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Chapter 13

"Really? I'm ginger?" came the new Rose, with an accent that seemed to match Mark's London accent, who bounced up from the floor. She touched her hair and exclaimed, "And it's frizzy and super curly! How fascinating! Oooh! Good word, that is. Facinating. Feels awfully funny rolling off the tongue. Fascinating. Fascinating."

"What the hell have you done with the Wolf?" Mark asked trying to sound brave, event though this was the most scared he had felt since he had first met the Wolf.

"It's me, Mark," the new woman said brightly. "Time Lords, well, we have this little trick where we can cheat death."

"We change every cell in our body," the Doctor put in helpfully. "We are the same basic person, though there are some personality differences. When Rose first met me, I had no hair, big ears and a big nose, and looked about 45. Then I changed into a tall, skinny man with horribly wild and styled hair. Hey! That rhymed! "

"Nice rhyme, Doc. And for the record, I liked his hair," Jack put in.

"I liked it too," Rose smiled.

"Anyway, that him was the one who made me," Jenny added helpfully. "Somewhere along the line he changed into this body."

"Exactly!" the Doctor put in. The humans looked confused.

"Does this happen often?" Hannah asked, her tears no longer falling as she was beginning to the think that the Wolf was okay.

"Not unless you're careless," Rose said. "Probably shouldn't taunt a man with a gun, but that was the old me. Always have hated guns," she added as an after thought. "Forgot that a bit in my last body."

"Really?" the doctor asked interested.

"Yeah, kinda like you and the Dalek at Van Statten's," she said looking him in the eyes. "Knew I hated 'em, but sometimes I was known to use one."

"Right," he said. Changing the subject away from his own dark days he asked, "So what's new?"

"Dunno, you tell me," she smiled. "I haven't had time to figure out the new quirks. So, am I good different or bad different?"

Recognizing the question, he smiled. "Just different. For one, you lucky woman, you're ginger, and you have gorgeous blue eyes, but not like your other eyes."

"Am I ginger looking like Donna?" Rose asked intrigued. "Though I don't think I feel like Donna would feel."

"How would Donna feel?" Jack asked amused.

"I don't know. Angry? Annoyed?" Rose frowned. She turned to look at Mark and smiled. "So, what do you think?"

"Can you change back?"

"Nope, or else I'd be blonde," she said with a smile. "Don't control this, very fishy process, this is."

"Then I guess I'll just have to get used to it," he said with his first smile since they'd all been brought to the Master's home the day before.

"Brilliant," she said smiling, but she quickly frowned. "If I thought these clothes felt bad in my last body, they feel atrocious in this one." She was right in that they didn't fit. She was taller and lankier, much less curvy. The clothes were a mix of hanging off of her leaner frame and stretching to cover her height.

"I couldn't agree more," the Master said as he waltzed back in, now in control of his emotions. "I like this you much better, but those clothes don't suit the new you." He was grinning like a mad man and seemingly over his lapse in control.

"You made me regenerate!" Rose said in a huff. "That's not fair!" she pouted.

"Why not? Don't taunt me like that and I won't lose my temper, Wolf," he said. Everyone in the room noticed that he called her by her chosen name, but Rose was still annoyed that he made her change.

"Because it's rude," she said as she felt her temper rising.

"Have a temper, ginger?" the Master taunted.

"Maybe, I don't know that yet, as you should realize, skinny psycho crazy man," she spat.

"Oooh, you like to do funny insults!" he said clapping his hands together.

"That's quite a lot like Donna, actually," the Doctor said to Jack. Rose and the Master ignored him though and continued their argument.

"I'll have you know I was in that body for, like, 370 years! I was happy in it!" Rose complained loudly.

"That's a long time for someone in your line of work, isn't it?" he asked. "How long was the Doctor in his last two? Maybe a hundred years each?"

"I don't like you at all," Rose huffed childishly.

"Well, now, getting some more of your personality to show, aren't we?" the Master taunted. "I'm going to go check on Miss Jenny's lab, we should be ready to go by tomorrow. Take care, now, Wolf. Someone will be in with new clothes for you shortly."

After he left the room the Doctor sent her an amused smirk.

"What?" she snapped.

"I think I don't want to be ginger anymore," he smiled. "Who needs the temper?" He began to snicker.

Rose tried to glare at him, she really did, but she couldn't hold in her laughs. Jack and Jenny joined in with her and the Doctor. It wasn't too long before Mark and Hannah began laughing. Everyone was just glad to be alive.

Back in the Hub Gwen was finalizing the computer's calculations. "Good news, they're still on this planet, bad news, the computer says the date we're aiming for is in five years in the future."

"But that could be good," Paul said with a frown. "I mean, it royally sucks, but that means we have a lot more time to get a plan and train together. Do you know where they will be?"

"But five years!" Vaughn said upset, the beginning of tears leaking from her eyes. "That's a long time! I'll be fourteen!"

"Yeah, that sucks, I'll be nineteen. I'll never be able to have my high school rebellion against dad, but we'll be able to rescue them and train and really know what we're up against! Where are they, Gwen?"

"They're in America, some large home that was abandoned in the middle of the country that was actually just bought by some millionaire last month. Bet whoever that man is kidnapped Jack and everyone else."

"So what's the plan, Gwen?" Ianto asked waiting for orders.

"We have five years to make that up. For now, we need stories for the kids," Gwen said reasonably.

"We could be cousins of Ianto's?" Paul said trying to keep calm. "He's taking us in because his cousin, our mum died and we haven't seen our dad for years. A typical story that would be easy enough to believe."

"You'd have to go to school," Ianto said. "There is no way my neighbors would believe that I'd home school any kids in my profession."

"That's true," Gwen said. Paul looked ready to object, but went on before he could, "to keep up appearances. Ianto works too much for them to believe that he'd home school any children. You and Vaughn can go to the local schools and train here with us after the school day, too. Maybe even help out once we know a bit more."

The four people in the room looked at each other with grim determination and realized that for the next five years they were almost all each other had.

The years passed quickly, but seemed to drag. Everyday was counting down to the one the computer had told them when their friends and family were. Mark passed all his GCSEs and A Levels beautifully. He was now studying Astrophysics at Cardiff University. Vaughn was doing well in school, as well and was studying hard for her GCSEs. Both also trained with Gwen and Ianto in guns, self defense, and technology beyond their time and planet.

Their small family grew and when the special date came, they were all ready.