Ok ok ok so guise. I was thinking, why is it that in doctor who (or at least since 2005- I've only seen little bits of classic who) that every single companion falls at least a little bit in love with The Doctor and he never reciprocates the feelings- (except for Rose and River) so I was thinking what if The Doctor got a new companion who he started to fall for, but she didn't seem that interested? So the yeah my mind went overboard and this fell out, let me know if you think its any good by the way this is set post River and Clara ok? Ok.

Eleven x OC

Disclaimer: anything you recognise is the BBC's, anything you don't is all mine bitches.

Scarlett was annoyed. She was supposed to be going onto stage in ten minutes, and there was absolutely no sign of her co-star Finn, they were starring together in a play, and it was the biggest break she had gotten in months, the theatre was packed and this was her big moment. She had given up everything for this. She had given up the little family she had in Bromley and moved to the big apple, New York City, at the tender age of twenty three to try and catch a break.

A year later and her efforts had been fruitless, until a director named Mark Mayer liked her and asked her to star in a play, a modern take on Shakespeare's Macbeth, and she had worked for months just to get the part of Lady Macbeth, and then months more to get good enough. She had sent her family tickets to come, but she had heard nothing back. She assumed that they still weren't talking to her, which she totally didn't care about. Or at least that's what she convinced herself.

But she didn't have time to think of that, she needed Finn to get his butt onto the stage as soon as possible, because the curtain was opening soon. She stopped outside his door, and knocked. Silence. So she knocked again.

"Finn!" she called, no answer "Finn, we need to go on. Marks freaking out, Finn, come on!" she opened the door and screamed. Finn was dead on the floor, and standing over him was something that looked like it had come out of a horror movie. It was blue; with fangs covered in what she could only assume was fins blood, with claws at the end of its fingers. The eyes were as black as the night, and it looked menacing. She opened her mouth to scream, but her mouth was quickly covered by someone's hand, and the door shut in front of her, she heard a strange buzzing sound and the door clicked locked, this is weird she thought. She couldn't see her attacker, so she did the first thing that came to her mind, she bit down on their fingers. Hard.

"OUCH!" the person shouted, she quickly turned around to see a thin looking man standing in front of her, wearing a grey tweet jacket and what looked like a waistcoat with a bowtie. She raised an eyebrow, "Did you just try to kidnap me?" she asked shocked

The Doctor rubbed his hand, "What, no? I just saved your life thank you very much! And you bit me!"

"What was that thing?"

"You bit me!"

"Hello?" she said, waving her hands in front of her face, "Big freaky guy in there, and my Macbeth is dead! Shouldn't we call the NYPD or something?"

The Doctor looked up at her for the first time, and gasped. He had known some pretty human girls in his time, but this girl was truly beautiful, even by Gallifrey high standards. She had long auburn hair, which was curly and almost came to her waist, with large blue eyes and a button nose. Her face had no spots or blemishes, not even a freckle, apart from one beauty spot situated underneath her left eye. Her eyelashes were long and thick, and she was about the same height as him, but her legs were lean. She was wearing a tight red dress with black shiny heels and crimson red lipstick and she just had something about her that drew you too her. Then The Doctor realised by her arched eyebrow that she had probably been talking to him and he had probably been staring at her, for a very long time.

"Right, sorry, I'm The Doctor," he reached out his hands

"Doctor who?" she asked

"Just the Doctor." His hand was still hanging in the air

"What, you're just called The Doctor?"

"Yes, and you are?"

Scarlett paused for a moment, wondering whether or not to trust this man, who had showed up out of nowhere, saved her life and zapped the door shut. She slowly took his hand and shook it, "Scarlett Cooper," she said.

"Scarlett Cooper, great name that! Now the sonic lock won't hold him in there for that long, and I need to stop him from ripping apart the audience, and why are you dressed like that? I thought this was one of those edgy casual New York theatres?"

"Well, I'm actually Lady Macbeth," Scarlett said proudly, holding her chin up, but then she noticed the clock on the wall, "Or at least I was, mine and Scott's understudies are probably on the stage now, and I'm probably fired." She frowned a slightly. The Doctor gave her a look of sympathy, but then in that moment the alien came busting finally through the doors, and out of instinct The Doctor grabbed Scarlett's hand. "Lovely to meet you Scarlett Cooper, now we better run for our lives!"

And they took off running down the hallway.

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Scarlett kicked off her shoes and sat on a box rubbing her feet. The Doctor Soniced the lock and sat down opposite her.

"Well that plan was bloody brilliant doctor, you just made the thing angrier, now if it gets out its going to destroy the whole city."

"Well I will agree that was not exactly the plan, but I guess we've got hmm… about three and a half minutes before it finds us and rips us to shreds, so we've got a little time," he smiled "tell me about yourself."

Scarlett laughed "we're probably about to be killed any moment, and you're asking personal questions?"

"Yeah, why not?" The Doctor smiled back

"Well, why not I suppose" Scarlett laughed "my names Scarlett Bailey Cooper, I'm twenty three, I used to live in Bromley with my mum and my sister but I sort of, left them all to move here. I'm an amateur actress, and I've always dreamt of making it big but… my mum wanted me to stay, work the café with her but I didn't want to do that, I always wanted more. So I left, and now she won't even talk to me. I could die here tonight and she wouldn't know." By this point, she had hung her head slightly, and her hair was hanging over her face, and The Doctor noted that she looked a lot move vulnerable then she had previously seemed, but then the moment was gone, and she went back to her 900 watt smile again. "What about you? You're definitely not from round here, you know too much about all this alien stuff."

"I erm, work for the government."

Scarlett raised her eyebrow at him, "Come on doctor, I'm not an idiot, who are you?"

The Doctor sighed and looked into her eyes. "I'm The Doctor, a 900 year old timelord, I travel time and space in a blue box called the TARDIS saving planets and civilizations."

"Seriously?" Scarlett asked

"Yeah. Do you believe me?"

Scarlett thought for a second, "Well on a normal day I wouldn't, but I don't know, after the day I've had, I'll believe anything." She laughed "So this travelling you do, do you do it alone?"

Scarlett saw a flash of sadness in The Doctor's eyes, "Yeah, at the moment. I used to travel with, with some friends of mine but still… they're gone now. All of them."

Scarlett gave him a sympathetic smile, and put her hands on top of his. "I guess we're pretty alike in some ways then, both of us no friends of family, in an unfamiliar environment, wandering around alone. But still look at you, a nine hundred year old alien, who gets to travel among the stars! We must look so tiny to you."

The Doctor looked up at her and smiled, "I look up to you humans, you're better than my people ever were."

"You say that like they're past tense?"

"They are,"

"What happened?"

"There was a war."

"What like Afghanistan or something?"

"No, no, much bigger."

"Oh, what happened?"

"We lost. Everyone lost, and I ended it. I'm the last one left, in the whole universe."

"I'm so sorry."

The Doctor smiled, "Don't be, Scarlett Cooper, now come on, I've got a plan that just might save the world."

Scarlett smiled and chucked her heels away, The Doctor grabbed onto her hand, and they faced the door, sonic in hand.

"You ready?" he asked

"Nope."

"Me neither, Geronimo!"

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The Doctor and Scarlett left the theatre, after dealing with the alien problem and walked back to the TARDIS through New York in the dark. Scarlett was bare-foot and still in just the red dress, and The Doctor noticed her shivering, so he pulled off his jacket and wrapped it round her. She smiled and hugged herself into it, and they continued their walk.

"So doctor, how far is this blue box of yours?"

"Oh it's not that far, just around this corner." The Doctor said. And then there was silence. Scarlett wasn't sure why but it felt like a comfortable silence, rather than an awkward one. She had barely known this man a day, yet she felt comfortable around him. She trusted him.

They came to the TARDIS doors, and Scarlett raised her eyebrows. "This is it? You travel in here?" she asked

"yep," said The Doctor, opening the door

"Isn't it a bit small?" she asked

"Take a look," The Doctor nodded to the door, and Scarlett stood hesitantly in front of him.

"Give me one good reason" she challenged

"alright, how about this. It travels in time and space, good enough?"

"and how do I know that's true? You could be any crazy serial killer, luring young girls like me into your blue box."

"Well, there's only one way to find out."

They stood for a moment and stared at each other before Scarlett broke out into a grin, and The Doctor mirrored it. She gasped at the interior. "IT'S BLOODY HUGE!" she shouted.

"Oh yeah," The Doctor said smugly, running to the console

"What, how do you fit all of this in here."

"Well, long story short, its-"

"It's bigger on the inside" Scarlett beamed.

"yep, that's the one. And it travels to all sorts of crazy alien planets."

"So what now doctor? How can I go back to my normal life in that crappy theatre, which I've probably been fired from, after seeing all this?" she asked, looking around

"Well," The Doctor said "You could always come with me."

"Come with you where?"

"Anywhere, everywhere in fact. The whole of time and space at our fingertips and I'm offering it to you Scarlett Cooper."

"Why me," Scarlett asked

"Because." The Doctor said simply

"Because what?"

The Doctor sighed, "Because, when I told you about my people, you understood. You were right, me and you we're alike. You understood and you appreciated, and you didn't ask questions that you knew I wouldn't want to answer. You acted smart and thought on your feet, and saved my neck and yours more than once. You left all of your family to venture out on your own to New York City to catch a break, because you didn't want a crummy little café. You wanted to see the world and you wanted it to see you. Not many people are brave enough to do that. You Scarlett Cooper, are one in a million." He said with a smile.

Scarlett smiled back, lighting up the room. "Good answer," she joked

"So, all of time and space, where do you want to go?"

Scarlett paused for what felt like years, before smiling and saying "Show me somewhere new"

And The Doctor smiled. New was what he needed. Enough living in the past and wandering around alone because he was so hung up on River and Clara. Enough moping around for Amy and Rory, and enough watching Donna in the street walk around with Shaun and her daughter. Enough looking at that mobile waiting for Martha to ring, enough running into Sarah-Jane 'accidentally' and enough, thinking about Rose and the duplicate. Everyone seemed to be somewhat happy with their lives apart from him. But that was about to change. He had Scarlett, and he was going to show her somewhere new.