16

"Ok so one minute I'm like 'I don't know,' and then the next minute I know I'm leaning against a wall outside. What happened in between? I remember slightly you asking what feeling I got from it." Phil said while dunking a biscuit in her cup, the two were sitting in her room trying to piece things together.

"You answered, well got made to answer, empty." Doctor said while looking through another sketchbook, Phil had so many littered around her room that it was a doodlers paradise. Being the curious being he was, Doctor naturally picked up several books and sat next to her flicking through them quickly.

"Empty? But then...who was screaming?"

Doctor lowered one of the books and looked at her, the two sat looking at each other for a few moments before he looked back to the drawing. "I don't know." He paused, "We were so close to breaking into it and then we got caught!" Phil looked at him confused, "Oh yeah you don't remember that." He smiled and closed the book, putting it onto a pile of books he had finished looking through he picked up another.

"Can you draw it?"

"Would that help at all?"

"No, I'm just curious I would like to know if you could draw it."

"Would we be able to compare with her and see the difference? I always loved spot the difference activities in books." Phil rubbed her hands together after she put her cup down, Doctor lifted his up to drink from and looked at her. "What?"

"Oh nothing I've just learned you're easily amused."

"Coming from the man who looked like a kid at Christmas thanks to the discovery of mining." Phil smirked and crossed her arms, Doctor put the cup down and pointed a finger at her. Phil nodded at him and waited to see what he had to say.

"Clearly we're very different."

"Evidently, but if we had so much in common it would be boring."

"Not my fault I thought mining was exciting!" Doctor muttered but loud enough for her to hear which caused her to laugh at him. He looked at her sidewards while she tried to stop laughing, opening her new book to an empty page he gave it to her.

Phil stopped laughing and picked up a nearby pencil, "I will try." She said regarding the earlier conversation of trying to draw it. "Was it really a console Doctor?"

"It looked like one, but then only because something looks like something else that doesn't mean it is that." He said quickly, Phil shook her head and continued drawing, he peered over the page and watched her quickly draw. "You're a very fast drawer."

"Well back in college there were times when we only had a minute to draw something." Phil looked up at him quickly before looking back at the page. "It's one of the skills which stuck with me I guess."

"You graduated." Doctor pointed out remembering the graduation photo that was back in her old room in Cornwall. She laughed and nodded, "Well done Phil!"

"It was nothing really."

"What did you do your final project on?" Doctor asked while she turned the book to him, it was a very quick but accurate sketch of the console they had seen. Phil looked around her room and then back at him, "The unknowns of the universe." She answered, Doctor put the book down and looked at her.

"Oh? Well that sounds extremely interesting."

"It was."

"This drawing is very helpful, come on Phil." Doctor stood up and walked out of her room, she jumped and walked after him. Soon standing in front of the console downstairs Doctor looked from her drawing to the console in front of him.

"It just doesn't look right," he said while holding the drawing at arms length. It was evidently obvious now that they stood in front of the TARDIS console. The drawing just looked odd, nothing like the console in front of them.

"What is it then if whoever built it, isn't trying to build another her?" Phil asked while nodding at the console, she walked up to it and walked around it while looking at some of the keys and dials. Doctor followed her and watched her curiously, "I don't remember seeing keys like this back in that room."

"You're right even they didn't look right." He looked at the drawing again and then at Phil who was looking down at the console. She jumped suddenly like something just clicked for her, she turned and looked at him. "The computers! Did you find anything out from them?"

Doctor put a hand to his chin in thought and then shook his head. "The information which came up was useless. It didn't involve the object in question."

"Ok why were there modern computers?"

"I don't know." Doctor paused, "Someone from this time couldn't have built them. There simply isn't the technology around to build something like that."

"Yet there's sufficient technology to build a TARDIS console?"

"You know what I said earlier? Even if it looks like it, that doesn't mean they are the same thing."

"You think someone fashioned it to look like one but has another purpose?"

"Possibly," Doctor nodded and gave Phil her book back. "It is plausible, although that's just totally confusing! I mean why? Ok she is a rather good looking piece of machinery even I can admit to that, but why? You don't make a coffee machine look like a printer do you?" Doctor rambled and looked at Phil expecting an answer.

With a start she shook her head, "No no."

"That was a slow reaction," Doctor smiled and tapped her on the nose, "Come along Phil lets get going to this demonstration, I'm so excited to see what it does! Isn't this exciting Phil?" Doctor asked while opening the door, Phil walked out and looked up at him.

"I guess so, I am a little apprehensive."

"But that could be because you fainted." Doctor frowned, "Still wonder what made you faint."

"It was a feeling, not the emptiness that I felt but more...hostile."

"Hostile?"

"Yeah...like...hostile."

"I get it you didn't need to repeat the word!" Doctor laughed, Phil rolled her eyes and put her hands in her jacket pockets. "So the hostility made you faint?"

"It was overwhelming is all I can say Doctor."