Chapter Two
''Doctor...'' Martha repeated. She smiled slightly, but it soon disappeared to be replaced with a sudden urge of anger. Picking up a ball of snow, she hurled it towards him, then strutted down the road to her home.
''What??'' The Doctor asked, brushing flakes of snow from his shoulders, he ran to catch up with her, Donna close in tow. ''Martha! Martha wait!'' Martha stopped in her tracks, almost causing the Doctor to knock into her. ''Martha, what have i done?'' He asked, clearly confused by her outburst. Martha spun round on her heel, her eyes flashing a red-tinted colour beneath the dark brown pools of anger.
''What have you done?? Let's see shall we?? You never answered any one of my calls, you disappear for a whole year without so much as a hello, i have gone to Cardiff to see Jack to try and find you, but no one knew where you were!'' Once more, Martha walked away before the Doctor could give her an explaination.
Donna tapped the Doctor on the shoulder, ''I'm gonna head home, you know, see the family...Give you two chance to sort things out..'' Donna headed off in the other direction towards her parents house, while the Doctor resumed his pursuit with Martha, who had now reached her flat. He knocked the door lightly, but in her frustration, Martha had left it ajar.
''Martha..'' He called out, finding her sat on the couch clutching a cup of coffee. ''Martha, im sorry for leaving you, but...wait a minute, how long did you say i'd been gone?''
Martha looked at him incredously, ''Are you kidding? Did you just blank out everything i said to you? You've been gone for a year! 12 months, or have you completely lost your sense of time?''
''I left you twelve hours ago Martha, you were talking about some friend called Vicky, then i crashed into a replica of the Titanic, on which Donna was on, then i fixed the TARDIS and i came back here and it was snowing...What day is it anyway?'' The Doctor asked looking out of the window.
''Christmas Eve. Back to the point, Doctor. You did not leave twelve hours ago. I think i would have remembered a police box disappearing out of view twelve hours ago.'' Martha looked at him, expecting him to say something, but instead, he began to laugh, taking off his straw hat and running a hand through his hair. ''Great, now you're laughing at me!!'' Martha said, her voice annoyed and hurt.
''No...I'm not laughing at you, it's just...This happened a few years ago. The TARDIS messed up, and i ended up in London a year later, although to me it seemed like twelve hours. Anyway...''
''What do you mean 'Anyway'? You think that's the end of the discussion? What about the phone calls? Did you choose to ignore them? Am i not good enough for you to talk to me anymore?''
''Oh Martha, don't be silly--''
''Now i'm silly?''
''I left the phone in the TARDIS. A simple mistake, can't you just see the funny side of this?''
''No i can't, i don't find it funny!''
''Rose did.'' The words fell from his mouth before he had time to process them. Martha looked at him, taken aback.
''Get out.'' She told him, pushing him towards the door. ''Out, out out out!'' She yelled, now full with rage.
''Martha--'' The door slammed in the Doctor's face. He knocked on the door, then once more louder. ''Martha, let me in.'' He pleaded. The Doctor headed back towards the TARDIS, hoping it would land him in her living room, like it had done so many times before.
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Martha paced through the living room, grabbing a cushion and throwing it at the wall. She walked into her bedroom, and switched the light. The room remained dark, she headed over to the lamp on the bedside cabinet, but that too wouldn't work. The bedroom door slammed shut, a tall figure moved into the moonlight shining through the bedroom window. ''Hello Martha.'' A familiar, deep voice spoke, sending chills down her spine. ''Remember me?''
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The TARDIS landed in the living room of Martha's flat. He was hoping to be greeted with a shout, Martha bursting through the doors, claiming that he was trespassing, even a shriek of shock from out in the room, but instead he was greeted with an eery silence throughout her home.
''Martha?'' He called, shaken and nervous. ''Martha?'' He shouted again, searching frantically for her, she was nowhere to be found.
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I bet he's regretting saying that now! Read and Review please!