Previously on As the Wolf Howls:

"Doctor—" Rose whispered waking up, interrupting all and any reply from Donna.

Chapter three: "Hell hath no fury"

"Careful sweetheart" Jack said, helping her stand "How do you feel?"

"Like I just finish a regenerative coma" she answered more to herself than him "Where is he? Where is the Doctor?" she demanded to know grabbing him by his shirt, she was too worried about the Doctor to notice that Jack shouldn't have been there.

"He was captured"

"I need—"

"We are going to rescue him, I can track him with this" he said showing his vortex manipulator "As soon as I get the coordinates, we are going to get him"

Rose nodded "Let's go", she could feel the part of her that was connected to him howling at the loss of her mate, she knew they were in a different time and place, sorrow and cold fear that clenched her heart at the loss. "Wait, how are you here?" she asked noticing for the first time that Jack was there and he hadn't been when this had all started.

"Donna called me" he said pointing at the worried woman in front of them, just then Rose noticed the presence of the other woman in the room.

"How are you?" Rose asked at the sight of Donna covered in mud, and scrapes.

"I'm ok, thanks to you" Donna said sheepishly, she could she how hard this was for Rose to act normal, she could see the hurt in her eyes "Maybe you should track the Doctor while we change?" she instructed at Jack and brought Rose back to the fact that she was also covered in mud and the blood from when she pushed them away from an explosion.

"Sounds like a plan" he said and kissed Rose's cheek before he walked away.

"Donna—" Rose started to say.

"I didn't took it from him, I won't take it from you" Donna enunciated as she walked away to take a quick shower and change her clothes.

An hour later they were ready, Jack had the exact location of the Doctor. He input the coordinates into the TARDIS and sat on the jump seat waiting for Rose and Donna, the later was the first to get back to the console room.

"Why doesn't the Doctor fly the TARDIS like that all the time?" Donna asked curiously, it was way simpler, accurate and safer than the way the Doctor usually flew.

"It's an emergency protocol, the Doctor install after Barcelona; it only works if there is someone else at the other side, calling for her"

"Her? Rose?" Donna asked confused.

"No, her" Jack said patting the time rotor softly, a movement that Donna had seen the Doctor make a few times.

"You talk like it is alive"

"She is" Rose said entering in the console caring a back pack "Are we ready?"

Jack just nodded and moved the hand break, immediately the time rotor started moving up and down as she dematerialise.

"There it is something I don't know" Donna said thoughtfully "The Doctor said Barcelona, what does that mean?"

"It is a message for me" Jack said "It means that Rose is hurt and he had been captured"


The Doctor opened his eyes when he felt someone entering his chamber again, he had spent the last hour sitting on a chair, bleeding profusely from the wounds he gained while trying to escape, wounds that didn't close thanks to the enormous scarlet plant next to him whose roots tangled along his body, effectively pining him down to the chair, using its blue thorns to bleed him out, taking his life and time with it.

"If you tell us where to find her, we will…well, we won't let you go, but we kill you faster" the feminine creature in front of him promised sweetly, walking confidently through the small lab they were in, her black eyes shined in awe when she stopped in front of the contraption that held the Doctor in place, the scarlet flower known as Chronix was working perfectively.

"Who?" he asked looking for all intents and proposes like someone who wasn't bleeding out painfully slow, and who hadn't been tortured for better part of the last hour.

"The she wolf!" the woman barked at him, starting to lose her patience, she moved a switch which give an electric shock to the plant hardening the hold it had on the Doctor's throat, almost cutting his air way.

"Oh, you mean Rose?" he asked once the hold on his throat relaxed enough for him to breath and he had finished spiting blood "Is hard to know, she's always wander off you know?"

This clearly wasn't the answer she was looking for, and she made it quite clear when she dig her black claws into his chest, ripping what was left of his suit, making him bleed even more, instantly the thorns moved to his new wounds eager for more blood and time to extract from him.


During the last 30 minutes they had run up and down the inside the complex, following the blinking light on Jack's vortex manipulator, Jack and Rose had shot everyone on the way with a tranquilizer that came from Rose's curious back pack, until they stopped in front of a heavily locked door, full of pass codes and leavers.

"He is in there" Jack indicated.

"We'll need a distraction" Rose said resting her hand on the door, feeling her inner wolf calming with the knowledge that her mate was just at the other side of that door.

"That's all us" Jack said to Donna. "I think I saw an armoury back this way a bit" he took her hand to take her with him

"We can't leave her alone!" Donna complained as he dragged her away, pulling until he let go of her hand and stopped in the dark cold hallway.

"Donna, there are some memories you don't need to have" Jack said looking at something behind her "It is starting" he took her hand again and dragged her away once more.

Donna was too confused to fight him again, as she looked at the wall only now noticing how the words on the sign in the wall had changed from Level #3 to Bad Wolf.


Isknfix cut some of the leaves of the Chronix, and put them in a new machine that would extract the juice from the leaves, as soon as she got a good amount of the thick purple mix she drank it and she fell to the ground with eyes shut, scoffing at how powerful the mix was, she saw the veins on her hand glowing gold.

But all her excitement at the discovery and the implications died when the whole place shook, product of an explosion outside.

"What is going on?"

Isknfix demanded into the intercom on her belt, when a new explosion came this time from the other side of the door, shaking it from it hinges, quickly she took her blaster and pointed it at the door ready to kill whoever was trying to get in.

"I thought you wanted to see her" the Doctor said with a small smile.

For just a second Isknfix took her attention away from the door, just a second that was enough time for Rose to blow the door open, and barge inside with her tranquilizer gun ready.

"It's you" Isknfix said in awe at the creature in front of her, the same woman she had seen on the streets of Bob, who had so much time in her, if she could just harvest that, she could save her entire planet.

"It's me" Rose answered before she lowered her gun and ran to the Doctor.

"Hello" he whispered with a small smile.

"I am taking you home"

Rose answered with a small smile back, caressing his cheek softly cleaning the blood from his lip, and her eyes flashed gold with fury at the sight of his blood, she moved her hand over one of the roots, she grabbed it hard enough for the thorns to pierce her skin, as soon as her blood touched the plant, it tried to consume her time but it was too much for the plant to resist it, hence the plant started to wither cutting the Doctor loose.

Isknfix tried to use their distraction to capture Rose but she was pinned in place by one look of the Doctor's stormy eyes, she felt herself frozen in place by what she saw in there, unable to move she could only see her life work die in front of her eyes.

"Let's go home" Rose said helping the Doctor stand and started to drag him to the exit "May you live forever, just as you wished" Rose whispered as she walked past her.

Slowly, painfully and carefully Rose moved the Doctor back to the lower level, where they had parked the TARDIS, they past next to Donna and Jack who just gasped at the sight of the Doctor in his bloodied state, but keep their mouth shut, once they were far enough to not listen to them, Donna whisper to Jack.

"You were right, I didn't need that memory"


"You are mad at me" the Doctor said sounding like a little boy who had been caught.

"I am" Rose simply said not looking at him while she tended his wounds

"Look at me" he asked taking her hands away from the bluish jelly she was using to disinfect the wounds on his chest. "Rose?" finally she looked at him "You got caught in an explosion, you were bleeding and couldn't even stand straight, tell me you would have done it different"

"You could have escape with us, to the TARDIS" she argued trying to avoid looking at the possibility in front of her that showed him regenerating.

"I needed to buy you time, they were too close"

"I could have—"

"You were bleeding Rose!" he jumped flinching at the pain that shoot through him at the sudden movement "I was scared and just did what I thought was best"

Rose stopped for a second when the feelings he had the moment he saw her caught in that explosion washed over her, strong enough to make her gasp and bring tears to her eyes; he brought her to him, holding her against him ignoring the pain and blood.

"Don't ever do that to me again" they whispered to each other and smiled softly before Rose kissed his bloodied lips and putting her hands on his temples to send him to sleep.


It would be months before Isknfix understand Rose's words, when her body consumed all the time she had gained from the last juice she drank; she felt it as soon as she woke up, for the first time on her unnatural long life, she had problems sitting in bed, her pillow was covered in the strands of her hair, that was the first sing, it was starting.

As the hours passed she start felling heavier, her claws painfully falling one by one, her eyes stopped working, she couldn't move anymore, she tried to eat but she wasn't capable of feeding herself, she tried to use a knife to end her life and suffering but she wasn't strong enough to grab the handle; her breath slower as her lungs filled with liquid.

Painfully and covered in her own blood, with one last breath she received the gift of death.

As the sun rose the next day Isknfix took a deep breath and finally Rose's words made sense to her "May you live forever" she told her, and Isknfix will, live this day over and over for all eternity.


This is the las piece! hope you liked this arch of the story!

thank you sooooooo much to all of you who review!, please let me know what you think of this one =).

Sadly I'm not sure I'll be able to upload next sunday as I have too much things and exams but I'll do my best

-Emily.