Moppet's P.O.V.
This is where the story ends.
This is where I die.
No P.O.V.
Moppet blinked at the sudden expanse of light after being in a dark forest. She looked around, trying to identify where she was.
She was standing in a brightly lit hallway. There were several doors, most unmarked, exempting few marked simply, like 'bathroom'. Moppet tried a few of the doors, but they all refused to open. "Great. I'm stuck in a place where I can't get anywhere. Anything else I should know?"
To her surprise, a hum was sent through the air, and Moppet paused. No, it couldn't be... Hearing voices elsewhere, Moppet followed the corridor to a much larger room, in the middle being a console surrounded by four people, two of which were fiddling with it.
" Right, done with Nixon! And River, you can stop flying her! I know how to fly my own ship!" The Doctor insisted.
"No, you know how to send in her completely random directions! Sweetie, just let me handle this one, okay?" River said pointedly before pushing him away from the console.
The Doctor grumbled but Amy laughed. "So, where to next?" She asked, leaning on the console.
"Well, you're going back home, right after I drop off River at prison. And I know you're there, young girl. Now, would you kindly explain how you are in my TARDIS?" The Doctor added the last past casually, and Moppet nearly considered not coming into the control room. However, she noticed River's hand on a blaster, so Moppet walked out, arms over her chest. The first thing she sensed was confusion from Rory and Amy, perhaps pity. Immediately, Moppet glared at both of them and Rory gulped.
"Uh, Doctor, she looks murderous." He pointed out.
"Yeah, why is she here?" Amy asked.
"She's got a name!" Moppet snapped. "I'm here because the dimensions are falling apart."
The Doctor's eyes lit up. "Oh, that's happening again? I just checked it- Wait, I haven't checked it recently. No worries, just need to calibrate and pull the lever, good as new!" He said, smiling.
The smile lasted barely a second longer as his throat was encased by Moppet's hands, which were attempting to choke him. The Doctor gasped and tried to throw off Moppet off, but failed and began turning purple from the lack of air.
"Doctor!" Amy shouted, griping Moppet's back. She got a face full of foot as Moppet kicked her to get her off. Rory tried next, but received the same treatment.
"IT WAS YOU! Because you were too FUCKING STUPID to check, MY SISTER and her BEST FRIEND died! You'd best hope you've got a lot of regenerations left, because if not I'm going to insure you run out of them and die, just like them!" Moppet screamed, tightening her already excruciatingly strong grip.
Finally, River dragged Moppet off the Doctor, who returned to his normal skin color. Moppet kicked and screamed, tears running down her face, but River's hold on her arms was firm. Her face was grim; during the entire period River had traveled with the Doctor many people had tried to kill him, but this was the first time someone had a completely logical reason where the Doctor could not even hope to defend himself.
Getting up off the floor where he'd fallen, the Doctor massaged him neck. Moppet had stopped screaming, but her eyes burned with hatred. Feeling guilty, the Doctor turned and started to work with the console, before smiling weakly. "There! All done, just flip this lever, and everything is back to normal! Geronimo!" The Doctor flipped the switch, throwing his hands into the air.
And absolutely nothing happened.
"Um, wasn't something supposed to happen?" Amy asked.
"No, no, no! Something is tied to the holes in the void, which caused the dimensions to fall in on themselves! We need to find it!" The Doctor said frantically.
No one noticed Moppet back away, out of River's grip. No one saw her as she was behind their backs. They didn't see her raise a gun. In fact, they only noticed her when Moppet clicked it.
The four of them spun around, expecting Moppet to be aiming at them out of anger. Instead, the pistol was loaded, cocked and aimed at Moppet's head. The Doctor slowly advanced, talking to her.
"No need to be rash. We can fix this." He assured her.
"You're lying. I traveled in-between; I'm the object the energy is tied to. If I die, then everything can go back to normal." Moppet said coldly, shifting the gun to her temple.
"There's another way. No one has to die." River insisted.
"Hundreds, if not a thousand, have died already. What's one more to save them all?" Moppet asked, tears once again coursing her face.
"Don't you dare. Don't you dare!" Amy's warning was too late, and a shot ran out as a body fell onto the ground, falling in its own blood. Moppet's expression, for the first time since Alexia and Lane had died, was calm. Her eyes were closed, making it almost look as though she was just sleeping. River walked to her, covering the wound with Moppet's hair. She looked at the Doctor, her eyes watery.
"Make sure she didn't die in vain. Make sure none of them did." River told him. Nodding, the Doctor went to the console and flipped the switch once more.
Okay, death counter, but the story continues! There will be at least one more chapter, if not more. Now...
REVIEW! GODDAMMIT, PEOPLE, REVIEW! I NEED THOSE! MUST I BRIDE YOU?!
Or perhaps... *Evil laugh* I must threaten you... Mwahahahaha...
Murder: 4 (I forgot about Chell being murdered by GLaDOS)
Mass Murder/Genocide: 3
Suicide: 3
P.S. To the reviewer named So What: MOST OF MY STORIES ARE MEANT TO HAVE AN EPILOGUE OR ARE IMPLIED TO END. 'Update other stories' to me means make a sequel since my other unfinished fic 'Water, Nature, and Metal' was deleted. And about that, I'm