Sometimes, I used to sneak out of the house and lay out on the grass of the garden late at night, looking up at the stars. I used to look up in wonder, counting all the little bright, shining dots, shimmering little glimpses at other worlds, worlds I willed to belong to.
It was the sort of thing wannabe astronauts did, but I didn't want to be a Spacewoman. No, I just wanted to go somewhere else. Anywhere else. Surely up there all the awful things of Earth were irrelevant. All the pressures of being young were non-existent up there. Any terrible memory or life event I had experienced would not matter up there.
I wanted to be somewhere else. I wanted to get away.
At the age of seventeen, I had done very little with my life. Out on the grass, I could close my eyes and imagine a world where my life so far had meant something. I could imagine a life where I meant something.
The last time I went out into the garden, I was in despair. I needed an escape, I needed out of the house. I would sometimes rather sleep outside than sleep in my room where I was faced with constant reminders of everything that had gone wrong, reminders of my parents, of my foster parents.
I didn't get nightmares when I slept outside.
So I laid there, in nothing but a vest, shorts and my dressing gown, counting the stars. It was a light night, with minimal visibility.
One, two, three, four, five, six... seven... eight... nine...
Nine was all I could see, all I could make out.
I let out a sigh, closing my eyes tightly. When I opened them again, my vision fixed on the ninth star I had caught sight of. As if it was a shooting star, I found myself willing my mind to come up with a wish.
What to wish for when your entire life is just one big mess?
"I wish..." I breathed out, my voice barely audible. "I wish to get away. I wish to go out into the world and do something incredible. I wish to do something important. I wish I was important,"
The next day, my life changed. The next day, I met the Doctor.
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Travels With a Timelord ~Doctor Who fan fiction~
Fanfiction"You mean nothing to us, you're no one," "Right now, yes, true, but one day, one faithful day, I will mean something, and my name will cause you as much fear as his does. Entire races fear him, and I've been at his side throughout it all, and I'm go...
