Fell to Earth

The knocking at the flat door surprised her, not a bad surprise. Just she had not been and was not expecting anyone as far as the Timelord’s racing mind could remember. And this set her just a little on edge right now. 

Tea carefully placed as silently as she could on the table, television muted as she rose from her purple sofa. Hand reached into her trouser pocket, fingers now curled around the familiar device in it, her sonic. Not that she would need to use it, but she hoped if it was someone that meant trouble it might scare them off enough if she played it up as a weapon. 

Approaching the door slowly now, the Doctor was curious to whom was on the other side, most likely to be one of the gang, but without them having told her they would be coming it had surprised her. So she was just being careful. One had to be sometimes. 

“Hello? I wasn’t expecting anyone...are you alright?” 

The knocking hadn’t sounded frantic or scared but she couldn’t be sure, they might not have had the right door and just wanted to get some help in finding the right one. And she had yet to look though the peep hole of the door.

Disorientated didn’t even begin to describe it. Always tired, of course, always a bone-deep exhaustion in the young lad’s body, but this was a new level of aching, even for him. As he stirred he could feel the warm waves of healing escaping him, naturally seeking anyone close enough to share it’s effect.

And then there was a cup of tea in his hands and he held onto it, feeling the warmth in his fingertips and blinking owlishly at the woman in front of him, unsure what was going on. 

“Uh. Confused. Bit sore.” he mumbled. “Who - are you? Were am I?”

“You can call me the Doctor, and that’s normal considering what happened. But you are in Sheffield and its May 2020. I don’t know where and um when you came from Young Man, but you had a trip through a fissure in time and space.”

She was doing her best to not over explain and give him the main facts of what had just happened to him. She now sat on the armchair beside the sofa, her own cup of tea now in her hands. Sipping it lightly after blowing on the tea. 

“You are also in my flat, but it’s safe here, nothing to worry about. My friends helped me bring you here so I could look after you and then get you home.” 

“Not really sure how you take this, but I put a little milk and some honey in your tea for you?”

The Doctor held out the cup of warm tea to the individual who was laying, or well slowly getting up on her sofa. They were safe now in The Doctor’s flat but had a bit of a trip coming through a fissure in time was not the most fun way to travel, especially when one was not excepting it, so with Ryan and Yaz’s help they had got them back to her flat so she could keep her eye on them.

“It will help, trust me, how are you feeling?”

{ Hey everyone, so update time! Sorry I disappeared, but my muse for 13th sort of poofed. But she is getting back to me, I’ve recently started to rewatch New Who from 9th to do a big old character study! This is mostly because I want to pull some things from the Doctor’s past selves into her character. 

It is also because I want to work up to making this AU of mine for 13th into a comic, so I am probably gonna do that and possibly going to make a side blog to this one for that; for art, comic and asks to 13th and me in which I may draw the answers with some pictures and stuff. 

Now the big thing for why I also disappeared. I got sick. I had to isolate for two weeks that finished yesterday and I am doing much better now! It wasn’t the big bad virus, I think it was more the flu but because of you know the world right now and where I work it was the safest for me and everyone for me to isolate, however it has take a small toll on my mental wellbeing, I was doing alright until this but it’s just hit me a bit. I will be around and doing some replies to queue up, I am alright now and should be going back to work today so I’m probably going to be tired getting back into things, however I will do my best to be around again a bit more! 

A little breath, lips pushing together after as his head tilted a brief moment and he was left smiling. “Depends on the stories you’ve read, but for the most part, yes. He wasn’t the villain he used to be, but he knew that the stories did highlight the darkness he’d been capable of in his past.

Time travel was against every law of magic and so he assumed quite quickly that if she were capable of it that she wasn’t someone who used magic. Perhaps some sort of science like in the stories you could see and read in the realm in which Earth was part of. “Fascinating. What is it about Earth that you found so worthy?” he asked, curious as to what it was that she thought. She seemed like she was on the side of the ‘good guys’ thus far, and it had him taking a little step in closer. Friendly as he could be.

“I’m assuming that by biscuit you mean the British kind, considering the fact you want tea too,” his lips curved a moment and he gestured with a little wave of his hand. “Walk or teleport? It’ll be around a 20 minute walk through the forest to my cabin here. It’s only a temporary place for now but it’s enough.” He needed some place to stay whilst he tried to do good and spread good through the forest and had made a little home for himself here.

“Woah! Really? That’s seriously amazing, never thought you were as bad as everyone likes to make you out to be. But then that’s me and you don’t seem anything like the stories, but hey I don’t judge anyone on stories I have heard!” 

She paused and nervously began to chuckle again as she played with the sleeve of her coat. Just a little nervous of her rambling now, she did tend to go off on a rambling moment or two when she was nervous or first getting to know someone. She blinked and looked back up to him when he asked about what she found so worthy about Earth. This made her smile as she replied with her answer. 

“Humanity. Sure they have their blips and unsure moments, but Humanity is what I found so worthy about Earth my friend.” 

She would giggle as she approached him a bit more now, she did nod now at the mention of what she meant by biscuit. When asking about walking or teleporting, well its not hard to say that the Doctor’s mouth hung open as she gasped and her eyes went wide as a child who went to a big old toy store. 

“Tinker bell is the lamb, and I guess you can assume baby piglet is called miss  Piggy. They normally behaved. “ The lamb gives her normal baa greeting as she happily walked beside Arcadia. 

“I have a lot of animals. We live on this great big estate, kinda looks like a farm. I used to have a deer, but we let it go back into the wild.  But sometimes she visits”

She nods. “Let’s.”

The Doctor practically beamed as she looked down to see the animals that she had failed to notice, and honestly she wanted to pet them so badly, she’s already kneeling down to try and do so, giggling to herself when the Lamb would say hello. 

“Hello to you too Tinkerbell and you Miss Piggy, nice to meet you, I’m the Doctor. You are welcome to come join us, but you have to behave yourselves, but I’m sure good animals like you two will!” 

FROWNS , looking down at his hands at the explanation she gives . regrets asking , almost     —–     doesn’t know how to comfort people , especially not about something so obviously horrific . “ did you fight ??? ” 

She slowly nods, it’s a slow and not happy one, it’s obvious in her hesitation of this motion of her head to reply, she doesn’t really like to admit she did or want to say she did. But in a lifetime long ago, she did fight for a long time blamed herself for something she thought she had done, but then in the future stopped herself from doing the bad thing, but time was funny and she still ended up for a few lifetimes thinking she had done that horrible thing, finding out more recently she actually had been part of something bad that her people had done. 

( I would say that as a Timelord, Gender back home was never really much of an issue to her. But at the start of this regeneration as she hadn’t been a woman in a long time it took awhile to get used to outside opinions and how people would treat her because of her Gender. This has caused a few blips in her security of her identity at times when travelling to places were opinions and minds aren’t so open so to speak, like she knows what it’s like but to experience it first hand is a lot different to that.