Um...hi. For anyone that was actually enjoying this story, I'm sorry I was away for so long, but I've just graduated university, so had a dissertation to do, and then real life to figure out (real life sucks) and on and on the list piles up. So I'm sorry if I left you hanging, but I'm gonna finish the story now. Enjoy...
As they stepped out of the tree line the almighty crack that sounded a rock fall echoed across the land. Andy sighed and hurried towards the mountain, the villagers parting ways for her again as she did. The Doctor began walking towards the TARDIS, still keeping his eyes on her, but wanting to be able to duck inside after the show. He was still intrigued to know if Andy was right about the percentages of the planet, and he also wanted to research her a bit. She was a marvel and he really wanted to know if she was a one-off or if there were possibly others out there. He stopped just outside the TARDIS, but something in the grass caught his eye. Surely there hadn't been creepers in the grass yesterday, had there?
Upon reaching the base of the mountain, Andy looked up at the tumbling rocks. There weren't that many, but they were massive. They would easily be able to crush several houses if they fell directly onto the village. Stretching out her arms, she pulled up with her mind. Almost instantly strength flooded her, flowing up through her body and concentrating especially on her hands and head. With her power now in place Andy reached up with her consciousness, spreading out the power from her hands and thought stop slow stop. Opening her eyes slightly, she saw that the rocks had stopped; she felt the weight of them against the barrier of power she had set up like a net around her and were dangling just above her head, like a rather strange chandelier. Closing her eyes so that she could concentrate, she pushed upwards with the 'net' of power. She didn't have to watch, she could feel the rocks as they began to move backwards, fighting her every centimetre, but she simply willed them back even stronger. Taking another deep breath as they ascended to near the places they had fallen from, she began to push them back into place, trying to find a position that would make it difficult for them to fall again. Finally she was satisfied that she had done what she could. She pulled the power back, channelling some of it back into the ground but keeping at least half of it in her, feeling her back relax as she considered her job well done.
But of course, some people were never satisfied.
"Just cause we've got a visitor, doesn't mean you have to go about being dramatic, you know, girl," one woman spat, glaring at Andy when she turned around.
"Aye, what were you doing with him all night anyway, he got a taste for freaks?" a grubby teenage boy jeered, his cronies giving a hearty laugh at his words. Andy knew better than to snap at their words, it only encouraged them. But after a rather tumultuous morning, and some unwelcome revelations, she wasn't in the mood for them either. Her headache was coming back, and her pinkie finger was stinging again.
"You should be here as soon as the sun is up, girl. Let's see you do a full day's honest living for once," an elderly man sneered at her, "In my day, girls never had weird abilities, just did the washing and cleaning…"
"And you wonder why you never married," Andy snapped, glaring at the cranky misogynist, "I guess I was never cut out for the boring kind of life then, was I? Lucky me, never having to worry about cooking and clearing up after some idiot…"
"You'd be lucky, you little bitch," the old man spat back at her, outraged by her derogatory words to him, "As if any self-respecting man would go within a mile of you." He got another laugh from the teenage boys for that. Andy felt her top lip curl up, as if she were about to growl at them,
"Would you rather I wasn't about, so all you fucking useless idiots could get squashed and your homes destroyed by the rock falls? Cause I can leave any time you want me to. Just say when and I'll take off." The boys chuckled and the ring leader spoke up,
"Like you'd ever leave Old Matros. Still seeking Daddy's approval, eh?"
"He's not my father, you fucking imbecile. And I already sleep in the woods rather than his hovel, all I need to do is move further away." But the words did hit a sensitive area. Matros was her guardian, if anyone was supposed to approve of her, it was him. Even after everything he had and hadn't done for her, she still found herself seeking some kind of assurance that she was doing something good. She knew it wasn't going to happen but the tiny bit of hope she held was addictive. If only she could find the source of the rock falls, she could stop them happening forever. Then, surely, someone would appreciate her. Wanting, suddenly, to be as far away from everyone as she could get, she sought out the Doctor.
After Andy had sorted the rocks, the Doctor ducked into the TARDIS, feeling a little guilty for leaving her to the mercy of the townspeople, but his curiosity had to be satisfied. Typing in 'Gorant' to the TARDIS's matrix, he took a look at the readings she gave him. Sure enough, everything Andy had told him was true. Her percentages were damn near perfect. The TARDIS also noted that Gorant was indeed a very backwater planet, in a particularly backwater galaxy. Nothing exciting happening around about, at all. Except for one extraordinary girl. Hesitantly, he typed her appearance and powers into the matrix and waited anxiously to see what would come up. Something pinged. Almost afraid of what he would see, the Doctor looked at the screen. A sigh of relief and disappointment left his lips. 'UNKNOWN SPECIES' was flashing on the TARDIS console. She was still a mystery, as were any others like her in the universe. The Doctor wasn't really sure how to take this information. It was a relief, most definitely, that the universe wasn't crawling with her kind, that much deadly power in one place could be catastrophic. But at the same time, it would have been fascinating to study her people, perhaps their planet, to see how they had adapted to it. But there was nothing. He wondered what had happened to her society. Perhaps someone had used that power in the way he feared Andy would, once she realised just how far she could use it, and destroyed their own planet. He shivered at the thought of one person containing so much power, then turned his thoughts to the one person he knew could do such a thing. He had left her at the mercy of the townspeople long enough. Pushing his admittedly rather morbid thoughts to the back of his mind, he walked briskly out to find Andy, and nearly ran into her outside the TARDIS.
"Oh, hello," he said, hurriedly shutting the door so she didn't see the interior, "Good one today. Although, do you have to let them drop so low? You might lose control and they'll fall on you."
"I've never lost control." she said, in an almost dream like voice. She was standing staring at the TARDIS, in fact transfixed by it. Her eyes had darkened again, and that disconcertingly hungry look was back in them. She had one hand outstretched towards the blue wood of the TARDIS. Alarms immediately began to go off in the Doctor's mind. Something wasn't completely one hundred percent right with Andy, and having her touching even the wooden exterior of the TARDIS would not be a good idea. He quickly cast around for a topic, trying to get her focus off the TARDIS.
"Had enough of the villagers then?" The hand that was slowly extending paused.
"I've had enough of their shit to last a lifetime," she snarled, her eyes seemed to darken even more, "I can't wait to get off of this rock and as far away from all of those idiots as I can." As she said this, her eyes returned to the TARDIS and the Doctor could almost feel the hunger in them. He was, in that moment, just a little terrified of the girl in front of him. Frantically he sought for a topic that would bring Andy back,
"I looked on the matrix and you were right about those percentages, right down to the nitty gritty," this failed to have the desired effect, she only nodded, "I also looked up you and yours." He tried again. This seemed to work. Her hand stopped an inch from the surface of the TARDIS and she looked at him,
"Well?" she asked, not unkindly, the black seeming to recede from her eyes. Happy with this reaction, the Doctor informed her that there was no information about her anywhere. She closed her eyes as she accepted this news, and when they opened they were green again. The Doctor inwardly sighed in relief.
"So what now then?" he asked, in an attempt at joviality. Andy sighed and rubbed her head,
"I think I'll go back to the woods and try and get rid of this headache. It's been bothering me all morning."
"Right, good, you go and rest and I'll check out your town. There's some things of interest I'd like to look at." At his words Andy looked up in astonishment,
"You've found something interesting in Frecondra! My gods you must be bored." The Doctor laughed and ushered her off into the woods. When he was sure she'd gone, he turned towards the village and straightened his bow tie. Time to see what was really going on here.