove, if that's what you could call it, the Tardis. I almost got thrown from the seat, pushing myself up again I watch the Doctor run around the panel. "I never got the chance to ask, why did the Ktrasin chase me?" A particular hard jolt sent me tumbling to the floor. Groaning, I stood up and used the panel to steady myself.
"It's odd usually Ktrasins aim to devour those with a certain kind of energy. Like me I have that energy, time traveler. But you, I don't know why it was after you." He looked up from the counsel, I stared back at him.
"How would one acquire this energy?" I asked, glancing at him before flicking a switch on the panel. The Tardis made an odd sound before jolting to the left. I lost my footing and crashed into the Doctor. The look he was giving me, "Right don't play with the switches." I said righting myself.
"Right, well normally you'd have to be a time traveler like myself."
I moved over to where the Doctor had placed his coat. Hanging on to the odd structure (1), I thought it over. "How many police boxes do you think existed thirteen years ago?" I asked randomly.
I watched the odd man freeze, like time around him had stopped. "Why do you ask?" He moved again and one final jolt and everything stopped. We must have landed.
"Why does it matter? It's just a question." I said, loosening my grip on the structure.
"Oh no, it matters you see this would be the only police box you would see thirteen years ago. Well unless you went to a police though the age's kind of show I suppose." He trailed off at the end.
"Do they even have those?" He gave me a questioning look, "The police shows." I specified.
"Oh probably somewhere, wait! Wait, stop doing that!"
"Doing what?" I asked, confused.
"Bumping me off topic, why did you ask about the police boxes?" He moved to lean against the metal railing.
"I remember when I was little, there where robot people and everyone was scared. I lost my mom in the crowd. But I met a man, well kind of. He told me how his blue box would keep me safe and how if the monsters came down the alley that I should hide inside." I told him.
"Did they come?"
"Yeah, I was little so I dashed inside and hid. They banged on the doors for awhile before giving up." I finished, taking notice that he wasn't running around the panel like a headless chicken.
The Doctor was silent for a few seconds, "It all makes sense now," He pulled out his screwdriver and pointed it at me.
"Hey now-"I was cut off by the sound of the screwdriver. Squinting as the light flashed my eyes, I glared at him.
"This makes much more sense now, the energy was a rub off from when you where little. You must have met an older version of me who let you hid in the Tardis. Yes! From the Tardis energy rubbed off and took to you, that is why the Ktrasin was so keen on you." He continued on but I decided to take a peek outside of the doors. Tugging the door open a crack, I peeked out and almost instantly recognized my upstairs hallway.
"You parked in my hallway?" I asked, effectively cutting his rant of brilliance short.
"Well you did ask why I didn't park closer before." I stared at him like he had grown a second head.
"But in my hallway?" I stated like it would make everything better. "You are a crazy man, and worst thing is you are a crazy man with a time machine slash space ship." I shouted while stomping my way out into my home.
"Well you're a crazy woman…" I turned to face him, "With a fat cat!" He shouted back. I gave him a look. "Well it is a large cat." He stated in a kind of defense. I followed his eyes and did see a rather large cat sitting at the top of the stairs.
"Ah Doctor, I don't have a cat." I said, staring at the cat with a kind of confusion.
"So you're just a crazy woman." He said moving towards the cat.
"I don't think you-" I started to say.
"Oh."
"There we go." I said moving to peek into one of the rooms. "This is defiantly my house, two rooms upstairs and a full bath." The Doctor opened the bathroom and peered inside.
"Still blue. Did you live with anyone?" He asked, using his screwdriver and randomly pointing it at things.
"Two people, they rented out the upstairs but those rooms are not how I left them. Doctor what'd going on?" He ran past me and back into the Tardis. "Doctor!" Following him, I shut the doors behind me. "What's going on?" I asked from across the counsel. Moving around, I got closer to try and see what he was reading on the monitor.
"It seems the Tardis took a bit of damage when the magnetic beam pulled us down." He said, pulling out his glasses and leaning in closer to the screen. "Her timing is off, although it says we landed in 2010, but calculating in the damage difference- Oh."
"Oh?" I asked, trying to make heads or tails of the garble on the screen.
"Well we've landed two years form when we left." He said turning to me.
"So I've been gone two years, gone without a trace?" I asked, not taking my eyes off of the screen.
"Yes…" He trailed off.
"No one even knew I left, everything has changed. It's like- like I just stopped existing." I said, turning towards him. "But you can fix it right? We can just jump back and put me back into the right time right?" I started to slap him shoulder repeatedly. (2) "Doctor, tell me you can fix this. We can go back right? You'll fix the Tardis and we'll go back right?" I could feel the tears clouding my eyes, but I tried to blink them back. My abuse to his shoulder slowed and I tried to choke back a small sob. "We can go back right?" I asked again, this time I felt embarrassed of my voice; it seemed weak. I felt myself being pulled towards another body, I hiccupped.
"I'm sorry." I felt his hand pat my back; I reached up to grip the collar of his jacket.
"We can't go back can we?" I asked weakly resting my forehead on his chest. Looking down not only to hide my face but just so I didn't have to look at him.
"No, no we can't." I stared at his trainers.
"Will you at least replace my trainers?" I asked, wiggling my toes out from under the baggy jean material.
He pulled away and held my shoulders, "I'll do you one better, let's move the Tardis and this time I'll let you pick something out of the wardrobe to wear trainers and all. No more Al Johnson." I laughed weakly and nodded. "We'll get this all sorted out." Moving to the beige seat, I flopped down and just tried to adjust to everything that changed.
(1) - I'm not sure what you would really call it, the place where the Doctor usually throws his coat. So for now it'll be a structure. If anyone happens to know a better name to call it by please do tell.
(2) – I couldn't think of anything better, if anyone has seen the Guild web show before then you may have already seen it. But the best example of this scene is in season 4 episode 4 if you want to see its at http : /www. watch the guild .com/ just remove the spaces, it's about 4:37 in.