Authors Note: I've wanted to do my own self insertion story for ages. So I thought I'd do one now :} I'm not inserting myself exactly, as my characters name is Katherine and that isn't my name. But there are certain traits of her that are the same as mine.
Now this bit is just a bit of clarification.
So the self-insertion stories that I have read, are where their OC is in some form of relationship with The Doctor. Mine isn't going to be like that for reasons that you will find in this chapter. Katherine is just going to be a friend of The Doctor's.
Also there are some of these stories that I read where the OC's know some of the Doctor's future, basically future episodes and they know what is going to happen. First of all I was going to do that, but now I've decided I'm not.
So Katherine is taken for her world on 31st December 2006. So last episode of Doctor Who she would have seen would be the Christmas Special of 2006 with Catherine Tate. I'm re-writing from the beginning or series 3 onwards.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy. Please review if you want me to carry on.
It was New Year's Eve. I was meant to be out doing what every other 17-year-old does on a New Year's Eve. Go out, party, and maybe get a little bit drunk. But instead I was stuck in hospital with my mum and my useless little brother Liam. He had been riding his bike new bike that he had gotten for his Christmas when he hit a patch of ice and well you can guess the rest. We were waiting for x-rays to come back, we had been waiting for two hours already… The only thing keeping me sane right now was the TV that the nurses had brought in. It was actually for Liam but I had taken over it. Right now the repeat on the Christmas special of Doctor Who was on.
"Mummy." Liam whined.
"Yes sweetheart?" she replied.
"I'm thirsty, can you get me a drink?" he asked.
My mum tapped my on the shoulder forcing me to turn around. I knew what her question was going to be.
"Katherine, go get your brother a drink will you?"
I rolled my eyes as I got up from my seat and headed back into the front entrance were the vending machines were. I grabbed a couple of pound coins and pushed them into the slot and started punching buttons in. I got both me and my brother some juice. He'd only moan if I got myself some coke but now him. I was about to head in when a boy with blonde/brown hair came rushing through the door. He stopped when he saw me.
"I got your message, is he okay?"
Ryan. My boyfriend of two years. I had only left him a message saying I wouldn't be coming to the party, I had never expected him to show up.
"He's fine. We're just waiting for stupid x-rays." I sighed, "Now go back to the party don't let me ruin your fun."
Ryan shook his head, taking the drinks out of my hands and placing them on a table that was conveniently next to us, before placing his hands in mine.
"Katherine, it's New Year's Eve and I want to spend it with you. Even if it does mean spending it in a hospital."
I smiled before placing a small kiss on his lips, "Best follow me then."
I went to grab the drinks but Ryan got there before me. I smiled again before leading him to where Liam and my mum were currently waiting. We hadn't gotten even half way when a white light started to consume me. I turned to look at Ryan who was staring at me with shock. He was yelling my name.
"Katherine!"
And then it all went black.
XOXO
When I woke up it was day. I must have been out of it for a while. I was still in hospital, I could tell from the plain white walls that looked exactly the same as the ones from last night. Plus the hospital bed I was now lying in. I took a look around me, I wasn't expecting to see my mum there, she was probably with Liam. There was no sign of Ryan either, I figured he must have gone home or gone to get a drink.
A Doctor walked into the room, he was balding. He looked around 50-ish. I'm not going with telling peoples ages. A group of younger people were walking behind him; I guessed they must be training Doctor's or something.
"Excuse me?" I asked grabbing the older man's attention, "But do you know what happened to me?"
"We found you passed out on the floor just a couple of hours ago. Nice to see you awake now."
"A couple of hours ago?" The man nodded, "But before I passed out it was night."
The man shook his head, "No it was morning."
"No it wasn't. It was night. It was 9pm 31st of December."
"It can't have been." One of the training doctors piped up. She had dark skin and black hair. She was actually quite pretty, I was jealous, "See look," she said grabbing a newspaper form one of the other patients. "It's 5th of April."
She left the newspaper on my table as she followed the other training doctors and the older man who were walking towards the patient next to me. I picked the newspaper and stared at it, she was right. It was the 5th April; it even looked like spring outside. I just don't understand how it happened. The man had said I'd been out for a couple of hours, how can it have changed from December to April in just a couple of hours.
The curtain beside me drew open to reveal the patient next to me. The training doctors and the man were standing around the man in the bed, who I instantly recognised as David Tennant. I tried to not let out a fan-girling scream. Those people probably though I was insane enough with me thinking it was December, didn't need to give them another more reason to think it.
"Now then, Mr Smith, a very good morning to you. How are you today?"
Mr Smith? Why was he calling him Mr Smith? He's David Tennant! I thought.
"Oh, not so bad. Still a bit you know… blah." He replied. But he wasn't speaking in his Scottish accent; he was talking the way he did when he was playing The Doctor… why was he doing that?
"John Smith admitted yesterday with severe abdominal pains." The older man informed the training doctors.
Hold on John Smith? Isn't John Smith the name that The Doctor uses sometimes? I thought to myself again.
"Jones." The older man said turning to the girl that had handed me the newspaper, "Why don't you see what you can find? Amaze me."
The girl nodded and picked up a stethoscope and walked further towards 'Mr Smith'.
"It wasn't very clever running around outside, was it?" she said.
David Tennant… well 'Mr Smith' as he was calling himself gave the girl a puzzled look, raising an eyebrow, "Sorry?"
"On Chancellor Street, this morning. You came up to me and took your tie off."
"Wasn't me." He said, "I've been in bed all morning, ask the nurses, ask her." He said pointing to me, "Well actually you can't ask her, she's been out of it all morning. I was here when they brought her in."
"Well it looked like you. Have you got a brother?" she asked.
"As time passes and I grow ever more infirm and weary Miss Jones." The older man said. God he seemed like a right grump. But all I could keep thinking is why he was calling himself Mr Smith and the others believed him. He's David Tennant! Everyone knows who he is, how is he getting away with calling himself Mr Smith?
The girl placed the stethoscope onto his chest where his heart should be. I saw him shiver and I tried to hold back a little giggle. She then placed it on the other side and I saw a look of shock come across her face, and he the winked at her. What was going on?
"I weep for future generations. Are you having trouble locating the hear Miss Jones?" The older man spoke up again.
The girl shrugged, "I don't know. Stomach cramps?" Ha! What a stupid girl! Even I know that that is not a diagnosis.
"That is a symptom not a diagnosis." The older man said backing up what I was thinking, "And you rather failed basic techniques by not consulting first with the patients chart." He said picking up picking up the chart only to drop in straight on the bed in shock as little electrical things started coming from it.
"That happened to me this morning." The girl said.
"I had same thing on the door handle." Another training doctor said, this time a man.
"And me in the lift."
"Well it's only to be expected. There's a thunder storm moving in and lightning in a form of static electricity, as first proven by?" There was a slight pause where none of the training doctors answers, "Anyone?"
"Benjamin Franklin." I spoke up. Yes, I'm a bit of a science geek sometimes.
The older man turned to look at me; he looked surprised that I knew such a thing. But I do get that a lot, "Correct."
"My mate, Ben. That was a day and a half." 'Mr Smith' piped up again, "I got rope burns off that kite. And then I got soaked."
"Quite."
"And then I got electrocuted."
"Moving on." The older man said walking out, the training doctors followed again. I heard him mumble to one of the nurses, "I think he needs a visit from psychiatric."
That's when it clicked. The way David… no 'Mr Smith' had been talking about Benjamin Franklin, he was talking like he had been there. But that happened like in the 1700's or something… I can't remember the date but I know that it happened a long time ago. I burst out laughing making Mr Smith turn around to look at me.
"What's so funny?"
"I'm so stupid." I said between laughs, "I'm dreaming."
He shook his head, "No you're not."
"But I must be. Because you're The Doctor… you're not real."
His eyes darkened slightly, he sort of looked like the Oncoming Storm right now and I felt myself tense up a little bit, "How do you know who I am? Everyone in this hospital knows me as John Smith… how come you know who I am?"
I scoffed, "Are you being serious? Everyone knows you you're a TV character."
"What?" his expression changed into a rather confused one, and I started to actually question if this was actually a dream or not.
I shook my head, "Are you trying to tell me, that this isn't a dream, that you're actually real? Like you're not David Tennant or anything you're actually The Doctor?"
He nodded, "I am The Doctor."
I sighed in disbelief, "This can't be true. It's just a TV show!"
Mr Smith… The Doctor… or David Tennant. I'm actually not too sure right now slipped out of his bed and perched himself on the end of mine, "What do you mean 'it's just a TV show'?" he asked.
I took in a deep breath, "I come from earth, before you think I'm alien or anything. But where I came from The Doctor… you. You're a fictional character in a TV show. I don't understand how now it's all suddenly real. I mean before I passed out it was 31st December; I was here with my brother and my mother, and my boyfriend. I had been watching you on the TV…"
"What's your name?" he asked.
"Katherine. Stewart." I replied.
"Katharine." He said. "What physically happened to you? I mean before you passed out?" he asked me.
I shrugged, "I had just gotten some drinks for my brother, he had broken his ankle it was the whole reason I was here… I was walking back with my boyfriend when some sort of white light consumed me and then I woke up here."
I could see The Doctor was trying to process everything. You could see the cogs turning around in his head.
"I think…" The Doctor interrupted me, "That you may have travelled to a different universe."
To be fair to him, that did make a lot of sense.
"So you're saying. That where I come from where this is a TV show is a parallel to this one?" The Doctor nodded, "And I've somehow travelled to this one where the TV show is real life?" The Doctor just nodded, "Is that even possible? I mean sorry to bring it up but… when that thing happened with Rose… parallel words were sealed off."
The Doctor shrugged, "I guess there could have been a very tiny gap left and you somehow just fell through it."
"You don't really know do you?" I asked.
He shook his head, "Not the slightest idea."
I laughed and The Doctor joined in slightly after. I don't even know how this is possible, or how it even happened. But I'm with what I could probably call my childhood hero. My dad brought my up all on the classic Doctor Who's when I was little and two years ago when I was 15 when the show started again. It instantly began my favourite ever.
I suddenly caught a glimpse of the rain outside. And that's when everything started to seem very, very real.
"The rain…" I said.
"What about it?" he asked.
"It's going up."
Before The Doctor could say anything else, there was thunder, and another bright light. I was guessing it was just lightning… or maybe I was going home. I fell of my bed and hit my head on the table, my skull made a cracking noise. Everything stopped after a couple of seconds.
"Are you alright?" The Doctor was crouched down at my level looking at me concerned.
I never answered him; I just looked outside the window. It was night again… was I back home? But I couldn't be The Doctor was still here. Unless he had been taken with me.
"It's night." I said, "First it was night, then it was day and now it's night again!"
"It's not night." The Doctor said, "We're on the moon."
He led me up to the window and I looked outside. He was right. Outside there was a grey ground filled with creators. I then looked up to see the Earth; half was in the light the other in the dark. It was actually quite beautiful. Other patients in the room started to look outside, and then they started to freak out.
The training Doctor before came back in. Jones or something.
"Alright everyone back to bed. We've got an emergency but we'll sort it."
"Go get changed." The Doctor whispered in my ear, I looked up at him and he pointed to my clothes which were on the chair beside my bed. I had never realized I had been changed into a night gown…
The Doctor pulled his curtain around as he started to get changed. I pulled on my black skinny jeans that had a corset style at the back, a white top with the same style and them my leather jacket and my hi tops. My jeans and top were a bit fancy but I was meant to have been going to a party before everything happened.
"Doctor." I whispered, "Are you done?"
"Yeah." He whispered back.
I opened the curtain just a bit and crept in. The Doctor stared at me grinning.
"Bit dressed up aren't you?" he said.
"Are you really going to do this now?" I asked.
"Yes of course." He said. He then turned his back to me opening the curtain in one swift movement, "Very good point!" he said. I raised an eyebrow, had he been listening into their conversation while he had been talking to me? And also what had they been saying.
"Brilliant in fact, what was your name?"
"Martha." The same girl said. At least I have a name to a face now.
"And it was Jones wasn't it?" he asked, "Right then Martha Jones question is how are we still breathing?"
"We can't be." The girl next to Martha said.
I rolled me eyes, "Well we are so shut up."
The Doctor turned to face me grinning again, "Oh Katherine Stewart, I like you already."
I tried to hide my smug look. The Doctor, my hero had pretty much said he liked me. Even though we were on the moon and we were most defiantly in trouble, I was loving this day.
"Martha, what have we got? Have we got a balcony or something?" he asked.
"By the patients lounge yeah." Martha replied.
The Doctor kept glancing between me and Martha, his grin had gone and his expression was a lot more serious, "Fancy going out?"
"Okay." Martha replied.
I shrugged, "Sounds good to me."
"We might die." He said.
"We might not." Both Martha and I said at the same time. We looked at each other in shock while The Doctor started smiling.
"Come on." He said as he started marching off, he stopped and turned around, "Not her thought, she'll slow us down." He said pointing to the girl next to Martha, I had completely forgotten about her.
Me and Martha followed him, leaving the girl behind. I heard her begin to cry and started to feel sorry for her, but then again every person was crying her or was at least shaken up. There wasn't really much any of us could do about that.
We finally reached the doors to the balcony. The Doctor took hold of one door handle while I took hold of other one.
"Ready?" he asked.
I nodded, he turned to Martha and she nodded too. We all took in a deep breath before me and The Doctor pushed the door open. I sighed in relief, we were still breathing, "We've got air."
"How does that work?" Martha asked.
The Doctor shrugged, "Just be glad it does."
I walked towards the end of the balcony and rested myself against the barrier. Earth was right in front of me, but it wasn't my Earth. It was just a parallel one. It made me wonder if there was another Katherine Stewart down on that earth. With her own mum and little brother. Even her own Ryan. It felt like my heart ripped open a little, it hurt to think about Ryan. More than my own mother, we had never been close since she got a new boyfriend and had Liam. Ryan was been the person I was closest too. He had been my best friend, as well as my boyfriend. And now I'd never see him again.
"I've got a party tonight. It's my brother Leo's 21st…" Martha trailed off, "Anyway what about you two? Got any plans."
I didn't turn to look at her, I just started talking, "I was meant to be going to a party, with my boyfriend. I'm too late for it now."
"You've got a boyfriend?" Martha asked, I nodded, "Lucky for some… what's his name?"
"Ryan… oh my god, he doesn't even know where I am. I just vanished."
The Doctor placed a hand on my shoulder, I guess it was in a sign of comfort but it didn't really help too much, "I'm sorry."
I shook my head, "It's not your fault."
"So what happened?" Martha asked.
The Doctor turned to face her, "What do you think?"
"Extra-terrestrial, it's got to be. I mean a couple of years ago that would have sounded mad but these days… That spaceship flying into Big Ben, Christmas, those cybermen things." She sighed, "I had a cousin, she worked at Canary Wharf… she never came home."
Another thing hit me. I had missed it; she looked exactly like that girl that was on the show. That the cybermen has used to start the ghost shift thing.
"I'm sorry." The Doctor and I said at the same time
Martha nodded, "Yeah."
"I was there, in the battle. It was…" The Doctor stopped. I could see his eyes starting to fill up with tears and now it was my turn to comfort him. But instead I just pulled him into a hug. Surprisingly he also hugged back.
"I'm so sorry." I whispered.
"It's not your fault." He whispered back in my ear.
"I promise you Mr Smith, we'll find a way out." Martha said making both me and The Doctor pull out of the hug, "If we can travel to the moon then we can travel back."
"It's not Smith. That's not my real name." The Doctor said pacing around the balcony.
"Who are you then?" Martha raised an eyebrow.
"I'm The Doctor."
Martha laughed a little, "Me too if I ever pass my exams. So it's Doctor Smith then?"
"No." I said shaking my head, "It's just The Doctor."
"What you call him the Doctor?" she asked pointing in his direction.
I shrugged, "Yeah."
"Well I'm not. Far as I'm concerned you've got to earn that title." She said.
"Well I better get started then." He said grabbing a rock from the balcony floor and turning to me, "Fancy doing the honours Katherine?" he said holding the rock out to me.
"What do you want me to do?" I asked confused.
"Just throw the rock. As far as you can." He said.
I done as he said, I threw it as hard as I could. It didn't go out far; it suddenly bounced off and fell onto the floor. Before I could say what it was The Doctor spoke up.
"Force-field. Keeping the air in."
"Hold on. If that's a force-field holding us in, then this is the only air we've got right? And that's going to run out eventually." I said.
"Martha, how many people in this hospital?" The Doctor asked.
Martha shrugged, "I don't know, a thousand?"
"One thousand people suffocating."
"Why would anyone do that?" Martha asked.
A rumbling came from up above us. The three of us looked up and saw three giant, tube like space ships flying past the hospital. I had never seen these space ships before, not on any episode I've seen but I could tell by The Doctor's face that he knew who they were. Once the ships finally landed on the ground hundreds of aliens came marching out of them.
"Those are real proper aliens." Martha said in awe.
"Judoon." The Doctor said. Ah see I knew he knew who they were! I thought to myself.
I didn't know why I felt so excited. I was on the moon in completely different universe. I was being trapped in a force-field with air getting closer to running out completely every minute and now there were aliens marching towards us and I didn't know what they wanted. Yet I was still excited. I guess that's just what happens when you're with the Doctor. You begin to love the danger.
The Doctor took both mine and Martha's hand and pulled us off the balcony and back inside the hospital. After struggling for a bit I finally broke free of the Doctor's grasp. I had never liked getting pulled around. Martha however kept her hand in his; I could already tell she fancied him a little bit. But then again who wouldn't? I followed them as he we came into the entrance of the hospital. The Doctor ducked down behind a plant and hid behind it. Even though I thought it was a rubbish place to hide I did the same.
"Aw look down there; you've got a little shop." The Doctor said, "I like the little shop."
I rolled my eyes remembering how he kept whining how there wasn't a little shop in the hospital on New Earth, "Never mind that you idiot. What are Judoon?"
"They're police. Well police-for-hire. They're more like interplanetary thugs." The Doctor answered.
"And they brought us to the moon?" Martha asked, even thought it was more like a statement.
"Neutral territory, according to Galactic Law, they have no jurisdiction over the Earth so they isolated it. The rain and lightning that was them using a H20 scoop." The Doctor explained.
Martha scoffed, "What are you on about 'Galactic Law'? Where did you get that from?"
The Doctor ignored her and moved away from the plant to hide behind on of the glass panels. Me and Martha followed behind him.
"If they're police are we under arrest? Are we like trespassing on the moon or something?" Martha asked.
"No, but I like that! It's good thinking. I wish it was only that simple." The Doctor said. "They're making a catalogue which means they're after something non-human."
I looked at him, a worried expression on my face, "Well then that's bad news for you."
"Why?" Martha asked.
The Doctor turned to look at her with a raised eyebrow, and I gave her a look as if to say "are you thick or what?" And I mean it, after all isn't it obvious? Martha turned to look at us, her expression changed and I think it had finally clicked.
"Oh you're kidding me? Don't be ridiculous. Can both of you stop looking at me like that?"
"Come on." The Doctor said standing up straight before walking off.
Martha stared at my wide-eyed, "Is he really?" she asked.
"Come on, if we don't follow him now we'll lose him."
XOXO
Me and Martha followed The Doctor into a room. When we got inside he was already at the computer in there scanning it with his sonic screwdriver. The room looked exactly like the room that I was in back on my earth with my mum and Liam. But of course Liam wasn't here, neither was Ryan or my mum.
I snapped my attention back to The Doctor and Martha who were already in mid conversation.
"Well if you're not going to answer me properly." Martha said.
The Doctor turned to face her, "No really, it's a screwdriver and it's sonic, look." Martha frowned a little bit and The Doctor turned to me, "Katherine back me up."
I laughed a little bit and The Doctor's defenceless look, "Seriously Martha it's a sonic screwdriver."
"What else has a he a got, a laser spanner?" Martha asked.
I frowned, "I don't know… Doctor? Have you got a laser spanner?"
"I did but it was stolen by Emily Pankhurst. Cheeky woman."
I remembered an Emily Pankhurst in my universe. She was Ryan's ex-girlfriend and she was a complete bitch, always trying to steal other people's things. I'm guessing that's one thing that isn't different in this universe. I was about to tell The Doctor about it, but then I realized Martha didn't know about the whole me coming from a different universe thing, and right now I don't think there's enough time to explain.
"What's with this thing between you two then? I mean it seems like Katherine knows so much about you but it looked like you didn't even know her this morning." Martha asked.
"That's because I didn't know her." The Doctor answered.
"Then how the hell does she know all this about you? Is she a stalker?" The Doctor shook his head, "Then how does she know everything?" she asked.
"It's a long story, one we'll tell you once we get out of this. Ugh! What is wrong with this computer?" The Doctor said hitting the screen, "Judoon must have locked it down… Judoon platoon upon the moon."
I scoffed, "What was that for? Judoon platoon upon the moon."
The Doctor gave me a glare but he began rambling, "I was just traveling past, I was just wondering, I swear. I wasn't looking for trouble. But I noticed these plasma coils around the hospital. That lightning, that's a plasma coil, it's been building up for two days now. So I checked in, I thought something was going on inside. Turns out it was the Judoon up above."
"Well what are they looking for?" Martha asked.
"Something that looks human, but isn't." The Doctor answered as be began typing away at the computer faster than I think any human being could.
"Like you apparently." Martha said.
"Yeah like me. But not me," The Doctor replied.
"Wait, wouldn't they have a photo?" I asked.
"It might be a shape changer."
"Whatever it is can't you just leave the Judoon to find it?" Martha asked.
The Doctor shook his head and he kept on typing on the computer. Files kept flicking around on the screen, "If they declare the hospital guilty of harbouring a fugitive they'll sentence it to execution."
"What? All of us?"
"Oh yes." The Doctor said, "But if I can find this thing first… Oh!" The Doctor said hitting the computer again in anger, "You see they're thick. Judoon are thick, they're completely thick. They've wiped the records. Oh that's clever."
I rolled my eyes, "What are we looking for?"
The Doctor shrugged, "I don't know. Say any patient admitted in the past week with unusual symptoms. Maybe there's a backup." The Doctor said as he began scanning the computer again.
"You two wait here, I'll go ask Mr Stoker he might know."
Martha left the room closing the door behind her. The Doctor was busy scanning the computer and I didn't think I'd be much help. I perched myself up on the bed and took my phone out, all I was going to do was play a game until The Doctor needed help but I couldn't even get past the front screen. The picture sent an aching pain to my heart. It was a picture of me, Ryan and Liam with the bike both me and Ryan had brought him for his birthday. I guess if it hadn't been for that bike none of this would have happened. I'd still be home.
"Are you alright?"
I looked up to see The Doctor looking down at a look of concern splayed across his face. I quickly placed the phone back in my pocket so The Doctor wouldn't see.
"I'm fine." I lied.
"I've restored the back up. Come on let's go find Martha."
We hadn't even got half way down the hall when we ran straight into Martha.
"There you are. I've restored the back up." The Doctor said.
"I found her!" Martha said.
"You did what?"
A man dressed in a leather jacket and leather trousers with a biker's helmet on his head came bursting through one of the doors. I guess that was where the alien was. The Doctor grabbed hold of my hand and Martha's hand but this time he gave us a warning before he started pulling us.
"Run!"
We ran down the corridor, dodging past people who were sitting on the floor and all the other medical equipment that was lying around the place. The slab wasn't that far behind and I was starting to run out breath a little bit. We ran down a load of stairs, I was just about to run down the next load when The Doctor pulled me back. I looked up and saw some Judoon marching up them. Instead we ran through the door behind us and down into another corridor. We got to a door and The Doctor pulled us inside, he closed the door and soniced it shut.
We were inside some sort of x-ray room. I wasn't too sure what it was. The Doctor dragged us behind the glass window thing, he then turned to Martha.
"When I say "now" press the button." He said.
"But I don't know which one!"
"Then find out."
Martha looked at the buttons frantically. The Doctor was now sonicing the machine thing outside the glass window. I began looking through the shelves of books finally finding one that said "operators manual" I began flicking through it but before I could find out which one the man burst through the door.
"Now!" The Doctor yelled.
Not knowing which one to actually press, I went for the big yellow one. Thankfully that was the right one. A weird electrical noise filled the room and there was yet another white light. After a couple of seconds they both stopped and the man fell to the floor lifeless. The Doctor however was still standing and looked very much alive.
"So come on then." I said, "What did you do?"
"Increased the radiation by 5000%. Killed him dead." The Doctor answered.
"Isn't that going to kill you?" Martha asked.
"Nah, it's only roentgen radiation. We used to play with roentgen bricks in the nursery." The Doctor turned to look at both of us, "You can come out you know, it's safe. I've absorbed it all. All I need to do is expel it."
Me and Martha walked out from behind the glass window as The Doctor started wiggling about on the spot.
"See if I concentrate," he began, "Shift the radiation out of my body into one spot. Say my left shoe."
He lifted his left foot from the ground and began hopping on the spot, "Here was go. Easy does it." He then began wiggling his foot about while me and Martha just stared at him like he was some sort of mad man.
"Ah, itches, itches, itches, itches. Hold on!" he said taking his shoe on and chucking it into a yellow bin beside him, "Done."
Martha tilted her head to one side, "You are completely mad."
"You're right I look daft with one shoe." He took his other shoe off and chucked in into the bin with the other one, "Barefoot on the moon." He said wiggling his toes about.
I scoffed, "The Judoon could find that alien at any second, we could die and you're just thinking about how stupid you look with one shoe."
"Well if I'm going to save you all, I might as well look good while I do it." He said causing me to roll my eyes.
"Anyway, what is that thing? And where's it from, Planet Zovirax?" Martha asked as she walked closer to the lifeless body.
"It's just a slab." The Doctor said walking over to the body as well and bending down, "They're called slabs. Basic slave drones, you see." He said as he poked the body, "It's solid leather the whole way through."
"Someone has a fetish." I scoffed.
The Doctor smirked as he stood up and went towards the machine thing pulling his sonic screwdriver out. The sonic screwdriver in question was burnt to a crisp. I could hear Martha talking in the background but I was too busy smirking at The Doctor's face. He looked like someone had just kicked his puppy.
"My sonic screwdriver. Burnt out my sonic screwdriver. I love my sonic screwdriver." The Doctor whined.
"Doctor!" Martha said loudly drawing both mine and The Doctor's attention back to her.
The Doctor chucked the screwdriver behind him making a clattering noise as it fell onto the floor, "Sorry." He said, "You called me Doctor. Did you see that Katherine she called me Doctor."
I nodded, "Yeah I heard."
"Anyway." Martha said, "Miss Finnegan is the alien. She was drinking Mr Stoker's blood."
"Funny time to take a snack, you'd think she'd be hiding." I could see the clogs turning around in The Doctor's head, "That's it! Shaper changer, internal shape changer. She wasn't drinking Mr Stoker's blood she was assimilating it!"
"What does that mean?" I asked.
"If she can assimilate Mr Stoker's blood, mimic the biology she'll register as human." The Doctor explained.
"Well then we've got to find her and show the Judoon."
The Doctor nodded, "Come on!"
We were running again. I've actually lost count on how many times we've ran today, it must be a lot because I feel exhausted. But then again that could be the lack of air. I don't even know how much air is left, I'm guessing not much. We were about to run down another corridor when we heard a door open. We hid behind a water cooler just in case it was a Judoon but it was another one of those slab things.
"That's the thing about slabs. They always travel in pairs." The Doctor said.
"What about you?" Martha asked.
"What about me, what?" The Doctor asked.
"Well Katherine has a boyfriend. You must have a partner or something right?"
The Doctor scoffed, "Humans. We're stuck on the moon, running out air, with Judoon and a blood sucking criminal and you're asking personal questions." He said as he started to creep from behind the water cooler.
"I like humans." I said.
"I'm still not convinced he's alien."
As if it was right on queue, The Doctor smacked right into a Judoon who began scanning him. The scanner made a funny noise.
"Non-human." The Judoon declared.
"Oh my god you really are!"
I sighed, "And again."
And yes, we were running yet again. The Judoon began shooting with their guns and we narrowly missed the lasers. We ran up the staircase and onto the next floor.
"They're already done this floor. Judoon are logical and just a little bit thick. They won't go back to check a floor they've checked already. If we're lucky." The Doctor said.
Martha bent down next to the girl that we were with earlier. Looks like she's got herself together.
"How much air have we got?" Martha asked.
"Not enough for all these people. We're going to run out."
"How are you two feeling, you alright?"
Martha nodded and so did I.
"Running on adrenalin I guess." I said.
The Doctor smirked, "Welcome to my world."
"What about the Judoon?" Martha asked.
"They've got great big lung reserves. It won't slow them down. Now where's Mr Stokers office?"
Martha stood up, "It's this way." She said walking off leaving me and The Doctor to follow. Martha slowed down just as she got round the first corner; the door had been broken down from where the slab had hit it earlier. Me, The Doctor and Martha crept slowly inside just in case the plasmavore was there. But when we got inside it was empty, except for Mr Stoker's body.
"She's gone, she was here." Martha said.
The Doctor bent down and started examining him. His skin was a pale white, there were no words to describe it, I had never fine someone so pale.
"She drained him dry, every last drop. I was right she's a plasmavore." The Doctor said.
"What's she doing on Earth?" I asked.
"Hiding, on the run. Like Ronald Biggs in Rio de Janerio. What's she doing now? She's still not safe. They could execute us all." The Doctor got up and I rushed after him
"Wait a second." Martha said. Me and The Doctor stood by the door way as Martha went down to Mr Stoker and closed his eyes. I had never realized they were open, shows how much attention I pay I guess. She got up and we headed out of the room.
"Come on Doctor think." The Doctor said to himself, "If I was a wanted Plasmavore surrounded by police, what would I do?"
He abruptly stopped causing me to crash into the back of him.
"Hey what did you stop for?"
"She's almost as clever as me." The Doctor said pointing. I looked to the direction he was pointing to see a red sign with MRI written on it.
"Find the non-human! Execute!"
Shit. I thought. Why are they doing a floor they've done already, The Doctor said they wouldn't have.
"Martha, stay here. I need time; you've got to hold them up." The Doctor said.
"What about Katherine?" Martha asked.
"She's got to come with me. It's a long story and I haven't got time. I'll explain it later. Now forgive me for this, it could save a thousand lives. It means nothing, honestly nothing."
Next minute I knew he was grabbing her and his lips were smothered onto hers. I had no idea how it was going to save lives, but I didn't want to question it. When The Doctor finally pulled away he grabbed my hand and dragged me away leaving a rather stunned Martha to do whatever she had to do to hold them up.
"So come on then. Why do I have to come with you?" I asked.
"Katherine, you come from a different universe. When you travel in space you pick up…"
"Background radiation." I said.
"Yeah. Their scanners will pick it up, Earth doesn't have technology to travel in space, they'll think you're the Plasmavores accomplice. That's why you had to come with me."
I nodded, I didn't quite understand it but I knew better than to ask him explain it again, "So anyway, after you find her what are you going to do?"
The Doctor didn't answer; instead he just dragged me into the MRI room. He really needs to stop dragging me around. The room was flashing with a white light and the scanner inside the room was making some funny noises. The Doctor pushed me so that I was behind him. I was hidden well, The Doctor must be about 6ft and I'm on 5ft 1. The woman, the Plasmavore was mucking about with the buttons that I guess control the scanner.
"Have you seen? There are these things!" The Doctor began, "These great, big space rhino things. I mean rhinos from space and we're on the moon! Great big space rhinos with guns! On the moon!" He said in the highest pitched voice ever.
"I only came in for my bunions! Look!" He paused for a second finally realizing he in fact had no bunions, "All fixed now, perfectly good treatment. The nurses were lovely. I said to my daughter," he said pulling me from behind him, "I'd recommend this place to anyone. But then we end up on the moon! And did I mention the rhinos?"
"Hold him." The Plasmavore said.
The slab went to grab hold of the Doctor. I tried my best to fight it off but the stupid lump of leather was too strong. He pushed onto the floor and my head hit the wall making another loud cracking noise.
"Sorry my daughter, she's a bit protective." The Doctor said.
"She's also a bit violent." The plasmavore said, "You should control your children."
That last comment made me want to stand up and smack her one but The Doctor glared at me as if to say "don't you'll ruin my plan." So I down on the floor holding my head that was actually bleeding.
"So that big machine thing, is it supposed to be making that noise?" The Doctor asked.
"You wouldn't understand."
"But isn't that a magnetic resonance imaging thing? Like a ginormous sort of magnet? I did Magnetics GCSE, well failed but all the same."
"A magnet with its setting now increased to 50,000 tesla." She replied.
"Ooh, that's a bit strong isn't it?"
"It'll send out a magnetic pulse that with fry the brainstems of every living thing within 250,000 miles except for me safe in this room." She said.
"Hold on I did Geography GCSE, I actually passed that one. Doesn't that distance include the Earth?" He asked.
The plasmavore shrugged, "Only the side facing the moon. The other half will survive. You can call it my little gift."
"You'll have to excuse me I'm a little out of my depth, spent the last 15 years working as a postman, hence the bunion. Why would you want to do that?"
"With everyone dead, the Judoon ships will be mine to make my escape."
"That's weird you're talking as if you're some sort of an alien." The Doctor said. The plasmavore gave him a look, "Oh you are joshing me." He said.
"I am not."
"Those rhinos they're after you?" he asked.
"Yes." She said walking towards him, "But I'm hidden." She whispered.
"That must be why they're increasing their scans."
The plasmavore's turned back round to face him, "They're what?"
"Big chief rhino boy said "No sign of non-human. We must increase our scans to setting two." Didn't he Katherine?" he turned to me and gave me another one of those looks. I just nodded.
"Then I must assimilate again."
"What does that mean?"
"I must appear to be human." She rushed back to where she had been working and grabbed her bag and began rummaging through it.
"Well you're welcome to come home and meet my wife. She'd be honoured. We can have cake." The Doctor said.
"Why should I have cake? When I have my little straw." She said plucking a straw. It looked similar to the ones that you get in Mc Donald's. I was starting to wonder if it was just one of those.
"That's nice. Milkshake? I like banana."
The plasmavore turned to face me smirking, "You're dad's quite the funny man isn't he? And yet I think laughing on purpose at the darkness." She turned back to him, "I think it's time you found some peace. Steady him."
The slab pushed The Doctor down so he was on his knees. She then placed her straw by one of the arteries in his neck. I managed to pick myself up from the floor but the slab just immediately grabbed hold on me while she kept on drinking his blood. I tried my best to get free. I punched him, kicked him. But he didn't seem to react.
The Judoon suddenly came barging in and the plasmavore let of the Doctor letting his lifeless body fall to the floor with a thud. The slab let go of me and I rushed straight over to his side.
"Now see what you've done? This poor man just died of fright."
"Bullshit!" I yelled.
"Scan him." One of the Judoon said. Another Judoon scanned him, "Confirmation deceased."
"No he can't be!" I heard Martha's voice, "Let me through." She was almost with me and The Doctor's side when one of the Judoon stopped her.
"Stop. Case closed."
"But it was her. She killed him, she murdered him. I saw it with my own eyes." I protested.
"Judoon have no authority over human crime."
"But she's not human." I said.
"Oh, but I am. I've been catalogued." The plasmavore said showing her marked hand.
"But she's not. She assimilated—"
"Wait you drank his blood." I said interrupting Martha, "The Doctor's blood. Oh my god he is genius." I stood up and grabbed the scanner out the Judoon's hand. I began scanning her and it made the noise that it makes when there's a non-human.
"Non-human." The Judoon declared, "Confirm analysis."
All the other Judoon began scanning her and they all came up with the same result.
"He gave his life so they'd find you." I said looking back down at his body.
"Plasmavore. Charged with the crime of murdering the Child Princess of Padrivole Regency Nine."
"Well she deserved it! She was begging for the bite of a plasmavore."
"So you confess." It wasn't a question, it was a statement.
"Confess I'm proud of it! She ran back behind the glass window, "Slab stop them."
Before the slab could even take a step forward the Judoon shot him with they're lasers and a second later he was a pile of dust on the floor.
"Verdict, guilty. Sentence execution."
"Enjoy your victory! Coz you're going to burn with me, burn in—"
The next words were screamed, as the Judoon's lasers went straight through the glass and hit the plasmavore reducing her to dust as well.
"Case closed."
"But what did she mean burn with me?" Martha said.
"She's done something to the scanner! It's going to kill everyone."
The Judoon walked over to the scanner and well scanned it, "Scans detect lethal acceleration of mono-magnetic pulse." He said.
"Well then do something! Stop it!"
"Our jurisdiction has ended. All units withdraw!"
The Judoon began marching out I turned to Martha, "You're a Doctor help him. There still might be chance you can save him."
I picked myself back up of the floor and ran out of the room. There mustn't have been much air left now as I was finding it harder to breath. I stopped as I got round the corner knowing I couldn't go much further.
"You can't just go! That scanner's going to blow up and it's your fault!"
Before I could say anything else and even move I felt everything around me start spinning. I felt my whole body hit the floor with a tremendous thud and then I got enveloped into the darkness.
XOXO
I was awake, but I didn't want to open my eyes. They felt too heavy to even bother trying to open them. I knew I was no longer in the hospital as I could hear the humming of the TARDIS. However it didn't feel like the cold grates of the TARDIS floor. So I wondered where the hell I was. Out of curiosity I started to slowly open my eyes.
"You're awake!"
The Doctor was standing above me grinning like a maniac. I gave a small smile back as I lifted myself into a sitting position. This place looked a lot like a hospital, the plane white walls. It was only the humming of the TARDIS that actually gave it away.
"Where am I?" I asked.
"You're on the TARDIS. This is the medical bay."
"You have a medical bay? I thought it was just the console room and the wardrobe…"
"Oh! There are loads of rooms! I even have a library with a swimming pool." He said grinning.
"I don't know how that works. Books and water doesn't seem like a good combination."
Both me and The Doctor laughed for a little bit but then his expression got serious again. I don't like it when he has his serious face on, I've decided.
"So where do you want to go?" He asked.
"What do you mean?"
"Well do you want to stay on this Earth or…?" I raised my eyebrow, "Or you could come with me?" he said. The look on face his face told me he was expecting disappointment but was still hoping I would say yes. He really didn't need to hope.
"I think we know what that answers going to be." His face dropped a bit, he thought I mean no? "I mean yes I'll come with you, you idiot."
The Doctor's face lightened up a bit and he smiled.
"Two conditions." I said, the Doctor raised his eyebrow, "You bring Martha too."
"Why?" he asked.
"Before I passed out you were dead. She must have saved you, like I asked her to. I think we both owe her."
"But three's a crowed don't you think?" The Doctor said.
I shook my head, "Not at all. Besides we have plenty of room."
The Doctor went to protest, but I glared at him just like he had glared at me, "Oh alright then. We'll go pick her up."
"Good, but first I need to tell you the second condition."
"Go on."
I pulled my phone out of my jeans pocket, "Here's my phone. Do the thing you done to Rose's."
The Doctor rolled his eyes as he got his sonic out of his pocket. He done the little thing he does, "It's only universal as far as I know. I don't know if it calls out to other universes." I looked at him with a raised eyebrow, "I know that's what you wanted it for. It's always worth a try. I'll go get Martha; you try and phone your boyfriend. It's best to let him know you're okay if you can."
The Doctor left the room and I heard the usual noise the TARDIS makes when it's in flight. I began flicking through my contacts until I found Ryan. I pressed the call button and hoped for the best.
"What do you want now? You only called me five minutes ago babe."
I sighed, "Just wanted to hear your voice I guess."
"What's wrong sweetheart? You seem sad."
"No, I'm fine. What day is it?"
"31st December. Are you getting memory loss or something?"
"Shut up."
"Okay. Well I'll see you at the party babe."
"Yeah."
"Love you."
"Love you too."
He hung up and I finally let myself burst into tears. I guess I was lucky I got a past version of him, I have no idea how I would have explained everything to him if it was after what had happened. How do you tell your boyfriend that you somehow travelled to a different universe where your favourite TV show is real and that you'd probably never see him again?
I finally got myself together; wiping the last tear away I stood up from the bed and headed back into the console room. Martha and The Doctor were already waiting for me.
"Did you talk to him?" The Doctor asked.
"Yeah. I got a past version, it hasn't happened to him yet." I could feel the tears welling up inside me again; I tried my best to hold them back.
"Are you okay?"
I nodded, "Yeah."
"Okay. Hold on tight."
The Doctor pulled a leaver and the TARDIS was flung into the vortex. I grabbed hold of the railing while Martha clung onto the console.
"Blimey, it's a bit bumpy!"
"Welcome aboard Miss Jones, Miss Stewart."
"It's my pleasure Mr Smith."
Authors Note: Ugh the ending seemed a bit shit to me. Idk, it took me all day to write this. Anyway if you liked it and want me to carry it on review!
