Dreaming of a Blue Box ✧ Doctor Who ¹ ✓

6 - Lily (Part V)

Continuing from 'Lily - Part V'

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LILY WAS TAKEN BACK when the Doctor grabbed her hand, but she was able to take Rose's in her other hand before he took off sprinting for the eye. "Think of it," He spoke after they stopped- letting go of each other's hands. He started his search for an opening somewhere underneath them. "Plastic all over the world, every artificial thing waiting to come alive. The shop window dummies, the phones, the wires, the cables.."

"The breast implants." Rose slid in- making Lily giggle.

"Still . ." The Doctor didn't notice her sly joke. "We've found the transmitter. The Consciousness must be somewhere underneath."

Lily noticed something in the distance and left their side to investigate. She put her hands on the railing and leaned over, spotting a staircase down below near the water that led to what was possibly the basement. "What about down here?"

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After opening the vault, the trio started their descent down a short ladder and found themselves in a brick-built area with a ton of hanging chains surrounding them. From there, the Doctor led the sisters through a nearby door. The entire way Lily was sure to have Rose within arms reach of her- even as they walked down more flights of stairs. She reached behind her to take Rose's hand when the Doctor stopped them on a landing in a multi-level chamber. He pointed down at an orange, boiling goop. "The Nestene Consciousness." He told them and Lily was shocked that that 'thing' was living. It was unlike anything she'd seen in her dreams. "That's it, inside the vat. A living, plastic creature."

"Well, then." Rose's hand tightened in Lily's grip, and gazed down at it from her side. "Tip in your anti-plastic and let's go.".

"I'm not here to kill it." He told her. "I've got to give it a chance." The sisters watched on as he approached it cautiously. "I seek audience with the Nestene Consciousness under peaceful contract according to convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation." The plastic started to bubble as a response. "Thank you." The Doctor nodded. "If I might have permission to approach?"

Lily watched as the Doctor walked away from them- taking the opportunity to lean to the side and whisper in Rose's ear. "I knew he could speak many languages but never would I imagine melted plastic would be one of them."

"Oh god, Mickey!" Was Rose's response when she saw Mickey a level below them. Lily let Rose pull her away and down the three steps to him, both getting down on his knees to his level. "Its us, okay? It's alright." They both at the same time hugged Mickey who was hunched up into a ball- sweat soaking his shaking body.

"That thing." His voice stuttered as he struggled to speak through his fear. "That thing down there- it can talk!"

Lily left them to stand up, calling down to the Doctor from over the metal railing. "Hey Doc!" She nicknamed him. "They kept him alive."

"Yeah, that was always a possibility." He replied, keeping his attention onto the alien goop. "Keep him alive to maintain a copy."

"So you decided to not give us that information?" Lily asked, a bit annoyed. "Could have been helpful, yah know."

The Doctor had ignored her comment- like he knew the cardinal rule about gingers. Never argue with them as you will be wasting your time. "Am I addressing the consciousness?" The plastic gurgled as a reply to the Doctor. "Thank you. If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilization by means of warp shunt technology. So, may I suggest, with the greatest respect, that you shunt off?" The plastic roared angrily, and the Doctor snorted. "Oh, don't give me that! It's an invasion, plain and simple. Don't talk about constitutional rights!"