Chapter 8

A/N: well folks, thanks for any reviews, I'm gonna stop with these notes soon as they interrupt the flow and I'm pretty sure you know I don't own Doctor Who by now!

: I'll update spoilers if I get any!! Review if you want more!!

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"Help me up! Please!" James shouted to Jack as he grabbed him, just at that moment, he saw Rose fall.

Martha and Donna and Mickey all looked at each other worried before Martha went over to check James for any signs of injury while Donna and Mickey ran over to where they had just seen Rose.

"Rose, just stay there, don't do anything, just stay calm!" The Doctor shouted down to her

"I'm not planning to run off to a disco or anything, and it seems it's YOU who needs to stay calm!" She giggled back

"Rose, I don't want to lose you again," he whispered

"What, it's not like I'm gonna die or anything!" She smiled back, using her arms to pull herself on top of the root, and then grab The Doctor and Jack's hand as they pulled her up.

"WOW! How did you learn to do that?" Donna asked

"Wellll, I figured that if I ever got into a situation like that again I wasn't gonna let go, so I practiced until I could do that," she replied

"Again?" Martha asked frowning

"How's James?" The Doctor asked. James blushed

"I'm fine, sorry about before, it just creeped me out! I know you'll probably think it's weird, but I've never been inside a real spaceship before! And it's smaller on the outside!"

"Glad you finally said it, although, it's normally bigger on the inside, it's complicated if you want to know how it happens! Has anyone told you you may have a multiple personality disorder?" The Doctor asked

"Once or twice. Rose, are you OK?" James asked, directing the last bit at Rose

"Yup! Never better! Well, I have been..." She said, staring off into space

"We like your ship." Nalisee said "You aren't Rangers."

"Rangers?" Mickey asked

"Rangers." Nalisee replied

"Nal! We don't know these aliens! They might want to hurt us, or take us into slavery or anything!"

"But MUM! They aren't going to hurt us! If they were, they would already! You KNOW that! Maybe the goddess sent them to help us!"

"Sorry, my name's Rose, and these are my friends..."

"I know. The Doctor said before." Nalisee's mum said

"We aren't going to hurt you, we just ended up here by accident, and we really should be going now." Jack said, winking at her. "Captain Jack Harkness by the way. And you are?"

"Montulas. Can you help us?" She asked

"With what?" Donna asked

"The Lookers. They won't leave us alone! It was alright before, but now, the children are disappearing! Nalisee and Avarti are the only children left in the village!" Suddenly there was a strange fizz and a cloud of blue smoke "NALISEE! AVARTI! STAY WITH US!" Montulas shouted. When the smoke cleared, Nalisee was gone

"Where are they?" Mickey asked

"It's the Lookers, You've upset them, you must go, and Avarti is the only child left. We must look after her."

"Don't you want to get the children back? Don't you want to know where they've gone? Why is it happening, when did the Lookers get here, and what do they want??" Everyone spun around to Rose, bar The Doctor, "They must want something, and they wouldn't just take the children for no reason!"

"If you must know, and I'm only telling you this because Nalisee wanted you to help, he doesn't understand no one can, that they came here two years ago, wanting to blow the planet up, but it's protected, so they can't. They wanted minerals, their children were sick, they had some sort of dieses and need the minerals to help them, we tried to help them, children are scared here, but when all the children were healed, they figured they could use it to make money, so were even more intent on blowing the planet up, we managed to stop them before by giving them minerals, they can't blow it up with us on here, so they wanted us to move, they normally wouldn't care if we were on here or not, but as we're protected... anyway, we refused, we built our homes here, it's the only place we've ever known, so they started taken children, about 6 months ago it started, they won't stop until we give in, and now Avarti is the only child left." Montulas was crying. Donna went over to her and hugged her

"Hang on," said the Doctor suddenly, "I was wrong."

"That's strange!" Rose said, "You haven't even said anything!" The Doctor smiled at her, and then turned his attention to the Nactolians.

"When I said the air was full of Volacisas particles, well, it isn't. It's the Nactolians, so, I think, if they can't get you to move, they'll find another way of making money." Rose gasped

"They're selling them into slavery!" The Nactolians looked terrified

"Rose, we don't know that, they could just be held hostage or..." The Doctor started

"Short range vlydib teleport." Jack said, looking pleased with himself

"What that? I sort of follow the rest of it, but that, I have no clue. Actually, I don't get the Volacii whatever particles either." James said. Mickey nodded in agreement

"Short range vlydib teleport! Brilliant!" Exclaimed the Doctor, running his hands backwards through his already ruffled hair. "If I set my screwdriver just right..." Suddenly there was a fizz and Nalisee was back.

"MUMMY!" He cried running over to her

"Now, what were you saying about no one being able to help?" The Doctor asked.

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"The child. Where is he?" A cold piercing voice asked. If you were brave enough to face the creature who had spoken, you would see a tall, mysterious figure, hiding in the shadows of some forgotten den amongst a huddle of scared dirty children, each to afraid to speak

"I...I... I don't know Sir!" A Small plump lizard like creature replied "It's never happened before."

"Right. And when did you get promoted. Would I be right to presume you weren't here yesterday? The Jungla tastes nicer."

"Yes Sir." The lizard hissed back, quivering

"So, the first time this happens, is when you do your fist supervision?" The voice asked cold as ever. Monotone.

The lizard gulped, and before it could reply, it was lying on the floor, shot by an arder pistol

"Some people. You." He said, pointing a claw at a red lizard

"Yyyyyeesss Sir?" he knew what was coming

"Congratulations. You've been promoted. As your predecessor said, it never happened before. So I don't expect it to happen again. How many left to harvest?" He asked a slight hint of mockery slipping in to his voice s he congratulated the unfortunate lizard

"Two. Sir"

"Excellent! Almost finished, but now. I must find whatever dares go against me!" And he swiftly made his way out the door, through the forest.

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"That's lovely! You've got to give him the recipe!" Donna exclaimed, staring at the strange cup in front of her, indicating to The Doctor. "What was it?"

"Jungla. It is made of a mix of..."

"It's alright. To be honest, I won't have a clue about anything you say!" Donna said, smiling at Kalla.

After the Doctor had brought Nalisee back, they immediately took the seven to their village. It was fairly modern, made out of bricks with a generator then ran of Jungla(which was a gorgeous drink Donna had just so happened to fall in love with) It turned out Montulas was the leader, and the village was largely run by Females, and that the men only were around for DIY. Kalla was a young mother, one of the first to lose a child. Her husband had disappeared with a few others trying to find the children a couple of days after the first few disappeared.

Presently, James was talking to Martha, The Doctor was laughing with Rose, Mickey was talking to Goliso (Montulas's husband) Donna was talking with Kalla and Jack was talking to well, whoever he could! The Doctor walked over to James and started talking to him, so Martha decided now was a good a time as any to talk to Rose.

"Rose!" Martha smiled

"Hi! You OK?"

"You're the one who fell down a cliff!"

"Yeh. I suppose. You OK though?"

"I'm fine. I was just wondering. Can I ask you a question, well, more than one question actually!"

"'Course! Anything!" Rose smiled, which made Martha relax

"Well, at story time on the TARIDS," Rose giggled at then, Martha smiled back, "Jack said you got sent home, and he heard you, then he woke up after being dead, and the Daleks and the TARDIS was gone..."

"And you want to know what happened?" Rose guessed. Martha nodded, "Well, it took me a while to remember, but after The Doctor sent me back, I knew I had to do something! He just wanted me to go back to normal, but you can't, not after everything you've seen! So then I remembered, when this Slitheen looked into the heart of the TARDIS, she changed her into and egg, 'cause she read the Slitheen's mind, so I figured, if I could get her to read my mind, I could help the Doctor, so we forced it open, and I looked into her heart, and she looked into mine and I could see, everything and hear all this singing and I could see anything all the different timelines, and I saw Jack died, so I brought him back to life 'cause I like Jack and I saw how I could stop the Time war, or thought I could, so I destroyed the Daleks 'cause I could see how they were made, so I slit all their atoms, easy at the time I'll say and that's just about it!"

"But, why aren't you still this powerful God person? The Doctor said; if a Timelord looked into the heart of the TARDIS they'd change into a vengeful God." Martha asked

"Well, as I said, when I met the Doctor, he was big ears from the living room which is who was with me then, but it wasn't just the heart of the TARDIS it was the whole Time vortex, and it was all in my head and it felt like my head was gonna explode, so the Doctor took it out of me and put a time delay on my memory."

"How did he change? If he was 'big ears' then?"

Rose sighed, "When he took the vortex out of me, he had to absorb it, so he did and he put it back into the TARDIS, but not all of it because some of it stayed, some of it always stays, so instead of dying, he regenerated."

"He died to save you." Martha said. It wasn't so much a question as a statement, "How long had you been travelling with him, then like? It must have been quite a while!"

"Was quite a long time, about a year."

"A YEAR!" Martha exclaimed. Rose nodded

"I travelled with him for two before we were separated."

"TWO YEARS??" Martha looked gobsmacked "I've been travelling with him for three, and he still goes on about you!"

"And Sarah-Jane and everyone." Rose said

"Who?" Martha asked, Rose's smile faded

"Sarah-Jane, used to travel with the Doctor..."

"What? Someone travelled with The Doctor before you?"

"Yeh, but I didn't find out until after a year and a half. And it's not just someone, It's LOADS of people. 'Bout 31 including us!"

"WOW! He made it obvious as soon as I stepped on board!"Martha sighed

"He can be like that." Rose said, wrinkling her nose in annoyance at the Doctor. "He promised me. He promised not to forget me!"

"He didn't forget you. He never stopped talking about you," Martha wondered what made her say that, and then remembered the air. "Sorry."

"It's Kay. It's the air. I didn't expect him to take what I said so literally!" Rose exclaimed, then looked around suddenly feeling... well, she didn't know what! Empty.

"Rose?" A woman asked

"That's my name, don't wear it out!" Rose replied smiling, "who are you then?"

"I'm Evangeline, Avarti's Mother, The Doctor told me to tell you rule 1 and that he'd be back in a couple of minutes." Evangeline said carefully

"How long ago was that? Did he say where he was going?" Rose asked, wondering her long her and Martha had been talking

"He went to 'track a signal' with his blue light stick and he left a couple of minutes ago." Martha sighed frustrated, but Rose just smiled cheekily

"Martha, I take it you know what rule 1 is, he uses it often enough!"

"No..." She replied

"Well, it's don't wonder off, see, There are certain things you can twist so he sees it your way, and this is one of them!" Rose replied

"It is? How?" Martha somehow felt Rose was slightly rebellious.

"Well, The Doctor said he'd be a couple of minutes, and he's been a couple of minutes, and he's not back, which means we're worried for his safety, so..."

"We can follow him?" Martha asked smiling

"Now you're getting it!" Rose laughed, very much the same as he had with Mickey, "Evangeline, which way did The Doctor go?" She pointed down an apparently well used pathway amongst the White trees. "This is too easy!" and with that, she ran off down the path, closely followed by Martha (seen as she'd slowed down compared to how she'd ran to James

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A couple of minutes earlier

"A-ha! A signal, it's very faint, but it's still there" The Doctor cried out

"What sort of signal?" Jack asked "teleportation?"

"Exactly." The Doctor replied

"Does that mean you'll be able to find the children?" Donna asked, walking over to them

"I should in theory." He replied

"But in practice?" Asked James

"We'll have to go see!" The Doctor smiled

"Can I come?" Asked Mickey

"Everyone can..." The sonic screwdriver started to bleep. "Signal's been detected, we have to um, make like James's personality and split." He said smiling at James, who frowned back

"Are Rose and Martha coming?" Jack asked

"Not a chance! I've only re met her less than 24 hours ago and in that time she's been almost married, hunted down by Daleks, killed, brought back to life and fallen down a cliff. Today is not her day. Plus we really have to go! I'll leave her a message though, and I'm pretty sure she'll do what I think she will." He said, quickly explaining to a random Nactolian what was going on, then heading off down some path into the forest after the signal, followed by his crew

10 minutes later

"Right, almost there, God Rose was right this place is like Laylora! Only in white I 's'pose. And, if I'm right, you should hear her in 5, 4, 3, 2."

"OI! What was with the get up and go?" Rose asked, seemingly perfectly fine while Martha was panting seemingly to death

"...Never...never go on a...a run with her...!" Martha said between breaths, pointing to Rose. "...She is so diff...difficult! She's...worse than him! This... this is our first rest!" She looked around at the sympathetic faces.

"We've had about five breaks, and we weren't running very fast!" Donna said, panting lightly herself

"Sssshhh!" Rose said, putting a finger up against her lips. She sniffed "Can you smell that?" She asked around

"Rose, if you can smell it, do you honestly think we can?" James asked her

"Nono." He said frowning. "She's right!"

"What is it?" Mickey asked

"I'm guessing it's important?" Asked Jack

"Very." The Doctor replied. "Remember what I said about the Volacisas particles?"

"Something about them coming from the Nactolians?" Rose replied, which The Doctor was slightly surprised by her not panting in the slightest

"Exactly, and I can smell them com..." Rose coughed

"WE can smell them coming from over there." She smiled, and then pointed at a door, almost invisible, in the tree trunk.

"Which means...? Rose, what does that mean?" He asked "My synapses are blocked, not had tea in a while."

"It means, that there must be Nactolians near, and by the amount, I'd say around 30 odd." She said, looking pleased with herself, The Doctor nodded, but frowned.

Badwolf. How can she have a Timelords stamina, A Timelords sense of direction, AND a Timelords sense of smell, if she's human? The Doctor thought