CHAPTER 14

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Author's Note: This story features the Tenth Doctor and Rose. It takes place in the universe of War of the Guardians and Children of the Wolf and is a prequel story to them. In the timeline of the television show, it takes place after The Satan Pit.

The inside of the TARDIS was in chaos as sparks flew everywhere from several things exploding at once. In order to get his faulty Chameleon Circuit to work even halfway decent for a few minutes, the Doctor had to make several bad connections and rewire several things that he knew that he ordinarily would not have. He also had to fool several systems into going past their safety settings in order to provide a massive amount of power to a burned out circuit that needed a lot of power to keep functioning even semi decently. In other words, he had to use his knowledge of jiggery pokery to its highest level.

He knew that the whole thing could burn out at any moment, and he could fall from the sky and crash into the ground as the power grid went out to the TARDIS. He hoped that the TARDIS held out longer than Dracula did! He had his fingers crossed on both hands as he guided the TARDIS as quickly as he dared towards Dracula's heart.

Rose was giving him a brave face on the outside; but on the inside, she was terrified. She knew that what the Doctor was doing was straining the Old Girl to her limits and that she could blow at any moment. She didn't want to be here when they happened. She knew that it wouldn't be pretty.

Elisabeta was looking at both of them in an open display of fear. She had no idea what was going on, but she knew from all of the explosions that it had to be bad. She jumped every time that something new blew up or sparked. She sincerely hoped that the Doctor knew what he was doing and was not just some mad man with a box as he had appeared to be to her when she first met him.

Elisabeta took Rose aside and whispered to her, "He knows what he's doing right?"

Rose just smiled with her usual trademarked face wide grin as she said, "Just keep telling yourself that, and everything will be fine. That's what works for me!"

The Doctor had heard what they said and gave them both an angry glare.

"Oi! I'm up here doing something that should be impossible and instead of the appreciation I deserve for it all I get is grief! I'd like to know what it is that gives you such a total lack of faith in me, Rose?" the Doctor asked with a huge pouting look on his face.

"Lots and lots of personal experience!" Rose answered him and then burst out laughing.

The Doctor snorted in fake anger, and then his face transformed into a huge smile as he laughed too.

"I guess I deserve that!" he said with a grin.

"You certainly do!" Rose said as she continued to giggle.

Elisabeta thought that they were both mad now.

Rose could see the look on her face and put a comforting arm around her as her face turned serious for a moment.

"Seriously, it's going to be okay. He always comes through when you need him the most," Rose said as she showed her true complete and utter faith in the Doctor.

The Doctor looked at her in a mixture of love and respect. He didn't know if he deserved such devotion from her, but he certainly appreciated it. He wished that he had as much faith in himself as she did. There was only one thing in his life that had ever inspired that kind of absolute belief in him. He was looking at her.

Rose blushed at the look that he was giving to her. She didn't know what he was thinking exactly, but it must be something very special about her. She had never seen him give her such a look of love before.

The Doctor sprang towards the TARDIS console with a sudden burst of renewed faith. If she believed that he could do it, then he could do it. It was that simple. He would always have faith in her even when he lost faith in himself.

He ran around the console in a mad dash as he put everything he had into one last massive thrust forward to ram the TARDIS into Dracula's chest as hard and as fast as he could! He had to do it now before she could change back again into her police box form.

The TARDIS flew forward and slammed into Dracula's chest still in its harpoon form. It emerged out the other side as it kept on flying all the way through the giant vampire!

The TARDIS then finally switched back to its police box form as the chameleon circuit finally blew. Luckily the power grid stayed up though, and he was able to land without crashing. He knew that he wouldn't be able to pull that trick again anytime soon. He hoped that it had worked the first time.

Everyone looked at Dracula expectantly as he began to scream in agony. There was a huge hole in his chest, and everyone thought for sure that this was the end of him. It had to be!

Dracula fell over and hit the ground with a massive thud as he lay there unmoving. Everyone waited for several minutes to see if he would get back up, but he never did.

Then he began to shrink back down to his original size. He completed the transformation as he changed back into his human form, but he still lay there unmoving.

Ileana moved slowly forward along with Van Helsing. They had to make sure that he was truly dead the only way that you could with a vampire. Now that he had been staked through the heart, they would have to cut off his head and stuff the mouth with garlic. Then, they would burn the head and the body to ashes and keep the two sets of ashes separate from each other so that there was no chance that he could ever reform.

Lily and Robin stood nearby ready to assist the two of them if they needed it. Jenny wasn't sure that she wanted to watch this or not. She stood there ready to help if she was asked, but she was really hoping that they wouldn't.

Jessica had switched back to her human form and was slowly making her way back to Jenny's side. She wanted to be near her in case that this wasn't the final end of the vampire.

As Ileana came next to Dracula, she bent over to check for any signs of his still being active. This was when Dracula sprang to life and grabbed her by the throat with one hand while he plunged his other hand into her chest and directly into her heart!

"There's one thing that all of you forgot about vampires. They can come back to life if the stake is removed!" Dracula shouted with a look of murderous glee on his face.

Next: You knew that it couldn't be that easy, right? Dracula has been severely weakened though. He's on his last legs now as he battles the others to the death, and he's going all out now. The battle is about to get extremely deadly, and some of our cast will be changed forever by its outcome!