A/N) And so onto the next chapter...
Chapter Eighteen: Journey's End (part four)
It was in that moment that Rose really wished the Doctor had managed in getting a visual on the proceedings, but at least she had audio. Her stomach was flipping. The thought of her mother on the Crucible with the Daleks was mind numbing. It made sense, in a way. But how had she ended up with Jack? And what was Jack up to anyway?
"That makes no sense," said Donna. "You've already got Martha saying that she's going to destroy the Earth unless they leave, but now Jack is saying he has some sort of warp thing that can destroy the Crucible. That wouldn't just destroy the Daleks, it would kill the Doctor too! He can't do that!"
"Distracts them though," mused Rose, "gives us more time."
She continued to listen in, hearing the Doctor's question of where they got the Warp Star from. To her utter surprise it was not Jack that answered, but Sarah Jane Smith. Her hand flew to her lips. How had Sarah Jane got on the Crucible? More importantly why was she with Jack? "This is getting weirder and weirder." She glanced towards the other Doctor. "How long?"
"Not much, I'm nearly done," he grunted, as he pushed something into a hole on the top of the weapon. "They just have to keep them busy for a little bit longer!"
Donna's hand gripped Rose's arm. "He's taunting her. That creature... he's taunting her."
Rose swallowed, and heard the cruel voice of Davros responding to Sarah Jane. It came as no surprise to her that she threatened the Dalek creator with opening the Warp Star, unless he let the Doctor go. "This is not helping him," she whispered. "None of this is. I've realised now. The Doctor has changed us all so that we are no longer human in our actions. He wouldn't want Martha doing what she is now, or Jack! God, he must be falling apart."
"Do you want me to stop it?" whispered the other Doctor. He met Rose's gaze.
"We can't, not until we're ready," said Rose.
He grimaced. "Good thing I am then, right?" He held aloft the weapon he had been building. It had a radar dish at the end of it, and a hand hold, with a trigger where one could place your finger. It was not a weapon that Rose was familiar with, but she knew it would do its job, no matter how much she hated the fact that she allowing this Doctor to commit genocide.
"Turn it off, please." Donna turned beseeching eyes upon the second Doctor, motioning towards the screen. "I don't want to hear anymore..." There were tears in the corners of her eyes. "You didn't hear what happened... but I did. Please."
The Doctor quickly rounded the console, pulling out of the audio link.
"Are you going to say?" asked Rose.
Donna shook her head. "No. I'm not burdening you with that. Let's just get aboard that ship and finish this."
The Doctor started to pull levers, pressing buttons as he bought the TARDIS back to full power. "They've activated the planetary alignment field. We have no more than two hundred rels before they detonate!"
"We're gonna get there in time, aren't we?" said Rose as she grasped hold of the console as the TARDIS started to shake, as they sped into the Vortex. "We've got full power, right?"
"Yes," said the new Doctor, his right hand still holding the weapon he had built. "We will get there!"
Rose saw the darkness in his eyes. He was ready to do this. He was so like the first Doctor she had originally met. Not broken, but full of anger. She hated herself for not stopping him, but they had no other option.
The TARDIS rotor slammed up and down as they hurtled towards their destination, then everything grinded to a halt. The second Doctor gripped the gun in his right hand, turned to Rose, nodding towards her, before stepping towards the doors and opening it.
Both Rose and Donna watched the console screen, as the scanners showed them what was outside. The room was filled with Daleks, and Davros was facing the TARDIS. The Doctor and Mickey stood in separate lights, and they could only assume they were cells. The Doctor's mouth was hanging open in surprise as his eyes focused upon the clone of himself that had just emerged from the TARDIS. It was only then that Rose noticed that her mother was in the room as well as Martha, Jack, Jake Simmonds and Sarah Jane. She didn't even want to consider how the Daleks had managed to transport Martha from Germany or how they had succeeded in capturing her mother and the others.
The other Doctor, the one with the gun, started to run forward towards the Dalek's creator.
"Why the hell is he running for?" screeched Donna. "Can't he just point and shoot?"
"Obviously not," whispered Rose. She saw the proper Doctor shout something to his copy, but the other didn't listen. Then something hit him in the chest, sending him backward. Electricity had sparked from Davros's metal hand, winding him. The gun went flying off to the side and Donna was already on her way out. "NO! Donna come back!" She turned her attention back to the console as blue light shot over the downed Doctor, probably trapping him in the same type of cell that the real Doctor and Mickey were encased in.
She watched as Donna ran out of the TARDIS, picking up the gun that had been abandoned. "Oh no..." Her friend had no idea what to do. She couldn't hear what was going on outside, all she could see was the actions of others. She saw Davros raise his hand once more and the same electricity that had hit the new Doctor, struck her friend in the chest. Donna went flying, out of shot. "Oh god."
What can I do? "I can't stay in here and watch this going on!" yelled Rose, kicking the TARDIS console with her right foot. "Ow." An explosion caught her eye and she saw the weapon that the new Doctor had built explode in a shower of sparks.
Steeling her jaw, Rose made a decision. She couldn't do anything from where she was, but like Donna, Rose Tyler had once had a gob. She was the only person left able to do something. "I have no weapons, but I still have my mind." She understood that stepping outside would mean the death sentence for her, but at least she would go down fighting, and not waiting for the end inside the TARDIS. Davros had already turned away from the TARDIS, and Rose took her chance. She opened the door as slowly as possible and slipped outside, leaning against the ship as if she didn't have a care in the world. All the Daleks attention was upon the proper Doctor, so no one had noticed her slip out.
Davros was speaking to his prisoners, pointing towards a holographic screen displaying the twenty-seven planets. "Stand witness, Time Lord. Your strategies have failed, your weapons are useless, and...oh – the end of the universe has come."
"He still has one strategy that hasn't completely failed yet," said Rose, looking at her finger nails, in utter boredom, though she felt terrified inside. This is a sure way of saying 'kill me now!'
"ROSE!" her mum's voice. She hadn't heard it in a long time but she couldn't allow herself to be distracted.
She glanced Jackie Tyler's way, giving her a small nod, then locked gazes with the Doctor. Her Doctor. "You know, when I first met the Doctor I would never have stood up to creatures like yourself, Davros. Yet, now I feel secure in knowing that at least I have the courage to do so. I may have no physical weapons on me that can harm you, but I have my mouth and if there is one thing the Daleks do not know about a Tyler, is that Tyler's have gobs. You can kill me, but at least I know that the Doctor changed me to a better person. And that's all the Doctor wants to do: is help you. Being the supreme beings in the universe, do you really want that? Won't you be, well, bored once you've killed everything? You'd have nothing to do! "
I am totally giving myself the death sentence here...
Everyone was staring at her in utter shock, surprised by her stance.
"Exterminate her!"
Rose ducked as a green beam arched towards her head at Davros' command and she raced around the TARDIS. Then, out of the corner of her eye, she saw Donna Noble. She wasn't dead, as Rose had feared. The ginger-haired companion stood behind a console, flipping switches. No one had noticed her. Rose ducked once more, moving back the way she had come to avoid her friend from being spotted. Even if she died in her foolhardiness, her feelings told her that Donna Noble knew what she was doing.
"ENOUGH! She will be witness to our success." It was the Supreme Dalek, speaking over the intercom.
Rose stopped. That was different. They were letting her live. For now.
"Ten seconds to ultimate detonation!"
Whatever you are doing over there, Donna, it would be a good idea to do it now! thought Rose desperately.
And as the countdown reached 'one', the screen overhead went blank, and an alarm sounded, high and shrilly. Rose was already grinning. The universe hadn't been detonated. "Doctor." She caught her Doctor's attention, and nodded in the general direction of Donna, who she couldn't see from her position. He looked over to where she indicated and a grin spread across his worn features.
Donna's voice boomed above the alarm, filled with a confidence that Rose had never heard in her before. "Oh... I just closed all Z-Neutrino relay loops using an internalised synchronous back-feed reversal loop! Basically, that button there!"
Taking the opportunity, Rose moved towards Donna's position, seeing her friend, standing confidently at the controls.
"Oh, and did I say, the detonation is negative! HAH!"
She sounds like the Doctor... Rose thought and then gasped as an idea formed into her head. The other Doctor has a bit of Donna in him... could she have got something of him as well? It was the only explanation for Donna's sudden brilliance in all things technical.
The brown-suited Doctor was staring at Donna, an incredulous look on his face. "You can't even change a plug!"
Donna grinned, pushing more buttons on the console in front of her. "Do you wanna bet, Time Boy?"
Davros raised his arm, his voice reverberating around the chamber. "You will suffer for this!"
"Oh, I really don't think so!" Donna moved a single finger, flicking a switch. Sudden electricity ran up Davros' metal arm and he shrieked in pain. "Bioelectric dampening field with a retrogressive arc inversion."
Rose raised an eyebrow, grinning madly. She had no idea what Donna had just said but it was clear she had just caused Davros pain.
"EXTERMINATE HER!!!"
Daleks swivelled to face Donna, their guns in their sockets pointing right at her. She merely grinned, typed something and pulled down two more switches.
"Weapons non-functional!" A Dalek screeched.
Donna just shrugged.
"What did you do?" asked Rose.
"Ah, macrotranmission of a K-filter wavelength that blocks Dalek weaponry in a self-replicating energy blindfold matrix!" said Donna.
"I have no idea what you mean," laughed Rose. Her new brilliant really was coming in handy. Donna had the Daleks as playthings in her palms.
"How did you work that out?" The Doctor was shaking his head in disbelief.
"Time Lord. Part Time Lord," said the other Doctor, watching his counterpart. "Like me."
"Oh yes! Part human! That was a two-way biological metacrisis!" Donna clearly loved this. "Half Doctor... half Donna!"
"Impossible..." said the Doctor. "Wait... my hand. Regeneration energy poured into it... you touched it. Oh."
"Worked it out yet?" grinned Rose.
The Doctor whacked his head with his hand. "Of course! The Ood! They saw it coming! They said it! The Doctor-Donna!"
"I'd vent anger at the fact that you went to see the Ood without me," replied Rose, "but I chose to leave you." She saw her mother's reaction at her words and she tossed her a small smile.
"Okay... Holding Cells deactivated," said Donna, flicking more switches. "And I'm sealing the Vault so your buddies up there can't come down." She looked between the two Doctors. "Well, don't just stand there, you skinny boys in suits – get to work!"
Both Doctors glanced at one another before dashing to join Donna at the control panel she occupied.
Davros was yelling again, ordering his Daleks to get them away from the controls.
Once more Donna, lazily, flicked a switch. The effect was instantaneous. The Daleks started to spin, unable to control their movements. The effect was quite hilarious. "And the other way!" The Daleks started to spin in a different direction, their upper and lower halves facing and twisting in varying ways.
"What did you do?" asked the new Doctor.
"I trip-stitched the circuit breaker in the psycho-kinetic threshold manipulator!" explained Donna.
"But that's brilliant!" beamed the new Doctor.
"Why did I never think of that?" asked the Doctor.
Donna raised both her hands, and pointed a finger each at the two Doctors. "Because you two... were just Time Lords! You dumbos. You lack that little bit of Human, that gut instinct that goes hand-in-hand with planet Earth. I could think of ideas that you two couldn't dream of in a million years! Ah, the universe has been waiting for me! Now... let's send that trip-stitch all over the ship. Did I ever tell you – " She gestured at herself. "Best temp in Chiswick?" She wiggled her fingers in a typing motion, her face pulled into a grin. "A hundred words per minute!"
As the Daleks continued to roll around uncontrollably, shouting they were having a system malfunction, Rose saw Jack dart into the TARDIS. She caught her mother's eyes, and knowing she was safe from being hurt she ran towards her, throwing her arms around her. "Mum!" She buried her face in Jackie's shoulder. She pulled back, her eyes shining with tears. "How did you get here? And Jake Simmonds too?"
"The same way Mickey did, sweetheart. We jumped," replied Jackie, as she pulled Rose in for another hug. "I've missed you." She touched Rose's cheek, wiping away the single tear that was falling down her face.
"Me too. I never even got to say a proper goodbye," sniffed Rose. "I could off... There was one last crack in the universe that the Doctor had to close manually and he did ask if I wanted to see you one last time... I chose not to, and I hated myself for that."
"Oh, Rose." Jackie ran a hand through her daughter's hair.
"One thing I want to know. How did you get here? I mean, here, on the Crucible, with Jack?" questioned Rose. She looked over at Martha, who had been standing to the side, unsure of what to do. "And you, Martha. You were in Germany, now you're up here."
Martha shrugged. "Transmat beam. I dropped the key. I didn't know how else to distract them."
"They wouldn't have let you activate it anyway. They were just humouring you," said Rose. "Mum? Are you going to tell me?"
"Pete told me to stay with him, but I knew if I didn't go, I wouldn't see you. I came here looking for you. Mickey had already gone on ahead. Just before we set off, Jake got a report saying that two Daleks were about to kill someone, so we jumped in, and saved her."
"And that was Sarah Jane, right?" asked Rose, the pieces slotting into place. In the time she had been talking to her mother, Jack had emerged from the TARDIS carrying two guns, throwing one to Mickey. He was pointing his at Davros, while Jack was kicking and pushing Daleks away with the help of Sarah Jane and Jake. Martha too, had pushed at least one away on her own.
Jackie nodded. "Yeah. We found the TARDIS, but then the Daleks took it. So we surrendered and got taken for testing, but we escaped. I had to use my Dimension Jump to get out of the chamber... then the Captain, there, came out of some vents. Then we decided on a plan and got in contact with the Daleks."
"And when they transmatted Martha from Germany, they pulled you lot here too," finished Rose. She smiled; a nice warm one. "I'm so glad you're here."
"I can't stay Rose. Tony needs me."
"Tony?"
"Your brother."
"Oh my god!" squealed Rose, fully aware this was not the time or place to show her delight. "Congratulations!" She threw her arms around her mother once more. "How old is he?"
"He's three," her mother replied.
"Three years?" gasped Rose. "It's been three years since I last saw you?"
"Nearly four," said Jackie.
"Oh my god..." she swallowed. "It's only been two years for me, roughly. A year and a half since I left him..." Had it really been that long?
"What happened, sweetheart?" asked Jackie.
Rose shook her head. "Mum, this isn't the time and the place... I'll tell you later, if I can." She looked around, taking in what was happening around her. Donna, and the two Doctors were still at the console, flicking switches and pulling levers, while Mickey kept an eye on Davros. The others were now standing around the console as Donna worked. "What's going on?"
"They're sending the planets back to their original time and place," answered Martha.
Donna flicked two switches with her hands and one with her foot, lifting it up to the console. She had really become the embodiment of the Doctor. "Off you go Shallacatop! Pyrovillia! The Lost Moon of Poosh! HA!"
"Donna! We're going to need more power...!" yelled the Doctor.
"Can I just ask a very simple question?" Sarah Jane had raised her hand. "It might be the wrong time to ask this... but why are there two Doctor's? What's a metacrisis?"
Donna pointed to the Doctor. "He poured all his regeneration energy into his spare hand, I touched the hand and – " She pointed towards the other Doctor, in the blue suit, who grinned. "-he grew out of that, but energy poured back into me, BUT it just stayed dormant in my head 'till the synapses got that little extra spark, kicking them into life!" Donna looked towards the Dalek creator. "Thank you, DAVROS!" She grinned. "Part Human, part Time Lord. And I got the best bit of the Doctor. I got his mind."
"So there are THREE of you?" asked Sarah Jane, seeking clarification.
"Yup," grinned Rose.
"I really can't tell you what I'm thinking right now," said Jack, his voice indicating that he really wasn't there.
"Jack, I really didn't want to know what's going on in that head of yours," said Rose, one eyebrow raised, and arms folded across her chest.
The Doctor was smiling, a pure genuine one that Rose hadn't seen on him in ages. "You're so unique that the timelines were converging on you. The first ever Human Being with a Time Lord brain."
"Bingo!" grinned Donna.
Rose watched as Davros swung towards a wriggly creature in the corner, bathed in light, sitting on a podium. She hadn't noticed it there before.
"But you promised me, Dalek Caan! Why did you not foresee this?" the Dalek creator announced.
The creature giggled, its tentacles wiggling in the air.
"I think he did," said the Doctor. "Something has been manipulating the timelines for ages, getting Donna Noble to the right place at the right time."
"This would always have happened. I only helped, Doctor!" replied the squirming creature.
"You... betrayed the Daleks?" Davros was incensed.
Serves you right, thought Rose.
"I SAW the Daleks," responded the creature. "What we have done throughout time and space. I saw the of us, Creator, and I decreed 'no more'!"
A booming voice rang out over the intercom: the Supreme Dalek announcing its decision to descend to the Vault.
Critical mistake there, mate.
And it was. As the Supreme Dalek floated downwards, Rose saw that it was red and completely unaffected by what Donna had done to the other Daleks. That would mean its weapons would be working...
"Davros, you have betrayed us!" it bellowed towards its Creator.
"It was Dalek Caan!" the other pointed towards the Dalek on the pedestal, its tentacles now still.
"The Vault will be purged! You will all be exterminated!" The Supreme Dalek pointed its weapon towards the back of the Doctor. It fired –
"DOCTOR! MOVE!" yelled Rose.
He side-stepped, just as the death ray hit the console where he had been standing. A small fire started, and the Doctor waved it away with his right hand. "ARGH! We've lost magnatron!" By the time he had spun around to face the Dalek that had fired at him, Jack had already lifted his gun and fired, destroying the Supreme Dalek with one hit. "We've got one planet left... Oh. And guess which one!"
"Has to be Earth," pointed out Rose.
"Yup! But we can use the TARDIS!" The Doctor ran into the spaceship, shutting the door behind him.
Rose watched as the other Doctor continued to flick switches. "Holding Earth stability... maintaining atmospheric shell..."
But Dalek Caan's voice echoed throughout the chamber, distracting the other Doctor. "The prophecy must complete."
"Don't listen to him," said Davros.
He's not going to listen to you...
"I have seen the end of everything Dalek, and you must make it happen, Doctor!" declared Caan.
"He's right, because with or without a Reality Bomb, this Dalek Empire is big enough to slaughter the cosmos. They've got to be stopped!"
"Just—just wait for the Doctor," said Donna, hurriedly, her eyes worried.
The other Doctor glared at her. "I am the Doctor." He started to flick switches.
"NO! You can't!" yelled Rose. "If you do this, you're no better than them! You're not the Doctor I fell in love with if you commit this act! You say you're him, but if you were, you wouldn't do this. I want to help you, but killing them isn't the answer!"
"Yes it is!" the other Doctor replied and he pulled down a lever. "Maximising Dalekanium power feeds! Blasting them BACK!"
Rose looked around the room. The Daleks that had been pushed to the side and continued to spin exploded in flame, shards of them scattering to the floor. Their yells of pain echoed through her skull. The air was thick with the sounds of their death cries. She shook her head, horror in her features. "How could you?"
"Because I can," he stated, finality evident in his voice.
A creak of a door, and Rose knew that the Doctor had returned from the TARDIS. She braced herself and wasn't surprised when she heard his yell of fury.
"What have you done?"
"Fulfilling the prophecy," replied the other Doctor, with no hint of regret in his eyes.
A massive explosion shook the Vault, sending almost everyone flying to the floor. Rose scrambled to her feet as the Doctor yelled at his counterpart, the fury in his expression evident and his disgust at what the other had done clear in his eyes.
"Do you know what you've done? Now get in the TARDIS!" shouted the Doctor, his eyes locked onto his counterpart as he jogged through the open doorway. "Everyone, all of you inside, now! In, in, in, in!"
Rose was the second one inside the TARDIS after Sarah Jane, and she was followed by her mother, Mickey, Martha and then Jack. Donna sprinted in last, but the Doctor didn't come in. Rose frowned, but then, clear as day she heard him yelling, even as the Vault tore apart, the ceiling falling down and a fire ripping through the centre. He was trying to help Davros, promising him that he could save him.
"That's what you should have done instead of killing them all," she said to the other Doctor.
"No. They bombed my home world. I've suffered enough at their hands. It's time for them to die, for good!"
"Then you're not the Doctor," whispered Rose. "Not that one out there who is trying to save someone, even if they are the Daleks! You would have at least offered them the choice, but you didn't! You tried that before in Utah. 2012 remember? When we met Adam? The Dalek there, in that underground bunker, you didn't even give it a chance, you had it set in your mind that you'd kill it. Like then, you condemned the whole race! The Doctor would never have done that. Even now he's trying to save Davros even though he won't take his help; at least the Doctor knows he tried to save someone!" She took a deep breath, knowing what she was about to say would seal her future. The Doctor wouldn't allow his counterpart to run through the universe on his own: that she was sure of. "I healed you once, I can do it again. Where ever you go, I go."
The other Doctor was about to reply when the Doctor ran into the TARDIS, straight towards the console.
"Off we go!" He pulled a lever and the time ship shuddered as it starts up. Everyone latched onto the console for support.
"What about the Earth? It's stuck in the wrong part of space!" Sarah Jane was on the case.
"Don't worry! I'm on it!" said the Doctor, his eyes hard. He reached the monitor, leaning into it. "Torchwood Hub, this is the Doctor. Are you receiving me?"
"Loud and clear," came Gwen Cooper's voice over the speaker. "Is Jack there?"
"Can't get rid of him. He keeps dying on me, but always finds a way to come back," said the Doctor. "Jack, what's her name?"
"It's Gwen Cooper," said Martha, before Jack could answer. "I worked with her briefly."
"Oh..." His mouth went round. "Tell me, Gwen Cooper, are you from an old Cardiff family?"
"Yes... all the way back to the eighteen-hundreds," replied Gwen and Rose imagined her to be totally confused by the questioning taking place.
"Thought so...Now Torchwood!" snapped the Doctor, getting back into business. "I want you to open up that Rift Manipulator and send all the power to me."
Ianto Jones leaned round, so his face was partially on the screen. "Doing it now, sir."
"Just one thing," said Jack. "Did the Daleks get to you?" He had to know.
Gwen nodded. "Yeah... But Tosh was working on something before she died. A Time Lock, I think. It stopped them from getting any further into the base. The three that were here just exploded."
"That was my handy-work," said the other Doctor, his eyes dark with pleasure.
The Doctor scowled. "That was not your call to make!" It looked like the other was about to argue, but the Doctor threw him a look that clearly said 'not now' and instead focused his attention towards Sarah Jane. "What's your son's name?"
"Luke, and the computer's called Mr Smith."
The Doctor passed on instructions to the boy, informing him that his mother was indeed alive when asked. He wanted them to harness the Rift power and loop it round the TARDIS. They hit a snag as the super computer stated that it needed access to TARDIS base code numerals. The Doctor's wary expression convinced Rose that what the computer was asking for was something that would take a while. He ran a hand through his hair, but Sarah Jane ran around to the screen and ordered K-9 to come out.
"I didn't see K-9 there when we were in your house..." said Rose, waiting for an explanation.
"Oh, K-9 is on a mission, but he can come out of the attic for a little bit," smiled Sarah Jane. She brushed her hair back behind her ears. "K-9, give Mr Smith the TARDIS base code!"
The Doctor clapped his hands together. "Now then, you lot –" He led Sarah Jane back to her place around the console, pointing to a control. "Sarah – hold that. And Mickey – you hold that. This old TARDIS is always rattling about the place – Rose – that, there."
She placed her hand on the control indicated by the Doctor. Beside her, the other Doctor squeezed in beside her. She looked up at him, giving him a small smile. She was going to look after him. In the brown orbs of his eyes, she could see a hint of regret in them. Her words were obviously getting to him now. Good, that makes my job much easier.
"Okay, we're going to fly planet Earth, back home," continued the Doctor, returning to his place at the console, after giving everyone, save for Jackie Tyler, something to do. He reached out and pulled a lever. A terrific shudder shook the TARDIS and then levelled out.
"Are we pulling it with us?" asked Martha.
The Doctor nodded. "We are. The TARDIS is basically weightless. Pulling a planet is easy – and the inhabitants are protected too, though they might feel slightly nauseous when we get back to the right place in space."
Donna strolled around the room, looking over everyone's shoulder. Her newly-required knowledge enabled her to understand how a TARDIS worked and flew. She didn't need to be told, she just knew. Rose travelled her gaze over everyone else in the room. Jack was pumping a lever up and down; Sarah Jane was pushing a lever down slowly, and Martha grinned excitedly as their eyes met.
In that moment, it amazed Rose, that despite the impossible odds, they had survived. They had survived the Daleks.
"And... there we go..." said the Doctor, gently, catching everyone's eye. "Earth is back home, where it belongs."
Before she even knew what she was doing, Rose pulled the other Doctor into a hug and just as quickly stepped back in embarrassment. Her cheeks flamed and she moved away, finding Martha in the crowd of hugging companions and pulled her into one big one. She didn't know what she felt for the other Doctor. He was like the first Doctor she had known, but unlike the Doctor, the other could be fixed. He had the memories of the Master, but he hadn't suffered the physical trauma himself and could live with it. Born into a war, his main anger had been directed at the Daleks. She could fix him; Rose knew she could, even if it took the rest of her life.
"Rose, are you okay?" asked Martha, holding Rose away from her face.
Rose nodded, smiling sadly. "Yeah, I am. I think."
She would have to talk to Martha; have to tell her what her decision was. What her choice was. For Rose Tyler knew that the Doctor wouldn't allow his angry counter-part to remain in this universe. He was going to send him away, so that he wouldn't have to worry about him himself. And though that was the coward's way out, the Doctor couldn't deal with him. Especially not in the state he was in.
So it was up to her to fix things, even if it meant never seeing Martha Jones or the Doctor again.
To be continued...
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