Day of the Doctor

As dawn broke over Waverly Place on Saturday morning. The new blue Public Police Call Box, that appeared out of nowhere during the night, went unnoticed by most people. A slight breeze was being sucked into the TARDIS as the ship refueled on the seeping time energy.

Hours passed by and the Doctor returned to his TARDIS and rubbed his hand on its front door. He felt the stream of time energy pass by him and he knew his ship was refueling. "Getting your energy back. That's good because I have an unsettling feeling that this is not a natural Rift like its Cardiff counterpart." The Doctor just ignored the people walking by thinking he was crazy.

The Doctor turned to see a few people watching him. The Doctor smirked and told them, "Anyone the least bit interesting is a little bit insane. Believe me I know I've met tons of nut jobs."

The Doctor turned his attention away from the people he was talking to and for the first time looked at the restaurant the TARDIS had landed next to. He read Waverly Sub Station and realized how hungry he actually was. He hadn't eaten in over 24 hours, but being a Time Lord his body was able to cope. His stomach started growling and he could eat anything. What he really wanted to eat was not even from Earth, a fried Zamba lizard, but he would make do with what he had.

The Doctor walked into the sub station and looked around. To his left there was an actual subway car in the restaurant. He smiled when he saw that, but his eyes were then drawn to the counter and beyond. There was something in the kitchen that had caught his attention like the north and south ends of two magnets. He couldn't take his eyes off of it. His body started to tingle and he knew that feeling from several of his travels. It was pure time energy. It was a different feeling than what he had felt when he stood next to his TARDIS. This was much older and in face he had felt this kind of energy once before, a long time ago. Centuries ago actually. Way back in the War, but he couldn't figure out what that feeling was doing here in a small restaurant of a planet that won't reach the ability to wield time for another few thousand years.

The smell of food snapped him out his trance and he walked down the steps and made his way to a stool at the bar. He sat down and started taking in the smells of the food. His sense of smell far exceeded that of humans.

Once again his attention was once more drawn to the same spot and he couldn't figure out why. The feeling was stronger than when he walked in so he knew he was closer to its source. He had to get back there somehow, and being the ever cunning man, he definitely would.

"Welcome to Waverly Sub Station."

The Doctor snapped out of his trance. "Wh-What?"

"Welcome to Waverly Sub Station. How may I take your order?" asked a teenage boy around eighteen years old.

"Oh I don't know. Surprise me," said the Doctor.

"Um okay."

As the kid left the Doctor lowered his head rubbed his forehead. There was something about this place that made him feel like he was back home on his own world. That was something he hadn't felt in over a thousand years.

Oh Gallifrey I miss you so much. The Doctor thought to himself.

"Here you are. Your Surprise Me Sandwich."
The Doctor looked up and took the sandwich and asked, "You seriously have a Surprise Me Sandwich?"

"Yes we do."

The Doctor shrugged as he took a bite and his face lit up. It tasted just like his favorite food, the fried Zamba lizard itself. The Doctor swallowed his bite when a teenage girl walked in the room from a spiral staircase from the Doctor's right. She walked over to the one who took down the Doctor's order. It looked like they were getting into a little argument. The Doctor closed his eyes after he finished his sandwich and was trying to find out why the feeling he felt was so familiar.

"Alex no."

"But Justin!" said Alex. She glanced out of the window between the kitchen and the restaurant part and noticed the Doctor sitting there with his eyes closed. "What's he doing?"

"I don't know, but he's been staring at in the same direction for most of the time he's been here," said Justin.

"Where?" asked Alex.

Justin pointed to the freezer door.

"Do you think he knows?" asked Alex.

"Do I think he knows that our freezer is actually a secret wizard lair? I don't know."

"I'm going to find out," said Alex and she walked out of the kitchen.

"Alex don't," Justin tried to stop her, but failed.

Alex walked up in front of the Doctor and just stood there.

"Yes Alex?" asked the Doctor.

"Oh nothing," said Alex, "Hey wait a minute how do you know my name?"

"I heard you two arguing," said the Doctor as he opened his eyes. In front of him was a Hispanic girl with black hair down to her shoulders, a year or two younger than her brother.

"Oh we do that a lot," said Alex.

"I figured that part. You're brother and sister aren't you?"

"Yeah but still you know my name what's yours?"

"Doctor. Doctor John Smith," said the Doctor.

"Oh your a doctor. What do you doctor?" asked Alex.

"Everything," said the Doctor.

"Well Doc why are you staring into space?"

"First of all its Doctor, not Doc. And secondly I'm looking for something."

"What are you looking for?" asked Alex.

"Something very important." When he said that a screeching noise erupted out of his pocket. "Crap! I thought I turned that off!"

"What is that noise?" asked Alex.

The Doctor ignored her as he piled his stuff out of his pockets onto the counter in front of him. After a massing a pile of stuff that seemed to have no use at all which included a rubber duck, a dozen or so mints, coins that were not from Earth, a digital wrist watch that kept switching between four and nine, another rubber duck, a banana, a silver thing with a blue light at the end of it and a wallet all from the same pocket. Finally the Doctor got what he wanted. It was the red Y shaped device that went insane earlier in the morning. The Doctor pushed a few buttons on it and it shut up.

"What was that?" asked Justin as he ran out of the kitchen.

"It was this, don't worry about it," said the Doctor holding up the device.

"What's that?" asked Alex.

"It's my Timey Wimey Detector. It goes ding when there's stuff," said the Doctor.

"Okay? What kind of stuff?" asked Alex.

"All kinds of stuff," said the Doctor, "It squealed like that earlier before I met..." The Doctor's eyes widened and he jumped off the stool he was sitting on. He put everything back in his pockets except the Timey Wimey Detector. He picked it up and looked in the direction it was pointing. It pointed to the staircase and he ran towards it and ran up.

"Hey that's are house you can't go up there," said Justin as he ran after the Doctor, Alex right behind him.

Upstairs the door to the Russo family's home was opened silently and the Hoix walked in. There was no upstairs, but the creature could sense the presence of the Doctor. It wanted to find out more about the Doctor, but it was too hungry to concentrate. It ran to the fridge and tore the door open and started feeding on what was inside. Nothing was safe, not even the racks.

A girl walked into the room around the same age as Alex, but was white and had red hair. She saw the Hoix and she screamed and fainted. She woke up screaming and kept repeating that. The Hoix smacked its head as it realized it had a fresh meal inside the same room. It started to make its way to the girls, but from another entrance the Doctor burst in followed by Justin and Alex.

"HOIX!" he screamed.

The Hoix turned his full attention to the Doctor before howling and running to the glass doors to the terrace.

"Oh I don't think so!" said the Doctor as he chased it and held out the sonic screwdriver. He used it the same moment the Hoix broke through the glass doors. The Hoix grabbed its head and tripped over the brick terrace wall before falling off and crashing on its head on the concrete. The Hoix died a few seconds later.

"Harper are you okay?" asked Alex as she went to her friend.

"What was that!?" asked a frantic Justin.

The Doctor ignored him and ran out the front door, Justin in hot pursuit. The burst onto the street and ran to where the dead Hoix was. He took out what looked like a wallet and held it out saying, "Dr. John Smith, UNIT. Everything is under control here."

"What is this thing?" asked Justin.

"It's called a Hoix," said the Doctor as he closed its lifeless eyes saying, "Before your time, rest in peace."

A white light surrounded the Hoix and it vanished.

"What was that?" asked Justin.

"Nothing good," said the Doctor as he walked back the Russo's front door, "But I'll explain everything."