Chapter 02: A Taxi Home.
She didn't do anything out of the ordinary, even though she longed too, save lives, fight terrible creatures, visit wonderful Planets with unique vibrant landscapes such as bright grass green skies, dark red grass, sunny golden seas.
But no, on Earth, she could not do any of this, as they did not have the technology. Although once every year, something odd would happen, something that nobody could explain, something alien.
There was a battle, a battle that Romana felt could kill her, without her even being touched, a battle a couple of years ago, in which Cybermen and Daleks attacked the Planet.
When she saw the Cybermen, she found it easy to stop them from hurting her, after all, she had fought them many times before.
But the Daleks, they did not hurt her. But they broke her heart, she fought on the front lines, she fought for her planet, they all did, all the Timelords, fought as one to defeat this cruel enemy. And they all died, every last Timelord except for Romana, and she believed, every last Dalek died with them.
But they didn't, and seeing millions of them shoot out into the sky, just showed her, the war, the fight, it didn't accomplish anything. They died for nothing.
She held her arm out in the road, and then whistled to a black taxi, as it pulled over, she waved to the stars, the driver, a small old man, looked at her curiously. She entered the taxi and sat on a leather chair.
"Where to love?" He asked politely, pushing buttons on his SAT-NAV.
"Wavertree Road please." She asked, looking at a poster on the back of the drivers seat, warning you of the dangers of smoking.
Only a year ago, did the Daleks attack again, this time on a more global scale, they took over the entire Earth. And Romana once again felt heart broken, because at this point she knew the Daleks were alive and well, and that Canary Wharf did not finish them.
"Would you look at that." The taxi driver said, looking to Romana through his mirror, as they stopped at the traffic lights. "I wonder who made that." He carried on.
Romana smiled, pretending she knew what he was talking about, but felt it rude to lie, and so asked him, "What do you mean?"
"Oh...that's odd. It's gone now." The man said looking out of the left window to a small dark alleyway.
"What's gone?" She asked, also looking to the alleyway now but not knowing at what she was supposed to be seeing.
"That blue police box thing...you know, it looked like it just...well faded away. I know I sound mad but trust me, I'm not lying, why would I?" He said, as though trying to convince her that he was not crazy.
Her hearts began to beat rapidly, and she placed her hand on her chest in shock, it looked as though she could not breath. "No..." She gasped, out of breath, her face paler than usually, with an expression as though she had just seen a ghost.
"Are you all right?" The driver said frowning through the mirror concerned. The lights turned green, and he stopped looking at her and began to drive forward.
"Let me out..." She shouted, "How much is the fare, I want to get out!"
"Fine!" The man parked at a curb, and looked at a screen, "That is...five pound, forty please."
"Thank you." She kindly replied, passing him a five pound note and a one pound coin, "Keep the change." She said, leaving the Taxi.
The driver looked at Romana, "I think you should see a doctor." He said, looking at her although she was mental.
"Doctor!" The word made her flinch as she repeated what he said.
"Yeah a doctor..." He replied, "Right am going, see you later then love." He said starting the engine then driving off. Romana began to walk up the road, stumbling, and still clutching her chest to hopefully calm the rapidly beating hearts.
"Doctor..." She said, before falling to the floor. "Doctor..." She called once more, on the floor and unable to move, her eyes then closed and she lay alone in the middle of a street, it was very dark and the only people who were out now were drunk, and thought the same of Romana.
And so they walked past her, leaving her. She lay, not moving, and night turned to day, but still, Romana did not wake up...