chapters a bit shorter than usual, but i don't think i can write any more that's short enough to make it near my usual chapter length, so... here you go =D

"Right, we should be safe here" Alice said, closing the door behind them

"And where is here exactly?" the Doctor asked her

"No clue" she replied. He smiled slightly.

They were in a room full of crates and pots and other random storage.

"So what is the Council of Shadow then," Alice asked

"Old rivals of the Time Lords," the Doctor replied "they like to think that the world would be better if it was sent into eternal darkness."

"And what he said about you...?" Alice turned to look at him. He was turned away rummaging through the contents of a crate.

"It was nothing" he replied shortly

"Again, you say nothing and give me no reason to believe that it is, so what is it?"

"Just stuff, from my past. We'll leave it at that." the Doctor started looking through another box.

"Does this have anything to do with being older than you look?" Alice asked. He ignored her. "I mean, how much older can you be?"

"Nine hundred years" the Doctor replied quickly, becoming very interested in the contents of yet another box.

"Is this another way Time Lords are different from humans?"

The Doctor didn't respond for a second, but then said quietly "Yes. I don't age, I regenerate. I change… I change everything, new face, new body, new person. It's a nice way to cheat death, but you grow tired after a while… and," he paused "why am I telling you this? Not trying to be rude or anything, but we've only known each other a day."

"I understand" Alice said, smiling "but I'm also curious now."

"You and you're questions" the Doctor muttered, but Alice could tell he was kidding.

"Last one, I promise. So what he said about you is things you did in past incarnations, right?"

The Doctor nodded, and began rummaging through the contents of another box. Alice watched him curiously for a few moments before asking "what are you looking for?"

The Doctor turned and glared at her "you said that was you're last question."

"Last question about you," Alice said, grinning

"Fair enough" the Doctor returned to digging through a box. "I'm looking for some type of power source."

Alice glanced over at the box she was standing next to and pulled out a small stone engraved in little lightning bolts. "What about this?" she said, tossing it to the Doctor. He caught it, looked it over for a second before breaking into a grin.

"Perfect!" he said, before pulling out other random objects from the boxes, seemingly at random. After gathering what he needed he pulled a few things out of his pockets. Alice watched in amazement as he started assembling a very odd looking object.

"What's that?" she asked

"It's a…" he paused, making an odd face "it's this thing that shoots a high powered beam of light. It kills any dark creature we might run into, or do something along the lines of that. Won't necessarily kill them, but will get them out of our way."

"We're going after the Knight aren't we?" Alice asked.

"Yep!" the Doctor just grinned "I can't just leave Hyrule and let him turn it to darkness. And I definitely can't have him become me. That would be a disaster waiting to happen. One problem though,"

"And what is that?"

"It just needs one more piece, and I don't have it with me. Well I do, but not here, here. It's back in the TARDIS."

"The what?"

"My time machine, thingy" the Doctor said "and it's on the other side of Hyrule, or close to that. Not to mention the fact that there are probably already dark creatures searching for us. No, wait, they'd be searching for me. So you have a choice" he looked her in the eye "go home and hope I manage to solve the problem, or come with me and help me solve the problem. You're choice, and choose quickly. I don't have all the time in the world."

Alice stared blankly at him. She had known him only a day, not even a day, and now she had a choice. Go with him, and help save Hyrule, or sit around at home waiting for him to do so, like princesses of the past had done. As the princess, reason told her to choose the latter. But she couldn't bring herself to do so. Because something deep down inside of her wanted to go with him, wanted to take the adventure. The Alice in her wanted to go.

"I would have treated you like Alice" the Doctor had said "because that's who I met. I didn't meet the princess, I met you." Recalling the memory she broke into the grin and said: "I'm going with you"

"That's my Alice!" the Doctor said, grinning just as wide.

"What do you need me to do? If we're going to be traveling across Hyrule with monsters on our tail we're going to need a weapon. And yours isn't finished yet."

The Doctor grabbed a sword off the wall and tossed it to her "Improvise" he said, opening the door. Alice looked at him and then at the sword in her hand. She wondered for a second what she had just gotten herself into before running after the Doctor.