Chapter 4

The Time Vortex

Allyson's POV

The Doctor just thought for a moment as we were circling the TARDIS console. We hadn't been out in three days and surely it was driving him as mad as me. I stared at him for a moment letting my curiousity leak through to my gaze. I'd been very careful about what emotions I show to The Doctor. I've learned how to keep them hidden. Sometimes he would be frusturated with me.

"Well, there is one planet I've always wanted to take you. When we get there you really will have to stay by me because this planet has more than one species. The main one is very kind but the other is well, you may or may not find out. The first one is what they call themselves "The Dawn Chasers." They only come out at day from their small underground villages. From there they chase the sunlight in the shadows. The darkest shadows only touching the sunlight with one hand. During night they stay underground in lit up villages greeting the people they've met because many travel here. They do tend to look like elves but don't call them that because they don't like it. Yes, they have pointed ears but they are very advanced considering right now in Earth time it's about 1734.

"The second group roams the air and can take over The Dawn Chasers minds. You can't see them unless you are a Time Lord. Now, they can take your mind over secretly and live there without you or I noticing. Then, they can take over in less than a second causing you to act strangely. They force their hosts into dangerous situations and can survive many of the situations. They are almost evil. Well, do you want to go then?"

"Well, I always loved a good adventure. Let's go!" I smiled at him brightly. It was like there was a silent agreement to forget about what happened five minutes ago.

He smiled back at me. Then manipulated some controls pulled a lever and we were off. I slipped and fell backwards for the first time in- well, I've never actually slipped and fell in here at all.

I was tossed around for a bit because I was already unsteady and had nothing to hold onto. Then, I landed on my stomach and lifted myself up. With a sudden crazy turn I almost did a forward flip off the control rail. Down to the kitchen.

"Doctor, you've got to stop it! Stop the TARDIS! Stop it now!"

"I can't right now. Just hold tight. We'll be there soon."

I jerked forward, "How soon? The TARDIS seems a bit cranky!"

"Not cranky. She's a bit overwhelmed when you fell over. Now many have done that and she's trying to return you to where your supposed to stand in flight."

"What? In the kitchen?"

"Not really. You're making it rather difficult for her to return you upright. Why don't you just sit in the chair and hold on we have about-" the TARDIS landed causing me to finally relax on the ground.

"Doctor, I should probably get ready, again," I said my hair in a mess.

"Sure I'll be down here."

I paced up the stairs with my hair gently brushed behind my shoulders causing a gentle breeze to flow across my now exposed skin. It was soft as silk to the touch but my longer nails didn't feel good when they crossed over in a feverish scratch when I reached the top. It felt as though something small bit me when The Doctor opened the doors to look outside.

I ran to my vanity and cleared my makeup and redid it. I ran a wooden comb through my hair and slid on a less ripped pair of shorts. I ran down the steps to find The Doctor just sniffing away at the air.

"Doctor, are the Mosquitos on this planet?"

"No, Why?"

"It felt like something small bit me. I figured that it would be something like a mosquito."

"Ah, Okay. Don't worry about it then. Perhaps it was an insect of sorts. I'll talk to the locals when we get into-" as we walked down the hill a trap door flung open and we were thrown down onto a muddy slide. I clutched to The Doctors arm and screeched in shock totally not expecting to be slid down with my pure white shirt sure not to be this white ever again. The Doctor looked over at me eyes wide in a sense of adventure. He just laughed and I stopped screaming and watched him. He stopped laughing and looked over at me curiously. I looked back at him trying to give of a glow of reassurance that I was fine.

Suddenly my mind went foggy. I didn't feel like it was mt choice on what I was doing. The Doctor looked away from me. I flung myself over on top of him and he looked at me with such a startled look. I tried to give a sense of confusion over to him to say this wasn't me, but instead I let out a purr of seduction. Uh oh! This is not going to go well. My eyes began to feel cloudy too. I sighed at him gazing into his eyes. What ever has taken me over knows how I feel about him.

Then I grabbed his wrist and twisted them behind his head with a strength I never knew I had and now The Doctor just gave a look of being defenseless. He couldn't fight it so he limped his muscles letting me know he just gave in. My hands stayed firmly cupped around his wrists. We landed on a ground in a concealed room. Man how I wished it was a public room. I unwillingly leaned in and let me breath come out of my mouth breezing across his face and he tensed up again. He tried to relax, but what ever is controlling me knows just how to make The Doctor want me.

A passion I tried to hide made my skin warmer than usual. This was me, but my controller let it seep through. I felt caged behing walls. He looked pained in his eyes. Then, giving The Doctor mercy I gently pressed my lips against his. Unwillingly my lips parted and absorbed his into mine. I took charge in this kiss which was different from my first which was not The Doctor, but my ex-boyfriend.

I forced his lips apart and he gave in to my force. I softened up in submission wanting him to kiss me himself. He caught on quickly and rolled over forcing him to be ontop then began kissing me like mad. I never knew he could kiss like this. How could one so old still remember how to kiss? I was careful not to let shock seep through yet. What ever was controlling me realesed me. Right now it was just me kissing The Doctr and I felt my body temperature rise. I couldn't hide the blush peeking up. I relaxed my hands the clamped his wrists and held his cheeks affectionately. He opened his eyes and looked at my red cheeks. He then slowly pulled away. I opened my eyes slowly and took in his expression. He looked at me in shock, but something new from the last time. Deep, hidden affection toward me. He must have known it was not me. Those controllers can't keep me entirely locked up. I had windows of my own. My eyes like crystal balls that showed every emotion that even came to mind.

He looked a new kind of young and so helpless against his emotions. He just looked up at me trying to give off a small grin. It was a crooked grin, but made me laugh. He rolled off of me.

"I'm sorry Doctor!"

"Why should you be sorry. I know that wasn't you. That bite was the mind controller. Although it may have transferred into me as you kissed me. That's the only thing you can be sorry for although it still wasn't you there."

"That look you gave me though. After we pulled apart you look as though I pulled a secret from you with a helpless look with something else. It was so deep and affectionate. I couldn't pick it up. You looked almost like you...loved me."

"Yeah, I do. I love you like a daughter and your not making it easy. Always trying to change my mind. Tell me this Ally: do you think you're beautiful? Do you think your smart? Do you know how great and rare of a person you are? Do I have to remind you every day your the kind of person a person should be proud to be? You'll a

Ways be unique. Something special. Everyday you show a smile and personality that shines brighter than a sun. A thousand suns even. Don't you know how great of a person you are?"

I blushed at the kind words. I never knew how great and rare of a person I am. Surely a man of this age who has seen everything knows many great people.

"To be honest while we remain in this privacy you are making it hard for me to not fall in love with you. I mean to love you like that."

I turned to face him. "We should get going," I said desperately trying to end the awkward silence. We both hopped up stiffly and at shock at each other's emotions toward one another.

We met the elf creatures and they could see our clouded emotional eyes. They even had the funniest of accents. They sounded like nothing Ove ever heard before.

"You have your mind taken over my dears," said the designated healer. She had long brown hair and plain, large, grey eyes. Her ears swooped out of her untamed hair that reached halfway down her back. They were shorter aliens than some I've seen before, but I didn't stare at her. She had ash grey skin with a strange hint of blue. She looked behind at The Doctor, "You love this man. Do you or do you not?"

"Of course I do. He's treated me better than my own Mother and Father."

"Ah, I see your problem. You've felt abandoned and this man is the only man who gave you the time of day. You love him for that. Does he love you?"

"I think he does, but he's still trying to pinpoint his exact feelings toward me. I've been traveling with him for about a year now. It feels like eternity that I've been with him and I'm never going back."

"I see everything so don't see me like a fool, miss. I see everything and can understand it. He is an alien to you, but you dropped everything and trusted him. You almost didn't but even in that first adventure you had a change. He's doesn't age as fast as you do. You can't stay with him you'd grow in age and he would sit there young as ever yet still older than you but you'll love him. Something will end this companionship and it won't be on your will and I'm afraid not his either." She held my hands in her small yet lengthy hands and closed her eyes forcing an image into my head. It was a Dalek. I would die at the hands, or rather weapon, of a dalek. Exterminate. Oh my how I wish I could tell The Doctor. He'd change time to save me, but I know deep in my mind that I must die this way, so The Doctor must not know.

"How long have I got?"

"I can't tell you the exact time because you are a traveler. You have grown though and look more like a woman. A young girl sits next to you. Your daughter. I'm sorry but she has two hearts and carries a trace of him. She's his daughter too. You will have a daughter with him."

I feel my cheeks growing red at the thought of baring his child. No one was ever meant to do that. Surely he has too old by now to even think of being a father. What makes me so special. Some have been pregnant on board before, but I never even thought I'd be one. How could the adventurous Doctor take a child on his dangerous journeys! He's died over and over on his own trips alone what about my child. My child would regenerate and live on without me

"You obviously care very much for this Doctor. He cares much for you and your child. The child I see here is her second face and appears the age of eight. Why are you two here anyway?"

"The Doctor suggested we meet your people. You guys seem very kind and helpful."

Her pupils grew large and she began reciting something in a low tone and a strange language that I couldn't pick up. The TARDIS already set the language to native, but this wasn't native. Her eyes grew cloudy and her ears twitched. Then it stopped and she smiled at me as if nothing happened. I looked curiously at The Doctor who had walked over at some point. I hope he didn't hear the part about our daughter. I'm still a bit worried about it.

I look up at The Doctor curiously and he stars back with a kind smile. Everything had changed from when it was just him and I with a warm friendship now we are supposed to have a child? The Doctor was never meant to do anything like this. The Elf stared at me and him with our eyes locked together and smiled, "See you will make a great couple!"

"Yes, sure we will. Wait! We aren't a couple! We will never be a couple!" The Doctor began to shout trying to contain himself and keep away from any thoughts of considering any love life with a companion. Especially when I'm only seventeen. It still hurt to see him throw a big Doctor fit over loving me. He's loved companions before, but we have a future and he has raised me in my later years. The Doctor and I with a future. I blushed redder at the thought of even being a wife of The Doctor. Of course he'd have to tell me his name first so I know what the heck of a Mrs. I'll be because I can't say officially I'm Mrs. Doctor! Perhaps Mrs. Smith. For his fake name of John Smith.

I pulled my eyes away from The Doctor and looked at the blueish elf sitting in front of me. I pulled out the chair and stomped off to The TARDIS. The Doctor was frustrating me. Driving me up a wall. Why couldn't he just exept he will have me as a lover. I'm happy to comit, but is he. I'm half way there and The Doctor grabs my shoulder. I stop mid footsteps and looked back at him. He hugged me tightly knowing what he had done wrong. That means he knows how I felt about him. My entire face was as red as a rose by now. He pulled away and cast a small knowing smile.

"Doctor your not being fair!"

"Allyson you've never been fair to me."

I just gave a small scowl at him and we just held that embrace not wanting to leave. I turned pale again with feeling the strong chemistry.

"It's time to leave and forget..." I said getting annoyed at my feelings. I was trying to be mad, but here I was cooing like a dove over The Doctor. He surely deserves more respect. I called him a pervert in my head as I first met him and here I was begging him to kiss me silently. Who is the pervert now hitting on an innocent man looking for an adventure and a simple companion to fend off his loneliness. Another thing is that I'm seventeen.

"Fine. If you want to leave this wonderful civilization we can, but if you want to stay I would understand."

"Let's just forget!"

"I won't. I can't forget not a single moment. Every moment will be important."

"That's the problem they are too important. Leave them."

"This isn't about us kissing is it?"

"Um...maybe."

"It is. Our destiny pulls us together this way though. I did hear about our daughter and now we have to have one. When we hear if our future we can't change it because that creates a false sorce."

"How do we know when?"

"We don't. Now we have a problem. I love someone far too young to love me and I'm meant to have a child under irresponsible circumstances. You can't expect yourself to be the only one with issues here. Now, we should go back."

Suddenly both our eyes went cloudy and we walked into the TARDIS. The Doctor set the TARDIS to head to present day London then emergency stopped it in the middle of the Time Vortex. He opened the doors and shoved me in. I screamed and became weak to my oncoming death. He wasn't himself, but my controller released me to my death. I cried just begging myself to live or The Doctor to open his eyes.