Rescue.

Susan was inside her TARDIS holding on to the piece of cloth her sonic screwdriver informed her had plenty of DNA on. A simple test informed her who the DNA belonged to.

Tony Tyler.

Susan closed her eyes, trying to think about what she was going to do next. She already had the basics in her mind - use the TARDIS to find Tony, try to find some way of getting him back without Rose cottoning onto what she was doing.

Beyond that she just didn't have a clue. One option said that she should take the information to the police and let them handle it. The other one….simply take Rose directly away from Earth and dump her into a black hole where she belonged.

Her grandfather - grandfathers might not agree with that plan, but she couldn't see any other way around the issue.

Rose Tyler was a psychopath. She'd kidnapped and beaten her own brother for the love of Omega, what more proof did you need ?

Jackie walked into the TARDIS and watched the Time lady with her head bowed and her hand over her eyes as if she was counting in her mind.

Jackie sighed, she knew that the Time lady was in deep concentration and that the choice she was going through must be killing her.

Walking up to the silent Time lady, Jackie rested a hand on Susan's shoulder.

" What're you planning to do ?"

Susan jumped, forgetting for a moment that the Tyler Matron was still in her TARDIS, " I dunno. I can't think of anything concrete but for the time being, Tony's my number one concern," she carried on once Jackie finished nodding her head, " Rose is my other priority, but I'm gonna have to be spot on with this."

Pete and John had just walked in the TARDIS - Pete looking around in awe around the console room before focusing on Susan.

John took the cloth from Susan and calmly took the cloth from her and fed it into the gene tracer.

For a moment there was silence as the Time lord technology in the console examined and read the information and later a holographic map appeared above the console, suspended in the time rotor. Next to it was a string of text that Jackie recognised as Time lord script.

Susan nodded as she programmed the course into the TARDIS navigational panel.

" Right, the controls are set. But this is important," turning to Pete, Susan starting giving the man his marching orders.

" Pete, the first thing I'm gonna do is find Tony and make sure he's ok. Then I'm going to knock Rose out."

" What with ?"

Susan held up a oddly shaped cylinder, " Tranquiliser, fully powered. This'll put her in a sleep that no drug can bring her out of for about 5 hours."

" After I've taken care of her, I'll contact you, but please make sure the police are there. Make a story up, say that you received a call or something. I don't care, just make sure their there when I need them but make sure they're nearby in the next 2 hours."

" Why 2 hours ?" Jackie asked.

" Because that's when the TARDIS is programmed to materialise in the next location. If I was a cop, I'd be a little suspicious that you've just received a message. Like I said, the tranq will last 5 hours, 6 if we're lucky."

The Tylers looked at one another while John was calm.

" Listen carefully…" Susan started explaining her plan.

2 hours later…

The TARDIS, set for silent materialisation, landed in what looked like a run down house that'd clearly seen better days.

Susan was standing by the console, looking at the image on the scanner screen. Touching the tab to unlock the main doors, she walked out of her time machine.

If the image on the screen had been uninviting, being out in the open was much worse. The building she was in was basically truly run down. All around Susan could see the tools, the numerous cans of paint and bags of plaster thrown around.

Susan didn't care what happened to the place, it could be demolished for all she cared but right now she had other concerns.

There was a light ahead and moving carefully, careful not to make a sound, she kept her ears open.

Already, she could hear a voice and a child whimper. Why Rose brought a child here was beyond her imagination.

" Oh, when I get back, when I get back. My Doctor…." Again, the throaty huskiness.

" I did it all for you….my Doctor….I love you so much."

Susan felt sick. There was no way her grandfather was going to meet this insane woman ever again, the " I did it all for you " part made her wince in disgust."

Grandfather would never approve of anything like this, but then again, he had brought it on herself. He'd allowed her obsession to grow, afraid of being alone after Gallifrey's destruction.

Susan crept up, keeping an eye out. It wasn't beyond Rose's imagination to set traps to warn her of intruders, no matter how creepy and obsessive she was right now.

But there wasn't anything to be worried about, Rose clearly believed she was safe and sound.

Her last mistake.

Silently taking the tranquiliser from her inside pocket, Susan crept nearer and nearer to the light and took a peek through a gap.

The place had a small table with half eaten food on unwashed plates, cans of alcohols scattered around, but the worst was to come.

Susan looked at what looked like a shrine.

Pictures of her grandfather in his tenth incarnation and a few others of a man with short hair, wearing a leather jacket were pinned to a small red wall surrounded by candles. It reminded Susan of the Aztec tomb she, her grandfather, Ian and Barbara had landed in all those centuries ago.

She could see Tony, the boy was tied to a post with duct tape and Susan saw, incongruously, a belt with a buckle. It had a reddish tint and Susan closed her eyes for a moment before opening them again.

Please, she thought begging to any higher being that had some kindness left, please don't let that be blood.

Once she got control of herself again, she looked back in and found Rose.

The woman was hunched over a can of beans, her eyes wild and rimmed with thick makeup - she looked more like a garish circus clown than a sane human being.

Rose was muttering to herself, ignoring Tony and everything else completely.

Susan looked through her gap and went along the wall, trying to find a place she could sneak in unnoticed where she could take Rose by surprise. There wasn't one. Going back to the original hole, she sneaked under a few crates and kept an eye on Rose at all times. The crates blocked Rose's view of where Susan was and the candlelight was the only illumination in the place so she had shadows on her side. It took her a good 5 minutes to get around till she was more or less behind the still muttering Rose.

Susan waited for a moment, gathering her energy. She was a little disconcerted by the fact Rose hadn't bothered to look around, so content in her cold little world was she that she didn't notice a thing.

Susan moved so fast that she was a blur. She grabbed hold of the surprised human and plunged the tranquiliser right on carotid artery in Rose's neck. Susan held the still struggling human, letting the drug do its work.

Rose's struggling started to slow and she became sluggish, then…she stopped.

Grabbing hold of the duct tape roll, Susan wrapped a lot of it round the woman's hands and feet. Susan looked up and stared at Tony.

The boy had slept right through it.

Susan sighed. All in a nights work.

A/N. Well, another 2 chapters to go. Hope you enjoyed it.