Disclaimer: All characters, names, settings etc belong to their respective copyright holders, only much of the plot, Night Wolf and a few other things are of my own creation (but inspired from many things under copyright, which aren't mine).

Chapter 04

"So what's the diagnosis?" Harry asked stuffing a hand in the pocket that held his wand.

Doctor Evan Hodges looked up from a small handheld computer he was consulting.

"A bit of concussion, he's in a healing trance, I've applied a balm to clear up the swelling and blood flow."

"He did seem to bleed a lot." Harry added querying.

"Yes well as far as base lines go for Time Lords we're a bit limited to him and Magister and no one thought to do a medical work up on him."

"But is The Doctor going to be alright, doctor?" Rose Tyler asked staring at the unconscious Gallifreyan currently occupying the one of the beds in the medical facility on board the ship.

"Be fine in an hour or two." Doctor Hodges walked over to the larger monitor and tapped it bringing up a set of bio-readings.

"That's his now, and those are some established Time Lord bio-readings, according to this its slowly moving towards normal."

"For a Time Lord." Jack Harkness said glancing at the unconscious man.

"Yes."

"How do you know what's normal?" Rose asked.

"This isn't the first time the Doctor has been…" Harry trailed off and looked at the doctor.

"He's been rendered unconscious or unable to function and in UNIT's care before." Doctor Hodges supplied.

"Exactly. So, we'll leave him to do the Time Lord Venusian meditation, you know what you need?" Harry asked with a smile.

"What?" Rose looked at him.

"Cake." Harry said with a grin.

"Who are they?" Jack asked eyeing the men and women who walked into the crew's mess shortly after they had sat down, they came in wearing the same thing most of the crew was wearing, and smelling of cleanness and soap.

"They're the ones flying the Thylacines, fighting off the Daleks' hoverbouts." Harry nodded to a few of them as they passed before slicing off a piece of his cake chewing slowly.

It was a three layer triple chocolate cake with chocolate orange filling, two similar slices were sitting in front of the two people from the TARDIS. He'd had the two men from the security squad monitor the Doctor, Harry was quite sure should it come to it, Jack would be the only one to pose a problem.

Should it come to that it was probably more likely he'd have to stop Jack from getting into his pants than shooting at him…with a gun.

"Those were your fighters?" Rose said eyeing the cake.

"Yeah, tuck in, unless you'd like something else?" Harry nodded toward where the thylacine pilots were busy getting their fill of a variety of foods, flying out there wasn't the easiest job and most of them came in from a battle sweaty and hungry, it was fortunate as Harry knew that that rectified that in that order.

Rose eyed the cake while Jack poured himself a cup of coffee and breathed deep.

"Nothing like turn of the century coffee." He smiled at Harry, Harry raised an eyebrow at him.

"I don't think he's the kind of guy who's going to drug you Rose." Jack as he looked at Rose looking at the cake.

"No, if I was going to knock you out I would have shot you."

"You what?"

"On stun." Harry said holding up his hands innocently.

"Fine. So how come these Daleks looked so…"

"Retro." Jack drawled almost relishing the word.

"So I'm guessing you've encountered the Daleks before?" Harry asked as he added sugar to his tea.

"At a distance. I haven't had a chance to chat to one like Rose."

"Really, when and where?"

"What's the year?"

"Same one you were aiming for why?"

"The future." Rose said simply.

"Ah, say no more then." Harry said with a shrug.

"Why?" Rose asked with a puzzled look around a mouthful of cake.

"Time travel stuff, in theory knowing about it we could then try and change it, by not knowing the temptation isn't there to even try. Or so a friend tells me, it's this whole complicated pre-destination paradox sort of stuff."

"So you've encountered the Daleks before?" Jack looked, no gazed at him.

"Here and there more than a few times."

"So why did these Daleks look so different?" Rose pressed.

"I'm guessing you encountered Daleks from the Temporal War between the Time Lords and the Daleks?" Harry asked slowly. Rose nodded.

Wrapping your head around the whole Dalek time line wasn't something that Harry tried to do, there was a whole group in Geneva, down the hall he had heard from the group who tracked and attempted to make sense of the Doctor's and other Time Lord's movements on Earth. Dalek history was complicated as far as Harry could tell because they had time travel, which made working out when they came from distinctly hard.

UNIT only knew about the 'Temporal War era' Daleks from the Xeno-archaeology work done across at least two planets, and even then it was limited to a low resolution image a team had pulled from a computer system on said planet, but it was enough to make some assumptions about the Daleks, but by no means had they worked out a concise line of which Daleks when throughout their timeline, and when they did turn up they weren't exactly ready to be quizzed about the finer points of their history.

"How'd you know that?"

"Wars leave their marks Captain Harkness, temporal wars leave scars across time and space." Harry said vaguely before sipping his mug of tea.

"You're good at dodging the question Harry." Jack raised an eyebrow eyeing Harry as though he were cake.

Harry looked back at Jack inquisitively. "Just like your Doctor then."

"Least he gives answers occasionally."

"At break neck speed. With hardly any paused with breathless abandon." Jack added.

"Well it's like this, these Daleks that we encountered today, as far as we can tell are from an earlier point in their own personal history, so they look 'retro' because they are."

"But how do you know that? Just how many time have you fought the Daleks?"

"Me personally?"

"Your organization." Jack clarified.

"Well I'm sure as the Doctor will tell you, one of the first 'big' Dalek incidents was on Earth in London, Shoreditch I believe in 1963…"

--//

She looked over the ridge at the equipment being moved around, they had all been called in to investigate this one, no other choice given the high levels of temporal fallout. Higher than normal, she briefly wondered what that was doing to the ice and snow around her.

There were various tents already set up to study the…she didn't know if they'd come up with a name for it, temporal events usually defied description until you had a better handle on what it was doing, why and how long it was going to disrupt your life.

After her last 'mission' more of a breakneck ride she was looking forward to something more simple, not that off planet work was simple, but at least it was less complicated then her mission that Night Wolf had requested her to do.

But this particular problem was certainly going to be interesting, Daleks, temporal explosions and supposedly the Doctor, it was certainly turning into an interesting day.

--//

"Lt, the Doctor's awake, he's pointing that blue thing around my medical lab."

"Dammit." Harry's hand went to the pocket where he'd put the Doctor's sonic screwdriver, where he'd put it following removing it from his unconscious body.

"Doctor's awake." Jack said and passed Rose a serviette.

Harry nodded as he stood up from the table.

The Doctor was awake though was still sitting on the bed.

"So what's the prognosis Doc?"

Dr Hodges looked at him and then to the computer he was holding.

"Both hearts at a steady pace, a little off from your previous incarnation's base line."

The Doctor looked up at the Dr in slight surprise.

"Never throw out anything." Doctor Hodges said in response as Jack, Rose and Harry walked in the door.

"Doctor…are you…?" Rose asked worriedly.

"Fit as a lyre as Nero used to say."

"Wasn't he the mad president, burnt down Paris?"

"Rome. Threw some mad parties old Nero, I went to one or two."

"I can imagine how thrilling that must have been" Harry muttered dryly. "So he's not going to keel over on us again Dr?" Harry asked the only actual doctor in the room.

"Probably, his body has certainly adapted quickly to whatever knocked him over, the healing coma probably helped his own bio-rhythmic operations reassert themselves for the current environment. Most likely a by-product of the Time Lord's war if I were to hazard a guess."

Harry nodded. "I'll take that as a yes." Harry touched his radio control. "Captain, the Doctor is recovered."

"Good, proceed down to the coordinates."

"Sir?"

"They need everyone who has been exposed to temporal experiences who are in the vicinity, they're not broadcasting any hypothesis Harry, security. They said the Doctor might be of use." The captain paused. "Send the Doctor down in the transmat, I don't want him getting a hold of even the teleport beacons."

"And his" Harry looked at Jack and Rose who were talking with the Doctor. "Companions?"

"Accompany them and teleport down."

"Where is it exactly?"

"Antarctica, grab the cold weather gear for you and the Doctor's companions, Night Wolf has set up a base."

"Marvellous." Harry muttered.

Harry walked back out into the room where the three people from the TARDIS were waiting and handed Rose a set of jacked and trousers, and Jack the same.

"Pull those on."

"Why?"

"Because we're going to Fiji and I want to make you look as ridiculous as possible." Harry replied sarcastically before rolling his eyes. "We're going somewhere cold."

"Space is a cold place." The Doctor commented as he stared at a wall.

"You didn't bring anything for the Doctor."

"Would you have worn it if I had Doctor?" Harry queried.

"Nope, a bit of cool weather's no worries for me." He rubbed his hands together and stuffed them into his leather jacket.

Harry smiled a satisfied smile to the two others, Jack was looking between the jacket Harry had handed him and his long woollen jacket that looked like he'd picked it up at WWII antique shop. On second thoughts he could have picked it up in WWII.

Harry turned away from them.

"Lt Potter to linguistics."

"Yes?"

"Check the records of WWII, England, Americans who were there during the war against Captain Jack Harkness and his likeness."

"Any reason you think this Lt?"

"Just a guess…and his coat. Potter out."

Harry looked over at the three people that had someone told Harry he'd be guiding down to the Earth yesterday. Well actually he'd probably believed them and asked if they were a time traveller also.

Jack had ended up just pulling on his jacket over the army coat.

Harry briefly wondered why he was looking at Jack, though he was the more 'unknown' quality out of the three, which also meant more, perhaps equally unpredictable as the Doctor.

Harry lead them to the main matter transmission control and guided the Doctor into the transmat.

"What? You're not coming with me?"

"Not in the transmat Doctor, my superior doesn't want you going down in the teleport."

"You've got two forms of matter transmission on this ship?" The Doctor looked at him incredulously.

"Put the Doctor down." Harry said into his mic and watched the Doctor dematerialise before returning to the others, patting down his side for his weapons and his tactical vest for everything he might need.

"Where's the Doctor?"

"Taken a different route Jack."

"A different root?" Jack grinned.

Rose muttered something to herself and followed Jack who was following Harry, or a part of Harry at the very least.

Harry passed them each a teleport beacon, which still looked like a rock, they could in theory be fashioned into almost anything, but the small disc like rocks were still the easiest to slip into a pocket or whatever.

"Hang onto those. Step in. Come on." Harry walked over to the area.

"What is it?"

"A method to avoid the slightly unpleasant transmat."

"The one the Doctor went in." Jack asked.

"Yep, put us down."

Then the world dissolved and they were standing on a windy glacier between high mountains.

"I'll take those back." Harry removed the teleport rocks and placed them with a secure pocket and pulled on a pair of sunglasses, it wasn't quite windy enough for goggles at the moment.

"Made then?" Harry asked to the Time Lord who was looking around, a distinctly grumpy look on his face.

"I've faced worse transmats than that."

"Oh good. Come on, it's a short walk, we had to avoid the temporal fallout." Harry didn't elaborate any further and started off towards where the base had been set up.

Rose looked to the Doctor who was staring at Harry's back as he trudged along the hardened snow.

"What's temporal fallout?"

"From the explosion of the Dalek's craft, those old things they're like sieves when it comes to power." The Doctor said. "Come on we'll follow him for now."

"He's the only way back to the TARDIS." Rose glumly looked up and was glad as she was hit in the face with an icy blast that she was wearing the jacket she'd been given.

Harry saw what had been made a base camp in a very short amount of time; a few dome shapes Night Wolf's low temperature habitats used mainly on other planets for training and research.

As he got closer he could see the tripod shapes of the magical jammers along with the large of wood, technology and crystal which combined to make a field ready shielding device, they weren't any use for deployment, but were used on archaeology digs on other planets to control the environment, limiting it's affects within the field.

Here it was probably being used as a wide scale wind break.

Then there was the swirling bluey white thing in one cordoned off part of the camp.

"That's interesting."

"Yeah, energy field of some kind."

"Like a force field?" Rose asked the two men who were waving their hands in and out of the nothing that was there.

Invisible was fine, but it was great that it kept the wind out.

"Lt Potter." Rose looked up as a woman maybe in her 40s or 50s walked up to them.

"Gilliam." Harry…Potter said a greeting, Rose looked as the woman eyed her, Jack and the Doctor.

"Take the two companions to the main tent, they've got a scanner set up analysing the data."

"Right and…" Harry trailed looking over at the Doctor, he knew that Gilliam had some history with, well not this Doctor but at least two previous incarnations maybe three.

"I want to have a quick word with him." Harry looked at her.

"Don't worry yourself Lt, I can handle him."

"Yes I'm sure you can Gilliam." Harry said with a smile and lead Jack and Rose off towards one of the larger domes.

"They said you were here. A new body I see." The Doctor turned hearing the affected no longer really American tones and looked upon the woman standing before him.

"Peri! Amazing, brilliant…how come you're caught up in all this. This force field technology shouldn't exist here you know…"

"Same old Doctor, new body same" She paused looking at the changed yet same man before her. "Attitude."

"Peri it's not like that…"

"It's Gilliam, don't you remember the last time we met?"

"Right, Gilliam, good name."

"How many bodies?" Gilliam asked as they turned back towards the main enclosure.

"Just one."

"He fought the Temporal Crusade?" Gilliam asked, as far as translations went they had numerous which all more or less worked out as 'temporal battle', but there were a variety of inflections, suggestions and meanings which had been gathered thus far. The Doctor seemed to snort at this usage.

"It was a war and we lost, my people."

Gilliam nodded at this information, as far as the outcome she'd guessed that there wouldn't be many survivors, the Daleks were deadly and from what she'd seen and found out about the Time Lords they knew a thing about war, despite the way they made themselves out to the universe, the Doctor included.

It didn't surprise Gilliam that the Doctor survived, he had a knack through all his regenerations of surviving, not just because of that particular ability, it was who he was.

--//

Harry motioned Rose through the lock which divided the domed tent from the outside cold and interior which would be several degrees warmer.

"You keep yourself in excellent condition considering you must spend a lot of time in a lesser than Earth standard gravity field Mr Potter." Jack's soft tone brought up the rear as they walked through.

Harry wasn't quite sure, given the material separating him from the cold outside if it was Jack's wandering hands or just harmless brushing against him, in a completely innocent way.

Like that was a possibility with Mr Flirty and Suggestive standing behind him.

"Come on lets get inside." Harry said reached past Rose and opened the inner door.

Harry looked around the large area his eye settled on a woman with short brown hair, a computer in one hand she was studying a group of computer screens that had reeling off various data.

"I thought you were heading for a holiday?"

She turned around and grinned at him.

Harry walked forward and hugged her.

"Hi Harry."

"Hermione, long time, lots of movies."

"Should have a movie night when this is done."

"You think they're shagging?" Jack asked Rose. Rose looked at him and then back to Harry and this woman.

"Nup, like me and Shreen."

"Were you…?"

"No! What fancy him do ya?" Rose asked. Jack just grinned, Rose shook her head, Jack would and frequently did flirt with anything.

"So you travel with the Doctor?"

"Who are you?"

"Hermione Granger, Xeno-Archaeologist and Linguist."

"Oh…"

"Not many times you can introduce yourself like that, Captain Jack Harkness, reformed Time Agent."

"Reformed…?" Hermione smiled shaking Jack's offered hand.

"Oi, Can't help yourself can you? Daleks at the gate and you're" Harry turned around, how the Doctor and Gilliam had managed to enter without making a disturbance and without any means of sorcery was intriguing.

"Saying hello." Jack finished for the Doctor.

"Rose Tyler, and he never just says hello." Rose grappled Jack hand free of Hermione's.

"Hermione, what're the sensors saying?" Gilliam asked as she walked past Rose and Jack toward Hermione.

"We've just got the last of the sensors set up." Hermione pointed to two of the screens.

"Oh crap." Gilliam said watching the fluctuating levels of energy that was being run and interpreted by the sensors.

"Crap indeed." Harry said from behind Jack, Rose and the Doctor, he had his hand on his weapon, the Doctor looked distinctly edgy.

"You know what it is?" Hermione asked turning slightly around.

"Those levels can't be good, but you're the experts."

"Experts in what?" The Doctor asked seemingly being shunted out of his own world.

"She said she was a xeno-archaeologist." Rose muttered to the Doctor.

"Xeno as in alien?"

"A lot of things fall to Earth every year Doctor, what do you think UNIT does."

"I thought a bunch of UNIT people…you know died with the Slitheen." Rose asked.

"Try; United NationsIntelligence Taskforce?" Harry asked sarcastically and rolled his eyes.

"If you've finished Lt." Gilliam looked back at Harry and raised an eyebrow.

"Sorry Gilliam."

"It's giving off a lot of energy, if we isolate it and break it down" She paused picking up a small handheld computer and tapped some information into it and studied the screens. "it matches readouts for a Dalek time corridor we found…" She trailed off as though she was about to say more but decided not too. "Elsewhere."

"Come on Gilliam, no harm in tellin' us about it."

"Our superiors would probably have different views on that Doctor." Gillaim said.

"After all they know how you operate in the past." Harry finished in a dark tone.

The Doctor spun around to face you young man and noticed his hand on the butt of his weapon.

"Don't worry Doctor, It's set to stun." Gilliam said in a tone that offered no reassurance.

"You know that how?"

"Standard procedure when dealing with you, you've saved the Earth too many times for Harry to kill you." Gilliam responded with a shrug.

"That makes me sound trigger happy."

"No more than any other military idiots." The Doctor said giving Harry a final glance.

"So Dalek time corridors." He rubbed his hands together.

"That's if we separate them out." Hermione said and paused and looked to Gilliam.

"What do you think Hermione?"

"We've got some DERE's on standby they should be able to weather the temporal corridor." Hermione said after thinking for a moment, Harry could tell the various different options playing over in Hermione's head, even if it happened light-speeds faster than back at Hogwarts, at least now most of the stuff she was researching couldn't be quoted from a book, it was more likely 'in my recent paper…' or 'in (insert name) whom I worked with's research essay'.

Gilliam nodded. "Get quite a few prepped and ready from these readings we've got at least 6 probably, probably more distinct chronon energy feeds."

"Can we access them all with the DERE's?" Hermione called from where she was doing up her jacket.

"No, maybe, the readings are stable enough, make sure the firepower is there just in case."

"First thing I made sure of before I came in Gilliam. The Daleks don't usually give second chances." Hermione said before leaving.

Hermione walked over to where the Dangerous Environment Robot Exploration (or DERE) had been placed, they were two to a cargo case and had been trasmatted by relay via the RSCS Defiance through the energy field that the 'chronon event' put out, it was okay to do it with this stuff, not so good with living breathing people.

She organised some others, some she'd met before others, she hadn't.

Everyone who was here had been exposed to a temporal source before, they'd worked that out very quickly when the Defiance had put a team down and they'd been overcome with migraines and worse symptoms. Everyone here had been called in from Night Wolf to create a large team to work on this, there were two other smaller expeditions off of Earth, but it would take too long to call them back and get them to Earth to be practical.

Hermione set up and initialised the first 4 DEREs and set them up close enough to the chronon event.

"This is Granger, I've got four ready and set up, we're unpacking the next two to standby."

"Standby Granger, initialising connection, standby at event and monitor it's entrance, then come back here to help me with the readings." Gilliam's voice came over the earphone in her ear.

Hermione eyed the 'event' it was, well, it was odd, though her frame of reference was varied, so odd really didn't have any bearing.

Against the white snow it was white, though not white as in white just white as in an opaque enough white to be whiter than white, with if she looked at the correct angle 'paths' leading off of it. Maybe.

Considering her time travel experience involved wearing something like an oversized fob watch and time travelling for a year she didn't really have a foot to stand on judging what was odd or not.

The DERE moved forward its caterpillar tracks gripping easily on the compacted snow as it moved towards where the 'event' touched the snow.

"Lt Potter, can you check over the readings coming in from Defiance, Hattah and Innamincka they're doing a detailed sweep of space using some extra gear, I want to know what they've working out so we can compare it to." She was going to continue but Harry cut her off.

"To the DEREs plus your local ground readings, got it…over there?" Harry gestured in the corner where a laptop was plugged in. Gilliam nodded with a smile.

"Looks like we've got a back seat on this one Rose." Jack said as he took a chair from under the small table in the centre of the room and sat down on it.

"Makes a change." Rose replied and shrugged unbuttoning her jacket and sat next to Jack watching the Doctor meddle with his screwdriver.

"From being locked up, shot at…"

"Sentenced to death."

"I like that one, you always get last requests."

"Which with you involve scantily clad nymphomaniacs and oil."

"Only way to go out."

"New sonic screwdriver."

"Mmmm."

"So why are you so pissed?"

"Me?"

"Come on, seeing three different versions of you including a regeneration." The Doctor looked back to Rose and Jack but they didn't seem to have heard her talking.

"Haven't told them you're nigh on indestructible? I know when you've got your pants in a twist."

"Humans shouldn't have this level of technology Peri."

"Gilliam." She didn't use Peri any more, ever, that was part of an old life, a life that had slowly died when she'd been left of Thoros Beta by the Time Lord before her.

"What did you expect?"

"What?"

"How many aliens have come to Earth?"

"I've always saved the planet!"

"By destroying Downing Street?"

"Yes! I was there!"
"I know."

"You know?" He asked his voice rising.

"UNIT Doctor, you don't think we'd miss Downing Street being destroyed? Or how about 'Buffalo' there were some might pissed people about that one."

"I did it to save your planet!"

"Well don't count on that piece of computer Time Lord trickery to allow you to manipulate us again, it's been fixed and removed."

"What's going on?" Hermione asked leaning in between Jack and Rose as Harry seemed to be busy doing something.

"Shouting mostly." Rose said.

"She know the Doctor?"

"A lot of people know of the Doctor in some way."

"Sounds like they're talking about Dow'n Street." Rose said straining to listen their low/shouted discussion.

The computers before them beeper, Gilliam returned her attention to the screens before her.

"Getting a feed through, the DERE has made the transition through the corridor."

"Fantastic." Hermione said, Rose and Jack looked up at her. "Video feed?"

"Coming through now Hermione." Gilliam gestured toward one of the screens.

Hermione placed the multi-control box down on the table below the screens which controlled some of the DERE's systems which couldn't be computer integrated directly.

The video was broken up by electronic static for a few seconds.

"Just give it a while until it reasserts itself." Hermione said looking at the other readings. "We've got breathable air, conforms to Earth standard."

"Controls to the other elements stable?"

"Yep."

"Make it invisible, just in case." Gilliam said.

"Invisible like full on…how'd you do that phase shift shouldn't be invented until at least the 25th century."

Hermione exchanged a look with Gilliam who shook her head.

"Picture's up." Hermione said as the static and broke up and resolved itself into an image.

An image of an empty street.

"Okay, not what I was expecting." Jack said looking at the street.

"And what would that be Captain?" The Doctor asked disconnectedly staring at the street.

"Dalek stronghold, temporal research…something like that. Empty street is a bit of a come down."

"Sure you've had plenty of experience with those." Rose muttered.

"Hey, I'll have you know I'm a stallion…"

Gilliam resisted an urge to roll her eyes, the Doctor certainly was choosing odder people to travel with, maybe it was age.

"Take the DERE out, find something we can identify the date with."

Hermione nodded as Gilliam went over to the table and opened up two more laptops.

"I'm sending the second one through."

"This is Gilliam, Justin how are you doing?" She paused and waited, Justin West was another archaeologist both she and Hermione had worked with previously before, he was in a dome closer to the 'event' correlating the scans. "Good, I need you to send through the third DERE, the first went through fine and we need to start getting information on this thing…good."

Hemmione guided the DERE carefully through the streets, there weren't any people to avoid, but also she hadn't found any recognisable elements.

A newspaper would have been nice, she took her eyes off the screen for a second to check the sensors which lit up for a millisecond.

"What was that?"

"What?" Hermione looked up at the Doctor who was pointing at the screen, there was an edge of…well an edge on his voice.

"Saw something at the end of that lane!" Hermione looked away from the sensors which were still showing an odd fluctuation and looked back to the screen, she halted the DERE and looked again, there was nothing.

"Wind back the footage." The Doctor demanded again and then stepped forward to try and do it himself. Hermione reached for her weapon.

"Back away Doctor…I'll do it." Hermione said in a tone she used to reserve telling off, Harry amongst others, but now it was up several notches.

"Fine." He said crossing his arms.

Hermione wound back the footage.

"There, pause it there." Hermione did as requested slowing it down until it was winding back frame by frame, and then, as the frames went backwards a Dalek glided across the entrance.

"Just let me clear it up…" Hermione trailed off as she moved the live footage to another screen and set a zoom and image re-stabilisation at it and watched as the image resolved itself.

It was a cream coloured Dalek with gold half spheres.

"Gilliam?"

"Just a second Hermione, I'm getting telemetry from the second DERE."

"I think you're going to want to see this." Hermione added.

"And you this." Gilliam said, she had had more luck with her DERE and come upon a newspaper only a few meters from where it had appeared.

"The information from here is interesting also, and not in the good way if what's happening around the world is to go by." Harry said from his corner.

The Doctor in the interim had walked over and looked at Gilliam's laptop screen.

"Always the Daleks, their stinking pots of hate, always coming back, always around filling their hate throughout." The Doctor fell into a chair muttering to himself.

"I think it's only going to get worse too." Harry said grimly.

It was and hour and a bit later they; the Doctor, Gilliam, Rose, Jack, Harry and Hermione were sitting around a table to discuss what they'd found, Justin and what had been designated his 'team' were monitoring and info-gathering further info with the five DERE's they'd sent out, a sixth had been sent but it ended up at a same location as one of the others.

"From the sensor readout from our ships and on the ground we've been reading increasing temporal fallout, it's not life threatening yet, but it seems to have a fold back link to here." Harry paused. "But there are also links to points around England and another location."

"All are locations where we know the Daleks once occupied. Using temporal technologies." Hermione said reading off a set of notes.

"The Daleks have been to Earth six times?" Rose asked incredulously.

"Many more, they like to get plungers into a veritable bag of machinations." The Doctor said thickly.

"Justin's sent through more scans, there are anomalous sensor ghostings that Harry's matched with the ships data."

"They're temporal ghosting, except here they're more pronounced."

"It's Dalek plot." The Doctor shrugged glumly.

"Not one we think they were going to try, battle analysis aboard the Hattah have come up with a theory based on what they could recover from the battle." Harry rose from his seat with a computer in hand. "They were going to land and establish a temporal foothold on Earth, and use the two time machines to establish a Dalek nexus point based on previous Dalek footholds on Earth, so…" Harry was cut off, by Jack rather than the Doctor.

"So time would flow around the Dalek's craft and they'd be able to monitor it and alter the flow of established history to be a more…Dalek one, clever. But your ships destroyed them."

"Which buggered things for them a bit." Harry announced. "We think destroying the time craft splintered it along the Dalek footholds, wedging a piece of the time craft there."

"And now those footholds are spreading like a cancer through Earth's timeline. Manifesting themselves in the present. Leaking temporal radiation wherever they are." The Doctor, his tone changing from realisation to dark worry announced as he seemed to work it out himself.

"Yes, there aren't any manifestations yet but it could get bad."

"Manifestations what like?"

"Like Daleks replacing people in history, things being destroyed, nasty stuff."

Jack elaborated.

"So can't we just get in the TARDIS and sort it out."

"TARDIS is no good here, too much temporal fallout even if we got away from Earth still wouldn't help, I can almost taste it." The Doctor stood up, pacing.

Hermione looked over at Harry and raised an eyebrow, Harry shrugged in response, admittedly he had a tendency to pace at certain times when working something out.

"Fortunately we've been authorised to do something else." Gilliam said from the end of the table.

"What?" Rose looked down the short table at her.

"Our superiors and Geneva have authorised us to use the time corridor and travel back to the points and destroy or remove the shards of the time crafts."

"Via that thing out there?" Jack asked.

"Yes…" Gilliam trailed for a second. "And we'd like your's and your companions help Doctor." Gilliam bit out the last part.

"My help?"

"Our help." Jack and Rose said together.

"Why?" The Doctor asked curiously.

"The temporal fallout at these levels is only with stand able to people who have time travelled, the effects of time travelling through the time corridor will have a similar effect."

"You've all time travelled." Rose looked to Harry, Hermione and Gilliam.

"Yep, don't need a blue box to do it." Harry said with a smile. The Doctor just stared.

"So why not just go yourselves?" The Doctor pressed.

"While there are a lot, many are…" Gilliam paused. "Not on Earth at the moment, it would take too long to get them back here, additionally to have even minium teams of a safe number we can't get to all of the temporal destinations…Plus there is the unique experience you and your companions bring Doctor." Gilliam said, the last part made the Doctor grin with glee.

"Ok I'll do it." He rubbed his hands together grinning.

"We'll do it." Rose said nodding to Jack.

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Well this chapter turned out to be double the length I was expecting it to be.

I hope all the technobabble near the end there made sense (It was planned early on, just not the specifics of how I was going to explain it).

Previous reviewers have said I over use the '…' too much as a trail off/finish sentences device, I admit I used it a bit in this chapter, but I tried to top and tail its use with reason and not just leave it hanging at the end of a sentence (and I'm more aware of using it now and try not to use it as much as I used to).