All the Time in the World - The Doctor {2}

Born Again

The Doctor dashed to the console and flicks a few switches, checking the monitor. "6 PM . . . Tuesday . . ." The Doctor said. Jennifer watching, half concealed by a pillar. The Doctor turned a knob. "October . . . 5006 . . . On the way to Barcelona!" The Doctor said. The Doctor straightens up and faces Jennifer, grinning as if extremely pleased with himself.

"Now then . . . what do I look like?" The Doctor asked. Jennifer was about to say something but The Doctor holding up a hand to silence her. "No, no no, no no no no no no no. No. Don't tell me," The Doctor said. Jennifer looked at him, a bit scared. "Let's see . . . two legs, two arms, two hands . . ." The Doctor said. The Doctor tested his wrist, circling it. "Slight weakness in the dorsal tubercle," The Doctor said. He put his hands in his head.

"Hair! I'm not bald!" The Doctor said. Jennifer looked shocked. The Doctor runed his hands through his hair gleefully. "Oh, Oh! Big hair! Or really bad skin. Little bit thinner . . ." The Doctor said. The Doctor slapped his stomach. "That's weird. Give me time, I'll get used to it. I . . . have got . . . a mole. I can feel it," The Doctor said.

Jennifer is breathing heavily. She looked a bit scared from The new Doctor. The Doctor seems not to notice. "Between my shoulder blades, there's a mole. That's all right. Love the mole," The Doctor said. He smiled at Jennifer. "Go on then, tell me," The Doctor said. The Doctor stands straight up before Jennifer, ready for assessment. His hair is all ruffled. "What do you think?" The Doctor asked.

Jennifer looked at The Doctor scared. "Who are you?" Jennifer asked. Don't won't to believe it's The Doctor. The Doctor looked a bit surprised. "I'm The Doctor," The Doctor said. Jennifer shook her head, still don't won't to believe. "No . . . Where is he?" Jennifer asked. "You saw me, I, I changed . . . Right in front of you," The Doctor said. "You replaced him, like a . . . A teleport or a transmat or a body swap or something," Jennifer said. The Doctor didn't say nothing, he just looked at her. "Send him back. I'm warning you; send The Doctor back right now!" Jennifer said.

"Jennifer, it's me," The Doctor said softly. He leans forward in his urgency to make her believe him. "Honestly, it's me," The Doctor said. Jennifer started at The Doctor. "I was dying. To save my own life I changed my body. Every single cell, but . . . it's still me," The Doctor said. Jennifer didn't want to believe that he is the man she loved. "You can't be," Jennifer whispered.

The Doctor takes a few steps closer to Jennifer, looking straight down into her eyes. "Then how could I remember this? Very first word I ever said to you. Trapped in that cellar. Surrounded by shop window dummies . . . Oh . . ." The Doctor said. The Doctor looked away for a moment, reminiscing. Then he looked back into Jennifer's eyes. "Such a long time ago. I took your hand . . ." The Doctor said. He took Jennifer's hand. Just like he did when Jennifer first asked who he was. Jennifer glances briefly down at their joint hands and then back up at The Doctor's face.

"I said one word . . . Just one word, I said - Run," The Doctor said. He gazes at her. Jennifer looked into his eyes, her own full of tears. "Doctor," Jennifer whispered. The Doctor grinned. "Hello," The Doctor said gently. The Doctor takes off around the other side of the console. Jennifer looked at The Doctor still a bit scared.

"And we never stopped, did we? All across the universe. Running, running, running . . ." The Doctor said. He Flick a few switches on the console. "One time we had to hop. Do you remember? Hopping for our lives," The Doctor said. He hops madly up and down on the spot. Jennifer has her back against the pillar and she's just watching him. "Yeah? All that hopping? Remember hopping for your life? Yeah?! Hop? With the . . ." The Doctor said. The wild enthusiasm ebbs from his voice at Jennifer's lack of reaction. His hopping subsides.

"No?" The Doctor said. "Can you change back?" Jennifer asked. "Do you want me to?" The Doctor asked. "Yeah," Jennifer said. "Oh," The Doctor said. "Can you?" Jennifer asked. "No," The Doctor said. He seems rather disappointed. He glances briefly down at the floor and then back at Jennifer. "Do you want to leave?" The Doctor asked. Jennifer looked shocked. "Do you want me to leave?" Jennifer asked. "No!" The Doctor said quickly. "But . . . Your choice . . . If you want to go home . . ." The Doctor said.

Jennifer still looked upset. The Doctor walked over to the console again. "Cancel Barcelona. Change to . . . London ... The Powell Estate . . . Ah . . . Let's say the 24th of December," The Doctor said. He looked at Jennifer. "Consider it a Christmas present," The Doctor said. Jennifer is edging slowly closer the console. Jennifer looked at him, then at the console. The TARDIS shudders as it changes direction.

"I'm going home?" Jennifer asked. "Up to you. Back to your mom and sister . . . It's all waiting. Fish and chips, sausage and mash, beans on toast . . . No, Christmas! Turkey! Although ... Having met your mother . . . Nut loaf would be more appropriate," The Doctor said. Jennifer looked down quickly, to hide a smile. "Was that a smile?" The Doctor asked. "No," Jennifer said. "That was a smile . . ." The Doctor said with a smile. "No it wasn't," Jennifer said. "You smiled . . ." The Doctor said with a smile.

The Doctor suddenly gags as the TARDIS shudders. Jennifer looked at The Doctor. The same thing happens again, more violently. He makes nasty retching noises. "Uh oh," The Doctor said. Jennifer edges cautiously around the console.

"You alright?" Jennifer asked. A piece of gold issues from the Doctor's mouth. "What's that?" Jennifer asked. "Oh . . . The change is going a bit wrong and all," The Doctor said. He gags again. He falls to his knees, his face contorted. "Maybe we should go back. Let's go and find Captain Jack, he'd know what to do," Jennifer said. "Gah, he's busy! He's got plenty to do rebuilding the Earth!" The Doctor said.

A lever on the console suddenly catches his eye. "I haven't used this one in years," The Doctor said. He flicks it. The TARDIS shudders violently and they are both nearly knocked to their feet. "What're you doing?!" Jennifer asked. "Putting on a bit of speed! That's it!" The Doctor said. He turns more knobs while Jennifer tries to maintain a more secure grip on the console.

"My beautiful ship! Come on, faster! That's a girl!" The Doctor said. Jennifer looked scared. The Doctor looked and sounds violent, crazed. "Faster! Wanna to break the time limit?!" The Doctor said. "Stop it!" Jennifer yelled. "Ah, don't be so dull . . . let's have a bit of fun! Let's rip through that vortex!" The Doctor said.

The Doctor catches her eye for a moment. "The regeneration's going wrong. I can't stop myself," The Doctor said clomy. The Doctor grimaces in pain. "Ah, my head . . . Faster! Let's open those engines!" The Doctor said. A bell rings. Jennifer looked around, scared. "What's that?" Jennifer asked. The Doctor's face appears next to Jennifer.

"We're gonna crash land!" The Doctor said with a smile. He laughs manically. "Well then, do something!" Jennifer shouting over the sound of the bell. "Too late! Out of control!" The Doctor said. The Doctor ran around the console, giggling. "Oh, I love it! Hot dawg!" The Doctor said. The Doctor hops in the air excitedly. "You're gonna kill us!" Jennifer said. "Hold on tight, here we go!" The Doctor said. Their eyes meet across the console, The Doctor grinning madly, Jennifer looking scared.

"Christmas Eve."