The Doctor put his hand on the crystal. A dark bloody mark stained the place where Jenny'head had hit. He stood silent a moment. The so sweet common features of his face were tense with anger and helplessness that grew in him. Stella looked at him, eyes still wet. She didn't know what to say. All of a sudden the Doctor turned, grabbed the Stella's wrist:

"We can't stay here much longer. We must find an other pathway. We'll find them! I don't know what is hidden in this ship but what can be this thing, it's not friendly. We must be careful."

Looking at the crystal wall for the last time, this wall separating him from his friends, the Doctor plunged with Stella into the depth of this huge flying ship.

They had to find another way to get back on their steps and find the two women. But soon, they realized the ship was really a maze. A lot of doors were closed. And opened doors gave them the sensation of spinning in circles. On several occasions, the Doctor tried his sonic screwdriver on various doors. The first opened, but the others remained insensitive to the action of the Doctor. It was as if the ship itself adapted and assimilated the sonic technology and blocked it. The ship was apparently the ability to learn, remember and respond. This didn't fit with the technological advancement that Merivians knew. This was obviously a very advanced artificial intelligence, able to understand quickly and react accordingly. It involved additional problems in perspective. Because if this artificial intelligence explained the non-presence of living beings on the ship, maybe it was a new fully automated ship, but talk to a computer was certainly much more complicated than a living being. Artificial intelligence is programmed to respond to certain instructions and nothing will take away from its goal , as advanced as it is. He remained as to whether it was the artificial intelligence that Rose had to remove and Jenny from an other form of intelligence, lively, and have taken possession of the ship led by a computer. A being whose computer try to protect themselves by an SOS through space.

But the Doctor didn't know something. The fact that Jenny and Rose were very close now and they were safe at the moment. In any case, as much in safty as they would have been able when someone lived with the Doctor.

That is what had passed after these strange lianas pulled Jenny and Rose in the endless darkness of the ship.

At first, dragged with strength, Jenny had lost consciousness and Rose continued to roar at the top of the voice, calling to the Doctor for help. Suddenly, lianas took a tight bend only a few meters away of the door of the big room where was the Tardis. They were taken in another corridor which had not appeared to them during their first passage. They gained speed. Rose had stopped shouting, it was obviously useless. The ground of uneven aspect blew up the girls in all directions. But of a sudden, the unchained race stopped. A door closed suddenly, cutting the lianas which tightened the ankles of Rose and Jenny. The pieces got loose immediately from their feet and fell on the ground in a metallic noise. Rose tried to get up and approached Jenny. She began to recover from this race. Her fall against the crystal was not really serious. Her forehead bled, rather abundantly, but the wound was without gravity. Head's wounds are always impressive. Rose untied her scarf and mopped the wound which still bled.

"Where are we?" Asked Jenny. She didn't show the fear which she felt.

She lighted the lamp she always had in her hand.

"No idea, I didn't take the time to look at the road sign."Answered Rose with irony.

Jenny smiled at her.

When the Jenny's forehead had been cleaned, we were only able to see a very small notch. A beautiful bump already began to appear. Jenny let her hand on the scarf. The girls got up and approached the door. By closing, it had saved them the life. On the ground was the pieces of mechanic lianas. Jenny took one of it.

"What is this thing. It looks like metal... But it's melal. I thought that was alive..."

"You're right!" Said Rose.

The metal piece was in Jenny's hands, braided as a rope. The thing was really very flexible. The extremity, disentangled as a T-Rex's tail, possessed a small opening which could send electric shocks. Other end had been split in a clear and precise way during the rough and saving lock. We were able to see the intruigante structures internal of these lianas.

Jenny verified that the forehead didn't bleed any more and got up :

"We can't stay here, we must find Stella and the Doctor!"

"Return on our steps will be simpler, euh... If we can speak about steps... By chance, the passage could be opened..."

"It seems logical" Jenny said.

But, thinking of it, she added :

"Listen to me, "logical", I'm talking like a vulcan." And she began to laugh.

Laugthing was her best again fear. It always be like that.

Rose looked at her, smiling. And the two women turned back. The place was even less hospitable than the other corridors, if the thing could be possible. Darker, it was wet and malodorous. The small place augured no good to them. The time had seemed really shorter when they were pulled by lianas. Even more for Jenny, who had realized nothing. Jenny and Rose talked about nothing, trying to relax the atmosphere. And Rose asked where and how Jenny had met her, and the Doctor. But, for only answer, Jenny offfered her a very smiling "spoliers" accompanied with a look accompagned with the very characteristic eyebrow.

Suddenly, Rose felt like she was looking at femal version of the Doctor. Or, more exactly, her new new Doctor, as he had called himself on New Earth. And even she didn't know this new Doctor very well, Rose began to discover this new incarnation. And she found in Jenny, her expressions, her look, something she always saw before, like a family resemblance. Or it was because Jenny knew the Doctor very very well and she imitated him without realizing. However, Jenny added :

"All I can say, it's what I already said, that the Doctor is like a father for me. And you, my dear Rose, you're like a sister. And if you want a prouf, I'll just say that..."

She approached Rose's ear and murmured something. A rather unusual gesture in this place where they were apparently the only ones to be alive. But this expression of the complicity, added to what Jenny revealed eventually convinced the young woman. They were really very intimate, great friend in deed. They continued to walk inside the wet corridor without a word. They weren't able to see beyond few meters, even with the torch. It was imposible to know where they were and where could be the door. Jenny took her sonic lipsik and began to scan the walls, hoping to find a way.

"A lipstick!" Said suddenly Rose, with a great smile.

"Yep! He always had improper ideas, our Doctor. And you know what? If I turn it counterclockwise, I can use a very beautiful red coral lipstick. He thinks this is a good color for me..." She said with a wink.

Jenny and Rose roared and the sound echoed against walls, propagating as an invisible wave.

"I bet the Doctor is going to hear that and wonders what it could be..."

And it had restarted for a new giggle.

But after theses few secondes, the impression to be lost reappered. To break the dullness and break the growing sensation of anxiety, Rose asked a new question, hoping Jenny aswered her.

"So, tell me, Jenny, you were in this hospital because you were injured at the shoulder, that's it!"

'Yes!"

"I hope that, after all this story, you're not feeling to bad... Doctor Kelly tell us you have been shot. It's horrible. What happen, exactly?"

"I can't answer, you know! But don't worry about me!"

The young woman didn't seem to be shy about this wound.

She made a sign to Rose and whispered :

"I'm going to tell you a secret. I can't explain how this miracle is possible. But, you see, I have been injured more than one time during my adventures with the Doctor. Sometimes rather seriously. And we found that when I was inside the Tardis, my wounds were quickly cured and with no problem at all. The Doctor thinks that is like an energetic connexion throught the Tardis and me. He never says much than that. But it's really useful, you can be sure, she added with a new wink. This connexion is really important. If I call the Tardis, anywhere I can be, the blue box can hear me. And if she can do it, she comes to me. If I'm really afraid, as I was in this hospital, she can come very quickly, you understand. I thought really hard to the Doctor and the Tardis is arrived. But I think she arrived just a little too early. You don't know me yet. If you want to know, I have always been afraid about this moment. I know he should come... One day. That must be very disturbing for you. I'm really really sorry about that."

Yes, that was disturbing, for everyone. Rose hung her head. Jenny wasn't for nothing about that. So, Rose continued :

"Are you human?"

"Oh yes, I am! But with two heats, I know! It's quite strange. And besides, I'm friend with a Timelord..."

Jenny made a pause, thinking a moment. Her look met Rose. The two women began her new sentence at the same time but Jenny cut her friend :

"I know, I know: He had thought I was a Timelady. But I'm not, sorry, she continued sadly. It should be strange for him... I'm so sorry about that, from the bottom of my two hearts, said Jenny with a small smile and she added, I can't explain this physiological coincidence. I know so much little about me, who I really am... He never told me how he met me. I just know I was a kid. I was eight and I just woke up... And he was there, in front of me. I was on the floor, everything was only rubble. He took me in his arms and lead me inside the Tardis. I know he knew me before this moment, he knows me so much more than me. And now, he don't even recognize me. He is my first souvenir. But he never talk about theses first years of my life... He is so important for..."

But Jenny stoped suddenly :

" Oh, I have already speak too much. Oh, Rose, please, promises me never talking with him about theses revelations. He musn't konw. It's his future, you understand. He asked me himslef never telling him that before he... I must respect that!"

"I swear it!" Answered Rose, with a smile full of condolence and tenderness.

All theses revelations were incredible for Rose. But, suddenly, she stoped her walk:

"Wait a minute, how could you know he knows you have two heart ?"

"I heard everything! When I was unconscious, I mean. It is rather strange, but the Tardis transmitted me all that she perceived, as if I had been woken. This famous link. I do not understand everything but …"

"Incredible!"

"Yeah, I know!" Jenny said with a smile. When Stella discovered that my wound was back, she said that was impossible. I don't know what I could say, so I said "Nothing is impossible", it's her own slogan... But she said that when I slept, that made her a shock, the poor woman!"

"It's true, she had asserted to the Doctor that nothing is impossible, said Rose, smiling. She's a strong woman, but this adventure is so sudden, so terrifying. I hope she isn't going to lose her head because of all this. She's nice, I like her..."

"Yeah, she's..."

Jenny stoped what she wanted to say, her eyes fixing what was in the back of Rose. A big smile illuminate her face.

"A door!"

But, at the same time, the torch went out. The women didn't have an other choice that follow this new way, a wall blocking the other possibility.

The pathway raised towards the place where had to be Stella and the Doctor. Both friends quickly dashed in this new place, not really better than the first corridor. And so endless.

But, only after few meters, they heard the door slide slowly, locking them in the dark pathway. The light, already low, disappeared totally.

While everything was absolutely silent, the four load knocks was listened again. Jenny and Rose got closer one of the other one. The knocks repeated several times. The terror paralyzed them... When suddenly …