Warning: Sexual Content!
Chapter 23
Fear/Satan's Pit/Love and Monsters
By: Izzy
Ida and Rhee stood up from the rock they were holding onto. "You alright Ida?" Rhee asked.
"I'm fine what about you?" Ida said with concern on her face. "You just miscarried yesterday."
"Oh, I'm a Time Lady," Rhee said with a sly smile. "We're made of tough stuff."
"Time Lady?" Ida asked. "But I thought they were just a myth."
"Nah," Rhee said. "Not a myth. Just endangered."
"The Doctor is he a Time Lord?" Ida asked cautiously.
"Yeah," Rhee said. "It's a long story we don't have time for."
"Because of the Beast?" Ida asked.
"No 'cause we'd run out of air," Rhee said. Ida nodded and dropped it.
"Everyone together. Doctor?" they heard Zack over the radio. "What about Ida and Rhee? Any word?"
"I can't get a reply." the Doctor said over the radio sounding positivity terrified. "I've tried everything."
"I'm here," Rhee said. She waited a minute and didn't get a reply so she used her Sonic to fix the radio. She made it static then said. "No, sorry, I'm fine. Still here."
"I thought I lost you," he said as little more than a whisper. But she heard it.
"Love," she said. "I'm fine. You know that Time Ladies are made of tougher stuff than that." He laughed. "Anyway, both of us are fine. Promise. But the seal opened up. It's not a trapdoor. All we've got left is this chasm."
"How deep is it?" Zack asked.
"Can't tell." she said. "It looks like it could on forever."
"Don't you dare jump!" the Doctor exclaimed.
"But there's nothing." Zack said sounding scared. "I mean there's nothing coming out?"
"No sign of any Beast," Rhee said. "If that's what you mean."
"It said Satan." Danny said.
"Come on, Danny," the Doctor said annoyed. "Keep it together."
"Is there such a thing?" Ida asked.
"It's up to belief," Rhee asked. "I don't."
"Ida?" Zack said. "I recommend that you withdraw. Immediately."
"But, we've come all this way." Ida said.
"Okay," Zack said. "That was an order. Withdraw. When that thing opened, the whole planet's shifted. One more inch and we fall into the black hole. So this thing stops right now."
"But it's not much better up there with the Ood." Ida said. Rhee remained quiet even when Ida looked at her for back up.
"I'm initiating strategy nine, so I need the two of you back up top immediately, no-" Zack started but was cut off by Ida turning off their radio feeds.
"What do you think?" she asked.
"I think that was an order." Rhee said.
"Yeah, but what do you think?" Ida asked.
"It said," Rhee said. "I am the temptation." She took a deep breath trying to mentally prepare for what came next.
"Well, if there's something in there, why is it still hiding?" Ida asked.
"I think we only opened the prison but not the cell," Rhee said.
"We should go down." Ida said. "I'd go. What about you?"
"Oh, in a second, but then again, that is so human." Rhee said as she looked down the chasm. "Where angels fear to tread. Even now, standing on the edge. It's that feeling you get, right? In the back of your head. That strange little impulse. That mad little voice saying, go on. Go over. Get in there. Maybe it's relying on that." She looked down the chasm and thought for a bit. "Goddess, I feel like the Doctor. Maybe that's not a bad thing." She laughed. "We should do as your commander asks." Ida nodded sadly. Rhee turned the radio feeds back on. "Doctor, we're coming back."
"Thanks, Rhee," the Doctor said as he sighed in relief. She smiled and then sighed.
"Okay, we're in. Bring us up." Ida said.
"Ascension in three, two, one." Jefferson said as the capsule jerked. After a bit they stop and the power goes out.
"This is the darkness. This is my domain." the Beast's voice came over the radio. The monitor brought up a picture of the ood. "You little things that live in the light, clinging to your feeble suns which die in the-"
"That's not the Ood." Danny said. "Something's talking through them."
"Only the darkness remains." the Beast said.
"This is Captain Zachary Cross Flane of Sanctuary Base Six, representing the Torchwood archive." Zack said. "You will identify yourself."
"You know my name." the Beast said.
"What do you want?" Zack asked.
"You will die here." the Beast said. "All of you. This planet is your grave."
"It's him. It's him. It's him." Toby said.
"If you are the Devil, then answer me this." the Doctor said sounding very annoyed. "Which one, hmm? Cos the universe has been busy since you've been gone. There's more religions than there are planets in the sky. The Archiphets, Orkology, Christianity, Pash Pash, New Judaism, San Klah, Church of the Tin Vagabond. Which devil are you?"
"All of them." the Beast said.
"What, then you're the truth behind the myth?" the Doctor asked.
"This one knows me as I know him." the Beast said. "The killer of his own kind. As does the woman."
"How did you end up on this rock?" the Doctor asked sounding even more annoyed.
"The Disciples of the Light rose up against me and chained me in the pit for all eternity." the Beast said.
"When was this?" the Doctor asked.
"Before time." the Beast said.
"What does that mean?" the Doctor asked.
"Before time." the Beast repeated.
"What does before time mean?" the Doctor asked.
"Before light and time and space and matter." the Beast said. "Before the cataclysm. Before this universe was created."
"That's impossible. No life could have existed back then." the Doctor said sounding a bit shocked.
"Is that your religion?" the Beast asked.
"It's a belief." the Doctor said. Rhee knew he was worried about her, she could hear it in his voice as he spoke. And it was going to get worse before it got better.
"You know nothing." the Beast said. "All of you, so small. The Captain, so scared of command." Zack. "The soldier, haunted by the eyes of his wife." Jefferson. "The scientist, still running from Daddy." Ida. "The little boy who lied." Danny. "The virgin." Toby. "And the woman that knows me better than any of you. The Dragon. The Lady that loves the Darkness. Your fears are founded little one, for you will die soon." Rhee.
"What does he mean, Rhee?" Ida asked.
"I know more than I tell anyone," Rhee said. "Even the Doctor."
"And you must not say!" the Doctor said.
"Beast!" she said. "I do know you. But not in the way you led them to believe. I know because I've seen it. Evil is only in the heart not in you!"
"You will die!" the Beast shouted as the ood's picture was replaced by the Beast's image on the monitor. Everyone but Rhee and the Doctor started talking all at once. Rhee took a deep breath as annoyance took over her brain. Some times she disliked people that believed in a greater evil.
"Silence!" Rhee yelled over the radio. Everyone shut up. "You want a voice in the dark then hear mine! That thing is playing on your fears! Darkness, childhood nightmares, all that stuff!"
"But that's how the devil works." Danny said.
"Or a good psychologist." the Doctor said.
"Yeah, but how did it know about my father?" Ida asked.
"Telepathy," Rhee said and Ida gave her a strange look. "I mean it, the ood have a low level telepathic field that lets them know what you need when you need it. And the Beast is using a telepathic field to control the ood." Rhee took a deep breath. "I have seen evil. True evil. A man beating his wife just because he could. A family take up arms against each other when an elder of the family died, all over the elder's money. Those are humans doing truly evil things not because the Devil made them do it. They did it because they were sick." The cable began to fray. "Doctor, listen to me. I'll always find a way back to you!"
"What do you mean?" he asked panic thick in his voice.
"Just remember," she said. "I-" The cable snapped and the capsule fell back down.
"The cable's snapped!" Ida shouted.
"Get out!" Rhee shouted. She grabbed Ida's hand and they jumped out of the capsule in the nick of time, the miles of steel cable crushed the capsule.
"Thank you," Ida said. "I'd be dead without your help."
"You can thank me by living," Rhee said. "Anyway how much air do we have left?"
"Sixty minutes." Ida said. "Fifty five."
"That's awesome," Rhee said sarcastically. She sighed as she sat down for a minute on the rocks.
"Have you really seen those things?" Ida asked.
"Yeah," Rhee said sadly. "My neighbor was the wife." Ida gasped. "She would run out into the middle of the street trying to get away and he would beat her in the street and drag her back in for more."
"I'm sorry," Ida said.
"It was a long time ago," Rhee said. "I was just a child. Every night." She sighed and ran a hand through her hair.
"Well, we've got all this cable, we might as well use it." Ida said changing the subject for Rhee's sake. "The drum's disconnected. We could adapt it, feed it through."
" To abseil into the pit, right?" Rhee asked.
"We're running out of air with no way back." Ida said. "It's the only thing we can do. Even if it's the last thing we ever achieve."
"My bondmate is up there, we'll get back I promise." Rhee said.
"Well, maybe the key to that is finding out what's in the pit." Ida said.
"I have to go down," Rhee said. "My Time Lady body is the only on that can handle it." Ida didn't argue with Rhee. They hooked Rhee up to the cable.
"That should hold it." Ida said as she checked the cable. "How's it going?"
"Fine." Rhee said. "Should work. And now I feel human, afraid." Rhee got closer to the edge. "Whoa, the urge to jump is stronger than my fear. The little voice in the back of my head telling me to go."
How are you? She heard the Doctor ask through their bond. He sounded like he was freaking out. She knew he would be.
Don't worry 'bout me, she said. I'll be fine the only one I want you to make sure lives is Jefferson.
Jefferson? He asked.
He's gonna at one point tried for a honorable death, she said. She heard him groan. Yeah, so promise you'll try and save him?
You know I will, he said.
I love you, she said.
I love you too, he replied. Be careful.
You too, she said. Oh, and very soon the Beast's telepathic field will interfere with ours.
Why? He asked. What are you about to do? She doesn't answer him right away, which gets him more upset. What are you about to do?!
What I have to, she said.
What the hell does that me?! He asked as she felt his fear overcome him.
"Rhee?" Ida asked sounding concerned.
"Sorry, Ida," Rhee said. "What were you saying?" He is still asking her what she was about to do but she ignores him.
"The urge to jump." Ida said. "Do you know where it comes from, that sensation? Genetic heritage. Ever since we were primates in the trees. It's our body's way of testing us. Calculating whether or not we can reach the next branch."
"Nah," Rhee said. "I think it's deeper than that." Then she launches herself off the side of the chasm into the chasm.
"Rhee!" Ida yelled as she tried to slow down the steel cable. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine," Rhee said. "I had to jump otherwise I wouldn't have. Anyway the wall of the pit seems to be the same as the cavern, rather boring. There's a crust about twenty feet down and then nothing. Just the pit. Okay, then. Lower me down."
"Well, here we go then." Ida said as she started to lower Rhee farther in the chasm."That did it mean by 'The Lady that loves the Darkness'?"
"I love the literal darkness," Rhee said. "When I was married to my first husband he hated how dark I like it."
"First husband?" Ida asked. "How many times have you been married?"
"The Doctor's my third husband," Rhee said.
"Third?" Ida asked.
"Yup," Rhee said.
"How old are you?" Ida asked.
"Everyone asks me that," Rhee laughed. "I'm 35 now, almost 36. My first husband I married when I was 20 my second when I was 25."
"And how old were you when you married the Doctor?" Ida asked when Rhee didn't say.
"We just got married," she said. "A little over a week ago."
"Ah," Ida said. "So you really don't think this Beast is real?"
"Well, you get representations of the Devil right across the universe, in the myths and legends of a million worlds." Rhee said quoting the Doctor. "Earth, Draconia, Velconsadine, Daemos. The carving on the wall. It's the same image, over and over again. I think the idea had to come from somewhere."
"Emanating from here?" Ida asked.
"Could be." Rhee said.
"But if this is the original, doesn't that make it real?" Ida asked. "Does that make it the actual devil, though?"
"Well, if that's what you want to believe." Rhee said. "Personally I don't. Evil is in your heart. Everyone is capable of it. Even me. But I don't hear any voice in the back of my head telling me to do bad things. It's my choice. I drank because it helped me deal, not because a devil told me too."
"You used to be an alcoholic?" Ida asked. "But you don't seem like a recovering alcoholic."
"Maybe I'm just a good actress," Rhee said. "That was a long time ago. Goddess, it's been ten years now." Suddenly the cable jerked and she stopped moving.
"That's it." Ida said. Rhee whipped her Sonic back out and tried to get some readings. "That's all we've got. You getting any sort of readout?"
"Nothing." Rhee said with a heavy sigh. She knew this part was coming but it didn't make her any less scared. She was afraid of heights. "Could be miles to go, yet. Or could be thirty feet. No way of telling. I could survive thirty feet."
"Oh no you don't." Ida said as she put the drum in reverse. "I'm pulling you back up, if I come back without you that Doctor will kill me." Rhee used her Sonic to stop the drum. "What're you doing?"
"You bring me back, then we're just going to sit there and run out of air." Rhee said. "I've got to go down."
"But you can't." Ida begged. "Rhee, you can't! The Doctor will kill me."
"Nah," Rhee said. "He would never kill you. I like you too much." She laughed. "He'd kill me for jumping like he told me not to."
"But I don't want to die on my own." Ida said as she started to cry.
"I know." Rhee said. "But you won't." She started to prepare to jump. "I didn't ask. What do you believe in?"
"Nothing really," Ida said. "I was brought up Neo Classic Congregational, because of my mum. She was. My old mum. But no, I never believed."
"Not what I meant," Rhee said. "Believe isn't necessary religion. I call my self a Wiccan but in reality it is the only title that is close to how I believe."
"Then what do you mean?" Ida asked.
"I mean," Rhee said then took a deep breath. "I believe in the impossible. I believe anything is possible. Ghosts and aliens."
"Then why don't you believe in the Devil," Ida asked.
"Because he doesn't believe in me," Rhee said. "Thank you, Ida."
"Don't go!" Ida yelled.
"If ya get to talk to the Doctor before me," Rhee stopped and thought for a minute. This could fail and she would be dead. But so would he. "Tell him I'm sorry. I love him with both my new hearts. But I had to jump. I believe in him most of all." She lets go of the cable. She hits somethings solid and blacks out.
Meanwhile Ida is up on the lip of the chasm crying. Rhee was so kind. She was so loving. Ida couldn't believe someone so wonderful was dead. "Are you there, Rhee?" she heard the Doctor's voice came over the radio.
"She's gone," Ida sniffed.
"What'd you mean, she's gone?" he asked anger thick in his voice. "I can still feel her. Barely but I can!"
"She fell into the pit." Ida said. "And I don't know how deep it is. Miles and miles and miles."
"She jumped?!" he asked anger still thick in his voice.
"I couldn't stop her." she said. "She gave me a message for you."
"What was it?" he asked anger quickly being replaced by grief and sadness.
"She loves you, with both her new hearts," she said. He laughed. "But she said she had to jump. And that she believes in you most of all." She could hear the Doctor starting to cry. She felt for him. Rhee was an amazing woman.
"I'm sorry." Zack's voice came over the radio now. "Ida? There's no way of reaching you. No cable No back up. You're ten miles down."
"You should see this place, Zack." she said as she started to cry again but she didn't cry loud enough for the radio to pick up. Her voice cracked as she continued to talk. "It's beautiful. Well, I wanted to discover things, and here I am."
"We've got to abandon the base." he said. "I'm declaring this mission unsafe. All we can do is make sure no one ever comes here again."
"But we'll never find out what it was." she said as the tears continued.
"Well, maybe that's best." he said.
"Yeah," she said.
"Officer Scott-" he started but she stopped him.
"It's all right. Just go. Good luck." she said.
"And you." he said then she turned off the radio and broke. She cried hard.
Rhee woke up at the bottom of the chasm. She saw that her face plate was broken and she took off the helmet. "I'm breathing." she laughed. She stood up and tried to get her baring as she did she heard the rocket lift off. "The rocket. Please be safe my love." She used her Sonic for light. She stepped up to the wall to see the drawings. "The history of some big battle. Man against Beast. So much prettier than on the show." She ran her hand across the wall. "Here are the urns." She ran her hand across the picture of the urns. She then turned around to see the Beast himself.
"It would be stupid not accept that you exist," she said. "I don't have to accept what you are, but you're physical existence, I'll give you that." She sighed. "You know if you were really as all powerful as the legends give you credit for then you could talk to me now." She paused to listen. "No?" She paused again and the body struggled against it's chains. "Not so big and bad are you?" It howled. "I don't believe that you are the root of all evil. And ugly alien? Yes. But the Devil? Satan? Hell no. If that was the case you could be everywhere at once. You can't, can you? You're just a large fake!" It roared again this time breathing fire. "Oo, am I suppose to be scared?!" It roared again. "I've been so much. Seen so much that I'm not afraid of you!" She sighed.
"Though I have to give the people that made this prison props," she said as she looked around. "The prison is perfect. It's absolute, it's eternal. Oh, yes! Open the prison, the gravity field collapses. This planet falls into the black hole! You escape, you die." She walked closer to the urns in front of the Beast. "It's brilliant! But that's just the body. The body is trapped, that's all. The devil is an idea. In all those civilizations, just an idea." She picked up a rock. "You may have seen my fears. And they may be founded. I may even die. I don't care!" She took a deep breath. "My bondmate has my hearts and I believe in him. He is more important than me. I know that." She lifted the rock over her head ready to smash the urn. "I trust him! I love him! And love is stronger than evil. Stronger than YOU!" She smashed the urn then the other one. "You're free! Free to die! You're going into the black hole!" She laughed like a manic as the Beast struggled against his bonds. She ran to the back of the cave trying to find the TARDIS. She found the TARDIS rather quickly. She snapped her fingers and the doors opened. She grinned. She with the help of the TARDIS grabbed Ida then the rocket and started to pull it to safety. "Sorry about the hijack, Captain." she said. "This is the good ship TARDIS. Now, first thing's first. Have you got a Doctor aboard?"
"How?!" he asked surprised. "You're piloting the TARDIS!" He laughed as Zack and the other members of the rocket gave him a weird look. "She's just towing you home. Gravity schmavity. My people practically invented black holes." He thought about if for a minute. "Well, in fact, they did. In a couple of minutes, we'll be nice and safe."
"He's right." she giggled. "Captain? Can we do a swap? Say, if you give me my Doctor and I'll give you Ida Scott? How's that sound?" She put Ida on the camera.
"She's alive!" Zack shouted.
"Yes. Thank God." Danny said.
"I'm not god but thanks," Rhee teased them. "She's a bit of oxygen starved, but she should be all right." She sighed. "Ah! I see Jefferson's fine! Great! Knew you would."
"You know I'll do anything for you!" the Doctor said with a large goofy grin on his face.
"We're entering clear space," she said. "I'm ready to have my bondmate back." They did the swap. Rhee waited right before the console for the Doctor to walk in. He stood in front of the doors and looked at her.
"I thought I'd lost you again," he whispered.
"You didn't," she said. "You know us Time Ladies are made of tougher stuff than humans."
"Is that why you had to jump?" he asked. "Why you didn't let Ida go in your place?"
"No that was cause I knew the TARDIS was down there," she said. "Ida couldn't have piloted the TARDIS." She laughed but he still looked like he could cry.
"Then why didn't you let me go?!" he asked as she ran to her and held her as if she would disappear.
"Because I couldn't," she said. "I could barely stop myself from decking Toby when he killed Scooti. So I knew I wasn't going to be able to wait until the right moment to kill Toby." He let go of his tears. She rubbed his back. She knew how he felt. She would be the same if she'd have let him go. "We need to say goodbye to Zack and Ida." He nodded and let her go change. When she came back he was already talking to them. He looked over at her and smiled.
"Zack?" he said as he looked back to the screen. "We'll be off, now. Have a good trip home. And the next time you get curious about something. Oh, what's the point. You'll just go blundering in. The human race." He smiled fondly at Zack and Rhee came into view of the monitor.
"But Rhee, what did you find down there?" Ida asked. "That creature, what was it?"
"I don't know." Rhee shrugged. "I can't decipher writing. But that's OK." She laughed. "The day we know everything? Might as well stop."
"What do you think it was, really?" Ida asked.
"I think we beat it. That's good enough for me." Rhee said.
"Ida? See you again, maybe." he said.
"I hope so." Ida said.
"Thank you, guys, for taking care of my Doctor," Rhee said.
"He took care of us," Danny said.
"Hang on though, Rhee, Doctor. You never really said. You two, who are you?" Ida asked.
"Oh, the stuff of legend." the Doctor said with a goofy grin at Rhee. He shut off the monitor. She moved to go to the hall. "Oi! Where are you headed?"
"Kitchen, I'm starved!" she exclaimed.
"You said you weren't hungry at the base," he teased.
"Well I lied," she said. "You know I'm a picky eater. I'll starve before I'll eat anything from that base."
"Then I'd have to force feed you," he teased.
"Nah," she said. "Just let me regen and then maybe I won't be so picky."
"I would never," he said sounding hurt. "Regeneration is painful."
"I know," she said quietly. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to hurt you."
"I know," he said. "Well what do you want?" He walked to her and went with her to the kitchen.
"What are you going to cook for me?" she asked surprised.
"Yeah," he said. "Why not?" She giggled.
"OK," she said. "I'd like spaghetti."
"Easy," he said. He cooked for them both and they ate in silence. He had so much he wanted to tell her but she looked so tired he would just let her be. After dinner she excused herself for bed. He told her he'd be in the console room if she needed him.
She slept for six hours and woke up peacefully. She sighed as she streched. The first thing she noticed was that they had landed. It was 8am on June 17th of 2006. Why had they landed? She wondered. She then noticed that he had laid beside her as some point. Probably told her where he was going. Goddess, men were always doing that. Talking to her while she slept. She can't remember what she's told when she's asleep. She sighed. She got dressed in a short black skirt and a purple blose with black flats. She walked to the console room as he walked through the door.
"Have fun?" she asked. He rolled his eyes and ran to the console.
"No a Hoix is not fun." he said.
"A Hoix?" she asked. Were they there now? Oh, no. "Take us back!"
"What?" he asked as he watched the teasing look she once had become twisted with fear and concern. "Why?"
"There is another dangerous alien on Earth around that time," she said. "We can save lives." She was determined to save them. He did as was requested.
"Back 30 second later," he said. She went to their room and grabbed his old leather jacket and her phone. She got back to the console room and he was ready to leave with her.
"I'm going alone," she said.
"No you're not!" he protested.
"Yes I am," she said. "I just became a Time Lady, but other than my abilities a don't feel like a Time Lady. I have yet to prove-"
"You have nothing to prove!" he exclaimed. She walked closer to him and put a finger on his lips.
"I have yet to prove myself, to myself," she said. "I have so many questions that only I can answer." He gave her a strange look as she removed her finger. "Like am I the same person? Am I a good person? What does being a Time Lady mean to me?"
"The first two are yes," he said as he pulled her into a hug. "I wish you'd let me help you. And before you go off. I'll never claim to understand what it's like to change race but I do know regeneration. And if changing race is anything like regenerating then I understand. Go before i change my mind." He kissed her on the forehead. "I love you." He now knew why she was acting odd. She was confused about herself. About being a Time Lady.
"I love you too," she said. "Thank you." He let go of her and she ran out of the TARDIS. She tried to remember this. She hated this episode so remembering was harder than with most other episodes. She never liked Elton but what had happened to Ursula was worse than how much she didn't like Elton. She found Elton walking into the LINDA headquarters. She followed him but remained hidden. She slipped in and took the stairs so no one would see her. She waited for the alien that called himself Victor to make his move. She remembered this part. The man would come and con they into helping him find the Doctor. She couldn't have that. And she had come to care for Jackie and Elton had upset Jackie. Jackie hadn't called but she would soon. The elevator ding brought her back to the present.
"So, we meet at last, LINDA." Victor said.
"Pleased to meet you, sir." an older man said Skinny or Skinner was his name. Honestly he reminded her of the guy from the 'Guild'. "I'm sorry, was the music too loud?" He extended a hand for Victor to shake.
"No, no, no, no, I don't shake hands." Victor said. "Back, back. I suffer from a skin complaint - Exeema."
"Oh, you mean eczema?" Elton said.
"But this is worse, much worse." Victor said and Rhee rolled her eyes at that. "I blister to the touch. Back, back, all of you. Further, further. Thank you."
"Sorry, don't mind me asking but, who are you?" Elton asked.
"I am your salvation." Victor said. She tried to see what he was showing them but from her hiding place she couldn't see.
"That's the Doctor." Ursula said in amazement.
"It's really him." Elton said in awe.
"You've forgotten your purpose in life." Victor said. "You, with your band and your cakes and your blubbing and all the while he still exists. The Doctor."
"Look at him. Just look." the other woman that Rhee couldn't even begin to remember her name said.
"Move back, move back, all of you." Victor said. "Oh though, wait for this bit. The picture cuts out, but the sound still continues. Listen. Listen to the sound of the universe. Yes." She could hear the TARDIS from from the laptop.
"Ah, that's." Elton said.
"What is it? What's wrong?" Ursula said.
"Leave him." Victor said. "You've heard it before, haven't you? When? When was it? Where? Where were you?"
"I'd forgotten, 'til now. But it was that night." Elton said almost absentmindedly.
"What night?" Victor said.
"I was just a kid." Elton said. "That's why I went downstairs. It woke me up. That noise. But what is it? What does it mean?"
"That is the sound of his spaceship." Victor said.
"Who's that girl?" Ursula asked.
"That's his companion," Victor said. "She has appeared with him every time."
"But who is she?" the other woman asked. Rhee took that moment to come out from hiding and make herself known.
"I'm the Doctor's Lady," Rhee said. She knew then why her older self called herself 'Lady'. One, she was indeed the Doctor's lady. Two, Lady was the name of an awesome character in Devil May Cry 3 and 4. And lastly 'lady' is also a term meaning mother in some cultures. She would do that. If he we the Doctor for the universe, than she was the universe's Mother. The lady that fixed the Doctor. She smiled smugly. They would be the couple that makes people better.
"Perfect," Victor said. "Now I can get his flying box!" He laughed.
"Everyone get away from him," she said. "Scatter!" And they did just that. They ran in different directions all ending up behind Rhee. She took a protective pose.
"What are you going to do, missy?" Victor asked smugly.
"Make you an offer," she said with a sweet smile. "Leave now and I won't kill you." He laughed. "Why do they always choose the hard way?"
"You can't kill me, little human," he said as he transformed into his alien form.
"You're wrong on three counts," she said. "One I can and will kill you. Two I'm not human."
"And what is the third?" he asked when she stopped at two.
"You will never have the TARDIS," she said. He moved closer to her and she dropped down sliding beside him. As she slid she grabbed his cane. He tried to hold on to the cane but with momentum she had from the slid, it easily slid out of his hand. She broke it in half on the concrete. He screamed as he melted away.
"You saved us," the older man said. "Thank you."
"Don't worry 'bout it," she said. "Just happy that you all are alive." Then she knew what being a Time Lady meant to her. She felt it in her heart. She would be the universe's mother. The Lady would be her Time Lady name.
"Who are you?" Ursula asked.
"Lady," Rhee said. "Friendly piece of advise." They looked at her puzzled. "Disband. I don't mean you can't hang out. I mean don't meet and talk about the Doctor it's dangerous." She left them in hoping that they would follow her advise. She walked back to the TARDIS, which she wasn't surprised hadn't moved. "Hello my Doctor." She found him sitting on the jump seat with his eyes closed.
"My Rhee," the Doctor said with a large smile as he opened his eyes. "Did you find your answers?"
"I did," she said as she joined him on the jump seat. "I'm going to be the Lady from now on."
"Your Time Lady name will be the Lady?" he asked. "May I ask why?"
"Sure," she said. "Well, for starts, I'm your lady." He nodded. "There are some cultures that view the word lady as mother. And I figured if you were going to be the universe's Doctor then I, your bondmate and wife, will be the universe's mother."
"What do you mean?" he asked. "Be the universe's mother? I told you the TARDIS is not a day-care." She laughed.
"I mean," she started. "You heal the universe. I'll care for it protect it, like any good mother would." He hugged her.
"So that is what being a Time Lady means to you?" he asked. "Protecting the universe?"
"Yup," she said.
"Then let's get started," he said as he let go of her. He then jumped up and put them back into the Vortex.
Months pass by them like leaves in fall. She was getting more and more comfortable about being a Time Lady. They saved Chloe Webber. Which happened mostly the same way it did in the show, because he wouldn't listen to her. She hit him once the adventure was through. They went out for banana sundaes afterwards. They avoided Earth all together for a while. Visiting random planets. Rhee didn't want to go to Earth until she had too.
"Lady!" he shouted to her from the console room. He had taken to calling her by her choosen name ever since she picked it. She got up from her writing spot on their bed and walked to the console room.
"Yes?" she asked as she entered not really looking to see where he was.
"Help me." he begged. She looked around the console room and finally found him trapped under the grates. She couldn't but laugh. His pants were caught on the grating and his legs were wrapped up in the cables. It honestly looked like the TARDIS did it on purpose. "Oh you would be wearing that!"
"What?" she asked as she looked down at what she was wearing. Which was an elegant white bra with gold lining and it made her already perky breast perkier. The bottoms it was a long white skirt that didn't cover her legs at all but had gold term and gold treed that hung down on each leg. Her hair was done up in a bun and gold treed was woven intricately through her hair making her brown hair have a golden brown look. She also had a pair of gold framed reading glasses on her face. She didn't need the glasses to read or anything it was just to make her look better, much like the doctor 'sexy specs' as she like to call them.
"That!" he exclaimed. "Why are you wearing that?"
"Would you believe that I find it comfy?" she asked.
"Would you be surprised if I said 'no'?" he asked. She helped his out of the grating by removing his pants and pulling him out.
"I really am comfortable in this," she said. "When I was human I ran around naked at home. You're lucky I'm wearing anything." As she finally pulled him free from the confines of the wires she notices that this outfit had an effect on him. A noticeable effect. "Like what you see huh?"
"Always," he said. He stood up and kissed her passionately with longing. He let his hands room her body as she explored his mouth. They moaned lightly. "Bedroom?" He spoke into the kiss.
"Don't think we'd make it at this rate," she said as she broke the kiss and he slipped of the bra. He moaned at the sight of her perky breast. They backed to the jump seat and he sat her down. He took a nipple in his mouth as he played with the other with his hands. She moaned and writhed under his touch. She grabbed his hair and tugged lightly, causing him to moan against her breast. After a while he switched breast and repeated the process. She glided her hands down his head to his shoulders and took off his jacket. He helped her get it off by moving his hands but never did he move his mouth from her nipple.
She coaxed him into kissing her again. The kiss was full of animalistic hunger, on both parts. They needed this. He didn't wait any longer he picked her up and sat her on the console. He moved the skirt over and removed his underwear. He slid his large member inside her and she moaned. They hadn't had any since they bonded so she was tight again. He moaned loudly and didn't wait for her to adjust as he had for their first time together. He let the lust take over him. He thrust into her with great speed and force. She loved every minute of it. She moaned and screamed. She felt every inch of him and loved it. He slammed into her so hard, she was afraid the console couldn't handle it. "Theta!" she shouted as she came undone around him.
"Rhiannon!" he shouted as he came undone inside her. He rested his head on her shoulder and tried to catch his breath. "Why did we wait to do this?"
"No reason," she said. He pulled away from her, and helped her off the console. Sorry, she told the TARDIS.
Don't worry, Jess replied.
"That was the first time you called me Theta," he said amazed.
"Yeah, kind of slipped," she said shyly.
"I don't mind," he said.
"It was your school name," she said. "And I know that brings up bad memories."
"But hearing you say it," he said. "I don't know, seems right."
"I know what you mean," she said. "I've always thought my full name's a bit stuffy, but you saying it the way you did, seemed right." He was going to get dressed but she grabbed his underwear and pants then ran down the hall in only the skirt laughing like the madwoman she is.
"Cheeky woman," he said as he ran down the hall after her. He caught her and pinned her against the wall, with her front to the wall so he was behind her. She was still laughing. "Cheeky woman." He rubbed his member against her rear. She shivered. "You like that huh?"
"Always been a bit of a freak," she said. He rubbed harder against her. She moaned at the contact. He started to get hard again. "Looks like I'm not the only freak."
"We are Time Lords not freaks," he said smugly. "You may be a freak in the 21st century but in the 51st you would be normal."
"What about on Gallifrey?" she asked while moaning.
"Sexual pleasure was frowned upon," he purred. "But I'm a rebel." He pushed his hips harder against her. She moaned. Quickly he pulled her so she was bent over and he slid himself inside her waiting core. He moaned as he took his time this time. Slowly pushing deep inside her. She moaned and held on to the nearby coral strut for balance. He slowly pulled out only to push himself back in. The clothes she had ran off with were long forgotten. He picked up the pace a bit and she moaned louder. She screamed as she came undone around him again. He came undone inside her again and they fell over in the floor of the hallway laughing.
"Maybe Time Lords but sex twice in a row is a bit much on our bodies," she giggled.
"It wouldn't have been if we would have slept last night," he teased.
"Not my fault," she pouted. "If I remember right you wanted to finish your experiment."
"You could have dragged me to the bed I wouldn't have minded," he teased.
"Well next time I might," she said as she could feel her legs again. "Come on, let's go to bed." She stood up and helped him to bed. They both didn't even bother with showering or changing, they just both crashed onto the bed spent.
"Good morning, my Lady," he said with a smile.
"Good morning, my Doctor," she said with a bright smile. For the first time in her life she didn't mind waking up in someone's arms. She hated being held while she slept with both her past husbands. Maybe it was a sign she was getting older. Oh, well. "What's the plans for today?"
"I was thinking we could go have a vacation," he said. Her eyes lit up like he'd never seen before.
"Really?" she asked.
"Of course," he said.
"Where?" she asked with a excited grin on her face.
"I was thinking the Hedgewick's World," he said.
"I'd love to!" she said. "The Spacey Zoomer sounds so fun!" He almost couldn't believe that she wanted to go to a child's amazement park. But she had always loved children. Maybe she healing. Maybe they could talk about their future as parents. He wanted to.
"Let's get dressed and go then," he said. He jumped up and got dressed in a new suit. She went to take a shower first. As she took her shower she felt off. Not bad just off. She chalked it up to Canary Wharf that was going to happen soon. She shallowed hard. 'Your fears are founded,' replayed in her mind. She shook her head trying to get the Beast's word from her head. She was honestly happy the Doctor had dropped the whole Beast thing. She didn't want to talk about it. She got out of the showed dried off and dress in a Celtic dress with flats.
Notes: Well next is Canary Wharf. Woo it has been a long way but we're here. I am going to start work on the Battle asap, but I got people coming into my house all this week, so idk what I'm gonna get done. So bare with me. Thanks Readers and Reviewer. I love reviews! I'm crazy like that. Heck, my husband thinks I'm obsessed even told me to take a break. Then he asked our daughter if i should take a break and she said no. So HA! Girls united!