Chapter 10

Fighting A Possession

Neither of the ghosts were aware that while she seemed to be sleeping rather peacefully in his arms, an internal struggle was fiercely raging within her. "You are never going to win!" Liz mentally shouted at it. The spirit only laughed and folded its arms over its chest.

"Just watch me, little girl…..if you weren't youthful and strong, I'd have ditched this body long after I used it." Liz growled and launched at the spirit. Tackling it to the floor of whatever side of her brain it had control of. The spirit only laughed and kicked her off. "Ha ha! Poor, poor pathetic Liz. Why are the good ones on the other bus or Timelord, eh!?"

"Leave them alone!" Liz snarled. Pouncing on the spirit, she would begin to punch it's face brutally. Causing her knuckles to physically bruise. "Leave them alone!" The spirit growled as it grabbed one of her wrists. Rolling her off, the spirit wrapped its bony hands around her throat with a squeeze. Physically her throat would begin to develop bruising.

"Listen here and listen well, girl. You want your friends safe, then I get to claim this body! After all...there's only room for one."

"Ye-Yeah….And that'll be me!"

Clockwork and Dan watched as Liz's body started to develop strange bruising. Dan took her over to the bed and laid her on it then he and Clockwork sat on the bed one on either side of her.

"What do we do about this shit?" Dan grumbled.

"Well…..we could try a possession and see if we can not help to push the spirit out." Clockwork said.

Liz would manage to knee the spirit hard enough that the grip around her throat loosened. Gasping, she quickly pushed it off her and rolled to the side coughing and massaging her throat. Recovering from the attack, the spirit would growl and get back up. "Bitch!" It snarled. Liz would charge up her hand with an ectoblast.

"Yeah, I know...Doesn't that just make you angry?" Liz grinned.

"What are you doing? How are you doing that!?" The spirit asked, or rather demanded. Liz would only grin as she kept the knowledge of her abilities hidden from it.

"I've shown you only what I wanted. How to hide, how to fly…" Liz taunted. "But the rest of my powers….you will never know!" The ectoblast would be fired at the spirit possessing her. Hitting it square in the chest. The spirit would hiss and clutch at its chest as it stumbled from the force of the attack. Liz used that moment to grab the spirit in a tight hold and tried to force it from her body. Though the spirit recovered much more quickly than she thought it would and began to struggle against her hold. Eventually knocking her to ground. The spirit would keep her pinned down with a knee in her stomach as its hand phased into her chest. Making her scream and claw at its arm.

"I may not be able to do to you what I do to those women, but I can still remove your heart." The spirit laughed. "After all...Looking at your memories, why should I continue to bother with you when there is a much more bloodthirsty being right beside you?" It questioned. Squeezing her heart and causing her to cry out.

"D-Dan!"

Dan thought he heard something. He was about to phase into Liz, but Clockwork stopped him.

"You do not need to go in there. It would be too much evil and he could over take you or you him. The last thing we need is you rampaging. Wait here." Clockwork ordered before going intangible and phasing into Liz to possess her and try to drive the spirit out. Once inside, he saw the spirit and sent an ecto blast at the side of it's head.

"Back off." he said calmly.

Startled by the sudden attack, the spirit would lose its focus and fall off to the side. Liz would gasp and cough violently as she clutched at her chest. Curling up on herself as if a means to keep that from happening again, she moved her head to peer through strands of her hair at Clockwork. "Cl-Clockwork…" She coughed. The spirit would growl as it held it's head. Moving it's hand away from the wound to see it stand with green blood.

"Blood…. BLOOD!" Liz's eyes went wide a little as she moved away from it as fast as she could. The spirit turned its sights onto Clockwork. Enraged that it was bleeding, as Liz's early attack to the chest had only left him signed, he pounces at the time ghost with an angered cry.

Clockwork swung out his arm to backhand the spirit away. "Yes. You bleed. We all do. This means you're not a permanent fixture on this plane. You can leave, and go to your final destination peacefully, or I can send you there." he said as he held out a hand and a scythe appeared in it. "Your time here is up."

"No...No...NO!" The spirit rubbed the side of its face. "Never...Those women have to pay! They're trash!" It growled. Jumping at him again. The spirit wanted to strangle the time ghost. This body was his and as far as it was concerned, the time ghost had no business being here. "Every single one of them! Whores! Sluts!" It roared.

"The fate of these woman are not for you to decide." Clockwork spoke as he swung his scythe so that the wide flat side of the blade would strike the Ripper across the face and send him rolling back.

While Ripper was disoriented from the attack, Liz would get up into a kneeling position with a heavy breath. Narrowing her eyes, she clenched her hands tightly into fists before lunging at him with a yell. Keeping him pinned down by an arm on his throat, Liz had begun to beat him. Punching him over and over and over. Before she could land her sixth punch, Ripper reach down at the arm pinning him and twist her wrist. Liz yelped but didn't remove her arm as she just pressed down harder. Trying to ignore the pain of her wrist possibly being broken or strained by this spirit. "This….body...is...MINE!" Ripper laughed and twisted her wrist harder.

"You're trying to choke a ghost, girl! It won't work!" Ripper manages to push her arm off him. Pushing her off him, Liz holds her wrist and tries to assess the damage. This would have been okay to do if Ripper hadn't attacked her during this minor distraction. Keeping her pinned with a knee to her back, he placed both hands around her neck with a tight squeeze. Choking her again while she tried to get his hands off her.

This time the scythe went for his back. Aimed directly for where his black heart would be had he been in a body and if he had even ever had a heart.

Ripper went still for a moment as LIz gasped beneath his hold and coughed. With his hold loose, she pushed his hands away and groaned as the spirit fell limp on her. Phasing out from under him, she gasped for air a few times while rubbing her neck. Turning to look behind her, she would stare at the lifeless spirit before her. Closing her eyes with relief, Liz would place her hands on her knees. "G-Get...Him...Out!" She coughs.

Clockwork nodded and grabbed the back of the other spirit's clothing and soon the two left her body. Clockwork watched as the spirit started to dissolve once out in the open air. It's body melting into a black icor all over the inn floor.

"I'm not cleaning that up." Dan said flatly.

Liz gave a weak laugh as she slowly opened her eyes with a violent cough. "You sound...Like a girl." She muttered softly. Voice hoarse from being choked and her coughing.

"And you sound like hell. Get some rest." Dan said as he stood up. "That looked like a hell of a fight."

"Indeed. Would you like us to leave so you can rest?" Clockwork asked.

Liz shook her head and reached out her hand with a hiss. Grabbing onto Dan's wrist as she just kept shaking her head. "N-No…" She coughs. Gasping a bit as she tried to swallow and clear her throat. "He made me...I don't want to be alone...I don't want to keep watching Catherine's life leave her eyes…"

Dan opened his mouth to tell her she was being a wuss. He had seen that same thing many times before. He had caused it to happen many many times and had enjoyed it. He closed his mouth though remembering that these two were not like him. After a few moments, he finally did say something, "Want me to move you back to the other room?"

Liz shook her head and just moved to the middle of the bed as she curled up. Leaving room for Dan and Clockwork to join her. "We're staying...together…" She wheezed. Looking at them both before looking away as she held her hand towards her chest for now.

The two ghost men looked at one another, then slowly got into the bed. Again one on either side of her. Dan moved close and wrapped an arm around her waist while Clockwork moved close and put his arm around her just above Dan's.

"This ok?" Dan asked.

Liz gave a smile laugh and placed a hand over both their arms. "You're acting like I'll be uncomfortable or get broken…" She teased weakly. She would look at them both before nodding her head. "You're fine...both of you are."

They both nodded a little and started to relax, though left their arms where they were.