CHAPTER 3
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Lily landed her TARDIS a mile away from the newly opened crack. She led Allison and Robin Hood to within a few feet of it, and they stood there staring at it hesitantly.
Lily pulled out a scanning device and took a reading of the crack. Maybe I should start using a sonic screwdriver. These scanners are so inaccurate and unreliable! Then again if I did that the Doctor might think that he's rubbing off on me, and I won't have that. She thought to herself with a grin.
"What does the box tell you, my lady?" Robin asked Lily.
"It says that the crack is growing wider by the moment. I believe that it's waiting to grab someone just like the other crack grabbed Allison. The crack leads to Ancient Rome around 100 AD," Lily said.
"Will this one grab me as well?" Allison said, looking at it warily.
"No, they seem to be set up to only grab one particular person at a time," Lily said to her confidently.
Allison walked up to the crack hesitantly. She actually put her hand into it and felt nothing. There was no pull at all!
"I guess you're right," Allison said as she smiled at her.
Lily looked at her furiously.
"I could have been wrong. You could have been sucked in, and I might never have found you!" Lily yelled at her.
"Well, it didn't happen so you don't have to worry about it. I proved your theory about the cracks right, didn't I? That's what matters," Allison said cockily.
"Not to me. My friends matter more to me than if I'm right or not," Lily said to her.
Allison got the idea and she said, "All right! All right! I'll be more careful next time."
"Good. We can't have a massive paradox develop now can we just because you want to show off," Lily said to her with a smile.
"It'd be no big deal if I disappeared forever I assure you," Allison said with a sigh.
"Stop that! I already told you how important you are," Lily said.
"Well, I'm glad that I'm important to someone," Allison said with a sad look.
Lily started to ask her what she meant by that, but she was interrupted by a man walking up to her out of nowhere. He was looking at the crack with his eyes bugged out and his mouth wide open.
"What on Earth is that?" he asked as he stared at it in rapt attention.
Suddenly the crack began to suck him into it, and he screamed out in terror.
"It's our next victim. Help me grab him before he gets pulled in you did," Lily screamed at Allison.
Both women grabbed ahold of the man and tried to keep him from being pulled into the crack with all of their strength. It was no good though. The crack's pull was too much for them, and they started to be jerked into it as well along with its intended victim!
"I thought you said that it couldn't get us?" Allison asked Lily in fear.
"It won't activate for us but once it is activated it will suck anyone nearby it in," Lily shouted to her over the sound of the temporal winds pouring through the crack.
"I'm coming, my lady! I won't let it have you or the lady Allison," Robin Hood shouted to Lily.
He had a long rope in his hands that he had tied to a thick tree at one end, and he quickly tied the other end around himself. He ran toward the three of them and grabbed hold of Lily with one hand and Allison with the other one.
He dug his feet into the ground and tried to keep the two women from being sucked in with all of his strength. The women did their best to hold onto the man and to keep him from disappearing into the crack as well.
At that moment, they heard the sound of a TARDIS arriving, and Lily saw that it was the Doctor's.
"Oh, wonderful! Now I'll never hear the end of it about he saved us," Lily said with a groan.
"Would you rather that we be sucked into the tear in the air and be lost forever, my lady?" Robin asked her with a small smile.
"Yes, if it meant that I wouldn't have to owe one to that big headed bow tie man," Lily said with a chuckle.
"I hope that you don't really mean that," Allison said, half believing that she did.
"My lady jests, Lady Allison. She doesn't wish to appear weak in front of her son-in-law," Robin told her honestly.
"Hey! I'm not weak. I can't appear weak in front of anyone because I'm not weak to start with," Lily said as she gave Robin a dirty look.
"Of course not, my lady! You never appear weak to my eyes," Robin said to her truthfully.
"You are quite the charmer! If we were in a different situation, I'd be giving you such a kiss right now," Lily said with a wide smile on her face.
"Hey! Quit flirting, you two! This is serious! We're all about to be lost in the depths of time forever, and you two are talking about kissing each other. What is wrong with you?" Allison yelled at them.
"When is there a better time to talk about romance then when you may be faced with deadly danger at any moment?" Lily asked with a huge grin.
"I quite agree, beauteous one," Robin Hood said with a wicked smirk.
"I love that. Call me that again," Lily said with an even wider smile.
"Beauteous one!" Robin said again.
"Oh! That's wonderful! I want you to call me that all of the time now," Lily said pleased.
"As my beauteous one wishes," Robin said as he continued to flirt with her.
"You two are impossible!" Allison yelled at them.
"I quite agree," the Doctor said as he came up behind them.
He pulled out his sonic screwdriver and used at on the crack. The crack began to shut instantly, and then disappeared.
"Hurry up and get away from it! The sonic will only work for a moment, and then it will open up again full strength. I haven't figured out how to shut one down permanently yet," the Doctor warned them.
The four of them quickly untied the rope from around Robin, and then they all ran toward the TARDIS.
"So how are things with you lately, Lily?" the Doctor asked her sarcastically.
"Oh, shut up!" Lily said to him with a scowl on her face.
"I accept your thanks with gratitude," the Doctor said with a smile.
"She didn't thank you," Allison pointed out.
"That's the closest she'll ever get to a thank you with me," the Doctor said.
"Just stop talking about it, will you? You saved us, and we're all grateful, okay? Are you satisfied?" Lily said grumpily.
"Well, I guess that's a better thank you than I usually get," the Doctor said with a frown.
"What do you usually get?" Allison asked him curious.
"What she did just now by telling me to shut up. Sometimes though she gets more creative. One time she thanked me by punching me in the mouth!" the Doctor said with a wince.
"You just kept bragging about it. You don't have to have such a big head about it because you have to save somebody every once in a while," Lily said with a smirk.
"Once in a while?! I have to save you all of the time! You're always getting into trouble!" the Doctor pouted.
"Yes and you should be grateful! It gives you an opportunity to show off what a great big wonderful hero you are! It provides plenty of fodder for you to fill your massive ego with!" Lily said with a wide smile. She loved sticking it to her son-in-law.
"Maybe next time, I'll just let you get sucked in then," the Doctor said sulking.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you. Rose would disintegrate you!" Lily said with a wink.
"Yeah, she probably would. She is extremely attached to you. I've never been able to figure out why for the life of me," the Doctor said with a small smile.
"Do they hate each other?" Allison whispered to Robin.
"Nay, Lady Allison. They seem to care about each other a great deal from what I have observed. This is just their unique way of showing it," Robin whispered back to her.
"Unique is one way of putting it. They both sound as mad as march hares!" Allison whispered back to him.
Robin could only grin at her. He couldn't entirely disagree with her statement, but he loved his Lady Lily exactly the way that she was madness and all!
Next: The Doctor joins Lily, Robin and Allison as they continue to investigate the cracks.