Doctor And Assitant, (Chap. 4)

Chapeter Four: To Beat 3 Aliens and Rescue 1

/the Doctor\\

The Doctor muttered his promises and vows under his breath so the still careful and curious-Caraphernelia (oh, look, alliteration: he didn't mean to do that!) wouldn't ask him to repeat. Just thinking of her made him die inside.

Screams were coming from across the ship's main room, which was where they were. Cara shuddered. "What are these things?"

"Cybermen. I can explain in the TARDIS later, after we get..."

"Yeah, you don't got to say anything."

The Doctor smiled weakly at her in a way of saying "thank you." She nodded, returning the smile. He grabbed her hand and they both stood up, watching their surroundings.

He heard something similar to a teleport teleporting a few feet in front of them. A Cyberman appeared in between seven rays of lilac-magenta lights, a hostage in hand.

The woman flailed and screamed. "No, stop it! The Doctor's going to kill you for this! Ah! No, stop, put me down! I said, put mE DOWN!"

The voice was in a high octave and automatically knew it was Derpy. The Doctor felt his hands tremble and a tear spilled onto his cheek. He wiped it away unsteadily and kept watching, trying to think of a plan.

"Please," Derpy cried, "just put me down..."

Derpy disappeared from view and the rays of light vanished. Before the Doctor could react, Cara ran forwards. "Oi, tin boys! Over here!"

"Cara-"

"Get her!"

Cara pushed one of the four Cybermen closest to her making it fall over the others. A domino effect was caused, but the Doctor had begun running so he couldn't see the end of it.

He listened for Derpy's voice but heard nothing, only sobbing, so he ran towards that. Took a right, kept going forwards. Left, left, right, right, right, straight. Diagonal, technically northeast to him. And he saw the scariest thing ever imaginable.

"No, please!" Derpy yelled. She was trying to stop herself from falling into the plastic wrappings but the Cyberman yelled she'd be upgraded and pushed her in.

"HANDS OFF OF HER!" the Doctor roared.

"Doctor!" Derpy gasped, climbing out as quickly as she could. A Cyberman close to her stomped on her hand and she cried out in pain.

"Doctor! You, shall, be, ASSIMILATED!" the first (out of three) Cyberman cheered.

The second one stepped towards him, the third stepping in between Cyberman 1 and 2. The Doctor laughed, whipped out his sonic screwdriver, and pointed it at 2.

"No one moves. No one touches her. Let me have her."

"..." Silence from 1.

"..." Silence from 3.

"...YOU SHALL B-" 2 began talking but the Doctor pressed his screwdrivers' button, an electrical energy hitting the center of his forehead.

"Who wants some?!" he taunted. "Come on!"

Before anyone could respond, the Doctor aimed up again at 1 and shot before doing the same to 3. They all fell to their knees and clutched their heads before hitting the ground.

Derpy ran to the Doctor and wrapped her arms around him, tears streaming down her face. The Doctor smiled at her and ignored the urge to kiss her...again.

"Doct-" her breath was choked on a sob and she buried her face deeper into his suit, hiding the blush on her face.

"It's okay," he whispered after he lowered his head to the top of hers', stroking her hair, "you're safe now."

"Doctor!" Cara yelled from outside of the room. "I can't hold them for much longer!"

"Oh, right. Derpy, it seems our work here isn't done!" the Doctor laughed, holding her hand and running to Cara.

Caraphernelia was pushing the Cybermen down and dodging their lasers. Derpy watched with fascination and the Doctor kept running with her, using his other hand to grab Cara and open the TARDIS.

He pushed the two women inside and shut the door behind him as he was the last to enter. The TARDIS automatically flew to an orbit in outer space. He let out a sigh, leaning against the doors. "Wow... That was something."

Derpy walked over to the Doctor and smiled before hugging him again. He grinned and pulled her to him, his arms around her so tightly that she couldn't move. But she didn't care. And frankly, neither did he. He was so happy she was back with him. So happy, that he almost thought of telling her how he felt. His hearts fluttered at the idea and his smile grew.

"Doctor, why are your hearts beating so fast all of a sudden?"

But then he stopped and blinked a few times. He knew the answer: he was hugging the woman he loved, but couldn't love. He lied, "I don't know."

Cara then thought it'd be funny to clear her throat and ask, "are you two gonna kiss or what?"

Derpy gave a confused and shocked look up to the Doctor. His eyes opened widely and he shot a murderous glare at Caraphernelia and mouthed "don't you dare tell her" when his assistant wasn't looking.

Caraphernelia laughed and nodded, putting her hands up in a half surrender.

Derpy flinched. "Ow...," she whimpered, pulling away.

"Oh no, did I hurt you? Derpy? Are you okay?" In the heat of the moment, the Doctor had unknowingly gotten onto his knees while asking her these questions.

"It's my hand," she sighed, examining it.

"What's going on?"

The Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver -

-"Wait, wait," Cara laughed. "I'm a doctor. Shouldn't I see what's going on before you use your alien powers? She's human, technically, so I'm qualified."

The Doctor merely laughed and nodded, leading his assistant (holding her good hand) over to the torn couch and helped her sit, although she reminded him several times she was okay on her own. He wouldn't take "no" as an answer, though. And to be completely honest, wouldn't if it wouldn't benefit her in the end.

Cara poked at Derpy's hand and asked where it hurt, how much pressure she could put on it without it hurting, and on a scale of 1-10, how bad was the pain.

"4, but it's enough to hurt," Derpy muttered.

Cara continued her check up until she smiled. "Nothing more than a bone bruise. You'll be fine."

"Thank you," Derpy and the Doctor said in unison.

"Now, I think it's about time I head home. Should you give me a ride?"

"Tell us about yourself," Derpy smiled out of no where.

"Oh, um, okay. Well, my full name is Caraphernelia Michelle Jones. I'm 29 years old, born and raised in London. Live there today, to be exact. Lovely town. Beautiful place. My mother left when I was 15, my dad committing suicide when I was 19. Been on my own since.

"I'm an only child. I studied medicines and diseases throughout grades 6-10 because that was my strongpoint, and then I realized I wanted to become a doctor before I took my exams. Graduated college after six years. A+ student throughout every school and class ever."

"What's your favorite planet?"

"Hmm... other than earth? I think something new'd be nice. Like something that hasn't been found out."

The Doctor smiled at his assistant, and then at Cara. "How'd you like to travel with us?"

Cara's jaw dropped and her eyes went wide. "You mean, travel all of time and space, with you two?! With two ALIENS?!"

Derpy leaned closer to the Doctor. "Geez. Is that how you felt every time I called YOU an 'alien'?"

"Pretty much. And yes, Cara, would you like to travel all of time and space with us?"

"That'd. Be. AWESOME! Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! Oh thank you, thank you, thank you!"

"Hey, Derpy, wanna help her pick out a room and show her around the TARDIS? I'll figure out where to go."

/Derpy\\

"Okay," she smiled at the Doctor, grabbing Cara's pale-with-a-hint-of-apricot hand.

Cara followed her happily, looking around. "How big is this thing?"

"The TARDIS is absolutely huge. Pretty cool, huh?" They went up the steps and turned to the right, following the hallway down.

"Definitely." Cara looked around a bit more. "You know, my favorite stories growing up as a kid were about space. But I also liked one, where there was a magical man, and he'd never die. You could spend all of your life with him and he was... well, perfect. I sort of obsessed over that story, actually," she laughed.

"If only...," Derpy muttered sadly, crossing her arms. "Anyways. There a few hundred rooms here. I'll show you them."

"Okay," Cara smiled. It quickly turned to a frown, however, when she saw she had upset Derpy. She pondered in her head why it had stricken her so negatively, but cursed herself mentally for doing it.