A/N: Hello! Look, I almost made it, I'm an hour late but it's still two days later-ish. Finally going to set the Doctor straight in this chapter! No more stubborn Doctor! Right, going to shut up now, Enjoy!
Disclaimer: SON - This ranges from Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Scooby Doo (unless you count the stuffed animal) and Ghostbusters. Okay, shutting up now.
Chapter 19
"Alright, what'd I miss?" Alli said as she clapped her hands together, giving an expectant look to Rose.
"I was able to get him not to do anything yet until he listens to you, but I couldn't tell him why because he wouldn't stop talking." She complied, looking up a little guiltily at the Doctor for throwing him under the bus.
The Doctor just stared mockingly offended at her as he tried to defend himself. "Well then, sorry for wanting to share some interesting information with my companion, I just thought you wanted to know."
"Well not while I'm talking!"
"If I didn't say anything you would have found out later and accused me of not telling you anything even when I was about t-"
"Hey Doctor, did you get that message?" Alli suddenly interjected.
The Doctor was thrown off at the sudden, off-topic, question and thought for a while at what she could be talking about. "Um, which message?"
Crack
"Shut up!" Luna finished for her, leaving the Doctor slightly taken aback before resolving into his stony demeanor to the girl now speaking.
"Now, I know that you aren't particularly happy with me for some reason but-"
"Some reason?! I have more than one reason to tell me why I shouldn't trust you!" He shouted.
"You also have a very important reason why you should trust me!" She said equally as loud, then motioning over to his companion to remind him of the promise he just made to her to listen to what she had to say.
Sighing in defeat, "Sorry, I said I'd listen, continue." He motioned for her to move on with her story with his hand as he leaned against the center console. Rose gave him an appreciative smile and settled next to him in a similar fashion.
"Alright, I know you don't want to listen to me talk so Alli will be explaining this to you. Go ahead." She finished amicably to her, letting her continue.
Crack
"Thank you! Now, I'll start from the beginning. First, as I'm sure you saw, I might have, accidentally, downloaded all the books of history in my head from your Book Downloader. I thought it was for kindle pads or something! I didn't know it would do that!" She began objecting at the Doctor's stupefied expression to her obliviance.
"It had a warning on it though!" He said completely mystified.
"I might have skipped it." She mumbled sheepishly.
"Why is that even feature? Isn't that dangerous?" Rose asked him.
"Well yeah, the more books you downloaded, the more it would have costed. I only disabled the money system on it since it was a gift. I had it put in the deeper parts of the library though, how'd you find it?" He asked Alli once more.
But instead, Luna answered for her.
Crack
"She had entered from the back entrance near one of the music rooms, so she was in the deeper parts of the library first." Luna helpfully supplied.
Crack
"Oh really? Uh." Alli said with genuine interest as she thought back to her mental map of the TARDIS and if that was true. She must have lost in her own thoughts for too long as the Doctor started snapping his fingers impatiently to get her attention back. Earning him an elbow to the ribs as Rose mumbled 'Rude.' at him.
"Sorry, where was I? Right, obviously human brains can't handle that large amount of information at once, so Sexy here had sent some of her energy in our head and split it into separate personalities to absorb the shock of all that-"
"Whoa whoa whoa, Sexy? Wh-who's that?" The Doctor's voice nearly rose to an inaudible squeak. Alli merely gave him an unconvinced glare at his obvious lie, silencing him from any more interruptions.
"I know you call Her Sexy so don't even try it with me."
"Well how'd you know I called Her that?!"
"Because She told me." She said in a sing-songy manner.
"Who's Sexy?" Rose asked in an amused manner.
"He calls the TARDIS Sexy, isn't that adorable!"
The two began laughing at the Doctors nonsensical obsession with his time machine, making the man in question disgruntled.
"Can you lot quit laughing and just finish explaining?" He whined over their chortles.
After she gulped a couple of breaths in she resumed talking. "Okay, okay."
She inhaled deep and started sprinting verbally, "After She split my mind in half, her energy already damaged my sense of time and reality. I had been wandering around in the TARDIS for days apparently before Luna here was developed enough to slap some sense in me and get me to look into the heart of the TARDIS. From there, she took in the Time Vortex energy and started redistributing it so I wouldn't get my brain burned up. It altered my anatomy to be able to handle the information now without the energy. Since it's been in my system for well over a year, now I have changed significantly and become advanced enough to put, the vortex, back, my-self." She finished with staccato-like articulation after her million miles an hour rant, grabbing the Doctor's attention.
Crack
"I hope you don't take it personally that I beat you up a little, I didn't want to cost you a regeneration and leave you feeling guilty about killing us. I had placed everything in here just right to keep her brain from burning itself up when the energy is gone. Even if the tiniest detail was erased, everything would have collapsed on itself. You were being so closed to any reasoning and wouldn't listen so, I had to take matters into my own hands." Luna finished with a shrug, gesturing she didn't have another choice.
The Doctor hadn't moved after this revelation, the cogs started turning in his head as he finally grasped onto the idea of what really happened.
"Does he always have this deer-in-headlights-look when he's thinking?" Luna asked in a theatrical whisper to Rose.
"Yeah but usually it's after he's realized something when he's rambling. It's moments like these that you just nod at like you understand and he's pausing to take a breath."
"Right then!" The Doctor shouted, making the two jump at his sudden yelling. "I think we'd better return something then."
He ran over to the console and began pressing a plentitude of buttons and switches, Luna recognized what he was doing and ran over to help.
"What are you two doing?" Rose asked before being thrown off her feet by the TARDIS suddenly jerking about.
"Just opening the TARDIS up so I can give the time vortex back to Her heart!" She shouted back to her as she stuck her head around the center to speak to her.
"Wait, how do you know how to use the TARDIS?" The Doctor yelled at her as she started typing in commands on the keyboard.
"I just told you that She was in my head, you really don't think that She wouldn't have shown me how to use Her as well?" She hollered back with her rhetorical question.
Before he could shout back any witty comments, he was momentarily blinded by the bright illumination glowing from the center, but quickly shut his eyes.
"Rose! Look away!" He called out, but she already was covering her eyes and turning her head away from the luminescence.
Luna felt the pull of the vortex inside her magnetize back to it's source. She breathed out deeply to allow the path of the energy back to the heart. The supports made in her mind weighed against each other as the energy drew away, but they craftily balanced in perfect harmony, leaving her brain in full working order.
"We're good! Close it!" She ordered as she herself was sent to closing the console back up. The Doctor soon joined her as he rapidly spun the crank, sealing the desktop back up.
The three bodies stood panting at what had just occurred before Alli broke the silence.
Crack
"Oh, so that's how you close it. Would've been nice to have known how to do that before…"
Crack
"I was a bit preoccupied." She muttered defensively.
Crack
"Right, sorry. Forgot about that."
"Oh, you're brilliant." The Doctor said, picking her up and spinning her around in a hug. She giggled profusely as he set her down and turned to Rose.
"You're brilliant!" He said even more excitingly and hugging her as well, kissing the top of her head.
"And Luna…"
Crack
"You, are, brilliant!" He gave her another bone-crushing hug, "I know." Luna said in a light-hearted fashion.
After pulling back, he gave her his most, apologetic look he could muster.
"I am so sorry that I didn't listen to you before, can you forgive me?"
Luna got a mischievous demeanor when she heard Alli request for a certain something in her head. "I guess… if you do Alli a favor."
"Of course." He said enthusiastically.
Crack
"What do you need Alli Rose?" He said in his cheerful way.
"I want to go pick someone up, I couldn't really sleep without him."
"Who?" He asked, authentically curious.
"Scooby!" She jumped up and down, her dreams weren't as terrible with him by her side.
He tilted his head from side to side, weighing the pros and cons. "Well, I don't know, he were said to have gone missing, we can't risk you changing the timeline."
"I got a plan." She said enticingly, reeling the Doctor in.
"Really? How's this plan work then?"
"Like this!" She ran out of the room towards the immense wardrobe and changed to fit her plan. After a couple of minutes she ran back barefoot into the room to the curious duo.
The only this she wore was long, plain, white dress. It flowed around her feet like water, her freshly brushed hair seeming to have the same effect. "See?"
"Not sure I follow." Rose said as Alli spun around to show off the outfit.
"Really? It's camouflage, for in case I get seen. And we'll be going a couple years in the future! Do you get it now?"
"Ooohh." The Doctor uttered when he finally got it. "Clever, but Rose and I could always just grab him ourselves."
"You really think that parents who lost their youngest child and have no idea where she is would just give away her favorite toy to some strangers they met years ago?" She added skeptically.
"True, but we could always sneak him out."
"You don't know the passcode to the alarm system though."
"Course I do! It's 'sonic screwdriver'." Holding up the blue cylinder in question.
Rose still couldn't tell what they were talking about, "Could someone please tell me what the plan actually is?"
"Well think, if I mysteriously disappeared years ago and have shown up looking exactly the same age in nothing but a white dress looking for my favorite toy, what would you think I am?"
Rose could almost feel the light bulb click in her head. "You're a ghost!"
Alli lit up at her catching on to her 'Grand Plan', "Exactly! And they'll give it to me right away without telling anyone else about it, because who are they even going to call, Ghostbusters?"
A/N: It probably makes me a terrible person, but if I was a ghost, I would mess with people so much! I hope the chapters aren't too boring, I'm trying to make them entertaining before we continue on with the adventures of The Doctor and Rose. Add anything you would like to happen in your reviews or comments, I'll just sit over here and write it down! :) Until next time my little companions!
