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"Philly!" Carrie practically threw herself at her cousin when she opened the door. "John!" Even The Doctor got greeted with a hug. He was a little startled by this, Carrie had never greeted him before in such a way. Just as the hug got registered in his head did Carrie jump away from him and run up the stairs.
"We'll see ourselves in then Carrie," Phil muttered and walked into the house. The Doctor walked behind her. Peering into the living room she frowned, Darren was slouched in a chair. "Oi."
"Oh hello."
"Whatcha doing?"
"College work. What are you two doing?"
"We're visiting."
"Technically you haven't gone anywhere." Darren explained while writing in a pad of paper and then looking quickly at the book next to him.
"Really?"
"Yup," Darren lowered his pen and eyed them both. "We only say you two like...two days ago?"
"Wow."
"You're still not used to this time skipping stuff are you?"
"No." While the cousins had been talking The Doctor had strayed away from the living room and soon found himself in the kitchen. He walked backwards slowly though, he ended up bumping into Phil. Who in turn jumped and looked at him oddly.
"Your uncles home."
"Oops, forgot to tell you." Darren said and paid attention to his book again. He totally missed the childish glare which The Doctor sent in his direction. There was absolutely nothing wrong with their uncle, it was just he seemed to ask more questions than his wife.
Phil gripped onto the tweed sleeve of The Doctor and tugged him into the living room. Darren looked at them and then lowered his pen again. "What have you two been up to then huh?"
"Well we just came back from B & Q."
"I hate that place."
"I know same here!"
"It's to orange," The Doctor shuddered, he had honestly never seen so much orange congregated in one place. It was an eyesore to say the least.
"What? Did you blow a fuse in your box?" Darren hadn't personally seen the TARDIS, but he did enough internet research to know what it looks like. The Doctor pulled a face which was meant to resemble shock. Phil ran a hand down her face. She soon learnt; never say anything bad about the TARDIS. That line of conversation just involved The Doctor lecturing and saying how brilliant the machine is and all the things which it was capable of.
"I take that insult to heart, I mean hearts. How dare you! Not that that's the first time I've had a petty comment like that, but even still. I expected a better comment from you Darren."
"Hearts?"
"Oops."
Phil sighed and tugged her cousins book from him, she flicked through it. At college he was studying computers, or something like that. She couldn't think of a more befitting topic for him to study in.
"I thought I heard voices," The Doctor couldn't help but sit stock still with a expression very reminiscent of a deer in the headlights of an oncoming car. "Hello uncle!" Phil exclaimed happily and leapt up to give the man a hug.
This was a request from Phil, after experience they had in that horrid orange excuse of a building. She'd asked if she could visit home, just for comfort sakes. He agreed of course, "Hello John."
"Hello sir." He smiled kindly, the man never really took a shining to him unlike Phils aunt. Each time the two visited she'd fuss over him like he was just another family member. It was a rather nice feeling actually. To be accepted into a family so easily, and what they didn't know wouldn't hurt them.
"Hello sir," Darren mimicked him once his dad had walked out of the house declaring he needed to go to work. The Doctor shot another glare in his direction which caused the teenager to pout. Phil sat back down and looked at him.
"Stop it."
"He started it."
"Did not! I am not at fault this one time. Sure other times I'm mostly to blame, but this one time I'm innocent." The Doctor huffed and crossed his arms. "Actually now that I think about it, mister conspiracy expert. We need to have a word with you."
"Alright." Darren shut his college books and stood up, the three of them walked up to his room.
"Still a mess," Phil commented and kicked some discarded clothes out of the way. "Honestly, clean up in here sometime."
"Pfft," came the reply while Darren sat down in front of his computer. "What do you want?"
"Has there been a rise in weirdness?"
"By weirdness you mean alien weirdness?"
"Yes."
"No."
"Are you sure?"
"Is this important?"
"Do you know anything about Trions?" The Doctor asked bluntly, he was cutting right to the chase. Phil looked at him a little annoyed. He hadn't told her half the reason why he relented so easily to visiting here. He honestly wasn't one for visiting family, or domesticated life in general. But he would gladly visit if Darren the apparent conspiracy expert would be in.
The dark haired teenager looked a little bemused, "Is Phil in danger?"
"No, she is perfectly safe with me."
"Are you safe with him?" Darren redirected the question to her. Unlike The Doctor, Phil took a few seconds to think over the question.
"Yes."
"Fine, no is the answer."
"All of that for no? Well that's disappointing." The Doctor sighed and perched on the end of the bed. Phil sat next to him and looked at her cousin.
"Are they dangerous?"
"We think they're going to try and destroy life as you know it."
"Oh well, they're only a little bit dangerous then aren't they?" Darren laughed and turned to his computer. Logging on the two sat and watched him, The Doctor jumped though when Phil nudged him.
"What's the deal?"
"Phil we can't go straight to the source and find out. He can." He whispered so Darren couldn't hear them. "The only way to find out if they're doing anything, or in fact if there's been any weird alien stuff happen is through him."
"I wish you told me this first."
"I thought you'd figure it out." The Doctor smiled and patted her on the head.
"Hate to ruin your lovely moment, but I've searched for them."
"And?"
"U.N.I.T have been keeping tabs on them."
"You hacked into U.N.I.T's system?" The Doctor asked slightly disbelievingly. Darren gave a nod. "Oh Darren you're a genius!" Jumping up and walking over he leant on the back of his chair and read over the report. The report wasn't anything major though, if anything it was rather boring. "They're not active."
"Yet."
The Doctor looked over his shoulder at Phil. She smiled sadly, he couldn't really disagree with her answer. "So tell me," Darren twirled in the swivel chair. "Destroy life as we know it? Why?"
"I'm not sure." The Doctor walked back over and sat next to Phil. Darren didn't look like he believed him, yet he had no choice but to because of Phils confused expression too.