DISCLAIMERS/NOTES
1. This is a fan fiction based on characters owned by the BBC. I DO NOT OWN THEM. This is just for fun.
2. This is a femslash story. If you don't like that sort of thing, you won't like this.
3. For story notes, see Part 1.
PART 36
Delgado groggily opened his eyes as he heard a thumping in his head. For a split second he thought he gained his Gallifreyan mother's accursed drumbeats - something else his parents had no knowledge of his knowledge of - but quickly remembered what happened. Some strange spacial anomaly suddenly appeared between Missy and he, and the Doctor and her companions. Huge and glowing, it was like a crack, a tear in the fabric of reality.
Whatever it was, its tendrils struck Delgado, and sent him away from his family's TARDIS.
Slowly, he raised his head and took in his surroundings. He was still outside, grass beneath him, but the nearby woodside was further away. He could not see either his or the Doctor's TARDIS anywhere, yet instinctively knew he was on the same planet. Chances were, the energy tendril literally picked him up in a flash of lightning, and deposited him in another part of the greenery. And he was not alone.
Delgado's senses fully calibrated as he saw a blonde-haired women with him. An all-but stranger to him personally, yet the mortal enemy of his Time Lady mother: the Doctor was lying several yards away, unconscious. Looked like the pseudo-lightning picked her up too, and she landed hard.
Good. Deciding to take his chance, Delgado got to his feet and crinked his neck. His rifle was gone - no doubt lost in the commotion - but he still had his hands. He staggered to the unmoving woman and, once close enough, formed fists. He would not make the mistake his mother did, and waste time with words. The Doctor had to die - and if she regenerated, Delgado would just keep pummelling until all her lives were…
"Get away from her!"
Delgado paused at the voice, then cautiously turned around. He should have known. Behind him and coming up slowly, was Mels, pointing his rifle right at him. At least he knew where it was now.
"Hands up and step away… " Mels ordered, weapon primed.
He narrowed his eyes. "You're Mels, aren't you?" he sneered. "You come from… before."
"From before you changed time, yeah," Mels seethed, coming ever closer. "And you're going to tell us how to undo it."
"Why in Rassilon's name would I do that?" Delgado fired daggers from his eyes. "You stole my mother on my parents' anniversary. Filled her head with… "
"I showed her the truth! And you know it!" Mels' eyes were watering.
Delgado tilted his head. "So you are from the old timeline. Before I fixed things… made things the way they're supposed to be."
"Your reality was already deleted during the Time War," Mels said. "Your family shouldn't exist - you shouldn't exist! How'd you do it? How'd you escape the time lock?!"
Delgado paused, then simply shrugged. "I honestly don't know. But the fact that I did, proved to me that my cause was just. By sheer force of will I made it back, when countless trillions didn't. And only I had the will to do what needed to be done."
"Are you fucking serious?" Mels chuckled. "You're gonna try and pretend you were doing some righteous cause? You're just a little baby crying for the family that never was!"
"And you're not?" Delgado shook his head. "I saw the universe with your parents together… my mother with that worthless, insignificant cow, the one who spent years crying over a 'raggedy man'. Amy didn't deserve Clara Oswald. Only the Mistress does."
Mels primed the rifle - beforehand, it was just pointed at him for intimidation. "Say one more word about my mum and I'll kill you right now."
Now Delgado chuckled. "You won't. You need me - not that I'll help you. I worked too hard for you to undo it all."
"You twisted reality so… "
"I did what I had to to get my FAMILY BACK!" screamed Delgado. "Just as you're trying to do! The only difference is, I succeeded, while you're just going to die. You're an anomaly now, Mels… " - he spoke her name sarcastically - "You're the one who doesn't belong. You're the relic from a deleted timeline. And my family… my family will be together forever. There's nothing you or the sadsack Doctor or anyone else can do to change that, and there's nothing I won't do to make sure my work isn't undone." He glared at her with fury. "I won't lose my family again - even if the whole universe crashes and burns."
Behind Delgado, startled awake by his shout, the Doctor's eyes fluttered open…
"But that's what will happen," said Mels, tears now streaming. Clearly, his rantings got to her. "I've seen the future! The universe unravelling! Tearing itself apart! Whole galaxies dying! The end of everything!"
"I have no idea what you're talking about," said Delgado.
"Maybe not, but you're meddling causes it," Mels explained. "Without my sister being born, they'll be no one to stop it. And the cracks in time are making it worse. What are they - how'd you create them?!"
Now Delgado was proper confused. "What are you babbling about? What cracks?"
"We just saw one! It was pretty bloody hard to miss!"
He frowned. "Oh, so you know what that was? Hm, sounds like you know more about them me. So I reckon they're your problem, not mine."
"They're everyone's problem!" cried Mels.
"No, your problem is what's going to happen to you once you give up pretending with my rifle," said Delgado. "Like I said, you won't shoot. I, however… " - he suddenly pulled a small pistol from his back pocket and pointed it at her - "… was taught by my mother to always have a backup weapon."
TO BE CONTINUED