Alec was just walking. He needed to think. To clear his head. All of this was just impossible to believe. Yet he did. The sun was about to go down, and the sky was orange and pink. It was like the sun wanted to be on the sky longer than it was supposed to. "Aliens" he thought and shook his head a little making his brown hair fall in front of his eyes. (AN: I was a bit tempted to write "he put his hair back in place fabulously, though that would be inappropriate, but that wa the best way to describe it, because he's fab)
He saw a boy run away from a graffiti on the wall. Alec would have gone after him. At least give him a warning. Tell him that it was illegal and that you get in trouble with the police. That's what responsible people do, right? But again he felt the pain in his chest. His head was exploding. He couldn't go after. He couldn't even move. "Ah well", he thought "there's no point." When the pain stopped, he looked up at the wall. He didn't see the actual point of this graffiti. BAD WOLF it said.
"Bad wolf", he thought "something familiar about it." But he didn't bother to think more about it. He just continued to walk in silence, trying to clear his head.
At once he got back to his hotel room, he laid down on his bed, exhausted. The headache had come again and it just wouldn't stop. He heard words, they were just whispers, but they were clear as day and there were so many of them.
Doctor, Gallifrey, TARDIS, time war, moment, bad wolf, Saxon, no more, Y.A.N.A. and so much more. There were also some images. He saw a blonde girl with yellow, glowing eyes and yellow tears streaming down her face. He saw the spaceship over London, the end of the universe, Pompeii and an orange planet burning in a war. Why didn't it stop? All of these things hurt as if somebody was sticking needles into his head.
He was close to let out a scream when he realized people would hear him. Alec couldn't let anyone know. He'd lose the job, and after everything he'd lost, it was all he had left. So he grabbed a pillow to lower the sound of him screaming in pain.
Alec was woken the next morning by the sound of his noisy phone. It was Miller "ye? What is it? What do you want?" He asked in a grumpy tone. The sound of his phone wasn't exactly what he preferred to be woken by. "There's going to be a press conference at 11 am today", she said.
"Another? Do they even have any questions left?" "Apparently, since almost every newspaper in town have claimed a new one." She answered. Alec sighed "fine. I'll be at the station in ten minutes." He said and hung up.
Most of the questions were the same. Did they have any suspects? New evidence? Did the recreation help? Were they actually get anywhere with this case? And they answered the same as always. That they were working on it. They had found new clues and such, but couldn't tell media. They had a few names on the suspect-list, but again, couldn't tell media. "What about the doctor? Do you know anything about him?" Said a voice in the middle of the room.
Donna stood up from one of the chairs. So did two people next to her. Amy and Rory. What Rory had said the day before went through Alec's mind like a lightning "Amy wouldn't be there until he shows up" he heard him say. The doctor. Suddenly the pain went through his head like a second lighting followed by horrible thunder. His hearts were beating faster than ever. Like a pair of drums.
Hold on! Hearts? He just had one heart! He was sure of it! But he could hear two hearts beating on both sides of his chest clear as day.
"Do you get it now?" Asked Donna, "No" he said with a heavy breath. Every reporter in the room must know he's sick now! "I don't get it." But Ellie did. It was obvious now.
He had started to say things Alec Hardy would never say. He could read an alien language. And the doctor looked just like him!
"You are the doctor" said Amy. "I can't be", Alec answered "it's impossible! I'm human. I've lived a human life with human family." He said. "A Time Lord can turn human if necessary" said Rory "Donna told us that something seemed to have gone wrong during the transformation, though. A piece of Time Lord DNA is still left in your body. It creates a metacrisis. That is why you're sick. You have to open the watch or the metacrisis will kill you."
The pain stopped for a moment, only to return again, even stronger. "Why should I? This is nonsense! You're crazy!" He said and threw the pocket watch from his pocket, to Donna. "You're just making this up" He said "prove me wrong." She said and threw it back to him again. She raised her eyebrows. She dared him. "Fine." Fine he said and opened the little silver watch with circular writing on it.
AN: Thoughts? I know this chapter is a bit short, but the rest has to be in the next one or it'll come out a bit wrong in my eyes.