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Your Faith, Her Life
The Doctor stepped back in shock and noticed that his fingertips felt as if they were on fire, the blazing burn of a thousand unanswered questions. "You've got to be lying." He said quietly
"You know as well as I do that I'm not…"
"But you have to be!" The Doctor cut across, anger seeping through him, "Why the hell would you save her life! It doesn't make sense!" He stepped up to the young boy, studying him, "You could've left her to die or forced more pills down her throat or slashed her wrists… but you saved her."
"Yes."
"I don't understand! I thought here I had you all bloody figured out then you go and show me a thing like that…You saved her life." The Doctor added, almost grim before flailing his arms around and coming nose to nose with Adam. "Why the hell did you have to hurt her, then! Why are you killing her now!" Adam didn't answer, stunned into silence by the madman's outburst. "Tell me why!"
His eyes darkened over the Doctor and stepped back, standing behind Rose's still unconscious form, "Why? I'll tell you why, because I know you. I know what this would do to you!"
"What?"
"I saw my opportunity when I found her there, nearly dead. I saw a way. A way to make you keep me alive."
He was always such a nice boy
The quiet one
With good intentions
He was down for his brother
Respectful to his mother
A good boy
But good don't get attention
"You manipulating little…you did this to wind up my conscience!" The Doctor's anger flared, bubbling up like a volcano inside him and his eyes grew wide in fury.
"Doctor, you won't kill me because I saved her life, it's simple and as complicated as that." Adam said coolly
"It doesn't just wipe away what you've done to her! She's on the floor dying because of you! It's because of you that she'll wake up screaming night after night!"
"Then do as I ask. Change it back, set it right. Make it so none of these things happened."
The Doctor's eyes locked with Adam's, "I need to make sure she's safe."
"I'll take her to the infirmary then. I spose you still have the Med Bay."
The Doctor groaned, annoyed "You know, I've never heard a stupider question in my life…"
Adam picked up Rose and his pocket knife. "It's more stupid, not stupider."
The Doctor growled, pointing down one corridor of the TARDIS. "Second door on the left."
Adam opened the door and threw Rose down onto the nearest bed. The room was a bright and gleaming pale blue, but a trail of Rose's red blood caught the Doctor's eye. It led to Adam, looking up; knife bared "You know, for a supposed genius, you aren't half an idiot."
The Doctor slammed the door shut.
One kid with a promise
The brightest kid in school
He's not a fool
Reading books about science and smart stuff
It's not enough, no
Cause smart don't make you cool
The Doctor attached endless reams of monitors to Rose's body. Adam watched him carefully, knife at Rose's throat, threatening to plunge in. The Doctor cut Rose's shirt off her gently, seething inside at the lust filled look on Adam's face. That bastard had touched her, violated her skin with his hands and now he was doing the same with his eyes. They raked over her body and the Doctor saw his free hand inching slowly towards her. It was an inch above her body before the Doctor caught his wrist tightly, painfully. "You touch her now and I promise I won't have a problem with killing you. Slowly and painfully."
His hand detached from Adam's wrist and it reseeded away from her vulnerable body. The Doctor went back to her stomach, touching the deep gash with his fingertips lightly. It wasn't bleeding a lot now but she still was in deep trouble. He picked up a scanner, placing his fingertips on the scanner with Rose's blood and them. It beeped angrily at him. Type O. She needed a transfusion; she'd lost four pints of blood, enough to kill a human. He ran the dermal regenerator over her whole body. It healed her bruises, her wounds that he wouldn't dare touch knowing that Adam had hurt her there. The mere thought made him seethe ice cold anger from the inside out; it killed him knowing what had happened. Adam looked up at the Doctor, an evil smile crossing his face as the stomach wound disappeared.
The Doctor's mind was made up in a split second.
They were crying to the camera Said he never fitted in
He wasn't welcomed He showed up the parties
We was hanging in
Some guys puttin' him down bullying him round round
Now I wish I woulda talked to him gave him the time of day
Not turn away
If I woulda been the one to maybe go this far
He might have stayed at home playing angry chords on his guitar
An IV was inserted carefully into Rose's vein and the Doctor watched the slow drip of her blood going back into her body. "I take it you're finished."
His voice was flat and his eyes bore into Rose's skin. "For now. She'll need another couple of bags before she wakes up."
Adam stood up, facing the Doctor, "You've got some time to kill, then."
The Doctor sensed where this was going, "I'm not leaving her."
"Yes you are; you're going to put history back to how it should be, you're going to put it right."
"I'm not leaving her!" The Doctor bellowed at him. "I can't anyway, she needs more blood."
"Which is why I'll be staying with her. Can't risk a paradox, can we?" The Doctor stared at Adam once more, his knife still pressed against her body.
"I can't leave you with her, you'll hurt her. Again."
"You don't have much choice, Doctor. Now either you go change it back and have her safe or force me to do something I don't want to do." Silence. The Doctor didn't move or speak as the quiet infected everything. "I spose this is you test of faith, isn't it? Can you trust a killer, Doctor?"
Mary's got the same size hands
As Marilyn Monroe
She put her fingers in the imprints
At Mann's Chinese Theatre Show
She coulda been a movie star
Never got the chance to go that far
Her life was stole
Now we'll never know