Rose sat in her own head, wishing she could do something to stop Cassandra. At first, it was fear of how to save the Doctor, but that quickly changed into a much bigger problem when Cassandra's plan B came into action. Failing to convince the Sisters into giver her money for her silence, she was thick enough to think letting a row of patients out was a good idea.
Of course, one row turned into the whole stock. Every disease-ridden patient in the facility was freed, one touch killing you instantly. The Doctor was in immediate action mode, with Cassandra and Chip following suit. They went down, until they made it into the cellar where Cassandra had been hiding. They lost Chip along the way, but Rose knew he'd be back. Hopefully.
Those patient-zombies were everywhere, no matter where they turned.
"We're trapped!" Cried Cassandra, panicking. "What are we going to do?"
"Well, for starters, you're gonna leave that body." The Doctor said. "That psycho-graft is banned on every civilized planet. You're compressing Rose to death!"
"But I've got nowhere to go. My original skin's dead!"
"Not my problem. You can float as atoms in the air. Now get out." The Doctor raised his sonic menacingly at her silence and ordered her again. "Give her back to me."
"You asked for it." Cassandra said simply.
Almost immediately after Rose heard those words come out of her mouth, everything went black. Next thing she knew, she was in control again. A sudden pain pierced her temple.
"Blimey, my head." She said aloud.
"Oh, my." The Doctor said in a very Cassandra-like tone. "This is… different."
"Oh, no." Rose couldn't help but groan, staring at the Doctor's form now taken over by Cassandra.
"Goodness me, I'm a man." Cassandra mused. "Yum. So many parts, and hardly used."
Rose didn't even want to think about that last comment.
"Get out of him, Cassandra!" Rose shouted.
"Oooh, he's slim. And a little bit foxy." She waggled the Doctor's eyebrows at Rose. "Oh, c'mon, you think so too, don't you dearie?" She moved toward Rose, pointing at her teasingly. "I'll bet you've been looking. You like it."
BAM! The far door burst open and in came pouring the zombies.
"What do we do?" Cassandra asked Rose frantically, slapping her arm. "What would he do? The Doctor! What the hell would he do?"
"We gotta get out." Rose answered. She whipped around and spotted the latter. "Up! C'mon!"
"Outta the way, blondie!" Cassandra pushed Rose and started up the latter.
Rose's heart broke hearing their groans begging for help, but she moved swiftly up the latter away from the patients. They climbed up and up the elevator shaft.
"Cassandra, you need to listen to me." Rose said as she climbed. "If you get outta the Doctor's body, he can think of something."
"Blah, blah, blah. Y'know, it's just as dull in his head as it was yours."
"Cassandra, focus! We're gonna die if you don't…" But Rose didn't get to finish her sentence.
Something sharp grabbed her ankle and she yelped with shock and pain. It was one of the nurses. She seemed to have come out of nowhere. She was holding on tight to Rose, causing Rose to have to stop and hold on for dear life to make sure this cat didn't kill her.
"All our good work. All that healing. The good name of the Sisterhood. You have destroyed everything!" The nurse cried. Rose didn't have time to argue with her, it was hard enough just trying to shake her off.
"Oh, go and play with a ball of string." Cassandra quipped.
"Everywhere, disease." The nurse continued. "This is the human world. Sickness!"
That's when she started screaming. Her face broke out in hives and boils. She finally let go of Rose, but also the latter. Her screams echoed through the shaft as she fell to her death. Rose didn't have time to feel sorry for her with the patients gaining. She recovered swiftly and continued up the latter. Cassandra was practically shrieking at this point.
They finally made it to the top of the latter, their only escape being a sealed door.
"Now what do we do?" Cassandra asked Rose.
"You have to go back into my body." Rose said. "The Doctor can use the sonic screwdriver to get us out, it's the only way."
"Hold on tight." She said.
A pink light floated out of the Doctor and beelined its way to Rose. Rose was back in her mindscape, where she could see the Doctor, his dementor entirely changed now that he was himself again.
"Oh, chav-tastic again." Cassandra said. Rose rolled her eyes. "Open it!"
"Not until you get out of her." The Doctor threatened.
"We need the Doctor!" She yelled.
"I order you to get out of her!" The Doctor yelled back.
Cassandra took a deep breath and Rose was thrust back into her own first person vision, back in her body.
"No matter how difficult the situation is, there is no need to shout." Cassandra huffed, back in the Doctor's body.
"Cassandra, this isn't helping! He won't help if you're in my body, so go into someone else's!"
"But that would mean…" She started, disgusted.
"Just do it!" Rose yelled.
"Oh, I'm so going to regret this." She groaned. The pink energy floated out of the Doctor and into the first patient behind Rose. She moaned about how disgusting she looked while the Doctor soniced the door open. Just as he made a comment about having Rose back, she was thrusted back into her mindscape. She watched the Doctor as he soniced the door closed again.
"That is your last warning, Cassandra!" He yelled.
Rose's face looked stunned and pale. She didn't even flinch at the Doctor's tone, she just stared off into the distance, looking shaken.
"Inside her head… They're so alone." She croaked. "They keep reaching out just to hold us. All their lives and they've never been touched."
The Doctor reached his hand out to Cassandra. After a moment, she took it and together they made their way down the hall. The doors behind them banging with the sound of the patients reaching out for them.
Rose continued to watch as the Doctor and Cassandra made their way out into the ward. There were survivors in the room. One woman told the Doctor of her plan to break quarantine and get herself out, not thinking of the consequences, of course. The Doctor quickly shut her down and began his plan. He called for every medical solution they had on hand. Everyone moved swiftly and Rose began piecing together his plan.
Of course, if the zombie patients were infected with everything, the best thing to do was to cure them. Once the Doctor had every solution they had strapped to him he opened the doors to the lift with his sonic.
"The lift's aren't working." Cassandra reminded the Doctor.
"Not moving, different thing." He backed up to get a running start, put the sonic between his teeth, then jumped on to the lift's wires.
"What do you think you're doing?" Cassandra asked incredulously.
"I'm going down." The Doctor said, the sonic still in his mouth, making the words hard to hear. He took the sonic out of his mouth and used it to clamp the pully he found to the wire. "Come on."
"Ha! Not in a million years." Cassandra said, crossing her arms.
"I need another pair of hands and I told you, I'm not letting that body outta my sight." He told her, but she didn't budge. "C'mon, if you're so desperate to stay alive, why don't you live a little?"
It was only when the sound of the patients coming started growing closer that Cassandra ran and jumped onto the Doctor's back.
"You're completely mad. I can see why she likes you." Cassandra commented.
"Going down!" The Doctor yelled, and with the push of a button they were practically flying down the shaft. Cassandra screamed while the Doctor whooped and laughed. When they finally screeched to the bottom, the Doctor went right back to business. He instructed Cassandra to hold down the lever while he began opening the medicine bags with his teeth and pouring the solution into the tank before them. Oh, he was clever, Rose thought and she pieced together the finale of his plan. When he was done, he jumped down into the lift and opened the doors with his sonic. Cassandra couldn't see what he was doing, but Rose could.
From her third person perspective, she watched as the Doctor beckoned them closer, the disinfectant solution pouring over everyone who came into the lift. As the patients exited and passed it on, Rose could see them all being cured.
