Since the first advert appeared on the television, people began raving about the new show coming on soon, titled simply as, 'The Doctor' which the titular character travels through time and space, meeting people of all walks, avoiding danger as he goes.
Known for his trademarked dusty brown trench coat, blue suit with a white dress shirt and red tie, the Doctor's appearance resonated with people.
The man behind the character's happy and he's certainly not shy about celebrating the long success with the cast and crew as he felt his two hearts jolting with excitement!
He'd shown up at the library with the good news, excitedly telling Theodore and Lila about when they'll see the final product. He wanted them to see it live and didn't give them specifics, only wanting them to see it with a fresh pair of eyes.
Theodore remained skeptical about the idea while Lila's adamant.
David assured them that he crossed his 'T' and dotted his 'I' while keeping the show enticing for the viewers.
After all, the show needed the viewers, and David wanted them enticed with his stories while keeping things tasteful.
Can't show everything on daytime Telly, after all, so his reasoning went.
There's even authenticity to the show with the aide of the Samito and the Ko'gan!
Oh yeah, David convinced them come on the show, helped keep things legitimate while under the guise of a science fiction show.
Shale's dry humour bounced off David while Dom kept the riffraff to a minimal and acted as a guard of sorts. He did most of the heavy lifting when it came to the set designs.
Jasper and the pod aided David with the designs of some of the monsters that's featured in the show. The designs stem from what Jasper witnessed during his time in the seas and David commented that, despite some additions by the department, he's fortunate he never goes that deep in the oceans.
Those designs really unsettled some people on set, but Jasper insisted they're legitimate. Old as he may be, there's some things he never forgets, ever.
David opted to agree with him.
Reese and Lambert helped control the animatronics, something they weren't sure of, but after a few tries, they grew to like the animatronics. A little too much. Lambert thought it'd be funny if she sic an animatronic on David during a rehearsal, sending him running for his life around the set while she's laughing.
She claimed ignorance, but David didn't believe her. She wouldn't admit it and eventually, David's forced to forget it, but he kept a watchful eye on Lambert whenever she's afoot.
Reese wasn't helping in the matter, he liked messing with the props and pranked David more than once.
The only sensible ones on set's Dom, Shale, and Jasper.
Well, maybe not Dom, because he kept David on his toes, making him practice. He didn't believe in the idea of stunt doubles.
He believed that David's fully capable of doing any stunts. In his mind, if David can survive a Dalek, he can survive a fall.
Skewed, but Dom didn't want David showing weakness around others. He'll inevitably receive injuries from his stunts, but at least he's "authentic."
In Ko'gan culture, showing weakness isn't an option. It's dangerous. Should a Ko'gan show it, it's a death sentence. One of the reasons wars always broke out on their home world, nobody wanted to show weakness whenever someone questioned their authority. They rather die in glory on the battlefield.
David told Dom multiple times that he didn't have to worry about similar happening on Earth. Nobody's usurping him because he didn't want to fall off a rooftop.
Didn't stop Dom from eying everyone he wasn't familiar with on set any time David fumbled.
Kinda nice that Dom had his back, even misguided as it is, but it was the thought it counts.
Shale's better about it, but she's influenced by her early years on Earth that she's relaxed compared to her father. Unlike her father, she believed David receiving injuries made him stronger. Her reasoning's that bones heal thicker every time they're broken and by the time David's tenure ended, he'll be stronger than he was before.
Which David needed to inform her that as far as he and Theodore's aware, bones don't work like that, especially half-blooded humans.
Still, she gets on David's case, making sure his injuries aren't life threatening. Almost dotting.
So, that's something and David appreciated her looking out for him.
Humorously, Dom's received some flirtatious comments by an actress on the set, given his disguise making him look like a grizzled man with piercing blue eyes and a defined face, and he had to tell her in the politest way possible, by Ko'gan standards, that they're incompatible.
He's old.
Really old.
She didn't mind.
He told her that his only daughter's thirty-five years old, about the same age as the actress.
She still didn't mind.
So, he told her, he's fought in several wars, even before she existed. He probably served alongside a distant relative of hers that spun off her family tree.
She ended up rescinding her interest in the Ko'gan.
Jasper, for a time, had her interest, since he jumped into cold waters to find an earring that fell out of her ear through the cracks in the wooden dock she was standing on at the time. Her interest in him quickly waned when he came out of the cold waters with her dropped earring and a fish's tail sticking out the side of his mouth, still moving. He proceeded to gulp the fish and that was it.
He made a point that people eat sushi, derived from fresh fish, but the actress wasn't buying his explanation.
Caused her to turn towards David and he politely declined. Didn't tell her the specifics as to why a relationship wouldn't work, but managed to convince her that he's a terrible snorer, that she wouldn't want to deal with, even with earplugs.
That aside, everything went according to plan and David's still adventuring while filming episodes in between. He used his adventures as basis for the next season onward, until he leaves around the fourth year. It'll be a depressing time, to be sure, but for David, it's for the best. Besides that, the premises of the show meant he needed to leave to make way for the next actor to take his spot.
He'll hang around and keep an eye on things, of course.
David hopes that with the show, alien residents hiding among humans have something to look forward to that wasn't another cheap movie or show that painted them in negative colours.
Carefullly tended, he wanted all aliens shown on the show to be as realistic possible, even going far as having a P.O. Box for suggestions and recommendations.
Already he's getting tonnes of letters from happy fans about the representation on the show just from the trailer and synopsis of some of the episodes thus far.
Makes his two hearts grow even more from hearing how much joy he's bringing to the aliens among them. Even thought about reaching out and hiring legitimate articles once the show takes root just so the younger generation have role models.
David's got time and experience, surely he'll make their appearances just as grand once he gets them onboard.
With what he knows about people having their counterparts' memories, David quietly hoped that eventually, he'll have episodes based around the exploits of his father, hoping that he'll find out where he's been.
Between filming and adventuring, David hadn't any luck on the whereabouts of his father, but he did figure out that his father carried a Scottish accent rather a British one he gotten from his mother.
He's tempted to make a trip to Gallifrey and see what he's able to find, but Theodore argued against it, saying that if his father came from there, there's a chance the Time Lords weren't fond of him.
At most, they'll tell him things they disliked about his father, but nothing substantial, giving David pause.
It made him go back to the big book he finally found after hours of looking in the TARDIS, searching through it, hoping his father might've written in it.
Hours past and he managed to find out where he got his blasé nature from.
His father didn't write a whole lot in the book. Just what he thought was important that the other Doctors should know ahead of time. As he looked through the passages, David found that his father wrote about a strange man he'd been hunting.
He didn't name the strange man, a nickname at most, but strongly advised the other Doctors if they ever find out, never say it. He expressed why they should never say it.
"He will come. And he will kill you, too."
Didn't give specifics, but the warning dire, David's father begged the other Doctors not to name the strange man if they discover it. He warned that the strange man took appearances of others, the telling signs of his presence, his bright blue eyes he masked behind sunglasses. His pale skin with black veins pushing outward and his voice, it sounded too alien for even David's father.
Whoever the strange man was, David's father wanted to find him, but as the sparse pages went, he never did.
What's telling that David found that some pages from his father's chapter missing, like they've been ripped out. He spotted little threads where pages normally sat, and the way the remaining pages moved confirmed that there's missing pages.
Why his father removed them, he doesn't know.
Considering he hadn't mentioned David's mother in the remaining pages, something to do with her.
Baffling, David didn't have luck on finding out why his mother's omitted. He's sure his father met her during his adventure.
Without his mother's book from Basil's library, David knows nothing.
He's still trying to find someone who knows his father, knows what became of him, and why his mother doesn't remember him.
Nothing yet, but David remains undeterred.
Days passed since and it's the release day of the new show.
David gathered a watch party with his closest friends and invited Theodore and Lila to come watch the premiere with them.
He's ecstatic that the day came and he made sure that his schedule remained clear just so he can watch the premiere.
There's food, Shale and Dom stood around the table eating it while conversing with Jasper, Lambert, and Reese.
Still on good terms since Theodore saw them last, that's good, and he got to meet Shale, Dom's pride and joy.
She has a similar deep foreboding voice as her father and when her disguise wasn't in effect, Theodore's able to see the vivid blue eyes fully.
Dom's right, she's got the same blue eyes as the stones near their den. Apparently, she got them from her mother, and Dom didn't hesitate to talk warmly about his mate despite how foreboding he looked.
Again, her name didn't roll off the tongue, so it's shorthanded to Saffron for the benefit of everyone's throats.
From what Dom said, Saffron didn't make it in the last war on their home planet, and in her dying breaths begged Dom to take their last viable egg somewhere safe. So, he did.
Despite it happening decades ago, Dom still loved Saffron, and he mentioned he knew her centuries before they became mates. Always hated each other, but eventually saw past their rugged exteriors.
It helped they bonded when they ended up trapped under debris for a week during a war and sufficed on the burrowing creatures that made home underneath their feet.
Dom asked if Jasper had a mate, which he replied that he's too old for a mate, and Dom snorted at this. He stated that he's only a few centuries old, but he managed.
"Hm, but I'm much too old in Samito standards," Jasper tells Dom that he's not sure if he'll ever find a mate. When he was younger, perhaps, but he was a bull, and couldn't settle to save his life. As he gotten older and wiser, he couldn't find a mate because of his mental age being older than some, much too old for their taste.
Snorting, Dom replied with, "Hah, our women would fawn over you!"
Ko'gan women pined for men who showed similar traits as Jasper
Of course, Jasper replied that he's not sure if that'd work, considering, but Dom mentioned that anything's possible.
Dom then asked about Lambert and Reese's parents, since Jasper wasn't their father, and learnt that they left their pod when they came of age. Decided to strike it out on their own, but things happened, and they ended up with Jasper. Been together since, mostly for practical reasons.
"How'd you end up in a human war?" Dom asks Jasper how the old Samito managed ended up ensured in a human war.
Chewing on a cracker with a pile of dipping sauce on it, Jasper regaled the harrowing tale of how he ended up ensnared by the Axis forces.
The warfare on the seafront ended up getting the Samito's attention and he left the safety of the cove to investigate. The bombing and torpedoes disoriented him and he ended up in the surface trying to get his bearings, but when he saw the humans, he knew if they saw him as his normal form, they'd kill him.
"Got to the surface, yes, they dragged me out of the water, dare say they were awfully rude about it, and I ended up in an encampment. They mistook me for a human, must've needed glasses," Jasper recalled how they pulled him out of the waters, barraging him with questions he couldn't answer, since he didn't speak English, then.
Samito didn't have a written language, they went by body language, primary, on account they lived in the sea.
They thought he was French, whatever that was, treated him as such, made him wear shackles.
Learning quick, Jasper fought for his freedom and returned to the safety of the seas once he tore through guards.
"They were awfully rude about it," Jasper shook his head disdainfully as he tells Dom that the guards wouldn't listen to reason and continued to treat him like he's another human.
Snorting, Dom replied, "Hah, not as rude as the old war leaders I knew. Gave me some of my scars for my trouble!"
They conversed well until David called them to the seats as he checked the time. Excitedly, he grabbed a bowl of popcorn, and sat down with the others looking at the large television screen he procured for this moment.
Like a child on Christmas morning, David's smile covered his face as he watched as there's a short trailer of his show, before the screen briefly faded, and the intro played.
THE END