The void, Time Lords and saving people.
Chapter eighteen:
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Don't eat me I'm sorry. Enjoy.
What only felt like seconds later to her, Rose's eyes snapped open and she sat bolt up right. Though being positioned to close to the edge of what ever she was previously laying on, she slipped off with a squeak, twisting in mid fall, and landing on her face.
'Lying down on the job my wolf?' The TARDIS hummed, amused. in her mind.
"Shut up," she grumbled annoyed as she picked herself up off the ground just as the Doctor's daughter rushed in.
"Are you alright? What happened?" She asked rapidly while attempting to help the older Time Lady stand up but was waved off.
"I'm fine, just slipped off the bed, I'll live," she said as she brushed off her dress and jacket, wincing slightly when her hand hit her leg.
Her memory still a bit foggy, she couldn't quite remember why exactly she was here but when she looked down at the whole in her dress, it all came back.
"Crap, where's your dad, where's the Doctor," she asked suddenly looking around the med bay of the Doctor's TARDIS that she just realised she was in.
"Um.. He-he went back out, told me to stay and keep an eye on you," she replied.
"Bugger, I need to talk to him, now," she said and then frowned in confusion , and started feeling her face "where's my mask?"
"Oh, here," she answered handing Rose her gas mask that she slipped on her face.
"Right then, run" Rose whispered the last word while grabbing Jenny's hand and taking off through the TARDIS.
Rose easy navigated the endless hallway of the TARDIS and was soon the two of the were in the console room and out the door. Her mask automatically allowing her to see in the dark so she didn't crash them in to any thing as the ran for the house.
"Why are we running?" Jenny asked loudly at the other Time Lady as she was dragged along.
"Because the Reverend is the wasp and I don't want any one els dead tonight," she answered back just as the made it to the front door.
Not even bothering with the sonic, Rose ran full force, shoulder first, in to the doors, breaking the lock on them and giving her a quick entry to the house and a bruised shoulder. Her mask showed the location and directions to the two hearted life-form in the large that she quickly followed, slowing Jenny and herself to a stop once they reached the door way of the room that her mask told her where. Rose could hear talking from behind the door and put a finger to were her mouth would be to tell Jenny to keep quiet as they stood against the door, listening in to the concussion.
"Dame?" The pair heard Agatha ask from the room.
"Oh. Sorry, not yet," The Doctor replied, making Rose roll her eyes and slip off her mask, storing it in her coat pocket.
"So he killed them, yes? Definitely?" They heard Donna ask making both Time Lady's that this had been going back and forth for quite a while.
"Yes," the Doctor replied.
"Well, this has certainly been a most entertaining evening." The Reverend tried, smiling falsely,trying to change the divert attention from himself. "Really, you can't believe any of this surely, Lady Edizzon," the Reverend said, looking at Clemency making a slight buzzing sound on the last word.
"Lady who?" Rose asked teasingly as she stepped around the corner, followed by Jenny.
Every head in the room turned to the pair of Time Ladies, the doctor frowning slightly at his daughter but other wise kept quiet.
"Lady Edizzzzon," the Reverend tried to say again, glaring at the older Time Lady.
"Little bit of buzzing there, Vicar." The Doctor said, motioning to his own throat.
"Don't make me angry," Golightly growled out.
"Why? What happens then?" Rose asked feigning curiosity, staying in the door way herself but moving Jenny to the side as he stood up and moved behind the couch he was siting on.
"Damn it, you humanzz, worshipping your tribal sky godzz. I am so much more. That night, the universe exploded in my mind. I wanted to take what wazz mine. And you, Agatha Christie, with your railway station bookstall romancezz, what'z to stop me killing you?" The Vespiform said between buzzes.
"Oh, my dear God. My child," Lady Edison cried out, horrified at the realisation of what her child had become, sanding from her seat and reaching out for him.
"What'zz to stop me killing you all?" He buzz out with a dark look ad he transformed into the giant wasp in shroud of purple smoke.
"Forgive me," Clemency pleaded, moving towards the large hovering alien.
"No, no, Clemency, come back. Keep away. Keep away, my darling," the Colonel begged of his wife as he dragged her back with the others
"No," Agatha called, holding up the fire stone, "No more murder. If my imagination made you kill, then my imagination will find a way to stop you, foul creature," she told the Reverend and raced out of the room.
Rose had to quickly move out of the way of the writer but was soon on her heels and heard the Doctor, Donna and Jenny behind her.
"Wait, now it's chasing us," Rose heard Donna say as they were running through one of the corridors toward the front doors.
Rose and Agatha went through the broken doors first and went straight to the car. Once in, Agatha started up the car and drove past the front doors, honking the horn, just as the wasp burst through the doors, turning them to splinters.
"Over here! Come and get us, Reverend!" Agatha shouted at the alien when they stopped near the front if the house.
"What are you doing?" The Doctor shouted to the pair as the three just got away from the doors.
"If I started this, Doctor, then I must stop it," Agatha called back before quickly driving off.
Rose looked back as the Reverend wasp shrieked and followed the pair, she also saw the Doctor yelling at the other two before all three ran to the nearest car and followed them.
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault, it's all my fault," Rose heard Agatha repeated to herself as she drove and turned to her in the car seat.
"Oi, stop it, it is not your fault," Rose told the mystery writer before they both had to duck to avoid the wasp.
"Yes it is, I wrote the books that caused him to start murdering people."
Rose didn't really know what she was talking about but their wasn't time to find out, "just because you wrote it doesn't mean you control who reads it."
Agatha didn't respond and just concentrated on driving away from the giant wasp. She glanced at the sign for silent pool as they past it and Agatha took the road it pointed to and Rose realized what was about to happen.
She was about to loose a friend.
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Once the pair arrived at the lake, Agatha quickly got out of the vehicle.
"Here I am, the honey in the trap. Come to me, Vespiform." The writer yelled and held the fire stone up to the wasp.
The other three arrived just as she said this and quickly jumped out of the car.
"She's controlling it," Donna said loudly.
"Its mind is based on her thought processes. They're linked," he told them all as he moved beside Agatha and stared at the fire stone in her hand as if that doing so would help.
"Quite so, Doctor. If I die, then this creature might die with me," Agatha said.
"Don't hurt her," Rose yelled as she stood in the way of the oncoming wasp, not quite sure what she was going to do if it didn't. "You're not meant to be like this. You've got the wrong stuff in your head."
But obviously it was not listening and it continued to hover froward towards them
"I don't thing it's not listening to you," jenny said panicking.
"Yeah i got that," the older time lady said and started to sift through her coat pockets for some thing useful.
"But maybe it will listen to this," Donna said just before she snatched the fire stone out of Agatha's hand and through it towards the lake.
Though before it could hit the water, Rose found what she was looking for, which happened to be one of the prototype mini laser guns she must of forgot to take out of her coat. With out even thinking, she took it out and shot the stone with scary precision, turning it to shine dust. She was actually quite surprised that she hit it but that surprise had to wait because both Agatha and the wasp screamed, clutching there head's and falling to the ground, though where the wasp made a thump when he hit the ground and went quiet, Agatha was caught by the Doctor before she could hit the ground, also going silent.
"What happened? Is she alright?" Jenny asked rapidly, kneeling down beside the unconscious writer.
"Well yes, but the amnesia, the shock wave from the link being destroyed must of wiped her mind of everything that happened. The wasp, the murders," he replied calmly.
"And us. She'll forget about us," Donna added in then looked over at Rose, "though maybe not you."
"Don't worry, I'll take care of that,' the older time lady replied, staring at the unconscious writer.
"What, your going to wipe her memories of you to? Why?" the redhead demanded.
"what would be the point, it's not like I can ever come back, I'm not mentioned any where with her so it's a lot easier this way." Rose said back to the redhead glaring at her.
"Any way," the doctor interrupted before it could become a full argument, " that aside, we've solved another riddle. The mystery of Agatha Christie. And tomorrow morning, her car gets found by the side of a lake. A few days later, she turns up in hotel at Harrogate with no idea of what just happened."
"What about the Reverend? And did't you say there was two cars here?" Jenny asked.
"Wellll, I guess we could always walk back to the manor and pick these two up with the T.A.R.D.I.S." tough even as he talked, you could see that he thought that that was a rubbish idea.
"Pfff, no need." rose said this and brought up both of her arms and clicked with both hands, opening her T.A.R.D.I.S doors behind her only to be hit in the back of the head with a flying roll of toilet paper.
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