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Recap
"You have to spoil everything, don t you? Every time I find someone nice, you have to go and find fault." she raged at her, I sigh,
"She's trying to look out for you, look at him." I say in exasperation,
"Tish, he s a monster!" Martha shouts, Lazarus is having another attack and is changing...
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He looked, well disgusting is one way to put it but that was on TV in real life Imagine that ugliness magnified by ten, then you re getting pretty close.
"Run" I screamed grabbing the doctor's hand and pulling him to the door. The Doctor seals the lock with the sonic screwdriver. Martha presses the call button for the lift.
"Are you okay?" Martha asks turning to Tish
"I was gonna snog him." She answers,
"Yeah, probably not the best course of action, considering he could and will kill you if you did that." I state looking at the door still. Lazarus bangs on the door, and sirens begin to go off and a computerised warning comes over the PA.
"Security breach. Security breach. Security beach." It repeats on a loop
"What's happening?" Martha shouts over the alarm looking panicked but calmer than Tish as she had met Daleks, Pig slaves, and The Face Of Boe.
"Uh, an intrusion. It triggers a security lockdown. Kills most of the power. Stops the lifts. Seals the exits." Tish explained as I held onto the doctors hand he pulled me over to the stairs saying,
"He must be breaking through that door. The stairs come on!" Running down the stairs made me grateful that I had worn flat shoes instead of the heels I was considering in the beginning. There was a crash and I knew he had gotten through the door, it was only a matter of time.
"He s inside!" Martha informed as I rolled my eyes,
"It was only a matter of time before he broke through that door, it wasn't that strong considering he mutated and it could have given him a lot of strength." I call back.
"Haven t got much time!" He said picking up the all the while dragging me, it reminded me of when we were on the moon... We get to reception and stop as the doctor turned to Tish.
"Tish! Is there another way out of here?"
"There s an exit in the corner, but it'll be locked now." She responds slightly calmer than before. He takes out the sonic and tosses it to Martha.
"Martha, setting 54. Hurry." he orders, Martha runs off following Tish, he looks at me, "You go with them." I look at him.
"You re crazy if you think I'm gonna leave you to your own devices, and since when do you order me around?" he looked frustrated but I didn't care I was not leaving him. He doesn't argue because I'm sure he knows I won t give in, he jumps on the platform in front of the machine that started it all,
"Listen to me! Your people are in serious danger! You need to get out of here right now!" He shouts to the people, they all look at him as though he were crazy, well... No don t get distracted. Focus.
"Don't be ridiculous. The biggest danger here is choking on an olive." A woman retorts, I sigh. Glass shatters and Lazarus appears on the landing above before leaping down to the reception floor.
"Really because that's some big olive." I said smirking at her despite the situation, I look over at Leo and know he's going to get hit by the table, I look at the doctor before making my decision and running over to him.
"Mum, get back!" he shouts and a table that Lazarus had thrown hits him sending him back into the wall, I was too late, he was disoriented
"Leo!" his mum shouts in panic as she runs to him I hear Martha shout
"Over here! This way! Everyone downstairs now! Hurry!" as people start to run, Lazarus closes in on the woman that had not listened to the Doctor's warning, I had to save someone, it wouldn't mess anything up of that I was sure. So I did the stupid thing and ran towards her, but he was closer, I looked on helpless as the woman screams and she is sucked dry, her shell falling to the floor, 'What s wrong with me?' I ask myself. before going to the doctor's side his had taking mine and soothing me slightly in the uselessness I felt.
Lazarus then turns and approaches Francine and Leo who is slowly coming around,
"Lazarus leave them alone!" I shout with the doctor, Martha rushes to her brother to help talking quietly to him. Martha takes Francine and Leo to safety.
"What s the point if you can t control it? The mutation s too strong. Killing those people won t help you." The doctor shouted, I felt the need to be apart of this if I was going to go through with being chased by this disgusting thing that had been an arrogant old man.
"You re a fool, a vain arrogant old man who thought he could defy Nature. Only mother Nature got her own back, didn't she? You re a joke, Lazarus! A footnote in the history of failure!" he turns to us and I look at the doctor, "We should probably run now, shouldn't we?" I ask, he grins and we take off Lazarus on our tale as we lead him away from reception away from the innocent people...
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We had run to what looked like a service hall, filled with all sorts of different pipes and creep so as not to draw his attention.
"It s no good, Doctor. You can t stop me. And neither can dear Miss Phoenix." he hisses, I bite back a snarl but it does nothing for the boiling anger slowly reaching it's point. The doctor rubs my hand trying to calm me down from my rage as sparks flew from my other hand.
"Is that the same arrogance you had when you swore nothing had gone wrong with your device?" He countered
"The arrogance is yours. You can t stand in the way of progress. Or keep her to yourself." Lazarus bit back, the last comment causing the doctor to tense and growl as he didn't speak I did so for him.
"Your feeding on innocent people and you call his progress? You sick bastard." I spat in contempt.
"It is a necessary sacrifice." he reasons with is twisted voice,
"That's not your decision to make." The doctor shouted his hand now cutting off the circulation to my fingers, he was getting angry and I could only think of the death and how he had tensed at Lazarus's comment about keeping someone to himself, and I knew it was me, the link, it was getting stronger, more protective and in turn making him act the way he was...
After a few minutes the power comes back on the lights return in the service hall and we're no longer hidden as we once were by the darkness.
"Peek-a-boo." Lazarus said, we look up to see him on the ceiling
"Oh, hello." The doctor said as I on the other hand went with,
"God you're ugly." The doctor drags me from the room as he runs, the slit in this dress really was coming in handy but what if the back fell down too far? I shook my head, can t worry right now.
XXX
After running a few minutes we reach a lab, he fiddles with the light fixtures whist I go and open all the gas taps, I held my breath keeping the clean air and duck down as I hear Lazarus coming, knowing the doctor had done the same.
"More hide-and-seek, Doctor? How disappointing. Why don t you come out and face me?" Lazarus taunts,
"Have you looked in the mirror lately?" he asks, I take that as my cue to stand and see him standing also. "Why would we wanna face that, hmm?" he jokes and I smile but I couldn't agree more. He runs for the door, myself just slightly behind him as he flicks a switch as he runs passed, the shock of the explosion send me hurtling forward onto the doctor and knocking him to the floor, our faces were mere inches from each other and I froze,
'To close, to close.' I push up quickly and scramble back slightly, the explosion must have alerted Martha to where we were.
"Let's go." I shout running passed him and grabbing his hand. running into Martha didn't take too long as we ran around a corner slamming into her,
"What are you doing here?" He questioned and I smiled slightly,
"I'm returning this." she answers as she holds out the sonic "I thought you might need it." she explains at his look.
"How did you-?" he cut off as Martha explained this as well, but I added my own commentary,
"I heard the explosion. Guessed it was you." she said while I went for the more amusing.
"There was a loud BOOM." I giggled slightly
"We blasted Lazarus." the doctor said, and I thanked god that we didn't have to pay for the lab.
"Did you kill him?" She asked hopefully as if on cue, Lazarus comes crashing down the hall.
"More sort of annoyed him, I'd say." The doctor says as we run,
"We should split up. Doctor go right I'll get Martha to a safe place." I said, he opens his mouth "Don't argue, he'll follow you anyway." he closes his mouth but I knew that what I had said could have been a lie, I was changing things and I wasn't sure if it would go to plan. I grabbed Martha s hand and pulled her to the left, where the reception room was.
"What now? We've just gone round in a circle!" She exclaims, "You said we were going to get out."
"No I said you were going to be safe, I just didn't say how." I explain as I drag her over to the machine, opening the door I push Martha in following after her and closing the door. "Now assuming this is going to plan he's in the room now." I said to myself
"Are we hiding?" Martha quire's I shook my head
"Nah if he's here, which he is, he won't hurt his precious machine not even for us." I explain
"But we're trapped!" She shouts, I shook my head again,
"Nope, just inconveniently circumstanced." I say thinking of the Titanic.
"You mean you don't have a plan?" she asks in panic, I sigh
"Yes I have a plan if it were the doctor then there wouldn't be a plan but we'd be in trouble if I didn't have this." I say holding up the sonic screwdriver I had taken from the doctor.
"But he put that in his pocket." she said, I wink
"We nearly kissed." I say distracting her,
"When?" she asked, excepting the distraction as I bend down and pull wires out.
"When we blew up the lab, I was thrown forward by the explosion and onto him, faces were inches apart then I got up thinking we were to close." I say vaguely
"Why are you down there?" she questioned, I roll my eyes,
"Well if I was the doctor I would give a complicated explanation that would do nothing but make you feel like an idiot, but as I am not, I will say, 'Something Clever'. You know your shoes are really nice, how do you run in them, I would have broken the heels off by now." I ask distracting her more, two more, the light came on...
"Phoenix, what s happening?" she asked panic creeping into her voice
"Right take a deep breath and talk about something else what's happening is okay, part of the plan." I answer calming her,
"Okay how come your wearing the watch, you said the doctor couldn't know about it." she asks, Damn it this last one was pissing me off,,
"Perception filter, I found it, it makes sure he can't see it." I answer "Almost.."
"Does he know about the link yet?" I shook my head
"He'll find out sooner or later." I answer and there was a click, "HA!" there was a bright light and then the buzzing stopped and the light stopped, opening the door I step out and see the doctor run into the room.
"Reversed the polarity, it was easy enough, hard to find the right setting on this, should have just done it by hand." I explain to Martha looking at Lazarus, He was lying in human form, naked, on the floor.
"Oh God. He seems so human again. It s kind of pitiful." Martha said pity in her voice to prove what she had just said, the doctor rushed over to us,
"Eliot saw that, too." I say quietly, as the doctor pulls me into a tight hug
"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper." he quotes loud enough for Martha to hear, his grip grew tighter "You knew didn't you, when I came to the end of the corridor I was at the exit, and he wasn't behind me." he whispered, "You shouldn't have done that, I could have lost you."
"But you didn't, you would have done the same, and all I did was speed up the process, and make sure Martha didn't panic."
XXX
Medical services come to take the body, carrying it out on a gurney in a bag. Martha and the Doctor watch from the steps myself stuck in the doctor's arms as he held me tightly I was uneasy, he was going to come back and I didn't like knowing as much as I did, I knew the deaths to come and I sometimes caught myself wishing that I could forget. The first to see us is Tish.
"She s here. Oh, she's all right." she shouts hugging her sister. The doctor moves me to the side as Francine walks over,
"Ah, Mrs Jones, we still haven t finished our chat." he said with a smile I wince as she slaps him across the face, she goes to do it again but I grab her wrist,
"As much as I think he should have been slapped once was enough, Mrs Jones." I say my voice deceptively warm, I felt protective, the doctor was my link and I wanted to protect him, even if it meant making more enemies than friends in this universe.
"Keep away from my daughter." she demanded venom in her voice, she had spoken to the man that worked for Saxon, I turn and look at his cheek as he whines,
"All their mothers all the time." I roll my eyes and put a hand on his cheek and he leans into it,
"You won't have to worry about mine if that helps." I say with a smile before it drops, "And this won t be red more than a few minutes." I reassure patting his cheek.
"Mum, what are you doing?" Martha exclaimed looking at her in disbelief
"He is dangerous! I've been told things." she shouts at her daughter pointing at him, I sigh, so just the doctor then, but there was something bugging me, Saxon knew me, if he wasn't going to warn her about me what did that make me to him, why wasn't I being mentioned...
"What are you talking about?" Martha asks her mother in confusion. Francine takes Martha by the shoulders.
"Look around you! Nothing but death and destruction!" I felt the doctor flinch slightly under her words and I knew one thing I would do when I met the man named Saxon, I would slap him, he was causing my doctor to feel pain and I didn't like it.
"This isn't his fault. He saved us, all of us!" Martha argues, and I realise that this is where she turns her personality around completely and this was when I started to like her in my world.
"It was Tish who invited everyone to this thing in the first place. I'd say technically, it s her fault." Leo said with a grin, Tish elbows Leo in the side, and then crash sounds and signifies the start of the end and we look at Martha before running off. She goes to follow but Francine holds her back as I know. but it didn't matter I carried on running.
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Tish and Martha catch up and run beside us, the scene we happen across was that of the ambulance doors open and the medics nothing but shells of the people that should have been alive.
"Lazarus, back from the dead. Should've known, really." He said shaking his head a hold still on my hand and I blink,
"I forgot to give this back to you." I say holding up the sonic, he takes it and scans the area like he did in the building looking for Lazarus.
"Where s he gone?" Martha asked us
"That way. The church." the doctor informs
"Cathedral." Tish and I correct "It s Southwark Cathedral. He told me." She continues, we set off and within the five minutes of running I had gotten my hand back and had a plan. Inside the cathedral, we proceed up the nave, the Doctor in front with the sonic screwdriver held out in front of him.
"Do you think he s in here?" Martha queries again,
"Where would you go if you were looking for sanctuary?" he asks rhetorically
"TARDIS, or Arcadia Lake." I say with a shrug, not bothering to look at him as I move forward through the empty cathedral the others catching up with me as we head to the open space behind the altar and underneath the bell tower. Lazarus is sitting there gasping, a red blanket from the ambulance wrapped about him.
"I came here before. A lifetime ago. I thought I was going to die then. In fact, I was sure of it. I sat there, just a child the sound of planes and bombs outside." he says reminiscent of some of the worst times in human history, The world war, 2 if I was correct.
"The Blitz." The doctor stated, yup I was right.
"You've read about it." he replied to the doctor,
"I was there." he answered, and I knew he was thinking about Rose and the gas mask children, I was half tempted to ask, 'Are you my mummy?' but decided against it knowing this wasn't the time nor place. Lazarus scoffs at the doctor
"You re too young."
"Older than you might think." I interrupt,
"So are you." The doctor said ignoring me, I move closer to Martha, Lazarus laughs but it soon turns to gasps of pain as he fights the mutation.
"In the morning, the fires had died, and I was still alive. I swore I'd never face death like that again." he tells like a story to a child, The Doctor walks around Lazarus slowly, looking up at the bell tower. Martha watches, knowing he s planning something, and I watch her knowing what she's going to do.
"So defenceless. I would arm myself, fight back, defeat it." he continued
"That's what you were trying to do today." the doctor answered as though he had known all along,
"That's what I did today." Lazarus retorts,
"No it isn't, what you did, today proved my point, humanity is not ready to advance yet." I spoke softly conviction and pity for the man mixing together
"What about the other people who died?" the doctor questioned, I flinch, they hadn't needed to die if he had refused Saxons money, it all led back to the master or Saxon...
"They were nothing. I changed the course of history." Lazarus spat,
"Who are you to decide that, they had families and lives and you took that away." I retort hotly, before taking a deep breath feeling the sparks start, I needed to calm down for a minute.
"Any of them might have done, too. You think history s only made with equations? Facing death is part of being human. You can't change that." The doctor spoke, and what I saw in front of me was that lonely man, the last of his kind, I glance down,
'Or so he thinks.'
"No, Doctor. Avoiding death. That s being human. It's our strongest impulse, to cling to life with every fibre of being. I'm doing what everyone before me has tried to do. I've simply been more... successful." he spat as he convulsed in pain as his body tries to change a groan coming from his throat.
"Look at yourself! You re mutating! You've no control over it! You call that a success?" he shouted,
"I call it progress. I m more now that I was. More than just an ordinary human."
"Maybe so but being human was certainly better than being a monster and killing people you deem worthy of food." I snarl, a few sparks coming out.
"There's no such thing as an ordinary human." the doctor stated not looking at me,
"He's gonna change again at any minute." Martha whispers,
"I know. If I can get him up into the bell tower somehow, I've an idea that might work." he whispered and I knew Martha began putting her plan together.
"Up there?" she asked pointing just slightly as he nods,
"You're so sentimental, Doctor. Maybe you are older than you look." Lazarus commented,
"I'm old enough to know that a longer life isn t always a better one. In the end, you just get tired. Tired of the struggle. Tired of losing everyone that matters to you. Tired of watching everything turn to dust." he squats down beside Lazarus "If you live long enough, Lazarus, the only certainty left is that you end up alone." he continued to explain pain lacing his voice.
"That's a price worth paying." Lazarus snaps, I roll my eyes.
"Is it?" the doctor wonders, I can see that Lazarus feels the change again.
"I will feed soon." he says
"I'm not gonna let that happen." the time lord said adamantly,
"You've not been able to stop me so far." Lazarus growled, Martha comes up behind Lazarus and I shadow her, keeping my distance from the doctor.
"Leave him, Lazarus! He s old and bitter. Thought you had a taste for fresher meat." I had to admit the girl had guts and I liked that about her.
"Martha, no." the doctor shouts as she runs, I turn not looking back as I chase after her. I hear Lazarus snarl and chase after us. Tish runs with us.
"What are you two doing?" she shouts I shrug and run faster,
"Keeping you out of trouble!" Tish explained as she ran, and have I mentioned that I hate stairs? No well now you know, well actually now I know as well...
"Doctor! The tower!" Martha shouts down as she looks at him. Martha and Tish run up the narrow spiral staircase after me as I hadn't stopped running. Lazarus follows and begins screaming.
"Did you hear that?" Tish asked more panic in her voice, I'm not sure but I think there was a lot more panic here than on the moon, well apart from all the people fearing for their life, but I didn't count them as I didn't know them.
"He's changed again. We've got to lead him up." Martha instructs as she continues running again,
"Martha?! Phoenix?!" I hear the doctor shout, I stop and wait for Martha as she looks out of one of the arches,
"Doctor!" She shouts back,
"Take him to the top, the very top of the bell tower, d'you hear me?!" he orders I grab Martha s hand we needed to go we couldn't waste time,
"Up to the top!" Martha shouts,
"Martha " Tish says hesitantly, Lazarus is making his way along the passage.
"Then what?" Martha shouts, I sigh and pull her hand and start running with the sisters
"Just trust him." I call as we ran up again. we arrive the girls out of breath and my legs hurting
"There s nowhere to go! We re trapped!" Tish shouted
"Inconveniently circumstanced." I correct.
"This is where he said to bring him." Martha said ignoring her sister and sending me an amused look.
"All right, so we re not trapped. We're bait." Tish deduces,
"Yup." I say popping the 'p'
"He knows what he's doing. We have to trust him. And Phoenix, she always knows what's going to happen." Martha assures her sister, I look down, that was a long way down.
"Ladies." Lazarus hisses, I turn and face him
"Hello sir." I say sarcastically, he enters, blocking the only doorway.
"Stay behind me. If he takes me, make a run for it. Head down the stairs, you should have enough time." Martha orders, I sigh,
"I have the fire power sweetie." I answer her sweetly
"But -" Martha and Tish start,
"Don't argue." I spoke my tone board. Lazarus attacks, swinging down his tail causing the girls to scream as we duck. As Lazarus continues his attack, the Doctor begins playing the organ but not loud enough, I bring my anger to the surface, and throw a flame at his face, he lets out a cry as he swings his tail back catching my leg making me stumble backwards over the broken railing, to my credit I didn't make a sound, but Martha on the other hand screamed,
"Phoenix!" she shouted, and that caught the doctors attention as the playing stopped, I don't pull myself up as I know what is going to happen. Lazarus stood over me,
"Hold on! Get away from her!" Tish and Martha shout, I concentrate on his hand and it ignites and he hisses, the doctor picked up the pace of his playing and I knew that he was talking to himself and imagining the worst case scenario, also I could feel his panic through the like and sent the calm I was feeling through to him subtly so he wouldn't notice.
Suddenly the sound of the Organ increased and I fought not to cover my ears and let go, Tish and Martha hold their heads in agony as the sound resonates through the small space we are in, I look over to Lazarus and see him writhe in pain, and then falls over the edge. The doctor's playing ebbs and I put all my strength into my arms hauling myself up and over the edge, I let out a breath as solid feeling is under my feet and stretch my arms above my head as a loud crack resonates,
"Good thing I didn't look down, aye?" I ask looking at them with a grin, Martha hugs me tightly and sighs in relief, "Easy on the hugging Martha I still need to breath, moon incident remind you of anything?" I tease and she backs up a bit with a sheepish smile.
"Sorry." I shake my head
"It's fine I m only messing, though my plan did back fire a bit." I shrug
"Phoenix?!" I roll my eyes,
"You had to shout my name, I've only just got off probation with him you know." I groan and I shout down, "I'M FINE!" and turn to the girls, "Thanks for standing up for me when he was going to attack." I say looking at the sisters.
"It s your Doctor you should be thanking." Tish retorts and I think about it, I probably should, you know after the lecture and the health check, god that s going to be annoying,
"Told you he d think of something." Martha said with a smug smile,
"He cut it a bit fine there, didn't he?" she asked
"He always does. It s more fun that way." Martha answers
"And I'm inclined to agree with him, that was an adrenaline rush." I say as I turn to look over the railing again and pull back, "I'm really glad I didn't fall." I say with a shudder.
"Who is he?" Tish questioned, I smile in fondness, but don t answer.
"He's... " Martha starts before looking at me "He's the Doctor." she finally summed up, I threw my arms around their shoulders,
"Come on then I have a lecture to get through and I want it out of the way." I remark heaving a sigh and the girls laugh though Tish is a little shaky.
XXX
As we get to the bottom I see the doctor barrelling towards us and I hide behind Martha covering my eyes,
"Phoenix..." he says in a warning tone,
"If I can t see you, you can t see me" I shout childishly, Martha chuckled at that and I peek between my hands looking at him, to see the slight smile. He hugs Martha and she moves out of the way so he could get to me. I pout "Traitor."
"I didn't know you could play?" Martha said distracting him from me, I look over at her with a grin.
"Oh, well, you know, if you hang around with Beethoven, you re bound to pick a few things up." I snort as he says this,
"That wasn't playing, tell you what, I'll show you playing when we get to the TARDIS, the old girl is sure to have a piano or another instrument in there somewhere." I say with a smile.
"Hmm, especially about playing loud." Martha said trying to get off the topic of us leaving, oh if only she knew. The Doctor just leans forward like he didn't hear her.
"Sorry?" He asks causing Martha to laughs. I groan
"Make it stop." I plead jokingly covering my ears as we leave, the doctor holding Martha's hand and his free arm around my waist.
XXX
We were now standing in front of the TARDIS in Martha s flat the atmosphere heavy.
"Something else that just kind of escalated, then." The doctor said rubbing the back of his head.
"I can see a pattern developing. You should take more care in the future. And the past, and whatever other time period you find yourself in." Martha says sadness coating her tone, I still smiled though,
"It s good fun, though, isn't it?" he grinned,
"Yeah." She answered with a small smile.
"So, what d you say, one more trip?" he asked nodding to the TARDIS,
"No. Sorry." Martha says shaking her head, his face drops in disappointment,
"What do you mean? I thought you liked it." he asked hurt hiding in his voice.
"I do, but I can't go on like this. 'One more trip.' It s not fair." Martha reasons, and I drop my head to hide the grin.
"What're you talking about?" he asked confused,
"I don't want to be just a passenger anymore. Someone you take along for a treat. If that's how you still see me, well, I'd rather stay here."
"Okay, then. If that s what you want." The doctor answers nonchalantly,
"Right. But we've already said good-bye once today so it s really best if you just go." Martha said ignoring what he said, Martha walks away from the TARDIS, keeping her back to it. When the Doctor and I don t say anything, she looks over her shoulder.
"What is it?" She asked confused, I sigh,
"What? I said okay." he said
"Honestly Martha I never took you for dense..." I said shaking my head in mock disappointment.
"Sorry?" she asked like she hadn't heard right.
"Okay." he said ask I burst,
"Get your ass back on the TARDIS or I will throw you in." I say with a grin.
"Oh, thank you! Thank you!" she said jumping and hugging us both. I laugh at her reaction,
"Well, you were never really just a passenger, were you?" he asks,
"Besides, if he had left you I would have stayed until he let you come." I say tapping her nose and then we walk in closing the door setting off, leaving the answering machine to pick up on Francine and her frantic warning.
XXX
He had just set her into the vortex and I had gotten changed,
'Any instruments sexy?' I ask,
'Of course there are, I've had a music room for years.' she said her voice sounding exasperated, I giggle and grab the doctors and Martha by the hands,
"Come on then, I said I'd show you what playing really is." I say aloud,
'Care to show me the way sexy?' and a door appears in front of us
"Thanks." I say aloud. We walk in and I'm struck speechless, there was everything from Piano to Guitar, and then I see something in the corner, it couldn't be, I let their hands drop and walk closer, there on the table were two of my favourite instruments, A flute and a Violin case, more specifically, my flute and Violin... I let out a shaky breath and turn to face them "Violin, Piano or Flute?" I ask giving the choice,
"All three." the doctor said, I sigh and pick up my flute,
"All right, take a seat then." they walk to the sofas and sit whilst I pulled my hair into a high ponytail. Placing the flute to my lips I play the last song I had played in my universe. Tick Tock, I let go and moved with the sounds.
Doctor's P.O.V
She placed the flute to her lips and a haunting melody took the room as her eyes closed and her fingers moved along with her feet. She was beautiful and her hair was shining in the dim light that had taken over as she had started, truly breath-taking I was entranced, but the song was sad, Finally she stopped playing and moving, I was disappointed and Martha had seemed so as well, placing the flute down genially she moved to pick up the violin.
Martha's P.O.V
I was so happy they said I could stay and as Phoenix picked up the violin I saw something fill her eyes like she was happy, and her eyes not haunted like I had seen when she would gaze out at something in thought. placing the instrument on her shoulder she moved the bow to the strings and began to play another haunting melody, but this one was familiar, it sounded like my immortal, evanescence. She didn't move much as she played merely swayed as the bow slid across the strings. The melody was heart breaking and brought tears to my eyes as I thought of when my family was happy...
3rd Person P.O.V
As the last note rung out from the violin she took a breathe and placed the violin gently in its case as though it was the most treasured thing in the universe, before moving to the white and gold grand piano. She decided that she would add an extra treat to this particular performance, so letting her hand rest on the keys her fingers took on a life of their own and began to play Innocence by Avril Lavigne. Only this time she sang the lyrics to the song, as both the doctor and Martha closed their eyes and let it wash over them, the hours and events of the day catching up to them as they began to feel tired.
After a while Phoenix let her hands stop and stood up, looking at the two friends that had been sitting there, they had fallen asleep.
Phoenix's P.O.V
I walk over to Martha and shake her slightly waking her, I felt guilty but she would have a bad back if she slept like that,
"Martha, sweetie, come on time to go to bed." I say helping her up and walking her to the door watching as she walked away, I sigh and look at the doctor, this was going to be a little harder...
"Doctor." I whisper to him, nothing, so I say it a little louder and still nothing, putting my hand on his arm I shake a little and he mutters, rolling my eyes at the childish man I shake harder and his eyes snap open,
"Come on, Time for bed, Time lord." I help him up and walk him to his room waiting for the door to close before turning and seeing a dead end, I sigh
'Come on are you really gonna play when I m this tired?' I groan silently,
'Your room is right behind you dear.' turning I see that my room is next to his,
'Thanks for saving me the trip.' she hums in response as I walk into my room grab a pair of light bottoms and a tank top changing and falling on my bed and into sleep. I woke up to a cry of pain and I sit up sharply and walk over to my door opening it and it sounds again. From my right.
'Nightmares.' walking back into my room I grab a fluffy blanket and walk over to his door, slipping it open quietly I hear his whimpers, closing the door I walk over to him and sit on the bed.
"Doctor, come on wake up." I say shaking him by the shoulders a little roughly, but he wakes up and looks at me before he grabs me and lets the tears fall clinging to me like a child, and instantly I know what he had dreamed about...
The Time War... the burning of his planet the death he had been forced to make happen, to save the rest of the universe. I run my fingers through his hair whispering soothing words and comfort to him, after a while his breathing evens out and he relaxes, laying him back in the bed i get up and grab a chair pulling it to his bedside, and sitting down. The blanket wrapped around me as I grab his hand and lay my head on the side of his bed, drifting to sleep, listening to his breathing and the whispers from my watch, two words,
'I'm Sorry...'
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Okay another early chapter but I had nothing else to do so here it is, let me know what you think...
Shadow OUT!
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