Hiya guys, well here's the next installment of Evolution of a Relationship. This part is... yep you've guessed it The Doctor Dances.
Previously...
The Doctor, Rose and Jack stood watching as the gas mask people advanced on them "Mummy, mummy, mummy..."
"Go to your room." said the Doctor, the gas mask people stopped "Go to your room. I mean it, I'm very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross. Go to your room!" the gas mask people went back to their beds. The Doctor grinned "I'm really glad that worked. those would have been terrible last words." he grinned.
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Rose was sitting next to a patient and she turned to the two men in the room and asked "Why are they all wearing gas masks?"
"They're not." Jack answered "Those masks are flesh and bone."
"How was your con supposed to work?" the Doctor asked
"Simple enough really." Jack answered "Find some harmless piece of space junk, let the nearest Time Agent track it back to Earth, convince him it's valuable and name a price. When he's put 50 percent up front...oops! German bomb falls on it, destroys it forever. He never gets to see what he's been paid for, never knows he's been had. I buy him a drink with his own money and we discuss dumd luck. The perfect self-cleaning con."
"Yeah." said the Doctor "Prefect."
"The London Blitz is great for self-cleaners." Jack said sitting up "Pompeii's nice if you want to make a vacation of it, though. But you've got to set your alarm for Volcano Day." Jack laughed. "Getting a hint of disapproval."
"Take a look around the room." said the Doctor "This is what your piece of harmless space junk did."
"It was a burnt out medical transporter, it was empty."
"Rose." said the Doctor as he turned to leave
"Are we getting out of here?" she asked
"we're going upstairs."
"I even programmed the flight computer so it wouldn't land on anything living. I harmed no one!" Jack said "I don't know what's happening here, but I had nothing to do with it."
"I'll tell you what's happening." said the Doctor. "You forgot to set your alarm clock. It's Volcano Day."
A siren came on "What's that?" Rose asked
"The all clear." Jack answered.
"I wish." said the Doctor as he opened the door. He left the ward and Jack and Rose followed.
--
The Doctor was nowhere to be seen when Rose and Jack had reached the last place that they had seen the Time Lord. "Mr Spock?" Jack shouted.
"Doctor?" Rose yelled
The Doctor looked over a balcony at them "Have you got a blaster?" he asked Jack.
Jack and Rose stopped suddenly and ran back to the last flight of stairs and stopped at the bottom "Sure." said Jack. They ran up the stairs and the Doctor led them to room 802. Jack and Rose stopped behind him
"The night your space junk landed, someone was hurt." the Doctor told them "This is where they were taken."
"What happened?" Rose asked
"Let's find out." said the Doctor "Get it open." he told Jack, who grinned and took out his blaster and aimed it at the door.
"What's up with your sonic screwdriver?" Rose asked
"Nothing."
Jack shot the lock and it disappeared leaving an empty square where it had been "Sonic blaster, 51st century" said the Doctor "Weapon factories of Villengard."
"You've been to the factories?"
"Once." said the Doctor taking the blaster.
"They're gone now, destroyed." Jack told the Time Lord "Main reactor went critical, vaporised the lot."
"Like I said." said the Doctor "Once." he gave the blaster back to Jack "There's a banana grove there now." he told them "I like bananas. Bananas are good." he entered the room, Rose went to follow
"Nice blast pattern." she said
"Digital."
"Squareness gun?" she asked
"Yeah."
"I like it." she followed her fiancé into the room, closely followed by the captain.
--
The Doctor turned on the lights in the room, it was a mess "What do you think?" asked the Doctor.
"Something got out of here." Jack answered
"Yeah. And?"
"Something powerful. Angry."
"Powerful and angry."
Jack entered the observation room that was on the other side of the broken glass. Rose went with him, they looked around and saw lots of childish drawings. "A child?" Jack asked sounding confused, how could a child do that. "I suppose this explains 'mummy'"
"How could a child do this?" Rose asked gesturing to the mess that had been created in that room and the conjoining one.
The Doctor flicked on a tape
"Do you know where you are?" a older male voice asked
"Are you my mummy?"
"Are you aware of what's around you?" asked the voice "Can you...see?"
"Are you my mummy?"
"What do you want? Do you know..."
"I want my mummy." said the child "Are you my mummy? I want my mummy. Are you my mummy? Are you my mummy? Mumm? Mummy?"
"Doctor, I've heard this voice before." Rose said
"Me too." said the Doctor
"Mummy?
"Always 'are you my mummy'" she said "Like he doesn't know."
"Mummy?"
"Why doesn't he know?
"Are you there, Mummy? Mummy?"
--
"Mummy? Please, mummy. Mummy?
The Doctor was pacing around the room, Rose was confused "Doctor?"
"Can you sense it?"
"Sense what?" Jack asked
"Coming out of the walls. Can you feel it?" the Doctor "Funny little human brains. How do you get around in those things?"
"When he's stressed he likes to insult species." Rose informed their companion.
"Rose, I'm thinking!"
"He cuts himself shaving." Rose said "He does a half an hour on life-forms he's cleverer than."
"There are these children living rough round the bomb sites." the Doctor said "They come out during the air raids, looking for food. Suppose they were there when this thing, whatever it was, landed."
"It was a med-ship, it was harmless."
"Yes. You keep saying. Harmless." said the Doctor "Suppose one was affected. Altered."
"Altered how?" Rose asked.
"I'm here."
"It's afraid." the Doctor realised "terribly afraid and powerful. It doesn't know it yet but it will do." he laughed "It's got the power of a God and I just sent it to it's room."
Rose was listening carefully to the tape as she thought that it had run out. "Doctor?"
"I'm here, can't you see me?"
"What's that noise."
The grin fell slowly from the Doctor's face "End of the tape." he said "It ran out about 30 seconds ago."
"I'm here now! Can't you see me?"
"I sent it to it's room." said the Doctor "This is it's room."
The Doctor turned around and in the next room he could see what remained of Nancy's brother "Are you my mummy?" he looked at Rose "Mummy?"
"Doctor?"
"Okay," said Jack "On my signal make for the door."
"Mummy?"
"NOW!" Jack stepped behind the Doctor and pulled out his sonic blaster and pointed it at the child, only it wasn't the sonic blaster, it was a banana. The Doctor grinned
"Mummy?" The Doctor pulled out Jack's sonic blaster and pointed it at the wall. He blasted a hole in the wall with the squareness gun.
"Go, now," he told Rose and Jack "don't drop the banana!"
"Why not?" asked Jack
"Good source of potassium." they left throught the hole in the wall with Rose in the lead followed by Jack and finally the Doctor
"Gimme that." said Jack taking his blaster from the Doctor, he pointed it at the hole and reversed the process, so now they were looking at a wall "Digital rewind." Jack said, explaining what he just did "Nice switch." he said as he tossed the banana back to the Doctor
"It's from the groves of Villengard, I thought it was appropriate."
"There's really a banana grove in Villengard?" Jack asked "And you did that?"
"Bananas are good."
The wall started to crack "Doctor?"
"Run!"
The three of them ran and found that they couldn't go any further as there were gas mask people coming towards them from the opposite direction. They turned to go in the other direction, when they made it back round there were more of them, they were officially trapped.
"It's keeping us here until it can get at us."
"It's controlling them?" asked Jack
"It is them." the Doctor answered "It's every living thing in this hospital."
"Okay, this can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic cannon, and it's a triple-enfolded sonic disruptor." Jack said "Doc, what you got?"
"I've got a sonic..." he started "Nevermind."
"What?"
"It's sonic, okay?" said the Doctor "Let's leave it at that."
"Disruptor? Cannon? What?"
"It's sonic, totally sonic." the Doctor said "I'm soniced up."
"A sonic what?" Jack shouted
"Screwdriver!"
Jack turned to look at the Time Lord and the gas mask people came even closer and the empty child managed to break through the wall. Rose grabbed Jack's wrist and pointed the blaster at the floor "Going down." she fired at the floor and a rather large square hole appeared. The three of them fell and landed on the floor of yet another ward. Jack replaced the ceiling.
They began to get up. "Doctor, are you okay?" Rose asked as the two of them got to their feet
"Rose, love, I could've used a warning."
"The gratitude."
They were now on their feet.
"Who has a sonic screwdriver?" Jack asked the Doctor.
"I do."
"Lights?" said Rose and she went to find the light switch.
"Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks 'ooh this could be a little more sonic'?"
"You've never been bored."
"There's got to be a light switch."
"Never had a long night?" the Doctor asked "Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?"
Rose finally found the light switch and turned on the lights, when she did they found themselves surrounded by more gas mask people.
Jack looked around for a means of escape "Door." Jack tried to open the door with the sonic blaster, but he failed. "Damn it!" the Doctor took over with the sonic screwdriver "It's the special features, they really drain the battery."
"The battery?"
The Doctor had finally managed to get the door opened, he moved to the side and let Rose and Jack through first, then he followed himself "It's so lame."
"I was going to send for another one, but somebody's got to blow up the factory."
"Oh, I know, first day I met him, he blew up my job." Rose said "That's practically how he communicates."
The Doctor finished sonicing the door shut and he said "Okay, that door should hold it for a bit."
"The door?" Jack asked "The wall didn't stop it."
"It's got to find us first." the Doctor said "Come on, we're not done yet. Assets."
"Well, I've got a banana and in a pinch you could put up some shelves." Jack said
"Window?"
"Barred." Jack answered "Sheer drop, seven storeys."
"And no other exits."
"The assets conversation went in a flash didn't it?"
"So where'd you find this one then?"
"Doctor."
"She was hanging from a barrage balloon, I had an invisible space ship." Jack told him "I never stood a chance."
"Okay." said the Doctor "One, we've got to get out of here. Two, we can't get out of here. Have I missed anything?"
"Yeah, Jack just disappeared."
The Doctor turned to look at where the Captain had been and saw the empty chair.
--
The Doctor was sitting down as Rose was pacing the room "Okay, so he's vanished into thin air." she said "But, more importantly we're alone." she said as she stopped in front of him. She was about to pull him to his feet when Captain Jack's voice sounded in the room "Rose? Doctor? Can you hear me?"The Doctor found a radio and turned it around, that was where his voice was coming from. "I'm back on my ship. Used the emergancy teleport. Sorry I couldn't take you, it's security keyed to my molecular structure. i'm working on it, hang in there."
"How are you speaking to us?" the Doctor asked
"Om-com." Jack answered "I can call anything with a speaker grill."
"Now there's a coincidence."
"What is?"
"The child can om-com too."
"He can?" Rose asked
"Anything with a speaker grill, even the Tardis phone."
"What you mean the child can phone us?"
"And I can hear you. I'm coming to find you."
"Doctor, can you hear that?" Jack asked
"Loud and clear."
"I'll try to block out the signal. Least I could do."
"Coming to find you mummy."
"Remember this one Rose?"
The moonlight serenade began to play, the Doctor looked at Rose and she just grinned.
--
The Doctor was at the window and Rose was sitting in the wheelchair "What are you doing?"
"Trying to set up a resonation pattern in the concrete, loosen the bars."
"You don't think he's coming back, do you?"
"Wouldn't bet my life."
"Why don't you trust him?"
"Why do you?"
"He saved my life." Rose answered "I trust him cause he's like you. Except with dancing."
The Doctor looked at her and then back at the wall.
"What?"
"You just assume I'm..."
"What?"
"You just assume I don't dance."
"What?" Rose asked "are you telling me you do dance?"
"900 years old me, I've been around a bit. I think you can assume at some point I've danced."
"You?"
"Problem?"
"Doesn't the universe implode or something if you dance?"
"Well, I've got the moves, but I wouldn't want to boast."
Rose got up and walked over to the radio and turned it up, she then walked back to her fiancé and held out her hand "You've got the moves? Show me your moves"
"Rose, I'm trying to resonate concrete."
"Jack'll be back, he'll get us out." she told him "So come on. The world doesn't end cause the Doctor dances."
The Doctor put away the sonic screwdriver and got back on to the floor and stood in front of Rose. He took her hands and turned them over "barrage balloon?"
"What?"
"You were hanging from a barrage balloon."
"Oh, yeah, about two minutes after you left me. Thousands of feet above London, middle of a German air raid, Union Jack all over my chest."
"I've travelled with a lot of people but you're setting new records for jeopardy friendly."
"is this you dancing?" Rose asked "Cause I've got notes."
"Hanging from a rope, thousands of feet above London. Not a cut, not a bruise."
"Yeah, I know, Captain Jack fixed me up."
"We're calling him Captain Jack now, are we?"
"Well, his name's Jack and he's a captain."
"He's not really a captain, Rose."
"You know what I think?" Rose asked "I think you're experiencing captain-envy." she took his hand in hers "You will find your feet at the end of your legs, you might wish to move them."
"If ever he was a captain, he's been defrocked."
"Yeah, shame I missed that."
"Actually, I quit." Jack said, making them aware of a change in scenery, they were no longer in the hospital, they were now on Jack's ship. "Nobody takes my frock." Jack grinned at them "Mist people know when they've been teleported, you guys are so sweet. Sorry about the delay. Had to take the Nav Com off line to override the teleport security."
"You can spend 10 minutes overriding your own protocols." said the Doctor "Maybe you should remember whose ship it is."
"Oh! I do." said Jack "She was gorgeous. Like I told her, be back in 5 minutes."
"This is a Chula ship." said the Doctor
"Yeah, just like that medical transporter. Only, this one is dangerous."
The Doctor snapped his fingers and the thing that had fixed Rose's hand appeared arround his. "They're what fixed my hand up." Rose told him "Jack called them..."
"Nanobots? Nanogenes?"
"Nanogenes, yeah."
"Subatomic robots, there's millions of them in here. See?" the Doctor explained. "Burned my hand on the console when we landed. All better now. They activate when the bulkhead's sealed. Check you out for damaged and fix any physical flaws." the Doctor flicked his hand and the nanogenes, having done their work, disappeared.
The Doctor turned to Jack "Take us to the crash site. I need to see your space junk."
"Soon as I get the Nav-Com back online." Jack said "Make yourself comfortable." he sat down on the chair "Carry on with watever it was you were doing."
"We were talking about dancing." the Doctor told him
"I didn't look like talking."
"Didn't feel like dancing." Rose teased.
--
Rose and the Doctor were sitting in Jacks ship waiting for him to fix the Nav-Com so that they could go to the crash site. "So, you used to be a Time Agent and new you're trying to con them?" Rose asked, trying to find out why Jack was doing what he was doing.
"If it makes me sound any better, it's not for the money." Jack answered.
"for what?"
"Woke up one morning when I was stoll working for them, found they'd stolen two years of my memories." Jack told her "I'd like them back."
"They stole your memories?"
"Two years of my life." he said "No idea what I did. Your friend over there doesn't trust me." he continued "And for all I know he's right not to." something beeped "Okay. We're good to go." he told the Doctor "The crash site?"
--
Jack led the Doctor and Rose towards the crash site after the had exited the ship. When they reached the entrance they saw soldiers guarding it. "There it is." Jack said. They've got Algy on duty. Must be important."
"We've got to get past him." the Doctor said.
"Are the words 'distract the guard' heading in my general direction?" asked Rose.
"I don't think that'd be such a good idea." Jack told her
"Don't worry I can handle it." she told him
"I've got to know Algy quite well since I've been in town." Jack said "Trust me you're not his type." he looked at the Doctor "I'll distract him."
Jack walked off "Don't wait up." he told them as he walked away. The Doctor grinned at Rose who was looking confused "Relax." he told her as he wrapped an arm around her shoulder "He's a 51st century guy. He's just a bit more flexible when it comes to dancing."
"How flexible?"
"By his time, you lot are spread out across half the galaxy."
"Meaning?"
"So many species, so little time."
"What, that's what we do when we get out there?"she asked "That's our mission? We seek new life and..."
"Dance."
They watched Jack walk up to the guard and talk for a few minutes and then the guard Algy Jack said his name was collapsed and became one of the gas mask people. they ran to where Jack was. "The effect's becoming airborne, accelerating."
"What's keeping us safe?" Rose asked
"Nothing."
Sirens came on announcing the return of the German bombers. "Here they come again" Jack said
"All we need." said Rose "Didn't you say a bomb was gonna land here?" she asked Jack.
"Never mind that." the Doctor told her "If the contaminant's airborne there's hours left."
"Till what?" asked Jack
"Till nothing." the Doctor answered "Forever,for the entire human race. And can anyone else hear singing?"
--
The Doctor followed the singing to the barn lik structure and discovered Nancy singing a lullaby to one of the gas mask people, he gestured to her to keep singing, which she did.
The Doctor entered followed by Rose and Jack, he released Nancy from the hand cuffs that Algy had put on her. They then headed to the crash site.
--
The Doctor and Jack pulled the tarpaulin off of the bomb whilst Rose and Nancy stood by and watched. "You see" Jack asked the Doctor "Just an ambulance."
"Thats an ambulance?" asked Nancy
"It's hard to explain." said Rose "It's from another world."
"They've been trying to get in." Jack noticed
"Of course they have." the Doctor said "They think they've got their hands on Hitler's latest secret weapon."
Jack was pressing buttons on the panel "What are you doing?" asked the Doctor
"The sooner you see this thing's empty, the sooner you'll know I had nothing to do with it." Jack said when he had finished the panel sparked "Didn't happen last time."
"It hadn't crashed last time." the Doctor remined him "There'll be emergency protocols."
There was a beeping sound coming from the panel "Doctor, what is that?" Rose asked
--
"Doctor!"
"Captain, secure those gates"
"Why?"
"Just do it!"
Jack ran to the gates to secure them, the Doctor turned to Nancy "Nancy, how did you get in here?"
"I cut the wire." she answered
"Show Rose." he told her as he tossed Rose the sonic screwdriver "Setting2,428-D."
"What?"
"Reattaches barbed wire. Go!"
Jack closed the gates and secured them
--
Nancy led Rose to where she had cut the wire and Rose turned the screwdriver to the correct setting. Nancy held the peices of barb wire together and Rose used the sonic screwdriver to reattach them.
"Who are you?" Nancy asked "Who are any of you?"
"You'd never believe me if I told you." Rose replied
"You just told me that was an ambulance from another world." Nancy said "There are people running around with gas masks heads calling for their mummies and the sky's full of Germans dropping bombs on me. Tell me, do you think there's anything left that I couldn't believe?"
"we're time travellers." Rose said "From the future."
"Mad you are!" said Nancy
"We have a time travel machine. Seriously"
"It's not that." Nancy said "All right you've got a time travel machine. I'll believe you. Believe anything, me. But what future?"
"Nancy, this isn't the end." Rose said "I know how it looks, it's not the end of the world or anything."
"How can you say that?" asked Nancy "Look at it."
"Listen to me." said Rose "I was born in this city. I'm from here, in like 50 years time."
"From here?"
"I'm a Londoner." said Rose smiling "From your future."
"But...but you're not..."
"What?" asked Rose.
"German?"
"Nancy." said Rose "The Germans don't come here.l They don't win. Don't tell anyone I told you so, but youknow what?" she paused "You win."
"We win?"
Rose nodded with a huge smile on her face "Come on."
--
Jack opened the ambulance "It's empty." he aid "Look at it."
"What do you expect in a Chula medical transporter?" asked the Doctor "Bandages? Cough drops? Rose?"
"I don't know."
"Yes, you do." he told her
"Nanogenes!"
"It wasn't empty, Captain." said the Doctor "There was enough nanogenes in there to rebuild a species."
"Oh, God." said Jack
"Getting it now are we?" asked the Doctor "When the ship crashes, the nanogenes escape. Billions upon billions of them. Ready to fix all te cuts and bruises in the whole world. But what they find first is a dead child. Probably killed earlier that night. And wearing a gas mask."
"And they brought him back to life?" asked Rose "They can do that?"
"What's life?" asked the Doctor "Lif's easy. A quirk of matter. Nature's way of keeping meat fresh. Nothing to a nanogene. One problem though. These nanogenes, they're not like the ones on your ship. This lot have never seen a human being before. Don't know what a human being's supposed to look like. All they've got to go on is one little body, and there's not a lot left. But they carry right on. They do what they're programmed to, they patch it up. Can't tell what's gas mask and what's skull but they do their best. And then off they fly, off they go, work to be done. 'Cause you see, now they think they know what people should look like and it's time to fix all the rest. And they won't ever stop. They won't ever ever stop. The entire human raceis gonna be torn down and rebuilt in the form of one terrified child looking for its mother. And nothing in the world can stop it!"
"I didn't know." Jack said
Nancy walkd towards the gates, whilst the Doctor was looking at something on that ambulance and she spotted people coming into the restricted area "Rose?" Rose ran to her and the two of them watched as gas mask people entered. Rose ran to the Doctor "It's bringing the gas mask people here, isn't it?" she asked him
"The ship thinks it's under attack." the Doctor told her "It's calling up the troops. Standard protocol."
"But the gas mask people aren't troop!" said Rose
"They are now." replied the Doctor "This is a battlefield ambulance. The nanogenesdon't just fix you up, they get you ready for the frontline. Equip you, programme you."
"That's why the child's so strong?" Rose asked "Why it could do that phoning thing?"
"It's a fully equipped Chula warrior, yes." the Doctor answered "All that weapons tech in the hands of an hysterical four year old looking for his mummy and now there's an army of them."
"Why don't they attack?" asked Jack.
"Good little soldiers." said the Doctor "Waiting for their commander."
"The child?"
"Jamie"
"What?" asked Jack
"Not the child. Jamie." answered Nancy.
"So how long until the bomb falls?" asked Rose.
"Any second" answered Jack
"What's the matter, Captain?" asked the Doctor "Bitclose to the volcano for you?"
"He's just a little boy."
"I know."
"He's just a little boy who want's his mummy."
"I know." said the Doctor "There isn't a little boy born who wouldn't tear the world apart to save his mummy. And this little boy can."
"So what are we gonna do?" asked Rose.
"I don't know."
"It's my fault." said Nancy
"No."
"It is." she replied "It's all my fault" the Doctor grinned at her
"How can it be your..." he trailed off as Nancy began to cry, he looked around at all of the gas mask people and heard them all shouting mummy "Nancy, what age are you?"
"20? 21? Older than you look, yes?"
"Doctor, that bomb, we've got seconds."
"You can teleport us out."
"Not you guys. The Nav-Com's back online. It's gonna take to long to override the protocols."
"So it's Volcano Day. Do what you've got to do."
"Jack?" Jack teleported away.
"How old were you five years ago?" the Doctor asked Nancy "15? 16? Old enough to give birth anyway. He's not your brother is he?" Nancy nodded slightly "A teenage single mother in 1941. So you hid. You lied. You even lied to him."
The gates opened and at the front of the lines of gas mask people stood Nancy's son, Jamie "Are you my mummy?"
"He's gonna keep asking Nancy." the Doctor said "He's never gonna stop."
Jamie walked towards them "Mummy."
"Tell him" the Doctor told her "Nancy, the future of the human race is in your hands. Trust me and tell him"
"Are you my mummy?" asked Jamie "Are you my mummy?"
"Yes, I am your mummy." Nancy said. kneeling down so that she was at his height "I'm here."
"Are you my mummy?"
"Yes."
"Are you my mummy?"
"He doesn't understand, there's not enough him left."
"I am your mummy." Nancy told her son "I will always be your mummy. I'm so sorry." she sat up and put her arms around her child, who returned the hug "I'm so, so sorry." Nanogenes surrounded them
"What's happening?" asked Rose. "Doctor, it's changing her, we should..."
"Shh!" the Doctor told her "Come on. Please! Come on you clever little nanogenes, figure it out. The mother, she's the mother. It's got to be enough information. Figure it out."
"What's happening?" Rose asked him.
He pointed "See?" he asked "Recoginsing the same DNA."
The Doctor and Rose watched as Nancy fell to the floor, Jamie remained standing. The Doctor and Rose ran over to them. The Doctor stopped in front of Jamie "Come on" he said "Give me a day like this. Give me this one." he stepped closer to Jamie and began to take off his gas mask. He grinned and lifted the boy up "Welcome back!" he said to Jamie "20 years to pop music, you're gonna love it." the small boy grinned at him and the Doctor hugged him
"What happened?" asked Nancy
"The nanogenes recognised the superior information." the Doctor replied "The parent DNA. They didn't change you, cause you changed them. Mother knows best." he put Jamie on the ground
"Jamie" Nancy said as she hugged her child
Rose was watching the sky as the bomb that Jack had told her about came towards them. "Doctor, that bomb."
"Taken care of it."
"How?"
"Psychology"
They looked up as the bomb came closer, just before impact, Jack's ship intercepted it. Jack teleported onto the bomb "Doctor!"
"Good lad"
"The bomb's already started detonation. I've put it in stasis, but it won't last."
"Change of plan! Don't need the bomb." shouted the Doctor "Ccan you get rid of it, safely as you can?"
"Rose?"
"Yeah?"
"Goodbye."
Jack teleported away and then he reappeared "By the way, love the T-shirt" Jack disappeared again, this time the ship left.
The Doctor held up his hands and the nanogenes appeared and surrounded his hand "What are you doing?" Rose asked
"Software patch." the Doctor answered "I'm gonna email the upgrade. You want moves, Rose, I'll give you moves." he threw his hands forwards and the nanogenes went to the gas mask people, they all fell to the ground "Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once everybody lives."
Everyone qho had previously been one of the gas mask people was now getting up, completely normal. The Doctor ran over to them "Doctor Constantine, who never left his patients." he said as he helped the older man to his feet "Back on your feet, constant doctor. World doesn't want to get by with out you just yet and I don't blame it one bit. These are your patients, all better now."
"Yes, so it would seem." said Doctor Constantine "The also appear to be standing around in a disused railway station. Is there any particular reason for that?"
"Yeah, well you know, cutbacks." said the Doctor "Listen, whatever was wrong with them in the past you're probably gonna find they're cured. Just tell them what a great doctor you are don't make a big thing of it. Okay?"
The Doctor ran off and an elderly woman came over to doctor Constantine "Doctor Constantine."
"Mrs Harcourt, how much better you are looking!"
"My leg's grown back." she said "When I come into the hospital, I had one leg."
"Well, there is a war on, is it possible you miscounted?"
"Right you lot. Lots to do. Beat the Germans, save the world. Don't forget the welfare state." the Doctor told them, Doctor Constantine smiled
"Setting this to self destruct, soon as everyone's clear." the Doctor said "History says there was an explosion here and who am I to argue?"
"Usually the first in line."
They grinned
--
The Doctor entered the Tardis with Rose on his heels "The nanogenes will fix up the mess and switch themselves off cause I just told them to. Nancy and Jammie will go to Dr Constantine for help, ditto. All in all, all things considered. Fantastic."
"Look at you, beaming away like you're Father Christmas."
"Who says I'm not? Red bycycle when you were twelve."
"What?"
"And everybody lives, Rose. Evferybody lives, I need more days like this."
"Doctor?"
"Go on ask me anything, I'm on fire."
"What abour Jack?" she asked "Why did he say good bye."
--
Rose managed to persuade the Doctor to go for Jack "Oh, alright love, I really can't say no to you, can I?"
"No." she said, wrapping her arms round his neck. "Thank you." she kissed him.
When they broke the kiss the Doctor tracked Jack's ship and when they found him, the Tardis materialised inside the ship and the Doctor opened the doors. Moonlight serenade came on in the Tardis and Rose was teaching the Doctor to dance, she could see Jack through the opened Tardis doors "Well, hurry up then!"
Jack got off his chair and ran on to the Tardis, he stopped suddenly, he watched interested as the couple before him danced "Okay, try and spin me again. But this time, don't get my arm up my back. No extra points for a half-nelson."
"I'm sure I used to know this stuff." he turned to Jack "Close the door, will you?" he asked "Your ship's about to blow up, there's gonna be a draft." Jack closed the doors "Welcome to the Tardis."
"Much bigger on the inside."
"You'd better be."
"I think what the Doctor's trying to say is, you may cut in."
"Rose, I've just remebered!"
"What?"
"I can dance."
"Actually Doctor. I thought aack might like this dance."
"I'm sure he would, Rose, I'm absolutely certain. But who with?"
Rose went to the Doctor and they began to dance to Glenn Miller's in the mood. Jack laughed as they danced around the console, and that was when he finally noticed her engagement ring, his suspicions about the couple were confimed when after the Doctor dipped Rose, she reached up and kissed him. Jack thought that this would be the perfect moment to ask where he could find somewhere to sleep. The Doctor told him that the first door on the left and turned back to Rose, he kissed her again and put the Tardis into the Time Vortex and then they went to their bedroom and for the first time in a few weeks, they both slept peacefully.
Alright that's it for now, I'll try to put up Boom Town tomorrow
TTFN
Julie20007