Jackie's Mission
Summary-
The Doctor swears on his TARDIS that it was Jackie Tyler's life mission to drive him insane! And now that she had found her way onto his TARDIS, she won't leave him alone, always on him about something or another. And there was a lot more yelling and we can't forget all the slapping! And his Rose was not helping one bit.
Chapter 14- Boom Town Pt. 2
"This ship is impossible! It's superb! How'd you get the outside around the inside?" Margaret asked looking around the much bigger on the inside ship as the Doctor and Jack worked together to get the extrapolator hooked up to the TARDIS so that they could use what ever energy it had as fuel so that they could quickly get Margaret home. The Doctor glanced up and Margaret before going back to what he was doing.
"Like I'd give you the secret, yeah." The Doctor said.
"I almost feel better about being defeated. I never stood a chance. This is the technology of the gods." Margaret said walking around the console, Rose, who was standing right next to the Doctor, moved closer to him to try and get away from Margaret. The Doctor looked over at Rose in concern before turning to glare that the Alien that was scaring his Rose.
"Don't worship me, I'd make a very bad god. You wouldn't get a day off for starters." The Doctor muttered as he forced himself to continue working on getting the extrapolator hooked up. The sooner it was hooked up, the sooner he could get Margaret away from his Rose. "Jack, how we doing, big fella?"
"This extrapolator's top of the range. Where did you get it?" Jack asked from the floor where he was hooking up wires to the bottom of the extrapolator.
"I don't know, some airlock sale." Margaret said.
"Must have been a great heist." Jack said glaring at her before turning to look at the Doctor. "It's stacked with power." He informed.
"But we can use is for fuel?" The Doctor asked, desperate to get Margaret away from his Rose.
"It's not compatible. But it should knock off about 12 hours. We'll be ready to go by morning." Jack said and the Doctor had to bite back an annoyed sigh.
"Then we're stuck here, overnight." The Doctor all but growled out.
"I'm in no hurry." Margaret said.
"We've got a prisoner." Rose said with a small smile and everyone looked at her. "The police box is really a police box." Rose said getting more excited as she thought about it. The Doctor smiled at her, happy that she could find something good about the situation they had found them in.
"You're not just police, though." Margaret said and Rose's smile faded and moved even closer to the Doctor who was glaring at Margaret. "Since you're taking me to my death, that makes you my executioners. Each and every one of you." Margaret said moving to stand right in front of Rose who moved to the other side of the Doctor so that he was in between her and Margaret.
"You deserve it." Mickey said from his spot next to Jackie who was leaning against the railing.
"You're very quick to say so." Margaret snapped at him. "You're very quick to soak you hands in my blood. Which makes you better than me how, exactly?" Margaret asked and moved away from the Doctor to sit on the captain's chair, the chair that Doctor dubbed as 'Rose's chair'. "Long night ahead. Let's see who can look me in the eye." Margaret said then looked at Mickey who stared her in the eye for about a minute before glancing away, Margaret then moved to look at Rose who wouldn't even look at her, neither would Jack. The Doctor glanced up at Margaret to glare at her for a second before going back to working. Margaret smirked and looked over at Jackie who was staring at her, the two women stared each other down for a full 5 minutes before Margaret looked back over at Mickey causing Jackie to smirk. This Alien tried to kill her daughter, she would not back down from this challenge.
"I'll be right back." Mickey muttered before he pushed off the railing and all but ran out of the TARDIS. Rose watched him leave biting her lip, she wanted to follow him, to get away from the accusing look Margaret was now sending her way, but she didn't want to look weak in front of her.
"Go on." Rose heard the Doctor whisper to her and looked at him in shock. "Go check on him." He said, he didn't really want her to go after Mickey, but he didn't want Margaret to continue torturing her, right now Mickey was the two lesser of the evils.
"You sure?" Rose asked.
"Yep." The Doctor said refusing to look at her, knowing that if he looked at her he wouldn't let her go. Rose took the Doctor's hand and gave it a tight squeeze before quickly turning and leaving the TARDIS.
"Where's she gone off to?" Jackie asked.
"Told her to go check on Mickey the Idiot, to make sure he doesn't get himself into trouble." The Doctor muttered.
~Fourteen~
"It's freezing out here." Rose said walking over to Micky next to the water fountain after she had walked out of the TARDIS. She had to force herself to not stop and run back into the warm spaceship and back to her Doctor, but at the same time she didn't want to be stuck in the ship for 12 hours with Margaret staring accusingly at her.
"Better than in there." Mickey said turning glare at the ship. "She does deserve it, she's a Slitheen, I don't care." Mickey said, almost whining. "It's just weird in that box." Mickey muttered trying not to seem weak to Rose. The Doctor was never weak and always seemed to know what to do, maybe that was why Rose had run off with the Doctor in the first place.
"I didn't really need my passport." Rose said after a moment of thought. Mickey gave a small sigh of relief and smiled and Rose smiled back awkwardly knowing that he didn't get what she meant by that, but didn't honestly feel like correcting him.
"I've been thinking, you know, we could go have a drink. Have a pizza or something, just you and me." Mickey said slowly, as if afraid she would refuse him. He was her best mate, of course she would love to go have a bite to eat with him.
"That'd be nice." Rose muttered knowing that in Mickey's mind, this would be a date even though she thought of it as more of two old friends catching up.
"And, I mean, if the TARDIS can't leave until morning...we could go to a hotel. Spend the night. I mean if you want to. I've got some money." Mickey said and Rose looked at him in shock.
"Yes to the pizza, but I don't know about the hotel." Rose said slowly trying to come up with believable excuse that she could use to get out of going to a hotel rather than tell him the truth and hurt him.
"Oh, is it the Doctor?" Mickey asked glaring at the TARDIS.
"Yes, well, I mean, not really, I don't think he'd mind." Rose muttered pulling nervously at her ear as an excuse finally came to it. "But its just, I can't leave mum and him alone. Might come back and find them dead and the TARDIS destroyed."
"But Jack is there." Mickey said confused.
"He encourages it." Rose said quickly, trying not to wince at how lame her excuse sounded to her.
"Oh, okay, I see. That's cool, there's a couple of bars round here, we should give them a go." Mickey said with a smile on, happy to believe that Rose just didn't want her mother fighting with the Doctor sand not the fact that it was the Doctor himself that was keeping her from wanting to spend a night with him. "Do you have to go and tell him?" Mickey asked nodding towards the TARDIS.
"I-he's busy, I don't want to bother him." Rose said softly biting back the urge to run into the TARDIS and into her Doctor's arms.
~Fourteen~
The Doctor glared at the little monitor that allowed him to see what was going on outside. How dare Mickey try and ask her to have sex with his Rose! When he had heard Mickey mention getting a room at a hotel for the night, he had barely been able to fight the urge to run out of the TARDIS and ring that human's neck! Hadn't he already proved to that idiot that Rose was his! "So what's on?" Jack asked looking over the Doctor's shoulder and saw Rose and Mickey walking away from the TARDIS hand in hand. Jack glanced at the Doctor and shivered at the murderous look on the man's face.
"Nothing, just..." The Doctor muttered but let the sentence hang.
"Just spying on Rose and her boyfriend?" Jackie said smirking at the Doctor when he tensed up.
"He not-" The Doctor started before he caught himself, Jackie was just trying to wind him up and he was not going to fall for it. He wanted to prove Rose wrong, wanted to show her that he could spend a few hours alone with Jackie and not end up in a full out war with her. He had somehow managed when they had been separated from Rose, but then again he had been able to distract himself at not only trying to find Rose but figure out everything else. "I'm not spying." He muttered before going back to working on getting the extrapolator hooked up properly.
"I gather it's not always like this. Having to wait." Margaret said from her spot on the steps, her back facing the Doctor who had kicked her off of the captain's chair the minute Rose had left the TARDIS seeing as the little monitor was positioned in front of the chair and he had not wanted her right behind him. Everyone ignored her and continued what they were doing. "I bet you're always the first to leave, Doctor. Never mind the consequences, off you go. You butchered my family and then ran for the stars, am I right?" Margaret asked going for a different tactic to get a response from the Doctor, any response was welcome. "But not this time. At last, you have consequences. How does it feel?"
"I didn't butcher them." The Doctor said.
"Don't answer back, that's what she wants." Jack told him as they continued working.
"I didn't." The Doctor told Jack "What about you?" He asked Margaret turning her tactic back on her. "You had an emergency teleport, you didn't zap them to safety, did you?"
"It only carries one. I had to fly without coordinates. I ended up in a skip on the Isle of Dogs" Margaret said and the Doctor burst out laughing at the image that popped into his mind. "It wasn't funny." Margaret snapped turning to glare at him.
"Sorry." The Doctor said before he began to snicker again. "It is a bit funny." The Doctor choked out as him, Jackie and Jack burst into laughter. Margaret snickered humorously a few times before an idea entered her head,
"Do I get a last request?" Margaret asked as innocently as she could.
"Depends on what it is." The Doctor said instantly knowing what Margaret was planning thanks to the TARDIS informing him.
"I grew quite fond of my little human life. All those rituals. The brushing of the teeth and the complicated way they cook things. There's a little restaurant, just round the Bay. It became quite a favorite of mine." Margaret said as the Doctor stopped working and turned to look at her for a minute before slowly walked over to lean on the rails behind her.
"Is that what you want? A last meal?" The Doctor asked not letting on the he knew her plans.
"Don't I have rights?" Margaret asked.
"Last Rights! Doctor you can't be thinking of what I think you are!" Jackie yelled from her spot across the ship. She had been traveling with the Doctor to know that tone of voice he was using.
"But she is right about her rights." The Doctor said glancing back at Jackie with a sly smirk.
"Oh come on, like she's not gonna try to escape." Jack cried out.
"Except I can never escape the Doctor so where's the danger?" Margaret snapped out before remembering her innocent act. "I wonder if you could do it. To sit with a creature you're about to kill and take supper. How strong is your stomach?" Margaret said with smirk.
"Strong enough." The Doctor said.
"I wonder. I've seen you fight your enemies. Now dine with them." Margaret practically demanded.
"You won't change my mind." The Doctor informed her.
"Prove it." Margaret dared him.
"There are people out there." The Doctor said remembering that Rose was out there with Mickey. He couldn't afford for her to get away from him. "If you slip away just for one second, they'll be endanger." The Doctor said.
"Except, I've got these." Jack said suddenly pulling two silver bracelets from his back pocket. "You both wear one. If she moves more than ten feet away... Buzzz. She gets zapped by 10,000 volts." He informed them. The Doctor spun back around with a maniac grin on his face.
"Margaret, would you like to come to dinner? My treat." The Doctor said.
"Dinner in bondage. Works for me." Margaret said as she smirked.
~Fourteen~
After leaving Jack and Jackie in the TARDIS with the unspoken command that Jack was to continue to work on connecting the extrapolator the Doctor grudgingly took Margaret by the hand and led her to the little bistro that Margaret wanted to go to. Along the way, the Doctor had managed to spot Mickey and Rose on the other pier and had to fight the urge to drop Margaret's hand and run over to Rose and pull her away from Mickey. Now Margaret and the Doctor were sitting in a nice little restaurant that the Doctor would rather have his Rose sitting across from him instead of Margaret looking over the menu waiting for her to try and start the second part of her plan. "Here we are, out on a date, and you haven't even asked my proper name." Margaret said.
"It's not a date." The Doctor snapped at her before taking a few deep breaths to calm himself down. "What's your name?"
"Blon. I am Blon Fel Fotch Passemeer-Day Slitheen. That's what it'll say on my death certificate." Margaret said trying to get some kind of reaction from the Doctor.
"Nice to meet you, Blon." The Doctor said glancing at her before looking back at the menu. Nothing looked really appetizing, what he really want was to share some fish and chips with his Rose.
"I'm sure." Margaret growled out. "Look, that's where I was living a Margaret." Margaret said motioning with her eyes to the Doctor to turn and look at the flat. The Doctor turned at looked out the window at the flat. "Nice little flat, over there on the top. Next to the one with the light on." Margaret said as she silently leaned over the table and opened her ring, pouring the powdered poison into his drink. "Two bedrooms, bayside view. I was rather content. Don't suppose I'll see it again." Margaret said sitting back in her seat and acted innocent as the Doctor turned back to look at her. Without saying anything the Doctor switched their glasses so the the poisoned one was now in front of Margaret.
"Suppose not." The Doctor said with a small smile as Margaret forced herself to smile at him.
"Thank you." Margaret said.
"Pleasure." The Doctor returned.
"Tell me, then, Doctor, what do you know of our species?" Margaret asked.
"Only what I've seen." The Doctor said not letting on that he had seen more than she knew, no need to ruin her fun.
"Did you know, for example, in extreme cases, when her life is in danger, a female Rexicoricophalvitorian can manufacture a poison dart within her own finger." Margaret asked as she sent a poisoned dart at the Doctor.
"Yes, I did." The Doctor said catching the dart without ever looking up from the menu before letting it drop onto the floor.
"Just checking." Margaret said forcing herself to laugh and not glare at him. "And one more thing. Between you and me..." Margaret said before looking around, the Doctor also looked around noticing all of the happy couples around them. He gripped the menu tighter as his urge to go find Rose and pull her to him and never let her leave his sight hit him square on. When Margaret leaned over the table, the Doctor forced him to the the same, making sure to quickly put his hand in his pocket and grip a small container. "As a final resort, the excess poison can be exhaled through the lungs." Margaret whispered before breathing out a green gas, but the Doctor quickly sprayed Margaret mouth with the antidote that was in a small container.
"That's better." The Doctor said as Margaret gagged a little, not expecting the Doctor to spray her mouth. She stuck out her tongue at the nasty taste that the antidote left in her mouth. "Now then, what do you think? Steak looks nice. Steak and chips!" The Doctor said when a waiter came to take their order.
"I will be publicly executed, Doctor. Do you know what a public execution is like on Rexicoricophalvitorious?" Margaret asked after the waiter had left with their orders.
"Why don't you tell me?" The Doctor asked.
"Public execution is a slow death. They prepare a thin acetic acid, lower me into the cauldron and boil me. The acidity is perfectly gauged to strip away the skin. Internal organs fall out into the liquid and I become soup. And still alive. Still screaming." Margaret said and the Doctor was suddenly back in the Time War, hearing all his people screaming in pain, fear, and agony as he pushed the button on the Moment that would destroy his people.
"I don't make the law." The Doctor said forcing himself back to the present.
"But you deliver it. Will you stay to watch?" Margaret asked and an image of the Doctor holding onto a crying Rose Tyler as he forced her to watch as Margaret was slowly tortured to death. He mentally pushed the image away, there was no way he would force his sweet, innocent, pink and yellow Rose to watch someone be tortured to death. It was bad enough that he not only made her watch her planet explode into bits, but also watch as Cassandra exploded.
"What else can I do?" The Doctor asked.
"The Slitheen family's huge. There's a lot more of us, all scattered off-world. Take me to them. Take me somewhere safe." Margaret begged.
"But then you'll just start again." The Doctor said. It was hard, knowing that when he took her back home she would be killed, but this was his job, to make the hard decisions because no one else would. He would hate himself, but he knew that Rose would except him as is, broken and all.
"I promise I won't." Margaret said.
"You've been in that skin suit too long. You've forgotten. There used to be a real Margaret Blaine. You killed her and stripped her and used the skin. You're pleading for mercy out of a dead woman's lips." The Doctor said.
"Perhaps I have got used to it. A human life, an ordinary life. That's all I'm asking. Give me a chance, Doctor. I can change." Margaret told him.
"I don't believe you." The Doctor said.
"I promise you I've changed since we last met, Doctor." Margaret said remembering the report she let go. "There was this girl, just today. Young thing. And something of a danger. She was getting too close. I felt the blood lust rising, just as the family taught me. I was going to kill her without a thought. And then I stopped. She's alive somewhere, right now. She's walking round this city because I can change. I did change. I know I can't prove it." Margaret said trying to get the Doctor to believe her.
"I believe you." The Doctor told her.
"Then you know I'm capable of better." Margaret said hopefully.
"It doesn't mean anything." The Doctor said.
"I spared her life." Margaret growled out.
"You let one of them go. But that's nothing new. Every now and then a little victim's spared. Because she smiled. Because he's got freckles. Because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions. Because once in a while, on a whim, if the wind's in the right direction, you happen to be kind." The Doctor said shocking Margaret.
"Only a killer would know that." Margaret said shocking the Doctor. "Is that right? From what I've seen, your funny little happy-go-lucky life leaves devastation in its wake. Always moving on because you dare not go back. Playing with so many people's lives, you might as well be a god." Margaret said and once again the Doctor was in that small shack with the Moment, pushing that damned button that destroyed his people. "And you're right, Doctor." Margaret said bringing the Doctor back to the present. "You're absolutely right. Sometimes, you let one go. Let me go. In the family Slitheen, we had no choice. I was made to carry out my first kill at 13. If I'd refused, my father would have fed me to the Venom Grubs." The Doctor started at her listening to Margaret's plea when a rumbling sound caught his attention. "If I'm a killer, it's because I was born to kill. It's all I know. Doctor, are you listening to me?"
"Can you hear that?" The Doctor asked looking around trying to figure out what he was hearing and where it was coming from.
"I'm begging for my life." Margaret said offended.
"No, listen, shush." The Doctor said and noticed their glasses were shaking. Suddenly the glass windows exploded. The Doctor shot out of his chair and out of the restaurant with Margaret barely keeping up with him.
"The handcuffs!" She cried as they were running down some stairs, the Doctor quickly turned around and grabbed Margaret's hand and forced her to run faster, he had to find Rose and get her to the safety that was the TARDIS, as he ran he took the handcuff off Margaret.
"Don't think you're running away." The Doctor growled at her.
"I'm sticking with you." Margaret told him.
~Fourteen~
"The Doctor took me, well, us to this planet a while back. It was much colder than this." Rose said as she and Mickey walked along the pier catching up. "They called it Women Wept. The planet was actually called Women Wept because if you looked at it, right, from above, it was like this huge continent, like, all curved round." Rose said excitedly as she tried to show Mickey with her hand the way the continent was, not noticing that Mickey wasn't really interested in the story and that he looked really annoyed. "It sort of looked like a woman, you know, lamenting." Rose said and was silent for a few minutes remembering the way the Doctor had set the TARDIS to drift in the planet's orbit and had opened the doors and held her close to him as he pointed out the continent and explained the history. She couldn't really remember anything that the Doctor had told her that night, all she could remember was the feel of the Doctor's body against her, then the sound of her mother's hand hitting the Doctor's cheek, and the sound of Jack's laughter.
"Oh, my god," Rose cried, cutting off Mickey who was about to tell her something when she remembered something else, "And we went to this beach, right. No people, no buildings, just this beach, like, 1,000 miles across." Rose said remembering the beautiful beach and how the Doctor had beamed at her, it had left her speechless for minutes. "And something happened, something to so with the sun," Rose muttered remembering the Doctor had rambled on for a good three minutes about the sun and something or other, but the the life of her she couldn't remember what the Doctor had said, "I don't know, but the sea had just frozen. In a split second. In the middle of a storm, right, waves and foam, just frozen, all the way out to the horizon. Midnight, right, we walk underneath these waves, 100 feet tall and made of ice." Rose said blushing as she remembered the Doctor leading her out on the the ice and wrapped his arms around her waist and he lead her, Jack, and her mother, who was being held up by Jack around the waves explaining how they had been formed. She remembered the look that the Doctor gave her when she whispered out how beautiful it looked.
"I'm going out with Trisha Delaney." Mickey suddenly blurted out pulling Rose out of the memory.
"Oh, right. That's nice." Rose said slowly as what Mickey had just told her finally registered in her mind. "Trisha from the shop?" Rose asked confused, didn't Mickey hate her?
"Yeah, Rob Delaney's sister." Mickey said.
"Well, she's nice." Rose said now wondering why Mickey asked her out on this date, even if she didn't see it as a date, and mentioned getting a hotel room id he was dating someone else.
"You've been away." Mickey said sounding as if he was trying to explain himself."
"I didn't say anything. I'm happy for you. She's nice." Rose said.
"So tell us more about this planet, then." Mickey said forcing out a smile.
"That was it, really." Rose said even though there had been so much more, like the time when her mum had used Jack's chest as a leverage when she slung herself across the ice and body slammed into the Doctor at one point, sending all three of them into one big pile of tangled body limbs sliding about 50 meters across the ice, causing Jack to slip and fall on his arse laughing. Rose turned and began to slowly walk with Mickey beside her, did this mean that she was free to be with the Doctor? Did the Doctor even want to be with her?
"So, what do you want to do now?" Mickey asked as they came to a stop near the restaurant that they had all eaten at earlier that day even though to Rose it felt almost years ago. Mickey sat down on a bench as Rose went to lean against the railing wondering what the Doctor was up to and if he had managed to get the extrapolator hooked up.
"Don't mind." Rose muttered fighting the urge to run back to the TARDIS and to her Doctor, and with each passing minute it was getting harder and harder to fight the urge. Rose gripped the railing harder in hopes to keep herself from running towards the TARDIS. And Mickey wasn't helping one bit.
"There's a bar down there with a Spanish name..." Mickey started.
"You don't even like Trisha Delaney!" Rose snapped at Mickey hoping to distract herself.
"Oh is that right? What the hell do you know?" Mickey snapped right back.
"I know you and I know her and I know that's never gonna happen! So, who do you think you're kiddin'?" Rose cried.
"At least I know where she is!" Mickey yelled.
"There we are, then. It's got nothing to do with Trisha. This is all about me, isn't it?" Rose asked.
"YOU LEFT ME!" Mickey roared as he lunched at her suddenly reminding her of Jimmy Stone, Rose turned to run to the safety of the TARDIS but Mickey quickly grabbed her arm and held her gently in place. "We were nice, we were happy. And then what? You give me a kiss and run off with him and you make me feel like nothing, Rose. I was nothing! I can't even go out with a stupid girl from a shop because your mum calls saying you are back and I comes running. I mean, is that what I am, Rose, standby?" Mickey asked crying now Rose shook her head wanting to tell him that she never meant to make it seem like she was using him as standby. She had told her mum to not call Mickey. "Am I just supposed to sit here for the rest of my life waiting for you? Because I will." Mickey informed her shocking her.
"I'm sorry." Rose whispered, not knowing what to say she took a step away form Mickey, causing him to let go of her arm. She wonder if she should run back to the TARDIS, she really wanted the Doctor to tell her that she wasn't a bad person, that she wasn't a greedy person like Mickey made her feel.
"I'm not asking you to leave him because I know that's not fair. But I just need something, yeah, some sort of promise that when you do come back, you're coming back for me." Mickey said and Rose went to answer him when a deep rumbling sound caught her attention.
"Is that thunder?" Rose asked.
"Does it matter?" Mickey asked.
"That's not thunder." Rose said and the ground suddenly started shaking, the light next to this shattered into sparks. That was when Rose knew something was wrong and started running towards the TARDIS.
"Oh go on, then, run. It's him again, isn't it? It's the Doctor. It's always the Doctor. It's always gonna be the Doctor. It's never me!" Rose heard Mickey yell after her.
~Fourteen~
The Doctor came to a complete stop when he saw that it was the TARDIS that was causing this destruction. "It's the rift. The rift's opening." The Doctor said in shock, this was impossible, this could not be happening. He then started to run even faster towards the TARDIS, dragging Margaret behind him. He quickly unlocked the TARDIS and pulled Margaret inside and nearly doubled over in pain at the pain that his TARDIS was feeling, he could hear her screaming in pain in his mind. "What they hell are you doing?" The Doctor demanded when he saw Jack trying to stop what ever was happening but failing.
"Doctor! What's going on! Where's my daughter?" Jackie screamed at him as she held on to a coral beam as the ship started to shake.
"It just went crazy!" Jack yelled as the console started to spark.
"It's the rift. Time and space are ripping apart." The Doctor said running towards the console as his first priority was stopping the rift from opening, that was the only way from to keep his pink and yellow Rose and his ship safe. "The whole city's going to disappear."
"It's the extrapolator." Jack said as he and the Doctor tried to unhook the extrapolator. "I've disconnected it, but it's still feeding off the engine. It's using the TARDIS, I can't stop it." Jack cried.
"Doctor do something!" Jackie yelled.
"Never mind Cardiff, it's gonna rip open the planet!" The Doctor said just as Rose ran into the TARDIS.
"What is it? What's happening?" Rose demanded as she quickly grabbed onto the wall as the TARDIS began to shake even more, nearly knocking everyone over.
"Rose! Oh Rose your safe! Where's Mickey?" Jackie cried.
"I don't know, he didn't follow me back." Rose said.
"What's happening? Oh just little me." Margaret yelled before ripping off the skin suit's arm so that she could use her real arm to grab Rose around the throat and pull Rose towards her. The second that the suit's arm had come off, the Doctor ran around the console to try and save his Rose, along with everyone else. "One wrong move and she snaps like a promise." Margaret threatened.
"I might have known." The Doctor growled out coming to a halt, through the screaming the TARDIS whispered a a dangerously, risky plan to save their Rose.
"I had you bleating all night, poor baby." Margaret said moving closer to the console. "Now, shut it. You, fly boy. Put the extrapolator at my feet." Margaret demanded and when Jack didn't move she tightened her grip around Rose's throat causing Rose to gag. Jack quickly looked at the Doctor who nodded without ever taking his eyes away from the pair in front of him. Jack quickly put the extrapolator at Margaret's feet. "Thank you. Just as I planned."
"What the hell are you talking about. You told us that you needed to blow up the nuclear power station!" Jackie cried she wanted to rush over there and save her daughter, but she was frightened that if she moved to do so, Margaret would kill her.
"Failing that, 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 am back on schedule. Thanks to you." Margaret told them with a smirk.
"The rift's gonna convulse, you'll destroy the whole planet." Jack said.
"And you with it." Margaret said and the Doctor noticed that his Rose was starting to loose consciousness. Margaret swung Rose to the other side of her. "While I ride this board over the crest of the inferno, all the way to freedom." Margaret said stepping onto the board. "Stand back boys. Surf's up." Margaret hissed.
'Now.' The Doctor heard the TARDIS yell at him and he quickly covered both Jack and Jackie's eyes as a panel on the console opened to reveal the Time Vortex to Margaret causing her to loosen up her grip on Rose just enough to get some air in to her lungs. Rose tried not to look at the beautiful golden light that was coming out of the ship, she could hear something singing in the back of her mind as if to say that she was in no danger and could swear that she heard something whisper 'Bad Wolf' and the laughter of a little girl.
"Course, opening the rift means you'll pull this ship apart." The Doctor informed Margaret making sure to keep his hands over Jack and Jackie's eyes.
"So sue me." Margaret growled out.
"She's not just any old power source. She's the TARDIS, my TARDIS. The best ship in the universe." The Doctor said.
"It'll make wonderful scrap." Margaret growled.
"What's that light?" Rose asked as the singing got louder.
"The heart of the TARDIS. This ship's alive. You've opened her soul." The Doctor said.
"It's...so bright." Margaret whispered looking at the light.
"Look at it, Margaret." The Doctor told her.
"Beautiful." Margaret muttered.
"Look inside, Blon Fel Fotch. Look at the light." The Doctor told her. Margaret looked deeper into the light and slowly let go of Rose who quickly ran over to the Doctor and buried her head into his chest. The Doctor gave a sigh of relief when he felt his Rose's body up against his, and would have wrapped his arms around her had he not been covering Jack and Jackie's eyes. The Doctor watched as Margaret slowly looked up at him and smiled at him, he smiled a small smile back knowing that she would be in piece now.
"Thank you." Margaret whispered before the golden light of the TARDIS engulfed her turning her back into an egg, giving her another chance at life.
"Don't look, stay there, close your eyes!" The Doctor yelled taking his hands way from Jackie and Jack's eyes. The Doctor quickly grabbed Rose's hands and dragged her over the the console and began to push leavers and buttons closing the panel. "Now, Jack, come on, shit it all down. Shut down." Jack ran over to the console and began doing as Rose began to help him push leavers and buttons. "Jackie, that panel over there, turn all the switches to the right." Jackie nodded and did as she was told. After a long stressful minute the TARDIS finally stopped shaking and sparking, the lights turned back on, and the screaming in the Doctor's head stopped causing him the give deep sigh of relief. "Nicely done. Thank you, all."
"What happened to Margaret?" Rose asked as she and the Doctor walked hand in hand over to the egg.
"Must've got burned up. Carried out her own death sentence." Jack said.
"No, I don't think she's dead." The Doctor said bending down the pick up egg.
"Oh really? The tell me Doctor, where'd she go?" Jackie asked.
"She looked into the heart of the TARDIS. Even I don't know how strong that is. And the ship's telepathic, like I told you, Rose. Gets inside your head, translates alien languages. Maybe the raw energy can translate all sorts of thoughts. Here she is." The Doctor said showing everyone the egg.
"She's an egg." Rose said
"Regressed to her childhood." The Doctor said.
"She's an egg." Jack said.
"She can start again. Live her life from scratch. If we take her home, give her to a different family, tell them to bring her up properly, she might be alright." The Doctor said
"Yeah, that, or she might be worse." Jackie said.
"That's her choice." The Doctor said.
"She's an egg." Rose said.
"She's an egg." The Doctor repeated smiling at Rose who smiled back.
"Oh, my god, Mickey!" Jackie cried then ran out the TARDIS.
"You know, we could just-" The Doctor said moving back over to the console and began checking some things.
"No." Rose said as her mum walked back in.
"We're all powered up, we can leave. Opening the rift filled us up with energy. We can go. If that's alright." The Doctor said.
"Yeah, now that my mum's back in, we can leave." Rose said.
"What about Mickey?" Jackie asked.
"I'm sure he's fine mum, and any way, he's got Trisha Delaney." Rose said.
"Who?" Jackie asked.
"His new girlfriend." Rose said.
"Off we go, then. Always moving on." The Doctor said suddenly sounding victorious.
"Next stop, Rexicoricophalvitorious. Now you don't often get to say that." Jack said as him and the Doctor started the dematerializing sequence.
"We'll just stop by and pop her in the hatchery. Margaret the Slitheen can live her life again. A second chance." The Doctor said.