Dreaming of a Blue Box ✧ Doctor Who ¹ ✓

18 - The Unquiet Dead (Part V)

Continuing from 'The Unquiet Dead - Part IV'

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"IT HAS BEGUN. THE BRIDGE IS MADE." Gwyneth opened her mouth into a perfect 'O,' which gave the blue gas inside her access to exit. Lily's heart sank and thought the worst when the light seemed to faze from Gwyneth's eyes- the ginger ducking down to avoid the flying entities traveling around the room.

"She has given herself to the Gelth. The bridge is open. We descend!" The Gelth person that hovered above Gwyneth twisted about and changed from the electric blue to the color of flames. Teeth sharp and eyes full of rage. The Gelth's voice changed too- deepening and groaning. "The Gelth will come through in force!"

"You said you were few in numbers!" Lily yelled.

"A few billion," The Gelth corrected her with a hiss. "And all of us need corpses,"

When Lily saw a corpse rise from a table she grabbed the Doctor's arm, frightened for both of their safety. "Gwyneth, stop this!" Sneed pleaded with her. "Listen to your master. This has gone far enough. Stop dabbling, child, and leave these things alone, I beg of you!" The corpse had left the table and came up behind Sneed. Lily was too slow with her warning to him- the corpse had already snapped the old man's neck and let a stream of blue gas enter his mouth.

As quick as he was doing that, the Doctor was faster in taking Lily in his arms and pulling her as far from the scene as he could. His arms were still around Lily when Sneed's eyes, now sinister blue, met theirs. "I think it's going a bit wrong."

Lily leaned back further into the Doctor's hold. "You think?" She exclaimed.

Now on his knees, Sneed spoke to them- his voice much like how Gwyneth's was during the seance. "I have joined the legions of the Gelth." He slowly rose to his feet with the corpse joining his side. "Come, march with us."

"No!" Dickens cried, stumbling through a doorway and disappearing from eyesight.

"We need bodies. All of you. Dead." With Dickens gone, Sneed and the corpse walked closer to the Doctor and Lily, forcing them to back away further to keep their distance. "The human race. Dead."

The Doctor had released Lily, only to push her behind him, and kept an arm between her and the Gelth zombies. "Gwyneth, stop them!" The Doctor asked the dark-haired girl. "Send them back, now!"

"Three more bodies," The Gelth announced. "Convert them. Make them vessels for the Gelth."

More corpses rose from their respective tables- all with the Gelth now inhabiting their bodies. The Doctor and Lily had backed up to an iron gate when Dickens appeared behind the army, right near the exit. "Doctor, I can't. I'm sorry." He shouted. "This new world of yours is too much for me. I'm so-"

That was the last thing Lily could hear him cry out before the Doctor opened the iron gate and shoved them both through- slamming the gate closed and shutting them inside the alcove. It was at least enough to stop the Gelth from grabbing them but they were now trapped as the room was barely big enough to house the two of them.

"Give yourself to glory. Sacrifice your lives for the Gelth!"

"I trusted you!" The Doctor shouted at them in anger. "I pitied you!"

"We don't want your pity." The Gelth Sneed sneered- both he and the rest of the Gelth zombies, maybe twenty of them, rattled the bars. "We want this world and all its flesh."

"Not while I'm alive." The Doctor declared.

"Then live no more!"

It all hit Lily at once as she pushed her tighter against the wall. "But, I can't-" She struggled to find the words as just the sight of the zombies' eyes made her blood grow cold. "I know time isn't a straight line. I can be born then and die now but.." She let out a hysterical laugh. "My mum and Rose. And Mickey!" Tears started to weld up when she thought of the family she left behind. "I'll die here, in 1869, and they'll never know. Oh god.." A few tears escaped- starting to trickle down her right cheek. "They'll never know what happened."