( What if there were more Time Lords out there, hiding, not knowing what they are? Just a story looking at another way the Doctor's life could have gone. )
( I'm going to have a song for each chapter and I'd like to see if you guys can guess how it fits.
Here is this chapter's song: Long Live by Taylor Swift watch?v=p-DyUCdqnKQ )
~ Come children, I have a tale to tell you. A tale of pain, and lonesomeness. A tale of the lost. A tale of the gained. A tale of happiness and friendship. I will tell you about a man who travels, always alone yet loved more than most. He is a man who saves lives. He has saved yours, and mine. This, is my story~
Being the oldest orphan at the Timelock Orphanage it was my job to take care of the younger children. I set the plates out, all with the same amount of food, around the table. Out the window the sun was starting the set. A smile spread across my face, it was my favorite time of the day. I walked out the front door, my board in hand. Kneeling down I tapped my boots, turning the magnets on. I slipped the fingerless gloves on my hands before mounting the board. As usual the boots locked onto the board's magnetic signature, making it easier for me to stay on the board, though it was still easy to fall off, which is why I had the gloves.
Sensing me, the board came to life. The magnets lifted me into the air and I was off, over the neighborhood. "DINNER!" I called down to the kids in the streets. A quarter of them smiled up at me before running back to the orphanage. I rounded the neighborhood a couple times before returning myself. Coming up to the door I knelt down on the board, making it turn upside down. I aimed it for the door before letting go, falling to the ground. The board drifted just inside before shutting itself off. I let out a yelp of excitement as I stretched my limbs out. The magnets caught me about four feet from the ground. I hovered for a second before the field in the gloves and boots shut off, letting me land on my feet.
"Nice trick!" A guy yelled at me as he ran by.
"Well, he was in a hurry." I mumbled as I entered the building. The others were already stuffing their faces. Our orphanage was much better off than most. Whoever started it left a lot of money for the children, but even so we had to make it last as long as possible so we had just the basics. My board and the magnets in the gloves and boots I earned myself from savings from my job.
I sat down at the table with the others. "Hey, did you hear? Sylus is being adopted" A girl named Penny asked me.
"That's great." I said as I shoved some pasta into my mouth.
Sylus nodded, then, as usual he completely changed the topic. "Did you see the blue police box they built at the park"
Penny shook her head. "That's crazy, they haven't built anything knew at the park for years."
"Well, it was there, I saw it, and it wasn't there yesterday."
We ate our dinner, discussing the blue box and how it could have gotten in the park. Soon we were cleaning up. In the kitchen we had our usual soap war with the staff. Half of them were former orphans here so they weren't really strict about rules.
After the soap war we cleaned up and helped the little ones bath and go to bed.
The rest of us slowly shuffled to the other bed room and into our beds.
Before going to bed I did my best to get the dirt off my face, out of my blue eyes, and out of my curly red hair. This Earth has been farmed so much that all that's left is chemicals and dirt, which is hard to get rid of.
"Hey Bo?" It was Sylus
"Yeah?" I answered.
"What will they do when you leave?"
"What do you mean"
"You're almost 18, that means you will be going to camp, you know, where they decide what you are going to be."
"Well, then Penny will take care of the others, she's 14, that's older than I was when it became my job."
"Right..."
Eventually the others all fell asleep and I was alone, staring out the window, at the stars. I couldn't help feeling that out there was were I belonged. It was like the stars were calling me. I wanted out, this world was a trap. I couldn't leave the Earth though, because we didn't have the money for rocket tickets. Besides I couldn't just leave the kids behind. I finally took the gloves off my hands and stuffed them in my pockets, they wouldn't be much help while I slept. The way they work, along with the boots, was by tapping into my minds electrical signals, so just my the thought they would catch me before I hit the ground. The more metal the higher up they could catch me. Makes sense, right? The problem is that they won't work if I don't think about them catching me, so I have to still be very careful.
The next morning I sat on the porch with Penny, playing tic-tac-toe, an old game.
"Did you hear that the cyborgs have a DNA scan now, they just have to point it at you and they know what species you are"
I nodded, it creeped me out so I didn't think about it much.
Speaking of the cyborgs, the robot men came walking down the street at that time. Penny hid behind me, shivering.
"Penny, it's alright, they are only looking for the Time Lord." The robots lifted up their hands and the scanner scanned Penny and me.
"Time Lord DNA detected" they said together. I felt my heart drop, but I was also confused, because both of us are human.
"Penny get inside now" I said as I slipped on my gloves.
"Delete, delete" The robots
"Yeah, Yeah I hear ya." I said as I stepped on my board. Off I went, but both the robots followed, shooting at me. It was a bit of a game to me, the goal, don't get shot. If I win I live, if I lose I die.
At the park I saw the blue box that Sylus had been talking about. The door was opened slightly so I glided in, hopped off my board, and locked the door. That's when I had a mini conniption about the inside being bigger than the outside. My conniption was interrupted by someone unlocking the door. I freaked out and hid in some sort of closet, my board following me, where I turned it off so no one would notice me.
The area started to fill with a whooshing sound.