They ran, Rose and the Doctor leading the way, Martha a few steps behind. They were looking for a good place to hide from the Judoon, but also a place which had a computer or some form of information where the Doctor can find out about the patients recently admitted into the hospital.
Rose stopped suddenly, the Doctor was a few step in front, but his hand still hold hers, so when she stopped he was pulled to a stop, for a second he was off balance, with on foot in the air, but once he caught his balance he walked back a few steps to Rose and Martha.
"There's a computer in here." Rose explained pointing though the window in the door they had stopped by.
"Brilliant." The Doctor used his spare hand to test the door handle, it swung open without any force or sonic screwdrivers.
They stepped inside the Doctor released Rose's hand so he could find his sonic screwdriver from his pocket, walking to the computer which had gone creamy in places from age. The Doctor pushed the chair from beneath the desk, Rose grabbed it before it hit the wall, and she sat down. Martha left the room before anyone could ask where she was going.
The Doctor pointed the sonic towards the computer screen and pressed the button on the Sonic while moving it back and forth across the computer screen for a few minutes. Martha re-entered the room and closed the door behind her. "They've reached this floor."
"What floor we on?" Rose asked, crossing her right leg over her left.
"3rd." Martha answered watching the Doctor. "What is that thing?" she asked him, but the Doctor was concentrating so did not answer.
Rose answered instead "Sonic screwdriver." She didn't look at Martha, just watched the computer, different things showed on the screen for a moment before disappearing to quickly for Rose to read.
"Well if you're not gonna answer me properly." Martha sounded frustrated.
The Doctor turned around to look at Martha, his eyes wide. "No really. It's a screwdriver and it's sonic."
"There very good for putting up shelves." Rose muttered loudly causing the Doctor to smile as he turned back to the computer.
"Sonic Screwdriver. Sonic blaster." Martha said each one like an insult, "what else have you got a laser spanner?"
"I did but it was stolen." He said like in a child's sulking voice. Before Rose could ask, he hit the computer on the side in frustration, as if hitting it would make it work. Rose and Martha jumped at the loud bang.
"Not working?" Rose's asked, her voice calm, unlike her beating heart.
"The Judoon must have locked it down. Judoon Platoon upon the moon."
Rose couldn't help her grin at his thoughtful rhyme.
"What are they looking for?" Martha enquired.
"Some thing that looks like a human…but isn't."
"Like you, apparently."
"Like me…but not me." The Doctor's eyes were unfocused, deep in thought.
"Rose?" Martha asked looking at her, wondering if they were both Aliens.
"Not me, I'm a human. Born and lived on Earth for 18 years."
"18 years…I wonder how old she is? How long has she been with this strange man?"
"Haven't they got a photo of this…alien?"
"He-" Rose coughed loudly interrupting the Doctor, he glared at her, "Or she could be a shape-shifter." The Doctor said coming out of his reverie.
"Can't you just leave the Judoon to find him…her…it?"
"If they declare this hospital guilty of harbouring a furtive they'll sentence us to death."
"All of us?"
"Yup." Rose replied, sounding too casual about the whole thing, as if she almost dies everyday.
"Maybe she does, living with an Alien."
"Oh!" the Doctor shouted and bent back down to the computer, typing and using the sonic to do something. Him shouting caused Rose and Martha jump and look at him shocked, wide eyed. "The Judoon are thick!"
"Don't let them hear you say that." Rose joked, but the joke fell flat as the computer screen was filled with a red/orange background with black writing all over the screen that looked Chinese, but Rose presumed it was really Judoon…ish.
"They are thick!" the Doctor repeated, slowly getting more and more frustrated by the second. "They wiped the records." He explained finally.
"What are we looking for?" Rose queried.
"I don't know really. I'll know when I find it." He ran his hand through his hair making it stick up even more than usual.
"Is there some form of back up?" Rose asked, she didn't know much about computer, other than on…Off…Internet.
"I'll go and ask Mr. Stocker." Before they could protest Martha left the room.
The Doctor pointed the Sonic at the Computer screen once again, and it turned off and was slowly loading to switch back on.
"Let's find Martha." The Doctor said without explaining what he just did. Rose didn't bother to ask, knowing he would explain too quickly for her to understand.
As they ran through the corridor's looking for Martha they saw her leave a room and run towards them, as she neared the Doctor grabbed her shoulders to stop her from running into him.
"We restored th-"
"I found her!" Martha all but shouted.
"You did what?" the Doctor asked, bewildered.
The door which Martha just left opened as a man in full black rubber suit with a black bickers helmet on his head walked out of the room.
"Run!" The Doctor ordered taking Rose's hand and began to run away from the man in rubber suits.
The Doctor pushed a door opened which said 'STAIRS' in bright green letters and they ran quickly but carefully down the stairs, taking two steps at a time.
Just as they began to go down to the 2nd floor they heard before seeing the Judoon coming up the opposite way. There was a door in front of them so the Doctor pushed it open and they ran through another corridor. Rounded a corner into yet another corridor, half-way down said corridor the Doctor stopped suddenly, pulling Rose with him he ran into another room, which Rose didn't get the chance to read the sign of. Martha followed in behind them.
The Doctor slammed the door shut once Martha and Rose were both in the room; he locked it with his sonic, "When I say now press the button. Both of you stay on this side of the screen!"
"Which button?" Martha asked.
"Find out!" The Doctor snapped at her.
Rose turned to the shelve to find the Operator's Manual, she began to scanning through it quickly while wishing she could read as fast as the Doctor. Martha looked at the buttons trying to find some form to instruction on the button.
On the other side of the screen the Doctor had his sonic screwdriver out and was pushing it against a machine used for X-rays and such.
There was banging on the door as the man tried to burst through.
The door eventually burst open as the Doctor shouted, "NOW!"
Mostly through panic and the bit of reading she did, Rose hit the big yellow button.
The man in the rubber suit seemed to freeze for a moment before falling backwards on to the floor, presumably dead.
"What did you do?" Martha asked.
"Increased the radiation by 5000 percent. Killed him dead."
"But won't that kill you?" Rose asked, worry penetrated her voice.
"Yeah he can regenerate, but then he might faint again and we'll end up dead…"
"Nah, its only minor radiation, we used to play with it in the nursery." Rose couldn't help imaging a mini version of the Doctor in front of her now, all small, fluffy brown hair, sitting by plastic blocks with the word's 'radiation' written across them, "It's safe for you two to come out," his voice brought Rose's out of her thoughts, "I've absorbed it all." He twitched his shoulders backwards. "All I need to do now is…expel it," he started bouncing up and down on the balls of his feet, getting faster and faster, "I need to shift it to one spot in my body…My left shoe." He brought his left leg off the ground, bringing it slightly forwards, all the while bouncing up and down on his right leg. His foot started to move, twisting around from the ankle, "Easy does it…Ouch, Ouch, ow, ow!" he bounce backwards, soon hitting into the wall behind him, "Ow, ow, ow, ow! Ah! Itches! Itches!" he pulled his shoe off and threw it into the bin next to him. "Done."
Martha stood completely astonished at the Doctor, "You're completely mad." She felt the need to tell him.
"You're right." The Doctor said in all seriousness. Martha rose both eyebrows in disbelief, "I can't walk around with one shoe." he bent down while lifting his right leg slightly to pull the other shoe off and put it in the bin also, "Bare foot on the moon." he wiggled his toes.
Rose just gaped at him, all during his and Martha convosation, "You threw you're converse's in the bin!"
"Yes I did."
"He threw his converses in the bin!" she said to Martha as if she would understand her shock.
"You're starting to sound like Donna." The Doctor muttered, eyes narrowed at Rose as if expecting her to change into Donna any second.
"You're converses! The Red ones!" Rose said completely baffled.
"What were they expensive or somethin'?" Martha asked, frowning in confusion.
"No." Rose shook her head, "But he loves his converses. Shouted at me once for moving them from beside the chair where they usually end up tripping me up."
Martha decided to changed the subject, "What was that thing?"
"Their called Slabs, basic slave raise, solid leather." He poked it with his bare toe. Then turned back to the X-ray thing he looked at it, scanning the whole thing, and then found what he was looking for. He pulled his burnt up sonic screwdriver out of a hole in the side of it.
"It was working for Miss Finnegan." Martha explained as she bent down to examine it.
"My sonic screwdriver." the Doctor complained, ignoring Martha.
"She was one of the patients but…" Martha tried to get his attention.
"What am I gonna do without my sonic screwdriver?" Rose was stood just behind him, she patted the Doctor shoulder in sympathy, also ignoring Martha.
"She had this straw like some kind of vampire."
"Can you repair it?" Rose asked, as if Martha hadn't said anything.
"I can build a new one…but…I love my sonic screwdriver."
"Doctor!" Martha shouted, the Doctor and Rose jumped to attention.
"Sorry." he threw the sonic over his shoulder, Rose ducked as it flew just centimetres above her head. "You called me Doctor!" the Doctor grinned widely at her.
"Miss Finnegan is the alien; she was drinking Mr Stoker's blood." Martha continued, trying to change the subject, and succeeding.
"I thought she would be hiding," the Doctor frowned in concentration, "…unless, no, yes. Yes!"
"Doctor?" Rose asked, coaxing him into his usual outburst.
"Shape shifter! Internal shape shifter, she wasn't drinking blood she was assimilating it!"
"So…she'll register as human? If the Judoon scan her?" Rose summarised in to simple terms.
"Yes."
"We've got to find her and show the Judoon then!" Martha said, without answering, the Doctor took Rose's hand as once again as they ran out the room.
"More running!" Martha thought to herself as she sighed and began running to catch up with them.
They slowed to a walk to let Martha catch up, and so they wouldn't look to suspicious to the Judoon. But they wanted to avoid the over grown rhinoceros' at all cost's.
They heard a noise, footsteps, too heavy to be human, the Doctor pulled Rose to hide in the doorway, they bent down, close to the floor as another slab walked past them, luckily without seeing them, "That's the thing about slabs…they always travel in pairs." The Doctor made clear.
"Like us." Rose thought to herself, but when the Doctor and Martha looked at her, she realized she had said that out loud. Rose felt her cheeks grow hot with embarrassment, but the Doctor just smiled and gave her hand a squeeze "Yeah."
"So are you two like married or somethin'?" Martha enquired glancing at the Doctor's left hand.
"I wish."
"If only…"
"Humans! Here we are stuck on the moon, quickly running out of air, with Judoon and a blood sucking alien on the loose and you're asking personal questions." The Doctor sighed, avoiding answering her question, he looked left and right, half expecting a Judoon to jump out at them.
"I like that human,I'm still not convinced you're an alien." Martha believed.
"He is," Rose said looking at her seriously. But also ignored the question, not sure how to answer without embarrassing herself.
The Doctor slowly stood, Rose and Martha following his lead. But a Judoon walked up to them at that moment, it catalogued the Doctor who was slightly in front of Rose and Martha, "Non human." It said in a slow, scratchy voice.
"Oh My God, you're really an alien." Martha muttered shocked.
"Told you so." Rose couldn't help saying so, even if she did sound like a kid in the primary school playground.
"Come on!" The Doctor began to run, just getting past the Judoon before it stopped him, Rose and Martha followed behind.
