Nancy
AN: So, this chapter is where we met Nancy. Enough said. Hope you enjoy it.
Rose and Olivia climbed up the rope, using it as leverage to walk up the side of the roof.
"Mummy..." the child called as they puffed and panted, trying to climb, "Balloon!"
The rope suddenly moved away from the building, with the two of them still hanging onto it.
"Look!" Olivia said, letting go with one hand pointed upwards.
Rose followed her finger, and saw that it was, in fact, hanging down from a barrage balloon now moving towards town.
"A barrage balloon!?" She exclaimed.
"Yep, welcome to the London Blitz," Olivia said, nodding.
"Doctor!" Rose shouted, terrified, and who could blame her? "Sapphire! Doctor!" she swung around to see German planes dropping bombs on the city, "Ok...maybe NOT this t-shirt."
"Not what I would've worn, either," Olivia agreed, who was wearing a light blue dress that made her look like Vera Lynn.
The planes zoomed right at them, and they screamed.
Meanwhile, back on the ground, Sapphire and the Doctor had now left the pub, and looked at each other. "World War Two, eh?" Sapphire said.
"Yes, it certainly seems so. Now, where have those girls got to?" He wondered.
"Olivia? Rose?" They called, noticing that the TARDIS was still where they had left it.
"Meow," said a cat, and Sapphire looked over at some bins to see a black and white cat, undoubtedly looking for scraps to eat. She smiled at it, and gently lifted it up. "Aren't you beautiful?" she said, stroking it gently. The Doctor stroked it a little as well, and said, "You know, one day, just one day, maybe, I'll met someone who gets the whole "don't wander off" thing."
"I haven't," Sapphire chuckled, but stopped laughing abruptly when the strangest thing happened. The TARDIS's phone began to ring, which was impossible.
They looked at each other again, and as the Doctor went to answer the ringing instrument with a frown on his face, Sapphire gently placed the cat back down on the ground.
The Doctor opened a compartment behind the white writing panel to see an old phone hidden behind it.
He just stared, and Sapphire did the same.
"How can you be ringing?" he asked seemed to be asking the phone, "What's that about? Ringing?" he took the sonic out and glanced at Sapphire, "What am I supposed to do with a ringing phone?"
She stared at him. "Well, I don't know about you, but when my phone rings, I usually answer it." She said.
"It's not real," he said, and reached out to answer it.
"Don't answer it!" a voice behind them warned. They turned to see a girl around fifteen or sixteen in a thick coat and pigtails standing in the alley, "It's not for you."
The Doctor looked at her questioningly, "And how do you know that?"
"'Cos I do," she said simply, "And I'm tellin' ya, don't answer it."
"Well, maybe it's for me," Sapphire said cockily, but the girl shook her head.
"It ain't for either of you," the girl said beseechingly.
"Well, if you know so much, tell me this, how can it be ringing?" he asked, looking at the phone, "It's not even a real phone. It's not CONNECTED, it's not…" he looked up to see the girl had disappeared.
"She's gone," Sapphire said, and they shook their heads, before looking back at the ringing instrument.
Hesitantly he answered, holding it to his ear, "Hello?" he said, but there was no reply, "This is the Doctor speaking," there was only static. "How may I help you?"
"Mummy?" a boy's voice called out. Sapphire looked up at the Doctor questioningly as he started to frown. He held out the earpiece between them so they could both hear, "Mummy?"
"Who is this? Who's speaking?"
"Are you my mummy?"
"Who is this?"
"Mummy?"
"How did you RING here? This isn't a real phone, it's not wired up to anything, it's…"
"Mummy?"
The line went dead and the Doctor put the phone back.
"Olivia?" Sapphire called, opening the door to check for the girls inside, "Rose, are either of you in there?"
Suddenly a crash sounded behind them.
The Doctor quickly closed the phone compartment and they turned and ran, following the sound down the alley and to the street. He took a few more steps in, looking around as Sapphire stopped and turned to look at a part of the fence along the way.
"The planes are coming!" a woman called. The Doctor turned around to see Sapphire looking at the fence and joined her, "Can't you hear them? Into the shelter. None of your nonsense, now MOVE it!"
They jumped up onto the rubbish bins just by the fence, looking over them to see a rather plump woman half-pushing a small boy into a shelter, "Come on, come on, get in there," she looked back at the house, "Arthur! Arthur! Will you hurry up? Didn't you hear the sirens?"
Another rather plump person stepped out of the house as well, a man, "Middle of dinner, every night. Bloomin' Germans," he made a fist and shook it up at the planes, "Don't you eat?"
The Doctor chuckled quietly, and even Sapphire had to grin.
"I can hear the planes!" the woman shouted.
"Don't you eat?!"
"Of course they do," Sapphire said with a little smile. Then she frowned. "Even the not so nice ones."
"Let me guess, you have German friends?" The Doctor asked, and she nodded.
"My best friend is from Wuppertal," she said.
"Oh, keep your voice down, will ya?" the woman ushered him towards the shelter, "There's an air raid!" she followed him in, "Get in...there's a war on."
"I know there is…" the man said, closing the door.
As soon as it was shut, the pigtailed girl from before crept out from behind the shelter and snuck into the house through the back door, not even noticing the Doctor and Sapphire watching her head to the kitchen to scavenge for food.
"That's called looting, and is illegal, even in war time," Sapphire said, and the Doctor nodded.
"Come on, then," he said, and gave her a leg up so she could climb over the fence.
Sapphire immediately fell flat on her face, and the Doctor helped her up.
"Are you alright?" He asked, and she nodded.
"Fine, thanks," and she led the way towards the house.