Remembering the Forgotten [2] (The Parallel Series) ✓

Human Nature

Another chapter ;)

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"Get down!" The Doctor shouted pushing Martha and Rita out of the way as a green laser hit the console creating a spark causing Martha to scream. The Doctor slammed the TARDIS doors shut then ran to Rita pulling her into a tight hug. The Doctor let go shortly after the embrace and ran over to the companion holding on to her shoulders giving her a serious look. "Did they see you?"

Martha stuttered looking at Rita who held the same equally serious expression as the Doctor. "I don't know."

"But did they see you?" He repeated.

"I don't know. I was too busy running." She replied.

"Martha, it's important. Did they see your face?" He asked her again.

"No, they couldn't have." She quickly replied.

"Andiamo!" Rita shouted running around the TARDIS with the Doctor pulling levers and pressing buttons. Rita then stopped at the monitor running a hand through her hair. "No, no, no." She read the Gallifreyan off of it. The Doctor then ran round looking over her shoulder.

"They're following us." He muttered.

"How can they do that?" Martha asked looking at them worryingly. "You've got a time machine."

"And they have stolen technology, I never agreed on anyone other than Time Lords having access to time travel, and people wondered why." She raised her voice.

"They've got a Time Agent's vortex manipulator." The Doctor explained. "They can follow us wherever we go, right across the universe." He then began to mutter to himself pacing back and forth, Rita carefully watched him. "They're never going to stop, unless." The Time Lady's eyes widened.

"Doctor you can't, there has to be something else."

"I'll have to do it." He looked at her dead in the eye.

"Doctor there has to be another way, please I'm begging you, don't do this." She pleaded holding his arms. "Please anything."

"There is no other way, they will just keep following us and you know it.

"But what about me." She rested her head against his mumbling. "What am I going to do."

The Doctor swallowed for a moment. "The day I found out that you disappeared I took something, something of your mothers, well yours, something your mother gave to you but you never used."

"What did you take?" She asked her eyes widening.

"It was the necklace your mother gave you left Gallifrey with me the second time."

"You don't mean-" she looked at him in shock.

"I do." He reached into his pocket and brought out a golden necklace with what looked like to be in the shape of a stone.

"But why?" She blurted out.

"I know you had an argument about it with your mother and forced yourself to not bring it, it hurt me to know that you disappeared most likely..." He swallowed closing his eyes and shaking his head. "I took it with me."