Chapter One: Men like Peeta and Gale...or the Doctor
My best friend, Esther Treacher, and I were currently sitting underneath a large oak tree on the grounds of our school, Cross Academy for Orphans, during our break. She, reading The Hunger Games for the gazillionth time, and I, tweaking my mechanical spider Sivy. And I do realize how weird those first two sentences are but I'm being a hundred percent honest.
I DO have a mechanical spider that I built from scratch and my only friend is in love with a fictional character. Add in the fact that we go to a school for orphans.
"Why aren't there men like Peeta and Gale?" Esther asked with a big dramatic sigh and closed the book and held it close to her chest. She looked up at the leaves of the tree with her big emerald green eyes, similar to mine. I rolled my eyes and tightened some bolts and gears.
"No seriously!" she exclaimed and sat up and shook dead grass out of her untamable curly black hair. I didn't look up from my work as she went into this long discussion about "real men", "true love", and something else but I wasn't really listening. And suddenly, the two of us were walking along the street to what I think was Bea's Bakery because that was Esther's favorite place to go to during break.
"Would you put away that heap of junk for two seconds?" Esther finally said that I understood and I looked up and blew my hair out of face and scrunched up my nose to push my glasses up my face.
"Sivy." I corrected and she gave me her "are you really going to do that" look. I stuffed everything in my messenger and pulled my flaming red hair into a pony tail. She gave me a smile and went back into her speech. I loosened my purple tie and untucked my whit shirt, both part of the school uniform we had to wear, as we walked down the block, closer and closer to Bea's.
"Do you hear that?" I asked, stopping her walking and in the middle of her conversation and listening to the wheezing sound. Everyone else was continuing walking, going on with their daily lives.
"Hear what?" she asked looking around the busy street. I frowned and tried to listen harder for the sound but it suddenly disappeared. I sighed and took off my glasses and rubbed my eyes.
"Must be tired from all the work I've been doing. Now I'm hearing things, next thing you know aliens will be running around." I said and placed my glasses back on my face before running to catch up with Esther. I opened the door to the bakery for her and she gave me a simple thanks before going back into her long and detailed speech. But I stopped her and her speech when I noticed the inside of the Bakery shop.
"Oh my God..." I muttered with wide eyes, Esther looking around the same. The whole shop was wrecked, the floor was covered in the rubble of the items that were once tables and chairs for customers.
"Who could've done this?" she asked as we slowly walked around.
"Bea! Bea are you alright?!" I yelled to the back and Esther repeated my question, but the response she got back was a growl, causing the two of us to jump back in surprise. I slowly walked closer to the counter before Esther grabbed my arm and yanked me back.
"Let's just call the police!" Esther exclaimed in a loud whisper tone and I yanked my arm out of her tight grip.
"YOU go outside and call the police. I want to see if Bea is okay." I whispered back. She shook her head in denial.
"Together! Who knows what's back there!" she exclaimed in a louder tone, and a loud crash came and a man crying out.
"That's not good..." I said and jumped over the counter and ran into the back.
"Georgie!" Esther yelled as I ran to the back but was pulled behind a large rack of muffins by someone.
"Oi!" I whispered yelled but the man that pulled me put a hand over my mouth and a finger to his lips. I furrowed my eyebrows together in confusion and he pointed over where the noise had come from.
"I need you to be quiet and follow me." he whispered very softly, his very big nose almost touching mine.
("Okay...now whoever is watching this and listening to me is probably wondering what I'm talking about because the Doctor that you have doesn't look like that. At least I hope he doesn't" Georgie said, pausing the story.
"Time Lords have the thing called regeneration and they change faces when they die. That's the simplest way I can explain it..so hope you get it because I'm returning back to my story.")
I nodded and he took his hand off my mouth and pulled out a silver looking tube...thing with a blue light on the end. He pressed it and the lights went out, causing the...thing (I still didn't know what it was) to howl. The man grabbed my hand.
"Run!" he yelled and we ran out the back door together and into the back alley. We stopped when we reached the outside and the thing, which looked like Remus Lupin from the third Harry Potter as a giant wolf, howled when the sun came in contact with it. It immediately retreated back inside.
"What on earth was that thing?" I asked breathlessly, looking over at the leather jacket man who pulled out the silver tube thing again and pointed it at the door, he pressed it and the door clicked.
"Did you just lock the door with that...," I asked and pointed at the tube thing, unsure of what to call it "thing?" The man looked at me.
"Do you always ask questions?" he said and began walking out of the alley.
"Oi! Schnoz boy!" I yelled and ran up with him. He looked over at me and sighed but we continued walking together down the block from the bakery.
"What was that thing?" I asked, trying to keep up with the man.
"A Werg." he answered and turned to go down a different alley. I frowned and jogged a little faster.
"What's a werg?" I asked as the man stopped in front of an old police box and pulled a key out of his pocket.
"It's what you humans call a werewolf." he answered shortly and put the key in the lock and quickly got in the box when the police car drove by. I frowned and followed him.
"What do you mean you..." I began to ask before I noticed the inside of the box. My mouth dropped open as I spun around, looking at every detail inside the box. The man leaned against the consul and grinned at me.
"Like it?" he asked and I ran back out, looked at the outside of the box and ran back in.
"This tiny box has a bigger inside?! How on earth is that possible?!" I exclaimed and he chuckled and turned around, pressing buttons.
"Is it like...like a space ship?" I asked him, following him as he went around, pressing various buttons.
"SHE is called a TARDIS." he answered and pulled a lever, making the both of us grab on tight.
"Who are you?!" I yelled over the noise.
"I'm the Doctor! Nice to meet you..." he yelled back and held out his hand.
"Georgie! My name is Georgie Bond!" I yelled back and shook his hand. The noise stopped and the two of us fell on the ground. He began laughing and soon I joined in too.
"Oh. That was fun." he said and helped me up on my feet.
"So where are we going?" I asked him and followed him down the ramp but he stopped and looked down at me.
"Georgie Bond? Why on earth do I know that name?" he said and I looked down at my feat. My whole family died in a house fire when I was eight and I was known as the "last Bond". People were constantly giving me the "oh look at the poor orphan girl" look. I brushed past him and went outside but unfortunately came face to face with the Werg from earlier. I nervously giggled.
"Doctor?!" I hissed and he looked at me and then at the Werg.
"Oh! Hello!" he cried and walked out and stood beside me. The Werg growled at the two of us and I heard police sirens going off outside and a girl yelling "My friend is in there!", it was most likely Esther. The Werg growled again and some slobber fell out of his mouth and onto my converse.
"Oh. That's disgusting!" I whispered and made a face. The Doctor bit his lip to keep from grinning.
"Now. Mr...what was your name again?" the Doctor said and the Werg growled and I grabbed the Doctor's arm.
"Dmitry. Sorry." he apologized.
"What are you doing!?" I hissed at him.
"Talking to Dmity."
"How on earth can you understand what he's saying?"
"I speak werg." The werg, sorry Dmity, growled louder.
"Sorry. She's new." Dmity growled and I tightened my grip on the Doctor's arm.
"Yeah...I know I'm new but can we hurry up!? Police are outside!" I hissed at the two of them. The Doctor looked down at me and pried my hands off his arm.
"So you came here by accident and all..." the Doctor began, talking to Dmity while I kept glancing at the door that lead to the front of the bakery. I reached in the Doctor's pocket and pulled out his silver tube thing and pointed it at the door.
"What are you doing?" the Doctor asked me. I looked over, and saw that Dmity and the Doctor had stopped talking and were both looking at me.
"Can't have anyone walking in while we're doing..."I began before I frowned. "What are we doing?" I asked him.
"Talking to Dmity. His ship was attacked and he fell to earth three days ago." The Doctor explained and took his silver tube thing from me and pointed it at the door. It buzzed and the door clicked shut.
"Good idea." he praised me.
"Wait..something hit Belfast three days ago. Was that him?" I asked the Doctor and Dmity groweled again.
"Yes it was." he told me and smiled at me. "See I knew there was a reason I kept you around." I scoffed.
"Believe me. This is WAY more interesting than being in science class." I told him with a grin.
"So where should we take you?" I asked Dmity and the door began to pound.
"This is the police! Open the door or we'll break it down!" someone yelled on the other side and the three of us rushed into the TARDIS.
"Are we going to take him home?" I asked the Doctor as he ran up to the consul, with Dmity following close behind him, growling. I assume Dmity was telling him the information the Doctor needed to get him home.
"Of course! He doesn't belong here anymore than you do." he told me and flipped a lever, making the TARDIS shake around. I grabbed onto the rail to my left on the ramp as the TARDIS "flew", I think I was still unsure how it all worked, and the Doctor laughed (I assume at me) as I gripped tight. HE got onto his feet and pressed a button, making everything stop.
"Please tell me we're there, because I think I might be sick." I said and covered my mouth. The Doctor ran past the two of us and opened the door.
"Not in here!" he yelled and pointed outside. I ran outside and a breeze went by me.
"What was that?!" I yelled, now clutching my chest. The Doctor came outside and shut the door. He calmly leaned against the TARDIS.
"He's home." was all he said and I finally took a look around at the surroundings, once my dizziness stopped. We were in a normal looking forest.
"Are we still on earth?" I asked him and he shook his head.
"Wergwere." he answered and smiled at the sound of the wergs howling. He looked over and me and I smiled back at him.
"OH! You need to get home!" he exclaimed and rushed back into the TARDIS, with me following quickly behind him.
"After all that! You're just going to take me home!?" I exclaimed as the TARDIS began to fly. The Doctor didn't answer me he just landed the TARDIS and walked down the ramp and opened the door for me.
"You go out there first. Somebody could attack." I said and crossed my arms and he rolled his eyes. He stepped out.
"See nothing." He said and held his hands out. He turned his back to me and did a little dance before he was hit with something.
"Doctor!" I cried as he crouched over and clutched his nose.
"Where's my friend?!" Esther's voice cried and I ran out to help him.
"Georgie! Oh my God I thought you were dead!" Esther exclaimed and tackled me in a hug. I stumbled back a bit but returned the hug.
"Essie? Did you hit him?" I asked her and the two of us looked down at the Doctor, who was still clutching his nose and sitting on the ground. She began to stutter.
"I...He and you..." she stuttered and made various hand gestures, pointing to the two of us. I sighed and helped the Doctor up.
"Nine hundred years of time and space and I've never been hit in the nose by someone's friend." he muttered, still clutching it. I chuckled and removed his hand to look at it. I grabbed it and twisted it so it was put pack in its place.
"OUCH!" he yelled and I shrugged.
"Fixed it." I told him and patted him on the cheek.
"That hurt!" he exclaimed.
"You're all better now. Good bye, have fun, and whatever your kind says to say good bye." I snapped and turned around, ready to walk away dramatically before he called my name.
"Bond mansion fire, July 26, 2005. Whole family and house staff dead except for the youngest daughter who only survived because she went on a walk into town to get the mail for her mum." the Doctor said. Tears began to form in my eyes as the memories of the last time I saw my family flashed in my mind.
"I know what it's like." the Doctor said and I turned around.
"To have everything taken from you in an instant. And it.." he said before I interrupted him.
"Happens so fast you don't know what happened?" I said with a watery laugh. He nodded and I quickly took off my glasses and wiped away my tears. Essie looked between the two of us.
"Well I best be off, like you said." he said and I nodded.
"Yeah. I'm sure you've got more important things to do. Save other planets and creatures." I said and he walked in the TARDIS before turning around.
"Do you want to come with me?" he asked and I did a double take. Here's the man that wanted nothing to do with me, a moment ago and now he was asking me to come with him?
"You want me to travel with you in your blue box?" I asked in a disbelief tone and he nodded with that silly grin on his face. I looked over at Essie who was jerking her head over at the Doctor, her sort of blessing for me to go with him. I looked behind me, London? where I was treated like I would break at any moment or all of time and space? where I could be a hero?
"Yeah." I told him, a grin forming on my face to match his. I threw my arms around Esther, quickly hugging her and running in the TARDIS to join the Doctor.
"Welcome aboard the TARDIS Georgie Bond!" the Doctor cried and threw his arms out.