Chapter Thirteen; A Proud Father
Before we knew it the TARDIS had lifted us up to space. Now there we were looking over the world. "That's the earth?" Cassie questioned. "Wow, it looks beautiful up here." She said with a breath of astonishment as her mother laughed.
"Yes darling I know." She said.
"So what's the plan?" Jane asked.
"Can I borrow your mirror?" Peter questioned her back.
"Why? Do you have a zit or something?" she asked him.
"No, Cassie you're the scientist in the family why don't you tell her?" he suggested with a grin.
"Oh! Is it because light refracts from the sun?" she questioned him eagerly.
"You got it!" He answered with a grin as Jane handed him her handheld mirror and he aimed it towards the sun and sure enough a few moments later the light bounced off of it and shot a ray of light down at the earth. Down below all the creatures started screeching in pain as one by one they died a most horrible death.
"Well done son, you did it." I told him as I embraced him and patted his shoulders.
"See? I told you that he's growing up to be a rather fine time lord." Rose said with a smile.
"What about me? I was the one who knew the answer." Cassie said sadly.
"And you're growing up to be a rather fine time lady." Her mother told her as she smiled at her and Cassie lit up with excitement.
"There's still one thing I don't get though, what does the resurrection ring have to do with any of this?" Jane wondered.
"I can answer that too, he meant with the use of the sun right?" Cassie asked him.
"Right." He answered with a nod.
"I'm tired, can we go home now?" Jane questioned me.
"Yes princess, I think that's a great idea. It's time for all of us to go home." I told her.
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A few days later we were able to fix Cassie's machine and she was the best in her class so she got to enter it in the science fair. "Mine is going to win, I just know it." She said to herself.
"I wonder be too sure about that Kelsie." Tiffany grouched as she stood in the booth beside her.
"It's Cassie you butthead." She said crossly as she shot an angry glare in her direction while I tried to hold the laughter inside of me.
"Now sweetheart that isn't a very nice thing to say." I told her.
"You better listen to your daddy Cassie, or you'll get in twouble!" Tiffany teased.
"Grr!" my daughter growled.
"Cassie," I warned.
"But she's_" Cassie began as she pointed her thumb backwards.
"I know, but you've got to be the better person and ignore her." I told her.
"And as for you," I began as I turned over to look at the girl next to me. "you better leave my daughter or alone or I'll shrink you to the size of a flea and have you to deal with the dogs and cats biting at you. Do you understand me?" I asked her.
"You couldn't do that." She told me.
"Oh yes he could! This is a shrinking machine." Cassie told her as I raised an eyebrow at the other girl.
"Yeah, well, you couldn't beat my science experiment anyway. I figured out a way to talk to animals." She said as she folded her arms crossly and turned her back while we laughed quietly to ourselves and gave each other a high five.
First the judges walked over to Tiffany and judged her. She translated everything that her Border collie Max was saying. Then they walked over to us. "Oh let me see, what do we have here?" one of the older gentlemen questioned.
"It's a shrinking machine. It can shrink anything that you want it to." Cassie said.
"Oh I see, would you demonstrate it for us please?" he asked.
"Certainly," she began. "but you better stand back." She told him as he automatically took a step back and watched as it shrank a notepad before his eyes.
"Very interesting, I think we found our first place winner." He told her as he stuck a blue ribbon to her machine.
"You mean that!? I won? I actually won!?" she exclaimed as he smiled and nodded at her.
"You certainly did, now what would your name be young lady?" he questioned.
"Cassandra Smith, but you can call me Cassie." She said with a grin, and at the moment, I could honestly say that I was a very proud father.