Here it is. Again, bit different but really it is sooo hard writing out the whole chapters. But don't worry, it is still interesting - or at least i think so.
So, thank you to:
ElysiumPhoenix - Sorry I'm so mean but the meaness means that you like it :) Thank you for the review and loving my story. You are AWESOME!
Skidney - I hope you think this chapter is as awesome as the last.
grapejuice101 - well if that's what you believe should happen then i think you'll find you like this chapter :]
SurvivourHawke - I agree. THough i love 10 in the tv show (yess he's coming back) 11 is my Doctor. He is great - well he was untill the Ponds died, then the writing became kinda bad. Anyway... i'll be so sad to see him go but i do kinda wonder who will be the next Doctor dont you?
The Yoshinator - so glad you liked the drama i put in there. I was reading through my story and noticed that i got progressivly darker as i went on. Huh, it's interesting to see what you come up with as you get older isnt it? Anyway, like i said, i did singing in the talent show and one of my acts came second:] :) but the other one came second to last :( Oh well. You win some you loose some that's what i say.
Trapped in The Library
There they were. The infuriating set of humans that she would have to interact with in order to get what she wanted.
There were no species more that the Angel couldn't stand – apart from the Greznian race. They were purely animalistic and their life span was so short that there was barely enough Time Energy for The Lonely Assassins to feast on. Though humans were no better.
That was why the Angel had been so surprised that her host was so…delicious. The girl – Winter was an anomaly, the kind that the Angel enjoyed devouring from the inside out. And as if that wasn't enough, the girl had the beginnings of the essence of Timelord.
The girl's Timelord brain had helped her in making the wall that she hid behind during the torture, however it was not enough. So, to prevent her meal from dying, the Angel had added her own tiny smidgen of help. The human's brain was now stronger.
The extra kick even a half Timelord had was enough to give Winter the strength to keep fighting. Most hosts would have died down by now, the Angel's mind overpowering them into submission but not this one. Oh no, this human just had to be special.
However that had almost been lost during the Year That Never Was. Winter had been so close to tipping over the edge into a raging inferno of pain and madness that the Angel had stepped in; there was after all, no use in having a host to feed off of if the host was not alive was there?
While the setback to her having to do this was large, the flip side to this though, was that once the Angel was in control, she was in control for longer periods of time. This, in the Angel's eyes measured out well enough.
That was the one and only thing the Angel would thank the Timelord know as the Doctor for. His meddling was enough to get Winter angry enough to forget about the medicine that she would take.
The Angel smiled at the irony. She suspected that the man, who cured, would have more than enough death on his hands by the time she killed him. And what a marvellously slow killing it would be. She would extract revenge on him for killing her sisters!
"You won't get away with it!" Another drawback. The sigh that escaped the Angel's lips was loud and long as she listened to her host rant and rave about a plethora of points she had no care for. The Angel could feel Winter banging on the mental cage she had concocted to keep the Angel in.
"Jack and Ari will know that there's something wrong and stop you!" So the man who would serve her purpose had a name. Though it wouldn't bother her if she killed the man who had tried to stop her months before – no, she couldn't have cared less. But the Angel did enjoy knowing the name of someone who meant so much to Winter.
But that's where you're wrong, the Angel purred. I know enough about you to act like you. You forget, I was never dormant in your mind – only stuck in a cage! Winter jumped away from the cage at the Angel's anger. It was fearsome.
All I need to do is ask, and they'll give their precious Winter whatever her little heart desires. And as it so happened, the Angel needed the thing strapped to Jack's wrist. From Winter's memories she had seen that the thing could transport through time and that was just what she needed.
"It won't work!" She was so adamant but the Angel knew.
We'll see.
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"Winter!" The happy voice of Ari Addams made its way to the Angel's ears. It was loud and screechy but she had to play her role.
"Ari." She grinned, embracing the woman in a hug. There was something different about this woman, the Angel could smell it, but she couldn't identify it. Whatever it was, the Angel could smell the Time Energy rolling off the human in waves.
"How are you? The last time we spoke, you said you saw…him." The Angel froze in anger at the mention of the Doctor but she recovered quickly. She hoped that the human had not seen her relapse of control.
She looked over to see if there was any indication that the human was suspicious but what she saw in her eyes made her smile internally. The human seemed to have the emotion known as concern for Winter. Idiot.
Pausing for a moment, the Angel recalled Winter's speech patterns and formed a string of sentences from Winter's conscious thought. "I'm fine." She spoke harshly. "He saw me, we argued, he saved the world and we argued again."
The human's eyes softened and the Angel took it as her indication that she had succeeded. "But never mind that. I need to ask Jack something." Ari nodded and led her over to the office that she supposed Jack as in.
The Angel didn't bother to knock on the door before she walked into the room. "Well look who's here." He said grinning. "Long time no see Winter." At the sight of Jack the Angel felt Winter begin to slam at the walls again but it was no use. Nothing was letting her out unless the Angel was forced back into her mind.
"I've been busy." The Angel said. She smiled a 'regretful' smile but on the inside she was smirking at how easily it was to fool the people that Winter called her family.
"So what do ya need?" He asked.
"Your Vortex Manipulator." Jack frowned at Winter. Why would she need that for? It wasn't like she needed to go anywhere.
"Why do you need it Winter?" He asked slowly. The Angel bit her lip. She would need to tread carefully now.
"I need to find the Doctor. My Doctor. I can't do it anymore; I miss him too much and – and it hurts Jack. It physically hurts to be away from him." The Angel made sure there were tears in her eyes while she said this. Jack looked at her sadly and she waited for his response.
"It's broken Winter – you can't fix it." The Angel knew that this wasn't said in denial of her request but because he was sorry he couldn't help her and mentally she grinned. She had him, hook line and sinker.
"I know but I can fix it. I managed to get you to Earth with a mobile phone. I can do it Jack. Just – please…" Jack looked at her for a moment, thinking it over. He still didn't look like he wanted to give it to her so the Angel pulled out a trick she knew would work.
"What would you do if it was Ari?" And just like that the Angel saw his answer. He unclipped the Manipulator and handed it to her, hugging her as he did.
"Just make sure you visit us every once in a while – and if you cant find him then you're always welcome here. Remember that Winter." She nodded and wiped away the fake tears that fell from her eyes.
"Thank you Jack." She whispered with a smile. And she really did.
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It was finally fixed. The Angel smiled in glee.
Days it had taken. Days to fix the fucking thing. It would have taken less time if it hadn't been for Winter and her sudden ability to withhold certain pieces of needed information from the Angel. She was only able to obscure the information while she was awake – Winter did not yet know how to keep in whilst unconscious – and so the Angel would have to wait for the pestering human to become so tired she would sleep.
But, by the end of the third week, the Angel had managed to get the Manipulator to work. She smiled at it in her hand and strapped it on. Now all she had to do was type in the co-ordinates.
She began to when she was interrupted by a beeping noise. Looking at the Manipulator she saw that there were already co-ordinates planned into them – and they were the wrong ones.
"No. No. NO!" She screamed loudly trying to stop it from working but it was too late.
"I told you you wouldn't get away with it," she heard Winter's voice sounding smug.
What did you do you pathetic slimy little ghasta!
"I programmed the device for you. You're welcome." No! This human was messing up all her plans. It wasn't supposed to go like this. She didn't even know where the co-ordinates where taking her. "I'll make you pay!"
I'm sure you will.
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He never would have thought that The Library – a place of peace and something that brought happiness to so many people would create so much death. It upset the Doctor that they had already lost people; Evangalista, Other Dave. He hadn't been able to sae them and he should have.
But he couldn't think about that now – he had so many other people that he could save. That he would save. "A hundred years ago, massive power surge. All the teleports going at once. Soon as the Vashta Nerada hit their hatching cycle, they attack. Someone hits the alarm. The computer tries to teleport everyone out."
"It tried to teleport four thousand twenty two people?" River asked, not quite believing. She had seen some super computer in her time, made a couple as well but that was just…
"It succeeded." The Doctor told her. "Pulled them all out, but then what? Nowhere to send them. Nowhere safe in the whole library. Vashta Nerada growing in every shadow. Four thousand and twenty two people all beamed up and nowhere to go. They're stuck in the system, waiting to be sent, like emails. So what's a computer to do? What does a computer always do?"
"It saved them." She exclaimed.
Taking out a pen from his pocket, the Doctor began to explain what must have happened. "The library. A whole world of books, and right at the core, the biggest hard drive in history.
"The index to everything ever written, backup copies of every single book. The computer saved four thousand and twenty two people the only way a computer can. It saved them to the hard drive."
Quite suddenly, an alarm sounded throughout the Library. "What is it? What's wrong?" Lux asked.
Auto-destruct enabled in twenty minutes. The Computer confirmed. But then another sound – a sort of blaring sound could be heard. Warning. Warning. External teleportation device found. External teleportation device found.
"What's going on Doctor?" River asked. There shouldn't be any more teleports in The Library except for one of theirs and they certainly weren't using them.
"I dunno." The Doctor said unhappily. Too much was happening and he needed to find Donna and bring her back soon. River, sensing his uneasiness changed the subject quickly.
"What's maximum erasure?" She asked quickly.
"In twenty minutes, this planet's going to crack like an egg."
"No." Lux denied. "No, it's all right. The Doctor Moon will stop it. It's programmed to protect Cal." But his words were in vain because as soon as they were said, terminal screen went blank.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no!" The Doctor cried. Now wasn't the time for this to be happening. It couldn't happen! Nothing was going well!
All library systems are permanently offline. Sorry for any inconvenience. The computer's automated voice said through speakers. There was suddenly nothing the Doctor wanted to hear less.
As id that wasn't bad enough, Lux began panicking about something. "We need to stop this. We've got to save Cal."
"What is it?" The Doctor asked for what seemed to be like the thousandth time. "What is Cal?"
"We need to get to the main computer. I'll show you." Lux told him with a resigned smile. There was no way he could get out of it now – not if he wanted to save her.
"It's at the core of the planet!" The Doctor exclaimed unhappily.
"Well, then. Let's go." River pointed her Screwdriver at the middle of the compass rose in the floor and it immediately opened up. "Gravity platform." She said proudly.
"I bet I like you." The Doctor said, grinning at River for the first time in ages.
"Oh, you do." She said smiling back. "But you like Winter more." She said quietly once he had turned his back. It didn't take long for them to reach the Data Core with the speed the platform was traveling at.
Autodestruct in fifteen minutes.The computer once again reminded them.
The Doctor looked up and around the room to see a globe with swirling energy in it. "The Data Core." He said with awe. "Over four thousand living minds trapped inside it."
"Yeah, well, they won't be living much longer. We're running out of time." They got to wrok quickly, the Doctor looking around for what he needed. Just as he found it the access terminal, they heard a voice.
"Help me. Please, help me." T he voice of a little girl said in a sad tone.
"What's that?" Anita asked worriedly. It had spooked her, it sounded so much like someone ghosting and she didn't want to hear that again.
"Was that a child?" River asked.
"The computer's in sleep mode. I can't wake it up. I'm trying." He tapped the keyboard and a group of toys came to life like magic in a little girl's home. He watched the curiously until he heard River.
"Doctor, these readings." River said frowning slightly at what she was seeing.
"I know." He replied. "You'd think it was dreaming."
" It is dreaming, of a normal life, and a lovely Dad, and of every book ever written." Lux told them sadly. He looked around the place, unhappy at what it had come to and what had had to happen to her her.
"Computers don't dream." Anita said confused.
"No," he agreed. "But little girls do." He pulled a breaker and doors opened. They took no time to run in the next room after him. All of them wondering what they might find.
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The Angel groaned as it landed somewhere. This was not good. This was stimulating her pain receptors – this hurt. Either Winter hadn't known that traveling like this was going to hurt so much or she had.
If that was the case then the Angel knew that she had managed to keep the information from her once again. And by the smug feeling Winter had, the Angel knew that she had planned it.
You bitch! She groaned in pain. She could feel herself being pulled back into the recess' of Winter's mind and she hated it. She would get out eventually though, and once she did, she would let nothing stop her from reaching her goal. That she promised.
Winter smiled as she gained control of her body once again. It had been hard this time, watching as the Angel had deceived Jack and Ari, listening to it's thoughts as it potted and planned to kill Eleven.
It had been so hard to listen to it and not be able to do anything but she had fought. Winter had fought tooth and nail to gain back even a smidgen of control and eventually she had.
Withholding information was the only way she could stop the Angel so she did as she could. Her plan had worked in the end, though it had only done so because the Angel had lowered her guard slightly. She wouldn't be so underestimating if she managed to get out again. So she couldn't let that happen.
She got up and looked around. She had no clue where she was but wherever it was, it didn't feel real. It was almost like she was in a dream.
"That's because you are." Winter yelped and jumped around to look at the voice. There stood a woman in a long Victorian style black dress with a veil covering her face.
"What do you mean? Who are you?" The woman shifted and seemed to do something under the veil but Winter couldn't see what it was.
"Don't worry. It'll be over soon."
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The Doctor woke up in time to see River joining the cables and agitation walked over him as he realized what she was doing. "Oh, no, no, no, no. Come on, what are you doing? That's my job."
" Oh, and I'm not allowed to have a career, I suppose?" River asked lightly, as if what she was doing wasn't going to kill her in a matter of minuets.
"Why am I handcuffed?" He asked, moving them around. "Why do you even have handcuffs?"
"Spoilers."
"This is not a joke." He said angrily. "Stop this now. This is going to kill you! I'd have a chance, you don't have any."
"You wouldn't have a chance, and neither do I. I'm timing it for the end of the countdown. There'll be a blip in the command flow. That way it should improve our chances of a clean download." It was said so matter-of-factly that the Doctor couldn't believe it. But one look in her eyes and he saw the determination there.
"River, please. No." He begged.
"Funny thing is, this means you've always known how I was going to die. All the time we've been together, you knew I was coming here." She smiled sadly as she thought about the last time she had seen her Doctor, her Winter.
"The last time I saw you two, the real you, the future you, I mean, you turned up on my doorstep, with a new haircut and a suit. You took me to Darillium to see the Singing Towers. What a night that was. The Towers sang, and you and Winter cried.
Auto-destruct in one minute.
"You wouldn't tell me why, but I suppose you knew it was time. My time. Time to come to the library. Winter even gave me her screwdriver. That should have been a clue. She loves that thing." From the corner of her eye she saw him trying to reach for the screwdrivers. "There's nothing you can do."
"You can let me do this." He begged once more.
"If you die here, it'll mean that Winter would never meet you." The Doctor looked closely at her. That was the second time she had mentioned Winter.
"Time can be rewritten."
"Not with her it can't. Those times I've seen you with her…you looked so happy, so at peace. You loved her so much and I lover her just as much for making you that happy."
"River, you know my name." It was a desperate act – something to keep her talking, to make her forget what she was about to do. But it was also a genuine burning curiosity.
Auto-destruct in ten
"You whispered my name in my ear."
Nine. Eight. Seven
"There's only one reason I would ever tell anyone my name. There's only one time I could." He wanted to know. No – he needed to know.
"But you didn't tell me your name Doctor. There's only one person in the world you would tell your name to and it's not me."
Four. Three.
River looked him in the eyes completely. This was her last chance to help fix things because they were not supposed to be like this. "And you need to tell her you're sorry."
Two. One..
She joined the power couplets together and everything went up in a flash of brilliant white light.
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The Doctor put River's diary onto the railing of the stairs just looking at it. "Your friend, Professor Song." Donna began. "She knew you in the future, she didn't know me, but she knew Winter. What happens to me? Because when she heard my name, the way she looked at me."
"Donna, this is her diary." He told her, showing it to her. "My future. I could look you up. What do you think? Shall we peek at the end?"
Donna looked at it for a moment but then shook her head. "Spoilers, right?" She asked.
"Right." But it was more than that. In a way, it was the Doctor's way of honouring Professor River Song. There was only two things she had asked of him – and he promised he would do them.
"Come on. The next chapter's this way." They began walking up the stairs slowly, sadly.
When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it will never end. But however hard you try, you can't run for ever. Everybody knows that everybody dies, and nobody knows it like the Doctor…But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark, if he ever, for one moment, accepts it.
The Doctor suddenly found himself running back for the screwdriver. "Why? Why would I give her my screwdriver? Why would I do that? Thing is, future me had years to think about it, all those years to think of a way to save her, and what he did was give her a screwdriver. Why would I do that?"
He lifted a flap and saw it contained two flashing green lights. "Oh! Oh! Oh, look at that. I'm very good!"
"What have you done?" Donna asked. She didn't know what was going on but it must have been something good for the Doctor to be smiling like that.
"Saved her."
He began running. He ran faster than he had ever done before but as he did so, one of the lights began going out. "Stay with me! You can do it, stay with me! Come on. Stay with me and I promise I'll make it up with Winter!"
Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day.Not today.
The Doctor plugged the screwdriver into the core just in time to transfer the neutral energy and smiled a small, happy smile. He had done it. He had saved her.
A small groan erupted from behind him and the Doctor turned around quickly as he heard it.
Shock flew through his eyes as he saw who it was. "Winter?" He asked not quite believing it. Winter looked at him but her eyes couldn't focus. She had used too much energy trying to keep things from the Angel.
"Help." She whispered and crumpled to the ground. The Doctor caught her just in time and held her in his arms tightly.
He would forgive her. He would. Because he had promised River.
Soooo...I was thinking that i would do another OC story, only it would be a hell of a lot darker than this one and it would be a Master/OC story. What do you guys think?
I already kind of have a plot set out and i have the charechter's name...Kalithea from the house of Rainnan.
What do you think? Send me your ideas.