I finally decided to write my first crossover story and put my two favourite actors together. Doctor Who/Stargate: Atlantis.
No beta for this yet, so if anyone is interested, please do shout!
Please read and review. Enjoy:).
It Takes Two
Chapter One
"How long have you been watching us?" Elizabeth asked the new arrival, as he approached from behind.
Caught off-guard the Doctor stopped a few feet behind her; he tucked his hands into his pockets and said simply, "Long enough to know, you don't need my help out here."
Standing on the balcony, on the east pier Elizabeth turned round to face him and asked blankly. "Which regeneration?"
Slightly surprised about the knowledge she had of him, he still answered without hesitation. "Tenth"
"I see."
They both stood there, looking at each other somewhat awkwardly, until Elizabeth returned her attention back to the ocean. "I should report you. You know?"
He sensed the slight reluctance in her voice and admired her for it, "You won't because?"
"You will no doubt disappear as soon as I activate my radio and I won't get the chance to find out more about you."
The Doctor joined her at the railings, "I'm surprised you knew about me at all."
Elizabeth decided to play along for a bit, "When you lead a scientific exhibition like this, there is very little about alien races, I don't know."
"What gave me away?" asked the Doctor.
Elizabeth pointed to the blue box sitting on the platform below. "After all these years. You still haven't fixed the problem."
"You remember me from before, don't you Elizabeth?"
Elizabeth dug deep in her memory to bring back the past, "Back when I was five years old, yes. That moment isn't something I can easily forget."
"I remember, that you pulled me out of a burning car moments before it exploded; after the crash that is and then abandoned me on the side of the road leaving the medics baffled as to how I got there. I never even got a chance to say thank you, before you ran off into the blue box."
The Doctor rubbed her shoulders when he could see; she was struggling to relive the moment, "I'm sorry I wasn't quick enough to save your dad too."
"You could have gone back. Stop the crash from happening, yet you walked away."
"You know about that too."
"Time travel, it's all in your file."
"Then you will know the reason why I couldn't go back."
Wiping a tear away Elizabeth nodded, "Even now it's not to late to change the past, but if we did. It could change the future and all this wouldn't exist as I know it."
"If it helps, I can show you the past, show you what happened."
"The investigators told my mom, the car skidded on slick oil on the ground, spilled by another car, causing my dad to lose control of his and hit the a tree head on."
The Doctor shook his head, "That's partly what happened. The investigators didn't have the full information about the incident. "
"What information?"
The Doctor offered his hand, "It's time I showed you the truth."
Did she really want to know? Elizabeth felt fear and determination mixed in together as she took his hand, "Show me."
--
1971
Steeping out of the police box, Elizabeth recognized the road immediately. It 'was' the road her father had died on. Taking a deep breath she moved away from the blue box and walked slowly up the street, trying to map out which tree, the car had hit.
The minute the Doctor stepped out behind her, he sensed something wasn't right and called her back, "Elizabeth. Wait."
The Doctor ran to catch up with her.
Elizabeth however stayed routed to a spot as she stared at the one tree, standing its ground.
Once the Doctor had caught up, he could see she was mesmerised by it. "We should get going." He said smoothly.
"But this is the place."
"Right place. Wrong time."
"Come on, we should go before…" The sound of a helicopter erupted overhead; looking up the Doctor cursed himself. It wasn't long before the sound of tyres screeching on the tarmac could be heard.
Confused Elizabeth turned to look at the Doctor. Without a word, he grabbed her hand and started herding back towards the police box. When suddenly a shot was fired from someone inside the helicopter.
The bullet hit the car below; it punctured the wheel causing the car to swerve. It then clipped the edge of the pavement making it to bulk against the curb, which in turn ruptured the oil tank underneath. The car soon regained control, but oil was spilling out all over the road.
As the car speed past, Elizabeth caught sight of the driver and was shocked to find the same Doctor at the wheel. She looked at the mess on the ground before turning to face her Doctor. "It was you. You caused the accident"
"This isn't what I wanted you to see. I wanted you to see what happened, not how it happened, there's a difference."
Elizabeth pulled away from him when he tried again to usurer her back into the box again, "all this time, all these years I thought it was just an accident."
The Doctor started to panic a little, as time was catching up with them, and to prove it, a car was coming towards them from the opposite direction the other had been travailing. It was nearing the oil slick; Elizabeth knew who was driving the car and rushed out to try and stop them going any further; miss judging the speed it was travailing in.
Flailing her arms about to try and stop it, the car horn went as it got closer, the Doctor quickly rushed forward and pushed Elizabeth out the way of the oncoming car, when it swerved to avoid hitting her, only to hit the tree head on instead, just as it did before.
The pair of them hit the ground with a thud as flames erupted from the car. Wasting no time the Doctor gathered himself up from the floor and rushed to it, covering his face from the smoke.
Elizabeth looked on horrified, as the flames grew larger, a spark soon catching the oil slick on the ground. The Doctor managed to pull someone from the wreckage. It was she as a young girl.
"Get back into the TARDIS! It's too dangerous for both of you to meet."
Just as the young girl was clear, the car was complete engulfed in flames and Elizabeth screamed out. "Noooo. Not again. Dad!"
The Doctor quickly checked the girl would be okay, before forcing Elizabeth back inside and closing the TARDIS doors.
The young girl looked up, in time to see the blue box disappear. She looked inside her jeans pocket to see what the stranger had put there, and pulled out a silver pocket watch.
--
The police box reappeared back on the east platform of Atlantis. Still rather distraught over what happened, Elizabeth exited it whilst wiping her eyes, she didn't want her friends to see her like this.
Without a word she walked away from him, and the Doctor stood there to see her off, that was, until a squad of marines came rushing towards them. He could only guess the ancient systems had detected the TARDIS and made a quick getaway before Elizabeth even realized he was gone.
One thing had changed, from her time in the TARDIS. Last she remembered Marshall Sumner was dead…
TBC?