Title: May death be upon you (A different perspective)

Author: earlyable

Setting: Sanctuary - After Awakening but before Carentan

Doctor Who - After Let's Kill Hitler but before The God Complex (Amy and Rory are still with the Doctor)

Author's Note: This chapter is mainly the whole reason I'm putting myself through this pain, I just thought it'd be hilarious to write the scene with the phone call and then poor Will trapped in a room with Nikola Tesla, the most annoying invention (read: inventor) since unsliced bread!

Disclaimer (because everyone is suing): No, I don't own anything vaguely familiar, if I did, then I would kind of mesh all the Sci-Fi shows.

Chapter Two: A Bed, a Security Update and a Tryst

I rolled off my particularly comfortable bed that, at that particular instant, seemed like the best place in the world to stay, especially since the containment alarms were going off and Henry was rapidly having a meltdown on the two-way radio. "Right, what's going on? Why are the alarms going off, Henry?" Henry controlled his breathing and said, not without a hint of hysteria, "Well, genius boy-" Tesla, I mentally inserted, "-decided to do an EXPERIMENT while I was updating the security systems and all the systems crashed. It's all okay now, except that some of the Abnormals decided to walkabout. Okay, Will, I've just gotten an update on all of the enclosures we have, the SHU is okay nothing got out there, except the new arrival we got the-" and here came the obligatory reference to try and pronounce the name of the new Abnormal and the subsequent nickname, "-The Terror got out, so have the Nubbins."

"Damn it. You can give me a more thorough update when I get down there; is the Big Guy with you?"

"No, he isn't, do you want me to contact him?"

"Yes, get him and Kate to deal with the new arrival. Oh and Henry, put the entire Sanctuary under lockdown and alert the other Sanctuaries."

"I'm on it dude… Hey, Will, do you have a stunner on you?"

"No, why?" I asked apprehensively glancing around as I halt and defensively put my back up against the wall. "Well, the Coleanthropus is decidedly upset, so you might want to get down here fast dude."

"Where is it, Henry?"

"It's right behind you." I start running and, foregoing the elevator, start dashing down the stairs. I race down the corridor to Henry's lab and burst in out of breath. "Right, what's the situation?"

"Well, Vlad over here has fried some of the server-"

"Not my fault!" interjected Tesla.

"Shut up!" We both yell at him. "Right, so some of the cameras are down, but all of the cages that opened had the new security system installed which systematically sprays a chemical tracker, totally harmless, into the room. That means that we know where all the Abnormals are, however it only works inside the Sanctuary compound."

"What are you not telling me Henry?"

Henry groaned, "The Coleanthropus, after it finished chasing you, chose to leave the Sanctuary grounds before I got lockdown procedures in process"

"Great, just brilliant!" I hiss, "Fine, what do you have so far?"

"Well, the Steno is following Kate around, we don't have any of the Nubbins in captivity yet, although I have a couple of the other Abnormals on that, and the Mollox has decided to calm down and is currently in that corner over there. After the Vamp here professed a strong dislike for Skippy, he's been hiding there ever since." He now turned to Tesla and informed him, "That's cold, man, really cold."

"Henry, focus! I'm going to call Magnus to inform her of the situation, you two keep it down." I sigh at the indignant look on Tesla's face and ignore his comments of being "totally quiet and understanding around the children" and that he was "nauseating himself." I roll my eyes just as Henry excitedly informs me that twelve of the Nubbins have been recaptured and that, oh yeah... another Abnormal had escaped, the Pinepex, just wonderful. I rub my hand over my face as I dial Magnus' number and feel a twinge of apprehension in my gut. She answers the phone with a curt, "Hello?" that makes it clear that now is not a good time, I blurt out quickly, "Hey, Magnus, it's Will here. Umm... we've had a bit of an emergency. Err, you know that new arrival we had recently, the duis terrere monstrum? Well, it kind of escaped."

"Will! You know how dangerous it is!" She sounds reprimanding.

"Yeah, I do! I'm not the one to blame. Henry was installing a new security system and Kate was helping, so-"

"Just deal with it for me, please Will? And make sure nothing else gets out." I nervously glance around at Henry and clear my throat as I prepare myself for the berating that is to come. "Yeah, it's, umm... it's a bit too late for that."

Magnus exclaims my name in annoyance, "Will! What else has gotten out?" I take a deep breath and decide to save the worst for last. "All of the Nubbins, the Steno, the Mollox, Coleanthropus and, well..."

"What, Will? It can't be any worse than the Nubbins getting out, can it?" Now Magnus is the one with a slightly apprehensive air. I sigh again and glance over at Henry, wondering if I could pass the phone off to him, decide against it and press on doggedly, "It can if it's the Pinepex." I reveal to her, there is silence at the other end and then a flurry of words. "Right, I want you to secure the entire Sanctuary and go down into lock-" Henry snatches the phone away from me, scratching my hand in the process and I hiss in retaliation, he winces in apology and starts talking to Magnus, "Okay, so I started the lockdown procedures, however those annoying little bastard creatu-, ah I mean, Nubbins have chewed through the mainframe cords, so I'm going to have to do it manually."

Nikola has walked up behind Henry and punches him in the side and grabs the phone while Henry whips around and punches him back in the stomach. Tesla doubles up but continues forging through with his smarmy comments, "I drop in for a little hello and I find that I'm involved with a major security breach, again. Really, Helen-" I immediately dart over and snatch the phone, holding up a hand to keep him at bay while I start speaking into the phone rapidly, "I found the cause of the breach and it was Mister Ex-ex-vampire over here that caused an entire meltdown to occur when he tried to start one of his experiments." Nikola begins to protest vehemently and Henry looks at me a bit stunned as I take credit for his good job, I mouth at him while Magnus is speaking, "Sorry, had to shut him up." He nods and I start listening to Magnus, "-do what you have to; I'll get John to bring me over as soon as I can."

She hangs up and I nod towards Henry, "Sorry about that," I apologise and he brightens up nodding at me while manually sending the Sanctuary into lockdown, I sigh with relief when Henry looks up and announces, "Finished the lockdown, but restoring the server is going to take a while." I nod and sit down just as I hear thumping footsteps in the hall, we all glance at the door and Henry surreptitiously puts his hand on a stunner when Magnus flies into the room snapping, "Give me an update." She's dressed in a deep green dress that clearly magnifies her lovely body while revealing nothing, she's holding her high heels and she drops them to the ground. My lapse has taken less than a moment and I start speaking rapidly, "We have no power and no food left; the Mollox isn't dangerous and the Steno is following Kate. The Pinepex hasn't been captured and we haven't found more than twelve Nubbins. Oh, and The Terror has been safely put back in its cell. Then there's the problem of the Coleanthropus: it escaped the Sanctuary compound and has decided to hide itself where we can't find it."

She looks at me in what I recognise as surprise and I can pre-empt her words before she speaks, "The Terror?" She looks torn between amusement and anger and I'm hoping amusement wins out. When I catch Henry's glance and see he's thinking the same as me, I immediately pin it on him and Kate, "Henry and Kate can't pronounce the Latin name, so they christened it The Terror." Henry looks stricken, but Magnus doesn't notice and I shoot a smile at him, this entire exchange going unnoticed by Magnus.

"Brilliant, just bloody brilliant," she explodes suddenly, "Lock down this room and I want everyone to stay in here, that means everyone, Nikola!" Tesla starts the expected protest and Magnus starts the expected cut off, "There's no time; with your abnormal abilities you could wreak havoc if the Pinepex gets into your system. I'm going to go down to my lab as fast as possible and grab the antidote to the Pinepex's effects, hopefully it should stop the Nubbins from affecting us too." She moves into the hall and I debate handing her the shoes, but she'll probably be more comfortable without them on. As she moves down the hall I get a glimpse of three girls who look very familiar, yet they're total strangers.

I shake my head as Henry locks the room up tighter than an oyster. I know why she left us here, if Henry or Tesla gets infected by the Pinepex on the way to the antidote, then we're screwed, locking them up in here would be an ideal option, if they didn't kill each other first, which is why I'm in here too.

Tesla starts the immediate complaints and I can almost imagine Magnus thinking with relief that it wasn't her problem anymore. I would get my revenge, when she least expected it, she should expect it.