A/N: Wow this is long. Part three of turn left. Gotta go. enjoy bye. Oh and thanks to gaiafreedom21 for the interesting chat.

Chapter Nine – The Girl Who Cried Bad Wolf

Jackie sat by her daughter's bed in the Torchwood med centre and stared sadly at the wall. Rose had been relocated from 'Nocens Lupus Hospital' to the Torchwood base after the television incident. It came as no shock to Jackie when she found out that the name of the hospital, 'Nocens Lupus' actually meant Bad Wolf in Latin and she had half hoped that by moving her, these things would stop happening. But they hadn't.

Whatever was happening to Rose was unstoppable as they had found out after the fist couple of times that Rose's heart had stopped beating. They had stopped rushing the crash team in, thinking it was the end and that it would be better to let her die peacefully instead of crashing her back into life. But Rose had plans of her own and the Torchwood team would frequently hear her heart monitor slid into the shrill whine then lift itself out of it five minutes or so later.


"We don't know whether the TARDIS works but we've managed to scrape off the surface technology; enough to show you the creature." Rose strode confidently into the centre of the circle of mirrors and positioned Donna in the middle so she could see her reflection.

"It's a creature?" Donna asked quietly but Rose didn't answer.

"Out of the circle please." Captain Magambo called and Rose turned round.

"Yes ma'am." She said sarcastically and left Donna alone in the circle.

"Can't you stay with me?" Donna almost pleaded, her voice betraying her emotions and Rose turned round to look at her but said nothing as the mirrors were activated. Despite the terrible things at hand, Rose couldn't deny that she had enjoyed putting the circle of mirrors together and she could now understand how the Doctor could be so excited when things didn't go to plan.

The lights round the outside of the circle came on one by one and Rose saw Donna clamp her eyes shut.

"Open your eyes Donna." Rose sounded more like she was unveiling a surprise party.

"Is it there?" Donna shook fearfully, her eyes still shut.

"Open your eyes. Look at it."

"I can't." Donna shook her head, refusing to.

"It's part of you Donna, look." Rose said finally and Donna slowly opened her eyes and brought her gaze up to rest on her reflection. She saw the beetle on her back and began to spin round and stop repeatedly, trying to rid herself of it.

"It's okay. It's okay." Rose soothed from the perimeter of the circle. "It's okay. Calm down. Donna, Donna, Donna." She kept calling till Donna stopped and looked at her. Donna's breath was coming in rasping sobs as she looked at the creature on her back.

"What is it?" she asked, standing as still as she could.

"We don't know." Rose answered truthfully, looking Donna straight in the eye.

"Oh. Thanks."

"It feeds off time, by changing time, by making someone's life take a different turn. Like, meetings never made, children never born, a life never loved." Rose paused, as if thinking but she continued. "But with you, it's…"

Donna interrupted and protested, bringing herself down again, saying that she never did anything important but Rose corrected her.

"Yeah you did. One day, that thing, made you turn right instead of left."

"When was that?"

"Well, you wouldn't remember. It was the most ordinary day in the world but by turning right you never met the Doctor and the whole world just changed around you."

"Can you get rid… of it?"

"I can't even touch it." Rose replied, kind of glad of that fact because it didn't look too accommodating. "Seems to be in a state of flux." She added, although she wasn't completely sure why.

"What… does that… mean?" Donna asked, still trying to keep herself together.

"I dunno." Laughed Rose. "Sort of thing the Doctor would say." Her face broke out into a massive smile and she grinned happily at Donna who still stood petrified in the centre of the circle.

"You liar!" yelled Donna wiping the smile off Rose's face. "You told me I was special! But it's not me it's this thing. I'm just a host."

"No. It's more than that; the readings are strange. It's like reality is just bending round you."

"Because… of this… thing!" Donna cried back.

"No, no. We're getting separate readings from you and they've always been there. Since the day you were born." Rose enthused and was interrupted by Captain Magambo saying that the information was irrelevant to the mission. "I thought it was just the Doctor we needed, but it's the both of you. The Doctor and Donna Noble. Together. To stop the stars from going out."

"Why? What can I do?" screamed Donna, trembling, tears in her eyes. "Turn it off." She pleaded. "Please."

"Captain." Rose ordered and the mirrors were switched off. She turned and walked quickly to Donna's side.

"It's still there though. What can I do?" Donna looked terrified but it took great courage for her to say. Rose was proud of her Doctor and his choice in Donna. She really was a good companion for him: someone to hold him in check. She had seen that when Donna's life had passed by, but she saw it even more now. "Get rid off it."

"You're going to travel in time." Rose told Donna, struggling to hold back a smile. She may not be going, but this time, she was driving.


Jackie and Mickey sat by Rose's bedside and watched her in silence. They had silenced the heart monitor but could still see the straight line across the middle of the screen. She was dead, apparently and yet on and off in the past few episodes of her death, she had been moving, talking to herself, or someone else.

"You're going to travel in time." She told them with a smile but they didn't realise how close to the truth she was.


"The TARDIS has tracked down the moment of intervention: Monday the 21st. One minute past ten in the morning. Your car was on Little Sutton Street…" Rose was filling Donna in with speed about the moment her life was changed. "…But you turned right heading toward Griffin's parade but you need to turn left. That's the most important thing. You gotta go back and turn left." She circle round Donna checking the jacket she was wearing that was covered in wires, talking to her all the while and when she stopped talking, Captain Magambo started.

"Keep the jacket on at all times. It's insulation against temporal feedback." Someone hurried forward with what looked like a watch and strapped it to her wrist. "This will correspond to local time where ever you land." She held up a glass of water next. "This is to combat dehydration."


Donna, surrounded by Rose and a collection of the UNIT team, made her way back towards the circle of mirrors and Rose felt butterflies in her stomach. She was excited. It reminded her of when she had helped the Doctor catch that ghost just before they were separated.

They marched Donna to the edge of the circle were they stopped and Rose looked at Donna. "This is where we leave you."

"I don't want to see that thing on my back." Donna looked cautiously at the mirrors.

"No, no. The mirrors are just incidental. They bounce time warp energy back into the centre, which we control and decide the destination."

"It's a time machine." Donna stated.

"It's a time machine." Affirmed Rose with a smile. Donna stepped into the circle and the lights went on.

"How do you know it's going to work?" she asked when she turned to face Rose.

"Hmm? Oh, well… we don't." Rose answered. "We're just… we're just guessing." Rose hadn't expected that question but even if she had, she wouldn't have been able to answer.

Donna laughed. "Brilliant." She nodded to herself.

"Remember, you get to the junction, change the cars direction by one minute past ten."

"How do I do that?"

"It's up to you."

"Well, I just have to run up to myself and have a good argument." Donna grinned.

"I'd like to see that." Rose joined in. "Good luck."

"I'm ready."

"One minute past ten." The TARDIS's siren light began to blink behind Rose as she saw Donna off.

"'Cause I understand now. You said I was gonna die but you mean, this whole world is gonna blink out of existence but that's not dying because a better world takes it's place." Donna smiled at Rose but her face remained straight. "The Doctor's world and I'm still alive. That's right? I don't die, if I change things, I don't die. That's… that's right isn't it?" Donna was getting desperate now she could see that she was getting no reaction out of Rose.

Oh Donna. You have no idea. "I'm sorry."

"But I can't die. I've got a future." Rose swallowed tears, not letting them fall. "With the Doctor, you told me."

"ACTIVATE!" Captain Magambo called; flicking the switch and the lights blinded Donna as Rose stepped out of the TARDIS's way.

Rose watched as Donna was taken away and the TARDIS sparked and spluttered, getting her away. At last she was gone and the circle of mirrors powered down.

"Um… we seem to have a problem." The captain called over to Rose. "The co-ordinates you typed in seem to have landed her half a mile from her destination."

Rose laughed and wandered over to pat the TARDIS. "I guess the Doctor's not the only one then." She turned to the captain. "She'll make it."


Donna sprinted as fast as she could to where her car would be. She slowed to a stop and looked at the watch. "I'm not going to get there." She panted but then a flashback popped into her head. It was Rose. "You're going to die." She had said. At that moment, she saw the lorry turning the corner and she knew what she had to do. "Please." She said to herself, before stepping out in front of it. The lorry slammed on the brakes but couldn't stop in time. It hit her and just before she felt herself slip away, she saw Rose's face swimming into view.

"Tell him this." She lent forward and whispered two words in her ear before they both disappeared.


"Jackie, Mickey. You have to see this." Pete came in and turned on a screen on the wall. The news was showing and every word on the screen had been replaced by a phrase; the same phrase: Bad Wolf. "It's everywhere. Everywhere."