TARDIS' Vacation

The numbing hum of the TARDIS filled the interior of the infamous time machine as The Doctor loomed over it's central control console. The usual sniff from The Doctor echoed as he pulled over the scanner with the free hand that wasn't resting in his pocket like his left hand. Nothing... The Doctor thought, "How could the universe be so boring?" he asked out loud. Peering back behind him, The Doctor immediately noticed the lack of companionship or at least a one off adventure lover. Up until now he hadn't noticed what it was like without having someone always there to offer up new excitement and ideas.

In his two thousand year life span, The Doctor had seen just about all there was to see, so the importance of a companion was as precious to him as his beloved sonic screwdriver. Without that friend to show him their excitement at seeing new things, The Doctor couldn't feel the joy in traveling. Even The Doctor could admit, he's been bored many times before. His mind traveled back to when he first began to wear the rainbow coat; quickly he shook his head, "Glad i burned that years ago" he mumbled.

Suddenly a slight thrust burst throughout the TARDIS; The Doctor quick to grab hold of the console to stop himself from toppling over. Looking around with now widened eyes, The Doctor flashed a baffled facial expression as he zoomed around the control console, "What was that? Sounded like it came from outside" he commented out loud. Dashing down the ramp, The Doctor flung open both doors. In front of him stood the rift at Cardiff, a normal day by the very definition, even more so when he stepped out and gazed around. "Could have swor-" The Doctor began to say before the sound of the engines turning on grabbed his attention. Spinning around, The Doctor flung his body forward, trying to grab the doors as his time machine began to dematerialize, but it was too late.

Falling onto the hard cement floor, The Doctor peered up, watching his TARDIS disappear before his eyes and enter the time vortex without him. Standing up, The Doctor immediately went for his sonic screwdriver. He felt nothing. The Doctor's eyes grew wide, "No no no" he hissed under his breath as he frantically searched every pocket he had. Still nothing. The Doctor ran his hand through his hair as he realized his mistake, "I left my sonic in my coat......" he mumbled, "There's no telling where it could be....it could be anywhere...blimey..nice going Doctor, ask for something not boring and the TARDIS ditches you".

Candalynne grumbled slightly in her sleep as she curled up on the soft, red sofa which circled her TARDIS' console. Theodora was still awake and she didn't have to sleep because she was just a conscience. She sensed something slowly approach the TARDIS she was attached to and she showed up camera footage of what was happening, the Doctor's TARDIS was approaching... but what surprised Theodora the most was, The Doctor wasn't inside it.

Before Theodora could speak and wake up Candalynne, a hard thrust woke up Candalynne and knocked her off the sofa, and the TARDIS began to lose control and travel on it's own while Theodora frantically tried to steer it. The Doctor's TARDIS had hit into Candalynne's.

Candalynne groaned and stood up carefully as she held onto her console, trying not to fall back down onto the hard floor of her TARDIS console room. "What the hell is going on?!" She said outloud and Theodora didn't answer as her conscience faded out of the console and went away to find a more manual way of piloting the TARDIS.

A few minutes later the thrusting stopped but it did a large thrust at the end, sending Candalynne backwards into her sofa. "Ow..." Candalynne grumbled Gallifreyan curse words under her breath as she slowly stood up, rubbing the back of her head, her fingers running through her red hair.

Theodora's conscience had returned into the console and she sighed softly. "We landed in Cardiff..." She said outloud for Candalynne to hear and Candalynne nodded in response: "Thanks, Theo." She murmured before stepping outside of her TARDIS and she opened her eyes to see a tall, skinny man talking to himself.

"There's no telling where it could be....it could be anywhere...blimey..nice going Doctor, ask for something not boring and the TARDIS ditches you."

Candalynne's grey eyes lightened in happiness to hear and see an old friend, even if he looked like an insane person talking to himself. She ran towards The Doctor but stopped in her tracks to hear screeching and she looked behind her to see through her TARDIS' doors that the lights had powered down and the entire TARDIS had broken down. "Oh no! Theodora!" She shouted at the top of her lungs, making anyone in hearing-distance hear her. She rushed towards her TARDIS. "Oh my... Theo..." She looked at the console and Theodora's conscience, which would normally be stood there, had gone.

The Doctor spun around on his heel, eyes still wide and mind still processing where his TARDIS had went. His eyes locked onto Candy, her back facing him as she bolted into her TARDIS, yelling words that blurred by the time they had reached The Doctor. "Candy?" He called out, and ran, to her, chasing her inside of her TARDIS, "What's wron-". Stopping, The Doctor's attention landed on the central time rotor that used to house the conscious of Theodora, the soul of Candy's TARDIS. Walking up next to Candy, The Doctor stared up at the empty time rotor, "Taking TARDIS' conscious and even the entire thing through time and space..now that takes fearsome power...impossible power. Power like that shouldn't even exist".

Walking around the controls, The Doctor attempted to try and reboot the controls but sadly to no avail. The time rotor simply dimmed down, lit back up then returned to it's previous lighting; The Doctor sighed, "Well it's not the power..it's the actual soul. It's Theodora...it's like she's been pulled away or...invited somewhere else". Looking over to Candy, The Doctor arched his eyebrow, "What happened? Before you landed here, what exactly happened? Did Theodora say anything to you to make you wonder? Think for a second something wasn't right?" he asked her, "I mean two TARDIS' just don't drop off their pilots at the same exact spot in time then jet off. Theodora should be here somewhere in the interior, she can't physically leave. It's impossible".

Candalynne looked to The Doctor, her eyes wide from processing her cousin had just been taken and even learning The Doctor's entire TARDIS had gone too made her mind blow. She circled her console and tried to get it to work too. "Oh Rassilon." She murmured under her breath in disbelief.

Candalynne looked over to The Doctor when he started asking questions. "Pulled away?" She whispered mostly to herself before shaking her head to bring herself back. "Well... my TARDIS rarely thrusts about, unlike yours, and Theodora complained about being unable to control the TARDIS, and it was only because your TARDIS came into contact with mine in the Time Vortex, but Theodora steered us to land on Earth in Cardiff, which is where we are right now." She explained with a couple of sighs of disbelief at what was going on.

"Two TARDIS' disappearing is definitely strange, but my TARDIS hasn't gone, but my cousin's conscience and soul has..." Candalynne looked down. "I can't lose my cousin again... not again." She looked up to The Doctor. "Everything you say that is impossible... is possible." She murmured. "I thought you hated the word impossible, well... your old incarnations did."

Candalynne's breath hitched as thoughts, terrible thoughts, on Theodora's possible whereabouts made her pupils begin to dilate and she began to have one of her episodes as her breathing staggered as she struggled to breathe and she looked around like a mad woman as hallucinations of her cousin being tortured or even killed began to show around the console room to Candalynne. "No no no no!" She held her head and screamed.

"Not impossible..just...highly unlikely" The Doctor replied, his attention still focused on the control console until Candy began to scream. Her words echoed through the hallowed out TARDIS, immediately catching The Doctor's attention but also the attention of a few people passing by. Dashing to the doors, The Doctor slammed both of them shut then turned to Candy, "Candalynne" he said out loud as he strode over to her, "I need you to listen..i need you to focus" he urged. Placing his hands on her shoulders, The Doctor bent over to become eye level with her, "There's no way we are going to find out TARDIS' if we're crying...i know it's hard but you need to listen to me. I need you to focus on specific details, everything you can think of you tell me...because we need to go shopping. Grab whatever you need out of here and quick, the longer we wait the less of a chance we have of getting them both back.".

Standing up straight, The Doctor looked back to the control console and walked back to it, his eyes dancing over the various parts and gadgets attached to it, "Now! We need to build a time vortex disruption detector...that goes ding..especially one that goes ding. I love things that go ding" he paused as he caught himself starting to ramble, "If we can find out where the fluctuation is in the space time continuum then maybe we have a chance of reaching in and pulling them back sort of speak. Lucky we landed in Cardiff...i have a friend here who might be able to help us out...although..i'd keep my eyes on him, kinky one he is. Might want to have a go at you when you're not looking. So! Anything around here we could use? Come on Candalynne, i know you took introspace dynamics in the academy".

Candalynne tried to breathe properly as The Doctor came to her and told her to keep calm. She sighed softly and shakily as she looked up into The Doctor's eyes, sadness filled her own at the sight of them, she forgot how old he was, she missed the young version of him from the Academy. Candalynne quickly went to a box underneath the console and brought out a necklace, it was golden and the chain was pure gold too, the symbols attached were in Gallifreyan, reading: "To my cousin. Love from Theo". She held it tightly in her grasp and kissed it gently.

She glanced up at The Doctor before quickly reaching into the box and she brought out a bracelet. "I remembered to give you this on the day you left, but you already left before I could give it to you, so here." She smiled weakly as she passed him the golden bracelet, the Gallifreyan symbols reading: "To my friend. Love from The Whisperer." She spoke out what it said with a soft smile on her face. "It's what a Human calls, a friendship bracelet." She grinned at The Doctor. "I handmade it myself. With my... f-father's help, of course." She chuckled lightly, rubbing her wrist before she quickly snapped back to the situation.

"Introspace Dynamics...." She muttered as she scratched her chin. "And this man... he doesn't happen to be Jack Harkness would it?" She smirked knowingly, having met the man in the future with his Torchwood crew when they were chasing a Weevil. "His flirting skills are... odd." She laughed lightly. "Well, from what I can remember from classes in the Academy... is erm... my memory is pretty bad... soooo..." She tapped her chin. "If I could open up the compartment of the TARDIS where I stored Theodora's soul, then maybe, we could see how she got out, there could be markings left behind if it was a teleporter."