So enjoy the chapter and no i dont own doctor who...
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"We've invented a sport Phoenix!" the doctor looks at me grinning, i grin in return.
"Doctor, Phoenix, you're hard people to find." Hame says, the businessman points at Novice Hame's gun, still in her hand.
"No guns! I'm not having guns!" he tells her,
"I only brought this in case of pirates. Doctor, you've got to come with me." she replies with a scoff
"Do I know you?" the doctor confused as you can tell.
"Yes you do doctor." i say flatly, not phased by the use of my name, it's happened with Queen Elizabeth, so why not now.
"You haven't aged at all. Time has been less kind to me." She says meekly, strange could you imagine that picture a cat with a gun, and it's speaking meekly. ha.
"Novice Hame!" the doctor says with recognition, he hugs her, grinning, Before he pushes her back,
"No, hold on, get off. Last time we met, you were breeding humans for experimentation." the doctor quickly says, i cringe at that thought and am kind of thankful i wasn't there for that it gave me the creeps on TV, it would be a hundred times worse if i was there, that and Rose gets on my nerves.
"I've sought forgiveness, Doctor, for so many years, under his guidance. And if you come with me, I might finally be able to redeem myself." she says, i couldn't help what came out of my mouth
"How is he?" she looks at me with slight surprise before it is replaced with sadness,
"Not very well..." she was solumn, the doctor looks confused but i dont pay him any attention,
"We're not going anywhere. You've got Macra living underneath this city. Macra! And if our friend's still alive, she's stuck down there!" I know arguing is useless and keep quiet,
"You've got to come with me right now!" he voice is urgent but determined
"No, no, no, you're coming with us. We've got to drive down." I shake my head but am ignored, i sigh and give Hame a look
"I'm sorry, Doctor. But the situation is even worse than you can imagine." Hame's voice is grave but you can hear sadness, She takes his wrist, grabs mine, and presses a button on the green-lit metal wristband she's wearing.
"Transport." She says,
"Don't you dare! Don't you dare!" he shouts at her, but it's too late. As he screams, of us vanish in a haze of white light, leaving the business man behind.
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A large yet unkempt room dusty, junk everywhere, with streams of sunlight flooding in irregularly. The Doctor and Novice Hame are picking themselves up off the floor, whilst I have troouble moving as i feel like a rag doll, the doctor comes over to me and helps me off the floor, as i stand i feel joints pop into place, and turn instantly when i felt his presence, but before i could move-
"Oh! Rough teleport. Ow." he says loudly before going on one, "But you can go straight back down and teleport people out, starting with Martha."
"I only had the power for one trip." she says looking slightly helpless,
"Then get some more! Where are we?" he shouts before he questions, i sigh and know whats coming next,
"High above, in the over-city." she answers, her voice quiet
"Good! 'Cause you can tell the Senate of New New York I'd like a word. They've got thousands of people trapped on the motorway! Millions!" he exclaims, i roll my eyes 'Good luck with that.'
"But you're inside the Senate, right now. May the goddess Santori bless them." Hame lowers her head lightly, They look up, and sure enough, there are long rows of seats in a vast chamber. All of them contain skeletons, I cringe at the sight.
"They died, Doctor. The city died." she informs
"How long's it been like this?" he asks quietly
"Twenty-four years." she answers at the same time as me, they walk towards a skeleton, lying on the ground, and the Doctor kneels next to it. His anger is forgotten he is now profoundly disturbed, I leave to go to where i can sense him.
"All of them? Everyone? What happened?" the doctors voice echos to me but not talking to me, (Does that make sense?) infront of me i see the Face of Boe, i kneel down in front of him and i feel a welcome wave of happiness
'Hello, Lexi.' i cringe at the name the pain still raw before i smile
'Hello, Jack' i think to myself and know he can hear me,
'Dont fight it Lexi, he will understand, i promise.'
'But i'm scared Jack i know i was human, i had a family, i have memories, i cant be one of them, it's just impossible,'
'you once told me that the word impossible only means im possible, nothing is impossible if you believe, Lexi.' he says softly, i touch the glass casing
'Look at you using the cliche saying, and for you that may have been a long time ago but it hasn't happened to me yet, i just dont have the guts to show him.' i sigh
"Who's "we"? How did you survive?" the dooctor's voice interupts my thoughts,
"He protected me. And he has waited for you, these long years." Hame says her voice brightening from what i had heard from before my conversation, i smile softly at jack,
"Doctor." Jack says his voice rough, the Doctor turns and dashes over to us, kneeling in front of it as he did in the hospital where they last met. Novice Hame follows.
"The Face of Boe!" the doctor exclaims,
"I knew you would come." Jack says
"Back in the old days, I was made his nurse, as penance for my sins." that wouldn't be much of a punishment i would have loved it,
"Old friend, what happened to you?" the doctor asks softly
"Failing." Boe says
"He protected me from the virus by shrouding me in his smoke. But with no one to maintain it, the City's power died. The under-city would have fallen into the sea." Hame says her voice grave once more,
"So he saved them." the doctor says with sad realisation,
"The Face of Boe wired himself into the mainframe. He's giving his life force just to keep things running." i look down, i know how this story ends,
"But there are planets out there. You could have called for help." the doctor says his voice rising slightly
" they couldn't doctor, the last act of the Senate was to declare New Earth unsafe. The automatic quarantine lasts for one hundred years." i say quietly
'Line stealer' Jacks voice says in my head, a small smile comes to my face before it slips off, The Doctor looks back at the Face of Boe, concerned, and then gets up.
"So the two of you stayed here on your own, for all these years." the doctor states
"We had no choice." Hame says, the Doctor reaches out to her, touches her shoulder.
"Yes, you did." the doctor says gently
"Save them, Doctor. Phoenix, Save them." i look at jack with determination, spin on my heel and head over to the wires,
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The Doctor is staring into a screen, specs now on.
"Car Four Six Five Diamond Six it still registers! That's Martha. I knew she was good. Novice Hame, hold that in place, Phoenix what are you doing?" the doctor asks after he instructs Hame. I ignore him and continue to mess with the wires looking down my back to him hair plaited and pulled to the side to keep it out of the way bareing my tattoo for all to see, the other still hidden, or so i think. He jumps back from the screen and hands Hame a piece of thick tubing. Once she's got it, he runs along its length, jumping over a box of lights and buttons.
"Think, think, think. Take the residual energy, invert it, feed it through the electricity beds." the doctor mutters aloud,
"There isn't enough power." Hame says dejectedly. The Doctor reaches his destination: a far wall with two screens, lots of wiring, and even more buttons.
"Ah, you've got power! You've got me and Phoenix! I'm brilliant with computers and Phoenix is just amazing, just you watch." he doesn't even know what im doing and he's calling me amazing. He turns around and points to her, yelling, getting more excited all the time.
"Hame, every switch on that bank, up to maximum!" i look up sharply, i had to work faster. The Doctor is rotating a knob in a console on the floor, aiming the sonic screwdriver at it as well.
"I can't power up the city, but all the city needs is people." the doctor explains, i have to get this done, i'm almost there... He bangs his fist against the console and jumps up.
"So what are you going to do?" Hame asks
"This!" he says i look over,
"NO!" but i was to late, He fliped a two-metre-long switch on the floor, and all the lights on the consoles go out.
"No, no no no no, no!" the doctor says. The Doctor, kneels on the floor again, waving his sonic screwdriver at another set of controls.
"The transformers are blocked. The signal can't get through." the doctor shouts to himself
"Doctor " Jack says,
"Yeah, hold on, not now." the doctor says
"I give you my last "
"Dont you dar Boe, Please." i plead, but jack was always stubborn on the show, why should it be any different now? He lets out a long, rasping breath, and every console switches back on. Everything is working. Everything is powered. The Doctor leaps up again, suddenly illuminated.
"Hame, look after him! Don't you go dying on me, you big old face. You've got to see this." the doctor exclaims with renewed excitment, knowing i was to late i leave my little project and walk over to jack again,
"The open road. Hah!" the doctor cries,
'Jack you idiot.' i think he looks at me
'it is my time Lexi.' shake my head at him, but smile as best as i could,
'You get to be with Ianto now, Jack.' i tell, him and his eyes brighten slightly, with longing,
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"Sorry, no Sally Calypso, she was just a hologram. My name's the Doctor." he says i leave jack for a moment and go to the doctors side,
"And im Phoenix." i say putting on a bright smile,
"And this is an order." the doctor continues
"Everyone drive up. Right now." I say
"I've opened the roof of the motorway. Come on. Throttle those engines. Drive up. All of you, the whole under-city. Drive up, drive up, drive up! Fast!" the doctor says with a lot of enthusiasm,
"Hurry up drive up now do it." i insist
"We've got to clear that fast lane. Drive up and get out of the way." the doctor urges
"Oy! Car Four Six Five Diamond Six!" the doctor say
"Martha! My brilliant human friend drive up!" i shout
"You've got access above! Now go!" the doctor says, i turn around suddenly, Jack...
Valerie is cuddling her kittens in the backgrouond.
"Did I tell you, Doctor? Phoenix? You're not bad, sir, ma'am. You're not bad at all!" Brannigan says
Valerie and Brannigan laugh,
"Oh, yee-hah!" Bran shouts. The Doctor, holding a microphone, is watching the proceedings from a viewscreen in the Senate room. Novice Hame continues to twirl a wheel next to the Face of Boe.
"You keep driving, Brannigan, all the way up! 'Cause it's here, just waiting for you." He dances over to a window to look out at the over-city. "The city of New New York. And it's yours."
"And don't forget we want those coats back." the doctor says, i reach back and feel that my top has ridden up slightly, and quickly pull it down so as to hide it.
"I reckon that's a fair bargain, sir." Brans voice says to us,
"And Car Four Six Five Diamond Six, I've sent you a flight path. Come to the Senate."
"On my way!" Martha's voice shouts,
"It's been quite a while since we saw you, Martha Jones." he says, still looking out the window,
"Doctor!" Both Hame and i shout to him. Novice Hame leans desperately over the Face of Boe, as the case that encloses him begins to crack. The Doctor looks to us, his face falling.
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"Doctor?" Martha's voice echos "Phoenix?"
"Over here." The doctor calls, i am watching the face of boe,
"Doctor!" she shouts. Smiling again by the sound of her voice, she runs over to us.
"What happened out there?" She asks but, she finds us kneeling, with Novice Hame, in front of the dying Face of Boe. She frowns.
"What's that?" she asks,
"Martha show a little respect will you he's dying" i snap,
"It's the Face of Boe. It's all right. Come and say hello. And this is Hame. She's a cat. Don't worry." the doctor says ignoring my outburst, Martha approaches the Face of Boe.
"He's the one that saved you, not us." the doctor says voice solem
"My lord gave his life to save the city." Hame says as she sniffels, Martha kneels next to Novice Hame, reverent.
"And now he's dying." she continues
"No, don't say that. Not old Boe. Plenty of life left." he says trying to be cheerful, i shake my head, there wasn't any use in lying it was plain for all to see, his smile drops,
"It's good to breathe the air once more." Jack says, i smile slightly but i feel overwhelming sadness,
"Who is he?" Martha asks,
"I don't even know." He glances at me
"Icant tell you, you will find out on your own." My voice is emotionless as i put up my mask
"Legend says the Face of Boe has lived for billions of years. Isn't that right? And you're not about to give up now." the doctor informs martha
"Everything has its time. You know that, old friends, better than most." Jack says
"The legend says more." Hame says
"Don't. There's no need for that." the doctor says,
"It says that the Face of Boe will speak his final secret to a pair traveller. The lonely god and his Burning light" I flinch as she says this, that wasn't supposed to be said, everything was changing around me and making some of the event unperdictable,
"Yeah, but not yet. Who needs secrets, eh?" the doctor says clearly wanting Hame to shut up,
"I have seen so much. Perhaps too much. I am the last of my kind as you think you are the last of yours, Doctor." it doesn't seem to register in the doctor's head what Jack has said, but it does in mine, 'dont jack'. The Doctor is absolutely desperate now. He does not want this at all. It's hitting him much harder than the death of this entire planet did. I put my arm around his shoulder as i had stood up and am leaning on him to comfort him,
"That's why we have to survive. Both of us. Don't go." the doctor pleads, i can hear the desperation in his voice and it breaks my heart to know that the pain he is suffering is building up and will continue to build through time.
"I must. But know this, Time Lord. You are not alone." i flinch at that knowing what it means, but his eyes are on me, "Tell him Phoenix, He will understand, Protect him."
Though before it seemed as though the Doctor would weep, now he is astounded he stares, uncomprehending, as the Face of Boe's eyes close for the last time. Martha looks on with respect, and Novice Hame begins to sob, I myself am emotionless. Martha is the first to stand, and the Doctor gets up after a moment to put an arm around her shoulders and his other around my waist as i continue to think on his last words.
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Back in the alley where we first met the pharmacists, the three of us stroll down the street again. It's deserted.
"All closed down." I say to the doctor,
"Happy?" martha asks,
"Happy happy." The doctor says with a grin, Martha laughs softly, but i had yet to show much emotion. The Doctor inspects one of the empty booths.
"New New York can start again. And they've got Novice Hame. Just what every city needs cats in charge! Come on, time we were off." the doctor says his had holding mine he pulls me off.
"But what did he mean, the Face of Boe?" Martha asks, not moving from her spot, the Doctor stops and turns around.
""You're not alone."" She repeats
"I don't know." The doctor says, i look down. Martha steps toward us, smiling.
"You've got me and Phoenix. Is that what he meant?" She asks, when she says my name her smile turns sly, but i flinch this time, that could have a double meaning, but i was still in denil, the Doctor shakes his head, the edges of his mouth twitching as if he is trying not to laugh at her. It's kind of terrible.
"I don't think so. Sorry." He says not sounding sorry at all,
"Then what?" Martha asks in a 'Fine be that way' tone
"Doesn't matter. Back to the TARDIS, off we go." the doctor tries to evade, i however tug my hand out of his and sted to martha, he needed to do this, Martha grabs a fallen chair next to her and pulls it up, sitting primly and folding her arms. The Doctor hears and turns around again.
"All right, you staying?" he asks
"'Till you talk to me properly, yes. He said "last of your kind." What does that mean?" i feel sympathy wash over me, The Doctor is trying to appear flippant. He's trying very hard.
"It really doesn't matter." but i can hear the sad undertone in his voice,
"You don't talk. You never say! Why not?" she continues to demand
"Doctor" i say softly, he looks at me, "She needs to know, this isn't right and you know it." my voice is still soft but firm. Around us, the sound of music is rising. It's the new New New York citizens, singing another hymn. Instantly, Martha's enchanted.
# Fast falls the eventide
"It's the city." martha whispers,
# The darkness deepens
"They're singing." she states in awe
# Lord, with me abide
The Doctor looks at me. This isn't easy on him, i know it.
# When other helpers fail
"I lied to you, 'cause I liked it. I could pretend. Just for a bit, I could imagine they were still alive, underneath a burnt orange sky." he says not breaking his eyes away from mine, Martha seems shocked, and so sad for him.
"I'm not just a Time Lord. I'm the last of the Time Lords. The Face of Boe was wrong. There's no one else." i look down now but still feel his eyes on me, i couldn't bring myself to hold his eyes, icouldnt lie to him like that, Martha shakes her head slightly.
"What happened?" Martha asks quietly. The Doctor stands for a moment, and then grabs his own chair so he can sit across from her. The singing continues behind us.
"There was a war. A Time War. The last Great Time War. My people fought a race called the Daleks, for the sake of all creation. And they lost. They lost. Everyone lost. They're all gone now. My family, my friends, even that sky. Oh, you should have seen it, that old planet. The second sun would rise in the south, and the mountains would shine. The leaves on the trees were silver, and when they caught the light every morning, it looked like a forest on fire. When the autumn came, the breeze would blow through the branches like a song ." his voice was noww distant but i could feel his eyes still on me. i felt uncomfortable.A
# The darkness deepens
Lord, with me abide. #
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We had entered the TARDIS and i had gone straight to my room, locking the door behind me as i went. Looking at the mirror i can see my face but for the first time wonder if this is what i should have looked like always...
Tuning around i lift the bottom of my top slightly and trace my hands over the marks there.
On my back, was the doctors name, 'Theta' In old high gallifreyan, in the most brilliant shade of gold...
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Okay not much in this chapter but it was a bit of a rush job because as i have said i'm going away for a while, i'll update when i get back, i would like to know what you thought of this chapter, it will help me improve the next one so it can be better for all of you. The next chapter will be The Daleks Of Manhaten...
Shadow OUT!
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