Parallel: From Another World [1] (The Parallel Series) ✓

The Satan Pit

"Ida? I recommend that you withdraw. Immediately."

She began to protest. "But, we've come all this way."

"Okay That was an order. Withdraw. When that thing opened, the whole planet's shifted. One more inch and we fall into the black hole. So this thing stops right now." He demanded her to turn back."

"But it's not much better up there with the Ood."

"I'm initiating strategy: Nine, so I need the two of you back up top immediately, no-" He stopped hearing the comm cut out. "Ida. Ida!" He began to shout.

"What do you think?" She asked the Doctor for his opinion on the subject.

"I think they've an order."

"Yeah, but what do you think?" She repeated not satisfied with his reply.

"It said, I am the temptation." He quoted the beast.

"Well, if there's something in there, why is it still hiding?" Ida inched closer to the pit.

"Maybe we opened the prison but not the cell." The Doctor muttered crouching down.

"We should go down. I'd go. What about you?"

"Oh. Oh, in a second, but then again, that is so human." He started to explain. "Where angels fear to tread. Even now, standing on the edge. It's that feeling you get, eh? Right at the back of your head. That impulse. That strange little impulse. That mad little voice saying, go on. Go on. Go on. Go over. Go on. Maybe it's relying on that." He then thought for a couple of moments looking into the pit. "But I promised her I wasn't going to be an idiot." He muttered. "For once in my life, Officer Scott, I'm going to say retreat. Oh, now I know I'm getting old. Rose, Rita, we're coming back." He said through the comm.

"Best news I've heard all day." Rose smiled breathing out in relief.

"You can say that again" Rita smiled at the blonde. Jefferson then snapped his rifle pointing it at Toby, the smiles on Rita and Roses faces were then wiped off and scolds replaced them.

"What're you doing?" Rose asked moving beside Toby.

"He's infected. He brought that thing on board. You saw it." He stared at Toby then looked at Rose.

"He didn't bring it on board, it was already here, enough people have died we don't need any more dead," Rita told him standing in front of Toby. "You are not going to kill him."

"Are you going to start shooting your own people now, Is that what you're going to do? Is it?" Rose asked.

"If necessary." He told them.

"Well then, you'll have to shoot me if necessary, so what's it going to be?" She stepped beside the brunette who nodded at her. "Look at his face. Whatever it was, is gone. It passed into the Ood. You saw it happen. He's clean." She told him.

"Any sign of trouble, I'll shoot hi," Jefferson promised then walked off towards Danny.

Rose breathed out a long sigh turning to Toby. "Are you all right?"

"Yeah," he said then paused telling the truth. "I don't know."

"Can you remember anything?"

He thought for a moment then shivered at what he remembered. "Just, it was so angry. It was fury and rage and death. It was him. It was the devil."

Rose saw the terror and fear in his eyes then gave him a hug. "Come on."

"He won't kill you" Rita knelt down. "Won't let him kill anyone else, enough people have died, we definitely don't need any more dead."