"Doctor!?" Rose shouted in fear. The actual life and emotion had seem to suddenly drain out of the Time Lord and his body became encircled in a cloud of blue and gold particles that made his body glow. The gold particles glowed around his skin, as if he were trying to regenerate, but the blue particles flew quickly around his body, as if they were trying to stop the regeneration from occurring.

Rose backed away in fear as the Doctor's body began vibrating in a fast, seizure-like motion.

"It's a battle.." A thoughtful voice sounded behind the three terrified women. They whirled around, startled.

"Luke? What are you doing there? How long have you been standing there?" Sarah Jane rushed to him, with a mother's concern. She knew he could handle it, but still she didn't want him to see, what she feared was going to be the Doctor's death.

"Long enough.." he replied.

"Oh Luke, please just go upstairs for now, I'll tell you when it's alright to come back…" Sarah Jane tried to usher him out of the room, but was interrupted by Rose.

"Wait, what do you mean "it's a battle"?" Rose approached him cautiously.

Luke stepped away from his mom and went towards the Doctor's couch, where he still lay, seizing. "The Doctor said he was infected by a whole colony of these Emotirel things….and they travelled in a gaseous cloud...well, that's what I think the blue cloud is. And, from what I gather when the Doctor regenerates, he glows all gold like he is now... The Doctor said that he would not regenerate and could not fight back, against the Emotirel, because he was so guilty and depressed, because of you. Now, he's dying, not just dying like he has been for the past few hours, but proper dying…" He paused as he knelt by the Doctor and through the colored particles felt the Doctor's wrist for a pulse. He then continued. "His other heart has stopped and he's stopped breathing. He's dead, but his body's not giving up, because now he doesn't want to die!"

Jackie intervened at this point. "Yeah! It's like how I was telling him earlier...you two complete each other and you need the other to keep on goin'! When he saw that you were alright again, he stopped wanting to die, and started wanting to live!"

"With the prospect of more of his fantastic adventures still to come, he had to keep living!" Sarah Jane added. "But...what now? You said he's dead, Luke? Why isn't he just regenerating then? And why are the Emotirel still hanging on to his body?"

"That's what I said...it's a battle. The Emotirel started to leave his body, because he reached the breaking point, where to them, he was dead, so they were moving on. But, as they were leaving, his body was restarting, he's trying to regenerate! Now, the Emotirel are struggling to keep him dead, and he's trying to stay alive. There's a clash in the emotions, he has been so guilty and depressed for so long, the Emotirel are strong, his will to live may not be strong enough to defeat them…"

Rose's mind was racing as she mumbled to herself, "He's got to want to live… we need to make him want to live...he's got to hold on!" She raced back to the couch and grasped his shoulder, pleadingly, while whispering in his ear. "Come on Doctor! It's Rose! You've got to fight it Doctor! You can't give in! You can't die Doctor! There are still so many things out there for us to see! So many wonderful, beautiful things! The world needs you! The universe needs you! I need you Doctor!" She sat back again, sobbing as it seemed the Emotirel were overtaking the gold regeneration glow. As she sobbed, she stuttered softly, "I...love you!"