The Story of Emily Evans

IX: Another Meeting

"E-Emily...?" He asked me, somehow knowing my name even though I've never met him before. "H-how-...?"

"How do you know my name...?" I suddenly asked him, interrupting whatever he was about to say. "Who are you...?!"

"Come on, you know me." He told me, as if it was obvious as to who he was.

"No, I don't...!" I quickly told him, matter of factly.

"Yes you do, I'm the Doctor...!" He told me as he introduced himself, kind of.

H-how...? I asked myself, my thoughts swirled together so much I could barely keep them straight. He isn't the Doctor.... How could he be...? He looks nothing like the Doctor. "You look nothing like him, stop lying...!"

"I'm not lying about this." He told me, his voice calm.

"Then tell me something only he'd know." I told him, a small smirk on my face. Although...I thought. There isn't much that I know about him. I know he's an alien, has a Time Machine and travels all over time and space.... That's about it.... Oh...he's a complete stranger to me...! I internally freaked out, a bit slightly.

I looked at the imposter as he seemed to be thinking about what to say. "The first time you saw the Tardis, you called it impressive...just impressive, as if it were a question."

"That's not all I said...." I told him, in a matter of factly voice one again.

"Then you asked if it was alien technology, which it is but I never quite answered that question when you asked it." He responded, quite calmly.

"Fine...you know that but...." I questioned as I looked at his appearance, I even walked in a circle around him. "You don't look like him...."

"By now, you should've learned that I'm an alien. My species has a way to say...cheat death." He told me. "It also changes up my appearance and personality a bit."

"I can tell...." I told him as I looked at him. He looked completely different, sounded different...even carried himself in a different manner. More...more carefree, at least it seemed. Why did I seem a bit not freaked out by what he was saying...? His species can cheat death, he just said. How...? How can that even be possible...? However, I just seemed to brush him off.

"What else...what have we done...?" He then asked me, only for me to be a bit more confused at his words. "Sometimes, I meet people in the wrong order. I am a time traveler, as are you."

"Killer plastics in London, the Chicxulub impactor, and then you landed on a space station, at least you had called it a space station, but you told me to change my clothes before leaving the Tardis." I then glared at him, a seemingly murderous glare. "You called my clothes boring, boring...! You said they were boring even for the 21st century!"

"And look at them now...!" He told me. "It seems as though you're finding your style...!"

I crossed my arms, "no thanks to you."

There was suddenly another knock on the outside of the Tardis's doors. However, seeing as how they were wide open, I could see the girl which knocked on them. She had this deep coppery brown hair, her eyes were a sterling silver...she looked about four or so years older than myself. Who is she...? I found myself asking, yet I felt this familiarity with her...like I did this version of the Doctor...even though I'd never met her before.

"Sorry to interrupt but...." This coppery haired girl stated, her accent didn't sound British at all, unlike mine, it sounded a bit French. Was she from France...? "Is everything alright in here, Doctor...?" She spoke to the Doctor, so she obviously knew him and he her.

"Oh, yeah...." The Doctor stated towards this new girl. "Sorry, I forgot you were out there...but only for a second."

"What do you mean you forgot about me...?!" The girl told him, hands on her hips, as she walked into the Tardis. She then took a look around before her eyes landed on mine. Her face looked a bit sad before it seemed to lighten up, if only briefly, as she had to tear her gaze from my own.

Suddenly, a dinging sounded out from within the Tardis, a low sounding bell tolled. The Doctor checked something on the console before he looked back up at me and the other girl. "It doesn't like...me being in here." Was all he had said, yet I knew there was something else to it...the way he said it as he looked at both me and this other girl.

"Right, we should leave...figure this out before-" The copper haired girl started to speak before she was cut off, the Tardis seemed to cut us off as it started to dematerialize around us. "Right...that...."

The three of us were now in the forest, luckily, the Tardis didn't just leave us altogether as it reappeared a couple feet away from us. However, it's doors were shut. No...! I internally screamed as I ran up towards the doors and tried to open them, they were locked...and I didn't have a key. "No...! This can't be happening...." I said just under my voice as I internally freaked out. Then, and only then did I realize that there was this other Doctor and girl here with me. My face seemed to go pale before I realized something.

I looked at this other Doctor. "Do you think you could...?" I didn't finish my sentence but he seemed to know what I was asking.

"Do you not have a key yet...?" He asked me as he came over towards me and the Tardis I had arrived in.

"No...." I told him. "Can you...?"

"I probably shouldn't...." He told me. "It reacted to the three of us being in there like that, so I don't know how it'd react to us trying to enter again."

"It reacted...?" I asked him, a bit confused. "Are you saying that it's alive...?"

"It is." The copper haired girl told me. "Not like you or I but...it does have it's own conscious, even it's own emotions, feelings. Think of it like this: the energy flowing through its wires is like the blood in our veins, its engine...its heart. It's alive in every sense of the word: a beautiful, wonderful, sentient, mechanical, work of art."

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