Chapter 9
I open up my eyes. It feel like it is for the first time, but I know that it is not. At least it should not be the first time. I have been alive for hundreds of years, yet taking these steps feel like the first. The uncertainness of my feet hitting the ground, along with strange information in my mind leaves a strange feeling in my stomach. Nothing feels right and everything looks wrong. I should be in my TARDIS, safe and sound…but I shouldn't. Patience belongs in the TARDIS, not me.
Taking a few more steps towards the door, it unexplainably opens. In steps a woman with these strange creatures that I have seen before, but haven't. People come up from behind me and grab at my arms. Something sharp pokes at my neck and I feel drowsy.
"We can finally start with the bulk of our plan. We have made our move. Now we just have to wait for her to make hers."
Alarms start in the distance, and I feel my feet being dragged towards the place where I started out. "I guess we didn't have to wait that long. Go to your posts."
Things, cold metal things click around my arms, wrists, and feet as I drift off. The strange feeling sets again in my stomach. Before my mind completely shuts off, I recognize it. Fear.
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I stare at the picture before me. At my best guess, I had asked Nevra to take it while I was looking at the Silence. It would explain why I could not remember asking her to. Right now, all I needed now was a plan. I knew that I was going to break into one of the Silence's headquarters and find out more information about the Silence, but after that, I was at a loss. Also, the Silence had left there headquarters surprisingly open, almost like they wanted me to come.
I had dropped off everyone where they were meant to be and I had told Nevra to rest. I had also told her that I was resting now, but I had given up because I had felt sick. At least I now knew why. The sickness and lost thoughts at the back of my mind were all side of the creature I as now staring at.
Making up my mind once and for all, I pull down on the lever and set Nevra and I hurtling through the time vortex. Once we landed, I knew there was no turning back. I turn and look at Nevra, who had just popped up beside me and open up the doors just as I hear the alarms go off. Yep, there was no turning back now.
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Looking back at it, maybe I should have just hacked into the security system on the TARDIS before running out and trying to figure out how to disable it while being chased by people with eye patches and guns. This really was not my smartest move. Left, straight, right, left, left, straight, and the right. This building seemed to on forever. Ducking into a storage closet to possible lose my followers, I hear them run past.
"You know, this seems larger than normal storage closets." Nevra says from behind me. "Look here; there is even a light switch." I hear a flick then the lights pop on.
I look around; yes this room is larger than I had thought. I look down at phone and start to read all the information on the Silence that I had collected. Most of it was stuff that was unimportant and or useless to me now, but some of it caught my interest. Like the fact that the Silences that I had seen were purposely put there so that I would see them. Also the fact that I was being followed 24/7 by the Silence. I felt that there was more to this information, but I must not have collected the entire database.
"Hey Patience, look over here. I think it's you!"
"What?" I spin around and head towards the one way mirror that Nevra was looking through. It was me; I was laying down on a table, or actually being chained to a table with a syringe sticking out of my neck. My hand instinctively reaches up to touch the spot where the syringe would sticking up out of, if that was me.
But why? Why would the Silence want/need a copy of me? Unless they were going to replace me. Replacing me. The only way I could see SHIELD believing that this copy of me was actually me was if I did something to damage their trust in me. Something like the regeneration process. Regeneration.
My head turns towards Nevra right as some soldiers burst into the room. One of them immediately shots Nevra, her hair turning white, from the bright red it had been. After a few seconds, her hair turned a dark grey, almost black. The bullet had injured her more than I would have guessed. I feel a sharp pain in my side. My hand which had been there turned a dark red from the blood now leaking from the wound. Pulling the TARDIS key from around my neck, I held it tightly in my hand. A blonde haired woman waves her hand and two other soldiers grab Nevra's arms and pull her out of the room.
Just as the TARDIS is about to materialize around me, I hear her say, "Let us see how they trust you now."
I pull myself up to the console and pull down the lever that sends me off into the Time Vortex. She is being a bit temperamental, but I suppose that is because Nevra, the other half of the TARDIS's soul is not present. I just manage to stand up when I feel the tingly glowing sensation throughout my body, signaling that I was going to regenerate soon.
Right before I burst into almost nonexistence, I think, what did she mean, Let see how they trust you now?