Vivi is not a conventional human. Slightly psychic- her best friend since childhood is a singing blue box. A blue box who, upon their meeting, tells her fantastic stories about a man, a Timelord, named the Doctor. The Doctor, however, is not the Timelord she finds herself meeting.
Doctor Who
The Master/OC
T
Romance/Adventure
There are humans who are just slightly psychic- the Doctor has even met a couple. Viviana is one of the few, as a child she could hear a song. A sad, sweet, lonely, and powerful song- a song that seemed to mean forever.
As she got older, the song got clearer- until the day she stumbled upon the blue box. The blue box... which spoke to her. Which called her Starborn, and soothed her loneliness like nothing else ever had before.
The blue box, calling itself the TARDIS (and sometimes Sexy?) told Vivi stories about a thief known as the Doctor. Said he was always getting himself into trouble, saving lives and fighting monsters. A Timelord. Said she was always stuck waiting for him to come back to her.
When she finally meets her first Timelord, however, it's not a man calling himself the Doctor. This man- he calls himself the Master, and there's something wrong in his head. She can feel it.
A pounding. A beat. Sounding off like the drums of war.
It hurts him.
Vivi thinks about the stories from her TARDIS friend, the stories about the good man who hurts so badly, and she can't shake the need to help this man. To take the hurt away.
He was dangerous once, maybe he's dangerous still, but he's trapped on Earth with nowhere to go. It isn't like anyone else will help him. He doesn't even have his laser screwdriver. (Not that she really knew what a laser screwdriver was.)
She wants to help him.
As it turns out, she could do with a spot of help herself. For someone only slightly psychic, she's managed to catch all kinds of attention, and none of it good...
And then there's the matter of the Bad Wolf's touch...
Starborn
Prologue: The Dream Song
The song was timeless.
Instant and infinite all at once.
Sad and beautiful.
Lonely.
It was the loneliest song she'd ever heard in her life.
She felt it all the way to the very depths of her soul.
She loved that song.
It gave her comfort.
Chased the nightmares away.
For all its loneliness, it was the only thing she'd ever encountered that took away her feeling of being alone.
As she got older, the song got louder.
Clearer.
She felt, almost, like she was finally getting nearer.
The fingers of her mind reaching.
Reaching.
Almost brushing the source.
And then she would wake up.
Starborn
Chapter 1: A Blue Box
Viviana was pretty sure that cats were a hostile alien race, or maybe it was just her cat. Perhaps he was the forward scout for an invasion force.
Or maybe she was just irritated because he'd decided to wake her up by clamping those little needle teeth of his to the very tip of her nose.
...No, it was definitely the alien thing.
Holding her tender nose, Vivi hissed at him, eyes watering slightly. "Just for that, you get to wait for breakfast until after I take my shower." The cat, a black and white Tuxedo named Frankie, did not look particularly concerned, but then... he wouldn't. All he had to do was wait until she went into the bathroom before starting the combo-annoying-cute tactic. Just like every morning.
His human was so predictable.
I decided to go ahead and post the prologue for this one. Mostly because I want it to eventually do a little bit of crossing over with my It's A Tesseract story.
