Witch Hunt 2

With a low groan, the Doctor opened his eyes. The first few seconds he don´t remembered why he was lying with the face down in the mud, but then it came all back in a rush. He jumped up, swaying a little bit, and shook his head. The people around him seemed not to notice him. Or they just don´t cared... He held the back of his head, only to feel some dried blood, which has run trough his hair and down his neck.

The Doctor looked around, somebody must know where they had brought his friend. Then he saw him, the old, teeth less man. He was walking away from the Doctor. "Hey! Wait!", the Doctor called. The man turned his head, saw the Doctor and starts running as fast as his feet allowed. But it was not fast enough. The Doctor cached him soon and pushed him against a wall. He wasn't the Doctor in this moment, he was the Oncoming Storm. "Wha-...What do you want?!", the man stuttered without looking in the Doctors eyes.

"My friend, the one that you called a witch. Where is she?! Where have they brought her?!", the Doctor asked, with a voice that could bring a grown-up man to cry for his mummy. "Where? Where you ask?!", the man said with shaking voice,"Off course they ´ave brought ´er to the executions place. There on the top of this ´ill." The Doctor glared a last time at the man and started running to the hill, where the man has pointed.

His head was pounding, but he hadn´t time to care about it now. He ran past a group of women, washing some clothes, some men, smoking on a bench, an couple old women and men, and a couple of younger women and men. But no children. Nowhere. Instead of children, playing, talking and laughing, there where only a couple of abandoned wooden toys, lying here and there on the streets, the benches and window-sills. The Doctor scratched his head about this, but continued to run.

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On the hill was a large pile of wood with a wooden cross in the middle of it. People where standing around it, talking or just staring holes in the air. The Doctor slowed down and walked towards a men with a blue hat, who was apparently the leader of this crowd. "Hey you! What do you wan´t here? You are not allowed up here!", the blue hatted man said. "Hello, I´m the Doctor", the Doctor waved with his hand and grinned, "You have my friend, and I reeeally want her back, so if you don´t mind I just take her with me and we forget everything."

The man stared for some time at him and answered with a simple:"No." The Doctor sighed:"This never works, eh? Who are you anyway? And why do you want to execute her? She hasn´t done anything." The man looked sad at the Doctor: "My name is Luis. Luis Salpeter. I´m the major of this village. And she has done many things. We could forgive her for almost everything, but one thing was unforgivable. She has done something to our children. We don´t know what we can do to save them. And the children are dying on us, one day after the another. Since we have captured the witch this morning, the dying has stopped. But the children are still on the threshold of death. We need to execute the witch, this is the only way!"

"NO! You don´t need to do that! Please, let me help. I can save your children, just let her go!", the Doctor said. Luis raised an eyebrow:"How can you help us? Who are you anyway, Doctor? Can we even trust you?" The Doctor stepped forward:" Yes, you can trust me! And how to help you, I don´t know it now but I can do it. Just let my friend go." The men, which where standing around Luis, started to whisper. After some moments Luis nodded and said to the Doctor:" We accept your help. But the witch will stay her until you have saved our children", he held up a hand as the Doctor tried to say something,"We don´t execute her until tomorrow. And to this hour you have time to save our children. If you are lucky, you get your friend back. If not, we will do it. For the welfare of our village."

With this words, he walked away. The Doctor rolled his eyes and sighed. To help this children couldn´t be to hard, or could it?

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"Just say "aaaah", I promise this don´t hurt", the Doctor said as he tried to examine the troth of one of the children. But the little boy don´t liked this at all and so he just kicked the Doctor with full force in the stomach...again. Twenty minutes later the Doctor was not only richer on little footprints all over his face, but he was also richer an knowledge. 1. The children are suffering from poisoning. 2. A group of the children had found berries, and all children from the village had eaten them. They haven´t told anybody about the berries, because the group of children had stolen them. So they had poisoned themselves, without knowing it. And 3. If a toddler bites you, he don´t let go to fast...

The Doctor was running back to the TARDIS. In one hand he was holding the TARDIS key, in the other some purple berries. The sun had setted some time ago and he needed to find a cure for the poison in the next hours if he wanted to save Donna. He ran to the lab and started with the science. Some blue, green, red and yellow liquids later he looked with a grin on a bottle with a colourless substance in it.

"Molto bene!", he shouted and setted of to the village. As he stepped out of the TARDIS the sun was already raising and he saw smoke, which was rising in the sky. I can´t be to late!, he thought and starts running as fast as he could. On the hill he saw what was going on. Donna was standing on the woodpile, tied to the cross. At the bottom the wood was already burning. The people from the village where standing around the pile, cheering and laughing. "STOP IT!", the Doctor ran on the place. Every head turned around, to see who was disturbing the execution. "Doctor!", a faint scream came from the woodpile, followed by coughing.

Luis stepped forward:"You failed and because of that we burning the witch. I have told you that we will." "I have found a cure fr your children, but let her go!", the Doctor held up the bottle. A murmur wandered trough the crowd. Luis took the bottle and inspected it:"Even if you tell the truth, we can´t stop this now! The flame is already burning!" "What?", the Doctor looked over to Donna. She was pulling desperately at the ropes, which where holding her at here place. "Doctor! Help me!", she shouted. The Doctor saw only one solution. He threw his brown coat on the ground and took a run-up. "Allons-y!", and he jumped right in the inferno.

He climbed up to Donna:"Are you all right?" She shouted at him:"They trying to burn my alive! No, I´m bloody not all right!" She started coughing again. The Doctor used his trusted sonic screwdriver on the ropes. The blue light lighted up and Donna was free. She slumped against the Doctor, who picked her up and jumped from the burning wood. "Ow! Hothothot!", he started patting some smouldering parts of his trousers. "Thanks, Spaceman", Donna murmured, still leaning against him.

The Doctor turned to the crowd:"Everybody, listen to me! Stop doing this! Stop hunting witches! Everyone of you is a father or a mother! Yes, many of you have lost their children, but don´t make one person responsible for all this! Something like this happens, this is live. Don´t search somebody who you can blame for everything, search for something that can solve the problem! Parents! Take some of the cure from your major and go to your children! Do something good and take care of them. And if you really need to blame somebody, then blame yourself! Blame yourself that you tried to kill an innocent person. That you tried to kill somebody who is important to somebody other, although you have lost yourself somebody important." And with this words the Doctor walked away, caring Donna in his arms.

The children were cured and lived on. And they told about the red haired witch, which where only and innocent women. And about the man with the brown coat and the old eyes who has taught them so much. And they telling it up to today.

Yay another chapter finished :D Thanks to all followers and reviewwriters, you are awesome! And another chapter which is finished at 5 in the morning...maybe I shouldn´t write in the night. But I´m sleeping at day because I´m doing everything at the night...Wait...Oh, no I´m a vampire O.o

Night everyone, I´m going to suck some blood *chrm chrm* I mean to bake some cookies