"Mum, it's us! We're ba-ack!" Rose called out through her flat as we walked through.

"Oh, I don't know why you bother with that phone! You never use it!" Jackie said, rushing forward and hugging her daughter. "Oh, I love you!"

"I love you!"

"I love you so MUCH!" Jackie said as me and The Doctor squeezed past them.

"I've got LOADS of washing for ya! And - I got you this!" Rose handed Jackie her bag and showed her the Bezoolium she bought her. "It's from the market on this asteroid bazaar. It's made of um...what's it called?"

"Bezoolium." The Doctor said, reading a magazine.

"Bezoolium. When it gets cold, yeah, it means it's gonna rain - when it's hot, it's gonna be sunny! You can use it to tell the weather!"

"I've got a surprise for you and all."

"Oh, I get her bezoolum - she doesn't even say 'thanks'."

"Guess who's coming to visit? You're just in time - he'll be here at ten past! Who do you think it is?"

"I don't know."

"Oh go on, guess!"

"No, I hate guessing. Just tell me." Rose snapped.

"It's your grandad. Grandad Prentice. He's on his way. Any minute!" Rose just stared at her. "Right, cup of tea!" She dissapeared into the kitchen but Rose just stood there, staring at her.

"She's gone mad." Rose muttered as we stood next to her.

"Tell me something new."

"Grandad Prentice - that's her dad. But he died like, ten years ago. Oh my God. She's lost it. Mum?" Jackie looked at her. "What you just said about grandad..."

"Any second now."

"But... he passed away. His heart gave out. Do you remember that?" Rose asked gently.

"Course I do!"

"...Then how can he come back?"

"Why don't you ask him yourself?" She looked at her watch. "Ten past. Here he comes." Suddenly, a blurred figue walked out of nowhere into the kitchen and stood next to Jackie. "Here we are, then! Dad... say hello to Rose. Ain't she grown?"

...

"They're everywhere!" The Doctor said, looking around the estate, watching people acting normal with ghosts.

"Doctor, look out!" I shouted as a ghost walked straight through him.

"They haven't got long. Midday shift only lasts a couple of minutes. They're about to fade."

"What do you mean, SHIFT? Since when did ghosts have shifts? Since when did shifts have ghosts? What's going on?"

"Oh, he's not happy when I know more than him, is he?"

"But no one's running or screaming or freaking out or-"

"Why should we? Here we go. Twelve minutes past." Suddenly, the ghosts all faded away.

"Back upstairs." The Doctor said, pulling us back towards the flat.

"I'll be one minute." I said, hanging back. I waited until The Doctor had gone inside before I took out my phone. I was going to ring Mum but I couldn't have her turning up here in case there was something dangerous, so instead I rang someone I knew would explain things properly without blundering in, Clyde. He wouldn't do anything with Mum knowing, then I heard the click of him answering. "Tell me about the ghost shifts."

"Flo?"

"Yes." I said quickly. "Now, ghost shifts, tell me."

"I don't know, they just appeared!"

"What about Mr Smith?"

"He can't detect anything, no."

"Bloody brilliant." I muttered.

"Luke's not great you know?" He sighed. "We understand you had to go, because of The Doctor, none of us are annoyed about that, but you can tell, there's something on his mind and he won't say anything. What did you say to him, before you left?"

"Nothing." I lied.

"I think he misses you."

"I miss him." I chuckled. "I'll come home as soon as I can, ok?"

...

"It's all over the world." The Doctor said, flicking through the channels.

"Listen to me, Denn Watts. I don't care if you HAVE come back from the grave. Get out of my pub! The only spirits I'm serving in this place are gin, whisky and vodka. So, you heard me - GET OUT!" Peggy Mitchell shouted at a ghost. The Doctor sighed and switched it off, turning to Jackie.

"When did it start?"

"Well first of all, Peggy heard this noise in the cellar, so she goes down-"

"No, worldwide." I said softly.

"Oh! That was about two months ago. Just happened. Woke up one morning, and there they all were - ghosts, everywhere. We all ran round screaming and that, whole planet was panicking... no sign of YOU, thank you very much... then it sort of sank in. Took us time to realise that... we're lucky."

"What makes you think it's grandad?" Rose asked.

"Just feels like him. There's that smell, those old cigarettes. Can't you smell it?

"I wish I could, mum, but I can't."

"You've got to make an effort. You've got to WANT it, sweetheart."

"The more you want it, the stronger it gets?"

"Sort of, yeah."

"Like a psychic link. Course you want your old dad to be alive, but you're wishing him into existence. The ghosts are using that to pull themselves in."

...

"It's alright it's holding!" Rose shouted out to me and The Doctor as we watched the trapped ghost.

"Don't like that much, do you?" The Doctor asked as he put a pair of 3d specs on and the ghost groaned. Who are you? Where are you coming from? That's more like it! Not so friendly NOW, are you?"

...

Rose was in The TARDIS, and me, The Doctor and Jackie had been taken prisoner by Torchwood, brilliant.

"All those times I've been on Earth, I'VE never heard of you." The Doctor said as we walked down the corridor.

"But of course not. You're the enemy. You're actually named in the Torchwood Foundation Charter of 1879 as an enemy of the Crown. And you too," Yvonne nodded at me. "The Doctor and Flo Maxwell."

"It's Smith now thank you." I muttered. "1879... that was called Torchwood, that house in Scotland."

"That's right. Where you encountered Queen Victoria and the werewolf."

"I think they make half of it up." Jackie muttered.

"Her Majesty created the Torchwood Institute with the express intention of keeping Britain great. And fighting the alien horde."

"But if we're the enemy, does that mean that we're prisoners?"

"Oh yes." We reached a door and Yvonne scanned her card, opening the door. "But we'll make you perfectly comfortable. And there is so much you can teach us. Starting with this." We walked into a chamber, full of tech, with a massive gold sphere floating in midair on the other side of the room. "Now, what do you make of that?"

"You must be the Doctor. Rajesh Singh. It's an honour, sir." A man rushed over to us, although The Doctor just ignored him.

"Yeah..."

"What IS that thing?" Jackie asked.

"We got no idea."

"But what's wrong with it?"

"What makes you think there's something wrong with it?"

"I dunno... just feels weird."

"Well, the sphere has that effect on everyone. Makes you wanna run and hide. Like it's forbidden."

"We tried analysing it using every device imaginable."

"Doctor something feels really wrong about it." I whispered.

"It's a void ship."

"What's that?" Yvonne asked.

"Well, it's impossible for starters. I always thought it was just a theory, but... it's a vessel designed to exist outside time and space. Travelling through the Void."

"And what's 'the Void'?"

"The space between dimensions. There's all sorts of realities around us, different dimensions - billions of parallel universes all stacked up against each other. The Void is the space in-between. Containing absolutely nothing. Imagine that - nothing. No light, no dark, no up, no down. No life. No time. Without end. My people called it the Void, the Eternals call it the Howling. But some people call it Hell."

"So how do we get in there?"

"We don't!" I shouted suddenly, shaking, interupting what The Doctor was going to say. "We send that thing back into hell!" The Doctor ran over to me and put his arm around me, looking sternly at Yvonne.

"How did it get here in the first place?" He asked angrily.

"Well, that's how it all started. The sphere came through into this world, and the ghosts followed in its wake."

"Show me."

...

I looked out of the office and into the big white room with the levers. Nobody had noticed it yet but I had.

"Flo?" The Doctor asked me in concern.

"They've started the shift!" I said nervously, nodding at the levers.

"Who started the program? But- I ordered you to stop! Who's doing that?" Yvonne asked as we all rushed out. "Stop the levers!" Me and The Doctor looked at the people at the computers with blank expressions. "All of you step away from the desks!" The Doctor looked over at the computers.

I stood in the middle of the room as the ghost shift reached 100%. Everything froze around me and I didn't even notice The Doctor, Yvonne and Jackie leave and be brought back in. Then all the ghosts walked through the wall, slowly phasing into Cybermen.

"What is it?" Jackie panicked.

"A footprint doesn't look like a boot." I gulped as The Doctor squeezed my hand. "Cybermen."

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