The Girl of Colours (Book TWO)

Vision

Luke had been gone for only a month now, but it felt like an eternity. He called me every other day, telling me of things that were happening, and I would tell him what alien we'd sent home or defeated, before he had a class, and I had homework.

I woke up on the first morning of the second month, and bleary eyed looked at my alarm close, the fuzzy digital numbers telling me it was half 8 on a Saturday. Thank god, my head was killing me. Rolling out of bed, I stumbled into the bathroom, smelling the perfect smell of bacon and mushrooms from downstairs, so I showered quickly, washing the sleep from my eyes to try and help my head and how blurry things were as they had been for the whole week.

It didn't help, and I nearly fell down the stairs as I missed a step, and Sarah Jane stuck her head out of the kitchen with a frown. "You alright?"

"Yeah, just slipped that's all." I smiled, walking into the kitchen to sit down. "Oooh, coffee, need, headache killing me." 

She just laughed, shaking her head as I poured two mugs for us and handed one to her. "You are really not a morning person, are you?"

"I'm not a day person, Sarah." I told her firmly. "I would happily become a Vampire, because I wouldn't have to wake up early."

"Good thing all your lessons are afternoon ones now then." She smiled, sitting down with me, putting some bacon, eggs and mushrooms in front of me. "I need to go into town for an optician appointment, want to come? We can go for a coffee after, and you need some new school shoes, you've wrecked those heels."

That was a very good point... "Yeah, sure, sounds good. What actually is an opticians, anyway?"

"Callie, how are you nearly 60, but you don't know what an opticians is? Actually, you could probably do with an appointment, you've been walking into a lot of things recently. It's where they make sure your retinas aren't damaged or struggling to see. It'll tell us if you needed glasses, basically."

Ahhh, that made sense. "I used to wear glasses, before I could turn the synaesthesia off. Yeah, sounds good. Do you have any ibuprofen?"

"You know where it's kept, you've been living here for nearly two years, Calliope." 

I sighed, getting to my feet and took the box out of the cupboard above the fridge and threw two to the back of my throat, swallowing them dry. "Sorry, it's just this headache. My heads everywhere. I'll go grab my stuff, then we can head into town."

Running back up the stairs, I paused in my room, feeling just behind my eyes burning slightly. "Damn, this is getting worse." I muttered, grabbing my TARDIS bag, knowing  that everything was still in there. Never underestimate bigger on the inside technology. Then I ran back down the stairs, getting into the passenger seat of Sarah Jane's car. "Ready."

"You alright?" She asked, pulling us out onto the road and off of into the main road, heading towards town. "This headache, its nothing to do with being apart from Luke, is it?"

"No, no, that's my stomach." She frowned a little at me. "The resting place of your soul is your stomach, and the point of us being called Soul Bonds is that they're linked. Even before we're born for Time Lord's, because time travel." I explained, fishing out my lip balm to smear some across. I hated winter, everything was grey, there was no warmth, and it dried out your face like no ones business.

Sarah Jane laughed a little at that, pulling into a car park next to the supermarket. "Because time travel, brilliant. I love the way that you put things Callie. Come on, they're only around the corner, and you do need your eyes tested."

She lead the way to the small opticians, and I sat watching a fish tank while we waited to be seen, the fish bobbing around in the water, the different colours bright and eye catching. "Calliope Smith?"