A young woman, no more than twenty years old trudged along a long gravelly road pulling a heavy trunk behind her. Any onlookers would believe the woman to be exhausted beyond relief, but as she spotted the worn out sign of a nearby inn, the woman gained a burst of adrenaline pulling her into the wooden building metres away.
She dragged the trunk in front of the bar, showing every patron in the inn how heavy her luggage really was.
"I have here before me, a treasure more valuable than your minds can imagine." The Woman's voice echoed so that every person could hear how loud and confident she was. "I will gladly explain more. But first I need rest."
"We have mighty fine rooms, Miss, The best in the town!" A nervous bartender who must be the owner explained.
"Thank you kindly, Sir, but I refuse to stay in this establishment unless you lock my treasure in the most secure place imaginable." The Woman turned to the bartender with a hint of charm and smugness about her. "Then we can talk."
No more than two hours later as all the people in the building began to sleep, a calmness fell over the house. There was not a murmur or sound as The Woman snuck down a staircase to wait near the locked room where her 'valuable' possessions were securely stored along with every other treasure of the people of the house.
Waiting patiently for someone, she jumped in surprise as a blood-curdling scream from inside the locked room woke every sleeping man and woman nearby. She ran to the door and tried to push it open with force, knowing others would be coming soon to see what all the commotion was about.
Losing all hope, yet still hearing loud noises from inside the room the girl knelt down and looked through the door's keyhole. It took a moment for her to focus but when her eyes did, she let out a scream louder than the first.
"So when you told me, 'Travel with me through time and space! We could go anywhere!'" I dramatically complain in a British accent half teasing the poor alien, "You really meant 'We can go anywhere in time, well kind of, not really, ok only a few places.'"
"I don't think travelling back in time, on purpose, to watch mysteries be solved before our eyes is really the way to go about things," He answers, running around what he told me is the Tardis console with a forced serious look on his face. "We could walk right into a dangerous situation."
"I thought you were telling me before how you met Agatha Christie and solved the mystery of why-" The Doctor pauses, putting his hand up to stop me midsentence.
"That doesn't count! That was accidental." We start a stare off gazing into each others eyes, daring the other to stand down. Eventually, a look covers The Doctor's face and he quickly looks away with an unreadable expression.
"I'm just saying Doctor! You've already told me a few stories about travelling through time to solve unsolved mysteries, why does it matter whether you stumble over them on accident or seek them out?"
"Fine! Where do you want to go?" He rolls his eyes as I instantly go quiet with no clue how to reply. "The thing is, I find mysteries because the Tardis always takes me where I need to go, not always where I want to."
"You mean... Is this box really alive?" The Doctor looks at me like I should have known this already. Well sorry for not automatically knowing time machines are alive, I must seem so uneducated Mr TimeLord. "I'll ask her to take me to one then."
"That's not exactly how-"
"Hey Tardis, you seem cool and uh, you're super pretty! Can you take me somewhere amazing in the past and... Oh, I don't know... Throw an unexpected mystery in there?" The whole room is silent, as The Doctor puts on a show of not expecting anything to happen. Right about when he decides to rub in my face I was wrong, The Tardis moves yet again making me fall to my feet.
The Doctor collapses against the bannister completely astonished and looking at me incredulously. Eventually, the shaking stops and as I check myself over for injuries he moves away from the banister to the small screen connected to the console.
"1768, Earth, Liechtenstein, somewhere near Austria." When he finishes reading off the screen he turns to me, "How on earth did you get her to do that! I've only managed to control her with speech once!"
"Uh..." Sitting on the floor uncomfortably I regain my composure, I need to act as cool about this as possible instead of showing I have no idea how I charmed the machine. "Maybe you should compliment your Tardis once in a while!"
Silently he holds out his hand to me trying to hide the start of a smile as the ship hums. I take his hand and stand up, taking a look at the screen myself to see a display of a dark night outside, with trees lining the road as a few people dressed in beautifully vintage clothes enter a nearby building.
"Oh my God. Their clothes look like they belong in a museum!" I exclaim in excitement, wondering if I will be able to wear one of the beautiful dresses this time period are famous for anytime soon.
"Don't say that to them, they may just take it as an insult." I can feel the Doctor's eyes on me as he observes how interested I am, but I ignore it, instead imagining men and woman long dead in 2016 walking around on the street, living their lives and wondering what tomorrow brings.
"Were the people who entered that building higher class? Their clothes look so cool." I jokingly stick my tongue out at him, "Was that any better? More respectable?"
"Definitely. Now come on! You wanted adventure, let's get out there." He points to a doorway above some steps, mischief glows in his eyes as he looks at me. " I remember there being a large selection of 18th-century clothing in the wardrobe, go down that corridor, should be on the left side about... actually, since the Tardis likes you, just ask her for help to get there. "
"Are you jealous?" I tease, jumping up the few steps two at a time. "Wait. She has a wardrobe, with enough clothes that there's a 'large selection' for this time period? That is so cool!"
Ten minutes pass until I make it back into the console room wearing a beautiful middle-class dress that makes me feel like a queen. The wardrobe had been big and beautiful, it reminded me of the console room with plenty of glass floors to the point it reminded me of a mall with each shop being a different time zone.
"Lets just pretend Corsets were never invented." I mutter as I join the Doctor near the doorway, looking at him as he wears the exact same outfit he was wearing before, with the minuscule change of a different coat. His mouth curved into a smile as he holds out his arm for me to take.
"Come on. What took you so long?" I look at him through my bangs, the only part of my hair not up in an old-fashioned style, and sigh.
"I think the Tardis was playing with me, ended up in the swimming pool half a dozen times. By the way, why do you need an Olympic swimming pool when..." He raises an eyebrow as I begin to realise he has led me outside into the past. The actual past. Every person I knew alive moments ago now have to wait patiently to be born.
I am completely speechless as The Doctor leads me down the gravelly road. I stare at the houses that are lacking lights and electricity and quietly bite my lip at what I've thrown myself into.
"I don't remember you ever being this quiet before, it's unnerving." The Doctor chuckles, checking back to make sure he shut the Tardis door.
"Hey! I am completely fine, I did save the world and my hometown about half an hour ago, and now I'm in 1768 in a dress I've only seen in movies and in museums. What is there not to be fine about?" The disbelief on the Doctor's face makes me blush as we continue walking further away from his ship.
"Are you sure about that Lia Marie?"
I open my mouth to reply when a scream echoes down the road, we look at each other before The Doctor takes off in the direction of the sound. I grab a handful of my skirts trying to run after him as I whisper to myself, "I'm not sure at all."
And here begins the original adventures of The Doctor and Lia, a few of you voted the past and the other half voted space, because of this, Space will be the next awesome adventure. I hope you enjoyed this, I actually loved writing the beginning and I hope you don't mind the change in narrative, it was essential to give some description of the mystery.