A second chapter in one night, ah you are spoilt

It was 6:30am when my alarm went off. I groaned and rolled over, my eyes still closed as I tried to turn off the alarm. After managing to do so I switched on the bedside lamp, it still being dark at this time of the morning. Dragging myself out of bed I pulled a set of clothes from the wardrobe and threw them on. I brushed my hair to get rid of any knots and put on a bit of makeup. I then proceeded to check that my bag was packed for the day ahead, before trundling downstairs to have some breakfast.

Entering the kitchen I was startled to see the Doctor stood there by the sink, looking out of the window, a glass of water in hand. His shirt crumpled and braces hanging limply from his shoulders. "You're awake early" I stated, causing him to jump a little and almost drop the glass. I yawned and grabbed a cereal bowl from the cupboard. "Yeah," he stated taking a sip of his water. "I wasn't tired. Just kept thinking about the old girl." I nodded knowing he was talking about the TARDIS. After pouring out some cereal and adding milk I sat down at the table, the Timelord coming to join me, after grabbing his own breakfast. "I thought I might take you to uni. You know get some fresh air." He mentioned, causing me to almost choke on my cereal. "What? You mean come with me on the bus? People would recognise you, you know." He smiled and shook his head. "Nah, busses are boring. I was thinking more of on my motorcycle. I hardly think anyone would recognise me with my helmet and goggles on." I shook my head grinning. "Oh you'd be surprised." He chuckled, "well I suppose there's always a perception filter. It would have to be strong though. Don't want people seeing through it. Well, except you." I mouthed 'me' and pointed to myself mockingly. "Yeah. How else are you going to know its me?" I laughed and finished off my breakfast, whilst the Doctor stood to make himself a cup of tea. By this time it was quarter past 7, leaving me half an hour to finish getting ready before going out. I left him to his tea, whilst I went to brush my teeth and sort out my hair, which was likely to get ruined with me clutching on for dear life on the back of his motorbike. It was a strange thought. It felt like I was about to become Clara, when she was riding with the Doctor on the motorbike. To be honest I always wanted to know what it would be like. I was a big fan of Clara from the start, from her attitude to her clothing, hence why I loved to cosplay as her. The Doctor couldn't know, I mean not yet. It was still too early. He was still with the ponds, who I missed dearly. They were amazing together. I sighed whilst brushing my teeth. My thoughts tended to run away with me. Finishing brushing my teeth I moved through to the spare bedroom, where my hairdryer and straighteners were. The bed was practically untouched, meaning that the Doctor hadn't slept, or at least not much. His sonic screwdriver was sat on the bedside table, along with a yoyo and possibly the same bag of jelly babies from the previous night. I couldn't help but pick up his sonic and weigh it in my hands. It was surprising how weighty it was, but it just felt so right, so perfect to hold. It fit almost snugly into the palm of my hand, though with my hands being small it was a little too large. I'd probably be more suited to the sonic which the tenth Doctor owned. I smiled before placing it down and turning my attention back to styling my hair.

Once it had been done, I picked up his sonic again, feeling that it was best that he'd keep it with him, never knowing what situation might come. Clutching it tightly I grabbed my bag and jacket from my room before I headed down, the stairs creaking a little under my weight.

I stepped into the kitchen once more, placing my bag, which had been packed for the day ahead, on a chair and my jacket over the back of it, and the Doctors sonic on the table. The Doctor was no longer stood there, having returned to his TARDIS, the door being slightly ajar. Pulling on a pair of boots, which had been lined up by the side entrance door, and my jacket I was all set. The Doctor must have known this as he walked in, helmet and googles on, another set in his hands. "All set?" He asked, handing them over before picking up his sonic . I couldn't help but laugh to myself. This was going to be interesting. "Yep" I called, placing the goggles on and the helmet, before slinging my bag onto my back. We headed out to the front, where the bike him and Clara had ridden, or in his terms yet to, sat on the drive. He clambered on, and turned to me. "Come on then. It's perfectly safe" I made a face somewhat between a smile and scared frown. I sighed and clambered on, putting my arms around his waist and holding on pretty tightly before we set off. "Do you actually know where you're going?" I asked, realising I hadn't told him where to go. "Oh don't worry, I looked it up before we left. Besides, we'd get there eventually anyway." I couldn't help but chuckle as we began the journey to Uni.

I was quite nervous riding on the back of a motorbike, as I'd never done it before. The Doctor probably gathered this by how tightly I held onto him, I don't think he minded too much though. I actually felt safe with him, my arms wrapped around his waist. We'd eventually made it to Uni, after him taking a few wrong turns, but we still got there around the same time I usually did, which was a relief as I usually met a friend of mine in the mornings. He pulled up right in front of the revolving doors and I stepped off, taking the helmet and goggles off. I was about to hand them to him, when he said "keep them, you'll need them later. I'll pick you up." He smiled. I clutched the helmet under my arm as I headed towards the doors. "Okay, if you're sure. I'll see you later mister." He chuckled and gave a small wave. I couldn't help but beam as I walked in through the doors.

My friend, Sophie, was sat on one of the sofas by the coffee pod in the reception. She looked up and saw me as I approached. "Who was that?" She questioned, as I sat beside her, probably noticing the smile on my face. "A friend," I quickly replied. "Yeah right, you're still smiling, which is unlike you at this time of the morning." I shrugged. "I'm just happy that's all. Is that a crime?" She shook her head smiling. "Well it just seems odd, you've never mentioned a guy before. Omg is he your boyfriend?" I blushed and exclaimed her name. "Soph seriously. I turn up on the back of a motorbike with a bloke driving, who I may have a tiny crush on…" She laughed. "I knew it. You're such a terrible liar."

I shook my head, coving my face with embarrassment. "What's his name?" She questioned. I thought for a second. It wasn't like I could just say 'his names the Doctor and he's an alien from the planet Gallifrey,' could I. "Matt, Matt Smith," I blurted before my brain finished processing. "Haha. No way. Isn't that the name of the actor who you like, from Doctor who?" I nodded, mentally face palming. "Anyway, shouldn't we head upstairs?" I asked, picking up my backpack which I had taken off, to sit down. I quickly put the goggles in before grabbing my lanyard and slinging the bag back on my back. Clutching the helmet under one arm I placed the lanyard around my neck. This was my ID, which helped to get me in and out of the building and some of the rooms, like our sewing workshop. We headed through the barriers and into the lift, heading up to the third floor.

Work panned out as normal for the first few hours. Sewing, chatting, laughing. The usual. That was until the Doctor walked in, well, not that anyone apart from me knew it was him. He was wearing a perception filter, which made him look younger, around my age. He still had certain features like his hair and eyes, but the rest of his face was different. I silently shook my head as he walked through the workshop, smiling as he caught my eye. "Is that him?" I heard Sophie whisper. "Who?" Another of my friends asked. "Yeah, that's him. 'Scuse me." I stood up, careful not to trip over the leg of the sewing machine table, as I had a bit of a habit of doing that, being extremely clumsy and all. I slowly walked towards him, gesturing towards the door leading out of the workshop. "What are you doing here?" I asked in a hushed tone. "Oh you know, passing time." His voice sounded different too, which was really weird and was frankly giving me a headache. "Your filter is messing with me." I stated, rubbing my eyes. "Yeah sorry, not quite got it right, still it'll do for now." He grinned. "You're not here to kill time are you? There's something going on, isn't there?" He looked worriedly at me. "Yes. But I can't be certain what. Don't worry though. Everything's going to be fine." I slowly nodded, "this has got something to do with how you're here I'm guessing." I added, twisting my mums ring I always wore on my finger. "Possibly. Still I just wanted to make sure you were alright so I should, you know. Let you get on." I nodded and waved him off. "See you later then." I shook my head smiling and headed back into the workshop. Sophie and my other two friends, Amirah and Wendy, giving me looks. "What? He was asking me something. Before you ask, it's nothing important." They shrugged it off and got back to sewing. Myself doing the same, eventually. I kept thinking back to the fact that something might be going on. Something to do with how he's got here, which led me to think how many other people are going to end up here? And from what TV shows? My mind was swimming with thoughts as I worked throughout the rest of the day, finishing up just before 5pm. When a text came through from the Doctor. "Hey Y/N. Probably wondering how I got your number, well I'll explain later. Have you finished for today, as I'll take you back if you want. Doctor" I sighed and remembered that tonight was society night. I was a part of the university's Doctor who and Fandom appreciation society, and tonight was who night. I quickly text him back to explain this, to which he replied "sounds like fun. You don't mind if I join do you?" I face palmed, realising that wasn't exactly a good idea but before I could say that I replied with a "yeah. Sure." Damn it, I cursed to myself. This would not end well. We met up and walked together towards the room where our society usually met.

Entering the society room we were met with a fairly large group of other members, many of them new this year, but 6 of them being people I've known from the previous year. The leader Julia, called over to me, saying hello. "Hey Julia. I've bought a friend along, is that alright?" I asked, the Timelord following me as I walked towards the front of the room. "Yeah, that's fine lovely. Nice to meet you…"

"Matt," I burst in, before he had the chance to. Julia introduced herself to him and to some of the other members as I watched his reaction to it all, before we sat down. Mo, a friend of mine, rolled up to us in his wheelchair. He was a great friend and always cheered you up after a long and tiring day. The Doctor and him started chatting and seemed to be getting on well. "So, is he your, you know. Boyfriend?" Julia asked, quiet enough so that the Timelord couldn't hear. "No, no he's just a friend. Besides, it's complicated. And to quote the 10th Doctor, 'very complicated'. I'm not sure you'd believe me anyway." She smiled, shaking her head. "Try me" I pulled my iPhone from my trouser pocket and flicked through my pictures until I came across the image I was looking for. A picture of me and the Doctor I had taken the other night. "Wow, you met Smith." I shook my head. "Not exactly. That's the Doctor." She looked confused. "You've been in my house, you've sat in my living room so you should know that that's me and him in my living room." I accidentally pointed over to the Doctor, who couldn't be recognised as he was wearing his perception filter. Damn it, I thought, now she thinks I'm crazy. "Excuse me a minute." I called, moving over to the Doctor. "She thinks I'm mad." I told him. "Why?" He asked, looking up at me. "Well I may have accidentally mentioned that you're the Doctor, she didn't believe me, not even the photo I have as my background on my phone, of us. I feel so stupid." I sighed. "Do you want me to? You know, show everyone who I am?" I shook my head, "I don't want you to risk that, they're fans who'll probably go ballistic if they saw you." He chuckled, "you didn't, well to an extent." I shrugged, he actually had a point. "True". He stood up and moved towards the front, pulling his sonic screwdriver from his jacket pocket. "Okay, so Julia. You don't believe (Y/N) here." He activated his sonic just as he said, "I am the Doctor, and it's about to get a hell of a lot more complicated." His filter faded, showing him properly, tweed jacket and all. If I could have taken a picture of all the faces in the room I would have. Their jaws had dropped. I leaped over the desk and joined him at the front of the room. "Yeah it's complicated already, don't need to make it worse," I added. He nodded towards me. "Do you want to explain or should I?" He asked. "Yeah, I should probably do it." He nodded again, taking a seat by the computer in the corner of the room. "Okay, so…" I started, proceeding to tell them exactly what had happened, the Timelord adding in details when he felt like it, including some discoveries he'd made during the day, which wasn't a lot, mainly electrical fluctuations. After rambling on for a solid 20 minutes, trying to explain what had happened and taking a few questions I took a deep breath and smiled. "So yeah, that's pretty much it." There was silence as the room tried to take it in. "Probably best that you don't tell anyone outside of this room", the Doctor stated. There were a few nods from people. "Yeah, otherwise things could get pretty mad. Madder than they already are," I commented, which made him chuckle. "So, the TARDIS is in your garden?" Julia asked, quite excited. "Yeah, though she's in a pretty sorry state, and he won't let anyone in, even me." I pouted at him. "Yeah, well it's pretty messy in there at the moment. Lots of wires and things." I nodded sadly. "Anyway enough about me. You should be having fun, you know doing what you normally do," he called jumping up and bouncing in the balls of his feet. Julia leaped up and put an episode on from her Netflix account, whilst most people crowded round the Timelord, who had decided it was best to sit in the middle of the room. I stayed sat where I was, watching his actions with everyone else, until he gestured me over to sit beside him. Plonking myself down, he slung an arm round my shoulders as he explained some of the adventures he'd been on, including the whole Sarah Jane adventures scenario with the Shansheeth. "No spoilers for anything after the end of series 5." I added to the group. That would have been seriously bad, especially if people let on about the events he'd yet to face. "Yes, wouldn't want you to know any future events. It would be bad." Mo added, I couldn't help but chuckle at the way he said this, waving his arms around. Nobody was really paying attention to the screen as we chatted, the Doctor somehow finding two packs of jelly babies in his pocket and handing them around. We all had a laugh and socialised until it was time to finish up and leave. "How long will you be here Doctor?" Another of my friends, Alex, asked. "As long as it takes to get the TARDIS up and running again. Could be a few weeks." He straightened his bow tie. "You could come next week too if you wanted." Julia added, to which a few of the group shouted "yeah" and nodded. He beamed. "Haha, sure. That would be nice." I fist pumped, which I don't think he noticed.

We turned to leave, not before he fixed his perception filter again, rendering him unrecognisable. "(Y/N)" my friend Lysz called. I turned and smiled. "Don't forget about the supernatural convention Sunday." I shook my head grinning. "I won't. I'll probably have to bring him though. Someone's got to baby sit him as my grandparents are away." He looked at me almost offended before smiling. Well at least he could take a joke, if it had been 12, he'd have probably made some kind of rude remark.

"You ready to leave?" He asked, cutting my from my thoughts. "Yep. Let's go." I waved goodbye before heading out, grabbing his arm and looping mine through his. My helmet from earlier, under the other.

We arrived back home after giving my grandparents a quick call to say I was on my way. A bit of dinner had been left for us to have, as they'd already eaten. It was 8 o'clock by now. We plated up the food and headed into the living room to eat it, sitting at the marble table situated at the opposite end of the room to the TV. My grandparents were sat watching some film which they'd probably seen before, as we chatted. "It was fun, the society. You've got some great friends. Interesting people." I smiled. "Yeah, they're a great bunch of people. Helps me to de-stress after a long uni day."

He nodded slightly, his mouth full of food. I smiled, picking at my food a little with the fork. He sensed something was up and tried to raise the question, but I was too tired to answer and waved him off. I knew he'd ask me again at another point but I just didn't want to answer. The thing was I had a crush on him. I mean yeah, loads of people did or still do, but he was real. Flesh and blood. Sat in front of me right this second. I mentally screamed at myself. He could never love me, a mere human. Not even a pretty one, I scolded. I shook myself out of my thoughts and finished off my food. After doing so, the Doctor took our plates to the sink and I headed to have a shower, making it clear that I would be in the bathroom, so as no one would enter. Grabbing everything I needed I headed into the bathroom and shut the door firmly behind me.

I must have been in the shower for half an hour before there was a knock on the bathroom door. By this time I was drying myself off. "Just a minute" I shouted, messily rubbing my hair with the towel, before wrapping myself in my dressing gown, which had been hanging from the back of the door. Tying the belt tightly around my waist I opened the door to see the Doctor standing there. "Hi. Oh, you're not dressed. Uh I can come back." His cheeks flushed with embarrassment. "It's fine. What was it you wanted?" I questioned. "I wanted to know if you were alright. You seemed a bit distant over dinner." Do I come clean? I thought to myself "I'm fine. I was just thinking." He nodded, "about what?" Before my brain could react I blurted out "you" I pinched the back of my hand hard, drawing a little blood which I hoped he wouldn't notice. "Well…" He blushed. I tried to cover up what I really meant by blabbering on about my thoughts of why he was here and how it might have happened, this seemed to grab his attention, drawing it away from what he thought I actually meant, which was obviously true. I did fancy him. I raked my hands through my hair in an attempt to release some knots. "Yeah, I've been trying to work it out too," he admitted. "Still working on it, but once the TARDIS is up and running again I'll be able to do a scan. Until then I'll have to be patient." I laughed and shook my head. "Which you're not," I stated. He grinned despite the fact it was true. "Yeah. Anyway you get dressed and whatever and we can finish Merlin off, if that's alright with you that is." He called, stepping out of the bathroom doorway. "Sure, you get my laptop set up, give me 10 minutes and I'll be ready. Don't go snooping though, don't want you finding any spoilers." He chuckled. "You sound so much like River." I smiled as he walked away. "Glad to know. You'll have to introduce us. She's probably around in this universe somewhere right. Wouldn't be surprised if Sam and Dean were too," I admitted. He popped his head round my bedroom doorframe. "Who?" I tapped my nose. "Ah, that you will discover. Another show I'll have to introduce you too, probably after we've watched Merlin." He nodded. "Sounds like a plan." He headed back into my room, whilst I closed the bathroom door and proceeded to get dressed into my awesome dragon onesie.

After drying my hair I headed into my bedroom, placing my towel on the radiator. The Doctor was stretched out on my bed with my laptop on ready to play Merlin. He looked up at me oddly. "What are you wearing?" I smiled. "It's a onesie. Incredibly comfortable and warm." He pouted a little which confused me. "What?" I asked. "I want one." I couldn't help but burst out laughing. "I have a spare. It's a Tiger one." Opening my wardrobe I pulled it out. "Might be a bit small though." He proceeded to take off a few layers of clothing before pulling it on and sitting down again. "It is comfy." I snorted to which he smiled. "Onesie party and Netflix." I stated hopping down beside him. We snuggled up together, if you could call it that, and balanced the laptop between us, pressing play to carry on from where we left of.

After watching the episode of Merlin we started the previous night I decided to introduce him to Supernatural, explaining what I meant earlier when I said Sam and Dean. He proceeded to nod as I grabbed my season 1 box set, as being in the UK supernatural wasn't on Netflix. Pressing play the opening scenes played out. Probably should have warned him that things don't always turn out well for this family of hunters, but he'd find out eventually anyway.

"So what attracted you to this show?" The Doctor asked about half way through. I mentally buried the fact that they were good looking characters and thought about another reason why. "Love the classic American rock music and just the whole supernatural thing. The relationship they have as brothers. It all gets better the further into the series you get. Currently season 11 is being shown over in America which I can't wait for." I grinned. He smiled at my excitement as we watched on. As the ending of the first episode drew closer the Doctor couldn't take his eyes off the screen, especially when Jess died. "What?" He gasped, looking between me and the screen. "Yeah, I know. Always happens to Sam. Besides things get a lot worse than that. They both die numerous amounts of times but come back again. Sam becomes soulless, Dean a demon because of the mark of Cain. Oh you'd like Castiel though. He's an angel, I mean a proper angel who doesn't really understand modern human life and sayings. He's quite sweet really. Also there's Crowley the king of hell, though he's played by the same actor who was in doctor who, though you've probably not met him yet so, I'll leave it there." He watched me as I rambled and began to smile. "What?" I asked, smiling too. He was kind of infectious. He cleared his throat and looked back at the laptop screen, as Sam and Dean headed off in the impala.

We watched another episode before we decided it was time to go to bed. It was late.

I lay in bed looking up at the ceiling. The room was dark, only the faint silhouette of the objects in my room could be seen. All I could think about was the Doctor, and the way he looked at me. "God damn it" I thought. I loved this man way too much and he was clouding my mind from all the important things. "Like uni work" I mentally screamed. I roughly turned over and clutched tightly to my scruffy teddy, dressed in his 10th Doctor attire. I huffed, slightly louder than I thought I had, as a voice caught me off guard. "Can't sleep?" The Doctor called, making me jump and quickly roll over, nearly falling out of bed, if it hadn't been for the Doctor quickly grabbing hold of me. I thanked him before replying "no, I can't". He sat on the bed picking up the bear I had been hugging. "No, me neither." My grandparents were asleep by now, they'd gone just before we had, so were unaware of the man in my bedroom. "So who's this then?" The Time Lord asked, making the Bears arms wave. I couldn't help but chuckle, feeling a little embarrassed by the fact I was (Y/A) and still hugging teddy bears. It's like the Doctor was entertaining a child rather than an adult. "Doctor bear. And don't laugh. I've had him for a while, and he's the only thing that keeps the nightmares away. Well I say away." His smile disappeared. "Nightmares". I tried to snuggle down and turn over but he simply put an arm around my shoulders to stop me. "Yeah, nightmares. I don't want to talk about it. It's stupid really anyway. Kids stuff." I lay down, and budged over a bit so he could lay beside me. "It's not kids stuff, everyone gets nightmares at some point in there life. Look at me, I still have nightmares." We lay facing each other. "Really?" He nodded. "Of course. And I'm here if you want to talk about it. And I understand if you don't." I sighed. There was a long pause before I started. "It started a month back, the bad ones. I mean I've always had the occasional one where you're falling, or in a dark room and can't get out, but this is different. In fact it's the same every night. I say the same, not exactly, but they seem to follow on or have things in common." I squeezed my bear which was between the two of us. "How do you mean?" I shook my head, looking at the bear rather than him. "It's too horrible to describe." I mentioned, catching his eye briefly, before trying to bury my face in Doctor bears fur. "I need sleep, but I know that I'll have a nightmare. They still happen even when I have this guy with me. He just makes me feel less alone." I pointed at the scruffy teddy. The Doctor grabbed ahold of my hand and squeezed it tightly. "You're not alone, I'm going to stay, I mean if you don't mind. If you want I can leave…" He rambled but I jumped in quickly shouting "no," before my brain had time to process. "You sure? I mean, it's a bit cramped." I chuckled. "You've done it before, shared a bed. When you were with Martha." He gave me a look and muttered "episode" under his breath. I yawned, showing how tired I actually felt. "You should sleep. I'm here. Don't worry." He smiled, and it made me feel safe. Not alone. I snuggled down under the covers and he tucked them round me, which reminded me of what my mum often did, when I was at home. "Good night" I uttered as I drifted of into unconsciousness. "Good night (Y/N)" he replied, his head resting next to mine on the very little space the pillow had left.

It was cold. Why was I cold? And it was dark. I don't remember it being dark. The sky had been blue and the sun had been shinning, but now the sky was a mixture of dirty reds and shades of grey. What's happening? Where am I? It was then that I realised the chaos around me. People running and screaming. Different creatures, some of which I recognised, attacked these people. I knew where I was. This was the city I was living in, whilst studying at university. Birmingham, buildings in ruin and over turned vehicles. Death. There was a blast of an explosion from beside me, but I felt nothing. The shrapnel blew past yet never touched me. I felt everything go slowly. "Was this death?" I thought. "If I can't feel anything, then it must be". There were no sounds, only my heavy breathing and a faint irregular heartbeat. Out of the clearing smoke a Dalek rolled towards me. It's lights flashed, but I heard no sound. I knew what it had said though. "Exterminate" I closed my eyes tightly, but couldn't help shouting "No". "(Y/N). Wake up" I heard a voice call, then I felt my body being shaken, realising that I was dreaming again.

I startled awake, the Time Lords face inches from mine. My breathing was heavy, and a light sweat covered my brow. "Shh it's alright. You were dreaming." I grabbed hold of him tightly in a hug, but quickly let go apologising for my abruptness. He did something I didn't expect. He simply wrapped his arms around me and pulled my body closer, my head tucking under his chin. "Shh, I'm here. No one is going to hurt you. Not if I can help it." His body sent was strange. Like cinnamon and time mixed up. The sound of his hearts beating was soothing, and before I knew it I was asleep again, forgetting about the nightmare I had just had.

I woke up the next morning to the sun shining through the curtains. I was aware of the arms still wrapped around me, though looser than they had been during the night. A light snoring could be heard from the occupant beside me. I pulled my head back enough to see the Time Lord sleeping soundly. He was pretty adorable when he slept, but if he ever heard that he'd probably think I was weird.

It had probably been my best nights sleep that I'd had in a month or so, even after the first nightmare. I usually kept having them throughout the night, but last night was different. It must have been having the Doctor there. I felt protected and safe. And loved. It was at that thought that he stirred and slowly blinked awake. "Good morning" I whispered. "Hi" he said, his eyes settling on me. My hair was a mess I was aware but his, it was all spiky and messy. I kind of wanted to run my fingers through it. "You slept well", he stated smiling. I grinned. "Yes I did. The best nights sleep I've had in a long while." I couldn't help but snuggle against him. "Guess that was because I had you here." I felt his arms tighten around me a little, but I quickly pulled away. "Sorry." His arms unravelled and I quickly jumped out of bed and more or less sprinted into the bathroom and slammed the door. Leaning against it I cursed.

Once I splashed my face with water to get my senses back I headed back into my bedroom, only to find the Doctor gone. "I am such an idiot" I mumbled to myself. It was getting on for 8 and I had uni again today, but a 10am start. "Looks like I'm taking the bus" I thought. I pulled on some clothes before heading downstairs to have breakfast.

The Doctor wasn't about which I thought was strange until I realised that the TARDIS door was open. Missy was padding around looking for food, which was nothing unusual. I quickly fed her before feeding myself and making lunch for the day. After that was done and packed I went and put on some make up, before grabbing my coat and pulling on my boots. The Time Lord was still in the TARDIS when I looked out the kitchen window. I sighed, and threw on my backpack before leaving.

Whilst sat on the bus listening to music I couldn't help but think about how stupid I'd been. "I can't get close to him. He's an alien I'm a human" I kept thinking over and over. I couldn't really remember much else by the time I arrived at my stop.

I strolled into uni and met up with Sophie before heading up the the lecture theatre. "So, let's hope this doesn't drag out too long" I stated, knowing I had work to get on with, before the deadline on Friday and I had to talk to the Doctor, and tell him I was sorry.

The lecture dragged out but I was grateful when it was over. I'd had enough of this business thing they'd decided to throw on top of all the other work. It started a few weeks ago, on top of the other work we were doing, not that we had done much work towards it, then again the people who I was working with were hopeless. "What is the point in this business project?" Sophie asked as we walked down the stairs. "Yeah, I mean it's not like we're all going to start our own business' are we" Amirah stated. We all nodded, as we walked through the barriers towards to revolving doors. It was then that I spotted the familiar motorbike and its driver, though looking a little different due to his perception filter. "Hey isn't that your boyfriend?" Sophie asked as we headed out the door. "Friend who's a guy, soph" I mentioned, as he looked up at us. "Matt this is Sophie, Amirah and Wendy. Guys this is Matt. He's a friend." I introduced. They all said hello to each other before the guys decided to leave me and the Doctor alone. "You left pretty quick this morning." I nodded, "Yeah well I over slept if you must know. I guess that's the compromise I suppose. Either I get the nightmares or I over sleep." He smiled. "Yeah. Listen I'm sorry about this morning. I know you felt awkward…" I cut him off, knowing full well it was mine. "No it wasn't you. It was me. I got too close and I know nothing can happen. You're a Time Lord and I'm just an unimportant human." I looked down until he placed a hand under my chin, forcing me to look at him. "Hey, who said anything about unimportant. In over 900 years I've never met anyone who wasn't important. You more so. There's just something I can't put my finger on." I shrugged him off. There were over 7 billion people on this planet and I felt like an ant compared to them. An ant who couldn't swim. I was drowning in this world. Drowning in the dreams that I knew couldn't come true. I sighed, but he heard and asked what was wrong. "It's nothing." He crossed his arms as he lent against the bike. "I know it's not nothing. Just tell me." I shook my head. "I can't". He argued back saying that I could, and we kept arguing backwards and forwards until I finally blurted out "I love you," throwing my hands up in the air. He froze. I was stupid, so stupid. I just ran and didn't look back. Well it was more of a fast pace walk. I kept going walking through the bustling streets of shoppers, heading towards the new library and the canal side, my peaceful spot. On my journey I bumped into Julia who tried stopping me, but if I stopped I'd probably burst out crying, so she jogged along beside me.

We got onto the canal when she finally got in front of me and asked "what's wrong? Has something happened," We got to a quiet area and found a bench. Sitting down I tried to explain everything. "I told him I love him." She blinked. "Woah, you actually told him?" I nodded sheepishly. "I couldn't help it, it just sort of happened, so I just ran away from him as quickly as I could." I shook my head, and placed my head in my hands. "I left him outside uni. He came to pick me up and apologise for this morning, which was more my fault than his." She cut me off after I said this. "Woah, what happened this morning?" I knew I'd said too much when she asked this, but she was giving me that look which said "I won't tell anyone". "Okay so he came to comfort me last night, because I've been having these nightmares, don't know wether I told you about them or not. Anyway he sat with me, in my bed and we ended up both falling asleep. I ended up snuggling up to him and well…" I cleared my throat. "I almost kissed him." She gave me a shocked face. "Ah, right." She patted my shoulder. "I just feel so embarrassed and stupid." I sat up straight, watching a boat trundle by. "He has feelings for you too you know," she told me. I snorted in disbelief. "It's true. I saw the way he looked as you yesterday." She explained what she saw. I half listened, daydreaming a little before shaking myself out of it. "Even if he does it'll never work out. He'll leave once the TARDIS is fixed. I don't think I could go through that heartbreak." I shook my head and felt a tear escape. Julia hugged me. "Hey, better than not spending any time with him eh?" This made me smile. "I suppose you've got a point. If he feels the same way I do, I'm willing to give it a chance, even if it's not going to be forever." She nudged me with her elbow. "See, everything's going to be alright lovely. Anyway I must be getting back to uni, and you should show your face otherwise he'd be wondering where you are." At that moment my phone buzzed signalling an incoming call. It was my nan. "I'd better get this. My Nan's probably worried that I didn't go back with the Doctor." She nodded in understanding. And got up to leave, but hung back as I answered the phone. "Hi nan." "Where are you? The Doctor came to pick you up and he said you left." I shook my head. At least he hadn't told her the truth. "I'm fine, I just had to talk to Julia about uni work. Anyway I'm going to take the bus back in a bit, I'll call you when I'm onboard. See you later." She said her goodbye and hung up. "Well at least that went well. Could have been worse I suppose. He didn't tell her that I ran luckily." I told Julia as we walked back towards the town. "It'll be okay. Let me know though how it goes." She grinned. "You want all the gossip I expect." She nodded. "Haha, well we'll see how it goes." We said our farewell's before heading our separate ways. I couldn't help but think what would happen if we both fell in love. No, I couldn't think about that now, besides uni work has to come first, especially with the deadline being this coming Friday. I sighed and strolled towards the bus stop.

I arrived back home about 45 minutes later. A cooked meal on the table for lunch and a concerned looking Doctor watching as I ate. "So what were you talking to Julia about?" My nan asked, thankfully lifting some of the awkwardness from the table. "Oh just society and uni work stuff. She wanted help with a project she's doing. Can't remember exactly what it is but she wanted photographs taken with people and text. I don't know. Bit confusing if you ask me." I tried to lie, luckily they seemed to buy it and didn't ask any more questions. After we'd eaten I was excused from the table to do some of my corset project work in my room. I was aware of the Doctor watching me as I left to room, but didn't really care that much. He was probably still thinking about earlier and what I'd said about loving him.

I knuckled down with my work until gone 9pm. I hadn't even realised the time as I'd been so stuck in with my work, as the presentation was tomorrow. I had made sure it was all ready, and that the corset was together, more or less. It didn't have to be completely finished till the Friday so I wasn't too bothered. It only needed some beads sewn on and binding added to the edges for neatening, then it was done. I closed my notebook, which I had been writing my speech notes in and sighed. "Tired?" I heard the Time Lord ask from the doorway. I quickly turned around, him having made me jump. "Yeah, just making sure everything's together for my presentation tomorrow." He nodded and moved to sit on the bed. "Listen about earlier," I started. "Don't worry about it," he quickly cut in before I had the chance to continue. I wanted to say more, but I couldn't. I just felt stuck with what to say. I packed everything I needed for tomorrow into my backpack before grabbing my pjs. "Uh do you want me to uh…" He gestured about leaving. "No, I can get dressed in the bathroom, besides I've got to brush my teeth too." I left and did what I needed in the bathroom but when I came back he was gone. I noticed my iPod on my pillows with my in ear headphones plugged in. A note sat beside it saying "try music. It might help you sleep. D". I shrugged smiling. Guess I could. He must have still felt a little awkward after earlier, which wasn't surprising. I scrolled through my music, quickly putting together a playlist which I hoped would last me through the night, before jumping into bed and falling asleep.

I slept better that night, to start. I still had a few nightmares though less than normal. I went to uni on my own, telling the Time Lord I'd be fine talking the bus, though he had offered to take me. It was quite a long day sitting through everyone's presentations and doing mine. Then we had to wait for all the written feedback so the girls and I had gone to have a coffee, them wanting all the latest gossip, not that I had a lot to tell. After all we weren't a couple, the Doctor and me. I got home just as it was getting dark. Just another normal, well relatively normal, day. We had tea, I did a bit more sewing and then headed to bed. But that night, the nightmares got more intense.

I was in the costume studio at uni, sat on the floor amongst a circle of tables. The lights were dimmer than usual. I was alone, or so I thought. A window smashed to my left, startling me. I jumped up out of my position on the floor, noticing a cyberman stood there, the most recent form. It looked towards me with its blank features before it started to move. The next thing I knew I was by the door, which was locked. The cyberman advancing, shoving aside the tables. I panicked as it got closer and closer.

I heard the Doctor shout my name and I shot up awake. A cold sweat covering my body. "You're okay. It was just a nightmare." I slumped back down in my bed. "I'm never going to sleep at this rate. I sleep I have nightmares, I don't sleep I'm tired." I sighed. The Time Lord was staring at me. "What?" I questioned. "I'm sorry if I woke you up with my screaming." He still stared at me before finally speaking. "You didn't scream, or make any noises for that matter." I frowned with confusion. "I felt you... You were reaching out… Your mind…" he rambled. "Wait, you could feel my mind screaming out. Does that mean you saw what I was dreaming?" He nodded sadly. "I didn't mean for you to feel that. I didn't want to cause you pain." He shook his head and sat next to me pulling my body into an almost bone crushing hug. "I'm sorry. I'll find out what's going on and why you're having these dreams. Also I won't let anything like that happen. Not to you." I sighed and felt myself falling asleep in his embrace.

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