Cold Blood: Rescue
"This is the story of our planet, Earth, of the day 1,000 years past when we came to share it with a race known as humanity. It is the story of the Doctor and his Angel who helped our races find common ground and the terrible losses they suffered. It is the story of our past and must never be forgotten."
~8~
The Doctor and Amy strode through a cavernous pathways of the underground city while Nasreen walked cautiously alongside them, glancing at the magma and buildings around them, still not sure exactly how this was all possible. The heat of the magma alone should have been enough to kill them dead in mere seconds, yet they were fine. The Doctor, well, she supposed Amy at least, didn't look perturbed in the slightest by that fact. She didn't doubt the Doctor had ample experience with strange situations like this, though, now that she thought on it, she supposed Amy would have too. But still...how was it even possible? How had an entire civilization existed beneath the Earth's crust and they'd never discovered it? There were films about that sort of thing, she knew, but she never thought they'd actually be right!
"This place is enormous and deserted," the Doctor began speaking out loud as they walked.
Well, he hadn't really stopped speaking since they'd gotten there actually. It was concerning Amy quite a bit since, she knew he could ramble, but he was actually making sense now! He was actually talking about what they were facing and making deductions and giving them useful information. And she knew what that meant, he had to be really, really worried about the others. He was hardly ever serious unless someone he cared for was in danger.
She'd been watching the Doctor closely ever since Angel had been taken, she knew how terrible he must have felt, especially with Rory starting in on him about it, to lose Angel so suddenly and in such a way as he had, with her pulled right out from under him...literally. They were the last of their kind, him and Angel, and she knew his greatest fear, probably even greater than losing the TARDIS, would be to lose Angel and truly be alone. She'd seen how he acted when Angel wasn't there, how he spoke. Every time his attention always drifted to her, whether it was towards the last place she'd walked off to or just in the general direction of wherever she was. He talked about her, kept bringing her up, kept mentioning her repeatedly as though he were trying to keep her with him in spirit or something. He truly should never be alone, never be without Angel. She might have thought he loved the Time Lady or felt something more than the friendship he claimed to only have with her because of that...if it had not been for River.
She was fully convinced that River was the Doctor's future wife. The way the woman acted, the way she talked and flirted with him...it was far too comfortable and intimate for River to not know him that way. And...he hadn't denied it when she'd asked him during the Byzantium incident. True, if River was from his future, a future he hadn't lived yet, it was possible that he really didn't know. But the fact that he didn't outright deny it must mean that he at least was open to the possibility that River WAS his wife or someone equally as important. And he didn't treat Angel like she treated Rory...she winced at that, he didn't treat Angel like she NOW treated Rory or better than she had treated him. There were moments, yes, when they appeared closer than what she knew they were or what the Doctor claimed they were, but those seemed to be when Angel was in danger so it was normal for emotions to be heightened.
But still...she did notice a shift in him when Angel wasn't there. He was testy more, short, snippy, he snapped easier, he seemed to hunch more and frown and...tense. Like now. He was half-striding, half-storming down the halls, his hands clenched into fists, his back rigid, his shoulders hunched as though he were stalking to someone. And he was talking not-nonsense! He was actually focused on the matter at hand and being useful! Which was a very big change from how he normally was. He probably would have just been spouting nonsense and jokes about magma or them 'not getting themselves into a lava' or some other such ridiculous and terrible joke. But there he was...being serious for once. And she knew it was more because Angel was in danger than the others.
"The majority of the race are probably still asleep," he continued, pulling Amy from her thoughts as he took out the sonic and began to scan, "We need to find Angel, looking for heat signature anomalies."
"And Mo and Elliot," Amy added, frowning at that.
"Yes, yes, and them," he nodded.
"But, Doctor, how can all this be here?" Nasreen shook her head as they reached a tunnel, "I mean, these plants..." she gestured at one, feeling the leaf to see if it was actually physically real...it was.
"Must be getting closer to the center of the city."
"You're sure this is the best way to enter?"
"Front door approach! Definitely. Always the best way..."
An alarm started to blare the moment they reached the door at the end of the tunnel, while a female voice spoke over a speaker, "Hostile life force detected, Area 17."
"You were saying?" Amy glared at him as they stopped.
"Apart from the backdoor approach, that's also good," he turned around, trying to think of a way out of this, "Sometimes better."
"Hostile life force detected, Area 17."
The door before Nasreen whooshed open as she and Amy gasped, "Doctor!"
He spun around to see armed Silurian soldiers coming through the door with even more arriving behind them. He raised his hands, motioning for them to do the same, "We're not hostile, we're not armed!" he pulled the girls' arms up when they just stood there, staring in alarm at the guns aimed at them, "We're here in peace!"
The Silurians barely listened to him as they shot a gas from their weapons, knocking them all out instantly.
~8~
In the laboratory, the Silurian doctor stepped up to Angel, "Please," she eyed the really rather sharp cutting tool in his hands, "Don't…"
She was terrified, beyond terrified, of the sharp object getting closer and closer to her stomach. She...she wanted to use the Vortex, she could feel it thrashing inside her, wanting to be released, wanting to throw the doctor back and break apart the restraints, free Mo as well, and get them both out of there. But she wasn't letting it. She was stronger than the last time the Vortex had lashed out, more aware of why it was reacting so instantly to her danger, and...she was scared. The Vortex had damaged her often in the past. Using too much of it had nearly made her regenerate on Mars, HAD made her regenerate on Kroptor. It left her weak, it left her hurting, and...she couldn't risk it, not with the baby. The Vortex was similar to regeneration energy in how truly powerful and devastating it could be. It could heal, yes, but equally it could injure.
She couldn't risk the baby.
She was probably incredibly lucky that she hadn't lost the baby during the dealings with the 456, or on Mars, or when she'd fallen through a ceiling into Naismith manor, or when the Vortex had flared up in the Calvierri school...she couldn't believe she'd done all that while pregnant. It terrified her more than she could say to think she might have lost the baby and not even realized because of those events. But now that she knew, now that she was aware, everything was different. Until she knew exactly what affect the Vortex would have on the baby...she couldn't risk huge displays of it, she just...she couldn't. If she lost the baby...
And that cutting tool was getting even closer.
"Please!" she begged, squirming, trying to push herself farther back into the examination board, away from the device.
"Leave her alone!" the man shouted, hearing the tremor of fear in her voice and struggling in his own restraints to try and stop the doctor, "You got me!"
The doctor just pulled down his medical mask to reveal his scaled face and pushed as small button in his hand, locking her in place by the wrists painfully, wincing as she gave a small cry of pain, the angle of the restraints making it awkward and likely to bruise, "Commencing dissection," he reached for her.
"Silurian!" Angel called in a last ditch effort to buy time, for what she honestly didn't know, her mind was racing too much to make sense of anything, fear clouding it, but she felt it, if she could just make him wait a moment longer... "You're a Silurian."
He eyed her in shock, his mouth falling open at her knowledge, "How do you know our race?"
"I'm not human," Angel breathed, panted really, "Your tests will be contaminated if you use me as a subject. I'm not human."
The doctor's eyes widened, startled, "Yet you appear similar to that specimen," he nodded at Mo.
"He appears similar to me," she countered, "Time Lords came first."
The doctor frowned, suspicious that the woman might be lying and about to open her up to see if she was...
When, "Area 17 incursion, species diagnostic requested," came over the speakers, "Area 17 incursion, species diagnostic requested."
He gave her one last look before sighing and leaving the lab, taking the button controlling the restraints with him.
Angel let out a sigh of relief, watching the doctor go until the doors had shut before looking at the clamps on her wrist. A moment later a golden spark snapped the metal up, allowing her out.
"How did you do that?!" the man's eyes widened, having been watching her, confused as to why she'd gone from fighting to get out to so suddenly focused.
"I wasn't lying about not being human," she told him, making her way over to him, "I don't really lie," she murmured, placing a hand on each of his clamps as well, a golden spark snapping his restraints open too, "Come on, we need to leave before he gets back."
Mo groaned, trying to get off the table as she rushed to help him, putting his arm around her shoulders to support him, "That creature," he winced as they slowly made their way out of the lab and into the hallway beyond, "Is it an alien too? Any more of them do you think? Do you think the Earth's been invaded?"
"It's not an alien, it's called a Silurian," she explained, having picked up just enough of that from the Doctor, "It's lived on the Earth before the humans but went into hibernation. I don't know if there are more, but I'd have to say yes, I don't know how many though. I know someone who probably worked it all out by now, we just need to find him. He's here somewhere, I can feel it. Oh, I'm Angel by the way."
"Mo," he greeted.
"Nice to meet you Mo."
He let out a slightly pained though amused laugh at how she was making pleasantries at a time like this, though he supposed it was to try and keep his mind off everything, "Likewise," he grunted as they stopped by a door and looked at it, "Maybe it's a way out of here?"
Angel looked around for a doorknob but only spotted a panel on the wall beside the door, hesitantly putting her hand on it as Mo looked inside. The lights came on to reveal Elliot standing there! There were wires attached to him all over, the boy just standing with his eyes closed, in some sort of stasis, "Oh, my God, no."
"What is it?" Angel frowned, moving over to look through, her hearts falling into her stomach at the sight, her mind flashing back to the children the 456 had taken, though Elliot looked much better taken care of than them and...she hadn't sensed any ill intent from that Silurian doctor.
Mo frantically tried to force the door open, "It's my son. It's Elliot. What've they done to him?" he turned to the panel on the door, trying it, "No! He's in there! We have to get him out! Elliot! Elliot, it's dad!"
"Access denied," the computerized voice of the panel stated, "Unauthorized genetic imprint."
Angel reached out and took Mo's hands off the door so he wouldn't hurt himself trying to break through metal, "Mo, calm down, Elliot's fine."
"That's my boy in there!" he cried.
"Just trust me. I just…know things sometimes. People joke that I'm psychic. And I'm telling you Elliot's fine. These screens," she pointed to a few on the other side of the door, "They're monitoring him. He's still alive."
"Alright," Mo took a breath, running a hand through his hair, "We find weapons, get that creature from the lab, and force it to release Elliot, yeah?"
Angel blinked, "Or we could just ask him nicely," she remarked, before shaking her head as he moved to argue, "We will get him out though," she promised, "Cross my hearts," she crossed them as well and looked down the tunnel, "Come on," she whispered, leading him off, Mo glancing back at his son's room as the light went out.
~8~
Ambrose knelt on the ground, holding Elliot's headphones, just staring at them in solemn shock of all that had happened, when Rory joined her, "Ambrose..."
"You lied. You told us you were the police."
"It was a misunderstanding..."
"Who are you? You and the Doctor and those girls? Why is this happening to us? What did we ever do?"
"The Doctor'll get your son back, I promise," Rory knelt before her, "And if he can't," he smiled, "Angel's got a history of saving people he can't it seems. In the meantime, we take turns guarding the creature."
"So that's it? We sit and...and wait."
"And then we exchange her for your family and Angel," Rory nodded, "I promise you Ambrose, I'd trust my Pilot with my life," he said firmly, meaning every word of it. He'd only known Angel a short time, but...he trusted her, after everything she'd done for him and Amy she'd earned it, she'd earned his respect and trust and he was doing his best to earn hers as well...he knew he HAD it, but he wanted to feel like he'd earned it too, "And the Doctor is Amy's Pilot, she trusts him, I trust her. And he's doing this for Angel so that makes me trust him more. We stick to his plan. We prove to the Silurians that we're worth an alliance with instead of a war. And we do that by keeping that creature safe, ok?"
Ambrose gave a small nod.
~8~
The Doctor was tied to an examination board, shouting in pain as the machine before him scanned him, the pain even a bit worse than the scanner Van Statten had used, a female Silurian warrior standing by it, talking to a Silurian doctor, "How can they have escaped?! This proves all prisoners should remain under military guard."
"I'm sure you'd prefer to be in charge of everything and everyone, Restac," he sighed, seeming weary of the female's attitude, "But we rank the same. Is there any word from Alaya?"
"No," she turned to watch the Doctor squirming, seeming to enjoy his suffering.
"It's fine to show concern, you know. She's part of your gene-chain. I'm decontaminating now."
"Decontamination!" the Doctor gasped, "No, no, no!"
And he couldn't help but feel completely terrified that this might have happened to Angel. He prayed she hadn't, Angel shouldn't be tortured like this...
~oOo~
"I can't help it!" he defended, "I don't like hospitals, they give me the creeps!"
"I'm not much of a fan either," Angel added though, now starting to look around hesitantly, "Not all the people who bid for me and the Dalek just kept us locked up."
His face darkened, taking her hand and holding it tightly. He knew what she was implying. She'd never really talked about the people who had captured her and the Dalek or the others besides Van Statten that had gotten their hands on her over the years. But now, to hear a hint of it, to hear that she had probably been dissected at one point or another…she squeezed his hand back, instantly soothing his murderous thoughts, whatever had happened was in the past, clearly where Angel wanted to leave it.
~oOo~
He let out a cry of pain as Restac increased the scan.
~8~
Alaya sat on the floor of the cellar, meditating, when Tony stumbled in, the noise of it making her turn to look at him over her shoulder, "Why aren't you dead?" she eyed him, "You're carrying my venom in your blood. But you should have died. Why aren't you dead? Show me," he walked forward and tugged his shirt to the side, revealing his chest, green veins spreading across it, "How does it feel, ape?" she smirked.
"Like it's burning in my blood. Please," he begged, "If you help me, I can help you. If you could cure me, I could help you escape."
"You see? You beg, and offer betrayal, so early! Why would I want to escape when I can watch you die? The first ape death of the coming war," and with that, she returned to her meditation.
Tony looked at her solemnly, tears in his eyes, before he turned to struggle out of the room once more.
~8~
"It's alright," the Silurian doctor called, seeing the Doctor fighting the process, "It won't harm you. I'm only neutralizing all your ape bacteria."
"I'm not an ape!" the Doctor snapped, "Look at the scans! Two hearts! Totally different! Totally not ape! Totally Time Lord! Remove all human germs, you remove half the things keeping me alive."
The doctor frowned at those words, Time Lord, that was what the other human-like female had said. He hadn't decontaminated her, not even with such a scan. He'd decontaminated the male, but he wanted to see if any other results might be different post-decontamination as opposed to pre-decontamination. Though he wouldn't have been able to now, he realized, if she really wasn't human. He looked over at the scans a moment before jolting forward to shut down the machine, seeing that he was, in fact, NOT human.
"No, complete the process," Restac commanded.
"Oh, that's much better, thanks!" the Doctor breathed, "Not got any celery, have you? No, no, not really the climate, tomatoes, though, you'd do a roaring trade in those. I'm the Doctor," he glanced to the side to see Amy and Nasreen each strapped to an examination board similar to his, but awaiting their own decontamination, "Oh, and there's Nasreen and Amelia, good!"
"Oh, a green man," Nasreen gaped as the doctor went to examine her, Amy watching the man closely as he checked to see if they were human instead.
"Hello," the Doctor turned to the female Silurian that had been talking to the doctor, "Who are you?"
"Restac," she nearly sneered at him, "Military commander."
"Oh, dear, really? There's always a military, isn't there?"
"Your weapon was attacking the oxygen pockets above our city," the doctor explained.
"Oxygen pockets! Lovely! Ooh..." he nodded, starting to frown, "But not so good with an impending drill! Now it makes sense!"
"Where is the rest of your invasion force?" Restac questioned.
"Invasion force? Me, lovely Nasreen, and beautiful Amelia Pond? No! We came for Angel, the other Time Lord you've got hidden around here, her and the humans you took. And...to offer the safe return of Alaya. Oh, wait, you and she," he looked at Restac closely, able to see a resemblance, "What is it, same genetic source? Of course you're worried," he nodded, understanding sibling concern, "But don't be, she's safe."
"You claim to come in peace, but you hold one of us hostage," Restac motioned for the soldiers that were lined in the back of the room to take position.
"Wait, wait! We all want the same thing here."
"I don't negotiate with apes," she sneered, "I'm going to send a clear message to those on the surface."
"What's that?"
"Your execution."
"Yes..."
~8~
Angel cautiously led Mo down the tunnels, Mo now able to walk on his own and completely confused as to how the girl seemed to know where she was going. She even seemed to know when a Silurian thing person was about to pass them and pulled him to the side to hide them from view. Maybe she really was psychic? He didn't know, whatever it was, he was glad for it. He did NOT need to be captured and decontaminated again.
They stopped down one tunnel, having ducked into it upon the sound of footsteps in the distance, and found there were chambers with glass covered alcoves on either side of the hall, "I've seen these things everywhere," Angel muttered, putting her hand over a sensor in the alcove. It lit up, revealing masked Silurian warriors inside.
Mo leapt back in surprise, "Uh! Turn it off quick!" Angel put her hand back on the panel and the lights went out, "They're not moving…maybe they're asleep?" he looked at her, "Turn that on again?"
Angel nodded and turned them on, only this time the glass doors slid open. She stepped forward and leaned into the alcove, looking up to see chutes above the warriors, "Maybe that's how they travel?" she murmured, she knew they were some sort of transportation, but what? Though, she supposed, if she was pulled down into the Earth, maybe there was a way to be pushed up out of it, "The Doctor would know. The Doctor always knows. It's how they came up to the surface. Some sort of powered transport discs. I can gather that much."
"Even better, weapons!" Mo took a gun from one of the soldiers and held one out to her, "Come on, now we can fight back."
"No," Angel shook her head, backing away from him, "No guns, never again."
Mo eyed her a moment, but nodded, seeing a fear and a despair in her eyes, before taking the gun for himself. Angel closed the glass containers and Mo looked around, "Which way now?"
"That way," she pointed to a door at the end, just letting her feelings guide her back to the Doctor.
He nodded and they continued on, walking through another door to see a large chamber filled with soldiers in stasis, "Wow."
"Oh..." Angel breathed, frowning at the sight.
...the soldiers fired their ammunition...
'...execute all the apes!...'
...the humans fled through an archway...
"We don't stand a chance."
"We need to find the Doctor," she mumbled, shaking her head from her vision, she needed to find him now and warn him of what might be coming, maybe they could achieve peace instead of that fight if she got to him in time. They turned and left the chamber, Angel following the sense of the only other Time Lord around.
~8~
Tony searched through a small cupboard till he found the first aid kit and a bottle of aspirin, "Dad, are you alright?" Ambrose called as she walked in, seeing him pale and sweaty and shaking, "Dad!"
"Ambrose, I'm fine! Leave me alone," he stumbled.
Ambrose leapt forward and helped him sit, "You are not fine. Let me...let me look…" she reached out to him but he batted her hand away.
"Get off!"
"Let me look!" she unbuttoned his shirt and gasped at the sight of the veins, "Oh, my God, dad..."
"I don't know what's happening to me."
"It's going to be fine. First thing is bring this temperature down, get you resting," she helped him lie down on a table and turned to the doors, "Rory!" she called out.
~8~
The Doctor, Amy, and Nasreen were being escorted through the city through a section of large vegetation, "These must be the only ones awake," the Doctor was explaining, still with the useful facts, Amy was starting to miss the rambles about nonsense now, "The others must still be in hibernation."
"So, why did they go into hibernation in the first place?" Nasreen wondered.
"Their astronomers predicted a planet heading to Earth on a crash course. They a built life underground and put themselves to sleep for millennia in order to avert what they thought was the apocalypse. When in reality, it was the moon, coming into alignment with the Earth."
Restac and the others stopped and looked at him, "How can you know that?" the doctor asked.
"Long time ago, I met another tribe of homo-reptilia, similar, but not identical."
"Others of our species have survived?" Restac's gasped.
"The...humans attacked them. They died, I'm sorry."
"A vermin race," she hissed and continued on.
~8~
Ambrose walked down the stairs to the cellar having left her father under Rory's watch, eyeing Alaya, "What's the cure?"
"What?" Alaya glanced at her.
"I saw what you've done to my dad. What's the cure?"
"Why would I tell you?"
"'Cos if you don't, I'm going to have to use this on you," she held up a taser.
"Now you reveal yourselves."
"First you take my husband, then my son, now you hurt my dad. I'm just protecting my family here. That's all. I don't want to use it. I want you to put things right."
"Use it."
"What?" Ambrose blinked, startled.
"Use it on me. But you're too afraid," she walked up to Ambrose, "A woman who can't even protect her own child must be too weak to..." she walked into the taser and fell to her knees with a shriek.
"I didn't want to do that. Are you alright? Tell me, what's the cure for my dad?"
"He's vermin. He deserves a painful death."
"I'm giving you a chance."
"I knew it would be you. The one with the most to lose, the weakest..." she smirked up at her and Ambrose put the taser to Alaya's chest, the Silurian shuddered, falling to the floor.
~8~
Rory was tending to Tony in the church, "I'm a nurse, you should've told me," he was saying, when they heard screaming.
They both got up and ran down to the cellar where the scream was coming from to see Alaya on the floor, wheezing, with Ambrose standing over her, taser in hand. Rory rushed to Alaya's side to see if he could help while Tony gaped at his daughter, "Ambrose...what've you done?!"
"She kept taunting me about Mo and Elliot and you..." Ambrose wept.
"We have to be better than this!" Tony snatched the taser from her.
"She wouldn't tell me anything. I thought sooner or later, she'd give in. I would've done. I just...I just want my family back, dad."
"I'm sorry," Rory said to Alaya, clutching her hand, "How do we help you? Tell us what to do."
"I knew this would come," Alaya grinned, "And soon the war."
"You're not dying. I'm not going to let you, not today..."
But it was too late, Alaya moaned and breathed her last, her head lulling to the side.
Rory swallowed hard and sat back on his heels, looking up at Ambrose and realized something...Alaya hadn't been the woman Angel had warned him of, it had been Ambrose. He sighed and rubbed his forehead, closing his eyes, he could only imagine what would happen now.
~8~
Restac and the doctor entered a courtroom, followed by the soldiers escorting the Doctor, Amy, and Nasreen, "You're not authorized to do this!" the doctor warned her.
"I'm authorized to protect the safety of our species while they sleep," Restac replied.
"Oh, lovely place, very gleaming," the Doctor nodded at the area, large windows, high ceilings, rather shiny and sparkling, unable to help but think that Angel would love that room, she loved bright things and light filled areas.
"This is our court and our place of execution."
Ok, not so much loving the room now.
But before Restac could actually give the order for one, Mo jumped out, aiming a gun at Restac and another in the general direction of the Silurian guards, "Let them go!" he demanded.
"Mo!" Nasreen gasped.
"Angel!" Amy cheered, seeing Angel run through another door, Mo having gotten the lead on her at the sound of the voices, and quickly pulled the girl into a hug.
"Angel," the Doctor let out a breath of relief, pulling her from Amy's arms and holding her by the shoulders, looking her over, "Are you ok?"
She nodded, "I'm fine, I..." she cut off suddenly as the Doctor brushed a lock of hair from her face behind her ear, his hand lingering on her cheek even after, looking at her softly, relief evident in his eyes, such enormous relief. She didn't even think he realized that his thumb was lightly stroking her cheek.
"I'm sorry," he whispered to her, feeling his hearts start to slow and the ache in his chest lighten now that she was ok, "I let you go."
She swallowed hard, he'd let her go in more ways than one hadn't he? But that wasn't what he was talking about at th emoment was he? She took a breath, "It's alright, I'm fine," she looked to the side, the motion causing the Doctor to drop his hand, "Mo took good care of me," she added.
The Doctor looked over at Mo, seeing the angry red lines on the man's chest and winced, closing his eyes briefly, thanking the stars that Angel hadn't suffered that fate, "Thanks," he called to the man.
Mo nodded in return, before focusing on Restac once more, "Now let them go, or I shoot," he threatened as Restac moved closer, "I'm warning you!"
Restac just yanked the guns from him and shoved him to the ground, threatening him with her tongue whip.
"Alright, Restac," the doctor spoke up, "You've made your point."
Restac walked up to him, "This is now a military tribunal. Go back to your laboratory, Malohkeh."
One of the soldiers pressed their gun to his back to get him to move, "This isn't the way," he sighed before turning to leave.
"Prepare them for execution!"
The soldiers moved, forcing the Doctor, Angel, Amy, Nasreen, and Mo to pillars in the back of the room where they were tied up.
"I'm sorry," Angel whispered to the Doctor as she and Amy were tied up by him, Mo and Nasreen across from them, "I tried to tell Mo it wouldn't work."
"I'm glad you're ok," the Doctor told her.
"Me too," Amy took her hand even as it was bound behind her, "But you know what…" she smiled, trying to lighten the mood, feeling Angel gripping her hand tightly, clearly worried, "Lizard men!"
"Homo-reptilia..." the Doctor countered, "They occupied the planet before humans and..."
"I know," Angel cut in gently, "They just want their home back," she murmured, empathizing with them.
"After they've wiped out the Human Race," Nasreen called as the soldiers lined up like a firing squad but didn't fire, "Why are they waiting? What do you think they're going to do with us?"
~8~
"I didn't know it would go like that, dad," Ambrose wept, begging him to understand.
"Oh, my little girl, what have you done?" Tony hugged her.
"What happens now?" she asked, when there was a buzzing electrical sound and the lights flashed, before an old computer monitor flared to life with Restac on the screen, "Oh my God."
"Who is the ape leader?" Restac demanded.
"It's them. How are they doing that? How do they know that we're in here?" she quickly covered Alaya's body with a tarp.
"Who speaks for the apes?!" Restac called again, more angrily at being ignored the first time.
The humans looked at each other before Rory moved to step up, Tony grabbing his arm to whisper to him, "Don't tell them what's happened."
A/N: Oh. My. God! YOU GUYS! We made it to the teaser for Series 6! O.O I honestly wasn't expecting it till (maybe) the next chapter so that's awesome ^-^ And so, without further ado...the teaser:
Tick tock, goes the clock,
Darkness came when Silence fell.
Tick tock, goes the clock...
Till River kills the Angel.
}:D Muwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Lol...I think that sums up River's personality as well, doesn't it? All I can say is that...there are many, many, many ways to 'kill' someone, both literally and figuratively, so what you think might happen might not be what actually happens. Will she really physically kill Angel? Or kill her like she has in past episodes? Emotionally? Psychologically? Spiritually? All of the above? Another option? With kindness? (HA!) None of the above? Something else entirely? We'll have to see. Remember, River's background will play a BIG part in this saga and Series 6 is where she and the Doctor got much closer }:)
AND! A sneak peek too ;)
~8~
Vincent wiped off the coffee ring with his hand and sat down in the chair while Angel worked on cleaning the scrape gently, "Precious to me. Not precious to anyone else."
"They're precious to me!" Amy called before joining them all in the main room.
"Well, you're very kind," Vincent said before looking at Angel putting a hand on her wrist as she cleaned his head to smile at her, "The both of you. And kindness is most welcome."
"Right, so, this church, then," the Doctor cut in, drawing Vincent's attention away. He just couldn't understand it, every time the man so much as looked at Angel one way he wanted to pull her away from him, "Near here, is it?"
~8~
I seriously loved writing Vincent and the Doctor because it's the Doctor getting jealous of someone besides Rory! :)
Now, to get on about this chapter :) I don't think I could do a 'dissection' scene again, at least not with Angel being pregnant. It killed me to do that to Evy and I'm not THAT cruel as to do it to Angel. But I can say that particular moment, that threat of it happening, will come back later in the saga, but I won't say how }:) But I gave you a little Thella moment there :) I have to say though, Rory's reaction to seeing Angel alive and ok is just...touching...and the Doctor's reaction to Rory's reaction is quite...well, he does tend to get jealous doesn't he, even if he doesn't know why?
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Wow! I'm glad you're enjoying the twists, I think almost all those questions were answered at some point during the A/Ns, but if there's any specific one that wasn't, feel free to ask :) I hope you enjoyed camp though :) I used to love going to this camp weekend for Girl Scouts, I was like a ninja on the rock climbing wall lol :)
Oh the more he thinks on her the more he feels for her definitely :) It's sort of a push and pull thing, the more he worries, the more he feels, and the more he feels, the more his mind tries to push the thoughts away :( I agree, they're very well balanced for each other in being opposites. I think, with all he's been through, the Doctor just needs that one kind and pure person to keep the darkness from spreading in him :) I'm hoping 12 isn't female, I don't think 12 will be because of Clara being in Series 8 (and I feel like they'd have to balance the male/female audiences by having one of each gender there) and also because of the whole 'River is his wife' thing. I know Moffat tries to push same-sex relationships into a lot of the show, and I think that's cool and very empowering for them, but I don't think he'd go so far as to make the Doctor enter into one especially since he's put so much of it around him it would be overdoing it a bit :) But if 12 was female, I'd have to gender-swap the Time Ladies to Time Lords yup. Which would be weird because I think it would scar LJ to have his mum suddenly be his father and vice versa, and Proffy's pregnant (so far) so that would be awkward, and I've got twists for Angel too that would make regenerating into a woman difficult :( I also don't feel I'd be able to write a same-sex pairing to the quality it should really be at because I have no experience in it being straight and I would really want to do justice to the dynamic of the relationship and not offend anyone :) I also think it's about balance, man/woman, dark/light, lord/lady so if 12 was a woman, the OCs would have to be men :) Fingers crossed that won't happen though :)
Lol, I could see them in those roles for the Little Mermaid too :) I was listening to Enchanted once, and suddenly imagining Angel as Giselle and River as Narissa :)
I think a lot of people would want to kill Malokeh if he dissected Angel :) Which is nice to know you guys love her that much :) Nope, River does not like her at all. But then again, at that point in her timeline, she might be at a point where the Doctor does something equally hurtful to her and she wants to kill them both, you never know :) So we'll have to wait and see who's at Utah and what's said :)
Oh I have SO many twists to come ;) But at least Angel wasn't dissected :) I can say there will be a point in the TW crossover where we'll see a tiny bit of Angel with a baby (Anwen!) :) So far Proffy will be having twins, I think it'll depend on when she regenerates and what that might mean for the pregnancy, she's already miscarried once :( But we'll have to hope things'll be different, the twins are, so far, a tentative reality :) Yup, one boy and one girl (there's pictures of them as children and adults on my Academic Series tumblr page ;)) But yup...Cold Blood :(
You're very welcome! I'm definitely going to try to give all the submissions a proper shout out :)
I haven't checked yet, sorry :( TW crossover is killing me to rewrite :( I sent a PM about it, but I'm glad you like the chapter :)
Lol, your hopes now rest with the manual to the TARDIS and the Doctor's old suit ;) There'll be many more moments like that to come because...the Doctor's going to start remembering some of the memory-flashes! Woo! :)
Cliffhangers are the worst aren't they? I especially hate the ones where you end up waiting months (or years) to find out what happened, that's why I'm sort of liking updating daily, it keeps the torture (of cliffhangers) to a minimum :) Oh the baby will be very important to her, definitely, especially as the last link she has to 10 :( But you're right, she IS slowly breaking down, Rory's sort of paused it but we all know what's coming for him :( I can say that she'll have a bit of a breakdown moment at the end of Cold Blood, but the TW crossover will really build her back up :)
It could be something River did, we'll have to wait and see though :)
Lol, I find it funny that 'pulling a Rose' whether because of the bad wolf/Vortex or the fobwatch was done by the writers themselves too :) Yana always had the fobwatch and River became (at least part) Time Lady because of exposure to the Vortex...which also means the Doctor has the potential to 'make' Time Lords now too. So really, no one can even use that as an insult or reason not to read a fic anymore :)