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THE DUKE
The Doctor frowned, looking at the busted up padlock. If they'd just waited a little while longer he could have used his sonic screwdriver. People these days had no sense of class.
"And I suppose you know who's already here?"
The Doctor held the padlock in the palm of his hand, scrutinising every inch of it, searching for a clue as to who had broken in. "Don't be ridiculous Miss Pond, I can't know everything. But I can find out. Quite easily." The Doctor flashed a grin and headed into the school grounds.
"Doctor!"
The Doctor stopped and turned back round, "What now Amy?"
"Security."
"What about it?"
Amy pointed up to the security camera pointed at the entrance. The Doctor turned and looked up, "Ah yes." The Doctor flipped the sonic screwdriver around in his hand and pointed it at the camera. Sparks flew as the camera short-circuited. "Happy now? Come on Amy! Honestly."
Amy followed the Doctor into car park. The Doctor looked around, "Now if you were a race of time travelling aliens, where would you hide?"
"Oh I don't know Doctor, how about a blue box?"
The Doctor grinned again, "Amy you're brilliant."
"I am?" Amy asked confused.
"Yes, the caretaker's office. Last place any student in the school would go, or any teacher and the caretaker spends relatively little time here so…. To the caretaker's office. Shed. Thing."
Susan punched the final few digits in and the hydraulics in the wall hissed and the crack in the wall widened, revealing a dark tunnel, sloping gently downwards. The floor was slippy from the moisture that seeped in through the walls and trying to cling to the walls for balance was no good either.
As she walked down, Susan's eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness and she could make out the faint shadow of the doors ahead of her. She pounded on the door and waited. She could hear the faint whirring of machinery from the other side of the door.
"WHERE IS THE DOCTOR?" The metallic voice asked.
Susan waved the Dalek away, "Hold your horses, he'll be here soon enough. You're not the only person anxious to have him dead you know."
"HAVE YOU HEARD FROM THE THOUSAND YEAR DUKE?"
"No I bloody well haven't. And if I do, rest assured Supreme, you will be the first to know."
"WE ARE GROWING TIRED OF WAITING."
Susan sighed and massaged her temples. Daleks had very one-track minds, "I know you are, I am too, and I'm sure the Duke is too. But what we all have to remember, what you have to remember, is that we all stand to benefit from this. We all want The Doctor gone, but getting rid of a Time Lord takes patience."
"HOW DO YOU BENEFIT?"
Susan went to say something but then paused and thought for a moment. What did she stand to gain from all this? Besides the Duke's promise and Daleks' promise that she would be spared when their time came to rule this planet. Then she saw a toe of a boot appear around the corner "Personal satisfaction, letting him know what it's like to be let down by the people you thought you could trust, by your own family," She looked up at the white Dalek, "but of course Daleks wouldn't know about that would they?"
The Dalek reeled back, almost knocking into the Scientist Dalek behind him, who was well camouflaged in the gloom.
The Doctor strolled casually into the caretaker's office. At first glance, everything looked normal, tools scattered all over the workbenches. Well, it looked normal if you ignored the great big hole in one of the walls. "Well there's something you don't see everyday."
Amy grabbed The Doctor's shoulder, "Do you really think that's a good idea?"
"I think it's a wonderful idea. A big dark tunnel leading underground, quite possible alien, what could possibly be bad about going down there? Hmm?"
Amy rolled her eyes and followed the time travelling mad man down the tunnel. The Doctor crouched down, pulling Amy's sleeve for her to do the same. They began shuffling forward awkwardly. Quiet voices drifted up the corridor of darkness.
"Doctor, who's that?"
The Doctor turned, looking at Amy slightly annoyed and held a finger to his lips. Be quiet Amy.
"HOW DO YOU BENEFIT?"
The Doctor felt a cold shiver race down his spine. This was bad. This was very bad indeed. The Doctor shuffled forward, stopping when he was at the turn off of the tunnel.
"Personal satisfaction, letting him know what it's like to be let down by the people you thought you could trust, by your own family," The Doctor could hear that she was trying to conceal the emotion that remained raw even after all this time, "but of course Daleks wouldn't know about that would they?"
There was a momentary pause, then…
"YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED."
The Doctor's eyes widened and he jumped into the room, "Hold on, wait a minute!"
The five Daleks and Susan turned to face him. Susan smirked, "Look what the cat dragged in, The Oncoming Storm."
"Someone's called me that before," The Doctor mused.
Susan stood in front of him, "Where's Amy?"
The Doctor looked around, "Dunno."
"Scientist, check the tunnel." She ordered, not taking her eyes of the Doctor.
"WE DON'T TAKE ORDERS FRO-"
"From me? I think you'll find you do, because I think you'll find I'm your only link with the Duke who I think you'll find is calling the shots here. So if something goes wrong because you've disobeyed my orders, I don't imagine the Duke is going to be best pleased."
The blue Dalek slid backwards. The Doctor looked over his shoulder, watching the Dalek. "AMY RUN!"
Amy gasped, jumping from the shock of The Doctor's sudden shout. She got up quickly, using the momentum of jumping up to propel her forwards quicker than usual. The Dalek was at the base of the tunnel. The long straight tunnel with nowhere to hide. Just one long run to the office.
"EXTERMINATE!"
Both The Doctor and Susan yelled. "NO!"