"Doctor" Alice said sternly. They had been in the library for at least an hour now and trouble had finally hit.

"Yeah?" he asked, not taking his nose out of the book he was reading.

"I think there's someone here" she said.

"Am I going to get I trouble for being here?" the Doctor asked, looking up.

"No, but I am" Alice said "well not for being here, but for being here with you. I just figured I'd let you know, because I'm going to go up a few levels and pretend like I don't know who you are and why you're here. So don't go calling my name or anything."

"Why would you get in trouble for being with me?" the Doctor asked

The door opened below. "I'll tell you later after he leaves." Alice said before running off.

"Is that a promise or false hope!?" the Doctor called after her, but received no response.

"Hey!!" a voice from down below called, and the Doctor looked over the edge of the level he was on down below at the young boy that had just walked in. "Who are you and what are you shouting about?"

"I'd like to ask the same to you," the Doctor said, coming down the stairs "we are in a library after all"

"You don't know who I am?" the boy asked "I research subjects for the Queen when she doesn't have time to do so. Probably the most important person in the Castle… out of the servants at least."

"Of course!" The Doctor said "I'm just you know, reading."

"Really? I don't remember anyone coming to ask permission to come to the Library. I would have known about it."

"I didn't need to ask permission, I've got all the permission I need right here!" he pulled out his piece of physic paper and showed it to the boy "I came to take a yearly inventory, Queen's orders, likes to keep it secret."

"I highly doubt so" the boy said, scowling "because that piece of paper is blank"

"Really?" The Doctor looked at the piece of paper "It doesn't look blank to me."

"Guards!" the boy called and two guards appeared out of nowhere and grabbed the Doctor's arms. He struggled for a moment and then realized it was pointless and stopped.

"So you're going to lock me in the dungeon for being in the Library?" the Doctor asked

"Yeah, pretty much" the boy replied

"Well that's rubbish"

"Hang on!!" someone shouted from above. The Doctor recognized the voice as Alice's and wondered what the heck she was doing. "Let him go, he's innocent." She said, coming up next to him.

"And how would you know that, princess?" the boy asked, looking at her. The Doctor's jaw dropped and he turned to stare at her.

"Because, I brought him here to help me… find something." Alice said "now let him go."

"Why didn't you ask me?" the boy asked, sounding slightly offended

"You're my mom's servant, not mine." Alice replied "now let him go before I tell mother you're harassing innocent people and annoying me. And who came up with that rule anyways? Arrest people just for being in the library, I'll bet you made that up."

The boy glared at her, but gave the guards the signal and they let the Doctor go. "Happy searching" he growled, before storming up the stairs.

Alice turned to the Doctor, who was still gaping like a fish at her. "Yes, I'm the princess, whoop-de-doo!!" she said, not at all happy.

"And you didn't tell me?" The Doctor asked "because that's pretty important."

"Didn't need to, didn't want to." Alice said "because as soon as someone finds out I'm royalty, they treat me like the princess and not like Alice. I like being Alice better."

"I would have treated you like Alice" the Doctor said "because that's who I met. I didn't meet the princess, I met you."

Alice smiled and tried not to blush. "Well now that you know who I am, I think I deserve the same from you." She nudged the Doctor.

"Just a traveler" the Doctor said again. Alice crossed her arms and glared at him. "That's all I am, all I need to be. Just a traveler, passing through."

"Where from then? You certainly aren't from Hyrule or any of the surrounding areas. Unless there's somewhere really close by that I don't know about."

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you" the Doctor said.

"Try me" Alice replied

"I come from a different planet."

"Guessed that already, what else?"

"I'm a time traveler."

"I'd believe it"

"That's it." the Doctor said "nothing else about me. Though I do have to ask you something," he showed her the physic paper "does this look blank to you?"

She nodded.

"Really?" he pocketed it "what species are you then? No humans twice in a row would say this was blank."

"Who says we're human?"

"What are you then?"

"Hylian"

"And the difference between you and humans is…"

Alice rolled her eyes and pulled her hair back to reveal a pointed ear. "And what about you, Doctor? What species are you then? You speak of humans as if you aren't one. Why is that?"

"Who said I'm human?"

"What are you then?"

"I'm a Time Lord" the Doctor said

"And that makes you different from humans how?"

"I've got two hearts"

"Really?" Alice didn't believe it "where's the proof?"

"Feel my pulse" the Doctor said. Alice took a step closer, hand out, she paused. "Go on, not like I care, happens all the time." The Doctor told her. Alice just looked at him, and he looked right back. His eyes were screaming at her to just do it, daring her to do so. She placed her hand on his chest and felt his heartbeat. The heartbeat of a Time Lord.

"Whoa" she said, backing up and looking at him. He just grinned.

"Told you"

After a few moments of silence Alice asked: "Why does it happen all the time? Travel to places where no one knows about Time Lords a lot?"

"That's impossible, well nearly impossible, well, more of plenty unlikely. Almost everyone knows who the Time Lords are."

"So why don't they believe you when you tell them you are one?" Alice asked this quietly, because she could see sadness creeping into his face.

"Because I'm the last" The Doctor whispered "everyone else died."

"What happened?" Alice asked and then added quickly "if you don't mind me asking of course."

"There was a war. And we lost. Everyone lost. My planet, my home, it burned. And the Time Lords went with it."

"Sorry, I shouldn't have asked"

"No! No, it's fine." The Doctor said, a bit quickly "I'm fine."

Meanwhile…

"Time Lord?" the servant whispered, almost in shock. He looked down below at Alice and the Doctor and scowled.

"So he is still alive. But why is he here…?"