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Danni shrank back from the two ominous knocks, straight into to the Doctor as she shook her head, eyes wide in terror. The drumming pounded louder, finishing off the beat of two into a beat of four. It was trying to get in, whatever was outside had spotted them and run straight at them and now it wanted the Doctor. She had to protect him, she had to stop it. Her future self had told her that everything ended fine, so she knew that she would succeed. No one killed the Doctor but her... She jolted slightly; no one killed the Doctor at all, least of all some stupid shadow.
"What was that?" Val asked.
"It must be the metal. We're cooling down, it's just settling..." Professor Hobbes told her with a gentle smile.
"Rocks. Could be rocks falling." Dee Dee added, wanting to help anyway she can.
"Is it trying to get in?" Danni whispered to the Doctor and he nodded slowly, "What is it?"
"What I want to know is, how long do we have to sit here." Biff declared loudly. He paid good, hard-earned money for this holiday and he wasn't about to waste it by sitting still four hours on end. Two more loud bangs echoed off the shell of the shuttle.
"What is that?" Sky asked, becoming more and more unnerved.
"Is someone out there?" Val asked in a panic.
"Now, don't be ridiculous!" Hobbes dismissed. Nothing could live out on the surface, they'd be vaporized instantly.
"Like I said, it could be rocks." Dee Dee repeated as if she was trying to reassure herself rather than everyone else.
"We're out in the open. Nothing could fall against the sides." The hostess pointed out with a shaky voice. Nothing could be out there, so what was knocking? Another pair on knocks rang through the cabin.
"Knock knock." The Doctor whispered and Jethro turned to look up at Danni, a grin on his face.
"Who is there?" He replied with a slightly dark tint to his voice. She shook her head.
"Nothing's funny about knocking." She replied quietly and he frowned. She looked positively terrified, so much more than the rest of the group. She was staring at the wall where it sounded like the beating was coming from as if it was about to swallow her whole.
"Is there something out there?" Sky asked her calm exterior quickly slipping, "Well? Anyone?" Again, two knocks rang through the room, "What the hell is making that noise?"
"I'm sorry, but the light out there is Xtonic," Hobbes cried, pointing to the wall, "that means it would destroy any living thing, in a split-second. It is impossible for someone to be outside."
"Well, what the hell is that, then?!" Sky exclaimed at the sound of two more knocks. Everyone, even Jethro, jumped away from it as it moved to a different part of the shuttle. The Doctor moved over to the wall slowly, making sure that Danni was there with him and pulled out his stethoscope against the cold metal.
"Sir! You really should get back to your seat." The hostess declared, terrified and losing her patience with the strange man. The Doctor ignored her, listening for movement on the other side.
"Hello?" He whispered and it knocked again, two knocks near the fire exit at the rear of the shuttle.
"Three, four." Danni counted and the Doctor looked down at her, alarmed.
"What did you say?" He asked her and she smiled guiltily.
"I can't handle two. It needs to be four." She explained, "Always four. One, two, three, four." The knocking pounded again, "Three, four." She whispered, wincing and rubbing her forehead. The banging echoed through her head, the two notes just like at Craig's when the time loop would force the drumming to loop back on itself and it really was starting to wear a little thin. To compensate the drumming was increasing its own volume, making the two noises battle in her mind.
"It's moving..." Jethro pointed out. The Doctor took off his stethoscope as slowly walked towards the door. It began rattling, whatever was outside trying to get in.
"It's trying the door!" Val exclaimed, pointing a shaky finger at the door in case anyone had missed it.
"There is no 'it', there's nothing out there. Can't be." Hobbes insisted, refusing to believe that everything he knew about the planet he loved was wrong. It tried the door again and then it was suddenly on the roof, banging twice as everyone gasped and ducked in fear, Danni counting the extra beats under her breath next to the Doctor. It moved again to the side door.
"That's the entrance. Can it get in?" Val asked as they all jumped away from it.
"No, that door's on two hundred weight of hydraulics." Dee Dee reassured her.
"Stop it." Hobbes scolded, "Don't encourage them."
"What do you think it is?" She snapped in reply. Biff slowly approached the door despite his wife's and the Doctor's protests.
"Nah, it's cast iron, that door..." He brushed off before knocking three times on the door. He stepped back and the thing outside repeated his action, replying with three knocks of it's own.
"Three times! Did you hear that, it did it three times?!" Val breathed in shock.
"It answered!" Jethro corrected, suddenly not finding the events as funny as he had been.
"It did it three times!"
"All right, all right, all right, everyone, calm down." The Doctor commanded, rubbing Danni's arm as she finished it off with just a 'four'.
"No, but it answered, it... answered, don't tell me that thing's not alive, it answered him!" Sky ranted, completely alarmed. There was another three knocks from behind the door, Sky and Val both letting out a little scream each.
"I really must insist, you get back to your seats!" The hostess called, deciding it was time to take over the situation. Help was coming, if she could keep them quiet then she'd make it back in one piece and maybe get moved to the restaurant.
"No! Don't just stand there telling us the rules! You're the hostess, you're supposed to do something!" Sky screamed back at the panicking woman. The Doctor turned to tell them that shouting wouldn't help anyone when there were four loud knocks on the door. He spun to find Danni stood in front of it, looking upwards with her hand still poised on the door. The thing outside repeated her knocks and she hissed, backing away as her head flared up, the slightly out of time banging making the beating in her head scream in anger. The Doctor grabbed her, pulling her away from it.
"What are you doing?" He hissed.
"One, two, three, four." She muttered, eyes wide. He sighed, nodding and pulling her in for a sideways hug, knowing she couldn't help it. Much like the Master she needed it to be a beat of four and she always needed to allow it an escape from her head to make herself function.
"What is it, what the hell's making that noise?" Sky screamed, falling into a full-blown hysteria, "She said she'd get me. Stop it, make it stop, somebody make it stop! Don't just stand there looking at me, it's not my fault, he started it with his stories..." The hostess rushed to the intercom to talk to Driver Joe as everyone tried to calm down the hysterical woman.
"...why couldn't you leave it alone? Stop staring at me! Just tell me what the hell it is!" Sky screamed and there was a loud thud above them, causing them all to quiet down and stare at it in horror. Sky backed away from it and the banging moved, following her down the aisle.
"It's coming for me, ohh it's coming for me, it's coming for me... It's coming for me! It's coming for me!" She screamed, reaching the wall and falling against it. The Doctor stepped towards her.
"Get out of there!" He screamed at the cockpit as the door bashed itself in, rocking the whole shuttle onto it's side and causing the electrics to spark. It went dark as they all tumbled to the side, screaming as they landed on top of each other and it went dark. The shuttle tipped the other way and they all fell into a pile, the Doctor wrapping his arms around Danni as she screamed louder than everyone else. The shuttle settled and the Doctor quickly checked Danni, who held her head in a vice-like grip, eyes squeezed shut.
"Make it light, make it light, make it light!" She screamed, shaking terribly as the darkness stretched in front of her.
"Danni, look at me." He commanded but she kept her eyes shut, shaking her head and he shook her slightly, "Danielle, look at me!" She opened her eyes and gasped in horror, "You're okay." He reassured her but she barely heard him, the Silent in the corner completely holding her attention.
"It's you." She whispered, shocked. That didn't make sense, the Silence didn't appear until Eleven, how could it be causing all this havoc? It held it's hand out, sparking slightly before disappearing from sight. She blinked, forcing herself to look at the Doctor, "Sorry, I... I don't like the dark." She told him redundantly. She couldn't fall apart, what if the Silence was trying to kill the Doctor before Lake Silencio, she had to stop them. How did they even get here? Maybe one of the others had brought them onto the shuttle.
"Are you okay?" He asked her, glancing into the empty corner then back at her. She nodded slowly, swallowing her fears down.
"You?" She asked and he frowned.
"Arms. Legs. Neck. Head. Nose." He ran through the most vulnerable parts of himself before nodding, "I'm fine... Everyone else?" He called across the room, "How are we, everyone all right?"
"Earthquake, must be..." Hobbes groaned from the chair he'd landed in.
"But that's impossible, the ground is fixed, it's solid." Dee Dee replied, teeth gritted as her ribs stung from the impact onto her own chair.
"We've got torches, everyone, take a torch, they're in the back of the seats." The hostess called over, turning her own on and shining it down the aisle. They all began rummaging through the backs of the chairs, the Doctor passing the first one he came across to Danni who quickly turned it on and shone it into the corners of the room. The Silent had definitely gone, there was nothing else in there and she would know, she'd remember them. She hit the fourth corner and saw Sky on the ground, her head in her hands as she curled up into herself.
"Oh, Jethro, sweetheart, come here..." Val cried, walking over to her son who waved her back.
"Never mind me, what about her?" He'd spotted Sky at the same time as Danni. Everyone turned to the woman, startled by how frightened she was.
"What happened to the seats?" Val asked quietly, spotting the torn up seats that were scattered around her.
"Who did that?" Biff asked.
"They've been ripped up." The Doctor walked over, crouching down next to her and placing a hand on her shoulder.
"It's all right, it's all right, it's all right, it's over." He told her soothingly, "We're still alive... Look, the wall's still intact. D'you see?" He shone his torch on the wall in front of her, higlighting the dent in the metalwork. Danni walked over, pulling him up and away from her, a feeling of dread coursing through her.
"Stay away from her." she whispered lowly.
"She's just scared." He assured Danni but she shook her head.
"Something ripped them seats up." She pointed out, "Only around her. Stay away from her."
"Joe, Claude?" The hostess cried into the intercom, trying to get in contact with the drivers.
"We're safe." The Doctor told her with a gentle smile, seeing how worked up she was getting, "I promise, you'll be fine."
"Driver Joe, can you hear me?" The hostess tried again before slamming the receiver down, walking over to the cockpit door, "I'm not getting any response, the intercom must be down." She slammed her hand on the button to the door and it slid open, blinding them all with a bright blue light. They all screamed, backing away until the hostess managed to shut the door again.
"What happened? What was that?" Val asked, huddling back into her husband who wrapped an arm around her.
"Is it the driver? Have we lost the driver?" Biff asked.
"The cabin's gone." The hostess declared, not quite believing what she was saying. How could it be gone? Where could it have gotten to?
"Don't be ridiculous. It can't be gone, how can it be gone?" Hobbes denied with a shake of his head.
"Well, but you saw it!" Dee Dee snapped.
"There was nothing there, like it was ripped away." The hostess agreed as the Doctor dropped to the floor, pulling out his screwdriver and using it on a panel in the wall next to the door.
"What are you doing?" Biff demanded, shining his torch on the Doctor.
"That's better, bit of light, thank you. Molto bene!"
"Don't say that!" Danni screeched, causing him to stop and everyone to turned to her, surprised. She was shaking, her eyes wide in confusion as another feeling of terror flowed through her. Them words, there was something about them... "Sorry," She apologised, "I don't know why I said that." The Doctor looked at the panel, then back at Danni. He had to figure this out, but he wanted to check what was wrong. He growled and turned back to the panel.
"Dee Dee, do you mind?" The girl nodded, immediately going over to Danni and pulling the clearly terrified girl in for a hug. They were about the same age, the red-head being maybe a year or so older than her so she felt some sort of connection with her. That and she'd stood up for her before, Professor Hobbes could be quite mean when he wanted to be.
"It's okay." Dee Dee reassured gently, not really knowing what she was trying to reassure but Danni nodded.
"D'you know what you're doing?" Val asked the Doctor.
"The cabin's gone, you'd better leave that wall alone." Biff agreed.
"The cabin can't be gone!" Hobbes insisted. The Doctor shook his head, pulling the panel off as he did.
"No, it's safe, any rupture would automatically seal itself..." He trailed off, seeing the sliced cable on the other side, "But something sliced it off. You're right. The cabin's gone." He breathed, his hearts dropping at the implications.
"But if it gets separated..." The hostess started.
"It loses integrity." He finished, confirming her suspicions. He stood up, an apologetic look on his face, "I'm sorry, they've been reduced to dust. The driver and the mechanic. But they sent a distress signal. Help is on its way. They saved our lives! We're gonna get out of here, I promise. We're still alive, and they're gonna find us." The hostess started crying, her colleagues were dead.
"Doctor. Look at her." Jethro called out, his torch still trained on Sky who hadn't moved the entire time, hadn't even reacted to anything going on around her.
"Right, yes, sorry... Have we got a medical kit?" He asked, trying to sort his mind out. Danni was right, something must have been attacking them, otherwise why was the cabin gone? He glanced over at the girl, who Dee Dee was still trying to calm down. She was scared, but she was fine. Once they were out she wouldn't be scared anymore but until then there was nothing he could do about it, which made him even more determined to help the people he could.
"Why won't she turn around?" Jethro asked, his fear not at their situation but on the woman on the floor.
"What's her name?" The Doctor asked.
"Silvestry. Mrs Sky Silvestry." The hostess stuttered out, still in tears.
"Sky? Can you hear me?" He called to her, but she didn't reply. He crouched down next to her, "Are you all right? Can you move, Sky? Just look at me."
"Please move away from her." Danni sobbed out. It was all the woman, everything centred around her, she was sure of it. Flashes were coming back to her; Sky smirking evilly, a lot of shouting, the Doctor on the floor. But why? What did the woman do?
"That noise, from the outside..."Jethro started in realisation, "It's stopped."
"Well, thank God for that." Val declared; one less thing for them to worry about.
"But what if it's not outside anymore? What if it's inside?" He reasoned with a shudder.
"Inside? Where?" Val cried, shining her torch around the room to try and spot whatever it could be.
"It was heading for her." Jethro nodded towards Sky. Danni seemed terrified of the woman, and she'd been the only one to actually try and engage with him so he was inclined to follow her suspicions. What if the creature outside had actually been after her all along?
"Sky...it's all right, Sky. I just want you to turn around, face me." The Doctor coaxed. He'd been wondering about that as well, where the noise had gone. Slowly Sky lowered her hands then turned on the spot, observing the group with wide eyes, an animalistic glint to them. She then slowly focused on the Doctor, who tilted his head slightly to one side as he watched her. She mirrored his movements, shocking him slightly. He moved his head the other way, and she did the same.
"Sky?" He asked, not entirely sure she was in there anymore.
"Sky?" She asked a moment later.
"Are you all right?" He asked her.
"Are you all right?" She echoed and he frowned in confusion.
"Are you hurt?" He tried.
"Are you hurt?" She echoed.
"You don't have to talk." She repeated him again, her eyes wide and unblinking as she stared directly into his own.
"I'm trying to help." He reassured her but she just repeated him again, completely unnerving him.
"My name's the Doctor." He tried one more time.
"My name's the Doctor." She repeated.
"OK, can you stop?" He asked her, really unsettled by her behaviour.
"OK, can you stop?"
"I'd like you to stop." He commanded, his tone low in warning.
"I'd like you to stop." She repeated, her voice also lowering in warning. She wasn't just repeated what he was saying, but how he was saying it.
"Why's she doing that?" Hobbes asked and her head snapped around so she was now staring directly at him.
"Why's she doing that?" She repeated.
"She's gone mad." Val exclaimed shrilly.
"She's gone mad." Sky repeated shrilly.
"Stop it." Val screamed.
"Stop it." Sky screamed back.
"I said stop it!"
"I said stop it!"
"I don't think she can." Dee Dee breathed, her voice shaky and Sky's head snapped to face her.
"I don't think she can." Sky repeated breathily.
"All right, now stop it, this isn't funny." Hobbes told her quietly and her head snapped to face him again.
"All right, now stop it, this isn't funny."
"Sh, sh, sh, all of you." The Doctor shushed them, they weren't helping. Sky turned to face him, repeating him again.
"My name's Jethro!" Jethro laughed in amusement.
"My name's Jethro!" Sky repeated.
"Jethro, leave it, just shut up!" The Doctor snapped.
"Jethro, leave it, just shut up!" Sky snapped.
"Doctor, can you please just move away?" Danni begged, Sky begging back at her. She gasped, backing away from Dee Dee as her head exploded in pain, the drumming echoing in her mind. Sky wasn't just repeating what she was saying but what she was thinking as well. How was she doing that?
"Why are you repeating?" The Doctor asked, ignoring Danni for the moment and leaning in closer to Sky. Her head snapped back again.
"Why are you repeating?" She echoed.
"What is that, learning?" The Doctor pressed, and she echoed him again, "Copying?" Again she just echoed him, "Absorbing?"
"The square root of pi is 1.77245385090551602729816748..."
"The square root of pi is 1.77245385090551602729816748..." Sky repeated, starting before he'd even finished the number.
"...3341. Wow!" He breathed.
"...3341. Wow!" Sky breathed. They all stared at her, alarmed as she looked back almost smugly at the Doctor. He backed away slightly, suddenly very mindful of what Danni had been asking him to do. The ginger girl joined him at his side, grabbing his hand and tugging at it urgently.
"Please, Doctor..." She whispered, both women begging him to just leave Sky alone.
"But that's impossible." Hobbes declared, now finally admitting just how much trouble they were in.
"But that's impossible." Sky repeated as she turned to him again.
"She couldn't repeat all that." Dee Dee whispered to her mentor, Sky repeating it again.
"Tell her to stop!" Val, then Sky, demanded, "She's driving me mad. Just make her stop!" Val began to rant, becoming frantic in her terror, "Just make her stop!" Everyone began talking at once, panicking as Danni groaned in pain, leaning against the Doctor. The noise was building up her headache, the drumming latching onto her own fear and building it higher and higher. Her future self said everything would be okay, but how could it be with this thing in the stranded shuttle? It had latched onto Sky, whatever it was, but the moment it realised that the Doctor was it's best chance of survival, because he was smarter and just better than everyone else she'd ever met, it would go for him. She was certain of that, actually. She tugged on his hand again.
"Please, Doctor." She whispered, not daring to say his name as the woman repeated her, even though she knew it'd be the best way to get him to do anything, "It'll want you. Please, just leave her alone."
"If I can reason with it..." He started and she shook her head.
"No." She stated, "No, no reasoning. Please, just this once, turn and walk away. For me, please." The repeating became louder and louder as the group began to talk over each other louder and louder to be heard, all wanting her to shut up. Biff moved closer, defending his wife whilst Jethro began saying random things, amused by the fact he could get her to say anything.
"If we don't work out what it is, no one is safe." The Doctor told her, "We'll be fine, I promise." Sky repeated what he said and the Doctor watched as Danni tensed, the girl flaring up in anger and she turned to the woman.
"Don't you dare repeat his promise!" She screamed so loud everyone instantly stopped talking to stare at the young woman, surprised by just how loud she was compared to her tiny stature.
"Don't you dare repeat his promise." Sky repeated, not as loud but with the same rhythm and inflection to the words. Danni growled and dived forward, the Doctor grabbing her just in time as she went to attack the woman. When he made a promise, he meant it and she wouldn't let anyone make light of that. If she had to, she'd kill her and anyone else who came near the Doctor.
"Calm down!" He told her firmly, turning her to face him, "It's fine." Sky copied him, but before Danni could do anything about it there was a loud screeching noise, the lights flickering before bathing them all in light. The Doctor sighed in relief as Danni visibly relaxed in his arms. He placed a kiss on her head, he knew part of her emotional state was being in the dark, hopefully from now on she'd be more rational. He knew, under normal circumstances, Danni would want to help anyone in trouble.
"Well then, that's the back-up system." The hostess declared in relief, turning off her torch, no one but the Doctor, Danni and Jethro noticing that Sky had stopped talking.
"Well! That's a bit better." Biff sighed, moving over to his wife who was still shaking.
"What about the rescue, how long's it gonna take?" Val asked the hostess.
"About 60 minutes, that's all." She assured.
"Then I suggest we all calm down." Hobbes told them all, "This panic isn't helping." Jethro turned to look at the Sky at as the Doctor stood up, pulling Danni away from her, "That poor woman is evidently in a state of self-induced hysteria, we should leave her alone."
"Doctor..." Jethro called over lowly as Sky spoke in time with Hobbes, correct word-for-word.
"I know." The Doctor replied, just as concerned as she spoke along with neither him or Jethro.
"Doctor, now step back, I think you should leave her..." Hobbes paused mid-rant as he realised that Sky was talking along with him, "Alone. What's she doing?"
"How can she do that? She's talking with you..." Val and Sky said, "and with me! Oh, my God! Biff, what's she doing?"
"She's repeating... At exactly the same time." Jethro and Sky replied.
"That's impossible." Dee Dee and Sky breathed in fright.
"There's not even a delay." Hobbes and Sky exclaimed.
"Ohh man, that is weird." Jethro and Sky laughed.
"I think you should all be very, very quiet, have you got that?" The Doctor and Sky insisted. Danni watched Sky as she sat there, smirking to herself as she spoke along with everyone. It wasn't even an echo anymore, it was simultaneous. And she knew exactly what she was doing. Well, the thing inside her did, that's why it was smirking. It was making people scared on purpose, because in a panic people talk. They scream and they rant and rave, which is what it wanted. It wanted people to talk so it could learn, it could absorb it and... and then what?
"How's she doing it?" Val and Sky asked.
"Mrs Cane, please, be quiet."
"But how can she do that? She's got my voice, she's got my words!" Val and Sky screamed.
"Shut the hell up!" Danni and Sky shouted angrily back, "She's copying you because you keep on talking!"
"Now hang on a minute." Biff and Sky started, "You can't talk to my wife like that."
"I'm not." Danni and Sky snapped back, "I'm talking to all of you like that. If we all shut up, she can't copy us, can she?"
"Danni." The Doctor and Sky said in warning and Danni backed down, crossing her arms in anger. Stupid bloody people. He crouched down in front Sky, "Now then, Sky. Are you Sky? Is Sky still in there? Mrs Silvestry?" He paused and so did she as he studied her intently, "You know exactly what I'm going to say, how are you doing that?" He paused again, not really expecting a reply, "Roast beef! Bananas! The Medusa Cascade. Bang! Rose Tyler Martha Jones Donna Noble Danielle Fielding TARDIS! Shamble bobble dibble dooble. Oh, Doctor, you're so handsome. Yes I am, thank you. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O..." He stopped, smiling when she didn't continue on with the alphabet. So she wasn't just guessing what he was going to say based on knowledge she'd read from his mind, she was actually just stealing his words.
"Doctor," Danni and Sky snapped, "Stop giving her stuff to say." He nodded, standing up again.
"First she repeats. Then she catches up. What's the next stage?" He and Sky mused outloud.
"Next stage of what?" Dee Dee and Sky demanded. What did that man know that they didn't?
"But that's not her, is it? That's not Mrs Silvestry any more." Jethro and Sky asked and the Doctor shook his head.
"I don't think so, no." Val started crying, everything becoming too much for her, "I think... the more we talk, the more she learns." He decided, "Now, I'm all for education, but in this case... maybe not. Let's just... move back. Come on. Come with me. Everyone, get back, all of you, as far as you can." He began herding them to the back of the shuttle, making sure Danni was firmly at his side. He may have been calmer than everyone else, but he was still just as scared and he wasn't going to let anyone harm his Danni-Girl.
"Doctor, make her stop." Val and Sky pleaded. He gently took her by the arm and moved her to her husband.
"Val, come on, come to the back," He and Sky encouraged, "stop looking at her, come on, Jethro, you too." The boy followed them all, not taking his eyes off Sky, "Everyone, come on... 50 minutes. That's all we need. 50 minutes till the rescue arrives. And she's not exactly strong, look at her, all she's got is our voices." He squeezed Danni against him, noticing her tapping on her skull. Normally he was stop her, but that would cause her to speak the four numbers and then Sky would repeat them... that wouldn't be good.
"Why though?" Danni and Sky asked, "Why just our voices? Surely it'd be easier to take hold of Biff here," The man blinked, slightly offended, "And kill the lot of us. What does copying us achieve?" He shook his head, pinching the bridge of his nose with a frustrated sigh.
"I don't know." He and Sky snapped in reply. Danni winced away, the sound of him telling her to go home ringing in her ear and he sighed again, pulling her in for a hug.
"Sorry," He and Sky said, "Sorry..."
"I can't look at her. It's those eyes." Val and Sky said as Val huddled into her husband.
"'We must not look at goblin men.'" Dee Dee and Sky recited. Everyone turned to look at her, confused by her ominous words.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Biff and Sky asked.
"It's a poem. Christina Rossetti." The Doctor and Sky explained.
"'We must not look at goblin men. We must not buy their fruits. Who knows upon what soil they fed
their hungry, thirsty roots?'" Dee Dee and Sky completed.
"Actually, I don't think that's helping." The Doctor and Sky commeted.
"She's not a goblin, or a monster, she's just a very sick woman." Hobbes and Sky calmly retorted.
"Maybe that's why it went for her." Jethro and Sky reasoned.
"There is no 'it'!" Hobbes and Sky exclaimed.
"Think about it though. That knocking, it went all the way round the bus until it found her. And she was the most scared, out of all of us. Maybe that's what it needed. That's how it got in." Jethro and Sky explained.
"For the last time! Nothing can live on the surface of Midnight." Hobbes and Sky cried.
"Professor, I'm glad you've got an absolute definition of life in the universe, but perhaps the universe has got ideas of its own, mmm?" The Doctor and Sky pointed out, "Now trust me, I've got previous! I think there might well be some... consciousness inside Mrs Silvestry, but maybe she's still in there. And it's our job to help her."
"Well, you can help her, I'm not going near." Biff and Sky said.
"No, he's not going anywhere near her." Danni and Sky bit out, "You got that?"
"If she's copying us, maybe the final stage is becoming us." The Doctor and Sky agreed, "I don't want her becoming me, or things could get a lot worse."
"Oh, like you're so special." Val and Sky scoffed.
"As it happens, yes I am." The Doctor and Sky retorted, "So that's decided. We stay back, and we wait. When the rescue ship comes, we can get her to hospital." They all stayed silent until the hostess stepped forward, a manic glint in her eye.
"We should throw her out."