"Wait!" She said as she jumped off after the man. "What's going on Mr...geeze I didn't even ask your name before you yanked me off from work." She said burrowing her face into her hands. "And why are we following some skuzzy dude anyways?"
"Oh sorry, I'm the Doctor, nice to meet you." he grabbed and shook her hand while still walking, and then added "Because he smells funny. And you said geeze! Not many people say geeze nowadays. I like that geeeeeezeyep" he made the p at the end pop.
She looked shocked for a moment as he grabbed her hand. "Doctor? That's a title not a name." She questioned before shaking her head. "A lot of people smell funny. It's a weird reason to follow them though. Usually I try to avoid funny smelling people...well...unless I'm at an anime or comic convention. Then it's a little harder to avoid them."
"Ahh, but this is funny funny. I am thinking not human funny. Comics like Garfield?" He asked at the end, trying to cover his 'not human' slip-up.
"No...more like Superman and Batman. Some times they have actors from sci-fi shows like Star Trek and things like that." She said with a shrugs. She wasn't unaccustomed to explaining these things, after all if people aren't nerds they tend to ignore things like Comics, sci-fi or anime. "Not human...funny." She repeated quietly after the words sunk in for a minute.
"Well, he does not smell like a normal human would smell. I find that interesting that a cause for investigation, wouldn't you? If something smells rotten, investigate the rot!" The man turned into an alleyway. With Leanne's hand still in his grasp, he waited for a few seconds, then followed, dragging her behind. The man was gone. "Bugger", he muttered.
"Maybe he's just been sitting in a garbage can?" She offered. "They usually smell of rot." Noticing the pull into the alleyway she looked around for a second. "We weren't that far behind him." She said nervously...she didn't like the idea of misplacing someone that felt that...creepy. She had the funniest feeling he was dangerous. "Well...he either is hiding somewhere trying to jump us, or he teleported away somewhere." She said sarcastically.
"Ahh, smart you are!" He flicked out his sonic screwdriver and began waving it around in the air. "But wrong. No residual energy. Well, lets try and smell him out!" The Doctor began smelling the air again.
At this point she started to laugh. "You know I was joking right? There's no such thing as Teleporters...They're all..science fictiony." Even though she was laughing she found herself holding on a little tighter to the doctors hand. If felt like someone was watching them...and she couldn't shake the feeling. "Was that the thing you pulled out on the bus? Is it some kind of fancy pen?"
"Even better, it's a screwdriver. A sonic one at that" He said proudly. He had felt her hand squeeze tighter. Lowering his voice, he said "Look, like you said, he probably is hiding somewhere. I can't actually smell him out either, I am just trying to scare him. Sooner or later he will realize that it's a hoax. So now" He dropped her hand "I think you should run as far and as hard as possible in the opposite direction". He gazed at her solemnly.