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Doctor DW Who
Goodbye, My Sarah Jane Smith
Chapter 4
Shaun had calmed down considerably and was sitting in the kitchen with the Doctor along with the four teenagers. Shaun had to explain everything that had happened in his life right down to the last detail, although he left out some personal details of his life.
"…after the world went back to normal, everyone forgot, but I didn't." he said. "People kept saying I was mad. But I know I wasn't. Then the meteor passed over Cardiff and only I saw it, no one else. Then the confrontation with that Dalek, the Aurora Borealis, and now you come along and make my life ten times worse." Shaun said his voice rising slightly.
The Doctor mouthed "Sorry," to him.
If Shaun had lived the Doctor's life, he would see and understand that not even the Doctor can avoid ruining people's lives at time.
"Every time I touch you or bump into you," Shaun pointed at the Doctor, "I seem to see visions, horrible visions. Can you explain that Doctor?" Shaun asked him sternly.
"Uh…" the Doctor thought for a moment. "Sorry, I can't." he said with an uneasy look.
Shaun took a sip of his tea.
"Shaun, how long have you seen things out of the ordinary that only you could explain and others can't?" Luke asked.
"Since," Shaun thought back through the years to when his life went out of whack. "Since the crack in my wall," Shaun said to them.
The Doctor looked at him, the expression on his face was vividly afraid. "This crack," the Doctor said at first, "did you hear voices coming through it?"
"I used to," replied Shaun as he thought back to when he was a young boy and he heard whispers pouring through the crack in his wall.
At times he was scared of what he heard, the last voice he heard was a voice saying that it was coming to kill him and that nothing or no one would be there to neither help him nor save him.
"It's not there anymore," he said before adding. "Woke up one morning and it was gone. But I can remember everything."
"Curious, it seems," the Doctor mused before pausing and choosing his words carefully, "that whatever was through your crack when The Silence blew up the Tardis made you remember, or rather forced you to remember and never to forget." the Doctor looked deep into Shaun's eyes from across the table. To Shaun it felt uncomfortable; it felt like the Doctor was looking into his soul. "You remember everything you say?"
Shaun nodded his head. "Everything," he said, he then began counting off everything that he remembered that had happened on his home planet, "the alternate timeline where everything happened at once, the Titanic falling from the sky, the Daleks and Cybermen, the planets in the sky,"
"A lot of people couldn't remember anything when the cracks opened. Amy couldn't remember the Daleks when I first told her, she had the entire universe pour into her head, and that is what must have happened to you as well," the Doctor said.
Shaun blinked at him and took yet another sip of his tea to calm his nerves which was slowly starting to rise up in him again.
As Shaun sat listening and telling an unknown man everything that had happened in his life, he had difficulty in adjusting just how kind this Doctor was. He was telling him everything and it felt he had inherited a sense of trust also just by talking to this complete stranger. Moreover, Shaun also sensed that this man seemed to have the answers to his questions. How that was possible he had no idea.
In the past, Shaun had always felt stressed, he even felt as if he had the weight of the world forced upon him and he had to bring about control from this chaotic world in which everyone and everything looked at him strangely like some kind of alien. But talking to this Doctor, the stress that he carried around with him, lifted somewhat, and Shaun could breathe a sigh of relief for once in his life.
"Cracks?" Sky asked frowning and slightly confused.
"Long story," the Doctor said to her, "I am surprised that you lot remember what happened when The Silence were busy and that," he said to the teenagers. He then went to explain what had been happening thus far. "There were cracks in time and space, and dimensions as well I suppose, an external force took control of the Tardis, hired by The Silence, and forced the Tardis to explode at every moment in history, because the Tardis is connected to every single timeline, past, present and future. It caused a time explosion. Then I had to reboot the universe, the cracks closed and then everything was fine." the Doctor said pausing for a long intake of breath.
"But what about this alternate timeline?" Clyde asked confused.
"Again long story, a friend of mine, River, her name was, I was meant to die, but then River changed a fixed moment in time causing us all to live in an alternate timeline, where the past, present and future happened all at once. Anyway, The Silence tried to get rid of me, I restored the timeline, I died, although I didn't die, I was in a robotic suit with tiny miniaturized people who operated the Tesselector, a Doctor in a Doctor suit. Barely got singed in that boat and The Silence now think I am dead, but I am trying to keep quiet. If the Dalek's know I am here, they will probably tell The Silence, although I bet you anything I am safe, although I am surprised they didn't try and kill me on the spot which is odd."
"But what has this got to do with Shaun?" Rani asked.
"I don't know. Strange things have happened to those who have looked into a crack in time and space and having the whole universe pour into your head. It must be like having to look into the un-tampered schism, again long story." the Doctor said as soon as he saw Clyde's face with the expression on his face asking 'what is an un-tampered schism'.
"And what has this got to do with the Tardis crashing?" Sky asked.
The Doctor was soon in trance, he stared at Shaun, and again it made him feel uncomfortable. "Shaun, has something happened to you in your life? Anything that made you see the world in a different way, an accident in your time that made you think 'what is the point of life?'"
Shaun thought for a moment. "No." he said simply.
"You're lying!" the Doctor said to him. Shaun's brown eyes widened at this. "Your eyes are telling me that you are not happy with your life." the Doctor whispered to him. "But why aren't you happy? That's the question!"
Shaun felt a great lump in his throat, he had a feeling that this Doctor had a good idea what was wrong with him and what was going through his mind. He found it increasingly difficult to swallow as the Doctor continued speaking.
"You are not happy with yourself, you're not happy with your life, and just by looking at the way you live right now, you are finding it uncomfortable to adapt to the lifestyle you are living in." said the Doctor.
"I don't understand," Shaun said.
"Oh Shaun," the Doctor said smiling shaking his head. "Look around you, there isn't a single ounce of Christmas decoration in your home,"
Shaun turned around and saw through the arch that lead straight into his living room. Not a single Christmas decoration was up, neither was there a Christmas tree.
"No lights in the window, no Christmas cards, no Christmas tree. Not very festive is it?"
"I don't like Christmas," Shaun said shrugging his shoulder. "Never saw the point to it,"
"Oh, Shaun," said the Doctor. "It is not just the Christmas decorations that aren't up, but it's the pictures as well,"
"Pictures?" said Shaun.
"Every single picture you have in your house doesn't look right." the Doctor said.
Shaun gulped.
"There are pictures of you and your parents and family, but something is missing, something that you don't want to look at, and something you want to keep hidden, and not see, but what?" said the Doctor.
For a few brief moments, Shaun and the Doctor stared at each other in uncomfortable silence.
"Anyway that doesn't matter right now; Daleks here on Earth is trouble in itself. The Tardis spinning out of control, I have no idea what that is about." the Doctor said pulling a frustrated face. "I hate not knowing!" he said.
"What about the Tardis?" Clyde asked concerned. "How are going to get home?"
"Oh, don't worry, the Tardis has taken quite a spill, but she will be fine, give her half an hour and she will be right as rain." said the Doctor confidently. "Moreover I'd be more concerned about the floating glass cup that is hovering slightly off the table in front of Shaun!"
Everyone looked at what the Doctor was looking at. In front of Shaun, his cup of tea was hovering slightly off the table. Shaun looked around and saw other objects in his home start to hover slightly off the floor.
"What? No!" Shaun said looking slightly terrified. "This is not happen, I'm dreaming this."
Nearly everything in Shaun's house lifted up off from its surface and hovered there.
"Doctor, any explanation on what this is all about?" Clyde asked.
"None whatsoever." the Doctor answered as he whipped out his sonic screwdriver and began scanning the strange phenomena that he was witnessing. "Impossible." the Doctor ran outside the front door and looked up and down the street, where car alarms were going off from being lifted off the road.
Even a few residents were baffled and in awe at what was happening in front of them, lights flickered on and off, and a flash of lightening spread across the blue Aurora Borealis lit sky.
The Doctor scanned around using his sonic screwdriver trying to get readings; he then pointed his screwdriver to the night sky and got more than he bargained for. "Oh dear." he said and then ran back into Shaun's house saying: "We have a massive problem. A seriously really not good problem,"
"I think we gathered that." Rani said looking around standing close to Clyde where they took each other's hand, while Sky walked over to her brother.
Then, everything landed with a thump onto the floor. Cups and glasses smashed, pictures fell from their places and shattered onto the floor.
"But, I don't understand, what's going on?" Shaun asked looking at his trashed house.
The Doctor looked at him for a second and then said "Do you watch Sci-Fi movies?" he asked. Shaun nodded. "Have you seen a movie called Impact?" Shaun shook his head. "Has anyone seen a movie called Impact?" he asked the teens. They also shook their heads. "Ah, right, well, this is awkward, well anyway it doesn't matter."
"Doctor what's happening?" Luke asked.
The Doctor hesitated for a few seconds. "Imagine a meteor colliding with something big in space, and the meteor knocked that thing off kilter, and that thing that has been knocked off kilter means it is moving towards the planet scrambling up the Earth's magnetic fields etc."
"You mean as in–" Luke stopped suddenly. He knew why the Doctor was acting strange and what he worried about. "How are we going to stop that?" Luke asked his face changing into a grave look.
"I don't know but I am working on it. And another thing, can anyone else hear a dial tone?"
A faint beeping sound was heard. The Doctor and Shaun and the teens looked on the floor and saw the walk around phone that Shaun dropped just before the Doctor and the teens walked into his home.
"No one on the other end has picked up the phone yet!" the Doctor said picking up the phone.
"What does that mean?" Sky asked.
"It means-" the Doctor got cut off as they all heard the front door slam wide open, and the front window smash. A group of men came walking into the house wearing some strange contraption on their heads. "Oh! Dear!"
"What are they?" Sky asked as she backed into Luke where he held onto his sister close.
"Robomen!" the Doctor said.
"You will be taken to our masters!" said one of the Robomen in a slow monotone.
"How about we run?" Clyde suggested.
"Good idea, back to the Tardis now!" the Doctor told them.
"But you said it needed to repair?!" Sky reminded him.
"It should be fine by now! I hope." the Doctor said whipping out his screwdriver and pointing it to The Robomen. "You come anywhere near us and I will use my deadly device to-to-to…um…ummm…hurt…you!" the Doctor said in a not very frightening way.
"Oh, very threatening, I am quavering in my feet!" Clyde said sarcastically.
"Oi, imagine it if you were me!" the Doctor said.
"You will come with us!" said the lead Roboman.
"Yeah…" the Doctor began saying, "think again!" the Doctor pushed a button on his sonic screwdriver, and a high pitch wailing sound came from it. The Robomen, the teens and Shaun covered their ears as they heard the high pitch of the Doctors' screwdriver wail like a banshee through his house. The Robomen collapsed onto the floor screaming from the pain that emitted from the Doctors' screwdriver.
"What did you do?" Sky asked removing her hands from her ears after the Doctor had finished doing whatever it was he did to The Robomen. "Did you kill them?"
"No," the Doctor said to her, "knocked them unconscious for the time being." he walked back and forth scanning the Robomen. "A simple conversion, I met them back in the 22nd century when the Daleks took over the Earth. They took normal Humans and converted them into Robomen, slaves among other things to the Daleks, but they were also used as patrols or overseeing other slaves. The Daleks must be using them again for other beings such as snatching kids. But why?" the Doctor asked himself.
Sky walked up to one Roboman and looked at it.
Its eyes opened suddenly and it jumped up to grab her.
"SKY!" Luke yelled as he moved to grab her.
The Roboman got up and began to advance towards the Doctor and the teens, Shaun not so much.
More of The Robomen that the Doctor knocked out got back up. "Okay, so maybe I didn't knock them out," he said to them.
The advancing Robomen walked towards them.
"Spread out!" the Doctor said.
The Doctor and the Teens all spread out into different rooms of Shaun's home.
"Whatever you do, don't lead the outside!" he warned the teens. "Shaun!" the Doctor called to him. Shaun was standing behind the Doctor. "Get out of here, just run and don't let them follow you,"
A/N: One long scene here, anyway, good, bad, not good? Leave me a review on what you think.
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