A/N: Hello! 😁
I meant to get this up earlier than this, but I got a bit distracted. ☺️ I'm trying to put together a new FanFic series that will follow along the lines of the newer Star Trek re-boot films. ❤️ So yeah, that's been taking up a bit of space in what I call my "writing mind palace". 😉 It'll be a (Spock x OFC), (McCoy x OFC) AND (Kirk x OFC) pairings. I've created three brand new OCs for this series and I love them all to bits! 💕 Anyway, if you're a fan of Star Trek, then you have something new to look forward to from me. 💖
Now, back to THIS story! 😂
This is basically what I'm calling a prequel to "The Rings of Akhaten". It's really just the first little part of the episode. The Doctor and Lexi go back into Lucas's and Clara's timelines and see how the two friends came to be. 😃
Enjoy! 😘
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Outside, Street, Day...
"Are you sure we're not intruding too much?" Lexi muttered as she and the Doctor walked down the street in 1981.
"We just need to make sure." The Doctor replied as he took in their surroundings. A lovely and breezy autumn day with dry leaves blowing around everywhere. "We never checked the other ones' pasts before."
"I suppose it'll be good to see this Clara's and this Lucas's pasts." Lexi shrugged before giggling slightly. "I feel like we're kinda stalking them, in a sense."
"I wouldn't go that far." The Doctor said.
"You sure?" She quirked an eyebrow at her husband.
"...Okay. Maybe a little." He admitted after a moment. "Still, we don't want to make the same mistakes again like we did with their past selves."
"True." Lexi couldn't help but agree.
The Doctor nodded before noticing four certain people.
"There." He pointed before quickly hiding behind a mailbox, making Lexi roll her eyes.
"Oh, yeah, hide behind a mailbox. That'll he--" She was cut off as the Doctor yanked her behind the mailbox with him so they could watch the scene in front of them unfold.
Two young men walked along the sidewalk, one attempting to read his newspaper as the other one seemed to be trying to fix his watch as it had stopped ticking.
Suddenly, one of the leaves flew right into one of the young men's faces, causing him to bump into the other young man and making both of stagger off the road. Before an oncoming car could hit them, two young women reached out and grabbed them, pulling them to safety.
"Oh, my stars!" Ellie Ravenwood gasped. "Are you all right?"
"Are you okay?" Margo Emerson asked in concerned as she held the man by his shoulders.
As Dave Oswald removed the leaf from his face, James Harper looked up from his now seemingly magically ticking watch.
Both men smiled at the two women. "Yeah."
Lexi smiled at the scene. "All their parents met at the same time..."
Outside, Street, Night...
Dave and Ellie huddled together under an umbrella as thunder rumbled while they ran up the stairs to the front door of Ellie's house.
"So, I've got something for you." Dave told Ellie as he reached into his pocket for something.
"What?" Ellie questioned, smiling curiously.
Dave smiled at her as he pulled out the leaf from the day they met.
"You kept it?" She asked, surprised.
"Of course I kept it."
"Why?"
"Because," Dave began. "this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way in that exact place so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And if just one of those tiny little things had never happened. I'd never have met you. Which makes this the most important leaf in human history."
As the couple kissed in the rain, the Doctor grabbed Lexi's hand before tugging her along away from where they had been watching across the street, both of them trying to shield themselves from the onslaught of rain that was pouring down on them.
Outside, Park, Night...
"Look at them." Margo smiled as she and James walked hand-in-hand along the pathway of the park as fireflies illuminated the darkness around them. "Aren't they beautiful?"
"They are." James agreed, smiling slightly at his girlfriend's fascination of the small lightning-bugs. "Still not as beautiful as you, though."
"Oh, really?" She rolled her eyes playfully.
"Yes, really." He chuckled, stopping walking which made Margo stop and turn to face him. "You, Margo Emerson, are the most lovely and beautiful woman I have ever had the pleasure of being with." He smiled, bringing her hands up the kiss her knuckles.
Margo blushed, ducking her head slightly before noticing something.
"You're still wearing that same watch." She stated, looking back up him. "In fact, I don't think I've ever seen you not wear it."
"I haven't taken it off since the day we met." He admitted. "Right before Dave knocked me into the road with him, I was trying to fix this watch. It had stopped working for some reason. No ticking. No clock-hands going around and around. Nothing. But then, almost as if magic was at work, it started ticking again the moment you pulled me out that oncoming car's way. It's like you were what helped allow my time to continue."
"Aww." Lexi whispered as she and the Doctor hid behind a few bushes. If Lexi could describe her feeling right then, she'd basically be the personification of the heart-eyes emoji. She and the Doctor gave the couple one last look before sneaking away back to the TARDIS that was hidden behind some trees.
Outside, Park, Day...
"Why did we stop for fish and chips again?" Lexi enquired as she put a fry in her mouth while she and the Doctor sat on top of a picnic table.
"What?" The Doctor questioned with a mouthful of fries. "We can't eat and observe at the same time?"
"Just curious." Lexi defended before taking another bite just as something hit the Doctor on the side of the head, making him lose his balance and fall off the side of the picnic table.
"Oh, my stars!" Ellie Oswald exclaimed as she ran over to get the soccer ball that had hit him. "Are you all right?"
The Doctor got up quickly, hands held in front of him as if to fight off all-comers, martial arts-style. He lowered his hands when he saw her, swallowing what was left of the fries in his mouth.
"Fine." The Doctor then nodded as Lexi got off the picnic table to come stand beside him. "Marvelous. Refulgent."
"Tiny bit embarrassed?" Lexi smirked.
"Possibly." He admitted, making his wife giggle. "That's not dangerous, though, is it?"
"What's not?" Ellie frowned.
"Embarrassment."
"Not usually. Not to my knowledge."
"Good. Hey, phew." The Doctor sighed in relief as Lexi pat him on the arm.
"Mate, I'm so sorry." Dave Oswald said as he came up, his arm around a little girl. "She wants to be Bryan Robson."
"No worries." The Doctor waved him off. "My fault. No harm done." He bent over slightly to be more at eye-level with the little girl. "Hello there...?"
"Clara." Ellie informed him.
Lexi blinked as the Doctor smiled. "Ah. Hello there, Clara."
Outside, Tower Bridge, Evening...
The Doctor and Lexi walked along Tower Bridge in the bustling city of London on September 1, 2001.
"What are the chances we'll see them here?" The Doctor asked as he and Lexi stopped and leaned against the side of the bridge, overlooking the Thames.
"They're slim, I'll admit." Lexi told him. "But he is from here. So, let's just hope."
"Dad, Mum, why'd you bring me out here?" Eighteen year old Lucas Harper asked as he, his father and his mother walked right past the Doctor and Lexi, not even glancing at them.
"Don't know." James Harper shrugged as he, his wife and their son stopped a mere ten feet away from the Couple of Time.
"It's a nice evening, though." Margo Harper pointed out. "We figured 'Why not?'."
"This wouldn't happen to have anything to do with it being my birthday, would it?" Lucas raised an eyebrow at his parents.
"Why don't you tell us?" His father smiled slightly as he pulled out a small black box from his pocket and held it out to Lucas.
"Happy birthday, Lucas." Margo told her son, smiling as he took the small box from James.
Lucas gazed at the small black box curiously, glancing up at his parents before looking back down at the box and opening it to reveal a familiar looking watch.
"You didn't." Lucas muttered, looking back up to his parents.
"Turn it over." His father told him.
Curious, Lucas turned his father's watch over in his hand, looking at the engraving on the back.
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Time is precious... Waste it wisely. – J.H.
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Lucas smiled down at the watch. "Dad, you're giving me your watch?"
"It's your watch now, son." His father told him. "Had the engraving put on there especially for you."
"Thank you." Lucas said earnestly, closing the box before hugging his father and clapping him on the back as Margo watched them fondly, the Doctor and Lexi discretely watching them from their places ten feet away.
Outside, Cemetery, Day...
"I can't believe he's gone." Nineteen year old Lucas sniffled as he and sixteen year old Clara stood in front of his father's gravestone.
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JAMES HARPER
BELOVED HUSBAND AND FATHER
BORN
30th MARCH 1958
DIED
7th MAY 2003
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"I'm so sorry, Lucas." Clara said softly, looping her arm through his and leaning her head against his shoulder. "I wish there was something more I could do to make it easier."
"No." Lucas said, reaching and patting her hand in reassurance. "Your company is enough." He then glanced down at the watch his father had given to him just a little over a year and a half previously. Time really was precious.
Lexi leaned against a tree some distance from the grave, watching before turning and walking away as she heard the faint sound of the TARDIS materializing off in the distance.
Inside, TARDIS, Console room...
"I saw him." Lexi said as she walked into the TARDIS, joining the Doctor at the console. "She was there with him. His father died, Doctor. In May of 2003."
"And I just saw her." He replied as Lexi went to the monitor on the other side of the console. "He was there with her as well. Her mother died. In 2005. Nearly two years after Lucas's dad."
"What in the hell is going on?" Lexi muttered. "It's like they're these enigmas that can't... that can't, um... they just can't be."
The Doctor bit his lip in thought as he leaned against the console, looking at pictures of Victorian Clara and Victorian Lucas on the monitor.
"They're just people." The Doctor insisted. "How can they be?"
"They can't be, but they are. They can't be." Lexi muttered as she looked at pictures of Hawthorne and Oswin and their credentials for the 'Alaska'. "They're not possible."
"Well then," The Doctor said as he pushed his monitor away. "let's go to Wednesday and get them."
"Yeah." Lexi nodded, agreeing as she pushed her monitor away. "It's about damn time we showed them the stars."
The Doctor grinned at her before he pulled the lever, setting the TARDIS in motion.
Their Impossibles awaited.
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A/N: There ya go! 😁
I hope you enjoyed it! 😃
Now, I will reiterate that I am trying to put together that Star Trek fic series I mentioned in the AN at the beginning of this chapter. So, that will be taking up some of my attention. And trust me, if you're a fan of that sort of thing, I think you'll enjoy it when I do eventually get it published on here. BUT, I will still keep up with THIS story as much as I can. In fact, I'm actually kinda excited about the next episode. ❤️ I re-watched it the other day and it made me remember how much I enjoyed it. 💕
Anyway, with that said, the next episode shall be... "The Rings of Akhaten"!!! 🎉
Until then, lovelies! 😘
💋 Love always,
~Maddy