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It was one of the longest operations Malcolm has had to conduct since his arrival in Milliways. But Bill Pardy is resting and healing in a clean bed in the infirmary now.

Malcolm is dead on his feet (he has to smirk a little as he thinks that), but he decides to stay until Bill comes out of the anesthesia.

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"Yeah." He nods at Nathan and frowns.

Doing what he can to make more room for Mary he leans in and hears what she's saying. "Oh Mary, darlin' don't..."

He moves his arm out from under her and wraps it around her instead, pulling her close. Nevermind anything that might be hurting.

Resting his head over hers he shakes his head and strokes her back, "Not your fault, none of this is your fault."

Nathan placed a hand on Mary's shoulder as well, "He's right. It's that Doctor's fault. He's the one coming after us. Nothing you could have done, you're just a kid."

Wasn't right for so much to be on her shoulders.

"" sobbing quietly against Bill's shoulder she refuses to look up. To many people were getting hurt- these three never should have been in a position to get a solid for Antubis..

...but that was how things went. Not how things could go. They were to involved now.

"He's the one doin all this, hurtin people, not you. This ain't your fault. He hurt you Mary, an we're gonna keep goin til we stop him." Bill tells and promises her. "It's gonna stop."

Nathan could argue that the way that anteater was, he almost got them in a way to owe him. Using them all for his own purposes maybe.

"We're going to help you, Mary. He's not getting you again. Just stay here for now. It'll be ok."

Mary finally peeled her face away from Bill's shoulder, watching both Nathan and Bill quietly before finally speaking again. "He didn't hurt me..the other Doctor did. He died there- in the hospital with Paul."

"The other Doctor?" Bill asks and looks up to Nathan then back at Mary. "Is that one runnin around there too?"

Nathan was eyeing her as well, "Don't tell me he's got a twin or double?"

Very quietly Mary shook her head 'no' going back to resting against Bill's shoulder and playing with a frayed corner of one of the bandages on his chest. "No..there's two. He's the son."

Them frowning a little, she shifted in a way that showed the topic was not a very comfortable one. "It was 1869. He is from the 1930's like Paul."

Now there's different times involved? Bill doesn't understand at all and doesn't say anything so Mary can go on. He just strokes her back and listens.

Nathan facepalmed at that information. It just had to involve time travel now too. Hell...

"So the elder Gottreich's gone?"

Not time travel, no, something worse. Gulping a little Mary seemed to try to become smaller hiding between Nathan and the edge of the bed. "No.."

"There was a fire at the Mill..then they built the hospital and it burned down..they they built the new hospital and it's going to fall down."

"Sounds like that's one damn fine property." Bill mutters. "So what's goin on then, Mary?"

Again with fire. Why the hell is it always fire?

"This new one's going to burn too, along with falling? Isn't it? Just going to keep happening. How do we stop it?"

"There will be fire..yes...like always. Fire destroyes and makes things grow." Riddles like Antubis. "The voices don't like it..the make the ground shake."

But at the question on how to stop it she doesn't know, simply frowns. "I didn't mean to see who started the fire.."

Riddles make Bill's head hurt. Or maybe it's everything else hurting and his head has decided to join in.

When she says she saw who started the fire he pulls her back away from his shoulder a little so he can look at her, "You did? Who?"

Nathan added, remembering this from before, "You can tell us, Mary. We'll protect you. They can't hurt you."

"No..." Mary starts to panic as Bill picks her up, the temprature droping like crazy around them. So cold that both men's teeth could start clicking together. "Please don't hurt me..I didn't mean to see..Mr. Hagerty droped his hat...his mommy gave it to him...I didn't mean to see!"

Sharp pain would start to enter Bill's head about the same spots that Mary has on her brow. Like two spikes were just driven all the way to the back of the skull then out again.

"I didn't mean to see.." she says weakly, "Please don't hurt me.."

Bill's hand on Mary opens and pulls back quick as she panics, "Mary, I..."

Suddenly he's freezing, goosebumps springing up all along his arms and bare chest and he winces sharply. "Mary..."

He brings his hand up from her and grabs at his forehead, gritting his teeth painfully and leaning forward into his palm, hissing at the sudden pain in his skull and the sharp stab in his chest and shoulder as his wounds complain at the movement.

"I ain't gonna..." He shuts his eyes tight and groans as the pain in his head sets in deeper.

Nathan could feel the cold, with some surprise at that.

He then barked sharply at Mary the leader and father taking control with his authoritative tone of voice, "Mary! Stop it, we're not going to hurt you! You're hurting Bill, stop it right now."

It was all that took for Mary to vanish- the cold was gone and the pain, well, that left the instant that Bill took his hands off of her. But he knew now. He knew how she died and felt it to...just like Johnny had seen the glimpses of what had happened.

He opened his eyes and felt the pain in his head drift away but the rest stayed right where it was.

"Mary?" He called out softly. He sighed and leaned back in the bed, touching his chest and wincing. "Hell."

He touched his brow and looked up at Nathan with a deep frown, "Nathan she...god damn, I felt it. How she...how she died."

"It's all right, she vanished like that the last time I asked her about the fire too. The rest didn't happen though."

Sharp look at Bill.

"How did she die?"

He taps on his brow in the spots where Mary has her marks, "Somethin, stuck through here. Could feel it comin out the backside an everything."

Bill frowns and lays his hand back on the bed, "Very little of this is makin any sense at all ta me."

Grimace at that.

"....Shit." Pretty summed it up.

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