Lost In Thought

Back Of The Neck

The Doctor:

She could open this car easily, but the screams were stopping her. Wilf was going to choke if she didn't snap out of it. "Elizabeth, we need your help. Please, Little Sister." I begged, pulling her over to the car, but she'd gone back to being unresponsive. "Sis, you need to open the car." Oh, I hated myself for this, for using what he did to her, but Wilfred was dying. "Would you please so kindly open this car, Lucy?"

Her head tilted to the side a little, before the doors all ripped themselves open. I hugged her tight then, Sylvia and Donna pulling him out as I wished I could undo her conditioning. Smartest person in the universe, and he forced her to do unimaginable deeds. "I'm so, so sorry. I love you, LizBeth, I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry."

Elizabeth just looked at me, not fully aware any longer. All that work and the screams sent her back. But I didn't have time to deal with that now, people were choking. "Get inside the house. Just try and close off the doors and windows."

Ross now drove up in a taxi. "Doctor, Remembrance. This is all I could find that doesn't have ATMOS."

"Donna, you coming?" I asked, pushing Lizzy into the cab.

"Yeah."

Only her mum had a heart then, wanting her home. "Donna. Don't go. Look what happens every time that Doctor appears, and something's wrong with that girl. Stay with us, please."

"You go, my darling." Sylvia was furious with him. "Don't listen to her. You go with the Doctor and Remy. That's my girl." She got in with us as I held my sister close. "Bye."

Then we got going, Liz getting slightly sleepy as we approached the industrial estate again, so I carried her carefully. "Ross, look after yourself. Get inside the building."

He nodded. "Will do. Greyhound 40 to Trap 1. I have just returned the Doctor and the Remembrance to base safe and sound. Over."

Donna pulled a face, sweeping LizBeth's hair off her face as she dozed. Chances were, she was watching us, I just hoped she'd wake up responsive again. "The air is disgusting."

"It's not so bad for me, and hopefully not Remember." I told her, hefting my sister up. "Go on, get inside the TARDIS." Wait... "Oh, I've never given you a key." And awkwardly found one while juggling Bethy. "Keep that. Go on, that's yours. Quite a big moment, really."

"Yeah, maybe we can get sentimental after the worlds finished choking to death." Fair point. "Where are you going? She's not awake."

I shrugged. "To stop a war, when she hopefully is."

Then jogged off to the factory as she let herself in. "Right then, here we are, she'll be up soon, she's just tired. Whatever you do, Colonel Mace, do not engage the Sontaran's in battle. There is nothing they like better than a war. Just leave this to Remembrance and me." I told him, putting her down carefully in a swivel chair. We loved swivel chairs.

We got looked at. "And what are you going to do? She doesn't speak."

"I've got the TARDIS and a telepath." I replied, shivering as Martha turned up, getting an inkling LizBeth knew something was up with her. Huh... There was slightly a bad smell, actually. "I'm going to get on board their ship." And looked at Fake Martha, pushing my sisters chair with ease. "Come on."

As I thought, the TARDIS, and Donna, were both gone. Plan was working, liked it. Apparently my sister didn't, as I got a cold sharp pain in my ear, like she flicked it. Ow. "But where's the TARDIS?"

"Taste that, in the air. Yuck." I stuck my tongue out in disgust. "That sort of metal tang. Teleport exchange. It's the Sontaran's. They've taken it. We're stuck on Earth like, like ordinary people. Like humans. How rubbish is that?" Everyone was looking at me. "Sorry, no offence, but come on."