The Girl
Swisskapolka
29/12/2007
She opened her eyes and found herself somewhere she had never been before, someplace new. In front of her were buildings (fairly small in her mind) about 10 storeys tall covered in snow. "Where am I?" she thought, "What happened?". The last thing she remembers was running, but from what? And where?. Her head ache started to consume her so she sat down and gave up trying to remember. All around her people were rushing around, laughing and talking. She then spotted a sign across the road "MERRY CHISTMAS" it read. What? She thought to herself, she had never heard of Christmas.
She must have had a lost look on her face because a man walked up to her, he had a long military jacket on and his hair was brown and his eyes were blue. "are you ok?" he asked. She didn't know how to reply to this, as she didn't know the answer." The readings are coming from over here" a woman said who has appeared behind the man. "What's your name?' the man asked, alas she didn't know the answer to that either. The man must have guessed that and said "time travel without a ship, it's a killer", "time travel what was he on about, wait, no lost it" there was something she couldn't quite remember. "Can you come with us please" the man asked gently, she reluctantly agreed.
They took her to this place they called the hub. Her memory was starting to come back of whatever she was trying to remember. It was almost there when she was interrupted by the man again. "I'm Jack…" he started to say when he was distracted by the bracelet on her wrist that was much like his own. "Do you know what that is?" he asked, "vortex manipulator" she replied without thinking, how did I know that she thought to herself. The man named Jack took her arm and started pressing buttons on her vortex manipulator. "Her name is Jade Tockness, she's from the 51st century" Jack called out. "How do you know that?" a voice called back. Jade wasn't listening to the rest of the conversation at the mention of her name she remembered everything. "Where am I?" she asked, Jack only just realizing she was asking a question asked her to repeat it "Where am I?" she asked again, "Torchwood" he answered. "Not what I meant, when am I" she said refining the question. "21st century, 2008" he answered her truthfully. "I'm such an idiot" she said out loud "mum will be worrying, dad, dad is going to kill me…" "Slow down tiger jack told her "how old are you?", "16" she replied, "Ok now tell me what happened"
"Well it all started a couple of nights ago, my friends told me they were going to a rocking party and asked if I wanted to go. Since I've always wanted to go to one I said yes." "Please get to the part where you get here" Jack interrupted. "Fine, I told my parents about the party and they flatly refused. So on the eve of the party I got ready and tried to sneak out and my parents caught me. I was so angry I stole my dad's vortex manipulator and pressed some buttons and landed myself here."
Jack was clearly annoyed at this explanation and was about to lecture this girl on rules when she started crying, Jack had no idea what to do "I was so stupid" she sobbed "now I may never see my parents again". Jack talked over the top of her "your vortex manipulator still works, we can get you home that way". "I don't know how it works, it's dads and I'm not meant to touch it." She said still sobbing, "Lucky I do then" he replied. At this the girl stopped sobbing "really" she said, "Yeah". She then noticed he had one to, "How did you get a vortex thing anyway?" she asked him. "Same way as your dad" he started as he punched some numbers into her manipulator "What year and time exactly" he asked "5047 on the 24th of December about 7pm, commercial day eve" she said, before she had even finished the sentence she had started disappearing. "Commercial day" Jack said quietly to himself "51st century answer to Christmas without religion, its terrible".