Rose and the Doctor were sitting on the jump-seat when an alarm went off on the console. The Doctor jumped up to see what was going on while Rose grinned to herself, she knew what that alarm meant. She would see Jack soon. Rose stood next to the Doctor as he turned the monitor on. They could both see an object floating around space. The Doctor starts running around pushing buttons and pulling levers.
"What's the emergency?" Rose quires as she holds on.
"It's mauve," the Doctor replies distractedly.
"Mauve?" Rose still can't understand why people would use mauve as an emergency colour.
The TARDIS starts shaking violently. "Universally recognised colour for danger.
"What happened to red?" Rose quires as she carefully moves close to the Doctor again.
"That's just humans," the Doctor answers. "By everyone else's standards, reds camp. Oh the misunderstandings all those red alerts, all that dancing. Got a very basic flight computer, hacked into it, slaved the TARDIS. Where it goes we go."
"And that's safe is it?" Rose questions.
"Totally," he grins at her till part of the console sparks at him. "Ok, reasonably, should've said reasonably there. No, no, no, no it's jumping time tracks, getting away from us."
Rose is still a little worried as the console keeps sparking. "What exactly is that thing?"
"No idea," the Doctor grins at her.
"Why are we chasing it?" Rose questions.
"It's mauve and dangerous," the Doctor repeats. "And about 30 seconds from the centre of London."
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The TARDIS materialises in an alleyway in the centre of London. "Do you know how long you can bump around space without having to bump into earth?" The Doctor queries as they leave the TARDIS.
"Five days," Rose grins at the Doctor with her tongue poking out. "Or is that just when we're out of milk?"
"All the species in all the universe and it has to come out a cow." The Doctor stats a little distracted by that smile. The Doctor looks around. "Must of come down somewhere quiet close. Within a mile anyway." Rose hooks her arm through his as they walk off to look for the object. "It can't be more than a few weeks," the Doctor continues. "Maybe a month."
"A month," Rose raises her eyebrow. "Weren't we right behind it?"
"It was jumping time tracks all over the place," the Doctor explained. "It would be a little bit hard. Do you want to drive?"
"Would you let me?" Rose asks flirtatiously as she moved closer.
The Doctor distracted by her smile and how close she was, he almost said yes before realising what she asked. "I'm still teaching you," the Doctor points out.
Rose grinned quietly to herself, she saw the yes in his eyes before he realised what she asked, she felt disappointed. "How far away?"
"A bit," the Doctor says.
"Is that exactly a bit," Rose teases.
"Ish," the Doctor finishes.
"What's the plan then?" Rose moves closer to him. "You gonna do a scan for alien tech or something?"
"Rose," the Doctor sighs. "It hit the middle of London with a very loud bang, I'm gonna ask." He pulls out the psychic paper to show her.
"Dr. John Smith," Rose reads. "Ministry of asteroids."
"It's psychic paper," the Doctor explained. "Tells people what..."
"What ever you want to tell 'em." Rose finishes on a sigh. "I remember."
"Sorry," the Doctor says poutingly.
"It's not very Spock is it, just asking." Rose teases.
The Doctor puts his ear to the door and hears music as he ignores her question. "Door, music, people. What do you think?"
"I think you should do a scan for alien tech." Rose runs her hand down his chest as she stepped closer. "Would you give me some Spock, would it kill ya."
The Doctors hearts rate picks up as he pulls out his sonic screwdriver. "Asking's the best way Rose." He bends down to sonic the lock. "You sure about that t-shirt?" The Doctor tries to distract her.
Rose looks down, she liked the Union Jack t-shirt she was wearing. "To early to say, taking it out for a spin."
Rose hears the child calling for his mummy and looks around before looking to the roof where the child was standing. The Doctor finally managers to unlock the door. "Come on then, if your coming. Won't take a minute." The Doctor walks through the door as Rose heads towards the child.
The Doctor walks down a hallway and sees a waiter walk through a curtain while holding a tray of drinks. Realising he must be in a bar or something he walks through the curtain. There was a dame on stage singing with a band, he grins as he moves towards the stage. The microphone would be perfect, he could ask the whole room.
The Doctor claps with everyone else when the singer finishes. "Excuse me, excuse me." The Doctor calls as he jumps up on stage. "Can I have everybody's attention, just for a mo. Be very quick, hello." He grins at the crowd. "Might seem like a stupid question but has anything fallen from the sky recently."
The room of people start laughing thinking its some kind of joke. The Doctors looking around confused.
"Sorry, have I said something funny." The Doctor looks around still confused. "It's just this thing that I need to find. Would've fallen from the sky a couple of days ago." Sirens start sounding and everyone starts running for the cellar. "Would've landed quiet near 'ere," the Doctors looking more perplexed. "With a very loud bang." He finishes as he sees the poster on the wall and realises they've landed in the middle of world war 2.
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While the Doctors trying to find the object Rose runs to the ladder she climbed last time and starts climbing towards the child. She doesn't bother calling to him cause he won't respond.
Rose heads to the rope attached to the barrage balloon. "Oh, I hope Jack appreciates what I'm going through for him." She mumbles as she starts climbing. Before long the balloon detaches and starts floating away while Rose is hanging on for dear life.
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The Doctor realises suddenly that Rose isn't with him and runs back to the TARDIS to find her. "Rose," he yells. He spots a cat sitting on some cans and picks it up. "You know, one day, just one day maybe I'm going to met someone who gets the whole don't wander of thing. 900 years of phone box travel and it's the only thing left that can surprise me."
The phone on the side of the TARDIS starts ringing startling the Doctor. Placing the cat back down he walks to the TARDIS and stares at it confused. "How can you be ringing? What's that about ringing, what am I suppose to do with a ringing phone?" The Doctor pulls out his screwdriver.
"Don't answer it," a girl appears near him. "It's not for you."
He walks towards her suspiciously. "And how do you know that?"
"Cause I do," she seems scared. "And I'm telling ya, don't answer it."
"Well, if you know so much, tell me this, how could it be ringing?" He walks back to the phone. "It's not even a real phone, it's not connected." He looks back to find the girl had gone. He places his screwdriver back in his pocket and picks up the phone. "Hello," all he hears is static. " This is the Doctor speaking. How may I help you?"
"Mummy?" He hears a child ask. "Mummy."
He losses his smile. "Who is this? Who's speaking?"
"Are you my mummy?" The child asks.
"Who is this?" The Doctors more worried.
"Mummy," the child keeps calling.
"How did you ring it, this isn't a real phone, it's not wired up to anything?" The Doctor asks throughly confused.
"Mummy," the child calls.
The Doctor looks at the phone confused before hanging it back up. "Rose," the Doctor calls as he knocks on the side of the TARDIS. "Rose are you in there?"
He hears a crashing sound and heads towards the noise when he sees some children entering a house down the street. He watches a family head towards a bomb shelter and sees as soon as the family closes the door on the bomb shelter, the same girl he spoke to before entered the house.
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Meanwhile Jacks at a party for officers when he notices something hanging from one of the barrage balloons. Picking up his binoculars he gets a closer look and sees its a female.
He hears the sirens to warn of an air raid and everyone starts heading to the air raid shelter when Algy walks up to him. "Jack, you going down to the shelter, only I've got to go on guard duty." He notices what Jacks looking at. "Barrage balloon aye. Must of come loose, it happens now and then. Don't you RAF boys use them as target practice?"
Jack seems to be ignoring him as he zooms in on the females bottom. "Excellent bottom." Jack comments as Algy turns away.
Algy turns back to him, he thinks the comments directed at him. "Steady old man, there's a time and a place. Look shouldn't we be off."
Jack finally turns to smile at him. "Sorry, old man. I gotta go met a girl. But you got a nice little bottom too." He comments as he hits Algys butt before heading back to his ship.
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Meanwhile Rose is hanging from a barrage balloon trying to remember when exactly she fell. An explosion happened right below her and it jarred her loose and she fell. A blue light with rings seemed to come from Big Ben and caught her in midair. She grins to herself as she hears Jack.
"Ok, ok I've got you." Jack calls through his microphone.
"That's great now could you please bring me in before the planes spot me?" Rose begs.
"I'm just programming you descent pattern. Stay as still as you can and keep you hands and feet inside the light field." Jack explains with a smile. "Oh, and can you switch if your cell phone?"
Rose grins, "why would I do that?"
"No, seriously," Jack assures her. "It interferes with my instruments."
Rose pulls out her cellphone. "You know, no one ever believes that." She snarks as she turns it off and places it back in her pocket.
"Thank you," Jack agrees. "Much better."
Rose still doesn't feel comfortable hanging in midair with planes flying everywhere. "Oh, yeah that's a real load off, that is. I'm hanging in the sky in the middle of a German air raid with a Union Jack across my chest but hey my mobil phones off."
Jack laughs at her spunk. "Be with you in a moment."
"The mobil communication device means a non-contemporary life form," his ship informs him.
"She's not from around her, no." Jack confirms. "Ready for you, hold tight." He informs her.
"To what?" Rose asks in disbelief.
"Fair point." Jack concedes as he pushes the switch that would bring her inside his ship.
Even though she's been through it before she still screams as she's pulled towards his ship. She suddenly finds herself in Jacks arms. "I've got you," he assures her. "Your fine, your just fine. It's the tractor beam, it can scramble your head a little."
Rose was still feeling disoriented. "Hello," she greets Jack cheerfully.
"Hello," he flirts back.
"Hello," Rose repeats. "Sorry," Rose gives her head a shake, "that was hello twice there. You know thorough."
"Are you alright?" Jack asks concerned.
Rose can feel her mind start to shut down. "Fine," Jack puts her feet on the ground but continues to hold onto her. "Why you expecting me to faint or something?"
"You look a little dizzy," Jack confirms.
"What about you," she blurts out. "Your not even in focus." She comments as she faints back into Jacks arms.
Jack picks her up and places her on his bed.
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The Doctor managers to sneak to the end of the table. "Thanks miss," the Doctor calls out as he's passed the turkey startling all the children around the table.
"It's alright," Nancy assures them. "Everybody stay where they are."
"Good here isn't it?" The Doctor asks. "Who's got the salt?"
"Back in your seats, he shouldn't be here either." Nancy assures them. The kids settle back into their seats as they calm down.
"So, you lot." The Doctor queries. "What's the story?"
"What do you mean?" One boy asks.
"Your homeless," the Doctor stats as a fact. "Right, living rough."
The kids dig back into their food. "Why do you want to know that?" Another boy asks. "Are you a copper?"
"Course I'm not a copper, what's a copper going to do with you lot anyway? Arrest you for starving?" The kids laugh with the Doctor as he says that. "I make it 1941, you lot shouldn't even be in London." The Doctor enquires confused. "You should've been evacuated to the country by now."
"I was evacuated," the second boy spoke up. "Sent me to a farm."
"So what happened?" The Doctor questions. "Why did you come back?"
"There was a man there," the boy replies.
Another boy interrupts. "Yeah, same with Earnie."
"Shut up," Earnie replies. "Better on the streets anyway. Better food."
"Yeah," the second boy agrees. "Nancy always gets the best food for us."
The Doctor looks to Nancy in admiration as she looks away nervously. "So is that what you do Nancy?"
"What is?" She asks defensively.
"As soon as the sirens go," the Doctor worked out. "You find a big fat family meal, still warm on the table, with everyone down in the air raid shelter and bingo feeding frenzy for the homeless kids of London Town. Puddings for all. As long as the bombs don't get ya."
"Something wrong with that?" Nancy questions.
"Wrong with it," the Doctor assures her. "It's brilliant, not sure if it's marks in action or a west hand musical."
"Why'd you follow me?" Nancy asked baffled. "What do you want?"
The Doctor looks at her seriously. "I want to know how a phone that isn't a phone gets a phone call. You seem to be the one to ask."
Nancy rolled her eyes. "I did you a favour, I told you not to answer it. That's all I'm telling ya."
"Great thanks," the Doctor sighs. "And I want to find a blonde in a Union Jack. I mean a specific one, I didn't just wake up this morning with a craving for one." Though he did enjoy the time they had together early this morning. The kids all laugh at that statement as Nancy looks annoyed. "Has anyone seen a girl like that?" Nancy gets up from the table, walks around and takes his plate of him. "What have I done wrong?" The Doctor pouts.
"You took two slices." Nancy defends. The kids all laugh at him. "No blondes, no flags. Anything else before you leave?" She demands.
"Yeah there is actually, thanks for asking?" He pulls out a sheet of paper and a pen from his pocket and draws something on it. "Something I've been looking for, would've fallen from the sky about a month ago but not a bomb. Not the usual kind anyway. It wouldn't off exploded. Probably would've buried itself in the ground somewhere." He notices Nancy looking nervous. "And it would've looked something like this." He shows them a picture of the object he's looking for.
A knocking sounds on the window and he hears all the children gasp. "Mummy," he hears the same child ask. "Are you in there mummy?" The Doctor opens the curtain to see a child with a gas mask over his face.
"Who was the last one in?" Nancy looks at everyone.
"Him," Earnie points.
"No," Nancy disagrees. "He came round the back, who came in the front door?"
The Doctor looks at them and notices that they look afraid of the child. "Me," one boy whispers.
"Did you close the door?" Nancy asks urgently.
"I'm not sure," the boy whispers.
Nancy runs to close and lock the door when they see the child moving that way. The Doctor follows her, "what's this then? Never easy being the only child out in the cold, ya know."
"And I suppose you'd know?" Nancy questions.
"Yes, I would actually." The Doctor answers while he thinks about all those times when his own people turned their backs on him. Before he can be swept away on a tide of memories a picture of Rose appears and the feelings of hurt and betrayal fade. It's funny, he could feel a little fear coming through their connection but not enough to alarm him. Now though she seems happy.
"It's not exactly a child," Nancy breaks him out of his thoughts.
"Mummy," they hear the child call.
Nancy runs back into the dinning room. "Everybody out." She tells all the kids. They grab what they can and run out the back door. "Across the back garden and under the fence. Now go move," Nancy yells as she puts her coat back on. "Come on," she coaxes one of the little ones. "We've got to go now. It's just like a game, just like chase." She gets the little girl moving as the Doctor watches.
"Mummy," the Doctor turns back to the door. "Mummy, please let me in mummy." The child begs as the Doctor moves closer to the door he sees a hand come through the mail slot and notices a gash on the back of a child's hand.
"Are you alright?" The Doctor asks.
"Please let me in," the child continues to beg.
Nancy throws a vase at the door and the hand withdraws. "You mustn't let him touch ya."
The Doctor looks back at her, "what happens if he touches me?"
"He'll make ya like him." Nancy insists.
"What's he like?" The Doctor insists.
"I've got to go." Nancy insists.
"Nancy," the Doctor calls stopping her. "What's he like?"
"He's empty," she finally explains. The phone suddenly rings. "It's him, he can make phones ring, he can. Just like with that police box, you saw."
The Doctor looks back at the door as he picks up the phone. He hears, "are you my mummy?"
Nancy takes the phone out of his hands and hangs it up. The radio then switches on and they hear the same thing. The Doctor tries to change the channel but you can hear the same thing on every channel. Then a mechanical toy monkey starts bashing it's tambourines and asking the same questions.
"You stay here if you want too." Nancy insists as she runs out the back door.
The Doctor watches her run off when the child puts his hand through the mail slot again. The Doctor walks up to the door and hunches down to the child's level. "Your mummy isn't here," the Doctor tells him.
Everything shuts off as he hears, "are you my mummy."
"No mummy's here," the Doctor informs him. "Nobody here but us Chickens," then he looks around. "Well this chicken."
"I'm scared," the child implores.
"Why are those other children frightened of you?" The Doctor quires.
"Please let me in mummy?" The Doctor hears again. It's like the child can only ask for a few things. "Mummy, I'm scared of the bombs."
The Doctor thinks about it. "Ok," he agrees. "I'm opening the door now."
The child withdraws its hand from the mail slot and the Doctor leans forward to unlock the door. He slowly opens it to see that the child has gone. He walks out the door and looks around but can't see the child anywhere.
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Rose wakes up to see she's lying on Jacks bed. Getting up she sees Jack sitting in the captains chair. "Better now?" Jack grins at her.
"You got lights in 'ere?" Rose questions.
Jack hits a switch and the lights switch on. "Hello," he flirts.
"Hello," Rose flirts back. She maybe in love with the Doctor but it doesn't mean she can't flirt with her pseudo brother.
"Hello," Jack repeats.
"Let's not start that again," Rose halts.
Jack laughs. "Ok."
"So, who are you suppose to be then?" Rose questions.
"Jack Harkness, 133 squadron, Royal Air Force, American volunteer." He hands over a psychic paper.
Rose grins as she reads it. "Liar, this is psychic paper. It tells me whatever you want it to tell me."
"How do you know?" Jack questions suspiciously.
"2 things, 1 my partner uses this all the time and 2, you just handed me a piece of paper, telling me your single and you workout." Rose hands the paper back to him.
Jack takes it back of her. "Tricky thing, psychic paper."
"Yep," Rose agrees. "Can't let your mind wander when your handing it over."
Jake looks at it after she hands it back. "Oh, your in love with a man called the Doctor and you may love to flirt but your with him and no you don't share. Disappointing really."
Rose blushes. "Shall we try to get along without psychic paper."
"That would be hard wouldn't it?" Jack questions.
Rose starts looking around. "Nice spaceship." Rose compliments.
Jack shrugs. "Gets me around."
"Very Spock," Rose giggles at Jacks confused face.
"Who?" Jack quires confused.
"Guessing your not a local boy then." Rose grins.
Jack looks at his vortex manipulator. "Cell phone, a liquid crystal watch and fabric that won't be around for at least another two decades. Guessing your not a local girl." He knows there's something special about Rose that feels right, not that he fell for her even if her heart wasn't already taken. There's just something about her.
"Guessing right," Rose agrees snapping him out of his thoughts. Rose was looking at the controls of his ship when she forgot that her hands were hurt from the rope and she goes to touch something. She pulls back with a gasp.
"Burn your hands on the rope?" Jack asks as he moves towards her.
"Yeah," Rose agrees as she sits in his chair. She's wondering why Bad Wolf hadn't healed them.
"Cause," the Bad Wolf answered, it would weaken me and this is part of how they figure everything out. Rose had to concede the point.
"We're parked in midair," Rose says excitedly. "Can't anyone down there see us?"
Jack looks at her funny, wondering why she doesn't seem surprised. She seemed to have been expecting it. "No," Jack answers. "Can I have a look at your hands for a moment, please?"
"Ok," Rose concedes.
Jack pulls out a sonic device and scans her hands. "You can stop acting now. I know exactly who you are. I can spot a time agent a mile away."
"Time agent?" Rose questions as she hears Bad Wolf. He clearly needs to have his sensors cleared, still if we weren't so in love with our Doctor we might've given Jack a chance.
"I've been expecting one of you guys to show up. Though not, I must say by barrage balloon. Do you often travel that way?" Jack jokes.
Rose flirts. "Sometimes I get swept of my feet." Jack takes of the scarf around his neck and ties her hands together. Rose looks on in amusement. "What ya doing?"
"Try to keep still," Jack assures her. He flicks a switch close to her head and tiny gold like particles appear. They look similar to the gold particles that appears around a wound when she's hurt and the Bad Wolf heals her. "Nanogenes, subatomic robots. The air in here's full of them." He turns the switch back off. "They just repaired three layers of your skin."
"Well tell them thanks." Rose jokes.
Jack removes the scarf from her hands and moves away, "ok, let's get down to business."
"Business?" Rose enquires.
Jack picks up a champaign bottle. "Shall we have a drink on the balcony." He pushes a button and a ladder descends. "Bring up the glasses."
Rose grabs the glasses and climbs the ladder after Jack. Rose looks around and grins. "I know I'm standing on something." Jack laughs and pulls out his sonic device. With one press his ship appears beneath them. "Ok," Rose grins. "You have an invisible spaceship."
"Yeah," Jack agrees.
"Tethered up to Big Ben," Rose grins at him. "Afraid your going to lose it?"
"First rule of active camouflage," Jack explains. "Park somewhere you remember." Jack pops the cork on the bottle and pours champaign into each glass while he takes one.
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While Rose and Jack are flirting the Doctors off trying to find Nancy. The Doctor finds her hiding food in an abandoned tram car. "How'd you follow me here?" Nancy asks startled.
"I'm good at following me." The Doctor explained. "Got the nose for it."
"People can't usually follow me if I don't want 'em too." Nancy stats.
"My nose has special powers," the Doctor grins.
"Yeah, is that why it's so," she breaks off.
"What," the Doctor asks confused.
"Nothing," Nancy tries not to smile.
"What," the Doctor insists.
"Nothing," Nancy repeats. "Do your ears have special powers too."
"What are you trying to say?" The Doctor acts insulted.
"Goodnight mister," Nancy laughs as she goes to move off.
"Nancy," the Doctor stops her. "There's something chasing you and the other kids. Looks like a boy but it isn't a boy. It started about a month a go, right?" Nancy turns back to him. "The thing I'm looking for, the thing that fell from the sky. That's when it landed, and you know what I'm talking about don't you?" The Doctor asks.
"There was a bomb," Nancy concedes. "A bomb that wasn't a bomb. Fell the other end of lime house green station."
"Take me there," the Doctor asks.
Nancy shakes her head. "There's soldiers guarding it, barbed wire. You'll never get through."
"Try me," the Doctor challengers.
"You sure you want to know what's going on in there?" Nancy questions.
The Doctor nods his head. "I really want to know."
"Then there's someone you need to see first." Nancy explained.
"And who might that be?" The Doctor questions.
"Doctor," Nancy tells him as she leads him there.
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Rose and Jack were lying on the roof of his spaceship when she realised how late it must be. Standing up she comments. "You know it's getting late, I should really be getting back." She hopes the Doctor hasn't gotten himself into to much trouble.
"We're discussing business," Jack replies while still lying down.
Rose laughs. "This isn't business, this is champaign."
"I try never to disguise business with a clear head." Jack remarks as he stands up. "Are you authorised to negotiate with me."
"What would we be negotiating?" Rose flirts. It's hard to remember that this is Jack when he was only a con man.
"I have something for the time agency." Jack stats. "Something they would like to buy are you in power to make payment."
"Well," Rose hedges. "I should talk to my partner. I should really be getting back to him."
"The Doctor with no name?" Jack enquires.
"Do you have the time?" Rose distracts him from asking to many questions. Jack pushes a button on his sonic again and Big Ben lights up. "Ok, that's flash," Rose grins. "That was great."
"So," Jack moves closer and grabs her around her waist. "When you say partner is it an open relationship."
"Ok, were standing in midair on a spaceship during a German air raid. And your asking if my relationships open. Didn't you read the psychic paper?" Rose questions.
Jack kisses her hand. "Yep."
Rose sighs. "Unfortunately, he doesn't share." Rose holds her finger to his lips as he goes to say something. "And neither do I."
"Do you like Glenn Miller?" Jack asks suddenly. He pushes the sonic device again and music starts playing. Jack grabs her hand and places his other around her waist and they start dancing.
"It's 1941, night of the London blitz. Height of the German bombing campaign," Jack explains. "And something else has fallen on London. A fully equipped chula warship. The last one in existence. Armed to the teeth, and I know where it is, because I parked it. If the agency can name the right price, I can get it for you. But in two hours a German bombs going to fall on it and destroy it forever, that's your deadline. That's the deal, now shall we discuss payment."
"Let me see if I understand. You use to be a time agent now your some sort off, kind of free lancer." Rose sums up.
"Well that's a little harsh," Jack pouts a little. "I like to think of myself as a criminal."
Rose laughs. "I bet you do."
"So this partner of yours, does he handle the business?" Jack gets back to the point.
"Well," Rose hedges again. "I delegate a lot of that yeah."
"Well maybe we should go find him." Jack suggests.
Rose raises her eyebrow, "and how are you going to do that?"
"Easy," Jack suggests. "I'll do a scan for alien tech." Jack uses his vortex manipulator.
Rose moves of a bit and can't help but comment. "Finally, a professional."
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Nancy leads the Doctor to the crash site. He takes out some compact binoculars from his pocket and looks at the guards surrounding the site.
"The bombs under that tarpaulin," Nancy explains. "They put the fence up overnight. See that building, the hospital."
The Doctor uses the binoculars to look at the hospital. "What about it?" He notes that it's Albion hospital again.
"That's where the Doctor is. You should talk to him," Nancy urges.
The Doctor looks back to the crash site. "Right now I'm more interested in getting in there."
"Talk to the doctor first," Nancy urges.
"Why?" The Doctor queries.
"Cause then maybe you won't want to get inside." Nancy turns and starts walking back up some stairs.
The Doctor hears her, "where you going?"
Nancy turns back. "There was a lot of food in that house, I've got mouths to feed. Should be safe enough now."
"Can I ask you a question?" The Doctor asks. "Who did you lose?" The Doctor knows when someone's lost people close to them.
"What?" Nancy asks defensively.
The Doctor turns to look at her. "The way you look after all those kids. It's cause you lost somebody isn't it? Your doing all this to make up for it."
"My little brother," Nancy finally admits. "Jamie, one night I went out looking for food. Same night that thing fell. I told him not to follow me, I told him it was dangerous but he just, just didn't like being on his own." Nancy has tears in her eyes.
"What happened?" The Doctor asks gently.
"In the middle of an air raid," Nancy scoffs. "What do you think happened?"
The Doctor grins slowly, "amazing."
"What is?" Nancy asks confused.
"1941, right now, not very far from here." The Doctor explains. "The German war machine is rolling up the map of Europe. Country after country falling like dominoes. Nothing can stop it, nothing. Until one tiny little island says no, no not here. A mouse in front of a lion, your amazing the lot of ya. I know what you do to Hitler, you frighten the hell out of me."
The Doctor watches Nancy carefully.
"Off ya go then," the Doctor urges, "do what you gotta do. Save the world."
The Doctor heads towards the hospital while Nancy heads in the opposite direction.
The Doctor opens the gate with his sonic screwdriver and walks into the hospital to find it completely deserted but the lights are still on. He walks into a room and finds beds full off people just lying there with gas masks on. They don't even look like their breathing. Some of them are even wearing nurses uniforms.
Walking into another room he sees the exact same thing. Hearing a noise he turns to see a doctor step into the room. This must be the doctor Nancy was talking about.
"You'll find them everywhere," the doctor explained. "Every bed in every ward. Hundreds of them."
"Yes, I saw." The Doctor agreed.
The medical doctor moved passed him with a cane and headed to a chair in the middle of the room next to the desk.
"Why are they still wearing gas masks?" The Doctor queries.
"There not," the medical doctor stats. "Who are you?"
"I'm, aaah, are you the doctor?" The Doctor hedges.
"Doctor Constantine, "he introduces. "And you are?"
"Nancy sent me," the Doctor hedges again.
"Nancy," Constantine says in surprise. "That means you must be asking about the bomb."
"Yes," the Doctor agrees.
"What do you know about it?" Constantine asks.
The Doctor shakes his head. "Nothing, that's why I was asking. What do you know?"
"Only what it's done," Constantine tells him as the Doctor looks around.
"These people, they were all caught in the blast?" The Doctor asks confused.
"None of them were," Constantine answers as he starts coughing.
The Doctor moves to help him as Constantine sits in the chair. "Your very sick."
"Dying, I should imagine. I just haven't been able to find the time. Are you a doctor?" Constantine explains.
"I have my moments," the Doctor grins. Wondering what's happened to everyone.
"Have you examined any off them yet?" Constantine asks.
"No," the Doctor tells him.
"Don't touch the flesh," Constantine warns.
"Which one?" The Doctor asks.
"Anyone," Constantine tells him.
The Doctor pulls out his sonic and walks over to a patient to scan them.
"Conclusions?" Constantine asks.
"Massive head trauma mostly on the left side. Partial collapse of the chest cavity mostly to the right side and there's some scaring on the back of the hand." He's seen that scar on the child's hand as well. "And the gas mask seems to be fused to the flesh but I can't see any burns."
"Examine another one," Constantine suggests.
The Doctor heads to the next bed and finds the exact same injures. "This is impossible."
"Examine another," Constantine suggests again.
The Doctor crosses the room this time and examines another person. "This is impossible," the Doctor stats.
"No," Constantine tells him.
The Doctor moves to stand in front of Constantine. "They've all got the exact same injures."
"Yes," Constantine agrees.
"Exactly the same," the Doctor says in disbelief.
"Yes," Constantine agrees again.
"Identical, all of them. Right down to the scar on the back of the hand." The Doctor stats. "How did this happen? How did this start?"
"When that bomb dropped," Constantine explained. "There was just one victim."
"Dead?" The Doctor queried.
"At first," Constantine agreed. "His injuries were truly dreadful. By the following morning every doctor and nurse that had treated him, who had touched him had those exact same injuries. By the morning after that, every patient in this same ward, the exact same injuries. Within a week the entire hospital. Physical injuries as plaque. Can you explain that? What would you say is the cause of death?"
"The head trauma." The Doctor suggests.
"No," Constantine denies.
"Asphyxiation," the Doctor tries again.
"No," Constantine shoots down again.
"The collapse of the chest cavity." He tries again.
"No," Constantine denies again.
"Alright," the Doctor gives up. "What was the cause of death?"
"There wasn't one," Constantine explained. "There not dead." He bangs his walking stick on a metal bin and all the people sit up in bed. The Doctor jumps back in shock.
"It's alright," Constantine assures him. "There harmless, they just sort of sit there. No heartbeat, no life signs, none if any kind. They just don't die."
The Doctor turned back to face him again. "And they've just been left here. Nobodies doing anything."
All the patients lay back down again.
"I try to make them comfortable," Constantine assures him. "What else is there?"
"Just you?" The Doctor asks shocked. "Your the only one here?"
"Before this war I was a father and a grandfather now I'm neither." Constantine tells him. "But I'm still a doctor."
"Yeah," the Doctor agrees. " I know the feeling."
"The army's plan is to blow up the hospital." Constantine explains. "Blame it on the German bomb."
"Probably too late," the Doctor realises.
"I know," Constantine agrees. "There are isolated cases," he starts acting like he's choking. "Isolated cases, breaking out all over London. Stay back." Constantine orders as the Doctor moves to try and help him. "Listen to me," Constantine urges. "Top floor, room 802 that's where they took the first victim. The one from the crash site and you must find Nancy again."
"Nancy?" The Doctor interrupts.
"It was her brother, she knows more than she's saying. She won't tell me, but she might," he's cut off as he starts choking again. "Mummy," Constantine starts repeating.
The Doctor moves back as he watches Doctor Constantine literally grew a gas mask on his face. The Doctor suddenly hears someone enter the hospital.
"Hello," he hears Rose call and moves off to find her.
He walks into the hallway and sees Rose walking towards him with another pretty boy. The Doctor rolls his eyes, he leaves her alone for five minutes and another pretty boy moves on her.
"Good evening," Jack shakes the Doctors hand. "Hope we're not interrupting. Captain Jack Harkness I've been hearing all about you on the way over."
"He knows," Rose clarifies to the Doctor. " I had to tell him about us, being time agents."
"And it's a real pleasure to met you, Doctor." Jack slaps him on the back then moves past him and enters the room the Doctor came from.
The Doctor turns back to Rose. "Where've you been? Where in the middle if a London blitz, it's not a good time for a stroll."
"Who's strolling," Rose grins as she moves to follow Jack with the Doctor trailing. "I went by barrage balloon. Only way to see an air raid."
"What?" The Doctor asks confused. The Doctor follows Rose into the room he came from as he sees Jack examine one of the patients with his vortex manipulator.
"This just isn't possible," Jack stats. "How did this happen?"
The Doctor stands there with his arms crossed. "What kind of ship landed here?"
"What?" Jack turns back to look at him.
"He said it was a chula warship," Rose answered. "He stole it, parked it somewhere out there. Somewhere a bombs going to fall on it unless we make him an offer."
"What kind of warship?" The Doctor asks Jack.
"Does it matter," Jack stats frustratedly. "It's got nothing to do with this."
"This started at the bomb site," the Doctor stats angrily. "It's got everything to do with it. What kind of warship?"
"An ambulance," Jack finally gives in. "Look," he says more calmly. He shows them a hologram. "That's what you chased through the time vortex. It's space junk, I wanted to kid you it was valuable. It's empty, I made sure of it. Nothing but a shell. I throw it at you. Saw your time travel vehicle, love the retro look by the way, nice panels. Threw you the bait."
"Bait," Rose questions as she stands by the Doctor.
"I tried to sell it to you then destroy it before you found out it was junk." Jack finished explaining. "It's a con, I was conning you. That's what I am, I'm a conman. Thought you were time agents but your not are you."
Rose shakes her head. "Just a couple more freelancers."
"I should've known," Jack sighed. "The way you guys are blending in with the local colour, I mean flag girl was bad enough but u-boat captain. Anyway whatever's happening here has got nothing to do with that ship."
Rose looks around. "What is happening here Doctor?"
The Doctor looks at her. "Human DNA is being rewritten, by an idiot."
"What do you mean?" Rose questions. Rose still unfortunately needs to act like she doesn't know what's happening at least this time everyone lives.
"I don't know, some kind of virus." The Doctor replies. "Turning human beings into these things. But why? What's the point?"
Rose tries to take a closer look at them when she jumps back in freight as all the people suddenly sit up. "What's happening?"
All the people start to get up as they call out, "mummy."
"I don't know." The Doctor grabs Roses hand and moves her behind him. "Don't let them touch ya."
"What happens if they touch us?" Rose enquires.
"Your looking at it." The Doctor stats.
Jacks looking around in a panic as their backed into a corner. The Doctor looks at Rose in worry and Rose starts feeling worried too.
Like Rose said, even though she loves the Doctor she can flirt with other people and Jacks all about flirting.
