Scrambling up the rocky hill he paused at the top of it for a moment to look around for it before running down the other side and through the weed covered scrub land. Reaching the bottom of it he was forced to stop and bend over as he caught his breath. But then he saw it. In front of him was a series of small abandoned warehouses and in front of them was what he'd been looking for. The Tardis was stood near one of the large blue doors each of the warehouses had. Walking over to it the man came to a stop next to it as he stared at it in awe. Reaching out his hand to touch it he was inches away when a voice made him jump back and look towards the warehouses.
"Doctor! Doctor look out!" Rose's voice was heard to yell. Running into the warehouse where the voice had come from the man found himself in a large open room with a staircase leading down the floor below.
"Where's he gone? Have you seen him?" The Doctor's voice sounded from somewhere below him.
"There he is! There!" Peter's voice replied. Running down the staircase the man followed the shouting of the three people until he came to a darkly lit corridor with other passageways linking off it. Looking down it the man suddenly heard a soft growling as he then started to walk down it. The growling was coming from a close door in front of him that looked as if it led outside. What he found on the other side, however, made him lose his breath. In front of him was a tall brown skinned creature with a wrinkled face, sharp teeth and exposed gums. Seeing him it roared viciously.
"That's what it did! It went roar!" The man said much later to his camera that he'd sent up in his small flat. "And if you think that was the most exciting day of my life wait till you hear the rest , oh boy" He said. "So there I was with that thing going roar!" He then began retelling the story.
On the day that it had happened the man slowly began backing away as the roaring creature started walking towards him. Suddenly a man in a brown pinstripe suit and a light brown coat appeared from behind it.
"Here boy, eat the food" The Doctor told the creature as brought out a chuck of meat and dangled it towards the creature. "Come on, look at the lovely food, Isn't it nice? Yes it is" He coaxed as the creature smelt the meat and turned towards him. "Get out of here," The Doctor then said to the man casually before continuing to coax the creature with the meat. "I said run!" He then shouted with the man did not immediately leave. The man turned and ran but stopped again at the end of the corridor as Peter came running past with a blue bucket of steaming water. The man watched as Peter ran up to the creature and threw the water over it. "Wrong one! You made it worse!" The Doctor told Peter as the creature writhed and hissed in anger.
"You said blue!" Peter shouted back.
"I said not blue!" The Doctor told him.
"What's the difference!?" Peter asked in annoyance but stopped as the creature turned to face him and growled. Sensing the danger Peter turned on his heel and ran into the nearest adjoining corridor as the creature gave chase. The Doctor gave a frustrated sigh.
"Hold on!" He called as he shut the door in front of him and took the outside route. The man was left alone watching the silent corridor for a few moments. Suddenly the Doctor reappeared as he ran yelling out of a side corridor and into another as the creature came running after him a moment later. A second later Peter ran out of the corridor the Doctor had disappeared down as the creature then ran after him. Over the next few minutes the man watched the Doctor, Peter and the creature run in and out of the side corridors, either being chased or chasing. Soon Rose was seen running among them as she carried a red steaming bucket of water. During one of these run pasts the Doctor suddenly stopped and looked at the man. "Hold on, Don't I know you?" He asked him. But the man, after seeing all that he had in the last few minutes, turned and ran from the room in fright. Stumbling out of the building he heard the Tardis take off and sighed in frustration.
"You can't imagine it, the Doctor's machine, the most beautiful sound in the world" The man said much later to his camera in his flat. "That wasn't the first time I met the Doctor and it certainly wasn't the last oh no, I just put that bit in at the beginning cause it's a brilliant opening but er, its a story of me and er, my encounters with alien life forms" He said. "But be warned because it is gonna get scary" He then said as he leaned in towards the lens. "I need a remote control zoom I'm having to do a lean, scary" He explained with a smile before he leaned into the lens again. "But look don't worry it's not just me sitting here talking oh no" He reassured.
He had in fact gone out earlier in the year to a street of houses he knew very well. "That's Ursula on camera" He said as he pointed to the woman filming him as he walked down the street towards her as she backed up.
"Hello" She said as put her hand in view of the camera for a moment.
"My good friend Ursula Blake on my brand new camera" The man said. Ursula was soon shakily focusing in on one of the houses. "That was my family home down there, I did try but there's two women living there now and they're a bit er, sever" The man explained. "Never mind but that is where it all started cause that's where I first met the Doctor" He explained.
His memories of that night were hazy but he did remember coming out of his room and standing at the top of the stairs. "What was it? Er, I must have been three or four years old, middle of the night" He recalled. As he remembered walking to his living room door. "I went downstairs, and there was this man" He said as he recalled the Doctor standing in his lounge.
"Well what happened? Elton tell me why was he there?" Ursula asked as she watched Elton stare at his old house.
I don't know, I don't know I still don't know, all those years ago" He replied as he looked very much in deep thought before waving his hands at Ursula indicating to stop recording. After showing the footage of him on his old street the man switched the camera back to record him in his flat. "Ok first things first my name is Elton, er not to be confused with," He explained as he inserted a clip of Elton John. "I left school I got a job, transport manger retailer logistics, modest little haulage company, perfectly normal life and then it all went mad" He told the camera. "Two years ago I was in town stocking up, you know nothing special all the usual stuff," He recalled as he remember that night shopping in London. "When all of a sudden," He said as he remembered walking past a shop window that had mannequins stood in it that suddenly started moving, with one smashing the window he'd just walked past. He had then found himself in the middle of chaos as he and the rest of the panicked public saw all of the mannequins from the surrounding shops come to life and begin to attack them. "Shop window dummies! Come to life!" He said as he remembered running through the chaotic scene, nearly getting run over by a taxi during the process. "I survived, obviously" Elton then told the camera. "Twelve months later I'm back in town, I'm up west looking for a new suit, something nice and smart, when I hear this plane overhead" He then recalled as he remembered stooping in the street and looking up just in time to see the Slitheen ship fly overhead on it's way towards Big Ben. Elton had then watched as it smashed into the famous landmark. "But it wasn't over yet cause then Christmas Day, I'm in bed fast asleep nice and cosy quarter to eight in the morning when all of a sudden," He recalled his front window being blasted apart, caused by the arriving Sycorax ship. "I was stuck in bed right cause there's glass everywhere! And I was bare foot! I had to invent this rudimentary pulley system just to reach my boots and by the time I done that" He explained as he remembered looking out of his window and seeing the massive rocky Sycorax ship overhead. "And that's when it all started happening, that's how I met Ursula" Elton then told the camera.
They had first met up face to face in a park.
"His name is the Doctor" She had told him.
"That's how I met Victor Kennedy" Elton told the camera.
"You stupid man!" He remembered Victor shouting at him.
"That's how I met Stephen and his wife Emma" Elton remembered.
"This man's trying to find Peter, Emma" Stephen had told Emma as they stood at their front door after Elton had knocked on it.
"That's how I met Jackie Tyler" Elton recalled.
"You don't meet many Elton's" She'd said to him.
"And that's how I finally met the Doctor and realised the truth" Elton then said as his childhood memory of his resurfaced.
That evening he turned back on the camera as he sat down at his desk.
"I should say this isn't my whole life it's not all spaceships and stuff cause I'm into all sorts of stuff," He said to the camera. "Er, I like football I like a drink I like Spain and if there's one thing I really really love then it's Jeff Lynne and the Electric Light Orchestra cause you can't beat a bit of ELO" He admitted.
His recording then cut to clips of him dancing in his flat to 'Mr Blue Sky' for a few minutes before cutting to another day as he sat back down in front of his camera. "So great big spaceship hanging over London! Imagine the theorists! The internet went into melt down" He told it, remembering his computer blowing up as he tried to search for it. "But I kept on digging, something was going on oh yes! And then one day on some obscure little blog by someone called Ursula Blake, it was like a chance in a million" He said.
The blog he'd found was titled 'My Invasion Blog' and had a blurry photograph of the Doctor in the Sycorax ash as it's cover. "It was him! It was that man again but the photo was new! It was taken on Christmas Day but Christmas just gone! And he looked exactly the same" Elton said to the camera.
"His name is the Doctor" Ursula had told him on the day they had first met face to face.
"Doctor what?" Elton had asked as they sat on a park bench.
"That's all anyone knows but Christmas Day I was taking photos all over the place, I went mad with it all," She replied. "Spaceships and everything, we all went to Trafalgar Square that night cause everyone was celebrating just being alive, and I snapped him in passing that all, he was just some bloke, I didn't realise he was significant until Mr Skinner pointed it out" She explained.
"Who's Mr Skinner?" Elton asked.
"Oh there's a few of us, the inner sanctum all studying this Doctor" Ursula replied. Elton considered for a moment before sliding up the bench a little closer to her.
"I've seen him, the Doctor, I swear to you I saw him when I was a kid, he was in my house and he was downstairs..." He began to say as Ursula smiled.
"Don't tell me, he looked exactly the same then as he does now?" She guessed.
"Yes, yes!" Elton whispered back as Ursula chuckled knowingly. "Oh my god! You believe me?" He asked her before they started chatting. "So that's how I met Ursula, all thanks to the Doctor" Elton told the camera as he recalled them walking through the park as they got to know one another. "Turns out we'd read all the same sites and she only lived half a mile away, she was like a proper mate" He said. "Poor Ursula" He then said much more sombrely as he recalled her last moments. "But like she said, there was this little community, the select few all with their stories of the Doctor" He told the camera. "This little gang use to meet up underneath the other library on Maccateer Street" He recalled.
The room was large an mostly empty but was comfortable enough for the small group of people who used it to sit in a circle and chat. "Mr Skinner, first name Colin but we always called him Mr Skinner, I don't know why we just did" Elton said as he remembered the grey haired man who always wore a grey blazer over his clothing.
"To me the Doctor isn't a man he's more a collection of archetypes" Mr Skinner has pitched to the group on a flip chart.
"Then there was Bridget," Elton recalled the black haired middle aged woman.
"All these Doctors come and go but the single constant factor is this faux police box, it keeps cropping up throughout history" She said as she showed then differed examples or drawings of a blue box from many different sources via projection slides.
"She lived way up north but she travelled down without fail just for the meetings" Elton told the camera. "The there was Bliss," He said as he remembered the young woman who was rather hippie like in both looks and behaviour.
"What I'm trying to do," She said as she unveiled a abstract and peculiar sculpture that looked like lines. "Is sum up the Doctor, what he means to us, what he could represent and what he should represent and what he, never won't represent sort of thing" She told them as the group nodded politely.
"She was ever so sweet, Bliss, bless Bliss we use to say," Elton recalled. One meeting Ursula spoke up.
"We should have a name, you know as a group?" She suggested.
"Names are very important" Bliss agreed.
"What we need is a good strong name like a team, something like London Investigation 'n' Detective Agency! LINDA for short!" Elton suggested.
"Say it again?" Mr Skinner asked.
"London Investigation 'n' Detective Agency" Elton repeated.
"N?" Mr Skinner asked.
"Fish n Chips, Rock n Roll!" Elton explained as everyone realised what he meant.
"I like it! It's not too solemn" Bridget said.
"I like the n" Bliss said.
"We're the men from LINDA!" Elton said enthusiastically.
"And the women" Bridget added.
"LINDA united" Mr Skinner said with a smiled. Ursula then turned to Elton.
"Did you think of that on the spot?" She asked him quietly.
"Na, wanted to use it for years" He replied.
"I give you LINDA" Mr Skinner then said, holding up his glass.
"LINDA!" The group toasted with their cups of tea.