Crossing of my ways season 1 (Doctor Who fanfiction) #Wattys2016

Episode 8: Emona

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"... and he was gone."

"Alya, do you realize how many times you told us that story?" Patricia raised her eyebrow.

I sighted. The last time I counted I told it every day for a month. It was thirty times.

"I just wish that Doctor could hear it."

"Don't worry, he'll be here ... about now." Patricia was looking through the window. It was raining outside and she was waiting for her parents to pick her up because they were going to visit her cousins for the weekend.

William was sitting on the couch reading something while I just finished microwaving some popcorn.

Emily was at her friend's birthday party and mom and dad were on some fancy lunch.

I looked through the window and there it was, the police public call box from the 60's.

I ran to the door and when I opened it 10 was standing in front of me, his clothes wet since he didn't have an umbrella.

"Hey!" I greeted him and pulled him inside. I sat him down on couch next to William and ran upstairs to get a big towel for him.

"So, listen up," I said handing him a big blue soft towel, "you won't believe what happened a month ago."

Together we told him a story about cybermen and then I continued with the story about Nameless.

"He kept called me a time lord. And apparently he has a big book of spoilers about me."

"He really never mentioned his name?"

I shook my head.

"That's stranger than this planet where everyone speaks through their noses and smells through their mouth."

"That's a strange planet," Patricia agreed.

William prepared some tea for us while we talked and after that Doctor stood up.

"Let's go somewhere, what do you say?"

"Yeah," all three of us nodded in agreement.

We quickly ran to the TARDIS. Even though we were running we were soaking wet when we reached the dimensionally transcendental time machine.

"So where do you want to go?" he asked.

"Something Roman," Patricia suggested.

"Somewhere in Europe," William added.

"Emona," I finished.

"Where the hell is that?" Patricia asked.

"Roman city in Europe, as requested," I answered.

"Let's go there then," Pat nodded.

Doctor grinned, started pressing buttons and said: "Allons-y!"

TARDIS neatly landed. We walked out of the blue box.

"This would be time to quote some sayings in Latin," I grinned. "Like Alea iacta est."

"What does that even mean and how do you know sayings in Latin?" Patricia, as always, had the right question prepared.

"The die is cast," I answered and shrugged, "I got interested in Latin because of Supernatural."

Patricia nodded, getting what she wanted and turned to the Doctor. She asked if we could look around and after the Doctor nodded we decided to walk to the next street.

"So," I said, looking at my friends, "what shall we do?"

"I have no idea," the ginger one frowned.

"I thought it would be funnier," sadly added William.

We silently walked when I accidentally bumped into someone. I looked up and just blankly starred at the man in a bowtie standing in front of me.

"Hello, kids!" 11th Doctor exclaimed. "What are you doing here?" he asked afterwards.

"I'd ask you the same," I replied.

"I'm here with the Ponds."

"We're here with you."

"Then come on, I'll introduce you to Amy and Rory."

And this is how we followed 11 to his TARDIS, placed on the other side of the city.

"I don't know where he is." I heard somebody say.

"Neither do I. I certainly haven't told him to just walk away, who knows in what kind of shenanigans he got himself this time."

"Sometimes," I said, recognizing the couple, "He just gets to meet people he travelled with in the past. My name's Alya Collins, by the way."

"Doctor," Amy said, looking at the time lord, "Who are they?"

"As Alya said, they travelled with me in the past. The other two are Patricia and William."

"We're from 2017," Patricia added.

"Hey, Doctor, does Nameless reveals his name to me in the future?"

Doctor shook his head.

"Oh," I said sadly. I really wanted to know who the man with no name was.

"And even if he did, you'd be mad if I told you because you hate spoilers and paradoxes and fixed points."

I nodded. The future Doctor knew me much better than 10, who only met me a month ago in my time stream.

"Does anything thrilling happen here?" William asked.

"Not at all," Doctor shrugged. "I got pretty bored waiting for you this day."

"By which you mean you flirted with a ginger?" younger of redheads asked, giggling.

"No." Doctor crossed his arms.

I looked at my friends. "I think we should be going. If 11 is right and 10 is bored right now, I'd rather go somewhere else."

"Agree," William said.

I turned to 11. "Vale undecim," I winked and walked behind Pat and Will.

"Stop saying things in Latin at me!" Doctor exclaimed behind me.

I pretended I haven't heard him.

When we reached 10's TARDIS we noticed Doctor sitting next to it and reading.

"Don't bother with me, I'm just dying of boredom," Doctor said.

"Come on, Doc," William said, pulling him on his feet, "let's explore another thing in this universe before we all die of boredom."

"Yeah, let's do that!" I agreed. "I'm flying!"

"I'm flying too!"

"There's place for six drivers anyway," I shrugged as we walked inside the TARDIS.

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It sounds like a filling chapter but it's just a prelude to the  two-parter mid-season finale coming in the following 2 weeks.

EDIT: actually, after reading this again it turns out it's a filler.

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V. T. Holmes