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Tick Tock Goes the Clock
Chapter One: 13 years later
It was another busy day at Leadworth Royal Hospital. Rory Pond was tending to a small boy who had come in with a broken leg and arm and was helping him settle into a wheelchair when the supervising doctor of the hospital, Doctor Cleese came into the room. She asked quietly to see Rory in the hall and he nodded to let her know that he would be out in a moment.
"Alright Danny, just wheel yourself around the room and I'll be right back," Rory told the small boy with a smile. Danny smiled in return and Rory left to go meet Doctor Cleese in the hallway.
"Rory, we're going to need to reassign you a new station for the next few weeks," said Doctor Cleese. "There's a patient in the psychiatric ward who needs all the help she can get. We've tried to get almost all the doctors and nurses to help her and talk to her, but she won't listen. She just keeps mumbling something about silence and doctors and someone named Kovarian-" at this, Rory flinched inwardly," and she keeps singing this odd, creepy lullaby and touching her arms. And the arms; well you'll have to see them for yourself. Will you help her Rory?"
"Of course," Rory replied without hesitation. There was something odd about this girl, and he wanted to know if she was in any way, shape, or form connected to the Silence, the Doctor, or River Song.
Doctor Cleese led Rory down to the bottom floors to the psychiatric ward to a room where several doctors and nurses stood outside and stared through a pane of one-way glass. Rory and Doctor Cleese went to peer through the glass and Rory gasped.
The girl sitting on the bed looked almost exactly like River, only her hair was a bit redder. She was curled up tightly in a ball and she was rocking back and forth. The girls arms were bandaged and slightly bloody. This girl was so innocent yet so frightening at the same time and Rory felt as if he couldn't look away.
"Rory," Doctor Cleese placed her hand on Rory's shoulder. "Do you want to go in now?" Rory nodded his head and one of the nurses wearing black scrubs adorned with white polka dots opened the door for him with a sad smile.
"Could you try to change her bandages," the polka dot nurse asked. "She won't let anyone else touch her." Rory nodded and headed into the room. The girl stopped rocking back and forth and looked at Rory.
"I'm not crazy you know," the girl whispered. "I'm just a little shaken up. It's been thirteen years, and I've only just escaped." The girl stuck her bloody arms out at Rory. "Will you fix the bandages?"
"All right." Rory replied. He took the girl's arms and a look of relief washed over her face.
"My name's Cadence. Cadence Waters," the girl, Cadence whispered. "Well it's not my real name. It's just the name they told me was mine, but I have a feeling its not real." Rory nodded as he unwrapped the bloody bandages on Cadence's arms. As the bloody gauze peeled away, Rory gasped at what he saw.
Tally marks carved into the girl's porcelain skin.
"Cadence," Rory asked gently, "did you do this to yourself?" Cadence shook her head no.
"It was them. The Silence. As a reminder. You know I'm not crazy Rory, I can see it in your eyes. Please Rory Pond, believe me." Rory remained quiet as he cleaned Cadence's arms and re-wrapped them in clean gauze. Once he was done, he turned to leave, but she grabbed his wrist. "Please Rory. Amelia would." Rory grabbed his wrist away from the girl and walked as quickly as he could out the door. "Please Gramps, Gran would believe me. Call the Doctor. Call River," Cadence whispered once Rory was gone. "Call my mommy and daddy."
Cliffhanger! Ahhhhhhh!
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