𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒔 ☆ The Glorious Series ｟ BOOK 1 ｠

The Doctor's Wife [Part 2]

Outside, Planet surface, Night...

The Doctor opened the door of the TARDIS and stepped out followed by Lexi, Sky, Amy and Rory.

It looked like the surface was cluttered with rusting spaceships of various sizes.

"So what kind of trouble's your friend in?" Amy asked as everyone began to look around at their surroundings.

"He was in a bind, a bit of a pickle, sort of distressed." The Doctor explained.

"Aw, you can't just say you don't know?" Lexi smiled at him.

"So this is a scrap yard at the end of the universe?" Sky asked as he examined a random piece of metal.

"Not end of, outside of." The Doctor corrected.

"How can we be outside the universe?" Rory questioned. "The universe is everything."

The Doctor put an arm around Rory's shoulders as he tried to explain. "Imagine a great big bubble with one of those tiny little bubbles on the outside."

"Okay." He nodded.

"Well, it's nothing like that." The Doctor then rested a hand on the TARDIS. "Completely drained, look at her."

"So it's like we're in a tiny bubble universe that's sticking to the side of the bigger bubble universe?" Lexi asked, shaking her head as she tried to make sense of things.

"Yeah...No. But if it helps, yes." The Doctor replied. "This place is full of rift energy. She'll probably refuel just by being here. Now this place, what do we think, eh?" He threw some dirt into the air. "Gravity's almost earth-normal, air's breathable, but it smells like..."

"Armpits." Amy offered.

"Armpits." The Doctor nodded.

"Where did all this stuff come from?" Sky asked, gesturing at everything that surrounded them.

"There's a rift." The Doctor explained. "Now and then, stuff gets sucked through it. Not a bubble, a plug hole. The universe has a plug hole and we've fallen down it."

"Thief! Thief! You're my thief!" A woman shouted as she suddenly came running towards the Doctor.

"She's dangerous!" An older woman exclaimed as she and an older man walked behind the other woman as she ran. "Guard yourselves!"

"Look at you! Goodbye! No, not goodbye, what's the other one?" The woman grinned as she came up to the Doctor, grabbing both sides of his face and pulling him in for a kiss.

Lexi's eyes widened, her mouth agape.

"Watch out!" The older man warned. "Careful, keep back from her!" He and the older woman pulled the crazy mad lady off the Doctor. "Welcome, strangers, lovely. Sorry about the mad person."

"Why am I a thief?" The Doctor questioned. "What have I stolen?"

"Me." The woman answered. "You're going to steal me. No, you have stolen me. You are stealing me. Tenses are difficult, aren't they?"

"Oh, we are sorry, my dove. She's off her head." The older woman apologized, shaking the Doctor's hand. "They call me Auntie."

"I'm Uncle." The older man introduced himself. "I'm everybody's uncle. Just keep back from this one, she bites!"

"Do I? Excellent." The woman said before biting the Doctor's neck.

"Ow!" The Doctor exclaimed. "No, ow, ow!"

"Oh, biting's excellent!" The woman exclaimed as Auntie and Uncle pulled her away from the Doctor. "It's like kissing, only there's a winner!"

"Listen, lady..." Lexi said, taking a step forward. "I don't know who you are, but--"