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Post by The Second Doctor on Jul 2, 2011 4:20:54 GMT -5
"You probably hear this a lot but it's bigger in the inside."
Alec smiled. Every guest he'd ever had had some comment about the size.
"All the time. And this isn't all. Hundreds of rooms and floors, heck, even I don't know of some."
"So what's your name?"
Alec shook her hand.
"Alec Harrison. Well, that's my adopted name. I have two others, but those are a bit complicated." he stated.
And they were. Dark Lord, the name he had coined from a crying out-loud war always made people think he was a villain or something. His Timelord name was unpronounceable to humans.
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Post by Ellie Barnes on Jul 2, 2011 12:06:56 GMT -5
Ellie smiled and looked around. God she wished she didn't look like a diseased rat. She walked over to the console again and looked at all the buttons.
"So now that I'm in your... Tardis," said Ellie, "If I am an alien are you going to bring me back to my home planet. I could find out why I don't have parents. Maybe yell at them and tell them what an awful life I've had."
She then had an amazing idea, she turned to Alec with a smile, "When you showed me that planet with the red grasses it was so... beautiful. Could we go there?"
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Post by The Second Doctor on Jul 2, 2011 14:54:57 GMT -5
"So now that I'm in your... Tardis. If I am an alien are you going to bring me back to my home planet. I could find out why I don't have parents. Maybe yell at them and tell them what an awful life I've had."
Alec stared into space, trying to find the right words.
"Not...exactly. It's just that-"
Before he could finish, she had another question.
"When you showed me that planet with the red grasses it was so... beautiful. Could we go there?"
Even more complicated.
"One answer to two questions," he answered, "It's a difficult answer, though."
He sighed.
"There was a man. A man not all too different from me. Different, though. He locked all of us into a time lock. They were locked in war, and still are. I managed to get out by a rift, but the rest..." his voice trailed off.
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Post by Ellie Barnes on Jul 2, 2011 15:36:50 GMT -5
Ellie looked at the sadness in his eyes and frowned. That was sad that he could never go home, that he could never see his family again. She subconsciously held his hand and smiled to show she cared.
"I'm sorry," She said, "But maybe... you could go back to when the time lock was about to be started and... stop it. You could go back to when the man was born and put him somewhere else or make sure he was never born. I could help. With your... adventures."
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Post by The Second Doctor on Jul 2, 2011 16:08:39 GMT -5
Alec smiled back softly. Then sighed, taking his hand off of hers and over to the console. Now to another complicated explanation.
"Some points in time are fixed. They cannot be undone. The destruction of Galifrey is one of those points. If I could undo it, I would've already." he said grimly.
This conversation was beginning to go bad, he was eager to change the subject.
"Speaking of adventure...have you ever been to another planet?" he asked.
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Post by Ellie Barnes on Jul 2, 2011 16:30:11 GMT -5
Ellie knew he didn't want to talk about his planet anymore so now to talk about planets. She wondered if the planets on the tv shows like Star Trek and Stargate were real. It would be awesome to meet a Vulcan.
"Only in my mind," said Ellie, "I've always wondered what other planets looked like or what aliens they were." She looked down at her clothes and back at Alec, "Is it alright if I go make myself more representable? I really could use a shower and maybe a new outfit."
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Post by The Second Doctor on Jul 2, 2011 19:42:46 GMT -5
Alec nodded. Pointing to a metal spiral staircase, he said:
"Bathroom is that way. Right for guys, left for ladies, straight forward for...others. Before asking why I don't just have one, consider that in six hundred years of living how many parties I've thrown. Built in wardrobes, just pick an era." he said.
How long ago was his last party? Fifty years? When you'd lived as long as he had, time ran together, ironically.
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Post by Ellie Barnes on Jul 2, 2011 22:35:18 GMT -5
Ellie nodded and went to the bathrooms. She stripped, locked the door just in case, took a long hot shower that she really needed and straightened her hair. After she found a cute purple bathrobe, she went to the wardrobe and almost fainted at all the clothes. She took an hour to choose and change into a black sleeveless high collared shirt, blue jeans and brown boots with heels.
Ellie came back to the main room and smiled at her new self. She didn't even looked seventeen years old or like the same person.
"How do I look?" She asked.
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Post by The Second Doctor on Jul 3, 2011 0:03:31 GMT -5
Alec began fiddling at the controls while Ellie was freshening up. He wasn't sure where to go, or when. There were many choices, obviously, and he wasn't sure what kind of place she would like. He took out a sheet of paper and jotted down the words "Where do you want to go?" quickly. But there was a catch. It was written in old high Galifreyan. The Tardis would translate any language, but the makers of the Tardis made a safety measure during the war. They permanentely wiped Old High Galifreyan from the translater. That way, if a Tardis was stolen, there would still be a language that their enemies would not know. Atleast, that's why
Alec reasoned they did it.
However, the Timelords, being the pretentious bunch they were, still knew that special language from birth. The language was practically in their DNA. Ellie could read it if she was even partially Galifreyan.
After thinking this through, he had enough time to create a "Red Setting" on his sonic, eat a sandwich, and straighten his hat before Ellie was back.
Coming back from the wardrobe room-thing, she looked a lot better than before, and healthier than earlier.
"How do I look?"
Alec, who had been standing at the console all this time (minus for the sandwich,) turned and gave Ellie a thumbs up before spinning on his heel and retrieving the paper. Holding it out, he pointed at it.
"Can you read this?"
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Post by Ellie Barnes on Jul 3, 2011 0:41:01 GMT -5
Ellie walked over and took the paper. It was just a paper about where she wanted to go. She looked at him and wondered if this was a trick.
"Yes. This says, where do I want to go. Or is this a trick?" said Ellie, she handed the paper back, "I don't really know. I can't choose between the past or the future. There are so many things." Ellie than got an excited look on her face, "Can we go and meet my children in the future?"
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Post by The Second Doctor on Jul 3, 2011 0:50:51 GMT -5
Alec grinned mentally, though on the outside remained with a calm grin.
"Nope, no trick. I just like writing things. Moving on-" he quickly crinkled up the paper and tossed it in a waste basket.
He opened a cabinet underneath the console and retrieved an apple, biting into it.
"Can we go and meet my children in the future?"
Alec stopped eating the apple momentarily and shook his head.
"I'm afraid not. An idiot name Blinovitch discovered that if you interact with yourself, which interacting with your children will surely bring, either one of you will contract amnesia or explode. I learned that the hard way." he said.
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Post by Ellie Barnes on Jul 3, 2011 1:02:10 GMT -5
"Explode? Really? Well we wouldn't want that," said Ellie as she walked to the console, "How about we go... a thousand years in the future? Maybe see London when they've invented cloning."
She wondered why Alec had her read the note. It was just a note right? Maybe it was a test. Or he was just playing with her. She also wondered what type of alien she was. Wow... an alien and she thought she was human. She shivvered a bit because of her fear about what alien she was. What if her parents were evil or... killed humans and sent her there because they didn't want her.
Ellie just hoped that she could meet her parents and asked them why they gave her up.
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Post by The Second Doctor on Jul 3, 2011 1:13:07 GMT -5
"Explode? Really? Well we wouldn't want that,"
Alec grinned.
"As much as I like explosions, that would not be a good thing."
"How about we go... a thousand years in the future? Maybe see London when they've invented cloning."
Alec raised an eyebrow.
"Clones aren't until-" he cut himself off, "Nevermind."
He pulled a few levers, spun a few gears planted firmly on axles, and the Tardis was off.
"Thousand years it is." he agreed.
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Post by Ellie Barnes on Jul 3, 2011 1:25:15 GMT -5
The Tardis shook and Ellie held onto the console. She was a bit scared that it was going to explode. And the whizzing sound it made was a bit loud. She looked at Alec, wondering if he was scared but he was smiling. When the Tardis did stop Ellie fell to the ground but got up, perfectly fine. Were they really in the future?
She walked over to the doors and opened them to see... that they were what looked like the normal streets of London. She turned to Alec and smiled.
"That was a funny story about how I'm an alien," She said, she pointed outside, "It's normal England. Nothing futuristic."
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Post by The Second Doctor on Jul 3, 2011 9:49:19 GMT -5
Alec grinned.
"Look again."
He pointed at one of the people walking by. On passing glance, they looked the same. But looking closely, you could see the person was talking into a circular machine, and that out of it sprang the transparent figure of another human.
"Ah, holograms. That thing is an antique by now." he assured her.
He pointed at a bill-board...that wasn't a bill-board. Completely holographic, a video played on loop. Cars were in fact hovering over the ground. Alec jerked his thumb at a person who touched a button on their watch and teleported.
"Welcome to the future."
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