Addi awoke with a small gasp, eyes shooting open to look at the scurrying people. The Doctor and Rose were nowhere in sight, but everyone had smiles on their faces, so she figured they had solved the problem. A pang of sadness flitted through her body as she wanted to help as well, but pushed it down when she saw the glowing jar beside her. At least she had prevented Cassandra from causing any more problems.
Pushing herself into a seated position, Addi reached over and grasped the jar in her small hands. A smirk rested on her face and she rotated the glass around before placing it back down. Swinging her feet off the side of the hospital bed, she pushed off and to her feet, wobbling a little as the blood rushed to her head.
"You can go in here for now," Addi stated, placing the jar containing Cassandra in a little vent while nobody was looking. Then, she left to find Rose and the Doctor.
Seeing as the lifts weren't operational, Addi took the stairs. Flinging open the door to the first level, she was greeted by smiling faces and lots of hugs. The lobby was full of the recently cured diseased people. A sentence she never thought would ever pop into her mind. Somewhere along the way, she spotted the Doctor and Rose smiling at each other.
"I'm the Doctor, and I cured them," Addi heard as she approached. Smiling she hugged her sister, who grinned in relief down at her.
"How you feelin' little miss?" Rose asked her.
"Better now that we've saved them," Addi responded.
The Doctor held a fond gaze on the two of them before a woman came over and hugged him.
"That's right. Here, there we go, Sweetheart. Go to him. Go on, that's it. It's a new subspecies, Tylers! A brand new form of life. New humans! Look at them, look! Grown by cats, kept in the dark, fed by tubes, but completely, completely, alive! Cassandra can't even deny them because she helped create them. The human race just keeps on going, keeps on changing. Life will out. Ha!"
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The quarantine was finally lifted and the group of three had made there way back to wear Addi had been placed after passing out. Right next to the Face of Boe.
"The Face of Boe!" The Doctor shouted as he approached. "You were supposed to be dying."
Addi and Rose both nudged him in the ribs on either side causing him to grimace and let out a small 'sorry'.
"There are better things to do today. Dying can wait," the Face of Boe replied making Addi's lips split into a soft grin. Rose on the other hand, flinched.
"I had forgotten about the telepathy," she mumbled, sticking her tongue out at the Doctor as he shushed her.
"I have grown tired with the universe, Doctor, but, you have taught me to look at it anew," the face of Boe echoed in their heads.
"There are legends, you know, saying that you're millions of years old."
"There are?" The Face of Boe mused, "That would be impossible."
"Well nothing is impossible," Addi smirked.
"Of course not, dear Addi," the Face of Boe replied to her.
The Doctor and Rose smiled as well, the Doctor speaking once again, " I got the impression there was something you wanted to tell me."
"A great secret."
"So the legend says," the Doctor swayed with his hands in his pockets.
"It can wait."
Addi burst into a loud fit of giggles at the Face of Boe's response. The Doctor looked like a child who'd been given a pair of socks on Christmas.
"Oh, does it have to?" He whined.
"We shall meet again, Doctor, for the third time, for the last time, and the truth shall be told. Until that day," He beamed away, leaving a great empty space behind.
"That is enigmatic," the Doctor began turning to face the two sisters, "that, that is, that is textbook enigmatic. And now for Cassandra."
"Let me go get her... I hid her in a vent," Addi chuckled as she walked to the other side of the room, shimmying the cover off the vent and pulling the glowing jar from inside.
The Doctor grabbed the jar from her once she walked back over and looked at Rose with a sorry expression.
Rose sighed, "Let's just get it over with."
The Doctor nodded, unscrewing the lid of the jar, the light inside flew out and shot into Rose's mouth. She stumbled backwards and both Addi and the Doctor reached forward to steady her. Once stable, she glanced around, seeing what Addi had seen when she woke up then to the Doctor's unamused face.
"But everything's happy, everything's fine! Can't you just leave me?" She pleaded him.
"You've lived long enough. Leave that body and end it, Cassandra," the Doctor told her with a stern raise of his brows.
"I don't want to die!"
"Nobody does," Addi whispered with sad eyes. A swell of pity raised in her chest as she took in Cassandra's fearful face.
"Help me!"
"We can't," Addi replied, stepping away from her as if ending the discussion. Yet, Chip popped out of somewhere and shouted out for Cassandra.
"Mistress!"
"Oh, you're alive," Cassandra said in some combination of shock and boredom.
"I kept myself safe for you, mistress!"
Addi had to applaud his loyalty. He'd be a good Hufflepuff.
"A body. And not just that, a volunteer," Cassandra mumbled to herself, yet the Doctor and Addi both heard her.
"Cassandra you can't! It isn't fair to Chip," Addi tried to reason while the Doctor took a more stern approach.
"Don't you dare. He's got a life of his own."
"But I worship the mistress. I welcome her," Chip cut in. Addi closed her eyes in defeat with a sigh.
The Doctor tried to protest some more, but Cassandra floated out of Rose and into Chip. Rose swayed on her feet and the Doctor steadied her. Addi watched as Chip stumbled once Cassandra had entered him. She felt the pity burst and sink to the bottom of her stomach. All she felt now was tired and sad.
"Oh, sweet Lord. I'm a walking doodle," Cassandra grimaced making Addi shake with anger.
"He has just given his life for you and yet you insult him? You're a disgrace to every life form there every was, is, and will be!"
"Addi, calm down," Rose swung an arm around her shoulder and led her away so that the Doctor could deal with Cassandra.
She led her over to a window looking out on the city. Addi marveled at the sight, as did Rose.
"I never got to tell you, but I'm proud of you," Rose said after a moment of silence.
"For what?" Addi asked.
"For trying to save me. I could still hear and see what was going on when Cassandra was inside my body, and I saw you standing up for me. You've grown up so strong and I really am sorry that I left for so long."
"I know you are. I wish you would have taken me with you though. This is amazing, something I never thought would happen to someone like me," Addi smiled down at her feet. "I might be a witch and see some cool things, but nothing could beat this. At least I don't think so. As for the standing up for you. Of course I would, you're my big sister and I love you." Rose's bottom lip wobbled as Addi continued, "I never stopped practicing gymnastics. You always told me I was skilled at it and I thought you'd be disappointed if I quit."
A tear fell from Rose's eye, "I could never be disappointed in you! You are one of the best things in my life. I wouldn't trade you for anything!"
"I wouldn't trade you for anything either," Addi grinned, pulling Rose into a hug. They stayed there until the Doctor came over to retrieve them.
"Time to go. We have to make a stop though."
"Sounds good," The sisters chorused, giggling as the Doctor's face squinted at them.
"Stop that."
"No."