Tardis and I rested for awhile, I was thinking mostly, but Tardis was messing with the console and controls. She pulled a lever and my chair flew forward, flinging me off onto my face. "Sorry, Dad." She looked embarrassed, but I laughed.

"It actually helped me think. Why is the library closed to the public? Why can't anyone read? Who controls the Justices? Why do apples and beans exist? Why can't it rain custard?" Tardis smiled and hopped down stairs. "First thing's first, but not in that order, we'll go to the police station." I thought out loud after my quick break, but Tardis was too busy working on the console down below to hear me, so I had peeked my head over the ledge. Tardis was sitting on a makeshift swing made from the hoses and wires with a pair of goggles and some tools. The sparks coming from the wires and the tool she had lit up her face, and it reminded me of someone. She reminded me of me, minus the ginger hair, of course.

I made my way to the stairs and joined her. "Tardis,"

She looked up from her work through the huge goggles she had on. "Yeah?"

"I'm going to the police station, do you want to join me?" Usually I made my companions come with me, but Tardis looked really occupied with her work, whatever she was doing.

"You can go without me this time." She got distracted with her work again.

"What are you working on?" I peeked over her shoulder.

"It's a surprise, no looky!" She pushed me away and I ruffled her ginger hair before walking back upstairs to grab my jacket. Then I noticed the hats that we bought on the floor by the chair and picked up the red fez to put on.

"I miss my fez." I muttered and exited to the outside world. While walking down the street with my hands in my pockets, I noticed that the streets were empty, and no one was to be found. "Strange..." I muttered, and heard doors and windows shutting suddenly whenever I passed by. There would be a person every once and awhile that would glare at me, or hide away, or stare at me with worried eyes. I started to pick up the pace, and almost tripped over my own feet a couple times. I abruptly stopped, almost tumbling over, and heard mechanical footsteps, that of a robot, or many. I looked down the street and knew they were coming from the direction I was walking. A door squeaked behind me and I glanced to see why. A woman was hiding behind the door, only showing her face, and was gesturing me to go to her with haste. I ran over to the door and she let me in, locking it behind her.

"What is wrong with you? Are you trying to get yourself killed?" Was the first thing she snapped at me, as if I were a child. She had frizzy black hair with silver streaks starting to grow; slightly sunken and dark eyes, as if she hadn't slept in quite a while; pale, but dirty skin; and a bony stature.

"Why isn't anyone out in the streets? Oh, thank you, by the way." I nodded to her and she led me to the old and stained couch in front of a dusty telly.

"It's called Silence. Every day at noon, everyone is to be indoors and has to watch the daily broadcast for an hour."

"How do they know if you're not watching the telly?"

"They monitor if it's turned on or not, but luckily they don't actually check if you're watching it. So most of us just turn it on and go about our business." I thought this over, and watched the broadcast. "It's the same one, everyday." The woman added. I sat down on the couch and paid attention to everything in the broadcast. It was a classic propaganda-like video, explaining the rules and justifying the action of the Justices. According to the video, the Justices were for the protection of the people from corruption and purged the world of lawbreakers.

"This is ridiculous."

"Says the one wearing a fez." I smiled and then saw that the broadcast looped back to the beginning.

"Silence ends at 1:00, so I still got quite a bit of time." I muttered, and stood up. "Do you have any books?" I knew it was a preposterous question, as reading was outlawed, but the woman's eyes widened, hoping I was joking. Then she jumped to the window, peeked outside, and ran back to me.

"Follow me." She tugged the sleeve of my jacket and I did so. In her kitchen, there was a large grille of a vent, and she popped it off as if it were nothing. She crawled in and I wondered if she wanted me to follow or not. "Come on now!" I scrambled to get on my knees and then crawled in. It was much larger inside than it seemed, and reminded me of the TARDIS, which reminded me of Tardis, which made me worry if she was fine on her own. "This way." She called softly and then disappeared around the corner. I caught up to her, and when I turned the corner, she wasn't there. "Down here!" I didn't notice it, but there was a hole with a missing panel from the vent put to the side and the top of the ladder that lead down. I climbed down, and was amazed to see what I found. It was a vast room of stone that was obviously dug by hand and not a professional. It was an underground cave with stacks of books.

"Amazing." It was more amazing than the library. This was obviously kept hidden, but why? "Why do you have to hide all these wonderful books?" She sat down on the stone floor and I joined her.

"When I was much younger than today, the Sapphire Nation was just gaining more power than it had before. One of the first acts of the Prime Minister was to limit the education at the schools. First they cut the sciences, then the mathematics, but only taught history. English and literature, however, were the last to go. The Nation despised literature, claiming that it poisoned the minds of people and caused them to work less for their city. Though the children were overjoyed, they didn't realize what this meant for the rest of us. Shortly after that, the Prime Minister called for the confiscation of the books of all types. I kept mine hidden for a long time, but I needed somewhere to put them. One of my children found this small cave, and we expanded it, taking books from neighbors so they wouldn't get imprisoned or executed for it." Her story was so mesmerizing, but it didn't make sense to me.

"Why take all the books away, though?" I asked out loud, but it was meant for my head.

"I've come to think it was because they wanted to keep it to themselves. All this information could be used against them, 'make' us think rebellious thoughts, 'make' us believe in change." She suggested.

"That's clever! Ohh, very clever." It all started to flood my mind, and I jumped up to my feet. I pulled the woman up to her feet and started to jump around with her, like Ring Around the Rosie. "It's clever, but they didn't expect me to come." I stopped and kissed her on the forehead. "Thank you so much!" I ran off to the ladder, crawled to the kitchen and went to the door. It was 1:00 sharp, and I needed to go stop this monstrosity of a government once and for all.

"Wait! I never got your name!"

The woman had surprising speed, but I turned and answered, "I'm the Doctor," then ran. I didn't know where I was going, so I needed to get a map; from the library of course. Ooh, my plan for them was brilliant. I was ready to take down the government.

With all my wit and cleverness, I defeated the unjust system in only five minutes. I strolled into the middle of some meeting they had regularly with the Prime Minister and introduced myself. "Hello, I'm the Doctor and you're going to listen." I explained their options. They knew that the water would run out and all they'd have left is a hydrogen-rich atmosphere, so I gave them a couple options: A)Just keep taking oxygen from the water, to end up with a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and not heed my words or B)Reinstate the education for everyone, even adults and use actual people for law officers instead of robots to better the relationships between the people. I left to go and see Tardis and let them debate, but I knew which option they were going to take. I was very excited to go show off to Tardis what I'd done, and to just see her. It seemed like forever since I'd seen her, but it was just a couple of hours, or so it seemed.

I entered the TARDIS and threw my fez on the console, yelling, "I'm home!" to Tardis.

"Dad?" Tardis ran out from her room and jumped up to hug me. I caught her, a bit surprised by her odd greeting.

"What's wrong?"

"What's wrong? You've been gone for days, Dad. Days! I was worried to go out there by myself, so I just sat and waited for you to come back like you always did. But you never came and I laid in my bed forever, only getting up to get food, even that rarely happened."

I was utterly confused. "I was only out there for a couple hours, Tardis."

"You were gone for almost a week!" I put her down and noticed she was crying.

"Shh shh shh. It's alright, Tardis. I'm here now."

"I thought you were gone for good this time!" I realized that whatever Tardis experienced didn't happen outside, so I just held the hug she gave me until she was done crying.

"I won't ever leave you alone ever again." I promised then pulled away to look at her face. "Let's go somewhere fun next, shall we?" She nodded and I hopped to the console, already having a place in mind, and then held on tight for the bumpy ride. "Geronimo!" I yelled and felt us speed away from the mysterious Neptune.

Sorry for shortness, I'll try to do better on the next one! :)