It Shouldn't Be This Way

I know some of our fans also like Doctor Who.  I'm a huge sci-fi fan, and one of my favorite things to do is wonder about what could have happened.  After watching Doctor Who, Series 4, I wondered what would have happened in the Turn Right Alternative- what if Donna Noble hadn't gone with Rose to find the time machine?  With no one to ensure the safety of the universe, what would have happened, from her perspective?  And so, with those questions in mind, I wrote this flash fanfiction, It Shouldn't Be This Way.  If you watch Doctor Who, this should make sense to you.  If not, hopefully you will still find the mystery and allure intriguing, at the very least.

May you be spellbound,
Mortimer Micheals

It Shouldn’t Be This Way

                The stars are going out.  Slowly, but surely, they are just going away.  No one is sure why.  But when you look up at night, you’ll start to notice.  But no one knows what’s going on.  First the bees disappearing, and now this- the stars are going out.  Something is wrong, though.  You know it shouldn’t be this way.

                “There’s something on your back!”  Why do people keep saying that?  Why don’t you go near mirrors anymore?  You don’t know.  All you know is that something is wrong: It shouldn’t be this way.  The disasters, the royal family dead, America turning to blobs of fat, half of Britain killed in a split second, the concentration camps, the poison sky- it shouldn’t be this way, and you know it.

                She’s blonde; fairly good looking, and strangely familiar.  She told you to leave London just before the ship crashed and leveled the city.  How did she know?  What else does she know that no one else does?  She tells you that this is all wrong.  That there is someone- a doctor of some sort who wasn’t supposed to die, but did; he was supposed to stop all of this, but something went wrong.  Something about a time machine.  You’ve lost everything, and now this crazy woman wants you to give up the rest, and follow her for reasons she can’t explain?  No way.  You stay home.

                The stars are going out.  The darkness is coming, and still they don’t know why.  Nearer and nearer it gets.  And just like that, the sky is dark.  The Medusa Cascade, scientists tell you.  That’s where earth is now.  But how?  The aliens come down and start killing people.  Little robots with little squids inside.  You’ve never seen them, but they are strangely familiar.

                An announcement is made.  Hold your families tight, for the earth shall be destroyed.  The aliens need Earth, a moon and 25 other planets.  Earth must be destroyed to stop them.  And just like that, Osterhagen- Earth’s gone.  But you were Donna Noble.  You knew something was wrong, that it shouldn’t be this way.  But you didn’t try to stop it, even though for one shining moment, you were the most important person in the universe.  No, it shouldn’t be this way.  But it is.