Doctor Nerd Surgeon Spy
Forward:
Hi I'm Sarah Walker. I used to be a spy. Then one day, I was brainwashed by an enemy spy named Nicholas Quinn, who erased five years of memories of my life. It was the worst experience of my life, even more so than my red test. I forgot all the people I became close to, like a nerdy husband I don't really remember, an overprotective and overbearing and overly awesome sister-in-law who is a practicing surgeon, a gun-toting ex-special forces marine who likes to grunt a lot, and an eclectic mix of offbeat friends and colleagues. But most importantly, I forgot about the most important man in my life. No, not my father, but someone else. The most amazing, wonderful man, who has this magical blue box that's bigger on the inside and can go anywhere in time and space. He's called the Doctor, and he made the biggest impact in my life. Before the Doctor, my Christmases were very depressing; always helping my dad with his Christmas Salvation Army con, but when the Doctor entered my life, everything changed. He introduced me to the people I'm closest with, so this is not just the story of my life, but how the lives of the Doctor, the Nerd, and the Surgeon intertwined with the Spy.
First, let me tell you about the Doctor.
Doctor
Christmas Eve, 1992. San Diego
It's late evening and the sky was clear, the stars visible to the onlookers below.
Down below a young Sarah Walker, blonde, pretty and ten years old, rode a Schwinn bicycle. Holding the handlebars was her father.
"Dad, how come we have to move around so much?", asked Sarah.
Her father thinks for a moment, and then responds: "Angel hair, we can't stay in any one place for too long. It's too dangerous".
"But we always come back here."
"Your mom's here. She loves to see you every now and then."
Sarah looked sadly at her father: "It's hard to make friends if we're moving around so much. I wanted to go to Mary's party but then we had to move so suddenly…"
Suddenly, the sound of something streaking by in the sky above caught Sarah's attention. She looked up and saw what appeared to be a shooting star. Excitedly, she pointed in its direction and said: "Look Dad! A shooting star!"
Sarah's Dad smiled and said "Make a wish sweetheart."
Sarah pondered for a moment, and then smiled. Deep down, she knew what she wanted: family, good friends, and an exciting life.
She then turned to her father, her eyes and heart filled with hope, and said, "Can we go find it?"
"Sure Angel Hair...it couldn't have landed too far from here."
In another area nearby, holding hands and walking along the sidewalk, are two children: fourteen years old Ellie Bartowski and her eleven year old brother Chuck. Walking further ahead of them is STEPHEN BARTOWSKI, their father, with a flashlight, periodically checking over his shoulder nervously.
Suddenly Chuck pointed to the sky at an approaching shooting star and shouted: "Look Dad, Ellie! A shooting star! Let's make a wish."
Ellie, Chuck and Stephen Bartowski came across a crater in a
park as Sarah and her father arrive. They did not
acknowledge each other as of yet as they were all staring
down the crater. Thick hot steam flowed out of the crater towards the night sky.
Sarah dismounted from her bike and cautiously peeked down the edge of the crater.
It's a 3 meter deep crater. Lying at the bottom at the center was the damaged shell of a Red Dalek (from the new Dalek paradigm).
Smoke and sparks burst from the Dalek.
The 5 of them stared at each other in shock.
Suddenly, a voice from the crater: " Oohh...ow...". It had a thick English accent.
They all looked down.
Ellie shouted out: " Are you alright?"
To which her father cautioned her: "Eleanor...be careful..."
Concerned, Sarah's father whispered to Mr. Bartowski: " Do we have something to worry about?"
Sarah then mentioned: " Sounds like there's someone stuck in that weird thing."
Again they heard the voice from the crater: "Very perceptive."
Chuck innocently called out: " Do you need help?"
The voice responded: " Ahhh...not yet...let me take care of a few details first..."
The noise of the sonic screwdriver at work can be heard from within the Dalek.
However the sound soon stopped and the voice with the English accent can be heard again: "Ahhh...there...that's done it...Now
don't be shy...come on down here...
"
Stephen Bartowski turned toward his children and gently cautioned them:
"Wait here.". He then turned to Sarah's dad and said: "Give me a hand here.
"
Sarah's dad and Stephen Bartowski helped each other down to
the crashed Dalek.
Stephen Bartowski and Sarah's dad stood around the Dalek, unsure what to do next.
Once again the voice from the crater spoke up: "Hang on...just got to loosen the top part..."
Once again they heard the sonic screwdriver, then the voice from within the Dalek: "OK...the internal cooling vents should have brought down the outside casing's temperature now. I've loosened the top...try pulling the dome off."
Stephen Bartowski and Sarah's Dad pulled off the Dalek's top dome.
A very human looking hand reached out.
"Would you mind pulling me out?" the voice from the Dalek called out.
Stephen Bartowski, Sarah's Dad and the man in the Dalek climbed to the
top edge of the crater.
Ellie, Chuck and Sarah observed the events from the top edge of the crater.
Three pairs of hands grabbed the top edge of the crater at the children's feet.
First emerged Stephen Bartowski, who turned to help Sarah's
Dad out.
They both then reached back and helped up:
The Doctor (Eleventh:
wiki/Eleventh_Doctor), who looked
raggedy and burnt.
The Doctor dusted himself off.
" Who are you?" inquired Ellie.
The Doctor replied: "Sometimes I'm called The Doctor. Other times the Oncoming Storm. But most of the time people refer to me as... get the hell out of my face."
The Doctor paused for a beat, then remarked out loud to himself thoughtfully: "That's not really a name though, is it?"
The Doctor looked around at the group, then said: "Thank you...all of you...you've all been very kind."
He then reached out to Ellie:
" Thank you Miss..."
" I'm Ellie Bartowski." beamed Ellie as she shook hands with the Doctor.
Immediately after a smiling Stephen Bartowski clasped the Doctor's hand.
"I'm her father Stephen. And this little boy here..." He then gently pushed Chuck forward, "is my son Chuck."
"I'm not little. I'm eleven years old already!" a defiant Chuck insisted while shaking the Doctor's hand.
"Of course you are!" replied the Doctor.
"I'm Jack and this is my daughter Sarah."
The Doctor shook both their hands.
"Jack, Sarah...it was a pleasure."
The Doctor's sonic screwdriver started beeping...he took it
out and started pointing it in different directions until the
beeping grew more distinct.
"Sorry...got to run now..."
The Doctor began following his sonic screwdriver and disappeared from their sight.
"Whatever you do, don't tell anyone about what's in the crater...it's
very dangerous."
"He's really weird." reflected Ellie.
Stephen Bartowski looked back into the crater at the damaged Dalek casing, curious of what it was and its capabilities.
Los Angeles, Christmas Eve, 2012, Sarah's hotel room
Sarah held a DVD entitled Project Bartowski,
Mission Log. She put it into the DVD player, and began watching herself talk:
" I love him...I love Chuck Bartowski...and I don't know what
to do about it."
Sarah was moved to tears, but suddenly turned off the TV in frustration.
She heard knocking at the door.
Grabbing her pistol, she carefully opened the door.
It's the Doctor.
" Oy! You must be Sarah Walker,
Chuck's wife...oh...I'm the Doctor
by the way. And you can put that
gun away...I'm not hear to hurt you."
Sarah just slammed the door in his face.
The Doctor then started banging on the door.
"Oy! Open up! We need to talk! It's urgent!"
Sarah ignored him and continued watching the DVD.
"Come on! It's Christmas! Let's try to be cheery and friendly!" The Doctor yelled from behind the door.
"Bah humbug!" replied Sarah.
"You don't understand", explained the Doctor. "I need your help because the only way to save my friends is for you to talk to your husband! I can't help them because they are trapped on a plane travelling through some sort of temporal dimensional disturbance that I can't penetrate with my time machine!"
The Doctor looked around and saw a hotel worker's walking talkie lying on a serving caddy. He ran over, picked it up and used his sonic screwdriver on it.
"Amy? Rory?"
Meanwhile, on a passenger jet, a tense standoff continued.
Rory's cell phone started ringing.
He answered it.
" Hello?"
Meanwhile, back outside Sarah's hotel room, the Doctor communicated with Rory via the walkie talkie: "We have a problem here. She won't listen."
Rory: "Doctor, we need help. This mad man is about to take this jet and all
its passengers hostage, and Chuck
needs his wife in order to save us
all. Why's his wife so cross?" Rory replied stressfully.
The Doctor: "I have no idea. She's even sounding like Scrooge...or even Kasran when we first met...and I can't use the TARDIS near that plane due to some temporal anomaly...seems it's tied to Sarah somehow, so I have to convince her to come with me."
The Doctor's voice was interrupted several times by a choir of children outside singing Christmas carols.
Rory: "Scrooge? Who's Scrooge...what's that noise about you?"
The Doctor: "You remember...Scrooge...Kasran...Charles Dickens' novel...A Christmas Carol? And it's children singing Christmas carols."
The Doctor paused for a moment, when suddenly an inspiration struck him.
The Doctor: "Wait a minute...A Christmas Carol! A Christmas Carol!"
The Doctor smiled cunningly to himself. Sarah seemed to be a strangely embittered person with a good soul; all he had to do was bring it out. It worked for Kasran; why not Sarah?
The Doctor: "Merry Christmas Sarah Walker."
Excited, the Doctor ran off from Sarah's door.
Within Sarah's Hotel Room, Christmas Eve 2012:
Meanwhile, the Sarah on TV was talking again:
" Well...things are finally over with Chuck. He's dating Hannah and I've finally moved on with another spy...Daniel...but it just feels weird...like something isn't right with this.
Suddenly the sound of the TARDIS klaxon could be heard from the TV. Followed by some running, and then the sonic screwdriver, all in the background of the TV picture.
Suddenly The Doctor entered the television picture and planted himself right beside Sarah and looked through the TV towards her future self, who watched in shock.
"Very astute Sarah...trust me...you don't want to do that. Trust your instincts. It isn't right. Not
without Chuck.
Irritated, Sarah shouted at the TV: "Who the hell are you?!"
The Doctor on the television replied proudly "I'm the Doctor!"
The Sarah on TV then asked: "Doctor who?"
The Doctor quickly produced his identification papers (psychic paper) and proudly showed it to the TV Sarah: "My impeccable CIA credentials."
TV Sarah: "These are definitely real CIA papers...but..."
The Doctor: "But what?"
TV Sarah: "It says you're the Ghost of Christmas Past?"
"Remember the Charles Dicken's novel, A Christmas Carol? I'm the
ghost of Christmas past." replied the Doctor on the TV.
Meanwhile, outside, a loud unnatural boom of thunder and lightning sounded outside Sarah's curtains.
"How can you hear me?" asked Sarah.
"I can't hear you. I'm reading a script you gave a future version of myself, who passed it along to me." Replied the Doctor on TV.
Meanwhile, the Sarah in the TV is infuriated: "What the hell are you doing here? I don't know you...wait a minute..."
The Doctor in the TV continued: "Actually Sarah...I just remembered myself...we've known each other for a very long time. Met way back in nineteen ninety two in San Diego...was hiding in a Dalek then. Never mind...just watch the TV...I taped everything and dumped it onto your mission logs."
Suddenly the Sarah on the TV and the Sarah watching exclaimed in unison:
" I remember!"