I sat beside The Doctor's bed in the hospital waiting for the doctors to come in, a an pushed back the curtains surrounding the bed and he had a few doctors in training with him
"Now then, Mister Smith, a very good morning to you. How are you today?" the man asked
"Oh, not so bad. Still a bit, you know, blah." The Doctor stuck his tongue out making me giggle
"John Smith, admitted yesterday by his girlfriend Ms. Noble, with severe abdominal pains. Jones, why don't you see what you can find? Amaze me." Mr. Stoker said to a young pretty black woman
She stepped forward, pulling the stethoscope from around her neck "That wasn't very clever, running around outside, was it?" she asked
"Sorry?" he frowned
"On Chancellor Street this morning? You came up to me and took your tie off."
"Really? What did I do that for?"
"I don't know, you just did"
"Not me. I was here, in bed. Ask Bella." he smiled at me
"Well, that's weird, 'cos it looked like you. Ave you got a brother?" She asked
"No, Not any more" he said sadly, I took his hand in mine a squeezed it
"As time passes and I grow ever more infirm and weary, Miss Jones." Mr. Stoker remarked
"Sorry" she said looking bashful "Right..." she put the stethoscope on the left side of the Doctor's chest, looking puzzled for a moment before moving to his right side. She looked up at him shocked, but he merely winked at her
"I weep for future generations." Mr. Stoker sighed "Are you having trouble locating the heart, Miss Jones?"
"Er, I don't know... Stomach cramps?"
"That is a symptom, not a diagnosis. And you rather failed basic techniques by not consulting first with the patient's chart." Stoker picked up the chart before snapping his hand after receiving a shock
"That happened to me this morning" Miss. Jones remarked
"I had the same thing on the door handle" said one of the other trainees
"And to me on the lift" said another trainee, a young woman said
"That's only to be expected." Stoker explained "There's a thunderstorm moving in and lightning is a form of static electricity, as was first proven by. Anyone?"
"Benjamin Franklin!" The Doctor and I said simultaneously
"Correct!"
"My mate, Ben. That was a day and a half. I got rope burns off that kite, and then I got soaked..." the Doctor trailed off
"Quite..." Stoker eyed at him like he was crazy making me giggle under my breath
"...and then I got electrocuted!"
"Ignore him" I said smiling fondly "He's got a large imagination" The Doctor looked at me and pouted making me smirk I tap his nose teasingly
"Moving on" Stoker nodded "I think perhaps a visit from psychiatric." he whispered to one of the trainees "And next we have" The Doctor, Jones and I all shared grins as she left.
The hospital shook violently making me fall onto the bed with the Doctor. I blushed when he grinned at me, I crawled off of him and turned my back as he changed clothes. Once he was dressed we left to seek out Miss. Jones. We found her telling people to be calm. I looked out the window to see we were on the moon. I grinned excitedly and grabbed The Doctor's hand walking with him to Miss. Jones just as she was about to open the window latch
"Don't! We'll lose all the air." sobbed one of the other trainees. I think her name was Swales
"But they're not exactly air tight. If the air was going to get sucked out it would have happened straight away, but it didn't. So how come?" asked Miss. Jones
The Doctor and I took that moment to make our selves known,
"Very good point." he said as he pulled back a curtain we were hiding behind
"Brilliant, in fact." I smiled
"What was your name?" he eyed her
"Martha"
"And it was Jones, wasn't it?" Martha nodded "Well then, Martha Jones, the question is, how are we still breathing?"
"We can't be!" Swales cried
"Obviously we are, so don't waste my time." I slapped his arm gently, he pouted again
"Rude!" I chastised
"Martha, what have we got? Is there a balcony on this floor, or a veranda, or..."
"By the patients' lounge, yeah." Martha nodded
"Fancy going out?"
"Okay"
"We might die" I said
"We might not" she said back
I grinned and turned to the Doctor "i like her!"
"Well come on!" he cheered, but glanced at Swales "Not her, she'd hold us up."
Swales sobbed as we ran out of the room, Martha leading the way to the patients' lounge.
Martha pushed for a moment before pushing the doors open and we stepped out onto the balcony.
"We've got air!" Martha inhaled "How does, that work?"
"Just be glad it does," the Doctor said as I looked over the balcony. I gasped
...Three massive columnar spaceships pass overhead, then land nearby. Columns of marching beings come stomping out...
...Judoon...
...He shines a blue light onto the trainee's forehead...
...Category human...
...He marks a cross on the trainee's right hand...
…Catalogue all suspects...
...Find the non-human. Execute...
I pressed my hand against my head and leaned on the railing. The Doctor frowned looking at me before his eyes lit up,
"What is it Bella? What did you see?" he asked gently gripping my arms
"Judoon... they are going to catalogue all of us to find the 'Non-Human' and execute it" I said looking at him in panic. What if they find him?
Just then three of the Judoon ships flew over our heads and landed near by
"There here" I whispered gripping his hand in mine
"How did you know they were coming?" asked Martha looking confused
"I'm psychic" I said making her scoff
"Yeah right..." she trailed off looking at our serious faces The Doctor and I ran back into the hospital, The Doctor, Martha and I all couched down behind a potted plant and watched the Judoon entered, people ran and cowered from them especially when the chief Judoon took off his helmet revealing rhinoceros creature.
"Blos so folt do no cro blo cos so ro." it said, in its own tongue
The trainee from my dream, I think his name is Morgenstern, walked over to them making Martha want to call out
"Er, we are citizens of planet Earth. We welcome you in peace..." The Judoon pushed him against the wall and shined a blue light in his mouth.
"Please don't hurt me. I was just trying to help. I'm sorry, don't hurt me. Please don't hurt me."
The Judoon pulled away, playing back what he said before locking it back in his collar
"Language assimilated. Designation Earth English. You will be catalogued." he said
He shined a blue light onto Morgenstern's forehead, before drawing a cross on the back of his hand "Category human. Catalogue all suspects"
The other Judoon followed his orders, shining lights in peoples faces, marking them human as they go.
"Oh, look down there, you've got a little shop" the Doctor remarked squeezing my hand knowing that I was worried
"I like a little shop!"
"Never mind that!" Martha hissed "What are Judoon?"
"They're like police... Well, police for hire... They're more like interplanetary thugs."
"And they brought us to the moon?" Martha frowned
"Neutral territory. According to galactic law, they've got no jurisdiction over the Earth, and they isolated it. That rain, lightning? That was them, using an H2O scoop." I said surprising not only myself, but The Doctor as well
"How did you know that?" he asked, I shrugged
"What are you on about, 'galactic law'?" Martha eyed us "Where'd you get that from? If they're police, are we under arrest? Are we trespassing on the moon or something?"
"No," he laughed "but I like that. Good thinking. No, I wish it were that simple. They're making a catalogue. That means they're after something non human, which is very bad news for me." I took his hand again
"Why?" we looked at her "Oh, you're kidding me... Don't be ridiculous... Stop looking at me like that."
"Come on, then!" he pulled me up with him and left.
The Doctor sat in front of a computer with his sonic examining it, while I stood watching. Martha ran in
"They've reached third floor. What's that thing?" she asked
"Sonic screwdriver." he remarked
"Well, if you're not going to answer me properly!" she huffed
"No, really, it is." he held the sonic up "It's a screwdriver, and it's sonic. Look."
"What else have you got, a laser spanner?" Martha asked sarcastically making me laugh
"I did, but it was stolen by Emily Pankhurst, cheeky woman." he hit the computer "Oh, this computer! The Judoon must have locked it down."
"Let me try!" I chirped, I sat in the chair and quickly pressed a lot of buttons. What? When your sisters the best temp in Chiswick you learn a few things. The Doctor smiled at me, watching I typed in code after code
"Judoon platoon upon the moon. Because I was just travelling past. I swear, I was just wandering. I wasn't looking for trouble, honestly, I wasn't... but I noticed these plasma coils around the hospital, and that lightning, that's a plasma coil. Been building up for two days now, so I checked in. I thought something was going on inside. It turns out the plasma coils were the Judoon up above."
"But what were they looking for?" Martha asked
"Something that looks human, but isn't."
"Like you apparently?"
"Like me, but not me"
"Haven't they got a photo?" I asked
"Shape-Shifter?" I asked
"Might be." he shrugged
"Whatever it is, can't you just leave the Judoon to find it?" Martha asked
"If they declare the hospital guilty of harbouring a fugitive, they'll sentence it to execution." The Doctor sighed
"All of us?" her eyes widened
"oh yes," he nodded " if we find this thing first..."
"Fucking hell!" I shouted
"what is it? And don't swear, your to pretty to be swearing like sailor..." he blushed when he realised he said the last part out loud
"They wiped the records" I said blushing slightly
"What are we looking?" Martha asked
"I don't know." Doctor sighed "Say, any patient admitted in the past week with unusual symptoms. Maybe there's a back-up." he looked at me
"Doing it now" I winked making him flush slightly
Martha nodded "Just keep working. I'll go ask Mister Stoker. He might know." she ran out of the room leaving the Doctor and I to work.
The Doctor had just stepped out of the room when Martha ran into him
"I found her!" she gasped
"You what?" his eyes widened as he looked behind her to see a figure covered in black leather striding down the hall after Martha "Bella!"
"Just a minute!" I called back, I had just managed to restore the back up when he ran, grabbed my hand pulled me out the room. I looked behind him and saw the man,
"RUN!" I shouted. We darted down the hallway with Martha leading us to where she saw the alien. We ran down the stair well, followed by the leather man only to see the Judoon coming up the other way. I looked over and saw a door. I pulled the Doctor and Martha through it and onto the 4th floor. We ran, the man after us, we skidded around the corner and into the radiology room. The Doctor soniced the door and locked it. He ran over to the x-ray machine
"When I say 'now' press the button" he said
"Which one?" I asked
"The find out!" he exclaimed. I pulled Martha into the operating room and we started looking through manuals, the Doctor sonicing the machine with the man pounding on the door.
"NOW!" he shouted as the man broke the door down
Martha slammed her hand on the button and The Doctor and the man were flooded with radiation for a few moments before the man fell down, dead.
"What did you do?" Martha breathed looking at the man
"Increased the radiation by five thousand per cent. Killed him dead." I answered for him
"But isn't that going to kill you?" Martha looked at The Doctor
"Nah, it's only roentgen radiation." He waved her off "We used to play with roentgen bricks in the nursery. It's safe for you to come out. I've absorbed it all. All I need to do is expel it." he started bouncing up and down making me giggle "If I concentrate I can shake the radiation out of my body and into one spot. It's in my left shoe. Here we go, here we go. Easy does it..." he started to shake his foot "Out, out, out, out, out. Out, out. Ah, ah, ah, ah! It is... it is... it is... it is... it is HOT! Ah, Hold on." he grabbed the shoe and threw it in the bin "Done!"
"your completely mad" Martha commented
"Right. I look daft with one shoe" he said before throwing his other shoe in the bin too. "Barefoot on the moon!" he shouted making me giggle again
"I liked those!" I winked making him smile and wink back
"So what is that thing? And where's it from, the planet Zovirax?" Martha asked sarcastically
"It's just a Slab. They're called Slabs. Basic slave drones. See? Solid leather, all the way through. Someone has got one hell of a fetish." he mused
"But it was that woman, Miss Finnegan. It was working for her, just like a servant." Martha said.
The Doctor looked over to see that he had left his sonic sticking out of the x-ray machine fried
"My sonic screwdriver"
"She was one of the patients, but..."
"My sonic screwdriver!"
"She had a straw like some kind of vampire."
"I loved my sonic screwdriver!"
"Doctor?" Martha shouted
"Sorry..." he trailed off before throwing his screwdriver away
"You called me Doctor." he grinned
"Anyway? Miss Finnegan is the alien. She was drinking Mister Stoker's blood."
"Funny time to take a snack." he remarked "You'd think she'd be hiding. Unless... No... Yes, that's it! Wait a minute. Yes! Shape-changer. Internal shape-changer. She wasn't drinking blood, she was assimilating it. Come on!" he ran out of the room dragging me with him "If she can assimilate Mister Stoker's blood, mimic the biology, she'll register as human. We've got to find her and show the Judoon!"
A second slab walked down the hallway where, the Doctor, Martha and I, were hiding behind a water cooler,
"That's the thing about Slabs. They always travel in pairs." The Doctor said
"Like you?" Martha asked looking at us
"i suppose you could see that" he said glancing at me blushing slightly making me confused
"Haven't you got back-up? You must have a partner or something?" Martha asked
"Oh. Humans." The Doctor rolled his eyes "We're stuck on the moon running out of air with Judoon and a bloodsucking criminal, you're asking personal questions?" I slapped his shoulder lightly
"I like that. 'Humans'. I'm still not convinced you're an alien." she said eyeing him
We stepped out into the hall just as a Judoon held its scanner up at the doctor's face
"Non-Human"
"Oh my god, you really are!" Martha gasped
"And again!" he shouted and pulled us down the hall, the Judoon shooting after us.
"But I don't understand," Martha said "You look human"
"You look Time Lord, they came first" I said out of breath
We ran upstairs, managing to lock the door behind us, and ran into a corridor, where people on the ground were finding it hard to breathe. Come to think of it, it is getting rather difficult.
"They've done this floor." he remarked "Come on. The Judoon are logical and just a little bit thick. They won't go back to check a floor they've checked already. If we're lucky."
Martha knelt down beside Swales who was giving oxygen to a patient, "How much oxygen is there?" she asked
"Not enough for all these people," Swales remarked "We're going to run out"
"How are you feeling?" the Doctor asked Martha and I, though he was looking at me "Are you alright?"
"I'm running on adrenaline" Martha said while I shrugged
"I'm doing okay..." I trailed off making him frown at me
"Welcome to my world" he muttered
"What about the Judoon?" I asked
"Nah, great big lung reserves. It won't slow them down. Where's Mister Stoker's office?"
"This way" Martha led us down the hall and into Mr. Stoker's office, but it was empty
"She's gone! But she was here!"
The Doctor knelt down by Mr. Stoker's body "Drained him dry. Every last drop. I was right. She's a Plasmavore."
"What's she doing on Earth?"
"Hiding..?" I asked, he nodded
"On the run. Like Ronald Biggs in Rio de Janeiro. What's she doing now? She's still not safe. The Judoon could execute us all. Come on."
"Wait a minute" Martha knelt back down and closed Mr. Stoker's eyes, before leaving with us.
"Think, think, think." The Doctor murmured "If I was a Plasmavore surrounded by police, what would I do?"
He looked and saw the sign to the MRI.
"Ah. She's as clever as me. Almost."
"Find the non-human. Execute." A Judoon said
"Martha, Bella, stay here. I need time. You've got to hold them up."
"How do we do that?" I asked
"Just forgive me for this." he looked at me blushing slightly making me confused until he leaned in and kissed me, long and hard, then ran away down the hall.
"Find the non-human. Execute." a Judoon said. We stepped in front of them
"Now listen, we know who you're looking for. She's this woman. She calls herself Florence." I said
The Judoon scanned me
"Human. Wait. Non-human traits suspected. Non-human element confirmed. Authorise full scan. What are you? What are you?" the Judoon asked
He did a slightly deeper scan then marked my hand
"Confirm human. Traces of facial contact with non-human. Continue the search."
He gave me a booklet written in alien.
"You will need this." The Judoon said
"What's that for?" Martha asked
"Compensation."
Martha and I burst into the room with the Judoon and saw that The Doctor was laying on the floor really pale. I ran to him and cupped his face in my hands. For some reason I could feel him still alive slightly.
"Now see what you've done." The old woman jumped back "This poor man just died of fright."
"Scan him." The Judoon ordered, flashing a scanner over the Doctor "Confirmation. Deceased."
Martha ran to me
"No, he can't be. Let me through. Let me see him." he demanded when the Judoon tried to stop her. She knelt down beside him
"Stop. Case closed."
"But it was her. She killed him. She did it. She murdered him." I shouted furious
"Judoon have no authority over human crime."
"But she's not human." Martha and I exclaimed together
"Oh, but I am. I've been catalogued." the old lady held her marked hand up smirking making me glare viciously at her
"But she's not! She assimi... Wait a minute. You drank his blood? The Doctor's blood?" Martha pointed a Judoon scanner at the lady and flashed her,
"Oh, I don't mind. Scan all you like."
"Non-Human" the Judoon reported. I started to get a little light headed
"What?" the lady's eyes widened
"Confirm analysis." the Judoon ordered
"Oh, but it's a mistake, surely. I'm human. I'm as human as they come."
"He gave his life so they'd find you." Martha breathed looking at the Doctor's body, watching me stroke his hair
"Confirmed:Plasmavore, charged with the crime of murdering the child princess of Patrival Regency Nine."
"Well, she deserved it! Those pink cheeks and those blonde curls and that simpering voice. She was begging for the bite of a Plasmavore." she sneered
"Then you confess?" the Judoon asked
"Confess? I'm proud of it! Slab, stop them!" she ordered
The Judoon fried the Slab.
"Verdict, guilty. Sentence, execution."
The lady dashed behind the screen and plugged in the MRI scanner. The Magnetic Overload sign came on.
"Enjoy your victory, Judoon, because you're going to burn with me. Burn in hell!" the Lady grinned
The four Judoon all fired and incinerated Florence.
"Case closed." the Judoon stated
"But what did she mean, burn with me? The scanner shouldn't be doing that. She's done something." Martha said
The Judoon scanned the MRI machine
"Scans detect lethal acceleration of monomagnetic pulse."
"Well, do something! Stop it!" she shouted
"Our jurisdiction has ended. Judoon will evacuate."
"What? You can't just leave it. What's it going to do?"
"All units withdraw." the Judoon left, leaving Martha and I with the Doctor. The air was getting thinner and I was gasping for air. Martha looked at me concerned
"Are you alright, Bella?" she asked. I shook my head
"Focus on him." I gasped "you need to... CPR...two hearts." was all I could say before I collapsed and darkness overtook me.
I woke up to find myself in my room in the Tardis.
"Your awake" a relieved voice sighed. I looked over to my left to see The Doctor sitting on a chair next my bed
"What happened?" I asked groggily. He smiled
"You passed put from lack of air. Your fine though. I carried you back to the Tardis and ran some scans before I brought you here. And don't worry, Martha changed you. What do you think, by the way? Of Martha?" he asked
I threw back my covers to see that Martha had indeed changed me. I was now wearing a red tank top, grey cotton shorts and my hair was down.
"I like her. Is she coming with us?" I asked
"Yep. Just one trip though" he said before standing "I'll see you later, rest" he said before winking at me and turning my light out. I snuggled back into my pillow and fell back asleep.