Kirah

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"Good choice." The man said. He leaned over and pulled the unconscious Evie out from under his friend and tossed her over his shoulder as if she were a sack of potatoes. He then picked up the Doctor. He didn't seem bothered by the weight of the two women. He left his comrade and started walking. "Follow me." He walked away from the bank of lifts and toward the back of the hotel where the emergency exit was. His partner driving the car had orders to meet him in the back after a certain amount of time.

Nora as she was following the man saw the Doctor's hand hanging limply over his shoulder. The hand moved slightly and one finger pointed at the strange beeping machine the Doctor had claimed was a tracking device. The Doctor was faking being unconscious.

The man led the way out the emergency exit. There was the car waiting. He tossed both Evie and the Doctor into the dark back seat. "In." He said his voice very commanding.

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A door slammed inside the room. The Doctor hoped Nora was safe on the other side of it. The man said something that Nora's small amount of time on the TARDIS allowed her to understand.
"Open the door and no harm will come to you." A lie. It always is. The Doctor leaped over the unconscious bodies in the door way.

"Well hello there. I believe we haven't met." Her voice was charismatic. She sounded in charge. "I'm the Doctor, and you are not welcome here. This is the bride's room." She gestured to the unconscious woman on the floor.

"I've heard of you. Bed time stories. I thought you were male though."

"Stories don't get everything right." She flashed a grin at the man. "Now see here, if you have heard stories, let me tell you they are true." The Doctor suddenly sounded dangerous. All that weird and unhinged that Nora had been picking up earlier in the day bled through and instead of just unhinged the Doctor sounded completely in control of her insanity. Was just a breath away from all of the universe being under her control if she wanted. This man was an ant in the universe and the Doctor could hold a magnifying glass over him if she wished. "Here's the deal. You leave right now, with your buddy and I won't prove to you how true the stories are."

"Here's my deal, you step out of the way Doctor and when we take this planet we'll let you live."

"Guess it's lucky for me you can't eat me. I'm not human. I'm a Time Lord. You see it's been bugging me, I've been trying to figure out what you are and finally it clicked. You're parasites. Back before the Time War your race was nothing. It had only a single planet it harvested from, but it was a controlled harvest. Now you're like locusts. Eating everything you cross. Everything but Time Lords, we kept you in check."

"And now you don't. Now we eat, and we are so hungry." A cracking sound from the other side of the door, and Nora didn't hear the Doctor's voice again. "Nora, your sister and your friend are coming with us. You have a choice. Come with us willingly, or I will break down that door and drag you out of there. I will drain your air from you, and then we'll take you anyway."

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Nora could hear footsteps coming down the hall from the lifts.

The Doctor ran up the flights of stairs. One of the men pinging on her machine was running from the lift toward the room Nora and her sister were in. The door was open. Nora! Her heart pounded. She had promised to protect them, and failed. These men were going to take them and Earth would be doomed. She steeled herself. She was the Doctor. She wouldn't allow that.

The man who had struggled with Evie and been hit over the head, saw black spots form before his eyes. He hadn't expected the attack. He looked up and saw Nora standing there over him. The spots grew in his field of vision and he collapsed, still laying on top of Evie, now a dead weight on her small body.

The man in front of the Doctor turned into the room and took a few seconds to assess the situation. The girl in front of him was from earlier, and his comrade was unconscious on the ground. He knew they needed both girls. He wasn't aware that the Doctor was just a few doors down. He started to launch himself toward Nora on the attack.

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The man launched forward into Evie tackling her to the ground. His hand holding a cloth covered her mouth. The man was much larger than her, and he was ready for his attack. What he didn't know was that Nora was in the room. She had the upper hand there.

The Doctor rounded the corner. She saw the car parked in front of the church and hotel. One man was sitting in the driver's seat. He looked nervous. Ready for a fight. The Doctor pointed her sonic screwdriver at the car, flicked through a couple settings and then ran into the hotel. She was worried about Nora and her sister. The elevator was taking too long. She had to get upstairs faster. "Oye!" She bolted up the stairs. It was the fourth floor.

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There was a knock at the door to Evie's room.
"Complementary room service for the bride." A bass from the other side of the door announced. The voice was owned by an alien in human form. His kind had been trying for months to get roots set in here on Earth, but things kept getting in the way. Not now. He thought to himself. Today they would finally have the necessary DNA collected that would allow his kind to attach themselves to humans. There were 440 types of mitochondrial DNA and these sisters had the last set they needed. It had to be a set, and they couldn't risk attaching to a person before being compatible with the DNA. It had to be complete.

Once they could attach to humans their parasitic nature would take over and they could harvest the humans at their leisure. One last set.

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The Doctor picked up the machine, flicked it back to locating the Hyiasam signature. It beeped rapidly....there was a signature in the hotel, outside the hotel, in the church. "Oh no!" She dropped the machine into her pocket and ran out of the TARDIS securing it behind her before running as fast as she could back to the Hotel. "Nora don't open the door for anyone, oh please don't open the door."

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"Be careful first of all. If I got you out of there before they got what they wanted..." The Doctor trailed off. "They are going to be coming here. Keep the door locked. If something goes wrong," She pulled a pen out of a pocket. "Call me." And a pad of sticky notes to write down a number (827347). "I'm going to see if I can get the TARDIS running at full again. I won't be long though. I promise." The Doctor handed her the sticky note. "I'll bring your bags and the tracker. I'll keep an eye on it during her wedding. I'll stop them." She was reassuring not just Nora, but herself. She didn't like leaving Nora alone like this with the aliens wandering about. After a quick goodbye The Doctor ran down the hall toward the bank of lifts.

Once back in the TARDIS the Doctor set some basic programs to run while she was out. The consul had stopped sparking at least. She'd have to take the TARDIS to Cardiff for a bit of refueling, why did it have to be Cardiff?

What the Doctor missed as she had been running to the TARDIS to collect Nora's bags, and the tracker, was two burly men leaving St. Mary's church and crossing the street into the Hotel where Nora and her sister were getting ready for Evie's wedding.

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"It should be. I don't see any signs of blood being drawn." The Doctor glanced at Evie as she looked like she was about to say something, then decided better not. "I'll watch out for any sign of them. I have to go get...the thing." She gestured the general shape of the beeping box she had been running around with earlier. "From...the car...You want your bags? I'll fetch them as well."

The Doctor gave Evie a warm smile. "Congratulations, by the way. Very exciting. Nora mentioned you were getting married." The Doctor started to leave. "Uh, wait Nora, can I have a moment with you?"

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No worries. I'm at work right now anyway...so yeah...

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No worries. I liked your post better anyway.

And the car has still just pulled up to the hotel so the badies are still there.

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The Doctor followed Nora into the elevator. There was a silence that only comes with the nervous waiting for if the news you're about to hear is good or bad. The Doctor was running through options. She could theoretically get the TARDIS working, but the time stream and she wouldn't be able to go back. So if Nora's sister had been taken there'd be no option but try and rescue her before her wedding.

That would be dealt with if it came to that. The other issue was how to get this group of aliens out of here. They were bad news. The Doctor had never actually fought them before. He...should she be saying he? Was always too late to stop them. She had always shown up in the aftermath. Planets destroyed. This was the first time she could fight them from the start. This time she'd save the planet. Earth was protected.

The Doctor looked back and forth between the sisters. Nora had dark hair, her sister was blonde. That was the main difference, but what about genetically. What if Nora had a genetic disposition for cancer, but her sister didn't have that trait. What if Evie had a genetic disposition toward depression, but Nora didn't. Their DNA would be similar, but they would also have variations. Those variations could be the difference between life and death...or blonde hair verses dark colored hair. That had to be what this was about!

"Nora! I think I understand. You're brunette and Evie isn't, she's blonde. You're genetically similar, compatible, but also far enough apart genetically that you could mix and match your DNA to get desirable traits! Did they take blood from you?" The Doctor was already checking Nora's arm, even though it was still around her sister, for any puncture wounds.