"The subwave network is open you should be able to hear my voice."
"Harriet Jones." Martha grinned, leaning down at the laptop as Jack and Sarah-Jane appeared on the screen. "Jack! Sarah-Jane!" She called out. "Has this thing got a webcam?"
"No she said they're naughty." Wilf said bashfully, pointing at his daughter.
"Guess we'll have to make do without it then."
"The fourth contact seems to be having trouble getting through." Harriet said as she typed before Rose appeared on the screen.
"Rose." Jack sighed with relief.
"Rose Tyler, former companion of The Doctor."
"Rose, where are you?"
"On board the Valient."
"But it was attacked, by Daleks?" Ianto asked from the background.
"It's deserted now, everyfins' gone." Rose mumbled, looking around the damaged sky ship.
Martha smiled, tears welling up in her eyes as The Doctor and Donna talked through the subwave network.
"It's like a outer-space facebook!" Donna cheered.
"Everyone except Martha..." The Doctor whispered before his transmission was cut off.
"Oh come on Jack." Martha muttered to herself. "Work it out." She smiled suddenly as Jack started fiddling with his vortex minipulator. "Good man!" She giggled as she jumped up and held her phone to her ear. "Control? I need another shift, lock me onto The TARDIS."
"Think Donna." The Doctor urged. "What did Martha say to you, in that parallel world?"
"Just, the darkness is coming..." Donna sighed as she glanced over the dark, deserted street again.
"Anything else?"
"Why don't you ask her yourself?" The Doctor turned around and saw Martha, slowly walking down the street smiling at him, wearing the red leather jacket he had always loved, ever since the moment he saw her.
"I went to the moon today." Martha said as The Doctor leaned against The TARDIS.
"A bit more peaceful than down here."
"You never even told me who you are."
"The Doctor."
"What sort of species? It's not every day I get to ask that."
"I'm a Time Lord."
"Right! Not pompous at all, then."
"Good party?"
"Been to better." She sighed, smiling at him. "Guess you're back off into space then, come to say goodbye."
"Well, you did save my life." He began. "But well, I suppose, you could come with me?"
"What, into space?" Martha raised her eye brow. "I can't. I've got exams. I've got things to do. I have to go into town first thing and pay the rent, I've got my family going mad..."
"Did I mention, it travels in time?"
"Get out of here."
"It can."
"Don't take the mick' Doctor."
"I'll prove it." He said, reaching forward and taking her red leather jacket out of her hands and dissapearing into The TARDIS. It materialized away before reappearing again with it inside out. "Told you!"
"I know, but... that was this morning!" Martha spluttered, realising she'd seen The Doctor before, that morning he walked up to her with her jacket and turned it inside out in front of her before walking off. "Oh, my God! You can travel in time!" She said, catching her jacket as he threw it to her. "But hold on, if you could see me this morning, why didn't you tell me not to go in to work?"
"Can't change timelines, only good for a laugh now and then."
"And that's your spaceship?" Martha nodded to The TARDIS.
"It's called the TARDIS. Time and Relative Dimension in Space."
"Your spaceship's made of wood. There's not much room. We'd be a bit intimate."
"Take a look." The Doctor said, pushing open the door before Martha walked in.
"Oh, no, no." Martha whispered, heading back out and looking around the edges before running back in and spinning around, looking round the console room. "But it's just a box. But it's huge. How does it do that? It's wood. It's like a box with that room just rammed in. It's bigger on the inside."
"Really now?" The Doctor laughed, walking up to the console.
"But is there a crew? Like a navigator and stuff? Where is everyone?"
"Just me."
"All on your own?"
"I used to have friends, people travel with me, but not for a long time now."
"Would you rather be on your own?"
"No." The Doctor replied, as he started to pull levers and press buttons. "Are you ready Martha Jones?"
"No."
"Off we go then!"
The Doctor and Martha ran towards each other, faster and faster down the deserted road when a Dalek came out of the shadows.
"EXTERMINATE!" It shouted, shooting out at The Doctor. It hit him in the chest and he collapsed to the floor as a flash of white light appeared and Jack and Rose appeared, blowing up the Dalek as they, Martha and Donna ran towards The Doctor.
"Ssh, it's ok, I've got you." Martha said soothingly, holding him in her arms. "Look, it's me, I came back."
"Martha."
"Hey."
"Long time no see."
"Been doing stuff, y'know." Martha chuckled lightly as Jack, Rose and Donna ran next to them. "Jack, we need to get him into The TARDIS." She said as Jack helped get him into The TARDIS and layed him on the grating as he groaned.
"There must be some medicine or something!" Donna panicked.
"Just stay back." Jack said as he and Martha moved Donna and Rose out of the way.
"When he's dying..." Martha gulped, trying to keep a clear head. "His body changes, he becomes a new man."
"I can't." The Doctor groaned as he grabbed onto the console and stood up. "You've come all this way, I can't do this to you again."
"Doctor, I've stood by you as you've regenerated before, and I'll do it again." Martha said firmly, wiping tears from her eyes. "Remember last time?"
"What happened?" Martha mumbled as she rubbed her head and stood up, looking over at The Doctor by the console.
"Don't you remember?"
"It's like... there was this singing... "
"That's right! I sang a song and the Daleks ran away."
"What happened, the vortex, oh god Doctor-"
"Martha Jones." The Doctor chuckled lightly. "I was gonna take you to so many places. Barcelona - not the city Barcelona, the planet. You'd love it. Fantastic place - they've got dogs with no noses."
"Then, why can't we go?" Martha asked.
"Maybe you will. And maybe I will. But not like this."
"You're not making sense! And this is you we're talking about!"
"I might never make sense again! I might have two heads. Or no head!Imagine me with no head! And don't say that's an improvement..."
"You with no head, that would give you some odd looks in A&E." Martha laughed.
"But it's a bit dodgy, this process." The Doctor began again, seriously. "You never know what you're gonna end up with-" He groaned out in pain, as a gold light hit him in the gut.
"Doctor!" Martha shouted, trying to bolt towards him.
"Stay away!" He shouted, causing Martha to stop in her tracks.
"That's not appendicitis, is it?" She asked calmly.
"I absorbed all the energy of the Time Vortex, and no one's meant to do that! Every cell in my body's dying."
"Oh my god Doctor, I opened The TARDIS I-"
"Martha, you saved the world."
"Can't you do something?" She asked shakily.
"Yeah, I'm doing it now! Time Lords have this little trick, it's... sort of a way of cheating death. Except... It means I'm gonna change. And I'm not gonna see you again. Not like this. Not with this daft old face. And before I go..."
"Don't say that."
"Before I go, I just wanna tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And d'you know what? So was I." Martha smiled before The Doctor flung his arms and head back and the regeneration energy surrounded him before he flung backwards, a completely new man.
"Martha." He breathed, looking up at her and grinning.
"I'm sorry, it's too late. I'm regenerating." The Doctor said, as he stood up straight and threw his head back, the orange regeneration light exploding through him.
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