The void, Time Lords and saving people.
Chapter seven
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Rose quickly turned her head so she could just see the very fat but tall bold man walk in.
"You've got to be joking" muttered harshly but quietly so only Jack heard her, turning her head so she kept the hidden Raxacorricofallapatorin ( A/N did I spell it right?) in sight as he moved over to a table in the corner with a smaller human male, "blimey, can I just get one trip to Cardiff with no aliens?" She continued in the same manner but slipping back in to her normal accent.
The first comment from her made Jack think it was something personal, the second made him choked on his drink.
"What do you mean alien?" He whispered back quietly when he finally stopped choking on the alcohol and quickly looked around the bar.
"What I mean Jack, is that there is a great big, but ugly, green, living calcium alien talking out of a dead guys skin,"she replied quietly but harshly, frustration and annoyance at herself quickly shortening her fuse.
"I don't know who you are or how you know my name but you can explain that one latter,right now, what species, is I'd dangerous and how get rid of it?" He asked in a flat tone, all joking gone, this is serious.
The both moved closer to each other and Rose whispered: "Judging by the size and smell, I do believe it is a Raxacorricofallapatorin, both times I've me one of these they were trying to nuke this planet for quite selfish reasons, how to get rid if them? Well apart from blowing them up with a missile and turning them back in to an egg, vinegar makes them blow up."
"Right then, easily done , you go get the vinegar, I'll get it out of the skin and you blow it up," Jack said calmly.
Rose snorted at this plan, "yeah, good luck with that one captain, firstly, you're getting the vinegar just for precaution and secondly, I need to see why he's here, if there is something bigger going on and if he actually needs to be killed, I've got to give it a chance," she said sternly.
"You know, you sound just like a friend of mine," Jack said in an annoyed tone, moving back and drinking his last shot "how are you even going to get him to talk? Do you even have a plan?" He asked in the same tone.
This made her pause, no she didn't have a plan passed wing it and hope for the best. She blew air out the corner of her mouth in frustration and opened her mouth to answer but was interrupted by angry shouts from the table the alien had gone to.
"What do you mean he's not coming! He wanted this stupid drinking contest!" Said alien yelled.
The smaller human, not backing down to the imitating alien yelled straight back "well I know that Joe, I was there, but he pulled out last minuet so your just gonna have to go home!"
"I came for a contest and I'm not going home sober!"
The two of them yelled back and forth as an idea formed in Rose's head and she slowly grinned, poking her tong out slightly through her teeth.
Jack's eyes widened when her saw her look and slowly shook his head, "no, don't you dare, you'll under the table before he's even tipsy."
"Oh don't worry Jack, I'm bigger on the inside, just make sure its white vinegar and put it behind the bar," she said teasingly, taping the main bar and patting his shoulder before swanning off to the table with the Raxacorricofallapatorin.
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Still a bit confused about Donna's look, the Doctor followed the two women into the academy, not even sparing a glance at the boy siting on the grass. When he got to his ship he strode right in, Martha had already walked off down one of the corridors to get changed so it was only him Donna, the Doctor sighed and when to fiddle with the console, moving them to near Martha's place with a slight shudder, he had a feeling she wasn't going to stay, and then continued to play with the controls aimlessly, to distract himself from the oncoming guilt of not being able to save another of his kind, and so he could pretended that he hadn't noticed the concerned look his ginger companion was once again giving him as she lent against the railing. After about seven minuets of the Doctor's attempts at distracting himself, Donna finally had enough and walked over to him from behind and she laid a hand on his shoulder, stopping him movements. He bowed his head over the console, not daring to turn around, and he spread his arms, griping tightly and locking his elbows so he didn't start hitting his head on any of the controls, waiting for the oncoming questions.
"Doctor, I might have not traveled with you for long, but I have never seen you react like that, to anyone's death," the ginger paused as Martha continued, now dressed properly and standing in the doorway to the rest of the ship.
"Nether have I Doctor, for you to hold any weapon to any one else, that's got to be someone important, so, who was she Doctor?"
He didn't have a clue who she was, not a name not any thing, yes, she was a Time Lady, the only other Gallifreyan left in, but so was the Master, and he was once his best friend before he first started running, but he still didn't go bat shit.
'So why her?' He mentally asked himself.
Maybe her lack of self-preservation and jeopardy friendliness, or maybe he was getting sick of being so alone and losing yet another of his kind and he needed to let of a bit of frustration, or maybe it was that bloody ascent that made her sound so much like his pink and yellow girl that he forgot that it wasn't her that he had died, again.
"I-I don't know who she was, she never said what her name was, all I got was her species," he paused, talking a deep slightly shuddering breath, "she was a Time Lady, a, a female Gallifreyan, from my home planet."
Both women inhaled sharp breaths at this new bit of information.
"Oh space man," Donna whispered and turned him towards her, wrapping her arms around his shoulders in an attempt to comfort him.
The Doctor slowly returned the hug to his ginger companion and also moved one arm to put around his past companion when she decided to join in. After a few seconds, the Time Lord pulled back with a long sigh and rubbed his face with a hand that also ran through his hair, making it even more messy, and moved off around the console.
"So," Donna started casually, braking the silence that had fallen over the console room,"you going to come with us? We're not exactly short of space."
Martha sighed wistfully, looking around the large room, "Oh, I have missed all this, but, you know, I'm good here, back at home and I'm better for having been away. Besides, someone needs me, never mind the universe, I've got a great big world of my own now." She said lifting up her left hand for a second to look at he engagement ring before dropping it and looking over at the Doctor.
He just waved a hand at the door, giving her a half smile and said "gut feeling."
Martha just shook her head a bit and moved over to the Time Lord to hug him goodbye.
Weeeell, that was the idea any way, but then the TARDIS decided to hijack it's self and the occupants of the time/space ship had to hold on to the console for dear life.
"What? What!" The Doctor yelled in panic as he stumbled round to the scanner to try to see what was happening.
"Doctor, don't you dare!" Martha shouted angrily.
"No, no, no. I didn't touch anything. We're in flight. It's not me."
"Where are we going?" Donna asked panicked.
"I don't know. It's out of control!" He replied.
"Doctor, just listen to me. You take me home. Take me home right now!"
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Four and a half bottles of vodka latter and Rose had finally got something out of the alien, basically, he had been paid by the remaining Slitheen family to come to Earth and set up a string of high-powered nuclear explosives to destroy the earth, of course starting in Cardiff. No money, no profit, no buyers, just revenge for their fallen family members that had died at human hands, it actually surprised Rose that it had taken this long for any thing to happen with that but she wasn't complaining, though it would give her something to do now, keeping a eye on them. By the end of the third bottle, the alien named Joe's ability to sit up straight had started to deteriorate as the amount of alcohol had finally started to affect the alien inside and he been getting angrier and angrier since then, the vodka Rose had consumed was metabolizing to fast and she hadn't really gone past wobbling a bit if she stood up and slower speech than normal.
Finally 'Joe' snapped and slammed down his fist that was clenched around the shot glass as the two of them finished the latest round with a yell of anger and swiped the four empty bottles off the small table with his other arm, the smaller male human called Robert nearly coping them in the chest before he dodged out of the way.
The alcohol fuelled, angry alien stood up and started yelling "How! How are you doing this you stupid human, it's impossible! Your cheating!" He finished in a childish heavy slur.
'Oh well, gonna have to use that vinegar any way,' she thought as she stood up with a snarl, getting as up in his face as the height difference would allow, really wishing she was taller at the moment.
"Oh I'm cheating? That amount of alcohol would kill any human, so we're both ether cheating or nether of us are what we seem," she finished in a menacing tone.
The two of them glared each other down for a straight minuet before the tension in the bar got to much and the Raxacorricofallapatorin snarled and started ripping off his human skin to revel the green thing underneath. The small audience that they had accumulate over the hour-long contest immediately panicked and ran out screaming along with every one else in the bar, apart from Jack who's standing in front of the main bar with an empty glass bottle and a plastic bottle of cleaning stuff that smelled like vinegar.
When the thing had finished ripping off the human skin and stood to his full height, he was huge! Bigger than any of the Slitheen family she had seen, it's head just brushing the ceiling of the bar, maybe nine foot six? And of course it was growling and snarling at her as it stretched it's limbs.
"Oh you are huge! This is just amazing, 'cause I have seen your kind before but really, you take the cake on the huge AND the ugly, I mean, all offence, talk about a face only a mother could love."
Maybe provoking the angry alien wasn't the best idea she had but it worked in the end. When the thing tried to take a swing at Rose, a liquid filled glass bottle flew out of no where and smashed against it's shoulder, bits of glass stuck out of the alien and the room was filled with the strong smell of vinegar. The thing stopped moving and looked at where the bottle had hit and then looked around confused.
Quickly realising what had happened, Rose grinned and ran to where Jack stood, looking just as confused the alien and grabbed his hand, dragging him out of the bar and quickly grabbing her screwdriver and sonicing the doors closed the just as there was a bang and stuff thumped against the door. A few seconds after bits stopped hitting the door, Rose unlocked the door and had a look inside, practically the whole bar was covered in what looks like green noodles and boy did it smell.
"Blimey," Rose muttered at the sight.
"I see what you mead by exploding," Jack murmured beside her.
"Yeah," she turned her head to look at him, raising an eye brow and smirking slightly before asking "you still gonna pay?"
He just rolled his eyes playfully and smirked "it's alien so I'll have to get my team in any way, so yeah I'll still pay."
"Team?" Rose asked as she moved away from the door of the bar, "what like a UNIT team?"
He just snorted at that, "no, the go more for world crises, I'm in charge of Torchwood."
Ok I'm going to stop here, love it, hate it, oh well.