Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 21. I am happy to say that this was one of the episodes that I couldn't wait to get to. There will be more of a jealous Doctor in this chapter. A flirty Jack. A jealous Rose. A jealous Gwendalyn in this episode. Gwendalyn will get fairly angry at Rose for throwing herself on men. She doesn't like Rose needlessly enough to say. I still can't believe that I am getting closer and closer to the end of this story. It makes me sad to say that this is getting closer and closer to the end. I really am going to miss this story that is for sure. I really enjoyed writing it so far and I am going to continue enjoying it until the very end. I can tell you one thing though the last two chapters of this story will be kind of special in this story. For those of you who are thinking were Gwendalyn and the Doctor in a relationship during any point in the past. Yes in a way they were, but because of the war that was going on they couldn't pursue it like they had wanted to. So they just stuck together in hopes that maybe the war would be able to end so they could do what they wanted to. I hope that you enjoy this chapter. Mickey and Jack clashing. Without further ado Chapter 21 of The Last of Her Kind. Allons-y!
Chapter 21
Why is it Always Trouble?
"Who the hell are you?" Jack demanded.
Gwendalyn shook her head and held onto the ladder that the Doctor was on. "Sounds like Mickey is here." Gwendalyn said looking up at the Doctor as he was working.
"What do you mean, who the hell am I? Who the hell are you?" Mickey raised his voice.
"Captain Jack Harkness. Whatever your selling, we're not buying."
"Get out of my way!" Mickey said pushing his way into the Tardis.
"Don't tell me. This must be Mickey." Jack said rubbing his face.
"Here comes trouble!" The Doctor said earning a smack on the leg from Gwendalyn. "Ow." He shook his head. "How're you doing, Ricky boy?"
"It's Mickey!" He yelled.
Gwendalyn laughed lightly. "Nice to see you again Mickey." She said waving to the young man.
Mickey waved at her. He liked her. She was able to tame the Doctor a lot better than what Rose could ever do. Sometimes it made him wonder about her and the Doctor if they were together at some point.
"Don't listen to him, he's winding you up." Rose told him with a small smile.
"You look fantastic." He said pulling her into a hug.
"Aw, sweet, look at these two. How come I never get any of that?" Jack complained to the Doctor.
"Buy me a drink first." The Doctor said as he worked on what he had been working on since they had gotten there.
"You're such hard work." Jack said crossing his arms.
"But worth it." The Doctor said as he looked down at Gwendalyn.
Gwendalyn shook her head.
"And what about you sexy?" Jack asked winking at her.
Gwendalyn shook her head. "Sorry. You would have to buy me more than a few drinks."
The Doctor was pleased with what she had said.
"Oh don't be that way sexy." Jack said pouting.
"Sorry." Gwendalyn said shaking her head. "I'm harder than he is." She pointed her thumb towards the Doctor.
"Oh you're hard work then. You need to live a little."
Gwendalyn shook her head. "No thanks. I see enough through these old eyes."
"Did you manage to find it?" Rose asked Mickey.
Mickey got into his pocket. "There you go." He said handing her passport to her.
"I can go anywhere now." Rose said looking at the Doctor.
Gwendalyn shook her head. She never really listened to the Doctor. Not once. It was becoming more and more annoying as time when on.
"I've told you, you don't need a passport."
"It's all very well going to Platform one and Justica and the Glass Pyramid of San Kaloon, but what if we end up in Brazil? I might need it. You see, I'm prepared for anything." Rose said proudly.
Gwendalyn groaned. "You won't need a passport. We always have ways around that."
"Sounds like your staying then. So what're you doing in Cardiff? And what's the hell's Jumping Jack Flash? I mean, I don't mind you hanging out with big ears up there."
"Oi!" Gwendalyn and the Doctor said at the same time.
"There is nothing wrong with his ears." Gwendalyn said glaring at Mickey.
"Look in the mirror. But this guy." He said pointing to Jack. "I don't know, he's kind of…"
"Handsome?" Jack asked looking at Mickey.
"More like cheesy." Mickey said snapping at him.
Gwendalyn shook her head. Men sometimes. They were worse than children.
"Early twenty first Century slang. Is cheesy good or bad?" Jack asked.
"It's bad." Mickey growled at him.
"But bad means good, isn't that right?"
"Are you saying I'm not handsome?" The Doctor asked.
"Oi come down from there handsome." Gwendalyn said with a wink.
The Doctor's face flushed. He got down off of the ladder and stood next to her.
"We just stopped off. We need to refuel. The thing is, Cardiff's got this rift running through the middle of the city. It's invisible, but it's like an earthquake fault between different dimensions." Rose tried to explain it to Mickey.
"The rift was healed back in 1869." The Doctor said crossing his arms.
"Thanks to a girl name Gwyneth, because these creatures called the Gelth, they were using the rift as a gateway, but she saved the world and closed it."
"But closing a rift always leaves a scar, and that scar generates energy, harmless to the human race." Jack said with a grin.
"But perfect for the Tardis." The Doctor said crossing his arms.
"Just park her here for a couple of days on the rift scar and…" Gwendalyn said with a smile.
"Open up the engines, soak up the radiation." Jack said with a nod of his head.
"LIke filling her up with petrol and off we go!" Rose said with a smile.
"Into time!" Jack said laughing.
"And space!" The four of them said with a smile.
"My God, have you seen yourselves? You all think you're so clever, don't you?" Mickey said eyeing the four of them.
"Yeah." The Doctor said with a smile.
"Yeah." Rose said pushing her tongue against her teeth in a smile.
"Yep!" Jack said laughing.
Gwendalyn shook her head. "I know I'm clever, but don't put me in the group with the three of them." She said poking some fun.
"Oi." The Doctor said looking at her.
"What it is true. You three love travelling through time. I just like going on space travels." She said clicking her tongue against her teeth.
The Doctor flicked a switch. "Should take another twenty four hours, which means we've got time to kill."
"That old lady's staring." Mickey said softly.
"Probably wondering what five people could do inside a small wooden box." Jack said crossing his arms.
"What are you captain of, the Innuendo Squad?" Mickey snapped.
Jack made a gesture and walked out of the Tardis.
"Wait, the Tardis, we can't just leave it. Doesn't it get noticed?"
Gwendalyn shook her head and was the next one to walk.
"Yeah, what's with the police box? Why does it look like that?" Jack asked looking at the Doctor.
Gwendalyn laughed.
"It's a cloaking device." Rose said.
"It's called a chameleon circuit. The Tardis is meant to disguise itself wherever it lands, like if this was Ancient Rome, it'd be a statue on a plinth or something. But I landed in the 1960's, it disguised itself as a police box, and the circuit got stuck." The Doctor said rubbing his head.
"And you know you could allow me to fix it." Gwendalyn said looking over her shoulder at him.
"No way."
She winked. "I like it better that way anyways."
"So it copied a real thing? There actually was police boxes?" Mickey asked.
Gwendalyn rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, on street corners. Phone for help before they had radios and mobiles. If they arrested someone they could shove them inside till help came, like a little prison cell." The Doctor said with a nod of his head.
"Why don't you just fix the circuit?" Jack asked looking at the Doctor.
"I like it don't you?" The Doctor asked with a smile.
"I love it." Rose said with a smile.
"But that's what I meant. There's no police boxes anymore, so doesn't it get noticed?" Mickey asked in confusion.
Gwendalyn let out a sigh and crossed her arms.
"Ricky,let me tell you something about the human race. You put a mysterious blue box slap bang in the middle of town, what do they do? Walk past it. Now, stop your nagging. Let's go and explore."
"What's the plan?" Rose asked the Doctor.
"I don't know. Cardiff, early twenty first century and the wind's coming from the east. Trust me. Safest place in the universe."
Gwendalyn laughed lightly. "How about we go and get something to eat." She said with a smile.
The Doctor looked at her and a smile came onto his lips. "Alright."
DWDWDW
"I swear, six feet tall and with big tusks." Jack said telling a story.
Gwendalyn shook her head and nibbled on some bread that was in her hand. She shook her head. Stories always a good way to pass the time.
"You're lying through your teeth!" The Doctor snapped.
"Oi we've done worse." Gwendalyn said nudging him. And it was true. In all of the years of the two of them being around one another something always happened and perhaps it was a bit worse than what Jack had done.
"I'd have gone bonkers! That's the word bonkers."
"I mean, i turns out the white things are tusks and I mean tusks! ANd it's woken, and it's not happy." Jack continued on.
"How could you not know it was there?" The Doctor asked looking at him.
"And we're standing there, fifteen of us, naked."
"Naked?" Rose said looking at Jack in shock.
Gwendalyn put her bread stick down. She looked down and shook her head. Nope nothing like what they had done. Perhaps Jack had done a lot worse than what they had ever done.
"And I'm like, oh, no, no, it's got nothing to do with me. And then it roars, and we are running. Oh my God, we were running. And Brakovich falls, so I turn to him and say…"
"I knew we should've turned left!" Mickey said glaring at the man.
"That was my line." Jack said looking at Mickey.
Gwendalyn rolled her eyes. "Enough boys."
"I don't believe you. I don't believe a word you say ever. That is so brilliant. Didn't you ever get your clothes back?" Rose asked looking at Jack.
The Doctor looked over and snatched a news paper. He tapped Gwendalyn.
Gwendalyn scooted closer to the Doctor and began to read the paper.
"No, just picked him up went right for the ship, full throttle. Didn't stop until I hit the space lanes. I was shaking. It was unbelievable. It freaked me out, and by the time that I got fifteen light years away I realized I'm like this."
The Doctor let out a sigh. And he was enjoying the time that they didn't have to do something to save the world.
"Damn." Gwendalyn said standing up. Trouble had found them again. As always.
"And I was having such a nice day." The Doctor said holding up the newspaper and there is a picture of Margaret on it as the new mayor.
"I guess it is back to work." Gwendalyn said shaking her head and letting out a soft sigh. This was just going to be a pain in the ass for her as well for the Doctor.
DWDWDW
"According to intelligence, the target is the last surviving member of the Slitheen family, a criminal sect from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorius, masquerading as a human being, zipped inside a skin suit. Okay, plan of attack…" Jack said going on with his plan.
Gwendalyn crossed her arms. Her eyebrow raised. He was going to give them the plan? Well that was a change of pace.
"We assume a basic fifty seven fifty six strategy, covering all available exits on the ground floor. Doctor…"
"I will be taking Lyn with me." The Doctor said not even looking at him.
"Okay… you two will go face to face. That'll designate Exit One, I'll cover Exit Two. Rose, you Exit Three. Mickey Smith you take Exit Four. Have you got that?"
"Excuse me. Who's in charge?" The Doctor asked.
"Oh stop it." Gwendalyn said looking at him.
"Sorry." Jack said rubbing his head. "Awaiting orders, sir."
"Right, here's the plan… Like he said. Nice plan. Anything else?"
"Present arms."
They each pulled out a mobile phone.
"Ready." The Doctor said.
"All set." Gwendalyn said.
"Ready." Rose said.
"Ready." Mickey said.
"Ready. Speed dial?" Jack asked.
"Yup." The Doctor said.
"Right." Gwendalyn said.
"Ready." Rose said.
"Check." Mickey said.
"See you in hell." Jack said before they all went their own ways.
DWDWDW
Gwendalyn looked at the Doctor. "Are you certain that she isn't going to run away?"
"I think she will."
"Always... "
"What?"
Gwendalyn groaned. "Why is it always that we get into trouble that comes our way."
"We have a knack for it Lyn."
"Oh I know this. But it would be nice to have one day off."
"I know."
The two of them stopped at the desk that had a young man sitting behind it.
"Hello, my girlfriend have come to see the Lord Mayor." The Doctor said with a smile. He took Gwendalyn's hand in his to prove the point of their little act.
Gwendalyn's cheeks flushed a little bit. There he went again. Girlfriend, wife, fiancee. Never once did he call her a friend and it bothered her.
"Have you got an appointment?" The young man asked.
"No, just two old friends passing by. Bit of a surprise. Can't wait to see her face." The Doctor said with a smile.
"It has been so long since we've seen her." Gwendalyn said putting on a fake smile. Her voice was cheery.
"Well, she's just having a cup of tea." The young man said.
"Just go in there and tell her the Doctor and Gwendalyn would like to see her."
"Doctor Who?" The young man asked.
"Just the Doctor. Tell her exactly that. The Doctor."
"Hang on a tick." The young man said going into the other room.
"She's going to run." Gwendalyn said looking over at the Doctor with a look.
"You know she is."
"You could have said Smith or something." She shook her head. "But you wanted her to run."
They heard a smash of glass falling to the ground.
The young man came out. "The Lord Mayor says thank you for popping by. She'd love to have a chat, but, er, she's up to her eyes in paperwork. Perhaps if you could make an appointment next week?"
Gwendalyn rolled her eyes.
"She's climbing out the window, isn't she?" The Doctor asked.
"Yes, she is."
"Come on." Gwendalyn said as the two of them left the young man and running into the office and onto the balcony.
"Slitheen heading north." The Doctor called.
"Out of everything we had to do. We just have to run."
"Not my fault your wore heels."
"Hey I didn't think we would be chasing a Slitheen around."
The young man caught up with the Doctor.
"Go." The Doctor said as he wrestled with the young man.
Gwendalyn winked. "You got it love." She said as she began to climb down the ladder that Margaret had climbed down.
"Leave the Mayor alone!" The young man said.
Gwendalyn looked up at the Doctor. "You better take care of him now Doctor." Gwendalyn called up to him.
"You got it." He slams his hand into the young man's neck only to knock him out. He quickly got onto the ladder and climbed down. "Margaret." He called to her. He got off of the ladder.
"Who's on Exit Four?" Jack asked.
"That was Mickey." Rose said.
"Oh boy." Gwendalyn said shaking her head.
"Mickey the idiot." The Doctor complained.
"Oh, be fair, she's not exactly going to outrun us, is she?" Rose asked.
Margaret vanished.
Gwendalyn looked at Rose. "You were saying?"
"She's got a teleport! That's cheating! Now we're never going to get her." Jack complained.
"Oh I don't think she will." Gwendalyn said with a smile. She looked at the Doctor. "Care to be a dear."
"I thought you wouldn't ask." He said pulling out his sonic and using it causing her to reappear running towards them.
Margaret kept trying to get away from them.
The Doctor kept using his sonic to keep bringing her back. "I could do this all day."
"This is persecution. Why can't you leave me alone? What did I ever do to you?"
"Oh I think you know." Gwendalyn bit out. Her blue eyes were narrowed.
"Slamming Lyn against the wall. You tried to kill me and destroy this entire planet." The Doctor said crossing his arms.
"Apart from that." Margaret said looking at the two of them.
"Oh there is a long list lady. Trust me. We have every right in coming after you."
"Oh I like em feisty." Jack said winking at Gwendalyn.
The Doctor looked at Jack with narrow eyes. Jack needed to stop with this. Gwendalyn would never give him the time of day. Never.
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This is the end of Chapter 21. I have to say that I have worked very very hard on this chapter. It was hard giving Gwendalyn little parts through this episode. As I promised jealous characters in this chapter that is for sure. I have some major plans for the last five chapters coming up that is for sure. There will be some surprises to come in the next chapters coming up. I am not going to say which ones just yet. Here is a little taste of the next chapter.
The six of them stood in City Hall.
"So, you're a Slitheen, you're on Earth, you're trapped. Your family get killed , but you teleport out just in the nick of time. You have no means of escape. What do you do? You build a nuclear power station. But what for?" The Doctor asked looking at Margaret.
"A philanthropic gesture. I've learnt the error of my ways."
"Oh really now? I think not." Gwendalyn snapped.
"And it just so happens to be right on top of a rift." The Doctor said crossing his arms.
"What rift would that be?" Margaret asked looking at them.
"A rift in space and time. If this power station went into meltdown, the entire planet would go…"Jack made the noise of the earth exploding.
I hope that you enjoyed this little taste of the next chapter. I hope to be updating soon. I try to aim for every three days, but it might be sooner. Until next time.