I doubt anyone of you have read "Thirteen" by me, but at this point it will be taken down. This story was orginally written by me for the 13th Doctor and his companions, but no one read it and I really wanted to continue writing it cause I have so many great ideas for her. Just imagine that instead of Ten regenerating in the TARDIS he regenerated before he even got inside the TARDIS and the TARDIS was parked in the woods near her apartment. The whole automatic trust thing will make sense later if I keep writing this. Thank you for taking your time. This is the story of Eleven and Elise Racker XD
"Are you alright?" A girl hovered over him from where he laid on the ground in the woods, brows furrowed in concern. "You just sort of, um, I actually don't really know what happened."
They were surrounded by trees, probably in the middle of the woods somewhere. The light was just shining over some mountains in the distance, casting long and graceful shadows over everything. The trees black facades grew every minute the sun continued to come up, while the birds sang overhead the songs of the morning.
Suddenly the man sat up quickly, so fast he almost slammed directly into her head. "What do I look like?"
Her emerald green eyes studied him up and down. "Dark hair, green eyes, you look tall, some stubble there," She pointed to his chin. "You don't know what you look like?"
"Not ginger?" The Doctor asked in a disappointed tone, feeling around his head for hair as if it'd turn red under pure hope. "Are you sure?"
Now standing up in a half standing position, she looked almost hesitant as she nodded towards me in assurance. "You don't know what you look like and you… glowed."
"Yes!" Jumping to his feet excitedly, he bounced in front of her. "Regeneration, I died sort of. Wasn't fun, radiation," His eyes widen at her as my eyebrows raised, making unnecessary arm movements towards her.
"Um…" The girl backed away from him with caution. "As long as you're…" Her eyes scanned me up and down, gesturing to the Doctor with her hands while she stared at me frightenly. "Okay, I think i'll get going then."
The girl jumped off and what started as a quick walked soon turn into a run as he ran after her. Her dark brown hair flowed in the wind, catching the sun showing tints of red and light brown. Although she was built fairly small, she was quite fast. Much faster than he anticipated the little female human to be.
Luckily the Doctor was used to running.
Soon enough he stopped in front of her leading to her smacking directly into his chest and have him smile brilliantly. "Don't go, i'm not going to hurt you."
She backed away quickly into a nearby tree. "A lot of people say that, but not a lot of people glow. You could be cancerous for all I know, glowing? Yellow glowing?"
"Just a little bit of yellow, didn't hurt anything see?" He spread out my arms to show everything around us. "Didn't even hurt me much see?"
"Why should I believe you?"
"You shouldn't, but it's the truth." Putting his arms down he stepped forward and tapped a finger on her nose affectionately. Backing up from her by a few feet he continued on. "But I suppose if you don't I can't show you something amazing."
This clearly sparked her interest as her face changed from frightened to intrigued. "Show me, and maybe I'll believe you."
"You have to believe me first," Walking back towards the spot we came, he heard the leaves crunch under her weight as she followed him. A smug smile grew on this new mans face. "I mean a time machine is pretty unbelievable."
The girl stopped and he turned to face her. "What? A time machine? Really?"
The Doctor held out his hand for her to take. "I'll show you if you'd like."
A very slight smile crept onto her face as she gripped his hand tightly. "I'm trusting you,"
"Good,"
He lead her back to the spot they were and began to search for the TARDIS. Locating it about ten feet further into the woods, they began walking to it.
"A time machine," He held out his hand, but this time to present the magnificent machine to her, and smiled. "Take you anywhere at anytime."
"It's just a silly old police box," She let go and walked forward, touching the blue wood and running her hand down until she reached the handle. "Can I open it?"
Her hair flipped as she turned to look at him for the answer, to which he nodded.
Her small hands pull on the handle ever so slightly until it clicked open. She opened it slowly, clearly just expecting some blue paint inside of a wooden box. But she saw more.
What she saw was a box that was bigger on the inside, with warm, dark colors illuminating the console. He recently redecorated the interior to something very different.
The background to the wall dark brown with glowing amber circles scattered around, huge weird shaped columns hung down from the ceiling to the floor. There was a muddle console, flooded with buttons and levers and random things, another large things stuck out of the center- except now it was clear and glowed a bright green. Hallways ran off from the main room, just plain brown walls as she could see from where she stood. The metal, grated floor clinked as she walked forward near the glowing green light pump thing, head turning in every direction.
He hopped into the blue box with her, and stood by the console as she gazed around.
"A time machine," She smiled warmly at the strange man, clearly impressed. "A time machine that's bigger on the inside."
"Oh yes," Walking over to where she stood at the console, he straightened the bottom my suit and then looked down at it. It was the same pinstriped suit he was wearing, but it was tattered and torn from the events from the few hours previous. So he shrugged off the tattered jacket and placed it on a bench near the controls.
"TARDIS, Time And Relative Dimensions In Space, meaning not only can we go any time, but anywhere." She looked up at him as he spoke and took the moment to study her.
About average height, roughly 5'7 (67 cm), brown hair, blue eyes, thin, smally built, has a scar on the back of her left hand, and gave off a very sweet yet brave vibe. Even when she was wearing a black sweater and blue snowmen pants. After All she got into a box that appeared very small with a man she watched glow in the woods.
"What's your name?" She asked me, poking the very old time lords chest. "Impressive man that glows with a time traveling box has to have a name."
"The Doctor,"
"Doctor what?" Raising her eyebrows she walked around him toward the console. "Doctor who?"
"Just, the Doctor." Shimming his way around the console, he closed the TARDIS doors that were previously open, then turned back to sit down on the bench next to her. "And your name?"
"Elise, Elise Racker." The brunette whispered and soon continued on louder as she touched a red handle. "What's this?"
"Blows us up," Jumping up, he guided her hand away from the lever back to her side. "Suggest you don't touch that. "Are we in America?" He continued on.
"No England, I moved here two weeks ago, I still have the american accent." Elise explained as she stole his seat on the spinny chair. "Where you from? When you from?"
He snapped his fingers, pointed at her and smiled, she was catching on. "Let's not talk about me, let's talk about you! Why move to England? Very far from America, won't you miss your family?"
Elise's expression dropped drastically for a moment, until she tried to mask it poorly by giving the Doctor a half smile. "They're gone. All of them,"
A pang of sorrow shot through his chest because he knew. The Doctor knew what "gone" was, they were gone, actually properly gone.
The Doctor walked towards her slowly as she looked up at him, putting his hand on her shoulder. "I'm so sorry,"
Shrugging, she tried to make her voice get back up to normal level. "It's alright I guess, I mean you didn't do it. There were only my parents left anyways."
"What happened to the rest of them before that, if you don't mind?"
"These things… all over the world. Metal men, and metal… I don't even know how to describe them. Sorta odd shaped, like a triangle with one point rounded and a few little balls on the bottom half of it." Shrugging again, she continued on. "I've only heard stories, I was alive I just don't remember what happened."
She suddenly stopped talking to him, an uneasy feeling coming over her as she turned around to face him. Elise's facade changed from upset yet calm to uneasy and confused. "Why would I trust you with that? Why would I tell you that? Why am I here?"
"You wanted to come in, I let you in."
"But why would I? I mean it was a police box, a small tiny police box, you could've killed me for all I knew, but I went anyways. Why do I trust you?" It was a question more directed to herself than him, and he very well knew that so he stayed silent and let her scan him over.
Dark hair, light green eyes, some stubble on his chin, tall, about 6 foot (72 cm) and totally unique. Very different from any man she had ever seen in her life, but really what struck her most was his eyes.
They were a very nice color, a deep green, but they carried so much weight to them. They were heavy with the days he lived and the things he lost. Dark from the pain of his life, yet light. A burning light behind all the darkness that was just so simply kind. Dark, light, sorrow, loss but mostly kindness- that was what the Doctor was. Kind.
"You're kind, that's why." She answered her own question, not needing him to even breathe a word. "Because who would run after a stranger and comfort her? Who would show her a machine that he probably values quite a lot? Only someone who's very kind, very trustworthy, very good."
"Is that right?"
"Yes," Elise whispered to him.
They were so close to each other now, only inches apart from each other. The Doctor stared into her eyes and she stared back, because they were both intrigued with the person in front of them. What seemed to be a very brave girl, and a very kind man. But they'd have to prove it wouldn't they? It wasn't enough to stare into each other eyes and read each other like the big E on an eyesight test at the Doctors office. The Doctor knew by the way she stood, the way she looked, she was curious and brave-although also very scared. And she knew he was a man, a good man, a very broken, good man.
All of that from a simple glance.
The Doctor backed away from her now and smiled. It was kind of a goofy smile, but also very charming and adorable. In all honestly the Doctor didn't look a day over 25 in this regeneration.
"I like your PJs" He pointed down to her attire as a blush came over her cheeks from being embarrassed. "Must be winter, eh?"
"Christmas eve actually," She smiled at him, pulling her sweater tighter over her chest as if she was cold. "I should probably put on proper clothes."
"There's a wardrobe," The Doctor pointed to one of the many hallways leading from the console room. "Many outfits, some jeans and things if you'd like."
"Why so nice to a girl you barely know?" Raising her eyebrows she followed his hand and walked down the hall.
"Second door to the left!" He screamed.
In reality, the Doctor wasn't sure why he trusted the girl so much. Wasn't sure what intrigued him about her. He wasn't even going into his usual regeneration routine, involving trying several different foods and tearing apart the wardrobe to find an outfit to fit his new taste. He didn't even seem motivated as he looked down at a boring old suit he had worn in the previous regeneration. But that girl… was something else.
An american accent, dead family, trust of a completely mad stranger she watched glow in the wood. Insane. Elise must be completely mad, or perhaps he was just that charming this time around. In his tenth body he had people falling over him. Not so much nine though, with his big ears.
The Doctor turned and looked down at the colorful buttons on the console. Many people trusted him without reason, went on to travel with him with only the promise of at least adventure- and didn't even ask if he was lying. But never once before, had he trusted a human he had just met and didn't even know for twenty minutes. Something about her made him feel… whole.
Elise walked back out of the hallway, now sporting black skinny jeans, black combat boots and a grey long sleeved shirt. Along her arm was a draped purple jacket which he immediately recognized and didn't know how it got in there.
It was Rose's.
He wouldn't take it from her though, perhaps it was rude- although rudeness never bothered him in the past. The Doctor actually liked her choice of outfit and thought it was particularly cute.
Elise held up a small red digital camera to her face. "Smile Doctor,"
His eyes widened in surprise as the flash went off. As she went back through to look at the photo she couldn't help but laugh and then turn to show him. "You look ridiculous."
It was the first time he saw himself in this body, and if he hadn't looked like a deer in headlights, he actually had to admit he was quite handsome himself- hopefully. It wasn't a good picture of him and he wished that he didn't look nearly that ridiculous regularly.
"Elise, delete that." He tried to snatch the camera from her but she turned away and shoved it in her pocket. "Where did you find that anyways?"
"I had it, I always carry it, even if I'm in my pajamas." She shrugged and sat down on a stool next to a rail near the console. "I should get a better one, but I can't afford it. I want to be a photographer."
The Doctor couldn't help but smile at the proudness in her voice, that is until it dropped when he heard a scream outside. He turned his head towards the closed- but not locked- TARDIS doors, and ran towards them.
Elise followed soon after him, peeking out under his arm as he looked outside for the source of the noise. "What is it?"
Picking up his arm he pointed towards a burning building caused by something crashing into it. "There."
Elizabeths eyes widened. "That's my apartment building. My cats in there!"
She immediately darted towards the burning building and began to run inside. The Doctor couldn't do much to stop her, considering he didn't really expect her to take off in a run to save her cat.
Elise ran inside an open glass door on the first level, grabbed her cat, and got out within a minute. She was fine and so was Sophie.
Sophie was a small grey tabby cat with a pink nose. Sophie had big green eyes, that could make even the coldest man melt. She only looked about a year old though, a young feline, but she was five. Elise accepted this and quite enjoyed her youthfulness, finding it very cute.
The Doctor didn't find Sophie cute in the least.
He hated cats. Absolutely despised- perhaps because he once went to a planet where cats took over but that was besides the point. But with a mixture of the guilt because Elise's apartment building was burning down, she had no family, and the largeness of Elise's and Sophie's eyes when they asked if the cat could stay inside the TARDIS for a bit, made him give in.
"Now," He clapped his hand together, which apparently signaled Sophie to come over and rub against his leg. "One, get this thing off me. Two, Elise we're going to find out what smashed into your apartment."
Elise picked up the small animal and held it in her arms, scratching behind it's ears. "Sorry," She mumbled then continued animatedly, her arms lifting up and down almost dropping the cat. "When I got up close I saw it was large, circular, like an alien spaceship!"
The Doctor laughed at her childishness. "Probably is,"
"Really? We're going to fight aliens Doctor?" Elise looked extremely excited, with a giant grin on her face.
He nodded as she put the cat down.
Elise probably didn't notice the slight sound difference in the TARDIS changing, since she hadn't been there that long. But it did.
It changed to a song so sweet and melodic, so warm and full of hope. The TARDIS liked her, and he smiled to that because he liked her too. He listened to the new song as he continued out the door. He ripped off the tie though, and threw on a red bow tie he had in front of the wardrobe.
The Doctor didn't have time to change completely, but at least the boring old suit was now upgraded with a cool bow tie.
Elise waited for his by the door, and he grabbed her hand and walked out as the new song rang out in his mind.
