Finally! I got the chapter up! There were several directions I could have taken this, so it took a lot of refining and headaches to decide. I know it's a little out of character for the Doctor, but that is kinda the plan. It's not super long, but I try to at least make it over a thousand words. Hope you like it!
PS, thanks for the reviews! I almost have 200!
Disclaimer: I dont own Doctor Who.
"Doctor!" Amy shouted, pounding on the TARDIS doors. "That bloody alien locked us in!" She was frantic. What am I going to do? I have failed. Marci had said that if the Doctor let his anger consume him, he would lose everything. Amy had sworn up and down that she wouldn't let that happen, and now it was happening. The look he had had in his eyes when he left the TARDIS was telling enough, he planned on hurting someone, and Amy could do nothing about it.
"Amy," Rory said quietly, "let's just think about this yeah? We can figure something out." He sounded optimistic, trying to stay strong for Amy's sake, but inside, he was feeling just as anxious as she was.
"Shut up Rory," Amy spat, taking her frustration out on her ever patient husband. "There is nothing to think about. Every time we got locked in this ship we never got out without the Doctor's help, and he's the one who locked us in!"
"You're right Amy, I don't know how we will get out of this, but we need to do something."
"Come on," Amy sighed, trying to have a nicer tone, she knew it wasn't Rory's fault, "let's go check on Rose."
Rory gave her a quick, reassuring hug, and then they both headed back to check on the strange woman in the sick bay.
The Doctor's stride was full of purpose as he stormed from the TARDIS. He knew Amy would be angry with him but he didn't care. She didn't know how he felt. She couldn't possibly know. Sure she had lost Rory, multiple times, but she always got him back. The Doctor was always able to save him in the end. He hadn't been able to save Rose; she had been torn from him. He never quite knew how much she had meant to him, to his life, until she was gone from it. Miraculously, she was given back to him and these people, if he could call them people, had hurt her. HIS ROSE! Amy didn't understand why he was doing what he was doing because she had never felt that kind of sorrow and anger before. Even when Rory had died and been wiped from existence, Amy was blissfully unaware. Once in a while she experienced a horrible sadness that she couldn't explain, but then she forgot again. The Doctor never forgot his sadness from losing Rose.
These were the thoughts that fueled the Doctor on as he stormed into the control room. Glancing around, he took in the destruction he had caused. There were multiple small fires and sparks coming from various computers and machines, and papers were scattered all around. Most of the workers had fled the scene or were in the process of fleeing, sparing the Doctor frightened looks as they passed.
The Doctor ignored the terrified workers and looked around for wherever the Commander had crawled off to. He found him propped up against an overturned desk, his breathing was ragged and shallow, and he was rubbing his head with his fingers in obvious discomfort. The Doctor grinned at that. He's already in pain…good. His gleeful expression was only brief though. As soon as the Commander looked up and caught sight of the Doctor, all of his plans flew out the window and the Doctor's anger over took him again. He strode over and yanked the Commander to his feet.
"It is time you pay for your crimes Commander," the Doctor said.
"Who are you to judge me?" The Commander choked out.
"I'm the Doctor," he said with authority.
The Commander didn't seem to care. "You will pay for your actions here Doctor," he sneered, spiting saliva and blood at the Doctor's face. "All I have ever done was for the sake of my planet, I have done nothing wrong."
"There were other ways!"
"But this was the best."
"No, it was the most convenient. You didn't have to put any thought into it. How could you do that to all these people…to her?"
Laughing, the Commander replied, "We put a lot of work into this project. It wasn't easy figuring out what the best way was to keep the bitch weak. I quite enjoyed watching her suffer." His head snapped around as the Doctor punched him, but when he turned back to face the Doctor, he smiled. Despite his situation and the pain, the Commander was actually enjoying taunting the Doctor. "Sometimes she would moan, or cry, or beg for me to stop. Made me laugh that did. Then I'd make her hurt more. We were able to harvest more energy off of her when she was suffering. So we made her suffer…a lot."
The Doctor roared with anger and smashed the Commander into a computer table with surprising force. The Commander had to shield himself with his arms as the Doctor grabbed a chair and hurtled it onto his head. Still the Commander laughed, his cavity filled mouth was red from blood. The Doctor grabbed him by his collar and dragged the laughing Commander to the cell where they had held Rose for so many years, and tossed him onto the metal chair.
"I would advise you to stop talking now," hissed the Doctor.
The Commander only barked out another hysterical laugh, blood trickled from his mouth down his chin. "I said it before Doctor, you don't scare me."
"Right, cause you have an army behind you, isn't that right?" The Doctor scoffed, "Well Commander, where is your army now? No one is going to help you."
The Commander laughed again, but distress was starting to show in his eyes. He had been enjoying mocking the Doctor so much that he failed to notice the lack of people around to help him. Now he was starting to see the folly of his situation. He started to struggle as the Doctor grabbed the chains that were hanging from the chair.
"In all my years of traveling, it still surprises me that corrupt people like you never learn. You all should know by now that evil has its own form of punishment." The Doctor tightened the chains around the Commander's arms, making him gasp in pain.
"Oh yeah?" The Commander managed to ask, "And what might that be?" A nervous edge had made its way into his voice.
"ME!" The Doctor shouted, tightening the chains even more.
The Commander cried out, shrinking back away from the Doctor. He could see the darkness and murderous intent in the Doctor's eyes.
The Doctor gave him a harsh smile. "Let's see how you stand against the pain you put my Rose through," he said as he grabbed hold of the lever to turn the electricity on.
"Mercy," the Commander begged in a weak and frightened voice.
Back in the TARDIS, Rose's eyes snapped open, panic and fear swirled within them. "Doctor!" She screamed, "NO!"
Ahh, dont you love cliffhangers?