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A/N: Ok, so I know I haven't updated in ages but if you notice on my profile it tells you why. The answer: EXAMS!! Don't they just suck! Well, my exmas are still going on for another two weeks, this is just a one-off update because I got a new laptop!! YAY!!! So, to celebrate I decided to finish off this chapter and post it for all of you lovely people. I will update more regularly once my exams are over in about two weeks. So, in the meantime, enjoy the next chapter of Out of Place!
Iz ran down the stairs the next morning, awoken by the smell of pancakes cooking, she ran as fast as she could to the kitchen.
"Mum, you made pancakes!" Iz exclaimed, hugging Liz, placing a kiss on her cheek before walking towards her seat, "Thanks Liz,"
"Well, it is you favourite and we don't know how long you'll be back," Liz replied. Iz beamed.
"Did someone say pancakes?" the Doctor asked
"Yeah mum made pancakes," Iz replied
"Someone's obviously happy about that," the Doctor joked, Iz stuck her tongue out at him.
"So, how did things go last night?" The Doctor asked once everyone was seated, Sam shrugged,
"Not much," Iz replied, "But I suppose I found out that I won't be able to get the necklace,"
"Why not?" Mark asked
"The girl, Claire is friendly with Arianna, and you know how much we hate each other, so she is not gonna give it to me willingly, but I was thinking maybe one of the boys could get it," Iz replied
"Which boy?" Ethan asked
"Well probably Arthur or Merlin,"
"OK, so back to changing their names," The Doctor said
"Well, I like Matt for Merlin, Gwen can keep her name, Morgan for Morgana and I don't know Adam for Arthur," Iz said with a shrug at the last part.
"Ok, now clothes, we're going to have to go shopping after breakfast, while Iz, Sam, Mark and the Doctor come up with a plan," Liz stated.
So after breakfast the two groups went their separate ways. The Doctor and Iz came up with a plan, well it wasn't much of a plan but it was the best they could come up with for such an unusual situation.
It wasn't long until the end of the weekend came to a close and a new school day began. Iz dragged herself out of bed that Monday morning, quickly getting dressed after not being able to decide what to wear and becoming late, she decided on jeans and a simple back top, hoping that the weekend gave the rest of the school a chance to get her arrival out of their systems. Unfortunately for her, she knew that two days wouldn't be enough, and that she would probably be gone by the time they did. She raced down the stairs only to be met by one slightly irritated brother, who also wasn't happy to be up so early in the morning.
"You're late," Sam stated
"Only by a few minutes," Iz replied shrugging "So is everyone ready for school?" Arthur, Merlin, Gwen and Morgana all nodded, even though they were so terrified, none of them had ever been to school before.
"Trust us you'll all be fine," Mark said
"Yeah, don't worry about it," Sam said reassuringly
"But unfortunately you can't really be seen with all of us so you guys will be going with Mark in one car, while Sam and I will be going in the other. We've arranged it so that Mark will be showing you around so it wont seem strange however, you all have to act like you don't know who I am. Also, Arthur and Merlin I don't care which one of you it is but one of you has to get close to Claire, close enough that she will let you see the necklace which means she has to take it off, but either me, Sam or Mark has to be there when you do so that we can swap the real one for the fake one. The Doctor said that the faster we get it off her the better so I'm giving us 'till the end of the week before we do it the Torchwood way: guns blazing, and trust me the Doctor isn't going to like that, so no pressure or anything but one week. Ok? You got all that?" Iz asked everyone. They all nodded.
"Sure, no pressure," Arthur muttered. Iz put her hands on his shoulders'.
"You'll be fine," she said looking him straight in the eyes.
"I think Arthur should do it," Morgana said
"Fine, I told you I really don't care. I just don't want Jack involved, he's too much of a distraction," Iz stated
"Why is he a distraction?" Gwen asked. Iz smiled.
"Because he's gorgeous," Iz replied matter-of-factly, with a slightly gazed look in her eyes.
"So, I have to get close to her," Arthur said snapping Iz out of her daydream, Iz shook her head clear of her previous thoughts before answering Arthur's question.
"Yeah, that's the plan" she replied
They all then made their way to their respective cars and drove to school. At school everything was exactly how Iz had imagined, as soon as she had stepped out of the car she could hear the whispers starting and she tried her best to just ignore them, but it was hard and registration hadn't even started yet. 'This is going to be a very long day' she thought to herself.
As she made her way to her registration classroom someone caught her eye: it was Arianna, and just like she remembered, she was yelling at someone. Iz couldn't stand her, and thought the kid had suffered enough, besides Arianna didn't know she was back yet.
"Hey," Iz yelled walking towards Arianna, her 'friends' Alyson, Taylor and now Claire, "Leave him alone," she said reaching the group of people. Arianna's head snapped up and glared in the direction of the voice before she gasped.
"What are you doing here?" she sneered
"Making sure you leave that kid, I'm sorry what was your name?" she asked turning to the boy.
"Owen," the boy replied quietly.
"Right, leave Owen alone because you're bored and feel like picking on someone," Iz finished
"Hmph, whatev, I don't yell at people for nothing hun, you know that the little brat ran right into me and didn't even apologize I mean what kind of person does that?" Arianna said in an innocent voice, as she had noticed crowds forming. Iz had also noticed, she also knew that Arthur and Morgana were within sed crowd.
"Only an idiot would do something like that," Claire continued
"Yeah," Alyson and Taylor said in unison. Iz rolled her eyes.
"You really expect me to believe that shit, so he bumped into you, so what? It's not the end of the world. You obviously survived, unfortunately. That is no reason to go off at him and you know it,"
"Well, it doesn't really matter does it now. This coming from the person who decided that she couldn't take high school and left to travel,"
"More like the person who didn't need to be in school this year haven already sat most of their exams, so decided to go travelling,"
"Details," she said waving her hand in the air. Iz rolled her eyes.
"Main point, leave him alone and aww babe you really need to work on that 'stache of yours," Iz replied walking away and taking Owen with her. Arianna said nothing, glaring at Iz's back before running to the bathroom to find a mirror. Morgana and Arthur just looked at each other, unsure of what had just happened.
"What was that?" Arthur asked Mark. Mark smiled.
"That was high school. Welcome to hell mate," he said leading them away from the crowd
"I'm kinda glad we don't have to go to school back home," Morgana said. Mark laughed.
"Yeah, don't rub it in. Well here we are; registration. Arthur, you know what to do," Mark said before they made their way into the classroom.
It wasn't long until lunch had come around. Iz and Sam sat on one of the tables in the cafeteria talking, when Arthur and Claire walked in together talking.
"Well that was quick," Sam said mostly to himself
"What was?" Iz asked confused. Sam said nothing; instead he nodded his head behind Iz where Arthur and Claire were having lunch together.
"Good. The faster we get that necklace, the less time I have to spend here," Iz replied. Luckily, for Iz she didn't have to wait long.
"We're home," Iz yelled as the seven of them walked into the house.
"So, how did it go?" the Doctor asked from the stairs
"We got it," Iz said smiling. The Doctor ran down the stairs and gave Iz a huge hug before saying anything else.
"Great, well we should probably get going back to Camelot," he said. Iz nodded. Not long after, everyone was back in Camelot. The Cullens' had even arrived.
"So, wanna tell us what's going on?" Iz asked the Doctor when everyone was settled.
"Well – " the Doctor started, but was interrupted by a loud explosion. Everyone froze, then ran to out of the castle to find black smoke coming from the outskirts of Camelot and figures moving towards the castle.
"Shit," Iz said
"Right, well this is it," the Doctor said
"What do we do?"
"Everyone inside," the Doctor said, grabbing Iz's hand and pulling her inside the castle.
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