okay... another story up for y'all!

just a little sequal to Moving On, inspired by totaly.doctor.who's request for a sequal. hopefully this'll have as good response as it's base.

i'm gunna try to put more of a plot in this story than i have in previous ones, so hopefully this will work out, dispite my un-brilliance at thinking up plots. but i have one, and hopefully it will work out!

please review! let me know how i'm doing! reviews are brilliant! REVIEW!!
and enjoy!

"So ladies," the Doctor declared as Jack, Jamee and Rose walked through the doorway and into the control room, "Where to?!" He was in a good mood, brilliant in fact. Getting Rose back, he had been like this ever since the two of them had stepped into the TARDIS after that little display in the alley. He had been darting around the controls like he was in heaven, even performing little twists and leaps for Jack's amusement when he hit certain leavers and twisted certain knobs.

Rose walked up to the Doctor, so much love shinning through her eyes that Jamee knew she would never walk out again, "I was wondering…. Maybe we could go to New Earth?"

The Doctor grinned, flashing his abnormally-white teeth at his three companions, reached across Rose and pulled just one leaver, sending the TARDIS whirring into action.

"Don't tell me you had already set the coordinates!" Jack laughed once they had all regained their balance. The Doctor's grin merely increased and he flashed a wink in Jack and Jamee's direction.

Before long, the TARDIS landed with a dull 'thump' and a shake that threw all four of them off their feet and lying on their backs on the metal grating of the TARDIS floor.

There was a pause, and then Rose started to laugh, shortly followed by the Doctor who was joined by Jack and before long, the four of them were rolling around the TARDIS floor like maniacs, giggling their heads off.

The Doctor, regaining himself, was the first to get up, holding out a hand to pull Rose to her feet also. Then Jamee pulled herself of the ground. The last to get up was Jack, who was still laughing slightly worryingly. Rose grinned, and walked over, offering him a hand and helping to pull the hysterical ex-Time Agent off the grated panels.

Once Jack had found his feet, Rose bounded back to stand at the Doctors side, making his grin increase even more (if that was possible, which it obviously was!),

"Do you wanna go see where we are?" he whispered in her ear, wanting her to be the first to gaze on the era he had landed in.

Rose looked up at him, both grinning like madmen, then she ran to the TARDIS doors, only pausing once there to be sure that the Doctor was following her. Taking a deep breath, Rose gently prised the door open and stepped out onto a new planet. The sight that met her there was enough to take her breath away.

"That's…different," she declared, looking to the sky. The Doctor followed her gaze and found himself frowning slightly as he agreed that it was, in fact, very different.

"Oh, but it's beautiful!" Jamee whispered as she followed the Doctor out of the TARDIS. Jack was close behind, shutting the door once everyone was out and it was clear that they wouldn't all have to rush back in. Looking up at the sky, Jack nodded his agreement with Jamee, that was certainly beautiful!

.o0o0o

They had been walking for a while now, and still New Earth presented them with no signs of life at all.

"So… where exactly are we?" Rose asked at last, bored of the silence that had swallowed them as they were walking.

"Well… I was aiming for New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York, but I'm not so sure now… oh!" the Doctor replied, stopping at an 'oh' when he noticed a huge, slightly torn and edgy, but still perfectly readable sign that read 'Welcome to New New York!' Rose grinned and suppressed a small laugh at the Doctors face when he noticed the sign.

"But if this is New York… Where is everyone?" Jack asked, picking up on the theme of the place, despite it's newness.

"Well, exactly." The Doctor agreed, nodding.

"Hold on!" Rose suddenly shouted, picking up her pace to a run. The Doctor followed after a shared glance with Jack, and Jamee wasn't far behind. "Wait," Rose instructed, and Jack and Jamee stopped. The Doctor however merely slowed, and very carefully made his way over to where Rose was crouching.

"Hello," she said, "My name's Rose, what's yours?"

"Rex," came a tiny reply, almost held back, as though it had been taught not to talk. Full stop.

"Hello Rex. And can you tell me, where are your parents?" Rose asked, so softly.

"They took them," Rex's voice took on a hard tone as Rose pressed,

"They? Who are they, Rex?"

"They come in the night, when you think you're safe. We heard They were looking for us, so we fled, people said we'd be safe here, said They couldn't get to us, but They did. They came and we couldn't escape. No-one escapes. Once They decide you're next, there's nothing you can do. You're dead no matter where you run… and running just makes Them mad…" the child began to shake, and the Doctor took Rose firmly by the arms and pulled her gently away.

Jack rushed forward and took Rose from the Doctor, Rose didn't protest, she just stood there, watching. Once the Doctor was sure Rose was alright, he turned back to Rex.

"I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry," he whispered before placing his hands either side of Rex's scared face, his fingertips just stroking his fur, "Sleep now, Rex, just sleep," Rex fell back, allowing the Doctor to lay his head on the ground, his eyes empty, unseeing.

"What did you do?" Jamee asked, watching over Jack's shoulder.

"He killed him," Rose replied, not looking at the Doctor, instead staring at Rex's cold body.

"Rose, Rex was already dead, to an extent… I saved him. He would have just got colder and madder, and no amount of fur would've kept him warm. Eventually he would've got tired of being cold all the time, and he would begin to take it out on the rest of life, before finally ending his own. Trust me, it's better like this," the Doctor tried to explain. Rose still refused to look at him, but she nodded, accepting that what the Doctor did was right.

He took her back from Jack and held her close as Rose allowed a few stray tears to escape, "I'd forgotten," she whispered, but was silenced by the Doctor, who insisted that it was okay.

Jamee took that moment to step forward, towards Rex's dead form.

"What are you dong?!" the Doctor shouted, noticing the close proximity of Jamee and the child. Jamee didn't reply, instead, she crouched down by Rex and closed his blank eyes. Rose smiled and nodded, and Jack opened his arms for Jamee to fall gratefully into.

"Come on then, lets move," the Doctor said, once he was sure Rose was okay, and Jamee was looking a little better.

Taking Rose's hand in his own, the Doctor lead the group away from Rex's final laying place, and towards…well…they didn't know.

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"But, Doctor," Jamee asked after a while of more walking, "What was Rex? I mean, he wasn't exactly human!" no, his fur had been a bit of a give-a-way that he wasn't 'exactly human'.

"He was a cat," Rose replied, simply. Jack and Jamee exchanged a familiar, confused look, before realising that they had pulled behind the other two and had to jog to catch up again.

"Yes, he was a cat. But a more important question is… who are They?" the Doctor asked, slowing as his mind tried desperately to work out exactly who They were.

"More cats?" Jack suggested, but that idea was rebuffed by Rose, who shook her head.

"No, I don't think They were cats… True, last time I was here they had a bit of a sticky history, but why would cats be killing other cats? And in such a brutal manor. And the Doctor said that They would've eventually sent poor Rex mad, no cat could achieve that just by killing… whoever They are, they must have some serious technology!" Rose looked at the Doctor as in for confirmation, when he gave none, Rose just shrugged and continued walking, still holding his hand tightly in her own.

"Whoever They are… what d'you recon Their motive is? What do they want? Cuz They must want something pretty big to go round killing everyone like this," Jamee suggested, also turning to the Doctor, but he still didn't reply. Whether he had a reply or not, that remained to be seen.

"That… or They just like killing people…and cats," Jack replied, "Hang on! I've got it!" Rose and Jamee turned to Jack, excited, "Maybe they can't sing, and are taking it out on the creatures they are tired of being compared to!" Rose and Jamee shook their heads, catching each other's eye.

"Somehow, Jack, I don't think you've got it," Rose almost laughed, but contained it enough to speak in a very patronising manner. Jamee reached out to pat him on the arm, shaking her head all the while.

"Whatever! But when They come after you two to join Their little group don't come crying to me!" all three of them laughed at that, even Jack, once he had been hit on both arms. The Doctor stayed quiet, though, not silent, but quiet enough for Rose to start worrying about him slightly.

"Doctor…" she asked gently, "You alright?" she took his hand again (she had dropped it in order to hit Jack) and squeezed it, almost to reassure him that she was still there.

"I'm always alright," the Doctor replied, firmly. Rose's hand loosened in his grip at the Doctor's harsh words, and he looked down at her, his hard face softening slightly, "I'm fine… I just can't work this out!" he fiddled her fingers until they were linked in his firmly before going back to stare blankly ahead. Rose frowned slightly, not sure how to respond to this.

"We'll get it. Together, the four of us, we'll work it out," the Doctor looked down at his Rose again as she spoke, noticing him watching, Rose looked straight back at him, saying firmly, "You don't have to do this alone." She smiled then, and squeezed his fingers between hers, tightening their grip as she did so.

"And we've still got to think about that." The Doctor added, looking back up at the sky.

"Well, yes, that is a part of the problem I would say," Rose agreed following his gaze.

"What's wrong with it?" Jack asked, he and Jamee also looking up.

"Last time I was here," Rose explained, tearing her eyes off the sky to look at the Doctor's two other companions, "The sky wasn't purple…"