Chapter 10
Rose stood in a stunned silence for a while, she knew the Doctor could read minds when was touching someone but then he'd just heard her while he was on the other side of the room. She decided to leave his room feeling like she invading his privacy. She made her way towards the control room. To her surprise, he was up there fiddling idly with the console.
"You alright?" Rose asked, he looked up at her watching her for a moment, then shrugged lightly
"How did you…?"
"Genesis" he said shortly then decided that that wasn't enough "Something they've done to me has mucked up my telepathic abilities, they've been amplified and I literally have no control over them at the moment."
"God" Rose dragged her hands down her face we should've you saved sooner
"You couldn't have got there any sooner without getting someone killed…and you thought that didn't you"
"Yeah…"
"I'm trying to put my mind into a lock down metaphorically speaking"
"Ok. As you're up now you wanna go for a walk? I'm bored of the hub"
"Ok. I'll just find a top" he said pointing towards his bedroom
"Ok I'll meet you in ten"
Rose was just finishing her coffee when the Doctor stepped out of the TARDIS, in a brown suit today, still no jacket but he did have his brown trench coat which hung around his ankles.
"Ready?" Rose asked him
"Of course" he smirked
"Actually before you two go I wanted ask you if you know what this is Doctor"
"Look it up online, go on Google" the Doctor said with a dismissive wave of his hand. And then as if by magic every screen on every computer and phone switched to Google.
"Doctor?" Rose asked slowly, everyone's gaze was on the Timelord
"Try something else" Jack suggested
"Try Facebook" Rose said
"The firewalls prevent the use of any social networking sites within the hub"
"Exactly" Rose said looking at the Doctor expectantly
"Go on Facebook" instantly all the computer screens brought up the Facebook homepage, the Doctor raised his eyebrows "That's…that's"
"New?" Rose suggested
"Different?" Jack offered
"A really good way to piss Tosh off?" was Owen's contribution
"I was going to say strange…." He mused
"Ask it to open Microsoft Word" Tosh told him
"Why?"
"Because we don't have it on our systems we have our own more sophisticated version"
"Open Microsoft Word" The Doctor said, and it appeared on every screen even impossibly on their phones
"So you can control computer by talking to them" Jack stated
"And with my mind apparently"
Rose frowned at him
"I told them to close Microsoft with my mind" he said pointing to the now empty screens
"So you have haywire telepathy and control over machine kind" Rose said in a spooky voice
They didn't notice that Jack had disappeared until he called them
"Doctor you might want to see this" he said bringing up the CCTV images that showed a woman waving at the camera
"It's not even been a day" the Doctor croaked
"Who's that?" Rose asked
"The Boss of Genesis" Jack said
"What?" Rose asked, around her Jack's team were arming themselves
"Bring the lift down" Jack said he turned to Rose and the Doctor "You two should stay down here"
"Not likely!" the Doctor snorted "This is my problem I should at least been involved in sorting it"
"I can't let you out of here you said yourself you're not well!"
"You can't stop me" the Doctor said matter of factly, he almost tore his trench coat off, he dropped to a crouch and sprang up 5 feet in the air unfurled his huge wings with a single flap landed on the concrete slab of pavement which was halfway down. Then, with another leap, he flew up through the hole pulling his wings in close to his body to fit through. Landing neatly on the edge of the hole. His heels just over the edge keeping his wings within the perception filter.
"Doctor" the Boss smiled like a Chesure Cat
"I thought you would have been gone for a bit longer than a day" the Doctor said remaining calm
"I don't like to waste time Doctor. And your…absence caused worries with some of my superiors. If word got out about Genesis and what we do, let's just say there'd be problems"
"I'd leave while you have the chance" Jack said him and his team all coming out (the tourist office exit) armed, Rose following them
"Did you know" she purred "That our Cardiff branch was going to be shut down it was successful enough, and we didn't have enough funding, you were just going to be left with a microchip in your arm but your friends here in an attempt to get inside gave us funding, everything we've done to you was through their money"
There was a silence as everyone processed this information
"And your chip indicates that you are undergoing further mutations beyond what was planned. We'd like to run further tests to check your stability"
"You make it sound so nice"
"I'm also going to take in your American friend"
"I don't think you are" Jack snarled
"You have no choice" she smiled politely "Now" she nodded
Her guards pulled the triggers on their guns releasing tranquiller darts.