Prologue

Note- I do not own Doctor Who. At all.

A blue box on the side of a road.

A constant phenomenon, the subject of mischief and source of entertainment for children, the box has sat on the same corner of the same street in the same city in Texas for twenty years.

Never moving.

Never changing.

Always watching.

Always waiting.

Several miles away, a boy wakes up in a farmers house with an unwritten book. The farmer feeds and clothes him, and they speak of wonder and words, of magic and science. The boy explains that he can't seem to remember anything. The farmer, not knowing what to do, dubs the boy 'The Lonely Professor'.

On the corner of the street of the small town, the seemingly ageless box appears to shudder in anticipation.

In the farmers house, the man questions the 'Professor', asking him relentlessly about his past, attempting to jog his memory. As he questions him, the boys mind is filled with images of a vast, orange sky, and rolling red plains. The man asks where he's from.

The boys mind sharpens, and he speaks a single word:

"Gallifrey."