I know, it's been too long! But here's another chapter! I hope you all enjoy. Will hopefully get another one out by the end of the month!
It had been around two weeks since Rose had fully started travelling with them. After they'd left London they'd ended up in Utah, 2012 and that's when Adam had traipsed his way onto the TARDIS. Hally didn't get it. Rose needed to seriously upgrade her taste in men.
Running into the Dalek had shaken both her and the Doctor, she supposed he must have welcomed the distraction that the two humans caused. She had been angry with him for not taking the Dalek out when he'd had the chance and even more furious when he'd refused to explain to her what he'd meant back in the cage.
"They're never going to come! Your race is dead! You all burnt, all of you. Ten million ships on fire. The entire Dalek race wiped out in one second."
"You lie!" The Dalek screamed.
"I watched it happen. I made it happen."
"You destroyed us?"
"I had no choice."
"And what of the Time Lords?"
"Dead. They burnt with you. The end of the last great Time War. Everyone lost."
Then, there had been what happened on Satellite 5. That was… disgusting. Hally had felt a small ounce of sympathy for Adam, but it had only been small. He was an idiot. They would seriously need to start screening any other 'travel companions'.
Then Rose had asked to go to 1987. She'd wanted to see her father. Hally knew it had been for purely selfish reasons but she'd also had a sneaking suspicion that Rose had also mentioned it because Hally and The Doctor hadn't spoken more than 5 words to one another since Utah. The human was annoyingly clever sometimes. Not that that visit hadn't gone terribly, definitely not to plan and had been full of heartbreak.
Hally and The Doctor had tried to give Rose some space for a few days afterwards. The Doctor had found Hally on the TARDIS doorstep, her legs hanging over the edge, doors wide open onto some galaxy. He silently sat beside her, observing his daughter for a quiet moment.
Hally was quiet, she felt The Doctor's presence before he'd taken a seat beside her. The view before her was beautiful. Everything was so silent.
The Doctor leant forward, resting his elbows on his legs. "You're right to be angry at me."
She let out a long sign. "I'm not… angry at you." She looked at him. "I just don't know who you are." Hally shrugged, sending him a sad smile before turning back to look out of the TARDIS.
The Doctor frowned. "What do you mean?"
Hally bit the inside of her lip, considering her words. "We don't know each other. Not really. You're my father but we've never spent much time together? We both do things that infuriate the other but it's because we just don't understand one another." She sent him a small sympathetic smile.
He laughed softly, looking impressed. "That was very rationally put."
She smirked. "I can be rational."
"You could have fooled me." He rebuked, sending her a smirk.
Hally huffed, shooting him a playful glare. "I could just push you, you know?" She motioned to the vast emptiness that was before them.
They fell into a comfortable silence, both engrossed in their own thoughts.
"I ended the Time War." The Doctor broke the peace once again.
Hally was quiet for a minute or so.
"I gathered…" She breathed out softly, not looking at him. Her heart ached painfully, the ring that was hidden around her neck feeling like it was burning a heavy hole in her chest.
"I had to. It was the only way I could end everything. Destroy the Daleks. But in the end, I had to destroy everything. Gallifrey as well." He had turned to look at her, she could hear the guilt in his voice.
Hally nodded, placing a hand gently over his. Never once looking away from the galaxy in front of them. "I know. I… understand."
After another silent moment, she took in a deep breath. "I know it seems like I'm angry at you. I'm not. Not really. It's just… it's a lot." She let out a bitter laugh. "I'm finding it hard… to process. Everything happened so quickly. And now there's nothing. I can't feel anyone but you…." She frowned, motioning to her temple.
He nodded in understanding. "I know. It's so quiet."
She smiled slightly, finally turning to look at him. "Maybe that's why I find you so annoying." She smirked. "Because you're always there… all I can feel."
They both let out a short laugh. "Maybe." He agreed quietly.
Hally nodded to herself suddenly, a determined look on her face.
"Ok, so from now on I think we should promise to make an effort to get to know one another." The Doctor had to stop himself from laughing at the serious expression on her face as she continued. "Stop hiding. Just… accept that we are different. Accept that we are father and daughter and it's better to be a team than to constantly fight one another."
The Doctor laughed fondly. "Alright. That doesn't sound too bad."
She nodded, smiling and turning back to look out of the TARDIS. That hadn't been too difficult to say. Although now Hally didn't know where to begin. She'd meant what she'd said. She did want them to get to know one another, but that meant no more secrets, being completely open with him and neither 'I have superpowers' or 'I married your best friend' seemed like a great place to start.
"You are my daughter..." The Doctor's voice saved her from having to make the decision at that moment.
Hally pulled a face at his strange confession. "Ummm… yes?"
He chuckled, shaking his head. "Just… listen for a minute." He held his hands out motioning for her to shut up. "You are my daughter. But you were only a half-sibling to Irvin and Mejana…" He continued. His voice had dropped to a low murmur.
Hally frowned slightly, that wasn't all that surprising to her. Her 'mother' had never taken much of an interest in her.
The Doctor continued slowly. "I don't know who your mother is." He looked up at her.
Hally raised an eyebrow, a coy look coming across her face, she opened her mouth to deliver a sly remark but The Doctor cut her off, anticipating her train of thought.
"Not like that." He huffed, shaking his head. "I found you. Dropped on the doorstep of my TARDIS. Just a note, saying your name and that you were mine to look after." He frowned. "Not exactly custom."
For once Hally was quiet.
"So… yes, I kept my distance. I triple checked that you were actually mine… which… you are. But I didn't really know what to do with you. I figured you'd be better off living a normal life at the academy."
Hally watched him closely.
"However, you seem to attract trouble, even more than me sometimes." He smirked. "I've tried to figure out where you came from… the most likely explanation is that you're the daughter of a future version of myself."
"But why would you send me back? Have me grow up on Gallifrey?" Hally frowned.
He shrugged. "No idea. It certainly creates an interesting paradox." He smiled kindly at her. "Some things can't be changed. Fixed point remember."
Hally lent back on her hands, thinking. "Huh." It made some sense, provided some answers at least.
"Wait… if all the Time Lords are gone… and I haven't technically been born yet… am I only half Time Lord?" Hally's eyes suddenly widened turning to look at The Doctor in shock.
He smiled slightly. "Yep." He popped the 'p' knowingly.
"Oh my god…" Her face screwed up in disgust. "Then what else am I?!"
The Doctor laughed, jumping up onto his feet, he held out his hand. "I'll show you."
He took her over to the console, pulling a few wires out of random places and strapping them onto both of Hally's arms. A display screen popped up with a generalised schematic of Hally's body. The Doctor zoomed in.
"See… still two hearts. But…" He pressed a few buttons and a type of pie chart appeared next to the schematic, it was split into three chunks.
"50% Time Lord. 35% Human and… 15% unknown." He finished, looking at her, a mixture of nerves and excitement present in his eyes.
"What?!" Hally looked at him pointedly, her face scrunching up in disgust. "Human?! Are you serious?! Ew…." She baulked slightly. "Ew, ew, ew…."
"Stop being so prejudiced." He scolded through a smile, amused by her reaction.
Hally shivered in mock disgust. "Also, what the hell is 'unknown'? How is my genetic makeup unknown to the TARDIS?" She crossed her arms.
The Doctor shrugged nonchalantly which only ruffled Hally's feathers further. "Your TARDIS is useless." She huffed childishly.
"Oi!" He defended, pulling the wires off of Hally's arms. "Thought we were being nice now?"
Hally shrugged. "Oh, I am being nice… Time Lord half is being really nice, the human portion is a little bit mad and well... the rest is 'unknown'!" She threw her arms up in the air dramatically to make her point.
The TARDIS console suddenly jumped to life, a loud alarm started to sound, purple flashing lights lighting up the console. The Doctor turned quickly, locking on to the signal as fast as he could. Rose stumbled into the console room.
"What's the emergency?" She asked coming over to the pair.
"It's mauve." The Doctor explained quickly.
"Mauve?" Rose sent Hally a quizzical look.
The Doctor chuckled, explaining to Rose that Mauve was the universally recognised colour for danger… not red. The Doctor motioned for Hally to take up one of the TARDIS gear sticks which she did reluctantly. The TARDIS lurched and they all had to grab hold of the console to stop them flying across the floor
"What exactly is this thing?" Rose cried out as Hally locked into gear, the TARDIS stabilising its link to the object.
"No idea." He grinned stupidly.
"Then why are we chasing it?" She continued, her voice more panicked.
"It's mauve and dangerous, and about thirty seconds from the centre of London." He added quickly.
As soon as the TARDIS had materialised the trio were straight out of the deep blue doors. The Doctor was muttering about being back on earth again. Hally laughed and lead the way along the back alley where they'd landed.
"If you've both quite finished?" She smirked, sending The Doctor a pointed look. "We can't be far away?"
The Doctor nodded. "Within a mile, anyway. And it can't have been more than a few weeks ago. Maybe a month."
"A month? We were right behind it…" Rose questioned, looking between the pair. Hally chuckled, shaking her head.
"It was jumping time tracks all over the place. We're bound to be a little bit out." He defended. "Do you want to drive?" He raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah. How much is a little?" Rose countered.
The Doctor made a face. "A bit."
"Is that exactly a bit?" She crossed her arms.
"Ish." The Doctor walked past, Hally rolled her eyes at him.
"Seriously, I thought we were on a Mauve Alert here?" Hally looked between the two of them. Eventually, they came to a door marked 'Deliveries Only'. The Doctor was planning on using his psychic paper on getting the answers he needed from the locals.
"Not very Spock, is it, just asking." Rose shrugged her shoulders, messing with The Doctor.
"Door, music, people. What do you think?" He took out his sonic screwdriver.
"I think you should do a scan for alien tech. Give me some Spock, for once. Would it kill you?" Rose batted her eyelashes. Hally cocked her head to one side, observing the exchange. The Doctor flicked on the screwdriver, unlocking the door and pulling it open. He turned back and gave a look to Rose's T-shirt, which was sporting a very large, bright Union Jack Flag.
"Are you sure about that T-shirt?" He quipped.
"Too early to say. I'm taking it out for a spin." Rose looked down at herself, grinning.
Hally suddenly frowned as The Doctor entered through the door. "Wait… are you flirting?!" She accused, following in after The Doctor quickly.
When Hally didn't feel Rose step inside behind them she turned back to the delivery door, looking over her shoulder she saw that The Doctor was already a few meters ahead, oblivious to the fact that he had lost his human.
"Typical…" Hally muttered, backing out of the building and back into the dark, dingy alleyway.
"Rose?!" She called out when she found the alley empty.
"Up here! There's this kid!" Hally looked up at the sound of Rose's voice, she was climbing up a set of metal fire escape stairs towards the roof of the building. Hally frowned, on the top of the roof stood a small child, around 7 or 8?
"Hold on!" Hally called, starting to climb the staircase after her. Something about the child felt very wrong.
"Mummy?" Hally heard the child call, she looked up ahead, Rose had made it to a flat portion of the roof and had started to climb further towards the child on a rope.
Hally huffed, mumbling to herself. "I said, hold on…"
"Okay, hang on. Don't move!" Rose called up to the child.
"Mummy. Balloon!" The child called.
Hally frowned as she made it to the flat part of the roof, looking up at Rose as she slowly started to drift away on the rope.
"Oh…" Hally's eyes widened as she followed the rope up to see the dark silhouette of a huge barrage balloon overhead.
"Help!" Rose shouted out as she drifted further away from the wall, the rope now dangling off the roof.
"Hold on!" Hally shouted as she sprinted along the flat roof. Rose was being pulled higher now, her small form moving further and further away. Hally jumped off the end of the roof, the child behind her forgotten as she ran as fast as she could along the rooves of London. The sky was suddenly alive with activity, sirens on the ground rang out loudly warning the inhabitants of an air raid.
Large tunnels of light combed the sky and the ground rumbled as explosions and fires sprang up all over the city. Overhead a squadron of German planes cut up the sky, bombs dropping from their bellies.
The breath caught in Hally's throat and she tripped, falling into the side of a chimney. The lights flashed before Hally's eyes, she grabbed at her own throat in panic.
"No… no, no!" She forced in a breath, eyes scanning the sky for Rose. She couldn't see her.
Her head began to swim and she felt her mind blackout in panic. She could see it again.
Gallifrey.
Dying.
Heat burnt at her throat. She dug her fingernails in hard to the cold damp tiles beneath her, the pain shocking her mind back into the present. She took a deep breath in, sitting herself down on the roof and propping her back up against the chimney she'd fallen against. Crossing her arms over her chest protectively.
She sat, probably for a good ten minutes, just forcing herself to breathe. The chaos continued on around her, all parts of the city being lit up with explosions. She looked up at the sky, bright lights flashing across her vision. The fingers on her right hand gently tapping a rhythm of four onto her left arm.
It was strangely beautiful.
Slowly, Hally felt her hearts fall back into a normal rhythm, the breath in her lungs stung less as she pushed herself to her feet. She needed to keep moving. Sitting on top of a roof in the middle of The Blitz was definitely not a good idea. Hally scanned the sky one last time to see if she could see any sign of Rose before she descended down to street level.
Hally wasn't sure where she was going, but the feeling of 'wrongness' seemed to be getting stronger and when she finally found herself standing on the edge of a large, cordoned off bomb crater, she figured that whatever they'd been following, was probably inside.
After scoping out the area, Hally was frustrated to find that it was actually very well guarded. No way in or out without being detected. That was when she felt the familiar mental nudge of her father.
"Nice of you to catch up."
Hally raised an eyebrow, scanning the area. She grinned when she saw him, practically running over to greet him.
"Hi!" She whispered excitedly. "I totally found this first…" She grinned.
The Doctor looked at her, unimpressed. "Where's Rose?"
Hally's smile fell. "Oh. Yeah, I lost the human."
The Doctor shook his head and nodded in the direction of what looked like a hospital. "We're going in there. Got to find the Doctor." He started to skulk off and Hally had to run to catch up with him.
The Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to open the padlock on the ornate metal gates to the hospital grounds. Inside the long, dark wards, each bed was occupied with people wearing gas masks. None of them were moving.
"You'll find them everywhere." Said a gruff voice from behind them. "In every bed, in every ward. Hundreds of them."
Hally and The Doctor turned to see an elderly, grumpy looking man addressing them, he was leaning on a walking stick and certainly didn't look like he should be taking care of so many patients in such a terrible state himself.
"Yes, I saw. Why are they still wearing gas masks?" The Doctor asked, giving the man a quick once over.
"They're not." He answered gruffly. Hally frowned, looking at the patients… they definitely were. "Who are you?" The man asked.
"We're… umm. Are you the doctor?" The Doctor settled on.
"Doctor Constantine. And you are?"
"Nancy sent me." The Doctor tried. This seemed to help, although Doctor Constantine became even more prickly.
"Nancy? That means you must've been asking about the bomb." He narrowed his eyes at them both.
"Yes." The Doctor replied.
Constantine looked between them suspiciously, he coughed violently, sitting gingerly into the chair by the desk he was leaning on. As he spoke to The Doctor, Hally moved closer to one of the patients. It looked like it was a woman, but it was difficult to tell because of the gas mask. She went to lean closer to try and take it off.
"Don't touch the flesh." Doctor Constantine's voice echoed around the room. Hally stopped, looking up to see them both looking at her.
"Of this one…?" She asked, straightening up and moving away from the bed.
"Any one." Constantine muttered.
The Doctor moved away from Constantine and over to the nearest bed, scanning the sonic screwdriver over the patient.
"Conclusions?" Constantine asked from where he sat.
The Doctor read aloud the sonic's readings. "Massive head trauma, mostly to the left side. Partial collapse of the chest cavity, mostly to the right. There's some scarring on the back of the hand and the gas mask seems to be fused to the flesh, but I can't see any burns."
"Examine another one."
The Doctor did so, frowning. His confusion only grew the more he examined the patients.
"What is it?" Hally asked. She'd moved back into the centre of the room, as far away from the patients as possible.
"They've all got the same injuries." The Doctor answered, looking between Constantine and his daughter.
Doctor Constantine confirmed it. Hally looked back around the room, frowning. That just didn't make sense. Even if they were all hit by the bomb they'd all show completely different patterns of injury. The patients were identical, even down to the small scar on the back of their hand. Hally looked back at Constantine, who was explaining to The Doctor that there had only been one victim when the bomb had dropped.
"Dead?" The Doctor asked.
Constantine nodded. "At first. His injuries were truly dreadful. By the following morning, every doctor and nurse who had treated him, who had touched him, had those exact same injuries. By the morning after that, every patient in the same ward, the exact same injuries. Within a week, the entire hospital. Physical injuries as plague. Can you explain that?"
Hally looked back at The Doctor, it seemed he couldn't. Doctor Constantine suddenly whacked the waste bucket at his feet with his stick. Every patient in the room suddenly sat up in their beds making Hally jump.
"It's all right. They're harmless. They just sort of sit there. No heartbeat, no life signs of any kind. They just don't die." Constantine explained sadly.
The patients slowly lay back down again after a few moments, The Doctored turning back to Constantine to question him further but his condition was rapidly deteriorating as he hacked out another few painful coughs.
"…There are isolated cases. Isolated cases breaking out all over London." He coughed violently, waving them away violently. "Stay back, stay back…." He struggled to breathe. "Listen to me. Top floor. Room 802. That's where they took the first victim, the one from the crash site… And you must find Nancy again." He spluttered out before returning to a coughing fit.
"Nancy?" The Doctor asked. Hally could tell he was concerned for the man, and she herself had noticed the scar on the back of his hand that matched all the patients.
"It was her brother. She knows more than she's saying. She won't tell me, but she might…" His voice cut off as he began to cough again. The pair watched in horror as he seemingly coughed up the end of a gas mask, the mask exited his mouth, growing until his entire face had been covered.
"…Mummy. Are you my Mummy?" Doctor Constantine asked, cocking his head to one side.
"Hello?!" Voices were coming from the corridor outside the ward, getting closer. Hally shot a look back at Doctor Constantine, he wasn't moving anymore, just slumped into his chair. The Doctor turned on his heel and walked out into the corridor, Hally quickly following behind him.
She cracked a small smile of relief to see Rose walking towards them but their reunion was swiftly interrupted by the tall and she had to admit, very handsome man walking beside her. He grabbed The Doctor's hand, shaking it firmly.
"Good evening. Hope we're not interrupting. Jack Harkness." He flashed them both a winning smile. "I've been hearing all about you on the way over." The Doctor looked slightly confused.
"He knows." Rose jumped in quickly. "I had to tell him about us being Time Agents." The Doctor's face broke into a smile, nodding quickly.
"And it's a real pleasure to meet you, Mister Spock." Jack flashed Hally a large smile. "Miss Hally."
Hally's mouth dropped open to mutter some kind of retort but she found that the words just weren't coming. Jack confidently moved past the group, heading back inside the ward. The Doctor shot Hally a look that clearly told her to follow him, which she did with increasing intrigue.
Jack shot a look over his shoulder upon hearing someone follow. He grinned. "He send you in to make sure I'm not causing any trouble?"
"Something like that." She smiled slightly.
He let out a laugh, turning back from her and heading to one of the patients. He pulled back his sleeve, using his wrist device to examine the patients.
"This just isn't possible. How did this happen?" He asked as The Doctor and Rose followed them into the ward.
The Doctor ignored his question. "What kind of Chula ship landed here?"
Jack's face fell. "What?"
Rose piped up quickly, leaning against the desk. "He said it was a warship. He stole it, parked it somewhere out there, somewhere a bomb's going to fall on it unless we make him an offer."
The Doctor pressed Jack further, raising his voice as he got more frustrated.
"An ambulance! Look." Jack let out a huff of frustration, bringing up a hologram on his wrist device.
"That's what you chased through the Time Vortex. It's space junk. I wanted to kid you it was valuable. It's empty. I made sure of it. Nothing but a shell. I threw it at you. Saw your time travel vehicle, love the retro look, by the way, nice panels. Threw you the bait…" He finished, turning away from them, running a hand through his hair.
"You said it was a warship…" Rose narrowed her eyes.
"You're a con man." Hally muttered, Jack turned back to look at her, he let out a laugh that didn't sound all too kind.
"That's what I am sweetheart. I'm a con man. I thought you were Time Agents. You're not, are you?" He muttered irritably, shooting Rose a dark look.
"Just a couple more freelancers." She countered back quickly. Hally smirked.
"Oh. Should have known." He grimaced, motioning to them patronisingly. "The way you guys are blending in with the local colour. I mean, Flag Girl was bad enough, but U-Boat Captain?"
Hally shook her head. "This is all totally irrelevant to what is actually going on here." She shot Jack a look to hopefully shut him up.
"What is happening here, Doctor?" Rose asked after a moment.
"Human DNA is being rewritten by an idiot." The Doctor moved over to one of the patients again, scanning with the screwdriver to see if there was anything he'd missed.
"What do you mean?" Rose followed him, staying close to his side.
The Doctor ran a hand over his head, almost talking to himself. "I don't know. Some kind of virus converting human beings into these things. But why? What's the point?"
"Maybe there isn't a point?" Hally tried. "If it's some kind of virus it might be an accident? Whatever came in that ship? It could have been infectious right?" Jack opened his mouth to no doubt, protest when all the patients in the room sat up suddenly.
"Ummm…." Hally muttered, moving away from the nearest bed, back into the middle of the room.
Slowly they began to stand, each one asking over and over again for their mummy.
"Mummy…?"
"What's happening..?" Rose's voice was a little higher than usual as all four of them backed into the centre of the room, Jack's back hit Hally's and she swallowed nervously.
"I don't know." The Doctor muttered as the watched Doctor Constantine stand up alongside the patients.
"Mummy." Constantine's voice was muffled by the gas mask.
"Don't let them touch you!" The Doctor added, pulling Rose further back. The four of them backing away slowly.
"What happens if they touch us?"
"You're looking at it."
Hally couldn't help a small squeak that escaped her mouth as the patients closed in on them.
"Help me, Mummy."
"Mummy… Mummy."
"Mummy..? Mummy… Mummy… Mummy."
Hally looked around the room, letting out a groan. "Okay, this now feels like a personal attack…"
IIII
What she assumes is 5th November 2007.
Hally woke up in her tiny little grey room again. This time it'd been by the unwelcome shrill of the morning bell. She let out a soft groan, swinging her legs out of bed.
"Breakfast in 5 minutes!" A guard called loudly, his voice travelling all the way down the corridor of cells.
Hally splashed some water on her face, sniffing at herself. She made a face, quickly changing out of one ugly beige top, into another. After 5 minutes the door to her cell clicked and swung open, Hally slowly exited the cell. She could see other 'inmates' doing the same to her left and right, all dressed exactly the same. She followed the line out along the corridor and into a large canteen. There must have been around 50 other young girls there, none of them could have been older than 18?
"Hey, keep moving…" A hushed whispered from behind her brought her out of her thoughts, she was pushed gently forward by a small hand. Hally looked over her shoulder to see a girl who looked around 15 behind her. The girl sent her a small frown and Hally looked back in front. The line followed the outside of the room, eventually getting to a small service hatch through which breakfast was being served.
Hally looked down at the grey mush in her small brown bowl as she set down her tray at a fairly empty table. She made a face and looked up, her eyes locked with the young girl who had been behind her in the queue, she was now sitting opposite, a few seats down. The girl stifled a small smile and without saying anything, started to eat.
Hally puffed out her cheeks, sighing. She picked up her spoon and sniffed a small bit. It didn't smell of anything. She popped it in her mouth and silently choked. She dropped the spoon, grabbing a long drink of water. Looking around the room, Hally noticed just how many guards were present. There were at least 25 currently, all dotted around the edges of the room. She frowned, looking back at the young women all sat calmly eating breakfast.
They hardly looked like they needed 25 guards to be on watch in a facility that was supposedly already secure enough to keep them all locked in. That reminded her, where the hell was she? What happened to make her end up there…?
Her head ached slightly as she tried to hold on to the thought, but eventually, it was sucked away. Like a fast-flowing river, her thoughts just slipped away before she could grasp onto them.
"Eat." A deep voice from behind made her jump. Hally looked back to see tall, dark-haired man looming over her. His eyes were piercingly blue and his pale face was hard set and angular. Hally opened her mouth to say something back, when she noticed that his right hand was hovering over what looked like a Taser. She closed her mouth, looking back up to his face which held no emotion whatsoever.
She turned back to her food, picking up her spoon and slowly bringing it to her mouth. She grit her teeth when she didn't hear him walk away. Feeling like a child as she forcefully finished the disgusting grey mush in front of her. Only when all of it was gone did she hear his heavy steps retreating.
After breakfast, most of them we escorted back to their cells. Just before lunch one of the guards unlocked her cell and escorted her to a newer part of the complex. Light panelled wood doors lined the corridor. The guard took her to room marked '09 Counselling Suite' – 'Dr Saxon'. He opened the door for her and motioned for her to enter.
"Dr Saxon will be with you shortly. Take a seat." With that, the door had clicked shut. Hally could see the shadowy outline of the guard standing outside the door.
Letting out a soft sigh she sat herself down on the orange fabric sofa that was placed in the middle of the room. It looked a lot like an office, it was fairly large with a square window on the wall to the right. It looked out onto what she assumed was an exercise yard, an old rusty basketball hoop could be seen in the far corner. The walls were lined with bookcases and a large glass desk sat in front of her and behind that a comfy looking leather chair. Hally bit her lip, noticing the bowl of biscuits left invitingly on the desk. She leant forward slowly, reaching out a hand to grab one.
"Making yourself at home?"
She froze for a second, before leaning back into the sofa, stolen biscuit in hand. Without looking over her shoulder she answered.
"Well… I can't imagine you're going to eat all those yourself…?" She relaxed when she heard the short laugh from behind her and the soft footsteps as the man circled behind her to get to his desk. He sat down, a small smile that didn't quite reach his eyes playing on his lips.
Hally bit into the biscuit and inwardly winced at how loud the noise was. The man was watching her intently, both his dark brown eyes swimming with dark amusement. He leant back in his chair an unreadable expression on his face. Hally looked away nervously, missing the smile that spread across his face.
"Let me introduce myself." He spoke after a short while. Hally looked back at him, his handsome round face was pulled into a charming smile.
"I'm Dr Saxon."