Chapter 5: The Bad Wolf and the Impossible Girl

"So are you going to tell us this plan of yours?" Hook asked the Doctor as they flew through the time vortex in the TARDIS.

"We're going to destroy the ship." The Doctor said. "I'll land the TARDIS inside near the engines. Then, you all will use Torchwood's laser weapons to destroy any Daleks that try to stop us. Once we get to there, I'll use the sonic screwdriver to overload the engines and destroy this entire ship and every Dalek on board."

"I don't remember your plans being this violent." Rose commented.

"Normally, you're right," the Doctor said, "but these are the Daleks and we still don't know why Peter Pan wants them to go to Neverland."

"How many Daleks are on the ship now?" Mickey asked.

"Fifty." The Doctor said. "The other fifty are down below."

"Torchwood can't fight off all those Daleks." Martha said.

"So, we'll have to work fast so we can get back down there and help them." The Doctor said.

Then, the Doctor's magnificent TARDIS materialized in the hallway near the engine room of the large Dalek spacecraft. Martha and Mickey stepped out first with their large laser guns and discovered that there were no Daleks around. The Doctor came out next and the three of them rushed off before Hook, Rose, and Clara even left the TARDIS. When they did exit the blue box, they saw the trio far ahead of them.

"How do they expect us to help if they leave us behind?" Hook asked.

Rose and Clara, each carrying large laser guns, walked forward and lagged behind the Doctor on their way to the engine room. Hook, who had not been given a laser gun to use followed with his sword in his only hand. He wouldn't know how to operate such a complicated device anyway and elected to use his sword against the Daleks, even after being warned that it would have no effect on them. Rose and Clara each watched the Doctor, who was still far ahead of them.

"So how did you meet the Doctor?" Clara asked hoping to start a conversation with Rose that would reveal why she was so important to the Doctor.

"He blew up my job." Rose said. "Then I helped him kill the Nestene Consciousness and the Autons. He asked me to travel with him and I left London right then."

"How long ago was that?" Clara asked.

"March 5, 2005." Rose replied.

Clara remembered this date very well. Not because of the Auton attack, but because of the unfortunate death of her mother. She then remembered how she saw the Doctor watching her from a distance in the graveyard a few days later. She then began to wonder if the Doctor was remembering Rose on that day while he was investigating the impossible girl.

"You just left home?" Clara asked.

"I came back a few times and visited my mum. I loved every minute in the TARDIS with the Doctor. It's a time of my life I'll never forget." Rose said.

"Were you two ever...close?" Clara asked.

"We were just friends." Rose said. "I mean we were just friends at first and we were inseparable. I guess over time our relationship grew into something more, but we were both sort of awkward about it and we never talked openly about of our feelings. Then..." Rose paused for a moment.

"Then what?" Clara asked.

"Then it all ended." Rose said. "My family and I were locked away in a parallel universe and I talked to the Doctor one last time on Bad Wolf Bay and I could never see him again."

"That's why he was so surprised to see you." Clara asked.

"I was able to come back." Rose said. "I ended up back on the parallel world with a human clone of the Doctor that I fell in love with."

"So why did you come back this time?" Clara asked.

"I'm honestly not sure anymore." Rose asked.

Clara was feeling a little broken by the news of the Doctor and Rose's romantic past. She had developed her own personal feelings for the lovable Time Lord and worried that the Doctor may never feel the same way about her as long as Rose was still around.

"Wow." Clara managed to say.

"What about you?" Rose asked. "Tell me about you and the Doctor."

"I haven't been traveling with him for all that long." Clara said. "He showed up at my door and he knew my name. He convinced me to travel with him, but it turned out that the only reason he was interested was to try and solve a mystery. He met two girls who look and sound exactly like me before and they both died. He calls me the impossible girl."

"Did he ever solve it?" Rose asked.

"Yes." Clara said. "Turns out I jumped through the Doctor's timeline and it created different versions of me to save him in various points of his life."

"Wow." Rose managed to say. "So are you two close at all."

"Oh no." Clara said. "Just friends."

"I can tell you like him." Rose said. "I've been in your shoes before. It's alright. When all this is over, I plan on going back to my human Doctor. We're going to grow old together. I don't want you to feel uncomfortable or threatened by me. That's how I felt when I first met one of the Doctor's previous companions. I thought I was special and the only girl he'd ever shown the universe. I ended up being great friends with her and I hope maybe I can see her again before I go back. I hope we can be friends too."

"I'd like that." Clara said, seeming to be pleased by Rose's words yet still feeling that she couldn't pursue her feelings for the Doctor as long as Rose was around.

"Let's catch up blondie." Hook said as he arrived next to the two girls.

"What's a pirate like you even doing with the Doctor?" Rose asked.

"He promised me a trip in the TARDIS." Hook said. "I didn't expect that I'd end up here though. This world is certainly strange."

"Stranger than Neverland?" Rose asked.

"I'm not sure yet." Hook said.

"What's Neverland like?" Clara asked.

"It's a nightmare." Hook said.

"For once I agree with Hook." Rose said. "It's not a place you ever want to go."

They were suddenly drawn from their conversation by the sounds of laser blasts ahead of them. They all soon saw Martha and Mickey firing destructive lasers at the five Daleks guarding the engine room. Rose and Clara rushed over with their own laser guns to assist. The four companions successfully destroyed the Daleks. The Doctor then entered the room while the rest of the group stayed in the hall.

"Shouldn't we be going in with him?" Clara asked.

"Once he overloads the engines, we have to sprint back to the TARDIS and get out of here before the ship explodes." Martha said.

"Shouldn't we just go now?" Hook asked.

"What if more Daleks show up while before the Doctor's done?" Mickey asked. "We have to stay until he's finished."

"I'm finished!" The Doctor yelled as he exited the room. "Why are you all still here? Run!"

The Doctor and all his friends ran as swiftly as possible back down the long hallway towards the TARDIS and boarded the time machine. The Daleks on the ship panicked and tried to get to the engine room to sort out the problem. However, it was far too late. The Doctor and his team fled the Dalek ship in the TARDIS, narrowly escaping the complete destruction of the spacecraft. Citizens of Cardiff watched as the ship was transformed into a bright ball of fire in the sky set off by the explosion of the engines. The TARDIS hurried back to the city below, unaware that the remaining forty Daleks had invaded the Torchwood hub.