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Donna shook her head as Ianto drove the SUV towards Essex. He seemed to know where he was going. The thought of seeing a regenerated Doctor wasn't exactly filling her with excitement. Her Doctor was a scrawny man with uncontrollable brown hair and a pair of battered converse.

"So." Jack paused as Ianto joined the motorway. "Your Mr Barton."

"He's not OUR anything." Yaz stated firmly. "He's evil. Killed his own Mum."

"And he's not entirely human." Ryan sighed. "I still don't understand how but his DNA is only 97% human."

"Who is entirely human though?" Jack mused as Ianto pushed his foot to the accelerator. Donna turned in her seat.

"So Graham? How do you know my Grandad?"

"Wilf? Good bloke. He had his heart attack the same time as I ad mine. Same Cardiac Ward. Always talked about his Donna. Off travelling the universe. Thought he was bonkers but he showed me your photo. So I recognised you." Graham explained. "I liked him and what I thought were tall tales."

Donna smiled. "Yeah, he's a good bloke."

"Anyway." Jack interrupted them. "The Doctor, vanishes. Leaves you three and the TARDIS."

"Yes, but she didn't vanish deliberately. O."

"Oh?"

"Not Oh, O." Ryan tried to explain.

"Said his name is the Master. Master creep if you ask me." Yaz explained. Jack felt his blood run cold.

"The Master? Not Missy? You're sure?"

"Yes. Master."

"Who is e?" Graham asked as Jack remembered the year that never was, how Martha had saved the world and he and the Doctor had been held captive. He took a deep breath.

"He's evil. And if the Doctor was up against him then we really have got problems." Jack narrowed his eyes as the darkness around the SUV seemed to suffocate them.

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"So?" Ada asked as she followed the Doctor towards the apparently ramshackle cabin they had arrived in. "What do we do now?"

"Well." The blonde woman paused. "I need to find my friends and I need to get you both back to your correct periods of history."

"But."

"You both are brilliant, amazing women who change history. Noor, you have to go back to Paris. Ada, you create the future. You have to be in your rightful place." She paused.

"And what of you?" Noor folded her arms.

"Me?" The Doctor paused. "I have to make sure things are as they should be. " She looked away as Ada and Noor exchanged glances. Something was about to happen. They didn't know what but something was coming.

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