Violet typed frantically at the computer, seeing Jefferson get ready to fire.
"Oh, no you don't!" She shouted, and pressed one last button, making the Ood drop to the floor. She left her place and kneeled down beside one of them. It's eyes had returned to their normal colour and it lay on the ground, blinking slowly... until it died.
"What did you do?" The man with the gun yelled. Violet closed all of the Ood's eyes before replying.
"The least I could do. A peaceful death."
"That's no better than me shooting them! They're still dead!" He retorted.
She stood up and faced him, "Would killing them make you feel better? Because I've killed, and I am not proud of it." They just stared at each other for a while, until Zach's voice sounded.
"We're stabilising..." He said, "We've got orbit."
Rose walked over the dead bodies of the Ood and picked up the comm device.
"Doctor?"
Only static.
"Doctor, can you hear me? Doctor? Ida? Are you there?"
A door opened, and Jefferson and a guard greeted Danny with guns.
"It's me! But they're coming." He warned. "It's the Ood. They've gone mad."
Jefferson approached to door. "Danny, out of the way." He doesn't move, so he gets louder. "Out of the way!"
"Jefferson!" Violet spun around. "Don't you dare open that door. Right now, I don't care if you're some kind of maniac with a kill list, but if you open that door, you are putting every life in this room at risk. And I won't allow that." He looked at her before moving back to the door.
"Don't!" She shouted, but he ignored her and arranges his gun while the guard opened the door. Immediately, he was struck down by the communication globe one of the Ood held in his hand. Jefferson started firing while Danny rushed to close the door.
Once it was closed, Violet just glared at Jefferson and gestured to the guard.
"I can't believe you."
"Jefferson, what's happening, there?" Zach asked.
The man in question looked up at Violet before replying, "I've got very little ammunition, sir. How about you?"
"All I've got is a bolt gun. With uh... all of one bolt. I could take out a grand total of one Ood. Fat lot of good that is."
"Given the situation," Jefferson said seriously, "I recommend Strategy Nine."
"Strategy Nine agreed. Right, we need to get everyone together. Rose? What about Ida and the Doctor? Any word?" He said defeatedly.
Rose shook her head, "I can't get any reply, just... NOTHING, I keep trying, but it's..."
"No! Sorry, I'm fine. Still here!" The cheery voice of the Doctor sounded after a cackling.
Violet focused on the computer in front of her, having hacked into the main system. She read up on Strategy Nine and he frown became deeper.
Strategy Nine was slaughter. They wanted to open the airlocks, and while they were safe in lockdown, the Ood got sucked into the black hole.
She snapped out of her rage just long enough to hear Jefferson's wish to kill Toby.
"If necessary." She heard him say.
"What is wrong with you?" She asked calmly, but Rose reluctantly recognised that tone. She was fuming.
"Two members of your crew have died today and you want to make it a third. There's a reason why so many races admire humans. It's because your good and because you don't live for war or death and destruction. So, tell me, Jefferson, what's happened to you to make this keen on bringing death?" She stared at him. Rose knelt down next to Toby,
"Look at his face. Whatever it was, it's gone. It passed into the Ood. You saw it happen. He's clean." She said.
"He's not dying." Violet stated before adding quietly for herself. "Not by your hand, anyway."
Jefferson considered this, "Any sign of trouble... I'll shoot him."
"You wouldn't dare." Violet dismissed him.
Jefferson, Danny, Violet and Rose were waiting for Ida and the Doctor to make contact.
"Okay, we're in. Bring us up." Ida said. Rose smiled in anticipation of seeing the Doctor again.
"Ascension in..."
"Three."
"Two."
"One."
Instead of the capsule being pulled up, however, the mechanism failed and the lights flickered out.
"This is the Darkness. This is my domain." The voice of the Beast returned.
The display on the screen changed to that of several of the Ood standing together, holding up their comunicator, since the Beast was speaking throught them.
"You little things that live in the light... clinging to your feeble Suns which die in the..."
"That's not the Ood. Something's talking through them." Zach pointed out.
"Only the Darkness remains."
"!This is Captain Zachary Cross Flane of Sanctury Base Six representing the Torchwood archive. You will identify yourself." The captain ordered.
"You know my name."
"What do you want?"
"You will die here. All of you. This planet is your grave."
"It's him. It's him. It's him..." Toby whimpered.
The Doctor spoke through the comm, "If you are the Beast, then answer me this: which one? Hmm? 'Cos the universe has been busy since you've been gone. There's more religions than there are planets in the sky. The Archivits... Pordonity, Christianity... Pash-Pash, New Judaism... Sanclar... Church of the Tin Vagabond - which devil are you?"
"All of them."
"What, then you're the truth behind the myth?"
"This one knows me - as I know him. The killer of his own kind. Like the girl. The killer of so many more than her own."
He chose not to acknowledge that, "How did you end up on this rock?"
"The disciples of the Light rose up against me. And chained me in the pit for all eternity."
"When was this?"
"Before time."
"What does THAT mean?!" He exclaimed.
"Before time."
"What does 'before time' MEAN?" He pressed.
"Before light and time and space and matter. Before the cataclysm. Before this universe was created."
"That's impossible. No life could have existed back then."
"Is that your religion? The girl knows better."
"It's a belief."
"You know nothing. All of you. So small.
The Captain, so scared of command.
The soldier, haunted by the eyes of his wife.
The scientist, still running from daddy.
The little boy who lied...
The virgin...
And the lost girl, so far away from home. The valiant child who will die in battle so very soon."
"Doctor, what does it mean?" Rose panicked.
"Rose, don't listen." He said quietly.
"What does it mean?" She pushed.
"The girl that brought death upon so many, the girl that made the planets fall." That was Violet.
"You will die... and I will live."
The footage of the Ood was suddenly replaced with a roaring horned beast, which caused everyone but the Doctor and Violet to gasp and stumble backwards.
"What the hell was that?" Danny asked, trembling.
Everyone started speaking over each other, scared. The voices escalated while the Doctor and Violet listened silently, a headache slowly creeping up on them.
"Listen." Violet said. Nobody heard.
Rose spoke.
Then Ida.
Toby was scared for his life.
"Please be quiet." The Doctor tried.
Danny was close to crying.
Jefferson muttered words.
Zach prayed.
"I said, 'LISTEN!" Violet screamed over all of them, finally silencing them.
"If you want voices in the dark, listen to mine- that thing is playing with very basic fears. Darkness, childhood nightmares and all that stuff." The Doctor calmed them, grateful for Violet shutting them up.
"But that's how the devil works." Danny stated.
Violet scoffed, "Or a good psychologist."
"But... how did it know about my father?" Ida asked cautiously, not really wanting to know.
The man standing next to her paused, "Okay, but what makes his version of the truth any better than mine? Hmm? Cos I'll tell you what I can see: humans. Brilliant humans. Humans who travel all the way across-"
Suddenly, he is cut off by a louad bang, indicating the snap of the capsule's cable.
"The cable's snapped!" Ida shouted.
"Get out!"
On the exploration deck, where most of the crew stood, a cloud of dust wafts up.
"Doctor! We lost the cable! Doctor, are you all right?" Rose asked, terrified for her companion. "Doctor?"
"Comms are down." Zach told her.
"Doctor? Doctor, can you hear me?" Rose shouted down the comm nontheless.
"I've still got life signs, but... we've lost the capsule." Zach said with remorse in his voice.
Rose tried the comms again anyway, but Zach confirmed, "There's no way out. They're stuck down there."
"But we've GOT TO bring them back." Rose said.
"They're ten miles down. We haven't got another ten miles of cable." Jefferson pointed out the obvious, jumping with the rest of them as another loud bang on the door sounded. "Captain? Situation report." He requested.
Zach sighed, "It's the Ood. They're cutting through the door bolts. They're breaking in."
"Yeah, it's the same on Door 25."
"How long's it gonna take?" Rose asked.
"Well, it's only a basic frame, it should take ten minutes." After another bang, he corrected, "Eight."
"I've got a security frame, it might last a bit longer, but that doesn't help you." Zach said.
Rose noded, "Right. So we need to stop them - or get out - or both."
"I'll take both, yeah? But how?" Danny said, exasperated.
"You heard the Doctor. Why do you think that thing cut him off? 'Cos he was making sense. He was telling you to think your way out of this. Come on!" She exclaimed.
"There's nothing I can do. Some captain, stuck in here, pressing buttons." The captain said bitterly.
Rose looked helpless, so Violet stepped in, having watched them deal with the crisis for a bit, for once not noticing the look Rose gave her.
"I guess that's my cue. Alright, Mr. Zachary, Captain! Can we get some lights?"
"They've gutted the generators!" Zach told her, then realised, "But the rocket's got an independent supply. If I could reroute that... Mr Jefferson? Open the bypass conduits. Override the safety..."
He pressed the appropriate buttons, "Opening bypass conduits, sir."
"Channeling rocket feed. In 3... 2... 1... power." The lights came back on, making the crew sigh in relief.
"And on the second day, he said 'Let there be light'. Brilliant!" Violet grinned. "Now, I've read up on the Strategy Nine thing, you're throwing that one out of the window. Not happening."
"That's protected with all kinds of passwords! How did you get through that?" The American soldier frowned.
"I learned how to override passwords in my nursery." She snorted. "Now, Mr. Jefferson, we're going to want to leave sooner or later, get going on that."
She approached the boy crouched in a corner, "And Toby."
He stood up, "I'm not a soldier. I can't do anything."
"That's very true. So, why don't you do some more translating." She said and shoved some more paper into his hands to keep him occupied. He had been possessed, and with a rough idea of what was going on, she couldn't risk him messing something up for them.
"Now, Danny-boy. I want you to find a virus we have on board, something temporary to disrupt the telepathy. I checked the system- flip the monitor, broadcast the flare... Should do the job without killing them. Got that?"
His face lit up, but deflated after a few seconds, "But we'd need to transmit from the central monitor. We'd have to go to Ood habitation."
"What do you think Jeff over there is working on?" She gave him a smile. "Now, start searching."
She went to the man looking for a way out, "Mr Jefferson! You have a network of maintenance tunnels running underneath the base."
"But there's no ventilation. No air, in fact - at all. They were designed for machines, not life forms." He replied.
"Which is why we have Zach! You can manipulate the oxygen field from the control room!" She gestured to the comms., seeing as Zach wasn't present.
"Yeah! Create discrete pockets of atmosphere... if I control it manually... I can follow you through the network." He sounded hopeful.
"Brilliant! Okay, we need to get to Ood Habitation, work out a route." She told the men.
A violent bang made Rose, Jefferson and Toby look up from the grate they moved aside to get to the maintenance tunnels. Danny was still at the computer, Violet standing between them.
"Danny!" Rose shouted.
"Hold on! Just conforming..." He murmered. Violet ran up to him, typed in a few commands and grabbed a computer chip from the machine.
"Let's go!" They hurried to the rest of the group.
"Put that in the monitor... and it's a bad time to be an Ood!" Danny grinned.
"We're coming back. Have you got that? We're coming back to this room and we're getting the Doctor out." Rose was determined.
"Okay, Danny, you go first, then you Miss Tyler, then you" He gestured at Violet, "then Toby, I'll go last in defence of position. Now come on! Quick as you can!" They all lowered themselves down into the tunnels in the order Jefferson specified.
Rose crawled along the tunnel behind Danny, "God, it stinks. You all right?" She moans.
"Yeah, I'm laughing." He said sarcastically. "Which way do we go?" He asked Zach.
"Just go straight ahead. Keep going 'til I say so." The captain told them and they started advancing.
"Not your best angle, Danny." Rose commented.
"Oi! Stop it!" He exclaimed.
"I dunno, it could be worse." Toby looked at the view in front of him, seeing Violet's skinny jeans-clad behind.
"Watch it!" She laughed, not offended.
"Straight along until you find junction 7.1. Keep breathing. I'm feeding you air. I've got you." The captain told them.
The kept going until the reached a junction and stop, catching their breath.
"We're at 7.1, sir." Danny said.
"Okay, I've got you... I'm just aerating the next section."
"Getting kinda cramped, sir... can't you hurry up?" Danny asked, being pushy.
"I'm working on half power, here." Zach defended.
"Stop complaining." Jefferson said.
Rose told Danny, "Mr Jefferson says 'stop complaining'."
"I heard."
"He heard."
"But the air's getting a bit thin." Toby said anxiously.
"HE'S complaining now."
"I heard." The American said.
Danny wiped the sweat of his face. Rose sniffed, her face screwed up in disgust. "Danny, is that you?"
"I'm not exactly happy." He defended himself much like the captain had done.
"I'm just moving the air... I've got to oxygenate the next section. Now, keep calm... or it's gonna feel worse."
There was a banging at the other end of the tunnel and Jefferson aimed his gun, earning a growl from Violet.
"What was that?"
"Mr Jefferson, what was that?"
"What's that noise?"
"Captain... what was that?"
"The junction in Habitation Five's been opened - it must be the Ood." The captain answered their question.
"They're in the tunnels!"
"Well, open the gate!"
"I've gotta get the air in!" Zach said, irritated.
"Just open it! ... sir." Danny started panicking.
"Where are they? Are they close?"
"Don't know, I can't tell - I can't see them... the computer doesn't register Ood as proper life forms." Zach explained.
"Whose idea was that?" Rose frowned.
"OPEN the gate!" Danny practically roared into his wrist device, shaking. The gate opened and they lunged through it.
"Danny, turn left. Immediate left." The man in the control room ordered while they crawled down the tunnels, Jefferson reversing with his gun pointed.
"The Ood, sir - can't you trap them? Cut off the air?" He asked.
"Not without cutting off yours. Danny, turn right. Go right! Go fast, Dan - they're gonna catch up!"
"I'll maintain defence of position!" Jefferson offered.
"You can't stop!" Rose said.
"Miss Tyler - that's my job. You've got your task - now see to it." He ordered.
Toby told her to continue moving and she did so reluctantly. They could hear gun shots and Violet lowered her head at the sound. They reached the next junction.
"8.2. Open 8.2. Zach!" Dannt urged him.
"I've gotta aerate it!"
"OPEN IT NOW!" He shouted furiously.
"I'm TRYING."
Danny desperately thumped on the gate, but Violet stopped him, "Quit it, Danny. Not helping."
"Zach, get it open!" Toby said, too.
"Jefferson... I've gotta open 8.2 by closing 8.1. You've GOT to get past the junction, now MOVE. That's an order, now MOVE!" Zach shouted, frusterated. "I'm gonna lose oxygen, Jefferson, I can't stop for your dramatics!"
The gate opened, and they crawl through, Rose glancing backwards.
"Danny, turn left and head for 9.2. That's the last one. Jefferson-" Zach paused. "You've gotta move faster. Move!"
"Mr Jefferson, come on!" Rose shouted.
"Keep GOING!" Toby told her in the same tone. The gate closed, leaving Jefferson trapped on the other side.
"Regret to inform, sir... I was a bit slow. Not so fast, these days." He joked sadly.
"I can't open 8.1, John. Not without losing air for the others." Zach said remorsefully.
"And quite right too, sir. I think I bought them a little time."
"There's nothing I can do, John. I'm sorry." The rest of them reached the end.
"So that's how you're going to die then, Jefferson?" Violet asked. He chuckled.
"I guess so." Was his reply.
"Tell me one last thing, John. What happened with your wife?" Violet asked, quietly.
"She was shot. Some of my business partners started a fight in our house and she was shot. I always did do bad business. She died in my arms, her empty eyes staring up at me. Her last word was 'you'." His voice cracked.
"I'm sorry." She said respectfully, " Tell you what, though. She forgives you."
"How would you know?" He asked roughly.
She smiled, " Because 'I love you' ends with a 'you'.. It was a pleasure working with you, Jefferson."
"Same to you too." There was a pause. "I ask, if you can't add oxygen to this section... can you speed up the process of its removal, sir?"
"I don't understand. What do you mean?" Zach was confused.
"The Ood, Zach." Violet said.
"God speed, Mr Jefferson." The captain said.
"Thank you, sir."
"Report... Officer John Maynard Jefferson PKD... deceased... with honours." Zach's voice cracked.
"Zach... we're at the final junction. 9.2. And er... if my respects could be on record. He saved our lives." Danny added quietly.
"Noted. Opening 9.2." The gate opened, revealing Ood waiting for them. They all scrambled away, shoked.
"Lower 9.2. Zach, lower it!" Rose screeched.
"Back! Back! Back!" Danny shouted.
"We can't go back! The gang point's sealed off, we're stuck!" Toby reminded them.
"Then we go up!" Violet told them, pushing up a grill over her head. She emerged through the floor of the corridor above with Danny and Rose following, Toby trailing behind slightly. Rose and Danny frantically tried to help him, but Violet watched them- she reckoned the Ood wouldn't hurt him.
"Come on! Toby, come on!" Rose shouted. "Toby, get out of there!"
"Help me! Oh, my God - help me!" He scrambled upwards.
Rose and Danny hoisted him up through the hole as more Ood approached from the other end of the corridor.
"It's this way." Danny told them, headin in that direction. They followed him, the Ood chasing them.
"Hurry up!" The captain shouted as a banging was to be heard over the comms.
Danny, Rose, Violet and Toby burst through the doors into Ood Habitation, and rushed over the computer. The Ood already inside looked up at their arrival and Violet fished the computer chip out of her pocket and slammed it into the machine. She pressed a few buttons and the reading went down to Basic 0. The Ood clutched at their heads and stumbled about, finally collapsing and only leaving the sound of heavy breathing in the air.
"You did it! We did it!" Rose squealed.
"Yes!" Toby laughed.
"Zach, we did it. The Ood are down. Now we've gotta get the Doctor." Rose told them and rushed off, hearing the Captain telling them he was on his way.
On the exploration deck, Rose immediately picked up the comm device, "Doctor? Are you there? Doctor? Ida? Can you hear me?"
"The comms are still down. I can patch them through the central desk and boost the signal. Just give me a minute." Zach said, starting to work at a computer, Violet helping him while Rose looked on, wide-eyed and worried.
"He's gone. He went down the pit." Ida announced once they went online again. Violet gently tugged the comm device away from Rose, who looked close to tears.
"I'm sorry." She sympathised for the girl- centuries away from her home- that lost the man she loved.
"Ida? There's no way of reaching you." Zach said. "No cable, no back-up... you're ten miles down… We can't get there."
"You should see this place, Zach. It's beautiful. Well, I wanted to discover things... And here I am."
"We've got to abandon the base." He told her remorsefully. "I'm declaring this mission unsafe. All we can do is make sure no one ever comes here again." He was about to say something else, but Violet took the device from his hand.
"Thank you, Ida. I know it may seem hopeless, but… just hold on. You never know." She smiled and hoped that the Doctor would make it. If he was in that pit, figuring it out, there was still hope.
"Yeah. Thank you, too. You saved their lives. Good luck." She replied.
"Thank you." Were the Captain's last words to her, before he turned, "Danny - Toby - close down the feed links. Get the retrotopes online. Then get to the rocket - strap yourselves in. We're leaving."
"I'm not going." Rose said stubbornly.
"Rose, there's space for you."
"No, I'm gonna wait for the Doctor. Just like he waited for me." She protested.
"I'm sorry, but... he's dead."
"You don't know him. 'Cos he's not..." Her voice broke. "I'm telling you, he's- he's not... and even if he was, how could I leave him? All on his own, all the way down there? No. I'm gonna stay."
"Rose, you're going." Violet told her quietly. Rose turned to her in disbelief.
"What?"
"I know you're scared without the Doctor, and I know that you don't want to believe he's dead, because- he's the Doctor! How could he die? And maybe he's still alive, maybe he's down there and figuring it out and gonna come back! But you're no good here." Violet sighed. "I need you to get in that rocket and get out of the reach of the black hole before it's too late, because you're no good if you're dead."
She considered it for a second before shaking her head, "I can't leave him, I'm sorry."
"Then I'm sorry for this." The girl beckoned Danny and Toby, who waited behind Rose, and they held her arms while she struggled. Violet grabbed a needle and plunged it into the side of her arm, sedating her efficiently.
"I don't want to spend the rest of my existence seeing the Doctor's heartbroken face every time he realises you're dead." She told the unconscious girl, limp in her arms.
Zach hoisted her up over his shoulder, "Let's get her on board."
They sat in the rocket, Zach and Danny in the front of the dimmed interior, Rose still out of it on one side next to Toby, and on the other side, Violet.
"Dislocating B-Clamp, C-Clamp, raising blue nitrates to maximum- Toby, how's the negapact feed line?" The captain asked.
"Clear! Ready to go, sir. For God's sakes, get us out of here!" Toby flicked a few switched to check the readings.
"Captain... I think we're gonna have a problem passenger..." Danny noticed Rose stirring.
"Keep an eye on her." He replied, fumbling with the controls.
"Wait... I'm not..." Rose woke up.
"It's all right, Rose - you're safe-" Danny tried to calm her.
"I'm not going anywhere!" She tugged at her seatbelt, shouting, "Get me out of this thing! Get me out!"
"And... lift-off!"
Rose picked up a bolt gun lying before her. She reached out for it and aimed for the Captain, "Take me back to the planet."
"Take me BACK!" She shouted after getting no reply.
Violet, instead of responding, took the gun out of her hand and moved it out of her reach in one, swift movement.
"You couldn't." She said in a bored tone, but was anxious herself. She hoped that the Doctor had worked it out- she didn't want to be alone again.
"Sorry, but it's too late anyway. Take a look outside. We can't turn back. This is what the Doctor would have wanted." Zach told her. She did, seeing them retreating from the black hole.
Out of the blue, Toby started to laugh quietly to himself.
"What's the joke?" His colleague asked.
"Just... we made it. We escaped. We actually did it." He laughed louder. Except that it wasn't, Violet knew.
"Not all of us." Rose said, melancholy.
"We're not out of it yet. We're still the first people in history to fly AWAY from a black hole. Toby, read me the stats." The captain ordered.
"Gravity funnel holding, sir. Always holding." He smirked. "Stats at 53, funnel status at 66.5. Hull pressure constant. Smooth as we can, sir. All the way back home."
"Coordinates set for Planet Earth." He grinned even wider.
"It doesn't make sense. We escaped, but there's a thousand ways it could've killed us. It could've... ripped out the air or... I dunno, burnt us, or anything. But it let us go. Why? Unless it wanted us to escape..."
"Hey, Rose, do us a favour..." Toby told Rose, who was on exactly the right track, nastily. "Shut up."
"Almost there. We'll be beyond the reach of the black hole in 40... 39..." He counted down as the rocket started shaking violently.
"What happened? What was that?!" Danny panicked.
"What's he doing? What is he doing?"
"We've lost the funnel! Gravity collapse!"
"What does that mean?"
"We can't escape. We're headed straight for the black hole!" Zach shouted. The rocket turned around, spiralling at a dangerous speed towards the black hole.
"He's done it!" Violet said, grinning. "I'm sorry, Satan, but your flight's been terminated." She looked at Toby, who glared with his red eyes, symbols coating his skin. Rose gasped.
"I am the rage and the bile and the ferocity.
I am the Prince and the Fall and the Darkness-" He expelled a flame from his mouth.
"I shall never die! The thought of me is forever! In the bleeding hearts of men - in their vanity and obsession and lust-"
Violet grabbed the bolt gun and aimed it at the front window, just as the Beast said,
"Nothing shall ever destroy me. Nothing!"
She fired, shattering the glass, while Rose undid Toby's seatbelt, resulting in him getting sucked through the window and into outer space, headed straight for the black hole, roaring all the way down.
"Look at that. I just destroyed the devil."
"Emergency shield!" Zach pressed a button and the emergency shield activated, covering the hole. It didn't stop the shaking, or their course towards the black hole.
"I'm sorry. Toby's been gone for a long time. But, look at that." She pointed out of the window, which showed their moving away from the black hole. "I told you, Rose, didn't I?" She smiled.
"Sorry about the hijack, Captain. This is the good ship TARDIS." The comm sprang to life. "Now, first thing's first - have you got a Rose Tyler on board?"
"I'm here! It's me! Oh, my God!" She laughed, overjoyed and giddy. "Where are you?"
"I'm just towing you home. Gravity-schmavity. My people practically invented black holes." The Doctor joked.
"We actually did." Violet confirmed, smiling as well.
"In a couple of minutes, we'll be nice and safe. Oh, and captain - can we do a swap? Say, if you give me Rose and Violet - I'll give you Ida Scott? How about that?"
"She's alive!"
"Yeah! Bit of oxygen starvation, but she should be all right." He said. "I couldn't save the Ood. I only had time for one trip. They went down with the planet."
"Ah! Entering clear space - end of the line - mission closed." He finished after a beep.
"Have a good flight home, Zach. It's been a pleasure." Violet told them, shutting down the network between the TARDIS and the rocket and sighed happily, spinning around to Rose and the Doctor who sat on the plush bench in the control room. They had already done the initial catching up while shd had flown them into the Vortex.
"So, here we are. Happy end and all." Violet smiled.
"Uhm, Doctor, do you mind leaving Violet and I to talk for a bit?" Rose said hesitantly. He nodded and walked off.
"I'm sorry for how I've acted. I wasn't exactly civil towards you." She started.
Violet waved it off, "It's fine, forget it."
"But it isn't. I guess I just felt threatened by you, you know? Because you're Time Lord and all?" She continued and patted the space next to her.
"Why would you feel threatened by me? Can't you see the way he looks at you?" She asked, sitting down.
"I don't know. You're just… you're pretty, smart, you're Time Lord. I was scared he was going to choose you over me, you know?" She looked genuinely ashamed of her actions.
"You really love him, don't you?" Violet stated with the hint of a smile on her face.
"Is it that obvious?" She laughed. "Yeah… Yes, I do. And I want to tell him, I really do, but then come these moments when I realise that it could never work. When he tells me of the people that he lost, I imagine how hard it must be for him."
"You're only going to live once, Rose." The girl told her seriously. "With that one life, you want to do as much as you possibly can- and this is close, but it's not all. There's love and romance and all that stuff. The Doctor has lost many people, yes, but he loves you. He really does. And even if he has to watch you get old and eventually die, I know he would take it. Because a few years with you are better than none at all. He just has to realise it."
"You think?" She asked.
Violet laughed, "I know. Go on, Rose. You never know how long you have."
"Well, thank you. Not just for this, but for getting me into that rocket and for all the times you've saved our lives. I was horrible to you but you still wanted tosave me. Why?"
"I couldn't bear to see his face if he realised you were gone and he hadn't had the chance to love you." With that, Violet got up and walked away, leaving Rose to contemplate. She smiled as she walked to her room.
She was going to make sure they got together.