Disclaimer: I don't own doctor who. This amazing show belongs to BBC not me. But I do own my oc and promise to try not to make the doctor who characters act as they are portrayed in the show.

Ipswich, Massachusetts USA

June 23, 2012

"Oh my god, I think we lost Steve!"

I gazed over to my friend Alissa and then looked back from where we'd hurriedly escaped. "We can't go back, it's too late! There's no way we can save him Ali, he'd have wanted us to keep going," Hunter yelled as he shook the bottle blonde by the shoulders dragging her along.

Fumbling I retrieved the keys from out of the tan messenger bag strapped to my side in quick terror. I paused. Do I hear high heels? Casting a quick glance behind me I ducked in between two cars. Hiding from sight, I quietly hunched over to my orange GEO tracker. The two bickering were clueless of anyone missing from their party. The blonde jabbed a finger into Hunters chest, "We can't just leave him there to fend for himself though. Maybe we could get him out without being noticed. He's my boy friend, I love him too much to just leave him stuck in that place!"

"Alissa, would you rather it be you in there! We somehow escaped and you want to go back , who knows what other crazy things await in there! Beside why should I care it's not like I'm sleeping with him! Echo tell her we have to...Echo! Oh god she was just here, now where'd sh-"

Now your probably wondering what the hell is going on, are we about to die, are we escaping from prison, running for our lives, well the answer to all those questions are yes, yes, and yes. But not in the way you're thinking. Now my friends and I were 'invited' (more like coerced) into the most horrid event ever, our High school reunion. So in fact I would say we are reacting rather appropriately wouldn't you agree? Alright probably not, but what can I say we're a bunch of cowards.

"Oh! There you guys are I've been looking for you," shouted a very high pitched voice. Alissa and Hunter shuttered, turning around to stare in abject horror as the owner of the voice came towards them like one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse in a bright pink monstrosity, that was somehow considered evening wear. "Oh god, it's too late. We're doomed. You see if you had just stopped arguing and kept going we'd be in the clear," He hissed. Alissa shot him an annoyed look. "Yeah well, if we'd just gone back earlier we'd never have been caugh-Hi Jules fancy seeing you out here," she melded into a different sentence the minute the pink woman was before them. I peeked up a bit spotting the group as I attempted to silently open the car door without being noticed. My life depended on it after all.

Jules started blabbing on and on about something or other steering the reluctant pair back towards the auditorium we'd just narrowly escaped from earlier, "Then there's the hypnotist that's coming later and oh oh the cake should be getting cut soon so you guys shouldn't wander off like that. You wouldn't want to miss that now would you. Oh, we also just set up the memory slideshow! Do you remember that funny prank we pulled on the photography club in gym. Oh that was so hilarious. Their faces! Oh, wait...you guys were in that club weren't you? ...OMG, I almost forgot! Have you seen the red headed girl, the one thats always carrying that ratty old bag. You guy like hang out with her and stuff right. Cuz I always see you guys together. God, what was her name. Started with an E."

Hunter and Alissa looked back at said red head, a.k.a me, pleading with there eyes to save them, to stop the torture. And I would have to. I really would have. But I suddenly remembered a certain instance in which two friends had eaten the last cherry ices having been expressly told not to. The ones that I, and only I, buy for me! So instead of pulling some half assed heroics I just smiled, waved to them, and mouthed 'I'll never forget you' and with that jumped into the car. I really wanted to feel bad about what I was doing, but who am I kidding it was just to hilarious. Revenge is sweet! (Pun so intended)

I bet your thinking I'm probably overreacting. It's just a High school reunion after all. But then again you all know what high school is like, and no matter how old you get or how long ago you graduated the high school dynamics never change. Let's just say my click was never really well respected or in most cases noticed. We were often the butt end of jokes. Plus, there was a new episode of Bones on that night and given the choice of reliving past high school horrors or my favorite show...sorry I'm rambling, anyway back to the beginning of my harrowing tale of woe.

Having "slowly" driven out of the parking lot I had no idea the huge life choice I had just embarked upon. Had I went back to get my friends, taken even one more second to get into the car or had casted one last glance back I would have noticed the thick fog that had begun to enshroud the school or the blue box that seemingly appeared out of thin air.

But I hadn't done any of those things, I hadn't taken the time and thus my fate had been sealed. Of course the funny thing about having ones fate sealed is that you never really know that your fate has been sealed. Because had you known you may have taken one more picture with your friends, gone to see that new batman movie you'd been looking forward to, or finally gone out with that guy your friends had been trying to set you up with even though you weren't really interested and had expressed on many occasions you don't really date. But, more importantly put your affairs in order.

But I, like most beings of the universe, couldn't foresee the future. So I'd went about my day like I'd normally would. And truth be told it was a good episode of Bones.

It's funny how split second decisions can change your life, your perspective on the world and consequentially effect those around you no matter how insignificant you thought they were. Looking back at this I always wonder if given the choice if I'd change it. Change my future. Truth be told it had occurred once but wasn't with my consent or knowledge but I digress. Because you see my life wasn't all amazing and beautiful. Sometimes...sometimes it's just painful and hard. It's saying 'no' even when it hurts too. And saying so many goodbyes. But that's the risk we all take when running with the Doctor. That beautiful, eternal, mad, lonely, amazing Doctor. Hello, my name's Echo Adler and this is were my journey down the rabbit hole begins or should I say my journey into the time vortex.

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P.s. I'm not sure if Echo should be timelord, human plus timelord or some entirely new species, so if you could give me an answer in your reviews or vote on my poll that would be helpful, although the issue shouldn't come up until the next two chapters. Her species should be revealed so vote now. Also i made it so you can pick more than one if you can't decide.

P.p.s. my poll can be found at the top of my profile page or (if this link works) Vote Now! Current tally is 10 timelord, 7 some entirely new species, 5 human+timelord

You only have yourself to blame if you don't like the species that gets chosen if you don't vote.

A little info to help with your poll decision:

1. If she ends up being a timelord you'll notice she doesn't have a watch so it'll be a different concept that that one to introduce her as one.

2. If she's a new species, well she's a new species that could make her anything, with or with out a number of abilities.

3. If she turns out Human+timelord her parents won't be Amy or Rory, Nor will she be River's child with some unknown male. You'll never guess who her parents are (or maybe you will with what I'm about to say) but they do exist in the Who universe. And no she won't be Roses child either. But she will be the child of one of his past companions (no its not Romana).

Sorry this is so short it's just a prologue, I promise to make them at least 3,000 words a chapter after this.