"Mummy?" the said one of the gas mask people.

"Mummy?" all of them repeated together.

"Why do they keep saying that?" Rose said. Chloe could feel her scared behind her. But then her father did something she wasn't expecting.

"Go to your room," he spoke.

"Dad, not a good time to be spending me to my room."

Jack looked at Rose, then to Chloe.

"Not you," the Doctor spoke. "I mean it. I'm very very cross with you. I'm very very angry with you! Time out! Go to your room!"

For a moment silence spread through the room. Chloe could hear herself breathing, so much louder than usual.

"Go – to – your – ROOM!" the Doctor repeated. Another moment of silence, then the gas masked people turned, heading back to their beds.

"I'm really glad that worked. Those would've been rubbish last words."

"More then likely going to be your last words though, the amount of times you say them to me!"

"Chloe, you deserved every one of them. If you didn't run off, or cause havoc every 5 minutes…"

"Why are they all wearing gasmasks?" Rose interrupted.

"They're not. Those masks are flesh and bone," Jack spoke. Chloe noticed she was stood very close to the time agent now, and back off.

"How was your con supposed to work?" the Doctor asked.

"Oh, you know, simple enough. Find some harmless piece of space junk, let the nearest Time Agent track it to Earth, convince him it's valuable, name a price. When he's paid fifty per cent up front, oops, a German bomb falls on it, destroys it forever. He never gets to see what he paid for, never knows he's been had. I buy him a drink with his own money and we talk about dumb luck. The perfect, self cleaning con!"

"Yeah. Perfect!" the Doctor said.

'Doesn't make it any better though, what you do,' Chloe though, disappointment in her eyes. For a while she had thought she had found someone who was just the slightest bit like her. More than any 21st century human. But no, a con artist. Yes he was from the future, but he's was nothing.

"The London Blitz is self-cleaners, but Pompeii's nice if you want to make a holiday out of it. Got to set your alarm for Volcano Day though."

Jack grinned, looking to the Doctor then Chloe. Chloe turned her head and folded her arms in disgust.

"Getting a hint of disapproval," he added.

"For once," Chloe spoke walking closer to Jack, "for once I thought there was someone who, who was just trying to see the universe like we are. Someone who was curious, wanted to learn a little, but no. they turn out to be, be…a con. A worthless con artist."

She turned away, taking a few steps, starring at the floor. She didn't see the disappointment on the mans face.

"Not only is he a con artist, he's an idiot," the Doctor spoke. Jack frowned, that was going a bit far wasn't it. Chloe didn't care any longer though.

"Take a look around this room. This is what you harmless piece of space junk did."
Chloe eyes began looking at the people; she turned looking sharply at her father. She hadn't realised there was a link between Jack and these people.

"No way. It was a burnt-out medical transporters, it was empty," Jack spoke confidently.

A silence lingered in the air for a moment, until the Doctor turned suddenly towards the door.

"Rose, Chloe!"

"We're getting out of here?" Rose asked.

"We're going upstairs."

"I even programmed the flight computer so it wouldn't land on anything living. I harmed no one! I don't know what's happening here but believe me, I had nothing to do with it," Jack shouted after the three.

Chloe stopped with her father, her eyes meeting Jack's, but it was the Doctor who spoke first.

"I'll tell you what's happening. You forgot to set your alarm. It's Volcano Day!"

Chloe walked off at the front of the group, the other following. A siren suddenly sounded.

"What was that?" Rose asked.

"The all clear," Jack replied.

"I wish," both the Doctor and Chloe spoke at the same time.

"They're always doing that," Rose spoke.

"Turn here Chloe," the Doctor called out. He didn't bother slowing her, she was in a mood, and he knew it best to leave her.

They headed up the stairs.

"Mr….Spock," Jack's voice called out. Chloe's ears pricked up, turning back to look at Jack and Rose.

"Doctor," Rose corrected.

"You got a blaster," the Doctor said turning to Jack.

"Sure," Jack replied pulling his blaster from his pocket. They where now stood in-front of a door marked 802.

"That night, your space junk landed, someone was hurt. This is why they took them," the Doctor spoke.

"What happened?"

"Let's find out," the Doctor replied to Rose. "Get it open," he then said to Jack.

Jack pulled out his own blaster; Chloe smiled realising what her father was doing.

"What's wrong with your sonic screw driver?" Rose asked.

"Nothing," the Doctor said grinning at Chloe.

A square hole in the door appeared as Jack used his blaster.

"You know what that is Chloe?" the Doctor asked.

"Sonic blaster, fifty no fifty first century. Weapon factories of Villengard."

"Bingo!" the Doctor spoke.

"How did you…?"

"She's a chip off the old black," the Doctor said ruffling Chloe's hair fondly.

"You two been to the factories?"

"Once," Chloe replied to Jack.

"They're gone now, destroyed. Main reactor went critical, vaporized the lot."

"Ah!" the Doctor spoke.

"For once, not my fault," she said grinning up at her father, who had gone a tad red.

"There's a banana grove there now," the Doctor said trying to redirect the conversation. "I like bananas. Bananas are good. Chloe was a pain when it came to bananas though. When she was a little one, I'd end up covered," the Doctor laughed, followed by Rose and Jack. Chloe glared at the three.

A quick nod from the Doctor and Chloe sprang into action. A quick diversion and easy, done! She smiled as the Doctor placed a hand on her shoulder, she handed her prize to her father.

"Nice blast pattern," Rose said.

"Digital," Chloe said. "Jimbo would have done better," she muttered under her breath.

"A square ness gun, I like it," Rose added.

The Doctor pushed the door open, Chloe was close on his heal. He switched on the light showing a room that looked a bit like a recording studio or something. Old fashioned recording machines. "Well? What do you think?" the Doctor said to Jack/

"Something got out of here," Jack replied.

"Yes. And…?"

"Something powerful. Angry…?"

"Powerful, angry yeah. And here's the headlines," the Doctor opened the door. Chloe peered through, Jack behind her.

Inside the new room where pictures all over the wall, toys, a bed, a child room.

"A child…Suppose that explains the 'mummy'?"

"How could a child do this?" Rose said examining some shattered glass.

Chloe looked around; she turned her head on the side examining a real to real recorder.

"Dad?" the Doctor turned looking at her, looking at what she was looking at. He did something causing it to turn on.

"Do you know where you are?" a voice said, it was Doctor Constantine's voice.

"Are you my mummy?" said the haunting voice Chloe had heard before.

"Are you aware of what's around you? Can you see?"

"Are you my mummy?"

"What do you want? Do you know –"

"I want my mummy! Are you my mummy?"

"Are you my mummy?"

Chloe shook her body, the voice sending shivers up her spine. She then stood proudly as if it hadn't affected her.

"Mummy? Are you there, mummy? Mummy? Mummy?"
"Doctor, I've heard that voice before. When we first arrived."

"Me too," the Doctor replied.

"Me three!" Chloe added.

"Always 'are you my mummy?'. Like he doesn't know. Why doesn't he know?"

"Mummyyyy" the voice said, almost making everyone jump.

"Doctor?" Rose said, looking at the Doctor, who was examining the drawings.

"Can't you sense it?"

"Mummy? Please mummy?"

"Sense what?" Jack asked.

"Coming out of the wall. Can't you feel it?"

"Mummy? Mummy are you there?"

"Funny little human brains! How do you get around in those things?" the Doctor spoke.

Rose rolled her eyes and told Jack. "When he's stressed, he likes to insult people."

"He's right thought," Chloe said, then clapped her hand to her mouth, realising she'd done wrong.

"She's just as bad!" Rose added, with a small smile.

Jack laughed.

"Mummy?"

"Rose, I'm thinking," the Doctor spoke.

"Cuts himself shaving, he does half an hour on life forms he's cleverer than," Rose laughed.

"There are children. Living rough, round the bomb sites, the waste-ground. They come out during the air raids, looking for food," the Doctor spoke very seriously.

"Mummy? Please?"

"Suppose they were there when this thing, whatever it was, landed."

"It was a med ship," Jack stated firmly.

"Yeah, you keep saying harmless."

A tapping sound started, Chloe ignored its repetitive sound.

The Doctor looked to Rose and Chloe, knowing they'd listen, and not object.

"Suppose one of them was…affected. Altered…"

"How?" Chloe spoke.

"I'm here," the voice spoke again.

"It's afraid. Terribly afraid. And powerful, but it doesn't know it yet. But it will. It's got the power of a god…and I just sent it to its room!" the Doctor laughed.

"I'm here," it said. Chloe's ears pricked up, listening, listening hard. She looked at the Doctor, he'd noticed, he'd known for a while.

"You took your time," the Doctor said looking into her eyes. Chloe grinned.

"Doctor…"

"I'm here," the voice said again. "Can't you see me? Can't you see me?"

"…what's that noise?" Rose said noticing the tapping noise.

"I'm here," the voice said again.

"The end of the tape. Ran out about thirty seconds ago."

Chloe nodded.

"I'm here now!!"

"I sent it to its room. This is its room!"

"Can't you see me?"

The 4 of them turned seeing the child in the gas masked stood, watching them. Chloe kicked herself for not realising it earlier. Why was she never as quick as her father? Never realise something before he did?

"Full marks for child psychology, Doctor Spock!" Jack spoke.

"Just Doctor," the Doctor replied.

Jack reached for his jacket pocket.

"On my mark…" he spoke.

"Mummy?"

"NOW!" Jack shouted, pulling a banana out of his pocket, turning to fire at the glass screen. Chloe would have laughed, but she had a troubled child to deal with.

The Doctor fired at the wall, Chloe darting for it.

"Move it, now, don't drop the banana."

"Why not?" Jack asked the Doctor.

"Good source of potassium," Chloe said, grinning at her father.

Jack looked the Doctor, who was holding his sonic blaster. Chloe giggled.

"Gimme that!" Jack said snatching his sonic blaster back, and quickly sealing the whole in the wall.

"Digital rewind," Jack spoke. "Nice switch, by the way," Jack said holding up the banana to the Doctor.

"That was Chloe work!" the Doctor said. Jack said turning to Chloe, grinning.

"Then this is yours," he said handing her a banana. "You are very smart Chloe, and very evil."

Chloe grinned from ear to ear at the comment.

"I learnt from the master! He suggested the banana though."

"It's from the groves of Villnegard, thought it was appropriate."

"There's really a banana grove at the heart of Villnegard? And you did that?"

"Bananas are good," Chloe spoke. "Ok, so I never use to like them, but you kinda learn too."

Jack laughed at Chloe, patting her on the shoulder. A whack on the wall stopped the conversation.

"Come on!" the Doctor said, making them move again. They ran down a hallway, all for of them, like some kind of team, like the fantastic four.

Chloe thoughts came to a sudden halt as a grouped of gas masked people appeared at the end of the hallway.

"Mummy? Mummy?" they spoke.

"It's keeping us here till it can get at us!" the Doctor spoke, noticing they weren't advancing.

"It's controlling them?" Jack asked.

"It is them," the Doctor replied. "It's every living thing in this hospital."

"And soon to be us," Chloe spoke, "if we don't do something."

Jack held his weapon out. Chloe remembered Jimbo, he could hold back, one maybe two of them, and it was worth a try. She pulled him from her pocket, pointing him out.

"He's a weapon too?" Jack asked.

"Uh, bit, only will take one or maybe two of them out!"

"This can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic cannon and triple – enfolded sonic disruptor. How about you Doctor? Have you got anything sonic?"

"I've got a sonic," the Doctor looked at his sonic screw driver. Chloe grinned seeing him go red.

"Never mind," he said.

"What?"

"It's sonic, ok! Totally sonic, I am sonic-ed up!"

"A sonic what?"

"Screwdriver!!!!"

Jack glanced at him, Chloe let out a laugh.

"Fascinating chat, boys!"

Suddenly Rose grabbed Jacks arm, pointing the gun downwards and fired, the floor disappeared from underneath their feat.

"Going down!" Rose shouted. Chloe felt herself falling, this way going to hurt.
Chloe opened on eye, and then the other, looking at the ceiling, Jack had already sealed it. He stretched out his hand; Chloe looked at it for a moment, and then took it. She smiled.

"Thanks," she said. Then looked to her right hand, it was cut a bit, but what was worse was the mess in it.

"Jimbo!" she said upset. His blue light out, piece of his shell broken, wires stuck out everywhere.

She sighed. Jack took the mashed up robot creature in his hand.

"One hard fall for a robot," he said.

Chloe took the shards of metal back as Jack handed them to her. She put them in her pocket.

The Doctor looked at his sad daughter, seeing her shake and then look totally in control again. He'd often seen her do that. Show a moment of fear, sadness something then shake it off.

"Could've used a warning," the Doctor said turning to Rose.

"Oh, the gratitude!" Rose said, not noticing the effect it had had on little Jimbo.

"Who has a sonic screwdriver?" jack asked with a grin on his face.

Chloe grinned at her father. He was in for it!

"I do!"

"Light?" Rose said looking around. Chloe looked too when she said this.

"What, you've never been bored??"

"There's gotta be a light switch," Rose spoke again.
The Doctor was still going on at Jack.

"Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?"

"Mummy? Mummy?"

The 4 looked frantically round the room hearing the voice. Chloe had found a light switch, and turning it on had revealed row on row of more gas masked people.

"Door!" Jack said racing to a door. "Locked!" he said almost cursing. He tried his blaster, but nothing happened. Chloe frowned.

"Damn it!" Jack spoke.

The Doctor stepped in, his sonic screw driver whizzing into action. It opened and they ran through, the Doctor locking it behind them.

"It's the special features, they really drain the battery," Jack said.

"That's a bit useless!" Chloe said.

They all began looking round the small room, looking for a way to get out.

"That is so lame, batteries!" Rose spoke.

"I was going to send off for a new one. But somebody's got to blow up the factory," Jack spoke.

"But everyone will die!" Chloe spoke.

"First day I met those two," Rose spoke pointing at the time lord and lady. "They blew up my job! It's like some sort of communication with them."

"Oi!" the Doctor spoke.

Chloe just grinned, a big explosion was always…well…a tad fun…she got a little buzz.

"Okay, the doors going to hold for a bit," the Doctor spoke.

"The door? The wall didn't stop it," Jack spoke.

"Well it's got to find us first! Come on, come on, we're not done yet. Assets, assets."

"Well, I had a banana, which I gave back to Chloe, she also has a mashed up robot, oh and at a pinch, you could put up some shelves."

"Window?" the Doctor said almost ignoring him.

"Barred, Sheer drop outside, 5, 6, 7 storeys," Chloe said, standing on a chair looking down.

"And no other exits," Rose said.

"Well! The assets conversation went in a flash, didn't it?"
Chloe shook her head at Jack, knowing this was not the time to play games with her father.

"So! Where'd you pick this one up?" the Doctor said to Rose about Jack.

"Doctor…!" Rose said, trying to get him to give Jack a break.

"She was hanging from a barrage balloon; I had an invisible space ship…"

He smiled flirtatiously at Rose. "…I never had a chance," he finished.

"Okay! One, we've gotta get out of here. Two, we can't get out of here. Have I missed anything?"

"The bananas gone mushy in my pocket," Chloe spoke up, putting her hand in the pocket of her black trousers, her hand coming out covered in the mushy innards of the banana.

"And jack just disappeared," Rose added. Chloe turned looking down at the chair she was stood next to. He had just been there.

"Coward," she said flicking the banana off her hand.

"Okay, he vanished into thin air. It's always the great looking ones who do that!" Rose spoke.

"I'm making an effort not to be insulted," the Doctor spoke. Chloe giggled.

"Don't you start," the Doctor spoke.

"He was little help anyway," Chloe said, trying not to show she was hurt. He'd almost climbed his way back into Chloe's good books, but now he had sunk very slowly.

'When I get my hands on him, I'm going to shove the rest of this banana up his…his…nose!' she thought.

"I mean men!" Rose said.

"Okay, thanks. That really helps!" the Doctor said.

"Rose? Chloe? Doctor?" a voice said.

"Interesting," Chloe said, looking round the room for Jack. She could hear his voice, but she couldn't see him.

"Can you hear me?"

"Where are you?" the Doctor asked.

"Back on my ship, I used the emergency teleport. Sorry I couldn't take you, its security keyed to my molecular structure. Hang in there, working on it!"

"How are you talking to us?" Chloe asked.

"Om-Com. I can call anything with a speaker grill." Chloe looked the radio. She fiddled with the tuning.

"Oi!" Jack said his voice going high pitched for a moment.

"Sorry," she grinned, not really sorry.

"That is a coincidence though," the Doctor spoke.

"What is?"

"The child can Om-Com too."

"It can?" Rose said.

"Yeah, it was doing that in the house before," Chloe said.

"Anything with a speaker grilled. Even the TARDIS phone."

"What…you mean the child can phone us?" Rose spoke. Chloe nodded.

"Who needs mobiles when you can Om-Com with your head?"

"And I can hear you!" the creepy child voice said.

"Yipe," Chloe said. "It's found us!"

"Doctor can you hear that?" Jack asked about the child's voice.

"Loud and clear," he said.

"And just a shade creepy," Rose added.

"I'll try and block the signal. Least I can do," Jack said. "Remember this one Rose?" Jack asked as a wartime song travelled its way into he room.

"Interesting," Chloe said grinning.

"Our song!" Rose said.

"You have a song already? Jack I hope you've got a ring already," Chloe said still grinning. She then looked at the Doctor and for the smallest of moments he looked upset. But then it disappeared.

The Doctor turned towards the wall, placing a hand on it.

"It's worth a try," he spoke. Chloe walked towards him, watching as he pulled out his sonic screwdriver and adjusted his settings.

"What is?" asked Rose. "Doctor what are you doing?"

"Trying to set up a resonation pattern in the concrete to loosen the bars."

"He's resonating concreted," Chloe said leaning her back against the walls and folding her arms.

Rose looked confused.

"You know, resonating," Chloe said, trying to get her to understand.

"GCSE physics," Chloe said. "Come on, you earthlings know how to resonate stuff. For instance when the forces march of the bridge they are told to march out of time, because if they stamp at the same frequency of the bridge, crack, they fall into the pit below as the bridges breaks to pieces."

Rose looked at Chloe.

"Useless," Chloe muttered walking off.

"Don't you think he's coming back?" Rose asked.

"Wouldn't bet my life on it," the Doctor spoke.

"Me neither, con artist sums him up."

"Don't you trust him," Rose asked the Doctor.

"Why do you?" replied the Doctor.

"Saved my life. Bloke-wise, that's up there with flossing. Look, I trust him 'cos he's like you. Only with dancing and dating," Rose smiled.

Chloe giggled. The Doctor shook his head.

"What?"

"You just assume I'm…" the Doctor started.

"What?"

"You just assume I don't….dance?"

"You don't," Chloe said.

"I do," he replied.

"I've never seen you. Whenever I tried to get you, you'd go tinker with another panel."

"Chloe, I dance. I danced all the time before you where born and turned my life upside down."

"…sideways, long ways and inside out ways," she said with a smile, her arms still folded in front of her.

"Yes, nine hundred years old me. Been around. I think you can assume at some point…I've danced."

"You??"

"Problem?" he asked.

"Doesn't the universe implode or something if you …dance?"

"Well I've got moves but I wouldn't want to boast."

Chloe giggled falling to the floor.

"Oi, Chloe!"

"Sorry," Chloe said getting up. "It's just you…dancing."

"Yeah, you've got the moves…show me your moves!" Rose stretched out her hand, waiting to dance.

Chloe grinned.

The Doctor stood there for a moment, unsure, nervous, and almost scared.

"Rose, I'm trying to resonate concrete,"

"Jack's coming back. He'll get us out. So come on. The world doesn't end 'cos the Doctor dances."

Knowing her father wasn't going to step in Chloe took Rose's hand. Rose giggled and they began to dance away.

"Not bad little Chloe," Rose said. "Maybe he can dance if you're ok."

"I think this is one of my traits that comes from my mum," Chloe said twirling round.
The two laughed seeing the Doctors face; he rolled his eyes at the pair, who finished their little dance.

"Your turn Doctor," Rose said stretching out her hands again. For a moment, when he stepped forward, Chloe thought he might dance. But he only turned her hands over.

"Barrage balloon?"

"What?" Rose said taken back a bit.

"You where hanging from a barrage balloon."

"Oh yeah, that. About two minutes after you left me. Thousands of feet above London. Middle of a German air raid, Union Jack all over my chest."

Chloe laughed, but the Doctor seemed very serious.

"I've travelled with a lot of people, but you're setting new records for jeopardy-friendly."

The Doctor turned Rose's hands over again, checking them.

"Is this you dancing? 'Cos I've got notes."

"Hanging from steel cables. Thousands of feet above London. Not a cut, not a bruise."

Chloe looked at Rose's hands. The Doctor was right; there was no mark on them.

"Yeah, I know. Captain Jack fixed me up."

"We're calling him Captain Jack now?"

"Well. His name's Jack, he's a captain."

"Brilliant logic there Rose," Chloe grinned.

"He's not really a captain, Rose!"

"You know what? I think you're experiencing captain envy."

Chloe grinned, folding her arms again and leaning back against the wall. She watched Rose pull the Doctor closer, moving his hands so that they where position to dance.

"You will find your feet at the end of your legs. You may care to move them," Rose said smiling.
Chloe was deep in thought, a while ago; she would have never let anyone get that close to her father, never! But something in Rose had taught her to care about someone else then just her father. The Doctor protected Chloe, but Chloe protected her father just as much. She didn't want to see him hurt, not again. But she was learning, slowly.

Suddenly something happened, the solid wall behind Chloe was no longer there, no longer supporting her weight, she found herself falling backward. She didn't even have time to wonder where the wall had gone. She thought she was going to hit the floor. But she didn't she handed softly, something stopping her, catching her.

"If he ever was a captain he's been defrocked," the Doctor spoke.

Chloe looked to her side and was met by a smiling face. Two arms holding her, she had fallen onto Jack's lap, who was sat in his captain's chair.

"Yeah? Shame I missed that," Rose said, the two of them unaware of the change in scenery.

"Actually I quit," Jack spoke.
Chloe looked around her new environment, a small space. "Nobody defrocks me," he said tapping Chloe on the nose with a finger. Chloe smiled back at him.

"Most people notice when they're teleported. You two are so sweet," Jack spoke.

"I definitely noticed, the wall disappearing when I was leaning on it was a clear "

"Lucky I was hear to catch you," Jack said.

Chloe didn't bother moving, Jacks arms where wrapped gently round her, not holding her, but not letting her go.

"Sorry about the delay. Had to take the nav-com off line to override the teleport security."

"You can spend ten minutes override our own protocols?? Maybe you should remember whose ship it is!"

"Oh, I do. She was gorgeous," Jack spoke. His arms let go, Chloe stood up as began to move. He stood, heading to the back of the ship.

"Like I told her, back in five minutes," Chloe saw him ducking under the consol; she went over, ducking down and sitting on the floor watching him.

"Hand me the screwdriver," Jack said pointing just behind her. She saw a set of tools lying in a pile; she picked the screwdriver up and handed it to him.

"Thanks," he said.

"This is a Chula ship," the Doctor spoke.

"Yeah, just like that medical transporters. Only this one is dangerous."

"Chloe come here," the Doctor said. She wondered if she was in trouble. She realised her Dad wasn't to keen on this guy. Chloe hadn't been, but maybe he was ok…

Chloe stood walking over to the Doctor. The Doctor lifted her right hand, the one with the cut. He held it, clicking his fingers just above her hand. Thousands of tiny lights swarmed around her hand.

"They're what fixed up my hand. Jack called them…"

"Nanobots? Nanogenes?" the Doctor spoke. He turned Chloe's hand slightly, the nanogenes where doing something.

"Nanogenes, yeah."

"Tickles," Chloe giggled.

"Subatomic robots. Millions of there in here. In every square foot probably."

He lifted Chloe's hand, the lights following it.

"There we go, cut totally gone, totally fixed. They activate when the bulkheads sealed, check you out for damage, fix any physical flaws when activated." he bushed a thumb over Chloe's hand.

"Still the same dress size," Rose spoke. Chloe smiled at her. She then looked at her hand more closely. She stretched out her fingers, closing it in a fist. It didn't hurt at all.

"They have their limits," the Doctor replied.

"What are you trying to say?"

The Doctor waved his hand over Chloe's the lights floated off.

"How'd you make them do that?" Rose asked.

"He's bullying them. Poor little things. Subatomic life forms, you meanie," Chloe stated.

"Learned it when I was a kid," the Doctor said grinning.

"There are so many different ways to say: 'I had a lonely childhood'," Rose spoke.

The Doctor moved away. Chloe wondered if he was hurt.

"Take us to the crash site. I need to look at your space junk," the Doctor said changing the subject.
"Soon as I get the nav-con back on line. Make yourselves comfortable; carry on with…whatever you were doing."

"We were just…" the Doctor began, looking at Rose. "…talking about dancing."

"Didn't look like talking."

"Didn't sound like dancing," Rose added.

Chloe frowned, slightly confused, then headed back over to where Jack was.

"Can I help?" she asked.

"Sure," Jack spoke with a smile. "You see smart enough, not that you need a diploma for Deltakeet to hand me that triaxle," he grinned. Chloe laughed, handing him the small object.

"You know anything about Chula ships," Jack asked, placing the object in a tiny box under the consol.

"Bit, not as much as my Dad though," she spoke.

"A bit is more than most," Jack said. "Pass me the blue thingy," he said, pointing to the object.

"Is that the technical term," Chloe grinned, handing it to him.

"It's better than its real name," Jack said.

"I know," she said.

"Know what," Jack said.

"Its name, longest name in the forth quart of the universe," she said. "Can take up too two weeks to say its name."

Jack laughed, "You are smart, and very few people have even seen one of these from where I come from."

He stopped for a moment, looking at Chloe, grinning, it total amazement.

"Well, no ones perfect."

"I dunno," Jack said.

"Talk to my Dad," she said grinning. Jack laughed again. He got back to work.

"Right, done," he said connect the blue cordy stuff.

He stood up and headed over to the main consol at the front of the ship. Chloe followed.

"Press down there," jack spoke. Chloe did as she was told. Rose and the Doctor where still talking.

"Jack?"

"Hmm?"

"Why?"

"Why am I a con man?"

Chloe nodded.

"If it makes me sound any better, it's not for money. I use to be a Time Agent. One day I woke up, when I was still working for them, found they'd stolen two years of my memories. They've got um on file somewhere and I want them back."

"They stole your memories?"

"Long story," Jack said. It was quiet in the ship now, Rose and the Doctor listening to the conversation obviously.
Chloe grinned from ear to ear. No one could see it, but she was grinning so broadly. It was as if a weight had been lifted of her shoulders. She was beginning to like him, and she'd felt guilty about that. About trusting him and stuff. But he had his reasons, real reasons.

"Okay! We're good to go! Crash site?"

The Doctor walked over.

"Crash site," he confirmed.

Chloe stood behind the captain's chair as they soared over London.

"That's pretty neat," Chloe said grinning.

"Thanks," he replied.
They landed neatly in a cleared area, no one was around. The got out into the cold night air. Jack was putting his coat on.

"Just over that hill," Jack said pointing in front of them.

"Let's go," the Doctor said. Chloe followed the group, Rose walking next to her as Jack headed the group and the Doctor a few steps in front of the two girls.

The climbed the small hill and a fenced off area was revealed. Surrounded by army guys and high fences with barb wire at the top. Very secure.

"Well, there it is! They've got Algy on duty here?? Must be important," Jack spoke. He was talking about the guy standing at the gate, in full military attire, similar to jacks.

"Well we've got to get past them," the Doctor spoke in a quiet voice, almost a whisper.

"Are the words 'distract the guard' heading in my general direction?" Rose asked.

"Got to know Algy quite well, while I've been in town. Trust me, you're not his type," Chloe saw Jack wink at Rose.

"I'll distract him," Jack spoke, bringing a grin to Chloe's face. She stepped a few paces forward away from the other two, watching as Jack advanced towards the guy. The Doctor and Rose where talking, but she was watching Jack really, not listening to the chatter behind her.

Thoughts tumbled through her head, over and over. She knew the answer, but it was just out of her reach. Links where beginning to connect, but she wasn't quite there.

"Something's wrong," Chloe said quietly at first. The man Jack was taking to was coughing, the exact same way…

"DAD!" she said turning sharply. The Doctor looked up, and then followed her finger towards the direction of Jack. He began to run. Chloe followed and so did Rose. They came to stand next to Jack. The guy was slumped to the ground, moving slightly.

"The effects are becoming airborne. Accelerating," the Doctor spoke.

"What's keeping us safe?" Rose asked.

"Nothing," the Doctor replied. Chloe gulped slightly. If the Doctor turned into one of them, they where a bit stuffed. Actually they'd be totally stuffed!

Sirens pierced the air.

"Here they come again," Jack spoke.

"All we need! Hang on, you said a bombs going to land here."

"According to history books. We've got about ten minutes," Jack spoke, a matter of urgency in his voice, a small amount of fear.

"Never mind about that. If the contaminant is airborne, there's only hours left."

"Till what?" Jack asked.

"Till nothing! Forever! For the whole Human Race. And can anyone else hear singing."

The end of the sentence made Chloe's ears prick up, made her frown. She hadn't been expecting that, but she could, she could hear singing.

"I can," she said. A couple of 'me toe's,' came from the remaining gang.

They turned looking at a shed. They walked over towards it, led by the Doctor. He opened the door, looking in.

"When the bough breaks the cradle will drop-." Nancy was singing. She was tied up, a gas masked person sung to sleep on the table.

"Nice one," the Doctor spoke, stretching out his sonic screwdriver, the handcuffs on Nancy's wrists sprung apart. She looked slightly shocked, but after the last couple of days, it was all becoming normal to her.

"Take us to the ship," the Doctor told Jack. They began to walk. Chloe came to walk next to the Doctor and Nancy.

"How'd you get in here?" the Doctor asked

"Cut some of the wire with some cutters," she spoke. "I had to do something," she said.

Jack was running ahead now. He moved to a box at the side of the fence, pressing something, the whole area illuminating. In the middle was a round cylinder, metal like, like the one Chloe had drawn, the one she had seen.

"You see? Just an ambulance!" Jack said smugly to the Doctor.

"That's an ambulance?" Nancy asked.

"It's hard to explain, it's…from another world," Rose tried her best to explain.

Jack was standing near the cycling, moving towards the panel on it.

"They've been trying to get in," he spoke. Chloe moved next to him, seeing the marks on it where someone had tried to prize it open.

"Of course they have. They think they've got Hitler's latest secret weapon…" he was stopped when Jack began to tap on his wristwatch, pointing it towards the panel.

"What are you doing?" the Doctor asked.

"Sooner you see these things empty, sooner you'll know I had nothing to do with this," he spoke. A crack crushed Jack to jump back. Chloe had to step to the side to avoid him crashing into her.

"Didn't happen the last time," Jack spoke.

"It hadn't crashed last time. There'll be emergency protocols," the Doctor spoke.

'Empty,' Jack's voiced echoed in Chloe's mind. 'Empty.' Chloe shook her head.

"Doctor? What is that?" Rose asked a red light flickered.

A couple of thumps caused Chloe to turn her head.

"Ut-oh," Chloe said, the others turning to look in where she was looking. The gas masker person had woken.

"Dad!" Chloe spoke.

"Captain secure those gates!" the Doctor said.

"Why?"

"Just do it, take Chloe," the Doctor said.

Chloe followed Jack as he ran towards the gates. The two pulled a chain across, then the large plant of wood.

"That should do it," Jack said, before they headed back. When they returned Rose and Nancy had gone.

"They're securing the area Nancy had cut through," the Doctor said, anticipating the next question.

"I'm going to prove to you Doctor," Jack said climbing into the medical ship. Rose and Nancy returned. Jack was doing something and suddenly the hatch opened.

"It's empty. Look at it," Jack said to the Doctor.

"EMPTY OF COURSE!!!!!!!!!!" Chloe shouted. The Doctor grinned for a moment. 'She's got it,' he thought. He'd realised it a while back.

"What would you expect in a Chula medical Transporter? Bandages and cough drops," the Doctor said. "Chloe?"

"NANOGENES!" Chloe shouted jumping and thumping the air.

"CLEVER GIRL! It wasn't empty Captain. There were enough Nanogenes in there to rebuild a species."

"Oh gosh! Oh gosh!" Jack said realising what was going on. Chloe didn't feel clever anymore, she felt sorry for Jack. She saw the guilt in him.

"Getting it now, are we? When the ship crashed, the Nanogenes escape. Billions upon billions of them. Ready to fix all the cuts and bruises in the whole world. But what they find first is a dead child. Probably killed earlier that night. And wearing a gasmask."

"And they brought him back to life?? They can do that??"

"What's life?? Life's easy. A quirk of a matter. Nature's way of keeping meat fresh. Nothing to a Nanogenes. One problem though. These Nanogenes, they're not like the ones on your ship. This lot have never seen a human being before. Don't know what a human being's supposed to look like. All they've got to go on is one little body, and there's not a lot left. But they carry right on, they do what they're programmed to do, they patch it up. Can't tell what's gasmask and what's skull but they do their best. And then off they fly, off they go, work to do! 'Cos you see, they think they know what people should look like now. And it's time to fix all the rest. They won't even stop. They won't ever, every stop! The whole human race is gonna be torn down and rebuilt in the form of one terrified child, looking for its mother. And nothing in the world can stop it."

Chloe's heart sank seeing Jack.

"I…I didn't know…" he said shaking.

"Yeah. Whatever!" the Doctor strode off. Chloe wanted to go help Jack, but she needed to help stop this first.

"Mummy? Mummy?" said many voices. Chloe looked around, the creatures where walking towards them, getting closer and closer to the fences.

"It's bringing the gasmask people here," Chloe said.

"The ship thinks it's under attack. It's calling up the troops. Standard protocol."

"Troops? They're just humans?"

"It doesn't know that, it thinks there troops. Makes the strong, gets them ready."

"All that weapons tech in the hands of a hysterical four-year-old. And now there's an army of them, all looking for their mummy. Even you weren't that bad when you where that age," the Doctor spoke a slight grin, a moment of light heartedness in a time of such seriousness.

"Are you my mummy? Are you my mummy? Are you my mummy?"
Jack was just behind the pair now.

"Why don't they attack?" he asked.

"Good little soldiers. Waiting for their leader," the Doctor said.

"The child!"

Nancy was glaring at Jack.

"JAMIE!" she said.

"What?"

"Not 'the child.' Jamie!"

"So how long before the bomb falls?" Rose asked.

"Any second now!" jack replied.

"What's the matter, Captain? Little too close to the volcano for you?"

"He's just a little boy," Nancy said, her eyes filling with tears.

"I know," the Doctor said sympathetically.

"Just a little boy who wants him mummy," she spoke.

"I know. There isn't a little boy, or girl," he looked to Chloe, "who wouldn't tear the world apart to find their mummy. And this little boy can."

"So what are we gonna do?"

Chloe could feel it, he didn't know.

"I…"

"He doesn't know," she replied.

"It's my fault," Nancy said.

"No," he spoke.

"It is. It's all my fault."

"How can it…" he stopped. Chloe frowned.

"Nancy, what age are you?"

Chloe frowned harder at her father. The girl didn't answer.

"Twenty, twenty one? Older than you look, right?"
Chloe looked puzzled, her eyes watching her father.

"Doctor, that bomb, we've got seconds!"

"You can teleport us out," Rose said.

"Not you. The nav-cons back online, gonna take took long to override the protocols."

"So it's volcano Day. Do what you've got to do," the Doctor spoke. Chloe looked at Jack, waiting, hoping.

"Jack?" Rose said.

Then her face turned to anger as he disappeared. She breathed in a strong breath then shook herself. 'Forget him,' she thought.

She turned back to the Doctor who was looking at Nancy.

"Five years ago, you'd be what? Fifteen? Sixteen? Old enough to give birth anyway. He wasn't your brother was he?"

Chloe gasped.

"A teenage single mother. In 1941. So you hid him. You lied. You even lied to him."

"Are you my mummy," a voice said. Chloe turned, seeing the child.

"He's gonna keep on asking. He's never gonna stop. Never. Nancy…tell him."
Nancy looked, scared, unsure.

"Nancy, the future of the Human Race is in your hand. Turn round and tell him."

The Doctor gently turned her. Chloe smiled realising.

"Are you my mummy?" the child asked once again as Nancy reached little Jamie.

"Yes," she spoke quietly. "Yes, I am your mummy."

"Doctor, the bomb…" Rose spoke, Chloe had forgotten all about it.

"Mummy?" the child ask,

"I'm here," she spoke.

"He doesn't understand there's not…there's not enough left."

"WAIT!" Chloe said.

"Yes! I am your mummy I will always be your mummy," she spoke. "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry," she hugged him closely a swarm of Nanogenes surrounded them.

"Doctor it's changing her, we've gotta…"

"Shh. Please. Come on! Come on, you clever little Nanogenes. Figure it out! The mother, she's the mother. Gotta be enough information. Figure it out!"

"GO ON DO IT," Chloe said jumping on the spot.

"What's happening?" Rose asked.

"See? Recognising the same DNA!"

"Which means?" Rose asked the Doctor.

The lights stopped, the Doctor stepped forward.

"Come on! Gimme a day like this! Gimme this one!"
He stooped down, reaching to the mask on the boys face. He pulls it off revealing the face of the child. He picks him up kissing him in the head.

"WELCOME BACK! Twenty years to pop music, you're gonna love it!"

Chloe laughed, jumping slightly.

"What…what happened?" The Doctor placed the boy down.

"Nanogenes recognised the superior information. The parent DNA. They didn't change you, 'cos you changed them. Mother knows best," he grinned.

"Jamie…" she cried hugging the boy.

"Doctor the bomb!" Rose said

"Taken care of," he spoke.

Chloe frowned.

"How?" she asked.

"Psychology," he said.

"Huh!?"

"Wait an see little one," he spoke stooping down and tapping her on the nose, knowingly.

She heard the thunder of the bomb heading towards the ground, she looked into the sky. But then a ship swooped in low, a beam catching the bomb in its blue rays.

"Good lad," the Doctor said looking at Jack who was sat on the bomb.

"Doctor, the bomb's already commenced detonation. I've put it in stasis, but it won't last."

"Change of plan! Don't need the bomb, can you get ride of it, safely as you can?"

"Rose?"

"Yeah?"
"Goodbye," Jack spoke, and then he looked to Chloe.

"Goodbye Chloe, remember, you are amazing!"

He smiled, and the beam disappeared. It came back suddenly.

"Oh, love the tee-shirt," he grinned at Rose.

. Chloe felt her heart sink. Her hearts skipped a beat for a moment; she thought maybe he would stay. They'd be four for a while. But it wasn't o be. She kicked at the ground for a moment.

"Chloe come here," he said.

He smiled at her.

"You realise something," he asked.

Her mind set to work, linking path after path. She smiled at him.

"Good girl lets do it!"

They lifted up their arms, facing towards the gas masked creatures. Swarms of Nanogenes surrounded their hands.

"What are you two doing?" Rose asked.

The time travellers looked at each other, smiling.

"Software patch," the Doctor spoke.

"We're going to email the upgrade," Chloe added.

"You want moves, Rose. I'll show you moves."

At the same moment they both extended their arms forward, the Nanogenes flying forward towards the creatures. The Doctor laughed loudly, loving it. Chloe grinned widely.

"Wahoo," she shouted as the light engulfed her.

"EVERYBODY LIVES," the Doctor shouted, "just this once! Everybody lives."

The lights faded and the gas masked people began taking off their masks. The Doctor walked forward to one specific person.

"Doctor Constantine, who never left the patients. Back on your feet, constant doctor. World doesn't want to get by without you yet. And I don't blame it one it! These are your patients," the Doctor said pointing to the people around him.

"All better now," he added.

"Yes. Yes so it would seem. They would also seem to be standing around in a disused railway station. Is there a particular reason for that?"

The Doctor looked to Chloe, and Chloe to the Doctor.

She shrugged, "Cut backs?"

"Listen, whatever was wrong with them before, you're probably gonna find they're cured. Just tell 'em what a great doctor who are, don't make a big thing of it, ok?"

The Doctor turned, wrapping an arm around his daughter, they headed back to Rose.

"Right you lot," he said once he got back to the medical ship. "Off you go, beat the Germans, save the world, and don't forget the Welfare State!" he turned towards the medical ship.

"What ya doing?" Chloe asked as he stretched out his sonic screw driver.

"Setting this to self-destruct when everyone's clear. History says there was an explosion here. Who am I to argue with history?"

Chloe and Rose smiled.

"Usually, the first in line," Rose said. The three laughed together. The Doctor put his sonic screwdriver away.

"Better get a move on. No point getting blown up. Now that would be stupid. They headed back to the TARDIS. It wasn't a long walk, it was peaceful and nice. The Doctor held Chloe's and Rose's hands all the way.

Back in the TARDIS they began chatting.

"The Nanogenes will clear everything up. All the mess they made, gone!" Then they'll switch off, because that's what they do. What they're programmed to do. Nancy and Jamie will go to Doctor Constantine for help, ditto. All in all, all things considered – sorted!"
Chloe grinned at her beaming father.

"Look at you," spoke Rose. "Beaming away like you're father Christmas!"

"Who say's I'm not? Red bicycle when you were twelve!" he added quickly.

"What?" Rose said stunned.

Chloe just laughed, hard!

"And everybody lives. Everybody lives. I need more days like this!"

A thought crossed Chloe's mind suddenly.

"No!" she spoke. The Doctor frowned.

"No! He said goodbye Dad. Not just because he was going away. There's no way of deploying that bomb safely," she said.

"And it's counting down," she added.

The Doctor looked at her seriously.

"We can make it everyone, please!"

"You've got a soft spot for him you know," he said pressing down a button. He smiled at his daughter. She ran over and hugged her father. He laughed.

"Now," Rose said. "We have a small while to wait, so let's dance!" She took the Doctors hand. Chloe sat leaning against the wall again, watching the two.

"Uh," the Doctor said.

"You've forgotten," Chloe stated.

"Just try simply stepping side to side, OUCH!" She jumped back, the Doctor having stepped on her two.

"Sorry," he said.
Chloe watched the door open, the TADRIS knowing. She looked through; Jack sat looking, in amazement.

"Hurry up," she called to him. He grinned, running forward.

"Okay, try and spin me," Rose said.

"I'm sure I use to know this stuff!" the Doctor said. He then turned his he to Jack.

"Chloe the door would you. Your ship's about to blow up, there's gonna be a draft."

Jack closed the door.

"Welcome to the TARDIS," Chloe said.

"Bigger on the inside," he spoke.

"Of course," Chloe said.

"Rose! Rose I've remembered," the Doctor said excitedly."

Chloe frowned.

"What?" Rose said.

"I can dance!" he said snapping his fingers together, starting to dance, properly.

"Actually, Doctor, I thought jack might like a dance!"

"I'm sure he would, Rose, I'm absolutely certain. But who with?"

Chloe laughed, so did Jack.

Rose and the Doctor began to dance.

Jack turned to Chloe.

"May I have this dance," he said bowing slightly and stretching his arms out.

Chloe grinned and took his hand. And they danced!

AN: Starts dancing. Hope you enjoyed. Please Review.