A/N: Anyone hear? Doctor Who video game! Summary: 'Can you seduce and have sex with the Doctor?' ...Okay, so that isn't it. Quite a good idea, though...

Oh, and the 'Ж' in Жemnas is one of those symbol things in Word - I needed a name for a gaming corporation (Before all this 'trapped in a video game' stuff started) and I saw that cool symbol and just HAD to use it. Didn't realise it was gonna turn into a name until chapter 4...

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Chapter 14 – World's End Part 4

The Doctor looked towards Rose – before she realised with utter horror that fragments of him seemed to be disappearing in bright white light, as though he were but a jigsaw and pieces of him were being knocked out.

Oh God, what had been the words?

She was utterly powerless without them. She had to remember. She hadn't come all this way just for nothing…

She was useless. Utterly useless. She'd only had to remember a few dumb words and speak them at the right time, and she'd forgotten them.

"Rose…" his voice, his beautiful voice suddenly with a computerised edge to it, a binary hand reaching out towards her as he started to fade. "I believe in you…"

She gritted her teeth, seeking solace from him as she strained her brain to full mental capacity to find those little trigger words that meant life or death.

She wouldn't let her Doctor down.

"Prime configuration setting order number zero, zero, one!!!" Rose screamed as it arrived into her head by some miracle of creation, the process of game over instantly reversing as the white light got instantaneously sucked back in, a high pitched buzzing drilling into both their ears and through their brains, the Doctor collapsing to his knees, teeth gritted in agony with his hands desperately holding onto the sides of his skull.

"This is shutdown Doctor!" Rose yelled in delight, looking around at the scenery now losing colour and focus around them both. "This is it!!!"

He knelt on the floor, memories flying at him with incredible speed as the fog started to clear from his mind. Rose glanced sideward at him, watching him as his image shifted slightly into one she recognised – the ghostly white shape of an oxygen mask on his face, the tubes and wires that kept him alive real, but not real.

Rose instantly grabbed a sharp looking splintered piece of wood from the side as the scenery continued to flicker and fade around her, holding it out infront of her chest with the sharp end pointing straight at her heart.

She glanced sideward at the Doctor, watching his eyes widen in fear and shock at what she was actually doing.

"Don't Rose!" he yelled, hand extended out towards her, struggling to even stay conscious as he suddenly felt disoriented and extremely drugged.

"I'll be there when you wake up, Doctor," she whispered, before looking back at the wood she held infront of her. Teeth gritted, she gripped even tighter on the sharpened wood – and plunged it straight through her heart.

"NO!" he screamed as she hit the floor, instantly dead. His arm was throbbing, his head was pulsating, and suddenly for no reason at all, he was underwater.

He clenched his eyes shut tight, the feeling of being underwater suddenly absolute. He could feel warm water all around him and something was on his face. He tried to lift a hand to take it off, but his limbs refused to cooperate as suddenly he realised he was infact asleep.

"Doctor!" yelled a distant voice – Rose's. She was alive. "We're gonna get you out of there, just hold on!"

But seconds later there was a faint hiss of hydraulics as he felt a rush of air to his face. A rush of air? The water was leaving. Obviously somewhere a door had been opened, because he could feel himself sinking as the water left, falling sideways and hitting a wall of some kind.

Someone was pulling him across the floor of the pod, taking off all the implements he could feel on him as he passed through the door into the open, and with it came flooding back all of his memories like the crashing of a waterfall.

"The police'll be here in a minute," someone was saying, a voice he didn't recognise.

"Doctor!" came Rose's voice again from right next to him, shaking him around a little. "Please, don't do this to me…"

"No…no…I'm fine…" the Doctor insisted, managing to open his eyes and push himself to sit up. Instantly he felt arms engulf him in a tight, loving hug, something wet and soft pressing against his cheek as he realised Rose was kissing him – and he went red.

"Doctor you're back!" He turned his head to look at her beaming face, her cheeks glistening with tears.

"Hey, hey, don't cry," he said gently, hugging her back as someone deposited a fluffy white towel over his shoulders to compensate for the ten tons of water he now feel inside more than just his shoes.

"I can't…can't be-believe it…" she whimpered, pressing into his sodden jacket just to make sure he was really there, really awake.

"How long was I gone?"

"Over thr-three months…"

The Doctor only shifted his arm from his hug to draw it out of his right jacket and shirtsleeves for whoever was to the right of him to tend to his wound. His ghost scratch stung badly, perhaps even worse than in-game.

"It's okay, it's okay," he found himself saying over and over, Rose simultaneously drying him and weeping.

After what seemed like hours though could only be a few minutes, Rose managed to finally swallow her tears. He looked at her once more, giving her a supportive grin.

"Done?"

She nodded slowly – before bursting into laughter. She hugged him once more as his right arm was let free and he shrugged on his shirt and jacket, both water drenched.

"Thanks," he said, turning to the right to see his aider for the first time. An employee? "Errr…what's your name?"

"Porther, sir, Jhutsu Porther," he said eagerly, extending his hand to shake the Doctor's. "It's an absolute honour to be acquainted with you."

"Thank you. But right now we need to get out of here. Jhutsu, can we get out of the complex unnoticed?"

"Why? The police'll be here in a minute."

"Rose just completely trashed the game and now I've disappeared from it, they're not exactly gonna just stand around having a cup of tea are they?" he pointed out. "We have to move."

Rose had managed to clear up her tears now, getting to her feet above the still drenched Doctor, totally wet through. She offered a hand up to him but instead ended up trying to carry his entire weight as he struggled to get onto his feet.

"Kinda chilly," the Doctor muttered. Rose looked up at his face, worried as he noticeably started slightly shaking, the cold water from his hair still dribbling down his neck despite her best efforts to dry it.

"You gotta get back to the TARDIS and get outta those clothes," she pointed out. He nodded, letting Jhutsu take his other arm and put it around his shoulder, the both of them now helping him to walk. He'd been in deep sleep too long; his legs were too weak to support him. Together they helped him walk towards the space age like metal door to exit the room he'd been forced to call his home for so long.

They were in the corridor now, walking hastily towards the Жemnas complex exit. The sooner they got to the TARDIS, the better.

"Halt!"

Rose immediately whirled around to their confronters, readjusting the Doctor's weight on her shoulders and forcing him to lean on her as he tried to pull away.

"That is property of Жemnas Games Incorporated! Hand it over right now!"

"Hello? 'It' has a name!" the Doctor said indignantly, pulling totally away from Rose and Jhutsu onto two feet before she could stop him. "Or did you forget I'm a sentient being that just has as much right to live as you do?"

"Doctor!" Zender Жemnas suddenly stepped forward into the light, gesturing for security to lower their guns. "Your game has reached selling peak, why would you leave when you are so famous?"

"Let's just say it was beginning to feel like a day job."

Жemnas laughed, hysterically. "Oh gosh Doctor, you and your delightful sense of humour! It's what makes you the perfect character."

"I resign."

"I'm afraid you can't resign from this job." The guards standing either side of Жemnas suddenly raised their guns to point at the Doctor, all barrels loading with an obvious 'click'.

"Ah ha, ha, ha, ha!" the Doctor raised a hand, stepping forward a little towards Жemnas with his finger waggling from side to side. "You wouldn't shoot me. You could never shoot me."

"That's a strange thing to say in the face of five guns, Doctor."

"But you see…if you think about it, you can't actually kill me because I'm the main component in your game system. If you shoot me you lose millions…no, billions of pounds because there'll be no Time Catcher."

Жemnas suddenly paused for a moment, nodding acknowledgment at the Doctor's words.

"True," he said finally. "But you know, that premises doesn't stop me from shooting…" –he clicked his fingers – "your companion."

Suddenly, all the guns were pointing at Rose, who tried to launch out a hand to grab the Doctor's arm but ended up being restrained in the arms of one of guards. She fought against the grip but to no avail as she was dragged roughly back towards Жemnas.

"Run Doctor!" she yelled, "get out of here!"

But before he could even open his mouth to yell the one syllable: 'no', there was a sudden, drilling sharp pain to the right side of his head. He had just enough time to realise Jhutsu had actually hit him, before he collapsed sideways onto the floor – quite unconscious.