Dreaming of a Blue Box ✧ Doctor Who ¹ ✓

71 - The Parting of the Ways (Part V)

Continuing from 'The Part of the Ways - Part IV'

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LILY SLIDE THE LEVER INTO THE DEVICE AND PAUSED, lifting her hands off it in disbelief. "Is it done?" She asked the Doctor.

"It's ready." He confirmed her suspicions and, after she stepped back, took the spot she was once standing. As he did, several Daleks entered the room from all sides and angles. Lily tried to hold back her fear but she still side-stepped herself closer to the Doctor's side. He looked up to directly speak to the still on-screened Emperor, with his hands on the lever. "You really want to think about this, because if I activate the signal, every living creature dies."

The Emperor quickly replied. "I am immortal."

The Doctor sneered. "Do you want to put that to the test?"

"I want to see you become like me. Hail the Doctor, the Great Exterminator."

"I'll do it!" He shouted, gripping the switch.

"Then prove yourself, Doctor." The Emperor challenged. "What are you, coward or killer?"

The Doctor took the time to look over at Lily. She was working on keeping her face as blank as she could so the Emperor was not capable of reading her and using that against the Doctor. But when the Doctor's eyes met her she couldn't help but have them softened. That made the Time Lord exhale. "Coward." He looked back at the screen and let go of the switch. "Any day."

"Mankind will be harvested because of your weakness."

"And what about us?" The Doctor asked right before reaching out his left hand for Lily's right, all while keeping eyes on the Emperor. She smiled and took it, allowing him to lace their fingers together and squeeze tightly. "Are we to become one of your angels?"

The Emperor seemed to laugh. "You are the heathen. You will both be exterminated!"

If the Doctor squeezed Lily's hand any tighter she'd lose blood circulation- but the ginger didn't care. "Maybe it's time."

But before any of the Daleks could advance or raise their blasters, that most beautiful sound in the world to Lily sounded from behind them. They both looked over their shoulders, hands still clasped and witnessed in pure shock as the blue box started materializing in front of them.

"Alert!" One of the Daleks shouted as the TARDIS fully came into view. "TARDIS materializing!"

"You will not escape!" The Emperor called out.

When the TARDIS doors flung open, Lily and the Doctor had to shield their eyes when a bright golden light streamed out. When Rose appeared before them out of thin air the sight of her sent them to the floor, letting go of one another's hands. "Rose?" Lily cried, looking up into her sister's now golden eyes, that replaced her normal brown.

The Doctor, on the ground with Lily, shouted up at Rose. "What've you done?"

She looked down at them. "I looked into the TARDIS." Her voice was her sister's but it seemed to echo. "And the TARDIS looked into me."

Lily looked at the Doctor for answers. "You looked into the Time Vortex!" He shouted- Lily remembering the light from Margaret. "Rose, no one's meant to see that."

"This is an abomination!" The Emperor interrupted.

"Exterminate!" A Dalek declared.

Rose turned to the Dalek and raised a hand, which shockingly stopped the beam. "I am the Bad Wolf," Rose announced. "I create myself." With a wave of her hand, the 'BAD WOLF' part of the large sign shifted and vanished into the air. "I take the words, I scatter them in time and space. A message to lead myself here."