A/N: Here's part two. Enjoy :)
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DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
"I kissed your lips and broke your heart.
You, you were acting like it was the end of the world."
– U2: 'Until the End of the World' (U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Ireland [1991]).
Corridor
They emerge from the maintenance tunnel into a corridor right next to door 32. After Danny scrambles out, Rose turns and offers her hand to Toby who is still inside the tunnel.
"Come on! Toby, come on!" Rose urges him but doesn't notice that Toby's eyes have gone red again. He slyly gestures to the Ood to keep quiet. "Toby, get out of there!" Rose growls at him, and Toby's eyes fade back to normal as he starts panicking.
"Help me! Oh, my God! Help me!" He begs frantically. Both Rose and Katy grab his hands and pull the terrified man out of the tunnel. Katy turns and notices more Ood coming towards them along the corridor.
"We've got company!" She announces.
"It's this way!" Danny gestures and they all take off sprinting down the corridor. In the Control Room, the Ood attempting to break in are nearly through. Zach picks up the bolt gun, holding it at the ready.
"Hurry it up!" He urges the group. They finally make it to Ood Habitation and scramble inside.
Ood Habitation
Danny sprints for the computer monitor as everyone else congregates on the metal catwalk, overlooking the Ood's holding pen.
"Get it in!" Katy shouts at Danny, who fumbles for the right outlet to shove the computer chip in.
"Danny, get down!" Toby shouts as well.
"Transmit!" Rose joins in.
"I'm trying, I'm trying! I'm getting at it." Danny reassures them as he searches through his pockets for the computer chip, while the Ood come up the stairs. In the control room, the Ood finally break in.
"Danny, get that thing transmitting!" Rose urges Danny, who finally gets the chip into the machine. The reading falls from basic 100 to zero, causing the Ood to grab their heads and writhe for a few seconds before they finally collapse. "We did it! We did it!" Rose cheers, happily.
"Yes!" Danny sags with relief.
"Zach, we did it. The Ood are down," Katy reports. "Now we've got to go get the Doctor and Ida!" Katy states with determination.
"I'm on my way!" Zach responds.
Chasm
The Doctor was still descending down the chasm. He was having a conversation with Ida to pass the time and distract himself from the fact that he was being lowered down into literally nothing.
"You get representations of the Horned Beast right across the universe, in the myths and legends of a million worlds. Earth, Draconia, Velconsadine, Daemos. The Kaled god of war." He sighed heavily. "It's the same image, over and over again. Maybe that idea came from somewhere, bleeding through. The thought at the back of every sentient mind."
"Emanating from here?" Ida asked, curiously.
"Could be," the Doctor shrugged.
"But if this is the original, does that make it real?" Ida asked, philosophically. "Does that make it the actual devil, though?"
"Well, if that's what you want to believe. Maybe that's what the devil is, in the end. An idea." The Doctor rationalised. He jerks to a sudden stop when the cable runs out and finds himself dangling in mid-air. The Doctor glances around and realises that he is nowhere near the bottom of this pit.
"That's it. That's all we've got. You getting any sort of readout?" Ida questioned him.
"Nothing," the Doctor stated. "Could be miles to go, yet. Or could be thirty feet. No way of telling." Then he ponders it rationally. "I could survive thirty feet…"
"Oh no you don't," Ida objected. "I'm pulling you back up!" Ida starts to reverse the drum only for the Doctor to stop it. "What are you doing?"
"You can bring me back, then we're just going to sit there and run out of air. I've got to go down." The Doctor insisted, stubbornly.
"But you can't. Doctor, you can't." Ida protested.
"Call it an act of faith," the Doctor explained.
"But I don't want to die on my own," Ida whispers, fearfully. The Doctor lets a bittersweet smile spread across his face.
"I know," He responds sympathetically as he undoes the carabiners that were holding the cable in place around him.
Drilling area
Katy, Rose, Danny, Toby, and Zach make it back to the drilling area, whereupon the sisters ran straight towards the microphone and snatch it up, holding it between them so they could speak into it.
"Doctor, are you there?" Rose yells anxiously into the microphone.
"Ida, can you hear us?" Katy adds. Zach comes over to the computer monitor and starts searching through it to see the technological issue.
"The comms are still down. I can patch them through the central desk and boost the signal. Just give me a minute." Zach instructs before he grabs the keyboard and starts clicking and typing away at it, as the sisters watch him impatiently.
Chasm
The Doctor was just about to release the last carabiner when a thought suddenly occurred to him.
"I didn't ask. Have you got any faith?" He questions Ida, who stays silent for a moment before responding.
"Not really. I was brought up Neo Classic Congregational, because of my mum. She was. My old mum. But no, I never believed." Ida confessed. The Doctor chuckled.
"Neo Classics, have they got a devil?"
"No, not as such. Just er, the things that men do." Ida stated, jokingly.
The Doctor shrugged.
"Same thing in the end."
"What about you?" Ida asked, curiously.
"I believe," The Doctor paused, thinking over his answer. "I believe I haven't seen everything; I don't know." He laughs again, this time a little bitter. "It's funny, isn't it? The things you make up. The rules. If that thing had said it came from beyond the universe, I'd believe it, but before the universe? Impossible. Doesn't fit my rule. Still, that's why I keep travelling. To be proved wrong." He sighed heavily. "Thank you, Ida."
"Don't go!"
"If they get in touch," the Doctor interrupted. "If you talk to Katy, just tell her. Tell her." He suddenly chokes up and backs down at the last second; rubbish at saying goodbyes. "Oh, she knows."
The Doctor releases the last carabiner and falls into the darkness. Ida lowers her head in despair, and flinches when both sisters suddenly call out.
"Are you there, Doctor?" Rose shouts, eagerly.
"Please respond, we've got so much to tell you!" Katy adds, feeling triumphant. Ida draws in a deep breath before responding to them.
"He's gone."
Drilling area
The smiles on Katy and Rose's faces vanish the moment they hear Ida's words.
"What do you mean, he's gone?" Rose's voice sounded small, vulnerable.
"What's happened?" Katy demanded.
"He fell into the pit," Ida explained, reluctantly. "And I don't know how deep it is. Miles and miles and miles."
"But what do you mean, he fell?" Rose asked.
"I couldn't stop him. He left a message." Ida confessed, and Katy shook her head in disbelief.
"No. I don't believe you. You're lying, he couldn't have…" Katy denied, feeling her heart rising up to lodge in her throat, almost suffocating her. The Doctor couldn't be gone. He promised he'd come back, didn't he? "He promised…" She whispered. Zach comes over and takes the microphone from Rose as the sisters back away, both looking shell-shocked by the news.
"I'm sorry," He says to the girls, sadly. Zach speaks into the microphone. "Ida? There's no way of reaching you. No cable." he tells her. "No back up. You're ten miles down. We can't get there."
Ida nodded to herself, already knowing that this was her fate. She glanced about the chasm, pleased that she had at least gotten the opportunity to see this wonderful place for herself before she died.
"You should see this place, Zach. It's beautiful." She sighed sadly. "Well, I wanted to discover things, and here I am."
"We've got to abandon the base." Zach told Ida, causing both sisters to look over at him in horror. He wanted to do what now? "I'm declaring this mission unsafe. All we can do is make sure no one ever comes here again."
"But we'll never find out what it was," Ida protested.
"Well, maybe that's best." Zach stated, and Ida bit her bottom lip despite knowing that what Zach was saying was true.
"Yeah," She acknowledged. Zach hesitated, obviously reluctant to abandon another one of his colleagues to certain death on an unknown planet.
"Officer Scott—"
"It's alright. Just go. Good luck." Ida said. Zach puts down the microphone and turns around to give orders, only to come face to face with a furious Katy.
"It is certainly not alright. We can't just abandon them. We find another way!" She snarled, but Zach ignores her and addresses Danny and Toby.
"Danny, Toby. Close down the feed links. Get the retrotropes online, then get to the rocket and strap yourselves in. We're leaving." He orders.
Both men nod and get to work.
"I'm not going!" Rose protested.
"Neither am I." Katy agreed, still looking at the pit angrily.
"Rose, Katy, there's spaces for you." Zach reassures them.
"No, we're going to wait for the Doctor. Just like he waited for us." Katy insisted, sharply.
"I'm sorry, but he's dead," Zach insisted firmly.
"Then you obviously don't know him, because we're telling you: he's not dead!" Rose argued stubbornly.
"And even if he were, how could we leave him on his own, all the way down there?" Katy paused, looking between her sister and the pit and back again before making her final decision. "No, I'm staying here."
"Me too!" Rose agreed.
"Then I apologise for this," Zach turns for Danny and Toby, who were standing nearby. "Danny, Toby? Make her secure." Zach points at Katy, whose eyes widen, especially when both men grab her arms.
"Get off me! Let go!" She thrashes wildly in their grip, as Rose reacts angrily.
"Stop it! Leave her alone!" Zach injects Katy, causing her to pass out.
"Doctor…" Katy mumbles before fainting.
"What did you do?!" Rose was outraged, then her eyes widen when she sees Zach coming at her with the same sedative. "No, no. No! No! No! Get off me! I'm not leaving!" Zach also injects Rose, and she passes out.
"I have lost too many people. I am not leaving you both behind!" Zach told the knocked-out girls, vehemently. He looks at both Danny and Toby. "Let's get them on board." Zach grabs Rose in a fireman's hold and leads the way out to the rocket, while Danny and Toby work together and half-carry, half-drag Katy towards the rocket.
While making their way through the corridor, Toby spots one of the Ood suddenly twitch.
"Did that one just move?" Toby asked, alarmed.
"It's the telepathic field. It's reasserting itself," Danny realised. Zach increases his speed.
"Move it. Get to the rocket. Move!" He orders.
The Pit
The first thing the Doctor noticed when he regained consciousness was that he was lying on something rocky and hard, but he didn't feel any aches and pains; then the fact that his faceplate was broken, and he wasn't suffocating.
Frowning, and congratulating himself for sheer dumb luck, he stands up and looks around, curiously and cautiously.
"I'm breathing?" He glances up surprised. "Air cushion to support the fall…" The Doctor laughs in disbelief before remembering Ida. "You can breathe down here, Ida. Can you hear me, Ida?"
Rocket
Everyone, including Katy and Rose, were strapped into their chairs, ready for take-off. Zach was in the pilot seat, flicking switches and going over safety procedures.
"Dislocating B clamp. C clamp. Raising blu-nitro to maximum." He glances back at Toby. "Toby, how's the Negapact feed line?" He asks him.
"Clear," Toby replies. "Ready to go, sir. For God's sakes, get us out of here!" He urges, just as both sisters start to regain consciousness. Danny looks nervously at them, knowing that they were likely to be incredibly pissed off with them for taking them into the rocket against their will.
"Er, Captain. I think we're going to have some problem passengers," Danny alerted Zach, who glances at the sisters through the rear vision mirror.
"Just keep eyes on them," Zach requests, and Danny nodded. Rose blinks awake first, registering where she was.
"Wait. We're not…"
"It's alright, Rose. You're safe," Danny reassures the blonde, who frowns in confusion before realising where she was. She glances over to Katy to check she was still breathing before facing the front and glaring furiously at the three men in the cockpit with her.
"We're not going anywhere! Get me out of this thing! Get me out!" Rose yells angrily.
"And lift off! Whoo!" Zach announces, as the rocket starts shaking as it moves away from the sanctuary base and the planet.
Back on the planet, both Ida and the Doctor hear the rocket taking off.
"A rocket?" the Doctor questioned. Katy wakes up and sees that they're in the rocket, before spying an abandoned bolt gun sitting in front of her, right next to Zach. She springs forward, startling Rose who was sitting beside her, and aims the bolt gun at Zach.
"Take us back to the planet," She orders calmly, but firmly. "Take us back!"
"Or what?" Zach challenges.
"Or I'll shoot." Katy responds, surprising Rose.
"Would you, though?" Zach calls her bluff. "Would you really? Is that what your Doctor would want?" He asks, and Katy realises that the Doctor would not be so forgiving if she actually followed through with her threat. She slumps back in her seat, feeling defeated. "Besides, it's too late anyway. Take a look outside. We can't turn back. This is what the Doctor would have wanted. Isn't that right?" Zach reasoned, as both sisters look solemnly out the window watching as the rocket gets further and further away from the black hole.
The Pit
The Doctor shines his torchlight on some wall paintings he had found on the cavern wall. He is fascinated, and disturbed by what he is seeing.
"The history of some big battle. Man against Beast." He sighed heavily. "I don't know if you're getting this, Ida. Hope so. Anyway, they defeated the Beast and imprisoned it." The Doctor soon comes across a couple of bronze urns, sitting on pedestals.
There are two identical ones painted on the wall.
"Or maybe that's the key…" He touches one of the urns and they both light up at his touch. "Or the gate, or the bars—"
He jumps back in fright when an impossibly big horned creature wakes up and looks right at him. It is chained to the wall by its horns and limbs.
Rocket
Toby was laughing somewhat triumphantly, both annoying and puzzling everyone on board the rocket.
Particularly Danny.
"What's the joke?" Danny questions him, frowning.
"Just, we made it. We escaped. We actually did it!" Toby pointed out, in delight. But neither Katy or Rose were feeling very jubilant at the thought that they were supposedly safe.
"Not all of us." Rose stated, dully.
"And you don't have to be so enthusiastic about this. People have died to get us to this point." Katy pointed out, bitterly. Zach looks sympathetically at both girls, and disapprovingly at Toby.
"Well, we're not out of it yet. We're still the first people in history to fly away from a black hole." Zach stated. "Toby, read me the stats." Toby eagerly reads the information in front of him.
"Gravity funnel holding, sir. Always holding."
The Pit
The Doctor was stunned by what he was seeing in front of him. He didn't like to be proven wrong, especially about something like this. Still, he felt the need to acknowledge the Beast chained up in front of him, peering down maliciously.
"I accept that you exist," He acknowledged. "I don't have to accept what you are, but your physical existence, I'll give you that." He looked around in confusion. "I don't understand. I was expected down here. I was given a safe landing and air." The Doctor frowns suspiciously at the Beast. "You need me for something. What for? Have I got to, I don't know, beg an audience? Or is there a ritual? Some sort of incantation or summons or spell?" He wondered, slightly sarcastically. "All these things I don't believe in, are they real?"
No response.
"Speak to me! Tell me!" The Doctor demanded. "You won't talk. Or you can't talk." Then realised something belatedly. "Oh! Hold on, wait a minute, just let me. Oh! No. Yes! No. Think it through. You spoke before. I heard your voice. An intelligent voice. No, more than that. Brilliant. But, looking at you now, all I can see is Beast. The animal. Just the body. You're just the body, the physical form."
He frowns curiously.
"What's happened to your mind, hmm? Where's it gone? Where's that intelligence?" Then it clicked, and his mouth fell open in shock when he remembered the possessed Toby and the Ood.
"Oh, no…"
Rocket
Toby was practically vibrating in his seat he was so cheerful, and it was starting to annoy the sisters, who was sitting either side of him. Why was he so happy? It was great that they were no longer on the dangerous planet, but he had lost about half of his colleagues.
So why so chipper when he should've been mourning and solemn like the rest of them?
"Stats at fifty-three. Funnel stable at sixty-six point five. Hull pressure constant. Smooth as we can, sir, all the way back home." He reports to Zach. "Coordinates set for Planet Earth."
The Pit
The Doctor continues to rant to the Beast, who was observing him interestedly while the Time Lord attempted to puzzle it out.
"You're imprisoned, long time ago. Before the universe, after, sideways, in between, doesn't matter. The prison is perfect. It's absolute, it's eternal. Oh, yes! Open the prison, the gravity field collapses. This planet falls into the black hole! You escape, you die. Brilliant! But that's just the body. The body is trapped, that's all. The devil is an idea. In those civilisations, just an idea. But an idea is hard to kill. An idea could escape. The mind. The mind of the great Beast. The mind can escape!"
Then the Doctor came up with another plausible theory, and he grinned with excitement.
"Oh, but that's it! You didn't give me air, your jailers did. They set this up all those years ago! They need me alive, because if you're escaping, then I've got to stop you. If I destroy your prison, your body is destroyed. Your mind with it."
The Doctor reaches for a large rock and goes over to smash one of the urns but stops himself in time and backs away from it when he comes to a grim realisation. He drops the rock and turns back to the Beast with a sober expression.
"But then you're clever enough to use this whole system against me. If I destroy this planet, I destroy the gravity field. The rocket loses protection and falls into the black hole. I'd have to sacrifice Katy…"
Rocket
"It doesn't make sense…" Something was nagging at Rose. It seemed way too easy that they were all getting away from the dangerous planet without getting sucked into the depths of the black hole. She decided to voice her doubts and suspicions to everyone else, to see if they had picked up on the same thing as she did. "We escaped, but there's a thousand ways it could've killed us. It could've ripped out the air or, I don't know, burnt us, or anything."
Katy frowns at her sister, wondering where she was going with this.
"Yeah, I see what you mean. It let us go. But why? Why did it want us to escape?"
"Hey, you two," Both Katy and Rose glance at Toby, who had an ugly scowl on his face, as though irritated with their questioning. "Do us a favour? Shut up!" He growls, and both sisters were taken aback by the harsh reprimand and glare at him.
"You know what, pal? You can pull your head in! Who the hell do you think you are!?" Katy snaps back, officially over Toby's eccentricities and bi-polar attitude. However, Toby merely smirks at her, as though expecting her reaction somehow.
"We're almost there. We'll be beyond the reach of the black hole in forty, thirty-nine…"
The Pit
The Doctor chuckles darkly, realising that he was essentially between a rock and a hard place.
Either way, somebody was going to lose.
"So, that's the trap. Or the test, or the final judgement, I don't know." He realises. "But if I kill you, I kill her. Except that implies in this big grand scheme of Gods and Devils that she's just a victim. But I've seen a lot in this universe. I've seen fake Gods and bad Gods and demi-Gods and would-be Gods, and out of all that, out of that whole pantheon, if I believe in one thing, just one thing, I believe in her."
He thinks about his beloved girlfriend and knows that there was no alternative to this situation.
He smashes the urn.
Rocket
The rocket starts shaking, startling everyone on board as they look around in a panic.
"What happened? What was that?" Danny exclaimed.
"What's he doing?" Toby mutters fearfully, earning strange looks from the sisters at his odd question. "What is he doing?"
"We've lost the funnel," Zach suddenly announces. Katy and Rose look at him in horror. "Gravity collapse!"
"What does that mean?" Katy demanded.
"We can't escape. We're headed straight for the black hole!" Zach explains.
The Pit
The Doctor smashes the second urn without hesitation, as the Beast thrashes around in horror, as though it knew how much danger it was now in.
The Doctor smirks at it triumphantly.
"This is your freedom. Free to die. You're going into that black hole and I'm riding with you!"
Rocket
Rose looks out of the window and sees the planet moving closer and closer to the black hole.
"It's the planet," she realises, to her dismay. "The planet's moving. It's falling." Katy jumps in fright when she sees that Toby's face is once again covered in the dead language symbols from before.
"Holy shit!" She yells, grabbing everyone's attention. They don't need an explanation when they spot Toby.
"I am the rage!" He growls, angrily.
"It's Toby! Zach, do something!" Rose pleads.
"And the bile and the ferocity!"
"Just do something!" Katy shouts, urgently.
"I am the Prince and the Fall and the enemy. I am the sin and the fear and the darkness."
"It's him! It's him! It's him!" Danny panics, and attempts to get away from Toby, but Zach eyes him sternly.
"Stay where you are. The ship's not stable!" He instructs then yelps when Toby starts breathing fire. "What is he? What the hell is he?"
Back on the falling planet, the Beast in the pit is bursting into flames as the Doctor watches coldly.
"I shall never die. The thought of me is forever. In the bleeding hearts of men, in their vanity and obsession and lust…" Rose picks up the bolt gun and catches Katy's eyes. The brunette frowns with confusion for a split second, before realising what her sister's intentions was and nodded solemnly. It just needed quick timing for their plan to work. "Nothing shall ever destroy me. Nothing!" Toby promises darkly, and Rose merely aims the bolt gun for the windscreen and takes aim.
"Go to hell..." Rose suggested and shoots out the windscreen, as Katy unfastens Toby's seatbelt. He is sucked, still roaring, out into space towards the black hole.
"Emergency shield!" Zach shouts as a metal shutter seals the hole. However, the rocket is still falling towards the black hole. "We've still lost the gravity funnel. We can't escape the black hole," Zach declares solemnly.
"But we've stopped him. That's what the Doctor would've done," Katy pointed out, grimly.
"Some victory," Zach snorts. "We're going in."
"The planet's lost orbit. It's falling!" Danny reports, and both Katy and Rose cringe at the thought of the Doctor still being on that planet. Back on the Sanctuary Base, the Ood are awake and are aware of what is happening all around them, and Ida passes out from a lack of oxygen. The Doctor is thrown about in the turbulence and hits … the Tardis! He quickly scrambles to his feet and darts inside. "The planet's gone. I'm sorry."
Danny hangs his head in anguish.
"Accelerate. I did my best. But hey! The first human beings to fall inside a black hole." Zach declares, dully. "How about that? History."
"Lucky us…" Katy replied flatly. Then all the shaking stops and everyone looks around, alert and confused.
"What happened?" Rose muttered.
"We're turning. We're turning around," Zach realises, then breaks out into a surprised smile. "We're turning away!"
"Sorry about the hijack, Captain. This is the good ship Tardis!" The Doctor's voice suddenly rings out over the comms. Katy and Rose's eyes widen in elation. "Now, first thing's first. Have you got a Katy and Rose Tyler on board?"
"Yes! I'm here!" Katy shouts out triumphantly.
"I'm here! It's me! Oh, my God. Where are you?" Rose asks, relieved.
"I'm just towing you home. Gravity schmavity. My people practically invented black holes!" The Doctor explained, enthusiastically.
The TARDIS
The Doctor was at the control desk, speaking cheerfully into the comms as he navigated the Tardis away from the black hole, towing the rocket behind her.
"Well, in fact, they did." He amended what he said. "In a couple of minutes, we'll be nice and safe." The Doctor promises. "Oh, and Captain? Can we do a swap? Say, if you give me Katy and Rose Tyler, I'll give you Ida Scott? How about that?" He offered, and both Zach and Danny sag with relief.
"She's alive!" Zach exclaimed.
"Yes. Thank God!" Danny was relieved.
"Yeah! Bit of oxygen starvation, but she should be alright." The Doctor diagnosed Ida, then became solemn. "I couldn't save the Ood. I only had time for one trip. They went down with the planet." The Tardis makes it out of the path of the black hole, and promptly stopped. "Ah! Entering clear space. End of the line. Mission closed."
A few minutes later, Katy and Rose made their way back into the Tardis. The Doctor looked up expectantly from the console and grinned at Rose when she ran straight at him and flung her arms around his shoulders for a big hug. Katy, however, was a little more subdued but nonetheless came over and hugged him with relief. But the Doctor frowned when he noticed that she wasn't exactly as excited as her sister, which concerned him.
"Zach? We'll be off, now. Have a good trip home," The Doctor called out to the three of them. "And the next time you get curious about something…" He cut himself off and sighed heavily. "Oh, what's the point. You'll just go blundering in. The human race." The Doctor mutters underneath his breath.
"But Doctor, what did you find down there?" Ida insisted, curiously. "That creature, what was it?"
"I don't know," the Doctor answered truthfully. "Never did decipher that writing. But that's good. Day I know everything? Might as well stop."
"What do you think it was, really?" Rose asked.
"I think we beat it," the Doctor evaded the question, deliberately. "That's good enough for me," He insisted, and Rose looked at him doubtfully.
"It said I was going to die in battle…" Rose pointed out, and Katy visibly winced which only increased the Doctor's concern when he saw it over Rose's shoulder. He smiles reassuringly at the blonde.
"Then it lied." He murmured, gaining a smile from Rose. "Right, onwards, upwards. Ida? See you again, maybe." The Doctor bids the last three remaining crew members goodbye.
"I hope so." Ida replied.
"And thanks, boys!" Rose added to Danny and Zach.
"Yeah, thank you." Katy added her two cents, albeit quietly from where she had secluded herself on the jump seat away from the console where the Doctor and Rose were standing.
"Hang on though, Doctor. You never really said. You three, who are you?" Ida asked. The Doctor exchanges looks with his companions before responding.
"Oh, the stuff of legend."
He throws the switch, causing the Tardis to dematerialise from view.
Rose heads for the staircase leading towards the lower levels of the Tardis.
She yawned loudly.
"Oh, I don't know about you, but I'm knackered. I'm gonna go sleep for a few hours," She announced and waved at the Doctor and Katy.
"Okay! Sweet dreams then," the Doctor responded. He waited until he couldn't hear the sound of Rose's footsteps before he put the Tardis into orbit somewhere in the time vortex and turned to lean on the console, facing in Katy's direction. She was avoiding direct eye contact with him. "You okay?"
"You lied to me," Katy accused and the Doctor didn't refute the accusation.
"Yeah."
"Why?" She raised her head, glaring angrily at him. "Do you have any idea at all how that made me feel?" The Doctor doesn't respond. "Well? Do you?" This time he avoids eye contact, and Katy scoffs. "Right…" Katy goes to follow Rose's example. "Perhaps I should create a list: rule number one, the Doctor lies!"
The Doctor immediately intercepts her by stepping right into her path. She tries to move around him but he steps in front of her every time.
"Katy, listen…"
"No, you listen! You complete arse!" She yells at him. "You lied right to my face. You promised me that you would come back to me, that you wouldn't do anything stupid. And what do you do? You deliberately fall into a chasm!" Katy was on the brink of tears at this point.
"I had no choice. I needed to find out what was going on," The Doctor calmly explained.
"But why did you?" Katy demanded. "What you did was reckless. Rose and I had no idea if you were dead or alive. All that we had to go by was what Ida told us: something about you leaving a message…" Katy trailed off.
"And do you know what that message was?" The Doctor was very pointed. It was obvious that at the time, even he thought he wasn't likely to survive.
"No, Ida never said… but I have a hunch. And if it's what I believe it was, then … I love you too." The Doctor smiled warmly at her, and Katy swallowed hard. "Doctor, you, and Rose are my family. I can't lose either of you."
"You're not going to lose us." The Doctor stated, firmly.
"How do I know that? All I know is that apart from you, Rose, and Mum, I apparently have a brother out there somewhere. But that's only from what Gwyneth told me that one time back in Cardiff. Do you remember that?"
"I remember," The Doctor acknowledged, then pulled Katy into his arms and rested his head on hers.
"And now, some Beast tell us that Rose is going to die soon—"
"Listen to me, Katy. Nothing is going to happen to Rose, okay. I won't allow it."
"I really hope so, Doctor." Katy muttered as she buried her face into his shoulder, as the Doctor had a look of worry on his face.
A/N: Thanks for reading. That's the end of 'The Satan Pit'. Stay tuned for the next chapters.
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