𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙊𝙛 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 ✧ 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠 Ⅰ [✓]

The Empty Child Pt. 4

"It's all right. They're harmless. They just sort of sit there. No heartbeat, no life signs of any kind. They just don't die."

"And they've just been left here? Nobody's doing anything?" the Doctor asks as the patients lie down again.

"I try and make them comfortable. What else is there?"

"Just you? You're the only one here?"

"Before this war began, I was a father and a grandfather. Now I am neither. But I'm still a doctor."

"Yeah. I know the feeling" the Doctor mumbles.

"I suspect the plan is to blow up the hospital and blame it on a German bomb."

"Probably too late."

"No. There are isolated cases. Isolated cases breaking out all over London. Stay back, stay back. Listen to me. Top floor. Room eight oh two. That's where they took the first victim, the one from the crash site. And you must find Nancy again."

"Nancy?" {Y/N} asks.

"It was her brother. She knows more than she's saying. She won't tell me, but she might Mummy. Are you my mummy?" slowly Constantine's face twists into a gasmask.

"Good evening. Hope we're not interrupting. Jack Harkness. I've been hearing all about you two on the way over" a man with black hair, and a grey coat walks in followed by Rose.

"He knows. I had to tell him about us being Time Agents" she says.

"And it's a real pleasure to meet you, Mister Spock" Jack says shaking the Doctor's hand "Oh, and you must be, {Y/N}, very nice to meet you" he takes her hand and kisses the back of it and drags her over to one of the patients.

"Mister Spock?" the Doctor asks.

"What was I supposed to say? You don't have a name. Don't you ever get tired of Doctor? Doctor who?" Rose says squinting.

"Nine centuries in, I'm coping. Where've you been? We're in the middle of a London Blitz. It's not a good time for a stroll."

"Who's strolling? I went by barrage balloon. Only way to see an air raid" Rose says.

"What?!" the Doctor almost shouts.

"Listen, what's a Chula warship?"

"Chula?"

"This just isn't possible. How did this happen?" Jack asks looking at {Y/N} who stood across from him, she shrugs.

"What kind of Chula ship landed here?" the Doctor asks walking over.

"What?" Jack asks.

"He said it was a warship. He stole it, parked it somewhere out there, somewhere a bomb's going to fall on it unless we make him an offer" Rose says.

"What kind of warship?" the Doctor asks, Jack shakes his head.

"Does it matter? It's got nothing to do with this."

"This started at the bomb site. It's got everything to do with it. What kind of warship?" the Doctor asks again.

"An ambulance! Look" Jack produces a hologram of the ship that the Doctor and {Y/N} were chasing from his wrist band "that's what you chased through the Time Vortex. It's space junk. I wanted to kid you it was valuable. It's empty. I made sure of it. Nothing but a shell. I threw it at you. Saw your time travel vehicle, love the retro look, by the way, nice panels. Threw you the bait" Jack says shrugging.

"Bait?" Rose asks.

"I wanted to sell it to you and then destroy it before you found out it was junk" Jack replies.

"You said it was a war ship" Rose says.

"They have ambulances in wars. It was a con. I was conning you. That's what I am, I'm a con man. I thought you were Time Agents. You're not, are you."

"Just a couple more freelancers."

"Oh. Should have known. The way you guys are blending in with the local colour. I mean, Flag Girl was bad enough, but U-Boat Captain? And you... well you blend in... kinda" Jack says gesturing to {Y/N} "Anyway, whatever's happening here has got nothing to do with that ship."

"What is happening here, Doctor?"

"Human DNA is being rewritten by an idiot" {Y/N} says.

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know. Some kind of virus converting human beings into these things. But why? What's the point?" she says, suddenly the patients sit up again.

"Mummy. Mummy. Mummy? Mummy?"

"What's happening?" Rose asks.

"I don't know" all the patients including doctor Constantine stand up.

"Mummy."

"Don't let them touch you" {Y/N} says as she pulls Jack away from a slowly advancing patient.

"What happens if they touch us?" Rose asks.

"You're looking at it" the patients slowly start to close in on them all.

"Help me, mummy. Mummy. Mummy. Mummy. Mummy. Mummy. Mummy."

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~Bread 🍞