The Doctor and The Mechanic
Chapter 1 Prologue, and Episode 1
I know prologues are not super fun and that many of you want to get right into the story but I just want to let you know a few things. This story will be primarily from the POV of my OC Henrietta Calvert. Here are her stats
Full Name: Henrietta Calvert
Nickname: Henry
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Jade green
Height: 5'10"
Best Friends: Rose Tyler and Mickey Smith
I own nothing but my OC Henrietta Calvert, all characters and plotlines belong to the BBC
I will update as regularly as I can, but I am human, and sometimes make mistakes
I love feedback and suggestions! Please let me know what I can do better
Thoughts will be in italics
Without further ado enjoy episode 1: Rose
I was almost to Henrick's when my phone started to ring.
"Hello," I answer without looking.
"Henry, are you with Rose? I called her but she didn't answer." Jackie's voice rings in my ear.
"That's probably because her shift ends in 3 minutes, I'm going to meet her right now and we'll probably go out for chips or something." I reply slightly shaking my head. Jackie always has been eccentric. "We'll be back by 11 Jackie."
"Ok, have fun Henry, we'll see you this Saturday, right?"
"You know I'll never miss our girls' nights Jackie, you and Rose would kill me!" Jackie chuckles before responding.
"You and Rose go have fun. I'll see you when you're coming home."
"Have a good night Jackie" I hung up right as I was approaching Henrick's. Rose and I always meet up after work to destress, and today I got off before her so tonight we would meet up at Henrick's. If she gets off before me she meets me at Davies Mechanics, where I work alongside her boyfriend Mickey.
As I approach Henrick's I see Rose head back into the building probably to give Wilson his lottery money. He always loves to gamble. I walk by Robert who is making sure all the customers leave before he locks up. "Hello Robert, have a good night." He nods in response. I go to Wilson's office and find Rose shouting his name. "Oi Rose, is there a problem"
"I just can't find Wilson," a clatter comes from the storage room, "maybe he's in storage?" I nod and walk ahead of her into the storage room. All that's in there are mannequins and boxes. "Wilson, are you in here?"
"Wilson? Wilson!" Rose exclaims. As Rose and I are searching for Wilson the doors slam.
"Rose what's going on?" I ask as we run to the door
"I don't know," we both try to open the door, "You're kidding me, did you do something Henry? I know how you like to joke" Rose questions.
"Rose I promise I am not doing this," something falls to the floor, "what was that?"
"Is that someone mucking about?" Rose asks. A dummy turns toward us and starts to approach.
"Ha ha very funny, you've had you've had your laugh now cut it out!" I demand. My legs are itching to run, I grab Rose and pull her back as the dummy comes closer. "Derek are you doing this? Derek is that you?" More dummies start to approach, and our backs hit the wall. "Rose, on my go we try and run past them, ok?"
"Whatever gets us out." The closest dummy reaches out towards us and before I can say a word a hand grabs my wrist.
"Run!" A man clad in leather runs forcing me and Rose to follow him. We rush through the door, my mind focusing only on survival. We soon arrive in the elevator that will bring us to the main floor, but one of the mannequins stuck their arm through. The leather clad man wastes no time in yanking his arm off, which causes Rose to voice her concern. While I take the arm from her and study it. It truly was plastic. There was no way anyone could have manipulated it to move like they were, so what is really going on? Rose and the man continued to talk. Something about students, then something the man said made me freeze.
"Wilson's Dead" He stated with a hint of darkness in his voice. Rose continues talking to the man, demanding to know who the mannequins were. Finally working out my thoughts I say one word.
"Why" This causes both the man and Rose to pause.
"Why what?" The man questions me.
"Why are they doing this. What do they hope to accomplish? You said they were living plastic, but why are they here?" I look him straight in the eyes, hoping beyond belief that this was a joke, that Wilson isn't dead, that plastic couldn't live.
"That is a good question. Wait, that is actually brilliant. Who are you?" The man questions, his eyes looking over me as if noticing me for the first time.
"Henry. My name is Henry." My reply is quick, as I look at him trying to figure out just who he is. What person would know about things like living plastic?
"Well Henry that is a brilliant question that I don't have time to answer because the mannequins are being controlled by a relay on the roof. Which would be a problem if I didn't have this." The man holds up what looks to be explosives with a timer on it, "So I'm gonna go upstairs and blow it up. And I might well die in the process, but don't worry about me. No, you both go home have some lovely beans on toast. Don't tell anyone about this, cause if you do, you'll get them killed." He looks over to Rose. "Whats your name?"
"Rose." She states totally flustered.
"Nice to meet you both. I'm the Doctor, now run for your life!" He says almost with glee. He slams the door to the building with a sense of finality. Knowing the danger we're in I quickly grab Rose's hand and start to run, we barely make it a block down before Henrick's explodes. Instinctively I push Rose down and cover her with my body in case of any shrapnel.
As the fire dies down I get up and tug Rose to her feet. "C'mon Rose we have to get back before your mum hears about this on the news." Jackie will think we died if we don't see her before she sees the news. With that though reverberating through my head I run towards the Powell Estates with Rose, completely missing the blue box that blocked the alley. Thankfully we make it back before Jackie hears the news. Rose sits down in the living room looking completely exhausted, leaving me to explain what happened to Jackie. I tell Jackie that we were both a few blocks away by the time the explosion hit. I'm reluctant to mention the truth because I don't want to worry her, and I wouldn't know how to explain the man called the Doctor. Jackie is soon on the telephone spreading the gossip that Rose and I were inches away from death. Mickey walks in. Crap I forgot about Mickey! He must've been so worried.
"I've been phoning your mobile! You could have been dead! It's on the news and everything!" He says before stopping to take a breath. "I can't believe your shop went up!"
Rose seeming tired of the whole situation replies. "I'm all right. Honestly, I'm fine. Don't make a fuss!"
Mickey hugs Rose, right as I say, "I'm sorry Mickey, I should've called you right when we got back. I'm sorry we made you worry" Mickey turns from hugging Rose to hugging me.
'And you, how is it you always get into trouble?"
I laugh slightly, returning the hug, "It wasn't my fault the jack broke and trapped me under that cab!"
"Honestly, I don't know what to do with you sometimes, and now you're dragging Rose into your mischief?"
I sigh before breaking the hug to get a cup of tea. Mickey turns back to Rose to ask about what happened. I would go and help her explain, but she left me to deal with Jackie, so I just lean against the counter drinking my cup of tea. I briefly look up to see some commotion between Rose and her mum, rolling my eyes I go back to my tea. I just finished when Mickey is trying to convince Rose to go to a pub. He turns to me.
"Hey Henry, what about you, lets head down to a pub. You need something stronger than tea."
"I think I'll skip for tonight Mickey, I want to get some rest." I pause before saying, "Do you think you can cover for me tomorrow? I need a day off after almost being blown up, and I think Rose could use some company."
"Yeah, no problem. Mike will understand." I nod in appreciation.
"And could you get rid of that?" Rose points to the plastic arm. Mickey nods, and we both head out, but not before Mickey pretends that plastic arm is choking him. I quickly make my way up the flight of stairs and push my door open with a relieved sigh. Finally alone! I kick off my shoes, and lazily head to the bathroom and take a shower. That man, the Doctor was telling the truth about the plastic. There was no space for a human arm to manipulate the plastic the way it moved, but how did he know, just who is he. Doctor who? I get out of the shower and collapse onto my bed. He seems somewhat familiar, but I couldn't have met him before. I would've remembered that bald head with those ears. I chuckle turning onto my back. Something tumbles from my nightstand. My old pocket watch. I honestly forgot I had this. I turn it over once in my hands, before returning it to my nightstand. I wonder why he seems so familiar? I doubt that the living plastic was just at Henrick's, there's probably a bigger scheme going on. Does a plastic limb die when separated from the main body? I hope so. My thoughts continue to trail along the odd events of the day until I finally fall into a dream filled sleep.
AN
Hello I hope you enjoyed chapter 1. I hate to stop it in the middle of the episode, but I do love a good cliffhanger. If I made any mistakes please let me know. Thanks for reading :)