"Now THIS," The Doctor exclaimed, hands in the air as he spun around in excitement, 'is a REAL room!'

They were standing in a large hotel room, decorated in creams and reds, a king size four poster bed was pushed against one wall in the middle, and there were some large glass doors that led out onto a balcony with a view over the city. Red curtains were draped over part of the doors, and there were two large screens on the walls- touch screens that were shining out at the guests brilliantly. It was spectacularly clean, the wine glasses that were sitting on top of the mini fridge were sparkling in the sun, and there were candles and flowers dotted around the room. Rose laughed as the Doctor ran around like a 8 year old, poking at everything in sight and then grinning uncontrollably.

'Brilliant!' He cried, still looking around in amusement, 'Absolutely brilliant!'

'They have chocolates!' Rose giggled, looking inside the mini fridge.

The Doctor was at her side in seconds, 'It seems they do!'

There was a rapping at the door, and Rose ran over to answer it.

'Hello!' She greeted Ida and Danny, 'Aren't these rooms just so fancy!?'

Danny raised his eyebrows and nodded impressively. 'Definitely,' He grinned, peering over to the Doctor with an amused expression. 'He seems happier. You two staying here together tonight?'

Rose choked on her own throat. 'Uh- No. I'm just here with him now, and yes….yes he does look happy, doesn't he?' she laughed. 'So, how's your room?'

'Its great! Same as this pretty much but a floor lower.' He moved over to the doors that led to the balcony. 'Same view, too.'

'How about you, Ida?' Rose asked cheerfully. Ida nodded in approval, but didn't say another word other than 'its nice.'


Rose decided she would explore her room later, for now she wanted to spend some time with the Doctor, try and get him alone so she could check he was alright. He was acting okay, but this was the Doctor they were talking about, he could act his way out of anything. And she knew he was hurting. He wasn't used to this, having to live a normal life and all. At least she had some experience back on Earth with her mu….her mum. Oh dear. She hadn't forgotten about her mum, not at all, but she still had no idea what to say to her. She couldn't just leave her on Earth, could she? But she had to…there was no way back. She blinked away the tears falling from her eyes that she didn't even realise were there, because she knew he would blame himself for it. It was no ones fault things turned out the way they did. It was just….it just happened that way. She shrugged her shoulders slightly, trying to banish the thoughts from her mind. They were starting over, and she would cross whatever bridge came her way when she came to it. And she would ask the Doctor about the 'super phone' and if it would work here later.

'Come on Rose,' The Doctor said, taking her arm and tugging at her sleeve, 'We're going downstairs to get something to eat.'

'Sorry, Okay!' She beamed, grabbed her jacket and then paused. She had been wearing these jeans and top for two or three days now, she must of looked a state! She frowned, and looked over to Ida. Maybe they could go shopping? She decided she would ask her later.

After a meal of rich and luxurious (and extremely expensive) food, the group of survivors were sitting around a round table, a bottle of wine in the middle of it and the waiter handing them a desert menu.

'I've never ate something as nice as that!' Rose laughed, sipping some lush wine and giggling more. 'I feel so posh!'

'Bavarian crème puffs' The Doctor muttered. He was looking at the dessert menu.

'Ooooh!' Rose laughed, leaning closer to the Doctor on her right and peering at the menu in delight. 'I like crème puffs!'

The Doctor nodded impressively and chuckled at Roses behaviour. Humans, he thought, so easily drunk. He knew Rose wasn't completely drunk, but he could tell she was a bit tipsy. She was giggling at nearly everything anyone said.

'Hey, Ida! We should go shopping tomorrow, you want to go shopping, yes, me too! Then its sorted! Shopping tomorrow!' Rose said, grabbing hold of Ida's hand from across the table before she could say no and shaking it. 'Deal!'

Ida gave her a lopsided smile, and Rose sat back down with her grin spread across her face.

'Right! Sorted then!' The Doctor laughed, and Rose leant into him again. The waiter came over to them, and began to clean up some extra things as they spoke amongst themselves.

'I can't believe we made it…' Toby muttered. All eyes shifted to him. It was the first time he had spoke in a long time. 'We actually made it.' He whispered. The Doctor looked at him, a sad but happy look in his eyes.

'Yes, yes we did.' He replied. Toby's head snapped up and he looked around the group of people.

'Where are we?' He asked, as if he was only just aware of what was going on. His eyes wide, he stood up, and began to back away from the table. 'Where are we!?' He shouted, causing people to look up from their dinners in confusion. The Doctor stood up, frowning. Zach jumped from his seat and ran to Toby's side,

'Toby, what do you mean?' Rose asked, suddenly serious, and a lot more sober. Danny and Ida were looking over at Toby as if they didn't even know him; clearly confused and worried.

'Toby, listen to me,' The Doctor walked over to him. Just as he was about to reach him, Toby's knees seemed to give in and he fell to the floor with a 'oof!'

Roses eyes widened and she scrambled to his side, her arm around him in an attempt to stable him.

'Keep still, right,' The Doctor pushed his thick rimmed glasses onto his eyes from inside his suit, and pulled his sonic screwdriver out, clicking it in and peering it into one of Toby's eyes. He paused, pulled away, and looked at Rose.

'Rose, get away from him.'

Rose frowned, 'What? He's ill! I can't just-'

'Rose, get away from him!' The Doctor grabbed hold of her arm, tugging at her desperately. Rose gave him a look, catching his eye. Slowly, she nodded and pulled her arm back, slivering over to the Doctors side.

'What's going on!?' Zach demanded,

'Is he alright?' Ida insisted,

'Wha…' Toby was finding it hard to speak, something was pulling at his chest, his stomach, his face! He could barely breath, he couldn't sense a thing, the last thing he saw was the dim outlines of the Doctor. Then everything went black.


The Doctor paced the hotel room determinedly. Toby had been taken to his own room for a lie down, and the Doctor could barely trust the voice in his head that was telling him what his condition was. It can't be. His mind was working at a 1000 times per second, hoping and praying to whatever god was out there that it wasn't happening. Something must have happened on that space base to have caused this to happen, something that he personally knew wasn't even possible! A knock came from the door, and he stopped.

'Doctor?'

The Doctor opened the door, 'Rose.' He paused, 'Come in.'

Rose walked in with tired eyes, a worried expression on her face. She sat on the edge of his bed, staring at him for answers. 'What happened to Toby?'

'Toby…' He paused. 'Toby is ill, Rose.'

'What do you mean, Ill?'

'I mean Ill.' He gave her a warning look, and she looked away sadly.

'How come?'

'I don't know.'

'Bt you're a Doctor.'

They both looked up to see Ida in the door way, red eyed and looking extremely tired.

'Yes, yes I am.' The Doctor muttered, and nodded his head as to say 'come in' to Ida. She walked in and leant against a wardrobe.

'Is he going to be alright?' Ida asked,

'I…' He looked over them both, a sympathetic look in his eye that Rose knew all too well. 'He needs to get to a hospital. That's the only way we can be sure-'

'But you're a Doctor!' Ida pushed on, frowning.

'I know I am! But not that sort of Doctor…I'm a Doctor of science and just….look, he has to get to a hospital.'


'I'm very sorry sir, but you can't see him without-'

The Doctor held up his physic paper and waved it around in front of the security guard.

'Oh, of course, Mr…' The guard peered at the paper, 'John Smith. Please, go on through. They can't go with you though.' He pointed to Rose and Danny who were behind the Doctor.

'I didn't intend them to come.' The Doctor turned to Rose, 'Look, go to the café and meet Zach and Ida.'

'But I want to come with you!' Rose pleaded, 'I cant just go and sit down when I know something's wrong!'

The Doctor sighed. Sometimes she was a little too stubborn for his liking. Or maybe she was just being a little too like Rose. He smiled to himself, but put a hand on her cheek softly. She tensed.

'I can't let you come in here Rose, you could catch what he-'

'What does he have?' Danny asked, frowning.

'And what if you catch it!?' Rose persisted, before the Doctor pulled her forwards into a tight hug.

'Time lord,' He whispered into her ear , then he pulled back. 'I'm just a little more immune to illnesses than you…' He stopped himself from saying 'humans' when he saw Danny standing there. Rose pursed her lips, but seemed to understand anyway. 'Right,' She muttered. 'Well, I want you back before tea, kay?' She smiled and gave him another quick hug.

The Doctor grinned, 'Sure thing mum,'

The guard let him through with a nod, then closed the door behind him. Rose looked at Danny and they walked away without another word, though they were both thinking the same thing.

What was wrong with Toby?


The Doctor started at the bed, arms crossed and brow furrowed. This wasn't supposed to happen. Toby was lying on the bed in front of him, sweating though he was unconscious. There were drips attached to his arms, bags with solutions of different colours at the other end of them, feeding Toby's body. A woman walked into the room from an observation room. She had a mask over her mouth and nose, and was frowning at the Doctor. She was blonde, slim and had glasses perched on the end of her nose. Her face was stony as she saw him.

'You cant be in here without a mask on!' She hissed grabbing hold of his arm and tugging him to follow her through the door. The Doctor tried to not find it amusing, so he put a firm face on.

'Right, sorry, erm' He looked at the tag on her lab coat, 'Mrs….Baxter. Baxter.'

The woman rolled her eyes and held out a small card, 'Roxanne Baxter.' She locked the door behind them and turned to him with narrowed eyes. 'What on earth were you doing in there? You could have caught something! God knows who else has already caught it….Luckily most the people on this planet have a lot of jabs already, should keep them safe.' She pulled the mask from her mouth and let it hang around her neck. 'Who are you, anyway?' She asked.

'Er-I'm the Doctor,' He waved the physic paper in front of her again and she read it quickly.

Her eyes widened, 'Oh! I'm so sorry, Mr Smith. Of Course you had permission to be in there, I just, I was worried you would catch something, and, well…I'll be being quiet now.' She muttered, blushes on her cheeks.

The Doctor wasn't really listening though, he was too busy strolling around the room and tapping at things here and there with a frown on his brow. 'What do you think he has then?' He asked, though he knew the answer.

'Er- well, surely you know? It was sent to head office.' Roxanne said,

'Yeah well,' The Doctor looked out of the glass observing doors, 'I've only just been put on the case. Was in the city so they rang in and asked me to come check it out, so I'm pretty new with this one. So, tell me, whats up with him?'

'Well…were not all too sure. It seems to be something a bit like the old Earth illness 'of legionnaires' disease' but there was a cure for that a long time ago, right? But we tried to give him that cure and that didn't work! And he keeps waking up, wondering where he is, the people who brought him in said they had just been on that rocket that brought them from that space base, you know the one that was on the news yesterday morning? Personally I don't believe a word of it, something tells me there's a lot more to the story that they claim. Anyway, apparently he was on that rocket, the one that brought them here? And he just….collapsed when they were having dinner. You'd think they would have noticed him acting weird though, but whatever, that's their story.' She paused, and sighed. 'I'm surprised none of his friends caught it, but luckily most people are immune to this sort of thing with the jabs you get given when born…the specialist team checked them though, they're all okay. Its odd, it only seems to have affected him.' She nodded to Toby. The Doctor didn't needing reminding to be honest, he had been one of the 'friends' who had been checked over for illness when the ambulance had arrived at the hotel. Not only him, it had been Rose, Ida, Zach, Danny and most of the hotels guests. Luckily they had only scanned their eyes and took some blood, leaving them all with little plasters on their wrists and a slightly blinding feeling in their right eyes for a few minutes afterwards.

'He didn't spend much time with his friends after they returned…' The Doctor muttered, his mind trailing off. Had Toby known something was wrong?

Roxanne looked at him oddly, 'Have you spoke with them?' She asked.

'Er-Yes, I have. Nice bunch o' people. Specially that Doctor man, charming.' He grinned, then his face dropped as they both looked back to Toby. 'He's going to die then?' His throat felt dry at the thought of it.

'Yes….I'm afraid there is nothing we can do.' She winced slightly, 'And the saddest thing is that…well….he isn't aloud to say goodbye to his friends or family. He can record messages to them, but only if he gets into the right state of mind. He could die any time soon. We don't want to take a risk at getting to close to him for now though, his heart rate is a lot quicker than usual and he could be letting anything off. We cant risk him coughing on someone or people breathing in around him.'

'But other people have got the jabs, right?' The Doctor asked, thinking of Rose, 'And if they have them then they're pretty much immune to the illness?'

'Yes,' Roxanne mused, 'That's what the mystery is. How did he get it?'

'Well if people are immune to it then why not just let him-' The Doctor paused, then realized what he was saying. 'Of course. You wont take that risk because something else is there. Something you can't cure!'

'She turned away. Bit her lip.

'Oooooh,' The Doctor grinned, 'You're not telling me something.'

'I know, its just…'

'What, something you cant tell the head of office?' He waved the papers again and she winced.

'His eyes.' She said, 'His eyes….they're….there's nothing that explains them.'

'Ah.' The Doctor nodded, ' Dilated. Red? I know, I saw them too.'

'What? When?' She pushed her glasses further up her nose as they slipped slightly.

'When you sent the images to…' He trailed off, realizing he had just slipped up. 'Lucky guess?' He tried.

'We didn't send any images of his eyes to anyone unless one of my comrades did so…and even so, they would have came and told me first! Oh dear- what are we supposed to do if top office finds out about this?' She was speaking at a 1000 times per second, breathing harshly in panic. 'What am I saying!? You already know! Oh dear oh dear oh dear!'

'Riighhtt,' He dragged out, 'And you don't want head of office finding out, why?'

'Why!?' Roxanne spat, 'because it makes us look bad, that's why! If we don't have a cure for something, that makes us look like we cant cope, and if we cant cope, then that makes it harder for us to get funding, and-' She trailed off. Then she looked at the Doctor. 'Wait, lucky guess?'

The Doctor grinned. 'That's right. Lucky guess, I'm full of 'em.'

'But- that's impossibly lucky!' Roxanne hissed, eyes narrowed. She put her hands on her hips. 'Who are you?' She asked.

The Doctor tried to not let it on that she was sussing him out. He swallowed, 'Well,' He started, looking anywhere but at her, 'Um, you know who I am…I'm from top office.'

Roxanne narrowed her eyes more; 'And yet you don't know much for your position.'

'Well. I suppose…' He walked over to the phone, 'You wont mind if I ring them up now and tell them exactly what I've seen here? You know, considering I don't know much for my position.'

Roxanne's face paled. 'No! Wait- please, I can- I'm sorry. I'm just paranoid, its something that comes with the job,' She gave a shaky laugh. 'I'm sorry, please, put the phone down.'

The Doctor grinned and did as she said, placing the phone down. 'Sorry for the threat. All part of the job.' He mimicked, and she smiled slightly. 'Now, don't worry about a thing. I wont tell anyone in top office about this, because to be totally honest with you I doubt they would care anyway. They're full of it, 'if it cant be fixed then don't tell the public, it'll only cause more drama' and all that. So, tell you what. You don't tell them I was here, and I wont tell them about this eye infection, right?' He was making his way over to the door, ready to leave.

Roxanne tensed, 'But why wouldn't you tell them? I thought it was your job to find trouble here?'

The Doctor gave her his best smile. 'Oh, it is my job to find trouble, not to get people into trouble.'

'But what about him?' She nodded to Toby, 'What do we do about him? How do we cure him?'

The Doctor sighed. 'We don't'

And then he walked away, leaving Roxanne Baxter to stare after.


Ahhhh it hurt me head writing this XD doesn't make much sense, does it?

Well, legionnaires' disease is a disease you can get on a plane because of the air around them or something like that if I remember correctly. And you die from it as well (apparently) and well, its catchable. Lets just say that Rose had the jabs in the TARDIS when they first started to travel, so she was immune to it. So that explains why no one else can get this disease, but Toby has it and they don't know why! The Devil/Demon dude who possessed him gave it to him as a sort of…. Payback for just leaving him there, and is still sort of in his mind, that explains the eye! The Devil wants to make it so the others will get this disease too, but the Doctor made it so he was in a hospital before anything gets out of hand. The Doctor is sort of thinking it through and trying to figure out just what it is, but can he get to the bottom of it before Toby dies? And how's he going cope with all this real life living?

Uhh….sorry if it makes no sense. Thanks SO much for the reviews! You know who you are, I'll reply to you soon when I get some spare time XD Thank you so much! :D

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask!! Im so sorry if it makes no sense ! . I'll have more ten/rose in the next chapter, I just the idea of this being like a normal mystery sort of thing.

I'm so nervous about posting this . I'm real sorry if its just....gettings stupider and dumber and seems like it doesnt make sense!