(A/N) So not sure how this chapter turned out, but I like it. More updates on it tomorrow. Again this chapter is for my Watson. *grins* XOXO Mels
Someone's POV
The Ponds watched the Doctor as he raced around the console, flipping switches and levers and pressing buttons before he darted back over to the monitor and started reading the results. According to the TARDIS it was picking up a signal similar to the one at the crime scene they had just been at in four other locations around the city. Just as the Doctor was running scans to figure out what connected the five locations the TARDIS scan picked up on a new signal and locked onto it. The console room shook as the TARDIS took off again, piloting herself as the three time travelers screamed and held onto the console for dear life. Whatever was causing these signals was apparently very important if the TARDIS was reacting in such a way to them. The console room shook violently before the ship finally landed, with a jolt. This time the trio managed to hold on and not get thrown to the floor of the TARDIS.
"Doctor, what happened?" Amy asked him, letting go of the console as soon as she was sure it was safe to.
"Yeah, is that supposed to happen?" Rory asked him as he pointed to the console.
"The TARDIS picked up on a new signal. At a 221B Baker Street apparently," the Doctor said as he checked the monitor. "Well come along Ponds," The Doctor said before he flung the door open to the TARDIS and walked out. They were now parked a few feet away from the front door of 221B which was right next to a café. Lovely, maybe they could get tea and scones afterwards. The Ponds joined him outside of the TARDIS and the Doctor stood outside the door of 221B with a grin on his face as he rang the doorbell. He looked back at the Ponds and gave them a thumbs up before turning back to the door as it was opened by an older woman.
"Hello?" The woman said, smiling warmly at the Doctor.
"Hello. I'm the Doctor. We're investigating crimes in the area," The Doctor said as he got out his psychic paper and flashed it at the woman. "Just need to have a look around," The Doctor told the woman as she nodded.
"Oh you're here to see Lexi and Sherlock?" The woman asked the Doctor who frowned slightly in confusion before grinning and nodding animatedly. "They're just upstairs. Come inside," The woman told them as she ushered the three of them inside. "You're lucky they just got back in. Running all over the city," The woman told them as she stood in the entrance hall and sighed.
From above them they suddenly heard someone shouting, a woman, "There's no drugs!" The Doctor looked towards the stairs in interest as the Ponds each raised an eyebrow behind him. The old woman looked towards the stairs and shook her head.
"Well, I'll show you upstairs," The woman told them as she started heading up. "I warn you, I'm not sure what sort of mood Sherlock is in if they're yelling," The woman warned them and the Doctor found himself more and more interested about the people upstairs. He got out his sonic screwdriver and scanned quickly. The signal was coming from upstairs. "Sherlock! Lexi!" The woman called up the stairs and they could hear someone walking above them before stopping. "Dears, there's someone here for you I think," The woman said as she entered the living room of the upstairs flat. The Doctor walked inside, followed by the Ponds who stood slightly behind him and he grinned when he saw the two people staring back at him. There was a curly dark haired man with grey blue eyes, high cheek bones, and a pale complexion wearing a suit and a girl by his side that had such a distinctive shade of copper hair that they could only be the couple he had seen earlier. The girl had very expressive green eyes, a light dusting of freckles across her nose, and she was wearing a sky blue shirt, a black tank top, and yellow skinny jeans. What made the Doctor smile wider was the headband in her hair which had a bow on it. They both stood staring back at them with inquisitive eyes and the Doctor stepped forward and offered them his hand.
"Hello, I'm the Doctor," The Doctor introduced himself before letting his hand fall as neither of them took his hand. The Doctor looked back at Amy and Rory and threw them a confused look before turning back to the couple. The girl looked past the Doctor's shoulder and finally spoke.
"Mrs. Hudson could you head back downstairs? Thank you for showing them up," The girl said to the older woman with a distinctive Irish brogue. Oh so she was Irish, fantastic, the Doctor thought as the older woman nodded and looked around at all of them once before she passed by Amy and Rory and headed back down the stairs.
"So as I was saying, I am the Doctor," The Doctor tried again as he got out his psychic paper and showed it to the duo. "This is Sargent Williams and Sargent Pond, we're investigating crimes in the area," The Doctor told them and the man and the woman exchanged a look before looking back at the Doctor.
"That paper is blank," The man announced and Amy frowned and walked over to the Doctor, taking the psychic paper from him and looking at it.
"No, it's not. See Detective Inspector Smith known as the Doctor with Sargent Pond and Williams," Amy told them as she showed the couple again.
"Whether you show us again or not that paper is still blank," The Irish girl told Amy crossing her arms in front of her defensively. "Sherlock," The girl said and the curly haired man looked down at her a nodded as they shared a look. The Doctor frowned as he saw their expressions change and then the girl shook her head. It was as if they were talking to one another without saying anything. Maybe they were telepathic? The Doctor opened his mind slightly more, but got no feelings off the two of them.
"You're not here from Scotland Yard which is evident by your lack of knowledge. I would however be delighted to give Detective Inspector Lestrade a call and ask him what he thinks about you," The dark haired man said, apparently Sherlock, as the couple turned back to them.
"You are geniuses. That proves it," The Doctor said as he pointed to the psychic paper and then at the couple with a grin on his face. "I'm the Doctor and this is Amy and Rory. I call them the Ponds," The Doctor said as he pulled out his sonic screwdriver and flashed each of them in the face. The Irish girl scrunched up her nose and leaned back slightly while the man stood unfazed. The Doctor flicked the sonic screwdriver before checking the results. "Yowzah that is some neuron activity," The Doctor remarked as the couple shared a look. "Do you have names?" The Doctor asked them as he looked expectantly between the two of them.
"Sherlock Holmes," The curly haired detective answered him passively.
"Alexandria MacKenna," The Irish girl told him and the Doctor smiled in delight.
"Ah, fantastic. Tell me Sherlock, Alexandria, have you noticed anything odd lately?" The Doctor asked them as he looked around the living room which was covered with papers and books.
"Besides you?" Alexandria asked him with a smirk as the Doctor spied a skull on the corner of the mantelpiece and cried in delight as he walked between the couple and darted over to it, picking it up as he turned back around to the Ponds.
"Look they have a skull," The Doctor said and Amy and Rory smiled sheepishly at the couple who were just watching them curiously, the girl looking rather amused.
"Doctor," Amy hissed and the Doctor frowned in confusion before noticing the look he was receiving from Sherlock. He slowly put the skull back down and the Irish girl raised an eyebrow at him. The Doctor turned back around before his eyes landed on the wall above the couch where a bunch of pictures were pinned upon the wall of crime scenes and a message, Beware the Weeping Angels. The Doctor walked between the couple again and crossed over to the wall before looking back at them.
"Weeping Angels, what do you know about them?" The Doctor asked the couple and the Irish girl frowned a bit at him.
"The Doctor? As in the Doctor?" The girl asked him instead of answering and it was the Doctor's turn to frown.
"Yes?" The Doctor said unsure and the girl shook her head before taking a mobile out of her back pocket. She raised the mobile to her ear and everyone watched her as she raised one finger.
"Mycroft. Do you know anyone called the Doctor?" She asked someone on the other line before nodding and looking thoughtful before she blinked. "Tell what you just told me to Sherlock," She said before she handed her mobile off to the curly haired man who was glaring at her.
"Mycroft," He snapped as he answered the phone. He listened for a long moment before he hung up the phone and handed it back to the girl.
"Titanic and Buckingham Palace ring any bells?" The Irish girl asked him and the Doctor grinned.
"Ah yes, how is Lizzy?" The Doctor asked and the girl shook her head in exasperation.
"So you're the Doctor. We were told to find you. The angels," The girl said before Sherlock let out a loud sigh. "The angels, we were told you knew about them," The girl finished after throwing the dark haired man a look.
"Yes. Have you seen one?" The Doctor asked them and the girl nodded.
"Yes, one. Sally Sparrow she told us to find you and something about not blinking," Alexandria told them and the Doctor perked up at the mention of Sally.
"Don't blink," The Doctor nodded. "The angels are creatures from another world. In the sight of any living thing they are simply stone but as soon as you look away, or turn your back, or blink…," The Doctor said trailing off and the girl nodded as the man just watched them with a blank expression.
"Yeah we were already told that, but what are they?" Alexandria asked him as the Doctor watched them.
"What's more interesting is you two. You were near that crime scene earlier. That's where the TARDIS found the first signal and now there's another signal coming from somewhere around here. Who are you, what do you do?" The Doctor asked them and the curly haired man finally spoke again.
"Consulting Detectives only ones in the world. When the police are out of their depth, which is always, they come to us," Sherlock remarked proudly and the girl nodded with a grin.
"There's been five murders. Only thing that connects them is the warning," Alexandria told the Doctor, gesturing to the wall. "All over the city, completely random," The girl continued as the Doctor took a second look at the pictures which all had scrawling script on their borders. Brixton, Croydon, they were all locations of the signals the TARDIS picked up on.
"Ah ha, the murders correspond to the signals the TARDIS picked up on," The Doctor announced as he looked back at the detectives. "Do you know what this means?" He asked them before turning to the Ponds who stared back at him blankly.
"No," Alexandria said as Sherlock's eyes flickered over him.
"It means that this is a lot bigger than I thought. Come along Ponds!" The Doctor shouted as he made for the stairs. The Ponds looked back at the detectives sheepishly before they followed after the Doctor who was hurrying down the stairs.
"Hang on!" Alexandria shouted after them, grabbing her coat and scarf and pulling them on before she hurried off down the stairs following him as Sherlock followed after her slowly pulling his jacket and scarf on as well as he processed everything he had just seen and heard. "You can't just run off after that!" The girl yelled behind the Doctor as they made it to the door and the older woman joined them again, Mrs. Hudson, that's what she had called them.
"Off out?" The woman asked the two detectives as they ignored her and followed the Doctor and the Ponds out of 221B as the Doctor walked towards the TARDIS. There was a blonde woman with curly hair leaning up against the side of the box seductively and she smiled as soon as she saw the Doctor.
"Hello sweetie," She greeted the Doctor who groaned slightly.
"River, not now," The Doctor told the woman as Amy walked forward and hugged her.
"River, hi!" Amy said excitedly as she realized the woman, Rory hugging her as well as the detectives stood behind them watching the exchange.
"Oh who are your friends?" River asked the Doctor as she looked behind him and Sherlock and Alexandria and winked.
"Lexi MacKenna," Alexandria introduced herself as River steeped forward and offered her hand to the girl.
"Professor River Song. Whose cheekbones?" River grinned and Lexi laughed at that.
"Sherlock Holmes," The girl introduced him and the detective shook her hand as well though more rigidly than Lexi had.
"Hang on Lexi? You were Alexandria five minutes ago," The Doctor said as he looked at the Irish girl who raised her eyebrow at him.
"I only introduce myself as Lexi to people I decide I like. I'm still not sure how I feel about you three," The girl said gesturing to the Doctor and the Ponds. "Now would anyone like to explain what a police box is suddenly doing here?" Lexi asked them and River laughed.
"Oh I like you," She said as she threw an arm around the girl's shoulders.
"It's the TARDIS, stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space, it's my frankly magnificent time machine," The Doctor told the detectives as they stared back at him skeptically. Lexi walked forward and River let her go as she walked up to the TARDIS and pointed at it.
"Time machine?" She asked and the Doctor looked at her offended.
"Yes," The Doctor told her and the girl looked at the blue box curiously, tilting her head to the side before she brought a hand up and touched the door. The lock immediately clicked and the door opened slightly. "What?" The Doctor said as the girl looked slightly surprised herself. The Doctor walked forward as the party standing outside the TARDIS were unaware that several CCTV cameras had just turned in their direction. "What?" The Doctor said again as he looked between the open door and the girl. "What?" He said for a third time as he stood there staring.
"The door opened sweetie," River told him as she walked over to him and pushed on it slightly. "Get over it," She grinned before she entered the police box, Rory and Amy shrugging before they followed her inside. The Doctor stared at the Irish girl for a second longer before he brushed past her and walked into the TARDIS himself. Lexi looked up at Sherlock a second later as the second detective walked forward, unable to rationalize why or how four people would fit inside a police box, not to mention the fact that it hadn't been there before.
"Well get in if you're coming!" The Doctor shouted and Lexi looked at Sherlock before she pushed the door open wider and stepped inside of the TARDIS. Sherlock walked around the box once before following her inside, the door shutting of its own accord behind him as He stood slightly behind Lexi who was just staring like he was.
"Impossible," Lexi breathed as he eyes widened in shock. "Sherlock, I take it back. There were drugs in the tea," She told him as she stared at the room which was impossibly bigger on the inside. There was a console in the middle of the room covered in buttons and levers and there was a central bit of the console that one up to the ceiling. The floor was made of glass and the room had a sort of orange glow to it from the lighting overhead. The Doctor and River stood at the console setting the TARDIS up for flight as Rory and Amy stood to the side.
"Yeah I know," Rory told Lexi as she took a small step forward. Sherlock stood frozen in his spot, his face blank but his eyebrow twitching slightly.
"So any passing remarks. I've heard them all," The Doctor asked the two detectives as he clapped his hands together and then spread his arms wide.
"It's smaller on the outside," Lexi remarked her face morphing into a grin before she turned around to look at Sherlock who was still staring his mouth slightly open now. "Oh dear, I think you've broken Sherlock," She said before she walked back to the consulting detective and snapped her fingers in front of his face. "Lock? Lock!" She said before Sherlock broke out of his trance.
"It's not possible," Sherlock told her as Lexi grinned.
"Apparently it is," Lexi told him before she turned around and bounded over to the Doctor still grinning as she darted over to the console, River looking up at her with a smile on her face. Sherlock followed her silently as his brain tried to process everything he was seeing.
"See people assume that time is a straight line, cause to affect, but actually it's more like a big ball of…," The Doctor just as Sherlock looked at Lexi and nodded at her slightly.
"The Game is…," Sherlock told her before the Doctor finished.
"Wibbly wobbly…," The Doctor said before trailing off. The Doctor grinned at Sherlock and the consulting detective's mouth twitched up into a sort of grin. "Welcome aboard the TARDIS Sherlock Holmes and Lexi MacKenna. Next stop… everywhere!" The Doctor shouted as he turned around and pulled the hand break, sending the TARDIS into flight.