Chapter 3

Waverly Sub Station

Four hours after the Racnoss incident, the door to the sub station was fixed by Justin's magic. K-9 was monitoring the Racnoss ship in orbit, but they had done nothing. Jerry was on the couch in the Russo home with ice packs on. Harper was making clothes in her room in the basement to pass the time. Theresa was with Alex in the Wizard Lair.

"Mom, why do I care so much about the Doctor?" Alex, sitting in the recliner, asked her mother, "I mean I've only known him for a month, but it feels like a lifetime."

"I don't know, honey," answered Theresa, "We all care about the Doctor in our own way. Without him we would be dead right now."

"Do you think he feels the same way about me?" asked Alex, "I know I'm only seventeen and he's over 2000 years old, but do you think he does?"
"I really can't say, Alex," said Theresa, "I do know that he cares for you, but I don't now if he cares for you in the same way you care for him."

"I think the only reason he cares for me is because he's alone," said Alex, "Because his world's gone and he needs someone."

"Don't think like that. I'm sure it's more than that," said Theresa.

"I hope you're right," said Alex, "I don't want him to find someone else. He's done it before."

"How do you know that?" asked Theresa.

"The way he talks about some of his other 'companions' as he calls them," explained Alex, "There are some he cared for a lot and even fell in love with."

"Well he is over 2000 years old," said Theresa, "I'm there were some people he fell in love with."

"I know, but his relationships never end up good," replied Alex, "I can see that. Whenever he talks about them, he gets sad. That's not what I'm worrying about. I want to know if I really care for him or if it was the TARDIS that's making feel like this."
"What do you mean?" asked Theresa.

"When I had the TARDIS stuff in me, I could fell her," Alex told her mother. "I could feel the way the TARDIS feels for the Doctor."

"Well they do share a bond that we can't understand," replied Theresa, "They've been together nearly his entire life, over 2000 years."

"I know. I felt that, remember ," replied Alex.

"All I can tell you is to go for it, and if nothing turns out, you know you did what you had to do," said Theresa.

In the sub station, a blue light appeared and vanished. The Doctor collapsed to the ground, unconscious. The splatter of greenish-yellow blood on the Doctor and the Doctor's own red blood was out of place of the white surface of the sub station floor. K-9 turned away from the door and rolled over to the Doctor.

"Master?" asked K-9. Seeing that the Doctor was unconscious, K-9 rolled to the wizard lair door and rolled inside. He rolled to the table in the center of the room, "Mistresses?"
"Yes, what is it K-9?" asked Theresa.

"Master Doctor has appeared in the sub station. He is injured and unconscious," answered K-9. Alex jumped out of the chair and ran out the wizard lair. Theresa and K-9 followed her.

Alex ran next to the Doctor and saw the dried blood that came from a cut above the Doctor's eye. His glasses were missing and his red jacket was stained with the Racnoss blood. Alex didn't know what to do. She wasn't strong enough to pick him up and she tried to use magic on him to move him before she remembered magic wouldn't work on the Time Lord. All she could do was sit next to the Doctor and put his head in her lap. She sat there holding the Doctor's head praying he would be alright.

Theresa had walked upstairs to get the boys. She knew that Jerry wasn't going anywhere. He was hurting too bad. K-9 went down to the basement and got Harper. Harper ran upstairs and saw Alex sitting there next to the Doctor. Harper stopped and quietly sat on a bar stool.

"He won't wake up," said Alex sniffling, not looking away from the Doctor.

"What do you mean he won't wake up?" asked Harper.

"I've tried to wake him up, but he won't wake up. I know he's still alive, but it's like he's in that thing where people don't wake up."
"Do you mean he's in a coma?" asked Harper.

"Yeah I guess," said Alex.

K-9 rolled up to the bar stools and spoke up, "Master Doctor will be fine. Time Lords can go into a stimulated coma to heal there bodies faster than they would when the Time Lord is awake. He is only like that because he is healing himself. He can wake up when he is once again feeling like himself."

"How do you know that's what he is doing?" asked Alex, "How do you know he's not actually in a coma?"
"Look above his eye," said K-9.

"What do you mean K-9?" asked Harper.

Alex looked at the Doctor's forehead and saw that the cut was smaller and almost healed. The Doctor was healing himself. Alex smiled as the tears started to stop and the sniffling continued.

"Alex?" asked Harper.

"K-9's right. He's healing himself. There was a cut above his eye, that's nearly gone now," replied Alex.

The tears that Alex cried started to drip off her face as others started to dry. One of them hit the Doctor's forehead right on the cut. The cut healed itself right after that. The Doctor moaned as his eyes started to open. He opened his eyes completely and saw Alex's face staring back at his. She had been crying. He could tell that by the puffiness of the eyes and the redness of them, but she was smiling now. The Doctor lifted his right arm and held Alex's cheek. She turned her head into his hand, eyes closed Harper stood up and walked over to the staircase to give the two more privacy with K-9 right behind her.

"Alex," said the Doctor.

"What?" she asked, eyes still closed.

"I hate spiders," the Doctor smirked. The Doctor slowly took his hand down and Alex moved her head a little. The Doctor started to sit up and Alex moved out of the way. He got to his feet and Alex stood up next to him. He walked over to the bar and sat in the seat he always sat at, and Alex sat right next him on his left.

Harper and K-9 just stayed where they were when the rest of the Russo family, except Jerry, walked down the staircase and saw the Doctor sitting on a bar stool. Justin saw the caking greenish-yellow blood all over the Doctor's jacket.

"What is that?" he asked as he walked over to the Doctor.

"Racnoss blood," the Doctor told him, "I killed it with a sword I keep in my pocket."

"You keep a sword in your pocket?" asked Max.

"Yeah," said the Doctor.

"That is so cool," said Max, "Can I have a pocket sword like you?"

The Doctor stood up and walked over to Max. He patted him on the shoulder and said, "For everyone else's sake, I hope you don't." The Doctor walked into his TARDIS and went inside.

"I have a question though. How did the Doctor get back here?" asked Justin.

"He used his transporter watch to get here," said K-9, "Transport particles are still in the air."

"I really have to get me one of those tin dogs," said Justin.

"Well it looks like I brought you two down here for nothing," said Theresa, "I can never...." Her voice trailed off as she went back up the stairs.

Max followed her, but Justin walked over to the TARDIS. Even though the TARDIS had been there for a month, he had never actually been inside. He thought about going inside someday soon. He heard a throat clear from behind him. He turned around and saw Harper standing there, with a look that he should leave. He looked over at Alex and saw her sitting at the bar. She hadn't moved or said anything since he had gotten downstairs. Justin nodded and walked back upstairs.

Harper walked over to Alex and sat in the seat the Doctor was sitting. Harper had known there was something going on between the Doctor and Alex. The Doctor never said anything and she never asked him. She had asked Alex, but Alex kept denying the fact. After the little exchange a few minutes ago there was no denying it, the two had feelings for each other. "So Alex, what was that all about?"

"What was what about?" asked Alex, turning to look at Harper.

"That little thing you two did when he woke up," Harper answered.

"Oh that was nothing," said Alex, still denying it.

"That was something," replied Harper, "You were crying when he didn't wake up. You loved it when he touched your face. You've been around him almost the whole time he's been here. You like him. You like him a lot."

Alex just looked at Harper and didn't say anything. She didn't have to say anything. Harper was right. Actions do speak louder than words, she thought. She couldn't hide the fact she was crying and that she was in heaven when he touched her face. She was so scared she would never see him or talk to him again. She couldn't bare the thought of her losing him.

"Well?" asked Harper, staring at Alex.

Racnoss Ship

The Racnoss Princess walked out of her control room down a long corridor of Racnoss stases chambers. Millions of Racnoss were sleeping on the ship and this was the only Racnoss ship left in all of Creation. The Racnoss continued to walked rubbing her clawed hands on the glass front of the chambers. Her needle-toothed smile was gleaming. She knew her people would return, but first she had to get rid of the man who killed her brother, who had taken a lot of power to wake up by the way. She had no idea who humanoid was or what he was. She scanned him from her ship and his readings were not of the native human population. There was something about him that made her skin crawl. It's usually the other way around, but he was different.

She tried to get him out of her mind as she thought of a way to get the source of the Huon particles. She would get the particles and wake her people up and then artificially created particles to power a new fleet of ships that would take to the stars again.

The idea was like a punch in the face. Why didn't she think of it earlier? She ran as fast as she could to get back into her control chair. She sat down and fired up her ship. With weapons and defenses on, the Racnoss Princess's ship descended into the Earth's atmosphere. Her sadistic laughter rang out across the nearly lifeless ship.

TARDIS

The Doctor's TARDIS had been cleaned up a lot since in crashed inside the Waverly Sub Station a month earlier. All the debris on the floor was gone. The floors and walls were nearly spotless and the massive crack inside the control room were healing up or being filled in by the Doctor. The Doctor sat down in one of his chairs near the control console on the TARDIS's stage. He was slowly figuring out what the connection was between him and Alex. He knew one day he was going to break her heart, and he didn't want to do that. He has his hearts broken several times. In fact everytime he lost a companion. He couldn't break Alex's heart. He had to do something.

Waverly Sub Station

K-9 detected the Racnoss ship moving downwards toward the Earth. He calculated the path of the ship and determined that the ship would rest over the city of New York. K-9 rolled over to Harper and Alex.

"Mistresses," said K-9.

"Not now K-9," said Harper.

"I would not normally interrupt, but this is critical," said K-9.

"What do you mean?" asked Alex.

"The Racnoss ship is leaving orbit and descending over the city," said K-9.

"What? When?" asked Harper.

"Now Mistress Harper," said K-9.

The Waverly Sub Station started to vibrate. The napkin dispensers, condiments and other light stuff started shaking and fell over. The chairs and tables shook and soon the whole building was soon shaking violently.

"What's going on!?" asked Alex panicking.

"That is the Racnoss ship descending, Mistress Alex," calmly said K-9.

Theresa, Justin and Max ran downstairs, trying to stand up straight and not fall over.

"What's happening?" asked Theresa.

"I believe the visual evidence would be better than me trying to explain it," K-9 told them.

All of them struggled to get outside while standing up. They looked up to the sky and saw a star shaped ship with six points slowly move across the sky, fire and clouds moving in its wake.

"Now that's bigger than the last one."

The Russos turned around and saw the Doctor standing there, now cleaned up.

"What do you mean?" asked Justin as the shaking stopped.

"Christmas 2007, I fought the Empress of the Racnoss in London. I ended up killing a ship full of Racnoss by draining the Thames into the ship. The Empress of the Racnoss was eventually shot down by the Master's orders."

"So you've fought these things before?" asked Justin.

The Doctor nodded, "And they are not friendly."

"What are you going to do?" asked Theresa.

"I'm going to go and fight the Racnoss," said the Doctor. The Doctor walked back into the sub station and the others followed.

"What are you going to do?" asked Justin, but differently, "When you fight them, what are you doing to do?"

"I will give them a chance to leave, and if they don't," the Doctor hesitated, "They'll have to pay."

"Pay?"
"I'm going to make sure that they can't harm anyone," replied the Doctor.

"How are you going to that?" asked Justin.

"I'm going to kill them," said the Doctor bluntly and coldly.

Justin's face lost its color when the Doctor answered him. He didn't know what to say. He had never heard the Doctor say anything like that. He had no idea what to think especially with his little sister falling for the Doctor. He didn't feel like the Doctor would harm any of them, but Justin didn't want to cross him.

Chapter 4