Hi people! Re-uploading this with a few small changes. An important note is that this is NOT a Doctor/OC, at the moment for soon to be obvious reasons, and it never will be. There might be some other romance though ;)
Now get ready for an extreamly long story before it is all finished, if ever...
An Unearthly Child
A white room with walls covered in round things cut out into the wall stood void of life. In the middle of the room was an advanced looking console and around the room were some more furniture that made it look a bit more lived in. A chair, a table, a clock, it wasn't much but it was home to three people, two of which were just coming back. The doors opened and two girls hurried inside, the older stopping for a moment to make sure they weren't followed. The older of the two, looking to be about fifteen, had short brown hair and eyes that seemed to glitter with starlight. She pulled her jacket off and dropped it on a table while rubbing her arms as if cold.
"You still haven't told me how school was today, Trixy" the she asked.
"It was okay, no one asked about the gloves today or told me to take them off" the younger girl answered.
Susan Foreman shook her head at the girl who was her grandfather's recent ward and who she had decided would be her little sister. The girl looked to be six years old with shoulder length brown hair and crystal blue eyes. The girl's hands were currently bare but most of the time she covered them in fingerless gloves claiming a skin disease. Older than she looked, a deductive mind and a tongue that was sharp in more ways than one when you got her to open her mouth Trixy Flint fit right into the TARDIS. It was just taking her new guardian some time to realise it.
"It's an improvement" Trixy told Susan. "Just took five months"
"You okay?" Susan said sitting down beside the little girl on the floor, their backs against the white walls.
"Yeah, I would just much rather have been stranded somewhere they were more accepting" Trixy sighed with a pout. "Music is okay though"
"Don't worry, Grandfather will have the TARDIS fixed eventually, we just have to wait a bit longer" Susan said. "I'll just put our stuff away, tell –"
"The Doctor that you are on your room if he returns, I know" Trixy said.
Susan smiled at the girl before heading out from the control room leaving Trixy alone. The girl had pulled a book out of her bag before Susan took it and now sunk into the story she was completely captured by. She had read almost a chapter when voices were heard from outside.
"Ian, look at this" a female voice said and Trixy's eyes narrowed.
She put away her book and moved towards the door to listen in on what was going on.
"It's a police box!" a male voice said. "What on earth's it doing here? These things are usually on the street. Feel it. Feel it. Do you feel it?"
"It's a faint vibration" the woman said.
Trixy was intrigued. Someone was outside the ship and they seemed to be touching the TARDIS feeling the faint vibrations most people didn't seem to notice.
"It's alive!" the man said making Trixy grin at his enthusiasm, though the words rung true. "It's not connected to anything, unless it's through the floor" he continued and Trixy had to like the way he thought, for not knowing about aliens and similar.
"Look, I've had enough. Let's go and find a policeman" the female said and Trixy bit her lip, not good.
"Yes, all right" the man said but before they could leave she heard a cough, who could that be?
"Is that her?" the woman said and Trixy had to wonder who they were looking for in a junkyard.
"That's not her. Quick" Trixy heard the man said and she moved away slightly from the door as she heard someone fumbling with it, the Doctor was home.
"There you are, Grandfather" Susan said but the Doctor did not enter the box like the girls expected.
"Excuse me" came the man's voice again and the Doctor was quick to move away from the door.
"What are you doing here?" the Doctor's voice was heard.
"We're looking for a young girl" the unknown man said, Susan was looking at Trixy confused as the younger girl sat by the door listening closely.
"We?" the Doctor asked.
"Good evening" the woman said probably coming out from a hiding place of some sort.
"What do you want?" the Doctor asked.
"One of our pupils, Susan Foreman, came into this yard" the man said.
Trixy frowned as she listen to the conversation proceed. From what she could gather these two were Susan's teachers and they had followed her home that day. The Doctor and the man, Ian she thought the woman had called him, kept going back and forth with the Doctor getting distracted by junk and both of them insulting the other's attitude. Ian seemed logical though, pointed out flaws in what the Doctor said when he claimed Susan wasn't there. Things seemed to begin on the messy and confusing path when the teachers threatened to go and find a policeman.
"I think we'd better go and fetch a policeman" the man probably called Ian said from outside.
"Very well" the Doctor said, probably thinking he was perfectly safe.
"And you're coming with us" 'Ian' said.
"Oh, am I? I don't think so, young man. No, I don't think so" the Doctor said.
"We can't force him" the woman said.
"But we can't leave him here. Doesn't it seem obvious to you he's got her locked up in there? Look at it. There's no door handle. There must be a secret lock somewhere" the man said.
"What are you doing over there?" Susan asked looking at Trixy, not hearing how her teachers called for her through the door while Trixy got names for the two outside, Mr Chesterton and Miss Wright.
Susan moved towards the console and started to open the door just as her teachers started to leave.
"What are you doing out there?" Susan asked.
"Ark, NO!" Trixy shouted rushing for the console but it was too late.
"She is in there!" the man shouted.
"Close the door!" the Doctor's voice came through the door.
"Barbara!" the man shouted as a woman ran through the door and stopped soon after she entered the ship.
The woman looked to be in her late twenties, brown hair and dark eyes. Barbara Wright from what Trixy gathered. She looked around the white room completely stunned. The man, same age, also dark hair and eyes came in after her along with the Doctor. Ian Chesterton looked even more stunned than Barbara.
"Close the door, Susan" the Doctor said and Susan flicked the switch doing as he asked. "I believe these people are known to you".
"They're two of my schoolteachers. What are you doing here?" Susan asked looking at her teachers.
"Where are we?" Barbara asked astonished.
"They must have followed you. That ridiculous school. I knew something like this would happen if we stayed in one place too long" the Doctor complained.
Trixy frowned, Susan had at least chosen to go to school, she had not had that choice. In some stupid act of Susan's Trixy had also somehow ended up engaged in the British school system of the mid-20th century. Neither of them were really sure how it had happened.
"But why should they follow me?" Susan asked.
"Because you can't pass for human for an extended period in this time" Trixy mumbled to quiet for anyone to hear.
"Is this really where you live, Susan?" Barbara asked, Trixy was starting to wonder if they had noticed her yet.
"Yes" Susan answered.
"And what's wrong with it?" the Doctor asked defensively.
"But it was just a telephone box" Ian said looking around in disbelief.
"Perhaps" the Doctor said.
"And this is your grandfather?" Barbara asked. "And… little sister?" she added spotting Trixy.
"Yes" Susan said technically just answering half of the statement but that way they couldn't remove Trixy from the Doctor's care.
"But why didn't you tell us that?" Barbara asked the Doctor.
"I don't discuss my private life with strangers" the Doctor answered.
"But it was a police telephone box. I walked all around it. Barbara, you saw me" Ian said still stuck in his amazement.
"You don't deserve any explanations. You pushed your way in here uninvited and unwelcome" the Doctor said.
"I think we ought to leave" Barbara said gripping Ian's lapels, the Doctor didn't sound all that welcoming.
"No, just a minute. I know this is absurd, but I feel" Ian said walking over to the Doctor who was studying a clock, he must be a science interested man from what Trixy gathered, what with the way he was acting.
The two males talked over each other at the same time ending with Ian saying he wanted to understand as the Doctor walked away from the clock.
"Science teacher?" Trixy whispered from where she stood beside Susan, certain the older girl would hear her.
Susan looked down at her and gave a single nod, she was quite confused by how easily the seemingly six year old made such connections.
"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. By the way, Susan, Trixy, I managed to find a replacement for that faulty filament. It's an amateur job, but I think it'll serve" the Doctor said taking his coat and scarf off and putting them on a chair.
"It's an illusion. It must be" Ian said as the Doctor plugged in whatever he had found in the console.
"What is he talking about now?" the Doctor asked.
"The ship?" Trixy suggested lowly from where she now was next to the Doctor.
"What are you doing here?" Susan asked once more.
"You don't understand, so you find excuses. Illusions, indeed? You say you can't fit an enormous building into one of your smaller sitting rooms?" the Doctor said and Trixy frowned at the strange question.
"No" Ian gave the answer most humans would have.
"But you've discovered television, haven't you?" the Doctor countered.
Trixy looked up at the alien, what did that have to do with it? She knew what a television was even though they hadn't been any televisions in the world where she had lived up until her parents' deaths roughly five months ago. What did the quite strange device have to do with this tough?
"Yes" Ian answered confused over the same thing as Trixy.
"Then by showing an enormous building on your television screen, you can do what seemed impossible, couldn't you?" the Doctor asked.
"Is that really the same thing?" Trixy asked, the concept had never seemed impossible to her but then… her life had never been what most would call normal.
"Well, yes, but I still don't know –" Ian said not seeming to hear the girl.
"Not quite clear, is it" the Doctor interrupted him. "I can see by your face that you're not certain. You don't understand. And I knew you wouldn't. Never mind" he continued turning to the console. "Now then, which switch was it? No. No, no. Ah yes, that is it. The point is not whether you understand. What is going to happen to you, hmm?" he turned back to the humans again. "They'll tell everybody about the ship now" he told Susan.
"Ship?" Ian asked confused.
"Yes, yes, ship. This doesn't roll along on wheels, you know" the Doctor said.
"You mean it moves?" Barbara asked in surprise that was also visible on Ian's face.
"The TARDIS can go anywhere" Susan told her teachers as if it was the most self-evident thing in the world, which it obviously was to her.
"TARDIS? I don't understand you, Susan" the woman said sounding slightly bemused.
"Well, I made up the name TARDIS from the initials, Time And Relative Dimension In Space" Susan explained. "I thought you'd both understand when you saw the different dimensions inside from those outside"
"Is such science even around at this point in time?" Trixy asked the Doctor who gave a short shake of his head to her. "Shouldn't Ark have realised that in school?"
The Doctor didn't answer, which wasn't anything new to the girl, so she glanced back at the situation at hand where Ian was just summarising the situation. Quite accurately.
"Just let me get this straight. A thing that looks like a police box, standing in a junkyard, it can move anywhere in time and space?" he said.
"Yes" Susan agreed followed by the Doctor's "Quite so" as the older alien turned from the console towards the humans.
"But that's ridiculous" Ian said.
"Why won't they believe us?" Susan asked her grandfather desperately.
"How can we?" Barbara asked.
"Now, now, don't get exasperated, Susan. Remember the Red Indian. When he saw the first steam train, his savage mind thought it an illusion, too" the Doctor said and Ian was about to respond when Susan cut in.
"But Trixy believed us!" she exclaimed.
"You're treating us like children" Ian got in before any more comments could be made about Trixy's origin.
"Am I? The children of my civilisation would be insulted" the Doctor said.
"Your civilisation?" Ian asked.
"Yes, my civilisation. I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it. Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the fourth dimension? Have you? To be exiles? Susan and I are cut off from our own planet, without friends or protection. But one day we shall get back. Yes, one day. One day" the Doctor explained just to turn thoughtful towards the end of his speech before patting Susan on the shoulder and turning back to the console.
"It's true. Every word of it's true. You don't know what you've done coming in here" Susan told her teachers. "Grandfather, let them go now, please. Look, if they don't understand, they can't, they can't hurt us at all. I understand these people better than you. Their minds reject things they don't understand" Susan pleaded with her grandfather but Trixy got a strange feeling it wouldn't work.
"No" the Doctor told her while walking away as Susan turned away from him looking desperate.
"He can't keep us here" Ian said lowly to Barbara.
"Susan, listen to me. Can't you see that all this is an illusion? It's a game that you, your sister and grandfather are playing, if you like, but you can't expect us to believe it" Barbara said to the supposed teenager.
"It's not a game!" Susan exclaimed.
"But Susan, it's –" Barbara started.
"It's not! Look, I love your school. I love England in the twentieth century. The last five months have been the happiest of my life" Susan said.
"But you are one of us. You look like us, you sound like us" Barbara tried to argue.
"I was born in another time, another world" Susan said evenly.
"Now look here, Susan, you" Ian started but stopped, almost as if he had seen some kind of truth in Susan's face. "Oh, come on, Barbara, let's get out of here" he said instead turning to his colleague and leading her towards the doors.
"It's no use, you can't get out. He won't let you go" Susan said following them.
The two teachers started running their hands along the doors trying to find a handle of something of the kind while the Doctor chuckled from where he stood further into the room.
"He closed the doors from over there. I saw him" Ian said moving back towards the console, Trixy was really tempted to assist him but had the strange feeling she shouldn't. "Now, which is it? Which is it? Which control operates the door?" the man asked as he moved around the console, the Doctor still laughing quietly at him.
"You still think it's all an illusion?" the alien asked amused by it all as Ian made a full circle around the console and came up to him.
"I know that free movement time and space is a scientific dream I don't expect to find solved in a junkyard" the man said sounding slightly angry.
"Your arrogance is nearly as great as your ignorance" the Doctor said.
"You do know humanity haven't even been to the moon yet?" Trixy asked, of course the concept of the TARDIS wound seem impossible when that was a fact.
"Will you open the door?" Ian asked after a quick glance at the girl but the Doctor just laughed. "Open the door! Susan, will you help us?" he asked turning to his student instead.
"I mustn't" the supposed teenager said sounding like she was fighting with herself.
"Very well, then. I'll have to risk it myself" Ian said turning back to the console and looking it over trying to figure it out.
"I can't stop you" the Doctor said amused.
"Don't touch it! It's alive!" Susan shouted just as Ian did just that ending up with a big electric shock from the console.
"Ian!" Barbara cried hurrying forwards to the man while Trixy frowned at the console, what hidden agenda did the TARDIS have in not letting them go? "What on earth do you think you're doing?" the woman asked the Doctor with a hand on Ian's shoulder as Susan sat before him and Trixy stood beside them all.
She might not know these people but that wouldn't stop her from helping. She just wondered what was going to come out of this mess the Doctor was creating for himself and all of them.
"Grandfather, let them go now, please" Susan said still on the floor by Ian.
"And by tomorrow we shall be a public spectacle, a subject for news and idle gossip" the Doctor said looking around the group.
"But they won't say anything" Susan said and Trixy was quite inkling to agree with her, who would believe them if they did?
Barbara leaned down by Ian's side to help him up while the aliens were talking behind them, Trixy swallowing and putting her gloves back on as she waited for something to happen because the tension in the air clearly told her something would.
"My dear child, of course they will. Put yourself in their place. They are bound to make some sort of a complaint to the authorities, or at the very least talk to their friends. If I do let them go, Susan, you realise of course we must go, too" the Doctor said and Trixy bit her lip, she wouldn't really mind that.
The young girl was getting really tired of the time they were in. She was stuck pretending both to be younger and dumber than she really was. She didn't fit in here, not at all. She had lived up until five months ago just learning things that could actually be useful from her parents and suddenly she was stuck learning letters and numbers, it was too easy. Too much staying in a place where people barely expected her to be able to tie her shoes.
"No, Grandfather, we've had all this out before" Susan complained.
"There's no alternative, child" the Doctor told her.
"I want to stay! But they're both kind people. Why won't you trust them? All you've got to do is ask them to promise to keep our secret" Susan argued looking to her teachers briefly before turning back to her grandfather.
"It's out of the question" the older alien said.
"I won't go, Grandfather. I won't leave the twentieth century. I'd rather leave the TARDIS and you" Susan said and Trixy's eyes widened, that was unexpected.
"Now you're being sentimental and childish" the Doctor said obviously not believing her.
"No, I mean it" Susan said still sounding desperate.
"Very well. Then you must go with them. I'll open the door" the Doctor said and Trixy saw that he was up to something at once, there was no way the Doctor would let Susan go just like that.
"Are you coming, Susan?" Barbara asked as the Doctor started to move around the console.
Susan looked desperately between her grandfather and her teachers before her eyes fell on Trixy who had desperately grabbed onto the edge of the console and her mind connected the dots.
"Oh, no, Grandfather! No!" she shouted rushing towards the alien in question in an attempt to stop him from taking of, because it wasn't the door switch he had touched.
"Let me go" the Doctor said and Susan lashed onto his back and tried to stop him.
"No!" the younger alien said once more.
"Get back to the ship, child. Hold it" the Doctor said getting her of himself and Susan rushed to grab another part of the console as the ship started to shake, Ian and Barbara having a hard time staying upright.
Trixy almost whished the console had been made of something softer than it was to give her claws a chance to dig into it but instead she lost her grip and ended up grabbing onto the leg of the chair instead. How the chair wasn't moving would remain a mystery but Barbara eventually landed in it with Ian joining Trixy on the floor beside it. The Doctor and Susan meanwhile managed to remain standing while holding onto the console as they made their way through the time vortex. As everything calmed down Trixy carefully pulled herself forwards to look at the scanner. It showed a bare and desolated landscape outside, where in the world had they ended up?
First chapter done, now let's move on to the start of the action!