Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who that goes to the BBC
Author's Note: In this series, you'll meet Suzie Tyler, an original character (OC) of mine, who takes the place of the canon version of Rose. While Suzie shares some similarities with the Rose that we all know and love, she also brings her own unique qualities and experiences to the story. Additionally, the character known as 'The Wolf' is Rose Tyler, and is a Time Lady who was born on Gallifrey and has always travelled with the Doctor. You may notice that Rose doesn't resemble or sound like the character we know and love yet, and this is intentional. The reasons for this will be revealed as the story progresses.
On Earth, March 4th, 2005 in London within a council estate known as the Powell Estate, a young woman around 19 years old with fair skin, hazel-brown eyes and brown straight hair named Suzie Tyler was lying down and sleeping on a bed in the flat of the estate called the 'Tyler flat.' Her alarm clock, which read 7:30 went off, jolting her awake. She silenced the alarm with a smack of her left hand to stop it beeping and sat up as she flipped her bed covers off of her and jumped out of bed.
About half an hour later in the sitting room of the Tyler flat, Suzie was now wearing a blue coloured zip-up jacket, black jeans and trainers as she picked up a bag from a chair with her left hand before she gave her mother, who had light skin, straight blonde hair and blue eyes and was sitting on the sofa a quick kiss on the cheek before she grabbed her keys from the table in front of them.
"Bye!" Suzie told her mother, a Cockney accent evident in her voice.
"See you later!" Jackie replied with a similar Cockney accent before she took a sip of her tea and picked up the phone with her right hand.
Suzie then ran down the stairs of the block of flats of the Powell Estate.
About half an hour or so later on a London street, Suzie jumped off a bus and ran into a shop called Hendricks.
A while later on the shop floor of Hendricks, Suzie carried a pile of clothes, looking rather bored.
A few hours later at Trafalgar Square and presumably in her lunch hour, Suzie and a young man with dark skin, brown eyes and black hair named Mickey sat next to a fountain, having a laugh, eating food. Mickey then played around with his right foot as he put it over his left foot as they were teasing each other before they kissed and hugged each other. They then stood back up from the fountain as they began to leave the area.
"Bye!" Suzie told him as she walked away from him.
A few hours later, Suzie was working on the shop floor of Henricks, moving stacked and folded clothes with both of her hands.
"This is a customer announcement," a feminine voice said from the shop's PA system, "The store will be closing in five minutes. Thank you."
A few minutes later, Suzie was about to leave as she along with two other women began walking towards the shop's entrance.
"Oi!" A security guard with light skin, blue eyes and brown hair, wearing round glasses over his eyes called out to Suzie as he stood next to one of the entrance's doors and held a package with a lottery winning in his left hand.
Suzie then took the package, looking not too- happy and walked back towards the other end of the shop before she stopped in front of a lift. She pressed its call button with her right hand as the security guard closed the shop's main entrance with both of his hands. The lift suddenly reached the main floor before she entered the lift as its doors closed in front of her and began descending downwards towards the shop's basement.
As soon as the lift reached the basement of Hendricks, it made a ping sound, she left the lift and entered the basement.
"Wilson?" Suzie called as the lift's door slid back shut behind her before she went further down the corridor, "Wilson, I've got the lottery money. Wilson?" She then knocked on a door that said 'HP Wilson CEO' as she approached it with her right hand, "You there?" She then tried opening the door with her right hand, only for it to not budge, "Look, I can't hang about 'cos they're closing the shop. Wilson?" She then muttered to herself, "Oh, come on."
There was suddenly a sound further along the corridor. Suzie immediately snapped her head in the direction it had come from.
"Hello?" Suzie said as she began heading down the other way of the basement floor, "Hello? Wilson, it's Suzie. Hello? Wil... Wilson?"
She then stopped outside a fire door for a moment, and then opened it with her left hand as she placed her hand on the door, and found herself in a room that looked as though it was used for storing shop dummies before she turned the light on with her right hand.
"Wilson?" Suzie called out to Wilson again as she began to walk further into the room, "Wilson!"
She then walked towards and tried another door in the side of the room when the fire door through which she had entered the room suddenly closed abruptly. Shocked at what just happened, she ran back towards the door.
"Oh, you're kidding me!" Suzie muttered as she shook the handles, but they wouldn't open before she suddenly heard a small sound coming from behind her, "Is that someone mucking about?" She then carefully began to walk through the room, "Who is it?"
Behind her, a shop window dummy slowly turned its head on its own accord, only for Suzie to turn around just in time to see it step out of its alcove and towards her, causing her to slowly back away from it.
"Heh... Okay. You got me, very funny," Suzie muttered to herself as she stared at the shop window dummy as it said nothing and kept advancing towards her before two more of them joined it and began approaching Suzie as well, "Right, I've got the joke! Whose idea was this? Was it Derek's? Is it?" The shop window dummies were still advancing towards her as another approached her from behind, "Derek, is it you?"
All of the dummies were now alive as Suzie backed away from them and tripped over a box before she quickly pulled herself up again and backed against a wall. The shop window dummies then suddenly lifted their right arms up to strike her. Suzie closed her eyes as she screwed her face up ready for the blow, when a right hand with light skin suddenly grabbed hers.
This caused Suzie to open her eyes and snapped her head to look at the owner of the hand and saw that it was a man that looked like he was in his late thirties to early forties with blue eyes and short, dark brown hair that was almost black and cut in a close-cropped style. He had distinctive large ears and was wearing a black leather jacket with a dark green V-neck navy jumper underneath, black jeans and trainers.
"Run!" The man ordered her with a Manunian accent before they began running out of the room just in time.
They ran through a fire exit with the shop window dummies in pursuit as they ran down a corridor. And as they left the room, a woman who appeared to be in her mid-thirties with light skin, blue eyes and dark brown hair in the style of a wavy bob, was waiting by the door and began running with them. She was wearing a women's navy-blue leather jacket, charcoal black V-neck shirt, khaki cargo trousers and black sturdy boots. Without missing a beat, she matched their pace as they ran down the corridor.
The two of them soon ran through another fire door as the man led her towards a lift and pressed the call button with his left hand as they quickly entered the lift. He then clicked on one of the lift's floor buttons, causing the doors to close on one of the dummy's arms. The man pulled on the dummy's arm a few times as he grabbed it with both of his hands and grunted before finally pulling it off, causing the doors to close shut.
"You pulled his arm off!" Suzie told the man with disgust in her voice.
"Yep!" The man said as he tossed it to Suzie and crossed his arms, "Plastic."
"Very clever, nice trick!" Suzie told him, "Who were they then, students? Is this a student thing or what?"
"Why would they be students?" The man asked her.
"Yeah, why would they be students?" The woman said with a South Welsh accent, agreeing with him.
"I don't know!" Suzie told him.
"Well, you said it," the man muttered, "Why students?"
"Cos... To get that many people dressed up and being silly, they gotta be students," Suzie answered, causing the man and woman to smile at her as they liked her.
"That makes sense," the man told her, "Well done."
"Thanks," Suzie replied.
"They're not students," the man told her.
"Whoever they are, when Wilson finds them, he's gonna call the police," Suzie stated.
"Who's Wilson?" The man asked her.
"Yeah, who is this Wilson you're referring to?" The woman said, agreeing with him.
"Chief electrician," Suzie answered.
"I hate to break it to you, but Wilson's dead," the woman told her with regret in her voice before she and the man both stepped out of the lift before Suzie followed them.
"He's dead? How?" Suzie asked them with confusion in her voice.
"Hold on!" The man urged her as he pulled out a device with a creamy light grey handle that had a cracked-porcelain texture with silver metal on either end, a black pommel at the bottom and a blue emitter at the top with his right hand as he pushed Suzie to the side, "Mind your eyes."
"I've had enough of this now!" Suzie told them before the man and woman walked off, "Who are the two of you, then? Who's that lot down there? I said, who are they?"
"They're made of plastic. Living plastic creatures. They're being controlled by a relay device in the roof," the man explained as they walked up a few steps nearby and through a few sheets of plastic as he pulled out an electronic device from his jacket's inside pocket and showed it to her, "Which would be a great big problem if we didn't have this."
"And we're the only ones who can stop them," the woman added as she stood next to him.
"So, we're going to go up there and blow them up," the man said as he and the woman walked up another flight of stairs as he opened the fire exit for Suzie, "And we might well die in the process. But don't worry about us."
"Go home, go on!" The woman told Suzie as she nodded at her, "Go and have your lovely beans on toast." Suzie then went through the door.
"Don't tell anyone about this, 'cos if you do, you'll get them killed," the man warned Suzie before he shut the door as Suzie turned away looking slightly bemused before he opened it again, "I'm the Doctor, by the way."
"And I'm the Wolf," the woman told her, "What's your name?"
"Suzie," Suzie answered.
"Suzie, that's a nice name," the Wolf told her.
"Nice to meet you, Suzie," the Doctor said as he showed her the device again, "Run for your life!" He then shut the door again before Suzie ran away from the fire exit.
As Suzie ran around the corner, nobody knew what was going on. She was distracted as she ran across the road to the other side of the street and nearly got herself run over by a taxi, causing the taxi driver to honk their horn as she gasped.
"Watch it!" The taxi driver warned her.
Suzie proceeded to get as far away from the building as possible and looked back just in time to see the top floor of her place of work blow up. She then began to run home as unbeknownst to her, she ran past an old 1960s police box.
A while later at the Tyler flat, Suzie was sitting on the sofa in the sitting room with the dummy's arm lying on a chair nearby with BBC News 24 on the television as it was reporting on the destruction of Hendricks.
"The whole of Central London has been closed off as police investigate the fire," a news reporter on the television stated, "Earlier reports in the…"
"I know, it's on the telly!" Jackie said as she walked into the room and held the phone in her right hand and over her right ear as she held a mug in her left hand, "It's everywhere, she's lucky to be alive." She then handed Suzie the mug, "Honestly, it's aged her. Skin like an old bible. Walking in now you'd think I was her daughter. Oh and here's himself…"
"I've been phoning your mobile!" Mickey told Suzie with a distinctive London accent as he appeared in the doorway and approached her, "You could've been dead!" He then gestured towards the television with his left hand, "It's on the news and everything!" He then crouched beside her, "I can't believe that your shop went up!"
"I'm all right," Suzie assured him as he hugged her, "Honestly, I'm fine! Don't make a fuss!"
"But what happened?" Mickey asked her as he stopped hugging her and sat next to her.
"I don't know," Suzie answered.
"What was it though?" Mickey asked her, "What caused it?"
"I wasn't in the shop, I was outside," Suzie told him as she placed a magazine on the table in front of them with her left hand, "I didn't see anything."
"It's Debbie on the other end, she knows a man from the Mirror," Jackie said as she walked back into the sitting room, "Five hundred quid for an interview."
"Oh that's brilliant, give it here," Suzie requested as she extended her left hand out towards her mother before Jackie handed it to her, only for the young woman to hang up the phone and place it back down on the table.
"Well, you've gotta find some way of making money," Jackie told her daughter as she crossed her arms, "Your jobs kaput and I'm not bailing you out." The phone suddenly rang again, causing Jackie to pick it up with her right hand and place it over her right ear as she answered it, "Bev, she's alive!" She then walked out of the room, "I told her, sue for compensation. She was within seconds of death!"
"What are you drinking, tea?" Mickey said with disbelief in his voice as he took her mug from her with his right hand and looked into it, "No, no, no. That's no good!" He then placed the mug on the table, "That's no good! You're in shock, you need something stronger."
"I'm all right," Suzie assured him as he tried pulling her up by her right hand with both of his hands.
"Now, come on," Mickey urged her, "You deserve a proper drink. We're going down the pub. You and me, my treat. How about it?"
"Is there a match on?" Suzie asked him as she smiled.
"No, no," Mickey answered as he sat back down next to her on the sofa, "I'm just thinking about you, babe!"
"There's a match on, ain't there?" Suzie realised.
"Well, that's not the point," Mickey told her, "We could catch the last five minutes."
"Go on then. I'm fine, really, go," Suzie urged him before she gestured to the shop window dummy's arm with her left hand's index finger, "And get rid of that."
Mickey then pointed to his lips with his right hand before Suzie gave him a kiss. He pushed her back onto the chair as they laughed. He got up to go before Suzie put her right leg out to trip him up. Mickey then picked up the arm with his right hand.
"Buh Bye!" Mickey told her as he waved the dummy's hand at her.
"Bye!" Suzie replied as she looked at him.
Mickey then pretended to strangle himself with the arm as he left the room. Suzie shook her head fondly and turned her attention back to the news.
"...fire then spread throughout the store," the news reporter went on, "Fifteen fire crews are in attendance, though it's thought there is very little chance of saving the infrastructure."
Outside of the Powell Estate, Mickey tossed the arm into a bin as he walked past it.
In Suzie's bedroom, the next morning, she was sleeping on her bed when her alarm suddenly went off as it read 7:30. Suzie then whacked the alarm with her right hand to stop it from beeping and sat up as if on instinct.
"There's no point in getting up, sweetheart," Suzie heard her mother say from another room, "You've got no job to go to." Suzie then flopped back on her pillow.
A while later in the sitting room of the Tyler Flat, Suzie was sitting at a table and having breakfast. her mother is talking to her.
"There's Finch's," Jackie told her daughter as she sat down next to her at the table with a cup of tea in her right hand, "You could try them. They've always got jobs."
"Why would I work at a butcher's shop, Mum?" Suzie asked her with disbelief in her voice.
"Well, it might do you good. That shop was giving you airs and graces," Jackie Explained, "And I'm not joking about getting compensation." She then stood up and walked away from her, "You've had genuine shock and trauma." She then looked back at her, "Ariana got two thousand quid off the council just because the old man behind the desk said she looked Greek! I know she is Greek, but that's not the point. It's a valid claim. And Suzie, love, I know you've made your choice about not going to university. I may not understand it, but I respect it. You're more than just a shop girl, you're my daughter and I'm proud of you."
As Jackie walked away from her daughter and towards the kitchen, Suzie suddenly heard a rattling from the front door, causing her to stand up.
"Mum, you're such a liar! I told you to nail that cat-flap down," Suzie told her mother as she walked towards the front door, "We're going to get strays!"
"I did it weeks back," Jackie stated from the kitchen with confusion in her voice.
"Nah, you thought about it," Suzie argued as she crouched down towards the floor in front of the front door.
Suzie then discovered that the screws had fallen out onto the floor. The cat flap then suddenly moved violently. Suzie leapt backwards, then came back again and pokes the cat flap open gingerly with her right hand. The Doctor's face was right outside it. Suzie gasped as she saw his face, causing her to stand back up and opened the door with her left hand and saw the Wolf standing next to him.
"What are you doing here?" The Doctor asked Suzie with confusion in his voice.
"Like he said, what are you doing here?" The Wolf said, agreeing with him.
"I live here," Suzie explained.
"Well, what do you do that for?" The Doctor asked her.
"Because I do!" Suzie answered, "And I'm only at home because two people blew up my job."
"We must have got the wrong signal," the Wolf muttered as she pulled out a similar-looking device to the Doctor's with it having a similar casing to his, but it's handle was gold and had a cracked texture with bronze metal on either side, a black pommel at the bottom and a pink emitter instead and activated it for a second before she put it back inside one of her jacket's pockets, "I hope you're not plastic." She then knocked on her forehead with her left hand, "Nope. Thankfully, you're a normal human."
"Bye, then!" The Doctor told Suzie, "Come on, Wolf!"
"Coming, Doctor," the Wolf replied as they began to walk away from Suzie.
"You two, inside, right now," Suzie ordered them as she pulled the Doctor inside before doing the same with the Wolf and shutting the door in front of them.
"Who is it?" They heard Jackie ask Suzie from her bedroom before Suzie appeared in the doorway to her mother's bedroom.
"It's about last night," Suzie explained, "They're part of the inquiry. Give us 10 minutes."
"She deserves compensation!" Jackie told them.
"Oh, we're talking millions," the Doctor joked as he approached the doorway to Jackie's room and leaned against the doorframe, waiting for Suzie to come back as Jackie looked at him for a moment before she stood up, flirtatiously.
"I'm in my dressing gown," Jackie told him.
"Yes, you are," the Doctor said, agreeing with her, not realising that she was flirting with him.
"There's a strange man in my bedroom," Jackie added as she continued to flirt with him.
"Yes, there is," the Doctor muttered, agreeing with her.
"Well, anything could happen," Jackie said, flirting with him, causing him to realise what she was doing.
"No" the Doctor told her as he walked off, causing Jackie to pull a face at his back.
"I see you've met my husband," the Wolf said as she approached the doorway to Jackie's bedroom and leaned against the doorway, "He's quite the character, isn't he? But I'm afraid he's already taken. By me." She then stuck her tongue in between her teeth and gave her a smile before following the Doctor, leaving Jackie to process this new information.
"Don't mind the mess," Suzie told the Doctor and the Wolf as she entered the house's sitting room and picked up a gossip magazine from the sofa and placed it on the table before she began to head towards the kitchen, "Do either of you want a coffee?"
"Might as well, thanks, just milk," the Doctor answered as he and the Wolf entered the sitting room.
"Same here," the Wolf said, agreeing with him as Suzie started making them coffee.
"We should go to the police," Suzie told them as the Doctor picked up the gossip magazine, "Seriously. The three of us."
"That won't last," the Doctor muttered as he looked at one of the magazine's pages, "He's gay and she's an alien."
"The universe's strange pairings," the Wolf laughed as she leaned against a wall nearby.
"I'm not blaming either of you, even if it was just some sort of joke that went wrong," Suzie told them as the Doctor picked up a book with his right hand and flicked through its pages and read through the entire book rather quickly.
"Sad ending," the Doctor muttered to himself as the Wolf walked towards him as he put the book down on a table.
"They said on the news they'd found a body," Suzie stated as the Doctor picked up an envelope with both of his hands as the Wolf quietly looked at the name on the envelope and quietly read it.
"Suzie Tyler," the Doctor said, reading the name on the envelope.
"With a name like that, I like her more than before," the Wolf muttered to herself.
"Ah, could've been worse," the Doctor said as he put the envelope down on the table and looked at himself in the mirror and pointed at his big ears with both of his index fingers, "Look at the ears!"
"And with this hair, no wonder I've picked up a Welsh accent for the first time," the Wolf muttered to herself as he looked at her reflection in the mirror and put her right hand through her hair, "Seems like I'm blending in with the locals more than I thought."
"...all the same, he was nice," Suzie went on from the kitchen, "He was a nice bloke."
"Luck be a lady!" The Doctor said as he picked up a pack of cards and shuffled them, causing the Wolf to giggle slightly, but had a hint of sadness in it.
"Well anyway if we are going to go to the police, I want to know what I'm saying," Suzie told them as the Doctor shuffled the cards again and managed to make them all go flying, causing the Wolf to chuckle, "I want you both to explain everything."
"Maybe not," the Doctor muttered to himself.
"Yeah, that's probably best, love, you might cause more of a mess than before if you continue shuffling the cards," the Wolf said, agreeing with her husband.
"What's that then?" The Doctor asked Suzie as he and the Wolf both heard scuffling from behind the sofa as he went to investigate the noise, "Have you got a cat?"
"It sure sounds like one," the Wolf stated, "Or perhaps it's the universe dealing us a new hand."
"No," Suzie answered as she poured coffee into two cups as the Doctor leaned behind the sofa and the dummy's arm suddenly leapt out from behind and grabbed him by the neck, surprising both him and the Wolf as Suzie entered the room with the two cups of coffee in her hands, "We did have, but we just get strays. They come in off the estate."
Behind her, the Doctor was being strangled viciously by the hand while he tried vainly to fight it off with the Wolf trying to help him. Suzie didn't quite seem to register that the Doctor is being harassed by a rubber hand with the Wolf trying to help him.
"I told Mickey to chuck that out," Suzie told them as she put the coffee down on the table, "Doctor, you men are all the same. Give a man a plastic hand... anyway, I don't even know your names. Doctor and Wolfe, what was it?"
The Doctor suddenly threw the hand off and it floated in mid air before flying across the room and attached itself to Suzie's face, causing her to scream as the Doctor leapt up from the sofa and rushed towards her with the Wolf as they tried to pull it off the young woman's face, only for it to not budge.
Meanwhile in Jackie's room, the older woman was drying her hair with a blowdryer, completely oblivious to what was happening in the sitting room.
As the Doctor continued to try and pull the arm off of Suzie's face, they fell and crashed onto the coffee table, breaking it, and rolled onto the floor before the Doctor pushed her back onto the sofa.
"Hang on, I got it!" The Wolf said as she pulled out the device that resembled the one the Doctor had from her jacket with her right hand and pulled the arm off of Suzie's face with her left hand and began activating it multiple times before finally activating it and placed it on the palm of the arm, disabling the hand.
"It's alright, she's stopped it," the Doctor assured Suzie.
"Indeed, here you go, you see, armless!" The Wolf said, agreeing with him as she tossed the arm to Suzie.
"Do you both think?" Suzie asked them as she used the arm to whack the Doctor on his left shoulder.
"Ow!" The Doctor muttered to himself as he placed his right hand over his left shoulder.
"Hold on a minute, you both can't just go swanning off," Suzie told the Doctor and the Wolf as they left the Tyler flat as they walked down the estate's stairwell as he held the dummy's arm in his right hand with Suzie hot on their trail as she had her zip-up jacket back on.
"Yes we can," the Doctor argued, "Here we are. This is us, swanning off, see ya!"
"Yep, swanning off is our speciality," the Wolf said with a playful smile on her face.
"That arm was moving, it tried to kill me!" Suzie reminded them.
"Ten out of ten for observation," the Doctor muttered to himself.
"Not something you see every day, is it?" The Wolf asked her.
"You two can't just walk away. That's not fair," Suzie told them, "You've got to tell me what's going on."
"No, we don't," the Doctor argued as they reached the bottom of the stairs and went through the doors as they left the estate.
"We really don't owe you an explanation, you know," the Wolf told her with a hint of sarcasm in her voice.
"All right, then. I'll go to the police. I'll tell everyone," Suzie told them, "You said, if I did that, I'd get people killed. So, your choice. Tell me, or I'll start talking."
"Is that supposed to sound tough?" The Doctor asked her.
"Sort of," Suzie answered.
"Doesn't work," the Doctor told her.
"Nice try, though," the Wolf muttered with a smirk on her face.
"Who are you?" Suzie asked them.
"Told you, the Doctor," the Doctor answered.
"And I'm the Wolf," the Wolf added.
"Yeah, but Doctor what?" Suzie asked him, "And Wolfe who?"
"Just the Doctor," the Doctor answered.
"And just the Wolf," the Wolf added, agreeing with him.
"The Doctor and the Wolf?" Suzie said with disbelief in her voice.
"Hello!" The Doctor greeted her playfully with a smile on his face as he waved at Suzie with his left hand, causing her to giggle.
"Hi there!" The Wolf said, greeting her with her right hand.
"Is that supposed to sound impressive?" Suzie asked them.
"Sort of," the Doctor answered.
"We like to think so," the Wolf added with a grin on her face.
"Come on then, you both can tell me," Suzie urged them, "I've seen enough. Are you two the police?"
"No! We were just passing through," the Doctor answered, "We're a long way from home…"
"Very far from home," the Wolf added with a hint of sadness in her voice.
"But what have I done wrong?" Suzie asked them, "How come those plastic things keep coming after me?"
"Oh, suddenly the entire world revolves around you," the Doctor remarked sarcastically, "You were just an accident. You got in the way, that's all."
"You were just in the wrong place at the wrong time," the Wolf added, agreeing with him.
"It tried to kill me!" Suzie reminded them.
"It was after us, not you! Last night, in the shop, we were there, you blundered in, almost ruined the whole thing," the Doctor told her, "This morning, we were tracking it down, it was tracking us down. The only reason it fixed on you is that you met us."
"It's not personal, Suzie," the Wolf assured her with a sigh, "Just bad luck."
"So, what you're saying is, the entire world revolves around you?" Suzie asked them.
"Sort of, yeah," the Doctor confirmed.
"We do tend to attract trouble," the Wolf added with a smirk.
"You're full of it!" Suzie told them with a smile on her face.
"Sort of, yeah," the Doctor said, agreeing with her.
"Guilty as charged," the Wolf laughed with a smirk on her face as she rose her arms in a mock surrender.
"But, all this plastic stuff, who else knows about it?" Suzie asked them as the Wolf lowered her arms.
"No one," the Doctor answered.
"Just us," the Wolf added as she shook her head.
"What, you're on your own with only each other?" Suzie asked them with shock in her voice.
"Well, who else is there?" The Doctor countered, "I mean, you lot, all you do is eat chips, go to bed, and watch telly. While all the time, underneath you, there's a war going on."
"Okay," Suzie said as she took the arm from him with her right hand, "Start from the beginning." They then began to walk on a road nearby, "I mean, if we're gonna go with this living plastic, and I don't even believe that, but if we do... how did you two kill it?"
"The thing controlling it projects life into the arm," the Doctor explained, "Wolf cut off the signal, dead."
"Simple as that," the Wolf added.
"So that's radio control?" Suzie asked them.
"Thought control," the Doctor corrected her before the three of them went silent for a brief second, "Are you alright?"
"You look a bit pale," the Wolf told her with a concerned look on her face.
"Yeah," Suzie answered, "So, who's controlling it, then?"
"Long story," the Doctor responded.
"A very long story," the Wolf added.
"But what's it all for?" Suzie asked them, "I mean, shop window dummies, what's that about? Is someone trying to take over Britain's shops?"
The three of them then began to chuckle at the thought of shop window dummies taking over Britain's shops.
"No!" The Doctor answered.
"Definitely not," the Wolf said, agreeing with him.
"Well, no!" Suzie muttered to herself.
"It's not a price war," the Doctor stated as he laughed again before his expression turned serious, "They want to overthrow the human race and destroy you. Do you believe me?"
"No," Suzie answered.
"But you're still listening," the Doctor told her.
"Curiosity always gets the better of us," the Wolf stated with a smile on her face.
"Really though, Doctor and Wolf," Suzie said as she stopped, while the Doctor and the Wolf continued to walk on, "Tell me. Who are you?"
"Go on, give her the speech," the Wolf urged the Doctor as they stopped.
"All right, love," the Doctor replied as they turned back around towards Suzie, "Do you know like we were saying? About the Earth revolving?" He and the Wolf then walked back over to her as the Wolf crossed her arms, "It's like when you were a kid. The first time they tell you the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it cos everything looks like it's standing still. We can feel it." He then took Suzie's right hand with his left hand, "The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at 1,000 miles an hour. And the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour. And we can feel it. We're falling through space, you and us. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go…" He then let go of her right hand, "That's who we are. Now, forget us, Suzie Tyler." He then took the dummy's arm back from her with his right hand and waved it in her face, "Go home."
"Take care, Suzie," the Wolf muttered softly as she lowered her arms.
The Doctor and the Wolf walked away from her again with Suzie watching their retreating backs before she began to walk away herself. The Doctor and the Wolf began to approach and stepped into a police box. Suzie heard the sound of a strange wheezing, groaning noise departing. She ran back as fast as she could and saw that the police box was gone. She shielded her eyes from the sun with her right arm and looked around her before she walked away again.
About half an hour or so later at Mickey's flat, Mickey walked towards his front door and opened it with his left hand and saw Suzie standing in front of the doorway.
"Hey, there's my woman!" Mickey chuckled as she entered his flat before he slapped her bum with his left hand, "Kit off!"
"Oh, Shut up," Suzie muttered as he closed the door before he gave her a kiss, "Mwah!"
"Coffee?" Mickey asked her.
"Yeah, only if you wash the mug," Suzie answered as they walked away from the front door, "And I don't mean rinse, I mean wash. Can I use your computer?"
"Yeah," Mickey responded as he went into the kitchen, "Any excuse to get in the bedroom." Suzie then entered his bedroom and closed the door behind her, "Don't read my emails!"
Inside Mickey's bedroom, Suzie turned on the computer in the room and sat down on the chair in front of it before she typed 'Doctor and Wolf' into the search engine, only to get no relevant results like before. Suzie then typed in 'Doctor and Wolf Living Plastic' and still got nothing. Remembering the police box and the familiar noise she heard as the Doctor left her, she typed 'Doctor, Wolf Blue Box' into the search engine. The first result read 'Doctor and Wolf Who?' with the added information underneath it being '...do you know these two? Contact Clive here…'
She then clicked on the result before a webpage with a blurry photograph of the Doctor and the Wolf surrounded by numerous people with their faces blurred out and the words 'Have you seen these two? Contact Clive' was presented to her before she clicked 'Contact Clive.'
About half an hour later, Mickey and Suzie were sitting inside a yellow Volkswagen beetle with Mickey driving it before he stopped it in front of a terraced house.
"You're not coming in," Suzie said with disbelief in her voice as she unbuckled her seatbelt, "He's safe, he's got a wife and kids."
"Yeah but who told you that?" Mickey asked her, "He did. That's exactly what an Internet lunatic murderer would say."
Suzie then opened the car door with her left hand and got out anyway before she closed it behind her with her right hand and knocked on it with her right fist as she grinned. Mickey didn't look too happy, and gave a man putting out his rubbish the evils. Suzie approached one of the front doors and knocked on its front door with her right fist and it was answered by a boy of about 11 with light skin, short brown hair and blue eyes.
"Uh, hello, I've come to see Clive," Suzie told the boy, "We've been emailing."
"Oh, Dad!" The boy called out to his father, "It's one of your nutters."
The boy walked away from the door and into the house as a man with light skin, short wavy brown hair and blue eyes, who was none other than Clive appeared from another room within the house and walked towards the doorway.
"Sorry. Hello!" Clive greeted Suzie, "You must be Suzie." They then shook each other's hands, "I'm Clive. Obviously."
"I better tell you now, my boyfriend's waiting in the car, just in case you're going to kill me!" Suzie told him before they both laughed as Mickey rolled down the driver's window of his car.
"No, good point," Clive said, agreeing with her, "No murders!" He then waved to Mickey with his right hand before Mickey nodded his head, still distrustful of him.
"Who is it?" A woman asked Clive from upstairs.
"Oh, it's something to do with the Doctor and the Wolf," Clive answered as he looked up the stairs behind him, "She's been reading the website." He then looked back at Suzie, "Please come through, I'm in the shed."
"She?" A woman with light skin, wavy brown hair and blue eyes repeated as she came down the stairs, carrying a washing basket in both of her hands, "She read a website about the Doctor and the Wolf? She's a she?" SHe then held the basket with her left arm as she smiled ironically and shut the door with her right hand, causing Mickey to look suspicious.
"A lot of this stuff's quite sensitive, I couldn't just send it to you," Clive told Suzie as they stood inside his shed and was showing her around, which was a sort of shine to the Doctor and the Wolf, "People might intercept it, if you know what I mean." He then grabbed a portfolio from a cabinet in front of him, "If you dig deep enough and keep a lively mind, this Doctor and Wolf both keep cropping up all over the place." He then walked back over to her, "Political diaries, conspiracy theories, even ghost stories." He then placed the portfolio on the table in front of them and opened it, "They both have no first name, no last name, just 'the Doctor and the Wolf.' Always the Doctor and the Wolf. And the title seems to have been passed down from father to son, and mother to daughter, it appears to be an inheritance." He then pointed to a photo of the Doctor on a computer screen behind them with his right hand's index finger, "That's your Doctor and Wolf there, isn't it?"
"Yeah," Suzie answered as she looked at the photo and saw that it was the same one from Clive's website.
"I tracked it down to the Washington public archive just last year," Clive explained, "The online photo's enhanced, but if we look at the original…"
He then pulled out a piece of plastic protection and pulled some photos out of it and showed Suzie it to her to reveal that they were photographs of the Doctor and the Wolf both standing next to each other in a crowd at the time and place of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 One of them having the Doctor and the Wolf's faces circled around in red and pointed at it with his right hand's thumb.
He then moved the first photo to the back, revealing a second photo that was slightly zoomed out. He did the same with the second, revealing a third photograph. This one was even more zoomed out, showing JFK's motorcade. In the back seat of a modified 1961 Lincoln Continental convertible sat JFK with his wife, Jackie, Texas Governor, John Conally and his wife, Nellie in Dallas, Texas. Escorting the car were police officers on classic 1960s police motorbikes, their presence was a constant reminder of the security measures in place in Dallas, Texas at the time of when the photograph was taken.
"November the 22nd, 1963, the assassination of President Kennedy," Clive explained to her, "See?"
"Must be their parents," Suzie muttered to herself as she looked at the image of the Doctor in the photo.
"Going further back, April 1912," Clive said as he walked over to another cabinet and brought over a photo album, "This is a photo of the Daniels family of Southampton and friends." The photograph from the photo album showed a family of six with the Doctor and the Wolf both dressed in early 1900s clothes standing next to the children as he pointed to the Doctor and the Wolf in the picture with his right hand's thumb, "This was taken the day before they were due to sail off for the New World. On the Titanic. And for some unknown reason, they cancelled the trip, and survived."
Clive then walked over to another cabinet and pulled out a large, old photograph. The image depicted the grand coronation ceremony of Frederick III at the Berlin Cathedral on September 1st, 1888.
"Now, this is one of the most interesting photos that I've found while researching about them," Clive said as he showed her the photograph and placed it on the table.
The cathedral in the photograph had a majestic architecture that provided a stunning backdrop to the event. Kaiser Frederick III stood at the center, wearing his imperial regalia, including a richly embroidered military uniform with a sash and numerous medals. He was surrounded by prominent figures of the time, including Otto von Bismarck, dressed in a formal suit with a high collar and cravat, and Wilhelm, the German Crown Prince, who would later become Kaiser Wilhelm II, wearing a formal ceremonial uniform adorned with medals. Wilhelm's left arm, noticeably shorter, was discreetly hidden behind his back, a reminder of his birth injury. In the crowd, the Doctor and the Wolf stood out, their faces circled in red. The Doctor was dressed in a German-inspired nobleman's attire, complete with a tailored frock coat, waistcoat, and cravat, while the Wolf wore an elegant gown typical of German nobility, with intricate embroidery and a flowing skirt.
"Some say their presence helped liberalise Germany," Clive noted, "There's even speculation that their influence began much earlier, possibly ensuring that Frederick never smoked, which might have contributed to his longer life."
"The coronation of Frederick III," Suzie muttered, "I remember learning about how his reign set the stage for Germany's transition to a parliamentary system, similar to ours. After Germany and the other allies won World War II in 1945, Wilhelm III initiated a change and complete overhaul to the German Constitution change in 1946. And after his death in 1951, his son, Louis Ferdinand expanded these changes and finalized them in 1975."
"Exactly," Clive replied, "Their influence seems to be subtle but significant, shaping key moments in history." He then walked over to the wall next to him, "And here we are."
He then grabbed a sketch from the wall with his left hand and brought it to her and showed it to her, which depicted the Doctor and the Wolf standing together in a 19th century Indonesian village.
"1883, another Doctor and Wolf," Clive added, "And look, the same lineage, they're both identical. This one washed up on the coast of Sumatra, on the very night Krakatoa exploded. The Doctor and the Wolf are a legend woven throughout history. When disaster comes, they're there. They have a storm in their wake. And aside from each other, they have one constant companion."
"Who's that?" Suzie asked him.
"Death," Clive answered.
Back outside of Clive's house, Mickey was still waiting outside in his car as he looked around when a bin suddenly began to shuffle its way towards him, which he noticed and caused him to look at the bin.
"If the Doctor and the Wolf are back, if you've seen them, Suzie, then one thing's for certain," Clive told Suzie from back inside his shed as she looked at him, "We're all in danger."
Mickey looked at the bin again, but it was stationary. After a few seconds, it began moving again. He opened his car's door with his right hand and got out of the car and walked over to the bin, looking around it to see what was moving it. Seeing nothing, he walked back in front of the pin and placed both of his hands on the bin's lid.
"Come on then," Mickey said as he opened the bin's lid dramatically and saw that it was empty with very little rubbish inside.
"If they've singled you out, if the Doctor and Wolf are making house calls, then God help you," Clive told Suzie as he walked around his shed with the portfolio in his hands again and walked back over to the cabinet with Suzie following him before he looked back at her.
Mickey shut the bin with a confused look on his face. He tried to walk away, but as soon as he began to walk away, he found that his hands were stuck to the bin and when he tried to pull away, the bin stretched and wouldn't let him. As he began to pull away from the bin, it began growling before eventually, the bin opened its lid and pulled him in backwards, shutting with a satisfied burp.
"But who are they?" Suzie asked Clive as she was standing around the table in the shed again, "Who do you think they are?"
"I think they're the same people," Clive answered as he walked back over to her from the other side of the table, "I think they're immortal. I think they're aliens from another world."
"All right, he's a nutter. Off his head," Suzie said as she left Clive's house and began to walk back towards Mickey's car, "Complete online conspiracy freak, you win!" She then sighed and opened the car's left door with her left hand and got into the car as unbeknownst to her, the person sitting at the wheel was obviously not Mickey, but a plastic replica of him, which she seemed not to notice, "What are we going to do tonight? I fancy a pizza."
"Pizzaaa!" Plastic Mickey said before he began stammering, "P-p-p-pizza!"
"Or Chinese," Suzie suggested.
"Pizza!" Plastic Mickey repeated himself again as he powered the car back on and grabbed the steering wheel and began to drive the car away from Clive's house in a wobbly line.
Please review.
As you may have noticed, this series takes place in an alternate history universe where the point of divergence is the death of Wilhelm I of Prussia on Marth 9th, 1888, and Frederick III was able to live well into the 20th Century. This has led to significant changes in the alliances and outcomes of the World Wars.
I will strive to keep the historical aspects of this timeline as realistic as possible, without letting my personal biases and beliefs overshadow the narrative. If anyone who is well-informed in history has suggestions or insights, I welcome your input. This is my first alternate history timeline, and I aim to make it as engaging and accurate as possible.