A/N: Hi everybody! I hope you are all doing well. I've been focusing a lot on my writing recently so you will be pleased to hear that I have a good number of chapters currently written and being edited. Anyway, here is the concluding part for this episode. Enjoy!
It wasn't long before Kari, the Doctor, Mrs Moore and Martin found themselves heading down a ladder and into the cooling tunnels to get into the factory. "It's freezing." Mrs Moore commented as she reached the bottom of the ladder, the Doctor and Kari already down there and waiting.
"Any sign of a light switch?" The Doctor asked her, holding onto Kari's hand tightly. He knew that there was more going on than she wasn't telling him, he knew that she had not wanted Martin to come with them because he was making her feel uncomfortable with all his questions.
Mrs Moore had to agree that it was dark down there. "Can't see a thing. But I've got these. A device for every occasion." She said, pulling out a couple of head lamps. She passed one to the Doctor and one to Martin.
The Doctor could feel the tension radiating off Kari and tried to lighten the mood a little. "Haven't got a hotdog in there, have you? I'm starving."
All Kari could do was roll her eyes and shake her head, while Mrs Moore opted to answer him. "Of all the things to wish for. That's mechanically recovered meat."
"I know. It's the Cyberman of food, but it's tasty." He said, chuckling a little. He really did want to break the tension a little, but it didn't seem to be working for Kari.
Then Mrs Moore pulled something else out of her bag. "A proper torch as well." She said, handing it straight to Kari.
"Come on then, let's see where we are." Kari said, turning it on and looking around. She already knew what they were going to be faced with, so was not surprised when the lights bounced off Cyberman after Cybermen. They were lining the side of the tunnel.
The Doctor looked at them with concern. "Already converted, just put on ice. Come on." He said, taking a few steps forwards and to the first Cyberman. He stopped and tapped on the head of it. Nothing happened, which he was greatly relieved about. "Let's go slowly. Keep an eye out for trip systems." They had to walk slowly, one behind the other, but it didn't stop the Doctor from grasping Kari's hand tightly.
They walked in silence for a while, Kari as close to the Doctor as she could get and using the torch to help guide the way. But there was something that was bothering her, something that she just couldn't stop thinking about. "You work for…." She said, glancing back at Martin. The Doctor didn't actually know about Torchwood yet, it was too early. The events at Torchwood house may have happened, but that was all. He didn't know who they were or why they were created.
"How do you know about them?" He asked her curiously. It was clear he knew exactly what she was talking about.
Kari gave the Doctor a nudge and tugged at her hand a little. The look on his face said he was worried and did not want to let her go, but he relented and let go of her hand, allowing her to slip back behind Mrs Moore to talk to Martin. "There's a Torchwood in my world, created by Queen Victoria when something happened at Torchwood House."
Martin nodded at her. "She was bitten by a werewolf. The President at the time set the institution up."
"Why do you work for them?" She had so many questions, so many things that she wanted to say. This was actually a chance for her to get some more information on the Torchwood from this place, she would have more knowledge of it for when things went wrong in the future. She would have a chance to make things right, to stop things from happening, to warn them.
"I've always believed that there was more out there. That some of the things that couldn't be explained really could, we just don't know the truth behind it." Martin told her. "Do you work for them? In your world, do you and the Doctor work for them?"
Kari let out a small laugh. "Oh no, not a chance. My brother does, though. Well, he isn't my real brother. He sort of adopted me as his sister. The Doctor and I travel, we met him on one of our trips and we just sort of had that brother sister bond going on."
The man nodded at her. "So, how long have you and the Doctor been together then?"
"I really have no idea. It feels like forever. So many years, I just…" She didn't really know what to say. No, she didn't know how long she had been travelling with the Doctor for, but she did know she would travel with him forever, if she was allowed to. "Time passes differently for us, especially for me."
"I still can't believe you're from another world." Martin admitted, carefully stepping by the apparently sleeping Cybermen.
The Doctor glanced back at Kari, just to make sure she was okay. She sent him a nod and he carried on his conversation with Mrs Moore, something about family and stuff. "It's a whole different universe. I'm lucky, I get to explore it every day."
It was clear to see that Martin wanted to know more, his eyes were just lit up. "What, other planets?" Kari nodded at him with a smile. "You… you get to see other planets?"
"Yup. Oh, we also travel in time. But shush, don't tell anyone." She said, the smile on her face just getting bigger. The man was looking so excited now, so interested in her life. She forgot what his face looked like when he was happy. It had been years since she had really seen him smile. "No, my Angel. It isn't him" A voice called to her, bringing her crashing back down. The smile quickly faded from her face. "Anyway, enough about me. What about you? Did you never marry or anything?"
Martin shook his head at her. "No. There was someone, once. But she… she found someone else." Kari frowned at him, hoping that he was going to continue. Luckily he saw the look on her face and he did. "I was running late for a date. She was coming to the house to pick me up. Well, I wasn't there but Patrick, my brother, he was. They just seemed to hit it off and that was that. He got the girl. Emily married Patrick, and they had a daughter, Keri."
Kari froze. Emily, her mother. How was that possible? Was she still alive here? Had she been alive? Had the Cybermen taken her? Has she been converted? Was she safe? Suddenly, the Doctor was standing there in front of her, his hands on her cheeks. "Kari? Kari, calm down." He said. He had noticed the moment she had stopped walking that something was wrong with her, that she was about to go into a panic. "Come on, just breathe. Everything is fine."
Finally she managed to focus on mine and her eyes gazed into his. "She's alive. But she… she's not…" She just couldn't get her words out, she couldn't say what she was trying to.
"What did you say? What were you talking about?" The Doctor asked Martin in a panic. He needed to know what had happened, what had sent her into this state.
"I… we were just talking. I was telling her about how my brother met Keri's mother." He told him, wondering what all the fuss was about.
That was when it clicked, and the Doctor knew exactly what was going on in Kari's head. "Kari, this isn't your world. Just like this Pete isn't Rose's dad. You know that. Your mother died when you were younger. I'm sorry."
She had heard him, and she nodded in response, but there was something else that was bothering her. "He's not my dad. My dad, he isn't… he's not really my dad." All she could think of now was that the man she had lived with, who had brought her up, wasn't actually her father. Her uncle was her dad.
"Now stop it, that isn't how it works. Remember, this Keri is different, she isn't like you. For all we know you do have different dads, and that is what makes you so different from her." The Doctor needed to get through to her, because they needed to get moving. It wasn't the best time or place for her to have a bit of a meltdown.
"Doctor, did that one just move?" Mrs Moore suddenly said, grasping everyone's attention.
The Doctor didn't want to believe it, he was sure that they were safe. But they did need to move on. "It's just the torchlight. Keep going, come on." He said, taking a tight hold of Kari's hand and forcing her to move. That was when one that they were approaching suddenly turned and looked at them. "They're waking up. Run!" He said, now holding Kari's hand tighter as they rushed through the tunnel.
Behind them they could hear the stomping feet of the Cybermen, and Kari finally came back to her senses. All four of them moved quickly to get to the next ladder so that they could get out of there and to some form of safety. "Come on, Doctor, get it open!" Kari shouted from behind him.
Within seconds they had all made it up the ladder and the Doctor had quickly used his sonic screwdriver on it to make it secure. All of them let out sighs of relief, while the Doctor grabbed a hold of Kari and held her tightly. She knew that he was worried about her. "I'm sorry. I'm an idiot and I'm sorry." She muttered to him as she hugged him back.
"You're not an idiot, Kari." He was just glad that she was okay and had come back to her senses. "You just had a bit of a moment, that's all."
"Okay, well I'm over it now. I promise." She said, pulling away slightly. "And we really need to move." Kari knew that it wasn't going to be long until they came across some more Cybermen, and she needed to be ready this time, she needed to be prepared. There was something that she needed to change, to stop.
It didn't take very long for a Cyberman to step out in front of them. The Doctor grabbed Kari and shoved her behind him, trying his best to protect her. "You are not upgraded." The robot made from human parts announced.
Before the Doctor could respond, Mrs Moore was ready. "Yeah? Well, upgrade this." She said, before throwing something at the Cybermen. It stuck to its suit and the whole body started to shake and spasm. A moment later, it sparked and fell to the ground.
"What the hell was that thing?" The Doctor asked, a mix of impressed and terrified.
Mrs Moore was more than happy to answer him. "Electromagnetic bomb. Takes out computers, I figured it might stop the cyber-suit."
The Doctor had to admit, he was impressed with her. "You figured right. Now, let's have a look." He said, pulling out his screwdriver while Kari stepped further around the body on the ground. "Know your enemy. A logo on the front." He said, using his sonic on the seal around the logo, trying to get it open. "Lumic's turned them into a brand." He added, just before he pulled off the casing with the logo on it. Heart of steel, but look." He pointed to something inside before starting to pull it out, not noticing that Kari was now resting on the floor, the head of the Cyberman in her lap. The only one to have noticed was Martin.
"Is that flesh?" Mrs Moore asked, noticing that there seemed to be human components within the metal suit.
The Doctor nodded a little. "Hmmm. Central nervous system. Artificially grown then threaded throughout the suit so it responds like a living thing. Well, it is a living thing. Oh, but look. Emotional inhibitor. Stops them feeling anything." He explained, causing Mrs Moore to ask why. "It's still got a human brain. Imagine its reaction if it could see itself, realise itself inside this thing. They'd go insane."
Mrs Moore didn't know how to respond to that. "So they cut out the one thing that makes them human."
"Because they have to." The Doctor told her, finally noticing what Kari was doing. He was about to ask her what she was doing when the Cybermen began to speak.
"Why… am I… cold?" It asked, sounding very much like a human.
Mrs Moore, Martin, and the Doctor were all shocked, but Kari wasn't. "Oh, I'm sorry, Sally." Kari said, holding onto the metal head in her lap. "I'm so sorry."
"Where's Gareth?" The Cyberman asked, while the Doctor came around to where Kari was. "He can't see me. It's unlucky the night before."
"I know, Sally, I know. It's going to be okay. Listen to me, you're going to be okay. You'll wake up and this will all have just been some terrible dream. In the end, even that dream will fade. You won't remember this at all. I promise you." Kari said, feeling the time vortex building a little.
"I'm cold. I'm so cold."
Kari had to keep it together, she had something she needed to do. "I know, Sally. Here, let me warm you up." Kari closed her eyes as she held the metal head. As she did that ever so familiar golden glow started to spread from her hands. "This is just a dream, Sally Phelan. That's all, a dream." Kari muttered, focusing on the woman as best she could.
A few moments later and something emerged from the metal suit, a golden swarm. It floated up and then suddenly disappeared. Kari tried to get up, but her legs gave way instantly. The Doctor was there in a heartbeat, holding onto her, helping her to stand, a worried expression on his face. "Kari…"
She held up a hand to stop him. "No, it's fine. I'm fine. Sally is free now, she can rest. But there are still so many more out there that need our help." Kari did not need to hear him telling her that she shouldn't have done that. She needed to do that, to set her free. She wasn't going to just let her suffer any more than she already had.
All the Doctor could do was hold her tightly, again. "Sally Phelan didn't die for nothing, because that's the key. The emotional inhibitor. If we could find the code behind it, the cancellation code, then feed it throughout the system into every Cyberman's head, they'd realise what they are."
"And what happens then?" Martin asked, trying to get his head around everything he had just seen. Working for Torchwood had not prepared him for anything like what he was experiencing now.
The Doctor only had one thought of what it would do. "I think it would kill them. Could we do that?"
"No, there is another way. There's me." Kari's eyes widened as she recalled what was going to happen next. She sprang away from the Doctor and pulled both Mrs Moore and Martin away from where they were standing. A moment later they were faced with yet another Cyberman, and Kari let out a breath, glad that she had managed to save someone.
With another Cyberman before them, the Doctor was once again holding onto Kari tightly, waiting to see what was going to happen next. "Sensors detect a binary vascular system. You are an unknown upgrade. You will be taken for analysis." Now they were surrounded, there was no way to escape.
They walked in silence, surrounded by Cybermen. The Doctor refused to let go of Kari's hand, fearing that she was going to pass out at any moment. He knew what happened when she used the time vortex, so he was rather surprised to see that she was still able to stand on her own.
When they made it to Cyber control, the Doctor was not entirely surprised by who he saw there. "We've been captured, but don't worry, Rose and Pete are still out there. They can rescue us. Oh well, never mind. You okay?" He said, looking at Rose.
The blonde nodded back at him. "Yeah. But they got Jackie." Straight away, Kari pulled away from the Doctor and went over to her friend, hugging her tightly.
"We were too late." Pete added sadly. "Lumic killed her."
The Doctor looked at Kari, knowing that she was trying to comfort her friend. "Then where is he, the famous Mister Lumic? Don't we get the chance to meet our Lord and Master?" He asked, watching as Martin and Mrs Moore went over to Pete.
"He has been upgraded." One of the Cybermen respond.
The Doctor raised an eyebrow slightly. "So he's just like you?"
"He is superior. The Lumic Unit has been designated Cyber Controller." As it finished speaking a door opened and in came a Cyberman, in what looked remarkably like a wheelchair, or possibly even a throne.
"This is The Age of Steel and I am its Creator." The Cyberman announced as it continued to glide into the room. The Doctor didn't really know how to respond, he just knew that he needed to stop everything that was going on.
"We need to just hold on for a little longer." Kari called to him, knowing that Mickey and Jake were working on the transmitter. "They have a bit of a situation up there. Just wait."
And so they waited, until the sound of screams and shouts and panic flooded into the room. A smile spread across Kari's face as well as the Doctor's. "That's my friends at work. Good boys! Mr Lumic, I think that's a vote for free will." The Doctor said, relieved that the transmitter was down.
"I have factories waiting on seven continents. If the ear pods have failed, then the Cybermen will take humanity by force. London has fallen. So shall the world." Lumic announced. Kari wasn't phased by it at all, she casually leaned back on the controls and started looking around the room, looking for the cameras, waiting for Mickey to hack in and listen to what was going on. "I will bring peace to the world. Everlasting peace and unity and uniformity."
"They're ready. Mickey is watching and listening." She called to the Doctor, knowing that he was still going to need the help of Mickey and Jake.
He looked at her and smiled, before turning his attention back to Cyberman Lumic. "And imagination? What about that? The one thing that led you here, imagination, you're killing it dead!"
"What is your name?"
"I'm the Doctor." He answered without any hesitation.
"A redundant title." Lumic replied. "Doctors need not exist. Cybermen never sicken."
The Doctor glanced at Kari before turning his attention back to the Cyber Lumic. "Yeah, but that's it. That's exactly the point! Oh, Lumic, you're a clever man. I'd call you a genius, except I'm in the room. But everything you've invented, you did to fight your sickness. And that's brilliant. That is so human." It was clear to see that the Doctor had some respect for the man, for what he had managed to achieve, but he needed him to see that it was wrong. "But once you get rid of sickness and mortality, then what's there to strive for, eh? The Cybermen won't advance. You'll just stop. You'll stay like this forever. A metal Earth with metal men and metal thoughts, lacking the one thing that makes this planet so alive. People. Ordinary, stupid, brilliant people."
"You are proud of your emotions?" Lumic asked, confusion in his voice.
There was no hesitation for the Doctor to answer that question. "Oh, yes." He said.
Lumic seemed surprised by this. "Then tell me, Doctor. Have you known grief, and rage, and pain?"
Kari went and stood next to the Doctor, slipping her hand into his, letting him know that she was there with him as he answered. "Yes. Yes I have."
"And they hurt?"
The Doctor wasn't sure where Lumic was going with all of these questions, but he had Kari by his side so he was more than ready to answer them. "Oh, yes." He hoped that was going to be the end of it.
But it appeared Lumic still had so much more to say than the Doctor wanted. "I could set you free. Would you not want that? A life without pain?" He asked, his robotic voice starting to get on Kari's nerves.
Kari squeezed the Doctor's hand tightly, knowing what his next answer was going to be. "You might as well kill me." He replied, squeezing her hand back just as much. He was glad that she was there with him.
"Then I take that option."
"It's not yours to take!" The Doctor shouted. He was starting to think that this plan of his, of trying to talk to Lumic was not going to work. He wasn't getting anywhere with him, he wasn't seeing what he had done and how wrong it was. "You're a Cyber Controller. You don't control me or anything with blood in its heart."
That seemed to strike a chord and all the other Cybermen in the room stomped their feet and turned to face the Doctor, like they were warning him. "You have no means of stopping me. I have an army. A species of my own."
The Doctor ran a hand down his face in frustration. "You just don't get it, do you? An army's nothing. Because those ordinary people, they're the key. The most ordinary person could change the world." He looked up to the corner of the room where Kari had pointed out a camera and saw a red light blinking. They were being watched. "Some ordinary man or woman, some idiot. All it takes is for him to find, say, the right numbers. Say the right codes. Say, for example, the code behind the emotional inhibitor. The code right in front of him. Because even an idiot knows how to use computers these days." Kari gave him a nudge with her elbow, knowing that he was referring to Mickey. Yet the Doctor continued to ramble on, now pacing around the room with Kari on his arm still. "Knows how to get past firewalls and passwords. Knows how to find something encrypted in the Lumic Family Database, under er. What was it, Pete? Binary what?"
Pete's eyes lit up as he suddenly realised what was going on. "Binary nine." He said, covering his mouth a little as he did.
The Doctor smiled at him before continuing to ramble on, his words seeming insignificant but meaning so much more to the humans that were still in the room. "An idiot could find that code. Cancellation code. And he'd keep on typing. Keep on fighting. Anything to save his friends."
"Your words are irrelevant." Lumic really hadn't caught on to what the Doctor was saying, to what he was doing.
"Yeah, talk too much, that's his problem. Seriously, the gob on him!" Kari suddenly said, jumping in. She was ready to get out of there, she was ready to move on. But there was still something else she needed to do first. "Lucky we got you that cheap tariff, Rose, for all his long chats. On your phone." She said, looking up at the camera herself and making the phone motion next to her ear.
It was clear that Lumic was done with them now, he had had enough of all this and wanted them gone. "You will be deleted."
Kari rolled her eyes as the Doctor jumped in again. "Yes. Delete, control, hash. All those lovely buttons. Then, of course, my particular favourite, send." He said, still talking at a million miles an hour.
"And let's not forget how you seduced all those ordinary people in the first place." Kari added, just as Rose's phone beeped. "By making every bit of technology compatible with everything else." She said, before taking a step closer to where she knew the control port was and holding her hand out. Rose tossed the phone to her and she took a deep breath, before jamming it into the dock that was there.
As the Doctor had been speaking, the time vortex had been building inside of her. She had freed Sally, she was going to free all these other people as well. Kari released the time vortex, through the connected phone. At first she heard the screams, the panics, the minds of the Cybermen being set free as the emotional inhibitor was deactivated in every single one of them, as they saw what they had become. Then she felt the relief as their minds and souls were set free, taken by the time vortex.
A voice managed to reach her ears, a very panicked voice. "What have you done?" Lumic asked.
"We gave them back their souls." The Doctor said, going over to Kari, ready to pull her away. "They can see what you've done, Lumic, and it's killing them!"
That was the final straw for Lumic, and he began to call out orders. "Delete! Delete! Delete!"
The Doctor wasted no time in grabbing a hold of Kari and pulling her away, taking the phone with them. "Come on, we need to go. You've done all you can, we need to get out of here." He told her, hoping that it was going to be enough.
Kari nodded at him and all of them dashed out of there as quickly as they could. The only problem was, there were Cybermen everywhere, some crying out in pain and agony, while others were surrounded by this golden mist. They couldn't make it to the emergency exit, there were too many bodies blocking the way. The Doctor was starting to panic, he couldn't see a way out. That was when a message came through on Rose's phone and Kari quickly glanced at it. "It's Mickey. He says head for the roof."
There was a look of worry on everyone's face, but no one dared to argue and they all headed up. When they got there they saw that the zeppelin was there waiting for them, the rope ladder hanging down. "You've got to be kidding." Martin said, looking up at it. He didn't like heights, he was not going to enjoy this at all.
"Just move!" Kari shouted at him. "Come on, we haven't got the time, you need to move!" At hearing the panic in her voice, he quickly started to climb the ladder, Mrs Moore behind him and then Rose. Kari was right behind her friend, followed by the Doctor and finally Pete.
Rose was starting to get excited, they had made it. Unfortunately for them, they had been followed and a Cyberman had grabbed onto the rope ladder and was pulling it down. While the Doctor was holding on, Kari reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out his sonic screwdriver. "Pete! Take this! Use it! Hold the button down! Press it against the rope. Just do it!" She carefully passed it down to him, making sure not to drop it. The Doctor would be heartbroken if he lost his screwdriver.
Pete took a tight hold of it, and looked down at the Cyberman that was behind him. "Jackie Tyler. This is for her!" He said, before turning on and holding it against the rope, waiting.
Soon enough the rope snapped and the Cyberman fell, landing somewhere within the flames of the burning factory down below.
It really didn't take that long for them to reach solid ground and for the Doctor and Kari to rush to the TARDIS. Even though she had been using the time vortex, Kari felt fine, which was unusual for her. It always drained her, made her just feel so weak, but she felt totally fine.
The Doctor seemed to notice something odd as well. "How did you do that?" He asked her, now holding onto her tightly. He was just relieved that they were okay, that she was okay. "How did you free them like that?"
Kari couldn't help but smile at him a little. "I had a little help from someone." She told him, before rummaging through his pocket and taking out that tiny little power core that she had found when they first arrived. She then walked around the console and carefully put it in place.
As she did the lights flickered for a moment, before coming to life fully. Kari rested both her hands on the console and watched as her hands started to glow and she felt the TARDIS go back to where she belonged. She couldn't help but smile. If it hadn't been for her, she wouldn't have been able to do what she had.
The Doctor was about to say something to her when another voice floated into the room. "Wow! This is… wow!" The pair looked over and saw Martin standing there, his mouth hanging open as he looked around the room.
"This, this is home." Kari said, touching the console lightly and the ship letting out a hum. She was so glad to be back there, so glad that it was all nearly over. Too much had happened, and she wasn't referring to the whole issue with the Cybermen.
"This… this is amazing!" Martin said, his eyes looking everywhere. "Wow." There was a smile on the Doctor's face as he watched the man, he loved it when people were impressed, he loved seeing people's first reactions to the inside of the TARDIS. The man stopped when he was just in front of Kari and the Doctor. "I just want to say, thank you. For everything."
All Kari and the Doctor could do was smile at him. "It's… just what we do." She ended up saying, feeling a little awkward. "Life in the TARDIS, always an adventure."
Martin smiled back at her softly. "Seems a little more than that to me." He said, noticing the Doctor and the way he was holding her. "I'm sure your dad is very proud of you."
Kari could feel a pain in her chest. Her dad couldn't be proud of her, because she didn't exist to him, and she didn't even know who her dad really was. "Yeah."
The Doctor could see that she was struggling, and while he had told Rose not to interfere, to not try and get Pete to be her dad, he couldn't see Kari struggling the way she was. "In her world, Patrick isn't her father." He said, causing Kari to look at him in shock. "Her parents were Martin and Emily Connor. Each world is different. Changes happen. This is one of the changes from Kari's world."
Martin looked at her and saw the tears in Kari's eyes. He wondered how long it had been since she had last seen her dad, and had a hug from him. "Well, if I was your dad, I'd be so proud of you, Kari." He told her, before reaching out and hugging her tightly.
He held her like that for a few more moments, before there came a tolling from the TARDIS. "I"m sorry, we need to go." Kari told him, pulling away.
They walked out of the TARDIS in silence to find Rose standing there talking to Pete. "Rose? We've only got five minutes of power. We've got to go." The Doctor told her, watching as the conversation she was having ended and Pete walked off, Martin glanced back at Kari before rushing off after him.
Before Rose could even consider going after him, Mickey arrived, carrying something. "Here it is. I found it. Not a crease." He said, holding the bundle in his arms out to the Doctor.
"My suit! Good man." The Doctor said, glad to have it back. "Now then, Jake, we've got to run. You look after Mrs Moore, she's a good one, she'll help you."
The man smiled back at him. "Yeah, of course I will."
"Off we go then!" The Doctor was ready to go back to the TARDIS, back to their world, away from the Cybermen.
But Kari knew what was coming next and she tugged at his hand, just as Mickey started speaking. "Er, thing is, I'm staying."
The Doctor looked at him in pure shock. "You're doing what?" He asked, wondering if he had heard him correctly. Rose didn't believe it either, she didn't want him to stay there.
"It sort of balances out, because this world lost its Ricky, but there's me. And there's work to be done with all those Cybermen still out there." Mickey told them, trying to hold back his own emotions. He had spent a while thinking about it, and he knew what he needed to do, no matter how much Rose protested. "Rose, my gran's here. She's still alive. My old gran, remember her? She needs me."
No matter what, Rose did not want to just leave him. Kari knew why, even though they weren't together any more, they were still such good friends. But this was what Mickey needed to do. "Well, we'll come back. We can travel anywhere. Come and see you, yeah?" Rose said, still holding onto some hope that it wasn't going to be the last time that she saw him.
Unfortunately Kari had to burst her bubble. "We can't. we told you, travel between parallel worlds is impossible. We only got here by accident. We fell through a crack in time. When we leave, The Doctor has got to close it. We can't ever return." She told her friend, wishing that she could change things, that things could be so different. But this had to happen. She knew that.
It was hard to say goodbye, but they had to. The Doctor told Mickey to take Rose's phone, it had the code on it, they would need it to stop all those other factories out there. Kari gave him a great big hug. She was really going to miss him, and she was going to miss whacking the Doctor every time he called Mickey an idiot.
A/N: I really do hope that people enjoyed that chapter. The reviews are becoming less and less, even though there are so many people reading. But as my mother always used to say, no news is good news. That can apply to review as well, right?
As I have already said, I have been really working on this story and getting as much written as I can. I've been using this as an escape from all the things that are going on in my life. Things aren't great, work is pretty much sucking the life out of me, this is the only thing that is keeping me out of the dark. It doesn't help that it was my birthday recently and no one seemed to remember, including my parent, sister and partner. The only one that did seem to remember was the child that lives next door. Just normal life dramas I guess.
Anyway, you don't want to be hearing about my and my life. You've probably got enough drama of your own to be dealing with and if you haven't then I hope it stays that way!
Until the next time,
Pippa.