Maybe a couple more chapters of Family Reunion after this one? Anyway, enjoy!
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Ten years later…
"3528, creature contained, over", Kate's team member Rahij's voice crackled over the speaker.
"4024, I'll be right there, over", Kate replied.
Kate was in a team of 5 members working for UNIT; Rahij, Hannah, Sam, Mya and herself. She was closest to Rahij though; their murky backgrounds seemed to unite them. Rahij had grown up in an orphanage after being left on a park bench at 7 days old. He didn't like to talk about this though and this suited Kate well; she didn't like to talk about her history either.
Kate had first joined UNIT as soon as she was old enough; at age of eighteen she was one of the youngest members in the division. She had decided that the best way to find her mysterious grandfather and the equally mysterious companion was to work with, investigate and defeat aliens. Her mother had told her many stories since that strange night ten years ago, and Kate had gathered as much information about the Doctor as she could, but Jenny was always quick to say that she knew very little. From these stories Kate had managed to find a bit more out about the Doctor; other people who knew the Doctor had published some information on the Internet and she had tried to get in contact with them but her attempts were unsuccessful. Death was always very inconvenient. These reports always said the same though, wherever a dangerous alien was, the Doctor was always close behind. And so naturally, UNIT was the best place to be. Her parents were supportive, Jenny especially, and so Kate found the work very enjoyable. Exciting. Exhilarating.
With each troubling event, Kate was there, looking out for a brown shish of a coattail flicking around the corner or for a man with big hair, which was apparently unmistakable. However, there was never this sight. There were green aliens who called themselves Slitheen from some place that no one could pronounce, blue aliens that blew goo, pink aliens that produced sticky substances, orange aliens that blinded, red aliens that were fast, very fast but never brown aliens or at least, that brown alien.
On this particular day, a purple alien with radioactive blobs on its body that created mini whirlwinds had decided to play. It had managed to round up a few tourists that looked particularly dazed before UNIT had arrived on the scene but fortunately it was stupid enough to be lured with chocolate into the holding cell. Kate thought that she should get over there so that she was around when the officials arrived. She studied the co-ordinate locater to see where Rahij was situated before beginning to run.
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"Is everything okay?", Kate panted when she arrived at the area.
"Yep. It's pretty docile now", Rahij answered.
"What about the tourists?", Kate asked, looking around at the surroundings.
"They're fine. Confused but conscious", Rahij replied.
"Good. Good. They need ----". Kate couldn't believe her eyes. After all those years of searching, she had just seen a flash of that brown coat disappear off of a side street just down the road. Kate started running again.
"Kate! Where you going?". Rahij called after her.
Kate turned round and continued to jog backwards. "I'm going to see my future! Past! Present!", she shouted before grinning, turning and continuing to follow the trail of brown.