After getting the call that the Slitheen was heading north from the Doctor, Mickey and Aries ran down a corridor.
Aries was quick to move around the cleaning lady, but Mickey wasn't so fortunate as he collided with her. Aries stopped running and headed back to help Mickey, but he stopped her.
"I'm fine, just go stop her," he told her as he tried to help the cleaning lady up as well as getting himself upright.
Frowning, Aries nodded before rushing off, hoping to stop the Slitheen before she escaped.
"Who's on Exit Four?!" Jack asked the Doctor and Rose as he met up with them.
"That was Mickey and Aries!" Rose exclaimed.
The Doctor frowned, hoping that nothing had happened to his Nesdra as he watched Margret heading off towards where Aries and Mickey should have been covering.
"Here I am," Mickey said as he approached them, his foot stuck in a bucket.
The Doctor's head snapped towards him, "Mickey the idiot," he said before his eyes narrowed, "Where's Aries?!" he asked as he stepped towards the man. If anything had happened to her, he really wasn't sure what he'd do.
"I'm sure she's fine, Doc," Jack said, stopping the Time Lord when he placed a hand in his shoulder, "She can look after herself."
"It's not like Margret's going to out run us," Rose told them, feeling angry that all their attention was once again on Aries. Why couldn't she just disappear for good, Rose couldn't help but think.
The four of them looked back to Margret's retreating form, only to watch her run into something that looked like a transparent wall with a red hue. Not a moment later, Aries stepped into their view from the direction Margret was heading.
"What was that?" Mickey asked as he made his way over.
"Who cares," Rose muttered as she followed them.
"This I gotta see," Jack said with a grin. He'd seen Aries angry once before, and he was quite glad that this time, her anger wasn't directed at him.
"Oh, no you don't," Aries said as she made a motion with her hand towards Margret, causing the brooch she was holding fly from her hands and towards Aries who caught it, "Can't let you get away, now can we."
"You!" Margret shouted when she recognised the red head as the others reached them, "This is persecution. Why can't you leave me alone? What did I ever do to you?"
Aries stepped towards the Slitheen, her eyes cold, "You tried to kill me and destroy this entire planet."
"Apart from that," Margret said dismissively.
Aries eyes narrowed as the Doctor stepped up beside her, "You are also wanted by your own people, having been found guilty of a multitude of crimes and exiled with the threat of execution if you were to return. That doesn't even include the crimes your family have committed throughout the universe as they run your family business."
Margret's eyes widened, "Oh."
The Doctor, Mickey and Rose looked to Aries in surprise, not having known, while Jack was watching Aries intently.
He couldn't say for certain, but he was still getting the feeling that the red head didn't know who she was. Except for her vast knowledge, she had shown no other traits of what the Alchemist was known for. There was also the mention about her eyes and how they changed when her powers were used, but he hadn't seen that yet. It could be because of her human side, he mused, knowing that the Alchemist had been full Time Lord, well, Lady.
He needed to speak to her while the Doctor wasn't around, which Jack knew would be difficult after learning about their bond. But he needed to know how much Aries knew.
The moment Aries stepped into the conference room that was just off Margret's office, she was immediately drawn to the model of a nuclear power station.
"So, you're a Slitheen, you're on Earth, you're trapped. Your family get killed but you teleport out just in the nick of time. You have no means of escape. What do you do? You build a nuclear power station. But what for?" the Doctor asked as he moved around the room.
"A philanthropic gesture," Margret said as she sat down in a chair, "I've learnt the error of my ways."
Aries snorted as she looked the model over. There was something about it, but she couldn't figure out what. "And it just so happens to be right on top of the rift," she stated, glancing at Margret before continuing to examine the model.
"What rift would that be?" Margret asked, feigning ignorance.
"A rift in space and time," Jack told her, "If this power station went into meltdown, the entire planet would go," he made an exploding gesture with his hands.
Aries furrowed her brows, "This station is designed to explode the moment it reaches capacity," she said as she noticed something.
"Didn't anyone notice?" Rose asked, looking at the Doctor, "Isn't someone in London checking this sort of stuff?"
Aries frowned at Rose's words. Why didn't anyone notice this? she thought.
"We're in Cardiff. London doesn't care. The South Wales coast could fall into the sea and they wouldn't notice," Margret told them before she paused in surprise, "Oh. I sound like Welshman. God help me, I've gone native."
"But why would she do that?" Mickey asked, looking quite confused, "A great big explosion, she'd only end up killing herself."
"She's got a name, you know," Margret huffed.
"She's not even a she, she's a thing," Mickey shot back.
"Oh, but she's clever," Aries cut in as she knocked over the model, only to pull out the middle section and turn it over.
"Fantastic," the Doctor said to Aries at her find as he came over to inspect it.
Rose glared at Aries, wondering how she always seemed to be able to get the Doctor's attention. She was really starting to hate the red head.
"Is that a tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator?" Jack asked, also moving closer to have a look, though he made sure to keep from getting to close to Aries when he noticed the Doctor stiffen and glance at him with narrowed eyes. He didn't want a jealous Time Lord on his back and he'd rather like to live a long life.
"Couldn't have said it better myself," the Doctor remarked his voice a little tense. He did relax slightly when he realised what Jack was doing. He was rather glad that the man understood their bond, and after not having seen Aries in so long was causing the protective and possessive instincts to be more profound than normal. He couldn't help but hope that she would travel with him after this as he didn't know how he would deal with her absence again.
"Can I?" Jack asked Aries, holding his hand out for the extrapolator, glancing at the Doctor as he did so, only to find the Time Lord watching his every move.
Aries nodded and handed it over, causing the Doctor to relax further when Jack turned away from Aries to look over the extrapolator.
"Oo, genius!" Jack exclaimed as he studied the extrapolator, "You didn't build this," he added, looking at Margret.
"I have my hobbies. A little tinkering," Margret told him.
"No, no, no. I mean, you really didn't build this. Way beyond you," Jack stated.
"I bet she stole it," Mickey spoke up as he also had a look at it.
"It fell into my hands," Margret said evasively.
"Is it a weapon?" Rose asked, looking at Jack before she noticed the Doctor watching Aries as she moved around the room.
"It's transport. You see, if the reactor blows, the rift opens. Phenomenal cosmic disaster. But this thing shrouds you in a forcefield. You have this energy bubble, so you're safe. Then you feed it co-ordinates," Jack explained before placing it on the floor and standing on it, "Stand on top, and ride the concussion all the way out of the solar system."
"It's a surfboard," Mickey guessed.
Jack nodded as he picked it up, "A pan-dimensional surfboard, yeah."
Aries looked around the room before something caught her eye. She frowned as she moved closer to a large banner on the wall, eyeing the words written on it and feeling rather startled when she translated it.
"And it would've worked. I'd have surfed away from this dead end dump and back to civilization," Margret said, giving up on pretending any longer.
"You'd blow up a whole planet just to get a lift?" Mickey asked incredulously.
The Doctor frowned when he noticed Aries staring at something and made his way over to her, wondering why it would have startled her. He placed a hand on her shoulder, causing her to jump and look to him. His frown deepened in worry as he saw her face flicker in fear. "Are you okay?" he questioned in concern.
Aries swallowed and nodded, "I'm fine," she told him, "It's just the name." She looked back to the banner, only to blink as it had changed from what it said a moment ago. "That's weird," she muttered.
"What?" the Doctor asked as he looked up to the banner, only to frown at the words.
"I...I thought it said something else," Aries said as she furrowed her brows in confusion.
The Doctor looked to Aries, rather confused himself, "What did it say?" he questioned.
Aries shook her head, "Nothing. I must have mistranslated," she lied, wondering why she would have seen the words Eternal Wolf written in Welsh. Could be that I'm thinking too much about my past, she thought, trying to convince herself.
The Doctor frowned, not believing her. She wasn't the type to do something so simple as mistranslate something, but he wasn't going to press her to tell him. He knew that she'd just shut down if he did so. He looked up to the banner, his frown deepening. It could be a coincidence, he mused as he read it, though he highly doubted that. "How'd you think of the name?" he asked out loud.
"What, Blaidd Drwg?" Margret asked, rather surprised at the question, "It's Welsh."
"I know, but how did you think of it?" the Doctor questioned again.
Aries looked to the Doctor, wondering why he looked troubled by the words.
"I chose it at random, that's all," Margret told him with a shrug, "I don't know. It just sounded good. Does it matter?"
"Blaidd Drwg," the Doctor said.
"What's it mean?" Rose asked, shooting a glare at Aries as she realised that she was once again beside the Doctor.
"Bad Wolf," the Doctor translated.
"But I've heard that before," Rose said, rather startled by the translation, "Bad Wolf. I've heard that lots of times."
Aries glanced at the blonde in surprise. If she had been startled from seeing Eternal Wolf written there, Rose looked almost terrified at hearing that it now said Bad Wolf.
"Everywhere we go," the Doctor muttered, "Two words following us. Bad Wolf."
"How can they be following us?" Rose asked, her fear now creeping into her voice.
The Doctor glanced at his companion, hearing her fear. He then glanced at Aries who was looking between them in confusion. He was rather glad that those two words didn't seem to mean anything to her, though he did wonder what she had seen written there. He shook his head, "Nah, just a coincidence. Like hearing a word on the radio then hearing it all day," he said as he turned to the others, "Never mind. Things to do. Margret, we're going to take you home."
"Hold on, isn't that the easy option, like letting her go?" Jack asked.
"I don't believe it!" Rose exclaimed, her fears on the words now forgotten, "We actually get to go to Raxa," she paused, trying to get it right, "Raxacor..."
"Raxacoricofallapatorius," Aries cut in, turning to Margret with a hard expression, "And no. It's not the easy option. She can be trialled there for her crimes and deal with the consequences."
Rose shot Aries a glare at cutting her attempt of saying Raxacoricofallapatorius. The red head always seemed to get in her way of getting closer to the Doctor and Rose was starting to think she was doing it on purpose.
"They have the death penalty. The moment I return, I am to be executed. What do you make of that? Take me home and you take me to my death," Margret said, staring at Aries.
Aries didn't even move as she replied, "You should have thought of the repercussions of your actions. The moment you were exiled, you could have changed your ways, but you didn't. You've murdered in an attempt at making a profit. You put an entire world at risk, not once but twice. If you want to know what I think of your situation, you should have stopped while you were ahead."
The Doctor glanced at his Nesdra in surprise. The way she explained it, the way she spoke, it was as if she had done it before. There was something about her, something he just couldn't put his finger on. His thoughts were broken when he noticed Jack watching Aries intently once again. He shifted closer to his Nesdra, causing Jack to smirk at him before looking back at the extrapolator.
The Doctor scowled at the man, not enjoying what he was doing. He hoped if Aries decided to travelled with him, his instincts would calm so they weren't so overwhelming. It wasn't that he wasn't enjoying being close to her, but when they kicked in, they drove every other thought from his mind.