I probably should keep my chapters to a weekly thing...but they're just building up and I so want to just post more of them. I think I'll post a couple more just for the heck of it. Besides, the one after this one is rather short anyways and if any of my readers from the original are reading than it's rather familiar, except a couple of things.

So here's another!

As always, I own nothing but my own character.

"Go to your room."

My head whipped back to The Doctor and I seriously questioned his sanity. Seriously? This was his big idea?

"I mean it. I'm very, very cross. Go..to..your..room!" His tone of voice increased by the end of his sentence. The demanding tone made my skin crawl and I secretly hoped he never turned that tone of voice on me. I might pee myself if he does!

I turned my gaze from the insane Time Lord to the crowd dispersing. Crazy he may be, but his crazy idea seeming to be working. My head tilted in the signature confused canine look as the masked humans hung their heads and dragged their feet back to their beds...just like a child would.

"I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words." The Doctor said with relief.

I shook my my head with disbelief and distance myself from Jack and Rose. I sat down, waiting for further instruction from the Time Lord. 'See, I told you.' The voice said, though I could have sworn she had a tone of relief to hers as well.

It was then I realized she was there and my anger sparked yet again. I tried so hard to form words and send them to her, but it just wasn't possible yet. Instead I sent the images of first seeing the Time Lord and tossed a bit more anger into the situation than was necessary.

'I can't always be there to hold your hand.' She seemed to huff. 'I only have so much power to reach beyond the barrier, and you scared me! I thought you were in serious danger!' I swear she was scolding me.

Did she not just see what happened? I was in danger! A growl rumbled within my chest as she continued.

'Hush, I'm not going to waste precious energy on trivial questions.' I felt a growl of irritation within my head, which only proved to send shivers down my spine. 'The Time Lord and Jack Harkness will protect you, so stop being such a coward and trust them.'

By time she faded away I was fuming and standing out in the hallway. The others had entered a room while I was dealing with my inner turmoil with my Voice. Now that it was resolved, well at least to the point that I wasn't trying to argue with myself, I stalked to the door frame of the room and glared into the room, wondering what one earth they were up to now.

"A child?" I heard Jack ask in disbelief.

"How can a child do this?"

I was too angry to fully have care of the situation, simply choosing to trot on up to Jack and sit by his side. Someone started a recording, making jump and glare at the Time Lord. He stared at me with amusement in his eyes, so I flashed him my fangs.

We all listened to a man interview a boy, well it was kind of an interview. All the boy said was 'mummy' or 'are you my mummy'. It was creepy as hell.

I tried to pull myself together and detach myself from Jack so that I could do some investigating myself, like finding the source of the noise. I warily walked up to The Doctor and reared up on my hind legs so that I could place my paws on the desk top. I peered at the contraption and growled at it before dropping back to the floor with ears flat again my head.

Rose asked why he didn't know who his mum was, which seemed to launch the Time Lord into yet another long speech. I tuned him out and continued to sniff around the place. I found that familiar scent lingered everywhere in this room. Again, I tried to place it, but still it wasn't happening. Eventually I walked back to Jack's side with a slight whine as my nerves began to eat at me again.

"Can you sense it?" The Doctor asked.

"Since what?"

"It's coming out of the walls – can you feel it?"

I glanced around at the walls, almost in a paranoid sort of way as I looked over my shoulder. I certainly felt it.

"Funny little human brains. How do you get around in those things." He asked. I couldn't help but to whuff in agreement.

"When he's stressed he likes to insult species." Rose explained apologetically to Jack.

"Rose, I'm thinking." He snapped at her.

"Cuts himself shaving, does half an hour on life forms he's cleverer than."

The Doctor ignored Rose and said, "There are these children living rough 'round the bomb sites. They come out during air raids looking for food."

"Mummy, please." The recording continued. The nerves eating away at me had my up and pacing. There was no way I could sit still anymore.

"Suppose they were there when this thing – whatever it was – landed?"

"It was a med – ship, it was harmless." Jack said with a distracted voice. I briefly glanced over and locked eyes with him, he'd been watching me and my nervous pacing. He wasn't stupid, he knew when I grew nervous it was time to be worried.

"Yes, you keep saying 'harmless;. Suppose one f them was altered, infected."

My ears caught the sounds of someone in the halls. I turned to stare at the door way and began to growl, quietly at first with a few woofs. When I didn't catch anyone's attention, my woofs became barks. Still, nothing. Not even Jack looked my way.

"I'm here." the child said. I stared at the doorway as the steps came closer and closer. I just knew it was a few feet from entering the room. I began a whole new round of barking. At some point I think my yelping went up a few octaves in my attempt to catch their attention.

"Ir's afraid. Terribly afraid and powerful."

And then, there it was. Standing in the doorway was a gas masked covered child.