Silence in the Library- Part 2
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"Get out." The Doctor said to River's expedition group.
"Doctor." Donna said.
"All of you. Turn around, get back in your rocket and fly away. Tell your grandchildren you came to the library and lived. They won't believe you."
"Pop your helmets, everyone. We've got breathers." River comanded.
"How do you know they're not androids?" A girl asked.
"Because I've dated androids. They're rubbish." River said.
A man speaks. "Who is this? You said we were the only expedition. I paid for exclusives."
"I lied, I'm always lying. Bound to be others." River said, smirking.
"Miss. Evangelista, I want to see the contracts." The man said.
"You came through the north door, yeah? How was that, much damage?" River asked.
"Please, just leave. I'm asking you seriously and properly, just leave. Hang on. Did you say expedition?" The Doctor told the group.
"My expedition. I funded it."
"Oh, you're not, are you? Tell me you're not archaeologists." The Doctor groaned.
"Got a problem with archaeologists?" River asked.
"I'm a time traveller. I point and laugh at archaeologists." The Doctor said.
"Ah. Professor River Song, archaeologist." River said flirtatiously.
"River Song, lovely name. As you're leaving, and you're leaving now, you need to set up a quarantine beacon. Code wall the planet, the whole planet. Nobody comes here, not ever again. Not one living thing, not here, not ever. Stop right there. What's your name?" The Doctor asked.
"Anita." A women said.
"Anita, stay out of the shadows. Not a foot, not a finger in the shadows till you're safely back in your ship. Goes for all of you. Stay in the light. Find a nice, bright spot and just stand. If you understand me, look very, very scared. No, bit more scared than that. Okay, do for now. You. Who are you?" The Doctor said.
"Er, Dave." The other Dave said.
"Okay, Dave." The Doctor said.
"Oh, well, Other Dave, because that's Proper Dave the pilot, he was the first Dave, so when we-"
The Doctor cut him off. "Other Dave, the way you came, does it look the same as before?"
"Yeah. Oh, it's a bit darker." He answered.
"How much darker?" The Doctor asked.
"Oh, like I could see where we came through just like a moment ago. I can't now."
"Seal up this door. We'll find another way out." The Doctor said.
"Would you-" The other Dave said.
"We're not looking for a way out. Miss Evangelista?"
"I'm Mister Lux's personal everything. You need to sign these contracts agreeing that your individual experience inside the library are the intellectual property of the Felman Lux Corporation."
"Right, give it here." The Doctor said, taking a copy.
"Yeah, lovely. Thanks." Donna said. Jack and I just nodded. We tear up the contracts and threw them on the floor.
"My family built this library. I have rights." Mr. Lux said, angrily.
"You have a mouth that won't stop. You think there's danger here?" River Song said.
"Something came to this library and killed everything in it. Killed a whole world. Danger? Could be." The Doctor thought out loud.
"That was a hundred years ago. The Library's been silent for a hundred years. Whatever came here's long dead." River Song said.
"Bet your life?" The Doctor asked.
"Aways." River said, nodding.
Mr. Lux ran up to the Other Dave. "What are you doing?" He asked sharply.
"He said seal the door." Other Dave responded.
"Torch." The Doctor said.
"You're taking orders from him?" Mr. Lux asked.
"Spooky, isn't it?" The Doctor takes Lux's torch and shines it into the far recesses of the round room. "Almost every species in the universe has an irrational fear of the dark. But they're wrong, because it's not irrational."
"It's Vashta Nerada." I told everyone.
"What's Vashta Nerada?" Donna asked, walking over to me.
"It's what's in the dark. It's what's always in the dark. Lights! That's what we need, lights. You got lights?" Jack asked.
River looked at Jack, "What for?"
"Form a circle. Safe area. Big as you can, lights pointing out." The Doctor instructed.
"Oi. Do as he says." River commanded after no one moved.
"You're not listening to this man?" Mr. Lux asked River.
"Apparently I am. Anita, unpack the lights. Other Dave, make sure the door's secure, then help Anita. Mister Lux, put your helmet back on, block the visor. Proper Dave, find an active terminal. I want you to access the library database. See what you can find about what happened here a hundred years ago. Pretty boy, you're with me. Step into my office." Rier said.
"Professor Song, why am I the only one wearing my helmet?" Mr. Lux asked.
"I don't fancy you." The Doctor goes over to Dave at the terminal. Lux takes off his helmet.
"Probably I can help you." The Doctor said.
"Pretty boy. With me, I said." River said, turning around to look at The Doctor. I smirked.
"Oh, I'm pretty boy?" The Doctor asked River.
"Yes. Ooo, that came out a bit quick." Donna said.
"Pretty?" The Doctor asked Donna.
"Meh." Donna said.
"Don't let your shadows cross. Seriously, don't even let them touch. Any of them could be infected." The Doctor told us. Jack squeezed my hand in reassurance.
"How can a shadow be infected?" The Other Dave asked.
Evangelista walked over to us and asked, "Excuse me, can I help?"
"No, we're fine." Anita told her.
"I could just you know, hold things."
"No, really, we're okay." Other Dave told her. Her smile dropped. I let go of Jacks hand and walked over to The Doctor and River Song.
"Couldn't she help?" I heard Donna ask.
"Trust me. I just spent four days on a ship with that woman. She's er-"
"Couldn't tell the difference between the escape pod and the bathroom. We had to go back for her. Twice." Anita said, clearly annoyed. Evangelista goes over and talks with her boss. River takes a battered book from her backpack. Its cover is blue with eight squares.
"Thanks." River said to The Doctor.
"For what?" The Doctor asked.
"The usual. For coming when I call."
"Oh, that was you?" The Doctor asked.
"You're doing a very good job, acting like you don't know me. I'm assuming there's a reason."
"A fairly good one, actually."
"Okay, shall we do diaries, then? Where are we this time? Er, going by your face, I'd say it's early days for you, yeah? So, er, crash of the Byzantium. Have we done that yet? Obviously ringing no bells. Right. Oh, picnic at Asgard. Have we done Asgard yet? Obviously not. Blimey, very early days, then. Whoo, life with a time traveller. Never knew it could be such hard work. Look at you. Oh, you're young."
"Oh River, I'm so sorry." I told her.
River spun around. "Susan, I hardly recognized you." She came over and hugged me. I was so shocked I couldn't speak.
"I'm really not, you know." The Doctor told her.
"No, but you are. Your eyes. You're younger than I've ever seen you." River said, letting go of me.
"You've seen me before, then?" The Doctor asked, looking between me and her.
"Doctor, please tell me you know who I am." River pleaded.
"Who are you?" The Doctor asked. River's face went into shock. I immediately grabbed her hand and squeezed it. She held on tight, as if for dear life.
Brng, brng. Brng, brng. "Sorry, that was me. Trying to get through into the security protocols. I seem to have set something off. What is that? Is that an alarm?" Dave asked.
"Doctor? Doctor, that sounds like-" Donna started.
"It is. It's a phone." Jack told everyone.
"I'm trying to call up the data core, but it's not responding. Just that noise." Dave told us.
"But it's a phone." Donna said.
"Let me try something." The Doctor said.
I walked over to the screen, river following, still holding my hand. Access Denied. Was written across the screen.
"Okay, doesn't like that. Let's try something else." The Doctor said.
"Okay, here it comes. Hello"
"Hello. Are you in my television?" A girls voice responded.
"Well, no, I'm, I'm sort of in space. Er, I was trying to call up the data core of a triple grid security processor."
"Would you like to speak to my Dad?"
"Dad or your Mum. That'd be lovely." The Doctor told her.
"I know you. You're in my library."
"Your library?" The Doctor asked, confused.
"The library's never been on the television before. What have you done?" The little girl asked.
"Er, well, I just rerouted the interface." The Doctor said.
"What happened? Who was that?" River asked. Access denied.
"I need another terminal. Keep working on those lights. We need those lights!" The Doctor said, pointing his sonic at the interface. River let go of my hand to start giving orders.
"You heard him, people. Let there be light." The Doctor goes to the other terminal, where River left her diary. When he picks it up, she takes it from him.
"Sorry, you're not allowed to see inside the book. It's against the rules." River told The Doctor.
"What rules?"
"Your rules."
Books start flying off the shelves.
"What's that? I didn't do that. Did you do that?" The Doctor asked, looking around.
"Not me." The Doctor's screen says Cal Access Denied.
"What's Cal?" The Doctor asked. The bombardment of books finally stops. Donna goes over to Miss Evangelista. I head over to Jack.
"Hey." I said.
"Hi." Jack responded. "So… who's River Song?"
I smiled sadly. "Spoilers." More books shoot off their shelves.
"What's causing that? Is it the little girl?" River asked, looking around.
"But who is the little girl? What's she got to do with this place? How does the data core work? What's the principle? What's Cal?"
"Ask Mister Lux."
"Cal, what is it?" The Doctor asked, walking up to the man who seemed to be in charge.
"Sorry, you didn't sign your personal experience contracts."
"Mister Lux. Right now, you're in more danger than you've ever been in your whole life. And you're protecting a patent?"
"I'm protecting my family's pride." Mr. Lux said.
"Well, funny thing, Mister Lux. I don't want to see everyone in this room dead because some idiot thinks his pride is more important."
"Then why don't you sign his contract? I didn't either. I'm getting worse than you." River commented.
"Okay, okay, okay. Let's start at the beginning. What happened here? On the actual day, a hundred years ago, what physically happened?"
"There was a message from the Library. Just one. The lights are going out. Then the computer sealed the planet, and there was nothing for a hundred years."
"It's taken three generations of my family just to decode the seals and get back in."
"Er, excuse me?" Evangelista said.
"Not just now."
"There was one other thing in the last message." River mentioned.
"That's confidential."
"I trust this man with my life, with everything." River told him.
"You've only just met him."
"No, he's only just met me."
"Er, this might be important, actually." Evangelia butted in again.
"In a moment." Mr. Lux told her.
"This is a data extract that came with the message." River said.
"Four thousand and twenty two saved. No survivors." Jack said.
"Four thousand and twenty two. That's the exact number of people who were in the library when the planet was sealed." River told us.
"But how can four thousand and twenty two people have been saved if there were no survivors?" Donna asked.
"That's what we're here to find out." River said.
"And so far, what we haven't found are any bodies." Mr. Lux told us. Suddenly we hear Evangelia scream.