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It's taken a little while to find, but this place definitely fits the description of an odd collection of buildings - so, a blue police telephone box materialises in a conventient open space near the farmhouse, ad a blonde head pokes out.

"Hello, the farm!" She calls.

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"It's too bloody big," she says grumpily. "Sometimes I hear noises and wake up convinced that blasted city is still in here somewhere."

"Pretty much," she says. "Actually, it's not a phone box, it's just a blank grey cubicle, but the chameleon circuit got stuck and I've never been able to fix it. It's not so much inside as. . . it's dimensionally transcendental. The inside and the outside are in different dimensions."

"Yes, well, want to trade? I've got a really nice plane and a brilliant pilot, you know."

"There's only one penalty for unauthorised use of a TARDIS," she says, with a wink. "And you wouldn't like it."

"Well, can't blame a girl for trying," Babs shrugs lightly. "How does a girl get her hands on one of these things anyway?"

"Of course not," she says. "Unfortunately, you'd need to get one on Gallifrey and that planet no longer exists."

"In that case I guess I can reassure Zinda that she's not out of a job after all."

"Zinda?" She asks.

She did say she's not that much of a fangirl.

"She's that brilliant pilot I mentioned. Good woman to have at your back in a fight, too."

"Always good to have people who've got your back," she agrees, and leans back against a console, looking at Babs.

"So. Any idea what you're going to do with me?"

"Well, at some point I'm going to grill you for information. I imagine you've got quite a bit of experience with situations at least somewhat like ours so that'll be helpful. But for now I think you'll mostly be lowly transportation for a while. Teleportation is a good deal faster than flying around, and I don't have to worry about landing zones with you."

"I can do that," she says. "And we should patch you into the TARDIS computer systems as well - I'm fairly sure that with a while to study up, you'll be able to make this puppy sit up and beg."

"That sounds like an awful lot of fun," Barbara grins. And she means it.

"I think it is," she smiles, "but you might change your mind - then again, I doubt it."

"You're probably right," Barbara laughs. "Too much of a challenge not to try."

"Never step away from a challenge," she says approvingly. "That's my kind of gal!"

"What can I say? I like pushing myself."

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