Himmel Street was no longer visible to Liesel. She tried to look at it in the same way she had looked at it before yet it was nothing but a big blur, and image of a wasteland, and an unknown and unfamiliar word she could not read.
There was no longer a boy, with his dirty lemon hair, playing with other boys who had filth on their clothes and skin, and she could no longer enter such game. Rose Hubermann was not there to besmirch and reprimand her for being filthy, and Hans, her dear papa, the man he loved most, was not there to help her read and understand what was happening around her.
*three questions in Liesel's mind*
1) what?
2)what?
3)what?
The sight must have been too much for a young girl to take it all in. I was present in all places in Himmel Street yet the Doctor was not there.
Liesel thought the Doctor had betrayed her but I have seen the man too many times that I have seemed to know him too well. The Doctor did not betray her, he saved her.
x
Liesel was now in her twenties and nothing and everything had changed. She would often think of her life as absurd. Indeed, it was.
Dawn kissed the sky. Strange things happen at dawn, Liesel once heard. She could not remember the face of the woman who muttered it yet somehow she remembered those words. She did not believe it until she heard it.
The sound came as a surprise. For a moment, Liesel did not move. It was the sound of life yet somehow, in one way or another, it also sounded like me. Death.
The sound came from behind her. Liesel dared not to look. She could feel the blue box. The box which brought destruction and dystopia. The door opened, Liesel knew without even looking.
"Liesel Meminger, good to see you." Liesel closed her eyes. She prayed it was not the same man who had killed the entirety of Himmel's population but the voice was too obvious that believing that it was a different man could have been the greatest folly. "Oh, come on."
Liesel opened her eyes and saw the Doctor in front of her. For a heartbeat or two, she stopped breathing. The man who called himself the Doctor had not aged at all.
"What are you?" The question came out before she had the chance to stop herself.
"Ah, too for that."
"Too early for - what?"
"And there it goes," the seemingly insane man cried in excitement. He was widely grinning which Liesel did not seem to understand. "That 'what'," he added, mimicking her tone.
"I don't understand."
"Oh, but you will."
Liesel never got anything useful and sensible from the Doctor. She was almost on the verge of calling him Saukerl, believe me she was. Yet a realization came to her that the only person she call Saukerl was the lemon haired boy she had loved, the lemon haired boy who died too young.
"Come with me, Liesel."
Liesel stared at him. The last time she came with him, her family and Himmel street vanished. "What are you talking about? Come with you where?"
"To the stars, colorful places, places which are unknown to the humankind. You name it." He said, his voice enthusiastic.
"I don't think you've remembered but the last time I came with you, everyone in my place was killed."
"Right," the Doctor looked like he was about to cry by then. "Right, I suppose they did." He smiled at her. "Goodbye then, Liesel."
I reckon it must have been guilt or curiosity that Liesel herself managed to stop the Doctor before he actually enters the TARDIS.
"Doctor," Liesel brought herself to say. As if on cue, the Doctor, just right at the same moment she muttered the word, turned his back in a swift motion.
"Yes?" He said, smiling.
Liesel did not speak.
"Liesel," he said, his face growing more serious.
"I think I might want to come with you." She said, feeling embarrassed to say it.
The Doctor's face broke into such a wide grin, his entire front teeth showing.
"Come on, then." The Doctor ran unto the box.
Liesel, of course, followed after the man. Yet he was not merely a man. A time lord he was and such great things he had yet to show to her.