The Littlest Timelord: Cracks in Time

Chapter 2

The Doctor jumped to his feet and picked up the little Timelord and set her on the ground. She immediately grabbed onto his hand.

"Well then, no time to lose. I'm the Doctor. Do everything I tell you, don't ask stupid questions, and don't wander off", he told Amelia.

Amelia gestured to the little girl. "Who is she?"

The Doctor looked down at the small Timelord clinging to his hand. She hadn't spoken to him yet, so he quickly thought up a name. A normal human name. "Elise", he said, "She's my..."

"Daughter?"

"Uh yeah". He turned around and walked straight into a tree.

The two girls looked down at him.

"Are you all right?" Amelia asked him.

"Early days. Steering's a bit off".

They went into the kitchen.

Amelia walked up and handed the Doctor an apple. She offered one to Elise who shook her head. "If you're a doctor, why does your box say Police?"

The Doctor bit into the apple and then spit it back out. "That's disgusting. What is that?"

"An apple".

"Apple's rubbish. I hate apples".

"You said you loved them".

"No, no, no. I like yogurt. Yogurt's my favorite. Give me yogurt".

Amelia went and got him a yogurt cup from the fridge and handed it to him.

He poured it into his mouth and then spit it out like he did with the apple. "I hate yogurt. It's just stuff with bits in".

"You said it was your favorite".

The Doctor wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. "New mouth. New rules. It's like eating after cleaning your teeth. Everything tastes wrong. Argh!" The Doctor twitched violently.

"What is it? What's wrong with you?"

"Wrong with me? It's not my fault. Why can't you give me any decent food? You're Scottish. Fry something".

Amelia got a frying pan out and started to make bacon as the Doctor dried his and Elise's hair with a towel he found. Amelia placed a plate of bacon in front of the Doctor.

"Ah, bacon!" Again, he took a bite out of it and spit it out again.

Elise was beginning to wonder what was wrong with him. What happened to the man who saved her? He had been so sad and this one was so happy and hyperactive.

"Bacon. That's bacon. Are you trying to poison me?" the Doctor asked.

Amelia heated up a can of beans.

"Ah, you see? Beans".

The Doctor took one bite and spit them out in the sink. "Beans are evil. Bad, bad bean".

Next, Amelia spread some butter on toast.

"Bread and butter. Now you're talking".

The two girls watched as he got up and threw the plate out the front door. "And stay out!"

Elise watched as the Doctor came back into the kitchen and started pacing. She was getting rather hungry now, but she didn't know what she wanted. She'd never been to this planet before, so she didn't know what she liked here.

"We've got some carrots", Amelia told the Doctor.

"Carrots? Are you insane? No. Wait. Hang on. I know what I need". He walked over to the fridge and opened the freezer. "I need, I need, I need fish fingers and custard". A few minutes later, the Doctor was dipping his fish fingers into a bowl of custard.

Amelia made Elise some as well, except Elise was eating her fish fingers and custard separately.

"Dip it in the custard", the Doctor told her.

Elise shook her head.

"It's really good. Just try it".

Elise shook her head again.

"Okay then. You're a stubborn one, aren't you?" She reminded him of Donna. He could only imagine what would come out of her mouth when she finally talked to him. The Doctor finished his custard and fish fingers and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.

"Funny", Amelia told him.

"Am I? Good. Funny's good. What's your name?"

"Amelia Pond".

"Oh, that's a brilliant name. Amelia Pond. Like a name in a fairy tale. Are we in Scotland, Amelia?"

Amelia sighed. "No. We had to move to England. It's rubbish".

"So what about your mum and dad, then? Are they upstairs? Thought we'd have woken them by now".

"I don't have a mum and dad. Just an aunt".

Elise felt sorry for Amelia because she knew how she felt. Elise was technically an orphan, but the Doctor (instead of leaving her on her own) had taken her in and was treating her as his own. She would be forever grateful to him for that.

"I don't even have an aunt", the Doctor told her.

"You're lucky".

"I know. So, your aunt, where is she?"

"She's out".

"And she left you all alone?"

The Doctor would have never left a child on their own. It was part of the reason why he had taken Elise in. Because without him, who knows what would have happened to her.

"I'm not scared".

"Course, you're not. You're not scared of anything. Box falls out of the sky, man and girl fall out of a box, man and girl eat fish custard, and look at you, just sitting there. So you know what I think?"

"What?"

"Must be a hell of a scary crack in your wall".