and now we finally get to see Tim!
also, sorry for the bit of cheesy problem solve. if it is cheesy, i don't know...
He was falling. He could feel the wind rushing past his ears. But somehow, it was relief from the Darkness. It was already going, leaving him…
The Doctor opened his eyes and realized that he was, actually, falling. And he was alone. But that made no sense, Alice had been right there a second ago, where did she go? He looked around, and saw her off to the side, falling like he was.
He remembered that first nightmare, with Alice falling done into the Darkness.
But she wasn't falling into Darkness, she was falling into Light.
It was almost like a nightmare gone good.
Suddenly, he got an idea.
If the Nightmares could read thoughts, certainly these things could too… Now all I need to be able to do is fly…
Something grabbed him under the arms. He turned around to look at the thing. It looked exactly like a Nightmare, just more of a pale grey instead of black. Suddenly, he stopped falling, and started, well it wasn't flying, but he was definitely floating at least.
"We need to save her!" he called over his shoulder. The ex-nightmare thing nodded and flew him down to Alice.
They were getting closer to the Light, and it was becoming harder to see. It wasn't like the Light was blinding, it was, but that wasn't just it. It crept into your thoughts, getting rid of everything it established as 'bad' or 'evil'. The Doctor was starting to get light-headed.
If this is what it's doing to me, image what it's doing to Alice!
The ex-nightmare thing sensed his discomfort. 'Just reach out and grab her!' it said.
Hoping that it was right, the Doctor held out his arms, to his amazement Alice fell right into them. She was still alive, unconscious, but alive. He let out a sigh of relief.
"Get us out of here!"
The ex-nightmare thing obeyed, and pulled them out of the pit.
Jem stood there, along with Belle and Karl. They all seemed extremely relieved when the Doctor came back up. The ex-nightmare set him down and then flew off.
"Thank goodness you two are alive!" Jem said. "When Alice jumped I thought, I thought…"
"Don't rejoice yet. Is she going to be alright?" He looked at the three teens. They could all hear the worry in his voice.
Belle walked over. "Yeah, she's fine. You might want to let her rest a while though. She's suffering a bit of overexposure, but she'll be alright." Belle made a thoughtful face. "Well, she might try to be a bit heroic for a while, but that'll be the only problem."
A grin spread across the Doctor's face, and he laughed.
"Good" he said. "I need to get going though. You three take care." He headed back in the TARDIS and went to go lay Alice down.
He was just about to leave, when there was a knock on the door of the TARDIS. Confused as ever; the Doctor went to go answer it.
There stood a boy, about the same age as Jem and the rest of them, except he looked a bit more mature. He had scruffy light brown hair and a wild look in his blue eyes. He also held a torn journal under his arm, and his clothes were covered in dirt and stains.
"Can I help you?" the Doctor asked.
The boy started to say something, but from behind the Doctor a weary voice asked: "Who do we have here?"
The Doctor looked behind him to find Alice. "You should be resting" he told her.
"I'm fine" she said, and shoved him aside to look at the boy. "So who are you?"
"I'm Tim!" he said
"Oh! So you're Tim!" Alice held out her hand, which Tim took and shook enthusiastically. "Nice to meet you!"
"I think the pleasure is all mine!" Tim laughed. "I heard what you two did today, and I was wondering if you minded if I wrote a story based on it. Your real names don't have to be used in the book, and I can stick to pure fact if you insist."
"I don't mind." Alice turned to look at the Doctor.
"As long as you don't use my name I'm perfectly okay with it" he said.
"Thank you so much!" Tim said, grinning. "If you want to give me your address I can have it mailed to you as soon as it's done, or you could stop by in a year or so and I could just give it to you then. It will be free of charge!"
"We'll just come around in a year" the Doctor said.
"Okay!" Tim pulled the bag off his back and started digging through it. "In the meantime though, if you would like to buy some other books of mine, I've got a list of titles right here." He handed them a piece of paper.
Alice looked it over. "Some of these sound good, I would love to buy a few."
"One problem though," the Doctor said. "I don't have any money."
"I've got money!" Alice said quickly. "Be right back!" She ran into the TARDIS. A minute later she came back. She fished a few rupees out of a pouch and handed them to the boy. The Doctor watched doubtfully, but the boy took them and his grin grew even wider.
"You're from Hyrule!" he said. "I found quite a few things to write about there. Great place. Anyways, which books were you wanting?"
"Let's see, Tale's of Old, a Lover's Tragedy… Can I just get them all?"
"If you've got two hundred rupees, then yeah you can."
"Sweet!" Alice handed over the required amount of money, and in return Tim handed her a stack of books.
"Nice to meet you two!" he said, waving. "I'll be off then! Got thing's to write, and adventure ahead!" He laughed and ran off.
"He's a nice kid" Alice said, turning to look at the Doctor. "Don't you think?"
"Yeah. Reminds me a bit of me when I was younger. Well, if had been an obsessive author back then." He laughed.
"So where next?" Alice asked as they went back in the TARDIS.
"Well, I was thinking," the Doctor hit a switch. "One year from now, so we can go get that book before I forget."
Alice grinned. "Time travel is so weird!"