Okay, sorry for the cliffy in the last chapter, I just stopped there so that I could update before I went to bed. Anyway, here's the next chapter.
They continued to run, but they were stopped by a guard "Wait, wait, wait." he said "Where do we think we…." The Doctor showed him the psychic paper, thinking fast "Oh, I'm very sorry, sir. Shouldn't you be at the Coronation?"
"They're saving me a seat." the Doctor answered continuing to run.
"Who'd he think you were?" Tommy asked when they had run round the corner
"King of Belgium apparently." the Doctor answered, looking at the psychic paper. They continued to run.
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They ran inside and the Doctor set up his machine in a room "Keep this switched on." he told Tommy "Don't let anyone stop you, Tommy. Everything depends on it, you understand?" Tommy nodded and the Doctor left the room, trailing a cable behind him
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The Doctor ran back outside and past the guard. He climbed up the stairs that Magpie had climbed minutes before "You'll get yourself killed up there!" the guard shouted after him "Your Majesty!" The Doctor ignored him and continued to run up the stairs, when he reached the top he began to climb the tower. By the time the Doctor had reached Magpie, The Wire was taking everyone's faces.
"It's too late." Magpie said "It's too late for all of us!"
"I shall consume you, Doctor!"
The Wire said. She shocked him, but he held tight and then he started to move again"I won't let you do this, Magpie!"
"Help me, Doctor!" Magpie shouted "It burns! It took my face, my soul!"
"You cannot stop The Wire. Soon, I shall become manifest."
She shocked the Doctor again."No more." said Mr Magpie "No more of this. You promised me peace."
"Then peace you shall have."
She killed Magpie, who screamed until he disappeared. The Wire laughed and the Doctor tried to pick up the portable TV, but he was shocked, he shook out his hand
"Been burning the candle at both ends?" he asked "You've over-extended yourself, missus. You shouldn't have had a crack at poor old Magpie there." He picked it up by the handle. The Wire shocked him again. He picked the TV up by the base and looked at it "Rubber soles, swear by them." He plugged the cable that he'd taken up with him into the back of the screen
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In the room, Tommy was doing as he was asked. The machine exploded, so obviously one of the components that the Doctor had used to make it wasn't working. So he went to fix it
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"Oh, dear,"
said The Wire"Has our little plan gone horribly wrong, Doctor?"
Tommy found what he needed and went to the machine. He removed the old part and replaced it with the new, then he plugged it back in.
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Suddenly everything changed, the Doctor watched as The Wire's hold on everyone retreated as she screamed "No!"
"It's closed down, I'm afraid, and no epilogue."
The Wire disappeared from the screen and the Doctor picked up the portable TV and climbed back down and then returned to the room that he'd left Tommy in.
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When he reached the room, he stopped at the door and watched the TV over Tommy's shoulder
"What have I missed?" he asked to grab the boy's attention
"Doctor!" he said "What happened?"
"Sorted." the Doctor answered "Electrical creature. TV technology. Clever alien life form. That's me, by the way. I turned the receiver back into a transmitter and I trapped The Wire in here." He ejected the video from it "I just invented the home video 30 years early. Betamax. Oh, look! God save the Queen, eh?"
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The Doctor and Tommy returned to the factory. When they arrived, Tommy spotted his Gran and ran to her, she hugged him.
The Doctor continued to walk, then Rose turned to face him and smiled. He sped up a little and pulled her into a hug when he reached her. They stood there for a few minutes, just hugging. Then Rose kissed him. He smiled at her when they broke the kiss, then they walked back to Tommy and they left the factory.
Tommy and his gran walked back to their street and the Doctor and Rose took the Vespa.
They walked along the street together "We could go down the Mall, join in with the crowds." Rose suggested.
"No, that's just pomp and circumstance." the Doctor answered "This is history, right here."
"The domestic approach?"
"Exactly."
Rose laughed "Will it… That thing…" she said "is it trapped for good on the video?"
"Hope so." the Doctor answered "Just to be on the safe side, though, I'll use my unrivalled knowledge of trans-temporal extirpation methods to neutralise the residual electronic pattern."
"You what?" Rose asked
"I'm going to tape over it."
"Just leave it to me." she said "I'm always doing that."
They joined Tommy at the table that they were walking past "Tell you what, Tommy." the Doctor said "You can have the scooter. Little present. Best…um.. Keep it in the garage for a few years, though, eh?"
He looked across the street at his house and saw his mother and grandmother hugging as his father left "Good riddance." He said
"Is that it, then, Tommy?" the Doctor asked "New monarch, new age, new world. No room for a man like Eddie Connolly."
"That's right." Tommy answered. "He deserves it."
"Tommy, go after him." Rose said
"What for?"
"He's your dad."
"He's an idiot."
"Course he is." Rose agreed "Like I said, he's your dad. But you're clever, clever enough to save the world so don't stop there. Go on." They watched as Tommy ran to his father and took his suitcase from him. The Doctor picked up two glasses of orange juice and handed one to Rose. They clinked their glasses together and drank.
And that's the end of The Idiot's Lantern, I'll be back soon with the filler, I don't know if I'm happy with it, but I'll post it anyway. After that I'll post the first chapter of The Impossible Planet, which is also typed, although I might just wait until I've typed the second part. Anyway
TTFN
Julie