Last time on The Doctor's Girl:
The ship hit Big Ben then land in the Thames. She moved her hair from her fore head and started pulling a zipper along it and a blue light came out.
"Who exactly are the Slitheen?" He asked them.
"Slitheen is not our species. Slitheen is our surname."
"We reduce the Earth to molten slag, then sell it."
"Leave this planet or I'll stop you." The Slitheen started laughing at him. She roared and grabbed the man in her claws, strangling him as we could do nothing but watch. "Mickey the Idiot. The world is in your hands. Fire." The Doctor told him. Suddenly, we were shaking and being thrown around in out little corner. After a while all the shaking and tumbling stopped.
I watched the boys work on the TARDIS, just standing in the center. Jack looked perfectly normal on the ground floor but the Doctor was standing on a ladder way up in the gantries. He had a red flashing light strapped to his forehead and looked extremely dorky that I burst into laughter when he first came into the room with it on. We'd decided to move me into his room with him when Jack came on board and Jack got my old room. Needless to say the Doctor and I had gotten very closer in the last few weeks, but he had yet to tell me how he felt for me. Oh well, all things come with time I suppose. In the middle of the repair we heard a knock on the TARDIS door and Jack went to answer it with popped his head out.
"Who the hell are you?" Jack asked without hesitation.
"What d'you mean, who the hell am I? Who the hell are you?" I heard Mickey ask rudely and I rolled my eyes.
"Captain Jack Harkness. Whatever your selling, we're not buying." Jack told him.
"Get out of my way!" Mickey said barging past Jack into the TARDIS with Rose right behind him.
"Don't tell me, this must be Mickey and Rose." Jack said closing the TARDIS door.
"Here comes trouble! How're you doing, Ricky boy? Rose?" The Doctor asked them.
"It's Mickey!" Mickey told him.
"We're doing fine. Thanks." Rose told him.
"Don't listen to him, he's winding you up." I told Mickey.
"You look fantastic." Rose told me and I gave them both large hugs.
"Aww, sweet, look at these three. How come I never get any of that?" Jack asked and I looked at him to see him looking at the Doctor.
"Buy me a drink first." The Doctor told him.
"You're such hard work." Jack told him turning back to his work.
"But worth it." I told him and the Doctor grinned at me in an extremely self-satisfied way.
"Did you manage to find it?" I asked Rose.
"There you go." she said handing me my passport.
"I can go anywhere now!" I told the Doctor grinning.
"I told you - you don't NEED a passport!" he told me.
"It's all very well going to platform one and Justicia and the Glass Pyramid of San Kloon but what if we end up in Brazil? I might need it. You see, I'm prepared for anything." I told him. "Besides what if someone searches my room after Mum tells them I'm traveling and finds it. All sorts of questions will pop up." I told him.
"Sounds like your staying, then." Rose said looking at me and it turned into an awkward silence between us. We used to be so close and after we watched Dad die she stopped calling and texting me. This was the first time we'd really talked to each other. Mickey smiled, attempting to lighten the atmosphere again between us.
"So, what're you doing in Cardiff? And who the hell's Jumping Jack Flash? I mean, I don't mind you hanging out with big-ears up there-" Mickey said pointing to the Doctor.
"Oi!" The Doctor said.
"Look in the mirror." Mickey told him and the Doctor shook his head and turned back to his work. "But this guy, I dunno, he's kinda..."
"Handsome?" Jack suggested.
"More like cheesy." Mickey told him.
"Early 21st Century slang - Is cheesy good or bad?" Jack asked.
"Its bad." Rose told him.
"But bad means good, isn't that right?" Jack asked and I laughed lightly.
"Are you saying I'm not handsome?" The Doctor asked us.
"No one's saying that, sweetie." I told him before turning back to Rose and Mickey. "We just stopped off. We need to refuel. Thing is, Cardiff's got this rift running through the middle of the city. It's invisible, but it's like an earthquake fault between different dimensions-"
"The rift was healed back in 1869-" The Doctor told them.
"Thanks to a girl named Gwyneth, 'cos these creatures called the Gelth, they were using the rift as a gateway but she saved the world and closed it." I said watching them both try to follow the story.
"But closing a rift always leaves a scar, and that scar generates energy, harmless to the Human Race-" Jack told them.
"But perfect for the TARDIS, so just park it here for a couple of days right on top of the scar and-" Jack told them.
"Open up the engines, soak up the radiation-" The Doctor told them.
"Like filling her up with petrol and off we go!" I told them.
"Into time!" Jack said giving me a high five.
"And space!" The three of us said as the Doctor gave me a high-five.
"Whoo!" I whooped grinning at my sister and her boyfriend.
"My God, have you seen yourselves? You all think you're so clever, don't you?" Mickey asked us.
"Yeah!" The Doctor told him.
"Yeah!" I said.
"Yep!" Jack said giving Mickey a friendly slap on the cheek. After a short while with me catching up with my sister and Mickey we all bundled out of the TARDIS.
"Should take another twenty-four hours, which means we've got time to kill." The Doctor said pulling me into his side.
"That old lady's staring." Mickey said and we all looked in that direction to see a woman staring at the five of us.
"Probably wondering what five people could do inside a small wooden box..." Jack said patting the Doctor suggestively on the shoulder and the rest of us laughed a little.
"What are you captain of? The Innuendo Squad?" Mickey asked Jack. Jack made the 'whatever' sign and walked off a bit. "Wait! Er, the TARDIS - we can't just leave it. Doesn't it get noticed?" Mickey asked looking around.
"Yeah, what's with the police box? Why does it look like that?" Jack asked.
"It's a cloaking device." I told them moving from the Doctor to the TARDIS.
"It's called a chameleon circuit. The TARDIS is meant to disguise itself wherever it lands, like if this was Ancient Rome, it'd be a statue on a plinth or something. But I landed in the 1960s, it disguised itself as a police box, and the circuit got stuck." The Doctor told them.
"So it copied a real thing? There actually was police boxes?" Rose asked him.
"Yeah, on street corners. Phone for help before they had radios and mobiles. If they arrested someone, they could shove them inside until help came. Like a little prison cell." The Doctor told them.
"Why don't you just fix the circuit?" Jack asked him leaning forward a bit.
"I like it! Don't you?" The Doctor asked us.
"I LOVE it." I told him patting the TARDIS lovingly.
"But that's what I meant! There's no police boxes anymore, so doesn't it get noticed?" Mickey asked the Doctor once again.
"Ricky, let me tell you something about the Human Race. You put a mysterious blue box slap bang in the middle of town and what do they do?" The Doctor said putting his hands on Mickey's shoulder. Mickey opened his mouth to reply, but the Doctor never gave him a chance. "Walk past it. Now stop your nagging, let's go and explore!" He said turning to walk off linking his hand with mine with the other three following us.
"What's the plan?" Rose asked him.
"I don't know! Cardiff. Early 21st Century." The Doctor told us as I linked my arm with his and leaned on his shoulder. "And the wind's coming from the... East. Trust me - safest place in the universe." He told us.
The five of us were sitting at a table having a thoroughly good time telling stories.
"I swear, six feet tall and with TUSKS-" Jack said next to Rose.
"You're lying through your teeth!" The Doctor told him laughing with the rest of us.
"I'd've gone bonkers! That's the word - bonkers!" Rose told him as Mickey kept his arms around her shoulders.
"I mean, it turns out the white things are tusks and I mean TUSKS!And it's woken, and it's not happy-" Jack continued telling us.
"How could you not know it was there?" The Doctor asked him has hand holding onto mine.
"And we're standing there, fifteen of us, NAKED-" Jack said.
"Naked?!" I asked him laughing.
"And I'm like, oh, no, no, it's got nothing to do with me! And then it roars, and we are running. Oh my God, we are RUNNING! And Brakovitch falls, so I turn to him and I say-" Jack said laughing at the same time.
"I knew we should've turned left!" Mickey said and we all roared with laughter at the punchline.
"That's my line!" Jack told him.
"I don't BELIEVE you, I don't believe a word you say EVER, that is so brilliant!" I told him laughing. "Did you ever get your clothes back?"
"No, I just picked him up went right for the ship, full throttle, didn't stop until I hit the spacelanes, I was shaking! It was unbelievable, I'm freaking out and by the time I got there I was fifteen light-years away I was like this!" Jack said demonstrating his shaking. I looked next to me to see the Doctor standing up and looking at a paper, his face face troubled.
"Doctor? What is it?" I asked him drawing everyone's attention to him.
"And I was having such a nice day." he said holding up the paper and showing us a headline. New Mayor, New Cardiff and above it was a picture of Margaret with her hand up, trying to block her face. My smile fell off my face as I stared at the paper.
The five of us up the steps to the town hall, headquarters of the Mayor. We entered and went up the steps into the entrance hall then stopped and looked around at our surroundings.
"According to intelligence, the target is the last surviving member of the Slitheen family, a criminal sect from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorious, masquerading as a human being, zipped inside a skin suit. Okay, plan of attack, we assume a basic fifty seven/fifty six strategy, covering all available exits on the ground floor. Doctor, Ashlee, you twp go face-to-face, that'll designate Exit One, I'll cover Exit Two, Rose, you're Exit Three, Mickey Smith, you take Exit Four. Have you got that?" Jack asked us.
"Excuse me. Who's in charge?" The Doctor asked him sternly.
"Sorry. Awaiting orders, sir." Jack told him facing forward.
"Right. Here's the plan." The Doctor said his voice deepening with authority. He paused and beamed at us. "Like he said. Nice plan. Anything else?"
"Present arms." Jack said and everyone, minus the Doctor, pulled out cell phones.
"Ready."
"Ready."
"Ready." we all said.
"Speed dial?" Jack asked. We each pressed a button with a beep.
"Yup." I said.
"Ready." Rose told him.
"Check." Mickey said.
"See ya in hell." Jack said with a lazy grin. We all walked off in the direction we were assigned. The Doctor and I walked over to the Secretary, Idris Hopper, who was sitting outside the Mayor's office.
"Hello! We've come to see the Lord Mayor." The Doctor told him, smiling.
"Have you got an appointment?" Idris asked us.
"Nope, just old friends passing by, bit of a surprise - can't wait to see her face!" he told him grinning.
"Well, she's just having a cup of tea." he told us.
"Just go in there, and tell her the Doctor and Ashlee would like to see her." I told him.
"Doctor and Ashlee who?" he asked us.
"Just the Doctor and Ashlee. Tell her exactly that. The Doctor and Ashlee." The Doctor told him.
"Hold on a tick..." he told us as he stood up resignedly. Idris enter the office and we stood right outside the door. A smile formed across my face as the sound of a teacup smashed on the ground. Idris reappeared, slightly flustered, and opened the door as little as possible before squeezing through it and shutting it behind him. "The Lord Mayor says thank you for- for popping by... she'd love to have a chat, but, um... she's up to her eyes in paperwork. Perhaps if you could make an appointment for next week...?"
"She's climbing out of the window, isn't she?" I asked him.
"Yes, she is." he told us. The Doctor nodded smugly and we pushed past him into the office. We dashes across the room to the open window and hurried out on the balcony. The Doctor and I emerged just in time to see Margaret hop over onto the scaffolding.
"Slitheen heading North." I told the others on my mobile.
"On my way." Rose said.
"Over and out." Jack said.
"Oh my God." I heard Mickey say before hanging up. I saw someone from the corner of my eye rushing at us and turned to see Idris. He pushed me a bit and the Doctor tried to get him off of me.
"Leave the Mayor alone!" he told us as we fought him off of me. Idris had pushed me until my back was leaning off the wall and The doctor kept trying to push him off of me. when the Doctor managed to pull Idris off of me we ran to the scaffolding that Margaret had run down.
"Margaret!" the Doctor called mockingly. Margaret ran as fast as her legs could carry her. Jack, Rose, the Doctor and I all converged at one point and watched as she ran down another exit.
"Who was on Exit Four?!" Jack asked us.
"That was Mickey!" Rose said.
"Here I am!" Mickey said panting.
"Mickey the idiot." The Doctor said as we watched Margaret.
"Oh, be fair - she's not exactly gonna outrun us, is she?" Rose asked as we watched her run. Margaret suddenly vanished in a blue light with a small ting.
"She's got a teleport! That's cheating! Now we're NEVER gonna get her!" Jack said angrily.
"Oh, the Doctor's very good with teleports." I told him as the Doctor, who had produced his sonic screwdriver from his jacket pocket, held it in the air with a dopey grin and clicked it once. Margaret reappeared, and this time much closer and running straight at us, with a self-satisfied smiled on her face. It faded as soon as she realized where she was. She halted and hurriedly changed direction while she vanished again. The Doctor clicked his sonic again causing her to reappear right in front of us, absolutely exhausted and gasping for breath.
"I could do this all day." the Doctor told her cheerily.
"This is persecution. Why can't you leave me alone? What did I ever do to you?" Margaret asked raising her hands.
"You tried to kill me, my friends and destroy this entire planet." the Doctor reminded her.
"Apart from that." she said dismissively.
We walked into the exhibition room and saw a model of the city in the middle of the room.
"So, you're a Slitheen, you're on Earth, you're trapped. Your family get killed but you teleport out, just in the nick of time. You have no means of escape. What do you do? You build a nuclear power station." The Doctor said gesturing at the model. the entire model was white except for a space where the power plant was. Under the model of the plant was gray. "But what for?"
"A philanthropic gesture. I've learnt the error of my ways." she told him.
"And it just so happens to be right on top of the rift." the Doctor said looking
"What rift would that be?" she asked him.
"A rift in space and time. If this power station went into meltdown, the entire planet would go schwwwupboom!" Jack said making a motion with his hand showing an explosion.
"This station is designed to explode the minute it reaches capacity." The Doctor said looking down at the model.
"Didn't anyone notice? Isn't there someone in London CHECKING this sort of stuff?" I asked.
"We're in CARDIFF. London doesn't care! The South Wales coast could fall into the sea and they wouldn't notice- oh... I sound like a Welshman. God help me, I've gone native." she said looking at the Doctor.
"But why would she DO that? A great big explosion - she'd only end up killing herself." Mickey said looking at us.
"She's got a name, you know." Margaret reminded him.
"She's not even a she, she's a... thing." Mickey said looking at her.
"Oh, but she's clever..." the Doctor said eyeing her. In one swift movement, he has prised the gray section of the model and flipped it over, revealing a giant circuit board underneath. "Fantastic." he said showing it to Jack while admiring it himself.
"Is that a tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator?!" Jack asked him excitedly.
"Couldn't have put it better myself." the Doctor told him.
"Ooh, GENIUS!" Jack said taking it from the Doctor. He moved to us and I watched him for a moment. "You didn't build this." he told Margaret.
"I have my hobbies. A little tinkering..." She told him.
"No, no, no, I mean, you REALLY didn't build this. Way beyond you." Jack told her moving to another side of the model.
"I bet she stole it." Rose said.
"It fell into my hands." she told us.
"Is it a weapon?" I asked. Jack placed the extrapolator down on the floor.
"It's transport. You see - the reactor blows, the rift opens, phenomenal cosmic disaster, but THIS thing shrouds you in a force field, you have this energy bubble, zzhum, so you're safe. Then you feed it coordinates, stand on top, and ride the concussion all the way out of the solar system." Jack explained to us.
"It's a surfboard!" Mickey said smiling.
"A pan-dimensional surfboard, yeah." Jack said.
"And it would've worked. I would've surfed away from this dead-end dump and back to civilization." Margaret told us.
"You'd blow up a whole planet just to get a lift?" Rose asked her like she couldn't believe it.
"Like stepping on an anthill." Margaret told her.
"How'd you think of the name?" The Doctor asked her drawing our attention to him. He was staring at a poster with the name of the project on it.
"What, Blaidd Drwg? It's Welsh." Margaret told him.
"I know, but how did you think of it?" the Doctor asked her.
"Chose it at random, that's all I dunno. Just sounded good. Does it matter?" She asked him.
"Blaidd Drwg." the Doctor said turning towards us, his brow furrowed.
"What's it mean?" I asked him.
"Bad Wolf." He told me.
"But I've heard that before, Bad Wolf. I've heard that lots of times..." I told him haunted by those words now.
"Everywhere we go. Two words. Following us. Bad Wolf." He told me.
"How can they be following us?" I asked him. He stared into space for a few more seconds before...
"Nah! Just a coincidence! Like hearing a word on the radio then hearing it all day. Never mind! Things to do." the Doctor said, clapping his hands briskly. "Margaret, we're gonna take you home." he told her walking towards us.
"Hold on, isn't that the easy option, like letting her go?" Jack asked him.
"I don't believe it! We actually get to go to Raxa..." I said pretending like his earlier words didn't bother me. I turned to him in time to see him roll his eyes. "Wait a minute! Raxacor..." I said trying again.
"Raxacoricofallapatorius."
"Raxacorico..." I started the name.
"... fallapatorius." the Doctor finished for me.
"Raxacoricofallapatorius!" I said happy that I said the entire name.
"That's it!" he said joyfully. We threw our arms around each other and he picked me up and spun me around.
"I did it!" I said squeaking a bit.
"They have the death penalty." Margaret told us and my smile faded. "The family Slitheen was tried in its absence many years ago and found guilty. With no chance of appeal. According to the statutes of government, the moment I return, I am to be executed. What do you make of that, Doctor?" she asked him, holding his stare. "Take me home and you take me to my death."
"Not my problem." he told her indifferently.
By the time we got back to the TARDIS, darkness had fallen.
"This ship is IMPOSSIBLE! How do you get the outside around the inside?" Margaret asked him in wonder.
"Like I'd give YOU the secret, yeah." The Doctor said as he and Jack worked.
"I almost feel better about being defeated. We never stood a chance. This is the technology of the Gods." she said continuing her look around the console.
"Don't worship me - I'd make a very bad God. You wouldn't get a day off, for starters... Jack, how we doing, big fella?" The Doctor asked him. I watched as Jack was wiring the extrapolator up to the TARDIS.
"This extrapolator's top of the range." he said before peering at Margaret. "Where did you get it?"
"Oh, I don't know... some airlock sale...?" she questioned.
"Must've been a great big heist. It's stacked with power." Jack told us.
"But we can use it for fuel?" The Doctor asked him.
"It's not compatible... but it should knock off about twelve hours. We'll be ready to go by morning." Jack said.
"Then we're stuck here. Overnight." The Doctor said.
"I'M in no hurry..." Margaret said.
"We've got a prisoner! The police box is really... a police box." I said grinning.
"You're not just police, though. Since you're taking me to my death, that makes you my executioners. Each and every one of you..." Margaret told me with an unpleasantly smile.
"Well, you deserve it." Mickey told her coldly.
"You're very quick to say so. You're very quick to soak your hands in my blood. Which makes you better than me, how, exactly...?" she asked us but none of us could answer her. "Long night ahead..." She took her time walking around the console to sit in one of the seats. "Let's see who can look me in the eye." She fixed her eyes on Mickey and he managed to hold it for a few seconds before averting his eyes uncomfortably. Next she looked to Rose who looked to me. I glanced at the Doctor, who glanced up only for a second as he was still working busily.
Rose and I walked out of the TARDIS and joined Mickey as he stood in front of the water feature close to where we parked.
"S'freezing out here!" I said.
"Better than in there." Mickey said nodding to the TARDIS. "She doesdeserve it. She's a Slitheen. I don't care. It's... it's just... weird, in that box."
"I didn't really need my passport..." I told them smiling. I knew they knew I wanted to see them. Rose smiled at me and hugged me close to her.
"I've been thinking, you know... we could... go and have a drink. Have a pizza or something. Just the three of us, like the old days." Rose suggested.
"That'd be nice." I told her nodding.
"Is that all right?" She asked me and I laughed.
"Yeah!" I told her.
"Cool. There's a couple of bars around here, we should give 'em a go." Mickey suggested pointing away from the TARDIS. "And do you have to go and tell him?" he asked me. I nodded then ran to tell him and Jack the three of us were going to have a night on the town.
"Okay, let's go." I told them and we walked away with Rose and I linking arms.
The three of us walked along the bay talking and laughing. They were filling me in on everything I had missed while I'd been with the Doctor. After they were done telling me about the last six months I'd been gone I started telling them about the places I'd been with the Doctor.
"The Doctor took me to this planet a while back - it was much colder than this - they called it 'Woman Wept'. The planet was actually called 'Woman Wept'. 'Cos, if you looked at it, right, from above, there's like this huge continent, like all curved round... sort of looked like a woman, you know... lamenting. Oh my God, and we went to this beach, right, no people, no buildings, just this beach like, a thousand miles across! And something had happened, something to do with the sun, I don't know - but the sea had just frozen! Like, in a split second in the middle of a storm, right, waves and foam, just frozen! All the way out to the horizon. Midnight, right, we walk underneath these waves a hundred feet tall, made of ice." I told them, grinning from ear to ear.
"Mickey and I are living together." Rose blurted out to me. I stared at her in shock.
"Right... that's nice..." I said.
"Yeah." she said as we looked out of the bay.
"What does Mum say about it?" I asked her.
"She supports us while you've been away." Mickey told me.
"Well, good for you two." I told them.
"So, tell us more about this planet, then." Mickey said.
"That was it, really..." I told her. We stood in silence.
I was still looking out at the water as Rose and Mickey were sitting on a bench.
"So, what d'you wanna do now?" Mickey asked us.
"Don't mind." I told them.
"There's a bar down there with a Spanish name or something-" he started saying before I rounded on them.
"How could you not call me and tell me that you two moved in together?!" I asked them. "You never even mentioned wanting to move in with someone before!"
"What the hell do you know?" Rose yelled back at me.
"I know YOU." I reminded her.
"At least we know where each other are!" Rose yelled at me." she told me and I nodded my head.
"There we are, then. That's why you never pick up the phone anymore. This is all about me, isn't it-" I asked her.
"You LEFT me!" She said getting in my face. "We were happy. And then what, you run off with him and you make me feel like nothing, Ashlee. I was nothing. Am I just supposed to sit here for the rest of my life, waiting for you?" she asked me as tears began to pout from her eyes.
"I'm sorry." I told her quietly. We sat on the bench with me holding Rose's hands.
"I'm not asking you to leave him, because I know that's not fair. But I just need something, yeah? Some sort of promise that when you DO come back, you're coming back for me and for mum." Rose told me. I knew I couldn't say anything to her because I wouldn't be coming back. I heard a low rumbling in the distance and spun around to try and find a source.
"Is that thunder?" I asked them.
"Does it matter?" Mickey asked me. "Your sister's trying to talk to you."
"That's not thunder." I said. A street light smashed and people shrieked and I ran off to the TARDIS. When I got to the Millennium Square I saw lightening shooting out of the top of the TARDIS into the sky. My eyes widened and I flinched as the ground rumbled beneath me. I began to run across the Square to the TARDIS with the ground cracking around me. I burst into the TARDIS and saw everything was worse inside.
"What is it? What's happening?!" I asked the boys.
"Oh, just little ME!" Margaret said. She freed one of her arms from the skin-suit revealing the Slitheen claw and grabbed me around the neck. The Doctor darted forward but she stopped him. "One wrong move and she snaps like a promise."
"I might've known." The Doctor said.
"I've had you bleating all night, poor baby, now shut it." she said moving forward with me. "You - fly boy - put the extrapolator at my feet." She told Jack. Jack hesitated and she tightened her grip around my neck. Jack looked at the Doctor and he nodded to him. Jack put the board at our feet and stepped back again. "Thank you. Just as I planned."
"I thought you needed to blow up the nuclear power station." I told her as she strangled me.
"Failing that - if I were to be... arrested... then anyone capable of tracking me down would have considerable technology of their own. Therefore, they would be captivated by the extrapolator. Especially a magpie mind like yours, Doctor. So the extrapolator was programmed to go to Plan B!" she said pulling my hair roughly and I whimpered. "To lock onto the nearest alien power source and open the rift. And what a power source it found... I'm back on schedule... thanks to you." She said admiring the TARDIS.
"The rift's gonna convulse - she'll destroy the whole planet." Jack said.
"And you with it!" Margaret told him. She pulled to to the other side of her and stepped on the extrapolator. "While I ride this board over the crest of the inferno all the way to freedom. Stand back boys... surf's up." A panel of the console directly in front of Margaret and I suddenly burst open and a blinding white light flooded out.
"Of course, opening the rift means you'll pull this ship apart." The Doctor said calmly.
"So sue me." she told him.
"It's not just any old power source. It's the TARDIS. My TARDIS. The best ship in the universe." he told her.
"It'll make wonderful scrap." she said smirking.
"What's that light?" I asked him.
"The heart of the TARDIS. This ship's alive. You've opened its soul." the Doctor said. I saw Margaret stare into the light.
"It's ... so bright..." she said dreamily.
"Look at it, Margaret..." The Doctor told her.
"... Beautiful..." she said.
"Look inside, Blon Fel Fotch. Look at the light." he told her again. Margaret was so transfixed by the light and her grip on me relaxed. I stumbled out of the way and to Jack who held me close to him. Margaret continued to stare into the light, a blissful smile spreading across her face. Then, she looked up at the Doctor who smiled slightly.
"Thank you ..." she said before being engulfed by the light. When the light cleared, her body-suit flopped on top of the extrapolator, empty. The Doctor immediately sprang into action, darting around the console.
"Don't look - stay there - close your eyes!" he ordered and we closed our eyes. When it was darker behind my eyelids I opened my eyes the light was gone. "Now, Jack, come on - shut it all down. Shut down!" Jack rushed over to the console to do as was told. "Rose, that panel over there - turn all the switches to the right." we worked busily, the console exploding with sparks until we finally got the shaking to stop. "Nicely done. Thank you, all."
"What happened to Margaret?" I asked looking at the suit.
"Must've got burnt up. Carried out her own death sentence." Jack said.
"No. I don't think she's dead." The Doctor told us.
"Then, where'd she go?" I asked him.
"She looked into the heart of the TARDIS, and even Idon't know how strong that is. And the ship's telepathic - like I told you, Rose. Gets inside your head. Translates alien languages. Maybe the raw energy can translate all sorts of thoughts..." he said kneeling down next to the suit for a closer look. Jack and I knelt down next to him. The Doctor reached inside the skin suit and pulled out an egg. "Here she is!" he said grinning.
"She's an egg?" I asked.
"Regressed to her childhood." the Doctor told me.
"She's an egg?" Jack asked him.
"She can start again! Live her life from scratch. If we take her home, give her to a different family, tell 'em to bring her up properly, she might be all right!" the Doctor said.
"Or she might be worse." Jack said.
"That's her choice." the Doctor told him.
"She's an egg." I said.
"She's an egg." He said smiling at me.
"Oh, my God. Rose and Mickey-" I said running out of the TARDIS back to where I left them. I ran down the street but I didn't see Rose or Mickey. I tapped on a paramedic's shoulder and questioned if he'd seen them and he shook his head. I looked for them some more before walking back home. When I walked into the TARDIS the Doctor was fiddling with the console and Jack was on the other side.
"We're all powered up. We can leave. Opening the rift filled us up with energy - we can go. If that's all right..." The Doctor said looking at me.
"Yeah, fine." I told him.
"How's Rose and Mickey?" he asked me carefully.
"They're okay. They're gone." I told him.
"D'you wanna go and find him? We'll wait..." he said as he and Jack glanced at each other.
"No need. They deserves better." I told him.
"Off we go, then. Always moving on..." he told me pulling a lever.
"Next stop, Raxacoricofallapatorius. Now, you don't often get to say that." Jack said smirking. The Doctor walked towards me and put his arms around me, holding me close.
"We'll just stop by and pop her in the hatchery. Margaret the Slitheen can live her life again! A second chance." he said.
"That'd be nice ..." I said looking at the egg.
"I love you." he told me and I smiled lightly.
"I love you too."
Next time on the Doctor's Girl:
"Welcome, to 'The Weakest Link'!" it said as the theme music played. Agorax screamed as the disintegrator beam shot him until there's nothing left but dust. The gun retreated back into the Anne Droid's mouth and the light behind Agorax's name on his podium goes out.
"I need to find the Doctor, he's got to be here somewhere- he's always here!" I said, terrified.
"Alert! Alert! We are detected!" one of them said.