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Boom Town: Part 5

"What the hell are you doing!?" I looked over to where the Doctor had just entered the TARDIS with Margaret. Thank God that he had arrived, seeing as neither Jack nor I knew what the hell to do. At least he might have some idea what exactly we could do to stop what was happening to this entire planet. And what was wrong with the extrapolator, which was still beeping at us from where it was lying, "The Rift is open, and time and space is ripping apart," he told us, "This whole city is just about to disappear from the map! Now what did you do?!"

"Nothing, it just went crazy!" Jack shouted back, "It's this extrapolator thing, we've disconnected it but it's still feeding off the engines, and using the TARDIS! It's not our fault," he hit the extrapolator again, "And it's pulling the Rift open while using the engines!" I looked towards the door, there was no sign of Rose anywhere and with there being an earthquake right on our very doorstep, I was worried about her, a lot. Her and Mickey, "This isn't going to blow up the whole city, Doctor, this is going to engulf the entire planet if we don't sort this one out as soon as possible,"

The door banged open and Rose ran in, panting with the effort of clearing running a very long way, "What is it?" she puffed at us, "There's an earthquake happening out there, a proper earthquake with cracks in the streets and everything," she stared up at the console, "What's happening?"

"Oh, just little me," there was an awful ripping and I turned to see Margaret clutch Rose by the throat. But her hand wasn't a normal hand, it was the large green and lethal talon that the Slitheen had when they weren't in their skin suits. I looked at the floor where the human arm was just lying there. Even in all the mayhem and panic, I had to note that it was rather disgusting. But focus. Rose was currently being choked to death by the apparently not reformed female Slitheen, "One move and she snaps like a promise," she grinned at the Doctor triumphantly, "I've had you bleating all night, poor baby, now shut it!" she looked over at Jack, "You Fly Boy, put the extrapolator at my feet," Jack looked at the Doctor who nodded, and he hurried to do as she said, "Thank you," she cooed, "Just as I had planned,"

"You knew this was going to happen?" I asked her, frowning, and staring at the grip that she had on Rose's throat. One tight squeeze and Rose's neck would be crushed, and that would be rather bad for Rose's lifespan. Very bad, I corrected myself. Extremely bad was an understatement, "I thought that you needed the nuclear power station to go into meltdown, like he said..." I pointed at Jack, "Then it'll blow up and open the Rift, like he said," I pointed at the Doctor, "So how come this happened when you needed that to happen in order to make it all work?"

Margaret grinned at me, and I swallowed heavily, "Failing that plan," she crowed, "If I were to be arrested, then anyone capable of tracking me down would have considerable technology of their own," she lifted Rose up a little with her claw, and I moved forward instinctively, only to be held back by the Doctor's hand. I knew what he was trying to say: one wrong move and my sister would choke to death, "And so therefore they would be captivated by the extrapolator," Margaret sneered at us, "Especially a magpie mind like yours, Doctor. So the extrapolator was programmed to go to Plan B, and lock onto the nearest alien power source, and open the Rift," she stared up at the TARDIS console, "And what a power source it found. I'm back on schedule, thanks to all of you,"

"That Rift is going to convulse!" Jack shouted at her, pointing out of the doors towards Cardiff, "You're going to destroy the whole planet if you don't stop the extrapolator right now!" the only trouble with that idea was that Jack had never met the Slitheen with us before, I didn't know about before, but the Slitheen that we had known in Downing Street, they weren't very accommodating to our pleas, even when the Doctor had offered them the choice whether to stop voluntarily or to be stopped forcibly by us. Looks like Margaret hadn't learnt from that.

"And with you with it!" she retorted gleefully, "All this time, I thought of so many ways that I would get revenge on you, Doctor, to avenge the deaths of my brothers, and now I can do it. You'll all be torn to shreds as this planet is annihilated, while I ride this board over the crest of the inferno, all the way to freedom!" she stepped onto the extrapolator and it hummed with energy, "Stand back, boys," she grinned, "Surf's up!"

And then suddenly white light bloomed out of the TARDIS console, bathing us all in soft white light, and I could hear this faint singing in the back of my mind, like a hole in my chest had been filled and I hadn't even noticed that it was empty before. The light from the TARDIS looked cold and swirled all around us, but it felt just that first early morning ray of sunshine on a winter's afternoon, reminding me that this was something so much older than me, and probably would be here even longer than I would be around. The quiet singing in my head reminded me of the travels that we had been on, the hug that the Doctor had given me to comfort me, the running that we did; the talking, laughing, living in the TARDIS that all of us, Jack, Rose, the Doctor and I, had done together. And all that we would do in the future. It was like seeing home for the very first time after being away for so long.

I looked over to the Doctor who was standing next to where the console had opened, bathing in the white light and smiling such a soft smile that made me think that he was feeling the same thing that I had done, although it probably reminded him of different things, "Of course, opening the Rift means that you're going to tear this ship apart," he told Margaret, "And this isn't any ship, it's the TARDIS. My TARDIS, the best ship in the universe,"

"What's that light?" Rose asked him, still clutching onto the arm that held her up, "Doctor? What that burning light?"

I turned to look at the console, "It's the Heart of the TARDIS," the Doctor explained to all of us, and I looked into it, seeing a faint swirling deep in the console. I couldn't help it but I wanted to stay like this forever, "This ship is alive, Margaret, you've opened its soul," I looked over to where the Slitheen was staring into the light just as I was doing, "Look at it, Margaret," he urged her, and I saw her move her lips slightly, but I couldn't hear her. I turned back to the console, feeling the light caress my face gently. I never wanted to leave, "Look inside, Blon Fel Fotch. Look at the light,"

Then Margaret looked up at us, "Thank you," she whispered so faintly that I only just caught what she said, "Thank you, all of you," and then the white light got so bright, that it felt like it would scorch the back of my eyeballs, but I couldn't look away. It was far too beautiful to look away.

And then all of a sudden it was over, and the Doctor was rushing around the console, "Don't look," he told us urgently, "Stay there, close your eyes!" well it was a little late for that warning, "Don't look at the light," I tore my eyes away from the console to where Margaret had been standing, but all that was left was the remains of her human skin suit, "Right, now shut it down!" the Doctor ordered, flipping levers, "Jack, Rose, come on, shut it all down!" I moved with the rest of them, helping him turn off everything, "Mary-Anne, the panel, shut it down," I moved to the open panel and closing it slightly regretfully, "Now all the switches to the left,"

The TARDIS managed to calm down, and all the lights turned on. I blinked rapidly, acclimatising myself to the harsh lights which were completely different to the light that had been under the console, "Nicely done if I'm allowed to say so myself," Jack nodded at all of us, "Everything back to normal, the TARDIS completely safe, and Cardiff can breath in relief as they get to live another day,"

I was still staring at the skin suit where Margaret had been, frowning at it. It was even more disgusting when it was the whole suit and not just the little arm that she had torn off to practically strangle Rose, "But what happened to Margaret?" I asked, looking around the floor, "She just vanished when that light got brighter. She can't just have disappeared like that," I placed a hand on the Doctor's arm, "You don't think that she might have...been vaporised? Burnt up? Like carrying out her own death sentence?"

The Doctor shook his head, "I don't think so," he disagreed, "I don't think she's dead," he walked over to the skin suit, crouching down and leaning forward, "She looked into the heart of the TARDIS, that light, and even I don't know how strong that is," I turned slightly towards the shut console, remembering the white blaze that had emerged from it, "And the ship is telepathic, like I told you, Rose," he gestured to my sister, who crouched down next to him, "It gets inside your head, translates alien languages for you," he looked thoughtful, "Maybe the raw energy can translate all sorts of thoughts," and then he reached into the suit, and pulled out something that made us all stare, "And here she is..."

"She-she's an egg?" Jack stuttered out, and I touched the brown leathery egg that the Doctor was holding in his hand. It wasn't very big, but it had tentacles sprouting out of the top, completely harmless, "That's Margaret...? That's...she's an egg,"

"Regressed to her childhood," the Doctor grinned at it, "She can start again, live her life from scratch. If we take her back home, and give her to a different family, tell them to bring her up properly. Then she might all right in the end, she can have a second choice to do it all over. We let one of them go," he admired the egg and I suddenly burst into laughter, shortly followed by the Captain and Rose, "She's an egg," he repeated.

"Oh my God, Mickey," Rose suddenly bolted from the TARDIS outside, and I leant against the TARDIS console, grinning at the sight of the egg in the Doctor's hands. I don't know why I ever tried to make it out that I knew what was going to happen. I didn't know why I even thought that I could ever think that something was predictable when it came to that madman with a box. I really didn't know why. But I did, and perhaps that was what kept me on my toes, the idea that there didn't have to be a rhyme or a reason for all of this. That living in the moment...well, I knew where I wanted to stay now.

"Right..." the Doctor balanced the egg on a stand, before flicking buttons and looking at me, "Am I going to do all this by myself?" I let him help me up, "Those levers there, keep them level," I did as he said, before looking over to where Rose had walked in through the door, looking rather despondant, "We're all powered up, so we can leave immediately," the Doctor called over to her, "Opening the Rift filled up us with energy, we can go. If that's all right?" Rose nodded slightly, "How's Mickey, do you want to find him because we can wait,"

"He's Ok," she answered him, "He's...he's gone, and there's no need to go look for him. He deserves better," she seemed slightly shellshocked at that. I moved over to her, hugging her tightly, and she held me tightly, as if she never wanted to let go, "I'm all right," she reassured me, "I'm all good, really good," she didn't look it.

The Doctor looked hesitant, but nodded eventually, "As you wish, off we go then," he rattled around the console, "As Margaret said: always moving on. Off we go to Raxacoricofallapatorius, and you don't often get to say that. All we'll do is pop her into the hatchery. Margaret the Slitheen can live her life all over again. A second chance,"

"That'll be nice," Rose murmured, but I think that I only heard her. She smiled sadly at me before drifting off down the corridor. I felt like punching Mickey just by the look on her face, "I'm just going to go and..." she gestured down the corridor and the Doctor nodded, "I'll just be a couple of minutes,"


Our visit to Raxacoricofallapatorius wasn't very long, and soon we were back in the TARDIS. I was glad that Margaret had been turned into an egg rather than soup, as the Doctor had informed us of how that planet carried out their death penalty. It at least put my conscience at rest for the time being, letting me feel that I had actually done some good today, and it hadn't ended with anyone dying for what they had done, or were going to do to the planet. It was a good feeling that Margaret had the chance to live all over again. The Doctor at least clearly thought so as well, judging by the way he was humming around the place.

"You're pondering," he told me, and I was jolted from my thoughts as I looked over at him, "Pondering very deeply from the looks of things," I smiled at him, my mind half still back in thought mode back where the white light still lingered in my mind, "Care to share any thoughts with me? I am very good at listening," he stared at me, "You looked at it, didn't you? The light,"

"I'm sorry, I couldn't help it," I apologised, and he sat down next to me on the seat, "It was just...so beautiful, and I couldn't help but look right at it," I turned to him, "You don't think that it's changed me in any way, because I'm not an egg...clearly. And you said, don't look at it," he scanned me with his screwdriver, "And the verdict is..."

"Human," he answered, and I breathed out in relief, "Hundred percent human, no egg-like qualities at all," he folded his arms, settling back against the chair, "Margaret turned back into an egg because she wanted a second chance, she wanted to be free," he explained to me, "Therefore, I think the TARDIS got inside her brain telepathically understood and turned back the clock for her. Hence why she is now an egg," he looked speculatively at me, placing a hand to his mouth, "When you looked at the light, what were you thinking about?"

I thought back, "That I never wanted to leave," I replied, "When I saw the light, it felt like..." I smiled, "Early morning, and all the times that we had here in the TARDIS, and all the times ahead of us, the adventures and the running that have happened and will not doubt happen in the future," he took my hand tightly, and I tilted my head at him, "That there is going to be so much more, and I don't want..." I brushed back a tear, "I don't want to ever leave,"

He placed his other hand on my cheek, "I will always going to keep you safe," he said to me, and I blinked at him, "No matter what, you know that," I nodded softly at him, "And we are going to have so many fantastic adventures in the future, and we are going to run as fast as possible, no one will be able to catch us," he folded me into an embrace, one that made me feel safe, "You and me, with Rose and Jack, all in the TARDIS, travelling through time and space. We're going to be so magnificent," I leant my head on his shoulder, "And absolutely fantastic," he look down at me, "Don't you think so?"

"Of course," I answered, smiling a little, although I could still feel that hole in me that had been filled when looking at the white light, "And who knows, maybe the TARDIS got inside my head and knows this. Forever..." I held onto his hand tightly, "I like the word: forever, you can do a lot with forever, and a lot in forever,"

"Nothing lasts forever," he reminded me,

"But we can pretend it does," I remarked, "Even just for one tiny little second, we can think that everything lasts forever. Forever and a day," I looked at our clasped hands, thinking about what Jack had said to me, "I'd like to spend forever and a day here...with you," I admitted to him honestly, "Running around forever. Not a bad life at all,"

"I wouldn't mind that either," he said, and I smiled widely at him, "So we have forever and a day to decide what to do, where to go, and whatever happens in the middle," he grinned at me, "Living in the moment, and never knowing what will happen next. Welcome to the TARDIS, Miss Mary-Anne Tyler,"

"And I wouldn't miss it for the world,"


So there it is and Bad Wolf is next, so watch out for that next chapter.

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