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Five hadn't been expecting to actually make it to the right place when he set the coordinates in the TARDIS. Yet, when he peered out to the area with his TARDIS, he was certainly a little surprised. It seemed to look as the other male had described it, so he hopes that he has the right place
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"He's not going to do anything," he starts. "Really, everything he says is true, he just..." Reid considers all the things he could possibly say in defense of the Doctor. "He just has bad luck and bad timing, that's all."
Hitch gives him a look that clearly states he thinks Reid has finally gone mad, started using drugs again, or possibly been influenced within the minutes that he and the other two hadn't arrived.
"The guns are very necessary," Hotch states as he approaches. "You and that box arrive out of nowhere in a Federal office. Where you expecting a welcome wagon?"
Reid takes a step closer but Hotch turns to him. "Stay there," he commands and Reid does just that, not wanting to agitate the situation any further.
"You should relinquish any and all weapons you may have on you right now. Morgan, call and tell them that we need to get this....Box locked up, at least until we verify who he actually is."
A pause.
"You two," directed at Reid and Garcia, go wait for me in my office. I'll be there in a minute."
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Of course. This was how it always turned out, wasn't it?
Emptying his pockets as he is ordered to relieve himself of any weapons, he drops a cricket ball, the sonic screwdriver, some string, a tea cosy and a stray sugarcube, to the floor.
Morgan gives a nod as the things are dropped and he moves quickly to collect everything (not without an odd stare) before moving off to make the call, keeping his eye on the intruder.
Gideon moves down as well, his gun aimed carefully, "Strange, that you suddenly show up. Reid's never mentioned you before, and somehow, you're the best of friends. Doesn't that seem a little odd? I think we should have a chat."
Five panics when they mention locking up the TARDIS and backs up, his back against it. He's afraid that they'll take her, he doesn't want to lose her to a bunch of simple-minded 21st century Earthians. Gideon takes an extra step foward and on cue, the door to th TARDIS opens, out slipping a curly haired girl who wraps her arms tightly around the Doctor, putting her back to them.
"Don't hurt him..." She mumbles, and there might even be a dirty look passed to Reid, becaue he was a Companion! He was supposed to help look after the Doctor, too.
Five is mildly surprised but lowers his arms to rest around her, "TARDIS..."
Garcia really isn't sure how to react, but she follows Hotch's orders and starts slowly moving for the staircase, unsurely.
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"Who are you," Hotch simply says. "You said you knew Reid but who are you." He's not expecting a real name but he needs something to call this guy.
Looking to Gideon a moment, when the TARDIS appears but his attention is soon drawn back to the two of them. "We won't hurt him if he doesn't give us a reason to but we need to know who both of you are and how you managed to get in here completely undetected."
Reid is looking from Hotch and Gideon, to the Doctor and TARDIS, to Gargia. Oh how he wished he could be anywhere, absolutely anywhere, but here right now. But he isn't and it doesn't look like he'll be escaping ay time soon.
Moving to lean over the railing a little, he starts. "He's the Doctor and he is my friend. I met him...While I was on sick leave. I told the girl out front that he was coming and she said she'd let him if he ever came around. I wasn't expecting him today but...But everything he says is true."
He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath. God, he didn't even believe himself.
It's pretty clear that Hotch doesn't either but he'll look to Gideon, silently questining his opinion on the matter at hand.
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"I'm the Doctor, and this is the TARDIS." There's a small smile, "I could go farther, if you'd like, explain it all, but I can guarantee you that you won't believe me, Agent Hotchner. And you're Agent Gideon, correct? You two have quite the adventure in store, you know." Bright smile.
Gideon seems to think very lowly of Reid's excuse, so he looks to Hotch and gives a shake of the head. Not to mention the 'Doctor's words? Not comforting in the slightest. He steps forward again, even so that the gun is aimed up at his head and there isn't a whole lot of space between him and the Doctor.
He's about to speak with the TARDIS unlatches herself from Five and moves toward Hotch quickly, "Don't hurt him."
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"Doctor, he calls out. "Just stop. You're not going to--" But he stops as the sounds of shots ring out.
It was an impulse reaction, one that he'll later reflect on and absolutely hate but right now he simply couldn't take chances.
"Reid moves back down the stairs but doesn't go passed either Hotch or Gideon. It's clear he's worried though and he looks to the Doctor, almost afraid of what the consequences of Hotch's actions would be.
Like he thought before, they were all doomed.
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The TARDIS wasn't expecting that, wasn't thinking that he would actually shoot. So when the bullet pierced her side, she yelped and fell into Five. If only listens closely, the cloister bell is sounding loudly from within the blue box as she suffers.
"That was completely unecessary! She is harmless!" He snaps, looking up to Hotch before down to the TARDIS's wound. Pulling her hand away, he curses quietly at the sight of it and moves to help her up when she fades from sight.
"What in Rassilon's name did you think you were doing?" He tries to turn and rush back to the entrance of the TARDIS, but finds hes met by a gun and a Gideon who is blocking the door.
It's now that Five realizes he is helpless, and he wants to get to the TARDIS, wants to help her, to start repairing and counting the damage, but here he is, at gunpoint by two men.
"What is it you need from me? I can very well leave and never again show my face here."
He had only wanted to visit Spencer, because he did miss him. But perhaps things were better off without him?
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"Where did she go<" he blurts out. "She was right there and she's..."Gone."
Reid takes this moment to slip around Hitch and try and get to Five. "Is she going to be okay," he asks, looking to the TARDIS and wanting rather badly to go in and see her properly.
Seeing more guns, he cant help but wince a little. It's not like they did any good before...
"What we want," Hotch starts, moving to stand beside Reid. "Is for you to come with us. We'll ask you a number of questions and if everything checks then you'll be free to do whatever you want. I think that's perfectly fair, don't you?"
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He was worried for his TARDIS, especially with the way she disappeared like that -- she never does that.
"She's gone back to the ship..." Five murmurs to the man. Gideon presses closer from behind and Five sighs. "You won't believe my answers, I promise on all my lives. So I will merely be wasting time answering your questions, and the TARDIS will continue to have damage done. I am weaponless, search me if you must!"
Now, he's frustrated again and anxious, anxious because that is is practical best friend injured within the confines of her blue walls.
"Just calm down. We'll get you in for a few questions and then you'll be free to go once we've run everything through. It's a simple task, you might be wasting more time arguing..." Gideon tries to reason.
Five didn't like this one bit.
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It's with all this in mind that Reid falls silent, letting his eyes close as he thinks of something, anything he can do.
Hotch on the other hand, has no plans of growing silent. "You'd be surprised what you could get us to believe but right now, we're not going to trust a thing you have to say until you let us talk to you."
Reid will take this time to back up a few steps so that he's standing just a tad bit behind Hotch. "Go with them, Doctor," he urges. "Really, it won't be that bad, I'll come too! We can all sit down and talk and get this all sorted out..."
Hotch looks to Reid a moment. "I want to talk to him alone first."
A nod. "Okay," Reid rephrases. "You and Gideon can talk to him alone while I wait here for someone to pick up the TARDIS."
When Hotch gives him a look that clearly states that he would rather not have Reid alone with the randomly appearing box, Reid sighs again.
"Garcia can stay with me and Morgan should be back here in a few minutes. We'll all wait wait for them."
He looks beyond Hotch and straight to FIve, silently begging him to go with them.
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"Very well, lead the way then, good sirs." Five gives a small grin and looks between Gideon and Hotch.
Garcia, at hearing her name, nods if Hotch looks over to her, showing she will eagerly stay with him. She figures Reid might be up to something, but she doesn't say anything just yet.
"Yeah, we can handle this part of it, promise." A winning smile.
Gideon nods, "Don't let this thing out of your site, and keep on your guard." There's a glance to Five and an even more stern look to Reid before he starts to lead the Doctor away.
And once out of earshot?
"What're we gonna do about the TARDIS?" Garcia whispers.
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When Garcia questions him, he starts digging around in his pockets for a moment before he pulls out his key and grins at her.
"Now c'mon," he says, his voice low. "Let's go before Morgan gets back."
He unlocks the door and slips inside, becking to Garcia to follow. It's strange to be back in the TARDIS, strange but quite nice as well. He's missed her desperately but the sound of the cloister bell going off reminds him that he doesn't have much time to reminisce.
"I'm sorry," are the first words out of his mouth as he runs a hand along the control panel. "Really, they're not always like that." He'd say more but he's too busy trying to recall anything and everything the Doctor, or even the TARDIS herself had told him about operating and maintaining her.
Somewhere else, in an empty office close to the BAU Hotch has settled himself at a table and beckoned the Doctor to sit as well. He's not even sure how to begin with the questioning, his mind still a bit boggled by everything and, if Gideon has decided to join them, he will look to him before taking a breath and beginning to speak.
"Do you have any sort of verification of identity?"
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"Is she going to be okay...?" She's itching to touch the console, to start looking at things because maybe, her knowledge of 21st century technology and the show could help her.
The TARDIS reacts under Reid's touch, noting him friendly. A very blurred form of herself appears and clings to Reid, burying her face in against his shoulder.
"Is the Doctor okay?" She can repair herself in due time, but...
Five seems a little flustered, but settles into a chair.
"I honestly don't. I am the Doctor. I can explain everything about myself, how I met your colleague and whatnot, but, as i mentioned before, I'm not quite sure you will believe it."
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"He's going to be fine," he assures. "Hotch took him down for questioning. We'll go back iand get him in a few minutes, I promise, but he had to make sure you were all right first."
Looking to Garcia a moment, he smiles almost sheepishly. "Think you could help a little?" he questions hopefully. "I know how to a little but usually the Doctor's here and she can help out and..." Don't mind if he sounds just a little desperate, all he wants is to make this right, that's all.
Hotch takes a breath, letting hs eyes slide shut for a moment. He lets himself get centered again, because after what he'd seen earlier, he couldn't help but let himself get a little off-kilter.
"Alright," he replies. "Expain then."
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Garcia looks at her with great concern before nodding at Reid's statement. She might be able to help a little bit, anyway. "Just show me where to start and we can get her patched up."
Five sighs. Part of him wanted to look up at the other man and just shake his head. Really, really, was he going ot have to do this?
"I am what they call a Time Lord. I come from a planet called Gallifrey, which is located in the constellation of Kasterborous, at galactic coordinates ten-zero-eleven-zero-zero by zero-two from galactic zero centre. It's about two hundred and fifty million light years away from us at this very point. Give or take a few, certainly."
There's a moment of consideration before he continues, "One of the key signatures to advanced and intelligent Time Lords is the TARDIS, though only mine is that lovely blue box you saw. Rather attractive, isn't she? London Police Box circa the 1960s. Roughly. Poor thing's chameleon circuit is broken. I've always meant to fix it, you know, could come handy in moments such as these."
There's a shake of the head and a sigh, "Not that it matters. But it's a Time and Relative Dimension's in Space machine. A time machine, as you all call it, I'm sure. I met Spencer in one of my travels, have spent time with him and have popped back in for a visit! I thought I would be warmly welcomed, but hardly so."
He looks up in thought, tapping fingertips against his chin, "And I'm the Doctor. A name I've given myself. Theta is one I've seemed to have long ago outgrown. Are you quite happy now?"
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“Is there anything we can do,” he asks then, eyes flickering to the console a moment. “Or should we just...Just let you fix yourself?”
He's not really comfortable with the second option, not at all, but he knows that the TARDIS can do amazing and wonderful things, like take care of her own gunshot would and if they were going to just get int eh way, he thought it better to just not get involved at all.
Hotch is silent throughout his entire speech, occasionally giving the slight twitch of a brow or nod of the head. He's decided that while the Doctor may be litte threat to the BAU as a whole, he may or may not be in need of some psychiatric help.
He's also going to have a talk with the girls who walk at the front desks later about their security precautions but that can happen later.
“How did you meet Reid? Did you pick him up in your...TARDIS?” At this point, he's merely trying to see how far the delusion extends.
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Garcia perks up, smiling. "I can help you with that." A bright, bright smile. "Just tell me where to go and I can fix you up."
The TARDIS looks at her and then looks to Reid, as though wondering if this girl was safe or not.
Five wants to plant his face into the table. He wants to hit his head so hard that he will be passed out and won't have to deal with this imbecile.
"I met him at a lovely little place called the Inn. It's between time and space, no coordinates, no specific timeline. I could show you, but you've gone and shot my TARDIS. Which I really do need to attend to..."
The Doctor sighs and shrugs, figuring it was better to just go ahead and tell him, "He stumbled in rather injured, I took care of him, got him back into tip-top shape. He stayed in my TARDIS for a while, still has his room there and everything." Here, there is a vague hint of a smile, but it doesn't last long, "And he decided to come back here. I promised to visit and, well, as I said before, here I am."
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