L'Arc de Triomphe, Paris, France_11th July Saturday, 12:24 p.m.

The Doctor and Jaqui stood there, gazing at the deep, dark, gigantic round hole in front of them. Just where the Arch of Triumph was supposed to be, a gap replaced it, making it obvious it had been zapped out of existence.

'Where's the arch gone?' Jaqui asked anxiously, even though he knew the answer.

'Gone.' The Doctor couldn't take his eyes off the hole. 'Just gone.'

The Doctor crouched down to the edge of the hole and touched it carefully with one finger.

'Gone,' the Doctor repeated again. 'Not the same way he's destroyed the Rift Manipulator, but the same chemical effect with what was left of Adam's doing.'

'So this Adam… Who is he?' Jaqui wondered aloud. He turned to the Doctor. 'Is he the one you were talking about in the space-box?'

The Doctor strolled along the edge of the hole with Jaqui at his tail. Jaquolei cleared his throat, making the Doctor turn to him.

'Oh, was that to me?' he said, realising Jaqui was talking to him. 'Well… er… might be?'

The Doctor went back to his walk. Jaqui was going to follow when he remembered. The Doctor noticed Jaqui far behind.

'Something wrong, Jaqui?' he called back. 'It's alright. You're safe just with me.'

Jaqui looked up to him.

'My parents were here with me, when I saw you come,' Jaqui said. 'But they got away in time, didn't they?'

The Doctor just stared back at Jaqui, without saying a word. Jaqui started to lose hope.

'They wouldn't have stayed here long,' he told himself loudly. 'Maybe they went to look for me just in time before that green light got the arch.' The Doctor just stood there. 'Doctor! Tell me they're alright! I'm right, ain't I?'

Silence took over for a moment.

'Right,' the Doctor finally replied.

But there was no smile to reassure that answer. There was no gesture telling him he was really right, that his parents were still alive. There were only the Doctor's sad eyes, telling him the truth. They were dead.

Jaqui just nodded.

The Doctor slowly took in air. 'Right!' he yelled, and ran away from the edge of the hole. Jaqui did so too.

And from the hole green light came out, striking the sky. And a booming voice came from the heavens.

'Finally found you, Doctor!'

And Adam came down towards the Earth. Jaqui turned to the Doctor, seeking to know what they should do next. The Doctor just gaped at Adam nodding at him.

'That's Adam,' he said.

'And that's… bad, is it?' Jaqui guessed.

'Yep.' The Doctor walked to Jaqui and grabbed his arm. 'This is the part where we run.'

And they ran.

They just went away just to keep safe. The Doctor was again furious for being such a coward. But he knew Adam had the power to just appear in front of him at any moment to get him, now that he knew where the Doctor was. He just kept on running, without looking back, just looking forward to what was next.

Jack, Gwen and Ianto had seen it too, and they had headed there, but when they had gotten there, there wasn't anything else, but the hole where the Arc of Triumph had been. Jack couldn't think of any other place that the Doctor would think of going to.

Suddenly Gwen's eyes went white and started to run away from them. Jack and Ianto tried to follow her, but she unbelievably went fast, maybe even faster than a regular human being. They just let her go on. They were sure she knew what she was doing.

Tour Eiffel, Champ de Mars, Paris, France_11th July Saturday 12:40 p.m.

They followed the road without paying mind where it took them. But at the end of it they found themselves at the Eiffel Tower. The Doctor and Jaqui stopped, overlooking all the tourists in front of them, enjoying what might be the end of their lives.

Jaqui thought the Doctor was the one who was taking in the worst of everything. He was always starting to talk to himself and shout and make weird noises. His expression always changed from serious, sad and then to nothing and he would just suddenly after a couple of moments snap out of it and just yell. The Doctor just looked over the humans all but happy.

"Lots," he muttered to no one in particular, "lots of people… too many people…"

"Would you feel better if we ran another way?" Jaqui asked surprisingly calm.

But then a crack was heard from behind them and they turned around to see Adam reaching them slowly. His lips curved into a smile at the sight of the Doctor and his companion.

"Well, well, Doctor," Adam's voice boomed from everywhere, not just from his lips. "I see you've found company, again." Adam reached them, but kept a fair distance between them. Adam spoke, his voice heard from his own lips. "Dragging more people along with you, but, Doctor, you already know the consequences. You'll always lose them."

Jaqui looked from Adam to the Doctor, who started to look pained and lose his expression again.

"Why do you need someone if you're gonna ruin their lives? Why if you are gonna ruin the lives of the people who are around them?"

Jaqui looked around the three of them. Now all the tourists were watching them, getting the wrong idea of Paris – it didn't look like the lover's city anymore, more like the broken-hearted's city. A hubbub was gaining in volume, but nor Adam and neither the Doctor seemed to notice. They were both in their little world with just them alone.

"There's nothing for you anymore. You've lost," Adam looked all serious, but inside he was laughing in triumph as the broken Doctor showed up. "Rose has gone. Captain Harkness has lost all his faith in you by now." He tried to recall more people in his life and suddenly snapped his fingers getting the Doctor's gaze at him. "Aha! Martha! She loved you, but you ignored her. And you never even noticed. And the brilliant Donna." The Doctor's eyes widened tears building up. "Donna Noble. Noble by name and noble by nature." He paused. "You've ruined her perfect life." Tears started to stream down his cheeks: big, juicy and filled with agony. "She wanted to stay Doctor and you wouldn't let her stay."

"It was for her own good," the Doctor snarled.

"But you almost killed her." Hesitation. "That Time Lord mind you've got, has almost killed her. When your Time Lord DNA went into your 'canned hand' she absorbed the DNA to save the TARDIS and herself – oh, shame on her. Such a selfish thought of her. And instead of saving herself, it's got her half-dead."

"She's still alive."

"No, she isn't." Adam took a step closer to the Doctor. "Because you took her entire memory about you. You've destroyed her. All the wonderful adventures she's had with you. And you took them away."

The Doctor broke into more tears, trying to hide his face away.

"You've destroyed every single person you've travelled with."

"No he didn't!"

The Doctor slowly and weakly turned to Jaqui. Adam kept his gaze at the Doctor.

"You've still got friends," Jaqui said, with enthusiasm. The Doctor shook his head denying it. "Yes, you do." Jaqui laughed seeing the Doctor not open his eyes to what he still had. "I haven't known you for a long time, but I do know you enough to be the best person… um… alien – if that's proper for you – there's ever had."

The Doctor's face started to lighten up, but suddenly went back to sad mode.

"But…" the Doctor started, "I'm coward. I've been running away from this man trying to save my own life. I let everyone down."

"Well, what are you doing here?"

"I've ran away from him, that's why I'm here."

Jaqui gave a loud laugh. "No, Doctor. You saved my life." The Doctor frowned at this. "You've instructed me to save me and the people in this world… Well, just told me we had to stop this man – we didn't really save the world just yet. You stood up and walked off from your friends to try and save my parents. You've taken a step forward, not caring what will happen next. You've gone to the Arch of Triumph knowing Adam would be there. You're the bravest man in the whole of time."

The Doctor's face was still sad. "But, why do I feel so guilty?"

Jaqui looked at Adam, seeing a flash of green passing through his own eyes at the sight of him. "Because he's trying to control you."

The Doctor tensely turned back to Adam. He then understood what Jaqui meant. Adam had been trying to get to his mind all the time they'd been talking. He saw his whole life pass by rapidly before his eyes as green flashes of light tried to invade his memories. The Doctor snapped out of it once again with a big violent war shout that sent Adam to the ground gasping for air.

The Doctor turned around to Jaqui, wiping the tracks of his tears and unexpectedly hugged him tightly.

"Thank you," the Doctor murmured.

"No probs," Jaqui replied.

Adam weakly, but gaining strength stood up and raised his arm up. Jaqui saw Adam and with a brave notion for the Doctor being able to save the world, he pushed the Doctor away as Adam shot a ray of green towards them, hitting Jaqui fully and making him disappear.

The Doctor just watched in shock, not really understanding what had been happening, but he got a glimpse in his mind of what had Jaqui did: he pushed him to save his life.

The Doctor, now infuriated stood up and pushed Adam by the shoulders.

"Why did you do that?" the Doctor yelled. "Why did you do that?"

The Doctor looked around, seeing the people around them watching them, now horrified looks on their faces. They were running away from the scene now. Adam just kept on grinning at him, no benevolent thoughts in that mind of his. Just as the Doctor saw that smile he just ran away.

"Yes, Doctor," Adam called back at him. "Just run away again."

The Doctor stopped at the Eiffel Tower's foot, panting, gasping for air, taking Adam's words in deeper and taking its meaning: how he was such a coward. The Doctor, all serious and enraged, turned around to look back at Adam.

"I'm not going to run away this time," he yelled, determined. "You hear me? I won't run away this time!"

"Ooh, acting like a hero now, are we?" Adam teased.

The Doctor stood straight and confident with himself shouted back.

"Adam, I may be a coward. But this time, this coward in me is going to stop you from taking any more lives!" The Doctor started to pound at his chest firmly. "I'm going to stop you no matter what! The Oncoming Storm is coming for you!"

"Well, then." Adam crossed his arms. "Let's see your first move."

The Doctor just stood there. He really didn't know what to do…

"Well," Adam clenched his hands, a green flash of light going through his eyes, "if you don't mind, I'd like to take that first move."

Adam opened his right hand and pushed it forward. The wind formed the shape of his hand, getting bigger in size and turning into a greenish colour. The Doctor crouched down to his feet as the hand hit hard at the Eiffel Tower, destroying it completely. People screamed, running away from the building as it fell on top of them, killing them all. The Doctor stood up again, looking around himself, seeing disaster. And not far away from there, he saw Gwen, watching all of this.

"Gwen, get out of there!" the Doctor shouted. But Gwen didn't seem to understand him. "Right, she doesn't' understand me..."

Gwen just stood there impassively, the Doctor noticed. He frowned as she tilted her head at one side, her eyes wide open and white.

"Oh, Gwen!" Adam exclaimed. "You came just in time!"

The Doctor looked back at Adam as he walked towards Gwen.

"Stay away from her!" the Doctor yelled, infuriated. "I won't let you do anything to her."

Adam reached Gwen and tapped her cheek. She didn't seem to notice. He smiled staring back at the Doctor.

"Poor Gwen, back into her own world." He took her by the arms, leaning his chin in her head. "She's feeling the power of the Rift and it's too much for her. Her ancestor's powers are kicking in, don't you think, Doctor?" The Doctor stared at Gwen, sadly. "Well, we can't be sentimental in front of all these people, can we? We better get to a quiet place."

Adam snapped his fingers. By the time Jack and Ianto got to the Eiffel Tower, Adam, the Doctor and Gwen were gone.