Eva stared at the ceiling, laying on her bed. The Doctor had said an hour earlier that he needed to do something important before moving on. As she stared upwards, she began to wonder what she had gotten herself into. Was this man really going to be able to help her? How would he even begin to do that? This "doctor", as he calls himself, barely knew anything about her.
"Eva!" she heard him call from the control room.
She immediately jumped from her bed and ran to him. As she met him from the other side of the console, she heard a soft thumping noise. The Doctor raised an eyebrow, watching Eva turn her head left, then right, as if she were searching for something. His face looked like he had just cried. Perhaps that was what he needed to do. After all, she heard part of the conversation by accident. He was saying goodbye to someone.
"What is it?" he asked.
Eva turned around and looked left and right but could not find the source of the noise. She spun back around to face the Doctor, still looking at her, no doubt curious as to what she was hearing. She took two steps closer to him, listening for the noise to grow louder. It did. Not only did the thumping noise escalate in volume, but now it sounded like drums.
"It's this noise." She answered, slowly stepping closer to the Doctor. "It sounds like two drums beating at the same time. Almost like-"
The Doctor finished her sentence. "Two hearts."
Eva nodded.
"How did you know?" she asked.
"Well," he began his answer with a childish grin on his face. "Because I have two hearts."
"B-but that would mean that-"she trailed off.
The Doctor remained silent, wanting to see if she would be able to guess correctly.
"You're not a human." She finished.
He shook his head to acknowledge that she was correct.
"Right you are! I'm a Time Lord." He said to her as he motioned for her to stand by the doors.
"You mean, you're an alien?"
That smile of his still did not fade. He simply shook his head "yes" and followed behind her.
"Yeah, but enough of that." He said before swinging open the TARDIS doors. "Take a look at this!"
Eva gasped at the sight before them. A meteor flew past them, and continued onwards throughout the depths of space. The white stars burned brightly, adding even more beauty to the blackness of space. Glowing in the distance was the Milky Way galaxy, with Earth not even being in sight. It was amazing to see how small the earth was in comparison with the vastness of everything, space included.
The Doctor smiled at Eva as he dropped her jaw in awe and wonder.
"We-we're in space." She said, still taken aback.
"Beautiful, isn't it?" said the Doctor.
As he gazed at the stars with her, he put his hands in his coat pockets. Even though he had offered to help this young woman find out what she was, he had no plans on how to actually do it.
"You see, Eva?" he began. "The TARDIS can travel to anywhere, in any place, and at any time."
Eva turned her head towards him.
"And that is how I plan to help you." He continued. "Even if we have to travel to the end of the universe, there's an answer out there somewhere. All we have to do is look. Speaking of which, how would you like to go to London with me?"
Eva nearly fell backwards in shock. "What!?"
"Splendid! I knew you'd like it!" said the Doctor with a smile as he ran back to the console.
His destination: London, 2008.
Meanwhile, in a space-station located further away than the universe itself, a young man clad in black was making his way towards a shadowed figure in the middle of a room with screen monitors. There the figure was busy typing calculations, stopping only because he heard the footsteps.
"Was the teleportation successful?" asked the figure.
"Yeah, piece of cake." The man replied. "Now can I change outta these clothes? Black's not my color."
The figure nodded.
"Why did I need to disguise myself anyway?" the man asked again. "Why not just reveal everything and take her now?"
"Because this is more than just time travel." The figure replied, irritated. "We can't just jump into different universes and snatch people. Someone is tampering with Eva's timeline. That puts more than just her future in jeopardy. It puts the future of our universes at risk as well."
The man tilted his head in confusion. "…And we can't take her now because?"
The figure growled in frustration. "Because she's not ready yet! She told us that she learned her abilities while travelling with the Doctor. Tampering with that part of her life is too risky. "
The figure then returned to his calculations, pausing to write down a series of numbers onto a piece of scratch paper.
"It looks like they're going to be heading to this date." He said, handing a piece of paper to the other man. "Now I need you to-"
"I'm on it!" the man yelled at the figure as he grabbed his teleportation device and a backpack, then vanished.
"Wait a minute!" the shadowed figure yelled. "You can't just-"
It was too late. He was gone.
Meanwhile, the TARDIS had landed in the middle of London. Eva opened the door and stepped out, though she was uneasy. The Doctor ran out to join her, eager to walk the streets.
"Thought it'd be a good idea to make a little pit stop before we start." He said cheerfully. "You know, take a relaxing break after Canary Wharf."
"So, you chose London?" Eva asked.
"Yeah, why not? Different year. Might be nice."
Eva rolled her eyes, quite unimpressed with this man who would supposedly help her find her origin. Of all the places to go to after a traumatic event, he chose the same place where the event happened. Sure, it was in a different year, but it still did not make sense. The Doctor ignored her behavior and walked toward a hospital in the distance. The sky around it had grown dark, and there was lightening in the sky.
"Royal Hope Hospital." He said.
"What about it?"
"That's where they are."
Eva shook her head in frustration. "Where what are?"
The Doctor smiled. "Those plasma coils."
"What?"
He pointed at the lightning that struck above the hospital.
"That's more than just lightening. Those are plasma coils. I noticed them earlier. That's pretty much why I wanted to stop by the hospital. There's gotta be a reason they're there. Come on, it'll be fun!"
He sprinted towards the entrance of the hospital, while Eva ran beside him.
As they continued running, a young man with red hair was briskly jogging from behind him. He wore a red shirt, a leather jacket, a black backpack, blue jeans and white tennis shoes. The man accidentally bumped into the Doctor's shoulder.
"Oh, my bad!" the man said in an American accent as he turned to face the Doctor. He chuckled nervously before turning around again and increasing his pace.
The Doctor shrugged it off.
The two made their way towards the hospital's entrance, just seconds before the rain began to rise from underneath them.
"Doctor?" asked Eva, nervously. "What's going on?"
The rain continued to rise, and so did the hospital. The patients and staff were screaming in fear, and the entire structure violently shook like an earthquake. Everybody began running around in panic. Eva turned to the Doctor for answers, but he was gone.
"Perfect." She thought to herself sarcastically.
Within an instant, the shaking stopped, and everyone in the building screamed in shock.
"Look!" someone yelled.
Eva looked out the window to see what should be impossible. There was no city, no cars, and no more rain. The sky was black, with the Earth facing them in the distance.
"Oh my God." She said quietly to herself. "We're on the moon."