Chapter 17: Dinner - Disney/Torchwood Style

Kelsey's POV

Jack gets us a table at the small cafe inside the Cinderella Castle. I sat down between Mickey and The Doctor and a plate of spaghetti was set in front of each person. I raised an eyebrow at the Doctor and he shrugged.

"So, Doctor, what brings you here?" Jack asked.

He poked at a meatball before telling Jack about River and I, and how someone was after me. Jack and Gwen nodded as they ate. I sat in nervous silence.

Mickey looked up at me from his plate. "You okay?"

I nodded.

"You don't seem okay." He put down his fork and wiped his mouth with a napkin. "Something's bothering you."

I sighed. "Mickey, sometime in your future, you'll come back here, and you'll be traumatized. I'm worried about you." I looked at the Doctor. "Whatever goes on today, it'll be terrible. I'm scared."

The Doctor grabbed my hand under the table. "You'll be okay. I promise."

Glass shattered from the window behind Gwen. I jumped up and pulled the Doctor and Mickey along as I ran out of the castle. The TARDIS was right in front of me. If I could just...

"Kelsey, what are you doing!" The Doctor yelled. "If we take Mickey in there, it would cause a paradox and we would all be caught in the warp."

I whipped around to look at him and Mickey. The giant mouse costume lay on the ground and Mickey was shooting at the thing that climbed out of the smoke and rubble of the Cinderella castle.

"Mickey! What are you doing?" A sharp, female voice barked. Gwen clambered towards us and Mickey set down his gun. She approached us and I looked at her lips and hands. Both were crawling with red suckers.

"Gwen, you're not well." The Doctor stepped between her and Mickey.

"And whatever gave you that impression?" A different, raspy voice came out of Gwen's mouth.

Gwen's body suddenly spasmed and a chunky red liquid forced its way out her mouth. The Doctor pushed us back as Gwen's body expanded, growing large suction cup-like vertebrae and expanding her body.

"Doctor" I gasped at the horror before us, "what is that?"

"That, Kelsey," said the Doctor in a voice so shallow I could barely hear him, "is a Zygon."

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