Author's Notes: I do not own Doctor Who, the Duplicate Doctor or Donna. Thanks for reading and reviewing. Sorry about the cliffhanger last time. So, please enjoy and let me know what you think.

John and Jack made their way back up to find another sweeper team telling them that the level had been evacuated and yes, a man, a woman and two children had been evacuated from level ten.

John hurried back down the steps eager to be reunited with his family. Instead, he found Josh with Ronny-Rory.

"Josh, what's happened? Where are your mum and Ella?"

"She went back," sobbed Josh.

"Back? What do you mean she went back?" He looked at Rory.

"Something happened with the aliens you can't remember. They took Ella. Donna went after her, some of the soldiers followed her, I came out with Josh."

"They took Ella?," said John. "Why would they do that?"

"I have no idea," said Jack. "I thought they only took Time Babies."

"I'm going back in," said John.

"Half the building's on fire!," said Jack.

"Yes! And my wife and my daughter and my baby are in there!," shouted John.

"You know you don't regenerate, right?," asked Jack.

John looked at Rory, purposefully ignoring Jack. "Can you stay with him a bit longer?"

Rory shrugged. "Yeah, I left my wallet up there so my plans for the day are pretty much out of the question."

John took out a piece of paper and scribbled Lisette's mobile on it. "This is our nanny. Ring her to come collect him as soon as she can. Thank you." John knelt down to Josh. "Josh, I have to leave right now, but I am coming back with your mum and your sisters, safe and sound."

"Promise?"

"I promise."

The air inside Torchwood was thick with smoke and Donna struggled to see through it as she searched for Ella.

She walked through another hazy cloud, past strewn furniture and nearly tripped over a body on the floor. She had to stop and collect herself for a moment, she hadn't seen anything like this since the night of the Cybermen and was really in no hurry to revisit the experience. She had been at work when the strange signals started on the Earpods and seemed to be the only one who just took them out. She had stopped as many of her employees as she could and taken out theirs, whatever everyone was marching towards could not be good. Then the Cybermen had come, looking for stragglers, compelling them by any means necessary. She and the others hid in an office on the uppermost floor, waiting it out, helpless. She wondered about her mum and dad, about Ethan. Then somehow it ended.

Donna found herself in the midst of eye patch wearing men with guns pointed at her. She swallowed.

"I'm Donna Noble and you had better take me to my daughter."

One cocked his gun and Donna waited, thinking this was the end and this was a completely unspectacular rescue. Then one of the monsters was behind the man, almost whispering into his ear. He put his gun down and the soldiers started walking away. The monster turned to leave, Donna feared she would lose track of it and all hope of finding Ella would evaporate.

"Oi! Big head!," said Donna.

The creature turned back to look at her.

"Yeah, I'm talking to you! You see anyone else in here with as big a head as yours?"

It tilted its head at Donna, as if it was trying to figure her out.

"Where's my daughter?"

It adjusted something on its wrist, looking like a watch. It spoke.

"You should leave." The voice was raspy and sounded a bit like it had been run through a computer.

"Not without her."

That seemed to confound it more. "Why don't you listen?"

Donna shrugged. "Never have really."

The men with eye patches suddenly took her by the arm and were dragging Donna off.

John had found his way back up to level four. That's where they would be gathered. He got out the sonic screwdriver and lit up the last functioning security panel on the level and quickly flicked through the remaining functioning cameras to try to find his girls.

His heart sank when he found a surveillance camera that placed Ella by the vault, surrounded by the monsters of the Silence.

"Oh, no you don't."

He then realized what was sitting across from Ella, going through inventory before being placed in the vault.

"Well, that might be useful..."

Ella decided that her monster had definitely gotten worse.

Because now there were ten of them, all staring at her in some big room with a lot of things Ella didn't recognize. They were surrounded by people with eye patches and guns, who shouted things and were searching for something. The monsters looked at her and took turns speaking in some language Ella didn't understand.

"Could I please go back to my mummy?," Ella asked, hoping her pleading would work. "I'll be good, I won't tell anyone I saw you."

Ella heard the clack of high heels and the monsters parted, revealing a woman in a black leather suit, wearing an eye patch.

"This wasn't part of the plan," she said, motioning at Ella. "You can't upset the Noble woman now when we're so close to having all the pieces."

"Please don't hurt my mummy," said Ella. The woman turned back to face her.

"No one is going to hurt your mummy," said the woman, dripping with disdain. "You're causing a problem, though. You're making her worry with your stories about monsters. Do you want her to leave like your daddy left you?"

Ella shook her head. "Mummy wouldn't leave."

"Then John. John will leave, won't he?"

"How about no?"

Madame Kovarian turned around to see John Smith pointing a gun at her, the monsters had cleared out of his way. Ella grinned.

"Daddy!"

John was surprised at the new title, but was focused on the task at hand. "Ella, just stay there. I'm coming to you."

"How did you get back here?," Kovarian snapped.

"On your orders, remember? You said I was necessary. What for?" He rotated carefully, trying to move in front of Ella and keep an eye on the monsters. "And what do you want with Ella? She's just a little girl. Then again, I hear that's a talent of yours, taking away little girls. Does that make you feel important? Tell me, do all your plans for dominating the universe involve stealing babies?"

"Mummy!"

John used one eye to see Donna being brought in by two of the men with eye patches. They shoved her by Kovarian.

"Are you alright, Donna?"

"Oh, I'm super. You?"

"Sort of a rough day at the office."

"I can see that. The place is a shambles." She moved to be by Ella and the girl threw her arms around her.

Kovarian looked at Donna with glee. "Well, then, it's Mummy. Mummy and Daddy. Aren't we one happy family?"

It clicked in Donna's head. "Oh, my God! You're the weird lady from the fertility clinic!"

"What?," said John.

"Remember? I told you! S&M pirate fetish lady!"

"What's S&M?," asked Ella.

"Nothing," John and Donna quickly answered.

John looked at Kovarian. "What are you lot trying to do? Why the interest in my family?"

"Oh, can't figure it out?"

Ephraim approached Kovarian, coming out of the vault. "There's no key, Madame."

"What do you mean there's no key? She said it would be here!"

"I'm sorry, Madame."

"Well, look again!" She looked back at John. "Are you going to keep pointing that gun at me? We know you won't shoot me."

"Oh, I'm not going to shoot you," said John.

"Well, let me then!," said Donna.

"I'm going to shoot that," said John.

"Shoot what?"

John fired the weapon, shooting across at the obelisk. It exploded into brilliant color and John dropped the gun, grabbing Donna and Ella's hands, running for the exit before it could fully explode.

"What was that?," shouted Donna.

"Kolecchian pulse! Should zap everyone for a good while!" He stopped. "Why were we running?"

"The monsters!," Ella screamed insistently.

"Right," said John. "Brilliant Ella. Come on! Stairs are this way!"

"Daddy!," she screamed.

John saw another monster behind him. He put himself between it and Donna and Ella.

"These are my girls. You're not going to hurt them."

It reached out and they were surprised as John pulled a gun from his pocket, shooting the monster, which fell to the ground.

"Come on," said John.

They arrived at the stairs seeing some of the burnt bodies of Torchwood employees on the landing. Donna pushed Ella against her, hiding her eyes.

"Here, sweetheart," said John, scooping her up. She needed no encouragement to wrap her arms and legs around him. "Just close your eyes and we'll be out of here soon."

"John..." she said.

"What is it, sweetheart?," he asked surveying the stairs as he held Donna's hand.

"I called you Daddy because it was an emergency."

"Oh, okay..."

Donna smiled despite herself. "Ella, are you trying to ask something?"

"Can I still call you Daddy?"

John grinned and kissed her on the cheek. "I would love it, but only if you want to."

"I want to."

They made it to the ground level. The emergency crews still worked furiously and they had cleared Canary Wharf. John rushed with Ella and Donna to the Torchwood vehicle he had ordered Gwen, Adeola and Amy to.

"There's no support vehicle!," said Adeola. "Just a massive energy spike!"

John looked at the readings. "Oh. Teleportation! That's just not fair!"

Donna collapsed in a chair without invitation. Ella climbed on her lap.

"You spoke with them, yeah?," asked Amy. "Did they say what they wanted?"

John shrugged. "The key to something."

"Key?," asked Jack.

"Yeah." John looked at Donna. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, just adrenaline, wearing off," said Donna. She pulled Ella against her.

"Thank you for coming, Mummy."

Donna looked at her squarely. "Mummies always come for their babies, Ella. Always." She kissed her and looked at John. "Where's Josh?"

Amy answered. "My boyfriend stayed with him until your nanny came to collect him."

"Oh, well, tell Rory thank you."

Donna squeezed Ella tightly against her. She could hardly believe it. Her little girl was being visited by monsters, actual monsters. Donna had never stopped believing that Ella saw monsters, she just never realized that they could be real, real. And they were some kind of alien? What the hell did they want with her daughter?

What were they doing with the S&M pirate fetish lady from the fertility clinic? What the hell had she wanted?