[Hello everyone! Here's the conclusion to our Doctor Who episodes. Thought you'd all be interested in an editors comment after the last two chapters. In my original series, Peregrine jumped in front of the Doctor when the Dalek shot him and that was why the Doctor survived, effectively killing Pip. Luckily for our little monkey friend he became a firm friend with all of you therefore you saved him and he would like to thank you all for this. He's very grateful to you all and so am I because he has actually come into use in later chapters.]

You think your right But you were wrong,
You tried to take me But I knew all along,
You can take me For a ride
I'm not a fool out
So you better run and hide

Pink - Trouble

Journeys End: part 2

Winter woke up in an incinerator. Well, not exactly in it, in a storage room next to it. She pulled herself out of a pile of boxes and scratched her head. What was she doing again? Ianto was making coffee. No wait that was this morning. The planet had moved! Daleks! Pip in the TARDIS… dead. But wait.

She looked down at her arms and turned them over. The Doctor had said if the TARDIS dies then she probably did. So why wasn't she dead? If she was alive then the TARDIS probably was, and that meant.

'Pip!' she whispered, grinning from ear to ear.

But celebrations would have to wait. She was still stuck in the middle of a Dalek invasion and the Doctor, Rose and Jack were nowhere to be seen. She got off the floor and patted herself down. Well, other than the Torchwood handgun all her weapons were still in place anyway she had a feeling a man-made gun would have little effect on the Daleks but there was something that just might. Of course it might take her a few tries but if she could just buy enough time to get the TARDIS back then maybe they had a chance.

She pulled her phone out and used the threw the torch beam around. The ventilation was open. Did she take it and risk running into some droid or other, or did she walk out of the door and hope the Daleks used corridors when they weren't floating. The answer was always going to be the ventilation.

She pulled herself along hoping the scraping of her sword went un-noticed and that she wouldn't be too late. Before long an opening appeared and she peeked out. Nothing. Absolutely no one, just, storage. She smiled and dropped herself down pulling a small flat stone out of her pocket.

'Toshiko, you better be right about this or this is going to be the worst rescue in history.'

She put an ear to the door and listened, there was a small hole in the middle and she peeked through. The Doctor and Rose seemed to be alright, and there was an old, alien, man in a futuristic Dalek wheel chair in front of them. As well as quite a few Daleks. Doubt twisted and writhed in her stomach. She had no idea if this would work. She might just walk straight out there and be shot down and then what? But she could feel the TARDIS pulse, somewhere close, reaching out for her like it was trying to latch on to her. She had to trust her friends, she had to hope Owen's lectures had sunk in, just a little bit. Besides, she'd already died once today, what was once more.

Slinking through the door, as quiet as she could she got a better look of a screen showing Martha as the occupants talked about the Osterhagen key which…Oh! It was a bomb, well that might be why Harriet didn't want her using it then.

Winter froze when the screen flicked over to Jack, alive and well with Sarah Jane, several people she didn't recognise and… another bomb. But none of it did any good. She shrunk into the shadows when the Daleks transported all of them back into the control room. For a moment, worried they had picked up her life signs too, she pushed herself against the wall and moved her head very slowly as she tried to work out where each Dalek was and carefully remove something from her pocket. It was caught on the inside lining and she squeezed her eyes shut, praying it would just come out!

It complied and hit the wall of the ship but luckily the old man in the Dalek chair spoke, covering the sound and she was able to switch it on and tune it. The tug in her chest seemed to lock into place, like intertwined fingers.

'Nothing can stop the detonation, nothing and no-one!'

'Yes,' she replied, stepping out from the shadows. 'Well, this has all been ever such an interesting experience but to be honest my clothes are kind of sweaty and you did try to kill me so I'm about ready to just wrap this up now.'

The whole room stared at her like she'd come back from the dead…ah.

'Oh, yeah. I'm alive by the way. Hello.' She smiled awkwardly at Jack and he let out a faint bemused laugh.

The Dalek/man/thing turned to her. 'Destroy her.'

She threw her hands up. 'Well, you could do that. You could.'

A beam hit her with the full force of a Dalek ray, and bounced straight off.

'Or maybe you couldn't.' She sauntered forwards and as she passed Jack and The Doctor whispered, 'I am so glad that worked.'

'Look, I know this is a long shot but what are the chances of you just dropping us back on Earth and flying away, pretending like you didn't fail to exterminate a little Earth girl?'

'How?' The old man growled.

'Unlike you I have actual friends who love me.' She pulled out a stone from her pocket so they could see then pocketed it again.

'The portable prison,' Jack said.

'Tosh realised we never really used it and figured she could manipulate it. She always worried about me not carrying a gun so she gave it to me but I never bothered using it. Why would I want to walk around with a shield my friends couldn't share?'

'It is no matter. You will watch the impending doom of the earth safe in your shell.'

She shrugged. 'Maybe, but I'm sure Jack will be happy to tell you that I'm not very good and coming quietly.' She paused and pointed at Jack. 'Don't. I didn't mean it like that. Stop it.'

He just grinned back, elated to see her, as she waved the bit of tech in her hand.

'I love this coat, nicked it off the TARDIS, took me three new mobiles before I realised the pockets were bigger on the inside.'

The Doctor smiled at her but Martha had raised an eyebrow at the device.

'Is that?'

'Owen's singularity scalpel? Yep. And I wonder what happens if I do this…' She twisted a button and a Dalek two meters away blew up. Everyone jumped back in shock and her eyes grew wide.

'Well that was, a bit much.' She turned to look at Jack. 'And he actually used this on Gwen!'

The old man screeched at her but she gasped and looked down at her feet, feeling the energy, in her exact spot, shift ever so slightly.

'Oh thank God,' she whispered, and stepped to the side half a meter as the low wheeze of the TARDIS reverberated around the room and the blue blow faded into view where she had been standing.

The Doctor stood dumbstruck. 'But that's...'

The old man moved backwards in his chair. 'Impossible!'

The door opened to reveal an all new Doctor surrounded by light. He sprinted forwards but was shot down by the wheel chair bound man. Winter watched Donna try to fight back but she too fell to the floor. Well, this wasn't quite the rescue she'd been hoping for. The countdown began and everyone stared at the screen but when it got to one. It stopped.

Winter's gaze fell on Donna who was standing by the controls.

'Oh... closing all Z-Neutrino relay loops using an internalised synchronous back-feed reversal loop?' Donna flicked a switch, 'That button there!'

The Daleks went crazy and Winter smiled. To be honest it wasn't just the Daleks who seemed bemused. The Doctor stared at Donna as if she'd grown two heads.

'Donna, you can't even change a plug!'

Donna grinned at him. 'D'you wanna bet, Time Boy?'

The old man raised his finger to electrocute Donna but she flipped a switch and the electricity ran through his body. Donna turned to wink at Winter who came to stand next to her.

'Oh, bio-electric dampening field with a retrogressive arc inversion?'

A chorus of the Dalek battle cry rang out in the vault but Donna looked up with a cheeky smile and the Daleks began moving their weapons around wildly. 'Weapons non-functional.'

Donna leant on the console. 'What? Macrotransmission of a K-filter wavelength blocking Dalek weaponry in a self-replicating energy blindfold matrix?'

Winter backed up towards the TARDIS. She hadn't a clue what was happening but it seemed to be working.

The Doctor looked stunned as he frowned at Donna. 'How d'you work that out? You...'

The New Doctor had jumped up off the floor and explained that they were half human, half Time Lord. Winter's eyebrows shot up but she pushed the door open quietly and slipped inside. She had a monkey to find.

'Pip?' she asked quietly. 'Peregrine?'

She moved to the doors that lead off into the rest of the TARDIS but she didn't have to go far. Pip had curled up underneath the grating and was shivering gently. The fall had probably scared him half to death. She pulled the grating up and picked him off the wires. None of them looked chewed. Well that was a start.

He peeked up at her and threw himself onto her chest.

'Yeah, I missed you too.' The door opened and she poked her head up in time to see Jack run in and out to collect two massive guns. She sighed and looked down at Pip. 'Boys and their toys.'

The monkey chattered lightly and she headed for the door. They both peeked out in time to see Jack blasting open the large red Dalek the Doctor got off the floor near her feet and pressed a few buttons on the console.

'Oh, we've lost the Magnetron! And there's only one planet left - guess which one? But we can use the TARDIS...' He pushed past her and danced around the console pushing and flicking as he went.

Honestly, she'd been gone for less than a minute. The TARDIS began to shake and the Doctor looked up from the console. 'What is that?' He ran back past her and Pip and screamed at the new Doctor. 'What have you done?'

The shaking got worse and the Doctor looked angry. 'D'you know what you've done? Now get in the TARDIS! Everyone! All of you, inside! Run! In! In! In! In!'

Everyone ran inside and Winter joined them around the console. Pip fled up to her shoulder as the room became very crowded. The Doctor raced up behind her and pulled a lever just below her. The TARDIS shook once more, violently and took off.

Sarah Jane looked at the Doctor worriedly. 'But what about the Earth? It's stuck in the wrong part of space!'

'I'm on it!' He replied, spinning the monitor around to face himself and Winter. 'Torchwood Hub! This is the Doctor! Are you receiving me?'

Winter grinned at the familiar face in front of her. Gwen.

'Loud and clear! Is Jack there?'

'Can't get rid of him!'

Winter snorted but turned to the Doctor as he spoke to her. 'Nemo, what's her name?'

'Gwen Cooper.'

'Tell me, Gwen Cooper, are you from an old Cardiff family?'

Gwen looked confused but replied all the same. 'Yes, all the way back to the 1800s!'

Rose leaned around and looked at the Doctor with a massive grin on her face.

'Yeah, thought so, spatial genetic multiplicity,' The Doctor told her.

Rose elbowed him playfully. 'Oh yeah!'

'Yeah, yeah, funny old world... Now, Torchwood, I want you to open up that Rift Manipulator. Send all the power to me.'

Ianto set to work and they called upon Sarah Jane's son to give them the co-ordinates. Winter watched as everyone flew the TARDIS back home, dragging the earth behind. The Doctor and Donna grinned at her every time they walked past and Rose asked her if she wanted a go but she shook her head gratefully. She was happy standing against the pillar stroking the side of the TARDIS and hearing the beautiful song in her head.

When they landed Sarah Jane and the Doctor left. Winter looked up from the floor and straight at Jack. He was staring at her. She gave a confused look and his stare broke into a massive grin. He opened his arms and she ran at him, jumping into a hug and squealing in delight. His laughter echoed around the room and when he put her down he was still smiling.

She pulled the stone out of her pocket and chucked it to him. 'Good thing they turned up when they did. It was just about to run out of battery.'

Jack laughed and pulled her into another hug. He groaned, relieved. 'I thought you were dead.'

'Yeah, well now you know how I used to feel before you told me you were immortal.' She slapped his arm playfully. 'The TARDIS wasn't destroyed. Nothing wrong with my body so I must have just shut down for a few minutes and, you know, woken up again. Weird though. I'm going to stay away from actually dying, if I can help it, I think.'

Jack laughed and hugged her again before dragging her over to the others. 'Proper introductions.'

She smiled at everyone.

'You know Martha, this is Mickey the not so idiotic.'

The young man just rolled his eyes.

'This is Rose Tyler, we go back.'

Rose grinned. 'All the way back to the 1940's, I was hanging around in the London blitz with a Union Flag T-shirt and this one thinks it the perfect time for a dance.'

Winter raised her eyebrows and looked back at Jack who coughed and shuffled his feet. 'Oh yeah?'

'And this is Jackie Tyler.' He launched forward, dragging Jackie over to change the subject. 'Rose's mother.'

Winter nodded. 'Oh, I was told I'd be meeting you soon.' She looked at Rose, Rose looked back at her and both women burst out laughing.

Jack frowned and shook his head while Mickey pulled Jackie outside.

Winter and Rose's laughter came to a muffled end and they chatted quietly until it was time to leave. She pulled Rose into a hug.

'See you around,' Rose said smiling.

'Yeah, maybe. Hopefully.' Winter nodded and waved to Donna before stepping out of the TARDIS and joining the Doctor, Jack and Martha. Jack was looking slightly put out as the Doctor sonic-ed his manipulator. Again.

'I told you, no teleport! And, Martha, get rid of that Osterhagen thing, eh? Save the world one more time.'

'Consider it done.'

Jack and Martha both saluted the Doctor. He looked mildly surprised but gave a small salute back and watched them set off. Winter stayed put turning to him.

'You're taking her back aren't you?' She asked quietly.

He looked down at her. 'What?'

'Rose, you're taking her back to that parallel universe.'

He looked at her for a moment then nodded sadly. She nodded once and began to walk but she had to turn back.

'The TARDIS, you'll look after her won't you? Only, I don't like the idea that I could drop dead walking around Cardiff 'cause you've, I donno, flown her into a volcano.'

The Doctor smiled and opened his arms. She rushed back over and hugged him tightly.

'Promise.'

She smiled and bent down to the ground letting Pip climb up her arm.

'Come on, you, let's get you some Melon.' She leaned up and kissed The Doctor on the cheek then ran after Jack and Martha, grabbing Jack's arm and giving it a squeeze. 'Home?'

He smiled at her.

…

'Home.'

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[Next chapter will be COE. For those of you who haven't watched it, it may confuse you a tad so it really is better to have seen it first. You can watch it online in loads of places so I suggest you do. That's all the warning I'm giving though. See you soon.]

'Zaziness': nice to have you back! I've been updating pretty fast lately because I've been getting out of school early and I don't mind going onto the computer but as soon as they keep me back again I'll slow down again. I must admit there was never going to be any John/Winter but the hint is still there. I may expand on that at some point. Not yet though. however I was always certain that it had to be him to rescue her. I wanted to show that John really does care about her and Jack was wrong not to take her down with him originally. I love TARDIS stuff because I can slowly reveal more that's changed about Winter since the merge. I'll tell you now there's a slightly bigger change coming. I am really mean to Winter, but she doesn't mind, it leads her into more fun. I'm intent on at least doing a few chapters of something with Pip and Pet in the for-front. Should be fun! Ha ha I hope you got some sleep.

'Sonotalady': hope this is soon enough. oh yeeeah Winter/10.5 all the way. HA! Good guess though, that would have made total sense. With the way he plays football I have a feeling 11 would win the dance off or 10, how to break dance whilst not spilling your banana daiquiri.

'Rachy Babes': You'll just have to wait and see.

'The Small But Powerful One': you'll see. I think these are some of my faves out of all the ones I've written so far. Of the real episodes I love Partners in crime which is why I slipped a bit in earlier. I'm really warming to Matt Smith as well which is good. Out of all the Torchwood episodes I think that Sleeper has to be my fave because it has so much funny Ianto.