Chapter 6
The summer sun hung over the Earth, attempting to provide happiness and enjoyment to the people below and certainly you would've thought so, as kids played on swings, laughing with their parents, teenagers laughed at how silly life was with their friends, while the adults took advantage of the period of relaxation they now had. However there were two very unhappy people about to collide on a storey in a block of flats.
"Damn these steps" muttered Saph, as she finally reached the floor June's flat was located. It was harder then it looked lugging a small but surprisingly heavy suitcase down three flights of steps. She looked towards the doors of the separate flats, looking for the number of June's flat. As she was busy searching, she failed to get out of the way of a brown figure, rushing towards the stairs. This resulted in an inevitable collision, leaving them both on the hard concrete floor.
"Do you mind?" berated Saph.
"Yes I do!" replied the figure, steadily rising to his feet "You've dirtied my suit!"
As the figure rose, Saph got a good look at him form her position from the floor. It took her a while but she suddenly recognized him.
"You!" she said in a moment of realization, "You're that weirdo in town!"
"I'll have you know…" He stopped in mid-flow. "Wait a minute…" He stuck his hand into one of his pockets and pulled out a file. He opened it and stared at something on the page, before putting the file back into his pocket with a big grin on his face. "Ms. Sapphire Blume, I've found you at last!" Saying this he grabbed her hand and gave a hearty handshake.
As Saph tried to pull her hand away, she replied, "How do you know my name? Anyway, it's Saph, never Sapphire" She made an effort of spitting out the last word.
"Oh well if we're getting names right, I'm not weirdo, I'm the Doctor" he said in a light telling off manner.
"Hey, stick to the subject!" Saph demanded, "How do you know my name?"
"That's not important" dismissed the Doctor and before she could interrupt, informed her "Listen you may have knowledge that could save millions of lives on this planet and many others"
"Oh really?" scoffed Saph, "Well at the moment, I'm in a bit of a crisis. My boyfriend is cheating on me with a number of plants and I just want to get to my friends flat, so I can flood it with tears. After a few weeks of that, I'll probably be ready to answer any questions that you may have" There was a moment of stunned silence, broken by an inappropriate question by the Doctor; "Did you say plants?"
In her current mood, Saph would've killed someone for asking that but the horrified look on the Doctors face made her very nervous. "Yeah…why?" she said nervously. The Doctor remained frozen, before quickly asking her "Where's your flat?"
Pointing up the steps, Saph replied "Um, three floors up, its number 10 but why…" But her question was left unsaid as the Doctor charged up the steps. Abandoning her suitcase, Saph quickly charged after him, back to the place she least wanted to go.
Saph managed to reach her floor only a few seconds behind the Doctor and managed to reach him, just before he started to look for her flat door. "Wait! I don't want to go back…in there" Saph pleaded.
The Doctor turned to face her, a serious expression on his face. "Listen Saph, do you care about Brett at all?"
"Well yeah, but…something's gone wrong lately. He's acted so distant lately and…Oh my god!" While wondering what had exactly gone wrong with Brett lately, her gaze had drifted towards the door to her flat, which was currently barely hanging on its hinges. After her shocked scream, the Doctor also looked towards what remained of the door. Leaving no time to waste, he rushed into the flat, with Saph following him at almost twice the speed.
While the Doctor had rushed into the flat without a care, Saph spent a great deal of time standing in the doorway, surveying the devastation in shock. It was chaos inside; all the plants lay lifeless on the floor, all the furniture were tipped over into extraordinary positions, the wallpaper was ripped and, oddly, there was a small pile of leaves near a sofa on its side. This was where the Doctor was kneeling now; investigating one of the leaves through his newly attired glasses. "Oh dear, this is not good, nothing about this is good" he muttered gloomily.
"What's so bad about a leaf?" enquired Saph.
"Hm?" said the Doctor, looking up to Saph from his position. He subsequently whipped off his glasses and looked back and forth from Saph and the pile of leaves as he spoke "If it was an ordinary Earth plant, nothing would be bad, except for the fact that someone has been inconsiderate enough to damage an innocent plant. However! This is not a plant from here or even anywhere near here I would expect…this plant is alien"
Out of interest, I wonder if anyone has spotted a quote from a former doctor
