13 Novella 4

Revenge

You emerge from the by street, looking around with a smile as your girlfriends wait for your next move.

You consider the gem stones when you are hit with an image so powerful you slap your hand to your forehead in pain.

"Ow!" You shriek, trying to shake it away. It was The Doctor, incapacitated and alone in some dungeon. You breathe heavily as they steady you.

"(Y/n) what's wrong!" Cries Jenny in alarm, but you ignore her, straightening up and looking around anxiously for whoever you took that image from.

"(Y/n) what is it?" Hisses Missy, but you take off after a likely looking assailant, following them through the crowd.

You have no lead other than their hurried pace as they shove through the crowd, you following desperately, leaving the girls behind.

You catch another image, and this time it's of him- a tall alien with blue skin and strange facial markings- putting a gag on The Doctor.

Really panicking now, you spot the Time Lord twenty feet away looking at a stall behind Yaz. Luckily your persuit hasn't yet noticed her. You break through the crowd and launch yourself at her, where she catches you and looks down in alarm as you gasp.

"Must... leave.... now" you choke as she puts you back on your feet.

"(Y/n) what's wrong? Where are the others?" She begins but you shake your head, grabbing her wrist and pulling her towards the general direction of The Tardis.

"Yaz? Babe come on! (Y/n) let go, what's the problem?" She demands as you look around hurriedly.

You don't answer, using all your energy to search for the blue man while still managing to tow her all the way back into The Tardis. Eventually she stops struggling, realising you were serious.

Yaz jumps in behind, and to your relief you find Jenny and Missy have also caught up. The Doctor spins round and grabs your shoulders, forcing eye contact.

"(Y/n), tell me what's going on, now" she says calmly and you open your mouth to speak, hands on knees.

"There's someone out there who wants you, I don't know what for, but it didn't look good. He was chasing you, and I could see..." you stop, refusing to go on.

"What could you see?" She prompts gently, and you point at her hand. Resigned and slightly apprehensive, she gives it to you, and you close your eyes as you play back the image from the blue man.

She lets go and looks around worriedly.

"And you just caught his thought as he was passing?" She inquires and you nod.

"You're right, I'm more sensitive to thoughts concerning you lot" you grin weakly and her face softens.

"Well thank you for telling me, but I really don't think there's anything to worry about" she says and you stop, scowling.

"I'm sorry but is anyone going to tell us what's going on?" Asks Jenny impatiently and you turn, having forgotten your conversation was somewhat internal then.

"We don't all have mind voodoo, can you please talk externally- it's very annoying my love" says Missy and you look at their faces.

They look slightly hurt, and you realise you ran off immediately after telling them you would be fine. Feeling bad, you walk over and place a hand each in theirs. Both faces relax.

"Sorry I won't do that again. I saw a picture from a man of The Doctor, having been taken. He was hunting her. I had to find and warn her" you say as Yaz slips her hand anxiously into her girlfriends'.

"Everyone stop panicking. I'm fine" she says and you raise your eyebrows.

"You heard the woman; I say we get back out there and hope for the best." Mutters Missy and you scowl.

"Doctor it isn't safe" you pleade and she smiles.

"I wasn't done exploring" she says lightly. "I'll be careful, I know what he looks like now" she says and you sigh in defeat. Then gain inspiration.

"Ok well I'm a little tired, I might stay here" you say and nobody minds. They leave one by one, offering to stay behind and keep you company but you refuse, saying you wanted to sleep.

Naturally you had no intention of sleeping, and fifteen minutes later you have caught up and are walking twenty paces behind The Doctor, keeping a firm lock on her mind.

The occasional thought floats back, and you are relieved each time to find she was safe and content.

You listen out for any sign of the blue man but he is no where in sight, so you continue your mild stalking of The Doctor, reasoning with yourself that you had no ill intention behind it.

Looking up for another quick check you see a fleeting image that makes your heart stop. It's from the perspective of someone hiding ten feet away behind a wall, wielding a knife, head full of the Time Lady.

Furious, you whip round and duck behind that wall too, sneaking up on him.

You should be scared, he's much bigger than you and a man, a natural fear of yours. But now all you want is revenge.

He turns and looks momentarily taken aback before you seize his wrist against your own will and sink deep into his mind in one movement.

You give him a picture of himself being impaled by his own knife, and actually enjoy his screams of agony as he imagines the pain.

The actual knife drops onto the ground with a sharp clatter, but you don't stop, justice plaguing your thoughts.

He falls to his knees as you force horrific images of mutilation into his head, making him sob with phantom misery.

Finally you pull away, and kick him swiftly in the back for good measure.

All this takes barely thirty seconds.

You were efficient.

You turn and don't look back, heading serenely back to The Tardis, a sense of power and fulfilment coursing though you.

You jump back in just before The Doctor and Yaz enter, both looking surprised to find you standing, slightly flustered, on the deck.

You try to smile innocently but The Doctor narrows her eyes suspiciously. You are saved answering questions by the arrival of Missy and Jenny, both looking around and landing on you, grabbing a hand each.

The high from your recent excursion fresh, you pull Missy down and kiss her gently. She smiles and relaxes until you break away.

"I was only gone half an hour" she chuckles and you sigh, leaning back into Jenny who kisses you lightly on the forehead.

"Something wrong poppet?" She asks and you shake your head.

"Nope. Nothing at all" you smile.