A/N: Hi, thanks for checking out our story! I've been planning it with my co-author acrossdimensions for a while, and it's been really fun to write so far. So just a heads up, this will be a 'fan travels into the Doctor's universe' fan fiction. We have about seven chapters already written, so expect a new update every week for those chapters.

Hope you enjoy reading The Cracks In Time!

Chapter 1

And So It Begins

It's pitch black outside as I walk down the sidewalk. The air is crisp, and everything is silent. Well, except me, who's humming the tune of a song called 'An Awful Lot of Running' by Chameleon Circuit. I then suddenly jump when I hear a faint buzzing noise. I listen closely and try to make out the sound. Then I realize that it's my phone. I sigh and roll my eyes. Ugh, I'm an idiot, I tell myself. I reach into my back pocket for my out-dated flip phone and check the caller ID, which read 'Mom'.

"Yeah?" I ask, hoping that she wouldn't rant to me about how I was supposed to be home two hours ago.

"Don't 'yeah' me, it's eleven o'clock at night! Where have you been?!" she screeches into the phone.

"Mom, calm down. I was just at Claire's house for a couple of hours. You remember Claire, right? I told you I was going there before I left!"

"Well I don't remember! I thought something might have happened to you!"

I scoff, "It's not like I'm going to be taken off the street and turned into a Cyberman, if that's what you're thinking." You can hear the sarcasm dripping from my voice.

"No, that's not what I was thinking. And don't use that tone with me, young lady!"

"Okay, mom. I'm on my way home right now. See you in a few minutes," I hung up.

Why do mom's have to be so overprotective? I was just at my friends house. It's not like I was out getting wasted at a club. I told her before I left that I'd be going over to Claire's. Though, she was in the shower when I told her, so that's probably why she didn't hear me. I could have sworn she replied, though. Maybe it was just my imagination. I made a mental note to call her from now on.

I tell myself to walk slowly, trying not to trip. I can be very clumsy at times, especially in the dark, like now. I roll my eyes, I really need to buy one of those key-chain flashlights for times like this. I take a few more steps past another alley-way, and then stop. I back-track and turn my head to stare at a large crack on the brick wall of the alley-way. It's faintly glowing. My eyes widen and my mouth drops open. "Impossible," I whisper breathlessly. I walk towards it with caution, but abruptly stop.

"Claire," I shout. "If this is your idea of a joke, it's not funny!"

Silence.

"You can stop now!"

Silence.

"Alright, fine. Two can play at this game," I mutter, getting irritated with my friend.

I'm close enough to reach out and touch it, and that's exactly what I do. In an instant, it starts glowing brighter, almost blinding. "Two parts of time and space that should never have touched," I say, quoting that line from the episode 'The Eleventh Hour'. "I've finally lost it," I whisper, laughing breathlessly. The crack keeps glowing brighter, like it's waiting for me to step into it and see what's on the other side.

"Should I go through it?" I ask the darkness of the otherwise empty alley-way.

The moment I ask that, the crack glows even brighter, as if answering my question. "Yes," I can hear a whisper in the back of my mind.

I shrug my shoulders, "Ah, what the hell." I slowly reach my hand into the light, and swiftly take it out. I take a deep breath and poke my hand back in, then my head, and lastly the rest of my trembling body, letting myself be engulfed in the white, blazing light.

And that's when it hits me.

I can't believe what my eyes are seeing.

I am seeing her.