Chapter Nine: A Blond Girl
The TARDIS door slammed shut. The Doctor's jaws dropped. "What? What?"
Martha glared at the Time Lord. "Doctor, don't you dare!"
He shook his head. "No, no, no. I didn't touch anything. We're in flight. It's not me."
Donna looked confused. "Where are we going?"
The Doctor, flustered, replied, "I don't know. It's out of control!"
Martha was seething. "Doctor, just listen to me. You take me home. Take me home right now."
"What the hell's it doing?" Donna asked, starting to panic.
"The control's not working!" the Doctor shouted. He got thrown about and then got a look at the jar at the base of the time rotor. "I don't know where we're going, but my old hand's very excited about it." He looked a bit closer at the hand.
Donna raised an eyebrow. "I thought that was just some freaky alien thing. You telling me it's yours?"
The Doctor sighed, and began, "Weeeeelll..."
"It got cut off. He grew a new one," Martha interjected, beginning to just be okay with all of this."
Donna sighed. "You are completely impossible," she said.
The Doctor shrugged. "Not impossible. Just a bit unlikely."
He opened the TARDIS door to see a blond girl, grinning. "I did it!" she laughed. "Oh, hello, Doctor, Donna, Martha! Oh, yes, oh yes, oh yes, this is brilliant! Molto bene! We have blue! I repeat, we have blue!"
"Ahem," said Donna, "What the hell is this about?"
"Welcome back, Doctor."
"What? What?!"
"Yeah, we get it, what. So… Sontarans, right? Did I get it right?"
"Get what right?" Martha raised an eyebrow.
"Please. TARDIS door slams shut, the box goes out of control… but a perfectly smooth landing. And then I say 'I did it!' I brought you here."
"You brought us here?"
"Well," said the girl, in perfect imitation of the Doctor, "My team and I did it."
"Your… team…"
"Torchwood," she grinned. "Junior Torchwood, and before you ask, no, Jack isn't here. Not in this Torchwood."
"What do you mean, this Torchwood. Only one in existence, last I checked."
"Sontarans, right?"
"Yeah, but…"
"Martha… did you tell your family that you're okay? They must be worried sick."
"What does that-"
"Call them." The girl smirked triumphantly.
"I… I can't. No signal… but how? I have universal roaming on this thing."
The Doctor's eyes widened. "Oh, no, no, no, you didn't!"
"I'm not an idiot, and I did do this safely. And you should be thanking me. Not getting mad."
"What did she do?" Donna asked.
"She pulled the TARDIS into a parallel world."
"Not just any," the blond girl murmured. "The. The parallel world."
"You don't mean- No! You didn't! That would blow a hole in the universe! I closed that gap!"
"Again, thank me…" the girl said, rather sing-song. "You closed, I opened. And someone wants to see you…"
"It's not possible."
"Just unlikely," she replied, grinning. "And yes, I know everything you've ever said."
"How?"
"Oh, we've been chatting away, I forgot to tell you. I'm brilliant."
"You've said that," Martha noted. "How do you know?" Martha looked over the girl. "Wait. How old are you?"
"Fifteen."
"And what year is this?"
"2022."
"So… you were born just after Canary Wharf."
"Oh, Martha Jones… you're a star."
"What? What are you talking about?"
"Look at her, Doctor," Donna said softly. "She looks just like you, just… blond."
Cassie tossed the Doctor her screwdriver.
"You… you have a screwdriver?" Donna and Martha both looked at the device, touched it.
"Prototype. But it can do a genetic scan, easily. Try me."
The Doctor scanned her. "No. No way." The girl grinned. "You're a Time Lord."
"Yeah," she said softly. "Only one way that could happen…."
"You're not lying."
"Nope."
"And… And I'm…"
"My dad. Thanks for clarifying." She grinned again. "More importantly… thank you guys for putting your hands on my screwdriver. Pass it back?"
"What?" The Doctor passed her the screwdriver.
"Hold on… this is a pretty awful teleport…" She pressed a button on her earpiece. "Operation TARDIS, we are successful. Prepare for team introduction in ten seconds." And then she turned to the Doctor. "My name's Cassie, by the way." she said. "Cassandra Yvonne Tyler." She chuckled. "Most ironic name ever."
Hey everyone! Cassie did it! The Doctor and Rose will be reunited soon!
Love,
Kate
