AN: I'm so so sorry for the super late update, but as you know I've been sick and I also lost all inspiration and it have been a SUPER stressful week at school. Like seriously. One science and german test and one English project all on Wednesday and then an English writing test (though that's fun) today (Thursday) and then also no new episode of supernatural due to OL. I've also been quite caught up in the last hunger games book "Mockingjay" I recently received it in the mail and I haven't been able to put it away. Now I'm in this place of the book where I'm scared to keep reading. I just want those characters to be happy! Anyways, you'll meet some familiar faces in this chapter I hope it's not boring, though. I have a feeling it's boring, but ah well.
An entire hour went away by just going through what evidence they already had. They didn't find much, though. The doctor suggested that they could try to sneak out of the station and have a look at the places they knew Danny had been. It would be difficult due to the many reporters outside. They could hear them shouting questions outside. "How?" Ellie asked "The entire building is surrounded." "Donna, can I borrow your phone?" He asked and Donna threw her phone towards him. The doctor pressed a number. Ellie heard a low "hello" on the other side. All she could tell was that it was a woman's voice.
"Martha!" Said the doctor. Okay, so it was somebody called Martha. Whoever that was. Ellie didn't bother listening to the voice at the other end. What the doctor was planning, she was a bit more curious about. "Hi, Martha! Do you mind joining us? We're sort of stuck at the police station in Broadchurch." He said. Ellie could hear Martha's voice clearly "I saw you in the papers. Well it was you but not your name. Did you turn human? AND WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING AT THE POLICE STATION IN BROADCHURCH?" She shouted. The doctor explained shortly what had happened and asked if she could call Jack. Then at the end he asked if she and something called "torchwood" could join them in Broadchurch.
They had to stay at the station that night, but in the morning Martha had reached the station. "Jack, Gwen, Owen, Ianto and Tosh told me they'll be here later today." She said. Martha had some trouble getting inside, but a lot of reporters had gone away. They could manage to get to a car and find the TARDIS, so that's what they did.
Although two thirds of the reporters had gone away, it was a difficult journey to Martha's and Ellie's car. The reporters shouted curses and questions. Why had he come to earth? Did he kill Danny? Why did he look human? Had he killed the real Alec Hardy and replaced him? And so on. They drove away as fast as they could, some cars followed them but they couldn't possibly break through the TARDIS doors. They would be safe there.
Somehow, someway they escaped the reporters another time. More or less. They were outside the TARDIS with absolutely zero idea on how six people could fit in there. They couldn't get in, tough, so that's escaping, right?
Amy and Rory tried to have as little contact with the doctor as possible. They didn't want him finding out too much about his future. "I should probably drop you off where you belong shouldn't I?" The doctor said after he put two and two together and realized that they knew things he shouldn't know yet. That there were probably lots of things about them he shouldn't know yet.
So the Ponds went off at London 2012 and said goodbye to the doctor. He saw a TARDIS materialize just a meter away from the Ponds. He quickly closed the TARDIS doors to avoid spoilers, but he had been a bit late and saw a man step out of it. "Still not ginger." He mumbled.
"Right, now we can park the TARDIS outside the station and wait for the torchwood team." The doctor said with a smile. Ellie had so many questions about this ship, but now was not the time to ask about a spaceship. They had to find the killer. And it had to be quickly.
"You haven't asked many questions." The doctor remarked when they stepped out of the TARDIS. "We don't have time for that." Ellie answered. "Okay, we have also moved a few hours forwards in time so we won't have to wait for the torchwood team for much longer." He said and then they all walked into the station. "Was it a good idea to leave the TARDIS here?" Martha asked "Yeah", the doctor answered "so Jack will know where we are."
Two hours went by, but eventually a group of five entered the building. Two of them were welch, the dark-haired woman named Gwen and the man Ianto. Jack explained Donna and Ellie about torchwood and the doctor did obviously add things about the battle of canari wharf. Every time the doctor did that Jack gave him an annoyed look and said that torchwood had changed since then.
"We could move some of the papers into the TARDIS and then we can work there" Jack suggested. Everybody agreed that that was a good idea. They couldn't exactly stay where they were. They had been quick about the walk to the TARDIS, trying very hard to not be seen by anybody.
"They left some strange traces. I couldn't identify their species by just looking at them, though. I haven't seen anything like it. It smelled sort of burned and I got this strange feeling. You know that weird tickling feeling at the back of your neck. As if they were watching from afar, but every time I turned, there was absolutely nothing there." The doctor explained. Ellie had commanded him to explain what had happened the night Danny died. Or at least what he knew.
The doctor fished a bone-like, orange thing from his extremely roomy pocket. "It might not be an alien species trying to invade the planet, but let's be on the safe side, eh?" He said. "What the hell is that?" Donna asked and looked at the "bone" in disgust. Ellie would too, but her patience was long since gone. "No idea. Looks like a bone, though, don't you think?" "What sort of bone is orange? What sort of thing just randomly drops a bloody bone? You don't just lose a bone. If so, where's the rest? Did the bone just go through the flesh? This doesn't make any bloody sense!" Donna exclaimed hysterically. "You're right. It makes absolutely zero sense. Isn't it exiting?" Said the doctor. Donnas nearly furious expression cracked a smile.
"Can't the TARDIS scan it?" Tosh asked and looked over at the console. "Yes we can do that now" the doctor answered. He smirked and a strange giggle escaped his lips. "Why dind you do that at once? That's probably one of the first things you do when you find evidence." Ellie asked. "Well, honestly I don't know. I stumbled upon it when I was leaving the TARDIS right after I turned human and my head was very wibbly wobbly back then. It is still a little wibbly, but at least it's not extremely thick. I can finally think!" He answered. The doctor was a madman, Ellie had learned that much, so she excused him. But Donna looked as if she was going to kill him there and then. "You are an idiot, you know that?" She said, but managed to settle down after that. Although she had probably had better plans.
"Oh dear", the doctor said when circular writing appeared on the scanner. "What is it?" Gwen asked and tried to read the words. It took a while before he could answer. "Corax" was all he said. "What are they?" Ellie asked. Was it seriously that difficult for him to answer a question? What were these bad news? What did it mean? What on earth had actually happened to Danny?
"Do you remember Christmas 2005?" He asked "yes", Ellie answered. Wasn't something easy to forget. A massive spaceship over London and one third of the earth's population ready to jump. "Well, they look quite similar to the ones who tried to invade in 2005. That's why they've got the similar name, Corax and Sycorax, almost everybody thought they were related or something. Anyways, the Sycorax live mostly by trading slaves, and the Corax, well they have different ways. They have this sort of belief that by feeding upon young lifeforms, they get younger and therefore get a longer life and can collect more knowledge of the universe. My species, or the ones that they wouldn't classify as young, tried to stop them, but they usually buy the young slaves that the Sycorax have gathered, which makes them difficult to catch. And besides, not all Corax do it, so you need clear evidence upon one Corax or a group, they are usually more than one. Some Corax must've landed in Broadchurch and stumbled upon Danny, he was out skating last time he was seen alive. Maybe they crashlanded, that would explain the burned smell or maybe they smell like that. I don't know, it'll be interesting to meet one and find out."
"They couldn't have just eaten him" Ellie said. "We found a body!" "When I say feeding upon young lifeforms I mean they kill them. They believe that when you die, the soul leaves the body and enters the nearest living creature. They think they feed upon souls." He explained. Ellies eyes widened. "They sound horrible!" She exclaimed. "Yes, they are." The doctor answered. He was starting to get a bit scared of Ellie's facial expression. It was a sort of mixture of disgust, pure utter fear, hate and disbelief. All in one.
"I'm not young in their eyes, but you might be so we have to be careful. What happens if they find you, Jack? I mean, you're immortal imagine if they got their claws on you!" "I don't want to know." Jack answered, "Besides, I'm probably not young in their eyes either, no matter how handsome I look." He said with his crooked smile which Ellie was certain was typical for him. The doctor just rolled his eyes and mumbled something that sounded like "stop it".
So now they were going to find these strange, frightening, soul-eating aliens. Great.