THE LOONY ADVENTURES OF DAVID AND TARA

A/N: Okay, this one takes a bit of explanation because it'll get bizarre after awhile. This is once again written by me and my friend Carol and it came about because we would email each other back and forth and do a bit of back and forth with Alan and the others and act silly with them and insert ourselves into the plot to make each other laugh. Well, eventually our running story ended up being about David Tennant and Tara stuck in Monty Python land and we eventually started putting them in the Wizard of Oz and Narnia and getting sillier and sillier with it so we finally decided to make what we'd been doing into a proper story and see how wacky we could get with it. So we're going to be doing this one along with our Trial story and like I said, it'll probably get very, very bizarre after awhile, so be warned.

Chapter One

Sitting at his desk, Adam looked through the files on his computer then sat back in the chair, looking at the silver frame on his desk. The hologram was of him and his friend, David, and he sighed. David had been dead for two hundred years and Adam regretted not bringing him to New Gallifrey. They met when Adam and Marion had gone to the theatre to see David in Hamlet and Adam nearly got mobbed by David's fans because they thought he was David. The security guards ushered Adam inside the theatre then took him into the dressing room and David was shocked, seeing his double standing in front of him.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"My name is Adam. Adam Storm," Adam said.

"Blimey, you look just like me!"

"Yeah, I noticed that," Adam said with a smile.

"If you don't mind me asking, why are you here?"

"Well, my wife wanted me to get your autograph while she checked with our sitter and I got ambushed by your fans."

"Ah, she watches my show then?"

"Yep," he said, nodding.

"Did you like the play?"

"Oh, yeah, you were amazing!"

"Bet she's going to flip when she finds out that you got to meet me and not her."

"I might have to sleep on the couch!" he said and David laughed. Adam handed him the program Marion wanted David to sign and David handed it back after signing it. "Now, how am I going to get out of here?"

"Tell you what, you call her and tell her that you got the autograph but had to go to the loo and will meet her out front."

"Sounds like a plan."

"Great, now, if you will excuse me, it's my turn to go get mobbed," David said and Adam nodded. He looked at the program when he saw something at the bottom of the program and realized it was David's email address. Smiling, he sat down on the couch when he took the cell phone out of his pocket and pushed the buttons.

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Adam and David emailed back and forth for months and both he and Marion were shocked when David announced that he was leaving his show. Adam had set up a video connection between his computer and David's and Marion was shocked when Adam explained how they met.

"Imagine my surprise when we met," David teased.

"It was funny. Anyway, he said it was ok to connect our computers so we can talk. I was going to surprise you but, seeing that you are so..." Adam said.

"Oh no, don't tell me she's upset."

"Yep."

"Um..."

"Rose," Marion said, smiling.

"Rose, look, I'm just as upset by this as you are. But, I'm not leaving until the end of next year and have tons of stuff lined up. Tell you what, I'll make sure that you and Adam have front row seats to whatever I do in the theatre and will give you the head's up on whatever project I'm doing so you can come see me film it. You can even bring the baby. I'd love to meet her," David said.

"You sure?"

"Yep!"

"Ok," Marion said, wiping her eyes.

"Aw, don't do that, I'm going to cry."

"Sorry."

"Well, I guess I better go. Talk to you soon."

David became an honorary uncle to River and James and they would come to see him on the set or during rehearsals. James' little friends got a treat when David came to James' birthday parties and spent Christmas with them once or twice.

When Adam, Marion, James, River and Theta met the Doctor, Adam didn't want to become a Time Lord. He said that it was because of River and James but the other reason was he didn't want to lose his best friend. David was stunned when he met Theta and realized that his character was based on a real person.

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"It IS bigger on the inside!" David said when he walked up the ramp and looked around the control room. Adam watched while David walked around the console and looked at the rotor moving behind the glass. "Um, how is it that this control room looks exactly like…?"

"Who do you think gave them the idea? I don't know how they copied it from MY universe though," Theta said when he walked into the room and leaned on the support coral.

"Did you share things with them from the beginning?"

"Yep, well, most of it. There were some stories they thought were too scary for children so they never did them."

"You really know Sarah Jane Smith?"

"Yes, I do."

"And there really is a K-9?" David asked and Theta nodded.

"Mostly everything that ever was on the show is and was something I fought or someone I traveled with."

"You've regenerated nine times?" David asked and Theta nodded. "Wow."

""Is it ok if we took David for a short ride?" Adam asked.

"Oh, yes, I would love that!" David said, wide eyed.

"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell, I don't know." Theta said as they gave him sad puppy dog eyes and he laughed. "Alright, we'll take just ONE trip!"

"Yes!" Adam and David said at the same time and high fived each other. Rolling his eyes, Theta walked around the consol when he started pushing buttons, flipping switches, moving levers, unlocked the hand break then walked to the main lever and looked at David.

"Do you want to do this?"

"Ooooooooooooooooooooooh yes!" David said when he ran to Theta and placed his hand on the main lever. Theta sat on the jump seat when he nodded and Adam winked at David. Taking a deep breath, David pulled the main lever and laughed when the TARDIS dematerialized.

David was thrilled when he met Adam's son, David, and was honored that Adam named his son after him. Adam brought David to see him in plays and on the set and was proud when David announced he wanted to be an actor.

"Good night, Sweet Prince." Adam had taken David to see Hamlet when he was five years old and David's eyes went wide after the sword fight.

"No, David, don't die!" he shouted, standing on the seat and the audience laughed. Marion buried her face in her hands while Adam had to stop David from running onto the stage and carried him outside. He held David in his arms while he cried then looked up to see David coming down the hallway.

"Is he ok?" David asked when he knelt down and David looked at him. Sniffing, he wrapped his tiny arms around David's neck and David hushed him, rubbing his back.

"Guess I should have taken him to see you in the rehearsal," Adam said while David nodded and rocked David.

"Awwwwww, come on now, I'm ok," David said when he moved back and David looked at the fake blood on David's fencing jacket. "This is theatre blood."

"Oh," David said softly and David ruffled his hair. Standing up, he took David's hand as they went back stage and David was surprised when David picked him up and carried him onstage. David introduced the audience to David and they did a big bow and walked offstage. David did see him in a few more plays but Adam and David always teased him about what happened that night.

Adam sighed when he looked back at the screen and clicked on the file list. He had downloaded all his stories he had written about Theta and his adventures as he looked down the list then stopped at a file he didn't recognized.

"What is this?" he asked when he opened the file and saw THE TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION at the top of the page. He started reading the story then noticed that the first part of the story gave detailed accounts on how he met David and what they did while he was in his universe.

"Oi, old smelly socks, you ok? Your mind's racing," Alan thought while Adam set up a privacy block and showed him what he was reading. "Whoa, is that all true?"

"I don't know. I don't even remember writing this," Adam thought.

"Well, seeing that it's on your computer, you must have."

"If David were still alive, I could call him up and ask him. The sad thing is he never got to see New Gallifrey."

"I got an idea. Why don't you go get him?"

"He's dead."

"Then go to a time when he was alive and ask him to come with you."

"Well, in the summer of two thousand and nine, no one really knew for sure what he was doing."

"Ah, perfect, go get him!" Alan thought as Adam thought for a few minutes and smiled.

"Ok, let me go tell my brother what…"

"Why tell Old Stick in the Mud? Just go! I would if he was my friend!"

"You are such a bad influence on me, you know."

"Yep, I have ruined you!" Alan thought then did an evil laugh and dropped the privacy block. Adam felt his mind moving away while he looked at the screen then saw something that made his eyes grow wide. On the top of the last page of the first chapter was the conversation he just had with Alan and he closed the file, turned the computer off and left the room.

San Diego, California, 2009

David walked down the sidewalk while he looked around and his hands were in his pockets. He had come to San Diego to promote his new special for his show and was surprised how the American audience reacted to it. Looking at the sky, he thought about how much fun it would have been to have Adam with him and the looks on people's faces after seeing the two of them. It was three months since Adam had moved to his brother's universe and he wondered just how much Theta's universe was like his. Sighing, he walked onward when he went down an alley then stopped when he heard a familiar noise.

"No, it can't be," he whispered when the TARDIS materialized in front of him and he walked closer, placing his hand on the wood.

"Hello," the TARDIS said as he smiled and patted the wood.

"Hello, can I come in?" he asked then heard the locks click then stood back. Slowly he lifted his right arm when he snapped his fingers and the doors swung open. Grinning, he ran inside then up the ramp and the doors closed behind him. "Adam?"

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-eeeeeees?" he asked, peeking out from the other side of the console and David ran to him, giving him a hug. Patting each other's backs, they parted and Adam scratched the back of his neck. "Guess you're glad to see me!"

"Oh, yeah, how's Rose, uh, I mean Marion?"

"She's fine and so are the kids."

"What are you doing here? I thought the rift was sealed."

"It is. I found another way in."

"What are you on about?"

"Do you trust me?"

"Yeah, I do."

"Then what would you say if I told you that I live on Gallifrey?"

"I'd say you have been sucking on too much artron energy," he teased and Adam laughed. David watched while Adam walked around the console, pushing buttons, flipping switches, moving levers, unlocked the hand break then walked to the main lever and looked at David.

"After you," he said when David walked closer and placed his hand on the main lever. David pulled the main lever as he smiled and the TARDIS dematerialized. After a few minutes, they felt a bump when Adam looked at the screens then walked down the ramp and David followed him. Adam looked at him then placed his hands on the door handles and opened the doors. "Welcome to New Gallifrey."

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