Awkward Situations
A/N: Hello my adoring fans! (Yes I am getting cocky now sorry guys you are making me feel to dang special!) This chapter has two episodes in one because when I finished the first episode it was too short! Only 2,000 or something words! THAT WAS A HECK NO! So it's two episodes. Carissa ends up with Jack in the game. Poor Carissa…. Anyway enjoy! Thanks for all the reviews and follows!
I groaned and got on my feet. My mind felt hung over. I tried to think of my last memory, but it came out blank. I looked to see Jack near me. OH! I was at the game center. OH MY GOD! OF ALL THE GAMES! "Jack…." I groaned weakly and then he came over to me. "Hey Dreamer." He says with a smile. "We are in a dress-up game so do me a favor and kill the robots off the bat please." I plead with him. He laughs.
"That's just rude. I need a new outfit anyway." He says. I glare at him and he laughs and ruffles my hair. Just then the robots walk in. OR roll in I guess. I realize he put me on a couch. "Seriously they have a DE fabricator so please!" I plead again. He smiles at me. Oh my god JACK! I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU FREAKING NAKED PLEASE! OR MYSELF.
So I automatically go behind the couch. NO DE FABRICATOR FOR ME! "Here we go again. We've got our work cut out for us." One of the robots say. "I don't know. He's sort of handsome. Has a good lantern jaw. And she has a good biker thing going for her." The other robot says. BIKER!
"Lantern jaws are so last year." The first robot says. Jack looks at them. I plead him with my eyes. He sighs and grabs a hold of his gun. "Sorry, but, nice to meet you, ladies, but where exactly am I?" Jack asks them. KILL THEM! If anything I could use my energy to kill them. They were just murdering robots after all.
"We're giving you a brand new image." One of the robots say. Jack raises an eyebrow and stands up. "Oh, hold on, I was with the Doctor. Why, is there something wrong with what I'm wearing?" Jack says looking down. I roll my eyes. "It's all very twentieth century. Where did you get that denim?" Another robot asks.
"A little place in Cardiff. It was called the Top Shop." Jack says. I make an OOO shape with my mouth. I might stop by there when we got back. "Ah! Design classic." The robot says. "But we're going to have to find you some new colors. Maybe get rid of that Oklahoma Farm Boy thing you've got going on." The other one says.
"Just stand still and let the Defabricator work its magic." The first robot says. "What's a Defabricator?" Jack asks. Then the robot shoot him with it and all his clothes dissipate. I gag and cover my eyes. "I'VE GONE BLIND!" I yell. I hear Jack laugh. Oh yeah definitely staying behind the couch. "Okay. Defabricator. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Am I naked in front of millions of viewers?" Jack asks.
"JACK SERIOUSLY!" I yell at him. He chuckles. "Absolutely!" The robots say at the same time. "Ladies, your viewing figures just went up." Jack says. PUKE, VOMIT, GAG! I make vomiting sounds with my mouth and I hear Jack laugh. "I'll let you know when it's okay to look." Jack says. I nod. After a while Jack finally speaks. "It's okay now." He says. I uncover my eyes. The robots look at him.
"It's the buccaneer look. Little dash of pirate and just a tweak of President Schwarzenegger." The robot says. "Er, not sure about the vest. What about a little bit of color to lift it?" Jack asks. "Absolutely not. Never wear black with color. It makes the color look cheap and the black look boring. Now, let's talk jackets." The other robot says.
"I kind of like the first one." Jack says pointing to the rack of clothes. I roll my eyes. "No, that's a bit too much Hell's Angel. I think I like the shorter one. Look, waist length, nice and slimming, shows off the bum." The robot says. "LIKE I SAID! VOMIT!" I say gagging. Jack laughs and puts an arm around my shoulder. "Works for me!" Jack says. "BLAH!" I say.
"Once we've got an outfit, we can look at the face. Ever thought about cosmetic surgery?" The robot asks Jack. I love how they completely ignored me. "I've considered it, yeah. A little lift around the eyes. Tighten up the jaw line. What do you think?" Jack asks me. I shake my head. "NO, NO, NO! You do not want to end up like the trampoline!" I yell at him. He looks at me confused.
"Oh, let's have a bit more ambition. Let's do something cutting edge." The robot says. Her arm turns into a chainsaw I stare in shock. Should I warn him? Soon Jack changes in Tennis whites. I uncover my eyes again. "No, I'm just not getting this. It's just too safe. Too decent. And you'd never keep it clean." Jack says. "Stage two, ready and waiting." The robot says.
"Bring it on girls!" Jack says. His clothes are denigrated and I cover my eyes again. "And now it's time for the face off!" The robot says. "What does that mean? Do I get to compete with someone else?" Jack asks. "No. Like I said, face off." The robot says and I hear sounds of a chainsaw. "I think you'd look good with a dog's head." The robot says.
"Or maybe no head at all. That would be so outrageous." The other robot says. "And we could stitch your legs to the middle of your chest." The first robot says. "DON'T YOU DARE!?" I yell at them. But they ignore me. "Nothing is too extreme. It's to die for." The other robot says. I uncover my eyes. I only see the back of Jacks chest though. I keep my eyes up. Nice back though…BAD BAD! I shake my head.
"Now, hold on, ladies. I don't want to have to shoot either one of you." Jack says. I roll my eyes. "I do!" I say and my eyes glow. One of them blows up. "You are unarmed! And naked!" the other robot yells. Jack pulls out a gun. I smirk at them. Oh she was so in for it. If not from me…then from him.
"Where were you hiding that?" The robot asks. Jack rolls his eyes. "You really don't want to know." Jack says before shooting her. She blows up and I smirk. "BYE, BYE!" I say waving. Jack laughs. "How did you do that though?" he asks me. "I just focused. I have energy inside me that makes me able to blow stuff up!" I say smiling. He looks at me amused. "Remind me never to get on your bad side." He says.
I laugh. OH YEAH!
Jack takes apart the Defabricator and soon has a weapon. He turns to the destroyed robot. "Compatible systems. Just align the wave signature. Atta boy! Got myself a gun. Well, ladies, the pleasure was all ours. Which is the only thing that matters in the end." He says pulling me out the door. Once we our out and by the lift doors he checks his wrist.
"Two hearts, that's him. Which floor?" Jack asks himself before pulling me into the lift with him. He presses some buttons and the lift doors close. I smile at him. "So what's the plan!?" I ask him clapping my hands. "We meet Rose and Doc and find out who brought us here and Doc should take care of the rest!" Jack exclaims. I nod.
Soon enough we find the right floor and we see the Doctor and Lynda. I smiled at them and Jack and I run over to them. He throws his brightest smile. "Hey, handsome. Good to see you? Any sign of Rose?" Jack asks. "Can't you track her down?" The Doctor asks Jack. The Doctor looks at me and then pulls me into his arms.
What… "Um…What's this for?" I ask him. He looks down at me. "For being alive. When I heard about all the different games…I got worried." The Doctor says. I roll my eyes. "I'm fine. Jack track Rose down." I say to him. Jack shakes his head.
"She must still be inside the games. All the rooms are shielded." Jack says. The Doctor pulls away and goes over to a computer console. "If I can just get inside this computer. She's got to be here somewhere." The Doctor says as he starts to work on it. "Well, you'd better hurry up. These games don't have a happy ending." Jack says shaking his head. "Do you think I don't know that!?" The Doctor snaps.
Oh wow. Jack hands over his wrist computer. "There you go, patch that in. It's programmed to find her." Jack says. "Jack that's not creepy at all…" I say sarcastically. "Thanks." The Doctor says. "Hey there." Jack says to Lynda. "Here we go…" I say rolling my eyes. "Hello." Lynda says. "Captain Jack Harkness." Jack says with a flirty smile. "Lynda Moss." She says.
"Nice to meet you, Lynda Moss." Jack says. I groan. "Do you mind flirting outside?" the Doctor asks. "Right!?" I say. "I was just saying hello!" Jack says. "For you that's flirting." The Doctor says. I nod. "I'm not complaining." Lynda says. "Muchas gracias." Jack says. "OH MY GOD YOU GUYS WANT ME TO VOMIT TODAY DON'T YOU!" I yell rolling my eyes.
"It's not compatible. This stupid system doesn't make sense." The Doctor yells. The Doctor gives the computer to Lynda and kicks the console. Jack takes off the front plate.
"This place should be a basic broadcaster, but the systems are twice as complicated. It's more than just television. This station's transmitting something else." The Doctor says. "Like what?" Jack asks. "I don't know. This whole Bad Wolf thing's tied up with me. Someone's manipulated my entire life. It's some sort of trap and Rose is stuck inside it. Carissa tell me what I should know!" The Doctor says.
I think for a moment. Then I figure out something what to tell him. "We find Rose." I say to him. He sighs but nods. I couldn't tell him what Bad Wolf was about. Not yet anyway.
It takes a while but finally the Doctor speaks. "Found her. Floor four O seven." The Doctor says. Lynda's mouth goes wide. "Oh, my God, she's with the Anne Droid. You've got to get her out of there." Lynda shouts. "Come on, come on!" The Doctor says when we get to the lift. Once we are out we run to the doors.
"Game Room Six, which one is it?" The Doctor shouts. Lynda finds it. "Over here!" Lynda shouts. We all run over. "Stand back, let me blast it open." Jack shouts. The Doctor shakes. "You can't. It's made of Hydra combination." The Doctor says. The Doctor starts working on the locks. "Come on, come on, come on." The Doctor shouts.
We finally get in. "STOP THE GAME!" I yell at the android. It doesn't stop though. "Rose! Stop this game!" the Doctor yells. The Android ignores us and continues. "Stop this game!" Jack shouts. "I order you to stop this game!" The Doctor shouts. Rose runs over to us and I run over to her. "Rose stay behind me." I say to her. She nods and gets behind me. "You are the weakest link! Goodbye!" The android says and shoots. Then everything goes black.
I open my eyes and I am in a corner of a room up against a wall. Suddenly a Dalek comes over to me. "OH IT'S PEPPER SHAKER! HEY BUDDY!" I say holding my arms out. "You will cease talking!" It shouts. "No thanks!" I say smiling. "You will follow." The Dalek says. I nod and follow. The Dalek leads me to a room full of them. I sigh looking at all of them. I smile.
"HELLO PEPPER SHAKER! HOW YOU DOING!?" I yell at them smiling. "You will cease communication!" The Dalek says. I shake my head. "Nope!" I say popping the "P". "WE ARE BEING BETRAYED!" One Dalek yells. "THAT'S SO SHOCKING!" I say sarcastically. "Bring her!" The Dalek yells. Suddenly a transmat beam hits and the Controller gets zapped and is on the floor.
"Oh, my masters, you can kill me, for I have brought your destruction." She says. They are about to shoot but I speak up. "PLEASE DON'T!" I beg. The Dalek turns to me. "You will cease-"It starts but I cut it off. "NO I WON'T! LEAVE HER ALONE! Look me up Dalek's! See what I will do if you hurt her." I say to them. It goes silent for a moment before they speak. "Put her with the other!" The Dalek shouts.
The Controller is brought and put next to me. I sigh in relief. I pull her to me. "Are you all right?" I ask her. She nods. "Thank you for speaking up." She says. I smirk. "Anytime! I'm Carissa by the way!" I say. She laughs and smiles. "I know." She says. "Oh that's right! You brought us here! Good idea by the way!" I say to her. She gives a thumbs up. "CEASE!" A Dalek yells. I don't test them and we fall silent.
Soon alarms go off and the Daleks start rolling around. "Alert. Alert. We are detected." A Dalek yells. I roll my eyes. "It is the Doctor. He has located us. Open communications channel." The Dalek yells. The Daleks turn to us. "The females will stand! STAND!" It yells. I roll my eyes. We walk over to them.
A holo-view screen pops into view with Floor 500 on it. The Doctor is on the screen. "I will talk to the Doctor." The Dalek says. The Doctor smirks. "Oh, will you? That's nice. Hello!" The Doctor says waving. I wave back. "The Dalek stratagem nears completion. The fleet is almost ready. You will not intervene." The Dalek says. The Doctor rolls his eyes.
"Oh really, why's that!" The Doctor asks. "We have your associate. You will obey or she will be exterminated." The Dalek says. I scoff. "YEAH RIGHT!" I say rolling my eyes. The Dalek looks at me. It pushes it's plunger up against me and a bolt of electricity bolts through me.
I groan and almost fall to the ground, but the Controller keeps me up. Sweat comes down my forehead but the Dalek doesn't move. "DO NOT HURT HER!" the Doctor yells angrily. The Dalek moves its plunger away from me. I sigh in relief and the Controller keeps me up. "You alright?" She asks me. I nod. She sighs in relief and helps me all the way to my feet.
The Doctor looks at the Dalek. "No." The Doctor says. The Dalek turns to the screen. "Explain yourself!" It shouts. "I said no." The Doctor says seriously. "What is the meaning of this negative?" The Dalek shouts. "It means no." The Doctor says seriously. "But she will be destroyed." The Dalek says. The Doctor stands up. "NO!" He yells.
"Because this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to rescue her. I'm going to save Carissa Lewis and The Controller from the middle of the fleet. And then I'm going to save the Earth, and then, just to finish off, I'm going to wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!" The Doctor yells.
"But you have no weapons, no defenses, no plan." The Dalek states. The Doctor nods. "Yeah and doesn't that scare you to death! Carissa?" He says looking for me. I look up at him. "I'm coming to get you." He says. "You better hurry!" I say. He laughs and ends the transmission with MY sonic! "WAIT A MINUTE!" I yell. HE HAD MY SONIC! HOW DARE HIM!
"The Doctor is initiating hostile action." One of the Dalek's says. "The stratagem must advance. Begin the invasion of Earth!" Another Dalek says. "The Doctor will be exterminated!" Another Dalek says. "Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!" All the Daleks say at once. The Controller grips me tighter. I shoo her. "It's going to be fine!" I say to her reassuring.
She doesn't seem to believe me, but she nods. I look at the Daleks. "You know the future! You will predict his actions!" One of the Daleks say to me. I shake my head. "No thanks!" I say to them. It presses it's plunger against me again and another electric shock goes through me. The Controller pulls me away. The Dalek moves away from me. I whimper. THAT CRAP HURT!
"Predict! Predict! Predict!" They yell at me. "I WON'T!" I say weakly at them. They move to me again but stop. "TARDIS detected in flight." A Dalek shouts. "Launch missiles. Exterminate." The Daleks shout. I can't help it I say something. But I take Rose's line so they don't know they fail.
"You can't! The Tardis hasn't got any defenses. You're going to kill him!" I yell weakly. "You've predicted correctly." The Dalek says.
But I know it fails and the TARDIS materializes around us and also a Dalek. "Carissa get down!" The Doctor shouts. I do so and bring my new friend down with me. A shot is heard and it explodes. I sigh in relief. Suddenly I am lifted off my feet. I look up to see The Doctor. He looks over me worriedly. "You alright?" He asks me. I think for a moment but shake my head. "Not really." I say honestly.
I felt really weak. The Doctor nods. Rose runs over. "CARISSA!" She yells also worried. I roll my eyes. Worry warts. "Doc you can put me down." I say. The Doctor raises an eyebrow. "Oh yeah you are definitely hurt you just called me Doc instead of Bob." He says. I think on that and realize that I did. Wow. "Jack hold her." He says and hands me over to Jack. I groan.
"Seriously you can put me down." I say to them. "No can do. Do you know how upset we were? I thought you died!" He says hugging me tighter. I look up to see tears in his eyes. I put a hand on his face. "Jack I'm right here. I'm okay. And I saved someone." I say pointing to my new friend. She waves. The Doctor walks over to her. "Nice to see you are okay!" He says patting her on the back. She nods.
"Nice shot with the gun Jack." I say to Jack. He nods. "Oh, you were lucky. That was just a one shot wonder. Drained the gun of all its power supply. Now it's just a piece of junk." Jack says. "One shot wonder…" I say laughing. He smiles.
"You said they were extinct. How comes they're still alive?" Rose asks. "One minute they're the greatest threat in the Universe, the next minute they vanished out of time and space." Jack says. "Wish they had stayed gone." I say. Jack smirks at me. "Me too." He says.
"They went off to fight a bigger war. The Time War." The Doctor says. Jack looks at him shocked. "I thought that was just a legend." Jack says. The Doctor shakes his head.
"I was there. The war between the Daleks and the Time Lords, with the whole of creation at stake. My people were destroyed, but they took the Daleks with them. I almost thought it was worth it. Now it turns out they died for nothing." The Doctor says frowning. I look at him. "I'm sorry." I say to him. He nods.
"There's thousands of them now. We could hardly stop one. What're we going to do?" Rose says. I raise my hand. "Yes Carissa?" She asks me. "I can blow them up with my Atron energy!" I say smirking. The Doctor shake his head. "No way. That takes a lot of your energy you could die from it. Not going to happen." He says. I sigh and nod.
"No good stood round here chin wagging. Human race, you'd gossip all day. The Daleks have got the answers. Let's go and meet the neighbors." He says clapping his hands and walking out. Rose follows him. "You can't go out there!" Rose shouts as she goes. Jack sets me down and I wobble. "Stay here." I say to the Controller and she nods.
Jack helps me walk and we walk out as well. "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!" The Daleks yell shooting their beams but just bouncing off. They stop seeing it is pointless. "Is that it? Useless! Nul points. It's all right, come on out. That force field can hold back anything." The Doctor says leaning against the TARDIS. "Almost-"Jack starts before I cover his mouth.
"Yes, but I wasn't going to tell them that. Thanks." The Doctor says. I uncover Jack's mouth. "Sorry." Jack says.
"Do you know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek Home world? The Oncoming Storm. And you brought it on yourself for hurting Carissa. You might've removed all your emotions but I reckon right down deep in your DNA, there's one little spark left, and that's fear. Doesn't it just burn when you face me? So tell me. How did you survive the Time War?" The Doctor asks.
A loud booming voice speaks. "They survived through me." The voice says. We all look over to see the big Pepper shaker. "Big Pepper shaker…" I say looking at it. Jack covers my mouth. "Rose, Captain, Carissa, this is the Emperor of the Daleks." The Doctor says. I wave at it smiling.
"You destroyed us, Doctor. The Dalek race died in your inferno, but my ship survived, falling through time, crippled but alive." The Emperor says. "Aw poor Daleks! NOT!" I say rolling my eyes. "I get it." The Doctor says. "DO NOT INTERUPT!" The Daleks says.
"I think you're forgetting something. I'm the Doctor, and if there's one thing I can do, its talk. I've got five billion languages, and you haven't got one way of stopping me. So if anybody's going to shut up, it's you! Okey doke. So, where were we?" The Doctor asks smirking. I flinched when he yelled. I saw the Oncoming Storm and I did not like it.
"We waited here in the dark space, damaged but rebuilding. Centuries passed, and we quietly infiltrated the systems of Earth, harvesting the waste of humanity. The prisoners, the refugees, the dispossessed. They all came to us. The bodies were filtered, pulped, sifted. The seed of the human race is perverted. Only one cell in a billion was fit to be nurtured." The Emperor says.
"So you created an army of Daleks out of the dead." The Doctor says. "That makes them half human!" Rose says. I shake my head. "Not really." I mutter. "Those words are blasphemy." The Emperor says. "Do not blasphemy." The Daleks say. "OH MY GOD!" I say rolling my eyes.
"Everything human has been purged. I cultivated pure and blessed Dalek." The Emperor says. "Since when did the Daleks have a concept of blasphemy?" The Doctor asks. "I reached into the dirt and made new life. I am the God of all Daleks!" The Emperor says. "Worship him. Worship him. Worship him." The Daleks yell.
"They're insane. Hiding in silence for hundreds of years, that's enough to drive anyone mad. But it's worse than that. Driven mad by your own flesh. The stink of humanity. You hate your own existence. And that makes them more deadly than ever. We're going." The Doctor says pulling us along. "You may not leave my presence!" The Emperor says. "Stay where you are EXTERMINATE!" The Daleks say.
We leave their presence as they try to shoot us we leave. The Doctor runs around the console. The TARDIS starts flying away. The Controller is sitting on the chair. I smile at her and she smiles back.
We get back to Floor 500. I tell the Controller to stay there and she says okay. We walk out of the TARDIS. "Turn everything up. All transmitters full power, wide open. Now! Do it!" The Doctor shouts at everyone. "What does this do?" A man asks. I guess its Pavale. "Stops the Daleks from transmatting on board. How did you get on? Did you contact Earth?" The Doctor nods.
"Well, we tried to warn them, but all they did was suspend our license because we stopped the programmes." Pavale says. "And the planet's just sitting there, defenseless. Lynda, what're you still doing on board? I told you to evacuate everyone." The Doctor says. "She wouldn't go." Pavale says. "I wouldn't leave you." Lynda says.
"There weren't enough shuttles anyway, or I wouldn't be here. We've got about a hundred people stranded on Floor Zero." A woman says. "Oh, my God. The Fleet is moving. They're on their way." Pavale says. Oh boy…
"Dalek plan. Big mistake, because what have they left me with? Anyone? Anyone? Oh, come on, it's obvious. A great big transmitter. This station. If I can change the signal, fold it back, sequence it, anyone?" The Doctor says. "You've got to be kidding." Jack says shocked. "Give the man a medal." The Doctor says. "A Delta-wave?" Jack asks. "A Delta-Wave!" The Doctor says.
"What's a Delta Wave?" Rose asks. "A wave of Van Cassadyne energy. It fries your brain. Stand in the way of a Delta Wave and your head gets barbequed." Jack says. "WHOOSH!" I say. Jack smiles at me. "And this place can transmit a massive wave. Wipe out the Daleks!" The Doctor says. Lynda smiles. "Well get started and do it!" Lynda says.
"Trouble is, wave this size, building this big, brain as clever as mine, should take about, oh, three days? How long till the Fleet arrive?" The Doctor asks. "Twenty two minutes." Pavale says. A little bit later… "We've now got a forcefield so they can't blast us out of the sky, but that doesn't stop the Daleks from physically invading." Jack says.
"Do they know about the Delta Wave?" Pavale asks.
"They'll have worked it out at the same time. So, they want to stop the Doctor. That means they've got to get to this level, five hundred. Now, I can concentrate the extrapolator around the top six levels, five hundred to four nine five. So they'll penetrate the station below that at level four nine four and fight their way up." Jack says.
"Who are they fighting?" Pavale asks. "Us." Jack answers. "The guards had guns with bastic bullets. That's enough to blow a Dalek wide open." Jack says. "There's six of us." A woman says. "Rose, you can help me. I need all these wires stripping bare." The Doctor says. She walks over. "Great now there is five of us." A woman says. "Carissa isn't fighting she is staying too." The Doctor says.
"You can't boss me around." I say to him. "How old are you?" The Doctor asks me. "17? Why?" I ask The Doctor. "I'm over 900 years old. I get to boss you around." The Doctor says. "I'm not a child." I say glaring at him. "Sure you are." The Doctor says. I stay put. So he gets up and drags me over to him. "And now there are four of us." That woman says.
"Then let's move it. Into the lift. Isolate the lift controls." Jack says. Pavale and the others take off. Except Lynda and Jack. "I just want to say, er, thanks, I suppose, and I'll do my best." Lynda says. "Me too." The Doctor says. Lynda smiles and moves away. "It's been fun, but I guess this is goodbye." Jack says. I shake my head. "No its not. We are going to see each other again." I tell Jack.
"Carissa, Rose you are worth fighting for." He says. Then he plants a kiss on my lips. He pulls away and does the same to Rose. "Wish I'd never met you, Doctor. I was much better off as a coward." Jack says kissing him. "No you weren't." I say to Jack. He laughs. "See you in hell!" he says and leaves. I look at the Doctor. "I could help them." I say to the Doctor. He shakes his head.
"You are a kid. Not going to happen." The Doctor says. I glance at the door. I could save lives. But the Doctor grabs my arm before I dash. I look at him. "Like I said. Not going to happen." The Doctor says. "He's going to be all right, isn't he?" Rose asks. We both fall silent. Rose and I start helping strip the wires. "Suppose." Rose starts before shaking her head.
"What?" The Doctor asks. "Nothing." Rose asks. "You said suppose." The Doctor says. ": No, I was just thinking. I mean, obviously you can't, but, you've got a time machine. Why can't you just go back to last week and warn them?" Rose says. The Doctor shakes his head. "As soon as the Tardis lands in that second, I become part of events, stuck in the timeline." The Doctor says.
Rose nods. "Yeah, thought it'd be something like that" Rose says. "There's another thing the Tardis could do. It could take us away. We could leave. Let history take its course. We go to Marbella in 1989." The Doctor says. Rose chuckles. "Yeah but you would never do that." Rose says. I nod agreeing. "No, but you could ask. Never even occurred to you guys, did it?" the Doctor says.
"Well it did, but I wouldn't do that." I say to him. He laughs. "The Delta Wave's started building. How long does it need?" The Doctor asks himself and runs over to the console. "Is that bad? Okay, it's bad. How bad is it?" Rose asks. Here we go. "Rose Tyler, you're a genius! We can do it. If I use the Tardis to cross my old timeline. Yes!" The Doctor says dragging me into the TARDIS Rose follows.
"Hold that down and keep position." The Doctor says to Rose. "What's it do?" Rose asks. LIES! "Cancels the buffers. If I'm very clever and I'm more than clever, I'm brilliant, I might just save the world. Or rip it apart" The Doctor says. I go over to the TARDIS doors. Sorry Rose I was going to help the people downstairs. "I'd go with the first one!" Rose says.
The Doctor looks at me for a while. "My sonic by the way!" I say holding my hand out. He sighs taking it out of his pocket and handing it to me. I smirk but he handcuffs my hand to the railing. I look at him in shock. Rose doesn't notice. "Me too. Now, I've just got to go and power up the Game Station. Hold on!" The Doctor says running out. He shuts the doors behind him. I yank at the restraint.
"DOCTOR PLEASE!" I yell. Rose looks over. The engines start. "Doctor, what're you doing? Can I take my hand off? It's moving." Rose says. She runs over to the doors. "Doctor let me out!" She yells banging against the doors. I point my sonic at the restraint with my free hand. It breaks free and I go over to the door too. "DOCTOR DON'T DO THIS PLEASE!" I yell. The Controller comes from the hallway.
She runs over. "He's making us leave." I told her. "Well that's not going to happen." She says helping us bang against the door. A holo Doctor pops up behind us.
"This is Emergency Programme One. Rose, now listen, this is important. If this message is activated, then it can only mean one thing. We must be in danger. And I mean fatal. I'm dead or about to die any second with no chance of escape." The Doctor Holo says. "NO!" Rose yells.
"And that's okay. Hope it's a good death. But I promised to look after you, and that's what I'm doing. The Tardis is taking you home." The Doctor Holo says.
"I won't let you." Rose says. "Neither will us." The Controller and I say at the same time.
"And I bet you're fussing and moaning now. Typical. But hold on and just listen a bit more. The Tardis can never return for me. Emergency Programme One means I'm facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you guys should do. Let the Tardis die. Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it. No one'll even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years, the world will move on and the box will be buried. And if you guys want to remember me, then you two can do one thing. That's all, one thing. Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose, Carissa. Have a fantastic life." The Doctor Holo says.
The hologram fades out. I move over to the console. "Come on Sexy save me some time. Let me save some time. Open up please." I say to it. The TARDIS hums a wait. I hit the console tears in my eyes. "PEOPLE ARE DYING! PEOPLE I CAN SAVE! PLEASE! SEXY PLEASE!" I say tears coming down my eyes. I get no reply and I sink to the ground. The Controller comes to my side and tries to comfort me.
But I just push her away. When the TARDIS lands Rose comes over to the console as well.
"You can't do this to me. You can't. Take me back! Take me back! No!" Rose says. She runs out and after a few seconds runs back in. The engines have stopped. "Come on, fly. How do you fly? Come on, help me!" Rose says also crying. I shake my head. The Controller looks at us and hugs Rose. "I am so sorry." She says. We don't respond. How can we?
Soon we both walk outside. The Controller didn't want to start a riot because she did look like an alien. Mickey runs towards us. "I knew it! I was all the way down Clifton Parade, and I heard the engines. I thought, there's only one thing that makes a noise like that. What is it?"
He asks looking at our faces. I shake my head. Rose hugs him and cries in his shoulder. I just look at them. Mickey hugs Rose back. He mouths what's up to me but I don't answer. I just shake my head. Tears still coming down. I couldn't even speak. Mickey takes Rose to lunch while I just stand there by the TARDIS. I couldn't move. People were dying and I couldn't stop it.
Rose could turn into the Bad Wolf but I could prevent that. But then I would be the cause of The Doctor regenerating. God knows I didn't want that. But I had too. So I just stood there by the TARDIS, waiting for Rose to come back. So I could save him. So we could save him. TALK ABOUT GIRL POWER!
A little while later Rose comes back with Mickey. I go inside and Rose follows me. "All the Tardis needs to do is make a return trip. Just reverse." Rose says. Mickey nods. "Yeah but it still can't do that." Mickey points out. Rose shakes her head. "The Doctor always said the Tardis was telepathic. This thing is alive. It can listen." Rose says. "It's not listening now, is it?" Mickey says.
"We need to get inside it. Last time we saw you, with the Slitheen, this middle bit opened, and there was this light, and the Doctor said it was the heart of the Tardis. If we can open it, we can make contact. We can tell it what to do." Rose says. I nod. "Let me talk to her though." I say. She raises an eyebrow. "Why?" she asks. "Rose just trust me." I say to her. She nods.
"Rose." Mickey says. "Mmm..." Rose replies. "If you guys go back, you're going to die." Mickey says. I nod. "Mickey he's our friend. He might irritate the crap out of me but I still love him. That's a risk I am willing to take. Rose when we see him don't tell him I said that!" I order her. She nods smirking.
"That's a risk we've got to take, because there's nothing left for us here." Rose says. OY! "HEY!" I snap at her. She shrugs. "Nothing?" Mickey asks. Rose shakes her head. "No." She says. OUCH! "Okay, if that's what you think, let's get this thing open." Mickey says leaving. He comes back with a chain and he hooks it to the console. He drags the chain back to his car and hooks it to there too.
He drives forward slowly, trying to pull it open. "FASTER!" I yell from the opened door TARDIS. He does. But the console doesn't budge. "Come on Sexy!" I yell at her. She doesn't respond. She was ignoring me. "COME ON!" Mickey yells from his car. "It's not moving!" Rose says. The chain breaks. Rose kicks the console in frustration. I hug her. "Don't worry we will got this." I say to Rose. She nods.
Rose sits on the console chair. Her mom walks in and sits next to her. "It was never going to work, sweetheart. And the Doctor knew that. He just wanted you two to be safe." Jackie says. I frown at her. "I can't give up." Rose says. "Lock the door. Walk away." Jackie pleads. "I wouldn't leave so you would have to lock me in." I say to Jackie.
"Dad wouldn't give up." Rose says. Jackie is silent for a moment. "Well, he's not here, is he? And even if he was, he'd say the same." Jackie says. Rose shakes her head. "No, he wouldn't. He'd tell me to try anything. If I could save the Doctor's life, try anything." Rose says. Jackie shrugs. "Well, we're never going to know." Jackie says. "Actually she does." I mutter.
"Well, I know because I met him. I met Dad." Rose says. "Don't be ridiculous." Jackie says. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME!" I yell at her. She glares at me before turning away. "The Doctor took me back in time. I met dad." Rose says. "Don't say that." Jackie says.
"Remember when Dad died? There was someone with him. A girl, a blonde girl. She held his hand. You saw her from a distance, Mum. You saw her! Think about it. That was me. You saw me." Rose says. "Stop it." Jackie shouts clearly distressed. "That's how good the Doctor is." Rose says. "Stop it! STOP IT!" Jackie yells running out. Rose sits there unmoving.
I go over to her. "It's going to be okay Rose." I say to her. She nods. Rose walks outside. I sit there and sigh. Kids… And Jackie! This was the Doctor! We had to help him! I hear engines going and I realize her mom must have got her the big truck. Soon the chain is hooked to it and Rose comes inside. I stay right by where it was going to open so I am the one who gets the Bad Wolf inside of me.
Then the chain is yanked and Mickey steps on the gas. "Keep going!" Rose yells. "Put your foot down!" Jackie yells. "PICKLES!" I yell. I wanted to be part of. Soon the console burst open. I look inside it. Go ahead Sexy. I say to the TARDIS. Rose watches as the glowing yellow light goes inside my eyes. The TARDIS doors slams and we take off.
When we land I tell Rose to stay inside and I walk outside. I see the emperor on screen and Daleks surrounding the Doctor who is now is on his feet looking at me. The light grows around me. "What've you done!?" The Doctor yells at me. "I looked into the TARDIS so Rose wouldn't have to. And the TARDIS looked into me." I say to him. Tears are coming down my eyes.
All the knowledge going through my head hurt so badly. But I push that aside and focus on saving the Doctor from the Pepper Shakers. "You looked into the Time Vortex. Carissa, no one's meant to see that." The Doctor says. "This is the Abomination!" The Emperor says. I do the, me thing and stick my tongue out at it. "EXTERMINATE!" A Dalek says and shoots its gun but I just catch it in my hand and send it back.
"I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words, I scatter them in time and space. A message to lead myself here." I say taking Rose's line. Or was that the Bad Wolf talking? "Carissa, you've got to stop this. You've got to stop this now. You've got the entire vortex running through your head. You're going to burn." The Doctor pleads. I shake my head.
"I want you safe. My Doctor. Protected from the false god of the pepper shakers." I say smirking when the Emperor looks at me with a furious look in his eyes. "You cannot hurt me. I am immortal." The Emperor says. I laugh. "I would be happy to test that! You are tiny. I can see the whole of time and space. Every single atom of your existence, and I divide them." I say and point to the Dalek.
It is disintegrated into dust. "Everything must come to dust. All things. Everything dies. The Time War ends." I say smirking. I mouth you win to the Doctor. The Daleks crumble into nothing and I finish off the Emperor and his spaceship. "Carissa, you've done it now let go!" He pleads with me.
"I have to save Jack first." I say searching for Jack's body. Once I find it I bring it back. Along with Pavale and that other woman. "But this is wrong! You can't control life and death." The Doctor shouts. I raise an eyebrow. "But I can. The sun and the moon, the day and night. But why do they hurt?" I ask. "The power's going to kill you and it's my fault." The Doctor shouts. I shake my head.
"No it isn't. You didn't make me look. It's not your fault. I can see everything. All that is, all that was, all that ever could be." I say through tears. I just realized I was still crying. "That's what I see. All the time. And doesn't it drive you mad?" The Doctor says. I nod. "My head." I say walking toward him. "Come here." He says walking toward me too. "It's killing me." I say. He smiles when we are close.
He steadies me with his arms. "I think you need a Doctor." He says. He kisses me and I kiss him back. I feel all that energy going away. Once it is all gone though all I can see is black and the world crashes in. But The Doctor catches me before I fall.
I wake up on the console chair a leather jacket over my body. I look over at him seeing him talk to Rose and smiles when he sees I am awake. "What happened?" I say. I couldn't really remember anything. DID I SAVE ROSE!? "Don't you remember?" The Doctor asks. I think for a moment then remember humming. Like on the show. "There was this singing…" I say.
The Doctor nods. "That's right. I sang a song and the Daleks ran away." He says. "Was it that bad?" I ask him. He laugh and nods. "Oh yes!" He says. I smile. "I was in the TARDIS and there was this light. A very bright light. I can't remember much after that." I say to him. He nods.
"Carissa Lewis and Rose Tyler, I was going take you to so many places. Barcelona. Not the city Barcelona, the planet Barcelona. You'd love it. Fantastic place. They've got dogs with no noses. Imagine how many times a day you end up telling that joke, and it's still funny." The Doctor says laughing. Rose looks at him. "Why can't you?" She asks him.
"Maybe you guys will, and maybe I will. But not like this." he says. Rose looks at him confused. "You're not making sense." Rose states. Tears come in my eyes. He was regenerating.
"I might never make sense again. I might have two heads, or no head. Imagine me with no head. And don't say that's an improvement. But it's a bit dodgy, this process. You never know what you're going to end up with" The Doctor says. He doubles over in pain. I shot straight up ignoring the jacket falling to the ground and try to help him up. So does Rose. "DOCTOR!" She shouts running over. He takes a step back.
"No stay away!" He yells. Rose stays put but I keep walking towards him. I did it but at a cost. He was regenerating. And it was my fault. Wonder if he kissed me…NO NOT THE TIME! He grabs my shoulders to keep a distance. "Carissa I know what you are thinking already and it wasn't your fault now please do what I say and stay back." He pleads. I sigh and take a step back. Then I notice the Controller isn't here.
"Where's my friend?" I ask the Doctor. "Took her to a nearby planet." He says. I nod. "Doctor, tell us what's going on." Rose pleads. "I absorbed all the energy of the Time Vortex, and no one's meant to do that. Every cell in my body's dying." The Doctor says. Rose starts to cry. "Can't you do something?" Rose sobs. The Doctor nods.
"Yeah, I'm doing it now. Time Lords have this little trick, it's sort of a way of cheating death. Except it means I'm going to change, and I'm not going to see you two again. Not like this. Not with this daft old face. And before I go…" The Doctor starts before Rose cuts him off. "Don't say that." Rose says. The Doctor puts up a hand.
"Rose, Carissa, before I go, I just want to tell you guys, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? So was I." He says before regenerating. And soon standing there in all his glory is Converse. I called the 10th Doctor back at him Converse.
The brown hair. The skinny. The smile. He looked bad in those clothes though. He definitely needed his suit. "Hello. Okay. Ooo, new teeth. That's weird. So, where was I? Oh, that's right. Barcelona." The Doctor says smirking. OH HERE WE GO!
