This next part was written last year in the week leading up to 9/11. It was on my mind so much it just became part of the story. No offence is meant.
"Oh no!" John groaned as the woman headed for work. Would she be seen again? He really didn't know. "Of all the times to drop us off and he leaves us here in 2001." Jaime cried harder as she fell to the ground and soon began to hyperventilate. "Oh Rassilon!" J.D crouched in front of her. "Come on, take deep breaths, you can do it." "They're...all going...to die!" The teen sobbed between breaths. "I can...feel it...and it...hurts." She cried. He pulled her in for a hug as she continued to cry and he could feel her shaking. There was no way he could ask her to teleport in her current state. They could end up anywhere. They could end up in one of the towers. "What's the time?" John muttered and pulled his mobile from his coat pocket. The clock had automatically changed to New York time and was showing 8:45AM. Just barely a minute left. And even though he was only a Half-Time Lord he still had keen hearing...he could hear a plane approaching.
"Okay Jaime, darling. I want you to close your eyes." The Donna in him was coming out. She did just that and he felt her arms around him. "Good girl. Now brace yourself." The roar of the jet engine was terrible, the sound it made going into the side of the building was even worse. There was the sound of an explosion and he could feel and hear glass raining down on them. Jaime was screaming in terror, her voice almost deafening. When he looked up he saw a plume of smoke coming out of the side of the North Tower, people were screaming and staring up in shock at what just happened. Looking back at his phone he saw there was no signal. "What?" But it's got Universal Roaming? Why is there no signal?" Frustrated he put the mobile back in his pocket and pulled out his Sonic. "It's back to the old fashioned Homing Beacon." John pressed a button and put the Sonic back in his pocket.
The sound of Fire Engines, Police Cars and Ambulances could be heard getting closer. At this point Jaime was outright sobbing and she was no doubt feeling everyone's fear in the building and surrounding area. "Right. We need to get out of here before he whole thing comes down on us!" He mumbled, looking at the teen. Her face was streaked with tears. "Jaime, darling, can you stand up?" She was unresponsive. "Jaime, we can't stay here." There was nothing much he could do except pick her up in his arms. She was still shivering and shuddering and it seemed to be getting worse. "Right!" They had to make it out of the dust radius. They had to make it to Central Park. Hopefully along the way they would bump into Rose and the Doctor.
J.D began his walk across Manhattan with Jaime in his arms. Although it was wasn't as easy as it seemed Jaime was 12 stone and he was Half-Human. Not to mention trying to get past everyone who was gawking up at the burning Tower. He could tell them to get away as far as possible but it was a fixed point in time and he was in the middle of it. Neither could he shout to them that it was a bloody terrorist attack...damn these human feelings. Half a mile later, perhaps even a mile, John couldn't tell, he heard another roar of a jet engine, and the sound of another explosion. The time was 9:03AM. The people around him exclaimed in shock, horror and fear at what they were seeing. Jaime whimpered in his arms and shuddered. "Shhh, it's going to be okay darling!" He soothed the teen, not wanting to look back at the buildings. It would only make him more upset.
Two miles later John had to put Jaime down because his arms were aching. She clung to his coat, whimpering. "It's going to be okay!" He soothed, noticing she was looking at something. Following her gaze John saw there were TV's in the window, all of them tuned to a local news channel, showing what was happening down in the business district. They had stopped outside a shop selling TV's. "Oh my god, they're jumping from the windows!" One horrified woman cried out. And as he watched a man and a woman holding hands were blown out of the window, falling to their deaths. Jaime whimpered. "Don't look darling!" He turned her head away from the TV. "They're all so desperate," he heard her whimper. "There's no way out. All the exits are blocked, there's too much smoke, the fires are too hot, there's only one way to go." John looked down at the teen. "You can still feel them?" He asked and she nodded. They were two miles, maybe more, from the scene yet she could still feel their emotions...well of course she could. After all she was a powerful Omni-Psychic.
With a sigh John looked back at the burning buildings then looked back at Jaime. "Do you think you can walk?" Once again he got no response so perhaps she was still overwhelmed by the influx of emotions. Without another word he picked her up again and continued on their journey, annoyed that people wouldn't get out of his way. Four miles later it was 9:58AM and he could hear a horrible rumbling noise. Looking back he saw it was one of the towers collapsing...and was it his imagination or could he hear the TARDIS? John shook his head. From what he could remember it was the South Tower that went first. Everybody around him were screaming in horror, shocked over the building collapse. Jaime shuddered violently in his arms and moaned. She had just felt dozens of lives get snuffed out within seconds. Wiping his eyes John continued on walking with Jaime in his arms.
The Doctor and Rose ran into the TARDIS and the Doctor pulled the lever to dematerialise. "That was close!" He stated. "Jaime? J.D?" Rose shouted from within the confines of the time machine. "They're not here." The Doctor replied. "Sorry?" A confused Rose returned to the console room. "They ended up with my Fourth self. "What? Why didn't you say anything?" The Doctor frowned at Rose before looking back down at the console. "I'm only just getting memory flashes." He said. "I was going to take Sarah Jane to see Rudyard Kipling but the TARDIS warned me I had two extra passengers. So feeling curious I went into the console room and saw two familiar people standing there. John apologised for the intrusion considering they'd been in a hurry and asked to be dropped off anywhere, then he could call me." "Well? Where did you drop them off? Rose pushed and noticed his look of concentration. "Doctor?" "It was New York but I can't seem to remember the year...hold on!" He took his mobile from his pocket and called John. But all he got was a congestion tone which was odd because it was supposed to be a Superphone.
He growled in frustration. "I'm not getting any answer, it's acting as if there's no signal." Rose stood next to the Time Lord. "What are you going to do then?" She asked. The Doctor smiled grimly. "If I know him, then he'll have turned on the homing beacon of his Sonic Screwdriver." They checked the monitor and Rose spotted it first. "There! New York in 2001." "Brilliant!" He replied and followed the beacon towards the said date...only he narrowed his eyes once they'd arrived.
"I'll go see where they are!" Rose told him and left the TARDIS. The Plaza was a mess she noticed. Then she heard a loud rumbling noise and looked up. Her eyes widened and she gasped. The building on the left was collapsing down, the building on the right was on fire. "Rose! Get back inside!" The Doctor shouted and pulled her back into the TARDIS. He dematerialised very quickly, an angry scowl on his face. "Doctor, was that..." "Yes. The bloody idiot dropped them off on the day of the September 11th terrorist attacks." He snapped. "Right outside the twin towers as well." Rose folded her arms. "Technically that idiot is you." She said and when he looked up he didn't look very happy. "Okay, I made a huge mistake. I put them in danger when I didn't mean to." Deciding not to make him feel any more guilty Rose asked; "So where are they now?" The Doctor was thankful for her change in subject. "Hold on! We're there!" He replied.
Rose exited the TARDIS followed by the Doctor. They were now outside a TV store with TV's in the window showing the local news. People were exclaiming in horror and the air had a dusty quality about it. "It's 10:28AM." The Doctor stated with a scowl, staring down the road. "The North Tower just collapsed." Rose didn't want to watch. She remembered seeing it the first time on TV. "Jaime! J.D!" She shouted, making some New Yorkers look at her in pity. "Jaime..." "They've moved on." The Doctor muttered and without a word returned to the TARDIS. Rose joined him and it soon dematerialised. Not that anyone noticed, they were still staring at the remains, dust and smoke of the Twin Towers. "Third time lucky!" The Doctor muttered, continuing to follow the beacon, his demeanour changed. "Have you been there before?" Rose asked him, noticing the change. "No." He said. "It's not a particular event I'd ever want to visit. It's also one of those grey area's." "What do you mean?" "9/11 is a Flux Point in Time. It's possible to change the events but it'll cause a lot of damage to the Universe." "That bad?" "Oh yeah!" He didn't elaborate further but Rose thought it might involve the Reapers.
The TARDIS landed and they exited it into Central Park. "Where is everybody?" Rose wondered. "They've just been attacked by terrorists," the Doctor answered. "They'll either be home or down in the business district helping out. It's just about late evening...7:59pm." The blonde gasped. "They've been stuck in New York all day? Does that mean we've missed them again?" "No, oh no. They're here. I can feel them." He tapped the side of his head. "In here." Taking out his Sonic he began to scan the area.
Just a couple of feet from the TARDIS was a bench. Lying on that bench was John David Smith and Jaime MacInarah. They'd been there since past eleven O'clock and at first John had been sitting with Jaime lying down with her head in his lap, waiting for the TARDIS. As the day wore on it grew colder so John took his coat off and put it over the teenager. Several times he tried to call the Doctor but there was still no signal on his phone. Soon enough they both fell asleep on the bench, snuggled to keep warm. It was the sound of the TARDIS invading his dreams that caused him to stir in his sleep, then it was the sound of the Sonic and Rose shouting that woke him up. Through blurry eyes he spotted the Doctor, and Rose...and the TARDIS. John grinned but he noticed they weren't looking their way. How odd. "Oi! Spaceman, we're over here!" He shouted for their attention, sitting up.
Rose jumped and looked around. "Doctor..." "I know, I heard it too. They're around here somewhere." John frowned in confusion. "What do you mean 'around here somewhere'? We're right here!" He waved his arms about to get their attention. Rose looked his way then squinted. "What's that over there?" She said, pointing at him. "It's some kind of blurring." The Doctor scanned it. "Yep. It's them." He said after checking the results and frowned. "So why can't we see them?" "I don't know, it's some kind of invisibility...but it's hiding both of them. A perception filter maybe...an unnoticeability?" John sighed at this. No wonder people wouldn't get out of their way. They couldn't see him or Jaime.
"Hold on..." *Can you tell her to turn it off.* The Doctor telepathed to John. *I could,* John replied and the Doctor noticed he sounded tired. *But she's been pretty much unresponsive since the first plane hit.* The Doctor grimaced and changed the setting on his Sonic. "I'm sorry!" He muttered and buzzed it towards Jaime and John. The teenager shifted uncomfortably, cried out in pain and opened her eyes. John comforted her as much as he could but the Sonic did the trick. They were now visible again.
The Doctor rushed to Jaime and helped her sit up. "Are you okay Jaime?" He asked, checking her over. There was no response. She just sat there shivering and shuddering. "Like I said she's been unresponsive since the start of this hellish day." John replied bitterly. "She could feel them all dying." The Doctor glanced at him before looking back at Jaime. "Trauma, shock, anything could have made her activate it. I'm sorry." He said again before gathering her up in his arms and rushed her into the TARDIS. With a sigh John picked up his coat and walked into the TARDIS with Rose. He pulled the lever to leave New York then sat on the jumpseat with his hands over his face. Rose noticed his shoulders were shaking. "J.D?" She enquired. Was he crying? "John?" He was, so Rose sat next to him and put her arm around his shoulders. "It's okay. We were all affected in some way." She said but he pushed her away and stood up. "I've never ever wanted to go to this event." He stated tearfully and stormed into the inner confines of the TARDIS.