Jumping For The Stars

Chapter 10 - Past to Present

Chapter 10

Past to Present

I know that she is playing the victim a lot. Okay guys. Or the three people reading this, only two of whom who aren't me. Anyway, back to Tea/Ailia, I know that she is playing the victim a lot, I am aware. Still, there is this thing called character development. I don't know much about it but it sounds cool so I'll go with it. But I am almost certain this is the last chapter that she is going to seem weak. Thank you for the understanding.

Her name was Ailia now, a new life with new consequences, but at least they wouldn't find her. No, not the Doctor, she wouldn't have worried about the Doctor finding her. Him in his anger, yes that was something to fear, but she wasn't afraid of him. Not when her enemies were so much bigger than him.

Tea was back in her own time now, a completely different person. At least she hoped that is what they would see. She hoped that they wouldn't see her for who she really was, Teanna Kelsa, inventor and puppet for their own evil purposes.

They. They were called the Hoyle. Their minions clothed in black because it was a part of their culture and religeon. She was a goddess of sorts in their eyes, but they didn't believe that gods and goddesses should deserve respect. That is what her problem was. They believed that the gods were the problem causers of the world. That the gods that they see in the sun and the stars from which they came were the reason they were stuck on Earth to begin with.

Teanna was clever, though she would never admit it for fear of the past repeating itself. Teanna was so clever that she discovered that there was a vortex of time. She found that it was like a tornado of sorts, that you could ride through the eye of the storm. She also discovered that there were weak spots and strong spots, the Doctor would call them fixed points and points that you can manipulated and mold. And she realized that you could go into it.

Of course, the vortex of time was fierce as fierce could get, ripping apart things inside it and around it, in a whole diffrent dimension entirely. It stood around the whole of the universe and all a person would have to do is jump in. If you had the right coordinates and the right protective suit, traveling through it would be easy, if not it left a raging scar.

This is where she got the idea for a vortex manipulator, or at least that is what Jack had called it. She couldn't believe that they had her invention that far off in the future. But that wasn't the point, her prototype caused the molecules in the body to move at a rapid speed, filtering time through the body in a dangerous way. That's where the raging scar came in, but then she realized that if you could create something that filtered time for you, then the math would be easy. If the protective layer that surrounded a person was able to process the time vortex at the rapid speed that it was introduced.

She had realized this after being locked in her basement for a week during the science fair, at the time it had all been theoretical, of course.

Still, her parents always despised her when she ran into trouble, but it wasn't her fault that she attracted it like metal to a magnet.

It was when she was entering it in the next terms fair that the metal came flying towards her.

Tea sat in the principal's office, coolly leaning back in her seat, watching as the old man behind the desk flipped through papers. She hadn't been the kindest when it came to adults or kids her age that only people she could tolerate would be her little sister and the child's gang of friends. That and the animals always flocked towards Tea. They didn't judge, they were just...just there.

"What was it this time?" the principal droned, giving Tea a chance to explain herself.

"There was an explosion in the lab, sir," Tea answered calmly, looking into the man's eyes.