Randomizer V

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"River, would you read the coordinates on the screen to me, please?", The Doctor asked as he and Zoe frantically tested the odd stone.

River read out a series of random letters, numbers, and words. The Doctor replied with "And could you look those up in the TARDIS database, please?".

River punched in the numbers to a keypad on the console, and more circular symbols appeared on a screen above it. "A planet called Ganlon. Uninhabited, in the Cressida system.", she reported.

"Lovely. Do you have your Vortex Manipulator on you?"

"Spoilers!"

"So no?"

"I was kidding. Of course I have it.", she dismissed flippantly. "Wait, earlier, when you were talking about the stars going out and me being there, you meant the Pandorica, didn't you?"

"Yes, actually. I did. So we've done that? Good, I was worried I'd just have to park there while you checked it out."

"So you want me to go to Ganlon?"

"Yes, actually. If you could, that would be very helpful and save me a lot of time. Just try to find matches for those rocks and bring them back here, please."

River flung the doors open and called back to Amy and Rory. "Mum, Dad, you're coming too."

They followed her, leaving only Mel, Zoe, and The Doctor. The later two were seemingly observing the stone down to a molecular level, and Mel was left confused. Finally, she asked "Doctor, that woman, River or whatsit, she called Amy and Rory her parents? But, from the looks of it, she could be one of their parents."

"Oh, wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey.", he responded distractedly.

"What?"

"Long story. I'll give you the full scoop whenever I'm not horribly busy."

Mel wondered off-handedly why he was practically throwing the lab at the rock. She wasn't sure what he was trying to achieve from it. Perhaps he was attempting to find some of its properties? But what for?

After a moment, The Doctor looked up, smiling. Handing the stone back to Zoe, he cheerfully began to pilot the TARDIS elsewhere. "Shouldn't we wait for your assistants to return?", Zoe asked.

"Oh, River's smart. She'll have figured out where I'm heading.", he replied. "Now, Zoe, stay with me. I want to monitor the stone a bit further. Mel, I have a really quite huge favor to ask you. "He procured another notebook from his jacket pocket, nearly exactly like the ones Mel had retrieved earlier. He opened it and looked borderline alarmed for a moment before tearing out a page from it and scribbling an address on it.

"Mel," he continued. "Someone very important lives at this address. Please, try your best to get her to this", he scrawled another address on the paper. "location as quickly as possible."

"Alright, Doctor!", Mel replied readily.

"But, there is something else. Something of vital importance. It is so, so important that the fate of the universe might henge upon it. Do. Not. Make. Her. Suspicious. Please, because she lets on in the slightest that something is wrong, it will be very bad. Very very bad."

"Got it. But why is it..."

"Later. Can't you see I'm very busy?"

As he said this, The Doctor sat on the floor, looking anything but busy. "No, not really." Zoe interjected.

"Good, I can't see the busy of it either. It's not fun when you have to wait for something, especially when you're used to skipping over the boring parts."

Mel laughed and ran out of the TARDIS doors and straight into a busy street. A dark skinned man quickly pushed her out of the way. She stumbled out an ambligated apology/thanks, and the man laughed. "It's fine. Who puts a phone booth in the middle of the street, anyways?"

Mel dismissed it with a flippant shake of the head. "I really am grateful. You saved my life, after all. What's your name?"

"Shaun Temple. And you are?"

"Melanie Bush, but I prefer Mel. So, Shaun, um, what brings you here?"

"Oh, I was just waiting for the bus to work. I live right over there," he gestured to a rather large house nearby. "nice place with my wife. Lucky it's so close to the bus stop; cabs are impossible around here."

Mel glanced at the house he indicated, seeing a street number matching the one on the note The Doctor had given her. She quickly formulated a little plan. "Um, can I borrow your phone? It's my sister's birthday, and I left mine at home. Um, that's why I was in the box earlier. To call her."

"Sure.", Shaun replied. "Go ahead."

Mel was familiar enough with technology from working the communications on Iceworld, even though those were vastly above his phone's power. She could still quickly work out a few things. This "wife", she must have been the lady The Doctor was talking about, so she found the most likely candidate (the one that shared the surname, at least in part and was the most frequently called), quickly texted her, asking her to be at the second address for lunch. From her husband, lunch, seemed plausible. Not suspicious in the least, hopefully.

"Mel, can you hurry? The bus will be here soon.", Shaun called out.

Mel quickly remembered her cover story, and pressed the phone to her ear. "H-hey, Amy.", she adlibbed into the phone. "Happy birthday!"

She paused a moment before continuing. "Has my present gotten there yet?" Another pause. "Oh, awesome! Is it working alright?"

"Great! So, how's River enjoying school?"

"Oh, sorry to hear that. So, Rory's taking you out tonight, right?"

"Ooh, I'm jealous. Love that place! Well, have a nice day, bye!"

She mock hung up the phone, but noticed a reply from the lady she'd texted. "Course, I'll be there at noon.", it read. She handed it back to Shaun, thanking him and dashed off to wait.

AN- Donna! Yay! And more importantly, fixing a little error I made in a previous chapter by implying River hadn't gotten her vortex manipulator yet. Sorry! Also, I figured since Mel had spent an hour plus talking to Amy and Rory, their names would likely be the first to pop into her head when faking a conversation. That part was fun to write, though.

Thanks for reading! -KawaiiJoltic