The Girl Who Survived (Doctor Who)

Guns, Guns, and More Guns

The Rebel's POV

"See you, then, Rebel. Doctor. It wasn't your fault. Remember that, okay? It wasn't your fault." Rose tried to sympathize. The Dalek was right on her. "And do you know what?" She continued. "I wouldn't have missed it for the world." She sniffled.

"Exterminate!" The Dalek's voice rang. A zapping sound was followed by her phone going dead.
"I killed her." The Rebel set the phone down. "I'm sorry." Van Statten looked down.

" I said we'd protect her. She was only here because of us, and you're sorry? I could've killed that Dalek in it's cell, but you stopped me." I lashed out. "It was the prize of my collection!" He tried to defend. "Your collection? But was it worth it? Worth all those men's deaths? Worth Rose? Let me tell you something, Van Statten. Mankind goes into space to explore, to be part of something greater." I snapped, the Doctor doing nothing to stop me.

"Exactly! I wanted to touch the stars!" He tried. "No. No you just want to drag the stars down and stick them underground, underneath tons of sand and dirt, and label them. You're about as far from the stars as you can get. And you took her down with you. She was nineteen years old." I got closer to him with each word, my face red with anger and sadness. I turned the Doctor and he stepped closer to me. He wrapped his arms around me and I buried my face in his jacket, tears and sobs coming from me.

Adam entered the room, red faced and out of breath.
"You were quick on your feet, leaving Rose behind." The Doctor still held onto me. "I'm not the one who sealed the vault!" He countered. The screen flickered back on and the Dalek filled it up. "Open the bulkhead or Rose Tyler dies." It said.

"You're alive!" I snapped up.

"Can't get rid of me." She half smiled.

"I thought you were dead." The Doctor joined me.

"Open the bulkhead!" The Dalek interrupted.

"Don't do it!" Rose shouted. "What use are emotions if you will not save the woman you love? Or is she the one with you right now?" The Dalek tried. I was speechless. A Dalek who knew what love was... What was happening?

"I killed someone like Rose once. I can't do it again." My lip trembled, memories flooding my head like a storm. I pressed a few buttons on the computer and the bulkhead opened. "What do we do now, you bleeding heart. What the hell do we do?" Van Statten panicked. These Americans sure liked to curse a lot.... "Kill it when it gets here." Adam said as if it were obvious. "All the guns are useless, and the alien weapons are in the vault." Goddard panicked.
"Only the catalogued ones."

And I grinned.

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"Broken. Broken. Hairdryer." I flipped through the junk in Adam's workshop. "Mister Van Statten tends to dispose of his staff, and when he does he wipes their memory. I kept this stuff in case I needed to fight my way out one day." Adam said sheepishly.
lWhat, you in a fight? I'd like to see that." I scoffed, throwing another piece of scrap metal into a bin. "I could do." Adam tried. "What're you going to do, throw your A-Levels at 'em? Oh, yes. Lock and load." I faked loading a gun and shooting it, and went back to rummaging through the junk.

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Rose's POV
"Don't move. Don't do anything. It's beginning to question itself." I said to Van Statten and his office lady as the lift doors opened. "Van Statten. You tortured me. Why?" The Dalek rolled out. "I wanted to help you. I just, I don't know. I was trying to help. I thought if we could get through to you, if we could mend you. I wanted you better. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry! I swear, I just wanted you to talk!" Van Statten back himself up against a wall, the Dalek I front of him, ready to kill. "Then hear me talk now. Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!" It chanted, but didn't shoot.

"Don't do it! Don't kill him! You don't have to do this anymore. There must be something else, not just killing. What else is there? What do you want?" I asked.

"I want freedom."

Little did I know, the Doctor and Rebel were running up the stoats with giant guns.

I brought the Dalek to level 1, and watched as it blew a hole in the roof. A shaft of sunlight streamed down, hitting its eyepiece. "You're out. You made it. I never thought I'd feel the sunlight again." I breathed.
"How does it feel?" The Dalek asked me.

The Dalek opened its middle and dome sections to reveal the one-eyed mutant within. It holds out a tendril.

"Get out of the way. Rose, get out of the way now!" The Rebel's voice wavered. I turned on my heel to she the pair I knew all too well pointing guns at the Dalek behind me. "No. I won't let you do this." I denied. "That thing killed hundreds of people." The Doctor raised his gun. "It's not the one pointing the gun at me. Much less two." I retorted. "I've got to do this. We've got to end it. The Daleks destroyed our home, our people. We've got nothing left. I was tortured for fun by them!" The Rebel opened up. "Look at it." I turned back to it.

"What's it doing?" The Doctor asked, lowering the gun slowly. "It's the sunlight, that's all it wants." I told them. I heard their guns drop as they came to me.
"But it can't-" the Rebel started.

The Rebel's POV

"It couldn't kill Van Statten, it couldn't kill me. It's changing. What about you, Doctor? Rebel? What the hell are you two changing into?" Rose accused. "I couldn't. I wasn't. Oh, Rose. They're all dead." I cried.
"Why do we survive?" The Dalek asked us. "I really don't know." I nervously laughed. "I am the last of the Daleks." It sighed.

"You're not even that. Rose did more than regenerate you. You've absorbed her DNA. You're mutating." The Doctor said. "Into what?" It asked fearfully. "Something new. I'm sorry." I sympathized. "Isn't that better?" Rose asked hopefully. "Not for a Dalek." I looked at her.

"I can feel so many ideas. So much darkness. Rose, give me orders. Order me to die." It told Rose.

"I can't do that." Rose denied. "This is not life. This is sickness. I shall not be like you. Order my destruction! Obey! Obey! Obey!" It chanted, breaking my hearts slowly. "Do it." Rose ordered. "Are you frightened, Rose Tyler?" It asked her.

"Yeah."

"So am I. Exterminate." The Dalek shut its eye. Rose retreated towards us as it closed up its armour again then rose into the air. The balls on its lower body spread out around it creating a forcefield, then it imploded safely.

We were outside the Tarrids when the Doctor broke the silence. "A little piece of home. Better than nothing." He sighed. "Is that the end of it, the Time War?" Rose asked us. "We are the only ones left. We win. How about that?" I scoffed with sarcasm. "The Dalek survived. Maybe some of your people did too." Rose tried. "We'd know. In here." The Doctor pointed to our heads. "Feels like there's no one."

"Well then, good thing I'm not going anywhere." Rose declared. "Yeah." I smiled, linking arms with her. "We'd better get out. Van Statten's disappeared. They're closing down the base. Goddard says they're going to fill it full of cement, like it never existed." Adam ran up to us. "About time." I scoffed under my breath. "I'll have to go back home." Adam said. "Better hurry up then. Next flight to Heathrow leaves at fifteen hundred hours." I dismissed. "Adam was saying that all his life he wanted to see the stars." Rose lead on.

"Tell him to go and stand outside, then." The Doctor said, making my smile widely. "He's all on his own, Doctor, and he did help." Rose tried again. "He left you down there." I began, hating that she could of died. "So did you two!" Rose countered.

"What're you talking about? We've got to leave." Adam ushered to the top levels. "Plus, he's a bit pretty." I scrunched up my nose. "I hadn't noticed." Rose unlinked her arm from mine. "On your own head." The Doctor unlocked the Tardis.

"What're you doing? She said cement. She wasn't joking. We're going to get sealed in." We left Adam outside and all went into the Tardis.

"Doctor? Rebel? What're you doing standing inside a box? Rose?" Adam creeped into the Tardis and it dematerialized.