"Allons-y."

The word makes me pause, a prickle of familiarity pangs in the back of my mind. Something about the word—and the man saying it, now that I think about it—is sending up red flags in my head. For some reason, I feel dread pool in the pit of my stomach.

I focus my full attention on the pin-striped man talking to Ayo, wondering why he would cause such a reaction in me. Perhaps he was a criminal of some sort? It's possible I saw him on some sort of Most Wanted list. But that didn't explain why it was his voice and words that alerted me to his presence, rather than his face. An actor, maybe? I squint my eyes, nodding slightly. I feel like I might have seen him on screen before, but it still doesn't feel like the right answer...

"I'm sorry?" Ayo says in confusion.

"It's French, for-"

"Let's go," I say without thinking, in tandem with the man, freezing when both he and Ayo turn to look at me from my spot to the left of his on the other side of the aisle.

"Fascinating," Ayo drawls, raising an eyebrow at me before her attention is stolen by two people who have just taken a seat behind pin-stripe man.

"Quite," the man agrees, assessing me.

His gaze is intense, and the warning bells in my head ring louder.


AN: And we officially meet the Doctor, yay! More on him next chapter. On a side note, it has come to my attention some people may be confused either about the length of the chapters or my updating schedule. If it's the first one, the summary does say "drabble chapters" though my chapters aren't exactly 100 words, I put it there so people would know the chapters were short. I'll change it to SHORT CHAPTERS to avoid confusion. My update schedule, on the other hand, is usually once or twice a week, the only reason there was such a huge gap between the first and second chapters was because of school work, which I said in the author's note of the first chapter, but I guess they didn't read it.