Stolen Earth Part Two

Rose and the Doctor were still making sure the TARDIS was flying properly as the rota continued to rise and fall. The Doctor and his companions holding onto the console for support before it stopped dead. The Doctor looked over at Rose with a frown on his features as she looked at him, her own confusion and curiousity shining in her eyes as she looked up at him.

"It's stopped" the Doctor said quietly as he took a cautious step back away from the monitor, Donna looking quickly over at him for reassurance

"What do you mean? Is that good or bad? Where are we?" Donna asked him, her eyes flickering between him and the monitor before she took a brief look over at Rose who was sweeping over the controls, confirming what the monitor was saying.

"The Medusa Cascade." The Doctor said again, his body leaning against the pillar, his hands resting on the support beam as his eyebrows raised. Donna simply looked over at Rose who was coming to stand on the side of the console that they were. Her own body going towards the columned by the door, her head resting on it with her eyes closed, trying to keep her mind in control as the TARDIS drifted lazily through the Medusa Cascade.

"I came here when I was just a kid." The Doctor said reminiscing, his eyebrows raised, his forehead in creases as his tongue poked out of the side of his cheek "Ninety years old. It was the centre of a rift in time and space."

"So... where are the twenty-seven planets?" Donna asked, her own eyebrows raised as she looked at the Doctor who could do nothing but stare at her.

"Nowhere." Rose replied quietly "The Tandocca Trail stops dead." She finished as she forced her body to the support beam and sunk down to the ground, resting her head on the beam while the Doctor rested his own head back against the support "End of the line."

"What do we do? Doctor? What do we do?" she voiced, swallowing nervously as she spoke, her words still full with faith and hope. Looking back between the two time beings and the monitor. However the pair of them said nothing. He merely continued watching the screen, with an air of defeat while Rose frowned as the unrecognizable force in her mind grew in intensity.

"Don't do this to me." Donna pleaded, urgency pressed to her voice as she shook her head in denial "No, don't. Don't do this to me. Not now." She whispered urgently "Tell me what we're going to do!" But the Doctor and his Wife still remained silent. Their wordlessness, t heir uncharacteristic hopelessness, scared her more than anything.

Still, the Doctor says nothing. His wordlessness, his uncharacteristic hopelessness, scares her more than anything.

"You never give up! Please!" She shouted, her voice shaking with fear as she begged either of them to say something. But when they still said nothing Donna could no longer hold back her sorrow as she pressed one hand over her mouth and the other followed closely behind.

Gwen was sitting on the sofa on her own. Waiting. Waiting for something to do to get them out of their situation, waiting for the Doctor, waiting for his marvelous mind and time machine to save them. All the stories Rose had told her about her husband made her heart leap out towards her. Where was she? Rose was one of her best friends and she would never just leave them. She had never met the Doctor but from what both Jack and Rose had told her about him he sounded like the stuff of ledged. But she could do nothing. She just sat there listening to a transmission that has filtered through, over the screeches from the Daleks above them.

"This is the Commander General of the United Nations calling the Dalek fleet. We surrender. Repeat: we surrender." Ianto was trying to pass out a cup of tea of coffee to his two companions but as he picked it up, his hands were shaking and he could do nothing but fall into the chair, the transmission falling up to his ears. "Planet Earth surrenders."

Jack was listening to everything that was happening, sitting on the floor by the infirmary with his back against the wall, his knees drawn up, clutching his phone, hoping and praying that Rose would phone him, wanting to know that they were on their way to help. Wanting to here her comforting voice as she encouraged him, helped him and provided him with the love he needed.

"Humans selected for testing will follow Dalek instructions."

Sarah was sitting on the wooden steps in her attack with her arm wrapped around Luke, her son was clinging onto her hand as she rested her head on his, the pair listening to the Dalek on the transmission.

"The Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks!" The Daleks sounded causing a shuddering breath to escape Sarah Jane as she closed her eyes in despair, her mind fogged with horrific memories of the Daleks when she had travelled with the Daleks.

Like Sarah Jane Wilfred had his arm wrapped around Sylvia as she clung on to her father, the pair of them were huddling together on an arm chair. He pressed a kiss to her forehead in comfort as she sat with him crying quietly. Parallel Rose sitting at their table, her gun hanging over her chair, her hand pressed to her chin as she too listened to the Daleks from outside.

"You will obey Dalek instruction without question. You will obey your Dalek ma—" however the Dalek was cut off by a loud beeping sound. Wilfred and Rose started to look around to see what was causing the sound and the pair looked at each other when the Laptop sprung into life, displaying white noise and a familiar voice straining to get through,

"Can anyone hear me? The subwave network is open, you should be able to hear my voice..." Rose held a frown on her features as she pulled away from the chair and walked over to the laptop in surprise, Sylvia and her father were also looking at the laptop with frowns on their features. "Is there anyone there?

" I know that voice...!" Rose voiced as she knelt in front of the laptop eagerly.

She kneels in front of the laptop eagerly.

"Who's that?" Luke asked as he looked towards his mother who was looking around with water in her eyes.

"Some poor soul calling for help." She cried helplessly "There's nothing we can do."

"But look at Mr Smith!" Luke said with a smile as he moved her hand from his

"Processing incoming subwave." He stated before he displayed a vague outline of Harriet jones, buried in white noise.

This time Gwen frowned when she heard the voice. She jumped to her feet, trying to see if she could clear up the transmission.

"This message is of the utmost importance. We haven't much time. Can anyone hear me?" Harriet Jones voiced, continuing to call out to anyone.

"Someone's trying to get in touch." Gwen voiced over at Jack once she had reached the computer, the screen still displaying the white noise.

"The whole world's crying out. Just leave it." Jack said quietly from his position, his eyes staring straight to the ground

"Captain Jack Harkness, shame on you!" She stated reprimanding, causing Jack to frown at the sudden abruptness of the situation. Her image was slowly clearing, assuming colour. Ianto just looked over at the screen, leaning to his feet as he watched Jack's attention get caught. "Now, stand to attention, sir!"

"What? Who is that?" Jack asked with a frown as he rushed over to the computer. The image had cleared completely and Harriet Jones was sitting in front of her computer in her home, flashing and ID card at the screen.

"Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister."

"Yeah, I know who you are." Jack said with a smile, Ianto held a frown and Gwen had pressed her hands to her lips.

"Harriet! It's me, it's me! Oh, she can't hear me –" Rose yelled at the screen excitedly before she turned to Wilfred "Have you got a webcam?"

"No." HE said as he gestured to Sylvia "She wouldn't let me. She said they're naughty."

"Well, I can't speak to her then, can I?" Rose muttered to herself as she turned back to the laptop.

"Sarah Jane Smith, 13 Bannerman Road." Harriet voiced causing Sarah to open her mouth while Luke continued to look at the screen with a small smile spred on his lips. "Are you there?"

"Yeah! Yeah, I'm here! It's me!" She said as she jumped to her feet, moving over towards the large computer, Luke standing a little way behind her.

"Good! Now, let's see if we can talk to each other." She stated before she pressed a few buttons, her screen divided into four squares. She is the first, Jack is the second, Sarah Jane is the third and the fourth was still white noise.

"The fourth contact seems to be having some trouble getting through."

"That's me! Harriet, that's me!" Rose shouted pointlessly.

"I'll just boost the signal." She said and at that moment Martha's face appeared in the fourth square.

"Hello?"

Jack laughed a little as the face appeared on the screen, his face moving into a large smile, Ianto sighing with relief as Gwen turned to smile at her friends at the relief shining on their faces

"Martha Jones!"

"Who's she? I want to get through!" Rose said annoyed, her face scrunching up in a frown as she continued to look at the laptop and the four people in front of her.

"Martha, where are you?"

"I guess Project Indigo was more clever than we thought. One second I was in Manhattan – and then I was in the one place I wanted to be" Martha informed before she looked over at her mother and smiled.

"You came home. At the end of the world, you came back to me." She said with a smile, the pair smiling at each other

"But all of a sudden, it's like... the laptop turned itself on?"

"It did. That was me." She said with a smile before she flashed her ID card once again "Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister."

"Yes, I - know who you are." Martha voiced with an embarrassed smile.

" I thought it was about time we all met, given the current crisis. Torchwood - this is Sarah Jane Smith." She stated while Sarah took a brief glance to Luke before looking back at the screen as she was introduced to Jack.

"I've been following your work. Nice job with the Slitheen..." Jack admired with a smile as he spoke to Sarah Jane

"Yeah, well, I've been staying away from you lot. Too many guns." Sarah Jane voiced before giving a nod in Luke's direction by a way of explanation

"All the same... might I say, looking good, ma'am." Jack said with a flirtatious smile

"Really? Oo!" She smiled in reply, pleased that her work had been noticed.

"Not now, Captain." Harriet said wearily but not unamused before she turned to talk to Martha. "And Martha Jones, former companion to the Doctor."

"Oi! So was I!" Rose shouted indignantly

"But how did you find me?" Martha implored, her eyes wide as she spoke

"This, ladies and gentlemen, this is a subwave network. A sentient piece of software programmed to seek out anyone and everyone who can help to contact the Doctor." She informed them, gesturing towards the equipment in front of her.

"What if the Daleks can hear us?" Martha asked nervously, her eyes moving above her before they were trained back to the screen.

"No! That's the beauty of the subwave. It's undetectable." She answered with a smile

"And... you invented it?" Sarah Jane asked, impressed at the woman sitting in front of her.

"I developed it. It was created by the Mr Copper Foundation."

"Yeah, but what we need right now is a weapon." Jack stated as he adjusted his feet on the floor "Martha, back there at UNIT, what did they give you? What was that key thing?"

"The Osterhagen Key." She said unimpressed, the key pressed to her hand as she showed it to them

"That key is not to be used, Doctor Jones. Not under any circumstances." Harriet stated in a tone that made no one argue with her. Her eyes narrowing right onto Martha as she continued to look at the computer in front of her.

"But what is an Osterhagen Key?" Jack asked as he took a brief look behind him at Ianto.

"Forget about the key! And that's an order." She ordered commandingly. "All we need is the Doctor."

"Oh, excuse me, Harriet, but well, the thing is... if you're looking for the Doctor, didn't he depose you?" Sarah asked apologetically, Luke turning to face her

"He did. And I've wondered about that for a long time, whether I was wrong. But I stand by my actions to this day, because I knew - I knew that one day, the Earth would be in danger and the Doctor would fail to appear. I told him so myself, and he didn't listen."

"But that's the thing. I've been trying to call Rose but I can't get through" Jack said sadly, his heart leaping out towards the woman who was like his sister, hoping that they were ok.

"That's why we need the subwave - to bring us all together. Combined forces. The Doctor's secret army." She said, Jack having pressed his hand to his chin as he listened before an idea dawned on him "Wait a minute. We boost the signal - that's it! We transmit Rose's number through Torchwood itself, using all the power of the rift..." He explained, his eyebrows raised, his hand moving as he tried to explain his idea.

"And we've got Mr Smith!" Luke said with a smile via the computer causing Jack tp exchange amused looks with Gwen and Ianto "He can link up with every telephone exchange on the Earth. He can get the whole world to call the same number, all at the same time. Billions of phones calling out, all at once!"

"Haha, brilliant!" Jack said with a large smile before pointing towards Luke "Who's the kid?"

"That's my son!" Sarah Jane said as she moved her arm around Luke.

"Excuse me. Sorry." Ianto said as he shuffled in front of the screen, excusing himself past Jack who smiled at him and moved out of the way. "Sorry. Hello. Ianto Jones. Um, if we start transmitting, then the subwave network is going to become... visible. I mean, to the... Daleks."

"Yes, and they'll trace it back to me, but my life doesn't matter. Not if it saves the Earth." Harriet informed them, her eyes boring right into theirs as she spoke. Realization floated onto Jack's features as he stood to attention, his hand pressed to his forehead in a salute.

"Ma'am."

"Thank you, Captain. Now, enough of words. Let's begin." Harriet voiced before she placed her hand onto the keyboard and prepared her computer for the activity it was about to do. Sarah Jane looked over at her son with excitement shining in her eyes before the set to work. But due to the large amount of work they needed to do, TORCHWOOD burst into action, dashing from terminal to terminal, typing, doing, and preparing the rift for it vital job it needed in calling Rose.

"Rift power activated." Jack voiced as he moved out of the way for Ianto as he made his way down the steps and towards the Rift.

"All terminals co-ordinated." Gwen explained as she and Ianto were sorting out a bunch of wire. Ianto connected them to the column that rose up into the water features outside the Millennium Centre.

Gwen helps Ianto with a bunch of wires - he connects them to the column that rises up into the water feature outside the Millennium Centre.

"National Grid online - giving you everything we've got!" Ianto ordered as he prepared to jump to work, the wire protruding from the structure as the machinery continued to whirr as it powered up.

"Connecting you to Mr Smith!" Sarah Jane informed, as both her and Luke were busy at his controls.

"All telephone networks combined!" Luke explained just as the screen displayed a map of the UK with red dots indicating the various networks.

"Sending you the number…now" Jack explained as he had pulled out his number, pulled up his favorites and started sending the number to his friends. As soon as he had pressed enter the number began to dial.

"Opening subwave network to maximum." Harriet stated, her hands still flinging over the keyboard. Watching as Sarah Jane and Luke stepped back, ready to let Mr Smith take over.

"Mr Smith... make that call."

"Calling... the Doctor."

" And... sending!" jack shouted as he pushed a leaver, stepping back suddenly as a ring of electric blue light travelled slowly up the column, up and out. The blue rings of light travelling up the water features, emanating up into space with a soft bleeping sound. Travelling out into space, becoming large the further away they were.

Rose still had her eyes closed as she rested her head against the support beam, her head getting better but the constant nagging was still pressed to the back of her head. When she felt a vibration in her pocket. Her Phone. Her phone was ringing. The bleeping suddenly became audible to the Doctor and to Rose who was snapping to her feet to pull the object from her pocket.

"PHONE!" The Doctor yelled as he snapped out of his state of defeat in a second

"Doctor, phone!" Donna shouted as she leant over the console as the Doctor shoved himself over to Rose who was struggling with her pocket.

"Come on, Come on!" Rose muttered to herself, her husband looking at her as she continued to get the phone out of her pocket. She looked at the ID before she snapped it to her ear, the Doctor looking at her with worry shining in her eyes.

"Jack! Is that you?" She asked down the phone before looking away and down at it "It's a signal…" She explained before she pressed the objects into her husband's hands as he pulled ou a stethoscope, Donna hanging onto his arm a little.

"Can we follow it?"

"Oh, just watch me." He said determinedly as he placed the buds into his ears and leant the phone in front of the monitor, pressing the stethoscope to the pad.

Gwen was shielded by Jack as the rift started exploding. Equipment was blowing up, sparks were flying as the ground shook with power, chaos ensuring.

"I think we've got a fix!" Jack yelled, his eyebrows raised, his body cocked out of the way as all the equipment failed on them. The advanced technology The Doctor and Rose had given them failing after such a hard workout. However it wasn't just TORCHWOOD that was suffering. Sarah Jane and Luke were jumping back from Mr Smith as he took started smoking and sparks flying.

"Mr Smith now at two-hundred percent! Oh, come on, Doctor!" She cried impatiently, worried about her computer failing.

"Got it! Locking on!" The Doctor yelled as he pushed Rose in the right direction of the console as he pulled a lever, causing a shudder that sent everyone falling. Donna collapsed onto the Captain's chair while the Doctor grabbed hold of the console. Rose lost her balance and collapsed to the floor, her hands catching her in front before she picked her self up and continued at the console, shrieking back from the sparks as the console exploded.

Jack and Ianto were both at different terminals before Jack caught his attention and gestured him over to take his place.

"Harriet, a source has locked onto your location. They've found you." Gwen explained with a frown on her face, worry shining in her eyes as both Ianto and Jack turned to face her, the pair sharing a quick glance before they got back to work.

"I know. I'm using the network to mask your transmission. Keep going!" Harriet said panicking, ignoring the Dalek talking from outside and ignoring the Daleks as they blasted a hole in the side of her house, but she does not look around, she was focused and wholly set on finished her job.

Gwen turned to look over at Jack and Ianto who were looking over at her and she could do nothing but stare at her before she continued doing her job, looking disturbed as she carried on typing.

Rose was once again frowning, shielding her body away from the fiery onslaught as the whole of the console had gone up in flames. The Doctor and Donna were standing by the monitor, clinging onto the machine as it shook violently, the Doctor's eyebrows raised as he gave the TARDIS a comforting nudge from his mind just as Donna gasped, watching as Rose had to move away from the console.

"We're travelling through time!" The Doctor shouted over the large noise before he toppled over Donna, frowning from the large explosion that had occurred right next to him. Rose looked around the center column to see he was ok as he jumped back to his feet and forced his eyes to train on the information showed to him on the screen. "One second in the future! The phone call's pulling us through!"

Jack could do nothing to help. All he could do was watch. Watch as Harriet Jones, the former Prime Minister pressed on last button, transferring control to TORCHWOOD. Watching as she stood in front of three Daleks as they smashed into her house through the window. She stood their, meeting them face-to-face, flashing her ID card one last time. She didn't scream, she didn't cry out as she sacrificed herself for the good of the world.

"THREE! TWO! ONE!" The Doctor shouted from the top of his lungs as he looked over at Rose who had walked to his side. He moved his arms to wrap around her middle as the pair of them as well as Donna all held on tight, yelling like they were on a roller coaster as the TARDIS hurtled towards the now visible Earth through the transmission. The other 26 planets rapidly appearing around it, one by one. Rose noticed that the fire had died down and the TARDIS has stopped shaking and she smiled to herself a little as the Doctor had failed to relinquish his hold on her. Her eyes flicked towards the monitor before she looked towards her husband, their smiles getting bigger as they realized they had found it.

"The twenty-seven planets! We've done it" Rose smiled, whispering to him gently before she leant over to him and pressed a kiss to his cheek as he continued to smile at her, ignoring Donna's ecstatic outcry.

"…And there's the Earth! But why couldn't we see it?"

"The entire Medusa Cascade has been put a second out of sync with the rest of the universe. Perfect hiding place, tiny little pocket of time. But we found them!" Rose said over to her with a smile, excitement shining in her eyes before a whirring sound and the screen blurred caused the Doctor to frown out of curiously as he walked over to another part of the console. Rose going to the opposite side.

"Oh, oh... what's that? Hold on, hold on..." The Doctor said with his eyebrows raised as he turned a dial and peered into the monitor "Some sort of... subwave network." He watched as the image cleared and the grid of web cams was shown on the screen.

However Rose had closed her eyes and pressed her hand to her head as the underlying pattern in the back of her head exploded over her head with such a force it sent her stumbling. In that instant she knew what was happening. What was going on. She knew what the other presence was. The reason why she was so tired. There had been only one other incident when she had felt this. The Computer. It was the Dalek's and she was still a vital part to their technology.

"Where the hell have you been?" Jack said with a laugh of relief before his eyebrows moved into a frown. Rose's heart leaping at the noise of Jack's voiced. "Where's Rose?" Jack asked again, watching the smile on the Doctor's face briefly fall away as he look over at Rose who was swaying on her feet. He pressed his hands on Donna's shoulders as he moved over to Rose's figure. He pressed his hand to the one resting on her forehead and moved it into his large paws, watching with a frown of worry on his features as she looked up at him with distant eyes and a frown on her eyebrows.

"Rose? Rose what is it?" He asked her gently, moving the fringe from her face as she looked up at him.

"It's the Daleks… I can feel it" Rose implored up at him, pain etched onto her face as she watched the realization flood his features,

"You sure?" He asked down at her with a frown before she nodded up at him

"It feels the same way as it did the last time" She replied to him again, he leant forward pressed his lips to her forehead before he dragged her over to the monitor.

"I'm right here Jack… it's nice to hear your safe" Rose said to him with a smile, love and comfort heading in his direction

"Rose, Doctor, it's the Daleks!" Jack said to them, informing them of information that he already knew.

"We know"

"Ooh, he's a bit nice. I thought he'd be older." Gwen said with a smile on her features, shaking her head in the process as she winked over at Rose who was beaming over at her, knowing that she hadn't met her husband yet. Rose could do nothing but laugh at her a little, watching as the Doctor missed her comment.

"He's not that young." Ianto replied with a cheeky side smile pressed to his face. Jack could do nothing but frown and take a double glance over at Ianto, his own possessiveness shining in his eyes and his posture.

"It's the Daleks! They're taking people to their spaceship!" Sarah Jane stated, her arm around Luke as both her and Martha started jabbering over each other. The Doctor could do nothing but watching them with a smile spreading across his face as Rose fought with the Dalek's and the increasing force of Parallel Rose.

"Sarah Jane! Who's that boy?" The Doctor breathed with a large smile before he frowned as he took in the different appearance of TORCHWOOD due to the mess. "That must be Torchwood. Aren't they brilliant?" He beamed with a small laugh. Rose could do nothing but look over at him as he focused purely on him, her arms moving around to his middle as she pressed her head to his shoulder. "Look at you all, you clever people!" He finished fondly.

"That's Martha!" Donna exclaimed happily causing Martha to smile over at them. But both Rose and the Doctor frowned when the screen turned to white noise,

"Ah..." Rose voiced as she jumped towards the nearest switch to try and clear it up.

"We've lost them!" Donna shouted anxiously as she looked over at Rose who was concentrating on something else.

"No, no, no, no, no! There's another signal coming through, there's someone else out there." He said as she watched Rose shake her head and then bashed the top of the monitor "Hello? Can you hear me?" HE voiced and watched the monitor breathing heavily, waiting as he reached out for Rose, wanting her near him.

" Your voice is different, and yet, its arrogance is unchanged." The voice sounded and the Doctor recognized it immediately and froze on the spot. Rose just looked down at the console, also knowing who it was and she reached out for the Doctor's hand who clung onto her tightly.

"No. But he's dead." Sarah Jane whispered in horror as Davros emerged from the shadows, shedding light on his shocking form.

" Welcome... to my new Empire, Doctor." HE said with a sick smile on his face as Donna took a step back in revulsion "It is only fitting that you should bear witness to the resurrection and the triumph of Davros, Lord and Creator of the Dalek Race." He stated causing the Doctor to literally be frozen with fear, frozen so he can't speak.

"Doctor?" Rose said to him gently, pressing her hand to his, trying to get him to look at her, knowing exactly what was swimming around his mind, all his thoughts, all his emotions were being transferred over to her freely.

"Have you nothing to say?"

"Doctor, it's ok, you'll think of something" Rose said concerned, her hand rubbing his back, trying to reassure him.

"But you were destroyed." The Doctor said numbly as his body started to shake "In the very first year of the Time War, at the Gates of Elysiem. I saw your command ship flying into the jaws of the Nightmare Child. I tried to save you..." The Doctor said, his body still shaking, one of his eyebrows raised as he continued to look at him, his eyes wide as Rose looked at him, never looking away as she tried to comfort him.

"But it took one stronger than you. Dalek Caan himself."

"I flew into the wild and fire. I danced and died a thousand times!" Dalek Cann stated in an insane singsong, his one eye bright and yellow, and his tentacles flipping and moving in every direction

"Emergency temporal shift took him back into the Time War itself."

"But that's impossible, the entire War is time-locked." The Doctor shouted, angry and with misbelief written into his features as his eyebrows moved into a frown.

"And yet, he succeeded. Oh, it cost him his mind, but imagine - a single, simple Dalek succeeded where Emperors and Time Lords have failed. A testament, don't you think, to my remarkable creations?

"And you made a new race of Daleks." The Doctor said heartbroken, his eyebrows neutral, his teeth pressed together as his hearts broke at the thought of all those time lords dying to rid the entire universe from their monstrosity.

"I gave myself to them. Quite literally. Each one grown from a cell of my own body." He voiced as he unclipped his leather suit and pulled it open to reveal his rotten, emaciated form, his ribs and heart on show. "New Daleks. True Daleks. But like every new army you find your missing something. A vital bit of hardware. A computer." He finished a smile on his features as Rose shrieked back from the monitor and her husband, her hearts shuddering in her chests at what he was saying, her mind fogged with the memories of everything she has seen, everything she had to go through and she hoped and prayed that she never would have to go through the again.

"Leave her out of this!" The Doctor said with complete rage, his anger flaring as he protected his wife, his eyebrows in a frown and his teeth bared as he looked at the smug look being given to him via Davros.

"But Doctor, she has been heading towards this for so long. Her mind can feel us calling, her body getting ready for implantation, her energy providing us with power even now, in the end Doctor we will have her and you with fail to save her "I have my children, Doctor. What do you have, now?"

"After all this time... everything we saw, everything we lost..." The Doctor said, falling back into a shaky shell as he was barely able to get over the shock of seeing him "I have only one thing to say to you. BYE!" HE said loudly, full of manic energy as he pulled a leaver and cut him off, Rose having stayed in the captain's chair, her hearts still suffering to calm down, her fear engulfing her mind and her body as the TARDIS hurtled itself towards the Earth and as the Dalek's presence in her mind depleted Parallel Rose's just grew bigger.

Jack was darting around the place. His hearts were beating in his chest over the safety of Rose, hearing those words about the computer and the plans he had for her was causing some unease. So he was running around busily, getting ready with a phone to his ear. The Doctor had tried to get Rose back into a decent frame of mind but had failed. He had attempted but he too failed which was confusing the hell out of him. He normally did so well after the Doctor had also lost his battle. But he was calling Martha, asking her the teleporter key.

"Gwen! Dalek saucer heading for the Bay. They've found us." Ianto said over to his companion from the terminal he was working at while Gwen continued to stare at her computer. Ianto rushed over to his boyfriend while the blinking red dot on the screen closed in on Cardiff Bay, Gwen replacing him at the computer

Ianto rushes away. The blinking red dot on the screen closes in on Cardiff Bay. Gwen takes over the terminal.

"Martha, open that Indigo device! Now, listen to me: lift the central panel. There's a string of numbers that keep changing." He said as he continued dashing around, his phone on his ear as Ianto passed him his Dalek exterminator. "That's a teleport base-code, and that's all I need to get this thing working again." Jack said gleefully as Ianto helped him with his jacket as he adjusted his wrist device accordingly "Oscillating four... and nine. Thank you, Martha Jones." He said with a smile as he flipped his phone shut and pressed a kiss to Ianto's lips before he smiled at Gwen "I've gotta go. I've got to find the Doctor." He replied as Gwen and Ianto did nothing but watching him, motionless and silent "I'll come back." HE reassured with a smile but still got no answer "I'm coming back!" HE said, more emphatically with a large smile on his features as he nodded his head.

"Don't worry about us. Just go." Gwen said with a smile

"We'll be fine."

"You'd better be." Jack replied as he teleported out, engulfed by a blue light. Gwen and Ianto simply looked over at each other, fearful. However an almighty crash was heard from above them and they clung onto each other in response. Rubble was falling from the ceiling as the creped forwards silently as they listened.

"Exterminate! Exterminate!"

"They're here." Gwen sighed resignedly as they froze at the noise.

As soon as the TARDIS had materialized the Doctor was walking out of the door, his trench coat nowhere to be seen. He looked around making sure there were no Dalek's before his eyes filtered to a church. The road was full of abandoned cars parked haphazardly, overturned pushchairs and bicycles, scattered rubbish and an unnatural silence and as if to underline this image, a dog could be heard barking in the distance.

"It's like a ghost town." Donna said unsettled, her lips hanging open. Rose simply walked up to her husband and took his hand in a death grip. Now it was her turn to be upset. She was worried about what the Dalek's had planned for her and she knew her husband would give her all the comfort she needed. He did not let go of her hand instead he squeezed it tighter and pulled her closer towards him.

"Sarah Jane said that they were taking the people. But what for?" The Doctor questioned with a frown on his features before he turned to Donna, urging her to remember something. "Think, Donna. When you met Rose in that parallel world, what did she say?"

"Just... the darkness is coming." Donna voiced as she shook her head, the Doctor just looked at her

"The same thing she said in my dream. Always the same thing." Rose muttered quietly but the Doctor and Donna heard her and they turned to look down at her, the Doctor giving her a small smile

"Anything else?" HE asked the pair of them, both thinking before Donna's eyes were caught by something over the Doctor's shoulders

"Why don't you ask her yourself?" Donna said softly and watched as the Doctor and Rose furrowed their brows uncomprehending. A small smile spreading across Donna's face causing them to follow her gaze, turning with their eyes wide, hands still enclosed around each other… and there she is, at the far end of the street. Parallel Rose. The Doctor's Rose frowned and pressed her free hand to her forehead as the pain increased in intensity but the other Rose paused and when they had turned to see her, she smiled with sheer joy.

The Doctor continued to look at the other Rose before he turned down to face his Rose as she continued to look at her with a frown pressed to her features. He knew that she was fighting back the consciousness but coming face to face with the other Rose meant she was struggling not to go into convulsive shock and the worst part of it was; she knew what was happening to her. Entropic cascade failure. Due to the increased entropy generated by the both of them existing in the same reality was causing a temporal distortion, the longer she was here, the worst it was going to get for her.

"Rose?" The Doctor asked

"I'm alright" Rose waved him away, pressing her hand to the crook of his elbow as she looked up at him

"You know what's happening… don't you" He said to her sadly, she could do nothing but look up at him with watery eyes and gave him a brief nod. He just gave her a small sad half smile before pulled her into an embrace

" Don't forget she hasn't seen you for a while… and you're not her Doctor. She's in the same boat I was when we were separated" Rose said as she clung onto him, her mouth lifting to his earth so she could be heard easier as she spoke up to him, her arms wrapped around hers,

"Don't worry Rose, I'm not about to abandon you and let you fight of the Daleks on your own" The Doctor said with a smile when he pulled away from her, a smile lighting up his eyes.

"Good"

" And besides I've fallen in love with you. The rose who travelled the stars for me, who was the Daleks computer for so many years, who went through so much on the Valiant. We have history you and me… and I'm not going to" The Doctor implored and argued with her. His hands still pressed into hers as they looked over at each other before Rose leant up and gave him a kiss, before she pushed him in the direction of the other Rose who was walking down to them, weighed down by her gun, but the Doctor made up for it by walking quickly towards her, knowing that if his Rose hadn't seen him for years she would have wanted to meet him. But perhaps it was because they were both so focused on reaching each other they couldn't see the Dalek move out of the shadows until the last moment. The Doctor's mouth fell open, his hands moved from his pockets and he heard his Wife screaming out for him, the other Rose screaming in horror as the Doctor turned around too late. The Dalek shot him in the side, the whole of his body shining as the death ray only skimmed his chest. He fell to the ground and Donna gasped as she sprinted after Rose who was rushing to her husband, tears streaming down her face. But just in time Jack appeared in a flash of blue and with an impressively quick surmise of the situation, used his gun to blow the top of the Dalek.

"Hey, I'm here, Doctor I'm right here!" Rose implored down at her with tears streaming down her face as she crashed down at his side, cradling his head in her hands as she looked down at him, stroking his cheeks as he looked up at her weakly. The Other Rose crashed down beside her, her gun dropping at her side as she looked at the Doctor in Rose's hands

"Oh my god, I'm… I'm so sorry" She breathed as she took in the couple, unfazed by another her sitting in front of her

"It's not your fault" Rose comforted as she looked over at her briefly before looking at her husband, her heart shattering, a life without her Doctor shining in her eyes and in her hearts as she looked at her husband that was withering on the floor.

"Rose." The Doctor breathed, his chest heaving as he tried to get in the necessary breath, his eyes small as he looked at his wife.

"I'm here" Rose started, watching as the Doctor's head moved to the left with a heavy thud and she grasped at his head, cradling it with watery eyes as she looked at him "No, look at me, I'm right here" She panicked as she moved her hand though his hair, shaking him to look at her "Stay with me Doctor!" she stated as she grasped hold of his hand as she looked down at him

"I love you" The Doctor managed to stagger out weakly, watching as realization really hit Rose, knowing he very rarely said that, only in times of true peril, his closed his eyes and cried out in agony as he convulsed a little moving his head back, causing Rose to frown down at him, tears streaming down his face as she clung onto him closer, moving his body right onto her lap

"Don't you dare! Don't leave me again Doctor not after what've we've done! I don't want to lose you! Not again!" Rose said frantically as she cradled him closer to her body. The other Rose just looking down at the ground sadly as she looked at the pair of them, watching as Rose traced the delicate lines of his face as he lay their weakly looking up at her. Unaware to her that both Jack and Donna had reached him and Jack pulled at his shoulder as they helped pull him to his feet.

"Get him into the TARDIS, quick. Move!" Jack said urgently, taking charge at Rose's emotional turmoil. And between the four of them they managed to help the Doctor to his feet, Jack picked up Rose's gun and started scanning the area for a threat.

Between them, Rose and Donna help the Doctor to his feet. Jack picks up Rose's gun, scanning the area for a threat.

They all dragged him to the TARDIS and Rose and Donna laid him down on the gratings where he twitched and moaned in pain. Rose could do nothing but watch him helplessly, cradling him, tears spilling from her eyes,

Rose and Donna lay the Doctor down on the grilling where he twitches and moans in pain. Rose watches him helplessly, cradling him, tears spilling from her eyes.

"What- what do we do? There must be some medicine or something!" Donna cried in distress. Watching as the Parallel Rose walked away from the correct Rose and the Doctor as they sat their clinging onto each other as they realized one was going to loose the other. The Doctor holding onto his wife in a death grip as she watched him powerlessly as he went through such agonizing amount of pain.

"Just step back." Jack said as he threw the guns down on the seats, looking behind him before he commandingly walked over at them, waving his hand in the process. "Rose! Do as I say, and get back!" But Rose could not even look away from him, let alone get back. Her mouth was hanging open and her eyes were continuing to tear as she had pulled her long wavy hair over her shoulder. One difference she had with the other Rose was her hair was much longer, still the same length it had been in the first year she had met the Doctor, her's had been trimmed and cut so it hung just above her shoulders.

"He's dying, and you know what happens next." Jack continued gently but firmly as he crouched down in front of her, Rose not once looking up at the man who was like her brother.

"What do you mean?" Donna asked, her voice shaking and cracking as she got to her feet.

"But you can't... not now, we've done to much." Rose whispered through copious amounts of tears.

"What do you mean? What happens next?" Donna voiced again frantically but no one replied as the Doctor held out his hand out before him, both himself and Rose stared at it apprehensively, his hand glowing with an orange light

The Doctor holds his hand out before him - he and Rose stare at it apprehensively. It glows with an orange light.

"It's starting." The Doctor breathed as his whole body started to glow. He looked back over at Rose who just looked down at him, looking on powerlessly and shaking with grief as she watched him.

His whole body starts to glow. He groans. Rose looks on, powerless, shaking.

"Here we go! " Jack stated as he prised Rose away from the Doctor pulling her to a safe distance as she protested and fought him "Good luck, Doctor!" he said as he pulled his arm protectively around Rose, watching as she shrieked into his side, sobs lifting to her

"When he's dying, his- his body, it- it repairs itself, it changes." The parallel Rose voiced as she turned to face the Doctor who anguish ineffectual "But you can't."

"I'm sorry. It's too late. I'm regenerating!" He said to them, those words being spat out with so much effort. He took a look over at Rose who was crying her eyes out with sadness and grief as she looked at her husband this way for the last time, knowing that next time she saw him he would look like a completely different person. He could only muster a very VERY small smile before he threw his head backwards, his arms flinging wide as orange energy exploded from his skin, erupting through the neck and the sleeves of his suit. Donna and the parallel Rose were forced to avert their eyes in one direction while Jack just pulled Rose closer to him as the pair of them continued to look at him through the light intensity, Rose squinting through the blaze to watch as he regenerated, desperate to see what came next, and hoping and praying that she would still be able to see him in his full glory.

TO BE CONTINUED