A/N: I must admit I am terrified to put this up. I hope you like this. I'll aim to update once a week. Chapters can be long... Hope you like :)

Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor who :(

Chapter 1: The Doctor and the runaway

I am alone, I am lost, I am a runaway.

I walked down the street. The sky was getting darker, lights were going out. I didn't stop. I needed to find my next meal.

I look into peoples' windows. Oh how I envy them, being able to laugh and smile, while I'm out here just trying to survive.

Sometimes I wish I hadn't run, sometimes I wish I'd stayed there. Other times I know I was right to leave. I'm surviving... Just. I can find food, water and shelter, keeping faith and hope is what I find hardest.

When the gangs beat me up, I have no one to help me. When the slums become too much, I have no home to go to. When my faith gets broken I have no one to fix it.

Still, I carry on. I know there's someone out there, someone who will care. I remember before I ran hearing about The Doctor. The Doctor was always so kind and forgiving... Maybe he'll save me.

I settle down for the night. I know that it'll be a long time until I fall into restless dreams about a Timelord coming to take me away.

The Doctor is what keeps me breathing. The fantasy that one day he'll take me through time and space in that magic blue box of his. He's been running all his life, so have I. I can only dream that someday we'll be running... Together.

We could save galaxies and civilizations. We could fight monsters and meet aliens. We could go back to the past and visit the future. All of time and space at our fingertips. That is why I haven't given up. That is why I still live, because I dream that one day The Doctor will save me. He'll take me away from here, but right now I can only dream.

I'm lying on the grass staring at the night sky. The cloud has settled in, the stars will not shine tonight. I try to fall asleep, it's not working. The dreams will not come.

Suddenly I heard a gunshot come from the alleyway behind me. I got up and ran. There was a man slumped against the side of a building.

"Are you okay?"

He looked up at me with startled eyes. His breath was shaky. I noticed that he was bleeding heavily from a bullet hole in his chest.

Oh god he'd been shot. I ran over to him and put pressure on the wound but he batted me away.

"No, it's too late. You can't save me. Go."

"No. I will not leave you here to die."

"You being here won't change the fact that it's going to happen."

"No one deserves to die alone."

I notice his eyes begin to flutter. He's getting weaker. What do you do when this happens? Right! I need to keep him awake.

"Talk to me. Can you tell me who you are?"

He opens his mouth and let's out a shaky breath. He barely manages to string the words together but it's enough for me to know.

"The Doctor, I'm The Doctor."

I look at him in shock then realize that he actually is the Doctor.

"What can I do?"

"Leave. Just leave and don't come back."

"If you're dying I won't leave you. I won't let you die alone."

He gasps in pain. "Step back... NOW!"

I hesitantly take a step backwards. He looks down at his hands that are now glowing with a beautiful golden light.

"It's starting."

His whole body becomes submerged in the golden light. I look away. When I look back at him I see that he is an entirely different man.

He has a mop of curly ginger hair. His eyes are blue.

"I can't believe you didn't run."

"Who says I'm not running already?"

He didn't appear to hear me because he'd become too interested in examining himself in a puddle.

"Am I ginger?"

"Uh, yeah?"

"You must be my good luck charm. Finally I'm ginger! Hey who are you?"

I shrug. "I'm no one."

He doesn't look convinced. "You stayed with me even though I asked you not to. Come on. At least tell me your name."

"Echo, my name is Echo. That's all I am anyway. An echo of my former self."

"Well Echo, we'll have to fix that now, won't we."

He grabbed me wrist and pulled me down the street. He pulled me into a blue telephone box.

"It's bigger on the inside?"

"Yeah. I suppose it is. Well I have to find some new clothes. BRB!"

"What does 'BRB' mean?"

"You're kidding me? It means be right back!"

He ran off down a corridor I took this time to look around. Man this box is huge and complicated.

The Doctor came bounding back into the room. He was wearing entirely different clothes. He had on a black trench coat. He was wearing a ridiculously long scarf. He had pilot glasses on and was also wearing a fez.

"Now that I'm ready. Tell me, what were you doing on the streets at midnight? Did something happen at home?"

I felt hesitant. I didn't want him to know that I was really a runaway.

"I... Needed a walk."

"At midnight?"

"I got bored! What were you doing shot in an alleyway at midnight?"

"Point taken. So Echo, do you want to travel with me?"

"Yes!"

"Well then, all of time and space at your fingertips. Where do you wanna start?"

I pondered for a minute before saying "Anywhere!"

"Okay, anywhere it is! Goodbye earth... Next stop, everywhere!"

A/N: Okay thanks for reading chapter 1. Please review. If you have any ideas for me (e.g. story lines, characters, places, time periods, aliens etc) let me know and I'll do my best to write them. Thanks for reading!