A/N: Sorry it took so long to update! Firstly, a CERTAIN electricity maintenance service messed up the whole areas electric, so no computer or lights or heating :( Also, I had three essays and an exam to do, plus a piece of artwork which I still haven't done yet, so I think I was lucky to get on this tonight.
Apologies for the inconvienence, but I WILL update tomorrow. Plus, I've got a definite plot for this story now! And I'm pretty surprised at how it turned out, too :) I think I just wrote the ten final chapters, however, I still need to write the chapters between here and then.
DISCLAIMER: No, not even having no electric allowed me to own Doctor Who. Pah. Don't want to own you anyway, I only want tenth Doctor *hugs him tightly*. Ten lives forever n the world of fanfic! Whoopwhoop!
"Rose, set the co-ordinates. Now!" John ordered, before darting forward, arms outstretched as he seized Belle. He could feel her shaking, could hear her whimpers as she struggled half-heartedly within his grip.
"TARDIS, come on girl, give me what I need." He pleaded with the TARDIS, and he got the impression of the sentient shaking her head firmly.
"Please? For her sake?"
The TARDIS shuddered slightly, before sighing and providing the requested item that she objected to so strongly.
"Pete, could you help? I'll understand if you don't, but it might be easier…"
"Course I will, if it means everyone's gonna be safe."
Pete strode over, Belle flinching in John's arms.
"I never meant to, but please, don't, it's like before…" She sobbed, tears pouring down her cheeks. The TARDIS lurched suddenly, a gentle wheeze echoing throughout the corridors.
"Pass me the sedative." John instructed, and Pete held her head down firmly, exposing her throat. She began to fight back almost immediately, lashing out, going limp and then surging with strength.
"Do it, John. We have no choice." Pete said coldly, as he saw doubt flicker across his warm brown eyes.
"Of course, you're right, have to do it, have to do it." He whispered more to himself than to Pete, before taking the safety cap off the needle, poising it at her throat. Her eyes snapped open, staring at him, and as he felt a rush of sympathy course through his body for her, he pushed it in, injecting her with the sedative.
"I'm sorry." He whispered, as her eyes began to drift shut, but her voice was full of terror and fear.
"Thought you were different," she choked, " But you're not. You're like them, oh god, you're one of them…" She whispered, before slumping unconscious in John's arms.
"Come on," He said suddenly, "We need to stop the Doctor from bleeding, and prepare them for Torchwood."
He cuffed the unconscious girl's hands behind her back, before setting to the task at hand - healing the Doctor.
"Jack! Jack!" A voice cut through the air frantically, and the man dressed in navy trousers, a blue shirt with rolled up sleeves and dark brown braces who had been pacing up and down all day, his thoughts restless and disturbed, jerked his head upwards, as if waking from a trance.
Sighing wearily, he climbed up the ladder from his quarters into the Hub, looking at Gwen questioningly.
"What d'you want?" He sighed, and Gwen began to speak.
"There's a significant energy spike, and a trace of energy which we think-"
She turned suddenly, meeting him face to face, and she coughed in surprise and shock, stumbling backwards slightly.
"My god, Jack, you look awful!" She took in his pale face, haunted eyes and slimmer body. She narrowed her eyes. "How bad was the scene really, Jack? You never said how many, all you said was that it was bad."
"Everyone, Gwen." Tears began to prick the corners of the Captain's eyes, and Gwen was both startled and concerned at her friend's openness and willing to speak the truth.
"Everyone, we lost everyone. Help was too late, and they were screaming, and everywhere, just everywhere-"
His words broke off into sobs of grief, and Gwen simply stepped forwards, embracing him tight. She felt Jack wrap his arms around her in reassurance, and she whispered in his ear softly.
"Everything's gonna be fine, Jack. You've got us, and we'll always be here, no matter what."
Jack sniffled slightly, before pulling back. His eyes were red, and he smiled at her in thanks. "Even the captain needs a hug every so often." He laughed gently, his voice wavering slightly.
"Oh, I think every-"
"Jack! Gwen! It's here! It's him!" Tosh cried out, racing in. She glanced at Jack, who had tilted his head in confusion, before glaring at Gwen.
"You were meant to tell him!" She said, a slight anger in her tone.
"We were kinda discussing a very important issue," Jack started, knowing that this conversation was beginning to descend into an argument.
"Anyway, now you're here, surely you can explain?"
Tosh beamed at him, her voice full of excitement. "The TARDIS is here! Which must mean-"
"The Doctor!" Jack shouted happily, leaping over the steps towards the exit, where he rapidly had to stop himself to prevent himself from getting a face full of TARDIS.
"Doesn't usually park here," he muttered quietly to himself, "But then again, he always acts as if he owns the place…"
Pausing by the door, anticipation and excitement surely killing him slowly, when the doors of the TARDIS flew open, a familiar figure stood, holding an even more familiar figure to his chest.
"Doctor?!" Jack cried out, seizing his motionless body from his twin's arms. He peered at the body in his arms, and knowing that he was unconscious from the bloodied wound on his neck, he turned to the twin.
"What monster did this?" He snarled protectively, watching as Rose, Jackie and a man he knew to be Rose's father stepped out. The twin simply said, "Name's John," before disappearing back inside the TARDIS, only to return a few minutes later with another body in his arms.
This one, however, Jack noticed, had it's hands cuffed and her mouth was dripping with blood, which was undoubtedly the Doctor's.
Gasping, he peered closely at the figure lying in the twin's - John's arms, recoiling slightly as he recognized the vulnerable, innocent figure.
"This-" John said coldly, "Is the monster that did it."