The Doctor's Daughter
Ok guys this is the next chapter I hope you like it and please review and I want to thank those of you who noticed that I had posted the wrong chapter and it is now the correct one ! hope you like this chapter, as I'm thinking this story isn't being as well received as the last one.
They were clinging onto the TARDIS as the console and the machine flung them about as it flew violently through the vortex. They were shaking to every possible side while the Doctor and Rose staggered around the column as they tried to regain some sense of control. Sparks were flying while Donna and Martha were screaming, the Doctor and Rose holding a look of deep concern. The pair of them was sending telepathic words of comfort to the ancient machine.
"What the hell's it doing?" Donna bellowed as she moved her body away from the onslaught of fiery sparks which flew from the console
"Controls aren't working!" The Doctor yelled as he continued to try and gain control while the console continued to spark. But the TARDIS suddenly flipped out at the Doctor sending him flying from the console as he moved his hand back quickly. His landing was caught by the captain's chair as he looked with his eyebrows raised at the hand that was in the jar bubbling wildly. Rose leaning over and moving to sort out switches and devices while Martha and Donna continued to cling on furiously.
"I don't know where we're going but my old hand's very excited about it!" The Doctor grimaced as he heaved his form back to his full height, his arms taking in his weight as he looked over at Rose whose own eyes were shining with concern.
"I thought that was just some freaky alien thing! You telling me it's yours?" Donna scoffed loudly over the sparking and groans of the TARDIS, Donna having moved over to stand next to her friend.
"Well..." The Doctor dragged out as he moved with the console, his foot placed on the shelf while Donna was kneeling down, her body moving with the movements of the time ship
"It got cut off. He grew a new one!" Martha stated sarcastically, her eyes rolling slightly as her own body was flung around the place
"You are completely... impossible!" Donna managed to say, her breath running away with her somewhat
"Not impossible, just... a bit unlikely!" Rose interjected with a huge smile present on her face as she leant over the console to flick something that was next to Martha. The TARDIS made one last rebellious explosion, causing sparks to fly and the inhabitants of the ship lost their grip causing them to fall backwards. Martha yelled slightly as a sharp pain stabbed its way through her wrist and Donna rubbed her backside as she winced. The Doctor falling onto the chair next to the console while Rose hit her head on the grating and was knocked unconscious.
Rose was transported to a place she had never been to before. She looked around and took in the vague, unreal surroundings of her dream. As dreams went this wasn't particularly exotic. She was on the coast, almost certainly British. The scrubby grass and tangle of gorse bushes were unmistakably British. And yes, there were sheep grazing in the distant fields. As far as she was aware, sheep were peculiar to Earth. She knew there was no such thing as space sheep. She smiled to herself slightly, aware that it was turning out to be a very odd and mundane dream. When she noticed a child standing right in front of her. She was in a small pair of pyjamas clutching a soft toy smiling up at her. For some reason that she couldn't explain a shiver ran down Rose's spine.
The child started to laugh and the sky darkened, lightning cracking through the air. Rose found herself moving now, swooping over the gorse, sailing out off the cliff and sweeping down over the water. Dark shapes loomed up from the darkness; cliffs, jagged rocks, a lighthouse, its paintwork faded and peeling, the glass in the lamp room cracked and broken
Pale, sickly green light washed over her and she was aware of masked figure watching her, chattering in a strange incomprehensible language, the lighthouse sped past and a roar suddenly cut through the air, harsh and terrifying
A vile four-armed creature hauled itself from the sea below her. Steam curled around it and the sea boiled as it lumbered up on to dry land, rain hissing on its armoured skin. It's claws reached out for something lying on the ground and Rose realised with horror that it was a young man with fishing equipment scattered around him, his arms raised in a futile attempt to ward the creature off as he scrabbled backwards over the wet grass.
Rose desperately wanted to look away, already knowing what was going to come next but as the way with nightmares, she couldn't tear her eyes from the horror unfolding before her. The creature letting out another guttural bellow. Flames leapt from its throat and Rose felt a wave of hot, fetid air wash over her. A monstrous arm swung into the air and she gasped as she caught sight of a wickedly barbed claw glinting in the rain. As the arm came down, the young fisherman slumped backwards, his blood staining the rocks.
The creature turned and fixed Rose with blazing eyes. It roared again, reaching out for her. Rose tried to scream or move out of the way of the monster but her body would not respond. Above the roars of the creature she thought she could hear the sound of a child laughing. Then the huge talon hands closed around her, squeezing her body before him. But suddenly the pressure on her body relaxed and she opened her eyes she realized were now closed and in front of her was the straggled and exhausted figure of herself. They were standing 5 meters away from each other. Both staring at each other through the rain before she brought a lungful of air into her body before saying over to her.
"The Darkness is coming" And Rose could hear the shouting and panicked voices of her husband and her friends and the dream suddenly vanished from view.
Rose moved her head to the left, her eyes flickering slightly but never once opening them. She could feel the Doctor's hand was pressed behind her neck and the bottom of her head making sure it was lifted from the grating, Martha's cold hand was pressed to her neck checking her double heartbeat as she came too.
"Rose? Rose sweetheart are you ok?" The Doctor asked as he moved the hair from her face and comfortingly stroked her head. Rose groaned slightly and moved her head towards the Doctor before bolting awake, she grasped and brought in a huge lungful or air as she clung onto his suit jacket. All the while The Doctor moved his arm so it was around her as her mind was fogged with the hideous images of the monsters and the other version of herself. Her breathing was rapid as she moved into the Doctor's embrace and looked up into his concerned expression which he was holding.
"It happened again. I got the message of 'the Darkness is coming'" She said to him via their connection and he simply nodded before moving her closer to him. Rose looked around her to see Donna and Martha looking on concerned next to her but she simply smiled at then gently before relaxing into the Doctor's embrace.
The Doctor and Rose had pulled on their jackets and were bolting in the direction of the TARDIS doors. The Doctor moved it open and poked his head out of the door, his eyebrows raised, his mouth hanging open as he took in his surroundings. A large muddy tunnel with debris lying on the ground. He slowly walked out of the door and his companions all fled out of the door one by one. Rose looked around before she walked over to the Doctor and took hold of his hand absentmindedly.
"Why would the TARDIS bring us here?" The Doctor breathed as he continued to look around at his surroundings and navigated himself and Rose around the abandoned equipment
"Oh, I love this bit." Martha stated excitedly as she continued to look around at the surroundings while Donna and herself hung closely to the TARDIS, the Doctor on the other hand was looking and fiddling with pieces of the debris lying around on the ground.
"Thought you wanted to go home." Donna voiced as she smiled down at the small black woman next to her
"I know, but all the same..." Martha said sarcastically all the while the Doctor was distractedly going about his business, seemingly oblivious to the conversation while Rose smiled over to them. He licked his hand suddenly before looking into the distant with his face in neutral.
"It's that feeling you get..." Martha simply smiled while Donna was smiling, looking in the distance, her head nodding in agreement before whispering something
"Like you swallowed a hamster?" She voiced which caused Rose to snort slightly. The Doctor looked down at her with a frown and she simply shook her head which caused a load of sparks to fly around it. She grimaced and the Doctor looked at her concerned.
"Rose are you alright?" he asked as he looked down at her, moving so his body was directly facing Rose
"I'm fine" She said massaging her head slightly before looking up at him with a smile on her face
"You took quite a hit in there earlier" The Doctor said with a frown, moving closer to her and grasping hold of her hands.
"It's ok, it's nothing I can't handle" Rose said with a smile again and the Doctor nodded before the Doctor and his companions snapped their heads in the direction of a loud noise. They looked over to the source of the commotion and with the Doctor and Rose holding frowns on their faces they realised that Soldiers were coming. Great. More UNIT schmucks Rose thought. The Doctor smiling faintly at her thought.
"Don't move, stay where you are! Drop your weapons."Cline bellowed as he ran towards the group of them, pointing their guns at the TARDIS and its crew who were all holding their hands up in the air to show them that they were all unarmed.
"We're not armed! Look, no weapons. Never any weapons. We're safe." The Doctor said loudly, moving his hands so the group of soldiers could get a good look at both side
"Look at their hands. They're clean."
"Alright, process them! Those two first... they look compatible" Cline said over to them just for the other two soldiers who accompanied him moved towards and grasped hold of the Doctor and Rose by the shoulders dragging them towards a strange machine.
"Oi, oi! What's wrong with clean hands?" The Doctor snapped with a frown on his face, struggling against his captors, looking over at Rose who was doing the same thing
"What's going on?" Martha demanded as they ran after him
"Leave them alone!"Donna shouted just as they forced the Doctor's and his wife's hand into the machine. The pair of them looking at each other with concern shining in their eyes before the pair of them made yells of pain as it whizzed away. Each one of them buried in the machine to shoulder height. The Doctor was clinging onto it with his other hand while Rose was tugging at her arm faintly.
"Something tells me this isn't about to check my blood pressure" The Doctor muttered as he spun around to talk to his friends
"And why are you processing us at the same time" Rose demanded before Rose cried out in agony as the machine continued to do it's job "AAGGGH!" Rose and the Doctor screaming out in pain
"What're you doing to them?" Donna yelled as she looked at the squirming pair in front of her
"Everyone gets processed." Cline stated simply "This one will be strong. We don't always get a compatible pair"
"It's taken a tissue sample." Rose snapped, a frown on her face as she concentrated on what the machine was doing on her hand, feeling the machine working against her skin
"Ow ow ow ow ow ow! And extrapolated it! Some kind of accelerator?" The Doctor said, finishing her sentence. And just at that moment the machine let go of the two time beings arms and they both moved back immediately. The Doctor moved his hand over to Rose who moved into his arms, the pair of them examining each other's hand. Donna and Martha running up to them while they all looked up at the larger machine near the 'processor'
"Are you alright? " Martha questioned the two of them they simply nodded while the Doctor massaged his Wife's painful hand. Trailing his finger tips along the Y-shaped graze. But he suddenly moved his head up to the other machine as Rose tugged at his sleeve. The machine opened slowly and they all gazed at it open mouthed.
"What on earth? That's just..." The Doctor muttered as a woman stepped out off the machine. Smoke was billowing everywhere. The Doctor and his companions looked on curiously as the woman looked around, also curious. Rose noticed she was wearing a military green t-shirt and tight leather trousers. Long slick white hair held in a pony tail. Her eyes twinkling with excitement and adventure.
"Arm yourself!" Cline demanded when he passed her a gun as she examined it, naturally handling it.
"Where did she come from?"Martha whispered as she spoke up to the two stunned time beings which were standing in front of her
"From us." The Doctor whispered as they continued to look at the woman who was arming the gun, the pair of them looking totally shocked, as they explained the situation to his companions.
"From you? How? Who is she?" Donna exclaimed, a huge frown on her face, eyes moving from the woman to the Doctor.
"Well... she's... well... she's our daughter!" Rose managed to say, not knowing how to piece the sentence together, her large mind still trying to get her head around the whole situation. The woman simply looked on with a huge smile on her face
"Hello mum, dad!" She chimed as she held her weapon close to her chest. The woman then moved to join the soldiers while Rose and her companions were standing in the background, unsure of what to do
"You primed to take orders, ready to fight?" Cline asked as the two of them conversed together, each on holding a gun protectively to their chest
"Instant mental download of all strategic and military protocols, sir. Generation 5000 soldier primed and in peak physical health. Oh, I'm ready." She informed, a huge brilliant smile present on her face
"Did you say, daughter?" Donna voiced again, moving to look at the pair of them with confusion still evident on her features
"Mm. Technically."
"Technically how?" Martha asked this time, still looking at the woman who was watching carefully out in front of her
"Progenation. Reproduction from a single organism. Means one parent is biological mother and father. You take a sample of diploid cells, split them into haploids, then recombine them in a different arrangement, and grow. Very quickly, apparently." The Doctor stated, watching as the soldiers prepared for an attack. His face neutral before it moved into a frown, Rose and the Doctor moving to clasp each other's hands.
"But sometimes if two people are compatible they can make a strong individual... like a super soldier if you like. Due to our advance physiology and maybe due to our strong relationship it made us more compatible making the individual more advanced." Rose finished, helping the Doctor to explain the situation.
"Something's coming!" The blonde informed shouting over her shoulder as she adjusted her footing, Cline moving with them. Rose frowned slightly as she watched as a species of Alien called the Hath ran down the tunnel shooting. Large forms, purple skin, fish like features while they had a cylinder which held a green liquid was bubbling as the forms communicated with each other.
"It's the Hath!" Cline yelled just as they human soldiers engaged in combat, returning the Hath's fire.
"Get down!" The woman shouted again just as the four of them scrunched over trying to avoid the fire. Martha moved behind one of them metal shielding while the Doctor pushed Donna forward and then moved Rose with him, her hand still clasped in his before they shielded their bodies next to Donna. The soldiers moving back due to the sheer numbers of the Hath. Rose noticing one of the soldiers falling
"We have to blow the tunnel! Get the detonator!" Cline yelled as he spoke over his shoulder, the Doctor moved around the debris and knelt by the body of the soldier
"I'm not detonating anything!" He yelled while the woman was kicking one of the Hath and picked up the detonator. A Hath grabbed Martha from behind and pulled her away, all the while the Doctor's daughter moved her leg and swung around in a high kick, shoving one of the Hath away before skidding over to the detonator
"Blow that thing, blow the thing!"
"MARTHA!" Rose yelled as she watched her fried being dragged away
"NO DON'T!" The Doctor shouted but before they could do anything the woman shoved her hand to the button. The Doctor grasped hold of Rose's waist and they all ran for cover before the tunnel exploded. Fire and sparks flying all over them. But when the smoke disappeared Rose and the Doctor rushed back to see the tunnel sealed, Martha stuck on the other side of the rubble.
"You've sealed off the tunnel." Rose breathed, her mouth hanging open, eyes wide as her stomach tied into knots as worry for her friends safety was made known "Why did you do that?" She yelled over to the woman who was rubbing her knees, she simply looked up at her in shock that she was being yelled at
"They were trying to kill us!"She cried in exasperation
"But they've got my friend!" The Doctor shouted his form moving to face her with a frown on his face as he spoke down to her.
"Collateral damage. At least you've still got them, he lost both his men, I'd say you came out ahead." She stated, moving his head over to Cline who was doubled over as he looked up at her and recovered his breath
"Her name's Martha, and she's not collateral damage, not for anyone! Have you got that, GI Jane?" Donna snapped loudly over at the blonde. She simply looked at her blinked a few times before she looked away. The Doctor and Rose turning to face Donna.
"I'm gonna find her." He said to the pair of them before he started to move. Cline simply jumped in front of his path holding a gun at them. They all stopped in their tracks.
"You're going nowhere. You don't make sense, you three. No guns, no marks, no fight in you… I'm taking you to General Cobb. Now, move." He voiced, his eyes wide while the Doctor held out his hand, shielding both Rose and Donna.
The three of them were being guided by Cline as they walked through the tunnels. Mud and dirt littered the ground while the walls were made of stone. The Doctor was trailing at the back, a scowl on his face as he took in the woman in front of him. Donna and Rose walking ahead of him
"I'm Donna, what's you name?" Donna asked as they walked through a door frame, the woman turning slightly to look over at the person who was addressing her
"Don't know, it's not been assigned." She said as she looked down at the ground before stepping down some of the steps and continuing into the corridor.
"Well, if you don't know that, what do you know?" Rose enquired as she spoke over to the girl who was technically her daughter. All the while the Doctor followed up behind, his hands in his pockets as he listening to the conversation, hoping that Donna and Rose would not get too attached.
"How to fight." She said with a slightly frown, the Doctor piping up on the conversation, moving to the side to get a better look at her.
"Nothing else?" Donna asked, all of them still walking forward.
"The machine must embed military history and tactics but no name. She's a generated anomaly." He said before he looked behind him at Cline
"Generated anomaly? Jenny-rated."Donna continued to say as she looked down at the ground
"Well what about that? Jenny!" Rose said with a smile as the young girl looked over at her.
"Jenny." She stated as she cocked her head to the side slightly with a huge smile on her face "Yeah, I like that, Jenny." The Doctor simply rolled his eyes while Rose smiled to herself, at least she had done one thing right in the whole parenting thing
"What do you think, 'Dad'?" Donna said as she leant over to him, their two figures walking side by side
"Good as anything, I suppose." He muttered before sniffing and looking down at the ground
"Not what you'd call a natural parent, are you?" Donna said quickly, smiling as she looked over at him before concentrating back on the path she was walking.
"They stole a tissue sample at gunpoint and processed it, it's not what I call natural parentage." The Doctor defended as he looked over at Donna and then back to his path. Rose all the while keeping out of it, not wanting to get in a fight with her husband, but her mind consciously aware of the hurt feelings which was spreading over Jenny's face.
"Rubbish! My friend Nerys fathered twins with a turkey baster, don't bother her. Rose seems to be taking it in her stride" Donna argued again
"You can't extrapolate a relationship from a biological accident." The Doctor stated, Rose simply turned around and smiled over at the Doctor
"Er, Child Support Agency can." She sang in a sing song voice, a smile on her face, The Doctor simply smiled slightly over at her.
"Look, just cos I share certain physiological traits with simian primates doesn't make me a monkey's uncle, does it?" The Doctor said, stammering slightly as the words got stuck in his throat as he was unsure what to say, them all walking into a large clearing
"I'm not a monkey! Or a child." Jenny yelled as she looked over at her father. The Doctor simply looked at her before grasping hold of Rose's hand, seeking some sort of comfort in her. She just smiled down at the ground at his sulking as they walked into the human encampment a huge underground room.
"So, where are we? What planet's this?" The Doctor asked as him and his wife climbed up the stairs following Cline who was cradling his gun
"Messaline. Well, what's left of it." He said as he spoke down to them over his shoulder. Donna and Jenny following behind them.
"...663 – 75 deceased. Generation 6671 – Extinct. Generation 6672 – 46 deceased. Generation 6680 – 14 deceased. Generation ..." the Tannoy listened. They walked into a large room and looked upon the people who were walking into the machine and people emerging from it. People tending to other people's wounds. People eating or chatting as they all watched what was going on. The Doctor had one of his hands in his pocket, the other clasped into Rose's hand while his eyebrows were in a frown. Rose was merely looking on in curiosity.
"But, this is a theatre!" Donna observed as they watched the hive of activity around them. Cline having going to speak to his superior.
"Maybe they're doing Miss Saigon." The Doctor breathed before he parked himself on a seat, bringing Rose with him who was now sitting down on his lap. One of her arms moving around his shoulders, the other still in his hand as he refused to let it go. Rose knew he was on edge, he was worried and slightly paranoid about being surrounded by soldiers once again and he didn't want her hurt.
"It's like a town, or a city, underground. But why?" Rose voiced but just at that moment Cline had finished reporting to the older soldier who was now walking over towards them.
"General Cobb, I presume?" The Doctor said loudly as the two of them got off the seat but General Cobb was looking at Rose. Rose looked at him and everything in her body ran cold. Her grip on her husbands hand tightened ass he looked into the look that Cobb was giving her. The last time someone looked at her like that things turned bad. The Master had looked at her like that just before... The Doctor realised what was going on and sent waves of calm over to Rose which helped a little bit before he brought her closer slightly. Jenny and Donna looking on in wonder at the small interaction, not knowing that something horrible was happening in Rose's mind.
"Found in the Western tunnels, I'm told, with no marks. There was an outbreak of pacifism in the Eastern Zone, three generations back, before we lost contact, is that where you came from?" Cobb asked, his head flipping between them as he looked at them, the Doctor was simply glaring at him somewhat, studying his intentions.
"Eastern Zone, that's us, yeah. Yeah. I'm The Doctor, this is Donna and my Wife Rose." And at the mention of his Wife Cobb once again looked down at Rose and smiling at her with a hidden agenda, Rose stiffened again and the Doctor squeezed her hand.
"And I'm Jenny." Jenny interrupted which caused the Doctor to press his lips into a hard line and his eyes shift over to her before they rolled back towards the General.
"Don't think you can infect us with your peacemaking. We're committed to the fight, to the very end." Cobb defended looking over at them
"Well, that's all right, I can't stay anyway." The Doctor smiled as he glanced over at Donna and then to Rose who were looking over at him.
"We've gotta go and find our friend." Rose interjected just for Cobb to snap at her, causing Rose to shriek back.
"That's not possible, all movement is regulated. We're at war." He snapped.
"Yes, I noticed. With the Hath. But tell me, cos we got a bit out of circulation, Eastern Zone and all that, so, who exactly are the Hath?" The Doctor questioned, Rose and Donna smiling slightly embarrassed as he spoke the Doctor's eyebrows raised, his body leaning forward, never once removing his hand from Rose's.
"Back at the dawn of this planet, these ancient halls were carved from the earth. Our ancestors dreamt of a new beginning, a colony where human and Hath could work and live together." Cobb explained as the large group walked through the halls. The Doctor having both his hands in his pockets, his eyebrows in a frown as he looked down at the ground, looking at the surroundings while Donna and Rose hung back listening
"So what happened?" Rose asked as she moved forward slightly, the Doctor and Cobb turning to look at her, she smiled at them before falling in next to the Doctor.
"The dream died. Broken, along with Hath promises. They wanted it all for themselves. But those early pioneers, they fought back. They used the machines to produce soldiers instead of colonists, and began this battle for survival."Cobb finished, the group had stopped walking and Rose had her hand folded over her chest, Donna had walked over to a metal plaque of numbers while Jenny was looking at her parents as they listened to what Cobb had to say.
"There's nothing but earth outside, why's that? Why build everything underground?" She asked as she spoke over to them from her raised position. The Doctor's eyebrows rose as he looked at her, Rose's face in neutral
"The surface is too dangerous." Cline voiced. Jenny moved her head to look over at him
"Well, then why build windows in the first place? And what does this mean?" Donna asked, firing all the questions which had been stored in her mind as she pointed towards the number which was stamped on the wall.
"The rites and symbols of our ancestors. The meanings... lost in time." Cobb said as he shrugged his shoulders, not knowing the answer. This made the Doctor's frown deepen as the Doctor stared at the man
"How long's this war gone on for?" The Doctor asked, his body moving in small movements
"Longer than anyone can remember. Countless generations marked only by the dead." Cobb said to them
"What, fighting all this time?" Rose said to him gently, looking at him with concern
"Because we must. Every child of the machine is born with this knowledge. It's our inheritance, it's all we know. How to fight. And how to die." Jenny said over to them, her parents and their friend looking over at her as she shrugged her shoulders, her stunning blue eyes locking with the people in front of her.
The Doctor and his friends were looking at a holographic map which was showing tunnels and different rooms of the compound. Cline and Rose were leaning slightly onto the pedestal as they looked at the light and at the people standing behind them. The Doctor however was standing in the middle, his glasses pressed on his nose, his hands rubbing his mouth as he looked at it
"Does this show the entire city, including the Hath zones?" The Doctor questioned with a frown on his face. Cobb simply nodded
"Yes. Why?"
"Well it'll help us find Martha." Rose stated as she did not take her eyes from the map, her chin now resting on her hand as her own face held a frown. The Doctor and Donna were looking at her with a smile on her face as Rose was not scared of speaking her mind.
"We've more important things to do. The Progenation Machines are powered down for the night shift, but soon as they're active, we could breed a whole platoon from you three."Cline said with a smile on his face. Rose and the Doctor moved their bodies slowly and looked at him with a frown on their faces. Donna simply shrieked back slightly shaking her head.
"I'm not having sons and daughters by some great big flippin' machine!" Donna snapped before looking over at Jenny "Sorry, no offence but you're not... well I mean you're not real."
"You're no better than him! I have a body, I have a mind, I have independent thought, how am I not real? What makes you better than me?" Jenny scoffed, her body moving while the Doctor looked over his glasses at her, Rose moving to her fall height so she wasn't scrunched over the pedestal
"Well said, soldier. We need more like you if ever we're to find the Source." Cobb praised with a smile on his face
"Ooh, the Source, what's that then, what's a Source? I like a Source, what is it?" The Doctor said with a high pitched voice, his eyebrows rising making his forehead crease as he snapped his head towards the soldiers.
"The Breath of Life."
"And that would be...?" Rose asked, shaking her head over at him
"In the beginning the great one breathed life into the universe. And then she looked at what she'd done, and she sighed." Cline smiled over at them
"She? I like that." Jenny chimed with a smile on her face, her arms crossed over her chest like her mother.
"Right, so it's a creation myth." Rose nodded
"It's not myth. It's real. That sigh. From the beginning of time it was caught and kept as the Source. It was lost when the war started. But it's here, somewhere. Whoever holds the Source controls the destiny of the planet." Cobb stated over at them, all the while the outsiders and travellers listened to what he had to say.
"Ah!" The Doctor suddenly yelled as he frowned and moved closer, he smacked his hand on the image which caused Donna to jump slightly as she watched her friend working "I thought so! There's a suppressed layer of information in this map, if I can just…" He stated trailing off as he pulled out his sonic screwdriver and used it on the map, making more tunnels to appear on it
"What is it, what's it mean?" Donna asked confused as she took a step forward, her head shaking as she looked at them
"See? A whole complex of tunnels, hidden from sight." The Doctor said quickly as he placed his screwdriver back into his pocket and his hands moved into his trouser pockets as they all glanced at the now extended map.
"That must be the lost temple. The source will be inside. You've shown us the way! And look, we're closer than the Hath! It's ours!" Cobb said as he looked over at his company
"Tell them to prepare to move out. We'll progenate new soldiers on the morning shift, then we march. Once we reach the Temple, peace will be restored at long last." Cobb said as he talked over to cline and walking from his position to prepare his army. The Doctor was following him before he grasped hold of his hand and pulled him so he was looking at him
"Call me old-fashioned, but if you really wanted peace couldn't you just stop fighting?" The Doctor argued, his eyebrows raised as he spoke over to him
"Only when we have the Source. It'll give us the power to erase every stinking Hath from the face of this planet!"Cobb snapped over at him, Rose simply shook her head and moved back as she spoke over to him
"Maybe it might be me being slow, but a few moments ago you were talking about living a life in peace, now you're talking about causing an entire species being wiped out"
"For us, that means the same thing." Cobb yelled
"Then you need to get yourself a better dictionary. When you do, look up genocide. You'll see a little picture of me there and the caption will read 'Over my dead body'!" The Doctor snapped, his jaw clenching together after ever word while he leaned forward to talk to him
"And you're the one who showed us the path to victory. But you can consider the irony from your prison cell. Cline, at arms!" Cobb bellowed before cline and the neighbouring soldiers pointed their guns towards the time lord and his friends.
"Oi, oi oi! All right! Cool the beans Rambo!" Donna voiced, her hands going to her stomach slightly as she waved him down
"Take them, I won't have them spreading treason. And if you try anything, Doctor, I'll see that your woman dies first." Cobb said to him again, this time pointing towards Rose at the last part. Rose gulped as she moved closer to the Doctor.
"Come on. This way."
"I'm going to stop you, Cobb, you need to know that." The Doctor threatened, his eyebrows raised and his hand pointing towards him
"I have an army and the breath of god on my side, Doctor, what'll you have?"
"This." The Doctor muttered before he pointed towards his head. Cobb simply sighed in frustration before he waved his hand toward Cline
"Lock them up, and guard them."
"What about the new soldier?" Cline asked just as Jenny stepped forward but Cobb pushed her away so she stumbled into the Doctor's arms. Her mouth hanging open as she looked over at Cobb.
"Can't trust her, she's from pacifist stock. Take them all!"
The Doctor was taking off his trench coat and flumped it on one of the neighbouring chairs while the others walked into their cell. Donna walking straight over to the numbers that were present on the wall. Jenny had placed her hands to her belt while Rose simply leant up against the wall. Her coat still covering her torso.
"More numbers. They've gotta mean something." Donna said as she pointed at them, a frown on her face as she looked over at the Doctor and Rose who were looking at her blankly.
"Makes as much sense as the breath of life story" The Doctor muttered from his sitting position on the chair
"You mean that's not true?" Jenny breathed as she looked at her father with an open mouthed expression
"No, it's a myth. Isn't it," Donna chimed as she sat next to the Doctor who was staring into space, his mind thinking of something
"Yes, but there could still be something real in that temple, something that's become a myth. A piece of technology, a weapon." Rose voiced from the position she had taken in the cell
"So the Source could be a weapon and we've just given directions to Captain Nutjob?" Donna held as she looked between her two friends.
"Oh, yes." The Doctor said as he brought in a huge lungful of air and sat up straight
"Not good, is it?" Donna said sarcastically
"That's why we need to get out of here, find Martha and stop Cobb from slaughtering the Hath." He said before stopping what he was saying when he noticed Jenny's inquisitive look
"What, what are you, what are you…what are you staring at?" The Doctor stammered, one of his eyebrows rose as he looked over to his daughter.
"You keep insisting you're not a soldier. But look at you! Drawing up strategies like a proper general." She said with a smile moving her hands and pointing towards him before moving them back again
"No no, I'm trying to stop the fighting." The Doctor said quietly, leaning forward in his position his eyebrows raised so his forehead was in creases while Rose smiled over at him gently, her own arms folded across her chest as she leant on the cold stone wall.
"Isn't every soldier?" Jenny argued
"Well. I suppose. But that's… that's… technically... I haven't got time for this! Donna, give me your phone! Time for an upgrade!" The Doctor said unable to get his words out and quickly changing the subject and clicking his fingers for the phone which was handed to him and he soniced it
"And now you've got a weapon!"
"It's not a weapon."
"But you're using it to fight back!" Jenny argued laughing slightly as she looked at him "I'm gonna learn so much from you, you are such a soldier!" The Doctor was frowning as he held the phone and the screwdriver to the device, his heartbeats quickening, his words unable to be pieced together, his frustration rising, Rose could feel it
"Rose, will you tell her?" The Doctor asked, calling her in for help, Rose couldn't believe what she was seeing, a hug smile was on her face as she moved over to him slightly
"Oh, you are speechless" Rose scoffed slightly "I'm loving this! You keep on, Jenny!" Rose said as she cocked her head towards her daughter who was beaming over at her and the Doctor simply looked at her with an open mouth
"Your suppose to be on my side!" The Doctor gasped
"Oh I am, ill stand at your side no matter what" Rose cooed in return before pressing a kiss to the end of his nose before he shook his head, let out a rather loud frustrated sigh and got to work on Donna's phone again.
"Doctor?"
"Martha! You're alive!" The Doctor shouted moving from his position on the chair and walked across to the metal bars. The phone still pressed o his ear
"Doctor! Oh, am I glad to hear your voice! Are you all right?"
"I'm with Donna and Rose, we're fine, what about you?" The Doctor said, his eyebrows raised while Donna stood in front of him
"And, and Jenny, she's fine too!" Donna said to him quietly, Jenny simply looked down to the ground, hiding her feelings of hurt from the man.
"Yes all right," He said before talking louder to Martha "And, and Jenny... That's the woman from the machine, the soldier, my daughter, except she isn't, she's, she's... Anyway! Where are you?" The Doctor stuttered uncomfortably once again over his words, sniffing slightly as he watched his Wife roll her eyes over at him and walked over to the chair. The Doctor knew what she was thinking. She knew how Jenny was affecting him but why was she defending her? He had good reasons not to get attached and the Doctor knew that she was frustrated with him.
"I'm in the Hath camp. I'm OK, but, something's going on. The Hath are all marching off to some place that's appeared on this map thing."
"Ohhh... That was me. If both armies are heading that way, there's going to be a bloodbath." The Doctor said, realisation hitting his features and his voice as he grimaced over at Rose who was looking at him. His eyebrows were still raised as he continued to speak into the phone
"What do you want me to do?"
"Just stay where you are, if you're safe there then don't move, d'you hear?" The Doctor said quickly over to her
"But I can help." But before the Doctor could reply to her the phone was bleeping as he lost the connection
The Doctor was standing by the bars with his wife. His eyebrows in a frown of concern, his breathing heavy as the pair of them listened to the cheers and chanting of the soldiers which were travelling to their ears. Donna was pacing in the cell while Jenny was rubbing the water from her palms onto her trousers.
"There getting ready to move out. We have to get past that guard." Rose whispered over to her husband, her shoulder resting on the cool metal
"I can deal with him." Jenny said loudly, jumping up from her seat, Rose and the Doctor simply looked at hr.
"No no no no. You're not going anywhere." The Doctor said angrily, his eyebrows in a frown as he leant down towards her
"What?"
"You belong here, with them." The Doctor snapped again just for Rose to move to her side and for the first time she grasped her hand
"She belongs with us. With you. She's OUR daughter!" She said up to her husband who was looking at her and to her hand. His thoughts all over the place
"She's a soldier. She came out of that machine!" The Doctor argued over to her
"Oh yes, I know that bit!"Rose said rolling her eyes and head but she took a few steps towards the Doctor and guided him towards the corner "Listen, to me. I know what she's doing to you." Rose said to him gently and comfortingly, the Doctor looked down at the ground at the truth of her words but Rose simply looked at him, she smiled a small smile at him before pressing her hand to his cheek and making him look down at her "She's bringing back memories that you never want to look at. I know the pain which engulfs your hearts when you look at her. But one day I hope we can have our own child. What's going to happen when that baby comes along? Are you just going to abandon it like you are with Jenny? Or have you not thought about that" Rose said up to him, her voice never rising, always holding the gentle and comforting tone, the Doctor simply looked at her about to say something but Rose just smiled at him. "I know we have only spoken about it a little Doctor, but one day it's going to happen. I'm not a weak human anymore. We have a chance to save our race" Rose said to him before she looked over at Jenny, the Doctor following suit "Look into her eyes. Remind you of someone's?" Rose asked looking up at him. "And look at her nose, now that's not mine. But her eyes, their sparkling with life and excitement, something which yours are always holding, but it's not in my nature just to leave her behind. I can't do that to her." Rose finished as she looked at the Doctor. He simply nodded, knowing that what she said was true. She was right, as always and he knew he was being stupid. The Doctor watched as his wife moved her arm into the pocket of his trench coat in search of something, like she always did, always doing it without asking, she grasped hold of what she was after and pulled out a stethoscope. The Doctor staying in the corner while Rose walked over to her daughter and smiled at her gently
"What're you doing?" Jenny asked her mother as she walked over to her, a frown on her face as her eyes searched hers
"It's all right. Just hold still." Rose said gently with a smile before she placed the buds in her ears and placed the pad to the left side of her chest and then to the right. Rose then looked over at the Doctor softly, her eyes shining with emotion, her comfort being sent to him via their link as he looked over at her with his eyebrows and mouth in a harsh line
"Come here." She said to him gently as she held out her hand "Listen. And then tell me where she belongs." She finished as she handed him the stethoscope and made him hear the heart beats on both sides. All the while Rose and Jenny were watching him as he held the buds to his ears. He sighed before he looked at her and stepped back into the corner
"Two hearts." He managed to say which caused Rose to look over at Donna who was watching the whole scene with water in her eyes as the tears were never flowing, watching as the Doctor was struggling while Rose was comforting her.
"Exactly." Rose said gently as she walked over to her husband, placed both her hands on his cheeks so he was looking at her "Now's the time to put your past behind you, to start the future you have been fighting for for so long. I look at her and I see a beautiful woman who was created by the both of us. She is OUR daughter. Something that we share, something that unites us together, something which is a symbol of our love. Things are going to get tough. Things have torn us apart and things have brought us back together but if something happens, she can give the forever we have promised to each other" Rose said passionately, her own eyes watering while The Doctor looked at her, his eyes were soft and full of unshed tears. He smiled at her gently before pulling her into a large hug. His arms wrapped around her small form, her arms wrapped around his neck as he pushed his face into her shoulder and brought in her smell of strawberries and vanilla. She smiled into his neck and sent him waves off comfort and love. All the while Donna was looking at her friends with a smile, and Jenny was looking confused.
"What's going on?" Jenny asked them, they pulled away but the Doctor grasped hold of Rose's hand, never wanting to be parted from her while he needed some comfort
"Does that mean she's a...? What do you call a female Time Lord?" Donna asked from her position next to Jenny.
"What's a Time Lord?"Jenny asked slightly panicked, her own eyebrows rose as she looked over at her parents
"It's who I am. It's where I'm from. Rose was changed into one by an entity but she's like me" The Doctor said, looking down at Rose who was encouraging him forward, a comforting smile on her lips
"And I'm from you." Jenny said, her head moving towards them.
"You're an echo, that's all. A Time Lord is so much more." The Doctor said, his voiced cracking slightly as he snapped at her, his eyebrows raised, forehead creased again but he was talking to her "A sum of knowledge. A code. A shared history. A shared suffering." He managed to say, but he paused a little as he tried to compose himself. "Only it's gone now. All of it. Gone forever." The Doctor finished, his words quieter as he looked away, one of his eyebrows raised
"What happened?" Jenny asked gently, using the tone of voice Donna knew she got from her mother
"There was a war." The Doctor said, blinking and looking down at the ground
"Like this one?" Jenny asked just for the Doctor to laugh at the absurdity of the comparison
"Bigger. Much bigger." The Doctor said softly
"And you fought? And killed?"Jenny voiced which just made the Doctor nod his head, his hand still clinging onto Rose's as his mind was fogged with images of the Time War
"Yes." The Doctor replied darkly
"Then how are we different?"Jenny asked her head shaking as she looked up at the Doctor who moved his eyes so he was finally looking up at her. Rose looked over at Donna who was looking on questionably. Rose shook her head before she moved her arm around the Doctor and sent him waves of comfort as he tried to compose himself.
TO BE CONTINUED