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Part 3: When you need a Doctor.

The cell was dark, Jack couldn't see a thing; "Doctor!" he called out, his voice echoing off the walls, there was a small movement beside him, he strained his eyes; "Doctor?" he called it more quietly this time it was a female voice that answered, but it wasn't Rose's.

"Who are you?" she asked seemingly quite scared. Jack looked in the direction of the voice.

"Uh, I'm Captain Jack Harkness!" Jack replied softly, wondering what had become of his companions; "And you?" he asked politely.

The woman paused seemingly debating with herself whether to answer him; "Zoe…Zoe Brooks." She said calmly, her voice and her name wereclearly human. "Who's this doctor you were calling?" the woman asked.

"Ummm…" Jack paused contemplating the truth or lies, considering his situation was no different to hers, he chose the truth; "He's my friend, that's his name; the Doctor!" Jack stated it simply as if it should be common fact. It was then that Jack was aware of the screaming, a woman screaming and crying and screaming some more, he prayed that it wasn't Rose, and if it was he swore to do terrible things to whoever it was who was torturing her. Slow and painful things. The woman beside him seemed to flinch at every fresh scream that this other female let out.

"Jack?" there was a groggy voice coming from the other corner. Jack sighed as relief washed over him, the Doctor.

"Yeah Hi!" He called out jumping slightly, which was hard and painful. He clutched his head as best he could with his wrists still bound.

"Where's Rose?" his first and most important question. Jack felt his heart sink he had been hoping that maybe the Doctor had seen her on his side of the cell.

"I er…don't know…" he stuttered pausing, it was then that he heard the Doctor jump to his feet wrenching at the chains.

"ROSE!" he yelled in a panicked frenzy, Jack felt his eyes grow wide, the Doctor did not lose control, not over anything; not even Rose.

"She's not here!" Jack called to him trying to keep his voice levelled, he failed. In truth he was worried too, who wouldn't be, these creatures, these; 'Torats' could do anything to her and they wouldn't feel any remorse. They didn't know her. Poor innocent Rose. She was the Doctor's only equal, he could see it now, he had known of course why the Doctor had chosen her, but now he knew how. She was the only humanthat took him on face value, he was who he said he was, he would take her anywhere and do anything for her, even as he had already proved; die for her.

"Oh...yeah…" Jack remembered the quivering woman beside him; "This is Zoe Brooks, Zoe the Doctor!" The Doctor turned to look at her for a second but it was clear that his mind was focused on one thing and one thing only, and that was; Rose.

"You got any ideas?" Jack asked as it was clear that the Doctor had begun to try and remove his cuffs. With practiced ease he used the sonic screwdriver, -which luckily that Torats had left him with- to release himself of his restraints. He soon dashed over to Jack and then freed Zoe who was silently grateful. It soon became alarmingly clear that the screams had to have belonged to Rose and the fact that they had now stopped frightened the Doctor to no end.

"Ok…right…" The Doctor paused for a moment and paced around the room his brain doing double time while his two hearts pumped loudly in both ears, so this was hotheadedness felt like, not that he hadn't experienced it before, he'd just never had it this full on, now that Jack and Zoe and himself were free he didn't have a clue what to do. The girl answered his questions for him.

"Umm, shouldn't we be getting out of here…you know trying to save this friend of yours." She was so meek, yet so right. The Doctor could have kissed her for her level headedness but he didn't want to scare her, she was, after all helping them. Sort of.

The Doctor could tell that Jack wasn't used to his knew form yet, his new habits, like licking things and smelling things and apologisingand hugging people. The hugging was mainly for Rose though, it was almost as if the Doctor had to keep telling himself that she was really there. That's what lead Jack to believe that the Doctor knew more than he was letting on, and the moment, that very moment that Rose was out of his sight the Doctor stumbled. He almost couldn't go on, she wasn't gone. Not yet anyway. But those were her screams of pain, of horror. What he wouldn't do to make everything in her world right. To make it perfect just for her. To take away all of her pain and all of her grief, maybe even give her back her normal life. She wouldn't accept it of course; but he could try, just for her life's sake.

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A loud buzzing was what she heard first when she awoke, she was in a white room, the lights above her filling her eyes. She couldn't see around her, but she could tell that she was in some sort of operating theatre, the buzzing got louder and she felt something cold against her skull. A feeling of drowsiness filed her, it wasn't enough to knock her out, but it was enough to quieten her screams, -for a little while- the odd noises weren't pleasant and Rose soon began to feel a small pressure on her brain. Pushing, drilling, delving deeper. There were three Torats watching her all noting things down, it was then that the pain hit her. She screamed. So loudly and so clearly that she startled herself. Where was the Doctor and Jack? She hoped they were safe, escaping on the way to rescue her. She took a breath to scream again and she head a distant voice calling her name, but she found that she couldn't reply so she screamed louder. If it weren't for the pain Rose was sure she'd feel a lot safer hearing the Doctor's voice, her hero. But sadly, as it was, Rose was in agony so she could think of little else. She could tell that the Torats were talking in soft whispers, but couldn't make out what they were saying, mainly because she was screaming her lungs out and partly to do with the drilling into her skull. A panicky fear was clutching at her chest chocking the scream. She ran out of breath and just lay pain and fear washing over her praying that the Doctor would come. Save her. She wasn't sure how long it was until the pain ceased, but it was a long time after the drilling had stopped. She was moved slowly into a chamber, her limbs were weak and her head was spinning but she still had hope, just that tiny flicker that the Doctor was right around the corner, he would come.

The chamber was just like a cell, but much smaller and darker. She was the only person in there, the only thing in fact. There was no bed, no window. Just a door and Rose. She was laid on the floor and left their whimpering the pain still pounding in her skull.

Asingle thought spiralling round and round, -why me-.

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With a few re-adjustments of the Sonic screwdriver the Doctor had managed to open the cell door, without; as the girl had claimed; 'Setting off all the alarms and calling for the guards.' She was slightly amazed that he didn't and genuinely pleased.

"Right!" The Doctor took control of the situation his previous problems clearly forgotten; "You and Zoe try and find a way out of here, see if you can get to the TARDIS, they might have brought her in but be careful, you're gonna need to avoid those bubble things or you'll just end up in here again and we don't want that…" he paused thinking Jack was giving him a look, Captain Jack Harkness was not one to walk away from a fight he would be in the think of it, so why wasn't the Doctor letting him help? Jack didn't question him directly, he knew that the Doctor had a reason weather it was good or not was another matter, but it was still a reason.

"You ready?" Jack asked turning to Zoe who still seemed to be quivering, it reminded him of how Rose had been shaking earlier, maybe it was something about this planet that did odd things to women.

The woman plucked up all her courage and nodded slowly, she would fight her way out of here if necessary, she hoped it wouldn't be. Jack took her hand and instructed her not to leave his side, she nodded once more and looked back at the Doctor who was watching the pair. "Good luck…" she whispered and the Doctor smiled, She would go on to do great things.

"Same to you…" he whispered and hugged Jack tightly.

"Bring her back!" Jack said calmly, the Doctor nodded it was all that he could do. He couldn't go on with out her. A fact that he had learnt to live with.

Jack turned and sprinted off towards what he hoped was the way out of this hell hole, with Zoe being pulled along beside him, the Doctor smiled ruefully watching their retreating backs, his eyes darkened. He walked calmly towards the room where the screaming had come from. 'I'm coming, Rose.' He thought as he moved along the corridors with practiced ease. He would find her.

To be continued…

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