Between the Lines

by Rainbow Haired Girl

Merida has been on Earth for a while after falling to the Earth through the time stream and landing in 2010. She is looking for the one man who had ended it all so long ago. But when she is working for Van Statten things tend to get a little heated. It starts in Season 1 Episode 6 Dalek and goes through the rest of the season. Book 1 of Warrior Witch

3. Chapter 2

Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 2 of Between the Lines. I know that Alexys seems like she doesn't have a backbone, but she really does have one. I promise. She just been with Van Statten for far too long to not have it. I hope that you guys will like this next part. I did a lot of editing to this to make it worth reading. So I hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 2

Trouble

Van Statten had the Doctor chained up against a rack and stripped down to his torso. He also had Alexys chained up. "Now, smile!" He runs a scan over the Doctor's chest.

The Doctor moans grimacing in pain.

Van Statten's eyes went wide. "Two hearts! Binary vascular system." He said in glee. "Oh, I am so going to patent this." He turned his attention to the woman that was still knocked out. "Lets see what kind of heart she has."

"So that's your secret. You don't just collect this stuff, you scavenge it." The Doctor said looking at him. He was trying to keep Van Statten from getting to Alexys. As far as he was concerned Van Statten didn't need to know what kind of hearts witches had.

"This technology has been falling to Earth for centuries. All it took was the right mind to use it properly. Oh, the advances I've made from alien junk, you have no idea, Doctor. Broadband? Rosewell. Just last year my scientists cultivated bacteria from the Russian Crater and do you know what they found."

The Doctor looked at him angrily, but he couldn't help, but wonder what they had found.

"The cure for the common cold. Kept it strictly within the laboratory of course, no need to get people excited. Why sell one cure when I can sell a thousand palliatives?" He questioned with a smirk, looking at the Doctor.

The Doctor narrowed his eyes. "Do you know what a Dalek is, Van Statten? A Dalek is honest. It does what it was born to do for the survival of its species, that creature in your dungeon is better than you."

Alexys's eyes slowly began to flutter open. She was so drowsy. Why was she so drowsy? She let out a soft groan as she slowly came to.

Van Statten smirked at what the Doctor had said. "In that case, I will be true to myself and continue." He said walking back over to the scanner.

"Listen to me, that thing downstairs is going to kill every last one of us!"

Van Statten ran the scan again.

The Doctor writhed in pain against his manacles.

Alexys groaned finally waking up from the sedative.

"But it's woken up! It knows I'm here! It's gonna get out! Van Statten, I swear no one on this base is safe! No one on this planet!"

He does the scan again.

The Doctor flew his head back in pain.

Alexys's head shot up. "Stop it!" She yelled her eyes were wide and filled with fear.

Van Statten looked over at her and turned the scanner towards her. "Now sleeping beauty is now awake." He said with a sickening smile.

"I wouldn't use that on me if I were you." Alexys said with narrowed eyes.

"Condition red! Repeat, condition red! This is not a drill!" Bywater said over the intercom.

Van Statten looked away from Alexys. He didn't have a chance to even use it on her. He was upset that he couldn't even figure out what she was.

The Doctor looked up sweating. "Release me if you want to live. Release her as well." He said wearily.

DWDWDW

The Doctor, Van Statten, Goddard, Alexys and his security guards entered Van Statten's office from the lift.

The Doctor placed his hands on the table. "You've got to keep it in that cell."

"Doctor, it's all my fault." Rose told him.

"I've sealed the compartment. It can't get out, that lock's got a billion combinations." Bywater told the Doctor.

"That won't work." Alexys said looking at them on the screen.

Rose looked in confusion. "Sorry and how do you know that."

"I've fought them before. Dalek's are geniuses. It can calculate a thousand billion combinations in one second flat." Alexys crossed her arms. "And if I am right it will be out of there quick."

"Open fire!" Bywater yelled.

Guns went off firing at the Dalek.

"Don't shoot it, I want it unharmed!" Van Statten yelled.

"Rose get out of there!" The Doctor yelled.

Alexys turned her attention to Van Statten. Her blue eyes narrowed. "How about you shut up."

"You are on the payroll." Van Statten said looking at her with narrowed eyes.

Alexys held up her hand and it began to glow red. "You seriously are going to argue about that at this moment?" Her voice was harsh with her Scottish accent. "That thing is a killer."

The Doctor looked at her in shock. It was a switch in moods from whom he had met before. She was colder. Harsher. What was this about?

Van Statten swallowed the lump that had formed in his throat. He was scared of her, but he wasn't going to admit that.

"Good." She snipped out. Her hand stopped glowing.

"Abandoning the cage, sir." Bywater told them.

Goddard was logging into the computer.

Van Statten, The Doctor, and Alexys looked over Goddard shoulder as she typed.

Goddard rubbed her face. This was bad. "We're losing power. It's draining the base. Oh, my God. It's raiding the entire power supplies for the whole of Utah."

"Not unsurprising there." Alexys said shaking her head.

"It's downloading." The Doctor said in disappointment that Van Statten had stopped him from killing it.

"Downloading what?" Van Statten asked slightly scared of what the Dalek was doing.

"Sir, the entire West Coast has gone down." Goddard told him.

"It's not just energy. That Dalek just absorbed the entire Internet. It knows everything." The Doctor said swallowing the lump in his throat.

Alexys turned and glared at Van Statten. "Are you happy with what you have caused?"

"Sir, the cameras in the vault have gone down." Goddard told him. She rubbed her face. This was something that she hadn't been expecting it.

"We've only got emergency power, it's eaten everything else, you've got to kill it now!" The Doctor said, turning his attention to Van Statten and he wasn't lying. It needed to die and now.

"All guards to converge in the Metaltron cage, immediately."

Alexys shook her head and moved herself away from the computer. It didn't matter what they did that thing was healed. She couldn't help, but wonder how it healed. She closed her eyes as she heard the guns firing and the thumping of people falling one by one dying.

"Tell them to stop shooting at it!" Van Statten yelled at Goddard.

"It's killin em!" Goddard said looking at him. How could he just not be affected by this?

"They're dispensable, that Dalek is unique. I don't want a scratch on its bodywork? Do you hear me? Do you hear me?"

Goddard showed the Doctor a map of the base on the computer. "That's us right below the surface. That's the cage, and that's the Dalek." She said pointing out the things that he needed to know.

"This museum of yours, have you got any alien weapons?"

Alexys looked at him. "Yes, lots of them. The Dalek is in the way."

"We've got to keep that thing alive. We could just seal the entire vault, trap it down there." Van Statten said looking at them.

Alexys shook her head. "Adam is down there."

"Leaving everyone else trapped? Rose is down there too. I won't let that happen. Have you got that?" The Doctor hissed at him.

Van Statten stood up.

"I suggest you sit your ass down." She hissed at him. "You are no longer part of the solution. You are the one that caused the problem."

Van Statten sat back down not wanting to anger the blonde haired woman.

The Doctor turned his attention back to the computer screen. "It's got to go through this area. What's that?"

"Weapons Testing." Goddard told him.

"Give guns to lawyers, technicians, anyone. Everyone. Only then you got a chance of killing it. " He told her the cold hard truth.

Goddard nods and gets up.

The Doctor took her place.

Alexys moved towards Van Statten. She shoved his chair out of the way with him on it and pulled a new chair over so she could be in front of the computer.

"I thought you were the great expert Doctor." Van Statten said looking over at the man.

The Doctor ignored what Van Statten had said.

"If you're so impressive, then why not just reason with this Dalek." Van Statten continued on giving the Doctor a sour look.

Alexys scoffed. "I would stop while you're ahead Mr. Van Statten." She bit out.

"It must be willing to negotiate, there must be something it needs, everything needs something."

"What's the nearest town?" The Doctor asked looking up.

"Salt Lake City."

"Population?"

"One milion."

"All dead. If the Dalek gets out, it'll murder every living creature, that's all it needs."

"But why would it do that?"

"Are you really that daft?" Alexys asked looking at him. She couldn't help, but wonder why this human wasn't getting it through his thick skull.

"Because it honestly believe they should die. Human beings are different, and anything different is wrong. It's the ultimate in racial cleansing and you, Van Statten, you've let it loose." The Doctor snapped.

Alexys looked at the computer. "They are all in place." She told the Doctor.

The Doctor looked at her and nodded his head. "The Dalek's surrounded by a force field. The bullets are melting before they even hit home, but it's not indestructible. If you concentrate your fire, you might get through. Aim for the dome, the head, the eyepiece. That's the weak spot."

"Thank you Doctor, but I think I know how to fight one single tin robot. Positions!"

Alexys shook her head. "Idiots." She muttered under her breath.

Goddard looked over at the Doctor. "We've got vision."

The Doctor stood up. "It wants us to see."

"Always one thing that the Daleks love. Death and carnage and love making others watch." Alexys said crossing her arms. She looked away seeing all of those bodies falling onto the ground dead. She closed her eyes softly remembering back to the past of her own people being slaughtered during the war.

Van Statten cleared his throat. "Perhaps it's time for a new strategy, maybe we should consider abandoning this place."

"Except there's no power to the helipad, sir. We can't get out." Goddard told him fairly upset with him.

"You said you could seal the vault." The Doctor said looking at him.

"Yes. It was designed to be a bunker. In the event of nuclear war, steel bulkheads."

"Don't even think about it." Alexys snapped. "I'll do it."

"There's not enough power, those bulkheads are massive." Goddard said.

"We've got emergency power, we can reroute that to the bulkhead doors."

"We'd have to bypass the security codes, that would take a computer genius."

Van Statten looked at Alexys and saw that she was already starting. "We have two…"

The Doctor looked at Alexys. "You want to help?"

Alexys looked up from what she was doing. "Yes, I don't feel like getting killed by a Dalek today."

"Sir." Goddard said looking at her boss.

The three of them looked to see what Goddard was talking about.

"I shall speak only to the Doctor."

The Doctor straightened up in his seat. "You're gonna get rusty."

"I fed off the DNA of Rose Tyler. Extrapolating the biomass of a time traveller regenerated me."

"What's your next trick?" The Doctor said gripping his hands tightly together causing his knuckles to turn white under the pressure.

"I have been searching for the Daleks."

"Yeah, I saw. Downloading the internet." He stands up and walks around the table. "What did you find?"

"I scanned your satellites and radio telescopes."

"And?"

"Nothing. Where shall I get my orders now?"

"You're just a soldier without commands."

"Then I shall follow the primary order, the Dalek instinct to destroy! To conquer!"

"What for? What's the point? Don't you see? It's all gone. Everything you were, everything you stood for."

"Then what should I do?"

"Alright then. If you want orders… follow this one. Kill yourself."

"The Daleks must survive!"

"The Daleks have failed!" The Doctor yelled angrily. "Why don't you finish the job and make the Daleks extinct? Rid the Universe of your filth, why don't you just die?"

"You would make a good Dalek."

Alexys's eyes went wide. Yes, he would, but what would that make her? Would it too make her a Dalek as well? Her hands gripped at her sides tightly.

The screen went blank.

The Doctor was dumbstruck. He hadn't realized that he sounded so much like a Dalek at that moment. He closed his eyes. "Seal the vaults."

Alexys turned and began her work on the computer. Her fingers flying across the keyboards.

The Doctor sat across from her. He began to type quickly as well.

"I can leech the power off the ground defences. Feed it to the bulkheads. It's been a while since I have to do something like this." She said as she typed faster. She was good with technology, but she didn't trust Van Statten to do it. After all he had proved how stupid he actually was.

The Doctor looked up at her. "You are enjoying this?"

"Perhaps. Perhaps not." She said, as she continued to work.

"Doctor, she's still down there." Goddard said.

"That means Adam is still with her. I hope." Alexys said looking up at Goddard.

Goddard nodded her head.

The Doctor called her phone. "Where are you?" He asked her. "You've got to keep moving, the vault's being sealed off, bulkhead level 46." He continued to type on the computer as he talked to her. "I'm the one who's closing them. I can't wait and I can't help you. Now for God's sake, run."

Alexys finished typing. "Got it, Doctor. I've have power to the bulkheads."

"The Dalek's right behind them." Goddard confirming their fears.

"Doctor… we can't wait. I can't sustain the power. The whole system is failing."

The Doctor looked at Alexys.

"Doctor… please you've got to close the bulkheads."

The Doctor closed his eyes. He couldn't believe that he was stuck in this spot. He knew that this was for the greater good. He was going to have to seal them. "I'm sorry." He whispered. He hit the enter key.

Alexys closed her eyes knowing that it was probably hard on him. She kept an eye on her screen.

The Doctor was looking at the screen that showed them running.

"The vault is sealed." Alexys said looking at him.

The Doctor leaped out of his seat. "Rose, where are you? Rose, did you make it?"

Alexys brought her hands up to her mouth she hoped that the girl that was with him had gotten through.

The Doctor lowered his head. She hadn't made it. Not the way that he had wanted to. He tore the earpiece off of his ear. "I killed her."

Alexys got up from her spot and moved towards the Doctor.

"I'm sorry." Van Statten said.

The Doctor turned sharply towards him. "I said I'd protect her. She was only here because of me, and you're sorry? I could've killed that Dalek in its cell. But you stopped me."

"It was the prize of my collection!"

"Oh come off it!" Alexys said turning and glaring at him.

"Your collection? But was it worth it? Worth all those men's deaths? Worth Rose?"

Van Statten kept silent.

"Let me tell you something, Van Statten. Mankind goes into space to explore. To be part of something greater."

"Not to become something that isn't great." Alexys said crossing her arms.

Van Statten stood up. "Exactly! I wanted to touch the star!"

The Doctor narrowed his eyes at Van Statten. "You just want to drag the stars down and stick them underground underneath tons of sand and dirt. And label them. You're about as far from the stars as you can get!"His face went from angry to sad. "And you took her down with you." He shook his head. "She was nineteen years old."

Van Statten couldn't say anything. He knew that this was all his fault.

Alexys turned when the lift doors opened.

Adam came running into the room.

The Doctor turned onto him. "You were quick on your feet, leaving Rose behind!"

"I'm not the one who sealed the vault!" Adam snapped back.

Alexys turned and smacked him upside the back of the head. "I am the one that closed the bulkheads."

Adam looked at her with wide eyes. Why would she be the one to seal the bulkheads?

The screen came to life.

"Open the bulkhead or Rose Tyler dies."

Alexys walked towards the keyboards.

The Doctor took a few steps towards the screen. He was relieved that she was alive. "You're alive."

"Can't get rid of me." Rose said softly.

"I thought you were dead."

"Open the bulkhead!"

"Don't do it!"

"What use are emotions if you will not save the woman you love?"

Alexys looked at him and saw his expression. She held her finger over the return button.

"I killed her once." The Doctor said looking at Van Statten. "I can't do it again."

Alexys hit the key to open the bulkheads.

"What do we do now? You bleeding hearts, what the hell do we do?"Van Statten demanded looking at the two of them.

Alexys left the room. She knew where she was going to go to Adam's workshop knowing that the Doctor and Adam would end up showing up there anyways. She went to the spot where she had her items hidden. Adam didn't have a clue that she had some weapons hidden.

Adam and the Doctor came into the room.

"Alexys I didn't think that you would…" Adam said looking at her with wide eyes.

Alexys laughed and pulled out a gun that was only used on her planet. It had gone with her when she fell through the vortex. "I just thought it was quicker this way. Knew you would catch up to me soon anyways."

The Doctor began to go through the items that Adam had. "Broken." He threw it. "Broken." He threw it as well. "Hairdryer."

Alexys shook her head.

"Mr. Van Statten tends to dispose of his staff, and when he does he wipes their memory. I kept this stuff in case I needed to fight my way out one day." He told him.

"What, you in a fight? I'd like to see that." The Doctor said scoffing as he continued to look through the items.

"I could do."

Alexys shook her head. "I don't see you ever getting into a fight kid."

"What're you gonna do, throw your A-Levels at 'em?" He said pulling out another item. "Oh, yes. Lock and load."

Alexys looked at him. "Shall we, Doctor?"

The Doctor nodded his head.

The two of them ran out the room and went for the stairs. They began to run up the stairs in hopes that they would get to Rose. They both made it to the top floor.

"Get out of the way!" The Doctor called to Rose. He held his gun up.

Alexys held up her gun.

Rose looked at them both in shock. What was this all about.

"Rose, get out of the way, now!"

"No! 'Cos I won't let you do this!"

"That thing killed hundreds of people."

"It's not the one pointing guns at me."

"I've got to do this. I've got to end it. The Daleks destroyed my home, my people. I've got nothing left."

"You aren't the only one there." Alexys said narrowing her eyes.

"Look at it." Rose said moving a little bit.

"What's it doing?"

"It's sunlight, that's all it wants."

"But it can't." The Doctor said in shock.

"It couldn't kill Van Statten, it couldn't kill me, it's changing. What about you Doctor? What the hell are you changing into?" Rose demanded looking at the Doctor with tear filled eyes.

The Doctor lowered his gun. "I couldn't." He said softly lost.

Rose stared at him.

"I wasn't…" The Doctor looked between them. "Oh, Rose. They're all dead."

"Why do we survive?" The Dalek asked.

"I don't know."

"I am the last of the Daleks."

"You're not even that. Rose did more than regenerate you. You absorbed her DNA. You're Mutating."

"Into what?"

"Something new. I'm sorry."

"Isn't that better?" Rose asked looking at him.

"Not for a Dalek."

"I can feel so many ideas. So much darkness… Rose… give me orders! Order me to die."

"I can't do that."

"Rose." Alexys said lowering her gun. "Move… I can help it."

Rose looked at her with wide eyes.

The Doctor nodded his head.

Rose moved away from the Dalek.

Alexys moved towards it.

"Witch." The Dalek said looking at her.

"The last one." Alexys said nodding her head. She brought her hand back and threw it forward. A blast of bright red light shot from it hitting the Dalek destroying it and it's armour. Alexys closed her eyes. She was upset with herself that she had to kill again.

DWDWDW

The Doctor and Rose stood with Alexys outside of the Tardis.

The Doctor had his hand on it. "Little piece of home. Better than nothing."

"Is that the end of it?" Rose asked looking at him. "The Time War?"

"I'm the only one left. I win. How about that."

Alexys shook her head. "You aren't the only one." She told him with a small smile.

The Doctor nodded his head knowing that was very much true. He knew what she was. He knew that she was the last of the Witch race. He now found someone else who knew what it was like to be alone. He knew what he needed to do.

"The Dalek survived… maybe some of your people did too." Rose said softly looking at the Doctor.

"I'd know. In here." He said pointing to his head. "Feels like there's no one."

"Well then, good thing I'm not going anywhere." Rose said with a smile.

The Doctor smiled back. "Yeah." He turned his attention to the blonde haired woman. "So Alexys right?"

Alexys nodded her head.

"Would you like to travel with us?"

Alexys's eyes went wide. "You're not…"

"I'm not joking. Come with us. The last of the Witches shouldn't be alone." The Doctor said giving her a small smile. He wanted her to travel with them. No one deserved to be alone after all these years.

Alexys smiled and then nodded her head. "Thank you." She said softly.

Adam jogged up to him. "We'd better get out. Van Statten's disappeared… they're closing down the base."

The Doctor turned and faced him his arms were folded.

"Goddard says they're going to fill it full of cement. Like it never existed." Adam continued to talk blabbering on.

"About time." Rose said shaking her head.

Adam let out a sigh. "I'll have to go back home."

"Better hurry up then. Next flight to Heathrow leaves at 1500 hours." The Doctor said. He wasn't going to have a fourth person on his ship.

"Adam was saying that all his life he's wanted to see the stars..." Rose said hinting to the Doctor. She wanted Adam to come with them. She liked him and that was what she was blinded to at that moment.

"Tell him to go and stand outside, then."

"He's all on his own, Doctor. And he did help."

"He left you down there!"

"So did you!" Rose said shaking her head.

Alexys shook her head.

"What are you talking about?" Adam asked looking at the two of them. "We've got to leave."

The Doctor looked at Rose. "Rose, he's a bit pretty."

"I hadn't noticed."

Alexys shook her head. She knew that the yellow and pink girl had noticed. There was no way not to.

The Doctor raised his eyebrows skeptically at the girl and then turned to the Tardis. "On your own head." He said unlocking the door.

"What are you doing? She said cement. She wasn't joking, we're going to get sealed in."

Alexys, The Doctor and Rose went inside of the Tardis.

"Doctor? What're you standing inside a box? Rose? Alexys?" Adam peered through the door and then slowly stepped inside.

Rose turned and faced him. "Welcome to the Tardis." Rose said with a smile.

The Doctor hit the buttons to start the engines up and they were off.

"Doctor?" Rose saying his name.

"Hm?"

"I'm going to show Adam around."

The Doctor nodded his head.

Rose grinned. "Come on." She said taking Adam's hand leading him away.

The Doctor looked at Alexys.

Alexys looked at him when she felt his eyes on her. "What?" She asked softly.

The Doctor shook his head. "How long were you there?" He asked softly wondering how long she had been working for Van Statten.

"Two years." She replied softly looking down.

"Why didn't you try to find a way off?"

"Earth?" Alexys looked into his eyes. "Well… I didn't think that there were any Time Lords alive. You've proved me wrong."

The Doctor smiled. "Well, I'm glad that I found a witch."

Alexys smiled at him. She was glad that he had found her.

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This is the end of Chapter 2 of Between the Lines. I hope that you guys enjoyed it. Please leave a review and let me know what you think. I'll try to update once again as soon as I can. Reviews are my muse to keep on writing, so please let me know what you think. Until next time guys.