A/N: Not really one of my best chapters, but I tried my best. Suffering from a bit of writers block, but I promise you action is around the corner. Please R/R.
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Chapter Sixteen: Wrath of a Time Lord
The Doctor grinned, "Ms. Lai, you're alive. I am shocked, I am amazed. I'd thought you wanted to keep your pet Macra."
Ms. Lai was thoroughly peeved off; she gave the Doctor a very acidic glare. "I changed my mind."
"Right, after it decided to go after you."
"I demand compensation."
The Doctor rolled his eyes, was it just him or was this woman just as annoying as Jackie Tyler, demanding compensation? His gaze then went cold as ice, "Listen Ms. Lai, you're very fortunate that you're alive. You want me to change that, I will. I can make it, that you wish you had never been born."
Ms. Lai stared hard into his face, "You don't scare me, Doctor. I am a hardened woman. I saw my parents die right before my eyes. And you know what….I didn't care. They weren't my parents. Not my blood and not my flesh. "
The Doctor suddenly grabbed Ms. Lai by the hair, "I have heard enough out of you. Now sit down and SHUT UP…"
He slammed her down hard into a chair and he said nothing more as he put on his clothes and looked at her. Cold and unfeeling, what kind of human was this? Humans had emotion, feelings. They were kind, compassionate, and held mercy. This woman held nothing of the sort. She glared at him almost as cold and unfeeling as he was. He slipped on his trench coat and slipped out his sonic screwdriver and did a scan on her with it. Traces of residual energy were in her body. He raised an eyebrow. "Ms. Lai, did you say you were an orphan?"
"I did. I have little memory of my parents."
The Doctor said coldly, "I see. First thing's first, where did you get this….." He pointed toward the machine.
"I told you, I found it. It came from a rift in space time."
"Do you have a habit of finding rifts?"
"Yes, actually. I guess you could say I have an affinity towards finding them."
The Doctor nodded. He walked around thinking about the whole affair. Something about this didn't make sense. A woman, with residual space-time energies in her body and an affinity towards finding rifts, she was human, sadly enough. And then his eyes brightened with awareness, as he now knew the answer. "This isn't your time."
Ms. Lai frowned, "What!"
"You don't belong here. Not in this period. You fell through time."
She snorted, "Don't be absurd."
"I am not. You have residual energy in your body. Probably due to the fact that you fell through an inter-dimensional and inter-spatial rift, and seeing your preoccupation with the Victorian era, you came from that time."
Ms. Lai snorted, "You're wrong Doctor. Wrong. I am from the year six billion and forty-three. I ought to know."
The Doctor said firmly, "I am rarely wrong about these things, Ms. Lai. I am a Time Lord. Now then, this menagerie is closed, do you hear Ms. Lai? It's closed."
Martha ran into the room along with Ry'kla. "Doctor….we have a problem." Martha said with sheer fear in her eyes.
He looked at Martha and gave her a look that could be interpreted as, 'Now what!'
Ry'kla sniffed lightly and then latched hold of the Doctor because she was afraid, "The Dalek….it's loose."
The Doctor looked at Ms. Lai. "What do you have for security systems? And you better tell me, Ms. Lai, otherwise we are all going to die."
Ms. Lai was quiet, her face had gone from its normal color to a pale almost death like pallor. "I…I……" She couldn't speak.
"Well…" The Doctor said, nervously tapping his foot.
Ms. Lai said, "This is the most secure room in the whole museum. I had it specially prepared incase….of a situation like this. All the security systems are in here. I can institute a complete shut down of the building. But if we do that, then we will be trapped."
The Doctor glared at Ms. Lai, "I see….and do you honestly think that all your security measures could keep a Dalek? There is only one option and…."
He looked at Martha and at Ry'kla and he sighed, "I am going out there to deal with Caan. Stay here."
Martha said, "Doctor, you can't. He'll exterminate you."
"Maybe he will, maybe he won't. He's the last of the Cult of Skaro, Martha Jones. I am not so sure he'll be so eager to confront me."
"What do you plan to do?"
"No idea…and you know what…..that's what a Dalek fears the most." The Doctor grinned and then said, "You two. Watch Ms. Lai. And make sure she stays put. I am not done with her yet."
The Doctor walked out of the hidden room and back into Ms. Lai's cheerful looking study/office. He opened the door and stepped out.
Ms. Lai said coldly, "He'll die you know."
Martha glared at her, "Shut up. Because of him, you're still alive."