Chapter 55 - Trouble

The Doctor felt the blade cut into his throat. He arched his back to try to avoid anymore injury. A man, covered completely in black, walked up to him.

He whispered to another man who was there. "Isn't this Johnathon Smith? Isn't that her fiancee?"

"That's him. She's probably in that room he just came out of." another voice said.

"This will be easier than I thought." said another man.

Four men, dressed in black. Completely. Just like the hotel. Just like the cruise ship tape. And they were here for Rose.

The Doctor spoke, "A bit late for a social call, you think?"

One of the men hit him hard in the chest.

Rose heard the noise. She was torn as to whether she could run to help the Doctor, or stay to protect Genie.

The Doctor doubled over and looked up at his attacker. The man behind him grabbed his arms and forced him back upright, as the man who had hit him got into his face. The Doctor couldn't even see his eyes. This face was completely covered.

"That bitch alien of yours is ours now. Nobody makes a fool of me."

The Doctor laughed, "Seems like you are doing a pretty good job of that all on your own."

"I don't think you understand your position, Mr. Smith." the attacker told him.

Anger rushed over him worse than he had felt it that entire night. He wasn't going to let them take her and hurt her again. Genie was in there, too. He couldn't let them have his girls.

He gritted his teeth and looked into the face of the man. "No. I think it's you that does not understand your position."

The Doctor head butted the man in the face, and rocked his head back and head butted the other man that held him from behind. The other two men rushed to attack him. He spun around and kicked one in the side of the head, which pushed him into the other man that was attacking him.

The first guy had recovered and had his knife back out, pointed at the Doctor. He lunged forward to stab him. The Doctor turned his body just in time to avoid the strike. He lifted his hand to the man's face and knocked him out with the same sleeping trick that he had just used on Genie.

"One!" he yelled.

Another man rushed him, and tried to punch him. The Doctor blocked his punch, kneed him in the stomach and as he bent over, he put his hand on his neck. He fell onto the floor to sleep as well.

"Two...HA!" he yelled and laughed.

Rose could hear a fight. Worried, she shut the bedroom door and ran into the doorway.

Another man ran towards him as the other attacker jumped on him from behind. The Doctor quickly flipped the man off of his back and hit the approaching man with the falling body. They both lay on the floor as the Doctor quickly touched both of their heads and they lay still.

He raised up and smiled. "Three and four!" He put his hands on his hips and smiled.

Jake spoke from behind. "Damn. I came out to help, but I think you took care of it Doc'."

The Doctor looked at him, "See, Jakey-boy. No guns. And you can question them... well. When they wake up."

Shakes and his men were running down the hall. The Doctor looked at Rose, who was standing in the doorway. Shakes' men handcuffed the men that the Doctor had knocked out.

"That damn tux?" Rose asked him.

"Every time." he said as he gritted his teeth.

The Doctor ran down the hall and opened the door to Jacob and Tony's room. The first thing he noticed was Poltoius laying in the floor. He knelt down and checked. He had a dart in his neck. Zeus lay under the bed, he had been shot with a dart as well.

The Doctor looked around wildly.

"Jake!" he yelled.

Jake rushed into the room.

"Wake up everyone! Tony and Jacob are gone."

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The hallway was a buzz of activity very quickly. Howie and Pete stood in the hallway in their robes. Secret Service men were taking away the men that attacked the Doctor. Rose had on her robe as she stood next to Pete.

Pete was rubbing his face. "How are we going to find the boys? Will we have to wait for a ransom?"

Howie was furious. "If they lay one hand on my boy, or yours..." he gritted his teeth.

Pete looked over at Rose. "Where's the Doctor? "

Rose looked around, "I'm not sure. Let me go see if I can find him."

Rose walked back into their room. The bedroom door was opened. She walked in to find the Doctor putting on his jeans. He sat down on the edge of the bed and pulled on his trainers. His neck was bleeding from the cut.

"Hey. Are you alright?" she asked him.

"I knew it, Rose. I damn knew it! Why in the world didn't I just bring all three of those children in here? God knows what they have done to them already." he was angrier than she had ever seen him.

"This isn't your fault." Rose told him.

"Yes, it is. I knew this would happen! I told Pete it would happen! They are probably properly terrified at this moment. Who in the hell kidnaps kids?"

Rose shhh'ed him. Genie was sound asleep behind were he sat on the bed. He looked behind him at her. "Oh, don't worry about her. She'll be asleep until about noon tomorrow. I pushed her into a deep sleep. She doesn't need to know anything like this has happened."

He stood up and put on his jumper over his t-shirt. He grabbed two pillows and the duvet off of the bed and went into the sitting room. He returned to the bedroom and tucked Genie back in with a blanket.

Rose stood and watched him as he went back into the sitting room and opened his bigger on the inside box and put the duvet and pillows inside of it. He closed the box. He dug around in his pockets, looking for something.

"What are you doing?" Rose asked him.

He looked up at her, surprised. "What do you think I'm doing? I'm going to get them!"

Pete and Howie heard the shouting, and came into the room.

Rose was surprised. "Well, how are you going to do that?"

"Rose, I don't need a TARDIS to go find someone." he told her as he walked back in the bedroom and started looking around for something.

"What's going on?" Pete asked.

Rose shook her head. "I'm not really sure."

Jake, fully dressed, came in the room. "I'm here, Doc! Do you want Shakes, too?"

The Doctor yelled, "Yes! Shakes! Get him!"

Jake ran out of the room.

Pete called to the Doctor. "Doc! We probably just need to wait until they send us their demands."

The Doctor shook his head. "No, I'm not waiting that long. Rose, where the hell is my phone?"

Rose walked into the bedroom to help him look for his phone.

He snapped his fingers. "Ah! That damn tux! That's where everything is!"

He walked across the room and picked up the trousers. He took out his lollipops, a half of a bottle of damn whiskey, and his phone. He pushed everything into his pockets and felt around to ensure he had everything.

"Yeah, that will do." he said absentmindedly.

He climbed into the bed, leaned over and kissed Genie who was still sleeping.

He walked back into the sitting room, and picked up the bigger on the inside box. Howie and Pete's eyes got wide as they saw him slide in his jeans' pocket.

"How the hell did he do that?" Howie asked Pete.

"Beats me. I need the number of your tailor, Doctor." Pete told him.

Rose walked in to the sitting room. "Do you mean to tell me you are going now? Right now?"

The Doctor looked up at her. "Yes. I'm not wasting one minute."

She put her hands on her hips. "Well, then I'm going too."

He looked seriously at her. "Rose. That's exactly what they want. Then they will have you, too."

"I'm not this little, weak woman that you think I am!" she screamed at him. "That's my brother!"

The Doctor pointed to the bedroom. "That's your daughter!"

Rose pointed back to him, "Yours too!"

He sighed. She had a point.

"Ugh. Damn it, Rose!" he rubbed his face. "These people are brutal! I don't have to tell you that. You don't need to walk into this."

Jake came back in the room with Shakes, he stood next to Howie and Pete.

"Forget that. I'm going." Rose told him and walked back in the bedroom.

The Doctor looked over to Pete. "Help?"

Pete tossed up his hands. "Looks like she's made up her mind. Tyler women are stubborn."

The Doctor looked at Jake. "Talk to her!"

Jake shook his head. "Sorry, Doc. I agree with her."

The Doctor sighed and went after her. She already had on her jeans and was pulling on her t-shirt and jacket by the time he got in there.

"Rose. Don't do this." he pleaded with her.

She sat in the floor and put on her shoes. "To hell with that! I'm going."

He shook his head as he put his hands on his hips. "No, sweetheart."

She stood up in his face and pointed at him, forcefully. "Listen here old man. You know I can help! You know you need me! You know you are going to lose this argument!"

"Rose." he struggled to find words. "I really just don't think it's a good idea."

"Yeah! Because you know what is a good idea, huh? Do we need to bring up what your decisions concerning me have gotten us?"

He groaned and dropped his head. "I don't have time for this. Is there any way I can talk you out of this?"

Rose answered simply, "No."

He nodded his head. He turned and walked out to the sitting room.

He pointed at Shakes. "Jake, you take Shakes and I'll take Rose."

"Alright, where we headed?" Jake asked him.

The Doctor pulled a Bilitian stunner out of his pocket and handed it to Rose.

"Where the hell did you get this?" Rose asked him.

He had his phone in his hands, clicking away on the screen.

"You gave it to me that day the Norans crashed." he told her without looking up.

Knowing how he felt about guns, she was floored he had hung onto it all of this time.

Pete was confused. "I don't understand, Doctor. Are you leaving right now?"

He looked up at him, "Yes, Pete. We don't need to waste a minute. I've pushed Genie into a deep sleep. She will probably wake up about noon tomorrow. Please, be the grandfather she needs right now."

"Well, how do you know where the boys are?" Pete asked.

"Oh, Pete. I always will know where Tony Tyler is. He's my little brother. That, and he's got a Maassarani GPS on him." the Doctor said as he clicked on his phone.

"Like the one in my tooth?" Rose asked him.

The Doctor nodded. "Yes. I put one in that sonic screwdriver I gave him. He even sleeps with it."

Rose and Pete smiled in relief. It all made perfect sense now.

"Looks like they are in a car, or something. They are moving. Headed west on 81." the Doctor said.

He told Jake some numbers to type in on the gizmo.

"This is going to be tricky, because they are moving. I don't know if it is a car, or what. Be prepared to duck as soon as we land." the Doctor told them all.

He handed his phone with the map on the screen to Howie. "Give that to your Marines. Send them in. Let's end this tonight."

He turned to Jake and nodded, then turned to wrap his arms around Rose. It was the first time he had looked at her since she had demanded to come. He looked down at her. "Please be careful, Rose."

"Allon-sy." Rose said seriously as she looked into his eyes.

He forced a smile, "Allon-sy." he replied simply.

He put her hand on the watch, and held it tightly. "On three, Jake. One...two..."

The four disappeared from the White House.

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