It's Always Been You
A Doctor Who Story
Chapter 4: Here I am
I again thank everyone who has read and reviewed this story. I really enjoy writing it. Just so everyone is aware, I am trying to retain much of the original dialogue from the episode, making tweeks to it in order to fit the story better. This chapter will be a bit shorter than the others but I will hopefully have another done within the week so long as I get the rest of my papers (I'm an English major btw) done. Well enough about me...allons-y!
"Excellent. Even when powerless, a time lord is best contained," Davros, the mastermind behind the Daleks, states with a sly smile as he looks on at the scene before him. Both the Doctor and Rose were contained, separately, by two spotlight-like containment fields.
"Still afraid of me then?" The Doctor replied with a smirk.
"Doctor," Rose whispered, looking over at the Doctor fearfully. He turned to her at the sound of her voice and tried to reach out to her, only to find the barriers of the containment field. He smiled reassuringly at her instead.
Davros, in his mechanical chair, slid closer to the Doctor and stated, "It is time we talked, Doctor, after so very long, after the…"
The Doctor interrupted him, telling him that he did not want to walk down memory lane with him but rather get down to the situation at hand, "We're in the Vault, yeah? As in, dungeon? Cellar?" He questioned Davros with an aloof tone in his voice, earning a small smile from Rose.
'Oh I did miss this,' she thought as the Doctor toyed with Davros.
The Doctor continued, "Prison? You're not in charge of the Daleks, are you?" Davros grew angrier with his words, "They've got you locked away down here in the basement like, what, a servant? A slave? Court Jester perhaps?"
Davros became fed up with the Doctor's rambling and announced, "We have an arrangement."
The Doctor chuckled lightly at his response and replied, "No, no, no, no I've got the word, "he turned to Rose who smirked, knowing the Doctor had a clever response up his sleeve, "You're the Dalek's pet!" Rose held a hand to her mouth to stifle her laughter. All that joy ceased, however, when Davros switched his attention to her and came closer.
Wanting to protect her, the Doctor let out an animalistic growl that scared even Rose, warning Dalek creator of the dangers of hurting his beloved.
Sensing the Doctor's anger and basking in every second of it, Davros approached Rose, "So full of fire, is he not? And to think…" he smiled maliciously at her before continuing, "You crossed entire universes, striding parallel to parallel, to find him again."
Rose let out a nervous sigh. She looked to the Doctor who shouted, "Leave her alone, Davros. You do not want to know what will happen if you harm her..."
"She is mine to do with as I please," he informed the Doctor before turning his attention back to the blonde girl. She shuddered as Davros looked her over.
"I promise you Rose," the Doctor called over to her, "I won't let anything happen to you." She smiled at his declaration before turning back to Davros.
"Then why am I still alive?" She questioned, gaining a little more confidence.
Davros's face grew far more serious and replied that it was in some prophecy foretold by a Dalek called Dalek Caan.
"Dalek Caan," the Doctor whispered, remembering the Dalek in question from their last encounter, and his face grew grave.
A changed Dalek Caan appeared in the room muttering something about fire and endless flames.
Rose turned to the Doctor for an answer, "What is that thing?"
He gave a wry smile before replying, "You've met before," she looked confused, "Last of the Cult of Skaro. But it flew into the Time War, unprotected." He gestured to the mutilated Dalek. Rose nodded in understanding.
"This I have foreseen," Dalek Caan explained his prophesy, "As witness, at the end of everything, The Doctor and his precious Children of Time and one of them," he paused, "will die."
"No!" Rose exclaimed in fear for both herself and her friends.
"Was it you, Caan? Did you kill Donna? Why did the Tardis door close? Tell Me!" The Doctor demanded of the Dalek in an angry tone.
Davros seemed to enjoy the Doctor's anger, "Ohh that is it! The rage of a Time Lord who butchered millions." The Doctor could feel the anger and rage rising up inside of him. The only thing keeping him from completely losing control was the presence of his dear Rose near to him. But he was obviously seething at Davros's words.
Davros again smiled at the Doctor's rage, "Why so shy? Show your most faithful companion your true self."
Dalek Caan concurred with Davros, "I have seen this so. At the time of ending, the Doctor's soul will be revealed."
"You're wrong," Rose proclaimed to the villains, "the Doctor is a good man." She smiled at the Doctor who looked down at the floor guiltily.
'If she only knew,' he thought before turning his attention back to Caan, "What does that mean exactly?"
"Our final journey," Davros explained, "Because the ending approaches; the testing begins."
The Doctor gave him a confused look before asking, "Testing of what?" Rose looked to the Dalek, wanting to know the answer.
Davros smiled and said, "The Reality Bomb."
The entire room paused when they overheard the continuing countdown by the Supreme Dalek.
"Behold the apotheosis of my genius," Davros gloated.
The screen blinked on as the room witnessed the 27 planets falling into a single alignment. With that image, the Doctor realized, in horror, just what Davros planned on doing.
"No! Davros, you can't! No!" He cried out in desperation which frightened Rose.
"Doctor," she whispered fearfully, "What happened?"
"Oh Rose," he looked over at her, tears brimming in his eyes. Rose could feel her heart break with the way that her Doctor looked at this present time.
"Electrical energy, Miss Tyler," Davros looked at her as he explained just what the room had witnessed just moments before.
She realized then what was going on and, in a whisper, replied, "The stars are going out." She turned to her Doctor in silent tears, "Doctor?"
"The twenty-seven planets. They become one vast transmitter. Blasting that wavelength…"He couldn't finish the sentence.
Davros smiled at the Doctor's fear and pain, "Across the entire universe. Never stopping, never faltering, and never fading. People and planets and stars will become dust, and the dust will become nothing. And the wavelength will continue!"
"No!" the Doctor and Rose both exclaimed at the same time.
Davros continued, "Breaking through the rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade! Into every dimension! Every parallel," Rose cried at the mention of a parallel world, fearing for her family and friends there, "Every single corner of creation! This is my ultimate victory, Doctor," the Doctor shuddered, "The destruction of reality itself!"
Suddenly, the screen flashes on and the room turned to see...
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