Nicole is lying underneath her car in dirty blue jeans and one of her dad's plaid button-up shirts. She is trying to clean up the pieces that connect the starter, but also trying to keep it dry by keeping it out of the puddle she is drenching herself in. She sighs as she finally puts the two pieces back together, and grabs the electrical tape out of her pocket to wrap around the joints to keep them from getting wet or coming apart. As she is wrapping the pieces with tapes she hears a loud whirring sound coming from behind her car, she tries to look from under it, but can't get much of a view.
She finishes putting the two pieces together and taping them, as she pulls herself out of the puddle and sits up to see a giant old style phone box, that wasn't there before. She stood up behind the car and pulled her hair into a messy high ponytail as she slowly made her way over to the box. She hadn't seen anything like this box since she once read the history of London, because this wasn't just a phone box. This was a police phone box, which connected you straight to the police office with the phone attached. She leaned up to poke the box as the door swung wide open, and she jumped backwards.
Nicole looked up into the box and saw a man standing there, taking up most of the door way, in a pin striped suit and Chucks. Nicole stood up and brushed herself off as she looked at the man staring off into distant space. She giggled softly and said, "Hello sir?"
"Oh, allo…can you tell me where we are right now?" The man said as he ran his hand through his brown hair.
Nicole smiled and said, "It's St. Louis, in the United States…year 2009…if that helps any…"
"Ah ha! So I'm in Missouri…but why?" He said as he looked down at her. His eyes scrunched up for a second as he looked into her eyes, but then quickly turned his face away and said, "Has there been any disturbances here lately?"
"Besides for your giant box appearing out of no where…in the middle of a parking lot mind you…no. Let me guess…you're an alien, and this is your spaceship?" Nicole asked jokingly.
"Quite right actually…I'm The Doctor…and you are?" The man said as he looked at her condescendingly.
"You can't exactly go by that title can you? I'm Nicole…" Nicole said softly as she offered her hand to him and said, "Nice to meet you the Doctor…"
The Doctor smirked now as he looked at the girl, she was smarter than she pretended to be, so he said, "So…no unnatural occurrences besides for me and my TARDIS…hmm…so why would she bring me here…"
"TARDIS…seriously?" Nicole said her eyes widening as she stared at the man in front of her. "You have a ship that flies through Time and Relative Dimensions in Space?"
The Doctor looked to her and his jaw hung slack. He quickly composed himself and said, "Why yes…I don't think anyone has ever gotten it on the first time hearing it though…"
Nicole smirked, slightly embarrassed at her own nerdy-ness showing through, as she said, "Yeah…I'm kind of a physics major…or at least I was…I got bored of school. I wasn't learning anything…I thought faster than the teachers could dish it out…have you ever…well I'm sure you have…" She looked the man up and down and said, "Yes…you definitely have been faster than schools could teach you…so…you have no idea what you're doing here?"
"Well, the TARDIS brought me here…" He said as he looked at the parking lot they were standing in the middle of and sighed softly, wondering what he was doing here.
"Any chance it's to get your missing piece back?" Nicole asked as she rolled up her sleeves, and looked up at the Doctor with a soft smile.
"My missing what?" The Doctor asked, his face looking more frustrated rather than understanding.
Nicole smiled even more and said, "Your missing piece Doctor…the waves I can feel off of you are telling me you are missing something you love deeply. Someone that you wish to be with…" She closed her eyes as she focused on the Doctor's aura and his brain waves saying, "A…Rose?! You loved a flower?" She asked as she opened her eyes and stared at the amazed Doctor.
"Where'd you get that from?" He asked his voice almost silent as he spoke.
"From you, the second I suggested your missing piece you basically threw her name in my face with your head…I mean…oh, never mind. I'll see you later Mr. Alien Doctor Man…" Nicole said as she decided to start walking away.
"No, wait…I…I can read minds too, but only…only when I'm able to touch them. I've never been able to steal it right out of their head." The Doctor said as he ran up and grabbed Nicole's hand.
Nicole smiled and said, "I don't steal it out of your head, you handed it to me by thinking about her. I mean…I can't get all thoughts, just the stronger ones. Like, with your Rose, who I am assuming is female, you loved her. So, you pushed the word Rose out as I said missing piece. I just read it from you. I have done it a lot before, but I've never felt the need to tell anybody about it. My mom said it was something I got from my father…" Nicole shook her head as she spoke about her father.
"Who was your father?" The Doctor asked, now intrigued by the girl in front of him.
She smiled and said, "I have no idea, he died before I was born. But, my mother said he's the reason I'm not able to go to school, or really hang around any normal kids…me…I don't know what he did to me, but my mom said it was bad…"
"Who is your mother?" The Doctor asked, again running his hand through his hair.
"Lucy…Lucy Saxon. Though she says it's not a real name. She says we should really be the Coles…Wait…Why?" Nicole asked, her eyes digging into his as he asked questions about her mother.
The Doctor stared at the ground nodding as she spoke, but not really listening to the words. When he finally comprehended what she said he said, "Oh…I wanted to figure out how you were able to read the mind of a…whoa…what? You're the daughter of WHOM?"
"Lucy Saxon…may name is Nicolette Princess Saxon…My mother said my father gave me my middle name. She says that he expected me to go by my middle name whenever I was…I guess the Princess of Earth. She's never really explained all of that…" Nicole said as she looked up at the Doctor, a small confused smile playing on her lips.
The Doctor shook his head and said, "But…But that's impossible. Time L…We can't have children with humans…"
"Oh, my mother isn't actually my mother. I only belong to my father that I've never met." Nicole gave a sad smile as she said, "But, my mother told me that my father loved me. That's why I was given to her. She said that's why she keeps the last name Saxon, because it's my name. My father wrote my name, the fake name, on a birth certificate, making me legally theirs. I…I don't know where I came from. But my mother said I'm not normal. She said I'm a genius…she says…I'm special, but of course, most parents say that right?" Nicole asked as she looked up into the Doctor's face, his jaw hanging open as she spoke.
He pushes his jaw up and said, "Well yes, but I think you're mother may be onto something. I think…you may be an alien Nicole…" He let her process that, and when she didn't react he continued, "You are, by my assumption, a Time Lord. They are the Lord's of Time and Space…they can either be the ones to take care of it, or completely destroy it. Your father…his name was Kashchei, or the Master…he was one of the ones trying to destroy the world. Well, not really destroy it, but rule over all of it. I suppose you were going to be his princess." The Doctor smirked as he said the last word and turned to Nicole.
Nicole rolled her eyes and shook her head as she said, "You sound as crazy as my mother… What are you trying to tell me my father was an alien as well? Well, I'm not an alien, I'm just different, and don't get along with normal people because I'm a nerd."
"Are you sure about that?" The Doctor asked as he looked deep into her eyes, his chocolate eyes melting into her heart.
"No…" She mumbled as she looked away from him, blushing at the way his eyes had affected her.
"Well, let me see what you already remember, but has been…put away, because of your age." The Doctor said as he walked towards her, lifting his hands to place them on her face. She blushed and closed her eyes tightly as he placed his hands on her face and said, "Open your eyes Nicole, let me see your memories…" Nicole slowly opened her eyes to stare directly into the eyes of the Doctor.
She sighed out the words, "I'm soo sorry…" as she stared deeply into his mind. She began to really see his soul, his memories of him and the Master. She saw her father and what he had been, a small child who was bullied by his peers. She began to tear up as she placed her hands on top of the Doctors. She was trying to hold him there as she said, "Thank you…" She said it because as she stared through his mind she saw that the Doctor had protected her father from the bullies. Even if he made her father the way he was, he had saved him in the long run, and because of that she was here today.
"Well, I'm glad your enjoying yourself…I'm not getting anything from you. I can't see where you came from or what you were. Anything about you at all…it's like all your memories are locked from me." The Doctor said, now moving his eyes to actually look at her as he said, "Do you not want to share?" Nicole blushed as she opened up her mind to him, pushing all her thoughts forward for him to see. After a few seconds the Doctor pulled from her and said, "Oh…well, um…"
Nicole blushed as she said, "Sorry didn't mean to show you that one…" She had let him see himself the way she saw him. She was sure he'd never been given that before, so she felt bad for pushing it on him now as she said, "Oh…Doctor…Rose? We need to get back to her…"
"What about you? Don't you care to know where you came from?" The Doctor asked as he cocked his head to the side, just as intrigued about the girl as she was about him.
"No…not really, and I figured you wouldn't get anything from me, because I somehow doubt a Zygote has memories attached to it." Nicole said smiling softly.
"Well, if you are what I think you are, I doubt you ever had a Zygote stage…" The Doctor said as he pulled a stethoscope from his pocket. One of Nicole's eye brows rose as she looked at him just able to pull this out of pants that seemed to be skin tight. The Doctor smiled and said, "I just want to find out if you are…what I think you are…" The Doctor put the stethoscope up to Nicole's chest and heard the beats of just one heart. He pulled the stethoscope from her and mumbled something about the chameleon arch, before looking back at Nicole and saying, "Do you remember anything about your past? How you grew up? Have you ever seen any golden…time vortexes?"
Nicole raised both of her eye brows at the Doctor and said, "I'm sorry sir, but no…I don't know anything about the way I was born. My mother…God rest her soul…told me that I was cloned from my father. That he…cloned me from his DNA somehow. Since…since it wasn't possible at the time, and all the rest of the things she was saying sounded crazy…I just…I assumed she was." Nicole hung her head at this time, her heart hurting as she thought of her mother. Her entire life with her mother she had tried to push her away and treat her as mentally unstable, and here she was right the whole time. Nicole lifted up her hand to look at her one possession from her father, his ring.
The Doctor snatched at her hand and said, "Where did you get this?"
Nicole pulled her hand back from him and said, "It's my father's…The Master…he was my father, and this was his."
The Doctor smiled as Nicole finally accepted his words, as he said, "Well, so far you've made it down the rabbit hole, do you want to follow me to Wonderland?" He put his hand out to her as he looked back at the TARDIS. He then said, "I'll tell you about my home, and about your father…I'll show you the ends of the world, or just right next door."
"Are all your lines going to be that corny?" Nicole asked as she took the Doctor's hand. She was glad for him to come by like this, because it seemed everything on this planet was wrong for her. She hated school because it was too slow and she hated trying to work in a job where everyone treated her like a child when she had the mindset of an 80 year old. What she hated the most was that she always thought her mother was right, but never treated her like she was. As of now Nicole had nothing to hold her on Earth except for her car, and that was going down the crapper as they spoke. Nicole turned back to the Doctor as he led her into his TARDIS, and the second her foot stepped inside her eyes widened as she looked around.
"Yeah, it's bigger on the inside…" The Doctor said with a soft chuckle.
Nicole stuck out her tongue as she said, "That's not why I'm amazed. I'm amazed at the fact that you have a fully working dimensional transport. This will take you anywhere in time or space. You even have the time line running as the life of the machine." Nicole got on her knees and placed her hand against the floor of the TARDIS, feeling its heart beat. The Doctor smiled down at Nicole on his floor as his mind suddenly assessed everything that was going on in his life.
The Doctor thought back to what the Face of Boe had said to him the last time they had spoken, that he wasn't the last of the Time Lords. He thought at the time he was speaking of the Master, but maybe, maybe she was one too. Maybe the Master hid her here as a human, to keep her safe from anything that was going on. Maybe she was supposed to become something different after the invasion of the Toclafane. He took her on as a companion, because he thinks she is a Time Lord and he was lonely after Rose. His heart ached just to think of her name, but he knew she was being taken care of. He had left her in the caring hands of his clone, well his regenerated hand really. He sighed as he looked up to see Nicole sitting in the corner of the TARDIS staring at him. He smiled softly and said, "Right, so where to? End of the world…well, I've been there before…maybe I…hmmm…" The Doctor was at a loss for places to go; it seems he's taken the other girls he's been with everywhere he could think of.
Nicole smiled and said, "How about we let her choose?" She slowly let her hand run along the console of the TARDIS and the Doctor felt her shake. He looked at Nicole and smiled softly wondering if maybe this girl would change things for him.
"You can go ahead and try, here…push this button and pull this level. I'll toggle these switches over here and…"
"Don't talk to me like a little kid…explain to me what the switches do." Nicole yelled at him and then calmed as she said, "Sorry…that's what I hated about working at places…everyone would tell me what to do by explaining things like they would to a child…"
The Doctor pouted up to her and said, "I'm not sure what they do…" He then poked one of the switches as he said, "I just randomly push buttons until I feel we are going in the right direction…"
Nicole laughed softly and said, "Alrighty, adepto iens!"
"Yes ma'am…Allons-y. And great Latin by the way…" The Doctor said as he started messing with his switches and she started toggling buttons.
Nicole blushed as she said, "And beautiful French yourself Doctor…" At that the Doctor blushed, but hid himself in his work.
"You feel that, means we're almost there…" The Doctor said, trying to take off the topic of his French.
Nicole's eyes widened as she said, "We've been moving this whole time! I want to see!" Nicole ran to the doors and opened them wide to see the dark dense space on the outside as she said, "Well, I guess I should be grateful for the shield. So, if I take a step out, will the TARDIS still protect me?"
"She should…" The Doctor said as he came over and wrapped his arm over Nicole's shoulders and added, "Isn't it beautiful?"
"I suppose…for any other human it would look beautiful. To me it seems dark, cold, and lonely." Nicole said as she turned to the Doctor and added, "Do you ever feel lonely Doctor?" As she asked the question her deep green eyes dove into his brown pools, asking the question to his soul.
The Doctor smiles softly, but his smile seemed dazed, as he said, "All the time…it's why I try to always have a companion…like you…"
Nicole smiled and said, "So, I make space not as lonely for you?"
The Doctor was inches from her face as he said, "Space can't be lonely if you're not alone." Nicole was dying to take up those last few inches, but she knew that was a bad idea right now. She bit her lip as she stared up into his eyes as he mumbled out, "Looks like we're about to land" After the words left his lips he says, "Right! Let's shut those doors and get into landing position!"
"Landing Position?" Nicole asked and the Doctor grabbed her hand and drags her over into the corner of the TARDIS with him. She smiled and blushed as he places her under him in a fetal position. The TARDIS rattled and shook as she finally landed softly.
The Doctor slowly pulled himself off of her and said, "Yes, well, let's see where she put us…" The Doctor took Nicole's hand and led her out to the surface of Saturn as he says, "Crap get back in there…" He pushes her back onto the TARDIS and said, "Okay…apparently she put us on Saturn, which is a gas giant, composed of ninety-three percent hydrogen, six percent helium, and trace elements of other gases. Thus, not a solid, and also, it's incredibly hot, which means not good for human skin…if you are human that is."
"Why would she be landed on Saturn then, if it was not solid?" Nicole asked, looking out the door at the solid looking planet. The Doctor bit his lip softly as he tried to think of an answer and Nicole said, "Do you have space suits on this crazy thing?"
"Yes…they're in the wardrobe room…" The Doctor said, pointing to the corner of the TARDIS where there was another door.
Nicole headed in there and put on a space suit, when she came out she said, "Okay, how about rope?"
"Um…yes…let me see…" The Doctor said as he turned to the drawers of the TARDIS. There was a drawer of everything, but they were all labeled VERY scientifically.
"Try braided twine, or hemp…seems like how it might be labeled." Nicole said, looking at the drawer names and trying to find the rope.
"Nope…here it is…in stuff!" The Doctor said, pulling out at least ten feet of five inch thick rope.
"Stuff?" Nicole asked, a hand on her hip as she watched the doctor pulling out the rope.
"Well, the specific name I had in mind for the drawer was important stuff, but I ended up just labeling it stuff. It has my rope, every lasting matches, and an emergency blanket filled with first aid." The Doctor said as he pulled out each of the items he described. As he pulled out the blanket Nicole found out it was actually filled with the first aid, not a box of first aid, so it burst out and covered the floor.
"Oh, good job Doctor!" Nicole huffed as she got down on her hands and knees to help him pick up his supplies.
"Oh, like you wouldn't have done the same if you left supplies wrapped in a blanket like that!" The Doctor said as he got down with her and started helping her pick up the items as well.
Nicole rolled her eyes as she said, "Yes, the focal point word in that sentence is if…if I would keep things just wrapped up in a blanket, then maybe, just maybe, I would have spilled them all over the floor. But, Doctor, I don't keep my supplies in a blanket, thus…not going to do that." The Doctor stuck his tongue out at her as they completed picking up the rest of the supplies.
They put all the supplies back into the blanket, because the Doctor didn't have a drawer labeled 'First Aid' so she decided it was best to put them back the way they were. As they were about to put it back, they both reached for the blanket and their hands touched like an electronic shock. Nicole bit her lip as she looked up into the melted chocolate eyes of the Doctor, but this time when their eyes linked Nicole received a horrible image. It was the image of herself as a very old woman lying in a large wooden coffin. Nicole had to blink a few times to make the image fade as she said, "You're a horribly morbid person Mr. Doctor."
"Just Doctor and it's the way I keep myself from becoming too attached to my companions. They will all end up dying off before I ever can." The Doctor said as he picked the blanket up and started trying to shove it back in the drawer. First he just placed it in and pushed on it with his hands, and then he jumped up on the drawer and started stomping on the blanket to make its way back in the drawer. Nicole smiled both at his antics with the drawer and at the fact that she was glad to know he felt he was getting close to her too.
"So, Doctor…can you take this end of the rope, so that I can see if we've actually landed on this planet. Or, if the TARDIS is just holding herself stationary here until we figure out where we want to go." Nicole said, keeping away from the subject at hand, because she felt the Doctor's love towards Rose. She didn't want to make herself believe in something that wasn't there, until the Doctor initiates it first. Nicole quickly wrapped the rope around her waist and created a bowline knot around her, to keep the rope from cutting her in half should she fall. The Doctor smiled and took hold of the other end of the rope as Nicole slowly walked onto the surface of what she thought to be the planet Saturn.
Nicole was able to step out onto the planet without difficulty as she said, "I guess it's not just the rings that are solid. The planet is such a dense mass of gas that it creates a solid, but not so dense that it combusts upon itself like a star. That's just incredible!"
"Incredible…" The Doctor muttered behind her. After a moment the Doctor said, "So, why do you think we're here?" The Doctor more asked the question to ponder it out loud to himself, but after a few moments, when he realized Nicole didn't respond, he looked out to find Nicole was gone and he was holding a slack rope. The Doctor sighed to himself as he realized he didn't know the girl well enough to know if she ran off due to curiosity, or if she was taken.
The Doctor didn't care, either way he would have to find her, before she got herself into trouble. He quickly ran to the wardrobe room to get his own spacesuit. While in the room he found a locket of Nicole's, with Gallifreyan writing on it, and a perception filter on the back of the locket to keep people from noticing it on Nicole. The only people able to notice it would be the highly telepathic or the Time Lords. The Doctor shook his head as he set the locket down and got into his spacesuit. As he was getting ready to venture out he was thinking, If she is one of the last Time Lords…I'm not willing to lose her because I wanted to investigate her stuff.
Once on the planet's surface the Doctor realized they weren't on Saturn at all. They were on Jahklan, it was very similar to Saturn in color and consistency, the only difference was Jahklan, like Jupiter, had several moons orbiting around it instead of the rings to wrap around the planet. Now, knowing where they were, the Doctor knew why they were there. He quickly ran off of the TARDIS and ran in the direction of the several pairs of footprints headed west, thinking, I have to get her, before they get her to the Emperor.
Nicole had been snatched from her rope and the TARDIS by four creatures, about a fourth of her size, but three times as strong as she was. The creatures looked like the midgets from earth, except they had a blue tint to their skin, which tended to glow in the dark. Nicole was struggling against their grubby hands as she screamed out, "DOCTOR HELP ME!" One of the creatures grabbed her mouth and turned her around to face him as he shook his head.
After a few more minutes walking the little people dropped her off in a room that looked like the sitting area in the palace for the King and I. One of the little men said, "Eat princess, the Emperor should be with you by day end…" She nods, not quite sure how, on an alien planet, she was able to understand the aliens. She picks up some of the glowing green fruit on the floor and places it up to her mouth as the little people walk out. She quickly throws the fruit across the room and brings her knees up to her chest as she thinks, Doctor, please help me. I'm in some sort of castle, waiting for an emperor.
As he was running towards the castle he tried looking for his psychic paper, wondering what he was supposed to go in as. He was worried, because no one has ever had to come out to Planet Jahklan, it was a planet out of the jurisdiction of the shadow proclamation, and kept to themselves most of the time, the only time the aliens would even leave the planet was to find unsuspecting humans traveling in their natural picking grounds, in the one area where most electronic devices refused to work, because of the magnetic field. This is the one place where humans were completely defenseless, so the necrophytes would only stop there, at the Bermuda Triangle. However, today was feeding day, and he just presented them a choice morsel.
When the Doctor pulled out his psychic paper he read Doctor, please help me. I'm in some sort of castle, waiting for an emperor. The Doctor sighed as he saw that and yelled, "I don't know where the castle is! Give me something else Nicole!" as he continued running in the direction of the footprints. Right after the words came out of his mouth he saw the steeple of a large palace come into view. It looked like the palace right out of Aladdin, and the Doctor knew his sweet princess was waiting inside. He shook his head as he imagined Nicole dressed like princess Jasmine and smiled as he thought of what she would say should she have seen that.
As he started walking up to the castle he felt the psychic reverberations of Nicole, so he quickly started running towards the source. He found her in the very front room of the palace that he entered in to. She turned around and ran at him saying, "Ilya, thank goodness you're here!" She wrapped her arms around him and he smiled softly, patting her on the back as she hugged him.
"Ilya?" He asked softly, as he continued to hold her.
She blushed and pulled back as she said, "Well, um…you said…my father was Kashchei…and if I'm the princess…that must make you Ilya. The prince who saves the princess from her life trapped with Kashchei the immortal."
The Doctor smiled brightly and said, "Though Ilya is not my real name…I think I'll allow you to use it. It is much more interesting than John Smith, that's for sure."
"Doctor Ilya Theta Sigma." Nicole muttered softly.
The Doctor looked down at her and said, "What did you say?"
"Doctor Ilya Theta Sigma, Theta Sigma was your nickname in college…right?" Nicole asked softly. She had found that in his brain when they were looking through each other's memories. She had wanted to find his name, but the only name she could find was his nickname in college, or at least that's what she assumed it was, since she somehow doubted it was his actual name.
"Well, yes…that was my name in Academy. My real name is…" Right before the words came out of his mouth there was an entrance of one of the necophytes. He yipped and tried to take off, but the Doctor launched at him and held him down as he said, "This…my dear Nicole…is a Necophyte…this planet we are on is not Saturn, but a twin planet of Saturn called Jahklan. We are on a completely different Solar System, and the reason we are here is to take up where the Shadow Proclamation left off." He then glared down at the little man beneath him and said, "To stop them from taking humans and feeding them to their self-engorged Emperor Ęijģʼn. Or in human George."
Nicole nodded and said, "George was going to be the one to gorge himself on…me…" Nicole nodded again and then came over to the Doctor's side as she said, "So…what do we do? Because I doubt you're going to just let us run off…especially with what I can feel coming off of you. I somehow doubt that them taking people, even if it's only once every thirty odd years." She smiles and then comes over next to the Doctor to see if she can get anything from his brain.
He turns to her, his deep brown eyes burning into her eyes as she said, "No…it's not alright…" He blinks softly and frowns as he says, "But, I'm not sure what to do. I know I want you back at the TARDIS, but…I may need your help. Oh…Nicole, about your locket…"
"What does my locket have to do with this situation Doctor?" She said softly as she thought back to the locket she left in TARDIS.
He smirked and said, "What's inside your locket? When's the last time you opened it…"
"This is not the time Doctor!" Nicole said, her mother's voice ringing in her ears about her being able to become what her father always wanted her to be. She took a deep breath and said, "What do we do now…with him, with all of this." The Doctor turned to her and began to lift off of the tiny midget man to stare at her, so she launched at him and held the midget down.
She looked up at him and saw him run his hands through his hair and bite his lip as he said, "Well, we wait until he comes down to feast on you I suppose. It should be by tonight…or earlier, if you would let the poor man under you go." Nicole smirked softly and pulled off the man who stood before them.
"Death to you both!" The man yelled as he ran out, his pudgy legs barely carrying him as he took off.
Nicole turned to the Doctor and asks, "Why is it I'm able to understand him?"
"Ah-ha…finally you ask me a scientific question…The TARDIS is built with a Chameleon unit which helps it to blend in. However, due to an accident, she got stuck as a police box. She is still very useful when it comes to other planets, because she lets us understand everything they are saying. There are very few planets where she doesn't work." The Doctor said, and was going to continue, but Nicole cut him off.
"There are planets where she doesn't work?" She asked softly.
"Well yes…Electronics can't work all the time. Certain electronics can't work at certain times. I haven't figured out what she's not capable of, but I know she is capable of a lot." The Doctor said with a smirk and then added, "But…as of this planet…they are actually speaking English. A lot of them live on Earth for a while and learn to speak English." He paused as he thought about it and then asked, "Have you ever really seen a midget out at night?" Nicole thought about it and shook her head at his question, so he said, "Exactly…they all come from here. They are Necophytes…"
"They're all beginners at what?" She cut off again.
"No…Necophytes…not Neophytes…" The Doctor said, laughing softly at her knowledge of the English language. She pouts softly as he cheeks turn red and he says, "It's alright…at least you know what the word means, and weren't blurting out nonsense." Though if anyone didn't know the word she was going for, she may have looked like she was blurting out nonsense. He smiled at that as he heard a banging coming from the wall that meant the Emperor was walking down the stairs.
Nicole frowned and started backing away from the door as a large man of about 8 foot walked through the giant door. He looked to be about 500 lbs as he wobbled through the door, his folds and fat hanging off of his body. He had dark blue hair that covered his face and some of his body, and his teeth were sharpened to points. She couldn't distinguish his eyes through his hair, but she didn't really care to as she was running backwards. "FOOD!" George yelled as he saw Nicole running off, he reached out his arm, but was pushed backwards by the Doctor.
"Your reign of terror on the citizens of Earth is OVER George!" The Doctor said, as he pushed the giant man down and linked his large golden bracelets to the poles that lay about the room. He had large golden bracelets on each of his hands and one of his legs, so the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to melt the gold onto the golden poles that held up his palace. The Doctor didn't even really need to hold the large man down, he didn't seem to wish to fight as tears began running down its face, covering its chins in wet sticky blue tears. "Put your helmet down Nicole!" The Doctor said as he saw the monster secreting this fluid and said, "The fluid running down his face is not tears, it's the fluid the Necronyms, or the higher society of the Necophytes, secrete when they feel they are being abused. This fluid is very toxic to humans, but just humans…because those are the only people the Necophytes go after are the humans, because they don't like to work as often. They have a lot more fat on them than any other creatures of the universe."
"So, they wanted me because I'm fat?" Nicole asked, feeling both offended, but at the same time perturbed.
"No…just more fat…if you were compared to any other mammal of this universe…you'd be considered at least 20% fat, while the rest of the universe is usually 15% or less. Unless you count the inhabitants of Clom or Raxicorocopalipatorious…but most planets don't, because they aren't easy to attack. Though…" The Doctor said and paused as he considered telling the Necronym to attack the people of Clom, but decided against it. He shook his head and said, "Let's go Nicole…he shouldn't be hurting anymore people, except for his own. Because, somehow I doubt they'll want to hand feed him…but he'll live off of all that fat for a while…so they also shouldn't have a new Necronym up for Emperor anytime soon either." The Doctor nodded as he smiled back at Nicole and said, "Thanks for your help…"
Nicole blushed as she said, "I didn't do anything…"
"You were here…if I needed you, which is all I really need." The Doctor said lightly as he offered out his hand to Nicole. Nicole smiled and took his hand as she tried to read his mind, but his thoughts were all locked up for this moment. She bit her lip and pouted as they made their way back to the TARDIS. The Doctor then asked, "So…about the locket"
"I haven't ever opened it, I don't know what's on the inside, and I'm kind of scared of it…" Nicole said, baring her truth to the Doctor.
He smiled softly and said, "I think I might know what's in it…if you want to open it with me?"
Nicole took a deep breath and said, "Alright…let me get dressed in regular clothes and…I'll go get it." She quickly walked back to the wardrobe room, trying to ignore the locket that was sitting on the bench in the room. She took off the spacesuit and put on a black long sleeved shirt and a pair of big baggy jeans he had hanging in the back of the closet. She smiled at herself in the mirror as she tried them on. She then lifted up the sleeves of the shirt to look at the cuts on her arm and said softly, "Please…don't let him be another one." She shut her eyes, trying to clear the tears away as she picked up the locket and brought it out to him.
Nicole thought back to the other people who cared about her and what had happened to them. First with her father, he was said to have loved her and he died before she could ever meet him. Her mother, though she was able to raise her to be a young adult, was put into a mental institution by Nicole and was given an overdose of sleeping pills. She thought of the first man she ever had a crush on and was always talking to her, dying in a car accident on the way to her house for a study session. She has never been touched by another man. Every time she has ever cared for anyone they die, or disappear in some way. She's never been able to just have someone stay by her side.
She looks down at her arm now; each cut was another person who has left her in a way. She was sure the doctor felt the same, but his scars stayed in his head rather than on his body. She pushed her sleeves back down as she made her way into the central control area. She took a deep breath and said, "I have it Ilya." The Doctor smiled to her as she walked into the room, and then looked at the locket in her hand.
His hearts were beating wildly as he watched her walk forward with that locket. This locket could change everything. If it's what I think it is, if it can bring her back to the way she was. Maybe, she's the one companion who can stay by my side. Just the thought of having another Time Lord who would stay at his side, to help him through his problems, made him so happy. She could be the woman who would be able to weave genes with him, to create more Time Lords. Maybe she was the Eve to his Adam, and they would create their race from scratch.
She set the locket on the table and he said, "Are you ready for this?" She looked up into his deep brown eyes, displaying his soul, showing his desperation for this to be true. She was so glad to have met this man, the man who showed her the reality of her life. The one man who can tell her the truth of herself.
"Yes Theta…Ilya…I'm ready…" She said, not willing to go back to Doctor, now that she had more than that. She put her hands on the locket and tapped the clasp of it lightly, as well as ran her fingers over the Gallifreyan inscription on the top. She quickly unhinged the clasp and it opened…
___________Author's Notes_________
I'd like to thank all of you for reading this fan fiction. This is my first Doctor Who fan fic, and I really hope you guys have enjoyed it, because I enjoyed writing it.
One thing I would like to say is thank you ravenclaw-scorceress29 for the idea of the psychic paper that I used on page 7. She used it in her story with Luna (also a really good story) I apologize for not asking to use it, but I thought since it was such a small part of your story that it wouldn't matter. Again, thanks for the idea.
Also big thanks to a new friend Acelticdream she is a fantastic writer, although her story is for the more mature Doctor Who fans. If it wasn't for her, I probably wouldn't have written this story, because I would have had no motivation. I realize my writing is nothing like hers, but…I hope to get there some day.
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