A/N

Hello and welcome to my first fanfiction I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it. Please excuse any misspellings, uncapitalized letters/words and other grammar mistakes I'm a really bad editor.

This story has been sitting on my computer for some time now and I decided to finally get it up.

well I best go now, I'm looking forward to hearing what you think, so please review!

~Lillyan

"Ari!, Ari get over here! NOW!"

Ari looked up, she was trying to open her locker with 5 different textbooks in her arms. Not an easy task.

"ARI!"

Ari sighed, she put the books in her book bag instead and walked over to the yelling.

"Ari, there you are I need a copy of tonight's homework first thing tomorrow." The girl who was ordering around Ari was a tall, thin, blond girl. This girl was Megan Adams. At school she was the bane of Ari's existence. When Ari first showed up at school Megan had made Ari her personal slave. There was nothing to be done about it. At least as a slave no one beat her up without Megans permission.

"Yes Megan," Ari whispered. Ari hardly talked and when she did it was in a small voice.

Ari was a small girl, she was extremely thin and rather short. Even though she was a senior at their high school, people still thought she was a freshman. Not that she minded, she wanted to just blend in and not be noticed. Ari left the building after being dismissed by Megan. She got on her bus and when home.

Ari had always been a black sheep. No one ever liked her, or wanted to be her friend. something about her seemed to drive people away. This made her a target for bullies. In elementary school she learned just to take the blows, and to forget. Curl up and forget.

Ari's home life was even worse than school. Her father hated her, and her mother did what ever her father asked. For most of her childhood she was just ignored. But after she got into middle school, her father started drinking and beating her. His constant beatings lead to a phobia of men, which was hard to cope with. But she did her best to pretend these things never happened.

Ari was trying not to think about all this. She liked her bus rides home. It was a time she could truly be alone. Her bus stop was last, so she was on the bus for at least an hour. The other kids never talked to her. She didn't mind, even if they did it wouldn't be nice. Her seat was at the back of the bus, the younger kids sat at the fount.

Ari had pulled out her sketch book when her bus came to a stop, this wasn't very odd in itself, except they had no bus stops in this area. Confused she looked up over the seat in front of her. The bus driver had stopped in the middle of the road. Ari looked out her window, to her surprise she saw a blue box that had not been there yesterday.

What the hell?

Slowly Ari made her way to the front of the bus.

"Is everything alright?" she asked. The bus driver glared at her making Ari shake a bit., he pointed out the window and saw a man passed out in front of the bus.

"Oh my god, did you hit him?" she whispered.

The bus driver scoffed.

"No, so get out there and move him."

Her bus driver was a lazy man, and enjoyed adding misery to Ari's already crappy life.

Ari sighed, and did as she was told. She got out of the bus and looked at the man on the ground. He was wearing a leather jacket, had short hair, and rather large ears. Ari got down and slowly moved him off the road. She looked at him checking his pulse to make sure he was ok. His pulse was really fast. That could be bad she thought not really knowing. She got up to get back on the bus only to see it driving on. The bus driver had ditched her. Again. Did he really have to ditch her, again?

Ari shuddered when she thought of the consequences for when she got home. For now she got the her knees next to the man trying to figure out what to do. She couldn't find any bleeding, or anything, there was a bruise on his forehead. She guessed that the bus didn't really hit him, but had stopped when they saw him in the road. She was sighed, wishing she had a phone, she wanted to call an ambulance. She took of her jacket and bunched it up placing it under his head, like a pillow. Ari sat there for a long time humming softly.

"You have a nice voice."

Ari jumped at the voice. She looked down at the man, he was looking at her. Ari just stared at him, not sure what to do. The man could tell she was scared. Slowly he sat up. He put a hand to his head grimacing. He looked around, trying to figure out where he was. The man looked at her, and he smiled, it was a large goofy grin. All Ari could do was stare at him. He was so weird, Ari almost forgot about her fear.

"Did you pull me out of the road? Fantastic! Thank you for that, what's your name?" the man said, still smiling at her.

"A-Ari," She stuttered.

"Ari, Fantastic name, I'm the Doctor." He slowly got to his feet. Ari stood up as well. The man bent down and picked up her jacket. He brushed it off and handed it to her.

"Here you go, thank you again, it would have been horrible to get run over by a car." He said joking. Ari gave him a ghost of a smile. The Doctor looked around, then frowned.

"How did you get out here?" He asked. Ari sighed,

"M-my school bus. When the d-driver saw you he told me to move you off the road, a-and left me here." Ari said in a small voice trying not to stutter. The Doctor's frown deepened.

"How could he do something like that?"

"Don't worry it's happened before." Ari said, slowly relaxing around the strange man. The Doctor looked shocked at that.

"You have been left behind before?" He looked shocked, and if not a little bit pissed.

"Its Fine I'll just walk home. Will you be alright? Your pulse was really fast, Do you need to go to a hospital?" Ari asked concerned. The Doctor smiled at her concern.

"I'll be fine. Bye." He turned and walked off towards the blue box. Ari turned and started the long walk home. Her mind was puzzling over this strange man.

When Ari got home, she was thankful. Her father had not gotten home yet. She trudged up the stairs to her small room. She fell onto her bed and went straight to sleep. Ari's dreams were filled with the man called the Doctor and his blue box.

When she woke she saw that it was dark outside. Slowly she got out of bed. She stumbled down her stairs. Almost instantly she knew something was wrong. It was a feeling in the back of her brain.

"Father?" she asked, looking around her dark living room. As she walked into the room she felt something warm, and sticky on her foot. She knelt down to look at it. She almost threw up. It was blood.

"AHHG-!" her scream was muffled by someone who had put a hand around her mouth. She fought and struggled as hard as she could.

Finally she gave up and relaxed. Her captor keeped a hand over her mouth but moved so she could see who it was. She was shocked to see it was the man from earlier, The Doctor. He put a finger to his lips wanting her to be quiet. Ari nodded. Slowly he moved his hand. He motioned her to follow him. Ari followed. She had no idea what was going on.

The Doctor had let her into her backyard, after closing the door he walked up to a blue box. It was the one that had been there when she found him in the road. It was large and said police box on it.

The doctor opened the door and looked back at her and motioned for her to follow him. She did, and when she got inside she stopped dead in her tracks. This room was huge. The box was small. Ok. She could do this. She continued to look around the room. She guessed that this was not a regular box. It looked like a kind of ship.

The Doctor looked at the girl. he found it interesting how fast she had accepted the Tardis. Most people would run out of her and examine her again. But this girl, just stood there looking around. She was a interesting little human.

After a few awkward moments the Doctor finally spoke.

"I bet you have a few questions." He said. Smiling at her.

"You, you were in my house?" She asked quietly. He nodded.

"Yes, I am looking for something that was stolen from me, I followed the thief here. By the time I got into the house the thief had killed that man."

"That was my father," Ari commented emotionlessly. She couldn't tell how she felt about it.

"I'm so sorry." The Doctor said rather lamely.

"Don't be..." She said trailing off. The Doctor tilted his head but said nothing

"Did you get back your thing?" Ari asked.

"Oh! Ya I did. But the Thief escaped." The doctor said, slightly glad for the change of subject.

"If I may ask, what was stolen?" She said. she was still standing close to the door.

The Doctor smiled. He pulled a vial out of his jacket. It was filled with blue liquid.

"This! Its called Anti-plastic!"

"What's it for?" She asked, her curiosity pulling her closer. The doctor's smile widened.

"There is an alien trying to take over the earth and this can help stop it!" He looked positively ecstatic. Ari smiled, the first one he had seen.

"You seem happy about that." She giggled. The Doctor laughed putting the anti-plastic back in his coat.

"Do you want to help me?" he asked. Ari was surprised, she thought that he would just drop her off somewhere, not ask her to help.

"If you don't want to thats ok," The Doctor continued, "I mean if you want to stay here, but I understand."

"Can I come?" Ari asked, not really believing she would get to leave. The Doctor smiled widely.

"Well lets get going!"