Where our heroes go for the Wolf, and the Master realizes he missed a few things.

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The two men settled in the console room of the Tardis for now. Both were a bit on edge and worried about what was to come. They needed a bit of a distraction, if there was one thing Jack was good at, it was distractions.

"So, this whole thing, does that mean the Tardis is a dance partner too?" He had adopted an air of innocence, but anyone knowing Jack for more than five minutes usually knew that was false.

With an amused sound the Doctor shook his head. "No, she's not like that, and it's not an automatic that you are linked to her. That part actually is between you and her. Although, you probably already have a little bit of one already if you traveled in her before?"

Never passing up an opportunity to tease, Jack considered the way the Doctor was blushing before. "Sooo that doesn't mean you and I are going to be linked? Come on Doc, gotta give a guy a little hope."

Tips of his ears red, the Doctor did his best to manage Jack's teasing. He didn't think he was that bad at handling it, maybe something with Donna? But Donna wasn't the shy type. Oh well, he would figure it out eventually. "You haven't even bought me a drink yet."

"Well if that is all it takes."

"Oi, you calling me cheap?"

Before either could continue the Tardis shuddered, and they could feel something. It was much stronger for the Doctor, as Jack was not a telepath. However even he could sense the tugging, there was someone calling for him. The presence of the Tardis in the back of his head grew warm, before it had always been a little tickle at times. Now it was a song.

The Doctor sprang to the console, rapidly following the nudges of the Tardis. She knew where they were going, and he could help her get there. To his surprise Jack got up and started helping him work the controls. The two men exchanged glances as they moved, she was calling, and they would answer.

Rose was in pain, pieces of her mind were burning. They were so empty, so aching, where was her Doctor, her Tardis, her Jack? Where had they gone, she needed them. The burning inside her, they could make it stop. They were right here, where did they go? The Bad Wolf started to wake, she needed her pack.

The Master had his hands on Void Walker's temples. It was starting to work. He had managed to press down and temporarily block her access to her memories. All she would know was what she was missing. She wouldn't remember how long, or what had really happened to them. He gave a little giggle, this was going to be glorious.

Under his hands her form began to shift, going straight into pure Bad Wolf. The restraints shredded as she grew, nothing could contain her now. As she staggered to two feet, there was a marked difference. The Gallifreyan script on her body no longer gleamed gold. Instead it shone with a red light, the color of blood, the color of fire. The Bad Wolf was burning.

The Master stood back, his twisted grin in place. He had brought her to a bunker in Utah. It had been abandoned, the entrances filled in with cement. Oh, but they had left such lovely toys behind. Even if someone could get in here, he had plenty of things to distract them with. Still when Bad Wolf began to call, it wasn't going to be closed off anymore. Not that it mattered at that point.

She shuddered, the touch of one that was not hers far too close to her liking. He was not what she needed, so she would find her pack. Pacing a few steps forward, she lifted her muzzle and called. At the end of her cry, it was as if the universe was holding its breath, so still and silent. Her pack was not calling back to her, she couldn't hear their song.

Tipping her nose up again, she started her summoning song, and the universe shook. The scarlet light that flowed from the script and her eyes shot up burning through such paltry things as metal and concrete. It shot into the sky and pulled, looking for places the ones that claimed her might be. Singing again and again, time itself started to shred.

Time lines collided; chaos ran rampant across every planet and star. All the skies ran red with light. The lock that had prevented the Time Lords from destroying the universe started to fray. The madman known as the Master, started to laugh.

One impossible blue box, with a madman and an immortal hero, sped towards the summoning cry. Or they were, until something tried to stop them. Sparks flew and power snapped inside the Tardis. The two men continued their dance.

"What's wrong?"

"Someone's trying to block us, but that's impossible!"

"Doc, you really need to pick different words because impossible or not, it's happening."

"Oi, I pick perfectly fine words thank you. "

"Doc, question, if this summoning cry messes up the Time Lock, what would it do to the Vortex?"

The Doctor stared at Jack, and then at the monitors. "Right, compensating, it is going to be bumpy."

"Bumpier then this?!"

"You want to drive?"

"I thought I was helping you do that already."

"Then stop complaining!"

Deep underground, the Bad Wolf's cry pulsed up from the center of the room as the Master stood by and watched. Wind whipped around the room as the energies swirled. He could feel the tear starting, oh soon he would have his people back. Soon he would be accepting their homage. Then a sound he wasn't expecting came from behind him. He whirled to see a Tardis Materializing. His mouth slightly open in shock he started towards it, determined to keep whatever was inside away.

Then the door to the box opened, and two men stepped out to face him. "You are too late, it's already begun and the energy barrier won't let you get close to her. Surrender to me now, or I'll let my little pets play with you for a bit."

The Doctor just gave him a pitying look. "Time's ripping apart, your little toys are antiques here, and they'll be turning to dust. "

"So will you! You are older than anything here." The master was smug in his assumption.

"Wellll not so much, technically this body is only a couple of days old. So I think I have a better chance than you do. As for Jack here, he just can't stay dead. So I suggest that you let us help you before you get ripped apart."

All the sudden, everything went very, very, very still. From behind the Doctor the Tardis had started to sing. She sang out to her Wolf, sang a song of promise and time, and the Wolf had heard. The Master turned back to see the Big Bad Wolf turning towards them, the red light warring with gold. Tendrils were shooting out from the Tardis of golden light, reaching for her Wolf. Slowly she started to take one step towards them, and then another.

"NO! I won't let you!" The Master ran towards her, reaching with his mind. "These aren't yours, look at them, they don't resonate like you do!"

It was there Jack realized the Master's mistake. Because they did partially resonate like she did, because he had been working to make her part of this universe. Then he saw the Master's second mistake. He had woken up something stronger than him and thought he could control it. Annoyed at the small, not pack, person's interference she brushed him aside.

The barrier was nothing to one like she, and she simply shattered it. The Wolf knelt so she could be on more even level with the two that approached her. Already the center of her was all golden, the wisps from the Tardis chasing way the red light. She made a small sound of inquiry.

"Well Doc, now what?"

"You just have to accept her and she us."

As they spoke her form shrank, but not into any of her normal forms, but of a young woman made entirely of light, golden light with flickers of red. She reached for them, her right hand to the Doctor, and the left to Jack.

Fearlessly the Doctor moved forwards to take her hand. Jack was one step behind him. Both were pulled in by a force greater than any other, the power of time and love. They took her hands and their worlds dissolved.

Sensations exploded through them. They felt pain, joy, sorrow, love, and hate, all at once. Every moment of their lives from start to finish she saw and they saw. Then, they saw every moment of hers, bursting through the block they saw every day of her lonely wandering, her urge to make things right. The question rang in their heads, do you accept? As one they answered the only thing they could, yes. Then, there was only gold, and the world dissolved.

At first there was nothing, and then they heard a song. The song of time as Rose and the Tardis sang. They rewove the strands of time, unmade the rips, and swept away the chaos. The song ended, and they started to return to themselves. Sprawled on the floor of the bunker were the Doctor, the Immortal Hero, and Rose Wolf. The men struggled up, the woman still limp on the ground, and looking far more human then she had in years. Gone were the golden hands and her ears looked normal. Eyes they would find out when she opened them. Though they could quite clearly see the Gallifreyan script on her skin remained, as she didn't have a stitch on. Of the Master, there was no sign.

Quickly the Doctor shucked off his coat and they wrapped her up in it. Jack scooped her up, and together they went into the Tardis. The Doctor, the Immortal, and the Wolf, in the Tardis, as it should be.