Rising From The Ashes (Book Five of the Bad Wolf Chronicles)

Cold Blood

Obviously photoshopped, but oh well.

In this chapter, Jessie takes one for the team, then sits out a whole lot, the Doctor comes very close to breaking up the entire deal, and Ambrose gets a talking to back on the surface. Oh, and we get a sneak peek at the end to help deal with the loss of Rory!

Enjoy!

***

"Don't you come near me with that!" Amy shouted as the Silurian came closer.

The Silurian paused and spoke to a recorder. "From the clothing, the human female appears to be more resistant to the cold than the male."

"I dressed for Rio!" Amy protested.

"Leave her alone!" the man shouted, struggling. "You've got me!"

Amy cried out when the Silurian pressed a button on a remote, and the clamps on her wrists shut tighter. "Decontamination complete," the Silurian said. "Commencing dissection." He came closer with the scalpel -

"Two hearts!" the Bad Wolf called out, making him pause and turn to her. Amy's eyes widened, and she whipped her head to the side, seeing the Bad Wolf biting her lip. "You heard me," she said. "I've got two hearts. Take a listen if you don't believe me."

"What are you doing?" Amy gasped as the Silurian doctor frowned and headed over to her, using some sort of a stethoscope on her, his eyes widening when he did indeed hear a double heartbeat.

"I've got two hearts," the Bad Wolf nodded to the doctor as he stared at her. "You said she was a female human. I'm not even from this planet. She'll be the same, like him, with just a few differences . . . but what's different about me?"

The doctor turned to his recorder. "Dissection of the human female will be postponed until dissection of the second female of unknown origins is finished."

"Bad Wolf!" Amy whispered in horror.

"Been worried about being put in a lab since I was eleven, Amy," the Bad Wolf forced out a chuckle, clenching her fists. "First time for everything, I suppose."

Amy closed, her eyes, bowing her head. The Bad Wolf bit her lip, took a deep breath, and slammed shut every connection she had to the Doctor as the scalpel sliced into the skin of her wrist.

***

"This place is enormous and deserted," the Doctor was telling Nasreen as they walked down the tunnel. "The majority of the race are probably still asleep. We need to find the Bad Wolf and Ay. Looking for heat signature anomalies . . . " He held out the sonic screwdriver.

"But, Doctor, how can all this be here?" Nasreen asked, looking intently at all of the plants around them. "I mean, these plants!"

"Must be getting closer to the center of the city," the Doctor mumbled before frowning and blinking a bit. He was starting to get a bit of a headache . . .

"You're sure this is the best way to enter?"

"Front door approach," he nodded absently, trying to find Jessie in his mind . . . and frowned when he hit a brick wall almost. "Definitely. Always the best way - "

He cringed when alarms started to wail. "Hostile life forms detected, area seventeen."

"Apart from the back door approach. That's also good. Sometimes better."

"Hostile life forms detected, area seventeen."

"Doctor!" Nasreen cried.

The Doctor turned a full circle as Silurian warriors approached from everywhere, his headache worsening. "We're not hostile!" he told them, holding up his hands, Nasreen quickly doing the same. "We're not armed! We're here in peace!"