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"So, what is it? What's wrong?" Rose asked as we stepped out of the TARDIS.
"Don't know, some kind of signal drawing the TARDIS off course..." He told us rubbing the outside of the TARDIS. I looked around to try and see where and when we were, but all I could see was darkness.
"Where are we?" I asked him turning back to him.
"Earth, Utah, North America. About half a mile underground." He told me smiling.
"And... when are we?" I asked with a smile growing on my face.
"2012."
"God, that's so close, so I should be... 26." Rose said looking between both of us.
"Oh, God. I'd be 28." I said as The Doctor flicked a switch and lights flooded the place.
"Blimey! It's a great big museum!" Rose said as we looked around.
"An alien museum. Someone's got a hobby. They must've spent a fortune on this. Chunks of meteorite, moon dust... that's the milometer from the Roswell Spaceship." The Doctor said as we passed exhibits. We noticed a Slitheen arm in a case.
"That's a bit of Slitheen! That's a Slitheen's arm, it's been stuffed." I said and Rose and I stopped to look at it. I noticed the Doctor walking away from us to another display.
"Ah! Look at you!" Inside the glass case he was approaching was a head. The Doctor stared through the glass at it while Rose and I stood behind him.
"What is it?" I asked him.
"An old friend of mine... well, enemy. The stuff of nightmares reduced to an exhibit. I'm getting old." He said staring at the head.
"Is that where the signal's coming from?" I asked him.
"Nah, it's stone dead. The signal's alive. Something's reaching out." He said staring at the glass. "Calling for help." He placed his finger on the glass and immediately an alarm went off. Promptly we were surrounded by soldiers all pointing their guns at us.
"If someone's collecting aliens, that makes you Exhibit A." I said looking to him. He looked at me then back to the soldiers, flashing a grin and I laughed.
We followed a red haired woman into a large office with an older man and a younger man behind it. The younger man was showing the older man a small object.
"What does it do?" He asked grabbing the item from the younger man.
"Well you see, the tubes on the side must be to channel something, I think maybe fuel..." the younger man, now known to be Brittish, told him.
"I really wouldn't hold it like that." The Doctor told them.
"Shut it." The red haired woman snapped at him.
"Really, though, that's wrong." The Doctor told them, ignoring her.
"Is it dangerous?" The British boy asked.
"No. Just looks silly." He told them. He held his hand out for the item and the security in the room readied their guns. The older man held up his hand for them to halt their actions and handed the item to the Doctor. "You just need to be..." He ran his fingers over the item and it played a note, like a harmonica and I smiled. "... delicate." The Doctor beamed around the room whilst he played a beautiful song from the instrument.
"It's a musical instrument." the older man said smiling.
"And it's a long way from home." The Doctor told him.
"Here, let me." The older man said standing. He grabbed it off the Doctor who raised his eyebrows at him.
He grabs it off the Doctor, who raises his eyebrows.
"I did say 'delicate'. Reacts to the smallest fingerprint." The Doctor instructed. The man couldn't make it play at first and could only make a series of bleeping noises. "It needs precision." The man touched it gently and it played a few notes and the Doctor smiled at him. "Very good. Quite the expert." The Doctor complemented him.
"As are you." The man said tossing the instrument aside landing somewhere on the floor. I looked at him alarmed at how he could have done something like that. "Who exactly are you?" The Doctor looked at the man with a disdainful look in his eye.
"I'm the Doctor. And who are you?" He asked him.
"Like you don't know. We're hidden away with the most valuable collection of extra-terrestrial artifacts in the world and you just stumbled in by mistake?" The man asked glancing at the three of us.
"Pretty much sums me up, yeah." The Doctor told him.
"The question is, how did you get in? 53 floors down. With your little cat burglar accomplices." The man looked both Rose and I from top to bottom. "Quite a collector yourself, they're rather pretty." He said looking back to the Doctor grinning.
"I'm gonna smack you if you keep talking about us like that." I told him and the Doctor grabbed my hand so I could hold something, possibly grip his hand to death.
"One's English too! Hey, little Lord Fauntleroy - got you a couple girlfriends." The older man told the British boy.
"This is Mr Henry Van Statten." the boy introduced the older man to us.
"And who's he when he's at home?" Rose asked him.
"Mr Van Statten owns the Internet." The boy told us.
"Don't be stupid, no one owns the Internet." Rose said giving the boy a look.
"And let's just keep the whole world thinking that way, right kids?" Van Statten said with a weird smile on his face.
"So you're an expert on just about everything except the things in your museum. Anything you don't understand, you lock up." The Doctor said getting the attention off Rose.
"And you claim greater knowledge?" Van Statten asked him.
"I don't need to make claims, I know how good I am." The Doctor told him and I smiled.
"And yet, I captured you. Right next to the Cage. What were you doing down there?" Van Statten asked us.
"You tell me." The Doctor said, challenging him.
"The cage contains my one living specimen." Van Statten told us. That must have been who was sending out the signal!
"And what's that?" The Doctor asked him.
"Like you don't know." Van Statten told him, smiling more.
"Show me." The Doctor ordered.
"You wanna see it?" Van Statten asked him.
"You can almost cut the testosterone in here with a knife." I said to no one in particular, but it got them out of their staring contest.
"Goddard - inform the Cage. We're heading down." Van Statten ordered walking around his desk and the woman who walked us in nodded to him. "You - English. Look after the girl. Canoodle or spoon, or whatever it is you British do. And you - Doctor with no name..." He turned from the lift. "Come and see my pet." We walked to the lift and waited for the appropriate floors.
"You two don't wander around and don't get into trouble." He said giving us a look.
"You know us." I told him smiling as Rose, Van Statten's boy and I got off the lift.
The boy, who's name I finally learned was Adam, showed us around his work area trying to impress us.
"Sorry about the mess. Mr Van Statten sort of lets me do my own thing. So long as I deliver the goods..." He told us. Rose prodded a few things as she walked around. "What do you think - that is?" He asked handing Rose an object. Was he trying to flirt with her?
"Er... a lump of metal?" Rose said looking from it to him.
"Yeah. Yeah, but I think- well, I'm almost certain - it's from the hull of a spacecraft." He told us excitedly. Rose handed me the piece of metal and I placed it down carefully where I thought a table might have been at one point. "The thing is, it's all true. Everything the United Nations tries to keep quiet - spacecrafts - aliens - visitors to Earth - they really exist." Adam said looking between the two of us. We definitely knew that already.
"That's amazing." I told him hoping Rose would go with what I was doing.
"I know it sounds incredible, but I honestly believe that the whole universe is teeming with life." Adam told us grinning widely.
"I'm gob-smacked, yeah. And you do what? Sit here and catalog it?" Rose asked him smiling.
"Best job in the world." Adam told us.
"Imagine if you could get out there. Travel among the stars and see it for real." Rose told him.
"Yeah... I'd give anything. But I don't think it's ever gonna happen - not in our lifetimes." He told her. She looked to me and smiled.
"Oh, you never know... what about all those people who say they've been inside spaceships and things and talked to aliens?" I asked him.
"I think they're nutters." Adam told me.
"Yeah, me too." Rose told him laughing. "So, how'd you end up here?" she asked him.
"Van Statten has agents all over the world looking for geniuses to recruit." Adam told us.
"Ah, right, you're a genius." I said holding up some of the strange items in the room.
"Sorry, but yeah... can't help it, I was born clever." He said flirting with us and Rose gave a flirty smile back. "When I was eight, I logged onto the US Defence System - nearly caused World War Three." He said smiling.
"What, and that's funny is it?" I asked him, remembering our world war three prevention with Harriet.
"Well you should've been there! Just to see them running about! Fantastic!" He told us.
"You sound like the Doctor." Rose said looking to me and I smiled at the thought. This was just a boy next to my Doctor.
"Are either of you and him...?" He asked looking between the two of us.
"No, we're just friends." I told him quickly.
"Good." Adam said nodding and looking away.
"Why's it good?" Rose asked him.
"Just is." He said looking back at her and I felt extremely awkward.
"So... wouldn't you rather be downstairs? I mean, you've got these bits of metal and stuff, but Van Statten's got a living creature down there." I said breaking their moment.
"Yeah... yeah well I did ask but he keeps it to himself. Although - if you're a genius - it does take long to patch in on the comm system." He said smiling at the two of us.
"Let's have a look then." Rose said laughing. Adam turned to the computer and tapped some keys while Rose and I observed over his shoulder. "It doesn't do much - the alien. It's weird, it's kind of... useless, it's just like this... great big pepper pot." He told us as a picture came up. We watched as a man approached the alien and began to torture it with a device making it sceam in pain.
"It's being tortured! Where's the Doctor?" I demanded to know alarmed that he hadn't done anything for it yet.
"I don't know." Adam told me. I turned from the screen to the door and began walking out.
"Take me down there. Now!" I demanded not waiting to know if they followed me.
We stood outside the cell following Adam and I immediately walked to the door.
"Hold it right there!" One of the guards said trying to stop me.
"Level three access. Special clearance from Mr Van Statten." Adam said flashing an ID at him. We passed up another man and entered the cage. I just stared at the creature. It was covered in chains keeping it locked in place.
"Don't get too close..." I looked over my shoulder at Adam and Rose who were staying closer to the door then back to the creature. I walked slowly to it and peered into what I hoped was its eyepiece as I thought it watched me.
"Hello?" I said. It didn't answer, just watched. "Are you in pain? My name's Rose Tyler. I've got a friend, he can help. He's called the Doctor. What's your name?" I asked it.
"Yes." It said. It's voice sounded kinda scratchy.
"What?" I asked it. It raised what I thought was its eyepiece to look at me.
"I am in pain. They tortured me. But still they fear me. Do you fear me?" It asked me.
"No." I told him and it lowered it's eyepiece.
"I am dying." he told me.
"No, we can help!" I told it walking closer to it.
"I welcome death. But I am glad... that before I die... I met a human who was not afraid." It told me raising its eyepiece again. I couldn't help but feel sadness and pity for this creature and I didn't even know its name.
"Isn't there anything I can do?" I asked it.
"My race is dead. I shall die alone." I felt the tears run down my face and I put my hand on it gently to try and comfort it.
"Ashlee, no!" Adam yelled at me. The place where my had was suddenly burned bright orange around my hand and I quickly snatched it away due to the heat.
"Genetic material extrapolated - initiate cellular reconstruction!" It said and its voice had changed drastically. It burst out of its chains as sparks flew from it and a man walked in.
"What the hell have you done?" He asked me as he approached the creature. It pointed a sucker thing at him in response.
"Whatcha gonna do? Sucker me to death?" The man asked sarcastically but that was just what the creature did. It placed the sucker over his face and I could hear his skull cracking as it sucked inwards. Adam grabbed my arm as He Rose and I rushed out of the cage.
"It's killing him! Do something!" I told the guard.
"Condition red! Repeat, condition red! This is not a drill!" The guard called over the intercom.
"You've got to keep it in that cell." I turned to a screen and saw the Doctor on it and I rushed to it.
"Doctor, it's all my fault." I told him.
"I've sealed the compartment. It can't get out, that lock's got a billion combinations." the guard told him ignoring me.
"The Dalek's a genius. It can calculate a thousand billion combinations in one second flat." the Doctor told him. We looked at a screen next to the one with the Doctor on it and saw the Dalek place its sucker on the code pad and begin to run all the combinations. The guards pushed us away from the screen behind them as the prepared for the Dalek to come through the door. And in no time, the door opened.
"Open fire!" the guard ordered and they all shot at the Dalek,
"Don't shoot it, I want it unharmed!" I heard Van Statten say over the screen.
"Ashlee, Rose, get out of there!" The Doctor called to us and that was the order I was willing to follow as the Dalek advanced on us.
"De Maggio - take the civilians and get them out alive. That is your job, got that?" The head guard ordered the female guard.
"You - with me." De Maggio said and we followed her out of the room quickly. We ran through many hallways and didn't pass anyone until a small hallway with guards stationed along the wall.
"Civilians! Let them through!" De Maggio said as we continued running behind her. I just hoped we got to where the Doctor was soon. We soon ran across a flight of stairs.
"Stairs! That's more like it!" Rose said coming up behind me with Adam. "It hasn't got legs, it's stuck!" I looked at her and we smiled at the news. De Maggio soon ran up behind us.
"It's coming! Get up!" She ordered and we ran up the stairs and looked over the banisters to watch the Dalek. As we'd hoped it stopped at the base of the stairs and Adam breathed a sigh of relief. I ran its eyepiece over the stairs
They run up the stairs and look over the banisters to watch the Dalek. It stops at the foot of the stairs. Adam breathes a small sigh of relief. It runs its eyepiece over the stairs to us.
"Great big alien death machine. Defeated by a flight of stairs." Adam mocked it.
"Maybe you shouldn't do that." I told him.
"Now, listen to me. I demand that you return to your cage. If you want to negotiate, then I guarantee that Mr Van Statten will be willing to talk. I accept that we imprisoned you and maybe that was wrong. But people have died, and that stops. Right now. The killing stops, have you got that?" De Maggio asked it but it just stared at us saying nothing. "I demand that you surrender, is that clear?" She asked once more and we waited for a a moment for it to answer.
"El-ev-ate." We watched in horror as the Dalek levitated in the air and floated up the first few steps of the stairs.
"Oh my God." Rose said as we watched it.
"I told you you shouldn't have mocked it!" I said hitting Adam in the arm as the Dalek proceeded up the stairs.
"Adam, get them out of here." De Maggio ordered.
"Come with us, you can't stop it!" I told her.
"Someone's got to try. Now get out!" She said pushing us away. "Don't look back, just run!" I looked at her for a brief moment before Rose grabbed my arm and pulled me up with her up the stairs. Moments later, we heard De Maggio scream as we ran terrified of what could happen to us. We eventually found our way to a large room with a ton of people pointing guns at us. We stopped right in the middle of the room.
"Hold your fire! You two, get the hell out of there!" We continued running out the other way as I heard the Dalek making its way to them. I turned and looked at it and watched it enter the room slowly. It stopped and focused on everyone until it found me. It just stared until Adam grabbed my arm and pulled me away with him and Rose.
"It was looking at me." I told them. Rose gave me a curious look as Adam just looked at me like I was an idiot.
"Yeah, it wants to slaughter us!" He told me and I pulled my arm away from him.
"I know! But it was looking right at me." I told him.
"So? It's just a sort of metal eye thing, it's looking all around!" Adam told me impatiently and I shook my head at him.
"I don't know... it's like there's something inside looking at me, like... like it knows me." I said looking to Rose, knowing she'd understand. We came across another stairwell with Adam in the lead and Rose right behind him. I wanted to make sure she was safe from that thing. Suddenly, my mobile went off and I answered without looking at the caller ID.
"This isn't the best time." I told whoever it was on the other end.
"Where are you?" I heard the Doctor ask me clearly.
"Level 49." I told him as I passed the large numbers.
"You've got to keep moving - the vault's being sealed off, bulkhead level 46." He told me.
"Can't you stop them closing?" I asked him. It seemed like that'd be easy for him.
"I'm the one who's closing them. I can't wait and I can't help you. Now for God's sake, run." He told me.
"Leg it you two! They're closing the bulkheads on level 46!" I called the the other two.
"Cant the Doctor stop them?" Rose called back to me.
"He's in control." I told her and we ran a little faster. We ran as fast as we could up 3 flights of stairs with me still on the phone with the Doctor and the Dalek in pursuit.
"Done it. We've got power to the bulkheads." I heard Van Statten say.
"The Dalek's right behind them." Goddard told the two men in the room with her.
"Yea, thanks for the update but I could have told you that." I told her into the phone and I heard the Doctor laugh slightly. We rounded a corner and I saw the numbers for floor 46. "We're nearly there, give us two seconds." I told him.
"Doctor, I can't sustain the power. The whole system is failing." I heard Van Statten say to him. "Doctor, you've got to close the bulkheads."
"Doctor you do what you have to do. Protect as many people as you can Adam, Rose and I will just have to move faster." I told him, knowing the pressure that was on him.
"I'm sorry." He told me and the bulkheads began to lower. Adam and Rose were the closest to them.
"Ash! Hurry up!" Rose called as they cleared the bulkhead. I watched the bulkhead close right in front of me and I leaned my head against it. I knew he would blame himself, but when he asked I had to make sure he knew this wasn't his fault.
"Ash, where are you? Ashlee, did you make it?" I heard him ask me. I waited a moment before answering the question.
"Sorry, I was a bit slow." I told him. "But Rose and Adam made it, so I'm okay." I told him turning to watch the Dalek round the corner. I turned back to the bulkhead and felt the tears well up in my eyes. "See you then, Doctor." the tears began to fall and I knew he'd hear it in my voice. "It wasn't your fault. Remember that, okay? It wasn't your fault. And do you know what?" I asked him smiling with my voice trembling. "I wouldn't have missed it for the world." I turned around slowly to face the Dalek as it approached me. "Make sure Rose knows that this isn't her fault either. I love you."
"Exterminate!" I closed my eyes ready for it to kill me but nothing happened. I opened my eyes cautiously and looked at it. Not that I'm complaining but why am I not dead?
"Go on then, kill me." I told it angrily. "Why are you doing this?" I asked it finally.
"I am armed. I will kill. It is my purpose." It told me.
"They're all dead because of you!" I shouted at it.
"They are dead because of us." My eyes widened at its words.
"And now what? What're you waiting for?" I asked him again.
"I feel your fear." It told me.
"What do you expect?!" I asked it.
"Daleks do not fear. Must not fear." It shot its death ray wildly at the wall on either side of me and I closed my eyes and screamed a little again. "You gave me life. What else have you given me? I am contaminated!" It told me and I just looked at it. The Dalek moved its head to a screen and it came to life showing Van Statten's office. Van Statten, Goddard, Adam, Rose and the Doctor all looked at it in shock and I just smiled at my sister and the man I loved. "Open the bulkhead or Ashlee Tyler dies." The Dalek told them. The Doctor took a few steps toward their screen, an expression of joy and relief on his face.
"You're alive!" He said smiling at me.
"Can't get rid of me that easily. Us Tyler women are a stubborn lot and you've got 3 to deal with for the rest of my life." I told him.
"I thought you were dead." He told me and I smiled at him.
"Open the bulkhead!" The Dalek ordered.
"Don't do it!" I told him.
"What use are emotions if you will not save the woman you love?" I looked at the Doctor and he looked at me and the Dalek stunned. He turned back to Van Statten, who was looking at him in shock.
"I killed her once." He said going to the computer. "I can't do it again." He turned back to the screen as the bulkhead beside me went up. The Dalek looked at me and I went through it first. We walked to the lift then the Dalek started it up. I watched the arm with the ray twitch slightly.
"I'm begging you, don't kill them - you didn't kill me." I reminded it. The Dalek spun it's head to me so quickly I had to duck not to get knocked out.
"But why not? Why are you alive? My function is to kill. What am I? What am I?" It asked me and I held no answer. When the lift door opened Van Statten was standing there, waiting for us. I looked around the room for Rose or the Doctor but saw no sign of them.
"Don't move! Don't do anything, it's beginning to question itself." I told Van Statten. The Dalek advanced on Van Statten, its tormentor.
"Van Statten. You tortured me. Why?" The Dalek asked him.
"I wanted to help you, I just- I don't know, I - I was just trying to help. I thought if we could get through to you, if we could mend you- I wanted you better, I'm sorry." He said terrified of it, as he should have been. "I'm so sorry! I swear! I just wanted you to talk!"
"Then hear me talk now. Exterminate! Exterminate!" Van Statten winced away from him. "Exterminate!" I rushed over to it.
"Don't do it! Don't kill him!" I told him. The Dalek spun to face me again and I stared right into its eyepiece. "You don't have to do this anymore. There must be something else. Not just killing- what else is there? What d'you want?" I asked it. I looked at Van Statten then to me. "I want freedom."
"Then let's go." I told it and it went back to the lift me me following it. Eventually we made it to the first floor and the Dalek fired its ray to the ceiling, making a hole for the sunlight to flood in from. It shone on the Dalek and I looked up at it smiling.
"You're out. You made it." I told it smiling. "Never thought I'd see the sunlight again." I said looking down at it.
"How... does... it... feel?" It asked me opening up its casing to reveal a mutate creature inside. It stretched its feelers out into the sunlight and I smiled slightly.
"Get out of the way." I turned quickly to see the Doctor holding a gun with Rose behind him. He pointed it at the Dalek and I didn't budge. "Ashlee, get out of the way, now!"
"No! 'Cos I won't let you do this!" I told him. This wasn't him. This wasn't my Doctor.
"That thing killed hundreds of people." he reminded me.
"It's not the one pointing the gun at anyone." I reminded him looking down to the weapon.
"I've got to do this. I've got to end it. The Daleks destroyed my home, my people. I've got nothing left." He told me and I felt my heart hurt at his words.
"Look at it." I told him standing aside just enough for him to see the Dalek feeling the sun.
"What's it doing?" She asked, confused by its actions.
"It's the sunlight, that's all it wants!" I told them, smiling.
"But it can't..." The Doctor broke off his sentence.
"It couldn't kill Van Statten - it couldn't kill me - it's changing. What about you, Doctor? Are you willing to change into something better?" I asked him. He finally dropped the gun and looked at me completely lost. He walked to me, close to tears, for what had and was going to happen.
"I couldn't..." I grabbed his hand for comfort. "I wasn't..." He looked to the Dalek then back to me. "Ash, they're all dead."
"Why do we survive?" The Dalek asked behind me.
"I don't know." The Doctor answered it honestly and I smiled.
"I am the last of the Daleks." The Dalek said coming to terms with what it was.
"You're not even that. Ashlee did more than regenerate you. You absorbed her DNA. You're mutating." The Doctor told it.
"Into what?" it asked him.
"Something new. I'm sorry." I looked at the Doctor confused.
"Isn't that better?" Rose asked him standing next to me.
"Not for a Dalek." The Doctor told her as we looked at the Dalek.
"I can feel so many ideas. So much darkness... Ashlee... give me orders! Order me to die." It requested. I looked at it then to the Doctor to see him looking at me.
"You can't do that." Rose told him.
"This is not life. This is sickness." the Dalek said drawing my attention to it. "I shall not be like you. Order my destruction! Obey! Obey! Obey!" I stared at it, basking in the sunlight, and knew what I had to do. It wanted freedom and that's what I would give it.
"Do it." I told it and the Doctor pulled me closer to him, hugging me.
"Are you frightened, Ashlee Tyler?" It asked me.
"Yeah."
"So am I. Exterminate." We moved back as the Dalek replaced its armor and levitated into the air. The golden knobs detached themselves to surround the Dalek in a perfect sphere and it glowed briefly, and then exploded inside the sphere, vanishing into nothing.
Back in the exhibit room, Rose, the Doctor and I stood by the TARDIS. The Doctor had his hand on it, looking at it pensively.
"Little piece of home. Better than nothing." the Doctor told us.
"Is that the end of it? The Time War?" I asked him. I'd have to explain the Time War to Rose before we got to our next destination.
"I'm the only one left. I win. How about that." He said smiling at me.
"The Dalek survived... maybe some of your people did too." I suggested.
"I'd know. In here." He said gesturing to his head. "Feels like there's no one." he told me. I walked up to him and hugged him tightly, laying my head on his chest listening to the sound of his hearts beating.
"Well then - good thing I'm not going anywhere." I told him and he hugged me close.
"Yeah." I heard someone come up to us and looked to see Adam.
"We'd better get out. Van Statten's disappeared... they're closing down the says they're going to fill it full of cement! Like it never existed!" He said looking crest fallen about the idea.
"About time." I told him moving to stand next to the Doctor, never moving my arm.
"I'll have to go back home." He told us.
"Better hurry up then. Next flight to Heathrow leaves at 1500 hours." The Doctor told him getting his key out of his pocket. I moved so he could get to the door better.
"Adam was saying that all his life he's wanted to see the stars..." Rose told us.
"Tell him to go and stand outside, then." the Doctor told her and I smiled.
"He's all on his own, Doctor. And he did help." She reminded him.
"He left your sister down there!" he told her.
"So did you!" she retaliated.
"What're you talking about? We've got to leave!" Adam said from behind Rose.
"Rose, he's a bit pretty." I told her. The Doctor's eyes snapped to me quickly but my eyes were glued to Rose.
"I hadn't noticed." She told me innocently.
"I bet you didn't." I said looking from her to the Doctor. He rolled his eyes and turned to the TARDIS.
"On your own head." He told her and she smiled.
"What're you doing? She said 'cement'. She wasn't joking, we're going to get sealed in." Adam reminded us as we walked into the TARDIS leaving him outside alone. Rose waited by the doors for him as the Doctor and I went to the console.
"You said something down there to me, over the phone." He said bringing my attention back to when I thought I was going to die.
"I did." I confirmed.
"Was it true?" he asked me and I gave him a look.
"If I said it then it is true. I wouldn't lie about loving someone." I told him smiling. He smiled back and got ready to leave.
"Doctor? What're you doing standing inside a box? Ashlee? Rose?" Adam peered through the doors and stepped inside. The Doctor started the engines and we left for the vortex.
Next time on The Doctor's Girl:
"The fourth great and bountiful human empire. Planet Earth at it's height." The Doctor told us. Food stalls were set up and people bustled past the four of us to queue up all talking around us.
"My watch must be wrong." He told me checking his watch.
"That's what comes of showing off. Your history's not as good as you thought it was." Rose told him as we walked around a little.
"My history's perfect." he told her.
"Engage safety..." Each of the eight walls around us lighting up. Cathica clicked her fingers and a door on her forehead opened, revealing her brain. "And spike." From the contraption over the chair, a blue light spiked down into her brain.