Most people, when they see a strange blue box sitting on a corner, they keep walking. To busy with their lives to investigate this object. Then, theirs me. I ain't smart, and I don't clam to be special. I just think differently. Notice things others don't, for instance, a blue police box on the corner of my street in America. I was walking to my friends house when I spotted it. I stared at for three minuets, circling to look at every plank and nail until I ran my fingers along it. my skin tingled as I felt its texture.

"Now, how did something like you," I said as my other hand raised to feel the paint. ", get in a place like this."

"Oie!" I heard from behind me. I turn to see a man in a brown trench coat and- Oh Jebis It's the Doctor! He slides in-between me and the police box that I can only assume was the TARDIS. With speed and precision, he unlocked the door and steps inside. Before the door completely shuts, he popes his head out and looked at me perplexed. "Don't you have some place to be?"

"Yeeeaaah." I said, elongating the vowels.

"Why'd you stop?" I tried not to get exited over his British accent.

"Big blue box appears out o f no where, and I'm supposed to go about my business, pretending it's not there?" I say, adjusting my back pack. I acted like it was nothing but, to stumble upon someone like this was confusing, exiting, and scary. but that just helps the exiting part.

"Huh." He looks away for a second to think about the answer, rubbing his top teeth with his tong. "Alright then, goodbye." He swung back into his TARDIS without further acknowledgment.

I step back and watch the box fade from my eyes. The sound of it winding away echoed in the air. When it had disappeared completely, I stomped the ground.

"Dang it! I didn't tell him my name!"

I spent some time standing in the square the box was in before continuing on my journey to Jewels house. I said I'd be there by now. Still, every now and again, I looked down at my fingers, rubbing them together to reignite that feeling. It couldn't be him and yet, their was no way it could be any other. The Doctor. THE Doctor, walking around my stomping ground! Though, he wasn't walking. he was running. Why was he running? You only run when your in a hurry or being -."

"Rustle, Rustle" I stop. The sound came from a bush I just passed. Startled, I turn to look at the shrub. It stood there, a match set to the other shrubs lining the walk way to a town house. If something alive was in the thing, I shouldn't disturb it. I turn to keep walking.

"Rustle, Rustle." I look back. The bush had moved from the line and planted it's self at my heals, In the flip'n concrete! That's when a simple equation formed in my mind. Doctor + unexplainable even equals Run Like A Kenyan! I booked down the side walk, ignoring the burn of exercise. I glance back to see The bush half way between me and where it last was. another glance would expose it was gaining speed. Why'd he have to leave? Now of all times when I need him. I start to run backwards to keep an eye on the demon shrub when I realize, it's not moving. At least now, when I'm looking at it. I stop running backward and star walking it, leaving it half way down the block. Seeing it from a distance made me feel silly. It was such a small thing.

"Keep looking forward." I almost looked back at the person saying it. "I'll explain once your safe. Just do exactly as I say and you'll be fine. Nod if you understand." I nod. "Good. Now, slowly start backing up." With caution and a lot of bumping, we finish the block and begin crossing the street. No sooner did we get to the corner, a car speeds by. For a split second, my eyes, our eyes were blocked from the bush's view.

"RUN!" We both scream. Dashing down the next block, I look around wildly for this plant, hoping to slow it down. I'm temporarily pulled from my panic to see the Doctor running with me. He came back! Suddenly, I get jerked to the right. We slip into an open garage, then the TARDIS.

He runs strait to the controls as I slow to a stop on the walk way. immediately, He's pressing and turning things.

"Hold onto something!" He pushes a button and the hole thing shook madly. I grab for the guide rails and hold them tight. The TADIS rumbling and tumbling, throwing us about until, finally, it stops. "There you are! Out of harms way, just like I said." Spouts the Doctor, prancing over to me with a smile. I'm still holding the rails as he approaches. "Common now." He says mothering, helping me detach from the metal poll. "Off you go." I slowly unlatch, still shaken from turbulence and running for my life. I just as slowly look up at The Doctor as he examines my hands with his sonic screw driver.

"Y-you. " I stutter out. " Your ... real!"

"Well, I should hope so." He hold my hand up to me face. " There! All better! Now-" He gets that stern look in his eyes. "I need you to tell me-"

"Where are we?"

"Space. Now, I need-" I run from his hands to the TARDIS doors and swing them open. There, before me was the cosmos. Stars and galaxies danced and glimmered at me feet.

"It's beautiful." I say, totally taken. I back up and turn around, beholding the entire inside of the TARDIS. "And this -" I walk over to the nearest support trunk, caressing it. "This is magnificent!" I give the TARDIS a hug as the Doctor strolls over to me, hands in his pockets, grinning from ear to ear. He seemed vary entertained. "And you!" I suddenly point at him, giving him a confused look. I release the TARDIS and run hug the Doctor.

"OHF!" The blow was hard enough to take his hand out of his pockets but not his smile.

"Your wonderful." I give him a squeeze before grabbing his head and pulling it down for examining. "And so real."

"Ow, Ouch! Hay!" He stepped back, taking my hands of his skull. "Careful! That's where I keep my brain." I giggle. "So… all this," The doctor waves his hand in a giant circle behind him. ", Your okay with that?" I nod. He straitens up and looks right into my eyes. "Why do you keep saying I'm real?" Wha oh.

"Well... Why was I being chased by a possessed lawn shrub?"

"Heh, possessed lawn shrub, that funny- well, technically It was an alien using a holographic camouflage to fallow you and take your residual energy but yeah. possessed lawn shrub."

"What?" I put my hands over my mouth, opening them back up for my next sentence. "Why me?" He started to walk back up to the control console.

"Because, um" he wags his finger in the air. "What's your name?"

"Nichole"

"Because Nichole, you've done what few have ever done before. You spotted a strange blue box and came to investigate." He starts fiddling with the controls again.

"How dose that make me a target for shrub aliens?" The Doctor runs to the other side of the console. I fallow.

"The Meron-Tha feed off of plant residual energy. Not that dangerous, just takes what's extra, but!," He runs to the other side, still twisting and pulling things. "The one you encountered was an infant. Just a couple months old. All he knows how to do now is hunt and hide. Genetic parent trait."

"They hunt plants?" The Doctor pauses to find the right words.

"Well... It's different on their planet. When it sensed the residual energy of the TARDIS on you, well.," he smiled ",You can't really blame it from wanting a taste." He Hits a part of the control panel with a small mallet and the TARDIS shakes a bit. "They were supposed to have stayed in their Nursery pods till they got to their home -," The doctor squinted at the ships monitor as he gradually rotated a knob near by. "But somethiiiiinnnggg HA! There! Right there! See?" I lean in as he point at the screen. " An asteroid sent the pod off course and into Earth, damaging it's Nutrition Regulator! No wonder the little buggers are so hungry."

"Can't they just feed off the plants we have here?" I say, tired of being silent through his monologue.

"Nope - Well, they could try but, most of your plants that do have enough residual energy use it to grow fruit and such. I'm the Doctor, by the way." he takes my hand and shakes it.

"I know." I say in my head.

"And I'm sorry," that can't be good. "I'm so, sorry but, you can't go home. Not until I sort this out. It's not safe. If I did let you go home, everything you touched would be in danger."

"You said they only eat residual energy!" I swing his hand off me and take a step back from him. "Extra stuff."

"I know." He said with that sympathetic tone, hand back in his pockets. "But their just infants. They don't know when to stop taking. If I can't find and fix their Nutrition Regulator they WILL resort to eating Earth plants and then," He breathed in deeply through his teeth. "Well, their goes the planet. That's why - !" He snaps out of his dismal tone and jumps over to another control panel. " -I need you to tell me if you've seen anything like this ells where."

"Yeah, I was chased by a laws mower just the other day."

"Oh, common." he pouts. "There has to be something new, something that wasn't around the last couple months." I give it some thought this time around. It was hard for me to think that far back. I'm the kind of person that lives day by day. but, unexpectedly, I cam up with something.

"Therese an empty lot of dirt three miles down my street. It was always barren but, lately it's been teaming with plant life."

"Brilliant!" the doctor types in the coordinates.

"So that's it then?"

"Hm?" The Doctor turns around from the consul.

"That's why I'm here? Not because I was in danger. But for information?"

"Yeah, well ... ya know... that to."