The Revenant (Doctor x OC)

Hotel

"Well, that killed the mood, but I suppose it proves you are right, Revenant, about the whole fear cause. Anyway, how did you get here?"

"I don't know. I'd just started my shift. I must've passed out, because suddenly I was here"

"I was blogging," Howie says. "Next thing I know is this"

"Oh, I was at work. I'm Giddis, I'm in town planning," the Tivolian says. "We're lining all the highways with trees so invading forces can march in the shade. Which is nice for them"

"So, what have we got? People being snatched from their lives and dropped into an endless shifting maze that looks like a 1980s hotel with bad dreams in the bedrooms," he pulled out a rubix cube. "Well, apart from anything else, that's just rude. We'll pop back to the Tardis," we started back towards where the Tardis had landed. "I'll do a planet wide diagnostic sweep, and then we'll have a sing... song. Where's the Tardis?"

"The hallways must've changed," I say, also noticing the Tardis no longer where we left it.

"You parked it there, didn't you?" Amy asked as the Doctor felt around the open space for an invisible Tardis.

"What's the Tardis?" Howie asks.

"Our way out, and it's gone," Rory says, rubbing his hands over his face.

"O-Kay. This is bad. At the moment, I don't know how bad, but certainly, we're three buses, a long walk, a Linkway and a taxi from good," The Doctor tells us. "Are there any more of you?"

"Joe, but he's, uh, tied up right now," Rita says.

"Literally?" I ask.

"Literally"

We went to a dinning room where there were a bunch of laughing dummies all in chairs, and one person tied up with a crazy yet tired look in his eyes. The laughing stopped when we walked in, all heads turning to us.

"That's creepy," I mutter.

"Hello, I'm the Doctor," The Doctor said as he walked up to where Joe was sitting.

"You're going to die here," Joe told him.

"Well, they certainly didn't mention that in the brochure. Is Joe there? Can I have a quick word?"

"Oh, it's still me, Doctor, but I've seen the light. I lived a blasphemous life, but he has forgiven my inconsistency, and soon he shall feast"

The Doctor sat down across from him. "Well, you've been here for two days. What's he waiting for?"

"We weren't ready. We were still raw"

"But now you're, what, cooked?"

"If you like. Soon you will be, too. Be patient. First, find your room"

"My room?"

"There's a room here for everyone, Doctor," Joe's eyes lingered on mine then they went back to the Doctor's. "Even you"

"You said you'd seen the light now"

"Nothing else matters anymore. Only him. It's like these things. I used to hate them, but they make me laugh now!" He laughed. "Gottle o' geer, gottle o' geer!" He laughed and so did all the dummies. It died down when Joe stopped. "You should go. He'll be here soon"

The Doctor stood up and found a dolly, using it to move Joe in his chair. "I think you should come with me"

We went back to reception, the weird music you'd normally hear in an elevator playing in the background.

"Why you four? Aside from all the other things I don't understand"

"What does it matter? Sooner or later, someone will come along and rescue us," Giddis says. "Or enslave us"

"That's not going to happen, whatever it is is most likely going to kill us," I say.

"First we find the Tardis. Quick thing before we go. If you feel drawn to a particular room, do not go in. Make sure someone else can see you at all times," The Doctor says.

"Joe said 'he will feast'. Is there something here with us?" Rita asks.

Joe laughed and we all looked at him. The Doctor smiled and asked, "something to add, Joe?"

"Here comes a candle to light you to bed. Here comes a chopper to chop off your head," he said. "Chop, chop, chop, chop"

"Can we do something about him?" Howie asks.

We started wandering around the hotel together, Joe's mouth now taped shut. Howie opened a door but we got it closed and kept moving on. We heard a loud stomping sound coming towards us from form the hall and all ran into a room, except I ended up in a different room than all the others.

I looked around the room, not noticing anything out of the ordinary. No one was in there. That's what I thought until I heard water running from the tap in the bathroom.

I slowly moved over to the door but it opened before I could reach it, making me jump back in caution. A mirror image of me stepped out, sighing when she saw me, then walked around to sit on a bed.

"Sit," she ordered.

I sat across from her, making sure I had an escape route if I needed. The mirror image wasn't exactly mirroring the way I looked now. It was clearly me, yet I was wearing a fancy ball gown with my hair and makeup done nicely. A look I'd never find myself in unless I was forced into it.

"What am I wearing?" I ask.

"What are you wearing," she asks in disgust in a Canadian accent. "Jeans and a sweater? What, was it too hot to add a toque to your uncoordinated look?"

"Hey, stop judging me, I mean, yourself"

"I'm not you. If you hadn't noticed I'm a version of you that never met the Doctor. I was brought into this world but never ran into him ever again"

"You're aware you're not real?"

"I'm not stupid, neither are you. You know this hotel isn't real. Don't you want to know about it?"

"Should I want to? This doesn't seem right, I shouldn't be in this room"

I stood up and walked to the door but froze before I could open the handle. I turned around and pressed myself against the door, keeping myself away from the fake me who had turned to look at me with a smile.

"I love life without the Doctor. I travel all over time and space, I do whatever the hell I want, I've killed a lot of races that threatened the existence of some more worthy races-"

"You're not me, I'd never do that"

"No, you wouldn't, because you aren't me. Remember, I'm you if you had never met the Doctor. Don't you wish you could be me though? You could. Just leave him, travel by yourself, save a species"

"You're trying to scare me, you think you're one of my fears? You aren't"

"I'm not trying to scare you, I'm telling you how you should live your life. Leave"

"I can't"

"Why not?"

"You should know"

"Because you love him? I don't care about that stupid love you have for him, it'll add up to nothing good in the end"

I left the room, the hallways had changed, they were different than the last time I had been in them. I looked down at both ends of the hallway and started walking a random way.