Chapter 16:

Augusta's POV

"Auggie," the Doctor said, turning to me. My body was trembling, and my face was frozen in shock. "Auggie! Auggie, are you--"

"Stop," I whispered. The Doctor crouched down in front of me, and I gasped, moving back. "No, I-I... I'm sorry, I--" it became hard to breathe, my eyes widened and I clawed at my throat.

"Auggie! Auggie, calm down! Calm down!" He said. "You're having another attack, calm down."

"I-I-I-I," I stammered, "I'm sorry, I won't do it again, I--"

"What's wrong with her?" Jack asked, stepping over. I yelped and stepped back, my hands covering my ears, they were laughing again, they were laughing! I can hear it, it's coming from the walls! It's in the room! They're in the room! They're coming to punish me!

"I'm so sorry," I cried, tears falling out of my eyes. "I-I-I--"

"Hey, hey," the Doctor said, his voice really calm and soothing. I stopped and looked at him, "It's okay. No need to apologize. You didn't do anything wrong."

I stared at him for a few seconds, "They're coming," I murmured, trying to slow my breathing. "Th-they're coming and--"

"Nobody's coming," he insisted. He took a step closer, and I stayed where I was, watching him. He knelt down to my level and smiled at me, "It's going to be okay," he promised, taking my hand away from my hair and holding it. "Are you okay now?" He asked when I had began breathing normally. I gave him a small nod, but my hands were still shaking slightly.

"Good," he nodded and messed up my hair.

"Sorry," I murmured, looking at my feet. "I didn't mean to act like that, I just-- what you said... It reminded me of something and--"

"Hey," he smiled at me. "S'okay. You were scared. It's okay now."

I numbly nodded, standing back up. "I'm sorry..."

"It's okay," he smiled. "Why don't you go sit down while I-we check over the bodies?" He suggested and motioned to the empty chair beside a table.

I nodded obediently and silently sat down at the table, while the trio talked about the 'dead' bodies.

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Doctor's POV

As Auggie went to go sit down, he pulled Rose aside, "What is it?" She asked.

"What do you think set her off?" He asked her in a hushed tone to keep the other two from hearing them.

"Uh... Probably when you scolded the gasmask-people like they were kids, why?"

He sighed, "Why would me scolding someone else cause her to have a panic attack?" He wondered out loud.

"You said that she was from a abusive home, right?" Rose asked, and he gave her a slight nod. "Then, maybe it's that. She's probably afraid of being scolded or something."

He frowned, shaking his head, "No. That wasn't it. I scolded her for blowing up her room just last week and she didn't have a bloody panic attack," he sighed. "It's something else. Something else triggered it. Before she was in that kind of home."

Rose looked confused, "Wait, where was she before she was in the abusive home?"

He grimaced, he didn't want to tell Rose how she told him that she was experimented on, but she would need to know either way. "She told me that before she was in her foster home, she was experimented on," he explained, and Rose's jaw dropped.

"She was what?!"

"Experimented on," he repeated with a slight growl in his voice. "Used as a lab rat. Hurt. Tortured even," he glanced at the girl, who was swinging her legs off the end of the chair numbly, pity hinted in his eyes. "Rose, I don't even think she was actually born."

"What do you mean by that?" She crossed her arms over her chest.

"I asked her a few weeks ago if she wanted to meet her parents, but she refused to," he explained. "She didn't know what a mother was. Even if she was taken from her birth-mother when she was born, she would still have a slightly psychic link and would understand the basic concepts of a mother."

"What are you trying to say?" She frowned.

"She's probably been experimented on before birth," he saId. "She was born in a petri dish!"

Rose stared at him for a few seconds, "When we first met her, you said that she wasn't human?"

"She's not," he answered. "The scan showed that she was 48% human. 52% of it was unidentifiable."

"Okay, so if she wasn't born, and was experimented on..." She looked over at the girl, who was oblivious to their stares.

"Then, what is she?"

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Augusta's POV

"Why are they all wearing gas masks?" Rose asked, sitting on a bed, looking at one of the gasmask-people, as she had began to call them.

"They're not," Jack corrected. "Those masks are flesh and bone." He was settled in the chair I used to be in. I was standing near the wall, beside the Doctor, where, after that panic attack and hearing the voice again, I felt safest.

"How was your con supposed to work?" The Doctor asked Jack, who simply shrugged.

"Simple enough, really," he answered. "Find some harmless piece of space-junk... let the nearest Time Agent track it back to Earth. Convince him it's valuable, name a price. When he's put 50% up front - oops! A German bomb falls on it, destroys it forever. He never gets to see what he's paid for. Never knows he's been had. I buy him a drink with his own money, and we discuss dumb luck. The perfect self-cleaning con."

"Yeah. Perfect," the Doctor rolled his eyes.

"The London Blitz is great for self-cleaners," he defended himself. "Pompeii's nice if you want to make a vacation of it though, but you've got to set your alarm for volcano day." He laughed as though he made a joke, but I frowned, since I didn't understand. The Doctor didn't seem to like this either, because he stared pointedly at Jack, who stops laughing. "Getting a hint of disapproval..."

"Take a look around the room " the Doctor said. "This is what your 'harmless piece of space-junk' did."

"It was a burnt-out medical transporter," he explained for the tenth time. "It was empty!"

The Doctor glared darkly at him, before walking off and to Rose. I stayed near the wall, watching the bodies. The golden hue seemed to radiate off their bodies, which was very... Weird. I've seen this before, I just can't place it.

"... Auggie, we're leaving," the Doctor shouted. I nodded and walked over.

Jack got up too, desperation shone on his face. "I even programmed the flight computer so it wouldn't land on anything living -- I harmed no-one!" He exclaimed, following us, "I don't know what's happening here, but believe me -- I had nothing to do with it."

"I'll tell you what's happening," the Doctor growled. "You forgot to set your alarm clock. It's volcano day."

A loud siren goes off, and I cringed slightly, rubbing my ear. That with the one from earlier... Ugh, I was going to get a headache...

"What's that?" Rose asked, (oddly) looking around the ceiling.

"The all-clear," Jack explained, but the Doctor merely a scoffed.

"I wish."

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Rose, Jack and I ran down the hallway, looking for the Doctor, who went to go scout ahead. "Mr. Spock?" Jack called.

"Doctor?" Rose called after him, passing a flight of stairs. I stopped and sniffed, then turned towards the stairs just as he popped his head out from the banister.

"Have you got a blaster?" The Doctor asked, Rose and Jack stopped in their tracks, and backing up.

"Sure!" Jack said as they ran up the stairs, standing outside a door.

"The night your space-junk landed, someone was hurt " the Doctor explained once we were all upstairs. "This was where they were taken."

"There's nobody inside," I noted to the Doctor, who nodded.

"What happened?" Rose asked.

"Let's find out," he grinned. "Get it open."

Jack grinned and pointed his gun at the door, I watched as the lock on the door disappeared. "Squareness gun," I murmured, making Jack turn to me.

"Yep," he grinned. "How'd you know that? You fancy sonic technology?"

I frowned, "How did I know what?"

"That this was a squareness gun," he answered, and I rose and eyebrow.

"I never said anything about a squareness gun..." I pushed the door open, walking through the dimly lit room, switching the light on. There were two separate rooms, divided by a wall with a glass layer with a shattered hole in it. Inside was a small room with a bed and colored drawings tacked on the wall.

In the bigger room held a few overturned chairs, stuff all over the floor, and a tanned brown machine with buttons on the desk. "Sonic blaster, 51st century," the Doctor said to Jack as I looked around the room. "Weapon Factories of Villengard?"

"You've been to the factories?" Jack asked as I looked around the room. I'm getting a bad feeling... There is something not right... Something in this room isn't... Right.

"What d'you think?" The Doctor asked, walking around the room.

"Something got out of here..." Jack commented, kicking a sheet of paper.

"Yeah. And?"

"Something powerful. Angry."

"Powerful and angry."

I silently walked into the room seeing much more paintings on the wall, covering the entire thing. There were toys(?) here and there on the ground and a small bed. I noticed that the bed was messed up. The covers were nearly on the floor, the pillow slightly tore.

I blinked, and picked up the pillow, sniffing it. It smelled salty. Tears. It smelled like tears.

"Auggie, you okay?" The Doctor asked and I whipped my head around, looking at him.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine," I nodded. "I-I'm okay."

He gave me a weird look, "Okay," he nodded, and walked out of the room.

"A child?" Jack says, entering the room too. "I suppose this explains 'mummy'."

"How could a child do this?" Rose asked, looking at the drawings.

The Doctor didn't answer. Instead, he pressed a button on a box making the voice of Doctor Constantine emit from it. "Do you know where you are?" He asked.

"Are you my mummy?" The box said, and Rose's eyes fractioned.

"Are you aware of what's around you?" He continued, "Can you... see?"

"Are you my mummy?" The boy asked again.

"What do you want? Do you know--"

"I want my mummy," he demanded. "Are you my mummy? I want my mummy! Are you my mummy? Are you my mummy? Mummy? Mummy?"

"Doctor, I've heard this voice before," Rose said, looking at the wall covered in drawing, each one resembling a woman.

"Me too," he agreed.

"Mummy?" The boy called, again.

"Always, 'are you my mummy'?" Rose said, gently touching the wall. "Like he doesn't know."

"Mummy?"

"Why doesn't he know?" She turned to the Doctor.

"Are you there, mummy? Mummy?"

I sighed and looked around the room, something was really, really, really wrong here. I can't exactly place it, but I know it's there. I know... I know HE'S there!

I quickly turned around, to see the man in the black coat leaning against the wall, a smirk proudly placed on his face. My eyes narrowed and I went over to stand beside him, "What the hell do you want this time?" I demanded in a whisper-tone.

"Only to talk," he answered, and I glared at him. "I wouldn't kill you in front of the Oncoming Storm. I am not a fool."

A growl rose in my throat and I crossed my arms over my chest, "I didn't see you. Why didn't I see you?"

"Since our last... Exchange, I made a mistake. I should've killed you on the spot. Instead, my anger got ahold of me and I let you suffer as a monster. They didn't like that, so they gave me a few... Adjustments in order to kill you properly. When the time comes, of course."

"You're not killing anyone," I hissed. "You have a vortex manipulator! Go, teleport away!"

"Oh, but don't you want to know why you can't remember this episode, little Monster?" He asked smugly, and I stiffened.

"You're the reason why...?"

"Of course I am," he rolled his eyes. "Like I said, I was given a few adjustments. Upgrades if you will."

"Okay, so you're getting in my mind, and messing with my memories," I frowned. "What else can you screw up?"

"Now why would I tell you that?" He grinned, "That just ruins the enjoyment in your mental torture."

I frowned, "Tor--"

"Auggie, who are you talkin' to?" Rose asked, making me shoot my head up.

"Nobody," I answered. "Just... Thinking out loud is all."

She chuckled and continued to talk to the Doctor, and I subtly glared at him.

"It must hurt.." he said, making me raise and eyebrow. "... To be a monster," he finished, and I glared harder at him.

"I'm not--"

"To be feared by everyone, and scared to hurt people you love just by touching them."

"St--"

"You want to help, that's why you use your information from the other universe. That's why you stay with the Time Lord in his blue TARDIS."

"Stop i--"

"You wake up crying from the lives that you've taken. To look at your hands only to see them soaked in blood. To live in constant fear that someone close's blood might be added to that."

"No, stop, I--"

"Tell me, Subject August.23," he grinned maliciously at me. "Do you look forward to when you are going to kill the Time Lord and that human with your own hands?"

"Stop..."

"Do you anticipate watching their crimson red blood trickle through your fingers?"

"Stop...!"

"Can you not wait for when you--"

"Stop!"

"--Hear their cries in pure agony when you finally rip out their hearts and crush their bones to grains and powder?"

"No," I murmured, my breathing increasing gradually. "No, I, I wouldn't. I won't, I--"

"Or," he cut me off, "Are you waiting to destroy just one of them? Leaving the other depressed and to look at you with shame and betrayal? Until they finally hate you and ultimately kill you--?"

"NO!" I screamed, making everyone jump. "No! No! No!" I glared at the man, red-hot fire burning in my eyes. I slowly walked over to the man, who looked at me with wide eyes tinted with amusement. "I won't do that, and they won't die, because I'm going to protect them! I'm going to make sure that nothing EVER happens to them, and if I find out that you so much as give one of them a paper cut," I glared him in the face. "I'll kill you all myself."

He smirked, "The Monster finally shows its true colors. But what good would a threat like that do in front of your friends?"

I paused, and turned around, the Doctor, Rose, and even Jack all looked at me with concern, "Augusta, who the hell are you talking to?" The Doctor demanded, striding over.

"I-I was--" I turned back around to the man, who was grinning madly, his malicious yellow eyes gleaming with dark amusement.

"I would love to see you stay and destroy your friends, Monster," he pulled out his arm, revealing his vortex manipulator. "But, I have important people I have to see."

His hand slammed down, and I launched myself at him. "Wait!" I screamed, but it was too late. I hit the wall painfully, and he was gone.

"Auggie, are you okay?" Rose said, coming over and helping me up.

"I'm fine," I grumble, frustrated. I let him get away again! And he's messing with my memories! I can't protect them if I don't know what's going on!

"Auggie, what's going on? Who were you talking to?" The Doctor demanded.

"I-I," I stammered, staring at him. His blue eyes were set in an angry glare, but there was also some kind of concern mixed in it. Was he angry or was he sad? I-I don't know, he's confusing me! He sounds angry, but his words are sad, I don't know what to think anymore...

I sighed and sat down on the child's bed, burying my face in my hands. "I don't want to talk anymore," I mumbled, not bothering to look at them.

"You don't want to talk?!" He repeated heatedly, "Augusta, you just threatened to kill something and then jumped at a wall! You need to tell us what's going on."

I didn't answer, I heard footsteps violently walk over, and stop in front of me, "Augusta, I'm serious. Tell us what's going on."

"... I can't," I murmured, not looking up at him.

"Why not? Is someone threatening you?"

I hesitated, "... No."

"Who's after you?"

"Nobody."

"Don't you dare start that again, Augusta," he growled, making me flinch. "This has gone on long enough. You need to tell us what's going on! We're trying to help you!"

"I don't want your help," I reasoned, "I don't want you to help me. I want to protect you from them. I'm trying to make sure you don't get hurt!"

"I'm a grown person, I don't need you to protect me."

"Doctor, you have no idea what's coming," I laughed humorlessly. "You don't know what you're risking! I'm trying to do everything I can to make sure that they don't hurt you!"

"Who?" He demanded, "Who's going to hurt me?!"

I glared at him, my eyes burning with fury, "The same people that hurt me!" I yelled, breathing heavily with anger. I looked at them, the Doctor stared at me in shock, as did Rose and Jack.

"Augusta, nobody's going to get you," Rose spoke up. "Nobody's gonna get u--"

"You don't know that," I muttered. "They're too powerful. They know I'm with you, and they'll try to get to you, to get to me..."

"We won't let them--"

"You don't even know who you're up against."

"--Take us," the Doctor continued. "I'm sure I can handle a few humans threatening your life."

I stared at him, my hazel brown eyes burning into his head, "Who ever said that they were human?"

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"Mummy?" The child's voice said through the box. "Please, mummy? Mummy?"

The Doctor was pacing the room, I sat on the bed, my knees to my chest. Nobody was talking to me. They knew I was keeping secrets, and I had just told them that they were coming. I didn't want to talk anymore. I didn't want to say anything about it anymore. I wanted to help protect them, but they weren't letting me! I didn't want to tell them about my powers either, or they wouldn't trust me. I didn't know what to do, I didn't know who to talk to, I didn't even know what to say to them.

"Doctor?" Rose asked, watching him carefully.

"Can you sense it?" He asked her.

"Sense what?" Jack asked, confused.

"Coming out of the walls," he explained, a certain tone of stress in his voice. "Can you feel it?"

"Mummy?"

"Funny little human brains," he laughed. "How do you get around in those things?"

Jack glared at him, but Rose placed a hand on his arms, "When he's stressed, he likes to insult species," she explained.

"Rose, I'm thinking," he said, still pacing.

"Cuts himself shaving," Rose continued with a grin. "Does half an hour in life forms he's cleverer than..."

"There are these children living rough around the bomb site," he said, more to himself. "They come out during air-raids looking for food."

"Mummy, please."

"Suppose they were there when this thing -- whatever it was -- landed?" He continued.

"It was a med-ship," Jack insisted, "It was harmless."

"Yes, you keep saying. 'Harmless'," he scoffed. "Suppose one of them was affected -- altered?"

"Altered how?" Rose frowned, crossing her arms over her chest.

"I'm here! Is the scary with you?" My eyes fractioned and I shot my head up.

"It's afraid. Terribly afraid, and powerful. It doesn't know it yet, but it will do," he laughed. "It's got the power of a god, and I just sent it to its room."

"Doctor," Rose said, as I moved off the bed.

"I'm here. Can't you see me?" The boy continued, I turned towards the door, I thought I heard something. "Is that the scary?"

A loud crackling noise filled the room, and I jumped, "What's that noise?" Rose asked and I went to go stand beside her.

The Doctor's wide smile faded, "End of the tape. It ran out about 30 seconds ago."

"I'm here, now. Can't you see me? Where's the scary?"

"I sent it to it's room," he said, the wheels slowly turning in his head. "This is its room."

He spun around quickly to see the child standing behind him, "Are you my mummy?" He asked, looking at Rose. "Mummy?" He turned to me, and staggered a few steps back, with a gasp, "The scary..."

"Okay... on my signal... make for the door," Jack ordered, reaching a hand into his coat. "NOW!" He whipped out his hand to pull out a yellow half circle thing and pointed it at the child threateningly. I rose and eyebrow at him and the Doctor grinned, reaching in his own jacket and pulled out the gun that Jack had earlier.

He shot it at the wall, creating a perfectly square hole where the stone was used to be, "Go! Now!" The Doctor shouted, pushing us through. "Don't drop the banana!"

"Why not?!" Jack yelled as he hopped through the wall with us.

"Good source of potassium!" He grinned.

"Give me that!" Jack growled, snatching the gun from him and pointing it at the wall where the child was just climbing through.

"Are you my mummy?" The child asked as he shot the wall, making it instantly rebuild itself as if it never had a square hole in the first place.

"Digital rewind," I chuckled to myself, and Jack looked at me.

Jack looked at me, "What?"

I looked back at him, "What?"

He opened his mouth to say something else, but the Doctor cut him off, "It's from the Groves of Villengard." He said, although I had no clue what that was, "I thought it was appropriate."

Jack looked at the Doctor with a small chuckle, "There's really a banana grove in the heart of Villengard and you did that?"

"Bananas are good," he shrugged.

A thump on the wall made us all turns around stare at the wall, where the child was punching on, and cracks was spreading through. "Doctor!" Rose shouted.

"Come on!" He said, taking both our hands and running down the hallway.

We ran down a short flight of stairs and into another hallway and stopped when we found a crowd of people moaning, "Mummy," in our path.

Turning around, we went the other way, back up the flight of stairs, only to find another hoard of people, slowly advancing on us. We were back in front of the cracking wall.

I muttered a curse and held out my hand to control their tracks, but stopped when my nose bled lightly. There were too many, I'd kill myself before I was able to stop one crowd!

"It's keeping us here so it can get at us," the Doctor muttered, looking around at the situation we got ourselves into.

"It's controlling them?" Jack asked, pointing his gun in their directions, although with them coming on both sides, it really wouldn't work. I moved towards the back, if I can't stop them, then I could buy us time.

I slowly moved my hand over the cracking stone wall, sealing the stone back together, only to have it cracked again seconds later. I cursed. "It IS them," the Doctor clarified, "It's every living thing in this hospital."

"Okay. This can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic cannon, and a triple-enfolded sonic disrupter," Jack said, bragging a little. "Doc, what you got?"

I saw the Doctor pull his sonic screwdriver out, but put it back quickly, "A sonic, er... oh, never mind," he sighed.

"What?" Jack demanded, not stopping at pointing his gun at the gas-mask people.

"It's sonic, okay?" The Doctor said, a bit of a pout in his voice. "Let's leave it at that."

"Disrupter? Cannon? What?"

"It's sonic! Totally sonic! I am sonic-ed up!"

"A sonic WHAT?!"

"SCREWDRIVER!" With that, the child finally punched through the wall and Jack spun around. He began to climb through as I was trying to seal it back, with no avail.

I saw Rose grab Jack's wrist and point it at the ground, it took me a half second to realize what she was doing. "Going down!" She shouted, shooting the gun at the ground.

We quickly fell through the square hole, with all the panic, I managed to create a small air cushion under them to soften the fall, but didn't have time to make myself one, and fell flat on my face.

Having no time to complain, I quickly move a hand, and seal back up the hole before anyone can get through it. "That was not as hard of a fall as it should've been," the Doctor muttered, sitting up. I resisted the urge to give him a very sarcastic 'You're welcome'. He turned to me, "Auggie, you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm--" I cut myself off by coughing violently a few drops of blood splattered on my hand. Shit, the side effects shouldn't have been this fast! Maybe because I was controlling more people... And sealed a wall... And cushioned their fall... And resealed the floor...

"Auggie?" He moved over to where I was. He saw the blood on my hands and his eyes widened, "Not again...!"

"I'm fine, just give me a second," I muttered, standing up, but the room turned quickly and I nearly fell back down.

"Who has a sonic screwdriver?" Jack demanded.

"I do!" He shouted back, helping me up.

Rose looked around, "Light!"

"Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks 'oohoo, this could be a little more sonic'?" Jack sassed, which made me giggle, and then I fell into another coughing fit.

"What, you've never been bored?" He cried indigently, rubbing my back at the same time.

"There's gotta be a light switch!" Rose said, still poking around.

"Never had a long night?" The Doctor said. "Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?"

Rose finally found the light switch and turned it on, only to reveal a dozen or so more dead-mask-people sitting up straight on their beds, staring at us, and murmuring about their mummies.

"Door," Jack said, and ran towards the metal door that led to the other room. I watched the mask-people get out of the bed and head toward us. I softened the stone ground underneath their feet, making them sink into the ground, and slow them down.

I couldn't keep this up for long. There were too many and after controlling their blood upstairs, I should have probably fainted by now. "Damn it!" Jack shouted, smacking his gun with his hand, and stepping back, letting the Doctor work on the door. "It's the special features, they really drain the battery."

"The battery?!" Rose cried as he sonicked the door, opening it, and hurrying us through. "That's so LAME!"

The Doctor sonicked the door behind him once we all were through, Jack ran to the small, barred window. I stood by the wall, just listening to them, "I was gonna send for another one, but somebody's gonna blow up the factory."

"Oh, I know -- first day I met him, he blew my job up," Rose replied, sarcasm lacing her voice. "That's practically how he communicates."

"Okay, that door should hold it for a bit," The Doctor said, turning around.

"The door?! The wall didn't stop it!" Jack exclaimed.

"Well, it's gotta find us first!" The Doctor shouted, "Come on, we're not done yet! Assets, assets!"

"Well, I've got a banana," Jack rolled his eyes. "And at a pinch you could put up some shelves!"

He went to the window, "Window--"

"Barred, sheer drop outside. Seven stories," Jack said.

"And no other exits," Rose added, even though that really didn't help the situation.

Jack sat down in one of the chairs, "Well, the assets conversation went in a flash, didn't it?"

The Doctor turned around to look at Rose, about to say something, when his eyes trailed over to me. "Oh, god! Auggie!" He shouted, rushing over, finally noticing the condition I was in.

Sweat beaded my head and my eyes half-lidded, my head stayed on the wall, feeling for vibrations outside the door. Whenever someone got too close, I'd make a small hole through the ground, sending them to the floor below. It was a perfect plan, even though I felt like I was dying...

The Doctor sonicked me as I coughed up more blood into my hand, "What is wrong with you? You're dying!"

"I'm fine," I waved it off.

"You're dying!"

"I'm fine," I insisted, creating another hole for someone to fall through.

"What do you mean she's dying? Did they touch her?!"

"No," he said. "She's doing something that literally toying with her heart. If you keep this up, you'll kill yourself!" He looked at me, his eyes a desperate dark blue and face pale with worry and fear.

I managed a small smile, "I'm protecting you," with that, everything went black.

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Doctor's POV

Her eyes rolled back into her head and she slumped forward. Luckily, he caught her before she hit the floor. He pulled up a chair, setting Augusta on it carefully.

Then, he began to pace the room again, "Okay, one, we want to get out of here. Two, we CAN'T get out of here. Three, Augusta might be dying. Have I missed anything?"

"Yeah..." Rose said, "Jack just disappeared." He whipped his head around to see the 51st-century con-man gone.

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Augusta's POV

I shot up, gasping, I looked around to see I was in some kind of small metal ship. I was sitting in a slightly comfy chair. I heard Rose, the Doctor and Jack talking behind me.

I turned around to see a gold dust surrounding the Doctor's hand, "They're what fixed my hands up!" Rose exclaimed, "Jack called 'em, um..."

"Nanogenes," I finished softly, making everyone look at me.

"How'd you know that?" The Doctor asked.

I blinked at him, he sounded like Jack from earlier, "Know what?" I asked, standing up.

"Nanogenes. You knew they were Nanogenes," He explained.

"No I didn't," I frowned.

"You've been doing that all day," Jack said. "First the square-ness gun, then the digital rewind, now this!"

"No I haven't," I rose an eyebrow, "Where are we?"

"We're in Jack's--"

"Ship," I murmured, cutting him off. "Chula ship..." The room was dead silent. Everyone was staring at me, I instinctively took a step back. "Why are you staring at me, what did I do?"

"Augusta," the Doctor said slowly, "How do you know all this?"

"What are you talking about? I didn't say anything!" I exclaimed, seriously confused at this point.

"Yes, you did," he nodded, stepping over to me, but I was so on edge that I took a half step back. There wasn't anywhere I could go, really. The space ship was small, nearly no room for me to go.

They all stared at me for a good few minutes and my anxiety increased, I felt my powers flare a bit from the panic, but I balled my fists up, putting them in my pockets.

"Nanogenes," the Doctor finally said, breaking his stare with me. "Sub-atomic robots. There's millions of them in here, see?" He pulled out his hand, and showed it to Rose, "Burned my hand on the console when we landed -- all better now. They activate when the bulk head's sealed. Check you out for damage, fix any physical flaws." He waved the gold dust away and turns to Jack, "Take us to the crash site. I need to see your space junk."

"As soon as I get the nav-com back online," he rolled his eyes in annoyance. "Make yourself comfortable. Carry on with whatever it was you were... Doing..."

What were they doing, I wondered as the Doctor's ears shaded red, "We were talking about dancing!"

"It didn't look like talking," Jack chuckled.

"Didn't feel like dancing," Rose giggled.

"What's 'dancing'?" I asked, confused.

>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<

I was sitting in the back, the Doctor was checking to make sure that I wasn't dying anymore, although I insisted that I was fine. Rose and Jack were sitting near the front, talking to each other. "What's this about you knowing things you're not supposed to?" He asked, sitting beside me.

"I have no idea what you're talking about," I sighed, looking him straight in the eyes.

He stared at me for a second, then sighed, "Fine. What about you threatening to kill nothing, hmm?"

I opened my mouth to say something, then stopped. How was I going to explain that there was an invisible man sent by them trying to kill me? I nearly laughed at the thought, he'd think I'm insane...

"It's complicated," I finally settled on an answer.

"It can't be that complicated," he rolled his eyes.

I frowned, "Maybe it isn't. I still don't want to tell you," I shrugged and he glared at me lightly.

"Why won't you tell us when something's wrong? We already had this conversation and we all agreed that you can definitely trust us."

"It's not that I don't trust you. I don't want you getting hurt because of me," I clarified.

"Nobody will get hurt."

"Can you promise that?" I asked, my eyes narrowing at him. "Doctor, I'm not keeping these secrets from you on purpose," Lie. "I just don't want you two getting hurt. I want to be able to protect you."

"Auggie, I'm 900 years old," he laughed, "There's no reason for you to protect me. I can handle my own, thank you."

"You don't know that," I said firmly, staring at the floor, shaking my head slightly. I took a deep breath, "The things, the people out there that want me dead Won't hesitate on killing you." I looked up at him, my hazel eyes wide with concern, "I'm just trying to help lower the body count..."

He blinked at me, processing my words. Before he could say anything, Jack spoke up saying, "Okay, we're good to go! Crash site?"

>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<

We were standing back outside the bomb site, near the metal gates that were really sharp at the top. You could see the entire camp of people from here, buzzing about, patrolling the area, etc. "There it is," he sighed like it was the most beautiful thing on earth.

I noticed a familiar looking man walking around the base, a unreasonably large gun in his hands. "Ay, they've got Algy on duty," Jack laughed, "Must be important."

"We've gotta get past," the the Doctor mumbled.

"The words 'distract the guard' head in my general direction," Rose replied with a smirk.

"I don't think that'd be such a good idea," Jack frowned.

"Don't worry..." She laughed, "... I can handle it."

Jack still frowned at her, and peered through the gating, spotting a man that was standing next to a large tent. "I've got to know Algy quite well since I've been in town. Trust me. You're not his type. I'll distract him," he begins to walk away. "Don't wait up." He hurried off, leaving Rose, the Doctor, and I by ourselves.

The Doctor and Rose looked at each other, "Relax, he's a 51st century guy," he said with a grin. "He's just a bit more flexible when it comes to dancing."

"How flexible?" Rose frowned.

"Well," he chuckled, "By his time, you lot have spread out across half the galaxy."

"What does that mean?" I asked, glancing at Jack every now and then.

He grinned, "So many species, so little time..."

I rose an eyebrow, but didn't say anything. "What, that's what we do when we get out there?" Rose asked, "That's our mission? We seek new life, and... and..."

"Dance," he smiled at her.

I blink at them, still not understanding this 'dance' thing. I looked back at Jack, who wasn't very far ahead, just entering the camp right now. I strained my ears to hear what they were saying.

"Hey, tiger! How's it hanging?" Jack's cheerful voice said, talking to the man.

"Mummy?" The man asked and my eyes widened.

"We need to go," I said immediately, going down the hill where Jack left, running as fast as I could to Jack and the soldier.

"Algy, old sport, it's me," Jack laughed.

"Mummy?" The man asked again.

"... Jack," he said, his voice dropping the cheeriness it once held before.

"Jack?" He asked, his head cocking to the side, "Are you my... Mummy?"

Once I had gotten there, the transformation had already started. A gas mask produced itself from his mouth, and out of his skin. I watched as he finally fell to the ground, his face and hands pale. He was dead.

The Doctor and Rose had also arrived in time to see him change as well. Rose gasped in surprise, "Stay back!" The Doctor shouted when soldiers rounded the corner.

"You men!" Jack ordered the soldiers, "Stay away!" The soldiers stopped in their tracks, and the Doctor and Rose looked at his body.

"The effect's become air-borne," the Doctor commented, as I stared at the gold dust surrounding his body and leaving into the air. "Accelerating."

"What's keeping us safe?" Rose asked, nervously.

"Nothing," he admitted.

A loud siren filled the air, I cringed at the noise, covering my ears. "Ah, here they come again," Jack said, looking at the sky.

"All we need," Rose nodded. "Didn't you say a bomb was gonna land... HERE?" Jack nodded. Through all the chaos, I for some reason, heard singing. I blinked and turned to the shed where it was coming from, is that Nancy?

"Never mind about that," the Doctor said. "If the contaminants air-borne now, there's hours left."

"For what?" Jack asked.

"'Til nothing," he answered grimly. "'Til forever. For the entire human race. And can anyone else hear singing?"

>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<

"Rock-a-by baby, on the tree tops," Nancy's voice sang through the shed. "When the wind blows the cradle will rock..."

The Doctor slowly opened the door, revealing Nancy, who was handcuffed to a table, singing to a sleeping man with a gas mask on his face. The Doctor motioned for her to keep singing.

"When the bough breaks the cradle will fall," she continued, "And down will come baby, cradle and all. Rock-a-by baby... on the tree tops, when the wind blows the cradle will rock..." The Doctor steps towards her, producing his sonic, and sonicked the handcuffs off her.

We slowly all walk out the door. As I went, I felt something clamp on my arm. I turned around to see the man, who was supposedly sleeping, holding my arm, "Are... Are you my mummy?" He asked, although his voice was groggy from sleep.

My breath hitched and I tried to pull away, but his grip was like iron, "No," I growled.

"Are you my mummy?" He asked again, not letting go. I felt the gold dust travel up my arm and through my gloves and I began to panic.

"Looks like you're in a bit of a predicament," a new, familiar voice said. I turned around to see the man standing on the wall, smirking.

"Shut up," I growled, pulling at my arm more.

"Mummy," the man moaned again. My arms began to feel weaker, like he was sucking the life out of me. My chest burned with pain, and I groaned. My vision began to blur and merge together.

"Now, now," he smirked, walking over to me, "Don't you want to see your mummy?"

"Don't... Co... Come... Ne-near... Me... Me... Mum-mummy... Mu-mu-mummy," I gasped in pain as I felt something emerge from my throat, and crawl out of my skin. I screamed when it formed itself on my face, gasping in pain. Doctor, help...

>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<

Doctor's POV

After running to the crash site, he stopped in his tracks. He was missing something. He turned around, to see Rose, Jack and Nancy following him.

Where's Augusta?

He gasped and quickly turned around, "Doctor?!" Rose called after him, but he didn't have time to answer.

He went back to the shed, and threw the door open, revealing Augusta, with a gas mask slowly forming out of her face. The soldier from earlier was holding onto her arm. There was also a new man standing in the corner of the room, watching her smugly. He was tall and wore a black trench coat. He noticed unnatural yellow eyes poking out from under his hood.

"Augusta!" He shouted, and she whipped her head around, her visible eye widened.

"STAY BACK!" She screamed, throwing her arm out, and instantly, he didn't have control of his body, and flew back, hitting the wall painfully. She yanked her arm away, and kicked the soldier in the leg, making him fall to the ground and shakily stood up.

"What are you going to do, little Monster?" The man smirked, "You can't protect them and fight the Nanogenes at the same time."

"Leave her alone," he growled at the man. "Who are you?!"

He turned to him and grinned, "Why would I--" he wasn't able to finish that sentence because Augusta launched herself at him. He quickly jumped away, and she skidded towards the floor. Her singular visible eye was burning a crimson red.

"Leave... Him... Alone," she growled through pants.

"What are you going to do?" He teased, "You can barely stand."

She glared at him and flicked a finger in his direction, sending him back against the wall, and holding him there. He groaned in pain as she slowly walked toward him. "How scary..." He chuckled, "You shouldn't be able to move... You truly are a monster!"

"This ends... Now," she growled, holding him up by his throat.

He stared at her in fear for a few seconds, then he smirked, "Not quite yet." He slammed his free hand on his wrist, that held a Vortex Manipulator. Augusta glanced at him, fear shining in her eyes, before they both flashed away.

"Doctor!" Rose shouted running through the door, "Where's Auggie!?"

"He took her," he muttered. She was gone, he thought horrifically.

"Who took her!?" Jack demanded.

He stared at the spot where she was gone, a single black glove in her place. "I... Don't know..."

>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<

Augusta's POV

I woke up groggily, my head felt like it was pounding in pain. I was lying on some kind of cold, hard surface, where was I? I tried to sit up, only to find my movement restricted and the sound of chains rattling.

My eyes widened and I shot up. My hands were completely encased in a metal, as were my feet. I couldn't even wiggle my fingers! I felt a metal strap around my mouth, keeping me from talking or making any sound. I also wasn't wearing my jean jacket, no, I was wearing a white jacket with latches on them, that helped chain my body to the wall. Worst of all, I found a bulky metal collar around my neck, identical to the one I wore when I was--

"It seems that our little Monster has awoken," a voice said. I turned to see the man, walking through the door, a smirk on his face. "Oh, don't we have plans for you, Subject August.23. But first, tell me... Where is the TARDIS?"

I glared at him, not saying anything, not that I could though. "Don't want to talk? That's okay, we have... Other means of gaining information." He reached into his pocket, pulling out a small remote, my eyes widened and my breathing quickened.

"It seems that you remember this," he grinned, his hand hovering over the button. "Well, then. I just want to remind you of one thing," a malicious smirk danced on his lips.

"This is for your own good." Then, I screamed.