Forest of the Dead- Part 1

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"Hey, who turned out the lights? Hey, who turned out the lights?"

River uses the squareness gun on the wall. "This way, quickly. Move!"

"Hey, who turned out the lights?" We all ran into the hole in the wall.

We are back in the rotunda. The large moon is hanging high in the orange sky. River cuts a square in the wall with her gun and enters.

"OK, we've got a clear spot. In, in, in! Right in the centre. In the middle of the light, quickly. Don't let your shadows cross. Doctor."

"I'm doing it." The Doctor snapped.

"There's no lights here. Sunset's coming. We can't stay long. Have you found a live one?" Jack said, stepping up.

"Maybe. It's getting harder to tell. What's wrong with you?" The Doctor asked River.

"We're going to need a chicken leg. Who's got a chicken leg? Thanks, Dave." She throws the meat into the shadow, and once again it is just bone before it hits the ground.

"Okay. Okay, we've got a hot one. Watch your feet."

"They won't attack until there's enough of them. But they've got our scent now. They're coming." I said.

"Oh, yeah, who is he? You haven't even told us. You just expect us to trust him?" Other Dave said.

"He's The Doctor." River said, as if that would help.

"And who is the Doctor?" Mr. Lux asked.

"The only story you'll ever tell, if you survive him."

"You say he's your friend, but he doesn't even know who you are." Anita said.

"Listen, all you need to know is this. I'd trust that man to the end of the universe. And actually, we've been." River said. I laughed quietly.

"He doesn't act like he trusts you."

"Yeah, there's a tiny problem. He hasn't met me yet." River said. She goes over to where the Doctor is still scanning shadows. "What's wrong with it?"

"There's a signal coming from somewhere, interfering with it."

"Then use the red settings."

"It doesn't have a red setting."

"Well, use the dampers."

"It doesn't have dampers."

"It will do one day." The Doctor takes River's sonic screwdriver.

"So, some time in the future, I just give you my screwdriver."

"Yeah."

"Why would I do that?"

"I didn't pluck it from your cold dead hands, if that's what you're worried about."

"And I know that because?"

"Listen to me. You've lost your friend. You're angry. I understand. But you need to be less emotional, Doctor, right now."

"Less emotional? I'm not emotional."

"There are five people in this room still alive. Focus on that. Dear God, you're hard work young."

"Young? Who are you?" The Doctor asked.

"Oh, for heaven's sake! Look at the pair of you. We're all going to die right here, and you're just squabbling like an old married couple." Mr. Lux said.

" Doctor, one day I'm going to be someone that you trust completely, but I can't wait for you to find that out. So I'm going to prove it to you. And I'm sorry. I'm really very sorry." River whispers in the Doctor's ear, and he looks stunned.

"Are we good? Doctor, are we good?"

"Yeah, we're good."

"Good." River takes back her screwdriver and leaves him.

"What did he say to you?" Jack asked. "Doctor?"

The Doctor ignored him "Know what's interesting about my screwdriver? Very hard to interfere with. Practically nothing's strong enough. Well, some hairdryers, but I'm working on that. So there is a very strong signal coming from somewhere, and it wasn't there before. So what's new? What's changed? Come on! What's new? What's different?"

"I don't know. Nothing. It's getting dark?" Dave two said.

"It's a screwdriver. It works in the dark. Moon rise. Tell me about the moon. What's there?"

"It's not real. It was built as part of the Library. It's just a Doctor Moon." Mr. Lux explained.

"What's a Doctor Moon?" Jack asked.

"A virus checker. It supports and maintains the main computer at the core of the planet."

"Well, still active. It's signalling. Look. Someone somewhere in this library is alive and communicating with the moon. Or, possibly alive and drying their hair. No, the signal is definitely coming from the moon. I'm blocking it, but it's trying to break through." The Doctor said. Suddenly an image of Donna appears.

"Doctor!" River yelled.

"Donna!" I yelled. Donna disappears again.

"That was her. That was your friend! Can you get her back? What was that?" River said.

"Hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm trying to find the wavelength. Argh, I'm being blocked." The Doctor said as he pointed his sonic at the place Donna's image was at.

"Professor?" Anita asked.

"Just a moment." River said.

"It's important. I have two shadows."

"Okay. Helmets on, everyone. Anita, I'll get yours."

"It didn't do Proper Dave any good."

"Just keep it together, okay?"

"Keeping it together. I'm only crying. I'm about to die. It's not an overreaction." River puts the helmet on Anita. I started to shake and Jack put his arms around me.

"It'll be okay." Jack whispered.

"Hang on." The Doctor said. The Doctor sonics the visor black.

"Oh God, they've got inside."

"No, no, no. I just tinted her visor. Maybe they'll think they're already in there, leave her alone."

"Do you think they can be fooled like that?" Jack asked The Doctor.

"Maybe. I don't know. It's a swarm. It's not like we chat."

"Can you still see in there?" The Other Dave asked Anita.

"Just about."

"Just, just, just stay back. Professor, a quick word, please." The Doctor grabbed River's arm and pulled her away.

Then we heard, "Hey, who turned out the lights?

"Run!" Jack and The Doctor yelled.

"Hey, who turned out the lights?"

The group run through a high level walkway to another library skyscraper. "Professor, Susan, Jack go ahead. Find a safe spot."

"It's a carnivorous swarm in a suit. You can't reason with it."

"Five minutes."

"Other Dave, stay with him. Pull him out when he's too stupid to live. Two minutes, Doctor." Zombie Dave barges through the doors. Mr. Lux, Anita, Jack, and I followed River out of the room.

In the reading room night has fallen. River and her remaining team are in another round room. She is checking the shadows with her screwdriver. "You know, it's funny, I keep wishing the Doctor was here."

"The Doctor is here, isn't he? He is coming back, right?" Anita asked.

"You know when you see a photograph of someone you know, but it's from years before you knew them. and it's like they're not quite finished. They're not done yet. Well, yes, the Doctor's here. He came when I called, just like he always does. But not my Doctor. Now my Doctor, I've seen whole armies turn and run away. And he'd just swagger off back to his Tardis and open the doors with a snap of his fingers. The Doctor in the Tardis. Next stop, everywhere."

"Spoilers. Nobody can open a Tardis by snapping their fingers. It doesn't work like that." The Doctor said.

"It does for the Doctor." River said, smirking.

"I am the Doctor."

"Yeah. Some day." River said.

"How are you doing?" The Doctor asked me.

"Eh." I replied. The Doctor nodded, as if he understood the feeling.

"Where's Other Dave?" River asked.

"Not coming. Sorry." The Doctor said.

"Well, if they've taken him, why haven't they gotten me yet?" Anita asked.

"I don't know. Maybe tinting your visor's making a difference." Anita has two shadows now.

"It's making a difference all right. No one's ever going to see my face again."

"Can I get you anything?"

"An old age would be nice. Anything you can do?"

"I'm all over it."

"Doctor. When we first met you, you didn't trust Professor Song. And then she whispered a word in your ear, and you did. My life so far. I could do with a word like that. What did she say? Give a dead girl a break. Your secrets are safe with me."

"Safe." The Doctor said, suddenly.

"What?" Anita asked, confused.

"Safe. You don't say saved. Nobody says saved. You say safe. The data fragment! What did it say?"

"Yes!" Jack yelled. "Finally he has something."

"Four thousand and twenty two people saved. No survivors." Mr. Lux said.

"Doctor?" River asked.

"Nobody says saved. Nutters say saved. You say safe. You see, it didn't mean safe. It meant, it literally meant, saved!"

A/N: Some notes on reviews:

Guest: Yeah, I always felt sorry for the Doctor that he looses everyone but only has himself and the Tardis. Poor Doctor.