FireFlies Chapter 28
The Gamma Forests, the only sound is rustling, birds and other wild creatures, pathways would lead to small towns, but in the heart, was a city.
But not as you and me see it, just shops, no cars or buses, just bikes, rollerblades, skateboards, scooters, nothing that polluted the world more was allowed on this planet.
-well that's what River told me.
It's properly about 10 degrees and I'm pretty chilly in my white hospital top, White jeans and long cream converse pumps.
"So" River said as we hiked through the tree's.
There was now an awkward silence between her and me.
She left me so many years ago, then turn up thinking that everything would be fine and nobody would give a damn about my daughter.
Well she's wrong.
I have been her for two days, without sleep, I'm shattered but I am determined to find my Doctor and My Ebony.
"What?" I snapped back without even looking at her because right now I couldn't make eye contact with her and I didn't want to either.
"You Alright?" she asked me. I rolled my eyes.
"Yeh, I'm fine!" I hissed sarcastically. She sighed hard before coming to a stop in front of me.
"You know Isabella-"
"It's Bella." I butted in.
"I can tell you're not happy." another dumb question...
"Please tell me what I did wrong?" She asked me.
"Ugh!" I exclaimed very annoyed.
"Can't you see?" I asked her, all that I had back was a blank stare. "My Daughter has gone, and unlike you I'm determined to find her!"
"Bella, you know I didn't have a choice, it was a battle field on Gallifrey."
"I'm not annoyed about that, River."
"Then what is it?" she asked me.
"I'm annoyed that you never tried to find Me."
"Do you think it's easy? Cause it isn't." she answered. "See your necklace, identical to mine, it keeps you safe, keeps all your timelordy-ness in there, correct?"
I nodded. "There connected as well, tracker devise." she mumbled.
"Then your job became easier." I told her.
"Listen, I found you in phoenix when you were eight but you seemed too happy with you other mom and her boyfriend." she explained. "So I left."
"I still don't get it..." I mumbled.
"So when The Doctor, my friends son, taken you in his magic box, I knew I should make contact with you."
"And the ood and the weeping angels?"
"Yeah, I remember that like it was yesterday." she smiled weakly.
"So why didn't you come two days go?" I asked her.
"I was in prison," she answered.
"I don't believe you."
"Then don't, but that's where I was." she stated sternly.
Just ahead was that dark blue object, standing out greatly from the tree's. The text 'Police Box' glowed a pale yellow which lightly shone on leaves surrounding it. The slight humming sound was quiet in the distance. However the TARDIS had seemed to lose its touch. It didn't feel like that incredible flying time machine that he'd whisk me away to random planets and other galaxies. Now it was a wooden box, with no life or spirit.
After River called for him, twenty times or more I decided to push past her and walked in.
Gobsmacked as I saw the Doctor, standing by the controls.
He watched me with no emotion in his eyes.
"Doctor!" I shouted as I went to hug him and he disappeared.
"Huh?" I questioned as I backed away, he flickered like a hologram...Oh...
"Isabella and River detected." he said as his head turned to us.
"Hello." he said with a smile.
"Hello," I answered softly.
"You may or may not have noticed, I am not here, this is a hologram. I'm deep in the Gamma Forests right now. Looking for Ebony." he paused
"But Bella, You need to Trust me, Trust me with all everything you have inside you."
"I'm...I'm still here, aren't I?" I smiled with one lonely tear trickling down my pale face.
"I'm hoping you've either Nodded or answered yes." he grinned...
"And if you did answer yes, I don't want you looking for me..."
"What?" I mumbled, dumfounded.
"Because it's dangerous, I don't want both of you getting hurt."
"NO!" I shouted at this flickering images.
"So stay in the TARDIS and I'll be back before you say Fezzes." he smiled.
"I Love You Bella." he grinned before it flickered off.
It's been such a long time since I've heard him say that...
I stood there, shocked.
"Bella." River asked as she carefully approached me.
"Screw that." I said as I turned away. "I'm finding him."
"But he said-"
"He says a lot of things, River!" I cut her off as I stormed past her. "He went and looked for me when I needed him, so I'm doing the same!" I said as I pushed the doors open.
"He told us to stay!" River shouted. I turned to her, holding the wooden door.
"Like last time, the Doctor needs you and you didn't come. Know he needs you again, are you going to let him down once more?" I asked her, her face peered to the floor as she looked helpless.
"Yeah...Thought so." I snarled as I walked out. Leaving a destroyed and confused River behind.
I've been walking for AGES
Even more Thoughts pounded threw my head like they were drilled in.
What happened If they have hurt them?
What happened If they took her?
Oh I hope there alright!
I really hope that she hasn't touched him!
Doctor! I want you back with Ebony!
I WANT MY FAMILY!
Wonder why River didn't come?
Is she on their side?
Well, she can't be...She's the Doctors friend.
And my mom.
Why didn't she come with me?
She's such an epic fail at times!
But she's my MOM? No can't be, impossible.
To stop the drilling in my brain, I heard a twig snap in the distance.
"Hello?" I mumbled.
I jumped back as Birds fluttered up into the now dark cloudy sky suddenly.
Now I had the feeling to run.
And that's what I did. Raced through the trees and crushed the forest carpet underneath me with my converses.
I heard heavy footsteps follow me. My heart thumped that loud it could have been a heavy metal drum in a rock gig. My eyes hurt from excess tears from earlier and my body physically tired from labour.
Even though it was a month ago.
Still running, now I heard panting too, moving in the trees.
"She's on the move!" a voice tried to whisper. "I repeat, all stations ACTIVE!"
What? I'm not a pris-
Then something sharp and painful jabbed my arm. It felt so cold.
My legs decreased speed as I yanked the dart out of my arm with a hiss.
I threw it to the ground helplessly... I clutched my head as I tried to sort my vision out. I swayed side to side and then...
BOOM!
I was half dead on the floor...Well that's what it seemed like.
About five soldiers peered over me, prodding my cheek, which felt now felt Numb. Then one fat guy started to touch my sore boobs. So that hurt like hell.
"Get...Get off me...You...Sick...B-Bastard." I tried to threaten him as I tried to swing a punch at him, Which turned to be a tap on his shoulder
"She's not fully gone yet...give her more." he grinned at me as another man came and stabbed more of this in my arm.
My eyes now closes as these soldiers laughed at me as I became this venerable little girl.
And I didn't like it at all.
"She's waking up..." a groggy voice found its way into my head.
"Give her more off that stuff..."
"No!" a sharp voice hissed, "I like to see her suffer..." a pair of heels tapped the concrete floor.
One set of arms pulled my shoulders and dragged me off what ever I was on. As my other part of my body hit the damp floor with a thump.
Then I was lying on the floor, in a place that I didn't even know that it had ever existed.
Left to rot...In pain.
As I pulled myself around from this murderous drug, I knelt and looked at the closest thing I saw...the glass window into the cells next to me.
And there sitting on the edge of the bottom of the bunk bed, head in them shaky hands off them was him...The Doctor, Sobbing by the looks of it.
My face, totally stunned now. Somehow I managed to crawl to the window and silently tap the glass. His eyes glanced over me, then he picked his head up in amazement.
I smiled weakly and blinked hard, trying to get rid of the last of the drug out of my system. He literally threw himself by the glass.
"Doctor!" I shouted as I pressed my hand against the glass.
"Bella!" he shouted but came as a mumble. "I told you to stay I the TARDIS!"
"I couldn't stay there, I never could without you!" I answered. "I had to see you again." He placed his hand where mine was and somehow in some way we were connected.
"Oh Isabella Swan..." he placed his head on the glass and sighed.
"Doctor...Where's our Ebony?" I asked him. He didn't answer.
"Doctor?"
No answer...
"Oh." I mumbled, feeling the worst feeling ever to be felt. "Oh No...They Didn't, did they?"
He nodded ever so slightly.
Doctor's Flash Back.
"So you know Ebony," I grinned, her eyes looked into mine. "Time is so big and complicated, but it's also the most important thing ever..."
She laughed that laugh, the cute giggle.
"But you're so small and complicated and to me and your mum, you're the most important thing ever." I Cradled her in my shaky arms, looking around just to check they weren't there.
Suddenly the alarms went off, all around us glowing blood red.
"We'll be safe in here." I told her as I peered through the dim crack of light coming through the wardrobe.
Next, she began to cry, the deafening alarms scaring poor Ebony. I pulled her close, burring her in my jacket.
"Shhh, it's ok." I reassured her, "We'll be just fine." But that couldn't stop her crying.
The doors thrown open, to view many soldiers and her...The lady with the eye patch...
"Hand me Ebony, Doctor." She peered down to me. I stared back at her like a rabbit in the headlights then looking down to my daughter, still crying.
"You can't, and you'll never will!" I shouted back. "This is under number 17 of the intergalactic law,"
"I believe it isn't." she answered checking up on her documents.
"Yeah…Well, It should be!" I exclaimed
"Hand me Ebony, Doctor. Say your last goodbyes and hand her over and your girlfriend won't be harmed."
"Girlfriend?" I questioned….BELLA! "No, I told her to stay in the TARDIS!"
"She's knocked out in the other room, can't feel a thing, bless her, however if you don't hand me Ebony, there be consequences."
"What would you do to her?" I asked.
"We'll either, shoot her, stone her to death or give her to the soldiers and you'll be there, watching her suffer." She smirked. "Just because you didn't make the right decisions."
I looked down at Ebony, who gave me puppy dog eyes, I couldn't give her to a man women.
"Don't worry, she'll have the best up bringing a little girl can get Doctor." She said ever so calmly as she glanced over her nails. "And if you make the right decision, I might let her see you…."
"But if you don't, Bella will die a horrifying death and your little girl will become the warrior you never wanted her to be….It's your choice, I'll give your two minutes, that's enough time to save the world but is it enough to make a decision to save your family's life?" she wondered. "Let's find out."
I don't know what to do, oh that's a new feeling that I DON'T like. I can't make this choice…I can't gamble, but If I do, she might have that upbringing but she might also be the weapon I couldn't bare to fight.
But if I don't gamble… Ebony's Mum will die and I couldn't lose her, I just couldn't.
Ebony squealed lightly, taking me out of my state, she looked at me with opinions in her eyes, she looked like she wanted me to give her away, because somehow Me and Her Mummy could fight to get her back, like any parent would do.
"Times up, have you made a choice?" she asked curiously.
I gazed back to Ebony, she looked like she nodded slowly, I couldn't tell, she either did nod or it was my imagination.
"Well?" she questioned, I sighed hard.
"…Please, Please, Please, Look after her. Look after her rain or shine, day or night, you better give all that she wants and all that she needs or else you'll be in so much trouble." I told her tearfully as I handed her small body to her. Ebony Cried and Cried.
She mumbled something to the soldiers before she walked out.
The soldiers took my arms and I went quietly.
Bella's P.O.V.
"Oh Doctor, Oh Doctor…" I mumbled as I looked at him.
"I'm sorry Bella, I made a terrible decision, I should have ran, ran so far, so quickly. Why did I choose to give her up?" then it hit me like a ton of bricks.
"That's it!" I exclaimed "Our baby is a genius!"
"Is she?"
"Yeah, Duh!" I said as I shot up.
"She knows we would find her and she knows we could see why she wanted her in the first place!"
"But Bella, you've been there for more than a week, it's the 27th of July, they've been drugging you up for the past two weeks" The Doctor told me. "She could be across the stars right now."
"Get your sonic." I told him.
"Bella it won't work! I've tried, this room runs it out."
"It must have the smallest bit of energy in there still. But this necklace, there must be some sort of sonic thing in here! River would have made sure that I had something to get out of jail, like she has the lipstick."
"Wait, how did you know about the lipstick?" He asked
"You told it me when we were making out once but that's not the point, the point is, if you sonic the glass from your side and I sonic it from my side and maybe when it's thin enough my necklace could power your sonic for a while, maybe, just maybe the frequency from the two will shatter the glass around us, then we run like hell." I grinned. "But there is a down side…"
"What's that?"
"It's going to be so loud…."
"Let's do it." He said taking his sonic out. I held my necklace, thinking.
"Ready?" he asked, I nodded.
He turned it on, it flickered on and off but yet it carried on, then the most painful sound blasted from the room, I screamed, knowing I couldn't stop.
Suddenly the glass shattered into a million pieces, here and around the base.
"Run!" I shouted, we raced over the glass and started to climb the ladders, up to the roof.
Then just my luck, one of the bars snapped from underneath me, I hung on for dear life as I scrambled to the step.
The doctor pulled me up to the roof top, the full moons glow touching us lightly as one of my hands rested on his chest whilst the other held onto his hand.
He wondered into my eyes and then I clutched his face, kissing him oh so gently and so did he.
"I wanted to do that to you since I saw you in that prison." I told him afterwards
"Why didn't you then?"
"It would have been weird kissing glass." I answered. He kissed me once more before saying.
"Come on." He took my hand and ran on the roof with me.
"Do you have any idea where she might be?" I asked the Doctor quietly as I peered around the corner.
"Nope." He answered me.
"Not the faintest clue?"
"No, but-,"
"But what?"
"I could hack the army device for the mad eye patch lady, cause she wouldn't leave Ebony unguarded now."
"Then get to it space boy!" I exclaimed in a whisper. He soniced the small touch screen until he could take it apart, I shivered in the cold night.
"Aha." He smiled "Phone, now, gimmie." He told me,
"I don't have one! It's in the TARDIS." I exclaimed
"K, it says here that she's making her way to the main controls, whilist a load of soldiers are making their way up here," he told me as he watched the red dot bleep closer to our destination. "So were going down here." He rushed to a nearby chute.
"Go on, you first."
"What! No!" I exclaimed.
"Go on."
"Fine." I mumbled as I raced down the chute, then from behind me I heard a 'GERONIMO' I'm lucky his giraffe legs didn't smack my back on the way down.
"Doctor! Do you know where this leads?" I asked as I rode this rollercoaster.
"You'll find out soon!" he exclaimed
"That's the point; I don't want to find outttt!" I told him, this chute was pitch black and it was vertical, it had no bends just straight down, down into the deep dark depths of the mysterious.
Well in about a minute I had found were this chute ended, in the rubbish dump.
"Eww…" I mumbled as I stared at the crap that they had thrown away.
"YAHOOOO!" The Doctor shouted as he landed just behind me. "That was fun, wasn't it?"
"Yeah, course it was." I lied. "No let's go and find our daughter." He nodded as he pulled himself up and dashed to save Ebony.
"Can we stop, just for a little bit?" I gasped out of breath "We've been running for centuries…" I complained even though I shouldn't, I was as determined as him to find her but we've had no hope yet.
"Shush, brain thinking."
"What?" I gasped again
"No really shush, she's in there…"
"How do you know?" I questioned.
"Can't you hear her crying?" I listened hard and muffled was her powerful wail, that I had missed.
"Come on." He demanded.
"What? They'll just capture us again." I told him.
"No they won't, trust me."
"I-I-I" I stammered. He smiled that heart warming smile as he offered his hand to me. I eyed it, he wiggled his fingers it was like he was saying 'Come on' I gave into his powers as I placed my hand into his, he took it harshly as he stormed through the doors.
"Guess who's back?" he shouted, all eyes were on us, even little Ebony had stopped crying now,
"Seize them." A solider answers.
"No, there good, drop your weapons." The lady with eye patch grinned. "Three, Two, One…" she mumbled gazing at her watch.
SLAM!
Me and the Doctor turned around to see a very shaky River, pointing a laser gun at the mad lady, she chuckled.
"You can't kill me River." She Advised.
"Why not?" she answered.
"Never mind that, Tell me River, who did you kill all them years ago?" she laughed with a demon smile.
River still shaking let some single tears run down her pale face.
"How did you know?" she murmured "It was an accident!" she screamed at her "I never meant too!" she panicked. "I-I-I was so scared!"
"I know you were, never mind, the past is behind us." She smirked
"Who are you?" she asked crying.
"I am you, from your future… Wasn't it obvious?" she asked us all, we all answered by shaking are heads.
"I have Ebony, Your trying to be a mum again, aren't you River Song, You want your daughter back, her name imprinted in the milky way, Her partners name burns among the stars." The Doctor gulped hard. "But not for much longer."
"What do you mean?" I Argued.
"Not for much longer." She repeated.
"I've got you little Ebony." The Doctor mumbled as he picked her up from the cott.
"Put her back Doctor.." The mad eye patch lady hissed.
"Never." He answered as he walked back to me. I stared at her so confused…She wasn't future River.
I've been so stupid…
"Shit."
I snatched the gun from River pointing at well future River. She smirked.
"My daughter, put the gun down." I watched her with harsh eyes, she wasn't River.
"Do what she says….Bella." The Doctor whispered. I approached her, she watched me like a bird of prey. I dropped the gun.
"Good girl," she smiled, then I lashed out on her. "Bad Girl, go to your room, NOW!"
"You're not my mom!" I shouted threw the punches. She began to hiss and snap as she grew taller and taller, her skin dissolved as her metal spider like Skelton creped through, her eyes clicked when they blinked.
"Oh you little BRAT!" she hissed as she swiped her long claws over my arm, cutting it deeply.
"Ow!" I moaned but carried on trying to destroy her. She picked me up and threw me to the ground with a thump.
CRACK
I clutched my side this time as I thought This isn't going to defeat her, I scrambled up in pain as I pulled myself around around her and nudged the back of her knee, she froze and fell on the floor along with me.
I curled up in a ball, moaning at the state I was in. I gazed up as I heard a click of the gun.
"Screw you, Isabella Swan." She hissed. "I could have ruled the whole of space and time, me and your daughter!" she screamed at me. "Now I can't, so you're gonna have to pay!" then she pulled the trigger and the laser hit my side.
I stumbled to my knees, watching my hand go to my cut arm and when I dragged my hand down my arm, the cuts were healed.
"It started." River answered as she backed away with The Doctor and Ebony. The Doctor Gave Ebony to River as he watched destroyed.
"No." I mumbled as the regenerating progress began. I remembered how it hurt before, I couldn't go through it again….
My arms lifted and I knew I was going to burst into light any second…Now.
Doctor's P.O.V.
"If I can't have her" the metal Skelton hissed, " Neither can You!" she hissed as she shot the gun again, right before the regenerating progress, she got flung back into the wall, were it cracked as she bounced off it.
"NO!" I Cried as I raced towards her, I held her pale face in my hands her eyes rolled back as her eye lids began to close and then I checked her pulse.
…It Stopped…
Then the Skelton exploded like a whale. But I couldn't have give a damn to be honest.
Beautiful Bella had gone and nothing could bring her back….
I hoped you enjoyed this chapter, I know I haven't updated in years but I have got a life plus the fact that my iPod had a nervous breakdown and wouldn't turn back on *The Little Piece Of Shit*
And yes I write stuff on my ipod, it's easier, well going on holiday now YAYYY so bye :D
EDWARDS-DAUGHTERXOXO