A/N: HELOO ALL WHOVIANS! I was so surprised at all the guesses i got! You guys are really good at this! Thanks so much if you voted and if you didn't get the chance, i'll have another contest up for my 50th review and 50th follower (which might not be for a while) so no prob! Anyways, please leave a comment if you like anything or have any suggestions for me! they're always welcome!
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Chapter 7: Comforting Nightmares
"Now this way I think..." River quietly scanned the (real) Sonic Screwdriver around.
"Ya this way, I remember..." Amy confirmed.
BANG BANG BANG!
They winced as guards ran around in another hallway shooting eachother; they seemed to have all gone insane! They quickened their pace to the control room praying to stay out of range. Amy gestured to turn down the hallway and sure enough, there was the control room.
"...then this goes here and that goes there and...Oh forgot that...oh UGH I keep mixing these up..." Grolkadeen fiddled with wires and tools hurriedly. The tone of his voice was stressful; you could hear it even with his helmet on.
"SIR!" Amy said in the manliest voice she could muster up, "What are your orders?"
"Wha? You... WAIT! Weren't you the guards who went to help Gharr contain the guards!?" he spun around and looked at their helmets as he stood a meter away.
"Ummm..." River stuttered in a deep voice, "yes..." she said trying to keep in character.
"YOU ARE TOO LATE! WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?" he shouted as metal clattered in the distance, "I told you they would go out of control in 10 minutes! Look what your absence has done to us!" He continued attempting to wire things together. Amy and River had confused looks and thoughts as they stood there, with many questions.
"If only Gharr hadn't killed those humans..." he muttered under his breath, "there's no way we're going to survive now, I'm surprised you aren't killing eachother now! If only those humans were here... now we're going to die!"
"No no!" Amy acted quickly though she knew what she did was rather stupid, "we're here!" She pulled her helmet off and broke her cover.
Grolkadeen stood in awe momentarily, "did you come back from-"
"We never left, he never killed us," River pulled her helmet off too.
"Why do u need us so bad?" Amy questioned.
"Well..." he spoke hesitantly, "the robot army we were commanding had a wire malfunction and I was fixing it when Gharr slammed their release button. They weren't properly programmed yet, so I sent Gharr and you guards to fix it but...Speaking of, where is Gharr?"
"Umm..." Amy shot a nervous glance at River, "well he's not with us any more..."
BANG BANG BANG!
"And we have no time to explain why! Now please tell us why you need us!" River screamed over the clanging metal and shots in the distance.
"Yes, right..." he turned back to the broken system, "well... this wire, it is very intricate in mechanics and it's not physically broken but its internal circuits are broken and-"
HMMMMMM!
Within a second, the almighty Sonic had fixed the wire with a touch of River's finger.
"Th...Thank you?" he stuttered, bewildered.
"I fixed it... that's all, is that all you needed?" River smiled, "and is there any way to quiet down these robots?" she seemed annoyed at her ear drums wanting to burst.
"Well, yes, actually no... They will not function properly now, they don't have a brain of any sort and they are just going to keep doing the only thing they know: how to use their weapon..."
"Oh gosh..." Amy sighed and looked up at the black, rocky, ceiling in worry about the robots.
"So what are we going to do here? We've got to escape somehow! FAST!" River fiddled with a small metal piece of the helmet.
"We can take you to your own kind! I've met the Silurian's! I can take you to them! How can we help?" Amy was delighted to try and reunite the old tribal leader with his kin.
"Well," a smile appeared then quickly disappeared from his face as he didn't have time for questions, "if we fix their 'power remote' (he held up a small black box with a red button) we may be able to control them, but that will have to be done manually-"
"Done. The Doctor can fix it. He fixes everything." Amy smiled with confidence.
"We'll bring him here right now," River assured
"Yes, please hurry! Time is flying! We must leave before they go to out of control!" Grolkadeen hurried them off as they put their helmets back on for protection.
"And stay here so we can find you will ya?" Amy asked quickly.
He nodded and they ventured back to the lab.
The ladies entered the room with urgency and whipped their helmets off. Rory was leaning against the cabinet near Jenny's table, wide eyed at the girl; The Doctor on the other hand was nowhere to be seen.
"Hey guys, we've got a serious problem..." Amy started.
"Not more serious than ours..." Rory rolled his eyes and huffed as he ran his hands through his hair with worry and stress, clearly on his mind.
"Oh my... this is impossible..." they heard an angry whisper from a far corner of the room which was obvious to be The Doctors.
"What's... going on...?" River asked slowly and raised an eyebrow.
"AAAAHHH! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?!" The Doctor ran out of the dark corner in rage and spat in Rivers face as he pressed his hands against her shoulders.
"How is 'what' possible!?" She asked sternly.
There was a silence that rang through the room for at least a good minute before The Doctor began to smile to himself, then he chuckled, then just burst out into laughter.
The three shared the same curios look across their face, wondering why one second he was angry and next uncontrollably laughing.
"This..." he voice was serious then quickly changed to happy and excited, "this is absolutely marvelous! Splendid! Oh my GOODNESS THIS IS FANTASTIC!"
Now the two women stared in awe as the Timelord spun and jumped around the room, though Rory pretty much knew why he was so overjoyed.
"Oh gosh... This is outstanding, BRILLIANT!" He jumped and hugged Amy tightly then did the same to River. He backed away then looked out into the distance, expressionless for a moment. His smile faded again and the Gallifrayen ran his hand through his hair, "no... This isn't right... it's impossible rather..." he sounded distressed as if he was about to cry, "why... how..." his lip quivered.
"Can I PLEASE know what is going on here?!" Amy furrowed her eyebrow at the Timelords conflicting emotions.
"It's... its Jenny... she's not exactly what we think she is..." he stared at his shoes in thought.
"What? Gosh don't tell me she's some 'alien'!" Amy joked.
"You're half correct..." Rory chuckled under his breath as he walked over to Amy's side.
"Well... yes and no-"
"Darling I don't mean to sound rude but you really need to get to the point," River looked worried, "there's something really important you need to be doing right now and-"
"SHE'S GOT TWO HEARTS!" The Doctor screamed. He spun around and buried his face in his hands then turned back around looked at his three friends, "you can listen to her heartbeats, it's going 1234...1234... Like mine," he imitated the heartbeat by tapping on his side, "look the reason I'm acting like this is because I don't know how TO act! I mean should I feel happy and excited she's most likely a Timelord or worried if she's the mistake that's making the paradox worse? I'm having seriously conflicting emotions so please pardon me... it's just..." The Doctor sighed, not able to find words to exactly describe the feeling he was having.
"Wow... that's... wow..." Amy smiled, not being able to find the correct words either.
"Well when I found out," Rory started, "I was just as shocked as The Doctor..."
"So are we..." River paused then looked at the Timelord, "so Doctor," River took a step forward, "do you know this girl? This child remind you of someone you knew maybe?"
"Well yes... but no... I can't place my finger on her... I feel like I know her so well, yet she's a stranger. I feel connected to her though, like she's a part of me..." he trailed off.
BANG BOOM BANG BANG
"Uhhh guys?" Amy asked nervously, "we've got to go. Now. The robot army is killing everything down here and Grolkadeen is trying to get them back under control and he needs your help. Come on," she headed towards the door (she had taken all her armor off now, her and River decided it was getting to heavy and slowing them down so now their armor was on the floor.)
"Ya come on," River turned around.
"And Jenny?" Rory reminded them.
"Wh- what about me?" A small high pitched voice sounded from the other side of the room, she seemed to have just woken up from her sleep with an extremely worried look on her face.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BANG
This noise was directed towards the outer wall of the lab.
"Jenny," The Doctor looked at her with soft eyes, "we've got no time to explain what we're doing now. Come on, get up" he walked over to the table (still limping slightly) and stuck out his hands to help her down.
"Umm okay..." she sounded nervous. As she pushed off the table her hands slipped and she began to fall off; until of course The Doctor scooped her up just in time.
"I've gotcha," he winked and smiled at her, The Doctor was going to try his best to be comforting to her and make her happy at any cost (just until he found out exactly who this 7 year old was.) She giggled in response then got out of his arms and stood on her feet shakily.
He slowly let her hands go and she began to whimper, "don't let me go... please don't let me go..." she sounded scared and clenched his arm.
"No, no of course not," he hushed slightly taken aback, though he held her hands tightly, "come one," he gestured to the other three as he Jenny interlocked her left hand into his right.
"You ready for what might be outside?" Amy looked over her shoulder at Rory and The Doctor.
"I'm ready for anything," he smiled mysteriously.
"Oh I almost forgot!" River quickly shuffled around some things at the table in the back, stuffed something into her boot and came back, "sorry, it's nothing," she chuckled in reply to the confused looks she was getting.
They shrugged it off and looked back at Amy who picked up four guns lying on the ground and handed them out. The Doctor was going to oppose the gun anyways but when Amy gestured it towards him, Jenny squeezed his hand and cringed so the Timelord shoved it away. Amy understood with a quick glance and threw the gun to the side.
She turned the knob and stuck her head out to see a guard race around the corner, leaving the hallway empty, "let's go," she whispered back behind her.
The five raced out the door and crept along the walls of the underground base. The Doctor would usually be leading in the front, but Jenny was weak and as was he so they stayed in the back, walking slower than the others. They all tried their best to avoid the guards and did pretty well, except the one guard they had run into (which River shot instantly in defense.) As they followed the ginger through the hallways, The Doctor looked to his side and saw the girls face, still worried.
"Are you alright?" he whispered kindly.
"I... I just had a nightmare..." she stuttered shyly.
"Hate those..." he smiled to himself.
"You get nightmares too?" she looked up at him with her big, blue, innocent eyes.
"Get 'em all the time and wake up feeling terrible... is that what happened to you?" He shrugged.
She nodded but stared at the ground.
"Would you like to talk about it?" he tried at easing her fear.
"N..no... it's too scary. It's the same nightmare every time, it's so scary and..." he voice cracked and she drifted off.
"No, it's alright Jenny don't cry..." he squeezed her hand in assurance.
They took a right around another hallway, relieved to find it empty (except for the two cold metal robots dead on the floor.)
"Just around here," Amy whispered over her shoulder.
"So just a girl? A regular girl?" River asked Amy.
"She's got two hearts! She's anything but normal! For all we know she could be a Timelord! This is groundbreaking for The Doctor!" Rory said.
"Ya true, but we still know almost nothin about her... what are supposed to assume?" Amy shrugged.
"Nothing, we assume nothing right now," Rory explained, "she could be anyone or ANYTHING, assuming could give us the incorrect mindset. Let's just wait and watch, maybe she'll just reveal herself..." he said quietly.
The Doctor was walking in silence and saw River and Amy discussing something with Rory so The Doctor took this opportunity to ask Jenny something, but Jenny beat him to it,
"You know, I don't know who or what you are," she let go of his hand and smiled up at him, "but I like you..." she threw her hands around his waist (still to his side) and buried her head in his hip. The Doctor was extremely taken aback at her gesture, she was so open and friendly with him; why? Why was she doing it? And why didn't he feel the need to resist? He was so overwhelmed by her hug and truly had no idea how to react, so he kept walking forward.
"I told you I'm the..." they continued walking but he looked down at the girl, she was too cute to justify right now; so he changed the subject instead, "Why didn't you tell me you had two hearts?"
"Well I didn't think it was important," she said simply, "don't all people have two hearts?"
"Well, no actually... humans only have one," he looked down at her.
"Wh-WHAT? Does that mean there's something wrong with me!?" she let go of her grip and looked back at him with wonder in her eyes and fear in her hearts.The Doctor shook his head no as she gripped his hand once again, very tightly this time (he kept in mind he also saw Amy turn left from the corner of his eye,)
"No! Of course not!" He chuckled, "I have-"
"OH GREAT!" he heard River shout in anger.
The Doctor kept Jenny's hand in his as he pulled her around the corner to see his friends hovering over some metal thing on the floor.
"Grolkadeen's dead..." Amy sighed sadly.
"He was shot before we got here," Rory stood up, followed by the two women. A brief silence rang before Rory asked, "what now? Actually, why'd you call us here anyways?"
"This remote," River saw the box laying on the controls so she handed it to the Timelord and continued, "it'll control the robots if you fix it in time, he didn't say how but we guessed you'd just know," she smiled.
"Alright then...let's get to work!" He took a glance around looking for something to sit on but found nothing so he sat crisscross on the floor instead; he had to tell Jenny to let go of his hand.
"But what if you...!?"
"I won't, trust me," he said honestly and sweetly, "just sit down right next to me. I won't leave you side if you don't leave mine, okay?"
"Okay!" She gave him a quick hug (that The Doctor once again had no idea how to react to) and sat crisscross next to him.
He stuck his free hand out to River and she handed him the SonicScrewdriver. He ran his sonic around the back of the box; opening up the wiring inside.
"hmmm..." he cocked his head to the side, "this is new..." he poked around the insides of the remote.
"Ohhh alien tech!" Jenny sounded the happiest she'd been since they met, "I'm great with this stuff!"
Amy, Rory, and River shared a nervous glance. Alien tech? She was familiar with ALIEN TECH? they stared wide eyed as the small girl took the box from The Doctor and began observing some wires inside.
Amy had a question in her mind, which she knew was on Rory's, Rivers, and The Doctors mind as well:
Who is this girl?
A/N: Did you like the whole Daddy Doctor stuff? Was it as cute as i hoped it would be? Please review if you enjoyed it! And YES she has Two Hearts (i didn't make it obvious!) so out of the MANY that voted only 3 were correct, and you will find out who they were in some later chapters! Oh and before my picky people go all 'the doctor is OOC" on me, i did mention he was trying extra hard to be nice, so he is stepping out of his comfort zone to be nice, to Jenny THANKS FOR UNDERSTANDING Thanks once again for everyones support and i really hope you enjoyed this chapter cuz it was so much fun to write Jenny's lines and the whole "don't let me go... please don't let me go..." if you thought any of her stuff was cute, plz review, love your encouragement! Thanks again!
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