Hiya guys, well, here's Bomb Town and for those of you who are wondering, Mickey doesn't find out about Rose and the Doctor until Doomsday in Series 3 with Rose.
A few weeks after Jack had joined the Tardis, The Doctor could be found setting the coordinates in the control room. Rose came into the control room and wrapped her arms around her fiancé from behind.
"Where are we going?"
"Cardiff."
"Why?" asked a rather confused Rose "And when?"
"As to why, we need to refuel and when, your time."
"I'm gonna call Mickey." Rose told him
"Why?"
"I need to finish things properly between him and I." she told him. He turned around and kissed her
"Call him when we land, cause then you'll know when he's to be in Cardiff."
"Ok, so where's Jack."
"His room, hopefully." the Doctor answered
"You know, we've never really talked about our wedding." Rose said "I know that I only want Jack there, and I want it to be on Earth in my time."
"Well, we could get married while we're in Cardiff." the Doctor suggested as he finished setting the coordinates.
"Yeah, that sounds good, but can we get somewhere on such short notice?"
"Yep." said the Doctor, grinning at his very soon to be wife, he liked the sound of that word when it was applied to Rose 'wife' "I've got a old friend who lives in Cardiff now, he can perform the ceremony."
"Well, you can sort that, make it for the day after Mickey comes, cause I don't want to complicate things and with him being there, he'll tell mum and I really don't want mum to know, cause she'll only slap you again and say that you brainwashed me into this and that's to complicated for me." Rose said "And while you do that, I'll get the rings."
The Tardis landed with a bump and Rose went to wake Jack, who was actually already wide awake and fully clothed. He'd actually been up for a while and he had heard the conversation between Rose and the Doctor and decided to give them so privacy by going back to bed.
The two of them walked into the control room and then Rose left to find wedding rings, the Doctor let her choose them as he wouldn't know what to choose, he went to find an old friend of his, who happened to be a minister and asked him to preform the wedding ceremony, which he said he would so long as he met Rose before hand, so the Doctor took Reverend Simons to the Tardis, (he had met him in this regeneration not long before he had met Rose and the reverend had already seen the inside of the ship although, barely any repair work had been done to the old girl at that point so the reverend would be shocked at the change that had come over the Tardis since he had last seen it.
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Rose walked along the high street looking for a jewellery store, she had yet to find one, so she stopped a you police woman who looked a lot like Gwyneth, the maid.
"Excuse me, officer." she said "Can you tell me where the nearest jewellery store is."
"I can, walk straight ahead, and turn left at the end of the street, first on the right you can't miss it."
"Thanks" Rose said as she ran off in the direction that the police officer had pointed her in, she entered and looked at the selection of wedding rings and found a pair of plain gold ones that she liked, she got them in the correct sizes and headed back to the Tardis
When she arrived at the Tardis, the Doctor was already back, sitting with an older man in the control room, obviously waiting for her. He got up when she came in and gave her a hug. "Rose, this is Reverend Simons." Rose went to the older man and shook his hand.
They spoke for a while and then Rose went to call Mickey
The phone rang several times before he picked up. "Hello."
"Mickey, it's Rose."
"Hi Rose, what's up?"
"Can you bring me my passport?"
"Sure, where are you?"
"Cardiff."
"I'll get the first train that I can, see you in a few hours."
"Bye."
She hung up the phone and returned to the control room, Reverend Simons had left just before she called Mickey, they had arranged the wedding to be in two days time, giving time for Mickey to arrive and leave and also to give them time to sort out the usual trouble that the Doctor always seemed to find.
--
A few hours later there was a knock on the door, Jack went to answer it "Who the hell are you?" he asked
"What do you mean, who the hell am I?" Mickey answered "Who the hell are you?"
"Captain Jack Harkness." answered Jack "Whatever you're selling, we're not buying."
"Get out of my way!" Mickey said as he moved past Jack and into the Tardis
"Don't tell me, this must be Mickey."
"Here comes trouble." the Doctor said "How you doing, Ricky boy?"
"It's Mickey."
"Don't listen to him, he's winding you up." Rose said to her ex.
Rose was actually worried, she didn't know how to tell him that they were over, she'd talk to him later, probably.
"You look fantastic." Mickey told her, after he'd taken a good look at her, she looked really happy, he knew that he couldn't take her away from this new life she had as much as he wanted to do just that. The two hugged, Mickey noticed the difference in her hugs, they were only friendly now so something must have changed.
"Aw, sweet." said Jack "Look at these two. How come I never get ay of that?"
"Buy me a drink first." the Doctor replied
"You're such hard work."Jack said
"But worth it."
Rose ignored them, they had been like this for days, it was funny, but she had finally managed to stop herself laughing at them. "Did you manage to find it?"
Mickey took her passport out of his pocket and handed it to her. "There you go."
"I can go anywhere now."
"I've told you, you don't need a passport."
"It's all very well going to Platform One and Justicia and the Glass Pyramid of San Kaloon, but what if we end up in Brazil?" Rose said, grinning at the Doctor "I might need it. You see, I'm prepared for anything."
"Sounds like you're staying then." said Mickey. "So, what are you doing in Cardiff?" he asked to hide his disappointment "And who the hell's Jumping Jack Flash? I don't mind you hanging out with Big Ears up there."
"Oi!"
"Look in the mirror." Mickey replied "But this guy, I don't know, he's kind of..."
"Handsome?" asked Jack, grinning at Mickey
"More like cheesy."
"Early 21st century slang. Is cheesy good or bad?" asked Jack
"It's bad."
"But bad means good, isn't that right?"
The Doctor climbed down the ladder "You saying I'm not handsome?" he asked
"We've just stopped off, we need to refuel." Rose said, taking Mickey's attention from her fiancé, she had taken off her ring and put it on a chain around her neck to keep it out of sight, so Mickey wouldn't know unless she decided to tell him "The thing is, Cardiff's got this rift running throught the middle of the city. It's invisble, but it's like an earthquake fault between different dimentions."
The Doctor came up beside her "The rift was healed back in 1869..."
"Thanks to a girl names Gwyneth because there were these creatures called the Gelth were using the rift as a gateway, but she saved the world and closed it." Rose added
Jack came over to stand at Rose's left and continued "But closing a rift always leaves a scar and that scar generates energy, har,less to the human race..."
"But perfect for the Tardis." said the Doctor "Just park here for a couple of days, right on top of the scar and..."
"Open the engines, soak up the radiation..."
"Like filling her up with petrol and off we go." finished Rose
"Into time." said the Doctor and Jack as they high fived
"And space." said the Doctor and Rose as they high fived as well, they were all laughing when Mickey decided to speak
"My, God, have you seen yourselves?" he asked "You all think you're so clever, don't you?"
"Yeah." said the Doctor, who was still grinning as was Rose
"Yeah."
"Yeah." said Jack as he slapped Mickey's cheek.
--
The four of them left the Tardis and stood outside as the Doctor locked the door "Should take another 24 hours, which means we've got time to kill." the Doctor told the other three.
"That old lady's staring." Mickey said
"Probably wondering what four people can do inside a small wooden box." Jack suggested slapping the Doctor's shoulder
"What are you captain of?" Mickey asked "The Innuendo Squad?"
Jack raised his hands in a whatever gesture and started to walk away.
"Wait, the Tardis, you can't just leave it." Mickey said "Doesn't it get noticed?"
"Yeah, what's with the police box?" asked Jack "Why does it look like that?"
"It's a cloaking device." Rose answered
"It's called a chameleon circuit." said the Doctor "The Tardis is meant to disguise itself wherever it lands. Like if this was ancient Rome, it'd be a statue on a plinth or something. But I landed n the 1960s, it disguised itself as a police box and the circuit got stuck."
"So, it copied a real thing?" asked Mickey "There actually was police boxes?"
"Yeah, on street corners." answered the Doctor "You could phone for help before they had radios and moblies. If they arrested somebody, they could shove them inside till help came. Like a little prison cell."
"Why don't you just fix the ciruit?" Jack asked
"I like it, don't you?" asked the Doctor
"I love it." Rose said
"But that's what I meant, there's no police boxes anymore so doesn't it get noticed?"
"Ricky, let me tell you something about the human race." said the Doctor "You put a mysterious blue box slap-bang in the middle of town, what do they do?" he was now standing in front of Mickey and had put his hands on his shoulders "Walk past it. Now stop your nagging, let's go and explore."
The Doctor walked off, followed by Rose, who took his hand as Mickey watched on jealously "What's the plan?" she asked
"I don't know." the Doctor answered "Cardiff, early 21st century, and the wind's coming from the...east. Trust me." he said as Rose went to his other side, and took his hand again "Safest place in the universe."
--
They found a cafe and went in they were sitting and the same table talking "...I swear!" Jack said
"You're lying through your teeth!" the Doctor told him.
"It turns out the white things are tusks, and I mean, tusks! And it's woken and it's not happy."
"How could you not know it was there?" asked the Doctor
"We're standing there, 15 of us, naked." Jack said
"Naked?" asked Rose
"And I'm like, 'No, no, no, it's got nothing to do with me.'" Jack continued "And then it roars, and we're running. My God, we are running. And Brakovitch falls so I turn to him and say..."
"I knew we should have turned left." Mickey said
"That's my line!" Jack complained. They all laughed
"I don't believe you,I don't believe a word you say, ever." Rose said "That is so brilliant." The Doctor turned to the right and noticed an older gentleman reading a local newspaper and the smiled fell from his face as he saw a familiar face on the front page. "Did you ever get your clothes back?" Rose asked
The Doctor got up, Jack answered Rose's question "No, I just picked him up and went right for the ship. Full throttle, didn't stop till I hit the space lanes. I was shaking!" The Dotor took the paper "It was unbelievable! Freaked me out. And by the time I got there I was 15 light years away and I realised I'm like this..." he trailed off, looking over at the Doctor as did Rose and Mickey
"And I was having such a nice day." he said as he held up a newspaper that showed a photograph of a familiar face as mayor of Cardif, Margaret the Slitheen.
--
The four of them walked up the stairs of city hall where the Mayor's office was. Once inside they stood in a line. "According to Intelligence, the target's the last surviving member of the Slitheen family, a criminal sect form the planet Rexicoricophalvitorius." he took of his scarf "masquerading as a human being zipped inside a skin suit. Okay, plan of attack." he said "We assume a basic 57-56 strategy, covering all available exits on the ground floor. Doctor, you go face to face, that'll designate Exit 1. I'll cover Exit 2. Rose, you Exit 3, Mickey Smith, you take Exit 4. Have you got that?"
The Doctor was looking at Jack with one of his who do you think you are looks "Excuse me, who's in charge?"
"Sorry, awaiting orders, sir."
"Right, here's the plan." the Doctor said grinning "like he said. Nice plan." he paused "Anything else?"
"Present arms." Jack said
The Doctor took out his mobile phone "Ready." he said
"Ready." said Rose as she took out hers
"Ready." said mickey
Jack took his out "Ready." he said "Speed dial?"
"Yeah." said the Doctor
"Ready." said Rose
"Check" said Mickey
"See you in hell." Jack walked off .
Rose and the Doctor walked off in the same direction until they came to a set of stairs where they split up "Becareful." the Doctor told her as he kissed her forehead and ran up the stairs, Rose turned and went to her exit.
--
The Doctor reached the Mayor's secretary's desk "Hello, I've come to see the Lord Mayor." the Doctor told the secretary.
"Have you got an appointment?"
"No, just an old friend passing by, bit of a surprise." the Doctor replied "Can't wait to see her face." he grinned
"Well, she's just having a cup of tea."
"Just go in there and tell her the Doctor would like to see her." the Doctor told him
"Doctor who?"
"Just the Doctor." the Doctor replied "Tell her exactly that, the Doctor."
The secretary got up "Hold on a tick" he said as he went to the office door and entered.
A few seconds later the Doctor heard the sound of a cup breaking, the secretary came back out and said "The Lord Mayor says thank you for popping by. She'd love to have a chat but she's up to her eyes in paperwork. Perhaps if you could make an appointment for next week?"
"She's climbing out of the window, isn't she?" the Doctor asked
"Yes, she is."
The Doctor moved him out of the way and entered the office, ran through it and out on to the balcony. He took out his moblie "Slitheen heading north."
"On my way." said Rose
"Over and out." said Jack
"Oh, my God." said Mickey
The secretary followed the Doctor "Leave the Mayor alone!" he started to fight with the Doctor who overpowered him.
--
Rose ran through a corridor, between two women causing their paperwork to go flying everywhere
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Jack ran along a similar looking corridor and jumped over a tea trolley, causing the woman pushing it to scream
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Mickey put his phone away and ran, he crashed into a cleaning trolley, the womn screamed and everything toppeled over taking Mickey with it.
--
Rose ran out of her exit. Jack ran out if his and Mickey was still inside running (well sort of running) along a corridor with a bucket stuckto his foot and toilet paper hanging out of it.
--
The Doctor finally managed to overpower the secretary and ran after Margaret "Margaret!" he jumed onto the scaffolding that was next to the balcony and climbed down the ladder and he also began chasing after Margaret, just as Rose and Jack were. Rose and Jack reached her final escape route before the Doctor did, finding no one there to stop her "Who's on Exit 4?"
"That was Mickey!" Rose answered coming to a stop beside Jack.
The Doctor arrived just behind her
"Here I am." said Mickey as he appeared from a fire exit on their left
"Mickey the idiot." said the Doctor
"Be fair, she's not exactly gonna out run us, is she?" asked Rose just before Margaret teleported away
"She's got a teleport!" Jack said "That's cheating. Now we're never gonna get her!"
The Doctor stepped forwards, taking out the sonic screwdriver
"The Doctor's very good at teleports." Rose told him
The Doctor pressed the button and Margaret reappeared, now running towards them, she turned around and ran as she teleported away. The Doctor pressed the button, she reappeared again, closer this time, she teleported away again, and again the Doctor brought her back, this time, she kept running and stopped in front of the grinning Doctor.
"I could do this all day." he said
"This is persecution." she said "Why can't you leave me alone? What did I ever do to you?"
"You tried to kill me and destroy this entire planet."
"Apart from that."
--
They went to the room that had hosted the unveiling of the neuclear power station "So, you're a Slitheen, you're on Earth, you're trapped, your family get killed, but you teleport out, just in the nick of time." said the Doctor "You have no means of escape, what do you do? You build a neuclear power station, but what for?"
"A philanthropic gesture." said Margaret "I've learnt the error of my ways."
"And it just so happens to be right on top of the rift."
"What rift would that be?"
"A rift in space and time." Jack answered "If this power station went into meltdown, the entire planet would go..." he gestured implosion with his hands.
"The station is designed to explode the minute it reaches capacity." said the Doctor.
"Didn't anyone notice?" asked Rose "Isn't there someone in London checking this sort of stuff?"
"We're in Cardiff, London doesn't care, the south Wales coast could fall into the sea and they wouldn't notice." Margaret said "Oh! I sound like a Welshman, God help me I've gone native."
"But why would she do that?" asked a confused Mickey "A great big explosion, she'd only end up killing herself"
"She has a name, you know."
"She's not even a she, she's a thing." Mickey said
"Oh, but she's clever." said the Doctor as he dismantled the modle of the power station by pulling the base away. "Fantastic!" he said as he looked at it, there were wires running through it.
"Is that a Tribophsyical waveform macro-kinetic Extrapolator?" asked Jack
"Couldn't have put it better myself." the Doctor said
"Genius!" Jack exclaimed "You didn't build this?"
"I have my hobbies, a little tinkering." said Margaret
"No, I mean, you really didn't build this, way beyond you." Jack told her.
"I bet she stole it." Mickey said
"It fell into my hands."
"Is it a weapon?" asked Rose
"It's transport." Jack answered, he put the extrapolator on the ground. "You see, if the reactor blows, the rift opens, phenomenal cosmic disaster. But this thing shrouds you in a force field, you have this energy bubble...shzum!.. so you're safe. Then you feed it coordinates, stand on top and ride the concussion all the way out of the solar system."
"It's a surfboard!" Mickey said
"A pan-dimensional surfboard, yeah." Jack answered
"And it would worked. I'd surfed away from this dead end dump and back to civilisation."
"You'd blow up a whole planet just to get a lift?" Mickey asked.
"Like stepping on an ant hill."
The Doctor was staring at the banner bearing the name of the project Bliadd Drwg "How did you think of the name?" he asked
"What? Bliadd Drwg?" asked Margaret "It's Welsh."
"I know, but how did you think of it?"
"I chose it at random, that's all" Margaret said "I don't know. Just sounded good." she walked towards him "Does it matter?"
The Doctor turned around with a confused look on his face. "Blaidd Drwg."
"What does it mean?" asked Rose
"'Bad Wolf'" the Doctor answered.
"But I've heard that before." Rose said "Bad Wolf. I've heard it lots of times."
"Everywhere we go, two words, following us." said the Doctor "Bad Wolf."
"How can they be following us?"
The Doctor thought for a few seconds before breaking into a grin "No, it's just a conicidence." he told her "Like hearing a word on the radio then hearing it all day. never mind." he stopped "Things to do, Margaret, we're gonna take you home."
"Hold on, isn't that the easy option, like letting her go?" asked Jack
"I don't believe it, we actually get to go to rexi..."
The Doctor rolled his eyes "Wait a minute. Rexicor..."
"Rexicoricophalvitorius."
"Rexicorico..." she said walking towards the Doctor
"Phalavitorius."
"Rexicoricophalvitorius."
"That's it!" said the Doctor as he smiled proudly and hugged her
"I did it!" Rose said as he put her down
"They have the death penalty." said Margaret runiniung the mood. "The family Slitheen was tried in it's absence many years ago and found guilty. With no chancce of appeal." she paused "According to the statutes of government, the moment I return, I'm to be executed. What do you make of that, Doctor? Take me home and you take me to my death."
"Not my problem."
--
That evening, they were inside the Tardis with Mickey and their prisoner. "This ship is impossible." Margaret said "It's superb! How do you get the outside around the inside?"
"Like I'd give you the secret, yeah."
"I almost feel better about being defeated. I never stood a chance." she said "This is the technology of the Gods."
"Don't worship me, I'd make a very bad God, you wouldn't get a day off for starters." the Doctor said "Jack how are we doing, big fella?"
"This extrapolator is top of the range" he answered "Where did you get it?"
"I don't know, some airlock sale."
"Must have been a great big heist" Jack said "It's stacked with power."
"But we can use it for fuel?" asked the Doctor
"It's not compatible." Jack answered "But it should knock off about 12 hours. We'll be ready to go by morning."
"Then we're stuck here over night."
"I'm in no hurry." said Margaret.
"We've got a prisoner." said Rose "The police box is really a police box."
"You're not just police, though." said Margaret "Since you're taking me to my death, that makes you my executioners. Each and every one of you."
"You deserve it." said Mickey.
"You're very quick to say so." said Margaret "And you're very quick to soak your hands in my blood. Which makes you better than me how exactly?" she looked at Micket "Long night ahead. Let's see who can look me in the eye.
She looked at Mickey first, he looked away, she did the same to Rose, who didn't even look at her and finally the Doctor, who looked up at her and back at what he was doing.
--
Mickey left the Tardis and Rose walked over to the Doctor "I'm gonna go see if he's alright." she said. He nodded and she kissed him quickly, then left the Tardis. She found him standing bye the water fountain and walked up behind him, pulling her coat around her "It's freezing out here." she said, to catch his attention
"Better than in there." he said "She does deserve it, she's a slitheen. I don't care." he paused "It's just weird in that box."
"I didn't really, need my passport, I needed to talk to you." she said
"I've been thinking, you know, we could go have a drink. Have a pizza or something, just you and me." he suggested
"That'd be nice." she said whilst thinking 'that will be a great oppertunity to talk.'
"Cool, there's a couple of bars round here, we should give them a go."
"Do you have to go and tell him?" he asked, gesturing to the Tardis
"No, he already knows, I told him that I'd asked you to come here this morning, so that we could talk."
The two of them walked off.
--
The Doctor watched her leave until she was out of sight of the Tardis, Jack knew better than to ask what he was watching.
Margaret was sick of this silence "I gather it's not always like this." she said "Having to wait." she paused "I bet you're always the first to leave, Doctor. never mind the consequences, off you go. You butched my family, then ran to the stars, am I right? But not this time. At last, you have consequences."
"How does it feel?"
"I didn't butcher them."
"Don't answer back, that's what she wants." Jack told him
"I didn't, what about you?" asked the Doctor "You had an emergency teleport, you didn't zap them to safety did you?"
"It only carries one." she said sadly. "I had to fly without coordinates. I ended up in a skip on the Isle of Dogs."
The Doctor laughed
"It's not funny." she told him
"Sorry." he and Jack started to laugh "It is a bit funny."
"Do I get a last request?" she asked
"Depends what it is." the Doctor replied without looking at her.
"I grew quite fond of my little human life. all those rituals, the brushing of the teeth and the complicated way they cook things. There's a little restaurant, just round the bay. It became quite a favourite of mine."
The Doctor walked over to her "Is that what you want? A last meal?"
"Don't I have rights?"
"Oh! Like she's not gonna try to escape." said Jack
"Except I can never escape the Doctor so where's the danger?" she asked she looked up at the Doctor "I wonder if you could do it. To sit with a creature you're about to kill and take supper. How strong is your stomach?"
"Strong enough." the Doctor replied
"I wonder. I've see you fight your enemies. Now dine with them."
"You won't change my mind." he told her
"Prove it."
"There are people out there. If you slip away for one second, they'll be in danger."
"Except, I've got these." he said as he held up to bracelets "You both wear one. If she moves more than ten feet away... she get's zapped by 10,000 volts."
The Doctor turned back to Margaret "Margaret, would you like to come out to dinner? My treat."
"Dinner in bondage." she said "works for me."
--
The Doctor and Margaret the Slitheen walked along the bay to the restaurant she was talking about, Jack continued to work on the Tardis and Rose and Mickey also walked along the bay.
--
The Doctor and Margaret were seated at a table and given menus.
"Here we are, out on a date, and you haven't even asked my proper name." Margaret said
"It's not a date." the Doctor said, he would much prefer to be back in the Tardis than here with her. "What's your name?"
"Blon." she answered "I'm Blon Fel Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen. That's what it'll say on my death certificate."
"Nice to meet you, Blon." the Doctor said
"I'm sure."
"Look, that's where I was living as Margaret." she said looking out of the window "Nice little flat, over there on the top." she opened her ring. "next to the one with the light on." she tipped the contents into the Doctor's wine glass. "Two bedrooms, bayside view. I was rather content. Don't suppose Ill see it again."
The Doctor turned around and switched their glasses "Suppose not."
"Thank you."
"Pleasure." he said, looking up from the menu that he was studying.
"Tell me, then, Doctor, what do you know of our species?" she asked
"Only what I've seen." the Doctor replied.
"Did you know, for example, in extreme cases, when her life is in danger, a female Rexicoricophalvitorian can manufacture a poison dart within her own finger." she flicked her finger towards the Doctor and a dart came out of it, which the Doctor caught between his fingers
"Yes, I did." he said as he threw it away.
"Just checking." she said all to sweetly, the Doctor grinned at her and went back to the menu. "And on more thing. Between you and me..." she looked to her right and then to her left, then she and the Doctor leaned towards one another and she whispered "As a final resort, the excess poison can be exhaled through the lungs." she breathed out the excess poison but the Doctor sprayed a mouth spray into her mouth
"That's better." he told a disgruntled looking Margaret "Now then, what do you think? Steak looks nice. Steak and chips!"
--
Rose and Mickey were still walking, as she wanted to talk privately, but he didn't know how to tell him that she was marrying the Doctor in a matter of days, so she decided to tell Mickey about their adventures "The Doctor took me to this planet a while back. It was much colder than this." she told him as they walked down a flight of stairs "They called it Woman Wept. The planet was actually called Woman Wept because if you looked at it, right, from above, it was like this hug continentm likem all curved round. It sort of looked like a woman, you know, lamenting Oh, my God, and we went to tis beach, right. No peope, no buildings, just this beach, like 1000 miles across. And omething happened, something to do with the sun, I don't know, but the sea had just frozen. In a split second. In the middle of a storm, right, waves and foam, just frozen, all the way out to the horizon. Midnight, right, we walk underneath these waves, 100 feet tall and made of ice."
"I'm going out with Trisha Delaney."
"Oh, right." said Rose "That's nice. Trisha from the shop?"
"Yeah, Rob Delaney's sister." Mickey answered
"Well, she's nice." Rose said thanking every deity she had ever heard of that she didn't need to break up with him "She's a bit big."
"She lost weight." he looked at her "You've been away."
"Well good for you, she's nice."
"So tell us more about this planet, then." Mickey said
"That was it really." Rose said, everything else that happened on that planet was between her and the Doctor. They started to walk again.
--
"Public execution a slow death." Margaret said "They prepare a thin acetic acid, lower me into the cauldron...and boil me. The acidity is perfectly guaged to strip away the skin. Internal organs fall out into th liquid and I become soup. And still alive. Still screaming."
"I don't make the law." the Doctor told her
"But you deliver it." she replied "Will you stay to watch?"
"What else can I do?"
"The Slitheen family's huge. There's a lot more of us, all scattered off world." she said "Take me to them. Take me somewhere safe."
"But then you'll just start again."
"I promise I won't." she tried.
"You've been in that skin suit too long." the Doctor told her "You've forgotten. There used to be a real Margaret Blaine. You killed her and stripped her and used the skin. You're pleading for mercy out of a dead woman's lips."
"Perhaps I have got used to it. A human life, a ordinary life. That's all I'm asking." she said "Give me a chance, Doctor. I can change."
"I don't believe you." the Doctor told her.
--
Rose was standing looking out at the water, Mikey was sitting with his back to her on a bench. "So what do you want to do now?"
"Don't mind." Rose answered, wishing more than anything that she could just go back to the Tardis.
"We could ask about hotels."
"What woud Trisha Delany say?"
"I suppose."
"And I wanted to talk to you about us anyway." Rose told him "I know why you're with Trisha, you know where she is."
"You left me." he shouted "We were nice, we were happy. And then what? You give me a kiss and run off with him and you make me feel like nothing, Rose. I was nothing! I can't even go out with a stupid girl from a shop because you pick up the phon and I comes running. I mean is that what I am Rose, standby? Am I supposed to sit here for the rest of my life waiting for you? Because I will."
"I'm sorry." she said as she tried to touch his arm, but he moved it away from her.
--
"I promise I have changed since we last met, Doctor." Margaret as saying. "There was this girls, just today. Young thing. And something of a danger. She was getting to close. I felt the blood lust rising, just as the family taught me. I was going to kill her without a thought. And then... I stopped. She's alive somewhere, right now. She's walking round this city because I can change. I did change. I know I can't prove it."
"I believe you." the Doctor said
"Then you know I'm capable of better."
"It doesn't mean anything." the Doctor told her
"I sared her life."
"You let one of them go. But that's nothing new." the Doctor said "every now and then a little victim's spared. Because she smiled. Because he's got freckles. Because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions. Because once in a while, on a whim, if the wind's in the right direction... you happen to be kind."
"Only a killer would know that." Margaret said "Is that right? From what I've seen, your funny little happy-go-lucky life leaves devastation in its wake. Always moving on because you dare not go back.Playing with so many people's lives, you might as well be a god. And you're right, Doctor. You're absolutely right. Sometimes, you let one go. Let me go."
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"I'm not asking you to leave him, because I know that's not fair." Mickey said "But I just need something, yeah, some sort of promise that when you do come back, you're coming back for me."
Suddenly there was a rumbling sound "Is that thunder?" Rose asked
"Does it matter?"
"That's not thunder."
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"In the family Slitheen, we had no choice." Margaret told the Doctor "I was made carry out my first likk at 13. If I'd refused, my father would have fed me to the Venom Grubs. If I'm a killer, it's because I was born to kill. It's all I know."
The Doctor heard the same rumbling sound as Rose. "Doctor are you even listening to me?"
"Can you hear that?"
"I'm begging for my life."
The Doctor held up his hand "No, listen, shush."
He looked at the glasses on the table, they were shaking, the window was also shaking and then it shattered and people began to run.
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Rose and Mickey jumped backwards as a bulb in a street lamp burst, and explosions occured causing the residents of Cardiff bay to scatter. Rose ran off in the direction of the Tardis
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The Doctor and Margaret ran out of the restaurant, the Doctor was in the lead and Margaret was around 10 feet away "The handcuffs!" she shouted. The Doctor waited for her to catch up and when she did he removed the handcuffs.
"Don't think you're running away."
"I'm sticking with you." she said he ran, holding her hand to keep her beside him, so that he didn't loose her in the chaos, that was Cardiff bay.
He stopped when he saw the Tardis, the rift was opening right above it. "It's the rift." he said "The rift's opening."
They ran to the Tardis as the ground behind them began to crack. The Doctor struggled to get the key into the lock as the ground was shaking so much, when he finally got it into the lock he turned it and opened the door. The Doctor entered the Tardis first dragging Margaret in behind him.
"What the hell are you doing?" the Doctor asked Jack
"It just went crazy." Jack told him
"It's the rift." the Doctor told Jack as he ran to the console "Time and space are ripping apart. The whole city's going to disappear."
The Tardis console began to spark, causing Jack to step backwards out of range.
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Rose was almost back at the Tardis, she stopped suddenly when she saw the light that was coming from the Tardis. She began to run again, hoping to get back to the safety of the Tardis before something happened to her.
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The Extrapolator began to spark also "It's the extrapolator." Jack told the Doctor "I've disconnected it, but it's still feeding off the engine. It's using the Tardis, I can't stop it."
"never mind Cardiff, it's gonna rip open the planet."
Rose ran into the Tarids "What is it?" she asked "What's happening."
"Oh! Just little me." said Margaret.
The Doctor ran to get Rose away from Margaret, but it was too late, she had already taken the skin off of her arm to reveal her rather long Slitheen arm and caught Rose around the neck.
"One wrong move and she snapps like a promise."
The Doctor and Jack watched with worried looks on their faces as Rose struggled in the grip of the Rexicoricophalvitorian
"I might have known." said the Doctor
"I've had you bleating all night, poor baby. Now shut it." said Margaret "You, fly boy. Put the extrapolator at my feet." Jack didn't move at first so she tightened her grip on Rose who was still struggling, he looked at the Doctor, who nodded. Jack picked up the extrapolator and put it on the floor at the Slitheen's feet. "Thank you." she said in a slickly sweet voice. "just as I planned."
"I thought you needed to blow up the neuclear power station." Rose struggled to say.
"Failing that." Margaret said "If I were to be arrested, then anyone capable of tracking me down would have considerable technology of their own. Therefore they would be captivated by the extrapolator. Especially a magpie-mind like yours Doctor. So the extrapolator was programmed to go to plan B. To lock on to the nearest alien power source and open the rift. And what a power source it found. I'm back on schedule. Thanks to you."
"The rift's gonna convulse, you'll destroy the whole planet." said Jack
"And you with it." Margaret said she moved Rose to the other side of her and stepped on the board "While I ride this board ocer the crest of the inferno, all the way to freedom. Stand back boys. Surf's up." The Tardis began to fall a part. A panel opened on the console and a golden light emitted from it.
"Of course opening the rift means you'll pull this ship apart." said the Doctor
"So sue me."
"It's not just any old power source." the Doctor continued as though she hadn't spoken "It's the Tardis, my Tardis. The best ship in the universe."
"It'll make wonderful scrap."
"What's that light?" Rose asked, now that the Slitheen's grip on her had lessened again.
"The heart of the Tardis." answered the Doctor "This ship's alive. You've opened it's soul."
Margaret looked at the golden light "It's... so bright." she said
"Look at it, Margaret."
Margaret continued to look at the light. "Beautiful." she said
"look inside, Blon Fel Fotch. look at the light."
As Margaret stared into the light, her hand or was it claw, relaxed and Rose was able to get away, she wanted to go to the Doctor, but she settled on her big brother figure, who held out his hand to her, which she took and he pulled her close and gave her a hug.
Margaret got lost in looking at the light, after a while she smiled at the Doctor who smiled back and she said "Thank you." The light grew brighter and when it faded Margaret the Sltheen was no longer standing in the Tardis, the skin suit that she had disguised herself in was lying on the ground.
The console sparked again and the Doctor jumped into action. "Don't look, stay there, close your eyes!" He turned a wheel and closed the panel "Now, Jack, come on, shut it all down. Shut down." Rose and jack came over to the console "Rose, that panel over there, turn all switches to the right." The three of them worked on shutting the Tardis down, which they di quickly
"Nicely done, thank you all."
"What happened to Margaret?" asked Rose.
"Must have got burnt up, carried out her own death sentence" Jack suggested
"No, I don't think she's dead." the DOctor said.
"Then where'd she go?" Rose asked
"She looked into the heart of the Tardis, even I don't know hoe strong that is and the ship's telepathic, like I told you Rose. Get's inside your head translates alien languages.; Maybe the raw energy can translate all sorts of thoughts." He croughed down and moved aside Margaret's clothes as Jack and Rose came closer and he pulled out something that looked like an egg. "Here she is."
"She's an egg?" asked Rose
"Regressed to her childhood." said the Doctor
"She's an egg?" asked Jack
"She can start again, live her life from scratch." the Doctor told them "If we take her home, give her to a different family, tell them to bring her up properly, she might be alright."
"Or she might be worse." said Jack
"That's her choice."
"She's an egg." said Rose
"She's an egg." said the Doctor, causing Rose and Jack to laugh.
Rose got up, and placed a hand on the Doctor's shoulder. "I'm gonna go see if Mickey's alright, I left him out there..." she trailed off.
"It's ok, go." the Doctor told her, squeezing the hand that was on his shoulder as she left to find her friend.
She ran back to where she had left Mickey and found paramedics there and she asked them if they had treated Mickey for anything, or if they had seen someone fitting his description, which they hadn't, so she headed back to the Tardis
She entered the Tardis, and the moment she did so she was hugged by the Doctor who had been waiting by the door for her, she hugged him back tightly. "Are you alright?" he asked, this question had a double meaning, was she alright from when Margaret had her by the throat and was she alright at that moment
"I'm fine." she said and to prove her point, and also to shut him up, she kissed him
"How's Mickey?" he asked when they broke the kiss.
"I don't know, I couldn't find him." she said
"We're gonna take Margaret home." the Doctor said as he started up the Tardis
"Next stop Rexicoricophalvitorius." said Jack "Now, you don't often get to say that."
"We'll just stop by and put her in the hatchery." said the Doctor "Margaret the Slitheen can live her life again. A second chance.
The Tardis engines started up and it disappeared from Cardiff, although, it would be back two days later.
Well, that's bomb Town, the next chapter will be short as this chapter is over 7000 words long and I think that this is the longest chapter I have ever written.
TTFN
Julie20007.