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"So," Sofia asks as she enters the console room just behind her sister, "Where to today?"
"Give me a few moments, and you'll see!" the Doctor proclaims as he starts his familiar dance around the console.
This leads to the far too familiar bumping and shaking and rough landing. The Doctor leads the way out of the doors.
"Welcome to New Earth!" the Doctor exclaims.
"New Earth?" Sofia questions.
"The year five billion, the sun expands and Earth blows up; big revival moment." The Doctor explains.
"That was our first date." Rose interrupts.
"We had chips!" the Doctor remembers.
Sofia backs a bit away from the two.
"Anyways," the Doctor continues his explanation, "Then they find this place; almost perfect match! Call goes out, humans move in!"
"What's that city called?" Rose asks.
"New New York." The Doctor answers.
"Really?"
"Well technically the 15th New York since the original."
"So that would be, New, New, New, New, New, New, New... New, New, New, New, New, New... New, New York?" Sofia counts.
"Are you short one?" the Doctor teases.
Sofia glares at him.
"What's that smell?" Rose asks, changing the subject.
"Apple grass" the Doctor answers.
"Apple grass!" Rose shouts.
Sofia gets the feeling that something is watching them. She turns around quickly, and would swear that she saw something metallic moving quickly out of her sight range.
"Can we go to New New York?" Rose is asking the Doctor, "So good they named it twice?"
"I was thinking that we could go there first." The Doctor points towards a large building with a green crescent moon on it. "It's a hospital. I got this on the physic paper."
He whips out the paper and shows Rose, "Ward 26, please help."
"Shall we go?" the Doctor inquires.
"Come on, Sophs" Rose calls to her sister who is still distracted and looking for the metal thing.
"Right," Sofia calls, "Coming!"
She has to race a little to catch up to the others.
"I don't like hospitals" the Doctor admits as the trio enters the hospital.
"Considering that you call yourself 'The Doctor'," Sofia states, "That's quite hypocritical of you."
"I can't help it!" he protests, "I just don't like them. Where's the little shop? I love the little shop!"
"Really?" Sofia says, "...I can't believe that I'm surprised that you said that..."
"Here's the lift!" the Doctor points them out.
He and Sofia get into one lift. The Doctor requests Ward 26. The doors close, and the elevator takes off before Rose can get on.
"Watch out for the disinfectant!" the Doctor cries to Rose.
"The what?" Rose calls back.
"The disinfectant!"
"The what?"
"The dis... oh you'll find out." The Doctor gives up.
"What's this about disinfectant?" Sofia asks, right before it kicks in.
A computerized voice announces the disinfectant. The Doctor appears to enjoy the process. Sofia on the other hand, is torn between looking at him in disbelief, and being thoroughly annoyed at the whole thing. Finally the giant fan turned off, and the elevator arrived at Ward 26. A cat nurse starts to show them around. The nun tries to help the duo find who summoned the Doctor. They start to go past a large fat man. He appears to be turning into stone. There is a thin blond older lady standing near him.
"Excuse me!" the lady snaps, "The Duke of Manhattan may not be gazed upon by the public without written permission from the senate of New New York!"
"But that's Petrifold Regression!" the Doctor cries. "He's dying!"
"Alas," the Duke complains, "A lifetime of charity and it ends like this."
"A little privacy, please!" Frau Clovis pleads.
The nun nurse closes the curtain.
"He'll be up and about in no time." The cat says confidently.
"Only as a statue!" the Doctor protests.
"Have faith in the sisterhood." The cat nurse comments, "Do you not see someone you recognize?"
The Doctor spots the Face of Boe.
"I think we've found him." the Doctor points towards the Face of Boe.
Sofia and the Doctor are left with Novice Hame who is looking after the Face of Boe. Sofia asks the retreating nun if she'll ask about for her sister, Rose Tyler. There is another humanoid looking girl hanging around the Face of Boe. Well, I say hanging. Really she was sitting on the ground leaning against the side of Boe's tank. She looks to be about 5'6". She has light brown hair and brown eyes. She looks to be about 17 years old, unless you looked in her eyes. Her eyes looked far older than the Doctor's. She is wearing white sneakers, brown pants (trousers), and essentially a toga shirt. It looks like a toga, but only goes down to her waist. It is light grey and leaves her right shoulder bare. On her right shoulder is a tattoo. The tattoo is golden colored. It is of an hourglass; an empty hourglass.
"Hello," the Doctor greets, "I'm the Doctor, this is Sofia and who are you?"
"Doctor," the girl claims, "The last time I saw you was 1,267 years, two months, and three days ago; Earth time, early 21st century. It was for your funeral."
"What?" the Doctor exclaims.
"Sorry," the girl apologizes.
"You still haven't answered his question!" Sofia snaps.
"For the most part these days, I go by the Timeless Traveler, Timeless for short." She says.
"What are you doing here?" Sofia inquires.
"She arrived with the Face of Boe." Novice Hame answers, "Timeless has refused to leave his side. She claims that he once was humanoid and that they were lovers. Apparently time has been more kind to her then to him."
Timeless shifted slightly so that she could see into the tank a little better.
"I have sworn to myself not to leave his side until the Face of Boe dies of old age." Timeless admits softly.
"Any particular reason why I didn't see you on platform one?" the Doctor asks her.
"I didn't start this till about a year after that." Timeless informs.
"You've been by his side, nonstop for the last 22 years?" the Doctor questions.
"When you've already lived for billions of years, constantly popping in and out of the life of your lover, you can stand 22 plus years of keeping him constant company as he dies."
"Billions?"
"Cassandra cometh," Timeless points towards 'Rose' who is approaching.
"Cassandra?" Sofia mouths.
"Don't let her in your head, probably shouldn't be messing with your time line right now, but if you can avoid that experience..." Timeless 'says'.
Well only Sofia seemed to be aware of the fact that she said anything at all...
"Rose!" the Doctor greets enthusiastically, "You'll never guess who's here! It's the Face of Boe, remember him from Platform One?"
"Love that old Boe face," 'Rose' says weirdly.
"This place is amazing!" the Doctor starts babbling about how amazing this whole place is to Rose.
"You're my lucky charm!" the Duke of Manhattan cries as he points out the Doctor.
"An offer of friendship from the Duke of Manhattan is not legally binding." Frau Clovis assures.
"There's something missing." 'Rose' claims, "I overheard one of those cats say something about intensive care, where is it?"
"Computer terminal that way," the Doctor points out.
'Rose' pulls the Doctor in for a quick snog.
"Still got it" the Doctor squeaks.
Sofia just shakes her head at his idiocy.
The Doctor scans the mainframe. He pauses to ask 'Rose' some computer stuff, and seemingly acts completely normal after she gives him a response involving knowledge that Rose shouldn't know.
That section of the wall disappears and reveals a large, large room with several levels and thousands of green panels.
"Wow" Sofia says quietly. That seems to sum it up nicely.
"What is this place?" 'Rose' inquires.
"'Intensive care'" Sofia responds.
The Doctor opens up one of the green panels. This reveals a very sick person hooked up to the machine.
"That's just horrible, why would they do that?!" Sofia cries.
"What's wrong with him?" 'Rose' demands.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." The Doctor laments.
He closes the panel and opens up another. Another human with the same sickness(es) was behind this one.
"What disease is that?" 'Rose' asks.
"Every disease!" the Doctor says sharply.
"Are we safe?" 'Rose' wonders aloud.
"The air is sterile, just don't touch them."
"How did they get sick?"
"They were born sick."
"Why don't they just die?" 'Rose' asks.
"Plague carriers," Sofia answers with anger in her voice, "They're always the last to go... ...Kind of like Typhoid Mary..."
"What?"
"She was a plague carrier."
Two cat nurse nuns show up.
"Why?!" is all that Sofia is able to articulate in her anger.
"These people are living!" the Doctor cries, "What's the turn over? A thousand one day, a thousand the next, and thousand the day after!?"
"They're only flesh!" one of the cats tries to argue.
"Only flesh!" Sofia is outraged, "These are living breathing humans!"
"Think of all of the lives we've saved!" the nun counters.
"If they're living because of this," the Doctor declares "Then life is worthless!"
"Just to be clear," 'Rose' asks, "None of the humans in the city knows about this?"
"We thought it best not to tell them..." A nurse claims.
"I can understand the bodies, I can understand the murder," the Doctor exclaims, "But what I can't understand is, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ROSE!?"
"Took you long enough" Sofia mutters.
"We didn't do anything?" the nuns are confused.
"I'm being very calm right now." The Doctor warns, "The only reason why is because the brain is a very delicate thing. This people are sick, and Rose would care!"
"Oh, alright clever clogs," 'Rose' says as she leans over to the Doctor's ear.
"Who are you?" the Doctor demands.
"The last human"
"Cassandra?" the Doctor starts to back away in shock.
"Oh wake up and smell the perfume!" Cassandra pulls a little bottle from Rose's cleavage and sprays it in the Doctor's face.
The Doctor collapses, unconscious.
Sofia reaches for her light saber, before remembering that she left it with the TARDIS. The TARDIS had promised to rewire the light saber so that it wouldn't run out of power, like the way the sonic screwdriver never runs out of power.
"Leave my sister alone!" Sofia does her best to look threatening with her knife... the knife that she would never use on her sister's body...
"I have to deal with you too!" Cassandra complains.
Cassandra goes over to Sophie with perfume bottle.
"You wouldn't harm your sister would you?" Cassandra taunts.
"You are NOT my sister!" Sofia challenges.
"This is still her body, and her mind is still in here."
Sofia reluctantly lowers her knife. Cassandra seizes her chance to spritz the girl. The 15 year old falls unconscious. Cassandra and Chip squeeze both the Doctor and Sofia into the empty chamber. Cassandra then sends the cat nun nurses that are along to fetch matron. Cassandra sets off the alarm.
Sofia and the Doctor awake to discover their conjoined cramped confines. Cassandra walks over to address them.
"Lucky there was an empty one." Cassandra claims, "Over the years, Doctor, I have dreamt of a thousand ways to kill you... And now that's exactly what I've got, a thousand ways. They give the patients a top off every ten minutes. You've got three left."
"De-ja-vu" Sofia comments. "From when they called us Hondas..."
"Don't think that there is time for stories today though." The Doctor admits.
"Little more breathing room then."
Novice Hame returns with the Matron at that time, stopping Cassandra from asking about cars. Cassandra tries to strike a deal with the cat nurse nuns.
"You're not exactly nuns with guns." Cassandra points out.
"Who needs arms?" the cats reveal their claws, "When you have claws?!"
"Oh well," Cassandra sighs, "Chip, plan B."
Chip pulls a lever that opens that block of sick cells. This releases a small crowd of plague carriers as well as the Doctor and Sofia.
"Great plan B" Sofia mutters.
"Don't let them touch you!" the Doctor yells as the run. He grabs Cassandra's wrist. "You're coming with me!"
"Us!" Sofia protests.
Sofia grabs the Doctor's other hand as they run from the infected.
A few seconds later, all of the doors start to open, and all of the infected are released. Chip, Cassandra, Sofia and the Doctor are barely keeping ahead. Unfortunately, Chip falls behind, and gets surrounded by the infected. Sofia and the Doctor choose keeping Cassandra in their sights is that much more important than saving/helping Chip. The Doctor, Sofia, and Cassandra finally arrive at a, temporarily, infected free zone.
"Get out of Rose!" the Doctor demands.
"What will I do?" Cassandra argues, "My old brain matrix expired!"
"Not my problem" the Doctor claims, "You can float as particles in the air for all I care. Now, GET OUT OF HER!"
The Doctor points his sonic screwdriver at Cassandra.
"All right, you asked for it!" Cassandra relents as she forces herself into the Doctor's head.
"Goodness me!" 'The Doctor' cries, "I'm a man. So many parts, so seldom used. I have two hearts! I'm beating out a samba."
Sofia, from her perch about ten feet off the ground on the ladder, stifles a chuckle at this sight.
Some of the infected choose that moment to arrive.
"What do we do now?!" Cassandra panics.
"We have to get up!" Rose starts towards the ladder.
"Out of my way, Blondie!" Cassandra pushes Rose out of her way.
Sofia restarts her climb up, this time with much more energy. Cassandra and Rose follow, fast on her heels. They get a good portion of the way up when Rose feels someone grabbing her ankle. It's one of the cat nuns.
"All of our good work!" the nurse cries to Rose, "And you destroy us!"
One of the infected touches the cat. The cat starts to get sick, lets go and falls, far.
"Move!" Rose shouts at the stunned Cassandra.
It doesn't take long of the three of them to reach the end of the metaphorical line.
"What do I do now?" Cassandra shrieks.
"Use the sonic screwdriver!" Rose orders.
Cassandra reaches inside of the Doctor's coat and pulls the sonic out.
"This thing?" She asks.
"Yes!" Rose replies, somewhat exasperated.
"I don't know how to use it!" Cassandra complains, "He's locked away all of his memories, so rude."
"Then go into me!"
"If you insist!"
Cassandra goes back into Rose's head.
"Get out of her, Cassandra!" the Doctor demands.
"But we need the Doctor!" Cassandra argues.
Sofia above the Doctor. She has decided to remain quiet in the hopes that Cassandra won't get the bright idea of trying to go into her.
"Get out of her!" The Doctor shouts.
Cassandra goes back into the Doctor.
"No matter what the situation is, there is no need to shout." Cassandra notes.
"We need the Doctor!" Rose yells.
"Every time I go into you, he refuses to do anything!"
"Think of something!"
"I'm am so going to regret this!" Cassandra moans as she propels herself into the nearest infected.
"Good lord," Cassandra whines, "I look disgusting."
The Doctor promptly opens the elevator. He, Sofia, and Rose rush inside of it. Before the Doctor can close the door(s), Cassandra had rushed back inside of Rose.
"That was your last warning, Cassandra!" the Doctor warns.
"There so lonely," Cassandra says softly, "They just want to be touched, that's all they want."
The Doctor gives her a soft look, before they all exit the elevator into ward 26 [1]. Frau Clovis charges towards them with a chair.
"We're clean!" the Doctor cries.
"Show me your skin!" Frau Clovis demands.
The trio complies.
They shortly discover that Frau Clovis is trying to break the quarantine.
"So I have to fight you too." the Doctor comments.
"I think he likes it better this way." Sofia adds.
"Right, Rose, Sofia, everyone," The Doctor starts to command, "Get me the cures for all of the diseases."
"Are you doing what I think you're doing?" Sofia inquires, with a grin.
"With you?" the Doctor jests as he grabs some wheel thing, "It's impossible to know."
Both the Doctor and Sofia start to string themselves up with this yellow cord. Both of them also start to attach the bags of cures to the cord. They promptly head over to the elevator.
"The lifts aren't working!" Cassandra cries.
"Not moving," the Doctor corrects.
"That's different from not working!" Sofia explains.
The Doctor connects the round thing to the cable, he and Sofia grab on to it in such a way that they are facing each other.
"Coming with?" the Doctor offers.
"What?" Cassandra is aghast.
"We could use another set of hands, 'sides why not live a little." Sofia claims.
"Oh, alright." Cassandra jumps onto the Doctor's back.
The Doctor starts their speedy descent. At the bottom the Doctor gives Cassandra instructions regarding a lever. At the same time, he and Sofia are using Sofia's knife to open up and empty the medicine bags. After completing that, they jump down into the elevator.
"We're over here!" the Doctor calls.
"Don't tell them that!" Cassandra complains.
"Pull that lever!" the Doctor orders.
Cassandra does as told, and the medicine pours down onto the Doctor and Sofia. They start to pass the cure onto the infected. Soon the infected are no longer infected, and are simply new humans.
"Did you kill them?" Cassandra asks.
"We cured them" Sofia corrects.
Not long afterwards, Sofia, the Doctor, and Cassandra are back in Ward 26 and 'talking' with the Face of Boe.
"Until we meet again, Doctor" the Face of Boe transmats away with that good-bye, and Timeless goes with him.
Cassandra tries to get the Doctor to let her stay in Rose when Chip shows up.
"I welcome the mistress." Chip claims as Cassandra starts to enter him.
Cassandra stumbles.
"Are you okay?" Rose asks.
"I'm fine." Cassandra admits, "I'm dying, but that's fine."
"There's one last thing we can do for you." The Doctor claims.
The Doctor, Rose, Sofia, and Cassandra head towards the TARDIS. A few minutes later, Cassandra/Chip is/are dying in Cassandra's arms.
[1] Where else?
