Chapter 17

"Did she just?" Val pointed her finger at Sky as she spoke.

"Everyone get to the front." The Doctor pulled Emma away from Sky and to the front of the vehicle. The Doctor stood in front of everyone with Emma directly in front of him, "Everyone needs to be very quiet. If the first step is repeating and the second step is speaking along with someone. This must be her becoming one of us." The Doctor glared at Sky as she said what he wanted to before he did, "If she became me, it would be very bad."

"What makes you so special?" Jethro growled at the Doctor from his place behind Emma.

"The fact that he doesn't hide behind a girl." Emma turned to Jethro.

"Alright then." The Doctor raised an eyebrow at Emma's snappy behavior, "We all should stay very quiet."

"I say we throw her out." Val said looking seriously at Sky and the Doctor.

"What?" Emma stared at Val, daring her to repeat what she said.

"We should throw her out of here." Val pushed past Jethro and stood eye to eye with Emma, "She killed the people in the control room, and could kill one of us."

"You cannot be serious." The Doctor loomed over Emma's shoulder, listening to the conversation between her and Jethro's mother.

"We have to watch out for our own lives." Val pointed her thumb at Jethro, "I have to protect my family."

"Oh and what of Sky?" Emma pushed passed the Doctor and over to Sky, "What of her life? Who will watch out for her?"

"She is," Sky stopped talking and gasped, "She isn't speaking with me."

"Sky?" The flight attendant asked, testing if Sky was still saying what everything before the flight attendant did, "Me either."

Dee Dee, Jethro, Professor Hobbes and Biff spoke to see if Sky was speaking before them, but Sky never spoke as they did.

"Emma, you should get away from her." The Doctor spoke alone waving Emma towards him.

"But she stopped." Sky said before Emma, "With everyone but me." Emma ignored the Doctors request and knelt beside Emma.

"Sky, stop it." The Doctor warned, "Sky, listen to me. Whatever you want, voice or body, you can have it. You don't have to hurt anyone."

"Why are you taking my voice?" Sky spoke words ahead of Emma. Emma grew ridged and her eyes widened.

"Oh look I am ahead of you." Emma repeated Sky.

"It passed over into her." Professor Hobbes jabbed his finger in the air before Sky and Emma.

"That's not what happened!" Dee Dee yelled.

"Please get me away from her." Sky demanded of the others.

Val obliged and pulled Sky away from Emma, careful to only let her hands touch Sky. Val pulled Sky away from Emma and hugged her.

"I am so sorry if I scared you." Sky hugged Val back.

"Don't touch her." Dee Dee yelled.

The Doctor moved towards Emma and knelt beside her as the other passengers argued.

"Emma, I am so sorry." The Doctor put his forehead against the side of Emma's head and closed his eyes, "I don't know how to help you."

"He waited so long. In the dark and the cold." Emma repeated Sky, "And the diamonds."

"She's taken Emma's voice!" The flight attendant yelled.

"Until you came, bodies so hot with blood." The Doctor hugged Emma's shoulders, glaring at Sky.

"Stop, oh, my God, make her stop." Val panicked looking at everyone for an answer to how to make Emma stop repeating.

"But Emma is saying it!" Dee Dee yelled walking over beside the Doctor.

"Shut up, girl." Professor Hobbes warned Dee Dee.

"Just let her talk." The flight attendant yelled.

"We all saw it with our own eyes." Biff waved his hand around at the other passangers.

"Isn't that right Jethro?" Val asked her son with malice.

"I don't know." Jethro said indecisively.

"Oh shut up." Val waved off Jethro.

"We will throw her out." Val walked over to Emma and tried to pry the Doctor away from her.

"No!" The Doctor yelled as Biff came over and held the Doctor away from Emma, "It isn't her, please!"

"Throw her out into the sun." Emma repeated Sky as Professor Hobbes and Val tried to carry Emma to the door that used to be the control room.

Emma's foot caught on the chairs while they dragged her to her death.

"Don't!" Dee Dee screamed.

"That's Emma's voice." The flight attendant murmured to herself looking at Sky.

"Take her!" Sky smiled evilly, "That's the way. Molto bene!"

"Don't hurt her!" The Doctor yelled as he thrashed against Biff.

"That's her voice!" The flight attendant charged towards Sky and slammed her hand on the release button for the door.

The door opened and everyone stared.

"One," The flight attendant counted as Sky and Emma screamed, "Two, three, four."

Professor Hobbes and Val dropped Emma on the floor between the seats.

"Five," The flight attendant grasped at Sky, "Six."

The force pulled the flight attendant and sky out of the vehicle and closed the door behind them. Biff let go of the Doctor and backed against the wall of the vehicle.

"Emma!" The Doctor caressed her face with his hand, "It's gone, and you're alright."

Emma's eyes searched around aimlessly as she wrapped her arms around the Doctor.

"I said it was her." Val tried to convince Emma of her innocence.

"Stay away from me." Emma warned with a glare.

"Come on." The Doctor picked Emma up and sat in a seat with Emma's head on his lap, staring ahead at the seat in front of them.

"What the hell was that?" Emma pulled her knees up to her chest.

"No idea." The Doctor grabbed Emma's hand and pulled off the bandage, "But it is still out there."

"That's unnerving." Emma stretched her fingers, "Is your life always like that?"

"Yes." The Doctor smiled down at Emma, "You seem to have forgotten the fact that I kidnapped you."

"No, it is just easier to go along with it. Since you have a space ship and all I have is a very sarcastic demeanor." Emma closed her eyes, "I am going to sleep now."

"Alright," The Doctor smiled and leaned his head against the seat.