Post by theretsam on Mar 11, 2014 21:48:08 GMT
A new experiment of mine. Remember the Cushing movies? Good. Cause it's going to be like that, a bit. Just watch this space.
If I feel confident enough about it, I might put it on GallyB.
Chapter One: “An Unearthly Child”
Ian Chesterton quietly sipped his coffee. His mind had gone blank for a minute there. Long day it had been. He had stayed in after school to correct a few more tests for one of his classes, which had taken up more time that he had expected.
One of his colleagues, Miss Barbara Wright, came in.
‘Not gone yet?’ he asked her.
‘Obviously not,’ she replied sharply.
‘Ask a silly question.’
‘I’m sorry.’ She smiled wearily as she sat down.
‘Oh, I had a terrible day. I don’t know what to make of it.’
‘Oh, what’s the trouble? Can I help?’
As he spoke these words, Ian wished he never had said them.
Barbara was a very determined woman. And Ian knew this all too well. Many years ago, he had just come back from Europe and started as an intern for the science section, and she had been in her exam class, she had had a crush on him. They’d had a brief fling in the late forties, but it never got anywhere. Still, he had more than enough experience from those few months that if Barbara wanted to do something, she simply went ahead and did it. And then she’d wonder why you’d have so much trouble with something that was "clearly, very easy", and you’d end up scratching your head. In that way, she was made for her job as a teacher.
And so, half an hour later, they had parked (oh, memories) in front of a junkyard where they had seen Susan come in. Susan Foreman, one of their students, had been behaving very erratically lately. Rather than confronting her about it, Barbara had wanted to speak to her family about it, which was impossible as her grandfather didn’t like strangers. Oh, and her address was a junkyard. Which, curiously, was just where they ended up.
‘Look, can we go in now? I hate to think of her alone in that place.’ asked Barbara.
That was Barbara alright. Other women wouldn’t think of going to a junkyard, especially after dark, but only she would be concerned about other people’s safety, never her own. And it didn’t stop at junkyards. This kind of thinking led to astronauts in space. In a different life, she may well have become an astronaut.
‘If she is alone. Look, she is fifteen. She might be meeting a boy. Didn’t that occur to you?’
‘I almost hope she is.’
Finally, the conversation was going where he hoped it would go. Soon enough he’d have dropped her off at her home or they’d be eating Thai together, indoors.
‘What do you mean?’
‘Well, it would be so wonderfully normal. It’s silly, isn’t it? I feel frightened. As if we’re to interfere in something that is best left alone.’
Oh, she knew just how to play him.
‘Come on, let’s get it over with.’
They got out of the car, and she looked at him. She meant it.
‘Well, don’t you feel it?’
Now it was too late to turn back. ‘I take things as they come. Come on.’
There was no one in the junkyard. All they found was a police box. Was it was doing there was beyond him. What you could be doing inside one of them was another matter. He walked around it. There was a faint vibration coming from the box.
Just as Ian was about to get a police man (a police box in a junkyard?!), a man entered the yard, coughing.
Enter THE DOCTOR.
And after he did, things became much stranger. After having an argument with the old man over whether or not Susan was calling him from inside the police box, they went inside it. All of them went inside the police box, with plenty of room to spare.
It was bigger on the inside.
And there was a giant computer in the middle.
If that wasn’t bad enough, Susan introduced the old man as her grandfather, who had come here from a different civilisation and time. As if Ian’s intelligence hadn’t been significantly dented already, the senile old coot started insulting and attacking him, and telling him porkies like this being his space ship. Ian didn’t believe it. He had had just about enough of all this.
But then, just as he wanted to leave, the Doctor pressed some buttons and the – whatever he was in – started making a wheezing, groaning noise. He was thrown around and fell to the floor.
Unbeknownst to Ian, they had arrived somewhere else, in a place he couldn’t even have dreamed of. Outside, a shadowy figure approached the police box...
If I feel confident enough about it, I might put it on GallyB.
Chapter One: “An Unearthly Child”
Ian Chesterton quietly sipped his coffee. His mind had gone blank for a minute there. Long day it had been. He had stayed in after school to correct a few more tests for one of his classes, which had taken up more time that he had expected.
One of his colleagues, Miss Barbara Wright, came in.
‘Not gone yet?’ he asked her.
‘Obviously not,’ she replied sharply.
‘Ask a silly question.’
‘I’m sorry.’ She smiled wearily as she sat down.
‘Oh, I had a terrible day. I don’t know what to make of it.’
‘Oh, what’s the trouble? Can I help?’
As he spoke these words, Ian wished he never had said them.
Barbara was a very determined woman. And Ian knew this all too well. Many years ago, he had just come back from Europe and started as an intern for the science section, and she had been in her exam class, she had had a crush on him. They’d had a brief fling in the late forties, but it never got anywhere. Still, he had more than enough experience from those few months that if Barbara wanted to do something, she simply went ahead and did it. And then she’d wonder why you’d have so much trouble with something that was "clearly, very easy", and you’d end up scratching your head. In that way, she was made for her job as a teacher.
And so, half an hour later, they had parked (oh, memories) in front of a junkyard where they had seen Susan come in. Susan Foreman, one of their students, had been behaving very erratically lately. Rather than confronting her about it, Barbara had wanted to speak to her family about it, which was impossible as her grandfather didn’t like strangers. Oh, and her address was a junkyard. Which, curiously, was just where they ended up.
‘Look, can we go in now? I hate to think of her alone in that place.’ asked Barbara.
That was Barbara alright. Other women wouldn’t think of going to a junkyard, especially after dark, but only she would be concerned about other people’s safety, never her own. And it didn’t stop at junkyards. This kind of thinking led to astronauts in space. In a different life, she may well have become an astronaut.
‘If she is alone. Look, she is fifteen. She might be meeting a boy. Didn’t that occur to you?’
‘I almost hope she is.’
Finally, the conversation was going where he hoped it would go. Soon enough he’d have dropped her off at her home or they’d be eating Thai together, indoors.
‘What do you mean?’
‘Well, it would be so wonderfully normal. It’s silly, isn’t it? I feel frightened. As if we’re to interfere in something that is best left alone.’
Oh, she knew just how to play him.
‘Come on, let’s get it over with.’
They got out of the car, and she looked at him. She meant it.
‘Well, don’t you feel it?’
Now it was too late to turn back. ‘I take things as they come. Come on.’
There was no one in the junkyard. All they found was a police box. Was it was doing there was beyond him. What you could be doing inside one of them was another matter. He walked around it. There was a faint vibration coming from the box.
Just as Ian was about to get a police man (a police box in a junkyard?!), a man entered the yard, coughing.
Enter THE DOCTOR.
And after he did, things became much stranger. After having an argument with the old man over whether or not Susan was calling him from inside the police box, they went inside it. All of them went inside the police box, with plenty of room to spare.
It was bigger on the inside.
And there was a giant computer in the middle.
If that wasn’t bad enough, Susan introduced the old man as her grandfather, who had come here from a different civilisation and time. As if Ian’s intelligence hadn’t been significantly dented already, the senile old coot started insulting and attacking him, and telling him porkies like this being his space ship. Ian didn’t believe it. He had had just about enough of all this.
But then, just as he wanted to leave, the Doctor pressed some buttons and the – whatever he was in – started making a wheezing, groaning noise. He was thrown around and fell to the floor.
Unbeknownst to Ian, they had arrived somewhere else, in a place he couldn’t even have dreamed of. Outside, a shadowy figure approached the police box...