Author's Note: Hi guys! So this is my first official Doctor Who fanfic. Umm I've written two one shots but those were Once Upon a Time/Doctor Who crossovers. So this is my first full Doctor Who fic. I've written Doctor Who roleplay a bunch, I currently do so if you rp Doctor Who you may recognize an OC in here. Enjoy the fic sweeties! And don't forget to review!
Clara stepped on the TARDIS and from the moment she did, she had the inkling that the Doctor was up to something. She watched him flutter around the TARDIS mumbling things that only he could comprehend and flipping various switches on the console. She thought back to when he tried to teach her how to fly it and thought it was best not to go down that path again just to get him to speak to her.
"Doctor?" She finally asked. His floppy brown hair shot up and he smiled.
"Clara! Oh hello, Clara. Okay well we won't be going too far today. Well, to be honest, oh Clara have you ever been to America?" His discombobulated speech sent Clara back into a feeling of normalcy. He often spoke like that so her mind rested at ease.
Clara crossed her arms over chest and she cocked her head to the side, "Well, Doctor where exactly are we going in America?"
"New York City!" The thought of going back to New York pained him slightly because the loss of the Ponds was still fresh in the old Time Lord's mind but this would be after they died, so no paradox could occur, he just had to avoid any place he went with Amy and Rory. Right. That should help.
The Doctor ran over the console and spun some dials and pushed some buttons and they were off, moving in space not time on this adventure.
"Why exactly are we going to New York City, Doctor?" Clara had been before, on a trip with some friends one summer about three years ago. She peeked over his shoulder, standing on her tip toes, why was he so tall and lanky? Clara thought.
The Doctor turned to face her and took a step back, not quite realizing that they were standing so close in proximity. Their bond had grown closer after visiting his grave. Ever since she remember all his faces and he had taken her out of his own timestream and back to the TARDIS they now stood in, their bond had grown much like a brother and sister one. They always wanted to protect each other. After all, Clara was born to save the Doctor.
"We are going to New York because I got this message on the psychic paper." The Doctor pulled out the psychic paper and letters began to write themselves on the blank sheet. The message read: 'New York City Public Library. New York, New York baby. Come quick. -JH.'
"Who is JH and why do they need you to come quick." Clara questioned him. She was curious about anything and everything, especially regarding the Doctor. She had seen each of his faces, yet some details were still unclear.
"You might recognize him. Jack Harkness." The Doctor said with a slight smile and landed the TARDIS, annoying, wheezing noise following it. "Think back to my ninth and tenth faces, Clara."
Clara thought for a moment, in her fleeting moments of trying to save the Doctor throughout the years, she remembered a man, tall, brown hair, always flirting. Yes. She remembered Captain Jack Harkness very vaguely. "Alright, so what's he want?"
"Well, Jack works for Torchwood it's an organization formed by the British Empire back in the 1800's. Long story short, I'm assuming he needs my help with some alien related issue." The Doctor explained and grabbed his coat.
Clara could barely believe her ears, "alien related issue. At a library?"
The Doctor nodded, "You wouldn't believe the stories I could tell of libraries." And there was one in particular he'd rather never repeat. Thinking of River hurt him too much.
Clara let out a great sigh and followed the Doctor out the TARDIS doors. She stepped out of the TARDIS and onto the soft green grass of a park in New York City. "Doctor, I don't see the library anywhere, are we going to use the motorbike again?"
The Doctor shook his head, "What's the problem in walking, Clara? I quite like walking, walking is fun." The Doctor began to walk head of his companion. He wondered what Jack wanted with him after all these years, they hadn't seen each other since his last regeneration. He had to admit he missed the immortal time agent but then again, he could do without the constant flirting.
After stopping for hot dogs, twice, and getting frozen yogurt, three times, Clara and the Doctor walked up the steps of the stone building that read in big encarved letters 'NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY'. They went through the doors and when they were stopped by a security guard, the Doctor flashed his psychic paper.
"John Smith and Clara Oswald." The guard had a change of expression like he believed him and motioned them forward.
"Just go through the security check, empty your pockets and put any bags on the cart, and you should be good Mr. Smith. You two have a good day." The security guard curtly nodded and stood back at attention at his post.
They went through the security check, the Doctor passing off his sonic screwdriver as a special pen. As they looked around the main lobby they saw there were three floors to the library. Shelves upon shelves of books almost completely encompassed the library except for the wall behind them. There were elevators on either side so people could get to the upper levels without having to travel up flights of stairs. The Doctor walked up to the front desk, "Excuse me but has a Jack Harkness passed through here?"
"Yes, he said he'd be doing maintenance on the second floor behind the children's section. Had quite the crew with him and the strangest equipment I've ever seen." The woman laughed quietly and pointed the direction that Jack went.
The Doctor rocked back and forth on his heels, "Thank you." He grabbed Clara's hand and went for the elevator.
When they reached their destination he saw lots of flashes and silenced guns that clearly didn't have bullets but for the sake that they were in a library, all the weapons seemingly had be silences. "Jack!" The Doctor called. There were little to no children around, most were down below with their parents.
Jack Harkness, not looking any older than the Doctor last saw him, popped his head out of the room he was currently apparently kicking alien ass in and grinned, "Doc! You look great! And who's the-" He was cut off by jerking back inside the classroom and various flashes went off.
The Doctor looked at Clara and took her by the shoulders, "You stay behind me I don't exactly know what could be in there."
The Doctor walked in and was shocked, "Lazer tag? Jack, you're playing Lazer tag? You called me across time and space for Lazer tag?" He dodged the Lazer that was coming towards him and gave Jack a glare.
"C'mon, Doc, I had to make it seem urgent, want to play?"
"Why of all places are you playing it here?" The Doctor asked, clearly not amused by his old friend's antics.
Jack called the team to a halt, "Because of this." He pulled out a device and handed it to him, "my readings went off the charts the other day when I passed by the library. It registered an Human plus lifeform. The plus, was Time Lord DNA, Doc. You wanna explain?"
The Doctor took the reader and punched in some numbers. He took out his sonic and sonic'ed the device carefully so it didn't overload it and looked at his own readings that his sonic gave him.
"So you're here waiting for the signal to pop up again?"
"Yeah, the signal went off on Friday, library is closed on the weekends. Now it's Monday." Just as he finished his sentence, Jack's reader began to beep incredulously. "They're here." Jack took the reader back and set it on a mode that would beep louder as they got closer.
"Wait. You said you were maintanence. We're just every day library goers Maybe I should be the one to do this." The Doctor stopped Jack from proceeding, "it will look less... fishy... you go on about what you were doing." The Doctor rolled his eyes briefly, "and we'll come back here in a few minutes."
As they walked down the corridors, the beeping got closer together and louder. They had to make several turnarounds but the beeping was more consistent until they found a room set off for people that just wanted to read. There were various types of people in there. Students cramming for exams, people reading diet books, people reading saucy romance novels, and other people reading other various genres for pleasure. The reader was now stagnant. They had honed in the location of the Human+ person but which one, he didn't know.
The Doctor put the reader away, he made a shush motion with his finger to Clara to remain quiet as they entered the room. He noticed a stack of books he presumed people had put down after they finished reading them and picked one up. Clara picked one up as well. They each sat on different sides of the room.
The old Time Lord's attention was caught by a girl with curly black hair propped up in a chair sideways so her legs hung over the arm of the chair. She was reading A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. Oh could the Doctor point out the inaccuracies in that book. She held the book in one hand and played with a necklace in the other. The Doctor shifted slightly and tried to get a better look at her. He quickly looked back at his book like he was interested in it as the girl moved to get up. He heard footsteps towards him and he slowly looked up.
"That books a good read, I only hope you see that, cause you know, you're reading it upside down." She said simply with a smirk.
That's when he noticed it, her necklace. There was no way this could have been some novelty necklace from a shop. What he saw, it was Circular Gallifreyan. It spelled out "Terra". As she moved to leave, the Doctor shot out of his chair and sat the book down. He followed her out and the reader began to beep again in his jacket pocket. The Doctor continued to follow her till she made her way to the history section. With a groan, the Doctor passed by all the books he could point at blankly and say they were wrong. When she stopped, he stopped. He wasn't sure if it was her name but he tried it, "Terra."
The girl turned to face him, "That's my name, how did you know my name?"
The Doctor scratched the back of his neck nervously, "It's on your necklace."
"Excuse me?" She heard a faint flatline noise and cocked her head, "what's the noise inside your jacket?"
"That's my umm..." The Doctor didn't have an answer this time, "Come with me." He grabbed onto her hand and tugged her back to where Clara was in the other room.
Terra was flabbergasted at this man's sudden audacity to just jerk her away from where she was and back into the room she was before. "Sir? What are you doing?" She jerked her hand away once he stopped walking and looked at him, completely horrified.
Clara walked up to them, "Doctor, why does she look like you just tried to kidnap her?" She asked and crossed her arms.
"Because he did!" Terra interjected and several people shushed her.
"Right, let's go back upstairs." He began to walk back to the children's section where Jack and crew were at, when he heard only a pair of footsteps behind him the Doctor turned around, "Coming?" He asked Terra.
"Of course not!" Terra glared at him and crossed her arms.
Clara went to her, "Just humor him, it'll be over much faster this way."
Terra let out a groan and followed them back to the children's section. She looked in the room they went into and sighed. "I feel like I should be calling the cops." Terra walked towards the group, "Are you federal agents? Or are all of you just looney?"
"Pretty sure they're looney," Clara said. She walked up to Terra, "My name's Clara Oswald."
"Terra Song." Terra said with a smile.
The Doctor's ears perked up, "Terra Song?" His non-existent eyebrows hit his hairline.
"Yeah, Song." She was growing impatient with this man. "What do you want me for anyways?"
The Doctor walked up to her and pulled out the reader, "This is a reader, it scans for paranormal and extraterrestrial anomalies. After it has scanned it tells you what anomalies it found. It found Time Lord DNA, I'm what's called a Time Lord. Now there's only one left, that's me. There's another person or there was in the universe with Time Lord DNA that was... nevermind but she's gone so how, how could the reader tell me that you have Time Lord DNA."
Terra looked at him, she was quiet and shocked. "I don't know."
The Doctor became frustrated and ran his hands through his hair, "Why. Why is your last name Song, why... Terra... What does Terra mean?" He wracked his brain.
"Terra is 'land' in Latin, why, Doctor?" Clara asked.
"Land Song. LAND Song!" The Doctor spun, "River..." He whispered.
"What is wrong with him?" Terra took a few steps back from him, "Does he need medication?"
Clara shrugged, "Most would say yes but this is how he normally is."
"Terra, I don't know how to say this, but you're my daughter."
A/N: So that's the first chapter! Second chapter will be up... I'm not sure. I'm out of school for the summer so hopefully soon. Reviews are always appreciated! Thanks for reading.
Marisa
