Chapter 25. :) I really hope that you enjoying the story so far. Especially the Doctor and Rose fans who always wanted them to be together.

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Geronimo!

Rosita gasped. "So Jackson Lake... That's you, sir?"

"I'm not the Doctor?" Jackson Lake asked.

The Doctor scratched his neck because this situation wasn't really enjoyable. "You became the Doctor. That info stamp in my hand? Well, it's a book about a special man." The Doctor pushed the button of the silver info stamp in his hand and it started to project pictures at the wall. Rose went out of the way, so everyone could see the pictures. She sat down next to the Doctor and he stared at the pictures as if he would go through everything he saw there again.

The first picture was from an old man with grey, almost white hair. The second, a man with black hair. All his regenerations... The Doctor had never told Roseabout any of his other regenerations. She had never seen any of this before. Of course, how could she have?

It was somehow strange for her. Rose started to realize that he had life for such a long time before her. She had only waited 19 years, not to mention the years they had been separated, to find her true love and she thought that was a long time. She continued staring at the pictures of himself from a long time ago.

Meanwhile, the Doctor continued explaining. "The data's from the Daleks. The Cybermen must have stolen it from the Daleks in the Void. But it's everything that you must know about the Doctor." The image from his 9th regeneration was projected at the wall and to his current form. How he looked now.

Rosita and Jackson Lake's eyes wandered over him. They were completely shocked. "The Doctor, that is you." he was stunned.

Suddenly, there was a picture that showed Rose and the Doctor together, both captured in the energy cages from Davros. She had hazel, red hair in it. The Doctor turned around to his Rose and smiled warmly at her. He had liked this regeneration of her, but the person that she was now, the one that stared at him with her warm, beautiful eyes. This was the girl he had fallen in love with. Like she was.

"My old regeneration. " Rose murmured. It was weird for her to see herself like that. Much taller with long brown hair. She felt like that couldn't possibly be her. But still it was her.

Jackson Lake's eyes met Rose's. "So you are a Timelord, too and the Doctor's wife." he said.

"Oh, we're not..." The Doctor started to say, but then he stopped himself. When they hadn't been together, everyone had thought they would be. And now when they are together, people think they are married. He couldn't hide his grin about that.

"You two are the Doctor and Rose. Timelords…"Jackson said, still not able to believe it somehow.

The Doctor nodded. "Timelord, enemy of the Cybermen, owner of the TARDIS, and Rose is a Timelady. Both in flesh and blood."

Jackson covered his face with both of his hands and Rose felt so sorry for him. The Cybermen hav taken everything away from him. Simple Everything.

The Doctor leaned forward and looked into Jackson's eyes. "The info stamp went in the wrong direction and it sent all the information about me in your head."

Jackson Lake stared to the ground and gasped. He started to remember. "I'm nothing more than a lie!"

"No, no, no don't even think that. The info stamps contain only numbers, nothing more. Not all your courage. You saved Rosita and you protected London, remember? And you built your own TARDIS." Rose said.

Jackson Lake trembled, with his face full of anger. "What else? Tell me. There is something else!" he hissed.

"Something is still missing." the Doctor added.

"What did they take away from me?!" the desperate man in front of Rose and the Doctor cried. The Doctor had a guess, but it was so terrible that he didn't want to say it. But he had to. He couldn't let the man go on unsuspecting.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. But that's too much luggage for one person..." his eyes wandered over the suitcases. Rose saw in Jackson Lake's expression the moment his heart broke. "The info stamp is not enough to make someone mad. You have gone through something so terrible that your mind tried to be someone else."

The bells from the church started to ring in the background. "Midnight, Christmas day." Rosita murmured.

"Oh my god... I remember... Caroline..." Jackson's eyes filled with tears. "They killed my wife..." Rose pressed her lips together, trying very hard not to cry. "They killed her..." He started to cry.

Rosita took him into her arms. Rose and the Doctor looked at each other at the same time. Her eyes were red. She couldn't even imagine seeing the Doctor get killed. If someone were to kill him during his regeneration he would be gone forever. She would never laugh again at him riding on an endless sentence about technology while everyone stared at him like he would be crazy. She would never see his overjoyed smile again, the one that appeared ,whenever he saw her coming into the room.

In this moment, the Doctor was thinking the same thing Rose was. When he has found out that the Cyberman must have killed Jackson Lake's wife, he automatically thought about Rose. When she had been in the parallel universe, separated from him, the only thought that didn't drive him mad was, that Rose was alive. But seeing her dead... he wouldn't survive that. What would he be without her? How did Jackson Lake feel now?

Suddenly something beeped. It was the info stamp, wanting to know the reason of the activity from the little silver device in his hand. He searched through the stack of suitcases. When he opened the last one his eyes fell on a whole charge of blue blinking info stamps. "Oooh, look what we have here." The Doctor raised up the silver devices from between the clothes.

"What are those? Why are they making that noise?" Rosita asked, seemingly annoyed by the beeping.

"The Cybermen are not…?" Rose murmured and she searched the Doctor's eyes questioningly. The Doctor saw how the fear built up in Rose's eyes. Even if she remained very strong in this sort of situation, he always could feel when she began to feel afraid. Mostly because other people around her could die, not because she could get hurt herself. Rose had enough of watching innocent people die only because someone tried to suppress them.

The Doctor really didn't want to confirm her apprehension but it was the truth. He nodded slowly. "Yes, the Cybermen are coming. All of them." He wanted to be sure about their suspicion and burst out of the room, right on to the street. He couldn't waste any time.

The Doctor left behind a stunned Rosita, Jackson Lake, and Rose. Rose was torn between taking the problem in her own hands, too, or staying with Jackson and Rosita. She couldn't simply leave them behind, like they were nothing. Her eyes rushed to the door the Doctor had disappeared through and back to the two.

Jackson understood her complicated circumstance. He smiled weakly at her. "Rose, it's okay. You can go and follow him." He pointed to the door. After a few seconds he added, "And you Rosita. Follow Miss Tyler." He stared at both women. "If I know one thing at this moment, it's that the Doctor needs help and a person who can hold him back sometimes."

Rosita nodded and walked up next to Rose, waiting for her to go after the Doctor. She turned around and both women rushed out of the stable.

They found the Doctor staring at a group of kids, at least fifty or more. Rose knew the expression on his face well. It was the one he wore when he tried really hard to understand something but he couldn't. Some of the parts necessary find the answer were missing.

The children, all around 8 to 14 years old, were all in straight lines marching in one direction. Rose and Rosita stopped abruptly besides the Doctor. "Oh god, what's happening now?" Rosita asked, not able to imagine what someone would want to do to this children.

The Doctor didn't have an answer for Rosita. He too was clueless in this moment. Rosita's eyes rushed over the group of children, searching for the person that caused all this. Her gaze fell on an older man, walking up behind the group.

His expression and his eyes seemed dead, like his soul was gone. Rosita shook her head, not understanding what he had to do with the children. "That's Mister Cole, the chairman of the almshouse in Hiselstreet. Maybe he's bringing the kids to a prayer."

The Doctor slowly walked up next to the old man, looking into his dead eyes. "I don't think so." The Doctor couldn't agree to Rosita's theory. His attention went back to Mister Cole. "Can you hear me?"

Rose tried to speak to Mister Cole as well. "Hello?"

But he didn't react. Silver Cyberman earpods were stuck in his ears. The Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver. "Mister Cole, there's something in your ears. I'll try to take them out, but it could hurt."

Rose ran up next to him and stopped the Doctor in the right moment. "No. Look, they're watching carefully." She pointed at the black furred creatures on the other side of the street.

The Doctor nodded, understanding what Rose wanted to say to him. He stuffed his sonic screwdriver back in his pocket. He leaned to Rose." Well, then we can't risk a fight. Too many kids," he whispered to her.

Suddenly, a stunned young man turned around to face them. "There are more of them. Group with kids. They're coming from the almshouse and going to Broklinway."

The Doctor raised his eyebrows questioningly. "Where is that?"

"I know where it is!" Rosita added. "I will show you." She lifted her dress a little bit up so she could run.

The Doctor grabbed Rose's hand, like he always did. He was afraid to let her go from his side. They followed Rosita through some streets until they found another group of children. "This is a huge group!" Rosita was stunned.

Rose couldn't understand the sense of all this. "Why do they need kids?"

The three followed the children at a safe distance, up until the children disappeared into a huge building. "We have to search for a way inside." the Doctor told them. Rose, Rosita and the Doctor crept around the building to another door in a backyard.

But two Cybermen already blocked their way inside. "Oooh, that's not fair," the Doctor moaned and rolled his eyes.

A woman with black hair and a red dress appeared between the two Cybermen. "Who is that?" Rose murmured. The Doctor stretched his arms out to the woman. He couldn't believe that she just stood there and the Cybermen hadn't killed her already.

"Carefully. Come over to us and don't let them touch you." But the women ignored him. She smiled like she didn't care that she could die at any moment.

"Oh, they would never hurt me. Believe me." the women explained.

Rose couldn't understand it. Why didn't she save herself? "You have still a free mind, so please go away from them," Rose implored.

But the women in the red dress still hadn't moved. "I was never in danger, Miss. The Cybermen promised me freedom and-"

"Who the hell are you?" Rosita interrupted her. She wanted to know why that woman was so important to the Cybermen.

The woman's gaze fell on her. "You shouldn't talk. I don't think they have paid you to talk." After a few seconds she added. "The only thing that interests me is you, sir and miss, and why you have information about the Cybermen."

"I'm the Doctor." the Doctor answered her.

"That is not correct. We know what the Doctor looks like and you are not him."

The Doctor stuffed his hands in his pocket. "Yeaaaah...but only because your database isn't correct." He searched something in his pocket. "Here, look at the information about me is on that info stamp." He threw the info stamp to one of the Cybermen.

The machine caught it and after a moment the Cyberman said, "This info stamp is damaged. It would kill me."

The Doctor shrugged his shoulders innocently. "Mmh, yeah, but it could have worked."

Rose could hear a clicking sound from the info stamp in the Cyberman's hand. "It is repaired. Download start!" the alien stuffed the stamp in his chest. It took a moment, but the Cyberman confirmed, "You are the Doctor."

The Doctor waved to him. "Hello!"

"You will be deleted!" both aliens said in the same time.

The women in the red dress raised her hand. "No. Wait." She walked slowly over to Rose until she stood in front of her. The Cybermen followed the woman. Rosita stepped back, but Rose wasn't afraid of her. "Before we will kill you, I want to know who you are. I must know my enemies." The women raised her eyebrows. "Tell me."

The Doctor's eyes wandered nervously between the two, ready at any moment to protect his Rose.

Rose saw the hate that this woman must have for everyone on the planet and the arrogance in her eyes. "I thought the Cybermen stole all the information from the Daleks. I won't tell you anything," she hissed to the women.

"Oh you are very smart. Very good," the women said and turned a little bit around to the two Cybermen. "Do you know her from the Dalek's database?"

It took the two Cybermen a moment then one of them answered. "She is Rose Tyler. A Timelady. She fought together with the Doctor against the Daleks."

The women nodded and her attention went back to Rose. Her face changed into a smile again. "And I think, well, when I see how he looks at you..." Her eyes fell on the Doctor then she started talking again. "... that you are his wife?"

Rose didn't answer her, but the woman could see that it was true. "Stop it." the Doctor warned her.

"Oh I see I'm right." The women stared at Rose like she was planning something. Then she stepped back to where she had been before. Rosita tried her best not to run to this arrogant women and hit her right in her face.

"Now you will be deleted." both Cybermen cried again.

The Doctor raised his hands "Oh, no, no, no. I only want to ask you one more thing. Why do you need all this children?"

The women looked at him like the answer was obvious. "As workers, of course."

"For what? What work?" Rose asked.

"Oh you will see. Soon the whole empire will bow down to it."

The Doctor raised one eyebrow "And in time for Christmas. Perfect. Was that your idea, Miss-?"

"Hartigan," the woman finished the Doctors sentence, as if she had waited all this time for someone to finally ask her. It was silent for a moment, and then Miss Hartigan added, "And yes, it was my idea. It is a birth and a message to the whole nation."

The Doctor shook his head. "The birth of what?"

Miss Hartigan grinned. "A birth and a death. The death of the Doctor and Miss Tyler. I'm glad that I was the last person you talked with. And now, delete them!"

"Delete! Delete!" both Cybermen cried. The Doctor stood protective in front of Rose and Rosita.

Suddenly, the Cybermen fell to the ground, screaming. Jackson Lake had appeared and shot them with an info stamp. He smiled at Rose, Rosita, and the Doctor. "I'm here to help you!"

"Plan B!" Miss Hartigan shouted. "Shadows, Cybermen!"

Three of the black furred creatures ran to her. Six Cybermen followed them. "Ok, we should hurry up!" Jackson cried and started to run as fast as he could.

The two women and The Doctor followed him. "Wait, I have to do one thing before we go!" Rosita punched Miss Hartigan as hard as she could in her face. The women gasped and fell to the ground.

The Doctor took her by the shoulder. "Ooh, I disapprove of that. Come on!"

Miss Hartigan stood up again. "Plan B. Take the girl!"

Before Rose could react, the shadows pulled her to the ground and two Cybermen grabbed her arms firmly. One of them pressed his cold metallic hand over her mouth so she couldn't scream for help to the others. The three black aliens and the other four Cybermen that were left, stood now in front of Miss Hartigan.

The Doctor, who has already started to run, noticed that something was wrong. He turned around and felt a stinging feeling through his stomach when he realized he couldn't see Rose. He only saw a huge grinning Miss Hartigan. He stopped abruptly, his feet refusing to walk on more step without Rose at his side. No, that couldn't be... It just couldn't be!

"Wait! Something's wrong!" he screamed to Rosita and Jackson. They stopped too and stepped up beside the Doctor. They waited for him to explain what was wrong. The Doctor eyes shot to Miss Hartigan "Where is she?!" the Doctor hissed at her , his eyes full of anger and desperation.

The women nodded to the Cybermen and they stepped aside so everyone could see what would happen next. What her plan B was... Her plan B, it was Rose Tyler...

So what will happen to Rose now? Can anyone save her now? And what plans Miss Hartigan has with her?

So I hope I didn't bored you with my story and the chapters so far. I really try to bring Rose in that episodes as good as I can and that she didn't just stay around.

So anyway Review please and say me what you think. I'm always happy to hear your opinions. :)

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