LOOK! I ACTUALLY HAVE A CHAPTER!

Yay! I'm happy I was actually able to write this and I was thrilled to discover I like the plot I'm writing now is much better than the one I had before. My plot from before was to rushed and made little sense (Although does anything truly make sense in Doctor Who?) but I'm glad to have this written. I hope you enjoy reading it just as much as I had writing it.

-holmesinthetardis

Dad is under the car, struggling with the ATMOS as I stand off to the side unsure of what to do. The gases being emitted from the device are filling my lungs. I struggle to breath, to get just one breath of air. I feel light headed and the world seems to be spinning around me.

"He's going to choke. Doctor!" I hear Donna scream.

"It won't open!"

I turn my head to see Sylvia come back out of the house with an axe. She pushes Donna out of the way and closes the bonnet and breaks the windscreen.

Dad and Donna look at her as if she's gone mad. "Well, don't just stand there. Get him out."

Wilf is being taken to safety. "Thanks."

"I can't believe you've got an axe," Donna marvels.

"Burglars."

"Get inside the house," Dad orders, " Just try and close off the doors and windows." Jenkins arrives and is driving a black cab.

"Doctor. This is all I could find that hasn't got ATMOS."

"Donna, you coming?"

"Yeah."

"Arcy?" Dad asks and turns in a circle as he looks for me. His hazel eyes land on me and worry is instantly etched onto his face. My legs buckle from under me and I fall I my knees. "Arcy!"

Black spots edge my vision as I hear my father scream my name. His footsteps approach and he lands on his knees in front of me.

"Arcy! Arcy look at me," Dad says worriedly. I manage to meet his eyes and forces a smile. "Good, good. Don't close your eyes. Stay awake." He orders me as he pulls out his sonic and quickly scans me.

"What's up, Doc?" I chuckle weakly.

"You're going to be okay," he assures me.

I scuff, "You always say that. Answer the question."

"Your lungs were already damages from being electrocuted. They can barely hold up against this gas. They're collapsing. We need to get you out of this air," He rambles quickly before scooping me into his arms and standing up. He runs towards the Noble's house, quickly taking me inside. He makes a quick right and takes me into the living. He lays me down on the couch. He drops his sonic on the floor next to the couch and reaches into his pants pockets, pulling out a stethoscope.

"What don't you have?"

He doesn't respond as he checks my heart rate. He seems to enter a panicked state before he pulls off the stethoscope. "I'm sorry," He says and I furrow my brow.

Dad presses two fingers to each of my temples and a moment later I can feel my body relaxing. I know there's no point in fighting this off and that he's trying to help me so I welcome the darkness.

My head pounds against my skull and I groan. I roll over shoving my face into my pillow.

Pillow?

I crack my eyes open and roll over onto my back to stair up at the stars that currently cover my walls and ceiling. "TARDIS? How long was I out?" I question the time machine.

A gust of cold air is blown on my face.

"Three months?" I gasp shocked as I suddenly sit up in bed. "Oh, you have got to be kidding me." I slip out of my bed, pulling on my shoes, stumbling as I go. My body wasn't expecting the sudden movement.

My legs carry me as fast as they can towards the console room. I stumbling into the large round room just as the wooden doors fly open.

"Dad," I say as I go down the stairs and meet him next to the console. His eyes widen as he looks down at me in shock.

"Arcy! You're awake," He breathes, hazel eyes wide as he looks at me. A grin spreads across his face before he engulfs me in a hug.

"Good to see you too, Dad," I laugh as I hug him back. I pull away and go over to Donna, pulling her into a bone crushing hug.

"Oh, lord, you scared me to death," She tells me and I smile.

"So, what'd I miss?"

Dad swallows before going over to the console, "Oh you know, just the planet Midnight, Agatha Christy and Rose giving Donna a message."

I tense at his words.

Rose.

Rose Tyler.

"But-that's impossible! She's locked in the parallel world! She couldn't have managed that unless they managed to create a dimension canon. And even if they did, Rose knows that that could damage the fabric of the universe," I ramble.

"Yeah, well I met her. Somehow she's been here. Just go with it," Donna tells me and I shake my head, a smile appearing on my face. There's a chance I could see Rose again.

Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor is fiddling with controls. By his foot, the hand in the jar is bubbling. Donna walks up to the Doctor.

"Thing is, Doctor. No matter what's happening, and I'm - I'm sure it's bad, I get that. But... Rose is coming back. Isn't that good?"

Full of worrying thoughts, Dad just stares at Donna for a moment - then realizing that he might see Rose again, he cheers up. "Yeah."

There's a loud noise and the TARDIS shakes violently sending us all to the floor.

"What the hell was that?!"

I rush over to the scanner pulling it around so that I can read it, "came from outside." Dad runs to the door and looks outside – we are in space, with nothing but several asteroids around. Shocked looks appeared on all of our faces.

"But we're in space. How did that happen?" Donna questions.

"That's impossible," I say. Dad runs back to the console.

"What did you do?"

Dad comes up behind me putting his hands on my shoulders as he peers over me, looking at the scanner, "We haven't moved, we're fixed... Can't have! No!" In disbelief, he runs back to the door.

"The TARDIS is still in the same place," I explain to Donna, "But the Earth has gone. The entire planet. It's gone."

I rush over to the doors by Dad and Donna. I squeeze between the two adults to look outside. I stand in front of my father, who places his hands on my shoulder. We look outside in total shock.

"But if the Earth's been moved, they've lost the sun! What about my Mum? And Grandad? They're dead, aren't they? Are they dead?"

I rush to the scanner. "I don't know, Donna, I just don't know, I'm sorry, I don't know..."

"That's my family. My whole world."

"There's no readings. Nothing," I tell Dad who is rushing around the console, "Not a trace. Not even a whisper. Oh, that is fearsome technology!"

"So, what do we do," Donna asks us, closing the doors and coming towards us.

"We've got to get help," Dad answers and I stop, looking across the controls in shock.

"You don't mean?"

Donna looks towards Dad, "From where?"

"Donna... I'm taking you to the Shadow Proclamation," He answers just before pulling the final switch, "Hold tight!" Donna quickly grabs hold of the console as the TARDIS jerks about.

"Which one's the stabilizers?" I question hoping to calm the journey.

"I don't know!" Dad replies and I stop and look across the control at him.

"Are you kidding me?! Did you not pass your test?"

He smiles sheepishly at me. "Oh my stars. My father's an idiot!" I announce to thin air.

"Oi! Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Am not!"

Donna quickly interrupts our childish feud. "Oi! Will you two please stop arguing! You sound like a bunch of kids!"

I smile and laugh, "I may be four times your age Donna, but I'm still a child."

"How old are you?" She questions.

"Somewhere around 107," I shrug.

"You're ancient!"

"He's 907!"

"You're kidding me!"

"Nope," I reply, popping the p.

The TARDIS is shaking violently as it is heading towards the Shadow Proclamation. "So go on then, what is the Shadow Proclamation anyway?"

"Posh name for police," Dad says.

I scuff, "Posh name for arseholes if you ask me," I mutter.

Dad glares across the console at me but continues, "Outer space police. Here we go!" The TARDIS is materializing inside a building. As the three of us step out, we are greeted by several Judoon pointing guns at them.

"Sco bo tro no flo jo ko fo. To to!" I raise my hands up in a surrender position.

Dad quickly replied to the Judoon, "No bo ho sho ko ro to so. Bo-ko-do-zo-go-bo-fo-po-jo!" The Judoon lower their guns, "Mo ho."

I stand next to my father in front of the Shadow Architect. She wears a long black dress and has pale skin. Her hair is curly white and her eyes a beady red. "Time Lords are the stuff of legend. They belong in the myths and whispers of the Higher Species. You cannot possibly exist."

"Yeah, more to the point," I reply, "We've got a missing planet!"

"Then you're not as wise as the stories would say. The picture is far bigger than you imagine."

"How so?" Dad questions.

"The whole universe is in outrage, Doctor. 24 worlds have been taken from the sky."

"How many?! Which ones?! Show me!"

I follow after him as he runs to a computer.

"Locations range far and wide. But all disappeared at the exact same moment. Leaving no trace."

I pull out my glasses from my leather jacket and slip them on as I look at the computer. The holograms of the planets surround us and I look around in awe. Dad browses through the files on the lost planets on a screen, listing some as he goes, "Callufrax Minorr. Jahoo. Shallacatop. Woman Wept... Clom!"

"Clom's gone?" I say confused, "Who'd want Clom?!"

"All different sizes, some populated, some not. But all unconnected."

"What about Pyrovillia?" Donna question, coming up behind us.

Shadow Architect looks at her, "Who is the female?"

"Donna!" The woman herself announces offended, "I'm a human being. Maybe not the stuff of legend but every bit as important as Time Lords, thank you." She crosses her arms over her chest as Dad and I watch her with proud smiles. "Way back when we were in Pompeii, Lucius said Pyrovillia had gone missing."

"Pyrovillia is cold case. Not relevant!"

"What do you mean, cold case," I ask her.

"The planet Pyrovillia cannot be part of this, it disappeared over 2,000 years ago."

"Yes, yes, hang on... But there's the Adipose Breeding Planet too, Miss Foster said that was lost, but that must've been a long time ago," Donna continues.

"That's it! Donna! Brilliant!" I praise, "Planets are being taken out of time as well as space... Let's put this into 3-D," I say and Dad fiddles with the computer and holograms of the lost planets appears in the air.

"Now, if we add Pyrovillia... And Adipose 3... Something missing. Where else, where else, where else, where else... lost, lost, lost, lost... Oh! The Lost Moon of Poosh!" Dad says. As he adds the last one, the holograms suddenly move and rearrange themselves.

"What did you do?"

"Nothing," I answer, "The planets rearranged themselves into the optimum pattern. Oh, look at that!"

"27 planets in perfect balance," Dad marvels, "Come on, that is gorgeous!"

"Oi, don't get all spaceman, what does it mean?"

"All those worlds fit together like pieces of an engine."

My brow furrows, "So, It's like a powerhouse! What for?"

"Who could design such a thing," Shadow Architect asks.

"Someone tried to move the Earth once before. Long time ago... can't be..."

"Was I here for this?" I question and Dad shakes his head.

"Donna! Come on, think - Earth! There must've been some sort of warning. Was there anything happening back in your day, like, electrical storms, freak weather, patterns in the sky?" I question getting her attention. She stands from where she was on the stairs and comes towards us.

"Well, how should I know? Um... no, I don't think so, no."

"Oh, OK, never mind," Dad says.

"Although," She says as if remembering something, "there were the bees disappearing."

"The bees disappearing? The bees disappearing. The bees disappearing!" Dad and I say together looking at each other. He plants a kiss on my forehead before running towards the computer.

"How is that significant?" Shadow Architect asks.

Donna and I follow Dad to the computer.

"On Earth we have these insects. Some people said it was pollution, or mobile phone signals."

"Or - they were going back home!" I suggest. Dad looks at me and gives me a proud smile. I return his smile with my own grin.

"Back home where?"

"The planet Melissa Majoria," I explain.

"Are you saying bees are aliens?!"

"Don't be so daft," Dad replies, "Not all of them. But if the migrant bees felt something coming, some sort of danger, and escaped... Tandocca!" He points towards Shadow Architect.

"The Tandocca Scale!"

"Tandocca Scale is the series of wavelengths used as a carrier signals by migrant bees. Infinitely small, no wonder we didn't see it!"

I pick up where he left off, "It's like looking for a speck of cinnamon in the Sahara, but look! There it is. The Tandocca trail. The transmat that moved the planets was using the same wavelength, we can follow the path!"

Donna, running towards the TARDIS, "And find the Earth?! Well, stop talking and do it!"

Dad and I quickly follow after her with me lagging behind. "We are!" We shout. Dad grabs my hand pulling me so that I'm forced to stay in stride with him.

Together, we dash into the TARDIS and fiddles with the controls.

"We're a bit late," I say, "the signal's scattered. But it's a start!"

Dad runs back to the door to and talks to the Shadow Architect waiting outside.

"I've got a blip! It's just a blip! But it's definitely a blip!"

"Then according to the Strictures of the Shadow Proclamation, I will have to seize your transport and your technology."

I look up from the controls when I hear the words come out of her mouth. Dad turns around and we exchange a look. I nod before quickly starting to rush around the console.

"Oh, really, what for," Dad inquires.

"The planets were stolen with hostile intent. We are declaring war, Doctor. Right across the universe. And you will lead us into battle!"

Donna looks at me confused. I give her a smirk as I speak, "You might want ot hold onto something." She realizes what I'm about to do and grabs hold of the console.

"Right, yes, course I will," dad speaks while backing up into the TARDIS once again, "I'll just go and... get you the key..." He slams the door closed just as I pull the final switch.

The TARDIS jerks almost sending me to the floor but Dad quickly reaches my side. He puts his arm out, catching me as he pulls another lever, while keeping another in place with his foot.

"Doctor! Come back!" We hear the Shadow Architect shout, "By the Holy Writ of the Shadow Proclamation, I order you to stop!"

Dad and I laugh as we rush around the console following the blip. A moment later, the time rotor stops wheezing.

"It's stopped."

Donna looks confused, "What do you mean? Is that good or bad? Where are we?"

"The Medusa Cascade," I tell her as I look at the scanner in shock.

"I came here when I was just a kid," Dad speaks, "ninety years old. It was the center of a rift in time and space."

"So, where are the twenty seven planets?"

"Nowhere. The Tandocca Trail stops dead. End of the line."

I look up at him with concern written all over my face.

"So what do we do? Doctor, what do we do?" Donna asks. The two of us just look at the ginger woman, "Now don't do this to me. No, don't. Don't do this to me. Not now. Tell me, what are we going do? You never give up. Please."

We sit in silence for a moment before we here a phone start ringing.

"Phone!" Dad shouts and presses a button on the controls causing Martha's old phone to pop out.

"Doctor, phone."

"Martha, is that you? It's a signal," Dad says pulling the phone away from his ear.

"Can we follow it," I ask excitedly. Dad dons his stethoscope.

"Oh, just watch me." A huge grin appears on his face as he puts on the stethoscope and places the phone on the dash. "Got it. Locking on."

I join him at the controls as I help him fly the time machine.

All around us are all sorts of noises, from banging to slams, if I hadn't been me I would be wondering if we were going to die any second. I jump away from the console as flames emerge from the floor and more closer to my father, away from them.

"We're travelling through time. One second in the future. The phone call's pulling us through."

"Three, two, one," Dad and I count off together. The three of us let out a cheer of victory as the planets pop into existence around them. The Tardis stops shaking.

"Twenty seven planets," Donna smiles, "And there's the Earth. But why couldn't we see them?"

"The entire Medusa Cascade has been put a second out of sync with the rest of the universe," Dad explains quickly.

"Perfect hiding place," I praise, "Tiny little pocket of time. But we found them." My eyes fly back to the screen as it begins to blur, "Ooo, ooo, ooo, what's that? Hold on, hold on. Some sort of Subwave Network." Dad adjusts the signal so that we can see the screen clearly.

I smile when I see all the familiar faces.

Sarah Jane Smith.

Martha Jones.

Captain Jack Harkness.

And there are two other's that I don't know.

With Jack, there is a woman who looks to be in her earlier twenties. She has pixie cut, ginger hair and wearing a fedora on top of her head with a red V-neck.

With Sarah Jane is a boy who looks my age with bright blue eyes and brown hair.

"Where the hell have you been," The ginger woman asks.

"Doctor, it's the Daleks," Jack says.

Sarah Jane speaks, "It's the Daleks. They're taking people to their spaceship."

"It's not just Dalek Caan," Martha adds.

"Sarah Jane. Who's that boy?" Dad asks, "That must be Torchwood. Oh, they're brilliant." Dad smiles at the screen.

"Oi, ginger! Do I know you?" I ask and she smiles and laughs, before adjusting her hat.

"No. But I know everything about you," She replies with a goofy grin. She has bright emerald eyes that I can't help but notice are so much older than the rest of her body.

"That doesn't make a lick of sense."

"Watch it, Em," Dad tells her and I give him a confused look.

"How do you know each other?"

Ginger smiles and laughs. "Nurse Emily Williams. Call me what you like. I've ran into this idiot to many times to count. Never in the right order though. Don't worry, Arcy, you'll know all about me soon enough. For now, Doctor, where are we?"

"Midnight," He answers.

"Oh, that was years ago" She mutters to herself. "Mine was the Library," I say and a solemn looks comes across his face. "Sorry by the way," She squeaks.

Dad shakes it off and looks at everyone on the screen and smiles. "Look at you all, you clever people."

"That's Martha," Donna smiles and then looks up to the top right corner of the screen and looks at Jack. "And who's he," She asks while pointing towards Jack.'

"Donna, don't you dare! Not every day I come across a decent man. He's mine," Emily says wrapping her arms around the Captains waist.

"Oi!" I hear a man shout in the background.

"Sorry, Ianto," She smiles turning around to face him, "How about the three of us? Gwen you can join to if you like." I scrunch my nose in disgust.

"Stop it. All of you. Especially you, young woman," Dad scolds. Emily just turns to the screen and grins.

"Still didn't answer my question."

Dad looks from Jack to Donna, "Captain Jack. Don't. Just don't." He shakes his head.

"Donna! You can come too! We can have a five-some! Oh, that'd be knew."

"I'm up," Jack grins.

She smiles and laughs, "Great, as long as nobody dies, we'll all meet at Gwen's."

"Why my place?"

"Do I look like I own a house?"

"Oi! Stop it. All of you," Dad snaps and then turns to me, "Please, do everything in your power to never say that again." He turns back to the screen.

"It's like an outer space Facebook," Donna marvels.

"Everyone except Rose."

Emily rolls her eyes and looks as if she's about to say something before the screen goes blank.

"Oh."

"We've lost them."

"No, no, no, no, no. There's another signal coming through," I say quickly reaching for the controls so that we can contact this other person. "There's someone else out there. Hello?"

"Can you hear me? Rose?" Glance at Dad when he mentions her name.

"Your voice is different," A voice says and Dad tenses, "and yet its arrogance is unchanged."

My eyes widen when I recognize the voice. I may have never met this man but I have sure heard his voice. And most definitely his name.

"Welcome to my new Empire," He says as he appears on the screen. I take a step back, terrified. The decaying humanoid stared at us as it spoke. "Doctor. It is only fitting that you should bear witness to the resurrection and the triumph of Davros, lord and creator of the Dalek race."

"Great, love a man who speaks in third person," Comes a voice and I jump, turning around to face Emily Williams.

The TARDIS jerks and rings a bell as if to say she can't be here.

"You shouldn't be in here," Dad says abruptly as he turns around to face her. She just smiles and walks over from where she stands by the door.

"You know I can be," She smiles.

I take notice at how odd the girl is; even the way she walks is a bit goofy. From her fedora to her crooked grin and tattoo to what appears to be fish fingers and custard, she's generally odd.

"Is that fish fingers and custard?" I ask pointing towards her wrist. She holds up her left arm.

"Don't you know a vortex manipulator when you see one? God, I forgot how daft you were- sorry- are," She says and I give her a blank look. "Oooohh, you mean this," She says holding up her right arm to reveal the colorful tattoo, "Yeah, sorry you saw that."

"Why?"

"Spoilers," She smiles.

"Doctor," I hear Donna say and I turn around to face the screen once again, remembering the problem at hand.

"Have you nothing to say," Davros asks.

"Doctor, it's all right," Donna reminds him, "We're, we're in the Tardis. We're safe."

I can hear Emily mutter something uder her breath, but don't pry into it.

"But you were destroyed," Dad says, "in the very first year of the Time War, at the Gates of Elysium."

"Do you even know who your daughter is?" Emily asks with a confused expression on her face. "This one's died some many times, I don't even remember most of them."

"What?" I turn around giving her a confused look and she just grins at me.

"I saw your command ship fly into the jaws of the Nightmare Child."

Emily cringes, "Oh, never mind. She couldn't even come back from that."

"I tried to save you," Dad continues and I double take. What idiot would try to save Davros?

Apparently my father.

"But it took one stronger than you," Davros replies, "Dalek Caan himself."

"I flew into the wild and fire. I danced and died a thousand times."

"Emergency Temporal Shift took him back into the Time War itself."

"But that's impossible," I chime in, "The entire War is timelocked."

"And yet he succeeded," Davros speaks, "Oh, it cost him his mind, but imagine. A single, simple Dalek succeeded where Emperors and Time Lords have failed. A testament, don't you think, to my remarkable creations?"

"And you made a new race of Daleks," Emily says but she isn't looking at the screen. She seems as if she's trying to remember what she's supposed to say.

"I gave myself to them, quite literally. Each one grown from a cell of my own body." Davros opens his tunic to reveal his bare ribs with just a few nerve endings over them, and his internal organs inside.

"Eew," Emily cringes behind me while I'm unfazed.

"New Daleks. True Daleks. I have my children, Doctor. What do you have, now?"

"Um, me," Both Emily and I say with annoyed looks. I stop and look at her confused and once again she just smiles.

"After all this time, everything we saw, everything we lost, I have only one thing to say to you. Bye!" He quickly pulls a lever down and the TARDIS is off.

"Who are you?" I ask Emily as Dad, Emily and I rush around the console.

"I told you, I'm Emily Williams. I'm from Leadworth. Well, kind of," She says, "now, stabilizers, where'd they go now," She mutters, "Ah ha!" She presses a few buttons and the TARDIS calms down but she continues to fly the TARDIS as does Dad.

"I hate when you do that," he says.

"Well, I hate when I don't," She replies.

"Who are you?" I ask again.

"I told you," She says and a smirk appears on her face as she continues, saying her name as if I'm supposed to be impressed, "I'm Emily Williams."

"That's not what I meant."

Dad settles down, pouting as he walks around the controls continuing to fly the TARDIS.

"I'm sorry, Arcy. You can't know just yet. You will soon enough though. I'm sorry, by the way," She says her voice quieting.

"For what?"

Her eyes widen when she realizes what she said. "Oh, uh, nothing. Confusing you? I don't know. Forget I said anything."

"I can't just forget that."

She smiles sadly, "Don't I know."

We hear the familiar wheezing, groaning sound that I love so much as we materialize on Earth.

"What did I miss? I'm so lost," Donna says and Emily grins at her.

"We've met twice now and I still confuse you. Wow, I'm impressed but your skills Donna Noble- actually, no I'm not. I've been told I'm a very confusing person. I even confuse Chinny every once in a while. I'll go from acting like a child to sleeping with the closest person it's quite odd actually. Though, I'm not complaining. Chinny isn't very happy about the last part and neither is Nose but still." She rambles while the three of us look at her with blank faces. She stops and looks around the room at us. "Am I rambling?"

"Yeah, little bit," Dad replies.

"You should carry duct tape," She tells her as she meanders towards the door.

"Then all you'll be good for flying the TARDIS. It's not even like you do it right," Dad replies as we follow her to the door.

"Actually, I fly her correctly. You don't."

"Who even taught you?"

"You did. Don't you remember? Horribly, might I add? But, she taught me correctly. Actually, only time I use the stabilizers is when I'm with you, because I know how much it annoys you," She says as he back up against the doors. "Now, come with me, this is the good part."

She pushes them open and stepping out onto the Earth. I quickly follow after.

The sky is dark and the stars are not what they should be. In the sky are 26 different plants, varying in size, shape and color. Across the street from the TARDIS is a small familiar looking church.

"Hey, Donna, didn't you get married there?" Emily says confusingly as she points towards the church nearby.

"What? No," Donna says confused. "Oh! I'm getting married in the future! That's brilliant!" Donna realizes.

"Damn it," Emily mutters, "Sorry, you weren't supposed to know that."

She shakes her head and looks around, "Like a ghost town."

The streets are empty. Cars scatter the street with their doors open. Trash litters the ground, some of it being blown away by the wind.

"Sarah Jane said they were taking the people. What for? Think, Donna. When you met Rose in that parallel world, what did she say?" Dad asks her.

"Just, the darkness is coming."

"Anything else," I ask while Emily turns around with a grin on her face.

"Why don't you ask her yourself," Emily says. Dad turns around.

His eyes settle on her. I can see the love in his eyes when he looks at her, the pure joy that spreads across his face when he sees his human.

Rose is walking down the street towards us.

Dad starts to walk towards her as a grin spreads across his face. He picks up the pace until he's sprinting down the street towards her. I can't help but smile, knowing one of my best friends is finally back.

Emily glances at me for a moment and I quickly take notice to the panicked look on her face. She takes off down the street and I quickly take off after her, knowing something horrible is going to happen.

Rose's eyes lock onto something around the corner just as Dad turns his head to face it as well. His eyes widen and so do mine as I see the Dalek round the corner.

"Exterminate."

"NO!" I scream and I barely register the scream echoing my own.

The Dalek's ray grazes the Doctor, but still lights him up, causing his skeleton to show. He falls and Emily barely catches him.

Jack appears and blasts the Dalek.

"'bout time you got here, Jack," Emily says glancing up at the Captain.

Rose is on her knees next to Dad as I stand there in shock.

"You're lucky. It only grazed you," Emily says as she assesses his injuries.

"I've got you. It missed you. Look, it's me, Doctor," Rose says. Dad's eyes never leave the blonde.

"Rose," he smiles.

"Hi."

"Long time no see."

"Yeah. Been busy, you know," He jokes, Dad lets out a cry of pain and I have to choke back a sob. "Don't die. Oh, my God. Don't die. Oh my god, don't die."

"He's not going to die," Emily reassures her.

"Get him into the Tardis," Jack order, "quick. Move."

I help lay my father down on the floor before quickly being dragged away by my future self. Jack soon comes over as well and I take notice to how she wraps her arms around the man.

"What, what do we do? There must be some medicine or something," Donna rambles.

"Just step back," Jack commands, "Rose, do as I say, and get back. He's dying and you know what happens next."

"What do you mean? He can't," Donna chokes back tears.

"Oh, no. I came all this way," Rose says. She and Donna are kneeling beside him.

"What do you mean, what happens next?" Donna questions.

I choke back a sob as I see my father's right hand beginning to glow a soft gold.

"It's starting."

Dad struggles to his feet as Rose and Donna slowly back away.

Jack seems to be the only one calm about the situation. Donna is panic stricken, unsure of what is going on. Rose seems of be incapable of letting her lover change again. Emily is burying her face in jack's chest, her eyes closed shut as if remising a bad memory. I stand back with the group, trying my hardest not to cry as I watch the father I love about to change into someone I don't even know.

"Here we go. Good luck, Doctor," Jack says.

"Will someone please tell me what is going on?!" Donna demands frantically.

Emily pulls away from Jack just enough that she can be heard, "When Time Lords are dying, they regenerate. They can repair their whole bodies, be cured of almost any illness or injury. But, it comes with a price. We have to change, our whole body, mind, personality, our whole existence. When you regenerate you come out a completely new person."

"But you can't!" Rose cries.

"I'm sorry," Dad says, "it's too late. I'm regenerating."

Suddenly, the energy takes over, forcing him into a star like position. His head flies back as his body is healed. I have to look away to keep from being blinded by the gold energy as it's emitted from his body.

Goodbye, Dad.