Chapter 2
A Cab Ride There
"Taxi!" The Doctor shouted with his hands waiving in the air like a drunken giraffe. The bright yellow taxi that The Doctor had shouted out slowed and pulled into a nearby lay-by. "Hello, I'm The Doctor and this is Clara" The Doctor explained gleefully. The taxi driver just gave them a blank stare and coldly asked in a heavy New York accent 'Where do ya wanna go buddy?" The Doctor's face then turned to one of slight disappointment "Er, the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th please if you don't mind". The taxi driver just grunted and pulled out into the heavy New York traffic.
"Ok, so where are going?" Clara turned to The Doctor and asked. "Didn't you just here my Clara?" The Doctor asked a confused looking Clara. "Yeah, but where is that? What's there?" Clara asked, her tone now turning slightly grumpy. "Wait and see Clara, Wait and see" The Doctor winked back at her.
After a boring thirty minute taxi ride stuck in traffic their car finally pulled up the intersection The Doctor asked for. "That'll be $14.90" the taxi driver informed them. The Doctor handed him $15 out of the $20 he found in his trunk in the TARDIS and handed to him gleefully exclaiming as he did "Keep the change!" "Gee, thanks" the taxi driver grunted as The Doctor and Clara disembarked from shining yellow taxi.
What loomed before The Doctor and Clara was an enormous great structure standing at 443M tall. "But that's the Empire State Building" Clara half asked looking puzzled. "Yep, 443M tall" The Doctor informed her. "I was here when they were building it you know" The Doctor boasted. "Yep, me and my friend Martha..." The Doctor was cut short by an angry stare from Clara. "What are we doing here?" Clara snapped at The Doctor. "You read the message on the physic paper didn't you?" asked The Doctor. "Yes, but it didn't say anything about the Empire State Building or New York City!" Clara quickly replied.
"Oh, come on, do I really have to explain it?" The Doctor asked her sarcastically. He received no answer, just a rather angry stare from his newly acquired companion. "Ok, ESB, NYC 09-02-2013..."The Doctor stated "Quite simply means; Empire State Building, New York City, 2nd of September 2013, the date you have to take backwards to your calendar as we're in America" The Doctor quickly explained at around 90MPH.
"OK" Clara replied "But I don't understand why we couldn't just bring the TARDIS here and who or what is PP?" "In answer to your first question Clara, it's a fairly long story and it's quite wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey" The Doctor explained "And your second one is also quite long but I'll explain that later, firstly we're going in there" The Doctor continued. "Ok, where in there exactly?" asked a somewhat bemused Clara. The Doctor looked at her and smiled "Floor 129"