Chapter 29
The Doctor Dances

Part 1

"Go to your room." The Doctor began to speak sternly to the gas masks that we walking towards us. Us trapped between them and the wall. I watched the Doctor as he continued to try and order the gas masked zombies away from us. "Go to your room!" He repeated talking to them like they were disobedient children, which caused them to and tilt their heads. I looked at him confused as I wondered why this was working. "I mean it! I am very, very angry with you. I am very, VERY cross! Go - to - your – ROOM!" He pointed violently in no general direction and they slowly began to meek away to there beds once again. We watched them for a second before the Doctor breathed saying. "I'm really glad that worked. Those would've been TERRIBLE last words." I couldn't help but to laugh at the sudden relief of what happened.

"Yes they would have been." I responded to the Doctor grinning once again.

…..

"Why are they all wearing gas masks?" Rose questioned sat beside one of the patients in the room. I leaned my hands on the desk that I was sharing with Smiths, while Jack sat behind us on chair and the Doctor standing in front of us.

"They're not. Those masks are a part of them. Flesh and bone." Smiths explained to Rose.

"How was your con supposed to work?" The Doctor began to start his interrogation on Jack and Smiths once again.

"Simple enough, really. Find some harmless piece of space-junk... let the nearest Time Agent track it back to Earth. Convince him it's valuable, name a price. When he's put 50% up front - oops! A German bomb falls on it, destroys it forever. He never gets to see what he's paid for. Never knows he's been had. I buy him a drink with his own money, and we discuss dumb luck. The perfect self-cleaning con." Jack answered his questioned honestly.

"Yeah. Perfect." The Doctor scoffed giving Jack a stern look.

"The London Blitz is great for self-cleaners - Pompeii's nice if you want to make a vacation of it though, but you've got to set your alarm for volcano day." Jack mentioned laughing at his own joke, but the Doctor merely looked at him. When Jack saw the look his laughter died. "Getting a hint of disapproval. Smithies gave me that look once when I first told her about this, she never stopped me though." I turned my head to Smiths as I heard that.

"Why didn't you?" I questioned.

"It's complicated." She replied with a small smile.

"Complicated? Why?" The Doctor asked her, Smiths just looked away before looking back to him.

"Because I know things you don't... well not yet anyway." She stated before jumping up and looking at the patients. I could see a frown on her face. "It's a shame how the ship did this though."

"It was a burnt-out medical transporter - it was empty. You know that Smiths" Jack retorted, the Doctor looked at him darkly.

"Re, Rose." The Doctor caught our attention before heading towards the door.

"We getting out of here?" Rose pipped up a question standing up.

"We're going upstairs." He explained as I jumped off the table. I gave Smiths a wave before walking to where the Doctor was.

"Smiths programmed the flight computer so it wouldn't land on anything living - We harmed no-one! I don't know what's happening here, but believe me - We had nothing to do with it." Jack called after us.

"I'll tell you what's happening. You forgot to set your alarm clock. It's volcano day." The Doctor responded as a siren went off.

"What's that?" Rose wondered out loud.

"The all-clear." Jack answered her.

"I wish." The Doctor left the ward. I glanced as Rose before we began following.

…..

"Mr Spock?" Jack yelled looking for the Doctor as we ran down the corridor.

"Doctor?" Rose and I called in unison as we passed some stairs.

"Have you got a blaster?" I jumped before turning back towards the stairs, looking up it seeing the Doctor standing by the banister.

"Sure!" Jack gleamed before climbing the stairs. We girls followed behind him spotting a door the Doctor was beside.

"The night your space-junk landed, someone was hurt. This was where they were taken." The Doctor explained.

"What happened?" I looked at him wanting to know.

"Let's find out." He spoke to me before turning to Jack "Get it open." Jack began to grin, aiming his blaster at the door.

"What happened to your sonic screwdriver? Do you brake it while we were gone?" I whispered to the doctor.

"No, it's not broken" He replied and I looked at him curiously. I heard the door squeak open once he blasted it. "Sonic blaster, 51st century. Weapon Factories of Villengard?" The Doctor told us.

"You've been to the factories?" Jack questioned as the Doctor took his blaster for a look.

"Once." He stated simply.

"Well, they gone now. Destroyed. The main reactor went critical. Vaporized the lot." Jack mentioned as the Doctor handed it back.

"Like I said - once. There's a banana grove there, now. I like bananas. Bananas are good." He smiled at us before entering the room. I rolled my eyes as I walked passed Jack and Rose have a little conversation that I didn't want to hear.

"Nice blast pattern." Rose complemented Jack.

"Digital." He pointed out.

"Squareness gun."

"Yeah."

"I like it." Rose spoke making Jack laugh as Smith know passed them and stood besides me, and turned the lights on. We looked around the room to see that it has been vandalised.

"What d'you think?" The Doctor asked.

"SOMETHING got out of here..." Jack stated the obvious behind us.

"Yeah. And?" The doctor questioned.

"Something powerful. Angry." Jack walked around the room to another door, while the doctor nodded.

"Powerful and angry." Smiths voice was quiet. I looked through the glass into the room where there was drawings stuck all over the room.

"It's a child's room." I announced sadness in my voice.

"A child? I suppose this explains 'mummy'." Jack observed.

"How could a child do this?" Rose questioned looking around the room also. I looked to the doctor, who was turning on a tape.

"Do you know where you are?" A man's voice came through on the speaker.

"Are you my mummy?" A familiar child's voice followed the man's.

"Are you aware of what's around you? Can you... see?" The man asked the child in the tape.

"Are you my mummy?" It repeated itself.

"What do you want? Do you know-" The man was interrupted by the child.

"I want my mummy. Are you my mummy? I want my mummy! Are you my mummy?" I closed my eyes, I recognised it, we had seen this child, we had heard it's voice before. "Are you my mummy? Mummy? Mummy?"

"Doctor. Re and I heard this voice before." Rose told the doctor.

"Me too." He admitted and I opened my eyes again. I felt like crying.

"He doesn't know." I brought up sadness in my voice. I remembered when I was a child. I didn't know who my mother was. I didn't care at first. But then I over heard Lorraine talking with a friend of hers about me. It was my first feeling I had of not being wanted. It made me want to know who I was. I wanted to know who my mother was and if she would of loved me.

"Why doesn't he know?" Rose asked, but I ignored her shaking my head. I wanted to forget that memory. I soon felt a hand in mine and I looked to see that it belonged to the Doctor. I had a feeling he knew that this brought up memories of my past I didn't want to remember. I gave him a soft smile to say that I was alright, but I didn't move my hand away from his as I felt it to be comforting for me.

…..

"Mummy? Please, mummy? Mummy?" The tape kept on going as we all stood inside the room with the drawings in.

"Are these pictures of his mother?" I questioned touching one.

"I expect so." Smiths respond her, herself taking one from the wall.

"Doctor?" Rose asked watching the Doctor pace around the room.

"Can you sense it?" He questioned still pacing.

"Sense what?" Jack wondered out loud.

"Coming out of the walls, can you feel it?" He restated and we heard mummy again. The Doctor looked at us while stopping. "Funny little human brains, how do you get around in those things?"

"When he's stressed, he likes to insult species." Rose pointed out to Jack and Smiths.

"Rose, I'm thinking." The doctor began to pace again.

"Cuts himself shaving, does half an hour in life forms he's cleverer than..." Rose continued.

"There are these children living rough around the bomb site. They come out during air-raids looking for food." The Doctor explained. While I heard the child voice in the background stop. "Suppose they were there when this thing - whatever it was – landed?"

"It was a med-ship. It was harmless." Jack defended himself for like the hundredth time.

"Yes, you keep saying. 'Harmless'. Suppose one of them was affected – altered?" The Doctor looked at him.

"Altered how?" Rose questioned.

"I'm here!" I heard the child's voice. I froze dropping my hand from the wall. I looked to the other side of the room. The Doctor continued speaking as I saw the gas-masked boy standing staring at us.

"Doctor..." I whispered slowly taking small steps to the Doctor.

"It's afraid. Terribly afraid, and powerful. It doesn't know it yet, but it will do." The Doctor continued making a small laugh before I grabbed on to the Doctor Jacket tugging it slightly.

"Doctor..." I spoke his name again.

"It's got the power of a god, and I just sent it to its room." I tugged his his Jacket harder, and he turned to me finally getting his attention. My eyes did leave the child's as I notified the Doctor. "End of the tape. It ended 30 seconds ago." He turned his head to where I was looking.

"I'm here, now. Can't you see me?" The child repeated once he got his attention.

"You sent it to it room." I said in a sing song whisper, as I felt coming over me.

"THIS is its room." He finished. Everyone turned around quickly to see the child.

"Are you my mummy?" The child asked and tilted his head at me. "Mummy?"

"Doctor..." I repeated his name again, like it was the only thing I could say. I held onto his Jacket tighter. The child had frightened me. I could handle the older looking ones, but a child. It was just wrong and I was terrified.

"Okay... on my signal... make for the door. NOW!" Jack told us pulling out a banana over the Doctor shoulder. The Doctor grinned pulling out the sonic blast shooting at the wall.

"Go! Now! Don't drop the banana!" He ordered. Smiths grabbed my hand dragging me away from the Doctor, which caused me to let go off him as we went to the wall in a hurry.

"Why not?!" Jack wondered alarmed.

"Good source of potassium!" He yelled jumping through after us.

"Give me that!" Jack took the blaster from the doctor, resealing the hole. I collapsed, kneeling on the floor breathed deeply. Trying to steady my heart beat. I felt Smiths hands on my shoulders crouched down as well.

"Digital rewind." Smiths explained what Jack had done to all off us, before she stroked my head, trying to calm me down..

"Nice switch." Jack complemented the Doctor throwing the banana at him.

"It's from the Groves of Villengard. I thought it was appropriate." He told Jack.

"There's really a banana grove in the heart of Villengard and you did that?" Jack remarked.

"Bananas are good." The Doctor claimed before his attention went to me. "Re." He called my name and my attention turned to me. I could see the worry in his eye asking if I'm alright. I breathed a couple more time before huffing.

"I'm okay." I began to try and get up and the Doctor gave me his hand to help. I thanked him as he pulled me closer to him. Smiths know standing up as well. I looked into his eye for second, I could tell he was still worried about me, but I gave him a soft smile, though fear still welled up in me. Soon there was a loud thump on the wall, and I stumbled backwards at that and Rose yelled the Doctors name.

"Come on!" The Doctor yelled, and grabbed my hand again, which he had previously let go of once I was up. We began to run down the corridor we were in, but soon stopped as through the door we were trying to exit from opened revealing more gas-masked people.

"Nope!" I exclaimed now dragging the Doctor back the other way, but only to see there was know cracks in the wall, where the child was. Once again we had no exit from these zombies.

"It's keeping us here so it can get at us." The Doctor explained.

"It's controlling them?" Jack asked loudly pointing his gun in each direction.

"It IS them. It's every living thing in this hospital." The Doctor answered.

"Not every living thing" Smiths pointed out, meaning us. "And I suggest we make sure it stays that way or just what will happen if it gets out." Smiths tried looking for some way out before looking at Jack. "Jack what's you blaster got again?"

"Okay. This can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic cannon, and a triple-enfolded sonic disrupter. Doc, what you got?" Jack questioned the Doctor.

"A sonic, er..." The Doctor began taking the screwdriver out of his pocket while Jack wasn't looking. He looked like he was embarrassed by what he was about to say. "oh, never mind."

"What?" Jack spoke as if he didn't hear and the Doctor turned around.

"It's sonic, okay? Let's leave it at that." He responded. I watched him switch on the sonic screwdriver.

"Disrupter? Cannon? What?" Jack listed sonics, while aiming at the cracking wall.

"It's sonic! Totally sonic! I am sonic-ed up!" The Doctor refused to answer.

"A sonic WHAT?!" Jack shouted this time.

"A SCREWDRIVER!" I yelled, not wanting this to continue as the wall broke fully revealing the child.

"Rose down!" Smiths ordered to Rose as Rose grabbed the wrist of Jacks arm, understanding what Smiths was going to say. She then shot the floor below us making us fall onto the ground below. Jack soon rewound the floor of the ceiling, saving us. I moaned as I slowly began to sit up through the pain, that just ran through me.

"You okay?" Smiths asked everyone getting up from the floor slowly, and stretching I rubbed my head, but replied with a yeah along with Rose. The rest of us all stood up while Jack questioned to the Doctor.

"Who has a sonic screwdriver?"

"I do!" The Doctor exclaimed and I sighed as Rose went to find the lights.

"Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks "oohoo, this could be a little more sonic"?" Jack mocked.

"What, you've never been bored?" The Doctor said indignantly. I turned around and shaking my head at the two males auguring, but heard Rose still talking about the light switch. Though I also heard the laughter of Smiths, or seemed to find Jack and the Doctor funny.

"Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?" Doctor continued. While Rose finally found the lights, all around us patients jumped up in their bed shouting mummy, causing me to jump.

"Door." Jack pointed out and we ran for it while they got out of their beds. Jack tried to us his blaster on the lock door, but it didn't work. "Damn it!" He hissed stepping backwards. Letting the Doctor past and hitting the blaster. I watch as the Doctor open the door with his sonic while hearing Jack say. "It's the special features, they really drain the battery."

"The battery?!" Rose looked at him in disbelief, while the Doctor pushes the door open and we all run into it. "That's so lame."

"Tell me about it." Smiths told Rose, as the Doctor locks the door.

"I was gonna send for another one, but SOMEBODY'S gonna blow up the factory." Jack glared at the Doctor.

"Oh, I know - first day I met him, he blew mine and Re's job up. That's practically how he communicates." Rose stated.

"Okay, that door should hold it for a bit." The Doctor told everyone walk away from it.

"The door?! The WALL didn't stop it!" Jack snapped at him.

"Well, it's gotta FIND us first! Come on, we're not done yet! Assets, assets!" He pointed out.

"Well, I've got a banana, and at a pinch you could put up some shelves." Jack remarked.

"Window-" Doc began jumping on something to look through it.

"Barred, sheer drop outside. Seven stories." Jack explained.

"And no other exits." Rose questioned.

"Well, the assets conversation went in a flash, didn't it?" Jack sat himself comfortably on a chair as Smiths stood behind him. He turned and eyed him for a moment and then looked at us. "So, where'd you pick this one up, then?" Signalling that at Rose about Jack.

"Doctor..." Rose warned as I leaned on the wall. I closed my eyes my mind went back to Mickey, when I remembered that Rose seemed to act like he never existed. I frowned before opening my eyes again. Smiths began to speak up answering the Doctor.

"They were hanging from a barrage balloon, We had an invisible spaceship." She began but Jack interrupted.

"I never stood a CHANCE." I turned to see Rose look slightly uncomfortable.

"Okay, one, we want to get out of here. Two, we CAN'T get out of here. Have I missed anything?" The Doctor listed I watched him look back at the window.

"Yeah... Jack, and Smiths just disappeared." Rose spoke in wonder and we all looked over to where they were last.