Disclaimer : I Don't own Doctor who, If I did I probably use the Idea that since the Time lords are back he could go and see Rose.

Chapter 4

The Unquiet Dead

Ben, Rose and The Doctor are in the TARDIS. The Doctor then said "hold that one down."

Rose responded "I'm HOLDING this one down!"

Then The Doctor said "Well, hold them BOTH down!"

Ben then said "I will get it."

Rose said "It's not going to work!"

Then The Doctor said "Oi! I promised you a time machine and that's what you're getting. Now, you've seen the future - let's have a look at the past. 1860. How does 1860 sound?"

Rose then said "What happened in 1860?"

Then Ben said " I don't know, history is not my cup of tea. American slang means it's not my favorite class. I don't think The Doctor knows either."

Then The Doctor said "let's find out. Hold on, here we go!" Then the TARDIS files through the vortex."

The TARDIS lands, the controls are steaming, the three of them are on the floor. After they get up off the floor Rose said "Blimey!"

Ben said "That hurt."

Then The Doctor said "You're telling me! Are you alright?"

Rose then said "Yeah. I think so! Nothing broken... did we make it? Where are we?"

The Doctor while studying the screen said "I did it! Give the man a medal. Earth - Naples - December 24th, 1860."

Then Rose said "That's so weird... it's Christmas."

Ben then said "technically is Christmas Eve."

The Doctor then gestures to the door and said "All yours."

Then Rose said "But, it's like... think about it, though. Christmas. 1860. Happens once. Just once, and it's gone. It's finished. It'll never happen again. Except for you. You can go back and see days that are dead and gone and a hundred thousand sunsets ago... no wonder you never stay still..."

Then The Doctor said "Not a bad life."

Then Rose responded "Better with three." Rose heads to the door and said "Come on then! The The Doctor said "Oi, oi, oi! Where do you think you're going?!"

Then Rose said"1860!"

Ben said "we need to change."

Then The Doctor said "Yeah Go out there dressed like that, you'll start a riot, Barbarella! There's a wardrobe through there. First left, second right, third on the left, go straight ahead, under the stairs, past the bins, it's the fifth door on your left. Hurry up!"

Rose and Ben left to change. After Ben and Rose change The Doctor complements Rose on how she looks. Rose then asked if he was going to change. The Doctor then mentions he changed his shirt. The three of them left the TARDIS. The Doctor then said "Ready for this?" Rose smiles and he offers her his arm and she takes it. Then The Doctor spoke and said "Here we go, History!" Ben now just felt like the third wheel. The Doctor then said "I got the flight a bit wrong."

Rose replied "I don't care."

Then The Doctor said "It's not 1860, it's 1869."

Rose then again said "I don't care!"

Then The Doctor said "And it's not Naples."

Rose then replied with another "I don't care."

Then The Doctor sad "It's Cardiff."

Rose pauses and said "Right..."

Then The Doctor Ben and Rose heard the screams. Ben and The Doctor grin and The Doctor said "That's more like it!"

Ben then said "He we go again."

Then the three of them run towards the screams. As they entered the theater The Doctor said "Fantastic." A gas leaves an old woman's mouth and she slumps back in the chair. Then The Doctor approaches Mr. Dickens and said "Did you see where it came from?"

Dickens then said "Ah. The wag reveals himself, does he? I trust you're satisfied, sir!"

Rose then said "Oi! Leave her alone! " Sneed and Gwyneth are making off with the old woman's body. Rose then said "Doctor, I'll get 'em!"

Then The Doctor said "Be careful!"

Then Ben said "I'll help."

Then he ran off after Rose. Ben catches up to Rose just to be able to see her get drugged and he interrupted him. Then Sneed drugged him and Ben felt unconscious.

Ben woken up and assumed that since he was not from this world that the drugs don't affect him. So he went to sleep. Gwyneth and Sneed carried Ben in and laid him on a table used for dead bodies and went back to get Rose.

Ben could hear them talking and Gwyneth said "The poor girl and boy are still alive, sir! What're we going to do with them?

Then they laid her next to Ben. Sneed then said "I don't know! I didn't plan any of this, did I. Isn't my fault if the dead won't stay dead."

Then Gwyneth said "Then whose fault is it, sir? Why is this happening to us?" Ben heard them leave and lock the door and turned to see a gass lamp flicker.

Ben and Rose are both of the table and Rose notices the corpse behind her and it's making noise and she said "Are you all right? You're kidding me, yeah? You're just kidding."

Then he climbed out of his coffin and Rose said "You are, you're kidding me, aren't ya?"

Then Ben said "I'm positive that he is not kidding" as the zombie came towards them. They run to the door and Rose tries to open it. The Old lady came out of her coffin and Rose gaped. Ben grabs a vase and lobs it at Redpath.

It does nothing but cause him to stumble slightly. While Ben was throwing the vase Rose rattles the handle frantically and said "Let us out! Open the door!."

Ben and Rose are now both at the door and they both said "Please, let us out!" The Corpses are still walking towards them.

Rose is hammering at the door and said "Let Us out! Somebody, open the door! Open the door!." Right when the door opened Ben slid towards the old lady and tripped her causing her to lose balance and it gave him enough time to leave the room.

Gwyneth is making tee while Rose is having a go at Sneed. She started with "First of all you start to drug me, and Theron interrupts, then you drug him and comeback for me and drug me then you kidnap us, and don't think I didn't feel your hands having a quick wander, you dirty old man."

Then Sneed said "I won't be spoken to like this!"

Ben then had a go at it and said "Then you stuck us in a room full of the walking dead"

Then Rose continued with "And if that ain't enough - you swan off! And leave us to die! So come on - talk!"

Then Sneed said "It's not my fault, it's this house! It always had a reputation. Haunted. But I never had much bother until a few months back. And then the stiffs-...the er, dear departed started getting restless."

Then Charles Dickens said "Tommyrot."

Then Sneed said "You witnessed it! Can't keep the beggars down, sir! They walk. And it's the queerest thing that they hang on to scraps..."

Gwyneth comes in and gives the Doctor his tea and said to him "Two sugars, sir, just how you like it."

The Doctor looks at Gwyneth's retreating back curiously. Sneed then said "One old fella who used to be a sexton almost walked into his own memorial service! Just like the old lady going to your performance, sir! Just as she planned."

Dickens then said "Morbid fancy."

The Doctor then said "Oh, Charles, you were there."

Then Dickens replied "I saw nothing but an illusion."

Then The Doctor said "If you're going to deny it, don't waste my time. Just shut up." Dickens is stunned. Then The Doctor said to Sneed "What about the gas?"

Sneed then said "That's new, sir, never seen anything like that." Then The Doctor said "Means it's getting stronger, the rift's getting wider and something's sneaking through."

Then Rose said "What's the rift?"

Ben then said " it's a tear in time and space that lets things come through that shouldn't"

The Doctor agrees but explains it more "A weak point in time and space. The connection between this place and another, that's the cause of ghost stories, most of the time."

Then Sneed said "That's how I got the house so cheap." Then Sneed then continued "Stories going back generations. Echoes in the dark. Queer songs in the air and this feeling like a... shadow. Passing over your soul. Mind you, truth be told, it's been good for business. Just what people expect from a gloomy old trade like mine."

Ben, Rose, and Gwyneth are in the kitchen. Ben and Rose start to help Gwyneth then said "Please, You shouldn't be helping! It's not right!"

Rose then said "Don't be daft. Sneed works you to death."

Then Ben said "I'm not like most men around here."

Rose then asked "How much do you get paid?"

Gwyneth then said "Eight pound a year, miss."

Rose then said "That much?"

Gwyneth then said "I know. I would've been happy with six,"

Rose then asked "So, did you go to school or what?"

Gwyneth then said "Of course I did. What do you think I am? An urchin? I went every Sunday. Nice and proper."

Ben then said "ah Sunday school."

Then Rose said "What - once a week?"

Gwyneth then said "We did sums and everything. To be honest, I hated every second."

Rose then said "Me too" and Ben said "who doesn't." The three of them laughed.

Gwyneth then said "Don't tell anyone, but one week, I didn't go and ran on the heath all on my own!"

Rose then said "I did plenty of that. I used to go down the shops with my mate Shareen. And we used to go and look at boys!" Gwyneth than said "Well, I don't know much about that, miss." Gwyneth turns back to the washing up.

Rose then said "Come on, times haven't changed that much! I bet you've done the same."

Gwyneth then said "I don't think so, miss." Ben then went out of sight. Ben came back into the kitchen and heard Gwyneth say "Ah, now that's not fair. He's not so bad, old Sneed. He was very kind to me to take me in, because I lost my mum and dad to the flu when I was twelve."

Rose then said "Oh, I'm sorry."

Gwyneth then said "Thank you, miss. But I'll be with them again, one day. Sitting with them in paradise. I should be so blessed. They're waiting for me. Maybe your dad's up there waiting for you too, miss and your grandparents sir. Rose then said "Maybe."

Then Rose realized something and said " Um, who told you he was dead?"

Then Gwyneth said " I don't know, must've been the Doctor. "

Ben then said "I didn't."

Then Rose said "My father died years back."

Ben then said "My grandfather on my dad's side died before I was born and so did my grandmother on my mother's side."

Gwyneth then said to Rose "You've been thinking about him lately, more than ever."

Rose then said "I s'pose so... how do you know all this?"

Gwyneth then said "Mr. Sneed says I think too much. I'm all alone down here. I bet you've got dozens of servants, haven't you miss and you sir."

Then the three laughed and Rose said "No, no servants where I'm from."

Ben then said "Me neither."

Then Gwyneth said "And you've come such a long way And you even longer sir"

Rose then said"What makes you think so?"

Then Gwyneth said "You're from London and your from America . I've seen London and America in drawings, but never like that. All those people rushing about. Half naked, for shame. And the noise... and the metal boxes racing past... and the birds in the sky... they're metal as well. Metal birds with people in them. People flying. And you - you've flown so far, further than anyone besides you sir. The things you've seen twice for you sir ... the darkness... the big bad wolf, the eye" she staggers backwards, afraid and said "I'm sorry! I'm sorry, miss, sir!"

Rose then said "S'alright..." and Ben said "That's okay."

Gwyneth then said "I can't help it - ever since I was a little girl. My mum said I had the sight. She told me to hide it!"

Then The Doctor came in and said "But it's getting stronger. More powerful, is that right?"

Rose and Gwyneth jump as they see The Doctor at the doorway, Ben was already turned around. Gwyneth then said "All the time, sir. Every night. Voices in my head."

Ben then said " you grew up on top of the rift."

Then The Doctor said "You're part of it. You're the key."

Then Gwyneth said "I've tried to make sense of it, sir. Consulted with spiritualists, table wrappers, all sorts."

Then the Doctor said "Well, that should help. You can show us what to do."

Then Gwyneth said "What to do where, sir?"

Then the Doctor said "We're going to have a séance." After their séance they ended down in the morgue.

Then The Doctor said "Talk about Bleak House."

Rose then said "The thing is, Doctor - the Gelth don't succeed. 'Cause I know they don't. I know for a fact there weren't corpses walking around in 1869."

Ben then said "time is always changing."

The Doctor then said "Time's in flux. It's changing every second. Your cozy little world could be rewritten like that" and he clicks his fingers and then said "Nothing is safe. Remember that. Nothing."

Dickens then said "Doctor - I think the room is getting colder." Rose then said "Here they come."

The Gelth flood into the room. Their leader positions itself in an archway. The Gelth spoke and said "You have come to help! Praise the Doctor! Praise him!"

Rose then said "Promise you won't hurt her!"

The Gelth then said "Hurry! Please. So little time. Pity the Gelth."

The Doctor then said "I'll take you somewhere else after the transfer. Somewhere you can build proper bodies. This isn't a permanent solution, alright?"

Gwyneth then said "My angels. I can help them live."

Then The Doctor said "Okay, where's the weak point?"

The Gelth said "Here, beneath the arch."

Gwyneth sets herself beneath the arch and she said "Beneath the arch."

Rose goes to her and said "you don't have to do this."

Gwyneth then said "My angels." Rose staggers backwards.

The Gelth then said "Establish the bridge, reach out of the void, let us through!"

Then Gwyneth said "Yes. I can see you! I can see you! Come!" Then The Gelth said "Bridgehead establishing."

Then Gwyneth said "Come! Come to me! Come to this world, poor lost souls!"

The Gelth then said "It is begun! The bridge is made!" They come pouring out of Gwyneth's mouth. Then they speak again and said "She has given herself to the Gelth!"

Dickens then said "There's rather a lot of them, eh?"

Then the Gelth speak and said "The bridge is open. We descend." Suddenly, the figure becomes demonic. The gas turns from blue to red. The Gelth continue speaking and said "The Gelth will come through in force."

Then Dickens said "You said that you were few in number!"

Then the Gelth said "A few billion and all of us in need of corpses." The bodies rise.

Then Sneed spoke and said "Gwyneth... stop this! Listen to your master! This has gone far enough. Stop dabbling, child, leave these things alone. I beg of you."

Rose then said "Mr. Sneed! Get back!" A corpse grabs Sneed from behind and holds him still while another of the Gelth fills his body through his mouth. The Doctor and Rose leap back. Mr Sneed looks up at them through blank, dead eyes.

The Doctor then said "I think it's gone a little bit wrong."

The corpses advance on the Doctor, Rose, and Doctor looks behind him, spots the dungeon door, pushes Rose and Ben in there with him and slams it shut again so they are both locked in there. Dickens runs from the Morgue as one of the Gelth screeches and swoops at him. The corpses are clambering to get in the dungeon.

Gelth then said "Give yourself to glory. Sacrifice your lives for the Gelth."

Ben then said "we trusted you."

The Doctor then said "I trusted you. I pitied you!"

Then the Gelth said "We don't want your pity! We want this world and all its flesh."

They are rattling the door. The Doctor then said "Not while I'm alive."

Ben then said "and me."

Then the Gelth said "Then live no more."

The Doctor, Rose and Ben are flattened against the dungeon wall while the Gelth are rattling the door.

Rose then said "But I can't die." She looks at the Doctor for reassurance and then said "Tell me we can't! Theron and I haven't even been born yet, it's impossible for us to die! Isn't it?!"

Then The Doctor said "I'm sorry."

Then the Gelth said "Failing! Atmosphere hostile!" The figure dives into a gas lamp.

Rose then said "But it's 1869, how can we die now?"

Ben then said "our personal time lines strait until we get into a time machine and it gets tangled, we can die before we are even born."

Then Doctor said "Time isn't a straight line. It can twist into any shape. You can be born in the 20th century and die in the 19th and it's all my fault. I brought you here."

Rose then said "It's not your fault. I wanted to come."

Ben then sad "I kind of had nowhere else to go."

The Doctor then said "What about me? I saw the fall of Troy! World War Five! I pushed boxes at the Boston Tea Party, now I'm going to die in a dungeon!" He looks horrified and said "In Cardiff!"

Then Rose said "It's not just dying. We'll become one of them."Then she spoke again and said "We'll go down fighting, yeah?" The Doctor then said "Yeah."

Ben then said "yep."

Rose then said "Together?"

The Doctor and Ben both said "Yeah!" The three of them link hands with Rose in the middle. The Doctor then said "I'm so glad I met you, and Theron I'm sorry that I'm not going to figure out because you knew what I was and no human should know and you're human."

Rose looks up at him, surprised and she said "Me too and you Theron are like an older brother to me."

Ben then said one word "spoilers."

The three of them smile at each other. At that moment, Dickens rushes into the room and said "Doctor! Turn OFF the flame, turn UP the gas! Now fill the room, all of it, now!"

The Doctor then said "What're you doing?"

Then Dickens said "Turn it all on! Gas the place!" Dickens turns a gas lamp on.

The Doctor said "Brilliant. Gas!"

Then Rose said "What, so we choke to death instead?"

Ben then said "the Galeth's true form is gaseous."

Then The Doctor said "Fill the room with gas, it'll draw them out of the host. Suck them into the air like poison from a wound!" Then the corpses all decide to turn on Dickens instead.

Dickens then said "I hope... oh, Lord. I hope that this theory will be validated soon." The corpses advance dangerously on him. Then he said "If not immediately."

The Doctor said "Plenty more!" The Doctor and Ben both smash a gas canister against the wall and all the creatures are sucked from the bodies with a scream.

Then Dickens said "It's working." The Doctor, Rose and Ben are free to come out of the dungeon.

The Doctor then said "Gwyneth! Send them back! They lied, they're not angels."

Gwyneth then said "Liars."

Then The Doctor said "Look at me. If your mother and father could look down and see this, they'd tell you the same. They'd give you the strength. Now send them back!"

Rose choked and said "Can't breathe."

Then The Doctor said "Charles, Theron get her out." Dickens grabs Rose's arm, but she shakes him off but Ben grabs her and is holding her back and Rose was saying "I'm not leaving her!"

Gwyneth then said "They're too strong."

Then The Doctor said "Remember that world you saw? Rose and Theron's world? All those people - non of it will exist unless you send them back through the rift."

Gwyneth then said "I can't send them back. But I can hold them. Hold them in this place, hold them here. Get out." Her hand goes to her apron pocket and she takes out a box of matches.

Rose breaks free from Ben and rushes forwards and said "You can't!"

Gwyneth then said "Leave this place!"

The Doctor grabs Rose's shoulders and he said "Rose, get out, go now, I won't leave her while she's still in danger, now go!"

Dickens, Ben, and Rose leave the Morgue. Dickens and Ben lead Rose back through the dark house, filled with gas.

Then Dickens said "This way!"

They get out of the whole house goes up in flames, the Doctor diving out of the doorway only just in time to join Rose, Ben and Dickens. Rose give him with a look that asks why Gwyneth is not with him. The Doctor looks back at her.

Rose then said "She didn't make it."

The Doctor then said "I'm sorry. She closed the rift."

Then Dickens said "At such a cost, the poor child." Rose has not looked away from the Doctor.

Ben then said "he tried Rose" he turned to the Doctor and said "I'm guessing she was already dead."

Then The Doctor said "She had been for at least five minutes."

Rose then said '"What do you mean?"

Ben then said "she died when she stood in that arch. The Doctor agrees with me, right."

Then The Doctor said "Yeah, I think she was dead from the minute she stood in that arch."

Rose then said "But... she can't have, she spoke to us. She helped us - she saved us. How could she have done that?"

Then Dickens spoke and said "There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Even for you, Doctor."

Rose then said "She saved the world. A servant girl. No one will ever know."

Ben then said "We do." All four of them gaze at the burning house. The Doctor, Rose, Ben, and Dickens have arrived back at the TARDIS.

The Doctor then said "Right then, Charlie-boy, I've just got to go into my um... shed. Won't be long!" He fits the key in the lock.

Rose then said to Dickens "What're you going to do now?"

Dickens then said "I shall take the mail coach back to London. Quite literally post-haste. This is no time for me to be on my own. I shall spend Christmas with my family and make amends to them. After all I've learned tonight, there can be nothing more vital."

Then The Doctor said "You've cheered up!"

Then Dickens said "Exceedingly! This morning, I thought I knew everything in the world and now I know I've just started! All these huge and wonderful notions, Doctor! I'm inspired. I must write about them!"

Rose then said "Do you think that's wise?"

Dickens then said "I shall be subtle at first. The Mystery of Edwin Drood still lacks an ending. Perhaps the killer was not the boy's uncle. Perhaps he was not of this earth. The Mystery of Edwin Drood and the Blue Elementals. I can spread the word! Tell the truth!"

The Doctor said "Good luck with it. Nice to meet you" and he shakes Dickens' hand and then said "Fantastic." He turns back to the TARDIS door. Ben shakes Dickens hand and follows The Doctor.

Rose then said "Bye, then. And, thanks." She kisses him on the cheek. Dickens looks taken-aback.

Then Dickens said "Oh, my dear- how modern. Thank you, but, I don't understand - in what way is this goodbye? Where are you going?"

Then The Doctor said "You'll see. In the shed." He opens the door of the TARDIS.

Then Dickens said "Oh, my soul. Doctor, it's one riddle after another with you. But after all these revelations, there's one mystery you still haven't explained. Answer me this - who are you?"

Then The Doctor said "Just a friend. Passing through."

Then Dickens said "But you have such knowledge of future times. I don't wish to impose on you, but I must ask you. My books. Doctor - do they last?"

The Doctor then said "Oh, yes!"

Then Dickens said "For how long?"

Ben then said "Forever!" Dickens tries to look pleased and modest at the same time.

Then The Doctor said "Right. Shed. Come on, Rose, Theron..." The three of them turn to the door.

Dickens then said "In - in the box? All three of you?"

The Doctor then said "Down boy. See ya!"

The Doctor, Ben and Rose enter the TARDIS and shut the door after them.

In side the TARDIS Rose said "Doesn't that change history if he writes about blue ghosts?"

Ben then said "he dies before he even gets to."

Then The Doctor said "In a weeks time it's 1870, and that's the year he dies. Sorry. He'll never get to tell his story." The three of them look at the screen where they can see Dickens is still standing outside.

Then Rose said "Oh, no! He was so nice."

Then The Doctor said "But in your time, he was already dead! We've brought him back to life! He's more alive now than he's ever been, old Charlie-boy. Let's give him one last surprise." Then He flies the TARDIS back into the time vortex.

Author's Notes

1. look back at Chapter 1 I edited it and add a description on what I think Ben/Theron looks like. I also added an extra person.