The Secret Timelady

You Have Got To Be Kidding Me

We were up in the flat and i sat on the armrest of the chair the Doctor was on as we watched the news. It would be all good and fine if it wasn't for the fact that mum invited all her friends into the flat and now the place is crowded. 

"Big Ben destroyed as UFO crash lands in Central London. Police reinforcements are drafted in from across the country to control widespread panic, looting, and civil disturbance. A state of national emergency has been declared. Tom Hitchinson is at the scene. The Reporter on the telly said before switching to Hitchinson. 

"The police are urging the public not to panic. There's a helpline number on the screen right now if you're worried about friends or family." Hitchinson said before the Doctor changed the channel to another news station.

   "The military are on the lookout for more spaceships. Until then, all flights in North American air space have been grounded." Woman news reported stated from the other station before the Doctor went back to Hitchinson.   

 " The army is sending divers into the wreck of the spaceship. No one knows what they're going to find." Hitchinson said before again the Doctor changed the channel back to the woman.

 " The President will address the nation live from the White House, but the Secretary-General has asked that people watch the skies." The woman on the news said before brought out a mug of tea for her friend, Rose and I but not the Doctor. 

"I've got no choice," Mum said as i sipped my tea.

"You two broke your mother's heart." Mum's friend told us.

"I'm not going to make him welcome," Mum said as I passed my mug to the Doctor who drank a bit of it before passing it back to me.

"I cradled her in my arms." The friend spoke again as I rolled my eyes.

"Oi, I'm trying to listen." The Doctor told the two before turning back to the telly

"They've found a body. It's unconfirmed. But I'm being told a body has been found in the wreckage. A body of non-terrestrial origins. It's being brought ashore." Hitchinson said. "A body of some sort has been found inside the wreckage of the spacecraft."

"Oh guessed who asked me out? Billy Crewe." Mum told her friends as i sighed in annoyance as i tried to listen by leaning closer to the telly.

"Brought to the nearest shore. Unconfirmed reports say that the body is of extra-terrestrial origin. An extraordinary event unfolding here live here in Central London. The body is being transferred to a secure unit mortuary, the whereabouts are yet unknown. The roads in Central London are being-" We are cut off by a baking channel and in surprise, I turn to look back at the Doctor who is wresting the remote from the hands of a toddler. I chuckled as I moved back to my previous position and took the child off the Doctor's lap.

"Hello, sweetheart. Do you want to give the remote to me?" I asked the toddler as I tickled him causing him to laugh as he gave me the remote which I gave to the Doctor with a smile as he gave me a grateful look as he turned the channel back to the news as I put the toddler back on the floor to go back to his mother.

"How you are you so good with kids?" The Doctor asked me. 

"I don't know just am I guess." I replied with a grin as I turned back to the news.

" Albion Hospital. We still don't know whether it's alive or dead. Whitehall is denying everything.  But the body has been brought here, Albion Hospital. The road's closed off. It's the closest to the river.  I'm being told that General Asquith is now entering the hospital. The building's been evacuated. The patients have been moved out onto the streets. The police still won't confirm the presence of an alien body contained inside those walls." Hitchinson spoke. I felt the Doctor tap my leg and he beckoned me to follow him as he stood him and I did. As we were leaving Rose spoke from behind us.