for rude_not_ginger: Invasion at the Rigaldi Institute

[quitehomoerotic]

Follows this.The console in front of Jack lit up with a rainbow of colours. The different sectors were flashing on and off with a sequence of alarms and alerts, one after the other

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[rude_not_ginger]

The Doctor leaped out of the sector just as the next door slammed closed behind him. He looked back at the charred door.

"Made it out," he breathed, reaching up to touch the earpiece. "Now, I'm going to head on to sector ten. Should be safe there!"

He pulled the door open to reveal a hallway full of writhing darkness.

"Or---not! Right, trying on to sector eight."

[quitehomoerotic]

"Right," Jack breathed out a sigh of relief and moved back to the panels in front, watching and waiting as the next sequence of alarms sounded.

"Okay, eight that should be--" but he stalled, another three alarms and a red alert. It seemed to be never ending. "Doctor wait!" he called. "There's a radiation leak all through sector eight. Kritor radiation, can you bear it? If you can it should be clear for you to get through the whole sector--"

The ceiling above shook again, and around him more plaster fell. He glanced up, giving it an ominous look.

They were closer.

He cleared his throat.

"If you can get through eight there should be a lift shaft. Send you right down to the basement level."

[rude_not_ginger]

"Just about," the Doctor said. Kritor radiation did terrible things to him, but if he ran for it, he should be fine. But it would have to be a quick run. The corridors were long.

"Is the lift shaft open? Can you see that?" the Doctor asked. He patted his sides and swore under his breath. "The sonic. Right, I'll need to do this by hand."

He tugged on the door roughly and tried, desperately, to get it open. The first wave of radiation hit him like a ton of bricks, but he held himself steady.

[quitehomoerotic]

"You be careful in there!" Jack shouted to him like a warning.

"The alarms are locking down the doors, I'm trying to get it open for you. You just do your bit and I'll do mine, okay. The lift shaft will be fine."

He frantically keyed away in front of him, trying to overwrite protocols he had barely 30 minutes worth of knowledge of. Good job he was good at this sort of thing.

Above him again the ceiling cracked. Oh they were even closer. But he couldn't let the Doctor know. He couldn't let him worry about that.

"The basement should give you access to the main control tower. I'm trying to crack the access codes for you. I'll do as much as I can."

And again, they were closer.