A/N - Here's the first Meanwhile in the TARDIS, which is basically just to bridge gaps between episodes or just general TARDIS antics! Not much to it, but it's a nice wee way to bridge the gap between The Stolen Minute and The Stricken Stars

The engines had calmed themselves after a minute of their strange metallic throbbing. The Doctor smiled and gestured at the doors of the ship.

"Go on then!" he cried. "Hurry up! Places to go, people to see!"

"I'll be two minutes," Callum replied, grinning at him. He ran down the stairs and through the doors.

"Two minutes," the Doctor repeated, smiling.

"Woah! That is pretty cool!" Amy and the Doctor heard Callum call from outside the doors. "How does that w-"

"Disappears there, reappears here. Hurry up!" the Doctor shouted.

"Okay!" Callum shouted back. The Doctor turned to Amy, who was smiling at him.

"What?" he asked.

"What do you mean 'what'?" she replied, still smiling.

"You're... smiling," he said, staring at her blankly.

"I usually do, Doctor."

"Well, yes you do, but not like this. This is one of those 'I'm Amy Pond and I find something amusing' smiles."

"Oh, well... I just think it's funny – having someone else in the TARDIS, I mean. It felt like there was a gap."

"A gap?" the Doctor asked, looking up from the console. Could she be remembering Rory?

"Yeah, well, sometimes it's as if there's someone missing..." she said, looking into the distance. "Probably just cause River's not here." She blinked and turned to the Doctor, smiling again. "Anyway, where are you planning on taking him for his first trip? Gonna need to top Starship UK, I'm afraid."

The Doctor was still gazing at her, curiously. She returned the expression.

"What?" she asked.

"Oh! Sorry, I just sort of... fell asleep. With my eyes open. No, not really, but anywa-"

"Back!" Callum shouted, walking back into the TARDIS with a suitcase dragged behind him. "Told you I'd be two minutes. Where should I stick this?"

"Ah, Amy'll show you," the Doctor said absent-mindedly, staring at the scanner.

"Yeah, there's a couple of bedrooms just down here," she said, walking up another set of stairs, Callum following behind.

"How big is this place?" Callum laughed.

"Seriously, I don't even think he knows!" Amy replied, pointing a thumb back in the direction of the console room. "Right, that's a kitchen there, and my room's just down there, so if you want the room in the middle?"

"Yeah, sure," Callum said, pushing the door open to reveal a spacious room with a large king-sized bed. The walls were covered in the same roundels that lined the walls of the console room. Another door at the end of the room lead to an en-suite bathroom, Callum assumed.

"Want to unpack just now, or head back and see where we're off to?" Amy asked him.

"I'll unpack later," Callum replied, leaving his suitcase on the bed. "Not missing a second of this!" He beamed at her and followed her back into the console room.

"Well, Doctor, where are we off to?" Amy asked, as they walked down the stairs back into the console room. The Time Lord in question had taken his jacket off and had his head underneath the console.

"Ah! I've had an amazing idea! Either of you fond of movies?" he asked, pushing himself up from the floor. Callum and Amy nodded. "Well, you're gonna love where I'm taking us!" He grinned at them both and twisted a strange looking piece of machinery on the console, and the engines roared into life, hurtling the little blue box onto its next destination.