Crossing Universes ~ Doctor Who

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It was a normal day, just a bland no good normal day. Athena sat on her couch typing quickly on her laptop trying to pass the time. She blew a piece of hair out of her face as she focused on writing. One of her cats lay next to her snuggled against her leg. While the other three were sprawled on the floor. She looked up at the clock huffing at the time, closing her laptop gently.

She climbs off her couch heading towards her kitchen. As she walked down the hall, the house started to shake and a whooshing sound erupted from behind her. She returned to her sitting room to see a big blue police box. She stares at it tears coming to her eyes, no it can't be. That is fiction, it can not be in her living room. The Doctor Type 40 tardis stood there in all her glory. Athena walks up to it slowly laying a hand on the sign on the door, it's real. Suddenly the door opens and out pops, holy shit, the eleventh doctor. He looks down at her, and she shakes her head quickly,

"No no no. I must be hallucinating." She mutters taking a step back.

"We must be in America!" he grins stepping out, "The question is when are we?"

"You can not be here Doctor!" Athena stutters before rambling, "Am I dying or did you fall through the void again? Which seems like a plausible answer, if you are real. Can I touch you to see if you are genuine? I mean I know you tend to have bad luck sometimes but dealing with crossing universes three whole times in a span of what three years? That's crazy even for you."

"What?" he looks at her closely examining her face, "how do you know about me"

"Shit, okay, this is gonna be a lot to handle... so you know how River is your future and she keeps a diary? Bare with me I promise this is an explanation" Athena gives her best reassuring smile shuffling on her feet, he stands up straight fiddling with his hands and nodding for her to continue,

"Well so this universe is River and our diary is a TV show. I know your recent past and close-ish future. I hold you so near to my heart, that I've memorized things about you. You can ask me anything and I can tell you, most likely in detail. Just don't ask the future, which I know you won't, anyways I am not fucking with your timeline any more than you being here probably already does."

"And I also know that you should not leave this house while you wait for the Tardis to gain energy again. I am assuming you are doing the same thing as you did in Pete's world. If you leave this house you will become noticed, you share the face of someone very famous. So before I continue to talk your head off, do you have any questions?"

"Er, I think you answered most of them for the situation we are in... though I can't say I am not curious to test your knowledge." he smiles leaning on the tardis, only to fall back through the door when it opened. Athena looked up to see Amy Pond standing behind the Doctor. Her mouth dropped to the floor as Amy looked at her and then to the doctor.

"Where are we, doctor?"

"Another universe, my new friend here was just telling me all about it." the doctor slings an arm over Athena immediately causing her to blush at the contact. Starstruck.

"Another universe?"

"Yeah, think of it as parallel to you not quite the same but running on the same path." Athena smiles at the other ginger, "For instance, one major difference to your home is that here you and the doctor are just a story."

"We are a story?" Amy looks at the doctor and he nods his arm still over Athena's shoulder, "Is it like a show? What do we look like? Can we watch it?"

"Yes, the same, and no." Athena answers before the doctor has the chance, "Watching the show has the potential of watching your timeline and future. I would have to have the doctor watch one from his past to be able to gauge how accurate it is. Even that is not a good idea, as for what you guys look like. You both look the same, not a single difference."