Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 6 of Between the Lines. Thank you to those who have reviewed the last chapter, it really means a lot to me. I hope that you guys will enjoy this next chapter. Without further ado Chapter 6.

Chapter 6

Fixing the Problem

The Doctor and Alexys ran up behind Rose.

"Rose! Get in the church!" He yelled as he ran.

A large thing with bat-like wings appeared in the sky, looking very devilish. It hissed and started to swoop.

Rose screamed.

The Doctor pushed her to the pavement just in time to avoid its talons. "Get in the church!"

Two more of them appeared.

"Oh, my God. What are they? What are they?" Suzie questioned in shock.

"Inside!"

"Sarah!" Stuwart yelled.

"Stay in there!"

Stuart's dad tried to run away, but he got pounced on. Another blocks Sarah's path to the church, but when she screams it flies off and pounced on the vicar instead.

"In!"

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The Doctor got the bride's party inside and slammed the doors on the creatures. They could be seen flying around outside.

Alexys put her hand to her chest taking a soft breath slumping down into a pew.

"They can't get in. Old windows and doors. Okay. The older something is, the stronger it is. What else? Go and check the other doors! Move!" The Doctor snapped as he looked around.

"What's happening? What are they? What are they?" Jackie asked scared.

"There's been an accident in time. A wound in time. They're like bacteria, taking advantage."

"What do you mean, time? What're you jabbering on about, time?"

"Oh, I might've known you'd argue. Jackie, I'm sick of you complaining."

Alexys let out a soft breath as she quickly got up.

"How do you know my name?"

"I haven't got time for this."

"I've never met you in my life!"

"No, and you never will unless I sort this out. Now, if you don't mind, I've waited a long time to say this. Jackie Tyler, do as I say. Go and check the doors."

"Yes, sir."

"I should have done that ages ago." The Doctor said letting out a breath

Stuart came up to him and Alexys. "My dad was out there."

"You can mourn him later. Right now we've got to concentrate on keeping ourselves alive."

"My dad had…"

"There's nothing I can do for him." The Doctor said cutting him off.

Alexys let out a soft breath rubbing her face.

"No, but he had this phone thing. I can't get it to work. I keep getting this voice." He said as he allowed the Doctor to hear the voice.

"Watson, come here. I need you. Watson, come here. I need you."

"That's the very first phone call. Alexander Graham Bell. I don't think the telephone's going to be much use."

"But someone must have called the police."

"Police can't help you now. No one can. Nothing in this universe can harm those things. Time's been damaged and they've come to sterilise the wound. By consuming everything inside."

"Is this because? Is this my fault?" Rose asked softly.

Alexys narrowed her eyes looking at the blonde haired girl.

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"There's smoke coming up from the city but no sirens. I don't think it's just us. I think these things are all over the place. Maybe the whole world." Pete said softly letting out a breath. He heard a car and blinked a few times. "Was that a car?"

"It's not important. Don't worry about it."

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Rose stood by the altar watching Alexys do something that she hadn't seen before. Her eyes wide as she watched red light surround her hands.

Pete came out of the vestry not noticing what Alexys was doing. "This mate of yours. What did he mean, this is your fault?"

"Don't know. Just everything." Rose said softly.

"I gave you my car keys. You don't give your keys to a complete stranger. It's, it's like I trusted you. Moment I met you, I just did. wound in time. You called me Dad. I can see it. My eyes, Jackie's attitude. You sound like her when you shout. You are. You are. You're my Rose. You're my Rose grown up."

They hugged both in tears.

"Dad. My Dad. My Daddy."

Alexys scoffed and moved towards where the Doctor was.

The Doctor pulled the curtain aside and got out his sonic screwdriver.

"Excuse me, Mister…"

"Doctor." He said as he worked.

"You seem to know what's going on."

"I give that impression, yeah."

"I just wanted to ask…"

"Can you save us?" Sarah said cutting off her soon to be husband.

"Who are you two, then?" The Doctor said stopping turning to face them.

"Stuart Hoskins."

"Sarah Clark."

"And one extra. Boy or girl?" The Doctor looked at the two of them.

"I don't know. I don't want to know, really." Sarah admitted softly.

"How did all this get started?"

"Outside the Beatbox Club, two in the morning." Stuart began.

"Street corner. I'd lost my purse, didn't have money for a taxi."

"I took her home."

"Then what? Asked her for a date?" The Doctor asked curiously.

"Wrote his number on the back of my hand."

"Never got rid of her since. My dad said."

"I don't know what this is all about, and I know we're not important."

"Who said you're not important? I've travelled to all sorts of places, done things you couldn't even imagine, but you two. Street corner, two in the morning, getting a taxi home. I've never had a life like that. Yes. I'll try and save you." The Doctor said softly.

Alexys nodded her head. "We will try to save you all." She said softly before looking at the Doctor.

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The Doctor looked down at a baby Rose in her carry cot by the choir stalls with Alexys not far from him. "Now, Rose you're not going to bring about the end of the world, are you? Are you?

Rose walked up behind them pursing her lips together.

"Jackie gave her to me to look after. How times change." The Doctor said not even looking at her.

"I'd better be careful. I think I just imprinted myself on Mickey like a mother chicken." Rose said softly.

"No. Don't touch the baby. You're both the same person. That's a paradox, and we don't want a paradox happening, not with these things outside. Anything new, any disturbance in time makes them stronger. The paradox might let them in."

"Can't do anything right, can I?" Rose asked softly.

"Since you ask, no. So, don't touch the baby."

"I'm not stupid."

"You could have fooled me. All right, I'm sorry. I wasn't really going to leave you on your own."

Alexys scoffed some crossing her arms.

"I know." Rose said softly.

"But between you and me, I haven't got a plan. No idea. No way out."

"You'll think of something."

"The entire Earth's been sterilised. This, and other places like it, are all that's left of the human race. We might hold out for a while, but nothing can stop those creatures. They'll get through in the end. The walls aren't that old. And there's nothing I can do to stop them. There used to be laws stopping this kind of thing from happening. My people would have stopped this. But they're all gone. And now I'm going the same way."

"If I'd realised."

"Just tell me you're sorry."

"I am. I'm sorry."

They hugged one another.

"Have you got something hot?" Rose asked pulling back. She reached inside his pocket and took out the key and dropped it because it was glowing hot.

"It's the Tardis key!" He took his jacket off and picked it up safely.

Alexys let out a soft breath glad that something was perhaps going right.

"It's telling me it's still connected to the Tardis." He turned looking down at the people that were in the church. "The inside of my ship was thrown out of the wound but we can use this to bring it back. And once I've got my ship back, then I can mend everything. Now, I just need a bit of power. Has anybody got a battery?"

Stuart picked up the mobile phone. "This one big enough?"

"Fantastic."

"Good old dad. There you go."

"Just need to do a bit of charging up and then we can bring everyone back." He used his sonic screwdriver while the creatures battered at the doors trying to get in.

Alexys let out a soft breath. "Doctor…"

"Merida?" He asked looking up as he continued to work.

"Please tell me that this will work."

The Doctor looked into her eyes that were glistening with tears. "Yes. It'll work."

Alexys nodded her head. "I'm here for whatever you need me for."

The Doctor gave her a thankful smile. He carefully put the key up and saw that his Tardis began to materialise around the key.

Alexys let out a soft breath. "Oh thank goodness." She said as she held her hand to her chest.

"Right, no one touches that key. Have you got that? Don't touch it. Anyone touches that key, it'll be, well, zap. Just leave it be and everything will be fine. We'll get out of here. All of us. Stuart, Sarah, you're going to get married, just like I said." The Doctor said looking at Sarah and Stuart. He was going to keep true to his word.

"When time gets sorted out." Rose said softly.

"Everybody here forgets what happened. And don't worry, the thing that you changed will stay changed." The Doctor said looking at Rose.

Alexys crossed her arms looking at Rose her brow twitching in agitation. She hated the fact that Rose so easily gotten away with this.

"You mean I'll still be alive, though I'm meant to be dead. That's why I haven't done anything with my life, why I didn't mean anything." Pete said looking at the three of them.

"It doesn't work like that." The Doctor said with a shake of his head.

"Rubbish. I'm so useless I couldn't even die properly. Now it's my fault all of this has happened."

"This is my fault." Rose said softly looking down tears filling her eyes.

"No, love. I'm your dad. It's my job for it to be my fault." Pete said looking at his daughter.

"Her dad? How are you her dad? How old were you, twelve? Oh, that's disgusting." Jackie said in pure disgust.

"Jacks, listen. This is Rose."

"Rose? How sick is that? You give my daughter a second hand name? How many are there? Do you call them all Rose?"

"Oh, for God's sake, look. It's the same Rose!" Pete said as he took baby Rose from Jackie and handed her to Rose.

"Rose! No!" The Doctor quickly snatched baby Rose away but it was too late and gave her back to Jackie.

A creature appeared inside of the church.

"Doctor!" Alexys yelled with worry in her voice.

"Everyone, behind me! I'm the oldest thing here." The Doctor yelled as everyone rushed behind him.

"Doctor!" Rose yelled in shock.

The creature pounced on the Doctor, then flew over to the Tardis touching it causing the Tardis and the creature to vanish causing the key to fall to the floor.

Rose ran to where the key was and picked it up. "It's cold. The key's cold. Oh, my God, he's dead. This is all my fault. Both of you. All of you. The whole world."

"This is it. There's nothing we can do. It's the end." Bev said softly.

Alexys's hands glowed red, her eyes narrowed as she looked around. "Not going to happen as long as I'm alive.

The creatures started to scrap at the stonework outside.

Rose watched Alexys use her powers to strengthen the walls. Rose sniffled a little bit.

Pete came over to his daughter. "The Doctor really cared about you. He didn't want you to go through it again, not if there was another way. Now there isn't." He said softly.

"What are you talking about?" Rose asked softly looking at her father.

"The car that should have killed me, love. It's here. The Doctor worked it out way back, but he, er, he tried to protect me. Still, he's not in charge anymore. I am."

"But you can't."

"Who am I, love?"

"My daddy."

Pete looked at his wife. "Jackie, look at her. She's ours."

Jackie looked at Rose. "Oh, of course." Jackie hugged her weeping daughter.

"I'm meant to be dead, Jackie. You're going to get rid of me at last."

"Don't say that."

"For once in your life, trust me. It's got to be done. You've got to survive, because you've got to bring up our daughter. I never read you those bedtime stories. I never took you on those picnics. I was never there for you."

"You would have been." Rose said softly looking up at her dad.

"But I can do this for you. I can be a proper dad to you now."

"But it's not fair."

"I've had all these extra hours. No one else in the world has ever had that. And on top of that, I got to see you. And you're beautiful. How lucky am I, eh? So, come on, do as your dad says. You going to be there for me, love? Thanks for saving me."

Alexys fell down to her knees as her hands stopped glowing red. She was exhausted, but at least her powers would hold onto the building for a little while.

The Doctor reappeared behind Rose. "Go to him. Quick." The Doctor turned his head seeing Alexys on her knees. He rushed over to her while Rose went to her father. "Merida." He carefully got her up to her feet.

"Doctor…" She said softly wrapping her arms around him. "God… I thought I lost you."

"You almost did… If Pete didn't do what he did… I would have been lost…"

Alexys gripped onto his jumper letting out a shaky sob.

"You're okay Merida…"

Alexys sniffled some holding onto him.

The Doctor led her out of the church and they went to Rose.

Rose kissed Pete's head in farewell and then stood up looking at the Doctor and Alexys. She swallowed the lump in her throat as she looked at how close the Doctor was holding Alexys and the tears that fell down Alexys's cheeks. She knew that it was her fault for what had happened.

The three of them walked away towards the Tardis of where she was parked across the road. A rather eventful day was out of the way and the three of them hoped that a day like this would never happen again.

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This is the end of Chapter 6 of Between the Lines. I hope that you guys enjoyed this. Please leave a review and let me know what you think. I'll update soon with the next part. Until next time guys.