"Ah. Yes. Hello, there!" The Doctor put on his friendliest face and clapped his hands enthusiastically. "Can you hear me as well as see me?"
The woman nodded, never blinking or looking away.
"I was just admiring your earrings!" He pointed. "Very nice. Where did you get them?"
The woman, focus broken by his sudden hand gesture, gazed slightly to the side and only just noticed the brilliant glow emanating from her head. She bolted out of bed, ripping her earrings off and throwing them on the sheets behind her as she went.
"WHAT." She backed to the other end of the room, never taking her eyes off of the scene in front of her. "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!"
"I take it you've never noticed that happen before." He stood tall and gazed at the woman, doing his best to give off a calming rational vibe. She took notice and, feeling slightly less in immediate danger, took a few steps back towards the mirror.
"You're in my mirror. Why are you in my mirror?"
"Long story." He smirked.
"I've never noticed you, either. How long have you been in my mirror?"
"New resident, actually. First night here. Lovely place."
The woman stared at the ground in thought before putting a hand over her mouth and blushing. "You only just got here, right?" She said, eyes averted.
"Yes, of course. That would be weird, stalking around your mirrors. I saw such nice earrings I had to come take a peak."
"Yes.. Well, there's not much to tell." She bent forward and picked up the still glowing earrings, turning and starting to pace. "I bought them in the Switzerland about two months ago. I had been told that it was quartz taken from a meteor that had struck near Dead Lake, in the Alps. It was the first stop on my trip so I bought them to commemorate it. I -" She turned back towards the mirror only to see that she was now alone. "Sir?" She took another step forward. "Am I going mad?" She whispered. Taking a few big steps forward she tentatively pushed her hand against the mirror and was surprised to find it so warm. The earrings in hand began to glow, only now registering to her that they had stopped glowing in the first place. She looked back up and jumped at the still very unusual sight of the man in her mirror.
"It appears their affect only lasts while in a certain proximity.." He mumbled to himself. Then, much louder, he asked "Where am I, anyway?"
"My bedroom."
"Well, yes, brilliant observation. I can tell we're going to work fabulously together." He flipped his sonic screwdriver over in his hand before pointing it towards the earrings.
"Canada. Just outside Montreal, to be more specific, and - I'm sorry, but what is that thing you're doing?" An itch, a yearning, had started to tingle it's way through her hand to the rest of her body. She tried to push it away.
"I'm trying to solve the puzzle that is your jewelry." He paused after reading his calculations and at looked at her, eye to eye. "What's your name?"
"Jade. What's yours?"
"I'm the Doctor!" He gave her his brightest and cockiest smirk. "Jade, you might want to take your hand off the mirror for this next part."
She looked down at her hand, still pressed up against the glass yet with her finger tips curled in, as if she were trying to claw through it. She quickly tore her hand away.
"What do you mean 'next part'?" Anxiety had started to replace the tingling sensation.
"Your earrings aren't earrings, Jade. They're fuel cells that froze in space and collided with Earth." Jade started to laugh but the urge was immediately extinguished by the look on the Doctor's face. "They're advanced. Very very advanced. Whatever energy is still working in those cells is being amplified by it's proximity to my screwdriver and -"
"I'm sorry," she laughed. "But that's supposed to be a screwdriver?"
"Do you want to know the next part or not, Miss Jade?" Having the awful feeling she was being scolded by an old professor she put her hands up in compliance and kept quiet. "Now, as I was saying." Huffed the Doctor, "This signal is strong enough it can work through dimensions. Even to me in here. BUT - But.. What can I do with that?" He tapped on the mirror.
"Do you know anything about mirrors?"
"Just the usual hocus pocus most people do, I suppose. Reflective and whatnot. Seven years bad luck if broken. Traps the souls of the dead. Why?"
"The souls of the dead bit. Explain." Now Jade really felt like she was back in school, and right back on the spot.
"Um, alright. I don't really know much, though. The old superstition people used to have that if someone died in the home all the mirrors had to be covered in cloth or else the soul would move into the mirror and get stuck forever."
"You can see what that means, don't you? I'm not really here!" He started laughing, causing Jade to become all the more uncomfortable.
"Are you trying to tell me you're a gho-"
"Dear girl, NO. No such thing. Well - Not really, anyway. At least I sincerely hope not. No, Jade, I'm just a projection of my mind. He must still have my body locked up, useless without my mind." He started muttering to himself and pacing back and forth. "OF COURSE! That's why my sonic still works! It's so much a part of me and is such a strong energy that even a ghosted sonic screwdriver works. Oh, yes, you beautiful beautiful -"
"Doctor!"
"Oh, right, sorry. Yes, Jade. The next part. Now, it's important for you to follow my precise instructions. Back up as far from the mirror as you can without me disappearing." She followed his instruction. "Put the earrings on. And, this is the most important part, DO NOT take them off. Even after I've gone. No matter what, keep them on until I come back, alright? I don't want those lost in case I need to try this again." She nodded. "Thank you, Jade."
Jade smiled at him and closed her eyes nervously as she saw him raise his screwdriver to her. "This won't hurt you. I'm aiming an intense frequency at the earrings. The frequency, travelling through the barrier, should be able to shatter it."
The Doctor was right about one thing. Not a second later the mirror shattered all over the bed and floor, knocking Jade backwards into her dresser on the other end of the room. Jade, however, was not untouched by the sonics frequency. The moment he turned it on she felt the vibrations from the earrings, as well as the sonic itself. It sent a delicious crawl through her body and if the mirror had shattered only a second later the Doctor would have heard her start to moan in delight.
Eyes blurry, back sore, Jade looked up to find the Doctor standing over her holding out his hand. She took it without hesitation and he pulled her to standing. The Doctor winked a goodbye to her as he began to fade and, moments later, was gone from the room.