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The TARDIS's voice giggled along with Rose in the Doctor's head. She seemed to like this Opal girl.

Opal ran into the console room again, skipping as she did so. Her hair was sopping wet, but the TARDIS had laundered her clothes in record time.

She said, "Where should we go? Oh- I have an idea! Let's go to the gardens of Babylon!"

The Doctor finally snapped out of his trance and said pompously, "The TARDIS doesn't do that sort of thing. You have to set the coordinates and jiggle the the controls and all of that... stuff."

Rose said, "Actually, Doctor..."

But they were interrupted by the sound of the TARDIS moving into the Time Vortex. "What?" The Doctor said, returning to his former speech limits.

Opal just smiled innocently and patted the TARDIS console. The peaceful hum of the TARDIS magnified just a little in gratitude.

The Doctor just stared, open mouthed. Rose entwined her hand with his and said, "Just let it go, Doctor." With her head resting on his shoulder. When Opal turned her back, the Doctor planted a quick kiss on her forehead.

A loud pound indicated that the TARDIS had landed. The Doctor quietly pushed open the door to see the Hanging Gardens of Babylon! It was beautiful. The flowers and bushes were emerald green, cherry red, magenta, turquoise and every other color of the rainbow.

Rose gasped and looked around the place. Clear waterfalls fell in between the magnificent shrubbery and peacefully trickled in between the leaves.

She turned to look around. Off to the side was a man beating his servant. Rose made an angry sort of growl. The Doctor noticed and looked.

He stopped Rose protectively. The Doctor instead moved to go help the slave, but Rose pushed past him and stormed furiously to the master of the slave. In her anger, the bum-bum-bum-bum noise became more powerful.

Rose went over and shrilly yelled in the man's ear, "STOP! You're hurtin' him!"

The man kept whipping his slave. Rose continued. "He's no less of a person than you! Stop beatin him right this minute!"

The master turned around and said, "If you don't stop nagging in my ear, I'll show you what it's like!" The Doctor ran over and caught the whip as it flew towards Rose. He rubbed his hand as it stung him, but he wrenched the whip out of the man's arm and flung it to the ground. The man made to pick it back up but the Doctor shoved it away and glared at him.

He held up his psychic paper and said, "Do you really want to do that to her?" The man widened his eyes at the 'King's Advisor and Wife' before Opal let out a shriek.

Opal had gone over to look at a few flowers across the way and didn't notice when the others were gone. She had fingered a leaf before vines hidden behind it shot out and grabbed her.

She was being pulled into the plant and more and more vines were wrapping themselves around her. Opal had let out a shriek just before one wrapped itself around her mouth.

The Doctor rushed towards her in a panic and began sonicing the vines. Rose spoke comforting words to her while the Doctor worked on getting Opal out.

"You're gonna be fine," Rose said. "the Doctor will get you out." Opal made a small motion with her head that was interpreted as a nod. "Soon enough, you'll be out of this." The vines were slowing down, but they still dragged Opal back until she was almost concealed.

"You'll be safe." A single tear leaked down Opal's cheek. She knew, Rose knew, the Doctor knew she wasn't going to get out in time.

Opal raised a hand as a farewell before her head and her hands went limp and pale, and the vines dragged her body back into the leaves, their secret untraceable.

And then the TARDIS started to freak out.