"The clock strikes 12"

. Wendy, a 14 year old, courageous girl who has just ran away from her 11th family and she encounters, a strange man, the doctor, while being chased from her 11th family. As she runs up to the strange man she begs, "My name is Wendy, please take me with you."

The doctor can see the fear in the young lady's sapphire blue eyes and knew she was in desperate help of someone. The doctor thinks on his feet and takes her away to the Tardis. As soon as they enter the Tardis, the doctor asks, "Wendy, when do you want to go?"

Wendy looks back puzzled and asks, "When"? The doctor just realized that she has no idea what the Tardis is capable of doing so he takes Wendy to 2173 and to British Columbia, Canada. When they arrive it is a very bright day and Wendy says as she leaves the Tardis, "Huh, so this is what British Columbia looks like in mid July."

As Wendy examines around she notices that they are in the middle of Stanley Park and she is stunned at the beautiful scenery, especially from the trees. She asks excitedly to the doctor "is-is-is that an actual tree? I have always read about them in books from the local library but I have never actually get to see one up and close. I have always thought they weren't so colourful and they are also so light. They are like a flat marshmallow's outside but with the color of a summer's sunset, on a clear night."

the doctor responds, "Yes that is a real tree and it is one of the last ones left, one of the last maple trees."

then almost instantly, Wendy begins to tear up at the thought of a world with no trees so the doctor, thought to cheer her up, he escorts Wendy to a fish and chips place where they both grab a meal, and get to know each other a little better. It wasn't soon after the doctor realized that she wasn't in the mood of talking so he thought he would give the first shot. So he begins, "So what was it with you and that family, if you don't mind me asking?"

Wendy looks away right as he asks but soon looks back at the doctor with tears in her eyes and a tremble in her voice. She responds, "It was my 11th family I have been adopted and put back up. Almost once a year with every family I have ever had, first it was my actual birth parents who were just mere teenagers when I was born so apparently my mom abandoned my on one of the street wrapped in blankets and with a note with bad penmanship "Please be given to good family. I'm not ready yet." Well, that was what my second parents told me that they would always be there for me."

She took a brief second to catch herself to put herself together and then continues, "It wasn't there fault that they were grand parent's age and they both had many diseases in their family. His name was Alfred and her name was Caroline and they were about to celebrate their 50th anniversary but a few days prior Alfred had a heart attack and had to be rushed to the hospital. But sadly on the way to the hospital we lost a war veteran who served in world war 2 when he was 20 and thought he had his entire ahead of him, until he got the call to duty which caused him to be put him under a lot of stress and caused his heart to get irregular beats so they decided a useless solider doesn't belong in the army he deserves to be put with a wife and some kids. And that's what he did well until they found out that Caroline was infertile. Which at first deeply saddened him but he kept loving her, he kept loving her until July 8th until his love couldn't pump any more and soon after, on July 18th Caroline had the same problem and didn't make it. Which meant I had to go to a foster home where families have taken my and returned me for the last 10 years of my life."

Wendy just sat there about to bawl her eyes until the doctor put his arm around Wendy and said, "I have met many people and aliens in my life but you darling, like me, you are one of the loneliest out there"

Wendy just sat there with half of her fish and chips eaten and asked the doctor "excuse me but, who are you, I know you aren't human because we were in that police box outside of my house and now we are here in this beautiful futuristic fish and chips place."

The doctor looks back with a smile on his face and he says, "I am like you, a trooper trying to find my perfect companion some who is strong and determined like me."

Wendy asks again, "who are you?"

The doctor responds after a short pause, "I am a 910 year old, alien from Gallifrey, a distant planet where people are time lords. Time lords are people with Tardis, the blue box, which we can use to travel in any where in time and space"

Wendy is shocked to hear all of this information at once and she asks, " Tardis, what is it an alien machine, yes, but what does it mean? Tacos and Doritos in sauce… wait that doesn't make sense. What does it mean?"

The doctor lets out a short laugh and explains, "Tardis is an acronym for time and relative dimensions in space."

The doctor and Wendy slowly finish up their fish and chips, until they are done and the doctor looks at Wendy and says, "Well what are we supposed to do with you now?"

Wendy has a confused look on her face, "What do you mean?"

The doctor responds quickly, "Your 11th family."

Wendy lets out a long sigh, "But I don't want to go back to them, they treat me like garbage and it is terrible." Wendy lets out a quick breath and looks like she has an idea, "Let me stay with you! Please"

The doctor in shock responds with, "Wha – wha - what?"

Wendy repeats slowly, "Let me stay with you! Please"

The doctor ponders on the question for a moment and thinks, "Since I am companionless it couldn't hurt but then again she is only a young adult, I think it would be fine"

The doctor sticks out his hand and says, "you miss, have got yourself a time lord"

Right away the doctor and Wendy walk back to the Tardis and as Wendy takes out a light sigh, the doctor asks, "what's wrong?"

She looks at him and says, "Well, all I have is just this ratty old shirt and jeans, do you mind if we go back to my house and grab some other clothes and stuff?"

The doctor looks blankly at Wendy and in a very sarcastic tone says, "No, in the many adventures we are gonna go through you will have to wear those same clothes." He waits for a second, then says truthfully, "Yeah okay lets go and get it"

As the doctor is working the Tardis, Wendy is just standing there and watching him dancing like a monkey trying to get a peanut open, and she lets out a little giggle, which the doctor doesn't hear.

The next thing Wendy knew she was back home, and noticed that the house was pitch black, "Perfect" she thought.

She told the doctor she would be no longer than 15 minutes, and the doctor just nodded and said, "Run, you clever girl!"

Wendy then quickly sneaks into the house and sneaks into her room, and is thinking about what she needs. She knows she needs clothes, and she adds several shirts, pants and various other articles of clothing into a suitcase. As well she gathers a few other items of importance, her phone as well charger, her iPod again as well with charger, and finally a picture of her with Alfred and Caroline. She tears up at the thought of them being gone but knows that she has a better family waiting outside for her, she quickly grabs a few jackets to wear since of how cold it is in the ice cold winter, of Yorkshire, London, England. As she is about to leave she sees her 11th family's parents arguing in the kitchen and decideds it would be okay to give them one last visit before she never sees them again she turns the corner to say a final good bye but instead of seeing her old parents, she sees these seven feet tall ugly, green, slimy aliens, and with her parents body on the ground all deformed which makes her scream at the top of her lungs.

The Doctor jumps in through the window and the aliens standing there, and staring at him with despise, and hatred, the doctor looks at them funny ask them, "Didn't I get rid of you, Slitheen, like 3 regenerations ago?"

The Slitheen look at the doctor suspiciously and send out a larger shriek and soon the two Slitheen weren't the only ones there, it was the neighbours who were also Slitheen and now they were outnumbered twenty to just the two. The doctor quickly grabs Wendy's hand and screams run as the duo quickly run from the house and bolt out of the door without looking back once they get they get back to the Tardis and land on the floor. Then they both let out a huge sigh while trying to catch their breath, shortly after catching their breath Wendy lets out a huge screech.

The doctor jumps to his feet and asks, "What is wrong?"

Wendy turns around, exposing her back and showing the cuts the Slitheen had got on her back while they were running and now she was experiencing the pain and now it started to bleed quite bad, and if she didn't get help she would die soon. Knowing this the doctor bolts out of the engine room and disappears for a moment and Wendy's vision begins to blur and the last thing Wendy sees is the doctor running back with a jar with yellow stuff in it.

12 hours pass and it is almost noon. Then Wendy looks up and realized she had been moved to a bed, not the most comfortable but a bed. She calls at for the doctor, but there was no response, she calls out again and he comes bolting around one of the corners, and comes to seek her aid, then proceeds to ask, "What's wrong?"

Wendy responded, "What happened to me once I passed out?"

The doctor begins to explain, "Once your eyes shut, I ran over with a jar of nanogenes which help repair the body, and lucky for you the cut wasn't too deep and you will be fine in a few days. Just get lots of rest."

Wendy says faintly, "Thanks" Then her eyes shut once again so she could rest. Then a chime went off in the Tardis. It was 12.