RETURN TO SKARO
Author note Chapter 3 is now up Disclaimer I don't own Doctor who if I did David Tennant would still be the Doctor "No!" The Doctor launched for the Dalek, missing, and landed face first on the ground as the Dalek vanished right in front of them. Jenny glanced around her. There was nothing there. The Dalek had really vanished! How had that even happened? She turned to her father, "What exactly happened?" "What always happens!" snapped the Doctor. "It escaped! All my people died because of the Daleks and I thought using the moment... that it would kill them all. I knew their plan right from the start, anything non- Dalek would be exterminated. People and planets, the whole universe, every single world out there would be destroyed... and when I realized what would happen if I didn't act... I just had to stop them. I just had to!" the Doctor sounded as though he was trying to convince himself that he had done what he had to, what was right. "Its not just Erisa's screams I hear, it's the screams of all my people. I hear them in my nightmares and I have never been able to sleep at night because of the terrible nightmares. I committed genocide on my own people! I chose the Earth over Gallifrey and for that I don't deserve peace or forgiveness." Donna looked at the Doctor. "What about all those world's you saved? All the people you helped and all the good you've done?" The Doctor didn't reply. But he had a look in his dark eyes... a look Donna had seen so many times before, the one she had seen in his eyes the very first time she had met him... "I'm not the first am I? How many women have you abducted?" She held out the pink sweatshirt. "That's my cousin's." He replied, pain evident in his eyes. "Well, where is she?" spat Donna. "Popped out for a space run, did she?" His graze never left her. He replied in a sad voice, "I lost her." "Well you can hurry up and lose me! What do you mean 'lost'?" Erisa had cropped up so many times during their travels and she had known, by the way he spoke of her, that she was important to the Doctor. When she found the Doctor again he was still traveling alone despite her telling him to find someone. Donna had known Erisa's name but nothing else apart from that fact that he'd lost her. "What about Erisa?" She had asked him. "Still lost." He said in a broken voice. "Come on, let's get out of here." Donna grabbed the Doctor's hand as they started towards the TARDIS. "No, there's something I have to check out." "Oh for crying out loud." snapped Donna, running behind the Doctor. That's when they saw it. "Get down." He hissed as both Jenny and Donna crouched down behind some rocks. "Some kind of work camp." He said as he tried to get a closer look. It was completely surrounded by Daleks. One screeched orders. "Move! Move!" it constantly repeated. The one Dalek hadn't been the last like it had claimed. "Doctor we should get back to the TARDIS " urged Donna. She didn't like this one bit she felt uneasy, almost like someone was watching them. DWDWDWDWDWDWDWDWDWDW -Breanna had never got used to being referred to as 0736790 instead of her name. She knew the Daleks had taken everything from her, even her name. In short they had dehumanised her. They'd taken her out of time and space, But she believed it had been at least five years. The Daleks needed her for something, but what use could she possibly be? She was just a Time Lord, she wasn't even important to Gallifrey, nobody ever came to rescue her. As tears came to her eyes, she recollected her home, her friends, and her family. Was it all still there? She heard the Daleks talk of Gallifrey falling. A Time War had already occurred ? Was it still to happen? The questions seemed to plague her. She had lost all hope so long ago and now she was barely surviving. That was when they saw each other. "Doctor? " she whispered. "Breanna." It was her. She looked differently to last time he'd seen her. Her beautiful blonde hair was now a dirty blonde and looked lifeless. He wanted to get her out of there, he had to. But she was chained to the camp, she looked under nourished and far to weak. She was also incredibly pale and struggling to stay on her feet for long periods. That's when he saw it in her eyes. Whatever the Daleks had done to her to force her into slavery, it was slowly killing her. Back on Gallifrey they had been childhood friends and when her parents died, his family had brought her up. They'd been like brother and sister. He couldn't leave her. He thought she had died in one of the time wars but she had being taken by those things, the Daleks. But why were they were keeping her alive? There was a reason for something, but what was it? He aimed the sonic screwdriver at chains restraining Breanna as the Doctor ran towards her. Suddenly, a beam of light flashed across the entire sky and sent them all crashing to the ground. The rocks around them starting falling and a large explosion was heard. "Get down." The Doctor said to everyone although he wasn't sure if anyone heard him through the explosion. Then, everything went black. DWDWDWDWDWDW The Doctors eyes suddenly flicked open. He found himself on the floor of a room, and he groaned inwardly at the sight of the three Daleks in front of him. Donna and Jenny. Where were they? As his eyes darting around the room he spotted the TARDIS but no Donna. That brilliant woman who had saved all those worlds out there, who had become the most important woman in the whole world, who was heard in hymns across the galaxy. His daughter was nowhere to be seen either, and neither was Breanna. Did he imagine seeing them? Was he sure he saw any of them? "Now it begins." stated the purple Dalek. "What begins?" snapped the Doctor. The look of confusion on his face changed to one of hatred. Did his people really die for nothing? Had Erisa's death been in vain? Did she fall to her death for no reason at all? The Doctor clenched his teeth, grinding them together as he felt his dark side surface and take over his whole body and mind. It sickened him, what he had done, and for it all to be for nothing. He couldn't ever hope to completely defeat the Daleks. They would always come back stronger and more determined than ever before. Erisa had made her choice in opening that void. She had known that she could die. She had sacrificed her own life so that others might live, so that he could live... but he didn't want to live. Not without her. He was tired of struggling all day every day, living a long time wasn't worth all the pain and heartbreak. They may have only started as friends but somewhere along the way, it had developed into something much more and now he would be forever tormented by her death. Because he had loved her so much that when she had died, a part of him had died with her.
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