CHAPTER 14

I do not own Doctor Who and I am making no profit off of this story.

Thank you for all of your reviews, favorites, follows, and story alerts.

Author's Note: The story now takes place after Children of the Night. The events in this story take place in the future of that one.

Holly Samuels was going out for the night to help take care of a sick friend, and she had left her sometimes roommate Lily aka Diana a note telling her so in case she happened to show up and find her missing.

As she walked down the streets of London at night, she felt uneasy. It had only been two years since the horrible Ripper murders, and they still weighed on her mind even now every time that she had to walk through the streets at night alone.

She was afraid that she made an easy target. She was only nineteen years old, and she wasn't very muscular even for a woman of her own time. She had always been weak and sickly even as a child. Lily had taught her a few self-defense techniques, but she hadn't really mastered them. She was sure that she would forget everything that she had taught her in the middle of any real danger.

She suddenly saw a figure out of the corner of her eye looking at her as if it were watching her. When she turned to look at it head on, it had vanished! She wondered if she had imagined it as a result of her thoughts and began to walk on.

Then she saw it standing there yet again in the corner of her eye, and she whirled around quickly this time to catch a full glimpse of it.

It was humanoid but with a large cone-shaped head. Its entire body was covered in suckers, and this gave it the look of an aquatic amphibian-like species. It smelled with an iron odor; and when it spoke, it did so in an odd sounding whisper.

"You will be my new template, human. I must use your form to hide among your species until I can be rescued by others of my kind," the creature said to her as he began to advance towards her.

He held out his right palm which had a sinister looking venomous barb on it, and she knew that he meant to use it on her.

She began to shake in fear, and she started to run. She tripped over a rock lying on the ground, however, before she could get more than a few feet away and fell to the ground with a loud thump. She looked to see that the creature was almost on top of her now, and she struggled to get up in a blind panic.

The creature was stopped in his tracks though as a soft but anger filled voice shouted out to him in a commanding tone, "Leave her alone!"

The creature turned around and hissed at her as he recognized the owner of the voice for what she was.

"Time Lady!" he spat out like a curse.

Lily stood there with her chin resting on top of her umbrella which was pointed down at the ground. She wore a sly smile on her face as she confronted the creature.

"Zygon!" she said back to him in the same tone of voice as he had used on her.

"Stay out of this. This is no concern of yours," the Zygon warned her.

"Yes, it is. That's my friend that you're threatening. I don't like it when people try to hurt my friends!" Lily said to him with a look full of deep anger on her face.

She quickly glanced at Holly because she was afraid to look away from the Zygon for too long. She saw that Holly was lying on the ground unharmed but deeply afraid. She could tell that she was panicking.

"It's going to be okay, Holly!" Lily said to her in a calm, compassionate voice.

"Lily!" Holly managed to stammer out before her throat began to close up in fear.

She was starting to gasp for breath now. She would pass out in a few minutes if she didn't calm down quickly.

Lily was filled with worry for her young friend, and this worry quickly turned into anger.

"I'm going to give you one warning and one only. Leave my friend alone and leave this planet, or I will have to take more extreme measures," Lily said with barely contained fury.

"My ship has crashed. I can't leave! I've set up a distress signal, and I am awaiting rescue. I must take the female's form until they arrive. I had no intentions of harming her," the Zygon explained in a friendlier voice. He was terrified of the fiery Time Lady.

Lily's attitude softened a little, but she was still wary of the Zygon. He could be lying.

"If that is indeed the truth, then I could help you. I can take you home right now if that's all that you want," Lily offered.

The Zygon nodded his head in agreement as he said, "Yes, that's all that I want. I never wanted to crash on this backwoods planet in the first place. I was shot down out of the sky by an unknown ship. I was afraid that whoever it was might come after me, but luckily I have seen no sign of them since I arrived here."

Lily's eyes snapped open as she realized that the Zygon might not be the real threat here.

"You didn't recognize it? They never even contacted you and told you why they were shooting you down?" She asked as she began to look around her for another threat to appear at any moment.

"No. I don't know what it was about. It was a ship unknown to my species," the Zygon admitted.

Then his eyes opened in sudden awareness as he said, "You think that they might be here now trying to finish the job!"

Lily nodded and said, "Yes, I do. We need to get you out of here now."

Lily could see that Holly had calmed down now that she had seemed to come to a momentary peace with the Zygon. She gestured to her to come over to her.

Holly hesitantly walked slowly past the Zygon as she watched him the whole time. Finally when she had cleared the alien, she ran the rest of the way to Lily and buried her head in her shoulder.

"I'm sorry! I realize that I'm a coward. I don't mean to be, but I am," Holly said apologetically to her.

Lily just shook her head at her as she said with a warm smile, "No! Stop that! You're not a coward. You're reacting like anyone would to a new situation that they don't understand. It's perfectly natural. Don't ever apologize for being human, Holly. That's one of the things I like about you."

Holly smiled back a little as she slowly began to calm down.

The Zygon looked at the two females with a confused eye. He couldn't understand why the Time Lady cared so much about the human female. She wasn't of much value as far as he could determine. Although he had to admit that he had no desire to harm or kill her either. He believed that all beings, even the humans, had a right to exist without being attacked. It was too bad that his mysterious attacker didn't share his sentiment he thought to himself with a grimace.

It was just as he thought that that the Zygon's mysterious attacker chose to reveal himself at last.

A huge man, covered head to toe in battle armor that made him look like a robot and carrying a huge gun, transmatted himself in front of the three of them.

He looked at the Zygon and said, "I'm afraid that I've been paid to kill you, Frog Face. Awfully sorry! When it comes between you and enough money to last me for the rest of my life though, well I think you can see where my sympathies lie. Say buh-bye now!"

He pointed the huge gun at the Zygon's head as he prepared to pull the trigger.

Next: The mysterious assassin decides to go after Lily as well as the Zygon. It seems that she has a price on her head as well!