Cassie walks down Main Street like she always does to work but on this dark dreary rainy morning something is different, she is being followed. About 10 to 15 feet behind her is a strange looking middle aged man who she noticed earlier standing across the road from her flat watching her and waiting for her to set off to work. Every time she looks behind her to see if he is still following her he seems to speed up a bit as if trying to catch up with her & this is a worrying thought as a few young women have been going missing recently and they always vanish in the early hours of the morning when it is still not quite daylight.
Cassie turns the corner and speeds up to not far off a slow jog in an attempt to put a bit of distance between the two of them but when she turns again there is no sign of him, she decides not to slow down too much just in case and within minutes thankfully she arrives at the front doors of Symonds Stationary where she works in the sales department cold calling companies trying to talk them into signing up for a business account.
The rest of her day is just a typical boring day at the office, she has her usual rude and vile customers swearing at her and slamming the phone down on her & the highlight of her day is seeing her friend Samantha at dinner which always gives them a chance to catch each other up on the latest office gossip. At 5pm she collects all her things & leaves to head home, she always says "goodnight" to the security guard Wilf as she is leaving secretly knowing that he may not be there much longer due to his age and he has always been nice to her.
Outside she fumbles in her bag for her umbrella as it is has been pouring with rain all afternoon and now seems to be getting heavier, but out of the corner of her eye she notices someone stood across the street staring at her & when she realises it is the same man from this morning she starts to panic. Cassie with umbrella in hand decides she doesn't really want to find out who this man is and what he wants so she sets off walking very rapidly towards the end of the street glancing behind her to see if the man is once again trailing her and sure enough he is closer now than he was this morning & she starts to panic even more. She decides to duck into an alleyway which she knows is a shortcut but normally she doesn't like using it as it is always dark down there with little or no lighting.
But as she is scurrying down the alleyway she hears a woman's voice call out to her..."Cassie, in here and be quick about it if you want to live", at the shock of what this unknown woman has just said she dives into what can only be described as a blue phone box. Once inside she is greeted by very bright lights and a huge room, "what, how, where am i?" Cassie takes a minute to gauge her surroundings and let her eyes adjust to the bright lights around the edge of the room. The woman that shouted her is now stood around what looks like a strange machine covered in knobs, switches and buttons of all shapes and sizes with a tall column of light standing in the middle of it reaching right up and into the ceiling which in this case is abnormally high. "Where am i?" Cassie begins to quiz this woman on her strange surroundings.
"You are safe inside the T.A.R.D.I.S, which it has to be said is a lot safer that out there" Cassie looks around again trying to work out how such a huge room could possibly fit inside a small phone box. "what exactly is the TARDIS & how come it is so big in here when outside it looks like a small blue box?". The woman is still fiddling with buttons and switches on the machine. "the TARDIS is my time & space capsule & it stands for Time And Relative Dimension In Space and i think the best way of answering your second question is, it's bigger on the inside." The woman looking rather amused with herself after stating the obvious. "yes i can see that but where am i and why did you help me?"
"I helped you because if that man that was following you had got his way you wouldn't be here right now, you would now be a skeleton on the floor outside." Cassie loses her balance at this revelation "But who was he, What did he want with me, i'm nothing special", the woman looks up at her "My dear even though you do not need to be special for anything to happen to you, every person on this tiny little planet is special in their own way" she goes back to fiddling. "So who was he then?, and while we are on the subject, Who are you?"
"I am the Doctor, and that mat was just hired help if you like, he wasn't human i will put it that way" Cassie looks even more shocked at what had just been said to her and thinks to herself how can that man not be human, he looked human. "Anyway where do you live, i will take you back home, then i really must be on my way, i am a very busy woman and have things to do"