"So….what do you guys normally do if you have to stay behind?" I asked Alex and Colin. It had been only five minutes since the rest of the boys left and I was already bored out of my mind.

"I dunno," one of them said shrugging his shoulders and refusing to make eye contact. The two boys looked so similar I couldn't remember who was who.

Both had long brown hair that came down to the back of their necks with shaggy bangs that fell into their eyes. They were both around the same height and their faces were dirty, but the firelight showed dark, tanned skin beneath it. I wonder if you keep whatever skin tone you came on the island with. I haven't seen a speck of sunshine since getting here. The only difference was in their eyes. One had midnight blue eyes and the other had hazel eyes.

"Ignore Alex, he's shy," Colin explained. "It depends on the day. Sometimes we'll practice sword fighting or sharpen some leftover weapons or we'll wrestle."

Truly living with kids in Lord of the Flies, I thought to myself. "Would you want to practice swords?" Alex asked, bringing me out of my thoughts.

"Not today. I ran for a long time earlier today, and I'm pretty tired from that," I admitted to the two. Alex's face looked a little crestfallen and he moved a little further away putting some distance between us. Good going. Scare off the kid why don't you…

"Do you guys ever tell stories?" I asked them.

"Made up stories? No, not really. We'll all share stories about animals that we found or how events of games we played went, though," Colin said.

"Well, back where I'm from, people are always telling stories to each other. Made up ones, too, and not always told around a fire," I told them, hoping I wouldn't have to explain the concept of a movie or TV. "I could tell you one of those."

Alex and Colin looked at each other, then shrugged their shoulders. "Sure," Alex said. "They're going to be gone for a long time if they check even half the traps," Colin explained further.

"Okay, it's settled then!" I said cheerily. Better stick away from Disney stories lest any of those also be true. Now's my opportunity to relive Doctor Who I guess. "Why don't you two sit down, my story is going to be awhile."

They took a seat on a log, turning to face me while I took a seat on a close stump.

"I'm going to tell you the story about a man named the Doctor. He's from a planet called Gallifrey, and the people on that planet are called Time Lords. They are aliens who have two hearts and can travel through time," I began.

"How can someone travel through time?" Colin asked looking like that was the most ridiculous thing he'd ever heard.

"If you'll be quiet, I'll get to that," I said giving him a pointed look. He gave me a half smile in apology and I continued. "Like I was saying, he's an alien. Time Lords also have the special ability to cheat death – for a while at least. If they ever get mortally wounded, their body will start a process called regeneration. That means that instead of dying like you or I would, they turn into a new person instead. Except they aren't really a new person, but they can get a new body, mind, and voice, and they have all the memories from their previous life. But they can only regenerate 12 times before they die for good." Alex's eyes were bugging out of his head at the idea and Colin looked confused as he was trying to keep track of all the information.

"Anyway, the Doctor travels in a big blue box called the TARDIS which is about this big," I explained trying to gesture with my hands. "On one side it has a door. When you enter through the door, you are amazed because you are then standing in a giant room. That's the secret of the TARDIS: it's bigger on the inside. In the center of that main room is a giant cylinder that contains all of the time energy that the Doctor uses to travel through space and time."

"You're lying! There's no way that could exist!" Colin exclaimed.

"I am not lying! That's how the story goes. And besides, it's a story. I don't know that the Doctor exists," I told him.

"Anyhow, the Doctor is able to travel anywhere through time and space using the TARDIS. But he doesn't just travel, he goes around saving people. He's saved humans loads of times, but he also saves other aliens.

"The Doctor is also the last Time Lord. His people were part of a great Time War with their biggest enemy, the Daleks. The Doctor found a way to stop the Daleks, but it was a difficult decision to go through because it meant he had to destroy his own people, too. In the end, he decided that it had to happen, but the guilt he felt is what makes him go to save other people." Both boys were looking at me somberly, understanding the gravity of the situation as though they had been there.

"But let me tell you about one of my favorite stories about the Doctor," I started. "The Doctor went to a planet that a ship had crashed onto, and he was there with his companion, Amy Pond. I should also mention that the Doctor will travel with people called companions so that he can have company as he travels. So, on this planet with the crashed ship he meets up with a group of people who were investigating the crash. There's a lady with this group whose name is River Song, and she seems to know the Doctor really well while he hasn't met her very much. Together, the group enters a large cavern, and that's when things start to get interesting."

I did my best to remember all the details from the episode, but I was sure I forgot a few things. Whatever I forgot, I made up in acting out various parts of the story. Talking about the Weeping Angels and how they functioned seemed to set the boys on edge, but their eyes were shining with excitement begging to know what would happen next. I had just gotten to the part where one of the investigation troopers had been killed by the angels when the group of boys started trickling back to the campsite.

"Sorry boys, I think we're going to end there for tonight," I told them.

"No!," they whined. Alex ran up to me grabbing onto my arm. "But what's going to happen now?!" he looked at me with the biggest eyes and more expression on his face than I had seen all night.

"I'll let you in on a little secret, okay? The Doctor is very clever," I whispered to him with a wink and smiling widely. Rubbing his head affectionately, I sent him back over to where Colin was standing with a few of the other boys doing his best to relate the story I had just told him.

Because I was watching the boys, I missed the look Jack gave to Peter. All I did see when I looked at the older boys was Felix looking disinterested, Jack grinning at me, and Peter staring in contemplation.