Chapter Three The New Earth

-I WOULD LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING: GEORGIE HAS BLEACH BLONDE WAIST LENGHTH HAIR. SHE IS SLIGHTLY TAN AND SHORT, ONLY ABOUT 4 FT TENISH. HER TATTOES ARE THORNS THAT WRAP AROUND HER RIGHT ARM AND UP AROUND TO HER NECK. SHE HAS EMERALD GREEN EYES-

I sigh as I sit in a chair, watching the Doctor slowly start the TARDIS up. He glanced over at me and gave me a grin as the engines begin to hum.

"What?" I question, picking up the ball that Sivy put in my lap and throwing it for him.

"You're just so beautiful." He states, coming over and giving me a kiss. I chuckle and push him back over. He grins as I give a little kick to his bum. He pulls a lever as the rotor begins to rise and fall. Sivy comes back over, drops the ball in my lap and then jumping over onto the consul. Sivy begins to smack on some controls, creating a little dance out of it. I laugh, watching him.

"Work it Siv." I said with a laugh, dancing in my seat. Rose comes in and closes the door behind her. She shrugs her rucksack from her shoulders and runs up to the consul. The Doctor pulls the final lever with extra vigor, just to show off.

"So, where are we going?" Rose asks. The Doctor comes over, pulls me up and spins me around. He dips me, so I see Rose upside down.

"Further than we've ever gone before." I answer with a grin. Rose grins back.

-DW-

Rose, the Doctor and I (Sivy in my hair, swinging back and forth from a strand of hair) step out of the TARDIS onto a windy stretch of grass. Rose's mouth drops open.

"It's the year five billion and twenty three…we're in the galaxy M87, and this…this is New Earth." The Doctor informs as we look at the futuristic city, which has flying vehicles zooming around.

"That's just…that's…"Rose begins before she bursts out laughing.

"Not bad?" the Doctor questions, looking over at me. I grin.

"Not bad at all." I answer, kissing him on the cheek.

"That's amazing. I'll never get used to this. Never. Different ground beneath my feet!" she jumps up and down excitedly, "Different sky! What's that smell?" The Doctor bends down and pulls some grass up. He shows it to her than me.

"Apple grass." I answer.

"Apple grass!" Rose exclaims.

"Yeah, yeah!" the Doctor says, letting go of the grass and then grabbing my hand.

"That's beautiful! Oh, I love this. Can I just say…" she looks over at the two of us, "travelling with you two…I love it."

"We do too." The Doctor and I answer simultaneously. Rose laughs.

"Oh, don't ever change!" she yells.

"Come on!" I exclaim, grabbing her hand and the three of us run off.

-DW-

"So, the year five billion-the sun expands, the Earth gets roasted." I began as we all sat on the Doctor's coat. Sivy messing with a ball in my lap.

"That was your first date." Rose teased and I rolled my eyes.

"Actually we went to see King Arthur. Nearly got executed." The Doctor said, rubbing the back of his neck and giving a sheepish grin. Rose laughed.

"So, anyway, planet gone, all rocks and dust, but the human race lives on, spread out across the stars. Soon as the Earth burns up-oh, yeah, they all get nostalgic-big revival movement…but find this place!" I point over at the city.

"Same size as the Earth…same air…same orbit…lovely! Call goes out, the humans move in!" the Doctor finishes. Rose takes Sivy, who scrambles all around her shoulders, making her giggle.

"What's the city called?" she asked, finally grabbing him and placing him in the Doctor's lap.

"New New York." The Doctor answered, throwing the ball for Sivy, who immediately chased after it.

"Oh, come on." Rose says skeptically.

"It is! It's the City of New New York!" he argues then pauses, "Strictly speaking, it's the fifteenth New York since the original. So that makes it New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York." I smile at him, which he notices, "What?"

"You're so different." I answer.

"New New Doctor." He answers and gives me a kiss.

"Well!" Rose begins, making us pull apart and look over at her, she gets up, "Can we go and visit New New York-so good they named it twice?" The Doctor and I share a glance before we both get up. Sivy runs over, scrambling up my leg and resting on my shoulder. I take the ball from him and give it back to the Doctor.

"Well-I thought we might go there first." He says and nods at a large building in the distance on the coast.

"Why? What is it?" Rose asks as I help him into his jacket.

"Some sort of hospital. Green moon on the side-that's the universal symbol for hospitals." I explained.

"Hmm!" Rose says, looking over at it.

"I got this," the Doctor pulls out his psychic paper, "A message on the psychic paper that says 'Ward 26-Please Come'," he tucks it back into his pocket, "Someone wants to see Georgie and I."

"Hmm! And I thought we were just sight-seeing. Come on then! Let's go and buy some grapes." Rose says, linking our arms together as we skip off, leaving the Doctor behind.

-DW-

"Bit rich coming from you." Rose snorts as we walk through the hospital doors and into the reception. I laughed.

"Believe me, when I was giving birth, he had a midwife brought. Refused to take me to the hospital." I explained and Rose's eyes go wide.

"Birt…you have kids!?"

"Yep, four of them. Two boys and two girls." I answered, looking around.

"What are their names? Where are they?"

" I can't help it! I don't like hospitals-they give me the creeps!" the Doctor interrupted, changing the subject. I gave him a sad smile, the children topic was certainly a touchy one. We sent all four of them away, for their safety, and told them that when they thought the time was right, they could find us again.

("Did you?" the girl questioned, making Georgie pause and look at the screen.

"Did I what?" she asked.

"Find your kids?" Georgie smiled and nodded.

"Yeah, we did," she cleared her throat, "Anyway...")

"The Pleasure Gardens will now take visitors carrying green or blue identification cards for the next fifteen minutes. Visitors are reminded that cuttings from the gardens are not permitted." the PA said.

"Very smart. Not exactly NHS." Rose says with a nod, looking around.

"No shop. I like the little shop." the Doctor pouts.

" thought this far in the future, they'd have cured everything." Rose comments, walking over to me.

"The human race moves on, but so do viruses. It's an ongoing war." I explained, nodding to a cat nurse. The cat nurse then nods at Rose, who only stares back with an open mouth. Once the nurse moves on, she turns to me.

"They're cats." she said, pointing after the nurse.

"Now, don't stare...think what you look like to them, all pink and yellow."

"That's where I'd put the shop!"the Doctor interrupted, pointing over my shoulder. I look back, frowning and then look back to the Doctor, only to find him and Rose gone. I looked on my shoulder, finding Sivy gone too.

"Oi! Hold on! Hold on!" I yell, running over to the lifts but the door closes in my face.

"Oh, too late-we're already going up." the Doctor calls through the doors. I roll my eyes, he did that on purpose. I go to the other lift, pressing a button.

"Ward 26. And watch out..." he calls through the door, though he says something else.

"Wait, watch out for what?" I call.

"The..." he and Rose yell back.

"The what?" There isn't an answer and I just get inside the lift.

"Ward 26 please and thank you." I say, clasping my hands behind my back. The doors close and though, we're supposed to be going up my lift went down. I frown and patiently wait.

"Commence stage one-disinfection." the speaker says, raining down disinfectant on me. I scream at the sudden coldness. I start jumping up and down, trying to make myself warm. Once that's done, my hands glow, warming me up but a white powder is puffed onto me, I shut my powers off.

"This is just disgusting." I mutter angrily, shaking some it off. But a high powered blow-dryer starts up and I just use it to try and clean myself up. The lift doors open and I slowly step out, lighting up my hands in case something tried to attack me.

"The Human child is clean." some freaky pale man covered in doodles said. Though I recognized a clone when saw one. I quickly put my hands behind my back, because last I checked, humans didn't do that.

"Um...I'm looking for Ward 26?" I question, pretending to be confused.

"This way Georgie Bond." He scurries off and pick up a metal rod for my weapon, slowly following him. I finally enter a room where an old tape is playing, flickering and projecting onto a screen. I watch the party playing, feeling a sense of familiarity about the blonde haired woman.

"I mean, you never know what your life' going to be like! Ever! I'm bored with this drink," she hands it away to someone, "Anyway-oh, hello darling! Now, don't! Stop it!"she pushes a man playfully in the chest, making me now realize who it is.

"Wait a minute...that's..." I spin around, and there is Cassandra, in all her plastic glory with her little minion beside her, "Seems I was right about my blonde comment."

" Peekaboo!" I held up my metal rod.

"Don't you come anywhere near me, Cassandra." I warn.

"Why? What do you think I'm going to do? Flap you to death?" Cassandra asked with a scoff.

"Yeah, but...what about doodle Gollum?" I questioned, gesturing Chip.

"Oh...that's just Chip. He's my pet." she explained.

"I worship the mistress!" I gag.

"Moisturize me, moisturize me..."Chip picks up a canister and squirts Cassandra with it, "He's not even a proper life-form. He's a force-grown clone. I modeled him on my favorite pattern. But he's so faithful. Chip sees to my physical needs."

"I really hope that means food. How come you're still alive?"

"After you murdered me." she spat and I rolled my eyes.

"That was your own fault. " I said with a shrug.

"The brain of my mistress survived. And her pretty blue eyes were salvaged from the bin." Chip explained. I rolled my eyes at his comment, though another question popped into my head, remembering that she basically blew up.

"What about the skin? I saw it, you..." I laughed and pointed at her, "You got ripped apart."

"That piece of skin was taken from the front of my body. This piece is the back." she explained, sounding almost pained. I giggled.

"Right! So you're talking out of your-"
"Ask not." Cassandra interrupted.

"The mistress was lucky to survive. Chip secreted mi'lady into the hospital." My brows furrowed in confusion. Is that why the Doctor took us here, to take care of Cassandra?

"So they don't know you're here?" I asked.

"Chip steals medicine. Helps mi'lday. Soothes her. Strokes her..."Chip explained and raised a hand to stroke Cassandra.

"You can stop right there, Chip." I said, raising the rod in warning.

"But I'm so alone, hidden down here...the last Human in existence..."Cassandra sadly says and I scoff, rolling my eyes.

"Don't start that again-they've called this planet New Earth!"

"A vegetable patch." she spat.

"And there's millions of Humans out there...millions of them." I reminded her.

"Mutant stock!"

"They evolved, Cassandra. They just evolved, like they should. You stayed still. You got yourself all pickled and preserved, and what good did it do you?"

"Oh, I remember that night. Drinks for the Ambassador of Thrace. That was the last time anyone told me I was beautiful. After that it all became...such hard work." Cassandra says, referring to the video.

"Well, you've got a knack for survival-I'll give you that."

"But I've not been idle, Georgie...tucked away, underneath this hospital-I've been listening. The Sisters are hiding something."

"What d'you mean?" I asked, because if(and it is a VERY big if) she's telling the truth, then she might not be the problem. Actually, she might be part of a problem.

"Oh...these cats have secrets. Hush, let me whisper. Come close." l laughed.

"You must be joking if you think I'm coming anywhere near you." I stated, taking a few steps back. However, I realized far too late that she had an illegal psychograft and it caught me.

"Damnit Cassandra! Let me go!" I snapped.

"Chip! Activate the psychograft!" Cassandra orders. Chip bounds over to the controls and pulls a lever, bars of light came down from the ceiling, creating a cage around me.

"Cassandra it isn't going to end well if you take my body!"

"The lady's moving on. It's goodbye trampoline, and hello Blondie!" With that, I was pushed out of my body as Cassandra took it. My body fell to the ground once Cassandra took it and Chip released the lever. Eternals can do that when the situation calls for it, which now explains why I was in Sivy's body in Van Statten's museum. I quickly make sure that only one of my hearts beats, making it seem to Cassandra that I'm human, however slowly killing me. I cross my arms and leaning on the wall, watching Cassandra and Chip.

"Mistress?" Chip questioned, peering at her.

"Moisturize me..."Cassandra quietly says, stirring. Chip hurries to retrieve the canister, "How bizarre...arms...fingers...hair! Let me see! Let me see!" she springs to her feet and dashes to a mirror. Her eyes widen in surprise, "Oh my God. I'm...I'm actually not bad."

"Oi! That's my body you're talking about." I snapped, though I knew she couldn't hear me. Cassandra stood in front of the mirror, examining my body.

"Look at me! Although..." she turns around and smirked at my bum, "Oh...curves...oh, baby..." she starts to bounce up and down, "It's like living inside a bouncy castle!"

"Mistress is beautiful!" Chip happily exclaims.

"Absolutement! Oh, but look..." The two turn to were Cassandra previously was, which was now just and empty frame.

"Oh! The brain lead expired...my old mistress it gone." Chip stated with a sad surprise.

"But safe and sound in here." Cassandra reassures him, tapping the side of my head.

"What of the Georgie child's mind?"

"Oh...tucked away...I can just barely access the surface memory, she's..." she pauses to think, "Gosh...she's with the Doctor…a man…he's the Doctor…the same Doctor with a new face! And they're married! Those hypocrites! I must get the name of their surgeon," she turns on her heel to look in the mirror again, "I could do with a little work. Although…" she pulls my right sleeve up, revealing my tattoos, "Oh those are excellent, why on earth would she cover those up?" My mobile rings.

"Oh…it seems to be ringing…is it meant to ring?" she asked Chip as she pulled my mobile out. I rolled my eyes.

"A primitive communications device." Chip said with a shrug. Cassandra slid the answer button.

"Georgie, where are you?" the Doctor asked over the phone.

"How does she speak?" Cassandra whispered, placing the phone to her ear.

"Old Earth Cockney." Chip whispered back.

"Oi! I'll have you know that I managed to keep an A+ in English all my years at the Academy." I snapped.

"Uhm…wotcha…" Cassandra tried, still looking at herself in the mirror.

"Where've you been? How long does it take to get to Ward 26?" the Doctor asked.

"I'm on my way, governor. I shall proceed up the Apples and Pears." Cassandra said, forcing a London accent.

"I lived in the countryside you twit. If you did your research right, I wouldn't sound like I'm from downtown London." I spat at her.

"You'll never guess. I'm with the Face of Boe! Remember him?" the Doctor happily cried, ignoring the sound of my obvious fake voice. I bit my lip, this hospital seems to bring up more questions than answers.

"Course I do…that big old…boat…race…"Cassandra laughed, through gritted teeth.

"I'd better go. See you in a minute." The Doctor said and hung up.

"This Doctor man is dangerous." Chip warned as Cassandra fixed me up.

"He's gonna be dangerous when he realizes what you did to me." I stated, watching the two of them.

"Dangerous and clever. I might need a mind like his." Cassandra said.

"Yeah. Cause ya ain't getting mine!"

"The Sisterhood is up to something. Remember that Old Earth saying? Never trust a Nun. Never trust a Nurse. And never trust a cat. Perfume?" Chip takes a small tube of perfume out of his pocket and gives it to her. Cassandra fixes my shirt, showing cleavage and my marks. She pushes the perfume down her cleavage and then strides out of the room with purpose. Leaving me no choice but to follow her, muttering angry curses at her.

-DW-

Cassandra finally emerges onto Ward 26, with me following her. She smoothes down my hair once again and walks over to the Doctor, who's examining various drips with his glasses on, and Rose, who's playing with Sivy.

"There you are! Come and look at this patient." he takes Cassandra's arm and shows her a patient with Marconi's Disease.

"He's got Marconi's Disease." I stated before the Doctor went off explaining.

"Marconi's Disease," he takes his glasses off, "Should take years to recover. Two days. I've never seen anything like it-they've invented a cell washing cascade-it's amazing. Their medical science is way advanced. And this one!" He leads Cassandra over to a patient with Pallidome Pancrosis.

"How come he's alive? He should be dead?" I question, though no one could hear me.

"Pallidome Pancrosis. Kills you in ten minutes, and he's fine!" he waves cheerily to the patient, "I need to find a terminal. I've got to see how they do this. Rose, Sivy let's go," the four of us follow him, Cassandra walking all posh, "Because if they've got the best medicine in the world...then why's it such a secret?"

"I can't Adam and Eve it." Cassandra said, stopping. The other three stopped, staring at her strangely.

"What's-what's wrong with the voice?" the Doctor asked, looking to the other two to make sure that they heard the difference.

"Oh thank the Lord. You can at least notice that." I said with a scoff.

"Oh, I don't know...just larking about New Earth...New me..."Cassandra flirts, looking up at him. Rose and Sivy look at each other, confused. The Doctor stares down at her chest, noticing that my marks and cleavage were showing.

"Men." I scoffed, rolling my eyes.

"Well, I can talk. New New Doctor, Miss New New Bond." he flirted with a grin.

"Mmm...aren't you just..."Cassandra suddenly pulls his face towards her and plants a smacking kiss on his lips. When she finally pulls away, he looks shocked (though pleased with himself) and she's slightly breathless. Rose and Sivy are both just staring at the two of them, and I'm just furious.

"T...terminal's this way." she finally stutters out, pointing down the hall. She walks off, exhaling slightly.

"Doctor?" Rose asked, touching him gently on the arm. A wide grin breaks out on his face.

"Yep...still got it..."and with that he follows her. Rose looks at Sivy.

"Do you know what just happened?" she asked him.

"Unfortunately I have a few ideas and none of them are good." was his answer. He stood on his hind legs and whispered into Rose's ear as they followed Cassandra and the Doctor. I slowly walked behind, watching everyone. I smirked as Rose gasped.

"Thatta boy."

-DW-

The Doctor and Cassandra stood in front of a screen, looking at the details of the hospital while Sivy and Rose stood behind them, warily watching Cassandra. I stood next to the Doctor, watching the screen.

"Nope...nothing odd...surgery...post-op...nano-dentistry...no sign of a shop...they should have a shop."

"Only you," I murmured and the Doctor lifted his head and then shrugged, "Course...you still can't hear me."

"No, it's missing something else. When I was downstairs, those Nurse/Cat/Nuns were talking about Intensive Care. Where is it?" Cassandra said, walking around him.

"You're right, well done." the Doctor praised, though it sounded forced.

"Why would they hide a whole department?" Rose asked. The Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver.

"It's gotta be there somewhere. Search the sub-frame." Cassandra said, pointing on the screen. The Doctor looked over at her.

"What if they sub-frame's locked?" the Doctor asked, like he was testing her.

"Try the installation protocol..."Cassandra said as if she was talking to a toddler.

"I'd have this done already." I stated as the Doctor scanned the screen, murmuring an apology. He clicks his sonic screwdriver off and the entire wall moves downwards, revealing a secret corridor behind. Cassandra smiles and walks straight into it. The Doctor tentatively follows, then Rose and Sivy, then me.

"Intensive Care. Certainly looks intensive." the Doctor mumbled.

"What do we do?" Rose whispered to Sivy as they walked.

"We wait, we cannot harm Cassandra without hurting Mistress." Sivy explained and Rose nodded. We all go down metal steps into Intensive Care, which is a cavernous chamber with rows upon rows of green doors. The Doctor walks along one of the tows and opens a door with his sonic screwdriver. A man, covered in boils and surrounded by smoke looks back at us.

"That's disgusting. What's wrong with him?" Cassandra asked, horrified by the sight. Rose covers her mouth in horror, her eyes welding up with tears. I turn around, hearing one of the Nun Cats quietly following us.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." the Doctor apologized to the man. Cassandra holds her nose while the Doctor closes the door gently and opens another.

"What disease is that?" Cassandra asked, looking at the woman inside.

"All of them. Every single disease in the galaxy, they've been infected with everything." the Doctor quietly explained, sounding disgusted.

"What about us? Are we safe?" Rose asked.

"The air's sterile. Just don't touch them." He said and shut the door and leans over the railing, looking upon the rows of doors. Cassandra follows, Rose looked over but stood as far away from the rail as possible.

"How many patients are there?" Cassandra asked.

"They're not patients."

"But they're sick." Rose argued.

"They were born sick. They're meant to be sick. They exist to be sick. Lab rats. No wonder the Sisters have got a cure for everything. They've built the ultimate research laboratory. A Human farm." the Doctor spat. I quickly walked over, hugging him from behind, hoping that he at least felt it.

"Why don't they just die?" Cassandra questioned.

"Plague carriers. The last to go." the Doctor answered, sounding much more calm now.

"It's for the greater cause." the Nun Cat defended, appearing at the end of the row. I let go of the Doctor, taking a step back.

"Novice Hame. When you took your vows, did you agree to this?" the Doctor asked.

"The Sisterhood has sworn to help."

"What, by killing?" the Doctor shouted.

"But they're not real people. They're specially grown. They have no proper existence." Novice Hame gently explained.

"What's the turnover? Hm? Thousand a day? Thousand the next? Thousand the next? How many thousand? For how many years? How many?" the Doctor demanded, advancing dangerously towards the Nun.

"Mankind needed us. They came to this planet with so many illnesses. We couldn't cope. We did try. We tried everything. We tried using clone-meat and bio-cattle...but the results were too slow. So the sisterhood grew its own flesh.. That's all they are. Flesh."

"These people are alive." Rose argued.

"But think of those Humans out there...healthy...and happy, because of us."

"If they live because of this, then life is worthless." the Doctor spat.

"But who are you to decided?" Novice Hame challenged.

"Oh...don't wanna do that." Rose mumbled and I snickered.

"I'm the Doctor. And if you don't like it...f you want to take it to a higher authority, then there is only one. It stops with Georgie." the Doctor said, taking a step forward. I smiled.

"Just to confirm...none of the Humans in the city actually know about this?" Cassandra questioned, peering over the Doctor's shoulder.

"We thought it best not-"

"Hold on. I can understand the bodies. I can understand your vows. But one thing I can't understand-what have you done to Georgie?"

"I don't know what you mean." Novice Hame said, looking confused.

"I do! I'm not in my body, Cassandra took it, and did I mention that Cassandra is here?! The one that almost blew us up?" I cried, throwing my hand up in the air.

"And I'm being very, very calm. You wanna beware of that-very, very calm. And the only reason I'm being so very, very calm is that the brain is a delicate thing. Whatever you've done to Georgie's head, I want it reversed." the Doctor said in a deadly quiet tone.

"We haven't done anything." Hame argued.

"No! They haven't! It's the person who's in my body right now!"

"I'm perfectly fine." Cassandra argued.

"These people are dying, and Georgie would care." the Doctor argued, speaking to Novice Hame.

"Doctor, it's Cassandra. Sivy figured it out, apparently her..."she faltered, not remembering what Sivy had told her.

"Her aura is with us?" the Doctor asked, getting a bit excited and ignoring the angry look that Cassandra had on her face. Sivy and Rose both nodded. The Doctor quickly whipped out his sonic screwdriver, turning it on and pushing it up. My body began to flicker, until Rose threw her arms around me, me stumbling back a bit.

"Oh thank the Lord." I said, a bit breathless. The Doctor immediately ran forward, kissing me on my cheeks and then my lips.

"Oh this is all well and good but hello! I'm still here!" Cassandra said, the four of us looked over at her. She whipped out the perfume and sprayed the Doctor and I before I had the chance to react. I collapsed onto the ground, my eyes rolling into the back of my head.

-DW-

"Georgie...hey, you gotta wake up. Luv, it's time to get up...I know it's hard but you need to at least open your eyes for me." the Doctor begged, patting my cheeks. I coughed, pushing myself up. The door soon springs open and the Doctor helped me up and getting me out.

"What've you done?" the Doctor yelled at Cassandra.

"Gave the system a shot of adrenaline, just to wake 'em up. See ya!" Cassandra said, running off. Rose, Sivy still on her shoulder, came over helping me. The two of them threw my arms around their shoulders and they dragged me between them.

"Don't touch them!" he calls back to the nurses, "Whatever you do, don't touch!" The two of them dragged me along, following Cassandra and Chip. The infected came upon the two nuns, overrunning them. We stopped for a moment, watching all of the infected break out of their cells.

"Oh, my God..." Cassandra murmured.

"What the hell have you done?" the Doctor yelled.

"It wasn't me!" Cassandra argued. I coughed, some blood landing on the floor.

"Doctor what's wrong with Georgie?" Rose asked.

"She's dying."

"One...heart's working. Had to...do it...so she...human." I muttered, my head lolling to the side. The Doctor quickly picked me up, I was wide awake again.

"One touch and you get every disease in the world, and I want that body safe, Cassandra! We've gotta go down!" the Doctor snapped as the infected continued to advance.

"But there's thousands of them!" Cassandra argued, though she was definitely scared.

"RUN! Down! Down! Go down!" Rose yelled. We quickly do so, though Rose and the Doctor still had to drag me along.

"This building is under quarantine. Repeat-this building is under quarantine. No one may leave the premises. Repeat no one may leave the premises." the PA said as we ran through, the infected still following us with their arms outstretched.

"Keep going! Go down!" the Doctor yelled as we all descend the last flight of stairs and burst through a door into the cellar. Cassandra frantically tries to operate the lifts.

"No, the lifts have closed down. That's the quarantine, nothing's moving." the Doctor explained, the three of us pausing for a moment.

"This way!" Cassandra yells, leading the three of us. More of the infected people burst through, preventing Chip from coming.

"Someone will touch him!" Rose yelled, the three of us turning back to go get him.

"Leave him! He's just a clone thing, he's only got a half life-come on!" Cassandra yelled, pulling us back.

"Mistress!" Chip called pitifully, though Cassandra was already running.

"I'm sorry, I can't let her escape!" the Doctor apologized, following after her. Cassandra leads us back into the room where she and I met, slamming the door behind us. I collapse on my knees, clutching my chest. Cassandra tries another door but slams it shut again when she sees all the infected.

"We're trapped! What're we going to do." Cassandra cries.

"Well, for starts, you're going to leave that body," the Doctor spat and gestures at the pshycograft with his sonic screwdriver, "That pshychograft is banned on every civilized planet. You're compressing Georgie to death."

"Master! The Mistress's lungs are failing!" Sivy cried as my breathing became wheezy.

"But I've got nowhere to go. My original skin's dead."

"Not my problem. You can float as atoms in the air. Now, get out," he points his sonic screwdriver at her threateningly, "Give her back to me."

"You asked for it." Cassandra said with a shrug and left my body as a cloud of light. I let out a gasp and looked at my own hands.

"Ah ha! Oh, thank the Lord!" I cried, dancing around. Rose came over, and hugged me.

"Glad you're back." She said with a smile, then frowned, looking around the room, "Where'd she go?"

"Oh, my. This is…different." The Doctor said, sounding very camp. Sivy scrambled over, jumping into my hands.

"Cassandra?" Rose questioned.

"Goodness me, I'm a man. Yum. So many parts! And hardly used…"she wiggles around, "Ah..ah! Two hearts! Oh, baby, I'm beating out a samba!"

"Get out of him." I spat.

"Ooh, he's slim. And a little bit foxy," she runs a hand down her body and raises his eyebrows at me, "You've thought so too. I've been inside your head," I don't show any emotion, "You've been looking…you like it."The infected suddenly burst through the doors making all of us jump, "What do we do? What would he do? The Doctor-what the hell would he do?!"

"Ladder…"I cried, pointing over at it, "We've gotta get up." Cassandra shoves Rose and I out of the way.

"Out of the way, Blondies!" she cried, quickly climbing up the ladder. We soon follow.

"If you get out of the Doctor's body, he can think of something." I said as I climbed behind Rose and Cassandra, Sivy clinging onto my hair.

"Yap yap yap…God, it was tedious inside your head. Hormone City." I rolled my eyes.

"I'm allowed to think my husband's sexy you idiotic blonde. We're gonna die if-"I scream as one of the cat nuns grabbed my foot, "Get off!" I try to shake her off.

"All our good work! All that healing!" Cassandra rolls her eyes, "The good name of the Sisterhood-you have destroyed everything!"

"Go and play with a ball of string." Cassandra calls dismissively.

"Everywhere-disease! This is the Human World. Sickness!" A diseased hand grabs the Nun, making her break out in boils. She falls down the lift shaft, wailing. After watching her fall, the infected resume climbing up the ladder.

"Move!" Rose yells. Cassandra whimpers and hastily starts to climb the ladder again.

"Maximum quarantine. Divert all shuttles." The PA said. We get to the top of the ladder to find the lift doors sealed.

"Now what do we do?" Cassandra asked, looking down at the two of us.

"Use the sonic screwdriver." Rose yells.

"Sivy. Get started on the door." I ordered. He jumps onto my head, then scrambles along the wall. Cassandra takes the sonic screwdriver out of her pocket holding it between her thumb and forefinger with her nose wrinkled in disgust.

"You mean this thing?"

"Yes, I mean that thing." Rose says exasperatedly. I glance down and climbed up a few more steps and pulled on Rose's legs, bringing her attention to the problem below.

"Well, I don't know how-that Doctor's hidden away all his thoughts."

"Cassandra," I look back up at her, "Go back into me-the Doctor can open it. By the time Sivy finishes they'll have caught us. Do it!" I yelled.

"Hold on tight." Cassandra warms and suddenly I'm staring at my own bum.

"Oh great. Back here again. Open it!"

"Not 'til you get out of her." The Doctor ordered, pointing his sonic screwdriver at her.

"We need the Doctor." Cassandra argued.

"We need you to hurry up!" I yelled, looking down.

"I order you to leave her!" the Doctor shouted. Cassandra leaps back into the Doctor. I let out a gasp, finding myself back in my body and gripping on tight to the ladder.

"No matter how difficult the situation, there is no need to shout." Cassandra said, rolling her eyes.

"Cassandra, get out of him!" Rose and I yelled.

"But I can't go into you, he simply refuses-he's so rude."

"Go into me Cassandra!" Rose yells.

"No! Don't you dare!"I snap, though Cassandra ignores me.

"Oh, I am so going to regret this…" She leaps into Rose's body.

"Oh my God! I'm a chav!" I push past her, climbing up. The Doctor opened the lift doors.

"Nice to have you back." The Doctor said with a grin, pulling me into the room and then in for a kiss. I smiled, so glad that it was me kissing him and not that blonde trampoline. Cassandra jumped in at the last second before Sivy scrambled in and the lift doors shut. The Doctor and I pulled apart, seeing Cassandra glare at us from the floor.

"Oh, get up it's not going to kill you." I spat. Cassandra looked over at the Doctor, who simply shrugged. She groaned and got up on her feet. We all walked into Ward 26, were a woman in a business suit came running at us with a chair.

"We're safe! We're safe! We're safe! We're clean! We're clean! Look, look-"the Doctor said, holding up his hands.

"Show me your skin." The woman ordered. The three of us showed her.

"Look! Clean. Look-if we'd been touched, we'd be dead," she nods and puts the chair down, "So, how's it going up here? What's the status?"
"There's nothing but silence from the other wards. I think we're the only ones left. And I've been trying to override the quarantine," she fiddles with a small communication device, "If I can trip a signal over to New New York, they can send a private executive squad."

"You can't do that. If they forced entry, they'd break quarantine." I argued, shaking my head.

"I am not dying in here." She spat angrily.

"We can't let a single particle of disease get out-there is ten million people in that City, they'd all be at risk. Now, turn that off!" Sivy ordered, jumping up into my hands.

"Not if it gets me out." She spat at my spider.

"All right, fine. So I have to stop we have to stop you lot as well. Suits us. Rose. Georgie. Sivy. Novice Hame. Everyone! Excuse me your grace-get me intravenous solutions for every single disease. Move it!" Everyone starts to gather all the solutions they can hold. I help him tie the rope on him and then attach the solutions so that they can hang.

"How's that? Will that do?" the Doctor asked.

"I don't know! Will it do for what?" Cassandra asked, looking between the two of us. Sivy runs over to the doors, climbing up to the middle. He does some work and then the doors open. "The lifts aren't working." The Doctor peers down the shaft.

"No moving. Different thing." He steps right back, ready for a running jump. I take a step back, allowing him some room. "Here we go." He sticks the sonic screwdriver between his teeth and runs.

"But you're not going to-" Cassandra began before he jumped into the middle of the shaft and clings onto the tope, "What do you think you're doing!?" He fixes up the wench with his sonic screwdriver.

"I'm going down! Georgie come on!" I sigh, taking a few steps back myself and then jumping onto the Doctor's back.

"Can't believe just did that." I gasped, clutching onto his back.

"I can!" the Doctor said, looking back at me.

"Cassandra, you stay up here with Sivy and keep an eye on everything. Though...honestly, I'm talking more to Sivy more than you."

"Going down!" the Doctor yelled, the two of us whizzing down, screaming our heads off. I clutch onto the Doctor even tighter once we reach the bottom.

"I'm already skinny. Do you want me to lose even more weight?" I asked exasperatedly. He laughed and untangled me from his back.

"Now, listen-when I say so, take hold of that lever." I nod, grabbing it. He rips the tops of the packets of each solution with each teeth and skirts them into the clear container where the disinfectant for the lift should go.

"I'm cooking up a cocktail. I know a bit about medicine myself. Now, that lever's going to resist. But keep it in position," he opens a trapdoor in the top of the lift, "Hold onto it with everything you've got."

"Kay. I can do that. But what about you, what are you going to do?"

"I've got an appointment. The Doctor is in," he clicks his tongue and winks at me. He drops down into the lift, "I'm in here, come on!" He looks up at me, "Mind making some noise?" I grin and put my fingers in my mouth, whistling.

"Pull that lever!" he yelled, "Come and get me, come on! I'm in here, come on!"

"Commence stage one-disinfection."

"Hurry up, come on!" the solution showers into the lift, soaking him, "Come on, come on. All they wanna do is pass it on. Pass it on! Pass it on!" The Doctor looks up at me, grinning manically. He holds his arms out and I jump down into his arms, looking at them all.

"You did it! You cured them! You cured them all!"I cried, throwing my arms around him. We spun around until one of the new humans, a woman, came up to us with a child-like curiosity. She gingerly hugged the Doctor.

"That's right! Hey, hey! There we go, sweetheart! Ay? Look at him..."he gently pushes her off to go sit with someone, "A brand new form of life! New Humans! Look at them, look! Grown by cats...kept in the dark, fed by tubes...but completely, completely alive! The human race just keeps on going. Keeps on changing. Life will out! Ha!"

-DW-

The hospital is swarming with police officers when the Doctor(still soaking wet), Cassandra (still in Rose's body), and I (with Sivy on my shoulder) emerge back onto the ward.

"All staff will present themselves to the officers for immediate arrest. I repeat-immediate arrest. All new life forms will be catalogued and taken into care," Novice Hame is lead away by a police officer and she looks over at us, though neither the Doctor or I smile at her, "All visitors to the hospital will be required to make a statement to the NNYPD." I grasp the Doctor's arm, he looks over me with wide eyes.

"What?!" he asked, quite nervous.

"The Face of Boe!" I reminded, dashing off.

-DW-

" I was told that you were dying." I said, smiling as I approached him.

"There are better things to do today Your Majesty. Dying can wait." he said through telepathy, giving me a smile.

"Oh, I hate telepathy. Just what I need, a head full of big face." Cassandra complained.

"Shh!" the Doctor and I hissed.

"I have grown tired with the universe, Doctor, Hephsta, but you have taught me to look at it anew." The Doctor walks over, grabbing my hand. The two of us kneel down, touching his glass.

"There are legends you know, saying that you're millions of years old." the Doctor says. The Face of Boe laughs.

"There are? That would be impossible."

"Wouldn't it just? I got the impression...there was something you wanted to tell George and I..."

"A great secret." the Face of Boe says with a nod.

"So the legend says." I say with a smile.

"It can wait."

"Oh, does it have to?" the Doctor asks, pouting a bit.

"We shall met again, Doctor, Your Majesty, for the third time...for the last time...and the truth shall be told. Until that day..."he teleports himself away.

"That's just showing off." I mutter.

"That is enigmatic," the Doctor corrects, "That-that is-that is textbook enigmatic," he helps me up and we turn around to Cassandra, who was mindlessly examining her nails, "And now for you."

"But...everything's happy. Everything's fine...can't you just leave me?" I shake my head.

"You've lived long enough. Leave that body and end it, Cassandra."

"I don't want to die!" Cassandra cries.

"No one does." I quietly say as Sivy crawls up onto my head.

"Help me!" Cassandra wails.

"I can't." the Doctor says. Chip comes running in, breathless, and Cassandra jumps.

"Mistress!" he cries.

"Ah! You're alive!"

"I kept myself safe. For you, mistress."

"A body...and not just that, a volunteer.." Cassandra murmurs as she stares at Chip, the wheels in her head turning.

"Don't you dare. He's got a life of his own." I warn.

"But I worship the mistress! I welcome her."

"You can't Cassandra, you-" though she ignores me and leaps into Chip's body. Rose falls forward with a gasp and the Doctor and I quickly catch her, "Oh! You all right?" Rose pauses and then loses her balance again, "Whoa! Okay?"

"Yeah-" Rose gathers herself together and looks up at the two of us, "Hello!" We smile at her.

"Hello. Welcome back." the Doctor smiles. We help her up on her feet.

"Oh, sweet Lord. I'm a walking doodle." Cassandra interrupts, looking at her hands.

"You can't stay in there. I'm sorry, Cassandra, but that's not fair. We can take you to the City. They can build you a skin tank and you can stand trial for what you've done." the Doctor says, looking at her.

"Well, that would be rather dramatic. Possibly my finest hour. And certainly my finest hat," she says with a laugh, patting her head. The three of us glance at each other, "But I'm afraid we don't have time. Poor little Chip is only a half-life. And he's been through so much. His heart is racing so. He's failing. I don't think he's going to last-" her legs give away and the Doctor and I quickly catch her.

"You all right?" the Doctor asks.

"I'm fine," she pauses, "I'm dying. But that's fine."

"We can take you to the City." I calmly say.

"No, neither of you will. Everything's new on this planet. There's no place for Chip and me anymore. You're right, Doctor, Georgie. it's time to die," she swallows, "And that's good." The Doctor and I help her to her feet.

"Come on. There's one last thing we can do." I say, leading them off.

-DW-

The Doctor and I step out of the TARDIS, followed by Cassandra and Rose. Cassandra, the proper human one, is laughing and talking not far from us. Cassandra/Chip turns to us.

"Thank you."

"Just go. And don't look back." I say.

"Good luck." Rose offers. Cassandra/Chip walks off and I pull the Doctor back into the TARDIS.

"I don't want to watch her die again." I mutter. Rose soon follows, taking one last glance at the scene outside. Soon, we're off again.

"You okay Georgie?" Rose calmly asks. I shake my head and sit in a chair, bringing my knees up to my chest.

"She will be."

The Doctor and I were leaning against a plain white wall, the two of us holding hands.

"Why? I told her to stay there." I muttered, tears falling down my face. The Doctor pulls me in, hugging me tightly.

"She'll be okay." he said, repeating it over and over in my ear.

I looked over at Rose, who was playing with Sivy on the ground.

"Not you...I can't lose anyone else."