Jessica's POV

The 'Doctor' (I still hadn't accepted that it was his real name) stood there silently as I made up my mind. Donna quickly whispered something to him and left, so it was just him and I left in the alleyway, in silence. His face has softened from the one I had seen earlier. He seemed sadder and more caring.

Eventually, I accepted his hand to help me up, which made me wince. I'd somehow forgetten about the wound in my shoulder. He turned around expecting me to follow him, but I stood rooted to the spot, I wasn't going with him that quickly. I wanted to find out more about this stranger before I ran off with him... if I ran off with him.

He'd managed to walk about 4 metres before he realised I wasn't following him. He stopped and whirled round with a concerned look on his face. "Are you okay?" He asked, striding back over to me. Bless him, he looked genuinely worried.

I crossed my arms. "Who are you? Really." I interrogated. I wanted a straight answer from him.

"I told you, I'm the Doctor." He replied, shoving his hands in this pockets and taking another small step closer.

"Bullshit." I retorted, leaning back on the wall. The 'Doctor' looked slightly taken aback by my harsh language, but I didn't care. I wasn't going to move until he told me the truth, and then I would decide if I wanted to go with him. "No one's called 'the Doctor'. That's stupid, it's not even a real name. So tell me, who are you?"

He nodded slowly. "Alright then, you want the truth?" He asked, staring into my eyes and raising his eyebrows. I nodded. "What I'm about to tell you might seem quite strange, but I need you to trust me, and believe that I'm telling you the truth, okay?" I acknowledged what he said and let him carry on. "Okay then, here goes nothing." he said to himself before taking a deep breath. "I'm a 900 year old, time-travelling alien from a planet called Gallifrey. I travel the universe in my ship, called the TARDIS, which stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space. I'm a Timelord, the last of the Timelords, and I am really called the Doctor."

I looked at him unimpressed. I wasn't actually unimpressed, but I wasn't shocked either. I didn't really know what I was thinking, or feeling. I guess I was just trying to process everything. My brain was buffering. I felt like this was a dream, that it was all in my mind, or that it washappening to someone else. "Okay. I believe you." I responded after a few seconds. He looked surprised and then started at me intently, as if he didn't believe me. It was then that I realised how uncomfortably close we were standing. I side-stepped out of the sandwich that I had been stuck in, between him and the wall, and carried on speaking as I walked out of the alleyway. "But you're still lying about your name being the Doctor, and I'm not going anywhere until you either tell me your real name, or why you wont tell me your real name." I had now stepped out onto the road, underneath the flickering street lamp, and the 'Doctor' was slowly following me. I could see him trying to formulate the right words and sentences in his head.

He was just about to say something when a gun-shot went off, shattering the street-lamp above my head. I immediately ducked and covered my head with my arms. I heard a man shouting, I din't know what, my heart was pounding too loudly for me to hear. How could I have kept my cool earlier when I was attacked by an alien, but was completely panicking from a single gunshot?

I felt a hand grab mine, and before I knew it, I was being pulled back down the alleyway that I'd just come out of, across the street and into another alleyway where I was shoved through a door, all the while being shot at. It all happened so quickly I didn't have time to take in any of the details. The nest thing I knew I was in some sort of control room with a round console thing in the centre of the room and coral pillars around the edge. There were a few small staircases leading off from the room into corridors.

As beautiful as the interiors were, they weren't my main concern, as my heart was still racing and my head was pounding. I felt... light headed. I sat down on the ramp leading from the door to catch my breath and collect my thoughts. So much had happened in the past 24 hours, it was difficult to process it all. I held my head in my hands and attempted to calm myself. Okay Jess, just breathe. In, out... in, out... Eventually I managed to collect myself enough to stand up and face the other two where were standing by the console, chatting quietly.

Donna noticed me standing there and broke off the conversation. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I think so." I said, slowly making my way up the ramp, quickly scanning the room, you know, just for anything that might be dangerous. I kept a tight grip on the railing though, I was still feeling wuite light-headed after all that running, not to mention the fact that I had a massive wound in my shoulder that had been bleeding steadily for the past couple of hours. "So this is..." I started, gesturing to the whole of the room.

"My ship." The 'Doctor' finished for me. "This is the TARDIS. Beautiful isn't she?" I nodded, immediately regretting the movement. I felt like my head was about to roll off my shoulders.

Donna walked over to me, obviously worried about something. "Are you sure you're okay, you look a bit pale. Doctor, do you think we should take her to the Medical Bay?"

He quickly glanced at me. "Yeah, but first we've got to get the TARDIS out of here." He said as he circled the console, flicking switches, turning dials and pulling levers.

Suddenly the TARDIS started shaking, and that was all it took for the dizziness to take over. I felt so disoriented and my vision was fading and I felt my hand slip from the railing. My legs buckled under me and I heard Donna shouting "Doctor!" but it sounded so far away. The darkness was closing around me, offering relief from the outside and I embraced it.

A/N: Hey, sorry it's been a few days since I last updated, but y'know, stuff happens and that. Please do comment if you've got anything to say, good or bad, I'll pay attention to it all. Thanks for reading, love you mucho ^_^