So here we are. This chapter will finish up with The End of Time Part One stuff. End of Time Part Two stuff will begin in the next one. Hopefully you all will enjoy this chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't Doctor Who!
The next morning finds Wilfred Mott opening an early Christmas present, which was a book. This took Wilfred by surprise since he wasn't one for reading this kind of book.
"Now then, steady on." Donna says as she comes into the kitchen. "It's never too early for margaritas, that's what I say. I forgot to get limes, so I used oranges instead. It's all fruit, same difference."
"Oh now that's lovely." Donna's mother says as she holds up a striped shirt. "Look at that. Absolutely beautiful. Oh, love from Donna. Did you keep the receipt?"
"Yes I did." Donna replies to her mother before turning to look at her grandfather. "Come on, Gramps. You have been a right misery ever since you got up. Do you like it then, the book?"
"Joshua Naismith? I mean, what did you get me this for?" Wilfred asks Donna.
"I don't know." Donna says with a confused look on her face. "I just saw it in the shop and thought of you. It just felt like the sort of thing you should have."
Suddenly, Donna's mother starts to laugh about a Christmas card she got and Donna heads over to join in the laughter at the card. This leaves Wilfred to wonder just what all is going on with Donna. Then Donna's fiancé enters the kitchen with presents in his arms. However, Wilfred is mostly concerned about the Queen's Christmas speech and makes his way over to the telly. Yet the woman who he sees isn't the Queen, but of a different woman. The two of them have a conversation that no one else in the room can hear, and Wilfred becomes worried when the woman tells him not to tell the Doctor anything about their discussion.
Deciding to get away from everyone, Wilfred makes his way to his own room and closes the door behind him. Heading over to his bed, he bends down to pull an older looking suitcase out from under his bed. Setting the case on his bed, Wilfred opens it up to reveal an old box. Inside the old box is a gun that he has never fired, along with some bullets. He checks the chamber and sees that there are still a few bullets inside.
Suddenly a clatter comes from his bedroom window, and Wilf heads to the window to see what caused it. Out on the street below is the Tardis and a very young blond woman. This intrigues Wilf, especially since it wasn't the Doctor who had thrown something at his window. Hiding away his gun on himself, Wilfred leaves his bedroom and heads down the stairs. Once down stairs, Wilf exits the house and crosses the quiet road.
"Who are you, then?" Wilfred asks the young woman.
"My oldest child." The Doctor says as he comes out from behind the Tardis. "Wilf, this is Jenny. Jenny, this is Wilf. Donna's grandfather."
"Doctor, what's going on? Why are you here?" Wilfred asks the Doctor.
"I lost him." The Doctor replies. "I was knocked unconscious. He is still on Earth, I know that."
"You can't park there. What if Donna sees it?" Wilfred says as he points at the Tardis.
"You're the only one, Wilf." The Doctor says to the old man. "The only connection I can think of. You're involved. If I could just work out how. Tell me, have you seen anything? I don't know. Anything strange, anything odd?"
"Well there was something. Donna was a bit strange. She had a funny little moment this morning all because of that book." Wilfred tells the Doctor.
"What book?" Jenny asks, concerned that something might happen to Donna.
Wilf hurries back over towards the house to retrieve the book. Meanwhile the Doctor and Jenny stand against the wall of the house. When the Doctor woke up in that industrial yard, the first thing he did was go back to the Tardis. Then he went to Gwen's house to pick up Jenny because he was afraid that the people who took the Master would take Jenny. And that was something that the Doctor wasn't willing to allow happen.
"Here you are," Wilfred says as he comes back out of the house with the book in his hand. "his name is Joshua Naismith."
The Doctor takes the offered book from Wilfred and takes a good look at the cover. "That's the man."
"What man, Dad?" Jenny asks the Doctor.
"He was shown to me by the Ood." The Doctor tells Jenny. "Maybe this is all connected with the convergence. It might be touching Donna's subconscious mind. Oh, she is still fighting for it, even now. The Doctor Donna."
"Dad, what are you up to?" Sylvia, Donna's mother, asks as she steps out of the house to find her father. Then she sees the Doctor standing directly behind her dad. "You! But… Get out of here!"
"Merry Christmas." The Doctor says to Sylvia.
"Oh, it's Christmas?" Jenny asks, cheerfully oblivious to the tension between her father and Donna's mother.
"She can't see you! What if she remembers?" Sylvia asks just as Donna calls out for her.
"We're going." The Doctor says as he takes hold of Jenny's hand and pulls her away from the house.
"Me too." Wilf says as he hurries up after the Doctor and Jenny.
"Oh, no, you don't." Sylvia says as she chases after the three of them. "Dad I'm warning you!"
The three of them hurry across the road to where the Tardis is parked.
"Bye, see you later." Wilf calls out, not wanting to look back at his daughter.
"Stay right where you are." Sylvia calls out as she begins to cross the road.
The Doctor unlocks the door to the Tardis and lets Jenny enter the ship first. Then he looks over his shoulder to where Wilf is standing impatiently.
"You can't come with us." The Doctor says to Wilf.
"You are not leaving me here with her." Wilf pleads.
"Fair enough."
The Doctor enters the Tardis and allows Wilfred to enter after him. With the closing of the door, Jenny starts the sequence that will have the Tardis going to their next destination. With the Tardis flying, the Doctor hurries around the organic looking console.
"Naismith." The Doctor shouts while pressing a few buttons. "If I can track him down I might be able to find the Master and possibly even Rose and my son."
Jenny watches as Wilfred looks about in amazement at the interior of the ship. She can tell that he is slightly impressed about the ship, but there is something else.
"You like her?" Jenny asks, hoping that Wilfred will voice what he is thinking.
"This is the time machine that Donna was always talking about? I thought it'd be cleaner." Wilfred answers back.
"Cleaner?" The Doctor shouts at Wilfred. "I could always take you back."
Jenny lets out a chuckle before placing a hand on Wilfred's shoulder. "Don't ever complain about the lack of cleanliness, because both Mom and Dad get offended." Then she leans in and whispers. "Neither one of them clean up after themselves."
"I heard that, Jenny!" The Doctor shouts from over by the console.
Somewhere on Earth…
The Master was placed into a straight-jacket upon his arrival to where ever he has been brought to. His captor opens the door that leads to a large room, but what catches the Master's attention is the equipment. It's the pregnant woman being a held by two, muscle bounded men. His eyes locks with the woman's and he knows exactly who she is.
"You two know each other?" Naismith asks the Master as he finally realizes to where he is looking.
"No." Rose growls out.
"Not personally, but I know her husband." The Master says, letting a smirk appear on his face. "My, aren't you a beautiful creature. No wonder he couldn't help himself. Your time stream is so… gorgeous. So… golden."
Rose shivers at the Master's description of her time stream. She already knows just how different hers is from others. It is one of the reasons why she has been trying so hard to keep Bad Wolf from reappearing. But since her abduction, and Jacks', Bad Wolf has been pacing back and forth against the edge of Rose's mind, waiting to take over.
"You there. Begin the demonstration." Naismith says to some of the scientists under his employment.
On the opposite side of the room, a large machine begins to come to life. This peaks the Master's interest, especially since he knows that this technology isn't made by humans.
"Oh, that's not from Earth." The Master says before looking back at Rose.
"And neither are you." Naismith says to the Master before gesturing at Rose's baby bump. "Neither is her unborn child. A perfect combination, don't you think?"
One of the scientists clears his throat as he stands up from his chair. "Uh, excuse me, sir. If I could check the basement? We're getting fluctuations on the power cord."
Naismith, not showing any concern over the fluctuation, allows the scientist to head down with another scientist going with him. Once the two have left the room, Naismith turns his attention towards Rose.
"I want to thank you for your help in finding this man. Without you and your son, we wouldn't have been able to find the missing link needed to complete this project."
"I did not help you willingly. You assaulted me and my son. You took our blood, against our will. And even now, you hold us against our will." Rose growls out as she feels a sudden surge of heat flow out from her rounded belly. She'd been having these hot flashes on and off since being brought to this place.
"You are not being held against your will, miss. You and your son are my guests, for now." Naismith says to Rose before giving the two guards a nonverbal command to take Rose out of the room.
As the two guards practically drag Rose away, the Master steps off to the side and places himself in front of Rose. He gives her a menacing smile before speaking to her.
"He won't come for you and your son, Rose Tyler. I find it interesting that you were already listed as dead when I became Prime Minister." His eyes rack up and down Rose's body before he continues talking. "Our children would have been brilliant. So much more brilliant than those mongrels that the Doctor gave you. Think of it. The Master and the Bad Wolf. We could rule the universe, bend it to our will. And our children would follow us in ruling the universe."
Feeling disgusted by the idea that the Master is presenting to her, Rose gives him a hard look before giving him her answer.
"I would never have joined you, and I still won't. And you're wrong about the Doctor. He will come for us."
"Pity."
The Master steps out of the way and Rose is taken away by her two guards. Yet, the Master keeps his telepathy open so that he can keep tabs on where Rose is being taken. But unknown to both, the Master and Rose, two scientists are talking about them and not the power cords.
Inside of a horse stable building…
The Tardis lands in a horse stable on the Naismith property, and the ship can feel time shivering in revulsion of what is happening. With the Doctor's mind focused more on finding Rose and the Master, the Tardis gently prods at Jenny about the shivering and twisting of time. Something was coming, and the Tardis is worried.
Wilf exits the Tardis first, followed by the Doctor and Jenny.
"We've moved. We've really moved." Wilf says as he takes in the new surroundings.
"You should stay here, Wilf." The Doctor suggests as he gets a whiff of the Master's scent.
"Not bloody likely." Wilf replies.
"And don't swear. Young ears." The Doctor says to Wilf as he begins to walk away. Then the Doctor comes to a stop. "Wait a tick."
The Doctor turns around and points a small, thin black item at the Tardis, which sends his ship away from the danger. Then he hands the item to Jenny with a serious look upon his face.
"If things begin to get bad, I want you to find your brother and Rose. Bring them here and use this to call the Tardis to you. You get them out of here and find some place nice to live. Promise me that you, nor Rose, will come back for me. I need you to do this for me, Jenny."
"I promise."
Jenny takes the item from the Doctor and tucks it away into one of the many pockets in her brown cargo pants. She had made sure to be wearing something comfortable, yet allowed for plenty of movement. That's why she chose the brown cargos pants and a cream colored, thick strapped tank top. But what Jenny didn't tell her father is that hidden away at her hip, under her clothes, was a sonic gun that once belonged to a certain time agent.
Following the Doctor around the grounds, Wilf and Jenny try to keep up. They pass by several doors to several smaller buildings as they head for the main building. They reach an arched opening walkway and just as the Doctor is about to walk down it, he quickly rushes back to Wilf and Jenny. He places himself between them and whoever might come through the archway.
"That book said that he was a billionaire. He's got his own private army." Wilf softly says to the Doctor as they wait.
The Doctor notices that no one has come, so he glances around the corner and sees that there is no one coming.
"Stay here."
The Doctor rushes over to a smaller, metal door and whips out his sonic screwdriver to use on the door. It only takes a few seconds for the sonic screwdriver to unlock the door. Opening the door, the Doctor waves over Jenny and Wilfred before entering. Not too far inside, the Doctor watches as Wilfred enters first, then Jenny. With all three of them inside, the Doctor uses his nose to find the Master and possibly Rose. However, the Doctor's nose leads them somewhere else.
They have somehow managed to find an underground room with an alien technology in it. Seeing that there is only one person inside of a room, the Doctor decides to chance it. He leans around the corner so that he can see the female scientist.
"Nice gate you've got there." He says to female.
"Hello." Wilf says as he follows the Doctor's example.
"Sorry about those two." Jenny says as she makes her way past her father and Wilf. "Please don't try to call security."
Jenny brings out the gun and points it at the woman's head. "Or I'll them that you're wearing a shimmer. You wouldn't want them to find out you're an alien, now would you?"
The woman gives Jenny a confused look, while trying hard not to feel threatened by the gun pointed at her face.
"I'm sorry, what's a shimmer?" The female scientist asks.
The Doctor walks up to where Jenny is standing and points his screwdriver at the woman while pressing a button.
"Shimmer!" the Doctor says as his screwdriver removes the shimmer from the alien.
"Oh my Lord. She's a cactus!" Wilfred says after reaching where the Doctor and Jenny are standing.
"No, she's not a cactus." The Doctor says to Wilf before rounding to look at Jenny. "And just where did you get that gun?"
"What? You have a sonic screwdriver. Why can't I have a sonic gun?" Jenny states to her father's scowling face.
Just then the computers in the basement of the mansion come alive with activity. This activity has the Doctor whipping out his glasses from a pocket. He walks over to one of the many computers and puts on the glasses.
"He's got it working, but what is it?" The Doctor says out loud as the others in the room are thinking the same thing.
As a human enters the room, the Doctor pulls out his sonic screwdriver and aims it at the man, which reveals the alien beneath the shimmer. Jenny tries hard not to snicker at the alien's astonished face after being found out.
"Now, tell me quickly. What's going on, the Master, Harold Saxon?" The Doctor asks as he moves from computer to computer to read the information being shown on the screens. "Skeletor, whatever you all are calling him. What's he doing up there?"
Another computer goes off and the Doctor, along with Jenny, head over to look at the display on the monitor.
"But I've checked the readings. He's done good work. It's fully operational." The green, male alien says to the Doctor.
"Who are you, though?" Jenny asks the two green aliens.
"We're Vinvocci." The male alien says in reply.
"And the gate is Hipocci." The female tells the Doctor. "We're a salvage team. We picked up the signal when the humans re-activated it. And as soon as it is working, we can transport it to the ship."
"But what does it do?" The Doctor asks the two aliens.
"Well. It mends, as simple as that." The male alien tells the Doctor, wondering why the Doctor is so interested in all of this. "It's a medical device to repair the body. It makes people better."
"But that can't be it, can it?" Jenny looks at the Doctor. She can see the wheels turning inside of his mind and she too is wondering who would want this kind of a machine.
"Every single warning says the Master is going to do something colossal." The Doctor says before returning to one of the major computers.
"So it's like a sick-bed, yeah? Then why is it so big?" Wilfred asks the female alien.
"Good question, why is it so big?" Jenny asks, knowing that her father was just about to ask the same thing.
The female alien lets out a scoff before explaining the size to them. "It doesn't just mend one person at a time. It mends whole planets."
This information pulls the Doctor away from the computer screen and he whirls around to look straight at the alien.
"It does what?" The Doctor asks.
"It transmits the medical template across the entire population."
Realizing what the alien has just told them, both the Doctor and Jenny share a horrified look between them. Then the sprint out of the room, running as fast as they can before anyone can do something majorly stupid. Even though Jenny has the military training imprinted within her, she still has a hard time keeping up with the Doctor.
"You need to go find your brother and Rose. Get them, and Wilfred, out of here." The Doctor shouts to her as they run down a blue painted hallway.
"What about you, Dad?"
"I need to stop the Master before he can do whatever it is that he plans to do. Now go!"
Father and daughter part ways at an intersection of the hallway, the Doctor going to the right while Jenny goes to the left. Neither one knows what is about to happen, but all they can do is hope for the best. And that is the feeling Jenny sends to the Doctor as she begins to lessen their link and focus more on Rose's.
The Doctor and Jenny had felt Rose's link with them flare earlier, and they had been relieved to feel her presence. However, the Doctor could feel a lot of Rose's trepidation over meeting the Master. Yet, the Doctor has remained ever quiet on his end of their link. He asks the universe to be kind towards his family and to keep them from harm. Especially if the Master is about to do what the Doctor thinks he is going to do.
With this thought in mind, the Doctor barges into a room and yells out to the occupants.
"Turn the gate off right now!"
As several men in black combat gear aim their weapons at the Doctor's entrance into the room, the Doctor comes to a stop with his hands raised. His eyes dart around the room, taking account of everyone in said room and where they are.
"No, no, no, no, no. Whatever you do, just don't let him near that device!" The Doctor shouts.
"Oh, like that was ever going to happen." The Master replies with exasperation in his voice.
Then, with a grin on his face, the Master rips free from the straight-jacket that he had been placed in after getting the machine up and running. With a burst of his energy, he propels himself up into the air and lands within the open arches of the machine. Turning to face the occupants of the room, the Master gives a menacing smile before speaking.
"Homeless, was I? Destitute and dying? Well, look at me now!"
The Doctor, feeling very worried and scared for his family, rushes towards some computers on the right side of the room.
"Deactivate it! All of you, turn the whole thing off!"
However, it was too late. Several of the people in the room begin to complain about the Master being in their heads. They shake their heads a few times as they hear, see, and begin to feel the Master's mind entering their own.
"Get out of there!" The Doctor yells at the Master as he moves towards the machine. However, he is knocked back as the Master sends out a shockwave that causes a flash flame before him. Falling to the ground, the Doctor can't help feel the dread that he is feeling, which only grows in amount thanks to feeling Rose's.
A door opens to the side and Rose is brought in while being held by her arms. On either side of her is a security person dressed in all black and covered face. Realizing that she is now with the Doctor, Rose can do nothing but look at him with sad eyes.
"Rose." The Doctor whispers out with fear at seeing her in the room.
He takes a quick look over her and notices that her turquoise maternity top has sweat marks under the arms. Her skin is also looking damp, almost like she has been interrupted while dressing after having a shower. He can't tell if she is damp anywhere else on her clothes since Rose is wearing black leggings underneath the long top.
"Doctor. He is changing everyone. They'll all look like him. You need to turn off the machine." Rose says while keeping her eyes locked on the Doctor. She knows that Bad Wolf is now at the surface, and allows the Doctor to see the small amount of gold enter her eyes.
Hearing Bad Wolf's warning, the Doctor runs over to a computer and tries the best he can to turn the machine off.
"I can't turn it off!" The Doctor yells as he checks a large processing tower in a vain attempt to turn it all off.
"That's because I locked it, idiot." The Master calls out to the Doctor from within the machine. Then he turns his head to look at Rose. "Hello, Bad Wolf."
"Koschei." Bad Wolf says as Rose allows her alter-ego to come through. Both of her guards disappear in golden light before she turns to face the Master. "You will not harm the people of Earth."
"Don't." The Doctor screams out in horror as Bad Wolf raises one of her now glowing hands. "You can't!"
Bad Wolf turns her head to look at the Doctor. "I want to protect these people."
"But at what cost? You know that using your powers will harm our unborn child. Kill it, even. Please, don't sacrifice our child." The Doctor pleads as he moves closer to where Rose is standing.
Gently as he can, the Doctor reaches one of his hands out and takes hold of her raised one. Noticing that Bad Wolf isn't going to fight him, the Doctor pulls her into a hug just as Bad Wolf recedes. When the Doctor steps back, but keeps his hands at Rose's waist, he can see that Bad Wolf has gone and Rose is now looking up at him.
"Hello." The Doctor says to Rose softly, ignoring what was happening around them.
"Hello." Rose replies before clutching tight to the Doctor as she bends over gasping for breath.
"Rose. Rose!"
"Ohhh look at that." Comes the Master's voice from behind the Doctor. "Looks like your mongrel of a time tot has decided to make its appearance."
As the Doctor turns around, he gets a glimpse of everyone in the room which now look like the Master. Before he has a chance to ask the Master what he has done, the Doctor is hit with a tranquilizer dart in the shoulder. With his legs giving way, the Doctor's vision starts to swim. The last images he sees is that of his Rose, with tears running down her face, as the real Master wraps his arms around her.
I wonder what is going to happen next…
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Selene