CHAPTER 12
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Author's Note: The story of the Monk takes place after Children of the Night. The events in this story take place in the future of that one.
Lily faced off against Thelonious the Dalek with a large smile on her face.
"Aren't you just the cutest thing? A Dalek named after a musical legend. I love it!" Lily said the last sentence more to the Monk than to the Dalek.
The Monk just shook his head at her. She had always been a little out there even when he was a Time Tot.
"Learn to take a compliment, Morty!" Lily said to him with a silly grin on her face as she saw the expression on his face.
"It may have escaped your attention, but I am trying to kill you!" the Monk said in anger.
"Really?! Then you're going to have to try harder then! I've been fighting and killing Daleks for a long, long time! They don't impress me much!" Lily said with a serious look.
"DO NOT MOVE!" The Dalek said.
"Doesn't that anger you? I just said that I'm not afraid of you!" Lily said to the Dalek with a disdainful tone in her voice.
"YOU WILL SURRENDER!" Thelonious shouted. It actually did sound as if the Dalek were getting angry.
"You know I really should. It's only fair that I do. Here you've gone to all this trouble to come and threaten me today. The least that I could do is surrender to you, isn't it? It's only good manners," Lily said in a mocking voice.
"YOU WILL SURRENDER!" Thelonious repeated.
"Of course! I'm doing it right now," Lily said as she held up her hands.
As the Dalek moved forward and got to within a foot of her, Lily's hands glowed with regenerative energy; and the energy flowed straight down into its outer shell! The Dalek inside screamed, and then the shell started smoking and caught on fire.
"I'm sorry! It was either you or me though," Lily said, meaning it. She still hated killing even after having done so much of it in her long life.
William the Fearless was anything but as he screamed, "She's a witch! Flee for you lives, men!"
He ran out of the room along with his warriors in a mass rout.
The Monk, however, stayed where he was and pulled out a strange looking gun. Before Lily could move out of the way, he shot her with it; and a strange looking beam poured forth from it and covered her entire body!
Lily screamed in extreme pain and fell to her knees in agony. Robin Hood shot a number of arrows into the Monk's chest, but he still had enough presence of mind to pull out a small Glock 40 pistol and to shoot her in each of her hearts with it! Lily fell to the ground with a thud and stopped moving.
"It's finally over for you, Persephone. Thelonious was just a way of drawing you close enough to kill you. I had that gun made especially for you. It had enough radiation in it to kill a Time Lord. Of course I finished you off with the Glock for good measure. A bullet in each heart so that you can't regenerate! Good bye, Persephone!" the Monk said laughing, even as Robin continued to shoot arrow after arrow into him.
"You butcher!" Robin screamed at him as he unloaded his whole quiver of arrows into his chest in less than a minute.
Somehow the Monk kept himself upright through sheer force of will and continued to keep laughing. Cleopatra started running toward him, and she tackled him to the ground and swiftly knocked him out with one well-placed blow to his head.
Amazingly, the Monk was still alive. He was a very hard man to kill it seemed.
Allison ran to Lily's side along with Robin while Cleopatra stood guard over the Monk in case he came to again. Ron and Isabella stood nearby watching the whole scene in horror. Neither of them noticed that they were holding each other's hand.
Allison turned Lily over from where she had landed on her face and discovered that she was still breathing but just barely.
"Lily! Please don't die!" Allison said to her in a pain-filled voice.
"It's going to be okay, Ally," Lily said to her in a voice barely above a whisper.
"Lily, I'm sorry! I tried to stop him, but he wouldn't die! I used the whole quiver, and he still was walking around!" Robin said through tears.
"Time Lords are notoriously tough to kill!" Lily said slowly with a laugh.
"It's my fault. I should have moved quicker," Robin said with guilt laced throughout his voice.
"It's alright, Robin. You're not getting rid of me that easily," Lily said in a weaker and weaker voice with a small laugh.
Lily's eyes started to flutter as she was tried to keep herself from passing out.
Allison knew that she was very close to passing out from loss of blood. She began to get very upset and to cry uncontrollably.
Lily smiled at her and stroked teardrops off of her cheek.
"Believe me, Allison. This isn't the end!" Lily said with a smile.
"The Monk said that you would die if he shot both of your hearts," Allison said through tears.
"Normally he would be right, but I'm far more than just another Time Lord! The Monk doesn't know how truly tough I am to kill," Lily said to her with a wink.
She started to have difficulty breathing now, and her eyes started to close.
"No! Please don't go! I never got to tell you what you mean to me. I'm an orphan, Lily. I never had a family growing up. I never had anyone to tell me that I was special or important until I met you. You made me wanted and needed for the first time in my life. I love you for that. I feel like you're the mum I never got to have. So you see you can't die because I think of you as a mum! Please! I love you, mum!" Allison shouted out at her through tear-filled eyes.
Lily briefly smiled and said, "I love you too!"
Then she died as her hearts stopped beating and finally gave out.
Allison was weeping out of control as Robin held her to him. Ron had his face buried in Isabella's shoulder in grief as she put her arms around him.
Cleopatra was strangely unaffected. She had seen Lily die before, and she was sure that everything would be alright. At least she hoped so. Lily had never been shot in the hearts before after all. Even she started to have a moment's doubt and began to get upset now. She couldn't lose her now just when she'd been freed from her curse!
Then all of them looked up in surprise and with a renewed sense of hope as Lily gasped and came back to life. Allison and Robin were the closest to her, and they looked on in wonder as Lily's wounds healed. She soon began to glow with regenerative energy on her hands!
"Good bye, everyone! This is the last that you'll see of me in this old body, but it's not the last that you'll see of me. You see, I'm going to change in just a minute. Every cell in my body will change, and I will become a new woman with a new personality. I'll still be the same Lily that you know on the inside though. Don't worry about that! I'll still love and care about all of you just as much as I do now. I'll still essentially be the same just different," Lily explained.
"I don't understand," Allison said with a very confused look on her face.
Lily could tell that Robin was just as confused. She had tried to explain regeneration to him once, and he still didn't really understand what was going to happen to her. She hoped that he wouldn't be too upset about what was about to occur.
"You'll see, Ally. Please just remember that I'm still me," Lily said cryptically.
Ron and Cleo knew what was going to happen, but they were still sad all of the same. They were about to lose this version of her, and that saddened them all the same.
Isabella was totally confused. She had no idea what was about to happen, and she just stared at Lily in mute incomprehension! Ron put an arm around her and smiled at her reassuringly to let her know that Lily was going to be alright. She looked up at him then and gave him a smile of her own.
Lily looked at them sadly. She wished that she could see them get together in this body. It was not to be though.
Her body began to glow all over now.
"Get back. It's dangerous to be that close to her when she regenerates," Cleo warned Allison and Robin.
They stood there unmoving in incomprehension. Cleo ran over and pulled them both away from her as they stood there dumbstruck in fascination.
"Good bye!" Lily said to them all sadly, and then the energy exploded out of her head and hands!
Lily screamed in pain as she changed from her old form into a young woman in her early 20's with long straight blonde hair that reached to the middle of her back. She opened her eyes, and they could all see that they were as blue as the ocean now. She was very tall now as well. She was easily over six feet with her now much longer legs.
"Hello, everyone!" the new Lily said with a soft, sweet voice.
Allison and Robin looked at her in absolute bewilderment. She looked and sounded nothing like the Lily that had just been standing there a minute ago.
The Monk woke up to see Lily standing there newly regenerated and cursed at her. He was quickly restrained by Cleo who got ready to knock him out again if he tried anything.
"Such language! Little boys like you should have your mouths washed out with soap!" Lily chided him as she waged her finger at him.
She shook her head.
"No, that sounds like old me. Maybe I should come up with something else for the new me. But what?" Lily said to herself.
She thought for a minute while Allison and Robin continued to stare blankly at her. Then her face spread into a smile as an idea hit her.
"Oh, I know! I've got it! You talk to me like that again, and I'll rip out your filthy tongue!" Lily said the last to the Monk.
Everyone looked at her in shock now. This was not like the Lily that they knew at all!
She could see the shocked looks on everyone's face and she smiled as she said, "Yes, you're right. That is so not me! I thought that I would try it out though. It might have worked. No, I'm afraid that I'm much too nice and sweet in this regeneration for it to fit me though. Maybe next time, huh?"
Cleo and Ron let out a sigh of relief while Allison, Robin, and Isabella just continued to stare at her in shock.
The Monk was shocked too but for a different reason.
"You can't be still alive. I shot you in both hearts!" he said in utter confusion.
"Yes, you did. Thankfully for me that doesn't work on me though. So nyah nyah! You can't kill me!" Lily said in a childish voice.
She frowned at herself.
"Is that who I am now? Am I childish in this incarnation? I certainly hope not! Oh well, I'll figure it out eventually. It's early yet. Too early to tell just who I am yet," Lily said with a smile.
"Cleo, tie him up and take him to Gallifrey in your TARDIS please, if you will. I'm sure that the Time Lords will love to get their hands on him," Lily said.
Cleo nodded and tied the Monk up. Then she dragged him away. He was somehow still alive despite all of the arrows sticking out of him. Lily was sure that he would regenerate sometime later. Even a Time Lord couldn't survive all of that damage for long without having to change.
The Time Lords would take his TARDIS and all of his future out of place inventions away from here once they had him in their hands. They could clean up the mess here. She would do it, but she really didn't feel like it at the moment. Right now she needed to relax as she tried to get through the fifteen hours where her new regeneration stabilized.
She could see all of the timelines that the Monk had messed with going back more or less to their normal courses. All except for one.
She looked at Ron with his arm around Isabella, and she could see a major turning point coming for the young girl. Would she come with them or not? Lily was glad to have her come, but it was up to her.
"Ally, I don't feel very good. Could you help me make it back to the TARDIS? Robin, could you help too? I'm always very weak after I first change. I need to get back to the TARDIS so that she can assist me with the change. The TARDIS has special restorative properties that help me feel better whenever I have to regenerate," Lily explained.
Without speaking, Allison and Robin stood each on one side of her and helped her slowly walk back the long way to the TARDIS.
Lily looked back at Ron who was looking at Isabella with indecision and she said, "She can come too."
Ron smiled at her and then asked Isabella if she wanted to come. Isabella smiled and nodded her head in delight. She wasn't sure exactly what she was getting herself into, but she knew that there was nothing for her here now. Her home had been destroyed, and she had no relatives. She liked these people anyway, especially one of them! She thought that she was starting to feel something for Ron, and she was sure that he felt something for her too. They were holding hands without realizing it again as they walked behind Lily, Allison, and Robin on the path back to the TARDIS.
Next: Allison and Robin have to get used to the new Lily as Ron and Isabella grow closer. Also, Cleopatra finally starts to come out of her shell after coming so close to losing Lily. Allison and Lily discuss what she said to her as well.
Plus Lily's new personality starts to emerge, and she establishes her new look!