I do not own Doctor Who, or Primeval. And if you started wondering, it's not going to be a crossover chapter :p.

'Hey, Em, is your arm better?'

'Yes, a lot, thank you, Matt.' she responded, dazzling him with her smile.

'You're welcome, that's great. So, how hungry are you.?'

She gave him an amused stare. So they were talking degrees of hunger, maybe he was going to propose they have an eating contest, she liked those competitions, as in her time it was one of the few activities she could indulge in, during which she could stray away from the rigid etiquette, that chained her free soul, imposing limits, limits, limits. God, she hated limits! She hated being told she couldn't do something just because she was a woman. She smiled to herself, her rebellious attitude had gotten in a lot of trouble, both in her own time and during her travels, but she couldn't- no- she wouldn't change that. She could only be herself, there was no other Emily that she could be.

'Em, you still here with me?'

'Of course I am. What do you mean?'

'I's just something we say to people when they drift away during a conversation to get their attention back. So would you like watching the episode I was talking about before we go out? I mean I could record it if you wanted to eat like right away.'

'Fine, let's watch... this... what's an episode?'

'Remember the Tv?'

'Yeah, the box with little people in it. Right?'

'Yup. And remember we watched Pride and Prejudice? Well, that was a movie, and an episode is just like a movie, but shorter. And there are several episodes, that are connected and together they make up a season and one or more seasons make up a Tv show.'

'A-ha. And what Tv show are we going to watch?' she uttered unsure, looking at Matt to see whether she had picked up the correct term.

'The Tv show is called Doctor Who. It's about a man, who calls himself The Doctor, and this Doctor travels through time in his time machine and saves the world.'

'A time- what?' Emily asked puzzled, 'I thought you called them anomalies.'

'A time machine. And yes, they are anomalies. This time machine doesn't have anything to do with the gateways, it's more like... erm... it's an object. Think of it as it were a chariot, but instead of using it to travel from... say home to a ball, you use it to travel from one point in time to any other.'

'This sounds rather absurd, I mast say...' she said meditatively, 'Bring it on! Or what is it that you man of action of this time say?' she added with a cunning smile.

'He, he.' Matt laughed merrily, 'Bring it on' s fine.'

Emily seemed to be adapting pretty well to her new life, Matt thought. Actually the more he got to know her, the more he was sure that she had been born in the wrong time period. She defiantly wasn't meant for the strict, unfair Victorian era, with her strong will and fierce temper. It must have been hell for her, living like that, it occurred to him, immediately and instinctively refusing the thought of her never travelling through time and of never meeting her, pushing it to the back of his head, as it was too agonising a thought to afford.

Their story was unlikely as it was, with his mission to set time right and save humankind, but hell, he was sure that if ever given a chance, it would be a magnificent one, rivalling with the beauty of Tristan and Isolde's or Romeo and Julliette' s, but with a happy ending- he hoped. Hope, after all, was all he had. There was no promise of certainty, of anything, but there was hope. Always.

While I was watching The Stolen Earth episode of Doctor Who, it struck me that Matt could actually really relate with The Doctor, as they both have to save the world, and although the adventure is an exciting one, it's also a lonely one, with sorrow waiting around every corner ( Rose getting stuck in another universe, Donna having to forget she ever met The Doc etc). What do you think?

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