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The Doctor's Youngest Companions Yet!
Chapter 1:
"Okay then, dear Tardis, I believe we have at last found our clever little culprit! Though why he's gone from stealing children in the UK, to suddenly stealing kids all the way across the Ocean in the United States! It doesn't make any sense! Thank Rassillon that so far we've managed to save all the kids it's stolen so far, before any harm has come to them, but I plan on catching whoever or whatever is behind this, this time, before we get to the kids too late and it kills them! Cause if that happens, then whatever it is doing this kidnapping will have the Oncoming Storm to deal with!" the Doctor finished, lamenting that he had no companion with him anymore to share in his excitement of the chase, and to make everything worth it, all the fights, all the pain, all the beauty.
But he had to give Donna back to her old life, for her safety, and Rose was back in her dimension, hopefully happy with the other Doctor, and it was his time to continue to move on.
He reminded himself that saving children was always worth it, regardless of whether he had a new or old companion or not. Shaking his head to clear away old memories, he stepped out of the Tardis to see where he was, and was stopped short to see that his adversary was waiting for HIM, and it had a great advantage of surprise. He had barely stepped out of the TARDIS and closed the doors, when an alien he actually wasn't familiar with used a rather painful weapon to paralyze him and at the same time cause him incredible pain!
Whatever energy it was that had paralyzed him, from the weapon, was causing the pain, and it hurt more than he could remember ever having been hurt in his life! He screamed! And with what little room there was in his brain to think, he lamented even more that he had no companion with him to help him out!
He wasn't used to being so easily caught either, for that matter, but now there was no one to help him, and he wondered if he'd be lucky enough, as he screamed in pure agony, to have this creature kill him in a way that he could still regenerate. He didn't relish the thought of dying forever like this…
Meanwhile, a few minutes before the Doctor stepped out of his Tardis, and not too far away, two young sisters were walking down a street hand in hand, after staying late at a nearby school to study and do their homework, as was their habit to do on the last day of school every week.
It was mid-winter, and the sky had already gotten dark, and if their Dad knew they were walking home alone together he'd probably be quite furious with them, but they both knew that he was still at his
college, working on his PhD, so they knew he wouldn't be home when they got there, and hence, they'd never know.
They were just pleasantly daydreaming, as they walked down their street towards home, enjoying the beauty of the cloudless night sky and the enchanting stars, when they heard the most awful screaming, from a man by the sounds of it, and it sounded fairly near them, on the other side of a bunch of dense trees near the sidewalk they were on.
"Wh…Wha… What was that, Sio.. Siobhan?" the younger sister said, stopping dead in her tracks.
Her older sister spun towards the dense trees, at where the terrible screaming was coming from. She was quite frightened herself, but didn't dare show it to her little sister, as she had to be the strong one and protect her sister if anything went wrong. Suddenly Siobhan wished that she listened to her Dad, and her Mom for that matter, when they told their girls not to walk around alone in the evenings.
"I don't know Zia, but don't you worry, everything will be fine! But maybe I better take a peak and see if the person isn't having a heart attack or something! He could need help!" Siobhan said, surprised that the words came out of her mouth, given how desperate the screaming was, and how it didn't sound like the screaming of any normal pain.
But despite the oddness of the screaming, and the fear it elicited in her, she couldn't bear to think that someone might be dying, and might actually die without her help.
"Are you crazy!! We should just call the police or something and let them handle it! It could be some mean person inflicting that pain on someone else, and we're just two little kids!" Zia said back.
"You know that by the time we get to the house, even if we run, it might be too late to help the poor guy, even now it might be too late, but I got to try! But I want you to run as fast as you can back home! There's no need for both of us to risk our lives!" Siobhan insisted.
"Siobhan, I can't do that to you! You're my sister! I'm not leaving you behind! If you do this, then I'm going with you!" Zia said, planting her feet down on the ground so her sister wouldn't try to push her to go.
Siobhan knew her sister well enough to know that when her sister did that, and given how much stronger her sister was then she, that there was no way to change her mind. Sighing she nodded and holding each other's hand real tightly, they both carefully crept toward the sound of the continued screaming.
"How are we going to get around that thicket of trees and brush though, sis?" Zia whispered.
Siobhan thought hard and looked around, and finally her eyes came to rest on the solution to their problem, a small path through the brush and trees. She pointed it out to Zia and they both carefully made their way to the path.
The closer they got, and the more the screams continued, the more scared they got.
"Siobhan, are you sure that someone from this neighborhood won't come to this person's rescue instead?" Zia whispered into Siobhan's ear as they approached the short pathway through the trees.
"Do you see anyone coming out of their houses? Do you hear any cop car sirens? You know this lot in this neighborhood; they're probably too scared to leave their houses, or to raise a finger to help whoever the poor person is. No sis, I'm afraid we might be this person's only help! Mom and Dad always talk about how awful a lot of people are about getting involved in things to save other people. If we don't save this poor guy, he might die!" Siobhan whispered back.
Zia reluctantly nodded her head in agreement, and gulped as she and her sister entered the path, and stopped at the end to peek around the tree to see that it was safe to come to this man's rescue.
This area of the neighborhood was really dark. Where they and the man who was screaming were, was part of a narrow, but long, bunch of trees behind the houses on the sidewalk, and it stretched for a 3rd of a mile down to where it met the back of their apartment complex that they shared with their dad. There were no lights to illuminate the area.
What they managed to see, despite the darkness of the area, startled them…
A sickly yellowish green light was surrounding and illuminating the poor guy that was screaming. But the identity of the guy screaming was the startling part! It was David Tennant from the show "Doctor Who" that they loved, and watched with both their Mom and their Dad every chance they could get! As hard as they tried though, they couldn't make out anything else, for all the darkness and shadows surrounding him.
"What in the heck is David Tennant doing in the US, screaming, and surrounded by a weird light! Shouldn't he be in Britain or something, doing whatever actors do when they aren't working?" Zia whispered to his sister.
"I have no idea, all I know is that whatever he's doing here, he isn't enjoying it! He is in a lot of pain and we have to find out why, and how to save him from whatever the heck is making him scream! There's something shadowy right behind him, and it's pretty close to us. Come on, let's get closer and see if we can find out what's happening!
Very carefully and quietly, they made their way to the very dark area behind David Tennant's glowing, screaming form, only to be surprised when they bumped into some hard object.
Siobhan stubbed her foot against it and bit back a yelp of pain as Zia carefully reached out both arms to see where the thing was.
As their eyes adjusted to the minimal light of this dark part of their neighborhood, they realized what it was they had bumped into, and had to bite back a loud sound of astonishment.
"This is the TARDIS!" Zia said in awe.
"What in the world is David Tennant doing here with a replica of the TARDIS, screaming his lights out!" Siobhan whispered, "We've got to walk around it and see what is causing him so much pain, come on!"
Before she moved Zia grabbed her hand and whispered in her ear, "Wait, what if he's just here acting a part in a Doctor Who episode here in the States? We'd just be ruining things then?"
"Do you see any crew or camera? And why some dark, unused area of a middle class neighborhood! I'm sorry Zia, as scared as I am, I think David Tennant is going to need our help not to be killed! Now come on, we've got to see what's doing this to him!"
Carefully they walked around the other side of the TARDIS until they could see David Tennant again, and when they saw what was next to him, they almost fainted from fear.
There was a huge monster that was at least a foot taller than their quite tall Dad, standing, laughing, and holding out a weird metal device, from which a tiny beam of the weird light was coming from and going towards David Tennant's screaming form.
The monster itself was terrifying. It had a huge mouth that went from near the top of its head to half way down it's real wide body, and it was wide and circular with lots of pointy teeth with a nasty yellow slime oozing from them. The rest of its body had many other very tiny round mouths with the same yellow slime dripping from them. It also had two very large and powerful legs and arms, with thick brown fur covering them and the rest of its body. It took every bit of courage the girls had not to run away in stark terror.
"Well, now what do we do?" Zia whispered very quietly right into her sister's ear for fear that the monster would hear them.
Siobhan thought furiously, trying to think what the Doctor would do. Then it came to her, an idea, though it might be quite lousy, but she had to do something! She couldn't just let this monster kill David Tennant!
"Okay, Zia, I know you are one of the best kids there is at aiming something you throw right at your target! I've seen you throw snowballs right at Mom and Dad's face from quite a way away! You have to pick up one of these rocks beneath our feet and throw it as hard as you can at the hand holding the monster's weapon thingee! If we're all lucky you can make it drop the weapon, which will then cause the monster to drop his weapon, free David Tennant, and then we can all three make a run for it like they do on a Doctor Who episode!"
Zia looked at her sister like she was mad, but realizing that they were in the thick of it now, and couldn't just let their favorite actor die, decided that it was worth a shot, literally and figuratively. She picked up a big stone near her feet, closed her eyes, gulped, and then opened them, took real careful aim, and threw with all her might.
Siobhan and Zia held their breath, waiting to see if this crazy plan of theirs would work, or if they would end up being monster food. Amazingly enough, the stone hit the monster right on the hand, and sure enough, it made an angry and hurt growling sound, and dropped its weapon in pain!
Instantly the light went out around David Tennant's form, and the girls could see that though he still felt pain, it was a lot less pain then what he felt before.
Quickly he spun around, looking for the source of the stone's throw, and seeing the two girls, reached out his two hands, "Quick, grab my hands! You'll never outrun this creature! You're only chance is to come with me inside the Tardis while the creature is still distracted!" he said to them.
The girls could see that the monster was only pausing enough to grab the weapon thing with his other hand, so in complete fear of being monster food, they grabbed David Tennant's hands and he pulled all three of them through the TARDIS doors and slammed them shut.
The Doctor then ran to the consol of the ship and danced around it real quick pushing buttons and puling levers, so as to get them away from that creature as fast as he could. When he finished the TARDIS jerked into motion, throwing everyone around for a few seconds before settling back down again.
With the immediate danger past, for the time being at least, the Doctor then focused on his saviors, and was shocked to discover that they were just young kids! He was no expert at children and their ages, but the oldest one couldn't be any older than 10, and probably not even that, and the younger one looked barely old enough to be in school!
They were beautiful girls though, he had to admit, and he had seen his fair share of children. The older one reminded him a whole lot of his now deceased daughter Jenny that had been created by only his DNA when he was on his adventures with Donna. This girl had very lovely bluish-green eyes, pale creamy skin, and lovely, thick blond hair that went halfway down her back and cute bangs on her forehead that curled into her forehead. Her face was beautiful. She was tall for her age, he thought, and very slender, with a long, delicate body structure.
Her younger companion was no less beautiful, but completely different from her companion. She had wavy, wild, brown hair that flowed around her head with a mind of its own, and landed also half way down her back, with no bangs. She had the biggest, widest, loveliest brown eyes, and her skin was darker than her companion's. Her face had higher cheekbones than her companion's, and he thought she must have Native American ancestry in her somewhere. She was also slender, but her body was much more muscular looking than her older companion's.
They were both looking at him, and then around the ship, with utter astonishment and awe. He was amazed that such young girls had braved the wrath of a very scary monster, just to save him, especially given how young they were. He broke the silence.
"Well, I guess I have you two to thank for my life, don't I? It's not too often that I get saved by two young girls. You two must be quite brave to have risked the wrath of that monster just to save me. So thank you! I'm the Doctor by the way, a pleasure to meet you," he said, putting on one of his charming grins.
The two girls looked at him as if he had just told them they had won the lottery. Finally the younger one spoke.
"Wait a minute, you mean you really aren't David Tennant!? I mean I guess the ship really being bigger on the inside than the outside is a hint, that and the fact that the monster isn't ripping down the doors already, but still, the real, honest to God Doctor! Oh my Gosh!"
"Zia! Be polite for goodness sake!" the older girl said, and looked at the Doctor with a bashful smile on her face, "Sorry for my sister's manners, um… Doctor, but we never imagined you were the REAL Doctor! We thought you were the actor that plays the Doctor on the TV! It's an honor to meet the real actual Doctor! And at this point there can be no doubt about that! As for saving your life, we couldn't just leave you to that… Thing! And we didn't know if we'd be able to get help in time, so we thought we'd try at least, I guess. It was my little sister Zia here that threw the rock. She's always been real good at throwing things right on target. And I'm sure that you also saved our lives by letting us come on board your Tardis! Otherwise I'm sure you're right, we would have never outrun that monster for sure! So thanks are needed both ways then! Thanks for saving us back!" she said, smiling.
It seemed this was the Doctor's day for having a lot of surprises himself. These girls knew who he was, and the name of his ship! And they were telling him that he was a show on the telly! He had never heard that one before!
The Doctor usually wasn't very comfortable around kids of any age, especially real young ones, but there was something about these two girls that made it hard for him not to feel relaxed and happy. That was very unusual, and it occurred to him that perhaps there was something special about these girls. And given that he was as brilliant as he was, he started to think that maybe that creature had moved from the UK to the US in its kidnapping efforts because it was looking for particular kids, not just any kids at all. Given how unusually brave, smart, and friendly these girls were, and that the creature was so near where they were, he wondered if these were the kids it was looking for. When he had gotten the girls comfortable enough with him, he was going to have to study them more closely. But he didn't want to do it right away, cause these were not adults, they were still just little kids. He had to take it slow and easy with them, so they wouldn't get frightened or suspicious.
"So I gather that you two are sisters, and I know that one of your names is Zia, what is your name?" he asked of the older girl.
The blond blushed, obviously embarrassed that she had neglected to introduce herself, "Oh Gosh, I'm sorry Doctor, now I'm the one with bad manners! I'm Siobhan Seal, and this is my younger sister Ziayvria Seal. We live half the time with our Dad, who lives further down that street you were near. Our Mom lives farther away and we spend the rest of our time with her."
"Well Siobhan and Zia, how about if I take you home in the Tardis, oh… say about 10 minutes from when we left that monster behind, and make sure it's safe for you. If it isn't, then I will keep you protected until we can figure this whole thing out. How does that sound?" the Doctor said, smiling warmly at the two girls.
Zia's face broke into a wide grin, "Oh that would be GREAT Mr. Doctor sir! Thank you!" Zia said, jumping up and down a whole lot, and the Doctor couldn't help but chuckle at the site.
"But please, just call me Doctor! Mr. Doctor sir makes me feel like I'm 1,900 years old, instead of in my 900's!"
"Doctor, we both thank you a whole lot! And you have no idea how awesome this is to be travelling with you in your Tardis, even if it is only for a brief time!" Siobhan said, smiling widely herself at the excitement of it all.
"Well, I don't usually like to have kids on board, I will admit, but then again, I don't ever meet little kids that can brave up to a monster like that and end up saving my life! Now, let's see about getting you safely back home!" he said.
He danced around the ship's console again, wildly, but with expert hands, pressing and pushing and lifting buttons and levers and after a brief wild tossing of the ship, they landed just inside the door of the girls' apartment, after they gave him their address and he had the Tardis pinpoint its location for landing.
"Okay, no one goes out until I have the Tardis scan your apartment for-" and his voiced thought was interrupted by none other than the scary monster ripping off the apartment door and walking towards the Tardis, startling all of them and causing the Doctor to quickly push more buttons. The monster started trying to rip open the Tardis's doors before the ship transported herself back to earth orbit and safety, thanks to the quick reaction of her owner.
Just to satisfy the need to confirm his theory, he did two things after that. First he had the Tardis tune into the News stations in the US and UK, to see if either of them were giving any more reports of missing, or mysteriously injured, kids which they weren't, not even several hours forwards in time.
Then he tried transporting them to an intersection a few blocks from the girls' apartment, and after waiting a few minutes, the monster was seen through the Tardis's view screen to be running right towards them, from the direction of the apartments.
There was no doubt about it then, he thought to himself, this creature, who was most probably the thing responsible for the mysterious and crazy kidnappings of kids in the UK, had definitely found what it was looking for, the kids it was looking for.
It was looking for these specific, sweet, intelligent, and brave little girls that had saved him from its clutches. But why?