Hello (again)! Just figured since I'm already done I should post it now so I don't forget. This is the last chapter :( some happy fluffy stuff and somewhat dramatic fighting of Seekers. This is my first ever finished fanfic! (I'll try to finish that other one, sorry)
The Doctor stood in front of the portal. He looked out at the four chaos spirits gathered around him, waiting him to step away. As much as they wanted him, they were still wary of the portal which would imprison them again. The Doctor stepped towards them, and they rushed towards him. He stepped back towards the portal. They stopped. He walked around the portal, careful not to touch it. He tried to ignore the earsplitting noise coming from directly behind him, but he was finding it harder and harder. He stepped back towards the chaos spirits. They rushed towards him. They were all on one side. Good.
He stepped back. The chaos spirits did not stop this time. It seemed they had grown as tired with this game as he had. He waited until the last second he could, then stepped around to other side of the portal. The chaos spirits were too focused on their target and were sucked into the portal. The portal closed behind them. The chaos spirits had absorbed all the excess energy.
Back by the car, Liam cheered. They had won! All the Seekers were back in chaos space where they belonged. The ambulance had arrived exactly when the portal had closed and it seemed that no one had noticed the strange lights and noises. They had taken Sal into the ambulance and were giving her oxygen now. But it seemed that with the Seekers gone, she would be all right.
The Doctor ran up to the ambulance. "Is she all right?" he asked.
"She will be," the ambulance person said. "She's getting better. But we don't know what caused it." He looked a bit puzzled. "These cases have been happening every five minutes since last night, and she's the first one who has gotten better."
"Ok," sighed the Doctor in relief.
Liam looked down at Sal. She seemed to be breathing better now. She woke up, and started to sit up.
The ambulance person rushed over. He pushed her back down. "Just lie here for now," he told her. "You fainted." Sal laid back down without protest. He took her mask off.
"We can take her now, if she's okay," said the Doctor.
"Maybe wait a few more minutes to recover fully. Then she can go."
"Alright."
Sal woke up in the Tardis. For a few seconds she didn't know where she was. Then she remembered, and relaxed. She thought back to the last thing she could remember, being killed by a Seeker, and shuddered. She didn't know how she was still alive. Or even if she was alive. If she was dead, it wasn't really that bad. At least she had gotten to sleep in. But then she thought of Maddy and Liam, and how sad they would be if she died, and decided that she did not want to be dead. She got up, a bit shakily, and walked out of the bedroom to see where the others were.
After getting hopelessly lost in the endless hallways of the Tardis, and wandering around some hoping to get a bearing, she finally saw the Doctor walk out of a room. She stumbled up to him. He yelled to Liam and Maddy, who were also in the room. They raced out, and hugged her until she couldn't breathe anymore. She started to cough. They let go.
"What happened?" she asked.
"You were attacked by a Seeker," Liam said. "But we got them all back into chaos space where they belong, so it's all okay. The time stream is back to how it was before."
"Great," she said. "Let's go back home."
It wasn't that she didn't like the Tardis and the Doctor, but she was starting to miss the archway. It was hard to believe that she could ever miss that place, but she did. She had spent all her time wanting to get away from it, but now she wanted back. It didn't make sense.
"Okay," said Maddy.
"You know," said Liam, "I'm starting to miss the place, so I am. It's strange."
"Yeah," said Sal.
"Alrighty!" said the Doctor. "2001, here we come!"
He ran off towards the control room. The TimeRiders walked slower, mostly for Sal.
"I'm going to miss this place," Liam said. "And the Doctor."
"I have a feeling we might be seeing more of him," Maddy smiled. "If he keeps meddling in time like he seems to be doing."
They all smiled. They felt the Tardis shake slightly, and stopped to hold on. Then they kept walking. When they got back to the control room, they found the Doctor sitting impatiently waiting for them to come. "Finally," he said. "I thought you were never going to come!" They laughed and went outside. They said goodbye to the Doctor, and he stepped back inside the Tardis to get one last thing.
He stepped back outside again, with his hands behind his back. He put them out in front of him and made jazz hands.
"Fingerless gloves!" he exclaimed. "Gloves are cool! And gloves that don't have fingers are even cooler!"
Maddy internally cringed, but she hid it. "Um, ok." The Doctor was really excited about his new fashion accessory. She tried to seem excited. "Yeah, they're cool."
"Yeah, they are," the Doctor said. He stepped back into the Tardis. He waved goodbye with his new gloves, and then closed the door. They watched as the Tardis disappeared. Then they walked back into the archway.
