A/N this chapter is when things really start to get moving, I just got a little idea that just wouldn't leave mme alone, a museum that not only has artifacts but rooms that look like different times and planets! not only Gallifrey but earth, and yes you guessed it Skaro.

chapter song: get out alive by three days grace


The curator looked like he was about to have a heart attack as he looked at the Doctor in awe.

He had finally gotten them out of the Gallifrey exhibit and they were now sitting in what appeared to be the food court. Rose sat beside the Doctor, at one of the round tables, waiting for the curator, who had finally told them that his name was Arthur Thane, to calm down enough to actually react to the fact he was in a room filled with a race he had devoted his life to commemorating, a race that was supposed to be extinct.

"I had heard rumors that a time lord had survived, but I've never seen any proof." he stammered.
The Doctor smiled and wiggled his fingers, "hello here's your proof-ow! What was that for?" he yelped when Rose elbowed him, "You're being rude! The man's clearly just had a shock!" she said, sending an apologetic look across the table to Arthur.

"oh no I don't mind!" Arthur said, "It's not every day that you get to meet an extinct species" he said seeming to examine the Doctor and Rose he would probably be studying Jenny and her the same way if they hadn't been standing behind him. Lily raised her eyebrows, "Oi! Now who's being rude?" she said, "That is a very touchy subject!" she came and stood behind her parents, "How would you feel if you were one of the last of your species and we pointed it out?"

Jenny nodded with agreement and Lily caught her eye, "I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking!" he said his face turning red again, wow, Lily thought, this guy sure gets worked up easily. Jenny decided to make him feel a little bit better about it, "It's okay like you said it's not every day, at least not for you." she said with a small smile, Jack chuckled.

Then a loud beep came from Arthur's pocket. He looked troubled and pulled out a small device from his pocket, "Oh no!" he cried jumping up suddenly, almost knocking over Jenny who was standing behind him,
"What's wrong?" the Doctor asked standing up, "There's a security breach in the Skaro exhibit!" he said.

The Doctor was next to him in a flash staring at the device, "Quick tell me what do you have in the Skaro exhibit?" he asked. Arthur looked confused, but told him, "not much really it's much like the Gallifrey exhibit, except we have a few artifacts in it already." he said pulling out a handkerchief, he then pulled out a communicator and told security to head to the Skaro exhibit, "Arthur!" the Doctor said trying to get his attention, "What kind of artifacts?" Arthur looked back at the Doctor, "just things like old pieces of Dalek technology and well we have an old Dalek casing." he said the Doctor's eyes widened, "was it empty?" he asked, Arthur looked confused, "The casing! Was the casing empty?" Arthur shrugged, "We don't know we couldn't get it open." he said. The Doctor ran a hand through his hair, tell me. Do you have to go through any other exhibits to reach the Skaro one?" The Doctor asked, "Well yes you have to go through the Earth exhibit, and the Balhoon exhibit." Arthur told them, "and did any alarms go off in either of those?"

"Well no?" he said. The Doctor hissed, "do you know what that could mean?" just then Arthur's communicator buzzed, "it all seems clear down here." it said then there was a sound of scuffling, "Did you see that?" one of the security guards said, "You need to get them out of there." the Doctor said gravely.

"But you heard them Doctor they said it was clear." Arthur argued, "Yes but then they said the saw movement." just then the communicator came on again, "Sir. We have a problem."

The curator picked it up and asked the guard, "What is it," the guard sounded a little scared, "It's the Dalek sir." The Doctor came and snatched it from the curator, "Hello I'm the Doctor, and you said something about the Dalek? What about the Dalek?" he asked, "Well sir. It's gone. I don't know where it went but it's not in it's case, and well the glass it was sealed in is broken."

Rose looked scared, the Doctor ran a hand through his hair again, "okay what's your name?" the Doctor asked, "Anthony." the guard told him, "Right then Anthony get out of there. Seal the exhibit, but you need to get out of there now." the Doctor told him, "Why sir? Why is it so important to seal the exhibit?"

"Anthony I'm going to tell you something. But you have to promise that you won't panic." the Doctor said

"I promise sir" Anthony told him his voice shaking slightly, "The casing wasn't empty and the Dalek inside was not dead it was simply…dormant." the Doctor said, then he looked over at Arthur, "Can you seal the exhibit from here?" he asked

"not from here no, but I can do it from my office." Arthur informed them, "Well get to it!" Jenny said, thwacking him on the back lightly.

It wasn't to much time later that they came to an office with the words "Curator Thane" written on them in bold letters, Lily was about to follow them in when the Doctor turned to her and Jenny and said, "You two take Stormaggedon back to the TARDIS and I want you to stay there" it didn't take a genius to figure out that he wanted Lily and Jenny out of trouble, Lily frowned not liking being told to hide in the TARDIS while her parents hunted down and took care of a Dalek.

Then as if deciding that just the thought of it being there wasn't enough the communicator buzzed and Anthony's voice filled the room tight with fear and an undertone of panic, "It's here sir, I found the Dalek. But Charlie…Charlie's dead, it killed him, I only barely got away, but you were right Doctor it's alive, the Dalek's alive!" then there was a sound of scuffling and the unmistakable sound of a Dalek moving, then a voice screeched through the room, "ETERMINATE!" then they heard Anthony scream.

The Doctor switched off the communicator, as Rose covered her mouth in shock. The Doctor turned to Jack, "Jack take them to the TARDIS, and make sure they stay there" Jack nodded and led Lily from the room, Jenny lingered, planning on telling her father that she could handle herself against one Dalek.

"Jenny this is not up for discussion. A Dalek is the most evil, hateful being in the universe, it's only thought is kill. It kills anything that comes near. So do not argue and go back to the TARDIS!" the Doctor said, Jenny glared at him and ran out after Lily and Jack.

The Doctor looked after her and as soon as they were gone he sighed in relief, he had only just found his daughters he wasn't about to lose them to a Dalek, he wasn't about to let them go the way of their ancestors.
Rose caught his hand and they turned to face the monitor that showed the door to the Skaro exhibit.

The room on the other side was empty aside from a few artifacts from Skaro. The Doctor watched as the door started to slide down, sealing the exhibit, beside him Rose visibly relaxed.

"That's it? Is it trapped?" Arthur asked. The Doctor and Rose both turned to him, "It's not trapped, we've just slowed it down, at that moment the Dalek rolled into view and went to the control panel, it's sucker completely covering the keypad.

Rose looked at Arthur gravely, "It will be out in seconds. So we have to work quickly," Rose told him she looked over at the Doctor, he was pacing, no doubt trying to come up with some brilliant, plan that involved an obscene amount of running.

"Arthur!" he said running over and catching the man by the shoulders, "Are there any weapons that were used in the time war among the Gallifreyan artifacts?" the Doctor asked. Arthur looked quite startled, "Well…yes…but…" he trailed off, "What is it?" Rose asked him peeking over the Doctor's shoulder.

"they're…well…they haven't been used since the Time War…so we don't know how to use them. Plus they are so old that they might not work." He explained, a small smile turned up the corners of the Doctor's face,
"weapons that haven't been used since the time war? I could use every single one of them, considering I fought in the war, I ended the war." his eyes had taken on a haunted look.

"Right I'm sorry I forgot right this way," Arthur said as he gently moved the Doctor's hands off of his arms and led the pair out of the room.
~~DW~~

"You know if he wanted us back in the TARDIS shouldn't he have at least told us where he parked her?" Lily complained, as she followed Jack down the hall, they couldn't seem to find the TARDIS, and to be honest she was a little worried, what with the fact that there was a alien death machine somewhere in these halls. Jenny snickered, "Yeah, dad really didn't think that one through did he?" Jack glanced back at the girls, truth was he was scared, the Dalek couldn't hurt him, but those two could get killed, honestly he thought that the safest place for those two was back with their father, but he also knew that he wouldn't be able to convince the Doctor of this so he had taken Lily, Jenny and the dog, but of course now they couldn't find the TARDIS.

Jenny seemed unperturbed about the whole thing, but then again she was on her own for several years, she felt she could easily take care of herself, of course Jack highly doubted that Jenny had ever met a Dalek before. So he wasn't about to let her run off on her own either.

Lily pulled ahead of them by a little bit and walked around the corner, her shoulders visibly relaxed and Jack knew that she had found the TARDIS, thank god that they did it before the Dalek had shown up.

Coming around the corner he went and unlocked the TARDIS letting Stormaggedon run in, then he turned to motion the girls inside, when he heard it, th sound of mechanics whirring, a sound that froze his heart, "Jenny, Lily get inside!" He shouted just as the Dalek came around the corner.

"Exterminate!" it screeched and shot Jack.

"Jack!" Jenny yelled trying to run to his side, but Lily caught her arm, pulling her in the opposite direction. Looking back Lily watched the door to the TARDIS swing closed, and a Dalek sliding around the corner.

"Exterminate!" it screeched, Lily pulled Jenny around the corner just as the energy bolt flew past them, "Run!" she yelled to her sister, and the two of them started to run turning corners to stay out of range of the Dalek.

Lily felt panic blossoming in her hearts. Her lungs were screaming begging her to stop and breathe, but she couldn't even slow, the Dalek was on their heels, she felt tears sting the back of her eyes.

They had to reach the Doctor and her mum, before the Dalek reached her and Jenny. She took another sharp turn, her foot catching on an uneven tile sending her flying.

Jenny turned trying to stop, but the momentum carried her past her sister and halfway down the hall. Lily tried to get back up, she heard the sound of the Daleks approach and she looked over her shoulder and her heart plummeted, the Dalek was just turning around the corner, its eyestalk peering down at her, its gun swiveling till it was pointed at her, then it spoke, "Exterminate!"


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