CHAPTER 10

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Rose took Martha to Barcelona in an attempt to make things up to her for tricking her. She bought Martha lots of expensive things and even bought her one of the dogs with no noses that they sold there. The dogs were specially bred for certain clients from the planet Oyvey, named from what the people who discovered it were supposed to have said when they first landed there, who had such an offensive natural body odor that no species in the universe could stand to be around them for more than five seconds without passing out!

None of that made Martha feel better about what Rose had done. Rose was at a loss as to what to do. As they stood there on Barcelona with their arms full of shopping bags, Martha still looked like she wanted to kill someone. Even the new dog licking her face did nothing to improve her mood.

Finally, Rose just broke down and said, "I am so sorry. I had to make things convincing in order to get Joan to believe me that I had really lost it. I don't know what else to say. I feel terrible already. I'm sorry!"

Martha's expression softened a little as she said, "I know you are. It's just going to take a little while for me to get over being angry though. You were very scary there, Rose. It really frightened me for a minute. I didn't know how to help you."

"Would it help if I said that it was the Doctor's idea? He's the one that came up with it and asked me to go along with him," Rose said.

Martha started to smile as she said, "So it's really the Doctor that I should be angry at then?"

"That's right. We should both be angry at him. He's caused me a lot of grief by making you mad at me. Let's blame the Doctor!" Rose said eagerly.

"That sounds good to me. I'm sorry," Martha said as she hugged Rose.

"I'm sorry too," Rose said as she hugged Martha back.

"You know I had an idea that maybe you could keep Ileana, Victoria, and Michelle together as a team and make them a part of UNIT. Maybe make them a special unit that handles the weird cases that no one else in UNIT knows what to do about. They could be your go to people when the Doctor doesn't answer his phone," Rose suggested.

"I've been thinking the same thing. Maybe you could be the team leader?" Martha asked hopefully.

"No. I'm kind of too busy for that. It seems I have more than enough things to occupy my days with. They could do multiple TV shows about my life. I do have an alternative suggestion though. I know someone that we could ask to lead the team who wouldn't take anything off of anyone and who could face down even an angry Ileana without blinking an eye," Rose said grinning.

"Who is this wonderful person? Are you sure they'll do it?" Martha asked hopeful.

"Let's find out," Rose said.

Wilfred Mott heard a knocking on his front door and wondered who could possibly be coming to see him. He never had any visitors but Donna, and she was already here.

She had finally told him about becoming a full Time Lady recently after having kept it a secret for a long time. She had been afraid of his reaction. Donna afraid! Wilf still couldn't quite believe that.

He knew that it was because she loved him so much though. He had quickly reassured her that he couldn't tell any difference. She was still the same old Donna as far as he could see. If she hadn't have told him, he wouldn't have known.

She still hadn't told her mother yet. That would be a tougher nut to crack. He wasn't sure how she would react.

Wilf was just happy that she was back to her normal self again. He had been extremely worried about her ever since the Doctor had brought her back because of the severe depression that she had gone into. Now she was the person she had been before her memories had been erased, and he couldn't be happier.

He opened the door to see Rose Tyler and Martha Jones standing there and was totally caught off guard by their sudden appearance. Donna had told him that Rose had become a Time Lady too since he had last seen her, but Wilf couldn't tell any difference in her either. She seemed to be the same person that she had been before as well.

"Hello, Wilf. It's been a long time since I've seen you. How have you been?" Rose asked.

"I'm doing fine especially for a man my age. I've heard that you had some changes in your life, but you don't seem any different to me," Wilf said smiling.

"She's not. She's the same old Rose except for the whole being able to disintegrate you with the blink of an eye thing," Martha said.

"I don't do that though. No disintegrations," Rose said nervously as she glared at Martha.

Wilf laughed at her actions and could see that Rose really hadn't changed. Well, she did seem much happier then she had been before, but he knew the reason for that. He was happy for her and the Doctor. They both deserved it.

"Who was that at the door?" Donna asked from behind him.

She walked up to them and smiled widely when she saw Rose and Martha.

"What are you two doing here? Is it some world shattering crisis going on?" Donna said almost hopefully.

"No, not yet. We're here to ask you to lead a special UNIT team consisting of a vampire, a werewolf, and an alien that can walk in and out of mirrors. They would handle the cases too weird for the regular UNIT troops to deal with. How about it?" Rose asked.

"You'd report directly to me so it would be like old times," Martha said smiling hopefully.

Donna seemed to think it over for a minute as Martha asked in surprise, "Ileana's a vampire?!"

"She didn't want you to know. She doesn't attack people though. She only feeds on other vampires," Rose said reassuringly with a sheepish grin.

"She's a vampire?! I never would have guessed. I wondered why she was so strong. I thought she was some kind of alien," Martha said.

"She's harmless I promise," Rose said.

"Are you two going to keep talking? I have an answer for you if you have time to hear it," Donna said impatiently.

Rose and Martha both turned to see Donna smiling at them. "When do I start?" she asked.

Victoria Collins waited inside of Rose's TARDIS along with Ileana and Michelle. They were all waiting to see if this Donna person would accept being their new team leader or not. She wasn't even sure she wanted to be part of a team. She knew that it was probably good to have people around her though that knew about her condition.

She had been getting worse lately. Several times now she had barely made it back to her home in time to lock herself in. It seemed that she was starting to change even before the sun went down now. The fight with the Carrionites had done something to her. It seemed to have excited the beast and made it more willing to come out.

She really wished that she could go back in time and undo that one horrible moment that had caused all of her misery. That horrible moment when she had been bitten by the werewolf that had attacked the entire household at the Torchwood House back in 1879.

She had been one of the servants there in the house that day when Queen Victoria visited. She hadn't changed at first, but she had noticed that she was feeling differently from the day it happened. She could see and hear things so much more sharply than before. Her sense of smell had also increased. She also noticed that she stopped aging that day. She still didn't know why. She remained unchanged decades later and had to make up excuses for her lack of wrinkles or gray hair.

Eventually she had to leave Torchwood House and take up different jobs using different names over the century still to come. She had gotten very good at hiding her true identity over the years. She had been doing a good job of it until lately when she first started changing into the werewolf. She had hoped that this would never happen, but she had always feared it. Now her transformations had gotten even worse lately. She hoped that the people at UNIT could help her.

Maybe Rose could do something. She had recognized her from that day so long ago even if Rose didn't remember her.

She held out the hope that sometime soon that she could be cured and be allowed to live out the remainder of a normal life.

Next: Donna meets the others and they all start on their first official case together.