Half an hour later, The Doctor and Rose were back in the room known as 'The Study'. They had been given a camera in order to record what they could. But that wasn't the only camera though, as there was another in the room for the benefit of home and online viewers.
While The Doctor was busy doing a thorough scan of the room with his Screwdriver, Rose was pointing the camera towards the portrait of Ruby and her Captain. She was documenting what she was seeing. "This is Ruby, surname unknown. But everyone calls her the Red Widow," Rose uttered. "Despite the severe expression she looks young, probably early to mid thirties. The Captain, also name unknown, appears to be older than Ruby."
As she continued to talk about the portrait, the Doctor stopped scanning the bookshelves and looked over at Rose with a frown. She still had the camera but now it looked like she was talking to herself. He was puzzled for awhile as she panned the camera over towards a fireplace, with coal still being used, followed by a coat or hatstand in the corner
"What are you doing, Rose?" The Doctor asked her.
"Blending in," came the answer from Rose. She had placed her hand over the camera's mic. "So we won't raise any suspicion of why we wanted to be in here." She looked back at him with a hint of a grin. "Have you found anything yet?"
The Doctor shook his head. "Nope. But I will soon enough." He replied and moved the Sonic towards another bookshelf.
Continuing to document, Rose panned the camera over to the desk. But before she could say anything about what was on the desk, the camera's batteries suddenly detained. "Oh, what?" Rose cried out.
It caught The Doctor's attention and he looked over to see what the problem was. "What is it?" He asked.
"I don't know," the blonde uttered as she tried to fix the camera. "The battery just drained for no reason."
Brow furrowing, The Doctor approached Rose. "That shouldn't have happened!" He stated. "Hold on." He then pointed the Screwdriver at the camera's battery, the Sonic whirring away. "Try it now." The Doctor said once he knew the battery was fully charged. He looked at the display on the digital viewfinder as Rose pointed back at the desk. To his dismay the image began to get fuzzy, followed by freezing up before the whole thing shut off.
Rose groaned in annoyance. "It's no good," she said. "It's drained again."
"I noticed." The Doctor replied and turned his attention to the desk. "There must be something here causing it." He did a quick scan of the desk and found something odd about it.
"Usually it's ghosts. They like to drain electronics." Rose commented.
"Definitely not a ghost." The Time Lord said and tried to open any of it's drawers, but they were all locked, which really confused him. Had they all actually been locked since the early 1900's?
"Doctor?" Rose queried when she felt his confusion.
"Who keeps a drawer locked for all this time?" He exclaimed, eyes narrowed.
"Maybe the Captain really liked his privacy." Came the reply from Rose. "After all, they kept everyone else out."
But The Doctor shook his head. "Something to hide more like!" He uttered and pointed his Sonic at the drawers. The instrument whirred and the sound of several locks clicking open was heard. "Molto bene!" He cheered.
Placing the camera on top of the desk, Rose watched as The Doctor checked through every drawer before coming across a drawer with various pieces of broken alien technology. "Well, what do we have here?" He muttered in awe.
"How'd they get their hands on all that?" Rose wondered.
"Good question. I've no idea. Maybe Yorkshire has a rift of its own." The Doctor suggested and then perked up when something caught his eye. "Hello! What's this?" He said and pulled it out of the drawer.
Rose saw that it looked to be the size of a hip flask, except it was dark in colour and dull looking. Whatever it was it didn't seem to have any buttons or didn't appear to open up. "What is it?" She asked out of curiousness as The Doctor put his glasses on to inspect the object. She tried to ignore the building arousal those glasses always caused.
"It's a Kil'a'wei'a," The Doctor answered Rose's question with a hint of a smirk. "Basically it's a Soul Storer or Soul Stealer if you're unlucky enough to be on the receiving end. They're much favoured by the Ka'hu'kai's." Rose nodded, listening.
"How does it work?" She asked.
"It's an empathic weapon. It seeks out the victim's emotions and then it ramps up those emotions to a level the victim can't handle, thus paralysing them emotionally. Once that happens it takes their soul and stores it." The Doctor explained.
Frowning, Rose stared at the little weapon that didn't look at all dangerous. Yet it was. It was very deadly. Then she looked over at the desk, remembering what the Historian had said about The Red Widow. The emotion of losing her husband in the war and the wailing, followed by the discovery she had died hours later. But what if it wasn't a proper death?
"Oh!" She mumbled in realisation and looked at The Doctor, eyes wide. "Oh no. What if that thing activated and took her soul?"
Smiling grimly, The Doctor nodded, happy that Rose had quickly got the connection like she usually did. "That's very much a possibility," he replied with a grimace. "Only we can't save her. Her body has long since been buried."
A gasp emitted from Rose. "You mean it could reverse what it did?"
The Doctor shook his head. "Sadly no, but with a bit of fiddling with the Sonic it's possible to reverse some of the damage the Kil'a'wei'a did."
Thinking deeply, Rose thought it was a good idea, and wanted to tell The Doctor she approved of the idea. That was until she received a text message on her phone. "Oh, hold on." She muttered and pulled out her mobile and took a look at the text message. To her surprise she saw it was from the TARDIS Herself which read as: 'Tell him now, everyone is watching'. Rose frowned. What did she mean by 'everyone'?
The Doctor noticed the frown and once again sensed her worry. "Who is it?" He asked.
But Rose just shook her head, glanced towards the camera on the wall, and put her mobile away. "It's nothing." She replied and took a deep breath before looking back at The Doctor. And she found it even harder to work it out once she saw his eyes narrowed in suspicion behind his glasses. "It's just…" Rose shifted nervously on her feet before looking away, finding it hard to look at him. "I think I need to tell you what's been on my Mind for awhile now."
The Doctor's expression softened. "Oh?" He uttered and waited with baited breath, feeling extremely nervous. He wondered what she had to say. Was something wrong? Even worse, was she leaving him?
Taking another deep breath and gathering courage, Rose looked back up at him, his face now looking worried. "I've really wanted to tell you this but I wasn't sure what your reaction would be. I've thought through several ways of what to say and all of them end with the worst happening."
Now the Doctor felt really scared and his hearts thudded away.
"Doctor, I…I'm…" Rose couldn't even get it out even if she tried. Then there was bouts of The Doctor's emotions. They just kept rising to higher levels. Then she remembered that The Doctor was still holding onto the Kil'a'wei'a, and she instantly knew why his emotions were all over the place. And they both knew how dangerous it was.
"Rose? What is it? What's wrong?" The Doctor asked, his voice yet strained.
"Hold on, let me take that off you," she said and managed to pull it out of The Doctor's grip before gently placing it on the desk next to the camera. Already she could feel his fear and worries becoming less toxic. It was then an idea came to Rose's Mind as she turned back to The Doctor. If she couldn't find a way to verbalise it, then maybe she should show him. "Doctor, can you close your eyes please." Rose requested of him and now she felt his confusion.
"What?" He blurted out, very much confused.
"Please, just do it." She said.
An exasperated sigh came from The Doctor but he closed his eyes obediently.
"Hold your hands out." Rose further requested.
"Rose! What's all this about?" The Doctor practically whined yet kept his eyes closed.
"Doctor!"
"Oh, fine," the a Time Lord sounded annoyed. "I'm doing it, see!" He raised his hands, holding them palm up.
Taking a nervous breath, the blonde pulled out the pregnancy stick from her pocket and placed it in The Doctor's hands. She saw him furrow his brow. "You can open your eyes now." Rose told him and took a couple of steps back.
Still frowning, The Doctor opened his eyes and looked down at what was in his hands. It was long, mostly flat and futuristic. He also knew what it was considering Gallifreyans and Time Lords used to use them. And it had been a long time since he had last saw one. "Rose, this is a pregnancy stick. Where did you find this?" He questioned, but for some reason he could sense disappointment from Rose.
*You're a wally, Spaceman,* he heard his brother speak up in his Mind. *A right old wally.*
He rubbed the back of his neck, unsure why he was being called a wally.
"Turn it over, Doctor." Rose said to him and The Doctor did just that. This time he could see the digital display, which was showing two lines of bright green, along with three Circular Gallifreyan symbols telling him it read as 'positive'.
Eyes widening, The Doctor gulped and looked up at Rose. He could see she was nervous as she stared back at him, her eyes just as wide as his. He could also sense her fear and he realised she was scared. What did she have to be scared about? "You're not? Are you?" The Doctor asked, his voice low and soft.
Rose silently nodded her head in confirmation.
At this point, The Doctor's respiratory bypass kicked in as he continued to stare at Rose. All sorts of thoughts started to whirl about in his head. Rose was pregnant. His Rose was actually pregnant and he was going to be a father again. He was going to be a father. And now that other thought was swirling around in his Mind. Rose was with-child. She had a baby growing inside her. A real actual Time Tot. It had been a long, long time since a Gallifreyan had last been born via pregnancy. And they had been rare moments at the best of times. Now here stood Rose, pregnant with a Time Tot of their own. He was going to be a parent. They both were. He AND Rose were going to be parents….
"Doctor, please…say something." Rose broke into his thoughts, her voice sounding scared.
The Doctor took in a deep breath before answering her. "You're pregnant?" He asked rather stupidly.
"Yes!" A puzzled Rose replied, once again nodding her head.
The bewildered expression on The Doctor's face soon turned into a manic grin and he laughed ecstatically. "Rose!" He cried out. "I'm going to be a father." He uttered out and pulled the confused yet relieved Rose into a protective hug. She found herself swept off her feet, laughing along with The Doctor. When she was back on her feet, the Time Lord had a serious expression on his face. "Is that what you've been worried about?" The Doctor asked Rose, realising it has nothing to do with Amy.
The blonde nodded. "I wasn't sure if you'd be angry, happy or something else." She replied, but The Doctor shook his head.
"No, I'd never be angry, especially with this news. In fact, I'm ecstatic. I'm going to be a father!" He said and grinned.
Rose giggled as she realised she was soon to be a parent. "I'm going to be a mother!" She uttered and The Doctor laughed quite happily at her reaction.
It was then Rose noticed that something was off. More than usual. "Doctor, I can see your breath!" She said, her eyes wide.
The Doctor's eyes also widened when he noticed the puff of air from Rose and looked around the Study. "It has gotten a tad chilly." He replied, noticing the ice on the window.
Rose shivered when she began to feel the cold and she folded her arms to keep the chill out. A loud thump was heard across the room, giving Rose a shock, a yelp of surprise emitting from her mouth. "What was that?" She asked.
The Doctor shrugged his shoulders. "Might have been a book." He stated, edging closer to Rose in order to protect her.
The next thump they heard was a little closer, on the desk. A picture or two had either fallen or was swept off as they'd also heard the sound of breaking glass.
"Doctor, look!" Rose gasped out, pointing at the desk.
The camera she'd been using was hovering inches above the desk and getting higher by the second.
"Oh, that's not good." The Doctor uttered and once he was close to Rose, managed to pull her behind him. He could practically feel the danger vibrating around the room as if something terrible was going to happen.
Suddenly the camera zoomed higher than ever, a great disembodied cry was heard and finally it was smashed down repeatedly on the Kil'a'wei'a. The camera was soon broken, but so was the device. It emitted a small white flash, followed by an aftershock. Rose thought it was the weirdest thing ever but the weird had yet to end. Smoke began to emit from the device, yet it wasn't actual smoke because it formed into a body. Though it was faded and ghost-like it was definitely a body.
Both Rose and The Doctor looked on in disbelief. Stood before them was none other than the ghostly form of The Red Widow.
"Help…help…me," The Red Widow mumbled, her Yorkshire accent was strong. "So dark…too dark…scary…" The ghostly figure had her hands over her face so it seemed she wasn't yet aware of her surroundings. "Nothing but darkness…endless darkness…can't see a thing…too dark…help me…."
Rose and The Doctor looked at each other in disbelief. A breaking of a Kil'a'wei'a should have been nigh on impossible, yet here was the proof that the Universe could be kind…well, almost!
"Doctor, I thought you said that device couldn't be reversed?" Rose whispered to her bond-mate.
"It can't," The Doctor replied, his voice also hushed. "All I would have been able to do was transfer her from the Kil'a'wei'a into the Sonic to be disbursed humanely. Neither was it meant to smash so easily. It must have been damaged at some point."
Rose was looking at the ghost-like woman before them. "What are we going to do?" The blonde asked. "We can't just leave her like this."
The Doctor shook his head. "No, you're right. Especially since she doesn't have a body anymore." He replied grimly before placing his Sonic, glasses and positive pregnancy stick, which he still couldn't quite believe, into his pocket. "Stay there!" He told Rose and he began to slowly approach the ghostly form of The Red Widow. "Hey," The Doctor called to the stricken female. "Hey, can you hear me?" He reached out and attempted to touch her, but he was unexpectedly pushed backwards rather roughly he almost toppled over, arms flailing.
"Doctor!" Rose shouted, coming to his aid. "What was that? Is there something else in this room? She asked. She could tell her surroundings were still chilled because she could see puffs of air as they breathed. But the Doctor wasn't listening. He'd gotten a face full of cold breeze and he could have sworn he'd heard a voice in it. "Doctor!" Rose hissed this time and The Doctor shook his head.
Something had finally caught The Red Widow's attention and she slowly lowered her hands from her face, feeling confused. She was out of the darkness and back in The Study, but the lights were off and there were two strange people in the Study with her. But that wasn't the only strange thing. Something was wrong. Very wrong. She didn't feel right.
"It's okay, we're not here to hurt you!" The strange man told her, except his voice was all distorted, echoing. And that completely flipped her out. "Can you hear me?" His voice continued its odd distorted echo. Eyes wide, she couldn't stand it any longer. The Red Widow screamed as loud as she could before turning tail and running. At first she tried opening the door, only for her hand to pass through the handle. Panicked, she continued to do so while screaming and crying.
Rose watched on in dismay and sadness. It was clear The Red Widow had yet to figure out she was no longer alive.
A groan came from The Doctor. "She's panicking too much," he stated and once again attempted to get the faded woman to understand him. "Please, just calm down," The Doctor spoke to her as he once again moved towards the woman. "We can help you!" But once again he was halted in his steps by another unusual blast of cold wind, then the door was slammed open and The Red Widow went tearing out of the room. The Time Lord swore loudly in Gallifreyan, completely puzzled over what kept happening.
"Language, Doctor!" Rose warned, brows furrowed at his puzzlement. "We need to follow her."
The Doctor nodded, grabbed Rose's hand and they ran out of the room. In the corridor the two Time Travellers seemed a tad lost. They were the only ones there. Once again The Doctor let out an annoyed groan. "Blimey!" He muttered, running his free hand through his wild brown hair, his eyes wide. "She could have gone anywhere." He was about to use his Screwdriver again in order to find her, until there was a high pitched scream from somewhere else in the building. It was followed seconds later by a different sounding scream by another female.
"That was Yvette!" Rose stated, looking at The Doctor.
"Rassilon, she can scream!" He commented on the ghost hunter's loud screaming.
"She was meant to be in the Drawing Room with the others. Come on, it's this way!" And Rose ran off down the corridor, giving The Doctor some serious cause for concern, considering she had a baby growing inside her. He had to protect her at all costs and raced off after her.
The Time Lord caught up with Rose, grabbed her hand, and they ran together the rest of the way. Once they reached the drawing room the couple saw that complete madness had ensued. Yvette was shaking like a leaf, Karl and Stuart were shouting what sounded like a whole bunch of nonsense, Fred had started an attempt at exorcising what he thought was a ghost, Bob Mortimer was bleating on about experiencing a real life ghost. And finally there was the Red Widow, stuck in the middle of all this madness. The poor woman was cowering in the corner.
"Hey, enough of that!" The Doctor called out to Fred, sounding very annoyed. He'd noticed a round table had been placed in the middle of the room and was being used as a makeshift Ouija board. He didn't believe in the occult just as much as he didn't believe in ghosts, but he knew that messing about with it wasn't such a brilliant idea.
Meanwhile, Rose carefully approached the Red Widow, in a bid to attempt to talk to her in order to calm her. She just wanted to help the poor woman, considering she'd been stuck inside an alien device since the early 1900's. But when she saw Rose approaching she flinched and moved further back into the corner that she almost disappeared into it. "No, wait!" Rose halted in her steps and held up her hands. "I don't want to hurt you."
The Red Widow stopped but continued to cry and whimper, even going as far as putting her hands over her ears. Not that it helped.
"My name's Rose," the blonde spoke up, introducing herself. "And he's The Doctor. We just want to help you, that's all." Then she moved forward again, only for her to be the unlucky recipient of being blocked by a chilling blast of wind. It surprised her so much she stumbled backward, appearing to trip over her own feet.
Time seemed to slow down and before Rose fell on her rear end she found herself in tne clutches of The Doctor. "SHE'S PREGNANT!" He angrily roared at nothing in particular. It appeared he was beginning to understand what was going on with the random wind. "But if you want to be reunited then you'll let us help her." The Doctor nodded at The Red Widow as he helped Rose back to her feet.
The blonde turned her attention to him, frowning in confusion. "What's going on, Doctor?' She asked. "Was that what I think it was?"
The Doctor nodded his head, quickly checking over Rose to see if she was okay, before looking over at the ghostly figure of The Red Widow. He needed to figure out a way to help her move on.
"Doctor, could you explain what's going on here?" Karl requested. "How come we can all see that ghost clear as day?" He was somewhat puzzled because he'd never seen anything like this happen before…well apart from those weird Cybermen things when everyone thought they were ghosts. However, this was a completely different situation.
"She's not a ghost," The Doctor snapped at the ghost hunter. "She's actually an echo of her living self. The Kil'a'wei'a literally stole her soul, leaving behind her body in the process. The people who found her thought she was dead."
Yvette had managed to calm down, and now she stood beside her husband. "What have we missed now?" She asked. "What the heck is a Kila-whatever it was?"
"Kil'a'wei'a," Rose corrected. "You wouldn't understand." She dismissed, looking over at the ghostly weeping figure in the corner. She really wanted to help the poor woman.
"Oh, please! Don't underestimate us, Rose," Yvette bit back. "We were almost killed by those Cyberman thingies years ago."
Rose and The Doctor looked at each other out of surprise before the Time Lord looked over at the ghost hunters, brows raised.
"They killed Derek," Yvette continued. "But we managed to…get away!"
The Doctor thought there might be more to the story, but he didn't push for answers. "I'm sorry," he answered with a grimace. He went on to explain to them what a Kil'a'wei'a was and what really happened to The Red Widow.
As for Rose, she was once again carefully moving towards The Red Widow. Maybe calling her by her actual name would help her calm down. "Ruby!" Rose called to the ghostly woman. "Ruby, can you hear me?" Calling the woman by her name seemed to do the trick.
She stopped whimpering and crying and looked up, glancing around, her eyes wide. "Hello?" She called. "Who are you?" This caught the attention of everyone else in the room, including the one's who had piled in just a few moments ago.
"Ruby, can you see me?" Rose continued. "Can you hear me? I really want to help you." And she stretched her hand out towards The Red Widow. "If you can see me, can you take my hand?" Various bouts of emotions could be felt throughout the room, though Rose could mostly feel fear from The Doctor.
"Rose!" The Time Lord warned.
"It's okay," Rose uttered a little loudly for the Doctor's benefit as she continued to speak to Ruby. "I can help you." Then her eyes began to give off a golden glow. "Take my hand if you can."
At first, The Red Widow saw and heard nothing but distortion. Yet she thought she heard somebody say her name. Then she saw two bright golden lights appear before her and a voice spoke clearly. "Come on, take my hand!" It said.
Curiosity getting the better of her, Ruby moved towards the voice and the lights until she saw an outstretched hand. The Red Widow reached out with her own hand and took a hold of the stranger's hand. It gave her a tingling feeling that soon spread up her arm and beyond. Seconds later she found herself being pulled to her feet, followed by her free hand being taken a hold of. That weird tingling feeling continued to spread throughout her body. Much to everyone's astonishment, including The Doctor, Ruby went from see-through to solid within seconds.
"What's going on now? How did that happen?" One of the celebs was heard to ask.
The Doctor had a good guess how it might have happened as he approached Rose and Ruby. He saw that Rose had her eyes closed and that was probably a good idea as it might have scared everyone or caused an international uproar. Then when he turned his attention to The Red Widow he noticed she was looking at Rose in wonder. She looked younger and prettier than she did on the portrait of her and her husband. A lot less stern looking. "Hello, Ruby isn't it?" The Doctor inquired.
The woman gasped out in panicked fear and looked about ready to run, until she calmed down again. That was most likely Rose's doing. "You!" She gasped out, recognising his voice. "You were in Charlie's Study. Who are you?"
The Doctor smiled grimly. "I'm The Doctor," he replied. "I'm here to help you."
A confused scowl appeared on Ruby's face as she thought about the weirdness that surrounded her. "What did happen to me?" She asked the Time Lord. "I was mourning my dear Charlie's death and everything just got so…overwhelming…" She looked like she was about to cry. "It felt like I was having a heart attack…then everything went dark and it felt as if there were things watching me!" She shuddered in horror and shook her head.
"You died." Yvette spoke up and it scared Ruby so much she almost let go of Rose's hands.
"What?" She cried out. "What do you mean? I can't be dead, I'm right here!" She argued.
The Doctor groaned out in annoyance while Yvette tried to approach The Red Widow. However, the round table with the Ouija apparel was angrily toppled over by an unseen force, causing Yvette to scream out and jumped back, finding herself being protected by her husband. There was a brief gust of wind and when it ended, Stuart had his camera pointed at the Ouija apparel. "Hey, guys, look at this." He called out.
"Oh my god!" Yvette uttered when she saw it. Karl just stared in wide-eyed amazement. On the floor some of the letters had been re-arranged and now said: 'GO AWAY'.
Happy they were pre-occupied, The Doctor gave Ruby his full attention. "Listen to me, Ruby," The Doctor spoke to her while Rose was doing her best to calm the woman again. "That's not exactly how it happened." The Red Widow stared at him with wide eyes. She didn't understand what he meant. "There was an alien device called a Kil'a'wei'a, well it was more or less a weapon. It caught onto your emotional pain as you mourned the death of your husband. It ramped up your pain to astonishing levels until you were emotionally paralysed. Finally it took your soul, leaving your body behind."
"Then return me to by body," Ruby demanded after listening to The Doctor. "You can do that, can't you?"
Sighing, the Time Lord shook his head.
"We can't," he replied. "I'm sorry, but people thought you had died so they buried your body."
Ruby gasped. "Well they can just unbury me. I am alive! I'm right here!" She uttered desperately, on the verge of panicking again.
A sad smile appeared on The Doctor's face. "I'm so sorry, but what was the year your husband died?" He asked.
"1916. Why do you ask?" Was her answer.
"Because right now it's the year 2015." Came the reply from The Doctor, grimacing seconds later. The expression on the woman's face was one of absolute devastation. She looked like she was about to cry. "Tell me, Ruby, please. How did your husband get his hands on a Kil'a'wei'a and the other alien devices?" The Doctor then asked her and he knew Rose would have admonished him if she hadn't been so busy.
"Oh, Charlie, my poor Charlie," The Red Widow cried. "He had a fascination in anything from the future. Before the war broke out he worked at LONGBOW."
The Doctor raised his brows in surprise. Having worked for UNIT in the Seventies or Eighties, The Doctor knew it's History. And LONGBOW was part of UNIT History. LONGBOW was pre-UNIT.
"What am I going to do now?" Ruby continued to cry. "I have no body to return too. I am dead, yet I am here!"
*My Doctor,* came the echoing voice of Rose-Bad Wolf in the Doctor's head. *With the Kil'a'wei'a destroyed she will not last long.*
The Doctor rubbed the back of his neck, a grim expression on his face. Now that this was an urgent situation he had to work fast. "There's not much I can do I'm afraid," he replied to the woman who already appeared to be slowly fading out. And that really worried him because it might be Rose losing her grip on Bad Wolf. "But I can reunite you with your husband."
Ruby looked doubtful. "How?" She asked. "How can you?"
A big smile appeared on The Doctor's face. "Easy, he's here. He's always been here!" He looked around the room, Screwdriver back in his hand as he began to pace about a little.
"But that's not possible," Paul O'Grady spoke up. He and the other celebs, along with several members of the Most Haunted team were still watching on in fascination. "The Captain died in France."
Stopping his pacing, The Doctor looked up at Paul with a raised brow. "Yes, his body may still be in France, but his soul came home. That room upstairs, the Study. As soon as I entered it we felt there was something off about it. Then there was the Poltergeist type activity in the room. That wasn't anything to do with The Red Widow…or Ruby…" The Time Lord corrected himself. "That was The Captain." The Doctor began moving about the room again. "I couldn't understand it at first. A breeze in a room with the windows closed and voices coming from within it. That's until I realised what was actually happening." He stopped at a particularly cold spot and smiled.
"But the screaming and wailing," Century House's Historian spoke up. "None of that sounded like it came from a man."
The Doctor shook his head. "That would have been residual energy leakage from the Kil'a'wei'a. It was damaged." He pointed his Screwdriver at the cold spot and it whirred. Seconds later a man wearing a World War One uniform was revealed. He looked angry and ready to strike out. The Doctor thought the noise of the Screwdriver was irritating him. There was also several amazed sounding gasps heard around the room. "Hello Captain. Would you like to be reunited with your wife?" The Doctor cheerily asked the man.
The Captain smiled happily. "Please! I miss her so much!" He replied, his voice faint and heavily accented.
"Then follow me." The Time Lord told him and both men walked over to where Rose and Ruby stood.
Charlie smiled happily at his wife and tried to put his hand on her cheek. Sadly his hand just went straight through her. And Ruby didn't appear to see him.
"Rose, let go!" The Time Lord ordered and watched as Rose let go of Ruby before sauntering over to a chair and sitting down.
Before Ruby could fade out, the Sonic whirred even louder, causing her to yell out and cover her ears. "Ruby!" She heard somebody familiar shout her name and then found herself in their embrace. When she looked up she saw that it was her husband. "Charlie!" She cried and put her arms around him in a fierce hug.
Everyone in the room was smiling or grinning away at the sweet reunion.
The Screwdriver clicked off. "And now you can return to the higher plain reunited." The Doctor said.
The recently reunited couple were already fading away. "Thank you, Doctor, for saving me." Ruby spoke up.
"And thank you, Doctor, for giving me back my wife." Charlie spoke next and the ghostly couple kissed before completely fading out.
Staring at the empty spot in awe, The Doctor was reminded of a different type of sad reunion involving holograms. Then he sensed pride from his brother and his two daughters. But that was nothing compared to the pride, adoration and love coming from Rose. He looked up to see her still sat down, yet looking back at him with that Rose Tyler smile of hers. The Doctor smiled back, proud of Rose and what she did for Ruby. He also now understood why so many humans believed in the afterlife and spirits, when you had actual apparitions and unusual spiritual activity it was hard NOT to believe.