UFO
As Lestrade drove back to the station, the ground began to shake almost like an earthquake. He pulled over and got out of his car to see what was going on, and saw Big Ben missing the top half and caught a glimpse of what looked like a spaceship crashing into the Thames. Lestrade got back in his car and drove to where the UFO was calling for backup, but when he got there a perimeter and some police workers and military were processing the scene already.
"Well, you lot got here fast." Lestrade commented as he walked up to the police looking people.
"It's our job. Who are you?" One of the people guarding the perimeter asked. He had brown hair, was wearing a belt and suspenders, a white shirt with a trench coat. He seemed to have a soft flirtatious voice when he spoke, yet still had a sense of authority.
"Detective Inspector Lestrade, Scotland Yard." Lestrade answered pulling out his badge and showing it to the guard. "You're police but not from here, I don't recognize the uniform, who sent you?"
The guard took a look at Lestrade's badge. "We've been pulled in by the government, everyone has. We have contained the area for now, and the block is gridlocked. We could use more help if you could spare it. Interpol is here, the Military, even UNIT. Any extra force you can spare would be appreciated." He gave Lestrade his badge back along with a wink, and walked away to deal with a crowd that was getting to close to the perimeter.
Lestrade was suspicious of what was going on, but walked back to his car not really wanted to step in and help, he called for backup, that was enough for him. After a little while of waiting in traffic, his curiosity got the better of him and Lestrade wanted to know for himself if the UFO contained alien's life or not. He was just about to go back to see what was really happening, when his cell phone rang. He took a look at the caller ID, and saw Donovan's name being displayed. "Hello?" Lestrade asked answering the phone.
"You have to come back to the station; there is someone here who claims they witnessed one of our suicide-murders." Donovan spoke with uncertainty in her voice.
"How do we know they are not some nutter on the street looking for attention?" Lestrade asked while trying to see past a truck he wanted to pass.
"We don't, but we have no leads on this case. What if he did see something? We don't exactly have a whole lot of good options. The press is laughing at us; I think we should give this guy a chance."
Lestrade rubbed the back of his neck and let out a large sigh. "Fine, I will be right there. As soon as I get out of this traffic jam."
"Ah, you must be near Big Ben then eh?" Donovan stated more than asked.
"How did you know that?" Lestrade asked speeding down the shoulder of the lane with his cop lights on.
"You're joking right? It is all over the news, 'Aliens in London', 'UFO Crash in London', 'Keep Your Eyes on the Sky'; it's all they are talking about. I don't think there are real aliens though, bunch of nonsense if you ask me. Probably just some way to stop people from looking at the military or other organization trying out new weapon designs." Donovan spoke with much skepticism.
"Right, listen. I will be there as soon as possible, just put him in one of the empty interview rooms or my office and keep him busy so he doesn't leave. If he has information, I want to hear it for myself."
"Sounds good boss." Donovan said with a slight mock in her voice. Lestrade hung up the phone and drove back to the station, distracted from the seemingly never ending questions. Where was Rose Tyler for a year? Who were those people dealing with the UFO crash? What did the man at the station know? On and on questions kept coming into his head, at least he would be able to get some answers at the station.
Lestrade entered the interrogation room where sat the man who claimed to know about the case. He had brown wild hair, that seemed be defying gravity, and wore bright red Converse shoes with a blue suit. Lestrade sat down across from the strange man, a huge grin was on his face. "They told me you had some information about the suicide-murder case." Lestrade looked down at his empty note book ready to take notes.
"Oh, yes! Well... Maybe not so much." He pauses for a brief moment and lend in closer to the table. "But um, I am supposed to tell you not to take a cab tomorrow."
Lestrade looked up from his note pad and gave a puzzled look. "And what happens if I take a cab tomorrow?" Lestrade leaned in closer to the strange man, waiting for an answer.
"I can't say what specifically, but it does not turn out well for you. Sherlock wanted to make sure it didn't happen though. He may not admit or remember it because I've come to try and changed events, but he does care about you." The man's face was grave, and heavy with sorrow. He stood up from his seat and walked out of the interview room so fast that Lestrade didn't have time to question him further.
For two minutes Lestrade just sat there thinking about what he said and wondered why he would take a cab at all tomorrow. He had a car that worked; there should be no reason for him to take a cabby. Lestrade walked out of the interview room.
Donovan stood next to the doorway, and looked at Lestrade curiously. "Well he left in a hurry. I tried to stop him, but he just smiled and ran right by me. Did he say anything about the case?"
Lestrade contemplated about telling her what the strange man said; no doubt she would find it hard to believe.
"Na'! Just another nutter looking for attention." Lestrade shrugged as he walked off.
He went to the lunch room to grab a coffee and think. An alert chirped on his phone, when he looked at the alert the subject line was 'London U.F.O Crash' He slid the subject line across his iPhone and it automatically opened to the news with a video of the latest update, Lestrade hit play.
(AN: STOP! This is directly from the episode Aliens in London at 8:17sec into the episode. I had to put in some filler stuff for when the channel changes, but this entire news cast I give full credit to that episode. Feel free to look it up on YouTube or Netflix to watch along. I did the best I could describe what was happening. Enjoy!)
"Big Ben destroyed as a UFO crash-lands in Central London. Police reinforcements have drafted in across the country to control widespread panic, looting and civil disturbance. A state of National Emergency has been declared. Tom Hitchingson is at the scene.
The police urge the public not to panic. Here's the helpline number on screen right now, if you're worried about friends or family. (The camera turned to the river to show the UFO and zoomed in to try and get a better look. The camera then turned back to Tom Hitchingson as he received word of what was going on.) I just got word; they are going to send divers into the spaceship. There they are now, (The camera turned to see people getting into a boat, as it took off toward the spaceship you could hear the voice over.) The Army are sending divers into the wreck of the spaceship. (Cut back to Tom Hitchingson close up) No one knows what they're going to find.
News just comes in, and we can go to Tom at the Embankment. (Camera is showing Army divers in the boat heading back to shore where others wait to help them)
(Back to Tom with another close up) They've found a body. It's unconfirmed but I'm being told a body has been found in the wreckage. A body of non-terrestrial origins. It's being brought ashore. (Camera zooms back to boat where viewers can see a body-bag being brought ashore.)
A body of some sort has been found inside the wreckage of a spacecraft. Unconfirmed reports say the body is of extra-terrestrial origin. An extraordinary event unfolding here live in Central London. The body is being transferred to a secure unit mortuary. The whereabouts as yet unknown. Tom is following the ambulance now to find out where that location is.
(Camera shows ambulance driving, and then cuts over to the news studio where they give more updates on the story.) All flights have been grounded in London, panic is still ensuing on the public. Now there is no denying that a UFO crashed into Central London, but do we really think aliens are responsible for this? We took a quick poll online to see what the public thought and 68% though, or even believed that Earth has been visited by alien life today. Which begs the question, what do they want? And why are they here? Maybe the body they found in the wreckage could give us some answers if the body they found is even alive. (Camera cuts back to ambulance driving into Albion Hospital, where the camera gets a nice shot of the arch with the name of the hospital, with voice over) I have received word from Tom that the body has been moved to Albion Hospital.
(Back to Tom set up in front of the gates to the hospital) We still don't know if it's alive or dead. Whitehall is denying everything. But the body has been brought here. Albion Hospital, with the roads close off, it's the closest to the river. I'm being told that's General Asquith now entering the hospital. (Camera gets a shot of the General entering the building, then back to Tom with a huge close up.) The building's evacuated patients moved out onto the streets. The police still won't confirm the presence of an alien body contained inside those walls.
Lestrade pressed pause on his phone; he wondered if anyone here knew what was going on. Which was a stupid question, of course they did. The TV, no doubt would have the same channel on and everyone would stop for a brief moment to watch and get an update. The real question in Lestrade's mind was who would believe that aliens have come to crash-land on Earth, in Central London of all places? Lestrade headed back to his office, although he assumed that Scotland Yard was asked to help with crowd control and keep the peace on the streets the station itself still seemed full of life. Phone's were ringing a bit more than normal, but people were busy going about their business as usual. Some of the lower levels looked a bit dead, Lestrade assumed they were out to help control the panic. It was as if nothing had crashed into Big Ben, the telly in the room said otherwise of course. It was showing footage of the space ship, the hospital, and members of the cabinet gathering together at Downing Street to come up with a solution.
Later that night when Lestrade got back home to his wife, and turned on the telly to wind down for the night, he saw the Prim-Minister. Or rather acting Prim-Minister, on the news talking about the inevitable alien invasion that was about to happen. How there was a 'Mother-ship' right on top of London, what the UN could do to help prevent the attack. Earth was at war, with unknown invaders from space.
Lestrade slept uneasy that night, now the world knew that there where alien life forms out in space, and they were not friendly. At least according to the Prim-Minister.
At around 3:00 am Lestrade got out of bed and gave up on sleeping that night. He went to the kitchen to find something to eat, when he heard a noise outside his house. Lestrade instinctively grabbed his gun and walked towards the door slowly; he hastily opened the door and found two teenage kids trying to pull apart the engine of Lestrade's car.
"Oi! Hands on the side of the car, nice and easy." Lestrade half yelled not wanting to wake the entire neighborhood. The teenage kids jumped back, startled and raised both hands in the air. "Scotland Yard," Lestrade announced. "Your both under arrest for destruction of property, and vandalism." The two kids looked at each other uneasy. Lestrade got out some cuffs he had sitting in his car, once the two kids were cuffed and sitting in the back of his car, Lestrade call for a ride to the station.
The other cops came and took the teenagers away to the station to be processed and to call their parents. Lestrade and another cop surveyed the damage on Lestrade's car; it was not drive-able. It hit Lestrade as to why he would take a taxi tomorrow to work, when morning finally arrived, Lestrade decided to carpool with one of his neighbours to the tube.
The morning to afternoon was a slow one for Lestrade, more paperwork to fill out. He decided to stay in for lunch instead of going out to get fish 'n chips. The evening it picked up a little, Lestrade received a call of yet another suicide. This one was different from the other; the person had tried to leave a note by scratching on the wooden floor. Lestrade sent cops to get Sherlock at once and Lestrade personally explained where the body was found, and that evening everyone was there at the crime scene. Including a new associate of Sherlock's, John Watson. From what Lestrade could gather, John was Sherlock's new flatmate and he was a doctor for the army.
Sherlock did his thing, and even let John help, which was a surprise to him. After Sherlock left in a rush about the woman's suit case, John hobbled off to try and catch Sherlock and Lestrade stayed to take some more notes and was left to wonder what would have happened if he took a cab to work instead of carpooling to the tube.
Ooooo! I had lot's of fun writing this chapter! I hope you enjoyed it too. Now for the next chapter, let's see what would have happened if Lestrade took a taxi...MAWHAHAHAHAH!