Hello people! Here is chapter two! I may or may not have Chapter 3 up tomorrow. Hope you like! I would be suuuupppppppeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrr greatful if you would leave a reviewww! I would give you a cookie if I could! But, alas, I cannot. Sad face. But I hope you review anyways. Because you are a kind person. So…..yea….Enjoy!
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"What the hell was…." Clara began before stopping upon hearing her own voice. Rather the feminine voice she usually heard whenever she spoke, a more masculine voice came out. It did not take her long to realize where that voice had come from. It was the Doctors.
They had switched bodies.
The pair looked at each other in shock, trying to wrap their heads around what had just happened. After a few moments of awkward silence, the Doctor decided to break the silence.
"So this is what it feels like to have-" The Doctor started
"Oi! Shut up! Don't say it!" Clara interrupted angrily.
"I was going to say one heart, but…that applies also," the Doctor stated looking down at a feature of Clara's body that his own did not have.
"Doctor! Eyes up! Focus! What the hell are we going to do?" Clara shouted in an effort to refocus the Doctor who was still examining Clara's body.
"Uh, well, um….I don't know. This has never happened to me before," the doctor admitted with a slightly worried tone. He was telling the truth. In all his travels, he had never encountered a body swap. Of course he had heard stories before, but those were all fiction, or so he had thought. Now, he had no way to know for sure. He had thought that it was impossible. He was wrong.
"Well, do you at least know what those things were?" Clara inquired.
"No clue," the doctor responded in a slightly defeated tone. "They looked a bit like the Glagoromians, but these were different. And anyways, the Glagoromian are a peaceful people. They would never intentionally harm anyone," the Doctor continued.
Clara stood, "I feel like the keyword here is intentionally," she said under her breath. "Where could they have come from then?" Clara asked, "There's nothing in this room, it is completely empty!" she went on. "The lift never opened again, and they certainly did not arrive with us."
"mhmm," the Doctor replied as he stood, wandering around the room slowly, examining it for any sign of life. "How the hell do you walk in these?" the doctor said as he lost his stumbled and lost his balance momentarily. Clara let out a small laugh as he removed the heels in frustration.
Both continued to examine the seemingly empty space until Clara noticed the small, silver ball on the wall in front of them, "What's this?" she asked the Doctor as she reached out to touch it. The Doctor put out his hand, before her fingertips could reach the sphere, knowing Clara would know what he was asking for. She pulled the Sonic Screwdriver out of the Doctors coat pocket, and handed it to him. He pointed It at the ball and turned it on, hoping to get a reading off of it.
"Nothing," he said exasperated after looking at the screwdriver for a short second. He put the screwdriver into Clara's bag. She watched with amusement as he fumbled around the purse trying to get it open. When he finally had it put away he brought his focus back to the silver orb. He reached out and touched it. When his fingers met with it, it flickered and disappeared. A hologram. Why was there a hologram of a silver ball on the wall? The Doctor and Clara looked at each other for a moment in confusion.
"Was that a hologram?" Clara asked the Doctor. He just nodded in response as he stared at the spot where the ball had been.
All of a sudden, the elevator opened and out walked one of the workers. She was a Glagoromian like all of the other employees, but unlike most of the other natives they had seen; she had long, dark purple hair. Instead of a silver body suit, she wore a tight orange shirt, and a grey skirt. She had on a white lab coat that had her name scripted in neat print. Argomianna.
"What the hell are you doing up here?" she asked angrily. "This floor is strictly off limits to anyone who is not level grey or above!" she continued.
"Were, um, inspectors," Clara said as she searched the doctors jacket for the psychic paper.
"I don't care! It is still off limits! The lift should have denied you access!" Argormianna snapped back. "I'm calling security," she stated as she reached toward the Bluetooth that hung on her ear.
"Oh! No, you don't have to do that! Let me explain! Please!" the Doctor stated quickly. Argomianna lowered her hand slowly.
"Ok, I'm curious. What makes you think that it is ok for you to be up here? And don't try saying that you are qualified to be up here, because it is obvious that you are not," she responded as she looked the couple up and down slowly.
"Ok, well, um, ok. We are here because we were transferred here from Earth. We are here to help with some of the research concerning….." The Doctor said as he looked around the room, "Holograms? Yes, Holograms. We were told not to discuss our reasons for being here with anyone," He finished, looking at Argomaianna, who looked at him in suspicion for a few seconds.
"Are you what have been causing the Dark Men to appear?" she asked in suspicion.
"Dark Men? What are the Dark Men are they the things that made Clara and I-ow!" The Doctor began before Clara kicked him, reminding him that it would be a bad idea to tell everyone about the fact that they were currently inhabiting each other's' bodies.
"The Dark Men. The ones that have been appearing everywhere?" she noted the blank stares the Doctor and Clara gave her, "If one touches you, your mind and body are separated. Your soul dies, but your body keeps running. It has been happening everywhere," Argomianna stated as she looked around the room fearfully. Clara and the Doctor exchanged a quick look, before both stared at the floor. "You have seen one, haven't you?" Argomianna asked, "Who did they murder this time?" she questioned.
"They did not kill anyone," Clara stated calmly.
"How? There has not been a single sighting where all people involved survived," Argomianna said in astonishment. "I heard that they were brought here to take peoples souls so they could experiment. See where body and mind collide."
"I don't know how we survived, just lucky I guess," the Doctor said as he looked at Clara and then back to Argomianna, "but, I can assure you, we will find out," the doctor said as a mischievous smile began to creep up on his, well, technically, Clara's lips. "And we will fix it."
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