- Chapter 2 -
a Weird Guest

I was very angry when I got home. I went into the garden and afterwards straight into the kitchen. My mother expected to tell me something, but I glared at her. This day I got into the bed soon, I was very tired and I preferred to recover, thus I was able to think that current events had been only bad dreams or I had imagined it. On this night I fell asleep deeply and I was fading into a frightful nightmare about the police box, the bow tie man and massive spiders. I don't know what it can be worse. Until wee hours of the morning, suddenly it heard such a familiar dreadful noise that it made me wake up. Oh my god! It was the creepy alarm call that I had been listening during vanishing. I was afraid of being still in a nightmare, so I opened my eyes little by little. And then I could look how the police box was materializing gradually. It was so scary that my voice staid awfully silent. My crazy eyes jumped straight on the police box while I was staring to it, and my hands gripped my pillow strongly. If it were a kitty, I would strangle it caused for the strength.

Suddenly the door was opened and from the inside the bow tie man went out smiling. Might he have been a sort of weirdo or psycho? I jumped backward and then I sheltered my head with my arms, I squatted down to protect me and I used my pillow like a shield. So he started to talk and he said:

-Hey, hey, shshshshshsh, you're in danger. Why are you sleeping so peaceful! Do you know what happens at home! If you knew it, of course, you woudn't be sleeping foolishly quiet! What time is it? Could I forget teatime? No, no, no… Dress right now. We have to leave together. Have you ever seen the beautiful clock that is on the bedside table?

-Are you a sort of mad? Sir, will you hurt me?- I babbled.

-Hello! How do you do! I'm the Doctor. Nice to meet you!- So he started to spin around in all directions, he was on edge pointing everything with his amazing torch-Come on! Dress up! You should come inside the Tardis! Have you ever seen through your window? I can see a delightful landscape. Perhaps, I'd be here for some days.

-Maybe, do you suggest I'm fit of hysteria as the damn quack I met tomorrow?

-Not at all, if you desire to enter inside the Tardis for a while, you might shed light on it. Oh! These cookies, which you have on your bedside table, seem really delicious. I'm going to taste it. Are these sweet or salted?

-These are sweet… Inside the Tardis?

-Yes, of course, inside the Tardis, the blue police box. Come in and let me know. Oh, these cookies are really amazing. I will take some of them for the journey. Who baked it?

-My mother did. Here we go! I like seeing what I can find inside the blue box. I hope it were not full of spiders. I hate spiders.

-Spiders? Where? Yum yum… oh these are really delicious…

-OK, I don't care, I go inside, Doctor-while I got out of bed, I reached the box and opened the doors. So I went inside-Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! It's enormous! How can all of these things fit in a box like this? Oh my God!

-Yes, these can. It's really incredible. It's as amazing as taste of these cookies. If you want, we'll go on a journey. It's my ship! Do you think it's so pretty?

-It's awesome! I have no words… and do you tell me it's a ship? Spaceship? Where can we travel?

-It's not right question, it's not only where. It is also when.

-When?

-The Tardis is not only a spaceship, it's also a time machine. You know? If you wanted to see the foundation of Rome, or for example, the sun vanishing… you wanted to see the dinosaurs, to visit Shakespeare or to drink a dainty wine with Dante Alighieri…, you could do whenever and whatever with the Tardis.

-Now I'm sure. You're a sort of mad!

-I speak seriously, if you wished other choice, you could also fly either to Andromeda, to Pleiades, to Horsehead Nebula, or to Crab Nebula… or for example, either to distant planets with other civilizations or other galaxies, too.

-Really? I think you're crazy as a bat, and you try to kid me. I don't believe in fairy tales, Doctor.

-Follow me, I'll show you.

-Follow you? … Where?

-Inside the Tardis, of course… Where the hell did you think?

-Um, ok, surprise me… if you can. But you should be carefully not to touch me. I'm an expert taekwondo fighter, if I saw anything weird, I'll kick your ass. Ok?

-Hehehe… Come in the Tardis right now!

The Doctor and I went inside this strange police box that was larger inside than outside. It could look like a huge steampunk room. Could anyone imagine this crappy antediluvian objects could work to go on travel through time and space? Oh Jesus! Someone would have to be childlike to believe it. The Doctor held some hand gears that were close to a writing machine. It looked like Second War World junk. And also close to black and white television. It was not like a spaceship, but it was like vintage flea market. So he looked at me cunningly. He smiled and he screamed " Allons–y". What the hell! This guy spoke in French, if he had known I would actually have loathed as France and Frenchmen … as spiders. Holy crap! They make me angry for their fat cheeses, the shape of their stupid mouth while they are talking, their cocky pose, their fucking duck pâté… Can anybody bear them? Besides, I guess they can actually endure each other. I hoped this guy would not be a Frenchman, although I figured he was like an English dandy for his accent.

-Hehehe… Hold on handrail. It will be a bumpy journey.

-I think you're overdramatic guy!-Suddenly everything started to shake and almost I embedded myself on the ground, and then I felt dizzy. Damn junk! The Doctor was kidding me. Could anybody believe this junk might do either of these charming things?

I held on handrail hardly. I could see a crystal column with a sort of light ball inside which was moving up and down over and over. The Doctor told me "It is the Tardis' heart. It's amazing, you know?". Could anybody bear the weird loud sounds of Tardis? However, this guy liked it! I'm in some bloody trouble with this loony fellow. Suddenly the time machine stopped moving.

-Hehehehe… we have arrived at the first destination, get ready and breath deeply. You shall not be able to speak.

-Where have we gone?

-Open the door and see.

Just at the moment when I opened it, it felt the ecstasy. I had no words to be able to explain what I felt. Since people were kid and while they were growing up, they have believed that they have seen everything and they can't have amazed for anything new. But nobody could be indifferent with this sort of experience and a university journalism student like me even less. Something like it only could enjoy few humans, and at this moment I was a privileged girl. Oh my God! These memories make me cry over and over every time when I remember it. A massive blue surface full of clouds was reached front myself. A huge sphere lost in deep space. Our home. Planet Earth. A sweet smile drew in my lips while a tear ran down my cheek.

-No…no…no… I have no words. It's wonderful. Oh my God! It's the Earth. This is the Planet Earth. Damn it! It is the most beautiful than I've never seen before, and it seems so real.

-Oh my God! Only so real?! Look! I'm not kidding you! Anyway, when we travel through time… you'll realize I haven't overdone.

- So, do you travel through time and space? How is it possible?

-Yes, exactly, I do. I'm the last Time Lord. I was born in Gallifrey Planet and I've lived on since Time War. I've been travelling wherever and whenever to solve time problems. And I'm really lonely because I'm the last. I don't like travelling alone and I always take on some travel partner. Anyone, who comes with me, will live many adventures and amazing experiences. Hehehe.

-Are you asking me if I'd like to follow you?

-Only if you want.

-Really! Are you talking seriously?

-Maybe…, you get it-He smiled and he looked at my eyes.

-Yes, I want! But I must let my family know. What could they think if I missed and I didn't advise them?

-Don't worry. The Tardis is a Time Machine, so we can go whenever and wherever, it's possible to get home just on time when we'd leave and before your parents would get up. They won't notice your absence. You know? It's so amazing!

-Really? OK, yes, I want right now! Where do we travel at first?

-Where not! Quite the opposite, we should go to London in 2153, the government called me and they told me they are in some trouble. I'm the only soul who can fix it.

-To London! I love London! I dream of living there. Anyway, how can we breath with open doors? Aren't we in deep space?

-Yes, we are, but the Tardis has an electromagnetic shield that protects us against ultraviolet rays, subatomic particles and whatever with hazard radiation. It also creates an oxygen zone. Are you surprised?

-Yes, I am. You make me amaze. It's hard to believe what you have told me. Oh, OK… so when will we go to London?

-Right now, hold you strong… Here we go! Allons–y!