Once aboard the Tardis he sent the children away to play. Once they were out of sight he could no longer hold himself up and fell hard onto his knees on the Tardis floor.

"I'm shutting down. I need an interface. Voice interface. Come on, emergency."

"Voice interface enabled." A hologram of himself appeared in front of him.

"No. Give me someone I like." He whined at it and a hologram of Rose appeared in front of him. "Oh Rose." He sighed and pulled himself into a sitting position.

"I am not Rose Tyler. I am a voice interface." The hologram told him.

"What has she done to me?"

"Your system has been contaminated by the poison of the Judas tree. You will be dead in thirty two minutes."

"Okay. So, basically better regenerate, that's what you're saying." He asked the interface. He didn't like the option but it was better than being dead.

"Regeneration disabled. You will be dead in thirty two minutes." The interface stated factually to him.

"Unless I'm cured." He said hopefully.

"There is no cure. You will be dead in thirty two minutes."

"Rose needs me. Kiam and Amelia are still so young and only just beginning. I can't die now." He pleaded with the interface. He found himself wishing it was really Rose and that he hadn't sent her away with Donna.

"You will not die now. You will die in thirty two minutes."

"I'm going out in the first round. Ringing any bells? Argh! Okay, need something for the pain now." As his mind clouded with the pain he focused on Rose. "Come on, Rose. It's me. Please." He begged her.

"I am not Rose Tyler. I am a voice interface."

"Rose, listen to me. I can be brave for you, but you have got to tell me how."

"I am not Rose Tyler. I am a voice interface."

He fell down to his side and laid there feeling defeated. "Rose, Rose please." He begged her as tears filled his eyes and began to fall down his cheeks.

"Bad Wolf."

He looked up at Rose and she stood there staring straight ahead. "Bad Wolf." He asked it and the interface did not respond. "Bad Wolf, oh my Rose Tyler, Bad Wolf." He crawled up to his knees and pulled himself up on the console. Stumbling he headed down the hallway and to the living area.

"Are you okay." Amelia asked him from where her and Kiam were sitting at a table coloring.

"I'm fine," He said as he stumbled in and then kissed them both on the heads. "You two just need to stay here for a little longer." He left the room and this time headed to the wardrobe. He went inside it and found a black tuxedo and top hat. If he was going to die, he might as well be dressed for the occasion. He changed and grabbed a cane to help him walk and headed back to the control room. Once there he turned the Tardis to silent and traced his sonic. He landed the Tardis and stepped out into a little resturant. He was up on a slightly raised part of the dining area. He could hear Donna and Melody talking as he leaned up against the Tardis.

"You killed the Doctor on the orders of the movement known as the Silence and a Time Lord known as the Master." Donna was saying, "You accept and know this to be true?"

"Quite honestly, I don't really remember. It was all a bit of jumble." Melody answered her and he watched as Donna opened her mouth and a bright beam shot out and hit Melody. "No! No! Get off me!" Melody cried out.

"Sorry, did you say she killed the Doctor?" He said stepping out to reveal himself. "Doctor who?"

"You're dying and you stopped to change?" Melody asked him looking at him like he was insane.

"You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you." He told Melody. He walked down the short set of stairs and across the dining room to where they were standing. He lifted his cane and scanned Donna. "Donna Noble judgment death machine. Why am I not surprised?"

"Are you serious?"

"Never knowingly. Never knowingly be serious." He laughed as he continued to scan Donna. "It's a robot with four hundred and twenty three life signs inside. A robot worked by tiny people. Love it. But how do you all get in there, though." He asked confused and leaned into look closer at it, before looking at the results from the sonic cane. "Bigger on the inside? No, basic miniaturisation sustained by a Compression field. Rose, if you and Donna are okay, signal me."

The cane lit up as the sonic screwdriver sent a signal. He smiled. "Thank you." He said relieved to know she was still alive. He leg was quickly becoming numb so he turned and started to head towards the low stairs nearby as his leg gave out. He stumbled and tried to play it off.

"Leg went to sleep. Just had a quick left leg power nap. I forgot I had one scheduled. Actually, better sit down. I think I heard the right one yawning." He fell hard down on the stairs. Melody taking the opportunity of everyone being distracted tried to run towards the door. She was almost there when a beam of light shot out from Donna again trapping her this time.

"Don't you touch her! Do not harm her in any way!" He angrily told the robot.

"Why would you care? She's the woman who kills you." Donna asked him.

"I'm not dead." He stated, leaning back on the stairs and trying to look like he was fine.

"You're dying."

"Well, at least I'm not a time travelling shape shifting robot operated by miniaturised cross people, which, I have got to admit, I didn't see coming." If it had been another situation he might have even been interested but at the moment his mind was beginning to fail him due to the poison. "What do you want with her?" He asked them.

"She's Melody Pond." Donna answered. "According to records, the woman who kills the Doctor."

"And I'm the Doctor. So what's it to you?"

"Throughout history, many criminals have gone unpunished in their lifetimes. Time travel has responsibilities."

"What?" He asked it confused. "You got yourselves time travel, so you decided to punish dead people?"

"We don't kill them. We extract them near the end of their established timelines."

"And then what?"

"Give them hell."

He decided right then and there he really didn't like them. "I'd ask you who you think you are But I think the answer is pretty obvious." He stated and tried to stand up again but his legs were completely numb so giving up he sat forward. "Who do you think I am? You think I am just going to allow this. You say she is the woman who killed the Doctor but here I am." He paused as images of him standing by a lake rushed to his mind. "It sounds like you've got my biography in there. I'd love a peek."

"Our records office is sealed to the public. Foreknowledge is dangerous." Donna told him.

"Yeah, well, I'll be dead in three minutes. There isn't much foreknowledge left." He replied still hopeful that they would at least tell him something.

"Sorry, can't do that." Donna went quiet for a moment and then her tone changed as she spoke again. "Records available."

"I'm dying. Besides the Master, who wants me dead?" He asked.

"The Silence."

"Why do the Silence want me dead? They are a religious movement."

"Their core belief is that silence will fall when the question is asked."

"What question?" He asked curious.

"The first question. The oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight."

"Yes, but what is the question?"

"Unknown." Donna asked.

"Call yourself Records," He scoffed at it as pain shot through his body. "Ahh," He cried out in pain. "Kidneys are always the first to quit." He saw the beam holding Melody turn from white to Red and Melody cried out in pain.

"Rose, Donna," He asked Donna. "Can you hear me?"

"Oh my love what do we do?" Donna asked him. "This is Rose, this is actually me Rose, talking. What do we do?"

"Just stop them. She's your daughter, Donna. Just stop them."

"How?"

"Just do it!" He begged them as his mind failed him. He watched horrified as Melody screamed in pain and the red light lifted her off of the ground. The light suddenly fails and as she is released she falls hard to the ground. She stand up and he sees the fear in her eyes.

"Please. Now we have to save your mum and Rose. Don't run. Now, I know you're scared, but never run when you're scared." He begged her.

"Doctor, help us! Doctor, please!" Donna begged him. Seeing that Melody wasn't moving he turned and tried to crawl towards the Tardis desperate to save Rose.

"Doctor! Help!"

"Look at you. You still care." He heard Melody say in awe behind him.
"It's impressive, I'll give you that."

"River, please." He begged her.

"Again? Who is this River? She's got to be a woman. Am I right?" She huffed at him.

"Help me. Save Rose and Donna. Help me."

"Tell me about her. Go on." Melody said coming closer.

"Just help me." He pleaded and he watched in relief as she ran aboard the Tardis and closed the doors. He laid there as the Tardis dematerialized in front of him and then rolled onto his back, he tried to catch his breath but his lungs burned and his hearts were growing weaker. The left one failed as he heard the Tardis doors open again and Rose rushed to him.

"You can't die now. I know you don't die now." She cried as she gathered his head in her hands and kissed his head.

"Oh, Rose, you've got a schedule for everything." He said weakly.

"But it doesn't make any sense."

"Doctor, what do we do?" Donna asked him softly leaning down and taking his hand. "Come on. How do we help you?"

"Sorry, Donna, you can't. Nobody can." He gently rubbed the back of her hand with his thumb. Now, listen to me. I need to talk to your daughter." Donna stood up and gently wrapped her arms around Rose and pulled her away from him. Melody approached him and stood over him.

"Find her. Find River Song and tell her something from me." He told her his voice barely above a whisper.

"Tell her what?" She asked him curiously and leaned down close to him so that she could hear him clearly.

"You are forgiven. Always and completely forgiven." He tells her as the darkness overtakes him and he closes his eyes. He opens his eyes again as he feels himself being pulled back. He sees River leaning over him and she is glowing with the regenerative energy.

"River. No. What are you doing?" He asks her as he feels it pouring into him, bringing his body back to life.

"Hello, sweetie." She says softly and kisses him before falling down on top of him.

"Melody," Donna cries out and rushes over to her. "Is she dead." she asks him, fearfully.

"No," He replied as she helps him move Melody off of him. "She just passed out from using too many regenerations at once. It has made her weak." He lifts up his arms to Rose and she grabs him tightly in a hug.

"I thought I lost you."

"You did for a minute," He told her and gently rubbed her hair. "But I'm fine. I promise you. I'm fine."

"We need to get her help," He tells Donna and he stands up as his strength comes back to him. He helps Donna get Melody into the Tardis and then sets it to go a hospital while he goes and changes back into his brown suit.

-DW-

They drop Melody off at the hospital and he sends the Tardis back into the time vortex.

"So that's it, we just leave her there?" Donna asks him appalled.

"Sisters of the Infinite Schism. Greatest hospital in the universe." He tells her.

"Yes, but she's my daughter. Doctor, she's River and she's my daughter." She falls hard onto the pilot seat and he sits down beside her and gathers her into a hug.

"Donna, I know. But we have to let her make her own way now. We have too much foreknowledge." He rubs her back gently and then releases her and stands up to look at the screen again. He had downloaded all the information off the robot before they had left the restaurant. He had his biography pulled up in front of him and was reading the information on his death at Lake Silencio.

"What's that?" Rose asks him coming into the room with the children.

"Nothing." He lies turning off the screen in front of him and turning around to face her. "Just some data I downloaded from the Teselecta. Very boring."

"Doctor, River was brainwashed to kill you, right?" Rose asks him.

"Well, she did kill me, and then she used her remaining lives to bring me back. I'd say that was mixed signals."

"But that stuff that they put in her head, is that gone now? The River that we know in the future, she is in prison for murder." Rose says.

"Whose murder?" Donna asks him. "My daugher is a murderer?"

"Will we see her again?" Rose wonders.

"Oh, she'll come looking for us." He says simply. "Now I am starving, dying makes a person very hungry. What do you say we stop off for some chips."