"…With Heaven and Hell…" The Doctor turned back to what he was doing as Jack watched the dance girls on the stage dressed as devils bar Tallulah who was dressed as an angel.
"So now my dear, I ain't the girl you knew Cos the angel's gotten heaven but I've got you The tree of life grows tall you'll see My bad, bad angel, you put the devil in me.""What the hell is Martha doing?" Jack muttered as he watched Martha trying to get to the other side of the stage, stepping on the showgirls' costumes. Martha dodged back and forth clearly indicating to someone elsewhere to go to meet her on the other side. Jack opened his mouth to shout to Martha only to be cut short by a loud scream from the stage and a gasp from behind him. He turned to the person nearest. "What?"
"Fundamental DNA type 467-989. 989. Hold on, that means planet of origin." Jack watched as a shocked expression crossed the Doctor's face. "Skaro!" He stared at Jack worried, before his reflexes kicked in. "ROSE!" He screamed as he ran towards the stage.
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As they reached the stage another scream came, along with the sound of a baby whimpering. The Doctor ran down the hallway towards the sound, as he ran into the prop room he found Rose trying desperately trying to calm down Tala. He slowly moved towards Rose, gingerly laying a hand on her back, he sighed when Rose didn't shrug it off.
"Where's Martha?" He asked her softly.
"They took her." He raised his eyebrow. "The pig people took her." He pulled on his coat. Rose followed suit. "You're not coming Rose."
"Why not?"
"Because I said so." Jack quietly left the room and closed the door, leaving the two to talk in private.
"I won't get hurt." Her eyes flared and turned gold slightly. "Nothing worse could happen to me."
"I don't want you or Tala down there. I'm not worried about you getting hurt."
"Then let me go with you!" The Doctor's eyes began to glow.
"Why can't you just listen to me for once?" He begged.
"Because I know you too well. I know that you can lose control over your Time Lord side. I need to be able to stop you when that happens." She told him pointedly. He ran a hand through his hair. "What's down there?"
"Are you sure you want to know?"
"What's down there Doctor?"
"In one word?" She nodded. "Skaro." Rose stepped back from him.
"Skaro?" He nodded slightly. "Rose I won't let anything happen to you or Tala. Even though you don't like me much at the moment." He whispered lowly.
"Doctor…" Rose began. "I just can't do this." He looked at her confused. "It's just so hard to be near you and not to be reminded of what we've lost." She reached and took his hand gently in hers. "I don't love you any less, I just I'm having some trouble dealing with everything unlike you." He sighed trying to hold back his anger at her comment.
"Rose, what makes you think I'm not bothered by all this?" Rose opened her mouth. "Do you really think I can be that cold not to care when we can't have another baby?" He stepped back from her, "I thought we could work together but instead we're pushing each other apart." He leaned closer, whispering into her ear. "And it's not me doing most of the pushing." This time it was him who blocked of his mind to her. He spun round and strode the few steps to the sewer ladder and climbed down. Rose watched him realising that he was right.
She turned to face Jack who simply shook his head at her as he followed the Doctor down; Rose took a deep breath and followed the pair of them.
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The Doctor watched as the prisoners walked past them. He barely cast Rose a glance as he stepped in between Martha and another young man. Rose stepped into the line behind her and Jack followed suit.
"I am so glad to see you." Martha told them sincerely.
"You're welcome." Rose told her, when the Doctor merely grunted. The prisoners were marched into a large lab, with a few Daleks inside.
"Ask them what they're doing." The Doctor told Martha as they halted.
"Why can't you?" She shot back at him.
"Alien, Time Lord…"
"Okay." Martha cut him off, realising what Rose had meant when she said she'd pick up quickly on his rambling. "Daleks, I demand to be told. What is this Final Experiment? Report!"
"You will bear witness." One of the Daleks told her.
"To what?"
"This is the dawn of a new age."
"What does that mean?"
"We are the only four Daleks so the species must evolve a life outside the shell. The Children of Skaro must walk again." The black Dalek's shell began to open, a tall creature stepped forward. The head was almost that of a Dalek however it had a mouth. The hands were claw like.
"What is it?" Rose muttered.
"I am a human Dalek. I am your future"
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The Doctor slowly slipped away, grabbing Rose and Jack's arms pulling them behind the machinery as well.
"These…humans will become like me." The hybrid began. "Prepare them for hybridisation." Rose looked at the Doctor whose expression had hardened. She watched as he turned on the device he was holding.
"What is that sound?" The hybrid asked. The Doctor stepped out from behind the machinery, Jack and Rose followed.
"That would be me. Hello. Surprise. Boo. Et cetera."
"Doctor." The Dalek began.
"That's me." He waved. "You've met Captain Jack." Jack waved as well. "I'm not sure if you've met the Bad Wolf." He smirked slightly at the Daleks, but Rose could hear his dark tone. Rose chose that moment to cut him off.
"The Time Lords live on." She told them slightly smugly.
"The enemy of the Daleks." At that moment Tala began to squirm. She caught sight of the gold Dalek, immediately Tala began to giggle and try to reach for one. The Daleks clearly didn't take kindly to her actions. "Exterminate." Immediately the Doctor stepped in front of Tala and Rose.
He raised his eyebrow turning to Rose and Jack slightly as he spoke: "I knew buying that 'thing' would end in disaster."
"Wait." The creature ordered.
"A new Dalek." Jack muttered. "Not quite as terrifying and deadly. So I like it." Rose pulled a face at Jack.
"The Cult of Skaro escaped your slaughter."
"Compared to a Dalek's version of slaughter ours was simply imprisonment." Rose narrowed her gaze the Daleks, slightly shocked as they shook. "How did you end up here anyway?"
"Emergency Temporal Shift."
"Oh, that must have roasted up your power cells, yeah? Time was, four Daleks could have conquered the world but instead your skulking away, hidden in the dark, experimenting. All of which results in you."
"I am Dalek in human form."
"So that means you're part human. Dalek…erm…" Rose turned to Jack.
"Sec." Jack told her.
"Dalek Sec, so you should feel emotions and humanity."
"What are you to talk of humanity?" He challenged. "Time Lords don't feel humanity." Theta saw Rose's face change, salt was being poured into the fresh wound.
"For your information, you…"
"What do you feel?" Martha suddenly cut in, speaking up for the first time, the Doctor shot her a grateful glance.
"I…feel…everything we wanted from mankind, which is ambition, hatred, aggression and war. Such…a genius for war."
"No, that's not what humanity means."
"I think it does. At heart, this species is so very…Dalek."
"All right, so what have you achieved hen? With this Final Experiment, eh? Nothing! 'Cause I can show you what you're missing with this thing. Simple little radio."
"What is the purpose of that device?"
"Well, exactly. It plays music. What's the point of that? Oh, with music, you can dance to it, sing with it, fall in love to it." He spoke reminding Rose of everything. "Unless you're a Dalek of course. Then its just noise." Jack tossed him the radio and pointed at it with his own screwdriver as the Doctor held it. "Run!"
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The Doctor helped Rose climb up the ladder. The group huddled together as the other prisoners ran away.
"The Daleks are bad enough at any time but at the moment they're vulnerable but right now that makes them more dangerous than ever." He told them.
"What are Daleks?"
"Basically their xenophobic. They have had their emotions removed as they believe they make them weak, but they are afraid of one thing, the Doctor." Jack explained quickly.
"So letting them escape is really, really bad." Martha clarified, the three nodded.
"We need to get out of here." Rose told them. "Its not safe. They'll be coming after us."
"That could be a problem Doc." The Doctor looked up and saw what Jack meant, surrounding the camp were pig slaves,
"We can dodge them yeah? Like we always do." Rose asked uncertainly.
"Actually, they're not what I was on about." Jack told them pointing to the sky. They looked up to see Daleks flying towards them, shooting and firing. The Doctor saw Solomon trying to reason with them before being shot.
"DALEKS!" He screamed furious, "ALL RIGHT SO IT'S MY TURN! THEN KILL ME! KILL ME IF IT'LL STOP YOU ATTACKING THESE PEOPLE!"
"I will be the destroyer of our greatest enemy."
"THEN DO IT! DO IT! JUST DO IT! I'VE GOT NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE! DO IT!" Rose looked at him and saw the pain in his eyes, fully apparent; she pressed Tala into Jack's arms.
"EXTER-"
"NOOOOO!" She screamed stepping in front of him. His eyes showed confusion. "DON'T YOU DARE DO THAT!" She yelled at him, in her husband's native language.
"WHY NOT?!" He answered, in his own language. "YOU THINK I DON'T CARE ROSE! I'M NOT GOING THROUGH WHAT HAPPENED ON GALLIFREY WITH YOU, I CAN'T GO THROUGH IT AGAIN!"
"I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO!"
"IT FEELS LIKE IT!" He told her heatedly.
"Excuse me!" Jack cut in.
"WHAT!" They screamed together facing him, causing Martha to step behind Jack slightly.
"The TARDIS is translating."
"She doesn't translate Gallifreyan." Rose told him.
"Then can you explain how Martha can understand you?"
"Why does she chose now to translate?" The Doctor muttered under his breath.
"Probably because we've all had enough of your behaviour towards each other." Martha told them sternly. The rest of the group looked at her open mouthed shocked at her bluntness.
"BUT…" He was cut off by Rose pressing her lips to his, he thought about pushing her off, until he realised the urgency she as kissing him with, and instead wrapped his arms around her tightly. He slowly pulled back from her. "Rose?" He asked.
"I never meant that you didn't care." She sobbed slightly. "I meant that you handle things differently you won't ever fully open up to me. Do you have any idea how much that hurts?" He shook his head.
"I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry." He hugged her tightly. "I promise I won't bottle it up anymore."
"I'm sorry too." She gasped out. "I just don't feel that I'm worthy enough to be your wife anymore." He pulled back slightly, meeting her eyes.
"Rose you mean more to me than anything in the universe, there is no one I'd rather be married to. Promise me you'll never think that again." Rose nodded; he pulled her back to him and buried his face in her hair. A subtle cough came their way. Martha watched them while Jack had a big smile on his face. Martha tried to keep a neutral face as she pointed to the Daleks. It was then it dawned on the Doctor that they hadn't fired on them.
"The Doctor will follow." The Daleks told him.
"Tell me you're not going to listen to them." Rose whispered.
"Daleks never change their minds Rose, yet they just did. They refused to kill us." He looked at the Dalek. "I'll go on one condition! If I come with you, you spare the lives of everyone here! Do you hear me?"
"The humans will be spared."
"I'm ready." He shared a knowing glance with Jack who patted his pocket slightly.
"Then follow." The Dalek hesitated slightly. "The Bad Wolf will follow also." Rose looked at her husband who nodded slightly, Jack passed Tala to her. Martha looked worried then realised that Jack was staying with her, which was comporting.
"Good luck." The Doctor whispered to Jack, before taking Rose's hand and following the Dalek.
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"Martha can you help the injured." He told her rather than asked. Martha walked over to a tent and immediately set it up as a medical tent. Almost instantly people were there.
"Sure. Why did you pat your pocket?" She asked him. He sighed and helped her nurse the man in front of her.
"I've got psychic paper on me all the time, not to mention my own sonic screwdriver. He wants me to use them but I'm not sure why yet." He told her, Martha was silent for a few minutes.
"Earlier you said that the Doctor couldn't cope with losing another child, has he and Rose lost one before?" Jack took a deep breath and studied Martha closely; she didn't seem the type to spread gossip so he told her.
"Before the Doctor met Rose he was married."
"He split up with his wife for Rose?" Martha asked confused, Jack shook his head and leaned in closer.
"The Doctor, when he was much, much younger was forced into an arranged marriage on his home planet." Jack stepped back as another man entered the tent bleeding from a head wound. Martha immediately started to clean up the blood. "They absolutely hated each other, by the way never ever mention his previous wife to him unless you want a moody Doctor for days, just a heads up on that."
"Can you hold this for me?" She asked, Jack grasped the end of the bandage and held it in place. "What happened next?"
"The Doctor was never allowed to see his children grow up." Martha shook her head. "He can't cope with it happening again."
"What happened to them? The children I mean."
"They were all killed in a war, a war with the Daleks." Jack explained.
"I thought he was divorced, well not divorced but whatever it is where he comes from." Jack smirked slightly.
"If only things were that simple." He told her. "I told you it takes something like this to bring them together." He told her.
"I'll make a note of that." She smiled at him, he smiled back at her. Jack pulled his screwdriver out of his pocket, and scanned another man's leg. "It acts as a scanner as well?" She asked.
"Its not as accurate or efficient as the ones in the med bay but it'll do if you need something in a hurry. I don't think it's broken, probably just a sprain." Martha bent down and picked up the physic paper that had fallen out of Jack's pocket when he'd pulled the screwdriver out.
"Is this supposed to be warm?" She asked as she passed it to him.
"No its not…" He told her opening it.
"What's it say?" She asked, trying to read what was written on the paper.
"Dalekanium conductor." He looked up. "That doesn't really help." He muttered. "Where's the best place to put a conductor?" He had no idea being from the 51st century.
"Depends on what you want to conduct," She stepped out of the tent, looking around. "If it's electricity or something similar it'll be somewhere high. The Daleks haven't got any power have they?"
"Martha Jones you are great!" Jack told her before grabbing her hand and running with her towards the tallest building – the Empire State building.
TBC
A/N: I hope no one minded me cutting Tallulah out, besides the fact she was annoying I couldn't type without 'My name is Tallulah…" sticking in my head from Bugsy Malone.