The next morning, Christina finds herself hungry, angry, and tired. After losing Captain Jack two days prior, she'd done nothing else but scour the riverside, looking for him. She has created a mental list of people she wants dead in the games. Jack Harkness is on the top of that list.

The whole previous day had been spend swimming in the river, back and forth, until, at last at noon, she'd given up and fallen into an unsettling sleep, full of nightmares that, once awoken, left her more exhausted than before she'd slept.

But, despite her sour mood, she finds a true blessing. She creeps up around a tree, to see that there is a man asleep on the ground. Not just a man, but an old man. She'd be able to take him out quickly, without having him put up a fight. Christina raises her knife above her head, ready to rid herself of another compotator.

But, at the same time, she notices another thing. He is breathing very lightly. Wilfred Mott is starving and freezing to death at the same time. His skin shines with a slightly blue tint, and ice clings to his face and hands. In this state, Christina knows he stands no threat. So, instead, she takes pine needles, dirt, and frost, and covers his body, hiding him away from the view of any other person.

She does this, not only to shield him from the possibility of another attacker, but to also ensure he won't be rescued.

Nobody can say that Lady Christina de Souza isn't a worthy competitor, but, at the same time, she is not so heartless that she'd murder a helpless old man.

~The Doctor Games~

"Sexy?" calls Rose. They'd found each other late at night, each one being too tired to fight or kill, decided on an alliance. However, when Rose woke up that morning, wrapped in her blanket, high in a tree, she couldn't find Sexy anywhere.

"Down here!" the TARDIS replies, from the ground, "I've found a blackberry bush. Come on over."

Rose blinks the sleep from her eyes, and shimmies down the stunk of the tree. She finds Sexy sitting on a rock, a small pouch full of dark berries next to her. The smears of purple on her fingers shows that collecting the berries must have been messy, and Rose finds herself eager to taste them, having not eaten anything sweet in days.

"So where do we go from here? South or north?" Rose asks, popping a berry in her mouth, and relishing as it squirts juice on her tongue.

Sexy checks the compass she found three days prior. "Well, I suppose we should try… Why not west?"

"West?" asked Rose. She knows that ice fields of rocks awaited at the east, and a river flows through the south. A mountain in the north…. But what of the west?

"I'd fancy exploring that. It's be worth a shot."

Rose nods. "Maybe our only shot."

They eat the rest of the berries, not caring to save some. There's bound to be food where they're going, they decide.

~The Doctor Games~

"Ten!" says Amy, tapping her friend's shoulder. "I heard something over there." She points into the trees to the south and east.

"Stay here," he commands, grabbing a cleaver from their arsenal. He slowly steps over the mouth of the Cornucopia, and, little by little, makes his way to the spot where Amy had heard a rustling noise.

"Who's there!" he calls, commandingly.

After a moment of stillness, a voice sounds from in the trees.

"Peace. I come in peace." Tom Milligan, hands raised, emerges from the trees, clearly not trying to pose any threat. "I'm just passing through, I swear. I'm trying to find someone. Someone who owes me something."

Untrusting, Ten, raises the knife further, saying, "Then get on your way and don't even think about coming back."

Afraid, Tom nods before saying, "Yes. Yes, of course. I'm on my way." Then, he slunk back into the trees.

Ten also turned around, and began to walk back to Amy.

"It's alright. Only Tom; I've sent him on his way…" Then, he abruptly stops talking, his mind working out what Tom had just told him. "Rose…"

"What's that?" asks Amy, stepping around the rim of the golden horn, looking concerned by the expression on Ten's face.

"Come on!" he shouts, a sudden random urgency in his voice. He tears into the trees, and Amy sprints after him.

~The Doctor Games~

"Rose, do you hear that?" Sexy asks, looking around them in the forest. "I don't think we're not safe here; come into the light."

The two ladies hurry ahead, into a little clearing, where they can at least see the sky, rather than the shadowy forest. But, from there, Rose did hear something. It sounded like someone running. Running fast. Running very, very fast.

And, before she can think about it, Tom is in the clearing. Sexy doesn't even have time to scream, as he digs a knife into her middle, and draws it across, slicing her entire middle. She falls down, her body's thud masked by a cannon blast.

The knife had stayed inside her body, so Tom pulls a gun out, instead. It is aimed right at her chest, but instead of shooting her, he just stares, jaw clenched, hate in his eyes, torturing Rose with the anticipation of death.

"Go on, then," Rose dares. "You know you want to shoot me."

"Oh, Rose," he replies, "You have no idea."

The Tenth Doctor reaches the clearing just as Tom pulls the trigger.

Not waiting for a response or explanation, Ten soars over the few yards separating him from Tom, and hacks the cleaver into his neck. Without faltering to ensure that he is dead, Ten rushes to Rose, whose neck and chest is sticky with the ever-flowing blood.

"Rose," he says, tears welling in his eyes, "Rose, I'm here. I'm here, Rose!"

Rose's eyes are also teary with physical and emotional pain. "Doctor, it's you. Really you…" A drop of blood forms on her lower lip. She reaches her hand to Ten's face, wanting to touch him, to make sure he's real, not just a fantasy.

He holds it there with his hand, to see that both are covered in blood. "Yes, Rose, it's me. Really me. I'm right here, Rose. I'm right here."

But Rose didn't reply. She just lays there, in Ten's arms, until, after what seems like an eternity, but couldn't have been more than a couple seconds, her eyes glaze over, her breathing stops, and her hand grows limp.

And, it seems, to Ten, that the cannon blast that follows is louder than any of the others.

Amy, slower than the Doctor, gets into the clearing, just as Tom Milligan's cannon goes off. The only thing left of Sexy is a puddle of blood; her body has been transported away.

"People keep dying," says Amy.

After a moment, Ten, still cradling Rose's body, replies, "Yeah."

Rose's body disappears the same time that Tom's does. And the three red puddles begin to run together.

Ten stands up, and turns around, drenched in Tom's and Rose's blood. His eyes are lit with a new fire, and he says, "But no more, Amy. No more."

~ The Doctor Games~

"Come on, Sally, wake up!" calls Nine. He'd been carrying her, with painful yet purposeful slowness, up the mountain for the last few days, never going too far, not wanting to disturb her.

But now he's worried. Although she'd woken up in the few days he'd had her, only for no more than an hour at a time, she is unbearably frail. He'd heard one other cannon in the day, and feared that. The last one seemed louder for some reason, and he was almost certain that was because Sally had died. Another cannon, back to its regular volume, sounded in the air.

"Wake up, Sally!"

To Nine's pleasure, her eyes flutter open, lock on Nine's for a moment, then close back down. Nine sighs in relief that she is still alive. But he knows that she's not well. He needs to find something to help her, but he doesn't know what. What she needs is warmth, but, aside from Nine's supplies and their own body heat, she's out of luck and still just as close to death as ever.

Nine stands still, not sure of what to do. Every second he spends walking in the mountain, Sally gets weaker. He turns around, to make his way back down the mountain, deciding that, if anything, there'd be more people, and more supplies, perhaps even fire equipment, at a lower altitude.

But, just as he turns around, a silver parachute drops from the sky. He sets Sally down gently, and walks over to it. He picks it up, and unwraps the little package attached to it. Inside, a square, plastic package awaits, filled with… Nine's heart sinks, and his mind fills with frustrated rage.

Marshmallows! Why would anyone send marshmallows!

"Mickey Smith, you idiot!" he shouts at the sky. "What am I supposed to do with…" his voice trails off. He smiles.

He grabs the parachute and the marshmallows, and scoops up Sally. He begins to run further up the mountain, hope in his heart. With every step, Sally gets heavier, but Nine gets more excited. At last, he reaches the very top, and, instead of finding a ice-capped mountain, he finds himself staring into a deep, great hole, emanating ferocious heat.

"A volcano…" he mutters, "the mountain is a volcano."

There is a path in the wall, leading down, further into the hole. He follows it with his eyes, seeing it leads to a good space of earth a few yards down, about the size of a tennis court, and far big enough to house Sally and Nine.

It is from the bottom of that hole that Nine watches the evening's announcements of death.

The first face to flash in the sky is that of Sexy, the TARDIS herself. Nine, Ten, and Eleven find their spirits slashed further.

Next is Rose.

Then, to Ten's and Amy's surprise, the face of Wilfred Mott shines in the sky. He'd gone out at the exact same time as Rose, resulting in a seemingly-louder cannon.

It concluds with Tom's face, shining up in the sky.

And when the lights go out, and everyone but those with a campfire (or a volcano) are plunged into darkness.