Silence in the library part 2

Donna was listening intently to the conversation the group were having. River seemed to be very forward with her ideas and her feelings and to some extent that was causing Rose some unnecessary pain. Donna watched as Rose shrieked back into her shell, watched as she stood on the sidelines, terrified of imputing ideas, of showing her knowledge and helping the group. But she was taken from her thoughts when they heard a young female scream. The Doctor looked down at Rose who was looking up at him before they bolted in the direction of the sound. The archaeologists following them. The Doctor had managed to grasp hold of a torch and was running in front of the group so he was the first into the lecture room. He bounded around the desks and chairs until he arrived in the middle, finding only a skeleton their which was lying on the chair, his eyebrows in a frown as he shone his torch on the figure, Donna had her mouth open along with River while Rose was looking on with sadness in her eyes.

"Everybody, careful! Stay in the light." The Doctor said quickly and loudly as his eyes flickered to the dark splotches in the room.

"You keep saying that. I don't see the point!" Proper Dave cried exasperated.

"Who screamed?" The Doctor sighed in frustration, turning his glare over to him

"Miss Evangelista."

"Where is she?" Rose said over to him with a whisper. He simply looked down at her, unable to reply to her as he was stumped. River just looked down at Rose before moving her mouth to her communicator and talking over to Miss Evangelista

"Miss Evangelista, please state your current..." She started but trailed off at the end as each and every one of them were shocked to hear River's voice echo from the direction of the skeleton. Rose looked down at the ground and the Doctor continued to frown, his mouth in a hard line as he shone the torch on the skeleton.

"Please state your current..." River said again as she stared at the skeleton as she took a few steps towards it. But she stopped what she was saying and then whispered the last word, terrified by the realisation "...position." The older woman leant forward and pulled out a piece of the spacesuit's collar from behind the skeleton's back. It was showing her the green lights of the communicator. "It's her. It's Miss Evangelista."River breathed as her eyes manically looked down at her form

"We heard her scream a few seconds ago. What could do that to a person in a few seconds?" Anita asked with a frown on her face.

"It took a lot less than a few seconds." The Doctor said gruffly, his face full of sorrow as he moved his spare hand into his trouser pocket.

"What did?"

"Hello?" Evangelista's voice sounded over the communicator

"Um, I'm sorry everyone, um, this isn't going to be pleasant. She's ghosting." River said, trembling in her boots as her eyes never left the body of Miss Evangelista.

"She's what?" Donna voiced a frown on her face as she looked on sadly, the Doctor and Rose looking down at her, Rose placing her hand in hers as she provided her friend with a sense of comfort.

"Hello, excuse me? I - I'm sorry, hello? Excuse me?"

"That's... That's her, that's Miss Evangelista!" Donna said again, but River was looking at her sadly while Proper Dave was grimacing in discomfort in the background.

"I don't want to sound horrible, but couldn't we just... you know?"

"This is her last moment... no, we can't. A little respect, thank you." River snapped as she cocked her head towards him before looking back at the girl's body.

"Sorry, where am I? Excuse me?"

"But that's Miss Evangelista." Donna voiced again, causing the Doctor and Rose to look at her

"It's a data ghost, she'll be gone in a moment." River replied before talking into her own communicator "Miss Evangelista, you're fine, just relax. We'll be with you presently."

"What's a data ghost?"Donna asked up at the Doctor who still held his frown and the torch in his hand.

"There's a neural relay in the communicator, lets you send thought mails. That's it there, those green lights." The Doctor said down to her, motioning with his torch as a single green light turned off the communicator.

"Sometimes it can hold an impression of a living consciousness for a short time after death. Like an after image." Rose finished as she never let her eyes wander from the body as her heart was full of sadness and grief for the loss of Miss Evangelista.

"My grandfather lasted a day. Kept talking about his shoelaces." Anita said as she got lost in her memories, a small smile on her lips

"She's in there!" Donna asked shocked as she flung her head in the direction of the body

"I can't see, I can't... Where am I?"

"She's just brain waves now. The pattern won't hold for long." Proper Dave said as he looked down at the ground, his eyes heavy with emotion

"She's conscious! She's thinking." Donna snapped slightly

"I can't see, I can't... I don't know what I'm thinking."

"She's a footprint on the beach. And the tide's coming in." Rose said quietly, her voice full of pent up emotion, her face neutral as she understood the harsh reality.

"Where's that woman? The nice woman... is she there?"

"What woman?" Mr Lux asked, causing the rest of the group to look at each other in shame at their constant teasing and bullying.

"She means... I think, she means me." Rose said, her voice cracking due to the lump in her throat, her eyes watering with unshed tears as she waved her head as she tried to get her words out.

"Is she there? The nice woman? The blonde woman?"

"Yeah, she's here, hang on." River voiced as she looked over at Rose and spoke into her communicator before speaking directly towards Rose "Go ahead. She can hear you."

"Hello? Are you there?" But Rose had no idea what to do, she was shaking her head in horror as she backed away from the group and letting go of Donna's hand.

"Help her." The Doctor whispered as he placed his hand to the bottom of her back, his eyes full of empathy and compassion as he looked down at her

"She's dead." Rose said, her voice tiered of so much emotion as she looked up at her husband

"Yeah. Help her." The Doctor whispered again, urging her forward, smiling at her gently with his forehead in creases as he watched her step forward, and sending her waves of calm and comfort via their link.

"Hello? Is that the nice woman?"

"Yeah. Hello. Yeah, I'm, I'm... I'm here. You OK?" Rose said with a small smile on her lips, her head nodding as she spoke, breathing irregularly as she tried to control her emotions. The Doctor was always looking at Rose, his eyebrows raised, mouth turned down as they were pressed together. Knowing that Rose was good at comforting people, in helping them through hard situations, but right now looking at her as she did something amazing, did something many people wouldn't be able to do the Doctor was so proud of her, knowing that this was hurting Rose as she was the last person this woman would ever talk to.

"What I said before, about being stupid. Don't tell the others, they'll only laugh."

"Course I won't. Course I won't tell them." Rose said to her softly, a smile on her lips as she tried to force it into her voice as she looked down at the ground, knowing that everyone could hear her. She looked around to see they were all looking down in shame, Other Dave struggling with his emotions.

"Don't tell the others, they'll only laugh..."

"I won't tell them. I said I won't." Rose said shaking her head, her eyebrows raised causing her eyes to widen as she shook with emotion, a single tear falling from her eyes as she continued to talk.

"Don't tell the others, they'll only laugh."

"I'm not going to tell them." Rose looked back at the Doctor who moved his head down to the ground as he looked down at her, his eyebrows raised as he smile a sad smile at her as she turned her attention back to Miss Evangelista, noticing the lights on the neural relay were now blinking.

"Don't tell the others, they'll only laugh."

"She's looping now. The pattern's degrading." River said as she looked over at Rose and then down to the ground.

"I can't think, I...don't know, I... I... I... Ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream." She just continued to repeat those words. Rose just looking at her with her mouth hanging open, her eyes full of unshed tears as a few travelled down her face. Her body shaking with grief as the realisation of what she had just done filled her heart.

"Does anybody mind if I...?" River asked and was greeted with people nervously adjusting their footings as she stepped over to the skeleton and turned off the blinking relay. River just looking at her sadly.

"That was... that was horrible. That was the most horrible thing I've ever seen or done in my life." Rose said, her voice shaking never removing her eyes from the body. The Doctor's expression had not changed and he slowly walked over to her before wrapping his large arms around her shoulders while hers went around his waist. The Doctor rested his head gently to hers, pressing a kiss into her hair as he rubbed soothing patterns into her arm as she clung onto the Doctor. River watching the pair of them interact while the others looked down at the ground, not knowing how truly horrible that was for Rose.

"No. It's just a freak of technology. But whatever did this to her, whatever killed her... I'd like a word with that." River said shaking her head before placing the device into her pocket and shining the torch into the shadows.

"I'll introduce you." He said to them with a frown as he pulled away from Rose, looking down at her as she wiped her cheeks of the few tears she had shed. He looked right into her eyes asking if she was alright she just nodded before pushing him in the direction of the room they had come from, the other's following while Donna grasped hold of Rose's hand and the pair of them comforted each other.

"I'm gonna need a packed lunch." The Doctor bellowed as he had one of his eyebrows raised and his torch shining in any and every direction.

"Hang on."She shouted as she jogged over to her bag and sat on her knees, the Doctor crouching down to her bag as she searched for the food but before she pulled out the food she pulled out her TARDIS book.

"What's in that book?" The Doctor questioned quietly, his mouth hanging open and his eyebrows raised

"Spoilers." River muttered

"Who are you?" The Doctor said again but River was not looking at him, simply rummaging through her bag for the food

"Professor River Song, University of..."

"To me. Who are you to me?" The Doctor interrupted a frown on his face as he leant forward before looking over to Rose who was helping to set up the lights by herself, her eyes concentrating on the task at hand. River simply lifted her eyes to Rose and then back to her bag.

"Again... spoilers." River said gasping slightly "Who is she?" River asked motioning her head towards the figure of Rose.

"That's Rose" The Doctor said as he stared at her

"Rose... Rose Tyler?" River asked shocked her eyes falling over to Rose again, the Doctor looking at his Wife

"Yeah... You know her?" He asked with a frown

"You talk about her... she meant a great deal to you" River said down heartened, falling back into her bag gain

"Where is she in my future?" The Doctor said quickly, his frown still on his face, torch in his hands as his panic and worry about his wife's future self pressed onto his hearts.

" Chicken, and a bit of salad. Knock yourself out." River voiced as she pasted over the metal bowl which held the food. He simply stared at her for a while before he stood up and smile at the group he was with who were all frowning at him

"Right, you lot. Let's all meet the Vashta Nerada!" He stated, the food in one hand and then he spun the torch in his hand.

The Doctor had his body on the floor, his head pressed to the cold floor while his face was scrunched up, his hand outstretched as he worked on the shadows with his sonic screwdriver. Rose had her arms folded across her chest as she watched the Doctor while Donna was standing close to her. River's face was moving into one of a smile as she took in the man in front of her.

"You travel with him, don't you? The Doctor, you travel with him." River said, motioning her head towards him. Rose was just looking at her. Her mouth in a hard line, her eyebrows neutral as she turned to look at the woman.

"What of it?" Rose stated, slightly peed off by the woman and the emotional stir she was causing her. River simply looked at her, her eyes confused, her mouth open as she watched Rose look away from her. The Doctor was sitting on his knees with the torch in one hand resting on one of his knees while the other was holding the screwdriver. He was moving around the room until he was greeted with the sight of Proper Dave's feet.

"Proper Dave, could you move over a bit?" The Doctor asked as he looked up at the man who was looking down at him.

"Why?"

"Over there by the water cooler. Thanks." The Doctor chimed, flinging his head in the direction of the rest of the group. Dave rolled his eyes before walking over to the rest of the group slightly bored.

"You know him, don't you?" Rose said, finally bringing up the courage to look over at River who was still studying the Doctor carefully

"Oh, God, do I know that man. We go way back, that man and me. Just not this far back." She said sadly. The Doctor was looking into the shadows with the torch on side of the table before crawling to another space, a frown forever on his face, oblivious to the chat around him.

"I'm sorry, what?" Rose voiced before turning her head towards her husband who once again had his head to the ground.

"He hasn't met me yet. I sent him a message but it went wrong, it arrived too early. This is the Doctor in the days before he knew me. And he looks at me, he looks right through me and it shouldn't kill me, but it does." River said looking from Rose to the Doctor, Rose having a frown on her face as her own eyes flickered between the two people, her mouth hanging open in confusion. She was trying to forget the constant ache; the constant unease in her hearts as she looked at the way River was looking at her spouse. But with that one sentence River had just said Rose knew that River is someone important in the Doctor's future. Someone who he cares for greatly. These things popping up in her mind was causing her to doubt herself. If Rose wasn't in the Doctor's future what was the point in staying? She should just get out now and move on with her life. Find Jack and work with TORCHWOOD or find a planet and live the rest of her extremely long life without the Doctor and on her own. These thoughts making her hearts break by just thinking about a life without him.

After everything she had done. After searching for him for 10 years. Being tormented by the Daleks, and watching so many civilisations fall as she couldn't save them. Trying to get back to him and bumping into the Master which in turn caused her life to take a dramatic and horrifying turn for the worst. Travelling to far back into his time line and saving his 5th incarnation. She had done so much with him. He was the reason she had engulfed the time vortex, the reason she had become BAD WOLF and inevitably become a time lady. But knowing that she wasn't in his future, knowing that one day they were to be parted, maybe it will be easier to go their separate ways now. To break that strong connection the pair of them have, to get over them, to live a life apart so it wouldn't hurt as much when they met someone else. After all Rose knew that the Doctor would find someone else. Find someone else that made him happy. She just wished she could say the same thing... because she knew... deep down she knew... that without the Doctor... her life would have no meaning.

"What are you talking about? The way you are talking to him I think you were closer to him than you're letting on. I'm not stupid River, I can see what your doing and I'm sorry to inform you that I'm not his everyday companion" Rose stated hotly, finally having the guts to talk to the woman. Her thoughts causing her emotions to boil and turn swiftly to anger, something that had not happened in a very long time.

"Do you know him or don't you?" Donna complained loudly, her head wiggling due to her emotions

"Donna! Quiet! I'm working." The Doctor voiced noisily from his position on the floor.

"Sorry!" She replied rolling her eyes, Rose had simply crossed her arms again and was looking at the ground as she was tormented with her thoughts and feelings.

"Donna? You're Donna? Donna Noble?" River said quickly, her eyes wide as she looked at herm her body moving backwards.

"Yeah. Why?"The time traveller said with a frown, she looked over at Rose who was looking at River with a frown

"I do know the Doctor. But in the future. His personal future." River said breathy as she shook her head and then turned to look over at Rose, her eyes sorrowful as if she was remember something

"So why don't you know me? Where am I in the future?" She asked shaking her head in worry but before River could answer her question the Doctor had stood up back onto his feet and was talking to them loudly and quickly.

"OK, we've got a live one! That's not darkness down those tunnels, this is not a shadow. It's a swarm. A man-eating swarm." He said with his eyebrows raised before he motioned Rose forward and he picked up a chicken leg from the box and knelt back down on his knees, his eyebrows in a frown, his jaw guttering out. He threw the leg into the shadows and Rose shrieked back slightly because by the time it had reached the ground, there was only the bone left.

"The piranhas of the air, the Vashta Nerada. Literally "the shadows that melt the flesh". Most planets have them, but usually in small clusters. I've never seen an infestation on this scale, or this aggressive." The Doctor informed, never once taking his eyes from the shadows, his body moving so he was leaning back on Rose as he could feel the conflicting emotions she was feeling.

"What d'you mean, most planets? Not Earth?" Donna stated, shaking her head in fear as he eyebrows were raised, her eyes wide with fear.

"Mmmm, Earth, and a billion other worlds. Where there's meat, there's Vashta Nerada. You can see them sometimes, if you look. The dust in sunbeams." Rose said to her with a small smile. Her own eyebrows raised, her eyes looking at Donna softly as she spoke to her. The Doctor watching Rose show her knowledge and he smiled at her. She returned it gently.

"If they were on Earth, we'd know." Donna said not really believing the Doctor and Rose; she was shaking her head at them, her eyebrows raised as she cocked her head towards the shadows. The Doctor had his own brows raised, his mouth hanging open in an oval shape.

"Nah, normally they live on road kill. But sometimes people go missing. Not everyone comes back out of the dark." He said to her before turning back to the shadows. River had suddenly become uneasy and was shining her torch down a dark corridor, her eyes wide and her own mouth open as she tried to control her emotions

"Every shadow?" River panicked

"No." Rose said as she turned around and got back to her feet "But any shadow." She informed again, before her eyes flickered to the dark.

"So what do we do?"

"Daleks - aim for the eyestalk." The Doctor said, his forehead creasing, his mouth moving into an n shape as he moved his head to the left "Sontarans - back of the neck. Vashta Nerada... Run! Just run."

"Run? Run where?" River stated as she shook her head which was holding a frown, her torch lowered to her side as she watched the Doctor spin around on his feet and stand up so he was facing her.

"This is an index point. There must be an exit teleport somewhere." The Doctor said quickly as he plonked the food to the ground, waving his arms at his sides while the group started to look at each other and then over to Mr Lux.

"Don't look at me, I haven't memorised the schematics!" He defended as he placed his hands up into surrender, his head shaking as he shrieked back.

"Doctor, the little shop! They always make you go through the little shop on the way out so they can sell you stuff." Donna shouted as she pointed her hand towards the shop, the Doctor placing a hand to her shoulder before bounding behind her

"You're right! Brilliant! That's why I like the little shop!" The Doctor said as he looked through the window and then bounded back towards Donna with a huge smile on his face

"OK, let's move it!" Proper Dave ordered as he headed towards the shop but Rose frowned when she noticed something

"Actually, Proper Dave, could you stay where you are for a moment?" She said to him gently.

"Why?" he asked with a frown. Rose just walked over to him with a sad smile on her face, standing in front of him as he looked down at her, every other member of the group looking at her.

"I'm sorry. I am so, so sorry. But you've got two shadows." She said, smiling at him sadly, her eyebrows raised as she looked at the man who was breathing heavily as he looked at her. She noticed that everybody was looking at Proper Dave's shadows in horror.

"It's how they hunt, they latch on to a food source and keep it fresh." The Doctor said to him as he came to stand next to his wife, his hands in his pockets while Dave looked at them worried

"What do I do?"

"You stay absolutely still. Like there's a wasp in the room, like there's a million wasps." She said to him quickly, her eyebrows still raised

"We're not leaving you, Dave." River said quickly, her own eyes wide with terror and worry

"Course we're not leaving. " The Doctor said with a frown as he spoke over to River quickly, snapping at her slightly

"Where's your helmet? Don't point, just tell me." Rose said as her eyes fell back to Proper Dave

"On the floor, by my bag." HE said, his voice and body trembling. Anita started to move to fetch the helmet when Rose said something to her quickly, her hand moved out towards her in caution.

"Don't cross his shadow!" She said loudly causing Anita to slowly move River out of the way and fetch the helmet which she pasted to Rose who thanked her. "Thanks. Now, the rest of you, helmets back on and sealed up. We'll need everything we've got." She said to them as she concentrated on helping put Dave's helmet on. She smiled at him very comfortingly and motherly and he was comforted by her kindness. "We'll get you out of this Dave" She smiled "Don't you worry" The Doctor simply watched her interact with the man who was fearful for his life

"Thank you" He stated though his visor, but Rose frowned at him. "Thank you for helping me, keeping me calm in a situation like this. Miss Evangelista was right about you. You have a very kind heart" He said to her. Rose smiled at him. Her hearts exploding with emotion because even though her life seemed to be going down hill she still managed to bring a small amount of light to even the darkest reaches of the universe.

"It's my pleasure. Ill be right here" She smiled causing him to smile at her gently.

"Ah, Guys, not wanting to put a dampener on your parade, but we haven't got any helmets." Donna voiced loudly as the rest of the group were pulling on their helmets

"Yeah, but we're safe anyway." The Doctor said as he studied Dave's two shadows, watching as he never moved his eyes from Rose who was talking to him, keeping him calm and composed

"How are we safe?"

"We're not, that was a clever lie to shut you up. Professor, anything I can do with the suit?" The Doctor said quietly before talking louder over to River

"What good are the damn suits? Miss Evangelista was wearing her suit, there was nothing left." Lux said quickly and fearfully, his hand pointing towards the body of his employee but River interrupted his rant and his panic

"We can increase the mesh-density, dial it up 400%. Make it a tougher meal." She said as she looked over at the Time Lord.

"OK." HE voiced as he pulled out the sonic screwdriver and passed it to Rose who pressed the screwdriver onto Dave's suits systems. Dave watched as Rose used the alien device. Her eyes flickered up to him and she smiled up at him as he watched her

"800%! Pass it on." She said as she spoke over to her husband and gave him back the screwdriver. He motioned it towards River who had lifted up a similar one

"Gotcha!" She smiled

"What's that?" He asked with a frown as he reached around Dave

"It's a screwdriver." She nodded as she looked at it. The Doctor holding a frown as he looked at it. Rose looked down sorrowful meaning Dave noticed

"It's sonic."

"Yeah, I know. Snap!" She smiled before she went around sealing everyone's suits with her sonic. The Doctor was watching with one of his eyebrows raised and with suspicion, he then pressed a hand to Rose's back who looked at him and watched as he grasped hold of Donna's hand and pulled her from the room. Rose watched them go before she spoke up to Dave

"How you feeling?" She asked him gently

"Glad that you haven't abandoned me" He whispered, Rose simply smiled up at him as she continued to talk to him.

"What are we doing, we're shopping? Is it a good time to shop?" Donna chimed when they burst through the wooden doors, the Doctor rushing straight to the teleport while Donna bounced on her feet as she looked at all the merchandise.

"No talking, just moving! Try it! Right, stand there in the middle. It's a teleport. Stand in the middle. Can't send the others, TARDIS won't recognise them." He said as he pulled her to the device and then back to the terminal as he configured it with the set co-ordinates.

"What are you doing?" She complained as she looked down at where her feet was positioned with a frown on her face

"You don't have a suit, you're not safe!" The Doctor voiced as he twisted dials, and powered up the teleport.

"You don't have a suit, so you're in just as much danger as I am and I'm not leaving..." Donna said quickly as she stubbornly shouted over at him but the Doctor raised his eyebrows as he leant his hands in the top railings of the device

"Donna! Let me explain." He interrupted quickly before he pushed the device and teleported Donna away.

"Oh, that's how you do it!" He said putting emphasis on his words as he twiddled the screwdriver in his hand and then back into his pocket before he bolted back into the room again on his own. Rose was frowning from her position in front of Dave, wondering what the Doctor had done to Donna, but she turned her attention back to Dave who was still talking to her, comforted that he hadn't been left on his own. But suddenly Rose frowned when she looked down at the ground. She stepped back cautiously before she shouted for her husband.

"DOCTOR!" She shouted before looking around the surrounding area around Dave and then back up to him with a frown.

"Where did it go?" The Doctor asked as he looked around, his eyebrows in a frown

"It's just gone. I... I looked round, one shadow. See." He said as he too looked around behind him

"Does that mean we can leave? I don't want to hang around here." River asked, her voice echoing due to her helmet

"I don't know why we're still here. We can leave him, can't we? I mean, no offence..." Lux argued, pointing towards Proper Dave who was looking at him in misbelieve but Rose was frustrated with him and was rolling her eyes at his impoliteness and unkindness.

"Shut up, Mr. Lux." She snapped before she looked back up to the Doctor and Dave

"Did you feel anything? Like an energy transfer? Anything at all?" She asked him gently as he looked down at her

"No, no, but, look, it's, it's gone." He said again with a smile as he started to turn around to show it was clear.

"Stop there, stop, stop, stop there, stop moving! They're never just gone. And they never give up." He said as he held his hands up in surrender as he looked at Dave's back. Rose watched him as he knelt down and started to investigate the shadows with his sonic.

"Well, this one's benign." He muttered from his kneeling position.

"Hey, who turned out the lights?" Dave asked when he began to move his hands to his sides

"No-one, they're fine."The Doctor said from his position on the ground. He looked up at the man in the suit with his eyebrows raised and then looked over at Rose who was looking at him with her mouth hanging open.

"No, seriously, turn them back on!"

"They are on." River said as she shook her head towards them, but Rose's form had suddenly run cold when I thought came to her.

"I can't see a ruddy thing." Dave complained causing the Doctor to stand next to Rose when he felt her sudden change in emotions

"Dave, turn round." She said to him gently and sadly, her eyes holding a sense of worry as she looked at her husband. The man began to turn back around to the group slowly, but his face was invisible in the darkness of the helmet.

"What's going on? Why can't I see? Is the power gone, are we safe here?"

"Dave, I want you stay still, absolutely still." Rose said to him again gently taking a step towards him, the Doctor trying to grab for her but she shrugged him off but Dave suddenly stiffenedan unnerving noise being emitted from him "Dave, Dave? Dave, can you hear me, are you all right? Talk to me, Dave." Rose said to him quickly, the Doctor having rushed to her side to protect her from what ever was happening.

"I'm fine, I'm OK, I'm... I'm fine."

"I want you to stay still, absolutely still." Rose said to him again, slowly lifting one of her hands the other going to the Doctor's as her nerves started to get to her

"I'm fine, I'm OK, I'm, I'm fine. I can't... Why can't I? I... I can't... Why can't I? I... I can't... Why can't I? I..." But that's when Rose looked up at the Doctor sadly as they looked at the lights on Proper Dave's communicator. The green lights blinking.

"He's gone. He's ghosting." River stated sadly. But the Doctor and Rose were looking at the man sadly, Rose having tried so hard to help him

"Then why is he still standing?" Lux asked

"Hey! Who turned out the lights? Hey! Who turned out the lights?" The Doctor was holding a frown at the sudden change in conversation by Dave and cautiously stepped towards him

"Doctor" Rose said to him warningly, still standing close to Dave.

"Doctor, don't!" River cried.

"Dave, can you hear me?" The Doctor said strongly, his eyes narrowing so he could try to look through the visor, taking a large step towards him

"Hey! Who turned out the lights?" But he suddenly grasped hold of the Doctor and started to choke him. The Doctor grasped hold of his hands to try and ease the pressure from his throat, his face scrunched up in effort. . The helmet was finally lit and we can see that it was only a skeleton left in the suit.

"Who turned out the lights? Hey! Who turned out the lights?"

"Excuse me!" River shouted as she used her sonic to stun the skeleton and free the Doctor who stumbled backwards. He noticed that his hand was grabbed by a small one who he clung onto as Rose pulled him back, reaching for him. He stumbled towards her, angling his body so he was facing her but looking over at Dave.

"Back from it, get back, right back!" The Doctor shouted as he started to lead Rose back away from the man she had swiftly befriended. But the group were backing away and they were cornered by him as he stalked towards them in an awkward manner.

"Doesn't move very fast does it?" River said quickly as she was angled from the suit

"It's a swarm in a suit." Rose cried in exasperation as she said it loudly "But it's learning." She warned as she moved closer to the Doctor when she noticed the several shadows reaching out from Skeleton Dave and moved towards them

"What do we do? Where do we go?" Lux panicked as his eyes flickered between the Doctor and the suit.

"See that wall behind you? Duck!" River said cocking her head towards the wall before pointing something at the wall causing the man to duck and she used a sonic blaster to make a huge square like hole in the wall.

"Squareness gun!" The Doctor chimed as he watched as she used the device on the wall

"Everybody out. Go, go, go! Move it, move, move! Move it, move, move!" River shouted as the group of them rushed out of the room and through the hole. They emerged into a shadowy aisle between book shelves

"You said not every shadow." River said from her position

"But any shadow!" Rose shouted back to her as both her and the Doctor started to look around at their surroundings, Rose holding a frown while the Doctor had his eyebrows raised and his hair pointing in every direction as his mind was trying to figure out what to do next, to think up some sort of plan.

"Hey! Who turned out the lights?" Proper Dave stated as he arrived at the aisle entrance.

"Run!" River snapped as she grabbed hold of the Doctor's hand and ran forward. Rose watched as the woman ran with her husband and she was left to run on her own at the back. Her hearts dropping as she continued to look over her shoulder at the space suit man worried about what the Doctor had done to Donna.

The Doctor was standing on top of a pile of books as he placed his other leg to the bookshelf as he reached up towards the lights and used the screwdriver to turn them on. Rose had pressed her body to a bookshelf with her eyes closed as her hearts broken with sadness. River was standing close to him while the rest of the group were beginning to sit around, panting as they tried to regain their breath.

"Trying to boost the power. Light doesn't stop them, but it slows them down." The Doctor voiced as he continued to sonic the lights, his eyes flickering to Rose's form.

"So, what's the plan? Do we have a plan?" River asked as she pointed her screwdriver to the lamp at the same time making the light to become stronger

"Your screwdriver... looks exactly like mine." The Doctor said with his hands still raised above his head, his eyebrows in a frown, his mouth hanging open as he looked at her, moving back to the ground.

"Yeah. You gave it to me." She smiled as she continued to use it on the light

"I don't give my screwdriver to anyone." The Doctor said quickly, his face not moving from his previous frown

"I'm not anyone." She smiled as she leant forward slightly and shook her head.

"Who are you?" The Doctor questioned again, his frown deepening as he looked at her work,

"What's the plan?" She said suddenly changing the subject when she moved the screwdriver back into her pocket

"I teleported Donna back to the TARDIS. If we don't get back there in under five hours, emergency program one will activate." He said as he looked at the light and then back to the screwdriver

"Take her home, yeah." River stated before going over to the group "We need to get a shift on. We will get moving in a bit" She said to them gently as she spoke to them. But the Doctor was walking over to Rose, still looking at the screwdriver very concerned. Rose had moved so she was sitting away from the group on her own. Her knees had been brought up closer to her and her head was resting against the bookshelves as she worried her eyes were showing how much she was hurting. But the Doctor noticed her sitting on her own and walked over to her, nudging her with his foot. She moved so she was looking at him and he smiled at her. She just returned his with a very weak one before she pulled her self to a standing position while the Doctor continued to work on whatever he was working on.

"You ok?" He asked her as he pressed the screwdriver to his ear

"Yeah, I'm fine" She breathed, giving him a brief smile before she lost it completely, pressing her hands to her jean pockets "You sent her away didn't you"

"Yeah, she'll be safe in the TARDIS" The Doctor replied as he walked forward and away from her a little way.

"Then why haven't you got a signal saying the TARDIS has received her?" Rose asked him but the Doctor just turned to look at her and then down to the ground "Are you going to send me away?" Rose suddenly asked him which caused his head to snap up towards her, a small smile on his lips

"No cause you can look after yourself" he smiled.

"Or you just want me here so River can rub it in" She said as he leant against one of the book cases as she watched him try to get a signal with the screwdriver, once again he was only half listening to the conversation.

"Rose what are you talking about?" He asked as he briefly looked up from the screwdriver before going back to his work

"Oh come on Doctor stop playing ignorant" Rose whispered harshly, hoping she wouldn't be heard by the others. She pushed herself from the bookshelves before walking over to the Doctor who had finally stopped working "River is flirting with you, with her sonic screwdriver, and her large puppy dog eyes begging for you to give her some attention and your just giving it to her" Rose whispered angrily

"Rose she's someone from my future and I want to know who she is" The Doctor defended as he turned to face her, really studying her eyes as he tried to recognise the different emotions she was feeling as she had protected her mind from him.

"Well if you weren't too caught up showing off you, you would really see what's going on here. If she's from your future then where am I?" Rose whispered snapped again causing the Doctor to look at her stumped. Rose simply breathed out a laugh as she shook her head and moved away from the Doctor "I knew something like this was going to happen. I just knew it" She said as she brought up her hands and folded them across her chest, her hands rubbing the top of her arms.

"Rose do we have to this now?" He stated as he pulled the screwdriver back to his ear

"Yes Doctor" Rose snapped irritated as she turned to look at the Doctor "If Donna's life is in danger I'm going to help her" Rose yelled at him, or more whisper yelled at him, causing the Doctor to look at her and her sudden outburst. "Just like normal I have to push my insecurities, pushing my emotions and what I believe to be right in to my hearts. Having to bury my feelings of un worth and hurt down into my being as their is always something more at stake. Donna's life being a big one. I bet you didn't even tell her you were teleporting her away" Rose argued over to her, at the last part the Doctor looked away from her "Oh Doctor really!" Rose cried exasperated

"What! I didn't have time" And I'm sure she will understand!" The Doctor retorted towards her, walking away slightly.

"But you have no idea how she's feeling" Rose shouted to him

"And you do?" The Doctor bellowed spinning around to her, shouting right into her face

"Yes actually" She replied, standing her ground, showing him strength he never knew she had. "Remember that time you sent me back to earth? I wanted to get back to you so much I looked into the time vortex. I became the BAD WOLF because of you! So don't go around telling me I have no idea how she's feeling because I've been through it! I know exactly how she's feeling" Rose shouted, her voice cracking as a lump formed in her throat, causing the Doctor's eyes and features to soften as he looked at how much she was hurting.

"Rose" The Doctor said gently as he reached for her, placing his hand onto her shoulder

"NO!" She shouted as she pulled away from him, moving her arm and shoulder back to him "I'm fine" She muttered

"No your not" The Doctor said as he reached for her again

"No Doctor!" She cried as she flung her shoulder from his hand. "Just run along, run along to your precious River" She snapped waving her hands in the direction of the woman "After all she's more important than I'll ever be... after all she is your future!" Rose shouted before stalking off away from him, whipping the tears from her cheeks as she went. The Doctor could do nothing more than stare after her. Too shocked to move. Never once has Rose flipped out at him like this. Sure they had their arguments, they had there disagreements, but never once had Rose moved away from him. He could do nothing to help her. Not when she was like this and they had this impending doom. He just sighed, swallowed his own pain and walked over to a neighbouring node.

"Donna Noble. There's a Donna Noble somewhere in this Library. Do you have the software to locate her position?" The Doctor voiced causing the group to start to get to their feet but as the Node turned its head it reveals that it was wearing Donna's face.

"Donna Noble has left the Library. Donna Noble has been saved."

"Donna!" Donna cried horrified, causing Rose to fling her head in the direction of the Doctor's outcry

"Donna Noble has left the Library. Donna Noble has been saved."

"How can it be Donna? How's that possible?" Rose shouted as she jogged over to get a better look at the node, shoving her heart break into her form again, not standing anywhere close to the Doctor or River.

"Donna Noble has left the Library. Donna Noble has been saved."

"Oh, Donna!" Rose whispered to herself sadly

"Donna Noble has left the Library."

"Hey! Who turned out the lights?" The voice of Dave sounded. Rose and River flung their heads in the direction of the voice and Skeleton Dave had appeared in the aisle. But the Doctor was too devastated to care. Rose had moved to the corner of the aisle to see and determine his position. She was beginning to give orders, telling people to start to prepare themselves for some more running. She looked back over at the Doctor to see he was still looking at the node in despair

"Doctor!" Rose shouted, flinging her body from him back to the other aisle.

"Donna Noble has been saved."

"Hey! Who turned out the lights?"

"Donna Noble has left the Library."

"Doctor, we've got to go, now!" River shouted once she had been ushered forward by Rose. She grasped hold of his hand and pulled him forward. Rose was simply looking at the impending form of Proper Dave before she turned and followed the rest of the group with her hearts broken and completely shattered.

TO BE CONTINUED...