Fire and Ice

The Man of Four Words

Hello!! Thank you so much for 14 views!! I will be updating (hopefully) twice more tonight. The next couple of chapters are basically the same and I wouldn't want you to wait three days just to read the same thing over and over again. 

I'd like to dedicate all the chapters posted tonight to @slytheringirl1 She helped me with some tough decisions with this and is remaining patient for our Doctor Who fanfiction to be published while I was working on this one. Thanks for the help and I promise ours will be up soon :)

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PART ONE

Chapter One: The Man of Four Words.

 The Doctor paced around the center console of the TARDIS in silence. I glanced over at Rory who had the same bored expressions as I did.

“Doctor, you have been pacing there for the past half an hour. You haven’t even touched a button to get us off this planet,” We had just been to visit a place called New Earth. It was one of the Doctor’s favourites and I could definitely see why. It was exactly like current Earth, more high tech but not as alien as some of the other places they’d been.

Finally the Doctor looked up at us, “Ah, yes. I have some business to attend to so I’ll have to drop you off at home. Shouldn’t take me long, I’ll be back in a day or so.” The Doctor began pushing buttons and dancing around the console like his usual self.

I jumped up and stood next to the Doctor as the TARDIS took off. It started off bumpy and out of control like it usually did. But the ride quickly became smooth, like we were gliding through the universe.

The Doctor smiled at me then pranced off to go punch some more buttons. Just after he left, I noticed something. The little screen that was attached to the console of the TARDIS had lit up.

“Doctor,” I said, “Did you turn this on?”

“Turn what on Amelia? There’s lots of stuff to turn on in here,” he said as he punched some numbers into a keypad then pulled a pointless lever.

“The little TV over here.”

I didn’t have to say anything else; the Doctor was by my side in a second. He grabbed the TV on each side and pulled it closer to his face like he couldn’t see it from a distance and stared at it in confusion. Rory came up behind us and was staring at it as well.

It looked like all TVs did when there was no signal. Just a crackly, black and white picture that made a sound like crumpling paper. On any old TV it would have been normal, but not the Doctor’s. This had never happened before.

“What’s going on?” Rory asked, “Is it supposed to do that?”

“No,” The Doctor said quietly and continued to stare at it. Then it happened.

The screen flashed and there was an image of a man on the screen. I thought that I recognized the man but I couldn’t put a name to the face. He had short, sleek black hair and creepy looking smile. It wasn’t a man standing in front of a camera though. This was a picture of a man. The man’s chin was twitching like he was trying to open his mouth, but in a more animated way. Beside his face were the words “miss me?” written in thick white letters. There was a thin, white border surrounding his image, making it clear that he was edited onto this background. In this high-pitched, distorted voice he started repeating, “did you miss me?” The whole thing made me shiver.