Sorry again for the delayed upload. Thanks for all the reviews, i love them! This is probably not the chapter you were all expecting, but i thought it was important to get some of what the Doctor was doing while Amy and Rory were with Rose. I wanted to show how he has an idea of who the Source is, but that he is in major denial about it. Also, I needed to give an explanation as to why the project is called bad wolf. Hope you like it!
Disclaimer: I dont own Doctor Who.
The Doctor had Schuler backed up against a wall. It had been a long time since he had felt both angry and terrified. It can't be her, he reasoned with himself. She is gone, you will never see her again, there is no way she could be the Source. You can't keep doing this to yourself!
But it makes sense, another side of the Doctor argued. This kind of power, only vortex energy could be this powerful, it has to be her, there is no one else.
But it CAN'T! He couldn't let himself hope, he knew she was gone, it wasn't her. But his thoughts would not stop hoping. If it was her…
His eyes darkened. "If you value your life, you will tell me everything." The Doctor's jaw was set firmly. "Bad Wolf, what does it mean, why is it the name of your disgusting torture project?"
Schuler, though cornered by the Doctor's behavior, didn't seem overly worried about his own safety. "I am in charge Doctor, not you. I make the demands here."
The Doctor slammed the Commander up against the wall, forearm pressed tightly against Schuler's throat. He couldn't hold his anger at bay any longer; he had to know, "ANSWER ME!" He was practically screaming.
"Grah," Schuler grunted, still defiant, "get off of me. GUARDS!"
"No," the Doctor yelled, choking the man further. "Your guards are nothing. I am the highest authority in this entire universe, the chain of command ends with ME! You will all obey ME! Now tell me, WHY! WHY BAD WOLF!"
All of the workers in the control room had stopped their work when the commotion began and they seemed to have frozen, staring at the scene playing out in front of them. No one could quite understand what was happening, and no one was rushing to help the Commander.
The Commander looked around wildly, screaming for someone to get the Doctor off of him, but everyone just stared, they were afraid of the angry Time Lord.
As the Commander started to turn blue, a woman finally stood up from her desk and said, "B-Bad Wolf. It's…" She trailed off and squeaked when the Doctor turned his stony glare on her.
"Tell me." The Doctor's voice was only slightly less volatile. Stay calm Doctor he told himself. He tried to give the woman an encouraging smile, but by her reaction, he figured it looked more like an angry grimace, or maybe like he was in some kind of pain.
Swallowing, the woman continued, "it's based it off of a prophesy. One of the earliest Seersays that was imprisoned here, she foretold of the Source's coming."
"What was the prophesy?" demanded the Doctor.
"I don't…"
"TELL ME!" The Doctor shouted, any patience he had shown earlier was gone. He was trying not to sound as panicked as his thoughts were.
"It was something about a golden goddess." The woman glanced between the Doctor and the choking Commander; both were looking at her angrily. "It told of her coming. It was said that she would burn like the sun and howl like the wolf."
"Yes, and?" It can't be her! His thoughts were screaming.
"H-Her coming was supposed to herald the dawn of a new age, one of progress and peace. " Words tumbled out of the scared woman. However, when she looked in the Commander's direction again, there was no love in her eyes. She was scared of the Doctor, but she disliked the Commander enough to denounce the project he cared so much about. "It also warned that should anything befall the goddess, a terrible storm would rain down and destroy everything."
She looked into the Doctor's eyes, clearly seeing the storm within. "You are what the prophesy warned us about. We should have listened, I'm so sorry."
"I'm not," the Commander yelled, finally freeing himself from the Doctor's choke hold. "You don't scare me, by the end of this day you and your little friends will all be executed, the Source is MINE and she always will be!"
The Doctor had had enough. He usually avoided physical violence, but in the Commander's case, he was willing to make an exception. Swinging his fist around, he slammed it into the Commander's face. The Commander slumped to the floor, unconscious and bleeding.
The Doctor turned to the woman next to him, grabbed her arm, and dragged her over to the Source's cell door. In a deadly calm voice, he said, "Open this door."
"I..I can't," the woman sounded even more scared now, "please sir, let me go, you are hurting me!"
The Doctor didn't seem to notice her pleas; he pushed her roughly out of his way and pulled out the sonic screwdriver. The key pad sparked and the door flew open when he aimed the sonic at it.
As cell door slid open, the Doctor got a clear but dark view of the interior. He saw his two companions hunched over someone in the center of the room. All his anger seemed to vanish as panic began to well up in him.
Is it her? What if it is her? What if it isn't her? It can't be her! He craned his neck to see who the Source was.
Don't hope he scolded himself, hope only leads to heartache.
Amy turned around at the sound of the Doctor's entrance and the Doctor saw panic well up in her at the sight of him. "Doctor…you can't, you shouldn't…" She seemed to be at a loss of what to say. "You need to stay calm."
"Step away Amy." His voice was cold. What was she so afraid of?
Amy looked concerned. He wasn't supposed to come so quickly. She was panicking. They hadn't had time to free Rose. What was she supposed to do now?
"Let me see her Amy. MOVE!" The Doctor shouted.
Amy flinched at his tone, and then looked at Rory, hoping he had an idea of what to do, but he looked as worried as she was. Seeing no other option, Amy gave a defeated sighed and stepped aside, giving the Doctor a clear view of the cell's occupant.
The Doctor felt his hearts freeze and his blood run cold. Dirty, bloody, and chained in the center of the room was his Rose.
So, obviously, next chapter is the reaction!
