I'm actually really tired( it IS just after 5am. Yay insomnia!~ lol, no, I don't have that. Just lots of distractions.), I completely forgot to put any disclaimer or anything of the sort in that last chapter. I was reading over it to make sure it made sense and just posted it from there! Well anyways, but on track with the series here, but it will veer off again in a but so no worries! I'm already to chapter 15 now! I was going t go to bed like two 4 hours ago, but then I was immersed into my laptop typing and forgot I was tired...

Disclaimer: I own nothing but my OC and anything about her, which includes her quirky things about her.

Things had settled down a little by the time we made it to the site. Rose seemed to be giving me a little more extra space than needed and I caught Jack looking at me in a paranoid or worried way, almost as if waiting for Aspen to appear again. I tried to ignore it, but it was really hard to, so I ended up walking ahead of the three.

I felt this night was never going to end.

As we closed in on the site I slowed my pace down to a walk and kept glancing over my shoulder to make sure my group was near. The air seemed to be different about the area since I was last here, but I could figure out what exactly it was. I let loose a worried whine as my anxieties grew with every step we took.

"There it is." Jack announced upon arriving.

We all watched the men standing guard not too far away. "Hey, they have Algy on duty, must be important.." He sounded a little nonchalant about it, but it only made my anxieties increase.

"Are the words 'distract the guards' heading in my general direction?" Rose looked at Jack expectantly, like she did this all the time and was just waiting for the order. Beside her Doctor briefly glanced over at her before quickly looking ahead once more, as if he were wondering how she would distract the guards, or maybe if he even wanted her to do that. I myself felt the strong urge to scoff, personally I believe I would be way better at distracting them than she would. My distraction would send them all running, she'd merely make a fool of herself.

"I don't think that's such a good idea." Jack replied, my whuff of agreement soon following his voice.

"Don't worry, I can handle it." She assures him while I roll my eyes.

"Ah, I've gotten to know Algy quite well since I've been in town. Trust me, you're not his type. I'll distract him." Jack said and proceeded to walk away toward the guard with me in tow. He turned around and fixed a stern look on me. "Khaz, stay."

I stood in completely shock. Why on earth would he have me stay? I'm always by his side! I growled my thoughts out at him.

"I mean it." He warns.

He turned his back to me while I danced in place. I didn't like this plan, he needs me there to make sure he doesn't do anything stupid, and besides, since when have I ever listened to him?

I took off after him, starting off at a trot before breaking out in a full on sprint as I realize why it feels so off here. Algy wasn't normal and I didn't want Jack catching whatever had changed Algy's scent. For the second time that night I ran in and grabbed his hand firmly, but carefully, with my jaws and tugged hard. Thank god he wears leather, else wise I fear I would tear into his hand after all the times I've gnawed on him tonight. I tugged only enough to make him stumble back a step or two before dropping my hold and snarling at Algy.

I didn't have to look at Jack to know I'd terrified him, I smelt it on his scent. I didn't blame him, not too long ago I was out for blood. Er, well, Aspen was. I threw a glance over my shoulder, making sure to make eye contact with him so he knew I was still me.

"Mummy.."

I whipped my head around in horror at Algy's distorted voice. His face started to contort into something unnatural and had me barking madly at him.

"Algy, it's me – Jack!" Jack spoke, apparently not fully understanding what was going on. I shoved into Jack, making sure he didn't touch the other man. He stumbled backwards again, thankfully away from the officer and letting me have a sigh of relief.

"Jack?" Algy called. "Are you my...mummy?"

Jack and I watched in horror as the man's face turned into a gas mask.

It dawned on Jack once again that night that I had just saved his sorry ass. "Thank you, Khaz." He sounded rather grateful. Whining, I thrust my snout into his hand, licking the leather as if to apologize. I would never hurt you, Jack. I thought, wishing I could talk to him. You're my pack.

"Stay back!" I heard the Time Lord's voice just as Jack had called the same thing to the men. I quickly stuck to Jack's side like a trained military dog, snarling menacingly to warn everyone that they'd be dealing with me if they chose to second guess his command.

"The effect's become airborne, accelerating."

"What's keeping us safe?" Rose questioned.

"Nothing." Was his grim reply.

The air raid sirens began to blare, making me cringe and growl at the sky, cursing them with my growls. About then I heard singing. Confused, I stopped my walking, the others continue and leave me. I saw Jack glance back at me and I nodded my head, letting him know I was okay. He continued with the other two, talking about something or another, as I perked my ears up and listened for the voice.

It took a couple minutes, but I finally tracked it to a building with a cracked door. I shoved my snout into the crack, one of my paws following, and wiggled my way to opening the door and getting into the building. There, sitting at a table, was a young woman. She was the one that was, and still is, singing.

Her eyes watched me carefully, obviously a little nervous about me appearing. I worried she might be afraid of me, so lay down as she continued her song. My gaze wandered as I waited for her to grow more comfortable with me and that's when I caught something shiny. She'd been chained to the table.

I began to crawl forward, not wanting to waste time at all. "Shh!" She hissed at me, my whimpers were too loud. I shut up and padded over so I could sniff around her and assess the chains. They didn't seem too tough, it wouldn't difficult at all to melt them.

I summoned the heat within me, feeling it the magic pool in my stomach and rise through my throat. Heated saliva pooled in my mouth and dripped down to the floor with a sizzle. I tried to make it quick, leaning over chains and chomping down. There a series of sizzles until the chain in my mouth practically melted like a hot knife through butter and she was free. The woman's breath hitched and she stopped her singing, she was terrified.

No! No, no, no! Don't be scared! I cried in my thoughts, lowering myself to the floor. I swallowed the heat back inside me, licking my mouth and nose in the process. When I was sure my snout wouldn't scald her, I placed my head on her lap and whined quietly, wanting her to believe I meant no harm. See, I'm not going to eat you, your okay.

When she didn't move, I huffed and turned to the door where I met the gaze of a Time Lord. I sighed and left him with the job of convincing her to leave.

Just as I left the building, I felt a hand scratch my head. I looked up to the heart warming gaze of Jack as he congratulated me for a job well done. I woofed and wagged my tail.

"What is it." The woman asked, having finally come out of the building.

"My friend." Jack said, giving my head a few more scratches.

Not too long later and all four of us were at the Chula Ambulance. Jack and Doctor were uncovering it from the tarp while I hung back with the females.

"That's an ambulance?" The younger girl asked in bewilderment.

"It's hard to explain." Rose said. "It's from another world."

"They've been trying to get in." That was Jack, they were observing the thing carefully.

"Of course they have – they think they've got their hands on Hitler's latest secret weapon." Doctor says.

Jack pressed some buttons and Doctor asked what he was doing. To be honest, I was kind of wondering what he was up to myself.

"The sooner you see this is empty, the sooner you know I have nothing to do with it." He said, pressing more buttons.

I launched myself in front of the females in an attempt to protect them when the thing sparked. Really, though, I had to wonder what on earth I thought I was going to do. A bunch of growls certainly weren't going to do anything. Never the less, I still found myself snarling threateningly at it. Last time it hadn't done that, nor had it let out an ear splitting alarm full of beeps and warbles. My ears flattened against my skull and I shook my head in pain.

It took me a minute to recover from that and hear normally, by then Jack was being told to secure the gates.

"Why?"

"Just do it!"

Jack reluctantly jumped down from the ambulance and walked to the doors. "Khaz!" He called to me, but there was no need, I was already in tow. Just as we were leaving I heard the Time Lord ask the female how she'd gotten in.

Securing the door was an easy task, though we didn't think it would hold the masked people that long. Minutes later Jack and I had returned, the men going back to work on the ambulance while I paced around it, glancing around the place with nervous energy.

"It's empty. Look at it." Jack said as the women came back from whatever they'd been told to do.

"What do you expect in a Chula Medical Transporter? Bandages, cough drops?" Doctor demanded. He whirled around to Rose. "Rose?"

"I don't know."

"Yes, you do." He held up his hand and it seemed to click for the both of us.

Nanogenes!" She cried while I, however, cringed. My head hung, if they were behind this than we were doomed.

"It wasn't empty, captain. There was enough nanogenes to rebuild a species." He said, crossing his arms.

I wanted to snarl and bark at Jack for not having through this through better. At that moment I was so frustrated with him, but at the same time it's not like he could have known this kind of thing would happen.

"Oh, god." He said in devastation. My heart went out to him. For a moment I wished I had caught this sooner, but even if I had, there was nothing I could do. I couldn't just tell him what was happening!

This was all just one big terrible accident.

"...Billions upon billions of them, ready to fix all the cuts and bruises in the whole world. But what they find first, is a dead child, probably killed earlier that night, and wearing a gas mask." Doctor wasn't making this any easier for my poor Jack.

"And they brought him back to life – They can do that?" Rose asked.

"What's life? Life's easy. A quirk of matter." Doctor replied. "Nature's way of keeping meat fresh. Nothing to a nanogene. One problem, though – those nanogenes, they're not like the ones on your ship."

The Time Lord's tone started to rub me the wrong way. Jack knew what he did was wrong, he needed to back off from him. I may admire Doctor for being a walking encyclopedia, but I swear if he didn't tone down his shit I was going to bring Aspen back and let her rip him apart. I trotted over to Jack's side, leaning comfortingly on him while the Time Lord ranted on and on. I wanted to let him know that he wasn't alone.

"...Then they fly, off they go, work to be done. 'Cause you see, now, they think they know what people should look like and it's time to fix all the rest. And they won't ever stop. They won't ever, ever stop." His voice was stern and unforgiving, but in a way, almost like scolding a child. I let slip a growl of annoyance at his accusing tone, letting him know it didn't settle well with me.

My ears twitched as Jack sighed. I looked up and saw that he looked like a mess now that he knew it was his fault. I whimpered and shoved my snout into his hand, but it was no use. He all but ignored my efforts to cheer him up.

"The entire human race is going to be torn down and rebuilt in the form of a terrified child looking for its mother and nothing in the world can stop it!" I winced at his furious tone.

"I didn't know." Jack tried to defend himself. The two had a stare off as I tried to keep quite, but my patience can only last for so long. Without warning, the Time Lord stalked off to Rose.

The whistling from the bombs around us made my anxieties spike to whole new levels. I whuffed and danced in place beside Jack. An actual bark wormed its way through my lips as I began to whimper. His lips tugged at the side, as if I'd almost made him smile. It gave me hope that perhaps I could lift his spirits, however my efforts were wasted because he didn't look any happier. I did receive a scratch on the ear, though.