The moment after we materialised in Floor Five Hundred of the Game Station, we hadn't even properly stepped out as the Doctor started giving orders. "Turn everything up. All transmitters full power, wide open. Now! Do it!"

"What does this do?" One of the people in front of the computer said. The Doctor went to stand next to him. "It stops the Daleks from transmatting on board. How did you get on? Did you contact Earth?"

"I tried to once, but all they did was suspend our license because we stopped the programmes."

"Are they bloody insane?" Melody asked, and I shook my head. "I don't think this is the right time and place for that discussion."

"But that means the planet's left undefended, we need to find a way to contact them!"

I looked around. "Hey, where's Lynda?"

"We forced her to evacuate. Although, there's a shortage of shuttles. About a hundred people are still on Floor Zero."

"That still doesn't fix the problem of Earth being defenceless!" Melody yelled.

"They're coming." The man in front of the computer said. The Doctor ran his hands over his head and groaned. "There's got to be something we can- oh!"

He ran towards the walkway and started opening the panels on the floor and pulling the wires out. "Dalek plan. Big mistake, because what have they left me with? Anyone? Anyone? Oh, come on, it's obvious. A great big transmitter. This station. If I can change the signal, fold it back, sequence it, anyone?" He turned to us, and I said, "Delta Wave."

"You're kidding." Jack said, as Melody exclaimed, "What?"

"What's a Delta Wave?"

"It's basically this wave of energy that kills everything in its way. Or something." I shrugged.

"It'll literally barbecue your brain- the perfect way to kill the Daleks!" Melody exclaimed.

"Do it then!" Rose grinned.

"Well, we have a problem." Everyone turned to look at me, and I shrugged. "Well, it'll take at least three days to make one of those, and about twenty two minutes for the Daleks to get here and blow up the place."

Jack ran toward a console and started pulling out a bunch of wires. Melody went to see what he was doing, and gasped. "Force field!"

"Liza, I'm gonna need your help here!" I turned around and headed towards the Doctor, who gave me a bunch of wires. "I'm gonna need you to separate the red ones and the blue ones- pile 'em up like I did there." He gestured to two piles of wires, and I nodded. I sat down in front of him and started doing it.

After ten whole minutes of wire separation, I was finally done. Jack had also seemed to have succeeded in buying us some time. "We've now got a forcefield so they can't blast us out of the sky, but that doesn't stop the Daleks from physically invading."

"Do they know about the Delta Wave?"

"They'll have worked it out at the same time. So, they want to stop the Doctor. That means they've got to get to this level, five hundred. Now, I can concentrate the extrapolator around the top six levels, five hundred to four nine five. So they'll penetrate the station below that at level four nine four and fight their way up."

"Who are they fighting?"

"My pet chihuahua and his aunt's cousin's magpie." Melody deadpanned, and I snickered. "Us, of course!"

"And what are we fighting with?"

"The guards had guns with bastic bullets. That's enough to blow a Dalek wide open."

"There's five of us. Six, if you include her," He gestured to me. "But she's helping the Doctor."

"Rose, Melody, I'm gonna need you two here as well! I need all these wires stripping bare."

"Three of us now."

"Then let's move it! Into the lift! Isolate the lift controls!" The computer programmers ran towards the lift. I stood up as Jack walked towards us. I took a deep breath and swallowed. I wouldn't be seeing Jack again till Utopia- that is, if I survive Canary Wharf, or even the alternate universe trip. And he- he'd be stuck in time for about a hundred and forty years before he'd see us again.

"It's been fun, but I guess this is goodbye."

"Don't say that." I said, and Rose said. "Yeah, the Doctor's going to do it. You just watch him." Well, actually, Rose is the one who saves the day in the end, so that comment will not age well.

Jack chuckled and took Rose's face in his hands. "Rose Tyler, you are worth fighting for." He kissed her and moved to the Doctor. "Doctor, I wish I'd never met you. I was much better off as a coward." He kissed the Doctor, and came to me.

"Liza, you're like my little sister."

"And you're the brother I never had." I threw my arms around him. "Stay safe, okay?" I said as I pulled away. "You too."

He went to Melody and held out a hand. "It was nice meeting you, Melody."

"And you, Captain Jack Harkness." She shook his hand.

Jack then ran towards the elevator. "See you in hell."

"He's gonna be alright," Rose smiled, and turned to look at us. "Isn't he?"

I nodded. "He will be." Eventually. We all stayed silent for a few moments, and I cleared my throat. "Right, we have an extremely urgent time constraint."

The Doctor nodded, and we all went back to work.

We'd all been working in silence for a while, when Rose said, "Suppose-"

"What?" The Doctor said.

She shook her head. "Nothing."

"You said 'suppose'."

"No, I was just thinking. I mean, obviously you can't, but, you've got a time machine. Why can't you just go back to last week and warn them?"

"That's impossible." Melody said. "If we land there, we become a part of the events and get stuck in the timeline. Like a weird paradox, but not exactly."

"Yeah, I thought it would be something like that."

"There's another thing the TARDIS could do. It could take us away. We could leave. Let history take its course. We could go to Marbella in 1989."

"But we don't walk away." I said. He turned and smiled at me. I found myself grinning wider because of that. "We can." He shrugged.

"But we won't. Not when there's lives at stake." Melody looked up from her wires.

He smiled at her. "'Course not." At that moment, a weird noise started coming. The Doctor looked up. "The Delta Wave's building."

He ran toward the console where the force field was, and looked at the screen. His face sobered up. Rose leaned towards him. "Is that bad? Okay, it's bad. How bad is it?"

I slowly backed away from the group. He was gonna send Rose back, and probably try to send me back as well, but I wasn't leaving him. He then stood up and threw his arms around Rose. "Rose Tyler, you're a genius! We can do it. If I use the Tardis to cross my old timeline!" He kissed her forehead and ran towards the TARDIS. "Yes!" Melody and Rose followed him.

I did too, but when the other three had gotten in, I turned right at the last moment and ducked behind a panel.

The Doctor and Melody ran out a few moments later, yelling something about connecting the TARDIS's power to the Game Station. The Doctor turned around and pulled out his screwdriver. He pointed it at the TARDIS and hesitated for a minute, before pressing one of the buttons. The TARDIS started to dematerialise, drowning out Rose's screams. And then, just like that, she was gone.

"You sent them back," Melody whispered, a few moments after they left. "You actually sent them back." Melody was either lying, or she had observation skills that were worse than the Doctor's.

"I had to. There's a high chance I'm gonna die here, and I don't want that happening to them."

"You can't die. There's all that's there in the future- none of it will happen if you die here."

"Time can be rewritten." He shrugged. "Either that or an absolute miracle's gonna happen and save us all."

"Let's just hope that it's the second one." They walked towards the console. She then looked up at him. "Let's say a miracle does happen. What are you gonna do next? I mean, the TARDIS is in the twenty-first century, isn't it?"

He shrugged. "I dunno, I'd probably call-" He stopped dead in his tracks. Melody frowned. "What's wrong?"

He turned around and started looking around. Shit. "Liza, I know you're hiding somewhere!"

I took a deep breath and came out from behind the panels. "Hey..." I dragged out the word in an extremely high-pitched voice. He turned around and put his face in his hands. "How did I not see this coming- what are you doing here?"

"Helping."

"Do you even know what we're going up against?! There's millions of Daleks, and-"

"I know." I shrugged. "I'm still staying."

"Are you insane?! You could die!"

"I could not."

"Liza, we're up against millions of Daleks! I'm not even sure I'll survive, and I'm a Time Lord!"

I opened my mouth to say something, but he beat me to it. "And I know what you're gonna say, I have plot armor or whatever, but the point is, you don't. You could get killed, why did you even decide to stay?!"

"Because we don't walk away."

"But when we're holding onto something precious, we run." Melody said. My eyes widened. "You're seriously supporting him."

She shrugged. "You're Early Days Beth. Meaning, you're not as experienced at this point. You will be, but you're definitely more vulnerable and prone to dying now."

"But I won't die! You meet me in the future, so you know that I'll be well and good at that point!"

"Time can be rewritten!" She exclaimed. "I'm not losing you."

"Neither am I." The Doctor shook his head.

I took a deep breath. "If you're both seriously trying to convince me that this is a mistake, you're idiots because there's no way in hell that I'm leaving. And I don't regret it." I shrugged, and walked towards the console. "Also, don't we have only some time left before the Daleks attack? Meaning, shouldn't you be more concentrated on the Delta Wave than on me?"

"The Delta Wave's a bust." The Doctor announced, a few minutes later. "If I use it, it'll end up destroying the Daleks, but Earth's on it's path as well, meaning I'll destroy Earth."

"But there's got to be something we can do!" Melody threw her hands up and walked toward a few panels.

"We have no time to refine the wave such that we can destroy the Daleks, and there's no time for us to organise a planet-wide evacuation-"

"We could get in contact with UNIT and see if they can put up a force field around the planet to buy us some time." I shrugged. Or we could just wait for Rose to save the day with a little help from Sexy, but there's no way in hell I would be able to say that out loud.

"But how do we get in contact with them? Earth's suspended communications."

"Do you have a cell phone?"

"They don't use mobiles here."

"They don't, but you have a friend who does. A friend with a vortex manipulator. Or you can just call up one of the future Doctors and have them go to Earth and alert UNIT." I turned to the Doctor. "I mean, you still have a special status there, they're bound to listen to you."

He put his wires down and frowned. "If we're calling one of my future incarnations, we could just have them refine the Delta Wave in advance and just bring the code here. Much more useful that way." He turned to Melody who nodded. "If you're sure about that plan, I can call the Eleventh Doctor, and I think he'll help. That is, if he's not busy saving another planet or trying to figure out something, or he says that there's another solution, or-"

"Rose," Jack's voice sounded through the computer. "I've called up the laser codes. There should be a different number on every screen, can you read them out to me?"

I walked towards the computer. "She's not here, but I can do it."

"Of all the times to take a leak."

"Is that seriously the first thing that popped into your head?"

"Okay, what's she doing then?"

"She's at home. The Doctor sent her back."

"How come he didn't send you back?"

"She was supposed to go as well, but she didn't leave." The Doctor said in a mock polite tone. I scoffed and turned around. "I'm not supposed to be doing anything. I made the choice to stay here."

"An extremely stupid choice that could get you killed." He looked up and scowled at me.

"So it's okay for you to stay back and fight, but when it comes to me, I'm supposed to run away and go back to living a normal life?"

"A normal life where you could be safe."

"I don't want to be safe! I want to stay here and help you!"

"Why would you want that? I never asked you for that, did I?" He dropped his wires and threw his hands up.

"Because I care about you, and you never have to ask!" I scoffed and turned back to the computer. "You really are an alien."

Jack cleared his throat after a few moments. "The Delta Wave. Is it ever gonna be ready?"

"Tell him the truth, Doctor." I jumped back as the Emperor of the Daleks appeared on the screen. "Tell him the truth, Doctor. There is every possibility the Delta Wave could be complete, but no possibility of refining it. The Delta Wave must kill every living thing in its path, with no distinction between human and Dalek."

"Doctor, the range of this transmitter covers the whole Earth." Jack warned.

"You would destroy Daleks and humans together. If I am God, the creator of all things, then what does that make you, Doctor?" I turned to look at the Doctor. He stared at the Emperor of the Daleks with what looked like a poker face at first glance, but I knew better. I clenched my hands and bit my lip. The audacity of the Dalek Emperor, who had probably killed more people than the Doctor ever had, to call out the Doctor!

"There are colonies out there. The Human Race would survive in some shape or form, but you're the only Daleks in existence. The whole Universe is in danger if I let you live. Do you see that Jack? That's the decision I've got to make for every living thing. Die as a human or live as a Dalek. What would you do?"

"You sent her home. She's safe."

"But she isn't." He gestured to me. I turned to him. "She doesn't care. Doctor, I made the choice to stay here, meaning if anything happens, it's my fault. And anyway, I trust you to do the right thing."

"But he will exterminate you!" The Dalek Emperor protested. I turned to him, my eyes narrowed. "You're talking like you wouldn't. At least he's doing it because it's either Earth or the rest of the universe."

Some time later, Melody and I were sitting on the walkway as the Doctor pulled up a lever on a console near us. "It's ready!" He gasped.

I stood up and Melody reached into her pocket as a bunch of Daleks started to enter the room. The Doctor wrapped his hand around mine and turned to the Daleks. "You really want to think about this, 'cause if I activate the signal, every living creature dies."

"I am immortal." The Emperor insisted.

"Do you really want to put that to the test?"

"I want to see you become like me. Hail the Doctor, the great Exterminator!" Still invalid, if you ask me, since the Doctor hadn't even killed half the amount of creatures the Daleks had.

The Doctor let go of my hand and placed both of his on the lever. "I'll do it!"

"Then prove yourself, Doctor. What are you- coward or killer?"

The Doctor's hands shook on the lever. He took a deep breath and his hands slid off the lever. He turned to look at the Daleks. "Coward. Any day."

"Mankind will be harvested because of your weakness."

"And what about me? Am I becoming one of your angels?"

"You are the Heathen. You will be exterminated."

The sound of the TARDIS materialising reached my ears. I smiled and turned to the Emperor. "Correction: you will be exterminated."

"Alert! TARDIS materialising!" A Dalek exclaimed, and the Doctor spun around. Melody turned around and gasped. "What the-"

The doors of the TARDIS opened, and the first thing I saw was a blinding yellow light. I covered my eyes with my hands and backed away, which made me trip over a wire and fall down. Melody, who had grabbed my hand also got pulled down and fell down beside me. Seemed like a painful fall, judging by her shout.

"What have you done?!" The Doctor exclaimed.

I slowly opened my eyes. Rose was standing in front of us, except, she was radiating gold light and her eyes were golden. "I looked in the TARDIS and the TARDIS looked into me." Her voice was softer than usual- more, um, TARDISey. Kind of.

"You looked into the Time Vortex. Rose, no one's meant to see that!"

"This is the abomination." The Emperor said.

"Exterminate!" A Dalek fired at her, but she raised her hand. It reflected the beam back to the Dalek.

"I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words," She waved her hand at the huge 'Bad Wolf Corporation' logo. The letters of the words 'Bad Wolf' lifted off and flew away, "I scatter them across time and space. A message to lead myself here."

"Rose, you've got to stop this! You've got to stop this now!" The Doctor warned. "You've got the entire Time Vortex running through your head. You're gonna burn!"

She looked down at him. "I want you safe. My Doctor." She turned to me, "And my Dreamer," She turned to Melody, "And the Child of the Vortex, protected from the false god."

"You cannot hurt me! I am immortal!" The Emperor yelled.

"You are tiny. I can see the whole of time and space. Every atom of your existence, and I divide them." She lifted her hand and disintegrated a Dalek. "Everything must come to dust. Everything dies. The Time War ends." A blinding light hit all of us as Rose spread out her arms. The Doctor wrapped an arm around me and pulled me into his chest, and Melody buried her face in my arm. I wrapped an arm around her and pulled her close.

The Dalek Emperor screamed as he slowly seemed to disintegrate. Or at least, that's what I thought since I wasn't looking at him. After that, everything became normal again. Ish. I slowly pulled away from the Doctor, whose hand dropped from my shoulders to hold one of mine. "Rose, you can let go now."

"How can I let go of this? I bring life." She waved a hand, and presumably, a few floors below, Jack was coming to life again.

"But this is wrong! You can't control life and death!"

"But I can. The sun and the moon, the night and the day." Her voice cracked. "But why does it hurt so much?"

"The power's going to kill you and it's my fault."

"I can see everything. All that is, all that was, all that ever could be."

The Doctor stood up. "That's what I see all the time. Doesn't it drive you mad?"

"My head!" Rose cried. The Doctor opened his arms. "Come here."

She obeyed, and walked into his arms. He pressed his forehead against hers. "I think you need a Doctor." He placed his hands on her temples and opened his eyes as the Vortex slowly emptied out of her and went into him.

When the last of it was gone, she fainted in his arms. He slowly placed her down. He stood up and opened his arms. The energy from the Time Vortex left him and entered the TARDIS, whose doors closed the moment the last of the energy left the Doctor.

A/N: I'm putting the A/N here instead of the final chapter as that's the epilogue for some weird reason lol. Anyway, I can't believe I finally finished this book! Thank you all so much for being so patient with me and for showing so much support! I will be publishing the epilogue and an Author's Note after that notifying you guys about the sequel, whose name is Rewriting Fate- any theories about that?

Anyway, who do you guys think Melody is? And do you guys have any theories on what happened to Liza regarding her ability to understand the TARDIS?

Replies to reviews:

KurtWaterDragon: Interesting theory! I'm not gonna be saying if it's correct or not, but it will either be confirmed or denied in the first few chapters of book 2.

Rosie Writing: Thank you! I'm so glad you're enjoying it so far! Ten's time is something I'm enjoying to write mainly because of the dynamic they've developed and also because of a bunch of plot points that happen during that time.

.seed: I'm so glad you like the variations and the banter! And about Dreamer, that name has a significance at some point in the future, and a bit has already been sneak peeked (is that even a word? idek lol) at some point in the past ;)