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A/N You guys are so awesome. Loved the response on the last chapter as well as my one-shot. Here is Chapter 9 of the story. Follows the events of 'The Doctor Dances'. This was one of my favourite Nine episodes and I sincerely hope I did it justice.

So, here goes: Part 2 of gas mask zombies. And of course, Captain Jack.

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Songs for the Chapter: In the Mood by Glenn Miller and Captain Jack's Love Theme from the Torchwood Soundtrack.

Happy Reading!


Fixing 1941

Previously:

"Don't let them touch you," Rose told Jack.

"What happens if they touch us?" he asked.

"You're looking at it," the Doctor answered as the three of them were backed against a wall.

Suddenly the Doctor adopted a stern demeanour. "Go to your room," he said as though addressing a disobedient child. The gas mask people hesitated. "Go to your room!" he repeated as all the people cocked their heads to one side.

Jack and Rose exchanged a confused look, hoping that the Doctor knew what the hell he was doing.

"I mean it! I am very, very angry with you. I am very, VERY cross! Go - to - your - ROOM!" the Doctor said angrily. There was a beat and then all the gas mask people turned away meekly and got into their beds.

The Doctor sighed with relief. "I'm really glad that worked. Those would've been TERRIBLE last words," he grinned.


"How was your con supposed to work?" the Doctor asked Jack.

"Simple enough, really. Find some harmless piece of space-junk... let the nearest Time Agent track it back to Earth. Convince him it's valuable, name a price. When he's put 50% up front - oops! A German bomb falls on it, destroys it forever. He never gets to see what he's paid for. Never knows he's been had. I buy him a drink with his own money, and we discuss dumb luck. The perfect self-cleaning con," he boasted.

"Yeah. Perfect," the Doctor retorted.

"The London Blitz is great for self-cleaners - Pompeii's nice if you want to make a vacation of it though, but you've got to set your alarm for volcano day," Jack said and laughed at his own joke. Both Rose and the Doctor stared at him. "Getting a hint of disapproval."

"Take a look around the room. This is what your 'harmless piece of space-junk' did," the Doctor said angrily.

"It was a burnt-out medical transporter - it was empty," Jack insisted.

The Doctor glared at him and turned away. "Rose," he called.

"Room 802?" she asked as she followed him and the Doctor nodded.

"I even programmed the flight computer so it wouldn't land on anything living - I harmed no-one! I don't know what's happening here, but believe me - I had nothing to do with it," Jack called after them.

The Doctor turned around and glared at Jack. "I'll tell you what's happening. You forgot to set your alarm clock. It's volcano day."


"Have you got a blaster?" the Doctor asked Jack when they reached room 802.

"Sure!" he said.

"The night your space-junk landed, someone was hurt. This was where they were taken," the Doctor told him.

"What's wrong with your sonic screwdriver?" Rose asked the Doctor in a low voice while Jack grinned and worked to get the door open.

"Nothing," the Doctor shrugged. "Sonic blaster, 51st century. Weapon Factories of Villengard?" the Doctor surmised, looking at the blaster in Jack's hand.

"You've been to the factories?" Jack asked in wonder.

The Doctor took the blaster and examined it. "Once," he shrugged.

"Well, they're gone now. Destroyed. The main reactor went critical. Vaporised the lot," Jack said.

The Doctor grinned as he handed the blaster back. "Like I said - once. There's a banana grove there, now. I like bananas. Bananas are good."

Rose entered the room and switched a light on. The room looked as though it had been vandalised. The window was broken and there was stuff all over the floor. "How could a child do this?" Rose asked.

"Mummy!" they heard behind them and they turned around startled.

"Yep, we should run," Rose said and Jack blasted a hole through the wall.

The three of them ran through it and then down the corridor. The gas mask people were awake and chasing them. The Doctor finally managed to lead Rose and Jack into an empty room. He ran in after them and soniced the door.

"It's not going to hold," Jack said.

"Well, it's gotta find us first. We're not done yet," the Doctor insisted.

"Well there are no other exits, the window is barred and it's a seven storey drop outside," Rose rattled off. The two men stared at her. "What? I pay attention," she said, crossing her arms defiantly.

The Doctor grinned at her. "So one, we have to get out. Two, we can't get out. Have I missed anything?" he asked Rose.

"Yeah," she said and the Doctor turned to her. "Jack just disappeared."


"What're you doing?" Rose asked the Doctor.

"Trying to set up a resonation pattern in the concrete. Loosen the bars," he answered.

Rose smiled. "You don't think Jack's coming back."

The Doctor turned around. "Why do you trust him?" he asked.

"Spoilers," Rose winked.

"You two looked cosy earlier," the Doctor said, unable to stop jealousy from leaking into his tone.

Rose managed not to burst into laughter at the ridiculous notion. Instead, she stood up and walked over to him. "You know, green isn't your colour," she said and placed a butterfly kiss on his cheek.

The Doctor felt warmth course through him. He turned back to the window with his sonic screwdriver and Rose smiled in amusement at his back.

"Jack's not all that different from you," she said. The Doctor didn't turn around but he was listening to every word. "Except with dating and dancing," she added slyly.

The Doctor did turn around at that. "And you just assume that I don't dance?" he asked.

Rose hid her smile and adopted her best innocent expression. "I don't know. Do you dance?" she asked.

"You seem to have all the answers about me," the Doctor told her as he walked up to her. "So, tell me, Rose," he said, her name rolling off his tongue playfully. "Do I dance?" he asked.

Rose smiled. "Well...I don't know everything," she said. "If you have the moves..." she goaded.

The Doctor smirked as he caught one of her hands in his and wound the other one around her waist. Rose's smile widened as he pulled her closer. "Oh, I have the moves," he whispered in her ear as he swayed her gently to the rhythm of the three hearts beating in the small room.

What had started as playful flirting was gradually building up. The sexual tension in the air could be cut with a knife.

"Sorry," they heard a voice behind them and they sprang apart instantly. They realised at the same time that they had been so absorbed in each other that they hadn't even noticed that Jack had teleported them to his ship.

Jack was watching with an amused smile. "Most people notice when they're being teleported. You guys are so sweet," he grinned.


"Do you hear singing?" Rose asked.

"Yeah, it's coming from in there," the Doctor pointed to the shed.

They were at the crash site and Jack's friend had just turned into a gas mask zombie. The three of them went inside the shed and found Nancy singing a lullaby to a gas mask man who was asleep.

"Keep singing," the Doctor told her as he used the sonic screwdriver to uncuff her. "The effect's become air-borne. Accelerating."

"What's keeping us safe?" Rose asked.

"Nothing," the Doctor answered.

"If the contaminants air-borne now, there's hours left," Rose realised, looking at the Doctor who nodded.

"For what?" Jack asked.

"'Til nothing. 'Til forever. For the entire human race," the Doctor answered. "What're you doing?" he asked Jack who was fiddling with the controls on the Chula ship.

"Well, the sooner you see this thing is empty, the sooner you'll see I had nothing to do with it," he insisted. Just as he said it, the controls exploded with sparks, and they all jumped backwards. An alarm went off. "Didn't happen last time," Jack said, looking surprised.

"It hadn't crashed last time. They're the emergency protocols," the Doctor said.

"It's empty. Look at it," Jack said as he opened the hatch.

"What do you expect in a Chula medical transporter? Bandages? Cough drops?" the Doctor asked sarcastically.

"Nanogenes!" Rose realised.

"It wasn't empty, Captain. There was enough nanogenes in there to rebuild a species," the Doctor told Jack who looked shaken.

"Oh, God," he said.

"Rose," Nancy interrupted and Rose rushed to her side. She followed her gaze and they saw the gasmask people stumble towards them over the rail-track.

"It's bringing the gasmask people here, isn't it?" Rose asked the Doctor.

"The ship thinks it's under attack. It's calling up the troops. Standard protocol," the Doctor answered.

"Why don't they attack?" Jack asked as they looked at the people just standing at a distance.

"Good little soldiers. Waiting for their commander," the Doctor said.

"The child?" Jack asked.

"Jamie," Nancy piped up.

"What?" Jack asked her.

Nancy glared at him. "Not 'the child'. Jamie. He's just a little boy who wants his mummy," she said tearfully.

"So what're we gonna do?" Jack asked.

"I don't know," the Doctor said looking at Rose.

"It's all my fault," Nancy wailed.

Rose gasped and turned to Nancy. "Nancy, what age are you? Twenty? Twenty-one? Older than you look, yes?"

The Doctor caught on quickly. "How old were you five years ago? Fifteen? Sixteen? Old enough to give birth, anyway."

"He's not your brother, is he?" Rose asked gently.

"A teenage single mother in 1941. So you hid. You lied," the Doctor said. "You even lied to him."

The gates swung open. "Uh, we have to move," Jack said.

"Then, go," the Doctor told him. "Do what you have to do."

Jack looked sad as he looked at Rose who nodded at him. He gave a sigh and teleported out. Rose took the Doctor's hand and they stood facing the army.

The Child stood at the forefront of the army of gasmask people, ready to charge. "Are you my mummy?" he asked.

"He's gonna keep asking, Nancy. He's never gonna stop. Tell him," Rose told her.

"Are you my mummy?"

"Yes," Nancy whispered. "Yes. I AM your mummy."

The child stumbled into her arms. As soon as Nancy had hugged him, the nanogenes activated, fixing the child as well as the army of people behind them.

"Recognizing the same DNA," Rose whispered in wonder as the Doctor beamed widely. "Fantastic!"


"What about Jack? He intercepted that bomb," Rose told the Doctor once they were inside the TARDIS.

The Doctor looked at Rose and nodded. As much as he did not like Jack, he would not let the man die. Especially, since Rose had mentioned him being a friend in the future.

Rose smiled at him and touched a button on the console and Glenn Miller's 'In the Mood' began to play. The Doctor turned to her questioningly.

"I never got that dance," she winked and the Doctor grinned as he took her hand. "You should ask Jack to come with you," she told him after a quiet moment.

"I don't need anyone," the Doctor said.

"Yes, you do," Rose told him as he swayed them to the music.

"I've got you," he insisted.

"But I'm not always here," Rose repeated his words. "You shouldn't be alone."

"I've been alone for a long time," the Doctor told her.

"Doesn't mean it has to stay that way," she said. "Jack's a great man."

The Doctor looked at her for a long moment. "I'll take your word for it," he said. "This time," he added.

Rose giggled as he twirled her and pulled her back to him. The TARDIS door opened and Jack was visible.

"Well, hurry up then," Rose called to him and Jack ran inside, staring wide-eyed at everything.

"Welcome to the TARDIS," the Doctor told him as he continued to sway Rose.

"Much bigger on the inside," Jack commented.

"Better be," the Doctor shot.

Rose rolled her eyes. "Are you two going to get along or do I have to lock you in a cupboard?" she asked and then smiled at the look on Jack's face. "On second thought, maybe not that."

Jack laughed with her and the Doctor joined in a moment later.


A/N So? Good? Bad? How was it? I know the events remain unchanged but it was too perfect an episode to change.

Anyway, the next chapter is not actually a chapter. It's more of an interlude. It is just about 600 words long and will deal with Rose returning to her timeline and dealing with Jack.

Since it's not a full chapter, it will be up on Tuesday and the new chapter will be up on Thursday. So, yay! Two Chapters next week.

So, let me know how this one was.

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Cheers x