And my dear readers, here you have Smith and Jones. I really like this chapter and had a lot of fun writing it. I know many people don't like Martha's character but I like her! She is smart and can keep up with the Doctor. Anyways… I guess I will stop rambling and let you guys read the chapter. Enjoy!
Martha's POV
I was doing my best to listen to Mr. Stoker as we made the morning rounds. But family problems were on my mind today.
"Now then, Mr. Smith, a very good morning to you. How are you today?" Mr. Stoker asked when we got to the next patient. He was a younger gentleman with brown hair that looked as if it could defy gravity. But what was so strange was the fact that he was the same man I saw this morning on my way into work. 'How did he get here so fast?'
"Oh, not so bad. Still a bit, you know… blah," Mr. Smith said.
"John Smith, admitted yesterday with severe abdominal pains," Mr. Stoker said. "Jones, why don't you see what you can find? Amaze me."
"It wasn't very clever running around outside, was it?" I asked him as I got my stethoscope out.
"Sorry?" He asked looking truly confused.
"On Chancellor Street, this morning; came up to me and took your tie off."
"Really? What did I do that for?"
"I don't know, you just did."
"Not me. I was here in bed. Ask my wife," he said nodding his head over to the left. I looked over and saw a woman reading a newspaper. She was a very pretty brunette, a little on the short side. They made a cute couple.
"Trust me when I say this, he's been here all day. I've basically had to sit on him to get him to stay put. Not one for setting around this one," Mrs. Smith said.
"Well, that's weird 'cause it looked like you. Have you got a brother?"
"No, not anymore. Just me," Mr. Smith said.
"As time passes and I grow ever more infirm and weary, Miss Jones…" Mr. Stoker said.
"Sorry, right." I started listening to his heart but it sounded different. I looked up at him and Mr. Smith had a smirk on his face. I moved my stethoscope to the other side only to hear another heart beat. 'Two heart beats?' I look back up to Mr. Smith and he winked.
"I weep for future generations. Are you having trouble locating the heart, Miss. Jones?"
"Um, I don't know. Stomach cramps?" I said standing up. For some reason, and I'm not sure way, but I felt the need to not tell anyone about his two hearts.
"That is a symptom, not a diagnosis. And you rather failed basic techniques by not consulting first with the patient's chart," Mr. Stoker said going to the end of the bed picking up Mr. Smith's chart. But when he touched the metal on it a small shock was sent out and he dropped the chart.
"That happened to me this morning," I said.
"I had the same thing on the door handle," another resident said.
"And me, in the lift," said another.
I saw out of the corner of my eye, Mrs. Smith put her newspaper down leaning forward to listen to what was going on.
"Well, it's only to be expected. There's a thunderstorm moving in and lightning is a form of static electricity, as was first proven by… Anyone?" Mr. Stoker asked.
"Benjamin Franklin," both Mr. and Mrs. Smith said at the same time.
"Correct."
"My mate Ben," Mr. Smith said, "That was a day and a half. I got rope burns off the kite. And then I got soaked."
"Quite," Mr. Stoker said not believing a word Mr. Smith was saying.
"And then I got electrocuted!" Mr. Smith said with a smile.
"Moving on," Mr. Stoker said. "I think perhaps a visit from psychiatric. And next, we have Mr…" I looked back at the Smiths and saw Mrs. Smith laughing while Mr. Smith had a small pout on his face. They definitely looked like a happy couple.
Harper's POV
The Doctor and I were wondering the halls of the hospital trying to find out what was going on. "I still don't think it's a good idea for you to be the patient. I'm the one with the broken wrist, you know; I could have done it," I said as I followed him.
"Oh well, yes you could have, but what would I have done?" The Doctor asked.
"The same thing I have been doing. Sitting around being bored… on second thought it may be better for you to be the patient. I don't like when you get bored. Bad things tend to happen."
He laughed and stopped walking looking into a room. I looked in also seeing the resident from earlier.
"Why do you think she didn't say anything about your two hearts?"
"I don't know; she's smart that one. I guess we got lucky," he continued on as she looked our way.
"When did it start raining?" I asked when we passed a window.
"This is not good." The Doctor grabbed my hand pulling me back to where his hospital bed was. We almost made it but then the whole building started to shake violently. I went flying into a wall, hitting in pretty hard.
'Harper!' The Doctor yelled in his mind. 'Harper, are you alright?'
'I'm fine. Don't make a fuss!' I thought back, rolling my eyes.
He helped me up once the shaking had stop and said, "I'm always going to make a fuss when it comes to you. Your important to me." My heart fluttered when he smiled and tucked a piece of hair behind my ear. But in typical Doctor fashion, he ran off to save the day.
"He's making it so hard to be mad at him," I said then quickly followed after.
We are on the moon. How we end up here I'm still not sure, but here we were.
"All right now, everyone, back to bed. We've got an emergency, but we'll sort it out. Don't worry," the resident, Jones I think, said. We had made it back to the room and patients and staff were freaking out. I watched her and another resident walk up to the windows looking out. "It's real. It's really real. Hold on."
She started to reach for the window to open it when the other resident stopped her, "Don't! We'll lose all the air!"
"But they're not exactly airtight. If the air was gonna get sucked out, it would've happened straightaway, but it didn't. So, how come?"
"Very good point!" The Doctor said opening the curtain, back in his normal suit and converses.
"I'd say brilliant," I said smiling over at her. "What was your name?"
"Martha."
"And it was Jones, wasn't it?" The Doctor asked. "Well, Martha Jones, question is, how are we still breathing?"
"We can't be!" The other resident cried.
"Obviously we are so don't waste my time," the Doctor said.
'Be nice,' I warned.
"Martha, what have we got? Is there a balcony on this floor, or a veranda?" The Doctor asked getting back to the issue at hand.
"By the patient's lounge, yeah."
"You fancy going out?"
"Okay," Martha said quickly.
"We might die," the Doctor said.
"We might not."
"Good. Come on, not her, she'd hold us up," the Doctor said pointing to the other resident making her cry. 'Oops sorry, it slipped out,' he thought. I just shook my head at him.
'What am I going to do with you?'
We all took a second at the doors to take a deep breath before opening them stepping outside, "We've got air. How does that work?" Martha asked.
"Just be glad it does," the Doctor said.
We were looking out at the Earth in front and the moon all round us. "I've got a party tonight," Martha said. 'It's my brother's 21st. My mother's gonna be really… really…"
"You okay?" The Doctor asked.
"Yeah."
"Sure?"
"Yeah," she answered.
"Do you want to go back in?" The Doctor asked.
"No way. I mean, we could die any minute, but all the same it's beautiful."
"Do you think?" The Doctor asked happy that she had said that.
"How many people want to go to the moon? And here we are."
"Standing in the Earth light," I said.
"What do you think happened?" Martha asked us.
"What do you think?" The Doctor countered.
"Extraterrestrial. It's got to be," Martha said and I smiled at her for not knowing the Doctor was technically extraterrestrial, too. "I don't know, a few years ago that would've sounded mad, but these days… that spaceship flying into Big Ben, Christmas, those Cybermen things. I had a cousin, Adeola. She worked at Canary Wharf. She never came home."
"I'm sorry," the Doctor, said, both of us knowing exactly who her cousin was.
"Yeah," was Martha reply.
"We were there, in the battle. It was…" the Doctor couldn't keep going, and I felt as if it was my fault he was so sad.
"I promise you, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, we will find away out. If we can travel to the moon, then we can travel back. There's got to be away."
"It's not Smith," the Doctor said as he walked around the small balcony. "That's not my real name."
"Who are you, then?"
"I'm the Doctor."
"Me, too, if I ever pass my exams. What is it then, Dr. Smith?"
"Just the Doctor," I said.
"How do you mean, just the Doctor?"
"Just the Doctor," he repeated me.
"What people call you 'the Doctor?" Martha asked.
"Yeah, it's weird but you get used to it. I once tried calling him David… he didn't take to it very well."
"That's because that's not my name," the Doctor said.
"Well, I'm not. Far as I'm concerned, you've got to earn that title," Martha said.
"Well, I'd better make a start, then. Let's have a look," the Doctor picked up a small rock and through it as far forward as he could. But the rock hit something and bounced off it. "There must be some sort of… force-field. Keeping the air in."
"But if that's like a bubble sealing us in, that means this is the only air we've got. What happens when it runs out?" Martha asked
"How many people in this hospital?"
"Don't know, a thousand?"
"One thousand people, suffocating," the Doctor said solemnly.
"Why would anyone do that?" Martha asked shocked.
"Heads up! Ask them yourself," I said as we watch three large spaceships fly over the hospital and land in front.
"Aliens," Martha said as we watch them walk out of the spaceships. They were in sort of a military form as they walked towards the hospital. "That's aliens, real, proper aliens."
"Judoon."
The Doctor's POV
We had to see what the Judoon were up to, so the girls and I snuck into the main lobby area looking down at the Judoon. But as I was watching I spotted something else, "Aw, look down there, you've got a little shop. I like a little shop."
"Doctor…" Harper said sighing while Martha said, "never mind that. What are Judoon?"
"They're like police. Well, police-for-hire," I explained. "They're more like interplanetary thugs."
"And they brought us to the moon?" Martha asked.
"Neutral territory," Harper said.
"According to galactic law, they've got no jurisdiction over the Earth so they isolated it. That rain and lightning, that was them using an h2o scoop."
"Why are you on about, galactic law? I mean, where did you get that from?"
"I think he makes half of it up," Harper said when we had moved to the other side with Martha following us.
I watched as the Judoon scanned each person and categorized him or her as human.
"If they're police, are we under arrest?" Martha asked, "Are we trespassing on the moon or something."
"No, but I like that! Good thinking," I said. "No, wish it were that simple. They're making a catalogue, that means they're after something non-human, which is very bad news for me."
"Why?" And both Harper and I turned to look at her, "Oh, you're kidding me? Don't be ridiculous, stop looking at me like that."
"Two hearts," Harper said. "Come on!"
I was in a room trying to find the patient records, and using the sonic on one computer but having no luck. Harper wasn't being much help either as she was just sitting there flipping through a book she found.
"They've reached the third floor," Martha said coming in. "What's that thing?"
"Sonic Screwdriver," both Harper and I said at the same time.
"Well, if you're not going to answer me properly."
"No, really, it is!" I said stopping working and turn to her. "It's a screwdriver and it's… sonic. Look."
"What else have you got? A laser spanner?" Martha asked as I got back to work.
"I did, but it was stolen by Emily Pankhurst, cheeky woman."
"She didn't still it. You're just rubbish at poker," Harper said with a laugh.
"What's wrong with this computer?" I yelled hitting the computer for good measure. "Judoon must have locked it down. Judoon platoon upon the moon."
"That's a lot of double O's there, Doc," Harper said. "You almost sound Scottish."
I smiled at her before telling Martha, "We were just travelling past, I swear, we were just wandering. I wasn't looking for trouble. Honestly, I wasn't. But I noticed these plasma coils around the hospital; that lightning, that's a plasma coil, it's been building up for two days now. So I checked in, I thought something was going on inside. Turns out the plasma coils were the Judoon up above."
"What are they looking for?" Martha asked.
"Something that looks human, but isn't," I said.
"Like you, apparently."
"Like me, but not me."
"Haven't they got a photo?" Martha asked.
"Might be a shape-changer," Harper said.
"Whatever it is, can't you just leave the Judoon to find it?"
"If they declare the hospital guilty of harboring a fugitive, they'll sentence it to execution," I explained.
"All of us?"
"Oh, yes, but if I can find this thing first…oh!" I yelled causing Martha to jump a little.
"Yeah, that another thing you get used to," Harper said.
"Do you see? They're thick. Judoon are thick. They are so completely thick; they've wiped the records! Oh, that's clever."
"What are we looking for?"
"I don't know. Say, any patient admitted in the past week with unusual symptoms. Maybe there's a backup."
"Just keep working, I'll go and ask Mr. Stoker. He might know," Martha said running from the room.
"I've just got to fix this computer," I said running my hand through my hair.
"Oh, move," Harper, said rolling my chair away. "Let the pro show you how it's done."
Harper's POV
The Doctor and I ran from the room, once the backup had been restored, to find Martha. When we found her the Doctor said, "I've restored the backup."
"Hey!" I cried.
"Fine, Harper restored the backup."
"That doesn't matter, I found her!" Martha said.
"You did what?" Then a man busted down a door and the Doctor grabbed Martha's and my hand yelling, "Run!"
We ran through the hospital until we came around the radiology department. The Doctor pushed Martha and I into an x-ray room and soniced the door shut behind him self. He then quickly got us behind a wall and said, "When I say 'now', press the button."
"But I don't know which one," Martha cried.
"Then find out!" He yelled and when to mess with the equipment. Martha started looking through the operator's manual to figure it out when the man busted down the door and the Doctor yelled, "Now!"
I just took a guess and hit the large yellow button. It must have worked because a bright light flashed and then the man fell to the ground.
"What did you do?" Martha asked neither of us moving from behind the wall.
"Increased the radiation by 5,000% killed him dead."
"But isn't that gonna kill you?"
"Nah," the Doctor answered. "It's only roentgen radiation. We used to play with roentgen bricks in the nursery. It's safe for you two to come out. I've absorbed it all. All I need to do is expel it. See, if I concentrate," the Doctor started to grunt and hop, looking very weird. "Shift the radiation out of my body and into one spot. Say, my let shoe. Here we go. Here we go, easy does it."
Then he started jumping on his right foot shaking his left, "out, out, out, out, out, out, out… ow, ow, ow! Itches, itches, itches, itches! Hold on. Done!" He said as he pulled off his left shoe and throwing it into the trash bin.
'I… I don't even know what to say about that…' I thought as Martha said, "you're completely mad."
"You're right, I look daft with one shoe," the Doctor said pulling off his right shoe and throwing it away. "Barefoot on the moon!"
"Aww, I liked those shoes," I pouted causing the Doctor to smile.
"So what is that thing?" Martha asked pointing to the man. "And where's it from, planet Zovirax?"
"It's just a slab. They're called slabs. Basic slave drones, you see. Solid leather all the way through, someone has got one hell of a fetish."
"But it was that woman, Miss Finnegan. It was working for her, just like a servant," Martha said, but the Doctor was not paying her any attention.
"My sonic screwdriver!" He cried as he pulled it from the x-ray equipment.
"She was one of the patients, but…"
"Burnt out my sonic screwdriver!"
"She had this straw, like some sort of vampire," Martha said still trying to get the Doctor to listen.
"I love my sonic screwdriver!"
"Doctor!" Martha and I called at the same time.
"Sorry," he said throwing the sonic over his shoulder. "You called me Doctor."
"Anyway… Miss Finnegan is the alien. She was drinking Mr. Stoker's blood."
"Funny time to take a snack," I said. "You'd think she'd be hiding."
"Unless…no! Yes! That's it! Wait a minute. Yes! Shape-changer, like you said Harper, only an internal shape-changer! She wasn't drinking blood; she was assimilating it. If she can assimilate Mr. Stoker's blood, mimic the biology she'll register as human. We've got to find her and show the Judoon. Come one!"
We were hiding behind water cooler as another slab walked by.
"That's the thing about slabs. They always travel in pairs," the Doctor said.
"What about you two?" Martha asked.
"What about us what?" The Doctor questioned.
"Are you two you know… a couple or was that just an act like the name John Smith."
I stayed really quite letting the Doctor handle this one, but he looked as if he was having trouble on what to say. Finally he said, "Humans! We're stuck on the moon, running out of air, with Judoon and a bloodsucking criminal, and you're asking personal questions. Come on."
"I like that, 'humans!' I'm still not convinced you're an alien," Martha said as we stood up.
But right then a Judoon scanned the Doctor saying, "Non-human!"
"Oh my, you really are!" Martha cried.
"And again," the Doctor said grabbing our hands running away from the Judoon as they started shooting at us.
"They've done this floor, come on," the Doctor said as we walked down the hallway. "The Judoon are logical and just a little bit thick. They won't go back to check a floor they've checked already. If we're lucky."
"How much oxygen is there?" Martha asked. The Doctor and I turned around to see her talking with one of the residents, who was holding an oxygen mask to a patient.
"Not enough for all these people. We're gonna run out."
"How you feeling? You all right?" The Doctor asked Martha.
"Running on adrenalin," she said with a smile.
"Welcome to my world. Harper?" He turned to me.
"I'm fine," I said with a halfhearted smile. The Doctor frowned but Martha stopped him from saying anything by asking, "What about the Judoon?"
"Great bug lung reserves. It won't slow them down. Where's Mr. Stoker's office?"
"It's this way," Martha said leading the way, but when we entered the office the alien was gone. "She's gone. She was here."
"Drained him dry," the Doctor said when we saw Mr. Stoker on the ground behind his desk. "Every last drop, I was right, she's a plasmavore."
"What's she doing on Earth?" Martha asked.
"Hiding, on the run, like Ronald Biggs in Rio De Janeiro," the Doctor said.
"But what is she doing now? She's still not safe, the Judoon could executed us all," I said getting a little worried.
The Doctor looked at me with a frown before saying, "Come on."
"Wait a minute," Martha said and then she went and closed Mr. Stoker's eyes before following us out of the office.
"Think, think, think," the Doctor said. "If I was a wanted plasmavore surrounded by police, what would I do? Oh! She's as clever as me, almost.
"Find the non-human! Execute!" The Judoon leader said as they started down the hallway.
"Martha, Harper stay here. I need time, you've got to hold them up."
"What? How?" I asked the same time Martha asked, "How do we do that?"
"Just forgive me for this," He said take hold of my shoulders.
"What are you doing," I asked.
"Harper, it could save a thousand lives and it means nothing… well, not nothing… anyways," and before I could say anything the Doctor kissed me. It was a quick kiss one that I didn't even have time to kiss back before he ran off.
"Oi, you can't just go around kissing someone then run off!" I yelled after him.
The Doctor's POV
I ran down the hallways trying to get to the MRI room and as I went, I was focused on getting the kiss out of my mind. It had to be done, but it sure made for a big distraction. Flashes of light were coming from the room and I knew that meant nothing good.
I entered the room slowly and I watched the plasmavore work on the machine. The machine its self was letting off the light and bussing with a strange sound.
"Have you seen? There are these things!" I said getting her attention. "These great, big space rhino things. I mean, rhinos from space, and we're on the moon! Great, big space rhinos with guns! On the moon! I only came in for my bunions! Look," I said holding up my barefoot. I was making this all up on the spot.
"All fixed now, perfectly good treatment, the nurses were lovely. I said to my wife, 'I'd recommend this place to anyone'. But then we end up on the moon! And did I mention the rhinos?"
"Hold him," the plasmavore said walking up to me and the other slab came out from behind me grabbing my arms.
Harper's POV
"Find the non-human! Execute!"
I really hope the Doctor's plan works. I didn't know if having the time vortex in me would mess with the Judoon's scans, but one could only hope it wouldn't.
"Now, listen," Martha, said standing in their way. "I know who you're looking for. She's this woman. She calls herself Florence."
The Judoon didn't listen to her and scanned her, "Human." It then came up to me and scanned. "Human, wait. Non-human trace suspected." The other Judoon got out there guns. "Non-human element confirmed. Authorize full scan," the leader pushed my up against the wall saying, "what are you? What are you?"
I hope this works.
The Doctor's POV
"That big machine thing, is it supposed to be making that noise?" I asked. The slab still had a hold of my arms as the plasmavore worked.
"You wouldn't understand," she said.
"But isn't that a Magnetic Resonance Imaging thing? Like a ginormous sort of magnet? I did magnetics GCSE. Well, I failed, but all the same.
"A magnet with its setting now increased to 50,000 Tesla."
"Ooh, that's a bit strong, isn't it?"
"It'll send out a magnetic pulse that'll fry the brainstems of every living thing within 250,000 miles. Except for me. Safe in this room," the plasmavore said.
"But hold on, hold on. I did geography GCSE; I passed that one. Doesn't that distance include the Earth?"
"Only the side facing the moon. The other half will survive. Call it my little gift."
"Sorry, you'll have to excuse me, I'm a little bit out of my depth," I said acting human. "I've spent the past 15 years working as a postman, hence the bunion. Why would you do that?"
"With everyone dead, the Judoon ships will be mine to make my escape."
"No, that's weird. You're talking like you're some sort of an alien."
"Quite so."
"No!"
"Oh, yes!"
"You're joshing me."
"I am not."
"I'm talking to an alien, in a hospital? What, has this place got an ET department?"
"It's the perfect hiding place," she was telling everything to me far to easy. "Blood banks downstairs for a midnight feast. And all this equipment ready to arm myself with should the police come looking."
"So, those rhinos, they're looking for you!"
"Yes, but I'm hidden," she said holding up her hand showing the X that marked her as human.
"Oh, right. Maybe that's why they're increasing their scans."
"They're doing what?" She asked stopping working.
"Big chief rhino boy, he said, 'no sign of a non-human, we must increase our scans up to setting two'."
"Then I must assimilate again."
"What does that mean?"
"I must appear to be human."
"Well, you're welcome to come home and meet the wife. She'd be honored, we can have cake."
"Why should I have cake? I've got my little straw," she said holding up a straw.
"That's nice, milkshake? I like banana."
"You're quite the funny man, and yet, I think, laughing on purpose at the darkness. I think it's time you found some peace. Steady him."
The slab grabbed on tighter and bringing my head down to the side. "What are you doing?"
"I'm afraid this is going to hurt. But if it's any consolation, the dead don't tend to remember."
That last thing I thought was, 'I'm sorry, Harper.'
Harper's POV
"Confirm, human, traces of facial contact with non-human. Continue the search! You will need this," the leader said handing me something.
"What is this?" I asked.
"Compensation," he said as he walked away.
"Well I hope that gave the Doctor enough time," Martha said.
"Me too, now…" I stopped talking when I heard, 'I'm sorry, Harper.'
'Doctor… DOCTOR!'
"Come on!' I said pulling Martha after the Judoon.
"Scan him! Confirmation, deceased," the Judoon said.
"No!" I yelled and Martha said, "No, he can't be. Let me through, let me see him," Martha and I tried to get through but they weren't letting us.
"Stop, case closed," the Judoon said.
"But it was her! She killed him; she did it. She murdered him!" I yelled pointing at the plasmavore.
"Judoon have no authority over human crime."
"But she's not human!" Martha cried.
"Oh, but I am. I've been catalogued," she said holding up her hand.
"But she's not. She assim… wait a minute," Martha said, having the same thought as me. "You drank his blood? The Doctor's blood!"
Martha grabbed one of the Judoon's scanners and scanned the plasmavore.
"Oh, I don't mind. Scan all you like."
"Non-human!" The Judoon said.
"But… what?" The plasmavore didn't know what to think.
"Confirm analysis."
"Oh, but there's a mistake, surely. I'm human. I'm as human as they come."
"He gave his life so they'd find you," I said softly.
"Confirm, plasmavore. Charged with the crime of murdering the child princess of Padrivole Regency Nine."
"Well, she deserved it!" The plasmavore spat. "Those pink cheeks and those blonde curls and the simpering voice. She was begging for the bite of a plasmavore!"
"Then you confess?"
"Confess? I'm proud of it! Slab, stop them!" The slab didn't last long as the Judoon shot, killing it.
"Verdict, guilty. Sentence, execution."
The plasmavore finished what ever she was doing to the machine causing it to go into overload. "Enjoy your victory, Judoon. Because you're going to burn with me!" The plasmavore yelled as the Judoon shot her, too. Killing her.
"Case closed."
"But what did she mean, burn with me?" Martha asked as I went to the Doctor. "The scanner shouldn't be doing that. She's done something."
"Scans detect lethal acceleration of mono-magnetic pulse," the Judoon said.
"Well, do something! Stop it!"
"Our jurisdiction had ended. Judoon will evacuate."
"What? You can't just leave it," Martha said. "What's it gonna do?"
"All units withdraw!" The Judoon said leaving the room.
"You can't go! That thing's gonna explode, and it's your fault," Martha said.
"Martha!" I yelled getting her attention. "Save him," I said pointing to the Doctor getting up off the ground.
"But his dead and…"
"I don't care, save him!"
I ran to the controls wishing I had paid more attention to the part in the TV show. I could hear Martha counting as she gave chest compressions to the Doctor. It was getting hard to breathe as we ran out of air.
"Two hearts Martha, two hearts."
She began to count again and I reached for one of the plugs but then everything went black.
The Doctor's POV
I took a deep breath and Martha fell to the side. She weakly said, "the scanner… she did something."
I made my way there slowly. We were almost out of air. I saw Harper behind the wall and checked to make sure she was already. She had a pulse but a light one, must have passed out from lack of air. I had to stop the machine, so I reached inside my pocket only to remember, "Oh! The sonic!"
I turned to look at Harper again and saw two plugs a red and a blue. I wasn't sure which to unplug but Harper had a hold of the red so I went with it.
'Harper was right, that's my girl.'
The machine shut down so I picked Harper up to carry her out of the MRI room. I walked slowly, having difficultly breathing, to a window. "Come on, come on, come on, come on, please. Come on, Judoon, reverse it."
Then it started to rain and I smiled. "It's raining, Harper! It's raining on the moon," I looked down at her and kissed her forehead. She was going to be safe, they all were.
Once we were back on Earth Harper and I headed back to the TARDIS. I looked back and saw Martha giving her a wave. I shut the door of the TARDIS and quickly went to set the controls to get us out of here. I looked over at Harper out of the corner of my eye and saw she looked upset.
"Harper," I called softly. She looked up at me and I felt myself almost get lost in her deep brown eyes. "I'm sorry."
"I thought I lost you today," she said quietly. "I… I don't know what I would do if… well anyways. I wanted to say sorry. For Rose…"
I walked over to her and took her hands in mine. "No, no, no, it's not your fault. I blamed you for what happened to Rose after I told you not to interfere with the time lines that you knew. I treated you unfairly, and I am so so sorry."
She looked at me with a sad smile, "it's okay. You loved her, and then lost her. I should have tried harder to be there faster and maybe I could have taken her place."
"WHAT?" I yelled, and Harper jumped a little at my shouting. "No! Never say that." I got closer to her and put a hand one either side of her face making her look at me. "I… I can't lose you. Yes I'm sad about Rose. But if you…" I just couldn't finish that sentence.
She closed her eyes, "I know. I don't know what I would have done if I had… you know." I let my hands drop and we both stood there in silence.
"Well, as much fun as today has been I think I am going to go and try to wash off this Judoon smell. See you in a bit, Doctor."
"Yep, see you soon." I sat down in the jump seat and watched her walk away. "Harper wait!" I jumped up and ran over to her, "I don't think I can be friends anymore."
"What?" She looked sad and confused.
"I don't want to be just friends but more than friends. It's crazy and stupid and… not right, but I love you."
"Doctor…"
"And not just as a friend or companion or sister or anything like that. I am hopeless in love with you!"
"Doctor."
"Hold on, let me finish. I know you don't fell the same, but I needed you to know."
"Doctor… I…"
"I will do my best to try and just be friends if that what you want."
"I…"
"I shouldn't have said anything, I'm sorry. I messed this…"
Harper stopped me from talking by pulling my tie bringing me in for a kiss. I was in too much shock to do anything at first, but soon returned the kiss.
We broke apart when we need to breathe. "I love you too, you silly alien! I always have and always will." I smiled widely at her and pulled her in for a hug. I kissed the top of her head not wanting to let go. "I got to ask, how long have you felt this way?"
I pulled way and said, "not sure, but if I had to guess I would say since our date on Christmas."
"You know I think that's when I know also. I guess Mickey was right; he always did say you loved me. I just never believed it."
"If I must agree… Mickey was right."
She laughed at me, "how did that taste come out?"
"Like bitter fruit," I said sticking out my tongue in disgust.
Harper suddenly became a little withdrawn, "so there was never anything between you and Rose?"
"What? No, why would you think that?" I asked a little shocked she would even think that.
She rolled her eyes at me, "you are the dumbest genius ever. Rose, she liked you, maybe even loved. I never wanted to cause tension. Well… at least at first."
"She felt that way? Wow, I never knew," I smiled a bit.
Harper shook her head at me. "Don't go and get a big head, Doc."
"Never," I leaned down to give her another kiss. "But I guess your right."
"I am always right," she mumbled against my lips.
I pulled away with a smirk and said, "Oh, now who has the big head?" She just smiled at me and pulled me in for another kiss, I could get used to this.
Harper made me promise I would go and get Martha for one 'thank you' trip. I really didn't want to, but I can't say no to her. So I watch Martha's family argue from the alleyway across the street. When I finally caught Martha's eye, I turned to go back to the TARDIS knowing she would follow.
"I went to the moon today," Martha said once she got to where I was.
"Bit more peaceful than down here."
"You never even told me who you are."
"The Doctor," I said.
"But what sort of species? It's not every day I get to ask that."
"I'm a Time Lord."
"Right, not pompous at all, them," Martha said with some sass.
"We, Harper and I, just thought, since you saved my life and I've got a brand-new sonic screwdriver," I said pulling it out. "Which needs road-testing, you might fancy a trip."
"What into space? I can't, I've got exams. I've got thing to do. I have to go into town first thing and pay the rent. I got my family going mad."
"If it help, I can travel in time as well."
"Get out of here," she said not believing me.
"I can!"
"Come on now, that is going too far."
"I'll prove it." I got back in the TARDIS and set the time for this morning. Once there I quickly walked down the road stopped right in front of Martha, from this morning, and took my tie off. Then I walked back to the TARDIS going back to where Martha was waiting. "Told you!" I said as I walked out of the TARDIS holding my tie.
"No, but… that was this morning. But… did you… oh my, you can travel in time! But hold on, if you could see me this morning, why didn't you tell me not to go into work?"
"Crossing into established events is strictly forbidden. Except for cheap tricks."
"And that's your spaceship?"
"It's called the TARDIS." Martha walked up to it. "Time and Relative Dimension in Space."
"Your spaceship's made of wood. There's not much room, we'd be a bit tight."
"Take a look," I said opening the door. I followed her in only to watch her run back out.
"No, no, no… but it's just a box. But it's huge! How does it do that? It's wood! It's like a box with that room just crammed in. It's bigger on the inside!" I mouthed along with her.
"Is it? I hadn't noticed." I took off my jacket tossing it over one of the rails and going to the console. "All right then, let's get going."
"But is there a crew? Like a navigator and stuff? Where is everyone?"
"Just me."
"All on your own?" Martha asked.
"Well, me and Harper," I said smiling. "Well, sometimes we have guests. I mean, some friends travelling alongside us. We had… it was recently… this friend. Rose, her name was, Rose and… she was traveling with us. Anyway…"
"Where is she now?" Martha asked.
"With her family. Happy, she's fine. She's… not that you're replacing her!"
"Never said I was," Martha said holding up her hands.
"Just one trip. To say thanks. You get one trip then back home. I'd rather it be just the two of us."
"Specking of you two, where is Harper?"
"Oh she went to change. She said something about getting rid of Judoon smell."
Right after I said that we heard an ear-shattering scream. Martha and I both looked over to the hallway as a very angry Harper with green hair come into the room.
"Oh my!" Martha said covering her month with her hands.
"My hair is green!"
"Yes, I see that!" I said with a smirk. I had been planning this for a while now.
"My hair is BLOODY GREEN!" She yelled
"Good to know you know your colors. Are you ready to go?"
"Why? Why my hair?" She is a little scary when she gets mad.
"You painted my sonic screwdriver pink!"
Martha was looking back and forth between the two of us not sure whose side to take.
"Your sonic…? Your BLOODY SONIC SCREWDRIVER! That paint came off after you washed it. I have washed my hair six, SIX, times and this bloody hair dye is still there!"
"Oh," 'I think I've messed up!'
"Yeah, you bloody messed up. What kind of hair dye did you uses?"
"I don't know I just got some, how was I supposed to know there was different kinds?" I could see out of the corner of my eye Martha laughing at us. "Martha you're on my side right? I didn't mean to get permanent dye."
"Sorry, but I'm on Harper's side. You don't mess with a girls hair."
"Why thank you Martha! Now take me somewhere I can buy some brown hair dye."
"Nope, sorry, to late, off we go!" I pulled the last lever sending us away. Martha and I were laughing while Harper yelled "Doctor!"
"Blimey! It's a bit bumpy," Martha said.
"Welcome aboard, Miss Jones," I said sticking out my hand.
"It's my pleasure, Mr. Smith," Martha said shaking my hand.
This was bound to be an interesting adventure; I just hope Harper will not stay mad at me for long.
Soooooo what did you think? Harper and the Doctor are finally together! Yay! I'm going to go ahead and let you guys know, Martha will not feel the same way for the Doctor that she did in the show. I just didn't wait that interaction to happen between her and the Doctor and her and Harper. Thank you so much for reading and please leave a review. Until next time my dear fellow Whovians, and off we go!
