A/N: I SURVIVED! Easter is like a really crazy time for me because of all the sugar, I didn't even sleep last night. I just laughed at random times then passed out. All inj all it was a good Easter, I decapitated a few peeps, ate a whole chocolate bunny, lost a few jelly beans down my shirt, and ate a bunch of boiled eggs. Sorry that I haven't gotten you anymore stories, but I'll start posting more on a regular schedule. Enjoy!
PS: SON- If you don't know what this is, look at the last chapter.
Chapter 10:
The Doctor jogged around the console pressing and pulling all the controls while Rose held on to the railing to avoid being tossed around, courtesy to the Doctor's terrible driving.
When he finally landed, he searched through the floors looking for something, "Let's see, G...G...Ah! Here it is!" As he held up his hand with a small, yet wonky looking device. "My Genetic Tracker, helped me find one of the Royal Panavalti Triplets of Palontio 9 during the Shrouded Festival, and let me tell you, that planet knows how to party. They celebrate their similarities of their appearance by completely covering themselves to not show any difference, and they party nonstop for three weeks, which is actually about a day and a half on their planet. This cut the time to look for her enough to see them do their ceremonial dance of-"
"Doctor. We're gonna miss it, we should probably get going." Rose interrupted. They had landed a couple minutes before to see what was going to happen right away. Or at least she hoped they did.
"Alright alright, Allon-sy!" He scooped up his coat and pulled open the door, looking down at his device as he walked through. He hovered near the door waiting for Rose when he heard the TARDIS begin to hum. He shrugged it off as she walked through the door.
"Rose, close the door! We're gonna miss it if we don't hurry!" He said as he took long strides down the street towards the school.
"Right ya, sorry. Must have forgot." Rose quickly shut the door and run up to the Doctor, linking her arm through his. "Since when did you have to start telling me to hurry up?" She joked with him, earning a good chuckle.
He brought his Genetic Tracker up and pressed a button, immediately a compartment slid open on the side, and he carefully pulled from his pocket a long, blonde hair that he stuffed into the little compartment before it snapped shut.
"Figured I use this to help, just in case. Had one of her hairs on me so I thought it would do some good."
"You took one of her hairs? Bit creepy." She giggled at him.
"Oi! I didn't take it on purpose, just found it on my suit. Thought that it could aid the search is all. Hair as long as that, I'm amazed she doesn't shed more." His machine made a crisp ding when he pressed a near, unnoticeable button on the side. "And it goes ding when there's stuff!"
Rose shook her head, "Always such a child." muttering playfully under her breath. He just giggled until they finally came up to the small school and see recess in session. His smile wiped away in a look of discomfort, he could always feel it in the air when there was a fixed point in time occurring.
There was something else he could sense in his mind though, the TARDIS was still continuing to purr and whir from something, but he couldn't place his finger on what the noise meant.
"What's the matter?" Rose asked, noticing his look he gets.
"Nothing, it's just… that feeling I get. When there's a fixed point in time it's like that sensation of almost falling and catching yourself at the last moment. Time Lords get that feeling since their sensitive to time." He decided to not mention anything the TARDIS was doing since it would only confuse her.
Him and his 'superior physiology'. She thought to herself as she looked out at the playground.
They observed children in uniforms as they were inhabiting the jungle gyms, running through the swings, and playing kickball on a nearby field. They saw a redhead chase after the teacher supervising as she ran up to a group of boys. Then heard what seemed to be an explosion in the distance.
"Ah, elementary schools. Just as I remember then." Rose chuckled as she observed the chaos.
They looked throughout the whole crowd of kids, and there was no little Alli Rose. The Doctor narrowed his eyebrows as he searched more frantically through the crowd until he pulled out his Genetic Tracker to help, only to come out empty handed with no ding.
He swore under his breath as he stuffed it back into his pocket, "I don't understand! She should be here, it's the right date, I checked, how did she just vanish?!"
"Let's go ask the teacher that was watching them, find out who her friends were and see if they know anything." Rose said.
He smiled at how Rose always took the domestic approach to things, "Good idea, can take this thing and find some of her things, might help us." He said as he waved his machine before stuffing it back in his pocket.
As they walked across the field, gaining a couple stares from some students, they greeted a confused, and stressed, teacher.
"Oh, well hello. Is there anything I can do for you?" She said in a high voice that contradicted her large figure.
"Yes there is miss..?"
The teacher then corrected herself for the strangers. "Mrs. Davis, and who might you two be? And why are you here if you don't mind my asking?"
"Oh none at all! I'm Detective John Smith and this is my partner in training, Rose Tyler." Rose quickly stifled her surprise, and shook her hand.
"Pleasure to meet you." She said politely, avoiding the suspicious stare from Mrs. Davis.
"Well you seem to be a far way from home." She assumed from their accents.
"Yeah, we're on vacation, and to answer your other question, we usually pass by on our daily walk but have come to notice a child is missing from the mix, do you know where they might be?"
A look of annoyance flitted across the teachers face, "Of course all of the children are here, how could you possibly know how many children there are anyway?"
"Well an eidetic memory helps, but why don't you count them to make sure?"
"Very well, if it will satisfy you." She scanned the school yard physically counting with her finger as her annoyed expression evolved into that of panic. She spun around a couple times as she looked at all the corners of the school, not finding the missing child.
"Where is she? Oh no, where did she go? Christian! Come here!" She yelled as the young ginger walked over to them, avoiding her terrified eyes.
"Yes, Mrs. Davis?" He said quietly. He had not noticed the two people standing near him, although Rose gave him a questioning glance before diverting her eyes back to the teacher.
"Christian where's Alli? You were playing with her just a few seconds ago, where'd she go?"
He only shrugged his shoulders while still keeping his gaze to the ground in an attempt to hide his guilt. Before Mrs. Davis could pester him for more answers, the Doctor spoke.
"How about you take me to where Alli's things are and see if I can find anything there and let my partner ask the other students questions?" He watched as Rose crouched down to reassure the small boy that was fidgeting with his shirt.
"We should search the area for her, try and find her. I don't even know when she could have wandered off, she's so little. We have to call the police!" She chattered, fearing the worst for the minute girl, she only received empathetic nods from the Doctor.
"You can call the police, we just wanna help find her. Rose, stay out here and ask the kids if they've seen anything suspicious, Mrs. Davis if you could show me her classroom I'll search there and you can call the police." He ordered, keeping a very calm voice for the panicking woman.
As the teacher made her way to the school, the Doctor looked at Rose "You okay with this?"
Rose nodded while rubbing the little boys back soothingly, "Yeah I'll be fine, go find out what you can."
"Alright, be careful, Rose." he said, but just as he was about to turn away Christian's head shot up at the name. They looked at him curiously as his head whipped back and forth at the two, realising who they were.
The Doctor motioned his head towards the boy at Rose to talk with him as he ran towards the school.
"You're Rose?" He said quickly, panic was tangent in his voice.
"Yeah, that's me. Don't worry, we're here to help, me and my friend are going to do whatever we can to find your friend." She said in a soothing voice.
"He's the Doctor." He said knowingly, Rose opened her mouth in shock, before she could speak he said without hesitation "And you're Rose Tyler. You were the ones Alli met. Please tell me you know where she is."
A/N: We'll get back to this moment in a bit. Next chapter will be showing Alli in the TARDIS, I just hope it works out well in the story. Thanks for reading my little companions! Love you all and enjoy your chocolate bunnies! (Or what's left of them)
