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6 months later, after the Slitheen family nearly destroyed the Earth, Mickey Smith was casually getting off the train in Cardiff Central railway station. He was found heading towards the redeveloped Oval Basin.
Once he spotted the TARDIS in front of the huge water tower, he made his way to it, knocking on the doors.
"Who the hell are you?" Was Jack's first words, once he opened the doors, seconds later after the knock.
"What do you mean, who the hell am I? Who the hell are you?" Mickey glanced Jack over.
"Captain Jack Harkness," he announced. "Whatever you're selling." He glanced at him from above."We're not buying."
"Get out of my way!" Mickey was clearly having enough of him, as he pushed Jack aside while coming inside.
"Don't tell me. This must be Mickey," Jack stated while closing the doors.
"Here comes trouble! How're you doing, Ricky boy?" the Doctor asked lightly from above the ladder where he was fixing something.
"It's Mickey!" he shot back at him.
"Don't listen to him, he's winding you up." Rose chuckled.
"You look fantastic." Mickey praised her. Rose smiled at him tenderly. And before she could pull him for a hug, Mickey held out a rose from his jacket.
"Oh." It came as a surprise for Rose. Well, that could be as well considered a friendly gesture.
"Thank you." She smiled at him sincerely. And was once again trying to hug him, when Mickey gave her a soft peck on her cheek. Oh well, this could still be considered as a friendly gesture, right? Yeh, no problem.
Rose made a nervous laugh while looking at him. What she didn't notice was that the Doctor was looking at the sight slightly unhappily, still mending something with his hands, but his gaze on the two of them.
"Aw, sweet, look at these two. How come I never get any of that?" Jack complained.
"Buy me a drink first," the Doctor suggested.
"You're such hard work."
"But worth it." The Doctor smiled at Jack.
"I'm so glad you could come by," Rose continued her talk with Mickey.
"Didn't see you in all those months, couldn't miss my chance." He smiled at her. Rose nodded at him, smiling .
"What're you doing in Cardiff anyway?" Mickey asked lightly. "And who the hell's Jumping Jack Flash?" he said mockingly, pointing his head at Jack. "I mean, I don't mind you hanging out with big-ears up there-" He pointed at the Doctor.
"Oi!" the Doctor exclaimed.
"Look in the mirror," Mickey said in a hint, the Doctor just shook his head. "But this guy, I don't know, he's kind of..."
"Handsome?" Jack suggested.
"More like cheesy."
"Early twenty first Century slang. Is cheesy good or bad?" Jack began walking towards them in deep thoughts.
"It's bad," Mickey replied at once.
"But bad means good, isn't that right?" Jack calculated.
"Are you saying I'm not handsome?" the Doctor shot a look at Mickey.
Mickey looked up at the Doctor before glancing towards Rose's direction and that's when his face fell. It was getting pale.
"Mickey?" Rose asked, waving her hand in front of his face.
"You got an alien on board," he stated breathless.
"Perspective, aren't you?" the Doctor said sarcastically. Making Rose snort a bit, but then she got her focus back on Mickey.
"Not that one," he grimaced. "That..." he began when his face twisted in realisation. "Oh no. Is it like in the movies? When only the chosen one sees it? It is, isn't it?" Mickey looked frantically at each of them, but they just stood there looking at him while making faces like "What the hell you are on about?"
"Oh God, now I gotta describe it to you." He began pacing nervously at his feet. "He has got this sort of...snout...a-and blue jumper...and he looks like a...pig! Like a pig just fully clothed!" He pointed at the direction of the arch towards the TARDIS hallway.
Dead silence.
Seconds later sniggering sounds could be heard. At first still faint, then becoming louder evolving into chuckling and laughing.
Mickey looked around the the trio to see Jack clenching his stomach from laughing, the Doctor shaking his head with a grin and Rose desperately trying to suppress the snort, but failing.
"Have you gone mad? You got to stop it!" Mickey still persisted.
Then the Doctor descended the stairs, casually patting on Mickey's shoulders. "Rickey the idiot, never cease to amuse us." He smiled at him.
"What?" Mickey was watching them with eyes narrowed in confusion.
"It's-" Rose's voice faltered from all the laughing. "It's alright, Mickey. We see him." She nodded at him while pressing her lips together.
And before Mickey could say anything more she continued. "He's travelling with us. Our companion."
"A what?" Mickey couldn't believe them. "But he is an alien!" He pointed at him.
"Oi!" the Doctor exclaimed in a warning.
"That one at least looks human, who knows how much he is, though." He glanced at him from head to toe making the Doctor roll his eyes. "But that is...a walking pig!"
Rose chuckled. Jack was still shouting in laughter. "Anyway!" Rose tried to calm them down. "We just stopped to Cardiff to refuel," Rose began.
"The thing is, Cardiff's got this rift running through the middle of the city. It's invisible, but it's like an earthquake fault between different dimensions." Rose moved her hands, gesturing.
"The rift was healed back in 1869," the Doctor added up.
"Thanks to a girl named Gwyneth, because these creatures called the Gelth, they were using the rift as a gateway, but she saved the world and closed it." Rose talked in excitement, Mickey nodding.
"But closing a rift always leaves a scar, and that scar generates energy, harmless to the human race-" Jack cut in, now having calmed down.
"But perfect for the Tardis, so just park it here for a couple of days right on top of the scar and-" the Doctor complemented him.
"Open up the engines, soak up the radiation-" Jack started raising his voice in enthusiasm.
"Like filling her up with petrol and off we go!" Rose exclaimed, Mickey watching from one side to another, getting lost.
"Into time!" Jack said lively while high five-ing Rose.
"And space!" the trio said in unison, Rose spinning around to high five the Doctor. Everyone was grinning all happily.
"My God, have you seen yourselves? You all think you're so clever, don't you?" Mickey asked them.
"Yeah." The Doctor nodded happily with his mouth half open in a grin.
"Yeah." Same for Rose.
"Yep!" And Jack, who slapped Mickey on the face lightly.
"Should take another twenty four hours, which means we've got time to kill," the Doctor announced, once the four of them made their way outside.
"That old lady's staring," Mickey noted.
"Probably wondering what four people could do inside a small wooden box." Jack sneered while chuckling together with Rose seconds later.
As the group started to walk away Mickey butted in again. "Wait, the TARDIS, we can't just leave it. Doesn't it get noticed?"
"Ricky, let me tell you something about the human race. You put a mysterious blue box slap bang in the middle of town, what do they do?" The Doctor placed his hands on Mickey's shoulders and as Mickey started to mouth the answer- "Walk past it. Now, stop your nagging. Let's go and explore."
"What's the plan?" Rose asked lightly while skipping towards the Doctor and linking their arms together.
"I don't know. Cardiff, early twenty first century and the wind's coming from the east. Trust me. Safest place in the universe."
"Something to eat first?" Jack suggested.
"You're on it!" the Doctor agreed.
They found themselves in a restaurant on a small jetty.
"I swear, six feet tall and with big tusks" Jack was telling his story in full excitement.
"You're lying through your teeth!" the Doctor exclaimed while looking at Jack in amusement.
Rose was laughing out loud. No matter how many times she heard the story, it never ceased to amaze her.
"I mean, it turns out the white things are tusks and I mean tusks! And it's woken, and it's not happy," Jack continued.
"How could you not know it was there?" the Doctor asked incredulously.
"And we're standing there, fifteen of us, naked-" Jack exclaimed the word with much power.
"Naked?!" Rose repeated while chuckling.
"And I'm like, oh, no, no, it's got nothing to do with me." Jack moved in a comic show gesture. "And then it roars, and we are running. Oh my God, we are running!" He pointed a finger in the air to make his point. "And Brakovitch falls, so I turn to him and I say-"
"I knew we should've turned left!" Mickey finished.
"That's my line!" Jack cried while everyone burst out laughing.
"I don't believe you." Rose hit Jack playfully. "I don't believe a word you say ever. That is so brilliant."
At that moment the Doctor saw the newspaper with a familiar face on the cover. He walked towards the elderly man as he snatched it from his grasp. His face fell as he read it and turned around to show his group.
"And I was having such a nice day."
Oh, right.
Rose bit her lip. Nearly forgot about that.
And here they stood. The invincible team of four. At the City Hall foyer. Just add James Bond Mission Impossible and you get the image.
"According to intelligence, the target is the last surviving member of the Slitheen family," Jack began his smart talk while taking off his gloves. "A criminal sect from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorious." While taking off his scarf. "Masquerading as a human being, zipped inside a skin suit."
"Okay, plan of attack, we assume a basic fifty seven fifty six strategy." That made the Doctor look up at him sceptically. "Covering all available exits on the ground floor. Doctor, you go face to face. That'll designate Exit One," He faced the Doctor, who was still looking incredulously at him, but Jack seemed to fail to notice that. "I'll cover Exit Two. Rose, you Exit Three." Rose suppressed the chuckle while watching the scene. "Mickey Smith, you take Exit Four. Have you got that?" He ended in an all smart tone.
"Excuse me." Jack glanced at the Doctor. "Who's in charge?"
"Sorry. Awaiting orders, sir." Jack turned to stand in a soldier's pose.
"Right." The Doctor turned his head ahead. "Here's the plan." Pause. "Like he said. Nice plan. Anything else?"
Rose chuckled now audibly.
"Present arms." And to that everyone pulled out their mobile phones.
"Ready," the Doctor said.
"Ready." And Rose.
"Ready." With Mickey.
"Ready. Speed dial?" Jack asked.
"Yup." The Doctor.
"Ready." Rose
"Check." Mickey
"See you in hell," Jack said with a tease and walked off to his exit.
Rose started to run towards exist three as she knew the Slitheen would try to go North first. Even if her running was not that required, as Mickey would surely turn up with a leg in a bucket, and the Doctor would just have to use the teleportation reversal, but still, running always felt good.
So she ran.
She ran with a full concentration just to see Blon stop in her tracks with a surprised expression.
She snarled at her and it only made Rose snort at the sight. Not running away this time. She faced the other direction just to see Jack running at full speed and then, the only available exit was exit 4. Oh dear Mickey.
"Margaret!" the Doctor called out to the Slitheen. As he climbed down the ladder, Blon was already making her way towards exit 4.
"Who's on Exit Four?" Jack shouted out.
"That was Mickey!" Rose answered him lightly.
"Here I am." Mickey ran to them panting.
"Mickey the idiot." The Doctor mocked him.
Rose was already preparing to tell them that Blon is not gonna outrun them, when Mickey had other thoughts. He was too determined to let it pass. Moments later, the group watched as Mickey took the bucket off his foot just to throw it at Margaret's direction, and surprisingly, it hit her in the legs. Making her fall face flat on the ground.
"Ouch," Jack said in a mock, while grinning.
"Nice job, Rickey." The Doctor patted Mickey on the shoulder.
"Oh, well." Mickey just shrugged.
Rose just watched the scene in surprise and nodded in approval.
"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. You have no means of escape. What do you do? You build a nuclear power station. But what for?" The Doctor interrogated Blon, once the five of them made their way back in the City Hall.
"A philanthropic gesture." The Doctor smiled, nodding in feigned understanding. "I've learnt the error of my ways," Margaret said while putting ice on her nose, which was now swelling up.
They learnt that the power station was going to be built on top of the rift, exploding the minute it reaches capacity.
"But why would she do that? A great big explosion, she'd only end up killing herself," Mickey asked.
"She's got a name, you know," Margaret countered.
"She's not even a she, she's a thing."
"Oh, but she's clever." The Doctor looked at her while saying, biting his lower lip with his teeth when he turned the model of the station upside down.
"Fantastic."
Jack's eyes popped out. "Is that a... tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator!?" Jack exclaimed in excitement.
"Couldn't have put it better myself." The Doctor looked at him approvingly.
Jack was enjoying himself while he explained to the group that when the reactor blows, the rift would open, making a disaster, but the extrapolator would serve as a shield.
Somewhere along the conversation, the Doctor steadily made his way towards the project poster. Rose noticed his movement from the first steps and let her gaze follow him, until she looked up to see the haunting words, which the Doctor was now looking at.
Blaidd Drwg - Bad Wolf.
"How'd you think of the name?" the Doctor asked.
"What, Blaidd Drwg? It's Welsh," Margaret said nonchalantly.
"I know, but how did you think of it?" the Doctor asked again.
"I chose it at random, that's all. I don't know. It just sounded good. Does it matter?" She shrugged.
"Blaidd Drwg," the Doctor stated while turning around at his friends.
"Bad Wolf," Rose said absentmindedly.
The Doctor looked at her in question. "You know Welsh?"
"J-just the basics." Rose played innocent. Stop it. Get a hold of yourself.
"Everywhere we go. Two words following us. Bad Wolf." The Doctor looked concerned.
It was the first time when the Doctor noticed the repetition of the words. And it meant that the end would be near. She gulped at the thought. This is it. Her creation of the Bad Wolf is waiting for her just around the corner.
"How can the words be following you?" Jack stated a question.
The Doctor still looked a bit troubled, but soon dismissed the thought. And she was not fooled this time. In his long life, he knew better than to disregard such things. He knew something was coming. Just like with the storm approaching.
"Nah, just a coincidence. Like hearing a word on the radio then hearing it all day. Never mind. Things to do. Margaret, we're going to take you home," he said nonchalantly.
"Hold on, isn't that the easy option, like letting her go?" Jack didn't want to end it like that.
"I don't believe it!" Rose exclaimed all happy. "We actually get to go to Raxacoricofallapatorius!" And at that she jumped into the Doctor's arms. Both happy to the core at the thought. She loved the trip the last time, could certainly repeat it.
"They have the death penalty," Margaret announced, making the Doctor's face shadow. "The family Slitheen was tried in its absence many years ago and found guilty with no chance of appeal. According to the statutes of government, the moment I return, I am to be executed. What do you make of that, Doctor? Take me home and you take me to my death."
It was hard for Rose to hold her laughter as she imagined Blon as an egg in her mind. And it would not be appropriate to laugh in such a dejected statement.
"Not my problem," the Doctor said nonchalantly. Rose raised an eyebrow.
At night the group found themselves at the TARDIS. Slitheen admiring the ship, and faking her acceptance of defeat. Rose just rolled her eyes at the sight. She still had many things under her sleeves.
"We've got a prisoner. The police box is really a police box," Mickey stated in amusement.
"You're not just police, though. Since you're taking me to my death, that makes you my executioners. Each and every one of you," Margaret said slyly, while sitting on the armchair.
Oh for God's sake, talk about wanting to make them feel guilty.
"Well, you deserve it," Mickey said with a bit wavering voice.
"You're very quick to say so. You're very quick to soak your hands in my blood, which makes you better than me, how, exactly ?" she asked meaningfully. "Long night ahead." She smiled pleased at her own remark. "Let's see who can look me in the eye." She showed her snake's eye.
She looked at Mickey first - he glanced away, then at Jack and the Doctor, until it came to Rose.
It made her face twist in frustration, when she found Rose smirking at her! Rose could see how she was trying to form a word or two to get back at her, to make her feel ashamed of her reaction, but she failed each time and Rose just shrugged nonchalantly at her.
Serves you right.
As Mickey was standing outside, looking at the waterfall, Rose came from behind to stand besides him.
"It's freezing out here!" Rose exclaimed while making a nervous laugh. It felt so different to stand here with Mickey, compared to the previous time. And that other time ended quite horribly.
"Better than in there. She does deserve it. She's a Slitheen. I don't care. It's just weird in that box." Mickey was bothered by it.
"Everything will work out." Rose tried to assure him and smiled at him softly. Mickey glanced at her.
"I've been thinking." Oh boll, the conversation was heading dangerously at the same direction.
"Yeh?" Rose asked, her voice cracking a bit, as she was starting to feel uncomfortable.
"You know, we could go have a drink. Have a pizza or something. Just you and me."
Sigh.
"Mickey." Rose began, her eyes down on the ground.
"I know what you said back then. But I don't want us to end just like that," Mickey said in a honest voice.
It hurt her to make him feel pain.
"I'm sorry," she said faintly.
Mickey exhaled. "What happened really, Rose?" He was pacing about stressfully. "We were nice, together," he said lowering his voice to add more meaning into words. "And one day, out of the blue, you disappear with that alien thing and dump me the moment you are back!" he ended in a harsh voice.
Rose looked at him, her eyes filled with pain for him. "...I'm sorry." That's all she could offer. "I didn't mean to hurt you." Her voice cracked at the end.
"You said it's been only few days for you! Few days!" He raised his voice. "Did you lie about that?"
"No," Rose said while closing her eyes.
"Then how could you run off to him like that only after a few days?!"
She really didn't know what to say. It has been two years for her already. How could she say that, when even the Doctor wasn't aware of that!?
She swallowed a lump in her throat. "Mickey-"
"No, you know what? Forget it." He put his hands in defence while backing away.
"Mickey." She called out for him. She tried to grab him on his arm, but he pushed away.
"It's always just you and him, isn't it?" he asked rhetorically as he already knew the answer. Rose furrowed her forehead as she was making a pained and apologizing expression.
"I get it." He was slowly backing away, refusing to meet her eyes.
It didn't take long for Mickey to completely disappear from Rose's vision, leaving her stand there alone in the open.
Rose entered the TARDIS with a few deep breaths, wiping her tears off her face just before. She found only Jack inside. Blon and the Doctor must be still having their little date.
"Back already?" Jack said with a tease.
"Yeh," Rose said faintly.
Jack seemed to notice her weak voice as he looked up from his work to face her. "Everything alright?" he asked in concern.
"Yeh. Yeh, everything is fine-" She tried to control her voice, but it cracked in the end. She bit her lips while glancing sideways.
"Hey now. Everything is going to be okay. Come here." Jack got beside her to lead her to sit down on the jump seat. He placed his hands on her shoulders, to make her look at him. "So tell me, what's wrong?" He paused a bit and continued with a frown. "Did that Mickey guy done something to you?"
"No, no." She chuckled sadly. "He's done nothing wrong." Rose assured him. "It's me, that's wrong."
"How could you be wrong, Rose? You are great!" he exclaimed with a grin, making Rose chuckle with tears still in her eyes.
"It's just so hard..."
Jack pulled his hands away from her shoulders to stand a bit further from her, but still near the controls. "Is it about Doc?" he asked softly.
She shook her head slightly. "Sort of."
Jack exhaled. "Look, as you are already aware of it... I have been a conman for long while, and I can spot one like me miles away."
Rose gave him a look. "I'm not conning him!" she hissed.
"I guess you are not, but still you are lying to him." He raised one eyebrow.
"I'm not lying...-" she began, but Jack interrupted, "Yeh yeh, not telling the truth, same difference."
"How did you know?" she asked faintly in disbelief.
"As I said, I can spot a lie. And, you!" he pointed at her. "Are horrible at it!" he narrowed his eyes in a mock.
"Heh, I thought I was doing well." She half smiled. At least being undercover with the Doctor was what she was used to do.
"Hmm, I'm not saying you are bad at pretending itself, but you make yourself slip unnecessary." He shrugged. "For all I know, either Doc is pretending extremely well not to notice that or he is completely dense," he ended in disbelief.
Rose chuckled together with Jack at the thought.
"Why are you not telling him about your species?" he asked her.
"Species?" Rose blinked at him in surprise. "I'm human. What to tell?" What is wrong with her species again.
"You got time flowing around you, Rosie." Jack pointed a nod to her side, when saying that.
"Obviously, when you travel in time and space, I suppose you get time in you," Rose joked.
"Not the background radiation from the TARDIS," Jack countered.
"Then what?" Rose asked in bewilderment. Now this was starting to get ridiculous.
"You tell me." Jack shrugged. "I've got no idea what it is, since apparently, something is blocking it out of reach." He paced around a bit but then stopped into his tracks. "I suppose only Doc's equipment could identify it. Guess he didn't try anything yet, then?" He looked back at her.
Rose was just looking at him blankly. She blinked a few more times in silence then with a clear throat decided to get this straight.
"So, what you are saying is, I got something time-ish floating around me, something that makes me not-so-human, and the Doctor didn't even notice that?"
"That's my bet," Jack agreed to her surprise. "As I said, something is blocking it, hiding it away, even from the Time Lord there." He pointed to the TARDIS doors. "I only learnt because I'm more curious and less considerate of others privacy." Jack winked at her, Rose just rolled her eyes, but smiling at his words. "And you really don't know about yourself?"
"It's complicated," Rose said while sighing.
"Oh, I hate that word." Jack shook his head while chuckling. Moments later he became serious again. "You can tell me." Jack looked at her in all honesty.
There was a short silence before Rose ended it.
"I sort of..." Rose bit her lower lip while searching for words. "I sort of crossed my own timeline..." she began.
"Woah there!" Jack put his hands in defence mode. "That's dangerous stuff you are playing with-"
"But not exactly," Rose interrupted him.
"So did you or did you not?" he asked her again.
"Yes and no." Rose held her gaze firm at his.
Jack gave her a lost look. "Okay! Tell me from the beginning." He urged her, moving his hands in a gesture.
Rose shook her head. "I can't. Anything I say could change everything. And I don't want it to change, Jack." She looked at him with a pained expression. "I don't want us to change." She suppressed the sob. As she took a deep breath she continued. "I don't want him to think of me as some alien or a suspicious threat.." she breathed. "This is all just... wrong!" She waved her hands ahead of her.
"I won't tell, Doc. If that's what you are worrying about. But I might be able to help."
"I can't. I shouldn't even be telling you this, for that matter." Rose laughed sadly.
"It's alright. I can help, as long as it doesn't involve me." He shrugged nonchalantly. Then heard Rose laugh nervously.
"Does it?" he asked her in a rising horror.
And the next moment the tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator gone wild, blinking and making sparks come flying inside the TARDIS. The whole console room was shaking with everything inside.
"Do something about it!" Rose yelled out through the sounds.
"We're not done talking!" He pointed at her before running to face the problem.
It was sparking and not making it possible for him to get near the device. Moments later, a key inside the TARDIS doors could be heard, as it opened to reveal Blon and the Doctor together.
"What the hell are you doing?" the Doctor shouted at Jack in question.
"It just went crazy!" Jack defended himself.
"It's the rift. Time and space are ripping apart. The whole city's going to disappear!" the Doctor was running around frantically about the console.
Rose spotted Margaret standing there un-cuffed.
"What are you doing letting her loose?" Rose asked in a blaming voice while making her way towards her.
It was the moment Blon waited for. She soon dropped her human arm to the ground and began to move her claws at Rose. She dodged the alien, leaning back on the console, but unfortunately, letting Slitheen make a hole with her claws at the controls.
Oh.
"What are you doing!?" the Doctor shouted out. The next moment Jack was making his move towards Rose, but clashed into the Doctor, when the TARDIS shuddered violently as he was moving just in the same side.
"Come here you stinky human!" Margaret hissed, and with one quick move placed her one nail just at Rose's throat, making the Doctor and Jack stop in their tracks.
"One wrong move and she snaps like a promise," Blon said in a warning tone.
"I might've known," the Doctor said in disgust. Rose just rolled her eyes.
"I've had you bleating all night, poor baby, now shut it. You, fly boy, put the extrapolator at my feet," she ordered.
Slitheen pocked her finger deeper in her flesh and it was slightly bleeding now. The Doctor just nodded to Jack to pass the device.
"Thank you. Just as I planned." Margaret smiled, pleased.
"The extrapolator was programmed to lock onto the nearest alien power source and open the rift. And what a power source it found. I'm back on schedule, thanks to you," she exclaimed all happy.
"The rift's going to convulse. You'll destroy the whole planet," Jack stated, looking worriedly at Rose.
"And you with it!" she spat the last words as she stood on the extrapolator, grabbing Rose now by her throat.
And in that moment the TARDIS opened up. Her bright warm light coming through to the surface. Margaret seemed to be a bit startled by that.
"Of course, opening the rift means you'll pull this ship apart. And it's the Tardis. My Tardis. The best ship in the universe," the Doctor said softly.
"It'll make wonderful scrap," Blon spat in disgust.
The sight made Rose gasp. As she locked her gaze at the heart of the TARDIS, she could see the words shinning brightly from the inside.
Bad wolf sparked in a most beautiful light. Rose watched it with her eyes wide open as seconds later they blinked and scattered around, disappearing from the sight, like it was never there. Rose blinked as she glanced away.
"Beautiful." Slitheen was as much immersed in the sight, but she didn't question anything. It made Rose wonder if she saw what she did.
"Look inside, Blon Fel Fotch. Look at the light." The Doctor urged her.
Margaret loosened her grip on Rose, but this time Rose just stood there. Jack had to grab her to force her to come stand aside.
"Thank you." Was Blon's last words as she disappeared into the light.
"Don't look. Stay there. Close your eyes!" the Doctor warned them as he rushed about to close it.
But she already looked. And nothing happened. It didn't take over her. Why?
"Now, Jack, come on, shut it all down. Shut down! Rose, that panel over there, turn all the switches to the right."
With a good teamwork, they finally were able to stop the rift from opening, and the energy ceased to pour in the sky.
"Nicely done. Thank you, all," the Doctor stated proudly.
"What happened to Margaret?" Jack asked.
Rose leaned to the bodysuit of Slitheen, to find an egg resting there.
"She's an egg," Rose stated slightly, smiling.
"Regressed to her childhood." The Doctor found it amusing.
"She's an egg?" Jack asked in disbelief.
"She can start again. Live her life from scratch. If we take her home, give her to a different family, tell them to bring her up properly, she might be all right!" the Doctor said hoping.
"Or she might be worse," Jack countered.
"That's her choice," the Doctor said while juggling Blon in his hands.
"She's an egg." Rose chuckled.
"She's an egg." He grinned. "Okay then." He stood up as he placed the egg in the container. "We're all powered up. We can leave. Opening the rift filled us up with energy. We can go, if that's all right."
"Yeah, fine," Rose agreed simply.
"How's Mickey?" the Doctor asked.
"He's okay. He's gone," Rose said with a sad smile. Before the Doctor could say anything, she continued. "It's okay. We can go."
He made a quick glance at her. "Okay. Off we go, then. Always moving on."
"Next stop, Raxacoricofallapatorius. Now you don't often get to say that," Jack joked.
"We'll just stop by and pop her in the hatchery. Margaret the Slitheen can live her life again. A second chance," the Doctor announced.
"Yeh. Second chances are nice," Rose muttered, smiling in the distance.
to be continued...
That statement about human race. That we would only go past it. It shocked me when after some deep thinking I understood that it is exactly that. The Doctor's police box could stand there in the middle of the street and everyone would just go past it. Well, with DW now, I guess they would not, but if there were no DW, they would surely go past it. It made me start to want to check strange objects in the city. Lol
Anyway, please be kind and tell me what you think of this work of mine. :P