Eleanor Myres was an unexceptional girl, she was a solid B student with the occasional A and kept her head down, she was polite to everyone she met and nobody really had any qualms with her, she was pretty but you wouldn't see her on the cover of a magazine. Nothing ever really made her stand out. You could probably say she was abnormally normal.
Eleanor loved fantasy and science fiction and you would often find her with her head in the clouds, daydreaming and imagining herself in the world of the latest thing she watched or read.
She lived in a small town in the west of Ireland and she had a handful of friends in school, each of whom were more normal than the last. She would have probably been the person in your class that you forgot existed until you met them again at a school reunion. Or at least she would have been if she hadn't gone missing along with her family during the Easter Holidays.
All the neighbours were interrogated about their disappearance and they all said the same thing, "Nobody entered or left the house."
Now, the Gardaí could have interpreted this as a fluke, it was very possible that the family just wasn't spotted leaving, but the alarm of the house was faulty and set off everytime it was left on and a door, inside and outside, opened or closed. Inside the house all doors were closed and the alarm was on.
What was even more mysterious was the family car was present and accounted for and no taxis or bus services were in the area at the time of disappearance.
The cameras that were placed outside the house by the family showed nothing entering the house or leaving either. Neither did the stop cameras inside, but they did show something that made the Gardaí even more curious; it had captured the family sitting in the living room watching television in one frame and 10 seconds later in the next they were missing and did not show up in any other cameras. It simply baffled the detectives, how could a family of 7 disappear in 10 seconds as if they didn't exist?
It had been a Sunday evening and Eleanor's whole family was crowded around the telly, just as they always did, to watch the latest episode of their favourite show, Doctor Who.
Her family have been watching it together since she was about 2 years old and 14 years later, the family still loved it. She didn't really remember watching the show until she was about 5 or 6 but her parents and older siblings swore she was glued to the screen. It was probably where her love of fantasy and science fiction came from.
Her dad used to watch the show when it was airing in the 70s and 80s and when he heard they were bringing the show back in 2005, he immediately turned the show into a well loved tradition in the household.
The only two of her siblings who were old enough to remember watching the first season of the new series when it first came out were Cecelia and Thomas, because they were both 8 at the time and 23 by the time of the disappearance.
Kellan was the third oldest after the twins and he always made the trip down from college in Dublin to watch the show with his family, even if he was 20 and could watch it by himself if he wanted.
After Kellan came Eleanor who was 17.
Then came the literal devil child, Fionnula. Now, Fionnula didn't often try to be as mischievous as she was but as the youngest of 5 she got away with many things and pushed her luck often, she probably held the family record for most groundings before 13.
And somehow all seven of them, including their Mam and Dad fit in their tiny living room every Sunday.
They had just finished The Timeless Child, when Eleanor jokingly said to her dad, "I don't know if those Cyberlords can give me an ounce of the terror that the Weeping Angels gave me."
Her father joking rolled his eyes, "Yeah, I remember you had nightmares for ages after them."
"What's a Weeping Angel?"
All the siblings turned to Fionnula in disgust and then to their dad.
"Turn on Netflix, Dad, we need to educate this one," Eleanor said.
As all the older siblings agreed and pestered their father, he finally relented and turned on The Time of the Angels.
Her father paused the show after the angel on the screen in front of Amelia Pond appears, taking it as a proper explanation.
The whole family turned to the youngest and asked her opinion.
But as they did so, they made one mistake; they didn't keep an eye on the angel.
And that one mistake cost them the last 10 seconds of their lives in their home universe. They forgot that the image of an Angel becomes an Angel.
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