Disclaimer: I do not own the Doctor/Rose Tyler/Ect. I only own my OC, Lyra Blu

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"Right, everybody out. Across the back garden and under the fence. Now! Go! Move!" Nancy ordered to the kids.

They all scuttled to their feet and made their way out.

Nancy sped to a little girl who was still sitting.

"Come on, baby, we've got to go, all right? It's just like a game. Just like chasing. Take your coat, go on. Go!" Nancy helped the girl into her coat andled her outside.

The Doctor crouched next to the door, Jamie on the opposite side.

"Mummy? Mummy? Please let me in, mummy. Please let me in, mummy." Jamie pleaded.

Lyra stood the side, watching the Doctor sit there.

"Are you all right?" The Time Lord asked the lone child.

"Please let me in."

Nancy threw something at the door which shattered.

Lyra was swift to move away from the crash.

"You mustn't let him touch you!" Nancy pleaded.

"What happens if he touches me?" The Doctor asked, looking back at Nancy.

"He'll make you like him." Nancy replied before turning to leave.

"And what's he like?"

"I've got to go." Nancy looked away.

"Nancy. What's he like?" The Doctor asked again.

"He's empty." Lyra and Nancy said together.

A telephone ringed suddenly, causing Nancy to jump.

"It's him. He can make phones ring. He can. Just like with that police box you saw." Nancy explained.

"Don't answer it, Doctor." Lyra warned.

The Doctor ignored the Reshiannan girl and picked up the phone.

"Are you my Mummy?" Jamie asked.

Lyra grabbed the phone from the Doctor and hung it up.

He glared at her.

The radio in the room suddenly switched on.

"Mummy? Please let me in, mummy."

A nearby cymbal monkey turned on.

"Mummy, mummy, mummy."

"You stay if you want to." Nancy scoffed, leaving the room.

"Mummy? Let me in please, mummy. Please let me in."

"Your mummy isn't here." The Doctor replied to Jamie.

"Are you my mummy?"

"No mummies here. Nobody here but us chickens." The Doctor replied again.

"I am not a chicken, Doctor." Lyra hissed.

"I'm scared."

"Why are those other children frightened of you?" The Doctor asked.

"Please let me in, mummy. I'm scared of the bombs." Jamie pleaded.

"Okay. I'm opening the door now." The Doctor stood up.

Jamie retracted his arm.

"Doctor, don't." Lyra warned, stepping in the way.

"We have to." The Doctor tried to move her.

Lyra's eyes flashed purple.

The Doctor's eyes flashed purple for just a second.

He stepped away.

Lyra stepped away from the door as well.

The Doctor shook his head.

"Right. I was opening the door." He stepped to the door again, unlocked it, and pulled it open.

Jamie was gone.

-Streets-

The aliens walked out into the street.

"What? Why didn't that work?" Lyra asked herself, out loud, quietly.

"Why didn't what work?" The Doctor asked.

"Nothing." Lyra lied.

"No. It's something." The Doctor stopped walking and faced Lyra who stopped walking a well.

"I can't tell you. It's a secret until later." Lyra began to walk towards the railroad again.

The Doctor glared gently but started moving again.

-Railroad-

Nancy was hiding the food she had found at Mr. Lloyd's house for later.

The Doctor and Lyra picked their way through the plants.

"How'd you find me?" Nancy asked, whipping around to face us.

"I'm good at following, me. Got the nose for it." The Doctor smiled.

"People can't usually follow me if I don't want them to." Nancy turned back to her stashed goods and continued to hide them further.

"My nose has special powers." The Doctor chuckled.

"Yeah? That's why it's..." Nancy stopped speaking, which annoyed the Doctor.

"What?"

"Nothing."

"What?"

"Nothing. Do your ears have special powers too?" Nancy asked.

"What are you trying to say?" Lyra asked suddenly, her voice a little to annoyed.

"Goodnight, Mister, Miss." Nancy turned away.

"Nancy, there's something chasing you and the other kids. Looks like a boy and it isn't a boy, and it started about a month ago, right? The thing I'm looking for, the thing that fell from the sky, that's when it landed. And you know what I'm talking about, don't you?" The Doctor inquired. (I'm really bad with verbs.)

"There was a bomb. A bomb that wasn't a bomb. Fell the other end of Limehouse Green Station." Nancy informed.

"Take us there."

"There are soldiers guarding it. Barbed wire. You'll never get through." Nancy scoffed gently.

"Try us."

"You sure you want to know what's going on in there?" Nancy asked.

"Very sure." Lyra replied.

"Then there's someone you need to talk to first." Nancy stated.

"And who's that?" Lyra asked.

"The Doctor." Nancy replied.

The Doctor looked a little taken back by her answer.

Lyra nudged the confused Time Lord.

"She means a professional Doctor. One that works in a hospital."

The Doctor nodded, understanding.

-Limehouse Green-

Nancy led the Doctor and Lyra through the thick plants to the Station.

"The bomb is under the tarp, yeah?" Lyra asked.

"Yes." Nancy answered.

"And over there on the hill is the hospital?" Lyra asked, pointing at the building on the hill.

"That's correct."

"That's where the doctor is. You should talk to him." Nancy nodded.

"For now, I'm more interested in getting in there." The Doctor chuckled lightly.

"Talk to the Doctor first."

"Why?"

"Because then maybe you won't want to get inside." Nancy stated, walking away.

"Where're you going?" Lyra asked, looking back at the girl.

"There was a lot of food in that house. I've got mouths to feed. Should be safe enough now." Nancy replied, picking her way back through the plants.

"Can I ask you a question? Who did you lose?" The Doctor asked.

"What?"

"The way you look after all those kids. It's because you lost somebody, isn't it? You're doing all this to make up for it." The Doctor inquired.

"My little brother. Jamie. One night I went out looking for food. Same night that thing fell. I told him not to follow me, I told him it was dangerous, but he just. He just didn't like being on his own." Nancy explained.

"What happened?"

"In the middle of an air raid? What do you think happened?" Nancy scoffed.

"Amazing."

"What is?"

"1941. Right now, not very far from here, the German war machine is rolling up the map of Europe. Country after country, falling like dominoes. Nothing can stop it. Nothing. Until one, tiny, damp little island says no. No. Not here. A mouse in front of a lion. You're amazing, the lot of you. Don't know what you do to Hitler, but you frighten the hell out of me. Off you go then do what you've got to do. Save the world." The Doctor rambled.

"Go on." Lyra smiled.

Nancy turned to leave.

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There we have it. I know this chapter is a little smaller than usual. My writers block is back. :(

-DoubleHeartedHuman