The Christmas Vampire

December 20th

Chapter 1

The Doctor locked the doors to his classroom for the last time of the fall semester. It was Christmas break and the Doctor was going to use that time to work on his TARDIS's dematerialization circuit. He came close several times, but his work exploded in his face, literally.

He walked down the hall towards the front of the school and thought back on the last few months of working as a teacher long term. It had been fairly quiet since the Raxacoricfallapatorius incident way back on the first day of school. Not having to save the day for that long had two sides. One was that the Doctor could relax and be at peace with his surrogate family, the Russos, but the other sides was that all the peace and quiet was driving him insane. He knew something was bound to happen. It always did.

Montana Tower

Paul Scypher walked down the hallway in the sciences center in the world's tallest and strongest building and the headquarters for the Montana Corporation, the most powerful and richest company in the world. It surpassed Tipton Industries several years ago and since the hiring of the scientist Dr. Tesla Howard, the company had blasted away from the competitors and become a small nation of sorts within the world. It manufactured everything from baby products all the way to weapons of war and even robotics, not just small robots, but advanced bipedal ones.

Paul was second in command of the company right after the founder Henry Montana. Montana was one of the nicest and kindness men in the world. He gave tons of money to help people across the globe and was even on good terms with UNIT's military branch, something that was almost impossible with someone in his position and wealth. Montana had order Tesla to design and create something that not even Paul knew about.

Paul walked by Tesla's laboratory and heard what sounded like machinery moving with a slight scream hidden within it.

Waverly Sub Station

The Doctor walked into the doors of the sub station and walked over to the TARDIS and walked inside. He tossed his black coat on the rack next to the door and walked back outside into the restaurant outside. He turned and closed the door and then noticed all the Christmas decorations on his TARDIS. He saw a wreath nailed to the one of the doors of the TARDIS. He smiled and shook his head.

"Only for a season, Old Girl," he whispered to the TARDIS, patting it.

"Are you stroking the TARDIS again?" asked Alex as she walked down the staircase.

The Doctor turned around and answered her, "No, I'm not."

"Uh-hu, yeah," said Alex going behind the counter.

"Who put those on her anyway?" asked the Doctor.

"I did," said Theresa coming out of the kitchen, "I didn't think you would mind."

"I don't think she minds," replied the Doctor sitting down on one of the stools, "If she did, that wreath wouldn't be there at all. She can be a very temperamental machine."

"You know its still weird that you call that thing a she," said Theresa, collecting some dirty dishes from the tables.

"Because the TARDIS is a she and she's not a thing," said the Doctor, who seemed to take offense to Theresa calling the TARDIS a thing. "The TARDIS is a ship, a living ship, plus she's the only one who's been with me my whole life."

"That's because you've never settled down and gotten married with anyone," said Theresa, "All you ever do is travel in that machine over there."

"No, I was married once and a dad once," said the Doctor, his face flooding with emotions, "I don't like to talk about that part of my past."

"Sorry," said Theresa.

"That's okay," said the Doctor, "I haven't seen my wife since I rebelled and left Gallifrey. I left after she died. She somehow couldn't regenerate and her death was fatal and final."

"Isn't death normally fatal?" asked Alex.

"Not for a Time Lord, it isn't," replied the Doctor, "You know because of the regenerating."

"No, I really don't know, but I'll take your word for it," said Theresa.

The Doctor just smiled at the two and nodded.

Montana Tower

Dr. Tesla Howard injected something into an IV that was hooked up to a monkey that was housed in his lab storage rooms. The monkey's eyes popped open and rolled back into its head. The primate started to go into convulsions and the muscles started to bulge and the hair started to grow inches longer. the fingernails and toenails curled around and grew into claws. The monkey's eyes rolled back into the proper place, but had turned from brown to deep gold. The breathing stabilized and the monkey saw Tesla. It opened its mouth and roared at the man. Its teeth had all turned into canines. Spit and saliva sprayed from the creatures mouth. The monkey stopped struggling and passed out as its breathing eventually stabilized.

A lab assistant was in the room with Tesla and was horrified at what he had witnessed.

"Why would Montana want to create something that would do that Dr. Howard," he asked the scientist.

"He didn't," answered Tesla, "This is something I am working on."

"Why would you want to do anything like that?"

"Because it's very important to me. That's why," said Tesla, "Now leave."

The assistant knew better than to question Tesla's orders and he left the room.

Tesla picked up another syringe and injected a vile of blood into the IV. The monkey's arm now started smoking. The monkey woke up and started thrashing around in its restraints. Its whole body started smoking and it longer hair started to fall out. The monkey's skin was boiling and suddenly the whole primate burst into flames and eventually all that remained was the charred corpse of the monkey.

Tesla's jaw extended and he moved it back and forth. He scratched his chin and shook his head. He spoke through his teeth, "Still doesn't work. The conversion rate is higher and more effective but it's still beaten by their blood. It doesn't matter how powerful they are, if they are still able to be killed by the very thing they need to survive, its useless! I'll start another variation and I'll eventually get it."

Tesla called the assistant back into his lab to dispose of the scorched primate and Tesla went in deeper into his lab and with irritation started his experiment again.

"I have to get this working. Of all the races, there's only one immune and it's near impossible to over come the immunity!"

Waverly Place

The Doctor was walking down the snow covered Waverly Place and sat down on a bench outside the sub station. A chill ran down the Doctor's back, but it wasn't because of the cold. Something was coming, but not to the city. Something was going to happen to him. Anything that can make a Time Lord feel like that was never good. The Doctor sensed it was something old, incredibly old, maybe even too old. All the way from the Dark Times of the Universe, but there were no survivors from that time period. Even the Doctor was born after the Dark Times. Something that old would be incredibly powerful, but he could handle. Well, he hoped he could.