The Littlest Timelord: The Death of the Doctor

Chapter 26

A/N - I cannot believe we only have four episodes left until the end of this season! Where has the time gone?

Suddenly the dolls were banging on the door trying to get in.

"Lock it!" Amy yelled.

"There isn't a lock," Rory told her.

Amy groaned. "Elise! Sonic the door."

"I can't! The sonic doesn't do wood!"

Even with the three of them, the door was still pushed open by the dolls. They managed to push it shut again.

Rory ran over and grabbed a large spool of thread and placed it up against the door, but the dolls were still banging on the door trying to get in.

"We can't stay in here. We've got to get out!" Amy told them.

"Er, how?" Rory asked.

"Take control, Rory. Take control of the only thing we can. Letting them in."

"Letting them in?"

"Amelia Pond, have you completely lost your mind!" Elise yelled.

"It'll surprise them. We open the door and we push past them," Amy said, "Kick them, punch them, anything, okay?"

"Time to play!" one of the dolls sang.

"Okay," Rory said.

"Okay," Amy echoed.

They looked at Elise.

"I'm going to regret this, but okay," she agreed.

Rory picked up a mop and Elise pulled out her screwdriver.

Amy pulled the spool out of the way. The door swung open.

One of the dolls fell flat on its face, while Rory and Elise pushed past the other.

"Amy, come on!" Rory yelled, but it was too late. One of the dolls had already grabbed Amy.

"Rory!" Amy screamed.

"No!" Elise yelled.

"Amy!" Rory yelled, "Get off...!" Rory and Elise watched horrified as Amy was transformed into a doll.

"Come on," Elise said, "If we can find the Doctor, he can fix this."

The two of them backed up the stairs as the dolls came towards them. They ran through the house until they came to a foyer.

"Dad!" Elise said throwing her arms around him.

"You're okay! Wait. Where's Amy?"

Rory pointed to the redhead doll following them.

"George! George, you have to face your fears! You have to face them now. You have to open the cupboard, or we'll all be trapped here forever in a living death. George! George, listen to me. George! George, listen to me. George!" the Doctor yelled.

"George!" Elise called out, "I know you're scared. But it's okay to be scared. But you never run when you're scared! I'm scared right now and I'm not running! I've been through a lot of scary things, so believe me when I say that it will be okay! Just open the cupboard!"

The dolls stopped moving.

George was standing at the bottom of the staircase.

"George. George, you did it. You did it. Hey, it's okay. It's all okay now. Everything's going to be fine," the Doctor told him.

The dolls started moving again, except this time they were moving towards George.

"No! No! No, no, no, no, no. George, you created this whole world. This whole thing. You can smash it. You can destroy it."

George shook his head.

"Something's holding him back. Something's holding him back. Something." The Doctor turned to George's father. "That's what did it. That's what the trigger was. He thought you were rejecting him. He thought he wasn't wanted, that someone was going to come and take him away."

"Well, we, we talked about it."

The dolls were getting closer to George and he just stood there terrified.

"Yeah, and he heard you, Alex," the Doctor told him, "A Tenza's sole function is to fit in, to be wanted, and you were rejecting him."

"We just couldn't cope! We needed help!"

"Yes, but George didn't know that. He thought you were rejecting him. He still thinks it."

"But how can we keep him? How can we? He's not..."

"Not what?"

"He's not human."

The dolls were surrounding George.

"No."

"Dad!" George yelled.

Alex pushed his way through the dolls and grabbed his son. "Whatever you are, whatever you do, you're my son, and I will never, ever send you away. Oh, George. Oh, my little boy."

"Dad."

The Doctor put an arm around Elise and kissed her head. Elise breathed a sigh of relief.

Amy, Rory, and Elise stepped out of the lift.

It was now morning.

"Was I...?" Amy asked.

"Yeah," Rory said.

"Unfortunately. I wish last night was some kind of fever dream. I've discovered I don't like dolls," Elise told them.

"Yeah. You and a lot of people," Amy said.

They made their way back to the TARDIS to wait for the Doctor.

Elise threw her arms around him when she saw him.

He hugged her back. "Proud of you," he whispered into her hair.

She'd been scared, but she worked through it in order to help George. Just like when he had been dying in the Naismith Mansion. Elise could see past her own fear if someone else was in trouble. Elise smiled and pulled away from him.

"Come on, you lot. Things to do, people to see, whole civilizations to save. You feeling okay?" he asked.

"Er, I think so," Amy said, while Rory nodded.

"Well, it's good to be all back together again, in the flesh. Come on."

They entered the TARDIS.

"Now, did someone mention something about planets and history and stuff?" the Doctor asked.

"Yeah," Rory said.

"Where do you want to go?"

"Er..." Amy said.

"Mind's gone blank," the Doctor told her.

"Well, I have just been turned into a wooden dolly."

"Excuses, excuses."

"It's tough, though. It's like being given three wishes," Rory said, "The whole universe?"

"Or universes. Ooo, three wishes, like Ali Baba. How about that?"