Soon Rose and I entered the bedroom we were escorted to, and with a thank you, Rose helped me towards the bed.
"Re, are you alright? Was that one of your supposed small side effects." Rose began to speak worriedly,m and I grabbed her hands.
"Please don't go into asking me a lot of questions, just listen. I'll be fine, I just need to breathe. Yes, they were my side effects. Rose I saw something." I spoke honestly to her, breathing a bit heavily, before quickly grabbing my phone out of my pocket. My hands were shaking slightly due to the pain I just felt. "You know back on earth when I was in my room, sleeping, drawing," I questioned her and she nodded, while I quickly went to my phones gallery. "Well, I have been having dreams, thoughts that randomly appear, like back with the Sycorax. Well, I had the same thing about the cat people, though different from the Sycorax. The Sycorax seems to be memories of my mother, but on new earth, I had feelings about knowing the cat people, and I have thought about this place before. My mind just reminded me." I told her.
"What? Like physic people?" Rose wondered out loud confused. "Is it a timelord thing?" I shrugged my arms.
"No, I don't think so, but look." I showed her my phone. I had taken pictures of all the things that I had written and drawn down, since opening my pocket watch.
"Those are what I have been experiencing," I told her and she took my phone out of my hand.
"I don't… This is weird, even for your standards." Rose commented, confused at what she was seeing. "Wait! Are those drawings of the bushes we saw the other day on that planet." Rose looked closer and I nodded.
"It seems that way, The Doctor told me that it could be my mother's memories intertwined with mine, but I don't believe that, not with this, look! The Queen keeps mentioning about a wolf, okay, and a full moon! Well, look!." I took my phone from her before changing it to a picture of a drawing of a werewolf and a gem.
"A Werewolf?" Rose questioned, remember what you said earlier before we suddenly heard a gasp. A gasp that came from the wardrobe. We both looked over to it, before giving each other one more glance before we both went to the wardrobe. I then signalled over to her, with a nod. We both grabbed each handle before pulling it fully open, only to reveal a young female crouched in fear. While the sudden motion of surprised reached both Rose and I for a second, it soon left as we saw how terrified she looked.
"Hey. Shh, it's alright!" I quickly crouched down towards the girl and she looks at me, fear still in her eyes. "I'm Re and this is Rose." I introduced ourselves. "Don't worry, we won't harm you," I announced holding out my hand for her. "Trust me." I gave her a small smile and she slowly grabbed my hand, "That's it." I smiled wider helping her up. "What's your name?" I asked her softly.
"Flora." She responded and I could tell her heart was beating so fast. Rose and I then decided to help her sit on the bed.
"Nice to meet you, Flora," I told her.
"Can you tell why you are upset?" Rose questioned sitting on the other side of the girl, while I sat on the other side. It didn't take her long to finally speak out.
"They came through the house. The incitements, they took the Steward and the Master. And my Lady." She spoke fast, obviously scared, and Rose quickly grabbed onto her hand.
"Listen - We've got a friend, he's called the Doctor - he'll know what to do. You've gotta come with us." Rose told her, trying to comfort her as well.
"Oh, but I can't." She told us.
"Don't worry Flora, trust us. We'll be safe. More people, soldiers have shown up today, and they are downstairs. They can help us as well okay. I promise and I rarely if ever break my promises." I brought up.
"So come on. Okay? Come on." Rose told her.
"It much more safer then you being on your own as well," I announced as we helped her up. I quickly grabbed my phone from the bed, that Rose has placed it down, before walking to the door first. I opened it to find that the coast is clear. Even while I felt the effects of my brain still, I know that sitting still wouldn't do us good. I signalled them to follow, before only turning around the corner to see the guards past out on the floor.
"Oh, Misses. I did warn you!" Flora brought up as I quickly went on the floor with Rose.
"They're not dead," I stated.
"They must have been drugged or something," Rose added only to then hear a muffled scream from behind. We quickly turned only to be grabbed as well. I began to struggle from the person who grabbed me, before trying to jab him with my feet, before trying to slam my head backwards at them to free myself, but I was too weak, and I felt myself being lifted off of the ground.
We were soon taken somewhere else in the manner, where we sat chained to the wall and a man in a cage staring at us.
"Don't make a sound. They said if we scream or shout, then he will slaughter us." The Lady of the household Isobel told us.
"But... he's in a cage. He's a prisoner. He's the same as us." Rose questioned.
"He's nothing like us. That creature is not mortal." Lady Isobel brought up, and the Host raised his head slowly. He then began to open his eyes, which were pure black. I heard the other around us whimper as I looked at Rose. She looked scared as well, which I? Agree felt the same, though there was also something about his I that draw me in. I was curious about him. He wasn't human. I slowly began to stand up.
"Re?" Rose questioned looking up at me.
"I want to get closer," I told her.
"Don't, Child." Lady Isabel said.
"Don't worry, I'm fine." Or at least that's what I will tell myself, walking as close as I could with the chains, before kneeling down in front of it.
"Who are you?" I questioned him.
"Don't enrage him." The steward told me but I ignored him, though Rose responded.
"She won't"
"I know you're not from earth. Where are you from? Which planet?" I asked him, something growing within me.
"Ohhh... intelligence…" The Host responded.
"Uh thanks, I guess, can tell me where you were born?" I repeated my question with different wording.
"This body... ten miles away... a weakling, heartsick boy. Stolen away at night by the brethren from my cultivation. I carved out his soul and sat in his heart." He answered back.
"I see, he's gone," I responded back, still feeling scared, but I continued. "So that's about the man's body. What about you? You inside his body?"
"So far from home." He responded.
"I'm guessing from what I have heard so far, that you don't want to go back home." I brought up after hearing say he carved out the man's soul.
"Why would I leave this place? A world of industry, of workforce and warfare. I could turn it to such purpose." He told me.
"How would you do that?" I wondered.
"I would migrate to the Holy Monarch."
"Queen Victoria?"
"With one bite, I would pass into her blood. And then it begins. The Empire of the Wolf! So many questions…" He then suddenly lunges forward and everyone in the room, including I, jumped back. "Look! Inside your eyes! You've seen it too!"
"Seen what?" I questioned him once again.
"The Wolf! There is something of the Wolf about you!"
"Wolf?" I stare at him. Wolf… Werewolf! He's the werewolf from my drawings and mind! And wolf inside me… Bad wolf? Could that be about Bad wolf?
"You burnt like the sun, but all I require is the moon." He told me and I stepped back.
"I knew it. I had a feeling." I slowly began to step back slightly, and I felt pain slip through my head once again, but Rose quickly got up to stop me from falling as I clenched my head.
"But Papa! What does it mean?! I'm scared!" A young Cassandra, me, held onto my father with pure fear.
"My child! Do not worry!." He stopped the hug by grabbing my arms to look at me in the eyes. "What you have is a gift, my child, a wonderful gift." He smiled sadly at me, wiping the tears from my face. "There is no need for fears, you have something that even the highest of the Timelord council will want. You are special and beautiful just like your mother." He rubbed her head, before picking up what seemed to be a book of scribbles. "When it happens just draw, it will be fine, okay." He handed me the book and I nodded. "Yes, Papa."
"Yes, there is my brave little girl."
"Re! You alright?" I heard and turned to Rose and looked at her.
"Uh yeah, I'm fine, it's nothing to worry about," I told her, separating myself from her. Special… my mother was special. Of course, she was, each memory was telling me that, but it also was telling me about grandmother, but what happened to her.
"You're lying," Rose responded, but before I could respond Lady Isobel began to speak up once again.
"Come back, my children, sit down." We nodded, and we sat there quiet.
"These aren't just small side effects," Rose commented quietly once we sat down with a frown on her face, and I sighed closing my eyes and leaning on her shoulder, to get rid of the pain, but I didn't respond not wanting to say anything. "I'm right aren't I." Rose taking my silence as an answer. "Idiot, Why didn't you tell me?" I could tell that Rose was angry that I kept it from her, but now this was the time to blow up about me lying to her. I clenched my hands together.
"I-i didn't want you to worry… I was… am scared… Doctor's already worried… I didn't want you to be too." I slowly tried to explain to her. "I wanted you to not know, so I could pretend that I was fine… That I could still keep pretending to be my old self…" I brought up. "She… She seemed so much more stronger than who I am now." I revealed. "I don't like this, I said that I wanted to not let my mother's mind and the pain overall my mind, but it always easier said than done." I felt her put an arm around me.
"Hey, we've been through a lot, especially you, I mean your a different species now! You are not weak! If it was not you and instead it was me, you wouldn't call me weak, wouldn't you? And you wouldn't think that I wouldn't worry without knowing. I told you earlier that I knew something up with you, I'm more worried when you don't tell me, idiot. You know what you're not weak, you're stupid! Stupid to try and keep this bloody to yourself. I'm your best friend, tell me, I'll never see you as weak, in fact you know that what your going through makes people stronger!"
"I could die…" Was all I could say.
"Could." She responded. "You aren't going to do a Doctor to me." She turned around, and I couldn't help but let out a small smile to that. "You're not dying. Not on my watch. So step up and I'll help." The moment she finished that sentence the doors to the cellar suddenly flung open, moonlight struck the cage.
"Moonlight…" He stated before stripping his cloak off. The sudden realisation of where we were once again, came upon me and I quickly stood up once again, with the help of Rose, who also stood up as well.
"Werewolf," I stated before shouting urgently to everyone. "Do not look at it and stand up! Flora as I said earlier trust me." I turned to Rose, whom I had listened to what she had said, I took a deep breath in. "I'll say this now Rose and I have been in bigger problems than this and we have survived. Everyone grab hold of the chain and pull now! You hear me!" I ordered everyone.
"She said pull! Stop your whining and listen to me! All of you! And that means you, your Ladyship! Now come on - pull!" Rose joined in and we all began to pull at the chain, trying to free ourselves. We kept pulling, ignoring the screams that turned growls.
"One - two - three - pull!" I yelled as we worked together as a team. After several pulls, we soon fell backwards as the chains broke around the wall, as the beast has fully changed. Suddenly the doors flung open leading into the house opened and out popped the Doctor.
"Where the hell have you been?" Rose yelled angrily.
"Enjoyed your dinner!" I shouted as well before the Doctor turns around and stares at the werewolf.
"Oh, that's beautiful!" He commented, before remembering the situation beforehand. He then began to shout to everyone to get out, which included Rose and I as well, seeing as we were still attached in the chains. Soon I saw the Doctor run out after locking the door, before he came over to us, screwdriver in hand.
"It could be any form of light modulated species triggered by specific wavelengths - did it say what it wanted?" The Doctor spoke fastly due to the urgency of everything, as he unlocked our chains.
"He said he wanted to bite the queen," I answered his question as I rubbed my wrists. Soon we heard a thump coming from the Cellar, and all we all looked towards it. I watched as the Doctor slowly began to walk towards the corridor we just came from. I slowly found myself following the Doctor in his tracks.
The wolf had managed to knock down the door and was now staring at the Doctor and I. Feeling my hearts race, I suddenly grab the Doctor hand pulling him away. We had to get away from it now before it charges. I heard it suddenly growled, which in turn caused the Doctor to take control of the run. As we ran through I quickly grabbed Rose on the way heading behind a line of men, with guns in their hands.
"Fire!" The Steward yelled before they began to fire at the wolf again. "Fire!" He said once again and held tightly to each of my friend's hands. Soon the room was filled with smoke and there was no sign of the wolf.
"All right, you men, we should retreat upstairs, come with me." The Doctor began to order.
"I'll not retreat. The battle's done. There's no creature on God's Earth that could survive such an assault." The Steward responded.
"Don't be a bloody idiot. It's not from this planet and even then if it's to go by the lore of this world, a werewolf can only be killed by a silver bullet!" I snapped at him.
"I'm telling you, come upstairs!" Finished what I was going to say.
"And I'm telling you, sir, that I will sleep well tonight with that thing's hide upon my wall." He retaliated and began to stride across the room. Suddenly an image flashed in my arms.
"Papa!"
"No! Above!" I yelled at the same time the steward came walking back saying. "Must've crawled away to die-" I quickly tried to run over to him only to be stopped by the Doctor as the Steward was lifted off the ground, into the ceiling where the wolf began to devour him.
"There's nothing we can do!" The Doctor spoke up, before pushing Rose out of the room, dragging me with him. Soon we hurriedly entered the room, where the Doctor slams the door shut and locks it with the sonic screwdriver. As I leaned on the wall, trying to breathe.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!" Sir Robert spoke, but Rose was by the side of me.
"Re, are you alright?" She asked worriedly, and the Doctor quickly came over as well, also concerned, due to how scared I looked.
"I saw it… I saw it happen before it happened." I announced spooked.
"Like the cats," Rose spoke alarmed, holding on to my arm.
"More like Deja Vu." I huffed and Rose looked at the Doctor.
"She told me. It happened to her once again down there." Rose brought up and the Doctor held her head up to look at him, mostly inspecting if I was okay.
"He said... he said mother was special, special like Grandma. That they had something that the timelord council would want." She began, she didn't know if what she was saying or feeling was crazy, but she had to ask. "Doctor, we can travel through time, can we also be psychic," I questioned him before we heard the sound of footsteps from the staircase.
"Sir Robert! What's happening?" We heard the Queen and my mind was drawn back to what was happening at the moment. "I heard such terrible noises."
"The front door?" I quickly spoke up, knowing now, my questions can wait, as if the Doctor knew what I meant, as he soon ran towards the front door to check.
"Your Majesty - we've got to get out. But what of Father Angelo? Is he still here?" Sir Robert told the queen.
"Captain Reynolds disposed of him." The Queen announced.
"The front door's no good, it's been boarded shut." The Doctor spoke when he came back. "Pardon me, Your Majesty - you'll have to leg it out of a window." He then gestures to a door, and the Queen held up her head high, and we soon entered another upstairs room.
"Excuse my manners, Ma'am, but I shall go first, the better to assist Her Majesty's egress." Sir Robert soon moved to be in front of the Queen closest to the window and we stopped.
"A noble sentiment, my Sir Walter Raleigh." The Queen responded.
"Yeah, any chance you could hurry up?" The dOctor spoke impatiently, and the other male in the room climbs onto the window sill, but soon dodges out of the way, when a bullet was shot at him, and the Doctor moves to the window to look out.
"I reckon the monkey boys want us to stay inside." The Doctor commented.
"Do they know who I am?" The Queen questioned.
"Yeah, that's why they want ya. The wolf's lined you up for a... a biting." Rose explained to Queen Victoria.
"Now, stop this talk. There can't be an actual wolf." Spoke in disbelief, before we all heard a yell.
Everyone in the room span around alarm. We quickly then left the room, to see the wolf breaking down the door.
"What do we do?" Rose asked the Doctor.
"We…" The Doctor began.
"Run." I finished, and the Doctor nodded.
"Yeah, Run!"
"Is that it?!" Rose responded.
"That's what we always do. We don't have any silver bullets, and even then I doubt that would work. It's damn Alien, not a supernatural being, it said so." I announced.
"Well then, we run. Your Majesty, as a Doctor, I recommend a vigorous jog." He jogs on the spot. "Good for the health Come on!" He grabs the Queen's hand and begins to run up the staircase, as we followed.
"Come on! Come on!" The Doctor shouted as the reached the top of the staircase, which the Doctor pushed on as we passed him, before they quickly ran down a hallway. We could tell the Wolf was close behind us. We soon the noticed captain Reynolds appears holding a gun out towards a direction, but we know he was preparing to aim at the wolf, which soon began to pounce on him, only to be shot, causing it to reel down the hallway, and the Captain ducks behind the corridor were we stood, out of breath.
"I'll take this position and hold it. You keep moving, for God's sake! Your Majesty - I went to look for the property, it was taken. The chest was empty." The Captain began to speak.
"I have it. It's safe." The Queen told him.
"Then remove yourself, Ma'am. Doctor, you stand as Her Majesty's Protector. And you, Sir Robert - you're a traitor to the crown." He then cocks his gun.
"Bullets can't stop it!" The Doctor stated.
"They'll buy you time. Now, run!" He retaliated, positioning himself at the end of the corridor. We soon then began to run again, first Sir Robert and Queen Victoria, then the rest of us. Soon they entered the Library, but Rose stops outside the door, as she froze watching the wolf pounce on him.
"Rose!" The Doctor and I shout in unison, but the Doctor quickly grabs her by the waist, pulling her into the room, before him and Robert slam the door shut, as I move backwards leaning on one of the bookshelves as my hearts began beating too fast. I watched as the Doctor, Rose and Sir Robert started to barricade the door.
"Wait a minute, shh, shh, wait a minute…" The Doctor then stops as the wolf howls fall into silence. "It's stopped." He then began to stand on the chair closes to the door and pressed his ear again it.
"Doctor…" I called out after a while.
"It's gone." He spoke up, but then we soon heard padding around the outside of the room.
"Listen…" Rose said as the Doctor climbs quietly down from the chair. We all grew dead silence, just hearing the Wolf progress around the room.
"Is this the only door?" The Doctor whispers.
"Yes." He began but quickly changes once he realised he was wrong. "No!" I watched him dash to the other door with the Doctor, who soon began to barricade it shut.
"Shh!" Rose quickly silenced them. We all began to look around uneasily again, as they listen to it before it stops and the footsteps of the wolf sound as if they are walking away. "I don't understand. What's stopping it?" Rose questioned confused.
"Something inside this room." The doctor responds and Sir Robert sits on one of the barricading chairs.
"What is it? Why can't it get in?" The Doctor spoke up, and I slowly moved away from the bookshelf to look around as well.
"I'll tell you what, though…" Rose began.
"What?" the Doctor asked.
"Werewolf...!" Rose couldn't believe it.
"I know!" I heard them both laugh, throwing the arms around each other.
"You alright?" The Doctor asks her.
"I'm okay, yeah!" Rose responds before looking over at me, with the Doctor. The Doctor soon let's go of Rose and walks over to me.
"Re, are you alright?" He questions me worriedly, and I looked at him, my arms hugged around my waist.
"I dunno…" I spoke honestly. "But then that's not important right now." Right now our focus should be on keeping the Queen and everyone in this room alive. Before the Doctor could respond to me, Robert soon began to speak up.
"I'm sorry, Ma'am. It's all my fault. I should've sent you away. I tried to suggest something was wrong, I... thought you might notice. Did you think there was nothing strange about my household staff?"
"Well, they were bald, athletic... your wife's away, I just thought you were happy." The Doctor then spoke up, but I felt him grab onto my hand, in a way to help comfort me, which caused me to smile, even if it was just a small one.
"I'll tell you what though, Ma'am, I bet you're not amused now." I closed my eyes and looked down, the moment Rose said the words.
"Do you think this is funny?" The Queen snapped angrily.
"No, Ma'am, I'm sorry." Rose apologised meekly.
"What, exactly, I pray someone pleases - what exactly is that creature?" The Queen continued.
"You'd call it a werewolf, but technically it's a more of a lupine wavelength haemovariform." The Doctor tried to explain, rubbing his head.
"And should I trust you, sir? You who change your voice so easily? What happened to your accent?" She retaliated.
"Oh... right, sorry-" The Doctor realised his accent changed.
"I'll not have it. No, sir - not you... not that thing... none of it. This is not my world." The Queen interrupted.
"Please, Your Majesty…" I spoke up quietly after the Queen snapped, and she looked at me.
"I said I will not have it." She returned.
"I don't care, because it may have not been your world up to this day, but is yours now. That werewolf we call it, it wants you. It wants to use this world. You can believe us or not and I understand you are angry, but we are the only ones, who will be able to get you out of this mess, Your Majesty. Don't snap at us, especially after you asked a question. It's not our fault that it was not the answer you wanted." I snapped back at her. She may be the queen, but still, surely she should know it is not the right time to yell at us. I began to look at the rooms. My emotions were playing up once again and I couldn't seem to think. I yelled out in a groan, trying to remember anything that could be of help. My hands now going to my head as I leaned back on one of the walls.
"Re." I heard both Rose and The Doctor, who went to walk over and as I slid my body down the wall.
"I hate this," I told them as I closed my eyes, as I felt tears about to leave my eyes. "I want my mind to be mine again." I felt so useless, I felt so useless again. I said I didn't want to be overruled by this, but I can't help it, I feel so weak against it. I want to live, I know I will live! I'll make sure of it! But I am so tired, and my brain seems to be against me.
"Re." My name was called once again, but this it was only the Doctors, and I felt a hand on my knee. "Re. You need to breathe."
"I hate this," I repeated.
"I know and we working on it, together, you've been doing so well. You need to breathe, don't think about anything else and just focus on listening to my voice. We've gotten through worse, you know that better than most of the people here. Take a breath, your brain is so much stronger than you believe it is. I know you're tired, but I know you can overpower this. We will get your brain back to normal, Re, I promise. Just breath. I am going to find a way." He paused for a moment before saying one sentence. "What's wrong with a little bit of hope." My hearts jolted for a second I heard what he said. Hope, I guess I was more determined and scared, that I forgot about just plain hope. My hands fell to my knees, which I soon feel the Doctor go to hold.
"I'm Sorry," I whispered.
"You don't need to apologize." He replied back softly.
