Travel (Doctor Who)

Chapter Seven

"Okay, so how do we stop them?" Mia asks, holding 10 ketchup packets, and squirting them onto her cheeseburger, as The Doctor shivers.

"What?" I ask, wondering what he could be grossed out about.

"That's inhuman." He whispers, pointing at Mia's ketchup slathered burger, as she giggles.

"Says you."

With that, she takes a huge bite of it, the red sauce dripping off of it, and onto her plate.

The Doctor starts making noises, squirming from his seat as both Mia and I double over in laughter.

"Aren't you hungry?" Mia asks, and tosses him an apple.

He throws the apple back, and turns to face me. "Is she mentally okay?"

I smile. "I've been wondering the same thing for years."

"What, no apples in a timelord's diet?!" Mia interjects, and The Doctor shakes his head continuously.

"Apples are rubbish." I whisper under my breath as he tells Mia the same thing.

"Any-who, about the stone creatures, what are you going to do with them?"

The Doctor jumps out of his seat. "Well first off, there are only two."

"Two?" I ask skeptically, and he turns to face me.

"Oi! Two's a lot."

I shake my head. "What about in Manhattan, when-" I stop as I see the confused look on his face.

He hasn't been there yet.

"Oops. Never mind." I say, backing away, in awkward silence.

"Anyways, what are we supposed to do?" Mia bursts out, and we all think for a second as I look at Quite Girl, staring straight at the door where the angels are awaiting.

"Why haven't they left yet?" I hear her whisper, and sit by her.

"What's your name?" I ask her curiously.

"Aurora." She mumbles, without taking her eyes off the doors.

"Do you know anything about the angels?" I ask her, and she says one last thing before closing the conversation, and walking to go somewhere else.

"Yes. In my dreams. I hear it repeatedly. Over and over. He says 'Dont Blink.' And then it switches to somewhere else. I hear sadness. And then someone says goodbye. She calls him 'Raggedy man' and says goodbye. Then I wake up."

I walk back to the table where The Doctor and Mia are arguing over something ridiculous, and stare at my shoes.

How could she know that?

She couldn't possibly.

So how did she?

"You okay Eves?" Mia breaks me from my thoughts and I stare at her, aware.

"Yeah. Fine. Definitely. What do you guys want to do about the angels? Actually, hold that thought, I have to go out to get some air." With that, I rush out of the room, avoiding the door with the statues, leaving from an alternative door, my head flaring with thoughts.

There's a small area of wet grass and a swing set that I walk to, and sit on the swing that's surprisingly dry.

I swing back and forth, inhaling the cold air and letting it go through my hair.

"I had another vision." I hear, and turn to face Aurora.

"What do you mean?" I ask, recovering from the heart attack I had a few seconds ago.

"It was a girl. She was staring at a statue, her eyes wide, sitting down, her back to a blue box. She screamed for help, trying not to cry, because she couldn't see then. She yells for The Doctor, assuming he's there. In the box. Then, her heart pangs out of her chest, her whole body shivering. She thinks about how The Doctor will save her, as long as she stays staring at the stone angel. Until the blue box starts to disappear. She screams for help, although she knows she won't get any. And there's a problem. She thinks she might make it. Until the box disappears completely, and another one appears behind her. And that's when she does what she thought she would never do."

"What?!" I ask, captivated by her story.

She stares at the floor, then back at me.

"She blinks."