AN: Hello everyone and welcome to the Parting of the Ways… where we all cry hysterically… no seriously I may have to promote kleenex this chapter… I apologize…. Sorry L
Anyway, as always a gigantic thanks to my beautiful, amazing, fantastic Beta who has supported me fully thus far in writing this story. Vivere Memento, you are brilliant!
Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who or any spinoff series… Hey mom wanna get on that for Christmas?
Also the Lyrics Rebecca sings in this chapter are the song "Always." By Scott Alan. I listen to Sierra Boggess singing it because a) she is brilliant and I love her b) because she is brilliant and love her.
Prepare the Kleenex Ladies, Gents, Timelords and Daleks alike.
Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Parting of the Ways
Rebecca, Jack, the Doctor and Lynda were inside the TARDIS, flying to find Rose on the Dalek ship. The whole ship was shaking as Rebecca, Jack and the Doctor ran around manning the controls. Jack glanced at the Monitor.
"We've got incoming!" he called out, noticing two missiles hurdling towards the TARDIS. Rebecca flipped a switch and the moment that the TARDIS collided with the missiles, the missiles exploded but the TARDIS remained unscathed.
"The extrapolator's working. We've got a fully functional force field. Try saying that when you're drunk..." Jack said.
"And for my next trick..." the Doctor muttered as he flipped a few switches. "We shall materialize around Rose." And as promised he did and soon the image of Rose started slowly appearing in the TARDIS, but alongside her was a Dalek.
"Rose! Get down!" the Doctor told her as the Dalek swiveled around to face them. "Get down, Rose!" Rose threw herself to the ground as the Dalek fired at Jack and Rebecca.
"Exterminate!" Jack deflected the Dalek's shot with his defabricator gun, back at the Dalek who exploded with a scream. Smoke billowed from the remains of the Dalek as Rose struggled to get to her feet.
"You did it!" she said to the Doctor. Without another word, the Doctor was in front of Rose, pulling her into a tight embrace. "Feels like I haven't seem you in years."
"Told you I'd come and get you."
"Never doubted it."
"I did! You all right?" he asked pulling away to examine her.
"Yeah. You?"
"Not bad. Been better!" he went over to examine the smoldering remains of the Dalek while Rebecca rushed over and hugged her.
"Don't ever do that again!" Rebecca told her.
"It's not like I'm trying to get killed."
"Don't care. I couldn't deal with him." She said gesturing to the Doctor.
"Hey, don't Iget a hug?" Jack said coming over to them.
"Ahh, come here!" Rose said hugging him.
"Welcome home Rosie Posy!"
"Ohh, thought I'd never see you again."
"Thank God that wasn't the last time then." He said hugging her again. Rebecca had crouched down beside the Dalek with the Doctor and they were examining it. The armor had been destroyed and they got to see the mutant inside.
"You said they were extinct. How comes they're still alive?" Rose said.
"Yeah one minute they're the greatest threat in the universe, the next minute they vanished out of time and space." Jack agreed.
"They went off to fight a bigger war... the Time War..." the Doctor examined the Dalek.
"I thought that was just a legend."
"I was there. The war between the Daleks and the Time Lords. With the whole of creation at stake. My people were destroyed, but they took the Daleks with them." He said and then his voice fell. "I almost thought it was worth it. Now it turns out they died for nothing."
"There's thousands of them now. We could hardly stop ONE. What're we gonna do?" Rebecca asked.
"No good stood round here chin-wagging! Human race, you'd gossip all day. The Daleks have got the answers - let's go and meet the neighbors." He said cheerfully heading toward the doors.
"You can't go out there-Doctor!" Rose called out but he had already exited the TARDIS, Rebecca, Jack and Rose chasing after him, cautiously sticking their heads of the TARDIS to check to see if it was safe.
"Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!" The Daleks cried, firing at the four, but the TARDIS' force field was keeping them safe, bouncing the rays off of the TARDIS. The Daleks gave up and the sound of firing faded to silence.
"Is that it? Useless! Null points." He said mocking the Daleks. "It's alright you three, come on out. That force field can hold back anything.
"Almostanything." Jack amended , standing in front of Rebecca.
"... Yes, but I wasn't gonna tell them that. Thanks."
"Sorry."
"D'you know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek Homeworld? The Oncoming Storm. You might've removed all your emotions... but I reckon that right down deep in your DNA, there's one little spark left. And that's fear. Doesn't it just BURNwhen you face me? So, tell me - how did you survive the Time War?"
"They survived through me." A voice said. The Doctor looked up to see a large Dalek, illuminated, towering above all the other Daleks.
"Rose... Rebecca… Captain... this is the Emperor of the Daleks." He said, jaw dropped open in shock.
"You destroyed us, Doctor. The Dalek Race died in your inferno, but my ship survived, falling through time, crippled but alive."
"I get it."
"Do not interrupt!"
"Do not interrupt!"
"Do not interrupt!" the Daleks began chanting. Rebecca, Rose and Jack flinched and winced but the Doctor was simply mildly annoyed and continued on his speech.
"I thinkyou're forgetting something. I'm the Doctor. And if there's one thing I can do - it's talk. I've got five billion languages, and you haven't got one way of stopping me. So if anybody's gonna shut up, it's YOU!" The Daleks shuffled back slightly and the Doctor turned back to the emperor dalek.
"Okey doke. So, where were we?"
"We waited here in the dark space, damaged but rebuilding. Centuries passed, and we quietly infiltrated the systems of Earth. Harvesting the waste of humanity. The prisoners, the refugees, the dispossessed - they all came to us. The bodies were filtered, pulped, sifted." Both Rose and Rebecca looked as if they were gonna be sick. "The seed of the Human Race is perverted. Only one cell in a billion was fit to be nurtured."
"So, you created an army of Daleks out of the dead."
"That makes them... half human." Rose piped in.
"Those words are blasphemy!" the Emperor Dalek cried out, voice rising. The surrounding daleks began chanting "Do not blaspheme!"
"Everything human has been purged. I cultivated pure and blessed Dalek." The Emperor said, but the Doctor looked at them all, deeply disturbed.
"Since when did the Daleks have a concept of blasphemy?"
"I reached into the dirt and made new life. I am the God of all Daleks!"
"Worship him! Worship him! Worship him!" All the Daleks cried out.
"They're insane! A hundred years hiding in silence - that's enough to drive anyonemad." The Doctor explained to his companions. But then he turned to the Daleks, walking towards them, pitying them. "But it's worse than that. Driven mad by your own flesh. The stink of humanity. You hate your own existence. And that makes them more deadly than ever."
"We're going." He told them.
"You may NOTleave my presence!" the Emperor Dalek ordered but none of the Daleks could stop the four of them as they were already in the protection of the TARDIS. The surrounding Daleks fired regardless, crying out exterminate and firing at them. Once inside with the door closed, the doctor stood hand and forehead pressed against the door, unsure of what to do.
"Doc?" Rebecca asked him putting a hand on his shoulder, and he turned his head to look at her.
"We have to go back and warn them. Save who we can because they're gonna go after the human race next, come after us and destroy the planet for their own gain." He nodded at her.
"Here we go then." He flipped a few switches and they materialized in satellite 5, on Floor 500. The four of them marched out of the TARDIS and into the control room.
"Turn everything up. All transmissions, wide open, full power. Now! Do it!" the Doctor ordered.
"What does that do?"Davitch asked obeying.
"Stops the Daleks from transmatting on board. How did you get on? Did you contact Earth?"
"Well, we tried to warn them, but all they did was suspend our license because we stopped the programs."
"That's just fantastic, the planet is sitting their defenseless." Rebecca muttered.
"Lynda, what're you still doing on board?" the Doctor looked up, noticing her. "Davitch, I told you to evacuate everyone."
"She wouldn't go."
"Didn't wanna leave ya." Lynda told the Doctor with a smile.
Rose gave her a look once over, not liking the implications she was making.
"Down Girl." Rebecca whispered and Rose shot her a glare.
"There weren't enough shuttles anyway, or I wouldn't be here... we've got about a hundred people stranded on Floor Zero." Nisha, the female programmer said. Rebecca had taken a seat at the computer and was tracking the Dalek fleet when they began to move.
"Oh, my God. The Fleet is moving. They're on their way." She said pushing back from the desk and turning to the Doctor and Jack. Instantaneously the Doctor started frantically ripping armfuls of wires out of desks, any one left stared at him confused as to what he was doing.
"Dalek plan - big mistake. Because what have they left me with? Anyone? Anyone? Oh, come on - it's obvious. A great big transmitter - this station." Jack and Rebecca both looked at him trying to figure out what he was doing.
"If I can change the signal, fold it back, sequence it - anyone?"
"You've gotta be kidding." Jack said.
"Give the man a medal!"
"A Delta Wave?"
"A Delta Wave!" the Doctor said excitedly.
"We're putting the Daleks to sleep?" Rebecca asked confused. Delta waves were waves with oscillating frequencies of zero to four hertz and were found in humans during sleep patterns.
"Not those Delta Waves gorgeous. No. This is a wave of Van Cassadyne energy. Fries your brain - stand in the way of a Delta Wave and your head gets barbequed!" Jack explained.
"And this place can transmit a MASSIVEwave! Wipe out the Daleks!" Rose opened her mouth to say something but was interrupted by Lynda.
"Well, get started and do it then!" Rose shut her mouth disgruntled.
"Trouble is, wave this size, building this big, brain as clever as mine, should take about - ooh - three days? How long till the Fleet arrive?"
"Twenty-two minutes." Davitch said. The Doctor then began pulling another cable out form a desk and stared at it before looking up beaming at all of them and beginning to work his magic.
"Rebecca, work with me. I want to get a force field up." Jack said as the two of them sat down beside each other at a computer and began typing frantically building up the stations shields.
"We've now got a forcefield so they can't blast us out of the sky." Jack told everyone who had gathered around them.
"But that doesn't stop the Daleks from physically invading." Rebecca pointed out.
"Do they know about the Delta Wave?" someone asked.
"They'll have worked it out at the same time. So, if they want to stop the Doctor, that means they've got to get to this level - 500." Jack indicated to a diagram on the screen. "Now, I can concentrate the extrapolator around the top six levels, 500 to 495. So, they'll penetrate the station below that at level 494 and fight their way up."
"Who're they fighting?"
"Us."
"And... what're we fighting with?" Davitch asked.
"The guards had guns with bastic bullets - that's enough to blow a Dalek wide open." Jack told them.
"There's sixof us." The Nisha said skeptically.
"Rose, you can help me. I need all these wires stripped bare." The Doctor called out from where he was working on the Delta Wave.
"Right! Now there's FIVEof us!"
"Then let's move it! Into the lift! Isolate the lift controls! Head down to floor zero see if we can get any volunteers." Davitch and Nisha rushed off to freeze the lift, leaving Lynda, Rebecca and Jack standing in the room. Rebecca looked to Jack.
"Rebecca, babe… go check out the supply closet for weapons. I'll meet you back up here in a few minutes." She nodded and gave him a quick kiss.
"See you soon." She said walking over to the nearest supply closet to begin her search. Lynda had made her way over to the Doctor and stood in front of him awkwardly.
"I - I just wanna say, um... thanks, I s'pose. And... I'll do my best!"
"Me too." The two of them stood there awkwardly, trying to figure out the best way to say goodbye, struggling between a hug and a kiss on the forehead from the Doctor they ended up with an awkward handshake, and they laughed. Rose looking over jealously at them, deciding not to comment, continuing to strip a wire with ferocity to ease her frustrations as Lynda headed off to the lift.
"It's been fun!" Jack said approaching the pair, he told them trying to keep it light. "But I guess this is goodbye."
"Don't talk like that. The Doctor's gonna do it. You just watch him." Rose said.
"Rose..." He cupped her faced and looked intensely into her eyes. "You are worth fighting for." He told her placing a quick kiss on her forehead before turning to face the Doctor.
"Jack?" he turned back to face her.
"Make sure she knows. Tell her." He nodded.
"Wish I'd never met you, Doctor! I was much better off as a coward." He hugged the man. "See ya in hell." And he ran off toward the lift, heading down to floor zero in search of volunteers.
"He's gonna be all right..." Rose said, and the Doctor looked at her, not replying. "... isn't he?"
Jack stood on a box in the middle of floor zero, surrounded by the stranded contestants who apparently did not think to keep calm amidst a crisis and were chattering away in panic. He had tried calling over them a few times to get their attention, and was quickly losing his patience. Instead of waiting, he fired a few warning shots into the air for order. The contestants jumped and quickly fell silent.
"One last time. Any more volunteers?" the silence was deafening. Seven people had volunteered all together… three of them were Lynda, Davitch and Nisha. Four people had decided to fight for their lives. Four.
"There's an army about to invade this station. I need every last citizen to monitor defense!" Why didn't Rebecca come, she probably would've struck inspiration into the heart of these people? But of course he told her to stay upstairs for her safety. It was selfish of him, yes, but she was all he had.
"Don't listen to him! There aren't any Daleks! They disappeared thousands of years ago!" Rodrick, the man who had beat Rose in the weakest link called out. The Floor manager of the Weakest Link, despite Rodrick's rant, stepped forward.
"Thanks. As for the rest of you... the Daleks will enter the station at Floor 494 and as far as I can tell, they'll head up. Not down. But that's not a promise. So here's a few words of advice; keep quiet. And if you hear fighting up above... if you hear us dying... then tell me that the Daleks aren't real." He set a glare at Rodrick before continuing. "Don't make a sound. My volunteers, let's go."
Jack hopped off of the box and guided the rest of them to the lift up to floor 500 where Rebecca was waiting for them with weapons.
"These'll do?" she asked Jack handing him one of the guns.
"Should be fine." He started handing them out to the volunteers.
"Lynda, go down to the observatory on Floor 56. There's a computer there. You're gonna be our eyes, and track the Daleks. The walls are pretty sturdy so you should be safe against anything." Rebecca told her. "I have communication set up so you can talk directly to us."
Lynda nodded. "It was nice knowing you."
"You too Lynda and when this is all over we can catch up over tea, yeah?" she said unsure if she was convincing the other woman or herself that they were gonna make it out of there alive. She hugged Lynda and sent her off, Jack gave her a look and she simply squeezed his hand.
"I changed the transmat beams to actual disintegration beams in some of the droids and stationed them on floor 495. I figured that would be a good spot and so we don't have to spread manpower any thinner." She told Jack avoiding his gaze.
"Brilliant." He told her. "I want to talk to you in a minute. Let me finish with these guys and then we can…" he trailed off and instead began his battle strategy with group. He quickly told the group where each of them would be stationed and told them what to do and to stay in touch
He found Rebecca on her knees in a corner, tears streaming down her face, hands folded in prayer. She wasn't normally religious but figured that if the chances of her dying were very likely, appealing to her higher power couldn't be a bad idea. "O God, You are the preserver of men, and the keeper of our lives. We commit ourselves to Your perfect care on the journey that awaits us. We pray for a safe and auspicious journey.
Give Your angels charge over us to keep us in all our ways. Let no evil befall us, nor any harm come to our dwelling that we leave behind. Although we are uncertain of what the days may bring, may we be prepared for any event or delay, and greet such with patience and understanding. Bless us O Lord, that we may complete our journey safely and successfully under Your ever watchful care. Amen." She said and Jack bent down and grabbed her hands pulling her up.
"Come here." He said pulling her closer to him, wrapping his arms around her, hating to see her like this.
"Jack, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't terrified." She looked up at him and he kissed her forehead.
"We just gotta do the best we can. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
"Nelson Mandela?" she questioned and Jack nodded.
"Rebecca, listen to me for a moment. This is not going according to the plan, I mean yeah I'm used to roughing it but I wanted everything for us to be perfect." He let out a sigh.
"Jack, I don't need easy or perfect. I just want you."
"And you have me. All of me. I love you and it's killing me knowing that it took me this long to tell you but… before I met you, things I had never lasted for long. Sure I'd have some fun but I got lonely. But then I met you, and it felt like everything I had been missing and searching for my whole life, was there in your lonely blue eyes. My discarded heart found its home. I know it's love Rebecca because you touch my soul." She launched herself into his arms and kissed him hard, hands entangling in his hair, as she tried to pour every little ounce of passion she felt for him into that kiss.
"I love you Jack and I wish I had the courage to tell you sooner but I'm just glad you know. Because if I die today, then at least you know how I feel." He held her tighter and kissed her head again, just holding her because this was quite possibly the last chance they'd get. He layed around with her hair a bit before opening the chain on her necklace and slipping a gold ring, etched with a coat of arms onto the chain.
"Jack what's this?" she asked picking up the ring.
"My ring. Can't shoot worth a damn when I'm wearing it." He lied. "Just hold onto it for me."
"Jack," she argued.
"Rebecca please don't argue. We need to get to our positions. Come on… not much time left." He said grabbing her hand and they walked down to floor 56 to set everyone up.
Rose and the Doctor were sitting on the floor in the space between the middle rows of desks, working busily in a companionable silence. Rose paused for a moment.
"Suppose."
"What?" the Doctor asked after a moment.
"Nothing."
"You said 'suppose'." He argued.
"No, I was just thinking... I mean, obviously you can't, but... you've got a time machine. Why can't you just go back to last week and warn them?"
"Soon as the TARDIS lands in that second, I become part of events. Stuck in the timeline."
"Yeah, thought it'd be something like that..."she continued working, stripping wires.
"There's another thing the TARDIS could do... it could take us away..." Rose glanced up at him with a small smile. "We could leave. Let history take its course. We go to Marbella in 1989."
"Yeah, but you'd never do that." She said with a small smile.
"No, but you could ask." He said, looking up to meet her gaze. But she didn't reply. "Never even occurred to you, did it?"
"Well, I'm just too good!" and he smiled at her because she meant the world to him and he was about to send his world away. Suddenly the computer beeped.
"The Delta Wave's started building. How long does it need?" he rushed over to the computer, plopping himself down, Rose peering over his shoulder as he pressed a few buttons and stared at the monitor, his face instantly fell.
"Is that bad?" he didn't reply, allowing his head to sink to his knees. He had promised Jackie that he would keep Rose safe and always bring her home and this was him keeping his promise.
"Okay, it's bad. How bad is it?" she asked him, but he feigned a smile and jumped to his feet.
"Rose Tyler, you're a GENIUS!" he told her placing a kiss on her forehead, that would be the last one. She'll never know how I feel. Probably better that way. "We can do it! If I use the TARDIS to cross my old timeline... yes!" he ran off toward the TARDIS, Rose following closely behind him.
"Hold that down and keep position." He said once they were inside.
"What's it do?" she asked breathlessly.
"Cancels the buffers. If I'm very clever - and I'm more than clever, I'm BRILLIANT - I might just save the world. Or rip it apart..." he said hitting the levers to start Emergency Program one, the one he had set up just for her.
"I'd go for the first one."
"Me too. Now, I've just got to go and power up the Game Station. Hold on!" he said running out of the TARDIS full of energy, when suddenly the door shut and he stopped, the façade of energy and happiness instantly falling. The Doctor raised his sonic screwdriver and pointed it at the TARDIS and the engines groaned to life, the rotor rising and falling.
"Doctor, what're you doing? Can I take my hand off? It's moving." He could hear her yelling and he didn't stop, he couldn't let himself.
"Doctor, let me out! Let me out! Doctor, what've you done?" but her cries became more and more distant as the TARDIS faded into nothingness and in one moment, the Doctor stood alone, facing the space where the TARDIS was. He lowered his Sonic Screwdriver and turned away, his face crestfallen. He might not be able to save any of these people but he could definitely save her.
In the TARDIS, Rose was screaming and trying to open the door when a hologram of the Doctor appeared. "This is Emergency Programme One. Rose, now listen, this is important. If this message is activated, then it can only mean one thing. We must be in danger. And I mean fatal. I'm dead or about to die any second with no chance of escape."
"No!" Rose cried.
"And that's okay. Hope it's a good death." And Rose stopped her fighting and stood at the top of the ramp. "But I promised to look after you, and that's what I'm doing. The TARDIS is taking you home."
"I won't let you."
"And I bet you're fussing and moaning now - typical. But hold on and just listen a bit more. The TARDIS can never return for me. Emergency Programme One means I'm facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do: let the TARDIS die. Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it; no one will even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years, the world will move on and the box will be buried. And if you want to remember me, then you can do one thing. That's all. One thing." And suddenly it was as if the hologram was staring right at her, the Doctor's eyes full of compassion.
"Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life." The hologram flickered for a bit before finally disappearing.
"You can't do this to me." Rose cried rushing over to the Console. "You can't." She started slamming down every available button and lever possible to get back. "Take me back! Take me back!" But it was to no use. The engines died down and Rose abandoned the console and ran outside to discover she was indeed home, back at the Powell Estates. But that just wouldn't do. She rushed back inside, refusing to accept this.
"Come on, fly. How do you fly? Come on, HELP ME!" she screamed at the TARDIS. After a few minutes of this, she sighed and slowly stepped out, leaning on the doors of the TARDIS, trying to catch her breath. Mickey rounded a corner and spotted her.
"I knew it! I was all the way down Clifton's Parade, and I heard the engines and I thought 'there's only one thing that makes a noise like that'." But then he noticed the tears. "What is it?" She couldn't even bear to bring herself to tell him what had happened, and just clung onto him, her eyes closed tightly, trying to stop the pain and the tears. Jackie Tyler quickly found them and ushered her daughter and the young man into a chippie. Chips made everything better.
Back on Satellite Five, the Doctor worked alone on the Delta Wave in the silence, trying to stop himself from thinking of Rose, remembering her screams.
"Rose, I've called up the internal laser codes. There should be a different number on every screen - can you read them out to me?" Jack said via the Comms.
"She's not here." The Doctor said voice shaking.
"Of all the times to take a leak! When she gets back, tell her to read me the codes!"
"She's not comingback."
"What d'you mean? Where'd she go?"
"Just get on with your work." The Doctor ordered.
"You took her home, didn't you?"
"Yeah."
"Why didn't you send Rebecca with her?" Jack asked outraged. "She's in danger too."
"Rose has a family Jack." Rebecca said. "I don't have one back on Earth waiting for me to come back. Everything I care about, except for Rose, is here with me on this ship. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid of getting left behind and forgotten."
"Doc, the Delta Wave... is it ever gonna be ready?" she asked changing the topic.
"Tell her the truth, Doctor." The Emperor Dalek said appearing on a screen. "There is every possibility that the Delta Wave could be complete, but no possibility of refining it. The Delta Wave must kill every living thing in its path - with no distinction between Human and Dalek. All things will die. By your hand."
"Doc... the range of this transmitter covers the entire Earth."
"You would destroy Daleks and Humans together. If I am God, the creator of all things, then what does that make you, Doctor? "
"There are colonies out there. The Human Race would survive in some shape or form, but you're the only Daleks in existence. The whole universe is in danger if I let you live. Do you see, Jack, Rebecca? That's the decision I've got to make for every living thing. Die as a Human or live as a Dalek. What would you do?"
"You sent her home. She's safe. Keep working." Jack said.
"But he will exterminate you!"
"Never doubted him, never will." Rebecca said. The Doctor was energized by Jack and Rebecca's trust and then began making demands of the Dalek Emperor.
"Now, you tell me, 'God of all Daleks' - 'cos there's one thing I never worked out. The words 'Bad Wolf', spread across time and space. Everywhere, drawing me in. How'd you manage that?"
"I did nothing."
"Oh, come on. There's no secrets now, your worship."
"They are not part of my design". This is the Truth of God." And the Doctor simply looked up to see where 'Bad Wolf Corporation' were written on the wall… If it wasn't the Daleks, then who could it be?
Back at the Powell Estates, Rose sat with Mickey and her mum in the chippie who were trying to return to some form of normalcy, but she was zoning out while the other two ate.
"And it's gone up-market, this place. They're doing little tubs of coleslaw, now. It's not very nice. Tastes a bit sort of clinical." Jackie said.
"Have you tried that new pizza place down Minto Road?" Mickey asked.
"What's it selling?"
"Pizza."
"Oh, that's nice. Do they deliver?" Rose had turned her face to window and stared, eyes downcast.
"Yeah!" Jackie then abandoned the pretense of having an ordinary conversation and pleaded with her daughter.
"Oh, Rose. Have something to eat..." Rose didn't even look away from the window.
"Two hundred thousand years in the future, he's dying, and there's NOTHINGI can do."
"Well, like you said - two hundred thousand years - it's way off!" Then Rose snapped her head toward her mother.
"But it's not! It's now! That fight is happening right now, and he's fighting for us! For the whole planet, and I'm just sittinghere eating chips!"
"Listen to me. God knows I have hated that man, but right now, I love him - and d'you know why? Because he did the right thing. He sent you back to me." Jackie then returned her attention back to the chips, deciding the issue was finished.
"But what do I do every day, mum? What do I do? Get up - catch the bus - go to work - come back home - eat chipsand go to bed? Is that it?"
"It's what the rest of us do." Mickey said coldly.
"But I can't!"
"Why, 'cos you're better than us?"
"No, I didn't mean that!" she paused for a moment trying to calm herself down. "But it was... it was a betterlife. And I - I don't mean all the travelling and... seeing aliens and spaceships and things - that don't matter. The Doctor showed me a better way of livingyour life." Her eyes moved to Mickey. "You know, he showed you too." Her voice then filled with passion.
"That you don't just give up. You don't just let things happen. You make a stand. You say no. You have the guts to do what's right when everyone else just runs away, and I just can't—" She broke off, unable to carry on and got up, kicking the table and running out of the chip shop in despair. She was determined to find her way back but she needed some time to think first and quickly rushed to the Council Playground by her flat, sitting on the swings pensive.
On the observatory deck, Jack and Rebecca were doing a final computer check. "Right, Lynda - you are my eyes and ears. When the Daleks get in, you can follow it on that screen and report it to me." Jack told her.
"Understood."
"They'll detect you but the door's made of Hydra Combination. Should keep them out."
"Should?"
"It's the best I can do."
"It's built to defend against Meteors Lynda. It should work fine." Rebecca told her and it was true, Hydra Combination was strong enough against meteors but she had no idea how they would hold up against the Dalek's rays.
"How long till the Fleet arrives?" Jack asked into his Vortex manipulator.
"They've accelerated." Davitch said.
"This is it, ladies and gentlemen! We are at war!" he announced. "Rebecca, come on we're going back up." And hand in hand the two took the deck up to floor 499.
Mickey found Rose on the playground. "You can't spend the rest of your life thinking about the Doctor."
"But how do I forget him?"
"You've got to start living your own life. You know, a proper life, like the kind he's never had. The sort of life that you could have with me." But of course Rose's attention had already wandered and she noticed the words 'BAD WOLF' written in chalk on the pavement, and then looked at all the walls noticing that they too had 'BAD WOLF' graffiti'd all over the walls of the playground.
"Over here. It's over here as well" she called out, dashing over to the wall to examine the graffiti.
"That's been there for years! It's just a phrase! It's just words!"
"I thought it was a warning... maybe it's the opposite. Maybe it's a message. The same words written down now and two hundred thousand years in the future. It's a link between me and the Doctor! Bad Wolf here... Bad Wolf there!"
"But if it's a message, what's it saying?"
"It's telling me I can get back! The least I can do is help him escape!" she said running back to the TARDIS.
"All the TARDIS needs to do is make a return trip. Just... reverse."
"Yeah, but we still can't do it." Mickey argued.
"The Doctor always said the TARDIS is telepathic. This thing is can listen."
"It's not listening now, is it?"
"We need to get inside it. Last time I saw you, with the Slitheen, this middle bit opened...And there was this light... and the Doctor said it was the heart of the TARDIS. If we can open it, we can make contact. I can tell it what to do!"
"Rose..."
"Mm?" she asked.
"If you go back, you're gonna die."
"That's a risk I've gotta take. 'Cos there's nothing left for me here." She said with complete confidence.
"Nothing?" he asked her.
"No." she looked away, avoiding Mickey's gaze. She knew this was hurting him but it had to be done.
"Okay, if that's what you think... let's get this thing open."
Back on Satellite 5"Stand your ground, everyone... follow my commands. And good luck." Jack called out over the coms.
"You were right! They're forcing the airlock on 494." Lynda said over the Com. The Doctor was working in overdrive, running around trying to finish the Delta Wave.
"Okay - activate internal lasers. Slice 'em up." Jack called over the coms to the volunteers.
"Defenses have gone offline. The Dalek's have overridden the lock." Then the sound of shots being fired was heard over the Coms, Rebecca and Jack looked to each other.
"You lied to me! The bullets don't work!" One of the volunteers yelled into the communication device. Rebecca began frantically pacing her doorway.
"THAT'S IT!" she yelled running down the hall toward the stairs. "I'm gonna give the Daleks a virus to shut down their shields. How did I not think of this before?" She quickly ascended the stairs and began typing faster than she imagined humanely possible, trying to make it possible to defeat the hateful creatures.
Mickey and Rose had hooked a chain to the back of his Volkswagen Beatle and to grating on the TARDIS console and Mickey was beginning to put the car in drive, slamming down on the gas.
"Faster!" Rose cried out. "It's not moving!" Mickey growled more, the chain became more and more taut but to no avail. The Chain Shuddered before snapping. She kicked the console defeated and leaned on it, head down, groaning in frustration.
"Advance guard have made it to 495." Lynda said.
"Jack, how're we doing?" The Doctor called over intercom down to him.
"495 should be good. I like 495." He said. That's where Rebecca had set up the Anne Droid and they had left the intercom on.
"Identify yourself!" A Dalek cried out.
"You are the weakest link. Goodbye!" the Anne Droid fired three times in quick succession at each of the Daleks there, and they were disintegrated.
"Yes!" Jack yelled ecstatically, punching a fist in the air.
"You are the weakest link—" he heard the Anne Droid say again, but then a shot was fired and the Anne Droid's power failed.
"Proceed to next level." A Dalek said.
"Shit." Jack muttered. "Not so good anymore but the hacking you're doing works babe. Keep it up."
"They're flying up the ventilation shafts!" Lynda called out. "No... wait a minute... oh, my God! Why're they doing that? They're going down!" Lynda could hear the screams of the people dying on floor zero, the cries of exterminate and ray guns and she had to mute the sound, horrified unable to listen anymore. She covered her mouth with her hands trying to fight back the tears.
"Floor Zero. They killed them all." She said and Rebeca's jaw dropped, she herself having to fight back tears. They were defenseless.
"It was never gonna work, sweetheart. And the Doctor knew that. He just wanted you to be safe." Jackie told her daughter.
"I can't give up."
"Lock the door. Walk away."
"Dad wouldn't give up."
"Well, he's not here, is he? And even if he was, he'd say the same."
"No, he wouldn't." Rose said determined. "He'd tell me to try anything. If I could save the Doctor's life... try anything."
"Well, we're never gonna know."
"Well, I know. 'Cos I met him. I met Dad."
"Don't be ridiculous." Jackie said quietly.
"The Doctor took me back in time, and I met Dad."
"Don't say that."
"Remember when Dad died...? There was someone with him." Her voice was cracking under the pressure of suppressed tears. "A girl. A blonde girl. She held his hand...You saw her from a distance, mum! You sawher! Think about it! That was me. You saw me—"
"Stop it."
"That's how good the Doctor is—"
"Stop it! Just stop it!" Jackie shouted, getting up, running from the TARDIS crying, leaving Rose alone, her body being wracked with sobs.
"Lynda! What's happening on Earth?" the Doctor asked.
"The Fleet's descending... they're bombing whole continents. Europa... Pacifica... the New American Alliance... Australasia's just... gone."
"Floor 499. We're the last defence. The bullets should work if you concentrate them on the Dalek's eyestalk. I've got the forcefield at maximum so the Dalek fire part should be at its weakest." Jack said.
"I'm only here 'cos of you. I joined the Programme because... you were on it." Davitch said to Nisha.
"Am I supposed to say, when this is all over and if we're still alive, maybe we could go for a drink?"
"That'd be nice." He said with a grin.
"Yeah, well, tough." Davitch turned to her and she winked at him smiling. In unison they released the safeties of their guns, ready to fire. The three of them hid behind corners.
"Rebecca baby, how're we doing?"
"Should be done in a few minutes… hang on Jack." She told him continuing hacking the Dalek's force fields.
"There's gotta be something else we can do." Mickey said.
"Mum was right... maybe we should just lock the door and walk away." Rose said sadly.
"I'm not having that. I'm not having you just- just give up now. No way. We just need something stronger than my car... something bigger... something like that!" A huge yellow recovery track pulled up and Jackie Tyler hopped out of the Drivers side, with a grin on her face.
"Right. You've only got this until six o' clock, so get on with it."
"Mum, where the hell did you get that from?"
"Rodrigo. He owes me a favour. Never mind why, but you were right about your dad, sweetheart. He was full of mad ideas, and this is exactly what he would've done. Now, get on with it before I change my mind." She chucked the keys at Mickey who caught them and hurried into the driver's side of the car. Rose then hurried back into the TARDIS with the Chain.
"Open fire!" Jack yelled, the volunteers and Jack began firing madly at the Daleks.
"Doc, they're one floor down." Rebecca called out, going to grab her gun and join them.
"No stay here. Help me out. Save the universe."
"It's not working!" Davitch cried out.
"Concentrate your fire! Eyestalk, two o' clock!" They continued firing the fields weren't down yet, but one of the bullets caught the eyestalk of one of the Daleks."
"My vision is impaired! I cannot see!"
"We did it!" Nisha cried out. But then the Dalek began firing blindly and she was struck
"No! Nooooo!" Davitch yelled, standing firing over the top of the barricade, no longer caring about consequences and was also struck and thrown backwards. Jack kept firing from the safe portion of the barricade, the last man standing.
"Rebecca, it's only me left and I'm low on ammo. We don't have long." He said over the intercom.
"Can you get up to me safely? I have ammo and this is cracked. It's being sent to the Daleks now." Rebecca said rushing around.
"I'll do my damned best."
"I've got a problem..." Lynda said. "They've found me."
"You'll be all right, Lynda. That side of the station's reinforced against meteors." The Doctor said.
"Hope so! Know what they say about Earth Workmanship..." she said trying to keep the mood light. But it wasn't safe. The Daleks had gone outside of the Station and were shooting at the Window in front of Lynda and began shooting at the window shattering it. Lynda screamed before she was sucked out of the Space Station into outer space.
The Doctor stood up once he heard Lynda's screams.
"Doc, Last man standing! For God's sake, Doctor, finish that thing and kill them!" Jack called.
"Finish that thing and kill mankind." The Emperor Dalek said and the Doctor paused.
"Doc, We have to keep moving come on!" Rebecca yelled. That snapped him back into reality and the two rapidly worked on the Delta Wave.
"Almost there."
One end of the chain has now been fixed to the truck and other to the console. Jackie watched by the TARDIS doors. Mickey is at the wheel, Rose by the console. The chain kept stretching and stretching.
"Keep going!" Rose yelled to her mother.
"Put your foot down Mickey!" Jackie yelled to the young man and he obeyed.
"Faster!" Rose yelled.
"Give it some more, Mickey Keep going!"
"Come on, come on" Rose yelled as the chain became more and more taut, the metal creaking loudly in protest.
"Keep going!"
"Give it some more!" Jackie yelled, Mickey growling, putting his foot all the way down, flooring the pedal. Finally the catch pulled the panel off of the TARDIS and a white light poured out. Rose took a step forward looking into the light. It reflected off her face, and she shined with the golden light and then light flew into her eyes in two golden streams.
"Rose!" Mickey yelled, running toward the TARDIS but the doors slammed shut before he could reach it. Jackie covered her mouth in shock she then pulled Mickey back as the engines began to groan as the TARDIS dematerialized, rays of lights shining from the windows, wind blowing around it.
"Doctor, you've got twenty seconds maximum!"Jack yelled.
"JACK I'M COMING!" Rebecca yelled running toward them.
"Exterminate!" A dalek called just as Rebecca got there.
"Jack duck!" she said shooting the gun at the Dalek, but it was too late, it had fired a shock that had grazed Jack's arm. Rebecca shot the Dalek down and quickly slumped down beside Jack who was groaning in pain.
"Jack hold on for me baby come on, come on." Rebecca said, tears running down her cheeks as she cradled his head against her chest.
"I got hit babe, I'm not gonna make it." He said.
"Don't say that." She said with a sniffle "I love you. You gotta hold on for us. We got plans. We have so many things that we need to do together."
"Sing me to sleep baby," he said voice strained. "I love you. Let the last thing I hear be your voice." She squeezed his hand and began to shakily sing the lullaby she had sung him that night he had the nightmare about Gray. "If there are times, you find that you are feeling weak. Lie next to me; I'll hold you till you fall asleep. At any time of day, there's nothing to explain. I'm always on your side."
Her voice cracked as she tried to hold back the tears. He squeezed her hands and she continued to sing her song softly to him.
"Hold on to me, I'll steal you from the hardest day. Don't be afraid you have me here to guard your way. Through storms I will be here. I will not disappear. Always on your side. Always, Always, Always, Always." her tears kept falling, and she held him closer pressing a kiss to his forehead. He was barely holding on now.
"And on my heart, I promise I will see you though. When pain arrives, I'll be right there to hold on to. With laughter and with prayer, I promise I'll be there. Always on your side. At any time of day, there's nothing to explain. I'm always on your side." she finished her song and kissed his lips as the sobs began to wrack over her body.
"Jack please." She begged him. "Oh God, please let him live. God please!" she cried out looking to the heavens. But that was it. He was gone and she continued to hold on to him crying. Daleks didn't even bother trying to shoot her because her emotional distress was enough of an impairment to stop her from being a potential threat.
"It's ready!" the Doctor said holding a lever, as he looked up and the Daleks began to file into the room. It's just me left. Rebecca and Jack must be gone. Nothing left to lose. "You really wanna think about this. 'Cos if I activate the signal, every living creature dies."
"I am immortal." The Emperor Dalek said from the screen.
"D'you wanna put that to the test?"
"I want to see you become like me. Hail the Doctor, the Great Exterminator!"
"I'll do it!" the Doctor said angrily, putting his hand on the lever.
"Then prove yourself, Doctor. What are you - coward or killer?" The Doctor's hand tensed up on the lever and he shook, face screwed up in pain and then he let go.
"Coward. Any day."
"Mankind will be harvested because of yourweakness."
"And what about me? Am I becoming one of your angels?"
"You are the Heathen. You will be exterminated. "
"Maybe it's time." He said sadly, unresisting. He closed his eyes, ready to die, the Dalek's surrounding him until the sound of the TARDIS began to fill the room. Rebecca could hear it and laid Jack on the ground and crossed his hands over his chest, brushing his hair back with her fingers and gave him one last kiss.
"I love you Captain Jack Harkness." She whispered before slowly beginning to make her way to the control room, gun at the ready in case of any stray Daleks.
"Alert! TARDIS materializing!" A Dalek said as the Doctor's eyes snapped open and he spun around in shock.
"You will not escape!" the Emperor Dalek cried out. But the TARDIS had fully materialized and the doors flew open. The blinding Golden Light of the time vortex poured out. Rose stood in the doorway, light curled around her as she stepped forward. The Doctor stared at her awestruck, stumbling falling backward.
"What've you done?" Rose gazed down at him, eyes full of a golden light.
"I looked into the TARDIS. And the TARDIS looked into me." Her accent was gone.
"You looked into the Time Vortex - Rose, no one's meant to see that." The Doctor said.
"This is the abomination!" the emperor cried out.
"Exterminate!" A Dalek fired at Rose but she simply held her hand up, the bolt freezed and reverses back into the gun, causing the Dalek to explode. The Doctor stared at Rose in amazement.
"I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words..." and the words written high on the wall, rose and floated away. "I scatter them in time and space. A message to lead myself here."
Rose, you've got to stop this. You've got to stop this now.You've got the entire vortex running through your head. You're gonna burn." She suddenly turned to him.
"I want you safe." The Doctor was taken a back, and he stared at her with traces of tears on her cheeks. "My Doctor. Protected from the false God."
"You cannot hurt me. I am immortal." The Emperor cried out.
"You are tiny. I can see the whole of time and space - every single atom of your existence, and I divide them." She raised a hand and the Dalek in the center was separated into Golden particles.
"Everything must come to dust... all things. Everything dies." She looked to the side and all the daleks in the room were reduced to dust.
"The Time War ends."
"I will not die. I cannot die!" the emperor cried but Rose waved her hand and the whole entire mother ship was reduced to the golden particles and dissolved away into oblivion. Rose stood, her arms raised staring straight ahead of her, shaking.
"Rose, you've done it. Now stop. Just let go." The Doctor begged her.
"How can I let go of this? I bring life..." she said blissfully. Then suddenly the doctor felt something grating against his nerve, Jack had just become a fixed point in time and was very much alive.
"But this is wrong!You can't control life and death!"
"But I can. The sun and the moon... the day and night. But why do they hurt...?" she asked voice trembling.
"The power's gonna kill you and it's myfault." He lowered his head in anguish.
"I can see everything. All that is... all that was... all that ever could be." The Doctor looked down at her, suddenly understanding.
"That's what I see. All the time. And doesn't it drive you mad?"
"My head..." she said frightened.
"Come here."
"... it's killing me..."
"I think you need a Doctor." He said and they stepped slowly around, facing each other. The Doctor gazed into her eyes and then gently, carefully leaned down and pressed his lips to hers. As he kissed her the golden energy of the time vortex flowed from her eyes into his and they parted slowly. He gazed into her eyes for a few moments before her beautiful hazel eyes fluttered close and she fell into his arms unconscious. He laid her down on the ground and faced the TARDIS calmly and exhaled, expelling the Time Vortex into the TARDIS and the doors closed.
"Doc, what's going on?" Rebecca asked coming in. "Where have all the Daleks gone?"
"I'll explain later. We need to get Rose to the TARDIS and leave." He said scooping the blonde into his arms. Rebecca quickly dropped he weapon and opened the door for him so he could take Rose inside.
The Doctor laid Rose down on the jump seat and sent them spinning into the Vortex. Jack ran into the control room only to see he was too late the TARDIS already gone and he stared at the space it had occupied, hurt and confused. Why would she have left him?
"Doc, tell me what happened." Rebecca ordered, voice shaking.
"It's complicated. Got some things to take-"
"Damn it Doctor! I'm not dealing with this 'it's complicated shite' you're trying to feed me. I have lost the love of my life and am barely holding it together. What. The. Hell. Is. Happening?"
"Rebecca, I'm sorry." He said pulling her into his arms for a much needed hug. She let out a shaky breath and bit her lip trying to fight back the tears. And he just held the girl for a moment as she tried to regain her composure.
"Rose looked into the Heart of the TARDIS. She absorbed part of the Time Vortex, no one is meant to do that. She was able to destroy all the Daleks with a wave of her hand… but the energy is too much. It would have killed her."
"You absorbed it from her."
"And put it back in the TARDIS where it belongs but the energy is killing me now I'm going to have to reg-"
"Regenerate. I read about it." She said wiping away her tears.
"Rose, can't know what happened. She unknowingly committed genocide. She'll feel guilty and that would kill me all over again. Our secret Rebecca." And Rebecca nodded.
"Everything's changing isn't it?" she asked him sadly.
"Yes. I think it is."
"I'm gonna go clean myself up… and cry if I'm being honest." He squeezed her hand.
"It'll be okay." He promised her as she made her way toward her room. He then began fiddling with the TARDIS console.
"What happened?" Rose asked.
"Don't you remember?" he asked her.
"It's like... there was this singing..." Rose said confused.
"That's right! I sang a song and the Daleks ran away." He said cheerily.
"I was at home... no, I wasn't, I was in the TARDIS, and... I can't remember anything else.." the Doctor looked at her uneasily but smiled.
"Rose Tyler..." He said with a small laugh. "I was gonna take you so many places. Barcelona - not the city Barcelona, the planet. You'd love it. Fantastic place - they've got dogs with no noses." He laughed and Rose giggled half rolling her eyes while Rebecca glanced at him. She noticed a gold glow coming from one of his hands. It was starting.
"Imagine how many times a day you end up telling that joke, and it's stillfunny!"
"Then, why can't we go?"
"Maybe you will. And maybe I will. But not like this." He didn't elaborate, staring back at the monitor a vague smile on his face.
"You're not making sense!" Rose said.
"I might never make sense again! I might have two heads. Or no head! Imagine me with no head!And don't say that's an improvement..." Rose grinned. But it's a bit dodgy, this process. You never know what you're gonna end up with—" And suddenly he was propelled back with a blast of golden light, and he clutched his stomach as though he had been punched.
"Doctor!" Rose rushed forward.
"Stay away!" The girl stopped, staring at him as he winced in pain.
"Doctor, tell me what's going on."
"I absorbed all the energy of the Time Vortex, and no one's meant to do that!" he screwed up his eyes in pain. "Every cell in my body's dying."
"Can't you dosomething?" Rose asked horrified.
"Yeah, I'm doing it now! Time Lords have this little trick, it's... sort of a way of cheating death."
"Except..." he looked into Rose's eyes. "It means I'm gonna change. And I'm not gonna see you again. Not like this. Not with this daft old face." He laughed not wanting to scare them. "And before I go..."
"Don't say that."Rose cut him off.
"Rose…Before I go, I just wanna tell you, you were fantastic." He smiled at them proudly. "And d'you know what? So was I." And as Rose smiled at him, the Doctor smiled widely back at her before convulsing in an orange energy which exploded from his skin, blasting from his head, arms and legs Rose jumped back and threw her hands over her face. attempting to shield herself from the heat and the light but she was transfixed, watching as the Doctor's features changed. His hair grew, his blue eyes slowly became a brown and he got much slimmer, looking more like a bean pole than the broad man she had known before.
"Hello! Okay-oo." He said with a gulp as Rose stared at him, running a tongue over his teeth, his brow furrowed.
"New teeth. That's weird. So, where was I? Oh, that's right! Barcelona. 6 PM... Tuesday... October... 5006... on the way to Barcelona!" he straightened up and faced Rose.
"Now then... what do I look like?"
"No, no no, no no no no no no no. No. Don't tell me." Rose moved back slightly behind a pillar.
"Let's see... two legs, two arms, two hands..." he began testing his wrist, circling it. "Slight weakness in the dorsal tubercle." A hand flew to his hair. "HAIR! I'm not bald!" he said gleefully running his hands through his hair. "Oh - Oh! Big hair! Sideburns - I've got sideburns! Or really bad skin. Little bit thinner..." he said with a slap to his stomach.
"That's weird. Give me time, I'll get used to it." He then lit up. "I... have got... a mole. I can feel it." Rose began breathing heavily and she looked frightened.
"Between my shoulder blades, there's a mole." The Doctor said rotating his shoulders "That's all right. Love the mole. Go on then, tell me." He said to Rose looking for an assessment. "What do you think?"
"Who are you?" Rose asked timidly.
"I'm the Doctor." He said slightly crestfallen.
"No... where is he? Where's the Doctor? What have you done to him?" she demanded.
"You saw me, I- I changed... right in front of you." He said pointing to the spot he regenerated.
"I saw him sort of explode, and then you replaced him, like a... a teleport or a transmat or a body swap or something." Rose said. The Doctor remained silent.
"You're not fooling me" she said determined, the Doctor stood there in disbelief.
"I've seen all sorts of things. Nano genes... Gelth...Slitheen., my God, are you a Slitheen?"
"I'm not a Slitheen." The Doctor said.
"Send him back. I'm warning you, send the Doctor back right now!"
"Rose, it's me." He pleaded with her and he leaned forward. "Honestly it's me."
"I was dying. To save my own life I changed my body. Every single cell, but... it's still me."
"You can't be." She whispered in disbelief.
"Then how could I remember this? Very first word I ever said to you. Trapped in that cellar. Surrounded by shop window dummies... oh...... such a long time ago. I took your hand..." and he took her hand in his. "I said one word... just one word, I said... 'run'." He gazed at her with tears in her eyes.
"Doctor." She whispered.
"Hello." Rose sighed in an almost exasperated fashion stumbling back against the console. He simply scooted around and started setting coordinates for Barcelona.
"And we never stopped, did we? The three of us? All across the universe. Running, running, running...One time we had to hop. Do you remember? Hopping for our lives." He then began to hop madly up and down Rose rolled her eyes at him.
"Yeah? All that hopping? Remember hopping for your life? Yeah?! Hop? With the...no?" he asked noting Rose's lack of enthusiasm.
"Can you change back?" Rose asked."Do you want me to?""Yeah.""Oh." He said sadly."Can you?""No." he glanced down at the floor disappointed. "Do you want to leave?"
"Do you want me to leave? Rose asked shocked.
"No! But... your choice... if you want to go home..." Rose looked upset and he then returned to the console
"Cancel Barcelona. Change to... London... the Powell Estate... ah... let's say the 24th of December. Consider it a Christmas present. There." He said stepping back. Rose looked at him then back at the console as the TARDIS shuddered as it changed directions.
"I'm going home?" Rose asked.
"Up to you. Back to your mum... it's all waiting. Fish and chips, sausage and mash, beans on toast- no, Christmas! Turkey! Although... having met your mother... nut loaf would be more appropriate." She looked down trying to hide a smile.
"Was that a smile?"
"No."
"That was a smile..." he said knowingly.
"No it wasn't."
"You smiled..." he teased.
"No I didn't.'
'Oh, come on, all I did was change, I didn't—" then suddenly he gagged as the TARDIS shuddered.
"What?" Rose asked.
"I said I didn't—" and then the same thing happened again, the Doctor gagged making horrid retching noises. "Uh oh."
"Doc, what's wrong?' A piece of Time Vortex came from the Doctor's mouth.
"Oh... the change is going a bit wrong and all." He gagged again falling to his knees, his face contorted.
"Look... maybe we should go back. Let's go and find Captain Jack, he'd know what to do." Rose said.
"I haven't used this one in years." The Doctor said manically, flicking a switch and the TARDIS began to shudder violently as they were nearly knocked to the ground.
"What're you doing?!" Rose asked.
"Putting on a bit of speed! That's it!" he yelled turning more knobs as Rose tried to gain a grip on the console "My beautiful ship! Come on, faster! That's a girl! Faster! Wanna to break the time limit?!"
"Stop it!" Rose yelled. "REBECCA!" Suddenly Rebecca came running from down the hallway and into the console room, grabbing onto a railing.
"Ah, don't be so dull - let's have a bit of fun! Let's rip through that vortex!" Suddenly he caught Rebecca's eye for a minute calming down. "The regeneration's going wrong. I can't stop myself. Ah, my head..." he grimaced in pain and the he was once more crazed.
"Faster! Let's open those engines!" and a bell rang.
"What's that?"
"We're gonna crash land!" he said excitedly.
"Well then, do something you idiot!" Rebecca cried. Trying to read the levers on the console.
"Too late! Out of control! Oh, I love it! Hot dawg!" he hopped in the air excitedly.
"You're gonna kill us!" Rose cried out.
"Hold on tight, here we go!" and then suddenly their eyes met. "Christmas Eve...!"
AN: And Series one is complete! Can you believe we have made it this far since I started this story in July? I'm so excited to have made it so far not just plot wise but I've grown as a writer since I began.
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