Hello once again dear readers. I don't know if I have said yet, but anything you recognize I don't own as sad as that makes me. Anyway I hope you enjoy this chapter!
"What happens if they touch us?" Rose and I asked at the same time.
"You're looking at it."
I had grabbed the Doctor's hand very tightly, him doing the same to my hand. I completely forgot that my hands were still burned from the rope, but right now I did not care. Just then the Doctor suddenly yelled, "Go to your room." I let up on his hand a little but the Doctor keep a tight hold on mine keeping me slightly behind him. "Go to your room. I mean it. I am very, very, very angry with you."
Rose and Jack looked very confused at what the Doctor was doing. "I am very, very cross. GO TO YOUR ROOM!" The Doctor pointed with his free hand and then the people looked down as if they were ashamed and slowly walked back to their beds.
"I'm really glad that worked," the Doctor said with a sigh. "Yeah, those would've been terrible last words," I said to the Doctor. He gave me a smile and let go of my hand; I had two reactions to this one, my hand felt very cold without his hand hold it, but it did feel a little bit better because of the burns.
Rose and I were over looking at the patients when she asked, "Why are they all wearing gas masks?"
"They're not. Those masks are flesh and bone," Jack, who was sitting in a chair with his feet up, told her.
I got up and walked over to where the Doctor was standing right as he asked, "How was your con supposed to work?"
"Simple enough, really. Find some harmless piece of space junk; let the nearest Time Agent track it back to Earth. Convince him it's valuable, name a price. When he's put 50% up front – oops! A German bomb falls on it, destroys it forever. He never gets to know what he's paid for. Never knows he's been had. I buy him a drink with his own money and we discuss dumb luck. The perfect self-cleaning con."
I rolled my eyes before saying, "Yeah, perfect," in the best sarcastic tone I had.
"The London Blitz is great for self-cleaners," Jack continued ignoring my comment. "Pompeii's nice if you want to make a vacation out of it though, but you've got to set your alarm for volcano day." Jack laughed looking at the Doctor and I. I had my hands on my hips giving him a look that said 'really'. The Doctor face was not much happier than mine.
"Getting a hint of disapproval."
"Take a look around this room. This is what your harmless piece of space junk did."
"It was a burnt out medical transporter, it was empty," Jack defended.
I felt a little sorry for Jack, have the Doctor mad at you was not a fun thing, although this was partly his fault.
"Rose, Harper." The Doctor called before turning around and heading out. I quickly followed, and Rose asked, "We getting out of here?"
"We're going upstairs."
Jack jumped up and said, "I even programmed the flight computer so it wouldn't land on anything living. I harmed no one. I don't know what's happening here, but believe me, I had nothing to do with it."
'Poor Jack, he is trying so hard.' I thought during his little speech.
The Doctor turned to look back at him, "I'll tell you what's happening. You forgot to set your alarm clock. It's volcano day."
We all stopped when we heard an alarm sound. Rose asked, "What's that?"
"The all clear."
"I wish," the Doctor and I said at the same time. He grabbed my hand and we walked out of the room heading up stairs.
Somehow we got separated from Rose and Jack.
"Mr. Spock?"
"Doctor?"
The Doctor and I leaned over the stair rail and he asked, "Have you got a blaster?"
"Sure," and Jack and Rose came back to the stair and started up to us.
The Doctor led us to a room and, since the Doctor had already told me this, I said, "The night your space junk landed someone was hurt. This was where they were taken."
"What happened?" Rose asked.
"Let's find out. Get it open."
The Doctor came to stand by Rose and I and we both asked at the same time, "What's wrong with your sonic screwdriver?"
"Nothing," was all he said before commenting on Jack blaster. "Sonic blaster, 5th century. Weapon factories of Villengard.
"You've been to the factories?"
"Once" I had to hold in a laugh at this, because I knew what the Doctor had done. He gave me a pointed look saying 'hush'. So I guess I did not hide it good enough.
"Well, they're gone now. Destroyed. The main reactor went critical, vaporized the lot."
"Like I said, once. There's a banana grove there now. I like bananas. Bananas are good."
The Doctor went into the room and I looked at the door and "Nice blast pattern."
"Digital" Jack commented as I went into the room, Rose coming up behind me saying, "Squareness gun. I like it."
I was saddened by the room it was a complete disaster. The Doctor, while looking around the room, asked, "What d'you think?"
"Something got out of here…" Jack started. Knowing what I would find I walked into the other room seeing all the drawings.
"Yeah and" the Doctor probed.
"Something powerful. Angry."
"Powerful and angry." I heard the Doctor say and I said, "A child."
Jack and Rose walked in behind me looking around and he said, "I suppose this explains 'mummy'."
It was all so sad it me. 'Oh sweet heart, you just want your mummy. You poor thing.' I always had a soft spot for kids and this just broke my heart.
"How can a child do this?" Rose asked just as the Doctor started the recording.
"Do you know where you are?" We heard a man ask.
"Are you my mummy?"
"Are you aware of what's around you? Can you… see?"
"Are you my mummy?"
"What do you want? Do you know…"
"I want my mummy. Are you my mummy? I want my mummy. Are you my mummy? Are you my mummy? Mummy? Mummy?"
The child went on like this and thankfully Rose broke our silence. "Doctor, Harper and I have heard this voice before."
"Me too."
"Mummy"
"Always 'are you my mummy?' It's like he doesn't know."
"Mummy."
"Why doesn't he know?"
The Doctor started pacing around the room thinking, but I could not take my eyes off of the recorder as it keep playing, "Are you my mummy? Mummy? Please, Mummy. Mummy?"
"Doctor?" Rose asked after a few minutes of this.
"Can't you sense it?" The Doctor asked.
"Sense what?"
"Coming out of the walls, can you feel it?"
"Mummy?"
"Funny little human brains, how do you get around in those things?" The Doctor asked before looking at me. Since I was still to preoccupied with the recorder I missed the concerned look he gave.
"When he's stressed he likes to insult species," Rose told Jack.
"Rose I'm thinking," the Doctor had started up walking around the room again.
"Mummy."
"Cuts himself shaving does half an hour in life forms he's cleverer than."
The Doctor suddenly stopped right behind me and said, "There are these children living rough around the bomb site. They come out during air raids looking for food."
"Mummy please."
"Suppose they were there when this thing, whatever it was, landed?"
"It was a med ship, it was harmless," Jack said again.
"Yes you keep saying harmless. Suppose one of them was infected, altered?"
"Altered how?" Rose asked, all of them to caught up in the conversation to realize the tape has run out. I was a little scared when I saw the boy walk into the room and say, "I'm here."
"It's afraid. Terribly afraid and powerful. It doesn't know it yet, but it will do. It's got the power of a god and I just sent it to its room."
I could hear the noise a tape makes when it runs out, but it seemed I was the only one.
"Doctor?" Rose asked sounding a little afraid.
"I'm here. Can't you see me?"
"What's that noise?" Rose finally asked.
"End of the tape. It ran out about 30 seconds ago."
"I'm here now. Can't you see me?"
"I sent it to its room. This is its room." The Doctor turned around quickly and pulled me behind him, but the child was still looking at me when it asked, "Are you my mummy? Mummy."
"Okay, on my signal, make for the door," Jack said; then he sprang between the Doctor and I shouting "Now!"
The Doctor just smiled and pulled out Jack's blaster pointing it towards the wall.
"Mummy?"
"Go now. Don't drop the banana." Rose and I quickly went through the hole followed closely by Jack, who ask, "Why not?" and then Doctor.
"Good source of potassium?" I offered up a suggestion. "Right you are Harper." The Doctor smiled at me.
"Give me that." Jack got back his blaster and pointed it at the wall. Just as it was closing we heard the child ask, "Mummy? Are you my mummy?"
"Digital rewind," Jack said before tossing the banana back to the Doctor. "Nice switch."
"It's from the grooves of Villengard. I thought it was appropriate."
"There's really a banana groove in the heart of Villengard and you did that?"
"Bananas are good." The Doctor turned to me and asked so only I heard, "you okay?"
Before I had a chance to respond the child started braking thought the wall.
"Doctor," Rose said as we all jumped.
"Come on." Doctor took my hand as was all run down a hallway just to run the other way because more gas-mask people were coming. Soon we were trapped right back in front of the wall where the child was breaking through.
"It's keeping us here so it can get at us."
"It's controlling them?" Jack asked.
"It is them, its every living thing in this hospital," I told them, 'this is so much scarier in real life.'
"Okay. This can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic cannon. And a triple enfolded sonic disrupter," Jack said while pointing his blaster at the wall and gas-mask people. "Doc, what you got?"
"I got a sonic er, oh, never mind." The Doctor said while getting out the sonic screwdriver.
"Disrupter? Cannon? What?"
"It's sonic. Totally sonic. I am soniced up." I would have laugh if not for the fact I was terrified at this moment.
"A sonic WHAT?" I was so done with their yelling back-and-forth so I yelled back, "SCREWDRIVER!"
Jack stopped and turned to look at the Doctor when Rose can up with an idea and said, "going down."
When we hit the floor, Rose fell on top of me. "Oh, sorry Harper," she said as she rolled off. I landed on my stomach which made my ready hurt hands sting even worse. "Doctor you okay?"
"Could have used a warning."
"Oh, the gratitude," Rose grumbled to me, cause me to have to hide another laugh.
"Who has a sonic screwdriver?"
"I do!"
"Lights" Rose and I started looking for the light switch.
"Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks 'oh, this could be a little more sonic'?"
"What, you've never been bored?"
"There's gotta be a light switch."
"Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?"
Just as Rose turned the lights on the gas-mask people sat up in their beds and started to get up.
"Door," Jack pointed out and tried to use his blaster on it but it would not work. "Damn it, it's the special features, they really drain the battery."
The Doctor made quick work of the lock and Rose asked Jack, "A battery?"
"I was gonna send for another one, but somebody's gotta blow up the factory." Jack looked at the Doctor with annoyance.
"Oh I know, first day I met him he blew my job up." Rose said and I added, "That's practically how he communicates."
"Okay, that door should hold it for a bit."
"The door? The wall didn't stop it."
"Well, it's got to find us first." I said trying to calm everyone down a bit.
"Yeah, that's right," the Doctor looked happy that I was agreeing with him. "Come on we're not done yet! Assets, assets."
"Well, I got a banana and in a pinch you could put up some shelves."
"Window?"
"Bred, sheer drop outside, seven stories."
"And no other exits," Rose said.
"Well, the assets conversation went in a flash, didn't it?"
"Well aren't you the cheery one," I said sarcastically.
The Doctor looked at Rose and said, "So, where's you pick this one up then?"
"Doctor," She tried to get him to stop.
"They were hanging from a barrage balloon, I had an invisible spaceship. I never stood a chance."
"Okay, one, we gotta get out of here. Two, we can't get out of here. Have I missed anything?"
"Yeah, Jack just disappeared," Rose said.
"Okay, so he's vanished into thin air," I said as I sat down in the wheel chair Jack had been sitting in.
Rose walked up to the Doctor and commented, "Why is it always the great looking ones that do that?"
"I'm making an effort not to be insulted." I was holding in a laugh at this, 'oh this was always so funny to me in the show.'
"I mean… men," She was trying to make it better.
"Okay thanks. That really help." The Doctor gave a fake smile before asking me, "and what are you laughing at?"
I just smiled and shrugged my shoulders.
"Rose? Harper? Doctor? Can you hear me?" Rose and the Doctor walked over to the radio that Jacks voice was coming from. "I'm back on my ship. Used the emergency teleport. Sorry I couldn't take you. Its security keyed to my molecular structure. I'm working on it hang in there."
The Doctor had the broken off wire in his hands as he asked, "How're you speaking to us?"
"Om Com. I can call anything with a speaker grille."
"Now there's a coincidence."
"What is?" Jack asked.
"The child can Om Com, too."
"It can?" This time it was Rose that asked the question.
"Anything with a speaker grille. Even the TADIS phone."
"That means the child can phone us," I said and then we heard "And I can hear you. Coming to find you. Coming to find you."
"Doctor, can you hear that?"
"Loud and clear."
"I'll try to block out the signal. Least I could do. Remember this one Rose?" Just then Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade began playing.
The Doctor looked at her with an eyebrow raised. "Our song," She said looking slightly embarrassed.
The Doctor looked to me and asked, "Do you to have a song also?"
"Nope, I didn't like the idea of being on top of a spaceship floating in middle of the air during an air raid. Scratch that, I don't like being on top of a spaceship in the air at all. Air raid or not." He just chuckled before walking up to the window.
We had been in this room for around five minutes or so and I was getting very board. The Doctor was working on something over by the window and Rose was walking around to room trying to find something to do. It was obvious that she was having no luck at this because she turned to the Doctor and asked, "What you doing?"
"Trying to set up a resonation pattern in the concrete. Loosen the bars."
"You don't think he's coming back, do you?"
"Wouldn't bet my life."
"Why don't you trust him?"
"Why do you?"
"He saved mine and Rose's life." I added to the conversation.
"Yeah, bloke wise that's up there with flossing," Rose said. "I trust him because he's like you except with dating and dancing." I laughed at the Doctor's face.
"What?"
"You just assume I'm…"
"What?" I asked this time.
"You just assume that I don't dance."
"What? Are you telling us you do dance?" Rose tried and failed to keep the surprise out of her voice.
"Nine hundred years old, me. I've been around a bit. I thin you can assume that at some point I've danced." I was thinking back to some of the Doctor's other regenerations and thought 'yeah, at some point I am sure you danced.'
"You?" Rose once again sounds surprised.
"Problem."
"Doesn't the universe implode or something if you dance?"
"Well I got the moves, but I wouldn't want to boast." I laugh really loud this time thinking about his 11th regenerations and his dancing. Both the Doctor and Rose looked at me and I just mumbled "Sorry," stilling laugh a bit.
Rose walked over to the radio and turned it up before walking up to the Doctor and saying, "Got the moves? Show me the moves."
"Rose, I'm trying to resonate concrete."
"Jack will be back. He'll get us out. So come on, the world doesn't end because the Doctor dances."
"What about Harper she has no one to dance with." The Doctor tried again.
"Oh no, leave me out of this. I don't dance!" I said not getting up from the wheel chair I was sitting in.
The Doctor finally gave in and walked up to Rose and looking at her hands. "Barrage balloon?"
"What?"
"You two were hanging from a barrage balloon." I quickly hid my hands because unlike Rose's I still had burns all over mine.
"Oh yeah, about two minutes after you left. Thousands feet above London, middle of a German air raid, Union Jack all over my chest and Harper's skirt flying every which way."
"I've travelled with a lot of people but you two are setting new records for jeopardy friendly."
"Is that you dancing because I've got notes," I said just to try and get the Doctor off of the topic of the barrage balloon. It didn't work.
"Hanging from a rope a thousand feet above London. Not a cut, not a bruise."
"Yeah, I know. Captain Jack fixed me up."
"Oh, we're calling him Captain Jack now, are we?"
"Well his name is Jack and he's a captain…"
"He's not really a captain, Rose."
"Do you know what I think? I think you're experiencing captain envy." Rose said and then added, "You'll find your feet at the end of your legs, you may care to move them."
"If even he was a captain, he's been defrocked."
"Yeah, shame I missed that."
"Actually, I quit. Nobody takes my frock." I should have know it was coming, but I was to caught up in Rose and the Doctor that I did not realized we had been teleported. Meaning I was no longer in the wheel chair. I fell to the ground on to my hands causing me to hiss in pain. The Doctor looked at me with concern and helping me up, but before he could say anything Jack continued to talk.
"Most people notice when they've been teleported. You guys are so sweet." The Doctor and Rose looked at each other. "Sorry about the delay, I had to take the nav-com off line to override the teleport security."
"You can spend ten minutes overriding you own protocols? Maybe you should remember whose ship it is."
"Oh, I do. She was gorgeous. Like I told her - be back in five minutes."
"This is a Chula ship." The Doctor said rather suddenly. I had tried to step back a little but he had got a hold of my arm and was not letting go.
"Yeah, just like that medical transporter. Only this one is dangerous."
The Doctor with his free hand snapped his fingers make the nanogenes come.
"Their what fixed my hands up," Rose said pointing to them. "Jack called them, um…"
"Nanobots? Nanogenes?"
"Nanogenes yeah."
"Sub-atomic robots. They're millions of them in here, see? Burned my hand on the console when we landed- all better now. They activate when the bulkhead's sealed. Check you out for damage, fix any physical flaws."
The Doctor turned to me and pulled my hand up. It was covered in burns, bruises, and cuts. He quick set the nanogenes to work.
"Oh, Harper why didn't you tell me?" Jack asked, sounds very sorry for not noticing.
"You were busy and I didn't want to interrupt anything." I gave a pointed look to the Doctor hope he would get the real meaning behind what I said. Rose and Jack both looked a little guilty because of all the flirting and the Doctor had a weird look, almost like he was mad and worried at the same time.
He didn't say anything about it though and told Jack, "Take us to the crash site. I need to see your space junk."
"As soon as I get the nav-com back online. Make yourself comfortable. Carry on with whatever it was you were … doing."
"We were talking about dancing." The Doctor said.
"It didn't look like taking."
"It didn't look like dancing." I said before Rose said, "Didn't feel like dancing either."
Rose and Jack were talking in the front of the ship, so I went to sit down and the Doctor came and sat beside me. I knew he wanted to talk about what I said and it made me a little nervous.
"So when you said you didn't want to interrupt anything, what did you mean?" 'You know for genius he can be clueless sometimes.'
"I didn't want to mess up anything in the story line."
"Oh, this was an episode from your world?" The Doctor asked and I gave a small nod looking down at my feet. "Listen to me Harper," taking my chain in his hands making me look at him. "I don't care if it mess up every time line and story line out there, if you are hurt you tell me, okay?"
"But Doctor, certain things have to happen. If they don't everything could change, and not for the better. Besides its not like you could have done anything before now."
"I don't care. You are more important. I don't like it when you are hurt." It was just so sweet the way he cared. I knew this Doctor had a soft side to him.
"Okay. I will tell you the next time I am injured." I smiled before saying what I was thinking, "I knew this regeneration was just a big old teddy bear." He smiled at me.
"Okay, we're good to go." We turned and looked at Jack. "Crash site?"
We were all walking to the site and Jack said, "There it is, ay they got Algy on duty. Must be important."
"We got to get past him."
"The words distract the guard head in my general direction."
Rose was about to walk over there but Jack stopped her. "I don't think that'd be such a good idea."
"Don't worry. I can handle it."
"I've got to know Algy quite well since I've been in town. Trust me. You're not his type. I'll distract him. Don't wait up." I laughed when I saw Rose's face.
"Relax, he's a 51st century guy. He's just a bit more flexible when it comes to dancing."
"How flexible?" I was trying hard not to laugh again.
"Well by his time, you lot have spread out halfway across the galaxy."
"Meaning?"
"So many species, so little time."
"What that's what we do when we get out there? That's are mission? We seek new life, and… and…"
"Dance." I just lost it at this time. But as I looked to Jack I saw Algy fall to his knees I quite laughing. The Doctor, Rose, and I ran towards them with the Doctor saying, "Stay back."
"You men, stay away." Jack ordered.
"The effect's become air born, accelerating."
I felt the back of my hand itching and looked at it seeing something that made my heart stop. A scar.
"What's keeping us safe?"
"Nothing," I said looking at her.
The sirens started up again and Jack said, "Ah, here they come again."
"All we need. Didn't you say a bomb was gonna land here?"
"Never mind about that. If the contaminates air borne now, there's hours left."
"For what?" Jack asked.
"Till noting, forever. For the entire human race. And can anyone else hear singing?"
We all headed to where the singing was coming from but I stayed back a little ways. After the Doctor got Nancy out they were about to head to the bombsite, but he notice I was not coming with them.
"Harper come on we don't have time for this." He was about the take my hand but I step back before he could.
"I can't Doctor. I am sorry but I have to get as far way as I can."
"Why?" Rose asked.
"Because she got a scar on the back of her hand." Nancy said to which I nodded yes.
"NO" both Jack and Rose said. The Doctor eye widened and he tried to say something but I stopped him. "I am going to get out of here while I can still think straight. And Doctor," I looked right at him, "stop this. I believe in you." I felt tears on my face as I slow backed away.
The Doctor's sad look was the last thing I saw before I turned and ran. I ran as fast as I could, but soon had to stop. I felt sick and knew what was about to happen. Then everything went black.
The next thing I knew I was standing in the train station with people all round me. 'He did it. The Doctor did it!' I wanted to shout but I heard the Doctor and had to find him.
Just as I got though the crowd of people I saw him and he saw me. I ran up to him and he picked me up and spun me around.
"Your safe." He said with a laugh.
"I told you I believed you could do it." He smiled a big smile before pulling me over to Rose. I ran to Rose and gave her a big hug.
We looked at the Doctor hearing him say, "Alright, you lot. Lots to do. Beat the Germans, save the world, don't forget the Welfare state."
He started to push buttons on the ambulance. "Setting this to self-destruct, soon as everybody's clear. History says there was an explosion here. Who am I to argue with history?"
I laugh as Rose said, "Usually the first in line." He smile at as before going back to work.
As we walked back into the TARDIS the Doctor talking the whole way. "The nanogenes will clean up the mess and switch themselves off because I just told them to. Nancy and Jamie will go to Doctor Constantine for help – ditto – all in all, all thing considered, fantastic."
'Welcome home, my little human.' I hear Sexy say in my head.
'Thank you Sexy, but little human?' All I heard was a laugh and shook my head at the TARDIS.
"Look at you, beaming away like your Father Christmas."
"Who says I'm not, red bicycle when you were twelve?"
"What?" Rose asked and I thought 'I really need to ask him about that sometime.'
"And everybody lives, Rose, Harper! Everybody lives. I need more days like this."
"Doctor?" I said.
"Go on, ask me anything. I am on fire."
"What about Jack?" The Doctor stop for just a second and Rose keep going. "Why'd he say goodbye?"
The Doctor and Rose were trying to dance, trying being the key word there, and I quickly went to the doors to let Jack in.
I listened to what he was telling the computer and asked, "They stayed in touch?" I asked laughing at him. He turned to me and I said, "Well, hurry up."
"Okay, try to spin me again but this time don't get my arm up my back. No extra points for a half nelson."
I laughed once again at Jack before going to the captain's chair.
"I'm sure I used to know this stuff. Close the door, will ya. Your ship's about to blow up, there's gonna be a draft."
"Welcome to the TARIDS." I said raising my hands and spinning around.
"Much bigger on the inside."
"You better be."
"I think what the Doctor's trying to say is … you may cut in."
The Doctor turned to me really fast and said, "Harper, I've just remembered."
"What." I looked at him in surprise.
New music started to play and the Doctor started to dance.
"I can dance." Jack and Rose were laughing at the Doctor and I said, "Actually Doctor, I think Jack might like the dance."
"I'm sure he would, Harper. Rose can dance with him." He quickly pulled me up from my sit and we started to dance. 'I just got to say he is not half bad. Or it could be that we are equally bad. Who knows.'
Soon Rose and Jack started dancing and it was one of the best times I have had in the TARDIS so far.
SOOOOOO what do you think? I know I skipped part of the episode because Harper got turned into a gas-mask person, but it is important to the story. You will find out soon. Thanks for reading.
