Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 5 and the ending of New Earth. I hope that you enjoy this Chapter. I have worked hard on it and there is a few things that are revealed in this chapter about the Witch race. This chapter was an okay one to write and it will give a little bit more information than what I was planning on giving about the Witch race, but it was bound to happen. I needed to describe them a bit more. It only seemed fair in doing so. I hope that I did alright with this chapter. I really do. I try to pride myself in writing good chapters and try to not make them so wordy. I hope you enjoy it. Without further ado Chapter 5. Allons-y!
Chapter 5
"Come on." The Doctor said looping his arm with Gwendalyn's. The two of them walked over to where the Duke was.
"Didn't think I was going to make it. It's that man and woman again. They're my good luck charm. Come in. Don't be shy." The Duke said with a smile.
Gwendalyn looked at the Doctor in confusion. She saw the same look etched across his face.
"Any friendship expressed by the Duke of Manhattan does not constitute a form of legal contract." The woman told them.
"Winch me up. Up! Look at me. No sign of infection."
"Champagne, sir? Madam?" The waiter asked them.
"No, thanks." The Doctor said answering for the both of them. "You had Petrifold Regression, right?" He said in confusion. Something was very very wrong. What was this.
"That being the operative word. Past tense. Completely cured."
Gwendalyn shook her head. "There is something very wrong here."
"But that's impossible." The Doctor said looking the Duke over.
"Primitive species would accuse us of magic, but it's merely the tender application of science." Casp told them.
Gwendalyn and the Doctor shared a look. There was something going on.
"How on Earth did you cure him?" The Doctor asked looking at Casp.
"How on New Earth, you might say."
"What's in that solution?" The Doctor asked trying to get answers. He wanted to know.
Gwendalyn crossed her arms. This wasn't supposed to be like this. A cure wasn't supposed to be found for this. Not for a long bit aways.
"A simple remedy."
"Then tell us what it is." The Doctor told her. He didn't like the fact that Casp wasn't telling him what was in the solution.
"I'm sorry. Patient confidentiality. I don't believe we've met. My name is Matron Casp."
"I'm the Doctor and this is Gwendalyn."
"I think you'll find that we're the doctors here."
"Matron Casp, you're needed in Intensive Care."
"If you would excuse me." Casp said following Jatt.
"Something is wrong here." The Doctor told Gwendalyn.
"You're telling me. That solution shouldn't be around." Gwendalyn said shaking her head. "It shouldn't be around at all. Not for another few hundred years perhaps longer."
"I know."
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"This Doctor man is dangerous and so is the woman that he is with." Chip said to his mistress.
"Dangerous and clever. I might need a mind like his. The Sisterhood is up to something. Remember that Old Earth saying, never trust a Nun? Never trust a Nurse. And never trust a cat. Perfume?" She tucked the vial that was given to her down her shirt resting safely in the bra.
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"Ambient temperature stands at fourteen degrees. This temperature is designed to promote healing and well-being."
Gwendalyn and the Doctor moved around the cubicles.
"There you are." The Doctor said noticing Rose.
Gwendalyn quirked her eyebrow. Now Rose wouldn't look like that unless something was very wrong.
"Come and look at this patient. Marconi's disease. Should take years to recover. Two days. I've never seen anything like it. They've invented a cell washing cascade. It's amazing. Their medical science is way advanced. And this one."
A man was as white as his bed gown.
Gwendalyn closed her eyes.
"Pallidome Pancrosis. Kills you in ten minutes, and he's fine."
"He shouldn't be alive." Gwendalyn shook her head.
"I need to find a terminal. I've got to see how they do this. Because if they've got the best medicine in the world, then why is it such a secret?" The Doctor said scratching his head. This was a good thing as always. He needed to find out why it wasn't being given to around the world.
"I can't Adam and Eve it." Rose said.
Gwendalyn looked at Rose with a look.
"What's, what's, what's with the voice?" The Doctor asked looking at Rose.
"Oh, I don't know. Just larking about. New Earth, new me."
"Well we can talk." The Doctor said with a smile. "New New Doctor and New New Gwendalyn."
"Mm, aren't you just." She grabbed the Doctor and pulls him down kissing him hard on the mouth.
Gwendalyn's eyes widened. What the hell was that?
"Terminal's this way. Phew!" Rose said leading them towards the terminal.
The Doctor stood there in confusion. "Yep, still got it."
Gwendalyn smacked him up side the back of the head.
"Ow." He looked at Gwendalyn with wide eyes. "What was that for?"
Gwendalyn shook her head and just followed Rose.
The computer that Rose lead them to was by the lift.
The Doctor began his search.
Gwendalyn crossed her arms and looked at Rose. Something was wrong with Rose. Something was very very very wrong here. Rose wouldn't kiss the Doctor not like that. Not unless. Gwendalyn shook her head. That meant Rose liked the Doctor. Perhaps even love him. No she couldn't think like that. Not being newly engaged to the Doctor. Her Theta.
"Nope, nothing odd. Surgery, post-op, nano dentistry. No sign of a shop. They should have a shop." The Doctor complained.
Gwendalyn shook her head. Of course he would have to think about the shop.
"No, it's missing something else. When I was downstairs, those Nurse Cat Nuns were talking about Intensive Care. Where is it?" Rose asked looking at the screen.
"You're right. Well done."
"Why would they hide a whole department? It's got to be there somewhere. Search the sub-frame."
"What if the sub-frame's locked?"
"Try the installation protocol."
"Yeah. Of course. Sorry Hold on." The Doctor said as he pulled out his sonic screwdriver. He runs it down the interface and the wall slides down revealing a corridor.
Gwendalyn blinked a few times. "Well that is different."
The Doctor nodded his head. "Intensive care. Certainly looks intensive."
Rose led them down the old fashioned staircase.
The Doctor opened one of the confinement cells. He closes his eyes.
Gwendalyn looked away.
"That's disgusting. What's wrong with him?" Rose said backing away.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." The Doctor said closing it and moved to the next. It contains a young woman.
Gwendalyn looked down.
"What disease is that?"
"All of them." Gwendalyn said croaky. She hated seeing people like this.
"Every single disease in the galaxy. They've been infected with everything." The Doctor said sadly.
"What about us? Are we safe?" Rose asked.
"The air's sterile. Just don't touch them." He said closing the door.
"How many patients are there?"
"They're not patients." Gwendalyn said shaking her head.
The Doctor looked at Gwendalyn and saw that the color had indeed disappeared from her face.
"But they're sick." Rose said.
"They were born sick. They're meant to be sick. They exist to be sick. Lab rats. No wonder the SIsters have got a cure for everything. They've built the ultimate research laboratory. A human farm." The Doctor said shaking his head.
"Why don't they just die?"
"Plague carriers. The last to go."
"It's for the greater cause." Hame came coming up to them.
Gwendalyn swirled around. "Greater cause my ass." Gwendalyn snapped.
"Novice Hame. When you took your vows, did you agree to this?" The Doctor asked.
"The Sisterhood has sworn to help."
"What, by killing?"
"But they're not real people. They're specially grown. They have no proper existence."
"What's the turnover, hm? Thousand a day? Thousand the next? Thousand the next? How many thousands? For how many years? How many!" The Doctor shouted inching closer and closer to her.
Gwendalyn's hand shot out grabbing his arm.
"Mankind needed us. They came to this planet with so many illnesses. We couldn't cope. We did try. We tried everything. We tried using clone-meat and bio-cattle, but the results were too slow, so the Sisterhood grew its own flesh. That's all they are. Flesh."
"These people are alive!" The Doctor shouted.
"But think of those Humans out there, healthy and happy, because of us."
"If they live because of this, then life is worthless."
"But who are you to decide that?" Hame questioned.
"I am the Doctor. And if you don't like it, if you want to take it to a higher authority, then there isn't one. It stops with me."
"And me." Gwendalyn said from his side.
"Just to confirm. None of the humans in the city actually know about this?" Rose asked.
"We thought it was best not." Hame said softly.
"Hold on." The Doctor said shaking his head. "I can understand the bodies. I can understand your vows. One thing I can't understand. What have you done to Rose?"
"I don't know what you mean."
"And I'm being very, very calm. You want to be aware of that. Very, very calm. And the only reason I'm being so very, very calm is that the brain is a delicate thing. Whatever you've done to Rose's mind I want it reversed." The Doctor demanded.
"We haven't done anything." Hame said defending her people.
"I'm perfectly fine." Rose said.
"Oh pull the other leg." Gwendalyn snapped.
"These people are dying, and Rose would care." The Doctor said looking at Rose. He pushed Gwendalyn behind him. He felt like he needed to protect her.
"Oh, alright, clever clogs. Smart pants. Lady-killer." Rose said looking at the two of them.
"What's happened to you?"
"I knew something was going on in this hospital, but I needed this body and your mind to figure it out."
"Who are you?"
"The Last Human."
The Doctor pushed Gwendalyn further behind him. He knew what had happened the last time that they had encountered the last human. Gwendalyn had went from red hair and violet eyes to black hair and blue eyes. He would not allow her to regenerate again. "Cassandra?"
Rose smiled. "Wake up and smell the perfume!" She said getting both the Doctor and Gwendalyn with it causing them both to pass out.
"You've hurt them. I don't understand. I'll have to fetch Matron." Hame said looking fretfully.
"You do that, because I want to see her. Now run along. Sound the alarm!" She said pulling on a power cable setting the alarm off.
Hame runs to go and get Matron.
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Chip had met up with Cassandra.
The Doctor had been put in one of the cells and Gwendalyn laid sprawled out on the floor next to the cell that he was in.
The Doctor awoke. "Let me out! Let me out!"
"Aren't you lucky there was a spare? Standing room only." Cassandra said from the other side.
"You've stolen Rose's body. And what have you done with Dalyn!" The Doctor shouted pounding on the door of the cell.
"Over the years, I've thought of a thousand ways to kill you, Doctor. And now, that's exactly what I've got. One thousand diseases. They pump the patients with a top-up every ten minutes left. Enjoy."
"What have you done with Dalyn."
"Oh she'll prove the most interesting friend and body."
"No! Let Rose and her go, Cassandra."
"I will. As soon as I've found someone younger, and less common, then I'll junk her with the waste. Now hushabye. It's showtime." Cassandra said narrowing her eyes at him.
Jatt and Casp come up to Cassandra.
"Anything we can do to help?" Jatt asked looking at Cassandra.
"Straight to the point, Whiskers. I want money." Cassandra said to Jatt.
Gwendalyn blinked dazed. What the hell had happened? Oh wait she remembered. Cassandra was in Rose's body and decided to take matters into her own hands.
"The Sisterhood is a charity. We don't give money. We only accept." Casp said.
"The humans across the water pay you a fortune, and that's exactly what I need. A one-off payment, that's all I want. Oh, and perhaps a yacht. In return for which I shall tell the city nothing of your institutional murder. Is that a deal?"
"I'm afraid not." Casp said looking at Cassandra.
"I'd really advise you to think about this."
"Oh, there's no need. I have to decline."
"I'll tell them, and you've no way of stopping me. You're not exactly Nuns with Guns. You're not even armed."
"Who needs arms when we have claws?" Casp said unsheathes her claws.
"Well, nice try. Chip? Plan B."
Chip pulls the lever and the cells open.
The Doctor stumbles out confused.
Gwendalyn stumbled to her feet still dazed.
"What've you done?" The Doctor demanded pulling Gwendalyn to him.
"Gave the system a shot of adrenaline, just to wake them up. See you!" Cassandra said running off with Chip.
"Don't touch them! Whatever you do, don't touch!" The Doctor shouted as he helped Gwendalyn along chasing after them.
"Damn it why is it always the running?" Gwendalyn said trying to get her feet under her.
"I'm sorry." The Doctor told Gwendalyn.
"Oh, my God." Cassandra said in shock.
"What the hell have you done?" The Doctor demanded.
"It wasn't me." Cassandra said looking at him.
"One touch and you get every disease in the world, and I want that body safe, Cassandra. We've got to go down."
"But there's thousands of them!"
"Doctor." Gwendalyn said looking at them. "Perhaps I can do a protective barrier."
"Are you going to be able to with what you got hit with?"
Gwendalyn shook her head a little bit. "No, I'm sorry. What ever was in that I'm afraid I will do more harm than good."
"Come on."
"Staircase now!" Gwendalyn said going down to them first.
"They've quarantined the building." Cassandra shouted.
"Of course they did." Gwendalyn snapped. "It is because of what you did. You knew that they were going to get out and infect the entire hospital. Killing everyone. Of course we are under quarantine."
"Keep going! Go down!" The Doctor shouted behind her.
"Got it." Gwendalyn said waving her hand.
They had made it to the basement and Cassandra runs to call one of the lifts.
"No, the lifts have closed down. That's the quarantine. Nothing's moving."
"This way!" Cassandra called to them.
Gwendalyn shook her head. "I am glad that I am not wearing heels any more."
The Doctor follows Gwendalyn and Cassandra into her old lair.
"Someone will touch him." The Doctor called to them.
"Leave him. He's just a clone thing. He's only got a half life. Come on!"
"Mistress."
"I'm sorry, I can't let her escape. Come on." The Doctor said grabbing onto Gwendalyn's hand.
The two of them ran.
"My Mistress!" Chip yelled.
"I really hated leaving him." Gwendalyn told the Doctor.
"I know."
Cassandra went to the back door, but it was blocked off with people. "We're trapped! What am I going to do?"
"Well, for starters, you're going to leave that body. That psychograph is banned on every civilised planet. You're compressing Rose to death." The Doctor said narrowing his eyes at Cassandra.
"But I've got nowhere to go. My original skin's dead."
"Not my problem. You can float as atoms in the air. Now, get out. Give her back to me."
"You asked for it." She said jumping from Rose's body to his.
"Blimey, my head. Where'd she go?" Rose asked in confusion.
"Get out of him!" Gwendalyn shouted.
"Oh, my. This is different." Cassandra said looking at the body that she had just jumped into.
"Cassandra?" Rose asked in shock.
"Goodness me, I'm a man. Yum. So many parts. And hardly used. Oh, oh, two hearts! Oh baby, I'm beating out a samba!"
"Get out of him!" Rose shouted.
"Oh, he's slim, and a little bit foxy. You've thought so too. I've been inside your head. You've been looking. You like it."
Rose's face flushed.
Gwendalyn looked away from Rose. Of course Rose would think he was foxy.
The diseased people busted into the room.
"Oh we don't have time for this." Gwendalyn snapped.
"What do we do? What would he do? The Doctor, what the hell would he do?"
"Ladder. We've got to get up." Rose told Cassandra.
"Out of the way, blondie!" She said shoving both Rose and Gwendalyn out of the way.
They quickly began to climb up. Cassandra in the Doctor's body, Gwendalyn and Rose.
"If you get out of the Doctor's body, he can think of something." Rose told Cassandra hoping that she would leave the Doctor's body and he would come up with a plan.
"Yap, yap, yap. God, it was tedious inside your head. Hormone city." Cassandra said glaring at her.
"We're going to die if…"
Matron Casp grabs Rose's ankle.
"Get off!" Rose yelled.
"Let her go cat!" Gwendalyn said trying to twist around.
"All our good work. All that healing. That good name of the Sisterhood. You've destroyed everything." Casp yelled at them.
"You were killing!" Gwendalyn shouted.
"Go and play with a ball of string!" Cassandra yelled down to Casp.
"Everywhere, disease. This is the human world. Sickness!"
"Sicknesses that are supposed to run their courses. Not be invented to heal just yet. Remedies that weren't supposed to be thought of."
Casp's ankle was grabbed onto and she fell screaming.
"Move!" Rose yelled.
"Maximum quarantine. Divert all shuttles."
Cassandra tries to get the door on the next level to open.
"Help us." A man said.
"Now what do we do?" Cassandra asked in a whiney tone.
"Quit your damn whining Cassandra." Gwendalyn snapped. "Use the sonic screwdriver."
"You mean this thing?" Cassandra asked looking down at Gwendalyn.
"Yes." Gwendalyn snapped as she tightened her grip on the ladder.
"Well, I don't know how. That Doctor's hidden away all his thoughts." Cassandra snapped.
"And you think that he wouldn't?"
"Cassandra, go back into me. The Doctor can open it. Do it!" Rose shouted up to her.
"Hold on tight." Cassandra said jumping from his body back to hers. "Oh chavtastic again. Open it!"
"Not till you get out of her." The Doctor snapped.
"We need the Doctor." She told him.
"I order you to leave her."
Cassandra left Rose's body and went back to the Doctor's. "No matter how difficult the situation, there is no need to shout."
"Oh my god come on. We don't have time for this." Gwendalyn snapped.
"Cassandra get out of him!" Rose shouted.
"But I can't go into you, he simply refuses. He's so rude." Cassandra huffed.
"I don't care. Just do something."
"Oh, I am so going to regret this." Cassandra groaned jumping from the Doctor's body and to a woman's body. "Oh, sweet Lord. I look disgusting."
The Doctor used his sonic and got the door open. "Nice to have you back." The Doctor told Rose.
The three of them got through.
"No, you don't!" Cassandra said moving towards them. She went into Gwendalyn's body instead.
"That was your last warning, Cassandra!" The Doctor shouted. He couldn't believe it that Gwendalyn was the target this time. "You need to get out of her. You can't compress a witch's mind. You'll kill her in five minutes!"
"Inside her head. They're so alone. They keep reaching out, just to hold us. All their lives and they've never been touched." Cassandra said.
He held out his hand to her. "Please get out of her. Please. You'll kill her."
Cassandra took his hand and was helped up. She moved from Gwendalyn's body to Rose's.
Gwendalyn fell forward.
The Doctor caught her. "I got you. I got you."
Gwendalyn groaned. She tried to balance herself on her feet.
"You alright?"
Gwendalyn rubbed her forehead. "I will be once everything stops spinning."
"Come on." The Doctor said leading them into Ward 26.
Clovis lunged at them with a metal stand.
"We're safe. We're safe! We're safe! We're clean. Look, look." THe Doctor said.
"Show me your skin!" She yelled.
"Look, clean. Look, if we'd been touched, we'd be dead. SO how's it going up here? What's the status?" The Doctor asked looking at them.
"There's nothing but silence from the other wards. I think we're the only ones left. And I've been trying to override the quarantine. If I can trip a signal over to New New York, they can send a private executive squad."
Gwendalyn shook her head. "No."
"What do you mean no?" Clovis asked looking at them.
"You can't do that. If they forced entry, they'd break quarantine." The Doctor told Clovis.
"I am not dying in here."
"We can't let a single particle of disease get out. There is ten million people in that city. They'd all be at risk. Now, turn that off."
"Not if it get's me out."
"Alright fine. So I have to stop you lot as well. Suits me. Rose, Novice Hame, Gwendalyn, everyone! Excuse me your Grace. Get me intravenous solutions for every single disease. Move it!"
They went and did what they were asked. Gathering the drip bags.
The Doctor grabbed a rope that was heavy silk. He begun to hang them around his neck. He put a few around Gwendalyn's neck. "How's that? Will that do?" The Doctor asked.
"I don't know. Will it do for what?" Rose asked.
The Doctor opened the lift doors. The Doctor looked at Gwendalyn. "You want to do this?"
"Yes. I'm going to help you. Doesn't matter if I am dizzy or not."
"The lifts aren't working." Cassandra said.
"Not moving. Different thing. Here we go." The Doctor puts his sonic screwdriver between his teeth and ran.
"But you're not going to…"
He jumped and grabbed onto the cable. He looked back over to Gwendalyn. "Come on." He said once he had gotten his sonic screwdriver over of his mouth.
Gwendalyn nodded her head. "I'll aim lower."
"Just be careful."
Gwendalyn ran and jumped catching the cable just below him. "Ugh… one thing I never missed."
"What do you think you two are doing?"
"Were doing down! Come on!" The Doctor told Cassandra.
"Not in a million years."
The Doctor attached a round piece of equipment to the cable. "I need another pair of hands besides Dalyn's. What do you think? If you're so desperate to stay alive, why don't you live a little?"
"Seal the door." Clovis shouted.
Cassandra groaned. "No!" She looked at the lift and took a deep breath. She jumped onto his back. "You're completely mad. I can see why she likes you."
"Going down." The Doctor said with a smile. With the wheel that he made he took them down the shaft. They land on the top of the lift.
"Well that's one way to lose weight."
"Only you would say that." Gwendalyn said shaking her head.
"Now, listen. When I say so, take hold of that lever." He told Cassandra showing her the lever.
"There's still a quarantine down there, we can't…"
"Hold that lever." Gwendalyn snapped.
"Gwendalyn and I are cooking up a cocktail. I know a bit about medicine myself." He said as he began to pour the contents of the drip bags he had in the lifts disinfectant tank.
Gwendalyn was following suit.
"Now, that lever's going to resist. But keep it in position. Hold onto it with everything you've got."
"What about you two?"
"We've got an appointment. The Doctor and his nurse is in."
"Oh just lovely." Gwendalyn said rolling her eyes.
"Come on." He said jumping down into the lift. "I'll catch you come on."
Gwendalyn closed her eyes. "Alright." She told him. She jumped down and he caught her easily.
"See I told you."
"I know, but sometimes I don't really know what to say." She told him.
"I know." He used his sonic to open the doors. "I'm in here! Come on!" He told them.
"Don't tell them." Cassandra hissed down.
"Shut up Cassandra." Gwendalyn snapped.
"Rude much."
"Pull that lever!" The Doctor called up. "Come and get me. Come on! I'm in here! Come on."
Cassandra pulled the lever.
"Commence stage one disinfection."
"Hurry up!" Gwendalyn said as she and the Doctor got soaked with what they had made.
"Come on!" The Doctor said. "Come on. Come on."
The first humans got to them and they get sprayed as well, then leaving.
"All they want to do is pass it on. Pass it on!" The Doctor called out.
"Pass on what? Pass on what?"
"Shut up Cassandra."
"Pass it on!" The Doctor said with a smile.
"Go on pass it on. Heal and touch." Gwendalyn said laughing lightly.
"We did it." He said looking at her seeing that they were getting healed by what they had created to heal those who had the symptoms.
"Yes, I have to say we did. Next time we aren't doing something so wickedly stupid like this." She told him.
"I know." He said with a grin. He helped Cassandra down.
"What did they pass on? Did you kill them? All of them?" Cassandra asked.
"No. That's your way of doing things." The Doctor told her. He led them out. "I'm the Doctor, and I cured them."
A woman hugged him.
"That's right. Hey, there we go sweetheart. Go to him. Go on, that's it. That's i. It's a new sub-species, Cassandra. A brand new form of life. New humans! Look at them. Look! Grown by cats, kept in the dark, fed by tubes, but completely, completely alive. You can't deny them, because you helped create them. The human race just keeps on going, keeps on changing. Life will out! Ha!"
"And now they can live their lives." Gwendalyn said with a smile. "Long happy lives."
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"This is the NNYPD. Please step away from the shuttles."
"All staff will present themselves to the officers for immediate arrest. I repeat, immediate arrest. All new life forms will be catalogued and taken into care. All visitors to the hospital will be required to make a statement to the NNYPD."
The Doctor looked at Gwendalyn. "The Face of Boe!" He grabbed her hand and the two of them ran with Cassandra right on their heels.
Gwendalyn gasped. He was very much alive.
"You were supposed to be dying."
"There are better things to do today. Dying can wait."
"Oh, I hate telepathy. Just what I need, a head full of a big face." Cassandra complained.
"Shhh." The Doctor shushed.
"Just be quite Cassandra." Gwendalyn said tiredly.
"I have grown tired with the universe, Doctor and Gwendalyn, but you have taught me to look at it anew."
"There are legends, you know, saying that you're millions of years old." The Doctor said.
"There are? That would be impossible."
"Wouldn't it just. I got the impression there was something you wanted to tell me and Gwendalyn."
"It can wait."
"Oh, does it have to?"
"Doctor." Gwendalyn said shaking her head. "Don't be a child."
"We shall meet again, Doctor and Gwendalyn, for the third time, for the last time, and the truth shall be told, Until that day." The Face of Boe then disappeared.
Gwendalyn shook her head.
"That is enigmatic. That, that is, that is textbook enigmatic. And now for you." The Doctor said looking at Cassandra.
"But everything's happy. Everything's fine. Can't you just leave me?" Cassandra asked.
Gwendalyn shook her head. "Srry."
"You've lived long enough. Leave that body and end it, Cassandra."
Cassandra whimpered."I don't want to die."
"No one does." The Doctor said.
"Help me."
"We can't." Gwendalyn said shaking her head.
"Mistress!" Chip yelled.
"Oh, you're alive." Cassandra said in surprise.
"I kept myself safe for you, mistress."
"A body. And not just that, a volunteer."
"Don't you dare. He's got a life of his own."
"But I worship the mistress. I welcome her."
"You can't. Cassandra, you…"
Cassandra jumped bodies.
The Doctor caught Rose. "Oh! You alright? Whoa. Okay?"
"Yeah. Hello." Rose said with a smile.
"Hello. Welcome back."
"Oh, sweet Lord. I'm a walking doodle."
"You can't stay in there. I'm sorry, Cassandra, but that's not fair. I can take you to the city. They can build you a skin tank and you can stand trial for what you've done."
"Well, that would be rather dramatic. Possibly my finest hour, and certainly my finest hat, but I'm afraid we don't have time." Cassandra said sadly. "Poor little Chip is only a half-life, and he's been through so much. His heart is racing so. He's failing. I don't think he's going to last." She fell to her knees.
Gwendalyn moved towards her.
"You alright?" The Doctor asked.
"I'm fine. I'm dying, but that's fine."
"I can take you to the city."
"No you won't. Everything's new on this planet. There's no place for Chip and me any more. You're right Doctor. It's time to die, and that's good."
Gwendalyn hoisted Cassandra up onto her feet. Gwendalyn looked at the Doctor.
The Doctor nodded his head knowing what his Artemis was thinking. "Come on. There's one last thing I can do."
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The Tardis appeared in the restaurant.
"Oh no, don't. Stop it. Simply not true. Tiny. The beaches were so dismal, and the mosquitoes were."
Cassandra in Chips body looked at Gwendalyn and the Doctor. "Thank you."
"Just go. And don't look back."
"Good luck." Rose said softly.
Gwendalyn moved away from the door. She couldn't watch this. She had a thing about final moments. Granted they were beautiful, but this was something that scared her to death.
"And if you actually see them, you're shocked. But don't quote me on that. Oh, naugh. A bientot."
"Excuse me, Lady Cassandra."
"I'm sorry, I don't need anything right now. I'm fine, thank you."
"No, I just wanted to say you look beautiful."
"Well, that's very kind, you strange little thing. Thank you very much."
"I mean it. You look so beautiful."
"Thank you."
Chip's body collapses and Lady Cassandra cradles him.
"Oh, my lord. Are you alright? What is it? What's wrong? Someone get some help! Call a medic or something, quickly.
"Who is he?" A woman asked.
"I don't just came up to me. I don't even know his name. He just collapsed. I think he's dying. Someone do something! I've got you, sweetheart, it's alright. There you are. There you are, I've got you. It'll be alright. There, there, you poor little thing."
DWDWDW
Rose looked at the two of them. "I think I am going to get some sleep."
"Good night Rose." The Doctor said with a small smile.
"Good night." She said with a smile before going down the hall to her room.
The Doctor looked at Gwendalyn and saw that she was silent. Her fingers were playing with a piece of her strawberry blonde locks. He didn't like it when Gwendalyn was silent. It usually meant no good. "Mis?"
Gwendalyn looked up at him with a distant look in her silver eyes.
"Mis… are you alright?"
She didn't answer.
The Doctor snapped his fingers in front of her face.
She blinked. "Hm?"
"You alright?" He asked her.
She nodded her head. "Yes, I'm fine." She said softly.
"No, your not." He held his hand out to her. "Come on. Let me run a scan on you to make sure that you are alright from Cassandra jumping into you."
Gwendalyn took his hand and he hoisted her up onto her feet. She staggered a little bit.
The Doctor wrapped his arm around her middle. "I got you."
Gwendalyn sighed tiredly. "That compression… How long was it?"
"At least two minutes."
Gwendalyn leaned her head against his shoulder. "Ok… do the scan." She told him softly.
The Doctor nodded his head. "Do you think you can walk leaning on me?"
Gwendalyn nodded her head.
The Doctor helped her to the medical room to do a scan on her. The less Rose knew about Witches the better.
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That is the end of Chapter 5. I hope that you enjoyed it. I hope you liked the little bits that I added in and giving a little bit more information on the Witch race. Please review and let me know what you think about there is anything that you would might like to see please let me know in a review. Until next time.