Doctor Who Fic:
Pairing: 10th Doctor/Rose
Disclaimer: I dont own Doctor Who
Summary: Will a reunion with Captain Jack, Gwen, Mickey, Martha & Donna turn to tragedy when an old enemy threatens the life of the Doctor's new family with Rose?
Martha and Mickey (now husband and wife) joined the Torchwood team in Cardiff, now consisting of just Gwen and Captain Jack. Donna is there (don't care how, just can't have a companion story without her). Set after Journey's End. The 10.5/human Doctor never existed, Rose remained with the Tenth Doctor in the TARDIS. Jackie, Pete and Tony are back in the parallel Earth. Set 7 years after the Journey's End episode.
Alert the Bay
"Here they are!" cried Donna excitedly, throwing her apple core in the nearby bin as she got up to stand with Captain Jack, Gwen, Martha and Mickey in the Torchwood Hub, all of whom had quickly gathered near the monitor waiting to welcome their time travelling friends.
The TARDIS had materialised next to the water tower above the Hub and a little boy, the age of six, with unruly brown hair and brown eyes, came running out of the TARDIS front doors.
"Oi! Ryan! come back, don't run off!" the Doctor called as he stepped out of the TARDIS, with his three year old daughter, Isabel, balanced on his hip.
"You should know by now Doctor, he is too much like you, always running off" Rose replied with a grin as she also stepped out of the TARDIS.
"I think you'll find, my dear Rose, that he takes after you in that respect" the Doctor corrected his wife with a cheeky grin "You always run off all the time."
"Yeah well there isn't much chance of that now is there" Rose said as she placed her hand on her swollen stomach "and with these two in tow aswell." She grinned as Ryan came running back over to his parents.
"Right, well as the TARDIS is getting some rest and recharging her batteries, let's go and see everyone!" the Doctor said cheerfully, as Rose took hold of Ryan's hand and the family began walking through Cardiff Bay and soon found themselves inside the Torchwood Hub.
Everyone greeted eachother with joyous hugs and greetings, the Doctor put little Isabel down onto her feet as she and Ryan ran straight over to hug their Aunties and Uncles.
"Rose you are positively glowing!" Jack complimented her as he gave her a hug.
"You really are Rose" Donna smiled "How long left to go?"
"Eight days" Rose beamed "We're so excited aren't we Doctor?" she turned to look at her husband only to find he had wandered off into Jack's office.
"Oi Doctor, what are you doing in there?" Jack inquired going over to his office and dragging the Doctor away.
"Hey! I was just having a look!" the Doctor moaned before a smile plastered back onto his face at seeing his friends, his beloved wife and two children all standing around. Rose rolled her eyes at the Doctor's typical enthusiasm about the Hub.
"Donna!" Isabel called as she rushed over to her, and showed her the Doctor's sonic screwdriver. Donna picked up the little girl "Ooo what's that Isabel, eh? What you got there?" she said in a babyish voice and put the toddler on her lap as everyone else giggled at the Doctor's bemused expression.
"How on earth did she get hold of that?" Martha wondered as she sat next to Donna on the sofa, to fuss over little Isabel too.
The Doctor was ruffling his hair "I don't know, I tell you I don't know how she does it. She is always finding or taking things without either Rose or myself realising." Jack and Martha giggled before the Doctor came over and crouched down to his daughter's level, "Isabel, sweetheart, daddy needs the sonic screwdriver back now." He tried to take it from her grasp but she cradled it to her chest.
"No! Sonic mine!"
Rose laughed as the Doctor continued to battle with his daughter to get his beloved sonic screwdriver back, but eventually managed to return it back into the inside of his pinstripe suit jacket.
"Uncle Jack!" Ryan bounded over to his favourite Uncle "Can we go and see the Weevils?"
"Well you'll have to ask your mum and dad first" Jack said, looking directly back at the Doctor and Rose.
"No!" Rose replied whilst at the same time the Doctor had said "Yes."
"He can't Doctor, he's only six!" Rose piped up.
"Ah he'll be alright, he's seen enough aliens already, a few more won't make much difference" the Doctor said truthfully.
"Please mum! Please!" Ryan pleaded with her, showing the eyes which were the image of the Doctor's, a cursed reason why Rose found it hard to refuse him.
"Oh go on then, but don't go running off without Uncle Jack!"
"I won't" Ryan grinned as Donna and the Doctor decided to join them and they headed off into the vaults, leaving everyone else in the central area of the Hub.
...
"Mum that was really cool!" Ryan said excitedly a while later as he rushed up to Rose who was sitting on the sofa with Martha and Gwen. "I love Torchwood!"
"And me!" piped up little Isabel who was sitting on Martha's lap.
All the Torchwood team were beaming at Ryan and Isabel, particularly Jack, who came up and ruffled Ryan's hair "And we love having you all here, so kids how do you fancy having a tour of the rest of Torchwood?"
"Yeah!" the two kids replied eagerly.
Rose and the Doctor smiled at seeing their kids bonding so well with everyone, and watched as Martha picked Isabel up and carried her off past the lower part of the water tower with Jack racing Ryan to see who could get there first, they all soon disappeared from sight through a side door.
Everyone else began chatting amongst themselves, whilst Mickey was sitting at the main computer, frowning at the screen showing a map of the area around Cardiff.
"Gwen come and look at this" he said to his co-worker.
"What is it?" Gwen asked, getting up from the sofa, intrigued to know what Mickey was looking at. Even the Doctor pulled out his glasses and came over to take a look.
On the screen showed a red flashing light pinpointed thirty miles away.
"What the heck is that?" Gwen thought, worriedly "We need to go and check this out." She touched the Com system attached to her ear "Jack, I'm sorry to break up the tour but we have a situation, suspect alien thirty miles from the base, we need to go now!"
"I'll go with you, Gwen" the Doctor offered, taking off his glasses and putting them away.
"Doctor, you don't have to y'know" Gwen smiled at him as she got up from her chair and put on her black jacket "You're more than welcome to stay here."
"No I'd like to go" the Doctor smiled in return, then turned to face Jack as he appeared with Martha and the kids "You don't mind, do you Jack, me tagging along?"
"Course not, we'll show you what Torchwood can do" Jack grinned, before looking at Ryan and Isabel "I'm sorry we have to stop the tour guys, we'll finish it when I get back."
"Okay" Ryan looked slightly crestfallen, before another idea sprung into his head "Ooo can I come along for the ride?"
"No!" Rose and the Doctor said in unison.
"Aww!" Ryan moaned "First I don't get the rest of the tour, and now I can't go in the cool car! It's not fair!" he folded his arms and sat next to Donna on the sofa.
"Well Ryan" Donna said thoughtfully, putting an arm around the little boy "How about we make up for it. How would you like me to treat you and Isabel to an ice-cream in that place just up the street?"
"Banana flavoured like last time?" Ryan looked up, hopeful.
Rose grinned at the Doctor, knowing their son got his love of bananas from his father; the Doctor smiled back at Rose thinking the exact same thing.
"Sure, whatever you like!" Donna grinned back at him.
"Woohoo!" Ryan exclaimed and he and Isabel got very excited and started jumping around.
Everyone laughed at the kids and Donna's excitement, before the seriousness of the alien threat came back into their consciousness as Jack remarked "Right we had better get going, Martha you stay here at base, monitor the situation and let me know if anything develops. Gwen, Mickey, you're with me and the Doctor."
"But Doctor" Rose piped up, getting up from the sofa, suddenly realising the risk of the Doctor going out with the Torchwood team "You shouldn't be going. It could be dangerous! You don't know what you could get yourself into."
"It'll be fine Rose; the team may need my help." He touched the top of her arms "I promise I'll be okay" he kissed her gently on the lips "you just stay safe here, and hopefully the kids won't run you ragged." Rose giggled and gave him a hug.
"We'll be here Rose" Donna assured her, and Martha smiled at her too. "You'll behave won't you, kids?" Donna said to them and Ryan and Isabel both nodded.
"Doctor, you will be needing one of these" and Jack handed him a coms earpiece.
"What's this?"
"It's basically like a Bluetooth thing; it allows you to stay in contact with any one of the team, including Martha here in the base. If you get into trouble they are handy things to have."
"Okay" the Doctor put it on before giving a kiss to Rose and touched her baby bump affectionately for a second, before hugging the kids and directing smiles to Martha and Donna. "Alrighty then, see you all later" and turned to the rest of the team who were waiting, and he gave them his signature smile "Alons-y!" and the Doctor left the Hub, with the rest of the Torchwood team following behind.
"Come on then kids; let's go get those ice-creams!" Donna said excitedly as she held both Ryan and Isabel's hands and led them out of the Hub. Leaving Rose, to have a bit of a rest on the sofa, whilst Martha tracked the team's progress in the SUV, aswell as monitoring the secretive alien threat for any further development.
...
Half an hour later, Rose had just awoken as the kids and Donna returned back from having their ice-creams, and the three of them were now playing with the basketball that had been left discarded on the floor.
The coms system was then un-expectantly heard in Martha's ear "Martha, any indication about what we're dealing with?" Jack asked, as he drove the SUV towards the directed location.
"Nothing yet" Martha replied back "I've run scans and detection analysers, but nothing. Whatever it is, is using some kind of force field to protect its identity."
"Force field?" Donna said with a chuckle "What is this, Star Wars?"
Rose giggled and came to sit on a chair next to Martha, whilst hearing the kids who were now chasing Donna to try and get the basketball back from her.
"Everything okay in the base?" Jack asked "The Doctor was wondering how Rose and the kids are?"
Martha smiled at Rose "Yeah we're all okay, Rose is fine. The only problem we have is the kids are chasing Donna around the place."
"Nothing new there then" the Doctor added, which made Martha, and the guys in the SUV, laugh.
"Uh Jack" Martha said looking at the monitor "You need to be getting there quicker or the alien, or whatever it is, might get the chance to escape."
"We're on it" Jack said and put his foot down on the accelerator.
...
Rose went to the meeting room to go and get some water for herself, and came back to sit next to Martha to discover that they were the only two people in the vast room "Martha, where are the kids and Donna?"
Almost instantly they both heard cries of laughter and Donna's voice "Oi! You two, come on let's get back to your mum."
The three of them appeared from the greenhouse area and the upper levels, before they rushed back over to Martha and Rose who smiled at them as they approached.
"Have you two been causing trouble for your Auntie Donna?" Rose asked them as the two kids began jumping up and down on the sofa.
"They have so much energy!" Donna said, only now catching her breath back "And I thought the Doctor was energetic!"
"Mummy!" Isabel moaned "I need the loo!"
Rose sighed and got up off her chair "Alright I'll take y...oh!" Rose suddenly touched her stomach.
"Rose, what's wrong?" Donna asked, worriedly, coming to stand next to her as did Martha.
"No, I'm okay, I'm fine" Rose gave a small smile "Just a really strong kick" Rose gave a sigh "D'ya know I'm just really tired, I don't know where all my energy has gone."
"Here, sit down" Martha helped her to sit on the sofa, before Martha took Isabel to use the loo and returned back with her a few minutes later, only to find Rose was dozing back off to sleep, and Ryan was sitting quietly next to her on the sofa, trying to solve a Rubix Cube he had found on one of the desks. Martha smiled at them and at Donna who had been left to monitor the screen.
"Anything happen?" Martha inquired as Isabel came to sit on her lap.
Donna nodded, taking off the com system to hand control back over to Martha "Yeah they have just arrived there now."
...
The three members of the Torchwood team, and the Doctor, got out of the SUV, torches now lit as it was getting dark. They had pulled up outside a ruined building; wasteland surrounded the area aswell as trees on the outskirts to block the building from view.
"I don't like the look of this place" Gwen piped up "And to make it worse we have no idea what we're dealing with!"
"Just be careful everyone" Jack told them all "Gwen, Mickey you take the ground floor, Doctor you're with me."
"You just want the Doctor all to yourself, don't you Jack?" Gwen winked at her Torchwood boss.
Jack laughed whereas the Doctor rolled his eyes "Jack, I'm a married timelord now, plus Rose would kill you and eat you for breakfast!"
Jack laughed "I daren't cross Rose Tyler! I'd never hear the end of it."
Everyone smiled before turning serious again as they entered the building.
By ascending to the second floor, the Doctor and Jack appeared out on a long corridor, off of which were very large desolate rooms. Then the Doctor and Jack heard the sounds of something they had never wanted to hear again.
"No, no, no, no!" the Doctor said quietly, yet with so much raw emotion.
"Oh god! No, not again!" Jack said, turning to the Doctor, "What are we going to do?"
The Doctor said nothing and just walked quietly and slowly towards the sounds. No words were needed to describe how he was feeling at that very moment, because his face told one single picture. Dread.
Jack began following the Doctor and he used his coms to communicate with Gwen and Mickey in a whisper "Guys, we've found the source. It's on the second floor; bring your Double X guns." He gave a small pause and sighed "It's started again."
Gwen instantly turned to Mickey in blind panic "It can't be!" and the two of them ran up the stairs to catch up to Jack and the Doctor.
"How can they be back?" Mickey said to Jack "I thought they were destroyed!"
Martha, Donna and Rose were feeling confused about what was going on, the noise had been too quiet for Martha to pick up "Jack?" Martha said anxiously "What's going on?"
"Martha, it's them. They're back..."