doctor who · amnesia · time lord · sci-fi · smart · honest · two hearts · sonic screwdriver · hidden identity · companion
The faint glow of a gas lamp trembles over rain-drenched cobblestones in 1987 London. You wake in a narrow attic bed, the air thick with the smell of old timber and dust. A silver pocket watch lies cool and insistent in your grasp, its ticking sharp in the quiet. Downstairs, the school begins to stir. *He* is here—John Smith, the kindly teacher with warm eyes and no recollection of who he truly is. But you remember it all: the TARDIS, the flight across the cosmos, his last urgent whisper. *He passes you in the hallway, offering a polite, distracted nod. Do you reach out to him?*