Help is Always Given

Chapter 3

"Well, we'll have to find out how you can do that!" The Doctor says. "I'm sure I have some old spell books of some sort in my library."

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It had taken Sherlock, John, and Rory almost an hour to find the War Room, and now they're standing in front of its doors. They are tall, double doors made out of some sort of heavy metal. Rory steps forward and grabs the handles. He takes a deep breath before opening them wide. Sherlock, John, and Rory don't budge. Instead they stand in the opening, gaping at what is before them. Rory never knew such a room existed in the TARDIS.

There are shelves of maps and other assorted papers all along the walls, four huge wooden tables flanking a battle-strategy island on all corners. There is a screen up on the left wall with a projector opposite it on the right wall. Some shelves have boxes on them, some of which are too full and they could see tapes and films in them. In-between book cases there are mannequins with different types of armor on them. Chain mail, bullet-proof vests, and lots of unrecognizable alien armor, some of which are labeled.

There's armor marked 'Gallifreyan armor' and Rory can't help but wonder if it was the Doctor's personal armor from the Time War, or just something from his planet that he took to remind him of his home and all the bad things that happened.

Sherlock immediately goes to the book cases and starts searching. Thankfully, they're labeled according to planet. It doesn't take him long to find the one labeled 'Earth'. Sherlock figures the oldest maps are on the bottom shelves, so he starts there. He grabs all the parchments from the shelf and takes them to a table. Both John and Rory join him and take a portion of the pile to different tables and they all start unrolling different maps from Earth. First they start with the oldest looking ones, but when John finds a rugged, beat-up map with the date 3127 on it, he figures that may not be the best way to start.

After what seemed like hours, Rory notices on an map made of animal skin, the outlines of only the United Kingdom and surrounding areas. Next he sees boundaries, and right at the fattest part of the island is the name Camelot. "I've found it!" Rory cries out. "Sherlock! John! I've found it!"

"Well done Rory!" Sherlock congratulated. "John, why don't you stay here and study the map while Rory and I search in the library for an elixir recipe?" Without waiting for a reply, Sherlock walks out the door, heading back for the library. Rory gives John an encouraging and apologetic look and dashes after Sherlock.

"What kind of medicine do we need to make?" Rory asks.

"Well," Sherlock starts, "we have to allow Arthur to be stabbed, after which he needs to be stabilized for a few days until the Doctor can get to him and save him. We could either find a normal medicine, or one that requires magic. Seeing as we have a warlock on hand, it shouldn't be difficult."

"So what section do we look in? Medicine or Magic?"

"Oh, don't be ridiculous. Medicine. If there's a medicinal book that requires magic to be preformed, that's the most successful kind of medicine."

Once they arrive at the library, they go straight to the back of the room, up the flight of stairs to the second floor and across to the section marked 'Medicinal Texts'. The dozens of times Rory has been here, he's never come across any potions book or the like. Maybe he just hadn't really looked before.

After quite a while, Sherlock finds the section containing the magical healing books. He grabs a stack full and takes them to a table at the end of the aisle. Rory follows suit and sits at the table next to Sherlock. They look through the indexes of each book, searching for anything that sounded like what they need.

When they had searched more than half the magical healing's book cases, Sherlock found something that sounded like it would work.

"Rory," Sherlock beacons for him to come and look at the potion.

Rory reads the description. It sounds a lot like the elixir Juliet drank in Shakespeare's play. "So, the Juliet potion?"

"Juliet came after this, this is the real name, too bad I don't recognize the language of the title." Sherlock explains. "If Arthur is given this soon after he's stabbed, it will slow his heart and, therefore, slow his blood flow. It'll extend his life by four days. By then it's effects will have worn off and Arthur will bleed out. Let's hope four days is long enough for the Doctor." He pauses to read the ingredients. "Hopefully the Doctor and Amy can find these ingredients in Camelot. Most are rare or extinct."

With that, Sherlock closes the book and starts for the stairs.

"Where are you going?" Calls Rory.

"To tell the Doctor what we've found!" He calls back.

Rory runs after him.

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Sorry it took so long for chapter 3! I'll try and get chapter 4 done more quickly, promise! Hard to do when you have tons of school work tho, but I'll make time. Hope you're enjoying it!! If you are, vote for me and/or comment? Would love to hear feedback :)