It took me a couple seconds to find my voice once I mulled over in my head what I had just heard.
"What?" I asked completely shocked.
"I'm the Doctor" he repeated.
"No you're not" I tried to laugh. Now looking around for any hidden camera. Was this some sort of cruel April Fool's Joke my parents were pulling on me.
"Hang on a second let me check…..oh wait yes I am" he said smiling now.
"I highly doubt it. You're just a book character my dad has been writing about for years. You just can't be real. I must have inhaled something in one of my classes. Besides even if you were the Doctor you would have a sonic-"
"Screwdriver" he said interrupting me while pulling this silver thing, that looked like a pen with a blue light on the end of it, out of his coat pocket. My jaw dropped and I grabbed it out of the Doctor's hand and pressed the button on it and a bunch of car alarms went off in the school parking lot.
"OH MY GOD" I jumped up and down out of excitement ready to hit the button again till the Doctor snatched it out of my hand.
"This is not a toy" he waved it in front of me.
"Right sorry I understand I just got a bit carried way" I smiled now. My dad had been right. All these years all those stories he had told me. They were true. This was my chance. That promise I had made to him years ago about how I would someday travel with the Doctor that could actually happen.
"So as you can see I have proved my point and now I get to ask you a question. Why where you following me?" he asked.
"What about the TARDIS?" I asked completely ignoring his question.
"How do you know about the TARDIS?" he said getting down to my eye level.
"I know a lot of things about you, Doctor, considering my dad made you up. Well at least I thought he did but now he didn't because he was actually telling the truth" I started talking to myself now.
"Are you going to answer my question?" he asked. I could hear the annoyance in his tone now. Look at me I'm annoying the Doctor I squealed internally.
"No TARDIS, no answer" I negotiated.
"Oh fine follow me" he sighed.
"AHHHHHH thank you thank you thank you" I hugged him around his stomach.
"Oi we just met I'm not ready for hugs with you yet" the Doctor told me. I let go of him and then gave him a smile allowing him to proceed. I followed him the rest of the way to behind the softball shed and saw the blue box.
"OH MY GOD" I screamed smiling now remembering what my dad had told me about this blue box. I remember when my father and I would go on little outings we'd play this game called "Find the TARDIS". I didn't realize till now that it was just meant to keep me busy while my dad was doing other things but still I loved every minute of it and was always prepared to hop inside the box whenever I saw it. However, this also led to me getting left behind by dad a couple times because I would jump into random phone boxes without my dad realizing it.
"So why were you following me?" he asked again.
"Well when I saw you inspect Ms. Carlisle's body this morning I thought I had recognized you and hadn't realized till before that you were my dad's book character. So I decided to follow you to see if I wasn't going crazy AND I WASN'T" I said skipping towards the TARDIS now.
"Book character?" he said a bit confused.
"My dad's been writing this book for years about 900 year old alien who travels around in a blue box called the TARDIS and he travels through time and space fighting off evil aliens and saving the world. He even told me that his dad, my grandpa, actually met well….you. Which I guess is now true right?" I said excitedly.
"What did you say your name was?" the Doctor asked me.
"Lightwood, Darcy Lightwood" I said in a James Bond sort of voice. I heard him mumble my last name to himself till finally he got this look on his face as if the light bulb had just went off in his head.
"Oh yes James Lightwood I met him during WWII at one of Jack's parties" he said. I giggled at that. This was such an exciting thing to happen in my life. Wait if the Doctor's real then what else is out there? I thought
"So does that mean aliens are real then?" I asked.
"Well I'm real aren't I? Didn't you see that news clip about the whole hospital that had disappeared into thin air and then reappeared again?" he asked.
"No I don't watch the news" I said.
"Why?" he asked.
"My mom says the whole point of it is to just scare us and make us think that we're all going to die every day" I said. The bell rang announcing that the class,which I had just skipped, was over.
"I better go. It was amazing meeting you" I said.Oh come on you're just going to leave it at that Darcy? You better go back and ask him for some sort of ride in the TARDIS? My mind shouted at me.
"Darcy" the Doctor shouted catching my attention now..
"How would you like to help me figure out what killed your teacher?" he asked.
"Are you serious? I would get to be helping you?" I asked hoping this was real.
"Well wouldn't your dad like to have a new chapter to write in his book about how his daughter had her own little adventure the Doctor" he smiled at me.
"Are we at the point of hugging yet?" I asked.
"Yeah I think we are" the Doctor smirked. I jumped on him and hugged him tightly and he laughed. The warning bell rang.
"My free period is after this class then we can talk about how to figure this out" I said quickly running to my class room. I made it back just in time to see Sadie with an empty seat right next to her. The strange thing was that when I sat down I saw her roll her eyes as if she was annoyed with me. I quickly brushed that off from all the excitement that was happening at this moment in my life. It seemed like this class was taking forever and I tried talking to Sadie to see if time would go by fast but she just ignored me. Finally the bell rang and I sprung out of my chair practically running to the softball field to see the TARDIS gone. He had left. The Doctor had lied. I tried to gulp back tears as I turned around and headed back towards the school building. Suddenly I heard the sound running footsteps behind me.
"Hello Darcy sorry I'm late had to park the TARDIS in a place where no one else could see it. Now where is the teacher's lounge?" he asked me. I perked up a bit realizing that he hadn't left.
"Why would you want to go there?" I asked.
"Because you need to retake a test and I need to figure out if this was a murder committed by an actual human" he said.
"Ok" I said and I showed him where the teacher's lounge was. I had never actually been in there but I knew where it was and I had the feeling that I just wasn't supposed to be there.
"Darcy what are you doing here?" my math teacher asked me as I walked in with the Doctor behind me. We walked over to the table she was sitting at and I sat down in the seat across from her.
"Hello I am Mr. Smith and Darcy is retaking a test so shhhhhhhh" he said getting in her face as he slid a test towards me. I looked down at it and saw that it was a test that I actually needed to take.
"Doctor" I whispered he ignored me.
"Mr. Smith" I practically yelled.
"What?" he said in pretend annoyance as he walked over to me.
"I didn't think you would actually give me a real test" I whispered.
"Well to figure out who did this we need to get a look on the teachers perspective which is what I'm here for and you're here to see if any of them are lying and besides I think they would know you were snooping around if you were just doodling on a piece of paper" he said as he walked off to go talk to one of the teachers. Well great Doctor why not just give me a third impossible job to try and accomplish I mentally snapped at him. It was really hard try and do a test while watching peoples facial expressions while the Doctor spoke to them. For most of them I could tell they weren't lying and I was 100% sure that I had failed the quiz the Doctor had given me. When the bell rang for the end of classes I was happy to get out of there.
"So did you find anything out?" I asked the Doctor when he left the teacher's lounge
"No they all said the same thing" he said.
"Which is?" I asked.
"She was a sweet lady and before she died she had these weird mood swings. And I may have a theory to why" he said.
"And that is?" I asked making him continue on.
"There were these aliens called the Hidronians that came from the planet Hidra" he said.
"So she grew 6 heads at night" I interrupted thinking about the Greek monster.
"No you know the story Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" he said.
"Ugh don't remind me" I groaned remembering how boring that book had been.
"Well Dr. Jekyll got attacked by a Hidronian which is how he had multiple personalities like Mr. Hyde" he explained.
"So that book was real?" I asked.
"Yes except Robert Louis Stevenson spelled it differently. But do you remember what happened at the end of the book?" he asked me.
"Dr. Jekyll killed himself" I concluded.
"Yes which is how the Hidronians live they inhabit one Host body and make them develop a separate evil personality with some good left in them making the good want to kill themselves and after that the Hidronian move on to another Host body" he said quickly.
"So you're saying that this Hidronian that killed Ms. Carlisle is out there on this campus right now" I said.
"Yes and it could have moved on to anyone here" he finished mystically and we both looked out into the wide campus filled with students.
