The secret life

The secret life. chapter 25 The return of Dawn.

       As much as I put it off Monday finally came. Though as far as the attack day I knew they wouldn't try anything that day. As far as the full on attack. But as always I kept and eye out and kept alert. As usual Rani in Disguise never showed up really. By the end of last pierod I was ready to go home. I left the school in my usual fashion,  avoiding the teachers and making my way casually and swiftly out.

     While I waited for my dad to pick me up I got on the computer at school and got on my email. I was suprised to see someone had texted me. It was Dawn. The long lost Dawn that had been gone had contacted me. I opened up the notification and read slowly over what she had said. "This is Cass. From the future. I've been in the Pandorica for, hmmm, about 300 years. I'm telling you, if you ever want to put off regenerating for a few centuries, that is the way to do it. Sorry I haven't been on at all. As the Doctor is fond of saying, it's all been a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff. Sorry if I sound different. The Rani had me for a bit, and I'm still not sure what the long-term effects of what she did to me are going to be." Following that message was a separate message "Actually scratch that. I just got a splitting headache after I posted that last bit. Obviously she doesn't want me to reveal anything." I thought about what I had found out. Piecing it together and reading it over a few more times. 

        Dawn was back. I wondered if I could contact her. Hopefully her not being busy or in danger at the moment. I started texting a reply "Dawn! It's good to hear from you. do you happen to be still on and can comunicate back?" I waited a few minutes after then assumed she was busy and no one was on. So i gathered my book bag and things and prepared to leave not wanting to have anyone sneaking up on me and asking any questions. I closed it and went back to my waiting area.

Once I got there I had nothing to keep myself occupied so I just sat in a chair thinking. My mind running over Dawn coming back. She was in the pandorica.  300 years.  Rani had caught her I was right. Wonder how she got out. What regeneration of the Doctor got her out. I kept thinking more about it asking those questions in my head and longing for answers. I felt like I should of stayed longer at the computer to see if she texted back. The suspension of finding out what happened made me antsy. I considered going back to it but knowing my dad would pick me up soon and avoiding being suspicious kept me from going up there to find out.

       When my dad finally came I like everyday before was anxious to get home. But more so this day from the news I got back. Unfortunately we had to make some stops at the store before we went home. I always hated taking trips to the store right after school but I kept quiet and put up with it hoping it would go fast.

Following my dad around, the store trip didn't go fast as I hoped. Each minute passing felt like it would be forever till I got home. When we finally got home putting away groceries delayed me from finding out. Once I finally settled down with my tablet in my lap I looked on my notifications Dawn had texted back. Maybe I would get to talk to her now. I read over her response "I'm on now. You on?" I read the time it was posted. She posted it right after I had left the computer about 20 minutes after. I replied a greeting and after a few seconds saw the symbol pop up showing she was on. "Have you heard from Alayla or the master?" I replied back. "Yeah alayla is still captured along with the Doctor. I've been talking with the master A lot, we are holding together." She answered "That's good that we're still in touch with the Master. Really sorry about alayla though. I wish that could have been avoided."

       I continued talking to her curious of how she escaped she was happy to tell me. "I really don't even remember being put in the Pandorica. Just that one second I was being held by the Rani and then the next second, I wasn't." I ran her up on the situation and what's happened with me while she was gone.  I wanted to ask her more but then she left. In the meantime I texted the Master needing to tell him things. To start I greeted him. "So how was your day?" Knowing he had to go as Alayla at her school using a perception filter so no one would be suspicious. He answered "It was okay. The clone didn't come back." We had both expected it to come so that was a suprise. The master continued saying it was actually pretty fun to play her.

       Less then half and hour talking to the master Dawn came back on. I realized we should talk to her to figure out what happened and help her catch up more. Dawn said that because of the pandorica she aged a lot. But she didn't look any different from the pandorica slowing it down.  When she got home her parents didn't notice she was gone because the silence influenced them to think she was still there. I thought about her being back again "I wonder if they would try to recapture you again." I continued telling get her about the situation "Me and the master have been holding up the fort. The situation has gotten pretty bad. It may also be close to the fixed point for me. The peak of the secret war" she replied by saying she would of loved to help but anyway She would be able to would mess up time. We talked more telling our stories of aliens like sontarans watching Dawn and Rani still keeping an eye on me  at the school.

         "Blimey it's cold here" I texted, rubbing my hands together to keep warm. I continued  telling my experience this morning with the bitter cold. "This morning standing waiting for the bus I thought my face was numb from the cold." The master replied "that's not good" he said knowing that the cold and our biology doesn't go that we'll together.  He continued "on my side too. A snow storm.  It hit hard here" I stated hearing his reply "this cold weather is bad." Seeing that Dawn and the master were all here I decided now would be the best time to call the Doctor again. He would do the mind share with me and help us and we can know what's going on there. "Hmm I wonder. It may be time again to say hi to my dad. Get another run in on what's going on there." I called him up telpathicly and he knew what I wanted to do. Opon accepting it he did the mind share. He rubbed his hands once sharing my mind and body feeling the cold that I was feeling after texting hi to the master. "Oh blimey.  Why is it so freezing here" then he noticed Dawn being on "Ello dawn! Nice to have you back. So how are you holding up the fort wolverine?" Him referring to the master in our little nicknames we did with each other for fun.  The master answered back with his nickname "were ok professor" the Doctors nickname to be professor x. The Doctor continued "Good. And katrina I assume is freezing. Blimey. Rani done anything to you guys lately? I assume still stalking" Dawn answered first. "Is the X-Men reference something new? And yeah. She put some kind of chip in me that gives me throbbing headaches and shivers if I reveal too much." The Doctor stared at the screen knowing that was bad. "Hmm. Trying to keep you from revealing too much. Possibly trying to control you. And the x-men thing is new. The master is wolverine. I'm the professor. Katrina is Rouge and alayla is jean."  He typed smiling at the fun nicknames we gave each other from the fact of them being a lot like us. Dawn got into it. "Can I be Storm? She's awesome" the Doctor smiled. "Yeah. You can be storm. I was just thinking that."