It was beautiful. The grass was pure green and seemed to sway carelessly in the wind. In the distance she could see buildings taller than skyscrapers, but ultimately the same. The sky was clear blue and the clouds just sort of floated along, minding their own business. In the direction of the city, if that's what it was, there were lots of tiny floating things. "What are they?" She asked the Doctor, pointing a thin finger at them. "They are the current mode of transport, like flying cars."
" Awesome. Is that a city over there?" Kate asked. "Yes, it's New New York. This is my third time here, but the last two times were spent trying to save the population so I've not had much time for sightseeing." Kate noticed that he said "save the population" in an almost bored manner, as if he did that all the time.
Suddenly, the ground started to shake and there was a low rumbling sort of noise. The breeze became a stronger wind and the grass leaned heavily to the left. All the cars in the distance stopped in midair and there was an alarm sound. The people didn't seem to panic, so perhaps this was a frequent thing. After a few minutes the earth stopped trembling and everything carried on as if nothing had happened.
Kate turned to face the Doctor, a quizzical expression on her face. The Doctor returned her look and said, "That wasn't meant to happen." So the Doctor was as baffled about this as her. Great.
"Can we go now?" She asked, almost pleadingly.
"Don't you want to find out what that - " he searched for the right word, " ah, disturbance was?" Clearly he was dying to, but Kate didn't like the fact that he didn't know the source of the Earthquake.
"Don't you have a lever or something in the TARDIS that can figure out?"
"Probably, but where's the fun in that?"
"Fine. We can go see, but then you take me home okay? I've seen to much, my brain feels frazzled."
"Right!" He exclaimed marching forward, a spring in his step. He reminded her of a twelve year old that had just drank a lot of caffeine, he was very energetic and comical looking, but deep down Kate could sense a lot of pain. He had lost so much.
They walked to the city, and as they got closer, Kate had to marvel the sheer grandeur of the place. It was a cheerful sort of place and just like something out of one of those futuristic films that her brother watched at home.
She peeked into one of the cars and was shocked to find that the driver had whiskers and a tail. "They're cats!" She exclaimed, her eyes wide. The Doctor laughed at her face then said, "Yes. The human race sort of... evolved over five billion years, which to be honest you can only expect. Don't trust the nuns though." He said the last bit with a touch of humour in his voice, but she couldn't quite tell if he was joking or not.
"Let's ask that man about the earthquake." He pointed to a bench that seemed to be just sitting there for no apparent reason. The mb was human and was holding some sort of bag. As they got closer, Kate could see that it wasn't a bag, but was in fact a basket of kittens.
"Excuse me sir, but my friend and I are just visiting here, and we were wondering what the violent shaking was. Could you give us any information on the subject?"
"Well, no one knows exactly what it is, but it always occurs at midday, every day."
"That's weird." Kate thought to herself.
"Thanks. Goodbye!" The Doctor seemed deep in thought as the strolled ack towards the TARDIS.
"What are we going to do now?" She asked, dreading the answer she somehow knew the Doctor would say.
"We're going back to the TARDIS and I'm going to try and trace the tremors back to their source."
"How long will that take?"
"Depends."
Even though she had been in the TARDIS before, she hadn't really got a good look at it because of the darkness. It was positively tiny compared to the inside. How was it even possible for it to be like that?
Inside, the Doctor started pushing all sorts of weird-looking buttons. Kate thought she might as well explore a bit. She went through a doorway into a long corridor. She found a door as she walked along and stuck her head in. It was a huge wardrobe! She walked between the racks of clothes and found all sorts of clothes. There was a long striped scarf which looked really funny. In one of the rows there was a really nice dress. It was a pink, 50's style dress. Kate could tell it had been worn before, and she wondered who it had belonged to.
"Kate! Kaaaatttee!" She could here the Doctor shouting so she left the dress for the moment. She could think about it later. She rushed into the control room like a whirlwind. "What?!" She asked, wondering what could make the Doctor sound so worried.
"This isn't good. This is really not good." He said, his face solumn.