Chapter 6:

The Doctor smiled at the sight before him. Alli ran into the small, quaint room surrounded by a blue sky wallpaper covered in clouds of different sizes and shapes. Halfway down it had a setting of a tea party in a rose garden and blue, pink and white stripes leading down to the cloud like carpet on the floor. The walls had pictures taped up with various medals of piano, science fairs, gymnastics, dance, and taekwondo along with posters of ScoobyDoo and drawings she made.

She seems to be well accomplished for being so young. The Doctor couldn't help thinking to himself glancing at the bouncing little girl.

"I cleaned it up myself! I made my bed, vacuumed ," she motioned to the strange patterns all around the floor showing her path of obvious distraction, "I even put away my barbies and stuffed animals, and that was a hard thing to do too! They just got up to the interesting part of finding out who poisoned Jayden!"

The Doctor chuckled at her imagination and curiously asked "Do you know who poisoned her?" He leaned in closer when she saw her wave him down to whisper and cautiously looked over her shoulder at the closet, he assumed, where they were put away.

"It was actually her mom, but she was under a spell by the seemingly "good" fairy since she was upset by the loss of her wife that fell off the cliff, but she was actually alive and raised by Scooby and his family." She gave him a pointed look and pointed her tiny finger at him. "You can't tell anyone that, we aren't supposed to interfere, they have to play it out themselves."

The Doctor thought back to his own instructions he gave Rose about not getting involved and observing only. Oh well, never one for following the rules anyway he thought. "I promise I won't tell a soul, cross my hearts." He motioned the crossing of his hearts with both of his hands making Alli's head tilt to the side.

"Hearts? You have two?"

He merely smirked and looked over to her made bed stacked high with random pillows that seemed to come from different parts of the house, with a worn Scooby Doo stuffed animal lying cross-eyed against the pile. "Is that Scooby then? Oh I love his shows, absolutely brilliant." He walked over to the tiny twin bed and sat on the edge.

She narrowed her eyes at him, knowing full well that he was evading her question. I know how to play this game. She thought, skipping over to her bed and dangling her feet over the side.

"You watch them too?! I think they're awesome, I only watch for Scooby and Shaggy though, I think they're funny. Plus Amber thinks think there might be a bit of a love triangle going on between Fred and the girls, but I know they just want to solve the mysteries, even though a toddler could figure them out." She fell back on her bed and rambled on about the shows she watched and how she already knew who did them. The Doctor had to admit, she was pretty clever. He picked up the toy to really see how tattered, yet well cared for, it was.

The eyes were constantly coloured in with a black sharpie and the spots on his back were slowly thinning. He noticed that there was a thorough sewing down on the tail and the neck, as Alli noticed him.

"I sewed him myself! My mom had to tie the knot for me to start and finish though, but I got to do all the fun bits in between."

"Oh that's a clever way of doing things, granted, some things are best seen from the beginning." He muttered the last part under his breathe. "He seems to be pretty old then." Raising the thoroughly-played with Scooby. Alli glanced over to her bedside table and noticed something she placed on it, immediately, Alli had an idea pop into her mind.

"He only looks older than he is since I play with him everyday. I've had that lamp longer than him and it looks brand new." She pointed over to a baby lamp with a doll and a stuffed duck attached firmly to the squiggly base. Just as she planned, he noticed a worn and folded piece of paper on the table.

"Well what's this for then if you don't mind my asking?" He said as he picked up the article. "Nerve Points on the Body: Massaging Techniques, ooh, are you going to be a masseuse?"

"Nah, I was going to be one to make money for college. I'm going to be a Doctor too!"

"Well you'll be brilliant at it seeing you're as clever as you are." He praised her. He really hoped he could find out what happened to her before anything bad happened, she could live an amazing life seeing she was more clever than the average seven year-old.

"Thank you, I am really good at massages though, watch!" She shrewdly made her way to his back and was close enough to his neck.

"Oh no no that's alriii-aah..." He cut off short at the amazing massage. Blimey those are strong thumbs. His head lolled over to the side as he went numb with bliss.

As she circled her thumbs on his back, she remembered the exact place on the neck her brother Seth showed her, but she had to be quick before he caught on to what she was doing.

In a swift movement, her hand dashed to a soft point on his neck, her hands were cold so she had to focus before he flinched away. She pressed her two fingers on the artery and felt the steady beating moving twice as fast than normal. "You DO have two hearts! Wow!"

The Doctor's neck pinched her small hands as he jerked away. "Whoah that's cold! How did you know how to find a pulse? Wait no, where you planning that!?"

Alli arched an eyebrow at him as she sat criss-crossed on the bed. "I just said I was going to be a doctor, do you really think I wouldn't have known how to find a pulse?"

"Alli, answer the other question." He warned with a stern look. If she was able to plan all that out she was smarter than he thought. All Alli did was shrug and smile before answering.

"You were avoiding the question, so I figured if I find a way to get your pulse then I could find out for myself. Does that make you an alien then? 'Cause you look human."

He was stumped, she was brilliant, and being as open-minded as she was, he didn't see the harm in telling her the truth. "No, you look Time-Lord. I was here first."

"If you were here first, do you mean by age or do you time-travel and stuff?"

He stood with his mouth open for a few seconds before he told her practically everything about who he was and everything that he and Rose did. He was careful though to skip over the part of how they came to find her. They were rather wonderful bedtime stories, seeing as he talked to her until she finally fell asleep and took her nap, which didn't take as long as he thought.

She must have been tired, he thought to himself. That or she has the same sleeping habits as Rose.

As he covered her with a small blanket and closed the pink, checkered curtains, he saw little glow-in-the-dark stickers of stars covering her wall. A realistic sky in the day and in the night. He thought to himself, he figured no harm could come of he enhanced the stars a bit. He pulled out some things in his pocket and his sonic screwdriver and set to work.

A/N: I got my bold working again! Hopefully that came out alright, I'll go back to my normal schedule now, bye-bye.