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The Doctor and the Sanctuary
The TARDIS came to a stop. “That’s strange,” the Doctor commented.

“What’s strange?” his companion, Martha Jones, asked.

“We’ve stopped in Tokyo. But it’s somewhere I’ve stopped before. The TARDIS is reading similar spatial distortions to the other times.”

“So, you think there could be something to it?” Martha asked.

“Yes.”


The Doctor and Martha stepped out of the TARDIS, into a café next to a crossroads. The Doctor scanned the area with the sonic screwdriver. “Oh!”

“Oh?”

The Doctor pointed in the direction behind the café. “Something’s Spacey-Wasey.”

“Spacey-Wasey?” Martha asked.

“To the three dimensions of space what Timey Wimey is to the fourth dimension of Time,” the Doctor answered.

“So, a part of Tokyo is folded in on itself?”

“Looks like it. But it may be only part of it. It’s like a tesseract. There may be connections to pocket universes.”

“Right,” Martha said as she took it in.


The Doctor thought about what he might have found as he and Martha sipped their cappuccino’s. Martha was petting a large cream coloured cat. ‘There could be anything in the contorted space,’ he thought. Whether the Japanese Government was hiding something there, or there was something else there, he wanted to find out. He saw a teenage girl with short hair enter the café and look at the cat Martha was petting. ‘Wait!’ the thought. There was something about that girl. ‘Could she know about the Spacey-Wasey region?’


Yoshioka Haru looked at the two foreigners who were with Muta at their usual table. There was something unusual about them, particularly the man. She doubted she would have noticed if she hadn’t been involved with the Cat Bureau. ‘The Baron would like to know at least,’ she thought as she decided to introduce herself to them. But first she went to order a coffee.


Martha saw the girl approach. “Hi, I’m Haru.”

“Martha, and this is the Doctor.”

“I thought we could talk,” Haru said as she began petting the cat.

“He really likes you,” Martha observed.

Daria – Doctor Who – Convergence on Lawndale
Glen Oaks Lane was usually quiet at night. It certainly was unusual that a strange grating sound could be heard somewhere in the street. In the back yard of a large red brick house, a blue box slowly appeared. The Doctor’s TARDIS had landed.

“There,” the Doctor said as the rear of the Morgendorffer house came up on the scanner. “We’re back in Lawndale, an hour after we left.”

“Finally,” Quinn Morgendorffer said. The last few adventures had come rather close. “Thanks, Doctor!”

“I’ll be back in a week.”

“I know. Have a good time,” Quinn said as she stepped outside and closed the doors.

“Now. Back to the Impossible Girl,” the Doctor murmured, wondering yet again why he kept running into Clara. He set the TARDIS in motion. However, the Cloister Bell rang and the old girl refused to move.


Quinn turned around, noticing that the Doctor hadn’t left yet. ‘What is he up to?’ She decided to go back. She saw that Daria’s light was still on. She knew that Daria knew about the Doctor, but she didn’t want her involved in with whatever might be happening.


The Doctor had looked at the scanner again when he heard Quinn re-enter the ship. “Yes, something’s come up.”

“What is the thing?” Quinn asked as she came up to the console.

“A strange energy reading coming from somewhere downtown. It could even be at the school.”

“Great!” Quinn groused.

“I could have a look tonight while you have sleep.”

“I’d probably stay awake with worry, and leaving the TARDIS here isn’t a good idea.”

“You know that the perception filter will stop your parents noticing it.”

“And you know Daria would know you’re here.”

“That’s not too bad.”


The Doctor had grabbed a map of Lawndale from somewhere, as well as his sonic screwdriver. “Are you sure you want to come along?” he asked Quinn.

“It’s Lawndale, of course I’m coming.”

“I knew you were going to say that,” the Doctor said as he locked the TARDIS. “Come along Morgendorffer.”

“That doesn’t work as well as you think it does,” Quinn groused.


Daria looked out and saw the Doctor and Quinn walk away from the TARDIS to the rear laneway. She sighed. “What are they up to?” she wondered if she should follow. It was a school night, but that hadn’t stopped her before.

8
13th December 2020
Elias Hadley arrived at the Church. It was later than he wanted to arrive, because he had to drop his sister off at work, but it was still before the Service start time. Even so, there was a line up out the door. Even with the COVID-related restrictions easing, people still needed to check in when arriving at Church. Even so, he could hear the worship leaders practicing Silent Night, given that it was less than two weeks until Christmas. He prayed about the service as he waited to get in.

Back to the Future – Lorraine’s Paradox
November 12, 1955
8:37 PM
Lorraine Baines was uncertain. Calvin Kline was cute, but strange. She waited outside for him to pick her up to go to the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. It was foolish, but then wasn’t all love foolish? To meet someone and then spend each other’s lives with them. That was one reason why she disliked Biff Tannen so! His advances were unwelcome and he drank to excess. She had heard stories. She shook her head, clearing her mind of those thoughts. She then heard a car coming. She was sure it was Calvin!


Marty McFly arrived at his grandparent’s house. He hoped see it again in 1985. But something told him that success wasn’t guaranteed, that despite all the effort he had put into putting things right, he would fail. He shook his head, trying to dispel the memories of the nightmares he had had over the last week. ‘If Doc doesn’t read that letter. If George doesn’t dance with Lorraine…’

Lorraine opened the door, distracting him from his line of thought.

Dragons: Risks out of the Archipelago
It was a quiet day at Dragons Edge. But it wouldn’t be for much longer. Hiccup and Toothless were out on patrol when they saw a Terror mail approaching from the direction of Berk. “Back to the Club House, bud,” Hiccup said.

Toothless gave a rumble as he acknowledged his rider’s command. They then sped back to the Club House.

Mega Mall, Mega Problems
Lawndale didn’t have everything. That was the issue that had vexed Quinn Morgendorffer over the past few weeks. Of course it had more things than Highland did (and she was thankful that her family had finally got out of that place.

“There’s that Mall of the Millennium,” her friend Jessie Brown suggested as they left the High School one Monday afternoon.

“I have heard of it,” Quinn admitted, “but isn’t it out of the State?”

“It’s only 100 miles away,” Jessie said.

“I suppose that isn’t too far,” Quinn decided. “I’ll see what my parents will say.”

“Good luck,” Jessie said. Quinn had told her what her mother was like.

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Doctor Who – Chasing Time
Clara Oswald was ready to go home. She had had several adventures with the Doctor since he had picked her up from the Maitlands’. She entered the Console Room. “Are we almost there?” she asked.

“We are,” the Doctor said, confidently. The TARDIS then came to a halt. “We’re there.”


Clara exited the TARDIS find that she wasn’t where she expected to be. “Doctor!”

The Doctor emerged from the TARDIS and looked at the house which had a façade which was a mirror image of the one which the Maitlands resided in. “Let me check,” he said.

Clara followed him back into the TARDIS. “Where are we?”

“Somewhere in Birmingham, about a month early,” the Doctor said as he looked at the scanner.

“A month? That’s a lot of time to spend on the Slow Path,” Clara considered.

“Too long,” the Doctor said. “But we may be here for a reason.”

“Of course,” Clara said as she used her phone to look at a news website. She found that it didn’t list anything unusual.

“Anything?”

“No,” Clara said with a sigh.

“Let’s try anyway.”


The TARDIS materialised again, across the street a day later. “Obviously we need to be here,” Clara said as she emerged and looked at the house again.

“Maybe we need to talk to whoever lives there,” the Doctor said.


Clara looked towards the setting sun before ringing the doorbell. ‘Should have done this yesterday,’ she thought.

There was no immediate response. “Maybe no one’s home,” the Doctor said. “Maybe we should go back to yesterday.”

“No. I’ll ring it again,” she said. The pressed the button.


Soon the door was opened by an older teenage girl who reminded Clara of herself at that age. ‘Blimey, do I have to jump to conclusions here?’ she wondered.

“Hello,” the girl said as she twirled the end of her ponytail. “Who are you?”

The Doctor got out the psychic paper. “Smith and Oswald Detective Agency. We’ve heard that something out of the ordinary has been happening in this neighbourhood.”

“Really?” the girl said incredulously. “I thought no one was paying attention.”

Daria – Trouble at the Coffee House
The small city of Lawndale may have had a reputation of being boring, but that didn’t mean that nothing happened. This was certainly true one Fall evening when there was a break-and-enter at the Alt.Lawndale.Com Cybercafe. The alarm went off, and the thieves scattered, carrying away cash and computer equipment…


The next day at Lawndale High, the Language Arts teacher Timothy O’Neill threw aside his prepared lesson plan and said; “Class, I thought today we'd take a break from the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet to discuss the real life tragedy that happened last night here in Lawndale. Let's share our feelings of violation following the loss of our beloved cybercafé, alt.lawndale.com.” He turned to one of his students, not realising he was confusing one for another. “Charlene? How about you?”

However, the girl he was addressing was not Charlene Ruttheimer. “Charlene? Charlene did you here me?”

“You mean, Kelsey!” Kelsey Thompson objected.

O’Neill looked at his seating chart again. “Sorry Kelsey, you look like someone else,” he said, despite Kelsey having much darker (and longer) hair than Charlene. “What do you have to say about last night’s horrible event?”

“I was home all night. You can ask my parents. Besides, we already have a computer,” Kelsey said.

Jodie Landon was annoyed as the teacher continued to ask the dumb cheerleader how she felt. ‘Why can’t we just do Romeo and Juliet?” she asked herself. However, the teacher then asked her.

“Jodie, how about you?”

“I think the cybercafé served one very particular segment of the community, but it still pisses me off when people take what isn't theirs,” she answered.

“That’s what I was trying to say!” Kelsey said, even though it totally wasn’t.

“Thank you, Jodie and Kelsey. about that word, ‘community.’ Isn't that the whole idea of a cybercafé? To jack us into the global community? I think what's most disturbing about this crime is the symbolism involved.” Mr. O’Neill then turned to another of his students, a girl dressed in a paint splattered red jacket. “Don’t you agree, Jane?”

“No,” Jane Lane said.

“Suddenly, we're cut off…”

Doctor Who: McCullough
Law of Nature
Shona McCullough awoke to the sound of the television in the living room. She had forgotten to turn it off the previous night.

She found that there was a newsflash about some fugitives from the mysterious UNIT. She picked up her notebook where it lay haphazardly on the coffee table. She wrote: UNIT again? She looked at the time. She then rushed to get ready for work.

Daria – Strange Days in Lawndale
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It was an ordinary day in Lawndale. Daria Morgendorffer was resting in her room. But suddenly her sister, Quinn, burst into the room in a hurry.

“Quinn!” she exclaimed.

“Something is happening, turn on the TV!” Quinn said with a sense of urgency.

“This had better be worth it!”