Warning: Sexual Content.
Chapter 21
Bound/Idiot's Lantern
By: Izzy
"So to the library then!" the Doctor said cheerfully.
"The library?" Rhee asked unable to hid her disappointment.
"Yup," he said. "You need to learn about Time Lord physiology."
"So the library," she said sounding very disappointed. Very Doctor. She sighed as he led her to the library.
"You'll need this book,: he said as he handed her a very large very old book. "Oh, and this one." Another very large very old book. She was going to be here a while. She sighed. "Is something wrong?"
"No," she said a little quicker than she had meant to. "Why would there be?"
"You keep sighing," he said. Yeah because you can be a clueless alien sometimes.
"I'm fine," she said keeping her thoughts to herself. "Just a lot of reading."
"Yes," he said. "Well the first one I handed you, you should read first." He guided her to the desk near by. "I'll be in the console room if you need me for anything." He left the room and she sighed loudly.
"Not how I pictured my honeymoon with the Doctor," she said.
He's afraid. Jess said.
Of what?! Rhee said back in her mind. He's the one that wanted this since I met him. And don't think I didn't notice.
Failing you, Jess said. He is so afraid of letting you down, so he's punishing you both.
What does he think that I will compare him in the sack? Rhee asked with a bit of anger. Does he really think I'm that petty?!
No, Jess said. He wants you to be prepared for the bonding. And he wants to make sure you understand that this is forever. Not a human's forever. Forever, forever.
I know that! Rhee said getting angrier by the minute. I'm not as stupid as he thinks I am.
He doesn't think you're stupid. Jess said. You were just raised as a human. So you know nothing of Gallifrey customs.
I'll know once we're bonded. Rhee said. I know what bonding is. I don't know how to bond but I know what it is. I came across some documents on it when I was sick and reading the library.
I know I let you find them. Jess said.
Sly old girl, Rhee said with a smile.
Well if you want to learn everything he wants you to learn then read chapters five through ten. Jess said. Everything you need to know for bonding is in those chapters. But the other book is the one you asked for this morning. Chapter twelve.
Thanks, Rhee said. She read the first five chapters that Jess told Rhee about. She found out that bonding revealed all to each other, but you could control the speed in which it was revealed. Now she knew. She knew why he was afraid. The Time War. Seeing it on the TV was different than experimenting it first there was her knowing his future possible future. And not to mention her close guarded past. She wanted to tell him but every time she tried she got cotton mouth and couldn't tell him. She sighed. She also read that there are two parts to the weddings or bondings. Part one was just like the wedding they had just done and part two was the bonding itself. And the bonding in itself was pretty simple make a psychic link with the intended bondmate and open yourself fully to them. Simple enough. IF she didn't know his future. She sighed again.
I can help with his future, Jess said. I can remove those memories until the bonding is done then give them back to you.
OK, Rhee said. She read the last chapter. Well this was good and bad. Period for Time Ladies only happen every six months. But they were going to be a thousand times worse then her periods as a human. Goddess, they were already horrible as a human. She also found out that Time Ladies pregnancies last a full year. She groaned at the memory of being pregnant as a human for nine months. Everyone fawning over her, strangers wanting to touch her. She shuddered she hated that part more than the pain. She has always had a personal bubble that she didn't let strangers into. But everyone wants to touch the pregnant Mom. She groaned again and laid her head on the desk.
"Something wrong?" he asked as he came up behind her, changed back into his suit. She shot up and turned to look at him.
"Sorry just remembering something," she said. "It was somewhat unpleasant."
"What?" he asked.
"Pregnancy," she said. "And it's not the pain that I had an issue with or even Matt not letting me do anything. I had a problem with everyone that was female wanting to rub my stomach and feel the baby." She groaned again. "Strangers, no touchy!" She guarded her stomach in memory.
"So you've never really liked strangers touching you," he stated.
"No," she said. "My hand is alright but any place else and they may just pull back a stump." He laughed. "I'm not kidding!"
"I know," he said as he still laughed.
"I understand," she said and he stopped laughing. "I read about bonding." She stood up and started to walk to him. "But I also know that I will never run from you." She hugged him. "They maybe only human words, and that may not mean that much to you but I meant what I said. When we got married I will take the good and the bad." He hugged her back. "I'm ready whenever you are." The TARDIS started to play You're not alone by Nobuo Uematsu. She laughed lightly.
"What is this?" he asked. "I like it."
"It's called You're not alone," she said as she pulled back to look him in the eyes. "This is the music that is played for the main character of my favorite Final Fantasy. He just found out he wasn't human and so he tries to fight on his own but his friends won't let him because he's not alone." She smiled. "Just like you're not alone."
"No I'm not," he said.
"If you share my burdens with me, I'll share yours with you," she said.
"You don't know what you're getting into," he said. "Seeing it on a show is differ-" She kissed him and brushed her mind against his.
"I don't care I will never shy away from you," she said firmly. "I want you, I'm ready for all of you. Not just the parts of you that you think I can handle. All of you. And I'm ready to share all of me with you. Just not your future possibility. The TARDIS said she keep it safe for me."
"Then I will," he said as he picked her up and carried her to his room. He smiled as she stared in awe at his room. It was so him, papers and gadgets everywhere. A large desk made of cherry wood. A large wardrobe made of oak. And a large bed. The bed was so big that four people could sleep comfortably in it without every being woke up by the others. It was covered in TARDIS blue sheets. "Well, wife you're the first one that's been in here in a very long time."
"I'm honored," she teased. He put her down. "You're still nervous." She guided him to the bed and pushed him down into a sitting position on the bed. She kicked off her shoes so she could get on the bed behind him and rubbed his back. "Relax." And he did just that under her skilled hands. She rubbed all the stress of the universe out of his muscles. He wanted to know what he had done to deserve such a loving woman. Because he wanted to make sure he did it again. He moaned as his muscles relaxed. Her fingers were like magic, if he believed in magic.
"What did I do to deserve you?" he asked.
"You saved me," she said.
"Old Boe would have taken care of you," he said.
"Not what I'm talking about," she said as she stopped rubbing his back and he turned to look her in the eyes.
"What do you mean then?" he asked.
"You saved me from myself," she said.
"Funny because you saved me from me," he said. She couldn't keep waiting for him to make a move, so she made it. She kissed him hungrily. He kissed her back. The warmth in her was a raging fire now. Her hands grasped his hair as they kissed. His hands worked to unbutton her suit jacket. She helped him get it off of her. She worked on his suit jacket, it slid off easily. Soon the shirts and his tie joined the jackets in the floor. Leaving her in her bra and skirt. He broke the kiss and soaked in her beauty. "So beautiful."
"No so bad yourself," she teased as ran her finger nails down his chest and he shivered. He laid her down and kissed her neck. Nipping and sucking the same spot on her neck, she moaned and ran her nails through his hair. He moaned into her neck. She arched her back as he unfastened her bra. He discarded the bra with the shirts. Her breast were better than he had pictured them in his mind. He was never really a breast man, but for her, he was. They were perfect, plump and perky. He took one of her pink nipples into his mouth and sucked softly. She moaned loudly. He used his hand to play with the other breast. She moaned more, it was music to his ears. He loved to hear her sing but hearing her moan was becoming his favorite sound she made. Her squeaks were a close second.
"Too.. Much.. Clothes.." she said between moans. She had to get them off. That skirt she hated to begin with was becoming to much. He helped her remove her skirt and her underwear. He slid down to her core and smirked at her. She knew what he was going to do and couldn't wait. He licked her wet core and she about came undone just from one lick. Goddess this was intense. She clinched the sheets as he continued to lick and suck on her. She moaned and tried not to thrust into his face. He changed tactics and dipped his tongue deep within her. She screamed out and came undone. He licked up all her juices.
"You taste amazing," he purred again her skin as he kissed a trail up her stomach and chest only to take her mouth and kiss her again. She could taste herself on his lips and moaned. She always like her own taste, even though now it was a little different. She assumed it was because she was a Time Mom now. She rolled with him so he was under her.
"My turn," she said. She kissed him again as she unbuttoned his pants. She broke the kiss and pulled off his pants and underwear. He was already so hard for her. She got between his legs and smirked. She took his length deep into her mouth. He was not ready for it and screamed in pleasure. She licked him slowly. Savoring the taste of his pre-cum. She wondered if he'd let her taste his cum once but not right now. They needed full sex not just foreplay. She pulled back a little and licked his the head of his length. He moaned louder when she hit the spot. She grinned. She took his length deep into her mouth again.
"Now!" he shouted through clenched teeth. She licked him one more time then smiled at him.
"What, Love?" she asked.
"I need you now!" he demanded.
"Your wish is my command," she said as she moved on top of him and slid him into her core. It was an explosion of intense pleasure and pain. She hadn't had sex in so long it hurt as he slid in. He held her by her hips in place, because she winced.
"Give it time," he said. Knowing that the was intense for her. She just became a Time Mom yesterday and hadn't had sex in a long time like him. She slowly started to moved on top of him sliding him in and out. He moaned and closed his eyes. It felt so good for them both. She picked up the pace and she moaned just as loudly as he was moaning. He flipped them so he was on top now. He thrust faster and harder than she was. She screamed in pleasure. He pulled her up she she was in his lap and still thrusting into her. She knew they wouldn't last much longer. Out of instinct she put her hands on his temples and gently nudged his mind. Well now was as good a time as any to do the bond. He let her in his mind and he did the same with her. She let him in her mind quickly. The bond formed as they came undone. He spilled his seed deep inside her as she came all over him. They fall together on to the bed, both panting. They both fall asleep with them still in each other's mind.
Rhee dreamed about the Doctor's life. She saw it all, felt it all. War. Loneliness. Regret. Anger. Hate. Self-loathing. Love. It was almost overwhelming. His school years were a lot like hers, picked on and lonely. She saw the Master and how the Doctor still wanted to be friends with the Master even when they fought. She saw the happiness that the Doctor's companions gave him. Until they left, and they always leave. But then she came to the way he felt about her. She was his light, his angel. She smiled at the thought. She was no angel but through his eyes she could see that she was capable of doing good in the universe. She was helping people, and she was good at it.
Then she saw/felt the Time War. Felt it as if it was her own memory. Felt the pain and regret. Felt the gun in her hand as she killed Dalek after Dalek. Someone was running beside her but she couldn't see who. She felt that this couldn't continue. No More. No More it chanted in her head. If this continued the universe would be torn apart. Something had to be done. The Moment. It was the only way to save the universe. The Daleks and the Time Lords had to pay. Wish there was another way. Another way. There has to be another way. Then she watched as Gallifrey burned. Gallifrey burning. Children died. How many? Need to count. But she knew how many. 2.47 billion. Died. She killed them. No. Not her, the Doctor. The man she loved killed them.
The Doctor dreamed of Rhee's life. He saw it all felt it all. Loneliness. Fear. Pain. Self-loathing. Abuse. Kindness. Love. Inner strength. He saw how her father treated her like a thing not a person. Her classmates treated her like a disease or a lowly being. Then the happiness Matt brought her. Only to have it ripped away by fear and doubt. Her first husband, selling himself. Making her help please his clients. She was a shamed that she got pleasure from helping her first husband. Drinking, getting arrested, more drinking. He wanted to cry. She was so young but so broken. Only 21 when she started to drink heavily because it was better than her reality and he understood. Her mother tried to help but she didn't listen. She was stubborn and trying to make it work. Then she stood up to her first husband. After she found out that he was cheating more than she knew of, she told him to choose her or men. He had to think on it! Think on it! The Doctor couldn't believe what he was seeing. Then she got Matt back and fought for him. They married after her devoice was finalized. Then the happiness of Jenny's birth. Jenny walking for the first time. Talking for the first time. Such joy.
Then he saw/felt the memory that nearly killed Rhee. He felt it as if it was his own memory. Waking up. Smelling the fire. Save the baby. 'Save my baby' it repeated through his head. He have to save Jenny. She was only two. He woke up the man beside him. Fire. It was so hot. The man, it was Matt, promised to get Jenny. He told the Doctor to go get help. So he ran out to the apartment to get help. He yelled at the top of his lung for help. No one came. He turned around to see Matt holding Jenny as he started to walk out of the apartment the Doctor smiled at them, but the smile fell as he hear a crack and the roof caved in on top of Matt and Jenny. The Doctor ran to them and tried to pull the rubble off them. The fire licked his skin and he cried. Not because of the pain he felt from his hands but the pain that he knew in his heart they were already dead. No they can't be dead! Not them! Not his family! His family! No. Not his family, Rhee's family. The woman he loved, couldn't save them.
They woke up at the same time. Tears in both their eyes. "Oh, Rhee," he said as he held onto her.
"Doctor," she whispered. They laid there crying for each other. Both had lost so much. Both were broken. But together they fit. An hour later she sniffed and sat up. "There's more when you're ready."
"More?" he asked as he sat up to. Both still naked as they day they were born.
"Yes," she said. "I didn't want to overwhelm you."
"But what about you?" he asked. "You saw all of me. Are you alright?"
"I'm fine, I knew most of it already." she said. "The Time War hit me a little harder than I thought but that's OK. I knew about it."
"So you didn't show me all of you?" he asked. It sounded like a statement more than a question.
"Yeah," she said. "I stopped when they died. I wanted to see how you were before I continued to show you the two years of hell."
"I'm ready when you are," he said. She put her hands on his temples again and showed him through their infant bond, what she called 'two years of hell'.
He saw a numb Rhee being pulled kicking and screaming from the fire by a large black Mom named, Tacaria. Tacaria held Rhee while Rhee hit Tacaria, and cried. Both women cried. The fire trucks got there and the two women hadn't moved. Both still crying. The whole neighborhood came to Rhee's side and cried with her. 'Jenny was only two.' 'Why did someone so young have to die?' Was said in whispers. Later as Rhee continued to break and cry. She heard people she once called friends whisper things like; 'Rhee must have sat the fire.' 'She was such a bad mother.' 'She wanted out anyway.' 'Why is she crying so hard? She doesn't care.' As he heard these so called friends he felt anger weld up inside. But then a familiar black Monte Carlo drove up. Rita came out of the passenger's side and rushed to Rhee's side. Rita held Rhee tightly and Rhee had gone. She was hollow inside. No feeling. Just numb. James got out of the driver's and helped Rita get Rhee into the car. They drove her to the hospital. But as they drove away there was a skinny woman, Tina, that was hitting the so called friends that had been talking bad about Rhee. He smiled at that. He would have to shake Tina's hand and thank her if they met.
Rhee had third degree burns. When the doctors asked her how bad it hurt she told them it didn't but it was true. She couldn't feel the pain from her burns. They kept her at the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. She failed. So they won't release her. Rita tried to beg the doctors to release Rhee to Rita. After all Rita was Rhee's mother, Rita could take care of Rhee. They still refused. 'She is a danger to herself' is what they told Rita, in front of Rhee. Rhee didn't feel that dangerous but she knew they were right. She wanted some alcohol badly. She wanted to smoke some cigarettes and some weed. She just wanted to forget. She wished that Jenny had lived instead. Rhee should have died not Jenny.
Rhee spent what felt like a month at the hospital. When in reality it was only two weeks. They released her to Rita. Rita took Rhee back to her house. Rhee locked herself in a room, where she remained for six months. Rita brought Rhee food, that Rhee only picked at. She didn't even feel like pizza which was her favorite food. Rhee didn't even watch any of her shows or write anything. She stopped singing and talking. He could feel her slipping farther and farther away. He felt for her. Because he was the same way for years after the Time War. Broken and alone. Mostly by choose.
One day Jessica came in. First time she had visited Rhee since, the day that took Rhee's happiness. Jessica begged and pleaded for Rhee to do something, other than stare out the window. Rhee was unhealthy, so pale. She was losing weight at an alarming rate. She was 350 pounds when they had died. She was now 210. Six months and she had lost one hundred and forty pounds. That wasn't healthy. Jessica came around everyday for two weeks and begged Rhee to come out. On the last day Jessica slapped Rhee. "You need to snap the hell out of it!" Jessica yelled. "Matt made you promise you'd move on! You need to live for them!" Rhee felt that her sister was right so she moved out of their parent's house and into Jessica's house.
The first night there, Jessica invited Todd over and the three of them watched 'Doctor Who'. The Doctor couldn't believe what he was seeing. Rhee smiled at his goofy grin. The daft goofy grin of his ninth incarnation. He was the only thing that lifted her spirits in her time of need. She borrowed the DVDs from Todd and watched the first two seasons over and over. She was drowning herself in the 'Doctor Who' universe. His universe. He heard her tell Jessica's kids about him. Even some adventures she made up. She was healing because of the show. That's what she meant. He saved her. Not this him but that him. Still him though. He smiled. She loved him even then. She told him that once but now he could see it.
Slowly she regained some of who she used to be but it was still only a half life. The show had healed her to some degree but she still hurt inside. She could feel the void eating her alive. Jessica begged Rhee to go out and meet guy or girls. Just to go out and have fun. So Rhee took to walking every morning. It got Jessica to shut up for the first few months. Then Rhee started to run every night too so that Jessica would think Rhee was going to a club and dancing. It only fooled Jessica for a few more months. So they had a fight, Rhee tried to reason with Jessica but Jessica wouldn't listen. Jessica didn't understand Rhee's pain. How could Jessica understand? She had her family. Safe and happy. It was approaching two years and Rhee was running more often. Running from the pain. Running from herself, her true self. Until the day she was sucked into the rift. He watched but couldn't hear what the Face of Boe and Rhee said. But he watched and felt how she even then wanted more with him but she felt that Rose was to be with him not Rhee. He felt her struggles as they adventured together. Her battles about telling him the truth not only about her past but about how she felt and how much she truly knew about him. When it ended he opened his eyes and found himself crying again.
"Oh, my Rhee," he whispered as he pulled her into a hug. "My dear sweet Rhee." He cried and they held each other.
"So you don't care that I used to be an alcoholic?" she asked it was kind of muffled by his shoulder. He pulled back and looked into her eyes. He shook his head.
"You don't care that I'm a murderer?" he asked.
"No," she said. "I understand why you did it."
"I don't understand why I did it sometimes," he said sadly. "Or if the price was even worth it." She wanted to tell him. She wanted to so badly. Tell him he didn't kill them that they were in a pocket universe. But she knew he couldn't know yet.
"I love you." she said.
"I love you too," he said as he laid back with her on the bed not to sleep or have sex just to enjoy each other's company. "The bond should be complete now."
Pretty sure it is, she said in his mind.
Wow, he said. It's so different being able to talk to you this way. It feels right.
I know, like this is how we should have always been communicating, she said.
That's the bond, he explained. It's a bond through space and time. So even if you meet another me or I meet another you. We'll know.
So if say I went to the 1960s and met the first incarnation of you, she started. You know we were bound?
I thought you read this already? He asked.
Yeah, but why steal your thunder with books. She said with a large grin on her face.
You're usually the first in line, he grinned.
So are we still going to have a public Gallifreyan wedding? She asked teasingly.
Is there really a need? He asked.
No I guess not, she said.
So all of time and space where do you want to go? He said in a flirty tone. The Doctor's pickup line. And she loved it.
Anywhere you are, she replied. So where do you want to go?
Well I vaguely remember promising you a concert be for we got married, had mind blowing sex, and bonded, he said with a cheeky grin.
So what concert do you want to go to then? She asked.
"It's a surprise," he said aloud as he jumped up quickly. She smiled at the blissful smile on his face as he put on his underwear.
"I'll have to go to my room to get some clothes and show," she said. He picked up his shirt and made a face of disgust. "If your shirt smells like that I sure we could both use a shower." She giggled.
"Are you trying to say I stink?" he asked playfully.
"No," she defended. "I was saying that I'm dirty, and maybe if your shirt smells then maybe we could take a shower together." She winked.
"Oh," he said getting what she was suggesting. "I think I'm dirty too."
"Then what are you waiting for?" she said as she crawled off the bed on the opposite side he was standing on and ran to his bathroom. He striped off his underwear as he chased her, to the bathroom. The TARDIS had the water going for them already and it was a good thing, because once he caught her he was kissing her. She kissed him back as their hands explored each others body again. They couldn't get enough of touching each other. She giggled as she moved away from him and got in the shower. He grinned at her and got in the shower too.
After the shower, that they managed somehow not to have sex, they went back into his room. "I'll be back I have to get some clothes," she said. He opened his wardrobe.
"You don't have to," he said right as she got to the door.
"What?" she asked as she turned around to see her clothes in his wardrobe, as well as his. "Jess, you sly girl."
"'Ole girl is rather cheeky isn't she," he said with a proud smile. He got dressed in his usual. He looked over at her and saw that she was having a hard time deciding. "You should wear something from the 50s."
"OK," she said. "But I'm not wearing pink!" He laughed at her as he pulled out a black 50s dress that had white polka dots and a red belt.
"This good?" he asked.
"I didn't know I had that," she said. "The TARDIS." He grinned. She took it from him and put the dress on and he found her some stockings. She put those on too. He handed her a pair of red pumps. "Oh, no. I'm wearing my converse."
"Why? I think you'd look brilliant in these." he said.
"Yeah," she said. "But what if-" She stopped to think for a minute. "I don't know. Cybermen came stomping down the street?"
"Is that going to happen?" he asked worried.
"I don't know." she said. "With you anything can happen." He out the pumps back and grabbed her converses.
"I just realized something," he said.
"What's that?" she asked.
"You made me domestic," he said. "And I don't care."
"Oh, come on," she said. "You're not that domestic." He gave her her converses.
"Really?" he said. "I just helped you get dressed." She put the converses on.
"But you are still going to travel time and space," she said.
"But if you'd ask me I'd settle down," he said. "Mind you, I don't know what we would do about a house."
"You in a house with shudders and carpets," she teased.
"You're right," he said with a shiver. "That's scary." She laughed.
"Come on," she said as she stood up. She walked out of the room, which now that she thought on it, it was their room now. She liked that, their room. Her and the Doctor's room. She smiled as she started to hum a song.
"What song are you humming?" he asked.
"Don't tell me that Maroon 5 is not a band here." she said.
"They're a band," he said. She let out a sigh of relief.
"Thank the Gods!" she said and he laughed as they reached the console room.
"So what song?" he asked again.
"Love Somebody," she said with a bit of blush raising to her cheeks.
"Good song," he grinned at her. "Is that who you'd rather see in concert?"
"Well I love all music," she replied. "Well I say all music, but I really don't like a lot of rap or country. I like 21st century country but nothing older."
"Yeah," he said. "Older is just depressing."
"And as a teacher of mine said," she said. "'If you play it backwards you get it all back.'" They laughed. He set the coordinates for late 1950s.
"I'll be back," he said as he dashed off to the back of the TARDIS. She gave his retreating form a puzzled look. The TARDIS made her wheezing, groaning letting everyone know that she had landed. Rhee stepped out and looked around without really moving. It looked familiar. Eerily familiar. But why couldn't she put her finger on it. He came out riding a motorized scooter. She giggled and let it go.
"So, where are we headed?" she asked as she got on the scooter with him. He handed her a red helmet. She put it on.
"Ed Sullivan TV Studios." he said with a smile. "Elvis did Hound Dog on one of the shows. There were loads of complaints. Bit of luck, we'll just catch it."
"Wait, that's a TV station in New York, right?" she asked.
"That's the one." he said proudly. A large red London bus covered in Union flags. There were even Union flags decorating the street.
"Yeah, I may not have been to New York," she started. "But I don't think they have Union flags hanging about. I have seen pictures."
"Well, this could still be New York." he said weakly. "I mean, this looks very New York to me. Sort of London-y New York, mind." She remembered this. The Idiot's Lantern. She asked the Goddess for strength under her breath. They saw Magpie unloading a TV. She took a deep breath as the Doctor stopped the scooter. They got off and walked over to Magpie.
"There you go, sir, all wired up for the great occasion," he said.
"The great occasion? What do you mean?" the Doctor asked. Rhee rolled her eyes if he'd use his time sense like she had he would know that it was 1953. She sighed and shook her head at her husband.
"Where 've you been living, out in the Colonies? Coronation, of course." Magpie asked.
"I'm sorry," Rhee said, in a London accent. "You'll have to forgive my husband, he's been out of sorts lately." She turned to the Doctor. "It's the Queen's. Queen Elizabeth, Love." Her London accent impressed him. She sounded like she was from London.
"Oh! Is this 1953?" the Doctor said excitedly.
"Last time I looked." Magpie laughed at the couple and their antics. "Time for a lovely bit of pomp and circumstance, what we do best."
"Look at all the TV aerials." Rhee said as she looked around. "Looks like everyone's got one. That's weird. My grandma said tellies were so rare they all had to pile into one house." She was keeping up the accent and trying to use the right lingo.
"Not around here, love. Magpie's Marvelous Tellies, only five quid a pop." he said.
"Oh, but this is a brilliant year." the Doctor said still sounding excited. "Classic! Technicolour, Everest climbed, everything off the ration. The nation throwing off the shadows of war and looking forward to a happier, brighter future." He bounced around like an excited child that had been told he could go to the park.
"Someone help me, please! Ted!" a woman from a nearby house shouted. Two men came out of her house shoving a man covered by a blanket into a car. "Leave him alone! He's my husband! Please."
"What's going on?" the Doctor said as he and Rhee came up to the car. The son of the jerk, Tommy was his name if she remembered right, came out of his house and ran up to the car too.
"Oi, what are you doing?" he said.
"Police business. Now, get out of the way, sir." the cop said. She couldn't remember his name.
"Who did they take? Do you know him?" Rhee asked. She was trying to keep with the story a bit. Rose didn't know what was going on but Rhee remembered that the Wire was doing this. She couldn't remember every detail but she remembered enough. Rose got her face taken which caused the Doctor to get his butt in gear and find the Wire. He stopped the Wire with a tape. But Rhee was different than Rose. She had a Sonic. Maybe she could end it faster.
"Must be Mister Gallagher." Tommy said. "It's happening all over the place. They're turning into monsters." The car drove away.
"Tommy! Not one word! Get inside now!" the jerk shouted. Rhee couldn't remember his name either but she didn't want to. The way he treats his family. Disgusting.
"Sorry. I'd better do as he says," Tommy said as he ran back to the house.
"All aboard!" the Doctor shouted as he and Rhee got back on the scooter. They drove after the car. And he drove recklessly, nearly throwing her off four times.
"Lost them. How'd they get away from us?" They stopped. "Did this happen in the show?"
"Yeah," she said.
"So what next?" he asked.
"Darling," she said. "You know I can't tell you that." She was still trying to keep the accent up.
"What's with the voice?" he asked.
"What don't like it?" she said in her normal accent.
"Not that," he said. "It's just weird, to hear you sound like a Londoner."
"Well I thought we could blend in easier if I had a London accent, than my normal Indiana accent," she said still using her normal accent.
"You're right," he said. "What can you tell me?"
"It's something new," she said.
"I like new," he said.
"I know you do," she said with a sly smile.
"Men in black? Vanishing police cars?" he thought aloud. "This is Churchill's England, not Stalin's Russia."
"Monsters he said," she said. "Maybe we should go and ask the neighbors."
"There you go again trying to make me domestic," he teased as they drove back to Tommy's house.
"And don't you just love it," she teased back. They got to Tommy's house and went up to the door and knocked on it.
"Hi!" they both said.
"Who are you, then?" the jerk asked.
"Let's see, then. Judging by the look of you, family man, nice house, decent wage, fought in the war, therefore I represent Queen and country." the Doctor said as he holds up the psychic paper. "Just doing a little check of Her forthcoming Majesty's subjects before the great day. Don't mind if I come in? Nah, I didn't think you did. Thank you." He pushed his way inside and Rhee followed him. Not bad. Very nice. Very well kept. I'd like to congratulate you, Mrs?"
"Connolly." Mrs. Connolly said.
"Now then, Rita." the jerk said. "I can handle this. This gentleman's a proper representative. Don't mind the wife, she rattles on a bit."
"Well, maybe she should rattle on a bit more." the Doctor said. "I'm not convinced you're doing your patriotic duty." He noticed the flags. "Nice flags. Why are they not flying?"
"There we are Rita, I told you, Get them up." the jerk said. "Queen and country." Rhee took a deep breath and sat down on the sofa. Trying not to go off on the jerk. She wouldn't call him by his name. Even though she remembered it, now. She had a cousin named Eddie and so she wouldn't call his jerk by the same name as her cousin. Her cousin Eddie was a kind sweet man who loved Christmas and made decorations until he was too old too.
"I'm sorry." Mrs. Connolly said.
"Get it done. Do it now." the jerk commanded.
"Hold on a minute." the Doctor said.
"Like the gentleman says." the jerk said.
"Hold on a minute." the Doctor repeated. "You've got hands, Mister Connolly. Two big hands. So why is that your wife's job?"
"Well, it's housework, innit?" the jerk replied.
"And that's a woman's job?" the Doctor asked. Thank the gods for the Doctor because otherwise she was going to punch him.
"Of course it is." the jerk replied sounding a bit annoyed at the question.
"Mister Connolly, what gender is the Queen?" the Doctor asked.
"She's a female." the jerk replied.
"And are you suggesting the Queen does the housework?" the Doctor asked.
"No. Not at all." the jerk said nervously.
"Then get busy." the Doctor said.
"Right." the jerk said. "Yes, sir. You'll be proud of us, sir. We'll have Union Jacks left, right and centre."
"Right then! Nice and comfy, at Her Majesty's leisure." the Doctor said as he sat down beside Rhee. "Why so tense?"
"Men like him," she said through her clinched teeth.
"I'm the Doctor and this is Rhee, and you are?" the Doctor said changing the subject because he knew what she meant. Her dad was similar in views to this man.
"Tommy." Tommy replied. Rhee tried to relax a little bit. The Doctor didn't need her to be angry throughout this visit.
"Well, sit yourself down, Tommy." he said as he patted right beside him between him and her. "Have a look at this. I love telly, don't you?"
"Yeah, I think it's brilliant." Tommy replied.
"Good man!" the Doctor exclaimed. "Keep working, Mister C!" He looked at the jerk to see him give the Doctor a dirty look. "Now, why don't you tell me what's wrong?"
"Did you say you were a doctor?" Mrs. Connolly asked.
"Yes, I am." the Doctor replied.
"Can you help her?" she asked franticly. "Oh please, can you help her, Doctor?"
"Now then, Rita. I don't think the gentleman needs to know-" the jerk started but was interrupted by the Doctor.
"No, the gentleman does." the Doctor said annoyed. This man was upsetting Rhee. And that was unforgivable.
"Tell us what's wrong, and we can help." Rhee said as she moved to beside Mrs. Connolly, Rhee switched back to the London accent. Mrs. Connolly started to cry. "I'm sorry. It's all right. Come here. It's OK." Rhee held Mrs. Connolly.
"Hold on a minute." the jerk started. "Queen and country's one thing, but this is my house! What the?" He looked down at the flags in his hands and threw them down. "What the hell am I doing? Now you listen here, Doctor. You may have fancy qualifications, but what goes on under my roof is my business."
"A lot of people are being bundled into-" the Doctor started.
"I am talking!" the jerk yelled.
"And I'm not listening!" the Doctor yelled back. Rhee knew that face. The Oncoming Storm. "Now you, Mister Connolly, you are staring into a deep, dark pit of trouble if you don't let me help. So I'm ordering you, sir! Tell me what's going on!" Suddenly there was three thumps heard from upstairs.
"She won't stop. She never stops." the jerk whined.
"We started hearing stories, all round the place." Tommy said. "People who've changed. Families keeping it secret because they were scared. Then the police started finding out. We don't know how, no one does. They just turn up, come to the door and take them, any time of the day or night."
"Show me." the Doctor said. Tommy showed them upstairs. He unlocked the door and revealed his Grandma. It was dark but you could tell that she was there with her back to them.
"Gran? It's Tommy. It's all right, Gran. I've brought help." Tommy said trying to comfort his Grandma. He turned on the light and they saw that her face was gone. Rhee shallowed hard. She knew what happened next. The Doctor was going to get knocked out.
"Her face is completely gone." he said as he used his Sonic to scan the Grandma. "Scarcely an electrical impulse left. Almost complete neural shutdown. She's ticking over. It's like her brain has been wiped clean."
"What're we going to do, Doctor? We can't even feed her." Tommy asked.
"We've got company," Rhee said.
"It's them. They've come for her!" Mrs. Connolly said.
"Quickly." the Doctor said to Tommy. "What was she doing before this happened? Where was she? Tell me. Quickly, think!"
"I can't think! She doesn't leave the house! She was just-" Tommy said as the men burst through the door,
"Hold on a minute." the Doctor said as he put himself between the men and the Grandma. "There are three important, brilliant, and complicated reasons why you should listen to me. One-" They punched him in the face, knocking him out.
"Doctor!" Rhee shouted.
"Leave her alone!" Mrs. Connolly shouted. "No!"
"Wake up!" Rhee shouted losing her London accent in the heat of the moment. The Doctor sits straight up and nearly hit her in her head.
"Ah, hell of a right hook!" he exclaimed. "Have to watch out for that." He ran down the stairs and out the door. She followed him down the stairs but stayed in the house. Because she heard the sound of the Wire getting ready to attack. She sighed.
"Don't fight it." the jerk said. "Back inside."
"Rhee, come on!" the Doctor called from outside.
"Get back inside!" the jerk commanded his family. Rhee looked in at TV in hopes she could confront the Wire with the Doctor near her.
"But Dad, they took her!" Tommy shouted.
"Don't fight it, son. Don't fight it." the jerk said trying to get the boy to drop it.
"Rhee, we're going to lose them again!" the Doctor shouted from outside. She heard him ride off without her. She sighed and turned around to wait for the family to clear the door.
"Anyway, how did they find her? Who told them?" Tommy asked.
"You! Get the hell out of my house!" the jerk shouted at Rhee.
"I'm going. I'm done." she said sweetly in the London accent. "Nice to meet you, Tommy, Mrs Connolly. And as for you, Mister Connolly, shame on you!" She ran out the door before the jerk could say anything in return. She used her phone's maps to locate Magpie's shop using the address she saw on the back of the TV. She went inside the shop.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Miss." Magpie said. "I'm afraid you're too late. I was just about to lock the door."
"Yeah? Well, I want to buy a telly." Rhee said keeping up the accent. She was impressed with how long she was keeping the accent up. But what enough British TV and you could pick up and accent. Just like how she learned Japanese.
"Come back tomorrow, please." he begged.
"You'll be closed, won't you?" she asked.
"What?" he asked seeming really out of it.
"For the big day? The coronation?" she asked.
"Yes, yes, of course. The big day. I'm sure you'll find somewhere to watch it. Please go." he begged.
"Seems to me half of London's got a television, since you're practically giving them away." she said.
"I have my reasons." he said.
"And what are they?" she asked as the TV beside her turned on and the Wire appeared.
"Hungry! Hungry!" the Wire said.
"The Wire," Rhee growled.
"It's just a television." he tried to convince her. "One of these modern programs. Now, I really do think you should leave. Right now!"
"How come's your televisions are so cheap?" she asked.
"It's my patriotic duty." he said. "Seems only right that as many folk as possible get to watch the coronation. We may be losing the Empire but we can still be proud. Twenty million people they reckon'll be watching. Imagine that. And twenty million people can't be wrong, eh, so why don't you get yourself back home and get up, bright and early, for the big day."
"Nah," she said. "I think the Wire is forcing you." She turned to the Wire. "Aren't you?"
"What a pretty clever little girl." the Wire said.
"Why here?" Rhee asked keeping up the accent. "Of all the times and of all the places why'd you pick here? Why Magpie?" She knew there were other times that would have helped the Wire grow faster. She always wondered why and now she had the chance to ask.
"I'm hungry!" the Wire shouted. Energy whipped out of the TV and on to Rhee's face. She felt for her Sonic. She didn't have her Sonic!
"Magpie, help me!" She yelled.
"Just think of that audience tomorrow, my dear, all settling down to watch the coronation." he said. "Twenty million people. Things will never be the same again." He looked at Rhee sadly. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."
"This one is tasty." the Wire said. "Oh, I'll have lashings of her! Delicious!"
Meanwhile the Doctor had gotten there in time to see the operation and how they worked. "Oh, very good. Very good." he said. He hid his scooter and looked around hopping to see Rhee but she hadn't followed him. Maybe she was still at the Connolly house. He worried about her. He used the Sonic to open the gate. In the yard beyond the gate, he saw to men padlock a wire door. He went to the door and saw all the blank people including Tommy's grandma. Suddenly a searchlight was shown at him.
"Stay where you are." the cop from earlier commanded. They drug the Doctor to a small room with broken windows and maps all over. "Start from the beginning. Tell me everything you know."
"Well, for starters, I know you can't wrap your hand around your elbow and make your fingers meet." the Doctor said being a smart ass as he sat down in the chair behind the desk.
"Don't get clever with me." the cop said. "You were there today at Florizel Street, and now breaking into this establishment. Now you're connected with this. Make no mistake."
"Well, the thing is, Detective Inspector Bishop." the Doctor said.
"How do you know my name?" the cop, Bishop said.
"It's written inside your collar." the Doctor said. "Bless your mum. But I can't help thinking, Detective Inspector, you're not exactly doing much detective inspecting, are you?"
"I'm doing everything in my power." Bishop said.
"All you're doing is grabbing those faceless people and hiding them as fast as you can." the Doctor said. "Don't tell me orders from above, hmm? Coronation Day. The eyes of the world are on London Town so any sort of problem just gets swept out of sight." Suddenly he couldn't feel Rhee anymore. Not there bond not even in the Time Lord psychic field. Something happened to Rhee! His Rhee!
"The nation has an imagine to maintain." Bishop explained then noticed the Doctor's discomfort. "Is something the matter?"
"But doesn't it drive you mad, doing nothing?" the Doctor asked ignoring his question. "Don't you want to get out there and investigate?"
"Of course I do." Bishop defended. He sighed and walked around the room a bit. He took a deep breath then continued. "But, with all the crowds expected, we haven't got the man power. Even if we did, this is beyond anything we've ever seen. I just don't know anymore. Twenty years on the force, I don't even know where to start. We haven't the faintest clue what's going on."
"Well, that could change." the Doctor said.
"How?" Bishop asked.
"Start from the beginning. Tell me everything you know." the Doctor said.
"We started finding them about a month ago." Bishop explained. "Persons left sans visage. Heads just blank."
"Is there any sort of pattern?" the Doctor asked.
"Yes, spreading out from North London." Bishop said. "All over the city. Men, women, kids, grannies. The only real lead is there's been quite a large number in-"
"Florizel Street," the Doctor finished for Bishop.
"Found another one, sir." one of the officer said.
"Oh, er, good man, Crabtree." Bishop said as the man called Crabtree brought in someone covered by a blanket. "Here we are, Doctor. Take a good look. See what you can deduce." The Doctor turned around and saw the bottom of the dress. Black with white polka dots, and the black and red converse that she loved so much. He knew it was her. His Rhee.
"Rhee," he breathed her name.
"You know her?" Bishop asked.
"Know her? She's-" the Doctor started but was too overcome by emotion to continue.
"They found her in the street, apparently.." Crabtree said but the Doctor wasn't listening he was looking at Rhee and getting really angry. He was hurt. Did she know this was going to happen? Or was this just one of those things that happened? Wait did they say they left her in the street?
"They did what?" he finally asked.
"I'm sorry?" Bishop asked.
"They left her where?" the Doctor said trying not to sound angry at them.
"Just in the street." Bishop replied.
"In the street?" the Doctor asked. "They left her in the street." Anger seething out of him now.
"They took her face and just chucked her out and left her in the street." Oh, she didn't deserve this. She had such a hard life as it was. She didn't. He was going to make them pay. "And as a result, that makes things simple. Very, very simple. Do you know why?"
"No." Bishop said.
"Because now, Detective Inspector Bishop, there is no power on this Earth that can stop me!" he shouted. "Allons-y!" They go outside as the sun raises.
"Hello!" a familiar female voice singsongs from behind the two men.
"I don't have time to deal with you right now!" the Doctor said harshly, not even looking at her. He knew it was Ai.
"Awe come on now that's no way to talk to your step-daughter," Ai said. She jumped up from the box she had sat on. "I'm here to help."
"Like last time?" he asked as he turned around to look at her. She was younger than when he saw her last. He could see it in her eyes.
"Last time?" she asked. "Last time I saw you was-" She had to stop and think a minute. "Gosh, I don't remember but I know it's been a while."
"What do you want to help with?" he asked a little calmer than before.
"Mom told me about today," she said. "Asked me to help you. I agreed cause ya are my step-dad after all."
"You keep saying that," he said. "But Rhee's daughter died."
"I'm her adopted daughter." she said. "You never wanted me to call you dad. 'I'm the Doctor not your father.' Or at least that is what you told me when we first met." She shrugged. "I think it's 'cause we never meet in the right order."
"Well if you're going to help then come on," he said. She followed him and Bishop. The three of them walk back to the Connolly house. They rang the door bell and Tommy answered.
"Tommy, talk to me." the Doctor said. "I need to know exactly what happened inside your house."
"What the blazes do you think you're doing?" Mr. Connolly said.
"I want to help, dad." Tommy said.
"Mister Connolly-" the Doctor started.
"Shut your face, you, whoever you are." Mr. Connolly said. Ai shook and the Doctor grabbed her hand. "We can handle this ourselves. Listen, you little twerp. You're hardly out of the blooming' cradle, so I don't expect you to understand. But I've got a position to maintain. People round here respect me. It matters what people think." He shook his head trying to tell her not to do what she wanted to do. Because it was plain to see, well plain to everyone but Mr. Connolly, that he had pissed her off badly.
"Is that why you did it, dad?" Tommy asked.
"What do you mean? Did what?" Mr. Connolly asked.
"You ratted on Gran." Tommy said. "How else would the police know where to look, unless some coward told them-"
"How dare you!" Mr. Connolly shouted. "Do you think I fought a war just so a mouthy little scum like you could call me a coward?"
"You don't get it, do you?" Tommy said. "You fought against fascism, remember? People telling you how to live, who you could be friends with, who you could fall in love with, who could live and who had to die. Don't you get it? You were fighting so that little twerps like me could do what we want, say what we want. Now you've become just like them. You've been informing on everyone, haven't you? Even Gran. All to protect your precious reputation." Ai wanted to kiss Tommy right then.
"Eddie is that true?" Mrs. Connolly asked.
"I did it for us, Rita. She was filthy. A filthy, disgusting thing!" Mr. Connolly tried to defend himself.
"She's my mother." she said. "All the others you informed on, all the people in our street, our friends."
"I had to. I, I did the right thing." he said.
"The right thing for us or for you, Eddie?" she asked. She looked at Tommy. "You go, Tommy. Go with the Doctor and do some good. Get away from this house, it's poison. We had a ruddy monster under this roof, all right, but it weren't my mother!" She slammed the door in Mr. Connolly's face.
"Rita!" he shouted.
"Tommy?" the doctor asked. They passed tables as they walked. Ai grabbed hold of the boy and kissed him square on the lips. It was quick but enough to leave the boy in a state of shock. "Why'd you do that for?"
"The boy just stood up to his father," she said. "He deserved a little reward."
"But why'd it have to be a kiss?" the Doctor asked almost sounding like a protective parent.
"First thing I thought of," she said. Tommy regained his senses from the shock of his first kiss.
"T-thank, ma'am." he said.
"No ma'am need," she said. "That makes me sound old. And believe you me I know older people than me."
"Oi!" the Doctor said feeling as a jab at him. "Anyway, Tommy, tell me about that night. The night she changed."
"She was just watching the telly." Tommy said.
"Rhee said it." the Doctor said. Why didn't he listen to her? She told him she knew but he didn't listen. "She knew it straight away. Of course she did. All these aerials in one little street. How come?"
"Bloke up the road, Mister Magpie, he's selling them cheap." Tommy said.
"Is he, now?" Bishop asked.
"Allons-y!" the Doctor shouted. They get to Magpie's shop and he brakes the window to unlock the door. Ai didn't understand why he didn't just use his Sonic. But oh well.
"Here, you can't do that-" Bishop said.
"Shop! If you're here, come out and talk to me! Magpie!" the Doctor shouted.
"Maybe he's out." Tommy said.
"Looks like it," the Doctor said as he turned to see that Ai wasn't following he found that odd. "Ai, aren't you coming?"
"Nope," she said. He shrugged and looked around in drawers. Where he found a portable TV.
"Oh, hello." he said. "This isn't right. This is very much not right." He licked it. "Tastes like iron. Bakelie. Put together with human hands, yes, but the design itself. Oh, beautiful work. That is so simple."
"That's incredible." Bishop said. "It's like a television, but portable. A portable television." The Doctor scans the TV with his Sonic. To find there was another power source in the room.
"It's not the only power source in this room." he said. Then suddenly all the TVs turned on. He put down the portable TV. Tommy found his grandma right away.
"Gran?" he asked. The Doctor found Rhee. She was singing. Singing. He couldn't tell what but he knew she was singing.
"Oh, Love." he said. "I'm on my way."
"She's your wife?" Bishop asked and the Doctor nodded sadly. Magpie came from the back.
"What do you think you're doing?" he asked when he saw them
"I want my wife restored, and I think that's beyond a little backstreet electrician, so tell me, who's really in charge here?"
"Yoo hoo! I think that must be me. Ooh, this one's smart as paint." the Wire said.
"Is she talking to us?" Bishop asked.
"I'm sorry, gentlemen, I'm afraid you've brought this on yourselves." Magpie said. "May I introduce you to my new friend."
"Jolly nice to meet you." she said.
"Oh my God, it's her, that woman off the telly." Bishop said.
"No, it's just using her image." the Doctor growled.
"What? What are you?" Tommy asked.
"I'm the Wire, and I will gobble you up, pretty boy." she said cheerfully. "Every last morsel. And when I have feasted, I shall regain the corporeal body, which my fellow kind denied me." She went from black and white to color.
"Good Lord. Color television!" Bishop said.
"So your own people tried to stop you?" the Doctor growled.
"They executed me." she said. "But I escaped in this form and fled across the stars."
"And now you're trapped in the television." he said.
"Not for much longer." she said.
"Doctor, is this what got my Gran?" Tommy asked.
"Yes, Tommy." the Doctor said. "It feeds off the electrical activity of the brain, but it gorges itself like a great overfed pig, taking people's faces, their essences. It stuffs itself."
"And you let her do it, Magpie." Bishop said angrily.
"I had to. She allowed me my face." Magpie said. "She's promised to release me at the time of manifestation."
"What does that mean?" Tommy asked.
"The appointed time. My crowning glory." she laughed.
"Doctor, the coronation!" Bishop said.
"For the first time in history, millions gathered around a television set." the Doctor said bitterly. "But you're not strong enough yet, are you? You can't do it all from here. That's why you need this." He picked up the portable TV. "You need something more powerful! This will turn a big transmitter into a big receiver."
"What a clever thing you are!" she shouted. "But why fret about it? Why not just relax? Kick off your shoes and enjoy the Coronation. Believe me, you'll be glued to the screen." She used the Energy just as she had with Rhee.
"Doctor!" Bishop said.
"Hungry! Hungry!" she cried out. "The Wire is hungry! Ah, this one is tasty. Just like the woman! Delicious!" He took out his Sonic. "Ah! Armed. He's armed and clever. Withdraw! Withdraw!" The three men fell the the floor knocked out. The Doctor woke up the see that both Tommy and Bishop's faces had been taken. He went outside to find Ai on the ground knocked out.
"Ai!" he shouted. "You've got to wake up! Ai!"
"Did you get the license plate number of the mac truck that hit me?" Ai asked.
"Where's Magpie?" he asked.
"He hit me and took off." she said sounding defeated. "It's too late."
"It's never too late, as a wise person once said. Kylie, I think." he said. "The Wire's got big plans. It'll need. Yes, yes, yes, it's got to harvest half the population. Millions and millions of people and where are we?"
"Muswell Hill." she said.
"Muswell Hill." he repeated. "Muswell Hill! Which means Alexandra Palace, biggest TV transmitter in North London. Oh, that's why it chose this place. Ai?" He went back into the shop.
"What are you going to do?" she asked.
"We're going shopping." he said as he pulled out a bunch of seemingly random knickknacks. "I need a valve." She found one easily.
"This what'ca want?" she asked.
"Perfect! Right, I need one more thing." he said as he handed her the parts. She looked over the parts and realized what he was making. Mom and Ai had made them a lot. A tape player! They ran back to the TARDIS and he went in. While he was in there she started to make the player like Mom showed her. "Got it. Allons-y!" He looked down and saw that Ai had it almost built. "Clever. How'd you know what I was making?"
"Mom," she said. They got to Alexandra Palace and they looked around for Magpie. She was the first one to spot him. "There!"
"Allons-y!" the Doctor shouted. As soon as they go close enough to the station a guard tried to stop them.
"Wait, wait, wait!" the guard shouted. "Where do you think-" He was interrupted by her flashing her psychic to the guard while she balanced the player with one arm. "Oh! I'm very sorry, ma'am. Shouldn't you be at the Coronation?"
"They're saving my seat." she said as the Doctor and her run into the building.
"Where'd you get psychic paper?" he asked. "Wait don't tell me 'Spoilers'." She nodded. "Keep this switched on."
"I know Doctor," she said. "Go save her!" He smiled at her and then ran out and climbed the tower. The guard shouted at him but he was so determined to end this and get his Rhee back that he didn't hear the guard or care.
"Oh. Feast. Feasting The Wire is feasting." the Wire said as the Doctor got up to the antenna
"It's too late! It's too late for all of us!" Magpie said to the Doctor.
"I shall consume you, Doctor." she said.
"I won't let you do this, Magpie!" the Doctor shouted.
"Help me, Doctor." Magpie begged. "It burns. It took my face, my soul."
"You cannot stop the Wire. Soon I shall become manifest." she laughed.
"No more of this. You promised me peace!"
"And peace you shall have." she said as she zapped him into dust.
"Been burning the candle at both ends?" the Doctor said. "You've overextended yourself, Missis. You shouldn't have had a crack at poor old Magpie there." She tried to electcute him but his rubber soles protect him, so he reaches the portable TV. "Rubber soles, swear by them!" Then he plugged in the copper wire. Nothing happened. He looked at her puzzled.
"Oh dear." she teased. "Has our little plan gone horribly wrong, Doctor?" Suddenly the red energy flowed from the portable TV into the copper wire. "No!"
"It's close down, I'm afraid, and no epilogue." he said bitterly. He watched as the Wire disappeared. He felt Rhee again. Bond and all. It was the best feeling in the world! He went back downstairs and found Ai weeping in her hands. "What have I missed?"
"Doctor!" she cried. "I thought when the circuit blew that I failed. So did it work?"
"Yup," he said popping his 'p'. "Sorted. Electrical creature, TV technology, clever alien life form. That's me by the way. I turned the receiver back into a transmitter and I trapped the Wire in here." He popped out the tape and threw it in the air, catching it. "I just invented the home video thirty years early. Betamax. Oh, look. God save the Queen, eh?" They watched as the Queen waved at everyone.
"Well this is goodbye for me," Ai said. "You take care of her."
"Always," he said. He put the tape in his pocket and ran out to find Rhee looking for him. "Rhee!"
"Doctor!" she shouted. They ran to each other and hugged tightly, as if their lives depended on that hug. "I'm sorry." She started to cry.
"It's OK," he said. "You're safe." After they calmed down and could be apart for longer than a second, they walked back down the the neighborhood were Tommy lives. On the way she explained that she had confronted Magpie and the Wire. She left out the bit about the Sonic. He explained that he had trapped the Wire in a tape.
"Will it, that thing, is it trapped for good on video?" she asked.
"Hope so." he said. "Just to be on the safe side though, I'll use my unrivalled knowledge of transtemporal extirpation methods to neutralise the residual electronic pattern."
"You're gonna to tape over it." she teased. "Leave it to me. I know just the thing."
"What happened to you using that London accent to blend in?" he teased.
"You miss it?" she teased.
"Maybe a little," he said. Tommy walked up to them. "Tell you what, Tommy, you can have the scooter. Little present." She hit him lightly on the arm to remind him that they didn't come out for a few years. "Best, er, keep it in the garage for a few years though, eh?" They watch as Mrs. Connolly hands Mr. Connolly his suitcase.
"Good riddance." Tommy said bitterly.
"Is that it, then, Tommy?" the Doctor asked. "New monarch, new age, new world. No room for a man like Eddie Connelly."
"That's right. He deserves it." Tommy said bitterly.
"Tommy, go after him." Rhee said.
"What for?" he said bitterly.
"He's your dad." she said.
"He's an idiot." he said.
"So's my dad," she said. "My dad's like like your dad. But I still love my dad. They'll always be our dads we can't change that. But I think that you and I are clever enough to figure a way to still love them even if they are idiots and jerks. So go on." He ran off to catch up with his dad. The Doctor pulled Rhee down into his lap as they watched Tommy walk off with his dad.
"I thought I lost you today," the Doctor said. She held him closer to her.
"Nah," she said. "I knew that today I'd be fine." He took note of how she worded that and that worried him.
Notes: Sorry it's so long both were too short in my opinion so I combined the two and made one super long chapter. Well anyways I hope ya'll like it! Thanks as always to my Reviews and Readers.