Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears: Savannah understood sooooo very little of KS's chapter. But she still has to write today because...well, she kinda likes the round robin going on. :) ALSO! This week ((should be)) our last go 'round with this story, so I'll do my best to help start wrapping things up. ENJOY!!

Disclaimer: I have it on good authority that the rights to DW are hidden in the lowest most dungeon of the Castle la Morte two dimensions over. Until I can convince one of the others to check, none of us ((The Chibi's Are Stalking Me, Isis the Sphinx, Jessa L'Rynn, Kathryn Shadow, NewDrWhoFan, Olfactory-Ventriloquism, and SilverWolf7...how'd my name get to be first?)) owns Doctor Who.

Chapter 25: Might Be A Problem...

That everyone else could see Uncle Mortimer was putting a damper on Jackie's plan. She absently pushed Diabla away, the cat nudging her leg trying to get her attention. The good little cat stared up at her a moment before taking a swipe at Jackie's leg. The woman yelped and glared at Diabla, who meowed up at her and ran to the door, pausing to look back at her and meow again. Jackie frowned at the cat, then followed.

"Ghost, weird thing in the yard, now I'm following a cat." Jackie muttered. "I'm really going crazy."

The cat lead her outside, to the big silver...thing that the workers - now all smoking piles of ash and smelling like somebody'd left meat in the oven too long - and paused to look back and make sure she was there. Then Diabla moved closer to the thing, looking at her reflection, and reached out to lay a paw on top of it.

Nothing happened.

The cat patted the silver thing a few times, then looked back at Jackie.

Jackie looked from the thing to Diabla, back to the thing, then to the cat.

And went looking for the Doctor.

Jack held the devil-cat at arms length, ignoring her writhing attempts to sever his arm. Lovey glared around at them all with all the force a creature her size could and decided to kill them all as soon as she got loose. Meanwhile, she continued to claw at the human holding her, which normally made people drop her but had yet to work on this one.

At the Doctor's words, he looked up at him and raised an eyebrow.

Rose blinked at him. "Don't tell her? Why not?"

The Doctor was about to answer when Jackie walked in, Diabla tagging along at her heels, the woman's eyes wide. "Diabla touched the thing!"

"What?" The three asked in unison, staring at her and the cat. The Doctor pulled a face. "What'd you mean, she touched it?"

Jackie all but glared at him. "What d'you think it means? She just went up to it and touched it, and nothin' happened!"

The Time Lord pulled out his sonic screwdriver, marched over, and scanned Diabla. Then he walked outside, the others following behind him. Jack put Lovey down carefully before following; Lovey stalked over to Diabla who, had she been human, could have been said to be preening. The bad cat hissed at her, then the two went after the humans.

The Doctor was digging around in his pockets when they caught up, and pulled out the locket. When he reached the Silver Box of Horror/Doom/Terror/Death/Some-Other-Word, he pointed the screwdriver at it, checked the readings, then pointed at the locket, and checked the readings. Rose, Jack, Jackie, Diabla, and Lovey watched him, waiting.

He spun around, grinning that mad grin of his; Rose felt his excitement bubbling in her head. He opened his mouth to speak when the Silver Box of Disastrous Words started...glowing.

Gwen, Owen, Toshiko, Ianto, and Liza were taking a break from scanning through the house - which seemed to be all but painted in some weird sort of energy - all sitting around the table sipping coffee which Ianto had apparently pulled out of thin air.

Then a shrill sort of beeping came from nearby, and they all jumped. Tosh ran to her equipment and frowned.

"What is it?" Gwen asked, worried.

"It's an energy spike, a huge one!" Tosh pressed a few buttons, peering at the screen, then thumped it with her hand. "And it's messing with my equipment."

Owen snorted. "Not just a hiccup then. Where's it coming from?"

"Outsi-" She stopped as the beeping turned into one continuous drone. "Everywhere!"

The group looked at each other and the lights overhead flickered.

"This can't be good."