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Author's Note: So here's the second part of the Boom Town episode! And after that, we go onto the Bad Wolf episode! So excited! I just can't wait to get to Ten and the Ten/Charlene romance! It's just going to be so fun! And like I said, there are things we will learn about Charlene in the finale episode and she finally admits to something. I think you know what that is ;) Oh and Char gets a call from a Future someone ;) Anyway, please leave reviews and tell me what you think of the last part of Boom Town! :D
A huge thanks to grapejuice101, DreamonAlina, Angel of Randomosity, Hellosweetie4737, Semira Blake, and Ann4ever17 for the great reviews! :D
Charlene's outfit for this episode is on my polyvore:)
Charlene's POV…
"So, you're a Slitheen, you're on Earth, you're trapped," The Doctor said to Margret as we entered the Exhibition room in the Town Hall. "Your family get killed but you teleport yourself out, just in the nick of time. You have means to escape. What do you do? You built a nuclear power station." We stopped at the model in the middle of the room as he gestured to it while Jack, Megan, Rose, Mickey, and I surrounded it on different sides of the model and we examined it with interest. Well, Jack and I did at least. "But what for?"
"A philanthropic gesture," Margret answered earning a snort from me but she ignored it. "I've learnt the error of my ways."
I didn't believe that for a second, but I didn't say anything deciding to keep quiet.
The Doctor gave Margret a look. "And it just so happens to be right on top of the rift."
She looked confused, or at least pretended to. "What rift would that be?
"A rift in space and time. If this power station went into meltdown, the entire planet would go schwwwupboom!" Jack did the booming gesture on the model to show his point.
The Doctor looked down at the model. "This station is designed to explode the minute it reaches capacity."
I leaned forward, speaking up. "Didn't anyone notice? I mean, there has to be someone in London checking this stuff out?"
Margret scoffed. "We're in Cardiff. London doesn't care! The South Wales coast could fall into the sea and they wouldn't notice – oh…" She stopped, her eyes widened slightly. "I sound like a Welshman. God help me, I've gone native."
"Yeah because God forbid that happens," I said sarcastically. Again she ignored me but I honestly didn't care. Normally I didn't like it when I was ignored but this was a Slitheen and being ignored by one was fine in my book.
"But why would she DO that?" Mickey asked as he kept his gaze on the statue, not looking at Margret. "A great big explosion – she'd only end up killing herself."
"She's got a name you know."
Mickey finally looked over at her with a hard look on his face. "She's not even a she, she's a … thing."
"Very profound Mick," I couldn't help but say, grinning. This time he gave me the hard look and I held my hands up in surrender as I apologized, "Right, sorry…I'll shut up now." I cleared my throat. "Continue on."
The Doctor eyed Margret. "Oh, but she's clever." In one swift movement, he pulled the middle section off the model and flipped it over, revealing a giant circuit board underneath. "Fantastic."
"Is that a tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator?!" Jack asked the Doctor excitedly.
"I love it when he gets technical," Megan whispered/squealed into my ear.
I laughed, but I covered my mouth to hide it as the Doctor told Jack,
"Couldn't have put it better myself."
Jack took the thing from the Doctor to get a better look at it. "Ooh, GENIUS!" He went over to Margret. "You didn't build this."
"I have my hobbies. A little tinkering…"
"No, no, no, I mean you REALLY didn't build this. Way beyond you."
"I bet she stole it," Mickey accused.
"It fell into my hands." She just shrugged her shoulders lightly in response not denying but not admitting to it.
Rose spoke up for the first since coming in here. "Is it a weapon?" she asked Jack.
He placed the board down on the floor. "Its transport," he started to explain. "You – the reactor blows, the rift opens, phenomenal cosmic disaster, but THIS thing shrouds you in a force field, you have this energy bubble, zzhum, so you're safe. Then you feed it coordinates; stand on top, all the way out of the solar system."
"It's a surfboard!"
"A pan-dimensional surfboard, yeah," Jack told Mickey, nodding.
"And it would've worked," Margret said bitterly. "I would've surfed away from this dead-end dump and back to civilization."
Mickey looked at her incredulously. "You'd blow up a whole planet just to get a lift."
"Of course, that's how the Slitheen work, right? They only care about them, doesn't care if a planet dies as long as they're safe from the danger," I said surprising myself by how cold my tone was. "It's like stepping on a ant hill, isn't it? That's how easy it is."
"Yes, like stepping on a ant hill," Margret echoed me as she stared me down.
I stared right back, eyes still cold. Our staring contest was broken by the Doctor and we looked at him to see him looking at this poster. I felt my body tense as I read the words 'Blaidd Dwurg,' knowing exactly what it was meant. The words I didn't realize I would be dreading until this moment…
Bad Wolf…
I gulped, feeling my hands going sweaty. I knew that this was coming but I didn't realize how nervous I would be until this moment because in this moment, I realized that I was the one who was going to become the Bad Wolf. And that terrified me to pieces… more than anything else I have seen in the world of Doctor Who. I snapped out of my thoughts by the sound of the Doctor asking, "How'd you think of the name?" And when I felt Megan squeeze my hand while giving me a worried look which I ignored.
"What, Blaidd Drwg?" Margret questioned, stepping closer to the Doctor. "It's Welsh."
"I know, but how did you think of it?"
"Chose it at random, that's all I dunno. Just sounded good. Does it matter?"
The Doctor turned around, brow furrowed. "Blaidd Drwg," he repeated.
"What's it mean?" Rose asked curiously.
"Bad Wolf." His gaze snapped to mine and I held my breath, letting it out before gulping.
"But I've heard that before," I whispered, keeping my eyes on the Doctor. "Bad Wolf. I've heard that loads of times…" I licked my lips as they suddenly got dry and I felt my hands shake, but I kept them steady, not wanting the Doctor to know how scared I was at hearing those words. I didn't want him to ask questions…
"Everywhere we go. Two words. Following us. Bad Wolf." I didn't say anything as the Doctor stared in space for a moment and then … "Nah! Just a coincidence. Like hearing a word on the radio then hearing it all down. Nevermind! Things to do."
'Oh Doctor, how wrong you were?' I thought to myself sadly.
The Doctor clapped his hands briskly. "Margret, we're gonna take you home."
"Hold on," Jack said quickly before the Doctor could say anymore. "Isn't that the easy opinion, like letting her go?"
I decided to snap out of it and I managed to force a happy grin as I squealed gleefully, "I don't believe it! We actually get to go to Raxa…" I paused, mouth slightly open as I forgot how to pronounce it. The Doctor rolled his eyes and I kept going.
"Okay, wait a minute! I'll get it! Raxacor…"
"Raxacoricofallapatorius," The Doctor said, helping me out.
"Raxacorico…" I tried again as I walked slowly towards the Doctor.
"…Fallapatorius."
It was then that the word tumbled out of my mouth like I had known it all my life. "Raxacoricofallapatorius!" I screeched in delight, the sadness of what was to come gone from my mind.
"That's it!" The Doctor cried joyfully.
I beamed as I threw my arms around the Doctor and I squealed in delight as he spun me around, laughing along with me. He set me down and I beamed, pumping a fist in the air, practically bouncing up and down.
"I did it!" I squeaked happily.
Meg laughed at my joy as she said, "Yes, we get that you are excited you said a big word Char."
I smirked at her. "You're just jealous because I can say Raxacoricofallapatorius and you can't."
But the happiness died down at Margret's words...
"They have the death penalty."
And there was silence, a silence that was nasty and one that you didn't want to have. My smile fell even though I knew that Margret deserved what was coming to her and the fact that she was going to be able to start a new life, starting as an egg.
"The Family of Slitheen was tried in its absence many years ago and found guilty. With no chance of appeal. According to the statues of government, the moment I return, I am to be executed. What do you make of that, Doctor?" She seemed to sneer his name as she met his cold stare dead on. "Take me home and you take me to my death."
The Doctor looked at her indifferently. "Not my problem."
-0-
I rolled my eyes at Margret's fake wonder as she looked around at the TARDIS. I leaned against the console, lost in thought. I felt a bump on my shoulder and I looked to see that it was Megan, looking at me worriedly.
"Are you alright?" she asked. "You've been quiet ever since we left town hall."
"Yes, I'm fine," I said quietly so the Doctor wouldn't overhear me. "I'm just thinking about… what's going to happen after this…" I bit my bottom lip.
Megan stared at me for a moment before saying, "Does this have anything to do with those words, Bad Wolf?"
Before I had time to respond, Margret spoke up. She was now looking around the console, touching various buttons on it, not pressing them.
"This ship is IMPOSSIBLE! It's SUPERB. How do you get the outside around the inside?"
"Like I'd give YOU the secret, yeah."
"I almost feel better about being defeated. We never stood a chance. This is the technology of the Gods."
The Doctor gave her a look. "Don't worship me – I'd make a very bad God. You wouldn't get a day off for starters…" He looked at Jack who was on the floor next to the console, wiring the extrapolator up to the TARDIS. "Jack, how we doing, big fella?"
"This extrapolator's top of range." He peered around to look at Margret. "Where'd you get it?"
"Oh, I don't know… some airlock sale…?"
"Must've been a great heist. It's stacked with power."
"But can we use it as fuel?" The Doctor asked.
"It's not compatible…but it should knock about twelve hours. We'll be ready to go by morning."
Megan pouted from beside me but didn't say anything.
"Then we've stuck here," The Doctor said. "Overnight."
"I'M in no hurry…"
"Oh we know that you're not," I spoke up, straightened myself up. "But does it look like we care? Noooo."
Margret gave me a glare and I gave her one back.
"You know!" Megan said loudly, obviously to stop an argument. "What I just realized is that we actually have a prisoner in the TARDIS. So now this really is a police box."
"You're not police though," Margret told her, smiling unpleasantly. "Since you're taking me to my death that makes you my executioners. Each and every one of you…"
Mickey gave her a cold look. "Well, you deserve it."
"You're very quick to say so. You're very quick to soak your hands in my blood. Which makes you better than me, how, exactly…?" He didn't have an answer for her and she continued, "Let's see who can look me in the eye." She fixed Mickey with a cold, collected stare and he managed to hold it for at least a few seconds before averting his eyes uncomfortably.
Then she looked at Rose who didn't waste any time glancing away and the Doctor only glanced up only for a second before he glanced away. Megan looked away too and last but not least, Margret looked at me and I met her gaze head on, not breaking away once.
-0-
I followed Rose outside of the TARDIS with Megan to go see Mickey who had stepped outside, not able to handle being there anymore. I shivered at how cold it was even though I had a jacket and a scarf on it was still cold.
"How can you stand being out here in the cold? It's freezing!" I exclaimed to Mickey who was standing in front of the water feature.
He nodded towards the TARDIS. "Better than in there."
"Oh, it's not so bad," Megan said, waving it off. Mickey looked at her like she was crazy and she relented, "Okay, maybe a little bad but like you said, she deserves what she's getting."
Mickey nodded. "She does deserve it. She's a Slitheen. I don't care. It's…" He sighed. "It's just weird in that box."
I shrugged. "What did you expect Mick? We're dealing with aliens so of course it's weird in there."
"But your used to it Charlene, I'm not."
"But you will get used to it," I said reassuringly. "Just give it time. Oh and by the way…"
I smiled big, covering my mouth with the scarf as I told Mickey and Rose, "I didn't really need my passport." My sister and my sister's boyfriend beamed at me when I told them this and I grinned. "So I was thinking … we could go out for pizza or something. Get away from all the weird stuff for a while."
Rose nodded, still beaming at me. "That'd be nice."
"It sounds fantastic to me!" Megan exclaimed, looping her arm thought Rose's and she did the same to me with her other arm.
"Oi! You took the Doctor's word, shame on you," I scolded my best friend playfully.
"Oh be quiet." Megan rolled her eyes at me.
Mickey spoke up. "There's also a couple bars, we should give 'em a go too." When we nodded in agreement, he nodded towards the TARDIS as he looked over at me. "And do you have to go and tell him."
I waved my hand dismissively. "Oh I'm sure he's fine, just spending time with friends, that's all. Besides I know where the TARDIS is, I can find my way back."
With that settled, we grabbed hands and started to walk away, chatting away happily but we didn't know we were being watched by the Doctor, staring at mine and Mickey's connected hands.
We made it to the pizza place and it wasn't that much longer until we were all having a great time, telling jokes or just talking about random stuff. I let out the laugh I had been holding in at the joke that Mickey made while Rose and Megan just cracked up, throwing their heads back and laughing their heads off which of course got annoyed looks from the people sitting nearby us.
"I'll be right back," I managed to say through my laugh.
In unison, they made noises signaling that they heard me and I shook my head at them, letting out a laugh before I made my way to find the bathroom. Luckily it wasn't too hard to find. After doing my business, washing and drying my hands, I went to leave the bathroom when suddenly by mobile ran. I took it out of my pocket and looked at the ID only to see that it was an unknown caller. A confused look crossed my face, wondering who it could be. I normally didn't answer unknown calls but I felt like I needed to answer this one for some odd reason. So that's what I did.
"Hello?" I said tentatively in the phone. "Who's this?" My mouth dropped open in shock at the voice on the other in as he spoke.
"Charlene?"
It was Jack! I didn't say anything, too in shock to. I didn't know why I was so shocked by his voice.
"Yeah, this is she, who's this?" I asked as if I didn't know. There was a chuckle on the other end.
"You know who I am Charlene, it's Jack…Jack Harkness." Though the voice sounded deeper and more mature, I knew that this was Jack…but as to what Jack it was, I didn't know. I had a feeling that this was the future one. I didn't know why I had this feeling…I just did.
I cleared my throat. "Yeah, I know who you are."
"Yeah I know … I'm hard to forget."
I snorted unladylike. "Says you," I teased.
He laughed. "You haven't changed a bit, have you little dove?"
"Little Dove," I echoed confused.
"I haven't started calling you that yet, have I?"
I shook my head. "No." I was quiet for a moment before I spoke up again, "This is the future Jack, isn't it?"
"Yes and I wanted to tell you that I don't blame you for what happened," he told me causing me to look confused again.
"What do you mean?"
He let out another chuckle. "You know what I mean. I know little dove."
"You know?" I echoed and I grew suspicious. "Know what?"
"I know."
He stressed those words this time and it took me a little bit to realize what he meant. I let out a gasp. He knew about me and Megan being from a different world, but how? Before I could say anything, Jack spoke up again.
"I need to go. Urgent business."
And again before I could say anything, he ended the phone call and I slowly pulled my phone away from my ear, staring down at in disbelief.
When I got back to the table, I still had that look on my face as if I had seen a ghost which Megan and Rose questioned me about.
"What's wrong?" Megan asked and Rose added,
"You look like you've seen a ghost."
I quickly snapped out of it and put a smile on my face as I waved them off. "Oh, it's nothing." I changed the subject. "So who's paying?"
Each of us pointed at Mickey who groaned and we couldn't help but laugh at him.
-0-
A while later, we headed down a step of steps near the bay and I was talking enthusiastically to Rose and Mickey, barely noticing the fact that they weren't really paying attention.
"The Doctor took me and Megan to this planet a while back – it was much colder than this –"
"Tell me about it! Remember I had to wear two coats! And even then was cold!" Megan said, interrupting me.
I grinned at her. "But you did have Jack to keep you warm too," I teased her causing her to blush. I went back to talking about the planet.
"They called it 'Woman's Wept'. 'Cos, if you looked at it, right, from above, there's like this huge continent, like all curved around…sort of looked like a woman, you know…weeping."
Megan cut in again, grinning widely. "Oh! And remember when we went to this beach, and there were no people at all, and there was no buildings either, just this beach, like a thousand miles across!"
I nodded my head, remembering and I continued on with what my best friend was saying. "And something had happened, something to do with the sun, I don't know but the sea had just frozen! Like in a split second in the middle of a storm and waves and foam just frozen! All the way out to the horizon. Midnight, right, we walked underneath these waves a hundred feet tall, made of ice."
Then out of nowhere, Mickey said to Rose as we leaned against the railings near the water, "I'm going out with Trisha Delaney."
Rose, Megan, and I stared at him shocked but my sister was the one who was shocked the most. Looking at Mickey, he seemed shocked too like he hadn't planned on telling her this.
"What?"
Mickey quickly changed the subject, turning to me. "So, er, tell us more about this planet."
I shook out of my shock. "Uh, that was it."
An awkward silence filled the air and no one said anything. Megan and I shared uncomfortable looks with each other as the awkward silence continued.
-0-
"Well, this is awkward," Megan whispered as we looked at Rose and Mickey who weren't talking at all. My sister was leaning against the railings, looking out in the water while Mickey sat with his back to her on this bench.
I nodded in agreement. I wondered what Mickey was seeing Trisha Delaney this time around, considering the fact that Rose wasn't traveling with the Doctor in this version. With me here, this world felt like an alternate universe but it wasn't. I didn't know why but I had a feeling that this Mickey/Rose thing had something to do with me.
I shook my head, deciding to speak up to break the silence.
"So, uh, what do you guys want to do next?" I asked.
Without looking at me, Rose answered, "Don't mind."
"Uh, okay," I said slowly. I turned to Mickey. "What about you? Any suggestions?"
He cleared his throat and pointed. "There's a bar down there with a Spanish name or something—"
Before I could say anything to that, Rose whirled around to face Mickey with an angry look on her face. "What are you going out with Trisha Delaney for?" she demanded loudly causing all of us to jump. "I'm your girlfriend. If you wanted to go out with someone else, why didn't you break up with me?"
"How can I?!" Mickey shouted, standing up from the bench to look at Rose. "You don't even pay attention to me anymore and when I would try to talk to you, you would act distant! Too worried about Charlene!" He pointed to me angrily and I flinched. I knew it had something to do with me. "To even talk to me and I know that you have a reason to worry about her, but you made me feel like I was nothing, Rose. I was nothing."
My sister stayed quiet as Mickey's eyes filled with tears. "I'm sorry," she apologized, sounding like she was close to tears, obviously not knowing she was making him feel this way. She went to touch his arm but he shook her off and started to walk away.
"Mickey—"I grabbed his arm before he could get that far but my hand dropped at the cold look he was giving me because it left me stunned. He never gave me that look before…well maybe except for that time when I was gone for a whole and he was blamed for my disappearance.
"If you would have stayed here, none of this would be happening," he told me in a hard tone.
I opened my mouth to say something but he stormed off before I could.
"I'll go after him," Megan told me and before I could tell her that she didn't have to, she was already running in the direction Mickey went leaving me alone with Rose.
-0-
"Why don't you want to stay here?" Rose asked me quietly.
The question was sudden too so I was taken aback by the question causing me to let out, "What?"
She repeated her question, still quiet, "Why don't you want to stay here?"
I opened my mouth to respond but my sister continued.
"Have me and Mum done something to not want you to be with us."
I looked at her disbelief. "You actually think that?"
"What am I supposed to think? Huh, Char?"
"Not that!" I waved my arms frantically in the air. "You didn't do anything to make me leave. I wanted to leave because I wanted my life to mean something! If I stayed here, I would have the same retinue. Go to sleep, wake up, brush my teeth, go to a job, go to school … that's not something I want."
"You didn't mind doing those things until you met the Doctor."
"And?"
"The Doctor has changed you, Charlene, and you haven't even realized it! You used to not mind staying here and doing what normal everyday people do, but when you met the Doctor, that changed!"
I glared her, feeling angry. "Is that supposed to be a bad thing? That I want to do something with my life other than just sitting around, doing nothing! I'm out there in time and space, I'm saving planets, I'm meeting amazing people!"
"What about your family, Charlene? What about me and mum? We need you here, not out there where you could get hurt."
I went quiet. "So…what you're saying is that you want me to leave the Doctor?" I asked quietly.
Rose sighed and shook her head. "No, I'm not asking you to leave him because I know you won't even if I begged you too…"
Before I could say anything, I heard a low rumbling in the distance.
"Is that thunder?" I asked Rose.
She looked confused, obviously not hearing what I heard. "No."
"That's not thunder…"
Before my sister could say anything, I was already running in the direction of the TARDIS as a street light smashed and people around me shrieked in fright.
I called back to my sister as loud as I could, "Stay there and don't move!"
I finally reached the Millennium Square as soon as I could and I was confronted with the sight of the TARDIS, the lightning shooting out of the top of it into the sky. Knowing that the rift was opening, my eyes widened and my thoughts frantically went to Mickey and Megan, hoping that they were okay. My frantic thoughts were broken by the sound of another rumble and I flinched at the sound of it.
I took off running across the Square to the TARDIS and as I ran, I saw more cracks appear on the ground.
Why does it have to be cracks?!
I got to the TARDIS and burst through the doors. I was met with explosions coming from the console and Jack and the Doctor working frantically and Megan, who must have gotten here before, was pressed against the wall to keep away from the explosions. She was the first to notice and she grinned in relief.
"Char!"
But I didn't say anything as I asked Jack and the Doctor, "What is it?! What's happening?!"
"Oh, just little me!"
My eyes widened at the sound of Margret but before I could run away, she freed one of her arms from the skin suit revealing the Slitheen claw and she grabbed me around the neck, choking me.
"Char!" Megan cried in horror and she would have run to me, if it wasn't for Jack holding her back.
The Doctor, though, darted forward but like with Megan, he didn't get to me because Margret said threateningly while tightening her hold around my neck causing me to gasp and grasp at her claw, trying to pull it off,
"One wrong move and she snaps like a promise."
"I might've known," The Doctor said.
Margret moved closer to him with me still in her hold. I stopped struggling because I knew it was no use and because I would like to keep my neck in one piece, thank you very much!
"I've had you bleating all night, poor baby, now shut it." She looked at Jack and sneered, "You – fly boy – put the extrapolator at my feet."
Jack hesitated and she tightened her hold of my neck causing me to sputter. He looked down at Megan, who he was still holding in his arms, and she met his eyes and she whispered one word while nodding,
"Please."
Jack looked at the Doctor who nodded his consent and he let go of Megan who resumed her position at the wall and he did as he was told.
"Thank you," Margret said pleasantly. "Just as I planned."
"I thought you needed to blow up the nuclear power source," I managed to choke out.
"Falling that – if I were to be… arrested… than 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!" She tugged on my hair roughly and I let out a whimper because of how rough it was. "To lock onto the nearest alien power source and open the rift." She looked around in awe. "And what a power source it found… I'm back on schedule… thanks to you."
"The rift's going to convulse – she'll destroy the whole planet."
Margret smiled evilly. "And you with it!" She pushed me to the side but she kept a firm hold around my neck. Oh, how I hated being a damsel in distress?! "While I ride this board over the crest of the inferno all the way to freedom. Stand back boys and girl…surf's up."
Suddenly, a panel of the console directly in front of Margret burst open, and a blinding light flooded out of it. I looked at it in amazement. The Heart of the TARDIS was even more beautiful in person. I couldn't look at it that long as it was too bright so I looked at the Doctor who was on the other side of console, standing there calmly.
"Of course, opening the rift means you'll pull this ship apart," he said to Margret who was looking at him too.
"So sue me."
"It's not just any old power source. It's the TARDIS. My TARDIS. The best ship in the universe."
Margret sneered at him nastily. "It'll make wonderful scrap."
"What the hell is that light?" Megan asked with wide eyes from where she was now standing beside Jack.
"The Heart of the TARDIS. This ship's alive. You've opened its soul."
I could hear Margret breathing heavily as she stared into the light as if forgetting everything else. Her voice became dreamy and vague as she spoke up.
"It's … so … bright …"
"Look at it Margret," The Doctor told her.
"Beautiful," she mumbled, continuing to stare.
"Look inside, Blon Fel Fotch. Look at the light."
Finally her grip on me relaxed and I was able to push her claw away from my neck before I quickly went over to Megan and Jack. Megan hugged me tightly and I hugged her back. We kept a hold of each other as we went back to watching Margret.
She continued to stare into the light and a blissful smile crossed her face. She looked up at the Doctor who smiled at her slightly.
"Thank you…" Margret told him genuinely.
With that, she was engulfed by the light and when it cleared; her body suit flopped on top of the extrapolator, empty. Immediately, the Doctor sprung into action, darting around the console.
"Don't look – stay there – close your eyes!" He slammed down levers and the gap in the console closed, shutting out the white light. Then he exclaimed to Jack, "Now, Jack, come on – shut it all down. Shut down!"
Jack rushed over to the console as the Doctor told me and Megan,
"Charlene, Megan, that panel over there – turn all the switches to the right."
We worked busily as the console exploded with sparks and finally the shaking stopped. I breathed out a sigh of relief, knowing everything was back to normal.
"Nicely done, thank you, all," The Doctor said.
"What happened to Margret?" Megan asked.
Jack was the one who answered. "Must've got burnt up. Carried out her own death sentence."
The Doctor looked down at the body suit. "No, I don't think she's dead."
"Then where did she go?" This time I was the one who asked the Doctor even though I already knew.
"She looked into the heart of the TARDIS, and even Idon'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…" He kneeled next to the body suit with me, Megan, and Jack following in suit so now we were all gathered around it. He reached inside the skin suit and pulled out an egg. "Here she is!"
Megan's mouth dropped with an odd expression on her face. "But that's an egg?"
"Regressed to her childhood."
"She's an egg?" Jack said with the same expression Megan had.
"She can start again! Live her life from scratch. If we take her home, give her to a different family, tell 'em to bring her up properly, she might be all right!"
"Or she might be worse," Jack told the Doctor.
He looked up from the egg to look at him. "That's her choice."
"She's an egg," I said.
The Doctor nodded. "She's an egg."
I suddenly remembered my sister. "Rose!" I cried at the same time Megan cried,
"Mickey!"
Without saying anything to the Doctor and Jack, we ran out of the TARDIS. Unfortunately, we didn't find Mickey but we found Rose as she was in the spot that I left her.
"Char!" she cried when she saw me and Megan. She got up and hugged me tightly.
I hugged her back just as tightly. Rose was the first one to pull back.
"Is everyone okay? Jack? The Doctor?"
I nodded. "Yeah, everyone's fine."
Then my sister hesitated before asking, "And what about Margret?"
"We're dealing with her, she's not going to bother us ever again," I reassured.
Rose breathed out a sigh of relief. "And Mickey?"
"We couldn't find him, but I'm sure he's okay," I told her softly.
She nodded and there was a small silence until Rose spoke again. "So I guess this is goodbye?"
"Not goodbye, see you later." I grinned at her. "You can't get rid of me that easily Rosie."
She laughed. "Wasn't planning on it Charlie."
"Good." I hugged her again and I told her to tell mum I said hi and that I loved her.
Megan gave Rose a hug too before we set off in the direction of the TARDIS, ready to set off again.
TBC...
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