A/N - Here's the last part of The Stolen Minute! Enjoy! Reviews are fab, remember!
Callum woke up, and at first he thought he was still onboard the Anthopilian ship, but then he realised he was inside the elevator from the shopping centre, his friends all asleep around him. Then he slowly sat up and realised that the lift was back in the shopping centre!
There was a large boom, and the elevator doors slid open, to reveal two of the security workers holding a large clamp-like object, prising them apart. Slowly, Keith, Sean, Bex and Abby came round and the security men helped them out of the lift one-by-one. Callum stretched his arms. Had it all been a dream?
And that was when he saw them. The Doctor and Amy were both standing outside the toy shop, looking up at him. They looked up and saw him and Amy waved. He raised a hand and waved back, smiling. The Doctor grinned and motioned for him to follow them, before they walked up the stairs and into the toy shop.
"Callum?" Keith called as Callum began to head towards the doors.
"I'll see you later!" Callum replied, grinning.
Callum ran down the hallway leading to another room with two elevators, he ran past them and through a doorway onto a car park. There was a door right next to him that lead onto the staircase. Blasting through the door, he took the stairs three at a time, until he reached the second floor. He ran up the stairs and into the toy shop, hunting for the Doctor and Amy. Then he saw them standing at the opposite side of the shop. The Doctor motioned for him again, and they both stepped onto the escalator. Callum ran to catch up with them, and by the time he got to the top of the escalator, they were at the bottom.
"Hurry up, Hendrick!" cried the Doctor. Callum grinned and ran down the escalator, after them. They waited for him.
"What's up?" he said, still grinning.
"Well, the way I see it, without you on that spaceship, we'd be dead, and a few planets would be going through a bit of turmoil. The time energy neutralised itself and was absorbed by the converters in the ship, powering it up. So, the Hive gets to move on. And the minute's still missing. But oh well, at least that's something done! The mystery of the stolen minute – solved!"
They had walked their way to the train station, and the Doctor lead the way, striding a few steps ahead of Callum and Amy.
"Right, I should probably warn you now," Amy smiled, "things are about to get even weirder."
They made their way through the station to an archway that lead onto a car park, following the Doctor up several flights of stairs, until finally reaching the top. The Doctor pulled the door open and walked out onto the roof of the car park. It was still raining – the same rain from when they'd left, Amy noticed, checking the time. It was only twenty past three. A whole nine minutes since the minute had been stolen. She smiled to herself, it had been an interesting day.
The sky was grey and cloudy, the rain bucketing down on the three of them. The Doctor walked over to a big blue box, a tidier version of the one just a few streets away. He unlocked the door and pushed them both open wide, standing in the doorway. Callum's eyes widened.
Inside the box was a massive room that was way too big for it. It was all metal, brass and glass, with two levels, and stairs leading off into separate corridors. And at the centre of the room was a large console, covered in loads of strange bits and pieces.
"How is that possible?" Callum laughed increduously, checking the sides of the box for some sort of trick. "It's bigger on the inside!"
The Doctor clicked his fingers and grinned.
"Indeed it is!" he noted. He liked it when someone said it was bigger on the inside. Amy smiled too, stepping into the box to stay out of the rain.
"I'll go pop the kettle on," she said, heading up the stairs.
"Very good, Pond! Right, now Cal, here's the deal – I'm a 907 year old Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey; I'm a time-traveller; and this is my ship, the TARDIS. Amy and I travel around in it and be magnificent, and I figure I owe you a reward for what you did today. So how about you join us?"
"R-really?" Callum cried, astonished.
"Of course! Come see the Universe with us! Two Scots are better than one! Well, in some cases..." the Doctor rambled. "Anyway, yes or no?"
"Yes, of course! Oh my God, thank you! Wait, what am I gonna tell my mum?"
"You don't have to tell her anything! Remember, it's a time machine! I can drop you off at home in the exact second you left! Now, do you want to come in before you drown out there?" the Doctor stepped out of the way of the doorway. Callum grinned and stepped into the blue box, past the Doctor, who shut the doors behind him and watched as Callum walked up the set of stairs to the console.
"This. Is. Mad!" he laughed. He walked around the console, looking at different gizmos and whatchamacallits. "Thank you!"
"So, where are we off to first?" Amy asked, walking down the stairs, holding three cups of tea. She handed one to Callum who thanked her, and handed another to the Doctor.
"Well, I thought I'd let Callum decide!" the Doctor replied, nodding his thanks. Amy sipped her tea and turned to Callum.
"Well?" she smiled.
"First things first, home! If I'm travelling, I'm gonna need clothes, and a toothbrush and stuff!"
"Right then, first stop: home, right after that: anywhere!" the Doctor grinned.
"I'd finish that tea if I were you," advised Amy. "Everything's about to go a bit crazy!" She finished hers and Callum copied her, wincing as the hot tea burnt his mouth. She took his mug off of him and walked up the stairs again, coming back a few seconds later, mugless. The Doctor seemed to have forgotten that he had a mug, and had abandoned it at the bottom of the stairs. He was too busy jumping around the console, twisting and pulling, pushing and sliding the various objects that controlled the TARDIS.
"So, where'd you live?" the Doctor asked, turning to Callum. Callum told him his address and the Doctor nodded. He pulled down on one final lever, and the large glass pillar at the centre of the console began to rise and fall – a metallic whooshing coming from it. The room shook violently, and Callum felt it tip slightly. The smiles on Amy's and the Doctor's faces were contagious, and he beamed along with them. He caught Amy's eye and they both burst out laughing. The Doctor laughed along with them, as he navigated the little blue box, with its three happy occupants, into the time vortex. . .
A/N - Well, that's the end of The Stolen Minute - tying up all the loose ends, and getting Callum in the TARDIS! There's gonna be a Meanwhile in the TARDIS bridging each episode (minus the two-parters), so aye, until the next one! *begs for reviews again*