The Doctor's Daughter part 2
Rose, Donna and the Doctor were standing out of sight, Rose had her hand firmly placed in her husbands hand, her other holding onto his bicep as she watched Jenny going to the cell door, a feeling in the back of her mind making her feel conscious about her dirty hands which had come into contact with General Cobb. Donna all the while was standing the other side of the door. The Doctor having pushed his emotions behind a veil as a plan was drawn up. But as Rose watched him now, behind all the pretending, his eyes were the only things showing the world his true feelings.
But right now Jenny had moved over to the cell door, her eyebrows raised as her hands wrapped around the call metal bars, a flirty smile present on her lips
"Hey." She said over to Cline who was guarding them, his own eyes were soft as he looked over at the blonde woman who was talking to him
"I'm not supposed to talk to you, I'm on duty." He said with a slight smile present on his lips.
"I know. Guarding me." Jenny smiled her head shaking as she looked up before she moved her eyes towards the man and smiled at him, flirting with him. She took a few steps towards him, her hands moving to bars closer to Cline "So does that mean I'm dangerous? Or that I need protecting?"
"Protecting from what?" Cline laughed, the air in his lungs falling from his lips before hand
"Oh, I don't know. Men like you?" Jenny voiced, smiling down at him, before she reached through the bars and pulled him closer. Her lips touched his and they moved in sync as her hand moved to grab his gun and placed it to his stomach. He suddenly stopped and his eyes went wide while she looked right into his blue eyes "Keep quiet and open the door." She sung happily. All the while The Doctor and his friends were simply looking on in wonder. Donna looking on in wonder, Rose smiling softly and the Doctor just looking at her. Donna's eyebrows moved into a raised position, her mouth moving upwards at the side
"I'd like to see you try that!" Donna whispered which caused the Doctor to frown down at her, Rose's small smile moving into a large grin as she looked at the bewildered expression on her husband's face.
All four of them were walking down the stairs cautiously. The Doctor and Rose were out front but before they new what was happening a guard was passing them and they all had to shriek back around the corner. But the space was so small Rose tripped over someone's feet and she trip back into full sight of the guard, The Doctor and Donna tried to grab for her but were unable to. Rose was hunched over slightly and looked up at the guard who was looking at her open mouthed. She straightened up and pulled down her trench coat and smiled at him.
"Ah, Hi" Rose said as she moved down the stairs, the others watching her from their hiding spot
"What are you doing?" The guard asked as he stood in front of her "You're suppose to be locked up He voiced, Rose just shrugged her shoulders
"Well yeah I am but that's not going to solve anything now is it?" Rose smiled cheekily, her smile was rewarded with a stare and he sighed a heavy sigh of frustration and made to grab for the Doctor's wife. The Doctor shuffled on his feet as if to move and help her but Donna moved her hand so it was placed on the top of his arm and shook her head. The Doctor then watched as Rose smiled over at him before she manoeuvred herself so she was standing behind him. The guard gapping at her swift movement. Jenny looking at her mother with admiration, her mouth opened as she watched her get out of her tight spot. Rose slipped her hand into her extended pocket, she grasped hold of the mans hands and tied the cloth she had taken from her pocket around his wrists, one of her hands going to his mouth as she leant up against him
"I would stay quite if I were you" Rose whispered to him before pushing him towards the door and placing something in his mouth. She moved him into the room while her companions emerged from their position. She was closing the door when they reached her and she smiled over at them. Jenny and Donna were staring at her in shock; the Doctor was simply smiling at her causing Rose to smile over at him when she noticed his smile.
"Brilliant" Doctor chimed as he pulled her into his arms for an embrace. Rose moved into his arms and immediately she felt comforted when she felt his lips pressed to her head
"I'm just full of surprises" Rose voiced gently, her eyes closed peacefully.
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The Doctor had surprised Rose and Donna when he had pulled out a laminate map he had taken from the guard without any off them knowing, and at that moment the Doctor had pulled on his glasses and was looking at the map. Rose and Donna were looking around at their surroundings while Jenny was walking in front of them
"Wait!" The Doctor suddenly shouted, snapping his body to stop and holding up his hand towards them "This is it." The Doctor continued, his glasses coming off and falling into his pocket along with the map while he looked from his left and right, his eyebrows raised. "The hidden tunnel. There must be a control panel." The Doctor voiced as he walked up to the wall and pulled out his sonic screwdriver from his pocket and started to sonic the wall beside the lock door all the while Donna noticed another number and walked around Jenny and Rose
"It's another one of those numbers. They're everywhere." She said with a frown.
"The original builders must've left them. Some old cataloguing system maybe" Rose opted as Donna turned around to look at her, she was shrugging her shoulders her mouth moving downwards. The Doctor's screwdriver was emitting a noise that was filling the air with a buzz as Jenny looked behind her hoping they were not being followed.
"You got a pen? Bit of paper?" Donna asked still looking at the code. Rose and Jenny noticed the Doctor putting the screwdriver in his mouth and searched his pockets before pulling out a pen and paper and passing it too her "Cos, d'you see, the numbers are counting down. "This one ends in 1-4, the prison cell said 1-6." Donna continued causing the Doctor to carry on sonicing the door.
"Always thinking, all of you. Who are you people?" Jenny complained, her hands folded across her chest.
"I told you. I'm the Doctor." The Doctor said as he knelt down on the ground, waving Rose forward who bolted to the chance of being able to help him with the door.
"The Doctor? That's it?" Jenny asked unsatisfied, both of her eyebrows rose as she said it.
"That's all he ever says." Donna sang as she continued to look at the number. Rose looked over at the Doctor and smiled, knowing his true and proper name. Making her feel more connected to him than ever
"So, you don't have a name either? Are you an anomaly too?" Jenny questioned again, her hands moving to her hips.
"No." The Doctor said simply.
"Oh, come off it! You're the most anomalous bloke I've ever met!" Donna argued as she looked down at her paper again. Rose smiling to herself as the Doctor helped her to take of the cover of the control panel.
"Here it is!" The Doctor exclaimed happily before moving in towards the panel with Rose, his sonic in his hand.
"And Time Lords, what are they for exactly?"
"'For'? They're not... They're not 'for' anything." The Doctor replied with a frown on his face, moving out of the way of Rose who had leant further forward to turn one of the bolts
"So what do you do?"
"We travel. Through time and space." Rose stated as she sat on her knees, looking over at Jenny over her shoulder, the rest of her body facing the Doctor who was looking at the two of them.
"They save planets, rescues civilizations, defeats terrible creatures." Donna admired as the two of them worked, Donna moving towards Jenny who was looking up at her listening "And runs a lot. Seriously, there's an outrageous amount of running involved." Donna frowned to herself before smiling at Jenny who was beaming at her, but they were pulled from their thoughts when the door slowly slid open.
"Got it!" The Doctor said loudly as he got to his feet and grasped hold of his Wife's hand as he helped her up. He threw his screwdriver so it swivelled in the air before he put it back in his pocket, but each one of them snapped their heads in the direction of General Cobb's voice, Rose's body running cold at the sound of his tones.
"Squad 5, with me!"
"Now, what were you saying about running?" The Doctor whispered before he breathed out his breath, took hold of Rose's hand, smiled at her and all of them ran through the opening and hopefully away from the soldier. They were running down a corridor until the Doctor and Rose skidded to a stop as red beams were crossing the tunnel, blocking their way. Donna and Jenny coming to stand either side of the couple
"That's not mood lighting, is it?" Donna stated breathing heavily. The Doctor pulled out a grey clockwork mouse from his pocket and smiled down at Rose slightly before throwing it into the lights. Each one of them wincing and moving away from the sparks that were being emitted from the once cats toy that had burst into flames when it touched the first beam.
"No, I didn't think so." Donna muttered, her eyes rolling in their sockets slightly.
"Arming device." The Doctor said through gritted teeth as both Rose and the Doctor looked around for the controls before the Doctor moved behind him and started fiddling with the controls, Donna having noticed yet another set of numbers.
"There's more of these. Always eight numbers, counting down, the closer we get..."
"Here we go!" The Doctor said as he opened the panel, Rose then snapped her head in the direction of the soldiers that were bounding into the neighbouring room
"You better be quick!" Rose said as she looked over at the Doctor who was looking at her, his eyes wide, his mouth hanging open. Jenny was looking panicked at the sound of the soldiers
"The General!" She said before she turned to run, the Doctor running to catch her
"Where are you going?" The Doctor whispered, his words coming out through a jittered jaw
"I can hold them up." Jenny urged
"No, we don't need any more dead." The Doctor implored once again, his eyebrows causing his forehead to crease
"But it's them or us." Jenny argued again
"It doesn't mean you have to kill them!" The Doctor stated
"I'm trying to save your life!" Jenny voiced again in misbelieve
"Listen to me," The Doctor said moving his hands to both of her shoulders, his body moving to her height. Rose looked over at the two of them with sad eyes, her head moving down to the ground as she realised what the Doctor was doing. He was taking her advice and getting to know the girl because he couldn't ignore her, she was too important. But the Doctor had to relive his past lives. Having to relive memories of his family, of all the people he loved and lost due to the time war. "The killing, after a while it infects you. And once it does you're never rid of it."
"We don't have a choice." Jenny said, her eyes wide, her head shaking,
"We always have a choice." The Doctor said gently, his head shaking, Rose looking on at the pair of them
"I'm sorry." Jenny stated before running off for combat.
"Jenny!" The Doctor said as he rose to his full height. Rose simply looked on sadly, looking over at Donna who was equally as worried.
"I told you. Nothing but a soldier."The Doctor said, trying to reign in his anger as both him and his wife worked on the controls, Donna in turn was looking around worriedly, not knowing how to help.
"She's trying to help." Rose implored frustrated, the Doctor only looked at her.
"Jenny! Come on!" The Doctor yelled just for him to here his daughter that she was coming and just like that the red beams turned off and the Doctor was stuffing the screwdriver back into his pocket.
"That's it!" Donna smiled.
"Jenny! Leave it! Let's go!" The Doctor yelled once again as he grasped hold of Rose's hand and the three of them ran through the now safe corridor.
"Jenny! Come on! That's it!" Rose yelled as she rounded the corner and towards the corridor, her hand still pressed firmly in the Doctor's hand who was squeezing hers just as much
"Hurry up!" Donna shouted just for the three of them to see that just as she reached the corridor the red beams appeared again.
"No, no, no, no! The circuit's looped back!" The Doctor bellowed, his eyebrows in a raised position, his heartbeats beating irregularly while both his wife's and his own emotions were going haywire
"Zap it back again!" Donna argued as the three of them moved forward.
"The controls are back there!" Rose voiced over at Donna.
"They're coming!" Jenny feared as she heard the gun shots again
"Wait! J-Just...!" The Doctor shouted as he held his hands out, looking around the structure, his worry and panic brimming over the safety of his child "There isn't...! Jenny, I can't!" The Doctor said sadly over at her
"I'll have to manage on my own. Watch and learn, Father!" Jenny said with a smile before she placed the gun on the floor and moved her hands into a raised position before she flipped downwards and moved through the beams with a series of somersaults, one after another
"No way!" Donna voiced, her mouth open while the Doctor and Rose were smiling at her "But that was impossible!"
"Not impossible. Just a bit unlikely!" The Doctor beamed as she landed in front of them. Jenny smiling at the smiles which her parents held "That's the sort of stunt you would have performed" The Doctor argued as he looked over at Rose
"What can I say." Rose laughed, moving her head to one of her shoulders "Mother like daughter" She said beaming over at Jenny who was smiling at her before the Doctor pulled his wife and daughter into a huge hug, him and his wife smiling smiles of pride.
"Brilliant! You were brilliant! Brilliant!" The Doctor said in the embrace.
"I didn't kill him. General Cobb, I could have kill him, but I didn't. You were right. I had a choice." Jenny babbled, Rose noticing a trait the Doctor had picked up. But suddenly they were pulled from their thoughts when the soldiers arrived at the other end of the corridor. The Doctor moved his hands to Rose's waist and moved her forward towards the hallway. The Doctor could hear Rose calling for Jenny and motioning both Donna and Jenny to follow her while the Doctor stayed to talk to Cobb.
"I warned you, Cobb. If the Source is a weapon, I'm gonna make sure you never use it." The Doctor said quickly, his eyebrows raised his body angled towards the direction of his wife
"One of us is gonna die today and it won't be me." Cobb shouted just for him to open fire, the Doctor running off towards his Wife who was waiting nervously towards the direction they had come. Donna and Jenny further down the corridor. But when Rose saw her husband running towards them she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh thank god" She breathed to herself before she bolted towards the Doctor, the pair of them crashing into a hug as they were reunited once again. The Doctor had his head buried in her shoulder, her form pulled from the ground as she clung onto him. Jenny looking on happily as she watched her parents comfort each other.
Rose and the Doctor were walking out front, both having hold of each other's hand as the pair of them navigated there way through the tunnels with the map. Jenny and Donna were walking behind them.
"So, you travel together, but you're not... 'together'?" Jenny asked as they rounded a corner
"What? No, no! No way! No, no. We're friends. That's all." Donna smiled "To be honest I've never seen such a deeper and better relationship your parents share. They may not do the normal things couples do like going out for dinner or going out to see a film but when there saving planets and helping people you can see the love shining in their eyes when they look and sneak smiled at each other." Donna said, Jenny listening intently as she looked at her parents with a blissful look on her face.
"How did they meet?" Jenny questioned again. Donna laughed at her enthusiasm. Something she shared with both the Doctor and Rose
"Well Rose was originally human before she looked into the Doctor's ship and it changed her over the last couple of years. So they met on Earth but the pair of them was separated for 5 years, Rose travelling the universe for 10 years just trying to find him. But ever since they have been travelling together something is different. The pair of them our older and Rose has seen things that have made her stronger, caused her to grow up quicker. But sometimes I watch Rose fall back into herself. Watch as she shuts herself away, smiles when she needs to but the spark that she has when she is on adventure is not there. Something has happened that don't know about and I watch as the Doctor helps comfort her, talk to her and he never pushes her unless she wants to talk about it. For the Doctor his life is Rose... it's all about Rose" Donna voiced as she watched the pair of them, Jenny listening to her as she learnt more about her parents.
"And what's it like, the travelling?" Jenny asked when she had caught up with Rose who was looking around at her surroundings. Jenny looking over at Rose who was smiling at her, Jenny being confident enough to grasp hold of her hand and was so happy that she didn't shied away and let go.
"Ah, never a dull moment. Can be terrifying, brilliant and funny - sometimes all at the same time. I've seen some amazing things though. Whole new worlds." Rose smiled as she looked over at her
"Oh, I'd love to see new worlds." Jenny said softly as she looked up at the ceiling and then over at Rose who was smiling
"You will. Won't she, Doctor?" Rose chimed as she leant forward and grasped hold of the Doctor's arm as she turned him around and pulling his attention to the conversation instead of the map.
"Hm?" The Doctor sounded, his mouth tightly shut together, his eyebrows raised causing his forehead to crease
"D'you think Jenny will see any new worlds?" Rose hinted, her eyes twinkling as she looked over at the Doctor.
"I suppose so." The Doctor voiced with a small smile, Rose smiled over at Jenny as realization spread across her features
"You mean... You mean, you'll take me with you?" She grasped, her head looking over at The Doctor and Rose, Donna smiling from the background
"We can't leave you here, can we?" The Doctor said, his eyebrows moved into a frown
"Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!" Jenny exploded with happiness as she flung her arms around her father "Come on! Let's get a move on!" Jenny smiled before she rushed off ahead.
"Careful, there might be traps!" The Doctor yelled after him, his smiled falling from his lips as his mind was fogged with Gallifrey. Rose took a step forward and looked at him comfortingly as she grasped his hand. The Doctor just looked at her while Donna walked up towards them
"Kids! They never listen!" Donna laughed but suddenly sobered when she noticed the troubled look the Doctor was holding on his face.
"Oh, I know that look." Donna said as she spoke over at the Doctor who snapped his head towards her, looking over Rose's head who was walking between the two of them "See it a lot round our way. Blokes with pushchairs and frowns. You've got dad-shock." Donna said with her raised eyebrow expression and her head nodding
"Dad-shock?" The Doctor questioned, his face scrunching up further
"Sudden, unexpected fatherhood. Take a bit of getting used to." Donna said nicely, Rose smiling as she looked down at the ground while the Doctor looked up as he continued forward, his hand still clinging onto Rose for comfort
"No, it's not that." The Doctor said again
"Well, what is it then? Having Jenny in the TARDIS is that it? What's she gonna do, cramp your style? Like you've got a sports car and she's gonna turn it into a people-carrier?" Donna asked, Rose looking up at his watery eyes, taking in one of his raised eyebrows and his raised head
"Donna, I've been a father before." The Doctor said quietly as he looked over at Donna
"What?"
"I lost all that a long time ago. Along with everything else." The Doctor said sadly, his words barely above a whispered
"I'm sorry. I didn't know. Why didn't you tell me? You talk all the time, but you don't say anything." Donna asked while Rose watched as her husband continued to look up at the map, his eyes watering more so as he tried to stop himself from crying
"I know. I'm just..." The Doctor stated before causing all three of them to stop walking and look at the back of Jenny "When I look at her now I can see them. The hole they left, all the pain that filled it. I just don't know if I can face that every day." The Doctor finished, one of his eyebrows raised the other in neutral as he continued to look at Jenny
"It won't stay like that. She'll help you. We both will." Rose said up to him gently but the Doctor just moved his head towards her, a lump stuck in his throat, his eyes watering as he looked down at her sadly, his eyes red as the tears threatened to fall
"But when they died, that part of me died with them. It'll never come back. Not now." The Doctor stated to him. Rose just looked down before looking back up at him, trying to swallow her own tears as her dreams of having a family with the Doctor were slowly being crushed
"I tell you something, Doctor, something I've never told you before. I think you're wrong. What we have, the relationship we share having a child of our own is inevitable. For once Doctor I want you to put your past behind you, to look to the future you have with me and think about what we could have..." But Rose couldn't finish what she was saying as they snapped their heads in the direction of shooting and Jenny was rushing towards them.
"They've blasted through the beams, time to run again. Love the running! Yeah?" She voiced before she got to them, the Doctor moving his head down to his daughter, a small smile snapping him from his sadness and moving to look down at her
"Love the running." The Doctor breathed, before he smiled down at her, grabbed hold of Rose's hand and they began running again.
They were bolting down a corridor for the Doctor to stop with his eyebrows raised, his mouth hanging open as he realised they had nowhere to go. They had reached a dead end.
"We're trapped." Donna panicked
"Can't be. This must be the temple." Rose voiced quickly before turning around and moving her hands to the red door. "This is a door. Doctor, I need the Sonic Screwdriver" Rose said to her husband as he leapt at the opportunity of helping her.
"And again! We're down to 1-2 now..." Donna said transfixed as she looked at the plaque of numbers again, the symbols going down on the piece of paper.
"I've got it!" The Doctor yelled as he pulled at the control compartment
"I can hear them!" Jenny said to him worriedly over her shoulder
"Nearly done." Rose said to her comfortingly
"These can't be a cataloguing system." Donna said still talking about the numbers
"They're getting closer!" Jenny yelled again.
"Then get back here!"
"They're too similar. Too familiar."
"Not yet."
"Now! Got it!" The Doctor yelled as the door opened.
"They're coming! Close the door!" Jenny panicked quickly as they piled into the 'Temple' while the soldiers made their way towards them. All the time the Doctor was hurriedly punching buttons on some keys until the door slowly slid closed, the soldiers skidding to a halt.
"Oh, that was close!" Jenny breathed as she turned to face the Doctor who was placing the screwdriver back into his pocket
"No fun otherwise!" He smiled
"It's not what I'd call a temple..." Donna complained as they begun to run again, running through the gratings and the pillars. The Doctor leant over a railing and looked above him, his face scrunched up, all the while Rose was looking below her
"It looks more like..." Jenny voiced
"Fusion-drive transport. It's a spaceship!" The Doctor interrupted happily his hands in his pockets as everyone looked at the view in front of them.
"What, the original one? The one the first colonists arrived in?" Donna asked astonished, not believing it.
"Well, it could be, but the power cells would have run down after all that time. This one's still powered-up and functioning." Rose fixed as she looked around the chamber, smiling up at the Doctor as he sniffed slightly
"Come on!" The Doctor chimed before he skipped on his feet and started running once again, stopping suddenly as he watched a blow torch working on the door trying to cut through it.
"It's the Hath! That door's not gonna last much longer. And if General Cobb gets through down there, war's gonna break out." Jenny said before the Doctor turned around, dragging Rose with him while Jenny finished her sentence
"Look, look, look, look, look! Ship's log!" The Doctor stated as he looked at the small computer, his friends and companions filling in around him as he started working on the controls.
""First wave of Human/Hath co-colonisation of planet Messaline"." Rose read from the screen, a frown on her face talk to her friends as the Doctor pulled on his black rimmed glasses.
"So it is the original ship." Jenny smiled bewildered
"What happened?" Donna questioned as she looked at Rose and the Doctor who was reading the computer screen.
""Phase one. Construction." They used robot drones to build the city." The Doctor held as he read the information.
"But, does it mention the war?" Donna asked before the Doctor started to scroll down the screen.
"Final entry... "Mission commander dead. Still no agreement on who should assume leadership. Hath and humans have divided into factions." That must be it!" The Doctor said quickly before he grasped hold of Rose's hands, his excitement shining through as things fell into place "A power vacuum. The crew divided into two factions and turned on each other. Start using the progenation machines and suddenly you've got two armies fighting a never-ending war!" The Doctor yelled happily, Jenny listening to her father rant and babble to her mother while Donna was looking at another number she had found.
"Two armies who are now both outside." Rose smiled cheekily. The Doctor just beamed over at her
"Look at that." Donna said loudly causing them all to look over at her and the screen displaying a set of numbers to those similar on the walls.
"It's like the numbers in the tunnels." Rose voiced as she let go off one of her husband's hands but not letting go of the other
"No, no, no, no, but listen..." Donna said as she held up her hand that was holding the pen as she shook her head "I spent six months working as a temp in Hounslow Library, and I mastered the Dewey Decimal System in two days flat. I'm good with numbers! It's staring us in the face!" Donna said over to them, the pen and paper still held firmly in her hands.
"What is?" Jenny asked with a frown/
"It's the date!" Donna smiled which caused the Doctor to pull of his glasses and stride over to her, Rose following suit and taking up the other side of Donna while Jenny looked on in curiosity, watching as the three of them work "Assuming the first two numbers are some big old space date, then you've got year, month, day. It's the other way round, like it is in America!" Donna chimed, pointing out on everything she was mentioning.
"Ohhh! It's the New Byzantine Calendar!" Rose exclaimed, finally figuring out what it was, bashing her palm against her forehead.
"The codes are completion dates for each section. They finish it, they stamp the date on! So the numbers aren't counting down, they're going out, from here, day by day, as the city got built." Donna said, holding out her pad causing Rose and the Doctor to look at it.
"Yes! Oh, good work, Donna!" The Doctor said loudly, emphasising his words as they varied in pitch.
"Yeah! But you're, you're still not getting it. The first number I saw back there, was 6012-07-17. Well, look at the date today!" Donna said, waving her hands in front of the Doctor before he looked at the date
"07-24. No!" The Doctor exclaimed
"What does it mean?" Jenny asked, speaking up for the first time in a little while
"Seven days." The Doctor whispered
"That's it! Seven days!" Donna smiled looking at the Doctor and Rose
"Just seven days?" Rose emphasised
"What d'you mean, seven days?" Jenny questioned again all three of them looking at her.
"Seven days since war broke out." The Doctor breathed over at her again
"This war started seven days ago! Just a week! A week!" Donna smiled.
"They said years!" Jenny said her head shaking.
"No. They said generations." Rose said comfortingly as she shook her head "And if they're all like you, and they're products of the machines..." Rose said to her
"They could have 20 generations in a day! Each generation gets killed in the war, passes on the legend! Ohhh! Donna, you're a genius!" The Doctor babbled before yelling at the last part praising his companion.
"But all the buildings, the encampments, they're in ruins." Jenny voiced again, still not able to understand and process the information
"No they're not ruined, they're just empty! Waiting to be populated! Oh, they've mythologised their entire history! The Source must be part of that too. Come on!" The Doctor yelled again, running towards the source before they rounded a corner and bumped into Martha.
"Doctor!" Martha cried, relieved to see the Doctor who was beaming over at her.
"Martha!" The Doctor exclaimed before bounding over to her. He wrapped his arms around Martha before picking her up into a large a hug.
"I should've known you wouldn't stay away from the excitement!" The Doctor smiled once he had released Martha and placed his hands to her shoulders with a smile on his face.
"Donna! Rose!" Martha smiled when she went to hug her friends, each one of them happy about having her back safe and sound. But when Donna pulled away she smiled and grimaced when she noticed Martha's dirty clothing. Jenny just standing in the back ground not knowing who these Martha was but relishing to watch her parents interact with her.
"Oooh, you're filthy, what happened?"
"I, erm, took the surface route." Martha chimed, hugging her form closer together, trying to warm herself up. But each one of them snapped their heads towards the sound of the voices and the sounds of the approaching soldiers. The Doctor holding a frown with his mouth open, Rose looking on in worry. Jenny all the while was looking around her surroundings slightly on edge as she heard the approaching army.
"That's the general! We haven't got much time." The Doctor voiced quietly as if he was transfixed on the voices, but suddenly Rose frowned, her head cocking towards the left. The Doctor looking down at her with a frown while Donna was talking to them.
"We don't even know what we're looking for!"
"Is it me, or can you smell flowers?" Rose voiced, confusion evident in her voice as she took a few steps towards the smell. The Doctor frowning when the smell also floated up to his nose.
"Yes! Bougainvillea! I say we follow our nose!" The Doctor voiced a blissful expression on his face, Jenny smiled as she watched her parents and their excitement growing. The Doctor grasped hold of Rose's hand before he skipped into a run, dragging Rose with him and the others following him.
"Blocks 7 to 10, advance! With me!" The voice of the General sounded which in turn caused Rose to twist her torso to look behind her. Rose's worry and fear engulfing her heart and her stomach as her mind fell back into her memories, images of Cobb grasping hold of her hand, causing her skin to itch and fell dirty, unwanted memories surfing to her mind causing her to shriek back further into her shell and her grip on her husband's hand tightening. The Doctor could feel her unease and her sudden emotion changes and looked down at her worried. But he sent her feelings of calm and comfort via their connection before being greeted with a grateful smile from his wife. But after running for a little while the group of them skidded to a halt as they emerged into a large room which looked like a huge greenhouse inside the spaceship. Spaceships full of large palms and exotic plants surrounding them, flanking there sides and I huge canopy over them.
"Oh, yes! Yes! Isn't this brilliant?" The Doctor laughed happily spinning around as he took in his surroundings above him, his eyebrows raised mouth hanging open in a smile. Jenny was smiling softly over at her father at his excitement and delight and managed to catch her mother's attention, the pair of them smiling at each other
But Rose smiled at her friends and continued walking forward. Walking into the middle where there was a small place around a pedestal that held a glass sphere, containing shining gas.
"Is that the Source?" Donna asked curiously, leaning forward as she got a closer look at the shining gas.
"It's beautiful." Jenny whispered as she too glanced at it
"What is it?" Martha questioned
"Terraforming! It's a third generation terraforming device!" Rose sounded from her position next to the Doctor, her arms folded across her chest as she smiled and studies the device. The Doctor smiling down at his wife.
"So why are we suddenly in Kew Gardens?" Donna chimed sarcastically from her position next to Martha and Jenny.
"Because that's what it does. All this, only bigger. Much bigger! It's in a transit state. Producing all this must help keep it stable before they finally..."The Doctor informed but he was suddenly pulled from his small speech when the hath and human soldiers appeared from the opposite sides, cocking their guns as soon as they caught sight of each other. The Doctor immediately pulling Jenny and Rose closer to him, all his companions looking around, fear and worry settling in their stomachs as they were caught between the two mighty armies.
"Stop! Hold your fire!" The Doctor shouted, walking forward.
"What is this? Some kind of trap?" Cobb pointed, kneeling down with his gun positioned and primed towards the Doctor and his friends.
"You said you wanted this war over." Rose exclaimed causing her to step towards her husband, afraid of what Cobb could do to her.
"I want this war won." Cobb snapped towards Rose, causing her to shriek back into her husband's side, the Doctor moving his arm around her slightly.
"You can't win. No one can. You don't even know why you're here. Your whole history, it's just Chinese whispers. Getting more distorted the more it's passed on."The Doctor argued pointing towards the device "This is the Source. This is what you're fighting over. A device to rejuvenate a planet's ecosystem. It's nothing mystical. It's from a laboratory, not some creator. It's a bubble of gases. A cocktail of stuff for accelerated evolution. Methane, hydrogen, ammonia, amino acids, proteins, nucleic acids. It's used to make barren planets habitable. Look around you! It's not for killing, it's bringing life. If you allow it, it can lift you out of these dark tunnels and into the bright, bright sunlight! No more fighting. No more killing." The Doctor babbled, his arms being used as gestures before he stepped forward and picked up the device, moving it up above his head.
"I'm the Doctor, and I declare this war is over!" He shouted before slamming it to the ground, the glass shattering causing the gases to escape, shining in the gold and green as they spread out in the air. Amazed by the sight, human and Hath both sides putting their guns to the ground. The Doctor moving his arm around Rose's waist and pulling her closer as the pair of them shone and watched in amazement at the terraforming. Jenny coming to stand with them, her own eyes sparkling with the life which shone in her parents eyes.
" What's happening?" Jenny asked as she smiled up at her parents who were beaming along with her. All of them watching the gases spread.
"The gases will escape and trigger the terraforming process." The Doctor informed as they continued to look at the plants surrounding them.
"What does that mean?" Jenny asked with a smile. Rose simply smiled with her before placing her hand in hers
"It means a new world." Rose comforted causing Jenny to laugh with delight, but her body ran cold when she looked at General Cobb who was the only one not enchanted by what was happening. He was lifting his gun, pointing it at Rose but Jenny pushed her closer to the Doctor, stepping in front of the two of them
"No!" She exclaimed snapping her hand t her chest as the bullet hit her. She breathed slightly before collapsing into Rose's arms, the Doctor and his wife moving her gently to the ground while soldiers held Cobb to the ground, removing the gun from his hands.
"No, Jenny, stay with us" Rose bellowed, her eyes watering as she cradled her daughters head in her lap, the Doctor taking hold of her hand
"Jenny? Jenny! Talk to me, Jenny!" The Doctor cried, his own panic and sadness engulfing his head while Martha rushed to check her pulse and wound, but Rose and the Doctor knew there was nothing to help her.
"Is she gonna be all right?" Donna asked, not wanting to crowd the small family. Martha moving her head to look at Donna, shaking her head without a word.
"A new world. It's beautiful." Jenny managed to say, her words barely a whispered, her eyes watering. Rose smiling at her gently, a lump forming in her throat as she held her daughter close to her
"Jenny, hey you need to hold on, stay strong" Rose cried
"We have things to do, all three of us together, a family" The Doctor voiced, moving her fringe from her face, rubbing his thumb delicately over her cheek bone.
"We can go anywhere. Everywhere, its your turn to choose" Rose smiled to her, looking down at her with a smile, a tear falling from her eye as she looked at Jenny who was looking at her parents with a small shaky smile, her body shaking as the pain began to become unbearable.
"That sounds good." Jenny managed to say
"You're our daughter and we've only just got started. You're gonna be great." The Doctor said, sniffing and smiling at her, a small sad laugh falling from his lips
"You're gonna be more than great. You're gonna be amazing! You hear us? Jenny?" Rose said quickly, but her hearts beating rapidly, her body running cold when she took in Jenny's pale complexion but her eyes were flickering close and her body went limp is Rose's arms.
"Jenny?" Rose whispered gently, shaking her body slightly "No" Rose whispered before she broke down. She lifted Jenny's torso towards her and clutched her Daughters body to her, crying into her body in despair. The Doctor moving his arm around his sobbing wife, his own tears falling down his cheeks as he leant his head on Rose's.
"Two hearts. Two hearts, she's like us. If we wait... If we just wait..." The Doctor voiced pleadingly as he looked to Martha for support. But Rose shook her head as she looked up at her
"There's no sign, Doctor. There is no regeneration. She's like us, but... maybe not enough." Rose said sadly but the Doctor shook his head, cupping her cheek with his large hands, causing Rose to lean into his hand for comfort, the Doctor willing to provide it as he whipped the tear stains from her cheeks and moving to look right at her
"No. Too much. That's the truth of it. She was too much like us." The Doctor said to her gently leaning forward and planting a kiss to her lips before both Rose and the Doctor put Jenny down on the ground and the Doctor planted a kiss to her forehead on last time, Donna engulfing Rose in a hug but the Doctor had stalked off and walked to General Cobb and picked up his gun. He stood their panting from anger and despair, pointing the gun at his head. Rose looking on in worry as Martha and Donna were shocked to see what he was doing. Rose calling out to her husband to stop, telling him that he didn't need to do this and was relieved when he lowed the gun and crouched down to Cobb.
"I never would. Have you got that? I never would!" The Doctor snapped, snarling into the older mans ear. He stood again and started to address both of the fighting parties.
"When you start this new world. This world of Human and Hath... remember that! Make the foundation of this society. A man who never would!" HE shouted before throwing away the gun and walking back to Rose, grasping out for her hand which she gave and the pair of them huddled together in front of their daughter's body, both of them grieving for their loss.
Jenny was moved and was currently lying flat on a table in the theatre room which had been used for the human encampment. All of them were standing around her except from Rose who was standing away slightly, trying to control her own emotions, trying to reign in her emotions and trying to hide her grief. But all of them were taken from their thoughts when sudden beams of light came through the windows.
"It's happening. The terraforming." Martha breathed, her face shining with light
"Build a city, nice and safe underground. Strip away the top soil. And there it is." Donna said but continued after a short pause "And what about Jenny?"
"Let us give her a proper ceremony. I think it'd help us. Please." Cline urged, looking at both Rose and the Doctor. The Doctor who was lost in dark thoughts was simply looking away which meant Rose gave a small nod of approval.
"Jenny was the reason for the TARDIS bringing us here. It just got here too soon, which then created Jenny in the first place. Paradox. An endless paradox." The Doctor said sadly when they had all reached the TARDIS. Rose sick with the sympathy glances both Martha and Donna were giving her. She just shook it off before turning to Martha and smiling at her gently
"Time to go home?"
"Yeah. Home."