Title: Oh Dear

He couldn't believe it. That morning was going so well too. His outfit was in check and his bow tie was in place, not sure where his fez had gone to. He was at the helm, pressing at buttons and pulling at levers when Clara came bounding... up to him when there was a screech and a bright light. The Doctor shielded his eyes. As soon as the light diminished, the Doctor glanced around, only to be surprised.
"Clara, you all….," he stop mid-sentence, where Clara once stood, there was someone else, "no...It can't be,"
There standing by herself, her dirty blonde hair fell right below the shoulders. She wore a pink shirt with a short jean jacket over it. Confusion was etched across her face as she glanced around, her brown eyes finally catching the man standing across from her.
"Excuse me," she said, "where exactly am I?"
The Doctor could only mutter two words in his state of surprise, "Oh dear,"
The girl raised an eyebrow, "well?"
"Oh um…" The Doctor strode forward, "well, you're on my ship…and I'm the Doctor,"
"Doctor Who?" she replied.
"Just…the Doctor, now tell me Rose, what year is it?"
"2004….how you know my name?"
The Doctor stood still as he mildly curse himself for saying her name, 'Well, it's obvious that she has yet to meet my earlier reincarnations, but to have her turn up now? What a predicament! Now I gotta figure out how she got here and where Clara has gone off too…now I think about it….this is just like Donna!'
"Hey!"
The Doctor turned to her, "Ah yes, Rose! Why I knew your name?" She shook her head yes, "Technically, I did NOT know your name! You see, I call all girls Rose, you know like honey, dear, babe…and it just happens to be your name," he twirled his finger at her as she frown.
"Ok, but that does not explain why or how I got here,"
"Ah, yes, how you got here…interesting subject that is…would you believe that you were somehow transported here over time and space?" He inquired.
"Through time and space? You crazy?" her mouth was upturned into a grin.
"I guess not," he muttered, straightening his bow out, "Well, I can't explain how you got here, but I'll take you back in my Tardis,"
"Take me back? Where are we then?" Rose walked towards the door and before the Doctor could stop her, she gave a loud gasp as she almost stepped into space.
"No, no, no, no!" The Doctor rushed forward, grabbing her hand and pulled her back in. The two stumbled back into the Tardis, as soon as they found their footing, the Doctor gave a sigh of relief, "Phew, one more step and you'll be floating in space!"
Rose couldn't hear his words; she could only stare out the open door, where swirls of purples, blues, and black were littered with dots of yellow where the stars were.
"I must be dreaming," Rose muttered under breath.
"Dreaming, ah yes! You are dreaming! Just a dream in a blue box with a raggedy old man!" The Doctor said with glee, hoping that she'll think this was a dream, but he didn't have high hopes for that.
"So Doctor," she stressed, "What's your name?"
"Oh just the Doctor,"
"Just the Doctor?" she said skeptically with a smile on her face.
"Ah, yes, so Rose! How's your life? Seen anything interesting?" The Doctor inquired, trying to change the topic of his name.
"Not really...Mostly been working and out with my boyfriend, Mickey….So if this is a dream, yeah? Shouldn't I be not aware that this is a dream?"
"Not entirely!" the Doctor went up to the main controls, pushing random buttons and pulling down his screen, "Depending on your REM and some say some imagination is needed, that you can actually have control over your dreams or be aware of them,"
A fuzzy image started to show and the Doctor once again sighed with relief, there was Clara walking around a familiar apartment area with confusion on her face and calling out for the Doctor.
"Who's that? Your girlfriend?" The Doctor jumped as Rose was suddenly behind him.
"Girlfriend?!" His voice almost squeaked an octave, "oh no, no, no, noooo! Clara is just a friend! And besides! I have you know that I am a married man!"
"Clara is it?" Rose peered closer to the screen, "She's pretty…Hey! That's my mum's and I apartment!"
"Is it?" The Doctor asked, feigning innocence that it was just a coincidence that his screen is showing that particular place (just in case that she didn't believe that this was a dream.)
"Yeah!" She grabbed the screen from his hands and pulled it down so she was level with it, "see that trash can?" She pointed off to the side, "That's ours, I can see my last name printed on it," She squinted her eyes to look at it.
"Of course, of course!" The Doctor replied, "It's about time I bring you home and you can wake up from this little adventure,"
"I guess so,"
The Doctor ran around, pulling levers, twirling things that's can twirl and the familiar noise of the Tardis started to sound. Rose sat down on a nearby chair as it was bolted to the floor and railing. The Doctor smiled gleefully at her when the Tardis lurch. The Doctor fell in a heap on the floor while Rose was able to grip her chair before falling off.
"What was that?" Rose said, her voice raising an octave.
"Not sure," The Doctor grunted as he pulled himself back unto his feet. Doing his usual thing, he brought down his screen and checked their coordinates, "Strange, very strange,"
"What is it?"
"We are still in the same spot, we haven't moved an inch!"
"Are you telling me that we are stuck?"
"It's likely…maybe she didn't want to move,"
"She?" Rose raised an eyebrow, "you call your spaceship a she?"
The Doctor looked at Rose as if she had just grown another head, "It's not a spaceship! Well, in some way, but no, this ol' gal is the Tardis. My Tardis!"
"Yeah, ok," Rose rolled her eyes. The Doctor gave a scoff as he released the screen; he walked around the controls and past Rose. He started up the stair when he could hear Rose behind him, "Where you headed now?"
"Just need to check something out, wanna come?"
"Yeah!" she said excitedly, running after him as he disappeared around the corner.
The two soon found themselves walking down a blue light hall with a single door at the end. Rose couldn't contain her excitement as they walked past many doors and hall before reaching this one. She would look or try to at least, to get a glance in some of the rooms.
In one room, she thought it was a very large closet. There were odd looking clothes in there, along with some very old ones, and others that didn't even seem to fit, like a roman solider costume. Another room contains other oddities, like model scales of a blue phone box, drawings, pictures, even a strange looking robot mask that looked like it was crying and the oddest thing was a toilet plunger alongside a rectangle like whisk.
As Rose continued to follow the Doctor, she couldn't help but think how all of this is so life-like, yet there is a strange fantastical feel about it to make it feel like a dream. How many times does one expect that they were suddenly whisked away on some space ship and one step out of the wrong place, they could find themselves drifting through space?
Rose snapped out of her thoughts as the two finally reached the lonely door at the end. They opened automatically and as they entered, Rose realized this was another control room, just brighter, messier and smaller for the matter. Sphere looking shapes lined up against walls as wires hung from the ceiling.
"A bit grungy, don't you think?" She asked, still looking around, "what is this place anyways?"
"It's one of my older control stations," The Doctor replied, pulling a red and blue out of nowhere and putting them together, creating a spark. There was a whirling noise and the lights in the room seemed to get brighter, "much better…now where was I?"
Before Rose could say anything, he was already off on his own below the floor. She leaned over the railing, catching a fleeting glimpse of the Doctor as he completely disappeared under the floor, "Oi, Doctor, what are you doing?" she said.
"What was that?" The Doctor reappeared, "Sorry, couldn't hear you over the generator,"
"I had asked what you were doing," she repeated.
"Oh," he glanced at something in the distance, then back at Rose, "Well, you see, im trying to find out how you've came to be here," the Doctor placed his head in hand, "Perhaps if I reverse the temporal gravity pull and send us to…nah…maybe some of the nanodroids, transport the cells one bot at a time….OH!" he looked at Rose expectedly, excitement written all over his face.
"What is it? You figured it out?"
"'Beam me up, Scotty!'" and with that, the Doctor disappeared out of view.
"What…?" Rose had to think before finally getting it, "What does Star Trek has to do with this?"
"I believe that you may have come from a malfunction in the Tardis's system, creating a transporter, switching you and my current companion's places. You see, you were converted into energy, a process called dematerialization, and then you were 'beamed' here," the Doctors voice echoed across the room, "where you were then reconverted into matter on my ship and that process is called rematerialization,"
"You think so?" Rose inquired, walking the down the stairs.
"I know so!" The Doctor turned to face Rose, a big smile on his face and a broken, sparking red wire in one hand. Sparks flew from the broken end every time the wire moved.
"Watch it!" Rose yelped, dodging a few sparks.
"Oh, sorry!" The Doctor said, dropping the wire, causing more sparks to fly. Rose ran up the stairs to avoid the sparks, the Doctor followed behind her, "whoa, that was dangerous,"
"You don't say?" Rose said a bit sarcastically. The Doctor caught his breath, right before he started to pace around the room, a finger tapping his chin. His face lighted for a moment as he once again turned to Rose.
"Stay here," he said and he disappeared through the door. Rose sighed, 'why can't that man just stay still?'
Soon the Doctor reappeared and Rose couldn't help but laugh at his appearance, on his head sat a red fez and on his hands, his right was a yellow rubber glove most used to clean and on the other a bright green oven mitt.
"What are those for?" Rose asked.
"Well, the glove and mitt are to protect myself from the sparks!"
"And the Fez?"
"I wanted to wear it," his face grew somber for a moment as he caught Rose rolling her eye. He gave a slight shrug and headed back down the stairs. Rose stayed upstairs, listening as the Doctor handled the wire as sparks flew. There was a clanging noise, then a strange humming noise. The main controls started to glow a light green. The Doctor soon reappeared, the gloves were off.
"Haha! It's done!" The Doctor exclaimed happily.
"Great! I can get home now?"
"Yep!" the Doctor ran over to a red chair, pulled down a strange helmet, "But first things first! Rose," he patted the seat, "come over and take a seat,"
Rose eyed the chair and the strange helmet hanging from wires warily, "Whats going to happen?"
"Oh nothing much….just to make sure everything is in order,"
Rose took the spot and the Doctor lowered the helmet down and tightens it around her chin. Rose glanced at the man before her, noticing a hint of sadness in his eyes, "Doctor?"
"Yes?"
"This was pretty fun adventure for a dream," she smiled up at him.
"Yeah, it was," a small smile crept on his face, "good bye, Rose, see you soon,"
Rose eyed him curiously as the Doctor pressed a yellow button, the helmet started light up and shake. Rose gave a yelp of alarm as the shaking increased. Her mind went blank. The Doctor hurried around the controls, pressing a large red button. There was a flash of light and Rose disappeared, in her place was Clara.
"Doctor! What just happened to me?"
"It's a long story,"