SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW
Chapter Thirteen Where am I? What is this place? How did I get here and…where’s Alan? Rose looked around at the darkened room. The walls and floors were made of steel and the only light came from a small light fixture next to a heavy steel door. She looked around again, but there was no furniture, no windows, nothing to clue her in to where she was. “Hey!” Rose yelled. “Help! Get me out of here! Please!” She screamed at the top of her lungs hoping someone would hear her. “Alan? Where are you? Are you out there?” she cried. Finally, after a few minutes of yelling, the heavy door slid back and Rose breathed a sigh of relief when she saw a familiar face standing there. “Oh, Alan, thank God,” she said with a sigh. “I thought you…” She trailed off when she saw what he was wearing. He was dressed in a long black robe with white trim on the sleeves, a black collar, black boots, black gloves and a black skullcap. “Alan? Why are you dressed like that?” “Alan?” he said, with an evil grin. “Is that what cloney-boy is calling himself?” “Alan, is that you?” “No.” “Doctor?” The grin grew wider. “No.” Rose’s blood turned to ice. “V…Valeyard?” “Bingo,” he said, gleefully. “No, no it can’t be,” Rose said. “No, no it can’t be,” Valeyard said, mockingly. “He can’t be evil, not my beloved Doctor, not him! Oh, whatever shall I do?” He let out a sinister laugh. “Hello, my Rose,” he said. “Long time, no see as I said to you once.” “Where’s Alan?” “Alan? Who’s that?” the Valeyard said, innocently. “Oooooh, the clone…of course. The little reject me that I sent to keep you company in your exile.” “Where is he?” “Why do you wanna know? After all, why would you want him when you have me? Come on, angel, aren’t you happy to see me? Aren’t we gonna do the whole running into each other’s arms thing again? Aren’t you gonna fall to your knees in front of me and beg me to take you back?” “Where is Alan?” He laughed again. “Rose, I’m here. Look, it’s me. The original. You surely haven’t forgotten all about me now, have you? After all, I was your whole existence. I was your reason for living. I was the reason you risked your life and came back to your original universe. You begged me to take you with me when I was leaving you behind. Aren’t you gonna beg now?” “I want Alan! Where is he?” His eyes narrowed. “So, you did forget, didn’t you? You forgot all about me and fell in love with that…thing.” “Alan isn’t a thing.” “Oh, on the contrary, he is. He’s just a pale copy that I tossed away, so I would never have to look at the freak again. And you, you fell in love with him!” “You wanted me to.” “No, I wanted you to keep an eye on him lest he become too powerful and threaten me. I figured you would never get over me and it would be an added punishment for him to watch as you rejected him and pined away for me for the rest of your life. But it didn’t work that way, did it? No, you decided that the waste of space was actually better than I was, didn’t you? You filthy little whore, you betrayed me!” “No,” Rose moaned as tears streamed down her face. “I did what you wanted me to do; I fell in love with Alan and made a life with him.” “And how does it feel? Knowing you had to settle for shagging a duplicate instead of the real thing? Did you know that sex with me is a thousand times greater than bonking that monstrosity? But then again, you just settle for any warm body that happens to look your way, don’t you? Me, Mickey, cloney-boy, we’re all the same. A piece of meat to fill the aching little hole in your crotch, right?” “No!” Rose screamed at him. She gasped when the Valeyard lunged forward and seized her by the throat. “I came back for you after finally becoming who I was always destined to be and what do I find? I find you in bed with him! Is this how you repay me for taking your misfit self onto my TARDIS? Is this the thanks I get for showing you the universe?” he screamed at her. “You are nothing but a cheap little slut! How long did it take before you jumped on him? A minute? An hour? I’m betting it wasn’t more than a day, was it? WAS IT?” “Please, stop,” Rose wailed. “Stop what? Stop telling you what a tart you are? Hey, if the truth hurts, bitch.” “I hate you!” Tears flowed down her face when the Valeyard roared with laughter. “I don’t give a shit if you hate me or not, you wanna know why? Because you are mine now to do with as I please. I own you now, body and soul, and after I get done brainwashing you, you’ll be my slave forever!” “No!” “No!” the Valeyard said, mockingly before letting out another laugh. She grunted when he threw her to the floor. “Fine, you wanna see cloney-boy,” he said, walking back to the door. “Then, here he is!” He reached for something just outside the door. Rose gasped when he pulled a bound and gagged Alan into the room by his t-shirt. “Alan!” Rose said, crawling to him. She stopped when the Valeyard whipped out a dagger from a sheath on his belt, grabbed Alan by the hair and pressed it against his throat. Tears flowed down Rose’s face when she saw the cuts and bruises on his face and neck. He stared quietly at Rose while the Valeyard eyed him with contempt. “Look at the little freak,” he said. “He isn’t a match for me. He didn’t even last a minute. All I had to do was threaten your life and the little abomination gave up.” Rose gasped when he spit in Alan’s face. “You aren’t fit to have my hand on your body,” he snarled at him. “So, why don’t I do what I should have done the moment I saw you and cut it off?” “No!” Rose said. “You’re nothing,” he said to Alan. “You’re nothing but a freakish little thief. You stole my hand, you stole my clothes and you stole my girl. And you know what happens to thieves? They get executed!” “No, please, I’ll do anything you say, just leave him alone!” Rose begged. “Sorry, Rose, I’ve never handled competition very well,” he said with a sneer. He loosened the gag and took it off. “Any last words, reject?” he said to him. “You won’t get away with this. Rose will find a way to stop you!” “Yeah, yeah, you just keep on thinking that and maybe you’ll see it come true when you’re up in Heaven.” Alan looked at Rose who was sobbing uncontrollably. “Amo’tiri, I love you with all of my heart. I will never stop loving you and I will always be with…” Rose screamed when the Valeyard sliced open his throat. “Ooops, did I interrupt you in the middle of your goodbye? Sorry, I never was very patient either,” he said. Rose let out a heart-wrenching scream as blood cascaded from the wound down Alan’s chest and he stared at her with wide-eyed shock. The Valeyard laughed while Alan gurgled and gasped. “Alan, I love you! I’ll always love you!” she screamed at him. The Valeyard threw him to the floor and Rose let out an anguished cry when the light faded from his eyes and he breathed his last. She cried and moaned his name as the Valeyard kicked his head and chuckled. “Good riddance to bad rubbish,” he said, gleefully. He smirked at her. “And now that that’s out of the way, it’s time for you to be…re-educated,” he said. Rose screamed, leapt to her feet and tried to run past him, but he knocked her to the floor with an uppercut to the jaw. She gasped when the Valeyard jerked her to her feet, grabbed her by the back of the neck and forced her to her knees in front of Alan’s body. “Go on, Rose, give your beloved a goodbye kiss,” he said, forcing her head to his cheek. Rose wept as she gave him a tender kiss. “I love you,” she whispered. She grunted when the Valeyard seized her by her hair and dragged her to her feet again. “Okay, that’s quite enough of that!” he said, forcing her out the door. Rose looked back at Alan’s dead body and screamed his name while the Valeyard shoved her out the door. She screamed out her love for him and bellowed his name one final time before… Rose’s eyes flew open and she gasped as she looked around in confusion. “Rose? What is it? Are you alright?” Alan said to her. Rose stared up at him for a moment in confusion before she finally realized that it had all been a horrible dream. Relief washed over her and she sobbed uncontrollably as Alan held her close to his body and rained kisses down on her head.
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