Right here's the next chapter, as promised. This is the first chapter of the Lazarus Experiment
The next morning Martha Jones made her way into the consol room to find the Doctor and Rose sitting on the captain's chair, the former was awake and the latter was asleep, but she woke up as Martha entered the room. "Morning" she said to the couple.
"Morning" they said and the Doctor jumped up and ran to the consol and started to input co-ordinates, he didn't tell either one of them where they were going, Rose and Martha joined him at the consol and held on tightly. He stopped the Tardis and said "There we go, perfect landing" he scratched the back of his head "Which isn't easy in such a tight spot."
"You should be used to tight spots by now" said a sleepy Rose.
"Where are we?" asked Martha
"The end of the line." answered the Doctor. Martha ran to the door and the Doctor stood beside the consol with Rose who had stood up. "No place like it"
Martha opened the door and stepped out into her appartment, the Doctor and Rose exited the Tardis behind her. "Home?" she turned to the Doctor "You took me home?"
"Back to the morning after we left" said the Doctor "So you've only been gone twelve hours, no time at all really"
"Are you sure?" Rose asked "Cause last time you said it had been twelve hours, it was twelve months"
"I'm never gonna live that down am I?" he asked
"Nope" she said popping the 'p' like the Doctor usually does, then she smiled.
"But all that stuff we've done, Shakespeare, New New York, Old New York"
"Yep, all in one night" replied the Doctor "relatively speaking, everything should be as it was." he looked around the room "Books, CDs, laundry" he said "So, back where you were, as promised."
"This is it?" asked Martha, looking between the Doctor and Rose.
"Yeah, we should probably..." he was interrupted by Martha's phone ringing, the answering machine came on "Hi, I'm out. Leave a message."
"I'm sorry" said Martha
"Martha are you there? Pick it up, will you?"
"It's mum, it'll wait"
"Alright then, pretend that you're out if you like" "… but I can tell you that tonight. I will demonstrate a device which will…"
"She got a new job" Martha said "doing PR for some research lab" The Doctor and Rose looked at her but neither said anything as the man on the news was talking about his device
"With the push of a single button, I will change what it means to be human"
"Sorry." she said "You were saying you should…"
"Yes, yes. We should" he turned to go back into the Tardis "One trip, we said"
"Yeah" she said "I suppose things just kind of escalated"
"Mmm, seems to happen to us a lot"
"Thank you," Martha said "For everything"
"It was our pleasure" said Rose. The Doctor entered the Tardis and left the door open for Rose. Rose hugged her friend and gave her a piece of paper "That's my mobile number, if you ever want to talk, or come back, give me a call."
"Sure" Martha said. Rose went into the Tardis and closed the door. The Doctor input coordinates and the Tardis disappeared from Martha's living room.
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Martha watched as the Tardis disappeared from her house, she was about to leave the room when the Tardis reappeared. The Doctor opened the door and said "No, I'm sorry. Did he say he was going to change what it means to be human?"
Rose appeared behind him and said to Martha "He's a bit slow isn't he"
"Yeah, just a bit. I wondered how long it would take" The two girls started to laugh at him and the Doctor just turned around and went back inside. The two girls came in behind him, once they had stopped laughing of course. Rose led Martha to the wardrobe room and the two girls found something to wear to Tish's party that night.
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The Doctor was changed by the time the two girls were ready, he was wearing his tux and he had also landed the Tardis near to the party venue. The two of them came into the control room, they were both wearing black dresses and they both looked lovely. The Doctor was worried though, you could clearly see that Rose was pregnant and he knew that he would have to do something about that, for the safety of both his wife and his child. They exited the Tardis and headed to the party.
When they had almost reached their destination the Doctor was messing about with the cuffs of his jacket "Black tie" he said "Whenever I wear this, something bad always happens"
"That's not just the clothes, honey, its you." Rose said "You always seem to attract trouble."
"I'm not as jeopardy friendly as you are"
"No." agreed Rose "Anyway, I think it suits you. In a James Bond sort of way."
"James Bond?" asked the Doctor "really?"
"Yeah" said Martha "It does"
The three of them entered Lazarus Industries, where the party was being held and Martha explained to the people on the doors that Rose and the Doctor were with her so they had no problems getting inside.
They were standing together in the middle of the room when a young woman, who looked like Martha came over to them "Hello"
"Tish" Martha said, seemingly overjoyed to see her younger sister. The two of them hugged, the Doctor and Rose watched them. "You look great" Tish said. "So, what do you think?" she asked her sister "Impressive isn't it?"
"Very" said Martha, as she looked around the room.
"And two nights out in a row for you." she teased "That's dangerously close to a social life"
"If I keep this up, I might end up in all the gossip columns"
"You might, actually." said Tish "You should keep an eye out for photographers. And mum, she's coming too, she's even dragging Leo along with her"
"Leo?" asked Martha "Leo in black tie? That I must see" The Doctor and Rose saw the amused look on her face when she mentioned Leo in black tie. The Doctor wondered who Leo was, was he her older brother?
"This is the Doctor and his wife Rose" Martha said as she introduced her new friends to her sister. The Doctor shook her hand and said "Hello" then Rose did the same.
"How did they get in? they're not on the list"
"They're with me" Martha said "They're my plus two"
"So this Lazarus, he's your boss?" the Doctor asked, apparently unable to keep quiet any longer, Rose was amused, that was the longest he's been quiet in a while.
"Professor Lazarus, yes. I'm part of his executive staff"
"She's in the PR department" Martha said
"I'm head of the PR department, actually" said Tish
"You're joking" Martha said
"I put this whole thing together" Tish admitted
The Doctor could see an argument coming so he said "Do you know what the professor's going to be doing tonight?" The Doctor asked "That looks like it might be a sonic micro-field manipulator "
"He's a science geek" Tish said "I should have known."
Rose laughed as Tish walked away. She laughed even harder when the Doctor asked "Science geek? What's that then?"
"That you're obsessively enthusiastic about it"
"Oh, nice" said the Doctor with a grin on his face, Rose was laughing harder than ever and he turned to her and asked "What's so funny?"
"Never mind" she said as she hugged him "it doesn't matter, it wasn't that funny, just one of the joys of being pregnant I guess"
The Doctor smiled at her and hugged her back "About that, I need to do something that will hide your pregnancy, Rose. I don't want you or the baby to get hurt, in fact I'm surprised that the Daleks couldn't sense it the last two times we faced them."
"What are you going to do?" she asked
"I'll think of something"
Their conversation was cut short as the Doctor looked over his wife's shoulder to see Martha talking to a woman, who could only be her mother, so he let go of his wife and took her hand as they walked towards Martha.
"These are friends of mine" she said gesturing to the Doctor and Rose "This is the Doctor and his wife Rose"
"Doctor what?"
"No, it's just the Doctor" Martha explained to her mother "We've been doing some work together"
The Doctor shook the hand that Leo held out to him as he said "Alright". Leo then held his hand out to Rose who also shook it. The Doctor extended his hand to Martha's mother and said "lovely to meet you, Mrs Jones. I've heard a lot about you"
"Really, like what?" asked Mrs Jones
"Well, you know, that you're Martha's mother and… Um…" Rose watched her husband dig himself into yet another hole and struggled to hold back her laughter "No, actually, that's about it. We haven't had much time to chat, we've been busy"
"Busy, doing what exactly?"
"Oh, you know, stuff" The Doctor said and stopped talking, just as he did so, Rose began to feel dizzy and he looked over at her and knew what was wrong "It's alright" he said as he wrapped his arm around her, "It'll be fine"
Mrs Jones was about to interrogate the Doctor further, but luckily for him, Mr Lazarus stepped up beside his device and began to talk. "Ladies and gentlemen, I am professor Richard Lazarus and tonight I am going to perform a miracle" he said "It is I believe, the most important advance since Rutherford split the atom, the biggest leap since Armstrong stood on the moon. Tonight you will watch and wonder, but tomorrow, you will wake to a world which will be changed forever" he turned away and opened the door of his device and stepped inside. Once he was inside he shut the door and the scientists that were on stand by began to start the device. It began to spin around and there was a blue light, which made everyone in the room turn away. Suddenly an alarm sounded "Something's wrong" said the Doctor stating the obvious. "It's overloading" he ran to the controls and jumped over the table that they were on and took out the sonic screwdriver and began to stop the machine with it
"Somebody stop him" said an old woman "Get him away from those controls"
The Doctor heard her and was about to respond but a rather irritated Rose said "If that goes up, it'll take the whole building up with it, is that what you want?" The Doctor was rather proud of her, although he knew that she wouldn't normally be that irritated, it was just her pregnancy amplified hormones that were causing that. The woman never said anything else, she just allowed the Doctor to continue, he jumped back over the table and pulled out the power cable from the back of the controls and the machine began to slow down and then finally it stopped. The Doctor walked back over to Rose who pulled him into a hug thanking him for saving her, yet again, he hugged her back and then Martha walked up to the machine and opened the doors.
And that's part one of The Lazarus Experiment, part two will be up as soon as possible. Remember suggestions for places for them to visit between this episode and the next are greatly appreciated. Quote Time "You burn like the sun, but all I need is the moon" Oh and remember I still want to hear suggestions for baby names. Before you ask, yes she's only having one. TTFN Julie20007.
