[DISCONTINUED] Hazel Eyes - DW Fanfic

Chapter Four - Don't Touch Me

Author's Note - First of all, thanks for two hundred views! Secondly, I promise this is the last bad chapter. I know the last couple chapters haven't been the best. Bare with me and keep reading please because from next chapter on it gets better. Hopefully, this isn't too bad.

The Doctor heard Ayaria’s breath in the darkness. Everything is louder in the dark. He groped for her hand. He didn’t even think about the gesture until his hand brushed the denim of her jeans and heard her breath quicken.

“Don’t touch me!” He found a strained tone in her hard voice.

What was that about? Regardless he tried to back away from her. He backed right into the bookshelf behind him. Except it was no longer bookshelves but solid wall. And it shouldn’t be that close. He should have had a couple more feet until he hit the back wall. He ran his hand along it. The back wall was only about three feet wide. “Ayaria, how wide does that wall behind you feel.”

He heard her breathing and soft scuffling on her moving and feeling along the opposite wall. He heard her gasp. “It’s smaller! Probably a little less than three feet.”

“Wait,” The Doctor placed his hand on the wall behind him. He felt minor vibrations through the wall. He waited a minute and he began to feel it. “this room is growing smaller. It’s going to try to push us together. It won’t be able to close on us entirely because then the room would be counted as deleted and we would be transported to-“

“I know.” Ayaria replied no longer even trying to disguise her anxiety.

They stood quiet in the darkness. Each of them taking a small step forward as the walls came closer. The Doctor listened to Ayaria’s tense breath. Why was she so nervous? It could become very uncomfortable for them, but they couldn’t die.

Suddenly the room filled with noise. "That's the com!" Ayaria yelped.

The Doctor heard her scuffle a minute as she pushed the accept button on her com. She listened to Jack on the other side a minute before talking. “Okay, good. Head straight in towards the console and then it’s on the second panel to your left. Feel under the panel. You feel the indent?” She waited for an answer. “Yep. So pull the lever and then think the same code I told you earlier, 48m600489qrt5. It’s physic like most of the Tardis’s functions.”

Suddenly bright lights came on in the room. They revealed the room with a tall ceiling and silver metal walls. Ayaria was standing only about four inches away from him. She was pressed against the wall with her arms wrapped tightly around herself. Something was scaring her, no doubt about it.

“Okay, the bug has us trapped so you’re going to have to manually rewrite the architecture. I tried to make the program as easy as possible to use. Go to the monitor. Put the third dial down to the eighth setting.  Follow the instructions best you can and try to free us. It’ll show life signs where we are. Okay?” Another minute pause. “Okay, it may take a bit so you better call us back when you get that sorted out.

Ayaria turned to the Doctor. “Before you even ask, it’s another emergency system. It works kinda like an anesthetic. Lady no longer has any control over her physical functions like changing the hallways on us but it leaves her conscious and telepathic field fully alert. Useful in situations like these.”

“When’d you get around to doing all this? And why didn’t I know?” The Doctor asked.

“Three hundred years and you start a couple projects.” She said.

The Doctor nodded trying to pull together the hints about this strange girl. “And you know Jack?”

“Course. You swing by Torchwood often enough to let Lady have her fix and just because we’re not supposed to meet doesn’t mean I can’t have some sort of social life.”

He caught a hint of a nervous smile edging onto her lips. Her tongue just barely peeking out between her teeth. He had thought he’d never see that smile again. It was only a little sort of half smile that was gone an instant later though. He continued to stare at her wishing she was his Rose. The Rose that would readily hold his hand and smile and laugh out loud. He remembers all the plans he had for her. All the places he would have taken her. And now seeing Ayaria with her face and smile and bootcut jeans. That’s when he realized.

“You’re older than when I first say you.” He had been so used to seeing older Rose he hadn’t even noticed. She looked fifteen now. Maybe even pass for seventeen in a pinch.

“Sorry,” She said not quite meeting his eyes. “My physical age fluctuates.”

“Oh.” The Doctor said. “I’m still very interested to hear about you.”

“I bet you are.” She said absently. She had her eyes closed and wasn’t paying attention to the Doctor.

Her com started to ring again blasting out the ringtone. Instead of answering though she slipped it out of her ear and shoved it towards the Doctor. He took the device and put it into his own ear. He gave her a glance, she was in the corner with her eyes closed, before pushing the button to accept the call.

“Hey, so here’s the deal. I’ve got the map and I’m a click away from opening the door. So, real quick I would like to know how you plan to fix this. You’re pretty far out and it’s pretty much a maze between where you are and the control room. ” Jack’s American accent came through the earpiece.

“Hello, it’s actually the Doctor.”

“Is that a new voice I hear?”

“Yes.”

“Ginger?”

“No. Still not ginger.”

“So you met Ayaria? What do you think? She’s pretty, isn’t she? Reminds me of someone but I can’t quite put my finger on who.” Said Jack in his cocky tone.

“I’m really not in the mood for this today, Jack. I just lost Amy and then next thing I know Rose’s look alike has been sitting around my Tardis for a couple centuries.” The Doctor hissed into the com.

“Amy. That’s a new name. She fall for you too?” Jack laughed. “I don’t know why I bother asking really, they all do. Have you snogged her?”

“Once, but she kissed me.” The Doctor said annoyed.

“She a good kisser?” Jack implored.

“Yes.” The Doctor said. “But that doesn’t matter. She was getting married the next day-“

“Doctor, stealing another man’s woman the night before the wedding. That’s a whole new level for you.”

“She kissed me!” The Doctor shouted.

“She might have kissed you, but you undoubtedly did something to make her want it.” Jack said snidely.

Suddenly Ayaria walked up and plucked the com out of the Doctor’s ear. Watching her body language he realized she was nervous. More than nervous, she was scared. She put the com in. “You boys can shut up about your pitiful love lives. It’s gotten worse. Her song is so soft. And she’s in so much pain.”

The Tardis sung? The Doctor had never heard her sing. She was always there, brushing his conscious, but he had never heard her sing. The Doctor listened in on the side of the conversation he could hear.

“I think I need to hack into her psyche and try to get whatever it is out. I’ve read millions of books on the care and upkeeping of a Tardis so I can keep her nice and prepared if anything happens while the doctor flaunts around space. There is nothing on an internal attack however. Best thing I can think of is to try to connect to her and try to figure out the issue.”

The Doctor interjected. “I don’t flaunt!”

There was a minute of silence as Ayaria listened to Jack. “Best place to connect would be her heart. That’s where her psychic field is the strongest. Can you direct us there?”

Another bit of silence. “Good! Try to get us close. I’ll try to see what I can do once we get there. Open the door.”