Ceruleanrainblues: Thank you so much for reading. I do plan on keeping it going, I am enjoying writing it too much to stop.

Reading-Stories-Only: Well… don't give up hope just yet, but I can say that the Doctor and Harper wont get together like that until after Rose is in Pete's World.

DimensionJumperAlpha: Rose is NOT going to be happy! But I don't really think Harper or the Doctor feel that bad after the amazing day they had.

So here we have New Earth. I hope you like it. Please enjoy!


Harper's POV

"Harper. Harper, wakey wakey," I faintly heard someone say. "HARPER!"

I screamed, punching the person in the nose that was yelling at me. I was so scared that I rolled off the bed let out a soft groan when I hit the floor. I heard said person cry out in pain.

I peaked up over the bed to see whom it was, only to find the Doctor holding his nose and looking at me with wide eyes.

"Oh, Doctor I am so sorry." I came flying over the bed to make sure he was okay. "Does it hurt to bad?"

"Well… it hurts a little," he whined. I removed his hands and looked at his nose. It didn't look broken, which was a good thing. "You have got one mean swing on you."

I laughed and said, "Yeah, I grew up with four older brothers. You have to learn to punch back with brothers." I smiled up at him before frowning and hitting him lightly on the shoulder. "What on Earth were you thinking? You never scare a New Yorker!"

"I'm sorry… wait thought you had never been to New York?"

"I hadn't but the point is still valid. Please, please tell me you had a really good reason for waking me up!"

"Um… I was about to head to London to pick up Rose and wanted to know where you wanted to go next?"

"Really, that was whole the reason you woke me up?"

"Yes… no. I was board. You had been asleep for so long!" He whined again.

I sighed at the not so good reason and said, "why don't you just surprise me on our next adventure?"

"Great idea! Get dressed." He ran from the room and I thought with a smile, 'Good morning, Sexy.'

'Good morning my little human.'

'Any change on the Vortex situation?' I asked the TARDIS.

'Physical, no, but mental… your mental bond with myself has gotten stronger. It's almost as if the Vortex is making us one. I am now able to feel your emotions, hurts, and wants. And you will be able to feel my own emotions, hurts, and wants.'

'Okay, how is that a bad thing?'

'The only other person who is bonded with me in this way is the Doctor, although his is not near as strong. I am not sure what this will mean for the two of you.'

'So… like I will be able to communicate with the Doctor via thought? Because I don't see how that would hurt anything… OH NO. If that happens he will know about the Vortex inside me.'

'Try not to worry much about it now because this is all speculation. As for now, you better hurry and get ready the Doctor is about to go and pick up the flower.'

I quickly got up and ran to take a shower and get dressed. Trying my best to forget about what the TARDIS and I had just talked about.


I got to the console room right as the Doctor pulled the final lever sending me to the floor. I yelled over to the Doctor, "Oi, people are walking here!"

His head poked out from behind the console. He laughed at me as I tried to stand back up only to fall down once more. "Sorry Harper. It may be best if you stay down until we get there!"

"No I can get up," I tried again, but fell yet again. "You know what, maybe your right."

He just laughed and went back to flying the TARDIS. "Now lets see Earth, December 30th, 8 o'clock in the morning. I am good!"

"What about when you got the wrong time, multiple times, for dinner."

"Nope that didn't happen. We said we weren't going to talk about that," he came over and helped me up.

He pulled me into a hug and we started to laugh at his crazy driving. He had his arm around me as Rose burst through the doors.

"You left me!" She basically shouted at the Doctor and sent a glare at me.

"No, we came back. Just a small Christmas trip while you were with you mum." The Doctor explained.

"Well I thought you were going to stay here or I would never had said that. How long have you two been gone? A month? A year?" She accused. I knew she was mad, but I wasn't sure why.

'What's got her so mad?' I faintly heard and looked at the Doctor, but it seemed as if he had not said anything so I just brushed it off as nothing.

"It's only been one day for us, Rosie. We came right back for you," I tried to calm her down, but if looks could kill, I would be dead. I didn't know why she was mad at me. It was then I realized the Doctor still had me in his arms. I quickly pulled away from him and looked down at my feet missing the sad look in his eyes.

"Let's just go. I am ready to be back out there!" She smiled up at the Doctor and pulled him to the console and away from me. "So where are we going?"

"Further than we've ever gone before." He said as he pulled a lever sends us flying through the time vortex.


The Doctor's POV

Harper, Rose, and I stepped out of the TARDIS looking out onto a city. "It's the year five billion and twenty three. We're in the galaxy M87, and this is… this is New Earth."

Flying cars zoomed over our heads and Harper gasped grabbing a hold of my arm. I looked down at her and smiled.

"Wow… that's… that's…" Rose was lost for words.

"Not bad. Not bad at all," I said for her.

"This is just amazing. I'm never going to use to this. Never" Rose said. "Different ground beneath me feet. Different sky. What's that small?"

I bent down and got some of the grass saying, "Apple grass."

"Apple grass," Rose said impressed.

"Yeah, yeah," I smiled over at Harper. She had not said much this morning since Rose got to the TARDIS and I was curious why.

"That's just beautiful. I love this. Can I just say," Rose put her hands around my arm. "Traveling with you, I love it."

"Me too." I smiled at her, and then grabbed both girls' hands pulling them with me. "Come on."


I laid down my coat and stretched out in the middle of it with Rose laying down on my left and Harper sitting up on my right.

"So, the year five billion, the Sun expands, the Earth gets roasted."

"That was our first date," Rose said smiling over at me.

"We had chips." I smiled thinking back to that day when I heard, 'Oh don't mind me, just a third wheel over here.'

"Do you say something, Harper?"

She looked back shaking her head, "No."

"So, anyways," I just kept going on, thinking I just hearing things. "Planet gone, all rocks and dust. But the human race lives on; Spread across the stars. Soon as the Earth blows up… oh, yeah, they get all nostalgic… big revival movement. But find this place. Same size as the Earth… same air… same orbit… lovely. Call goes out, the humans move in!"

"What's the city called?" Rose asked.

"New New York."

"Oh come on," Rose said not believing me.

"It is! It's the City of New New York. Strictly speaking, it's the fifteenth New York since the original," I told them. "So that makes it New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York."

Harper started laughing full out at me, while Rose just giggled.

"What?" I asked them, hoping one would tell my why they were laughing.

"You're so different," Rose said.

"New new Doctor," Harper said with a laugh.

"Can we go and visit New New York? So good they named it twice?" Rose asked as we stood up.

Harper helped me put my jacket back on as I told Rose, "Well, I thought we might go there first."

"Why? What is it?" Rose asked.

"Some sort of hospital," Harper answered before I could.

"Yeah she's right."

"You surprised that I am right Doctor?" She asked with a smirk.

I just rolled my eyes at her, "Green moon on the side… that's the universal symbol for hospitals." I pulled my psychic paper out, "I got this. A message on the psychic paper. Someone wants to see me."

I showed the girls the paper that read, 'Ward 26. Please come.'

"Oh, and I thought we were just sightseeing," Rose said. "Come on then. Let's go and buy some grapes." She linked our arms and started walking to the hospital. I grabbed Harper's hand and off we went.


Harper's POV

As we were walking in the Doctor was telling us that he didn't like hospitals.

"A bit rich coming from you," Rose said.

"I can't help it. I don't like hospitals. They give me the creeps."

"I was a nurse back in my universe, so I feel right at home at hospitals," I said as we all walked around the lobby of the hospital.

'Hmm, that's good to know,' I heard the doctor said, but when I looked over at him, he was no longer there. Rose and him started walking one way and I was about to follow, when I saw an elderly man who looked as if they need help.

"Excuse me," I walked up to the man. "Do you need any help?"

"Why, yes. Can you help me find my way to the surgery department?"

"Well, I am not sure where that is, but I will find out for you."

I quickly went to one of the nuns and asked with the department was and she said she would take the man there her self.

"Thank you so much, young lady."

"It was my pleasure, good luck." I waved and looked to find the Doctor and Rose. I saw the getting on the lift and tried to make it in time.

"Hold on. Hold on." I called to them. The last time I saw when the doors closed was Rose's face. She had a smile that said she had won, although I am not sure what she won.

"Oh, too late… were going up."

"Okay, I will use the other lift," I called back.

"Ward 26. And watch out for the disinfectant."

When I heard the Doctor yell that I froze in my tracts. 'Man, it had to be this episode.' I thought as I finally got on the lift.

"Um, I guess Ward 26." I said, knowing I was not going to end up there.

Once I gave the command I heard, "Commence stage one disinfectant."

I gasped as ice-cold water poured down on me, but I decided to embrace it and started to clean my hair. Next a blast of white powder was blasted on me. I coughed a little because of it. Last high-powered fans started to dry my off. That was definitely my favorite part.

I quickly re-braided my hair and fixed my hat before leaving the lift. I came out in a creepy looking hallway. It looked as if I was in the basement, which I probably was. When I saw an even creepier looking guy.

"The human child is clean," Mister creepy said.

"Is this Ward 26?" I asked.

"This way Rose Tyler."

"But I'm not… I'm… I'm not Rose," I said to myself because creepy guy did not give me a chance to reply. I knew this was going to have to happen, but I hated it had to be me. I grabbed a medal rod that was on the floor and followed.


Doctor's POV

"Nice place." I told the nun as we walked into Ward 26. "No shop downstairs. I'd have a shop. Not a big one, just a shop. So people can shop."

Rose laugh at my use of the word shop and the nun, removing the cover over her face, said, "The hospital is a place of healing."

"A shop does some people the world of good. Not me, other people. Her mum for example." I point to Rose.

"Yeah, mum does love to shop."

"The Sisters of Plenitude take a lifelong vow to help and to mend."

I stopped and look at a man made of stone. The woman with him got really mad that we were there. "Excuse me! Members of the public may only gaze upon the Duke of Manhattan with written permission from the Senate of New New York."

"That's petrifold regression, right?" I asked.

"I'm drying sir, madam. A lifetime of charity and abstinence and it ends like this," the Duke said.

"Any statements made by the Duke of Manhattan may not be made public without official clearance." The Duke's assistant said.

This woman was really getting on my nerves.

"Frau Clovis… I am so weak," the Duke moaned.

She went quickly to his side and spat, "Sister Jatt, a little privacy, please." We three walked way from the Duke and his assistant.

"He'll be up and about in no time," Sister Jatt said confidently.

"I doubt it, petrifold regression. He's turning to stone. There won't be a cure for, oh… a thousand years. He might be up and about, but only as a statue."

"Oh, the poor man," Rose said looking back at the Duke.

"Have faith in the Sisterhood, but is there no one here you recognize? It's rather unusual to visit without knowing the patient."

I looked up and saw who it was the called me here. "No, I think I've found him."

We walked up to the Face of Boe. "Novice Hame, if I can leave this gentleman and lady in your care," Jatt said.

I turned to her quickly, "Oh, I think our friend got lost. Harper. Could you ask at reception?" Where was she? It doesn't take that long to get here.

"Certainly sir." She left and I turned to the Face of Boe.

"I'm afraid the Face of Boe is asleep. That's all he tends to do these days. Are you a friend, or…" Novice Hame asked.

"We met just the once, on platform one. What's wrong with him," I asked having no clue to what was wrong with the face.

"I am so sorry. I thought you knew. The Face of Boe is dying."

I heard Rose gasp and I asked, "of what?"

"Old age. The one thing we can't cure. He's thousands of years old, some people say millions; although that's impossible."

"Oh, I don't know, I like impossible." I bent down to get eye level with him, "I'm here. I look a bit different, but it's me. It's the Doctor."


Harper's POV

I walked in a room that looked like some kind of lab and saw a video playing on one wall. I walked closer to it. I watched for a few minutes before exclaiming, "Wait a minute… that's…" I turned around quickly.

"Peek-a-boo! Wait, your not Rose Tyler."

"Sorry to disappoint you, but no I am not Rose Tyler. The name's Harper. I know who you are, Cassandra. Rose told me all about you. Now don't come any closer." I held up the rod I had in my hand and pointed it at her.

"Why? What do you think I'm going to do to you? Flap you to death?"

"Yeah, but what about mister creepy over there?"

"Oh... that's just Chip. He's my pet."

"I worship the mistress!" Chip said.

"Moisturize me. Moisturize me." Cassandra said in a panic. "He's not even a proper life form. He's a force-grown clone. I modeled him after my favorite pattern. But he's so faithful. Chip sees to my physical needs."

"I really don't need to know about that," I said, slightly grossed out. "How come you're still alive?"

"After Rose Tyler murdered me?"

"I heard the story, that was your own fault." I had to roll my eyes at her for being so dramatic.

"The brain of my mistress still survived, and her pretty blue eyes were salved from the bin," Chip explained.

"Okay, that still does not explain the skin. I heard you got ripped apart."

"That piece of skin was taken from the front of my body. This piece of skin is the back."

I started laughing at what she just said. "Wait, wait, wait…" for a minute I was laughing to hard to say anything. "Does that mean your talking out of your…"

She interrupted me "Ask not."

"The mistress was lucky to survive. Chip secreted milady into the hospital."

"Oh, so no one knows you're here."

"Chip steals medicine. Helps milady, soothes her, strokes her…"

"No! I said I don't need to know about that."

"But, I'm so alone, hidden down here… the last human in existence," Cassandra whined.

" OH… MY…. WORD! You are so not the last human. It's called New Earth for a reason."

"A vegetable patch," she spat.

"There's a millions of humans out there… millions."

"Mutant stock."

"Oh, because you are so pure. You don't even look human anymore." I was so over her whining about being the last human. "They evolved Cassandra. They just evolved, like they should. You stayed still… got yourself pickled and preserved, and what good did that do you?"

"Oh, I remember that night. Drinks for the Ambassador of Thrace." She looked at the video playing, "That was the last time anyone told me I was beautiful. After that it all became… such hard work."

"You've got a knack for survival, I give you that."

"But I've not been idle, Harper… tucked away, underneath this hospital. I've been listening. The Sisters are hiding something."

"What do you mean?" I was more curious to how she actually hears anything with no ears.

"Oh… these cats have secrets. Hush, let me whisper. Come close."

"Okay," I said sarcastically. "Do you really think I am going to get near you? Because if you do; I suggest going to the psych ward."

I backed away from Cassandra and Chip when she yelled, "Chip, activate the psycho-graft."

"What? I can't move; Cassandra let me go right now!"

"Oh, you may not be Rose Tyler but you still travel with her. The lady's moving on. It's goodbye trampoline, and hello Shorty."

"Oi, I am not that short!" Was the last thing that I could say before Cassandra took over.


The Doctor's POV

As I went to get some water I felt a pain inside my head, almost like a migraine that came and went really fast. I had to stop walking for a second to let the pain subside a little, but was still present. 'That was weird.' I decided it was nothing to worry about and went on my way.

I walked over the Rose and Novice Hame with three glasses of water. Rose said a quiet thanks as I gave one to her and then I gave one to Novice Hame.

"That's very kind, there's no need," Novice Hame said.

"You're the one working."

"There's not much to do, just maintain his smoke, and I suppose I'm company. I can hear him singing sometimes, in my mind. Such ancient songs."

"Does he get many visitors?" Rose asked.

"The rest of Boekind became extinct long ago. He's the only one left. Legend says that the Face of Boe has watched the universe grow old." Novice Hame looked at me and smiled. "There's all sorts of superstitions around him. One story says that just before his death, the Face of Boe will impart his great secret. That he will speak those words only to one like himself."

"What does that mean?" I asked generally interested.

"It's just a story."

"Oh, please tell us the rest," Rose said putting a hand on Novice Hame's knee.

"It's said he'll talk to a wander. To the man without a home. The lonely god."


Soon after my talk with Novice Hame I went and called Harper. I was really getting worried about her.

"Harper, where are you?" I asked when she answered the phone.

"Um… watcha," She said.

"Where have you been? How long does it take to get to Ward 26?"

"I'm on my way, governa."

'Governa?'

"I shall proceed up the apples and pears."

"You'll never guess. It's the Face of Boe. Remember me telling you about him?"

"Of course I do. Big'o Boe race." She is really acting weird. But something caught my eye so I said, "I better go. See you in a minute."

Rose and I walked up to the Duke and he seemed very happy to see us.

"It's that man and woman again. My good luck charms. Come in, don't be shy!"

He was completely healed. No sign of stone anywhere.

"Any friendship expressed by the Duke of Manhattan does not constitute a form of legal contract."

"She's a little high strung," Rose whispered to me as we stepped into the Duke's area. I smiled lightly as the Duke said, "Winch me up. Up! Look at me. No sign of infection."

"Champagne, sir? Madam?" A butler asked us. Rose took a glass but I was too interested in how the Duke got better.

"No thanks. Um, you had petrifold regression, right?"

"Had being the operative word. Past tense. Completely cured!" He said happily.

"But that's impossible."

"Primitive species would accuse us of magic," A nun had come up beside me while I was not looking. 'Who are you calling primitive?' "But it's merely the tender application of science."

"How on Earth did you cure him?" I asked.

"How on New Earth, you might say," she said almost like she was making fun.

"What's in that solution?" I asked.

"A simple remedy."

"Then tell me what it is!"

"I'm sorry. Patient confidentiality. I don't believe we've met. My name is Matron Casp."

"This is Rose Tyler and I'm the Doctor."

"I think you'll find that we're the doctors here."

Sister Jatt came up to Casp, "Matron Casp, you're needed in intensive care."

"If you would excuse me."

As she left I leaned over to Rose and said, "I never really like Nun cats. Always to calm for me." She laughed at me.

I watched Matron Casp leave the ward when Harper walked in.

"There you are, come and look at this patient…" I pulled her over to a patient I had been talking too. "Marconi's disease. Should take years to recover. Two days. I've never seen anything like it. They've invented a cell-washing cascade. It's amazing. Their medical science is way advanced. And this one…" I turned to the patient behind us. "Pallidome Pancrosis. Kills you in ten minutes, and he's fine." I gave the patient and wave, "I need to find a terminal. I've got to see how they do this.

We walked out of the ward and I told the girls, "cause if they've got the best medicine in the world, then why is it such a secret?"

"I can't adam and eve it," Harper said, sounding a little off.

"What… what's with the voice?"

"Yeah, why are you acting so weird Harper?" Rose asked her. Guess we are both confused with Harper.

"Oh, I don't know. Just larking about. New Earth, new me." She stood in a way that showed more of her chest than she ever has before.

"Well, I can talk. New new Doctor," I said smiling at her.

"Mmm, aren't you just." Then she did something very not Harper. She pulled me in for a kiss. And not just a simple kiss, no this was a very passionate kiss.

'I really should not be enjoying this,' I thought to myself. And just as I was about to kiss back she pulled away.

"T-terminal's this way," she stuttered before walking towards the terminal.

I stared after her, too stunned to move. "Yep… still got it." I fixed my hair and followed after her, leaving an angry Rose to follow.


I was trying my hardest to get the kiss out of my mind when we got to the terminal.

"No, nothing odd. Surgery. Post-op. Nanodentistry. No sign of a shop. They should have a shop."

"No it's missing something else. When I was downstairs: those nurse cat nuns were talking about intensive care. Where is it?" Harper said looking closer at the Terminal.

"Your right well done," I told Harper. 'What's wrong with her?'

"Why would they hide a whole department?" Rose asked.

"It's got to be there somewhere. Search the subframe," Harper said ignoring Rose's comment.

"What if the subframe's locked?"

"Try the installation protocol," she said it as if she did this everyday.

"Yeah, course. Sorry. Hold on." A panel in the wall opened up to revel a passageway. Harper went in immediately leaving Rose and I to trail behind. "Intensive care. Certainly looks intensive."


We walked around the ward and found millions of green doors. I went up to one opening it up. What I saw was horrifying. A person stuffed into the small cell. He was covered in all kinds of skin deformities.

"That's disgusting. What's wrong with him?"

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry," I said before closing the door. I went quickly to the next door. It reveled the same as the last.

"What disease is that?" Harper asked.

"All of them. Every single disease in the galaxy. They've been infected with everything."

"Can you help her?" Rose asked me.

"Forget her, what about us? Are we safe?" Harper spat at Rose.

"The air's sterile. Just don't touch them."

"How many patients are there?" Harper asked as we walked up to the railing to look at all the cells.

"They're not patients."

"But they're sick," Rose said.

"They were born sick. They're meant to be sick. They exist to be sick." I was getting mad now. The Sisters have made a huge mistake. "Lad rats. Now wonder the Sisters have got a cure for everything. They've built the ultimate research laboratory. A human farm!"

I was bursting with angry as Harper asked, "Why don't they just die?"

"Plague carries. The last to go," I told her.

"It's for the greater cause," I heard from down the hallway.

"Novice Hame." I was furious, "When you took your vows did you agree to this?"

"The Sisterhood has sworn to help," she said calmly.

"What, by killing?' I yelled.

"But they've not real people. They're specially grown. They have no proper existence."

Rose gasped at her and I asked walking closer to her, "What's the turn over, umm? A thousand a day? A thousand the next? A thousand the next? How many thousands? How many years? HOW MANY?" I was yelling at her.

"Mankind needed us. They came to this planet with so many illnesses; we couldn't cope." Novice Hame said calmly. "We did try. We tried everything. We tried clone-meat and bio-cattle but the results were too slow. So the Sisterhood grew its own flesh. That's all they are, flesh."

"These people are alive," Rose said.

"But think of those humans out there, healthy and happy, because of us," Novice Hame tried to justify.

"It they live because of this then life is worthless."

"But who are you to decide that?"

"I'm the Doctor. And if you don't like it, if you want to take it to a higher authority, there isn't one. It stops with me."

Harper came up to my right side and asked Novice Hame, "Just to confirm… none of the humans in the city actually know about this?"

"We thought it best not…" I had to interrupt her; I wanted to figure out what they did to my Harper.

"Hold on. I can understand the bodies; I can understand your vows, but one thing I can't understand. What have you done to Harper?"

'Haha, told you he would find out,' I thought I heard Harper cheer, but it must have been my imagination.

"I don't know what you mean," Novice Hame said confused.

"And I'm being very, very calm. You want to be aware of that. Very, very calm. And the only reason I'm being so very, very calm is that the brain is a delicate thing. Whatever you've done to Harper's head, I want it reversed," I said through clenched teeth.

"We haven't done anything."

"I'm perfectly fine," Harper said.

"These people are dying and Harper would care!" I told her.

Harper made a sound of Frustration, turning me around to face her, and said, "all right, clever clogs." She started to pull my tie out from my suit jacket, "smarty-pants. Lady-killer."

"What's on Earth has happened to you?" Rose asked stocked at Harper's behavior.

"I knew something was going on in this hospital but I needed this, or her, body" she tilted her head towards Rose. "And your mind to find it out."

"Who are you?" I asked getting worried about Harper.

She leaned into me and whispered in my ear, "The last human."

I pulled back shock, "Cassandra?"

She pulled a perfume bottle out and said, "wake up and small the perfume." She sprayed it in my face and everything went black.


When I finally come through I noticed I had been put in on of the cells, "Let me out! Let me out!" I yelled trying to get anyone to help. I could her Rose in the cell next to mine yelling also.

"Aren't you lucky, there were two spares." Cassandra said as she walked up to my cell, "Standing room only."

"You've stolen Harper's body," I growled at her.

"The thing is I have thought of a thousand ways to kill you Doctor and Rose too. And now that's exactly what I've got." She didn't even acknowledge that I said anything. "A thousand diseases. They pump the patients with top-up every ten minutes; you got about three minutes left. Enjoy."

"Just let Harper go, Cassandra."

Cassandra just about said something when she grabbed her head in pain. "This stupid girl just won't quiet." She said through clinched teeth. Once she looked back at me she looked as if everything was better, "Now what was I saying? Oh yes, I will, as soon as I find someone younger and less common. Then I'll junk her with the waste. Now hush-a-bye, it's show time."

I was livid, Harper waste? How dare she call Harper waste? By the time I got done with my yelling at Cassandra in my head the cell doors opened.

"What have you done?"

"Gave the system a shot of adrenalin, just to wake them up. See ya!" Cassandra followed by another man ran down the hallway.

"Don't touch them," I call after them. "Whatever you do, don't touch." I yelled to the two nuns down to other end of the hallway.

I grabbed Rose's hand and ran after Cassandra. As we were running sparks started to shoot out of the locks on the doors, and soon everyone of the was open.

"Oh, my!" We stopped and looked out seeing all the sick people came out of their cells.

"What have you done?"

"It wasn't me!" Cassandra said.

'Yeah it was,' I once again heard Harper.

"One touch and you get every disease in the would, and I want that body safe, Cassandra." I pointed at her, 'If anything were to happen…' I could not even think about it. "We've got to go down."

"But there's thousands of them," she cried.

"RUN! Down, down, go down!" I yelled at her making her move. I once again grabbed Rose's hand pulling her along with me. We keep running down, "keep going. Go down."

Once we had got to the basement, Cassandra ran straight for the lift.

"No, the lifts have closed down. There's a quarantine, nothing's moving."

"This way," she said.

We had just made it past more of the sick people when Rose stopped me, "Doctor."

"Don't let them touch you!" I called to the man that was with Cassandra.

"Leave him! He's just a clone thing. He's only got a half-life. Come on." Cassandra said, not worried about him.

"Mistress!" The man yelled.

"I'm sorry, I can't let her escape. Rose!" I ran after Cassandra followed by Rose.

I heard the man yell, "My mistress" one last time before I shut the door.

Cassandra opened a door only to find more of the sick people trying to get in. "We've trapped! What are we going to do?"

"Well, for starters, you're going to leave that body. That psycho-graft is banned on every civilized planet. You're compressing Harper to death."

"What?" Rose asked worriedly.

"Not likely, she won't stop trying to get her body back," Cassandra said sarcastically. "Beside, I've got nowhere to go, my original skin's dead."

"Not my problem. You can float as atoms in the air. Now get out." I pointed my screwdriver at her saying "Give her back to me."

"You asked for it." I waited, but nothing happen.

"I said give her back."

"I'm trying she won't let me go," Cassandra said sounding a little annoyed.

'What? How? Why?' I could not figure out what she was meaning.

"Ah, here we go…" Cassandra said and then I felt her go into my own mind.


Rose's POV

I was worried about Harper; yes I was mad at her for taking away the Doctor's attention from me, but she was still me friend. I watched a pink light went from Harper to the Doctor.

"Blimey, my head." Harper said as she held her head in her hands and I went over to her. "Wait, where'd she go?"

Harper and I turned to look at the Doctor. "Oh my, this is… different."

"Cassandra?" I asked, hope beyond hope that she had not gone into the Doctor.

"Goodness me, I'm a man. Yum. So many parts, and hardly used. Oh! Ah! Two hearts. Oh, baby, I'm beating out a Samba." Cassandra started to make the Doctor move in a weird dance/wiggle.

"Got out of him!" I told her.

"And this is why I tried to not let you leave me." Harper said, soundly irritated.

"Ooh, he's slim, and a little bit foxy. You thought so, too." She looked at Harper when she said this, making Harper look down with a red face. "I've been inside your head. You've been looking. You like it!"

'Ugh, he is mine,' I had to think, becoming mad at Harper once again.

I was glaring at Harper when the sick people burst thought the door and started coming into the room.

"What do we do? What would he do? The Doctor. What would he do?" Cassandra was freaking out.

"We've got to get up!" I said, but Cassandra pushed me out of the way saying "out of the way, Blondie."

So we all started climbing the ladder Cassandra, Harper, and I.

"It you get out of the Doctor's body, he can think of something," Harper said as we climbed.

"Yap, yap, yap. It was tedious inside your body. Hormone city."

"Oi!" She yelled.

I felt someone grab my ankle and I looked down to see Matron Casp. "All our good work. All that healing. The good name of the Sisterhood. You have destroyed everything!"

"Rose," Harper said sounding worried.

"Go and play with a ball of string!" Cassandra said rolling her eyes at Casp.

"Everywhere, disease. This is the human world. Sickness!" Before she could do anything else, one of the sick grabbed her own ankle causing her to fall.

"Move!" I shouted at Cassandra, and once again we were climbing. But once we reached the top Cassandra could not open it. Leaving us stranded on the ladder with the sick coming up to us.

"Now what do we do?" Cassandra asked.

"Use the sonic screwdriver," I was getting tried of dealing with her.

"You mean this thing?" She pulled it out holding it funny.

Harper groaned in frustration and I said, "Yes, I mean that thing."

"But I don't know how that Doctor's hidden away all his thoughts!"

"Cassandra go back into me. The Doctor can open it. Do IT!" Harper yelled.

"Hold on tight." The next thing I know I have the Doctor back, but Cassandra is once again in Harper. "Oh wonderful Shorty again. Open it!"

"Not until you get out of her!"

"We need the Doctor," Cassandra said.

"I order you to leave her!" He yelled.

Once again the light traveled from Harper to the Doctor.

"No matter how difficult the situation, there is no need to shout." Cassandra said from back in the Doctor.

"Cassandra get out of him!" Harper demanded.

"But if I go into you, he simply refuses. He's so rude."

"Yeah I know," Harper said sarcastically.

I ignored her, "I don't care, just do something."

"Oh, I am so gonna regret this." Then we had the Doctor back, and I heard Cassandra from below us. "Oh, good heavens… I look disgusting."

The Doctor opened the doors and pulled Harper off the ladder, "Nice to have you back."

"I could say the same thing," she said.

Just as the Doctor was pulling me up I heard Cassandra say, "No, you don't…"


The Doctor's POV

Cassandra had once again gone into Harper. I helped Rose in and shut the doors before rounding on her. "This is your last warning, Cassandra."

She was still on the ground staring off into space, "Inside her head… they've so alone. They keep reaching out, just to hold us. All their lives and they've never been touched."

I reached my hand down to her pull her back onto her feet, and then I lead them back to Ward 26.


As we entered Ward 26 the Duke's Assistant came charging at us with a stool. "We're safe. We're safe. We're safe. We're clean. We're clean. Look. Look." I stood in front of Rose and Harper/Cassandra.

"We're clean. Look," Rose said.

"Show me your skin," she growled out.

Rose and I immediately held up our hand showing her while Cassandra started posing as if for a camera. "Look clean. Look. If we'd been touch we'd be dead." That seemed to calm her down because she put the stool down. "So, how's it going up here? What's the status?"

"There's nothing but silence from the other wards. I think we're the only ones left. I've been trying to override the quarantine. If I can trip a signal over to New New York, they can send a private executive squad."

"You can't do that. If they forced entry, they'd break quarantine," I replied.

"I'm not dying in here."

"We can't let a single particle of disease get out. There is ten million people in that city, they'd all be at risk. Now turn that off."

"Not if it gets me out."

"All right, fine. So I have to stop you lot as well. Suits me. Harper, Rose, Novice Hame, everyone! Excuse me, your Grace. Get me the intravenous solutions for every single disease. Move it!"

Everyone started bring me the solutions and I was tying ropes around myself. Harper and Rose were then helping me attach the solutions to the ropes. I pulled Rose to the side to talk to her, "Rose now listen. I need you to stay here."

She started to say something but I interrupted her. "No, now listen. I need you to give me time to fix this before they force the quarantine. I can't leave Harper here because who knows what Cassandra would do, so it's up to you."

She gave me a smile saying, "I wont let you down."

I turned then to both girls asking, "How's that? Will that do?"

"I don't know. Will it do for what?" Cassandra asked, but instead of answering her I ran from the room to the lifts. She followed me and as I was opening it up she stated, "The lifts aren't working."

"Not moving, different thing." I backed to get a running start, "Here we go."

"But you're not going to…" I ran and jumped into the lift holding onto the cables. "What do you think your doing?" Cassandra yelled.

'Being a idiot,' I heard Harper say sarcastically in my mind.

"I'm going down. Come on."

"Not in a million years," she replied.

"I need another pair of hands."

"Take Blondie."

"She's busy. What do you think? If you're so desperate to stay alive, why don't you live a little?"

I heard the doors seal and Cassandra jumped onto my back.

"You're completely mad! I can see why she likes you."

I chose to ignore this, instead saying, "going down."

I release to gears causing us to fall down a top speed. Both of us were screaming out of excitement and a little fear.

Once we got to the bottom I got to work instantly.

"Well that's one way to lose weight," Cassandra mumbled to her self.

"Now, listen. When I say so, take hold of that lever."

"There's still a quarantine down there. We can't…"

"Hold that lever!" I yelled cutting her off. "I'm cooking up a cocktail. I know a bit about medicine myself. Now that lever's going to resist, but keep it in position. Hold on to it with everything you got."

"What about you?"

"I've got an appointment. The Doctor is in." I dropped down into the lift and opened the doors. There were sick people everywhere, "Come in here. Come on."

"Don't tell them!"

"Pull the lever," I called up to her. "Come and get it. Come on."

The solution mixture started to rain down on me and I started to get excited, "Come on. Come on. Come on. All they want to do is pass it on. Pass it on," I yelled jumping up and down.

"What? Pass on what?"

"Pass it on!"

'Woohoo, he did!' I heard Harper cheer.

I help her down into the lift with me, "What did they pass on? Did you kill them?"

"No, that's your way of doing things. I'm the Doctor and I cured them." One of them came up and gave me a hug and I hugged her back. "It's a new sub-species, Cassandra. A brand new form of life. New humans. Look at them! Look! Run by cats, kept in the dark, fed by tubes, but completely, completely alive!" I pointed at her, "You can't deny them 'cause you helped create them. The human race just keeps on going. Keeps on changing. Life will out. HA!"


Cassandra and I made our way back to Ward 26. I watched as Novice Hame was taken by the NNYPD when I realized something, "The Face of Boe!" I ran to where he was only to see him awake with Rose talking to him. "You were supposed to be dying!"

Rose turned to look at me and smiled while I heard the Face of Boe say, 'There are better things to do today. Dying can wait.'

"Oh, I hate telepathy. Just what I need, a head full of big-face," Cassandra complained behind me. I shushed her quickly.

'I had grown tired with the universe, Doctor, but you have taught me to look at it anew.'

I got down on his level saying, "There are legends, you know; saying that you're millions of years old."

'Well, now that would be impossible.'

"Wouldn't it just. I got the impression there was something you wanted to tell me."

'My great secret.'

"So the legend says."

'It can wait.'

"Oh, does it have too?" Rose gave a soft giggle at my whining.

'We shall meet again, Doctor, for the third time, and the last time. And the truth shall be told. Until that day…' Then the Face of Boe teleported away leaving me more confused than before.

"That is enigmatic. That is… that is, that is textbook enigmatic." I told Rose, with her shacking her head and laughing at me. "And now for you," I turned to Harper.

"But everything's happy. Everything's fine. Can't you just leave me?" Cassandra asked.

"You've lived long enough," Rose said with her arms crossed.

"Leave that body and end it, Cassandra."

"I don't want to die," she fake cried trying, but failing, to convince me to leave her be.

"No one does."

"Help me."

"I can't," I told her truthfully.

"Mistress," I turned and saw the strange man who was with Cassandra earlier enter the Ward.

"Oh! You've alive," she sounded shocked.

"I kept myself safe for you, Mistress."

"A body, and not just that. A volunteer."

I knew where this was going and had to stop it, "don't you dare! He's got a life of his own."

"But I worship the Mistress. I welcome her."

"You can't Cassandra," but I was too late she went into the man. Once Cassandra had left Harper she fail forward, "You all right?"

I helped her back onto her feet, but she fail once more, "Whoa! Okay?"

"Yeah," she looked up at me and smiled, "Hello!"

"Hello! Welcome back," I smiled down at her pulling her in for a hug.

"Oh, sweet lord. I'm a walking doodle," Cassandra said making Harper and myself pull apart.

"You can't stay in there. I'm sorry Cassandra, but that's not fair."

"Poor Chip didn't know any better that's why he let you go into him," Harper said, she was obviously mad at Cassandra.

"Chip?" I asked.

"His name."

"Ah! I can take you to the city. They can build you a skin- tank, and you can stand trial for what you've done."

"Well, that would be rather dramatic. Possibly my finest hour, and certainly my finest hat." Cassandra said rather sarcastic. "But I'm afraid we don't have time. Poor little Chip, he's only a half-life, and he's been through so much. His heart is racing so. He's failing. I don't think he's going to last…"

She fell to the grown, Harper and I trying to catch her. "You all right?" I asked.

"I'm fine. I'm dying, but that's fine."

"We can take you to the city, right Doctor?" Harper said.

"No, you won't. Everything's new on this planet. There's no place for Chip and me anymore. You were right, Doctor. It's time to die. And that's good."

"Come on, there is one last thing I can do."


Harper's POV

Once we got back to the TARDIS I let the Doctor and Rose take Cassandra back to see her self. I was felling rather drained after having someone try to take over my body the whole day. I had changed into something more comfy and headed for the library.

I was really hoping that the Doctor would come in here, like he used to after every adventure we took, but I was not sure if this regeneration would fell the same about it as before. I was looking through the books so I did not know he was there until he said, "When were you going to tell me?"

I spun around at his harsh tone, "tell you want? What's got you in a bad mood?"

"Tell me that there is part of the vortex inside you!" He said through clinch teeth.

My eyes grow wide and I dropped the book I was holding. "B… bu… but… but how did you figure out?"

"Answer my question?"

Now I was just mad, how dare he talk to me with such a tone. "Well, if I am honest, I wasn't going to tell you unless it was going to cause me harm."

That was not the thing to say. His eyes flashed with angry and he walked closer to me, trapping me between the bookshelves and himself.

"Not going to tell me? Why? If I had not ran a scan on you to make sure Cassandra do no permanent damage… this could kill you Harper!" He was so close to me and talking so loud that it was almost as if he was yelling.

"You don't think I don't know that? The TARDIS have been monitor it since it happened and nothing has happen to cause harm."

"The TARDIS? You told my ship and not me? Why Harper? Why could you not trust me with this?"

"BECAUSE I CAN'T LOSE YOU AGAIN!" I yelled at him, making him take a step back in shock. "It's not time for you to regenerate yet, so as long as I was fine there was no need to tell you. I knew the moment you found out you would want to do what you did for Rose and I couldn't chance it."

"Harper…"

I cut him off, "I know you told me you did not care about the time lines, but I do."

"You keep saying that nothing is happened, but you have missed a very important side effect. I can hear what you are thinking."

"Oh," I looked down at my feet. "I was really hoping that was just me."

I looked back up at the Doctor and he had one eyebrow raised asking a silent question.

"I can hear you too. This morning after you woke me up I was talking with the TARDIS and she said that the Vortex was making us, the TARDIS and I, one. She also said, that she didn't know what that would do to us." I pointed at the Doctor and myself.

He sighed looking down, 'well, this is going to be interesting.'

"You can say that again!" I smirked at the Doctor when his head snapped up realizing I had heard him say that in my mind.

"I guess that also explains the massive headache I had this morning. Cassandra must have taken over your body at that same time."

"Well I have had a headache most of the day, so probably."

"And there is no way you will let me get the Vortex out?"

"Not unless you give me a hundred percent insurance that you will not regenerate. Because if there is even one percent chance, it's a no!"

"Fine! But I am still going to work on finding away." He gave me a pointed look before smile and saying, "so, what book shall we read tonight?"

"You mean you still want to continue reading stories after adventures?" I asked hopeful.

"Of course, best part of the day. Now, oh… this is a good one." He grabbed the book then pulled me over to the couch. I can't wait to see what this newfound connection to the Doctor will bring!


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