I don't own Doctor who, wish i did but i don t.
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Margaret roars in delight and goes to grab Indra between her claws but i jump in the way, pinning me up against the wall. She tries to strangle me, but i bring my foot up by my hand, i don t like to carry weapons but I m not against self-protection so pulling out the dagger i have, i stab at her hand and she drops me, As she screams in pain Harriet and Rose wince. and I m standing in front of them with a dagger covered in green blood.
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Margaret, is suddenly covered in the electricity, and drops to the floor.
"I liked these shoes they matched the top." i say pouting
"Not the time Alex!" Rosie shouts, I nod
"And off we go." i say grabbing Roses hand and her Harriet's pulling them out of the room Indra following, I look over my shoulder at them, Rose looks terrified, Harriet is whimpering slightly and Indra was pale as a sheet. We are all running down a corridor.
"No, wait!" Harriet shouts, i would have kept going but Rose stopped and i wouldn't leave her behind "They're still in there! The emergency protocols! We need them!" she says
"we don t have time," i shout but she runs back in the direction of the cabinet room. Rose follows her, and i go after Rose and grab her arm as Margaret Slitheen comes our way. She chases us as i pull Rose, Harriet running after us i grab Indra's arm as we pass and pull him with us. we run across a hallway, Rose closing the door behind us. Margaret simply leaps through it. Wet arrive back in another room, shutting the door behind us. still being chased we come across a locked door, i push them out of the way and slam my foot into the door knocking it down. The lift pings open, revealing the Doctor. Margaret roars at him, and he smiles and nods, around at them all.
"Hello!" he says pleasantly, the doors shut again, distracting Margaret long enough for us to slip away un-noticed. we come to a room where all the doors are locked and are trapped
"Hide!" Rose whispers
I push Indra down behind a sofa and crouch next to him with my dagger ready to strike should it need to, Rose hid behind a cabinet and Harriet behind a small screen. I hear Indra whimper and turn to him mouthing 'Don t Worry, Nothing bad will happen' i stop 'well nothing to bad.' i didn't like lying at the worst of times
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Margaret Slitheen enters the room.
"Oh, such fun! Little human children... where are you? Sweet little humeykins... come to me... let me kiss you better..." she says playfully, I quickly place my hand over Indra's mouth to stop any sound coming out. Rose bolts from her hiding place behind a cabinet to take refuge behind the curtain, shit you idiot, i thought she would know better than that.
"...kiss you with my big, green lips." Margaret continues playfully before hissing, the two Slitheen, Joseph and Asquith join Margaret from what i can see, i know the outcome but these odds really do suck.
"My brothers." Margaret greets
"Happy hunting?" Joseph says
"It's wonderful. The more you prolong it, the more they stink." she replies
"Sweat... and fear." Asquith say "OHH i smell one with courage." he continues, Fuck, Harriet's mouth drops open with horror.
"I can smell an old girl... stale bird... brittle bones." Joseph says
"And a few ripe youngster. All hormones and adrenaline. Fresh enough to bend before they snap." Margaret continues where her brother left off, Margaret sweeps the curtain aside revealing Rose, who screams. Harriet jumps out from her hiding place.
"No! Take me first! Take me!" Harriet says loudly, i jump out
"Idiot, if you had stayed hidden i would have jumped out i have at least a fighting chance" i hiss holding my dagger in front of me just before the Doctor crashes in and blasts a fire extinguisher in the Slitheen's faces.
"Out! With me!" He says, Rose pulls the curtains down over Margaret's head and then both she and Harriet run to stand behind the Doctor. The Doctor looks at Harriet. "Who the hell are you?" he questions and then looks at me "where did you get a dagger?" he asks after
"Harriet Jones - MP for Flydale North." she answers
"The sheath on my ankle" i say answering the question directed at me. i can see his dislike for it and add "She had me by the neck i have to have some protection." i defend
"Nice to meet you." he says to Harriet before nodding at me.
"Likewise." Harriet says
"look i don't mean to interrupt pleasantries but is this really the time, Come on Indra, now" I shout, the Doctor blasts the fire extinguisher again. Then we all ran for it.
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"We need to get to the cabinet rooms!" The doctor shouts to us as we run down the corridor
"The Emergency Protocols are in there! They give instructions on aliens!" Harriet informs him, i roll my eyes fat lot of good that was gonna do us he was gonna trap us there...
"Harriet Jones - I like you." The doctor said with a grin, you won t after you regenerate, i think to myself, i was becoming rather cynical wasn't i?
"And I like you too." she replies
"Yeah not the time right now we need to go. Go faster." i snap knowing they weren't far behind us. We run, the Doctor bypasses a locked door with his sonic screwdriver and the Slitheen pursue us all the way back to the cabinet room.
We have no time to close the door, so instead the Doctor picks up a bottle of brandy and hold his sonic screwdriver to it.
"One more move and my sonic device will triplicate the flammability of this alcohol."
"Boom everyone in this building goes up along with some on the street." I say after, the Slitheen hesitate.
"Right then. Question time. Who exactly are the Slitheen?" the doctor says smiling again
"How can you be so cheery all the time?" i question but was ignored.
"They're aliens." Harriet says
"Yeah i think we all got that by their looks alone." i say
"Who are you, if not human?" One of the Slitheen ask
"Who's not human?" Indra asks alarmed,
"He's not human." Rose answered quickly
"He's not human?" Harriet asks for confirmation
"Can I have a bit of hush?" The doctor asks
"Sorry." Harriet and Indra say at the same time.
"So - what's the plan?" The doctor asks
"That is never going to work unless they are stupid." i state
"But he's got a Northern accent." Harriet says
"Lots of planets have a North." Rose informs, i roll my eye's yes it's one of my favourite lines in this episode but not when I m living it.
"Quiet!" i snap at the same time the doctor says "I said hush."
"Come on!" he prompts, he holds the brandy threateningly out in front of him.
"You've got a spaceship hidden in the North Sea. It's transmitting a signal. You've murdered your way to the top of government - what for? Invasion?" the doctor asks
"Nope" i say popping the 'p'
"Why would we invade this God forsaken rock?" Asquith asks
"Then something's brought the Slitheen race here - what is it?" The doctor asks
"Not a race doctor." i say
"'The Slitheen race'?" One asks.
"The red female is right, Slitheen is not our species. Slitheen is our surname. Jocrassa Fel Fotch Pasameer Day Slitheen at your service." Another said, i think it was Joseph,
"So, you're family." the doctor state's
"It's a family business." Joseph informs with a proud tone,
"Then you're out to make a profit. How can you do that on a 'God forsaken rock'?" the doctor asks
"Ahhh... excuse me? Your device will do what? Triplicate the flammability...?" Asquith asks
"Is that what I said?" the doctor says at the same time i say "Right." i roll my eyes at the doctors response
"You're making it up!" Asquith accuses
"Congratulations you are all idiot's for telling him the plan." i say with a cheery voice.
"Ah, well! Nice try. Harriet, have a drink. I think you're gonna need it." he says offering her the Brandy
"Pass it to the left first." Harriet says
"Sorry." he says handing it to me as Rose was in the middle of us
"Thanks." I say pulling off the top and taking a swig,
"Really Alex, now of all time's to have a drink." Rose asks
"Yup, i will now be faster, i like that Alcohol increases my reflexes." i say seriously, it did, i just hope today was one of those days.
"Now we can end this hunt... with a slaughter." Asquith continues to speak. He flexes his claws menacingly. The Doctor folds his arms.
"Don't you think we should run?" Rose asks as she take's the brandy from me and Passes it to Indra, fine I m not fond of brandy anyway, more of a whisky drinker myself. The Slitheen shuffle forward.
"Fascinating history, Downing Street. Two thousand years ago, this was marsh land. 1730, it was occupied by a Mr. Chicken. He was a nice man. 1796, this was the cabinet room - if the cabinet's in session and in danger, these are about the four most safest walls in the whole of Great Britain." he says lifting the cover off a button and pressing it. "End of lesson." Every entrance to the room is immediately blocked by metal shutters. The Doctor turns to us.
"Installed in 1991. Three inches of steel lining every single wall. They'll never get in." the doctor says with a smile
"And how do we get out?" Rose asks popping the balloon that was his ego, Pause.
"Ah." the doctor says his smile never faltering,
"You didn't think this through did you?" he shakes his head slightly.
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Indra was sat at the table with the brandy pouring us one and downing his own.
"Don't worry not long now, then it will be over but there is a bit of a scary part in about i don t know twenty minutes?" oh my god eleven moment, twenty minutes yeah we have twenty minutes "actually, i think about two more of these and you should be well prepped" i say pouring him another one and taking one for myself
"Lexa, not the time or place for a drink." he says
"I'm gonna need it for what your planning and he obviously will." i say putting the glass down and stopping Indra from going for another one, "Not yet alright you would clear your head in the twenty minutes to come if you had that now and not later." i stops and nods.
"Right, what have we got? Any terminals? Anything?" the doctor says confidently
"No. The place is antique. What I don't get, is when they killed the Prime Minister, why didn't they use him as a disguise?" Rose asks
"Not fat enough." i say bluntly as the doctor puts it nicer
"He's too slim - they're big old beasts, they need to fit inside big humans." he says sending me a warning glance, he is not in control of me.
"But the Slitheen are about 8 feet, how do they squeeze inside?" Rose asked
"That's the device around their necks - compression field - literally shrinks them down a bit. That's why there's all that gas, it's a big exchange." the doctor explains,
"Wish I had a compression field, I could fit a size smaller." Rose says
"tell me about it i hope there's a lot of running in the future so i don t get any fatter, i would love to have one of those though." i say in light humour
"Excuse me, people are dead, this is not the time for making jokes." Harriet scolds
"Sorry... you get used to this stuff when you're friends with him." Rose says She indicates the Doctor, who is busy scanning the walls with his sonic screwdriver.
I however am a little more blunt,
"I try not to think of the dead and remember them as they were alive." my voice was sharp and she flinched slightly,
"Well, that's a strange friendship." she says
"I know right." i say
"Harriet Jones - I've heard that name before - Harriet Jones. You're not famous for anything, are you?" keep thinking honey you'll get there i taunted in my mind, but he glared at me, i know i didn't say that out loud.
"Huh! Hardly." Harriet scoffs
"Rings a bell, Harriet Jones..." the doctor says, he looks as though he is struggling to remember something.
"Lifelong back bencher I'm afraid, and a fat lot of use I'm being now - the protocols are redundant, they list the people who can help and they're all in the hospital."
"Hospital?" i say looking at the doctor
"Only one died, took him with them though." he informs, i sigh in relief
"Hasn't it got like, defence codes and things? Can we just launch a nuclear bomb at 'em?" Rose says making hand gestures, i nod my head
"Sounds like a plan, why can t we do that?" i ask looking at the doctor
"You're very violent young women..." Harriet comments
"You have no idea..." i mumble.
"I'm serious! We could!" Rose insists.
"Well, there's nothing like that in here. Nuclear strikes do need a release code, yes, but it's kept secret by the United Nations." Harriet says, she sounded so official that i thought about going to sleep, but shake my head, 'don t need those coming out now' i say to myself, The Doctor stops scanning the mantelpiece with his sonic screwdriver to listen.
"Say that again." the doctor orders slightly
"What, about the codes?" she asks confused, yeah i would be to in her position.
"Anything. All of it." the doctor says
"Um, well... the British Isles can't gain access to atomic weapons without a special resolution from the UN." she says
"Like that's every stopped them." Rose said i nod my head in agreement.
"Exactly, given our past record - and I voted against that, thank you very much. The codes have been taken out of the governments hands and given to the UN." Harriet continues, The Doctor looked in deep thought.
"Is it important?" she asks
"Everything's important." the doctor answers vacantly,
"If we only knew what the Slitheen wanted. Listen to me, I'm saying 'Slitheen' as if it's normal." she says
"It kind of is normal for us you know." i say giving her a sympathetic look, but couldn't muster much else with the knowledge i have of her future, and then i know about her death which redeems her failure. i was getting a headache, i don t think like this much but i guess i should get used to it again, if I m running with the doctor i need to think of all outcomes, wait sorry getting a little ahead of myself, I m talking about cascading causation... who the hell am i talking to? brandy must be affecting me bad then...
"What do they want, though?" Rose asks knocking me out of my thought process,
"Well, it's just one family so it's not an invasion. They don't want Slitheen world... they're out to make money, which means they want to use something, something here on Earth... some kind of asset." the doctor said explaining.
"Like what? Gold? Oil? Water?" Harriet asked
"Information, they could want to harvest the core of the planet and sell the energy" i say as an afterthought though i know different.
"You're both very good at this." the doctor compliments i brush it off though because i know what will happen anyway.
"Thank you." she says distinctly pleased at the compliment.
"Harriet Jones - why do I know that name?" he asks looking at me
"No can do and you know why." i say, he sigh and continues thinking, Rose's phone goes off.
"Oh! That's me." Rose says getting her phone
"But we're sealed off - how did you get a signal?" Indra asks, thinking it could be a way out.
"He zapped it! Super-phone." Rose said
"Then we can phone for help! You must have contacts." Harriet says to the doctor
"One Dead and the rest unconscious in the hospital, yeah." the doctor says blatantly as though she had said the stupidest thing in the world but then again to the doctor she did, he doesn t keep in contact with many people.
"It's Mickey." Rose says looking at her phone.
"Oh, tell your stupid boyfriend we're busy." the doctor complained, i roll my eyes and hit the back of his head.
"Yeah, he's not so stupid after all." Rose says as the doctor rubs his head, she hands the Doctor her phone. Mickey has sent her the photo of the Slitheen in Jackie's kitchen.
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"Is she alright, though? Don't put her on, just tell me." Rose asked, she had called mickey a few minutes after receiving the picture, the Doctor snatches the phone from her.
"Is that Ricky? Don't talk, just shut up and go to your computer." the doctor says to him, and by the eye roll he had just done mickey had corrected him. "Mickey the Idiot - I might just choke before I finish this sentence, but eh - I need you." the doctor says after mickey had said something, my guess was 'why?' Rose smiles. The Doctor is put the mobile on speakerphone.
"Say again." he said
"It's asking for the password." Mickey said
"Buffalo - two F's, one L." The doctor replied
"See, they've known about aliens for years, they just kept us in the dark." Micky said obviously talking to aunt Jackie
"Mickey, you were born in the dark." the doctor says with a scoff
"Oh, leave him alone./Shut up." Rose and I say
"Thank you. Password again." Mickey said
"Just repeat it, every time." the doctor informed
"Big Ben - why did the Slitheen hit Big Ben?" the doctor asked himself
"You said to gather the experts - to kill them." Harriet supplied
"That lot would've gathered for a weather balloon, you don't need to crash land in the middle of London." he answered shooting down her idea,
"The Slitheen were hiding - and then they put the entire planet on red alert, what would they do that for?" Rose asked
"Well if they were here before they would need to be quiet about infiltrating the government, but as soon as their all-important they have influence on what people think and do, they could use that to their advantage and get what they want as well as have a disguise if they ever come back." i supplied,
"Oh, listen to them." Aunt Jackie says
"At least we're trying!" Rose says, i hand her a drink and she downs it and smiles
"Well, I've got a question if you don't mind. Because since that man walked into our lives, I have been attacked in the streets. I have had creatures from the pits of hell in my own living room, and my daughter and Niece have disappeared off the face of the Earth." She said
"We told you what happened." Rose and i said in sync
"I'm talking to him. 'Cause I've seen this life of yours, Doctor. And maybe you get off on it. And maybe you think it's all clever and smart, but you tell me. Just answer me this - are my daughter and niece safe?" she asked. i roll my eyes, the Doctor stares intently at the phone.
"I'm fine." Rose says
"I can take care of myself and Rose if need be." i say in a confidant voice
"Are they safe? Will they always be safe? Can you promise me that?" Aunt Jackie continued to press, the Doctor glances up at us, we look back at him and continue stare at each other.
"Well, what's the answer?" she said impatiently,
"We're in." Mickey said, i sigh in relief, let off the hook, the Doctor rushes around the table.
"Right then - on the left, there's a tab - an icon - little concentric circles - click on that." the doctor ordered,
"What is it?" Mickey asks
"The Slitheen have got a spaceship in the North Sea and it's transmitting that signal, now hush, let me work out what it's saying."
"He'll have to answer me one day." Aunt Jackie says
"Hush!" Mickey says
"It's some sort of message." the doctor said ignoring them,
"What's it say?" Rose asked
"Don't know - it's on a loop, keeps repeating." the doctor says
"They said family business could it be an advert?" i ask speeding things along, Mickey's doorbell rings.
"Hush!" the doctor said harshly
"That's not me. Go and see who that is." he said, the last part must have been for Aunt Jackie, "Well go and tell them that." he said, she must have been complaining about the time.
"It's beaming out into space, who's it for?" the doctor questions
"It's him! It's the thing, it's the Slickeen!" Aunt Jackie says in a panicked voice
"They've found us." Mickey said
"Mickey, I need that signal." the doctor says
"Never mind the signal, mum just get out! Get out! Get out!" Rose says
"Run aunt Jackie!" i shout,
"We can't, it's by the front door." Mickey says
'Don't shoot the messenger' i think to myself
"Oh, my God. It's unmasking. It's gonna kill us." Mickey says his voice tinged with panic now.
"There's got to be some way of stopping them!" Harriet says
"You're supposed to be the experts, think of something!" Indra says looking between me and the doctor, i point at myself and look at the doctor
"I'm trying!" the doctor says
"Alex come on please," she begs, i look hesitant "She's your aunt and my mum, please!" she begs
"I'll take it on, Jackie. You just run. Don't look back. Just run." Mickey said, we hear the Slitheen smashing the door in.
"Mickey get into the kitchen both of you." i say
"Now what?" he asks
"Give the phone to aunt Jackie."
"What do you need?" she asked
"Cupboard by the sink middle shelf anything with vinegar put it into a jug." i say rubbing my head
"Gherkins! Yeah! Pickled onions! Picked eggs!" she says, i cringe at it i don t like any of those things.
"You kiss this man?" The doctor said looking at Rose, we hear the door being kicked down
"Chuck the vinegar at it." i shout after a second we all heard a loud bang.
"Which planet?" the doctor asks
"Raxacoricofallapatorius!" i say with a slight smile, just glad it didn't change anything in the future that would have been a pain.
"Acetic vinegar!" the doctor said
"Just like Hannibal." Harriet said
"Just like Hannibal" the doctor repeated,
"Hannibal?" Rose asked
"Hannibal crossed the Alps by dissolving boulders with vinegar." Harriet explained
"Oh. Well, there you go then." Rose said as we all grab a shot and nock it back "Phew!" Rose said after
"Listen to this." Mickey said
"Our inspectors have searched the sky above our heads and they have found massive weapons of destruction, capable of being deployed within 45 seconds." one of the men said
I roll my eyes "Liars" The Doctor, Rose and Harriet Indra and I are crowded around the phone, listening to him.
"What?" the doctor said
"Our technicians can - baffle - the alien probes. But not for long. We are facing extinction. Unless we strike first. The United Kingdom stands directly beneath the belly of the mother ship. I beg the United Nations - pass an emergency resolution. Give us the access codes! A nuclear strike at the heart of the ship is our only chance of survival. Because... from this moment on... it is my solemn duty to inform you... planet Earth is at war." the same guy said, oh now i remember it was Joseph
"He's making it up. There's no weapons up there, there's no threat. He just invented it." The doctor said i on the other hand call bullshit, literally
"Bullshit!" Harriet gave me a disapproving stare, ignored of course.
"Do you think they'll believe him?" She asked
"They did last time." Rose responds flippantly
"That's why the Slitheen went for spectacle. They want the whole world panicking, because you lot - you get scared, you lash out." the doctor says
"They release the defence codes..." Rose says
"And the Slitheen go nuclear. Brilliant" I finish
"But why?" Harriet asks, The Doctor opens the metal shutters. The Slitheen are still standing outside the door.
"You get the codes, release the missiles. But not into space because there's nothing there. You attack every other country on Earth, they retaliate, fight back. World War Three - whole planet gets nuked." The doctor stated, Margaret Slitheen, still in her skin suit, stands before us.
"And we can sit through it in our spaceship waiting in the Thames. Not crashed. Just parked. They'll be two minutes away." Margaret says with a smirk on her face,
"But you'll destroy the planet, this beautiful place. What for?" Harriet asked in outrage, i roll my eyes
"They don t care and not a lot of aliens do." i say with bite glaring at Margaret,
"Profit. That's what the signal is beaming into space - an advert, Like Lexa said." the doctor explains
"Sale of the century. We reduce the Earth to molten slag, then sell it. Piece by piece. Radioactive chucks capable of powering every cut-price star liner and budget cargo ship. There's a recession out there, Doctor. People are buying cheap. This rock becomes raw fuel." Margaret says i felt sick to my stomach and wanted to punch her, Rose grabbed my arm though,
"At the cost of 5 billion lives." the doctor said in a grave voice,
"Bargain."
"Then I give you the choice - leave this planet or I'll stop you." he said,
"only one chance use it well." i say quietly, the Slitheen all burst out laughing.
"What? You? Trapped in your box?" She asks, the Doctor does not look remotely abashed. He stares her out.
"Yes. Me." the doctor says, Margaret laughs again, but nervously. The Doctor fixes her in his gaze and closes the shutters. The smirk fades from Margaret's face.
XXX
"And once the codes are released, humanity's first interplanetary war begins." I hear from the phone,
"Alright, Doctor. I'm not saying I trust you, but there must be something you can do." Aunt Jackie asks
"If we ferment the porch, we could make ascetic acid." Harriet says, i scoff
"Mickey, any luck?" Rose asked
"Come on mickey good news please."
"Sorry Lex, there's loads of emergency numbers - they're all on voicemail." mickey says, the Doctor is standing quietly with his arms folded, leaning against the wall away from us three. He is deep in thought. Indra looked better after the drink
"Voicemail dooms us all." Harriet states
"If we could just get out of here..." Rose said looking at me
"There's a way out." the doctor interrupted
"What?" Rose asks
"And it begins, Indra pour us another drink would you?" i ask he nods and pours two shots and hands me one. downing it i get up and walk to the end of the table picking up my dagger and placing my foot on one of the chairs put it back in the ankle sheath.
Rose had turned to face him incredulously.
"There's always been a way out." The doctor continues
"Then why don't we use it?" Rose asks,
"Because Rosie." i say gaining her attention "it's a very dangerous plan" i whisper the last part to her,
"You know then?" she asks, i nod
"You know i know what he's gonna do." i say quietly looking at the doctor, the Doctor strides over to the table and leans over to speak into the phone.
"Because I can't guarantee your daughter and niece will be safe." the doctor says to aunt Jackie
"Don't you dare. Whatever it is, don't you dare." she says in adamant denial
"That's the thing, if I don't dare, everyone dies." the doctor contradicts, i roll my eyes always with the dramatics.
"Do it." Rose said as i say
"Stop being dramatic and do it." my voice was hard and resolved, the Doctor looks up at us.
"You don't even know what it is, you'd just let me?" he says looking at Rose and then to me " And you would let her go through with it?"
"Yeah." We say simply, the Doctor stares at us.
"Please, Doctor. Please! They're my girl's, They're just a kid!" Aunt Jackie begs
"Do you think I don't know that? Because this is my life, Jackie, it's not fun, it's not smart, it's just standing up and making a decision because nobody else will." the doctor says his voice willed with regret of the things he had done in the past.
"Then what're you waiting for?" Rose says softly
"Us or the world, not a hard decision." i say just as softly, the Doctor looks up at us again.
"I could save the world but lose you two." he said pain in his voice, we stare intensely into each other s eyes for a long moment until Rose averts her gaze with a smile and i look at him with a grin.
"Except it's not your decision, Doctor. It's mine." Harriet says, i roll my eyes.
"And who the hell are you?" Aunt Jackie asked angrily
"Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North. The only elected representative in this room, chosen by the people, for the people, and on behalf of the people I command you. Do it." she said in a snobby voice. The Doctor looks back at Rose and I and grins. Rose jumps onto the table. I take out my dagger and twirl it around my fingers before throwing it at the table
"Alex!" Rose scolds i roll my eyes going to grab it and put it away, "How do we get out?" Doctor opens the briefcase containing the emergency protocols.
"We don't. We stay here." the doctor says, Indra pale's again and looks at me motioning to the drink, i shake my head and motion him to go on, he pulls the lid off the bottle and takes a huge swig, the doctor opens the emergency protocols, shuffles through them and then turns to address Mickey.
"Use the buffalo password, it overrides everything." the doctor said to him
"What're you doing?" I heard aunt Jackie ask
"Hacking into the Royal Navy." he says still unbelieving of what he is doing he pauses "We're in. Here it is, uh... H.M.S. Taurean, Trafalgar Class Submarine, 10 miles off the coast of Plymouth."
"Right, we need to select a missile." the doctor orders
"We can't go nuclear, we don't have the defence codes." Mickey informs him
"We don't need it, all we need is an ordinary missile. What's the first category?" the doctor asks
"Sub Haffoon, UGMA4A." mickey says
"That's the one. Select." the doctor tells him
"I could stop you." I hear aunt Jackie threaten
"Do it, then." mickey challenges, there was silence for a moment before the doctor asks
"Ready for this?"
"Yeah." Mickey replies
"Mickey the Idiot. The world is in your hands. Fire." the doctor said in a completely serious voice no stupid grin at all. Mickey is Breathing heavily, and i assume he pushes the button because next i hear,
"Oh, my God." From aunt Jackie,
Harriet taps the steel shutters. "How solid are these?" She asks
"Not solid enough, built for short range attack, nothing this big." the doctor says
"So if Rose hadn't come up with her plan we would be screwed." i say cheerily
"Alright. Now I'm making the decision. I'm not gonna die, we're gonna ride this one out." Rose says looking at me , Harriet looks at me in shock as Rose opens the cupboard doors "It's like what they say about earthquakes, you can survive 'em by standing under a doorframe. Now this cupboard's small so it's strong. Come and help me! Come on!" Harriet and Indra hurry to help her.
"It's on radar. Counter defence 556." I hear Mickey say
"Stop them intercepting it." They doctor orders
"I'm doing it now." Mickey informs
"Good boy."
"556 neutralized." He says after a second, the Doctor rips the mobile off speaker phone and goes into the small room with us, the order went like this Harriet, Rose, the doctor, me and Indra
"Nice knowing you all." Harriet says, we all hold hands. "Hannibal!" she says, i roll my eyes again and we brace ourselves.
The missile hits... we were all severely shaken around in their cupboard. Then it stopped. I stood up and looked at the door, stepped back a bit and kick it down with one well-placed blow, the place is in ruins, smoking. Then, the Doctor, Rose and Harriet emerge Indra stumbling out last from the wreckage. Harriet looks around.
"Made in Britain." Harriet says, the Sergeant hurries over to them.
"Are you alright?" he asks
"Harriet Jones. MP, Flydale North. I want you to contact UN immediately, tell the ambassadors the crisis is over and they can step down. Go on, tell the news!" Harriet orders after showing him he ID card, in my opinion that was the worst trait well after what happens on charismas.
"Yes, ma'am." he says as he hurries away again.
"Someone's got a hell of a job sorting this lot out. Oh, Lord! We haven't even got a Prime Minister!" Harriet says
"Well, maybe you should have a go." the doctor encourages
"Me?" she says with a laugh "I'm only a back-bencher."
"I'd vote for ya!" Rose says, i keep my gob shut, i was always taught to not say nasty things...
"Now, don't be silly." she says inn a serious voice, Rose and the Doctor grin. "Look, I'd better go and see if I can help." she continued, she climbs over the rubble towards the crowd of people. The Doctor beams at Rose and I.
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The Doctor, Rose and i walk together him in the middle and us on either side.
"I thought I knew the name." he said, he watches her hurry over to the cameras and ambulances.
"Harriet Jones - future Prime Minister. Elected for three successive terms - the architect of Britain's Golden Age." he says, Rose and the Doctor watch her fondly from a distance, i only have a frown on my face, but then if she wasn't the prime minister, then we wouldn't have any help in the 'stolen earth' and 'Journey s end', i rub my head. We turn and walk away.
Rose and I enter the flat, and are greeted with a huge hug from a relieved aunt Jackie. We all close their eyes, happy to be together again.
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Rose is sitting on the chair in front of the TV, watching a repeat of Harriet Jones' speech. I walk to my room and start to pack my things in the middle of it my phone rings,
"Hello?" i say
"Hey princess, how are you."
"Hey captain, I m fine just packing, by the way when i get a hold of you i am going to punch you, how much did you spend on that jewellery set mister, was it at least silver?" i ask hopefully
"Nope sorry Princess, white gold." i flinch
"You idiot what possessed you to buy something like that in the first place?" i shout down the phone
"Well you were wearing them when we met and a princess needs crown jewels." he says
"Why do i get the feeling i will probably have more of these surprises though my life?" i ask
"Because you are smart and love your big brother very much." I roll my eyes, but can t stop the soft smile that grows on my lips
"Okay wise ass, i gotta go, love you." i say
"Love you." he says with a chuckle. as he hangs up aunt Jackie comes in,
"Please don't go darling." she says
"I have to aunt Jackie, the things I ve seen out there, i just can t stand still and don t know if i ever will be able to again..." my voice is quiet and i feel the guilt fill my system
"But-"i cut her off
"I want to go aunt Jackie I ll only be gone months at a time, won t be long till we get back, i know that for sure, it's a time machine, and if he over shoots the date i will hit him and then let you at him. she smiles at that and hugs me
"I'll always love you sweetheart, and make sure to call alright?" i nod,
She turns to leave and i continue to pack. after finishing i sit on my bed and look at how bare my room seems, i let out a sigh and go to the wardrobe, pulling it open i lift up the floor of it to reveal a load of weapons daggers sai and a hand gun, i left the last one behind i found them the last time i was here. putting them in my bag i look down at my arm and see the mark that had always been on my arm even in the other reality. i always thought of it as a birth mark but i know a birth mark cant be this intricate (link on profile) it went from mid bicep over my shoulder and down to the small of my back.
A knock on my door stops my inner thought and Rose pops in
"Ready to go?" she asked, i nod and grab my bags and we head out aunt Jackie following us down to see us off, when we get out i see the doctor and Mickey talking and remember that he doesn't want to come yet. and we approach them.
"I'll get a proper job. I'll work weekends, I'll pass my test and if Jim comes round again, I'll say no. I really will." Aunt Jackie says pleading with us
"We're not leaving 'cos of you. We're travelling, that's all. And then we'll come back!" Rose says
"But it's not safe."
"I'm not gonna lie aunt Jackie, you're right it's not safe but that only happens when we visit some planet with a grudge against him, the bit's in between will be the moments we live for but i will love the running as well, i will take pictures and show you but i won t be able to leave any hear, you know proof of time travel shouldn't exist yet but i let you look when we come back." i say soothingly as i hug her
"Mum... if you saw it out there... you'd never stay home." Rose says trying to reason with her. She turns to the Doctor, taking her backpack off her shoulders.
"Got enough stuff?" he asks sarcastically
"I have one for clothes and another for less important things" i say leaving out the weapons i had packed, don t want that getting out just yet.
"Last time we stepped in there, it was spur of the moment." Rose says as she throws an enormous bag into the Doctor's arms.
"Now we're signing up. You're stuck with us. Haha." she says, Rose goes up to Mickey - Jackie looks the Doctor up and down.
"Come with us. There's plenty of room." Rose offers, Mickey gestures to the Doctor.
"No chance, he's ah, a liability, I'm not having him on board. " the doctor says trying to be convincing
"We'd be dead without him." Rose argues
"My decision is final." the doctor said looking away, Rose turns back to Mickey.
"Sorry." She says with a small sad smile, they kiss briefly. Mickey gives a small wave as she backs away, i come up and glomp him wrapping my legs around his waist and squeezing his neck his arms tight around my waist as i whisper
"You don t have to be scared you know, just say you can't handle it and she would understand." he lets me down and kisses my forehead
"Good luck, then." he says to the both of us
"You still can't promise me. What if they get lost? What if something happens to you, Doctor, and they're left all alone standing on some moon a million light years away - how long do I wait then?" The Doctor stands there hugging Rose's backpack, not really having an answer, but Rose comes to his rescue.
"Mum..." Aunt Jackie spins around to face Rose. "You're forgetting - it's a time machine. I could go travelling around suns and planets and all the way out to the edge of the universe and by the time I get back, yeah - ten seconds would have passed. Just ten seconds." she says putting her hands on aunt Jackie s shoulders she smiles "So stop worrying. See you in ten seconds time. Hmm?" she finishes, She hugs her. The Doctor steps into the TARDIS. Rose follows him. Mickey gives a small wave and I follow after her looking at mickey as Rose shuts the door.
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Putting my bags down i go over to the controls with the other two and help pilot with the TARDIS helping me, sometimes i would just hit buttons before they lit up and she would hum happily. So setting us in the vortex i turn to the other two after grabbing my bags,
"I'm gonna go unpack and have a shower." i say, they nod and i head off to my door walking in i put my bags on the bed and pull out the weapons, the TARDIS humms
"I know, but do you honestly not expect me to protect myself if we're ever separated?" she hums in defeat, i hide them in a secret compartment on my desk the TARDIS made. "Thanks old girl." unpacking and showering happened pretty quick so i went to the library with the TARDIS's help of course. It was huge.
"Anything you think I would find interesting?" i ask, suddenly a book bangs onto the coffee table by the fire and i head over to it. "hmm, legends of the shadow hunters huh?"
I pull the book into my lap after sitting down and read the blurb on the back
'Mysteries and legends of where the shadow hunters come from and why the disappeared.
Age old mysteries and riddles and rhymes left behind, with songs and secrets hidden amongst the writings. Read what theories have been found on them and...' it just trails off so opening the book i look at the index page and see the chapters
1. where do they come from?
it seemed a good place to start.
'Shadow hunters are born of a time lord and another species still unknown cross paths and procreate taking them as their Link (Time lord version of married or mated) though this is a forbidden act many of the time lords and ladies had done this in the past, though in secret and left their home world to search for a planet to raise their children, the shadow hunters, they found a planet and named it starlight, as it prospered more time lords left gallifrey and chose to break the law placed upon them forbidding procreation outside of the species and some that were caught were sentenced to death, taking along their linked as the emotional bod connects their life lines, so intimately that to live without him/her would be hell, being ripped apart from the inside until you finally went mad...
I carried on reading about how they were created and after finishing the chapter i got up and went on my way to my room. However i bumped into the doctor and dropped the book.
"Sorry" i said
"Nah it's alright, what were you reading?" he asks picking up the book, reading the cover he looked up sharply "Where did you get this?" he asks
"The TARDIS gave it to me, his expression softened slightly and he handed it back sorry i have something i need to check, excuse me." he says and walks passed briskly, i shrug my shoulders and head on to my room putting it on the desk and going to bed the TARDIS humming again, as the nightmares started.
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Doctor's P.O.V
'What's this about old girl, why the book?' i ask her silently as i sit by the console
'you have to figure that out yourself thief, but first will you go to her, she is having nightmares again...' she says with a sigh
'Again?' i ask
'since the first night she slept on here she has nightmare's.' i frown and get up heading for her room opening the door slightly to see her tossing and turning mumbling to herself. without thinking i go to her side sit on the bed and hold her close, the reaction was instant she stopped struggling and speaking her breathing evening out, i stayed there thinking about the book and eventually fell asleep.
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Done now let me know what you think and i will get the next chapter up when i can, thanks to the people who have favourite, reviewed and followed this story
Shadow OUT!
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