Policebells and church sirens
"Call Jack" Tosh ordered and started to click away. "Oh god!"
"What, what is it?"
"It's awful" Tosh whispered and moved away so they all could see a blurred photo from CCTV of something that looked very much like a dragon.
The Doctor enjoyed the silence. He was sitting in the commander's seat with his eyes closed, just enjoying the silence. There hadn't been a lot of that since Donna Noble joined the TARDIS.
It had been a bit of a coincidence, the way they met again. After the whole business with the Family of Blood and everything poor Martha had been forced to endure, she had asked him to take him home for a few days, so she could visit her family and rest a bit. The Doctor, never one for family and rest, decided to investigate a new firm called Adipose and that was when he met Donna again. Apparently she had been looking all over for him, even as far as venturing into Wales, although she claimed only to remember her trip home. She had asked him about Rose, and although the Doctor had thought he had put that behind him, it felt like having both hearts ripped out all over again. Apparently Rose Tyler would always be with him, however he tried to make amends with the situation.
He had told Donna about Martha and she had laughed and called her "Mad Martha" when he mentioned that Martha seemed to fancy him. Their first meeting had been a bit awkward and Martha had struggled to accept that Donna would be travelling with them, but after their first trip, where Donna had saved Martha from a Stur with wandering hands, they had been getting along nicely. Although Donna still considered Martha a bit mad for fancying the Doctor.
"Doctor are you sleeping?"
The Doctor reluctantly opened his eyes and turned to look at Martha. "No, no… Just resting…"
Martha smiled. "It's quiet…"
The Doctor nodded. "Yes, I was quite enjoying that."
Martha was just about to open her mouth when they were interrupted by a horrifying scream. The both turned and saw Donna, dripping wet and only wearing a towel, with a look of absolute rage in her eyes. "Who did this" she screamed at them.
Both Martha and the Doctor looked confused. "Did what" the Doctor asked gently, knowing all to well not to enrage Donna further.
"This" she shrieked and pointed at her forehead, where someone had apparently written something with a big, black marker.
The Doctor took a tentative step towards Donna and then almost fainted. Across Donna's normally empty forehead someone had apparently written 'Bad Wolf'. "Did you do this" he managed to stammer out.
"Of course I didn't do this, you imbecile. Why would I write something that stupid across my bleeding forehead? Why would I write ANYTHING across my forehead?"
"Does it mean something" Martha asked.
The Doctor nodded and swallowed. He found his sonic screwdriver and pointed at Donna. "Something is wrong" he muttered.
Donna, slightly put off by the Doctor's immediate change in posture, allowed him to "sonic" her, as she called it. "Am I alright?"
"Yeah…" The Doctor's voice was mumbled and it looked like he wasn't concentrating.
"Could you please concentrate on this, thank you very much" Donna screeched and startled the Doctor so much he dropped the screwdriver.
"Sorry, it's just…"
The Doctor didn't get a chance to finish, as the TARDIS suddenly lurched and started to shake.
"Doctor, what's going on?" Martha yelled and frantically grabbed hold of something attached to the TARDIS, while Donna almost flew through the control room and the Doctor yelled at the TARDIS.
"It's the rift, it's open!"
"The what" Donna yelled, having difficulty holding on to both her towel and one of the pillars.
"The rift. It's like…. Oh it doesn't matter. It's bad! And it's really bad that something wrote 'Bad Wolf' in your forehead!"
"Are we going somewhere?"
"Yes, Cardiff. I need to have a word with an old acquaintance of mine!"
"Okay, we go in teams. Ianto and Gwen, you go together, try to do some damage control. "Owen and Tosh are with me."
"What about us" Rose asked.
Jack raised an eyebrow. "I think you have done enough for now. You stay here until further notice.
"Oh come on" Mickey protested. "If there's a dragon on the loose, you're gonna need all the help you can get. And it's not like we're rookies."
"I don't care if you're certified dragon hunters, you stay here until I say so. Understood?"
Rose just nodded and was forced to watch as the rest of the team left. Gwen gently squeezed her arm. "He'll come around, don't worry." Rose just nodded and sat down, resigning herself to wait.
"Well this sucks" Jake commented.
"I say we go" Mickey said.
"Mickey, you heard what Jack said" Rose said.
"So? He's not the boss of me. Why should they have all the fun?"
"Fine, Mickey, Jake and I will go" Pete said.
"No way, I'm coming too" Rose interjected.
"Me too" Jackie said.
"Rose can come, Jacks, you have to stay behind and take care of Tony. Duncan and Tim will stay with you."
"Where do you think it came from" Gwen asked.
"The dragon?" Gwen nodded. Ianto shrugged. "Who knows? I don't think it's very important right now."
"No I suppose you're right" Gwen mumbled. "Doesn't seem like anyone has noticed, though?"
"Maybe they thought it was a plane?"
"Yeah maybe…. I feel bad for Rose."
Ianto sighed. "It was a difficult situation."
"Jack should have been more understanding" Gwen pointed out.
"Maybe."
"I like Rose, she's sweet and funny."
This time Ianto didn't even bother with an answer.
"What's this, then?"
Ianto looked where Gwen was pointing. A blue box was standing a couple of feet away from them. "It's a police box" Ianto replied.
"I can see that. But what is it?"
"It's probably from the fifties or sixties. You could trap someone in it or call the police from it. Very clever, actually."
"How do you know stuff like that" Gwen asked with an amused face. "I've never seen it here before, is it new?"
"Maybe it's art?"
"Art? An old police box as art?"
"Let's just look for the dragon, please?"
Donna was in a right state; they had been chasing the Doctor through most of Cardiff and she had a feeling her hair looked completely crazy, at least judging by the looks Martha kept giving it. "Could you just tell us what it is we're looking for" she asked and stopped. She hadn't even had time to get properly dressed or remove the stupid writing on her forehead.
"A man" the Doctor just said and started to "sonic" again.
"Of all the times to come out" Donna sighed.
"Come out? What are you talking about?" The Doctor had stopped so abruptly that Martha had run straight into him. "It's an old well… Friend, I suppose. His name is Jack Harkness and I have feeling he has something to do with this." The sonic screwdriver started to beep and the Doctor exclaimed a triumphant "AHA" and started to run, forcing Martha and Donna to follow him.
"This is hopeless. How are we going to find a dragon on foot? It's not like they are known for their great love of city strolls."
"Owen do us all a favour and just shut up" Jack growled. He couldn't believe Rose had disobeyed him like that, made his whole team disobey him. And now they had to catch a dragon and deal with Rose's crazy mother. Jack wasn't sure which he was least looking forward to.
"Captain Jack Harkness" a voice suddenly interrupted them.
Jack turned around and found himself face to face with a tall man wearing a pinstriped suit. "Yes? Do I know you? I'm sure I would have remembered ever spending time with someone like you" Jack replied, his trademark grin in place.
"Stop that. Which one of you opened the rift?"
"That would be me. I'm a twat" Owen replied.
"And Donna Noble, we meet again" Jack exclaimed and looked at Donna. "Why is 'Bad Wolf' written across your forehead?"
"I don't bloody know. And who are you ?"
"Let's save that for later, shall we" the tall man interrupted. "Something came through the rift."
"We already know that, thank you. Kinda hard to miss the giant dragon" Owen said.
"Dragon? What dragon? No, never mind, this is worse. Jack it's about… Rose!"
Jack noticed the man wasn't looking at them anymore, but something behind them and turned to look. There stood Rose, looking a bit like a deer caught in the headlights.
"Oh my god" Martha whispered, as Donna just looked confused.
"Rose…" Jack started, but was interrupted as Rose practically threw herself into the open arms of the man in the suit.