I woke up in a daze and looked at the clock. It was 9:00! Why didn't my alarm go off for class? Exhausted, I rolled over in bed and buried my head in my pillow. It was too late to get up and put an effort into getting ready, so I decided to give up and miss class for the day.
After an hour of laying in bed, I got up and brushed my teeth and tamed my wild bed head. I ate some cereal and sat in front of my laptop watching Doctor Who. I was currently rewatching the episode in which an alien possessed a little girl and made drawings that came to life. About twenty minutes in, I dozed off in front of the laptop.
I opened my eyes and found myself in the middle of a quaint little street. The lawns of each house were evenly cut and each house looked surprisingly similar. I knocked on the door of the first house I saw.
A dark skinned woman answered and nervously asked, "What is it? What do you want?" in a thick British accent.
"Can you tell me where I am?" I asked politely.
The lady looked very irritated. "What are you, daft? Just run along." The door slammed in my face.
I shook off the woman's rudeness and continued down the street. Suddenly, a blonde haired girl, I'd say about 20 years old, and a man in a suit ran past me.
"I'm telling you, Doctor!" the blonde girl exclaimed. "It's that girl in the house over there!"
In a defeated tone, the man replied, "You might be right, Rose. I say we pay the little girl and her mum a little visit."
The pair continued running, leaving me bewildered in the middle of the road. Doctor? Rose? It couldn't be. Suddenly, a short stick figure walked up to me and pulled on my jacket. "Excuse me, miss. Do you know where I can find a little darks skinned girl. She's about twelve years old."
I began to shake my head when I looked up at the window of the house that I had visited before. A girl that matched the description the stick figure gave me was looking straight at me. I turned to tell the figure but it had disappeared before I could say anything. I walked up to the house for the second time and knocked on the door. This time, the man who I'd seen running down the street answered. I took a closer look at his face.
"No way," I muttered.
The man looked at me in confusion. "I'm sorry?" he said. "Did you need something?"
"A-are you the Doctor?" I stuttered in disbelief.
The man's face lit up as he replied, "Yes I am. How can I help you?"
I couldn't believe this! I was meeting the Doctor! But how? As much as I wanted a Time Lord to whisk me away into his TARDIS, I knew it was just sci-fi. It couldn't be real. Or could it?
"Um...Hello Doctor. My name's Kimia and I'm 23 years old. Could you help me with something?" I said, pausing occasionally between words.
The Doctor smiled. "I'm always happy to help. Well, not always-most of the time though. Well....." he trailed off in deep thought.
I couldn't help but smile. This is the Doctor I grew to love in the show. And I was actually talking to him!
"Oi! Who's that you're talking to?" A female voice shouted from inside, getting closer with each growing footstep.
It was her! Rose! This all seemed too unreal.
"Rose, this is Kimia. Kimia, this is my...uh..my friend, Rose," the Doctor introduced, scratching the back of his neck nervously.
Rose and I shook hands. I turned to the Doctor and said, "Doctor, I really do need your help."
"Here, take this," he told me, handing me a key. "Go down the street and turn a corner. You'll find a blue box at the end. This key unlocks it. Let yourself inside and go downstairs. Wait for me for about an hour or so. I'll come back."
I nodded in understanding. On the inside, I was containing my excitement. He gave me the key to his TARDIS! I, Kimia Abbassi, was actually holding the key to the Doctor's TARDIS!
As I walked away, I heard Rose say, "Are you sure about her, Doctor? There's something that seems...I don't know...off."
Shaking it off, I walked to the end of the street and immediately spotted the blue police phone box that was the TARDIS. I stepped inside and looked around. I couldn't help but run all over the place in glee. I ran down the stairs and encountered two doors. One was regular and one looked like a child's drawing. Surprisingly like something I had drawn as a child. I opened the unusual door and out scattered all kinds of bent and scribbled figures. I jumped back and closed the door. How was this possible? Then I remembered what happened in the episode of Doctor Who I was watching. I remembered what the Doctor had said. 'If living things can become drawings, then maybe drawings can become living things.'
After an hour of waiting, I heard the Doctor and Rose's voices, as promised. But they were talking to each other about something, as if they'd forgotten I was even there.
"The Isolus has caused a lot of pain for these people," I heard Rose try to explain to the Doctor.
"It's a child," the Doctor replied. "That's why it went to Chloe. Two lonely, mixed-up kids."
Rose and the Doctor continued speaking. I thought it would be best to stay out of it until they were done. A few minutes later I heard the door open and close, so I ran upstairs. The Doctor and Rose were gone. A split second later, I got a sudden headache, as if my mind was being forced somewhere. I pulled open the door of the TARDIS and stepped outside. It was like I was enclosed in a white space with no end. I spotted a few children huddled together in fright. After a while of looking for God knows what, I caught sight of a man in a suit, pulsing a sonic screwdriver all over the place.
"Doctor!" I yelled, loud enough for the man to turn around.
All of a sudden, the information came flooding back to me. In the episode, right after the Doctor and Rose exited the TARDIS, he had disappeared on the spot, along with the TARDIS itself. And I was inside the TARDIS, so I got zapped into this nothingness with it. Think, Kimia: why are you here? I asked myself. Of course! Chloe, the little girl in the episode! She could make things appear or disappear just by drawing it. She'd drawn the Doctor and his TARDIS.
"We're in a space of nothingness, a void if you will," the Doctor began to explain."The Isolus inside Chloe must've drawn me, but why you?"
After a few more moments, he said, "Ah of course! She drew the TARDIS and you were inside! I'm terribly sorry I forgot about you, what with everything that's happening. Oh my bad, you don't know what's happening. Maybe I should expl-" I cut him short.
"I know more than you think, Doctor," I told him. "Let me explain."
The Doctor shut his mouth and listened. I told him all about how I had woken up in the street and about how this was all just part of the episode for me. I told him that it wasn't a dream, it couldn't be, and that a bunch of figures that I'd drawn as a child so many years ago were turning up all over the place. I also secretively implied that he should make a move on Rose before it was too late, but that's not the point.v
"Well..." the Doctor said after I finished speaking. "Seems to me that the Isolus dragged you into this parallel world, which explains what it could be other than a mere dream. Chloe Webber, the little girl hosting the Isolus, targeted you for some reason, making copies of your childhood drawings. The question is why? What makes you so special?" He put on his glasses and examined my face.
I pushed him back. "I don't know," I admitted. "And frankly, Doctor, I don't care. Please just get me back home."
The Doctor looked at me sadly. "Are you sure you don't want to come along with me once all this is over? All of time and space. I'm sure Rose wouldn't mind,' he pleaded.
"I'm sorry," I shook my head. "But after I'm gone, I need you to do me a favor. You need to take me out of Rose's memory. I can't linger there and mess up your future."
"Time can be rewritten," he tried to tell me, sounding like a few of his future companions.
Quoting the great River Song, I plainly said, "Not those times. Don't you dare."
He nodded. Suddenly, a scribble monster started to attack us. The Doctor looked into my eyes, grabbed my hand and whispered, "Run."
Together, we sprinted to the TARDIS and locked ourselves inside. The Doctor walked up to the TARDIS console and typed some things in. The lights dimmed as these sparkly substances came down on me and encircled me.
"Are you sure this is what you want?" the Doctor asked once more.
I nodded. "Forget me, I'll be ok. Rose needs you and you alone. And you need Rose."
I placed my hand on his shoulder and spoke my last words to him. "Good luck, Doctor. I'm sure you'll be fantastic."
Before I knew it, there was a blinding gold light and I was back in my room, exactly in the same position I was before. The scene playing on my laptop was the end of the episode. For a split second, I could see a look of sadness on the Doctor's face, as if he remembered me. But it disappeared when he saw Rose, which couldn't make me happier. Quite right too, I told myself happily.
As I watched the Doctor's face fade on my screen, I whispered, "Run you clever boy, and remember me."
The end.
Well I hope all you Whovians enjoyed all of the Doctor Who references. It's probably easier for you guys to understand the story than for my teacher, haha. Until next time!
May you find peace in your fandoms.
--@onceuponatimeinhogwarts
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