The yelping and squeaking of ballet girls dragged me out of my cat nap, my headache wasn’t so bad now, there was still a dull ache on the side of my forehead, I gingerly reached up to touch my head and a heaping burst of pain kicked me right up it, it felt lumpy and angry, I looked around searching for a light to see where I was, I felt around but couldn’t find anything, I pulled myself up and gently opened the door slightly just to make sure no one was there, it took me a moment to adjust to the bright light in the hall, but luckily there was no one around and so I full opened the door to check its contents, it was pretty much a maids closet, mops, buckets and bits and bobs, I looked over my shoulder to check once again that there was no one there, all clear, I noticed at the back that there was a spare tattered dress hanging on a mop handle, I grabbed the dress and closed the door, luckily I didn’t need the light on to get dressed, the skills of a teenager, I folded up my clothes and hid them in a corner, tied up my hair in a messy bun, I'm not one for wearing makeup so I didn’t have anything to cover the bruise up with, I just had to bite my lip and bare it and hopefully no one would take a second glance at me, I quickly left the closet with a broom and made my way to the main staircase, a few ballet girls and over staff passed me but they didn’t pay attention and look at me which was good, they just continued on their way.
Strange as it may seem I enjoy cleaning, I find it peaceful and relaxing, this was not my idea of peaceful and relaxing, in a dictionary, I would be classified as an intruder or a squatter, but then again, squatters don’t get chucked back 200 years in the past and to a different country, that in no way is a definition of a squatter, or an intruder for that matter, thankfully I hid in the background pretty well, nobody even spoke to me, which was great, I just continued sweeping the main halls and corridors, I had happily zoned out whilst sweeping when I could hear voices coming along the hall way, my ears pricked up when I recognised the two voices, at that point I purposely had my back to them as they stopped behind me, just chatting away,
'Any sign of the opera ghost, any information from anyone' they sounded so close to me, I wanted to run, but then innocent people don’t run, but scared people run,
'Not since yesterday, every time you mention the opera ghost, it seems to be an echo, any news on the girl, I doubt she would leave here' I slowly began to walk away, and I could sense them following me, stay calm it told myself, block out the pain that’s hurting like hell, my bruise felt like an erupting volcano, just spewing out pain and misery, they were still talking as they followed me,
'You know, considering how young she is, the opera ghost probably caught her or something, you know what women are like, any sort of eye candy and that’s it, hook, line, and sinker' I could hear the other guy chuckling at the comment, obviously they knew who I was, but I wasn’t going to try and run, not this time, I stopped in my tracks, and so did they, I took grip of the mop handle and swung it round, they jumped back so I missed them with the stick, but I kept it pointed in their direction,
'Right firstly, just because I'm young, does not mean I make lovey dovey eyes at every single guy that moves, take you for example' they looked disappointed at each other then back at me,
'And secondly, if you two can't get me, then what chance has he got, there's only one of him! ' Although really thinking about it, how much of chance did I really have with taking on these two, and my head was still throbbing like hell, the guy with the brown coat held up his hands in defence, he then nudge the other guy to do the same, that just annoyed me,
'Look we're not here to hurt you, we know you're not from here, we are willing to take you home' I thought about it for a moment, did I really want to go home, I mean, I guess this is before the whole murdering phantom thing happens, so I suppose I could maybe, change things a little, but I still wasn’t sure about these two, I mean the one in the brown coat seemed trusting enough, but all men are like that, I lowered my weapon as they lowered their arms,
'Quick question, do either of you have any paracetamol or something, my head is banging like a drum' whilst the captain was looking at his watch, the other guy came over to me, he reached his hands out to my head, I flinched a little, but they came to rest gently on the side of my temples, It felt weird, the moment his fingers touched my head, it felt like he was touching inside my head, it hurt when he got near the bump, I grunted a little in pain,
'Sorry, just bear with it a moment' after a few seconds, the pain faded away and he released his hands, he shoved his hands in his pocket and smiled,
'There we go, all sorted, still going to have that nasty lump, but that will fade in a few days' his friend now came forward to join him,
'Thanks for that, wish all pills worked like that'
'One day, well, like hundreds of years in the future, by the way, I'm the Doctor' he enthusiastically held his hand out to me, I looked at him and his friend, still a bit unsure of them,
'Yuna' I shook his hand, obviously didn’t tell him my real name, he would of known it if he had gone through my stuff, but clearly he hadn’t, his friend also extended his hand,
'Captain Jack Harkness, nice to finally meet you' the feelings certainly weren’t mutual, but I gave a small grin anyway, I turned my attention back to the other guy,
'The Doctor, that’s your name, just the Doctor' he seemed to relish in what I just said, like he was enjoying the reaction,
'Yep just the Doctor, Yuna's an odd name, it nice all the same though'
'Cheers, I didn’t pick but hey ho, say any chance I could get my bag back please, might of left it behind yesterday' yeah, me nearly with it,
'Sure thing we were about to head back to …' suddenly a group of screams echoed throughout the building, both men started running towards the screams, I quickly followed after as I wanted my bag, and to maybe also find the Phantom too.
