This is a relatively short story after the events of Midnight. All the people still alive who were on that bus reunite, but what for?
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The Doctor found himself lying on the ground. Distantly, he heard some voices, but they seemed unclear at the time. His eyes were closed. It was a moment of calm. He didn't have anything giving him fear, dread, nor pain. He opened his eyes, and sat up. His face was in pain, but he couldn't remember why. He touched it. The left half of his jaw felt swollen. There was a cut on his cheek, and his nose was also slightly uncomfortable. There was also a minor pain in his stomach. He must have been in some kind of fight. He took a look at his surroundings. He was in a small room. Maybe a supply closet of somekind, but there were no materials in it. He stood up, realizing how bad the pain to his ribs actually was. He took a moment to compose himself. He then tried the door. Luckily for him, it was unlocked. He opened it, to find a group of people. They all looked at him, mouths wide open. It was then that he realized who they were, and his jaw dropped too. "What?"
Earlier...
The Doctor had just dropped Donna at her house with no memory of him. He was sad, to say the least. He had basically just said goodbye to all of his companions. He, of course that there was a chance to see a couple of them again, but not Rose, not Donna. The Doctor went into his TARDIS, and turned a few levers to set it to random. He needed a crisis to get Donna off his mind. He landed, and turned to leave, but instead found a dark figure standing a few feet behind him.
The Doctor jumped, very surprised. "Who the hell are you?" questioned the Doctor, very angry that someone had gotten into his TARDIS without his permission.
"Who the hell are you?" it repeated.
"What?"
"What?"
"Oh no not again." said the Doctor, realizing what it was. He started backing away, trying to leave, but the figure ran up to him before that.
"Oh no not again." It kicked the Doctor in the ribs. The Doctor fell, but recovered quickly. He got to his feet and tried to punch the creature, but the dark figure was unbelievably fast. It ran forward and rammed into the Time Lord, pushing him all the way to the side of the TARDIS. It threw punches, nonstop, beating the Doctor until he could barely stand.
How did it get here? wondered the Doctor, as he fell to the floor. The black figure brought down a foot on the Doctor's face.
It had been six years, for the rest of the people on that bus that day, since the incident. For the Doctor, not nearly that long. Jethro was out of college. His mom and dad, Bliff and Val Cane, haven't done much. Jethro had already been growing away from them, after all, his father had tried to murder a man. Dee Dee Blasco had become an engineer, for she finally decided to follow in her father's footsteps. Professor Hobbes had stopped research on the planet Midnight and retired. A lot has changed. No one expected to meet each other again. They wanted to leave that memory behind. None thought of the Doctor, of Skye, of the Hostess, of the driver nor mechanic after that day. They pretended that it hadn't happened. That they were never such monsters as they were that day. When the authorities questioned them, they claimed that they didn't see anything, that they did not know what happened. It was practically gone from their memories.
Jethro was on his way home from his work in the research center. He had to decided to research life. How it can adapt to the conditions it is given. Subconsiouly, he had been inspired by that extraterrestial life form that had attacked them on the bus, and decided to pursue a career in that area. He was at the bus stop, heading to his apartment, when suddenly, a bag was placed over his head. He cried for help, but no one was around. He was put into a car, hands bound, and the car drove away. It was black. Nothing but blackness for three hours straight. At the end of that time, the car finally stopped. The blackness turned to slightly lighter blackness as the trunk was opened. Jethro was dragged out, and tussled into a large room, in which the bag on his head was removed. His hands were untied. He had been so disoriented, that he didn't have time to react, to fight back, to escape. It wasn't until the click of a lock when he got ahold of himself and took in his surroundings.
He was in a large sealed up warehouse. It was completely empty, but no unlocked way out was seen at the moment. There were two doors on opposite sides of it, but they were padlocked. He saw what appeared to be offices in the warehouse. He walked towards one. There was a window next to the office door, so he peered inside. Nothing. It was pitch black so he dared not try that handle.
He then walked to one of the other office doors and peered in. He was two people in it! Jethrow paniked, he tried the handle and surprisingly, it wasn't locked. "Hello?" he asked as he poked his head in. The two people in there stood up and ran towards him. At first, Jethro was scared, but then he recognized the faces. They were his parents!
"Mum? Dad? How did you get here?" He then realized that their mouths were bound and their hands were tied. He quickly unbound them, and asked "Are you two okay?"
"Yes, son, we are. We were in the kitchen when some gas was released into the house." said his dad, Bliff Cane."
"We fell asleep, and woke up here about an hour ago. Are you okay?"
"Yes mum, I'm fine." Jethro looked around again, to make sure there wasn't anything dangerous near by, then proceded to the final door.
Once, again, Jethro peered inside, and saw another two people inside. The handle, once again, wasn't locked. He opened the door, and to his ABSOLUTE surprise, found Dee Dee Blasco and Professor Hobbes inside.
"Dee Dee, Professor? What the HELL are you two doing here?" Jethro said as he walked to them and unbound their hands mouths.
"We could ask you the same thing." said the Professor.
"Come out here, it's brighter." said Jethro.
Dee Dee and Professor Hobbes came out to see Bliff and Val Cane. All surprised, no one spoke.
Jethro then broke the silence and said, "Well I guess we know what this may be about."
"Yeah" they all muttered.
"Well, I guess that the only one missing is..." Professor Hobbes trailed off. They all thought of the Doctor.
"He probably got himself killed. Instead of him, we should focus on WHY we're here." said Jethro's dad.
"Have some respect!" said Dee Dee.
They fell silent again.
Suddenly, they heard the creek of a door open. They turned around to find the Doctor poking his head out of the room on the left that Jethro had overlooked. Their jaws dropped.
"What?" said the Doctor.
To be continued...
A/N: Cool right? Part 2 very soon. This is pretty short, so it should be resolved by the next "chapter." Leave a Review Please cause I know that all the cool kids do nowadays amirite? :) Thanks for reading part 1 of 2