Chapter 2: Alex
Alex walked to her room and she sat down on her bed. Back in December during Christmas, she was so excited to be in the TARDIS and dreamt of the day that she would travel with the Doctor. She dreamt about flying to different planet and traveling through time. She wanted to meet aliens and monsters. She wanted to see her planets future and the wonders of the universe.
Right before the Doctor stormed into her life a year ago, she was just going through another year at her high school Tribeca Prep. She was just another junior even though she had her magic. She didn't think anything could go wrong and she thought everything would still be there the next day. Then in June last year, the Doctor came into her life. He turned it upside down within the first day. She was used to having a freaky and wild day with all her magic and the things associated with it, but when the Doctor came into her life and all of his alien and foreign things, her life got tossed and turned even more. She almost died during that first day when the Hoixes had come.
He had shown her that there was more to live than using her magic all the time to get things done. He told her that she had enough power in her mind and soul. He had the most patience with her compared to anyone else. She didn't know why, but she could tell another trouble maker when she saw one and she a massive trouble maker in the Doctor. Unlike her, the Doctor's trouble making days were long gone. They were buried under decades and centuries of pain and loss and suffering, but their was also happiness, love and hope. All of those were wrapped up inside him and Alex saw that the trouble maker in the Doctor was all but gone and dead, but there was one in the Doctor nonetheless.
Over the next year, all Alex could think about was leaving Earth behind and travel the stars and time with the Doctor. She imagined how it was out there among the other planets. She wanted to see the skies of aliens worlds and run through fields of different colored grasses, alien forests, extraterrestrial landscapes. She wanted to meet different civilizations in both the present, past, and future. She could go and travel to different worlds, but she couldn't travel that far away. She had been to Mars, but she had not been to any other planets. The Doctor and her talked about both their travels to Mars and she realized how lucky she was. Other than Mars, Alex hadn't been to any other worlds. Her magic, which was now gone, could only get her to places inside this corner of the galaxy. She went through all of those dreams for the last twelve months.
Now, though, there was nothing to look forward to. She was with the Doctor and going to travel with him, but that doesn't matter. The price was too high for her. All those people had lost their lives. She was the only survivor of her family, but Harper had survived with her so that had helped a bit, but not as much as she wanted. She was going to travel the stars and go through time, but the chances are the worlds she will eventually visit and see will be overrun and killed by the Daleks. She never understood why the Doctor had hated the Daleks so much, but now after she saw their carnage first hand, she could see why he hated them with every fiber of his being. They were monsters and didn't have any emotions or remorse. They were merciless and filled with hate. Her hair stands on end whenever she hears that voice, that cold, calculating and emotionless voice. Her blood would now whenever she would hear the Daleks voice again.
Alex wanted all of this to be over. She hoped the Doctor's plan to find and assembled the Key to Time. She never heard of that key. She didn't know how powerful it was, but from the way the Doctor said, the key was incredibly powerful. He had described the key as a giant reset button and she wanted that. She could use a giant reset button right now. She wished she could go back to her graduation party that had happened in the early afternoon of June 3, 2011. Within the course of several hours, her life was not turned upside down, it was practically destroyed.
She was starting to realize that she was one of the last human beings in existence. Harper was the only other one. She realized this is how the Doctor must feel all the time. She started to get teary eyed. Emotions flooded into her head and mind. She was crushed and saddened and hurt by everything that had happened. She lost her family, her home, her city, her world, her species. She only had two things left. She had her Doctor and Harper. She remembered she had the TARDIS. She had her TARDIS. She loved the ship. They had a connection with each other, but she knew that she didn't have the same connection to the TARDIS as the Doctor did. The Doctor and the TARDIS's bond was unbreakable. They basically the same being, but with two different personalities. Alex thought about that connection and wished she shared that connection with the TARDIS.
For now, Alex's mind was back on the loss of her family. Her eyes teared up and she lost it. She laid down on her bed face first and she buried her face in her pillow. She started crying her eyes out. She had never felt anything like this. It was a strong feeling of emptiness and loneliness. She hated it. She wailed and time was no more for her. She was lost in her hurt and pain. She wanted everything to be the way the it was before, but she didn't know how. She eventually cried herself to sleep and for a brief moment in time she was no longer alone. Her family lived on in her dreams.