Mary's Song

Mary and I crept through the empty halls of the prison. It was starting to get on my nerves, the less and less people we encountered. It was strange, but I shrugged the feeling off. I would deal with it when the matter arises.

We soon came to a door with the recognizable black box right next to it at hight level. "Let me." Mary said. She took a card out of her back pocket and swiped it in front of the black box. The door slid open to reveal what looked like a large loading room.

People where moving about the room, going on with their work, paying no attention to us. Humans and aliens worked side by side getting large crates into the bottoms of shuttles while guards marched by occasionally.

"Come on." Mary said quietly. "We have to cross the loading docks without being seen." I nodded and both of us readied our guns and ran to the nearest stacks of crates.

Mary and I looked at each other. "Okay, I'll look for the next spot we go." I told her. Mary nodded and I crept to the edge of the box and looked cautiously around the corner. No one had seen us, or at least no one payed any attention. Good.

I looked around and saw nothing to hide behind. Not even one single crate in the way between our hiding spot here and the other side of the docks with the door. Shit.

I turned back and crouched back to Mary to bring her bad news. "There is nothing between here and the door. Nada. Not even one little crate or equipment." I whispered, shouted over the loud noise of the dock.

"Then we will just have to make a break for it." Mary said, her face showed determination.

I sighed. "I know. I just want to get out of here alive with Jack." I told her. "You could come with us, you know. Travel the universe, saving civilizations. Sightseeing." I gave a hollow laugh. "It's fun but exhausting. Lots and lots of running."

"Really?" Mary asked me, excitement shown in her eyes. "You wouldn't leave me here?" She asked.

"Of course not!" I replied. "I would never." I saw Mary wince slightly but hid it quite well. My eyes widened a bit. "Please tell me I didn't." I begged her. I would never have left my friends.

"I can't." Mary said, her eyes downcast. She looked back up at me. "But now you are back to your self again. I know you would never leave me."

"And I won't ever leave you again." I said, my voice determined. "You are coming with Jack and I. I'll give you a place of your own back in my time."

"I would like that." Mary said. "In this time, I am a criminal for breaking you out." Mary gave a slight smile. "It was worth it though."

"Alright." I said. "It's a deal, but first we need to get out of here. Our only choice is to sprint to the door and hope no one sees us and alerts the guards."

Mary nodded. "On my count."

I shook my head. "We count together." I told her.

"Okay." Mary swallowed. "One."

"Two. Three!" We said at the same time. At three we stood up, put our guns in the air and sprinted toward the door.

Suddenly during our sprint, I heard angry shouts. I looked around and saw that we where spotted. Well, of course we were. We decided to sprint out in the open. I glanced at Mary and saw she was only concentrating on getting to the door. She didn't realize what was going on. "Mary, they spotted us, run faster!" I yelled to her.

Mary glanced at me and yelled back, "I know!"

Then they started shooting. I redirected my gun from in front of me to the side and started shooting back. It didn't make much of a difference, though I did hit at least one guy. I heard Mary cry out in pain and saw out of the corner of my eye, her stumble, her right hand over her stomach.

"Mary!" I shouted. No! I couldn't let this happen! I ran over to her, still shootin back and with my free arm, put that arm under hers to support her. "Come on, Mary." I said. "We're almost there." I started walking faster, trying to reach the door which was only a couple feet away now.

"Susan." Mary gasped. "Just leave me. I'm slowing you down."

"No!" I growled. "I will not leave you behind. Not again." I winced as a bullet lodged itself in my shoulder but I didn't want to alarm Mary by crying out . "We ARE getting out of here."

We finally reached the door after what seemed like hours. "Mary, I need your card." I told her softly.

Mary winced as she dug her free hand into her pocket and brought out the card and swiped it against the black box. The door immediately opened and I supported Mary as we rushed through and closed the door again. The sounds of bullets hitting the other side of the door warned me that we needed to move.

"Mary, come on, we have to move." I said, trying to encourage her, but from Mary's expression I knew we wouldn't be going anywhere right now.

"I... I can't." Mary gasped and her knees buckled. I caught her before she fell to the floor and leaned her back up against the wall.

"Oh God, Mary." I whispered, seeing her out of breath and her face white as a sheet. "Come on Mary. You're going to make it." I said, trying to convince myself more than her. I tore a bit of fabric off my dress and placed it on Mary's wound and pressed. Put pressure on wounds. That's the one thing everyone remembers. No one remembers what to do next.

"Susan." Mary said quietly.

"Yeah?" I asked, trying my best not to cry.

"You're still going to take me adventuring, right?" She asked.

"Yeah, yes. I promise." I told her. "You get to pick the first place we go, alright? Random star, Alien planet, forward in time, back in time. You get to chose." I told her.

"I'd like that." Mary said. "But first you need to get out. Find Jack. Destroy the agency for what they did."

"I promise." I whispered. Mary closed her eyes, sighing. "No." I said. "No, no, no. Please no." Mary stopped breathing. A single tear fell from my eye. I took a deep shuddering breath and grabbed Mary's gun and stood up.

I would kill anyone who got in my way searching for Jack. I would avenge Mary and stop the Time Agency. I made my face void of emotion as I set off down the corridor with a mission, my hut arm close in toward my body but a gun still tightly in it's hand.

In my left hand held Mary's gun, which I would make sure would kill as many of Time Agents as possible. No one could stop me. I was the Last of the Time Ladies and furious. I was the female version of the oncoming storm and they would pay.