Vegas Lights

She got to her feet, laughing as she reached the door and froze. "Are we on the right planet?" She asked him, confused now. She looked at her face and saw the answer on his face. This was Stratston, but something had happened. Sensing that he needed it, Alisha gave the Doctor a hug, hoping it helped ease the pain alittle. "Wanna go see what happened?" She asked him, thinking that might get him motivated to move away from the TARDIS and towards solving the problem. "Maybe we came to the wrong time period." She added, going forward a bit and sniffing the air. It smelled of ashes and smoke. She looked at him, hoping that he wasn't too upset.

Alisha covered her mouth with her hand, shocked at what she saw before her. Who or what could have done this to the poor people. She didn't know what happened but she could tell it was bad... very very bad. One look to the Doctor's face confirmed her fears. There was a problem. She didn't want to go forward, fearing that she might throw up from all of the blood and carnage in front of her. "Who or what did this?" She asked him, forcing down a barf that was threatening to come up. She didn't want to seem weak in from of him though. Oh screw being weak... She thought as she threw up behind the Doctor, facing the other way. "I swear, I'm not always like that." She says, sighing softly as she looked down at the carnage again.

Alisha followed him, her heart pounding in her chest as she froze outside of the hut. She took a deep breath as she watched the Doctor struggle to find answers for this. Was the whole planet like this? She hoped for the Doctor's sake it wasn't. She didn't want the poor guy to have a heart attack. She went into the hut and started helping him. "Hello? Don't worry. We're not here to hurt you." She said in a soft kind voice. "We just want to help." She added, looking at the Doctor. "They've just been through something bad, Doctor. Yelling and shouting will just frighten them more." She said to him, looking down at the trap door. "Can you open up please? We're not going to hurt you. I promise."

Alisha felt sorry for the child, walking with the Doctor. It reminded her of someone with no innocence at such a young age. "Is he going to be okay, Doctor?" She said, really wanting to get rid of the sights she had seen. But she couldn't risk it. She couldn't risk going insane because of a horrible fate. She'd save those for if something happened that was so bad, she'd rather be insane than remember it. As they reached the TARDIS, she opened the door for him, sighing softly. Her blue eyes looked into his, wondering if he himself was okay. Had he seen this before? She couldn't be sure, but she rubbed his arm, waiting to know what they were going to do next after this small, well big, mishap. She was worried for the child, hoping he would be alright.

Alisha nodded, sitting down by the boy. Her eyes wandered to the jar, shuddering a bit. No. She wouldn't dare touch the crystals. She couldn't. What would the Doctor say? She sighed, getting a blanket to make the boy comfortable, along with a pillow behind his head. The poor thing. He had been through a rough day or days. She didn't know how long the boy was in his crawlspace. But he deserved this rest right now. No young boy should have to go through what he did. Poor thing. What had done that to the planet? The Doctor had described a beautiful planet. Why would someone destroy it? What was to gain? She thought as she watched over him, hoping that his young age would be an advantage, and that time would erase it from his memory.

Alisha went over to the Doctor after making sure the kid was okay. She was worried about him personally. She had never seen the Doctor so agitated and worried. "Doctor, are you alright?" She asked him, looking at him with a bit of wonder in her eyes. She rubbed his arm, trying to get him to talk to her, to get him to at least say he was or wasn't okay. So she wouldn't have to worry about him at all.  But she knew that she would worry about him as she placed her head on his shoulder, sighing softly.

She smiled back, walking over to him. "Then I say we go after it." She said to him, already holding on to the edge to keep from falling when the TARDIS started up. Taking a deep breath, she watched the Doctor fiddle with the console, her heart pounding in her chest. Why was she trying to take a chance with her heart being broken? She shook the thought out of her head and returned to what was really important, the thing that was important to the now nearly existent people of Stratston. Did he say it was a stone? "What kind of stone?" She asked him, trying to learn as much as she could while on this trip. Maybe if she concentrated on the learning and the experience, and not the way that her heart skipped a beat when the Doctor looked at her, she might get more out of it.

"Maybe because it was what was giving them life." She said, thinking. "Maybe the stone is what was keeping the planet alive." She didn't know why, but that theory was stuck in her head. "But if it is, then we need to get it back for that little boy in there. He may be the last of his kind." She said, realizing that she might have hit a nerve with the Doctor. He's the last of his kind, doofus. She thought to herself, mentally doing a face palm. "But there's one question. Well two. Who has it, and why?" She said, thinking. She didn't know of anything other than what she had seen back in Amberville, during the attack. Taking a deep breath, she looked up at the Doctor. "We really need to find it."

Alisha blushed a bright red when he hugged her, watching him leave the TARDIS for a few minutes. "I'm fantastic!" She said, twirling around in happiness as she waited for him to come back with whatever he had gone to get. Calming down, she looked down at the console, the TARDIS seeming to like her for some reason. She took a deep breath when the Doctor came back with a tissue in his hands. Looking over his shoulder, she saw the emerald flake in the tissue. What was left of the stone that someone had stolen from the poor planet. "So we use it to track the stone and get it back?" She asked him, wondering if it could track it and whoever had taken the stone.

Alisha nodded, still smiling at him as she went to check on the boy. Seeing that he was still sleeping, she smiled and went back to the Doctor. "He's still asleep." She said to him, hoping he knew she meant their young guest on the TARDIS. She hoped that getting the stone would help the boy. "So once we find the stone, how are we going to get it back?" She asked, looking around the room for a sword. "Are we going to need weapons? Because I can defend myself if needed." She added, leaning on one of the pillars in the console room. She began to wish that she had brought her bag with her. She needed something to defend herself with.

"Alright, but what if they attack?" She asked him, trying to see all of the possibilities here. "If we simply take it, they'll come after us. We need a strategy for if the talking fails." She added, looking at the flake again. She was determined to get the stone back, but knew that the little spec couldn't take much electricity to it. She looked up at the Doctor. "So.. while we're waiting... I guess you have some questions for me." She said to him, remembering the look he had given her back in Vegas when nothing had seemed to phase her. She wondered if she should tell him about her meeting an older version of him. Would it change the future?

Alisha gave a sigh and followed him to the doors. "And how do we know they won't shoot first and ask questions later?" She asked him, getting worried that she was walking into danger. But then again, she loved danger. It was always fun and exciting. She concentrated on the matter at hand though. What ever lied beyond that door contained the location of the stone that they had stolen from a whole planet of innocent people who only wanted to live their lives. She took a deep breath and nodded, knowing that this was the right thing to do. The Doctor had a plan... she hoped. "Let's do this." She said to him.

Grinning brightly at her, the Doctor placed his hand on the door then stopped to look at her, an odd expression on his face as if something had just struck him. "The reason I know they won't shoot first? The only species in the universe I know to do that are Daleks, Cybermen and... Humans. You lot, I swear, shooting at anything that moves or looks different, why do you think I fly around in a big blue box instead of a normal spaceship? Harder to notice, that's why, now come on."

Turning away, he pushed the door open a crack and peered out. Seeing nothing, he pushed the door open farther only to be met with the business end of a blaster pointed directly at his nose. "Ah, thought you might be around. Brought a friend, do you mind? I know there wasn't exactly an invitation so I can't say she's my plus one, can I? Oh well, too late now." He said brightly, straightening up and stepping outside to let Alisha out as well then shut the door tightly once she stood outside. "Oh look, a whole bandwagon. Hello! I'm the Doctor, from what I understand you took something that wasn't yours, not exactly a good thing to do."

The humanoid figures stared at them silently, listening to the Doctor in what could only be called confusion before looking at each other. Blue skin shining dully under the lights of the corridor in their spaceship cast aside any thoughts on them being human at all. "And what makes you say this... Doctor?" One of them barked from the back, his red eyes narrowed in suspicion while studying him and his companion curiously.

"Ah, see that planet you attacked was very docile, you killed off hundreds of them if I guess right." The Doctor said suddenly, the smile falling from his face as he spoke, eyes shining with a dangerous light. "So I'll tell you this only once. Give back what you took, and get away from here as far as you can."

The same man laughed suddenly at what he said, honestly amused that one man could dare threaten them and think he could survive. Seven blasters pointed at him and the woman with him, what did he honestly think he could accomplish? "And if we don't?"

"Then I'll make you."

Alisha looked at the blaster, really not liking the look of it. "Won't shoot, Doctor?" She asked him, one of the people telling her to hush before continuing to point. Not as docile as the planet we were just on. And you won't let me carry a weapon to protect myself, Doctor. That kind of attitude is going to get us killed. She thought as she listened to the Doctor ramble on to some species that she was tempted to ask what they were. "Actually, I'm sorry to interrupt but.... What are you?" She asked them, knowing that the Doctor would probably answer the question before they would. But one could appreciate the effort she had put forward to at least get them to lower their weapons.