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A/N: I AM BACK! Just finish my exam, and I haven't got any wink of sleep but that's okay. Because I should be sleeping. But that's not the point! I just updated a new chapter and here we are even if I'm tired and I skate after the exam and sort of dooze off while skating thus made me slip and fall but I do have time for updating a new chapter! I am not making sense because I am sleep deprived.
Good night! I mean, enjoy the story!
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Moments after they first stepped inside, the Doctor opened the door and Sam all but stumbled in after him. The TARDIS hummed softly in greeting, dimming the lights slightly as if she knew about the Doctor feeling of anger and the painful screaming that echoed in his head. Exhaling a deep breath, the Doctor proceed to go inside.
"Right then," the Doctor said as he ran up the ramp to the console. "Sam Piper, we're going to the library. Not just a library, but the planet library and I can guarantee you that we're going to be there for a while to find a book for you to read. Of course the TARDIS has a library but with your idea of not liking reading, probably going to the planet library will change your mind."
Sam felt a rush of excitement, it wasn't as if he doesn't like reading but he doesn't have the ability to sit still and finished a book on time without he forgets about it and abandoned it; he wasn't really a fast reader, he was the slow reader who made a bit mistake on reading the words. But the idea visiting the planet library for him was exciting, until he felt his exhaustion return full-force. He tried to stifle a yawn, but he wasn't fast enough to hide it from the Doctor.
The Time Lord gave him an evaluating glance, expression softening as he took in how exhausted the boy looked. "On second thought, maybe you should get some sleep first.
"I'm fine." he lied as he fought to keep his expression awake.
"Sam, if you haven't already noticed, there tends to be a lot of running in my life. I'll need you awake for that." the Doctor told him, he saw the boy hesitated. "It's not like we're going to be late for anything. This is a time machine, remember? In two seconds, I can have us having lunch with Winston Churchill."
"Can we really have a lunch with Winston Churchill?" Sam asked.
"Oh yes, of course." the Doctor said with a smug tone. "He's an old friend of mine and I did owe him a lunch together, although I forgot where and when. Need to remembered that again, so I won't land on the wrong time line and muck it about, maybe I need to go as soon as possible to try avoid a paradox by meeting myself."
"Can go there now? Don't want to make any messy mess in time, after all."
"After you got your little human sleeps." the Doctor declared. He was amused as the boy groaned in disappointment his little plan didn't work. "I know what you're trying to do, leading me on and trying to make me forget about the rest you need."
"But I'm not tired." Sam whined.
"Nice try Mr. Piper but I saw that little stifle yawn you tried to hide," the Doctor scolded. He folded his arms and stood in front of the console. "Besides, we had a long day today and it's best for you to rest."
The boy finally caved. "Alright. What about you?"
"Superior Time Lord biology," the Doctor boasted. "I don't need as much sleeps as humans. I'll just throw us in the Time Vortex for the night."
With that, he turned and bounced over to the console in the centre of the room. He started circling around the console, throwing up switches, spinning dials, and pressing buttons at a whirlwind speed. It was an odd dance to be sure, but it seemed to work, for the TARDIS suddenly gave a massive shudder. Sam tried to catch himself on the railing but just ended up getting thrown to the ground, landing clumsily on his elbow.
As the shaking stopped, he let out a slight groan as he rubbed his elbow where he had landed on. "Ow."
"Sorry about that." the Doctor grimaced. He looked at him somewhat sheepish from his spot by the console. "Forgot to warned you about the little turbulence we would have, again." He threw down a final switch and the TARDIS stilled entirely. "It's normal of course, we're travelling through time and space, there's going to be a bit of a turbulence.
Privately, Sam thought it had to do more with his manic without a manual driving than the actual turbulence, but he let the matter rest.
"Right, we should be good in the Vortex for the night." the Doctor said, straightening up. "Now rooms are down the hall, four lefts and a right, pick any rooms you want that's unlocked." He told him pointing at the corridor. "If you don't find one you like, close your eyes and think of your happiest place and-" he hesitated, eyes clouding over for a moment. No doubt thinking of a happy place that no longer existed. "Well, you'll see about it later."
The boy watched him for a moment, there was a quick flashes of sadness he had shown earlier but it was gone quickly as the Doctor shoved his shoulder lightly. "Go on then, off you go. Sooner you get your beauty non-sense human sleep, sooner we get to leave."
"Alright," Sam mumbled, stifling another yawn. He walked towards the hall that had been indicated and headed out from the console room. "Good night, Doctor."
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After a few confusing minutes of wandering the halls, he concluded that he was actually lost. In his defence, it was a bit confusing for him with the halls and rooms filled through the corridor. He did what the Doctor told him to do, picking any room that was opened but the rooms he can open was the garage room full with cars and bikes, storage room, swimming pool, a blank white room, butterfly room which he thought about how beautiful it was and make a little note to mention about it to the Doctor, there's also a garden room that full of roses with different colours which Sam never saw any of them back at home.
Other than that, the room was either lock, or the TARDIS shock him to not even touch them. It came as a bit of a shock at first but it didn't hurt, it came as if he was being scolded not to touch the door or don't rattle the door knobbed even further. It was a signal for him to find another room that probably won't kill him or endangered him.
There was a room that took his interest, the door looked ordinary, the same like the others rooms with metal blank door without a door knobbed or even a sort of control panel to opened it and how sad it looked, as if the room was used to be occupied by someone important; what's made it different from the other room was the notes that left in front of the room. Some of the notes were filled with words he can read, such as;
'Remind me to get the item we need for fixing the TARDIS'
'Don't forget to bring a jacket'
'Rose Tyler, meet me in the library'
'Remind me not to leave a certain captain alone ever again'
'You told me to remind you about visiting Mickey the Idiot'
There was a lot of notes that was funny, and made him giggle when he read it, he wondered if the Doctor wrote it to remind the person so the person can remind him what he need to remember. That was a neat trick and it would come in handy, especially by the look of how the Doctor could sometimes forgot and not pay attention enough in a certain situation. Going through the notes, and skipping a few ones that was written with a circular symbol he can't understand, he looked straight to what it seems the last notes that only said;
'I'm sorry.'
Taking it off, he could see how sad the note can be, how two simple words has a lot of meaning, and he had a feeling that it was written not so long ago, it was probably recent.
A beeping sound suddenly distracted him and he looked down to see the same line that he saw the first time he was here. Sticking the notes quickly, he followed the line and arrived to a sound of a door that suddenly opened for him; it was a bit creepy but really convenient and also looked like a bit something come out from some horror movies. Walking inside the pitch black room, he reached in to feel along the walls, hoping there wasn't something that suddenly grabbed him.
"Where's the light switch?" Sam asked himself, roaming around the room. He got out and looked up. "Um, is there any switch where I can turn on the light?"
In a seconds, the entire room suddenly illuminated with light. It was an ordinary bedroom, with aqua blue walls that give him a warm welcoming vibe, with a bed, a desk, and a wardrobe to put in his clothes inside while he travelled which remind him how he didn't bring any clothes and after their little adventure, he need to change his clothes. There should be a wardrobe room in this ship, the Doctor did mention that to him. Getting up, he proceeds to went for the door until a familiar clean clothes was at his bed, frowning, he grabbed it and looked around. He remembered that wasn't there a minute ago, did the TARDIS put it there. It was possible of course, she is alive after all. She probably thought that he was too tired to even found the wardrobe room and there's a possibility he would fall asleep there just finding the right shirt.
He looked up and smiled. "Thank you."
After he showered, and finally changed to a clean 'free from sick' clothes. He crawls into the bed, the minute his head hit the pillow, he was gone into a deep slumber.
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The Time Lord fiddled with the controls for a moment after Sam skipped down the corridor, then stopped and glanced in the direction he'd gone, leaning against the console and frowned. There was something that has been bugging him the whole time and that's why and how his new companion could hear the cry of the Star Whale. The sound should have been the above average of a human hearing and the boy should not in any possibility to heard it.
Of course unless he wasn't completely a human being. Within seconds, the matters in his brain connected and he rushed over to the console to find any information on the boy. He quickly checked over the monitor and tried to find something odd about his biology or if there was something stood up about him that he didn't know. There probably something that even didn't catch the TARDIS scanner as he tried to redo the scanned again.
The result was nothing. There was nothing unusual about the boy at all, from the moment he stepped inside the TARDIS, she would pick up any anomaly from the boy that would alarm him and told him about themselves. All of it applied to everyone that had stepped inside, it was quite handy especially when you have a shapeshifter who shift into one of his companion, or when a companion got hurt, or if someone was there to muck something inside his beautiful time machine. But there was nothing stood out about him, only basic information such as how old he was, where he lived, and where he gone to school, or what he did for his extracurricular activity after school. There's a bit about his medical record that informed him about his asthma, and a surgery that he might need to look at later, but it wasn't something that would stood up and take his interest and the reason on why he could hear the cry of the Star Whale, although he did put a mental note to remember carrying an inhaler just in case.
And finally, he gave up and concluded that Sam Piper was only a normal human boy with probably a little bit of a telepathic fluke that won't last for a long time. Humans are a low level telepathic, and the reason that he could heard the cry was probably because it was in such pain and he pick it up with their brief meeting. It doesn't make any sense, but that what the Time Lord settled in for now.
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Hello!
You are at the end of the story, and I wanna say thank you for everyone who read it.
Because I am sleep deprived, I don't really know what am I typing so please forgive me
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