Melanie Tyler

Losing Eachother

After our hug, the Doctor turned the shields on and opened the door to look outside. The second he opened it, we were both confused. Instead of the forest, and my home. It was like a metal box. A giant empty metal box with the Tardis in it.

I looked at the Doctor and he was as confused as I was. Once again he shrugged it off and left the Tardis to investigate. I of course, followed him. 

We both looked around. I turned around and saw a figure. A man. I poked the Doctor and told him to turn around. The Second he saw the man he stepped forward protectively.

"Who are you?" He asked, although it sounded like a demand. The Doctor was mad, and a mad Doctor was never good.

The Man smiled and laughed slightly. He ignored the Doctor and looked at me. Into my eyes. I looked back at him, his blue eyes bright and mesmerizing. I blinked a few times and shook my head. His smile only grew bigger and frightened me slightly.

He finally looked at the doctor and dropped his smile. "I, Doctor, am Dreams. Well, Nightmares really. Almost the same sometimes, depends on the person I suppose. Luckily, you two happen to share some of the same nightmares. Isn't that just grand?" He said, smiling again. 

I swallowed hard. This man, thing, was messing with my head. The Doctor's too. Who knows what he found out, what he saw. The thought scared me.

He noticed this. "Don't worry Melanie, there's only one thing that really scares the both of you." He smiled and looked at the Doctor and I as a whole. "Being alone." My eyes grow wide as I turn to see the Doctor disappear. The Tardis too. The Man looks at me and walks close to me. I back up against the metal wall. "You, little lady, have some dreaming to do." He said, putting two fingers on my forehead as I fell into a black abyss.

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The Doctor looked at Melanie, or where she was a second ago. The Tardis was gone and so was she. The Doctor was scared, not for himself, but for Melanie. Melanie Tyler, his friend.

The Man was still there, but the Doctor was ignoring him. Then he turned. "Bring her back!" The doctor yelled.

The Man smiled and shook his head. "No." He snapped his fingers as the Doctor was rendered unconscious.

He woke up in the Same place, but there was something different about it. There was a window, a one way window. He could see through it. Through it was Melanie. The Doctor screamed her name, for almost 20 minutes straight. 

Melanie was strapped to a chair, only just waking up. There was a machine next to her. The Man walked into the room Melanie was in and looked at the Doctor. He Smiled as he turned the machine on and Melanie screamed. Screamed and struggled. She spit blood out of her mouth. Her eyes were filled with pain.

The Doctor couldn't watch it. He screamed her name and begged the man to stop the machine, but he only turned it up.

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Melanie wasn't really strapped to a chair though, that's only what the Man wanted The Doctor to see. Melanie on the other hand saw the Doctor strapped to a chair. Screaming Melanie's name, begging for help the way she would, but Melanie couldn't help him.

She banged on the window, begging the man to stop The Doctor's pain. To Stop her pain, but once again he only made it worse.

It had been hours, but it seemed like days. Melanie had cried, still was really. She screamed for the man, begged to see him, to talk to him. Finally he agreed. Not stopping The Doctor's pain, just silencing his screams so Melanie could't hear them.

"You called?" The Man said, his smile bigger than ever.

"Stop it. I'll do anything, just..... just please stop it." Melanie begged, on her knees in a crying heap.

"Anything?" He asked, quite amused.

Melanie nodded. "Just stop his pain. Let him go..... Please?" She begged again, tears still falling down her face. She couldn't deal with it. The Doctor's screams sounded that of her father's. They reminded her of that day, that day when she lost both her mother and her father. It reminded her, that she could lose her Doctor too.

"I suppose I will, but only in one condition..." He said.

"Anything." Melanie replied.