EATER OF SOULS
Chapter Thirty One On the way back to Bezrek's room, Rose had to fight not to gloat to her captor that he was going to get his arse kicked very soon by the Doctor. It took everything she had to keep pretending she was in mourning when inside she felt like celebrating. She hoped that she would be present when he did since she was longing to see the smirk wiped off his face. When they reached to room, Bezrek turned to her. "I hope you were able to say goodbye to him," he said. "Yes," Rose said, lifting her chin and giving him a defiant look. "But if you think you lot are going to win, you're wrong." "Oh really? Who's going to stop us?" "I will." Bezrek laughed at her and Rose fought to keep her anger in check. Then without warning, he seized her and backed her up against the wall, holding her there with his body while he kissed her lips. Rose kept her lips pressed against her and ran her fingernails hard down his back. Bezrek yelped in pain and Rose grunted when he smacked her across the face, sending her reeling. Then he jerked on the chain until she was on her knees before him. She gasped when he pulled on the chain and jerked her neck. "He's gone, Rose, you have no one to rescue you anymore, so you might as well stop fighting." "I won't love you…ever! I'll never love you!" Bezrek chuckled and seized her chin with his free hand. "I don't need you to love me. It's enough that I love you," he said while Rose glared at him. "Besides, you don't know the future. Perhaps in time you can learn to love me." "I seriously doubt that," Rose said. "You know, master recommended that I give you a lobotomy so you'd behave. Perhaps I should. I don't really want you becoming an idiot but if it means you'll obey me…" "No, I'll obey," Rose said, feigning fear. "Please don't hurt me." Bezrek snorted. "Weak little female, without your master, you're lost," he said, letting out some slack on the chain. That's what you think, mate, Rose thought to herself. Just wait till the Doctor gets through with ya. He jerked on the chain and Rose got to her feet. She stood still and let him fondle her breast for a moment, wishing the Doctor was around to see it since she was sure the enraged Time Lord would wrench his hand off at the wrist and make him eat it. She allowed herself to be led back into his room and stood still while Bezrek switched collars, taking off the collar with the shorter chain and putting back on the one with the twenty foot chain that was attached to the floor. He locked it when the manacle was around her neck and patted her on the head, telling her to be a good girl before leaving the room. She sat back down on her pillow, wondering if the Doctor was up and about now or if he was waiting till everyone was asleep. If they do sleep, Rose thought. Her eyes shifted towards the bed and she figured they must sleep if they have beds. Unless he just uses it to shag his slaves, she thought. She walked over to the bed, sat down on it for a moment and then lay down on it. She had to admit it was comfy and she got back up, pulled the blanket back and laid down again so she could cover up her nakedness. The blanket was warm and she soon felt sleep from the warmth and before she knew it, she drifted off to sleep. Then suddenly in the middle of her dream, she was jerked awake and she gasped when she saw Apophis over her, his eyes boring into her while he seized her arms. Behind him, Bezrek was glaring at her with his arms crossed over his chest. "Where is he?" Apophis said to Rose. "Where is who?" Rose said, playing innocent. "The Time Lord, where is he?" Apophis said. "In your room, I expect, where you left…" She gasped when Apophis slapped her hard across the face. "You're a poor liar, human; you know that he's alive. Where is he?" "What? He's alive?" She gritted her teeth when Apophis shook her and her head snapped back and forth until her neck hurt. Then Apophis got down in her face. "Where…is…he?" he said. "I don't know where he is," Rose said. "He was dead when I was in there, honestly." "Then how did the body disappear?" Apophis said. "I don't know. Maybe when a Time Lord dies, their bodies evaporate or something. I've been in here the entire time and I've been sleeping. Unless you think my soul's gone out of my body and did something to him." She gasped when Apophis jerked on her arms and made her sit up. "Get up, you're coming with us," Apophis said. "Bezrek, unchain her but keep the collar on her." "Where am I going?" Rose said. Apophis put his face inches from hers and Rose jerked her head back when his forked tongue darted out and touched her lips. "You're going to help us by convincing the Doctor to surrender. Now get up." She gasped when he jerked on her arms again. "Alright, I'm coming. You don't have to be so rough," Rose said, quickly swinging her legs over the side of the bed. Bezrek detached the chain from the ring in the floor and Rose stood up, not wanting Apophis to jerk her arms out of her sockets. "Walk, human," Apophis said, shoving her back. The Doctor crept along an empty corridor. About a half hour after Rose left, he finally got up from the bier. The TARDIS had been delivered to the room about ten minutes before that and he had gone inside and set his TARDIS defense system so the TARDIS would trap any intruders in a force field prison. Once that was done, he hurried up to his wardrobe room, quickly exchanged the robe for his brown suit and hurriedly dressed. He picked up a spare screwdriver and also a few sleeping gas grenades from his lab, putting them in his pocket before he headed out the door. So far he hadn't seen anybody but his senses were on high alert as he crept down the corridor. He had been duped by Bezrek and ended up imprisoned and nearly killed and he wasn't going to let it happen again. He reached the end of the corridor and looked into a room that was empty except for a video monitor across the way. The room had three other exits in it, all going out in different directions. "Blimey, which way do I go?" the Doctor muttered as he stepped into the room. "Eeny meeny miney moe." He stood there debating on which way to go when suddenly the monitor came on in front of him. He felt his rage boiling up when he saw Rose staring back at him as she knelt on the floor somewhere. "This is a message to the Doctor," Apophis said from off camera. "We know you're alive." The Doctor could hear Apophis's voice reverberating through speakers that were mounted in the ceiling, both in the room and in the corridors. "We know you faked your own death," Apophis said. "Bravo, thought it'd take you longer to figure that out," the Doctor muttered to himself. "The TARDIS is still in my throne room so you haven't left so you must be looking for us and for this…especially this, right?" The Doctor saw Apophis's reptilian hand on camera as it pointed to Rose's head. The hand disappeared. "I suggest you surrender yourself before something happens to her and if you want to know what lies in store for her if you don't give yourself up…" The camera panned over to Ammit. He was in a cage about ten feet away from Rose, staring hungrily at her. The Doctor gritted his teeth when the camera panned back to Rose. "My pet is hungry for hearts and he loves human hearts most of all. If you don't announce your location and make yourself known to us, I will throw Rose in the cage with my pet and let you watch while she gets devoured. You have fifteen minutes before she dies." "Doctor, no, don't give yourself up," Rose said. "Get in the TARDIS and go!" The Doctor sighed angrily when he heard Apophis and Bezrek laughing at that. He reached into his trouser pocket, fingered his gas grenades to make sure they were within easy reach and then pulled out his sonic screwdriver. "Sorry, Rose, I won't leave this ship without you," he said as he adjusted the settings on his screwdriver. "You want to know where I am, very well, I'll give you a beacon." He raised the screwdriver above his head and turned it on.
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