Thursday, 4 June 2020

Fans Fiction The Dark Doctor Stories - Chapter One "Laura" by Lady Mayhurst



Domina had been floating through space her whole life, or so it seemed. An eternity of darkness that was consumed soundlessly in nothing, where time and space seemingly failed to exist, where only she, within her mind existed. Her dreamlike state of semi consciousness echoed around her as the silence pulsated in her ears and seeped into the darkest corners of her mind, fracturing, splintering the little girl she used to be in an attempt to force her into womanhood and age her fast beyond her mental years.
   She was broken on the inside. Torn apart by the years she had suffered in solitude, locked in prison of unbreakable chains in a soundproof room made up of layers of dimensional fractures in time. If she screamed, the chaos it would cause would echo through the past, present and future of every dimension, dispersing itself through space and time as it rolled on forever until it could be heard no more and the threat of the nightmare child became minimal.
   She was unlike any and every other child because she was much more intelligent than all the children on Gallifrey as she was made up of something else, something not quite known.
It took some time, some training, some practice and patience in order to perform the task she set herself at the tender age of 5. It took 5 years in fact to do what her captors hoped would be impossible as they dare not imagine the pain she could bring, but she managed to train her voice, to exact her screams and concentrate them at the right tone and pitch so that it not only broke her chains as she set herself free, but burst the ear drums of those standing guard over her, and when more had come running, when the alarm had been raised, they were stopped in their tracks as they fell to the floor screaming in agony at the images flashing through their minds. Their children, their wives, their mothers, tortured, bleeding, dying in terrible agonising ways. Their minds broken by the nightmares the child forced into their heads so that she could make her escape.
   She had hidden for days. Scared and alone she secluded herself in a broken TARDIS and hoped no one would find her until she could work out what to do, but they had and she had been banished for all eternity.
   For many, many years she had been floating through space. It could be 100’s, it could be 1000’s, time had stopped and all there was, was nothing. She spent the Years hibernating, sleeping away the pain of her childhood as her body grew and changed, and as she healed herself mentally, physically the TARDIS healed itself from her touch. An incubator keeping them both alive as it fed from her, pulling her life force into its circuits, forging a bond between them so that they would become one and exist together.
   She awoke at the age of 20, when her time machine had restored itself and she was able to control herself, for when she screamed, she shook the world and she had found herself on a world she would eventually call home, a place she would find peace, knowledge and truth about her parents, a place she would not want to destroy, a new planet called Earth.
   The TARDIS materialised next to a grassy bank on a river on a very hot and humid August afternoon and disguised itself as a narrow boat to fit in with its surroundings. Domina checked the readings on the scanner and thought hard for a few moments as she tried to imagine how long she had been in exile. The year on Earth was 2594 and she had come from a year on Gallifrey that was billions of light years from that but that didn’t mean to say that was how long she had been inside the TARDIS because time spent in the time vortex could be no time at all and she wasn’t sure if Earth was in Gallifrey past, present or future.
It would be strange and exciting on the new world, and she would need to know the human race that lives here if she was to fit in unnoticed and begin her quest to find the renegade Time Lord known as The Doctor. Her TARDIS pulled her here because of the Huon particle residue from his TARDIS, but as she discovered when she had scanned the planet for him, it seemed that he hadn’t been on Earth for at least 6 years which meant she would for now, have to wait for his return.
   As she stepped out of the time machine narrow boat for the first time in what seemed forever, she blinked hard as the sun blinded her for a few moments and shaded her eyes with her hand as she moved onto the river bank to look around. Earth would take some getting used to, the blue skies and the green grass were no match for Gallifrey’s golden, red and burnt orange hues, but any planet would pale in comparison but every aspect of her life would be better from now on. She would make sure of that!
   As she decided on which direction to start walking to explore her new home, a man’s voice echoed out from the darkness of a tunnel behind her causing her to turn sharply, frowning at his words as he stepped into the light looking terrified as he glanced briefly up to the sky.
   “Laura? Is that you? I thought you’d been sent to Ordifica. What are you doing back here?”
He ran towards her, grabbed her roughly by the arm and dragged her back into the safety of the damp dark tunnel before she had a chance to speak, staring at him intently as his nervousness got the better of him.
   “What the hell are you doing in broad daylight, what if “they” see you?” He pointed towards the sky. “Laura, why are you here?”
   There was a roar above them so loud it made her jump and she staggered backwards, pressing herself against the cold stone wall of the tunnel. The man covered his ears and moved past her, pushing against the wall so it gave way and a door opened. He disappeared through, waiting for her to follow him and she stood and watched and wondered what to do. Go back outside, back to her TARDIS and scan whatever it was that was making that noise, or follow the man for answers, find out who he was and why he thought her name was Laura!

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