Previously:
A green laser beam shot out and hit Rose who tumbled to the ground.
"ROSE!" the Doctor shouted.
Jack suddenly appeared and shot the dalek, blowing it up. Donna was running to Rose's side.
The Doctor stood there frozen. Rose was dead. After all that time...she was dead.
Meanwhile up above in the dalek ship called the Crucible, Davros tapped his metal fingers against his shell, smirking. "Caan, read me that last line of the prophecy again"
"The Valiant Child, so very far from home, will die in battle so very soon" Caan said in his sing song voice.
"Rose, come on wake up, please Rose" Donna whispered shaking Rose's shoulder. "Come on Blondie snap out of it!" she felt a hand on her shoulder and she looked up to see Jack staring down mournfully with a tear rolling down his cheek.
"Donna...no one can survive a dalek ray" he said his voice choked up.
"But she's-"
"No one can, not even the Doctor, isn't that right?" Jack asked turning to the Doctor who seemed to be frozen stiff.
"Yeah, yeah" the Doctor said quietly, he was now shaking slightly, Jack pitied the man, first he was taken away from Rose and the TARDIS and on what should have been a beautiful reunion was destroyed by a dalek.
"Come on, we got to get into the TARDIS" Jack said taking control. "We don't want anymore daleks coming around and killing us all" he bent down and scooped up Rose's body holding her tightly to his chest. It was killing him to do this, his own little sister who promised to be there forever.
"Well everyone but you Harkness" the Doctor muttered darkly under his breath causing Jack to flinch.
They made their way back to the TARDIS silently and Jack laid Rose onto the metal grating floor, her blonde hair looked like a halo in the lighting, her amber hazel eyes looked empty giving Jack the impression of a fragile cold china doll. He moved his hand and closed her eyes before leaning in and giving her a warm kiss on her cold lips.
"Goodbye Rose. Rest in Peace" he whispered against her lips before pulling away. Now she looked like a sleeping angel to him. A true sleeping beauty he laughed silently to himself. As he got up the TARDIS shook slightly and the lights went out.
"They've got us! Power's gone! Some kind of chronon loop..." the Doctor babbled running a hand in through his hair looking frustrated and furious.
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"Transferring TARDIS to the Crucible." A dalek grated.
"Those teleport things, can we use them? If they've taken the Rose and the Doctor to the Dalek spaceship, that's where we need to be." Sarah Jane whispered from behind the van as she watched the TARDIS slowly hover up the sky, wobbling slightly.
"It's not just a teleport, it's a Dimension Jump. Mind, this thing rips a hole in the fabric of space." Mickey muttered. "Not the best invention the Doctor created since it kept blowing up"
"I think that was just the Doctor" Sarah Jane muttered darkly under her breath. "But can we use it?" she asked louder.
"Not yet, it burns up energy, needs half an hour between jumps." Mickey said shaking his head.
"Then put down your guns." Sarah Jane ordered standing up straight.
"Do what?" Mickey yelped looking shocked.
"If you're carrying a gun, they'll shoot you dead." Sarah Jane said slowly while thinking privately to herself no matter how much a hero Mickey has become he's still an idiot. She then stepped out from the van and held her hands out as she walked to the daleks. "Daleks! I surrender!"
"All humans in this sector will be taken to the Crucible!" the dalek said.
"She's bloody mad!" Mickey cried out.
"Yeah, but Mickey, if they've got the Doctor, then they've got Rose. I need to see my daughter, god knows what's happened to her in the past four years" Jackie said putting her gun and stepping forwards. "And us! We surrender"
Mickey kissed his gun before joining the two women that are clearly insane in his books.
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"There's a massive Dalek ship at the centre of the planets. They're calling it the Crucible. Guess that's our destination." Jack said sighing, trying his hardest not to look at Rose's body.
"Rose said these planets were like an engine, but what for?" Donna said quietly while still wiping tears that fell fast on her cheek.
"Did she?" the Doctor croaked. "Clever girl, our Rose."
"Rose said time works differently in your world" Donna said "what happens?"
"Just the darkness" the Doctor said shrugging.
"The stars were going out." Donna said remembering.
"One by one. We looked up at the sky and they were just dying. Basically, we've been building this – well when I say we, I mean me since I'm obviously incredibly smarter than the Torchwood scientists- but yeah anyway this dimension cannon we called it. Built it so I could...well I could..." the Doctor trailed off blushing ever so slightly.
"Come back and sweep our Rosie off of her feet?" Jack suggested while waggling his eyebrows. Though there was no humour or flirtation in his voice since he was trying his hardest not to cry.
"Shut up." The Doctor snapped. "Anyway, suddenly, it started to work and the dimensions started to collapse. Not just in our world, not just in yours, but the whole of reality. Even the Void was dead. Something is destroying everything."
"In that parallel world... you said something about me." Donna said slowly looking scared.
"The Dimension Cannon could measure timelines, and it's... its weird, Donna, but they all seemed to converge on you." The Doctor said nodding.
"But why me? I mean, what have I ever done? I'm a temp. From Chiswick!" Donna shouted.
There's a beep coming from the monitor and the Doctor leaned over to read ignoring Donna's denials. "The Dalek Crucible. All aboard!" he said in a fake cheery tone.
"The TARDIS is secured." A dalek called out
"Doctor, you will step forth or die." A louder, deeper dalek voice shouted.
"We'll have to go out. Cos if we don't, they'll get in." The Doctor said clapping his hands while looking grim.
"But Rose once told me nothing could get through those doors." Donna argued.
"You've got extrapolator shielding!" Jack protested.
"Last time we fought the Daleks, they were scavengers and hybrids and mad. But this is a fully-fledged Dalek Empire, at the height of its power. Experts at fighting TARDISes, they can do anything. Right now, that wooden door... is just wood." The Doctor said sadly.
Donna stood there frozen tuning out of the Doctor's and Jack's conversation as she heard something. Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump. It sounded like a weak heartbeat, fighting for its life.
"What about your Dimension Jump?" Jack asked.
"It needs another 20 minutes. What about your teleport?" the Doctor replied.
"Went down with the power loss." Jack muttered.
"Right, then, all of us together... Yeah." The Doctor said putting on a fake smile. He looked to the side to see Donna looking pale, her breathing getting more and more rapid. "Donna?" he called. She didn't reply and he walked closer, putting an arm round her. "Donna?"
Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump.
She flinched and looked up at the Doctor. "Yeah?" she whispered.
"I'm sorry. There's nothing else we can do." The Doctor said squeezing her shoulder as a comfort gesture.
"Look, I know." Donna said pulling away from him.
"Surrender, Doctor, and face your Dalek masters." The deeper dalek voice called out.
"Crucible on maximum alert." A dalek informed them.
"Daleks" the Doctor sighed.
"Oh god" Jack said laughing.
"It's been good though, hasn't it? All of us, all of it (well being stuck in the parallel world was a bit crap) everything we did though." The Doctor turned to Donna. "I bet you were brilliant" he said softly. Donna smiled and he turned to Jack. "And you were brilliant" Jack grinned and the Doctor took a deep breath. "Blimey"
He and Jack began to walk slowly down the ramp and out of the TARDIS to be met by an army of daleks and a large red one.
"Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks!" the red one shouted.
"Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks! Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks!" the daleks chanted.
Donna was walking down the ramp when she stopped. Thump, thump, thump, thump. She could hear the heartbeat again. Thump, thump, thump.
"Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks! Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks!" the daleks carried on chanting.
"Behold, Doctor! Behold the might of the true Dalek race!" the red one shouted.
The Doctor turned round to see Donna still in the TARDIS looking round. "Donna, you're no safer in there." He called out. She took another deep breath and began to walk towards the doors when the doors suddenly slammed shut. "What?" the Doctor shouted running to the TARDIS.
"Doctor? What have you done?" Donna shouted banging on the door.
"It wasn't me, I didn't do anything!" the Doctor protested/
"Oi! Oi, I'm not staying behind!" Donna shrieked.
"What did you do?!" the Doctor shouted at the red dalek.
"This is not of Dalek origin." The red dalek said flatly.
"Doctor!" Donna screamed.
"Stop it! She's my friend, now open the door and let her out!" the Doctor shouted getting more and more angry.
"This is Time Lord Treachery." The red dalek spat.
"Me? The door just closed on its own!" the Doctor cried out.
"Nevertheless, the TARDIS is a weapon and it will be destroyed." The red dalek said before having a trapdoor open beneath the TARDIS, the TARDIS falls in immediately.
"What are you doing? Bring it back!" the Doctor screamed. "What've you done, where's it going?!"
"The Crucible has a heart of Z-Neutrino Energy. The TARDIS will be deposited into the core." The red dalek informed the Doctor.
"You can't, you've taken the defences down, it'll be torn apart!" the Doctor shouted horrified.
"But Donna's still in there!" Jack cried out. "Let her go!"
"The female and the TARDIS will perish together. Observe!" the red dalek said activating a holographic screen that showed the TARDIS bobbing in the energy field. "The last child of Galifrey is powerless."
"Please, I'm begging you, I'll do anything! Put me in her place, you can do anything to me" the Doctor begged.
"You are connected to the TARDIS. Now feel it die!" the red dalek said. "Total TARDIS destruction in ten rels, nine, eight, seven, six......five, four, three, two, one..." the TARDIS had vanished and the screen switched off. "The TARDIS has been destroyed. Now tell me, Doctor. What do you feel? Anger? Sorrow? Despair?"
"Yeah." The Doctor whispered. But the thing is he didn't feel her die, he hadn't felt her at all. His connection with the TARDIS died the moment Pete Tyler brought him to the other universe to save his life. And that was what made it so much worse.
"Then if emotions are so important, surely we have enhanced you?" the red dalek goaded.
"Yeah? Feel this!" Jack shouted shooting at the red dalek with his handgun but not able to even make a scratch on the casing.
"Ex-terminate!" the red dalek cried out shooting a death ray, killing Jack instantly. "Escort the Doctor to the Vault." The red dalek ordered. "He is the plaything of Davros now."
As the Doctor was led away he glanced back to Jack who winked at him.
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Donna was choking and coughing, the TARDIS was burning and the smoke was getting to her. She was going to die, she was so very sure. She hoped the Doctor and Jack will be able to save Earth and tell her Granddad and her Mum. She hopes she'll have a nice funeral with lots of people turning up.
Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump.
She can still hear that blasted heartbeat, she crawled along the floor, coughing, wanting nothing but to curl up against Rose's body. If she was going to die, she was going to do it with her closest friend. She reached out and put both hands on Rose's chest to help manoeuvre her body up, when she froze.
Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump.
One of Rose's hearts was working. Rose has two hearts. That means Rose was still alive and if she can use CPR on Rose then Rose can save them all. She got up onto her knees and thumped Rose's heart firmly but gently, she bent down and breathed into Rose's mouth.
She repeated. Again and again and again.
Then suddenly she felt Rose gasp into her mouth and her sight was blinded by gold light. The last thing she heard before she succumbed to the darkness beckoning to her was the TARDIS engines beginning to work.
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"Activate the holding cell." Davros ordered. Golden spotlight like cell switched on over the Doctor. Davros began to roll towards the Doctor "Excellent. Even when powerless, a Time Lord is best contained."
"Still scared of me, then?" the Doctor asked darkly reaching out and touching the holding cell, it rippled with a blue light.
"It is time we talked, Doctor. After so very long." Davros said.
"No, no, no, no, no, we're not doing the nostalgia tour, I wanna know what's happening, right here, right now, cos the Supreme Dalek said Vault, yeah?" the Doctor looked round "As in dungeon? Cellar? Prison? You're not in charge of the Daleks, are you? They've got you locked away down here in the basement like, what, a servant? Slave? Court jester?"
"We have... an arrangement." Davros said avoiding the Doctor's eye.
The Doctor let out a mocking laugh "No, no, no, no, I've got the word. You're the Dalek's pet!"
"You have become more irritating in your old age Doctor" Davros snarled.
"Then why am I still alive?" the Doctor said looking vaguely amused.
"You must be here. It was foretold. Even the Supreme Dalek would not dare to contradict the prophecies of Dalek Caan." Davros said turning a spotlight over Dalek Caan
"So cold and dark, fire is coming, the endless flames..." Dalek Caan said in a sing song voice. "This I have foreseen, in the wild, and the wind. The Doctor will be here, as witness. At the end of everything. The Doctor and his precious Children of Time." He giggled "And one of them will die!"
"Was it you, Caan? Did you kill Donna? Why did the TARDIS door close, tell me!" the Doctor raged.
"Oh, that's it! The anger. The fire. The rage of a Time Lord who butchered millions. There he is! Why so shy?" Davros jeered. "Show your true self. Dalek Caan has promised me that, too."
"I have seen. At the time of ending, the Doctor's soul will be revealed." Dalek Caan sang.
"What does that mean?" the Doctor asked frowning.
"We will discover it together. Our final journey. Because the ending approaches, the testing begins." Davros said.
"Testing of what?"
"The Reality Bomb." Davros said calmly. "Behold the apotheosis of my genius!" he flicks a switch and another holographic screen pops up showing what looked like a testing area.
"...two, one, zero. Activate planetary alignment field!" the Supreme Dalek shouted.
The Doctor watched in horror as the 27 planets glew a white glow. "That's Z-Neutrino energy... flattened by the alignment of the planets into a single string." He turned to Davros horrified. "No! Davros! Davros, you can't! You can't! NO!"
"Electrical energy, Doctor. Every atom in existence is bound by an electrical field. The Reality Bomb cancels it out. Structure falls apart. That test was focused on the prisoners alone. Full transmission will dissolve every form of matter." Davros said smiling.
"Stars are going out...The 27 planets. They become one vast transmitter. Blasting that wavelength..." the Doctor whispered.
"Across the entire universe. Never stopping, never faltering, never fading. People and planets and stars will become dust, and the dust will become atoms, and the atoms will become... nothing. And the wavelength will continue, breaking through the Rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade into every dimension, every parallel, every single corner of creation! This is my ultimate victory, Doctor! The destruction of reality itself!" Davros ranted.
"Incoming transmission! Origin Planet Earth." A dalek called cutting through the silence.
"Display!" the Supreme Dalek ordered. A holographic screen popped up with Martha sitting there looking confident.
"This is Martha Jones, representing the Unified Intelligence Taskforce, on behalf of the human race." She said calmly.
"Send transmission to the Vault. Continue to monitor." The Supreme Dalek ordered. A screen appeared in the Vault.
"This message is for the Dalek Crucible, repeat, can you hear me?" Martha called out.
"Put me through." The Doctor pleaded.
"It begins. As Dalek Caan foretold." Davros said smugly.
"The Children of Time will gather. And one of them will die!" Dalek Caan giggled.
"Stop saying that! Put me through!" the Doctor shouted.
"Rose! I'm sorry. I had to." Martha cried out then she noticed that Rose wasn't there but the Doctor was. "Who are you?"
"Oh, but the Doctor is powerless. My prisoner. State your intent." Davros interrupted before the Doctor could speak.
"My God she found you" Martha breathed remembering the Doctor from Rose's storied. She turned to Davros and held up a flat black stone like object in her hand. "I've got the Osterhagen Key. Leave this planet and its people alone. Or I'll use it."
"Osterhagen what? What's an Osterhagen Key?!" the Doctor asked.
"There's a chain of 25 nuclear warheads, placed in strategic points beneath the Earth's crust. If I use the key, they detonate and the Earth gets ripped apart." Martha explained calmly.
"What?! Who invented that?! Well, someone called Osterhagen, I suppose. Martha, are you insane!?" the Doctor shouted, shocked that Rose had picked up such a violent and rude girl.
"The Osterhagen Key is to be used, if the suffering of the human race is so great, so without hope... that this becomes the final option." Martha said sighing.
"That's never an option!" the Doctor protested.
"Don't argue with me, Doctor! Cos it's more than that. Now, I reckon the Daleks need these 27 planets for something, but what if it becomes 26? What happens then? Daleks? Would you risk it?" Martha argued.
"You're good" the Doctor said admiringly. The girl was intelligent if she worked all that out. No wonder Rose picked her. "But destruction is not an option Martha Jones"
"Second transmission, internal!" a dalek called out.
"Display!" the Supreme Dalek ordered. Another screen appeared with Jack, Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie.
"Captain Jack Harkness, calling all Dalek boys and girls! Are you receiving me? Don't send in your goons, or I'll set this thing off!" Jack said holding up a silver chain with a charm wired to the ship.
"Captain, what are you doing?" the Doctor asked.
"I've got a Warp Star wired into the mainframe. I break this shell, the entire Crucible goes up." Jack said calmly.
"You can't! Where did you get a Warp Star?!" the Doctor cried out not believing what is happening.
"From me! We had no choice. We saw what happened to the prisoners." Sarah Jane said stepping forwards.
"Impossible. That face... after all these years." Davros breathed.
"Davros?" Sarah Jane snarled. "It's been quite a while. Sarah Jane Smith, remember?"
"Oh, this is meant to be! The Circle of Time is closing. You were there, on Skaro, at the very beginning of my creation." Davros said.
"And I've learnt how to fight since then! You let the Doctor go, or this Warp Star - it gets opened." Sarah Jane threatened.
"I'll do it! Don't imagine I wouldn't." Jack added. The Doctor looks at the ground, feeling guilty; they were going to die to stop the daleks. They were willing to sacrifice themselves and the Earth...for him.
"And the prophecy unfolds." Davros said smirking.
"The Doctor's soul is revealed. See him! See the heart of him!" Dalek Caan sang.
"The man who abhors violence. Never carrying a gun. But this is the truth, Doctor. You take ordinary people and you fashion THEM into weapons. Behold your Children of Time, transformed into murderers. I made the Daleks, Doctor. You made this." Davros said.
"I don't even know who Martha Jones is. She's just someone trying to help" the Doctor said unconvincingly.
"But she was trained by Rose Tyler and if this is what Martha Jones is like, what have you turned Rose Tyler into? Already, I have seen them sacrifice today, for their beloved Rose who would do anything for you. The Earth woman, who fell opening the Subwave Network." Davros said smugly.
"Harriet Jones" the Doctor whispered.
"How many more? Just think! How many have died in your name?" Davros jeered. The Doctor remembered, oh so many faces that have sacrificed themselves for him: Jabe, the Controller, Lynda, Sir Robert, Mrs Moore, Mr Skinner, Ursula, Bridget, Jake, Rose, Donna and even Jack. "The Doctor. The man who keeps running, never looking back. Because he dare not, out of shame. This is my final victory, Doctor. I have shown you... yourself."
The Doctor stood there silently
"Enough! Engage defence zero-five." The Supreme Dalek bellowed.
"It's the Crucible or the Earth." Martha said menacingly holding up the Osterhagen key.
"Transmat engaged." A dalek called. The Osterhagen key and the Warp Star fall to the ground as a transmat snatches up everyone and sends them to the Vault.
"Martha! I've got you, it's all right..." Jack said picking Martha up off the ground.
"Don't move, all of you, stay still!" the Doctor ordered.
"Guard them! On your knees, all of you. Surrender!" Davros barked out.
"Do as he says." The Doctor said he lowered his voice to Jackie. "Jackie Tyler, I told you not to! What about Tony?"
Yeah, but I couldn't not see Rose. She's my daughter as much as Tony is my son" Jackie hissed.
"The final prophecy is in place. The Doctor and his children, all gathered as witnesses. Supreme Dalek, the time has come! Now... detonate the Reality Bomb!" Davros cackled.
"Activate planetary alignment field!" the Supreme Dalek ordered. "Universal Reality Detonation in 200 rels."
"You can't, Davros, just listen to me! Just stop!" the Doctor begged.
"Nothing can stop the detonation, nothing and no-one!" Davros said laughing insanely.
"Oh I don't know about that" Jackie said cockily. "My daughter is still out there. She'll stop you"
"Ms Tyler is dead" Davros spat out. "Her body burned with the TARDIS and Ms Noble"
"No!" Jackie cried out. "Not my little girl. Oh this is all your fault" she snarled at the Doctor.
"Rose" Martha whispered leaning against Jack in shock. "She can't be"
"She is" Jack said quietly. "I was there"
"Oh Rose" Sarah Jane whispered. Mickey stood there frozen unsure how to feel or what to say or do.
"It was the last line of the prophecy" Davros said smirking. "The Valiant Child so very far from home will die in battle so very soon. I believe you heard it before Doctor. It was always going to happen and now we shall win!"
"No quite right" Dalek Caan giggled. "There is more to the prophecy. I lied, I lied, there is one last verse!"
"What verse? What do you mean?" Davros demanded.
"One last verse to the prophecy. It is not over yet!" Dalek Caan giggled. "Little Red Riding Hood trapped in the last TARDIS, burning, burning to death. But a Phoenix rises from the ashes and everything must turn to dust" Dalek Caan.
"No" Davros whispered in realisation. "It can't be"
"It cannot, it cannot, it cannot" the daleks chanted acting...terrified.
"Doctor, they're scared" Sarah Jane whispered. "But daleks are never scared"
"Apart from one time" Mickey whispered. "One time..."
"And another" Martha whispered her eyes widening in realisation. "They were terrified...which means..."
The sound of the TARDIS engines could be heard and everyone turned slowly to see the blue box materialise.
"Doctor! She's alive!" Jack shouted joyfully.
The doors opened and golden light spilled out, everyone took a step back, hands over their eyes to protect them.
Rose Tyler took a step out. Her eyes were shut blissfully and her golden blonde hair was streaked with red, her skin glowed with a golden tinge.
"Rose!" Martha cried out.
Rose's eyes shot open and they were no longer the amber hazel everyone knew...they were golden, pure gold light.
"I am the Bad Wolf" she said serenely.
"You are an Abomination!" Davros shouted. "Exterminate her!"
"EX-TERMINATE!"
She held her hand out and a gold light stopped the dalek ray.
"I am the sun and the moon. I am the day and night. I am time itself and I burn in the Medusa Cascade" Rose said her eyes growing brighter.
"Everything must turn to dust!" Davros said. "You said it yourself, that is what I am doing. I am doing your work." He was pleading for his life. It was so obvious to the Doctor and the Doctor knew it wasn't going to work.
"Everything turns to dust" Rose repeated. "Everything dies. Everything has its time...but not today" Rose added. It was obvious though that she meant everything but the Daleks will live another day.
"Rose" Jack said stepping forwards. "Rose please...change me back. Change me back to mortal"
"I cannot!"
"But you said so yourself, everyone dies. Please" Jack said pleadingly.
"And you will do." Rose said quietly. "You are the Face of Boe. You are the greatest being out there and you will save billions upon billions of civilizations before you die your final death...but I give you a gift." She waved her hand slowly. "I bring life"
Somewhere on Earth a woman woke up with a gasp and a man staggered to the floor clutching his chest in shock.
"I send the planets back" Rose said slowly waving her hand. "Callufrax Minorr, Jahoo, Shallacatop, Woman Wept, Clom, Pryovile, the Lost Moon of Poosh, Adipose Three and so many more."
"Rose!" the Doctor shouted. "You got to let this power go. It's going to kill you, remember what happened the last time? You almost burned to death"
"I will not" Rose said. "I'll do anything to protect my Children of Time" the gold glow faded from her eyes and for a moment everyone saw Rose, her love for them before the gold glow returned.
"This is wrong!" Davros snarled. "You should be dead. You and the Noble child"
"The DonnaRose, the DonnaRose. I bonded them together so this moment can happen" Dalek Caan giggled. "Donna Noble kissed life to Rose and the Bad Wolf woke. We shall all die!"
"You betrayed the Daleks. You're own kind!" Davros shouted.
"I saw the Daleks. I saw what we were and knew that Rose Tyler was right. I serve only the goddess Bad Wolf. Everything turns to dust" Dalek Caan shouted, lucid for one small moment.
"I see your atoms and I divide them" Rose growled, squeezing her fist as every dalek turned to dust. "I burn...I burn in the Medusa Cascade. I can see everything. All that is, all that was, all that ever could be"
"Rose please let it go!" the Doctor pleaded.
"I am so tired" Rose whispered. "I am so...very tired"
Her eyes fluttered shut and the golden glow faded as she fell backwards, Jack reached out to catch her only to be beaten by Donna who looked confused and furious. Her red hair streaked with blonde.
"Will any of you tell me what the bloody hell happened?" she shouted holding a sleeping Rose up.