Hey, I know I was off the grid for a while been busy with family stuff, then I went to America and now school's started back up so I'm re-reading my story and re-writing it too, just wanted to warn you, so starting with Chapter 1. Love you, ShellyMay! Don't forget to review! Please!

Doctor Who – The Man Who Gave Me Meaning.

I sat in the chair at McDonalds, cold hard plastic that hurt my shoulder blades. A happy meal with nuggets and fries sat in front of me, half eaten. I sipped at my coke, bubbles fizzing in the back of my throat and shivered. I was under dressed for the chilling weather that had descended upon the suburb that I was hiding in. I tugged at a thin hair clinging to my purple shorts. I sighed rubbing my arms to try and generate a little more warmth. I don't know how long it had been before I blacked out.

It was dark, almost pitch black. The only light was from the miniscule screen on my phone, the stars bright and defined spattered across the sky above me. It was almost midnight, almost my fourteenth birthday. That's why we're here in this beautiful darkness, camping for my birthday. Surprisingly my phone had a signal and just as the clock clicked onto midnight Carmina Burana started echoing around camp.

"Hello?" I asked with the phone about a foot away from my ear, my friends on speaker as the screamed from the other side of the line.

"Happy Birthday Allonsy!" They all squealed. I smiled at my last name, I'd hated it for most of my life but I had gotten over the childish dislike and appreciated the individuality of it.

"Thanks guys." I said as my mother came and sat next to me. She handed me two small boxes wrapped in purple paper with black and silver ribbon. "Sorry, I've got to go, love you all."

"Happy birthday, honey." She said as she handed me a card.

"Thanks Mum, love you." I said tearing open the envelope. I took a fifty pound note out and skimmed the card it was the usual. 'To Charlotte, Happy Birthday, Lots of Love Mum Dad and Alexis'. Then carefully ripped the paper off the small boxes I opened the first one it held a gold ring in the shape of a heart with a small ruby in the top right, I brushed my finger tip over the thin cursive E. "Your ring."

"Not mine, it's yours now. Oh, Charlotte I'm so proud of you." She said softly. "Open the other one."

I did, inside nestled on purple satin was a silver necklace with intricate swirls and dots. In the middle sat small upside down tear drop shaped mother of pearl.

"It's beautiful." I whispered.

"It matches your eyes." My mother told me before standing up. "Don't stay up to late big day tomorrow."

"I won't." I told her turning back to look at the sky. I ended up falling asleep next to the camp fire, now wearing the ring and necklace. When I woke up my head was fuzzy and a man in a deep blue or brown suite was standing in front of me yelling at something telling it to leave me alone. I heard my family run out of the tent, I wanted to tell them to stay away to stay out of sight but I couldn't. I could only watch as each was hit with a bright blue-white light and fell to the ground the light in the eyes gone. Just, gone.

I couldn't believe it, my family; my whole world had just been killed right in front of me. I was vaguely of being carried by the man in a suit; he smelt like cinnamon, aftershave and strawberry jam. I knew we were in danger but something about this man made me feel safe. I rested my head against his shoulder tears silently running over my pale face.

"Gone," I whispered my voice broken. "They're gone."

"Shh...It's alright, I've got you. You'll be safe now." He whispered back, panting slightly from sprinting and carrying me.

"But they're gone." I sobbed into his chest as he patted my back and talked to me in a soothing voice until I fell back asleep.

The next morning I woke up screaming, clutching the silver necklace so hard it left an indentation on the skin of my hand.

"Are you okay?" I jumped with surprise, almost knocking my coke over and wiped the sweat off my forehead. Sitting in front of me was a strange man in a blue pinstriped suit, with a brown trench coat slung over the chair next to him. My throat felt dry, like sand paper and my heart was beating rapidly. I sipped the coke and shivered again, crossing my arms and looking at the man with a familiar look in his eyes. It was the same sadness I'd been looking at in my reflection for two years.

"Who are you?" I asked quietly.

He smiled and said "I'm The Doctor."

I groaned and shivered again, I was freezing. "Just what I need, a shrink."

His expression changed so quickly I sat up a little straighter. "I'm not that kind of Doctor."

He said it so seriously and something in his eyes made me think that I was the first person to say I was the crazy one where as he wasn't.

"Alright, why are you talking to me? I mean I am just a fifteen year old run away." I said looking at half eaten meal in front of me.

"Because I made a promise to someone a long time ago and it got broken and that's why you're here." He told me.

What? Was he saying it was his fault that I had run away? But it couldn't be it was Vincent's fault for ruining the one good thing in my life for the past two years. Tears sprang uninvited to me eyes, hot and stinging. I wanted to run away and never come back. Instead I shook my head and kept drinking.

"Oh, what happened to you that I couldn't stop?" He asked handing me his trench coat as he sat next to me.

"Not here." I told him, quietly my voice hoarse and broken. I said slipping into the familiar coat that was about an inch and a half from touching the floor. I was almost six foot tall so it didn't surprise me that even with the length the jacket didn't touch the floor. I had just gotten outside when I realized why the coat was familiar. It smelled like the man who had saved my life on the night of my fourteenth birthday.

I turned a corner, breathing shakily as my hand rested on the wall for support and managed to weakly call out "Doctor."

He turned just as I fainted. I fell through the blackness a robotic voice ringing in my ear. "Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate!"

As usual I woke up screaming.

So that's the first chapter, tell me what you think.

Love you,

ShellyMay