Home, the long way round [1]

Chapter 11 - Cold Blood

Maddie woke up as she saw a Silurian standing for her as then she heard the Doctor screaming and hear the others talking. "Argh! How can they have escaped?" Restac paced around in the room. "This proves all prisoners should remain under military guard."

"I'm sure you'd prefer to be in charge of everything and everyone, Restac." The doctor Silurian said to her. "But we rank the same. Is there any word from Alaya?"

"No." She hissed as the Doctor still screamed and Maddie looked at him with a pained expression, feeling him.

"It's fine to show concern, you know." He told her. "She's part of your gene-chain." Then he looked at the Doctor and back at the machine. "I'm Decontaminating now."

"Decontamination!" The Doctor looked him, before he screamed in pain. "No, no, no!"

"It's all right." The doctor Silurian told him. "It won't harm you. I'm only neutralizing all your ape bacteria."

"I'm not an ape!" The Doctor shouted at him. "Look at the scans! Two hearts! Totally different! Totally not ape! Remove all human germs, you remove half the things keeping me alive." Then the doctor Silurian looked at the screen and stopped it.

"No, complete the process." Restac ordered him.

"Oh, that's much better, thanks!" The Doctor looked at him as then he glanced at Maddie, he was relieved to see her fine and well. "Not got any celery, have you? No, no, not really the climate, tomatoes, though, you'd do a roaring trade in those." Then he introduced himself and Maddie. "I'm the Doctor and this is Maddie, oh, and there's Nasreen, good!" Then the doctor Silurian woke up Nasreen.

"Oh, a green man." Nasreen muttered.

'I do not like this.' Maddie thought to the Doctor, who had heard her. 'It will be okay.' He thought back to her. Then the Doctor looked at Restac. "Hello, who are you?"

"Restac. Military commander." Restac replied to him.

"Oh, dear, really?" The Doctor looked at her. "There's always a military, isn't there?"

Then the doctor Silurian looked at him. "Your weapon was attacking the oxygen pockets above our city."

"Oxygen pockets!" The Doctor told him. "Lovely! Oooh, but not so good with an impending drill! Now it makes sense!"

Restac walked forwards to him. "Where is the rest of your invasion force?"

"Invasion force? Me and lovely Nasreen? No!" He glanced at Maddie. "We came for the humans you took. And to offer the safe return of Alaya." Restac showed worry for her as then she quickly hide it. "Oh, wait, you and she, what is it, same genetic source? Of course you're worried, but don't be, she's safe."

"You claim to come in peace, but you hold one of us hostage." Restac walked away from him, waved with her arms to them as the other Silurian's came to them.

"Wait, wait, we all want the same thing here." The Doctor tried to convince her.

"I don't negotiate with apes." She hissed at him as then she looked at the doctor Silurian. "I'm going to send a clear message to those on the surface."

"What's that?" The Doctor asked curious.

"Your execution." Restac replied to him.

"Yes..." He muttered.

"You had to ask that, didn't you." Maddie whispered to him as the Doctor sighed at her.

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