Unknown Worlds - Dreams Of A Girl

Flashback

I couldn't help but stare at him.

"You mean to tell me that you...you, the over 1200 – year old Doctor, do not have any clue as to what is happening right now, right here?"

He looked at me.

"Do you really think I like this feeling of helplessness?"

He stared at me.

"I guess you, being part of the so called "Generation Wealth", cannot even imagine this feeling due to the fact that you all are spoilt." He sneered at me.

My eyes filled with tears at his sharp, accusing words.

They stung like hell.

"Well, as you so clearly do not think very highly of me, I am sure you won't mind me just strolling out of this box, do you?"

I intended my words to be sharp and somewhat quick witted.

Instead I spoke quietly and my voice began to quiver at the end of the sentence.

I turned around, threw my hair back and began to stroll out of the TARDIS.

"Just what I have thought of you."

"And for your information, Elena" he spat out my name, as if it were a curse. "I am exactly 905 years old!"

These words served to hit me even more.

My shoulders dropped and one single tear slid down my face.

Still, I continued to walk out of the door.

One, two, three... I counted my steps while I desperately tried to keep my eyes dry.

Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen...

How could he say all those things to me?

And why was I so affected by his words? After all, he was only a stranger...

Twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven...

I silently counted to the third Power of three.

Then I began to run, while the tears kept streaming down my face. I simply ran. I wanted to leave the Doctor and his TARDIS behind, I wanted to leave this school and my screwed up life behind.

Spoilt indeed!

I snorted, but I didn't stop running.

If he knew what had happened last month alone, how my life had been turned upside down by myself, he wouldn't call me spoilt...oh no, he wouldn't.

The words that he would have used, would have been some stronger and more accurate. I might not consider myself spoilt, but I did consider me some other things...

I stopped abruptly in a narrow alleyway. Then I moved again...I desperately had to get out of the open. My vision was all blurry and the tears continued to stream down my face.

I closed my eyes and then opened them again in an attempt to clear my vision.

It didn't help. As I closed my eyes again, I was still moving forward.

The next thing I knew I stumbled and fell.

My toppling was stopped by a wall. I held myself up for a few more moments, but then my arms refused to work. I slid down the wall and wrapped my arms around my legs.

I sat there a few minutes longer and let my mind wander off to memories I didn't want to think about.

The beginning of this one fateful moment came up before my eyes.