He Only Comes Once (Doctor Who FanFiction)

30. Parallel Time

30. Parallel Time

"Is there anything we can do?" The Doctor looked down at me.

"There is nothing to be done. It knows me, I can feel it approaching this moment." I answered his 10th form.

"We can run, like we always do."

"No Doctor, even that won't help. Whatever we do, the Weapon will be two steps ahead." I spoke with outmost urgency. "I can't just leave, can't just change my identity, or change into a whole 'nother species, what I need to do is completely not exist. There is no technology for that." I was racking through my brains to find at least one possible answer, but none came.

"Can we hide you with someone that can never be expected or found?"

"The TARDIS would be able to hide me better than that, still I am easily found. A conscious should never be tampered with, you can see why."

"But if your mind is so easily reprogrammable, then that's we do, change you enough so the Weapon couldn't track you, but not enough to make you change yourself."

I looked at him for a moment, complete confusion on my face. How in the Universe could something on such a scale be done?

"How would you plan to do this Doctor?"

"First, we need to get that drumming out of your head."

"But the Master had the same drumming, probably inherited from me."

"Yes, I said I could help him, but he wouldn't listen. To be honest I didn't know how to help him, but I've had time to think over the programming of the Arkangel Network."

"Fifteen satellites in the sky hiding me won't exactly stop the Weapon, I don't believe that it would even leave a dent in the track it's following."

"No it wouldn't. But if we take the signal and transmit it somewhere else then we can confuse the Weapon."

"And after it figures out that we led it astray it won't fall for anymore tricks and will come directly for me. So this is the plan where I survive for only one more hour."

"Loads can be done in an hour."

"Not unless you know that death is approaching, no that's not right. Eternal imprisonment in ones own mind."

The Doctor paused. He never thought of it that way. Time travel has always fluctuated around him so easily he forgot what it's like to sit and wait and know something bad is going to happen.

"What if I conceal your conscious within my mind?" He spoke as if he were hit with an epiphany.

"Your mind will burn... Oh!" I yelled as a sudden painful drum beat but my head. "It's getting closer."

"Okay. No panicking. What do we have? The weapon is coming and nothing can stop it. It's following the drumming in your head as its first source of how to find you. We can reprogram your mind easily but that would be too dangerous, so what can we do? The Weapon will always find a way to find you no matter what the cost."

I sat upright as the pain succeeded for a moment. A vision formed inside my head. It was all shapes and blurs. A ginger haired little girl sitting on a suit case outside, a date of the occurrence. But this date didn't coincide with the rest of time. It was a blue in the fabric of reality. "What if you send me to another time that cannot be reached as easily?"

"The TARDIS's energy will die the moment we get into a parallel universe."

"Not a parallel universe, more like a parallel time."

"Do you know of such a time?"

I was about to answer when a surge of pain started at the base of my neck and surged down my spine. The drumming continued. "Any other plan about an Arkangel network?" I asked reluctantly.

"It was originally used as a transmitter and I could deflect it, but if I can shift a nerve in the telepathic ability in the brain then I can upload this sort of system that can keep out the drumming."

"Am I insane?"

"What?"

"Am I insane?"

"Why would you be?"

"The timelords found the drumming as a sign of madness."

"Lets get one thing straight Starlit. I'm the mad man with a box." 10 answered, but for a moment I saw 11.

I nodded my head but that only made my headache worsen. Many would have been clutching their heads, screaming their heads out, as was earlier, but something was protecting me.

The Doctor was walking around the console for a moment, trying to figure out his almost impossible answer.

"So the drumming comes at certain circumstances?" He asked.

I took a moment to answer. "I guess so. Usually when something important or major is going on. I'm not exactly sure."

"No that's fine. I've figured it out." He said as he ran over to me and placed his hands around he sides of my head. "If I'm right if I just." He started talking. I could feel him wandering my mind like a book. I blocked him from most of what happened in my life and have him a straight line to the telepathic links.

It felt like something shifted and moved, like a cord barely plugged into the slot. The drumming went away. I could feel the freedom in my mind. I looked into the Doctor's eyes, placed my hands on his. "You've done it." I spoke happily.

"Brilliant." He said as he removed his from my head, sharing my glee in the moment.

I could feel the Weapon become angry for a moment. He lost me but regained his track once more. I ran up to the console and started pushing all sorts of buttons and getting to the time of the little ginger girl.

"What are you doing?" The Doctor asked as the TARDIS shook and the console began exploding at certain places.

"I'm running." I spoke as I kept pushing the TARDIS forward to reach my secure location.

The Doctor ran up to the monitor, his face turned to pure fear. "It's approaching. The Weapon is extremely near. I hope you know what you are doing Starlit because I can't save you from this one."

"No worries, everything is under my control." The drumming in my head no longer annoyed me and no longer made me suffer. My mind was free to make split second decisions.

The TARDIS kept shaking as I pushed the last button and the machine slowed down. "Wish me luck." I said but didn't give the Doctor any time to answer as I opened the TARDIS doors and jumped out.

As I turned around, I saw the TARDIS disappear into the untempered schism of time and space with the Weapon still following it. Clever of me to hide a tiny but of my consciousness in there so that the Weapon wouldn't just follow me into this time. This was all time-locked or so I thought. I looked around me. I was in some kind of garden, not very well maintained. A house stood not too far away, two floors with three windows on top and two on bottom. It looked like quite a big house. Off in the distance I heard voices.

"Five minutes and I'll be back." A man voice said.

"People always say that." Replied a little girl's voice.

"I'm not people." Said the mans voice in a matter-of-fact kind of way. "Geronimo!" He yelled. A slam of doors came right afterwards. The TARDIS noise started up. I began to run toward the noise.

When I got there, the Doctor was gone and the little girl ran inside. 'He said five minutes.' I thought to myself.' He never breaks a promise.' So I sat down on the dirty ground and waited. The little girl ran outside in red boots, raincoat and was carrying a suitcase. She paused as she saw me.

"What are you doing here?" She said in a Scottish accent.

"I'm waiting for the Doctor." I simply replied.

"Why?"

"I'm a friend. He said he would come back for me."

"He should be here soon, he promised me he would come back."

"Yeah. He never breaks a promise."

"What's your name?"

"I'm Starlit. What's yours?"

"That's a pretty name. I'm Amelia."

"Care to join me in our wait Miss Amelia."

"Sure." She replied as she put her suitcase on the ground next to me and sat down.

Five minutes we sat. We didn't talk much. I guess there was just nothing to say. Then another half an hour went by. We sat there awake. After another fifteen minutes, Amelia began dozing off. Eventually she was leaning on my shoulder completely asleep. I carried her into the house and found her blue bedroom. After she was tucked in, I thought that she wouldn't mind if I slept on the couch downstairs.

As my eyes began to close I thought of his promise, he broke it. But a vision showed me I had to wait, extremely patiently. Twelve whole years were ahead of me. I would bond with my new found friend in my parallel time. I felt safe, safe from the Weapon and its power of destruction.

I was about to fall asleep, but when my eyes opened a little for the last time before I did, I saw someone strange watching me from the distance. A shiver sent down my spine, but I couldn't react, I was asleep.