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Chapter Five
The Doctor held Martha until she was too exhausted to cry, and then he led her to her room where she fell unto the bed and promptly fell asleep. He went back to the control room and found that Jack had taken Tish and Bill to another room and made tea.
The Doctor looked murderous and Jack was sure that if the Master came in at that time, the Doctor would kill him or maybe take a shot at killing him.
"How much time do we have?"
The Doctor looked around the controls, "at least an hour until the TARDIS is ready for flight." Jack nodded and then said, "I'm sorry Doctor." "Me too," the Doctor replied. They stood silently for a while then Jack asked, "how is Martha?" The Doctor shook his head, "but she's sleeping now. She'll have a headache when she awakens but I hope she'll sleep until - "he stopped. "Don't worry Doctor, you can fix this. Besides you don't really have a choice, do you?"
Jack took the cups to the kitchen and the Doctor went to check on Martha. He sat on the bed next to her and looked at her. She was sleeping soundly. Martha, he thought, I'm sorrier than I can say. I should have known that the Master was a killer, I should have protected you. Better still I should have let you become a doctor, instead of taking you around. Martha turned and the Doctor stood up and left the room.
He went back and sat with Jack. They sat quietly together for a while and then as if he couldn't help himself the Doctor began to talk. "I met Martha at the hospital, you know. I checked myself in when I suspected some weird going-ons. A plasmavore had killed a princess and the Judoon were looking for it – her. We went to the Moon. She saved my life, without even knowing who I was and I decided to take her on a trip – one trip. We ended up going all over the place, finally I brought her home and here we are. She's dying Jack all because she saved my life on the Moon and I wanted to show off. Show off to a girl, Jack what kind of man am I?"
The Captain didn't reply knowing that the Doctor was just blowing off steam. They sat in silence for a few more minutes.
Suddenly something growled. They both turned and looked at each other and Jack put up his hands as if surrendering, "not me," he said. "Me neither," the Doctor said, "but what was - ?"
The growl became louder, then there was a belch, a loud long belch, and the TARDIS began to shake. "Hold on," the Doctor shouted above the noise. The TARDIS continued growling, groaning and belching all the while moving up and down and then sideways. This went on for about ten minutes and then it stopped.
The Doctor ran to the door and opened it. They were still at the end of the universe, "I guess the TARDIS is ready to fly again," he said.
Martha had not stirred and after checking on her the Doctor set coordinates for earth and they set off. They landed in the alley and the Doctor and Jack walked cautiously to the door.
It was night time.
They walked out and then they heard voices.
Bill and Henry were standing outside their truck. Jack and the Doctor looked at each other. "Somehow we managed to go back in time," the Doctor said. They hugged each other.
Tish and Martha were a little way off. When Jack and the Doctor saw them, they ran towards them. Jack picked Tish off the ground and twirled her round and round, the Doctor was hugging Martha and laughing, "You gave me quite a scare, Martha," he said softly. Martha looked at him and asked, "what did you say?" he shook his head.
"We have missed you ladies," Jack told them.
"Missed us? But we came here together, you guys just went towards the TARDIS and now you're back hugging us like we haven't seen each other in years. Is something the matter?"
"No," Jack told them, "absolutely nothing, just a guy thing," he smiled. Tish and Martha looked at them but said nothing.
The Doctor and Jack looked at themselves, "I guess they don't remember," the Doctor whispered to Jack.
The Master had watched them hug each other in silence but now he spoke, "I always knew you were a freak Doctor but this, this is crazy even for you. Anyway now I have the TARDIS I am going to get everything I ever wanted and - "
"NO," someone screamed.
They all turned and saw Lucy running towards the Master.
"Who is that?" Bill asked Henry.
"Harold Saxon's wife," he replied.
"What's she doing here?"
"Beats me, I guess we're about to find out."
Lucy ran towards the Master waving a knife. The Master was in the process of opening the TARDIS door but now he stopped. "What is the matter, my dear?" he asked her.
"You lied to me," she said hysterically, "you said that you would take care of my parents, but they just called me from some sort of prison." The Master didn't reply. "You killed the three women," Lucy continued. "You said you were just going to talk to Laura Hennings, but then when I called her today I was told that she and her two flat mates had died in an accident. You were the only person I told."
The Master looked at Lucy like she was crazy, "you foolish woman, I told you to stay at home. I told you that I would take care of everything."
"Why?" she asked him, "why should I listen to you. My agreement was with Harold Saxon but I haven't seen him since, instead I am stuck with you dirty, old man. You probably killed him as well."
The men who had been moving in to grab Lucy stopped and looked at the Master and Lucy. Lucy was crying while the Master looked at her and thought, I really should have found a brighter woman. Why did I choose beauty over brains? Lucy was really one of the stupidest people he had ever met.
"Stupid, you think I'm stupid" she shouted.
The Master didn't know he'd spoken aloud until he felt her knife cut his throat. Lucy stabbed him in the throat over and over until the men pulled her off. The Doctor ran to the Master and held him in his arms.
"Come on, regenerate," he told the Master.
The Master laughed, "What? So you can save me. I think not."
"We can travel together, see the world."
"No," the Master replied, "save humanity. No thanks, I don't want to save the world; I want the world to serve me."
The Doctor held him in his arms until he breathed his last.
Jack, Martha and Tish had watched in silence.
Someone must have called the police, because in few minutes the whole place was swarming with policemen. Martha walked over to one of them and asked about their parents. She was taken to the Detective Inspector in charge; as soon as he saw her you told her, "Miss Jones you are under arrest on suspicion of the kidnap and murder of the twelve children, if you would come with us. We have a few questions for you." The police had found the Doctor and they brought him and put him into the car as well. Tish and Jack watched them be put into the back of the police car. "Quick," Jack told Tish, "we have to follow them."
At the police station they were put in separate rooms for questioning. Martha sat in the room and looked around until a young man came in with a file. "So Martha Jones," he said, "can you tell us when and where you met Dr. Smith?"
"I am a medical student doing my internship at the Royal Hope Hospital, I met the Doctor when he was admitted there as a patient."
"Oh yes," the policeman interrupted, "the infamous Moon fiasco."
"Yes," Martha agreed.
"After which he somehow convinced you to go on a killing spree."
"No, as I told you before, we didn't kill anyone."
The man shook his head, "we have witnesses who saw you drive up to the children and take them off in the blue box – where is it, by the way? You took the children and killed them, dumped their bodies on the roadside."
Martha told him, "You said that this was in Birmingham right? I haven't been there this year, let alone this week."
Behind the glass, the woman listening into the interview said to the other occupant of the room, "Tom, I don't think she did it. She's telling the truth and obviously doesn't have details on how the children were killed, she wasn't even sure about their sexes and the fact that they weren't in uniform. She seems totally clueless. Tom smiled at her, "maybe she's a very good liar."
The policeman asked Martha, "so when exactly did you start travelling with this Doctor?"
Martha looked at him like he was a total idiot, "after Leo's party, my brother Leo, the Doctor was waiting for me and he offered to take me travelling with him?"
The man was skeptical, "a total stranger – supposedly one who had saved you life on the Moon – asks you to go travelling with him and you agreed?"
In another room, the Doctor was answering some questions of his own; "so Martha Jones somehow convinced you to kidnap and kill children."
The Doctor looked at the woman like she was mad, "as if we could kill anyone."
The woman continued, "It won't be the first time a beautiful woman convinced a man to do things against his will."
The Doctor looked as if to say, beautiful? He thought about it Martha wasn't bad looking. I mean Shakespeare had certainly reacted to her presence, even that silly boy in New York, even Jack although Jack liked everyone. The Doctor could honestly say he had never though it about her looks, but now that they mentioned it, the Joneses were lookers. Martha Jones was beautiful; probably she could convince a man to do things against his will. Who was he kidding he had taken her around to impress her, he'd even kissed her – he'd made up theories but he'd still kissed her.
He was brought back to earth by the policewoman asking, "So did she convince you? Or you somehow convinced her?"
He was saved from answering when a policeman burst into the room and whispered something to the woman.
The lab tech walked up to the Detective Inspector, "the CCTV videos have come in."
They went to a room and watched it. They saw two men – big, bald with tattoos - walk up to the children and force them to enter a blue van. The van drove off screen; it was picked up traffic cameras. The van was picked up by traffic cameras a few hours later and this time the men returned to the building and removed some clothes which they threw into the skip.
The DI and the sergeants had watched it in silence and then one spoke, "aren't those the men who said they witnessed the kidnapping and murder?"
"Yes," another replied.
"Why would try to pin it on Jones and Smith?"
The men had been asked to the station earlier to identify the suspects. "We still have them here, don't we? Let's ask them?"
One of the sergeants went to get men.
The DI went and told Martha and the Doctor that they were free to go. Clive and Francine were also released.
"I hope you are going to release a retraction on TV," Francine told them; "you put our names and the Doctor's picture on TV."
They promised that the next News bulletin would have that story.
They found Tish and jack waiting for them outside the station.
"I thought we would have to break in somehow and rescue you," Jack told them.
"How did you convince them of the truth?" Tish asked.
Martha related the whole story, "sounds crazy," Tish said after she heard it all.
"But why would those two men say they saw you do it? Why come to the station, I mean they had gotten away with kidnap and murder?" Jack wondered.
"Maybe they wanted to be famous," Martha said, "anyway whatever the reason it's good they came."
"Let's go home," Francine told them.
As they headed for a taxi Jack received a phone call, after listening for a while he turned to them, "I'm sorry but I have to go," he smiled at the elder Jones, hugged Tish and Martha, shook the Doctor's hand and saluted them. "My people have missed me, and I must admit I've missed them too. Although I would not have missed this for the world." The Doctor walked with Jack and they spoke to each other, after that Jack waved and ran off.
Clive found a taxi and they began to pile in, Martha was the last to enter and she turned to the Doctor who was making no move to follow suit. She whispered something to Tish and her parents and then got out of the taxi.
"Martha, you need to go with your parents," he told her.
Martha nodded and said, "I guess this is really goodbye, Doctor"
He scratched his head and nodded, "yeah, I would seen you home but ah, I have to take care of the Master's body and - "
Martha interrupted him, "Doctor I understand. You said one trip and you took me all over the place, even to the end of the universe."
"You remember, I wondered if you would"
"Yes," she replied, "I hope Tish doesn't though. But want I meant to say was thanks. Thank you Doctor." She smiled at him and hugged him and then turned and entered the taxi.
The Doctor watched them leave and then walked back to where they had left the TARDIS and left.
A few days later, Tish went by Martha's apartment after Martha's shift.
"I had this dream you know, like I was dying. Somehow the Doctor saved my life. Weird huh?"
"Yes," Martha agreed.
"So has he called?" Tish asked her.
"No," Martha replied, "he doesn't have my number. But I really didn't expect him to. I mean he said he would take me for one trip and instead I met Shakespeare, went to New New York, Old New York. So it was more than one trip."
"What do you mean you met Shakespeare?" Tish asked.
Martha told her about the Carrionites and the face of Boe, the Daleks, but mostly the Doctor.
"You really miss him, don't you?"
"Yeah, but at least I met him, right? I may never have met him."
Tish nodded. "What about Jack, heard from him?"
"Yes," Jack had been calling her every day. He'd even asked her to work for him, when she qualified. "I think you'd be a great addition to our team."
"He called me too," Tish told her.
Martha was sitting in her room after Tish had left.
I better get ready for tomorrow, she thought to herself. It was going to be a long day; they had surgical work and was assisting the Professor.
She continued sitting while thinking to herself, get up Martha get up. This is your life; you are not getting another one, get up.
She walked to the kitchen to make herself a cup of tea.
The Doctor was sitting there drinking from a cup.
"Took you long enough, I thought I would have to sit here until morning, or worse come into your room and wake you up"
"But? What are you doing here?" she asked him
"What do you think?"
She looked at him.
"Okay I know, I know. I've missed you Martha Jones."
"Really?" she was starting to smile, "I'll have you know that I've been too busy with my life to spare you a thought mister." She smiled widely and pulled him in for a hug.
He carried her off the ground.
That was easy, the Doctor thought to himself. She didn't even scold me, now to convince her to come with me.
"Martha," he began.
The end
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