Sparks to Dust Chapter 1: Appearance of the Hersey's Kiss, a doctor who fanfic

Howdy, folks! Welcome to our story. I'm one of the co-writers of this here fanfic. (Obviously) Just wanted to start off with a few words. (If you even care to read them. You can just skip em if ya wanna.

Um, I'm not really sure what to say, haha. Sparkle and I were inspired to write this story, because we both love our ocs and Doctor Who. It was really fun inserting Deserey and Clarity into Legends of Tomorrow so...why not do it with Doctor Who too? The idea to co write it came from The Tribute Initiate from , as she enjoys both our stories and our characters. So, let's make sure credit is where it is due, yeah?

Well, I can't think of anything else to say, and you're probably thinking I'm pretty boring. So, let's get on with it, shall we? Hope you enjoy!

"Who says you can't?" A dark skinned woman questioned her nineteen year old grandson as she stood behind him her hands squeezing his shoulders.

"Me, Nan. We keep trying this." The teen shook his head a bit of a hopeless tone creeping into his voice.

"And we'll go on trying until it's done." His grandmother told him firmly earning her a forlorn sigh from the teen. "Now, keep your eye on Granddad." The woman pointed to a man at the far end of the field. The gray haired man gave him two thumbs up along with an encouraging smile.

"You mean Graham?" The teen corrected still refusing to accept the man as his new grandfather figure.

"Keep your eye on Graham then." She ordered lightly slapping the side of his head stepping back a bit.

"Thanks, but I think I'd rather look at Clarity this time round. She's much more pretty than that old sod over there." Ryan turned his head over to his, well he really wasn't entirely sure what she was. He supposed some type of cousin. Things tended to get complicated when your grandparents marry each other. Despite his displeasure about Graham he actually quite liked Clarity.

"Not to me she ain't. No more stallin' Ryan. It's time to try again." His nan told him. "Three, two, one, go! Go on!." She laughed, pushing him forward slightly. Ryan pedaling in the direction of Graham tearing his gaze away from Clarity to focus on his task.

"Go on, Ryan. You're doing it, mate!" The man Graham called encouragingly to his grandson clapping his hands only for the teen to fall roughly to his side a few seconds later. Clarity winced as he hit the ground. That had to have hurt.

"Nearly." His nan told him as she, Clarity and Graham rushed over to the teen who got up with a huff dusting himself off trying to free the dirt from his clothing.

"No, not nearly. I'm sick of coming up here, I'm sick of falling, and I'm sick of this stupid bike." The boy huffed, folding his arms over his chest childishly.

"Hey, I'm sure you'll get it down soon. You got way farther than last time Ry." Clarity took his hand in hers smiling at him.

"Further isn't good enough, damnit. I can't even do something that you could do since you were seven, Clari" He glared at the bike ripping his hand out of Clarity's hold roughly picking the scratched red bike up caught up in his anger.

"Ryan Sinclair, don't you dare!" His nan called disapprovingly only for him to chuck the bike off the side of the cliff. The metal contraption plummeting down below out of their lines of sight. Tree branches cracked and snapped, the bikes's little silver bell ringing as it got stuck somewhere below.

"What have I told you bout controlling your temper?" His nan chastised. "Now look what you've done."

Ryan merely groaned sitting down on a rock overlooking the forest below them. "Yeah, I got rid of the object of my frustration. Isn't it grand?"

"I think you put that bike through enough trauma as it is, I doubt the poor thing deserved to be flung away like that." Clarity sat down beside him.

"Trust me, it deserved it." Ryan insisted fed up with not only the bike, but himself as well.

"If you ask me it ain't the bike that's the problem." Graham sat down on Clarity's other side, behind the two teens.

"Graham!" Ryan's Nan chastised.

"No, it's alright Nan. He's right, I'm the problem. I just can't do it, no matter how hard I try I always fail." Ryan frowned.

"That's not true." Clarity denied shaking her head. "You get better with each time. Look!" Clarity pulled out her blue I phone showing him old video clips of him riding the bike. Ryan froze blinking slightly as he gazed at the proof of his progress.

"You've been recording me? Clarity I swear if you've shown this to anyone-" Ryan began his heart racing.

"I haven't!" She insisted pulling her phone close to her chest a bit scared he would chuck the device over the cliff as well. "And I never will. It's just to gauge your progress. Honest, it's just real proof you've been doing better."

"Mate, you rode it for a second." Graham tried to be encouraging, not that he was really any good at it.

"Can you stop calling me 'mate'? Anyway, a second's not enough." Ryan denied. "Whatever progress I've made still isn't enough."

"You'll do it if you keep on trying." his nan promised.

"I just want to make you proud." Ryan sighed.
"And I can't even do that much."

"You make me proud every day." she told him, squeezing his shoulder from where she sat behind him.

"Anyway," Graham spoke breaking up the tender moment, "you're on your own getting that bike because our train leaves in 20 minutes." Graham gestured down where the bike had been thrown. "Come on, love." Graham helped his wife up.

Ryan shook his head. "You've got to be kidding me.." he muttered under his breath.

"Don't worry, I'll help you find it." Clarity told Ryan.

"You sure, Sweetheart? You're not the one who threw it. You don't have to." Graham questioned.

"Thanks Grandad, But I want to help him. It'll be good bonding time for us." Clarity gestured between the two of them adjusting her blue glasses.

"She's right, it'll be good for them." Ryan's Nan agreed grabbing her husband's hand who was a bit reluctant to leave his granddaughter alone in the woods.

"Alright, but call the second you find it, and watch out for bears." Her grandad warned kissing her forehead before the old couple departed.

"He didn't tell me to watch out for bears." Ryan noted with a shake of his head starting to climb down the hill.

"So? You can't just keep him at arm's length like you are. He's really trying to connect with you. You could at least try to meet him halfway." Clarity's last word turning into a bit of a shriek as her right foot slipped on some wet grass, but luckily Ryan caught her before she could fall.

"If you're not careful, you'll be tumblin halfway down the hill." Ryan chuckled a bit as he helped her right herself. "How is it that I'm the one with the diagnosed coordination problem and you're still the one who trips over her own two feet all the time?"

"Being a clutz is a part of my charm." Clarity replied with a smile.

"Yeah, well you should try to be more careful." Ryan jumped down the hill his shoes crunching in an orange pile of leaves. Clarity following quickly after him.

"Uh, Ryan." Clarity pointed upwards at the red bike in the tree.

Ryan groaned throwing his head back rubbing a tired hand over his face. "Me and my temper." He sighed.

A buzzing noise suddenly sounded and the two teens turned around to face the noise Ryan pushing Clarity behind him as if to protect her from what looked like a floating beam of light in the shape of a diamond. They hovered in the air swirling towards the two like a kaleidoscope. A gold dot appearing in the center. Curious, Ryan reached out and poked the circle. Only for whatever the thing was to blip away the next instant.

"What the hell..?" Clarity questioned clinging to Ryan's shoulder.

"I've got no idea, c'mon let's just get my bike down and go." Ryan told her taking a few steps away only for a blinding blue light to emit where the Diamond had been. Once the light subsided a giant Hershey kiss like structure appeared shrouded in smoke.

"What is that?" Clarity wondered stepping towards it. "How'd it get here?"

"You think I know?" Ryan replied just as confused as she was. Ryan stepped forward and pressed his hand to it only to reel back a second later. Before Clarity had a chance to question him on what was wrong or if he was hurt he was already on the phone.

"Hi, er, police, maybe." Ryan dialed 911 on his phone.

"What are the police going to do? Ryan they're gonna think you're a nutter! Or some kind of druggie high out of his mind...hang up the phone." Clarity hissed at her cousin.

Ryan waved a hand at her to shut up."Hello? Yes hi, I'd like to report a well actually I'm not quite sure what actually but it's really important the police get down here straight away, because well um, there's this thing that just appeared out of no where and it's probably worth checking in to. Thanks yeah bye." Ryan said before hanging up his phone.

"Let me guess we have to wait here til the police show up?" Clarity asked.

"Yeah, that about sums it up." Ryan nodded.

"And you say you just found it here?" One of the officer's questioned Ryan as she stood next to him. The other officer standing closer to Clarity who was observing the strange thing. Clarity was sat next to it studying it curiously. It was cold to the touch, but if you listened close enough you heard a buzzing sound as if there was some kind of electricity running through it.

"No. I said it appeared. Out of nowhere." Ryan corrected her from where he stood.

"Right." The first officer nodded shaking her head clearly not believing his tale.

"I swear, this isn't a prank." Ryan told her following after the displeased officer. " I came down here to get my bike with my cousin, Clarity." Ryan gestured to where his cousin was sitting.

"You're cousins?" The second officer questioned her eye brows shooting up. The two didn't look anything alike. For one thing the girl was as white as a ghost, and his complexion was much darker. She had chestnut hair and pale blue eyes. His were coco brown, and his hair was a darker shade of brown as well.

"Different gene pools, our grandparents married each other a few years ago." Clarity explained to the darker skinned officer. She nodded slowly, understanding what Clarity meant.

"Right, And where's your bike?" The first officer questioned him.

"In that tree." Ryan pointed to the red bike dangling helplessly to a branch from it's tire.

"How'd it get up there?" The second officer questioned.

"It fell off the cliff, my cousin threw it." Clarity answered not taking her eyes off the blue Hershey kiss shaped thing.

"Name, sir?" The first officer demanded.

"Ryan Sinclair." The male answered.

"Wait, Redlands Primary?" She questioned.

"Yeah!" Ryan nodded with excitement.

"Yasmin Khan." She gestured to herself with a smile.

"Oh, my God! Yaz!" Ryan realized with a laugh.

"Uh-huh." She answered with a nod.

"Wow!" Ryan gasped in surprise.

"I know." The first officer now known as Yaz replied.

"Yaz - Look at you. You're a fed?"Ryan questioned.

"Yeah. We don't call it that." Yaz shook her head.

"Oh." Ryan nodded feeling a bit stupid.

"I'm still training. Second year of probation. What about you. What are you up to?"

"Warehouse worker."Ryan answered.

"Oh, right. Like it?" Yaz asked.

"Hate it. It's cash while I study for my NVQ. I'm trying to be a mechanic."

"That's good" She smiled politely.

Clarity looked at the second officer, grinning brightly. She held her hand out, looking utterly ecstatic. "Hi," she greeted. "I'm Clarity. And you are?"

"...Deserey," the officer replied curtly. "My friends call me Dez." She shook the other girl's hand, looking less than eager to be doing so.

"That's a pretty name," Clarity continued to smile.

"Thanks," Deserey said, smiling lightly. Though her smile was a lot tighter than Clarity's, more forced. "Yours too." It seemed as if it were taking a lot of effort for the girl to be nice.

Yaz nodded at the Hershey's Kiss. "You have to take this away, though." When he gave her an incredulous look, she added, " 's going to be dark in a minute. You can't dump this here."

"I didn't!" Ryan protested. "I can't even lift it!"

"You could've had help." Deserey gestured to Clarity.

"Clarity? Seriously? No offense to my cousin, but she isn't exactly that strong." Ryan said defensively.

"It's true." Clarity agreed with a nod. "I can't even do a pull up."

Deserey snorted, folding her arms over her chest snootily. Clarity got the feeling she didn't like her very much, but she pretended not to notice the other girl's attitude.

"Oh, come on, Ryan! It's me." Yaz gave him a stern look, disbelieving.

"Touch it." Ryan told her realizing he didn't have any other ways of proving his story to her.

"What?" Yaz questioned herself inhaling sharply as she felt a burning cold sensation as she touched it.

"See? It's freezing." Ryan told her.

"How is that possible?" Yaz questioned unnerved.

"We're not sure, but it's making some kind of buzzing noise, and it sort of looked like it was glowing earlier." Clarity explained.

"Glowing?" Deserey quizzed. "Like what? A nightlight?"

"More like a lava lamp." Clarity explained.

"It wasn't glowing, Clarity." Ryan argued.

"You weren't looking close enough." Clarity argued adjusting her glasses.

The two officers exchanged looks, making it clear that neither really believed the two cousins about the object.

"In any case, it's going to be dark soon. We'll give you two a ride back to your home. Let's go." Deserey waved at them to follow her. The faster she got away from this strange thing the better.

Ryan took out his phone as he heard it ring stopping the four's walk. "Wait one sec."

"Hiya, Nan." Ryan greeted as he called his grandmother. "Clarity tried calling Graham earlier but he didn't answer, you'll never believe what's happened."

"Ryan, love? Our train stopped between Hathersage and Grindleford, and something really weird is going on" Ryan's Nan told him hurriedly before the line cut off.

"Everything all right?" Yaz questioned Ryan in concern.

"Nan!" Ryan called his voice raised, but he received no response.

"Ryan? What's wrong?" Clarity questioned worry creeping into her voice.

"I don't know, but something's not right there. The line just cut out, Yaz please you've got to give us a ride. Our grandparents could be in trouble. They need us." Ryan told his childhood friend.

"Yeah, alright cmon. Car's just up ahead." Yaz told him. "Dez, let's ride, siren too."

"Don't have to tell me twice." Deserey replied sliding into the drivers seat flipping the siren on. The second everyone was in the car she took off speeding down the road the siren blaring as she drove in the direction of the train.

"Ry, What is that?" Clarity questioned leaning forwards in her seat as the train came into view. Clarity's eyes transfixed themselves on the sky as she saw something golden hurtling down and break through the roof of the train. It looked like a shooting star or something. Without really thinking much on it, Clarity closed her eyes and made a wish upon that star she had just seen.

"Can you step on it?" Ryan demanded having seen what his cousin saw.

"Don't tell me how to drive my squad car." Deserey crossly replied pulling up next to the train. Clarity and Ryan jumping out of the backseat before Deserey had even put the car in park. "Hey, careful!" Deserey snapped at the two.

"Nan! Nan!" Ryan yelled banging on the window but it was no use. She couldn't hear him over the buzzing sound the creature produced.

"The door's locked!" Clarity told him as she tried opening the door of the train car. "There's got to be another way in."

Ryan looked around frantically trying to find a better way inside. His nan was trapped with whatever that thing was. He had to get her out she was all he had besides his dad.

"Can we get on the roof somehow?" Clarity suggested remembering the light she saw crash through the train roof. Ryan gulped, not climbing, anything but climbing.

"Clarity - I-I don't think I can. We need something else." Ryan shook his head looking pained.

"Over here! Drivers window is smashed in." Yaz shown her flashlight around seeing the broken glass. Ryan and Clarity racing over as Deserey wrenched open the door. The four racing onto the train dashing through compartments in an effort to get to the back of the train.

"Nan!/Grandad!" Ryan and Clarity yelled in unison as they finally made it to the right compartment. The creature hovering over some guy, it's lightning crackling menacingly as it's cables swirled around.

"We're fine, kiddo's just keep back." Graham held up a hand as if to calm the two teens.

"Ryan, Clarity, you two stay away!" Ryan's Nan ordered not wanting her either of the grand kids to get hurt.

"But what is that? What's it doing!?" Clarity wondered a bit in awe of the creature stepping towards it pushing past Ryan. "I've heard of live wires but this just takes it to a whole new level. What does it want? Why pick a train of all things? Nothing this exciting ever happens on a train."

"Are you nuts? Keep away from it!" Dez grabbed Clarity's wrist pulling her back a few steps.

"Oh, my God." Yaz breathed out in disbelief her flashlight shining into the dark car the last of the four to arrive. Not a second after Yaz spoke lightning flashed outwards from the creature striking each of them in the neck with a bolt of it's lightning causing them all to grab their collar bones in pain. Before it flew off into the sky exiting the train from the hole the blonde woman had made when she fell through.

"You three, relax, but stay put." The blonde woman ordered. "I'll check the rest of the train. Fat lot of use you four were." The Doctor strided past the four of them only to pause as she looked to Clarity.

"Except for you, you were asking questions. Questions are good, what's your name?" The woman asked.

"Clarity, Clarity Springs."Clarity answered her with a small shy smile.

"Right, Clarity Springs, lovely name, very tranquil, calming, just what I need, come with me." The woman told her. Ryan shook his head no, but Clarity just gave a helpless shrug in reply allowing the woman to lead her. Ryan held back a groan because of course his cousin would just follow this person. He damned her curiosity sometimes.

"Hey! Hold on there please, madam, no one is going anywhere. I need you to do as I say." Yaz interrupted the exchange. The blonde ignored her grabbing Clarity's hand in hers pulling her along. Yaz, Dez, and Ryan trailing after the two.

"This could be a potential crime scene, madam." Yaz told her.

"Yeah, You can't just do whatever you want." Deserey agreed in an attempt to back her partner up.

"Why are you calling me "madam"?" The woman questioned in confusion.

"Because you're a woman." Yaz answered as if it was obvious.

"Am I? Does it suit me?" The woman questioned with a smile.

"What?" Yaz questioned confused. Deserey just shook her head. This woman was clearly crazy.

"Oh, yeah! I remember. Sorry, half an hour ago I was a white-haired Scotsman. When's the next train due?" The woman questioned resuming her walk Clarity's hand still in hers, still speaking as if what she just said wasn't completely bonkers.

"This is the last one back." Ryan answered her.

"But the doors are locked. How did you all get in?" The woman demanded.

"Driver's window was smashed in." Yaz told her.

"We wrenched the doors open. Not that hard, just had to mind the glass." Deserey explained.

"What's your names?" The woman asked.

"PC Khan, Hallamshire Police, and this is my partner PC Dunet-" Yaz gestured to her curly haired partner.

"Names, not titles." The woman corrected.

"Yasmin Khan, and Desery Dunet. Yaz and Dez to our friends." Yaz answered. "Can I have your name, please?"

"When I can remember it." The woman replied her grip on Clarity's hand only tightening. The woman couldn't deny she was a bit scared, not knowing who you currently were is quite troubling, but for some reason Clarity's hand just grounded her, calmed the raging storm inside of her. Clarity squeezed the woman's hand a silent promise that things would get better soon.

"You don't know your own name?" Yaz demanded.

"Of course I know it. I just can't remember it.
It's right there on the tip of my Er, what's that?" The woman asked the fingertips of her free hand lightly touching her tongue.

"Tongue?" Ryan supplied.

"Tongue! Smart boy. Biology. What did she call you? Ryan?" The woman questioned.

"Yeah, Ryan Sinclair." Ryan introduced himself.

"Good name. Are you a doctor, Ryan?" The woman questioned.

"No." Ryan replied honestly. He actually felt sort of flattered that a guy like him could even be considered as a doctor.

"Shame. I'm looking for a doctor." The woman told the group.

"Why? Are you hurt?" Clarity asked her pale blue eyes gazing at the short haired blonde in concern.

"No, I'm fine, well almost fine. My body's already healing itself, Don't you fret you're pretty little head about me, Clarity Springs." The blonde replied as they reached the front of the train. Using her free hand she hit a few buttons on the dashboard.

"Power. Lights. Doors." The woman grinned only for it to fade as her eyes settled on the drivers seat. " Poor woman." The blonde frowned setting sights on the dead train driver that was now visible with the lights on.

"That thing must have killed her as it came through." Ryan guessed.

"Why's that? It didn't kill anyone else. Looks more like she died of shock when he smashed through the window." The woman argued.

"If that thing smashed through here, then what made that hole back there?" Desery demanded.

"Oh, that was me, sorry. I crashed through." The Short haired woman explained.

"I'm sorry, what? Yaz, this woman's insane." Dez frowned.

"We have more important things to worry bout Dez. Either way, a woman has died here." Yaz told her partner.

"But no more creatures. And no other passengers left on board. Let's get back to the others." The woman told the four. Before the woman could tug her back down the train Clarity paused and the woman looked back at her confused as she felt a tug on her hand, only to see the brunette reach over and gently close the dead driver's lifeless fright filled eyes. Clarity looking at the deceased woman in sorrow. She wished she could have done more for her.

"There's nothing else we can do for her now." The woman told Clarity gently, her thumb brushing softly over her hand in a small effort to console her. Clarity nodded and allowed herself to be pulled down the train once again.

"Wait. Can you stop, please? This could be a major incident. My partner and I we're the ones in charge here." Yaz gestured to Dez and herself.

"What are you going to do?" The woman challenged.

"Call in to my station." Yaz replied firmly.

"What are you going to tell them?"

"The facts." Yaz replied.

"Which are?" The woman questioned.

"The train was attacked." Dez helpfully supplied for her partner when she hesitated.

"By what?"

"We need to take a look at CCTV footage." Yaz nodded.

"And why do you need to check CCTV when we all saw it with our own eyes?"

"Because in situations like that the human eye can play tricks." Dez told her defensively.

"Really? You think our eyes tricked us? If that were the case we wouldn't have all seen the same thing. There would be variations of what we saw, but there aren't. I saw that swirling, electrifying ball of cable and so did you. It was real, and it happened." Clarity told her.

"Was it an alien? Because it looked like an alien to me." Ryan admitted.

"Oh, come on." Yaz groaned.

"What, you think he's wrong?" The woman demanded.

"No, I don't know, but" Yaz tried to explain only for her to be cut off by the woman again.

"But you're worried about how you will explain all this to a superior officer who won't believe you."

"We can't not report it." Yaz exclaimed exasperated.

"You could hold off until we get the answers to the bigger questions."

"Which are?" Yaz questioned.

""What was it? "Why is it here? Where's it going next?" And most importantly, "How do we stop it?" Because whatever it is, I don't think it's done. Come on, Clarity and Ryan. Come on, Dez and Yaz. I'm calling you both Dez and Yaz because we're friends now."

"I never said I'd be your friend." Deserey protested.

"Just leave it Dez, it's like you said, she's crazy." Yaz told her partner. "We have people to question, she's not worth it."

"Yeah, Fine." Deserey agreed with a nod.

"It's, um, Karl Wright. Er, middle name's Brian.
52 Northover Street." The guy who got attacked was telling Yaz as she questioned him.

"Telephone number?" Dez reminded her partner meanwhile the mystery woman was talking to the Sinclair-O'Brien family.

"Right, then, troops. No, not troops. Team. Gang. Fam? I'm distracting myself." The blonde woman shook her head.

"You do that a lot." Clarity noticed.

"Yeah, I do, is that a bad thing?"

"I don't think it's that bad." Clarity shook her head. "Just means you have a lot of things on your mind."

"Yeah, I do, it's all a bit jumbled right now. Been through a lot lately haven't had proper time to sort things yet. Just need to find a bit of Clarity, Clarity's good, like tea, love a cup of tea, would you like to get tea with me, Clarity?" The blonde asked.

"Maybe after all this is figured out." Clarity told her reminding the woman of the problem.

"You came crashing through that roof." Ryan's Nan pointed upwards to the gaping hole in the roof.

"Wait a sec, I think I saw you falling, you looked like some kind of Star. You were shrouded in some kind of gold glowy stuff."

"Oh, that's just regeneration energy. Helps my body heal itself. Quite useful when I get into these kinds of scrapes. You see I was thrown out of my ! I've lost my TARDIS." The woman realized horror dawning on her causing her to finally let go of Clarity's hand.

"What's a tardis?" Clarity asked intrigued by the strange word.

"A tardis, well it's it's all time and relativityness. It's got the most stunning dimensions to it and now...now it's it's lost in space! And I'm here! Ah! It was exploding and then it dematerialised. No, wait don't panic. Not the end of the world. Well, it could be the end of the world, but one thing at a time."

"Are we supposed to understand anything you're saying?" Graham questioned.

"She thinks that thing is an alien." Ryan told Graham with a bit of a shake of her head.

"Don't be daft. There's no such thing as aliens.
Anyway, even if there was, they ain't gonna be on a train in Sheffield." Graham denied.

"Why not? I'm an alien and I'm here." The woman gestured to herself.

"Seriously?" Clarity asked with a smile the woman nodding her head at Clarity.

"Yeah, is that alright?" The woman asked her.

"More than alright, it's...it's amazing." Clarity admitted.

"Grace, we're going. Clarity, come on you too, let's go." Graham held a hand out for his granddaughter.

"No, we're not. She just saved our lives." Ryan's Nan now known as Grace protested.

"Don't be scared. All of this can be new to you and new can be scary. Now, we all want answers.
Stick with me, you might get some.

"Actually, erm, I don't want answers. I just want to get to work and forget all about this. If that's all right with everyone. Even if it isn't, thank you." The guy interrupted.

"Would you like us to-Yaz began to offer once again gesturing to Dez and herself but she didn't have time to finish.

"No, thank you. I, er, just want to be on my own.
I'll walk. I need the air. And I'm with him. We don't get aliens in Sheffield." The guy shook his head before leaving the train.

"I think he's still in shock. Bless him." Grace frowned.

"Obvious question, but has anyone noticed anything else out of the ordinary tonight?" The woman asked the group.

"We have." Clarity admitted as her and Ryan raised their hands.

"Really? Oh that's Perfect! No, hang on not perfect. Ugh, I can't think of the word! Point is we need to go there, now." The woman opened the train door hopping out.

"Wait we can't just leave the scene of a crime unattended like this. Chief'll have our heads, yours then mine." Dez protested shaking her head.

"We haven't got a choice Dez. We need answer's and we haven't got much time. I'll drive, just give me the keys." Yaz held out her hand Desery placing the keys in them with a nod.

"We are gonna be in such trouble if they find out why we were there."Yaz shook her head as she drove beginning to regret this decision.

"You're tellin' me." Deserey breathed from where she sat in Ryan's lap in the back seat next to Grace and Graham. There hadn't been enough seats in the car so the younger ones of the group were forced to double up. Dez on top of Ryan and Clarity sitting in the mystery woman's lap in the passenger seat.

"Can we have the lights and siren on?" The woman requested.

" No! We shouldn't be doing any of this. We're breaking the law just driving like we are." Yaz replied fiercely.

"So you four know each other?" The woman asked switching subjects. Clearly she was getting nowhere with the siren situation.

"I'm his nan," Grace gestured to Ryan. "Graham's her grandfather," she pointed to Clarity, "and he's my husband." She kisses Graham's cheek earning a smile from the woman.

"Second husband." Graham clarified.

"And you two know each other?" The woman continued her questions.

"Yeah. Yaz and I were at school together." Ryan revealed.

"Huh." The woman nodded accepting the answer.

"Not Yasmin Khan?" Grace grinned.

"Hello, Ryan's nan." Yaz greeted.

"Haven't you done well for yourself, love?" She grinned proudly. Ryan frowned a bit, he wished she would be proud of him instead.

"And you say you just found it there, this thing?" The woman questioned them more. There were just so many questions that she had.

"Yeah, pretty much. I took pictures." Ryan told her.

"Good lad. hmm they're kinda blurry. Haven't you got anything better?" The woman asked returning the phone a bit disappointed.

"Video?" Clarity asked holding up her blue I phone the woman's eyes lighting up.

"Oh, you're a gem. I love a video." The woman snatched Clarity's phone looking at the video of the Hershey kiss shaped thing. The woman's eyes intently focused on the way it glowed as if it were pulsing. She turned the sound of the volume up hearing the faint sound of whirring it produced.

"That's exciting. No. Not exciting. What do I mean? Worrying. Fast as you can, Yaz." The woman ordered passing Clarity her phone back.

"Why's it worrying?" Clarity asked.

"Don't know, just is. It's a feeling. Always trust a feeling, they're usually right." The woman replied.

Once they arrived they all filed out of the car venturing into the woods to find the thing.

"There's my bike." Ryan pointed to the tree where his bike still hung.

"Still haven't got a clue how to get it down." Clarity shook her head. "Too high to climb up and get it."

"Why's it in a tree?"The woman wondered.

"We were up top and I chucked it over." Ryan pointed to the hill.

"He gets cross because he can't ride it." Graham explained to the woman.

"We're giving him lessons. He's got 's a coordination disorder." Grace explained further.

"Anyway, enough about me. The tree's to the left, so it should be..." Ryan trailed off seeing the empty clearing.

"It was definitely there." Yaz said defensively.

"So, where's it gone?" The woman wondered as she squatted down.

"It couldn't just pick up and move." Dez shook her head.

"Why not? It's how it got here isn't it? Maybe it just reappeared somewhere else? It's possible it couldn't take the climate. It made the ground all frosty and snowy, must've been trying to keep itself cool." Clarity theorized.

"Good eye, good theory, is there anything you aren't good for?" The woman asked Clarity.

"I can list a few things." Desery muttered under her breath.

"Two weird things, one city, same night.
Makes me nervous." The woman told Yaz and Dez. The two cops the only one remaining in the car having driven the group to the nearest city.

"We''ll see if there's been any more reports on that object." Yaz told her.

"Good, because we need all the information we can get. Meet us back here."

"I can have a word with some of my old pals from work. If you want to know what's happening, ask a bus driver."

"He always says that." Ryan shook his head, Clarity sighing along with him.

"Yeah, that's because it's true. I'd still be doing it now if I could." Graham admitted.

"Clarity and I can search for weird stuff on social media." Ryan shrugged.

"And I'll check in with my nurses group on WhatsApp." Grace told them.

"Seriously though, aliens?" Graham questioned.

" Yup." The woman nodded.

"Oh, yeah, maybe I won't mention that bit." Graham told them with a chuckle dashing off.

"Suddenly I feel really tired." The woman breathed her hands placed on her knees a ringing noise in her ears.

"That was a big fall you had, love. Should get you checked out at A&E." Grace suggested.

"No. I never go anywhere that's just initials.
Although Can one of you catch me?"

"You're going to fall over?" Ryan asked nervously.

"You told me you were fine!" Clarity worried rushing over already getting ready to catch her.

"I was at the time. Adrenaline really masks the pain. Okay so got about two minutes, 19 seconds. Wait! Forget the two minutes. Nineteen Oh, this new nose is so unreliable." The woman complained finger stuck up her nose falling back into Clarity's awaiting arms.

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