PEOPLE WATCHING ― doctor who

ONE

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CHAPTER ONE:
IRIS AND THE DOCTOR

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IRIS was an accident.

It didn't bother her growing up, her brothers never told her as such, but she knew. The age gap between the four siblings was completely out of the ordinary.

She was six when she first realized it. Or rather, someone else realized it for her.

When her brother picked her up from first grade and the other students thought he was her dad — she knew something was off.

Not that she had a dad growing up.

After his wife died, Henry Holloway had a midlife crisis involving a red mustang, a haunted castle in Europe, and a girl nearly four times his junior.

He died three months later in a car accident.

The young woman was nineteen when she had Iris, and was going to send her into the system when three men asked to adopt her instead.

They were her half-brothers, and they each pitched in to take care of a baby despite their booming careers.

Iris didn't think it was strange until she met the other kids at school.

Where nearly everyone else had parents, Iris had brothers.

Not that she minded.

They were all great in their own way and she had more love from them than a girl could handle.

Growing up, she lived with Sebastian and Charles in Las Vegas. Charles was the closest to her age, twenty years senior, and he was also the most lenient.

He often overslept on days he was supposed to take her to school and always made her gummy bear pancakes when she asked. (Even if they burned and once started a fire. He only laughed and took her to Denny's instead.)

Sebastian was the most protective, and the kindest. He'd tell her bedtime stories and buy her as many stuffed animals as she wanted. Oh, and he was blind. And he was her favorite. (Not that she'd tell them.)

Griffith was the oldest. He lived in Maryland; an aerospace engineer at NASA. He was career-oriented but always skype'd her and spent every birthday and holiday with her.

They all encouraged her to pursue education and follow her dreams. As an aerospace engineer, lawyer, and archaeologist respectively, her brothers just wanted her happy.

And when she was eighteen, her dreams took her to Europe to pursue what she loved most: stars.

She'd had dual citizenship her entire life, since her mother was from London, and she'd travelled a few times with her brothers growing up.

But to properly understand her roots and seek a higher education, Iris found herself studying Astronomy and Astrophysics at St. Luke's University.

And in following her dreams and pursuing education, she stumbled into a lecture by a speaker who happened to know everything about everything she loved.