by Cour M.
Twelve breathed in.
He was ready.
Very much so.
After all, they could only be after one thing mostly.
So…
He blinked.
Then he opened his eyes as he was hurled to the ground.
He was lying in the middle of a sidewalk, with people walking back and forth around him, and as he turned, he saw a child sitting down at a bench, staring at him.
He quickly made a deduction and waved to her.
She waved back, then he walked up to the bench and sat down next to her.
“Sorry,” Twelve said, “for I just need to sit down and catch my bearings.”
“You appeared out of nowhere,” she answered simply.
“Yes, I suppose I did,” Twelve groaned, rubbing his neck from when it hurt. “But you seem to be the only one that noticed.”
“I think it’s because we are used to it.”
Twelve looked at the girl gently.
“You’re used to it?”
“Yes. People just show up now. My mum says that it’s probably just some intergalactic trick.”
“Oh, it’s that all right,” Twelve smiled, “the worst kind of trick of all.”
“You’re funny,” the girl said.
“Good. Funny is always good. By the way, where are your parents?”
“I walk home on my own. I’m not scared.”
“It’s good to be brave.”
“Yes, it is.”
“Can you do me a favor?”
“Does it look like I’ve got money to give?”
“No, don’t worry, it’s not that. I just wondered, because forgive me, my mind is a little rattled. Is this the year 4000 A.D.?”
“Yes, it is. Man, you fell hard.”
“Oh, I’ve fallen harder. And tell me, what planet is this?”
“Larissa.”
Twelve’s jaw dropped slightly.
“Larissa?” He looked around in slight alarm. “I’m on Larissa?”
“Yes, is that bad?”
Twelve looked down at her and decided to not be grumpy for a moment.
“No, it’s not. It’s very good actually. I’ve always liked Larissa.”
“A lot of you must, because you all seem to love to come here.”
“What’s your name?”
“Mustn’t give your name to strangers.”
The girl got up and walked away.
“Too right,” the Doctor said, “too right.”
As he walked along the road, looking around at the people and the streets and wondering why the planet had to be Larissa.
There was a saying about Larissa, older than anyone could remember. No one knew where it came from, but he had never forgotten it.
At the end of such things,
So comes the beginning of something greater,
And something very much worse,
To Larissa it shall occur,
Because what better place for it all to end,
Than the planet where it shall begin.
To the planet which means beginning.
He was torn from his thoughts when he saw a large television hologram turn on along a building. It was a news station, where a reporter was giving a message.
“Attention, all Larisans, this is just in from the refuge, Police force has just issued a statement to counter the rumors that are being spread over Brecca, that the lost are being confined to concentration camps. We wish for you to all understand that those who have appeared from other eras are being housed for their safety and not for any sort of labor. Again, these rumors are false reports, there is no mistreatment of the new arrivals. Therefore, if you come in contact with a person that has appeared from the past, please do not hide them, for they shall profit more from the government housing that will be provided for them. And attention, for those who are the victims of time misplacement, please report to the nearest police official so that you shall be offered assistance. Remember, we know that you are scared, and the police force is on your side, not against it.”
Nearby, Twelve saw the girl out of the corner of his eye, watching him. He did not wish to waste time and look for a policeman, so he wanted one to come to him. Therefore, he raised up his screwdriver and all of the radios around him began to wheeze, anything giving off sound temporarily went haywire and people began to cover their ears until the Doctor lowered the sonic and the sound ended. This was good enough, for very soon, he saw hover-cycles appear above him, bearing a police officer upon it.
“Hello,” Twelve said, “My name is Twelve, and a second ago I was in the year 2016. Sorry, but I feel very out of place right now.”
Twelve was led to the police station, paperwork was filed, he was registered as being a time traveler, and then came the time for lies. He informed the chief commander that he had known another woman who had been pushed through time, and that they were related. When telling them her name, the Commander found it quickly and then Twelve requested to be taken to the living quarters that she was housed in.
It was on the other side of the city of Brecca, and when they got there, now he understood why the Larisans thought the police were throwing the victims of the Angels in concentration camps, because that was precisely what it looked like.
“This is where you are keeping them?!” Twelve gasped to the guards who escorted him there. “This is where we all stay?”
“It’s not our fault,” the guard explained, “we had nowhere else to store them all, and we still don’t know if they are a threat, so we are afraid to put them in better housing.”
“And that reminds me to never come here for holiday or recommend Larissa to anyone. You fall through time as a victim, and what do you get? Hell to live in.”
Twelve was escorted in the gates of the preservation quarters and there were people walking back and forth, looking forlorn.
“You see,” the guard elaborated, “there have been over two hundred of you. And you came so quick, so all we could complete in time was this rundown factory.”
“Over two hundred people who fell through time?” Twelve repeated.
“Yes, believe me. We are doing our best.”
At first, Twelve wished to lash out at them, but he had to acknowledge that the situation was not fully black or white. It was all confusion. All chaos and madness in the midst of humans just trying to make do.
As they walked past individuals who looked forlorn, he stopped in his tracks when he heard a voice.
A loud and distinct voice that could not be mistaken for anyone else. Leaving the side of the guard, he moved through the crowd and felt as if he was hearing music to his ears.
And then he saw her red hair swinging back and forth as she was telling off the person she was arguing with.
“I don’t care how many muscles you have, dumbo!” She cried, “but that’s not your blanket. And you know how I know, because it smells like me. If it were yours, it would smell like you. It would smell like vomit!”
With her back to him, the Doctor almost forgot himself as he raised out his arms in happiness.
“Donna!”
Her shoulders tensed and then she turned around to who called for her.
There, as she always was, stood Donna Noble.
The girl who forgot him.
End of Part I
Other Works of Mine – as C. M. Mitchell, Cour M., Ney Mitch and Michelle M.
1876
Pride and Prejudice meets the age and era of Susan B. Anthony! In the year of 1876, when America is celebrating its 100th year anniversary as a country, Mr. Darcy and his sister travel to America, seeking refuge after suffering a significant loss in their lives. When they come, Darcy is worried about seeing Elizabeth Bennet, the woman who rejected his offer of marriage, but it becomes even more complicated than that. Upon seeing her again, not only can they not be together, but Elizabeth joins Susan B. Anthony in the constant struggle of women dem
anding their rights to vote. Worried that he cannot protect her from all their attackers, Darcy feels impotent, especially when he discovers that they are planning on committing an act that will change the course of the future!
Cloud Watcher Trilogy
There have been stories about magic and others are vampire romances. This trilogy has both. A trilogy for young adults, set in the year 2678 A.D. where all humans possess magical abilities, are living on cities in the clouds, and Valda Darcy is graduating from a school for watchers and casters. When her world is threatened by an old plague, she retreats down to earth to find the dark lord who possesses the cure, only to discover that on the earth, there are species that were never discovered before: including vampires. Meeting one, named Rory Hemmingway, she embarks on an adventure to save her world, and here comes a trilogy that possesses witches and wizards, as well as a love story between human and vampire.
The Wit & Wisdom of Wilde
Elizabeth Bennet has just received a significant disappointment when she has proposed marriage to Mr. Darcy… and he rejects her. Luckily, through the help of Mr. Darcy’s sister, Georgiana, and Elizabeth Bennet’s friend, the colorful and ostentatious Oscar Wilde, one of the most famous playwrights in history, their fate may turn out right in the end!
Truth & Triumph
Pride & Prejudice falls into the era of post-World War II!
'The Six Women of Kent' was a painting that once belonged to the Bennet family in New York when they had it taken to Berlin to be put on display in the 1830s. At the end of World War II, Liz Bennet, strong and adventurous, chooses to leave her family to travel to Germany with one of her sisters, where the painting was last recorded to be. Yet while there, she runs into an old acquaintance, Mr. Darcy, and they are both repulsed and drawn to each other. Follow this new adventure of Lizzy Bennet and her Mr. Darcy!
Pride & Prejudice… & Shakespeare
A Pride and Prejudice reimaging where the Bennet sisters are born and raised in Elizabethan England. Anxious to financially support their family, each sister takes on a profession, but Elizabeth Bennet is the close friend to William Shakespeare himself when the arrival of Master Darcy causes quite a stir!
The Wit & Wisdom of Wilde
Mr. Darcy's disastrous proposal to Elizabeth Bennet is famous—yet what if the roles were reversed? What if Elizabeth had been the one to do the slighting when they first met, and Mr. Darcy was so offended, that when Elizabeth finally accepted that she had feelings for him, Mr. Darcy was too resentful to accept her?
In the year 1893, Elizabeth, with her friend Oscar Wilde, go on a mission to win Mr. Darcy’s heart.
Elizabeth and Van Gogh
In 1888, Cassandra Elizabeth Bennet is an aspiring artist and is friends with a failed artist named Vincent Van Gogh. When Mr. Darcy, from America, arrives in France, his aunt Madame De Bourgh plans to hold an art exhibit for him. Elizabeth and Vincent attend, to present their work and in hopes of getting a patron, but they end only in getting slighted and deemed inferior. Elizabeth refuses to give up and discovers that she may be gaining more than Mr. Darcy’s good opinion.
The Girl Rocks Universe Saga:
A 14 book series where the characters of Pride and Prejudice are modernized, and each is given their own story in our world, then it grows to tell the story of their descendants and ancestors. The aim of this series is to appeal to young adults/adults, to provide a type of heroine for every sort of reader that there is. This series is for any, whether you have read Pride and Prejudice or not.
The Girl Finds Eternity Series:
A 12 book series that is a Pride and Prejudice Variation that eventually incorporates characters from her other works, and also weaving the story of Jane Austen in her own tale. For lovers of Pride and Prejudice.
The Amazons
The story of the Amazons who fought in the Trojan War. An epic tale for lovers of The Iliad, and in honor of one of the unknown myths of the epic war: of the women who fought in it.
A Christmas Miracle: A Prequel to A Christmas Carol
The tale of George Scrooge, Ebenezer Scrooge’s father and the three ghosts who haunted him, with the intent of helping him understand how to be a better parent and embrace the spirit of Christmas!
The Mansfield Park Adventures
A four book series, ‘Rest and Restlessness’, ‘The Moving and the Immovable’, ‘Rash and Rationality’, and ‘Fault and Faultlessness’, where Jane Austen’s novel, ‘Mansfield Park’, is told through the eyes of Mary Crawford.
Jumping the Curve
The tale of June Brisbee, a teenager whose father has cerebral palsy as she embarks on a journey of self-discovery and finding out the secret to her life.
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[1] Credit for the Base Code Numeral Theory goes to Peter Dolan, who set up this theory at the height of Doctor Who popularity.
