I'm on a slight roll with this. Sorry for ignoring other stories...well if you don't read the others then ignore this comment xD

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Staying near the back of the room the two of them looked around suspiciously. "Why does everyone gathered look like...schmucks?"

"Schmucks?" Doctor laughed and looked down at her, "You need to cut back the random insulting."

"Hey, I accidentally called you a twat and now I'm calling them schmucks."

"Two times is enough," Doctor wagged a finger at her, "But I do sort of agree. I mean on the grand scale of things the only person here who looks like they know anything about the technology in the room is me."

"Ego boosting at its greatest." Phil looked up at him, Doctor rolled his eyes yet didn't deny it. He did have a point though, most of the people in the room looked all as confused as the next person. They both managed to sneak in, literally sneak on into the building. Doctor didn't want to risk entering through the front door, knowing the guards which escorted him out earlier they had told others about them. This would cause them all to be on high alert. Sure he could have risked using the psychic paper on whoever was at the front door, but even still something niggled at him that it would be better if they did just sneak in.

"So where's the man in question I wonder," Phil said while leaning forward to nab a piece of food off of a platter that a man was walking around with. "Does anyone know who he is?"

"I'm not sure, shall we mingle?"

"Oh yeah mingling sounds like fun."

"Right Phil you take that side of the room I'll take this side, meet back here in five." Doctor plucked a piece of food from her hands and walked off leaving her standing mouth slightly agape. Eating the last piece of food she turned and walked off to the nearest, yet confused, looking person.

"So! This demonstration do you know what wonders we're about to witness?" Doctor asked while talking to a man wearing a rather smart looking suit. The man drunk some of the champagne from his glass and shook his head.

"Not a clue."

"Did you get an invite to this thing?"

"Yes didn't you?"

"My friend has it."

"Right right," the man nodded and looked at the console thing. "I don't know what it is or what it's meant to do but Derek better hurry up and get out here."

"Do you know Derek?"

"Not personally, I've been to some of his talks though, he gives lectures here and there."

"Profession?"

"He's a realist, there isn't anything apparently that he doesn't have a profession in."

"Oh he's one of those is he?"

"Ha yeah," the man nodded and pointed at him, "There he is now." Doctor turned and looked towards a man a little shorter than himself, "So that's Derek huh? Excuse me I must find my friend." Doctor smiled at the man and walked past Derek to find Phil. He frowned, Derek looked relatively normal, yet the same could be said about himself. The Doctor looked relatively normal yet wasn't. Shaking his head Doctor was rather sure Derek wasn't some sort of alien in disguise or some sort of Near-Human species. If he was it would still make the moment all the more confusing.

Doctor soon found Phil picking food from the platters which walked past, he gave her a look, putting the food she was holding on another platter which walked by she sheepishly smiled at him. "Sorry Doctor but I'm hungry!"

"Did you go and talk to anyone?"

"Yes! I did thank you before you jump to the conclusion that I just stood here eating."

"Did you find anything out?" He asked interested to see what her answer was, depending her answer it would mean she was either lying about talking to people or telling the truth. Phil nodded her head towards a couple, the brown haired woman clutched tightly onto the arm of the man beside her.

"The two of them are scientists right? Yet they've never seen anything like this before. They can't understand it." She paused and nodded slyly over to a dark skinned man who looked at everyone shiftily. "He is oblivious and just received an invitation to this thing."

"Yeah the man I talked to was confused about this too. But he knew the name of the man who built it so I believe he's withholding information."

"Heh...withholding how detective of you Doctor."

"Well done in your detective work too, even if you did get distracted by food."

"I'm hungry! I'm sorry my stomach ruled my judgement."