The Littlest Timelord: The Fall of the Eleventh

Chapter 11

While Isaac, Rory, and the Doctor executed their plan, Elise stayed behind with Amy and Jex.

"When this is all done, do you want us to take you home?" Amy asked him.

"Thank you, but I've already given everything I have to the Kahler. My skills, energy, all that was good in me. Here, I could start afresh. I could remember myself and help people. That's all I ever wanted to do, end suffering."

Amy picked up Isaac's coat and put it over Jex's shoulders. "Here."

"You're a mother, aren't you?"

"How did you know?"

"There's kindness in your eyes. And sadness, but a ferocity too."

"Life's not exactly straight forward."

"It seldom is."

"And what about you? Are you a father?"

"Yes. In a way, I suppose I am."

There was suddenly a loud alarm.

Amy, Elise, and Jex stepped outside the Marshal's Office.

"That's the alarm on my ship," Jex told them.

"Maybe the Doctor wants to get it working again?" Amy asked.

"But that wasn't the plan. He's not following the plan."

"Welcome to my world."

Jex went back inside the Marshal's Office.

Amy turned to Elise. "So...any idea as to what he's doing?"

Elise shook her head. "Sometimes I wish I knew."

Amy and Elise went back inside. When they turned around, Jex was pointing a gun at them.

Elise stepped in front of Amy. At least if he shot her, she could regenerate.

"I'm sorry, Amy, Elise. He really should have followed the plan," he said. He gathered his things from his cell, while keeping the gun trained on the two women. "Isaac says he doesn't care about my past, but things may have been uncovered that even he might struggle to forgive, so it's best we beat a hasty retreat."

"We? We're coming with you?" Amy asked.

"It's unlikely the Gunslinger will shoot if I'm with you. As far as I can tell, he's programmed to take innocent lives only if absolutely necessary."

"What if one of us were to fight back?" Elise asked.

"Well you clearly care for one another. You wouldn't just leave."

"Oh, well, color us reassured," Amy quipped.

As Jex backed out of the doorway, a cocked gun met the back of his neck.

"Doc? What are you doing?" Isaac asked.

Jex tried to explain himself. "It was stupid of me, I realize that now. I just thought I'd put you all in enough danger. Perhaps if I left..."

The Doctor stormed in. "He's lying. Every word, everything he says, it's all lies. This man is a murderer."

"I am a scientist!"

"Sit down."

Jex hesitated.

"Sit down!" the Doctor yelled.

Elise flinched.

Jex sat down in the chair behind him.

"Tell them what you are."