Ties Between Freedom and Love

✦38✦ - Parting of the Ways

Chapter Thiry-Eight
Parting Of The Ways

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The Daleks returned to the room and Emma stood up, watching as they encircled her. "You know the Doctor. You understand him. You will predict his actions."

"No, I won't!" Emma laughed at them. "And even if I did know exactly what he planned on doing. I wouldn't tell you."

"Predict! Predict! Predict!" the Dalek chanted, moving toward her.

"What do I look like a magic eight ball?" Emma demanded, getting a little angry with their threats and tries at intimidation.

Another Dalek's headpiece turned to the side. "TARDIS detected in flight. Launch missiles! Exterminate!"

"You can't!" Emma stepped forward, another Dalek stopping her. "The TARDIS hasn't got any defenses. You're going to kill him."

The Dalek looked back at her. "You have predicted correctly."

"That's it!" Emma yelled, she backflipped over the Dalek blocking her. She dodged their attempts at neutralizing her and took the angel blade from her jacket pocket. She drew her arm back and hit down hard, smashing one of the Dalek's and watching it explode. Emma quickly moved out of the way as a beam flashed her way and, instead of hitting her, it lit up the Dalek behind her, killing it.

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"We've got incoming!" Jack warned.

The missiles hit and the Doctor quickly clutched to the console to keep his balance. Jack stood unmoving where he was tweaking with the extrapolator. "The extrapolator's working. We've got a fully functional forcefield," Jack proudly stated. "Try saying that when you're drunk," he muttered.

"And for my next trick. . ." the Doctor announced, starting to flip switches. The TARDIS materialized and when it did, Emma stood inside it, along with one of the Daleks. "Emma, get down! Em, get down!" she ignored him and took the angel blade in her hand, she flipped it over before stabbing it through the metal shell of the Dalek, and it exploded.

"You did it," Jack said in amazement, his gun still in hand.

Emma smiled as the Doctor walked up to her and pulled her in for a hug, she wrapped her arms around him and then sighed in content. "It feels like I haven't seen you in years."

"I told you I'd come and get you," he kissed her temple and pulled away, but still kept his arms around her.

"Never doubted it," she smiled.

"I did," he confessed. "You alright?"

"Yep, and you?"

"Not bad," he shrugged. "Been better."

"Hey, don't I get a hug?" Jack asked, walking up to them once they'd separated and the Doctor went to look over the Dalek.

"Oh, come here!" Emma grinned, running up the ramp.

"No, I was talking to him," Jack laughed, pointing at the Doctor before picking her up in a hug. She laughed and hugged him tightly, her arms around his neck. "Welcome home."

"I thought I'd never see you again," Emma admitted, sighing in relief that she was wrong.

He pulled away. "You are something else" he grinned. "Anyway, this gun is only a one-shot wonder. It can only, hopefully," he added. "Take one of the Daleks out before it's completely drained of power."

Emma stood behind the Doctor, where her handy work of an exploding Dalek was in full view. "You said they were extinct," she kneeled down beside him. "How come they're still alive?"