Chapter Two

'There's something about Riley'.

Riley stood inside her kitchen, overlooking the old park across the road, where she lived felt quite pleasant, and less insane. She could actually breathe properly without chocking on pollution. The towns people are sort of green. They plant heaps of trees everywhere, and it actually looks beautiful. It is New Years Eve, Riley has no idea what do. It's been days since she has met the Doctor and came in face to face with the Daleks. A pile of science assignments sat on dinner table. Half are marked, half are not. All ranging from years 10-12/13. Chemistry seemed the most popular, followed by biology. The Doctor appears in the door way. "Busy?" he asked.

"Hey, how did you get in?" she asked.

The Doctor pulls out his sonic screwdriver.

"I'm going to have to nick that thing one day" Riley joked.

"Get dressed" the Doctor ordered.

"I am"

"You're not wearing that to where we going!" he says, pointing at her track pants and hand knitted jumper.

"What's with the tux?"
"I'm taking you out to tea, 100 years today into the future. Plus, I always thought you were more stylish."

Riley raises her eyebrows, ordering the Doctor to sit on the couch whilst she got ready. She stared at her huge range of the clothing, so if it's super formal, she would have worn a floor length dress. But knowing particular issues, running in a floor length frock isn't the way to go. If it's smart casual, she would have won a sparkly top and a pretty skirt. But something in-between is better. Riley pulls out a well fitted knee length black dress, adding a bright red bow (belt) to the waist, she pulled her dark hair to the side, and applied a forties/fifties make up look with the bright red lips. However, whole look suited Riley so much. She grabbed her heels and a medium trench coat and ran downstairs. "That's better!" exclaims the Doctor.

Riley dropped her coat on the ground, still amazing by the inside of the TARDIS. "Brace yourself, Riley!" announces the Doctor as he arranges heading 100 years into the future.

"Is it possible for us to change history/ the future?"

"History, no, not in a way it'll cause damage, likewise to the future" explains the Doctor. They now finally arrive at their location. There was heaps of men and women awaiting outside, inside, a presentation is being organised. The Doctor and Riley sat down at a table, far from the projector. "This group, is this century's biggest lead in science. This presentation talks about, well, how to explain. Like a reproduction of species that has disappeared over 1000s of years ago….And not necessarily Earth species" explains the Doctor.

"Okay, silence everyone. Now. First I would like to thank you all so much for attending this evening, scientists! We are now about to bring back the 'scrim' was known to be very intelligent, hey guys, let someone else do the washing!" announces the Professor.

"I've heard about them" Riley whispered.

"What?" asked the Doctor.

"I've never heard of them" she corrected.

The Doctor shook his head and smiled as he ignored the rest of the presentation, toasting a glass of champagne to Riley. The professor begins the experiment "Due to this power, this species WILL return, very much alive!" The Professor announces. Everyone except The Doctor and Riley clap their hands. Something goes wrong. Within these creatures, there is system which turns them against humans. If the experiment fails, the 'scrim' will destroy every human it sees.

"Someone needs to restate their hypothesis" smirked Riley.

"Okay, shut up," The Doctor pulls out a solid gold ring "This here is a very special ring, when you wear it, and you end up in danger, the ring will create an automatic force field around you." explains the Doctor, placing the ring on Riley's right ring finger. The scrim begin ripping the dining hall apart, examining living species to test whether or not their human. "Um, thanks for the ring, but--" Before Riley could finish her sentence, the Doctor grabs her arm and leads her into an empty hall way. "Please, you like to comment about everything, I need you to be careful. I am going to find a way to reverse this experiment, otherwise, yes the future from now could be at stake." the Doctor explains, staring firmly at eyes.

"What else can this ring do?" Riley asked.

"Watch"

The scrim begin breaking walls. "This might be funny" says the Doctor.

"Wh-" before Riley could even finish one word, the Doctor place his hands on her neck kissing her passionately "Just shut up will you, I'll be right back, okay?" the Doctor smiles and Riley smirks back at him and nods. Wondering his reaction if she even said 'sure.'

The scrim first approach the Doctor (in another room) before they reached Riley in the hall. They examined him. "Not human. We mean no harm."

Why thank you" replied the Doctor, storming off to reverse the experiment.

The scrim finally approach Riley. They examined her at the face. "Complications. Master, she appears to be half human, half…something unidentified", Riley shakes her head "But prepares we kill you anyway!" They unleash some sort of action, they point their finger at Riley, and out comes a blue light. The force field protects Riley, just like the one that protected her against the Daleks. Riley stood very still in her force field bubble. Just like how the Doctor promised, there was no harm coming to her.

The Doctor was in the lab that performed the experiment. Slowing taking things apart and draining chemicals. There was a slow cry coming from the scrim "THEY ATTEMPTED TO DESTROY THE WORLD ONCE; IT IS NOT HAPPENING AGAIN!" yells the Doctor, tearing at cords that felt like to the scrim someone was tearing nerves and arteries from them. It took the Doctor time to hack into this Lab, he is going to finish the job. Turning the horrid scrim that seemed so ocean like back to ashes. There was a special form of the scrim locked in a glass case. He grabbed his sonic driver, holding it there a few minutes till it opened. He could just imagine Riley remaining strong in the force field….by herself. The thought of the leaving her sort of scared him. He's been thinking of Rose, for days, he couldn't stop thinking about her, although, they haven't been together for a couple of years. Martha was wonderful, and a genius, but he felt something new with Riley and the thought of Rose still haunts him, and that very day where they said goodbye still hurts him.

The Doctor ran the sonic driver down the model scrim. Destroying its immune system and nervous system. As the Doctor ran outside, many people were missing, and the scrim were on the floor dead. Simple determination thought the Doctor and name Rose is what still keeps me active and fighting. The force field disappeared from Riley, before she collapsed to the ground, the Doctor caught her. "I'm so tired" she whispered.

"It's okay, we can go home now, we'll talk later" The Doctor whispered, winking at her before she completely dosed off due to exhaustion. He carried her to the TARDIS and returned her to her apartment.