Evolution of a Relationship Chapter 94: Fear Her part 4, a doctor who fanfic

Right, here's the fourth and final part of Fear Her, I can't believe it, I'm actually nealy finished this. Anyway, here we go.

Trish strode into the sitting room and started gathering up all the pencils that were lying around. "Chloe usually got the brunt of his temper." she said "When he'd had a drink. The day he crashed the car, I thought we were free." Rose handed her a bunch of pencils. "I thought it was over."
"Did you talk to her about it?" Rose asked
"I didn't want to." Trish answered as Rose sat down.
"But... maybe that's why Chloe feels so alone." Rose said "'Cos she has all these terrible dreams about her dad, but she can't talk to you about them."
"Her and the Isolus... two lonely kids who need each other." the Doctor said
"And it won't stop, will it, Doctor?" Rose asked "It'll just keep pulling kids in."
"It's desperate to be loved. It's used to a pretty big family" the Doctor replied
"How big?" Rose asked
"Say around... four billion?" the Doctor said. This drew a stunned silence from Rose and Trish. Rose turned her attention to the television. Up in her room, Chloe was watching wth same thing. "The queues started a week ago for those desperate enough to be inside, although lots of them expected a capacity crowd of eighty thousand..." the commentator said

A small sound from the wardrobe caused Chloe to look around. She stood up and moved off. "For this evening's opening ceremony. I have to say there's been..."

The Doctor shrugged into his coat as he and Rose left Trish's house. "We need that pod." he told his wife as they walked away from the house
"It crashed - won't it be destroyed?" she asked
"Well, it's been sucking in all the heat it can..." he answered "hopefully that should keep it in a fit state to launch." Rose spotted Chloe watching them from the window. "It must be close. It should have a weak energy signature that the TARDIS can trace. Once we find it, then we can stop the Isolus." Chloe moved away from the window

Trish was downstairs on the phone. "She's running a temperature." she said as she picked up a small bit of paper from the table. "I can't go into that now, Kirsty. Yes, we've got a doctor." Chloe quietly opened the front door and sneaked out without her mother noticing. "Yeah, he said he can help her."

The Doctor and Rose approached the TARDIS. "We can scan for the same trace we picked up from the scribble creature." he said "Just need to widen the field a bit." He put his hand in his pocket and pulled out the Tardis key and then he opened the door. They went inside. Chloe watched them from a distance, taling in the sight of the Tardis. Once inside the Tardis, the Doctor messed about with some device or another, putting it together. Rose sat in the chair next to the console

"You knew the Isolus was lonely before it told you. How?" she asked as he motioned for her to move, which she did and he sat down beside her
"I know what it's like to travel a long way on your own. Give me the stina magnetic erm..." he nodded towards it, noticing the clueless look on his wife's face "thing in your left hand!"
Rose glanced at him, chewing on gum absent-mindedly. "Sounds like you're on its side." she commented. She slotted the 'thing in her left hand' into the device whilst the Doctor held it still between his legs.
"I sympathise, that's all." he said
"The Isolus has caused a lot of pain for these people." Rose pointed out
"It's a child!" he said as he blew on the device "That's why it went to Chloe, two lonely mixed up kids." He blew on the device again as he examined it
"Hmm... feels to me like a temper tantrum because it can't get its own way." Rose said
"It's scared!" he said "Come on, you were a kid once." he paused "Binary dot."
Rose handed it to him "Yes! And I know what kids can be like. Right little... terrors." she said

Back in her bedroom, Chloe reached under her bed and took out a doll. She pulled the head off, revealing the pencils stashed inside it. She took them out, with the air of someone in a hurry.

"Gum." as he held his hand under Rose's mouth. She spat the gum out onto his hand
"I've got cousins." she said "Kids can't have it all their own way. That's part of being a family." The Doctor stuck the the gum to the device, securing it."
"What about trying to understand them?" he asked
"Easy for you to say." she said "We don't have kids."
"I was a dad once." he said off handedly. Rose turned to look at him, evidently shocked
"What did you say?" She asked. The Doctor didn't seem to notice the effect his words had on Rose. He didn't reply he just continued with what he had been doing as though he hadn't said anything. After a short period where nothing was said he broke the silence
"I think we're there!" he said as he stood up and went to the console. "Fear. Loneliness. They're the big ones, Rose. Some of the most terrible acts ever committed have been inspired by them. We're not dealing with something that wants to conquer or destroy." Rose was still reeling from the bombshell he just dropped, but he was carrying on oblivious, pulling levers and pressing buttons on the console. "There's a lot of things you need to get across this universe." he pointed to parts of the console "Warp drive... wormhole refractors..." Rose held her hand out. "You know the thing you need most of all? You need a hand to hold." He noticed Rose's outstretched hand and took it and grined
"No!" she said as she squeezed his hand and let it go "Look, I'm pointing." She laughed as the Doctor looked at the computer screen she pointed at. There was a flashing white light on a map of the neighbourhood that indicated the position of the pod.
"It's the pod! It is in the street! Everything's coming up Doctor!" he said excitedly. He ran off towards the door, Rose followed after a moment, still destracted by his revelation

In her bedroom, Chloe was drawing a picture of the TARDIS.

The Doctor and Rose emerged from the Tardis and the Doctor shut the door behind them "Okay." he said "It's about two inches across. Dull grey, like a gulls egg. Very light."

Chloe was now drawing the Doctor

"So these pods - they travel from sun to sun using heat, yeah?" Rose asked "So it's not all about love and stuff. Doesn't the pod just need heat?" A crash from behind her caused her to turn- the device she and the Doctor just constructed was shattered on the floor - and the Doctor had vanished. Rose's eyes widened in shock.
"Doctor?" she said as she looked around and that was when she noticed, the Tardis had disappeared as well "Doctor?" she said again, now she was really worried

Rose knocked on the door of Trish's house frantically and waited impatiently for her to open the door. When she did, Rose barged in past her and ran up the stairs. "It's okay!" Trish called after her as she followed "I've taken all the pencils off her!"

Rose burst into Chloe's bedroom. She crossed the room to the desk, swiped away the paper the Chloe was drawing on and observed the Tardis and the Doctor sketched onto it. "Leave me alone!" She said sounding like the Isolus again "I want to be with Chloe Webber! I love Chloe Webber!"
"Bring him back, now." Rose demanded
"No." The Isolus said stubbornly. Rose turned away for a second with her head in her hands. Then suddenly she spun around and grabbed Chloe by the shoulders
"Don't you realise what you've done?" she asked Vicously "He was the only one who could help you, now bring him back!"
"Leave me alone!" the Isolus said "I love Chloe Webber!" Trish watched as Rose's face softened.
"I know." she said gently as she let go "I know.". She then turned her attention to the paper she was holding. "Doctor, if you can hear me, I'm gonna get you out of there. I'll find the pod." then she turned to Trish "Don't leave her alone, no matter what." she told the other woman and then she left.

Kel smoothed down the road outside with the palm of his hand as Rose exited the house. "Heat." Rose said as she looked around "Heat. They travel on heat."
"Look at this finish." she heard Kel say "Smooth as a baby's bottom." and she ran over to him "Not a bump or a lump."
Rose crouched down to speak to him "Kel, was there anything in this street in the last few days giving off a lot of heat?" she asked
"I mean, you can eat your dinner off this." he said, apparently not listening "Beautiful. So you tell me why the other one's got a lump in it when I gave it the same love and craftsmanship I did this one!"
"Well, when you've worked it out, put it in a big book about tarmacking, but before you do that - think back six days."
"Six days..." he said as he thought "When I was laying this the first time round!"
"What?" she asked
"Well, that's when I filled in this pothole for the first time." he answered
"Six days ago..." she said as she worked it out "Hot fresh tar..."
"Blended to a secret council recipe." he told her. Without another word, Rose stood up and ran over to the van "Ah-- ah! I don't keep it in the van!" he called after her. Rose wrenched open the doors "Oi, that's a council van. Out." he shouted, but Rose ignored him and climbed inside. She looked around and then picked up an axe. She laughed when she found it and then hopped out of the van again. "Whoa, wait, wait, wait, you just removed a council axe from a council van. Put it back. No don't, wait - put the axe back in the van, that's my van, gimme the axe." Rose returned to the newly tarmacked pothole and swung the axe behind her, ready to bring it down hard on the road. "No! Wait! No!" With a shout, Rose swung the axe down on to the road, smashing through the tarmac. "No! You-- stop!" Kel yelled bewilderedly. Rose hacked at the road again. Kel was outraged "You just took a council axe - from a council van - and now you're digging up a council road! I'm reporting you to the council!" he said, but Rose wasn't listening she scrabbled around the hole that she had just made and found the pob.
"It went for the hottest thing in the street." she said "Your tar!" she laughed in delight
"What is it?!" Kel asked
"It's a spaceship!" she answered "Not a council spaceship, I'm afraid." she continued as she examined it

Chloe barred her bedroom door with a chair. She grabbed some pencils from beneath the duvet cover, sat at her desk, pulled paper towards her and began to draw. Her laptop was still showing the Olympics with a running commentary. Chloe began to draw tiny faces on the paper, representing the crowds inside the Olympic stadium.

Rose burst in through the front door. "I found it!" she said and then she went through to the sitting room, where Trish joined her. "I don't know what to do with it, but maybe the Isolus will just hop on board." she said and then she realised that Trish was alone "Hang on, I told you not to leave her!" she said

"My God. Er - what's going on here?" the commentator asked

They turned to the TV - the crowds inside the stadium had vanished, leaving it deserted. Kel appeared at the living room door. "I don't care if you've got Snow White and the Seven Dwarves buried under there, you don't go digging up--" he said, but Rose interrupted him
"Shut up and look!" she said as she pointed at the TV

"The crowd has vanished! Er-- um... they're gone. Everyone has gone. Thousands of people have just gone. Er... um... right in front of my eyes. Um... it's impossible! Bob, can we join you, um, in the box?" silence and then they saw footage of an empty box "Bob? Not you too, Bob?"

"The stadium won't be enough." Rose said "The Isolus has four billion brothers and sisters."

Chloe watched the laptop in her room. "Over eighty-thousand spectators and thirteen thousand athletes..."
"Not enough."

"Er... they're gone! All of those people. Er... it's a terrible, terrible turn of events..."

She stood up and rushed over to her shelves, grabbed an atlas and some pencils. She opened the book at a diagram of the Planet Earth, blue and green pencils at the ready. "We won't be alone, Chloe Webber." she whispers "We'll have all of them. And then we'll never feel alone. Ever again."

Rose charged up to Chloe's bedroom door still holding the axe, Trish behind her. She tried the handle, but the chair was obstructing the door. "Chloe?" Trish called
"Chloe, it's Rose!" Rose called urgently "Open the door!"

At the sound of their voices, Chloe ripped her magazine cuttings off the wall, leaving a blank space. She started to draw.

"We found your ship!" Rose shouted "We can send you home!"
"Chloe?!"
"Open up!" Rose called and then turned to Trish "Right, stand back." Trish did as she asked

Chloe had already drawn the outline of the planet. "I'm coming to hurt you..."

Rose swung the axe and brought it crashing down on the door. She swung the axe repeatedly until she splintered the wood. When she had made a hole large enough to fit her arm through, Rose reached knocked the chair out of the way and opened the door. She and Trish rush in "Chloe!" Rose shouted
"I'm coming to hurt you..." Chloe's dad said. Chloe was colouring the land in green. "I'm coming..."
"I've gotta stop her." She stepped forward but the wardrobe doors rattled particularly violently and she steppeds back.
"If you stop Chloe Webber, I will let him out." the Isolus said "We will let him out together. I cannot be alone. It's not fair." Rose held the pod out to her.
"Look, I've got your pod." she said
"The pod is dead."
"It-- it only needs heat." Rose told her
"It needs more than heat." the Isolus said
"What, then?" Rose asked desperately
Kel came into the room "I'm not being funny or nothing, but that picture just moved." he said as he pointed at a picture. Rose and Trish looked at it too "And that one!" he continued, pointing at the drawing of the Doctor and the Tardis. Rose picked it up, there was now of the Olympic Torch next to the Doctor - and he was pointing to it.
"She didn't draw that." Rose said "He did. But it needs more than heat, Doctor." She looked at the picture, helplessly. She then turned her attention to the laptop which was now showing the athlete running along the road with the Torch

"It's much more than a torch now, it's a beacon. It's a beacon of hope and fortitude and courage. And it's a beacon of love."

"Love." Rose said, realising what the Isolus meant

"So let's have a look from the helicopter - there we go, the torch running..."

"I know how to charge up the pod." She said and then left. Chloe was still colouring the Earth

"... past Dame Kelly Holmes Close."

Rose jogged down the close - there were lots of people congregated at the end, cheering as the torch bearer passed by. Rose joined them, squeezing through to the front, but she couldn't get any closer as a policeman stopped her. "Sorry, you'll have to watch from here." he said
"No, I've gotta get closer..." Rose said
"No way!" he argued
"I can stop this from happening!" Rose explained

"Chloe.." Chloe's dad said
"Chloe..." Trish said
"I'm coming to hurt you." her dad said
Trish addressed the shaking wardrobe, crying and out of her mind with anxiety, clutching at her head. "My baby! You're not going to hurt her again!" she said
"I'm coming."

As the torch bearer passedby, the pod began to chirp. "You felt it, didn't you?" She backed out of the crowd and then brought her cupped hands close to her mouth and whispered to the pod "Feel the love." She threw the pod into the air and it was drawn to the torch. The torch bearer staggered slightly as it fell into the flames, but he simply dismissed it. Rose jumped up and down with joy "Yes!" she shouted.

Chloe had nearly finished colouring in the Earth, when suddenly she stopped, eyes wide. "I can go home." the Isolus said "Goodbye, Chloe Webber. I love you." Chloe's eyes rolled in her head as the tiny Isolus emerged from her mouth and zoomed off through the window. As though she had just woken up, Chloe turned to Trish "Mum?" she asked
"I'm here." Trish said as she smiled at her daughter
"Mummy!" Chloe exclaimed as she dropped her pencil and rushed into her mother's arms and hugged her. Trish hugged her back, overjoyed.

Rose was still cheering and whooping with delight "You did it!" Kel said as Rose hugged him "What was it you did?" he asked confused. Rose just grabbed him and and spun round, as she laughed. She watched as all the missing children materialise out of thin air, in the exact same spots from which they disappeared. Dale ran to his mother and hugged her "Mummy!" he said and Rose smiled and then she watched Jane run to her mother "Oh, Jane!" Rose was happy to see them reunited, but she was slightly distant
"Doctor..." she said to her self as she watched the happy families sadly. She jumped when Maeve touched her arm
"I don't know who you are, or what you did, but thank you, darling!" she said and then she kissed Rose's cheek, causing her to laugh "And thank that man for me too!" She walked away.
Rose scanned the street with growing anxiety "Where is he?" she asked as her voice began to shake "He should be here." She watched the children playing on the street. "All the drawings have come to life." Rose continued as she looked up at Chloe's bedroom window "That means all of them." A red light filled Chloe's room and Chloe's dad started growling "Oh, no." She ran towards the house

Chloe and Trish were walking down the stairs together when the front door suddenly slammed shut of its own accord. Trish tried to open it, but it was stuck fast. The other doors from the hallway slammed shut too, leaving them trapped.

Rose ran to the front door and banged on it "Trish, get out!" she yelled urgently through the glass

"I can't!" Trish said "The door's stuck!"
"Is the Doctor in there?" Rose asked
"I don't think so!" Trish answered
"Mummy..." Chloe said, sounding scared. Dust was shaken from the ceiling as the sound of heavy footsteps was heard overhead, accompanied by the red light.
"Chloe, I'm coming to hurt you..."
"Please, dad. No more." she said
"Chloe..."
"Chloe, listen to me." Rose said, talking fast "It isn't real like the others. It's just energy left over by the Isolus, but you can get rid of it--"
"Help us!"Trish said
"Oh it's 'cos you're so scared that he's real!" she realised "But you can get shot of him, Chloe!"
"Mummy!" Chloe said as she cast terrified looks over her shoulder
"You can do it, Chloe!" Rose encouraged
"I can't!" she said again.

There was a shadow of a man on Chloe's bedroom wall. "Chloe... I'm coming..."

"I can't..." Chloe said and she sank to the bottom of the door, hunched up and terrified, giving up. "I can't."
The shadow appeared on the wall of the landing. "I'm coming..." The voice of Chloe's dad said
"Mummy..." Chloe said, sounding terrified
"Chloe..." the voice said again
Trish put her arms around her daughter "I'm with you, Chloe." she said "You're not alone. You'll never be alone again."
Rose pounded on the door "Sing again!" she said "Chloe, sing!"
"Chloe..." Chloe began to sing the Kookaburra song again, but it could barely be heard over Chloe's Dad's roars, his shadow was coming closer "Chloe... Chloe... Chloe... Chloe, I'm coming to hurt you." Trish joined her in the song "Chloe!"
As their voices became stronger, his became weaker. His shadow retreated and the light faded. He roared with anger, but it sounded distant.
"# ... merry merry king of the bush is he..." Trish and Chloe continued as they laughed with relief

Rose, sighed with relief, and slid down the door, sinking to the ground.

"#Laugh, Kookaburra laugh, Kookaburra, gay your life must be." Chloe and Trish finished singing. They looked at each other and smiled

Outside, Kel approached a desolate Rose. "Maybe he's gone somewhere." he suggested
Rose was upset "He wouldn't leave me." she told him. Kel didn't know what to say

Back in the sitting room, Trish and Chloe watched the TV, The crowds had returned to the stadium.

"Just look at this! Utterly incredible scenes at the Olympics stadium - eighty thousand athletes and spectators, disappeared - they've come back!"

They looked up as Rose and Kel entered to watch.

"They've returned. They've reappeared. It's quite incredible. Bob, this will certainly..."

"Eighty thousand people, so where's the Doctor...?" she asked, sounding close to tears "I need him."

"The torch bearer seems to be in a bit of trouble. We did see a flash of lightening earlier which seemed to strike him... erm, maybe he's injured... he's definitely in trouble." The torch bearer collapsed "Does this mean that the Olympic Dream is dead?" the commentator asked as a familiar brown clad arm picked up the torch.

"Doctor..." Rose said as a smile began to spread over her face

The Doctor started to run with the torch alongside the crowds.

"There's a mystery man - he's picked up the flame... we've no idea who he is... erm... he's carrying the flame, yes! He's carrying the flame and no one wants to stop him."

Kel, Trish and Chloe smiled as Rose laughed in relief and joy.

"It's more than a flame now, Bob. It's more than heat and light. It's hope. And it's courage. And it's love."

The Doctor ran up the red carpeted stairs with the torch, the spot light following him. The Doctor faced the crowds with a huge grin on his face, whooping. He lit the Olympic Flame. "Go on." he said "Join your brothers and sisters. They'll be waiting." The crowd screamed and cheered. The Isolus, unseen by anyone except the Doctor, rose up into the air and away into the night.

The Doctor walked back down Dame Kelly Holmes Close, hands in his pockets. Rose crept up behind him with a cheeky grin on her face.
"Cake?" Rose asked. The Doctor turned around, she was holding out a little cake decoratated with edible ball bearings. He started to laugh and Rose joined in.
"Top banana!" he said as he took it from her. He took a bite out of it whilst Rose watched, grinning from ear to ear. "Mm. I can't stress this enough. Ball bearings you can eat - masterpiece!"
Rose watched him for a few more seconds and then threw her arms around him, holding him tight. "Ooh, I thought I'd lost you." she said as she pulled back. Then she kissed him
"Nah!" the Doctor told her, when she let him go "Not on a night like this! This is a night for lost things being found. Come on!" They walked around together.
"What now?" Rose asked
"I wanna go to the games!" the Doctor answered "What we came for!"
"Go on - give us a clue - which events do we do well in?" she asked
"Well, I will tell you this: Papua New Guinea surprises everyone in the shot put." he answered with his mouth still full of cake.
"... Really? You're joking, aren't you?" she laughed "Doctor, are you serious or are you joking?"
"Wait and see!" he told her
Fireworks exploded overhead as the Doctor and Rose walked down the street hand in hand. "You know what; they keep on trying to split us up, but they never ever will." she said.
The Doctor looked at her, as he stopped "Never say never ever."
"Nah. We'll always be okay, you and me." Rose said with confidence, but she recieved no reply "Don't you reckon, Doctor?"
The Doctor looked up at the sky, reflecting for a moment, as though he could sense something "Something in the air." he said "Something coming."
"What?" Rose asked as they looked up at the sky which was lit up with fireworks.
"A storm's approaching." The Doctor answered and Rose glanced up at him nervously and shivered. The Doctor let go of her hand and wrapped his arm around her waist.

Right, that's probably the last for tonight, cause I've got some stuff to do, I'll do the filler tomorrow, well, there will be 2 before Army of Ghosts and Doomsday. I can't believe it's so near the end now. But, I'd better go, cause I've got to finish tidying and then get some pictures for college.

TTFN

Julie