TheTwig
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 Posted December 12th, 2006 12:10 PM IP   
STOPWATCH
As the TARDIS materialised in Los Angeles, Twig and David put on their sunglasses, stepped out of the great room that was the console chamber and into the alleyway. They turned left in unison, and looked down on a frightened man who was huddling behind a bin, holding something that glinted in the sun.
“Where did you get this?” asked Twig. The man just huddled down. “Where did you get the stopwatch?” He snatched it out of the man's hands.
“What is it?” asked David, looking down on the man, undoing the black buttons on his tuxedo.
“To be honest, I don't know.” Twig instantly pulled down the curtain of bravado that had surrounded him and took off his sunglasses; he then proceeded to look at the stopwatch with the familiar feeling of glee that exuded from him whenever there was something new to find. “All I can tell it...” he said, pausing to lick it, “It's made from solid gold. Every single little component, gold. See those strange digits?”
“Yeah.” replied David, inquisitively. The man look up at the two having this strange conversation.
“Those are Arcturian digits.”
“Really?”
“Really. So, stopwatch, sold gold, Arcturian... How long has this been going?” he said, turning back to the man. “Don't be scared, I'm not going to hurt you. How long have you had this turned on?”
“Oh, um... about... I dunno, three weeks? It just won't turn off...”
“Three weeks? Are you mad?”
“What is it! I don't know, how should I fix it it just wouldn't stop...”
“Look. Calm.”
“So Twig, what is it?”
“Nothing that I can't sort out. It's a stopwatch.”
“Great observation. An alien stopwatch.”
“Well, it's a stopwatch... as soon as this guy pressed it, it took his soul. This stopped him, and it's actually counting down to his end.”
“What?” blurted out the man. “I don't want to die! I have so much to do, oh god oh...”
“Don't 'God' me, now look. You have two days, or at least thereabouts. Live your life to it's fullest. Do you want to see the universe?”
“What do you mean?”
“Just come with us. See the universe in two days.”
“Who are you?”
“I'm The Twig. This is David. We are wanderers in Time and Space. Come with us for the time you have left.”
“You won't regret it. I didn't.” The man looked at the TARDIS.
“Is that what you came in?”
“Yes. Come on.” David helped the man up, and took him into the ship.
“OH WOW......” ;and the man's voice faded away into time and space.
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Just a short one. Hope you like it.
There are three ways of dealing with time travel in Doctor Who (you might want to print this out for future use.)
1. Look, it's just a story, time travel is completely impossible, the whole thing's a farrago of lies, ooh, look at those monsters.
2. Time can only sometimes be rewritten, and the Doctor has a vast and terrible Time Brain that allows him to see when events can be altered and when they are fixed, but for us mere mortals, such insight would turn our brains to soup, ooh, look at those monsters.
3. Ooh, look at those monsters!
I like 3. It's quicker.
Steven Moffat
Yes, he's taking over Doctor Who in 2010. YEEESSSS!
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