I Found A Little Blue Box

The Timelord

I blinked a few times to show my un-amusement.

"What the heck are you?" I asked. He stared back with a smug smile on his face. "This...'place' is bigger on the inside. How?"

He snapped back and began answering.

"This 'place' is called a TARDIS. That's T-A-R-D-I-S, stands for Time And Relative Dimension In Space. It's my Tardis, it wasn't always, but it is now."

"What are you?"

"I'm a time traveler!" he smiled.

"No."

"Yes!"

"Prove it!"

"I would... but I appear to be stuck on the edge of a time loop. I can't go forward or back in time, nor can I leave the atmosphere."

"Why a telephone box?"

"It's a disguise! The Tardis used to change form depending on the planet and time, but one day I got stuck. In the 1950's they had police boxes, and that was where I got stuck. It hasn't changed since."

"Wait, did you say planets?"

"Yes I do believe so!"

"Okay, you are downright mad. How much have you had?"

"You seem to have overlooked the fact that, you're in here too!"

I began to walk back out, I'd had enough of this nonsense. I had gotten all the way back to the control room till I noticed that he was still following me.

"Don't you have something better to be doing? What about what you were in the library for?" His smile fell. "Is something wrong?"

"No, no, nothing's wrong." He plastered a fake smile on his face. "I'm fine!"

I sat down on the nearby rail. "Seriously, what are you?"

He sighed, "I'm a Timelord."

"A what lord?"

"A Timelord, the last TimeLord actually... "

"The last?"

"There was a war, a time war. Between the TimeLords and a race called the Daleks. The war could have gone on forever, so a man had to make a choice. He ended the war, but destroyed both the Timelord and Dalek race in the process. I was the only survivor. Or so I thought... because soon after I came across a Dalek... and later the rest of the race... They didn't die in the Timewar..."

Then realization hit me, "You... You were the man?"

He nodded slowly. "But after that I swore never to fight again."

"What about your...thing?"

"Oh, this?" He pulled the object out of his jacket. "This is a sonic screwdriver, it doesn't kill, doesn't wound, doesn't mame. But it's very good at opening doors..."

"Its... a screwdriver?"

"A sonic screwdriver."

Okay then... what the heck!

"Sorry, what was your name?"

"Teaganne!" I reached out my hand. He shook it gently with a sad smile.

"Are you alright?"

He sighed and grinned. "I am fine!"

I got up and walked over to him.

"I'm a teenage girl, I know when guys are lying."

He hesitated. "I... had a friend. They would travel with me... but... I lost them."

"How?"

"She was sucked into a parallel dimension..."

"You were looking for information on parallel universes."

"What?"

"In the library."

"Oh, yes. How did you know?"

"I could hear you."

"Oh..."