I Found A Little Blue Box

Fall Into Space

TEAGANNE

He showed me back to the door and we stepped outside.

"Now, let's see... Judging by the clothes your wearing, and the size of that city," He looked in the direction of downtown. "I would say it's about 2018?"

"You could have just asked me..."

"But where's the fun in that, eh?" He shot me a cheeky grin. He began to go back inside the Tardis. Silently, I followed him.

He trailed down back to the library, but I was more interested in the console. I glided my fingertips over the many wheels and levers and gears. Each were differently foreign. Lastly I came to a crank. and my curiosity couldn't hold back any longer. A gave it a slight push, and immediately the whole Tardis was filled with a strange grinding noise, as though someone had left the brakes on.

"Woah, woah, woah! What are you doing?!" 'The Doctor' came running in, his coat tails flailing wildly behind him.

"I hardly tapped it!"

"Didn't your mother ever tell you not to touch alien technology!"

He went to work, flipping levers and pressing buttons, all the while running around with a very shocked look on his face. He checked his screen for what seemed like the billionth time, and he stopped.

"What is it?"

He pulled a pair of brown tortoiseshell glasses out if his pocket and slid them on the bridge of his nose.

"We moved."

"What do you mean, we moved? Moved where?"

"You unstuck the time loop." He slowly lifted up his head. "How did you do that!"

"Where are we?"

He pointed to the doors. I quickly walked to them and flung then open. We were in space. I shrieked and gave the Doctor an alarming look, he smiled back seemingly satisfied.

"Were in space..."

"Oh yes."

"I'm... looking at real time space!"

"Oh yes!"

But then every single science class if my childhood smacked me in the face. "Impossible, there's no air in space, therefore this is impossible."

"Force field. Stretches about... ooh... a metre out from the Tardis?" He joined me at the door and leaned on the doorframe. "Almost nothing can get through that."

"Almost?"

He avoided the question, went back to the console and started running around again.

"Now," He flipped a lever with a big swing of his arm. "Lets get you home!"

He leaned into another switch, and it made that sound again.

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I stood back out on the sidewalk, staring at the little blue box that held the entire universe inside, along with a broken man that knows time itself. I can't just leave him all alone...

"Forget me, Teaganne." He have me a stern look. "Never tell anyone about this, it will just get you trouble." He began to walk back inside the blue door.

"Wait!" He turned to look at me. "Your friend... What was her name?"

A tear rested in the corner of his brown eyes, I could see it glittering in the afternoon sun. He whispered horesly, "Her name was Rose."

Rose... Rose... I know that name... how?