Tour Eiffel, Champ de Mars, Paris, France_11th July Saturday 12:40 p.m.
Everyone ran. A mass of people, trying to get away from whet was left of the Eiffel Tower. Jack and Ianto ran against the mass of people, trying to find the Doctor, Gwen and that Jaqui guy. But as they went on, they looked up at the sky and everyone stopped to see too.
The Doctor stumbled but remained his balance. He looked down at the white ground, only it didn't feel like ground, it was like… alive? The ground kept on moving, waving forward, backwards and to the sides, as if trying to get him to fall. He fought back trying to keep up, as he struggling tried to walk forwards, looking for a destination. All around him, white was the only thing he could see.
There's nothing you can do
The Doctor turned around to see, but there was nothing, just the blinding whiteness. He kept going forward as the ground grabbed at his legs. He gave a grunt, kicking the ground away.
Did you hear me?
The white started to crawl up his legs, but he just kept going on, not minding it.
Can you hear me?
The white was nearly up to his waist, and then he started to really struggle. He tried to get rid off the white, but it was like sticking into his body, trying to get absorbed by his body.
As much as you'd like to struggle there's nothing you can do. You have to stop. You've got to give up.
"I know you're there, Adam," the Doctor yelled. "I know you're trying to stop me. But you won't stop me from saving this planet. No one is going to die! Do you hear me? No one is going to die!"
Silence, but the white kept crawling up, until it covered his whole body, but leaving his head free.
Yes.
The Doctor saw Adam appear out of green smoke.
"I heard you." Adam grinned at the sight of a helpless Doctor, trapped in the whiteness. "You don't need to yell for me to hear. You knew I was here." The Doctor thrashed about trying to shake off the whiteness unsuccessfully. "You know what I've always hated about you?"
The Doctor laughed. "You've never known me."
Adam placed a finger at his lips in a rush. "Wait, wait, I haven't finished." Adam stared at the Doctor for a moment before starting again. "You know what I've always hated about you? What has always got me puzzled about you?" The Doctor stared at him with a frown. Adam tapped the Doctor's head teasingly. "You're supposed to say 'what, Adam?'"
The Doctor sighed. "What, Adam?"
"How you always get to stand back up," Adam said. "The only thing I haven't been able to do in a lot of years because of your companion, Doctor. Because of them I have been torn off my own existence. I have not been able to enjoy my life anymore. I didn't feel anything when that happened."
"You didn't feel any pain, then why are you complaining about not feeling a thing when you were 'torn away' from your existence?"
"Because I wasn't allowed to feel!" Adam shouted. "When I was human I could feel. I could taste that passion humans feel about living, smell the stink and whiff of the streets of Cardiff. I could see her and I'd be able to touch her beautiful face, and I'd hear those words that would come out from her red crimson lips."
"Oh, so this is all about a girl, is it?"
"I was looking for her," Adam said. "I looked everywhere. When I came back, she wasn't there. But I've looked hard in every single place in the whole Earth, but I can't find her. Why is that?"
"Don't ask me, I didn't even know you fancied anyone."
Adam held the Doctor's chin tightly. "But why is it I can see her in your memories?"
"What are you talking about?"
"I can see her through your eyes," Adam closed his eyes, hitting his head in desperation, "her beautiful silky hair, her dark eyes behind black framed glasses, her crimson lips..."
The Doctor sighed. "Toshiko Sato, yes, I met her, I remember... She was in the Albion Hospital, when the Slitheen came to destroy Earth..."
Adam snapped his fingers at him. "That's her! The beautiful Toshiko whom I loved dearly. And Jack took me away from her."
"How do you know she did love you dearly?" The Doctor asked, exasperated. "What if you were the one who was in love with her and was hypnotising her to fall in love with you?"
"Oh, Doctor, you think you're so good confusing my feelings," Adam laughed. "I'm the expert on that here."
"This isn't confusing you," the Doctor said, very serious, "I'm showing you yourself."
Adam stared back at the Doctor. The Doctor knew Adam knew he was right, and he could see Adam's expression change from teasing to melancholy. His arm twisted, trying to hide the fear of Toshiko not loving him, as his hand unconsciously kept clenching into a fist. But he smiled unexpectedly.
"Well, Doctor." Adam grabbed the Doctor by his white covered shoulders and twisted him around looking down. "I will show you down there."
When the Doctor expected white to be there when Adam twisted him around, instead, they were in outer space, looking above the Earth. The Doctor horrified as he saw the whole Earth being plagued by green smoke. Around the whole globe thick clouds of green dispersed until nothing of Earth was left uncovered.
"Poor little planet," Adam sniffed, "covered in a thick cloud of green… green."
"Why are you doing this?" The Doctor asked, desperate to save the planet.
"Oh, you know, the same thing all villains would do it for: to get power over the planet, to invade the whole planet, to I don't know! There are lots of things to do to the planet when you're a villain, but I still need to pick what to do to Earth, still…" he snapped his fingers and the white came back around them. "I've got to first decided what to do with you."
"Before you do anything to me…" the Doctor interrupted. "I would like you to really reflect on what you're doing right now. Is it really worth this? All you want is to find the girl of your dreams, that's all isn't it? All you've got to do is to go up to her and say how much you fancy her, take her out on a date at the movies for a coffee or something that comes up to your mind."
"Why would I listen to you when you can't even do what you are suggesting to me?"
The Doctor remembered. "Where's Gwen?" he asked firmly.
There was a pause before Adam burst out laughing. "Is she your sweetheart now?"
"I'm asking you a simple caring question: where is she? Have you hurt her?"
Adam clapped his hands. "Why don't you ask her yourself?"
And Gwen appeared from out of the whiteness.
"Gwen" the Doctor called excited and happy to see Gwen was OK. But… "What's wrong with her?"
Gwen didn't seem to notice him and her eyes were filled with whiteness. Adam approached her, waving a hand at her face and making funny faces at her, but she stayed impassive.
"She isn't responding…" Adam said seemingly worried. He turned around to the Doctor. "She doesn't seem to be able to hear us." Adam pretended to bite his fingernails in fret. "Oh, my Gosh! What's happened to her?"
The Doctor didn't laugh, all serious. "What did you do to her?"
Adam crossed his arms looking as if fumed. "I didn't do anything to her." He turned back at her, touching her dark hair. "She seems to be in a sort of… state of… seeing something… in the future?" he waved his hand at the Doctor. "I'm just guessing. But she seems… oh… it seems to be taking over her being and soul." Adam started to make little girly jumps and clapping his hands. "Oh, my god! The genetic family treat has finally come down the line! Remember that slave girl in Cardiff in the… what was it? 1800's?"
"Stop hurting Gwen!" yelled the Doctor.
Adam raised his hands in defence. "I told you before: I'm not doing anything. She's just too close to the Rift." He laughed. "Wait a sec! I'm the Rift!" He laughed even louder.
"Get away from her!" he yelled again.
"Sorry can't do that." Adam rubbed his hands together. "I need to see the future…"
He touched Gwen's head and she screamed out in pain. Adam took his hands away from her head amused.
"That was fun."
"Don't touch her!" the Doctor yelled again.
"Why? I think it is fun. Wanna see the agony again?"
"No!"
Adam placed his hands on Gwen's head again, making Gwen yell out her agony once more. She didn't seem conscious, even though she could feel that pain. The Doctor tried to get his white restraints off his body – they seemed to get less weak when Adam wasn't minding him. Adam removed his hands from Gwen's head, and Gwen seemed peaceful once again.
"Adam, you've got to stop this." The Doctor murmured, looking not at Adam, but at Gwen, worriedly.
"Yes, I should…" Adam started thinking, "when I'm finished with Earth, of course! Ha!"
Adam burst out laughing. The Doctor looked now sober as he could now see something happening in history he didn't expect or know, but lived in the Torchwood team forever still. Adam noticed him.
"What?" Adam ruffled the Doctor's spiky hair. "Aren't you happy? Of course you wouldn't be happy… the whole planet is about to be destroyed by my very hands…"
"It's not that," he said gravely. "Are you sure you've looked everywhere for her?"
"For who?"
"For Tosh."
Silence.
"Since when do you call her Tosh?" asked Adam suspiciously, rubbing the tip of his chin. "I don't remember hearing from your memories you'd know her that well to call her that…"
The Doctor took a deep breath. "You sure you have checked every single place on Earth?"
"What do you think?"
"What about Owen Harper? Found anything of him?"
Adam frowned, even more suspicious of the Doctor's sudden odd behaviour. "How do you know him?"
"Have you checked the cemetery for her name?"
There was another pause before Adam realized what the Doctor was suggesting. "Ha, ha, ha! You are good, Doctor!" he clapped his hands in admiration. "You are good manipulating my feelings."
"I'm not." Adam's smile fell as the Doctor continued. "Check Jack's, Ianto's and Gwen's memories. They must have something, shouldn't they?"
Adam refused to believe it. "No, it can't be…" he laughed. "I would have noticed it in the first place…"
"Check it," the Doctor responded, "I may be wrong."
Adam closed his eyes and browsed through Jack's, Ianto's and Gwen's memories with more detail for a long time, finding nothing.
"There's nothing, Doctor," he said. "You're wrong."
"Try harder," the Doctor said, still sombre. "They've tried it to tuck it away to forget about it and go on. Look deep inside their memories."
To Adam's horror he saw Toshiko's bleeding face looking up at Jack, as her lifeless body lied in his arms, as Gwen and him grieved for her death.
"No!" he yelled not wanting to take it in. "I refuse – no! She's not dead!"
Adam turned around and the Doctor saw as the whole whiteness disappeared, leaving the Doctor free. They had appeared in a cemetery. The Doctor looked back where Gwen stood.
Adam ran through the cemetery looking for Toshiko's grave. If he didn't see it he wouldn't believe it. If he didn't see it himself. But all the joy he had to see Toshiko alive and well faded into grief as he saw the gravestone standing in the graveyard with big italic letters: 'In memory of Toshiko Sato, whom we've loved and respected'.
"No…" Adam said. "This can't be!"
He turned back to where the Doctor and Gwen should have been but was gone. Adam screamed in rage.
The Doctor ran, carrying Gwen in his arms. Even though he was pretty skinny he did, he was stronger than he looked – what he usually said to himself with pride. He could hear Adam's inhuman scream echoing across the cemetery, and the sky turned black and cloudy. The cemetery seemed endless, as he carrying Gwen stepped across it trying to find the way out. Suddenly the ground started to move about, and roots from the underground started to hit at his heels, but he kept on.
Adam jumped and, as if flying, closed his hand into a fist and he pushed a fist of green towards the Doctor's and Gwen's direction. It missed them by a bit in front of them. Gwen was starting to come about. The Doctor looked at the destroyed ground to see patch of ground near their feet. And then Adam sent another fist of green, hitting them and sending them flying upwards through the sky.
The last thing the Doctor knew was that…
