This is my first Doctor Who fanfiction! I know there's already a couple of "OC from our world travels with The Doctor" fics out there, but I've read them all in hopes that mine will be different! The biggest change probably won't be noticeable till the next chapter, but it should be what sets mine apart! Well, I hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who in any way, shape, or form and I don't want money. This is only here for amusement.

*Story starts just before the first episode of season 1 ('Rose' starts on chapter 2) and will continue from there (every chapter will be an episode).*

Impossible or Just Highly Unlikely?

(Migraine From Hell)

*****Reality: Virginia, USA/ Year 2012*****

Amanda gave her work area one final inspection to be sure that it was in order. After such a stressful day the last thing she wanted to worry about was her OCD boss ranting about it later. Murphy's Law had been in full affect that day and she needed to find some way to relax before her brain exploded. As the front desk manager it was her job to deal with everyone's crap but she was thankful that her shift was finally over.

"I swear tourist season is going to be the death of me", she thought in exasperation.

The customers were not always right. As a matter of fact, they reminded her of overgrown toddlers. They are always throwing tantrums in hopes of being annoying enough to get something for free.

As she was locking up the office, she decided to call her friend, Ronnie, to see if she wanted to meet up for drinks. She took out her black HP Veer Palm-phone (the sleek smartphone that reminded her of a star trek communicator but with more gadgets) and dialed the familiar number. It rang four times before she heard the loud, and slightly nasally voice that belonged to her friend.

"Hey girly! What's up?"

Amanda smiled. She was worried for a moment there. If Ronnie didn't answer, she would have ended up having to go out alone. That concern was unusual, as Amanda preferred her solitude. She was more of a people watcher than a socializer. If she had her way, she would go days without direct human contact. However, tonight was one of those nights that she could really use the company.

"Hey! I just got off work and thought that I would head over to 'Absolem' and snag a few shots of Green Apple Pucker and some fruity-flavored shisha. Care to join me?"

'Absolem' was the hookah bar that the two friends would occasionally meet up at. It was a great place to hang out and de-stress after a long day. It was named for the caterpillar from 'Alice In Wonderland' that smokes a hookah. The bar had a hazy, steam-punk meets a Tim Burton garden party kind of theme. Ronnie would watch Amanda blow smoke rings while they relaxed with board games or movies on their computers. It was a place where they could vent about their lives and catch up with one another.

"Sure! Are you on your way now?"

She sounded as though she was being rescued from her own boredom. Amanda grinned at her luck.

"Yep! Just going to stop off at my place real quick to change and then I'll be on my way."

"Sweet, I'll meet you there! See you in a bit and I'll bring my computer so you can show me some more Doctor Who episodes! You've really got me hooked."

Amanda's grin grew wider as she let out a mock-evil laugh.

"Mwah ha ha ha... Really though, that would be awesome!"

"You bet! See you in a bit!"

"Bye Ro—"

Ronnie had hung up before she could finish. Amanda sighed.

'Why doesn't anyone say goodbye anymore?'

She headed to her car, a Mitsubishi ASX. It was easy to spot. The sleek SUV was her baby, she loved her car; it took her forever to save up for the custom paint job. It was covered in mock TARDIS Blue, wooden paneling. Her friends thought she was nuts but she didn't care. When she hopped in, she even started singing the Doctor Who opening theme song just for laughs and pulled out of the parking lot to make her way to her apartment.

She only lived about five minutes away from the hotel and about twenty minutes away from the hookah bar so she wasn't in much of a rush. Once inside her apartment, she unwound her auburn hair, taking it of its tight bun. She brushed it out and braided the sides back into a ponytail, leaving it half up and half down with a navy blue ribbon tied in a bow to keep it in place. It flowed in slight waves about two inches past her shoulders. Next, she touched up the little make-up she wore. It was simple, only enough to emphasize her stormy blue eyes a bit. A light application of black eye-liner and just a touch of dark gray eye shadow.

After that, she methodically changed out of her black work slacks and pastel blue polo. She noticed that they still smelled like the stuffy hotel lobby. Once into a pair of dark blue-jeans; black flats; and a short, black Lolita dress she felt more like herself. The dress was a slightly ruffled number with a bit of lace. It had two inch wide shoulder straps and a medium-sized black bow just under the bust. To finish off the ensemble, she tied a navy blue ribbon around her neck, like a choker, to match the one in her hair.

She gave herself a once-over in her floor-length mirror and smiled in satisfaction. Her smile suddenly turned into a grimace. With a sharp intake of breath, she clutched her head in pain. It was the worst migraine she had ever experienced, but it was gone just as quickly as it had appeared. The only thing to mark its departure was a slight tingle that ran down her spine.

'That was weird.'

She shook her head to clear it and took a deep, soothing breath. She looked back at her reflection and noticed that her skin was a bit paler than usual.

'Hope I'm not coming down with something.'

Maybe it was just dehydration. She sat down and drank some cool water. Satisfied that she had recovered, it was finally time to enjoy her night out. She grabbed her keys and headed back to her car. Twenty-two minutes later she had parked and was walking down the street. Out of nowhere, she could have sworn that she heard the sound of the TARDIS materializing as if it were somewhere nearby and then it stopped. She glanced around but saw nothing. She kept walking but not ten seconds later she heard it again, but this time it sounded as if it were right next to her. She sighed and shouted.

"RONNIE I SWEAR TO GOD, IF THAT IS YOU WITH YOUR COMPUTER, I WILL SLAP YOU! You promised me you would never do that!"

Just a few days prior, while introducing Ronnie to the series, she toyed with the idea of sneaking up and pranking Amanda with the sound. Ronnie agreed not to after being thoroughly threatened.

Amanda was pissed. 'I can't believe she actually did it! That is just cruel. That JERK!'

She looked around but didn't see Ronnie anywhere, only the random pedestrians giving her funny looks for yelling at nothing but air.

"Good Lord! I must be going crazy after all." She laughed humorlessly.

She continued to walk towards the crosswalk that lead to the hookah bar. As she got closer, she could see Ronnie standing just outside, waiting for her.

'Nope, definitely wasn't her making the noise. I guess it really was just in my head.'

She waved to her friend as she pressed the button for the crosswalk and flinched back when it shocked her.

"Wowza, that smartz!", she cursed loudly.

When the light gave her the OK, she began to make her way across the street. Inexplicably, she started to feel like something was wrong. The tingling sensation ran through her spine again but this time it was stronger and more uncomfortable, almost painful. Something wet dripped from her nose. She reached up and pulled her hand back to see blood. She was starting to shake. Now is the time to become worried. When she was half way across, the world became silent and she stopped. She could no longer hear the cars or people. She couldn't hear anything outside her own footsteps and shallow breathing. She reached for her ears to find that they were bleeding as well and she started to panic. When she looked back to her friend to call for help, her body went cold and her eyes grew wide in both shock and fear.

Ronnie was frozen in place, mid-wave, and with a smile on her face. Amanda looked around her and realized that it wasn't just Ronnie, but everyone and everything! People, cars, the TVs in shop windows; even the wind stopped blowing. It was as if the world was frozen, suspended in time. Her eyes began to sting as blood steadily pooled out of them.

She started to convulse. Suddenly, the migraine from earlier came back with intensity. Her head continued to pulse and the pain amplified until she was screaming in agony. As she started to fall, she was vaguely aware that she had no control to catch herself. Abruptly, Amanda was struck by blue lightning and disappeared as if she was never there.

The world started back up again and no one noticed that there was someone missing. Ronnie put down her hand and blinked in confusion. She frowned and looked around.

"Why am I standing here…and with my computer?"

She looked up at the sign of the building she was standing near. It read "Absolem".

"Hhhuuh. Well, since I'm here, I might as well check it out."

She shrugged away the strange feeling and walked inside.

*****Alternate Universe: London, UK/ year 2005*****

The Doctor laughed as he was roughly shaken around while he was flying through the Vortex.

"What do you say Old Girl? After that mishap with Krakatoa, I think we could use a break. We'll just hang here in the Vortex for a day or two. Sound good?"

He fell to the floor when the TARDIS suddenly gave a violent jerk and groaned loudly.

"Temporal shift?"

He quickly jumped up and ran around the console to the monitors. The screens went staticky. The controls started to smoke and spark as the TARDIS continued to wheeze in a strange way.

"What's wrong, what's happening?" He asked her, worriedly, and started to fiddle with the different buttons and leavers while trying to hold on at the same time as she continued to jerk around violently. "Where are you taking us?"

The TARDIS gave one more groan as she shuddered to a stop, throwing the Doctor to the ground again.

"Are you all right?" He asked his ship.

She hummed and the Doctor smiled at the fact that she at least sounded like herself again.

"So where are we?"

He ran to the door and stepped outside.

"Ah, London, 2005...Okaaaay…"

He walked out from the alleyway and onto the busy sidewalk. He stopped as he felt a sharp pain in his head and he flinched.

"Something's wrong." He gasped.

Then, everything around him froze, everything and everyone, even the planet. It no longer turned beneath his feet. Time just…stopped.

"What?"

He heard a crackling sound a felt the atmosphere shift slightly. There was a metallic scent in the air and he could practically taste the electrical energy. He looked up just as a bolt of blue lightning struck the ground 20 yards away with a loud 'SHWACK', leaving behind a young girl.

"WHAT?"

The Doctor's eyes were wide as he stood there momentarily frozen in shock and confusion, but he quickly jumped into action as he realized she was falling to the ground and screaming in agony, clutching her head. He ran to her side and knelt down next to her shaking form. He reached out his hand towards her shoulder.

"Miss, what's wrong, what's happened, where are you hurt? It's your head, yah? Everything's going to be all right. Let me see, can you look at me?"

He tried to be gentle as he rubbed soothing circles on her back and reached is other hand around to turn her head so he could see her face. She had stopped screaming and was now only whimpering. He could tell by the way she was shaking that she was still in pain and was most definitely scared. It seemed she was having trouble catching her breath as well.

"There now, it's all right. My name's The Doctor. I can help you."

He gasped when he saw her face. Her skin was sickly pale and she was bleeding out of her ears, nose, and eyes. When his palm touched her cheek, he felt that her skin was ice cold. Falling out of a bolt of lightning, one would assume that she would be burning up. He then realized that she wasn't just shaking from fear and pain, but was in fact violently shivering. He felt sorry for her.

"You pour thing. Sorry, I'm so sorry. Here, let me see. I promise this won't hurt a bit, just look at me."

He placed his hands to the sides of her face and stared into her eyes to try and see into her mind. He immediately jumped back as if he had been shocked. His mind throbbed in pain for a moment as he tried to reassemble his thoughts. Her mind was a mess. It was rushing about in a staticky blur at a million miles a second in total chaos and confusion. He knew he wouldn't be able to get any information about how she appeared out of nowhere until he could get her calmed down enough to sort out her thoughts. He stared into her eyes. The way she was looking at him was a bit unnerving, as if she was in awe that he even existed.

"What's your name?" he asked her.

She opened and closed her mouth a few times as if she was trying to remember how to speak. It worried him a bit and he hoped that her brain wasn't actually fried.

"It's okay, just calm down. Take your t—"

"a a amanda."

It came out as a small, shaky whisper and he almost missed it.

"What?" He leaned in closer.

"Amanda." She took a deep breath and said a bit stronger. "My name is Amanda."

The Doctor smiled at her with his cheeky grin. He couldn't help himself. Though he was worried about her mental health, he couldn't help but be just a little excited as well at the situation. He had never witnessed anything like this before.

"Nice to meet you Amanda! Really, it is!"

She gave him a soft smile in return, but immediately gasped in pain and passed into unconsciousness. The Doctor's smile disappeared as he caught her just before her head hit the ground. He quickly jumped into doctor mode as he lifted her of the ground bridle style and ran back towards his ship, trying not to jostle her too much. He needed to get her into the sick-bay's stasis chamber so he could do a full body scan and run a complete diagnostic and bio-read.

'Who is this girl and where the hell did she come from?'

While she slept and the scans did their thing, he ran to the console room and put the TARDIS back into the Vortex. He hadn't even noticed that as soon as he had picked her up to carry her back to his ship, time unfroze and the world went back to normal. Nobody noticed that there was an extra person in it.

Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed the first chapter! The next chapter will be the start of season one and Rose will enter the picture! Please review and tell me what you think so far…the next chapter will be up soon!

P.S. I will eventually post pictures on my profile...so keep an eye out!