A/N: Welcome Whovians and others who loe Doctor Who to my second multi-chapter Doctor Who fic! There was so much I didn't get to do with the Doctor in the last fic, Allons-y! that I didn't think about until later, and I was itching for more Ten, so I had to do another one. This is not a sequal to that fic. This one stands on it's own, and I hope you all like reading it as much asI loved writing it. It really took on a life of it's own. Well, as the Doctor would say, Allons-y! Here's the first chappie! Enjoy!
Chapter 1: The Gravity Pull
"Olivia! Hurry up!"
"Coming!"
The seventeen year old Californian ran her fingers quickly through her raven hair one last time as she gazed into the mirror of her vanity. Her jade gaze darted around its surface before finding her lipstick and she spread it over her lips expertly, making them rosy red. She grinned into the mirror before standing tall and straightening out her lavender sparkled prom dress.
"Olivia! He's here!"
She gave a girlish squeak before turning to nearly run to her bedroom door and toward the stairs, careful not to trip in her black heels. Giving a small gasp she stopped at the top step and whirled around to run back into her room and toward her bed next to the window to lift a small handbag. A breeze kicked up around her, making her squeak in distaste as it blew her hair all around and reached to close her window—
Her delicate eyebrows formed a frown as she instantly realized her window was closed, but the breeze still continued and she froze when a strange whirring noise came with it. She spun around with wide eyes and felt faint from shock as she plopped onto her bed, staring at the thing materializing in a corner of her room.
A tall, blue box that said 'Police' on the top. She stared at it with wide eyes as the light on top of it stopped flashing and jumped with a start, remaining on her bed when the door flew open and a head popped out to look around.
"Blimey, that was a tight fit, wasn't it?" the man muttered to himself, his brown gaze darting all around the room before landing on her and he burst into a grin…a mad look to go with his mad brown hair. "Ello! Um…this may seem daft, but where am I?"
Olivia frowned at him in astonishment before it turned to a glare. Handsome as he was, he was not going to ruin this once in a lifetime night for her.
"I'll tell you where you are," she snapped, standing and marching toward him as he only leaned out of the box and his grin turned to a wide-eyed gaze as she stopped an inch from his face. "You're in my room! This is my prom night! I'm not gonna let you ruin it with your blue box and your stupid questions!"
"Hang on, I didn't mean—"
"You didn't mean to make your box suddenly appear in my room? What are you? A pervert magician?"
"Doctor, actually, and as I was saying—"
"Well, Doctor, if you'll excuse me, as I said before, I have a prom to get to. Take your box and take off!"
With that, Olivia turned and marched toward the door, but before she could reach it, a hand caught her wrist. She opened her mouth to scream only to have a hand place itself over her mouth as she turned to face him again, his eyes meeting hers.
"That's better," the Doctor nodded in approval with a grin as she stared wide eyes at him, his hand still over her mouth. "Now, as I was saying: I know it's a daft question, and I wasn't really asking in what space I was in, more like what country, state and city. Think you can answer those questions for me?"
Olivia could only nod against his hand and he burst into another grin.
"Brilliant," he grinned with a wag of his head before lowering his hand, adding, "No screaming, eh? Now where am I?"
"North America…California…Los Angeles," Olivia quickly replied as he released her, straightening herself out. "Now please, I expect that box to be gone by the time I get back from the prom, which I'm already late for."
"I…have no control over that, sorry," the Doctor replied, turning to look at the box as he scratched the back of his head in thought. "Don't know why she brought me here. But I guess I'll find out."
"Whatever," Olivia sighed before heading toward her bedroom door again, but, again, she was stopped.
"Wait!" he called, gripping her hand again and pulling her back to meet a bored stare.
"Mister, I'm warning you," she said, flatly.
"I know, the prom," he nodded along before grinning and holding a hand to her. "Just wanted to introduce myself properly: I'm the Doctor."
"Olivia Felton," she nodded politely and quickly shaking his hand with a tight smile before releasing it and turning toward the stairs. "Nice to meet you."
Before he could stop her again she raced out of the room and down the stairs where a brunette with green eyes stood at the bottom, her hands on her hips before glancing down at her watch on one of them.
"It's about time!" she complained as Olivia hopped down the last few steps. "What happened?"
"Oh, nothing," Olivia sighed, wondering if she should risk getting into trouble now by telling her mother there was a man in her room and miss the prom. She could tell her. It's not like she'd invited the guy. He was a stranger. But, if she opened that can of worms there would be no reasoning with her mother.
"Aaron's in the car," her mother, Joyce, reported, fussing over her daughter as she passed. "He came to the door, but you took so long—"
"It's ok, mom," Olivia smiled, sweetly before pressing a kiss to the woman's cheek and hurrying out the door. "I'll take pictures with my phone and send them to you! Be back at eleven!"
"Have fun!" Joyce called from the door, watching her daughter hurry across the lawn and into the car waiting for her, a red-headed young man with green eyes in the driver's seat.
"Sorry I took so long," she apologized to him as he climbed out to hurry around the car when she stopped.
"No worries, babe," Aaron smiled, charmingly as he opened the door for her. "Hop in and we'll be there in no time."
Joyce watched from the doorway with a smile before she frowned at the sound of hurried footsteps behind her and turned to the stairs again.
"Whoop! 'Scuse me, Mrs. Felton!"
A blur of blue whizzed past her and out the door and her frown deepened as she whirled around to watch the Doctor hurrying across the lawn, stopping in the middle.
"Olivia! You might wanna wait a minute!" he called, drawing hers and Aaron's attention to him just as the young man gripped the handle on his door.
Olivia sighed in boredom, rolling her eyes as she turned to him fully, her hands on her hips, imitating exactly what her mother had done before and now the way she stood inside the doorframe. Aaron frowned between the two in utter confusion as Olivia only glared at the Doctor.
"Look, Mister—"
"Doctor."
"Doctor…as much as I'd love to freak out about why your big blue box—"
"TARDIS."
"TARDIS, landed in my room, I'm a bit too busy to do that at the moment, so can you let me go to my one and only prom tonight?"
"Not just yet."
"And why the hell not?"
A metal crunch sounded loudly behind her, making her scream as Aaron gripped her arms to pull her away from his car as far as he could, Joyce gasping at the doorway and running toward the Doctor to stand next to him.
"That's why," the Doctor nodded.
The three stared at Aaron's car in disbelief as a huge, steaming rock sat nestled in its crunched hood, the metal wrapped halfway around it from the impact, showing off the crushed engine underneath.
"What the hell?" Aaron snapped, looking up at the sky for more as he pulled Olivia closer and she didn't protest to him wrapping his arms around her for protection.
"Hope you've got good insurance," the Doctor mumbled to him, looking up at the sky as well with Joyce before he turned to them with open arms. "Everyone inside the house, now!"
He urged them back toward the house and the three didn't argue as Joyce led the way, Aaron still holding Olivia as the Doctor brought up the rear. He stopped on the front step to look up at the sky then looked to the rock that had crushed Aaron's car. Olivia gave another scream from inside when the ground shook slightly, caused by another huge rock landing on the lawn in front of the house that the Doctor watched this time.
"What the hell is going on?" Joyce snapped from inside and the Doctor turned just as she marched up to him and poked him in the chest with a threatening finger, demanding, "And who the hell are you?"
"I'm the Doctor—"
"Doctor who?"
"Just…the Doctor—"
"Doctor of what?"
"Of…everything. Now—"
"What does that mean? And what the hell's going on?"
"Blimey! I see where she gets it from!" the Doctor snapped, ushering Joyce back inside to shut the door and the ground shook again when another huge rock landed, this time in the back yard. He led her to the kitchen where the young couple was…Olivia sitting at the round dining table and Aaron staring out of the window and the Doctor pulled a chair out for Joyce, ordering, "Sit, be quiet and I'll try to explain."
"Hey! Don't talk to my mom like that!" Olivia snapped at him as Joyce sat.
"Oi! You wanna find out what's goin' on here?" the Doctor questioned.
"Yes—"
"Then zip the lips and listen up, got it?"
Olivia gave a pout and slouched in her seat as Joyce remained silent and Aaron remained at the window. The room shook again, making the girls jump, but the men only remained calm as the Doctor leaned on one of the chairs.
"I'm the Doctor," he repeated for the third time that night. "My ship brought me here while I was running some routine checks. I can see why now. Her gravity stabilizer's on the fritz, and it seems like there's something up with the Earth's gravity as well. It pulled her in."
Olivia raised a hand high as she stared wide eyes at the Doctor and he rolled his eyes dramatically before nodding, "Yes, Olivia?"
"How can you tell there's something wrong with the gravity?"
The ground shook again as they heard another loud thud outside as the Doctor said nothing when her eyes widened, blankly before she shrank back.
"Never mind."
"Now you're gettin' it," the Doctor grinned with a wag of his head before hurrying toward the window to stand next to Aaron and gaze up at the sky.
"What d'you see, lad?" he asked him, neither one of them looking from the sky.
"It's the weirdest thing," Aaron breathed. "I can't see anything coming down until they hit the ground. Then I see them. Name's Aaron, by the way."
"Nice to meet you," the Doctor replied, still looking out the window. "Right! So…" He trailed off to give a sniff. "Not comets…not meteors from the look of 'em. So what are they?"
"Doctor, it's stopped," Olivia noticed, and the two at the window finally turned from it to look at her as she stared back at them. "It's been a while since the last one."
"Well, since it looks like that then, let's have a look at these things up close, eh?" the Doctor grinned, heading toward the door as he dug a hand into the inside pocket of his blue suit jacket.
Olivia and Aaron shot after him as Joyce only remained in her seat, trying to process what was happening. The three now outside on the front lawn, heading toward Aaron's mangled car, stopped a few feet away as the Doctor pointed a silver wand at the rock, and it gave a distinct noise.
"What's that?" Olivia asked through a frown as the Doctor continued pointing at the rock.
"Sonic screwdriver," he replied deftly before pulling it back the noise from it ceasing. "As I thought."
"What?" Olivia asked, trying to step closer to it, but Aaron gripped her hand to keep her at his side. "What did you think? What is it, Doctor?"
"Drones," he answered.
A sharp hiss suddenly sounded from the rock and it dragged on as a panel shaped piece lifted from its surface. Olivia stepped closer to Aaron as the three stared at the thing, watching the panel slowly rise and set in place before another panel moved to mirror the action.
"Get in the house," the Doctor ordered, not looking away from the thing and Aaron started to pull Olivia back toward the house but she struggled against him.
"Aaron! I wanna see!" she struggled, catching the Doctor's attention and he turned his head to make sure the young man was keeping his grip on her.
"Get in the house and lock the doors, windows and any other openings!" he demanded before looking back at the rock…what he knew now was some sort of pod pulled in by the Earth's overly-strong gravity.
Aaron pulled her into the house and slammed the door shut to lock it. Olivia shoved her face against the window in the door to watch as the Doctor kept his gaze on thing in front of him. She heard her mother call them from the kitchen, but Aaron was the only one who turned to head toward her as Olivia kept her gaze on the Doctor, but all of them saw what happened next. Joyce and Aaron stared out the window above the kitchen sink, Olivia and the Doctor staring at the pods in the front lawn.
Out of the opening in the rock, a creature appeared in front of the Doctor that crouched on the edge of the opening, long, stringy black hair hung over its face, but yellow eyes could clearly be seen through the strands. Black lips parted in a snarl to reveal sharp fangs to match sharp, black claws, and all of this surrounded by paler than pale skin as the humanoid snarled at the Doctor an inch away from his face.
"Aaron! Lock the back door and all the windows," Joyce ordered, shoving him toward the kitchen door leading to the back yard as she hurried toward Olivia. "Olivia, you go through and—Olivia, are you listening to me?"
"He's fearless," Olivia breathed, still staring at the Doctor. "He's done this before."
"Olivia! Get to the windows—!"
They both screamed and jumped away from the door when another creature appeared and growled at them on the other side of the window. The women stared at thing as its yellow eyes glanced between them, darting in every direction then looking to Aaron when he appeared next to them to stare at it as well.
"You two get upstairs into Olivia's room," Aaron ordered, pulling on Joyce's arms to lead her that way, but her grip left Olivia's arms as she remained in her spot. "Olivia, come on!"
She ignored him as she stepped closer to the door, still staring at the creature while her mother ran up the stairs.
"Olivia! What the hell are you—?"
"Shut it, Aaron," she snapped over her shoulder, but didn't look at him as she slowly moved closer to the door, keeping her gaze on the creature as its gaze never met hers.
"What are you doing?" Aaron hissed, but he was ignored.
Olivia stepped right up to the door as the creature panted on the glass through its teeth, making a cloud of fog in front of its face. She lifted her hand and pressed it to the glass as she stared at its yellow orbs, carefully. She saw no malice or rage in their depths, but she saw something she recognized well enough as the creature moved its face toward her hand in a similar gesture to the way a dog would sniff at something.
"You poor thing," she breathed, making Aaron stare at her incredulously.
"'Poor thing'? What the hell are you talkin' about? It's gonna kill us!"
Olivia turned a burning glare to him over her shoulder that made him flinch.
"You don't know that, Aaron," she snapped before looking back at the creature with a softened gaze. "They didn't land here on purpose. The Doctor said the Earth's gravity was out of whack. It's just scared."
"Yeah, so scared it'll rip the skin off your face if you—what are you doing?"
Olivia ignored him as she unlocked the door and turned the knob to pull the door open before Aaron could stop her. The creature slid off the door and crouched in front of her like an ape, staring up at her as she smiled down at it.
"Olivia!" Aaron shouted when he saw the thing leap at her and she gave a shout of surprise when she fell back with it on top of her.
The sounds caught the Doctor's attention from the creature still in front of him and they both looked to the door before the Doctor ran toward the house, the creature right behind him as Aaron stood over Olivia in shock. The Doctor stopped and grinned down at her as Olivia held the trembling creature that was hugging her tightly.
"Nice to see you making friends," the Doctor nodded, making Aaron stare up at him in shock before looking to the creature next to him and he backed toward the stairs and the Doctor noticed his apprehension. "Oh, don't worry about them now. They just got pulled here by the Earth's strange gravity pull. They were on their way somewhere and got pulled in."
Olivia sat up and instantly glared at Aaron, making him look at her as she ground out, "Told you."
She turned back to the creature still holding onto her and murmured, "You were just scared, weren't you, you poor thing?"
"They can't get their ships goin' again," the Doctor explained, lifting a hand to pull at his earlobe. "Wish we had a mechanic. From what I saw, the damages are a bit more than I can handle."
"Aaron's a mechanic," Olivia chimed in, all eyes shooting to her as she still held the trembling creature. "Well…I mean…he's trying to be, and he's already really good at it."
"Brilliant," the Doctor grinned, heading toward the stairs. "Follow me, Aaron old boy. You can take a look at the schematics in the TARDIS and help them out. Not exactly what you'll be used to seeing in mechanics, but I think you'll figure it out well enough. Olivia, why don't you come along, eh?"
"Uh…ok," she frowned, gently pushing the creature still holding onto her away with a reassuring smile. "I think your friend will be more help than me now to comfort you. I gotta go…find out what he needs now."
She managed to worm her way out of the thing's tight grip and rushed up the stairs after Aaron and the Doctor. She rounded into her room only to meet her mother in the doorway who gave her an angry glare.
"Why didn't you tell me he landed his space ship in your room?"
"Not now, mother," Olivia groaned, gently pushing past her and heading toward the TARDIS, frowning as she did before stepping in front of the open door. Her eyes shot wide as she saw the inside, the Doctor and Aaron on the other side of a console in the middle of the room. "Your…Your ship…"
The Doctor lifted his head from looking at the panel with Aaron and grinned at her through the glasses he wore on his face. He shoved off the console and bounded around it to stand in front of her.
"Hello there," he grinned, grabbing her hand and pulling her inside, making her nearly stumble as she still stared around in astonishment while he headed back toward Aaron. "Why don't you have a look 'round? Aaron and I are just about finished here."
Olivia only stared around the room from her spot, afraid to move and not even noticing her mother standing behind her with an angry glare at her back.
"How…?" she breathed, catching the Doctor's attention as she trailed off and finally started taking small steps down the ramp and toward the console, the Doctor smirking at her as she stared around the room. "How is your ship…bigger on the inside?"
"She's dimensionally transcendental," the Doctor replied, shoving his hands into his pockets and strolling around the console to stand next to her. "The outside is a camouflage. Chameleon circuit got stuck."
"None of that makes sense," Joyce chimed in from the door, having already seen the inside and too angry that there had been a man in her daughter's room and she didn't know.
"He's an alien, mom," Olivia retorted, not looking away from the room as the Doctor shot wide eyes at her. "What more do you need to know?"
"Whoa, wait a minute," Aaron called from his spot, looking up at them. "He looks human. How can you say he's an alien?"
Olivia gave him a blank stare and lifted her hands to present the room, retorting, "What more proof do you need, Aaron? He's got a spaceship. He's an alien from the future. It's so obvious!"
"It is?" the Doctor frowned down at her and she looked up at him as Aaron shook his head and looked back at the screen he'd been examining.
"Well…just to me, I guess," she shrugged.
"Oh," he nodded before looking up at Aaron as he pulled his glasses off and tucked them into the inside pocket of his suit jacket. "Well, Aaron, how we doin' over there?"
"I guess I got it," Aaron sighed, standing and scratching the back of his head. "I can give it a shot."
"Brilliant!" the Doctor grinned, turning to the TARDIS door and heading toward Joyce as she still stood framed in the doorway. "Oh, hello, Mrs. Felton. Sorry about all this. What was your first name? No need for formalities with me."
He pulled one hand from his pocket to shake one of hers, but instead of grasping his hand, she stepped close enough and lifted her hand to slap him with an open palm.
"Ow!"
"Mom—!"
"Are you some sort of pervert? Landing your spaceship in a teenager's room? How old are you anyway? In your thirties?"
"Actually—"
"Mom, stop it!" Olivia cut into the Doctor's reply as she gently pushed past him while he rubbed his cheek. "He's trying to help us!"
"Always the mothers," he muttered, still rubbing his cheek as Aaron hurried up next to him. "Why is it always the mothers?"
"See, Olivia?" Joyce snapped to her daughter. "He's done this before!"
"What? Saved the world? Yeah, I got that."
"Don't get smart with me, young lady!"
"Oi!" the Doctor shouted over them, making the girls look to him with wide eyes. "We don't have time for this. I've gotta find out what's wrong with the Earth's gravity and I can't do it while the two of you are yellin' and slappin' me! Now…" He trailed off and looked to Aaron to tell him, "Go take care of the Drone ships. They'll help you out if you need it. Think you can handle it?"
Aaron only nodded before stepping out of the TARDIS and heading out of the room, making the Doctor nod in approval when he disappeared before looking to the girls.
"Mrs. Felton—"
"Joyce," she cut in, still glaring at him.
"Right," he nodded. "Joyce. Why don't you go downstairs and make some coffee, or tea? Tea might be better to calm your nerves a bit. Olivia, why don't you help her in the kitchen, eh?"
"Not a chance, Doctor," she smirked, making both him and Joyce look to her with wide eyes. "I'm gonna watch you like a hawk. This is way too interesting now for me to just sit in the kitchen with a cup of tea. I'm stickin' with you, buddy."
The Doctor stared at her for a moment before his lips curled into a beaming grin and he cheered, "Brilliant! We'll start by running some scans in the TARDIS. This way, Olivia Felton."
"What just a minute—!"
"Mom, I'm not going anywhere," Olivia cut in. "Just follow Doctor's orders and have a calming cup of tea."
"But—! Olivia! Wait!"
Olivia ignored her mother as she stepped into the TARDIS and the Doctor stepped up to Joyce with a warm smile as he set a hand on her shoulder.
"You can trust me, Joyce," he nodded. "I won't leave with her."
"You better not," she ground out. "Because if anything happens to her, I'll kill you!"
"No doubt, Joyce Felton," the Doctor chuckled, patting her shoulder to step back into the TARDIS. "No doubt."
A/N: Well, how do you all like Olivia? Reviews?
