Chapter Ten; Lesson Learned
Alright everyone before I type my last chapter I have just a few announcements. First of all the next story will be a crossover and posted in the Doctor Who Harry Potter section where Jane goes to Hogwarts for her very first year.
Second of all, after that one there won't be any more Next Doctor stories until sometime in October for Halloween. Which leads me to my third and final announcement, during the break I will be writing my first plain Harry Potter story and it will also have a lot of Ginarry and Heron in it since I'm a big shipper of them as well. So hope you enjoy the last and chapter and please remember to R and R! (read and review)
Ps. I am a teeny tiny bit of a Doctor/Clara shipper (although not as big as Doctor/Rose) and so that's why I chose to put a little of it in my stories.
Cassie's POV
I couldn't believe that I was going to go through with this. However I trusted my big brother and I knew that my big sister was still in danger. Peter said that he wasn't sure if she was even old enough to regenerate yet. Even though Jane and I had our differences deep down we still loved each other, and that's why I knew that I had to do this for her, and for Mummy and Daddy.
I bravely walked under the arch that read Toyland (spelled out in building blocks) above me guarded by a couple of toy soldiers. I tried to hide the fact that I was terrified beyond all words that I was here all by myself in case the toymaker was nearby. Then it suddenly occurred to me that I had no idea how I was going to find him and my sister.
"I wish Peter had told me that part." I said to myself when suddenly I tilted my head back and looked up at a gigantic teddy bear that sat in front of me. It had cream colored fur, chocolate eyes, chocolate paws with a brown colored nose, and a brightly colored red ribbon tied around its neck. It was the most beautiful teddy bear that I had ever seen and I wished desperately that it belonged to me.
Then I remembered what one of the servants at the castle had told me. All of the toys in Toyland used to be a human child. I gulped. I felt somewhat sad for the kid, but I felt more afraid for me as I started to backup. I had to find my sister and fast or I would never see my parents and the rest of my family again. Just when it seemed like all hope was lost I heard the sound of galloping hooves and my name being called inside the distance.
I slowly turned around because it sounded like my father only I knew that couldn't be possible. I thought I must have been dreaming. That was until I saw him and my mother riding towards me. "Cassie!" my father exclaimed eagerly.
"Mummy! Daddy!" I cried excitedly as my father pulled his horse to a stop and dismounted in front of me before racing over to me and lifting me up inside his arms. "How did you find me?" I asked him.
"We used your Uncle Jack's transporter and luckily for us it brought us here to you." He explained.
"Well I'm so glad to see both of you, I missed you so much!" I cried.
"I know darling, and we missed you too." My mother told me.
"But that doesn't take away from the fact that you've got a lot of explaining to do young lady." My father told me sternly.
"I know, I'm sorry." I said guilty.
"Well we'll talk about this later but you can be expected to be grounded for another week when we get home and Jane and Nathan aren't off the hook either." I told her.
"I understand Daddy." I said.
"Where is everyone else anyway? And why are you dressed like a princess?" he asked me.
"Well it's sort of a long story." I began.
"Well we've got plenty of time so let's hear it." He said.
The Doctor's POV
Cassie told me all about Candyland and how she was made part of the royal family along with the rest of her siblings. Then she told me all about the toymaker and when he had found out that Jane was really a witch he had kidnapped her and threatened to kill her.
"Please Daddy I'm scared, what if we don't get there in time and she can't regenerate?" she asked me anxiously.
"Don't worry Cassie, we'll find her." I told her.
"That's right honey, we won't let that happen to your sister." Her mother reassured her.
"Thank you, but what are you guys doing here anyway? I thought you were in Egypt." She said.
"We decided that you all were more important." I told her as she smiled back at me. "Now c'mon let's go find your sister." I said before I hurriedly carried her off.
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Jane's POV
I heaved a heavy sad sigh while I remained trapped inside my prisoned cell. This was all my fault, if I hadn't suggested that we come here in the first place, I won't be locked up and being forced into an arranged marriage. Although it still wasn't fair, I was just a kid. I gave a sniff as I felt tears streaming down my cheeks. "I'm too young to get married," I began quietly to myself. "and I'm way too young to die." I finished with another sniff.
Then I started to think about how many years in her life that my mother would still have left if she hadn't of been killed at such a young age. I still wanted to live to at least see Hogwarts (especially since it was the school that Harry Potter and his children grew up at) and my thirteenth birthday. Although so far Peter's thirteenth birthday wasn't going the direction that he had expected it to at all.
Just when it seemed as if all hope was lost I looked up as I saw my father entering the cave. "Dad?" I questioned eagerly and hopefully and pinching myself to make sure that I was still awake.
"Yes darling it's me," he began in a whisper. "I've come to get you out of here. Where's the toymaker?" he asked me.
"He's busy down at the city hall getting our marriage license. Where's Mum? And Peter and Nathan and Cassie?" I asked him as he removed his sonic screwdriver and pointed it at the lock.
"Don't worry, they're all just fine. Well except for your mother that is, I much she's dead and you can't be much worse than that." He said as he pushed the button and unlocked the cell before I quickly rushed out of it and ran into his outstretched arms.
"I'm sorry Daddy," I began. "for everything." I sobbed.
"It's alright sweetheart, at least now you have finally learned your lesson about what happens when you wander off." He told me.
"I have, and I'll never, never do it again. I promise." I assured him.
"Good, now let's go home." He told me.
The Doctor's POV
I took ahold of my daughter's hand and turned to exit the cave when suddenly I came face to face with an elder man inside a gigantic black cloak. "Just where do you think you are taking my bride?" he questioned me as I quickly grabbed ahold of Jane and lifted her into my arms. She wrapped hers around my neck and hid her face inside my chest.
"She isn't your bride, she's just an eleven year old girl, and she just happens to be my daughter so you better just leave her the hell alone!" I shouted angrily.
"I see, well some witch you are if you have to hide behind your daddy for support." He told her with a sneer as I pointed my sonic screwdriver at him and blasted the light into his eyes. He gave out a loud shriek and closed his eyes before I started to run with my daughter tightly inside my arms.
"Run Daddy!" she wailed as the toymaker suddenly regained his sight.
"Come back here!" he shouted before he turned into the gigantic bird and started soaring over our heads and giving out a loud and gigantic screech as he chased us through the air and I continued running as fast as I could a crossed the ground. I ducked as the enormous bird of prey swooped down over my head before suddenly I heard a great big thunderous roar.
"What's that?" I wondered.
"That sounded like the dragon." Jane said as we both tilted our heads back and looked up at the sky and a proud grin stretched a crossed my face as I saw my son and foster son riding on the back of the black winged and scaly creature. "Peter!" Jane cried excitedly as he grinned back down at us while the dragon flapped his wings and took a great big breath before blowing fire down at the bird and roasting him like a toasty marshmallow.
"Don't worry Dad, I'm coming." He said as he steered the creature back towards the ground while an army of knights galloped up behind them. One of them had Rose with them riding on the back of a brown horse. A proud and excited grin stretched a crossed her face as she wrapped her arms tightly around the man's back so that she wouldn't fall off. Cassie was riding towards us as well riding a spotted pony.
Peter's dragon fluttered his wings before landing on the ground. He dismounted first before he lifted Nathan up inside his arms and then set him back on the ground. Then the two boys ran over towards us. "It looks like we had it wrong," Peter began as he looked down at the toymaker's ashes seeing that was all that was left of him. "Panic was on our side the whole time." He said.
"Well now that he's gone what's going to happen to Toyland and the children that have been turned into toys?" Jane asked him.
"They should be fine now that the toymaker's gone." He began as we all turned around to look. Sure enough there were tons of boys and girls coming from over the hill. "See, I told you." Peter said with a grin before he turned to look back over at me. "I'm sorry Dad, I shouldn't have runaway." He told me.
"That's alright, I'm sorry too. I think I might have been a little bit tough on you and Cassie. I mean you were only trying to stand up for yourselves. That still doesn't excuse your behavior though." I told him.
"I know, and don't worry, as soon as I renounce my title I'll start taking school more seriously and use my suspension time to study." He assured me.
"Oh my God, this is amazing." I began as my eyes widened with amazement and I placed my hand upon my chest with bewilderment as I was completely taken aback.
"What is?" he asked me as I just simply grinned at him.
"You are growing up." I told him as he stifled a laugh. "Come here you." I told him as I placed an arm around him and hugged him tightly to my side before I smiled down at Jane and he gave out another little chuckle.
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Cassie's POV
"Ka, at." I read as my teacher pointed at the word on the board with her yardstick. "Cat!" I exclaimed excitedly while Tiffany just simply rolled her eyes back at her desk.
"That's right Cassie, great job!" my teacher told me.
"Oh, please!" Tiffany snapped with a groan and another roll of her eyes as I just simply scowled back at her. Later that afternoon she walked by our table at lunch. "You know Cassie I'm glad you're at this school." She said.
"You are?" I questioned with disbelief.
"Yes and you should be proud that you're an alien." She began. "After all, if it wasn't for dumb kids like you then we wouldn't know who the smart ones are." She told me as I simply just grinned at her and got something out of my pocket.
"You know what Tiffany, I hate to say it but when you're right your right." I told her as I grabbed my mother's sonic screwdriver (that I had snuck into my pocket this morning before I left for school) and pointed it at her. Then I clicked the button as I watched her levitate off the ground.
"Hey, what are you doing?" she asked nervously before I raised it up towards the ceiling and laughed along with the other girls as she stuck to it. Even Monica laughed as she looked up and watched with delight.
"After all, if I wasn't an alien then I wouldn't be able to do that." I said.
"You get me down from here right now or I'm telling the principal!" she shouted angrily.
"Well that's sort of an empty threat because it would be kind of hard to do that from up there now wouldn't it?" I questioned her before I blew the tip of my screwdriver and then I turned to Monica who gave me a thumbs up before smacking her hand in a high-five.