A/N: I do not own Twilight or Doctor Who. I'm just playing in their universe. Original plot developed by i heart the doctor.
Chapter 11 Angels
10th Doctor's POV
This woman amazed me. She might be the sweetest person I ever meet, move faster than I could blink and drive the TARDIS better than me. I have to admit I am glad I went back to get her. Though I am not sure I like where this going, it would seem that there is no choice, in order to set the course of humanity back on track.
Bella looked nervous and wasn't breathing.
"Breathe Bella; you're going to pass out."
"Wish I could, it would be a nice break, but I don't need to breathe."
"Ever?" I asked shocked.
"Nope, though it is very uncomfortable."
"I am sure it would be. That is weird." Though I do have two hearts, guess I can't say too much. "Which way should we go?"
Just then a loud snarl rose in the air and a loud crash.
"Edward, get out of my way."
"Emmett, don't interfere."
"Like hell I won't. These mutts aren't going to kill you for something you didn't do."
I howl of pain rose in the air.
"You damn dog that hurts. Jasper can you get my arm back?"
"Please I can understand how this looks, but I assure you we did nothing to Bella." That sounded like Carlisle's voice. The only reply was a loud growl.
"Doctor hurry." She grabbed me and we ran towards the noise.
What I saw would have frightened me, were I not with Bella. Five giant wolves were running around Edward, who was standing in the middle. Alice was dancing around keeping them off him, as was a very large guy with one arm, another guy that was pretty big, holding a severed arm in his hand. Carlisle and the Esme, along with an indescribably beautiful woman, were also in the clearing.
"What is going on?" Bella said, barely loud enough for me to hear.
Everything stopped. Twelve pairs of eyes turned to us. This could get interesting. Edward was coming over slowly, moving for the first time since we arrived.
"Bella? How did this happen, where did you go?" He fell to the ground unable to even hold himself up at this point.
One of the giant wolves turned into a human in front of my eyes, a naked male human.
"Bella, who did this to you?" He sounded furious.
"Jacob? What in the world? Why are you a wolf?"
"Who killed YOU?" Jacob was shaking from head to toe.
"Obviously I am not dead."
"You're a leech, it would have been better if you were."
"That's a little harsh don't you think?"
"It was them wasn't it? You broke the treaty Carlisle; can you honestly say we aren't justified now?"
"What treaty?" Bella asked.
"In the 1930s my great grandfather made a treaty with these bloodsuckers, it stated no human would be bitten. In exchange we would not tell others of your existence."
"Well in that case it would not include me."
"Yeah, I suppose you were bitten before 1930, fifty years before you were born."
"Actually yes, that is what she is saying." I interrupted. "Alice, Carlisle, Esme, it is nice to see you again, though, it will be sometime before I meet you for the first time. Well it was just a little while ago far in the future."
"Who are you and why do you smell different?" Jacob asked, very rude boy.
"My name is the Doctor. It would seem that this is going to get very confusing, really quickly."
"Spill it Doc. I have a leech's head to bite off."
"Well in that case. This is the Bella that went missing, how long ago?"
"Two weeks." Carlisle answered. Edward was just staring at Bella, still on his knees. Bella was holding him as best she could.
"Right, so here is what happened, an alien touched her and she went back in time. I am a time traveler and meet her in Chicago, 1917." Edward's head snapped up. "She was changed by Carlisle in 1918, the same time Edward was. However, things in this timeline go horribly wrong. End of the world type wrong and we are here to set things right again."
"So you are a space alien from the future and you want me to believe that Bella is from the past?" Jacob said in a mocking tone.
"Believe it or not that is the truth of the situation. I know this is hard to understand. I mean the world makes perfect sense, everyone is human and there is no such thing as vampires or werewolves and time travel is just as absurd."
The big guy starts laughing and the blond couldn't help but join in. Even a few of the wolves looked to be laughing.
"There is no way to prove that she is from the past because she is from a different timeline. Everything that her family would have been through would be different from what you all went through. It gets complicated, as I said. Time, while always in flux is still linear. I can change someone's past, but the problem here is that the timeline fractured, we are in a different timeline, one in which Bella is gone. Touched by an Angel and sent to the past, never to be heard from again."
"But you are back, you are back and you won't ever leave again right, you can't leave me again, Bella you have to say, you can't leave." Edward was pleading. This might very well kill the both of them.
"It's OK Edward, I'm here." She held him close; tears once again not falling, but the saddest look on her face told me they should be. He wrapped his arms around her and held her tight, like he was holding on for dear life and given what I know happened to him previously, I was sure it was this loss that drove him to the Volturi.
"Let's say, for the sake of argument that I do believe you. Where does that leave us?"
"Well we came here for a reason, to fix your future, a future where vampires rule the world."
The wolves growled and truth be told the vampire here didn't seem to like that idea very much either.
"How do we stop it?" Jacob asked bluntly.
"There is a member of the Volturi that had his mate killed."
"Marcus," Carlisle said. "He is very depressed and has been since the loss of his mate, Didyme."
"Yes. There is someone that knows who did it and is planning on telling Marcus. We need to find him and help him. If we can do that then the vampire royal family will change hands to Marcus. That way Marcus will rule the vampire's as they originally intended."
"We'll assist in any way we can." Carlisle replied.
"We'll help as well. I'm sorry I didn't trust you. Time travel was not something I would have considered." Jacob said looking to Carlisle.
"That is certainly something I would not have considered either. I am just glad everything worked out." It would seem that these two can return to whatever truce they had before.
"Doctor, do you mind if I take a quick trip?" Bella asked.
"Where to?"
"The Garden."
"You want revenge? That is never the answer you know."
"I don't care about revenge. I am happy with the life I have now. I just want to make sure it doesn't happen to someone else."
I cannot say I approve of this, but at the same time I guess it is her right. Not that I could stop her.
"I'm coming with you." Edward said.
"No, you are going to get a deer, go home take a shower, and change. I'll be back shortly."
"But."
"No buts, now go get something to eat. Jacob, I cannot believe you were going to put something that dirty in your mouth, has Billy not taught you any better?"
Everyone started laughing. It was certainly a great tension breaker.
We took our leave and headed back to the TARDIS. It was a quick hope to the Garden in Seattle. Bella lead the way to the spot she was last seen in this timeline, looking at a Weeping Angel. She stood in front of it once again. Both standing so still I would not be able to tell which is which if it was a little bit darker.
Vampire Bella's POV
"Doctor, close your eyes and stand behind me."
He did as I asked. I closed my eyes for less than a millisecond and felt the air in front of me move. I reached out 100 times faster than any human could and grabbed the arms of a flesh and blood creature. It panic and started screeching.
"Shut up." I was a little mad. Because of this being, this thing my Edward was hurting and will hurt even more once I have to leave again.
"It hurts." The creature said in a raspy voice. "Let me go, how could you even grab me?"
"I am not a human; do I not look familiar to you? You touched me a couple weeks ago, but I don't age anymore. And now I am faster than you."
"What are you going to do to me?" The creature was panicking.
"I haven't decided." I wanted to open my eyes, but knew if I did it would turn to stone again. "Why did you touch me? Why do you take away people's lives?"
"We don't kill, we let them live and feed off their life energy."
"You take them from their home, their family, their loved ones; it is essentially the same thing. How is it you get to decide which lives you take?"
"We feed when we must, on whoever is closest." The creatures' raspy voice was pleading.
"If I spar your life, will you touch others."
"To not take the life energy from others would mean death for us. I must feed to live."
"Then I have no choice. I am sorry it has come to this." I opened my eyes, and for a fraction of a millisecond I saw the creature's true from. They were more reptilian by nature with large teeth and no hair, though there were no scales; the skin was thicker and tougher than that of humans. It turned to stone before I could really get a good look.
"I am sorry creature, I wish there was another way. But so long as you feed on the lives of others you cannot remain." I blinked for a just a moment to let it say it's fair well. When I opened my eyes again it was praying. I gave it a minute to finish. "Goodbye." I put my fist through the chest, shattering it into a hundred pieces.
"I'm sorry Doctor. I have no doubts you could have taken it to another planet, but no matter where it goes it will always feed on the lost lives of others. To leave it on an abandoned planet would mean starving it to death. I felt that this would be a kinder end."
"You are right. It would be something I could never have brought myself to do. Though you are not wrong, in your belief, they could never stop feeding. I just wish there had been a better way."
I bent down and gathered the pieces. I was sure the garden owners would attribute this to vandalism and throw the pieces in the trash. I decided to let them think it was a thief and bury the pieces. I gather the largest ones I could find and the Doctor gathered what he could, I uprooted a tree and placed them underground. I smelled another like the creature coming close.
"Do you wish to follow this one's fate?"
"You killed one of us. You must pay."
"No, he killed me first. His life was mine to take."
"No one could possibly kill us; no one would live long enough to return to where they found us, let alone have the strength to destroy us." This new creature hissed.
"You are all alone, always alone. You cannot even spend time with each other as you aren't able to even see each other." The Doctor said in a solemn voice.
"We get by." The voice was moving closer.
"If you come closer, I will put you in here as well." I said.
"And if I leave you alone?"
"I have taken this one's life. I do not wish for you to take other's lives, but we can take you somewhere else, some other planet."
"So, die here or starve to death somewhere else?"
"It is the only choice I can present to you. You might find a traveler at your new home, or maybe there will be animals you could feed on, like me." I finished the burial and waited for its answer, though I knew what it was.
"I choose to take your life instead."
I stood up and turned to where the creature was running towards me. It instantly turned to stone.
"Doctor, what would you like to do with this one?"
"I have a good home for it. Can you carry it?"
I nodded and we went back to the TARDIS. It was not a long trip, but I never took my eyes off the Angel. Its arms out, reaching for me, its teeth bared at me. I did feel sorry for them, never knowing the touch of another. We landed and I placed the Angel on the edge of a forest, looking toward the TARDIS. When I stepped back in and closed the door I heard it stirring again, coming toward the TARDIS.
"How could you, I'll kill you, I'll send you so far back I can live you on for all eternity." The creature was furious banging on the TARDIS' door.
"What is your name?" I asked, being as gentle as I could.
"What?" The creature stopped, I could tell it was still alive.
"Your name, do you have one?"
"No, when we are born we are blind and left alone to fend for ourselves. We can only mate in the last years of our lives, when we lose our sight, just before we pass. Our parents don't speak to us and we never see them."
"How sad. Would it be alright if I gave you a name?" Hearing this broke my heart.
"Why would you do that to someone you have condemned to die?"
"Are you male or female?"
"Female, but it won't be long before I am dead now that I am on an abandoned planet."
"I would like to name you after my mother, Renée. She was feisty, like you. She had a youthful way about her, always looked on the bright side though. Can you not hear it?"
"Hear what?"
"In the forest, there are animals. I am a vampire, my natural diet is humans, like yours was. My family learned to live on the blood of animals. It is my wish that you can live on the life energy of animals Renée. Please don't give up on life because things didn't work out the way you had hoped. It isn't every day we are given a second chance. I killed the other Angel because he sent me back in time. Though it worked out OK for me, I fear that it does not always end well for others. I have spared you, so please don't be angry that I have taken you from Earth. Do try and catch something to eat here, animals have better senses, but I feel certain you will live a long and happy life Renée."
"What is your name?" She asked.
"Bella, Bella Cullen."
"Well Bella Cullen. This is the first time I have ever spoken with anyone. I honestly didn't know if my vocal cord would work. I will do as you ask. I will live a long time. I guess I can't hold a grudge against you as you are a victim of our feeding habits. If you are ever able to come this way again, please check on me."
"I will, how long do you live anyway?"
"I am not sure, a thousand years maybe."
"Take care of yourself Renée. Goodbye and I wish you all the best."
"Thank you Bella. If I never see you again, I understand. I hold no ill will against you and I will live as your family lives. Goodbye."
The Doctor started the TARDIS. I was sad to be leaving her, such a lonely life.
"You did a very good thing Bella." The Doctor said. "I wish I had your strength of character."
"You give me too much credit. In truth I was still tempted to destroy her. I hope that the animal population will forgive me."
"I am sure no matter when an animal lives its survival instincts will see it through to its natural end. Would you like to visit her again?"
"Now, we just left."
"Time machine." The Doctor said.
"Could we be there for her, at the end?"
He nodded and we were off, reappearing quickly.
I opened the door and we were in the same location, though a large city had sprung up not far from the woods. I could smell humans were here now.
"When are we?"
"Just over one thousand years from when we left."
"I walked out and smelled around. It only took a moment to smell the familiar smell of the creature. I followed the scent and came to a cave in the middle of the woods. I closed my eyes and smelled again; following the scent I made it to an open area.
"Hello?" I called out.
"Who's there?" An old raspy voice called out, but I would know Renée's voice anywhere.
"It is Bella, from a long time ago."
"Bella Cullen? Is that really you?"
"Yes, I came back, how long has it been?"
"Most of my lifetime I suppose, but I am glad you returned. I don't think I have much time left. I am blind. I actually found a mate and I am about to give birth. Though I don't know where the father is. Bella, I kept my promise, since the day you left I was able to live off the life energy of animals. They weren't as filling as humans, but they have sustained me over the many years. Even when these settlers came I didn't touch any of them."
"I am very proud of you Renée. So what are you going to call your child?"
"I don't know. I have never thought about it, do you have any ideas?"
"Well, we have always called your kind Angels, why not Angel?"
"I like it. Ouch, it's coming."
"Will you stay and tell your child hello?"
"I suppose it would have been nice to at least hear a voice when I was born, so I will try."
I stepped back out in the hall area. Soon afterwards I heard a baby cry for a moment, then it was silent. I heard someone come into the hall way just beside me.
"Hello my child. Your name is Angel. I would ask a favor of you, please live on the life energy of animals. It is not easy, but it is the least we can do for humans. There are those that can destroy us so choose carefully. If you ever meet a vampire by the name of Bella Cullen, she is a friend you can speak with. Goodbye, my sweet Angel. I fear my time has come and I will not be able to see you again. Live well."
"Goodbye Renée, it was a pleasure speaking with you. I hope that you will be happy in your afterlife."
"Goodbye Bella." Her voice faded away.
I opened my eyes. Before me was a beautiful Angel, with her hands together holding them up to her chest, looking down a little, as if she was looking at her child.
"H- H- ." Angel was trying to speak.
"Hello Angel, I am Bella Cullen. I came to say goodbye to your mother before she passed. I am not sure if I will ever be able to speak with you again, but I want you to know that you will never be alone. Your mother will live in your heart and mind. Your existence will be a reflection of her life. Please live well, Goodbye."
"Gudbi." He managed
I went back to the TARDIS, knowing I could never see them again. Even though I am an immortal his timeline is well beyond mine. When I returned the Doctor was smiling at me.
"Ready to return?" he ask.
I nodded and we went back to Forks, 21st century Evil Edward's timeline. I could hear someone in the shower when we arrived. I was guessing that would be Edward. Hard to believe I just went a thousand years in the future and came back, but only a few minutes have passed.
