Here we go. The second chapter.
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Suddenly Margaret got electrocuted and Ganesh fell to the floor, dead. April, Harriet and the blonde, who April realised looked a bit familiar. made their escape. Running into a corridor, Harriet suddenly stopped.
"No, wait. They're still in there. The emergency protocols. We need them." And she ran back to get them.
"Mum! There isn't time." April yelled only to sigh and follow. Stubborn woman.
As they ran back the alien left the cabinet room and they ran away, again. They ran through corridors and closed a door behind them The alien smashed its way through the oak doors and April, Harriet and the blonde were chased through a series of rooms. As they were running, April turns to the blonde and held out her hand.
"I forgot to introduce myself. April Jones."
"Rose Tyler."
And they ran. They run past the lift as its door opened and whoever was in the elevator distracts the alien long enough for April, Harriet and Rose to escape. They got into the sitting room, and Rose told them to hide. Rose hid behind the large drinking cabinet. Harriet and April hid behind the folding screen by the window. The alien that were Margaret entered the sitting room.
"Oh, such fun. Little human children, where are you? Sweet little humykins, come to me. Let me kiss you better. Kiss you with my big, green lips."
Rose managed to make it from the cabinet to behind a curtain. Two other aliens entered the sitting room.
"My brothers." Margaret greeted.
"Happy hunting?" Green asked.
"It's wonderful. The more you prolong it, the more they stink."
"Sweat and fear." Asquith said.
"I can smell an old girl. Stale bird and brittle bones." Green describes Harriet, who managed to look very offended.
"And a young girl so timid and nervous."
"And a ripe youngster, all hormones and adrenaline. Fresh enough to bend before she snaps." Margaret said and pulled back the curtain Rose hid behind. She screamed as she had no means of escape.
"No! Take me first! Take me!" Harriet jumped out from her hiding place.
"Mum!"
Suddenly the Doctor bursted through the doors with a fire extinguisher and sprayed one of the aliens with it.
"Out, with me!" He yells, and Rose pulled the curtain over Margaret. They ran to stand behind him.
"Who the hell are the two of you?" he asked as he kept spraying with CO2.
"Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North."
"April Jones, her daughter."
"Nice to meet you."
"Likewise." April and Harriet said simultaneously as the Doctor used up the fire extinguisher and they ran.
"We need to head to the Cabinet Room." the Doctor told them.
"The Emergency Protocols are in there. The give instructions for aliens."
"Harriet Jones, I like you."
"And I like you too."
They ran for a while, being chased through corridors and rooms. The door to the cabinet room was locked but the Doctor unlocked it with his sonic screwdriver. As they entered the Cabinet Room the Doctor grabs a decanter from a side table and stood in the doorway as the aliens caught up.
"One more move and my sonic device will triplicate the flammability of this alcohol. Whoof, we all go up. So back off."
The aliens took one step back into the outer office.
"Right then. Question time. Who exactly are the Slitheen?"
"They're aliens." Harriet simply said making April roll her eyes.
"Yeah, I think he got that, Ma."
"Yeah. I got that, thanks." he agreed.
"Who are you, if not human?" Green asked.
"Who's not human?" Harried asked.
"He's not human."
"He's not human?"
"Well that certainly explains his knowledge of extraterrestrial beings" April muttered.
"Can I have a bit of a hush?"
"Sorry."
"So, what's the plan?"
"But he's got a Northern accent."
"Lots of planets have a north.
"I said hush. Come on. you've got a spaceship hidden in the North Sea. It's transmitting a signal. you've murdered your way to the top of government. What for, invasion?"
"Why would we invade this God-forsaken rock?" Asquith asked.
"Then something's brought the Slitheen race here. What is it?"
"The Slitheen race?"
"Slitheen is not our species. Slitheen is our surname. Jocrassa Fel Fotch Pasameer-Day-Slitheen at your service." Green explained.
"So, you're family."
"A family business."
"Then you're out to make a profit. How can you do that on a God-forsaken rock?"
"Ah, excuse me? Your device will do what? Triplicate the flammability?"
"Is that what I said?"
April started at him, could he not remember?
"You're making it up."
"Ah, well. Nice try. Harriet, have a drink. I think you're gonna need it."
Harriet shook her head, clutching the Red Box.
"You pass it to the left first."
"Sorry." The Doctor said and past it to Rose, who gladly accepted it.
"Thanks."
"Now can we end this hunt with a slaughter."
"Don't you think we should run?" Rose asked the Doctor.
"Fascinating history, Downing Street. Two thousand years ago, this was marsh land. 1730, it was occupied by a Mister Chicken. He was a nice man. 1796, this was the Cabinet Room. If the Cabinet's in session and in danger, these are about the four most safest walls in the whole of Great Britain. End of lesson."
The Doctor lifted a small panel by the door and pressed a button. Metal shutters crashed shut across the windows and doors.
"Installed in 1991. Three inches of steel lining every single wall. They'll never get in." The Doctor said with a big grin.
"Then how do you propose we get out?" April asked him.
"Ah." he said still with a grin on his face. The smile faded when he saw the body of Ganesh.
The Doctor dragged Ganesh's body into a small store room.
"What was his name?" The Doctor asked making the other people look at him.
"Who?" Harriet asked not looking up from the emergency protocols.
"This one. The secretary or whatever he was called." Harriet walked to the store room to look at the body.
"I don't know. I talked to him. I brought him a cup of coffee. I never asked his name." She said with regret as she walked back to the table. April had been standing at the doorway, observing.
"Ganesh. His last name was Ganesh, he was the junior secretary." April told him, and maintained eye contact for a short second before the Doctor turned back to the body.
"Sorry Mr. Ganesh." then he stood up and addressed the women.
"Right, what have we got? Any terminals, anything?"
He walked around the room and examined the windows. Rose had been looking through the drawers in the room.
"No. This place is antique. What I don't get is, when they killed the Prime Minister, why didn't they use him as a disguise?" Rose asked.
"He's too slim. They're big wild beasts. They need to fit inside big humans."
"But the Slitheen are about eight feet. How do they fit inside?"
"That's the device around their necks. Compression field. Literally shrinks them down a bit. That's why there's all that gas. It's a big exchange."
"Wish I had a compression field. I could fit a size smaller." Rose joked making April snigger. Harriet was not amused and sent her daughter a sharp look.
"Excuse me, people are dead! This is not the time for making jokes."
"Sorry. You get used to this stuff when you're friends with him." Rose explained.
"Well, that's a strange friendship."
"Harriet Jones. I've heard that name before. Harriet Jones. You're not famous for anything are you?" The Doctor inquired.
"Oh, hardly." Harriet said, and April shot her mother a sad look knowing she wants to make a change.
"Rings a bell. Harriet Jones?"
"Lifelong backbencher I'm afraid, and a fat lot of use I'm being now. The Protocols are redundant. They list the people who could help and they're all dead downstairs."
"Hasn't it got, like, defence codes and things? Couldn't we just launch a nuclear bomb at them?" Rose asked and walked towards Harriet to look over her shoulder.
"You're a very violent young woman."
"I'm serious. We could."
"Well, there's nothing like that in here. Nuclear strikes do need a release code, yes, but it's kept secret by the United Nations."
"Say that again." The Doctor orders Harriet.
"What, about the codes?"
"Anything. All of it."
"Well, the British Isles can't gain access to atomic weapons without a special Resolution from the UN."
"Like that's ever stopped them" Rose injects.
"Exactly, given our past record. And I voted against that, thank you very much. The codes have been taken out of the government's hands and given to the UN. Is it important?"
"Everything's important."
"If we only knew what the Slitheen wanted. Listen to me. I'm saying Slitheen as if it's normal"
"What do they want, though?"
"Well, they're just one family, so it's not an invasion. They don't want Slitheen World. They're out to make money. That means they want to use something. Something here on Earth. Some kind of asset."
"Like what, gold?" Harriet asked
"Oil? Water?" April suggested.
"You two are very good at this." he said and April couldn't tell if he was being serious or not.
"Thank you." Harriet answers, pleased.
"Harriet Jones. Why do I know that name?"
April jumped as a phone beeped.
"Oh, that's me." Rose said and grabbed her phone from her pocket.
"But we're sealed off. How did you get a signal?" Harriet asked dumbfounded.
"He zapped it. Super phone."
"Then we can phone for help. You must have contacts."
"Dead downstairs, yeah."
"It's Mickey."
"Oh, tell your stupid boyfriend we're busy."
"Yeah, he's not stupid after all."
Rose gave her phone to the Doctor. There was a picture of a Slitheen being electrocuted.
Rose were quick to call her boyfriend.
"Is she all right, though? Don't put her on, just tell me."
Before Mickey could answer, the Doctor took Rose's phone from her hand.
"Is that Rickey? Don't talk, just shut up and go to your computer."
The doctor listened before continuing.
"Mickey the Idiot, I might just choke before I finish this sentence, but, err, I need you."
While Mickey was getting on his computer, the Doctor was plugging in the phone into the conference phone speaker.
"Say again"
"It's asking for the password."
"Buffalo. Tow Fs, one L."
"So, what's that website?" A female voice sounded, and April guessed it was Rose's mother.
"All the secret information known to mankind. See, they've know about aliens for years. They just kept us in the dark."
"Mickey, you were born in the dark."
"Oh, leave him alone."
"Thank you. Password again."
"Just repeat it every time. Big Ben - why did the Slitheen go and hit Big Ben?"
"You said to gather the experts, to kill them." Harriet spoke for the first time in a while.
"That lot would've gathered for a weather balloon. You don't need to crash land in the middle
of London."
"The Slitheen are hiding, but then they put the entire planet on Red alert. What would they do that for?" Rose asked.
"Oh, listen to her." Rose's mother said.
"At least I'm trying."
"Well, I've got a question, if you don't mind. Since that man walked into our lives, I have been attacked in the streets. I have had creatures form the pits of hell in my own living room, and my daughter disappear off the face of the Earth."
"I told you what happened."
"I'm talking to him. 'cos I've seen this life of yours, Doctor and maybe you get off on it, and maybe you think it's all clever and smart, but you tell me. Just answer me this. Is my daughter safe?"
"I'm fine."
"Is she safe? Will she always be safe? Can you promise me that? Well, what's the answer?"
If the Doctor ever intended to answer he didn't have the chance before Mickey was back on the phone.
"We're in."
"Now then, on the left at the top, there's a tab, an icon. Little concentric circles. Click on that."
Sounds from the computer flowed into the Cabinet Room.
"What is it?" Mickey asks.
"The Slitheen have got a spaceship in the North Sea and it's transmitting that signal. Now hush, let me work out what it's saying. It's some sort of message."
"What's it say?" Rose asked.
"I don't know. It's on a loop, keeps repeating."
Suddenly the sound of a doorbell could be heard.
"Hush!"
"That's not me. Go and see who it is." Mickey told Rose's mother.
"It's three o'clock in the morning."
"Well, go and tell them that."
"It's beaming out into space, who's it for?" The Doctor wondered.
Suddenly the door slammed.
"It's him! It's the thing, it's the Slipeen!"
"They've found us."
They could hear Mickey getting up from his chair.
"Mickey, I need that signal."
Rose protested.
"Never mind the signal, get out! Mum, just get out! Get out!"
"We can't. It's by the front door. Oh, my God, it's unmasking. It's going to kill us."
"There's got to be some way of stopping them! You're supposed to be the expert, think of something!" Harriet said.
"I'm trying!"
"I'll take it on, Jackie. You just run. don't look back. Just run!"
The sound of the door splintering was heard.
"That's my mother."
Rose's plea seemed to have spurred the Doctor into action.
"Right. If we're going to find their weakness, we need to find out where they're from. Which planet. So, judging by their shape, that narrows it down to five thousand planets within travelling distance. What else do we know about them? Information!"
"They're green." April said.
"Yep, narrows it down."
"Good sense of smell." Rose said.
"Narrows it down."
"They can smell adrenalin." April said.
"Narrows it down."
"The pig technology." Harriet suggested.
"Narrows it down."
"The spaceship in the Thames, you said slipstream engine?" Rose said.
"Narrows it down."
"It's getting in!"
"They hunt like a ritual" Rosa said.
"Wait. did you notice? When they fart, it doesn't just smell like a fart, it's something else. What is it? It's more like, err…" April struggled to find the word, but Rose found it.
"Bad breath!"
"That's it!" April exclaimed.
"Calcium decay! Now, that narrows it down!"
"We're getting there, Mom!"
"Too late!"
"Calcium phosphate. Organic calcium. Living calcium. Creatures made out of living calcium. What else? What else?"
The Doctor looked at them, but none of them had an idea so April took a guess.
"Hyphenated surname?"
"Yes! That narrows it down to one planet. Raxacoricofallapatorius!" He yelled excitedly.
"Oh, yeah, great. We could write 'em a letter." Mickey's sarcastic responds sounded.
They heard as the door fell apart.
"Get into the kitchen!" The Doctor ordered.
"My God, it's going to rip us apart!"
"Calcium, weakened by the compression field. Acetic acid. Vinegar!"
"Just like Hannibal!" April and Harriet said together.
"Just like Hannibal. Mickey, have you got any vinegar?"
"How should I know?"
"It's your kitchen."
"Cupboard by the sink, middle shelf." Rose told him, and April raised an eyebrow, does he not know where any of his stuff is?
"Oh, give it here. What do you need?" Jackie asked.
"Anything with vinegar!"
"Gherkins. Yeah, pickled onions. Pickled eggs." April made a disgusted face.
"And you kiss the man?" the Doctor asked Rose.
On the phone they could hear as the Slitheen entered the kitchen and something was thrown. For a moment there was silence. Then a fart was heard followed by an explosion. The four people in the Cabinet Room breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hannibal?" Rose asked.
"Hannibal crossed the Alps by dissolving boulders with vinegar." April replied.
"Oh. Well, there you go then." Rose said and they all toasted the moment with a glass of port.
Some time had passed since the crisis and Mickey returned on the phone.
"Listen to this." he said.
The voice of Green could be heard.
"Our inspectors have searched the sky above our heads and have found massive weapons of destruction capable of being deployed within forty-five seconds."
"What?"
"Our technicians can baffle the alien probes, but not for long. We are facing extinction, unless we strike first. The United Kingdom stands directly beneath the belly of the mother ship. I beg of the United Nations, pass an emergency resolution. Give us the access codes. A nuclear strike at the heart of the beast is out only chance of survival. Because from this moment on it is my solemn duty to inform you, planet Earth is at war."
"He's making it up. There's no weapons up there. there's no threat. He just invented it."
"Of course he invented it. The Slitheen wants the whole world panicking. On the edge. After all we humans gets scared easily." April told him.
"The release the defense code." Rose started.
"And the Slitheen go nuclear." the Doctor finished.
"But why?"
The Doctor went to open the metal shutters and looked Margaret straight in the eye.
"You get the codes, release the missiles, but not into space because there is nothing there. You attack every other country on Earth. They retaliate, fight back. World War Three. Whole planet gets nuked."
"And we can sit though it safe in our spaceship waiting in the Thames. Not crashed, just parked. Only two minutes away."
"But you'll destroy the planet, this beautiful planet. What for?" Harriet asked.
"Profit. That's what the signal is beaming into space. An advert."
"The sale of the century. We reduce the Earth to molten slag, then sell it piece by piece. Radioactive chunks, capable of powering every cut-price star liner and budget cargo ship. There's a recession out there, Doctor. People are buying cheap. This rock becomes raw fuel." Margaret explained.
"At the cost of five billion lives."
"Bargain."
"I give you a choice. Leave this planet or I'll stop you."
The Slitheen started to laugh.
"What, you? Trapped in your box?"
"Yes. Me."
The Doctor closes the shutters on Margaret's laughing face.
Hours had passed and April had gone over every scenario she could think of to stop the Slitheen. She could only find one solution. April shook her head, there has to be another way! She's brought into reality by Jackie's voice.
"Alright, Doctor. I'm not saying I trust you, but there must be something you can do." she asked
"If we could ferment the port, we could make acetic acid." Harriet suggested.
"Mickey, any luck?" Rose asked.
"There's loads of emergency numbers. They're all on voicemail."
"Voicemail dooms us all."
"If we could just get out of here." Rose said in frustration.
"There is one way out. Isn't there?" April spoke and looked at the Doctor.
"Yes, there is."
"What?" Rose said.
"There's always been a way out."
"Then why don't we use it?"
"Because I can't guarantee you daughter will be safe." the Doctor bowed his head and spoke to the phone.
"Don't you dare. Whatever it is, don't you dare."
"That's the thing. If I don't dare, everyone dies."
"Do it." Rose told him firmly and the Doctor looked at her in amazement.
"You don't even know what it is. You'd just let me?"
"Yeah."
"How about you?" The Doctor asked April.
"If we can stop the Slitheen then it's worth it."
"Please Doctor. Please. She's my daughter. She's just a kid."
"Do you think I don't know that? Because this is my life, Jackie. It's not fun, it's not smart, it's just standing up and making a decision because nobody else will."
"Then what're you waiting for?" Rose asked him.
"I could save the world but lose you."
"Except it's not your decision, Doctor. It's mine." Harriet interrupted.
"And who the hell are you?" Jackie asked.
"Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North. The only elected representative in this room, chosen by the people for the people. And on behalf of the people, I command you. Do it."
April smiled, typical mom. Helping him making the choice he must choose.
"How do we get out?" Rose asked.
"We don't. We stay here." the Doctor got the Emergency Protocols from the Red Box.
"Use the buffalo password. It overrides everything."
"What are you doing?" Jackie asked Mickey.
"Hacking into the Royal Navy. We're in. Here it is. HMS Taurean, Trafalgar Class submarine, ten miles off the coast of Plymouth."
"Right, we need to select a missile."
" We can't go nuclear. We don't have the defense codes."
"We don't need it. All we need's an ordinary missile. What's the first category?"
"Sub Harpoon, UGM-4A4."
"That's the one. Select."
"I could stop you."
"Do it then."
"Mickey the Idiot, the world is in your hands. Fire."
There's a big whoosh indicating that the missile is on its way to 10 Downing Street.
"How solid are these?" Harriet asked.
"Not solid enough. Built for short range attack, nothing this big."
"All right, now I'm making the decision. I'm not going to die. We're going to ride this one out. It's like what they say about earthquakes. You can survive them by standing under a door frame. Now, this cupboard's small so it's strong. Come and help me. Come on." Rose says and started clearing out the cupboard alongside Harriet and April.
"It's on radar. Counter defense five five six"
"Stop them intercepting it."
"I'm doing it now."
"Good boy."
"Five five six neutralised."
The Doctor unplugged the phone and entered the cupboard where Rose, April and Harriet are waiting. He closed the door and sat in the floor. They grabbed each other's hands.
"Here we go. Nice knowing you all. Hannibal!" Harriet says as the missile hit the building.
The cupboard shook violently and rolled through the remains of the building inside its steel shell. When the cupboard stopped moving, the Doctor pushed the steel door off and Harriet stepped out.
"Made in Britain."
A young man rushed over to Harriet as the Doctor helped Rose and April out of the cupboard.
"Oh, my God. Are you all right?"
"Harriet Jones, MP, Flydale North. I want you to contact UN immediately. Tell the ambassadors the crisis is over. They can step down. Go on, tell the news."
"Yes, ma'am."
"Someone's got a hell of a job sorting this out. Oh, Lord. we haven't even got a Prime Minister." She told them.
"Maybe you should have a go." The Doctor suggests.
"Me? Huh. I'm only a back-bencher."
"I'd vote for you." Rose told her.
"Now, don't be silly. Look, I'd better go and see if I can help. Hang on!"
Harriet made her way down the pile of rubble. April following slowly behind.
"We're safe! The Earth is safe! Sergeant!"
As April walked away, she overhead the Doctor talking to Rose.
"I thought I knew the name. Harriet Jones, future Prime Minister. Elected for three successive terms. The architect of Britain's Golden Age."
April frowned, how could he know that. Wait…
"The crisis has passed! Ladies and gentlemen, I have something to say to you all here today! Mankind stands tall, proud and undefeated. God bless the human race."
April turned around and decided to follow the Doctor and Rose who were walking to the Powell Estate. Rose said goodbye to the Doctor as she went to see her mother and April followed the Doctor into an alley.
"Why are you following me?" The Doctor said and turned around to face April, who had the deer caught in the headlights look.
"I was curious. You revealed that you are not human, and you somehow know how to travel through time. So... I kinda wanted to see your spaceship." She bit her lip, waiting for him to yell at her.
He looked at her bewildered.
"How do you know I travel through time?"
"I thought Rose looked familiar, then I realised she's the girl who went missing a year ago at the same time the mannequins went crazy. Then I heard you talking about mom becoming prime minister for three terms. You could only know that if you know the future." she explained and realised her logic wasn't exactly foolproof.
The Doctor beamed at her.
"Right then. Let me show you my ship."
"Really?" she asked surprised.
"Yeah."
April followed the Doctor to a blue box.
"Here we are"
April stared at the police box in front of her.
"Is this it?"
"Yes, it's called a TARDIS, Time And Relative Dimension In Space."
"It's a blue box. A police box."
"Yeah"
"A police box with graffiti on."
"What?!"
April pointed to the side of the TARDIS, were the words 'Bad Wolf' were graffitied on, and the Doctor went to inspect it.
"Wait here for a minute."
The Doctor went to find the culprit and returned a couple of minutes later with a kid.
"Wash that off will you" he told the kid and held the door to the TARDIS open.
"Well then come on" He said to April.
"Inside the box."
"Yes."
The Doctor went inside and April stared for a moment, only to shrug and follow him. The inside was nothing she could ever have imagined. The was a big console in the middle of a giant room. April gaped in amazement and she felt the gentle purr from the machine.
"Wow."
The Doctor leaned up against the console.
"So, what do you think?"
"It's bigger on the inside."
"Yes"
"And it travels through time and space."
"Yes. Want to come?"
April stared at him.
"Are you serious? Why?"
"I like you. You're not an idiot. What do you say?"
"I can come with you?"
"Yes, anywhere in time and space."
"I would like to come"
"Great. I'll have the Tardis built a room for you. Let me call Rose."
"Is it alright if I look around?
"Of course. Go ahead."
It was two hours later and night had fallen. April had gone to say goodbye to her mother and Mickey were sitting in a rubbish bin reading the newspaper.
"I just went down the shop, and I was thinking, you know, like the whole world's changes. Aliens and spaceships all in public. And here it is." He told the Doctor and showed him the headlines: ALIEN HOAX
"How could they do that? They saw it."
"They're just not ready. You're happy to believe in something that's invisible, but if it's staring you in the face, nope, can't see it. There's a scientific explanation for that. You're thick."
"We're just idiots."
"Well, not all of you."
"Yeah?"
"Present for you, Mickey."
He gives Mickey a CD.
"That's a virus. Put it online. It'll destroy every mention of me. I'll cease to exist."
"What do you want to do that for?"
"Because you're right, I am dangerous. I don't want anybody following me."
At this moment Jackie and Rose exits the apartment block and April walked around the corner and towards the TARDIS.
"How can you say that and then take her with you?"
"You could look after her. Come with us."
"I can't. This life of yours, it's just too much. I couldn't do it. Don't tell her I said that."
Rose and Jackie approached the Doctor and Mickey.
"I'll get a proper job. I'll work weekends. I'll pass my test, and if Jim comes round again, I'll say no. I really will" Jackie told her daughter.
"I'm not leaving because of you. I'm travelling, that's all, and then I'll come back."
"But it's not safe."
"Mom, if you saw it out there you'd never stay home."
"Got enough stuff?" The Doctor asked her and glanced at Rose's bag.
"Last time I stepped in there, it was spur of the moment. Now I'm signing up. You're stuck with me."
She handed the doctor her rucksack and went over to Mickey.
"Come with us. There's plenty of room."
"No chance. He's a liability, I'm not having him on board." The Doctor said saving Mickey form humiliation.
"We'd be dead without him."
"My decision is final."
"Sorry."
Rose and Mickey kiss goodbye.
"Good luck, yeah."
"You still can't promise me. What if she gets lost? What if something happens to you, Doctor, and she's left all alone standing on some moon a million light years away. How long do I wait then?"
"Mom, you're forgetting. It's a time machine. I could go travelling around suns and planets and all the way out to the edge of the universe, and by the time I get back, yeah, ten seconds would have passed. Just ten seconds. So stop worrying. See you in ten seconds' time, yeah?"
Jackie and Rose hug goodbye and April enters the TARDIS followed by the Doctor and Rose. As the TARDIS started to dematerialise, Rose turned to April.
"You ready for this?"
April grinned at her.
"Definitely."
"Just know, there is going to be an awful lot of running."
"Great! I love running!"
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NicoleR85: Thanks, glad you like it. I will try to update on a regular basis during the summer and have plenty of chapters written for the school year, so I'll manage to update at least once a week.
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