Disclaimer: anything you recognize from the episode isn't mine! Quotes taken from Planet of the Ood, by Keith Temple.
-Chapter 10-
"Oi, you two, sometimes air helps, try coming up for some." Donna said rolling her eyes at the Doctor and Rose.
Rose pulled back and smiled. The Doctor frowned. "Thank you Donna."
"I do my best." she said smirking. "Anyway, what are these red dots?"
"Oh, Ood centers. They send them off from those places."
"Why are there so many?" Rose asked.
The Doctor shrugged. "Greed. The more they send out the more money the company gets."
"That's awful. Don't they have rights?" she asked. They had met people with Ood on Kroptor but this...this was terrible.
"Nope. Not a one."
"Well do the Ood get a say in this?" Donna asked and went over to the nearest Ood. "Hello. Tell me, are you all like this?" she asked
"I do not understand Miss." the Ood said.
"Why do you say Miss, do I look single?"
"Point, Donna." the Doctor reminded her.
"Yeah. What I mean are there any free Ood? Are there Ood running wild? Like wood beast."
"All Ood are born to serve. Otherwise we would die."
"But you can't have started out like that. Before humans what were you like?"
"The circle."
"What do you mean, what circle?" the Doctor asked.
"The circ...the circle...is..." he tried to finish.
"All Ood to hospitality stations please!" Solana said cheerily.
"I've had enough schmoozing. Fancy going off the beaten track?" He asked.
Donna smiled. "Rough guide to the Ood sphere? Works for me!"
The Doctor walked up to a fence and soniced it open.
"Do you have any idea where we are going?" Rose asked.
"Course I do. Left."
Rose rolled her eyes. "Course."
They heard a man yelling and looked over the edge. One of the Ood fell to his knees as a group was marching in a line.
"Get up! I said get up!" a man yelled and whipped the fallen Ood until he managed to sand.
Rose covered her mouth. "Servants? They're slaves!" Donna said.
"I thought...and I never knew it could be this bad." Rose said quietly.
"Last time I met the Ood I never thought. I never asked." he said.
"That's not like you Doctor."
"I was busy. So bust I couldn't save them. I had to let the Ood die. I reckon I owe them one."
"That looks like the boss." Donna said pointing to a tall man with another bloke and Ood following him.
"Let's keep out of his way. Come on." he said and grabbed Roses hand.
They were following a map and Donna and Rose stopped as he kept walking. Donna rolled her eyes and whistled.
He stopped and turned around. "Where did you learn to whistle?"
"West Ham, every Saturday."
He soniced the door try stood at and Rose shivered involuntarily. "I have a bad feeling." she mumbled.
When the door was opened they saw massive containers being lifted with a huge crane.
"Ood export. D'you see? Lifts the containers and takes them to the rocket ready to be flown out. All over the galaxies."
"What do you mean? All these containers are full of..."
He opened the nearest one. Inside it's stuffed full with Ood. Just standing not moving an inch.
"Oh it stinks! How many are in each one?" Donna asked horrified. Rose covered her mouth.
"Hundred? More."
"We did nothing last time. Oh my god, we didn't do a thing." Rose said horrified with herself.
"A great big empire built on slavery." Donna said.
"Not so different from your time."
"Oi! I haven't got slaves!"
"Who D'you think makes your clothes."
"Doctor." Rose said warningly.
"Is that why you travel with humans at your side? It's not so you can show them the winders of the universe it's to make cheap shots?"
"Sorry." he said it sounding sorry at all.
"You don't, Spaceman. I don't understand, the doers open, why don't you just run away?" she asked the Ood.
"For what reason?"
"So you can be free!" Rose said shocked they would just stand there.
"I do not understand the concept."
"What is it with that ball? I mean they can't be born with it. Why are they all plugged in?" Rose asked.
"Ood tell me, does this circle mean anything to you?" the Doctor asked.
"The circle must be broken." the said in unison.
"Woah, that is just creepy." Donna said stepping back slightly.
"Doctor...what's making them do that?" Rose asked.
"I don't know." he said quietly. "Why?" he asked the Ood.
"So that we can sing." they said again.
Suddenly an alarm sounds. "Oh that'll be us. Come on!" he said and took Roses hand before running away.
They run around between containers and Donna turned to the right. "Doctor there's a door!" she said but he hadn't turned and she couldn't see him anywhere. "Oh I'll kill him."
The Doctor was running almost as fast as he could. Suddenly Rose stopped and jerked him back accidently. "Oh sorry! But where's Donna gone off to?"
The Doctor turned around in a circle. "Wasn't she right there behind you?"
"Yes and now she's not. She must have gotten turned around."
"Stay where you are!" a guard shouted catching up to them.
The Doctor took her hand again and bolted, darting around containers trying to lose them.
The guards caught up to Donna and held her arms behind her back as another opened a container close to them.
"Get off me!" Donna yelled trying to shake them.
They shoved her into the container and closed the door. She heard a loud click from outside the container. "Oh my god they've locked it."
She turned around to see Ood bunched up in the back. "Can you help me?" but the Ood's eyes started to glow red. "Oh no you don't! What have I done? I'm not one of that lot. I'm on your side! Stay where you are, I said stay. Doctor! DOCTOR!"
Two guards slammed into them and pulled the Doctor's hands behind his back. They did the same to Rose and she tried to kick at them bit they had pads and it didn't do a thing.
"Doctor! Get me out! Doctor get me out of here!" they heard her yell from inside the container.
"If you don't do what she says then you're really in trouble. Not from me from her." the Doctor said calmly.
"Unlock the container!" the big guy yelled. Donna ran out and hugged the Doctor, making the guard holding him back off a bit.
"There we go, safe and sound." he said and she rolled her eyes.
"Never mind me, what about them?" she said pointing to the container. The Ood were marching out of the container. Suddenly one electrocuted the guard next to them.
"Red alert! Fire!"
More and more containers started to open and the Ood marched out together, electrocuting every guard that they came across.
"Shoot to kill!"
The guards start to fire and ignore the Doctor and Donna while one drops Rose on the ground. She hopped up and ran out with the Doctor right in front of her, followed by Solana.
They stopped to catch their breath a little further out. "If people knew, back on earth, knew what was going on here..." Donna started.
"That's nothing to do with me!" Solana protested.
"What you don't ask?" the Doctor said raising an eyebrow.
"That's Dr. Ryder's territory."
"Still you see some of it. Out of the corner of your eye, you see a little bit. You see a fallen Ood being whipped, or one that falls out of order being shot and left for dead out in the open." Rose said.
"I can help. With the red eye. If you show me where he is. Just show me where he is!" the Doctor said.
"Here. Beyond the red section." she said pointing on the map.
"You could come with us. You've seen the wherehouse, you can't be ok with know this place better than we do. You could help.
She thinks for a moment but shakes her head. "Guards, there over here! Guards!"
The Doctor looked at the map for a moment before taking Roses hand again and running of towards this Dr. Ryder.
"This way!" The Doctor yelled coming up to the door. "Oh can you hear it? I didn't need the map, I should have listened!"
Rose tried to listen. She tried to hear the song the Doctor talked about before, but she couldn't hear a thing. Until she did. She heard it clearly conning from behind the door. It...the song was calling out. It was so sad. They were crying out desperately to anything that would listen.
The Doctor finally got the door open and they walked inside. "Hold on, does that mean were locked in?" Donna asked.
"Listen. Listen, listen, listen, listen..." the Doctor said holding a finger to his ear.
Rose didn't have to she could hear it. Her eyes threatened to water and she blinked hard. It was so sad. Like they were crying out together, hoping something would listen and help them.
"Oh my head!" the Doctor said suddenly.
"What is it?"
"Can't you hear it? The singing?" he asked her and she shook her head.
Rose was turned to the other side. There was a massive crate next to them. Filled with Ood. But this one was different. They were scared, and shy, like they were hiding from them. "Doctor." she whispered.
They looked over and saw the crate too. "They look different from the others." Donna said at they came closer.
"They're natural born. They haven't been processed, or plugged in. Before they become slaves, unspoiled." Rose said sadly.
"That's their song." the Doctor said quietly.
Rose blinked again, trying to stop the tears that threatened to spill over.
"I can't hear it." Donna said wondering what it sounded like. She didn't she Rose behind her trying not to cry.
"D'you want to?" the Doctor asked.
"Yeah."
"It's the song of captivity." he warned. That made Rose cover her mouth. The song of captivity. It made her angry. Those people were going to have to answer to her now.
"Let me hear it."
"Face me." he said and put his hands on her temples. "Open your mind. Hear it Donna. That's it. Hear the music."
Donna gasps and doesn't control her crying like Rose did. "Take it away!"
"Sure?"
"I can't bear it." she said quietly. He put his hands on her temples again and took it away.
"I'm sorry." she said.
"It's ok Donna." that was when he noticed Rose looking into the crate and trying her best not to cry.
"Those people...they should hear this. They should listen to what they did to these Ood. Then again they might not even care." she said harshly. "I'm going to help you. I promise." she said quietly to the Ood.
"Rose...do you hear it?" he asked a bit shocked.
She didn't turn to him but she closed her eyes and nodded. "Yeah. I've never heard anything like it before." she said quietly.
That didn't make sense. If Donna couldn't hear it, Rose shouldn't be able to. They were both human. Well then again, Rose was over a hundred now. "Do you want me to take it away?" he asked quietly.
"I don't think you can. Besides. You can't take it away for them." she said and stood. She helped Donna up and hugged her.
"How do you stand it?" Donna whispered.
"Because now were going to make them pay. This whole company. This won't go on for long." Rose broke away and Donna nodded.
"You bet we will." she said evenly. "You're braver than you look Rose." smirking slightly.
Rose grinned. "Not so bad yourself Miss. Noble. Ready to shake things up a bit?"
The Doctor smiled slightly then turned and unlocked the crate with the sonic. Suddenly there was a loud bang on the door from outside.
"They're breaking in." Donna said.
"Ah, let them. Like Rose said, let's shake things up." the Doctor said with that mad sort of grin.
He walked into the cage and all the Ood backed away as far as they could. "What are you holding? Show me, friend. Doctor Rose Donna friends. Let me see, look at me...let me see." he said softly and one stepped closer. "That's it, that's it. Go on..."
The Ood opened his palms and they saw a small brain. "Is that..." Donna asked.
"It's a brain, hind brain. The Ood are born with secondary brains. It processes memory and emotions. Get rid of that you wouldn't be Donna anymore. You'd be like the processed Ood."
"They never know what freedom is because they don't have any instinct in them anymore. Why they actually do need humans. To guide them." Rose said in disgust. These people...how could they do this? It was sick.
"The company cut off their brains..." Donna said.
"And stitch on the translator!" the Doctor said, well past angry now.
"Like a lobotomy...I spent all that time looking for you, because I thought it would be so wonderful out there. But it's not. I want to go home." Donna said quietly.
Rose didn't have time to say anything when the guards kicked in threw the door with one last bang. "They're with the Ood sir." one said coldly.
The Doctor locked the cage with all three of them in there with the Ood. "What are you going to do? Arrest me? Lock me up? Put me in a cage? Well you're too late! Ha!"
They were taken back into a bigger building and handcuffed to some pipes. The sonic was tucked safely away in his pocket, but just out of reach for him.
"Why don't you just come out and say it? FOTO activists!" the man in charge said.
"If that's what friends of the Ood are trying to do, then yes!" the Doctor said.
"The Ood were nothing without us! Just animals roaming around on the ice."
"That's because you can't hear them." he said more evenly.
"They welcome it! It's not as if they put up a fight."
"You idiot! They're born with their brains in their hands. Don't you see, that makes them peaceful. They've got to be cause a creature like that would have to trust anyone it meets!" Donna said straining against the cuffs.
"Nice one." the Doctor said.
"Thank you!"
"The system has worked for over two hundred years. all we've got is a rough batch. The infection is about to be sterilized."
"Sterilized?" Rose protested. He ignored her and she turned her was slightly to the Doctor. "Right pocket?" she whispered. He gave her a very slight nod. She was able to shift and just reach his pocket while the man talked to his friend.
"Canisters primed sir. As soon as the core heats up the gas is released. Give it 200 marks and counting."
"You're going to gas them?" the Doctor asked, well, well, well past angry. Rose managed to pull it out quickly. She didn't have time to ask the setting, it had just unlocked the cage so hopefully it would work on cuffs.
"Kill the livestock. Classic method from the olden days. Still works today."
Suddenly an alarm sounded and the boss and Dr. Ryder left. Rose quickly pointed it at his cuffs and they clicked but he didn't move out of them. "They'll be back. Hand it to me I'll undo yours but don't move out of them." he said. Rose did and he unlocked hers and slipped a hand out to put it back in his pocket. He held his hand behind his back again and the men walked back in.
"What's happening?" the Doctor asked.
"Everything you wanted Doctor. No doubt there'll be a full scale police investigation once this place has been sterilized so I any risk a bullet to the head. I'll leave you too the Ood.
"But there's something else. Something we didn't see isn't there?"
"What d'you mean?" Rose asked.
"A creature like that couldn't survive with a separate brain and hind brain. They'd be at war with themselves. There's got to be something else, a third element, am I right?"
"Again, so clever." the boss said.
"It has to be related to the red eye, what is it?"
"It won't exist for much longer, enjoy your Ood." he said and left with the doctor and his Ood.
"Come on!" the Doctor said dropping his cuffs and undoing Donna's before running out with Rise right behind him. But as soon as they open the door a grip of red eyed Ood march them back in.
"Doctor, Rose, Donna, friends." the Doctor said quickly.
"Circle must be broken!" Donna added.
"Doctor, Rose, Donna, friends." the Doctor said quickly again.
"Circle must be broken!" Donna said only panicking slightly more. The Ood still walked towards them.
"Doctor, Rose, Donna, friends." the Doctor said backing up closer to the wall, but there wasn't much room left.
"Circle must be broken!"
"Friends friends friends!" Rose almost yelled as they were just up against the wall.
Then the Ood stopped. "Doctor Rose Donna, friends." they replied.
"Yes! That's us! Friends, oh yes!" they all said at once.
"I don't know where it is! Where they've gone!" the Doctor said pulling his hair as they looked around. All around them Ood and the guards were fighting.
"What are we looking for?" Donna asked.
"Must be some sort of cave or cavern or..." he started but he was cut off by an explosion that sent them all on the ground.
Rose sat up and the Doctor was immediately beside her. "Are you alright?" he knelt right beside her and put a hand on her back, he honestly looked worried. She just grinned.
"I've had worse. You?" She said and he smirked.
"Fine." he was suddenly very well aware of how close they were and lost what he was about to say.
"Doctor!" Donna said warningly.
They looked up to see another Ood without the red eye standing over them.
The Ood lead them to the Warehouse 15. When the Doctor opened the door there is a massive pit. Rose grabbed his hand and they walked closer to the rail. Inside the pit was a massive brain.
"The Ood brain. It all makes sense. That's the third element. Binding them all together. The telepathic center. It's a shared mind, connecting all the Ood in song." the Doctor said.
"They're going to kill it?" Donna asked.
"No. No they're not." Rose said.
"We found this thing centuries ago beneath the northern glacier." the boss said noticing them.
"The pylons." The Doctor said looking around the brain.
"Around it in a circle. 'The circle must be broken'."
"Damping the telepathic field, stopping them from connecting for over two hundred years."
"If that barrier is there, how'd they reach out again?" Donna asked.
"Maybe it's taken centuries to adapt. The subconscious reaching out."
"But the process was too slow. Had to be accelerated. You should never have given me access to those controls, Mr. Halpen. I lowers it to its minimum. Friends of the Ood, sir. Took me years to infiltrate the company, and I succeeded." Dr. Ryder said.
"Yes. Yes you did." Mr. Halpen said smiling. Then he shoved Dr. Ryder over the edge and into the pit.
"You've murdered him!" Donna said shocked.
"Very observant ginger. Now then...can't say I've ever shot anyone...can't say I'm going to like it. Still..."
"Would you like a drink sir?" the Ood asked.
"I think hair loss is the least of my problems now thanks."
"Please have a drink sir." he said and Mr. Halpen stumbled.
"Have... Have you poisoned me?"
"Natural Ood must never kill, sir." the Ood said.
"Ood graft suspended in biological compound sir." the Ood said almost happily.
"Oh dear..." the Doctor said and Rose raised an eyebrow.
"What's that?" she asked.
"Tell me!" Mr. Halpen shouted.
"Funny thing subconscious, takes all sorts of shapes. Came out in red eye as revenge. Anger in the rabid Ood. And then patience. All that intelligence and mercy in your Ood Sigma. How's that hair loss?"
"What have you done?" he asked as he felt his hair and a bunch came out with his hand.
"Oh they've been preparing you for a long time now. And you're standing next to the Ood brain. Tell me, can you hear it?"
Mr. Halpen reached up his he's and pulled off a layer of skin to reveal an Ood head. Then tentacles came out of his mouth. He was a full Ood.
"They turned him into an Ood?" Donna asked horrified.
"Yep." the Doctor said.
"He's an Ood." she said slowly.
"I noticed."
"He has become Oodkind and we will take care of him." Ood Sigma said.
"It's weird...being with you two. I can't tell what right and wrong anymore." Donna said and Rose put a hand on her arm.
"I know." she whispered just as the detonators started beeping.
"Oh that won't do!" the Doctor said and ran around and switched them off. "That's better. Now Sigma, would you like to do the honor?"
"It is yours Doctor."
The Doctor started to grin, but not that mad grin, a happy, joyful grin that made him look like a little kid sometimes. "Stifled for 200 years and not anymore! The circle is broken. The Ood can sing!"
A much happier and brilliant song starts playing instead of the tearful cries that Rose heard before. Outside they heard the fighting stop and the song got louder. Rose laughed and smiled.
"I can hear it!" Donna said smiling too. The Doctor laughed and hugged Ood sigma who looked a bit confused with the contact.
They were outside and Rose couldn't stop smiling. It was hard with that beautiful song still coming from the Ood.
"That message went out. The song resonated throughout the galaxies. Everyone heard it, everyone knows. The Ood are coming home." the Doctor said grinning.
"We thank you Doctor Donna and Rose. Friends of Ood kind. And what of you now? Will you stay? There is room in the song for you." Ood sigma said.
"Oh I've...we've got a song of our own thanks." he said looking at Rose and she took his hand.
"I think one of your songs must end soon." Sigma said.
Rose froze in place. No. Whatever he meant, it wasn't that. "Meaning?" the Doctor said feeling Rose tense.
"Every song must end." he said simply.
"And who are you talking about?" the Doctor asked more curious now.
"Time will show you Doctor."
"Yeah." he said simply and turned to Donna. "Erm, what about you? D'you still want to go home?"
"No, definitely not." she said grinning.
"Then we'll be off I suppose."
"Take this song with you."
"We will." Rose said smiling.
"Always." the Doctor added.
"And know this Doctor Donna and Rose. You will never be forgotten. Our children will sing of the Doctor Donna and Rose, and our children's children. And the wind and the ice and the snow will carry your names forever."
The Doctor stood with Rose in the kitchen back in the TARDIS with two cups of tea. She just smiled and laughed. "What?" the Doctor asked confused.
"How you manage to get that all over yourself while you're only making tea is astounding Doctor." Rose said wiping a bit of tea from his nose.
"It's very complex." he protested.
"Yeah, if you go around sonic'ing it." she said teasing.
"How else do you get it to boil then?"
"Oh I dunno, the stove perhaps?" she said laughing. He wasn't too sure why it was so funny. "Seriously, you got it all over. I don't know if the TARDIS is going to be too happy with tea all over her floors." the TARDIS hummed as if in agreement.
He pouted. "Well none for you then." he said and took it away from her side of the table.
She mocked offense. "Oh we'll of that's how you're going to be I guess I'll just go off to bed." she said and turned around trying her best not to smile.
His jaw dropped. "How is that fair? You tease me and I get punished?"
"How is that punishing you exactly?" she asked doing her very best to keep a straight face and still raising an eyebrow.
"How...of course it's punishing me." he said as if it were obvious. She saw his ear go slightly pink. Oh she was cruel but he had done it to her oh-so many times before so really this was payback.
"Alright, but how? I'm tired and when I'm tired I got to bed, it's not a punishment, it's a reward for me after a long day. So how does it punish you?"
"Um...ah...well...just because it is." he said defiantly, but his ears gave him away just a little too much and she knew she had him.
She blinked and feigned ignorance. Which wasn't too hard because she wasn't exactly positive she knew anyway. "But why, Doctor?"
He suppressed a groan. Was she doing this on purpose? Was she intentionally saying this to get under his skin? Well she was. And he wasn't sure how to answer or how she wanted him to answer and if the two were even remotely close. What was he supposed to say? Tell her the truth? Well that could get a bit soppy. At least Donna wasn't here. "Well...it's a punishment because...it's...it's not that late." that would work. It had to work. Please, please, let it work.
Rose raised an eyebrow. "Really? And why does the time equal a punishment for you?" she asked stepping closer.
"Um...you're doing this in purpose aren't you?"
"That's irrelevant. Just tell me, Doctor."
Ohh she was...she was evil. He'd have to tell her or she might actually go off and sleep in her room. Alone. And that would mean he would be alone.
"Fine. It's a punishment because that would mean you would be asleep in your bed. And not here, with me. And I really would rather have you here. With me. Because it's you and me. And when it's not I...I don't know. No, yes I do. When it's not you and me I hate it. I always want it to be you and me and I never really did say that I was sorry for locking you in here before. It shouldn't have happened and I was...stupid for thinking that was a good idea. I was...I was worried. Because I want it to be you and me and anything, even being in separate rooms, has the possibility of stopping that, is a punishment. And you most certainly know that Rose Tyler." he said. As he was talking, well a bit of babbling too but still, as he was talking he walked closer to her and now his hand was on her cheek and if he was right, her breathing had stopped then sped up rather quickly. That made him happier than it probably should have done.
"Oh." she said a bit stupidly. She hadn't quite known that.
"You didn't know?" he asked softly.
"Not really. I do now. Most certainly." she said and he grinned slightly before finally reaching down to kiss her. He held her head and supported her neck as her hands slowly ran up to his hair where they had been dying to go the entire day. She pulled him closer and he kissed her more forcefully.
He had to break it, just for a moment. When he did she saw how dark his eyes had gotten and she momentarily forgot how to breathe again. "Rose..."
"I love you. And it's much more than a punishment for me too."
A million and two thoughts were running through his head and they were all about Rose. "Rose? Are you..."
She just grinned. "I said I love you. So shut up." he grinned wider than he had all day and kissed her again, lifting her so her legs were wrapped around his waist and he carried her all the way down the hall, only bumping into a few walls on the way.
When they reached his room he hesitated only for a moment. "Yes." Rose said without even having to hear the question he was about to ask. Then he stopped hesitating.
For those who would complain or whatever let me remind you that this is rated T and I'm not sure how far that stretches so sorry if you wanted more. I hope you enjoy anyway and please review to tell me how its going!
Next chapter will also get into some more of Rose's time away from the Doctor.
I don't really like writing Martha in but i suppose she is necessary to the next two episodes so I had to writ her. Don't worry if you don't like her either, she doesn't stay for too long.
Also, a little random part I added is coming up too! :)