A/N: Hello everyone! The poll has closed, but since it was too close to call (there was a three way tie) there is another one up. This one isn't going to be there for as long, so please go and vote! Also, yes this is a rather long chapter, again, now go and enjoy it.
Kari let out a groan as she rubbed the back of her head. She had managed to hit it pretty hard when they were being tossed around like paper planes. She had hit it so hard that she was actually seeing spots in her vision.
As she was trying to blink them away, she heard the Doctor's voice in her ear. "Hey, Kari, are you okay?" He asked her, his arms around her and a worried expression on his face.
She managed to look up at him, noticing the screen had come to life and was showing the music video once more. "I'm fine." She told him, still rubbing her head. "Okay, not fine. I hit my head and it really hurts." Kari said, before watching as a familiar face showed up on the screen, calling out but not sound being heard. "Rose…"
The Doctor whipped his head around and looked at the screen, but all he saw was the music video. "Kari…"
"Sorry. Like I said, my head hurts. I'll be fine. How's everyone else?" She knew that the Doctor hadn't seen her, he had no idea of what was coming.
He lightly kissed the back of her head, before turning to face everyone else in the craft. "How are we? Everyone all right?" He asked them all, keeping a tight hold on Kari.
Everyone started coming to their senses in the darkness, trying to work out what had happened. "Earthquake. Must be." Professor Hobbes announced, confident that it explained everything.
"But that's impossible." Dee Dee told him. "The ground is fixed. It's solid."
Kari just stood there, looking over to the corner when she knew Sky was sitting on the ground. She could feel both of her hearts pounding in her chest, no matter how much she told herself it was all going to be fine, she was still scared on the inside.
"We've got torches." Janice said, getting everyone's attention. "Everyone take a torch. They're in the back of the seats."
Everyone quickly reached for the torches and turned them on, before noticing that something had happened to the seats where Sky had been sitting. The woman was sitting on the floor, not moving or paying attention to anything that was going on around her.
"Doctor, I don't… I don't like this. I really, really don't like this." Kari whispered to him, as everyone else began to freak out a little once more. In truth, she had never really been too keen on the episode when she had watched it. She wasn't exactly sure why, but now she was starting to understand it all. The not knowing was the worst part, not knowing what had happened to Sky, not knowing that what possessed her and was going to take the Doctor.
When the Doctor looked at her, he could see the fear in her eyes, and he knew how serious it must be for her to be that scared. "It's all right, yeah? Everything's going to be all right." He assured her, giving her a tight hug, hoping that it would at least ease her mind a little.
"But the wall, Doctor. Just look at the wall." She whispered to him, making him shine his torch on it.
He looked at it for a moment, before clearing his throat and turn to everyone else who was still panicking as well. "It's all right. It's all right. We're still alive. Look, the wall's still intact. Do you see?" He said, thinking that was what Kari had been talking about. It may have been intact, but there was a large dent in the metal.
"The drivers cabin has gone." Kari warned the Doctor, knowing that Janice was trying to contact them, and when she couldn't get though, she would open the door.
The Doctor looked at her, worry etched all over his face. "Are you sure?" Kari just nodded at him. At that moment, the door opened and everyone had to shield their eyes from the bright and blinding light that was flooding at them.
"What happened? What was that?" Val cried once the door had finally closed again.
"Is it the driver? Have we lost the driver?"
Janice just looked at them all in a state of shock. "The cabin's gone."
Professor Hobbes scoffed at her. "Don't be ridiculous. It can't be gone. How can it be gone?"
"There was nothing there, like it was ripped away." The hostess told them all, while the Doctor had been quietly working away on the panel on the wall by where the drivers cabin used to be.
"What are you doing?" Biff asked, finally noticing the Doctor and shining his torch over at him. Kari was standing beside him, giving cautious glances down at Sky. She knew that it wasn't the woman's fault, that what was about to happen was not something she could have prevented. But it didn't make her worried any less.
"Ah, that's better. Little bit of light. Thank you. Molto bene." The Doctor said, as he worked away, trying to get things working again. He knew he needed to work fast, Kari was holding onto him for dear life, and that was never a good sign.
"Do you know what you're doing?" Val called over to him, having no understanding of what he was trying to do.
"The cabin's gone. You'd better leave that wall alone." Biff added, sticking close to his wife and their son.
Then Professor Hobbes decided to speak up once more. "The cabin can't be gone."
Kari let out a sigh and rubbed her head slightly. "Look, he's the Doctor, he knows what he is doing. Any rupture would automatically seal itself. And the cabin is gone, like it was sliced off. So just… shut up." She snapped.
"But if it gets separated…" Janice started, her face dropping as she spoke.
The Doctor just looked at her sadly. "It looses integrity. I'm sorry, they've been reduced to dust. The driver and the mechanic. But they sent out a distress signal. Help is on its way. They saved our lives. We are going to get out of here, I promise. We're still alive, and they are going to find her." The Doctor told them all, trying to assure them that help was coming and that they would all be fine.
"Kari, look at her." Jethro called, nodding to Sky who was still sitting on the ground. "Why won't she turn around?"
"What's her name?" The Doctor asked Kari, knowing that she would actually have all the information he needed.
"Sky Silvestry. And just… be careful. Please." She told him quietly.
The Doctor nodded at her, before taking a step closer to the woman. "Sky? Can you hear me? Are you all right? Can you move, Sky? Just look at me." He shined his torch at her, looking to see if there was anything visibly wrong.
"That noise from outside. It's stopped." Jethro said, now standing right beside Kari.
"Well, thank God for that." His mother said, letting out a breath of relief.
"But what if it's not outside anymore?" Jethro asked, watching as Kari closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "What if it's inside?"
"Jethro, don't." Kari warned, knowing exactly what he was going to say, and knowing everyone was going to start freaking out very, very soon.
He just looked at her, and she couldn't help but think of Merlin as she looked at him. "It was heading for her."
"Sky? It's all right. Sky. I just want you to turn around, face me." The Doctor said to the woman softly, while everyone else watched the Doctor try to get her attention. "Sky?" She said, as she finally lifted her head up and faced him properly.
"Sky?" The woman said, looking the Doctor dead in the eyes.
Kari could feel her chest pounding, she knew what was coming, and she was starting to feel even more and more nervous. "Are you all right?"
"Are you all right?"
"Are you hurt?" The Doctor asked. She replied to him, by saying the exact same thing he had. "You don't have to talk."
"You don't have to talk."
All the Doctor could do was look at her and keep on trying. "I'm trying to help."
"I'm trying to help." Sky said, her eyes still locked on the Doctor's.
"My name's the Doctor." Straight away she repeated what he had said. "Okay, can you stop?" He asked her, starting to feel a little uncomfortable himself with the situation now. But she didn't, she just repeated what he had said. "I'd like you to stop."
"I'd like you stop." Sky said, still looking at him.
Finally, someone else decided to speak up. "Why's she doing that?" Professor Hobbes asked.
Immediately the woman's head snapped towards the man who had just spoke. "Why's she doing that?"
"She's gone mad." Biff announced, causing Sky to once more turn and look at him and repeat what he had said.
Then it was Val's turn. "Stop it." She snapped.
"Stop it." Sky said, looking directly at Val.
"I said stop it." The woman shouted, shrinking a little under the gaze of Sky.
"I said stop it."
Kari had to block everything out, there was just too much noise going on. Everyone was talking, and Sky was repeating. "Doctor, please, just get everyone to shut up. Everyone needs to shut up." She called to him, not wanting to speak out loud, not wanting whatever it was that had taken over Sky to latch on to her. She needed to stay herself, because she needed to save the Doctor.
"Kari, what is it? What's wrong?" He asked her, a hint of panic in his voice.
"Just tell them all to shut up. They won't listen to me, no one ever listens to me. But you're the Doctor, they'll listen to you." She told him, trying to sound as convincing as she could.
"Jethro, leave it. Just shut up." The Doctor said, getting the young man to finally be silent. Sky also said it, still repeating everything that was being said. "Why are you repeating?" The Doctor asked her, trying to ignore her repeating it. "What is that, learning? Copying? Absorbing?" Once again, Sky repeated everything that the Doctor was saying.
"Doctor, don't. You need to stop it as well. I think it would be better if we all just stayed in silence until help came." Kari told him, playing with her hands a little now.
But the Doctor just ignored her. "The square root of pi is 1.77245385090551602798167483341. Wow." Sky was still speaking when he finished, still repeating everything he was saying.
"But that's impossible." Professor Hobbes said, before Sky looked at him and repeated what he had said as well.
Dee Dee agreed with him. "She couldn't repeat all that." She said, having her own words spoken back to her by Sky.
"Tell her to stop." Val cried. "She's driving me mad." Sky just looked at her, and repeated. "Just make her stop! Stop her staring at me. Shut her up."
After that, everyone seemed to fall into chaos. They were all talking over each other, but Sky was having no problems in looking at people and repeating what they were saying. The Doctor had to once again try and take charge to calm everyone down, but it didn't help matter. Kari was on the verge of breaking down in tears from it all. It was all getting too much for her, the noise, the chaos, the worry. But it wasn't just that, there was something else that was making her feel so uneasy as well.
Suddenly the lights came back on, with a hum and a buzz, making everyone relax just a little. "That's the back up system." Janice informed everyone.
"Well, that's a bit better." Biff said, feeling a hint of relief.
"What about the rescue? How long's it going to take?" Val asked, the panic still evident in her voice.
Janice looked at her watching before answering. "About sixty minutes, that's all."
That was when Professor Hobbes decided to compose himself and try to take charge of the situation. "Then I suggest we all calm down. This panic isn't helping. That poor woman is evidently in a state of…"
"Self induced hysteria. We should leave her alone." He said, but not alone. Sky had also spoke it with him, at exactly the same time.
Kari had noticed, as had Jethro. "Kari, Doctor…" The young man said, his eyes fixed on Sky who was still on the floor of the shuttle.
Kari looked at Jethro a nodded, letting him know that she had seen it as well. "I know." The Doctor said, looking at Sky as well.
"Doctor, now step back. I think you should leave her…" Professor Hobbes said, Sky speaking with him. He only stopped when he noticed. "Alone. What's she doing?"
"How can she do that? She's talking with you. And with me." Val said, realising that Sky was saying the same thing at the same time as her. "Oh, my God. Biff, what's she doing?" She cried to her husband.
"She's repeating, at exactly the same time." Jethro said, getting Sky to look at him now.
Dee Dee just looked at the woman from where she had taken a seat. "That's impossible." She said, Sky saying the same.
"There's not even a delay." The professor stated, having his words echoed by Sky as well.
"Oh man, that is weird." Jethro said, getting a glare from Kari. He looked at her, and even he could see the fear in her eyes. "Sorry, Kari." He said, hanging his head a little as Sky carried on speaking with him.
The Doctor knew he had to do something, he had to work out what was going on and why. He looked over to Kari, and she just shook her head at him. "I think you should all be very, very quiet. Have you got that?" The Doctor said, the same time as Sky.
"How's she doing it?" Val asked.
"Mrs Kane, please be quiet." The Doctor said sharply. His mind was racing, trying to get to the bottom of it all. This was something new to him, something he hadn't seen before, and he wasn't sure he liked it.
"How can she do that?" The woman cried, completely ignoring the Doctor. "She's got my voice! She's got my words!"
"Come on, be quiet." Biff said to his wife. "Hush now. Hush." He said soothingly, before realising Sky was speaking with him. "She's doing it to me."
"Doctor, you really need to get them all to shut up now. There is a reason why I'm not speaking, and I'd like it if you and everyone else shut up now as well." Kari informed him, knowing that things were only going to get worse for everyone there.
He nodded at her a little before addressing everyone else once more. "Just stop it, all of you. Stop it, please." The Doctor told them, before kneeling down in front of the woman. "Now then, Sky. Are you Sky? Is Sky still in there? Mrs Silvestry? You know exactly what I'm going to say, How are you doing that?" He asked, the woman saying everything with him. "Roast beef. Bananas. The Medusa Cascade. Bang!" He shouted. "Kari Connor, Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, TARDIS. Shamble bobble dibble dooble. Oh, Doctor, you're so handsome. Yes, I am, thank you. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O. First she repeats, then she catches up. What's the next stage?" The Doctor pondered, getting up from the floor but still looking at Sky.
"Doctor, don't. Just… don't. Please." Kari begged, knowing that he wasn't going to stop, no matter what she told him.
"Next stage of what?" Dee Dee asked, as did Sky at the same time.
Jethro looked between the Doctor and Kari. "That's not her, is it? That's not Mrs Silvestry any more." Kari shook her head to answer him, determined not to speak. She knew the implications of speaking, she was not going to get caught up in it all as well. Someone needed to keep a level head to get them all out of there.
"I don't think so, no." The Doctor and Sky said together. "I think the more we talk, the more she learns. Now, I'm all for education, but in this case, maybe not." He told them, before ushering everyone to the back of the shuttle. "Let's just move back. Come one. Come with me. Everyone get back. All of you, as far as you can." He took a hold of Kari's hand and led her to the back with everyone else.
"Doctor, make her stop." Val cried, on the verge of breaking down into tears.
The Doctor calm took a hold of her arm and led her further back as well. "Val, come with me. Come to the back. Stop looking at her. Come on, Jethro. You too. Everyone, come on. Fifty minutes, that's all we need. Fifty minutes till the rescue arrives. And she's not exactly strong. Look at her. All she's got is our voices."
Val turned her head away from the woman, becoming more and more distressed. "I can't… I can't look at her. It's those eyes." She said, everything still being echoed by Sky.
"We must not look at goblin men." Dee Dee said.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Biff asked curiously.
"It's a poem. Christina Rossetti." The Doctor informed them all, watching Kari closely as she shivered a little. She was acting very strangely, even more so than usual, and he really didn't like it.
"We must not look at goblin men." Dee Dee continued, with Sky saying everything with her. "We must not buy their fruits. Who knows upon what soil they fed their hungry thirsty roots."
The Doctor glanced at Sky out of the corner of his eye, and noticed that she was still watching them all closely. "Actually, I don't think that's helping."
"She's not a goblin, or a monster. She's just a very sick woman." Professor Hobbes quickly said.
"Maybe that's why it went for her." Jethro said, before Hobbes protested, saying that there was no it. "Think about it though. That knocking went all the way around the bus until it found her. And she was the most scared out of all of us. Maybe that's what it needed. That's how it got in." He concluded, as did Sky.
The professor let out a sigh. "For the last time, nothing can live on the surface of Midnight."
This time, the Doctor snapped. He had enough to worry about with Kari and Sky and the who situation in general, but he couldn't deal with Professor Hobbes and his theories now. "Professor, I'm glad you've got an absolute definition of life in the universe, but perhaps the universe has got ideas of its own, hmm?" He said, Kari gently tugging at his hand, knowing he was getting annoyed and frustrated. "Now trust me, I've got previous. I think there might well be some consciousness inside Mrs Silvestry, but maybe she's still in there. And it's our job to help her."
Biff scoffed a little. "Well, you can help her. I'm not going near." He said, getting a nod of approval and agreement from his wife.
But the Doctor just shook his head. "No, I've got to stay back, and so has Kari, because if she's copying us, then maybe the final stage is becoming us. I don't want her becoming me, or Kari, or things could get a whole lot worse." He told them all.
"Oh, like you're so special." Val spat at him, clearly not impressed with what he was saying.
The Doctor was having none of her attitude. There was something there that could endanger Kari, he was going to keep her safe. "As it happens, yes, we are. So that's decided. We stay back, and we wait. When the rescue ship comes, we can get her to hospital."
Suddenly Janice spoke up. "We should throw her out." The hostess said, getting annoyed with the syncing of the echo from Sky.
The professor looked at her in shock. "I beg your pardon?"
But Val's eyes seemed to light up at the idea. "Can we do that?"
"Don't be ridiculous." The Doctor said, knowing he was never going to let that happen.
"That thing, whatever it is, killed the driver and the mechanic, and I don't think she's finished yet." Janice told them all, doing her best to avoid looking at the woman.
Kari really had had enough of it all now. She was scared, and she knew the Doctor was in danger. "Doctor, please, just get them to shut up. I just want to get back to the complex, see Donna, and leave. That's all I want. So tell them to shut up for less than an hour so we can all go home." She called to him, the sound of desperation evident in her voice, even in his mind.
He looked over at her, trying to ignore the rabble that was going on about throwing the woman out. "Kari, I know you're scared. What can you tell me about all of this? There has to be something you can tell me." The Doctor asked her, looking directly into her eyes.
For once, Kari didn't even try to avoid his gaze. "There is something inside her, some entity. I think… I think Sky is still there, somewhere, but I'm not sure. And you're right, about the next stage. So everyone needs to shut up." She told him, trying not to let the tears that had started to build fall.
The Doctor wrapped his arms round her tightly, grateful for the information that she had given him, even if it wasn't all that much. "Now, listen, all of you." He said, grabbing everyone attention of they had discussed that throwing her out was a viable option. "For all we know that's a brand new life form over there. And if it's come inside to discover us, then what's it found? This little bunch of humans. What do you amount to, murder? Because this is where you decide. You decide who you are. Could you actually murder her? Any of you? Really? Or are you better than that?" He said, trying to reason with them all.
There was silence for a few moments, before Janice spoke up. "I'd do it." She announced, followed by Biff and Val confirming that they would as well.
"I want her out." Dee Dee added, not liking the way the woman was still speaking in sync with them all.
The Doctor just looked at her. "You can't say that."
"I'm sorry, but you said it yourself, Doctor. She is growing in strength." Dee Dee told him. He tried to correct her, to explain what he had really said, but she wouldn't let him. "I want to go home. I'm sorry. I want to be safe."
"You'll be safe any minute now. The rescue truck is on its way." The Doctor told them.
"You know, when I said everyone needs to shut up, that included you." Kari warned him. "She can still hear you all, she is still speaking at exactly the same time as all of you. And you really need to shut up now, Doctor." She almost growled the last part to him.
"But what happens then, Doctor?" Janice asked, before the Doctor could reply to Kari. "If it takes that thing back to the Leisure Palace, if that thing reaches civilisation. What if it spreads?"
The Doctor shook his head at her a little. "No, because when we get back to the base, I'll be there to contain it."
"You haven't done much so far." Val told him, before looking at Kari. "And neither has she. She hasn't even said a word since all of this started."
Her husband nodded in agreement. "You're both just standing at the back with the rest of us."
"She's dangerous. It's my job to see that this vessel is safe, and we should get rid of her." Janice decided, wanting to gain control now.
"Now, hang on. I think perhaps we're all going a little bit too far." Professor Hobbes jumped in to say.
The Doctor felt a little relieved that someone was seeing things the same way as he was. "At last, thank you."
"Two people are dead." Janice spat at them both.
"Don't make it a third." The Doctor told her, before turning to look at the young man. "Jethro, what do you say?"
He looked at Kari, before turning back to the Doctor. "I'm not killing anyone." He announced, getting a small smile from Kari. She couldn't explain why, but she felt as if she really did know him, even though she had never met him before.
That was when his mother started, calling him a boy, saying that he didn't know anything. It was all turning into chaos once more, and now they were threatening to throw the Doctor out as well.
"I'm sorry, but you're a Doctor of what, exactly?" Professor Hobbes asked.
"He wasn't even booked in." Janice told everyone. "Him and his little girlfriend. The rest of you, tickets booked in advance. They just turned up out of the blue."
"Where from?" Val asked. Everyone was still trying to ignore the echo coming from the woman sitting at the front on her own.
"We're just travelling. We're travellers, that's all." The Doctor told them, holding Kari a little tighter and feeling more protective of her. They weren't just attacking him now, they were attacking her as well, and he wouldn't stand for that.
"On Coming Storm to be left outside, please." Kari whispered to him, sensing his own fear starting to rise a little.
"Who were you talking to? Before you go on board, you were talking to someone. Who was that?" The Professor asked, just riling everyone up even more.
"Just Donna. Just our friend."
"And what were you saying to her?"
"He hasn't even told us his name."
Kari looked up and at Jethro, she knew he was about to say something now, and it was going to making things worse. Inside, she was praying that he wouldn't do it, that he would keep his mouth shut, but he didn't. "The thing is though, Doctor, you've been loving this."
The Doctor let out a sigh. "Oh, Jethro, not you."
"No, but ever since all the trouble started, you've been loving it. Kari is scared out of her wits, anyone can see that. But you, nah, you've been loving it all." Everyone else decided to agree with him, and Kari gave him a very firm look that told him she was not amused with what he had just said.
"All right, I'm interested, yes." The Doctor admitted. "I can't help it. Because whatever's inside her, it's brand new, and that's fascinating." He said, pointing to the woman who was speaking along side him.
Val looked at him with horror. "What, you wanted this to happen?"
"No."
"And you were talking to her, both of you, all on your own, before all the trouble. Right at the front, you were talking to that Sky woman, the three of you together. I saw you." Biff said, his wife then adding that she had seem them as well, before Janice pointed out they had been in the drivers cabin as well. "What were you saying to her?"
"I was just talking." The Doctor told them, trying to defend himself.
And then it all started again, the talking over each other, questioning the Doctor and not giving him a chance to defend himself. It just didn't stop, he was being attacked from every angle, and they even started on Kari as well.
Kari had to block it all out, she just couldn't deal with it all. She really would rather face a fleet of Daleks than have to deal with all of this. She thought it might be a little bit of fun, and she thought that knowing everything was going to be mostly fine in the end wouldn't have her so nervous. But she had been wrong, because those people just were not helping at all.
"Now listen to me. Listen to me right now, because you need me, all of you. If we are going to get out of this, then you need me." The Doctor told them, the echo from Sky coming from the front of the shuttle.
"So you keep saying. You've been repeating yourself more than her." Professor Hobbes said, nodding to Sky.
Val nodded in agreement. "If anyone's in charge, it should be the Professor. He's the expert." She said. The moment she did, Kari's eyes snapped open and she looked at Sky.
"Mum, stop. Just look." Jethro said, having spotted the same thing that Kari had.
"You keep out of this, Jethro." His mother told him.
"Look at her!" He shouted, pointing to the woman sitting on her own.
Then people began to realise. "She's stopped." Dee Dee said, hearing her own voice and nothing else. Sky had stopped speaking with them, she wasn't speaking at all.
"When did she…" The Doctor said, only for Sky to speak with him. "No, she hasn't. She's still doing it."
"She looks the same to me." Val said, watching the woman closely. "No, she's stopped. Look, I'm talking, and she's not."
Then it was her husband's turn to try. "What about me, is she… Look. Look at that. She's not doing me. She's let me go."
They all tried, all except Kari. She knew the woman wasn't going to be talking with her, Kari had made sure not to speak in the first place. But she was still following every word that the Doctor said. "Sky, what are you doing?" He asked the woman, now standing in front of her.
"She's still doing him." Dee Dee announced.
Professor Hobbes came forward, pushing Kari out of the way a little, only for Jethro to catch hold of her before she fell. She smiled at him in thanks, still not wanting to risk speaking. "Doctor, it's you. She's only copying you."
"I warned you, didn't I? I bloody warned you to shut the hell up. Why did you not listen to me?" Kari shouted at him.
The Doctor just ignored her, he was more than just a little worried now. "Why me? Why are you doing this?" He asked, having Sky saying the same thing at the same time still.
"She won't leave him alone. Do you see?" Val said. "I said so. She with him."
Her husband agreed with her. "They're together."
"How do you explain it, Doctor? If you're so clever?" Professor Hobbes asked, everyone having seemingly forgotten about Kari completely. But she understood, she had kept quiet and not involved with it all, it was a logical assumption for them forget she was even there.
"I don't know." The Doctor told them. "Sky, stop it. I said stop it. Just stop it." He said, getting more and more afraid as she continued. "Mrs Silvestry, I'm trying to understand." He told her, kneeling down in front of her once more.
"Doctor, stop."
"You've captured my speech. What for? What do you need? You need my voice in particular. The cleverest voice in the room. Why? Because I'm the only one who can help? Oh, I'd love that to be true, but your eyes, they're saying something else."
"Doctor, I said stop. Just listen to me and stop talking right now." Kari shouted at him in his head.
Once again the Doctor just ignored her. "Listen to me. Whatever you want, if it's life, or form, or consciousness, or voice, you don't have to steal it. You can find it without hurting anyone. And I'll help you. That's a promise. So, what do you think?"
"Do we have a deal?" Sky said.
The look on the Doctor's face was pure shock and panic. "Do we have a deal?" He said.
"Oh, you just couldn't listen to me, could you? You stupid bloody idiot!" Kari shouted, taking everyone by surprise. "Oh no, the Doctor is always right, the Doctor always knows best. He doesn't have to listen to anyone because he is so damn clever!"
"Oh, look at that." Sky said, moving her head while the Doctor stayed completely still. "I'm ahead of you." She said, before the Doctor repeated her.
"Did you see? She spoke before he did. Definitely." Professor Hobbes told everyone, just confirming what had happened.
"He's copying her." Jethro said, getting a fierce glare from Kari.
"No he isn't, you bunch of idiots." Kari snapped at them all, making them all take a step back from her, well all apart from Jethro.
"I think it's moved." Sky said, the Doctor repeating it. "I think it's letting me go."
Dee Dee looked at the woman. "What do you mean? Letting you go from what?" She asked.
"But he's repeating now. He's the one doing it. It's him." Biff announced.
Jethro looked at Kari, a questioning look in his eyes. "They're separating." He said, more as a question than a statement. Kari just shook her head at him.
"Mrs Silvestry, is that you?" Professor Hobbes asked, taking a step towards the woman.
"Yes. Yes, it's me." She replied, the Doctor still unable to move as he repeated the words coming from her mouth. "I'm coming back. Listen. It's me."
"Like it's passed into the Doctor. It's transferred. Whatever it is, it's gone inside him." Jethro said.
"No it hasn't. That is not what happened." Kari snapped. She was very quickly loosing her temper, which was never a good thing.
"But look at her." Val protested, pointing to the woman who was now moving around a little on the floor.
"Look at me, I can move. I can feel again." Sky said, with the Doctor now speaking her every word. "I'm coming back to life. And look at him. He can't move. Help me. Professor?" She asked, reaching out and waiting for him to help her up. "Get me away from him. Please." The man done as she asked, and helped the woman up from the ground and pulled her away from the Doctor. "Oh, thank you."
"Okay, enough. That's enough." Kari shouted. "You give him back to me, you give him back right now!" Kari shouted, glaring at the woman with so much hatred.
But Sky just ignored her. "Oh, it was so cold. I couldn't breathe. I'm sorry. I must have scared you so much."
Val was quick to take the woman into her arms. "No, no, it's all right. I've got you. Ooh, there you are, my love. It's gone. Everything's all right now."
"I said, give him back." Kari ground out, annoyed that no one was listening to her. "You're possessing the Doctor, you're stopping him from moving. Now I am telling you, let him go!"
Everyone just looked at her, not really sure of what to do. "It's inside his head. It killed the driver. And the mechanic. And now it wants us." Sky said, while Kari looked down at the Doctor. "He's waited so long. In the dark. And the cold. And the diamonds. Until you came. Bodies so hot. With blood. And pain."
"Oh for God sake, how stupid are you all? Remember what the Doctor said, it repeats, then it synchronises, then the next stage, it takes over." Kari yelled at them all. "Whatever that entity is, it has stolen his voice, it is draining the life out of him. It is killing him!" Kari looked around them all, hoping that someone would agree with her, that there would be someone on her side. "Dee Dee?"
The woman nodded. "She's right. This is the next stage. She's stealing his voice."
"Jethro, what exactly did you see? Did you see anything transfer? Did you see anything happen at all?" Kari asked him, resulting in him shaking his head at her. "Exactly, nothing moved into the Doctor, because it's still inside of her."
There seemed to be a hint of fear on Sky's face now, as if she wasn't sure of what was going to happen. "That's how he does it. He makes you fight. Creeps into your head, and whispers. Listen, just listen. That's him, inside."
"No, that's you." Kari growled, finally snapping and totally loosing control. "If you won't give me my Doctor back willingly, then I'm going to have to make you, aren't I?" She said taking a step forward so that she was standing right in front of the woman.
"Oh, my God! Look at her! Look at her eyes!" Val cried, seeing Kari's eyes now glowing a bright gold. "What is that? What is she?"
"You want to know what am I? Do you all really want to know?" Kari shouted, feeling the time vortex starting to surround her in a way she was still not used to. "I'm Kari Conner, I'm not human, and neither is the Doctor, my Doctor. I don't care what the hell you are, because I'm the Angel of Time and if you refuse to give him back, I'll take him back." She said, before grabbing a hold of the woman's head.
"No. No, let go. Get her off me. Please, help me. Stop her. Stop her. Please." The woman cried, as did the Doctor behind her. "Please, stop her."
"You brought this on yourself. You took my Doctor, and that was a big mistake." Kari told her, searching the woman's mind, trying to find the entity, trying to find the Doctor. "I will always save the Doctor. Remember that." She said, before finding the darkness in the woman's head. "Final chance to get out."
"Stop it. Help me, Professor, help me." The woman cried once more.
"Get out." Kari whispered, before letting the time vortex latch on to the strange darkness and eating away at it.
The moment it was gone, the woman fell to her knees, panting and struggling to breathe. "It's gone. It's gone. It's gone." She heard the Doctor say, making her smile a little before her own legs gave way.
She felt a pair of arms catch her. "I knew it, I knew it was you." Jethro whispered to her softly. "I know you were that Kari. I knew it."
Kari couldn't help but chuckle a little. "Of course you did. There's only one Kari, and that's me." She said, before letting the exhaustion she was feeling take her over. It had been a long day, and every time she decided to use the time vortex, it absolutely drained her of all her energy. She really wished that it didn't, because she really would have liked to check that the Doctor really was okay, and that Sky was okay as well. But she didn't have the chance to, as she succumbed to the peaceful darkness that was calling her.
A/N: Aaaaand there it is! I changed it a bit, I know, but I hope you all liked it.
It really never was one of my favourite episodes, so I admit that it was a challenge for me to write, but I succeeded, and I'm rather proud of myself for it as well.
Notes on a few reviews.
1. We will be leaving 10 very soon and having more time with the other Doctor's.
2. I did know he played Hobbes, the Doctor Who world is full of wonders. Just look at David Tennant and his wife. That's really wobbly wobbly.
3. I am still working on the classic series. I'm trying to get a big chunk of it written beforeI start posting, but I am still planning it.
Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to review, you guys are totally awesome. And I want to thank all of you who have favourited/followed the story as well.
The next chapter is already written, I may have gotten a little carried away, as you can see this episode isn't entirely finished. Can any of you guess what my extra special little surprise is for you all? Cookies to anyone that gets it right.
Oh, and the POLL! Please go and vote on the poll so I can organise the next set of episodes. I want to make sure I'm writing the ones YOU want to read most. Okay, I'll shut up now.
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