AN: I'm so, so, so sorry about not updating this last week! I had just about finished my longest chapter last weekend, when I accidentally exited out of the page, deleting all of my work. And all this week I was busy with school, and I wasn't at home hardly at all yesterday, so I'm writing today. I'll try and update once a week, during the weekends. Thank you to everyone who reads this, it truly warms my hearts that anyone would spend their time reading what I'm writing, thank you so much! The chapters may not be too long, but I'm trying to add more detail. I'll be shortening "WAR DOCTOR" in the episode simply to "WAR" for time purposes, and when in the same room, the doctors will be known by their respective numbers, Ten and Eleven. Again, thoughts are in italics. I' rambling, so allons-y!
Disclaimer: If I owned Doctor Who, it would create a paradox causing an explosion the exact size of Belgium.
Chaptehr 3: Wait Just One Moment
[Desert Planet]
WAR: Timelords of Gallifrey, Daleks of Skaro, I serve notice on you all. Too long I have stayed my hand. No more. Today you leave me no choice. Today, this war will end. No more. No more.
Everyone in the small room shuddered, not at all used to this dark Doctor, who just (even if indirectly) claimed he was going to destroy all of both species. Rose thought of the time she had first met the Daleks, and The Doctor holding a huge gun toward the Dalek, saying how she needed to move, that it was an abomination, that it needed to die. And the sadness of them both saying how they were both the last of their species, the cowards. She shook the thought, and squeezed John's hand, he was very pale.
John was thinking of how he had gone into the lonely barn of his childhood, wondered how to turn it on briefly, a small flash of black (he couldn't remember), then a big red button appeared, he had placed his hand on the button intent on pushing it, then everything went black and he found himself in a newly redecorated TARDIS in as he would call his ninth regeneration. He would pretend the War Doctor didn't exist, because he was The Doctor no more, he had broken every one of his rules.
(The War Doctor shifts the sack he is carrying on his back and enters a lonely barn.)
[Barn]
WAR: Now, how do you work? Why is there never a big red button?
Jack was about to make a comment about what The War Doctor had just said, but choked on the words when he looked over at John. His eyes were filled with the tears he wouldn't let fall free, and was shaking lightly in Rose's arms. How could I joke around when The Doctor is about to commit genocide? The biggest regret of his life? Jack felt ashamed with himself for even thinking it would be alright to do.
(He hears a scuffling noise and opens the door.)
WAR: Hello? Is somebody there?
MOMENT: It's nothing. It's just a wolf.
(A blonde woman who looks exactly like Rose is sitting on the clockwork box.
Everyone audibly gasps, in an almost comical way, "H-How is it that I'm up there? I-I've never even seen that version of you!" Rose stammered.
John seemed too shocked by the new circumstances to remember being sad, "I-I don't know! I don't remember any of this happening. I think I would remember something like this, especially sense I met you only about a century after all this happened."
"So you were about eight hundred years old when all this happened?" Mickey asked, having met The Doctor when he was about nine hundred. John nodded solemnly.
Amy, doing the math in her head, "That means you met us right after them, 'cause you were nine hundred seven when we met," John paled having heard her words.
"Four years. Only four years," John looked crestfallen just whispering those few words, everyone looked at him to elaborate, and he closed his eyes, "I apparently only live in this body for four years before I regenerate again, because I was nine hundred three when is changed in front of Rose into what I am now, and was nine hundred six last we saw him," he made a general gesture towards Martha, Micky, Jack, and Rose, "So The Doctor we last knew has less than a year before he regenerates." Martha covered her mouth with her hands and had a sharp intake of breath, Mickey's eyes went wide and his mouth went in the shape of an 'O', Jack looked mournful. Rose threw herself at John, who was shocked at first, with his hands in the air awkwardly, before returning the hug.
WAR: Don't sit on that!
MOMENT: Why not?
WAR: Because it's not a chair, it's the most dangerous weapon in the universe.
(He hurries her from the room and closes the door behind her. But there she is, sitting on the box.)
MOMENT: Why can't it be both? Why did you park so far away? Didn't you want her to see it?
WAR: Want who to see?
MOMENT: The TARDIS. You walked for miles, and miles, and miles, and miles, and miles.
WAR: I was thinking.
MOMENT: I heard you.
WAR: You heard me?
MOMENT: No more. No more.
WAR: No more.
MOMENT: No more. No more.
WAR: Stop it.
MOMENT: No more.
Jack let out a snort of laughter at the last one, seeing her mock The Doctor the way she did.
WAR: Who are you?
(The clockwork in the box makes a noise.)
WAR: It's activating. Get out of here.
The companions smile, that was their Doctor, still trying to save someone's life.
(He tries to take hold of the box, it burns him.)
WAR: Ow!
MOMENT: What's wrong?
WAR: The interface is hot.
MOMENT: Well, I do my best.
"Oh, that's who she really is," River said after that line, everyone stared at her but she just shrugged, "If you don't understand, you will soon." John looked curiously at her, Just who is she?, but let it drop.
WAR: There's a power source inside. (He realizes what she meant) You're the interface?
MOMENT: They must have told you The Moment had a conscience. Hello! Oh, look at you. Stuck between a girl and a box. Story of your life, eh, Doctor?
Everyone laughed at that, and Jack couldn't stop for another five minutes.
WAR: You know me?
MOMENT: I hear you. All of you, jangling around in that dusty old head of yours. I chose this face and for especially for you. It's from your past. Or possibly your future. I always get those two mixed up.
Realization passed through everyone's faces, as they now knew why The Moment looked the way she did.
WAR: I don't have a future.
MOMENT: I think I'm called Rose Tyler. No. Yes. No, sorry, no, no, in this form, I' called Bad Wolf. Are you afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, Doctor?
Everyone looked strangely at Rose, John, and Jack, who shivered at the mention of Bad Wolf. John thinking, When is The Bad Wolf not looking after me?
WAR: Stop calling me Doctor.
MOMENT: That's the name in your head.
WAR: It shouldn't be. I've been fighting this war for a long time. I've lost the right to be called The Doctor.
MOMENT: Then you're the one to save us all.
WAR: Yes.
MOMENT: If I ever develop an ego, you've got the job.
WAR: If you've been inside my head, the you know what I've seen. The suffering. Every moment in space and time is burning. It must end, and I intend to end it the only way I can.
MOMENT: And you're going to use me to end it by killing them all, Daleks and Timelords alike. I could, but there will be consequences for you.
WAR: I have no desire to survive this.
The companions were horrified that The Doctor had thought of it as a punishment to keep on living, and that they all knew him but never truly comforted him. Rose put her arm around John's shoulders and held him close.
MOMENT: Then that's your punishment. If you do this, if you kill them all, then that's the consequence. You live. Gallifrey. You're going to burn it, and all those Daleks with it, but all those children too. How many children on Gallifrey right now?
WAR: I don't know.
MOMENT: One day you will count them. One terrible night.
John choked back a sob, and started crying into Rose's shoulder, and she held him close whispering that he wasn't alone. Everyone now knew that he had counted, but he didn't care how many there were- they were his friends.
MOMENT: Do you want to see what that will turn you into? Come on, aren't you curious?
(A whirling portal opens above them.)
MOMENT: I'm opening windows on your future. A tangle in time of days to come, to the man today will make of you.
(A fez drops through the portal.)
MOMENT: Okay, I wasn't expecting that.
Amy, Rory and River laughed, causing a couple of strange looks from the others as the private joke ran through their thoughts.
AN: Thanks for reading! I'll try and get the next chapter up next weekend. See ya!
