Chapter 2

The Doctor sat on the bench for at least an hour looking up at the sky, watching the stars above the Earth. Unlike all the others, aside from the still living companions he once had, he had actually seen those stars and the worlds surrounding them. He saw some at their beginning and seen their end, even causing some of them to end.

The feeling of uneasiness returned to the Doctor as he saw a woman come out from another restaurant down the street. He didn't know why the uneasiness was there, but it could just be his nerves. There was something on the woman's face that the Doctor recognized: pain. Emotional pain. She had lost someone and by the countenance of her body, someone close to her, a family member maybe. The Doctor could tell that she hid the pain during the day or when their were people surrounding her, but when she felt comfortable, she mourned.

He looked down and asked, "Who'd you lose?"
"What?" asked the woman, coming closer to the Doctor.

"I can see it in your face," said the Doctor, looking at her now, "You lost someone close to you. Who'd you lose?"

"How could you know that?" asked the woman.

"Because I've lost people close to me," answered the Doctor. He took a deep breath through his nose, a scent hidden within the cold night air, "I'm the Doctor by the way."

"I'm Cindy," the woman replied. She walked over and stood next to the bench, "You're not human."

"Neither are you, Cindy," said the Doctor.

"I lost my daughter," said Cindy.

"What?"

"That's who I lost. I lost my daughter. Her name was Juliet," replied Cindy, sitting next to the Doctor.

"I'm sorry," said the Doctor, "I know what it's like to lose people."

"Who did you lose?" asked Cindy.

"Everyone. I lost everyone," said the Doctor, voice filled with sorrow, "They all died in a war."

"So you're the only one left?" asked Cindy.

"Yeah, I the last of my kind," said the Doctor, "The Last of the Time Lords."

"Time Lords?" asked Cindy.

"My people. You already knew I wasn't human," said the Doctor.

A man came out of the same restaurant as the woman had and called her name.

"Over here, Dear!" she called back to him. She told the Doctor, "That's my husband Alucard."

"Alucard? Hm, haven't heard that name in a few centuries," said the Doctor.

"Who is this?" asked Alucard, staring at the Doctor.

The Doctor stood up and held out his hand, "Hello, I'm the Doctor."

Alucard just stared at the hand.

"Yeah, well anyway," said the Doctor, "I'm sorry that you lost your daughter."

"Cindy, you told him!" hissed Alucard.

"In all fairness, Ally, I kind of figured it out," said the Doctor, "I had five kids once. Four died in the War and one was gunned down. Well, she's be gunned down in the future. She hasn't even been born yet. Life of a time traveler. It's kind of confusing."

"Time travel! You're a wizard!" snarled Alucard, revealing his fangs.

"No, I'm not a wizard. I'm a Time Lord, an alien. I just happened to crash my ship inside a restaurant run by time-wielders or wizards as you call them. I can see from the fangs and unique scent, I'd say you are some form of vampire like creature."

"We are vampires," said Alucard.

"No, you may have somehow contracted the V-Strain, but the Vampires, well the True Vampires are dead. They have been for eons. Ever since the legendary War for Time way back in the Dark Times of the Universe. Well, I hate to bring this very interesting conversation to an end but I've got to get working on my TARDIS. The poor girl's dematerialization circuit has been damaged and I've been trying to repair for the last six months. So if you have anything that could repair that circuit, I would be incredibly grateful."

The couple didn't say anything, but just stared with that blank look everyone has when the Doctor starts his technobabble.

"I take that as a no," said the Doctor, "Well, until next time. Have a good night you two."

The Doctor walked back into the sub station and the two vampires hugged each other and walked back into their restaurant across the street.

December 22nd

Montana Tower

Tesla Howard continued his work on his project. He had strapped another one of his test monkeys to his testing chair. He injected the monkey with the same injection and it started to go through the same transformation. Tesla injected another thing of blood into the animal. The monkey started to thrash around again, but slowly calmed down. It rested in the chair, breathing normalizing. It's eyes were golden just like the other one's eyes and it smiled at Tesla. Then, with no warning, it screamed and within seconds, its head exploded.

Grey matter, blood and bone fragments splashed all over Tesla's face. He used his right hand and wiped the gore off his face and flicked it on the floor. He looked at the headless primate and saw the tip of the neck was smoking. Tesla smiled, even though the primate died. Even though the monkey had died, the test was a success. The monkey's body accepted both things that were injected into it. The monkey's primitive design and mind were not enough to handle both injections. A human subject was next, and being in the tallest building in the world, that would be easy. A few custodians and technicians missing would arouse suspicion, but he would be able to shake it off. He was too important to Henry Montana, but then again, Montana's morality could get in the way but even then, a mere human and his personal army were not enough to stop Tesla. He was not of this world, but no one knew that at all. If the human trials were a success, he could start converting the Earth's population. He could bring back his empire, but then again, if humans were too weak and if they were, he could leave the Earth and find another race. Maybe the Sontarans. They could be strong enough, but even then they were not his target. If he could convert the one race that put him in this situation in the first place, his goal would be a complete success.

If he could put a Gallifrean in one of his conversion chairs, he would pump him full of his new V-Strain and finally convert the one race immune to the Vampire Strain: Gallifreans.