Zombies Suck
Soon everyone leaves only leaving me, big ears, and blondie. The doctor looks at me and takes hold of the arm that I burned. I hiss and look at him. "I might need to check this out." He says looking over it. I frown. "It's just a burn not a gunshot wound." I say.
Why did he care anyway? Too him I was just a sidekick or a weapon. Something that needed protecting from other people. I was basically just a bloody object! I huffed at that thought.
"The end of the earth. It's gone. We were too busy saving ourselves. No one saw it go. All those years all that history, and no one was even looking. It's just-"Rose says the doctor cuts her off. "Follow me." He says pushing us in the TARDIS. He starts it up.
I sigh. I kind of skipped this part of the episode because I was confused if they went back in time or forward or back home. So when they arrived and went outside I stayed in.
I grabbed my phone from my pocket and dialed a number and started walking down the hallways. It picks up. "Hey Lewis." The 11th doctor says. I smile. "Ello~ I am bored so I decided to call you what you up to!" I ask him. I hear him chuckle. "Oh nothing about to go see the Ponds!" I hear a voice in the background. "Oh and future you says hello!" He says. I smile. "Hello!" I say. "Anyway I actually got to go but hey if you need me just call!" he says hanging up.
I sigh and put my phone back in the jeans I wore. Soon I heard the doctor coming up behind me. "Oi I need to check out that arm of yours!" he says dragging me by my other arm. I groan but don't argue. He leads me to the medic bay and has me sit up on a chair. I do and look at him.
He grabs something from one of the drawers. "I never got to talk to you after you stormed off…I just want you to know you are not alone. You have Rose and you have me. And I don't plan on leaving you any time soon." He says. I shake my head. He frowns me. "Also you aren't nothing. You are as important as anyone from this universe including me! If anything you are more important! So if you dare even think you aren't important I will have Rose slap you!" he says.
My hand automatically goes to my cheek. He gets some cream and rubs it on the burn. I hiss at the contact. But soon the cream makes it stop hurting. I let out a sigh. "Why am I here? In this universe I mean. I couldn't even save anyone from that platform. I am no help what so ever!" I say.
The doctor takes his hands and cups my face. "You are helping. You warned Cassandra not to that person Rose met, Raffalo didn't die. She survived because Cassandra got scared. She told the spiders to retreat because of that. She is alive because of you." The doctor says. I smile happy that she didn't die.
"But what about Jabe I could have warned you." I say. The Doctor shakes his head. "What would you have said that didn't cause a paradox?" he says. I nod. The doctor then takes his hands off my face and wraps his arms around me pulling me into a bear hug. I shyly hug back.
What was it with this guy and hugs? In the show he wasn't like this. Oh my god I changed the show. So what was next…? The gelth. NO WAY DO I DO ZOMBIES! "Doctor Do you mind if I stay here next adventure." I say. He frowns. "Yeah I do you are coming!" he says moving his arms and starts dragging me to the consul room. "You get to pick next." He says smiling.
Rose looks at me giving me a thumbs up. Do I choose that episode? I don't want to make a mess of things. But I also don't like zombies. I know set it on random. The TARDIS hummed liking the idea of her picking. I smile at her. "Let the TARDIS decide. She wants to." I say.
I heard the TARDIS humming in glee. "You can understand her?" the doctor asks me. I nod. "Alright then setting controls to random!" He says running around the controls like a mad man. Rose and I laugh at him. He smiles back.
The TARDIS takes off making that wonderful whooshing sound. The sound that brings hope everywhere it goes I think quoting The Moment. I smile remembering that. I then frown thinking about the Bad Wolf thing. Oh boy….. How was I going to handle that? Eh ill cross that bridge when I come to it!
When we landed the Doctor looked at his monitor. "Okay you've seen the future time to see the past! 1860's how does 1860's sound!" the doctor says. I curse at the TARDIS. She hums a laugh at me. Well I get to meet zombies anyway! At least I get to meet Charles Dickens! "Sounds awesome!" Rose says. The doctor looks at me. I give a thumbs up.
I'll make a sacrifice and follow the old woman. Ugh if Mr. Sneed dares touch me I will give him my best right hook! My brother showed me that. The doctor smiles. "December 24th, 1860! Earth Naples!" He gleams. "That's so weird its Christmas!" Rose says. I nod.
Well I wouldn't be on the nice list anyway. This year my brother and I caused all sorts of trouble. We were the dynamic duo! Not anymore though. I frown at that. As if reading my mind the doctor puts his arm around my shoulder and tugs. I look up at him and smile. "All yours!" the doctor says smiling. "But it's like, think about it, though. Christmas 1860 happens once, just once and it's gone, it's finished, it'll never happen again. Except for you. You can go back and see days that are dead and gone a hundred thousand sunsets ago. No wonder you never stay still." Blondie says. Jeez big speech. "Not a bad life." The doctor says. Rose nods. "Better with three." She nodded towards me. I smile.
She is freaking awesome just like I thought she would be! Rose headed for the doors and I tried but the doctor held me back. "Hey where do you think you're going?" he questioned us. "1860?" Rose says confused. "Go out dressed like that, you'll start a riot, Barbarella. There's a wardrobe through there. First left, second right, third on the left go straight ahead, under the stairs, past the bins, fifth door on your left. Hurry up!" the doctor says quickly gently pushing me to Rose. We walk out the door.
"He is bloody mad. We need the blender!" I say. Rose nods and we both laugh. "Hey Sexy can you show us the way?" I ask the TARDIS. She nods in my mind and a door suddenly flies open. "That's it." I say to Rose pulling her inside with me.
Rose and I rummage through the clothes until we find something. Rose puts her hair into a bun and puts a flower in it. She wears a dress that's black and purple where the sleeves are left to right at her shoulders. I put my hair in a side braid on the right side. I put on a long dress as well that's flat not puffy and it is black. There is only one strap on the left side that covers my shoulder. Rose and I put on matching heels. They were black and an inch tall. As soon as we applied a natural looking makeup on, we left the room. I put my phone in my bra so I had it on me. Still thought it was weird that people did that. Very weird.
We walked back to the doctor seeing he hadn't changed. "HECK NAH IF I HAVE TO PUT ON A DRESS YOU GET TO PUT ON A SUIT!" I yell at him pushing him in the hallway and shutting the door. I hear him groan and a slight buzzing. He opens the door and looks me and Rose over. "Blimey!" Big ears said to us. Oh here we go…. "Don't laugh!" Rose says. "No you guys look beautiful, considering." He says. "Considering what?" Rose says. "You're human." He says "Oi! You really want to go down that road again big ears?" I say. "Two hearts…nine hundred years old….all I'm saying..." I say. Time lords!
He narrows his eyes at me. I raise my eyebrow daring him to say something. We end up having a staring contest. Whoever looked away first lost. In the end I saw a flash of the Oncoming Storm so I look away not wanting to wake that bear up from hibernation. Like I said I'll take Time Lord Victorious any day! He has nothing on the Oncoming Storm.
The Doctor smirks. "I am going to take that as a compliment!" Rose says. I roll my eyes. I tried to pretend nothing happened that I wasn't afraid of him. But I couldn't help it. Sometimes on the show I felt bad for the villains. Especially that one episode Family of Blood. His rage. His bloody rage! Silent but deadly. I shivered. "Aren't you going to change?" Rose asks.
I put my hand on my face. "Face meet palm. Palm meet face." I muttered under my breath. "I've changed my jumper. Come on." The Doctor says. But rose pulls him back. "You stay there. You've done this before. This is Carissa and me!" She said pulling me towards her. She opens the door and we step out to see it's snowing. I shiver remembering my sleeves aren't that long. Somehow Rose doesn't.
Well I am from Florida I was not used to the cold. I cross my arms to keep warmth in my upper arms. "Ready for this? Here we go. History." The doctor says. We start walking down the street. A choir were singing a Christmas song. A hearse road past us. I saw Gwenth and Mr. Sneed in it. I like Gwenth. Mr. Sneed…NO!
The Doctor stops and buys a newspaper. He frowns. "I got the flight a bit wrong." He says. I scoff. "Time lords…can't even get time right." I mutter to myself quietly that I thought no one would here. He heard me, and that I was going to pay for that later. "I don't care." Rose says. "It's not 1860 its 1869." He says. She rolls her eyes. "I don't care." She says. "And it's not Naples." He says. "I don't care." She says. "It's Cardiff." He says. That makes her stop. "Right." She says. I laugh. "Good job big ears!" I say and shiver.
It is freaking freezing. Rose starts to shiver a little too. But this was terrible for me! As if seeing my distress the doctor shrugs off his jacket and helps me put it on. Under that he is only wearing a long sleeve shirt. I start to protest but he shushes me. I didn't want him to be cold. He leans in my ear. "It's fine don't want you getting hypothermia." He whispers into it. I nod.
He goes back to the TARDIS real fast and comes back in a new black leather jacket. Looks the same but isn't. Suddenly we hear screams. "That's more I like it!" He says leading me and Rose along. We go all the way to the theatre.
Rose goes in but the doctor stops me. "Stop taking cheap shots at my species." He whispers to me. I roll my eyes. "Stop taking cheap shots at mine." I snap. I go into the theatre without a backwards glance. In the theatre the zombie woman had "ghosts" coming out of her mouth and flying around the room. She was in the middle of the room. Everyone was running out screaming while Charles Dickens just pleaded for everyone to stay in their seats. I rolled my eyes. This guy was thick. Or STUPID! Oh my god I am turning British god help us all! I needed to go to the south for a little while. British was alright but I needed to stop saying British words or I would start cursing in British too. Bloody heck.
"Fantastic!" the doctor exclaims. Bro! "Yeah awesome zombies! HAVENT YOU SEEN THE WALKING DEAD!" I scream at him. Jesus. The corpse collapses. Mr. Sneed and Gwenth go to pick up the body.
"I'll be back." I say running after them. "Oi you two drop the body! She needs to be checked out by my friend! He's a doctor I guess….." I say. That's when I get a rug put over my mouth from behind. "BULLSH-"I start before falling into darkness. Not before I felt him groping me. Ewe Blondie was right.
I wake up in a room full of corpses. "Oi let me out! I don't want to be in a room full of zombies!" I scream before running to the door. I bang against it. Sadly the dead starts walking. "No. No. NO!" I scream banging against the door harder. "Doctor! Come on! DON'T MAKE ME SAY YOU'RE SCHOOL NAME!" I scream.
Uh maybe I shouldn't said that. The boy zombie grabs me by the arm. I heard the faint sound of a door smashing before I was pulled back by the Doctor. "I think this is my dance." He says pulling me out of zombies grasp and into his arms.
"Where's Mr. Sneed? He and I have to have words about where hands aren't supposed to be!" I say. The doctor's face went angry. Was he mad at Mr. Sneed? I was supposed to be mad not him! Charles Dickens looks at me. "It's a prank. It must be! We're under some mesmeric influence!" He says. I roll my eyes. Seriously? "Ears this guys a bit slow." I whisper to the doctor. He frowns at me. "That's Charles Dickens." He whispers to me. I shrug. "Statement still stands." I say. He smiles. The doctor turns to the zombies.
"My names the Doctor. Who are you then? What do you want?" he asks them. The woman responds along with several other voices. "Failing. Open the rift. We're dying. Trapped in this form. Cannot sustain. Help us. Argh!" it says before leaving the bodies. The bodies drop and all that's left of the gaseous people is a rotten smell.
The doctor turns to me. "Are you alright?" he asks me. I nod and we walk to their living room. Rose turns to Mr. Sneed about to open her mouth to say something. But I hold up a hand and walk over to Mr. Sneed.
I put my hand on my chin looking like I'm thinking before I punch him hard in the jaw. "That's for drugging me." I say before slapping him across the face. "And that's for having a wander of my body you dirty old man!" I say before walking over to Rose. She whispers to me. "Really nothing about the zombies?" she asks me. I shrug and turn to the Doctor.
He looks like he wants to take a shot at Mr. Sneed too. Why the heck was he so upset with him? That was my job not his. I walk over to him. "You alright?" I ask the doctor. He looks at me. "I do not like that man was that supposed to happen to Rose?" he ask me. Referring to the show. I think for a minute but nod. He puts an arm around my shoulder.
Mr. Sneed snarls. "You will do well in controlling your woman! Or I will have to take care of it myself! I will not be talked to in this manner!" he says. The Doctor snarls back.
"Try touching either one of them again see what happens! You will do well in telling us what you know!" he says angrily. He tightens his grip of my shoulders. I shiver thinking that Mr. Sneed might have just released the Oncoming Storm.
"It's not my fault! It's this house. It has a reputation! Haunted. But I never had much of a bother until a few months back, and then stiffs, the. Err, dear departed started getting restless." He defends himself. I roll my eyes.
"Tommyrot." Dickens says. "Slow…." I say under my breath quietly so only I could hear. The doctor punches me in the arm gently. He heard me. That's why he talked to me outside the theatre he must of heard me make the comment about the time lords. Oops.
"You witnessed it. Can't keep the beggars down, sir. They walk. And it's the queerest thing, but they hang on to scraps." Mr. Sneed says. Just then Gwenth comes in and puts the tea by the Doctor on mantelpiece near him. "There you go two sugars just how you like it!" she says. I smile at her.
"You didn't have to do that this guy can get his own dang tea." I say to her. She shakes her head. Mr. Sneed looks at the doctor. "You would let your woman talk to you like that?" he asks the doctor. I shiver. He says that if we are property.
"One they aren't my woman they are their own person. Two yeah I wouldn't be able to stop her talking if I wanted to anyway." The doctor says ruffling my hair. I smile. Mr. Sneed frowns but they go back to their earlier conversation while I go follow Gwenth into the kitchen. "I'm Carissa by the way." I say to Gwenth. She smiles.
"Gwenth. Why do you talk to your husband like you do?" She asks me. I choke on my spit. "Husband HECK NO!" I say laughing. She smiles. "It's just the way he looks at you makes me think he fancies you. And the way he defends you." She says. I shake my head. "Trust me. He doesn't like me like that." I say. She shakes her head.
"Oh but he does. You think no one understands what you're going through. You think you are alone. But you are not alone. Far from it actually. You have a huge family. Including the Doctor. You are from very far away. You have seen this all on a silver box with your family. Now they are all gone. All that's left is you. And the big bad wolf." She says then jumps. "I'm sorry miss. Please forgive me!" She says to me.
I stop her. "You are fine! Everything you said was true except the family part maybe…Anyway what did you mean my family is gone? Are they dead?" I ask her. She shakes her head. "I'm sorry miss." She says going back into the living room.
Tears form in my eyes. Was everyone dead? Did the reality bomb work? Oh my god it's Lost in Time all over again! Minus the Time Lord Victorious. I shiver thinking of when the doctor went in my mind.
It is like Lost in Time and the other one Reality like mashed together. The reality bomb and being with the 9th instead of the 10th. Not having a choice of coming but the doctor being nice! OH MY GOD THE FINAL ACT! My hands went automatically to my head. Would he do that to me if I proved untrustworthy? Nah Jack or the 11th doctor would have warned me. I hope anyway. Yeah they would have warned me… Better make sure. I go back to the living room.
"Is there a bathroom around?" I ask. Gwenth nods and points down the hall to my left. I go where she points and go inside. I take out my phone and dial the 11th doctor's number. It answers almost immediately. "Hello Lewis!" he says gleefully. "Hey quick question because I'm not really sure about this because I never watched the old doctor who episodes Final Act? Real or fake?" I ask him. I hear his breath stop. Then I hear a static noise. "Sorry…..breaking…..bye!" he says hanging up. I huff. So much for call anytime!
I put my phone back in and go back to the living room. I see the Doctor talking to Mr. Sneed and I hear Rose and Gwenth talking in the kitchen. I go over to the Doctor. "Do not trust the gelth they are liars." I whisper to him. He turns back to me. "Not now!" he says going back to his conversation with Dickens and Sneed. I huff. Well fine….. Didn't want to help anyway. Actually I didn't want to be here to begin with! The gelth creep me out! I am sitting this one out! I storm outside taking off the jacket and putting it on the doorknob before running to find the TARDIS. The gelth…zombies….AHHHHH! That's all I have to say about that.
I reach the TARDIS and try to open the doors. But they won't open. "Oh come on old girl! Open it up I'm not a big fan of zombie fan! Please!" I plead with her. I hear a hum from her sounding like a fine. Suddenly the doors unlock and walk in. The doors lock behind me. "Thanks." I say.
I quickly go to the TARDIS wardrobe and change. The dress was starting to get itchy. I put on a baggy gray T-shirt and some black shorts. I take the makeup off and the high heels. I take my hair out of the pony tail and let it fall free. Probably looks like a bloody mess. I sighed.
Gwenth… Mr. Sneed… dead. The doctor won't listen. There is nothing I can do now. Unless… "Hey Sexy look up Jack Harkness's number for me." I say. She hums an okay. Once it shows up in my mind I dial it on my phone.
"Hello Jack speaking." He says. "Hey it's Carissa Lewis!" I say. "Hey Dreamer what's up!" he says gleefully. "Nothing much you know you are only the person who will ever call me that!" I say laughing. He chuckles. "Yeah but you are. You're my dreamer!" he says. I smile. "So where are you at?" I ask him. "Torchwood is this a younger version of you?" he asks. "Yeah only met you once before this. But that was a future version so I can't really tell you about it!" I say. "Got you! Gwen says hi!" he says. "Tell her I say hi!" I say. "Okay. So where are you at?" He asks me. "Charles Dickens." I say. He laughs.
"Enjoying the zombies!?" he asks me. "Oi shut it maybe I'll bring one back just for you!" I threaten him. "DON'T YOU DARE!" he says between laughs.
I laugh. "Nah that requires going outside. Did I mention I'm not a big ghost fan! Because possessing people just scares the living daylights out of me!" I say. "I know you told me! Listen I got to go talk to you later Dreamer!" he says. "Okay bye!" I say and hang up.
I go back to the console room. I hear a voice outside. "She couldn't have gone far! RULE NUMBER ONE! It's rule number one! Don't wander off!" I hear the doctor say. I scoff. Time Lords… Big eared time lords! I sit on the chair by the console and wait for him to come in. But instead I hear this. "Don't have time! I'll have to look later!" he says to himself and I hear footsteps walk away.
Ouch. "If I was Rose he would have kept looking…wait why do I even care!" I mutter to myself. That's strange. Was I jealous? No can't be! Absolutely not allowed. Rose and the doctor belonged together. Wait why Gwenth said the bad wolf stuff to me! Did I take Rose's place? How did that effect Rose and the Doctors relationship! I had to fix this! Operation set up is a go! Wait since when was I a match maker? I only succeeded at that once! And that was because of a slip up! And that was like 7th grade!
When was my birthday now? I was from 2015! I was born on 1998! How would I keep track of my birthday now! I was going to be 18! I sighed.
That bloody sucks! The TARDIS hums something like I'll let you know in my head. "Thanks." I say to her. Now that problem solved the next was simple I needed music! "Think you can play my iPhone music?" I ask her. Suddenly a plug appears.
I plug in my phone into it and play Kick Me by Sleeping with sirens. Soon I am playing that song on repeat and start singing along too it. I didn't even notice 2 hours or so had passed and the doctor and rose had walked in.
By then I changed the song to Holding on and Letting Go by Ross Copperman. "It's everything you wanted. It's everything you don't. It's one door swinging open and one door swinging closed. Some prayers find an answer. Some prayers never know. We are holding on. And letting go." I sing along.
Suddenly I hear clapping and cheering that. I jump and fall on my butt. The doctor rushes over and helps me up. I turn off the music and pick up my phone. I was blushing red. God they heard me! AHHH! "How long have you guys been standing there?" I ask. "Long enough to hear you attempting to sing with a punk band!" Rose says.
I blush even more if that's even possible. "Ummm yeah…. That's lovely." I say scratching the back of my neck. "Nah your good!" Rose says. I laugh. "Thanks but trust me I have heard people a lot better than me! So how did it go with gelth was I right?" I ask the doctor. "Yeah you were sorry for not believing you." He says hanging his head down.
"Gwenth?" I ask him. He shakes his head. Tears form in my eyes. I should have stayed. The doctor catches them before they go down my cheek. "It wasn't your fault." He says "It wasn't yours either." I say. He nods.
"It doesn't change history if he writes about blue ghosts?" Rose asks. "In a week's time it's 1870, and that's the year he dies. Sorry. He'll never live to tell his story." The doctor says. "Oh no! He was so nice." Rose says. I nod. "But in your time he was already dead. We've brought him back to life, and he's more alive now than he's ever been, old Charlie boy. Let's give him one last surprise." The doctor says while putting the TARDIS in flight while Dickens is still there. We watch Charles surprised face and him waving goodbye but soon we are back in the sky. I sigh.
"Well that's that! What now Big ears!" I say. He frowns. "They aren't that big!" he whines. I roll my eyes. I start to walk into the halls. He follows after me. "Hey you left this on the doorknob." He says holding the jacket he gave me. He puts it around my shoulders. "Well yeah I didn't want to steal it from you." I say. He shakes his head. "Not stealing if I gave it to you." He says. I nod.
He ponders on something for a minute. "Do you have a room on the TARDIS yet?" He asks me. I shake my head. He frowns and takes my hand and leads me down the different rooms. One door automatically opens so he stops at that one. He gestures me to go in inside.
I raise my eyebrow and walk in. It had black carpet and purple walls. The bed was a queen size and had the TARDIS on it. The outside of it. The ceiling had stars and planets which I guessed glowed in the dark. There are bookshelves filled with book series.
Every book I ever liked was there. Next to it were albums like actual records! For bands like Nada Surf, P.O.D, Nikelback, Taylor Swift, Paramore, and any band I ever liked. I smiled.
The closet was filled with clothes and converse shoes. "This is amazing! Thank you!" I say running over and hugging the doctor. He glances down and hugs me back. I started to yawn. "You should probably get some sleep." the doctor says. I nod trying to make my way to the bed but his arms were so warm that I fell asleep. Not before feeling him pick me up in his arms. I felt safe and secure for once since I got here. It felt good.