I don't own Doctor Who


"Go to your room!" The Doctor orders in a stern voice. "I am very disappointed in you! Go to your room!"

Thankfully the gasmask zombies retreated.

"I'm so glad that worked," the Doctor admits, "those would have been terrible last words."

"What if you were an outer-space super nanny?" Sofia speculates.

"What?" the other three say in unison, or very nearly.

"Anyways, don't we have a room to find?" Sofia gets back on track, "Also, Rose, who's your friend?"

"This is Jack Harkness," Rose introduces, "and he knows about us being Time Agents."

"Right, well he better not flirt with me if he wants to leave with his balls attached."

"She's joking, right?" Jack asks.

"Nope!" Rose and the Doctor answer in unison.

"For the record," Sophie adds, "The last guy's balls ended up on my dinner plate."

Jack turns pale. Sofia smirks at him.

"So Mr. Spock," Jack changes the topic, and addresses the Doctor, "I understand that you're the one in charge."

"Mr. Spock?" the Doctor whispers to Rose.

"What was supposed to tell him?" Rose counters, "You don't exactly have a name, Doctor who?"

Rose, the Doctor and Sofia go up a flight of stairs, while Jack keeps going past.

"This way, Cap!" Sofia calls.

Jack turns around and follows.

"A child!" Jack exclaims in shock as he looks around the room.

"That explains the 'mummy' thing" Rose comments.

The Doctor plays a tape. The sound of Dr. Constantine trying to interview the child rings out. After some time, and discussion about what the child is, the tape ends.

"I'm coming to find you!" the child's voice is heard.

"Guys," Sofia sounds slightly panicked.

"Not now Sophs!" Rose says dismissively.

"It's important!"

"What?!"

"I'm going to find you!" the child says again.

"The tape ran out 27 seconds ago!" Sofia shouts.

The child's hand breaks through the door. Jack reveals his 'Squareness gun', also known as a sonic blaster. The four of them do their best to run from the zombies.

Jack lists off the various things that his blaster can do before asking the Doctor what he has.

"I'm totally soniced up!" the Doctor says.

"A sonic what?" Jack demands

"Screwdriver, a sonic-screwdriver!"

"Who has a sonic-screwdriver?"

"I do!"

At some point Jack's blaster batteries die.

"I was going to pick more at factory, ever been?" Jack asks.

"Once" the Doctor replies.

"It was blown up."

"Like I said before, once. There's a banana grove there now."

Shortly afterwards Jack tries to draw his gun but pulls out a banana.

"Don't drop the banana!" the Doctor orders after tossing Jack his gun back.

"Why not?" Jack demands.

"Good source of potassium!"

Eventually the four make it to a place where the zombies don't seem capable of finding them. Shortly after getting there, Sofia happens to glance at the back of her left hand. It's got the scar...

Jack explains that he's a conman, and Rose describes them as three more 'free-lancers'.

"Assets," Jack announces. "I've got a banana, and in a pinch, you can put up some shelves. Well that went by quickly."

"We need to get out, but we can't get out." Rose states.

"While we're listing problems..." Sofia holds up her left hand.

"They've all got the same scar!" Rose says in horror.

"How long ago did they touch you!" the Doctor shouts.

"I touched one of them, briefly, right before Dr. Constantine told us not to." Sofia admits.

"Why didn't you say anything before?!"

"Because I wasn't sure I touched it before! And before I could mention anything, Rose and Jack bust in making me forget!"

"This is a big problem!"

"NO SHIT SHERLOCK! Or were you referring to the fact that Jack has disappeared!?" Sofia sounds like she's on the verge of becoming hysterical.

"Calm down, Sophs" Rose tries to comfort her sister.

"I might turn into one of those things any second, and you want me to calm down?"

"YES!"

"Listen to your half-sister." Jack's voice comes through the speaker, "Getting emotional might make it worse."

"I'm mentally sticking my tongue out at you!" Sofia shouts to Jack.

"There are so many Innuendos that I won't make, because I like my balls attached."

"More proof that Rose's new pretty boy has a brain." Sofia mutters.

"I'm taking that as a compliment!" Jack calls using his ships Om-Com. "Give me ten minutes, and I'll be able transmat the three of you into my ship."

The child's voice starts Om-Coming through the radio too. Jack covers it up with Glen Miller's "In the Mood".

Sofia retracts into a far corner of the room, and Rose tries to get the Doctor to dance.

"What, does the universe implode if the Doctor dances?" Rose taunts.

"Mummy" Sofia mutters quietly to herself.

"How sweet," Jack comments after transmating the trio to his ship. "Most people notice when they've been transmatted."

"We were talking about dancing!" the Doctor informs.

"Didn't look like talking!" Jack answers.

"Didn't feel like dancing!" Rose complains.

"Mummy" Sofia mutters again, only this time the others hear her.

"Sophie?" the Doctor is concerned.

"I can't stop it... Mumm-NO!" Sofia gasps in pain.

"Jack!" the Doctor orders, "Get us to the site, NOW!"

Jack complies.

Shortly before they get inside the barbed wire, it happens.

Sofia had been trailing behind the other three.

"Are you my Mummy?" The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack all turn around to see Sofia's face turn into a gasmask.

"Muuuummyyyyy" she cries as she walks towards them.

"Run!" the Doctor feels bad about running from Sofia (under these circumstances at least).

"Mummy?" Sofia cries again. "Are you my M..." Sofia bowls over, gasps out in pain, and the three still un-gas masked watch as her face starts to flicker between human/normal and gasmask.

"Mummy!" Sofia yelps out in pain as this continues to happen for about a minute before her face becomes and stays a gasmask.

"What just happened?" Rose shouts.

"How the hell should I know?" the Doctor yells back. "But, if I had to guess, I'd say that somehow she's fighting it!"

"How, and why aren't any of the others fighting?"

"She's more stubborn?"

An alarm goes off.

"It didn't do that last time!" Jack complains from where he is by Chula ambulance.

"It wasn't crashed last time!" the Doctor reminds him.

'Am I supposed to retain self awareness?' Sofia wonders as she feels herself compelled to join the other gasmask zombies in wait for their commander. 'And who's singing? For the record, this is what I'd imagine hell is like. The singing has stopped.' "Muuuummyyyy!" 'I was there when she died, why must I ask for her?!' "Are you my Mummy?" 'No, my Mum's dead. Oh look, Jack's on a bomb. Looks like one hell of a boner... I really should not be left alone with my thoughts like this... I'm coming back! Well, I know what my nightmares are going to be about for the next, who knows how long...'

"Everybody lived!" the Doctor is ecstatic. "I need more days like this!"

"Can we promise right now," Sofia pleads as she rejoins the Doctor and her sister, "Never to mention the gasmask zombie thing again?! This was downright terrifying and very painful!"

The Doctor takes in her desperate tone, and her face and her eyes and agrees with little hesitation, Rose agrees shortly afterwards.

"Doctor?" Rose asks, "Why did Jack say good-bye?"

"Everybody lives" Sofia says quietly.

Not long afterwards...

"Close the door" the Doctor commands, "Your ship is about to explode, there's going to be a draft."

Jack ends up standing next to Sofia as the watch the Doctor dancing.

"How do you stand the tension between those two?" Jack asks.

"For the record you are to never speak of the gasmask zombies in my presence again." Sofia states, "and do you know anyways of getting a Time Lord to get over himself and have sex with the girl that he's head over heels for? I don't care if it involves drugs or what as long as they both remember it in the morning."

"Are you trying to set those two up?"

"What was your first clue?"


I feel so cruel to Sofia...