Hello everyone! I hope you guys like this chapter. I have been so busy lately that I haven't had time to work on it as much as I would like, so sorry for the long wait. I do try and get the chapters out as fast as I can. Thank you so much for reading! Enjoy!


Harper's POV

I was focused completely on my hand as I watched the gold light swirl around my fingers. What I was trying to do took concentration and quiet. There was no sound at all in the room other than my own breathing.

"What are you doing?" I screamed and fell out of my chair as the Doctor broke the silence.

"Don't… ever… do… that… again," I said between taking deep breaths. "You can be scarily quiet when you want to be, you know that?"

"Yes, I know. But you never answered my question… what are you doing?"

He helped me up off the floor and I was trying to find the right words to say to not make him mad.

"Well… you see… the thing is… now I know… um…" The Doctor just raised an eyebrow at my rambling. "I am attempting to control the time vortex inside me."

I took at step back quickly afraid the Doctor might start yelling.

"You're doing what?"

"Control the time vortex."

"YOU'RE DOING WHAT? Harper, are you crazy! This is not something to mess around with."

"Now listen, I have a reason for doing this." The Doctor still looked mad so I just quickly went on, "the vortex allows me to heal quickly so I thought, maybe, if I could control it then I could use it to heal other just as quickly. I mean, nothing like bring them back from the dead or anything like that. I know not to change the time lines of people's lives, but just to help in little ways."

"Listen, Harper, that's… very kind of you, but we don't even know what the vortex will do to you now much less when you're messing with it. Do me a favor and don't do that again. Okay?"

I sighed in defeat, "fine."

The Doctor beamed at me, "good. Now come on, we are heading to Jackie's." He pulled me from my room, headed for the console room, "Rose has some washing for her."

"You know, one of these days, she's gonna have to learn how to wash her own laundry."

"Well I'm not telling her that. You can do the honors."

The Doctor laughed at the look of horror on my face, "Are you kidding me, she would kill me. She likes you best, you tell her."

"Tell who what?" Rose asked when we walked into the room.

"Nothing," we both said at the same time. She just shook her head and made for the door.


"Mum, it's us! We're back," Rose called as we entered her flat.

Jackie came just complaining as normal, "Oh, I don't know why you bother with that phone. You never use it."

Rose just laughed, "Shut up, come here," and pulled Jackie in for a hug.

"Oh, I love you!"

"I love you so much!"

"Jackie, it good to see you," I said once Jackie let go of Rose. She pulled me in for a hug saying, "it's good to see you too, Harper."

I felt the Doctor try and slip by behind me but Jackie caught him before he could, "Oh, no you don't. Come here," She gave him a kiss and then pulled him in for a hug. "Oh, you lovely big fellow! Oh you're all mine!"

Rose and I laughed as we watched the Doctor struggle to get out of Jackie's embrace.

"Just… just put me down!" The Doctor said but Jackie just ignored him, "Yes, you are!"

She gave him another kiss on the lips before letting him go. I laughed at his face of discussed.

"I've got loads of washing for you," Rose said handing Jackie her backpack. "And I got you this."

Rose pulled a small trinket from the bag and showed it to Jackie. "It's from the market on this asteroid bazaar. It's made of… what's it called?"

"Bazoolium," both the Doctor and I said.

"Bazoolium. When it gets cold, yeah, it means it's gonna rain. When it's hot, it's gonna be sunny. You can use it to tell the weather."

"I've got a surprise for you and all," Jackie said not even acknowledging Rose's gift.

"I get her bazoolium, she doesn't even say thanks," Rose said sarcastically.

"Guess who's coming to visit? You're just in time. He'll be here at ten past," Jackie said. "Who do you think it is?"

"I don't know," Rose answered sounding annoyed.

"Oh, go on, guess."

"No, I hate guessing. Just tell me."

"It's your granddad, Granddad Prentice. He's on his way any minute. Right, cup of tea." Jackie went into the kitchen as the Doctor and I walked up behind Rose.

"She's gone mad," Rose said.

"Tell me something new," the Doctor said.

"But, you told me your granddad had past away," I said very confused.

"Yeah, Granddad Prentice, that's her dad. He died like… ten years ago. Oh, my she's lost it. Mum? What you just said about Granddad…"

The Doctor and I were just standing behind Rose not sure of what to do.

"Any second now," Jackie said confidently.

"But he passed away. His heart gave out. Do you remember that?"

"Of course I do."

"Then how can he come back?"

"Why don't you ask him yourself? Ten past, here he comes."

We watched as a gray ghost like figure appeared in the kitchen beside Jackie. "Here we are, then. Dad, say hello to Rose. Hasn't she grown?"


The Doctor's POV

I ran out of the flat and looked around. There were 'ghost' everywhere.

"They're everywhere," Harper said.

"Doctor, look out!" Rose called as one of the ghosts went right through me. I gave a shutter at the feeling.

"You haven't got long," Jackie said. "Midday shift only lasts a couple of minutes. They're about to fade."

"What do you mean, 'shift'?" I asked. "Since when did ghosts have shifts? Since when did shifts have ghosts? What's going on?"

"Oh, he's not happy when I know more than him, is he?"

"No one's running or screaming or freaking out," I said.

"Why should we? Here we go, twelve minutes past," Jackie said and we watched the ghost fade away.


"On today's ghostwatch," we were all back in Jackie's flat watching TV. I was trying to figure out what was going on. "Claims that some of the ghosts are starting to talk, and there seems to be a regular formation gathering around Westminster Bridge. It's almost like a military display."

"What's going on?" Harper asked.

I changed the channel, "And tonight we're expecting very strong ghosts from London through the north, and into Scotland." I switched the channels again, "So, basically, Eileen, what you're telling me is that you are in love with a ghost? He's my ghost and I love him, 24/7."

Harper reached over me and changed the channel mumbling, "It's just too weird."

"Well, no one needs me any more." I changed it again; "my ghost was pale and grey, until I discovered Ectoshine!"

I flipped through a couple of foreign channels, "It's all over the world," I said.

I changed it once more. A soap opera was on, "Listen to me, Den Watts, I don't care if you have come back from the grave, get out of my pub! The only spirits I'm serving in this place are gin, whisky, and vodka. So you heard me. Get out!"

"When did it start?" I asked as I turned the telly off.

"Well, first of all, Peggy heard this noise in the cellar, so she goes down…" Jackie was obviously talking about the show; cause Rose and Harper to laugh.

"No, I mean worldwide," I said.

"Oh, that was about two months ago. Just happened. Woke up one morning and there they all were. Ghost everywhere. We all ran around screaming and that. Whole planet was panicking. No sign of you, thank you very much. Then it sort of sank in. Took us time to realize that we're lucky."

"What makes you think its Granddad?" Rose asked.

"It just feels like him. There's that smell, those old cigarettes. Can't you smell it?"

"I wish I could, mum, but I can't."

"Well, you've got to make an effort. You've got to want it, sweetheart."

"And the more you want it, the stronger it gets?" I asked.

"Sort of, yeah."

"Like a psychic link," Harper said.

"Yes," I answered then turned to Jackie. "'Course you want your old dad to be alive, but you're wishing him into existence. The ghosts are using that to pull themselves in."

"You're spoiling it," she said.

"I'm sorry, Jackie, but there's no smell, there's no cigarette's. Just a memory."

"But if they're not ghosts, what are they, then?" Rose asked.

"Yeah, but they're human. You can see them," Jackie said. "They look human."

"She's got a point, I mean, they're all sort of blurred, but they're definitely people," Rose said.

"The Doctor looks human, but he's not," Harper commented.

"Harper's right, maybe they're not. They're pressing themselves into the surface of the world, but a footprint doesn't look like a boot."


I was in the TARDIS getting stuff together when I heard the door open.

"According to the paper, they've elected a ghost as MP for Leeds." Harper said, "Man, this just keeps getting weirder and weirder. What happened to people being afraid of ghost?"

"Now, Doctor," Rose started, "don't tell us you're gonna sit back and do nothing."

I popped up wearing a backpack and asked, "Who you gonna call?"

Both Rose and Harper lost it and started to laugh. Rose was able to say, "Ghostbusters!"

"I ain't afraid of no ghosts!"

I ran out of the TARDIS followed by the girls, 'you are such a dork!' Harper thought with a laugh.

'Oh, you love it.'

"When's the next shift?" I asked as I set up cones in certain places.

"Quarter to," Jackie said. "But don't go causing trouble. What's that lot do?"

"Triangulates their point of origin," I said.

"I don't suppose it's the Gelth," Rose said.

"Nah, they were just coming through one little rift. This lot are transposing themselves over the whole planet. Like tracing paper."

"You're always doing this. Reducing it to science. Why can't it be real?" Jackie asked. "But just think of it, though. All the people we've lost our families coming back home. Don't you think it's beautiful?"

"I think it's horrific," I said then ran back into the TARDIS. "Rose, Harper, give us a hand!"

"Jackie, when it's time for someone to go, it's better to just let him or her go and not try to hang on," Harper said as all three of them followed me.

"Soon as the cones activate, if that line goes into the red, press that button there," I explained to Rose and then held up the sonic screwdriver. "If it doesn't stop, setting 15B, hold it against the port, eight second and stop."

"15B, eight second," Rose repeated.

"If it goes into the blue, activate the deep scan on the left."

"Hang on a minute, I know," Rose look over the console and pointed, "it's that one?"

"Close," Harper said.

"That one?"

"No, you're just killed us," I said.

"Er… that one?"

"Yeah! Now, what have we got, 2 minutes to go? Harper, you are going to be at the doors. Let me know what Rose says and let Rose know what I say. Got it?"

"Aye, aye captain," she gave me a salute as I ran back outside.

"What's the line doing?" I asked as I activated the cones.

"Rose, what's the line doing," Harper, yelled inside. "Rose said it's all right, it's holding."

"Here we go!"

"Rose, it's starting," Harper called. "Rose says the scanner's working, it says, 'Delta one six'."

"Come on, then. You beauty!" I watched as a ghost appeared inside of the cones. I slipped on my 3D glasses and got the setting right to triangulate it's origin. "Look at that. Don't like that much, do you? Who are you? Where are you coming from?"

The ghost took a swing at me causing me to jump back, "whoa! That's more like it. Not so friendly now, are you?"

"Doctor, be careful," Harper warned.

The ghost then disappeared so Harper and I ran around getting the cones as quickly as we could. Then we went back to the TARDIS.


Harper's POV

"I said so," the Doctor said as he through his jacket over the railing inside the TARIDS. "Those ghosts are being forced into existence from one specific point and I can track down the source. Allons-y!"

The Doctor was so oblivious to what was going on around him as he flipped a switch on the console. Rose and I were having a hard time keeping a straight face as he talked.

"I like that, Allons-y. I should say Allons-y more often. Allons-y. Look sharp, Rose Tyler, Allons-y. Allons-y Harper. And then, it would be really brilliant if I met someone called Alonso. 'Cause then I could say, 'Allons-y Alonso,' every time. You're staring at me," he finally said to Rose.

"My mum's still on board."

The Doctor got wide eyed and looked up at Jackie. I just lost it laughing so hard as Jackie said, "if we end up on Mars, I'm gonna kill you."

Once we finally made it, we watched on the screen as several men ran into the room and pointed guns at the TARDIS.

"Ooh, well there goes the advantage of surprise," the Doctor said. "Still, cuts to the chase. Stay in here, look after Jackie."

"I'm not looking after my mum," Rose said and I agreed, "and I'm not looking after her mom."

"Well, you two brought her."

"I didn't!" I said.

"I was kidnapped," Jackie said, but the Doctor was still headed for the doors.

Rose ran in front of him and stopped him, "Doctor, they've got guns."

"And I haven't," he easily moved her out of the way. "Which makes me the better person, don't you think? They can shoot me dead, but the moral high ground is mine."

"You are so stupid," I said as he walked out the door. He left it opened just a crack so we got in close to hear what was going on.

"Hold it!" A solider yelled, "Steady, lads, steady."

"Oh! Oh, how marvelous!" A woman said as she ran in front of the soldiers and started clapping. She looked like she may be the one in charge. "Oh, very good. Superb. Happy day."

Soon all the soldiers started to clap along with her.

"Um, thanks. Nice to meet you. I'm the Doctor."

"Oh, I should say. Hooray!" The woman said again as they all started to clap once more.

"You've heard of me, then?"

"Well, of course we have. And I have to say, if it wasn't for you, none of us would be here. The Doctor and the TARDIS."

'I have a really bad feeling about this place,' I thought, but for some reason the Doctor didn't say anything back.

"And… and… and you are?" The Doctor asked.

"Oh, plenty of time for that. But according to the records, you're not one for traveling alone." Rose and I quickly looked at each other with worried glances. "The Doctor and his companions. That's the pattern, isn't it, right? There's no point hiding anything. Not from us. So, where are they?"

"Hi, that would be me," I said stepping out of the TARDIS. "I couldn't decide on what shoes would look the best with this skirt. Anyways, hello I'm Harper."

I gave a cheery wave and fake smile. The Doctor pulled my just a little bit behind him as the woman laughed.

"Well then, that's one. Now where's the other?"

My face fell. I was hoping to keep Rose out of this.

"Yes! Sorry, good point. She's just a bit shy, that's all." The Doctor said as he reached into the TARDIS and pulled Jackie out. "But here she is, Rose Tyler! Hmm, she's not the best I've ever had. Bit too blonde. Not too steady on her pins. Lot of that." He made the talking motion with his hand. "And just last week, she stared into the heart of the time vortex and aged 57 years, but she'll do."

"I'm 40!" Jackie said sounding offended.

"Deluded, bless. I'll have to trade her in. Do you need anyone? She's very good at tea. Well, I say not bad. Anyway, lead on! Allons-y! But not too fast, her ankle's going."

"I'll show you where my ankle's going," Jackie hissed as we followed the soldiers and the woman. I laughed knowing the Doctor was so going to get it when we got back to the TARDIS.


"It was only a matter of time until you found us. And at last you've made it. I'd like to welcome you, Doctor. Welcome to Torchwood," the boss lady said as we entered a warehouse of sorts.

"That's a Jathaa Sun Glider," the Doctor said.

"Came down to Earth off the Shetland Island 10 years ago."

"What, did it crash?" the Doctor asked.

"No, we shot it down. It violated our airspace; then we stripped it bare. The weapon that destroy the Sycorax on Christmas Day; that was us. Now, if you'd like to come with me."

"Um, whats that?" I asked pointing to a strange device on the wall. It looked like some kind of transmitter to me.

"Oh, that's a repressor. It stops any kind of telepathic communication. We had a nasty run in with an alien that was telepathic."

I looked over to the Doctor and saw he looked worried. He grabbed my hand and pulled me over to his side.

"Anyways, the Torchwood Institute has a motto, 'If it's alien, it's our'," boss lady said. I was beginning to not like her. "Anything that comes from the sky, we strip it down and we use it, for the good of the British Empire."

"For the good of the what?" Jackie asked.

"The British Empire."

"There isn't a British Empire," Jackie said.

"Not yet. An, excuse me." She called one of the guards over and took his gun. "Now if you wouldn't mind. Do you recognize this, Doctor?"

"That's a particle gun," I said before he could.

The boss lady looked surprised but said, "Good, isn't it? Took us eight years to get it to work."

"It's the 21st century, you can't have particle guns," the Doctor said.

"We must defend our border against the alien." She turned back to the guard, "Thank you… Sebastian, isn't it?"

"Yes, ma'am."

"Thank you, Sebastian. I think it's very important to know everyone by name. Torchwood is a very modern organization. People skills. That's what it's all about these days. I'm a people person."

"Have you got anyone called Alonso?" The Doctor asked suddenly.

I laughed and covered my month with my hand to keep quiet.

"I don't think so, is that important?"

"I suppose not. What was your name?"

"Yvonne, Yvonne Hartman." The Doctor walked over to something that looked very much like a large suction cup, "Ah, yes. Now, we're rather fond of these. The Magna-Clamp, found in a spaceship, buried at the base of Mount Snowdon. Attach this to an object and it cancels the mass. I could use it to lift two tons of weight with a single hand. That's an imperial ton, by the way. Torchwood refuses to go metric."

"I could do with that to carry the shopping," Jackie said and I nodded my head to agree with her.

"All these devices are for Torchwood's benefit, not the general public's." Jackie and I looked at each other in annoyance.

"So what about these ghosts?" The Doctor asked.

"Ah, yes, the ghosts. They're what you might call a side effect."

"Of what?" he asked.

"All in good time, Doctor. There is an itinerary, trust me."

"Oi, where are you taking that?" Jackie asked suddenly and pointed to the TARDIS that was being wheeled away.

"If it's alien, it's ours," Yvonne said.

I knew at that moment that I did not like her.

"You'll never get inside it," the Doctor said in his scary quiet voice.

"Etcetera," was all she said as she walked away. The Doctor and I looked back at the TARDIS and saw Rose looking out of the slightly open door. He gave her a small nod before following Yvonne.


The Doctor's POV

"All those times I've been on Earth, I've never heard of you," I said as we walked down a hallway.

"Well, of course not. You're the enemy," Yvonne said. "You've actually named in the Torchwood Foundation Charter of 1870, as an enemy of the Crown."

"1879? That was called Torchwood," I turned to Harper and said. "That house in Scotland."

"That's right, where you encountered Queen Victoria and the werewolf."

"Oh, I knew that was going to come back and bite us in the butt. No pun intended," Harper complained.

"I think he makes half of it up," Jackie said causing Harper to laugh.

"Her Majesty created the Torchwood Institute with the express intention of keeping Britain great and fighting the alien horde," Yvonne explained.

"Lovely," Harper said sarcastically.

"But if I'm the enemy, does that mean I'm a prisoner?" I asked.

"Oh, yes, but we'll make you perfectly comfortable. And there is so much you can teach us. Starting with this," Yvonne said as she opened a door.

We entered and slowly walked to the large object at the back of the room. It was a large sphere and very much impossible. I felt Harper take my hand.

"Now, what do you make of that?" Yvonne asked, talking about the sphere.

"You must be the Doctor, Rajesh Singh," one of the scientists said. "It's an honour, sir."

"Yeah," I mumbled not really paying attention to him.

"What is that thing?" Harper asked.

"We got no idea," Yvonne said and Jackie asked, "What's wrong with it?"

"What makes you think there's something wrong with it?" Rajesh asked.

"I don't know, it just feels weird," she said. I pulled Harper with me to get a closer look at the Sphere.

"The Sphere has that effect on everyone. Makes you want to run and hide. Like it's forbidden," Yvonne said.

I put on my 3D glasses taking a look at the Sphere, and then passed them to Harper to give her a look. Even without her having to say anything, I knew she was worried about this Sphere.

"We've tried analyzing it, using every device imaginable," Rajesh explained. "But according to our instruments, the Sphere doesn't exist. It weighs nothing. It doesn't age. No heat, no radiation, and has no atomic mass."

"I can see it," Jackie said.

"Fascinating, isn't it? It upsets people because it gives off nothing. It is absent."

"Well, Doctor?" Yvonne asked.

"This is a Void ship."

"And what is that?" She asked.

"Well, it's impossible for starters," Harper said.

"I always thought it was just a theory, but… it's a vessel designed to exist outside time and space. Traveling through the Void," I explain.

"And what's 'the Void'?" Rajesh asked as Harper and I sat down in front of them.

"The space between dimensions. There's all sorts of realities around us different dimensions, billions of parallel universes," I grabbed Harper's hand as I felt her tense up when I said this. "All stacked up against each other. The Void is the space in-between, containing absolutely nothing. Can you imagine that? Nothing. No light, no dark, no up, no down, no life, no time, without end. My people called it the Void, the Eternals called it the Howling, but some people call it hell."

"But someone built the Sphere, what for? Why go there?" He asked.

"To explore, to escape," Harper offered.

"You could sit inside that thing and eternity would pass you by. Big Bang, end of the universe, start of the next, wouldn't even touch the sides. You'd exist outside the whole of creation," I offered a further explanation.

"You see, we were right. There is something inside it," Yvonne said.

"Oh, yes," I agreed.

"So how do we get in there?" Rajesh asked.

"You people need to learn to leave well enough alone," Harper said.

"I agree with Harper. We don't get in! We send that thing back into hell! How did it get here in the first place?"

"Well, that's how it all started. The Sphere came through into this world, and the ghosts followed in its wake," Yvonne said.

"Show me," I stormed out of the room turning to the left only to hear Yvonne yell, "no, Doctor," so I turned and went back to the right.


"The Sphere came through here. A hole in the world," Yvonne explained. We were in the main control room of Torchwood and were in front of a blank white wall. "Not active at the moment, but when we fire particle engines at that exact spot, the breach opens up."

"How did you even find it?" I asked.

"We were getting warning signs for years, a radar black spot. So we built this place. Torchwood Tower. The breach was 600 feet above sea level. It was the only way to reach it."

"You built a skyscraper just to reach a spatial disturbance? How much money have you got?" I put on my 3D glasses again, trying to figure this all out.

"Enough."

"Hold on a minute, we're in Canary Wharf," Jackie said. Harper and Jackie were both looking out the windows trying to see what was around us. "Must be, this building, it's Canary Wharf."

"Well, that is the public name for it, but to those in the know, it's Torchwood."

"So, you find the breach, probe it, the Sphere comes through 600 feet above London, bam! It leaves a hole in the fabric of reality. And that hole, you think, 'oh, shall we leave it alone? Shall we back off? Should we play it safe?' Nah! You think, 'Let's make it bigger'!"

"It's a massive source of energy," Yvonne defended their actions. "If we can harness that power, we need never depend on the Middle East again. Britain will become truly independent. You can see for yourself, the next Ghost shift's in 2 minutes."

"Cancel it," I demanded.

"I don't think so."

"I'm warning you, cancel it!"

"Oh, exactly as the legends would have it. The Doctor, lording it over us, assuming alien authority over the rights of man."

"Let me show you," I went behind a glass wall and got out my sonic. "Sphere comes through." I used the sonic on the glass causing it to splinter. "But when it made the hole, it cracked the world around it. The entire surface of this dimension, splintered. And that's how the ghosts get through, that's how they get everywhere. They're bleeding through the fault lines. Walking from their world, across the Void and into yours, with the human race hoping and wishing and helping them along. But too many ghost and…"

I lightly tapped the glass causing to shatter and litter the ground with glass.

"Well, in that cause, we'll have to be more careful. Positions! Ghost shift in one minute."

"Miss Hartman, I am asking you, as a human, please don't do it!" Harper pleaded with her.

"We have done this a thousand times."

"Then stop at a thousand," I yelled.

"We're in control of the ghosts. The levers can open the breach, but equally they can close it."

"Okay," I said suddenly.

"Sorry?" Yvonne asked.

"Never mind, as you were," I said as a grabbed a chair and sat down.

"What, is that it?"

"No, fair enough. I've said my bit, Harper's tried. Don't mind us, any chance of a cup of tea?"

"Ghost shift in 20 seconds," a worker said.

"Mmm, can't wait to see it!" I said sarcastically.

"You can't stop us, Doctor," Yvonne said.

"No, absolutely not. Pull up a chair, Rose, Harper. Come and watch the fireworks." Both Harper and Jackie came to stand next to me.

"Ghost shift in ten seconds, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two…"

"Stop the shift! I said, stop!" Yvonne yelled at the last minute.

"Thank you," I said sincerely.

"I suppose it makes sense to get as much intelligence as possible. But the programme will recommence as soon as you've explained everything."

"I'm glad to be of help."

"And someone clear up this glass," Yvonne said. "They did warn me, Doctor. They said you liked to make a mess."

"Oh you have no idea," Harper mumbled. I elbowed her in the side to make her stop, but it only seemed to make her laugh.


Harper's POV

"So these ghosts, whatever they are, did they build the Sphere?" Yvonne asked. We were all back in her office, and the Doctor was trying to explain everything to her.

"Must have. Aimed it at this dimension like a cannonball," the Doctor said. I could tell he was getting on Yvonne's nerves, because she gave him a look of disapproval. Although it could have been the fact that he had his feet up on her desk and he was kicked back in the chair like it was noting.

"Yvonne, I think you should see this," We heard Rajesh said from the computer. "We've got a visitor. Don't know who she is, but funnily enough, she arrived at the same time as the Doctor."

Yvonne messed with the computer for a second before turning it to us, "She one of yours?" And there was Rose right next to Rajesh. So much for her being a lot of help.

"Never seen her before in my life."

"Good, then we can have her shot," Yvonne said calling the Doctor's bluff.

"Oh, all right, then, it was worth a try. That's… that's Rose Tyler."

"Sorry, hello," Rose said giving us a wave. Both the Doctor and I gave her a wave back.

"Well, if that's Rose Tyler, who's she?" Yvonne asked pointing to Jackie.

"I'm her mother," Jackie said proudly.

"Oh, you travel with her mother?" Yvonne asked obviously trying not to laugh. I was having to hold in a laugh also.

"He kidnapped me," Jackie said.

"Please, when Torchwood comes to write my complete history, don't tell people I travelled through time and space with her mother," the Doctor whined.

"Charming," Jackie said.

"Oh, please please put it in there! I will pay for another skyscraper if you do," I said through a laugh.

"Oi, I've got a reputation to uphold!"

"Excuse me, everyone," Yvonne got up when the Ghost shift started back up. "I thought I said stop the Ghost shift, who started the programme? I ordered you to stop. Who's doing that?" The levers started to move on their own, "Right, step away from your monitors, everyone!"

Three of the workers were still at their computers typing away like she had not ordered them to stop. They seemed to not be focused on anything but their work.

"Gareth! Adi! Stop what you're doing right now! Matt! Step away from your desk, that's an order! Stop the levers! Andrew! Stop the levers!" Yvonne yelled.

"What's she doing?" The Doctor asked as we walked over to Adi.

"Adi, step away from the deck. Listen to me, step away from the desk!"

"Doctor… her earpieces…I remember them," I whispered to him. He grabbed my hand before saying, "She can't hear you. They're overriding the system. We're going into Ghost shift. It's the earpiece controlling them. We've seen this before," he motioned to himself and I. "Sorry, I'm so sorry."

The Doctor used his sonic screwdriver on her earpiece causing her to let out a scream along with both the other two workers. Then all three of them fell to their desk lifeless.

"What happened? What did you just do?" Yvonne asked.

"They're dead," was all he replied with.

"You killed them?" Jackie asked accusingly.

"Oh, someone else did that long before we got here," I said as the Doctor got to work on the computer.

"But he killed them," Jackie said.

"Jackie, I haven't got time for this!" The Doctor yelled.

"What are those earpieces?" Yvonne asked.

"Don't," both the Doctor and I said at the same time.

"But they're standard comms devices. How does it control them?"

"Trust me, leave them alone," the Doctor said before running to another computer.

"But what are they?" She pulled one of Adi's earpieces off, "It goes inside their brain!"

"We did worn you," I said.

"What about the Ghost shift?" The Doctor asked.

"90% and still running. Can't you stop it?" Yvonne asked.

"They're still controlling it."

"So they hijacked the system?" I asked getting a nod from the Doctor.

"Who's 'they'?" Yvonne asked.

"Might be a remote transmitter bet it's got to be close by. I can trace it." He said getting out his screwdriver. "Harper, Jackie, stay here."

"But…" I started but quickly got a "No!" from the Doctor.

"Keep those levers down! Keep them offline!" Yvonne yelled as they ran from the room.

"This is so not good," I told Jackie. She gave me a very concerned look and pulled me in for a hug.


I was watching the staff try and keep the levers down when the Doctor and Yvonne walked in with their hands up surrounded by Cybermen.

"Get away from the machines, do what they say," the Doctor said. "Don't fight them." But then the Cybermen aimed their guns at the two men keeping the levers down, "don't shoot!" But he was too late.

"What are they?" Jackie asked.

"We are the Cybermen. The Ghost shift will be increased to 100%."

The Doctor pulled me behind him as the levers made their way up. "Here comes the ghosts," he said.

"But these Cybermen, what have they got to do with the Ghosts?" Jackie asked.

"Don't you ever listen?" The Doctor asked. "A footprint doesn't look like a boot."

"Achieving full transfer," the Cyberman said.

"They're Cybermen," I said as the 'ghosts' started to make their way into our world, clearly Cybermen this time. "All of the ghosts are Cybermen. Millions of them. Right across the world."

"They're invading the whole planet," Yvonne said.

"It's not an invasion. It's too late for that. It's a victory," the Doctor said.

"Sphere activated. Sphere activated. Sphere activated. Sphere activated," we heard the computer say over and over again.

"I don't understand. The Cybermen don't have the technology to build a Void ship. That's way beyond you," the Doctor said to the head Cyberman. "How did you create that Sphere?"

"The Sphere is not ours."

"What?"

"The Sphere broke down the barriers between worlds. We only followed. Its origin is unknown."

"Then what's inside it?" The Doctor asked.

"Rose is down there!" Jackie said.

"Doctor, what could be inside?" I asked but the look he gave me was not reassuring. We were in a lot of trouble, probably more than we had ever been.


So what did you think? Only one more chapter with Rose in it; which is sad to me, but at the same time I'm excited to write different characters too! Thank you so much for reading and please leave a review. And as always, until next time my fellow Whovians, Geronimo!