The Demon, The Box and The Angels, Part 1

April McLean couldn't remember much anymore. She could remember something that felt like a life: water. Sunlight, love. Her mother was definitely there, her father she was less certain of. Everything felt like it was slipping away in the shadows....Shadows...there was something about that word...The thought was gone before she could finish it.

She tried again to focus on the things she knew she could remember. Her name was April, she was, or at least had been 17 years old. She was a student? At Coal Hill Academy? She could remember the idea of a prom. Did she have any friends? She could remember people she’d spent time with, but only the vague shadows of them...there was that word again. She shook it away.

There had been Monsters, she could see flashes of them in her mind. Things from another world. Teachers who weren’t teachers, flowers that ate flesh. An old man with a blue box...a stone Angel...the images burned bright in her mind, but she had no idea what they were supposed to mean. She decided to open her eyes.

Light. After a second she could make out the vague shape of steel grey clouds skidding of the sky. She must be outside. Strange, she didn't feel cold. Suddenly pain forced its way into her head and she sat bolt upright. There was the was the sound of rock splitting and roar in her hears that she couldn't place. Her vision cleared just in time for her see to the row of soldiers standing on what looked like the edge of a hill above her. Were those guns?

"Nobody Move! Let me go down to them! Move!" 

The row of people didn't change position but began to shuffle awkwardly as someone pushed their way forward from behind. Aprils eyes caught a sudden flash of yellow amongst the mass of black uniforms as a woman burst though their line and almost fell, before beginning what April realised was a slow awkward descent toward her. 

As she watched this strange event, part of her mind started to piece themselves together, and she became more and more aware of what her eyes were actually seeing: She was laying in the every bottom of a crater, it's smooth edge rising up to meet where the solider were standing. Had there been an explosion? She could see so blackened stone in the middle distance, but what she could see upper part looked smooth and man made. Before she could contemplate what this all meant, she noticed the woman was still moving slowly towards her, She was dressed like she wasnt really supposed to be there: The Dust a rocks which she scrambled over were met first by a pair of well worn leather boots with huge down turned flaps, the kind thing April had only ever seen old films. These were then met at the shins by dark blue jeans that looked brand new. Above that was what like an old back T-Shirt, but it was hard to make out anything else as it completely over taken by the woman's huge yellow coat, which only stopped just below the boots and had a dark lining which mingled itself with the woman's dark hair. 

As she drew closer April saw that the woman herself was taller than she had seemed in the distance, with light brown skin and dark eyes. Eyes that the were similar and filled with alarm. As the gap between them finally closed April saw the silver and black cane which the woman was supporting her right leg with, even on the flat ground at the bottom of wherever they where.

"It's alright, it's alright. I'm not human, and....I promise...I'm not here to hurt you." She she said, Her breath catching on the words as she stopped and lent down towards where April lay.

"I'm called The Doctor, and I'm here to help."