Hey guys long time since i updated but here s the next chapter, thanks for the fave/followers/reviews, they really help me with my writing,
I own doctor who and all its characters...
*Whispers*
Wait so you re saying i don t in fact own the doctor who characters?
*Whispers*
Okay then, i have been informed that i don t in fact own doctor who but i do own Alexandra Maryanne Flame and any extra dialogue i add in...
XXX
I woke up and for some reason felt well rested which was unusual because I never felt well rested after nightmares, but then I felt a presence, no not the touching kind just I knew someone was in the room, so sitting up I look around and then to my side to see the doctor sitting against the headboard sleeping... I wasn't going to question it but I was going to wake him up.
"Doctor." I say shaking him, his eyes snap open and he looks at me "Morning." I say
"Morning." the repeats he just sits there, so what would I do to embarrass him, well simple
"Look if you re not going to move, I'm going to strip and change regardless of whether you re in the room or not." I say he looks amused, fine I will prove my point, I reach for my top and slowly pull it up, when it reaches the bottom of my bra he shoots up and heads for the door his face red, closing it quickly behind him. I laugh and the TARDIS hums, "He should have listened." I say with a shrug and head over to the wardrobe, pulling the door open I look at the spinney rail and chose tie dye blue and black jeans and a simple dark blue strap top, after changing I brush my teeth and head for the desk, putting my jewellery on I pull out the secret draw and pull out to daggers and belt sheathe, placing it around my waist I place the daggers behind my back in their individual sheaths, I had named them, Dawn and Magma (Link on profile). pulling on a pair of knee high brown boots I head to the console room.
"Hey" I say as I enter, they both look up and give me a smile the doctor still slightly red faced.
"Hey."
"So where are we going?" I ask
"I was thinking of Sherwood forest..." the doctor says,
"Really I would love to go there and meet robin hood he is one of my favorite legends!" I squeal and jump up and down on the spot, the doctor pulls the lever and we're off,
"Oh hang on, might need to adjust the flight pattern-" suddenly the console sparked and I jumped away
"Shit!" I shout as Rose lets out a small scream, we jerked to a halt and I was rammed against the console, I mutter an 'ouch' quietly as I head for the door, the doctor and Rose step out and myself slightly behind them, my surroundings make me freeze, 'Dalek' I clench my fists...
"So, what is it? What's wrong?" Rose asks after a few seconds
"Don't know, some kind of signal drawing the TARDIS off course..." the doctor answers, he and Rose begin to look around while I head over to the Slitheen arm,
"Where are we?" Rose asks
"Earth, Utah, North America." the doctor says I interrupt
"About half a mile underground. And we really should leave now." I wanted out of here now, I turn to enter the TARDIS but don't get the chance as her door is now closed,
"And... when are we?" Rose says looking at me
"2012." I answer shortly as I push on the door "Oh come on, don't do this, we can t stay here, please, open up." I say pushing at the door more as she wouldn't let me in, I sigh and turn around, "Well seeing as she's being stubborn i guess we have to stay and suffer." The doctor cast me a look "You re not going to like this one..." was all I said,
"God, that's so close, so we should be... 26, right Alex?." Rose asks, I look and nod before looking back at another display, The Doctor flicks a switch and lights flood the museum.
"Blimey! It's a great big museum!" Rose says with surprise, I have to blink rapidly to adjust my vision to the sudden change in lighting and I feel slightly disorientated,
"An alien museum. Someone's got a hobby. They must've spent a fortune on this. Chunks of meteorite, moon dust... that's the milometer from the Roswell Spaceship." The doctor say looking at some of the many alien exhibits, they notice the Slitheen arm in the case I had been looking at.
"That's a bit of Slitheen! That's a Slitheen's arm, it's been stuffed." She says in amazement,
"Yes Rosie I think we can all see that, and I find it rather disgusting that someone has stuffed the arm of an alien we have not long ago delt with." I say, disgust evident on my face, the Doctor notices something else.
"Ah! Look at you!" He exclaims, I turn and see what he was talking to inside the glass case he is approaching, is the head of a Cyberman. The Doctor stares through the glass at it. Rose stands behind him.
"What is it?" Rose asks curiously, I can t help but think, 'one of the reasons you will be trapped in a parallel world, the other is locked in the cage beside us...' I shake my head,
"An old friend of mine..." I scoff, "well, enemy. The stuff of nightmares reduced to an exhibit. I'm getting old."
"Really I thought nine hundred was a young age in gallifreyan?" I snigger, he shoots me a look
"Is that where the signal's coming from?" Rose asks,
"Nope." I say popping the 'p'
"Nah, its stone dead. The signal's alive. Something's reaching out." The doctor explains, never thought a Dalek would have asked for help. He stares at the glass case intently "Calling for help." He continues placing the tip of his finger gently on the glass. Immediately, the alarm is triggered and we're promptly surrounded by soldiers all pointing their guns at us.
"This is the second time I've had guns pointed at me when I'm around you..." I sigh I irritation, "And it won t be the last..." I shake my head as he grins at me,
"If someone's collecting aliens, that makes you Exhibit A." Rose says to the doctor looking around at the guns nervously, The Doctor flashes the soldiers a grin.
XXX
"And this is the last... paid $800,000 for it." I hear Adam say as we enter the office, I groan at the sight of Van Statten
"What does it do?" He asks as he takes it from the snot nosed brat,
"Well you see, the tubes on the side must be to channel something, I think maybe fuel..." He explains, I snigger
"I really wouldn't hold it like that." The doctor says as I say, "You re holding it wrong."
"Shut it." Goddard snaps, I roll my eyes at her
"Really, though, that's wrong." The doctor and I say at the same time.
"Is it dangerous?" The kid asks
"No. Just looks silly." The doctor says his grin ever present, I hold my hand out for it and instantly had guns pointed at me, Van Statten holds his hand up and stops them handing it over to me,
"You just need to be..." The doctor says as I ran my hand over the artefact, producing a melody that could be played on a harmonica
"Gentle." I say continuing the doctors sentence, I continue to play fluttering my fingertips over it, looking around I see that everyone had an impressed look the doctor beaming at me and Rose's eyes closed as she listened
"It's a musical instrument." Statten states, the doctor nods and I stop playing,
"And it's a long way from home." he says
"Thank you captain obvious..." I say sarcastically
"Here, let me." He says standing and snatching it from me, the doctor raises his eyebrow whilst I glare at him,
"I'm sure she said 'gentle'. Reacts to the smallest fingerprint." The doctor says, Statten tries and pulls a horrible sound from it
"It needs precision." I say in contempt Van Statten touches it more gently and it plays a few notes. The Doctor smiles.
"Very good. Quite the expert." he compliments
"As are you." Van Statten says looking at the both of us, he tosses the instrument aside, where it lands somewhere on the floor. The Doctor's and Adam's eyes follow it, slightly alarmed and I flinch at the callus treatment of the instrument. "Who exactly are you?" The Doctor looks back at Van Statten with a new, slightly disdainful look in his eye.
"I'm the Doctor. And who are you?" he introduces whilst I pointedly keep my silence, Silence, that s going to be creepy. My number one, well weeping angels draw with it I suppose.'
"Like you don't know. We're hidden away with the most valuable collection of extra-terrestrial artifact in the world and you just stumbled in by mistake." Statten scoffs, one punch that s all I want, but then again there are a lot of guns in the room, and the doctor is keeping me still with his hand on my shoulder...
"Pretty much sums me up, yeah." He says with an ever cheerful smile, oh Magma would be fun to use, carve a few designs on his arms maybe? I shake my head, getting a little dark there.
"The question is, how did you get in? 53 floors down. With your little cat burglar accomplices." He looks at Rose and I, I cringe in disgust, "Quite a collector yourself, they're rather pretty." Hey says a slight purr in his voice, ew...
"She's gonna smack you if you keep calling them 'They'." Rose spits, I put my hand on her shoulder
"Easy Rosie there are a lot of guns in the room that I can t take care of with the weapons I have." I comment in humour, I would love to take Dawn to his balls listen to him scream... I shake my head 'getting a little dark there sweetie.' I think again Van Statten didn t take his eyes from the doctor
"They're English too!" He says with glee before addressing Adam "Hey, little Lord Fauntleroy - got you a couple girlfriend." I bite my tongue at his comment 'guns Lex guns'
"This is Mr-" Adam starts I cut him off with venom in my voice,
"Henry Van Statten."
"Oh you know of me?" he purrs,
"Yes and my brother happens to be keeping an eye on you, The initials T.W Mean anything to you?" I ask sweetly, his eyes sharpen and he clears his throat
"And who's he when he's at home?" Rose asks annoyance in her voice,
"Mr Van Statten owns the Internet." Adam explains, I scoff
"Bullshit."
"Don't be stupid, no one owns the Internet." Rose snaps at the boy
"And let's just keep the whole world thinking that way, right kids?" Van Statten says smugness in his voice
"Watch what you say Statten by the end of this you will be lucky to remember your own name." Rose grabs my hand and she doctor shushes me, I roll my eyes my hands twitching,
"So you're an expert on just about everything except the things in your museum. Anything you don't understand, you lock up." The doctor states coldness in his voice, I keep my mouth shut knowing I could lose my control easily, I remember a time when I had a lode of self-control, guess the Alexandra doesn't but I ll get used to it.
"And you claim greater knowledge?" Statten asks snarkily, I roll my eyes,
"I don't need to make claims, I know how good I am." The doctor responds,
"And now his ego has been inflated, brilliant." I mutter to Rose and she grins at me,
"And yet, I captured you. Right next to the Cage." I tense "What were you doing down there?" Van Statten questions
"You tell me." The doctor challenges
"The cage contains my one living specimen." Statten states (Alliteration.)
"And what's that?" The doctor asks, I couldn't contain myself,
"Something that doesn't deserve the title of living." I grit out, he looks at me and I mutter "Knowing thing." He nods and turns back to Statten
"Like you don't know." He says ignorant of what I do know,
"Show me." the doctor demands
"You wanna see it?" Statten asks, now if I was normal and not a bored person I would not be thinking of the way that those two sentences could be mis-interpreted,
"Blimey, you can smell the testosterone." Rose mumbles to me, I nod and hum in agreement
"Goddard - inform the Cage. We're heading down." Statten orders, Goddard nods "You - English. Look after the girls. Canoodle or spoon, or whatever it is you British do. And you - Doctor with no name..." he says standing by the lift ready to go, "Come and see my pet."
XXX
Adam shows Rose and I into his workshop. Rose looks around, I just go to the weapons... what I like the high tech stuff so what, just because the doctor doesn't like them doesn't mean I don't.
"Sorry about the mess. Mr Van Statten sort of lets me do my own thing. So long as I deliver the goods..." Adam says I roll my eyes god he even sound snot nosed and I know some really up their ass people in my world mum and dad at the top of the list, I snort a that and earn a look from rose. Rose prods a few things on the surfaces
"What do you think - that is?" Adam asks, I keep my mouth shut, he hands Rose an object.
"Err... a lump of metal?" Rose questions completely uninterested,
"Yeah. Yeah, but I think- well, I'm almost certain - it's from the hull of a spacecraft." he says trying to sound impressive, I look closer, 'isn't that... it is, it's the hairdryer.' Rose finishes examining the lump of metal and places it down carefully.
"The thing is, it's all true. Everything the United Nations tries to keep quiet - spacecraft s - aliens - visitors to Earth - they really exist." Adam carried on, Rose looked at me, and I grin at her.
"That's amazing." She says faking the clueless girl she is not, I nod my head,
"I know it sounds incredible, but I honestly believe that the whole universe is teeming with life." Adam continues fooled by the act, Rose smiles slightly, I grin he really is stupid,
"Wait so all this stuff is actually alien," I say with faked shock, he nods and Rose continues
"I'm gob-smacked, yeah. And you do what? Sit here and catalogue it?" She asks,
"Best job in the world." the boy states proudly,
"Imagine if you could get out there. Travel amongst the stars and see it for real." Rose hints, I lower my head and groan, 'no changing events this needs to happen.' I look at Rose to see her and Adam looking at me I shake my head "Sorry just a headache is all."
"Yeah... I'd give anything. But I don't think it's ever gonna happen - not in our lifetimes." Adam says going back to Roses statement,
"Oh, you never know... what about all those people who say they've been inside spaceships and things and talked to aliens?" She tries hinting more but he's as clueless as a bat. I sigh and poke through of the lumps of metal, 'hey that s a thermo regulator.' I shake my head naa couldn't be that's to advance, but then again things pop up from the rift and some of it does go unnoticed...
"I think they're nutters." Adam says knocking me out of my thoughts,
"Well then you re working for one." I snap, he was getting to me and I couldn't keep up the nice act much longer
"Yeah, me too." Rose says looking at me, they both laugh and I pout at being ignored fine be that way, "So, how'd you end up here?" Rose inquires,
"Van Statten has agents all over the world looking for geniuses to recruit." Adam says puffing up his chest, male pride, i shake my head
"All the same." I mutter
"Ah, right, you're a genius." Rose states with a nod
"Sorry, but yeah... can't help it, I was born clever." Adam says, I roll my eyes, blow your own trumpet won't you mate... Rose smiles. "When I was eight, I logged onto the US Defence System - nearly caused World War Three." Adam continued
"What, and that's funny is it?" Rose questioned with a raised eyebrow,
"Well you should've been there! Just to see them running about! Fantastic!"
"People die in war is it really something to laugh about you could have caused a lode of death and their blood would have been on your hands." I dropped all pretenses of nice and glared at him, he at least had the decency to look ashamed,
"You sound like the Doctor." She said, I couldn't help but be confused
"Which one?" I asked
"Both." I tense my jaw
"Don't compare him to the doctor one word doesn't make him sound like that man." I say a slight glare, how could she compare this human to a man who saves the universe most days just by one word,
"Are you and him...?" Adam asked looking at Rose,
"No, we're just friends. But I think he has a thing for my cousin." She says quickly,
"He doesn't have a thing for me." I say to her
"Have you seen the way he looks at you?" she asks crossing her arms, I shake my head, he couldn't he loves Rose in the end of this, and then meets River.
"Good." Adam says in answer to Roses statement, well he obviously is intent on ignoring me isn't he?
"Why's it good?" She asks shyly, Good lord my cousin is shy never thought that would happen, not in this life time at least.
"Just is." He responds evasively
"I'm choking on the sweetness of this tone it down sweetie." i say to Rose, I'm making a habit out of saying that word.
"So... wouldn't you rather be downstairs? I mean, you've got these bits of metal and stuff, but Mr Van Statten's got a living creature down there." Rose says breaking the awkwardness in the room.
"Yeah... yeah well I did ask but he keeps it to himself. Although - if you're a genius - it does take long to patch in on the comms system." He says showing off, boys and their toys ay?
"Let's have a look then." Rose says with a laugh, I felt the bitterness creep into me again. Adam turns to the computer and taps some keys and Rose observes over his shoulder.
"It doesn't do much - the alien. It's weird, it's kind of... useless, it's just like this... great big pepper pot." He says to us, it's so much more than that and I hate it, I would love for it not to exist but that would be genocide. We access the screen that surveys the Cage and see Simmons approach the Dalek and begin to torture it with one of the devices. The Dalek screams again, I cringe, it may be a monster that deserves pain but I couldn't watch this, I move away from the screen again.
"It's being tortured! Where's the Doctor?" Rose asks alarmed, I tense knowing he would be going through pain right now.
"I don't know." Adam answers, Rose looks at me,
"We'll find him, Rosie I swear." She would see the doctor again.
"Take me down there. Now." She demands of the boy, She strides from the room, me hot on her heels.
XXX
We had been down a few flights of stairs and an elevator, in silence. Adam enters the lobby outside the Cage, followed by Rose, myself trailing behind a little, I wasn't keen on being in the same room as this thing let alone on the same floor, this was going to suck majorly.
"Hold it right there!" Some guard shouts, Adam pulls an ID and puts it away quickly,
"Level three access. Special clearance from Mr Van Statten." He says, they let us pass without a second glance, they have crappy security didn't even look at the ID properly. Rose stares at the Dalek.
"Don't get too close..." Adam warns, I walk over to Rose and grab her hand as she walks forward walking with her so I could puller away at the right time, Rose and I walk slowly up to the Dalek and she peers into its eyepiece, it stares back at the both of us.
"Hello?" Rose asks, the Dalek simply continues to watch us, Rose is innocently concerned, but if she knew what it was capable of she would be less sympathetic to this monster, still I remain emotionless. "Are you in pain? My name's Rose Tyler, this is my cousin Alexandra Flame. We've got a friend, he can help. He's called the Doctor. What's your name?" She asks,
"Yes." The Dalek speaks, I cringe inwardly hating the sound of its metallic dead voice,
"What?" Rose asks not quite understanding it's answer, the Dalek raises its eyepiece to look into our faces.
"I am in pain. They tortured me. But still they fear me. Do you fear me?" It's asks slowly and wearily,
"No." Rose and I say simultaneously, Rose because she doesn't know what it is, I said no because I don t fear it, I just can t stand it, the pain it causes to millions of species makes me sick to my stomach, the Dalek lowers its eyepiece.
"I am dying." It states, 'Yes you are.'
"No, we can help!" Rose says as I opened my mouth to voice my thoughts,
"I welcome death. But I am glad... that before I die... I met humans who were not afraid." I look at Rose and see sadness and pity marring her features,
"Isn't there anything we can do?" Rose asks, I bite my tongue to keep my voice from betraying by disgust for this creature,
"My race is dead. I shall die alone." The Dalek says, Rose reaches out to put her hand on its shell, but I pull her back and push her towards Adam as he shouts,
"Rose no!" However as I pushed her I lost my balance and fell backwards my hands as I look had been placed on the Dalek shell,
"Fuck!" I shout pulling my hands back from the shell, the Daleks tone changes as it speaks again.
"Genetic material extrapolated - initiate cellular reconstruction!" I back away from it quickly as it bursts out of its chains with a new lease of life, sparks fly from it and Simmons Rushes into the room.
"What the hell have you done?" He questions, he approaches the Dalek, and It points a sucker at him. "Whatcha gonna do? Sucker me to death?" The Dalek tries to do just that, but I being quick reach over and pull him back,
"Don't be an idiot this thing is now at full power and will do just that if you don t run now." I state reaching behind my back and pulling both daggers from their holsters and hand Dawn to Rose "Lose this and I will kill you now let s go." i say order pushing Rose, Adam and Simmons out before following myself. As we rush out the door is closed, "Sound the Alarm!" I shout at the guard
"Condition red! Repeat, condition red! This is not a drill!" He shouts into the intercom
XXX
We stand before the door with security, who are pointing their guns at the door. In no time at all, the door opens.
"Open fire!" The man shouts, they shoot at the Dalek.
"I told you guns won t stop it!" I shout at them, the Dalek advances upon us, and like I said the bullets having no affect at all, it's shell left unscratched Bywater I think his name was turns to the female guard.
"De Maggio - take the civilians and get them out alive. That is your job, got that?" He orders
"You'll end up dead all of you just run whilst you still can please." I beg, I didn't want death, not more,
"You - with me." She says to us, both Rose and Adam follow her I look at them all before giving an angry shout and running after them,
XXX
Rose and Adam run past another bunch of security guards, led by De Maggio and myself having caught up and passed them, I know you re not supposed to run with knives but I kind of want protection even if it is useless.
"Civilians! Let them through!" She shouts from behind me,
"Cover the north wall: Red division, maintain suppressing fire along the perimeter, Blue Division hold." I hear as Rose and Adam run myself and them officer run after them and I can t help but think of the trail of bodies that are being left behind
XXX
We're still running, and we come to the foot of the stairs,
"Stairs! That's more like it!" Rose shouts in relief, I shake my head, Adam runs up behind us. "It hasn't got legs, it's stuck!"
"Um hate to burst your bubble sweetie but it can levitate, she looks at me with horror,
"It's coming! Get up!" De Maggio shouts coming up behind us, we run up the stairs and look over the banisters to watch the Dalek. It stops at the foot of the stairs. Adam breathes a small sigh of relief. It runs its eyepiece over the stairs.
"Great big alien death machine. Defeated by a flight of stairs." Adam mocks and I groan, the Daleks eyepiece rests on us, De Maggio still has her gun pointing at it.
"Now, listen to me. I demand that you return to your cage. If you want to negotiate, then I guarantee that Mr Van Statten will be willing to talk. I accept that we imprisoned you and maybe that was wrong. But people have died, and that stops. Right now. The killing stops, have you got that?" she says I snort
"Not going to work now I suggest we run." I say
"I demand that you surrender, is that clear?" De Maggio shouts again, there was a short pause before you could hear
"El-ev-ate." The Dalek levitates in the air and floats up the first few steps of the stairs.
"Oh my God." Rose gasps
"And that is why we should run," I sing pushing off the wall getting ready to take off
"Adam, get them out of here." Maggi commands
"Come with us, you can't stop it!" Rose pleads urgently
"Someone's got to try. Now get out!" She shouts pushing Rose and Adam away, "Don't look back, just run!" She continues, I sigh and grab her wrist pulling her along
"I'm am sick of the death and you are not staying, just because someone has to fight it, now I m sure you have a family or a boyfriend so I'm not leaving you here, NOW MOVE!" I shout pushing her ahead she looks startled but looks at me and runs,
We run down the corridor Rose and Adam terrified and myself pissed of severely,
XXX
"Hold your fire!" A commander orders Rose and Adam stop myself and Maggi just behind "You four, get the hell out of there!" he shouts, I pick up a gun and put Magma away, checking the ammo, clicking it into place I push them on and they make it outside the door just as the Dalek comes into view, they stop to watch it, and as do I, I turns in our direction and I push Rose as Adam pulls her Maggie also doing the same, I stop and look at it directly before following the three shouting one bit of advice
"Aim for the eyestalk!"
"It was looking at Alex." Rose says
"Never mind that Rose just shut up and run."
"Yeah, it wants to slaughter us!" Adam shouts panic in his voice, Rose pulls her hand away,
"I know! But it was looking right at her." Rose says again
"So? It's just a sort of metal eye thing, it's looking all around!" Adam says impatiently, I groan,
"I don't know... it's like there's something inside looking at her, like... like it knows her." she says shaking her head,
"Yeah I don t mean to be rude but shut the hell up and run we're going to lose our lives if we don t!" I shout in annoyance, The Dalek makes its way towards the door.
"On my mark..." I hear "Open fire!" Follows and I know that the bullets have no effect.
XXX
Adam is running up a flight of stairs in a stairwell, followed by Rose myself and Maggi, Rose is on her mobile to the Doctor.
"This isn't the best time." She says putting it on speaker,
"Where are you?" The doctor says panic evident in his voice,
"Level 49." I shout to him,
"You've got to keep moving - the vault's being sealed off, bulkhead level 46." He says and I know he's sat at the computer typing
"Can't you stop them closing?" Rose asks
"Nope he's them one closing them sweetie." I say
"She' right, I'm the one who's closing them. I can't wait and I can't help you. Now for God's sake, run both of you." he says still sounding panicked
We run up the stairs, the Dalek in pursuit and I see Rose start to lag.
We round a corner on floor 46, it's gonna happen soon.
"We're nearly there, give us two seconds." Rose shouts,
"I'm sorry." He says and I know it's happening. The bulkhead begins to lower - Adam's nearly there but Rose is falling behind a little, I fall back behind her and push her she falls and rolls under it, before I do the same to Maggi. It closes and the last thing I hear was Rose scream
"NO!" but it closes and I slam into it, a minute later my phone rings. I pull it out and press the accept button.
"Hello sweetie." I say with a smile, I sounded like River Song...
"Lexa, where are you? Alexandra, did you make it?" He asks worried, I lean my forehead against the bulkhead
"No. But Rose did, and that s all I m worried about, told you we should have left didn't I?" I say with a laugh
"Lexa..." I look around and see the Dalek come around the corner,
"See you soon, sweetie." I say, I take a breath, " Now I know you re gonna think this is your fault, and it's not, so don t go thinking it, it was mine for not telling you but what can I do about it right, and just so you know me and Rose wouldn't have missed it for the world because you showed us so much, see you soon." I say, I turn fully to face the Dalek
"Exterminate!" It shouted, and it hit my phone but never me, not once did the beam touch me, and I didn't flinch, I wouldn't show it anything.
XXX
"Can't kill me?" I ask smugly it was silent "I never liked your species always causing pain for anything that isn't Dalek just like the time war."
"I am armed. I will kill. It is my purpose." It states I roll my eyes
"Try it shoot me exterminate me, I dare you." I say calmly
"They are dead because of us." It says
"This wouldn't have happened if you hadn't made my cousin pity you, but you had to play on her heart strings didn't you?" I spat at the monster before me,
"I cannot feel your fear." the Dalek said almost confused sounding
"No I'm not the only emotion I feel is disgust that you are considered a species." I snap
"Daleks do not feel. Must not feel." It said in panic shooting it's death ray wildly at the wall on either side of me again never hitting me. "You gave me life. What else have you given me? I am contaminated!" It questioned sounding slightly hysterical and maybe a little scared. After a few minutes I come forward to the Dalek knowing I have to in order for me to see the doctor again.
A screen comes to life and I see the doctor and Rose, the latter looking tearful and the first looking joyful.
"Open the bulkhead or Alexandra Flame dies." I roll my eyes, the Doctor takes a few steps towards the screen, the joy and relief breaking out onto his face more clearly.
"You're alive!" the doctor exclaimed
"Alex, you re okay." she says with happiness
"Said I d see you soon sweetie, didn't I? Honestly don t you listen?" I say with an exasperated smile.
"We thought you were dead." He said seriously, I sigh
"That s the trouble with me I can give spoilers but only hints, if you re-examine my words you would have known I was alive." I say, my god I really am sounding like River...
"Open the bulkhead!" The Dalek commands shoving its ray gun into my back
"Watch where you put that thing otherwise I will tear that shell off and kill you mate." I snap, I look at the screen to see shock on the Doctor's and Rose's faces "What?" I ask "Oh and Don't be stupid! Don t open the bulkhead, it's already killed people we don t want it to kill more do we. The world or me, make the right choice, I d choose it in an instant." I say with a smile,
"What use are emotions if you will not save the woman you love?" The Dalek asks, I snort, he has the woman he love's next to him, I look at the doctor knowing I'd see indifference but instead I see shock, as he stands in silence, 'Idiot your supposed to deny it about now.' I think nervously
"I killed her once." He says walking off screen "I can't do it again." I hear
The bulkhead opens
"Oh you stupid IDIOT!" I shout as we walk through.
XXX
We had walked- the Dalek, um glided?- to the lift and now we're riding it up to Van Statten s Office, and I can imagine the cheesy music playing in the background and bite my lip to keep from laughing, laughing in the presence of a Dalek, that is defiantly new. The gun arm thing was twitching and I knew what I had to say, and I hated it because I was about to save a pig that thought he was everything the world needed.
"Don't kill them - you didn't kill me. And I know what s going to be on the other side of this door, and as much as I wouldn't mind him dead I m not a monster and I cant mess up timelines, so please just don t kill anyone." The Dalek spins its eyepiece around to look at me fast I duck out of the way to avoid getting hit by its eye stalk.
"But why not? Why are you alive? My function is to kill. What am I? What am I?" I cringe at the voice,
"Something new, and I never thought I'd say this to a Dalek of all things but I'm sorry." The lift door opens and Van Statten is standing there, waiting.
"Idiot, you re standing in the way of something that can kill you, move." I say, with irritation, I just pleaded for his life the least he could do was be smart and stay away from it...
"Shut it red." he snaps. The Dalek advances on Van Statten.
"Van Statten. You tortured me. Why?" The Dalek asked, 'think carefully about this, oh who am I kidding, you can t answer that in a nice way, torture one of the worst things a human does, they can cause pain and get pleasure from in as sick as it is.'
"I wanted to help you, I just- I don't know, I - I was just trying to help. I thought if we could get through to you, if we could mend you- I wanted you better, I'm sorry." he says backing away terrified, and this is what you get for being an idiot. I groan quietly, the Dalek still advances, backing him against the wall. "I'm so sorry! I swear! I just wanted you to talk!" he shouts his voice rising shrilly "Then hear me talk now. Exterminate! Exterminate!" Van Statten winces. "Exterminate!"
"Stop" I say with a sigh walking in front of it. The Dalek eyes me curiously. I look right into its eyepiece. "You don't have to do this anymore. I know it's what you were made to do and i resent what you do, honestly I do. But I know there is something else you want- Am I right?" I say, the Dalek looks at Van Statten and then back at me
"I want freedom." It said,
"Well then, let s go." I say going back into the lift, "Don t do anything stupid." I say looking at Statten as the lift closes.
XXX
The Dalek an I (That sounds strange.) are on floor 01 in the base, the Dalek fires its death ray at the ceiling, making a hole through which the sunlight floods, shining on the Dalek. I turn my face to it and let the rays of sunlight warm me.
"You're out. You have what you want." I say "Never thought I'd help a Dalek see the sunlight." I say
"How... does... it... feel?" It croaks out,
"See for yourself" I say, a moment later the Dalek opens up its casing to reveal the mutated creature inside and I cringe again. It stretches its feelers out to the sunlight. I look at it before turning around knowing the doctor is behind me.
"Get out of the way." He says holding a gun, I look at him with pity and defiance. I don t move "Lexa, get out of the way, now!" he shouts
"No" I state calmly, "I won t let you case genocide" I continue
"That thing killed hundreds of people." the doctor snaps and I know it was dreadful but I couldn't help but think of some of the species that had died, or will because we save the earth...
"It's not the one pointing the gun at me Doctor. Look at yourself, you say violence isn't an option and look at yourself ready to wield one against anything living thing, no matter how much I hate the species I won t let you be the cause of a genocide." I say bitterly a sharp edge in my voice reminding me of 1869, and to think in that year we would meet queen victoria.
"I've got to do this. I've got to end it. The Daleks destroyed my home, my people. I've got nothing left." he says desperation seeping into his voice Rose now standing behind him looking shocked.
"Look at it." She said, I turn and look, the Dalek was feeling the sunlight as though trying to grasp it with its feelers.
"What's it doing?" he asked confused
"It's the sunlight, It wants to see it." I say solemnly,
"But it can't..." he say his voice shaking
"It couldn't kill Van Statten - it couldn't kill me - it's changing. What about you, Doctor? What the are you changing into?" I ask still with a cold voice knowing it would cut him like a knife. The Doctor finally lowers the gun and he looks completely lost.
"I couldn't..." he says close to tears but my resolve doesn't falter, Rose stares at him. "I wasn't..." he says he looks at the Dalek and then back to me "Oh, Lexa. They're all dead." he whispers
"I know." I say some compassion leaking into my voice, but the hard look doesn't disappear.
"Why do we survive?" The Dalek finally asks,
"I don't know." The doctor answers
"I am the last of the Daleks." it says strain in its voice.
"You aren't even that anymore, you re not a pure Dalek." I whisper
"Lexa did more than regenerate you. You absorbed her DNA. You're mutating." the doctor says
"Into what?" the Dalek demands
"Something new. I'm so sorry." I say quietly looking at it and not the doctor
"Isn't that better?" Rose asks, I shake my head
"Not for a Dalek." The doctor answers verbally
"I can feel so many ideas. So much darkness... Alexandra... give me orders! Order me to die." It says
"You can't do that." Rose says
"This is not life. This is sickness." it says to her, Rose's face contorts with pity and disgust. "I shall not be like you. Order my destruction! Obey! Obey! Obey!" the Dalek says sounding hysteric, I turn back to the Dalek
"Exterminate." I say softly,
"Are you frightened, Alexandra Flame?" it asks, I m not but say for its sake,
"Yes." I say it softly
"So am I." It say before saying feebly it's last work "Exterminate." I take a few steps back knowing what was going to happen. The Dalek replaces its armour, it levitates in air and the golden knobs detach themselves to surround the Dalek in a perfect sphere. The Dalek glows briefly, and then explodes inside the sphere, vanishing into nothing. The Doctor stares at the place where it disappeared, stunned. I turn and walk passed them dropping the gun by the doctors feet and grabbing the dagger from Rose without looking, I threw it into the air catching it multiple times not glancing back, if I had I would have seen the doctor looking at me with something akin to sympathy and longing on his face.
XXX
I had went to the TARDIS and was sat on the captains seat looking at the screen as the doctor talks to Rose myself conversing with the TARDIS
'Poor thief.' she sighs
'I know sexy, but you can t alter events as you well know.' i say to her
'Thief likes you heart.' she says
'I've been meaning to ask you about that, why do you call me heart?' i ask curiously
'It was- Is a future thing, i hate tense s, they're so difficult.' i laugh
'You never get the hang of it ol' girl' i say with a chuckle
'I don t like the stray flower is bringing with her.' she grumbles
'I know neither do i, but he's greedy and needs to be taught a lesson, don't you agree?' i ask tilting my head, i hear her laugh
'Yup with a click of your fingers.' i laugh again and go to the door
"Well then - good thing I'm not going anywhere." Rose says with a smile
"Nor me." I say drawing their attention
"Yeah." The doctor says with a smile. Adam jogs up to them.
"We'd better get out. Van Statten's disappeared... they're closing down the base." He said out of breath the Doctor faces him with his arms folded. "Goddard says they're going to fill it full of cement! Like it never existed!" he carries on,
"About time." Rose says with a slight smile.
"I'll have to go back home." Adam say disappointment in his voice
"Better hurry up then. Next flight to Heathrow leaves at 1500 hours." the doctor says
"Bye-bye, adios sayonara and all that." I say with a smile
"Adam was saying that all his life he's wanted to see the stars..." I groan quietly again
"Tell him to go and stand outside, then." the doctor says flippantly
"He's all on his own, Doctor. And he did help." Rose says
"He left your cousin down there!" he says indignantly,
"So did you!" Rose argues
"Can it, both of you are acting like children." I snap in an annoyed voice, both look down ashamed, like they had their hand caught in the cookie jar.
"What're you talking about? We've got to leave!" Adam says,
"Rose, he's a bit pretty." The doctor says looking at her.
"I hadn't noticed." She says innocently,
"Bullshit don t lie Rosie." I say with a snort and turn to walk back in, The Doctor raises his eyebrows skeptically and turns to the TARDIS.
"On your own head." He says walking in after me
"What're you doing? She said 'cement'. She wasn't joking, we're going to get sealed in." Adam says looking at us like we were crazy. Well we are but he doesn't know that yet. Both the Doctor and Rose come into the TARDIS fully, leaving Adam standing outside. "Doctor?" He asks sounding genuinely concerned for their sanity I think "What're you doing standing inside a box?" he asks before there was a pause "Rose? Alex?" he asks, he peers through the doors and steps inside the look on his face comical. The engines we start up and the TARDIS dematerialises.
XXX
"Right then, I'm going to my room, see you around." I say "Night Doctor, Rose" I call from the stairs hearing them call back with their own goodnights. My room wasn't far so when I opened the door I found everything in place, getting into a big shirt and a pair of shorts I sit on the bed and pull my laptop over to me, turning it on I open up word, and start writing down our adventures and what has changed sort of like River's diary. after about and two hours I put that away satisfied that everything was in order and pull the book I had begun to read last night into my lap
'2. what did they do?
'Shadow hunters were as rare as they come and had a special job of neutralising a threat to any timelines so that the universe would keep on turning.
one of their first riddles was given be a powerful seer, the equivalent to a visionary on Gallifrey, as it went,
'Demons run where a good man goes to war,
Night will fall and drown in sun,
When a good man goes to war,
Friendship dies and true love lies,
Night fill fall and the dark will rise,
When a good man goes to war,
Demons run but count the cost,
The battles won but the child is lost,
But if you look close so is the one he loves most,
When a good man goes to war.'
It is one of their most ancient riddles that till this day remains a mystery...'
I carried on reading but couldn't help but think of the riddle, I know what it was meant for but that last part was strange I didn't know what it meant, the one he loves most? It wasn't on the show... if the riddle has changed then what else has?
Finally finishing I reach for my phone, "Fuck, it was exterminated." I groan, I get up and go to Roses room knocking on the door, a few minutes later she opens the door
"What?" she asks sleepily
"Sorry sweetie, can I borrow your phone mine was blown to pieces." I ask, she nods and leaves the door coming back after a few seconds and giving it to me,
"Thanks Rosie. Night." I say going back to my room, dialing a number I knew off by heart, it rang a few times
"Harkness." he barks down the phone,
"Hello to you to Jack." I say teasingly
"Princess, why are you calling on this number?" he asks, I sigh
"Dalek exterminated my phone." I say simply "Anyway, you know Van Statten?" I ask
"Yeah. He's a real asshole, been keeping an eye on him for a few years now." he says
"Thought you might want to know that you dont have to worry about him any more, he's gonna wake up in some country starting with 'S' and wont remember who he is." I say
"Okay not gonna ask but can we get back to this Dalek that apparently attacked you?" he asks his voice sounding protective, so I told him what happened and got and earache in return for doing what he perceived to be reckless and stupid.
"Look Jackie your gonna have to chew me out another time I'm tired and I don't have a phone so you cant call me until i have a new one." I say through a yawn.
"Fine sweet dreams princess."
"Night big bro." I say in return closing the phone deleting the number from Roses call list, putting it down and going to sleep.
XXX
Okay guys i know I m late but in fairness i got side-tracked and then i remembered that school starts soon, i got my Gcse results and i passed, YAY but i didn't get the grades i needed but, who cares right, let me know what you think of this one, thanks to everyone that reads this, let me know what you think and I m hoping that the next chapter should be longer with more moments between the doctor and Alex.
Shadow out!
XXX