Un betaed
Previously on As The Wolf Howls.
"I can't feel him" she whispered holding into River's space suit.
"Where are they? Where is Donna? Where is the Doctor"
"The Doctor has been saved" the sound of a dual voice came from one of those marble statues on a corner. "Donna Noble has been saved" the voice repeated on a loop.
Both River and Rose turned to the statue to find half of the Doctor's face on the right and half of Donna's face on the left, their lips move unison repeating the words over and over.
Chapter Four "Nightmare worlds & Fantasy lives"
"Hey, who turned out the lights?"
Came Dave's voice from behind them, sadly the shadow the Doctor had notice before was in fact infected and devoured Dave, now the suit keep ghosting and following them; quickly River took the blaster from her pocket and fire to a wall creating a square opening, she drag Rose out and sealed the opening again.
"Keep moving Rose, we have to stay in the light!" River drag Rose behind her trying to stay in the light.
The Doctor sat on a chair looking through the window at the dark sky in this place that looked like an asylum, his eyes lost in the distance, while his mind fought to remember Rose and sort his real memories from the fake memories that somehow they had implanted inside his head.
"John?"
Donna's voice called him from behind, he turned and after a flick they were sitting on what he remember to be the visiting area, there were other people, sick people like he supposedly was, it was noon now and the sun shone up in the sky, Donna sat in front of him with a look of worry in her eyes.
"You have to stop trying to escape" she reached for his hand and he let her take it "John we are all waiting at home for you"
"My name is not John!," he jumped hitting the table between the two of them "I am the Doctor! And I will escape this pla—!"
Stopping his rant Donna slapped him across the cheek, they froze for a second looking at each other with wide eyes.
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"I don't understand that and I understand everything. This this can't happen! There is no way a human being can lock itself onto the TARDIS and transport itself inside. It must be" the man in front of her graved some kind of tool and shone a light to her eyes talking a mile per second "Impossible. Some sort of subatomic connection? Something in the temporal field? Maybe something pulling you into alignment with the Chronon shell. Maybe something macro mining your DNA within the interior matrix. Maybe a genetic—"
That was enough, she slapped him as hard as she could.
"What was that for?" he had the nerve to look gobsmacked while holding his cheek.
"Get me to the church!" Donna demanded.
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"You slapped me" the Doctor said holding his cheek, the Donna in this weird universe had never slap him, she had always been a loving sister. "Donna?" he asked worried but Donna seemed to be lost in some kind of memory.
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"You…you slap me!" he accused her, holding his cheek.
"You hit me with a mallet!" the woman in front of the Doctor spat back at him.
"You were going the wrong way!" he scolded her.
"You press the wrong button!"
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"The TARDIS…was a woman and…and she slapped you" Donna murmured eyes opened wide at the memory so clear inside her head.
"You remember!"
He exclaimed exited, but just like all those moments before when Donna had remembered something she flicked for a second and when she came back…it was like if she had been rewritten and the memories erased.
"Of course I remember" she give him a bag that hadn't been there five seconds ago "I brought clothes like you asked"
"Donna?"
Came a black man behind her, Doctor Moon, he called himself, he supposedly was the man who had been treating John Noble with his psychological problems, and appeared every time Donna was close to remember something; the Doctor had attacked him, he even try to stab him with a pen, but every time he was close enough, the world flicked and he was back inside his cage.
"Oh Doctor Moon, I was just talking with John, he seemed so much better, do you think I could take him home soon?" Donna smiled at the man.
"Don't touch her!"
The Doctor jumped over the table trying to stop Doctor Moon of taking Donna away once more, he froze in the air before he could touch him and as always, he found himself inside the white room he despised, he run to the small window in the door in time to see Doctor Moon take Donna out.
"The Sonic screwdriver is showing something" came a voice from behind him, he turn to see a flicking image of River fiddling with the screwdriver "Rose come here!" now Rose appeared in front of him, she looked like and image on an old telly flicking with static.
"Rose" he whispered not daring to believe the woman was in front of him.
"I'll get you back Doctor I swear" she promise and there was something just under her voice a howl calling him on a level he couldn't explain.
There was a small glitch and Rose disappears, she was replaced by a nurse offering some pills.
"No, no Rose come back Rose!" he grabbed the nurse by the shoulders trying to get Rose back, the woman tried to calm him down until he was on a corner like he usually was lately "Is so unfair to show someone the sun…just to banish them from it".
"Maybe we should speak outside" Doctor Moon smiled.
"How did we get here?" Donna asked looking her new surroundings she was outside the hospital were her brother John lived, but she did not remember walking there, she didn't even remember saying good bye to him.
"We came down the stairs, out the front door. We passed Mrs Ali on the way out." Doctor Moon explained and Donna nodded remembering. "I'm glad you remember. Shall we go down to the river?"
"You said river, and suddenly we're feeding ducks"
Donna accused him, frowning at her surrounding when a man with fishing gear walked to them, he said hi to Doctor Moon and he introduced them.
"Donna Noble, Lee McAvoy"
"Hello, Lee" Donna smiled at the man, he was kind of cute.
"Hello, D, D, D—" Lee struggle to get her name out.
"Ooo, you've got bit of a stammer there. Bless" she giggle.
"D, D"
"Oh, skip to a vowel. They're easy"
"Oh John he is so cute" Donna smiled talking with her brother, according to Doctor Moon it was good for John to keep contact with real life "And he has this little stammer"
"Where did you meet him?" he asked with a small smile.
"Outside the hospital, he invited me to go fishing"
The next thing the Doctor knew he a wearing a tux and sat on a long row with people he didn't know looking at Donna smile in front of her husband as he stammer his way through his vows, then it was Donna's turn.
"A wise person once told me, you should be with someone whose flaws you love…"
She started and the Doctor disconnect himself after that sentence, it was something he had heard once before, it was something Jackie Tyler told Rose once when they were watching some show thing on the telly.
Now they were on the reception, people dancing and laughing eating cake, the Doctor walked to Donna who was standing next to a table.
"Donna?"
"Oh John I'm so glad you came" she hugged him with a big smile "What do you think about the cake?"
"Donna, who told you that?, who told you, you should be with someone whose flaws you love?"
"I—"Donna frown trying to remember.
"Who?!" the Doctor spat in her face graving her by the shoulders. "It was Rose right?, she told you!"
"You are hurting me"
Donna tried to get away from his grip and after a glitch the Doctor was drag away by people from the asylum, he cry and fought trying to escape "I will get away from this place, you have no idea who you are messing with, you separate my from my Rose, and a wolf doesn't do well without her mate, if I don't destroy you, she will" he promise as he was drag away from Donna's wedding reception.
The Moon was now high in the sky as River open a new square hole in the wall, Dave, Rose, Mr. Lux and Anita went through, River fix the wall again and made everyone stand in the middle on the only clear spot.
"There's no lights here. Sunset's coming." River remembered them as she try to use the sonic screwdriver to turn on one of the lamps.
"What's happening to her?" Anita asked concerned indicating Rose who was now standing in front of them there was a low growl coming from her and her eyes were now liquid gold and she looked at the shadows with a wary look in her eyes.
"She lost her mate…she will get madder by the minute until they get back together"
"They won't attack until there's enough of them. But they've got our scent now. They're coming." Rose spoke for the first time in what felt like years, she crouch down growling low at the shadows.
"She appear quite mental if you ask me," Lux said rolling his eyes at the estrange woman "Who is she?"
"You are an archaeologist Anita, you must have heard of her, of the Bad Wolf" River explained while she keep trying to make the screwdriver work.
"Well yeah…there are some legends and—"
"There's a signal coming from somewhere, interfering with it"
"There is something in the moon, is wrong" Rose suddenly said.
"It's not real. It was built as part of the Library. It's just a Doctor Moon."
"What's a Doctor Moon?" Dave asked.
"A virus checker. It supports and maintains the main computer at the core of the planet" Mr. Lux explained with a frown "How did you know is not a real moon?"
"The TARDIS told me" Rose simply said "She is singing to me…hope"
River put her hand on Rose's shoulder trying to show her support "The Doctor Moon must still be active and is blocking the sonic" she fiddle with it a bit more "The Sonic screwdriver is showing something"
An image of the Doctor appeared in front of them, he was wearing cotton clothes and looked like someone who hadn't sleep on months including bags under his eyes.
"Rose come here!" River called her and she stood in front of River.
"Rose" the image of the Doctor whispered in disbelief.
"I'll get you back Doctor I swear" Rose promise a second before the image disappear, Rose screamed and through the books from one of the tables, she push a small book shelf scattering the books on the floor, she growl in warning.
In that moment Anita notice she had two shadows, River put the woman's helmet back on and used the sonic to cover the visor in black, maybe that will buy them time, when a heavy step was heard behind them.
"Hey, who turned out the lights?"
"Run!" River took Rose's hand and started to run again.
TBC
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