Jessica sat staring. Staring at the raindrops, which slipped off her window and fell into nothing. She was meant to attend a garden party with her mother and father, that evening, not likely anymore, Jessica thought to herself. Her laptop lay on her bed open on her bed, the cursor flashing, waiting for something to be typed, but Jessica didn't have it in her, she knew that if she didn't compose a "superb piece of writing", as her boss said, she would be relieved from her position. Jessica knew that that day was coming, and still, she sat staring at the drops, that would become bigger and bigger, and suddenly...fall, and become nothing, just like her, she thought, just like her. She had not seen anyone that morning, the rain had been so powerful that it just condemned everyone to a day indoors. Only one person seemed to be enjoying the weather, a car had driven past her house at least three times that morning, it dawned on her that she had become so bored, she resorted to counting cars.
Three weeks had passed since the Doctor dropped her off, he said he would be back soon, told her that he had boring political matters to take care off. Jessica was sure that he would return for her, but those thoughts only held on for a couple of days. Now, she sat wondering why she was still sitting on the windowsill in her room, instead of exploring amazing new planets lifetimes away. Was he dead? Or had he found someone else? Someone smarter and wiser than she could ever be. The Doctor would never do that to her, she reflected.
Jessica looked over to the clock, half past twelve, the days were endless now, after traveling through time and space with an alien with two hearts and a changing face, nothing seemed exciting anymore. Her leg began the vibrate. Jessica, angrily, yanked her phone from her pocket. She had received a text message from her mother, confirming her suspicions, the garden party had been called off. Suddenly she felt a a huge weight lift from her shoulders. Jessica wouldn't have to spend a mindless evening with middle aged women who smile at you and compliment you, but they insult you when you're back is turned, and despise every bone in your body. Feeling much more energetic, she hopped off of the windowsill, slammed shut her laptop, ran downstairs, and into the living room. She found the TV remote, hidden between a mix of magazine and couch, and turned on the TV. NO SIGNAL, was written across the TV, she turned it off and turned it back on. NO SIGNAL. She sighed. "The one time I want to watch some TV" she thought to her self. She walked over to the TV and started hitting the top off it, in an attempt to regain the signal, but nothing. Her gaze ventured outside and she noticed the same car pass in front of her house. Again. It was normal she told herself. But. Something else was bothering her now. The car had driven past three times in half an hour, and each time it would drive through the same puddle and send masses of water onto a car which was parked nearby. Her phone vibrated in her pocket. She pulled it out, as if it were a ferocious animal about to harm her. Jessica read the message, which she had received. It was her mother. The Garden party was off. Now, Jessica, was scared. She caught a glimpse of the time on her phone. Twelve thirty one. It wasn't possible that only one minute had passed since she received the message the first time, came downstairs and furiously tired to get the TV working. She looked again. Twelve Twenty-nine. It dawned on her that the rain that was falling outside, the rain that she had been watching, which had been falling for a while, was the exact same rain, drop for drop. The car drove past again. Jessica frightened and alone, pelted up the stairs, ran to her room, locked the door and sat on her bed. She sat for a while, breathing heavily not knowing what to do. Her phone vibrated again. Jessica yanked it out of her pocket, as if her arm was possessed by rage itself. Shouted out in anger and threw her phone at the wall. Jessica lay down, hoping that the next time she looked out the window and it had stopped raining, but each time she did the rain kept falling and the car kept passing.
What would the Doctor? She thought to herself. He would face and solve the problem, she concluded. Jessica got up, and slowly walked to unlock her door. Took a quick glance of the landing, the same as it had been for as long as she could remember it. She went downstairs. Nothing. Went into the sitting room. Nothing. Jessica looked outside, and saw the car. And Froze. There was something there now that hadn't been there before, something that appeared now. A man. He stood skinny in the middle of the road, wearing all black, with his hood up, so she couldn't make out his face, but she knew he was staring at her, she could feel it. When she moved, his head with move with her, as if she controlled him. He started walking towards the house, Jessica stood frozen to the spot in fear of what might come next, she knew that what ever was happening here, involved her. He stopped on the pavement beside her house still staring. But from under his hood she see that his eyes were burning red. She still couldn't move, but she couldn't tell if she didn't want to move or if he was controlling her. Suddenly, Jessica was engulfed by beams of light, which had been released from his eyes, she stood motionless unable to move, she knew it was because he was stopping her from moving, they ran down her body, then came back up, and then the light stopped, the beams had receded back into his eyes. He walked back into the middle on the road, looked up and fired the beams in to the wet cloudy sky. The whole sky turned red and the sound was overwhelming, the light became brighter and brighter, until she could no longer see. Then, suddenly, darkness. The beams were no longer there, and the sky was grey. The man fixed his hood, and walked away, but the rain kept falling and the car passed again.
Jessica stood still motionless, staring outside, before she could get her mind around it, a second light beam emerged from the sky and hit the ground in the middle of the road, on the end of it was another figure, but this one was much more terrifying, than the previous. He stood wearing silver armor from head to toe, his face covered by his helmet, with his visor down. He looked like a cyberman, she thought, but this was a man in a suit. His whole left arm was one massive cannon and his right was normal. She noticed that her wore a crest on the middle of the suit, it looked like a sun in the middle of a supernova. He marched towards, her house, before she could do anything, her front door had already been blown off it's hinges and he was on his way into the living room. She watched as he marched into to the living room, he knew precisely what he was doing, red eyes must have sent her location she thought, as she crouched into the corner of the room. He was so quick, he had her cornered before she even thought about thinking of an escape plan. The solider closed in on her with his cannon pointed at her the whole time.
"Jessica Price" he asked in a deep, toneless, voice.
"Yes" she replied lowly, as the tears welled up her eyes.
"By the Order Of Astagorn, I declare you under arrest, anything you say or do will be held against you in the court of law of time and space" he said roughly, yanking her up from the floor.
"I don't understand." she pleaded. "Why are you arresting me?"
"For being the accomplice of the most wanted man in all the galaxies" he said, fitting the handcuffs to her hand.
"Who?!" she asked.
He stopped and looked at her, "The Doctor" he answered. He put his fist against the crest on his chest, and suddenly her hands started shaking uncontrollably, the shaking, passed up her arms, and down her entire body, she couldn't resist and fell, saliva started trickling from her mouth. She was covered by a blue beam, as was the solider, when the light disappeared, there was nothing, no living room and no rain. Just darkness, she had passed out from the electric shock which had come from the handcuffs.
Back in her room, the sunlight was shining through her window the rain had stopped falling, the car stopped passing by and the time on her phone read, Twelve thirty- two.