Disclaimer: Okay, since I've run the course on the Negotiation Disclaimers, I need something new. Ideas? Also I don't own DW.

Ch. 56:

"Your choice." Baines told him.

"Oh thank god." Lily breathed. "Do you know what I've had to put up with while hiding from you morons?" she asked, addressing the family.

"What are you talking about?" Clarke demanded.

"I'm seriously." Lily continued. "I've deal with men who are only marginally smarter than slugs who think they're better than me, one of my best friends has been stuck in a demeaning job that she is way over qualified for, and my other is stuck as that moron." She told them, pointing to John. "Plus, have any of you ever tried to wear a corset? I'm absolutely certain that the person who came up with them must have been a man, because no woman would put another through that kind of torture."

"Silence." Clarke demanded.

"You know what?" she shot back. "Bite me! No, wait, you might actually. So, how 'bout screw you? You hounded our asses across time and space and when we went to ground in freaking 1913, you still hunted us. If you had had even a shred of intelligence between the four of you, you would have given up."

"We are hungry." Baines growled.

"Yeah, well try restraint." Lily sneered. "Because you should have run the opposite direction from us."

Seeing that Latimer was fairly far away from John now, Lily continued on with her really bad plan.

"Hey, Martha." she called.

"Yeah?" Martha called back, confused.

"Remember that move I showed you a few months ago?" Lily asked.

"Yeah." Martha replied.

"Wanna give a demonstration?" Lily asked, glancing at Latimer.

"Sure." Martha replied, catching her glance.

"Now…" Lily's watch whispered to Latimer.

He pressed the clasp.

"TIME LORD…" the watch called in a hushed tone.

"It's him!" Baines shouted.

Martha and Lily both pounced on the distraction. Lily flipped Clarke over her hip, finishing up with a kick to the head to knock him unconscious, while Martha twisted around so that she now had Jenny at gun point.

"One more move and I shoot." she told them.

"Oh, the maid is full of fire!" Baines laughed.

"You better bet she is." Lily said walking over to Martha.

"And you can shut up." Martha finished, firing the gun into the ceiling.

"Careful, Son of Mine." Clarke said, getting up from the floor and wiping blood from his face.

"Oh, come on." Lily moaned. "That should have kept you down for at least another couple minutes."

Clarke ignored her.

"This is all for you, so that you can live for ever." he told Baines.

"I'll shoot you down!" Baines told Martha.

"Try it." Lily told him. "We'll die together."

"Would you really pull the trigger?" he asked Martha. "Looks too scared."

"Scared and holding a gun." Martha replied. "It's a good combination. You wanna risk it?"

Baines glanced at John before lowering his gun.

"John." Lily called over her shoulder. "Get everyone out. There's a door at the side. It's over there. Go."

John stood there, indecisive.

"Do it." she ordered. "Everyone get out!"

The villagers did as she said, running, screaming, out the door, leaving only John and Latimer.

"Tim, go with John." Lily told him.

"What about you two?" Tim asked.

"We can handle ourselves." Lily told him with a smile. "Go."

He headed to the door, but John didn't move.

"John." Lily said seriously. "Go. Don't make me ask again."

He stared a second longer before turning and following Latimer.

Outside, John finally seemed to come to his senses.

"Mr. Hicks, go to the village." he ordered. "Get everyone out. Latimer, get back to the school. Tell the headmaster-"

"No." Latimer told him. "Miss Lily told me to stay with you and that's what I'm going to do."


Martha pushed Jenny away and pointed her gun at Baines.

"Don't try anything." Martha warned. "I'm warning you, or sonny boy gets it."

"She's almost brave, this one." Baines said, the family slowly advancing.

Lily stood her ground.

"You really should have run." she told them sadly. "I spared your lives because the Doctor asked me to, but you've threatened people he cares about. When he wakes up, and I assure you he will, he's going to be very angry. And if there is one thing in this universe you don't want to do, it's make the Doctor angry."

"I should have take her form." Jenny said. "Much more fun. So much spirit."

"What happened to Jenny?" Martha demanded. "Is she gone?"

"She is consumed." Jenny replied, or more accurately the Mother. "Her body's mine."

"You mean she's dead." Martha said.

"Yes." the Mother replied. "And she went with precious little dignity. All that-ah-screaming."

Suddenly a scarecrow grabbed Martha from behind, knocking Lily away.

"Get the gun!" Baines yelled.

Martha ducked under the scarecrow's arm, grabbed Lily's arm and they ran.

Outside they found John and Latimer waiting.

"Why are you two idiots still here?" Lily yelled. "Run! My god, you make a crappy human." she told the Doctor.

She didn't' even stop running as she grabbed his arm and pulled him along, Martha and Latimer following after.


A little while later they arrived at the school completely out of breath. John closed the heavy wooden doors behind them and began to ring a bell.

"What the hell do you think your doing?" Lily demanded, grabbing his hand.

He shook her off and continued.

"Maybe one man can't fight them," he told her, "but this school teaches us to stand together."

"You're an idiot!" Lily yelled, but John ignored her.

"Listen to me," she insisted. "Everything you dreamed, everything about the Doctor, it's all true. I need you to believe me."

"Take arms!" he shouted. "Take arms!"

"You can't do that!" Martha implored.

"John, I need you to do what I tell you." Lily shouted. "I need you to become the man you really are! I need you to help me to fight them!"

"You want me to fight?" he asked. "Take arms! Take arms!"

"I say sir, what's the matter?" Hutchinson asked.

"Enemy at the door, Hutchinson." John told him. "Enemy at the door. Take arms!"

"You dumbass." Lily growled. "You let them out there and you're sending them to their death."

He ignored her and kept rousing the school.

"He's useless." Lily growled, dragging Martha a little ways away. "Help me with this." she told her, pointing to the buttons on her dressed.

Martha was confused, but complied.

Lily let the dress drop and Martha saw that she was wearing skinny jeans under her dress tucked into her boots.

"Have you been wearing those all these months?" Martha demanded.

"Of course." Lily replied, looking around. "I need a jacket."

"Why, you don't think the corset is a fashion statement?" Martha asked sarcastically.

"Of course, but it's kinda cold, don't you think?" Lily replied with a grin. She stalked back to the hall and grabbed John by the collar, quickly getting him out of his coat.

"What do you think you're doing?" John demanded.

"I think I'm taking your coat." she told him, slipping it on and buttoning it up. "Now, we need you to open a watch."

She took his hand but he pulled away.

"I don't know what's wrong with you." he told her, before turning away, leaving her gob smacked.

"I think I may have done too good a job making him human." Lily muttered.

"You can't do this!" Martha called after him.

"Maintain positions over the stable yard." John shouted to the boys.

"They are just boys!" Lily said, catching up to him. "You can not ask them to fight!"

"Faster now!" John yelled. "That's it."

Lily grabbed his arm and made him face her.

"Do you not get it?" she demanded. "They will die. They don't stand a chance against what's out there!"

"They're cadets, woman." he told her. Lily took a step back as if she had been slapped. "They are trained to defend the King and all his properties."

Lily stared at him as the Headmaster came running into the room.

"What in thunder's name is this?" he demanded. "Before I devise an excellent and endless series of punishments for each and every one of you, could someone explain very simply and immediately exactly what is going on?"

"Headmaster, I have to report the school is under attack." John told him.

"Really?" the Headmaster asked. "Is that so? Perhaps you and I should have a word in private."

"I promise you, sir." John stressed. "I was in the village with…Miss Lily. It's Baines, sir. Jeremy Baines and Mr. Clarke from Oakham Farm. They've gone mad, sir. They've got guns. They've already murdered people in the village. I saw it happen."

"Miss Lily, is that so?" he asked her.

Martha was whispering to her urgently.

Lily opened her mouth and Martha started whispering again.

"Fine." she muttered. "Yes it's true. Which is why you should all stay right here and do nothing."

"I don't think so, young lady." the Headmaster told her, but before he could say anything else, the room went silent as Lily slammed him into a wall.

"If one more person dismisses me simply because I'm a woman," she growled, "I swear to god, I will drag John out of here and leave you all to die."

"Mr. Smith!" the Headmaster barked. "Please get control of your sister in law."

John came forward and literally dragged her off of the headmaster and then proceeded to shove her to Martha.

"Now," the headmaster said, straightening his clothes, "how do we know they're coming here?"

"They threatened me, sir." John told him. "They said they'd follow me. I don't know why."

"Because they are hunting him." Lily butted in. "Both of us. Which is why John and I should get as far away from here as possible."

"Mrs. Smith-" the headmaster started, but Lily interrupted him.

"It's Carter!" she yelled. "Lily Carter! And if you let those boys out there they will be slaughtered. Pure and simple!"

Martha dragged Lily to the other room.

"We can't stop them." she told her as Lily fought to go back. "We need to come up with a plan to protect them."

"How?" Lily demanded. "I'm powerless. And try as I might, I am not the Doctor."

She watched through a window as the boys were led outside, John right up front.

"I can't stop him." Lily whispered. "We were supposed to stop him from hurting anyone. How are we supposed to do that if he won't listen?"

She turned back to Martha.

"Go find Latimer." she told her.

"What are you going to do?" Martha asked her.

Lily pinched the bridge of her nose.

"I'm going to go try to reason with the Family of Blood." she told her. "God help me."


"Headmaster, sir." Baines called. "Good evening sir. Come to give me a caning, sir? Would you like that, sir?"

"Keep a civil tongue, boy." the Headmaster replied.

"Now-come now everyone." Another teacher called. "I suspect alcohol has played its part in this. Let's all just calm down. And who are these friends of yours, Baines?" he asked, motioning to the scarecrows. "In fancy dress."

"Do you like them, Mr. Phillips?" Baines called. "I made them myself. I'm ever so good at science, sir." he said as he walk to one. "Look-" he pulled the arm off, "-molecular fringe animation fashioned in the shape of straw me. My own private army, sir. Ever so good, sir."

"Baines, step apart from this company and come inside with me." the Headmaster

"No, sir." Baines replied. "You, sir-You!-will send us Mr. John Smith and his mate. That's all we want, sir, Mr. John Smith, and whatever he's done with his Time Lord consciousness and whatever he's done with his mate's vortex powers. Then we'd be very happy to leave you alone."

"You speak with someone else's voice, Baines." the Headmaster said. "Who might that be?"

"We are the Family of Blood." Baines replied.

"Mr. Smith said there had been deaths." he called again.

"Yes, sir!" Baines called back. "And they were good, sir!"

"But they weren't what you needed were they?" a voice called.

They all tuned to find Lily leaning against a nearby wall.

"Human life is so fragile." Lily said. "That's why you can't feed off it. But the life of a Time Lord? Oooh. That would keep you alive forever."

"So give it to us and we will leave." Baines called.

"Yeah, no." Lily replied. "See, I've been striped of my powers. Chemically stripped. And I sure as hell not going to give you the Doctor. It's a pet peeve, I know, but I prefer my mate to be living." She sauntered up to the end of the lines. "But here's what I will do. I'll have my powers back soon, so I'll give you till then to get off this planet."

Baines laughed. He raised his gun and fired on Mr. Phillips.

Lily looked at the ashes for a moment before raising her eyes back to Baines.

"I take it that's a no?"

He smiled and she nodded.

"Yeah, I thought so." Lily muttered.

"Run along, headmaster." Baines called. "Run back to the school, and send us Mr. Smith!"

The headmaster turned on his heel and stalked up to the school.

Lily stared at the family for a moment before following him up.


Martha was searching the school for Latimer when she ran into Joan.

"What are you doing?" Joan demanded.

"I need to find Latimer." Martha told her, moving past her. "He's got something I need."

"What?" Joan pushed following after her.

"A watch." Martha replied.

"What's so important about a watch?" she asked.

"Ok, look." Martha said, stopping and turning back to face her. "I know it sounds mad, but The Doctor, the one you read about? He's real. He's who John Smith really is. Both he and Lily are aliens, but the alien parts of them are stored in these watches. Well it's not really a watch, it just looks like a watch. Latimer's got Lily's and I need to get it back."

"And alien means…not from abroad, I take it." Joan said, following her again.

"The man you call John Smith…he was born in another world." Martha told her.

"A different species." Joan said.

"Yeah." Martha replied, looking desperately for Latimer.

"Then tell me, in this fairy tale…who are you? Who is Lily?" Joan asked.

"I'm just a friend." Martha told her. "Lily's his mate."

"What's the difference?" Joan asked.

Martha sighed.

"When I say mate, I don't mean friend. I mean like soul mate, mate." she told her.

"You're human, I take it?" Joan asked her.

"Human, don't worry." Martha told her with a smile. "And more than that. I don't just follow him around. I'm training to be a doctor-not an alien doctor-a proper doctor, a doctor of medicine."

"Well that's certainly is nonsense." Joan told her. "Women might train to be doctors, but hardly a skivvy and hardly one of your color."

"Oh, d'you think?" Martha said, rounding on her. "Bones of the hand:" she held up her left hand an pointed to each one in turn, "Carpal bones, proximal row; scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform. Distal row; trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate. Then the metecarpal bones extending in three distinct phalanges; proximal, middle, distal."

"You read that in a book." Joan accused.

"Yes, to pass my exams." Martha told her with a laugh. "Can't you see this is true?"

"I must go." Joan said, turning around.

"If we find Latimer, Lily might be able to stop them." Martha said.

"Those boys are going to fight." Joan told her. "I might not be a doctor, but I'm still their nurse. They need me."

With that, she walked away and Martha continued searching for Latimer.

A/N: First chapter of Family of Blood. As you can tell, this diverging pretty far from the original. Because of this, these may take longer. Mainly because I have to figure out exactly how to fit my parts into the existing parts. To talk about the chapter for a minute, you may have noticed that Lily is acting more like the Doctor than before. How will that affect convincing John to open the watch? And will she actually be able to pull off acting like the Doctor long enough to save them?

Question: How many of you, after only seeing one episode with him in it, already want to drop Rory off a bridge?
Answer: I'm all for it. I'm quickly becoming a huge Amy/Doctor fan girl. Already planning a sequel to these stories where Lily and the Doctor meet Amy and the Doctor. (F.Y.I: Lily's going to love her.)

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