Chapter 3: A chance encounter with a Raven.
The Doctor loved chicken enchiladas. I guess you learn something new about your regeneration every day. He also learned that he had no table manners as he was all but throwing the cheese-y covered food into his waiting mouth. After finishing his third plate of the delicious food (even better than Jelly Babies) he looked up at the three Rivera, licking his tomato covered lips as they all looked at him in a mix of awe, disgust and confusion. "That was great," he said, taking off his dirty foulard and wiped the rest of his food covered face. "I should go to Mexico more often...Not America though.." he said with a little shiver at the memory of his hospital visit.
The father of Manny, Rudolph the Doctor heard, was slowly pushing his plate away from himself apparently losing his appetite (Why though the Doctor, with bits of tortilla in his hair, didn't know.) "So, mi Hijo, who is this...boy?" he asked, trying to figure out what to describe the badly dressed boy with no etiquette. However, before Manny could respond the 'boy' responded himself.
"John Smith," the Doctor replied as he put his messy foulard into his pocket, to be cleaned later, and pulled out his telepathic paper, "Exchange student from the UK."
White Pantera looked at the paper a little confused before looking at Manny again, who only shrugged playfully, "Okay, John...Make sure to stick by Manny, it's very dangerous here," the masked father said, taking his plate back and used his fork to take a bite out of it, thankful that 'John' had finished eating.
After a few hours of watching TV (With Manny leaving to go on an adventure with a blue haired girl: Freddy or something) and grandfather Rivera glaring daggers at him, The Doctor headed off to bed. Although he very rarely needed to sleep, about 3 hours a month, he was always shattered after a regeneration so he decided to take a good 3-4 hours of rest. Resting back in the sleeping bag on Manny floor, he closed his eyes and slowly drifted off to sleep.
He always hated sleep, because it was always the one time that he couldn't run, and images of his past would run through his mind like demons in the night.
"No. I'm not human!" he screamed, flailing about as the anaesthetic mask was placed over his mouth. "It's okay, I've got this," Grace said, smiling softly at him as the room darkened around him and then an incision was made and a probe was sent into his heart.
"EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE!"
"See you, then, Doctor. It wasn't your fault. Remember that, okay? It wasn't your fault. And do you know what? I wouldn't have missed it for the world." Rose told him behind the vault door, obviously frightened as the Dalek came towards her. He couldn't do anything...He couldn't save her. "EXTERMINATE!"
"Rose hold on! Hold on!" he yelled, holding onto the clamp as he saw Rose get lifted up horizontally. Please, hold on...NO!
"I'm sorry...I'm so sorry."
"Yes, because there are laws. There are Laws of Time. Once upon a time there were people in charge of those laws, but they died. They all died. Do you know who that leaves? Me! It's taken me all these years to realise the Laws of Time are mine, and they will obey me!" "For a long time now, I thought I was just a survivor, but I'm not. I'm the winner. That's who I am. The Time Lord Victorious." BANG
Sitting bolt upright in his sleeping bag, the Doctor scanned the room, eyes wide and wet. Manny had come home at some point and was asleep in his bed (or at least the snoring suggested that) and the clock indicated that it was 4:45AM "I am the Doctor...I need some air..." he muttered quietly to himself, throwing off the covers and getting to his feet.
Meanwhile...
Zoƫ Aves, AKA Black Cuervo, was sneaking into the safety deposit building, intent on stealing the black platinum diamond pearl. Jumping silently to the ground, she easily skipped past the flash light toting night guard and searched through the once locked safes for the diamond.
Musing over a golden watch, she finally discovered the diamond she had been here to find. "Oh chu are pretty," She murmured with a small grin, eyeing the diamond with a grin. Unfortunately, that's when the flashlight beamed over her figure. "Freeze! I have a gun!" The guard yelled, fumbling with the holster.
Black Cuervo quickly pounced on him, causing him to fall back, before she jumped off of him and landed on her feet. "Chu were too slow," she chuckled as she jogged towards the window that she had entered through.
However, the guard managed to hastily get to his feet and was chasing after her. He couldn't let her steal that diamond...This was the third time this week already that this place was robbed this week (it was only Tuesday!) and he was told he'd be fired if another thing was stolen.
Seeing that she was being followed, she jumped up and let her jetpack take her up into the sky and was looked back down at the guard, who had finally managed pull the gun out of the holster and aimed it at her. Quickly turning away from him, she sped up and reached a good 3 stories up before hearing a single gunshot. Hearing a stutter, she suddenly noticed her jetpack had stopped and that her ascent had slowed down. "Oh...Craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" she squealed as she plummeted towards earth, not knowing what to do now. She closed her eyes and only hoped that she didn't break too many things when she fell. However, the fates had other ideas that night as two lives met that night.
The Doctor had made it quite far in his walk, already in the middle of the sleeping town, looking about with a small frown. With no-one to talk to and nothing to distract him he reminisced about times gone by. He discovered that this regeneration reminisced more of the bad than the good of his past. Shaking his head, he heard a loud yelling from quite close to him.
Running towards the scream, he smiled widely to himself, happy that there was something to do now. However, what he didn't expect was a helmeted girl to be falling from the sky. Running as fast as his small legs could take him, he jumped into the air and grabbed the descending girl in mid-air, before his back met the ground in a rather forceful matter.
"Oooooh...My spine...and everything else..." He breathed out, still holding the helmeted girl in his arms subconsciously.
After a few moments, the girl in his arms looked up at him, eyeing in surprise, "Who are chu?" she asked, pushing out of his grip so that she was straddling him slightly. Taking a good look at her, somewhat, saviour she decided on two things: 1. He was kinda cute & 2. He must have been at some kind of party or else he dressed himself in the dark.
"I'm the Doctor..." He muttered, letting out a small cough as air was allowed back into his (loosely called) lungs. "And please don't take me to a hospital..." he murmured, head falling back to ground as he passed out, an orange gooey pool slowly growing from where it lay.
