Chapter 3
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Jasmine gulped nervously as she felt herself panicking inside. She was alone with aliens on their spaceship. Katy and the Doctor were somewhere else on the ship, doing something only God would know and needless to say she was a little scared. She had been the one to open her mouth so quite obviously she had to be the one getting out of the mess on her own, if the Doctor wasn't coming up with a damn good plan which she hoped. She had tried talking to the aliens, but found out they had an answer to all of her questions and demands. She was now standing there looking at each of the aliens, hoping the Doctor would run in guns blazing.
"Right, nice to meet you fellows but now it's time to grab the girl and go. Have nice flight, safety exits can be found on both ends of the ship with a light guiding you through the aisle. Ta-ta." The doctor suddenly said as he grabbed Jasmine's hand pulling her out of the room
Jasmine caught sight of Katy waiting just outside of the room she had been in. Katy grabbed hold of the Doctors other arm and seemed to disappear right in front of Jasmine's eyes. Then Jasmine realised that she was dematerialising as well. When she opened her eyes again she found herself standing in a room with a sort of control panel in the middle.
"Where are we? What the hell just happened?"
"This is the Tardis, and we exploded into a million zillion particles, just to be reconfigured in this precise spot."
"How?"
"Ask Katy, she helped do it."
Jasmine raised an eyebrow in confusion and turned around to Katy. It all seemed too surreal to her.
"We just charged the computer with enough power and directed it to where we wanted it. Speaking of which…Doctor did the computer carry out the second part?"
"Yup...unless something went terribly wrong."
"Can't you check?" He nodded slightly and walked over to the control consol. He pressed a few buttons and waited.
"Ah there you go, its gone."
"When you say gone?" Katy asked, trying to clarify it.
"Yes, the explosion worked."
You killed them?" Jasmine asked.
"Yes," he replied, looking her straight in the eyes. She looked over at Katy and saw her look at the floor. How could they have killed a ship full of people…aliens? She was glad they had saved her and she was aware they were evil…but to kill all of them? She felt an uncomfortable shiver travelling down her spine and she got incredibly nauseous. At first the Doctor seemed like a good person but now she wasn't so sure, even if she didn't know him. She felt silly for just blindly following him. He had, after all, left her all alone with those aliens. They could have killed her and she had a feeling he didn't care. She couldn't believe that Katy had helped kill them; then again she had only just met her as well.
"Fine," The Doctor replied. It didn't bother him either way.
The doctor pushed something on the 'control panel'; the TARDIS started shaking for a few seconds but then went still. He walked up to the door and opened it. "You want out, there's out." He told her.
She gulped and walked towards the door. She turned to look at Katy for a second and saw she looked confused. Jasmine realised that if she left now she couldn't come back, but the way she felt at that second she wanted to be as far away from the Doctor as possible. So why wouldn't her legs move?
"Go on then." The doctor almost insisted. She gulped and walked towards the door. She turned to look at Katy for a second and saw she looked confused. Jasmine realised that if she left now she couldn't come back, but the way she felt at that second she wanted to be as far away from the Doctor as possible. So why wouldn't her legs move?
"See ya." She said as she walked out, trying to forget everything that had just happened and hoped that it was all just a bad dream and that she would wake up in her bed with Marc's arms wrapped around her waist
Jasmine finally got her legs to start walking and she headed out of the Tardis doors, head held high. She stopped suddenly as she took in her surroundings. The Doctor had taken them to their university, but it wasn't as beautiful, the full damage of the Tor was evident. She turned around and saw the Doctor leaning on the Tardis and Katy looking around just like Jasmine herself had been.
"This is why the Tor had to be killed. This is just a taste of what they would have done to your planet. Do you still think I'm a monster?" The doctor explained.
"Stop it!" Jasmine said
"You need to see this."
"No! I don't! You had no right to kill them!" Jasmine shouted
The doctor walked up to her and looked her right in the eye with an ice cold glance. "That's always what you've been like Jasmine. Scared to see the truth when it's right in front of you. You need to learn to face your fears. They could have destroyed it. All of it. Your home. Your family. Your boyfriend. All gone."
"How did you know?" She asked in a small voice, though it was still full of anger. "This isn't funny!"
"I know what you fear the most and if you don't listen to me, it'll happen." The doctor told her. Jasmine felt tears running down her face for reasons she could not explain. She didn't want to see it nor did she want him to tell her what to feel or what to do.
Katy walked over towards Jasmine and put her arm around the other girl. She had watched the exchange and stayed out of it, for once in her life, she had decided it was best for it to run its course.
"How do you know us? We don't know you." Katy asked
"Oh...you know me more then you think you do." Then all of a sudden, there was a bright flash of light and the surroundings disappeared.
Hours later, Katy sat up in bed. Her head was throbbing slightly, she immediately assumed she had been drinking last night, but the more she thought about it the less that seemed to fit. She got up slowly and looked out the window. She froze as she saw the campus in such a mess. Someone had a party last night, she thought. She got dressed and walked outside. 'This wasn't caused by a wild party' she realised. She carried on walking and saw someone who looked vaguely familiar standing in front of her. She blinked and looked up at him.
"Katy. There you are!" She turned her attention to one of her friends who was running up to her
"Oh hey Sam," Katy said smiling at her friend. She looked back to where the man had been and noticed he was walking away. "Look I gotta go, but I'll call you later?" Her friend nodded and Katy jogged to catch up with the man. She knew he was connected to her blurry memory.
The first thing Jasmine felt when she woke up that morning was her head aching badly. She sat up and turned to see what the time was and when she realized it was already noon, she got a confused because she never usually slept that long. She got out of bed, got dressed and walked into the kitchen of the apartment where her boyfriend Marc was drinking coffee.
He looked up at her and grinned; she smiled back and walked over to make some tea. "Have you seen this?" He asked her, she noticed the newspaper he had been reading. She went over to him and read the headline.
"Local University involved in major prank" She read aloud. She frowned slightly as she looked at the picture accompanying the piece.
"Some prank." She mumbled, trying to recall the events of the previous night. The picture showed the campus, but instead of the neat lawns and scenic buildings she saw debris and structural damage on the buildings. The grass was full of blackened sections and there seemed to be piles of dust here and there, though that could have been the printing ink.
"What did we do last night?" Jasmine asked, still confused since her memory was blurrier then she thought
"Well you came in quite late and fell asleep basically straight away," Marc replied looking at her. "Don't you remember?"
"Not really, I was with a new friend. Katy maybe?"
"Did you get pissed?"
"No, we…I don't actually remember. I'm gonna go find her soon." she replied, walking back in to the bedroom to find her shoes.
Meanwhile, an annoyed Katy had lost track of the strange man she had followed but she wasn't intending on giving up. She had to find him because her mind told her he was the answer to what had happened last night. She pulled out her phone and looked at the time, it was just after noon and the campus was pretty much dead, which added to Katy's unease. She knew she had forgotten a major part of yesterday's events. She vaguely remembered another girl, but could only picture her in her mind. Something with J, shethought.
She scanned the area again with her eyes and chose a random direction. She had no idea what to do, all she knew was that this other girl might know what had happened, there was little choice other that to find her. She continued walking and almost got into a sort of jog when all of a sudden she bumped into someone, fell to the floor and curse. Although for some reason, just that happening seemed very familiar. She had a massive sense of déjà vu and when she looked at the person she had bumped into she was shocked. It was the girl she was looking for.
"You!" she said. She saw the other girl look at her, with probably the same look that was on her own face.
"You're Katy aren't you?" the girl asked her.
"Yes, I know you...but I don't know your name"
"Jasmine." Katy nodded. That made sense to her.
"To be honest, I can't remember anything from yesterday. I mean what happened here?" She indicated to the campus.
"The paper said it was a prank but I don't know. My boyfriend says I got home late last night and fell asleep right away. I remember I met you and then..."
"That's more than I remember," Katy admitted sadly. "But this doesn't look like a prank. I saw a man earlier, he looked familiar but I lost him."
"You mean that man?" Jasmine pointed to behind Katy
She turned around quickly and saw the man from before walking towards the two of them.
"Uh huh," she said weakly.
The man walked up to them and the bent down in front the girls. "So...are you two ready to listen?"
TBC…
