Falling from the stars, a lone woman tries not to break down where she stands and keeps her mind focused on the task at hand.
Machinery around her ablaze and spinning out of control. She runs around flipping various switches and turning random knobs, controlling the chaos as if it were almost a dance.
One two three four...
Family dead, planet burned to ashes.
One two three four...
'Why...' The female thought.
"WHERE AM I TO GO FROM HERE?" she shouted to the heavens trembling with anger and sadness.
One two three four...
That is when she heard it... the singing.
The horrendous beating of drums could not be heard over the beautiful chorus beckoning her.
As if on auto pilot she absentmindedly turned her TARDIS towards the singing planet ahead of her. Exactly what this planet was or who inhabited it, she did not know. Only that she had to get there.
With a crash she landed onto the frozen wasteland of a planet.
She ran to the doors, the song getting louder with every step.
When she flung the doors open she was greeted by a very peculiar looking creature.
It lifted up an orb to her which lit up as it said,
"welcome miss, to the Ood world. You are our, and many other worlds, Hope."
And with that it reached the orb to her head and said "goodnight" before everything went black.
Cold… so very cold... Bad dreams, laughing... Laughing?
The singing had stopped. The drums now calling to her louder than before
One two three four...
After 600 years of being lulled to sleep, on the subzero temperatures of the planet of the Ood, the crimson haired female, opened her piercing and exotic green eyes. Surrounding her, the Ood elders, and one very confused looking man.
"Who are you?" he asked the woman before turning to the Ood "Who is she?"
"She is in every meaning, Hope." the Ood told the man patently. "She will be going with you on this journey Doctor."
"No, she can't. I've lost too many already" the Doctor furrowed his brows.
"She is not the same, she is hidden behind a false name, she controls the time around her, she WILL go" the Ood told the doctor
The man's dark brown eyes lit up, "no... She can't be" he stood up quickly and walked towards Hope just as fast.
He held out his hands to her and tugged her slender but toned body to an upright position.
Letting go of hopes hands he started walking around her examining her muttering to himself continuously, "you can't be..."
"BUT YOU ARE!" he pulled her into a hug. Not one that showed any feeling past being beyond relieved that he was no longer the last of his kind.
Still, Hope giggled. She hadn't had such a comforting hug since the peaceful times in Gallifrey.
The doctor released her from the warm embrace but still holding her arms as if afraid to let go and be alone again, and just stared at her, smiling.
"Well come now doctor! We must stop the end of time!" Hope laughed.
The Doctor's smile vanished instantly and he released her arms
"Right, let's go than!" he grabbed her hand and they took off running, into the poorly disguised TARDIS and off to the planet Earth. All the while Hopes mind was plagued with one thing that got louder and louder.
One two three four
One two three four