CHAPTER 7

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Suddenly the Doctor's face lit up as he got one of his frequently brilliant ideas.

"The Immortality Gate!" He shouted out in glee.

"What?" Lily asked him in confusion.

"It was created by the Vinvocci. It's a device that heals all of the lifeforms on an entire planet using a genetic template. The Master used it to make everyone on Earth into him once. I'm not sure what happened to it but if we could get ahold of it we could use it to fix everyone quickly," the Doctor said with an excited look on his face.

Lily smiled. Sometimes her son-in-law could prove to be useful after all!

The Doctor pulled a cell phone out of his pocket and called UNIT.

"Yes, let me speak to Colonel Mace. This is the Doctor speaking. I need to ask him something quickly. Time is of the essence here," the Doctor said impatiently.

The Doctor conversed with Colonel Mace for several minutes with no change in his expression, and then as he hung up he suddenly had a huge smile on his face.

"They're bringing it to us in a few minutes," he said as he jumped up and down in pure joy.

The Gate soon arrived, and Lily ran over to it and connected it to the Doctor's TARDIS so that the machine could use it as a power source.

She programmed the machine to effect the entire planet and to use an ordinary human template in order to fix humanity and to remove the vampirism.

Now, they just had to find an unaffected human to use as the template.

"Where are we going to find someone who hasn't already started to change?" Lily pondered.

"What about Ron?" the Doctor suggested.

"He has my blood though. That may affect humanity in some way. We can't risk it unless we have no other choice," Lily said, looking concerned.

"We're running out of time. We may have no other choice. At worst, they may all become permanently immune to vampirism. Is that a bad thing?" the Doctor asked.

"What if they all become immortal like me? Can you imagine how that would change history?" Lily said.

"History is going to change anyway if they all become vampires. Besides we could always try to change them all back if they did become immortal. We could find a new template and fix them," the Doctor said.

Lily nodded in concession, and she asked Ron to step into the Gate. With a moment of hesitation, she activated it.

The entire planet was instantly changed, and the vampirism disappeared completely.

The Gate didn't just change humanity either.

Lily looked at the still unconscious Cleopatra and saw that she looked different now. She had normal looking skin and looked healthy. She was human again!

"It made Cleopatra normal again!" Lily said in surprise.

The Doctor looked shocked at this as well. He hadn't thought about that happening.

"She'll be her old self again, I hope. She was my friend before she was changed. When the vampires changed her and I didn't agree with her being a vampire and wanting to make everyone just like her, she accused me of stabbing her in the back. She turned against me, and we've been enemies ever since. Do you think that she'll be like she used to be now?" Lily asked the Doctor hopefully.

"Anything's possible," the Doctor said but he sounded unsure.

"Thanks for the vote of confidence," Lily said sarcastically.

"Vampirism is a tricky, unpredictable condition. She may not even stay cured," the Doctor said.

Lily hadn't thought of that. Her condition might reassert itself after a short time. For a minute, she had thought that she was going to get her friend back. Now her hopes started to fall.

The Doctor saw her expression and said, "I could be wrong you know. Even I'm not right all of the time. Only Rose is right all of the time! I know because she told me so!"

Lily smiled at that. She had to hand it to Rose. She had him trained well!

"Yes, you could be wrong. You certainly are often enough! Maybe you are this time too," Lily said hopefully.

"Well, you don't have to be so rude," the Doctor said with a mock pout.

"Yes, I do! How else are you going to know it's really me?" Lily asked him with a snicker.

Allison came up to Lily and hugged her tightly. Tears rolled down her cheeks.

"Thank you, Lily! I've never been more scared in my life! I should have known that you would come through though. It seems that I can always count on you," Allison said as she continued to hug Lily tightly.

Lily smiled at her and kissed her on the forehead. She was beginning to think of the girl as family.

"You can always count on me, dear! Just think of me as your guardian angel," Lily said with a big smile as she hugged Allison back.

Allison smiled at her sweetly, and Lily could see that she was deeply touched by her show of affection for her. Lily suspected that Allison didn't get much attention or appreciation in her life because of the way that she had such low self-esteem. She swore to herself that she would make that up to her by showing her how she mattered and how important that she was.

"I will certainly agree with the angel part, my lady! One as beauteous as you would have to be an angel sent from above!" Robin Hood said with a sly grin.

"You always know just what to say to me to get me to want to kiss you. You get extra points for the beauteous remark too!" Lily said as she gave him a long passionate kiss.

She had been terrified that she was going to lose him, and she poured out all of her emotions for him into her kiss. When she pulled away, he looked at her with complete and utter love in his eyes. She had truly let him know for the first time just how much he meant to her with that kiss!

He was glad that he meant as much to her as she meant to him. He had fallen hopelessly in love with her the first day that they had met back in the Land of Fiction, and he knew that that would never change. He had sometimes worried if she had felt the same, but now he had no such worries. He knew for sure now that she would always love him too!

They continued to stare at each other even after the kiss, and they probably would have went on doing that for a lot longer if they had not been interrupted by the sounds of Cleopatra waking up.

"Where am I? What's going on?" Cleopatra said as she looked around her in fear.

"Cleo?" Lily asked her. In that one word, she was conveying all of her hopes that her old friend had been given back to her.

Next: Will Cleopatra be the same person that used to be Lily's friend or will she still be her enemy? Will there be any repercussions to Lily using Ron as the template? Stay tuned to find out!