The Flashlight

Disclaimer: I do not own Dr. Who.

Inez's POV

There was nothing special behind the barn except a small meadow area. The grass was super wet, and I hardly ever went back there. It was almost like a swamp. The green grass plastered itself to my white sneakers. The strange humming noise got louder and louder, as it was followed by a wheezing, whooshing sound.

I looked around for the owner of the voice, but all I saw was a strange man in a suit holding a weird toothbrush, or flashlight of some kind. It was silver and narrow and emitted a strange blue light.

"Hello, who are you?" he asked peering at me. I tilted my head.

"Are you the voice?" I asked him.

"Voice what voice? I have a voice! What's the voice?" he asked in a rush.

"My name's Inez, there was a voice, it sounded like my mom's but she's not home yet." I crunched up my eyes. I wondered if he was going to ask me to repeat myself, people always did. They had a hard time understanding what I said because of a speech impediment.

"Inez, that's a nice name." The doctor smiled as he bent down so that he could look at me on my level.

"No, I'm not the voice. What did the voice say?" The doctor asked as he took out his flashlight, stood up again, and started pointing it around me. I heard the weird humming noise again.

"Are you a doctor?" I asked him instead.

"Yes, yes I am. I'm the Doctor. Just, the Doctor. How did you know that?" he asked curiously.

"Doctors always point lights at me when I go to see them. I've never seen a light that hums though." I said cheerily.

"Oh, this isn't a flashlight, it's a sonic screwdriver." He said.

"A screwdriver?" I asked as the doctor was walking around the meadow.

"Yes, this is a screwdriver." The doctor said.

"It looks like a flashlight," I mumbled.

"It's not a flashlight, it's a screwdriver." The doctor said.

"Are you here to take away the voice?" I asked him.

"Sort of," he said as he stared hardly at his screwdriver before he put it away into his pocket.

"What did the voice say?" he asked me again. I sighed. I wasn't used to talking to people this much.

"It wanted me to come with it, it said it wanted to love me." I told him. The doctor had really large brown eyes. They scared me. I didn't like large eyes.

"Has anything like this ever happened before Inez?" The doctor asked. I shook my head. Then I thought of the crabapple tree.

"Well, there is a crabapple tree, it always glares at me." I told him.

"Wood, this thing doesn't do wood, oh well, show me anyways." The doctor shook his screwdriver. He gestured for me to show him the way, I nodded. The doctor was going to grab my hand like other people did with other children, but I didn't let him. I didn't like being touched.

"There's the tree." I told him, as the doctor stared up at the large crabapple tree.

"It looks like a normal tree, but it's not normal is it?" The doctor asked as he walked around the tree.

"Are you afraid of trees doctor?" I asked him.

"No, no, they're just trees. There's definitely some kind of energy coming from this one though." The doctor tapped his chin. He took out his sonic screwdriver and started scanning the tree anyway. The weird device faltered a couple of times, and the doctor slapped it against his hands.

"I know, I know, you don't do wood." The doctor grumbled to himself. I giggled.

"Well, at least you laugh like a normal human child." The doctor looked at me warily.

"Sorry?" I asked, I wasn't sure what I was apologizing for, but I felt like I should.

"Never mind, come on." The doctor said as he tried to pull me along with him again, but I yanked my hand away quickly.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"I don't like being touched." I said sternly.

"You're just a kid." The doctor looked at me shocked like he'd never heard a kid speak like me before. He probably hadn't.

"I don't like being touched. No one touches me." I told him again.

"Weird, strange voices, strange trees, I can't figure out." The doctor said as he started hitting himself on the forehead.

"Figure what out?" I asked him as we walked back to the meadow area.

"Why I'm here, why the Tardis brought me here." The doctor frowned, as he looked like he was trying to figure out a puzzle.

"What's the Tardis?" I asked him.

"It's my ship, do you want to see it?" he asked grinning proudly. I nodded eagerly.

"There it is." The doctor pointed his Sonic screwdriver at a blank area as the ship materialized. It was a blue police box.

"That's your ship?" I asked the doctor doubtfully. The Blue police box looked very out of place on the green meadow.

"What's wrong with it?" He crossed his arms.

"I thought it would be more round, like a disc." I shrugged.

"No, no, no, those are only the kind you see on tv's right?" the doctor asked. I nodded stepping forward, but I froze when I heard the voice again.

"Come with us, we want you. Come with me," the voice said. The doctor pushed me behind him before I could say anything.

"Who is us? Who are you? Why are you bothering this little girl?" The doctor asked as he pointed his screwdriver all around.

"We love her, we want her to come with us…" the voice said.

"Ah, very, very, clever. You're using a voice disguise box aren't you? You tapped into her head, saw that she wanted her mother, and disguised your voice? That is brilliant, how long have you been hanging around here?" The doctor asked crossing his arms again. I covered my ears as the voice started speaking again.

"We have been here a long time…We have been watching over her…We are her guardians." the voice said slowly.

" Guardians what does she need guardians for? She's just a kid!" The Doctor exclaimed angrily.

"You do not understand time lord…" the voice said,

"No, I don't understand. Show yourselves!" The doctor commanded.

"Now is not the time, soon you will see time lord, soon the girl will be ours." The voices said as they faded away. I uncovered my ears.

"This girl is under my protection! If you know what I am, then you know what I've done! Do not mess with me!" The Doctor yelled angrily.

"We know last of the time lords. We know of your destruction, we know of the planets you've destroyed and the lives that have been sacrificed for your survival. We know you are the oncoming storm. We are not afraid, you see. Storms do not last forever doctor, storms pass, and when the time comes there will be nothing you can do." The voice was much stronger than it had sounded as it said this. Then another voice joined it, a child's voice.

"If you go out in the woods today, you'd better go in disguise, if you go out in the woods today, you're in for a big surprise…" the child's voice said. The voice, joined in the chant with her, as both of them faded away.

"No, no, no, no!" The doctor yelled at his screwdriver, he ran to the Tardis.

"Doctor what's happening?" I asked him. I was scared, I was scared that the voices would take me away.

"I have to go, I have to try and track them down, but I promise I'll come back ok?" he asked. I nodded, as I watched his ship disappear. I breathed shakily, as I walked back into the farmhouse. My grandmother it seems, hadn't seen or heard anything that happened. I sighed. No one ever saw the same things that I did. The doctor said he was coming back, but I wasn't going to wait for him. Doctors always came to see me, and then they always left when the appointment was over. They never stuck around. I was certain, that I would always remember the voice.

Later that day, I was with my grandpa in one of his toolsheds, he was fixing an old radio that he'd bought at a junk sale.

"Can you hand me the screwdriver sweetheart?" my grandpa asked as he pointed to his long wall of tools. I took the one that looked like a screwdriver. My grandpa chuckled.

"No, that's a mini flashlight, this is a screwdriver ok?" My grandpa laughed as he exchanged the flashlight for the metal screwdriver. I was totally confused.