Chapter 14
"What do you mean an evil version of himself?" asked Theresa, "And when were you going to tell us about this evil Doctor?"
"I just found out when I partially regenerated," said Alex, "He doesn't like to talk about his evil self. He hates what happened to him and caused his evil self to become his own being. The Nightmare Weam mentioned the Valeyard in Nightmare's Reign, but not by name. He called it a monster deep inside the Doctor and the Doctor told him that the monster was gone and both of them agreed that the Doctor was incomplete somehow. It didn't make any sense to me until all this knowledge flooded into me with the half regeneration."
"Then why did he say beware the evil Valeyard?" asked Justin.
"Think of an oven. It gets hot and then the food cooking gets hot. The food is the Valeyard. You take the food out of the oven and the food hot, but so is the oven. You take the evil Valeyard out and there will be evil left over in the oven in the mind. The residue evil is still there, but the cause of the residue is gone," explained Alex and then she cringed, "Oh god! I sound like the Doctor. Make it stop. Sound stupid like Alex again."
"She's talking to herself," said Justin, "Just like the Doctor. Maybe that's what he wanted."
"What do you mean?" asked Harper.
"I'm not sure," said Justin.
The Doctor's Mind
The Doctor and the Vampire version of himself appeared next to a white door.
"Don't open that, Vampy," said the Doctor, "You have no idea what lies beyond that door."
"I have an idea," said the Vampire Doctor.
"No, no you don't have any idea," said the Doctor, "What used to be behind that door was a monster made of pure hate, rage, fury, blood lust, pain, sorrow, sadness, sickness, and even death. The room itself is just a void with evil essence still there. If you open it, you will risk being consumed by it."
"That's good," said the Vampire Doctor, "It'll help me over power you."
"No, it won't, Vampy," replied the Doctor, "It'll destroy you. It almost destroyed me."
"But I am stronger than you are, Doctor," said the Vampire Doctor.
"In delusions, yes," the Doctor pleaded.
"Call it what you like. I am opening the door," said the Vampire Doctor. The evil doppelganger opened the door and the two of them were sucked into blackness.
Russo Home
The Doctor jerked and screamed. His eyes and mouth shot out streams of blackness.
"What's that!" asked Harper.
"I have no idea!" replied Justin.
"It's the two evils in the Doctor. They are going to destroy each other with their presence," said Alex.
"Why?"
"They can't exist with each other," answered Alex, "Each one will try to destroy the other to take over the Doctor, but they will destroy each other and the Doctor will regain control."
The Doctor's Mind
"Where are we?"
"In the heart of my evil," said the Doctor.
"It hurts!" howled the Vampire Doctor.
"I told you. I warned you not to open that door, but no you had to go and do it didn't you. Now you must learn from your mistakes." The Doctor stopped moving and laid down in the blackness.
"What are you doing?" panicked the Vampire Doctor, "What are you doing!"
The Doctor didn't answer him and soon the Doctor was no where to be seen in the black void. The Vampire Doctor heard someone's voice call to him.
"Evil Doctor," said the voice, a calm and smooth voice, "There can only be room for one evil Doctor and that evil Doctor is me." The voice was quiet and melodic, but full of malice.
"I'll end you, whatever you are!" yelled the Vampire Doctor.
"I'm the Valeyard. You cannot end me," the voice called out to the Vampire Doctor.
"You want to bet?" asked the voice. Arms of smoke surrounded the Vampire Doctor and hurt it. The Vampire retaliated by biting the smoke arms. The voice materialized into a person, the Doctor himself. The two went at time and time and time again. The real Doctor was nowhere to be found. The more the two evils fought, the light the void became. Eventually the two evils lost control and both fell down to their knees, exhausted.
The room filled with light and there was no more blackness. The two looked up and saw the Doctor standing there. He was smiling. He knelt down to the Vampire version and said, "You fell for it."
He turned to the other evil Doctor and told him, "You have to be the only evil in here. I knew you two would duke it out when I thought about it in the courtroom. It wasn't my original plan, but nailing two birds with one stone? That's great. So I went with that plan and guess what guys, it worked and now you two are too weak to even face me combined. So bye guys." The Doctor put a hand on one of their shoulders and two evil ones screamed and burst into flame.
The Doctor stood up victorious and nearly fell over. "Freedom at last, but also death. Time to wake up, Doctor."
Russo Home
The blackness coming out of the Doctor's mouth turned into light and then receded back into the Doctor. The Doctor moved his hands to his face and rubbed it, moaning. He sat up all features the same, but his body language said that he was in severe pain.
"Doctor!" yelled Alex. She jumped up and ran to the Doctor and hugged him. He groaned in pain. "Doctor, what's wrong?"
"My whole body is in pain," said the Doctor, "And..." The Doctor stopped and swallowed hard.
"And what, Doctor?" asked Alex, worried.
The Doctor didn't answer and just put his hand on her shoulder. She felt something leave her and go into the Doctor and she felt something come from the Doctor and go into her. "I restored your DNA and gave it back to you and took back my regenerative DNA because I'll need it to do the process properly."
Alex felt different already. She started to think like herself again and not like the Doctor. She was happy, but when she saw the Doctor, she was worried. "Doctor, what's wrong?"
The Doctor looked around at all the faces in the room. There were the two parents, Theresa and Jerry, there was Harper and Justin and K-9. Max was no where to be found and Alex was sitting next to the Doctor. "Looks like everyone is here except for Max. The poor kid is going to miss a light show."
"Light show?" asked Jerry.
"What are you talking about?" asked Alex.
"I'm dying, people," said the Doctor, choking on his own words.
"Dying!" panicked Alex, "Can't you do something about it?"
"I am, Alex, I am," said the Doctor, nearly crying, "But I don't want to leave any of you. I don't want a new man going and waltzing away in my place. I want to stay the same. I don't want to change! Not yet anyway."
"Change? What do you mean change?" asked Alex.
"Time Lords have this way of cheating death. It's called regeneration. Remember? I told you and it means I am going to change. I am going to have a new face and body and new personality. I'm sorry, Alex, I really am. And I am sorry to all of you. It was nice knowing you guys for the last six months. Goodbye, everybody."
The Doctor started to glow yellowish orange and he stood up. A breeze started to blow throughout the room and the Doctor looked up at the ceiling before bursting into a lightshow of red, orange and yellow. The entire room lit up and the light poured outside on the Christmas Eve night. The entire thing was beautiful, but sad at the same time. They all knew what was happening inside the light show.
Then a bolt of lightening exploded from the Doctor and struck the fridge and then another one went in another direction and then the Doctor was shooting bolts of lightening everywhere. The Doctor's figure bent over in pain and screamed. Alex and Justin put a protective shield around everyone and K-9 so they wounded get hit.
"K-9! Is this normal of a regeneration?" panicked Alex.
"Negative, Mistress Alex, something has gone wrong in his regeneration," said the tin dog.
"Is there anything we can do!" Alex yelled over the noise of the bolts.
"There is nothing we can do when a Time Lord regenerates. All we can do is watch."
"But what's going on?" asked Alex.
"I do not know, Mistress," answered K-9.
"Oh God, no," cried Alex, "Don't you dare die on me, Doctor."
All of them watched the Doctor's regeneration until it ended in a blinding flash of light.
"Think you can get rid of me that easily? I don't think so," a voice came from the Doctor's general area.