Series 1: Episode 10: The Doctor Dances P1:

"Go to your room. Go to your room." The Doctor repeated, stopping them in their tracks. "I mean it. I'm very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross." He spoke and Valarie looked around to see the creatures standing there moving forwards as they all called for their mummies at once, the sound deafening. He suddenly became father-like as his voice got louder and sterner.

"GO…TO…YOUR…ROOM!" He shouted, finishing off the words with a large pointing gesture as if knowing where its room was. The people watched him for a moment before retreating, going back to their beds. Valarie breathed a sigh of relief, having put herself in front of Rose in meagre hopes to protect her. "I'm really glad that worked. Those would've been terrible last words." The Doctor spoke, leaving them all with that sense of dread and uncertainty.

They retreated to the next room down the hallway, still full of patients but less as it was smaller. "Why are they all wearing gas masks?" Rose asked, bending down next to one of them.

"They're not. Those masks are flesh and bone." Jack told her and Valarie let out a sigh, looking down in pity at these people. She bent down next to a separate one and resisted to urge pat their arm and soothe them through the pain they must be feeling.

"How was your con supposed to work?" The Doctor asked, still watching Jack suspiciously, as everyone in the room was. Valarie tried not to but couldn't help glaring at him. She knew he was a con man, up from that dance, she knew he was not the best person in the world but she still felt betrayed and she couldn't help the anger that was pouring from her. But for some reason all of these strong feelings weren't just anger. She knew she felt something else but she couldn't focus on it enough. She didn't want to in case of finding out something she didn't like.

"Simple enough really." Jack told him. "Find some harmless piece of space junk, let the nearest time agent track it back to Earth. Convince them it's valuable and name a price. When they've put 50% up front, oops a German bomb falls on it, destroys it forever." He told them in steps and Valarie sucked in a breath seeing how close he'd gotten, had she been a time agent. "They never get to see what they've paid for, never knows they've been had." He finished, as Valarie let out the breath, looking back down at the patient.

"I buy her a drink with her own money and we discuss dumb luck." He finished as he looked at Valarie. The use of 'her' did not go unnoticed as she tried to hold back the tears swimming in her eyes. Her breathing was becoming uneven and she couldn't look at him any longer, turning around. She put a hand on her stomach, hating how easy it had been for him to become so important to her and how little he had to say to affect her like this. "The perfect self-cleaning con." He added, obviously letting doubt crawl into his mind about that despite his insistence his hands were clean.

"Yeah. Perfect." The Doctor deadpanned dangerously.

"The London Blitz is great for self-cleaners. Pompeii's nice if you want to make a vacation of it though." He considered, still being cheerful despite the dark, gloomy demeanour of about everyone in the room apart from him. "But you've got to set your alarm for Volcano Day." He laughed, the sounds slowly petering out until there was not even a smile left. "Getting a hint of disapproval." He tipped his head to the side, watching the Doctor.

"Take a look around the room. This is what your piece of harmless space junk did." He spat, not moving his body but his head nodded towards the patients and it was enough of a trigger.

"It was a burnt out medical transporter, it was empty." He emphasised.

"Rose." The Doctor moved away, leaving Jack there.

"Are we getting out of here?" She asked as The Doctor nodded for Valarie to join, all of them moving to the corner where Jack couldn't hear them.

"We're going upstairs." He told them as they moved.

"I even programmed the flight computer so it wouldn't land on anything living, I harmed no one!" He shouted after him, the words becoming more desperate as the Doctor walked off, paying no sign of attention. "I don't know what's happening here but believe me, I had nothing to do with it." He insisted, his voice becoming low again as the Doctor turned to face him.

"Yes, you've said already." Valarie spoke as she walked past him. Jack sighed at her, wondering why he'd done the con as it had hurt her so much but he didn't say anything. He knew not to antagonise a woman like Valarie when she was angry.

"I'll tell you what's happening. You forgot to set your alarm clock." The Doctor spoke, holding the door open for Rose and Valarie to walk through. "It's Volcano Day!" He told him louder, projecting his voice as Valarie stopped by the door to get one last look of disapproval through when an air-raid siren blared, echoing through the hallways.

"What's that?" Rose asked, hearing the noise.

"The all clear." Jack told her with a slight sigh.

"I wish." The Doctor remarked, walking through with Rose right behind him. Valarie looked to the window, taking a breath before walking after them purposefully. Jack followed, running after them. By this time, the Doctor had gotten all the way up the stairs and Valarie and Jack ran after him, Rose already in front.

"Mr Spock?" Jack called, bringing a small smile onto Valarie's face. The first real one in what felt like years.

"Doctor?" Valarie called, embarrassing Jack and bringing a larger smile onto her face.

"You got a blaster?" The Doctor asked, poking his head out from the staircase they had just run past. They ran back, grabbing onto the banister to steady themselves and Valarie looked up as Rose run up past her, hair flying behind while Valarie's was all caught up in her face. She pushed it out of the way and Jack arrive behind her, grabbing her shoulder to stop himself. She looked behind her and held his hand, pulling him back so he wouldn't fall before looking back up and pretending nothing had happened. She still hadn't forgiven him and this was no sign she did.

"Sure." Jack replied to his earlier question, looking up and sparing a glance at Valarie for confirmation of her gesture and receiving nothing, ran up the stairs.

"The night your space junk landed, someone was hurt." The Doctor explained, hostility still evident in his voice. "This is where they were taken." He told them, gesturing to the door.

"What happened?" Rose asked, breathless.

"Let's find out, get it open." He ordered and Jack got into action right away, pulling out his blaster and pointing it at the door. The Doctor walked over to Rose and Valarie who had run up after Jack and saw what was going on and Rose asked.

"What's wrong with your sonic screwdriver?"

"Nothing." He replied, watching as Jack removed a square of the door near the lock, making the door swing open, its hinges creaking. "Sonic blaster, 51st century." The Doctor noted, looking at it as Valarie realised it was all a test. "Weapons factories of Villengard." He moved forwards.

"You've been to the factories?" Jack asked.

"Once." The Doctor replied shortly.

"Well they're gone now, destroyed. Main reactor went critical – vaporised the lot." He explained, letting the Doctor take his sonic blaster and inspect it.

"Like I said, once." The Doctor spoke, handing it back. Jack's face melted in realisation and Valarie swallowed nervously. She always did this when the Doctor became dark and haunted by memories. "There's a banana grove there now. I like bananas. Bananas are good." The Doctor finished, turning to Rose and Valarie who smiled. He had a habit of turning from dark to light in a matter of seconds.

"Nice blast pattern." Rose commended, walking through.

"Digital." Jack explained.

"Squareness gun?" Valarie asked, inspecting it with her eyes, not wanting to ask.

"Yeah." Jack nodded, offering her the gun which she took turning it over and such, interested. The Doctor hadn't wanted to talk much about weapons but her years in the military had taught her much about weaponry and she was excited to see how it had developed. She had researched a lot of that herself.

"I like it." She smiled, giving it back as Jack smiled somewhat nervously, pocketing it again as Valarie walked through. They saw a room full of random junk, broken record players, tape wire everywhere, and pieces of machinery left on the floor.

"What do you think?" The Doctor asked, surveying the room.

"Something got out of here." Valarie sighed, stating the obvious.

"Yeah and?" The Doctor asked, wanting more details.

"Something powerful." Rose put in. "Angry." She looked around, blowing out a breath.

"Powerful and angry." The Doctor mused. They moved into another section of the room, entering through the doorframe, the door having been ripped off of its hinges.

"A child?" Jack asked incredulously, seeing the drawing on the wall of stick woman with long hair, all types and all sizes etc. "I suppose this explains 'Mummy'." He thought out loud, still looking.

"How could a child do this?" Rose asked, gesturing to the destruction. The Doctor pressed play on the tape in the tape recorder and a man's voice came out.

"Do you know where you are?" It asked, sounding doctor-like and professional.

"Are you my mummy?" The familiar voice asked.

"Are you aware of what's around you?" The doctor asked again, hoping for some response. "Can you… see?" He asked, unsure of how to put it.

"Are you my mummy?" The child asked again, slightly more forcefully this time.

"What do you want? Do you know-" The doctor asked again, being interrupted by the child.

"I want my mummy!" The child spoke, angrier. "Are you my mummy? I want my mummy!" It went on a rant, still playing. "Are you my mummy? Are you my mummy?" It asked on repeat, the tone of voice changing every time. Valarie looked around the room in pity, sad for the child who simply wanted their mother. "Mummy? Mummy?" It called out, leaving the room in silence.

"Doctor, I've heard this voice before." Rose spoke up, trying to cut through the gloom.

"Me too."

"Mummy?" The voice kept saying.

"Always, "Are you my mummy?"" Rose quoted, pointing towards the recorder. "Like he doesn't know." Rose spoke.

"Mummy?"

"Why doesn't he know?"

"Are you there Mummy? Mummy? Mummy! Please Mummy! Mummy!"

"Doctor?" Rose asked, listening to the ongoing tape.

"Can you sense it?" The Doctor asked, pacing.

"Sense what?" Valarie asked, feeling unnerved by the voice.

"Coming out of the walls. Can you feel it?" The Doctor asked more insistent.

"Mummy?"

"Funny little human brains! How do you get around in those things?" The Doctor asked incredulously.

"When he's stressed he likes to insult species." Rose excused for him as Jack smiled awkwardly.

"Rose, I'm thinking!" The Doctor interrupted.

"Cuts himself shaving, he does half an hour on life-forms he's cleverer than." Valarie remembered, crossing her arms as she watched him pace.

"There are these children. Living rough, round the bomb sites. They come out during the air-raids looking for food." He explained, looking between them all.

"Mummy please?"

"Suppose they were there when this thing, whatever it was landed?" He asked, working on a theory.

"It was a med ship; it was harmless." Jack interrupted, still defending himself.

"Yes, you keep saying harmless." The Doctor fired back. "Suppose one of them was affected, altered." He suggested, looking mainly at Rose and Valarie.

"Altered how?" Rose asked, prompting him.

"I'm here!"

"It's afraid, terribly afraid. And powerful. It doesn't know it yet, but it will do." He worried before smiling. "It's got the power of a god and I just sent it to its room!" He jumped giddily.

"Doctor?" Rose asked again, unnerved by the clicking sound.

"I'm here! Can't you see me?"

"What's that noise?" Rose asked, snapping.

"That's the end of the tape, it ran out about 30 seconds ago." Valarie explained before realising what she had said.

"I'm here now, can't you see me?" The voice asked.

"I sent it to its room. This, is its room." The Doctor emphasised, turning around quickly to see the small child standing there next to the tape recorder.

"Are you my mummy?" It asked, looking the same as ever. "Mummy?" It asked looking at Rose.

"Doctor?" Rose asked nervously.

"Are you my mummy?" It asked again, turning to Valarie who breathed deep, moving forwards slightly. She looked at the Doctor, nodding before looking to the child again, smiling kindly.

"Ok, on my signal, run to the door." She warned everyone as the child's attention was focused on her. She took another step forward getting close.

"Valarie…" Jack and Rose asked at the same time, knowing it was dangerous.

"Mummy?"

"3…2…1…Go!" She shouted and the Doctor and Jack both pulled out weapons from under their coats. The Doctor had stolen Jack's sonic blaster and replaced it with a banana. Valarie pulled Rose and shoved her out of the hole in the wall, a perfect square.

"Go now, don't drop the banana!" The Doctor instructed, shouting at Jack who was inspecting the banana suspiciously.

"Why not?" He asked incredulously, running out with Valarie patting his back and then the Doctor's, making sure they were all safe.

"Good source of potassium!" The Doctor shouted, the 3 of them safely out. Valarie was about to follow when she was pulled back, her scarf getting stepped on by the child.

"Mummy? Are you my Mummy?" The child asked, moving forwards still stepping on her scarf. She tugged on it hopelessly as the child tightened his grip.

"Doctor?" She asked, as he moved forwards, pulling out his sonic screwdriver and pointing it at the scarf. "Doctor! Help!" She shouted, struggling to get out of its iron grip. Jack grabbed her arm and pulled as well, his arms around her as they pulled, grunting while Rose looked for a way out, to escape the other patients coming down the hallway, advancing on them as she tried opening the window. "Doctor!" She shouted again as the child grabbed her hand, letting go of the scarf.

"No! Don't let it touch the flesh!" The Doctor shouted too late. Valarie removed her hand but the deed was done and she fell back into Jack's chest. She let out a yell, pulling her arm and scarf away from the child, the Rose replacing the square wall, sealing the child in and see the wall start to break before pointing it at the ground, sending them all falling. They screamed together, Valarie and Jack still holding each other before crashing.

"Are you alright?" He asked, holding her.

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine." She breathed, getting up. Jack moved back and she looked to the Doctor who watched sadly. "Doctor? What's going to happen to me?" She asked, looking at her arm.

"You're looking at it." He repeated from earlier.

"Please tell me you can reverse this?" She asked, looking at him pleadingly. There was no reply and Rose got up, having not heard what was being said.

"Digital rewind! Nice switch." She commended to the Doctor, still holding the sonic blaster. "Is that from the groves of Villengard? Appropriate." She smiled, gesturing to the banana in the Doctor's hands. "I still can't believe that you did that." Rose blew out a breath, still oblivious to what had happened.

"Bananas are good." The Doctor replied darkly not looking at her.

"What's wrong?" She asked as everyone looked at Valarie's arm, still holding the place where he had touched it. Valarie looked up with tears in her eyes, blinking them away before Rose could see it.

"Nothing. We're fine. Just a bit shocked. I thought I'd hurt my arm." Valarie lied, dropping her arm, hiding her hand behind her as they scar was starting to appear. Rose still seemed suspicious but trusted her and walked away to find the lights. "Just a thought. It's nothing." Valarie smiled nervously, waiting until Rose was out of the hallway. Then she took a look at the back of her left hand, seeing the scar start to form and sting as she stroked her hand over it, wiping away a tear before dropping it again. "Well, let's go!" She spoke cheerily, waiting for the Doctor to go first, making sure to keep distance between them.

She was about to go when Jack put a hand on her shoulder. She moved away, gasping as if burnt and looked at him worriedly. "Glove." He spoke, seeing her concern and holding up his hand. She calmed down a little and watched him.

"What are you doing? Don't touch me, we don't know if it works even with the glove. I don't want to infect you!" She shouted quietly, trying to keep her voice down. Jack rolled his eyes, moving forwards.

"Look, are you really going to keep lying to her? What if we can't find a cure?" He asked, leaving Valarie ready and armed with an answer as the thought had crossed her mind before.

"Well then, I'll leave. Chuck me into the sun or something, just get rid of me." She told him, no fear in her eyes.

"Aren't you scared?" He asked.

"Terrified. But I'm not going to let that be anyone's last memory of me." She spoke, taking a shakier breath now that he had identified what was really going on. Jack was speechless and she smiled before walking out of the room. He followed, shaking his head and they entered the room where Rose and the Doctor were, as soon as they did seeing Rose wiggle her eyebrows at her suggestively and Valarie rolled her eyes, ignoring her and turning the light on. As soon as she did, the patients in the room all got up, calling for their mummies. Jack turned to the locked door they had been cornered into and pointed his sonic blaster at it before cursing and tapping the side of it.

"Damn it. It's the special features, they really drain the battery." He spoke in an annoyed tone, as Valarie put up a barrier around them using herself and figuring she had nothing left to lose as she was already infected.

"It's keeping us here till it can get at us!" The Doctor explained, looking around.

"It's controlling them?" Jack asked, trying to get his sonic blaster to work.

"It is them. It's every living thing in this hospital." The Doctor clarified.

"Ok, this can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic cannon and it's a triple enfolded sonic disruptor." Jack explained, pointing it at everything, not being able to decide what the biggest threat was. "Doc, what you got?" He asked, as the Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver.

"Uh, I've got a sonic uh, never mind." He dismissed, pointing it around as well.

"What?"

It's sonic ok, let's leave it at that."

"Disruptor cannon, what?"

"It's sonic, totally sonic, I am sonic-ed up!" The Doctor shouted, both of the frantically sonicing everything.

"A sonic what?" Jack shouted, pushing the Doctor to his limits.

"SCREWDRIVER!" He burst with the pressure, making Valarie give up and scream for them to move.

"Get out of the way!" She shouted and the Doctor pulled Rose out of the way while Jack moved by himself. Valarie kicked the door open, bursting through it, not bothering to wait for them all in hopes of not touching them. They followed, the Doctor locking the door behind them and running down the hallway into an empty room.

"Who has a sonic screwdriver?" Jack asked incredulously once they had made sure they were safe. Rose kept looking around for a way out while Valarie sealed herself off from everyone, making sure she was isolated.

"I do!"

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

"What, you never been bored? Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?" The Doctor asked, defending his sonic.

"Boys! Calm down." Valarie shouted, looking out the window. "Honestly, you and your toys. Yours doesn't even work." She sighed, gesturing to Jack's.

"Well I was going to send for another one but somebody blew up the factories." Jack retorted as the Doctor locked another door, sealing them in.

"I know, first day I met him, he blew my job up. Hat's practically how he communicates." Rose sympathised. Valarie was silent and Rose turned to her. "What's wrong?" She asked and Valarie snapped out of it, untying her scarf and wrapping it around herself.

"Nothing, it's just cold." She excused, tying it around her body instead so no one could touch her bare arms and hopefully become infected. "Yeah the first day I met the Doctor he shut down my base, flooding it with cement." She told Jack, trying to move on in the conversation.

"Ok, that door should hold it for a bit." The Doctor spoke, finishing the job.

"The door? The wall didn't stop it!" Jack shouted, getting angry.

"Well, its got to find us first. Come on! Assets!" The Doctor shouted back, getting into action.

"Well I've got a banana and in a pinch you could put up some shelves." Jack spoke sarcastically.

"Window?" The Doctor asked, jumping up.

"Barred, sheer drop outside, seven storeys." Jack told him.

"And no other exits." Rose spoke, wheeling around in a wheelchair.

"Well the assets conversation went in a flash didn't it?" Jack spoke, sitting down.

"So-" He was about to ask Valarie but she had gone.

"Doctor!" Rose shouted, seeing she was gone as well. "Valarie just disappeared." She told him, looking around before realising Jack had disappeared as well. "Doctor! Jack is gone as well!" She told him and the Doctor looked around before sighing.

"They'll be back." He spoke, leaving Rose to gawp at him.

"What? How do you know?" She asked, looking at him as he got on top of the table, pulling out his sonic screwdriver.

"Because Valarie will make him. You ever known Valarie to leave friends behind?" He asked, making Rose smiled.

"Ok, so he's vanished into thin air. Why is it always the great looking ones who do that?" Rose complained, trying to piece everything together.

"I'm making an effort not to be insulted." The Doctor replied.

"I mean… men." Rose tried to amend her mistake.

"Ok thanks, that really helped." The Doctor retorted sarcastically.

"What you doing?" She asked, having been spinning round in the wheelchair for long enough.

"Trying to set up a resonation pattern in the concrete, loosen the bars." The Doctor explained.

"What happened to 'they'll come back'?" Rose asked, leaning forward.

"Wouldn't bet my life on it." He replied.

"What about faith in Valarie?" Rose fired back.

"It's not Valarie I don't have faith in."

"Why don't you trust him?"

"Why do you?"

"Saved Valarie's life back there. Bloke-wise that's up there with flossing." Rose joked before taking a breath. "I trust him because he's like you. Except probably with dating and dancing." Rose thought out loud. The Doctor shook his head at her words and she watched him. "What?"

"You just assume I'm…"

"What?"

"You just assume I don't… dance." He finished.

"What? Are you telling me you do… dance?"

"900 years old, me. I've been around a bit. I think you can assume at some point I've… danced." He spoke, ending the last word mimicking Rose's accent.

"You?!"

"Problem?"

"Doesn't the universe implode or something if you dance?"

"Well, I've got the moves but I wouldn't want to boast."

"Rose, Doctor, can you hear me?" Jack's voice came through the radio, crackly. "Back on my ship, used the emergency teleport. Sorry I couldn't take you, it's security-keyed to mine and Valarie's molecular structures. I'm working on it, hang in there." He told them.

"Valarie's with you? And, how are you speaking to us?" Rose asked, always the person to look out for her friends.

"Yes, she's on board and completely fine. And I'm using Om-Com, I can call anything with a speaker grill."

"Now there's a coincidence." The Doctor thought out loud.

"What is?"

"The Child can Om-Com too."

"It can?" Rose asked incredulously.

"Anything with a speaker grill." The Doctor repeated. "Even the TARDIS phone."

"What, you mean the Child can phone us?" She asked, the possibility registering in her mind.

"And I can hear you. Coming to find you. Coming to find you." The Child's voice interrupted, coming through the radio.

"Doctor, can you hear that?" Jack asked, the voice resonating in the spaceship.

"Loud and clear." The Doctor replied.

"I'll try to block out the signal, least I can do." He told the Doctor and Rose. "Remember this one Valarie?" He asked, putting on 'Moonlight Serenade' by Glenn Miller. Rose got up and turned the music up, walking back to the centre of the room.

"You've got the moves? Show me your moves!" Rose held her hand up, looking at the Doctor.

"Rose, I, I'm trying to resonate concrete." He spoke, showing her the sonic screwdriver.

"I can do that. You can dance." Valarie spoke, holding out her hand. She had shrugged on Jack's coat, using it as a barrier to protect Rose and everyone else in case they should touch her. She didn't tell them but she was experiencing major chest pain, her breathing becoming harder and more forced.

"Valarie? Where did you go?" Rose asked, moving to hug her.

"Just got transported back to the ship." She excused herself.

"Oh, and Moonlight Serenade? What does that mean Valarie?" Rose asked, insinuating something. Valarie blushed, trying to roll her eyes.

"It's our song." Jack told them through the Om-Com as Valarie tried not to smile, biting her lip.

"Valarie?" The Doctor asked, giving her a look.

"Yeah, I guess it kind of is. I can feel the disapproval from here, Doctor." She told him with a barely suppressed smile. Valarie moved towards the Doctor who threw her the sonic, careful not to touch and took Rose in his arms.

"Shall we dance?" He asked, taking her mind off of Valarie as she stood up on the table and resonating concrete. "The world doesn't end because the Doctor dances." He smiled. They began to sway and Valarie watched for a moment before whispering.

"Jack, time to go. I bet you they won't notice."

"You know, most people notice when they've been teleported." Jack called out to both Rose and the Doctor, both of them not having noticed they'd gone.

"I told you they wouldn't notice. You owe me." Valarie smiled, becoming more like herself once she was sure she was safe and away from them.

"You guys are so sweet." Jack smiled. "Sorry about the delay." He apologised, fiddling with everything. "Had to take the nav-com off-line to override the teleport security.

"You spent 10 minutes overriding the protocols. Maybe you should remember whose ship it is." The Doctor quipped and Jack laughed.

"Oh I do. She was gorgeous." He smiled. "Like I told her, be back in 5 minutes." He spoke, making Valarie blush as he ducked down into the main controls.

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