Silence in the Library:
In a small quaint home there was a girl and a man sat in a small normal British family room.
"Close your eyes, and tell me what you see." The man said to the little girl.
"The library" The girl says with her eyes closed. She sees herself surrounded by many buildings.
"Open your eyes again. Where are you now?" The man asks.
"My living room, Dr. Moon." The girl says.
"When you close your eyes" The man says now indentified as Dr. Moon.
"I go to the library" she says.
"Go to the library now." Doctor Moon says gently. The girl looks around the library and shes in a wooden glass dome, and many books surrounding her. The room noted as a rotunda.
"Are you back there?" Doctor Moon asks.
"Yes" she answers.
"The same part?" Doctor Moon questions.
"No, it's always different. The library goes on forever." She tells Doctor Moon with a calm voice.
"How do you move?" Doctor Moon asks curiously.
"By wishing." The girl says with a small smile. At that same time the door to the entrance of the room she's in the doorknob rattles.
"What's wrong?" says Doctor Moon
"Something's here. Someone's got in. No one's supposed to get in." the girl says fearfully.
"She's never mentioned anyone else. She's always been alone." The girl's father says scared.
"Someone's in my library. No, no, please, that's not allowed. That's not allowed." The girl says panicking.
"Listen to me. The library is in your mind." Doctor Moon says trying to calm the girl down.
"I know it's in my mind, but something's got inside." The girl cries out. As soon as she says that a brown haired man in a trench coat and a ginger normal looking woman burst through the door.
"Oh. Hello. Sorry to burst in on you like this. Okay if we stop here for a bit?" the man says to the little girl.
Now we will go back to before the people burst into the rotunda. In a future looking room.
"Books. People never really stop loving books." The man says in the room before him and the ginger haired women walk out now in the library. "Fifty first century. By now you've got holovids, direct to brain downloads, fiction mist, but you need the smell. The smell of books, Donna. Deep breath." Say the man now identifying the women as man who is called the Doctor and Donna walk down a marble staircase to an outside area. "The Library. So big it doesn't need a name. Just a great big The." The Doctor exclaims to Donna.
"It's like a city" Donna says shockingly.
"It's a world. Literally, a world. The whole core of the planet is the index computer. Biggest hard drive ever. And up here, every book ever written. Whole continents of Jeffrey Archer, Bridget Jones, Monty Python's Big Red Book. Brand new editions, specially printed." The Doctor tells Donna smirking slightly Donnas reaction.
Now we will stop and move forward to a better more exciting part of the adventure. The doctor and donna move around the rotunda in question of everything happening in till a interface turns and says "Reminder. The library has been breached. Others are coming. Reminder. The library has been breached. Others are coming. Reminder. The library has been breached." The door burst open and seven people in suits walk in. One of the people assumed the leader removes the filter from her helmet.
"Hello, Sweetie." The woman says with blond curly hair in a joking matter like a sister would say to a brother or cousin. Just then a woman with brunette hair and rounded face takes off her helmet filter.
"Oi, sissy that's what I'm supposed to say." She sasses the blonde haired woman. While the blonde woman just laughs. The Doctor 'of course' at the time is confused in till a snaps himself back to reality.
"Get out." He demands.
"Doctor." Donna asks the Doctor confusingly.
"All of you. Turn around, get back in your rocket and fly away. Tell your grandchildren you came to the library and lived. They won't believe you." The Doctor tells them.
"Pop your helmets, everyone. We've got breathers." The blonde woman says to her team behind her.
"How do you know they're not androids?" Another woman says with short dark hair to the blonde woman.
"Because we've…" the long haired brunette woman says pointing to herself and the blonde. "dated androids. They're rubbish and I won't date another one again." Just then a man speaks up.
"Who is this? You said we were the only expedition. I paid for exclusives." The man says outraged.
The blonde and brunette women just smirk and answer together. " We lied, Were always lying. Bound to be others." The man turns around a points to a woman with brown/black hair.
"Miss Evangelista, I want to see the contracts." He tells her.
The blonde haired woman walks up to the Doctor and asks. "You came through the north door, yeah? How was that, much damage?"
"Please, just leave. I'm asking you seriously and properly, just leave." The Doctor asks desperately then he pauses. "Hang on. Did you say expedition?" Before either the blonde or brunette women can answer the man answers first.
"My expedition. I funded it." The man says a tiny bit proudly.
"Oh, you're not, are you? Tell me you're not archaeologists." The Doctor asks.
The brunette and blonde grin at each other. "Got a problem." Says the blonde. "With archaeologists" finishes the brunette.
"I'm a time traveler. I point and laugh at archaeologists." The Doctor deadpanned.
"Oh I bet you do" says the brunette quietly.
"What?" questions the Doctor and when the brunette didn't answer he just sighed in defeat and said. "Never mind."
"Ah. Professor River Song, archaeologist. " says River. "and this is…"
The brunette butted in before she could say anything. "Captain Serena Song, also archaeology and piloting." Serena says shaking the Doctors hand.
The Doctor quickly replies by saying. "River Song and Serena Song, lovely names. As you're leaving, and you're leaving now, you need to set up a quarantine beacon. Code wall the planet, the whole planet. Nobody comes here, not ever again. Not one living thing, not here, not ever. Stop right there. What's your name?" he says point to the short dark haired girl.
"Anita" she quickly replies.
"Anita, stay out of the shadows. Not a foot, not a finger in the shadows till you're safely back in your ship. Goes for all of you. Stay in the light. Find a nice, bright spot and just stand. If you understand me, look very, very scared. No, bit more scared than that. Okay, do for now." He says "You. Who are you?" he questions and dark short curly haired man.
"Er, Dave." He answers unsurely.
"Okay, Dave." The Doctor says quickly.
"Oh, well, Other Dave, because that's Proper Dave the pilot, he was the first Dave, so when we…" Other Dave answers quickly correcting himself and point to a short straight brown/black haired man before getting cut off by the doctor.
"Other Dave, the way you came, does it look the same as before?" The Doctor asks Other Dave. Before he walks out and checks.
"Yeah. Oh, it's a bit darker." Other Dave says.
" How much darker?" The Doctor questions him.
"Oh, like I could see where we came through just like a moment ago. I can't now." He says shockingly.
"Seal up this door. We'll find another way out…" He tells Other Dave.
"I was afraid something like this would happen." Serena says. The Doctor pauses and asks. " Wait…what do mean?"
"Nothing…just nothing." She says.
"No you said I was…" the Doctor says.
"I was just saying." Serena insisted.
"No you were meaning some…." The Doctor says before getting cut off by Serena.
"NO JUST LEAVE IT." She yells. Leaving the Doctor and everyone else shocked. "I'm sorry…" Serena says before walking to River.
The Doctor clears his throat and says. "As I was saying Other Dave Seal up this door and we will find another way."
"Would you…" Other Dave asks before getting cut off by the first man.
"We're not looking for a way out. Miss Evangelista?" He inquires.
"I'm Mister Lux's personal everything. You need to sign these contracts agreeing that your individual experience inside the library are the intellectual property of the Felman Lux Corporation." She says to the Doctor and Donna who then take the contracts and respond by ripping them in half and Donna saying.
"Yeah, lovely. Thanks." She says
"My family built this library. I have rights." Lux Exclaims.
"You have a mouth that won't stop." Serena says angrily to Lux.
"You think there's danger here?" River asks the doctor.
The Doctor responds by saying. "Something came to this library and killed everything in it. Killed a whole world. Danger? Could be." He tells River and Serena.
"That was a hundred years ago. The Library's been silent for a hundred years." Says River "Whatever came here's long dead." Finishes Serena.
"Bet your life?" The Doctor questions looking at Serena and River.
"Always." River responds at the same time Serena says. "Absolutely."
"What are you doing?" says Lux as Serena, The Doctor, and River turn their heads to hear him say.
" He said seal the door." Other Dave says to Lux.
"Torch." The Doctor asks Lux who is to angry to do anything. So Serena walks over to his bag and takes it out handing it to the Doctor.
"Here you go." She says as she passes it to the Doctor.
"Thanks." He mumbled before Lux asks angry and frustrated.
" You're taking orders from him?" Lux ask Other Dave.
"Spooky, isn't it?" The Doctor asks interrupting Lux and shining Lux's torch around the shadowy areas in the room. While everyone crowds around him. "Almost every species in the universe has an irrational fear of the dark. But they're wrong, because it's not irrational. It's Vashta Nerada." The Doctor says with distaste.
"What's Vashta Nerada?" Donna asks the Doctor.
"It's what's in the dark. It's what's always in the dark. Lights! That's what we need, lights. You got lights?" The Doctor says.
"What for?" River asks.
"Form a circle. Safe area. Big as you can, lights pointing out." Says the Doctor.
Just about as Lux is about to complain Serena speaks out with a sassy attitude. " Oi. Do as he says." She says. The Doctor and River smirk at her attitude.
"You're not listening to this man?" Cries out Lux to River and Serena.
"Apparently we are." Says River pointing to herself and Serena.
"Anita, unpack the lights. Other Dave, make sure the door's secure, then help Anita. Mister Lux, put your helmet back on, block the visor. Proper Dave, find an active terminal. I want you to access the library database. See what you can find about what happened here a hundred years ago. Pretty boy, you're with me. Step into mine and the professors office." Serena Tells everyone.
"Captain Song, why am I the only one wearing my helmet?" Lux asks Serena.
"I don't fancy you at all." Sasses Serena.
The Doctor then walks over to a terminal where Proper Dave is. "Probably I can help you." The Doctor says.
"Pretty boy. With me and the professor, I said." Says Serena smirking how oblivious he is.
"Oh, I'm pretty boy?" The Doctor says now realizing it.
"Yes. Ooo, that came out a bit quick." Donna says to the Doctor sarcastically.
"Pretty?" The Doctor asks Donna.
"Meh." Donna replied now exactly agreeing with it.
As the Doctor walks away towards River and Serena he tells everyone in the rotunda. "Don't let your shadows cross. Seriously, don't even let them touch. Any of them could be infected." He says.
"How can a shadow be infected?" Other Dave asks the Doctor before he reaches Serena and River though he doesn't answer.
"Excuse me, can I help?" Evangelista asks.
"No, we're fine." Responds Anita quickly.
"I could just you know, hold things." Evangelista insists.
"No, really, we're okay." Other Dave tells her.
"Couldn't she help?" Donna asks them.
"Trust me. I just spent four days on a ship with that woman. She's er…" Other Dave trails off.
"Couldn't tell the difference between the escape pod and the bathroom. We had to go back for her. Twice." Anita says.
Just then River takes a old blue battered book with eight squares on it out of hers and Serena's bag.
"Thanks." River says.
" For what?" the Doctor asks confusingly.
"The usual. For coming when we call." Responds Serena.
"Oh, that was you?" The Doctor says talking about a message him and Donna got early when they first arrived.
"You're doing a very good job, acting like you don't know us." Says Serena.
"I'm assuming there's a reason." River finishes.
"A fairly good one, actually." The Doctor Responds.
"Really?" Questions River, but before he can answer Serena takes the book and says.
"Okay, shall we do diaries, then? Where are we this time? Er, going by your face, I'd say it's early days for you, yeah? So, er, crash of the Byzantium." Serena says looking at the Doctor and his face shows no emotion so she continues. " Have we done that yet? Obviously ringing no bells. Right. Oh, picnic at Asgard. Have we done Asgard yet?" She asks again yet no answer from the Doctor. " Obviously not. Blimey, very early days, then. Whoo, life with a time traveller. Never knew it could be such hard work." She says the pauses. "Look at you. Oh, you're young." She says touch the Doctors cheek.
"I'm really not, you know." He says to Serena.
"No, but you are. Your eyes. You're younger than we've ever seen you." River says from the side.
"Both of you have seen me before, then?" The Doctor asks River and Serena.
Serena responds by saying. "Doctor, please tell me you know who we are." Serena asks hopefully.
"Who are you?" He asks. Just then they are interrupted by a *ring ring ring*. The doctor runs off to the terminal. While River and Serena look at other heartbroken. Then get up and walk to the terminal.
"Sorry, that was me. Trying to get through into the security protocols. I seem to have set something off. What is that? Is that an alarm?" Other Dave says quickly.
"Doctor? Doctor, that sounds like." Donna tells the doctor.
"It is. It's a phone." The Doctor says.
"I'm trying to call up the data core, but it's not responding. Just that noise." Other Dave tells everyone.
"But it's a phone." Donna says.
"Let me try something." The Doctor tells Other Dave. As the Doctor tries the screen stops and a message saying 'Access Denied'. "Okay, doesn't like that. Let's try something else." He says.
"Okay here it comes." The Doctor says. Just then a little girl pops up on the screen. "Hello?" the Doctor says.
"Hello. Are you in my television" She asks.
"Well, no, I'm, I'm sort of in space. Er, I was trying to call up the data core of a triple grid security processor. " The Doctor rambles. Serena looks at the Doctor with an amused expression.
"Would you like to speak to my Dad?" asks the girl again.
Before the doctor can answer Serena butts in and says. " Dad or your Mum. That'd be lovely. Thank you." She says.
"I know you. You're in my library." The girl tells them.
"Your Library" The Doctor and Serena say together confused.
"The library's never been on the television before. What have you done?" She asks them quickly.
"Er, well, I just rerouted the interface." The Doctor says and right after he says that the screen goes fuzzy.
"What happened? Who was that?" River asks.
"I need another terminal. Keep working on those lights. We need those lights!" The Doctor she ignoring Rivers questions.
"You heard him, people. Let there be light." Serena tells everyone. The Doctor walks over to the blue Diary of Serena and River and tries to look in till Serena stops him. "Sorry, you're not allowed to see inside the book. It's against the rules." Says Serena.
"What rules?" the Doctor asks confused.
"Your rules." Serena responds then walks off with the Diary.
As the Doctor is about to walk away when books inside the room start flying everywhere. "What's that? I didn't do that. Did you do that?" The Doctor asks Proper Dave.
"Not me" Responds Proper Dave. Right then the screen says 'CAL Access Denied'.
"What's Cal?" Exclaims The Doctor.
"What's causing that? Is it the little girl?" River asks.
"But who is the little girl? What's she got to do with this place? How does the data core work? What's the principle?" Says Serena
"What's Cal?" The Doctor ask Serena and River.
"Ask Mister Lux" They Respond at the same time.
"Cal, what is it?" The Doctor asks Lux.
"Sorry, you didn't sign your personal experience contracts." Lux deadpanned
" Mister Lux. Right now, you're in more danger than you've ever been in your whole life. And you're protecting a patent?" The Doctor exclaims.
"I'm protecting my family's pride." He responds.
"Well, funny thing, Mister Lux. I don't want to see everyone in this room dead because some idiot thinks his pride is more important." He yells getting angry at Lux.
"Then why don't you sign his contract?" River smiled "Serena and I didn't either. Were getting worse than you."
"Okay, okay, okay. Let's start at the beginning. What happened here? On the actual day, a hundred years ago, what physically happened?" The Doctor says calmed down.
"There was a message from the Library. Just one. The lights are going out. Then the computer sealed the planet, and there was nothing for a hundred years." Serena said.
"It's taken three generations of my family just to decode the seals and get back in." Lux exclaims at the Doctor.
"Er, excuse me?" Says Evangelista
"Not just now." Lux waves her off.
"There was one other thing in the last message." Said River.
"That's confidential." Growls Lux at River.
"River and I trust this man with our lives, with everything." Serena tells him.
"You've only just met him." Lux exclaims at Serena.
"No, he's only just met us." River adds.
"Er, this might be important, actually." Evangelista says interrupting the conversation at hand.
"In a moment" Lux responds.
"This is a data extract that came with the message." Says Serena showing the doctor the data.
"Four thousand and twenty two saved. No survivors." The Doctor says confused.
"Four thousand and twenty two. That's the exact number of people who were in the library when the planet was sealed." Serena tells the Doctor.
"But how can four thousand and twenty two people have been saved if there were no survivors?" Donna asks.
"That's what we're here to find out." Says River and Serena.
"And so far, what we haven't found are any bodies." Lux says.
As everyone is working and talking suddenly a piercing scream is heard.
Then they run into Lecture hall only to find a skeleton.
"Everybody, careful. Stay in the light." Calmly says the doctor.
"You keep saying that. I don't see the point." Proper Dave says.
"Who Screamed?" The Doctor asks.
"Miss Evangelista." Says Proper Dave.
"Where is she?" He says.
"Miss Evangelista, please state your current…"says Serenas voice echoing quietly through the communicator. "Please state your current position…" Serena trails off. River then walks over a takes the communicator from Evangelista's suit on her body.
"It's her. It's Miss Evangelista." River says sadly.
"We heard her scream a few seconds ago. What could do that to a person in a few seconds?" cried Anita.
"It took a lot less than a few seconds." Frowned the Doctor.
"What did?" questions Anita.
"Hello?" Evangelista called.
"Er, I'm sorry, everyone. Er, this isn't going to be pleasant. She's ghosting." River said. Just then Serena walked out of the room into the rotunda not wanting to hear the rest.
A few minutes later everyone walked back into the rotunda River looks at Serena sadly and goes over to comfort her for a minute before the doctor called saying.
"I'm going to need a packed lunch." Called The Doctor. Just then River and Serena got up and went to the lunch pack.
"Hang on." Called River. As they walked over and kneeled by the doctor he asked. "What's in that book?" he questioned.
"Spoilers." Smiled River and Serena. "Just Spoilers."
"Who are you two?" the Doctor asked.
"Professor River Song and Captain Serena Song, University of…" Serena and River answered before the Doctor cut them of asking.
"To me. Who are you two to me?" the Doctor asked.
"Again, spoilers." Smiled Serena.
"Chicken and a bit of salad. Knock yourself out." Said River handing the doctor the food.
"Right, you lot. Let's all meet the Vashta Nerada." The Doctor said. As the Doctor was scanning around the area for the Vashta Nerada with Serena by his side. River was talking to Donna over to the side.
"You travel with him, don't you? The Doctor, you travel with him." River asks.
"What of it?" Ask Donna.
"Proper Dave, could you move over a bit?" asked the Doctor distracting the conversation at hand.
"Why?" Frowned Proper Dave.
"Over there by the water cooler." Said the Doctor. River than saw Serena lightly hit him on the arm and whisper what she thought was 'Oh hush leave him alone at least say thanks' just than he turned to Proper Dave and said. "Thanks."
Then Donna turned to River and asked. "You two know him, don't you?" she said pointing to River and Serena.
"Oh God, do we know that man. We go way back, that man and us. Just not this far back." River nods.
"I'm sorry, what?" Donna asked confused.
"He hasn't met us yet. We sent him a message, but it went wrong. It arrived too early. This is the Doctor in the days before he knew me and Serena. And he looks at us, he looks right through us and it shouldn't kill me and Serena, but it does." River said sadly.
"What are you talking about?" she stared at her in question. "Are you just talking rubbish? Do you two know him or don't you?"
"Donna! Quiet, I'm working" The Doctor told Donna.
"Stop being rude it's not nice" River could hear Serena whisper, but the Doctor ignored her.
"Sorry." Apologized Donna.
"Donna. You're Donna. Donna Noble." River says surprised.
"Yeah." Asks Donna. "Why?"
"We do know the Doctor, but in the future." River says talking about her and Serena. "His personal future."
"So why don't you know me? Where am I in the future?" Donna asks fearfully, but before River could answer the Doctor interrupts her.
"Okay, got a live one. That's not darkness down those tunnels. This is not a shadow. It's a swarm. A man eating swarm." The Doctor says. As he and Serena get up from there kneeling position. He throws the chicken in the shadow and its bone before it hits the floor. "The piranhas of the air. The Vashta Nerada. Literally, the shadows that melt the flesh. Most planets have them, but usually in small clusters. I've never seen an infestation on this scale, or this aggressive" says the Doctor.
"What do you mean, most planets? Not Earth?" Donna asked.
"Mmm. Earth, and a billion other worlds. Where there's meat, there's Vashta Nerada. You can see them sometimes, if you look. The dust in sunbeams." The Doctor responded at the same time as Serena.
He turned to Serena shocked and asked. "How do you know that?" He frowned.
"Spoilers." She Smirked.
"But if they were on earth we would know." Donna said interrupting them.
"Nah. Normally they live on road kill. But sometimes people go missing. Not everyone comes back out of the dark." Responded the Doctor.
"Every Shadow?" River asked.
"No. But any shadow." The Doctor said.
"So what do we do?" frowned Serena.
"Daleks, aim for the eyestalk. Sontarans, back of the neck. Vashta Nerada? Run. Just run." The Doctor mumbled.
"Run? Run where?" River Panicked.
"This is an index point. There must be an exit teleport somewhere." The Doctor asked Lux.
"Don't look at me, I haven't memorized the schematics." Lux responded. The Doctor then looked to Serena.
"Me neither" She replied.
Then Donna Responded by saying. "Doctor, the little shop. They always make you go through the little shop on the way out so they can sell you stuff." She said quickly.
"You're right. Brilliant! That's why I like the little shop." The Doctor grinned.
"Okay, let's move." Proper Dave says. Then the Doctor turns to noticed Proper Dave has more than one shadow.
"Actually, Proper Dave? Could you stay where you are for a moment?" Doctor says hesitantly.
"Why?" Proper Dave questions.
"I'm sorry. I am so, so sorry. But you've got two shadows." The Doctor apologizes and points to the two angled shadows on Proper Dave. "It's how they hunt. They latch on to a food source and keep it fresh." The Doctor says.
"What do I do?" Proper Dave asks fearfully.
"You stay absolutely still, like there's a wasp in the room. Like there's a million wasps." The Doctor says quickly.
"We're not leaving you, Dave." Says Serena and River determined.
"Course we're not leaving him. Where's your helmet? Don't point, just tell me." asks The Doctor ask Dave.
"On the floor, by my bag." Points Dave.
Anita runs to get his helmet as the Doctor says. "Don't cross his shadow. Thanks. Now, the rest of you, helmets back on and sealed up. We'll need everything we've got." He says to Anita and everyone else, and they put their helmets on. As River and Serena do that they give each other scared looks.
"But, Doctor, we haven't got any helmets." Donna says nervously.
"Yeah, but we're safe anyway." The Doctor Answers.
"How are we safe?" Donna questions.
"We're not. That was a clever lie to shut you up. Professor, Captain anything I can do with the suit?" The Doctor says.
"What good are the damn suits? Miss Evangelista was wearing her suit. There was nothing left." Lux asks frustrated.
"We can increase the mesh density. Dial it up four hundred percent. Make it a tougher meal." The Doctor responds annoyed. "Okay" he mumbles as he's sonicing Dave suit.
"Eight hundred percent. Pass it on." He says passing it to River.
"Gotcha." She says before the Doctor who was about to pass his own sonic screwdriver to her who ended holding up her own sonic screwdriver.
"What's That?" He asks.
"It's a screwdriver my screwdriver….well actually mine and Serena's." She said as she tossed the sonic screwdriver to Serena.
"It's sonic." The Doctor says to River and Serena.
"Yeah I know, Snap." Smiled Serena.
Serena Sonics the suits while the Doctor walks Donna over to the teleport. "With me. Come on." He says as they walk. The Doctor takes care of Donna by sending her to his spaceship the Tardis and walks back over to Serena and River due to the calling of his name.
As he walks over he sees everyone by Dave and he doesn't see the second shadow. "Where did it go?" He wonders.
"It's just gone. I looked round, one shadow, see." He says to the Doctor.
"Does that mean we can leave?" Serena asks. "I don't want to hang around here" adds River.
"I don't know why we're still here. We can leave him, can't we? I mean, no offence." Lux says.
"Shut up, Mister Lux." Sasses River and Serena.
"Did you feel anything, like an energy transfer? Anything at all?" The Doctor asks quickly.
"No, no, but look, it's gone." Says Dave, and as he tries to turn around Serena and the Doctor stop him.
"Stop there. Stop, stop, stop there. Stop moving." She exclaimed.
"They're never just gone and they never give up." The Doctor frowned. He pulls out his sonic and Sonics the area where Dave is standing.
"Well, this one's benign." The Doctor stated.
"Hey, who turned out the lights?" Dave says.
"No one, they're fine." The Doctor says confused.
"No seriously, turn them back on." Dave says to everyone.
"They are on." Serena says slowly.
"I can't see a ruddy thing" Dave says, and everyone around him gives confused expressions.
"Dave, turn around." The Doctor states slow and calm. As he turns around everyone sees his visor is dark still.
"What's going on? Why can't I see? Is the power gone? Are we safe here?" Dave Exclaims.
"Dave, I want you stay still. Absolutely still." The Doctor says. "Dave? Dave? Dave, can you hear me? Are you all right? Talk to me, Dave." The
Doctor he exclaims.
"I'm fine. I'm okay. I'm fine." Dave says slowly.
"I want you to stay still. Absolutely still." The Doctor Commands.
"I'm fine. I'm okay. I'm fine. I can't. Why can't I? I, I can't. Why can't I? I, I can't. Why can't I? I…" Dave repeats. Not soon after the lights on his comm. turn off.
"He's gone. He's ghosting." Serena and River say with wide eyes.
"Then why is he still standing?" Lux asks confused.
"Hey, who turned out the lights? Hey, who turned out the lights?" Dave asks over and over.
"Doctor Don't" Serena Says.
"Dave, can you hear me?" The Doctor questions.
"Hey, who turned out the lights?" Dave says, and just as he says that he grabs the Doctor by his throat and at this same time reveling him to be a skeleton to everyone. "Who turned out the lights? Hey, who turned out the lights?" He says again.
"Excuse us." River and Serena say. Serena walks over sonicing the figure releasing the Doctor from its hold.
"Back from it! Get back. Right back." Yells the Doctor. Just then the suit starts to move towards the group.
"Doesn't move very fast, does it?" River says.
"It's a swarm in a suit. But it's learning." The Doctor says.
"What do we do? Where do we go?" Lux says panicking.
"See that wall behind you? Duck." Yells Serena and as soon as she says that everyone ducks a River shoots a gun put a square hole in the wall for them to run through.
"Squareness Gun." The Doctor Exclaims.
"I know right." Smiles Serena.
"Everybody out. Go, go, go. Move it. Move, move. Move it. Move, move." River says interrupting them.
As they move down the hall River asks the Doctor. "You said not every shadow." River Exclaims.
"But any shadow." The Doctor Yells.
"Oh, the usual." Serena scoffs as they run down the hall, but no one could hear her.
"Hey, who turned out the lights?" The hear Dave say as they run down the hall.
"Run." Yell River and Serena.
As the group ran the looked back to see they slightly out ran Dave. "What are you doing?" Asked Serena.
"Trying to boost the power to the lights. Light doesn't stop them, but it slows them down." The Doctor answers and Serena nodding in that she understands.
"So, what's the plan?" River panted. "Do we have a plan?"
"Your guys screwdriver looks exactly like mine." The Doctor says.
"Yeah. You gave it to us." Serena answered before River could.
"I don't give my screwdriver to anyone." The Doctor says.
"We're not anyone." River says.
"Who are you?" The Doctor asks.
"What's the plan?" Serena asks saving River from having to come up with an answer and earning a nod of thanks from River in return.
Sighing in defeat the Doctor answered.
"I teleported Donna back to the Tardis." He said. "If we don't get back there in under five hours, emergency program one will activate."
"Take her home, yeah." River and Serena answered. "We need to get a shift on."
"She's not there. I should have received a signal. The console signals me if there's a teleport breach." The Doctor said worried.
"Well, maybe the coordinates have slipped. The equipment here's ancient." Said Serena and River.
The Doctor walks over to an interface (or node an interface with an actual face) and asks. "Donna Noble. There's a Donna Noble somewhere in this library. Do you have the software to locate her position?" He asks the node. The node turns around to revel Donna's face one it shocking everyone.
"Donna Noble has left the library. Donna Noble has been saved." The Node says and then keeps repeating itself.
"Donna." The Doctor says heartbroken.
"How can it be Donna? How's that possible?" Serena asks.
"Donna." The Doctor repeats sadly.
"Hey, who turned out the lights?" They hear Dave calling from a distance and keeps repeating himself.
"Doctor, we've got to go now!" River yells desperately.
"Doctor, what are we going to do?" Yells Serena in panic.
"Hey, who turned out the lights?" Yells Dave.
"Donna Noble has left the library. Donna Noble has been saved." The Node repeats. River and Serena look around trying to find a way out. As the echoing of both Dave and the Node run through the halls of the library…
To Be Continued…
A/n: Hey guys this is Eowyn and this is the first chapter of the new doctor who series. Hoped you liked. Also Imagine Serena as Jennifer Lawrence except with brown hair.