A Good Mother Goes to War Pt. 2
Day 2- 10:24 am
Demon's Run
The Doctor walked in front of me as we followed the other Headless Monks up onto the platform. We both kept our brown cloaks over our heads and kept in contact telepathically. I made no tempt to contact Jack telepathically because I was sure Madam Korvarian had thought of that and had it blocked.
Colonel Manton was speaking in front of his troops. "She is not the devil. He is not a god. They are not goblins, or a phantoms or a tricksters. The Doctor and Susan Jane Harkness are a living, breathing beings, and as I look around this room I know one thing. We're sure as hell going to fix that."
The troops cheered.
"On this day, in this place, Susan and The Doctor will fall!"
"Hoo Rah!" The troops shouted.
"The man who talks, the man who reasons, the man who lies, will meet the perfect answer." Manton said.
Everyone yelled, "Hoo Rah!"
"Some of you have wondered why have we have allied ourselves with the Headless Monks. Perhaps you should have wondered why we call them Headless. It's time you knew what these guys have sacrificed for faith. As you all know, it is a Level One Heresy, punishable by death, to lower the hood of a Headless Monk. But by the divine grant of the Papal Mainframe herself, on this one and only occasion, I can show you the truth. Because these guys never can be persuaded." Colonel Manton lowers one Monk's hood. It has no head, just the skin of the neck tied off. The troops are silent with shock.
"They never can be afraid." Manton said. A second hood is lowered. "And they can never, ever be-"
As Colonel Manton lowers my hood, I stepped forward with a large grin. "Surprised! Ha, ha! Hello, everyone. Guess who. Please, point a gun at me if it helps you relax." I said and everyone in the troops pointed their guns at me, except for Lorna. The Monks get their swords ready. "You're only human."
"Susan Jane Harkness, you will come with me right now." Colonel Manton said, while pointing his handgun at me.
The Doctor flips up his hood and half the troops change there guns to pointing at him as well. "Surprise, again! Three minutes forty seconds. Amelia Pond!"
"Jack Harkness!" I shouted.
Together The Doctor and I both shouted. "Get your coat!"
The lights go out for a few seconds. The Doctor grabbed my hand and both of us ran.
"We are not phantoms." The Doctor said over the loudspeaker that he hooked up earlier.
"Doctor?" Manton asked.
"We are not a trick." I said.
"Susan?"
"I am a monk." The Doctor said.
"And I am a very, very angry Wife and Mother." I added.
"Doctor, Susan, show yourself." Manton yelled.
"It's them! They're here! It's them!" A man pointed to where we just had been.
The army faces off against the Monks. A shot is fired. "Weapons down! Do not fire!" Manton yelled. A Monk kills a soldier. "No!"
"Doctor! Susan!" Manton yelled.
"Do not fire. Nobody discharge their weapon in this room. Nobody! Do not fire!" Manton yelles.
The Doctor and I both use our sonic screwdriver.
"Stop. Wait. Listen to me. I am disarming my weapon pack. Monks, I do this in good faith. I am now unarmed. All of you, discharge your weapon packs. The Doctor is trying to make fools of us. We are soldiers of God. We are not fools. We are not fools. We are not fools. We are not fools." Manton says.
"We are not fools!" A soldier yells and does the same thing as the Colonel.
"We are not fools." Manton yells.
"We are not fools." The soldiers repeated.
"We are not fools."
"We are not fools."
"We are not fools. We are not fools. We are not fools." All the soldiers yelled.
Silurians beam into the galleries around the assembly. Some Judoons appear, too, along with troops from UNIT.
"This base is now under our command." Strax says pointing a gun at Colonel Manton.
"I have a fleet out there. If Demon's Run goes down, there's an automatic distress call." Manton says.
"Not if we knock out your communications array. And you've got incoming."
"Danny Boy to the Doctor. Danny Boy to the Doctor." A pilot from Churchill's private army said.
"Give 'em hell, Danny Boy." The Spitfires strafe the asteroid's communications array.
"Target destroyed." The pilot said over the loudspeakers.
"Don't slump. It's bad for your spine." Strax spat at Colonel Manton.
"Toby to Susan! We have completed your task of stopping Madam Korvarian."
I smirked. "Thank you, Toby. Over and out."
Strax marches Manton in at gunpoint. "All airlocks sealed. Resistance neutralised." Strax says.
"Good job Stax." I said.
"Thank you, sir." Strax said. I rolled my eyes, but didn't say anything.
"Sorry, Colonel Manton. I lied. Three minutes forty two seconds." The Doctor said.
"Colonel Manton, you will give the order for your men to withdraw." Strax said.
"No. Colonel Manton, I want you to tell your men to run away." I said.
Manton blinked. "You what?"
"Those words. Run away." I spat. "I want you to be famous for those exact words. I want people to call you Colonel Run Away. I want children laughing outside your door, because they've found the house of Colonel Run Away. And, when people come to you, and ask if trying to get to me through the people I love is in any way a good idea, I want you to tell them your name. Oh, look, I'm angry. Actually, I'm not angry. I'm pissed off. Remember, Korvarian, what happened the last time I was pissed off at you. Your legs are looking better from those bullets I shot you with."
"The anger of a good woman is not a problem. Good woman have too many rules." Korvarian said to the Doctor, a screen nearby coming on to reveal Madam Korvarian.
"Good Mothers don't need rules to keep their family together." I said, staring angrily at Korvarian..
"Give the order. Give the order, Colonel Run Away." Korvarian said to Manton.
The Doctor turned to me, "Go to Jack."
I smiled and ran out of the room.
Day 2- 10:35 am
Demon's Run, White Room
I had checked in Demon's Run's data base and saw where Jack was being held. I rushed down the white corridor and stopped at what was Jack's holding room. I took out my sonic pen from my pocket and worked on the door.
After a few seconds, it slid open to reveal a relatively empty room. In the center there was an examination table and Jack lay on it, not moving. Wires went from a machine and hooked into Jack. In the background a monitor beeped out the steady rhythm of Jack's heartbeat. Jack was wearing a hospital gown that went down to below his knees, dried blood spatters covered the gown. I flinched.
"Jack." I whispered. I sprinted over to Jack and scanned him with my sonic pen. He was alive, just unconscious. I breathed out in relief and started scanning the wires hooked into Jack. After a few seconds, I started, carefully, pulling them out.
After they were all on the floor and the machine turned off I turned back to Jack, who still hadn't moved. "Jack." I said, my hands on his right arm. "Please, Jack. Wake up."
A groan came from Jack, so soft I almost missed it. "Jack?" I asked. "Come on, wake up."
Jack groaned again and and his eyes fluttered, but stayed shut. "If that is you, Korvarian, go fuck yourself." Jack mumbled.
I couldn't help it. I giggled. "Jack, It's me. Susan."
At that, Jack's eyes shot open. His eyes met mine, then Jack quickly closed them again. "No. You're not real."
My smile fell. "What do you mean? Of course I am real."
"No your not. You're just another hallucination courtesy of Korvarian. The real Susan is dead."
I breathed in sharply and grabbed Jack's right hand tightly with both of mine. "Jack, I am no hallucination. I'm not dead, I've come to rescue you."
"You're another one of her tricks." Jack said bitterly.
I felt a couple tears fall. "Jack, If I am not real, how come I can do this?" I ended the question telepathically. "We are the only ones who know about this, besides the Doctor. Please Jack, see that it is me. Your child needs you. Amelia needs her father."
Jack's eyes slowly slid open. "Susan?"
I smiled sadly. "Hey."
"You- you're alive."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"They… um… put me in a spacesuit and…" Jack swallowed. "They put me under water next to another spacesuit. I think it was River, I'm not too sure. The details are fuzzy. We came up onto a beach and killed you and The Doctor."
During this I helped Jack sit up. I hugged Jack tightly. Jack hesitated then wrapped his arms around me, resting his head on my shoulder. "It's alright Jack. I'm fine. That… actually has not happened for me yet."
Jack pulled back sharply. "What?" Jack asked sternly, searching my eyes to see if I was lying.
I winced. "Remember when we got that envelope? Coordinates, date and time?" Jack nodded. "Well, we got different times compared to Amy, Rory and River. They had a picnic besides Lake Silencio with The Doctor." I paused. "The same lake where two people in spacesuits came out of the water."
"But we weren't there. We were at the restaurant with The Doctor."
"Jack, The Doctor that was with Amy, Rory, River, was older. The one in the restaurant was younger. That's why Amy was so shell shocked when she saw me alive in that restaurant. She had just seen me killed and there I was, alive."
A look of hurt came across Jack's face. "You've known you were going to die that long ago?"
I winced. "Jack, I couldn't tell you. I knew that Korvarian had her Silence watching us."
"And now you tell me in her own facilities?" Jack asked.
"Her own facilities that has been taken over and is in the process of being evacuated." I said.
Jack looked confused. "You took over her base? Are you crazy?"
I smirked. "And I did it without even firing a shot. They were so scared that I showed myself that the colonel almost wet himself."
"I love you." Jack breathed. He leaned forward and we kissed. I missed this.
"Eww. The kissing. My eyes!" Came a disgusted and highly amused voice from the door.
Jack and I broke apart and looked over. I smiled. "Amy!" I yelled. I ran over and hugged her tightly. Behind Amy I could see Rory, still in his centurion outfit and carrying little Melody Pond.
Amy pulled back and stared at my stomach in shock. "Y-you had the baby."
I smiled. "Yes I did. Amelia Rose Harkness was born on May 5th, 2011. I think we had ours on the same day."
Tears formed in Amy's eyes. "You named your child after me?" Amy whispered.
"Of course I did, Amy. And she will have two sets of godparents. One is you and Rory and the other is Esther and Ianto."
"I didn't know Ianto and Esther got together." Jack said, coming over to us.
"Oh, yeah. They got together after… um anyway, I see Amelia won't be short of a play date." I nodded over to where Rory was carrying Melody. I ignored how they would lose Melody and how Amy and Rory would wind up stuck in the past. Sometimes it sucked knowing the future.
Amelia smiled. "Yeah, of course."
Day 2- 11:25 am
Demon's Run, TARDIS
Jack and I were in our bedroom in the Tardis, changing. Well, Jack was changing and I was watching while sitting on the bed with my arms crossed over my chest. "Nah, I don't like that color on you. You'll have to change the shirt again."
"But this is my original blue shirt... you just want to see me take off my shirt again, don't you." Jack said, placing his hands on his hips.
I smirked. "Yep." I paused, my smirk fading. "It's not going to be as it was, is it?"
Jack sighed and sat next to me. "Susan, I was kidnapped by your 'arch nemesis'" Jack used air quotes while saying 'arch nemesis'. "Who also kidnapped Amy. They experimented on me. They killed me over and over again, for sport. Then they made me watch while I killed you at a lake. Lastly, by some miracle, you are alive and have rescued me. I am still trying to convince myself that this is real and I won't be waking up back in that room."
"Jack, you do know that Owen wouldn't let me find you for at least a month on the grounds of giving birth and flatlining immediately afterwards."
Jack blinked. "Flatlining?" Jack echoed. "But, you should have regenerated."
I winced. "I know. I should have. The Doctor was going to look into it after we rescued you and Amy."
"You died."
"I came back."
We were silent for a couple minutes. I moved my left hand slowly towards Jack's right until they were touching.
"What I still don't understand is I remember killing you at that lake." Jack said, finally breaking the silence. "And here you are. Yet you said you died, but in Torchwood Medical, not besides the lake."
I looked at Jack. "Jack. When you…. you know. That will happen in our future."
"But it already happened to me."
"Jack, what Korvarian did was bring you back into our past and placed you in that lake. When everything was over, she pulled you back and put you back into that room. Then, past us arrived in that diner right before a distraught Amy, Rory and River walked through the doors. She only made your timeline more confusing."
"Only?" Jack asked, his voice rising. He snatched his hand away from mine and put it on his lap. "She made me watch while I KILLED you!"
"Jack, it will be some time before that happens for me." I said. Even though we are in the Tardis, I am not sure we aren't being overheard by the Silence. Jack, please don't worry about me. When Jack looked at me like I was crazy, I said, Anyway, I said, smirking, who said I didn't already have a plan?
Y-you have a plan? Jack said, looking hopeful.
I smiled. "Of course I do, Jack." I said outloud. "Do I look like the person who wouldn't have one?" I paused. "Don't answer that."
Jack laughed. "I love you." Jack scooped me up into a hug.
I froze, then I layed my head on his chest and listened to his heart beat. I smiled a watery smile. "I love you too. I missed you so much." Though it came out muffled.
"I missed you too." A few seconds passed. "Can I see my daughter now?"
I laughed. "Of course. I'm just going to message The Doctor that we are leaving." Doctor, Jack wants to see Amelia Rose. Is it okay to leave?
Of course, Susan. I'm just going to check on a few things with Vastra and Jenny. You two are free to go.
Thank you, Doctor.
"He said we can leave. Can we leave now?" I asked, avoiding looking into his eyes.
"Susan, you seem to be in a hurry to lea-" Jack's eyes widened. "Something happens. Something happens and you want to get out."
I sighed. "Something does happen but if I stop it, It will cause a massive, huge, gigantic paradox that won't be able to be solved with a makeshift Big Bang. If I stay, I will change something. I can't let that happen. Paradoxes in general are bad idea's." At Jack's look, I sighed. "I'll tell you when we get home. But first, you need your complete outfit on. All you have on is your trousers and a half buttoned shirt."
"You're impossible." Jack said standing up and making his way over to the closet.
"I do try my best."
Day 2- 12:15 pm (afternoon)
Cardiff, Wales
We landed in our house. The lights were off and everything was cleaned and organized. "I didn't like to be idle." I said as Jack looked around in the now clean house.
"I can see that." Jack said, sitting down on the couch. Jack was back in his world war two outfit while I had on Jeans and a dark blue t-shirt. "So, why did you want to leave quickly?"
I sat down next to Jack. "Because Melody Pond wasn't really there."
Jack's eyes widened. "Amy and Rory's baby was flesh… like I was?"
"Yes." I said. "Korvarian," I practically spat out the name. "Kidnaps her. There's nothing I can do about it." I growled.
"Hey, of course there is." Jack said, grabbing my hands.
"Jack, we already left. And besides. The other reason is that Melody Pond… is River Song."
Jack's eyes widened even more. "What?!"
"Korvarian turns Melody Pond into River Song."
Jack breathes out. "Okay. I want to see Amelia Rose now."
I smiled. "She's at Sarah Jane's house. Rani, Clyde, Luke and Sky should be helping Sarah look after for her."
"What are we waiting for? I want to meet my daughter." Jack said. We stood up and we grabbed eachothers hands as I set the coordinates for Sarah Jane's.
Day 2- 12:23 pm (afternoon)
13 Bannerman Road
We appear on Sarah Jane's driveway. I smiled and squeezed Jack's hand as we walked up to the front door. I rang the doorbell. The door opened a couple of seconds later to reveal Sky. Sky smiled. "Susan! Mum, Susan and Jack are here!" Sky called into the house.
Sarah came around the corner bouncing up and down, holding Amelia Rose wrapped in blankets. "It's good to see you again, Jack." Sarah Jane Smith said.
Jack only had eyes for Amelia. "I- Is that her?"
I nodded. "Yes. Amelia Rose Harkness."
Jack smiled as Sarah handed Amelia to Jack. Jack looked down at Amelia, "Hello Amelia Rose Harkness. I'm your Daddy."
I turned to Sarah Jane who was smiling and had one hand on Sky's left shoulder. "Thank you." I said.
"Anytime, Susan. Anytime."
A/N:
Reviewer:
alwaystherereading: What got me annoyed in the show was that Madam Korvarian died by Amy in that alternate reality thing, but not in the regular universe, and then we never heard from or saw her again. I don't think she would give up that easily, since she put so much time into putting together an army to take down The Doctor (In the show). I have a feeling that we will see her again, If she's not dead, that is.