Welcome to: Dark Beauty-Sweet Evil! There's an A/N at the bottom, and I only own Kayla
Kayla and Jack were enjoying themselves for the first time in a while. As they watched a very retro spaceship chase after their space junk, Kayla smiled at Jack brightly.
"This time, I get to use the money we get." Kayla told Jack, her green and blue eyes reflecting the time vortex as she watched the screen.
"Oi!" Jack complained, but didn't correct her, too caught up in guiding the junk through the vortex until it landed.
"Yes! Another point for team Kayla and Jack!" Kayla cheered. Jack laughed along with the girl. She wore faded light blue skinny jeans and a black jumper. Over that, she had a trench coat that stopped at her knee. Her shoes were black combat boots. Her brown hair was naturally wavy and fell down her back like a wave. She smiled at the ex-Time Agent.
"Come on Jack, let's go take a walk around London." She begged, and Jack smiled at the 20 year old girl.
"It's the London Bliss, and they're bombs." Jack pointed out, and Kayla pouted at him, knowing he could never say no to her when she pouted. After several seconds of looking everywhere but at her, he sighed deeply. "I better not regret this." He muttered, and she cheered again.
Three weeks passed and there was no sign of the man with the retro spaceship. Sure that he wouldn't come that night, Kayla left the spaceship that was her home, and walked through the quiet night of London and to a club. She didn't bother dressing up, wearing the same clothes as before, except for a vortex manipulator on her wrist that her trench coat sleeve hid. As she walked into the club, the first notes of, It Had to Be You, swung into existence. Kayla sighed and ordered a drink from the bar and sipped on it while the singer sang the song.
"For nobody else gave me the thrill,
when I have found I love
you still, it had to be you, wonderful you..."
The door opened behind her, and Kayla turned to see a man in a dark purple jumper, black faded leather jacket, and black pants come into the club, using the back entrance that was locked. Making mental note of him, Kayla turned her attention and body back to the song where she caught the last line.
"It had to be you."
The singer finished, and everybody applauded. Kayla joined in half-heartily, not really paying attention and instead she watched the mysterious man from earlier make his way through the crowd, clapping as he did so until he made it onto the stage.
"Excuse me! Excuse me!" He tried, fiddling with the microphone while people watched him.
"Could I have everybody's attention just for a mo? Be very quick, eh...hello!" He said in a northern accent. He ended his sentence with a cheery wave that Kayla returned.
"Eh...might seem like a stupid question, but has anything fallen from the sky recently?" Kayla blinked at the question. It was the London Bliss, yes there were a lot of things dropping on London with a bang. As she stared at the man, she couldn't shake the feeling he was familiar...the retro ship! This was the captain, a man with large ears and a northern accent who wants to know if something, the space junk, was falling on London with a bang. Choruses of loud laughter brought Kayla out of her thoughts as the whole club laughed loudly at the poor man who looked rather confused.
"Sorry, have I said something funny?" He wondered, and the audience laughed even more. "It's just, there's this thing I need to find, would've fallen from the sky a couple of days ago." Kayla bit back a groan, yep this was her guy. The bomb siren sounded, and people started to evacuate while she chugged back the rest of her drink and stood up.
"Would've landed quite near here..." His voice trailed off as he looked towards the roof and I made my way through the crowd. "With a very loud..." He looked at the walls and then he saw one of the many posters bearing the words, HITLER WILL SEND NO WARNING "Bang…" He finished weakly, closing his eyes in despair. Taking pity, she walked onto the stage next to him.
"Sir, I think I can help you." Kayla offered. Northern Man, or whatever his name is, looked at her in shook.
"You do, fantastic!" Kayla rolled her eyes. Another weirdo, just what she needed.
Captain Jack Harkness watched the bombs drop with worry from the bunker on the ground he was in. He had to keep up this stupid façade about being an American volunteer, but he so wanted to be near Kayla. She had been the one to get him out of the Time Agency, and they had travelled and conned everyone they came across. Life could be better, but it could have been worse.
Kayla and the Northern Man, which was now his name to Kayla, walked out of the club and into an alley.
"Rose!" He called, and Kayla shot him a confused look.
"My companion." He explained, and then started to walk around the corner with Kayla following him. In the other alleyway, a 1960's Police Box stood proudly, facing two barrels, one which had a cat on it. The cat meowed crossly at the two. Northern Man picked up the cat and started to pet it absently mindedly.
"You know...one day. Just one day, maybe...I'm gonna meet someone who gets the whole 'don't wander off' thing." He told the cat with a shake of his head.
"I haven't wandered off yet." Kayla pointed out.
"No you haven't. What's your name?" Northern Man wondered.
"Kayla." She answered simply.
"The Doctor, nice to meet you." He introduced. A telephone ring hit the silence like thunder, and the Doctor turned to look at it, his brow furrowed. He carefully set the cat down and started to walk towards the Police Box and opened the compartment only to stare at the phone inside of it.
"How can you be ringing? What's that about? Ringing?" He took out a small silver pen like thing with a blue light at the end which glowed faintly and made an annoying high pitch noise as he pointed it at the phone. He turned his head some to look at Kayla
"What am I supposed to do with a ringing phone?" He wondered.
"Most pick it up." She suggested.
"Don't answer it. It's not for you." A girl's voice suddenly rang through the ally way, causing the Doctor and Kayla to turn around and stare at a girl with brown hair in two braids in front of her.
"And how do you know that?" Kayla asked wearily, not trusting her, child or not.
"'Cos I do. And I'm tellin' ya-don't answer it." She answered back.
"Well, if you know so much, tell me this-how can it be ringing?" The Doctor turned back to the phone. "It's not even a real phone. It's not CONNECTED, it's not—" Kayla tapped his shoulder and he started wildly.
"She's gone." She reported to him. He turned and stared at the spot where the girl had once stood. Confused, he looked around before turning back to the phone and picking it up and holding it to his large ear.
"Hello?" Kayla leaned in closer so she could hear the other side, but only heard silence. "This is the Doctor speaking." He tried, but got no answer. "How may I help you?" He asked, a skeptical grin on his face. Silence followed for a few moments, until,
"Mummy?" A child's voice came from over the phone. The Doctor's skeptical grin faded quickly. "Mummy?" The voice asked again.
"Who is this? Who's speaking?" The Doctor wondered.
"Are you my mummy?" The child questioned.
"Who is this?" The Doctor asked again, speaking more forcefully than before.
"Mummy?" The child asked yet again, and the Doctor paused as silence filled the phone.
"How did you RING here? This isn't a real phone, it's not wired up to anything, it's—" Before he could finish, the child was back.
"Mummy?" The child asked one last time, and then the line went dead. The Doctor very slowly took the phone away from his ear and put it back in its cradle and then opened the door to the Police Box, keeping his back to me and blocking my view as he called into it,
"Rose? Rose, are you in there?" Concern etched his voice.
"This Rose girl means a lot to you, doesn't she?" Kayla asked. The Doctor looked at her, trying to figure out what to say when a crashing sound came from behind us. Kayla closed the compartment to the phone firmly while the Doctor withdrew from the police box and closed the door. He smiled down at Kayla, and grabbed her hand to pull her along behind him as they ran down the alley and into the street.
The Doctor and Kayla ran towards a house that was still active, which was different from all the other silent ones.
"The planes are coming. Can't you hear them? Into the shelter. None of your nonsense, now MOVE it!" The Doctor found two dustbins side by side and helped Kayla balance on it before he got on his own. They watched as a fat woman ushered a small boy into the shelter. Kayla shot a glance at the Doctor. He wasn't much, with almost no hair and large nose with even larger ears. Jack had a rule, always tell the person about the con when they're distracted.
"I suppose this would be a bad time to mention what you were chasing through the vortex?" Kayla hissed to him. The Doctor turned to look at her so quickly, that it was possible he had gotten whiplash.
"What was it?" He asked harshly.
"A Chula Warship, the last of its kind and armed to its teeth. I have no idea who you work for, but I'm guessing the Time Agency, and I'm sure they would like a Chula Warship. In exchange, I want Jack's memories back." She stated firmly, not caring about the family, about the fat man yelling at the Germans, asking if they ate of all insults.
"Sorry to disappoint you-" Whatever he was going to say was cut off by the bomb shelter door closing firmly and the bushes shaking as if they were caught in an invisible wind. The Doctor tensed, as did Kayla for different reasons. Unnoticed by the Doctor, his hand was on her arm, as they both watched the girl from earlier sneak into the house. The Doctor moved his hand away, and helped Kayla over the fence before dropping next to her.
Captain Jack Harkness held his newest toys, a pair of high-tech binoculars up to his eyes as he tried to see the figure on a rope from a Barrage Balloon, praying it wasn't Kayla who was hanging on it.
"Get those lights out please!" An officer commanded, and solider began to clear the room. "Come on, down to the shelter." The same officer told the boys, because that's all they were. Scared children in uniforms. Except for Captain Jack of course, he seemed to have no fear. Algy, a solider, approached Captain Jack, who was still looking at the Barrage Balloon.
"Jack? Are you going down to the shelter? Only, I've got to go off on some silly guard duty." He looked up and saw the Barrage Balloon. "Ah! Barrage Balloon, eh? Must've come loose. Happens now and then. Don't you RAF boys use them for target practice?" Jack hardly heard him, as he zoomed in and saw with relief that it wasn't Kayla, but a blond, who had a nice bum from what he could see.
"Excellent bottom." He commented as he zoomed in some more.
"I say, old man. There's a time and a place. Look-you should really be off." Algy reminded Jack, who turned to face him.
"Sorry, old man." Jack started to laugh. "I've gotta go and meet a girl. But you've got an excellent bottom too." As he walked past Agly, he slapped his bum, emphasizing his point. He did not miss Algy's rather pleased expression.
Kayla and the Doctor watched as the girl stuffed different items from around the kitchen and into her bag. As she walked through the empty house, she paused and looked into a room and smiled before going outside and whistling like she was calling someone, a signal. She came back inside and went into the dining room, the very same room she had smiled at earlier. A full meal was just lying there, abandoned by the family who were hiding in the bomb shelter.
"Now that's pretty smart." Kayla whispered to the Doctor, who nodded, watching the two boys who ran into the room first.
"Many kids out there?" The girl asked in a motherly sort of way to a young boy.
"Eh...yes, miss." The boy replied, and promptly ran to the table with the other child.
"Ah-still carving. Sit and wait." She ordered, seeing the boys make for food. Whether it was the motherly tone or they were expecting that order, the two boys did as they were told.
"We've got the whole air raid." She reminded them as more children came in.
"Look at that. Bet it's off the black market." The boy who had answered the girl earlier commented.
"That's enough." The girl reprimanded, but smiled anyways.
Jack watched back on his spaceship as the blond held onto the rope. He winced some at the thought of her rope burns. An explosion sounded right beneath her, and the blond started to fall, screaming all the way. Jack lazily pressed the button that he had already set up when he saw her. Instantly, a blue beam of light caught the blond, and also let Jack admire Big Ben which he had parked next to.
"Okay, okay, I've got you." He reassured the blond.
"Who's got me? Who's got me, and you know...how?" The blond asked in a British accent.
"I'm just programming your descent pattern. Keep as still as you can and keep your hands and feet inside the light field." Jack explained, not answering any of her questions. He started to click a few buttons, starting the pattern.
"Descent pattern?" She wondered. Jack stared at the screen, which was fading in and out.
"Oh, and could you switch off your cellphone?" He asked, trying to work the screen. The blond made a disbelieving noise. "No, seriously-it interferes with my instrument." Jack told her.
"You know, no-one ever believes that." The blond said, fumbling for her phone, which took a few minutes to get out.
"Thank you. That's much better." Jack told her once the phone was off and he could use his screen again.
"Oh, yeah, that's a real load off, that is. I'm hanging in the sky in the middle of a German air raid with the Union Jack across my chest, but hey! My mobile phone's off!" The blond complained, slightly hysterically. Jack felt a pang of worry for Kayla, but brushed it off with a laugh.
"Be with you in a moment." He promised the blond, who was nothing more than a kid, 19 maybe, but then, she wouldn't be traveling alone. Jack turned and set the computer up to scan her.
"The mobile communication device indicates non-contemporaneous life form." The computer reported in its lifeless voice.
"She's not from around here, no." He commented, wishing that Kayla was here. She was great with figuring out which alien life form was which. She was genius. She had just graduated from the Luna College and had started out at the Time Agency. Realizing that he had almost forgot the blond, he quickly finished her pattern.
"Ready for you. Hold tight!" He told the blond.
"To what?!" The blond yelled back.
"Fair point." He conceded, and then pressed a button and the blond started to zoom feet first towards him, screaming throughout the whole time. Jack got up and stood where she would land, arms out to catch her, which he did.
"I've got you!" He reassured her. The blond coughed. "You're fine, you're just fine. The tractor beam, it can scramble your head just a little." He explained, figuring she felt sort of bad. The blond looked at him properly, and he held back a smirk when her heart rate picked up quite a bit, only now noticing how good looking he was.
"Hello." She said breathlessly. Jack raised his eyebrow and looked her up and down, liking what he saw.
"Hello." He flirted. The blond stilled gawked at him, her mouth slightly open.
"Hello." She repeated, staring at him. Jack raised his eyebrows again and nodded. "Sorry, that was hello twice there. Dull, but you know, thorough." She told him.
"Are you all right?" Jack wondered, so wishing that Kayla was here. She was good when it came to new people.
"Fine!" The blond stated. Jack carefully set back down onto her feet where she grinned at him. "Why, are you expecting me to faint or something?" She flirted.
"Well, you do look a little dizzy..." He told her, his voice trailing off as he watched her slightly sway.
"What about you? You're not even focused...oh boll-" Jack laughed as the girl's eyes rolled to the back of her head and she fainted into his arms. Still smiling, he gently set her down onto his bed and resumed his worrying over Kayla.
There were now plenty of children inside the house, all of whom were waiting for the girl to serve them dinner. It was like a family with the girl as the mother.
"It's GOT to be black market. He couldn't get all this on coupons." A boy commented, staring at all the food.
"He does have a point." Kayla whispered to the Doctor, who shushed her.
"Ernie-how many times? We are guests in this house. We will not make comments of that kind. Washing up." The girl reprimanded Ernie sternly. The other children laughed at him.
"Oh, Nancy!" Ernie said, and Kayla grinned some as they learned her name, Nancy, it was quiet pretty. Nancy looked at one of the boys around the table.
"Haven't seen you at one of these before." She commented, and the boy nodded towards a different one.
"He told me about it." He explained. The Doctor slowly got up from our hiding place and helped Kayla into the room, where the sat unnoticed.
"Sleeping rough?" Nancy asked the boy.
"Yes, miss." The boy told her.
"All right then." She said, satisfied with his answer. She started to put slices of meat onto each plate and passed them around. "One slice each, and I want to see everyone chewing properly." She told them in a motherly sort of way.
"Thank ya, miss!" Ernie thanked as he got his plate.
"Thanks, miss!" Another boy said.
"Thank you miss." The new boy commented.
"Thanks, miss!" The Doctor thanked, and Kayla smiled as she got her plate.
"Thank you, Nancy." All the children jumped back in alarm as they saw not one, but two adults.
"It's all right! Everybody stay where you are!" Nancy reassured the children, who were all gaping at them in surprise. One of the boys had a piece of meat dangling out of his mouth.
"Good here, innit? Who's got the salt?" the Doctor wondered.
"And who has the pepper, meat always needs pepper and butter." Kayla added.
"Back in your seats! They shouldn't be here either." Nancy ordered the boys. Kayla smiled, and started to help herself to butter while the Doctor helped himself to sauce.
"So, you lot...what's the story?" Kayla asked.
"What d'you mean?" Ernie questioned.
"You're homeless, right? Living rough?" The Doctor pointed out.
"Why d'you wanna know that? Are you a copper?" Another boy inquired.
"Oh, I'm far from a copper, and I have a feeling he is too. Besides, what would we arrest you for, starving?" The children laughed and the ice that we had formed is broken.
"I make it 1941, you lot shouldn't be in London. You should've been evacuated to the country by now." The Doctor stated.
"I was evacuated. They sent me to a farm." The new boy told him, sounding gloomy about it.
"So why'd you come back?" Kayla asked, curious.
"There was a man there..." His voice trailed off, and Kayla gave him a sympathetic look. She could relate some.
"Yeah, same with Ernie. Two homes ago." A boy commented.
"Shut up. It's better on the streets anyway. Better food." Ernie told them.
"Yeah. Nancy always gets the best food for us." Kayla and the Doctor both smiled at Nancy, not missing the love held for her in the boy's sentence.
"So, that's what you do is it, Nancy?" Nancy looked at him.
"What is?" Nancy wondered, though they all knew what they were talking about.
"As soon as the sirens go, you find a big fat family meal, still warm on the table with everyone down in the air raid shelter and-bingo! Feeding frenzy for the homeless kids of London Town. Puddings for all!" The Doctor said.
"As long as the bombs don't get you." Added Kayla, putting a small gloom on the table.
"Something wrong with that?" Nancy inquired, defensive.
"Wrong with it? It's genius. I'm not sure if it's Marxism in action or a West End musical." The children looked at each other, not understanding Kayla's sentence.
"Why'd you follow me? What d'you want?" Nancy questioned.
"I want to know how a phone that isn't a phone gets a phone call. You seem to be the one to ask." The Doctor explained.
"I did you a favour. I told you not to answer it, that's all I'm telling ya." Nancy said.
"Great, thanks. And I wanna find a blonde in a Union Jack. I mean a specific one, I didn't just wake up this morning with a craving." The children laughed while Nancy didn't look impressed. She stood up, and Kayla tensed. Something about this girl made her seem older than how she looked. "Anybody seen a girl like that?" The Doctor wondered, pretending not to notice Nancy, who took both of their plates away.
"Thanks." Kayla whispered to her. The food really was good.
"What've I done wrong?" the Doctor asked, indignantly.
"You both took two slices." She reprimanded, and the children started to laugh at them.
"No blondes-no flags. Anything else before you leave?" Nancy questioned.
"Yeah, there is actually. Thanks for asking. Something I've been looking for, would've fallen from the sky about a month ago, but not a bomb." Kayla tensed as the Doctor took out a notepad. He was talking about the con. Since he barely asked her about it, that meant she didn't trust her, which meant that she had to make him trust her. Cons worked better when there was some sort of trust. "Not the usual kind anyway. Wouldn't have exploded. Would've just buried itself in the ground somewhere, and it would've looked something like..." He started to sketch. "This." He finished, showing the children the space junk. A Chula ambulance to be exact, not that Kayla was going to tell him. Besides, ambulances are in wars too. Nancy stared at the picture deeply, but made no comment. A knock on the door drew Nancy's attention away from it. The children all gasped in horror.
"Mummy? Are you in there, mummy?" The same child's voice came from outside. The Doctor and Kayla both got up and went to the window where they pulled back the curtain to reveal a child with a gas mask standing there, knocking.
"He's wearing a gasmask." Kayla gasped out.
"Mummy?" The child asked again.
"Who was the last one in?" Nancy questioned urgently.
"They were." Ernie answered, gesturing towards the Doctor and Kayla.
"Nah, they came round the back. Who came in the front?" Nancy asked.
"Me." The new boy said.
"Did you close the door?" Nancy questioned him.
"I…" the boy's voice trailed off.
"Did you close the door?" Nancy repeated, her voice growing more urgent.
"Mummy? Mummy?" The child wondered. Kayla watched as Nancy left to go close the door. The Doctor stared at the spot she had been in, before going into the hallway with Kayla following.
"Muuuuum-my?" The child whined, his shadow right next to the door. Nancy was back against the wall, terrified.
"What's this, then? It's never easy being the only child left out in the cold, you know." The Doctor commented.
"It hurts to be alone, to be left out." Kayla whispered softly, too quiet for Nancy to hear, but the Doctor did.
"I suppose you'd know." Nancy retorted to the Doctor.
"I do actually, yes."
"So do I." Kayla agreed in the same volume as before. Her eyes had a wistful but frightened look in them, that if the Doctor had more time, he would have asked about. Instead, he smiled pleasantly at Nancy.
"It's not exactly a child." Nancy explained.
"Muuum-my?" The child begged. Nancy pushed past Kayla and the Doctor and went back into the dining room.
"Right, everybody out, across the back garden and under the fence." She addressed the children who were all sitting there. Kayla poked her head in and saw that all the children were still sitting there, frozen. "Now! Go! Move!" They all got up and started to leave while Nancy put her coat on, not noticing the little girl who was still there. As Kayla started towards the little girl, Nancy noticed her.
"Come on, baby. You've got to go. Okay? It's just like a game. Just like chasing." She reassured the child, who jumped out of her seat. "Take your coat, go on." The little girl grabbed her coat and ran after the others. "Go!" Nancy called to them. Kayla smiled and went back to standing near the Doctor, who looked quite confused as he watched all the children pass, leaving the gas mask wearing one by himself, because that voice was a young boy's.
"Mummy?" The child wondered, and the Doctor took a few steps towards him. "Please let me in, mummy." The child put his hand through the letter slip and the Doctor and Kayla could clearly see a scar on his small ordinary hand. The child made grasping motions with his hand, reaching for someone. Kayla took a step towards him.
"Please let me in, mummy." The child repeated.
"Are you okay?" Kayla asked, concerned.
"Please let me in." the child repeated again. Kayla etched forwards to where she was a little past the Doctor. When a vase went flying and hit the door, making the child withdraw his hand and the vase shatter.
"You mustn't let him touch ya!" Nancy warned them.
"And what happens if he does?" Kayla asked. "He's just a child, a scared child who needs help." She told Nancy, turning on the young girl. Her eyes were blazing, a fire she had gotten from her mother.
"He'll make you like him."
"What's that supposed to me, what's he like?" Kayla inquired. Nancy stepped away.
"I've gotta go." Nancy told her simply, refusing to answer the questions.
"Nancy, what's he like?" the Doctor asked softly, kindly. Nancy, the Doctor, and Kayla looked at each other. After a pause, Nancy answered.
"He's empty." The phone next to them started to ring. Kayla shot it a look.
"It's him. He can make phones ring, he can. Just like with that police box you saw." Nancy told them. Kayla glanced over at the child's shadow outside the door, and she picked up the phone.
"Are you my mummy?" Goosebumps rose on Kayla's skin as Nancy yanked the phone out of Kayla's hand and slammed it back down. The radio next to them started, playing music but with the child's voice over it.
"Mummy? Please let me in, mummy." The Doctor turned the turner, changing the station. He stopped however, when a toy monkey sprung to life.
"Mummy? Muuum-my, muum-my..." The child's voice rang through the monkey.
"Now that, that is creepy." Kayla muttered, staring at the monkey who stared back. The Doctor picked up the toy and looked at it.
"Stay if you want to." Nancy told them, and then disappeared.
"Mummy, mummy, mummy..." The child chorused. On their other side, the child stuck his hand through the letterbox again.
"Mummy? Let me in please, mummy..." the child pleaded. Kayla knelt by the letterbox, staring at the little hand. She hardly noticed the Doctor crouching next to her. "PLEASE let me in." The child cried.
"Your mummy isn't here, I don't know where she is." Kayla said to the child.
"Are you my mummy?" The child questioned after a pause.
"No mummies here. None be here but us chickens." The Doctor told the child. He glanced back at the deserted house. "Well, us three chickens." He corrected himself.
"I'm scared." The child confessed.
"Why are the others frightened of you?" Kayla wondered.
"Please let me in, mummy. I'm scared of the bombs." The child begged. Kayla tilted her head for a second, and then got up, the Doctor following in suit.
"Okay, I'm letting you in." She told the child, who withdrew his hand. Kayla undid the bolts and opened the door, expecting to see the boy, but he had disappeared. Kayla went outside and the Doctor followed, just as curious. They both scanned the sidewalk, but found no child.
Right, so this is how it's going to work. I'll have each episode be two parts, so if it's a natural two part episode, it'll be four parts in all. I'll try and update once a week. Here's some backward on Kayla.
First Name: Kayla
Last Name: Unknown at the moment
Mother: Suspected to be dead, unknown name at the moment
Father: Unknown
Age: 20
Current Job: Con Artist with Captain Jack Harkness
Past Job: Worked at the Time Agency since she was 10, stopped for unknown reasons and helped Jack escape
Schooling: Has gone for one year at the Luna University
Hair Color: Chocolate brown, naturally wavy, goes down her back
Eye Color: Blue green eyes
Skin Color: Caucasian, extremely pale
Theme Song: Still Working on it...sorry guys :(
Right, so that's her background, hope you enjoyed the chapter, see you next week!