The Skasis Paradigm

Chapter 4: Attitude

I ran as fast as I could back to the Powell Estate and into the door of the apartment only to find the Doctor looking around the living room, Rose just entered the kitchen after saying something about coffee. They both turned to me and I looked at the Doctor with a glare before darting to Rose and making sure she was okay.

"What are you doing? I thought you went for a run." Rose asked, rolling her eyes as I looked her over.

"Saw a blue police box a few feet around the corner, the same one I saw on the corner across Hendricks when we were running away last night. Both places never had a police box there before though. I figured the strange box would somehow be connected to the strange 'Doctor' since I've only seen it when he's been around so far." I said as a coverup while glaring at the Doctor who looked like a deer caught in headlights. Rose seemed amused at the look on the doctor's face although it was common for me to intimidate grown men.

"I'm not here to cause trouble, I was leaving before she dragged me inside!" He said in a feeble attempt to defend himself and pin the blame on Rose making me march up to him. I stopped in front of him and looked him dead in the eye as I glared.

"You have no idea what I'm capable of Doctor, but I will tell you this. If you get my cousin hurt, I'll make sure the time lords officially become extinct." I glowered quietly to him, a ring of black energy around my irises making them glow as his eyes widened at my knowledge of his kind as well as my eyes. I shut my eyes for a second and took a quiet deep breath before taking a step back and smiling, turning to Rose.

"I'll be in your room. I'm keeping the door open, so if you need help just yell." I said cheerfully before leaving the living room.

I sat on Rose's bed and took my bigger-on-the-inside cross body bag with all my important items inside to get my journal, I write anything that happens relating to my powers, aliens, or others. I quickly jotted down the basic layout of each encounter before noticing something wrong, it was too quiet. I could hear Rose's muffled talking through the open door but the Doctor was surprisingly quiet, I peeked my head out only to see the Doctor being strangled by the plastic arm from last night. I chuckled and waited until Rose came out of the kitchen with two mugs, before setting them down and saying something to the man-child wrestling with a plastic arm. I put my journal back in my bag and put the strap across my torso and walked out when she didn't seem too concerned about it.

"I told Mickey to chuck that out..." Rose said with her brows furrowed, I remember Mickey left with it though so what is it doing here? The signal probably isn't dead yet. "Honestly, give a man a plastic hand... anyway, I don't even know your name, Doctor... what was it?" Rose continued to speak, clearly not realizing the Doctor wasn't just messing around.

Suddenly the Doctor got the arm off only for it to fly off him and onto Rose's face making her scream while I heard the faint sound of a hairdryer in the background. The doctor tries to yank the arm off of Rose as I rush over to him and shuffled around in his pocket quickly trying to find something to help when I got hold of a tube with a light-up blue tip from last night.

'Sonic Screwdriver.' The familiar voice from before whispered in my head giving me enough information to know how to use it. I turned the Screwdriver on and pointed it into the wrist of the arm since I couldn't get to its palm and thought about what I wanted the sonic device to do making it cut off the signal and the arm to easily came off of Rose.

"It's alright, I've stopped it. There you go, you see?" The Doctor said as he tossed Rose the arm making me huff and Rose glare. "'Armless." He smiled at Rose and me with a maniac grin.

"Do you think? Also, you didn't stop it, Poppy did!" Rose yelled at him as she smacked him on the arm a few times harshly with the plastic appendage. I smirked at my little cousin for telling him off as he whined in pain while rubbing the spot on his arm before my smirk dropped as he ran out of the apartment with Rose and me trailing behind him. "Hold on a minute, you can't just go swanning off!" Rose exclaimed as she chased after him making me roll my eyes at her, what the hell is with British people and saying weird-ass things? 'Muckin' about' and 'Swanning off'? Seriously?

"Yes, I can. Here I am, this is me, swanning off. See ya!" The Doctor looked back and waved to us as he proceeded down the stairs making me smirk again, he forgot I have his sonic already.

"That arm was moving, it tried to kill me!" Rose complained, she had a point. If a plastic arm tried to kill me Id want some answers too. Rose started to hurry down the steps after him while just leaned against the railing up top.

"Ten out of ten for observation." He replied in a slightly sarcastic tone making my eyes harden into a glare, I will hit him if he keeps dodging her questions.

"You can't just walk away, that's not fair! You've got to tell us what's going on." Rose complained to the man who looked like he honestly could care less making me slightly chuckle.

"No, I don't." He said firmly making me give a small shrug and thoughtful nod, he's not wrong. Although Rose does deserve an explanation, he doesn't have to tell her anything. They reached the bottom of the stairs making me grin.

They both stopped after noticing I wasn't following and turned to me, Rose looking annoyed and frustrated while the Doctor just raised his eyebrow. I climbed up onto the railing with my back to the drop making both their eyes widen in panic, thinking I'm gonna fall, more so the Doctor than Rose as she knows what I do for fun. I backflipped off the railing and twisted in the air before landing gracefully on the ground without so much as a scratch on me. I walked over to Rose and the Doctor with a smile on my face as the Doctor stared at me curiously with a little amusement in his features.

"Anyway, now that I got that out of my system! What we're you guys talking about?" I asked innocently as if I didn't just do a dangerous stunt and landed it perfectly. The Doctor seemed to snap out of whatever daze he was in as he observed me but before he could say anything Rose seemed to have gotten her train of thought back and continued the conversation like I never did a totally awesome stunt.

"Alright then. We'll go to the police. We'll tell everyone. You said, if we did that, we'd get people killed. So, your choice. Tell us, or we'll start talking." Rose said in a huff making me look at her in alarm. Telling people was a very very bad idea and who would even believe us anyway? This girl is gonna be the death of me if she keeps dragging me along for this kind of stuff.

"Is that supposed to sound tough?" He asked with a snort as he started walking again making Rose deflate while I smacked him for being so rude.

"Sort of," Rose said as she walked after him a little slower, now unsure and nervous of what she said making me snort, receiving a glare in response.

"Doesn't work." He said with a huffy laugh.

"Who are you?" Rose asked making me snort in response, why is she not getting that he's the doctor? He's said it every time you've asked.

"I told you! The Doctor." He said as we all stopped again as he turned around to face us.

"Yeah. But Doctor what?" Rose pushed as I sighed, just give it up already. He's never gonna tell you his real name. He literally can't tell you.

"Just the Doctor."

"The Doctor," Rose mumbles in confusion.

"Hello!" He smiled and waved at her making me snort before Rose regained her composure.

"Is that supposed to sound impressive?" She asked with a deadpan look, the doctor deflated a little and faltered in his steps slightly.

"Sort of." He said.

"Come on. You can tell us. We've seen enough. Are you the police?" Rose asked making him snort loudly and roll his eyes. 'He's probably the furthest thing from it.' I thought as I rolled my eyes

"No. I was just passing through." He said before a shadow overtook his eyes slightly. "I'm a long way from home." He said, the grief evident in his voice making my eyes soften. I may not like him but I saw flashes of the time war, no one could come out of something like that and not be affected.

"But what have I done wrong? How come those plastic things keep coming after me?" Rose whined making him whirl around to face her.

"Oh! Suddenly the entire world revolves around you!" He started walking again. "You were just an accident, you got in the way, that's all." He tried to explain, I narrowed my eyes at him.

"You better drop the attitude doctor before I castrate you." I glared at him as he stared at me, slightly amused and disturbed at my willingness to harm him so severely.

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