Authors Note: This is Part I of a little short story I came up with. I hope you enjoy! Part II will be here shortly. Please review for tips!
The Doctor walked around the console of the TARDIS. He was alone, again. Besides the company of the TARDIS, he was alone. Again.
It happens every time. The Doctor continued to walk around the console. I get attached to a human, and they go off and get themself killed or worse.
The Doctor stops when he reaches the Monitor. Something is wrong.
The Monitor, atthat moment, started to flash bright red lights with the words INCOMING DISTRESS SIGNAL across it.
"Play message." The Doctor said out loud. He began to walk around the console again.
There was breathing, loud and deep breathing. And then a scream. A little girl screaming the word "help."
The Doctor ran to the monitor and pressed some buttons, homing in on the strange distress call.
When the TARDIS materialized, the Doctor ran out. There was a little girl, maybe 9 years of age. She had dark red hair and turned to look at the Doctor. When the Doctor saw her face, she could tell she was crying. She was unbelievably scared. And alone.
"You?" The Doctor said. "You sent a distress signal to the TARDIS? What is your name, little girl?"
"Isabella." She said in a soft, small, scared voice.
"Well Isabella, what is intimidating you?"
"Are you a Doctor?" She asked, in the same soft, scared voice.
"Yes, I am a Doctor. How did you know?"
"You're saying words I don't understand. My grandmother told me that if I don't understand something, I'm probably talking to a Doctor."
"Then your grandmother must be very wise."
"Doctor, I'm scared!" The voice changed into the frightening sound of a child in fear and alone.
"What are you afraid of, Isabella?"
"My shadow."
"Your shadow?" The Doctor asks. "What about you shadow? You don't have two, don't you?"
"No Doctor! I don't have any!"
"Well that's okay! A lot of people don't have shadows sometimes."
"But look!" She points to other people shadows. And then points out the Doctor has a shadow.
"So your shadow has gone missing. Has it done anything… Strange lately?"
"The other day, it did something I didn't do. And the day before that, I felt like it was watching me."
"So you think that the shadow is alive?"
"Yes, Doctor."
And the Doctor looked at his shadow again. And it gave him a look back. A look the Doctor was not making.
The Shadows were alive.