Red planets and fixed points

by Salexhyraamilorquajyno

Rose and the Doctor visit the red planet. Sorry it took so long, I've been studying. I will be working through all the seasons and movies.

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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"As selfish as it is, she's been allowing him to run for the same reasons but she also knows that they won't be able to run forever. The Doctor dropped a stack of pancakes in front of her, breaking her out of her thoughts./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""I thought I might surprise you, today," the Doctor explained./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose grinned as she nodded her head. "Absolutely," she agreed as she finished off her breakfast and left to get ready./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor sighed as he inputted the coordinates for where he wanted to take her. They've learnt over the years that they've been married, how to handle the closeness that the bond created for them and agreed that there shouldn't be any secrets between them. For that reason he knows about the worry that Rose won't voice and he was too afraid too, especially after that last proprophesy from Carman./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose walked into the console room and found two spacesuits lying on the ground. "I haven't seen that for awhile," she remarked as she looked at the spacesuit, the Doctor had used on the planet orbiting the black hole./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor shrugged. "No reason to take it out until now," he explained. He grabbed Rose's hand and laced their fingers together. "You do know, that I'll stop running when you ask me too," it was the first time he brought up the time limit that seems to be hanging over their heads./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose placed her hand on his cheek. "Just a little longer, please," she begged him./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor grinned at her as he urged her to hop into her suit. He checked to make sure Rose was secure before opening the doors. "The Red Planet!" He explained as he ushered Rose out. He held out his hand to her. "Would you care to go for a stroll?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose grinned as she held his hand. "Why thank you, I would love to."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor led them over the red sand dunes as they looked around at the gorgeous scenery. "Ohh, beautiful," the Doctor sighed./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose nodded her head. "Absolutely," she agreed as she took in the unspoiled landscape around her./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"They walked over another hill and spotted something that shouldn't be there. "Hello, what's that?" The Doctor questioned./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose followed his stare. "I thought you landed us before humans colonised."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor nodded his head. "I did, I think," he agreed./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose rolled her eyes as they decided that they might as well greet the neighbours. She was about to move when she felt what might be a gun at her back./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Rotate!" A mechanical voice commanded. "Slowly," it insisted as the Doctor and Rose put their hands up and slowly turned around. "You are under arrest, for trespassing," the robot informed them. "Gadget-gadget."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose grinned. "Oh, aren't you cute," she commented./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The robot didn't seem to like that as it gestured with its gun. "Get moving," it commanded./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor and Rose speculated about what could be going on as they were led into an airlock and the doors sealed behind them. Rose felt a shiver pass over her as they entered the compound./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Take your suits off," a voice commanded them as they did what was instructed./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The moment they had the suits of, the inner door opened and they found themselfs facing a gun being held by an older blond lady. "State your name, rank, and intention," the Lady demanded./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor looked at the gun then the lady wielding it. "The Doctor and this is Rose Tyler," the Doctor introduced./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Another person ran into the cargo bay. "What the hell?" He questioned as he saw the Doctor and Rose. "It's a man and woman. A man and woman on Mars! How?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Another crew member came out holding their suits. "They were wearing these things, I have never seen anything like it."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""What did Mission Control say?" The Doctor questioned./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The crew member holding their suits answered. "They're out of range for ten hours with the solar flares."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The lady holding the gun sighed. "If you could cut the chat, everyone," she ordered./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Actually, chat's second on my list, the first being a gun, pointed at mine and Rose's heads," the Doctor explained. "Which then puts our heads second and chat third, I think," the Doctor questioned. "Gun, head, chat, yeah," the Doctor agreed. "I hate lists," he explained. "But you could hurt someone with that, just put it down," he insisted./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The lady scoffed. "Oh, you'd like that."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Can you find me someone who wouldn't?" The Doctor countered./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The lady sent them a suspicious look. "Why should I trust either of you?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor shrugged. "Because we give you our word," the Doctor answered. "And, 40 million miles away from home, our word is all you've got."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor and the Lady seemed to be in a stare down before she makes a decision and lowers her gun. "Keep Gadget covering them," she orders./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose grins at the robot as she kneels down. "Oh, aren't you the cutest," she exclaimed./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor rolled his eyes as he turned to the crew member operating the robot. "Oh, right, so you control that thing? Auto-glove response?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""You got it," the crew member agreed. "To the right!" He orders as he moves his right hand./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Gadget moves to the right. "Gadget-gadget!"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""It's a bit flimsy," the Doctor complained as Rose admonished him for being mean to gadget./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor cringed. "Does it have to keep saying that?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The crew member shrugged. "I think it's funny," he pointed out./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor sniffed. "I hate funny robots," he stated./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose stood back up next to him. "I think he's adorable," Rose disagreed./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"A voice came on over the intercom. "Excuse me, boss," someone questioned. "Computer log says we've got two extra people on site. How's that possible?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The lady with the gun raised a comm unit to her mouth. "Keep the Bio-dome closed," she ordered. "And when using open comms you call me Captain," she reminded them./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Yeah, but who is it?" The woman insisted./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The captain disconnected before answering as the crew with them tried to work out where they came from. "It can't be a World State flight, we'd know about it," one crew member insisted. "Therefore, they've got to be one of the independents, yeah," the crew member stopped next to the Doctor. "Was it the Branson inheritance lot?" He questioned. "They've talked about a Mars shot for years."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor had finally had enough. "Right, yes, OK, you've got us," he stated. "So I'm the Doctor, she's Rose and you are?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The captain scoffed. "Oh, come on, we're the first off-world colonists in history. Everyone on Planet Earth knows who we are."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Something finally clicked in the Doctors mind as he took Rose's hand. "You're the first?" He questioned. "The very first humans on Mars?" He backed them up a bit. "Then this is. . ."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Bowie Base One," the Doctor and captain said together./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor finally focused on that feeling he and Rose had been feeling. "Number one?" He asked. "Founded July 1st, 2058," he explained as he felt Rose's understanding. "Established Bowie Base One in the Gusev Crater," he backed them up even more. "You've been here how long?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""17 months," the captain answered./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""2059?" The Doctor gasped out. "It's 2059, right now," the Doctor started panicking. "OHH! My head is so stupid, you're Captain Adelaide Brooke!" The Doctor realised. "And Ed!" The Doctor pointed out the crew members. "You're Deputy Edward Gold, Tarak Ital, MD, nurse Yuri Kerenski, senior Technician, Steffi Ehrlich, junior Technician, Roman Groom, geologist, Mia Bennett, you're only 27 years old."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide sighed. "As I said, Doctor, everyone knows our names," she insisted./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Oh they'll never forget them," the Doctor assured Adelaide. "What's the date, today? What is it? Tell me the exact date," he ordered./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""November 21st 2059," Adelaide tells him./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor nodded his head as he made sure Rose was with him. "Right, OK, fine."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose reached for their bond span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;""is something wrong, Theta?"/span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor continued looking at all the faces before them. span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;""This is Bowie Base One, they all die in an accident and it happens today,"/span the Doctor explained. span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;""That feeling you have, that's the feeling of a fixed point."/span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose gasped aloud at that pronouncement. This was the first time she had experienced a fixed point while as a Time Lady. She couldn't help but stare at the crew members in horror./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Is there something wrong?" Steffi questioned as she noticed their looks./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Mia spoke up. "What's so important about my age?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor backed them up a little. "We should go," the Doctor insisted, instead of answering. "We really should go," he insisted. He urged Rose ahead of him as he reached for their suits before stopping and turning back to the crew members. "I'm sorry," he apoligised. "I'm sorry with all of my hearts but it's one of those very rare times when we've got no choice," the Doctor explained to the crew and reminded Rose at the same time. He started shaking everyone's hands. "It's been an honour," he assured them. "Seriously, a very great honour to meet you all. The Martian pioneers," he grinned. "Oh, thank you," he went to shake Roman's hand but he had gadgets gloves on. "Ah!" He patted gadget on his head instead./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Gadget-gadget," gadget called out./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Then he approached Adelaide and saluted her quickly. "Thank you," he grinned as he went to walk away before remembering something. "There's the other two," he remembered. "Hold on Margaret Cain and Andrew Stone."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Ed got on the comms to call them. "Maggie if you want to meet the only two new human beings that you're gonna see in the next five years, better come take a look," he urged./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Instead of words, snarling was heard through the comms./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""What was that?" Mia questioned./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose threw a look to the Doctor. "We should really go," she insisted./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""This is Central," Ed commanded. "Bio-dome report immediately."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Show me the Bio-dome," Adelaide ordered./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Ed tried to bring up the cameras but can't. "Internal cameras are down," he explained./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Show me the exterior," Adelaide ordered, all they could see was the lights going out in the bio-dome./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose gripped the Doctors hand tightly, she could feel his need to get away but underneath was another need, one to find out what happened here. Rose though, couldn't get passed the nails on chalk board feeling she had been getting every since they entered the colony./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""I'm going over," Adelaide proclaimed. "Doctor, with me, Rose stays here," she ordered./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor called feel Roses heightened fear and started feeling anger boil so he shook his head. "Yeah! I'm sorry, erm, we'd love to help, but we're leaving, right now," he stated as he tried to control Rose's fear./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Take their spacesuits, lock them up," Adelaide ordered Steffi as she turned back to the Doctor and Rose. "This started as soon as the two of you arrived, so you're not going anywhere. So, like I said, Doctor, with me, Rose stays here."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor sighed as he realised Rose's grip on his hand and gripped her face. span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;""I'll keep the bond open wide, so you can see everything that's going on," /spanthe Doctor assured her. span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;""But their not gonna let us go and you know that we can't do anything."/span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose took a few deep breaths through her nose to try and gain control her fear as she nodded her head. span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;""I love you,"/span she stated. span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;""I know we can feel it from each other all the time but that little bit of me that's still human, needs to tell you."/span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor grinned as he placed a lingering kiss on her forehead. span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;""I love you, as well, and I don't tell you that enough,"/span he replied before forcing himself to turn his back and walk off./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Mia came up beside Rose. "He'll be alright," she tried to reassure./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose just sent her a grateful smile as she watched the Doctors progress through the cameras and through their bond./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Gadget-gadget," the robot trailing the Doctor and Adelaide and next to Tarak, kept saying at intervals./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""What's so important about Mia's age?" Adelaide questioned. "You said she's only 27, why does it matter, what did you mean?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor shrugged. "Oh, I just open my mouth and words come out," the Doctor dismissed as he felt Rose's amusement. With their bond open as far as it could go, it feels like she's right next to him. "They don't make much sense."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Tarak scoffed. "You're telling me."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor grinned. "Thank you, doctor."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Gadget-gadget!" The robot said yet again, making the Doctor cringe./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor glanced at gadget. "I hate robots, did I say?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Roman scoffed. "Yeah, and he's not too fond of you," he snarked. "What's wrong with robots?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor shrugged. "It's not the robots, it's the people," the Doctor explained. "Dressing them up and giving them silly voices, like you're reducing them."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Yeah," Roman conceded. "Friend of mine, she made her domestic robot look like a dog."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Ah, well, dogs," the Doctor argued. "That's different."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose grinned. "The Doctor made a tin dog he could travel with," she explained./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Roman nodded his head before continuing. "But I adapted Gadget out of the worker drones, those things are huge! They built this place when the shell was lowered down from orbit," he explained. "They've got a strength capacity of 15 tonnes. . ."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide stopped their communication. "The channel is open for essential communications only," she reminded them./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor sent Roman a wink and grin. "Sorry," Roman apoligised. "Love those drones," Roman commented./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose sent him a smile. "Does she ever lighten up?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Roman snorted. "No, she doesn't."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""I've read all that stuff about you, Captain Adelaide," the Doctor commented. "But one thing they never said, was it worth it, the mission?" The Doctor added on./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide shrugged. "We've got excellent results from the soil analysis," she explained./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor shook his head. "I know, but all of it," he insisted. "Cause they say you sacrificed everything, devoted your whole life to get here."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""It's been chaos back home," Adelaide explained. "40 long years, climate, the ozone, the oil apocalypse," she turned to him. "We almost reached extinction," she reminded him. "And to fly above that, to stand on a world with no smoke, where the only straight line is the sunlight," Adelaide nodded her head. "Yes, it's worth it."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor grinned. "Ahh! That's the Adelaide Brooke I always wanted to meet," he explained. "The woman with starlight in her soul."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"They stopped as they saw something lying on the floor up ahead. "What's that?" Adelaide questioned as they ran towards its. "It's Maggie," she explained./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor reached out to stop Adelaide. "Don't touch her!"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Tarak scoffed. "I know the procedure," he assured him. "Maggie, can you hear me? It's Tarak./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Maggie?" He called out as he rolled her to her back. "It's OK," Tarak assured them. "She's still breathing, she's alive," he grabbed his comm device. "Yuri, I've got Margaret Cain, head trauma, I need a full medpack."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Yuri ran to the medbay and picked up the comm. "I've got it," he assured them as he directed Rose in what he needed. "Medpack on its way," he grabbed the pack and ran to them./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose walked back into the command center as Ed was running out. "I'm going to help!" He insisted./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Steffi stopped him. "In the absence of the Captain, you're in charge, sir!" She reminded him. "You've got to stay in the Dome!" But she was too late and he had gone./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor watched as Yuri, with a stretcher and med pack and Ed showed up to help. "Don't touch her, use the gloves," he reminded them./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Do what he says," Tarak confirmed. "Get her to sickbay, put her in isolation."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide made a choice then. "We're going on to the Bio-dome," she decided. "Tarak, with me, Yuri can take care of her," then she turned to the last member. "Ed, go back," she ordered. "Gadget, stand guard, keep an eye on this area."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Gadget-gadget!" Gadget agreed./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Captain, you're gonna need me," Ed protested. "Andy's the only other crew member out here, and if that wasn't an accident then he's gone wild."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide sent him a cold stare. "You've deserted your post, consider that an official warning. Now, get back to work," she continued on yelling. "Doctor?" The Doctor smiled at Ed in sympathy before following Adelaide./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose watched as Steffi and Mia analysed the sound they had heard. They gasped when the results came up. Steffi was on the comms immediately. "Captain, that sound we heard from the Bio-dome, I've run it through diagnostics," she explained. "According to the computer, it's. . . it's Andy, it registers as the voice-print of Andy Stone."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide took a moment to fully understand before responding. "Understood," she watched as Tarak tried to open the bio-dome doors. "Double-check, thanks," she requested./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Air pressure stabilised," Tarak confirmed as he opened the doors./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"They walked into the bio-dome with their torches out. "Andrew? Andrew Stone?" Adelaide called out. "It's Captain Brooke, Andy, report, I need to see you. Where are you?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor ran to the bio-dome terminal and started it up. The Doctor then used the sonic to get the lights up and running. "There you go," he grinned./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide watched the sonic suspiciously. "What's that device?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Are you the Doctor or the Janitor?" Adelaide questioned as she turned back to looking for Andy./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor shrugged as he flipped the sonic screwdriver in his hand before placing it back in his pocket. "I don't know, sounds like me, the maintenance man of the universe."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose giggled. span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;""You could see it like that, fixing the problems of the universe."/span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor felt lighter at hearing Rose giggling, he was starting to worry about her sanity with the itchy feeling she was projecting. span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;""Well I do don't I, fixing leaking mountains, leaking rivers, leaking members of a goverment."/span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""You, stay with me, don't step out of my sight," Adelaide ordered the Doctor. "Tarak, go to External Door South, make sure it's intact."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Yes, ma'am," Tarak agreed as he headed off./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor looked around at all the plants they had managed to grow on Mars. "Quite an achievement," the Doctor agreed. "First flower on Mars in 10,000 years," the Doctor agreed as he discreetly took a small flower bud for Rose. "And you're growing veg!" He realised as he followed Adelaide./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide shrugged "It's that lot, they're already planning Christmas dinner," she explained. "Last year it was dehydrated protein, this year they want the real thing."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor shrugged. "Still, fair enough, Christmas."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide sighed. "If we must," she agreed./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide shrugged. "It's part of the project, to keep the insect population down."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor nodded his head. "Good sign," he agreed./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide threw him a confused look. "In what way?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor shrugged. "Well, they're still alive."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Yuri came back on the comms. "Captain? Good news," he informed her. "It's Maggie, she's awake, she's back with us."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"At the Doctors prompting, Rose visits the medbay to have a look. "Hey, how is she?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""I was just about to find out," Yuri explained. "Hey, how are you, Soldier?" They heard Maggie groaning. "Just take it easy," Yuri suggested. "Can you remember what happened?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Maggie shrugged. "I was just working," she started. "Then I woke, woke up here."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide went on comms. "What about Andy? We can't find him," she explained. "Was he all right?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Maggie shrugged again. "I don't know, I just. . ." she broke off as she tried to remember./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide nodded. "If you remember anything, let me know straightaway," she ordered./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Ed switched the comm to just the medbay. "Yuri, does she know how she ended up in the tunnel?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Before Yuri could answer Adelaide ordered everyone. "And keep the comms clear, everything goes through me, got that?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose raised her brow as she shared a glance with Yuri. "Sounds like someone is on a power trip," she felt the Doctors agreement with that assessment./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Maggie approached the glass separating her from the rest of the med bay. "Come on," she urged Yuri. "Just let me out of here, I'm fine, just groggy," she insisted/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Yuri sighed. "You know the rules," he pointed out. "24 hours," he reminded her./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Maggie noticed Rose stareing at her and startled. "Who the hells that?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Yuri chuckled. "Something big happened while you were out," he turned to Maggie briefly. "We had visitors."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose had been pacing like an idiot inside the medbay, trying to control the horrible feeling she had of impending doom. She practiced the breathing techniques that the Doctor taught her. She had been listening to records that Yuri was watching and had to laugh at the jokes./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Yuri turned to her. "You understand Russian?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose nodded her head. "At the moment it's just basic, enough to get buy but it sounds their real characters."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Yuri laughed as he nodded in agreement. "Yeah, they are."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Is that your brother?" Maggie questioned, trying to enter the conversation./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Yuri shrugged without turning to look at her. "It's only a repeat," he explained. "The solar flares are still up," he finally turned to look at her. "Are you OK?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Maggie nodded her head. "Yeah, just, you know," she agreed./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Yuri turned back to the recording and laughed again but Rose turned back to listen as well. "He makes me laugh, though," Yuri explained. "It's his husband, he spends money like an idiot! Last year, for Mikhail's birthday, he said, "Don't buy me anything. "Let's save money and Georg says, "Fine, OK," Yuri translated. "His birthday comes around, turns out Georg has bought him a car! Top of the range," Yuri starts laughing. "And the thing is, he's used Mikhail's credit stamp! So Mik's saying, that means I bought it myself! Georg says, "It's the thought that counts."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Maggie grinned, they were unaware that something had happened. "Where does he live?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Yuri shrugged. "Oh, just outside Dagestan."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Maggie frowned as she questioned him. "Where's that?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""On the Caspian Sea," Yuri answered as he brought up a map of earth to show her. "Here you go."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""By the sea," Maggie sounded different./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Yuri shrugged. "Well, technically it's more of a lake."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Maggie seemed to be ignoring him as she continued. "Earth is so much water."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Yuri nodded his head in agreement. "Yeah, just look at her. 40 million miles away."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose started shaking as she heard water dripping while Maggie continued. "It has so much beauty, we should like that world."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose turned around and gasped at seeing water pouring out of her. Rose tapped Yuri on his arm as he turned around and noticed the water pouring and cracks appearing on Maggie's face. "This is sickbay, we have a situation," Yuri called out. "Maggie's condition has. . . I don't know, I don't know what it is. It's water, just pouring out."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose sent a picture of what she was seeing to the Doctor, who urged her to get out of there but Rose refused to leave Yuri behind, frustrating the Doctor./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide sighed. "Yuri, calm down," she urged him. "Just tell me what's happened to her."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Yuri took a few deep breaths to calm down before explaining. "The skin is sort of broken around the mouth and she's exuding water, like she's drowning."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide spoke again. "Tarak, this area's unsafe, we're going back," she informed him, she frowned as Tarak didn't answer. "Tarak? Tarak!"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor tried to contain his fear for Rose, but his mind kept telling him how long it could take him to get to her if she needed him. The Doctor focused on looking for Tarak. "Where was he?" He questioned Adelaide. They took off running in Tarak's direction./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Ed ran out of the command dome to the medbay as he ordered. "Yuri, keep her contained. Seal the door at maximum, I'm on my way!"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor stopped as he saw two people down another pathway. The Doctor noted how one was standing with his hand on the others head, they were both pouring water. "Andy just leave him alone," the Doctor warned./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide charged her gun and aimed it at Andy. "Step away from him," she ordered./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor held his hand out, to stop Adelaide from making it worse and to show the creature that had infected Andy, that he wants to help. "I can help, I promise," he told the creature as they slowly moved closer./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide wasn't having any of it. "I order you to stop! Stop, or I'll shoot!"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Andy, please, take your hand away from him and listen to me," the Doctor shouted over Adelaide. Andy finally did as the Doctor directed. "There now, that's better," the Doctor grinned as he compared what Andy looks like to what Maggie looks like and realised that he must've been infected first. "Hmm? So you must be Andy," the Doctor greeted. "Hello."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor noticed Tarak's head lift up and he turned towards them to show that he had been infected as well. "We've got to go," the Doctor whispered to Adelaide as he realised that it's worse than he thought. They took off running with the two creatures chasing them, they made it to the door and forced it open. "Set the seals at maximum!" The Doctor ordered as they closed the doors behind themselves. The creatures tried spraying them from a distance but the Doctor and Adelaide were already behind a closed door. They watched as the creature controlling Andy walked upto the door and examined it./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Ed made it to the medbay and slowly walked upto the window that Maggie was standing at. "What the hell?" He questioned as he saw what Maggie had become. He turned around to talk with Yuri and Rose./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Yuri, what IS she?" Mia questioned over the comms. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Captain, we need you back here," Steffi stated as they continued watching Maggie./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide sighed. "Just tell me that Maggie is contained," she ordered. "Can you confirm, Ed?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Confirmed," Ed agreed. "She's locked in."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide nodded. "Keep surveillance till I get back," she ordered. "And close down all water supplies, all pipes and outlets, don't consume anything. Have you got that, everyone? That's an order. Don't drink the water, don't even touch it, not one drop."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Why don't you talk to me?" The Doctor questioned. "Maggie talked but you won't," the Doctor turned to Adelaide. "Human beings are 60% water, which makes them the perfect host," the Doctor explained./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide seemed confused. "What for?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor shrugged. "I don't know, I never will because Rose and I have got to go. Whatever's started here, we can't see it to the end, we can't," he stated. The creatures bang on the door before spraying water at the door seals. "This thing's airtight, yeah?" The Doctor questioned./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""And therefore watertight," Adelaide confirmed./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Depends how clever the water is," the Doctor pointed out./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Sparks came out of the power box near them. "They're fusing the system," Adelaide realised./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor pushed Adelaide out the door. "Abandon ship!" He suggested as they ran down the corridor, the Doctor heard footsteps behind them and knew that the creatures had gotten through./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor stopped and pulled out his sonic screwdriver when he saw gadget. "Doctor, we haven't got time!" Adelaide complaide./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""They can run faster than us, we need a lift!" The Doctor explained./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Gadget-gadget," the robot greeted./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor jumped on the robots back. "Get on behind me!" He ordered./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""That thing goes at two miles an hour!" Adelaide complained./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor shook his head. "Not any more! Trust me," the Doctor assured her./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"They flew down the corridor, leaving the creatures behind. "The Central Dome airlocks have got Hardinger seals," Adelaide explained. "There's no way they can get in."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor pushed open the door then turned to the robot. "Come on, come on!" He urged./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Gadget-gadget," the robot stated./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""I thought you hated robots!" Adelaide complained as she saw the creatures further down the corridor./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor nodded his head. "I do!" He agreed as the robot entered and the Doctor was able to shut the door, locking the creatures in the corridor./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide breathed a sigh of relief. "We're safe," she assured him. "It's hermetically sealed, they can't get in."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor shook his head at her. "Water is patient, Adelaide," he reminded her. "Water just waits, it wears down the clifftops, the mountains, the whole of the world. Water always wins," he finished as he led her to the medical dome where Rose was. "Come on!"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide went on the comms as she followed the Doctor. "Bio-dome Tunnel is out of bounds," she informed the crew. "Andy and Tarak are infected, repeat, infected, make no contact and if they make any move, tell me. I'm going to the Medical Dome."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor looked around the corridor and sighed. "Blimey, it's a distance," he complained. "You could do with bikes in this place."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Every pound in weight equals three tons of fuel," Adelaide explained./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor nodded his head. "Yeah, I know but bikes!"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor and Adelaide entered the medical dome as she walked right up to the window. "Has that door got a Hardinger seal?" She questioned./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor instead went straight to Rose and pulled her into a hug as both their fears seemed to settle once they were near each other again./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""No, just basic," Ed replied./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide nodded her head. "Then the moment she heads for the door, we evacuate, got that?" She ordered./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Ed continued like he hadn't heard her. "Pulse is low," he explained. "Electrical activity in the brain seems to be going haywire."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Can she talk?" Adelaide questioned./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Yuri shrugged. "Don't know, she was before we noticed the change, but. . ." He didn't know how to end the sentence./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Maggie? Can you hear me?" Adelaide questioned. "Do you know who I am? Your commanding officer, Captain Adelaide Brooke," she explained. "Can you tell me what happened?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor spoke an alien language to Maggie./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Ed stared at him in confusion. "What language is that?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor shrugged. "Ancient North Martian," he replied./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide scoffed. "Don't be ridiculous."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""It looked like she recognised it," Rose pointed out./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""And her eyes are different," the Doctor realised. "They're clear, like she's closer to human."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Ed shrugged. "Not close enough for me," he stated./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor turned to the rest of the crew. "Where do you get your water from?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""The ice field," Adelaide explained. "That's why we chose the crater, we're on top of an underground glacier."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor nodded his head. "Tons of water, marvellous," the Doctor agreed./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Yuri shook his head. "But every single drop is filtered," he pointed out. "It's screened, it's safe."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor nodded his head in agreement. "Looks like it, yeah."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""If something was frozen down there, a viral life form, held in the ice for all those years. . ."Ed broke off as he stepped closer to the window./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Look at her mouth," the Doctor pointed out. "All blackened, like there's some sort of fission./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"This thing, whatever it is, doesn't just hide in water, it CREATES water," the Doctor pointed out as he turned back to Maggie. "Tell me what you want."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose grabbed the Doctors hand to get his attention. "Yuri showed her a picture of earth, and that's when she changed, she wanted Earth."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Yuri nodded in agreement. "A world full of water," he pointed out./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Captain, with me," Ed demanded as they moved to a corner of the room, not knowing that Rose and the Doctor could still hear them. "I'm sorry, but it's an unknown infection and it's spreading, that demands Action Procedure One."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide sighed. "D'you think I don't know that?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""I think you need reminding," Ed pointed out./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide nodded her head in acceptance. "Yeah," she agreed./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Ed grinned. "Well, at least I'm good for something."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Ed's grin spread into a real smile. "That's almost a compliment, things must be serious."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor decided to interupt then. "Sorry, sorry," he apoligised. "But action One, that means evacuation, yeah?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide nodded her head. "We're going home," she agreed as she opened comms. "This is Captain Brooke, I'm declaring Action One, repeat to all crewmembers, this is Action One, with immediate effect. Evacuate the base," Adelaide ordered as an alarm blared throughout the base. "Steffi, what's your estimate on shuttle viability?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""It's a nine-month flight, it'll take three hours to load what we need," Steffi explained./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""You've got 20 minutes," Adelaide told her. "And give me a report on Andy and Tarak."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Steffi checked the cameras. "Still in the Bio-dome Tunnel," she confirmed. "They're just standing there, like they're waiting."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Keep an eye on them," Adelaide ordered. "And make that 20 minutes 15!" She changed comms. "Ed, line up the shuttle, go straight to ignition status."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Doing it now," Ed confirmed as he moved to a terminal./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Yuri walked towards Adelaide. "But what about Maggie?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide sighed as she turned to him. "She stays behind, we've got no way to contain her on board. Close this place down," she ordered. "I want the power directed to the shuttle."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor and Rose moved away from the window as he could tell that it was scaring Rose, just standing there watching everything./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose poked around their bond to get his attention. span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;""How do we know none of them are infected,"/span she pointed out. span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;""Maggie seemed perfectly fine until she saw the water on Earth."/span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor kissed Rose's forehead in thanks as he grabbed Rose's hand and walked towards Adelaide. "Of course, the only problem is. . ."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor tried again. "The problem is, this thing is clever," he pointed out. "It didn't infect the birds or the insects in the bio-dome, it chose the humans, you were chosen," he explained. "And I told you, Adelaide, water can wait. Tarak changed straight away, but when Maggie was infected it stayed hidden inside her, no doubt, so it could infiltrate the Central Dome."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Understanding came to her then. "Which means any one of us could already be infected, we've all been drinking the same water."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor nodded his head. "And if you take that back to Earth, one drop, just one drop."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide shook her head. "But we're only presuming infection," Adelaide pointed out. "If we can find out how this thing got through, when it got through. . ." Adelaide explained as she turned to the only crew member left. "Yuri, continue with Action One," she ordered. "I'm going to inspect the ice-field."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor looked between Rose and the way that Adelaide went. "Right," he nodded his head. "We should leave, finally, we should leave," he tried to convince himself. "No point in me seeing the ice-field, no point at all."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose sighed in exasperation, but even she was a little curious as to how the infection happened. She grabbed the Doctors hand and led them out the medical dome. "Come one then," she sighed. "I have to admit, even I'm a little curious."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor grinned as he and Rose caught up to Adelaide. "All I'm saying is, bikes," he complained. "Little foldaway bikes, don't weigh a thing," they finally made it to the ice field. "They tell legends of Mars, from long ago," the Doctor explained. "Of a fine and noble race who built an empire out of snow, the Ice Warriors," Rose grinned as she saw the pictures of them through their bond./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide rolled her eyes. "I haven't got time for stories," she insisted as she moved to a terminal./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Perhaps they found something down there," the Doctor continued, ignoring her. "Used their might and their wisdom to freeze it."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide sighed. "Doctor, we need to find any sort of change in the water process," she explained. "We've got to date the infection."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide look towards the two time travellers. "You both, don't look like a cowards," she pointed out. "But all you've wanted to do is leave, you know so much about us."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose shrugged as the Doctor continued working. "You said it yourself, everyone knows you on Earth."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor and Rose shared a silent communication before the Doctor came to a descision. "This moment, this precise moment in time, it's like. . ." The Doctor broke off as he tried to find the words to say. "I mean, it's only a theory, what do I know? But I think certain moments in time are fixed, tiny, precious moments," the Doctor noticed that he had Adelaide's attention. "Everything else is in flux, anything can happen, but those certain moments, they have to stand."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose took over when she noticed the trouble the Doctor was having. "This base, on Mars, with you, Adelaide Brooke, is one of those fixed moments."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor nodded his head in agreement. "What happens here must always happen."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide looked between them in shock. "Which is what?" She questioned./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor shrugged. "We don't know," he replied. "I think something wonderful happens," the Doctor pointed out, when he saw Adelaide's worried look. "Something that started 50 years ago, isn't that right?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor grinned. "You told your daughter," he pointed out. "And maybe, one day, she tells the story to her daughter, of the day the Earth was stolen and moved across the universe and you. . ."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""I saw the Daleks," Adelaide confirmed. "We looked up, the sky had changed, everyone was running and screaming and my father took hold of me," she explained. "My father told me to, "Stay here! Don't move, I've got to go out, I'm gonna find your mother, but I'm coming back, I promise you. I'm coming back," she shook her head. "I never saw him again, nor my mother. They were never found but out on the streets, there was panic and burning, I went to the window and there in the sky I saw it, Doctor," she stared straight at him. "And it saw me, it stared straight at me. It looked right into me and then It simply went away," she finished. "I knew, that night, I knew I would follow it."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide shrugged. "What would be the point of that?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor grinned. "That's what makes you remarkable and that's how you create history."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctors grin grew. "Imagine it, Adelaide," he urged. "If you began a journey that takes the human race all the way out to the stars, it begins with you and then your granddaughter, you inspire her," he explained. "So that in 30 years, Susie Fontana Brooke is the pilot of the first lightspeed ship to Proxima Centauri, and then everywhere. With her children, and her children's children forging the way, to the Dragon Star, the Celestial Belt of the Winter Queen, the Map of the Water Snake Wormholes," he took a breathe as he continued. "One day a Brooke will fall in love with a Tandonian prince, that's the start of a whole new species but everything starts with you, Adelaide," he pointed out. "From 50 years ago, to right here, today. Imagine."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide shook her head. "Who are the two off you? Why are you telling me this? Doctor, why tell me?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"They watched the video that was recorded. "Maintenance log, 21," Andy stated. "20, November 2059. Number three water filter's bust," he explained as he showed the camera. "And guess what, the spares they sent don't fit. What a surprise," he stated sarcastically. "Over and out."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""But that means the infection arrived today!" Adelaide pointed out. "And the water's only cycled out of the biodome after a week," she stared in relief at the Doctor and Rose. "The rest of us can't be infected," she insisted as she grinned. "We can leave!" She opened the comms as they left the ice field. "Ed, we're clean! How are we doing?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Shuttle's active, stage one!" Ed informed her. "I haven't got time to convey the protein packs, if you want food you're gonna have to carry it by hand. Start loading!" He ordered the crew. "Right now!"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"They were running back to the command dome when Adelaide addressed the Doctor. "You were right, Doctor."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctors brow rose. "What about?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Bikes!" Adelaide grinned. Once they arrived Adelaide unlocked their spacesuits and handed them over. "Now get to your ship, I'm saving my people, you save yourselves. I know what this moment is," she assured him. "It's the moment we escape, now get out," she ordered as she went to help load the shuttle./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose watched on in horror as she noticed the lights on the terminal flashing and a beeping noise sounding. span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;""Their so busy packing to leave that they haven't noticed,"/span she pointed out./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Roman try to condense the oxygen membranes, we can lose ten pounds," Adelaide ordered. "Faster, come on! Ed, how's the fuel jets?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Cooling down in about 30 seconds," he responded as the beeping continued./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaid finally seemed to notice what the Doctor and Rose already had. "What the hell's that noise?" She questioned. "Mia, you lot, shut up," she ordered as everyone suddenly realised that something was beeping./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Ed checked the terminal. "It's the module sensors, exterior 12," he tried to bring up the cameras but couldn't. "The cameras are down, but there's pressure on top of the module, two signals right above us."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""That means! they're on the roof?" Steffi questioned. "How did they get inside the Dome?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Ed sighed. "They used the maintenance shafts," he explained./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Mia shook her head. "The shaft's open, they haven't got spacesuits," she pointed out./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""They breathe water," Ed reminded them./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""They'd freeze," Steffi countered./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Yuri spoke up. "They've got that internal fission," he explained./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""But we're safe, they can't get through, can they?" Mia questioned as they heard a cracking sound. "Can they?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Roman shook his head. "This place is airtight!" He assured them./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Steffi turned to Ed. "Can it get through? Ed? Can it get through?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Ed shrugged. "I don't know!"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Yuri spoke up. "Water itself isn't motile, but it has some persistence," he explained./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Everyone, listen to me!" Adelaide ordered as she pointed to the ceiling. "That's ten feet of steel-combination up there. We need all the protein-packs or we'll starve, now keep working!" She commanded. "Roman! Watch the ceiling! Ed, get to the shuttle, fire it up."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Ed stood up to protest. "I can carry more than this lot, Captain," he pointed out./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""That's an order!" Adelaid commanded./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Ed sighed. "Captain," he agreed as he took off for the shuttle./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor and Rose watched a moment longer before the Doctor turned them away to leave. The Doctor helped Rose into her suit because her hands had started shaking and made sure it was on properly before stepping into his. They entered the airlock and the Doctor pushed the button to open the outer doors. "Access denied," the computer intoned. The Doctor tried again. "Access denied."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaid appeared on the monitor. "Tell me what happens," she demanded./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor shrugged. "I don't know," he lied./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide scoffed. "Yes, you do, your wife's face said that something bad happens," she demanded. "Now tell me."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""You should be with the others," the Doctor urged her./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Tell me!" She demanded. "I could ramp up the pressure in that airlock and crush you both," she threatened./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor looked right at her. "Except you won't," he pointed out. "You could have shot Andy Stone, but you didn't, and I loved you for that," the Doctor made a choice. "Imagine. . ." He broke off as he took a deep breath. "Imagine you knew something, Imagine you found yourself somewhere, I don't know, Pompeii. Imagine you were in Pompeii," he urged her./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""What the hell's that got to do with it?" Adelaide questioned./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor ignored her as he continued. "You tried to save them but in doing so you make it happen. Anything I do, just makes it happen."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Steffi approached Adelaide. "Captain, we need you right now!"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaid swallowed. "I'm still here," she assured the Doctor./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor nodded his head as he took Rose's hand. "You're taking Action One," the Doctor agreed before pointing out. "There are four more standard action procedures and Action Five is?" He hinted./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Detonation," Adelaide confirmed./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""The final option," the Doctor pointed out. "The nuclear device at the heart of the Central Dome," he confirmed as he made his descision. "Today, on the 21st November 2059, Captain Brooke activates that device, taking the base and all her crew members with her," he swallowed as he gripped Rose's hand just a bit tighter. "No-one ever knows why but you were saving Earth. That's what inspires your granddaughter," the Doctor pointed out. "She takes your people out into the galaxy, because you die, on Mars. You die, today, she flies out there like she's trying to meet you."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaid shook her head. "I won't die," she denied. "I will not."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""But your death creates the future," the Doctor pointed out./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Help me," Adelaid begs him. "Why won't you help, Doctor, if you know all of this, why can't you change it?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor shook his head. "I can't," he denied./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Why can't you find a way?" Adelaid begged. "Tell me."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor just kept shaking his head. "Adelaid, I swear, I can't. I'm sorry, but I can't," he continued. "Sometimes I can, sometimes I do, most times I can save someone, or anyone but not you," the Doctor made up his mind to tell her what he had realised about her life story. "You wondered all your life why that Dalek spared you," he pointed out. "I think it knew, your death is fixed, in time, for ever and that's right."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""You'll die here too," she pointed out. "And your wife."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor shook his head. "No," he denied./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide scoffed. "What's gonna save you both?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Adelaide sighed as she pushed the button to unlock the outer doors. "Damn you," she breathed out as the Doctor pushed the button and the outer doors opened./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor and Rose stood for a moment as they heard the others panicking over the comms system but as much as the Doctor wanted to help, his first priority would always be Rose. He gripped Rose's hand tighter and stepped out the doors and away from the sound of panic./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor and Rose finally made it back to the TARDIS and they turned and watched as a mushroom cloud appeared on the horizon. The Doctor urged Rose back into the TARDIS and sent them into the vortex before helping Rose off with her suit. He held her as she cried for the lives that were lost until she fell asleep. He picked her up and took her to their bedroom where he stripped her to her underwear and placed her in the bed. He stripped himself then hoped into bed and held her tightly as he tried to keep his dark side at bay./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"It was during that struggle, that a golden light started filtering through his mind and a wolf appeared. "Hello, Doctor," the Wolf greeted./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The Doctor bowed his head in acknowledgement. "What can I do for you?"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The wolf changed to an image of Rose as she placed a hand on his face. "Someone's looking for you," she turned her head to the side and showed him an image of Ood Sigma./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;""Is this it, is it time?" He questioned./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"The wolf chuckled. "Only when Rose agrees," the wolf pointed out as she disappeared. The Doctor woke up gasping for air, only to find Rose not in bed. He started panicking, he heard footsteps out side the room./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"Rose bursts through the doors of their bedroom and threw her arms around the Doctor to assure him that they were both alright. The Doctor cried as he showed her what the wolf had shown him. Rose placed her hand on his cheek, very similarly to how the wolf did and smiled at him. "I understand that somethings must be completed, but Theta, I will never push you until your ready," she assured him as he held her tighter./p