SuperWhoLock Chronicles: Book 1: Who

Chapter VI: In the TARDIS

As soon as they got back into the TARDIS, Johanna went into a form of shock. She stood up against the back railing and stared off into space looking like a corpse. The Doctor went over to her and leaned on the rail next to her.

He looked at Johanna and then looked down. "Listen, I understand if you want to go home," he stated with sadness in his voice.

Johanna still had her eyes fixed on nothing when she responded with, "Why? Do you want me to leave?"

"No, no, no," he quickly replied finally looking up. "By all means no. I'd like you here as long as I can. I was just wondering because that last visit got a bit... too much."

"I don't ever want to leave you, Doctor," she said.

"Don't ever say that because you know you have to at some point!" he raised his voice getting just a bit upset.

Johanna nodded. "Okay," she concluded.

"I just thought you wanted to leave me because of what you encountered," he explained looking down some.

"I'm trying to push that out of my mind," she told him. "But I know that that will never happen with you, so I haven't anything to worry about."

The Doctor smiled and looked at the console for his ship. "Where do you want to go now?"

Johanna shrugged. She then looked at the Doctor and scrunched her eyebrows together. "Why did we show up there in the first place?" she wondered.

"I'm not sure." he answered. "I got brought there the first time because Amy believed in me too much. I'm not sure exactly how much you believe in me."

"Well, seeing that my belief in you kept me going everyday for the past ten years, I'd say I believe in you a lot," Johanna replied. "You told me to never stop believing in you so I could see you again, and I did." The Doctor side hugged Johanna and smiled. "What about you, Doctor? What do you believe in?"

The Doctor looked at her and then looked away. "Nothing really," he responded. "It's just... oh, nevermind."

"Doctor, tell me," Johanna insisted. "You can tell me anything."

"There was this woman," he started off by saying. Then he paused to sigh. "We used to travel together. She... she... she was the only person I truly felt like I... so I believe in her. I believe that she'll come back and she'll see me again and all will be well."

Johanna didn't know how to respond to that. She put pieces of the puzzle together and asked, "Was she that girl at the hotel?"

"No," he said almost immediately. "That was this other girl named Amy. I'm talking about... Rose," he said her name in almost a whisper. He then closed his eyes and sighed. "Everything I love has to die, Johanna. I don't know why, it just does. Everything that I have even the slightest liking to, has to die. I'm surprised you've been around for this long."

Johanna quickly looked at him. "Are you saying that I'm going to die?" she wondered with concern.

The Doctor shrugged. "Everyone dies, Johanna, you just don't know when," he told her.

Johanna nodded in agreement. It was then that she remembered something. Just a little tidbit about herself. "You know, I had an imaginary friend named Rose?" she asked. "She was averaged height and blonde, really pretty. Sometimes I believed I actually saw her and talked to her. I told her about you, and I pretended that she knew you. Funny how you remember things at random times."

The Doctor shot Johanna a weird look. Almost a look of concern. He decided to pass this little thing by. He then pushed off the railing and walked over to the console. He put in someone numbers and off they went.

"Where are we going?" Johanna asked.

"We are going to the infamous time of London in 1888," he replied.

"Why? Is there something amazing there?" Johanna questioned with full attention.

The Doctor shrugged. "I have no clue, but we shall find out," he said pulling the lever that ignites the engine. Off they flew far into the time of place.