This chapter is clearly based on "The Eleventh Hour" although not everything is the same. George is a different representation of Jeff, same with Miss Kay and the other lady. All rights and content go to their proper owners, sadly I do not own my beloved Doctor Who nor the quotes I used from the episode. I really hope you enjoy :)
"So is this how you treat everyone to first dates?" Elise leaned casually against the metal bars of the holding cell as she smiled. "Try to break into a restricted spaceship, and then get us thrown in jail? Not very impressive or very clever."
"I am very clever!" The Doctor walked over and began to wiggle his finger in her face as to defend himself. "I don't know why they put us in jail! And this is not a date Miss Racker."
"Perhaps-"
He cut her off by slamming his hand over her mouth and putting a finger to his lips to silence her. "Listen,"
There were hushed whispers nearby, and if you turned on the right angle you saw a young police officer taking to what looked like an older man. Perhaps he was in charge or something.
"I'm telling you, I saw them, outside holding hands." The young man whispered. His face crimson red from frustration.
"That's impossible, they're right here Jones." The older man began to walk away but the young guy, apparently called Jones, stopped him by grabbing his arm.
"But I saw them!" He protested in screamed whispers.
"I think," the older man grabbed his hand and pushed it off him, and replaced his own on Jones shoulder. "That you need to take a break, maybe the smoke affected your head or something."
"But Sir!" It was too late though, the older man had already walked away. Leaving a frustrated Jones to turn and stare straight in the direction of Elise who was looking at him. She ducked her head quickly, despite knowing it was already too late when she heard his footsteps come closer.
"Did you hear that?" He whispered, face now calmer than before. "Miss, please look up at me."
Elise glanced up at him and nodded, the Doctor about to intrude when Jones held up his hand to stop him.
"Two of us then?" Elise whispered to him. "And they don't believe you?"
"Well, yeah, I'm new. Just got in about a month ago. Mind you, if Smith or Harvey said it- they've been here years now- they would've given them a second thought, but not me." He shook his head angrily, looking down at the floor as he did.
Jones didn't look a day over thirty really. He had short ginger hair and freckles on his cheeks, but his face still looked older. This cute kind of old that was weirdly attractive. He could have said that he was thirty to her and then say twenty five to someone else and they'd believe him.
"I believe you, yeah," Elise placed her hand on his arm through the bars and smiled at him. "And I'd be glad to check it out with you if you let me and my friend out of here."
"I'm not supposed to but," he looked around them to see if anyone was coming before taking out his keys. "You believe me yeah? Help me get them, or it rather? I mean you were in the spaceship that's why- I shouldn't have told you that."
The Doctor stepped in front of her now, his words sparking the Time Lord's interest. "Tell us everything or we're not helping."
Jones nodded and continue on while trying to find the right keys. "Well, that ship that crashed into the apartments, it was- you won't believe this- but alien. We think it's alien and when we checked the cameras inside of the building, all the video is now sent immediately to the department, and we saw you two walking out of it. So when we saw you trying to get in, we had to, you know, and then we're here." He explained with a soft "aha" when finding the right key and putting it into the lock. "It all looks like we're in some cheap Sci-Fi movie."
"Yeah, well, I don't think it's that." The Doctor walked past them quickly, only turning to motion with his hand to follow him. They followed suit and continued walking until hitting a nearby park when he abruptly stopped, causing them to smack into his back.
Clapping his hands together he smiled at them. "So look for us right Elise? You and me, wonder where they got that form from. Have to be some type of multiform."
"Multiform?" She asked, walking next to him.
"Oh yes, sounds fun."
"Wouldn't use that word to describe it," She mumbled as they looked around the park. Stopping she grabbed his arm. "Doctor,"
"What?"
"Over there near the tree," She pointed to the spot, slowly heading towards it. "I think that's the back of my head,"
Elise was right of course. Hidden in the corner was a man that looked just like the Doctor and a woman who looked like Elise. But they were slightly different. The Doctor's hair wasn't as floppy as it was now, it was more gelled into place. And Elise stood almost taller, as if she had accomplished something. Their mouths were moving but she couldn't make out the words, except for the fact that the seemed to belong to the wrong mouths. Her voice much too deep and his much too high.
"Yes, well," The Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver and began to walk towards them, hoping not to alarm the imposters when a deep voice rang out through the air.
"PRISONER ZERO HAS ESCAPED. PRISONER ZERO WILL LEAVE THE HUMAN RESIDENCE OR THE HUMAN RESIDENCE WILL BE INCINERATED."
The Doctor began to run over to anything that played sound, ripping phones out of people's hands and earphones from ears to hear the message. Even the ice cream truck stopped it's chime and was playing the message on repeat.
"That must be prisoner zero," He whispered to no one and then turned around to Elise. "We need to get ourselves."
"How are we gunna do that?" She asked, a confused Jones standing next to her.
"Um, Doctor," The ginger began before the Time Lord promptly cut him off.
"Don't know, may involve running." He smiled at her.
"I can run,"
"Fantastic, what else can you do?"
"Doctor, Elise," Jones continued only to be ignored again.
"Well I can, make a mean apple pie and can hack into most computer systems."
"Computer hacker? Clever then, I like clever."
"Good thing you got little old me then,"
"Oh yes,"
"Prisoner Zero is gone," the ginger whispered, eyes on the spot where their doubles once stood. They pair whirled around to glance between the officer and the tree, the Doctor's eyes wide.
"Oh," the Doctor whispered before frowning. "That's not good,"
The message began to ring through the air again, this time louder, but repeating the same words as before. Now the voice seemed to be coming from inside apartments now too, causing the Doctor to break into one of them. They followed and ended up in little ole Miss Kay's house. Elise smiled when she walked through the door, Jones doing the same.
"Sorry mame, police business here. No need to worry," Jones comforted her by place a hand on her shoulder while leaning down to look at her face while she sat in some old flowered chair.
A giant eyeball looked around on the television screen, as if it could see what was there. The Doctor knelt in front of it, scanning it with the sonic screwdriver. The Buzzing soon going out, a grumble of frustration as it refused to light back up again.
"I liked this screw driver, though. Anyways," he popped up and turned to the humans. "That giant eyes is part of a galactic police force called the Atraxi, and they seem to be looked for their prisoner. So twenty minutes till they incinerate Earth because they'll have to power up first, won't they? So assuming a medium sized starship, that's 20 minutes. What do you think, twenty minutes? Yeah, twenty minutes. We've got twenty minutes. Elise how good are you at charming people? And/or changing every clock in the world to zero?"
Her eyes grew wide before answering. "Um, I'm great. Who- who am I charming? Why are the clock's turning to zero?"
"They're not, you're going to hack into a call, a video call. Everyone is going into panic mode at this point, all the big boys will be there like NASA, Jodrell Bank, Tokyo Space Centre, Patrick Moore. You need to charm them, convince them to help spread a computer virus that will set any clock that it touches on the device or thing, to zero. You have to make a computer virus, and it has to work Elise Racker. Can you do that?"
He was grabbing her shoulders now. His face serious, but a small smile was hidden on those lips. "Can you Elise Racker? I'll hack you onto the call and send them some proof you're a genius and they'll listen to you alright? Show me how clever I already think you are,"
"You think I'm clever?" She asked, turning her head on the side before shaking it into a nod. "Yes I can, I write viruses all the time. I get paid to- oh don't tell anyone that. I also get paid to get rid of viruses I made- don't tell anyone that either but-"
The Doctor silenced her as another man came walking through the now open door.
"Who are you?" He asked, before looking down to Miss Kay. "Gran, you know these people?"
"Police business George, nothing to worry about. This man's a police officer." Miss Kay pinched Jones checked causing him to cringe a bit.
"George, Georgy George, George. Do you have a laptop?" The Doctor was standing in his face, looking him up and down. The same wide eyed expression on his face as before.
"Uh, yeah it's in my room. Why?"
"Take me there," the Doctor grabbed his hand and began to lead him down the hall, pushing open doors to various rooms before finding one that had a black laptop sitting on the bed.
He walked in, Elise following behind the two men. The Doctor picked up the laptop, Elise standing behind him as he did. Opening the screen they both looked over to George, appalled.
"Blimey, George, get a girlfriend." The Doctor mumbled before closing tab and beginning to type away furiously. Soon a screen popped up, various men on the screens with confused looks on their faces.
"Hello gentlemen." The Doctor flashed a piece of seemingly blank paper at the screen, and took it down quickly. "This is my lovely friend Elise. She's making a computer virus on her phone- wait." The Doctor pulled out a small mobile from his pocket and handed it to her before continuing. "Now I know you should kick me out, but don't. We're going to save the world. Elise is making this virus to set back all the clocks to zero in about twenty minutes time. I want you to send it on to anywhere you can, facebook, email, twitter, text in order to spread it. Spread it as fast as you can because come twelve O'clock anything that touched it clock's will have set to zero. Here are some files to prove I'm a genius."
The Doctor attached several files from a flash drive, describing why atoms have mass, a full explanation of quantum mechanics, and a personal favorite of the Doctor's faster than light travel with two diagrams and a joke. At that point he handed the computer over to Elise, who was still finishing up the virus. She took it a few seconds after and smiled into the camera.
"Hello men, now I'm going to send a computer virus to your computers from my phone. Like he said it will reset clocks, but also anything with numbers or time, like calendars. At 12:00 everything will set to zero understand? Now get to it,"
Elise continued on talking to them, but the Doctor left the room to try to track down prisoner zero. He walked swiftly into the living room to find Jones talking on his phone to someone, he grabbed it from his hands and began to listen to another man's voice. The voice that belonged to the older man they saw before.
"Jones you've got to get down here, they're killing people. But they're not- oh god- no, no, no! Please I have a family! Jones the hospital- Jones!" The man screamed before the line cut dead, the Doctor turned to the young officer and nodded.
"Elise meet us at the hospital when you're done!" He screamed down the hall to Elizabeth before turning towards him. "Do you have a car?"
"Uh, yeah," He nodded and pulled out his keys from his pocket. "But it's back at the station, where you were being help. That's a few blocks."
"Yeah, yeah, I'll make do." The Doctor walked out the door and found the nearest car, picked the lock and hopped inside. Motioning for Jones to do the same. He did, and got inside the car as the Doctor hot wired it and began to speed to the hospital.
When they got there they found most dead, and decided it would just be best to follow any noise made.
Back at the house Elise had finished the conference call, with ten minutes to spare. Where had he said? The hospital right? That was a few blocks from here, she'd have to drive, or run really fast. No drive- driving's fun right? Her car was right near here cause the woods were right near the park. Yeah and her apartment building, but she couldn't get arrested. Had to do this quick.
She ducked behind several cars as she maneuvered her way through the parking lot to her building. They shouldn't see her- the police- but she couldn't take the chance and ran quickly to her car and got in. She had gotten in on the wrong side- again- and had to get out and go on the right. She swore she'd never get used to the switched road sides here, and oh how was she going to drive there?
Elise looked around her, shoved the key and the engine and heard the car roar to life. She backed out and began to speed to the hospital. She avoided main roads and decided the best routes were along the grass through the park and weaving in and out of cars- she'd be lucky if she didn't die trying to get there. She tried to avoid several things, like mailboxes and bushes, but ended up hitting them anyways, so it wasn't a surprise when she drove straight through the glass doors of the hospital.
The air bag puffed up in her face as she got out hurriedly. Her breath hitched when she looked around to see several dead bodies, all broken with blood covering them. She recognized a few, including the old man that had been talking to Jones before. Elise swallowed and continued down the hall quietly, listening for any noise.
Upstairs the Doctor was face to face with prisoner zero, it still being in him and Elise's form.
"So, how did you have time to make that connection?" He asked, stepping forwards casually. "Takes months to make a connection in order to take a form like that, how'd you do it?"
"Future," The fake Elise spoke. "She comes with you,"
The Doctor smiled at this. "Good, hoping she would. Mean she lives through this."
"The future can be changed," his own voice hissed at his Time Lord self.
"Not hers, she's too brilliant,"
At this point the Doctor could see Elise rising behind the multiform with a white metal bar in her hands. She gripped it like she was about to hit a ball, but he knew what her target was. But of course, since he heard her so had the multiform and it turned towards her, flashing it's needled teeth in her direction.
The bat dropped from her hands as she backed up into a white wall. A terrified look on her face. "Oh dear, I'm going to die aren't I? Myself and the Doctor killing me- eating me- whatever you did to those people you're going to do to me right?"
"Yes," It hissed through it's teeth, getting closer to her.
"How," Her expression changed from scared to a smug smile in a matter of seconds once she glanced down at her watch. "Do you know what time it is?"
The multiform glanced up at the clock above them and hissed as all the numbers changed to zeros.
"It's time for you to go," The multiform turned back to the Doctor at his words as Elise tossed him the phone. "The Atraxi with all their technology, probably notice the whole world spitting out zeros from a computer virus. So probably won't even take then ten second the trace back the source. Oh- look at that," A bright light shined through the window, hitting the multiform.
"Doesn't matter, they don't know me in this form." Elise's wrong voice rang out, and the Doctor smiled at her fake face.
"Yes, but this is also a camera phone. And it has a picture of you in it in that form, not me and Elise's clothes, our future clothes. I'm surprised though, how you managed to escape the prison and someone keep the connection. We must be a long way away from here." The Doctor beamed as the light grew brighter.
"If I die, she goes with me." The multiform turned around and grabbed Elise by the throat, choking her. She opened her mouth to screamed but not noise came out except strangled squeals of pain.
"Put. Her. Down!" Jones picked up the metal bar on the floor and slammed the multiform on the head, its hand letting go of Elise's throat immediately. Before it could attack again, the multiform disappeared along with the Atraxi's words "prisoner zero is located. Prisoner zero is restrained."
The two men ran over the Elise's small body crumpled on the floor, the Doctor picked her up and gently shaking her awake. She opened up her pretty blue eyes and looked at them, a small smile on her features.
"Choking, 0/10 recommendation." She laughed as she sat up to look at the Doctor.
He smiled before reaching into his pocket and dialing a number. Standing up his voice turned scolding. "Oi, I didn't say you could go! Article fifty seven of the Shadow Proclamation. This is a fully established level five planet, and you were going to burn it? What? Did you think no-one was watching? You lot, back here, now. Okay, now I've done it."
"Did you just bring that lot back?" Jones asked, eyes wide.
"Yes," The Doctor smiled and began to walk towards the doors.
Finding his way to the men's locker room he dug through the clothes. He found black pants, some matching shoes, a off-white button down shirt, and a dark brown coat with it all. He kept on the small red bow tie he had thrown on before and started to strip. He ripped off his clothes in front of the human pair and put on the new ones as he spun around.
"What do you think Miss Racker." He walked forwards and twirled for her again, a grin across his features, before grabbing her hand and walking up to the roof.
"So," he walked out, leaving Elise with Jones. "Come on out now. The Doctor will see you now!"
"You are not of this world." The deep voice projected to them, an eye coming down from a hip and examining the young looking Time Lord.
"No but I put a lot of work into it. Like my outfit by the way? Elise likes it," He smiled at the big eye before continuing. "Is this world a threat to the Atraxi?"
A series of images flashed before them, pictures of wars and riots, or families and children, of famine and the world's worst before the voice continued. "No."
"Are the peoples of this world guilty by any crime according to the laws of the Atraxi?"
"No."
"Okay. One more. Just one. Is this world protected? Because you're not the first lot to come here. Oh, there have been so many."
Another series of pictures and videos began to flash between them, this time of strange looking creatures. One of them, Elise recognized, was of the things that killed her parents.
"And what you've got to ask is, what happened to them?" The Doctor continued, rocking back and forth on his heels.
A series of pictures projected through the air once again, this time of several different men with several different faces before the Doctor stepped through them all.
"Hello, I'm the Doctor. Basically, Run."
The Atraxi took off so fast Elise was sure if you blinked you would have missed it all. The Doctor turned back to them, and held out his arms in victory, a smile on his face.
"Saved the world in twenty minutes!"
"Is that a record?" Elise asked as she strode forwards lazily. "Am I supposed to be impressed?"
The Doctor's smiled widen as he closed the distance between them and hugged her tightly. A type of hug he usually reserved for those he traveled with, but she? She was an exception.
"Yes, you're supposed to be impressed." He said as he pulled away.
"Good, I am."
"Come with me,"
"Okay,"
They smiled at each other before the Doctor turned to Jones as well. "Want to come travelling with us? See the stars."
"Is it always like this?" He asked, rubbing the back of his head.
"Sometimes," The Doctor admitted.
"Then I'll pass," Jones smiled at them before he turned and walked away.
"Jones," Elise ran towards him and stopped him. "What's your name? I'm assuming Jones is your last name."
"Peter,"
"Well, Peter," she leaned up and placed a small kiss on his cheek. "Thank you for saving my life,"
Peter smiled at her and nodded, once again turning his back on the pair. After a few minutes of silence the Doctor's voice rang out.
"So before we left, I set up the TARDIS to redecorate." The Doctor said, walking forwards and out stretching his hand to her. "She looks different now,"
He pulled a glowing key from his pocket and showed it to her.
"It didn't hurt Sophie did it?"
"Probably not," They continued to walk slowly towards the door. "I'll race you back,"
Elise didn't respond instead she began to run towards the door, and down the stairs. The Doctor followed close behind her, but Rassilon was she fast. They ran all the way to the TARDIS, as if they were running for their lives, until Elise slammed into the doors to stop herself.
"I won!" She jumped up, arms in the air fro celebration of her small victory.
The Doctor simply smiled and put the key in the lock, pushing the door open. "Winner gets first look, go ahead."
Elise went inside, eyes wider than they had been when she first came in. She had gotten over the shock of it being bigger on the inside quite quickly, and just smiled.
The TARDIS had redecorated to warm colors, like reds, oranges and yellows. The console stilled stayed a soft, glowing green but the buttons and levers had changed on it slightly. A keyboard was now in place, and a screen could be pulled down from above. Large yellow and orange circles were carved into the walls, with a glass floor. Stairs lead to, what Elise assumed, were various hallways, and there on a small chair sat Sophie.
Elise turned to him. "You said stars, I'd like to see stars."
The Doctor smiled at her, pulled some levers and shouted one words that would graffiti the ears of all who were near him in this regeneration.
"Geronimo!"
So as you see Elise and the Doctor already are very content and happy with each other. She simply accepts it all and moves on. BTW River Song is not in this story, since Amy and Rory don't travel with the Doctor there's no River Song. Thank you for reading and please review, favorite and follow!
-Naomi :)
