Summary-
Sequel to Jackie's Mission.
The Doctor and Rose are coping after the Battle of Canary Wharf and the impending danger that lingers over not only the Doctor but also his unborn child. The Doctor and Rose try to come up with a plan to stop the Doctor's death while saving the universe. Along the way they meet a Runaway Bride, Doctor Jones, a Girl Who Waited, a Roman, River Song, and even Zero Luck. And as the Doctor's family keeps growing so does his resolve to keep on living.
Chapter 1- The Runaway Bride Part 1
The sound of military grade combat boots hitting the floor of an empty hallway in a continued pattern of someone with a mission walking echoed loudly. Steel grey eyes took in everything, learning as much as he could without looking suspicious or out of place. He had a mission to accomplish, the fate of the universe resting on his shoulders. He would see that this mission was completed.
An automatic door slid open to reveal the sterile room of a laboratory that was filled with many different sized tubes filled with many different things. "Status report." He ordered to the scientist in the room who was working at one of the biggest tubes that held a young girl of eight with long dark blue almost black hair that was pulled into two pigtails. The girl had her eyes closed and looked to be in a peaceful slumber.
"No progress yet, sir." The scientist reported as she spun around and fell into attention. "She has closed her mind off, sir. We are trying everything in our powers to pry her mind open, but she is strong, sir. Nothing we do is coming anywhere close to prying her mind open."
"I would expect nothing less from the first born child of the TARDIS." He said walking closer to the little girl. She looked so innocent, so child like. It was almost impossible to imagine that someone so young and innocent could be so powerful and deadly. But he knew from experience that she was. He felt a stirring in the back of his mind, something old and powerful, something that the young girl was trying to pull out of him. The instinct to protect the young. Everyone had that instinct, rather they liked to believe it or not.
"Sir," The scientist called gaining his attention, he turned away from the young girl, breaking the connection, to look at the scientist, "if I may." He nodded to the scientist to continue. "We may have an easier time breaking into her mind if we knew who her mother was."
"The report that you were given has everything on the girl, even her parents." He said.
"Yes, sir, I have read the report. The only time it mentions her mother is to say that she died in the battle of Canary Wharf…" The scientist paused to pull up the report and seemed to reread a line to make sure she had her facts right as he turned to look at the girl again, "...18 months before the girl was born." He whipped around to look at the scientist before making his way over to her and read the report himself.
"Well, that's interesting." He muttered to himself.
"Sir, how is it possible for the girl's mother to die 18 months before the birth of her daughter?" The scientist asked.
"It's not." He said smirking, it seems were finally about to get interesting.
-One-
For months the Doctor slaved away searching for a way to get one last message through the Void. Most of that time the Doctor left the TARDIS to drift in the Vortex. And he had found a way. He had set the TARDIS to finding a supernova they could use before setting the TARDIS down in the old flat, just hours after the Battle Canary Wharf. The Doctor sighed as he taped up the last box before rubbing his hand down his face. Rose had wanted to box up the flat, told him she would do it while he ran his scans. But he didn't want her to do this alone, Jackie had become his mother just as much as she was Rose's. That and the TARDIS was doing most of the work scanning the universe for the supernova they needed.
"Thank you." Rose said coming up behind him and wrapping him in a hug, resting her head on the back of his shoulder. The Doctor leaned into her while resting his hand on top of her.
"No need to thank me, love, Jackie was just as much my mother as she was yours." The Doctor told her and the two of them stayed like that for a few minutes as their eyes took in the now empty flat. Everything had been taken into the TARDIS who had recreated the flat (without the furniture and other things). They spent hours moving all the furniture into the rooms in the TARDIS, rearranging the furniture the exact way Jackie had had it before boxing everything else up. Eventually the Doctor knew him and Rose would unbox everything once more, but that was an adventure for when they weren't grieving so much.
The TARDIS dinged, alerting them that she had found the Doctor gripped Rose's hand, carefully removed himself from her arms, and quickly led her back into the TARDIS. He had only gotten three steps up the ramp when he remembered the last box. The Doctor dropped Rose's hand and bolted back out of the TARDIS to quickly grab the box. Smiling as Rose laughed at him. The Doctor carried that box in, sat it down on the captain's chair and pecked Rose on the lips before turning his attention back to the TARDIS.
"She's found a sun that's about to go supernova, it's big enough to give us the energy we need to send Jackie a message." The Doctor told her.
"Right, and it's planets?" Rose asked peeking over his shoulder as he typed at the keyboard attached to the screen.
"All uninhabitable." The Doctor told her before quickly dashing around the console plugging in the coordinates to the supernova. "Right, when we get there I'm going to you to concentrate real hard on every memory you have of your mother. We'll only have one shot to do this." The Doctor told her before flipping the dematerialization lever and nodded to her when they materialized next to the sun just turned supernova. "Now, Rose!" The Doctor cried as he felt the TARDIS latch on to the power. Seconds later the ghostly image of Jackie standing on a beach appeared in front of them.
"Where are ya?" Jackie asked.
"Inside the TARDIS." Rose told her as the tears she had refused to cry all those months ago after her first meltdown appeared in her eyes. The Doctor quickly wrapped his arm around her.
"There's one tiny little gap in the universe left. Just about to close." The Doctor said. "And it takes a lot of power to send this projection."
"We're in orbit around a supernova. We're burning up a sun just to say goodbye." Rose told her mother who took a shaky breath.
"Why do you look like ghosts?" Jackie asked.
"Hold on." The Doctor said before quickly pulling out his screwdriver, setting it to the right setting and pointing it at the console. Jackie and the beach solidified in front of them and she walked closer to them, and the Doctor's hearts clenched at the silent tears falling from her eyes.
"Can I...?" Jackie asked holding out her arms for a hug.
"No, Mum, we're still just images." Rose told her. "No touching." That had Jackie wrapping her arms around herself.
"Can't ya come through properly?" Jackie asked, her tears falling faster.
"The whole thing would fracture. Two universes would collapse." The Doctor told her.
"So?" Jackie asked desperately and the Doctor gave her a small smile as he held Rose closer knowing that he had been so close to sending this message for Jackie and Rose instead of just Jackie.
"Where are we? Where did the gap come out?" The Doctor asked looking around the beach spotting Pete and Mickey a few feet behind Jackie, leaning against an old jeep.
"Norway." Jackie said.
"Norway. Right." The Doctor muttered.
"About 50 miles out of Bergen, it's called Darlig Ulv Stranden." Jackie said stumbling a little.
"Dalek?" Rose asked in fear.
"Darlig." Jackie corrected. "It's Norwegian for bad. This translates as Bad Wolf Bay." She added with a slight laugh causing the Doctor and Rose to laugh as well. "How long have we got?" Jackie asked, her laughter turning back into tears.
"About two minutes." The Doctor told her allowing his own tears to fall.
"I can't think of what to say!" Jackie cried.
"Still got Mickey I see, Mum." Rose said nodding her head past her mother to where Mickey was standing.
"There's four of us now." Jackie said. "Me, Pete, Mickey and the baby."
"Mum are you saying you're pregnant?" Rose asked.
"Three months gone. More Tylers on the way." Jackie said with a wet laugh.
"Guess we'll be giving birth around the same time, then, Mum." Rose told her and the Doctor bit back the urge to correct her, to tell Rose she would be carrying their child for 18 months instead of 9. But why waste the time they had with Jackie discussing that when he we had plenty of time to tell Rose about that fact later.
"I had a feeling you were pregnant Rose." Jackie said. "I'm never gonna meet my grand-baby!"
"Well, you might actually have." The Doctor told her confusing her. "Remember Mimi, I have a feeling she might be mine and Rose's daughter."
"It would explain why she refused to call me anything but granny." Jackie said.
"So what's the plan for you now, Mum? Going to back to hairdressing?" Rose asked.
"Nah, I'm not. There's still a Torchwood on this planet. It's open for business. I think I know a thing or two about aliens. Learned from the best, I did." Jackie said.
"Jackie Tyler. Defender of the Earth." The Doctor said proudly. "You're dead, officially. Back home. So many people died that day and you've gone missing. You're on the list of the dead." Jackie was crying again. "But here you are, living a life, day after day."
"Are we ever going to see each other again?" Jackie asked.
"I'm sorry, Mum." Rose said crying as well.
"What are you two going to do now?" Jackie asked.
"We've got the TARDIS and a child we have to protect. A child that is supposed to be taken from us. What do you think we're going to do?" The Doctor asked in a slight joking tone.
"You're gonna run like hell until you can't anymore." Jackie said giving them a wet smile.
"Of course, 's what we're good at, Mum." Rose joked.
"I..." Jackie started but her tears chocked her for a second. "You take care of them, you hear me Doctor, you take care of my baby and my grand-baby. Because if you don't I'll find away back there and slap you into your next body."
"I will, Jackie, I promise. I swear on my TARDIS that I will love and protect Rose and our child and any other children that may come until I no longer exist." The Doctor swore and seconds later Jackie and the beach were gone. Their time was up. Rose turned in his arms and cried as the Doctor held her to him as tight as he could. Jackie Tyler was gone from their lives.
The Doctor's head snapped up and caught sight of a woman in a white wedding dress standing in his TARDIS. "What?" The Doctor asked and the woman whipped around to glare at him. "What?" Rose turned in his arms, probably to look at the woman who shouldn't be there, but the Doctor was too distracted by the woman that shouldn't be there.
"Who are you?" The woman asked. "Where am I?"
"What?" Rose asked.
"What the hell is this place?" The woman demanded.
"What?" The Doctor asked releasing Rose to rush over to the woman, Rose followed him. "You can't do that, I wasn't..."
"How is this possible?" Rose asked walking around the woman looking her up and down.
"We're in flight!" The Doctor cried motioning to the console.
"How did you get onboard?" Rose asked.
"That is physically impossible." The Doctor said.
"Tell me where I am." The woman demanded shoving Rose away from her and the Doctor had to quickly catch her before she fell. "I demand you tell me right now, where am I?" The Doctor didn't know whither to go all Oncoming Storm on her for shoving his pregnant wife or demand how she managed to get onboard the TARDIS mid flight.
"Inside the TARDIS." Rose told the woman.
"What?" The woman demanded.
"The TARDIS." The Doctor said.
"What?" The woman asked.
"The TARDIS!" The Doctor growled at her as he released Rose once more to make his way back over to the console to try and figure out what the hell was happening.
"It's called the TARDIS." Rose told her calmly.
"That's not even a proper word!" The woman cried. "You're just saying things."
"How did you get in here?" The Doctor demanded.
"Well, obviously, when you kidnapped me." The woman snapped at him, but his eyes flew to Rose she suddenly covered her mouth looking as if she were about to be sick. Was she really getting morning sickness now? "Who was it? Who's paying you? Was it Nerys? Oh, my God, she's finally got me back." The woman asked as the Doctor made his way over to his wife. "This has got Nerys written all over it."
"Who the hell is Nerys?" Rose asked, the wave of nausea having passed.
"Your best friend." The woman snapped out.
"Hold on, wait a minute." The Doctor asked finally taking in her wedding dress. "What are you dressed like that for?" His innocent question got him a disbelieving look from Rose and the woman.
"I'm going ten-pin bowling." The woman said flipping her veil back casually, before glaring at him. "What do you think, dumbo? I was halfway up the aisle! I've waited all my life for this." The Doctor backed up from the ranting woman before turning to the console to try and figure out how to get her out of here. "I was just seconds away and then you, I don't know, you drugged me or something."
"We did drug you!" Rose cried out.
"I'm having the police on you. Me and my husband, as soon as he is my husband, we're gonna sue the living backside off you!" The woman told them back Rose up until she was flushed against the Doctor. Suddenly the woman spotted the doors and took off towards them.
"No!" Rose cried and tried to stop her, but the woman easily dodged around Rose. "Wait a minute, wait a minute, don't!" The woman flung both doors open and paused in shock at the supernova in front of her, Rose sliding to a stop behind her. Through their bond the Doctor could feel Rose appreciating the beauty that the supernova was. The Doctor made his way over to them and wrapped his arms around Rose.
"You're in space." The Doctor told the woman calmly. "Outer space. This is my... our spaceship."
"It's called the TARDIS." Rose continued.
"How am I breathing?" The woman asked.
"The TARDIS is protecting us." The Doctor informed her.
"Who are you?" The woman asked.
"I'm the Doctor and this is my wife Rose. You?" The Doctor asked.
"Donna." The woman said.
"Human?" Rose asked.
"Yeah. Is that optional?" Donna asked both curious and fearful. When she wasn't ranting and raving the woman was alright.
"Well, it is for us." The Doctor told her.
"You're an alien?" Donna asked.
"I am." The Doctor said. "Still trying to figure her out." He joked nodded his head towards Rose who was snuggling back into his chest watching the supernova.
"It's freezing with these doors open." Donna said after a minute of trying to figure out what to say. Rose reached around her and quickly closed the doors as the Doctor released her to rush back to the console.
"I don't understand it and I understand everything. This can't happen." The Doctor ranted as Rose carefully led the shocked woman back to the safety of the console. "There is no way a human being can lock itself onto the TARDIS and transport itself inside. It must be..." The Doctor quickly grabbed his direct ophthalmoscope and began to check Donna's eyes with it, his mouth and mind working a mile a minute.
"There's some sort of subatomic connection, something like a temporal field. Maybe something pulling you into alignment with the chronon shell. Maybe it's something macrobudding your DNA with the interior matrix." He finished his scan of her eyes. "Maybe a genetic..." He reeled back from the slap Donna gave him, it was almost on par with the one Jackie had given him. "What was that for?"
"Get me to the church!" Donna yelled. The Doctor's eyes flew over to Rose who looked about ready to be sick again. Right, he needed to get this woman out of his TARDIS and then he needed to check on his wife and make sure she was alright, maybe even check the baby as well. All this stress couldn't be good for either of them.
"Right, fine. I don't want you here anyway. Where is this wedding?" The Doctor growled rushing over to Rose and helped her to the captain's chair next to the box from the flat. After making her sit the Doctor turned to face the console ready to input the coordinates.
"St Mary's, Heaven Road, Chiswick, London, England, Earth, the solar system." Donna snapped out catching sight of the box next to Rose. "I knew it, acting all innocent. I'm not the first, am I?"
"Don't touch that!" Rose cried catching the Doctor's attention, he shot around to see Rose holding the box tightly to her chest glaring at Donna.
"How many women have you abducted?" Donna demanded.
"This is my Mum's!" Rose told her tears in her eyes, the Doctor rushed over to her and held her to him.
"Where is she, then?" Donna demanded. "Popped out for a spacewalk?"
"She's gone." The Doctor told Donna sadly.
"Gone where?" Donna demanded as Rose began to cry harder as he fought his tears.
"We lost her." The Doctor said.
"Well, you can hurry up and lose me." Donna snapped before seeing the grief they were in. "How do you mean, lost?" She asked quietly. The Doctor glared at her, this woman had not only pushed his wife earlier but had made Rose cry. The Doctor gently took the box from Rose's arms, pulled her from the captain's seat, and hit the dematerialization lever.
"Right. Chiswick." The Doctor called out as they materialized and quickly led Rose away from Donna, when Rose gagged the Doctor pulled her to him and rubbed her back as Donna exited the TARDIS.
"I said St Mary's. What sort of Martian are you?" Donna snapped as the Doctor helped Rose out of the TARDIS.
Are you getting morning sickness already, Love? The Doctor asked Rose through their link.
"Where's this?" Donna demanded.
"It's not me, it's the TARDIS." Rose told him softly and the Doctor reached out with one hand to lay it on the wood of the TARDIS. "Something's wrong with her, Doctor."
"What is it?" The Doctor asked.
"I don't know, she can't explain. She's off balance and slightly nauseous. It almost feels like she..." Rose started trying to find the right word.
"Like she's recalibrating?" The Doctor asked after checking his connection with the TARDIS before dropping his arms from around her to run back into the TARDIS. "She's digesting. What is it? What have you eaten? What's wrong?" He asked his ship.
You're missing your favorite part. Rose told him before sending the mental image of Donna's reaction to seeing the TARDIS from the outside.
"Donna, you've really got to think. Is there anything that might have caused this? Anything you might have done?" The Doctor asked half focused on the mental image Rose was sending him of Donna slowly walking around the outside of the TARDIS, as he tried to figure out what was making both his girls nauseous if it wasn't morning sickness. Some part of his mind wondered if Rose would actually get morning sickness. "Any sort of alien contact? I can't let you go wondering off. What if you're dangerous? I mean, have you seen lights in the sky or did you touch something, like something different?" Donna was poking her head inside the TARDIS now. "Something strange or something made out of a piece of metal? Who are you getting married to? Sure he's human?"
Doctor, I think she's about to bolt! Rose warned him and the Doctor spun away form the console, he couldn't have this woman wondering around.
"He's not a bit overweight with a zip round his forehead, is he?" He finished asking.
She's trying to bolt! Rose told him and he bolted out of the TARDIS to see Rose trying to keep Donna there.
"You can't leave, Donna." Rose said catching the woman's arm as she pushed pushed her.
"Leave me alone, I just want to get married." Donna said as he caught up with them.
"Come back to the TARDIS." The Doctor said as all three of them made their way out of the back alley and into the busy street.
"No way, that box is too weird." Donna said.
"It's just bigger on the inside, that's all." Rose told her as she took the Doctor's hand.
"Oh, that's all?" Donna asked sarcastically before looking at her watch. "Ten past three. I'm gonna miss it."
"Why don't you phone them? Tell them where you are." The Doctor suggested.
"How do I do that?" Donna asked confusing the Doctor.
"Haven't you got a mobile?" He asked receiving another unbelieving look from both women as they both stopped walking. Why were they giving him that look? He had just asked a simple question.
"I'm in my wedding dress, it doesn't have pockets. Who has pockets? Have you ever seen a bride with pockets?" Donna asked and Rose was laughing at him now as he realized how stupid his question was now. "When I went to my fitting at Chez Alison, the one thing I forgot to say was, 'Give me pocket'."
I like her, can we keep her? Rose asked.
"This man you're marrying, what's his name?" The Doctor asked innocently.
"Lance." Donna told him.
"Good luck, Lance." The Doctor growled out in annoyance, secretly happy when Rose laughed harder.
"Oi! No stupid Martian is going to stop me from getting married, to hell with you." Donna snapped out before grabbing the skirt of her dress and jogging away.
"I'm not... I'm not.. I'm not from Mars." The Doctor cried out after her.
"Is that really important right now, Doctor, she's getting away." Rose said before taking off after Donna, the Doctor right behind her.