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Now who thought that they might know about the companions this chapter.
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Well, you're not. We are back to the Doctors.
There is a part of this that might not make any sense to someone that knows about computers. I just came up with the idea and now reading back it seems a bit stupid. It serves the purpose that I want it to.
Anyway, enough of me. On with the story.
Ballot
"Trust me, this is in your best interest." Peter said as he slide his laptop out of the case.
"It better be Twelve. I have more important things to get on with." Kate replied.
Peter prayed to everything that what showed up on his screen last night would still be there now. It had taken him longer than he thought it would to get Kate, Matt and David to have a look at it at the same time. The laptop loaded up and he quickly entered his password before it logged into his account. His face fell when on the screen was the website he had hoped would come up the first time.
"And what are we meant to be looking at." Kate asked.
He quickly reloaded the page just to get the same result. "I was doing some research on the Impossible Girl. I was just trying to get more of a background around her to try and understand her a bit more. The screen when white and there was this buzzing sound before it stopped." He grabbed a piece of paper. "This came up on the screen."
He held up the paper and looked at them to try and get a reaction. Kate took it off him.
"I am not making it up." Peter added.
She looked over the paper to look at him. "It's nothing of any importance."
David opened his mouth to say something but was stopped when Kate turned to him.
"Twelve, you have more important things to be worrying about then something insignificant. You cannot get distracted." She turned on her heel. "Ten, with me."
David obediently followed her. Peter watched them go.
"It is bit like a ballot isn't it?"
He turned back to see Matt sat on the edge of his desk, looking at the paper.
"Sorry."
Matt turned the paper towards him. "You know, its like that little animation that they have before a party political broadcast from one of the party." He started to click. "They have bit of paper like this floating into a ballot box."
Peter took the paper off him. "You're right."
Matt sat up a bit straighter. "Of course I am right." He slide off the table. "I will have a look at your laptop later to see what happened."
Peter caught the sleeve of his jacket as he left. "I need to ask you ..." He started before his laptop went weird again. "Blasted thing. Can't you look at it now?"
He turned back around to see that Matt had disappeared.
"I thought computers were his thing." He grumbled.
It wasn't making a noise but the screen kept flickering. He tapped the side of the screen to try and make it stop. He was actually quite glad for the distraction. It meant that he didn't have to carry on his research of Clara.
He had decided to call her and they had been texting ever since. She would tell him that he was using emjois wrong but he didn't really understand them and getting them wrong seemed to make her laugh. He loved her smile from the few times that they had met.
The computer stopped flickering and command prompt had been opened and put full screen. Peter stared at the programme. Where it said his user being John Smith, he typed hi and pressed enter just to see what would happen. It told him that it was not recognised as an internal or external command.
He had no idea what it was for and was about to close it when something came up on it.
C:\User\ImpossibleGirlHope I have the right computer
Peter smiled to himself before asking who she was looking for.
C:\User\ImpossibleGirlTwelve
C:\User\JohnSmithRight computer.
C:\User\ImpossibleGirlThe Doctors need to become aware.
Peter scrunched up his brow as he looked at the message. By David's reaction, he knew something was up but now when Clara was saying something was up, it worried him even more. There was something that everyone else knew but not him.
C:\User\JohnSmithBecome aware of what?
C:\User\ImpossibleGirlHe is back
C:\User\JohnSmithWho's back?
She took a little longer to reply that time. He wondered if someone was looking over her shoulder, telling her what to write. She probably would have told him if it was as important as it sounded.
C:\User\ImpossibleGirlI can't say. I shouldn't even know. He will find out. We are already in danger.
C:\User\JohnSmithI will try and help but I will need more than that.
C:\User\ImpossibleGirlSorry
Peter hunted the keyboard for the key that took a picture of the screen. He knew what it was called but when he had found it, the chat had disappeared. How was he meant to help?
Something was going on. David definitely knew what was up and he suspected that Matt might have an idea. Whatever was going on had obviously happened long before he was asked to join.
"Matt was brought in 2010."
"And what does that have to do with anything?"
"Something is going on." Peter explained. "I have tried to look it up but … there is nothing. There were two missions which have been marked as inconclusive but I don't have the access to look at them. Matt became their youngest recruit at 27."
"Do you wish us to investigate?" Vasta asked.
"Cl… The Impossible Girl knows but cannot tell me. I need to get them to notice what she has."
"Do you want our help? I am sure we can get her here."
Peter shook his head. "She works with other people, then they will notice her disappearance and then you will have people looking for her. I think it is something I need to work out for myself."
"The homeless?"
He sighed. "When I was still up in Glasgow, I was in partnership with a woman. She talked about a plan to use the homeless as mindless slaves, placing a microchip into their brains to turn them into her soldiers. There was a man that she used to have secret meetings with. I was never allowed to attend them. I am scared that it is happening and I don't know how to sort it out or tell someone."
"Let me deal with that. Scotland yard has opened an investigate into it. I can offer my assistance to it and maybe try and drop that in."
"I cannot help but wonder if they might be connected."
"Then we may have to be looking over our shoulders more than we have been." Vastra stated.
