In need of a Doctor

A/N: I loved Madame Vastra and Jenny in "A good man goes to war". It really got me thinking of how many adventures they must have had together in Victorian England so this is how Vastra met the Doctor and Jenny and became a detective. Hopefully more to come. By the way, this is set during the time when the 10th Doctor was travelling by himself. It seemed better to have a compnionless Doctor. The story also jumps from after Vastra has met the Doctor to flashbacks of how she met him.

Synopsis: Before Vastra became a Madame, she was a Silurian that resented humans. The Doctor and Jenny helped her to see the love that can exist between the two races. Chapter 1 is completed.

Vastra hurried across the busy road, narrowly avoiding a thundering carriage. The clop of the horses' hooves and the rattle from the rumbling carriages was too loud. Everything about the surface was too noisy. She had hoped to find a home for herself but the humans were everywhere. Greedy and selfish, not caring about any creature but themselves. The horses were a fine example: chained to a life of servitude for nothing but a bit of hay and the occasional carrot. Disgusting.

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After awakening from her hibernation pod, Vastra realised that she was the only conscious Silurian. All the others were still sleeping and since she could find no way of freeing them, she decided to go to the surface in hope of finding a place for her people to live when they awoke.

She used a teleport device that took her to a small monitoring room not far from the surface. An old elevator lifted her up to a network of tunnels that were completely full of disgusting, stinking water. Rats nimbly ran along narrow walkways making the Silurian's stomach growl. However she wasn't hungry enough to eat a sewage munching mammal yet.

Spotting a ladder leading up to a dim light above, Vastra crossed a bridge to reach it. Grimacing when she touched the slimy rungs, she climbed up until she struck her head on the metal door in the ceiling. Lifting it up slightly, she flinched as a powerful light hit her eyes.

A smile came to her lips as she peered out into the open and saw the sun beaming down. It was as beautiful as she'd been told when she was just a hatchling. Her smile disappeared though as her eyes fell on the humans that scurried about.

The ground she had come out from wasn't natural at all. It was too perfectly flat and she couldn't see any of the soft green plant that was so common on the surface. Black poles sprung out of the ground, their tops held a strange fire within.

Anger flooded her cold veins. The humans were allowed to live on the warm surface while she and her people were forced to live in cold dark caves. What had the humans done with their gift though? They had taken a beautiful world and changed it for their own needs. The soft green plant had been replaced by a hard rock and they even made their own fire when they had the sun.

A scream rang out from behind her so she turned and met the gaze of a human child. Her tongue flew out as she hissed before slamming the trapdoor shut.

The child's voice could be dimly heard yelling out. "But mummy, it's true. I saw an alligator look out from the man hole."

His mother shook her head before pulling her son away. "Alligators in the sewer? Whatever next I wonder."

Dropping to the sewer floor below, Vastra leant against the grimy wall. A single tear fell as she felt the pain that her home was suffering. Wiping both the tear and sadness away, she headed back to the monitoring room. The humans would pay for this, in blood.

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A tattered poster lay trampled on the ground. Bending down to pick it up, Vastra saw a rather vicious looking male human glaring at her. The words beneath the picture read "Wanted for the murder and robbery of the Darchund family and the kidnapping of their servant."

The reward was apparently the Darchunds estate and entire fortune. An idea sprang to Vastra's mind. She needed somewhere to live and this offered that and so much more. Maybe she could find a purpose in this mammal infested world.

Wrapping her cloak more firmly around herself, she set off in direction of the Darchund house.

xxxxx

Tapping a few keys on the computer's screen, Vastra saw the sewer network spring up in front of her eyes. Scanning the map closely, she smiled evilly when she saw the flashing red dots of her prey. Ignoring the gun that was hung on the wall, she entered the elevator. She wouldn't need any weapons, not when revenge tasted better from your bare hands.

The lights from her scanner flashed eerily in the gloom of the tunnels. She didn't need to see though, not when her tongue could string together a visual picture of the sewers by taste alone. It wasn't long before she found her prey. She had barely glanced at the map on the scanner at all. Even without technology, Silurians were dangerous foes.

Vastra licked her lips in anticipation as she saw the humans clear a blocked tunnel of debris from a collapsed wall. As she prepared to step into the light of their lantern, a man burst into sight from another tunnel.

Tasting the air, Vastra hissed quietly from the strangers scent. He reeked of science and confidence. His long brown coat tasted mostly non-human but still human enough to show that this man was a common tourist of the people he resembled.

It didn't matter though. He would be permanently removed from her planet as well as the humans. She silently crept into the dim glow of the lantern. The workers stopped arguing with the stranger when they laid their eyes on her.

Letting out a scream, one of the workers attempted to run past her. Too slow for she quickly stepped in front of his path and, grabbing his stained shirt, she threw him against the wall. He slumped there unmoving.

Vastra's sharp teeth grinned maliciously. "No need to be scared, boys. I'm just wondering where a girl can get a bite to eat."

The rest of the workers grabbed a work tool and started to smash through the collapsed tunnels in hope of escape. The stranger however looked at her and smiled sadly.

"Ok, I know you're scared but I can help you get back home." His smile calmed her slightly but not enough to stop her attack. "I'm the Doctor, what's your name?"

"My name is Vastra and I have come to give the revenge of my people to the humans." Vastra snarled.

The Doctor had expected this. "I understand your pain, Vastra. To find your home over run by another species must hurt but-"

"UNDERSTAND!" Vastra yelled, interupting the Doctor mid-sentence. "How can you understand, Doctor. You have no right coming to this planet and interfering. This is a matter for the Silurians and the humans alone."

"Vastra, I can understand." The Doctor pleaded. "My home was invaded too. My entire species was destroyed, as well as our planet, in a great war. If you attack these humans, it will have repercussions. A war between your people and the humans will begin but there will be no winner, only losers."

Vastra considered the Doctor's theory. The Silurians may have superior technology but the humans were scattered all over Earth. If a battle to wipe out the other race happened, there would be so much destruction. Even if the Silurians did win, what would there prize be? A war torn battlefield the size of a planet. Vastra would be the reason for the death of Earth.

"You are the last of your kind?" She asked.

The Doctor nodded. "And I wouldn't wish it on either the humans or the Silurians."

Vastra glared at the workers who had stopped their attempt to escape and were instead cowering behind the Doctor. "But it isn't fair. Why do they deserve to live on the surface while my people hide in the dark underground. Humans are greedy. This sewer is a great example of their selfishness. They store all their waste products where they are out of sight. Where it can leak into the water or pollute the land."

The Doctor held up his hands. "Fair enough. It is pretty disgusting. What you don't know though is that only 500 hundred years ago, they were chucking it into the street where anyone could step on it." He shuddered at the thought. "At least in this sewer, it's in a place where that can be avoided. Give them a few more centuries and they'll be disintergrating."

"In a few centuries, Earth will be even more polluted." Vastra retorted. "The humans should be driven to extinction before my home is damaged anymore."

Vastra pulled her head back like a viper about to strike but the Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver first. With a flash of blue, the Silurian felt her tongue wrap around itself until she couldn't move it. She started to shriek in anger, incomprehensibly.

"I'm sorry, Vastra but I won't let you hurt anyone, no matter how much you want too." The Doctor told her bluntly.

"Ooo ha noh wiat." Vastra roared.

The Doctor pulled out a pair of handcuffs from one of his pockets and locked them around one of his wrists and one of hers. "But I do have the right, Vastra. I don't want to hurt you but I think that this might be the only way to get you to understand."

Then he went back along the corridor he had come from, Vastra having no choice but to follow or be dragged.

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Vastra thought about how naive she'd been to attack the humans. If any of them had died, she could have doomed her entire kind. Ahead, the Darchund house loomed out of the fog. Lifting the latch on the entrance gate, she approached the front door. Checking to see if the lock or hinges had been damaged, she realised that both were intact. The door could have been replaced but it didn't taste new, it couldn't be any younger than 5 years. This proved that the murderer had been let in the house meaning that he had probably used the knocker.

Flicking out her tongue to taste the cool metal, she caught the scent of a number of people but by using her sharp taste receptors and the poster which had the date of the attack, she was able to make a rough guess of the murderer's taste. Turning away from the house, she closed her eyes and focused on following the taste. It was very weak and would have faded by morning but she could still detect a trail.

Relying on taste alone, she hurried through the alley way that only days before had been the escape route of a murdering thief.

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After twisting and turning through the dark tunnels, the Doctor stopped in front of a large blue box. Fishing a key out of his pocket, he unlocked the doors and dragged Vastra inside.

What she saw took her breath away.

"The technology to make this happen must be thousands of years ahead than that of my species." She gasped, as she looked around the inside of the box which was larger than the outside. "Is this your ship?"

"Yep, this is the TARDIS." The Doctor grinned, glad that she didn't seem angry at him for the moment. "It can travel through both space and time which is why we're here. I want to show you something."

With the speed of someone who knew what he was doing, the Doctor raced around the center column, pushing buttons and twisting levers. With a jerk, the TARDIS started to roar as the column went up and down. Outside in the sewer, the blue box vanished.

"But why is a time traveller on Earth? You could go to thousands of other worlds. Ones without humans." Vastra asked.

The Doctor beamed at the Silurian for simply being curious. "Well I've got a little soft spot for your home. I like to make sure that everything's safe here."

Vastra nodded. "Can't you go back in time to visit your planet?"

"No, a time lock was placed on Gallifrey to avoid any misuse of time travel during the war." The Doctor explained.

"Gallifrey. A nice name." Vastra stated.

With a final tremble, the TARDIS stopped moving. The Doctor immediately charged towards the doors but when Vastra fell over due to the handcuffs, he apoligised, unlocked them and helped her up.

He then stood in front of the doors, the schoolboy grin on his face. "I present to you, the Dawn of Earth."

Vastra stared in wonder as the doors were opened and she looked out into a large, prehistoric forest. The sounds, smells and tastes of so many creatures was something that Vastra had never witnessed before. It was a thing she would never forget.

The Doctor walked out of the TARDIS and lifted up his arms. "Earth, hundreds of millions of years before humans were even mammals."

Vastra turned to the Doctor, the reason why she was here forming. "Hold on, that means that-"

"Exactly, now let's go." And grabbing her hand, they ran deeper into the forest.

The trees grew close together so the pair got a few scratches before reaching a ledge above a clearing. Below, humanoid people which seemed to have coral like skin were doing certain jobs. Some were making tools while others were cleaning out carcasses. They all had a small third eye on their forehead.

"Vastra, do you know who they are?" The Doctor asked.

The reptile nodded. "They are Silurians. The Silurians of the ancient past."

A/N: Chapter 1 is finally done. Thank you, Pachysam for reviewing. I particularly like your idea of Jackson and Rosita making an appearance :). Next chapter introduces Jenny and why Vastra decided to stay on the surface. Please review, any criticisms are welcome.