The Doctor:

"What's down there?" Jackie asked me softly as the Cybermen all worked on doing what they were doing, and I held my daughter as she gagged a little. She could see what I knew would happen. The Void sucking everything, slowly but surely, until the world was gone. "She was in that room with the sphere. What's happened to Rose?"

I shook my head, trying hard to think of something, anything to do. "I don't know. I'll find her. I brought you here, I'll get you both out, you and your daughter, and my daughter. Jackie, look at me. Look at me. I promise you. I give you my word."

The Cybermen were talking to Yvonne, the leader of Torchwood not looking overly happy. "You will talk to your central world authority and order global surrender."

"Oh, do some research." She scoffed, not bowing to the pressure. "We haven't got a central world authority."

"You have now. I will speak on all global wavelengths. This broadcast is for human kind." I pit on my specs as he started to, and sighed as I saw the same radiation around my daughter and I. Oh, Calliope... "Cybermen now occupy every landmass on this planet, but you need not fear. Cybermen will remove fear. Cybermen will remove sex and class and colour and creed. You will become identical. You will become like us."

But obviously, panic ensued, and the army and UNIT tried to destroy them, London started to burn. "I ordered surrender.

"They're not taking instructions. Don't you understand?" I asked it, as Jace tried to make a break for the laptop. "You're on every street, you're in their homes, you've got their children, and my child! Of course they're going to fight."

And of course they weren't listening. "Scans detect unknown technology active within Sphere chamber."

"Cybermen will investigate."

"Units ten six five and ten six six will investigate Sphere chamber."

"We obey."

They did, obviously, and then made their ways down there, until they got to where they needed to be. "Units open visual link." Jace sighed as what she'd been doing got wiped, the Cybers view coming up. "Visual contact established."

And my hearts thudded in my chest as I saw what was down there, the nightmares of my childhood, the reason Jace and I were alone in the Universe. "Identify yourselves." The Dalek demanded at the Cybermen.

"You will identify first."

"State your identity."

"You will identify first."

"Identify!"

It was pretty much a brick wall speaking to a kettle. "That answer is incorrect and illogical. You will modify."

Never, ever tell a Dalek what to do. "Daleks do not take orders."

"You have identified as Daleks."

But the Dalek one upped the metal men then. "Outline resembles the inferior species known as Cybermen."

Jackie leaned forward, and Jace flinched, not expecting her before relaxing, leaning into me. She was safe, I had her, she was going to be fine. "Rose and you said about the Daleks. She was terrified of them. What have they done to her, Doctor, Jacey? Is she dead?"

No, no she couldn't be. "Phone."

The elder blonde blinked. "What?"

"Phone!" Jace snapped, grabbing it and then dialling Rose, the Cybers and Daleks still speaking about how they got here. "She's answered. She's alive. Why haven't they killed her?"

"Well, don't complain!" Jackie snapped as I started wondering the same.

"They must need her for something."

Then they brought up something a little weird. "We must protect the Genesis Ark."

OK, what the hell was that when it was at home? "The Genesis Ark?"

"Our species our similar, though your design is inelegant."

I started to look at them through the 3D specs, avoiding looking at my daughter too, knowing that both of us had the same radiation around us. "Daleks have no concept of elegance."

Seriously? "This is obvious. But consider, our technologies are compatible. Cybermen plus Daleks. Together, we could upgrade the Universe."

That would not end well. "You propose an alliance?"

"This is correct."

The Dalek was having none of it. "Request denied."

So the Cybers readies their weapons. "Hostile elements will be deleted." Not that it really mattered, because Daleks were impenetrable, and soon it was Daleks 2, Cybermen 1.

"Open visual link." Cyberleader told his brethren. "Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen."

"This is not war. This is pest control."

"We have five million Cybermen." The Cyber told the Pepperpot. "How many are you?"

"Four."

There was a small amount of smugness in the Cyberman then, if he wasn't completely devoid of emotion. "You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks?"

"We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek." It replied with definite smugness. "You are superior in only one respect."

"What is that?"

"You are better at dying. Raise communications barrier" Daleks 3, but the signal to Rose went too, and Jace snarled to herself, thrusting it back at Jackie.

"Lost her."

The Cybermen then started to make plans, the Daleks messing their day up thoroughly. "Quarantine the Sphere chamber. Start emergency upgrading. Begin with these personnel." Yvonne and Jackie.

She stared at the metal man in horror. "No, you can't do this! We surrendered! We surrendered!"

"This one. His increased adrenaline suggests that he has vital Dalek information, and the younger is his descendent, radiating sonic waves."

Jackie reached for me, and I went to help as Jace used her ability to try and get back to Rose, but it didn't work. "Stop them! I don't want to go! You promised me! You gave me your word!!"

Please, please, no! "I demand you leave that woman alone! I won't help you if you hurt her, or my daughter. Jackie, don't fight. I'll think of something."

They were dragged away, and I held my daughter close again as she started shaking, her hands radiating lightly, streams of colour that I smothered with my hand. Her power was still growing, and the fact that she wasn't using her voice didn't help. "You are proof."

"Of what?" She asked the thing, her voice like a dream, not fully there. But the energy in her eyes told me she was.

"That emotions destroy you."

She considered it for a moment. "Yeah, I am." Jace's eyes fixed just behind its shoulder. "Mind you, I quite like hope. Hope's a good emotion. And here it comes."

And then a group of black clad commandos came in, taking out the remaining Cybers, the leader trying to escape out the back, but a blast of sonic blew its head up as a familiar blonde came into the room. Well, sort of familiar. "Jace? Doctor? Good to see you again."

"Jackie, Jake?"

"The Cybermen came through from one world to another, and so did we." The blonde boy smiled, putting his arm around Jackie's shoulders, not in a relationship way, more a brother and sister way. I had a feeling Jackie and Mickey may have tried it out, if the Mickster was here. I put on my specs again as they got to work. "Defend this room. Chrissie, monitor communications. Kill one CyberLeader and they just download into another. Move!"

They ran off, leaving us with just Jackie and Jake. "You can't just, just, just hop from one world to another. You can't." I insisted to them, still incredibly confused by this.

Jackie shrugged, taking something from around her neck. "We just did. With these."

A large yellow medallion she threw to her double. "But that's impossible. You can't have this sort of technology. It would make you just as sick as it makes me."

"Jace, it takes some getting used to, Miss Pastel v Miss Neon, but it works. We've got our own version of Torchwood. They developed it. Do you want to come and see?"

Jake pressed his button, and we all vanished through to the parallel Torchwood as I cried out at them to stop. "Parallel Earth, parallel Torchwood. Except we found out what the Institute was doing and the People's Republic took control."

This was not happening. "We've got to get back. Rose is in danger, and her mother. Jace could be the only one that could stop it."

"That'd be Jackie." We looked to see Pete Tyler walking towards us. "My wife in a parallel universe. And as for you, Doctor, Jace, at least this time I know who you are."

"Right, yes, fine, hooray. But we've got to get back, right now." Jace snapped, still shaking, even more with the travel, but she was getting use to it now. Maybe that was a good thing.

But Jackie shook her head. "No, you're not in charge here. This is our world, not yours. And you're going to listen for once. When you left this world, you warned us there'd be more Cybermen. So we sealed them inside the factories."

"Except people argued." Jake said after. "Said they were living. We should help them."

Pete started after that. "And the debate went on. But all that time, the Cybermen made plans. Infiltrated this version of Torchwood, mapped themselves onto your world, and then vanished."

Jace frowned a little. "When was this?"

"Three years ago."

"It's taken them three years to cross the void, but we can pop to and fro in a second. Must be the sheer mass of five million Cybermen crossing all at once." I breathed, working it out in a moment, as Jace did the same. I just liked showing off.

Jackie nodded, playing with a necklace she had on. "Yeah, Mickey said you'd rattle off that sort of stuff. Said it was what charmed Rose." Ah, so he was still smitten on Rose, and she wanted to be with him, it just didn't work like that.

But that was a good point. "Oh, where is the Mickey boy?"

"He went ahead first." Pete said, putting a hand on the other girls shoulder, a slight comfort, but she didn't seem to like it. "Any chance to go and find Miss Rose Tyler."

Jace raised a small eyebrow. "She's your daughter. You do know that? Did Mickey explain?"

"She's not mine. She's the child of a dead man. Look at it, a world of peace. They're calling this The Golden Age."

"Who's the President now?"

"A woman called Harriet Jones."

Don't let her have access to a weapon. "Oof. I'd keep an eye on her."

Pete nodded. "But it's a lie. Temperatures have risen by two degrees in the past six months. The ice caps are melting. They're saying all this is going to be flooded. That's not just global warming, is it?" We both shook our heads. "It's the breach."

"We've been trying to tell you. Travel between parallel worlds is impossible. Then the Daleks break down the walls with a Sphere." Jace was off now, all the words she'd been holding back coming out as she stopped biting her tongue. "Then the Cybermen travelled across, then you lot. Those discs. Every time you jump from one reality to another, you rip a hole in the universe. This planet is starting to boil. Keep going and both worlds will fall into the Void, the colours draining and draining like paint down a drain until there is nothing left!"

They just looked at the pair of us. "But you can stop it? The famous Doctor and his daughter. You can seal the breach? You're Jackie with training, like you said. You can see the sounds of that world."

Ohoh, no, no way, not happening. "Leaving five million Cybermen stranded on my Earth."

"That's your problem." He shrugged. "I'm protecting this world, and this world only."

"Hmm. Pete Tyler. I knew you when you were dead. Now here you are, fighting the fight alone, with the wrong blonde as a sort of daughter. There is a chance, back on my world, Jackie Tyler might still be alive." I told him, holding my daughters hand tight.

Pete wasn't happy though. "My wife died."

"Her husband died." Jace smiled a little. "Good match."

Still wasn't having any of it. "There's more important things at stake. Doctor, Jace, help us."

They had far too much faith in me, if not Jace too. "What, close the breach? Stop the Cybermen? Defeat the Daleks? Do you believe we can do that?"

My little girls double nodded, her darker blue eyes hard and serious. "Yes."

"Maybe that's all I need. Off we go, then!" We went back to our world, and Jace shivered a little, as did Jackie as we came back. "First of all, I need to make a phone call. You don't mind?"

"You two, guard to door." Jackie nodded, clicking her fingers through her gothic gloves. Punk Rock Jace.

I dialled Jackie, Tyler Jackie, Jackie T, and she answered her phone on the first ring. She was good at that. "Oh, my God, help me."

Of course, she just started talking. "Jackie, you're alive. Listen."

Not a chance. "They tried to download me but I ran away!"

Jace grabbed the phone, putting it on speaker. "Shush. Listen, tell me. Where are you, Jacks?"

"I don't know. Staircase."

Jackie... "Yeah, which one? Is there any sort of sign? Anything to identify it?"

"Yes, a fire extinguisher." For Gods sake...

"Yeah, that helps"

And then she actually found something useful. "Oh, wait a minute. It says N3."

Jace bowed her head a little, thinking quickly. "North corner, staircase three. Just keep low, we're trying our best."

"No, don't leave me."

You're fine, you'll be fine, you have to be... "I've got to go. I'm sorry." I put down the phone down and looked back at Pete and Little Jackie. "Jacqueline Andrea Suzette Tyler."

He shrugged. "She's not my wife."

Jace smirked a little. "We were at the wedding. You got her name wrong. Now then, Jakey boy, Twinsie, if I can open up the bonding chamber on this thing, it'll work on polycarbite." She started working on the gun, and Jackie came over to help, undoing the side.

"What's polycarbite?"

I smiled, doing the same with Jakes. "Skin of a Dalek."

DW

Waving a piece of A4 paper on a pointed, I stepped out from the corner with Jace, who had one of her own. "Sorry. No white flag. We only had a sheet of A4. Same difference."

"Do you surrender?" The Cybers asked us, squaring off to us.

Jace nodded. "We surrender unto you. A very good idea."

And then we broke into the Sphere room after telling them that brilliant idea, just as they were about to kill Rose. "Oh now, hold on, wait a minute. You want to kill the Bad Wolf, and the Girl of Colours, and the Doctor's daughter, then you're looking at the wrong person. That's his girlfriend." Jace smiled, her eyes twinkling darkly.

"Alert, alert. You are the Doctor and an unknown Time Lord."

"Sensors report they are unarmed."

When was Jace ever not packing a sound wave in her vocal cords? "That's us. Always."

"Then you are powerless."

Never, not a chance when there was people in danger, people relying on me. "Not us. Never. How are you?" I asked Rose, as Jace hugged Mickey.

She grinned back, looking a little wary of the Dalek's. "Oh, same old, you know."

"Good." I smiled, moving onto the second Smith in the TARDIS as Jace let him breathe. "And Mickity McMickey. Nice to see you!"

"And you, boss, glad you looked after this one."

And then the Daleks got frustrated. "Social interaction will cease!" Oh, you sounded just like an evil PE teacher.

"How did you survive the Time War?"

"By fighting. On the front line. I was there at the fall of Arcadia. Someday I might even come to terms with that, the loses that only Jace saved me from." I took her hand, squeezing it tight. "But you lot ran away!"

"We had to survive."

I raised an eyebrow, and Jace started slowly moving up sonic waves in the room, testing things out. "The last four Daleks in existence. So what's so special about you?"

Rose moved forwards a little. "Doctor, Jacey, they've got names. I mean, Daleks don't have names, do they?" Oh, a very special four do. "One of them said they-"

They went through their names, all 4, and I listened, knowing them like primary children knew the 6 wifes of Henry the 8th. Thay, Sek, Jast and Ca'an. The Myth. "So that's it! At last. The Cult of Skaro. I thought you were just a legend."

"Who are they? Dad?" Jace asked, looking from me to them.

"A secret order above and beyond the Emperor himself." That she ripped apart, using that 15 year old fear of losing her father. "Their job was to imagine, think as the enemy thinks. Even dared to have names. All to find new ways of killing."

Mickey spoke up now, rather badass since we left him 3 years ago. "But that thing, they said it was yours. I mean, Time Lords. They built it. What does it do?"

It was my son who built those things, I didn't have a clue. "I don't know. Never seen it before."

"But it's Time Lord."

"Both sides had secrets." Rather like the moment, still somewhere in the heart of the TARDIS, slowly ticking over. "What is it? What have you done?"

One of the Daleks moved forward. "Time Lord science will restore Dalek supremacy."

Jacey frowned a little. "What does that mean? What sort of Time Lord science? What do you mean?"

"They said one touch from a time traveller will wake it up." Rose said softly, making us both look at her.

The irony in that though. "Technology using the one thing a Dalek can't do. Touch. Sealed inside your casing. Not feeling anything ever, from birth to death, locked inside a cold metal cage. Completely alone. That explains your voice. No wonder you scream."

"The Doctor or his daughter will open the Ark!"

We both giggled sarcastically, moving away. "The Doctor and his daughter will not."

They were having none of this. "You have no way of resisting."

"Well, you got me there." Jace nodded. "Although there is always these." She held up her hands.

"Human extremities?"

That made her annoyed. "They're hands, dear, not breasts."

But they didn't take her seriously. "They are harmless."

"Oh, yes. Harmless is just the word. That's why we like it. Doesn't kill, doesn't wound, doesn't maim."

Jace grinned then. "But I'll tell you what you don't know about me. There's a reason they call me the Girl of Colours." And then she aimed her hand at the door, streams of sonic colours blazing out as it came through, Jake, Jackie and a Cyberman shooting at them.

And then we made a break for the door, and I dragged my daughter out as they all came after, Pete pulling out Rose, and I closed the blast door as Micks came out last. "Jake, Jackie check the stairwell. The rest of you, come on."

But there was a slight dilemma, because Mickey had activated the Genesis Arc. "I just fell, I didn't mean it!"

"Mickey, without us, they'd have opened it by force." I told him, kissing his forehead. "To do that, they'd have blown up the sun. You've done us a favour. Now, run!"

We kept running, and found Jackie and Pete talking it out, Jacks incredibly confused as she stared at him, wanting to both cry and scream. "It's Pete from a different universe. There are parallel worlds, Jackie." I explained, my arm around Jace's shoulder. "Every single decision we make creates a parallel existence, a different dimension where-"

She sent me a death glare. "Oh, you can shut up. Oh, you look old."

"You don't."

"How can you be standing there?"

Pete shrugged a little. "I just got lucky. Lived my life. You were left on your own. You didn't marry again, or-"

The woman shook her head a little. "There was never anyone else. Twenty years, though. Look at me. I never left that flat. Did nothing with myself."

"You brought her up. Rose Tyler. Then you started to be there for Jace, like I was there for other Jace in my world. That's not bad." Big Jackie nodded a little. "In my world, it worked. All those daft little plans of mine, they worked. Made me rich."

"I don't care about that." She paused for a moment. "How rich?"

"Very."

"I don't care about that. How very?" Brilliant, brilliant absolutely brilliant Jackie.

Pete shook his head slightly. "Thing is though, Jacks, you're not my wife. I'm sorry, but you're not. I mean, we both. You know, it's just sort of. Oh, come here." They gave up and just ran at each other, hugging close. Perfect.

We went to the Warehouse again, and I quickly crawled through to a crate, grabbing the magnaclamps before dodging laser to get back. Then when I was there, I looked back at the fight with my 3D glasses, just as the black Dalek opened the roof shutters, taking the Arc outside. "What're they doing? Why do they need to get outside?? Time Lord science. What Time Lord science? What is it?" Jace was muttering, biting through her nail as she watched them.

I grabbed her hand, going back into the corridor and towards the stairs. "We've got to see what it's doing. We've got to go back up. Come on! All of you. top floor!"

"That's forty five floors up!" Jackie cried. "Believe me, I've done them all."

"We could always take the lift." Jackie and Jake called from the elevator. Perfect.

The Daleks were up at that level, and i could see the Arc shooting Daleks in all directions as it span around. "Time Lord science. It's bigger on the inside." I muttered, as Jace nodded, and it was at times like these I really wished that she was human, that she had stayed on Earth, because she deserved so much better.

"Did the Time Lords put those Daleks in there?" Mickey asked, frowning. "What for?"

How could they not tell? "It's a prison ship."

"How many Daleks?"

"Millions."

And the Cybermen were just not enough for them. trying to shoot them out of the sky, but they were dying so much more. "I'm sorry, but you've had it. This world's going to crash and burn. There's nothing we can do. We're going home." Pete took another yellow medallion from a commado, handing it to his wife. "Jacks, take this. You're coming with us."

She stared at him. "But they're destroying the city."

"I'd forgotten you could argue." He smiled a little. "It's not just London, it's the whole world. But there's another world just waiting for you, Jacks. And it's safe as long as the Doctor closes the breach. Doctor?"

I turned to face them, wearing my 3D specs again, grinning. "Oh, I'm ready. I've got the equipment right here. Thank you, Torchwood." Then working on a computer, I got to work explaining. "Slam it down and close off both universes."

Jace was staring at me. "But we can't just leave, dad. What about the Daleks? And the Cybermen?"

"They're part of the problem, and that makes them part of the solution. Oh yes! Well? Isn't anyone going to ask what is it with the glasses?"

I think Jace knew, so Rose was the one who asked. "What is it with the glasses?"

Oho, yes! "I can see, that's what. because we've got two separate worlds, but in between the two separate worlds, we've got the Void. That's where the Daleks were hiding. And the Cybermen travelled through the Void to get here. And you lot, one world to another, via the Void. Oh, I like that. Via the Void. Look." I handed them to Rose. "I've been through it. Do you see?"

"What is it? Jace, can you see it too?"

My daughter nodded. "Void stuff. I've been seeing it all day."

Rose clicked her finger, turning to look at me. "Like er, background radiation."

I nodded. "That's it. Look at the others. And the only one who hasn't been through the Void, your mother. First time she's looked normal all in her life."

"Oi."

"But the Daleks lived inside the Void. They're bristling with it. Cybermen, all of them. I just open the Void and reverse. The Void stuff gets sucked back inside."

That made her laugh with me, though she didn't know what the rest of the plan was, and it would break my hearts. But they'd be safe. "Pulling them all in!"

"Pulling them all in!"

And now Mickey interjected. "Sorry, what's the Void?"

"The dead space." Jace whispered, looking away. "Some people call it Hell. Colourless and dead."

He seemed impressed. "So you're sending the Daleks and Cybermen to Hell. Man, I told you he was good." Jackie, little Jackie, didn't seem impressed yet. Too used to being on the streets still.

Jace turned back to look at me, her eyes bright and angry, but still upset. "But it's like you said. We've all got Void stuff. Me too, because we went to that parallel world. We're all contaminated. We'll get pulled in. You've known this the whole time."

"That's why you've got to go." i didn't look up from the computer now, knowing I'd chicken out, and not save my daughter. But she'd be safer there, I knew she would be. "Back to Jackie's and Pete's world. Hey, we should call it that. Jackie's and Pete's World. I'm opening the Void, but only on this side. You'll be safe on that side."

"And then you close it, for good?"

I nodded at the man. "The breach itself is soaked in Void stuff. In the end it'll close itself. And that's it. Kaput."

Jace was looking right at me, trying to get me to catch her eye. "But you stay on this side?"

"But you'll get pulled in."

"That's why I got these." I held up the magnaclamps. "I'll just have to hold on tight. I've been doing it all my life."

My little girl was still staring at me. "I'm supposed to go." I nodded at her. "To another world, and then it gets sealed off." And again. "Forever. That's not going to happen."

But then the building started shaking and Pete took charge, putting one around Rose's neck as she was staring at me. "We haven't got time to argue. The plan works. We're going. You too. All of us."

"No, I'm not leaving here."

Rose shook her head now. "I'm not going without her. Not a chance."

"Oh, my God. We're going!"

"No, I'm not. I have no one, no one else like me, because there can't be. But then I met the Doctor, my dad, and all the things I've seen him do for me, for you, for all of us. For the whole stupid planet and every planet out there. He does it alone, Jacks, Rose. But not anymore, because now he's got me, and we're not alone anymore."

Jace... My little girl, the little girl that saved me from myself... But she wasn't a little girl anymore, and she had so many people she could be with. So much she could for herself, she didn't need me, so I put the medallion around her neck, and Pete took both Rose and Jace with them. She was gone...

For all of about 5 minutes before she came back. Alone. "Once the breach collapses, that's it. You will never be able to see her again. Your best friend!"

"I made my choice a long time ago, and I'm never going to leave you, not like people leave me, dad. So what can I do to help?"

It was obvious that she wasn't going to change her mind. "Those coordinates over there, set them all at six. And hurry up."

She took off the medallion, and started to use her ability to do what I said, and looked at me a minute later. "We've got Cybermen on the way up."

"How many floors down?"

"Just one."

But there was something stopping them from getting here, and then the computer started speaking. "Levers operational."

"That's more like it." Jace smiled as I did. "Bit of a smile. The old team."

I gave her one of the magnaclamps and she put it on the opposite wall to me by the levers. "Press the red button. When it starts, just hold on tight. Shouldn't be too bad for us but the Daleks and the Cybermen are steeped in Void stuff. Are you ready?"

Her gaze was fixed on the window, Daleks visible outside. "So are they."

"Let's do it!" We pushed them up and grabbed the clamps as the light came out of the breach, and we started being sucked towards it, the Daleks going first. "The breach is open! Into the Void! Ha!"

Next the Cybermen, and the more and more Daleks as they came in through the one broken window.

"Offline." Jace's lever started to fall, and the suction decreased, so she let go of her clamp to grab it and try to pull it up.

"I've got to get it upright!" And somehow she managed it, and the suction built up even more, and she started to be dragged horizontally towards it as I shouted for her to hold on, desperately trying to reach for her but she slipped, streams of colours being dragged with her towards the breach as she screamed, until Mickey and Little Jackie appeared, vanishing with her, and the void closed, like paper down a plughole.

"Systems closed."

I slowly walked back towards the wall, leaning against it softly, knowing that my daughter was safe, just wishing that I could have saved her, kept her with me. Jaclyn Calliope Allison Smith, gone in the flurry of colours she came into the world on. I couldn't stop, if I stopped her ghost would catch up, the memories of her voice, her laughter, her music, they would all find me.

But I had one last thing I could do, and I managed to get through to her, burning through a sun to see her one last time, my amazing daughter. "Where are you?" She asked me, and I could see Rose with her mum further away, letting her have this. I loved her, but Jace... she was everything.

"Inside the TARDIS. There's one tiny little gap in the Universe left, just about to close, and it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I'm in orbit around a super nova. I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye, and to say happy birthday."

She sniffed, looking ill as she wiped her eyes. "You look like a ghost."

"Hold on" I used the sonic on myself, hoping that worked.

Jacey reached forward. "Can I-"

I shook my head. "I'm still just an image. No touch."

"Can't you come through properly?"

"The whole thing would fracture." I sighed. "Two universes would collapse. The colours would burn."

But that really didn't matter to her right now. "So?"

Oh, my little girl... "Where are we? Where did the gap come out?"

"We're in Norway."

Wow, somewhere I'd never actually been before. "Norway. Right."

"About fifty miles out of Burgen." Jace went on, hugging her arms around herself. "It's called 'Fargerik Dårlig Ulv Stranden'."

Wait what? "Dalek?"

That made her smile, just a little. "Dårlig. It's Norwegian for bad. This translates as Colourful Bad Wolf Bay." Oh, the irony in that. "How long have we got?"

Not long enough. "About two minutes."

"I can't think of what to say! You're my dad, and I was never going to lose you, but now we're so far apart..."

"Jacey Smith, Defender of the Earth. You're dead, officially, back home. So many people died that day and you've gone missing. You're on a list of the dead, just like when we first met . Here you are, living a life day after day. The one adventure I can never have. That I could never have let you have, love."

She sobbed a little, her eyes going nearly clear as tears streamed down her face. "Am I ever going to see you again?"

"You can't."

"What're you going to do?"

"Oh, I've got the TARDIS . Same old life, last of the Time Lords. There's two here, you and Jackie. Twin sisters, you're not alone." At least she had someone.

Jacey wiped her eyes, her hands shaking so bad. She was wearing thick leather gloves. "On your own. I, I love you, dad. i miss you. So much..."

"Quite right, too. I love you too. Sing, Jace. You need to. The last time I'll ever be able to hear it." I whispered, tears streaming down my own cheeks. My third child, ripped away from me too..

She shook her head. "I can't, it's gone. Reinette... My voice died with her."

"your voice is a gift. Listen to the music around you, the colours of the water. The sky. Let them guide you."

And then she opened her mouth, and she started to sing, the purity and beauty in her voice making Rose and Jackie break down into tears as then faded away.

The last thing I did for her was to give her back her voice. I just wish it wasn't such a sad song she sang. My little Street Girl, all grown up.