The Daleks were in a state of panic, something that was equally funny and bothersome to Kayla. Anything that could terrify a race of aliens that only had anger as an emotion had to be slightly bad, but the Doctor was on their side…right? Kayla wasn't so sure. Daleks had killed the Time Lords, and if it came down to killing all Daleks are saving Kayla and Rose, what would the Doctor chose? War got into someone and twisted everything good about them, nothing could withstand it, including the Doctor.
A Dalek rounded on Rose and Kayla.
"You know the Doctor! You understand him! You will predict his actions!" A Dalek screeched at the two women.
"I don't know!" Rose protested.
"You Daleks, you're so stupid! You already know what the Doctor is going to do. He just told you. What do you not get about, 'I'm coming for you?'" Kayla snapped at the Dalek, who glided dangerously towards her, forgetting Rose.
"You have predicted correctly." The Dalek agreed, making Kayla rolled her eyes.
"I wasn't predicting anything, I just repeated what the Doctor said." Kayla spoke slowly, like she was addressing an idiot.
"TARDIS detected. In flight." A Dalek called out, distracting the Dalek in front of the two girls.
"Launch missiles! Exterminate!" The Dalek chorused in front of the two girls, backing away some.
"You can't! The TARDIS hasn't got any defenses-you're gonna kill him!" Rose said desperately.
"It's not a Battle TARDIS, it's a Type 40!" Kayla added. Type 40's were museum pieces, having non to little shielding. If it was attacked…the TARDIS would get smashed to a million pieces, leaving no survivors.
"You have predicted correctly." The Dalek answered darkly, making Rose tremble while Kayla's face hardened, desperate not to show her emotions.
Two missiles where shot at the TARDIS from the Dalek's ship, hurtling towards the TARDIS which was flying right towards them.
"The extrapolator's working. We've got a fully functional forcefield. Try saying that when you're drunk..." Jack reported, joking some. He was going to save his daughter and his little sister, of course he was happy.
"And for my next trick..." the Doctor spoke as he worked the controls, ready for the missiles.
The Daleks, Rose, and Kayla all heard the familiar and oddly soothing sound of the TARDIS materializing. All of them looked around, but Kayla saw it first as the outline of the TARDIS grew around Kayla, Rose, and Dalek Get-In-Your-Face, the one still uncomfortably close to them. Kayla turned slowly, stopping as she saw the outline of the Doctor, growing more and more distinct as he stood by the console. When the engines stopped, he sprang into action.
"Kayla! Rose! Get down!" He commanded, his eyes flickering between Kayla, and the Dalek. Rose blinked, shocked, as the Dalek's eye rod, which had been facing the door, spun around, also momentarily confused. "Get down, Kayla, Rose!" the Doctor yelled yet again.
Kayla shrugged, and tackled Rose, pushing her to the ground, just as the Dalek started up again.
"Exterminate!" The Dalek shot, not at the Doctor, but at Jack, who was holding the Defabricator at the Dalek. With that, he deflected the ray back at the Dalek who exploded with a scream that made Rose wince and Kayla roll her eyes at the dramatic Dalek that was now a smoking remain. Kayla got to her feet first, and then helped Rose to her.
"Sorry." Kayla said sheepishly as Rose grabbed the lower part of her back, wincing.
"It's okay, just…ow." Rose complained, trying to wave her off. Slowly moving, Rose face Jack and the Doctor.
"You did it!" Rose cheered, not noticing Kayla frown some as she realized that the TARDIS was…silent. Kayla had come to hardly notice the background noise of the TARDIS, yet here it was, gone. She broke away from her thoughts when wordlessly, the Doctor walked over to Kayla and put his arms around her in a tight in embrace, making Kayla blink and stiffen some before she too put her arms around the Doctor, hugging him back. Very carefully, the Doctor unwrapped Kala from his grip and turned to Rose, giving her a more casual hug.
"Feels like I haven't seem you in years." Rose said softly, hurt that the Doctor had hugged Kayla first, had called her name in first.
"Told you both that I'd come and get you." The Doctor reminded lightly, his eyes following Kayla as she walked over to Jack who wordlessly hugged her, tears on both of their faces.
"Never doubted it." Rose said suddenly, and the Doctor remembered to pull out of their hug, keeping Rose at arm's length but never touching her.
"Neither did I." Kayla called from her spot next to Jack.
"I did! You all right?" the Doctor asked her.
"Never better. What about you?" she shot back.
"Not bad. Been better!" he replied, and then looked down at Rose.
"You alright?" He asked seriously.
"Yeah." Rose replied, trying to keep the hurt from her voice. The Doctor had shifted her aside for Kayla yet again. And when the Doctor went over to check the Dalek remains, Kayla joined him, making her feel more alone than ever, until Jack approached her.
"Hey, don't I get a hug?" He teased, making Rose smile.
"Ahh, come here!" She cried to Jack.
"I was talking to him." Jack gestured towards the Doctor, making Rose laugh along with Jack, throwing their arms around each other in a hug. "Welcome home!" Jack greeted, hugging her tightly.
"Ohh, thought I'd never see you again." Rose breathed, elated that someone was paying attention to her.
"Oh, you were both lucky-I was just a one-shot wonder. Drained the gun of all its power supply. Now it's just a piece of junk." Jack explained, the only sound was the Doctor's sonic that he was using to scan the Dalek while Kayla stood next to him, using her VM.
Outside the TARDIS, the Daleks felt something stirring inside of them as they shuffled around in a tense silence. They were…nervous, something that was a new and seemingly dangerous concept. As if to comfort them, a deep voice boomed out.
"Patience, my brethren..."
The four time travelers bent over the Dalek, studying. Its battle armor had been blasted away because of the Defabricator, giving them a clear view inside.
"You said they were extinct. How comes they're still alive?" Rose wondered, her eyes on Kayla and the Doctor, watching as they stood almost shoulder to shoulder.
"One minute they're the greatest threat in the universe, the next minute they vanished out of time and space." Jack added, his eyes also on Kayla and the Doctor.
"No…that's just a myth." Kayla breathed, her eyes on the Doctor, who nodded once, making Kayla exhale slowly.
"They went off to fight a bigger war...the Time War..." the Doctor explained for the two others, his eyes still flicking between Kayla and the Dalek.
"I thought that was just a legend." Jack stated, surprised.
"I was there. The war between the Daleks and the Time Lords. With the whole of creation at stake. My people were destroyed, but they took the Daleks with them." The Dalek continued to smolder, almost like it was mocking them. "I almost thought it was worth it. Now it turns out they died for nothing." The Doctor said quietly, mourning his race.
"That's the thing with Daleks. They can exterminate you, but you can't do it to them." Kayla stated, equally quite.
"There's thousands of them now. We could hardly stop ONE. What're we gonna do?" Rose cut in, louder than nessiary, not enjoying the Kayla/Doctor show that was going on.
"No good stood round here chin-wagging! Human race, you'd gossip all day. The Daleks have got the answers-let's go and meet the neighbors." The Doctor said, forcing cheerfulness into his voice as he started to head down the ramp with Kayla following him.
"You can't go out there-!" Rose exclaimed, talking only to the Doctor.
"Kayla, be careful!" Jack called to his daughter, but it was too late, the two had already stepped out, closing the door behind them.
"Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!" The Daleks started to fire at Kayla and the Doctor, but their bolts of energy never made it to them, instead they hit the invisible forcefield of the TARDIS. Jack and Rose, hearing the cries, popped their heads out behind the two. Finally, the Daleks gave up, the sound of their shots faded and silence took it over. The Doctor and Kayla raised their joined hands mockingly, making Rose wince.
"Is that it?" the Doctor started.
"Useless, totally useless!" Kayla added.
"Nul points." The Doctor finished, while Kayla went over and leaned against the TARDIS casually.
"Come on out, the forcefield should be able to hold back anything." She reassured Jack and Rose, who started to get out.
"Almost anything." Jack corrected darkly.
"Thanks…no really…that helps a lot." Kayla stated dryly.
"Sorry." Jack apologized.
The Daleks continued to stay silent, watching the affair, somehow flinching when Kayla went over to the Doctor so that they could both step forwards to address them.
"D'you know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek Homeworld? The Oncoming Storm." The Doctor started.
"And I'm Kayla Hark, former Time Agent. I almost killed the Emperor and I killed 1/3 of this fleet and 100 of another. My enemies called me, Death." Kayla put in.
The Doctor started up again, his hand tightening around Kayla's. "You might've removed all your emotions...but we reckon that right down deep in your DNA, there's one little spark left. And that's fear." The Doctor continued, automatically referring to Kayla and himself as, 'we.' As if to agree, the Dalek's eyepiece twitched nervously. "Doesn't it just BURN when you face me? So, tell me-how did you survive the Time War?" the Doctor asked, a hard edge in his voice.
"They survived through me." A booming, familiar, voice called down to the Doctor and Kayla, both flinching as they looked around, having not noticed the source the noise. Both whipped around, startled, and they took a few steps towards the voice. Suddenly, the Dalek Emperor was illuminated, towering above them all. The Doctor and Kayla stared up at him, open-mouthed in awe and terror.
"Rose…since you haven't met it, this is the Emperor of the Dalek. Jack...well we both know that there's no reason to be introduced again." Kayla called to the two, her voice quivering with a small note of fear.
"You destroyed us, Doctor, Kayla. The Dalek Race died in both of your infernos, but my ship survived, falling through time, crippled but alive."
"I get it." The Doctor interrupted.
"Do not interrupt!" A Dalek chorused, starting off a chant from the other two.
"Do not interrupt!" One agreed looking at the Doctor.
"Do not interrupt!" Another shouted, its eye on Kayla. Rose and Jack flinched, but Kayla and the Doctor merely looked mildly annoyed, still strong and unwavering.
"I think you're forgetting something. I'm the Doctor. And if there's one thing I can do-it's talk. I've got five billion languages, and you haven't got one way of stopping me. So if anybody's gonna shut up, it's YOU!" he said the last words with such fervor, such loathing, that the Daleks shuffled backwards slightly. Pleased, the Doctor turned back to the Emperor. "Okey doke. So, where were we?" He said lightly.
"We waited here in the dark space, damaged but rebuilding. Centuries passed, and we quietly infiltrated the systems of Earth. Harvesting the waste of humanity. The prisoners, the refugees, the dispossessed-they all came to us. The bodies were filtered, pulped, sifted." Kayla started to smirk, a horrible yet highly useable thought dawning on her as he spoke. Rose however, looked like she had an extremely nasty taste in her mouth because of the Doctor and Kayla. "The seed of the Human Race is perverted. Only one cell in a billion was fit to be nurtured." The Doctor glared at the Emperor, thoughtful.
"So, you created an army of Daleks out of the dead." He stated.
"But, you're half-human! Part human and mad and full of emotions!" Kayla yelled, mocking the Daleks.
"Those words are blasphemy!" The Dalek Emperor called down at her, raising his voice as he spoke. Needless to say, the Daleks took up the cry.
"Do not blaspheme!"
"Do not blaspheme!"
"Do not blaspheme!"
"Everything human has been purged. I cultivated pure and blessed Dalek." The Dalek Emperor told them, but the Doctor and Kayla didn't listen, both looking around at the Daleks.
"Since when did the Daleks have a concept of blasphemy?" the Doctor raised the question, voicing Kayla's thoughts.
"I reached into the dirt and made new life. I am the God of all Daleks!" the Daleks took up the cry, shuffling around, and very mental as the whole ship was filled with their cries.
"Worship him! Worship him! Worship him!"
"They're insane, hiding in the dark and silence for a hundred years is enough to make anyone mad." Kayla told Rose, Jack, and the Doctor, not bothering to keep her voice down as she spoke. She stared at the Daleks, the Doctor doing the same, both pitying them. "But it's worse than that. Driven mad by your own flesh. The stink of humanity." She elaborated, not horrified or even disgusted, just sad for them. "You hate the fact that you're even alive, and that makes you a hell of a lot more dangerous." She turned her gaze upwards, glaring at the Dalek Emperor. "We're leaving, have a nice time, please kill yourself."
"You may NOT leave my presence!" the Emperor commanded, but they were already half-way to the TARDIS, the Daleks powerless to stop them, though that didn't stop them trying.
"Stay where you are!" A Dalek commanded, making Kayla and the Doctor mockingly grin at them as they closed the door of the TARDIS on them.
"Exterminate!" All the Daleks screamed, their shots firing fruitlessly at the closed door.
Once they were inside with the door closed, Kayla and the Doctor leaned their heads against the door, both shaken, their hands still entwined. They both tried to appear confident, and they did, but in reality, they didn't know what to do. They were helpless, and they only had each other and the battle of cry of the Daleks in their ears for their comfort.
Satellite Five floated serenely above Earth, caught in the sunlight. A battle was about to begin, a battle for the life of everyone.
Lynda stood on Floor 500, deep in thought as she waited for the Doctor and others to get back. She perked up when the sound of the TARDIS engines filled the room, before ending. A few seconds later, the Doctor, Kayla, Rose, and Jack marched out of the TARDIS which had materialized at one end of Floor 500.
"Turn everything up. All transmissions, wide open, full power. Now! Do it!" the Doctor commanded, striding up to the console with Kayla at his heels.
"What does that do?" Davitch asked, obeying the Doctor.
"It'll stop the Daleks from transmatting on here, for now. How did you get on? Have you contacted Earth?" Kayla asked rapidly, her voice cold, her face clear. She had slipped back into the shell she was when she worked at the Time Agency.
"Well, we tried to warn them, but all they did was suspend our license because we stopped the programs. I'm sorry, but are you Kayla Hark…the Kayla Hark?" He asked, and Kayla smirked.
"Yes I am, but we have problems that need to be addressed before I do autographs. Earth is just sitting down there, defenseless, an open gem." She glanced around, and then paused when she got to Lynda before drawing the Doctor's attention to her.
"Lynda, what're you still doing on board?" He rounded on Davitch, angry. Lynda was sweet and young, she shouldn't still be on the Satellite. "I told you to evacuate everyone." He said sternly.
"She wouldn't go." Davitch protested.
"Didn't wanna leave ya." She elaborate, smiling at him, making Rose and Kayla look her up and down, both not liking her implication. The Doctor shrugged, putting his arm around Kayla, drawing her closer, making Rose and Lynda glare at the brunet.
"There weren't enough shuttles anyway, or I wouldn't be here...we've got about a hundred people stranded on Floor Zero." A woman sneered.
The people who were stranded on Floor Zero were milling around, Rodrick among them.
"Listen, listen-my name's Rodrick. I won the game! Where's my money?" He demanded a hassled guard. People were in a state of mild panic, but Rodrick couldn't seem to grasp that.
"Is anyone listening? Where's my money?!" He yelled into an intercom.
"Oh, my God. The Fleet is moving. They're on their way." Davitch cried, looking at his monitor as the red blips that were the Daleks ships started to move.
The Dalek ships started to smoothly glide across space, having all the time in the world to exterminate the humans.
The Dalek Emperor was giving out orders while lines of and lines of Daleks levitated above him, ready for battle.
"Purify the Earth with fire. The planet will become my temple and we shall rise. This will be our Paradise!"
The ships moved towards the Satellite, which revolved slowly above the Earth.
On Floor 500, the Doctor and Kayla were frantically ripping armfuls of wires out of the desk. The others watched them, clearly not knowing exactly what they're trying to do. "The Dalek plan is a big mistake, because it leaves us with one option. Can anyone guess? Anyone? Anyone? It's a great big transmitter, this stations is a transmitter." Jack stared at his rapidly speaking daughter, his brow furrowed in concentration, trying to work out what she was talking about. "If we can change the signal, fold it back, sequence it-doesn't anyone know?" Kayla asked, pausing in her frantic work to address the others. Behind her, the Doctor continued, working faster as each minute ticked by.
Jack finally worked it out, smiling some at the genius of the plan, "You've gotta be kidding." He laughed, making Kayla grin.
"Give the man a medal!" the Doctor cheered rather breathlessly.
"A Delta Wave?" Jack asked incredulously.
"A Delta Wave!" Kayla and the Doctor yelled out excitedly, making Rose and Lynda wince.
"What's a Delta Wave?" Rose asked loudly, cutting in.
"A wave of Van Cassadyne energy. Fries your brain-stand in the way of a Delta Wave and your head gets barbequed!" Jack explained, sounding too cheerful for the topic.
"This place can transmit a MASSIVE wave! It'll wipe out all the Daleks!" Kayla exclaimed. Rose opened her mouth to say something, but Lynda interrupted her.
"Well, get started and do it then!" Rose closed her mouth, rather angry.
"Trouble is, wave this size, building this big, brain as clever as mine and Kayla's, should take about-ooh-two days? How long till the Fleet arrive?" the Doctor asked, glancing at Davitch.
"Twenty-two minutes." He answered after checking the monitor. Upon hearing the answer, the Doctor and Kayla pulled another cable out from under the desk, both staring at their end of it for a second, and then glanced at each other before looking at the others and beaming at them.
The Fleet continued its way to the Satellite, getting closer, oh so closer…
"We've now got a forcefield so they can't blast us out of the sky." Jack explained to Rose, Lynda, Davitch, and the Female Programmer, all of whom are gathered around the computer as Jack explained their assets to them. "But that doesn't stop the Daleks from physically invading." The small bubble of hope that had gathered for the small group popped at Jack's last words.
"Do they know about the Delta Wave?" Davitch asked.
"They'll have worked it out at the same time. So, if they want to stop the Doctor and Kayla, that means they've got to get to this level-500." He indicated the screen behind him which showed an illustrative diagram on it. "Now, I can concentrate the extrapolator around the top six levels, 500 to 495. So, they'll penetrate the station below that at level 494 and fight their way up." Jack finished. It was slim, but that was all they had.
"Who're they fighting?" Davitch asked, raising yet another good point.
"Us." Jack answered simply.
"And...what're we fighting with?" Davitch continued.
"The guards had guns with bastic bullets-that's enough to blow a Dalek wide open." Jack shot back, not angry with Davitch for asking questions, but slightly frustrated that he couldn't just go with a plan once Jack had told him it. Everyone did it for Kayla, perhaps it was her voice.
"There's FIVE of us." The Female Programmer pointed out skeptically.
"Rose, could you help us? We need all these wires stripped bare." Kayla called from next to the Doctor, both busying themselves with the wires. Even though the Doctor hadn't asked her, Rose went over immediately, hoping that she could impress the Doctor. Though Kayla had said that she didn't want the Doctor as her boyfriend, she didn't act like that, which made Rose jealous, despite their alleyway fight.
"Right! Now there's FOUR of us!" The Female Programmer stated, cross. She was scared and tired, and she didn't have a job and was about to die.
"Then let's move it! Into the lift! Isolate the lift controls!" Davitch and the Female Programmer hurried off, but Lynda stayed behind, going up to the Doctor to say goodbye. Seeing this, the Doctor stood up.
"I-I just wanna say, um...thanks, I s'pose. And...I'll do my best!" She tried cheerfully.
"Me too." The Doctor agreed. What followed was a very awkward pause as the two tried to figure out what to do, finally deciding on a handshake, and then they laughed embarrassedly. Rose glared daggers in the background, while Kayla got up and gave Lynda a shy smile.
"I know we haven't met, but…thank you, for trying to be brave instead of complaining." Kayla looked down at her hand for a bit before giving Lynda an awkward handshake, the blond smiling throughout the whole affair while Rose glared at the brunet even more. Finally, Lynda headed off, glancing back to see Kayla and the Doctor watching her go, standing rather close. The blond's eyes flicked to Rose who looked like she wanted a weapon to thrust into all the women except herself. Lynda turned away, her head held high.
Rose made no comment, instead she stripped a wire with unnecessary ferocity, dropping to the ground so she could stand up when Captain Jack Harkness approached them.
"It's been fun!" Jack stated, trying to keep the conversation light. Kayla and the Doctor managed a smile. "But I guess this is goodbye." Jack continued. He had thought of death, dreamed of it sometimes, but when he realized who Kayla was, he couldn't leave her alone. Instead of feeling happy, all Jack could think about was leaving Kayla alone.
Rose cut into the Captain's thoughts, wanting one last time to be the Captain's main attention. "Don't talk like that. The Doctor's gonna do it. You just watch him." She reassured the Captain. Instead of answering, Jack cupped Rose's face with both his hands, looking at her intently.
"You're an amazing person, my best friend's little sister." He placed a brief kiss on her lips before turning to the Doctor.
"Wish I'd never met you, Doctor!" He cupped the Doctor face, making the Time Lord stiffen. "I was much better off as a coward." And he kissed the Doctor exactly the same way as Rose, but instead of letting go, he moved his mouth to the Doctor's ear and whispered into it. "Keep Kayla safe, and for god's sake, kiss her already." With that, he moved to his daughter, looking at her sternly for a few seconds before he hugged her deeply.
"Don't be afraid to trust your heart and the Doctor, he's not John." Jack whispered into his daughter's ear and then he broke the hug only to place both hands on her shoulders, removing one briefly to point towards the exit.
"See ya in hell." He stated, making Kayla smile a bit.
"Oh no, I'll meet ya." She tried softly, her voice quivering with suppressed emotion. With a grin, Jack ran off. Kayla felt hot tears slide down her face, and surprisingly, the Doctor wrapped his arms around her shoulder, comforting her as the three watched Captain Jack Harkness run off. Rose turned to face the Doctor, only to wince when she saw his arm around Kayla. Pushing past her jealousy, Rose spoke softly to the Doctor.
"He's gonna be all right..." She spoke nervously, trying to make herself believe it more than anything. Kayla and the Doctor both stared at her, not answering. "... isn't he?" Rose needed an answered, and Kayla gave her one.
"Don't give yourself false hope, it only hurts more when you're wrong." Kayla stated softly, a hard edge in her tone.
The Satellite sat in space, the Dalek's gaze slowly traveled down it, questioning it.
Jack stood on a box in the middle of Floor Zero, surrounded by stranded contestants, who are babbling away with panic. Having tried several times for their attention, Jack fired a few shots of his gun into the air for order. The contestants, jumped, and then fell silent.
"One last time. Any more volunteers?" He yelled, making another silence fall, only this was deeper than the last one. He glanced over at Lynda, Davitch, and the Female Programmer, all of whom stood separate with four others, all volunteers to…die. "There's an army about to invade this station. I need every last citizen to monitor defense!" Jack pleaded, his voice was quiet and filled with urgency as he saw a few people shake their heads.
A man pushed through the crowd, filling Jack with hope, only to have those hopes crushed with his words, "Don't listen to him! There aren't any Daleks! They disappeared thousands of years ago!" Despite his words, the Floor Manager put herself forwards, nodded at Jack, and earned a nod back.
"Thanks. As for the rest of you...the Daleks will enter the station at Floor 494 and as far as I can tell, they'll head up. Not down. But that's not a promise. So here's a few words of advice; keep quiet. And if you hear fighting up above...if you hear us dying...then tell me that the Daleks aren't real." He glared at Rodrick pointedly, earning yet another silence from his words. "Don't make a sound." He advised, turning his gaze to the volunteers, "Let's go." With the command still ringing in the air, he jumped off the box and headed towards the lifts. The eight volunteers and Jack bundled inside, and the door shut, hiding them from the cowards.
The Satellite revolved slowly, almost ready for the fight.
Rose, the Doctor, and Kayla were sitting on the floor in the space between the middle row of desks, working busily, and, in the case of the Doctor and Kayla, almost shoulder to shoulder. The three were the only people on Floor 500, and the silence was somewhat comfortable, except for the dagger-like glares that Kayla was getting from Rose for being so close to the Doctor.
"Suppose..." Rose started, but then shook her head, getting rid of the thought and not finishing her sentence.
"What?" the Doctor asked after a moment.
"Nothing." Roe dismissed, not wanting to seem like an idiot in front of Kayla.
"You said 'suppose.'" Kayla pointed out, also curious.
"No, I was just thinking...I mean, obviously you can't, but...we've got a time machine. Why can't we just go back to last week and warn them?" Rose suggested, making the Doctor looked down at his work.
"As soon as the TARDIS landed here, it became part of events, we all are, which means that we're stuck in the timeline." Kayla answered, making Rose frown some; once again, Kayla had the answer.
"Yeah, thought it'd be something like that..." Rose tried weakly, going back to her work.
"There's another thing the TARDIS could do...it could take us away..." the Doctor stated darkly. At his tone, Rose glanced up with a bit of a smile, still injured because of Kayla.
"We could leave. Let history take its course. We go to Marbella in 1989." The Doctor continued.
"Yeah, but you'd never do that." Rose said with soft smile.
"No, but you could ask." The Doctor met Rose's eyes for a split second before they switched over to Kayla, who was still working, pretending not to listen.
"It didn't occur to you, did it?" the Doctor added, a small bit of brotherly affection in his voice.
"Well, I'm just too good!" the Doctor nodded at that, his gaze on Kayla, a slightly goofy smile on his face as he watched her. Behind them, the computer whirled nosily, making Kayla and the Doctor snap their heads towards it, both alert.
"The Delta Wave's started building. How long does it need?" Kayla said, her sentence making them all jump up and run over to computer, Kayla dropped into chair, the Doctor doing the same, and Rose tried to glance over their shoulders, but the brunet blocked her view of the screen as she tapped a few buttons. Whatever the monitor read, it made the Doctor's and Kayla's face fall.
"Is that bad?" Rose asked quietly, but got no reply as the Doctor's head started to sink to his knees, Kayla just placed her hand on his shoulder, squeezing it as the other one went to his back where she drew small circles on it. Rose winced, bitter jealousy rising up inside of her as she watched, but if the Doctor was upset…then Rose would try her best to fix it. "Okay, it's bad. How bad is it?" the Doctor suddenly removed Kayla's hands, perking up and leaping to his feet, his eyes bright.
"Rose Tyler, you're a GENIUS!" Rose smiled brightly, casting a withering glance to Kayla, who winced at it. Turning her gaze away, Rose turned to looked back at the Doctor only to be thrown into a hug that she might have returned if there was more time. "We can do it! If I use the TARDIS to cross my old timeline...yes!" He shot towards the TARDIS with Kayla and Rose on his heels.
They went through the doors and over to the console.
"Kayla, hold that down and keep position." He instructed the brunet, who started towards the lever he was indicating. "Rose, hold down that button." Rose went over to the button, curious.
"What's it do?" Rose asked, breathless. The Doctor was working busily at the computer.
"Cancels the buffers. If I'm very clever-and I'm more than clever, I'm BRILLIANT-I might just save the world. Or rip it apart..." Both girls where now holding their appointed items down.
"I'd go with the first one, dear." Kayla cut in from the lever, not missing Rose's glare.
"Me too. Now, I've just got to go and power up the Game Station. Hold on!" The Doctor ran out of the TARDIS doors, full on energy…
The doors shut automatically, and the Doctor stopped. He turned around slowly to look at the TARDIS, so very sad, waiting for the TARDIS to leave.
Rose waited for him, still holding down her button, wide-eyed and clueless, not noticing the tears that Kayla was shedding, knowing what the Doctor was doing because she knew him, and she knew his past, and she knew what the Delta Wave would do. And the Doctor, being so caring, didn't want anyone except for himself to make that choice.
The Doctor raised his sonic screwdriver and pointed it at the TARDIS, making the engines roar, and inside, the rotor would start to rise and fall.
When the engines started up, Rose started to yell in the direction of the closed doors, "Doctor, what're you doing? Can I take my hand off? It's moving."
The Doctor didn't lower his sonic, but instead he carried on pointing it at the TARDIS doors.
Rose abandoned her button, Kayla doing the same, following the blond as she ran towards the doors in full panic. "Doctor, let me out!" She cried, throwing herself against them. Kayla stood behind her, watching.
"Don't bother, he's saving our lives once again. The exact opposite to a Dalek." Rose flinched at her words, turning away from the doors to glare at the brunet.
"Don't you ever tell me that! I'm not leaving!" She turned back to the doors, pounding on them. "Do you hear me, I'm not leaving!" She screamed.
The TARDIS began to fade away, but that didn't stop the Doctor from hearing Rose's desperate cries.
"Let me out! Doctor, what've you done?" Her protests where becoming softer, when another voice joined, softer, yet for the Doctor, louder than anything.
"Stay safe Doctor, and I…I love you." The Doctor almost broke down at Kayla's voice, Rose's protests seemed to fade away, and it took a few moments to realize that they had, the TARDIS was gone. The Doctor was just facing an empty spot of space. He lowered his sonic screwdriver and turned away, so tired and so sad…he had lost his younger sister yet again, and he had lost the woman he loved, and she loved him.
Rose was still pounding on the doors while Kayla had her back pressed against them, sitting on the floor in pain, when time seemed to slow down, and she saw the Doctor standing by the console. "This is Emergency Programme One. Kayla, now listen, this is important. If this message is activated, then it can only mean one thing." The Doctor was a hologram, made of pure light that flickered some, yet when Kayla saw him, she felt like she was staring at her Doctor. "We must be in danger. And I mean fatal. I'm dead or about to die any second with no chance of escape." Kayla nodded softly. "And that's okay. Hope it's a good death." She smiled, that was so the Doctor. Death was just…death. There was nothing you could do to stop it, but you could always hope for a good one. "But I promised to look after you, and that's what I'm doing. The TARDIS is taking you to Rose's home." He explained, and Kayla made her first comment.
"Oh really, I wanted to go to Mars or something." She complained.
"And I bet you're fussing and moaning now-typical. But hold on and just listen a bit more. The TARDIS can never return for me. Emergency Programme One means I'm facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do: let the TARDIS die." Kayla blinked at his words.
"But it's the last TARDIS, and I know how to fly it. Can't I just take her around the twelve galaxies and then be back in London for tea?" She questioned the hologram.
Ignoring her question, the hologram continued, "Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it; no one will even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years, the world will move on and the box will be buried. And if you want to remember me, then you can remember one thing. That's all. One thing." He walked forwards a couple of steps, and the Doctor stared down at her, his eyes full of compassion that a hologram couldn't hold. His voice was easy to understand. "I love you Kayla, I love you so much." He flickered out, and time sped up, Rose was raging at the console.
"Take me back! Take me back!" She screamed as she slammed down every single button and lever she could reach. Slowly, the TARDIS landed, the engines rattled out one more wheeze, and then they quieted.
Kayla got up and flung open the doors, Rose behind her, dismayed to see the flats where Rose had grown up, a dark day already promised by the clouds in the sky. Kayla stepped out and stood there while Rose ran back into the TARDIS, shaking the console.
"Come on, fly. How do you fly? Come on, HELP ME!" But to no avail, the TARDIS was no more.
On that happy note, let's end the chapter!
Okay, so I officially hate the Christmas Invasion. I've spent a month on that stupid episode!
That brings us to New Earth, one of the worse episodes of the season 2. I hope nobody minds if I make that a mini episodes. Much like the Idiot's Lantern, Love and Monsters, and Fear Her.
Final thing is, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE REVIEWS!