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Chapter 18

The Doctor groaned as he woke up.

Cameron smiled lightly, "You're awake…."

The Doctor tried to move, everything ached, "Oh, my arms! Oh, my legs! Oh, my everything!"

"How long was I out?"

"Two days…."

The Doctor quickly moved, "WHAT?"

Cameron pushed the Doctor back down, "Take it easy, your whole body chemistry was off."

The Doctor rolled his eyes, "Of course it would be off, I am not human, in case you failed to realize."

"Chase, did he replicate the cure?"

"Yes, he replicated it. In fact he thought you, were dead. We all did actually. You hearts well, we didn't hear anything at all."

"I was healing. I am still a bit sore. But better than I was."

Cameron sighed, "Rose took it the hardest, she kept muttering about why you weren't regenerating. I don't understand what she meant by that."

The Doctor grinned, "Then she's cured."

Cameron nodded, "She's cured. In fact, you're the first one she asked about when she woke up. The only thing she complained about, was that she felt like she was going to gag up a hairball. But it only lasted a couple of days."

The Doctor chuckled, "Well that's a small price to pay for curing the human race."

The Doctor then asked, "House?"

Cameron smiled, "Still the same cantankerous man he always is. He kept telling Rose to give up and bury you. But she refused to listen to him. Which reminds me, you didn't answer my question?"

"What question?"

"Rose muttering about you regenerating."

"Oh. A little trick I have, well a little trick all Time Lords have actually. I cheat death."

Cameron's jaw dropped,"That's not possible, no being could do that."

"I can. When I die, my body changes, my mind changes a little bit as well, I still hold all the same memories and thoughts and feelings, but personality wise I change as well."

Cameron frowned, "So that's what Foreman was talking about."

"What about Foreman?"

"Well he called Doctor Grace Holloway and she said that she killed you and you came back to life."

The Doctor grinned, "Yep, she killed me during my seventh life and I regenerated into my eighth. My, I was a handsome Time Lord."

The Doctor slowly got up, "I'll have to get the cure distributed."

Cameron sighed,"That's another thing, it's too late. We listened to the news, its spread even more."

The Doctor shook his head, "You forget, the world doesn't flow through here in the same way. We are in the TARDIS."

He walked through the TARDIS and he saw House, "Hey House, I heard you gave me up for dead."

House grumbled,"Too bad, then we wouldn't have had to deal with your terrible singing and your obnoxious attitude."

"Yea and we all know how you love me…."

The Doctor turned to Cameron, "Where's Rose?"

"She's with her mother. When things got bad outside, they came back into the TARDIS. There watching television."

"Typical humans, the world is coming to an end and all they do is sit and watch it."

The Doctor went to the den area of his TARDIS, he peaked in not letting Rose or Jackie see him. He smiled softly. Rose's arm was on her mother's clearly concerned. Watching what seemed to be the end of the world.

The Doctor stepped in, "Did you miss me?"

Rose jumped up off the couch and gave the Doctor a hug, "Doctor, you're alive and you didn't change."

The Doctor smiled,"Did you want me to?"

"No. Doctor, what happened? I mean, I know that I was infected with those spores but I don't remember what happened. Nobody really wanted to give me a straight answer. House only said I was acting like an idiot."

The Doctor chuckled lightly, "Acting like an idiot, is putting it mildly. Don't worry about it Rose. Let's just say, you weren't in your right mind. So are you ready to save the human race with me?"

"Doctor isn't it….too late. We were watching the news and…."

The Doctor looked incredulous, "Time Machine, Rose. Time Machine. How long have you traveled with me not to know that?"

Rose smiled and the Doctor said, "I intend to go back to the moment we left the Hospital, disperse the cure and problem solved."

Jackie had been quiet but she shifted around uncomfortably on the couch and the Doctor grinned, "Let me guess, another slap, Jackie Tyler."

Jackie shook her head, "No, I still think you two are out of your bloody minds. But thanks for saving my daughter's life."

The Doctor smiled at Jackie and then said, "Come on Rose, lets get this done." He put forth his hand and she took it and the two of them walked to the TARDIS control room.