Alex's Beginning

Chapter 14

"Do you confess?" Chief Rhino asked.

"Confess? I'm proud of it!" Yep, definitely signed it. Alex rolled her eyes, and slowly crawled past all of the Judoon to get to the Doctor. "Slab - stop them." The American doubted that was going to do anything, but pressed her face to the Doctor's chest as the Chief Rhino pulled out his gun and shot the Slab. It seemed to sort of just disintegrate in a nasty red light, and Alex winced. What an awful way to go...

She lifted up her head, and watched the scene unfold. "Verdict: guilty. Sentence: execution." She turned to see that the plasmavore was back in the room to control the MRI. She had this crazy kind of look in her eyes that Alex really didn't like.

"Enjoy your victory, Judoon, because you're going to burn with me. Burn in hell!" Her voice became a shriek as the whole Judoon squad took aim and disintegrated her with their guns.

Martha rushed past all of them, and landed on the other side of the Doctor. "Case closed." The Chief guy said with finality. Except, Alex really didn't think so - judging by the plasmavore's last words.

Martha didn't seem to believe it either. "What did she mean, 'burn with me'?" Both turned and saw the MRI sparking with dangerous bouts of electricity. "The scanner shouldn't be doing that. She's done something."

Calm as could be, the Chief walked over and scanned the human device. "Scans detect lethal accelerations of monomagnetic pulse."

Alex just stared at him for a long moment. "What are you waiting for?" She snapped. "If it's lethal, do something about it!"

"Our jurisdiction has ended. Judoon will evacuate." Say what? Alex just stared at him with her mouth slightly open out of disbelief. He said it was lethal - he knew that it was lethal, and yet he was just going to leave them?

"You can't just leave it." Martha winced as another spark lit up the room. "What's it going to do?"

He ignored the two humans - as if they didn't exist anymore. "All units withdraw." The Chief stomped out of the room with the unit following him. Martha yelled something at their retreating backs, but Alex had to ignore it.

She pressed a cheek to his lips, and she gasped when she felt just the barest hint of a breath. "Martha! Martha!" She almost gave herself whiplash for turning her head so quickly, but that wasn't important. "He's breathing! Martha, he's breathing, but just barely!" Martha rushed back into the room, and Alex was panicking. "What do we do? I don't even know. You're the doctor here, what do we do?"

"We have to give him CPR. It's the only thing that could help him." Martha explained quickly. "One of us is going to have to give him air and the other is going to have to press on his chest."

Alex raised her hand, "I'll do the chest thing." She positioned herself right where she believed his heart was - Martha pushed her hands over to the right a bit, and told her she was good. Martha then placed herself over the Doctor's mouth, opening it up enough before tilting his head back. "One, two, three, four, five..." Alex pumped his heart, and Martha took a deep breath and gave it to him. They took turns, going back and forth until something occurred to Alex. "Oh! Wait! I'm an idiot!" Martha looked up startled. "Two hearts! He's an alien that has two hearts!" She slid her hands over to where the second heart was - or at least she believed where it was. "Okay, one, two, three, four, five..." They went back and forth, and Alex made sure to give equal amounts of attention to both hearts. Martha went down near the end, and Alex was just barely holding on. Her vision was going black, and she was having difficulties breathing. Her lungs ached inside of her chest, and it was hard to ignore. She ended up falling, but put her hands out so her face was just over the Doctor's. "Come on, Doctor..." She muttered. "Come on..." He was the only one who had any chance of saving them. "Oh hell..." She blushed - which just caused her brain to go nuts from the spinning. She took as deep a breath as her oxygen-starved lungs would allow, before leaning down and pressing her lips to his - her eyes shut tightly - and breathed as long into his mouth as she could.