Parallel: From Another World [1] (The Parallel Series) ?

School Reunion

The Doctor placed his hand next to his mouth so the class could not see what he was saying and then mouthed over to her. 'Anything?' the brunette shrugged then mouthed back 'I don't know this sorry, try asking some more questions' she shrugged not being much help yet giving him a secret without making it too obvious. She generally had no idea with as to what was wrong with all the students, she knew about the chips and why they were smart but not the zombieness.

"Right then, Milo," the Doctor turned back to the boy following Rita's advice "tell me this. True or false. The greater the dampening of the system, the quicker it loses energy to its surroundings."

"False."

"What is non-coding DNA?" the Doctor countered.

"DNA that doesn't code for a protein." he fired back. Rita moved her eyes from the Doctor to the boy as if she was watching a tennis match.

"Sixty-five thousand nine hundred and eighty-three times five?"

"Three hundred and twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and fifteen," he said automatically without thinking. The Doctor frowned.

"How do you travel faster than light?"

"By opening a quantum tunnel with an FTL factor of thirty-six point seven recurring." the Doctor blinked, his jaw dropped and he watched the boy then turned to Rita her expression mimicking his.

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The Doctor and Rita were standing in the line of the canteen for lunch, an hour or so after the event with Milo. The canteen was silent to Rita and the Doctor's amazement.

Rita never expected it to actually be so quiet in the hall except for the sound of feet moving on the floor. They collected their food the Doctor grinning at Rose dressed as a dinner lady who looked extremely pissed. Rita sent the blonde a warm smile as she collected her food and followed the Doctor to a table.

"How was that possible?" Rita whispered sitting down next to the Doctor, feeling the silents a little unnerving. She pushed her plate aside not wanting to touch the krillitane oiled chips.

"You have the foreknowledge" he smirked pointing it out and raising a brow.

"Trying to get you thinking, you can be a little thick at times" she chuckled leaning back on her chair and crossing her arms.

"Oh really?" He raised a brow again.

"Really" Rita nodded. "So what do you think it is?" She stopped leaning on her chair and leant forward resting her elbow on the table holding her head up.

"Well something is definitely odd here"

"No kidding" Rita chuckled again. "Seriously, though. Ideas?"

"Why don't we ask the dinner lady?" he smirked noticing Rose heading their way.

"Two days," Rose spoke through gritted her teeth once she reached the table.

"Sorry, could you just?" the Doctor pointed to part of the table with a fork in his hand. "There's a bit of gravy." Rose sighed rolling her eyes and started to wipe where he supposedly pointed. "No, no, just, just there." he pointed a little to the left. Rita grinned shaking her head and hitting his arm a little.

"Two days, we've been here." Rose continued.

"Blame your boyfriend." The Doctor argued making an odd face at Rita when he swallowed a chip.