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Raven Crow sighed, as she gazed up at the ceiling, her long, dark blonde hair tied into a messy ponytail. The lemonade in front of her, felt stale in her mouth, her mouth screaming at her to get another drink.
She never really liked lemonade.
She didn't know what to do with her life. It had mostly consisted of moving from places to place, never really belonging. It did feel lonely at times, but it was better than the alternative. For Raven wasn't any ordinary fifteen-year-old girl. She was a hybrid, an avian human hybrid to be exact. 97% of her DNA was human, the other 3% bird. It came with it's worth, air sacs, faster heart rate, stronger bones and muscles, hearing and sight well above the range of any human, and the more noticeable part: wings.
Running away seemed the only way to overcome her life's issues. It seemed the answer. If there was another option, she had yet to come by it. She would always be that girl on the street with the scratched and dirty clothes, stealing just to survive. The girl that would vanish unnoticed the next day.
How wrong she was.
For a blue envelope whipped into her view, she caught it, before looking widely around for any suspect. The only being was the guy at the counter polishing tables away from her- too far away to throw a letter her way.
She hesitated, before carefully opening it up.
Inside was a printed out message: Hello Raven! I'll pop in a few seconds. I want to induce you to some friends and maybe have a picnic? I am not here to hurt you. Okay. Good, excellent. The Doctor.
Whoever it was didn't seem to know how to finish off letters.
She looked up from reading the message to see a man in a tweed jacket and bowtie in front of her, smiling. How she had not heard him frightened her. Raven started to panic inside, but she left her face become stone cold, emotionless.
"Squish over Raven," said a female voice.
She turned her head to see a woman with curly hair holding a drink. Raven moved over against her own will.
"Hello Raven Crow, I'm the Doctor and this is Dr River Song. She's an Archaeologist." He said that last word in disgust earning him a glare from River.
Raven drew herself in making herself as small as possible. How much did this man know?
"Don't worry we don't bite. We are quite nice people once you get use to us." The Doctor said, cheerfully. That just made it worse for Raven.
"Right then" River said. "Where are we?" She pulled a well-used diary blue diary and started flicking the pages, making sure Raven couldn't see. "Have we done Easter island yet?"
The Doctor had his own blue diary out looking much less compact then River's. He flicked through then said "Yes! I've got Easter island."
"Oh, they worshiped you there." River answered gazing at the Doctor.
"Have you seen the statues?"
"Jim The Fish." The Doctor said.
"Aw Jim The Fish, how is he?"
A woman with bright red hair and a man with a slightly big nose squashed onto either side of the table.
"Still building his dam," The Doctor finished, River giving a slight chuckle.
"Sorry, what are you two doing?" asked the man with the nose.
The red haired woman answered with, in a Scottish accent "They're both time travellers, they never meet in the right order. There synching their diaries and Raven haven't seen you in a while? What have you've been up to?"
Time travellers? What the hell was this woman going on about? Why did she act like we've know each other for ages?
Raven stood really wanting to just get out of here. These people knew her, but she had no idea who they were. She made herself expressionless, hiding the elevating fear inside her.
"You've…shrunk." The red haired woman said surprised, only to be quickly replaced with confusion.
"Doctor, I don't understand."
"This is Raven Amy, but right now she'll fit into the category of runaway orphan, or orphan runaway, whichever one you like. For her she's only just met us. She's fifteen." The Doctor ended looking at Amy intently. How did he know my age? Raven thought.
Surprise filtered across Amy face again. Raven felt someone's hand grasping her own. She looked down to see River at the other end. "You should sit down," she said, "And finish that drink."
Raven slowly nodded, silently sitting down.
"Wow, she looks older than fifteen." The other man said gazing up and down her.
"She would Rory." The Doctor answered.
"Sooo," Amy said changing the subject, "What's happening then, 'Cause you've been up to something." She gave a small smile, The Doctor forcedly giving one back.
"I've been running...Faster than I've ever run and I've been running my whole life. Now it's time for me to stop…And tonight I'm going to need you all with me." Raven watched all their faces, Amy and Rory's were concern and River's was as if she suddenly realised something. The Doctor's looked slightly sad.
"Okay," Amy said, "Were here. What's up?"
"A picnic. No I meant a trip, somewhere different, somewhere brand new."
"Where?" Amy asked.
"Space," he answered, "…1969." and gave an all-knowing smile.
They were at Lake Silencio, the sun slowly coming to evening. Having what the Doctor had said they would, a picnic.
"Napoleon threw me this bottle," The Doctor says examining the wine bottle. "…Well I say threw…Salut!"
"Salut!" They all answer said together clashing wine glasses, or in Ravens case sparkly grape juice.
"When are we going to 1969?" Rory asked.
"And since when did you drink wine?" Amy also asked.
"I'm 1103. I must have drunk it some time." The Doctor said, taking a gulp, only to spit it out narrowly missing Raven.
"Eh it tastes horrid. Sorry Raven." He added afterwards. Raven gave a nod showing that she accepted the apology.
"1103," Amy said, "You were 908 the last time we saw you."
"And you've put on a couple a pounds; I wasn't going to mention it." The Doctor said finding it all personal.
"Who's that" Amy suddenly asked staring off into the distance.
"Who's who?" Rory asked looking to where she looked.
"Sorry, what?" She said taking a sip from her wine.
"What did you see? You said you saw someone?" Rory asked concerned.
"No I didn't." She put her wine down.
"Ah," The Doctor said pointing up at the sky, all heads turned in his direction facing the moon. "Look the moon. Look at it. Of course you lot did a bit more than look at it, didn't you? Big, silvery thing in the sky…You couldn't resist it. Quite right."
They all smiled at this munching on their food, only Raven didn't. She wanted so badly to leave. She was itching to just jump up and fly away and forget about everything. But something in the back of her brain nagged her, telling her to stay. Something else told her if she did leave, it would all go wrong and Raven didn't understand where that thought came from.
Rory had a sudden spark, "The moon landing was in '69. Is that where were going?" he leaned forward, waiting for a replay. But like most of the time he didn't get the answer he wanted.
"You humans, a lot happened in 1969 than anybody remembers." The Doctor said more to himself. "Never thought I would be done saving you."
"What did you mean by humans?" Raven asked curious.
"I'm an alien." The Doctor said, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, or apparently now the universe.
"Well why don't you look like one?" Raven said not believing him.
"That's because we happen to look the same. And just so you know we came first." The Doctor waggled his finger in front of her face, making Raven go cross eyed.
"Yep you're definitely an alien." Raven said.
"Wait, what? What do mean by that?" The Doctor said startled, by her reaction.
"Who's he?" Amy asked, drawing all there gazes towards a vehicle with a man getting out. Raven could see the man looked old.
The Doctor stood up, waving at the man, who answered with his own wave.
"Oh my god." River suddenly breathed, staring out towards the lake, getting up from her sitting position. Everyone else following.
Raven looked towards the lake, to see an astronaut standing on the edge of the lake. Then suddenly something appeared, right behind the astronaut startling Raven so much she staggered backward, into River. "What's wrong?" River asked concern spreading her features. Something was wrong, but it wasn't what River was asking. It was the fact nobody else had reacted to the thing that appeared. Not one of them had moved. It had a pair of huge black wings on either side of the humanoid shaped looking thing. It was covered up from head to toe in a black cloth; the ends flowing gently in the wind. What scared Raven the most was the fact she had seen it before, many times before.
"You all need to stay back. Whatever happens now you do not interfere, clear?" The Doctor said to the others. He walked towards the astronaut.
The Doctor and the astronaut stopped on the edge of the beach and faced each other, the other thing hadn't moved at all. It seemed to gaze at Raven boreing into her soul, it felt like that the thing new everything about her…Everything.
"It's an astronaut, that's an Apollo astronaut in a lake." Rory unnecessary pointed out, but just as Raven thought failing to point out the other thing as well.
"I know." Amy answered him.
Rave could see that both the astronaut and The Doctor were chatting. The Doctor was clearly trying to prove something to the astronaut. Then his head went down and one of the astronaut's hands rises up. "What's he doing?" Amy asked, just before a huge green light struck The Doctor. Making him flung across, the loud bang it emitted still rung inside Raven's ears. Raven ran forward as faster her legs could carry her. Then the cloth being stood in front of her, moving faster than Raven thought possible, holding out its arm stopping her from going any closer towards him.
"Doctor!" Amy shouted starting to run forward to follow Raven. Raven heard another bang echo the beach, but her focus was now on Amy.
"Amy stay back!" Both River and Rory grabbed her arms pulling her away, only to look up and see The Doctor on the floor, his hands and face surrounded by a golden shimmer. He looked towards them his face a mixture of guilt and sadness.
"I'm so sorry." Only Raven heard him, the others to far away.
He stood up and spread both his arms out, the golden glow encasing his body. Getting lighter and lighter…BANG. The Doctor's body fell over backwards, completely lifeless.
"Noo! Doctor!" River cried letting go and running forward towards his body. The astronaut turned away and returned to the murky depths of where it came from.
They all rushed past Raven, who hadn't moved. She had seen death before, to many times. She would rather stay where she was. It always caused too much pain. The mysterious figure was gone now, disappeared as soon as The Doctor hit the ground, it must have known she wouldn't move.
They gathered around his body now, Amy sobbing demanding to know from River, who had some sort of device out. It looked like she was scanning him. Rory was bent over just as anxious, looking from the dead form of The Doctor to River. River suddenly stood up, marching towards the edge of the lake, pulling out a gun and firing at the retreating astronaut.
"Miss Crow." A voice said beside Raven.
The old man looked at her with sad eyes as well; he must have known The Doctor too. He gestured towards the others and they both made their way down.
"River he can't be dead," said a sobbing Amy hugging her knees. "It's not possible."
River kneeled down onto the floor next to the body. "Whatever that was, it killed him in the middle of his regeneration cycle. His body was already dead… He didn't make it to the next one."
Amy refused to acknowledge and between sobs said, "But…maybe he was a clone…or a duplicate…or something."
"I believe I can save you sometime." The old man said stepping forward, taking off his cap.
"That most certainly is the Doctor…and he's most certainly dead…He said you would need this."
He placed a gasoline can on the ground, it hit Raven quickly what they needed to do.
"Gasoline." Rory said.
"Oh…" River said her face showing complete understanding. "A Timelords body is a miracle, even a dead one. There are whole empires out there that would rip this world apart for just one cell. We can't leave him here, or anywhere."
Amy lent over the Doctor's body, "Wake up…come on wake up…you stupid bloody idiot." She said through choked sobs.
Raven felt she should be doing something that meant she was upset, but she wasn't. He had known her, but she doesn't know him. She had nothing to be upset about.
"What do we do Rory?" Amy said.
All their faces with grim with sadness, Rory didn't know how to answer, but River did.
"We've his friends. We do what all The Doctor's friends do" She bent down picking up the gasoline. "As were told."
"There's a boat." Rory said drawing everyone's attention towards it.
"If we're going to do this…let's do it properly." He said, looking at them all.
Raven looked down at The Doctor's body as Amy started crying again. Because he was right. Everybody deserved a funeral.
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