p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"strongspan style="color: #1a1a1a;"AN: Good news! I finished the story, there are 5 more chapters after this one! i've never finished writing a story before, this is a milestone for me! Yay! /span/strong/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Dr. Rosen was walking towards Stanton Parish on an abandoned railway platform. He was holding a syringe full of the liquid that would prevent Parish from healing./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""This is one of the first platforms." Parish said, his back still turned. "Watched them build it. Helped pour the concrete. Put this in here when it was still wet." Parish bent down and lightly rubbed his fingers over an impression in the cement. It read 'New York Union Cementworks 1913'. Below it was a silver coin. "Nineteen thirteen. Charles Barber. Liberty head, pure silver. Surprised no one dug it out. Certainly by now. But I am afraid we move through this world too quickly to notice things of true value."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Shut up!" Rosen yelled./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Parish turned his head. He was about 40, with a mustache and a small beard. His hair was brown, and swept back on his head./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Rosen fingered a gun, flipping the safety on and off. He watched both Parish, who had stood up, and Dani, who was now standing behind Parish. Parish walked towards Rosen, his boots clacking./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Firearm. How crass."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""She was everything to me, Stanton. And you killed her." Rosen spat the last few words./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Parish sucked in his cheeks uncomfortably, almost remorsefully. He brought his gaze up to meet Rosen's. "Yes, I did. For the greater good. My sweet Danielle was everything to me." Stanton patted his chest, over his heart./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""You have no right to talk about her," growled Dr. Rosen./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Parish paused. "Of course. My apologies. You'll forgive me, I have to make my way to the main concourse, and you should get yourself to a safe place. Please, Lee, it's important." He turned slowly, taking a few steps./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Dani got closer to Rosen. "This is what you want." She said into his ear./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""What?!" Hissed Dr. Rosen to Dani, having momentarily forgotten that she was a hallucination. Parish looked back at Rosen, slightly confused. "Wh-what do you want from me?" Rosen recovered./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Stanton Parish came back to stand directly in front of Rosen. "You don't know?" He said. His tone expressed that he was disappointed, and was not asking a question. He pulled a pocket watch out of his coat. It read 8:11. "In a few minutes, I'll be a mass murderer. I'll have served my purpose."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Skylar smacked the wall. "I can't kill the damn thing! Parish crosswired and hardened every access point. I'm gonna try and pull all the breakers."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""My sonic's useless, it can't register anything, the system is too..." He waved his hands in the air to aid his point./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""You'll be the man they need." Parish was telling Rosen. Rachel had been listening to their conversation with her ability. "I want you to lead them."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Kill him," said Dani. "He murdered me, Daddy, he murdered your little girl!" Her voice rose an octave. "Just put him in the ground!"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Rosen was visibly shaking, both from the gunshot wound and the stress. "No. No, I'm not gonna do it. I'm not that man. Because Danielle wouldn't have wanted it this way. She knew there was a better way."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Parish shook his head slightly. "I couldn't find it." He turned and began to walk away./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Well, we should have looked harder." Rosen smiled at the Dani that only he could see. "That's what she would have wanted."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Parish turned around. He started to walk back towards Rosen when a bullet hit Stanton squarely in the forehead. He dropped to the ground. Hicks stood in the doorway across the tracks, holding a smoking gun. He dashed across the tracks to Rosen, who was looking at Hicks, horrified./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Bill and Kat burst into the generator room. "Kat, help Skylar. Bill, Rosen and Parish were talking. I heard a gunshot." Rachel told Bill./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Bill sighed. "Okay. Hey, keep working on that. Doctor, Clara, come with us. Which way?"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Hicks stood above Parish with a gun still pointed at his head. "He's already starting to heal, Doc. Now I know you've got those drugs, let's finish this."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Dr. Rosen looked at the syringe in his hand, then back at Hicks. "No, Cameron."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Shoot him up! Kill this bastard and let's get the hell out of here."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Cameron... If we kill him, what does that make us?"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""He killed Dani."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""I know. I know. But if we let him live... He'll live with that pain forever. Don't do it, Cameron. Be the man that she loved."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Hicks thought for a moment, then shakily brought the gun down. Nina came running in behind him./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Cam?" She called. She stopped next to him, and looked from the gun in his hand to the body of Stanton Parish with the bullet in his skull./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Skylar was pulling all the switches she could find. Kat was looking at a map of Grand Central Station that was on top of several machines./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""These aren't all the breakers. There's another panel on the opposite side of the building." Kat called./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Why would they split them?" Asked Skylar, who was still pulling the breakers./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Security reasons. So people like you and I can't shut it down, which is smart. We can't kill the generator from here."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""The outgoing lines. They have to run through this panel somewhere. We'll cut 'em. Shut down power in the rest of the city."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""That's great, New York is safe, but what about the lights in the station? They're hard wired into the generator aren't they? We're screwed, right?" Kat asked. She knew they wouldn't be able to succeed, no matter how hard they tried./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Doc!" Bill called. He, Rachel, Clara, and the Doctor raced onto the platform where Dr. Rosen, Nina, and Hicks were. "Hicks! What happened?"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Parish was moving slightly on the ground./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Gary was looking at a picture of a clock through his feed. It read 8:17. "Oh. It's time,"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""RUN! GET OUT OF THE BUILDING!" Screamed Kat. She and Skylar had resorted to running through Grand Central Station, yelling warnings./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"They were too late. The power audibly surged, and everybody, both human and Alpha, dropped to the ground./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Gary watched all the people around him fall. What were they doing? What was going on? He saw that the lights had flashed. Gary started walking into the station. He saw Kat and Skylar lying on the ground, amidst everyone else./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Whoa. Oh. Bill?" Gary picked his way through the fallen people./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Much like Gary, the Doctor watched all the lights flash, and everyone around him dropped like a stone. Clara was lying on the cement, her hair spread out behind her head, one arm covering her body. Dr. Rosen had collapsed and was in a fetal position. Nina had her legs bent, and her head turned the opposite direction, facing Hicks. Hicks was lying spread eagled. Stanton Parish was unmoving./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Clara?!" The Doctor dropped to his knees and felt for a pulse. She was alive, just unconscious. He poked her cheek. "Clara?" The Doctor checked for pulses on everyone else around him. Dr. Rosen's was fluttery, but still beating. When the Doctor got to Stanton Parish, he hesitated, but checked anyway. None. He was dead. The Doctor scratched his head. He knew the lights flashing hadn't affected him because he wasn't human. He was just unsure of what to do now. Scooping up Clara, the Doctor headed down the stairs Dr. Rosen had come up from, into the sea of unmoving bodies. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="color: #1a1a1a;"AN: Most of the dialogue was taken directly from the episode. I don't own Alphas or Doctor Who. Dun dun dun dunnnnnnn.../span/strong/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Dr. Rosen was walking towards Stanton Parish on an abandoned railway platform. He was holding a syringe full of the liquid that would prevent Parish from healing./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""This is one of the first platforms." Parish said, his back still turned. "Watched them build it. Helped pour the concrete. Put this in here when it was still wet." Parish bent down and lightly rubbed his fingers over an impression in the cement. It read 'New York Union Cementworks 1913'. Below it was a silver coin. "Nineteen thirteen. Charles Barber. Liberty head, pure silver. Surprised no one dug it out. Certainly by now. But I am afraid we move through this world too quickly to notice things of true value."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Shut up!" Rosen yelled./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Parish turned his head. He was about 40, with a mustache and a small beard. His hair was brown, and swept back on his head./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Rosen fingered a gun, flipping the safety on and off. He watched both Parish, who had stood up, and Dani, who was now standing behind Parish. Parish walked towards Rosen, his boots clacking./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Firearm. How crass."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""She was everything to me, Stanton. And you killed her." Rosen spat the last few words./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Parish sucked in his cheeks uncomfortably, almost remorsefully. He brought his gaze up to meet Rosen's. "Yes, I did. For the greater good. My sweet Danielle was everything to me." Stanton patted his chest, over his heart./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""You have no right to talk about her," growled Dr. Rosen./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Parish paused. "Of course. My apologies. You'll forgive me, I have to make my way to the main concourse, and you should get yourself to a safe place. Please, Lee, it's important." He turned slowly, taking a few steps./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Dani got closer to Rosen. "This is what you want." She said into his ear./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""What?!" Hissed Dr. Rosen to Dani, having momentarily forgotten that she was a hallucination. Parish looked back at Rosen, slightly confused. "Wh-what do you want from me?" Rosen recovered./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Stanton Parish came back to stand directly in front of Rosen. "You don't know?" He said. His tone expressed that he was disappointed, and was not asking a question. He pulled a pocket watch out of his coat. It read 8:11. "In a few minutes, I'll be a mass murderer. I'll have served my purpose."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Skylar smacked the wall. "I can't kill the damn thing! Parish crosswired and hardened every access point. I'm gonna try and pull all the breakers."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""My sonic's useless, it can't register anything, the system is too..." He waved his hands in the air to aid his point./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""You'll be the man they need." Parish was telling Rosen. Rachel had been listening to their conversation with her ability. "I want you to lead them."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Kill him," said Dani. "He murdered me, Daddy, he murdered your little girl!" Her voice rose an octave. "Just put him in the ground!"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Rosen was visibly shaking, both from the gunshot wound and the stress. "No. No, I'm not gonna do it. I'm not that man. Because Danielle wouldn't have wanted it this way. She knew there was a better way."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Parish shook his head slightly. "I couldn't find it." He turned and began to walk away./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Well, we should have looked harder." Rosen smiled at the Dani that only he could see. "That's what she would have wanted."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Parish turned around. He started to walk back towards Rosen when a bullet hit Stanton squarely in the forehead. He dropped to the ground. Hicks stood in the doorway across the tracks, holding a smoking gun. He dashed across the tracks to Rosen, who was looking at Hicks, horrified./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Bill and Kat burst into the generator room. "Kat, help Skylar. Bill, Rosen and Parish were talking. I heard a gunshot." Rachel told Bill./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Bill sighed. "Okay. Hey, keep working on that. Doctor, Clara, come with us. Which way?"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Hicks stood above Parish with a gun still pointed at his head. "He's already starting to heal, Doc. Now I know you've got those drugs, let's finish this."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Dr. Rosen looked at the syringe in his hand, then back at Hicks. "No, Cameron."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Shoot him up! Kill this bastard and let's get the hell out of here."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Cameron... If we kill him, what does that make us?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""He killed Dani."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""I know. I know. But if we let him live... He'll live with that pain forever. Don't do it, Cameron. Be the man that she loved."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Hicks thought for a moment, then shakily brought the gun down. Nina came running in behind him./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Cam?" She called. She stopped next to him, and looked from the gun in his hand to the body of Stanton Parish with the bullet in his skull./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Skylar was pulling all the switches she could find. Kat was looking at a map of Grand Central Station that was on top of several machines./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""These aren't all the breakers. There's another panel on the opposite side of the building." Kat called./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Why would they split them?" Asked Skylar, who was still pulling the breakers./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Security reasons. So people like you and I can't shut it down, which is smart. We can't kill the generator from here."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""The outgoing lines. They have to run through this panel somewhere. We'll cut 'em. Shut down power in the rest of the city."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""That's great, New York is safe, but what about the lights in the station? They're hard wired into the generator aren't they? We're screwed, right?" Kat asked. She knew they wouldn't be able to succeed, no matter how hard they tried./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Doc!" Bill called. He, Rachel, Clara, and the Doctor raced onto the platform where Dr. Rosen, Nina, and Hicks were. "Hicks! What happened?"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Parish was moving slightly on the ground./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Gary was looking at a picture of a clock through his feed. It read 8:17. "Oh. It's time,"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""RUN! GET OUT OF THE BUILDING!" Screamed Kat. She and Skylar had resorted to running through Grand Central Station, yelling warnings./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"They were too late. The power audibly surged, and everybody, both human and Alpha, dropped to the ground./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Gary watched all the people around him fall. What were they doing? What was going on? He saw that the lights had flashed. Gary started walking into the station. He saw Kat and Skylar lying on the ground, amidst everyone else./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Whoa. Oh. Bill?" Gary picked his way through the fallen people./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"span style="color: #1a1a1a;"Much like Gary, the Doctor watched all the lights flash, and everyone around him dropped like a stone. Clara was lying on the cement, her hair spread out behind her head, one arm covering her body. Dr. Rosen had collapsed and was in a fetal position. Nina had her legs bent, and her head turned the opposite direction, facing Hicks. Hicks was lying spread eagled. Stanton Parish was unmoving./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="color: #1a1a1a;""Clara?!" The Doctor dropped to his knees and felt for a pulse. She was alive, just unconscious. He poked her cheek. "Clara?" The Doctor checked for pulses on everyone else around him. Dr. Rosen's was fluttery, but still beating. When the Doctor got to Stanton Parish, he hesitated, but checked anyway. None. He was dead. The Doctor scratched his head. He knew the lights flashing hadn't affected him because he wasn't human. He was just unsure of what to do now. Scooping up Clara, the Doctor headed down the stairs Dr. Rosen had come up from, into the sea of unmoving bodies. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="color: #1a1a1a;"AN: Most of the dialogue was taken directly from the episode. I don't own Alphas or Doctor Who. Dun dun dun dunnnnnnn.../span/strong/p