The Bad Wolf VII

I have finally finished mapping out a plan for this part of the story in my head which is honestly a bit late but at least it's done now. This chapter is focused on Rose raising Melody (as will the next) so I hope you enjoy.

I land my TARDIS in Washington D.C. 5th of January 1963. I'm going to raise Melody Pond, but until she regenerates for the first time I can't take her to Leadworth. I hate not being able to just give her back to Amy and Rory but would cause a huge Paradox on an already incredibly unstable timeline. So, as much as I hate this, I'm going to raise Melody and I'm going to raise her well.

I know that the Silence are going to capture her again on the 25th of March 1969. I know this and yet I can't stop it, and it is going to drive me crazy. Melody starts crying, "It's okay little one, well it's not it really is not but Auntie Wolf is here and I am going to make it alright sweetheart." I rock her until she falls asleep and then I put her into the crib that my TARDIS has provided.

I'm going to have to buy a house, I'm going to need to buy a house. Okay that won't be a problem, I'm not exactly short of money. I should probably buy a house that's got a garden because it will be more practical to keep my TARDIS in a garden. If I'm going to stay here for six years then I should probably try to fit in, and I suppose that means that I should find something else to wear.

Melody is asleep, so I make my way to the wardrobe room. It is going to be really weird wearing something other than this huge red dress, I've been exclusively wearing it for well over 1000 years. I spend a short while looking at all my options, the last time that I was in here I barely had anything that wasn't black, but since then I have picked up quite a few red options (even if I never actually intended to wear them). Finally I settle on a deep red cotton circle skirt that stops mid calf (and has layers and layers of starched black petticoats), paired with a black and red floral patterned silk blouse, and a long red coat (I'm going to miss my cloak) with pockets that are bigger on the inside. I'm obviously still wearing my corset (I've long stoped tight lacing, the pain of the thumb tacks is just about enough), my red heels, my thumb tack headband, and my weapons belt (don't worry it has an insanely powerful perception filter on it no one's going to notice it).

All in all this looks more late 50s than early 60s but that doesn't really matter I look close enough that I'll fit in, and I finish it off by applying a deep red matte lipstick. It's actually really quite nice not to be wearing that heavy red dress for once.

I don't have any baby clothes yet, so I wrap Melody up in a blanket and pick her up before leaving the TARDIS. It doesn't take me long to find a house that works, I have chosen a small two bedroom terraced house with a tiny garden. I pay for it (I have a full bank account in practical every planet in this universe) and am told that I can move in a month from now, but there are a few benefits of time travel. I quickly make my way back to my TARDIS and land on February 5th.

I get the key and make my way in, the house obviously has no furniture (not even a stove) so I need to get some of that. For the living room I'll need a Sofa, a few Armchairs, and a coffee table, for the kitchen I'll need a stove, and a dining table with chairs, for my bedroom I'll need a bed and nightstands, for Melody's room I'll need a crib, and a changing table, and everything else that baby needs.

I obviously could have bought myself a mansion and masses of expensive furniture, but for the first time in thousands of years I want to try and fit in. I need to fit in so that I can give Melody as normal a childhood as possible, and that means not excessively spoiling her. I already have a cover story ready, I'm Ivy Wolfe a widow and my brother Rory Pond and his wife Amy Pond both died in a car crash and left me to look after their newborn baby. Everything's going to be fine, it's not like I'm going to be staying here long enough for people to get suspicious about me not aging, but I will have to get a job.

Time passed so very quickly, to me six years passed in the blink of an eye. I worked as a hairdresser, and Melody was such a happy child. She was a very difficult child (especially when she was really young) because she was highly intelligent (in fact one might say that she was a genius) she questioned everything absolutely everything, and I encouraged it. I loved raising her, absolutely loved it. When I was in the parallel universe the Metacrisis Doctor and I tried to have a baby for ages . It wasn't that I struggled to get pregnant, it was that when I did get pregnant I would get to six months and then miscarry. Every single time, I would get to exactly 6 months and go into labour and deliver a stillborn baby. I had, in total, exactly 12 pregnancies and every one of them ended with a dead baby at 6 months. I know the pain of losing a child, I know it far to well and that's why I hate not being having been able to give Melody back to Rory and Amy. I have enjoyed being pretty much Melody's mother and I don't deserve to have, I have done such awful things I don't deserve to experience the joys of quasi-motherhood, especially when it has cause Rory and Amy to suffer so much. While raising Melody I have taken a trip in my TARDIS to save a world on the 10th of each month, and when I do I leave Melody for a day with Mrs Crumplebottom who is a very nice old lady who always feeds her cake.

But todays is the 25th of March 1969, the day that the Silence take Melody, the day that I can do nothing to prevent without ripping apart the universe. I have to let them take her, but that doesn't mean that I have to let them take her easily.

I have told Melody a bit of what is going to happen, it wouldn't be fair not to, in fact I've told her pretty much all I know. She know that she's going to have a horrible few months but that at the end of it I will be able to come and rescue her. The only thing that I haven't told her is the exact day that it is going to happen, as far as she know it's just going to happen sometime in March. I've been spoiling her this month, she can have whatever food she wants, do whatever she wants, she pretty much has had free range. Today she wanted every flavour of ice cream for tea, and then she wanted to play her favour board game. Is 8 o'clock, and she's fast asleep beside me on the sofa and I feel sick with worry. Today is the day that my little Melody's life takes a turn a huge turn for the worse, and the thing is I could so easily stop it. It would be incredibly easy to just kill all of the Silence (the memory thing doesn't even work on me, I assume it's something to do with whole Time Goddess thing) but I can't because if I do I would destroy this universe and all the sub-universes attached to this one.

The clock strikes 9 o'clock and the Silence start to pour into the house. I wake up Melody and whisper to her "It's time sweetheart and I'm sorry, I'm so sorry I can't stop this. You are going to have to be so, so, brave my little Melody Pond, but I will find you and everything will be alright again," I kiss the top of her head.

I stand up and start fighting the Silence, it would be so easy to just kill then all but I can't, not now. I pull out my gun and start shooting them. One of them pull Melody kicking and biting out of the room and pride wells up in my chest that's my girl, not giving up without a fight. I begin shooting every all of them in sight, and to the last one standing I yell "YOU ARE TO GO BACK TO YOUR MADAME KOVARIAN, AND YOU ARE TO TELL HER THAT THERE IS NO POWER IN THSK UNIVERSE THAT COULD STOP ME FROM KILLING HER. TELL HER THAT SHE'S BROUGHT ONTO HERSELF THE FULL FURY OF THE BIG BAD WOLF AND THAT SHE WILL DIE!"

I am The Bad Wolf

I am the Great Exterminator

I am the Killer of All

I am the Destroyer of A Universe

And There's No One I Hate More Then Myself

So as you can tell Rose/Bad Wolf is quite angry. The next chapter is going to include Madame Kovarian's gruesome death (pretty much a torture scene so you might want to skip that, also I will write that bit badly sorry I just can't write torture well) I hope you enjoyed.

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