I know, It's been forever since I've published ANYTHING. Between school, and trying to plan my life after it, and my attention span of a squirrel, I just haven't found time.
I've written alot though actually, and that's part of the problem- I'm litterally writting at least fics at once (The three main Jade Heart stories, her two spin-offs, two of the four OC companion stories in a series I started, a new Time War fic, and the "Amy is Romana" plot. needless to say, my brain is swimming), and I can't concentrate on one for very long, or I write stuff that will come later in the story.
BUT, the point is, I'm back! I've updated the first chapter of Blue Jay, and added chapter two. And I promise to have the next girl Across Time chapter, and at least the prolouge of my new Time War fic, up by weeks end.
Thanks for stickin' with me Y'all. 3
Cybermen were coming at Amy, Rory and the Doctor from all directions. For lack a better phrase, they were trapped, and the Doctor had to think fast.
"You will be deleted!" the Cyber leader called as the trio huddled against the wall.
"Doctor, Now would be a good time to come up with a plan," Rory said as he tried to step in front of Amy.
"You do have a plan right?" Amy asked pushing off Rory's attempts to guard her.
The Doctor fiddled with his sonic screwdriver and tugged at his bow tie. "Uh- yes, sure I do!"
More Cybermen were headed their direction. "Oh yeah, what is it?" Amy said incredulously.
"I don't exactly know yet." The Doctor said racking his brain.
Suddenly a bolt from on of the Cybermen's guns blasted towards them. They barely had time to duck out of the way before it hit the wall and ricocheted and sped back towards the advancing robots.
"Well you better think of one quick!" Rory yelled, trying to pull Amy towards him again.
The Doctor aimed his screwdriver toward the ceiling. "If I can just get the bolts on that beam to come loose-", the sonic whorled, and the steel structure above their heads began to creak.
CRASH!
One of the beams fell on large portions of the oncoming Cybermen with a sickening crunch of metal and haunting robotic screams.
Unfortunately, the plan hadn't works completely, the Cyberleader and at least three other Cybermen were spared the blows of the cascading steel, and they were more determined than ever. "The Doctor must be deleted!"
"What good did that do?" Amy screamed at the Doctor.
"Give me a break Pond!" he retorted. "It's not everyday you get attacked by Cybermen in Blackpool for god's sake! In the 21st century no less! You humans are SO behind on you technology."
"This isn't the time to pick on the human race Doctor! You can do that all you like AFTER we get out of here!" Rory argued with the Time Lord.
A second later the trio looked up from their typical argument to find the ominous hand of the Cyberleader reaching towards them…
BOOM!
The second before the Cyberman clamped its electrified hand on the doctor's shoulder, the wall behind them blasted apart sending the Doctor, Amy and Rory hitting the floor as the metal monsters flew backwards.
Through the smoke and fire, a young woman with a very large and destructive looking gun grabbed the Doctor and Rory, who had dived on top of Amy in the blast, by the back of their collars and yanked them into standing position. She offered the hand that had let go of Rory to help Amy up.
The trio stood in gapping at the girl who had appeared through the blasted wall, then to each other, and back to the girl.
Above the roaring flames and crashing debris, the groans of the Cyberleader trying to make one last ditch effort as it tried to extend it's hand once more echoed off the remaining walls of the warehouse The girl pulled out a very futuristic, chunky looking pistol and fired at the head of creature. It began to shake and splutter sparks as before it finally gave only last scream and burst into flames.
"Well, what are you waiting for, RUN!" she said pointing the way out to Amy and Rory.
"You don't have to tell us twice." Rory replied, grabbing Amy's hand and heading though the newly made whole in the wall.
The Doctor was still standing amidst the debris slack jawed, staring at the mysterious heroin. "Who are you?"
"Honestly even in this regeneration you still like to talk. Now come on! let's go!"
He grabbed her arm as she tried to climb back though the hole. "That's not going to take care of them! There's still an entire army of Cybermen across this warehouse!"
"That's why you're going to sonic the gas line on your way out", she said. "Now COME ON!"
She grabbed a hold of the Doctors hand and yanked him hard behind her.
It took less than five minutes to run the length of the warehouse, both the Doctor and the girl hand in hand. Now the Doctor knew how Rose had felt the first time they had met, completely and utterly bewildered. As they reached the back door, the girl raced towards Amy and Rory as the Doctor soniced the gas line and deadlocked the door. The Doctor had just reached the others clambering into the TARDIS about two hundred yards away when the roof of the building exploded into flame and a fireball blew the door he had sealed only moments before off the hinges. The second the Doctor closed the door, the entire ship shook with the shock wave of the explosion, and all four of them stumbled to the floor.
Finally after a few moments when things seemed to be calm again, each of them clambered back up to a standing position. Amy, Rory and the Doctor were all speechless, but the girl who had come to their rescue only breathed a sigh of relief and chuckled. "Well, I guess that's one way to take care of an army of Cybermen."
Amy and Rory finally relaxed and laughed themselves.
"That was close. Thanks." Amy said extending a hand to the girl. "I'm Amy, and this useless lump is Rory."
"Jade. Jade Heart", she replied in a cherry Irish accent as she returned Amy's shake and then offered one to the now miffed Rory.
Jade was short and petite, but she carried herself as though she were six feet tall. Her raven black hair hung past her shoulders, and her dark emerald green eyes shimmered with adventure and fire, but the longer you gazed into them, the softer and more calming they became. She was dressed in a black tank top and jeans, and hot pink Converse, and a golden chain around her neck that was tucked into her shirt. There was something about this young girl that peaked the interest of the Doctor, something that echoed in his past, but he couldn't put his finger on it.
"And the genius behind the roof crashing in wearing the bow tie is the Doctor. " Amy interrupted the Doctor's thoughts,
"Watch it Pond", he came back with against Amy's usual taunt. "Bow ties are cool."
Amy rolled her eyes and sniggered. "Sure they are. "
Jade laughed. "At least their better than velvet and cravats". She looked towards the scowling doctor beaming, and added, "and don't even started on the stick of celery or the multicolored coat. Trust me, bow ties are tame i when it comes to the Doctor's taste in apparel".
Amy was bent double and Rory was practically on the ground they were laughing so hard. "Cravats and celery Doctor, really? REALLY?"
The Doctor continued to scowl, but otherwise ignored Amy. "The point here is not my fashion sense; it's who you are, and what you're doing in my TARDIS." He said pointing a finger at Jade.
"Oil! I just saved your sorry butt thank you very much!"
"I was doing just fine by self thank YOU very much. "
Jade just sniggered again. "The attitude never changes does it. "
The Doctor stepped closer to jade and met her face to face, "And that's another thing, how do you know so much about me?"
Jade smiled softly and shrugged. "Just stories, you're not exactly discreet in your adventures Doctor."
He wasn't buying it. "Then how did you know where we were?"
"Well, no offence, but he has a good point. We weren't even supposing to land inBlackpool, he promised us the Moulin Rouge in 1890. BUT…"Amy interjected.
Jade just shrugged again. "Honestly. I was tracking those Cybermen through the vortex, I work with time anomalies, it's what I do for a living." Her expression softened as she gazed into the Doctor's eyes, grinning genuinely.
There was something about Jade the Doctor could sense, could feel his brain racking for some kind of clue about her, his hearts tugging because of some kind of longing, but he was still at a loss. As he stared into her face, a face that was so familiar but so strange to him, and searched for meaning in her deep eyes, he somehow felt himself soften to what she was saying. Maybe, just maybe she was telling the truth.
Amy swaggered back across the TARDIS and down the stairs towards to the pair locked in a staring match. "Oh come on Doctor, you owe her one. Just let it go and let her come with us, one adventure." He broke his gaze with Jade and turned to Amy, and she put her hands on her hips and gave him that signature fiery ginger glare,"she DID save our lives after all."
After a minute, he finally gave in to Amy's grin, and Jade's puppy dog smile. He sighed and grumbled, "Fine".
"Yes! Thank you, thank you!" jade jumped up and down and hugged him around the neck. She high fived Amy and then winked at the Doctor as she walked up the stairs, regaining her haughty tone as she inspected the control room. "Interesting desktop theme. Not my taste though, to much orange. I think I'd go for more blues and greens." The Doctor shot her an incredulous look. "Oh but it is lovely though, reminds me of a warm and cozy fire. Don't you think so Amy?" she added shrugging with a goofy smile.
Amy smirked at the scowling Doctor. "I do. It makes it cozy." She nudged Rory, who had been silent in the conversation, hard in the ribs. "Right?"
Startled, he shook back into reality, "err- right."
Amy grinned. "Well, since these numb skulls are just going to stand here looking like a couple of bunnies in headlights," she jabbed her thumbs in the directions of the Doctor and Rory, "You and I can go on an adventure of our own and find you a room." Amy hooked arms with Jade, and the two young women disappeared up the stairs giggling about something inaudible to the Rory and the Doctor.
After a moment, when silence had fallen on the control room, the Doctor huffed his way up to the console and began grumbling as he fiddled with the levers and dials.
Rory followed the disgruntled Time Lord, and asked with upmost confusion, "Doctor, what was that about?"
"I don't know Rory", he said simply throwing off the question without looking at him.
Rory was not one to push, but the fact that this girl had appeared out of nowhere, and saved their lives, was too much of a puzzle to pass up. "I mean, who is she?"
The Doctor leaned against the console, staring at the time rotor thinking. "I honestly have no idea."
Rory was agape, it not often that even the Doctor was in the dark. "But then how does she know so much about you?"
Rory was as often underestimated as the quiet sidekick, but he usually had good points. How had Jade known so much about him? The things like how he dressed were tiny in the scheme of things. He'd lived so long and done so many things, legends were bound to have described him. But it was the more subtle details that she was acquainted with that bothered the Doctor. How had she known about the sonic screwdriver? He used it a lot, but he doubted legends would be THAT specific about it, not to mention the setting she told him to use on the gas line hadn't even existed until the TARDIS had revamped it after their regenerations. And she had actually referred to the décor of the TARDIS as the desktop theme, very few understood that, usually only those who war familiar with the science of a TARDIS used that terminology, and that crowd was practically extinct with Gallifrey gone.
"Do you think she's someone like River Song, someone from your future?" Rory pondered interruption the Doctor's train of thought again.
He considered the conversation with Jade. "I don't think so; she seemed to have mentioned things from my past, not my future." It was true River seemed to know awful lot about him, past and future, but something told him Jade had very little to do with River Song.
The Doctor's gut instincts were telling him it had something to do with his past, something in his distant past...
The Doctor grumbled incoherent musings as he continued to fiddle with the console. He didn't notice Rory still watching him, studying him, looking for his own hints, until he bumped into him as he tried to reach two controls that were two panels apart, hoping from one foot to another in rapid succession. He pursed his lips trying to suppress a frustrated scowl, and then finally said tensely. "Why don't you go make yourself useful and make some tea?"
Amy found herself overjoyed at the prospect of another female onboard the TARDIS. It wasn't that she didn't love Rory, and the Doctor wasn't one of the best friends she'd ever had, but there was only so much testosterone that she could drown in before she went bonkers and demanded to dropped off at the shops while the Doctor and Rory went other own manly adventures of football games, or futuristic rugby matches, or the occasional dinosaur mach up where one creature would probably end up mauling the other. Boys will be boys, she thought
She and Jade continued down the hallway of bedrooms some locked, some not, some were completely bare, as others were full to bursting of wither bizarre creatures or trinkets the Doctor had collected. The Two girls were almost bent double giggling over a room that seemed to be filled with nothing but stacks and stacks of accordions, when the finally reached a bedroom a reasonable distance from the control room that was furnished to Jade's taste. It was panted in soft dreamy purple color, with a renaissance style four poster bed, dresser and vanity. Jade flopped down on the bed, and said. "Ah, now this is home."
Amy grinned in agreement. Even with all the guns blazing stuff when she Rory and the Doctor first met Jade, there was a softness and lightheartedness about her that she liked, and she had an infections smile that reminded Amy so much of the Doctor's when he got a wild idea. "So where was home before."
"A lot of places. I haven't really stayed in a place for too long since I was a kid. I'm sort of gypsy" Jade said, gazing at the ceiling, as if she was secretly trying to dodge the question.
Amy being Amy, she was eager for more, and if Jade was going to stay on the TARDIS, she would have to pass Amy's interrogation. "Like where?"
Jade laughed and looked at Amy. "Trust me, you really don't to know, the list really does go on quite a long while." She looked back our at the calling. "I guess the last place I really could call home was Cardiff, but that was forever ago. I've bounced in and out of London in the last few years, but I really haven't settled down there in an even longer time."
"You're Irish though, right? So is that where you grew up?" Amy asked.
Jade remained expressionless and said "something like that."
Yeah. That's helpful, Amy thought she's just as bad as the Doctor. Amy sat down on the bed next jade taking a pillow and loosely holding in her arms and said. "So, studying the vortex, sounds interesting. I just leave most of the science things to the Doctor. I mostly sat in the back and picked on Rory in my science classes."
Jade grinned. "I sat in the back taking apart computers taking making stuff out of them. I'm not really sure how I passed particle physics." She fiddled with her hair as said. "I've just always been fascinated with time and space sciences. Working on rifts and stuff was the kind of thing my mum and dad did; I guess I was just destined to do it."
"I only just recently got to know my parents. They were swallowed by this crack in time, but then the Doctor sacrificed himself with this Pandorica thingy, and brought them back. Technically I knew them all along, but I didn't because their timeline had been erased or something like that so they never existed." Amy scrunched her face and shook her hair "please don't make me explain it anymore, my brain hurts from just thinking about it." the two girls laughed.
"I was a kid when I lost my parents. My mum died, and I haven't seen my dad since I was little." Jade said in an almost mournful tone. She looked at Amy who had a look of flagrant shock on her face, and quickly added, "He didn't just take off and leave me for no reason, my dad. "
Amy softened her expression to one of sadness and pity. Jade simply turned her gaze back to the ceiling of the TARDIS and said ,"It's just about as complicated as your story." She laid there, still for a moment, with a dreamy, thoughtful look on her face. Then she rolled over and stood up next to the bed. "But it's a story for another day. Come on I'm starving. How well does the spaceman keep the kitchen stocked?"