After I quickly change into my jeans and walk down all the stair Powell Estate owns I'm gasping for air. The two others continue walking as Rose hounds the Doctor with questions.
"Who are you?"
"Told ya the Doctor."
"Yeah but Doctor what?" she replies confused. I jog slightly to catch up.
"Just the Doctor."
"The Doctor?"
"Hello!" he exclaims, a childlike grin on his face. I giggle at this.
"How come you're called the Doctor? Did your parents give you it or did you?" I ask curious as to the origination, still rubbing my red arms.
"I did why?"
"Just curious. Is it 'cause you want to be like a doctor. Help people and stuff." I suggest smiling as he nods at me.
"Is this supposed to sound impressive?" Rose questions lagging behind slightly.
"Sort of." he replies.
"Come on then, you can tell me. I've seen enough." she says skipping up to him I don't bother correcting her, "Are you the police?"
The Doctor scoffs at the idea. "No, I was just passing through I'm a long way from home." he answers, he tone slightly less cheerful. I frown at this and watch his expression.
"But what have I done? How come those plastic things keep coming after us?" Rose queries.
"I don't think we're special Rose. We were just in the way I think." I voice. The Doctor nods agreeing with me before continuing,
"She's right the world doesn't revolve around you. They were after me not you. Last night in the shop I was there, you blundered in and almost ruined it all. This morning I was tracking it down, it was tracking me down. Only reason it fixed on you is because you met me."
"Excuse me, I didn't blunder in, I worked there." I retort, crossing my arms in a defensive manner.
"So what you're saying is that the entire world revolves around you?"
"Sort of yeah."
"You're full of it." I mutter still unimpressed.
"Sort of yeah." he answers grinning back at me. I roll my eyes before slowly zoning out. My eyes unfocusing but my limbs still world around me shifts into the dream landscape I became so familiar with.
The same old man in a leather jacket stood opposite me, his hand holding down a red crystal shaped button, we were in a shed like building dust and dirt covering everything. It then glitches to his body being engulfed with golden particles. His screams of agony cause a shudder to run through me. After seemingly a long time the glowing stops. A new man replaces the old one. This one with big ears and a younger face.
A hand holds mine I zone back in to hear a part of their conversation. Our surroundings had changed to outside a park. The two holding hands as well as the Doctor gripping mine.
"I can feel it. The turn of the earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at 1,000 miles an hour, the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour. I can feel it, we're falling through space, us three. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world and if we let go..." he drifts off letting go of Rose's hand.
"Okay but like what did I miss?" I mutter to myself. The Doctor hears though and looks at me questioningly. "I zoned out. Only heard the part after my hand was grabbed." I explain, squeezing his hand as a signal. I really need to start taking my meds again.
"Just explaining how I'm not like you." he answers.
"Well yeah you're an alien." I blurted out. It is obvious.
"What did you just say?" he questions, his question turning serious. I think I stole his thunder.
"I'm sorry. But you not that sneaky, I mean you most definitely look like us... Or we look like you. Either way we look similar but you act completely different. Plus no human would have that much knowledge without an alien heritage involved." I ramble, scoffing at the put off expression on his face.
"Either way that's who I am. Now forget me Rose, Alula. Go home." he says taking the arm from Rose's grip.
"Hey that's Sam's arm." I shout after him. He continues walking towards a blue police box. I didn't think they still had those. I exhale slowly turning to talk to Rose only for her to have disappeared. Sighing I wrap my arms around my waist and head home. No point waiting around for people who apparently don't like me.
~1~
Sat on my bed I tug at my black jumper sleeve, fiddling with it as I think about the previous things that had happened. I probably wouldn't see either of them again as Rose isn't exactly a best friend. Well it's not like I actually have friends.
I fall back on my bed lying next to Rocket my cat. He meows before rolling over away from me. Nice. Seems everyone's leaving me today. I stand up adjusting my blue baggy ripped jeans before sliding some Converse Hightop's on. A walk will help.
The park was quiet as ever, a few old people and their dogs scattered around the grass. I stroll over to the bench before a noise distracts me. A wheezing sound almost. I follow the noise down an alleyway, the same police box as earlier sat there. Deciding to figure out what the hell was going on I stroll over to the box, the door swinging open for me. I gasp taking in the interior, it's smaller on the outside. I silently walk in, this is amazing. I creep forwards looking around in awe. The centerpiece was a blue/ green lighted column, rotor thing. The rest was golden with separate columns, circular patterns decorated the side walls. The room had corridors leading away to God knows where and a floor of grating which I guess you could say another level below. As I look down I can see the lower deck is full of storage containers and wires.
Suddenly the door swings open, the Doctor runs in holding a head that seemed vaguely familiar.
"Is that Mickey?" I question startling him as he spins around. I timidly wave before walking over. "I don't know how I got in here, she let me in." I answer his unsaid question. He nods his brow furrowed in confusion before attaching wires to the head. "Is there a reason you have a fake Mickey's head." I voice, strolling over to sit on the captain's chair. I find out that it spins, I'm going to have so much fun on this.
"It'll lead me to the person controlling it." he answers bustling around the centre.
"Is this a spaceship?"
"Yes."
"Where does it go?"
"Time and space." I nod in response cool.
"Has she got a name?" I ask, thinking of her possible names.
"Yeah, TARDIS. It stands for-"
"Wait I want to guess. So T is time obviously. S is space. Ummm give me a hint."
"The sizes of something." he replies watching me curiously.
"The length, width, the dimensions. Ohhh D is dimensions. So T is Time, A is and?" I ask he nods quickly I wrack my brain for things that would make sense then it clicks. "Got it. Time And Relative Dimension In Space." I grin child-like up at him. He nods smiling slightly with his brows furrowed before the doors swing open again.
Rose comes rushing in, freezing then running out. I turn to him in confusion but he wasn't watching. It takes a few moments until she's rushing back in.
"It's gonna follow us." she gasps, grabbing a side railing. "Oh hey Luna." I give a small smile in reply.
"The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door. Believe me they tried, now shut up a minute." the Doctor retorts using his silver and blue wand again.
"What is that cause i've been calling it a silver and blue wand the entire time and it's getting annoying." I question him. He looks up briefly before answering quietly,
"Sonic Screwdriver."
"But it doesn't look like a screwdriver..." I trail off after catching his glare. The Doctor starts talking to himself.
"The arm is too simple. But the head is perfect. I can use it to trace the signal back to the original source." he explains placing the head on the control panel I'm assuming. "Right. Where'd you want to start?"
"Um, the inside's bigger than the outside." Rose states, her body still frozen, I smirk from my spot.
"Wow never would have seen that Rose. Personally think the outside is smaller than the inside. " I sarcastically say. Rolling his eyes the Doctor ignores my comment and speaks up.
"Yes."
"It's alien."
"Yep." he answers again.
"Hey I could've told you that." I wine swinging my legs.
"Are you alien?" Rose questions. I huff in annoyance was no one listening to me earlier.
"Yes. Is that alright?" He queries almost cautiously.
"Well why wouldn't it be." I ask almost naively. At the same time Rose nods.
"It's called the TARDIS this thing, T-A-R-D-I-S that's Time And Relative Dimension In Space." He finishes looking rather proud of himself. Rose suddenly starts to cry, I awkwardly sit there looking at the Doctor to ask what the hell to do. "That's okay, culture shock. It happens to the best of us." he attempts to comfort, he himself also not having a clue on why the sudden water works.
"Did they kill him!? Mickey?" she splutters, still crying. I stand up to stand next to the alien. "Did they kill Mickey? Is he dead?" she sobs.
"Oh I didn't think of that." the alien man says, at that statement I burst out cackling. Rose sends me an annoyed glare whilst the Doctor looks amused. Glad I could lighten up his mood with my rather confusing sense of humor.
"He's my boyfriend..." Rose starts but I'm distracted by the smell of burning. I turn to see plastic Mickey melting. I tug at the Doctor sleeve causing him to spin around at me. I point at the head causing him to go into a flurry of panic.
"Aww, no, no, no, NO!" he exclaims. He starts to press buttons but all I could think of was how the hell was he going to clean that up. A gust of wind on the back of my neck makes me smile slightly. The ships starts to shake and makes the noise again. I don't think it's supposed to make that noise...
"What are you doing?!" Rose exclaims her voice still thick from crying.
"Following the signal. It's fading!" the Doctor replies, rushing around and hitting things. The TARDIS flings us around, panicked I grip onto the railing which helped to keep me standing. When the loud noises finally stop the Doctor rushes out, not waiting for either of us to follow. I stumble towards the door, a bit dizzy from the ride.
Rose's distant yelling is muffled by the door slamming behind me. Its opened shortly after by Rose herself. I gaze around in wonder. We have moved.
"What the fuck?" I mumble to myself, earning a reprimanding look from the Doctor, rolling my eyes I spin on the spot. Staring in awe at the London Eye as Rose starts asking more questions. I'm slowly getting sick of her voice, I must be tired. Turning I'm met by a frantic Doctor who was spinning around searching for God knows what.
"No, I lost the signal. I got so close." he sulks, walking over to the wall to lean against it. I follow, leaning closely next to him so our arms touched. Rose stares in wonder before shaking out of the shock.
"We've moved. Does it fly?"
"It disappears there and reappears here. You wouldn't understand." he snaps, still miffed about losing the signal. I gently nudge his arm causing him too look down at me.
"Just cause we're not alien. That's the only reason why, we're just not as advanced as your society." I state smiling at him. "I wonder what the futures like."
"Fantastic." he answers smiling slightly before turning back round to Rose.
"But we're... somewhere else, what about that headless thing it's still on the loose." Rose says indicating somewhere in the distance.
"Oh oh wait let me guess." I say putting my hand in the air. I will raise the Doctors spirits if it's the last thing I do. He smiles slightly before nodding to me, shoving his hands in his pockets. "It melted with the head. They're connected." I answer a smug grin on my face as the Doctor nods in approvement.
"Are you going to witter on all night?" the Doctor questions, although I don't know who it was aimed at. I slowly lower my hand dejectedly before shaking it off. He's annoyed which means he takes it out on others. It's almost human. The Doctor leaves me at the wall to walk towards the TARDIS. I huff turning around to lean my back against the bricks. Rose continues to (as the Doctor said) witter on about her boyfriend. The Doctors blank face at some of her comments make me giggle though. Sometimes he acted completely human then other times like an alien.
"You were right, you are alien!" Rose shouts at him, angry at the fact he forgot about Mickey. I mean when you think about it there are so many human, how do we expect him to remember all of them?
"If I did forget some kid called Mickey-"
"He's not a kid!"
"It's cause I'm trying to save the life of every other stupid ape blundering about on this planet, all right?!" he shouts, his body tense. I roll my eyes at the dramatics leaning further away from the squabbling pair.
"All right!" Rose snaps.
"Yes, it is!" is his sassy retort. He looks away crossing his arms whilst Rose walks to the other side of the wall. I look between the two who were acting like toddlers.
"So when your finished acting like children I have a question what the hell are we going to do now?!" I huff folding my arms across my chest. All I recieve is a huff from them both. "Fine ignore me. It wouldn't be the first time." I mumble. We return to silence as I stand there awkwardly.
"If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?" Rose asks breaking the silence.
"Lots of planets have a north." is the aliens reply.
"What's a police public call box." Rose asks again trying to make the Doctor talk to her.
"It's a telephone box, from the 1950's. It's a disguise." the Doctor answers, unravelling his arms and plastering a grin on his face. He gently pats the TARDIS as he answers.
"Why is the living plastic here?" I query stepping towards the TARDIS leaning against her gently.
"You've got a good planet, lots of smoke and oil; plenty of toxins and dioxins. Perfect. Just what the Nestene Consciousness needs. It's food stock was destroyed in the war, its protein planet destr..." the Doctors voice slowly fades out as I'm sucked into my thoughts, the mention of war seemed to have done something to me. Panicked I stand up straight-
Fire everywhere, the citadel no longer standing in all it's beauty, the same man that stands in front of me in the present time is stood now his clothes raggedy and burnt. His eyes glisten with tears as he rushes into his TARDIS the doors locking behind them. My body moves to run after the spaceship, panicking as the world seems to shake. I rush around searching for something to escape in. A small pod that seems to be in good condition sat nearby, I scramble over, the sound of the TARDIS dematerialising pushes me quicker. I hook the pod to the time machine before hitchhiking my way to wherever the hell earth is.
I'm shaken out of my day dream by the Doctor grabbing my hand and running towards the eye of London.
"Can someone explain I zoned out again." I complain tugging the Doctors hand to get his attention.
"The Nestene Consciousness needs a transmitter, which just so happens to be the London Eye." he briefs before tugging me along to the metal structure. Fun I think.