Right, here we go with the final part of Boom Town.

Rose was almost back at the Tardis, she stopped suddenly when she saw the light that was coming from the Tardis. She began to run again, hoping to get back to the safety of the Tardis before something happened to her or her baby.

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The Extrapolator began to spark also "It's the extrapolator." Jack told the Doctor "I've disconnected it, but it's still feeding off the engine. It's using the Tardis, I can't stop it."

"never mind Cardiff, it's gonna rip open the planet."

Rose ran into the Tardis "What is it?" she asked "What's happening."

"Oh! Just little me." said Margaret.

The Doctor ran to get Rose away from Margaret, but it was too late, she had already taken the skin off of her arm to reveal her rather long Slitheen arm and caught Rose around the neck.

"One wrong move and she snaps like a promise."

The Doctor and Jack watched with worried looks on their faces as Rose struggled in the grip of the Rexicoricophalvitorian

"I might have known." said the Doctor

"I've had you bleating all night, poor baby. Now shut it." said Margaret "You, fly boy. Put the extrapolator at my feet." Jack didn't move at first so she tightened her grip on Rose who was still struggling, he looked at the Doctor, who nodded. Jack picked up the extrapolator and put it on the floor at the Slitheen's feet. "Thank you." she said in a slickly sweet voice. "just as I planned."

"I thought you needed to blow up the nuclear power station." Rose struggled to say.

"Failing that." Margaret said "If I were to be arrested, then anyone capable of tracking me down would have considerable technology of their own. Therefore they would be captivated by the extrapolator. Especially a magpie-mind like yours Doctor. So the extrapolator was programmed to go to plan B. To lock on to the nearest alien power source and open the rift. And what a power source it found. I'm back on schedule. Thanks to you."

"The rift's gonna convulse, you'll destroy the whole planet." said Jack

"And you with it." Margaret said she moved Rose to the other side of her and stepped on the board "While I ride this board over the crest of the inferno, all the way to freedom. Stand back boys. Surf's up." The Tardis began to fall a part. A panel opened on the console and a golden light emitted from it.

"Of course opening the rift means you'll pull this ship apart." said the Doctor

"So sue me."

"It's not just any old power source." the Doctor continued as though she hadn't spoken "It's the Tardis, my Tardis. The best ship in the universe."

"It'll make wonderful scrap."

"What's that light?" Rose asked, now that the Slitheen's grip on her had lessened again.

"The heart of the Tardis." answered the Doctor "This ship's alive. You've opened it's soul."

Margaret looked at the golden light "It's... so bright." she said

"Look at it, Margaret."

Margaret continued to look at the light. "Beautiful." she said

"look inside, Blon Fel Fotch. look at the light."

As Margaret stared into the light, her hand or was it claw, relaxed and Rose was able to get away, she wanted to go to the Doctor, but she settled on her big brother figure, who held out his hand to her, which she took and he pulled her close and gave her a hug.

Margaret got lost in looking at the light, after a while she smiled at the Doctor who smiled back and she said "Thank you." The light grew brighter and when it faded Margaret the Slitheen was no longer standing in the Tardis, the skin suit that she had disguised herself in was lying on the ground.

The console sparked again and the Doctor jumped into action. "Don't look, stay there, close your eyes!" He turned a wheel and closed the panel "Now, Jack, come on, shut it all down. Shut down." Rose and jack came over to the console "Rose, that panel over there, turn all switches to the right." The three of them worked on shutting the Tardis down, which they did quickly

"Nicely done, thank you all."

"What happened to Margaret?" asked Rose.

"Must have got burnt up, carried out her own death sentence" Jack suggested

"No, I don't think she's dead." the Doctor said.

"Then where'd she go?" Rose asked

"She looked into the heart of the Tardis, even I don't know hoe strong that is and the ship's telepathic, like I told you Rose. Get's inside your head translates alien languages.; Maybe the raw energy can translate all sorts of thoughts." He crouched down and moved aside Margaret's clothes as Jack and Rose came closer and he pulled out something that looked like an egg. "Here she is."

"She's an egg?" asked Rose

"Regressed to her childhood." said the Doctor

"She's an egg?" asked Jack

"She can start again, live her life from scratch." the Doctor told them "If we take her home, give her to a different family, tell them to bring her up properly, she might be alright."

"Or she might be worse." said Jack

"That's her choice."

"She's an egg." said Rose

"She's an egg." said the Doctor, causing Rose and Jack to laugh.

Rose got up, and placed a hand on the Doctor's shoulder. "I'm gonna go see if Mickey's alright, I left him out there..." she trailed off.

"It's ok, go." the Doctor told her, squeezing the hand that was on his shoulder as she left to find her friend.

She ran back to where she had left Mickey and found paramedics there and she asked them if they had treated Mickey for anything, or if they had seen someone fitting his description, which they hadn't, so she headed back to the Tardis

She entered the Tardis, and the moment she did so she was hugged by the Doctor who had been waiting by the door for her, she hugged him back tightly. "Are you alright?" he asked, this question had a double meaning, was she alright from when Margaret had her by the throat and was she alright at that moment

"I'm fine." she said and to prove her point, and also to shut him up, she kissed him

"How's Mickey?" he asked when they broke the kiss.

"I don't know, I couldn't find him." she said

"We're gonna take Margaret home." the Doctor said as he started up the Tardis

"Next stop Rexicoricophalavitorious." said Jack "Now, you don't often get to say that."

"We'll just stop by and put her in the hatchery." said the Doctor "Margaret the Slitheen can live her life again. A second chance.

The Tardis engines started up and it disappeared from Cardiff.

Okay, the next chapter will be up soon and will be their little trip to Rexicoricophalvitourius. Anyway, I'd better get on now, 'cause I'm looking for a job on line right now.

TTFN

Julie