XXIV
Eye of the child and the Major

The Island
Underground
The night of Rodger Barratt's party

Once the security guards start to direct everyone in the festival away, Jason pulls April away from the scene, warning her that they have to move immediately. The security guards are searching the whole of the festival and they cannot afford to be caught. April allows Jason to drag her away, and she follows him as he takes the path they came from. They find the drain from which they first came from and Jason pulls it open before dropping down.

April notices the way Jason gently holds onto his bad shoulder as they walk on, but she does not bother asking him about it because she knows that he will only brush the subject to the side.

Once they are both hidden in the tunnel with the drain closed above them, both April and Jason hesitate for a moment. There is a long silence between them. All that can be heard is the sound of dripping water further on down the tunnel. Eventually Jason looks down at his wristwatch.

"We should start making our way down to Rodger Barratt's mansion," he says in a dull voice. "I suppose everyone will be getting ready for it."

April nods, however, her mind is being diverted to the coach journey they took to the party. She remembers riding through the Island and being watched by all the passers-by. But their carriage took them through a dark tunnel which eventually came out to a different area. An area that looked newly built but deserted. They passed through this area just before they reached Rodger Barratt's mansion.

"We've still got time to kill." April says aloud.

Jason raises an eyebrow. "You can't keep trying to save everyone, April. Maybe that man offered to sacrifice himself-"

"It's not that at all," April hisses, waving away Jason's words. "On the journey from Jack's house to the mansion, we passed through this tunnel and then came out to a different area in the Island."

Jason looks at April, not blinking.

April continues. "I don't exactly know what that area is used for as it looked newly built. But there was a podium and stage with stalls at either side. It was like a large arena surrounded by tall buildings," April sighs heavily. "I know Heat Miles are using the Day of Destruction as preparation and a cover for this battle. But the shape shifters are the ones who brought the Cytracik to life. So they would probably do anything to keep it at bay from the Daleks and everything else fighting for that power. The shape shifters and Heat Miles would do anything to get a little bit more power."

"Yes but what has this place you went past have anything to do with them getting power?"

April pauses for a moment. "I'm not sure, but it's worth checking it out while we have the time," she says. "The last thing we need is chaos erupting when we aren't expecting."

Jason sighs and studies April for a long while before he starts to laugh.

April's scowl becomes harsh.

"The Doctor and Jack warned that you would be like this," Jason snorts as he rubs at his jaw. "They both said to me when I volunteered to go back in time with you."

"Said I would be like what?" April sneers.

Jason looks at April for a little while longer before clearing his throat. "We'd better make a move on. I guess we'd better make most of the time we have left."

"Said I would be like what, Jason?" April asks again harshly.

Jason hesitates for a second. "Stubborn."

Jason walks on ahead in the direction he claims should take them over to Rodger Barratt's mansion. He orders April to also use the sonic screwdriver as guidance. But as he walks, he continues to hold onto his bad shoulder. April makes a mental note that they will sit and rest while they await for the Cybermen and the Slitheen to crash the party.

They walk through the dark tunnel in silence for what seems like a long while. They twist and turn in different directions, but just from reading the sonic screwdriver, April knows that they are not far from Rodger Barratt's mansion. They pass under many drains along the way and they can tell that the sky overhead is starting to clear of clouds. The bright full moon starts to appear.

Eventually, as they keep walking on, life from the Island above them seems to have silenced. April suddenly gets the same feeling as she did when she first jumped over the fence into the festival as she passed through the force-field. The feeling of almost being cut off from everything else.

April raises the sonic screwdriver and starts scanning the roof of the tunnel, and she is certain they are under where she wants to be.

"We'll go here." April says as she stops under one of the drains.

Jason turns to look at her but says nothing as he stands next to her. Then continuing the silence, Jason helps April up with a groan, as she pushes open the drain before hauling herself out and helping Jason. Jason rolls onto his back as he looks up at the moonlit sky above him.

"Do you feel that?" April says after a while, her voice sounding rather hollow in the air around them.

"There's nothing here to feel." Jason replies.

The air around them is still and the silence here is far too quiet. April starts to wonder if they have been completely shut away from the rest of the Island.

April and Jason slowly start to move away from the drain, fully aware of how their every step echoes across this space. The space around them is only dimly lit by the full moon and the twinkling stars above them, yet the darkness still looms, making it difficult for them to see more than what is directly in front. For a short while, all they know is that they are walking over newly laid paving slabs which feels like nothing has ever walked over them before.

Yet eventually as their eyes adjust to the darkness, they can see the shapes and outlines of the tall buildings that circulate them. Then they see the podium and the stage at one end of the arena, the black iron scorpion-shaped statue at the other, and the hundreds of rows of seated stalls at either end of the arena.

"What is this place?" Jason says aloud when his eyes fixes on the blank, large television screen that hangs on a curtained wall just behind the stage.

April says nothing in response as she slowly starts to walk through the arena. Her footsteps echo loudly, making both herself and Jason flinch with every steps she takes. However, April's attention is drawn to three long wooden poles in the direct centre of the arena. They stand adjacent to one another. However, as April gets closer to the three poles, she notices the two iron loops attached to either side of the poles, and sitting in piles before them, are three heavy looking iron chains.

Jason, who is standing over by the stalls and running the tips of his fingers over the surface of the seats, turns his attention to April. He notices her looking blankly down at the chains.

"Torturing stands," Jason says as his voices echoes across the arena. "They used to use them when I was a kid back in our world," Jason slowly starts to walk over towards April who is now slowly bending over to take a closer look at the chains. "They used to chain prisoners up in Trafalgar Square by the fountain and whip them. It was when the General was promoted to his current role that he made an alliance with the government that they wouldn't use whipping as a form of punishment."

April's scowl becomes tighter as her head starts pounding severely. And for a moment, the pain is suddenly unbearable. April cries out on pain, holding her fist to her head as she stumbles backwards.

Then April is no longer in the dark arena but a house. She is in a bedroom April recognises from her nightmare. She stands at the end of the bed, looking down at an older and withered looking Ellis in bed, sleeping restlessly. She stares at him for a long while, concerned about Ellis' welfare, knowing full well that right now it is not as good as it used to be. However there is a voice at the back of her head asking her why she is there watching him, and why Ellis is suddenly looking so ragged.

Soon April turns away from Ellis and starts to leave the bedroom. She sees a glimmer of long blonde hair in the long oval mirror hanging up on the wall by the door, but she does nothing about it. Despite wanting to go back and look at her reflection, April finds herself walking down the stairs and is now in the living room to Ellis's small house.

April looks to her left and right, taking in every detail to their house that looks rather unkempt, almost as if it is now deteriorating from the inside. She takes a look at her long, bony hands. Her nails are chipped and red with dry blood, as if she has been constantly biting them. But instead she hurries over to the sink and scrubs away the dried blood. No one can see the blood. Blood means guilt.

The panic rises inside April as she tries to rid her ghostly white hands, which seem so unlike her own, from the blood. However the blood is stubborn and does not seem to want to come off easily.

Then that is when April hears it. Immediately her head shoots up and she looks directly into the wooden wall before her, just behind the sink.

There is a muffled cry that seems so close and yet so far away.

April stands there, letting the water to continue to run from the tap, as she listens to the muffled cries. It is the sound of a woman pleading for help, and yet it is almost as if this woman's mouth has been stuffed with tissue. April can just about make out the cry for help. Someone is stuck and April knows that there is nothing for her to do but to observe.

April finds herself pulling away from the sink in the kitchen and moving towards the cries. She passes through the living room and faces the front door to the house. Light from the outside shines through the frosty glass in the door, but it is the wall to her left that April is more drawn to.

The wall moves as if it is breathing. April, keeping a cautious eyes on the moving wall, slowly walking closer as the cries becomes louder, yet still as muffled as before. The wall moves again but only this time less like it is breathing, but more like something is moving underneath the surface.

Terror rises inside April as she sees hands pressing against the inside of the wall, desperate for freedom. The wall acts somewhat like cling-film; taught but easy to press through.

April feels a cold sweat as her body trembles in fear. And yet she finds herself moving closer towards the wall.

Now she can see the full body of a woman pressing firmly against the wall. Her mouth opens as she cries out in help.

"I'm sorry, mum," April cries in a high, childlike voice that is not her own. "I'm so sorry but I can't help you. We have lost."

Soon enough there is more than one scream filling the house. Bodies emerge from underneath the wall's surface, desperately trying to push themselves free. Their muffled cries ring all through the house and before April knows it, she falls to her knees and screams as a searing pain runs through her head, feeling like its banging a hammer against her skull.

"April!"

April clutches her head, screaming manically, but her screams are being drowned out by the others...

Suddenly there is a force grabbing onto both her shoulders and she feels herself being shaken like a rag doll.

"April, please, look at me!" Jason cries as he shakes April.

April's eyes flicker open wildly and the view of the Lustworve's house and the people in the wall has vanished. Instead she is met by the darkness of the arena and Jason's pale face, twisted in anguish directly in front of her.

For a moment there is a silence as Jason stares down at April who trembles vigorously in his grip. But before he has the time to catch her, April's knees buckle under her weight and she falls heavily on the stone ground.

The cries that escapes April's lips is nothing Jason has heard from her before, but from hearing what the Doctor, Rose and Terry has said, he knows that they are not far from her screams from her nightmare. Immediately Jason drops to her side and cradles April's in his arms, allowing her to sob into his good shoulder. He can tell that these are not tears of sadness, but tears of pain.

He places a hand to her forehead and feels her skin burning. He then places a hand on her chest, just below her neck and to his surprise, her skin is icy cold.

"What happened?" Jason asks once April's cries have subdued into silent trembles of her body. "One second you were okay, and then the next you were screaming on the ground," Jason looks down at April and pulls her hair away from her face, his voice suddenly becoming softer. "Buttercup?"

"Amelia..." April manages to say, though her voice trembles.

"Who?"

April pushes herself away from Jason, feeling too claustrophobic in his tight grip. She stands up on her feet and walks a few steps away from the chains and the torturing posts. The images of her vision slowly start to fade from her mind, but she rubs her eyes, desperately trying to remember everything she saw.

"I was Amelia."

"Who's Amelia?" Jason asks in a sterner voice. He is still crouched down on the ground, not having moved since April got up.

"Ellis' daughter," April snaps as if he should have already known. "I think I've just seen a future...like my nightmare, I think. Amelia. I was Amelia." April's words roll into one as they tumble out her mouth, being rather incoherent. But before April has the chance to say any more, she screams aloud as there is an excruciating pain shooting through her chest.

"April!" Jason shouts, rushing to her just as she falls to her knees.

April rolls into a ball, clutching her knees, feeling a pain through her chest like no pain before. She looks blankly ahead but her vision is clouded over by the darkness that looms over her. She can hear the crash of the waves in her ears and she knows that the Black Lighthouse is close.

The darkness in her vision swirls around like smoke just floating through the air. But soon enough she can see a distant glimpse of the Black Lighthouse and the beach that still haunts her. The beach seems misty, almost as if the image she can see is being made up of white gas. But she can hear Rodger Barratt's voice in her head. His words are rather incoherent, but his low, sinister voice sends a shooting pain through her body, reminding her that it is because of him and his fellow shape shifters that she is here fighting for her life against the Cytracik...

Jason kneels down by her side, looking down at her helplessly. "Shit, shit, shit," he mutters under his breath, unsure on whether or not he should touch her. "April, talk to me," he then says, his voice still stern and somewhat angry. "April, don't you dare let it take over you! Talk to me. What did you see?"

Jason's voice echo in April's mind, but all she is concerned about is the pain in her chest. It feels as if there is a fire erupting inside of her and daggers trying to fight their way out of her body. She feels like she may be sick.

"April, this is only the Cytracik playing with your mind!" Jason snaps. "You know that it is only trying to destroy you. Don't let it!" Jason hesitates. "Remember what it is you are fighting for!"

Jason's last words strikes a core in April's mind and she grits her teeth. She has to save the Doctor. And Rose. And Terry. She has to save UNIT. And most of all she has to save her brother. April tries to banish the misty image of the Black Lighthouse and the beach from her mind, and eventually it starts to fade away. So does Rodger Barratt's incoherent words.

But all of a sudden, her emotions are full of anger. She feels an overwhelming sense of anger which she has never felt before. This anger is full of revenge, but she does not know where this emotion comes from.

April's eyes flicker open as she groans. Her eyes lock onto Jason's and all of a sudden, the pain in her chest starts to fizzle away, just like it used to do every time she woke up from her nightmare. She takes in big gulps of air as she rolls onto her back, as if she has not been breathing for the last few minutes of pain that has passed.

Jason however looks down at April, his eyes full of fear. His tense body does not seem to relax.

"April?" He calls softly.

"I think I've just read Rodger Barratt's mind," April eventually said after a while, when she catches her breath to its normal pace. "And he's angry about something...like he wants revenge."

April and Jason are quiet for a long while as they listen out for the silence around them.

"Jay?" April says weakly.

"Yeah?" Jason says softly, yet his body is still tense.

"What is happening to me?"

Jason hesitates far longer than April hopes. "I can't say I know," Jason looks down at April who just stares up at the full moon above them. "But you have to tell the Doctor and Jack about what you saw. Here, come on." Jason offers April a hand and she takes it, letting him help her back on her feet. Jason leads April away from the torture posts and over to the stalls where they take a seat on the wooden benches.

"What did you see?" Jason asks, this time without any hesitation. "What did you mean you were Amelia?"

April lets out a loud, shaky breath as she scowls harshly down at her clammy hands in her lap. "When my nightmare changed after I left your world, I was seeing a future through Amelia Lustworve's eyes. A future where Ellis is weak having been through a battle. And the nightmare ended with her walking into the Black Lighthouse and being overcome by the shadow that I usually watch myself being killed by," Jason says nothing as she speaks. "I think it's a future that is possible and will determine on what happens now. I think if we're unsuccessful, then that future will become a reality," April clenches her fist as she tries to remember as much as she can from her vision through Amelia's eyes. "I saw the future again, I think. There's people trapped in the walls in Ellis' house," April stops speaking as her head starts to thump again, feeling like there is a small hammer banging against her temples. "But I just don't understand," April growls. "What the hell has Amelia and Ellis got to do with the Cytracik? I mean is it the revolution?"

"Has Ellis ever explained about his wife's death?" Jason asks.

April shakes her head. "He sort of avoided going into detail. Do you?"

"No. But it might be worth knowing perhaps."

April narrows her eyes. "That family better not also be under the Cytracik's curse," April hisses. "I won't let it get to them too."

Jason suddenly jumps to his feet. "Let's make a move. There's nothing here and we should really go to the party."

April stares at Jason quizzically but does not say anything for a moment. "Maybe we should let it happen." She eventually suggests.

"What?" Jason says, his voice going back to its stern tone.

"The Cyberman's and the Slitheen's ambush."

Jason says nothing.

"The truth is, it is only the arrival of the other aliens that causes havoc. Rodger Barratt wanted the Cybermen to arrive to the party. The Slitheen were just an added bonus Heat Miles were not expecting."

"Okay," Jason breathes. "I agree that the ambush should still happen, but we need to make sure that they at least announce our names when they read out the list of the Day of Destruction volunteers."

For a brief moment there is silence as they remember what they have done.

"I guess we've really changed fate." April mumbles.

"You sure you want to do this?" Jason asks.

April nods. "Of course. I just can't imagine exactly how the Doctor is going to react."

Jason sighs. "Do you know what Jack Gruntler said to us all before we came here to this Island? He said the same to the Doctor," Jason looks down harshly at April. "We're all here for you, April. Will ran away from home to come to this Island to help start a revolution for you. We followed for the same reason. The Doctor took you here because he knows that this nightmare and the Cytracik is destroying you. But we are all here to save you, April. To help you and to rid you and Max from that prophecy this stupid box has left you. And the one thing Jack Gruntler told us is to not stop you from doing what you want to do here," Jason pauses for a moment. "He said what we all do is up to you. This is your prophecy we are talking about. But you have to do this for yourself. And we are here to help you, not stop you. Okay yes this might freak the Doctor out. And he'll probably have a go at you. But I can only imagine that might be why the Doctor was distant with you when you first came here," Jason raises his hand to stop April from interrupting. "Aaron told me about how the Doctor acted around you. He's scared. He's scared about what you are going to do, and for him, he thought that creating some distance will perhaps stop you from doing anything stupid."

April snorts.

"But you need to accept our help, April. Jack Gruntler knew ages ago that we would have to relive the first few days of us being that this Island. He knew that we would need a second chance to set things straight. But that does not mean that we will win this battle. But it does mean that this second chance is our only chance at survival. Now if I could, I would've stopped you from volunteering for the day of Destruction. But I let you as it is your choice. But it was also my choice to volunteer with you," Jason laughs. "April, don't give me that look. I know your promise to the Doctor. You're saving his life as much as he is saving yours. But you seem to forget that you are constantly surrounded by help."

"I don't need help." April mumbles moodily.

"Yes you bloody well do," Jason says sternly. "We all need help. But you need to accept it. And just from the way you keep looking at me, I know that you don't agree to me helping you. You probably would have liked to do this on your own. But the truth is, you wouldn't be able to do everything by yourself. And don't blame yourself for my injured shoulder. That was bound to happen."

"Jason..." April starts but Jason shushes her.

"Please just listen to me and accept the help we are offering. Ten people in this village are creating a revolution to help destroy the Cytracik. I know you want to do everything yourself but you can't. You can't save everyone and then blame yourself when you can't, that's just ridiculous. Some people have the time they're meant to die. I know we can stop Joshua from being killed in that sudden attack. But there was nothing you can do to have stopped that man sacrificing himself at the festival for the revolution," Jason pauses again. "To believe in saving the universe you need to understand the dangers in your own environment. How can you save everything when you're blind to what's around you?"

April shakes her head. "I can't afford to think like that."

"Yes you can, April. You're just being stubborn," Jason purses his lips. "Please accept our help and know that we're doing this out of choice. And if we all die in the job, it is not your fault."

For a long moment, April and Jason stare at each other. April feeling rather lost for words. She can't deny that she feels touched at what Jason has said. She is not used to so many people going our their way to help her with something she never used to talk about before. But then what about all those times the Doctor went out his way to save her? He was the one who took her away from the shape shifter of Bruce Fey who would have eventually killed her in the end if he didn't. The Doctor introduced her to a life she could never have imagined. And despite their differences and all their bad times, the Doctor showed April what it is like to live her life. If it wasn't for the Doctor, she never would have met UNIT either.

Soon enough, their silence is broken by the sound of a horse drawn carriage drawing near. April immediately jumps to her feet, looking into the distance to where the sound is coming from. For a matter of fact, she knows that this must be the carriage that took herself, the Doctor, Max, Rose, Terry, Jack and Joseph to the party.

Jason ducks down and hides behind the wooden barrier at the front of the stalls. April does the same and they both peer over the top.

They watch the black carriage being drawn by two white stallions. Just as the carriage passes them, they catch a glimpse of everyone inside, trying their best to peer out the windows to see the area they are passing.

April inhales a sharp breath and ducks behind the wooden barrier, absolutely certain that she caught Jack Gruntler's eye as the carriage past right by them. She remains crouching to the ground and listens to the carriage as it passes through the arena and then completely disappears, leaving them in total silence once more.

"I think it's best that we should make a move now," Jason says in a low voice, still looking over the barrier in the direction the carriage went. "Can't quite shake off the feeling that we are being watched."

As Jason says this, April also gets the sense that she too is being watched by something unknown. Almost like there is something lurking in the darkness that is keeping its eye on them. "Me too." April says.

They both stand up and start to walk in the same direction that the carriage went. They walk at a quick pace as if hoping to out-walk something that is hot on their heels. There's a pathway just between the edge of the stalls and the stage at the end of the arena. Just as they reach it, April takes one more look back at the three torture poles in the middle of the arena. She then forces herself to turn away and follow Jason.

For a split moment as they walk down the path, they are surrounded by total darkness. Yet they continue walking. For a few moments, all they can hear is one another's breathing and their footsteps on the paving slabs beneath them.

But sooner or later, they are suddenly hit with the cold breeze. A gush of wind blows harshly their way as if they are in some sort of air tunnel. And before they know it, they find themselves at an opening.

They find themselves on a stone road running through hundreds of acres of land and just where the road ends, they can see Rodger Barratt's mansion. They can see hundreds of people standing at the bottom of the hundreds of steps leading to the front doors, excitedly awaiting the carriage that is now approaching the large fountain in the middle of the drive.

Jason takes one look at April with his eyebrows raised and April can't tell whether or not he is surprised or has been expecting Rodger Barratt's mansion to be over to the top like it is. But then anger flashes across his face, for he too realises that minus the colour of the walls, the house looks identical to Declan's house.

"We'd better take this then," Jason says as he fiddles with his belt. "Jack Gruntler gave it to me before I joined you back in time and said to only use to once. But I guess now is a good time," Jason pulls out two small tubes with a clear liquid inside and passes one to April. "It only lasts for a maximum of three hours but it'll make us invisible. I guess that is enough time for us to witness them announcing our names on the list of volunteers." Jason raises his tube as if in toast and then pours the clear liquid down his throat. Within seconds, April can no longer see him.

With a harsh scowl, April stares at the spot Jason stood only seconds before. "Jason?"

"I'm still here. Just drink it." Jason laughs.

April pulls off the stopper to the tube and is suddenly hit with the strong smell of coffee. At first the smell is a little overwhelming, but nevertheless, April drinks the clear liquid in one.

Her first reaction is to vomit the liquid back up again, but clutching onto her stomach and keeping her mouth clamped shut, she keeps the liquid down. But then the sensation to be sick quickly vanishes and April can see Jason again. Only this time he does not look quite fully there. Almost as if he is a ghost. When April looks down at her hands, she too notices that she also looks like a ghost.

Without meaning to, April lets out a surprise laugh. "I've always wanted to know what it would be like to be invisible."

Jason grins broadly. "Come on, buttercup. Let's enjoy this sensation while we've got it."

And with that, they start to walk down the road towards Rodger Barratt's mansion. April watches her past self step out of the black carriage and start to climb the hundreds of steps leading to the front door. Jason and April follow close behind them, no one in the crowd or any of the guards knowing they are there.

However as they climb half way up the stairs, Jack Gruntler turns around and looks directly at them and Jason with a knowing look on his face. April and Jason glance at one another. Of course Jack Gruntler knows they are there, following them as invisibles. How he always knows this things is almost impossible to say. But Jack knows that they are their future selves.

The party is exactly the same as how April remembers it. However, it feels like everything seems to be happening quicker than she remembers. Before she knows it, everyone has already split up. There is going to be some time before Jack Gruntler's speech where he announces the volunteers.

Jason and April pass through the mansion completely unnoticed and before they know it, there is a call for the speeches to start. As they make their way with the crowd into the main hall, April finds her past self looking rather agitated and angry. Is that how she looks all the time?

Lucien is up on the stage starting the speech just as Jason and April stand in the far corner of the room, just being able to see Lucien over the top of everyone's heads. April's heart drops ever so slightly as she sees the ten volunteers still sitting in the seats at the back of the stage. Joshua and Morgarn is still amongst them.

"Perhaps they still think they're doing the race." Jason says, almost as if reading April's mind.

Lucien's starts his speech. "Ladies and gentleman, we at the Major's house are honoured to invite you to this special night of festivities and celebration. Once every year, the Island unites together to bring you the Day of Destruction. Not only is this party a celebration for Heat Miles and all the work we have completed this past year to keep our community growing. But also for our loyal civilians who support us no matter what. And what a way to start the best time of year then to congratulate this years ten volunteers for the Day of Destruction!"

However, just as he says this, April's cannot help but notice the slight uneasy look on Lucien's face as he says this. When April first witnessed this speech, she remembers Lucien's voice being full of arrogance. However this time as he applauds the volunteers, the look on his face is evident to show that there is a mistake. April holds onto her breath, absolutely certain that the names of the ten volunteers were read out at this precise moment. But Lucien does not make any hint that that is what he is going to do. Instead he looks uneasily at the volunteers on the stage.

"Lucien knows," April says. "He knows that we have volunteered but are not on the stage." She is sure she can see Lucien looking at her past self through the crowd, remembering his burst of anger in the conversation previously when he remembered seeing them back in Manchester.

Then Rodger Barratt, his wife and his children is welcomed to the stage. Once again, April is filled with the feeling of hatred and anger, just from the look of this man. April feels sickened at the thought of these people cheering for him and supporting him in the things he does. She then starts to wonder what it would be like if she jumps up on stage and kills him there and then seeing as she is invisible.

April fumbles with her gun hidden in her jean pocket but then lets her hand drops to her side.

"I'm going to kill Rodger Barratt." April says in a monotone voice.

Jason turns his head to look at April, momentarily surprised at her words.

"Him and his army are the reason why I've suffered with everything since my parents death. And I feel like I'm going to keep suffering while he is still alive. Nothing good is going to come out of this battle when Rodger Barratt still lives. And if anyone is going to get the chance to assassinate him, I hope it's me."

Jason finds himself smiling as he turns his attention back to Rodger Barratt on the stage. "Now you're talking April. This is what we have been hoping for."

April and Jason look at each other. Jason smiles but April does not return one, knowing full well that she meant everything she said. They both then turn their attention back to the speech.

Rodger Barratt says everything word for word like before, however, this time, rather than talking about the Cytracik and announcing that he is the founder of it, he turns his attention to the volunteers.

April's heartbeat quickens as he does this. Why is he changing the subject? She remembers that after announcing to everyone about the Cytracik and that there are aliens on their way to take ownership of it, panic erupts in the mansion. She remembers that that is the time when she decided to leave the party to get to the Black Lighthouse.

"I believe that in the past day, there have been a slight adjustment to the list of this year's volunteer's to the Day of Destruction." Rodger Barratt says.

The ten volunteers all suddenly look rather angry as they all exchange glances and whisper to one another. Morgarn is the only volunteer who looks unmoved by this piece of news.

"I would like to say that Joshua Pickard and Morgarn will no longer be taking part in the Day of Destruction this year..." Rodger Barratt ignores the angry shouts from the volunteers behind him. "For they have been replaced by two new volunteers who have put their names down in the past twenty-fours hours. And we have confirmed it. These last two positions have been taken up by Captain Jason Hoffman and April Hollerford."

There is a murmur of confused voices around the room.

"No way!" Kace shouts at Rodger Barratt.

"And I would like to make this final. There will be no more additional changes to the list of volunteers."

April's eyes dart across the room and she suddenly spots Aaron Brimikawood, keeping his head low, but pushing himself through the crowd towards the stage. April's scowl deepens, as she does not remember Aaron being at the party, but thought that he must have shown his face after she left.

April then finds the Doctor and Rose amongst the crowd, both staring up at Rodger Barratt with a look of horror across both their faces. But soon enough, the Doctor's face flushes red with anger.

April then looks at Rodger Barratt who is looking directly at them. Not her past self which is currently trying to find an exit, but her current self. April holds his stare. They are invisible but he can see them.

There is a hint of a smirk across Rodger Barratt's face as he raises his flute of champagne to both Jason and April as if congratulating them.