Hey, guys! Things are getting even more tense! Yay! Congrats to Medusa for being my 200 reviewer! Whoop! Thanks to all the rest of you too! I would have congratulated the 100 but I got so many reviews I couldn't work out who it was! Sorry!
Anyway, did you guys like the episode on Saturday! It was funny. I liked the bit with the pigs in the lift! It was hilarious. They looked like they were really calm.
Right, on with the chapter! Don't kill me for future chapters by the way. You won't like what I do to the characters. Oh, if you want a bit of more light hearted reading read my story 'The Doctor Goes Camping'
…The Doctor froze at the sight that met his eyes. At first he hadn't thought there was anything in the room. That was until he saw the trail of crimson blood on the floor that glistened in the blinding light. Slumped in the corner of the room was the unmoving form of his son.
"Alfie," he managed to choke out and jumped over, skidding to his knees by the boy's side. Quickly, the Doctor's shaking fingers found a pulse on his wrist and he was relieved to see the rise and fall of Alfie's chest, however erratic it may be.
Owen followed him immediately, turning into doctor mode. Although the child was showing signs that he was alive he was still unconscious and Owen didn't think it was a drug. The sleep was pain induced. You could tell from the slight creases around his eyes as if scrunched up to try and block out the agony and the clenched fists. Not to mention all the actual visible bruises, cuts and abrasions over his almost completely naked body. An especially grotesque swelling was forming on his arm and Owen knew that it was broken.
Just then there was a shriek from the doorway and Rose sprinted into the room. Her face etched with terror.
"Oh, god, he's not dead is he? Please tell me he's not dead!" cried Rose, desperately, looking wildly at the two men.
"No, he's ok, Rose, calm down," the Doctor put his hands on her shoulders to halt her.
"Ha, a minute ago Jack was telling you to calm down," Rose sniffed, tears in her eyes.
"We have to get out of here. But something tells me it won't be very easy. This is most certainly a trap. The Daleks will be waiting for us. We have to go, now!" the Doctor scooped Alfie up in his arms and leapt to his feet. The child's head lolled lifelessly, hanging over his arm.
"Doc, I think it may be too late," Jack announced as the three adults left the room and joined the rest in the corridor. Three Daleks appeared at one end of the passageway and two at the other end.
"Doctor!" the black Dalek wailed, "Our arch enemy."
"Well, not by choice," the Doctor quipped, "I never announced that I wanted to be your arch enemy. Shouldn't I have had the choice?"
"You have produced offspring," the Dalek continued.
"Which you have taken from me and battered as you pleased," a fiery passion burned in the Time Lord's eyes.
"You bred with a human. Your levels have fallen, Time Lord," another Dalek spoke. Rose frowned, she felt very offended, she often felt paranoid about being with the Doctor with him being so magnificent and everything, being from a superior race and now this Dalek had just confirmed her fears of not being good enough.
"My levels have not fallen, Dalek," the Doctor spat back, rising to defend his companion, "I am with the woman I love and I don't care from what race or background she is from. She's still intelligent, brave and beautiful. But you could never understand those things so how would you know about levels?"
"And she is fertilised again," the Dalek grated.
"Fertilised? What? Does he, she, it or whatever, mean I'm pregnant?" Rose gaped, turning to the Doctor who couldn't meet her eye, "And you knew!" Anger flashed in her eyes.
"Rose, this is hardly the time," Jack intervened.
"But…but…" Rose knew he was right but she was pregnant! And the Doctor had known all this time!
"As you know this was a trap. To lure you here," the pepper pot shaped alien, "So we could kill you once and for all. To make it easier for us you have brought the human supporting your babies so we can kill her too."
"No," Rose choked, clutching at her stomach; although she'd only just found out she had a baby growing in there she didn't want anything to happen to it.
"Doctor, what do we do?" Gwen asked, frantically looking at the Daleks who were fast closing in.
"I…er…run?" the Doctor suggested.
"There's nowhere to run," Owen pointed out.
"Right, well then, that was always my plan of escape so…Plan B….anyone any ideas?" the Time Lord looked round at the sea of blank faces and then to the child in his arms who had just started trembling. He only had a pair of boxers on so he was freezing. The Doctor tightened his grip and held Alfie closer to his chest in an attempt to give him some of his body heat.
"We will destroy the Doctor! The last Time Lord! And his son!" the Daleks wailed, guns rose to aim at the Doctor.
Hollie was sitting in the captain's chair onboard the TARDIS watching the dramatic events unfold on the monitor, horror clear on her face. The Dalek-things had them all trapped, there was nowhere to run. How were they going to get out of this one? The Doctor stood facing the black Dalek making elaborate hand gestures and facial expressions as if he was trying to reason with them. But then his expression turned to pure fury and he took a step forward. Hollie wasn't sure that was the brightest idea ever but still, it must have been something pretty bad to make him that angry.
Then the Daleks spoke and started to move in, their guns raised and ready to fire at any moment. The young girl's heart rose to her throat and her breathing quickened as the situation fast became more dangerous than it already was.
It was then she realised that she was the only one that could help them. The Daleks had no idea she was here. She had the element of surprise with her, but what could she do to distract the aliens from their obvious plans? She was only a child, with no power over anything; she wasn't extraordinarily intelligent or strong. What could she do against all those armed creatures? But she had courage, heaps of it, that was one thing that she did have on her side. The child stepped towards the door, gulping as she reached for the handle that would take her out into the midst of the danger. She began turning it; there was no going back now.
Suddenly there was a clatter behind her and she whipped around. On the floor of the TARDIS lay a gun. It was long and slender, black in colour with strange red markings on the side that must have some meaning in a complex alien language. A belt of ammo had landed beside the gun but it wasn't any ordinary bullets or pellets. They were green glowing slug like things with pointed tips.
Hollie backtracked and cautiously picked up the weapon. It was about her height when stood on one end and pretty heavy. She had a job just holding it level. As she held the handle it became warm and moulded to her hand shape, slithering between her small fingers to make it a perfect fit.
The child had never held a gun before and it was a strange, exciting experience, holding the now cold metal object in her grip. Now she felt like she had power. Carefully, she cracked the rifle like gun open and slipped in a glowing slug. She had guessed by now that this weapon was one of the only things effective against the killing machines outside and the TARDIS had given it to her to save the others.
Before heading for the door again Hollie counted the slugs and found there were ten in total. Not many but there were only five Daleks out in the corridor so that should be two to each.
Taking a deep breath Hollie took the door handle and pushed open the TARDIS door, stepping out into the battle field.
The Doctor took a step back and eyed the Dalek in front of him warily. They were going to kill them all. But he would survive, regenerate and live on. That's what he hated. Alfie wasn't old enough to regenerate so even he would die and so would the unborn baby in Rose's womb. It was then the Doctor remembered what Jack had said about being immortal. This would put it to the test, though the Doctor didn't think he was lying in the slightest.
The nearest Dalek brought his gun up to point at the Time Lord and yelled, "EXTERM…ahhhhhh!" The Doctor opened his eyes even though he didn't even remember closing them and gasped as he saw the remains of the Dalek shell. The top had been blown clean off. How? Then he noticed the small figure of Hollie standing just outside the TARDIS doors, her eyes wide and a huge gun in her hands.
"There is another child!" a Dalek screeched, "But it is not a Time Lord! It has killed one of us! It must be exterminated!" All four remaining Daleks turned towards the child and began moving forwards.
"EXTERMINATE!" the all yelled and several rays of deadly light shot from their guns and ricocheted off the walls, skimming past the girl, just. Hollie turned tail and ran; she had no chance of fighting back with one gun when it took her so long to reload. Her only option was to run, now she had distracted the Daleks the others could escape.
"Hollie!" Jack's anguished cry cut through the screaming Daleks and he charged down the corridor after them. He couldn't let them hurt his daughter. He had left her in the TARDIS so she would be safe, not so she could step out and rescue them all by getting killed!
"Jack!" Rose raced after him.
"Rose!" the Doctor followed his companion, desperate for her to be safe.
Gwen, Owen, Ianto and Tosh stood, frozen, still getting over the shock of being so close to the Daleks that nearly killed them not particularly in the mood to just chase after them.
"Do we go after them?" Tosh asked, staring after the Doctor.
"I think we better, but I don't fancy meeting those things again," Gwen replied, starting to head after them but she stopped suddenly. Three Daleks had appeared in the corridor, they spotted the four humans.
"Human intruders! EXTERMINATE!"
"I guess we won't be going after to help them then," Ianto announced, "Run!" The Torchwood members swivelled round and hared off in the other direction.
There you go, another chapter for you to review and this time you can have a chocolate brownie with chocolate sauce and ice cream! Did anyone notice the subtle use of a plural anywhere in there?