Cool That's chapter 10 done. I want to get away from the investigation for a while by explaining why Peter hears voices. It will later help the investigation

Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who as it is owned by the BBC.

Chapter Ten

Finding out the voices

24 hours later

"Hey Peter, want to go to the pub?" Kieran Davison asked me as I walked through the door of Jubilee's.

"Yeah alright, I feel like I need a drink"

It was a typical Wednesday night, it was nine thirty at night and I had just finished my shift. I didn't have to worry about shutting up shop or an alien trying to kill me. I could now just go out for a drink and wouldn't care how drunk I got. I put the money into the till and went to the room where the bags were kept. Five minutes later I was out the door and on my way to the pub with Kieran.

The pub was crowded as we walked through the door, I could still smell the smell of used cigarettes that filled the pub everyday. I got used to it though as we walked up to the bar.

"What will it be chaps" The barman asked

"A two pints of beer please" Kieran answered

I smiled, he had read my mind. I had waited for him to ask me but he had gotten it right. I wasn't sure if it was paranoia or the lack of sleep that was now making me a bit edgy about it. Kieran smiled when he saw the expression on my face.

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm just going to get us a table" I answered as I walked off to find a table.

I hadn't slept after the interrogation as I still felt guilt about my fling with Robert. Ok so I had finally kissed the man that I had started to like but I had sensed the awkwardness between us. I wasn't entirely ready to surrender my feelings yet as I still felt I had to prove to myself that I was ready to move on. I found a table at the corner of the pub and sat down. I looked around my surroundings and saw various groups of men getting rowdy by the second.

"Here's your drink"

"Thanks, I really needed it" I smiled

Kieran sat down with his drink and there was silence between us as I got stuck into mine. Oh I really needed a beer; I wanted to slip away for a while from the troubles that I had witnessed from the past few days. No one was ever going to know what I had been through but what I had learnt in the past, it was going to stay that way.

"So what have you been up to?" Kieran asked breaking the silence

"Cleaning mostly, but apart from that nothing much" I answered

"So you didn't bump into that man from the alleyway?"

I looked at him angrily. He was doing it again and it was really starting to give me the creeps. I really didn't like people looking into my personal life but then again why did I agree to answer questions about my fling with Robert. I was starting to get frustrated and really wanted to leave. I also wanted to punch the living daylights out of him.

"How do you know that?" I asked quite angrily

"Calm down Peter, this is why I wanted to take you out for a drink; I wanted to share a secret with you" Kieran answered

"Ok, I'm sorry. Just frustrated" I looked at Kieran and started to calm down.

"Ever since I was child I could read people's minds, like you know read their thoughts. I have taught myself to control it. I don't mean to freak people out but it's just who I am. With you I started to find out things that I decided to keep secret and not ask you about, that was why I like talking to you because you like to keep secrets from everyone even relationships. I'm sorry if I freaked you out" Kieran explained

"Yeah, you did a good job at doing that" I said quite annoyed.

"Peter, you don't have to tell me about it. I respect your privacy, but all I know is that you are starting to like that man from the alleyway" Kieran smiled.

I smiled back, well that was right. I was starting to like Captain Jack Harkness but I realised something that had been bugging me for a while. The voices that come to me at night, were they really people's thoughts?

"Can I ask you something?"

"Ok, I wasn't expecting that, but go on"

So I started to tell him about the voices. About how they kept coming to me at night in the darkness, now they had come to me when I was with Jack but he hadn't seem to notice, not one bit. I told him how the voices seem like to be taunting me or whatever. I had never told anyone before about it, it does just seemed to be silly as they would think you were suffering from depression or paranoia.

"No, they don't sound like people's thoughts" Kieran confirmed as I finished my story

"Why?"

"Well for starters, to read someone's thoughts you have to be at least five feet away or close to them. No Peter it's something else" He explained.

"Ok thanks, I wasn't sure" I smiled and went back to my drink

We sat there silent as we finished our drinks. I decided that one drink was enough for tonight. I didn't feel like getting pissed so I bid Kieran farewell and left the pub. I was still angry at

him but not so much as I was before he confirmed that he could read people's minds. At least he was respecting my privacy and that was all that mattered.

I walked to the pizza shop and decided to cut through it to get to the alleyway. I wanted to be alone to think back on the past few days and the alleyway seemed to be the best option. So I walked through the pizza shop, past the flats and into the alleyway.

It was pretty dark as I walked down but light enough to see where I was going. I started to remember what had happened only four days before when I was last here running for my life while a weevil was chasing me. But if it wasn't for Captain Jack Harkness chasing after it then I would probably be dead. What had happened since then were things that I wouldn't have imagined would happen to me but they had. I had developed a crush, had to answer questions about a fling and been inside the headquarters of an alien organisation fantastic!

Peter, Peter. Oh shit the voices were now coming back to me and I had thought I had gotten rid of them for a while. I closed my eyes and put my hands over my ears to try to drown them out. Don't be shy Peter! It hadn't worked the voices were getting louder and louder. It was like they were getting closer. My head was starting to throb as the voices started to get so loud that it was all I could I hear in the alleyway. All now I could see was darkness as I felt the ground beneath me.

�Five minutes later

"Are you alright?" said a voice as I opened my eyes.

Everything seemed blurry for a few seconds until I saw a man staring down at me. He had short light brown hair, blue eyes and was clean shaven. He seemed to have a smile on his face.

"Ow my head, what happened?" I asked

"You seemed to black out, someone warned me this would happen" he answered

"What? You knew that I was going to black out? Who are you?" I asked quite panicky

"I'm James by the way and I'm the cause of your voices"

I looked at him and thought I was going nuts. So all this time I had been haunted by a very handsome man. God how could that be? To me the voices were low haunting voices not a very posh British accent that I was hearing from him.

"Sorry, could you repeat that?" I asked

"I said that I'm the cause of your voices"

"I heard you the first time, but how can you be, I mean the voices to me are haunting not some British accent" I protested

"Sorry about that, I couldn't help it" He explained.

I really now thought I was going crazy. That was all a figment of my imagination that I was still out cold in the alleyway. I lied back down and shut my eyes but so realised that I was actually awake and that all of it was actually happening.

"Ok, why are you haunting me?" I asked sitting myself up against the wall.

"I'm not actually, I've been trying to get your attention but something went wrong" he explained. "I accidently turned my voice into a haunting one" he added.

"Why have you been trying to get my attention?" I asked. "I mean if you have a crush?"

"No! Nothing quite like that"

"Then what?"

"I'm a rift thief; I live in the rift, meaning that I travel quite a bit. Every rift thief is born with an equal sort of like someone they have to protect. You're my equal. Oh I also steal things for a living and trade them" He explained

"Right and I thought I was paranoid" I smiled and tried to stand up. I was feeling ok now as I stood up and looked at James.

"Ok, you might want this" he threw a circular object at me.

I looked at it and noticed very strange markings on the top of it. They looked really ancient and really...alien!

"What is it?" I asked

"It tells you if I'm just about to come back through the rift" he explained "So when it starts to glow red just put it on the ground and it will let me through"

"Oh ok" I nodded and noticed it was glowing red.

"Oh I forgot it was lets you know when I want to go back through to where I was from. So seeya around"

He disappeared and as he did so I could see darkness again as I felt the ground underneath me again.

A/N: So will Peter wake up in the alleyway or will someone else find him? Find out soon in Chapter Eleven. Also please review as it makes me happy to know that people are reading this story.