"JUMP!" The doctor yelled from the other side of the platform, Emily turned around just in time to see two Wood beasts come running around the curb. She screamed, pure terror running through her. The wooden bridge had fallen into the valley and three feet of air laid in front of the human and the doctor.
"I can't!"
"You have too!"
Emily stopped short of the cliff.
"Where do you think you're going?" A raspy voice said inches behind her.
Emily squeezed her eyes shut, and leaped. Seconds later she was standing beside the doctor, still breathing heavily. He wrapped her in a hug, with her still shaking.
"That was fun!" He said, waving to the beast as they scampered back into the woods.
"I- I can't- I can't do this anymore."
The doctor laughed, telling her it got better.
"Next time you try to make amends with those creatures, I'm staying in the TARDIS!" she told him, poking him in his chest.
They walked back into the time machine and back into space, Emily still grumbling about her first adventure.
"Fine, you can choose next, where do you want to go?" He told her, Emily twisted her brown hair into a bun, thinking.
"I've always wanted to meet Abraham Lincoln!" She said after a while.
The eleventh Doctor rolled his eyes, but hit buttons anyway.
"Welcome Mss. Smith," the doctor said, opening the TARDIS' door, "To Lincoln's Cottage. August 1864 " Emily stepped out of the booth smiling, and the Doctor couldn't help but smile too.
It was dark and hard to see, but Emily could see a house with a candle in the upstairs window.
"Three miles from the white house. This is where he spends most of his nights."
Emily nodded, "I'm stalking a president that's been dead for over a hundred years. Do you think he's in there?" She whispered.
"I think he's coming now, hide!"
The couple dove behind a tree as a shadow got closer, the outline was of a tall man, with books under one arm and a hat on his head. The Doctor could see Emily smile. They watched as he got closer to the gate and the tree, when Emily poked the Doctor. "Look!" she whispered pointing to behind the man. The Doctor turned to see another figure coming close behind Lincoln.
Emily panicked, "He's going to shoot him. We have to stop him!"
"Emily, no!"
But it was too late, just as the president was passing them, Emily whispered out to him, "President Lincoln"
The man turned his head to the tree as a shot pierced through the night, and hit his hat. It took all Emily had from screaming as the President jumped and ran off towards the night. The Doctor watched as the other shadow ran the opposite way. Guards could be heard in the distance and a voice explaining what just happened.
"Emily! We have to go. Now." The Doctor pulled her hand and they ran from their cover to the TARDIS and the Doctor shoved Emily into it. He slammed the door and without a word he launched them. Emily sat on the bottom step, watching.
"You can't do that." He told her, turning towards her and leaning on the controls.
"Do what? Save the President's life?"
The Doctor rubbed his face with his hands, "yes. No you can't do that."
"But he doesn't die until Booth shoots him during that play. Everyone knows that."
"But what if he should have died on this day? And you changed it. You're the one who went back and stopped it." He tired.
"If it wasn't for me he would have died sooner? History could have been completely different." Emily tried to wrap her mind around this, but she was still dazed that she was the one who stopped the attack.
"Exactly! You could have messed up a fixed point in time!"
"But I didn't. Someone had to save him, it's how it is in the future."
The doctor sighed, crossing his arms, he gleaned at her. "Well just don't do it again."
Emily huffed as she started up the stairs. "Maybe I will!" She yelled behind her. Every step she yelled a president, "Maybe next I'll save him again," Step, "Or Kennedy" Another step, "Or Caesar." Step, "Or Henry the sixth."
The Doctor chuckled, "night Emily! Your room's the third on the left!" But she was too busy naming off people and she just mildly flicked her wrist to him.
