Forgotten: Chapter 2

AN: You can't imagine my surprise at the fact that I posted this story and then less than a day later I'd already gotten reviews, and even a follower! I was so happy I decided to review quickly. Just so you know, my reviewing schedule won't be punctual all the time, and there may be months between chapters due to writers block and other of my reviewers pointed out that even though when Kate typed in Doctor Who nothing to do with the doctor appeared, something should have popped up anyway. Thanks for that, and I probably missed it due to me having thought that I implied that somewhere in the chapter. I'll try to update at least once every two weeks, so here's the next chapter of 'Forgotten'!

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"...ate...Kate...! Are you awake honey?!"

I woke to the sound of my mom's desperate cries.

"Huh? What happened?" I couldn't remember what happened just prior to my embarrassing faint until my mom told me I'd passed out once she told me about the new job she'd gotten me.

'Oh my god. My mom got me a job as the Master's secretary! What could she possibly have been thinking?! Oh yeah, she has no idea about the master does she? She and the rest of the world apparently.'

I looked up and noticed she'd been talking to me the whole time and I'd zoned out.

"Mom! I'm fine, honestly, this probably happened because I stood up too fast or something."

She didn't seem convinced, but probably decided to let it go for now in order to talk about my new found job.

I couldn't do anything but thank her for getting me the job and leaving to my room. I didn't want to seem rude but I needed time to think things through. What was I going to do?! I was horrible at lying or acting or doing any hiding of my emotions! Most of my friends told me I had the most embarrassing reaction to trying to lie, apparently my ears got red and I flushed for no reason.

I'd probably walk in there and somehow do something stupid that'd get me fired, or worse, killed! Who knew what'd happen, it was the Master after all. He'd always seemed like a very fickle character, almost bipolar in fact. I wonder what it'd be like to work for such a strange guy/alien.

It was right then and there that I decided that maybe the job wasn't such a bad idea. Maybe with my newly appointed job as the Master's secretary I'd find out what he was planning, maybe even be able to sabotage some things from the inside!

While I wasn't very good at lying, I'd always been terrific at hiding myself in the shadows, eavesdropping on others conversations. Not that I did that very often though, I respected people's privacy but years of sneaking around sweets and other unhealthy food from my mom had made sure my sneakiness skills were on par with professionals.

One of the bad things about having this skill was that I was often overlooked at school so I didn't have that many friends. My only two friends were Amy and Sophie Duncan, twins who were almost as antisocial as me. They were identical twins, so hardly anyone could tell them apart. The only way to do so was to know that Amy wore a right side ponytail while her sister wore one to the left. Sometimes they changed in order to confuse people, but somehow I was always able to tell.

I decided I'd call them to tell them about my new job, ask for advice because I didn't have much job experience. I knew both of them worked for their parent's small law firm as secretaries, so maybe they'd have some pointers.

Dialling quickly, they answered on the third ring. "Hello?"

"Hi guys! It's Kate."

Their reply was immediate. "Kate! Where were you today? You skipped school!"

Oh...I'd forgotten about that.

"Sorry guys, but I wasn't feeling that well. I'm fine now though."

Immediately they were back to normal. -_-'

"Okay, hope you feel better." "Yeah, so why were you calling us?"

Finally, we got to the point of the conversation. "I got a job!"

Shocked surprise showed in their voices. "Seriously?"

"Hey! No need to act so surprised, yes I got a job working as a secretary for a PM member, Harold Saxon."

I couldn't lie to myself and say that I wasn't hoping that they'd say something about Doctor Who or coincidences, but sadly it was a pointless hope.

What followed was a conversation so boring that I can honestly say that I fell asleep during the middle part. Apparently both my friends had huge amounts of info regarding my new job, full of advice on what to do, what not to do, and things that would make my job easier. Of course I paid attention on as much as I could, but after an hour of non-stop listening to them talk, I told them I had some homework to do and ended the call.

That night I went to bed feeling dissatisfied, as if I was missing an important piece of the puzzle that was my life at the moment.

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I looked around and all I could see was white. I was still dressed in my sleeping attire, some sweatpants and a tank top when I saw him.

David Tennant.

Or, the Doctor I suppose. You can't believe how shocked I was to see him. All I could do was stare uselessly at him as he rocked back and forth on his heels, muttering to himself.

Once he noticed that I wasn't saying anything, he looked at me and spoke.

"Hello there Kate!"

I just stared.

He seemed uncomfortable and started babbling. "Kate, Kate, Kattteeee..., you have a nice name, you know, I once knew a Kate, charming woman, couldn't understand a word that came out other mouth, came from a planet where people didn't speak much, and when they did it usually came out all garbled, didn't even know we were engaged until after the ceremony, bit of an awkward moment that, finding out I'd married someone by mistake, you know she..."

I interrupted his very awkward speech. "Doctor!"

He started, seemed like the conversation wasn't going the way he'd planned.

I decided to ask what he was doing in my dream because let's face it, since when were my dreams so lifelike? I was one of those people whose dreams were a blur most of the time.

He smiled and spoke again. This time he made sense, thank god for small mercies.

"Well Kate, as you can probably tell by now, this is no ordinary dream, and that's because I'm currently projecting this image of myself to your subconscious and manipulating your mind in order for us to communicate. Lets just say that this took a lot of time, effort, and various toasters before it could be done." I decided to not ask about the toaster comment, due to my Doctor Who obsession I knew what happened when you put the Doctor and a toaster in the same room.

"What I'm here to tell you is that it's no mistake that the Master, otherwise known as Harold Saxon, is currently in your universe, you see, while you've been thinking that he's moved to your world,the fact is that you've moved to our universe. I'm sure you've heard of all the parallel universes out there. The fact is that you come from a universe where there are no aliens, where all the happenings of my universe are apparently a television show, kind of embarrassing you know, knowing that there are millions of people watching my every move, laughing and pointing at me, don't even get me started on..." He started getting off topic again.

"Doctor! Can you please get to the point of this conversation?"

He smiled sheepishly at me. "Right, point, got it."

"Where I was going with this is that I was the one that brought you to this universe, you see, something went differently here than it should have. A significant event that didn't go as planned. As I'm sure you know, at this point in time I should have been travelling with my companion Martha Jones, but the thing is that way back after the hospital, when I offered to let her travel with me, she refused, and I left, alone."

'What? Martha never travelled with the doctor?'

I was confused so I asked about how it happened.

"It was a time hiccup. You know, sometimes time doesn't go exactly all wibbly wobbly timey wimey and mistakes happen, they're very rare events though."

I didn't even say anything to that meaningless answer.

He stared down at the floor and continued. "So you see, there was never a Martha Jones, so there wasn't anyone to help me when the Master took over, and the Earth was enslaved."

"But wait a minute. What does this have to do with me?"

He looked up at me again. "Ah! You see, therein lies your current predicament! I crafted a device that allowed me to transfer the consciousness of one human from a different universe to their counterpart in my universe. The problem was that I couldn't exactly tell who's consciousness I'd be transferring. Apparently you're either the right one for the job or a very unlucky human!"

'Gee... Thanks for the vote of confidence Doc, it's not like I was already freaking out about the fact that I wasn't even in the right universe to have to learn that I had the fate of the world bestowed upon me by a lunatic with a box.'

"This isn't exactly reassuring me you know." I commented drily.

"Oh! Don't worry, I'm sure that you'll figure something out! If I've learned one thing about you humans in all the years of my travels it's that you're resourceful, indomitable in fact!"

He turned serious, a rare feat for the usually carefree Doctor, and said to me, "Kate Mathews, you and only you have any idea as to the events that are coming, and I hope that you can help my younger counterpart and keep him from making the same mistakes I made."

I couldn't do anything but nod. A similar expression on my face as I promised myself to help in anyway I could.

I felt myself waking up, and heard the Doctor speak his final goodbye.

"Goodbye Kate Mathews, and good luck."

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AN: hello again! Thanks for the reviews, once again, don't expect double updates to happen anytime soon, this is only because of my gratitude for my first ever reviewers!

Hope you like the chapter, now you know about what's happening to Kate and what she has to do! Next chapter: Kate's first meeting with the Master! Wonder how that'll go?

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