Disclaimer: I own. Not Doctor Who, but other things.
A/n: I am so sorry for not posting this chapter sooner. There were reasons, some of them were actually good ones, but I'm pretty sure that nobody wants to hear them (there might be a voice in my head yelling, "Just let them read the chapter already!" but I'm not entirely sure...).
Spoilers: Basically all of The Stolen Earth/Journey's End. This Spoiler Alert will last until the end of the fic. If you have not finished s4, do not read this, because there will be Spoilers. You have been warned.
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There's no way he's going to get away with this, but for some reason Captain Jack Harkness doesn't seem to care.
Yeah, so the Doctor will probably mess up his vortex manipulator once this whole thing is finished like he did the last time they saw each other, but figuring out what the hell just happened since he was gone will probably be worth it. And saving the world of course, but compared to getting information out of the Doctor that will be a piece of cake.
The press ofHe presses a button and wham he's in the middle of a London street devoid of life except for the Doctor, Rose, a ginger, and Mickey (and when did he get here? Scratch that, how did he get here? He saw the security footage from Canary Warf, he knows that Mickey went to the other dimension).
"EXTERMINATE!"
He sees the dalek glide out from behind a corner out of the corner of his eye. Time seems to slow down as the others see it too with varied reactions of horror and confusion. Its blue eyestalk swivels around for a moment before focusing at last on the Doctor, and screeching its war cry once more. That's when he finally remembers that he's carrying a gun, for this exact reason, and he should probably use it. So he does, just in time to stop the dalek from firing its own weapon, and it explodes with a bang.
Everyone just kind of stands there in shock for a moment before Mickey breaks the silence with an awed, "Damn," and somehow that just sums up this entire day.
They all do the obvious thing and head into the TARDIS before another dalek shows up and blows them all from here to kingdom come. They have a nasty habit of trying to do that, and it kind of hurts. Besides, there are some things that he needs to ask the Doctor and the middle of the street where anybody could show up really isn't the best place to do that.
Mickey, though, beats him to it and starts shouting all the things Jack wants to say, like What Happened To Rose, and Who's The Ginger, and What Are We Going To Do (although that one's not really a priority for some reason, probably because the Doctor doesn't actually have a plan and they all know it). Then Ginger starts shouting back, something about how she doesn't know who the hell he is but he can just shut up and sit down because they've got a bit of a problem outside, in case he hadn't noticed, and they kind of need to save the world. And she has a name, it's Donna thank you very much, so stop calling her "the ginger"! Besides, what business does he have with Rose anyway?
Of course Mickey says that Rose is his g—EX-girlfriend, which is new since he didn't admit it last time they met. This doesn't stop the shouting, not in the slightest (actually he thinks Donna is getting even louder—she's really protective of the Doctor and Rose) and they somehow drag him into their argument and now he's shouting too and—
"AAAAH!" Rose's scream splits the air he turns to see her curled into a ball on the ground, holding her head with tears pouring down her cheeks. Like a kid, he thinks, a little kid when all the adults are fighting. What happened to her?
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The poor girl. She still doesn't fully understand her surroundings or what happened to her, but she knows that she should and that hurts her when she can't. The yelling from the companion, the Fact, and the Other Boy only make it worse for her, but they don't see that until she hits her breaking point and screams.
Oh, she knows that they're only yelling and fighting because they don't understand what's happened, because they all know different parts of the story but none know the whole. He's not helping either, but instead putting off telling them by bustling about looking busy, and then by taking her to the medical bay to rest even though he knows he'll have to tell them eventually. He's never been good at talking about his mistakes.
They'll The other three will probably shout again though. Can't they see that shouting doesn't actually do anything? It will only upset her, and then he'll either get depressed or angry, and then who will take care of those daleks?
No. She is not going to be upset. Somebody has to be reasonable around here.
Well, first things first, help him and keep him from feeling too bad about himself. She starts with her, dimming the lights a bit, and—
Oh.
Oh.
The daleks put her in a temporal prison. That means they're going to take her away…to their ship…their Crucible.
That's bad. That's very…tired, she's so…tired…she has to stay…awake…she can't…
Sleep.
A/n: When the daleks put the TARDIS in the temporal prison in the actual episode, all of the lights go out and the Doctor says they have no power. I took this to mean that the temporal prison is like a tranquilizer dart for the TARDIS.