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Chapter 2

The girl looked up at the sky. It was the dead of night. The moon hung brightly over head. As she looked at the moon, her mind began to race. What should she do? How was she to live? She’d need food, and water. She’d need a house, money. Somewhere in her mind, she remembered something. On Earth, children with no parents were looked after in a place called, a place called, she struggled to remember it. A foster home, that was it. Maybe if she could find one of them......
Her thoughts broke off as she stared at the building in front of her. It was tall, red brick and had a sign on it that read: “West Park Children’s Care Home”. She landed right outside a care home! What were the chances? Just at that moment, the heavens opened. It started raining heavily. She had to get inside! But what could she do?! Knock on the care home’s door and say, “Hello, I used to be a TARDIS, but now my timelord is dead and I’ve taken the form of a girl so can I stay here”. That would go over well! But she had to do something, so, taking her courage into both hands, she walked up to the door and rung the doorbell. After she’d rung it about five times, a tired looking man in a dressing gown opened the door. He had a pleasant looking face, and grey-black hair.
“Well hello” he said, looking slightly surprised to see a little girl standing there all alone. The girl put on her saddest face.
“Please,” She said “My mummy and daddy have gone, I don’t know where to, will you look after me?”
“Sure we will darling, ‘No child in Britain shall be left out on the streets’, aye. Come inside” As she followed him up the steps to the door, he asked, “So what’s you’re name then?”
“Oh, um, Tina” She didn’t know why she chose it. It was the first name that came into her head. “Well, I’m stuck with it now” she thought. She followed him inside, and sat down on a squashy sofa. “Now then, I’ll make us both some tea.”
“Tea?” wondered the newly named Tina, “What’s tea?” When the man brought her she saw that it was a brown coloured liquid. Guessing that she was supposed to drink it, she took a sip. Her first thought was that it was the strangest sensation on Earth. Her second was that it was quite nice. She took a few more sips as the man sat down beside her.
“Now,” he said, “What’s your surname?” A lock of Tina’s new brown hair fell in front of her face. “Brown.” she replied.
The man continued to ask her many more questions, about her parents, and where she lived, and she made up answers as best she could. Then he gave Tina one of the bedrooms to sleep in, and Tina lay down on the pillows and, for the first time in her life, slept. She dreamt of the doctor, longing for him to find her. But that was practically impossible; as there was no way he could know that she was alive.
Years past. Tina stayed, living at the orphanage. For obvious reasons, no one ever found her ‘parents’. She went to school, learned karate, made friends, lived a normal life. Only, it wasn’t normal for her. She got a cat. She named him Caspian, after her timelord. When the cat died, it was the saddest day of her life, except for the one when she first became human. Tina had trouble fitting in. She sometimes acted oddly. And something she’d discovered really didn’t help: she still had some powers she‘d had as a TARDIS. Obviously, she had to hide them. Everyday, she longed for the Doctor, the only surviving timelord, to find her. But he never did. Until one day, the day after her 13th birthday.......

Chapter 4

The Doctor and Rose made their way up the steps towards the children’s home. The Doctor rang the doorbell and pulled the psychic paper from his pocket. “So who are we then?” asked Rose.
“Care home inspectors.” he replied. Before Rose had a chance to responded, the door swung open and an old man with a pleasant looking face, and grey hair opened the door.
“Hello.” he said, “Who might you be?”
“Care home inspectors.” replied the Doctor, flashing the physic paper in front of the man’s face, and giving his most professional looking smile. Rose rolled her eyes. “I’m Doctor John Smith,” continued the Doctor, “and this is my assistant, Rose Tyler.”
“Well, sir, madam, if you’d like to come in side and look around, I’m sure you’ll find everything is up to standard. I pride myself in treating the children very well.”
“Good man.” said Doctor, clapping him on the back as he made his way through the door, Rose behind him.
“Assistant?!” muttered Rose.
“Well...” began the Doctor, but before he could get any further the man interrupted.
“Would you like me to show you around?”
“No thanks.” replied the Doctor, “We’ll just look around by ourselves if that’s all right.”
“Yes, perfectly alright” the man responded, and went off to the kitchen. Rose leaned over to the Doctor. “Could one of them be a timelord?”
“It’s unlikely, but if something had gone wrong during a regeneration, then it’s possible” Just at that moment, two girls walked into the hall. The first was Chinese, with dark eyes and long black hair. The second had a thin face, pale skin, frizzy, curly light brown hair and deep turquoise eyes. And she was starring, transfixed, at the Doctor.
“Emily” she said to her friend “Can you get me some lemonade.”
“Sure.” replied Emily, and went off to the kitchen. The other girl, who I think you’ll have guessed was Tina, turned back to the Doctor. “Did you say timelord?”
Rose quickly replied “No, he said, um...”
“Yes” interjected the Doctor. “Yes I did.” He knelt down beside Tina. “Are you a timelord?”
“No.”
“Are you from Gallifrey?”
“Sort of.”
“Who are you?!”
“You know Caspian?” Tears were now pouring down her cheeks.
“Yes.”
“Well, I’m, I’m his TARDIS. And it’s you isn’t it, Doctor?” She flung her arms around his neck, tears streaming down her cheeks. The Doctor looking quite taken aback, gently prised her off. “Um, this girl is quite upset, she’s going to come for a walk with us,” he told the other children, who were now all staring at them. “Tell, Mr...
“Cliff” said one of the kids.
“Mr Cliff that we’re going to ask her a bit about this place, and then we’ll bring her back.” With that he strode out of the door, followed by Rose and Tina.
For a while they walked in silence. Once they were a good distance from the care home, the Doctor turned to Tina. “Now,” he said “tell me exactly what’s going on.”

Chapter 6

“Why, why are they after me?” stammered Tina, starring at the Doctor.
“I’ll explain on the move, lets go!” shouted the Doctor, as the Tericons dived towards them. The Doctor, Rose and Tina raced off, the bat-like creatures hot on they’re tails.
Shooting round a corner, the Doctor bashed into a lamp post.
“Ow!” He said, rubbing his forehead.
“What are those things?” asked Rose.
“Tericons.” replied the Doctor, then, turning to Tina, “I suppose you know what those are?”
Tina looked embarrassed. “Well, I can only remember about an eighth of what I knew when I was a TARDIS, so....”
“O.K, I get the message.” said the Doctor. “Well, I could give you a long biography of these creatures, with complicated references that you’d need the library of Gallifrey to understand. But for now I’ll just tell you that they hate loud noises. With that he raised his sonic screwdriver, and pointed it at the Tericons. They doubled up, seemingly in terrible pain, before disappearing into thin air.
“Where’d they go?” asked Rose.
“They ran back off into the darkness of space, but they’ll be back.”
“Why are they after me?” asked Tina.
“Okay.” said the Doctor, sitting down on a nearby bench. “Now it’s time for the long biography of these creatures, with complicated references that you’d need the library of Gallifrey to understand. Maybe without the references. And not so long. In short, these creatures are animals, living off instinct. They travel through space, looking for very powerful beings. Once they’ve found them, they feed off that power, killing the being in the process. Tina, do you still have the power you had as a TARDIS?”
“Not half as much, but still some of it, yes.”
“But it still makes you the most powerful human alive. And that’s why they’re here. They’ve come to feed off you.”