Chapter 2: My Luck

When the black SUV parked on her street Hally hardly noticed it, she was sat on the curb by what was her house, memories of blue lights filling the sky, screams, guns, explosives everywhere and then the peace of a TARDIS, and black. She felt tears trickling down her face.

Someone was placing their hand on her shoulder she could feel it sliding across her school uniform. It was like the person didn't want to touch too much, just in case.

"What's your name?" The stranger said, a women Hally thought.

"Hally, you?" She answered her voice seeming croaky at first.

"Gwen."

"Come with me," The stranger said, and she helped Hally off the curb and they started to walk up and down the street. Talking.

"Were you here at the time of the…" Gwen trailed off not knowing what to call it.

"The…umm, explosion?."

"I guess you could call it an explosion for now." "How far away were you, are you hurt?"

"No, I'm fine, I was stood on my drive and everything suddenly happened, it was so fast I hardly had time to…"

But Gwen was already speeding her away, concern on her face, back towards the SUV.

Hally just followed.

"Are you sure you were on the drive?"

Hally just nodded.

Gwen took her round the back of the car where a tall man, with piercing blue eyes, brown hair and what looked like a World War 2 coat, stood waiting.

He stared at her as Gwen explained, and Hally didn't like the look in his eyes, it was of order, but of understanding, he had a harsh look about his face, as if he was not afraid to do anything, but to get the right outcome.

He was much more.

Hally looked away and onto the street, she hardly heard him as he explained what should be done with her, she didn't care.

She had lost another home.

Another one!

Suddenly the man called over two men and a woman and told them to get into the car.

"We're going!" He said.

Gwen got in the car and so did the rest of them. The man grabbed Hally's Wrist.

It hurt.

He pulled her inside the back of the SUV; she fell onto the floor and had to steady herself as the car suddenly drove of.

She felt as if she was being kidnapped, that's exactly how everyone was acting.

The man was staring at her.

Hally stared back defiantly.

Lucky for her it was quite dark in the van so the man didn't notice Hally's eyes change from turquoise, to a deep purple.

"Jack" He said.

"Hally" She said.

" Who are you?" Hally asked, malice in her eyes.

" Torchwood, were taking you somewhere safe."

"Where might that be?" Hally laughed.

"It's a..." He coughed, " Umm, it's a hostel." He said quite quietly, expecting Hally to object.

" Been in one before." She said much to his surprise.

" How is that safe?"

He sighed.

" But you can never leave this hostel, it's for people who have been… lets say who have had a troubling time." He explained, yet again looking quite wary, you could tell he'd done this many times.

" No, you mean people like me, who have had contact with al…" She stopped mid sentence realising he was looking at her really suspiciously, and she realised she wasn't supposed to know about aliens and stuff like that.

Gladly, Hally felt the car stop and someone come to open the back door, she rushed out and took a look around her at her new home.

It looked just like a normal hostel, apart from the fact it was in the middle of no-where.

Jack grabbed her wrist again and pulled/dragged her up to the house.

Jack really expected her to run away.

Why should she bother.

He opened the door and what looked like a nurse came up to them.

" Name?" She asked Jack but indicated at Hally.

" Hally" Jack told the women.

She wrote that down.

" Age?"

" Ummmm?" Jack looked at Hally

" Three hundred and fifty…" " I mean 20" She corrected.

She wrote that down to.

Jack looked at her suspiciously.

"State?"

Jack whispered something in the women's ear, that Hally never got to find out.

The women grabbed Hally on the other wrist and whisked her away into the house.

Hally looked back Jack and Gwen were gone.

Hally looked around, the women had left her In an office, she sat down.

The nurse came back in.

" Ok, I've sorted out your room. Jack never gives us any warning so we just have to rush something together." She explained.

" Why can't I leave?" Hally asked.

" Memories, safety, and all that, you'll understand."

" But I don't!"

" Well I can't help you there".

The nurse took Hally to her room, it was the one at the end of the corridor, small and simple but quite pleasant.

The women left her, and Hally realised she had no stuff, this was all she had.

Then she noticed the camera.

Staring right at her.

Hally walked to her bed the camera followed.

Hally cursed, they were watching everything she did.

Hally came out of her room and into the girls next to her.

The camera followed until it could no more.

But the camera's in the corridor took care of that.

When the girl on the bed saw her she smiled.

"Hello, my names Katie, what's yours ?" She smiled politely.

"Hally, Katie do you mind if I call you Kate?"

" Not at all, I don't mind what you call me as long as it suits you."

" Ok Kate, are there camera's everywhere in this place?"

" Yes I think so , apart from in the basement but no one goes down there anyway." Kate explained.

" So what did you see?" Kate's eyes widened with excitement.

" What do you mean?" Hally looked at her puzzled.

" Well you must have seen something or done something, other wise you wouldn't have ended up in here."

" Oh! Right, well my whole street got blown apart by something and I was standing right in the middle of it and I survived so, apparently because I'm still alive it's a bad thing, so they chuck me in here."

Kate laughed, " Well with me, me and a two friends went into this basement, we had heard the teachers at school talking about how something strange had happened down there. I was like 15 so we wanted to know more, we went down there and there was this thing, it was all hunched up in the corner, one of my friends went over to touch it, before she got to it, it whipped round and faced her, it had these bright green eyes, then suddenly she was gone. There was nothing left, she had just vanished. Then of course Jack and the team came rushing in and pulled us out. Now we both live here, have done for 6 years, gets a bit tiresome really. Sometimes I sit on my bed at night and think. What would my life be like if I hadn't gone down there? Where is my friend who vanished? But then I realise it's best not to think about it, and I go to sleep."

Kate ended her story abruptly, her eyes were shining with tears.

So Hally sat with Kate and they talked. And everything was fine.

No.

Not really

Well not at all.

The building was just like any hostel just a bit weird.

Dinner was the same

Bed time was the same.

Although Hally only slept once every 3 days.

Because she was a Time Lord.