CHAPTER 5

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Victoria, now fully transformed into a werewolf, slammed into Ileana like a jackhammer and knocked her across the room and through the back wall of Lilith's office. Somehow Ileana still held onto Lilith's throat while she flew through the air. All three of them therefore hit the wall together, and they went flying through it and into the next office.

Lilith's secretary screamed as she narrowly avoided being hit by the three of them as they continued to fly past her and landed right in the middle of her office. The frightened woman ran past them and fled from her office while she screamed at the top of her lungs.

The Doctor and Martha heard the commotion all the way from the front lobby and started running towards the sounds of fighting. They encountered Victoria and Ileana pounding the living daylights out of each other while the vampire still held onto a now unconscious Lilith with a vice-like grip.

"What is going on?" Martha screamed to the Doctor.

"I'm not sure. I recognize Ileana, but I don't know who the werewolf is. We both know the woman who Ileana is holding onto so tightly though don't we, Martha?" the Doctor said.

Martha looked at Lilith in shock. She thought that she had interviewed everyone before! How had she missed seeing Lilith if she worked here? She was sure she would have noticed seeing her around here.

The Doctor noticed the look on her face and realized what she must be thinking.

"It's not your fault, Martha. She probably put a spell on you so you couldn't tell that it was her. Now that she's unconscious, her spell's worn off; and you can see her true face now," the Doctor deduced.

"That doesn't make me feel any better, Doctor. If it wasn't for lleana, I still wouldn't know that she was right here under my nose the whole time," Martha said frustrated.

"Don't worry about it. Right now we have to find out what she's been up to before it's too late. First though we have to stop that werewolf before it kills someone. Exposure to concentrated moonlight is the only way to stop it, but I don't want to do that unless I have to. I feel like whoever this is can't help what they're doing," the Doctor said.

"I think that that's Victoria Collins. She works here. Rose said that she was a werewolf, but I wasn't sure that I believed it until now. Rose said she was innocent too," Martha told him.

"I agree with Rose. Rose is always right you know," the Doctor said with a smile and a wink of his eye at Martha.

Martha was still amazed at how he could joke and act nonchalant in the middle of a life and death situation. She still couldn't do that even after all that she had been through. She had only seen one other person who could do that: Rose. They truly did belong with each other she thought with a wry grin.

She was quickly shocked out of her thoughts as Victoria went flying by her after one well-placed blow from Ileana. Victoria got up and eyed Martha like she was her next victim.

Martha froze in fear. She knew that if she ran from her, that Victoria's now animal mind would cause her to immediately attack her.

"Martha, be careful! If she bites you, you'll become infected and wind up a werewolf yourself!" the Doctor warned her.

"Thanks, Doctor! You really know how to make me feel all better!" Martha said nervously.

Suddenly Victoria bowed down on the floor in a submissive posture. She was acting like a subordinate wolf would to a pack leader the Doctor noticed.

"Victoria, stop this. Leave everyone alone," Rose said from behind the Doctor.

He turned to see her standing there in full Bad Wolf mode. He realized in shock that Victoria was bowing in obedience to her! She considered Rose to be her pack leader.

Victoria looked at Rose for a minute as if she had been scolded, and then resumed her submissive glance downward towards the floor.

Rose walked toward Victoria and placed her hand on the werewolf's head. Martha gasped in shock as Victoria slowly changed back to normal as Rose's hand glowed with power. Rose had changed her back.

Victoria looked gratefully at Rose and said, "Thank you! I'm glad that you stopped me before I hurt anyone. I wasn't in control. I knew what I was doing, but I couldn't stop myself."

"I thought that you couldn't do massive changes like that," The Doctor said to Rose.

"I still can't. I just reversed the adrenaline surge that brought upon the change in the first place and calmed her down. That did the job nicely," Rose said with just a twinge of anger in her voice.

Rose was trying very hard not to think too much about how angry she still was at him about that woman at the moment. No one else would have noticed the anger there, but the Doctor did. He knew her so well that he could always tell when she was angry at him even when she was doing her best to hide it.

"That's still amazing no matter how you explain it away," Martha said looking at Rose in awe.

"It's simple when you know how to do it and have the ability to do so. I'm just glad that I could help. Victoria doesn't need to have any lives on her conscience," Rose said looking sadly at the werewolf.

She wished that she could help her. She was determined to start training herself in some way so that she could grow more skilled with the use of her powers. One day she wanted to be able to change Oswin Oswald back into a human from a Dalek, and now she would like to do something just like that with Victoria. This poor woman shouldn't have to suffer because of something inside of her that was controlling her against her will.

At the moment though, she would have to concentrate on the task at hand as she turned to look at Lilith. Ileana still had her unconscious body by the throat. She had to find out what Lilith had been up to so that she could save the executives from being killed.

She told the others what she had heard Lilith saying, and Martha raced off to try and find any evidence of a plot to kill the executives. She ordered a search of the area of the next press conference that they were to attend. It was due to start in less than half an hour.

Martha wanted to cancel it completely, but the executives were fighting her about it. They said that it was already too late to cancel at this late date, and it was too important to be stopped. Martha wanted to scream in frustration at their stubbornness.

Sister of Mine stood nearby watching but not sure of what she could or even should do. She decided to reenter the mirror world and watch through every mirrored surface at the location of the press conference to see if she could find anything that might help them prevent the deaths of the executives.

Rose meanwhile decided to tackle the problem at the source by going into Lilith's mind. She was going to extract the information she wanted from her mind with her telepathic abilities while the Carrionite was still unconscious.

Next: Time is running out to stop the Carrionites' takeover of the publishing company. Will our heroes be able to stop their plot in time before a lot of people are killed by whatever they have planned to get rid of the company executives? Could it be that they also had a backup plan in place to still win even if they were caught in the act?