Author's Note: Sorry for the last chapter. It didn't turn out as well as I wanted it to. But now we are getting into the fun bits! Is that... No, impossible! Is that a bit of plot coming up on the horizon I see?

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As soon as they rounded the last corner to the control room, a loud voice was raised, sounding like it was echoing around the room to be in more places than one. Rose and Nine looked at each other and hurried forward.

They stopped when they saw the two Tens and the Other Rose standing in front of the console. The sound was coming from both of the Tens trying to speak over each other. They were bouncing back and forth on the balls of their feet, waving their hands to alternately try to shush the other or elaborate on their point.

Nine took his hand out of hers, bringing it to his lips. Pressing his fingers in tight, he let out a high-pitched whistle. The noise trailed off and they all turned to look at him.

"What's going on?"

Both of the Tens started speaking at the same time. "We saw a blinking light—" "—And then this whirr started going off and I ran over to—" "—signal from the Yarrod Quadrant—" "—really hurt when I smacked up against—"

"STOP!" Nine stared them both down sternly. Once they'd fallen silent again, still bouncing on their heels, he turned to Other Rose. "What's going on?"

She looked between the men on either side of her, a smile quirking her lips at their disappointment from not being allowed to speak. "Seems these boys here have locked on to the Master's signal."

"We were about to follow it, but I know how grouchy you get when we touch "your" TARDIS," Other Ten jumped in.

Nine's glare didn't relent any. He walked towards them, eying the screen with the symbols Rose never could understand. His brow furrowed a bit more, and he looked between the screen and some blinking lights on the console. "Well, we were waiting until we could find the Master." He started twisting one of the handles. Without any more words, the other two Doctors sprang into action, leaping around the console and twisting nobs and pressing levers.

Rose moved over to the captain's chair, smiling at Other Rose as she hopped up next to her. With the tale-tell "whoop," the TARDIS shuddered into action and off on the trail they went. Her grin broadened. Even with some of the rough landings, she wouldn't trade traveling like this for anything in the worlds.

The noise of the engine quieted down. The Doctors grouped around the display screen, trying to read the symbols written there. Other Ten was the first to step back with a shrug. "Well, better find out where we are." With that sideways grin of his, he held his hand out to Other Rose. She didn't even hesitate as she hopped off the seat, took his hand, and practically skipped with him out the door. Rose watched them go, smiling to herself. Her Doctor appeared at her side, sheepishly offering her his hand as well. She climbed down more slowly from the chair, took his hand, and walked between the two Doctors to the door.

A shriek sounded outside; the voice Rose recognized as her own. The three of them charged forward and out the door.

The light outside blinded her completely. She blinked the blackness away from her vision, stopping to see Other Rose and Other Ten standing a little ways away from them, hands still clasped, blinking around them in confusion.

"What's wrong?" Nine barked at them.

"Huh?"

"You screamed," Rose reminded her other self, stepping towards her in concern.

"Did I?" She looked at Other Ten, confusion just sinking in deeper.

The conversation headed nowhere was interrupted by a shriek from above them. Rose looked up and felt the blood drain out of her face. She knew that horrible, leathery creature. Those were the creatures that had grabbed the Doctor when she ruined everything trying to save her father.

"EVERYONE INSIDE!" Nine bellowed, pushing them towards the church doors in front of them. They stayed in a tight knot, running as quickly as they could. Nine and her Doctor shouldered the heavy door closed behind them. Not a moment too soon as the creature's body collided with the door with a heavy thud.

"Why would the Master come here?" Rose heard herself asking with a slightly hysterical edge to her voice. "And why are those... things here? Doctor? What's going on?"

The two Tens looked between her and each other, shaking their heads as the struggled to catch their breaths. Nine leaned against the stone wall morosely. "It might just be a coincidence that the Master came to this area. We'll never know since we can't leave this church." She almost heard him growl as his fists tightened against his leather-clad arms. "I knew it was a bad idea for you lot to be here."

Her Doctor stepped forward. "Hold on, are you really blaming us for those... things being here?"

"They never showed up before you did."

Her Doctor gaped at Nine. "You can't really be serious! You said that paradoxes could exist peacefully in this world together. What could we have possible done to provoke this?"

"I don't know! Maybe because you are not a paradox, so you don't belong here?" Nine's voice thundered through the room.

Until Other Rose stepped up next to him, placing her hand on his arm. "Doctor." He gritted his teeth together, fisting his hands underneath his arms. "If those creatures are here... what does that mean for us?"

"It means we can't get back to the TARDIS."

Her Doctor stepped forward. "Now hold on a minute. There must be something we can do."

"The last time I saw those creatures, there wasn't anything I could do." Nine's voice was bristled with anger, but it held a self-contempt and sadness that made Rose cringe. "We ended up here. What do you think'll happen if they get us while we're already here?" No one offered a suggestion. "That's not a risk I'm willin' to take."

Other Ten stepped forward, holding his hands out to the both of them. "Regardless of why those creatures are back, the signal lead us here. Surely the Master must be nearby as well?"

"He could be anywhere... Well... Nearby. Well..." Rose shook her head at the man next to her and smiled despite the situation.

"How're we gonna know anyways? What can we do?"

Nine strode towards her, stopping to rest his hands on the back of the pew between them. "According to Ten over there, you two escaped unlike us. How did you manage?"

She shook her head against the brimming tears. "Dad sacrificed himself. After my Doctor had been eaten, or whatever it is those things do, he saw the car that was supposed to kill him. He ran out in front of it. Time just sort of... righted itself. I don't see how that helps us. There's no Dad and no car on a loop."

Despite her words, they all moved towards the window. Everything outside was startlingly still. Except for the big time beast charging towards the window at them. "Watch out!" her Doctor called out, grabbing her arm and pulling her away from the window. They all dropped to the floor, bracing against the impact. But nothing happened. Rose looked at each of them in turn, but got shakily to her feet. She peeked out the window. The creature rushed towards them, slamming against the window. She toppled to the ground again with the vibrations.

"That was... a bit of a delay," she breathed out shakily when she realized she was lying across the two Tens' laps.

Nine moved away, sitting down on one of the pews and burying his face in his hands. "We can't just sit here forever. We have to figure something out. Can we call the TARDIS in here without opening a window for those things?"

"No. Any disturbance in the current temporal atmosphere would let them in," Other Ten countered. "We almost got the TARDIS in here last time, but that was because it wasn't in this dimension. It's already here; the beasts could follow it in."

Her Doctor sat her up on Other Ten's lap, getting to his feet and digging around in the pockets of his long brown coat.

"So we're stuck here until they get bored? If they get bored?" Other Rose asked.

Ten seemed to find what he was searching for. "Ah ha!" he cried out, tugging on something heavy inside his pocket. It almost looked like one of those fantasy fisher handheld games, with three different hand-hold parts, an antenna poking out of it, and lots of little knobs circling a screen. "We can find him with this."

"Is that where that thing went off to? I'd forgotten. The things you lose in your coat pockets," Other Ten mused, helping Rose to her feet as he got to his own.

He jiggled some different toggle switches, then tweaked one of the wheels. A bleep sounded, followed by a steady "rat-tat-tat-tat" beeping that got louder when he turned a certain way. "Definitely have a lock-down on a Time Lord that isn't already in this room." He grinned back at Other Ten, then turned to look at Nine. He wasn't as overjoyed. His eyes still held a bit of distrust and anger as he watched Ten. "Are you with us, or are you going to sit there until you can get at the TARDIS?"

He stared evenly back. Then he got to his feet, keeping his arms crossed tightly over his chest.

He shrugged, turning back to Rose with a wink. "Let's get out of here." He turned his attention back to the small screen, focusing on it like a child with a new toy at Christmas. He walked towards the back of the church, taking slow and careful steps. He took a few steps to the right, and then back to the left.

Looking at each other, they all followed after him as he rounded a back corner. No one dared to say anything. Rose almost ran into the Doctor when the caught up with him standing in front of a broom closet door in the back. He looked back at her, then the rest of the group, an edgy not-sure-if-I-should-be-happy-or-worried grin. "Ladies and gentlemen... On to find the Master."

He pushed the door open.

Then they all froze.

He took the first few tentative steps into the room.

His boots scuffed on the metal grating.

"Hold on... I've been here before."

"Yeah, so have I." Rose stepped up next to him, her brow furrowed. "But how is this possible? Doctor..?"

"I've been here, too." Other Ten's voice was grim. He looked back at Other Rose and Nine. "Satellite Five. But last I checked, it wasn't on the other side of a church door."