Because I was such a horrible person, here's an extra long chapter. I hope you enjoy! if you like it and want to see more (with no more interruptions, or for any wibbly-wobbly timey-whimey reason you want to, hit that little nice button that says follow. Thanks!
I slowly climbed into consciousness and opened my eyes to see River sitting next to me.
"Oh God! I'm so glad you're okay!" she sighed.
"The doctor? Is he-"
"He's gone. He couldn't have left Demons Run, or else we would have known. But there are still some areas of demon's run that have been closed off ever since…" she trailed off and pain clouded her eyes. She shook herself and looked at me with a frustrated expression. "The real question is, what are you?"
"What do you mean?"
"Strange things have been happening to specifically you. You can tell when something is going to happen minutes before it does, you hear things that people don't say, and then there's the mystery of what made you pass out. No one ever touched you, but when the Cyber planner put his finger to his lips you collapsed."
"As far as I know, I'm completely normal. Anyway, are we sending a search party to get the Doctor, I mean Cyber planner, back again?"
She hesitated, "yes, you've been out for about three days, so we're planning on sending it tomorrow."
"I want to go on it." I demanded
"I don't think that's a good idea."
"Let me rephrase. I am going on it."
She sighed, "Fine."
The next day came too quickly and soon enough we were only an hour away from the mission. I kept having this horrible foreboding feeling.
"Are you going?" I asked River.
"They have my husband; Hell yeah I'm going." she glanced up at me."Are you okay? You don't have to do this."
"I need to do it."
We both headed out the door and walked silently towards the meeting place, next to the elevators. I was handed a gun and an earpiece. I had never fired a gun in my life, but everything had become crazy in the last, what, week? River saw me look skeptically at the pistol.
"It's easy, just point and shoot."
"Yeah, easy." I said and slid it into its holster.
"Okay," the lead soldier called out, "we're going down to hunt a don't know their capabilities. This is a dangerous mission, and I don't want anyone going down that isn't fully committed. Are we clear?"
"Yes sir." everyone said in unison.
"Good. Let's go get us a cyber planner."
We all stepped into the elevator and the doors closed, leaving me in a small confined space with a lot of people. To say the least it was uncomfortable. The elevator lurched and slowly lowered down. After what seemed like an eternity, there was a ding and the doors slid open. I nudged my way to the front to get a look at our surroundings. The hallway in front of us was destroyed; cables hung from the ceiling and the only light came from the windows that looked into outer space. The floor was littered in broken glass and the metal on the wall had massive burn marks on it. The only noise was the breathing of the soldiers. I pulled out my pistol and held it defensively in front of group moved forward silently, which I thought wasn't silent enough. The leader made a signal with his hand and the group split in half. River motioned for me to follow her. Our group split up again, leaving me, River, and one soldier in a group. We kept walking, checking every room and every hallway. Nothing. River clicked her earpiece on and said into it "have you found anything yet?" she got a few responses and the talked more into it. She clicked it off and turned to me.
"Two groups have gone silent."
"So it's here then. Let's keep going." I started forward again. I kept having the feeling of being watched, but every time I turned around, nothing was there. We clicked a button to open another door and there it was. I heard River give a silent sob. This was a hospital ward. Suddenly something moved, and I looked over towards it. A figure was standing in the room. Like it was a dream, the figure took on the shape of a woman with bright red hair. She was holding something in her arms. I looked closer to see what it was, and then realized it was a child. The mother was smiling and staring down at her baby. But then another figure, just as ghostly as the first, strode in. the mother wrapped her arms protectively around her baby, but the other figure stormed up and wrenched the crying baby from her hands. The mother screamed, and two more figures that looked like soldiers grabbed her arms and held her back. She wrestled and screamed, but to no avail. I heard her screams, but they were faint. I noticed that she kept yelling one word, over and over: Melody.
I jumped as River touched my shoulder, pulling me back from the vision. I turned to look at her, and something in me jumped.
"Who is Melody?" I asked in nothing but a whisper.