Chapter 12
Cassandra smiled to herself as Novice Hame dropped to the Doctor's side.
"You've hurt him. I don't understand. I'll have to fetch Matron," she said.
"You do that 'cause I want to see her. Now run along! sound the alarm!" Cassandra said.
As he watched the cat run off she walked over to a tube that was hanging from the celing and pulled it down, in turn a loud alarm went off.
"Matron, it's that man and the girl," Novice said as the Matron and the Sister walked in.
"We heard the alarm, Now get back to work. Tend to your patients," Matron said.
Novice Hame went running out and Matron and Sister Chatt walked in.
When the Doctor woke up a moment later he was sitting down, in a closed up space.
It wasn't until he looked up and saw his surroundings that he realised he was in a containment capsule.
"Let me out! Let me out!" he called.
"Aren't you luck there was a spare? Standing room only," Cassandra said as she walked up to the capsule.
"You've stolen Rose's body!" he said.
"Over the years, I've thought of a thousand ways to kill you, Doctor. And now that's exactally what I've got. One thousand diseases. They pump the patients with a top-up every ten minutes. You've got about oh...three minutes left, enjoy," Cassandra said.
"Just let Rose go, CAssandra," he pleaded.
"I will, As soon as I find someone younger and less common. The I'll junk her with the waste. Now hush-a-bye. It's showtime," she replied.
"Anything we can do to help?" came a voice from behind her.
Cassandra turned and saw Sister Chatt and Matron.
"Straight to the point, whiskers. I want money," Cassandra said.
"The Sisterhood is a charity, we don't give money. We only accept," Matron replied.
"The humans across the water pay you a fortune, and thats exactly what I need. A one-off payment, that's all I want. Oh, and perhaps a yacht, in return for which I will tell the city nothing of your institutional murder. Is that a deal?" Cassandra asked.
"I'm afraid not," Matron answered.
"I'd really advise you to think about this," Cassandra insisted.
"Oh, there's no need. I have to decline," Matron said simply.
"I'll tell them. And you've no way of stopping me. You're not exactly nuns with guns. You're not even armed."
"Who needs arms? When we've got claws?" Matron asked as she held up her hand and revealed her razor sharp claws.
"Well, nice try. Chip, plan B!" Cassandra said as she spun around to where Chip was standing.
Chip reached over and pulled a lever, which in turn opened all of the doors on the capsules.
The Doctor stood up and ran out of the capsule.
"What have you done?" he demanded.
"Gave the system a shot of adrenalin, just to wake them up. See ya!" she replied.
"Don't touch them! Whatever you do, don't touch!" the Doctor called, he then turned around and ran after Cassandra and Chip.
"Save us," a diseased woman begged the two nuns.
"I think we should withdraw," Sister Chatt said.
"We understood what you did to us. As part of the machine, we know the machine," on of the men said.
"Fascinating. It's actually constructing an argument," Matron said.
"And we will end it," he contuined.
The man then reached out to his side and stuck his arm into a piece of machinery which caused him to be shocked with electricity and he fell to his death. But that was when the rest of the capsules opened, releasing the rest of the clones.
The women looked at the rest of the capsules and heard all of the same.
"Save us!"
"They're free. By the goddess Santori. The flesh is free!" Sister Chatt said.
"Stop the pain," some of the people said.
A woman walked towards the Sister, her arm outreached.
Matron backed up and watched as Sister Chatt began to hiss and claw the woman away, but she did not back up and the woman infected her.
"Oh my God," Cassandra said.
"What the hell have you done?" the Doctor asked.
"It wasn't me!" she snapped.
"One touch and you get every disease in the world. And I want that body safe Cassandra. We've got to go down," he ordered.
"But there's thousands of them," Cassandra whined.
"Down, down, go down!" he shouted.
The three began to run down the stairs as fast as they could.
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Matron ran past the people and ran to a phone.
"Quarantine the building!" she shouted.
She then hung up the phone and ran off.
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Over the intercom came the same cool and calm voice from before.
"This building is under quarntine. Repeat, this building is under quarantine. No one may leave the premises. Repeat, no one may leave the premises."
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"Keep going! Go down!" the Doctor shouted as they contiuned to run.
They ran through a door and Cassandra went straight to the lift.
"No, the lifts have closed down. There's a quarantine, nothing's moving," the Doctor said.
"This way!" Cassandra shouted and ran past the Doctor.
The Doctor followed her, Chip was right behind him but just as the Doctor got past a door more of the diseased came thorough, blocking Chips' path.
"Don't let them touch you!" the Doctor said.
"Leave him! This is a clone thing. He's only got a half-life. Come on!" Cassandra shouted as she ran to the Doctor and grabbed his hand.
"Mistress!" Chip yelled.
"I'm sorry, I can't let her escape!" the Doctor said.
"My mistress!" Chip yelled as they ran off.
Chip ran away from the people and jumped into a waste basket.
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The woman who had been taking care of the Duke of Manhattan walked through a door, looking for help.
"Excuse me, can we get some service?" she called out.
The women walked a bit and then she saw the flesh coming forward, she screamed and hit a button, causing the door to the hall they were walking through to be closed.
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The Doctor and Cassandra ran through a door, the Doctor closed and locked the door behind him and walked up to Cassandra.
"We're trapped! What are we going to do?!" she cried.
"Well, for starters, you're going to leave that body. That psycho-graft is banned on every civilised planet. You are compressing Rose to death, and I am not going to loose her," the Doctor replied.
"But I've got no where to go. My orginal skin is dead," Cassandra replied.
"Not my problem, you can float as atoms in the air. Now get out. Give her back to me," he said.
The Doctor raised his sonic screwdriver and pointed it at her.
"You asked for it," she said.
Cassandra then took a deep breath, and when she blew out a pink mist, the same pink mist that she had sent into Rose...went into the Doctor.
"Oh, my head," Rose said, as she looked around.
"Where did she go?" Rose asked.
"Oh this is...differant," came Cassandra's voice, but from the Doctor's body.
"Cassandra?" Rose inquired.
"Goodness me, I'm a man. Yum, So many parts...and hardly used. Oh ah, two hearts! Oh baby, I'm beating out a samba!" Cassandra said.
"Get out of him!" Rose ordered.
"Ooh, he's slim...and a little bit foxy. You've been looking, I've been inside your head...no matter how many times you two spend the night together you still look...and you like it."
Sudenly the door flew open, and in came the flesh.
"What do we do? What would he do? The Doctor! What the hell would he do?!" Cassandra sudenly cried.
Rose looked around, she spotted a ladder, "We've gotta go up," she answered.
"Out of the way, blondie!"
Cassandra shoved past Rose and ran for the ladder.
"Please! Help us!" the flesh begged.
Rose climbed over something, and headed for the ladder.
Cassandra and Rose contuined to climb up the ladder.
"If you get out of the Doctor's body, he can think of something," Rose called up.
Cassandra began to mimmick Rose, "God, it was tedious inside your head. Hormone city," Cassandra complained.
"But we're gonna die if...Ow!"
Rose was cut off as she looked down to see the Matron holding onto her foot.
"Get off!" Rose shouted.
"All our good work. All that healing. The good name of the Sisterhood. You have destryoed everything!" the Matron said.
"Go and play with a ball of string," Cassandra said.
"Everywhere, disease. This is the human world. Sickness!"
The Matron then let out a scream as one of the flesh grabbed her foot.
Rose watched in horror as blisters and bruises appered all over the cats skin.
The cat lost her grip on the ladder and went flying to the ground.
"Move!" Rose ordered.
Cassandra began to go faster up the ladder, Rose following.
Over the intercom came the once again cool and calm voice of the woman ; "Maximum quarantine. Divert all shuttles."
Cassandra got to the top of the ladder and began to hit on the door that was blocking their way to freedom.
"Help us!" the flesh begged.
"Now what do we do?" Cassandra asked.
"Use the Sonic Screwdriver," Rose answered.
Cassandra put her hand into her jacket and pulled out the Sonic Screwdriver.
"You mean this thing?" she asked.
"Yes, I mean that thing!" Rose shouted.
"But I don't know how! That Doctor's hidden away all his thoughts," Cassandra said.
"Cassandra, go back into me. The Doctor can open it. Do it!" Rose ordered.
"Hold on tight," Cassandra said.
She took a breath and shot the pink mist back into Rose.
"Oh chav-tastic again. Open it!" Cassandra yelled.
"Not till you get out of her!" the Doctor replied.
"We need the Doctor."
"I order you to leave her!" he shouted.
Cassandra took a breath and sent the pink mist back into the Doctor.
"No matter how difficult the situation, there is no need to shout!" Cassandra said.
"Cassandra, get out of him!" Rose ordered.
"But if I go into you, he simply refuses. He's so rude."
"I don't care, just do something!"
"Oh, I'm so going to regret this," Cassandra said, she then took a breath and sent the pink mist into one of the flesh.
"Oh, sweet Lord! I look disgusting," Cassandra said after a moment.
The Doctor used the Sonic Screwdriver and opened the lift doors, he jumped in and reached down for Rose.
"Nice to have you back," he said.
"No, you don't," Cassandra said.
Just before the Doctor could get Rose in all the way and close the doors Cassandra left the flesh and went into Rose's body.
The Doctor closed the door and turned to her.
"That is your last warning, Cassandra!"
"Inside her head...They're so alone. They keep reaching out, just to hold us. All their lives...and they've never been touched," she said.
The Doctor held his hand out and helped her to stand up.
Just then their was a loud banging on the door, the Doctor and Cassandra walked to the other door that was locked and the Doctor opened it.
The Duke of Manhattan's assitant came charging at them with a chair.
"We're safe, we're safe, we're safe! We're clean, we're clean! Look, look," the Doctor said as he and Cassandra held up their hands.
"Show me your skin," the woman replied.
"Look! Clean! Look! If we'd been touched, we'd be dead," the Doctor said.
Just then Jack came up to them.
"I was wondering where the hell you two went off to," Jack said.
The Doctor nodded then looked to the others.
"How's it going up here? What's the status?" the Doctor asked.
"Nothing but silence from the other wards," Jack answered.
"I think were the only ones left. But I've been trying to override the quarantine. If I can trip a signal over to New New York, they can send a private executive squad," the woman said.
"You can't do that. If they forced entry, they'd break quarantine," the Doctor replied.
"I am not dying in here!" she cried.
"We can't let a single particle of disease get out. There's 10 million people in that city, they'd all be at risk. Now turn that off!" the Doctor shouted.
"Not if it gets me out."
"All right, fine. So we have to stop you lot as well. Suits me. Rose, Jack, Novice Hame, everyone! Excuse me, Your grace. Get me the intravenous solutions for every single disease! Move it!" the Doctor shouted.
Everyone rushed about, grabbing all of the bags with the medicine in them.
The Doctor pointed the Sonic Screwdriver at something hanigng from the celing and a wheel popped down.
The Doctor grabbed it and walked off.
Jack tossed the Doctor a yellow cord as people grabbed more of the remdeys.
Cassandra rushed towards the Doctor and handed him the bags.
The Doctor took them and began to attach all of them to the rope that the Doctor had tied around his body.
"How's that? Will that do?" he asked.
"I don't know. Will it do for what?" Cassandra asked.
"The lifts aren't working..."
"Not moving, different thing." The Doctor backed up, "Here we go," He put the Sonic Screwdriver in his mouth and ran into the elevator shaft, grabbing onto the cord that was holding the lift in place.
"But you're not going to...what do you think you're doing?!" Cassandra shouted.
The Doctor mumbled something unrecognisable while he attached the wheel to the cord.
"Come on," the Doctor said to CAssandra.
"Not in a million years," she replied.
"I need another pair of hands. What do you think? You're so desperate to stay alive, why don't you live a little?" the Doctor asked.
"We'll see you in a bit Jack," the Doctor called just before the doors were closed, leaving the Doctor and Cassandra alone with the flesh.
"No!!" Rose whined.
She ran into the lift and jumped onto the Doctor's back.
"You're completley mad. I can see why she like's you," Cassandra said.
"Going down," the Doctor called.
He hit a button on the Sonic Screwdriver, put it away, held onto the wheel that was attached to the cord and went flying down.
"Well thats one way to loose weight," Cassandra said once they had landed on top of the lift.
"Now, listen, when I say so, take hold of that lever," the Doctor said.
"There's still a quarantine down there. We can't...-"
"Hold that lever!" he shouted.
He then took one of the bags off of his chest and tore it open.
"I'm cooking up a cocktail. I know a bit about medicine myself."
He poured the liquid into a tub that was sitting on top of the lift.
He then did the same with the rest of the bags.
"Now, that lever's gonna resist, but keep it in position. Hold on to it with everything you've got."
"What about you?"
"I've got an appoitment, the Doctor is in," he said as he jumped through a hole in the lift and down inside the lift it's self.
The Doctor used the Sonic Screwdriver to open the lift doors, when they opened they revealed the flesh on the other side, all sitting down.
"I'm in here! Come on!" the Doctor called.
"Don't tell them!" Cassandra shouted.
"Pull that leaver!" the Doctor ordered.
"Come and get me! Come on. I'm in here! Come on!" he called.
The flesh stood up and walked slowly towards him.
The womans voice came again over the intercom; "Commence stage one disinfection."
"Come and get me. Come on!"
Just like earlier that day liquid began to shoot out of the roof of the lift, as the flesh passed under it they were healed at once.
"Come on. Come on."
"All they want to do is pass it on! Pass it on!"
"Pass on what? Pass on what?!" Cassandra called.
"Pass it on!" the Doctor shouted again.
One by one the differant people walked to one another, passing on the cure, and healing the others.
The Doctor reached up through the hole and helped Cassandra down.
"What did they pass on? Did you kill them? All of them?" she asked.
"No, that's your way of doing things," he pasued as they walked out of the lift.
"I'm the Doctor and I cured them!"
Just then one of the once diseased women but now perfectly fine, walked up to the Doctor and gave him a hug.
"That's right. Hey! There we go, sweetheart. Hey? Go to him. Go, that's it. That's it," he said to the girl.
"It's a new subspecies, Cassandra. A brand-new form of life. New humans. Look at them! Look! Run by cats, kept in the dark, fed by tubes, but completely, completely alive! You can't deny them, because you helped create them! The human race just keeps on going. Keeps on changing. Life will out!" the Doctor called.
About fifteen minutes later the quarantine was cancelled and the NNYPD had showed up.
Once again the woman's voice came over the intercom, "All staff will present themselves to the officers for immediate arrest. I repeat, immediate arrest. All new life forms will be catalogued and taken into care. All visitors to the hosiptial will be required to make a statement."
Just as the women was in the middle of her announcment the Doctor saw an officer taking Novice Hame away.
He was silent and then remebered.
"The Face of Boe!" he shouted and then ran off...
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A/N- Right ok, we all knows what happens after this...I think after today I am never typing up an entire episode of Doctor Who ever again...that was so nerve wracking...ugh...right ok...I'm going to finish this one, start up chapter 13 and post these chapters...I've written alot for one day...it doesn't help my pc kept freezing...can someone please give me a drink? I'm ready to get pissed...lol...
