Chapter Nineteen
In her flat in Highgate, North London. Becky Gibbs was getting ready for bed after a long hard day. She was just coming out from the bathroom where she had been brushing her teeth when a loud wooshing noise could be heard. As she turned a bright blue light could be seen moments later a blue police telephone box appeared, The Doors opened and a familiar person stepped out.
"Doctor" Becky said she ran forward and hugged him tightly "You got it working again"
The Doctor smiled "Yes, thanks to both Miss Barrett and the Skymaster, a new set of motivational circuits were created and I'm free again. I also used the Skybase to crash the Gravational Radiator so Lyons can't summon me back."
"I know Becky" said "It's Wednesday you've been gone for nearly an entire week. Lyons is becoming unbearable, I think he's under pressure by the minister"
"Well" The Doctor said "Just a little 'hello' and 'goodbye'" He turned to back into the Tardis
"Take me with you?" Becky asked
"Pardon?"
"Let me come with you, into that box and see everything that the universe has to offer?" Becky added
The Doctor turned, he was smiling, but his eyes were filled with sadness "Yes and no!" He said "You can come with me, but not yet" He said "but I'll take you one day" so saying he hugged her and stepped back inside, closing the door she could hear the Tardis engines rumbled into life and Becky saw the light on the top begin to flash brightly before it dematerialised and was gone.
Becky sighed and wandered if he had meant what he said, however as she turned away a bright blue light appeared and the whooshing noise that she had just heard grew louder and louder. A few seconds later The Tardis was in the exact same position it had been only a few minutes ago.
Slowly the doors opened and the Doctor stepped out. However there was something strange about his appearance he seemed older his eyes looked like they had just experienced some immense personal shock. "Hello Becky" he said
"Hi Doctor." She replied
This time The Doctor was wearing a black suit with a dark brown cardigan "How long has it been since I left you?"
"Only a few minutes" Becky explained
The Doctor smiled "Ok" he said "Do you still want to come travelling with me?"
Becky Nodded and taking her hand they walked into the Tardis which dematerialised leaving Becky Gibbs' room quiet and empty
"Well come on Danny how did your date go?" Jess asked
Jess Ringstead was sitting in her bedroom talking on her mobile to her friend Danielle, "Oh did you?" she said "Oh right, well sounds like you two had a great… yeah I know." Just then the sound of the Tardis rustling could be heard. "Hang on" Jess said "I'll call you back" and so saying she hung up and looked out of the window there in the back garden was a blue police box and there was the sound of someone knocking at the door.
Jess walked down the stairs and opened the door revealing The Doctor "Hi Jess" he said quietly
"Ah Doctor" Jess replied "I've checked the house there are no Alien criminals, mutated Alligators, cannibalistic creatures, homicidal maniacs, Devil worshipers or Gordavians living in this house, and if you are working for G.I.N. you get just drop dead"
"Can I have a word please" The Doctor said
"Come in" Jess sighed
Inside The Doctor sat at the table in the kitchen with Jess sitting opposite "You see" he said "I didn't want to leave, but I felt that I had to."
"You realise I should stick you back into that blue box of yours and say I never want to see you again. But first I want to know why you abandoned me?" Jess asked
"Well as you know and probably guessed me and Pip O'Niell were more than simple colleagues, we had a relationship but it was a strong professional one not the other kind." The Doctor began
"I see" Jess said "carry on"
"Well when I left G.I.N. in search of Bloody Mary I asked her to come with me, she refused and I went off on my journey. Then I met you and you came with me, it felt like you were a replacement and even though I never had the same intimacy with you like I did with Pip it felt that I wasn't right. So I decided to leave you. Now I realise that I made a stupid mistake so please can you forgive me?"
Jess thought for a moment "When I was about sixteen" she said "I had a boyfriend, who throughout our entire relationship kept asking if I was happy with us. I was, but kept wondering why. It was because the thought I was too good for him, in the end he dumped me for someone else. But let me make one thing clear Doctor if a load of Gordavians or Wendigos appear and you know what to do I won't stop you. But I'll decide if something is good for me or not."
The Doctor nodded "Fare enough, So Will you come with me? Get back to this mental man and his blue box?"
Jess thought for a moment and said "OK, Doctor you're on. But I have some conditions. Firstly do you have a pink suit?"
The Doctor nodded "Yes" he said "mind you it's 'salmon' pink, not 'Barbie doll' pink, but yes I do."
"Right" Jess said "Next Journey, you are wearing it"
"You can be quite devious, you know that?" The Doctor said smiling "Come on. I did promise you a planet visit, didn't I?"
Jess nodded "Yes you did, but on the journey you can tell me what has happened to you since we parted"
As they walked out of the house and into the Tardis. "Well" The Doctor began "It all started when Commander Lyons used a device called a Gravational Radiator to literally pull both me and the Tardis through the Time Vortex to March 2014. As such I was forced to work for G.I.N. again" as he said the last word the doors closed and the Tardis left as the two reunited friends set off on another adventure.