A/N: I had started this previously, but I decided to post it here. The fact that there is so much uploaded on the same day is a result of that, not of me uploading extremely quickly. In fact, I can be extremely slow at that. I'm not good with long stories normally, but I'm actually making an effort. Please at least try to be patient with me.

Also, I don't own anything involved in this story, except for the plot and the characters I make up.

Thank you and enjoy.


Prologue


"Bye, Lauren. See you tomorrow!" someone shouts from inside the depths of the eighth grade hallway. Lauren doesn't seem to notice. In other cases, she would have turned around immediately, to see who it was, and possibly respond. Today was not an ordinary day. Lauren wanted to get home as fast as possible, because she was hoping the something extraordinary would be on the Official Doctor Who website today, though she doubted it. There's never anything major, thought Lauren, only videos, and maybe a few stories here and there.

Exiting the school building was always a challenge because there were always so many people waiting for a bus, or to be picked up. Lauren only had to walk about six blocks to get to her house, so she just weaved in and out of the crowd until she came to an open area to walk through. She walked on the grass, because the sidewalks were crowded, though not nearly as bad as the school. Looking around her, she saw what she saw everyday on her way home. The school, people, cars, buses, but today, there was something different. Nothing is ever different, Lauren mused. This school never changes.

Deciding to explore, Lauren walked slowly towards what she believed to be a large piece of plastic strung up to the building, and connecting to a nearby tree. It looked as though it was swaying in the wind, but she soon realized that wasn't what it was. She walked closer, cautiously, and touched it. Her hand went partially through it, and she yanked her hand back as fast as she could. "What was that?" she asked to no one in particular. Thinking it was safe, since her hand was still in one piece, Lauren slowly and timidly walked through whatever it was.

Emerging on the other side, completely unharmed, she peered around to take in her new surroundings. I must be going mad, she thought, nothing's changed. The same school, people, cars, buses, everything! Lauren slowly turned around and put her hand out again. Nothing happened. She walked back in the direction she had just come from, but whatever it was, if it was ever there, was gone. "Oh, great. I am crazy," Lauren murmured to herself as she continued her walk back to her house.

"Dad, I'm home," Lauren announced as she walk threw her front door. She tossed her backpack aside and went straight to her room. As she opened her bedroom door, the usual gust of cold air hit her. Her room was always colder than the rest of the house. She then picked up her laptop and sat comfortably on her bed before opening it. Lauren then typed in her password and the laptop screen changed from a bland, blue background to a complicated and colorful design.

Opening Google Chrome, she typed in the web address for the site that she most wanted to see. She was expecting to see the homepage with the Doctor's picture in the middle of it, as usual, but her computer could apparently not find the website. Lauren checked the website she had typed in thoroughly, just in case she had typed something wrong. She hadn't. Her gaze then shifted to the icon at the bottom of her screen that showed if she was connected to the internet or not. She was.

Confused, Lauren went to Google and typed in "Doctor Who". All she got in response were some completely unrelated links. Unreal, she thought. How does it not exist? Lauren then checked her "Favorites" in hopes of finding something to do with the Doctor, as there should be. Nothing. "No way!" she exclaimed, angry at her computer for not knowing what Doctor Who is.

Lauren then burst out of her room, pulling her jacket on. As she reached her parents' bedroom, she asked, "Hey Dad, do you know a show called Doctor Who?"

"No. Should I?" her father merely responded.

"No, never mind. I'm going out," she said quickly and walked out of the house, almost slamming the door behind her.