It couldn't work...could it?

Christy sat in the black cab, anticipating the jolts in the roads as it raced towards their destination. Her bag was leant against her knees, almost overflowing with rolls of paper, full of scribble blueprinting the plans for the most fantastical thing she'd ever heard of; let alone actually done. She glanced down at it, affectionately. This could be either something amazing...or something disappointing. And though she wanted to bank on the former, the doubts of the latter still boiled in the forefront of her mind. 

London was a nice city. It was large - much more busy than the understated academic bustle of Oxford - but still had that same English feel about it. Terraced houses blurred past the cab windows, faintly aglow under the yellow lights of street lamps which were just beginning to come alive as dusk fell. The sky had darkened slightly and maybe it was just wishful thinking, but somehow it felt full of promise. 

The cab drew to a halt.

She thanked the cab driver, paid hastily and tumbled out into the dimming streets. Before her, it stood proudly. The time traveller's house; shut to the public but not to her. Or Jeffrey. Hopefully, he would be waiting inside.

Pushing away her nerves, she knocked, before opening the door anyway and striding inside. The lights were on and Jeffrey was sat besides the contraption they'd been jointly working on for ages. Everyone had said they were crazy but now, they were about to be proved wrong. Her face broke into a broad smile as she glimpsed back and forth between Jeffrey and the magnificent, gold-lined machine. 

"I know it sounds crazy," she began, grinning, "But it looks even better here than it did in the lab! Let's get this thing powered up and see what happens!"

She had been slightly more sceptical than her dark-haired colleague but here, in the alleged time traveller's very house, it seemed possible. In fact, more than possible; it seemed likely. Definite. She shrugged off her coat and draped it over her bag, pushing them into the corner of the room, preparing herself.