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Holy ghost, when do you come out to play?
'Cause if the Lord is gonna find me
He better start looking today

Evie sighed for the sixth or seventh time as she searched through her bag for her keys, the process a thousand times more harder and a million times more frustrating since she was holding several bags of groceries in one hand. Her shoulder was bent at an odd angle from having to keep the strap of her purse up while the hand on that same arm searched desperately, only to grasp things that definitely weren't car keys. When her fingers finally did touch the teeth of a key, she could have cried in relief as she hurried to her car to unlock the door. She dropped off the bags and her purse in the passenger seat, shutting the door to head over to the driver's side, only for her keys to slip from her grasp as she pulled them from the lock. She had just groaned and started to crouch down to pick them up when she realized that someone was breathing behind her. Heavily.

Goose bumps rose on her skin and she could almost feel her heart rate picking up. A hundred different scenarios of what could be about to happen flew through her mind, but she forced herself to turn and face whoever or whatever it was. At worst, she had expected a murderous-looking person. She most definitely hadn't expected whatever this was. It was at least seven feet tall, bold yellow skin and black eyes, and two hands full of sharp, long claws. A scream fell past her lips and, despite her shock, she just barely managed to duck as the thing brought a hand down and sunk its claws into the roof of her car, getting itself stuck in the metal. Her fear made her pause for a moment, staring wide-eyed as the creature tried to pull its claws out, and it wasn't until it had gotten free that she scrambled to her feet and started to back away.

Something in the back of her mind told her to run, but she was too afraid to turn around. All she could imagine was those claws going through her back easier than they had gone through the car. The thing lunged and she screamed again, tripping over her own feet and falling painfully onto her backside and elbows, though she continued to scramble back. In her haste, her hair fell behind her shoulders and her necklace was revealed to the creature; she didn't notice the way that the pendant glowed blue, but she certainly noticed the way that her attacker froze and had something akin to fear come to its face. Her mind finally caught up at that moment and she scrambled to her feet, turning and racing in the other direction. She ran until she came to a big, blue police box and she skidded to a stop, debating whether or not to hide in it.

"Too obvious." She shook her head and ran right past. She was just turning the corner of a building when she nearly ran into someone, both of them letting out loud screams and jumping back from each other. When she saw it was human, she let out a breath despite the gasps she took and put her hand to her chest.

"You know, someone should really teach you not to do that!" It was a man who had shaggy brown hair and was quite tall, and he wore a red bow tie around his neck. "You scared the living daylights out of me!" The comical anger on his face turned to confusion and then worry as he looked her over. "What's wrong?"

She had to take a few deep breaths before she could speak, her nerves calming down just slightly now that she wasn't alone "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

"Oh, trust me." His tone was grim, yet reassuring. "I'll probably believe you."

She had just opened her mouth to say something when there was a soft growl, and the man stared over her head for a moment before he grabbed her wrist, tugging her forward. It wasn't falling against his chest that made her squeal, but the fact that the creature had followed her and had scraped its claws across the brick of the building, right next to where she'd been standing. "That...that is what's wrong!"

"I believe you!" He then grabbed onto her wrist. "Run!" He didn't give her much of a choice as she would have been dragged had she not managed to stumble after him the moment he began to run, moving around the creature rather than running away from it. She expected to run past the blue box, but instead the man skidded to a stop at the door and hurried to get it open.

"We can't hide in there!" Her fear was half adrenaline by now and her body was urging her to run rather than hide in a tiny box — if she hadn't had adrenaline pumping through her, she would have gone with anything that might save her and be silent while she did. "Isn't it a bit obvious? Not to mention, that thing can probably just tip it over!"

The man froze for a moment before he turned, looking her straight in the eye. "Trust me." He gave a sudden grin, grabbing her hand again and tugging her into the box despite the way her body refused to move.

"But I don't even know yo-" Her sentence cut off with her mouth hanging open. She had expected four blue walls that could barely hold the two of them, but instead the box was impossibly bigger. The room she was standing in had to be bigger than the first floor of her house and even had doorways that seemed to lead to more. There was some sort of control panel in the middle of the room that stretched all the way to the ceiling, and Evie was too busy looking around in shock to notice the man releasing her hand and moving over to it. It took a few moments for her to finally take it in and look over at him as he now flicked switches and pulled levers. Her adrenaline was fading and her voice suddenly sounded so small as she asked, "Who are you?" She thought he wasn't going to answer, still going about his business, but he soon pulled down a final lever and turned to her.

"The Doctor."

"Doctor who?"

"Ah, love hearing that. Sometimes I forget..." He trailed off at the look on her face and cleared his throat, his smile dropping. "Right, sorry, just the Doctor."

She looked at him for a long moment. "No one calls their child Doctor. That's just—" Her eyes widened as realization dawned on her. "I'm on the telly, aren't I?" She looked around quickly for any cameras she may have missed, but saw none. "That...monster was fake! Oh, Lord, I must look like a crazed idiot! My friends and family are going to see it..." She groaned, her face turning red as her hands came up to cover it. "This is humiliating."

"Well...now you might be humiliated because, no, you're not on television. You're one of the closed-minded humans, eh? Something amazing happens and your mind goes straight to something as simple as television." He scoffed.

She slowly lowered her hands, though her face didn't change back to its normal color. It seemed that she wasn't on a television programme after all and that was almost as embarrassing as being seen running from something that wasn't even real. She thought carefully about what else it could be and as she came to another idea, her face attempted to turn pale. "I'm dead." It came out as a soft squeak. "But...I just graduated university! I haven't got my dream job yet, or moved out for good, or found a boyfriend! Oh, and poor Dad and Andy, so soon after—" She suddenly paused, fearful eyes going to him. "Are you God or Satan?"

"Depends on who you ask." He gave a soft smile, but there was a distinct sadness in his eyes that Evie was too upset to notice.

"I can't be dead, I...I have to find Mum." She turned back to the door.

"No, no, no!"

She didn't hear him and just pulled open the door, not noticing that she was surrounded by stars until she had already stepped out. A high scream left her lips as the floor disappeared from beneath her feet and she expected to be pulled out into space, but there were soon arms around her waist, pulling her back enough that the floor was under her again. There was a long silence, the Doctor panting slightly from the fear he'd felt and the way he'd run to save her, and he didn't let her go until he began to speak.

"You're not dead, so don't try to get yourself that way." He tugged her back a bit more and shut the door, stepping away from her.

"We're in space." She swallowed, turning to face him with her eyes even wider than they had been before, her heart beating too fast. "We ran from some creature, into a call box that's bigger on the inside, and now we're in space! If this isn't television and I'm not dead, then you better start explaining because I might scream!"

Panic came to his eyes. "Yes, no, that would be very, very, very not good. Let's not start screaming. See, as you know, I'm the Doctor. That...well, I'm not entirely sure what we were running from, just that it was dangerous and scared, and that I've never met one before. We're in my TARDIS, which stands for Time and Relative Dimension in Space, hence the bigger on the inside." He gestured around the room. "It's a space ship that's another dimension and it travels through time and space. Also why we're in space." Though he did enjoy explaining it, he eyed her warily, worried of how she would react. "Going to scream?"

She stared at him with pursed lips and shook her head. "No."

"Oh." He let out a breath that he hadn't been aware he was holding. "Good. That's a relief, you wouldn't believe how many people have thought that I'm—"

"I think I'm going to pass out now." Just seconds after she said the words, everything was going hazy and her legs gave out beneath her. The Doctor caught her just in time, grunting slightly and lowering to his knees with her sudden weight in his arms, turning her over to find she was definitely out. For a moment, his eyes went to her necklace as it danced in the light, drawn to it for a few seconds before he shook his head, turning his attention to her. It was when he realized he didn't know her name and couldn't say it until she woke up that he heaved her into his arms and carried her over to the jump seat. He found himself wondering if she was going to be fainting all the time.

A/N - And there's chapter two! Evie and the Doctor have met and we've discovered that aliens are scared of the necklace. Hm. Stay tuned for chapter three, I'm already starting on it!