Hello you beautiful people! (yes you are!) First things first: thank you very much to Lily for her review, that was very very nice thank you!
Then: as you can see, this is chapter 5, last chapter before starting an episode rewriting (which may not change much as it will be Melody's first time.) and I hope you will like it.
Enjoy!
Melody :) - x.
Chapter 5
"So?"
The Doctor looked up.
"What?" he asked, while typing some coordinates.
"Last time you said you'd come back when my gen-lock unlocked. I would have accepted the fact you'd come for my birthday in good faith, but taking me with you? It was supposed to hold the lock. So?"
He smiled.
"Clever!" he said, pointing a finger at her. "Your gen-lock has indeed unlocked."
He walked alongside the console until he stood in front of her. Resting himself against it, he crossed his arms.
"Are you ready?"
"Didn't you already have my blood? You should know by now." Melody said.
He shook his head.
"I promised to you that we'll find out together, so I waited for you - and it was hard believe me."
He stretched a hand, grabbed her arm and pulling up the sleeve of her sweater looked closely at her pale skin. "No variation of the skin…" he muttered while touching it lightly with his fingertips, causing some shivers to run along her spine.
"You're not going to lick me, are you?" she asked, slightly amused remembering him licking things every now and then in the show.
He straightened up, looking embarrassed.
"Would it look inconvenient…?" he asked. She nodded. "Well then no of course I'd look silly!" he said before turning to the screen. He turned it on and an image of Melody's body appeared, as on x-ray. On the right of the screen, her blood analysis appeared as well. The Doctor typed something and a DNA chain appeared instead of the blood composition. He typed again, making the screen scrambled for a second before showing the final images. They both leaned in, looking closely at the screen.
Her body was as human as possible: one heart, lungs, kidneys, everything normal.
"I don't understand…" he whispered. He then looked at the DNA. "Human...plus Time Lord…"
His eyes left the screen to look at Melody. "What are you…? Who are you…?"
"Doctor, I can't be part Time Lord, this just doesn't make any sense. I mean… look at me! I'm just a normal girl, that's all." she said with a trembling voice.
"Oh no no no, you're anything but normal! And you're not part Time Lord, you're human plus Time Lord." he said. "The only person I know with this kind of DNA is River, Melody Pond, but you, you are Melody Williams. River was turned into a weapon to kill me, but you… what's your purpose…?"
Melody stepped away from him, trembling and afraid. What was she? Was she a weapon like River? She wouldn't let that happen, she wouldn't kill the Doctor, never.
The Doctor tried to get closer, wanting to comfort her but she stepped away.
"No! Don't… don't touch me, don't get closer. I don't want to harm you."
"Why would you?" he asked, frowning. He didn't say she was dangerous, why was she afraid?
"Because if I'm like River, maybe I was born to kill you, and I won't let that happen!" she answered, tears rolling down her cheeks. It was all too much for her, she could not keep her calm as she was facing the fact that all her life was a lie while what she thought was not real was actually the only real thing happening to her. And now all her anxiety was flowing out with those tears.
His jaw clenched a little and he walked quickly towards her, grabbing her wrist to pull her into a tight hug.
"I won't let you get away from me." he whispered in her ear. "Maybe someone wanted to turn you into a weapon against me, maybe not, but whoever they are, whatever their purpose is, I got to you first. I won't let them take you away from me." he continued, his voice becoming deeper and darker, like when he's the Oncoming Storm. He faced her, wiping her tears away and resting his hands on her cheeks. "You were raised in a loving family, in an alien-free universe except for TV shows. We will find out what you are, together, but you can't be a weapon, you're not an object of hatred, you got that?"
Melody nodded, calming down, thinking her reaction was really stupid.
"Right." he said, straightening up. "So, now. Let's see Amy and Rory!" he exclaimed, smiling.
Amy and Rory?
Melody ran to the console, eyes wide.
"Amy and Rory? The Ponds? But…" she stopped. Amy and Rory were dead, they were touched by a weeping angel in Manhattan, he was supposed to be with Clara now. "Doctor...what just happened to you? I mean, before you came to the Convention, what did you do?"
A dark look shadowed his face.
"The battle of Demons Run…And I kind of hoped to find baby River here... But I found you instead!" he answered. Then, noticing the strangeness of the question, he asked: "Why?"
She wondered if she could answer without giving out foreknowledge.
"Because the show takes place in your future now, Demons Run was on telly… two years ago for us."
"Wibbly wobbly... timey wimey" he only said, waving her off.
Ok, so he just found out who River was at the battle of Demons Run. But that meant… She looked suddenly up to the Doctor as he was doing exactly the same, figuring out what it meant.
"You know my future, don't you?"
She nodded: "It seems like I do…"
"You have foreknowledge! That's brilliant! Melody, I do hope that you'll know how to use it because you'll have to use it very wisely: some things are fixed, they must happen or it would change all the universe, ok? I don't know how much Time Lord skills you have but I hope you have the consciousness of time flux. I guess I'll have to trust you to not blow up the universe." he said, smiling softly before kissing her forehead. "You are brilliant - a complete mystery but brilliant!"
She smiled: that was her purpose, she was going to use her foreknowledge to help people, to help the Doctor.
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