This chapter contains hallucinogenics, hallucinations and drug like affects.
Sniffling as she walked in the park Jaime had really wanted to feel and be normal just the once, but no, Sod's law wouldn't let her. Did Sod's law even exist on this planet? Oh, the fiction box things didn't work well with 'the all powerful' as the guy put it. What was the point in even going out? Even people's feelings and emotions were a distraction as she watched the same kids from earlier playing tag. Well, it looked like tag. And of course she was ignoring John because she just wanted to be alone, let them have their fun.
Various emotions from people continued to distract her and she soon stopped to watch a man playing with his...she had no idea what it was but it looked like a cross between a Badger and a Fox. Perhaps it was a native animal of this planet. Well, whatever it was it looked very strange.
She heard either one call her name and looked up to see that it was the Doctor...and why could she feel waves of panic from him? Suddenly someone else pulled her around and before she could even do anything a round silver object was placed in her hand. Then she felt a sharp pain as it dug into her skin. "Owww, what the..." She found herself being pulled up off the ground and hurtled through a blurred corridor...
"No!" The Doctor shouted when he realised he was too late. "What did you do that for?" John shouted at the policeman...well, he looked like a policeman. "Mind Controllers are very dangerous. We did you a favour." The policeman said. "She's not dangerous, she's just a kid!" John shouted and would have hit the policeman if Rose hadn't stopped him. "J.D, don't. We have to get Jaime back." "All space-lane traffic to Friction is out of bounds." The policeman stated. "Yeah, well not for us." The Doctor growled and they ran to the TARDIS.
...the blur lessened and she landed on the ground with a harsh thump. It hurt and she groaned in pain, then shook her hand as the silver object fell off. 'What the hell just happened?' Jaime thought to herself as she looked around with a frown. Did somebody just teleport her halfway across the planet? And if they did, why? Oh, she was gonna have to get back to the TARDIS because she was getting a very bad feeling. *John?* she called. *John! Where are you?* there was nothing, no reply at all. In fact there was emptiness and a dull headache. Okay, perhaps that wasn't good. Not good at all. Maybe it was best to connect to the TARDIS and teleport because she was getting very scared now, she was in the middle of nowhere and...
She noticed a patch of flowers near a group of trees. They were a deep shade of orange with black spots and Jaime felt compelled to pick one up. "Oh, what pretty looking flowers!" She mumbled, walking towards them. "So orange!" Crouching down she picked one up and smelled it and it had an odd smell for a flower...like a smell of chocolate, cocoa...but that wasn't right. Smelling it again this time Jaime caught a hint of cola. Why would a flower smell of cola? A third sniff brought out the smell of Dandelion and Burdock. "Now that's just odd!" She muttered. Perhaps they were telepathic because they were some of her favourite things. "Nice and pretty!" Jaime said and giggled, picked two more flowers and sniffed all three. Now there was an overpowering smell of garlic.
"Woah!" She uttered, falling to her rear. "What a smell!" Then she giggled again until she head the sound of a twig cracking. "Oh no!" Quickly scrambling back to her feet she looked around with wide eyes. Everything seemed so much more clear and brighter. "Who's there?" She asked sounding almost courageous. But there was nobody there because if there was she would sense them or feel their emotions. "Doctor? John? Rose?" Nobody. Shrugging she turned back to the flowers. The orange now looked even darker...so much darker it looked like blood. The black spots were almost purple. "Ohhh, that's weird!" Jaime mumbled and whirled around when she heard some leaves crackle. "Hello?" The yellow grass had gone far too bright, almost headache inducing. "Who's there?" Squinting she noticed something was off. Were the purple leaves supposed to be melting?
"Come with us!" A voice suddenly spoke up and she jumped back, a little frightened when she saw it was the men from her dream. The ones who looked like they were from Men in Black. "Come home, where you belong!" "No!" She squeaked and wondered how they got here. "NO!" She then said a little more forcefully. "I won't. I don't even know you." "Oh, but I know you." One of them replied. "Go away." She shouted and turned away to find a way out of all these trees. But for some odd reason the men were still stood in her way. "Oh but we're not leaving without you. We'll make you come with us." Their persistence pissed her off. "I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE ME ALONE!" Jaime roared as a sudden wind kicked up.
In the TARDIS both John and the Doctor were working overtime around the console while Rose was occasionally helping at their request. "What can you tell me about the Forbidden Planet?" She asked the two Doctors. She could see that J.D was the more panicky of the two. Well he was most likely in love with her just like she loved her Doctor. Though sometimes he had an odd way of showing it. Hopefully the sight of that parallel Doctor might change his tune. The Doctors looked at her but it was the full Time Lord that answered. "When we said it was a twin planet, it's literally a twin. Same coloured grass, same sky, same trees, share the same suns." "Apart from the Chimera flowers," John added. "They don't grow on Fiction." "And the natives of TFP are red instead of blue. They're Mind Controllers and they tend to leave their victims with very little dignity."
Rose shivered. She didn't like the sound of that and clearly John didn't either. "So why doesn't the Chimera flower grow on Fiction?" She asked. "Because they're hallucinogenic." John answered. "Seriously?" "Oh, very." The Doctor said. "Pick one up and it's pollen quickly seeps into your skin causing drug like effects, then come the hallucinations." "When sniffed it gives off different smells each time." John added. "And one flower usually lasts five days." Rose was stunned. "Five days of hallucinations and feeling drugged? That's gonna bring on a serious case of the munchies." "Or death!" John stated and Rose gulped. "If she goes anywhere near those flowers then she'll be in a lot of trouble." The Doctor said as he was staring at the monitor.
They were scanning the surface looking for human life signs and only found a few anomalies so far. At one point John noticed some odd fluctuations in a weather pattern and when it was further scanned he found it was mixed with ice, fire, water and electricity. And it looked like a hurricane or a tornado was brewing down there. "I think I've found her!" John said and the Doctor and Rose looked at what he was looking at. "That's some crazy weather they're having down there!" The blonde stated almost nonchalantly and the Doctor narrowed his eyes. "That's not the weather. That's Jaime." He said and pulled a lever. The TARDIS went hurtling down towards the planet and materialised in the small town-like village.
The Doctor exited the TARDIS first and stared in awe at the giant wind funnel as it destroyed buildings in its path. Every now and then bolts of electricity or fire bolts shot out of it, striking the panicking villagers who were running from the tornado. "Oh my god!" Rose was at his side. "It's like one of those SyFy movies with the wild weather problems, like...a tornado with sharks or even a tornado made entirely out of fire." "Except this is real life." John said from behind her. The Doctor winced when a red female native with bright purple hair was struck by a fire bolt and she screamed as she caught fire. Rose looked away and the Time Lord comforted her. Taking out his Sonic J.D scanned the tornado and when he got the results he wasn't surprised. It, along with the lightning, fire and ice, was being generated by a being with human physiology. What did surprise him was the amount of Chimera pollen in her system. No wonder she was doing what she was doing. She had to be out of her mind with fright.
He showed the results to the Doctor and the Time Lord stepped forward. "Jaime!" He shouted. "Jaime, stop what you're doing right now!" He warned and John smiled slightly. "We're here!" "Can she hear us in there?" Rose asked. "Unless she has enhanced hearing then I'm really not so sure." "Well don't just stand there. Come on you two." She said and began to shout for Jaime. Both the Doctor and John quickly joined in.
Soon the tornado died down into a hurricane which soon turned into a storm and finally a mild wind. Crouched in the middle of it all was Jaime. Her brown hair was wild and windswept. When she stood up she was unsteady and unfocused. "Easy there," the Doctor muttered, moving carefully towards the teen. "I see you've been overdoing it again." Her nose was bleeding. "Come on, come back with us. We'll sort you out..." But she growled angrily. "I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE ME ALONE!" She screamed at the Doctor. "I DON'T KNOW YOU AND I'M NOT GOING BACK!" She stomped her foot and the ground shook. "Woah!" Rose tried to steady herself. "What was that?" "Nothing good." J.D muttered. Jaime seemed to realise it was her that caused the ground shake and giggled quite evilly.
"LEAVE..." Stomp, "...ME..." Stomp, "...ALONE!?" Each stomp seemed to make the ground shake even worse and buildings fall in bits. "Look, darling, it's me, it's just the Doctor...and Rose...and John...see!" He stepped aside to show her but she wasn't listening. This time she jumped and it caused a worse ground shake than before. So much so the ground split and the Doctors and Rose fell to the ground. The Time Lord began to panic but he carried on. "You don't have to do this, you have to fight it." She jumped again and the Doctor could feel an Earthquake coming on. This was not good, not good at all. "Can you feel that?" John shouted to the Doctor. "If you mean the Earthquake or the shift in the Timelines, then yes, I can feel it." The Doctor shouted back. "Why? What's happening?" Rose asked, yet she could feel something odd in the back of her mind. "You don't want to know!" John replied.
"You have to stop before you do yourself damage." The Doctor shouted. "You're hallucinating. What you're seeing isn't real." She growled again, eyes glowing and crouched in order to jump again, or so they thought. Instead she zoomed upwards into the sky. "Where did she go?" Rose asked, squinting at the darkened sky. John stood up and helped up Rose. "I would imagine she's going to come back down in a very destructive manner!" The Doctor replied, watching the sky. "What do you mean?" "What I mean is..." He saw a black spot in the sky and it was getting closer. "...into the TARDIS, quick!" He shouted, scrambled to his feet and hi-tailed it into the time machine.
Just as he closed the door there was an almighty explosion outside and the TARDIS rocked violently. "Blimey! One Chimera flower did that?" Rose squawked, but the Doctor was grim."it's more like two or three." He said and she narrowed her eyes. "Three Chimera flowers? If one lasts five days how long would three last?" "Several weeks!" John replied grimly, worried for the teenager. "And as you can see, it doesn't go well with an Omni-Psychic." He turned to his brother. "John, quick as you can, go to the med-bay and get the fast acting sedative." He nodded and ran to the med-bay and sensing their urgency the TARDIS moved it loser to the console room.
"What good will that do?" Rose asked. "Well, it's mainly a tranquilliser but it also has a 48 hour inhibitor. And we've only got minutes to get her back on the TARDIS." "Why minutes?" Though she felt she knew why for some odd reason. "Because that out there was an equivalent of a very strong Earthquake, maybe even an Asteroid, which has knocked TFP off its axis. And now the sun is on a collision course towards it." She wished he was joking but he wasn't. "And then it's going to have a knock-on affect with Fiction as well." Rose let out a shaky breath. "Is that the Timeline shift you felt earlier?" She asked and the Doctor nodded. John came back with something that looked like a space age blow dart. He gave it to the Doctor. "Thanks, I'll be right back." And he exited the TARDIS.
Outside where a village once stood was something that resembled a scene from a Mad Max movie. "Oh Jaime!" He muttered sadly. In the middle of the village was a huge hole and on the edge of that hole sat an even more ruffled Jaime. Most of her clothes were ripped and she was giggling. "Jaime!" The Doctor called to her and he saw her jump. "Jaime, it's the Doctor. You're going to be okay!" He said, slowly moving towards her. She stood up and turned to him with such a look of anger it scared him. It reminded him of the Master when they were on the Valiant. "I DON'T KNOW YOU!" She shouted. "YOU CAN'T MAKE ME COME WITH YOU!" "I understand, but what you're experiencing is a hallucination. You'll be fine once we help you." Suddenly her fire activated and he knew she was going to use it on him. Within seconds the Doctor raised the space age blow dart and depressed it. The dart shot out and hit her right shoulder. She cried out in pain, the fire went out, she swayed and fell over. The Doctor rushed to her, picked her up and rushed back to the TARDIS. Once he was in John pulled the lever to dematerialise and the Doctor and Rose ran to the med-bay. John soon followed.
when he ran into the med-bay the Doctor placed Jaime on one of the beds and quickly went to work. Rose, inquiring as always asked; "How come you have a tranquilliser with an inhibitor? And how long have you had it?" The Doctor raised his brows as John entered. "I've always had it if that's what you're asking! I didn't just make it. I trust her to use her abilities within reason and of sound mind." "What about now?" "She just went through an Omni-Psychic's equivalent of a bad trip." John snapped. "I don't like your tone much." "Okay, I'm sorry." She held up her hands in defence. "But she did, unintentionally, destroy a whole planet." "Welcome to my world!" The Doctor muttered as he fetched a drip. "We'll cross that path when we get there." John said.
Since her clothes were all torn, Rose and John helped put the teen in a hospital gown. Then the Doctor fixed a drip onto her. "What will that do?" Rose asked. "It'll detox the effects of the Chimera," he stated. "But she'll remain asleep for several more hours until the sedative wears off." "Then I'm waiting here." J.D said and pulled a chair over to Jaime's bed. Rose and the Doctor exchanged a knowing glance. "Fair enough," he said. "But you might have a long wait." Some books appeared on a bedside table. "No problem. Looks like I've got something to read." He said. "And we'll stay too!" Rose said and sat on the next bed, followed by the Doctor.
As the hours wore on Rose ended going off to the kitchen for something to drink. The Doctor too soon wandered off, leaving John alone with Jaime. He was half asleep in the chair he sat in and trying to stay awake. There was a sleepy snuffle from the bed, then a moan as Jaime curled up protectively. John heard this and was instantly wide awake. "Jaime, you okay?" He asked, sitting forward. She looked at him with watery eyes. "My head hurts!" She whimpered and he chuckled. "I'm not surprised. You're probably going to have a hell of a hangover." She didn't understand what he meant by that, what was he going on about hangovers for? "No," she cried and winced. "Feels like something trying to push through..." Jaime put her arms over her head and keened painfully. It was a sound John had never heard from the girl before. "Jaime? What is it? What's wrong?" He left his chair realising something wasn't right. He managed to move her arms from around her head and saw that her nose was bleeding quite profusely. "Oh god!"
"I can't feel you! Why can't I feel you?" She moaned painfully. "You're going to be okay." He said only she let out a loud painful cry, jerking. No, she wasn't jerking...she was fitting! "DOCTOR!" John shouted as he tried to make Jaime comfortable enough. "DOCTOR, QUICK! YOU BETTER GET BACK HERE!" Seconds later the Doctor came running in and saw what was happening. "Woah, what's going on?" He asked, running to her bed. "I don't know. She woke up and complained her head was hurting, like something was trying to push through. Then her nose was bleeding." "And now she's convulsing!" The Doctor muttered. Maybe this was it, but it was far too early. She was far too young. "Doctor?" Rose was stood behind him with wide eyes. "DO SOMETHING!" John shouted. "I'm thinking." He growled back. "Well isn't that Wizard! You're 'thinking'." J.D air-quoted, turning all Donna. "You better think of something, Spaceman, because she's not gonna last long with the way she's fitting." He was right too. Most convulsions lasted just a minute or three. Jaime just kept on going.
"Is it the inhibitor?" Rose asked. The Doctor narrowed his eyes at her. "In the sedative." "Oh!" He uttered in realisation. "The inhibitor is suppressing her abilities but she's an Omni-Psychic and it's so powerful it's trying to push its way through despite the inhibitor." "Do you have anything to reverse it? Can it even be reversed?" "Yes, it can. Rose, fetch the heart monitor..." He pointed the way and she ran to where he said it was. "John...as much as you care for her you need to concentrate. Fetch another sedative...and the blood cleaner." The Half-Time Lord nodded and went to get the stuff. When Rose saw the machine John was bringing over she was ultimately confused. "That's a dialysis machine!" She stated. "No, it's a blood cleaner. It may look like a dialysis machine to you but this works differently. Now...let's save a life!" The Doctor said.