Warning this was just a story that my friend and I did because we were extremly board and thought 'hey why not make a Doctor Who fanfic!' sooo it may be a little crackish in some parts but for the most part it's acctually fairly serious…. I hope. XD
Disclamer: Sadly I don't own Doctor Who, if I did I would have my own TARDIS!... After I finish reading that darn manual I'll be as good as gold!
"I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU KNEW HOW TO FLY THIS THING!" Crystina screamed clinging on to the railing so as to not go flying every which way. The doctor was racing in circles around the console, tripping and stumbling as the TARDIS swerved repeatedly. He was pulling leavers, pushing buttons, pulling on a damn slinky for some reason, trying to control the complicated machine.
" I can! I am!" He shouted, pulling a large leaver and staring up at the beam coming from the console. He had a large grin on his face as he held on for dear life. "Just hold on!"
Crystina tried to glare at the man in front of her failing miserably before she started to grin right along with him and laughing madly as the TARDIS shook. "Whooohooo!" she screamed happily. He laughed along with Crystina, looking to the dark haired girl, his deep brown eyes shining with excitement. His gaze was broken from her when they landed, the TARDIS landing roughly, sending him tumbling backwards onto a leather seat. He chuckled softly, standing. "Well, shall we see where we are?"
"Love to! But I don't know where I am!" Crystina yelled muffuledly from the under section of the TARDIS's console, having fallen down there when they landed and getting entangled in some of the many colorful wires that layed about. She didn't dare try to get out for fear that she would unplug something of importance.
The Doctor blinked, finding his way onto his stomach. He ducked his head so he could look down at Crystina, raising an eyebrow. "Now, what ARE you doing down there?" He questioned. Practically jumping to his feet, The Doctor trotted down to Crystina. He kneeled next to her, slowly working to get the wire off of her. "You know, these things are dangerous." He chastised, grinning.
"Ohh yes Doctor because I totally got my self stuck down her on purpose." Crystina replied sarcastically grinning right back at him.
"Yes well, no more playing with the wires. They may be colorful, but they are not meant to be toyed with." The Doctor stated, removing the last wire from around Crystina's foot. "So, lets go explore!" His grin grew as he held his hand out to her, offering her help up.
Crystina giggled while shaking her head and took his hand pulling her self up. "Ok fine mister funny bone." She said her own grin spreading right across her face, as she and the Doctor ran back up to the main part of the console room and to the door. They paused at the door for a second. They then opened the doors.
"You BITCH!" Before them stood a panting brunette, her small chocolate eyes glaring straight into Crystina's own cocoa ones. The girl straightened up, taking in a deep breath. "You ran off with the Doctor, and left me behind!"
Crystina sputtered at the girl looking at her in disbelief. "Tara! Uhh. Uhh. I… I… Err…" Crystina chuckled nervously. "Hi?" she offered offhandedly. Tara's eyes narrowed darkly as she growled. Her arms crossed over her large chest. Her gaze was no less accusatory as she sighed, dropping her arms back to her side.
"Whatever, Hi." She grunted softly, rolling her eyes. She stepped aside, allowing the Doctor and Crystina to step out of the TARDIS. The Doctor stepped out, turning to stare at Tara, amusement clear on his handsome face. "Why 'ello there." He greeted, smirking. However his smirk faultered as Tara's wrath was suddenly focused on him.
"Oh, don't you 'ello me!" Tara snapped at him, causing him to stare in confusion. "You have all the time in the world and you can't wait two seconds for me? Fuck you too Doctor. . Too."
Crystina's jaw dropped slightly and she stared at Tara in pure shock. "Tara!" she cried and smacked the angry girl on the arm. "Jezz woman watch your language! And Sorry That I Was Excited When He Asked Me To Come With Him! You don't have to cuss us out." Tara stared at Crystina for a moment, scowling.
"Oooooowww, I didn't physically assault you!" Tara whined, rubbing her arm. Crystina rolled her eyes at her friend, placing her hands on her Mexican hips. Tara, who had calmed down, stared at Crystina for a moment. She was studying the girl, causing her to shift uncomfortably under the scrutinizing gaze.
"I don't get you…" Tara stated suddenly after a moment.
"What? I don't understand."
"You are mexican, you have the perfect ass. WHY ARE YOU SO PALE?"
Crystina's jaw went completely slack and she began to sputter at her friends comment a small blush rising on her cheeks. "I… I… Bu… But… Wh… What! What in the world does that have to do with anything!" she cried out incredulously. Tara blinked, tilting her head to the side as she grinned.
"It could very well have everything to with everything. "She stated, her hand hands resting on her hips. The Doctor stared between the two girls, an eyebrow cocked. "Not to state the obvious, but it has nothing to do with anything." He stated after a moment, shaking his head, smirking.
"R… Right." Crystina said blushing embarrassed. She crossed her arms over her chest and started looking around where they were. It seemed that they were in Cardiff in the middle of a park which made Crystina turn and look at Tara in confusion. "Tara…. What are you doing in Cardiff?"
Tara paused before grinning, laughing nervously. She reached back, rubbing the back of her neck. "Well you see, you've been traveling with The Doctor. So….I…kind of…started traveling with Jack." She explained, glancing away. She then blinked, looking up and around. "Speaking of whom, he should be around here somewhere. I lost him when I heard the TARDIS. " She added, frowning softly.
"How can you lose a man, who comes running at the sound of my TARDIS when you hear my TARDIS?" The Doctor asked amused.
"….I jacked a bike." And with that Tara motioned towards a red bike, which lay, leaned up against a tree. Crystina and the Doctor stared at the bike, their jaws a little slack. "Oh relax! The kid couldn't ride the thing properly anyways." Tara sighed, shaking her head at the two.
Crystina opened her mouth to say something but closed it and shook her head slightly before looking back up at her friend tiredly and saying. "Tara, sweetie, you need to grab that bike and take it back to that poor kid."
Tara looked from Crystina, to the bike, and back. "Feh, I will, I will. " She grumbled swatting the air absentmindedly. "Though I wanna wait for Jack. He'll be here any moment. If I run back to the kid we will be spending the next hour or so searching for one another. Been there, done that, it's a bitch." Tara explained, sighing softly as she shook her head.
The Doctor and Crystina looked at each other then back at Tara their eyebrows cocked as they stared at her, wondering why she and Jack would have needed some kids bike, and why they spent an hour looking for said bike. However before they could ask Tara about this Jack ran up to them painting.
"Hey! You left me!" he yelled at Tara glaring at her slightly. "I told you if you were going to be helping me out, not to wander off!"
Tara turned to stare at Jack for a moment. She sighed softly, crossing her arms over her chest and looking away. "Jack, hun. When have people EVER listened to thaat rule? You should have expected me to not listen." She stated, shaking her head. She gave a small apologetic smile to him. "Still, sorry." The Doctor turned to Crystina and mouthed 'hun' looking at her confused. Crystina smiled at him slightly shaking her head mouthing 'later' before turning back to Tara and Jack.
"Sooo how have you guys been?"Crystina asked casually with a small smile.
Tara blinked, looking from Jack and to Crystina. "Oh, we've been good." She said, shrugging her shoulders. "What about yourselves? Hows the time traveling?" She questioned after a moment. The Doctor grinned at the question.
"Oh, great! We've been traveling and running." His grin grew as he said that. Tara shook her head, laughing softly at him as she grinned herself. That was the Doctor for you. Always running, enjoying it fully.
"As always Doctor." She said smirking.
"I'm still mad at you for that last trip, Doctor." Crystina said and gave the Doctor a playful glare. The Doctor held his hands up in a way that said what-did-I-do!
"How was I supposed to know that the prince would declare you his bride and try to force you to marry him!" The Doctor said defensively.
"I'm not saying that you could have known I'm saying you could have tried to stop it!" Crystina retorted.
"What? I did stop it." He said confused.
"Yes you stopped it. But you stopped it when we were all ready at the alter and he was about to kiss me!" Crystina said angry. The Doctor grinned sheepishly and pulled at his ear slightly.
"Well yeah I guess I coulda' come a bit sooner." He admitted.
Tara and Jack stared at the two, both highly confused. Tara was the first to speak up. "So wait….you got a hubby?" She questioned, arching an eyebrow at Crystina. "Is he at least hot?" Crystina glared at Tara, smacking her arm once more.
" It doesn't matter! " Crystina barked at Tara, who was whining, mumbling about abuse. "And be quiet. I hardly hit you!" Tara pouted than stuck her tongue out at Crystina, earning a chuckle from Jack and the Doctor. Crystina rolled her eyes at her friend, annoyance a clear expression on her face.
"Well I'm glad you two get awesome adventures. " Tara grumbled after a moment, that pout back on her lips.
"Hum? What about you and Jack? Any fun adventures?" The Doctor asked smiling.
Jack and Tara automatically looked to one another, their eyebrows lifted. Both had the same thoughts on the term "adventure." Thoughts Tara didn't really wasn't to tell the Doctor and her friend. "Uhm, yeah. We've had our own little escapades." Tara answered him.
There was a long pause. Crystina's face was in her hand, she understood perfectly what the two had thought. The Doctor however was pretty ignorant in this area, at least compared to the others. "Care to clarify?" He questioned, raising an eyebrow.
"Oh Doctor, I'm sure you don't want to know." Crystina stated causing Jack to smirk.
"HEY! We've had adventures other than that!" Tara barked back.
"Then you don't deny what you've done? And name one!"Crystina said raising an eyebrow.
The Doctor looked at the three of them severely confused. Crystina looked up at the sky shaking her head and asking why to any higher being that was listening.
"Well there was that one time with the Cybermen…" Jack said thoughtfully.
"Yeah, and the, Ah fuck what were they called? Starts with and S. I can never remember. I just call em lizard bitches. "Tara stated, sighing softly. Those things still sent shivers down her spine. "Fucking bastards got a hold of me. I don't know HOW your companions deal with it Doctor! Having to be rescued like some damsel in distress is mortifying!" The Doctor just grinned at her, laughing softly.
Jack sighed softly at Tara, shaking his head. " It's Silurians Tara." He stated, sounding as if he had said it way too many times. Though there was an amused look on his face. On certain people ignorance could be amusing. To a certain point, however the moment ended when Crystina slapped Tara, hard, on the arm glaring at her.
"Shut the Hell Up!" Crystina said angrily and crossed her arms firmly over her chest, not liking being called a 'damsel in distress'. Tara cried out, grabbing her arm, rubbing the stinging skin. She glared at Crystina, scowling.
"What the hell I do? " Tara barked out, letting go of her arm to flail both limbs.
"I AM NOT a damsel in distress!" Tara paused, staring at Crystina, slamming her palm into her own forehead. When she removed her hand she had a large red mark on her face.
"So you hit me? I'm just saying that's what I felt like!" The Doctor Shook his head knowing that one of Crystina's pet peeves was when someone made little of her, and she didn't have the best of reactions to it. She almost always defaulted to yelling or hitting the person or thing that made little of her. He would have to work on that eventually… Crystina just simply glared at Tara and turned away from her, angry.
Tara whined after a moment before grunting and turning away from Crystina, as she had done her. "Tch, go ahead. Be mad for NO REASON! " She grumbled incoherently, pouting. She didn't do anything wrong! All she did was say how being held captive made her feel! Not like she was calling Crystina a damsel in distress. Tara shook her head, her arms crossing over her chest.
Jack and the Doctor looked at one another, frowning softly. What were they going to do with these two? Were they seriously getting pissy at one another over a simple sentence? "It'll pass." Jack mouthed after a moment, shaking his head. Just give the girls a moment; they would end up getting along again. The Doctor sighed softly, nodding.
Crystina glared off to her side for a moment before sighing and turning towards Tara. "I'm sorry. I should lose my top like that, and I'm sorry that I hit you." She said grudgingly. Tara glanced over her shoulder at Crystina before sighing and shrugging her shoulders.
"Eh, whatever man." Tara said, turning to look at Crystina. She smiled softly, stepping over to hug Crystina. "I just don't like it when people get all pissy with me." She stated.
Jack grinned at the Doctor. "See. Told ya." He stated.
Crystina smirked and shoved Jack while smiling. "Shut up." Jack looked down at her, chuckling softly at her.
"Come on guys, why don't we go to the café?" Tara questioned after a moment, grinning at the others. Crystina and the Doctor looked at one another before nodding. "Yeah, that sounds good." The Doctor said with a small nod.
So, the four walked off, the Doctor using his screwdriver to lock the TARDIS from over his shoulder. They all forgot about the bike, just leaving it leaned against the tree. They arrived at a small café, possibly family run. The inside was retro, decorated in red and chrome. There was a bar with old fashioned stools with red leather cushions. "Welcome!" The works chanted as the four stepped in, a bell ringing.
"Oh! These kinds of places have the best deserts." Tara purred, grinning. The girl had a sweets issue, seriously. "Home made pies, cakes, old fashioned ice cream. " She lead the group to a booth against the far wall. Jack and Tara sat on one side, Crystina and the Doctor on the other.
"You and your sweets, eh Tara?" Crystina said amused and poked Tara's arm smiling. Jack smirked and chuckled.
"You don't even know the half of it."he said. "We were eating out in some restaurant in Texas and some Sontarans came in looking for us and she would not leave that place for anything till she finished her pie."
"Hey, Hey! That was an awesome pie, plus it wasn't cheap." Tara defended herself, blushing slightly. She frowned at Jack who was just chuckling at her. She whined softly at him, ducking her head. "An….an I pulled some epic shit when I finished! "
Jack stared at her for a moment, an eyebrow raised. "You aimed some kids bouncy ball at the leaders eye, failed so miserably you hit his probic vent. Then you threw a pie and cake at them as we ran out the back door." Jack stated smirking.
"How in the world do you aim for the eye and hit the probic vent?" Crystina asked incredulously laughing slightly. "I mean there not even on the same side of the body!" The Doctor just raised an eyebrow and smiled at Tara while shaking his head as Crystina began to laugh at the thought of how the scene described to her would work out.
Then their waitress walked up and smiled politely at them. "Hello my name is Angel and I'll be your waitress while you're here. Do you know what you would like to drink?"
"Tea please." Crystina and the Doctor said at the same time. They looked at each other and grinned.
"Okay. You two?" Angel asked Tara and Jack.
"Dr. Pepper please." Tara said looking up to the waitress. The woman shared in Tara's elder sisters' name, but that was it. This woman was short, slightly plump. She had short, obviously died red hair with light brown highlights. Her eyes were a light blue and almond shaped. Tara's sister was tall, lanky, blonde, and had wide green eyes.
Jack also looked up to the woman. He smiled pleasantly at her. "Hello there Angel, I'm Captain Jack Harkness." He stated, holding his hand out to the woman who blushed at the simple introduction. However that was all Jack had to say to flirt with humanoids. "I would like a sex on the beach." This earned him a strange look from the entire group. Tara's eye twitched at that, her hand twitching as well.
"Uhm, excuse me?" The woman's face was dark red as she stared at Jack.
"Oh, no no no! He means the drink hunny! " Tara explained, laughing nervously. She shot Jack a look, before bringing her hand around, slapping the back of his head. "No alcohol! You know how I feel about those. He will have a coke." Tara stated, smiling at the waitress who nodded and scurried away.
"Thank you Tara." Crystina said, having been about to tell her friend to smack Jack. Of course the action had been done before she could get a word in.
The Doctor shook his head at Jack and frowned slightly. "Why would you even ask for that here, Jack?" Jack smiled and shrugged not giving anything further than that.
"Doctor." Crystina said slightly hushed looking over at something else in the restaurant with a smile on her face.
"What?" he asked looking at her confused.
"Banana phone." She said her smile growing into a grin as she pointed at a person who literally had a phone that looked like a banana. The Doctor stared at her for a moment before following her gaze and grinning himself.
"So it is!" He said as their drinks were laid out before them. Tara instantly unwrapped her straw, taking in long swallows of the addictive soda. Another issue the girl had was the fact that she drank…A LOT. Many waitress/waiters hated her for that. In the time it would take her to finish eating she would have had at least 5 glasses, more if the glasses are small. She was just a seriously thirsty person!
The waitress walked off just as Tara looked up. "But….I need a refill." At this point everyone had their straws in their drinks, taking their firsts sips. Seeing that the waitress wasn't going to come back for a moment Tara whined. She looked to Jacks drink and dipped her straw in, not caring that her cheek was brushing against his as she stole a small sip of his drink. Well, small for her.
Crystina raised and eyebrow at Tara amusement plainly seen across her pail face. "Brilliant Tara. Just brilliant." She said smiling slightly.
"Hello." Jack said as Tara stole a little more of his drink.
"Hi." Tara said sweetly.
"That's my drink." Jack said with a smirk.
"Doh~." Tara said smiled at Jack. "I love you~."
"Uh huh." Jack said smirking and took a sip from his drink.
We chatted and caught up with one another, only pausing when we needed to place our orders. Crystina had ordered a hamburger, the Doctor fish'n'chips, Tara ordered a rare steak, and Jack a medium well steak. The four hadn't even really begun eating when…
"THE DOCTOR! EXTERMINATE!"
Crystina seemed to be the first to react even somewhat by grabbing her hamburger and throwing it directly at the Daleks eye-stock, before they all jumped out of their seats and run for the door.
"VISION NOT IMPAIRED!" the Dalek screamed as the condiments from the hamburger began to sear off eye-stock but this bought the group just enough time to reach the door before the Dalek began to shoot at them. The door was slammed closed behind them, protecting them from the deadly fire.
"Can we go anywhere without some crazy ass alien trying to kill us?" Tara growled as she ran with the others.
"No! Obviously we can't!" Crystina yelled, skidding to a stop. The four were breathing heavily, looking around at each other.
The Doctor raked his hand through his hair, frowning. "Now, what is a Dalek doing here? At a quaint little café?" He questioned, looking at everyone, his gaze finally resting on Crystina. He shot off, pulling out and twirling his screwdriver as he rambled. Crystina was watching him, nodding her head, seeming to actually understand the words coming from the Doctor. Jack seemed to understand bits and pieces, putting in commentary at proper times. However poor Tara could quite keep up with the speed at which the Doctor was talking. She could understand the parts where he would slow down though, and pieced everything together.
"The Daleks shouldn't even been around in the first place!"
Ramble.
"Well there's only one explanation. "
Shorter rambling
"There must be a surviving Dalek ship out there. "
More rambling.
"Well, we have to get onto that ship. Need to figure out what they are planning. Girls, you go to the TARDIS, stay there until I tell you."
"We have had this discussion before Doctor. So no." Crystina said firmly and looped her arm through the Doctor's. He sighed and turned to Tara.
"Alright you need to get to the TARDIS. You'll be safe there." He said looking completely 's eyebrow lifted at the Doctor and she shook her head.
"No chance. I'm going with." She stated simply, shrugging her shoulders. "And you can't convince me to stay on the TARDIS. So let's not argue over it." She added stubbornly. The Doctor sighed and nodded taking off with Crystina in tow. Jack grabbed Tara's hand and began running after the two. They didn't get very far when they ran into the same Dalek from earlier.
"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE THE DOCTOR AND HIS COMPANIONS!" it screamed and took a shot at the four of them. They all ducked and the Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver pointing it at the Dalek causing it to transport back onto its ship.
The group straightened up from their ducked positions. "We need to get up there…" The Doctor muttered, frowning as he looked up. He pointed the sonic screwdriver upwards. "Going up!" He grinned at them just before they all were transported onto the Dalek ship. They all fell to the ground with a small thud. Crystina and the Doctor were right next to each other on the floor while Tara and Jack had fallen on top of each other, Jack looking slightly more happy with the situation than Tara.
Crystina and the Doctor quickly helped each other up of the floor and turned to Tara and Jack who seemed to look like they were about to make out with each other. Crystina looked at the Doctor with her eyebrow raised and he just shook his head with a small frown on his face. "Oi! Now it not the time to go all kissy face with each other!" the Doctor said sharply making Jack and Tara turn their heads and look at him.
Tara pouted, actually kinda like the way the situation had been heading. She looked to Jack and gave him a quick deep kiss, just to spite the Doctor. She pulled back to stick her tongue out to the Doctor. "Alright, get off." She sighed after a moment, looking up at Jack. Obviously this wasn't their first time in this position, whether it happened on the field or not…let's leave that to you to decide.
Crystina and the Doctor rolled their eyes at the two and turned around to look for a control panel for the Doctor to use. Jack and Tara got up quickly after that and began to help Crystina and the Doctor look for a control panel… Well Tara would have if she knew what a control panel looked like…
Tara stood off to the side, leaning against the wall. She felt terribly ignorant at this point in time, it wasn't a pleasant feeling.
The Doctor eventually found the control panel, using the sonic screwdriver so he could get the covering off. "Here, hold this for a second. " He turned to look at Crystina, holding the sonic screwdriver out to her. Crystina grabbed the sonic and nodded to the Doctor taking a step back from him to give him more room to work. He started to mess with wires in the control panel for a minute before he held his hand out to Crystina for the sonic. She went to hand it to him but ended up tripping somehow and started to fall towards the Doctor. However before she could hit the ground or be caught by one of her friends a door slid down from the ceiling cutting the group and Crystina off from each other.
The Doctor, Jack, and Tara all cried out, rushing to the door. On the other side Crystina was freaking out, trying her hardest to open the door. She had the sonic screwdriver pointed at the door, cursing when nothing happened. The damn thing was dead locked!
"Crystina! Use the screwdriver!" The Doctor yelled, banging his fist on the door.
"I did! It's dead locked!" Crystina tried again, crying out in frustration. She was about to yell through the door to the others when a scary as hell voice yelled out behind her.
"THE DOCTORS COMPANION! EXTERMINATE! "
Crystina tensed, turning slowly, ignoring the cries from behind the door. "Shit." She cursed at seeing two Daleks. Instead of freezing up she cried out, running for the Daleks. "WHAT?" They seemed shocked, giving Crystina the second or so needed to slip past them.
On the other side of the door the Doctor was calling for Crystina, Jack and Tara staring at the door. They all jerked, jumping at the sound of the Daleks shooting. "Crystina!" They cried out in fear for their friends life.
Crystina didn't take the time to look behind her to see if the Daleks were chasing her she just ran as fast as she could away from them. She could see a door up ahead of her and she prayed to any deity listening that the door wasn't deadlocked as she pointed the sonic screwdriver at it. She felt a wave of relief wash over her as the door slid open. She began to sprint towards the door and as soon as she was past it she aimed the sonic over her shoulder at the door hoping to buy her self the little time it would take the Daleks to open the door.
The Daleks had indeed been chasing after Crystina, crying out when she caused the door to slam in front of them. It didn't take long for them to open the door, though every second counted for the girl. They resumed going after her, firing after her as well.
The Doctor pounded on the door in frustration. He had ruined another person's life. Crystina's life hadn't even really begun yet and he had destroyed it just like he always did. He slammed his fist on the door again, anger and sorrow beginning to crash down on him.
Jack looked to the side, down at the ground. It seemed almost certain that Crystina was dead. The only one out of the three who refused to let depression wash over her was Tara. She glared at the other two, her hands resting on her hips. "Now you two quit that!" She barked, earning the other twos attention. They seemed shocked behind that overwhelming guilt and depression.
"Tara, she's dead and it's my fault." The Doctor muttered softly, frowning at her. His eyes widened as Tara's hand lifted as if to slap him, his expression aggressive. Instead of smacking him in the face, which she would never do to the Doctor mind you, she grabbing onto his tie in the down swing. She yanked him to her, growling.
"Crystina Moore is not dead, not yet. For all you know she's still on this ship, running. She's good like that Doctor. So don't get all emotional. It's just silly." Tara growled at him, rolling her eyes as she let go of his tie. The Doctor looked at Tara shock before composing himself slightly as he realized that Tara was right. Crystina might not be dead yet she might be alive and running for her life and he just went assumed the worst giving up on her!
He righted himself and walked back over to the control panel. "Right we need to find out what the Daleks are up to stop them and find Crystina!" He said firmly and subconsciously reached into his coat for his screwdriver before remembering that Crystina had it last. "Right no sonic." He said running his hand through his hair. "I'm going to need something to cut the wires."
Tara blinked before grinning at the Doctor. She reached into her bra, pulling out a steak knife she had stolen from the café. "Will this work?" The Doctor looked to her and blinked, staring at the knife in her hand. Jack himself stared at her, a smirk on his lips.
"When did you….how did you?" The Doctor questioned in shock as he took the knife from her. "It works, but how did you get this thing?"
"Oh? I nabbed a few knives as we ran." Tara explained shrugging her shoulders.
Jack raised an eyebrow at her. "Should we be worried? Do I need to frisk you for more knives?" He questioned. This earned a smirk from Tara as she turned to face him, a hand resting on her hips.
"You're welcome to." Tara grinned at him.
However the Doctor interrupted before Jack could say or do anything. "Could you two stop flirting for one second?" He glanced at Jack and Tara, frowning disapprovingly at them. Jack shrugged, grinning and winked at the Doctor before he stepped away from Tara. The Doctor rolled his eyes at Jack before he began to work on the wires of the control panel again.
Crystina panted as she ducked behind a metal crate Dalek blast bombarding her as she hid. She could see the door that she would need to reach to get some safety again only a few feet away from her, but she knew that right now she was pinned down a bit and if she ran she was likely to be exterminated. She felt tears brimming in her eyes as her fear began to overwhelm her. "Damn it." She muttered under her breath shaking her head as she tried to think of a way to get to the door safely, when the fire suddenly ceased. She tensed wondering why they would do such a thing.
"THE DOCTOR'S COMPANION WILL SURRENDER!" she heard one of the Daleks scream.
Crystina scoffed and chuckled slightly. "Ohh yeah why would I do that?" she called out to them.
"THE DOCTOR'S COMPANION WILL SURRENDER BECAUSE THE DOCTOR AND HIS OTHER COMPANIONS ARE DEAD OR CAPTURED!" Crystina felt her heart stop for a second, and her breath hitched slightly. Dead? No they couldn't be the Doctor would never let that happen. Crystina firmly made her self believe that the Doctor would never let anyone die and set her mind to figure out a way to the door a few feet away from her.
"You're bluffing! You didn't kill them!" Crystina yelled back getting the sonic ready to open the door for her escape.
"DALEKS HAVE NO NEED TO BLUFF! THE DOCTOR IS DEAD! THE FEMALE IS DEAD! THE MALE IS CONTAINED!" the same Dalek screamed at her.
"We'll see about that." Crystina mumble before suddenly bolting for the door sonicing it open as she ran.
She just reached it when… "EXTERMINATE!"
The Doctor was working his hardest to work with the wire with just a steak knife. Proved to be much, much more difficult then with his screwdriver. Tara and Jack stood of to the side, leaning against a wall, shoulder to shoulder. They were dead serious, no longer flirting. That just showed severity of the situation. The Doctor was almost done when the door that Crystina fell through opened. There stood a Dalek.
All three jumped at its entrance. Jack quite literally shoved Tara behind him, glaring at the Dalek.
"Where is Crystina Moore?" The Doctor ordered, stepping forward, glaring at the Dalek. The Dalek entered the room, gliding in slowly.
"THE DOCTOR'S COMPANION HAS BEEN EXTERMINATED!"
Silence fell as the three stared at the Dalek, Tara peeking from around Jack, her jaw slack. Her typically pale face blanched. It seemed that wave of guilt and depression hit Jack and the Doctor once more. Before the Doctor had a chance to go all bad ass Time Lord on the Dalek, Tara stepped out from behind Jack, stomping to the Dalek. "Tara!" Jack and the Doctor yelled.
Tara's advancement obliviously surprised the Dalek for it backed up a few inches. "You….lie." She pointed at it as she stated this simply.
"I SPEAK THE TRUTH! THE FEMALE IS DEAD!"
"See, here lies the problem with that. You aren't stupid." Tara stated, shrugging her shoulders, shoving her hands into the pockets of her dark denim jeans. "See, if you did get those toilet plungers on her. You would have held her captive, because killing her would be a big mistake and you know it. That would have angered our main man the Doctor, you don't want that. He is at his most dangerous when emotional." Tara explained as she started circling the Dalek, which had its eye-stalk on her the entire time.
"With her simply as your captive you could make demands, try and weasel your lying ass out of this. So either you have her captive or ….."
"STOP FUCKING CHASING ME!" the three of them suddenly heard a very familiar voice scream angrily from somewhere else in the ship.
"And so my point has been proven, Crystina Moore, is alive. " Tara stated just before the Doctor pulled some amazing move, causing another door to open. The Dalek started to fire at us. Jack grabbing onto the collar of Tara's shirt, and pulling her after him and the Doctor being the only thing that kept her from being exterminated. She couldn't quite run, seeing as Jack was still dragging her behind. There was a slightly dead panned look on her face.
They ran as fast as they could until they saw another door ahead of them open and a figure fly threw it before it closed behind them. The Doctor almost immediately recognized the figure to be Crystina, and ran over to her as fast as he could immediately pulling her into a fierce hug. Crystina gave a shocked scream before she realized who was hugging her and returned the hug just as fiercely. "You're ok!" she cried out.
The Doctor pulled away from Crystina and looked at her. "Of coarse we're ok why wouldn't we be?"
"Well it's just that the Daleks kept trying to tell me that you guys were dead. I was starting to get worried about you." Crystina said sheepishly.
"Now Crystina. We didn't doubt you! Well I didn't doubt you." Tara stated, smirking at her friend. She had her hands on her hips, which were popped out to the side. "They tried telling us the same thing, didn't believe it for a moment. " She added, her grin growing into a grin.
"Yeah, this idiot got up in the Daleks face ranting on about how they wouldn't have killed you." Jack stated shooting Tara a glare for pulling such a move. "Could have gotten yourself killed."
"We could have been killed anyways. Plus, I didn't, now did I? I'm standing here before you." Tara stated shrugging nonchalantly. Crystina rolled her eyes at Tara and hugged the Doctor again liking the comforting feeling she got when she hugged him. The Doctor smiled and hugged back, tightening his arms around her.
"Let's try not to wander off again." The Doctor said playfully to Crystina.
Crystina smiled at the Doctor and snuggled into his chest slightly. "Yeah I'll try not not."
"Good." the Doctor told her, looking down at her.
"Ok, this reunion is adorable, but we have a job to do." Tara stated, interrupting the happy reunion of the Doctor and his companion. The two looked to her, frowning softly. Still, the Doctor nodded in understanding.
"You're right. We have to figure out what their plan is, and stop them." The Doctor stated as he released Crystina.
"Right. Ohh! Here's the sonic." Crystina said and handed the Doctor back his beautiful little sonic screwdriver.
"Ha! Just what I need!" he cried happily. Crystina smiled and they began to look for a new control panel for the Doctor to use.
"Found one!" Crystina yelled from down the corridor. The Doctor, Jack, and Tara quickly ran over to Crystina. The Doctor quickly soniced the metale covering the panel prying it off and also made sure that Crystina was right beside him while he did all of this. He wasn't about to lose her like that again. Now that he had his sonic screwdriver the proses of rewiring the control panel went by much faster and the Doctor got into the Daleks mainframe much quicker.
"Ah Ha!" The Doctor cried out after a while of messing with the control panel.
"Ah ha what Doctor?" Crystina asked looking over his shoulder at the screen he was looking at. Tara walked over and looked as well trying to see what the Doctor had found.
"There! Right there!" he said and pointed at something on the screen that looked vaguely like a percent chart. Then he began ranting at top speed and poor Tara was lost once again while Jack and Crystina seemed to understand what was being said for the most part.
"So we just need to get to the main control room and stop them?" Crystina asked after the Doctor finally paused from his rant.
"Yep!" he said jumping up grabbing Crystina's hand before running off towards the main control room.
Tara sighed softly, shaking her head as she and Jack raced after the two. If not for how fast the Doctor talked she would most likely understand what was going on. However when he started ranting she just couldn't keep up. It was so irritating, still she didn't complain.
The four ran, making their way through the corridors to the main control room. The Doctor was at the lead, Crystina close behind him. Jack was at her heals, with Tara running right behind him. They skid to a halt as they reached a door, which seemed to possibly be the entrance to the main control room.
The Doctor pointed the screwdriver at the door, grinning when he found that it wasn't dead locked. "Yes!" He barged in as the door slid open. All eye-stalks turned to look at the group.
"THE DOCTOR! " The five or so Daleks cried out in that horrendous robotic screaming voice of theirs. One glided forwards, stopping before the group. "THE DOCTOR MUST BE EXTERMINATED!"
"Wait! You don't want to do that!" Crystina suddenly exclaimed making the Daleks stop for a second and look at her giving the Doctor the chance to sneak over to the controls. "Ohh I didn't think they'd actually listen." she said shocked.
"EXPLAIN!" one of the Dalek, the one who to be in charge, screamed.
"Err." Crystina said trying to think of something to give the Doctor some time to do whatever it was he was doing.
Jack and Tara looked to one another, both trying to come up with a reason. Fuck, fuck, fuck, think, think, think! The wheel was spinning, but the hamster was dead.
The Dalek said nothing as it turned towards the doctor, aiming straight at his. Panic washed over Crystina as she dug into the pockets of her jacket, which seemed much larger on the inside. She glanced at the pencil before chucking it at the Dalek. It had no time to respond before the pencil made contact and exploded. Everyone jumped, even the Daleks seemed to be jolted by the sudden boom.
All eyes went to Crystina who stood there, staring at where the Dalek had once stood. Even she hadn't been expecting that to happen. "WHAT?" She yelled out, unable to make sense of her new found weapons.
The other Daleks started to glide forwards, screaming for Crystina's death. She however yanked more pencils from her TARDIS like pockets, pointing them at the Daleks who stopped dead. "Nu uh! No exterminating! "
Crystina tossed a pencil to Jack, watching as he easily caught the writing utensil gone deadly. In her panic clouded mind Crystina used poor judgement and threw a pencil to Tara. The brunettes small eyes shot wide open as she yelped, fumbling to catch the pencil. Not even aware of doing it Crystina and Jack held their breaths, preying that Tara would recover from her fumble, and not kill them all.
Their hearts stopped as the pencil went beyond Tara's grasp, falling to the floor. Suddenly she jumped up, bringing her feet together to catch the pencil easily between them. She fell to the floor, landing harshly on her rear, her legs held up to keep the pencil away from the floor. Breaths of relief escaped those who could breath as Tara grinned at the impossible move she made.
"Give me that!" Jack yelled, snatching the pencil from between Tara's vans
This gave Crystina an idea. "Attack the doctor and I throw another pencil to Tara!" She bluffed, holding up a single pencil. Tara sputtered, staring at Crystina as if she were insane. The Daleks looked between each other, even backing up a few inches.
"YOU WOULD KILL US ALL!"
"Oh? You're one to talk about killing us all." Crystina stated, grinning at the Daleks. She had the advantage in this situation, nothing was better.
"WE ARE NOT PATHETIC HUMANS!" One of the Daleks screamed at her, inching forward.
"I Will Chuck This Pencil At Your Head!" Crystina yelled at the Dalek, waving the pencil in the air. The Dalek surged forward a few more inches as Crystina smirked. "But...you don't have a head..." She pointed out, laughing softly at this statement.
"EXTERMIN...!" "Oh No You Don't! No exterminate! I will throw another pencil to Tara!" Crystina cut the Dalek off, glaring darkly, causing it to retreat those inches. Tara was glaring at Crystina, shooting eye daggers into the girls back, though no one was paying her any mind. Their focus was on the girl who held the exploding pencils.
"Hey doctor! Hows it coming?' Tara yelled, looking over to the Doctor, still sitting on the floor. Crystina and the Daleks seemed to be having some kind of stare down. There was a second of silence before the Doctor jumped up. "Got it!" He cheered, spinning on his heels to look at the others. He paused, looking between Crystina and the Daleks. Was...was she staring them down?
"Right then." The Doctor muttered shaking his head. "Sooooo Daleks!" he shouted pulling the Daleks attention away from Crystina. "I've just completely disabled all of your weapon systems, navigation systems, and your power will fail in 20 minutes it you don't leave now and never return. This is the only chance I'm going to give you if you don't take it then I'm sorry for what happens..." He held up a remote his thumb hovering over the button on it.
"DALEKS WILL NOT SURRENDER!" the lead Dalek screamed at them.
The Doctor looked at them sadly and shook his head slightly. "Then I'm sorry." He said and pressed the button. There was a sudden explosion from somewhere on the ship. The Daleks began to freak out and glide around the room in attempt to regain control of their systems. The Doctor sprinted from his place over to the others grabbing Tara and Crystina's hand. "Run." he said simply and they all took off towards the transport.
The Doctor released Tara's hand so that he may pull out his screwdriver and use it on the transport machine, though he kept a firm grip on Crystina's hand. He gripped back onto Tara's hand as the machine fired up. Tara gripped onto Jack's hand in turn so he wouldn't be lost as they were transported back to earth.
The four landed in a heap on the ground, all whining and griping about their uncomfortable positions. Due to the bodies piled atop her Crystina's voice was muffled as she screamed. "GET OFF OF ME! I CAN'T BREATH!" The other three lept off of her, tumbling and tripping over one another so that they all ended up on the ground again. Just in more of a line then a large heap of flailing limbs.
Crystina lay on her back, staring up at the sky, dazed. She drew in a deep breath the second she was able to. It took her a moment before she had her breath, and when she did she glared at Tara. "You're boob was smothering me!" Tara blink innocently, genuinely confused. She had been a bit preoccupied with the fact that she had been stuck in an awkward position under the two men, Jack over her and the Doctor some how managing to be the top dog of the pile.
"Well I apologize for landing like that. I should have lifted the two...three hundred pounds of man flesh off of me and gotten off of you as soon as possible. I am SO sorry." Tara said in an irritably sarcastic voice. She narrowed her already small eyes at Crystina, her arms crossed over chest. She still sat on the ground next to Jack.
Crystina's eyes narrowed as well and she decided that if Tara wanted to be sarcastic with her then she'd be sarcastic right back. "Yes, you should have cause you just have awesome strength like that." she said dryly, a hint of sarcasm in her tone.
The two girls sat there, glaring at each other. They held gazes, both refusing to look away. Jack and the Doctor just stared in confusion, wondering about their little glaring match. The men jumped as Tara suddenly broke out into a fit of giggles, falling to her back. "My...hehehe...boobs...hehehe...were smothering you! hehehe!" She laid a hand on her stomach as she grinned up to the slightly cloudy cerulean sky. It took a moment but soon after Crystina was laughing as well, shaking her head at her friend.
"God Tara, you and your big ass boobs." Crystina chuckled, grinning. However her grin faded as Tara smacked her on the arm, hard.
Tara no longer was grinning or laughing. Instead she was glaring darkly at her friend.
"Wh...what I do?" Crystina yelled, quickly grabbing her arm, surprised by the force with which Tara smacked her.
"You idiot! You threw an exploding pencil...at me? You KNOW I can't catch!" Tara scolded her, pointing dramatically at Crystina. She was fuming, infuriated by the stupid move. "You are so lucky I caught that thing with my feet." She added, crossing her arms over her chest.
Crystina stared wide-eyed at Tara, shocked. Her mouth opened and closed, resembling a fish out of water. For a good moment she stuttered incoherently. "I...uh...I...I was PANICKED!" She yelled out in defense, raising her arms up in frustration. "I'm sorry I wasn't thinking clearly! I mean it's not like I was staring down a Dalek!" She added.
"No, you weren't thinking clearly. You could have killed us all!" Tara growled out, scowling.
"Well we would have been killed by Daleks if I hadn't!" Crystina defended,
The two men, who sat off to the side, stared at the arguing girls. They shifted their gazes to one another, seeming to share the same thought. Should they try to take sides? Or should they just stay off to the side, out of the line of fire. "Ah, ladies..." Oops.
Jack flinched as the two girls shot glares at the Doctor for interrupting. The poor man didn't quite understand the female mind, no man did. Crystina's glare was the first to soften as she sighed. "Yes Doctor?" She bit out the question irritably.
"We survived, we saved yet another day. Calm down. Tara, you caught the pencil, no need to be so cross. Crystina, you did wonderfully. " The Doctor said, smiling pleasantly at the two girls. He pulled himself up so that he was standing and held his arms open. Tara sighed, twitching her mouth before allowing herself to calm.
"Whatever." Tara grumbled, standing as well. She brushed herself off, patting dirt off of her rear.
Crystina frowned softly, standing up. Jack was the last to stand up. The four looked at each other for a moment before the tension broke and they just grinned at each other, laughing slightly.
The Doctor grinned, shoving his hands into his pockets. He rocked slightly, looking off in the direction that the park his TARDIS was parked in. "Sooo, need a ride?" He questioned, looking at Jack and Tara who had moved to stand next to one another. They looked to each other, both grinning.
"Of course Doctor!" Tara chirped, clapping her hands together in her excitement.
"Well, what are waiting for? Allonsy!"