"Then I must assimilate again." She mutters, looking scarily at the Doctor as she speaks
"What does that mean?" I ask
"I must appear to be human." She explains
"Well, you're welcome to come home with me and my wife. We'd be honoured. We can have cake." The Doctor offers
"Why should I have cake? I've got my little straw."
"That's nice. Milkshake? I like banana." He chuckles
"You're quite a funny man. And yet, I think, laughing on purpose at the darkness. I think it's time you found some peace. Steady him!" she orders
"What are you doing?" I shout as the Slabs hold him and the women approaches with her straw.
"I'm afraid this is going to hurt. But if it's any consolation, the dead don't tend to remember." She cackles and plunges the straw into the Doctor's neck.
He howls with pain and I fight to free myself. She drinks the Doctor's blood with a straw.
"No!" I shriek as he grows paler and paler. The Judoon enter the room, Martha trailing
"Now see what you've done. This poor man just died of fright" gasps the old lady.
"Scan him!" a pause "Confirmation: deceased." The Juddon announces
"No, he can't be." I gasp,
"Let me through, let me see him!" Martha yells
"Stop. Case closed." The Jusson block her off as the Slab lets go of me
"But it was her. She killed him. She did it. She murdered him." Martha yells as I throw myself at the Doctor.
"The Judoon have no authority over human crime."
"But she's not human." Martha argues as tears pour down my face onto the Doctor's pale skin
"Oh, but I am. I've been catalogued." Giggles the old woman
"But she's not! She assimil... Wait a minute. You drank his blood. The Doctor's blood." Martha gasps and she grabs a Judoon scanner.
"Oh, all right. Scan all you like."
"Non-human." Announces the Judoon
"What?" demands the old woman
"Confirm analysis." Orders the Jusoon
"Oh, but it's a mistake, surely. I'm human. I'm as human as they come!"
"He gave his life so they'd find you." I sob
"Confirmed: Plasmavore. I charge you with the crime of murdering the princess of Patrival Regency Nine."
"She deserved it! Those pink cheeks and those blond curls and that simpering voice. She was begging for the bite of a plasmavore!" Snarls the old lady
"Do you confess?"
"Confess? I'm proud of it! Slab, stop them!" The Slab shoots. The Judoon shoot. The Slab disintegrates.
"Verdict: guilty. Sentence: execution." He announces
The warning sign lights up: MAGNETIC OVERLOAD.
"Enjoy your victory, Judoon, because you're going to burn with me. Burn in hell!"
She screams as they disintegrate her. Martha rushes over to the Doctor, kneeling beside me
"What did she mean, "burn with me"?" Martha asks
"The scanner shouldn't be doing that. She's done something." I explain, poorly
"Scans detect lethal acceleration of monomagnetic pulse." The Judodon announces
"Well, do something! Stop it!" Martha orders
"Our jurisdiction has ended. Judoon will evacuate.
"You can't just leave it. What's it going to do?" Martha asks
"All units withdraw. They depart." The Judoon leaves The sign continues to flash: MAGNETIC OVERLOAD.
"You can't go. That thing's going to explode and it's all your fault. They're gone." Martha starts to apply pulmonary resuscitation techniques on the Doctor, muttering to him.
"Please." I whimper as the Doctor doesn't respond
"One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five" Mutters Martha
"He has two hearts!" I suddenly gasp and Martha begins on the second one.
I am starting to feel light headed, all of the crying using too much air.
"One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five." Martha continues to beat on the Doctor's chest.
The Doctor revives and starts to cough.
I let out a cry of relief, before everything spins into darkness.
I awake to the sound of sirens. I look around and see I'm in the Doctor's arms, and we're back on Earth.
"Doctor?" I ask, confused
"Hey, Rose, we're just heading back to the Tardis, I'm going to get you some proper medical care." He smiles at me.
"What about Martha?" I mutter, still groggy as he walks into the Tardis.
"Don't worry she's fine."
"But Doctor…" I start as he carries me into to med bay and lays me down.
"Shh, you were deprived of Oxygen for a while." He murmurs, as he starts testing me, and I hear the engines starting.
We dematerialize.
He continues to give me oxygen through a mask and give me medicine.
I sit up, my mind much clearer now.
"I thought I'd lost you. You bloody idiot!" I snarl, ripping off the mask and throwing it at him. He looks up at me in surprise
"What?"
"What were you thinking letting the plasmavore almost kill you, and while I'm yelling I might as well add why the hell did you kiss Martha?"
"I told you I was trying to save the Earth!" he yells back
"I travelled with you for months and you never so much as gave me a kiss on the cheek and we've known Martha five minutes and you're already giving her a good snog! And then just hoping one of us would revive you, you bloody idiot." I start to sob, "You were so pale and I thought…I...after Wolfe…"
"Rose." He whispers, wrapping his arms around me, and I press my face into his suit, breathing deeply.
"Do not ever do that again, do you hear me? You're all I've got. It's just you and me, Doctor and I wont have you sacrificing yourself." I mutter when I tuck my chin over his shoulder.
"I know. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry" He answers, rocking me back and forth, pressing a long kiss to the top of my head.
I tilt my head back, and smiling slightly he presses another kiss to my lips.
"I forgive you." I whisper when we finish, and I tuck my head back on his chest.
"Doctor, do you remember what Martha said, about seeing us on the street? How do you think that was?" I ask, as we fly about
He turns to look at me "I don't know. I think we need to go back to Martha and find out."
"Let's take her with us for a little bit, but I promise you Doctor snog her again and I'll kick both of you out of the Tardis!"
"Yes ma'am." Mutters the Doctor and I stick my tongue out at his sass
"Here we go, five minutes and then we'll land not ten feet from Martha." He announces. Before a loud ding goes off in the Tardis
"Ah, brilliant!" He runs over and picks up a brand new sonic.
"Look at this!" he grins, proudly, showing it to me. It looks exactly like his old one.
After we land, he walks down the small alley way and to the corner. I can hear the sounds of a family fight echoing through the buildings, from where I'm standing in the doorway of the Tardis
The Doctor walks back around the corner, Martha following.
The Doctor leans on the Tardis as I step out and shut the door behind me.
"I went to the moon today." Martha says, breathlessly
"A bit more peaceful than down here." Chuckles the Doctor as the fighting continues
"You never even told me who you are." Martha says to us
"The Doctor and Rose." The Doctor responds
"What sort of species? It's not every day I get to ask that." Martha chuckles.
"I'm human, like you. 100% human." I laugh
"I'm a Time Lord." Grins the Doctor
"Right! Not pompous at all, then." Snorts Martha and I laugh.
"We just thought since you saved my life and I've got a brand new sonic screwdriver which needs road testing, you might fancy a trip." The Doctor offers, glancing at me.
"What, into space?" Martha checks
"Well?" I smile at her
"I can't. I've got exams. I've got things to do. I have to go into town first thing and pay the rent, I've got my family going mad..." she looks over her shoulder
"If it helps, it can travel in time, as well." I add
"Get out of here." She gasps
"We can." The Doctor agrees
"Come on now, that's going too far." Martha laughs at the ridiculous of it
"I'll prove it." The Doctor says, taking my hand and tugging me into the Tardis
"I think I know why we saw her!" he grins, starting the Tardis.
We materialize and he grasps my hand, running out of the Tardis. We charge down the street through a crowd, until we find Martha.
"Like so!" He grins at her bewildered face, taking off his tie.
Then we turn and run back to the Tardis, rematerializing and running back out the door.
The Doctor steps out, holding his tie in his hand.
"Told you!" I giggle
"I know, but... that was this morning! But, did you... Oh, my God! You can travel in time!" Martha gasps while the Doctor puts his tie on again.
"But hold on, if you could see me this morning, why didn't you tell me not to go in to work?" Martha demands.
"Crossing into established events is strictly forbidden. Except for cheap tricks." The Doctor shakes his head
"And that's your spaceship?" Martha gestures to the Tardis
"It's called the Tardis. Time and Relative Dimension in Space." Announces the Doctor, proudly
"Your spaceship's made of wood. There's not much room. We'd be a bit intimate." Martha mutters, and I freeze at her choice of words. The Doctor, oblivious as ever, pushes the door open and smiles at her
"Take a look."
She goes in, the Doctor and I following her. She looks around and we have to jump out of the way as she runs out again.
"Oh, no, no." she gasps, turning around in the alley
"But it's just a box. But it's huge. How does it do that? It's wood." She knocks on it. It's like a box with that room just rammed in. It's bigger on the inside."
The Doctor mouths her sentence with her and I laugh as she walks back in
"Is it? I hadn't noticed." He answers and I laugh again as he shuts the door behind her, throws his coat aside. "All right, then, let's get going."
"But is there a crew? Like a navigator and stuff? Where is everyone else?" Martha asks and the Doctor glances at me
"Just us."
"All on your own?" Martha's smile fades "Just the two of you?"
"Well, sometimes we have guests. I mean some friends, travelling alongside. We had, there was recently…a friend of ours. Wolfe, her name was, Wolfe. And…she was our..." he pauses and glances at me. "Anyway." He hops up heading towards
"Where is she now?" Martha asks
"With her extended family. Happy. She's fine. Not that you're replacing her." I hurriedly answer
"Never said I was." Martha backs off quickly
"Just one trip to say "thanks", you get one trip, then back home." The Doctor announces
"You're the one that kissed me." Snorts Martha and I stare at her, growing protective
"That was a genetic transfer." The Doctor responds mildly, looking over at me
Martha chuckles staring at him strangely
"Now... don't!" warns the Doctor "Stop it."
"For the record? I'm wouldn't be remotely interested. I only go for humans. Plus, you two have got each other, and I'm not interested in interfering." She says, looking right at me, clearly reading my protective hostility.
I nod at her, a silent pact between us.
"Good. Well, then. Close down the gravitic anomalizer. Fire up the helmic regulator. And finally, the hand brake." He points and I yank it.
"Ready?" he looks over at Martha
"No." she answers, breathlessly
"Off we go." He pulls a lever and The Tardis jolts and shakes. We fall to the door, laughing.