Ok, I know this has been a very long time coming and I do apologise, I have been extremely busy at the moment and other things have taken priority meaning that this and my Robin Hood fan fic have been forgotten. I'm sorry, I hope readers enjoy the chapter and please review as always, I'd really like to get this moving quicker so when I find the time I'll try and make a conscious effort to write more down and get chapters posted up faster!!
Silence.
The Street was deserted, a line of shops stood on the Doctor's right and then a row of houses was further down the street. Annie looked back at the Tardis; right in the middle of the road.
"Your parking skills are extraordinary!" she laughed.
"Hey!! It's not that bad!" Annie smirked "Besides" he continued "No one else is here!"
"Yeah, I noticed, where are we exactly?"
"Well…….." The Doctor took an intake of breath as he looked at his surrounding "I haven't got the foggiest" he announced, letting out his breath.
"Did you not look when we landed?"
The Doctor looked down at Annie and grinned. "Spoilers!"
Annie shrugged, and then began to walk off down the street.
"Hey! You can't leave me!" But Annie wasn't listening, she turned her face and grinned at him and then sauntered off and intently stared at a shop window. The Doctor ran over to her.
"Rule Number 1: No running off, what are you doing?"
"Finding out where you have taken us, look" she said pointing at a notice in the window, "It's selling black curtains!"
The Doctor looked at her as if she was mad. "That's great, I was thinking of getting some for the Tardis, or do you think blue will suit it better? Do they sell blue ones?" he looked at her and grinned.
Annie tutted, "And you call yourself a historian!"
"No! No No No No, I'm a Time Lord, not a historian!"
"We're in the middle of the blitz, look its silent, no one's here and they're selling black curtains!"
"I knew that"
"Of course, question is what's the date?" Annie walked through the shop door and walked over to where a pile of newspapers were stacked, the shop keeper looked slightly apprehensive as the Doctor wandered over to him.
"You wouldn't happen to know what the date was?" he said grinning.
"14th of October" The shopkeeper and Annie said in unison "1940"
Annie walked over to the Doctor and grabbed his arm, intending to manoeuvre him out the shop, instead she quickly removed her hand, and the Doctor looked at her. They both quickly left the shop.
"I thought a rule was never to ask the date, looks a tad suspicious if you ask me"
"I hadn't said that rule yet. Mainly because I don't follow it. I liked the newspapers though. Good idea." the two of them walked further down the street. "The question is why are we here?"
"Or more where are we?" Annie put in "Look" she said pointing up ahead "Balham Tube Station, wait that was bombed in the blitz, its still up! We can save it, we just need to convince the workers to close it down for the night" she said, her smile getting wider and wider as her idea developed "Think of the all the lives we can save!" she picked up her step and was about to break into a run when the Doctor grabbed her arm.
"No" he stated simply "We can't. Rule Number 2: No meddling with history. We would rewrite it, we can't do that."
"I don't understand, you could be a hero, a life-saver"
"Imagine your grandmother's…boyfriend is in there" Annie looked at the doctor quizzically "Bare with me for a minute"
"My grandma isn't that old!"
"Ok, your great-grandmother then! If her boyfriend is in there and then we save the tube station then she'll marry him and have children that maybe she wouldn't have had if he had died, see…she moves on has your grandma, your mother then you. See? You might not exist if you stop people from using that tube station tonight"
"Ok, I understand"
"Good"
The two travellers remained silent as the walked further down the road, nearing the corner bend, and then they heard it, the sound of the band and the doors to several houses opened. And as they turned the corner, passing the tube station that, that night would collapse, killing 65 civilians they were met with an Army March calling for men to join in the war.