Note: I don't own anything related to Torchwood (unless you count the books I have)...Enjoy...In this chapter I used the same stuff that they used in the episode because I wouldn't be able to make that shit up & have it believeable but also because nothing would do it justice...

The four of us stood back as the Doctor began glowing. I knew that he would use the regeneration cycle to heal himself but not complete the cycle to alter his appearance. He poured the energy into his severed hand and smiled at us. They were all surprised.

"Used the regeneration energy to heal myself, but soon as I was done, I didn't need to change. I didn't want to, why would I?"

Rose jumped into his arms and hugged him for all she is worth. Donna told Jack that he could hug her while I activated the perception filter on my wristlet and blended into the background.

"Wait, where did Ria go? She was just here," Jack said, turning around to find me.

"The girl? She mustn't have gotten far."

The TARDIS shook and Uncle D ran to the controls. Pushing some buttons and pulling a lever, he determined we were being taken by the Daleks to the main ship. Uncle D asked Rose if she knew what was happening since she was from another reality. She had no idea aside from the darkness.

"In the parallel world, you said something about me."

"The Dimension Cannon, the machine we built so I could come find the Doctor, can measure timelines. For whatever reason, they all converge on you."

"Me? Why me? I'm nobody, a temp. From Chiswick!"

The TARDIS shuddered as we landed on the ship. Soon the voice of a Dalek was ordering everyone out of the TARDIS. There was nothing to do but leave. Otherwise they were coming in and exterminating us.

"Daleks, eh," Rose laughed.

"Yup, Daleks," Jack chuckled. "Or as Ria would say trash cans with a whisk."

They all laughed as they walked towards the doors. The Doctor stopped briefly to look at everyone before stepping out. Rose and Jack followed but Donna was distracted again and didn't make it out before the doors shut.

"Oi, open the doors. I'm not staying behind. Doctor!" she yelled as she banged her fists against the doors.

I could hear Uncle D on the other side but it was faint. Donna ran back to the controls to see if she could try something but no one but a Time Lord knew how to fly the TARDIS. It began getting hot, scorching inside causing the bulbs to pop and little fires sprouting up through the floor grates. I deactivated the perception filter and grabbed onto Donna. The sound of a heartbeat filled the interior of the TARDIS as it continued to burn in the neutrino core.

"It'll be fine. We'll get out of this. I need you to touch the canister."

Not even asking why, she reached down and touched the metal. The same glowing light that had encased Uncle D when he healed engulfed Donna. After a quick moment, the light focused on the hand and burst the canister. We watched as the light grew out from the hand and slowly took the form of the Doctor. The only difference is that this Doctor wasn't wearing his striped suit but his birthday suit.

"Hmm, didn't know you had a mole there, Doctor. You might want to put on that trench coat for now and get us out of here. They're trying to destroy the TARDIS in the center neutrino core of their ship," I pointed out.

He flipped switches as he pulled on the trench coat and the familiar whirl of the TARDIS filled my ears. Donna had shifted her eyes to give him some privacy but it didn't matter to me. This Doctor was bloody hot and if I wasn't in love with David and he wasn't meant for Rose, I would have taken a page out of Jack's book and flirted with the Time Lord.

"Explain."

"Not until you get dressed. I'm not risking seeing your little Doctor again," Donna huffed.

"It's not quite little, Donna, and while I don't mind, it seems you do."

As the Doctor hurried to the wardrobe to get dressed, I chatted with Donna. She told me about her adventures with the Doctor and while some left her sad, others had her smiling wide and happy. This is why I came back to help. I couldn't let her forget all of this.

"Ah, all fixed. Shh, gotta stay silent. Silent running like on submarines. Do you like this blue suit? Blue's a nice color. It brings out my eyes, don't you think?"

"You are nutters. Do all Time Lords chop a bit off and grow another?"

"No, no. I'm unique. No one like me. Cuz all that regeneration energy went into the hand. Look at my hand! I love that hand! But then you touched it, WHAM!"

"Instantaneous biological metacrisis. In essence, he grew out of you," I finished.

"Could've been worse," the Doctor shrugged.

"Oi, watch it Spaceman!"

"Oi, watch it, Earthgirl!"

"Bloody hell, you sound just like her. Whatever. We need to get back to the ship. The others will need our help."

"Oh, you are kidding me, no way. One heart. I've got one heart! This body has got only one heart! Disgusting!"

"Oi," Donna shouted.

"Enough of this. Yes, you've got one heart. You're part human, part Time Lord. All this happened because of Donna. You are key to what has happened and will happen. Trust me, Donna, when I say you're special. You might not believe it but it's true. When I first heard about what happened here, I knew it took a great woman to do this. You are here because only you can do it."

The Doctor looked at me and seemed to be stripping me bare. I don't know how he noticed my wristlet but he grabbed my arm.

"You're not supposed to be here."

"Not really but trust me when I say, you'll be glad that I am. We can talk about me playing with time later. We need to get back to the other Doctor, Rose, and Jack."

I pulled my arm away from the Doctor and strode to the other side of the console. He stared at me briefly before steering the TARDIS back to the Dalek ship. As we were getting closer, an image appeared on a screen. The Doctor watched, paling as he put two and two together.

"Single-string Z-Neutrinos compressed into... No way!"

The people on the screen were hit by a green light before breaking up into individual atoms to be scattered in the wind.

"Doctor, what did it do? Ria, what happened?"

"The Daleks figured a way of destroying life, even planets. They call it the Reality Bomb. Using the stolen planets, they plan on sending that out to destroy everything and anything. It would be sent through the Rift in the Medusa Cascade to other realities, other dimensions."

"The stars going out," she whispered.

The Doctor pushed the TARDIS to go faster while he went about collecting odds and ends to create a weapon of some sort. Donna asked what he was doing and he explained how Davros created the Daleks out of himself so if he's hit with this Z-Neutrino biological inversion catalyser (as he called it), it should destroy each and every Dalek.

The TARDIS touched down and appeared on the ship. The Doctor walked to the door and opened it, facing everyone who was outside.

"Brilliant," Jack said.