Melanie Tyler

Nighmares

He woke up to a killer headache. His vision was blurry, he blinked a few times as things came into focus. Next to him, was Melanie.

He cringed as the memory of what just happened came to him. He died and now Melanie was all alone, inside her own nightmare.

The Doctor got up and pulled his sonic out of his pocket. He scanned the mirror and Melanie, he couldn't get her out. He even tried to go back by touching the silver surface of the mirror, but nothing worked. He sighed. He sat down next to Melanie and held her head in his hands. "I've got you Melanie, don't you worry, I've got you." He whispered to her, even though he knew she couldn't hear.

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No matter where she ran, the memories followed her. The pain of her past was everywhere. When she turned a corner she would see her mother, screaming in pain as a Dalek tortured her. She would then turn back and see her father, looking her in the eyes and blaming it all on her. 

She fell to her knees and yelled at the sky. "Stop it! Just stop! Stop, please....." She put her head in her hands and sobbed. She heard her mother's cries again and she got up. She couldn't stand it, she ran as far from the pain as she could. It was eating at her.

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She can't see much now, it's way too dark. She's tired and can barely run because of her exhaustion. She falls in the mud and lays there, too tired to care about anything else. That was a mistake though, because then all her memories came to her.

"Catch!" Her dad yells throwing the ball at her. She caught it and laughed. "I'm going to catch it every time if you keep throwing it at me like I'm five." Melanie said tossing the ball to her father. He rolled his eyes. He was about to throw it again when Rose came out. "Dinner!" Melanie looked at her dad and smiled. "Go!" She yelled racing him to the house. Her mother laughed and they went inside.

They were sitting at the table. The second Melanie looked up both her parents were Daleks. She screamed and screamed, her parents saying. "EXTERMINATE!" She started yelling at them to come back, for them not to be Daleks. "EXTERMINATE!"

Melanie jumps off the ground, shaking from the nightmare. She begins running again, when a thought comes to her. "If this is only a dream, or rather nightmare." She says to herself. "Then where did the Doctor go when he was killed? Maybe..... maybe he was sent back into the real world..." She began rambling on about her plan and how whether it worked or not, that at least she would be free.

She turns a corner and begins searching for a Dalek. She doesn't want to approach one and is scared for her life, even if it's only a dream. Her greatest fear, The Daleks, and she has to face them. Get killed by them, on purpose. She finds a group and stops, her body frozen by fear. 

"Com'on Melanie, you got this. You can do this." She keeps telling herself, as she takes a step forward. "Hey, Metal head!" She yells with more confidence than she feels. It turns. 

"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!" It yells. Suddenly Melanie is rethinking her decision and starts running back into the forest as fast as she can. She trips on a rock and knows that either way she wasn't going to make it. She closes her eyes, as tears go down her face.

"EXTERMINATE!" She Hears before jolting up in a tent.

The Doctor is holding her. She looks into the Doctor's eyes. "Doctor.." She says shaking with tears going down her face. 

"Hey, hey. It's okay. I"m here." He says holding Melanie in his arms, for a minute he thought she wouldn't wake up, he realized he too was tearing up. "It's okay, it's okay."

"I....I... thought you were dead." Melanie sobbed into the Doctor's shoulder.

"I know. I know." He said rubbing her back with his hand. They sat there in that position for awhile before Melanie fell asleep in his arms. The Doctor sighed and carried her to the Tardis. They would have another adventure tomorrow, after she got some rest.