Chapter 2- Cassie POV
When I woke up the first thing I felt was the sting on my cheek. She must have slapped me, I thought. But where was I now? I looked all around me. It was a simple room, the only furniture the bed I was lying on and a table with a glass of water. I quickly grabbed the glass and sucked all the water down. I felt as if I hadn't drunk in ages. As soon as I realized that, the sounds came back. Four beats in the back of my head, sounding as if it came from the watch. And then I remembered.
My hands started shaking... Itching to break the watch to crush it, watch it shatter into dust, dirt... I stopped, gasping for breath. My eyes darted around, looking for the watch. WHERE IS IT?! WHERE?! I couldn't control my body. I tore around the room, screaming and raging. Inside, the real me was crying silently, terrified by this beast she had become. Emily had looked scared of me. STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT! I cried silently. Her body ripped apart the bed, flipped the table. With a surge of strength my body crashed into the door, shattering it. I knew this body would hurt Emily and the Doctor. They had my watch. The drumbeat, it was so loud. "MY HEAD!" I screamed. As I blacked out again.
I was there, in the back as the body got up and started walking. "No!" I screamed in the back of my head. She walked to the console room and there through my eyes she saw them. Emily and the Doctor smiling, as if they were both in on some huge secret. Between them, I saw my watch. The body lunged forwards and clawed towards it. "Cassie! No!" The Doctor yelled, as he pinned me down. "Stop it, Cassie. It's ok. You're safe here. You can calm down." I tried to stop the body, but it kept fighting. Emily turned and looked at me; a expression I had never seen before on her face. Her eyes looked hard, as if she had just been given bad news. "Cassie," she said, with a new voice, "Calm. It's ok. We're safe here." She then began pulling levers on the TARDIS. I heard the engine sound and my body relaxed. I had regained control.
I stood up, my knees trembling. I looked from Emily to the Doctor, unsure of what to do. Emily looked down, pressing a few more buttons. The Doctor gave me a smile and handed me my watch. The body still wanted to destroy it, but I fought it, pushing it under, putting me in control. "Open it," whispered the Doctor. I began to softly pry at the clasp that held it closed. The drumbeat raged in my head. I closed my eyes, and pulled the two parts of the watch open.
Light poured out, streaming into my head. I saw Emily and myself, running across a red grass field, under twin suns, I saw a mighty dome with a castle protected inside, I saw the time vortex with all its power, and I saw Timelords, more and more Timelords! Then I saw the war, The Time War. Emily and I were hidden on a TARDIS and sent into space, our Timelord selves trapped in watches, until now. I saw the destruction of our people, the helplessness as millions of them were slaughtered before my eyes. The vision ended and I looked to Emily. Even though the horrific sights were gone, I could still see them, the death and lived ones lost. Mothers, fathers, children, all of them tossed into heaps. The piles of the dead.
In the midst of it all, I saw the Doctor send us out in his TARDIS (not the one we were in now) with instructions to live amongst the humans. Emily and I had completed five lives as humans and been many different people. We had been everything from lawyers to middle school children. But now, we were home.