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Phil looked down at her phone when it started ringing. She had found a room to sit in, sitting in silence she could easily hear the group below talking and chatting. Phil just didn't have the energy to do anything. All she wanted to do was curl up in a ball and sleep.
Noticing the ringing had stopped and a small buzz rung out in the silence she read the message. "I'm sorry you hate me so much." Phil frowned at Nicks message. "I'm also sorry that orders come first. If I don't follow them I will be punished if not killed. They're looking for you lot though. I'm sorry Phil." Standing up and wiping her eyes she couldn't help but cry. Everything about this just highly depressed her.
Her best friend had seemingly betrayed her trust and stabbed her in the back to capture her. Not only that while she's in some sort of cell his kind can impose on Earth and take it over.
Sorry didn't cover it really.
But then thinking it over Nick wasn't the one who personally caught her. She got captured thanks to her and The Doctor's slight stupidity moment.
But even still, Nick knew what was to happen and he just stood by and let it happen without trying to change it.
Was this always meant to happen? Phil mused while walking quietly out of the room. The Doctor was instructing Jack to start up all the equipment in the room. Jack went on to say that he couldn't because there was some sort of problem with the generator.
Sarah Jane and Luke were busy trying to fix some of the broken equipment which had been put to one side.
Reaching the end of the stairs she walked over to where Jack was suffering some sort of lecture. "Phil! You're good with computers and what not, please, please I'm begging you! Help Jack out!" The Doctor whined, and then raised an eyebrow and leant down to her level. "You alright?" She shook her head and looked down at the floor. "Okie dokie, come with me little Phil." He put a hand on her shoulder and directed her towards a nearby room.
Phil jumped up to sit on a table and The Doctor followed suit once he had shut the door. "What's up?"
"Do you believe in fate?"
"That's a little obscure." He paused, "Also probably not the best time to ask. What makes you ask anyway?"
"Well what if this was all meant to happen? I got a message from Nick. He apologised not that it matters, he also said they're looking for us."
"You didn't answer him?"
"No. I know they can track us. So no, I didn't answer him."
The Doctor sighed and ran his hands through his hair. "I can see why you would think this was meant to happen. But I doubt it, it's only a new thing that the Trions need to move to another planet or whatever. It's not like this has been hatching up for as long as the Earth as been living." He turned and looked at her. "This'll all get sorted out Phil! Don't you worry about it." Smiling he held his arms out to her. "Have a consoling hug on me."
"I'll take you up on that offer." Phil said quietly while scooting over and leaning her head against his shoulder.
"There there Phil!" He patted her on the back. Phil sighed and nudged her head more against his shoulder. "What are we going to do?" She asked quietly.
"Good question."
"You don't know?" Phil leant away from him and looked at him with a worried expression. "Please don't wing it all the way. At least come up with some sort of plan."
"I will trust me Phil, I will. We need to get in contact with U.N.I.T first to see if they're still operational."
"Does this mean possibly getting in contact with Colonel Grouchy Grant?"
"Ha! What a nice nickname for him!" Doctor laughed and patted her on the head. "Yes. Sadly is does involve getting in contact with Grant."
"That's if he's still alive."
"How morbid of you Phil."
"Sorry Doctor! Shall we go then?"
"Yes I guess we should. I think we've left Jack on his own to long I actually fear what he's talking about out there."
"He's funny." Phil grinned and jumped off of the table. The Doctor stumbled over his words before shaking his head. "You don't agree?"
"Well..he does have his moments." He nodded and opened the door, "What have you done?" The Doctor waved his hands dramatically at the mess of wires and broken computers on the floor.
"Well you see," Jack started to say while shaking wires off of himself.
"No, Phil would you be so kind?" The Doctor gestured to the computers and other equipment.
"Yeah alright." Phil stretched her hands and took to picking through the dismantled things on the floor and putting things back together.
"The world goes to pot and here we are drinking tea." Sarah Jane mused with a smile. "I haven't really missed this I have to admit."
"Biscuit?" Phil waved the packet at Luke who nodded and took a couple from her. "It's a momentary break." She answered Sarah Jane. "I can't believe these biscuits are still in date." She marvelled at the packet.
"Space cookies?"
"Maybe? That'd be right cool!" Phil and Luke looked at each other with small grins.
"No, how about Maryland Cookies? Just plain simple chocolate chip." Jack said while plucking the packet from Phil and looking it over. "I have you know these don't expire till next month."
"That fills me with confidence to know I'm not going to get food poisoning or whatever from out of date cookies." Phil smiled and drunk some of her tea.
"Well this base hasn't been that long out of use." Jack sat down next to her, the small group turned and looked when there was a crashing sound.
"I think he's destroying your equipment." Luke stated while leaning back in the chair.
"After I put some of it back together." Phil pouted, "That's annoying."
"He just likes to tinker with things. Take them apart, put them back together. It doesn't matter if you put it back together properly or not." Sarah Jane smiled. "Just to make sure it's a hundred percent perfect he has to break it."
"And put it back together?"
"Well I am not sure about that. I'm rather sure he'll need help putting some of it back together." She chuckled lightly and nodded in the direction of the crashing sounds.
"I invite you all in and look what you do. Help yourself to tea and biscuits and even destroy some of my computers." Jack huffed and dropped his serious act when he suddenly grinned. He shook his head and took a cookie from the packet.
"Hey! Am I the only one doing work over here?"
"No! We're working." Jack answered while looking over his shoulder and smiling at The Doctor. He flung his arms in the air confused and waited for him to explain. "We're working on team building."
"What? Now you're just making excuses."
"Yes I am, but it's a brilliant excuse as to skip doing work." Jack gave Phil the packet and stood back up.
"Jack has a point."
"Don't agree with him Phil. You agree with him and he won't shut up."
"You're a very charming man have I ever told you that?" Jack winked and took to trying to get the power back up. So far he'd managed to get power back into the building for a few minutes only for it to cut out again.
"But...to work well as a team don't we need to get along and that?"
"Well from here it looks like you're all old friends." The Doctor waved the screwdriver at her. "A bunch of old friends sitting and gossiping! That's what you're doing! Gossiping!"
"Wanna join in?"
"No because some of us have work to do." With that he turned on his heels and disappeared behind a stack of monitors. The stack was of useless monitors which could be taken apart and which parts could be useful for something.
"I guess we should be getting back to work too."
"Yes because sorting through files and seeing which equipment works or not is really classed as work." Luke said while running a hand through his hair.
"Want to help putting things back together?" Phil questioned, "With the amount he's breaking I'm going to need help."
"Sure," Luke smiled and stood up, Phil shuffled off and reappeared again. She walked over to a desk with four or so computers sitting on it. Walking over to the wall of monitors she peeked round. The Doctor sat in a wheely chair spinning lazily around looking up at the ceiling.
"So this is what you call work?" She said, he jumped and fell out of the chair almost. Straightening up he looked at her.
"Why hello Phil what brings you here?"
"Tea," she held her hand out which had a cup loosely gripped in it. "You never came over for any. Which I find rather shocking considering." He wheeled himself over in the chair and took the cup from her hand.
"Thank you."
"Here," she pulled a red packet from her back jean pocket. "You better have some before Jack eats them all."
"I heard that!"
"Sorry!" She exclaimed back with a smile. She sat down on the edge of a desk and nodded at him. "How is the search for a functioning computer going?"
"It's not. I have no clue what happened here but nothing is working."
"Got the power back on!" Jack exclaimed when bright lights shone from above. Phil looked up and squinted at them. They were nearly as bright as flood lights, why they needed such bright lights for was beyond her.