Hello all! Thank you all so much for the reviews and for reading my story.

Cap's girlfriend: Hopefully you like the Doctor's reaction. I just saw the Doctor as trying to play it off as cool, no big deal. But of course we know is the complete opposite! ;)

Pridia: I have a bad habit of binge reading also! It just can't be helped. I can tell you there will be a couple more chapters of build-up to Harper and the Doctor's relationship, so yeah! Also thank you so much for pointing out the errors (this is not sarcasm). I do try my best to catch them, but no perfect! ;) I will go back and reread my past chapters to fix them.

So enough of my babbling and on with the story…


The Doctor's POV

Cybermen were coming from all sides so I did the only think I could think, I took out the power cell and pointed it straight at them. It blasted the Cybermen with a shock wave that sent them all crashing down.

"What was that?" Rickey asked.

"Or how about instead, run?" I yelled, but just then a blue van pulled up behind us.

"Everybody in!" The driver yelled and I watched as Rickey grabbed Harper's hand pulling her with him.

I was about to follow but saw Pete was running back to the house. I grabbed his arm stopping him, "I've gotta go back, my wife's in there."

"Anyone inside that house is dead," I told him. "If you wanna help, then don't let her die for nothing. You've gotta come with us right now."

"Come on, get a move on!" The Drive yelled again.

'Doctor, hurry up!' Harper thought.

I finally got Pete headed to the van but saw Rose had yet to move, "Rose, she's not your mother."

"I know," she said, and I pulled her arm saying, "Come on."

"Finished chatting?" The driver asked, "Never seen a slower getaway in my life." Once we were all in she drove off as fast as she could.

It was a tight squeeze in the van but some how we all fit. Mrs. Moore, who I found out was the driver, Rickey, and Jake, the man with Rickey, were all in the front. Harper, Mickey, and I were on one side of the van while Rose and Pete were on the other.

Rickey turned around in his seat and asked again, "What was that thing?"

"Little bit of technology from my home," I said holding up the power cell.

"It's stopped glowing, has it run out?" Rickey asked.

"It's on a revitalizing loop," Harper said. "It'll charge back up in about four hours," I finish for her.

"Right, so we don't have a weapon anymore," Rickey said.

"Yeah, we've got weapons. Might not work on those metal things, but they're good enough for men like him," Jake said looking over at Pete.

"Leave him alone," Rose said defining Pete. "What's he done wrong?"

"Oh, you know just laid a trap that's wiped out the government and left Lumic in charge," Jake spat out.

"If I was part of all that you think I'd leave my wife inside?"

"Maybe your plan went wrong. Still gives us the right to execute you, though," Rickey said.

"Rickey?" Harper gasped in shock.

"Talk about executions, you'll make me your enemy," I said leaning forward. "And take some really good advice, you don't wanna do that."

"All the same, we have evidence that says Pete Tyler's been working for Lumic since 20.5," Rickey told us.

"Is that, true?" Rose asked sounding sad. Pete looked as if he was bit awkward and looked down.

"Tell 'em, Mrs. M," Rickey said to Mrs. Moore.

"We've got a government mole who feeds us information. Lumic's private files, his South America operation, the lot. Secret broadcast twice a week."

"Broadcast from Gemini?" Pete asked.

"And how do you know that?" Rickey said accusingly.

"I'm Gemini. That's ME," Pete shouted.

"Yeah, well you would say that," Rickey said.

"Encrypted wave length six-five-seven using binary nine." Rickey and Jake looked shocked at this. "That's the only reason I was working for Lumic, to get information. I thought I was broadcasting to the Security Services, and what do I get? Scooby Doo and his gang; they even got the van!"

'Wonder who he is calling the dog?' Harper thought. I looked at her and saw she was trying not to laugh.

'I think… and I could be wrong… but that would be Rickey.' I thought.

She let out a laugh this time making everyone look at her. She blushed bright red and looked down.

"No, no, no, but the Preachers know what they're doing," Mickey said trying to help. "Rickey said he's London's Most Wanted."

"Yeah, that's not exactly…" Rickey started.

"Not exactly what?" Harper asked.

"I'm London's Most Wanted for… Parking tickets."

I smirked at Rickey as Harper turned her face into my shoulder to hide a laugh that she couldn't stop.

"Great," Pete mumbled.

"They were deliberate!" Rickey defended himself. "I was fighting the system! Park anywhere, that's me."

"Good policy, I do much the same," I told him. "I'm the Doctor, by the way, if anyone's interested."

"And I'm Rose, hello," Rose gave a small wave.

"Even better. That's the name of my dog," Pete said. This cause Harper to start laughing once more, but Rose got her to stop by kicking her in the shin. "Still, at least I got the catering staff on my side."

"I knew you weren't a traitor," Rose told Pete.

"Why's that, then?" Pete asked.

"I just did."

'Wow, Rose is not good at the whole subtle thing, is she?'

I looked down at Harper with a smirk and thought back, 'No, not at all. He probably thinks she is a bit crazy.'

Harper nodded her head smiling at me. We turned back to the group when Pete said, "They took my wife."

"She might still be alive," Rose said encouragingly.

"That's even worse… 'Cause that's what Lumic does. He takes the living, and he turns them into those machines."

"Cybermen, they're called Cybermen," Harper told the group.

"And I'd take those ear pods off, if I were you," I said. Pete took them off and gave them to me. I used my sonic on them, deactivating them. "You never know, Lumic might be listening. But he's overreached himself. He's still just a businessman. He's assassinated the President. All we need to do is get to the city and inform the authorities, because I promise you, this ends tonight!"


Once we had made it to the city we got out of the van and saw all of the people walking, very robotically, in the same direction.

"What's going on?" Rose asked.

"It's the ear pods, Lumic's taken control," I said.

"Can't we just, I don't know…" Rose started to reach for the ear pod on someone, "take them off?"

"Don't!" I knocked her hands out of the way, "'Cause a brainstorm. Human race, such an intelligent lot, you aren't half susceptible. Give anyone a chance to take control, and you submit. Sometimes I think you like it. Easy life."

"Wow, thanks Doc, why don't you tell us how you really feel?" Harper said sarcastically.

"Hey, come and see," Jake called. We all went to where Rickey and Jake we pecking around the coroner of a building.

"Where they all going?" Rose asked as we watch people leave their houses.

"I don't know," I said turning to Pete, "Lumic must have a base of operations."

"Battersea. That's where he was building his prototypes," he informed us.

"Why is he doing it?" Rose asked.

"He's dying. This all started out as a way of prolonging life, of keeping the brain alive… at any cost," Pete answered.

"And what a cost it is," Harper mumbled.

"The thing is, we've seen Cybermen before haven't we?" Rose turned and asked me. "The head. Those handle shapes in Van Statten's museum."

"There are Cybermen in your universe," Harper said and I explained farther, "They started on an ordinary world just like this, then swarmed across the galaxy. This lot are a parallel version, and they're starting from scratch right here on Earth."

"What are you three on about?" Pete asked.

"Never mind that, come on, we need to get out of the city," Rickey said standing up. "Okay, split up. Mrs. Moore, you look after that bloke," he pointed to Pete. "Jake, distract them. Go right, I'll go left. We'll meet back at Bridge Street."

"Harper," I suddenly felt very uncomfortable with Rickey being so close to her. "You may not be my Harper but you're just like her. So please take care and be safe." He then gave her a quick kiss on the lip before shouting, "Move!"

Both Rickey and Jake left to distract the Cybermen and I turned to look at a very shocked and blushing Harper. I hate to admit it, but I was jealous of Rickey… who would have throught?

"I'm going with him," Mickey said kissing Rose before running after Rickey.

"Come on, let's go," Mrs. Moore said getting us to move.


Harper's POV

I am not going to lie; I could feel the Doctor's eyes on me the whole time we were making our way out of the city. I knew he wanted to ask what that kiss was about.

'Okay, out with it,' I thought.

'So you and Rickey…'

'No, no, no, NO! Not Rickey and I. Harper from this universe and Rickey are… well married.'

I looked up to the Doctor and almost laughed at the look of shock on his face.

'Have we not been over this before. There is nothing, nor will there ever be something between Mickey and I. And Mickey is Rickey, so yeah.'

'Right, sorry. Just… it's just kinda weird.' He looked a little… no very relieved.

'Your telling me! If I didn't know any better I would think you were jealous of Rickey,' I smirked up at him.

'You wish!'

We all ran and hit behind these trash bins when a group of Cybermen stopped right in front of our hiding place. Rose had grabbed a hold of Pete's hand and I watched as the Doctor raised his sonic screwdriver up, but it did not work. The Cybermen were still there.

I knew what I was going to have to do. It was our only chance. Cybermen were everywhere and the others had to get to the factory. I looked over to the Doctor and saw he had a look of despair. That made my mind up.

I jumped up and ran into the road not looking back.

"Oi, tin cans! Catch me if you can!" I turn and ran the opposite way of the factory.

'Harper! What are you doing? This is so stupid of you.' The Doctor shouted in my head.

'I know but you need to get to the factory and this will give you the chance to make it! I will meet y'all back at the TARDIS!'

'You better!' He thought, not giving the opinion of anything different.

I ran as fast as I could but the Cybermen were getting closer to me. "How can they walk so fast? They're robots!"

I saw my chance to hide from them, an apartment building. I ran into the alleyway besided the building and found an unlock door. I did not want to hang around in case they saw me, so I locked the door and started running again.

Unfortunately, they had seen me go into the alleyway. I could hear the Cybermen breaking down the door, and it would be only seconds before they were in and after me once more.


The Doctor's POV

I was worried about Harper; she could be so stupid and reckless at times. Mrs. Moore, Pete, Rose and I were at Bridge Street wait on the others when Jake came running up.

"I ran past the river. You should have seen it, the whole city's on the march. Hundreds of Cybermen all down the Thames." We turned and watch as Rickey or Mickey ran to us. "Here he is! Which one are you?" Jake asked.

"I'm sorry. The Cybermen… he couldn't…" He said.

"Are you Rickey? Are you Rickey?" Jake asked sounding more and more worried.

"Mickey, that's you isn't it?" Rose asked.

"Yeah," Rose ran to him and hugged him. "He tried. He was running there was too many of them."

"Shut it," Jake said.

"There was nothing I could do."

"I said just shut it," Jake yelled. "Don't even talk about him. You're nothing, you are. Nothing."

"We can mourn him when London is safe," I said. "But now, we move on."

"Where's Harper?" Mickey asked, as he looked around our group.

"She lead a group of Cybermen away," Rose told him. "Said she would meet back up with us."

Mickey shot me a dark look, but everyone started to move before I could say anything. Why did he get so mad at me?


We all walked up a hill to see Lumic's factory in the distance.

"The whole of London's been sealed off, and the entire population's been taken inside that place," I said. "To be converted."

Rose, not taking her eyes off the factory, said, "We've got to get in there and shut it down."

"How do we do that?" Mickey asked.

"Oh, I'll think of something," I said, not concerned at all.

"You're just making this up as you go along," Mickey accused.

"Yep, but he does it brilliantly," we heard someone say from behind us. We all turned to look and saw a smiling Harper. Although, her smile did not reach her eyes, causing me to worry more about her.

"Harper," Mickey said. He immediately went over to her and pulled her in for a hug. "You okay?"

"I'm fine," she said, but I didn't believe her and it looked as if Mickey didn't either.


Harper's POV

"That's a schematic of the old factory," Mrs. Moore told us as everyone, except Jake, looked at her computer. "Look, cooling tunnels underneath the plant. Big enough to walk through."

"We go under there and up into the control centre!" The Doctor said, coming up with the plan.

"There's another way in," Pete said suddenly. "Through the front door. If they've taken Jackie for upgrading, that's how she'll get in."

"We can't just go strolling up," Jake said rejoining the group.

"Or we could, with these," Mrs. Moore pulled out ear pods from her bag. "Fake ear pods. Dead, no signal, but put them on, the Cybermen would mistake you for one of the crowd."

"Then that's my job," Pete said.

"You'd have to show no emotion, none at all. Any sign of emotion would give you away," The Doctor told him.

"How many of those you got?" Rose asked.

"Just two sets."

"Okay, if that's the best way of finding Jackie, then I'm coming with you." She said.

"Why does she matter to you?" Pete asked.

"We haven't got time," Rose thankful avoided the question. "Doctor, I'm going with him, and that's that."

"No stopping you, is there?" The Doctor asked.

"No."

"Tell you what," he tossed Rose the ear pod he was holding. "We can take the ear pods at the same time. Give people their minds back so they don't walk into that place like sheep. Jakey-boy?"

The Doctor and Jake went a little farther up the hill. I was about to follow when Mickey stopped me. "Harper, what happened?"

"Micks, I am fine. Okay? Stop your worrying."

"Yeah, well how often are you actually fine when you say you are fine?"

My face fell when he said this. "Curse you Mickey for being able to read me so well. I am just a little worried about us."

"Why?" He probed.

"We have already lost Rickey, how many more are we going to lose tonight?" I almost started to cry as Mickey pulled me in for a hug.

He pulled away and was about to say something when the Doctor and Jake came walking back to us.

"Mrs. Moore," he came bounding over to us. "Would you care to accompany me into the cooling tunnels?"

"How could I refuse an offer of cooling tunnels?"

"Harper, want to help me take down a zeppelin?" Jake asked, and I could see some of that happy go lucky attitude back in his eyes that were there when we first met.

"Oh, now that sounds fun," I said linking my arm with his. Hopefully this would be the distraction I needed.

"We attack on three sides… above… between… below. We get to the control centre, we stop the conversion machines," the Doctor said rather quickly.

"What about me?"

"Mickey," The Doctor said as if he had just noticed he was there. "You can… ahm…"

I gave the Doctor a disappointed look as Mickey said, "What stay out of trouble? Be the tin dog? No, those days are over. I'm going with Jake and Harper."

"We don't need you, idiot," Jake said harshly.

"I'm not an idiot!" Mickey yelled and I could not be prouder of him for standing up for himself. "You got that? I'm offering to help."

"Whatever," Jake said letting go of my arm and stormed away.

Mickey and I turned to follow Jake when the Doctor called, "Mickey, good luck."

'You be safe, Harper.'

I smiled at him, 'I always am. It's you I am more worried about.'

"Yeah, you too. Rose, I'll see you later," Mickey said.

"Yeah, you better," Rose said smiling at Mickey.

"If we survive this, I'll see you two back at the TARDIS," the Doctor said.

"Definitely," I said and Mickey said, "That's a promise."


Mickey, Jake and I made our way up to the top of the factory. Jake was the first up the ladder, followed by Mickey, and then myself. We quickly and silently made our way to hide behind a large crate.

"Two guards, we can take them," Jake whispered.

"Don't kill 'em," Mickey said.

"Who put you in charge?" Jake asked.

"No, I agree with Mick," I whispered back. Mickey smiled at me and then asked Jake, "If you kill them, what's the difference between you and the Cybermen?"

"Well I suppose we can use these," Jake pulled out two small bottles from his pocket.

"Smelling salts?" Mickey asked skeptical.

"Bit stronger than that," Jake said with a smirk. "One of Mrs. Moore's little tricks. Should knock them out." Jake and Mickey then got ready to go, "three… two… one…"

They both went running towards the guards and ran up behind them bring the bottles up, knock the guards out.

I quickly ran up to them saying, "Nice job boys!"

"There's gotta be more guards on board," Mickey said.

"Then let's go get them," Jake said. I started up the ladder of the zeppelin saying, "let's introduces them to the Preachers."


Once Jake and Mickey had taken care of the guards on board we made our way to the main controls. "Nice work, no bodies home," Jake said. "Find the transmitter controls."

"What do they look like?" Mickey asked as he looked over the controls.

"Well I don't know. They might have transmitter controls written in big red letters," Jake said sarcastically. "Just look."

"Jake if this friendship is going to last, you are going to have to leave the sarcasm to me. There can't be to sarcastic people in one group," I said as I was looking around.

Mickey laughed as Jake just shook his head at me. We walked around to the other side of the wall only to jump back in surprise.

"Cyberman," Jake exclaimed and pulled a gun, while Mickey pulled me behind him.

Since the Cyberman was not moving Jake slowing made his way closer and turned on the light in the cubby it was in. Mickey followed after him taking a closer look at the Cyberman.

"It's dead. I don't think it was ever alive." Mickey knocked on his head, "Empty, no brain. It's just a robot suit."

"So what, it's just for display?" I asked.

"Guess so," Mickey agreed.

"Okay… transmitter," Jake said getting us back on task.


"Transmitter controls are sealed behind here," Mickey said after he finally found them.

"Well Jakey, would you look at that. The controls were labeled in big red letters." I laughed seeing 'Transmitter Controls' in red. "But with them being sealed we need something large and heavy to open it. Like a sledgehammer."

"Ooh and I forgot to bring it with me," Jake said once again sarcastic.

I rolled my eyes at him as Mickey asked, "Well then what do we do?"

"Well crash the zeppelin," Jake said sounding excited.

"Wait… what?" I asked as Mickey asked, "With us inside it?"

"Or we can sit it in automatic and just leg it. Let's have a look," Jake and Mickey when over to the main computer and I sighed, "Why am I always with men who crash things."

'Oi, I don't always crash the TARDIS!' The Doctor protested.

'I can name at least four times off the top of my head, and that's not even thinking about it that hard.'

I did not get a reply from the Doctor so I am guessing he knew I was right.

Jake was typing on the computer when we heard a beep, "It's locked. There's got to be an override."

"Let me have a go," Mickey said pushing Jake out of the way. "I'm good with computers. Trust me."


The Doctor's POV

The Cybermen lead me into what looked like the main control centre of the factory. I was still bursting with angry after what happened to Mrs. Moore, but was doing my best to keep calm.

As I walked farther in the room I saw Pete and Rose had been brought here also.

"I've been captured but don't worry, Rose and Pete are still out there. They can rescue me. Oh, well never mind," I said then asked Rose, "You okay?"

"Yeah, but they got Jackie," Rose said sounding sad.

"We were too late," Pete said. "Lumic killed her."

"Then where is he? The famous Mr. Lumic?" I asked to the room. "Don't we get a chance to meet our lord and master?"

"He has been upgraded," one of the Cyberman said.

"So he's just like you?" I asked.

"He is superior. The Lumic Unit has been designated Cyber Controller." Suddenly a door opened and out came a Cyberman in a giant steel chair.

'What is that?' Harper asked.

'Lumic… an upgraded version of Cybermen."

'Oh, great! Because the normal Cybermen were getting boring to deal with.'

"This is the Age of Steel," Lumic said. "And I am its creator."


Harper's POV

Mickey and Jake were busy doing something on the zeppelins computers and I was getting bored. "Guys, can you hurry it up?" I whined.

"I'm almost there," Mickey said.

"That might work," Jake said.

I was looking at the Cyberman in the cubby when it made a fist. "Um… guys."

Jake turned to me the same time the Cyberman moved out of the cubby, "It's moving!" He yelled as we backed away from it. "You said it was dead."

"Well it stood still as a robot," Mickey said.

"That's because it is a robot, but that doesn't mean it's dead!" I yelled at him.

Jake put up his gun, but Mickey pulled his arm down, "Wait a minute. Hey Cyberman over here."

"Mickey, why you are calling it over here?" I asked, but Mickey just push Jake and I out of the way as he stood right in front of the transmitter controls.

"Come and have a go," Mickey said to the Cyberman.

The Cyberman had his arm out to get Mickey but at the last second Mickey jumped out of the way and the Cyberman's hand went straight into the transmitter controls.


The Doctor's POV

We were all sitting there when all of a sudden we heard screams and people running.

"That's my friends at work," I said. "Good boys. Mr. Lumic I think that's a vote for free will."

"I have factories waiting on seven continents. If the ear pods have failed then Cybermen will take humanity by force. London has fallen; so shall the world."


Harper's POV

After a very quick little celebration, Mickey got back to working on the computer.

"Hold on, I logged onto Cyber control." We looked up at the screen and saw the Doctor, Pete, and Rose. "Their alive the Doctor and Rose, there they are."

"Never mind them, what is that thing?" Jake asked as we saw Lumic.

"Lumic!" I said with disgust and Mickey asked, "Has this thing got sound?"

"I will bring peace to the world," Lumic said. "Everlasting peace, and unity, and uniformity."

"And imagination?" The Doctor questioned. "What about that? The one thing that led you here, imagination; you're killing it, dead."

"What is your name?" Lumic asked in the robotic voice.

"I am the Doctor."

"A redundant title. Doctors need not exist," Lumic declared. "Cybermen never sick."

"Yeah, but that's it!" The Doctor jumped up and walked closer to Lumic. "That's exactly the point! Oh, Lumic you're a clever man. I'd call you a genius, except I'm in the room."

'Be careful that big head of yours is going to make you fall over,' I thought with a laugh.

'Oh, stop it!'

"But everything you're invented you did to fight your sickness, and that's brilliant. That is SO human, but once you get rid of the sickness and morality, then what's there to strive for? Eh? The Cybermen won't advance. You'll just stop. You'll stay like this forever a metal Earth with metal men and metal thoughts. Lacking the one thing that makes this place so ALIVE. PEOPLE! Ordinary, stupid, brilliant people."

"You are proud of your emotions?" Lumic asked.

"Oh, yes."

"Then tell me, Doctor… have you known grief, and rage, and pain?"

I could see the Doctor's thoughts about all the times he felt like that, "Yes, yes I have."

"And they hurt?"

"Oh, yes," the Doctor answered.

"I can set you free," Lumic said. "Would you not want that? A life with out pain."

"You might as well kill me," the Doctor said.

"Then I take that option," when Lumic said that, I grabbed Mickey's arm out of fear.

"It's not yours to take. You're a CYBER controller. You don't control me or anything with blood in its heart!" The Doctor spat.

"You have no means of stopping me. I have an army. A species of my own."

As I watched the screen I could tell the Doctor was getting frustrated with Lumic, "You just don't get it, do you? An army's NOTHING! 'Cos those ordinary people… they're the key. The most ordinary person can change the world."

The Doctor was walking around the room at this point. "Some ordinary man or woman… some idiot…"

Mickey and I looked at each other when the Doctor said that. I started to tap him on the shoulder to get him to start working.

"All it takes is for him to find, say the right numbers… say, the right codes… say, for, for example, the code behind the emotional inhibitor; the code right in front of him. 'Cos even an idiot knows how to use computers these days. Knows how to get past firewalls and passwords… knows how to find something encrypted in the Lumic family database, under… what was it, Pete? Binary what?"

Pete said, "binary nine," quickly as if they would get caught if he didn't.

"Binary nine," Mickey whispered as he got to work.

"An IDIOT could find that code. The cancellation code, and he'd keep tying. Keep on fighting… anything to save his friends…"

"Come on, come on…" I chanted as I bounded on my toes a little anxious about this plan.

"Your words are irrelevant," Lumic said.

"Talk too much, that's my problem. Harper tells me that all the time. Lucky I got you that cheap tariff, Rose, for all our long chats. On your phone," the Doctor looked up to the camera and held up his hand in the phone symbol to his ear.

"The phone!" I yelled as Mickey pulled his out.

"You will be deteled."

"Yes, delete, control, hash, all those lovely buttons. Then of course, my particular favorite… SEND!"

I watch Mickey hit send on his phone and then wait for Rose to get it.

"And let's not forget how you seduced all those ordinary people in the first place. By making every bit of technology compatible with everything else…"

Rose's phone beep and she said, "It's for you," as she tossed the Doctor her phone.

He caught it saying, "Like this…" and jammed it into a port on the control board.

We watched as all the Cybermen in the room started howling as if in pain and clutching their heads. The Doctor had given them their minds back and they now know what they had become. As glad as I am that it's over, I was sad it had to end this way so I turned from the screen.

Mickey and Jake were cheering, but when Mickey saw me he came over to give me a hug. I looked over to Jake and saw he was missing with the wheel.

"What are you doing?" I asked as Mickey and I went to look out the window. It looked as if the factory was going to explode any minute.

"We got to get away," Jake said. "If that factory blows, this balloon is going to ignite."

"Take it back," Mickey said trying to get Jake away from the wheel.

"Mickey…"

"He said take it back!" I yelled.

"We're not leaving them behind." Mickey and Jake were still fighting but Jake must have seen he was not going to win so he backed off. "There's no way we're leaving them behind."

Mickey called Rose and handed his phone to Jake, "Hold this." Jake held the phone to Mickey's ear, "Rose… Rose can you hear me? Head for the roof."

I took Mickey phone and turned it on speak so we could all hear what was going on. Mickey was trying to keep the zeppelin stable as we waited for the Doctor, Pete, and Rose to get to the roof.

"There they are," I said as I saw the finally get to the roof.

"Mickey, where did you learn to fly that thing?" I heard Rose ask.

"Playstation!" I laughed at his answer. "Just hold on Rose, I'm coming to get you."

"You can't go any lower," Jake said seeing what Mickey was trying to do.

"I've got to…"

"You're going to crush them," Jake said.

"There's got to be something, there's gotta be," Mickey said.

"How about a ladder," I said as I pulled the lever for the rope ladder to be released.

"Yes!" Mickey gave me a high fived.

"Hold on tight were going up," Mickey told them as we started to bring the ladder back up. "Welcome to Mickey Smith airlines, please enjoy your flight!"

We were cheering and laughing as we got away from the factory.


The Doctor's POV

When we had got away from the factory and to safety I sent Mickey and Jake to the Tyler's house to get my suit and Jacket. Rose was talking with Pete as Harper and I went into the TARDIS.

Neither of us had said anything, but nothing needed to be said. We both knew the other was safe and that is all that mattered.

It was dark in the TARDIS but the moment I put the power cell in place lights started to come on. I smiled and heard Harper sigh in relief.

We walked out of the TARDIS and over to Rose and Pete, "Rose, I've only got five minutes of power. We gotta go."

"The Doctor could show ya," Rose turned to Pete.

"Thank you, for everything," Pete said.

"Dad…" Rose choked out.

"Don't just… just don't."

We watch as Pete walked away. Rose was about to cry when we heard Mickey said, "Here it is. I found it, not a crease."

"My suit! Good men, now then… Jake we've gotta run. But one more thing; Mrs. Moore, her real name is Angela Price. She's got a husband out there, and children. Find them; tell them how she died saving the world."

"Yeah, course I will," Jake said.

"Off we go them!" I said happily.

"Uh… the thing is, I'm staying," Mickey said awkwardly.

"You're doing what?" I asked in surprise, the same time Rose said, "You can't."

"It sort of balances out, 'cos this world lost its Rickey, but there's me. And there's work to be done with all those Cybermen still out there."

"But you can't stay," Rose said.

"Rose my gran's here. She's still alive. My old gran… remember her?"

"Yeah."

"She needs me," Mickey almost sounded like he was pleading with Rose to understand.

"What about me, what if I need you?"

"Yeah, but Rose you don't. It's just you and him isn't it," he nodded over to me. "We had something a long time ago but… not anymore."

"But we'll come back. We can travel anywhere. Come and see, ya," Rose sounded hopefully.

"We can't. I told you, travel between parallel worlds is impossible. We only got here by accident. We… we fell through a crack in time. When we leave… I've got to close it. We can't ever return," I told her.

"Doctor, um… lets talk." Mickey pulled me to the side. I looked back at Harper and Rose and saw Rose was looking at us as Harper was saying goodbye to Jake.

"Doctor, take care of her."

"Rose will be safe I promise you that," I told him, wondering why he was so worried that I would not take care of Rose.

"No, not Rose. I know Rose will be okay, but Harper… she can be reckless when it comes to protecting people. And she may seem strong but she has one big weakness."

"And that would be…"

He smirked at me, "If you haven't figured that one out yet I can't tell you. I am just worried about Harper now that I won't be there for her."

"What do you mean?" I asked more confused now that before.

He just shook his head and went back over to the others. I followed behind.

"Oh, Micks I am going to miss you!" Harper said as she pulled Mickey into a tearfully hug.

"I'm going to miss you too, Harper."

"Take Rose's phone," I told him. "It's got the code. Get it out there, stop those factories. Good luck, Mickey the idiot." I gave him a light slap to the face.

"Watch it," Mickey said with a smile.

I turned to head to the TARDIS followed by Harper. I was setting the coordinates when a very tearfully Rose came in.

I knew the one place Rose wanted to be right now and set off there.

Once we had landed Rose jumped up and was out the door. Harper and I followed behind her shortly.

"You're alive," Rose said to Jackie. "Oh mum, you're alive!" As Harper and I walked out into Rose and Jackie's flat I saw Rose hugging her mum who looked very confused.

"Well, I was the last time I looked," Jackie said. "What is it? What's happened, sweetheart? What's wrong? Where did you go?"

"Far away… that was… far away," I said think about it.

"Where's Mickey?"

"He's…" Harper started to talk but couldn't finish it. I put my arm around her bring her in for a hug saying, "He's gone home."


Well guys there we have it. Hope you enjoyed it. The next couple of chapter you will see more of a tension build between Harper and Rose. Oh the woes of a love story. Until next time my Whovians!