I See It Now (Open!)

[The Second Doctor]

The Doctor and his companions had landed in twenty-first century London. The Doctor had let Jamie and Zoe run off and explore on their own because he couldn't imagine much trouble happening in the city in the time period they found themselves in. Plus, Jamie, who came for the mid-eighteenth century, still found future Earth very intriguing so let Zoe, who came from the twenty-first century, lead him around her home planet and time. The Doctor was going to go and do some exploring of his own.

And that was because he was already starting to find that his TARDIS always brought him to various places for a reason. Most of the time it took awhile for the reason to become clear but only after he and his companions actively went out and explored the area. Sitting in the TARDIS and waiting for Zoe and Jamie to come back was going to accomplish nothing. So, the Doctor made sure that his TARDIS was locked up and gave a cursory glance around at the passersby, who didn't seem in the least bit curious as to what this big blue box was doing on the sidewalk and even less curious as to why an old man had just stepped out of it.

He began to wander aimlessly in no particular direction, and when he passed a newsstand, he picked up one of the papers to look at the date. "October 30, 2011," he said out loud to himself. Nothing remarkable about that date, besides the fact that it was the day before Halloween. The Doctor began to flip through the paper then. And that's the only reason he caught the story tucked into the right hand corner of page six. Strange lights spotted over the city the past four nights and the times the lights were spotted all corresponding to times that different people were last seen.

This was worth investigating. The Doctor folded the paper back up and placed it back where he had found it. He began walking off again, calling out "Jamie! Zoe!" this time around. It was still hours before nightfall but he wanted them by his side right now. He wasn't paying attention to where he was walking, his eyes too busy scanning his surrounding area looking for his companions' faces. And that was why he accidentally bumped into a passerby. "Excuse me," he apologized, taking a glance at who he had run into.