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A Leap in TIme Part 1

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Chapter One

Sam stared at Al, dumbfounded.

“Come again?” he said.

“You…are on…a spaceship…with an alien,” Al said slowly.

Sam raised his eyebrow.

“You gotta be joking.”

“Does it look like I’m joking, Sam?”

Sam looked back at tall man who was staring at him intently. He looked at Al and lowered his voice.

“Al, this can’t be possible. There is no such thing as aliens.”

“Oh yeah, well try telling him that,” Al said, gesturing to tall man.

“He doesn’t even look like an alien.”

“Well, what do you expect him to look like? E.T.? Starman? Alf? I’m telling you, Sam, that’s an alien over there.”

“Fine, he’s an alien. What am I then? Am I an alien too?”

“No, you’re human.”

He looked down at his handheld computer.

“You are Rose Tyler. Twenty years old, from London, England,” he read. “You have been traveling with the Doctor, that’s alien boy over there, for almost two years now.”

“Wait, hold up, the guy’s name is the Doctor?” Sam said.

Al nodded.

“Okay, if he’s an alien, why doesn’t he have an alien’s name like Bezot or Zargon or something?”

“Search me. I’m just telling you what we’ve gotten from Rose so far, this man is known as the Doctor.”

“Rose?”

Sam looked back at the Doctor who was now totally befuddled.

“Um…call me crazy, but are you standing in the middle of the console room talking to thin air…and if you are, why?”

“Um, I was just thinking aloud…Doctor. I’m trying to remember something important,” Sam said, hoping that would satisfy him.

“Well, are you going to do the Hamlet monologue all day? I’d like to get out the door and get to the resort before I go through another regeneration.”

“Um…sure, Doctor…I’ll just go…pack my things.”

He looked at Al.

“Where do I go?” he muttered under his breath.

“Back of the room, there’s an exit.”

Sam looked over and saw the back door. He made a beeline for it while Al followed him. Once they were around the corner, Sam turned to Al.

“Okay, so…this Doctor…he kidnapped Rose?”

“Uh…no, she came voluntarily.”

Sam was taken aback.

“She did? Why?”

“Well, because basically her life wasn’t going anywhere and the Doctor offered her a life of traveling and adventure and she decided to take him up on his offer. So, for the past two years she’s been his….companion.”

“I think she’s a bit more than that judging from the kiss and the hug he gave me.”

“Well, yes, according to Earth legends about him the Doctor is very charming, so I can see how she’d fall head over heels in love for him.”

“Legends?”

“Oh yeah, this guy gets around. Ziggy’s found mentions of him all throughout history in all kinds of myths and folklore. He travels through time and helps people, saves them from all sorts of evil and usually he has a companion or two along to assist him, which is what Rose’s function is. Rose travels with him and helps him fight evil. According to Rose, this ship is called the TARDIS. It’s bigger on the inside, but you’ve probably already guessed that. This is, for all intents and purposes, their home. Everything they need is in here, which is why you have a bedroom on board. Um…Rose has left behind a mother and a boyfriend. They know she’s with the Doctor though.”

“And her mother is okay with that?”

Al shrugged.

“She’s a grown woman, Sam. I doubt her mother had much say in it. Um…other than that, not much of interest about her. Worked at a couple of low paying jobs including a stint at Henrick’s department store, which is where she met the Doctor.”

Al grinned.

“And just from personal experience, let me tell you, this woman is a little spitfire. She was back in the waiting room screaming her head off at us, demanding to know where she was at and what we did with the Doctor and how sorry we’re all gonna be if the Doctor finds out we’ve taken her, that sort of thing. We finally managed to calm her down and get her to talk. Good looking too. Blonde hair, brown eyes and knockers out to here. Makes me wish I was a time traveling alien if that’s who he gets to travel with him. Lucky bastard.”

“Al…stick to the problem at hand. Why am I here?”

“Oh! Yeah, um…you are here to prevent Rose and the Doctor from being killed.”

“Killed? By who?”

“Um…Ziggy is still trying to work that out, but she’s pretty sure there’s a 90 percent chance that you are here to stop them from dying a horrible, painful death.”

“Where? At this resort we’re going to?”

“Not sure about that either, but rest assured, Ziggy’s working on it.”

“Well, can she work a little faster? I don’t want to end up in an alien’s stomach or being anal probed or whatever it is aliens do to humans. How does this Doctor act, come to think of it?”

“Like a human,” Al said, shrugging. “From what Rose said, he’s humanoid except for the binary vascular system, the respiratory bypass system, the heightened intelligence and the regenerations.”

“Yeah, he just said something about regeneration. What does that mean?”

“Well, according to some of the legends, the Doctor has a really nifty way of avoiding death. Apparently, if he’s going to die, he changes his entire body, every single molecule and becomes a new man….but…he’s still basically the Doctor, just a new body and a new personality. Pretty handy if you ask me.”

“So, this guy has been other people?”

“Well, yes and no. Like I said, he stays the Doctor, he just changes his appearance from top to bottom and inside and out. The legends give differing descriptions of him throughout time, although the TARDIS he travels in has always stayed the same. But, not only does he change his appearance, Rose here is also the latest in a very long line of companions because there’s also numerous descriptions of people who have traveled with him. It’s all very fascinating. So much to know about this guy.”

“Tell me about it, it’s making my head swim just trying to work through the little you told me,” Sam said.

“We are doing everything we can to get this sorted out. In the meantime, it sounds like you have a resort to go to. I envy you. I could use a break myself. Well, I’ll let you go pack and I’ll try to find out more information on…”

“Whoa, wait, Al!”

“Yeah?”

“Did Rose say if she and the Doctor are…you know…”

“Oh! Um, I don’t know about that. That’s one of the things I’ll have to ask Rose about when I see her again. I was trying to get the basics as fast as I could and get back to you.”

“I want to know because I want to know just how close these two are. I mean, if we’re going to be relaxing at a resort, is he gonna want to, you know?”

Al snickered.

“You mean, are you gonna end up on the cover of the National Enquirer with the headline, I HAD AN ALIEN’S BABY above your head. Is that what you mean?”

“Yes, in a manner of speaking. I want to know if I ‘m going to have to romance an alien while I’m at this resort.”

“Gee, I don’t know, but if you do, let me know. I wanna watch.”

“Al!” he said, as Al snickered.

“Look if he tries anything; just talk him out of it. Surely, Mister Spock knows when to keep it in his pants. Oh, and that reminds me, Rose was a lower middle class shop girl from London, so don’t think you can chitchat with this guy about string theory or quantum mechanics and such because that will look awfully peculiar to him.”

“Yes, I get it, Al. I figured a twenty year old girl probably wouldn’t have Einstein intelligence or a master’s degree in physics.”

“Well, just letting you know in case you get the urge to talk shop with an alien. I…”

They were interrupted when the Doctor stuck his head around the corner.

“Rose? Are you still here?” he asked. “Haven’t you been to your room yet?”

“I’m going, Doctor,” Sam said, hurriedly. “I’m going right now.”

He walked off before the Doctor could ask any more questions.

“Okay, Al, go back, talk to Rose and try to find out exactly what’s going on.”
10/Rose Quantum Leap crossover. Sam leaps into the body of Rose Tyler. Can he save both her and the Doctor from a grisly fate?
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BillieMac's avatar
I like this first chapter, and I'll read more when I get up in the morning. (Actually, it's technically morning now!)

But shouldn't the first line have been, "Oh boy"?