AN: I'm sick right now so my brain isn't really working (maybe I've regenerated). I'm really happy I was reminded of a little mistake about the pocket watch from the previous chapter so I could fix that. Multi chapter fics with bigger plots are not god for me. I'll try and get better at noticing them, though. I'm probably going to drink several cups of coffee and tea while writing this so maybe it'll get a bit crazy at the end of this chapter I've only planned the beginning, the rest have to just come as I write hehe wonder how this will end up.
Ellie saw the light of yellow and orange surround Alec. The light was so bright she was barely able to look directly at it. In fact, she knew it wasn't a good idea to look at it. She had to cover her eyes just a little bit.
Slowly, the light faded. The man she saw, still looked like Alec Hardy, but Ellie knew it wasn't him. She knew that Alec was gone and that this man was the doctor.
"Right!" Said the doctor "good thing that you stopped the metacrisis, Donna, but the whole undercover thing might be a problem now." Donna nodded and looked at all the reporters that had got this on tape. Ellie noticed that Alec's Scottish accent had completely disappeared.
"Why did you go undercover?" Ellie asked when she, the doctor, Amy, Rory and Donna had all gotten to the station. It had been very difficult due to the curious reporters. It had actually felt like a battle for freedom.
"Would you let a mad man cooperate with the police?" He asked "No" Ellie answered. Of course she wouldn't. "And if I showed you my psychic paper, someone during some point of the investigation, would look me up, and find that I didn't exist. So I turned human and the TARDIS created a story, if you looked up the name Alec Hardy you'd find an entire past." The doctor explained. For some reason, Ellie believed this and she understood it. She didn't like the thought of it, though. To create a human being, giving it a life with memories, fears, love and loss, hate, darkness, light and happiness and then tear it away. Say it was all a lie, just made up. No wonder Alec didn't want to believe it was true. He used to have a life.
"How did you even get here?" She asked. The doctor thought about what had happened that night and took a deep breath. "We crash-landed. I managed to gain enough control over the TARDIS to land her properly. I still count it as a crash-landing. I went out to see where we were. I wouldn't let Donna go out as well. That wouldn't have been responsible taken by the fact we had just crashed." "When were you ever responsible?" Donna asked "He just wanted to be the first to look", Donna explained.
Amy and Rory shrugged. That was something the doctor would have done. "Back to the point! I found some strange traces on the ground. Clearly alien, but I wasn't sure what it was. I figured out that something would happen, but I had obviosly no idea when and how and what would happen. I decided to turn human so I could cooperate with the police on whatever was going to happen, next morning Danny Latimer was found and you know the rest" He said.
"What about the pictures that changed?" She still had no answer to that mystery. "Well, that is just very complicated timer-whimey stuff. Time travel is very confusing stuff. Not everything has a logical explanation." He answered. Great. Absolutely no better than before. Just very confusing.
"Do you have any idea what killed Danny Latimer?" Ellie asked. They needed to solve this case. Danny's killer had to be found and the town needed to know that there wasn't an insane child-killer out there who could take any of the town's children. Parents needed to know that their children where safe and the Latimer family needed to bury their child and say a final goodbye.
"Not yet." He answered. "If you let me continue helping, we might find whoever did this. Will you let me?" Ellie looked into his eyes. They were the same eyes, but they were new. Brand new, a strangers eyes. Could she actually trust him? "Yes." She answered.
AN: This is short I know (all my chapters are short hehe). But I like to have this kind of ending to the chapters. It builds up the excitement. I managed to answer a few questions you might have in this chapter, though, so hey, that's good! I'll keep on working on chapter seven so you might get it today if I feel well enough. I'll probably have to take breaks here and there (especially to make more tea and coffee so I survive the day. Ugh that's me when I'm sick. Coffee and tea all day).