Alec felt a sudden pain in his chest and a massive headache "come on, Alec" he thought "there's people here, they can't know." What was he going to do if people found out how sick he was? He just couldn't lose his job. It was his life. Was he just going to sit at home or at a hospital, doing nothing? All it earned him was dying later, but then he didn't do anything, did he? It was better doing something important and dying a bit earlier than the doctors wanted. "It's my life," he thought "I can spend it the way I want."
He did all he could to keep a straight face, and stay on his feet. He wondered if he could take much longer, but just as quickly as the pain started, it disappeared. He pretended like nothing. Ellie had been going through what they had about this doctor, so it was nothing he didn't know before.
"We could try and break down the doors", Ellie suggested. She was talking about the police box, he realised. For some reason, Alec was about to shout "no", but he got it together. Why did he care so much about a blue box? For some reason, he wanted to make sure no harm came to it. It was just very, very beautiful.
"No," he said casually, trying not to make it sound like the box was his little baby. "We could ruin some of the evidence inside it", he explained "I did notice a keyhole on it, we could see if we found the key." He suggested. Ellie nodded and quickly wrote it down. "We can't ask if anyone has seen him, because they'll just think he's Alec." The few people listening laughed. Everybody had now heard the joke about Alec's evil twin. He's quite a mystery." She said.
The headache returned. He found it even more difficult to not scream out in pain. It felt as if something was piercing his heart. He had to sit down, luckily, everybody was so caught up with the doctor nobody noticed him.
He could hear his heart beating as if somebody was playing the drums right next to him. He looked down at his hands, for a second he could have sworn they had glowed. And then the pain was gone again
Ellie and Alec was walking towards his car on the parking lot. He felt she should know. What if this pain returned in the worst moment possible? What if she had to work the rest of the case alone?
"It's getting stronger, isn't it?" Said a voice from behind them. Alec and Ellie turned to see a redheaded woman stand behind them. She wore a purple t-shirt, a black coat and a pair of light jeans. About 1,7 m and in her 30s.
"Who are you?" He and Ellie asked "Donna", she answered. "Catch!" She said and threw a silver key towards Alec and a pocket watch towards Ellie. Alec crabbed the pocket watch to have a look at it "doctor" he read out loud (AN: I have actually no idea what the pocket watch says, but I had to pick something, and "doctor" is quite fitting, don't you think?).
"Let me see", said Ellie, but when she looked at it, all she saw was a bunch of circles. "I don't understand, where does it say doctor?" She asked. "It's right there. See?" He pointed at the strange circles. "It's just strange circles put in a random order." She said.
"Open the watch when you're inside", said Donna and left. "Inside where?" Asked Ellie and looked at Alec. He lifted the key "I think we just found the key", he said and smiled at her.
They didn't bother getting backup. Where's the fun in that? Besides, it's just a blue box. Alec twisted the key and opened the doors. "Let's see what we have here", he said and took a step inside, but he came straight out again. "That's not possible", he said.
Because it wasn't just a silly little blue box. This was so much more.