Mild torture
The Doctor was now flying the TARDIS through the Vortex in a bid to get back to Earth. Donna was clinging to the railing while Jaime was leaning on the jump seat with her eyes closed and arms folded. The Doctor noticed this. "What's wrong with you?" He asked. She shivered and said; "Bad Wolf, I can feel her, powerful scary." He frowned at this. "Nah, that's just the TARDIS." But the girl shook her head. "I know what the TARDIS feels like and this feels different." 'Okay, that's a little odd.' He thought to himself. The TARDIS finally landed with a thump and all three ran out of the TARDIS into a not so busy street. Young Jaime was glad to get out of there considering Bad Wolf's presence. It was just too much.
"It's fine. Everything is fine. Nothing's wrong, all fine." The Doctor muttered and spotted a milkman just across the road. "Excuse me. What day is it?" He called. "Saturday." The milkman replied, smirking at the question. How could anyone forget what day it is? "Saturday," the Time Lord muttered again. "Good. Good. I like Saturdays." "So I just met Rose Tyler?" Donna questioned and looked at Jaime. "And you too?" The teen grunted in reply, staring into space having gone into her own world. "Yeah." the Doctor replied, looking distracted. "But she's locked away in a parallel universe." "Exactly. If she can cross from her parallel world to your parallel world, then that means the walls of the universe are breaking down. It's probably how Jaime ended up here...which puts everything in danger. But how?" The Doctor went back into the TARDIS followed by Donna. Jaime stayed outside, ignoring the call of the TARDIS. Meanwhile the bottles of milk began to shake and tiles were falling off the roof.
"The thing is, Doctor, no matter what's happening, and I'm sure it's bad, I get that but, Rose is coming back. Isn't that good?" Donna asked him and the Doctor smiled happily. "Yeah!" He said happily. Outside the shaking got a lot worse, so bad it was almost Earthquake-like and then Jaime cried out in surprise when she fell to the ground. In the TARDIS both the Doctor and Donna heard a bang from outside followed by the TARDIS shaking. "What the hell was that?" Donna shouted, eyes wide. "Don't know. It came from outside." It was then that he noticed someone was missing. "Jaime!" He cried and they ran to the doors only to find they were in space with space rock floating by. "How did that happen?" Donna asked. "What did you do?" She accused the Doctor, who had gone back to check the monitor scanner. "We haven't moved. We're fixed. It can't have. No. The TARDIS is still in the same place, but the Earth has gone. The entire planet. It's gone and Jaime's still out there alone."
Back outside, on earth, Jaime picked herself up off the ground and went to return to the TARDIS...only it wasn't there. "Doctor?" She looked around wide-eyed. "Doctor?" She continued to shout, frightened and looked up. It was even worse because there were lots of planets in the sky and it was in fact a lot scarier in person than it was on the TV. She should have realised what would happen as soon as she stepped out of the TARDIS. Perhaps this is what the Bad Wolf wanted and if that was so, it frightened her so much she could no longer keep her emotions in check. "DOCTOR!" She cried out and tried to stretch her mind out to him. "DOCTOR! WHERE ARE YOU?" All she could feel was something malevolent which made all her abilities short circuit. Crouching, she closed her eyes and felt the wind blowing around her. Nearby some of the milk bottles began to float and all the milkman could do was watch.
A crackle of energy was heard and the shocked milkman looked around as a female with blonde hair, purply-blue jacket and a giant gun appeared out of thin air. It seemed to be all happening today. First earthquakes and planets in the sky, followed by floating milk bottles, then followed by someone just appearing out of nowhere. The female blonde was Rose Tyler and she looked up at the sky with a sense of alarm, seeing all the planets. "Right, now we're in trouble." She said and cocked her big gun. "And it's only just beginning." "You can say that again!" The milkman said, continuing to stare at his floating milk bottles in mild confusion. "What's causing that? Is it them?" He looked up at the sky full of planets. "And where's that wind coming from?" Suddenly the bark of a nearby tree spontaneously combusted into flames, then so did the wheels of the milk truck. The milkman jumped back. "Oh god, it's the apocalypse!" He cried.
Rose looked around for an explanation. Due to her work in Torchwood in the parallel universe she'd come across many individuals, mostly aliens but some humans, who were powerful psychics or even had kinetic abilities. Spotting the girl across the road she realised she looked familiar. Could she possibly be be the same one she saw several months ago after she mistook her for the Doctor. This girl who had said she was human but psychic dreaming? It was clear she had very powerful abilities and was very scared. Rose approached the girl, putting her gun to the side for now. "Hey!" She said in a tone she only used when dealing with frightened beings. "It's going to be okay." The girl looked up from her crouched position and her eyes widened. It was the same girl.
"Rose!" She cried and enveloped the older female in a hug. The sound of milk bottles crashing to the ground could be heard along with the astonished cry of the milkman. "Shhh, it's going to be fine, you're going to be okay." Jaime stared at the broken bottles and fire, realising she had caused all that. Not to mention her head was thumping painfully. Rose wondered how the girl knew her name but remembered she was psychic. "What's your name? Since you already know mine." Rose asked her, stepping back from the girl once she knew she had calmed down. "Jaime," she cried, eyes red from crying. "Jaime MacInarah." "Okay, Jaime, then let me ask you this. Where's the Doctor?"
Jaime remembered her dream, the one with Rose Tyler. "He was here!" She cried. 'Right there!" Pointing to the spot where the TARDIS had been. "Then the Earth got moved and the TARDIS didn't come with it." Rose frowned. What luck, she had been close but now...Jaime saying that the Earth had been moved was now on her mind. How was she sure of this? "I tried stretching my mind out to him but he's nowhere near the Earth and there was all those voices calling out, scared and frightened...millions of voices. Then there's this really scary feeling from somewhere up there." They looked up at the sky full of planets. "It's all so loud my head hurts." "Hmmm!" Rose grunted. "How come you didn't go back into the TARDIS?" This question made Jaime's face turn red. "My mind wanders off, then I do too...so the Doctor holds my hand." Rose looked rather surprised and Jaime could feel a hint of jealousy from the older female. The teenager went even more red considering Rose and the Doctor always held hands.
"Okay," Rose sighed. "Looks like we're going to have to find the Doctor a different way." She took Jaime's hand and they began to walk away from the suburbs, heading for London, the milk truck had long since been abandoned. The walk into Central London would have taken several hours if they hadn't decided to take the subway. It surprised both females that it was still running, but when they exited the subway there was chaos everywhere. "The end of the world darlings. End of the stinkin' world." A drunk man shouted to the females. "Have one on us mate!" Rose replied and could feel Jaime cowering behind her, obviously not used to seeing such lawlessness. The teen cried out in fright when she heard the sound of breaking glass nearby. It was a computer shop and two yobs were raiding it.
The females approached it. "Right, you two," Rose shouted, startling the yobs. "You can put that stuff down or run for your lives." She held up her gun. "Do you like my gun?" The two yobs ran away and rose entered the shop along with Jaime. They looked at a TV to see that something was heading to Earth. Something pushed Jaime to search the computer shop, a webcam coming to mind. She frowned but did in fact search for a webcam, though she didn't know why. "What are you doing?" Rose asked, frowning at what Jaime was doing. "I don't know," she replied. "I just have to find it." Shaking her head Rose turned back to the TV wondering who could be behind what was happening. The teen finally found what she was searching for and stuffed the webcam into one of her pockets of her cargo pants.
As she stood up she heard what probably chilled everyone in this universe by now. "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!" Jaime gasped, eyes wide. Of course, it was the Daleks, always the Daleks and their voice was coming from the TV. "Oh no!" She whispered, eyes still wide. Rose was scowling and Jaime could sense her anger and disgust from the older female. "Come on!" Rose took Jaime's hand and they exited the shop. They could see that the Daleks were already invading, a saucer flying above the sky. The two females walked away from the shop and Jaime screamed in fright when a Dalek bolt hit a nearby shop.
Things just seemed to be going from bad to worse on the streets of London. Daleks were everywhere on every street, taking family's prisoner. Rose and Jaime took the back streets and alleys to avoid being captured by the Daleks for whatever they wanted. "They're everywhere!" Rose growled, disgusted. At one point the two came across an elderly couple and Jaime recognised them as Wilf Mott and Sylvia Noble. Wilf had shot the Dalek in the eye with a paint gun but something odd happened. The paint sizzled away. "MY VISION IS NOT IMPAIRED." The Dalek almost sounded smug. Rose moved away from her hiding place and a frightened Jaime followed. "HOSTILITY WILL NOT BE TOLERATED." The Dalek still continued. "EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE, EXTER..." Rose shot at the Dalek and its head exploded with a scream. Wilf and Sylvia breathed a sigh of relief that someone else could deal with Daleks better than them. "Do you want to swap?" Wilf joked. "You're Donna Noble's family, right? I'm Rose Tyler, this is Jaime MacInarah and we need your help."
In order to get back to the Noble home the four kept to the back lanes and alleys until they reached safety. "Yeah, I've tried calling her, but I can't get through. But she's still with The Doctor, I know that much." Wilf was saying. "And the last time she phoned, it was from a planet called Midnight, made of Diamonds." Jaime closed her eyes and shivered at the bad memories. "She told me about you." Wilf now told the teenager. "How you come from another universe..." Rose looked surprised at this. "...and how you have superpowers. Why aren't you with the Doctor?" He asked. "We got separated." Jaime replied. "He's trying to find the Earth but he doesn't know where it is." "How do you..." Wilf shook his head. "Of course, Donna said you were psychic." Jaime smiled nervously. She really was psychic in some way but she knew these things because she was in the middle of 'The Stolen Earth'.
"What the hell are you three talking about?" Sylvia asked. "Look, she's out there, sweetheart." Wilf replied. "Your daughter. She's travelling the stars with that Doctor. She always has been." "Don't be ridiculous." Jaime bristled at the comment. She could feel and sense Sylvia's arrogance wash over her. It reminded her of Professor Hobbes. "Oh come on, open your eyes. Look at the sky, look at the Daleks. You just can't start denying things now." "You're my last hope," Rose spoke up. "If we can't find Donna, can't find the Doctor. Where is he?" Sighing, Jaime sat down on a one seater, leaned forward and put her hands on her head. It was painfully thumping away but it wasn't bad enough that she needed to take a painkiller. At least not yet. She even tried to do her best by ignoring the Daleks who had hacked themselves into anything that could communicate. But she was also frightened and it was throwing her control of her abilities out of whack.
Several objects in the Noble house began to float, scaring Wilf and Sylvia. "Dad! Dad!" She called when a glass on the table began to float, followed by some plates. "What's doing that? Is it them Daleks?" Wilf asked. Rose shook her head and turned to Jaime, crouching before her. "Hey, hey. It's going to be alright. Once we find the Doctor we'll deal with the Daleks." The teenager looked up at Rose and everything crashed back down. Luckily nothing broke but that still didn't stop Sylvia from crying out in horror. She stood up, wide-eyed. "I'm sorry!" She cried. "I'm really sorry." "No, don't worry about it." Wilf said while Rose pulled her in for a hug. 'BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP...' Rose looked around at the beeping noise. "What's that?" She asked but Sylvia and Wilf were just as confused. "Can anyone hear me?" A voice spoke up. "The Subwave Network is open. You should be able to hear my voice. Is there anyone there?" Jaime saw that the laptop was on but the screen was fuzzy. "I know that voice!" Rose said...so did Jaime. It was this universes ex Prime Minister, Harriet Jones. "This message is of the utmost importance," she continued. "We haven't got much time. Can anyone hear me?" The screen finally cleared and Rose went to sit in front of the laptop. Jaime sat next to her, frowning. They were the only ones who wouldn't be able to talk to Harriet.
"Captain Jack Harkness, shame on you. Now stand to attention, sir." She suddenly said and Jaime giggled. "What? Who is that?" They heard Jack exclaim and Jaime felt confusion from Rose. Of course, last she saw of Jack was on the Game Station. Harriet held up her I.D. "Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister." She said. "Yeah, I know who you are." Jack replied off screen. "Harriet, it's me, it's me!" Rose shouted. "Oh, she can't hear me. Have you got a webcam?" She asked Sylvia and Wilf. "No," Wilf shook his head. "She wouldn't let me have one, said they were naughty." Rose sighed. "I can't speak to her then, can I?" Brow furrowed Jaime tried to remember something then shivered uncontrollably for no apparent reason. "Sarah Jane Smith, 13 Bannerman Road, are you there?" Harriet continued to call. "Good, now lets see if we can talk to each other." Harriet did something and they watched as Harriet on screen was joined by Jack in Torchwood, Cardiff and Sarah Jane, with Luke, at home. "The fourth contact seems to be having some trouble getting through." 'Thats me, Harriet, that's me!" Rose shouted but Jaime shook her head. She knew who would appear next.
"I'll just boost the signal." Harriet said until a new voice spoke up. "Hello?" It was Martha Jones and Jaime sighed. She hadn't been her favourite companion of the series. Jack laughed in surprise as her image filled the fourth screen. "Martha Jones!" "Who's she?" Jaime felt Rose's jealousy sky rocket at the sight of Martha. "I want to get through." Martha on screen started talking about using Project Indigo, then Jack and Sarah Jane greeted each other until Harriet spoke up again in order to stop the flirting from Jack. "Not now Captain. And Martha Jones, former companion to the Doctor. "Oi! So was I." Rose protested. "But how did you find me?" Martha asked and Harriet smiled grimly. "This, ladies and gentlemen, this is the Subwave Network. A sentient piece of software programmed to seek out anyone and everyone who can help to contact the Doctor." "What if the Daleks can hear us?" "No, that's the beauty of the Subwave. It's undetectable." "And you invented it?" Sarah Jane enquired. "I developed it," Harriet replied. "It was created by the Mister Copper Foundation." "Yeah, but what we need is a weapon." Jack spoke up and then asked about the thing Martha was given and she said it was an Osterhagen Key. Jaime once again shivered, knowing exactly what the thing could do. It seemed Harriet did too because she told them to forget about the key.
"All we need is the Doctor." She told the other three on the call. "Only, excuse me, Harriet, but, well, the thing is, if you're looking for the Doctor, didn't he depose you?" Harriet once again looked grim. "He did. And I've wondered about that for a long time, whether I was wrong. But I stand by my actions to this day, because I knew. I knew that one day, the Earth would be in danger, and the Doctor would fail to appear." Jaime rolled her eyes. If she was in the room with this woman she could probably feel her arrogance. "I told him myself and he didn't listen." Martha then told Harriet she had been trying to call the Doctor but was unable to get in touch. "Nor me and I was here first!" Rose scoffed and Jaime flinched, feeling her anger and jealousy. She had to cool it down. "That's why we need the Subwave," Harriet told Martha. "To bring us all together. Combine forces. The Doctor's secret army..." They all continued discussing how to get the Subwave working while Rose was still wishing she was a part of the conversation. Jaime was amazed with all the calculations going on. Considering she'd only been home schooled she wasn't very good at maths.
"Marvellous woman. I voted for her." Wilf said, sitting on the sofa. "You did not!" Sylvia bit. "Now enough words, lets begin." Harriet told the others on the call. Torchwood got to work activating the rift while Sarah Jane and Luke connected Mr Smith to the Subwave and rift. "Sending you the number now." Martha said and to Jaime's surprise the Doctor's mobile number was actually the one used on the show. "Opening the Subwave Network to maximum." Harriet stated. "Mr Smith, make the call." "Calling the Doctor." Mr Smith said and did just that. "So am I!" Rose said, taking out her mobile to call the Doctor. Wilf and Sylvia did the same. "Do you have a mobile?" Rose asked Jaime. The girl shook her head. "They never last long. I keep blowing them up." Rose found the reply a bit odd but continued calling for the Doctor. "And sending." Jack called and the search for the Doctor began.
In the TARDIS at the Medusa Cascade both Donna and the Doctor were moping over not being able to find Earth. Or even the other planets that had been taken. Not only that but the Time Lord was worrying about Jaime. She was stuck on Earth, alone. He wondered what she could be doing right now because she had no way to communicate with other people. She didn't carry a mobile on herself. And Rassilon knows what could happen if someone got her angry. Suddenly something on the console started beeping. "PHONE!" The Doctor shouted. "Doctor, phone." Donna reiterated as the Doctor picked up his phone. "Martha, is that you?" He asked only to find there was no-one else on the other end of the line...apart from a strange beeping. "It's a signal." "Can we follow it?" Pulling out his Stethoscope and putting it on the Doctor said; "Oh, just watch me!" He said.
Back down on earth Jaime was watching Rose and the two adults calling the Doctor, wondering if she should stretch her mind out to find the Doctor. But what if the Daleks locked on to her. Could they actually do that? To be honest she didn't want to know. "I think we got a fix." Jack was saying while Mr Smith was at 200%. "Oh, come on Doctor." Sarah Jane muttered. "Find me, Doctor. Find me." Rose whispered and Jaime smiled. She really did love the Doctor. "Got it, locking on." The Doctor in the TARDIS shouted. The teen closed her eyes when Gwen informed Harriet a Dalek saucer had locked onto her, and even though the Subwave was being masked it still wasn't enough. Meanwhile in the TARDIS flames were sprouting up and time machine was suffering a very rough journey. "We're travelling through time," the Doctor explained. "One second into the future. The phone's pulling us through." Back down on Earth Harriet had a very grim expression on her face.
"Captain, I'm transferring the Subwave Network to Torchwood. "You're in charge now. And tell the Doctor from me he chose his companions well." Shivering, Jaime knew Harriet's time was up, but there must be something she could do, maybe teleport Harriet to safety. Though she wasn't very good at teleporting things so what if she accidentally killed Harriet? But what if she blew up the Daleks before they kill Harriet? Only...what if Harriet's death was a fixed point in time? It was too late to make a decision now because she heard the Daleks cry 'Exterminate' and then the death ray. Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North and former Prime Minister was dead. Jaime sobbed openly and items in the Noble house were floating again. "Oh no, not again!" Sylvia cried out while Rose comforted the teenager.
"Three, two, one..." The Doctor called excitedly as the journey got a lot more rougher before it finally stopped. Also the TARDIS was now surrounded by planets and moons in the Medusa Cascade. "Twenty seven planets. And there's the Earth," Donna pointed out. "But why couldn't we see them?" "The entire Medusa Cascade has been put a second out of sync with the rest of the universe. Perfect hiding place. Tiny little pocket of time. But we found them. Ohhh, hold on, what's that? Some sort of Subwave Network." Rose watched as the Doctor and Donna replaced Harriet's old spot. "Where the hell have you been?" Jack shouted. Sure, this whole situation was stressy but there was no need to be rude. "Doctor, it's the Daleks." People were so happy to see the Doctor they were practically talking over each other. "It's Donna!" Sylvia said in surprise when she saw her daughter onscreen. "That's my girl." Wilf said. "Sarah Jane!" The Doctor exclaimed rather happily. "Who's that boy? That's Torchwood. Oh, they're brilliant. Look at you all, you clever people." "That's Martha!" Donna spoke up. "And who's he?" She was obviously pointing at Jack. "Captain Jack," the Doctor replied. "Don't, just don't." He said before either of them could start flirting.
"Doctor, it's me. I came back." Rose said in a rather despondent way and Jaime felt her sadness. "It's like an out-of-space FaceBook." Donna marvelled. "Everyone except Rose." Sighed the Doctor. ~Use the webcam.~ A little voice in Jaime's mind spoke up causing her to gasp, then she rummaged in her pockets of her cargo pants and pulled out a webcam. "What's that?" Rose asked and took the webcam from Jaime. "You had one all along! Why didn't you say?" She could feel Rose's anger aimed at her. "Something told me it wasn't the right time." Jaime replied. "Something?" Deciding not to argue Rose stuck the webcam onto the laptop. Only nothing happened. She groaned. "It's not working." She cried in frustration. "Why would it?" Questioned Sylvia. "Let me try!" Jaime sat forward and put her hands on the keyboard of the laptop, closing her eyes." "What're you doing?" "Using my Cyberkinesis I'm going to hack into the Subwave Network." Jaime replied almost sounding like the Doctor for a moment. 'Weird!' She thought and went to work on the laptop.
At first Rose watched the girl in amazement but then her attention went to the screen after the Doctor exclaimed that someone else was coming through. Sure enough a fifth box had appeared in the middle of the screen but the image was mostly snow. "Doctor!" Rose shouted happily. "Doctor, it's me." "Who's that?" The Doctor asked. "Who's there?" Jack was working at his end. "I'm not getting any signal here," he said. "Whoever it is they've managed to hide themselves." "He still can't see me!" Rose groaned so Jaime dug even deeper into the laptop's mainframe. Her nose was running and her head was painful but she wasn't going to give up. The screen cleared a little more and now it looked like a bad TV signal.
"What? ROSE!" The Doctor shouted, his excitement was obvious. "How are you doing that?" "That's what I'd like to know." Jack said. Martha said nothing, apart from frowning. "Doctor, I came back!" Rose shouted. "I'm here with Jaime." Everyone else was frowning. "Why can't we hear her?" Donna asked the Doctor. "And I'm sure that place looks familiar." "Oh no. They've got no sound. What happened to the volume?" Rose asked Wilf. "It's an old laptop. The volume broke ages ago." Jaime lifted her head up, her eyes were watering and there was a rushing in her ears. "I think I can fix that." "Jaime!" Jack said, sounding scared and Rose was surprised Jack knew the girl. "What's wrong with her?" Sarah Jane asked and Martha was grimacing. The Doctor groaned and Donna looked horrified. "It's not Rose doing it, it's Jaime." He said. "I think she's hacked into the Subwave Network with her Cyberkinesis...and it's killing her." She smiled grimly at this. "No more than usual!" She croaked, feeling everyone's confusion in the room. Even without the volume the Doctor was able to understand what she said.
"Jaime," he groaned. "Your nose is bleeding. Quite heavily." Noticing this for the first time Rose gasped in shock. "Oh my god." "It's fine, just talk to the Doctor." Her head was getting worse. "No, it's not fine. Rose, stop her before she kills herself!" Rose was torn. She really wanted to talk to the Doctor, but someone killing themselves in a bid to help her was not what she wanted. "You can let go now Jaime." Rose said but the girl wouldn't. "Don't do this. We can find the Doctor later." Taking matters into her own hands she pulled Jaime's hands off the laptop and the girl collapsed into her arms. "Oh no, oh no." Rose whispered as she and Wilf helped lay her on the floor. The middle screen had gone all fuzzy but the Doctor was still worried. "Rose, if you're still there her painkillers are in one of her..." He was cut off when the whole screen went fuzzy.
"Right, painkillers." Rose went through Jaime's pockets where she found out they were bigger on the inside just like the Doctor's. finally finding them she did her best to wake up the girl. When she stirred she was able to give Jaime the painkiller. Sylvia gave her some water to drink and a tissue to wipe her nose. Jaime could feel herself getting back to normal, the rushing in her ears was easing and the headache was dissipating. "Please, please don't do that again!" Rose was pale faced. Shocked even. "You shouldn't practically kill yourself just for me." "Why not?" Jaime croaked back. "These abilities of mine are killing me anyway. And I only wanted to help you get in touch with the Doctor." She felt waves of pity and sadness come from Rose. "I'm sorry." She whispered. "Don't be," she took the bottle of painkillers from the older female. "These stop the brain bleeds and help me last longer. But one day I'm gonna die even with these." Her eyes went to the computer screen and she jumped in shock. "What the hell is that?" Sylvia asked, grimacing at the creature. Rose was only half listening to the conversation between the brown skinned creature and the Doctor.
"Davros." Jaime said, wiping her nose of the blood, it was all on her t-shirt. "Creator of the Daleks." "I saw your command ship fly into the jaws of the Knightmare Child," the Doctor was telling his number one enemy. "I tried to save you." "But it took one stronger than you." The screen changed to show a crazed Dalek Caan. "I flew into the the wild and the fire. I danced and died a thousand times." It said. "Emergency temporal shift took him into the Time War itself." Davros so kindly explained. "But that's impossible. The entire Time War is time locked." The Doctor was shocked this could actually happen. However Jaime knew differently. "And yet he succeeded. Oh, it cost him his mind, but imagine. A single simple Dalek succeeded where Emperors and Time Lords have failed. A testament, don't you think, to my remarkable creations?" The look of disgust was evident in the Doctor's voice. "And you made a new race of Daleks." "I gave myself to them, quite literally. Each one grown from a cell of my own body." Davros opened his tunic to show what he did, making Rose look away in disgust. "This guy is worse than the Dalek Emperor." She muttered. Jaime barely shook her head. "New Daleks," Davros continued. "True Daleks. I have my children, Doctor. What do you have now?" He taunted.
"After all this time , everything we saw," replied the Doctor. "Everything we lost, I have only one thing to say to you...BYE!" And with that the Doctor pulled a lever and the TARDIS hurtled down to Earth. Knowing what to do next Rose picked up her gun and helped Jaime to her feet before making a phone call. "Control. I need another shift. Lock me onto the TARDIS, now." She put the phone away and held Jaime's hand. "We're going to find him. Wish me luck." "Good luck!" Both Sylvia and Wilf said and as soon as they said that Rose and Jaime disappeared in a blinding white flash.
Travel via the Dimension Cannon felt very odd. It was also very rough and when they were spat out the other end Jaime stumbled to the ground, hurting her hands. Not to mention she felt sick. And the fact she was still recovering from almost killing herself. "Up you get!" Rose said, pulling the young girl to her feet. "Sorry about that, it's only supposed to carry one so the journey was a little rough." She looked around at the empty deserted street. "Now where's the Doctor? Can you tell if he's nearby?" Jaime stretched her mind out to him and smiled. "He's close. Very close. Just around the corner." Taking a hold of Jaime's hand the older time traveller ran until they were on the right street. Further up said street Jaime saw the TARDIS, the Doctor and Donna. Then felt Rose's adoration for her Doctor.
"...think, Donna. When you met Rose in that parallel world, what did she say?" He asked his companion. "Just, the darkness is coming." Donna replied, thinking. "Anything else?" Looking over his shoulder she noticed both Jaime and Rose run onto the street. With a smile she said; "why don't you ask her yourself?" He narrowed his eyes in confusion so Donna nodded at what was behind him, so he looked around. Down the street he saw the only human he ever loved and was somewhat relieved to see that Jaime was still with her. Even from halfway up the street the teen could feel the Doctor's happiness, love and relief for both her and Rose.
It was Rose who started running first, dropping her gun. Then the Doctor ran next and they would hopefully meet in the middle. Smiling herself, Jaime jogged after Rose. None of them noticed the Dalek until it was too late. Things began to happen in slow motion like in the scene and Jaime wondered if the Doctor was slowing down time. "EXTERMINATE!" Cried the Dalek. It didn't matter anyway, the Dalek still hit him and part of him x-rayed before he collapsed to the ground. "DOCTOR!" Rose cried, running to him. "NO! Jaime roared, shocked. "NO!" And then she threw both arms out towards the Dalek and multiple things blew up the Dalek, including a random lightning strike. She collapsed to the ground, head in pain, nose bleeding again but not as bad as before, sobbing. Someone took her arm and hauled her back to her feet. "Nicely dealt with!" It was Jack and he pulled her towards Rose, Donna and the Doctor. "Get him into the TARDIS." Jack ordered the two females. "Quick! Move." Rose and Donna managed to pull a dying Doctor to his feet and they hurried as fast as they could towards the TARDIS. Jack gathered a near unconscious Jaime into his arms and ran with her.
"Hi Jack!" She said weakly and smiled. "Hey darling!" He replied with a grim smile, trying not to think about what was happening to her. What had been happening in the last six weeks? They all made it to the TARDIS and Jack left the girl lying against a coral pillar before dealing with the rest of his friends. "What, what do we do?" Donna cried. "There must be some medicine or something?" Jack pulled Donna away from the Doctor. "Just step back. Rose, do as I say, and get back. He's dying and you know what happens next." But Rose wouldn't leave his side. "What do you mean? He can't!" Donna was confused. "Oh no, I came all this way." Rose whispered sadly. "What do you mean? What happens next?" Donna now shouted while Rose watched the Doctor hold his right hand up. It was glowing with regeneration energy. "It's starting!" The Doctor grunted grimly.
Jaime was trying to think but her mind was fuzzy. Perhaps she was going to die earlier than expected. She pulled out her bottle of painkillers and watched as Rose ran to safety and The Doctor pull himself up using the console. "Here we go!" Jack said. "Good luck Doctor." "Will someone please tell me what's going on?" An exasperated Donna shouted. "When he's dying, he...er...his body. It repairs itself. It changes." Rose explained. "But you can't!" That was aimed at the Doctor and Jaime could feel waves of several emotions coming from different people. "I'm sorry, it's too late," the Doctor grunted. "I'm regenerating." He burst into golden energy and it was so bright that Jaime, Rose, Donna and Jack had to close their eyes and look away.
The Doctor didn't want to regenerate, not when he had just been reunited with his lost love, so he managed to aim the rest of his regeneration energy at the severed hand he kept in a jar. Once it was over he stumbled back and took a deep breath. "Now then. Where were we?" He said as his companions stared in stunned silence. Jaime stared at the now glowing hand. Of course, he had stopped the regen process by giving the energy to the hand...but according to the 11th Doctor this was a full regeneration. But why did she keep forgetting? Was it her abilities killing her brain cells or something? She watched as the Doctor knelt by his spare hand, a grin on his face. "There now." He blew on the hand and the regen energy disappeared, though he didn't notice some of it move towards Jaime. She didn't notice it either.
"You see? Used the regeneration energy to heal myself, but soon as I was done, I didn't need to change. I didn't want to. Why would I? Look at me. So, to stop the energy going all the way, I siphoned off the rest into a handy bio-matching receptacle, namely my hand," the Doctor explained to them. "My hand there," he pointed. "My handy spare hand. Remember? Christmas Day, Sycorax. Lost my hand in a sword fight? That's my hand. What do you think?" Rose stared at the Doctor. "You're still you?" She said almost timidly. "I'm still me!" He clarified. They grinned and hugged each other, happy to be back in each others arms. Feeling a smidge better Jaime tried to make it to her feet but couldn't. Her head was still hurting after killing the Dalek with multiple abilities. And she had no idea what that lightning had been about.
The Doctor saw this and went to her, crouching. "Dear me, we are in a state aren't we." He said, looking at her with concern. "That was a very dangerous thing you did earlier." He admonished. "You could have died." "I thought she did when she collapsed in my arms." Rose said. "You should have seen what she did to that Dalek out there," Jack spoke up. "But why is she like that? As soon as she killed it she collapsed." The Doctor was grim. He'd heard it blow up along with the smell of electricity. "Your theory was right Jack. Some of her abilities like variants of Cyberkinesis cause her to have severe brain haemorrhages." "She said they were killing her." Rose said, sounding upset. Jack was stunned. "Though she has been doing well in controlling them." Jaime smiled weakly as the Doctor took the bottle off her. He saw there was only half a dozen painkillers left. Looks like he was going to need to make some more. After making a diagnostic check with his sonic he made sure she took a painkiller, used a tissue to wipe the blood from her face and finally helped her to her feet.
Within seconds she was springing about, laughing happily as she hugged Jack. "Jeez Doc, what did you put in them?" Jack asked. "Caffeine!" Jaime replied. "And Adrenaline." Added the Doctor. "Don't forget adrenaline." She chuckled and nodded, turning toward the Time Lord. "That regeneration stuff felt really hot. Is that why you tell people to stay back? Because it could burn?" The Doctor appeared deep in thought while everyone else was listening. That was a good question which no-one ever asked about. Well she was quite curious. "Yes," he replied. "Well, it's dangerous to none Time Lords. Could seriously injure a human, maybe even make them blind." Was the grim reply and Rose gasped beside him. Jack whistled in pure amazement while Donna stared open mouthed. "What does it feel like?" Jaime asked next but before the Doctor could answer that the power in the TARDIS went out.
"What the hell?" Jack exclaimed. "They've got us," the Doctor said, running to the monitor. "The powers gone, some sort of Chronon Loop." The time machine jerked and they had to grab onto something in case they fell. "Where are we going?" A frightened Donna asked. "There's a massive Dalek ship at the centre of the planets," Jack explained to everyone. "They're calling it the Crucible. Guess that's our destination." Jaime stuck close to Jack, feeling safe with him. Rose had the Doctor. "You said these planets were like an engine. But what for?" Donna enquired. Knowing Rose would have the answers the Doctor turned to her, brows raised. "Rose, you've been in the parallel world. That world's running ahead of this Universe. You've seen the future. What is it?" He asked. "It's the darkness." Rose answered. "The stars were going out." Donna clarified. The blonde nodded. "One by one, we looked up at the sky and they were just dying. Basically, we've been building this, er, this travel machine, this er, dimension cannon, so I could, well, so I could..." "What?" The Doctor pushed. "So I could come back." He grinned and Jaime felt his admiration for his Rose. "Shut up!" She had gone red. "Anyway, suddenly it started to work and the dimensions started to collapse. Not just in our world, not just in yours, but the whole of reality. Even the Void was dead. Something is destroying everything."
Jaime spoke up, something on her mind. "Is that the reason why I fell into this universe from mine?" She asked. "Sort of," the Doctor told her. "You were pretty close to the Rift at the time. You didn't notice anything strange in your universe before you came here did you?" Jaime shook her head. "Nothing interesting ever happened. Apart from...sciencey people finding a big orange planet and people petitioning to call it Gallifrey." "What? Really?" The Doctor was surprised but she could feel confusion from Rose. "Yeah, it just had a number and its not supposed to be there." "Bit of a mystery that, Doc." Jack said. To get things back on track Donna queried. "In that parallel world, you said something about me." Rose nodded again. "The dimension cannon could measure timelines, and it's weird, Donna, but they all converge on you." "But why me?" Donna didn't believe it. "I mean, what have I ever done? I'm a temp from Chiswick." 'She's more than that.' Jaime thought to herself, staring at the spare hand. The scanner beeped, letting them all know they had arrived. "The Dalek Crucible," the Doctor said. "All aboard."
The teen could feel everyone's fear, then all of a sudden she screamed out in pain and fell to her knees, putting her hands on her head. She was also beginning to feel very sick. "What is it? What's wrong?" Both Rose and the Doctor was at her side. Jack was also helping her. "Hate, so much hate!" She whimpered and cried out in pain again. "It hurts!" She cried, squeezing her eyes shut. "I'm a little lost here." Rose said. "Me too." Jack uttered. "DOCTOR, YOU WILL STEP FORTH OR DIE!" They heard one of the Daleks threaten. "I think it's the Daleks." The Doctor spoke up. "Jaime is a very sensitive empath and she can feel the emotions of the Daleks." "Oh!" Rose had gone red again. Thankfully the Doctor didn't notice. His expression was grim while he and Jack helped a pained Jaime to her feet. She put her arms round Jack for support. "We'll have to go out," the Doctor said. "Because if we don't, they'll get in." "You told me nothing could get through those doors." Rose said. "You've got extrapolator shielding." Jack added, only the Doctor shook his head. "Last time we fought the Daleks, they were scavengers and hybrids and mad." 'Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways.' Jaime thought to herself, still in pain. "But this is a fully-fledged Dalek empire, at the height of its power. Experts at fighting TARDIS's, they can do anything. Right now, that wooden door is just wood."
Jack felt Jaime shivering against him, considering she was from a universe where Daleks didn't exist she had a right to be scared. "What about your dimension cannon?' He asked Rose. "It needs another twenty minutes. And anyway I'm not leaving." "What about your teleport?" The Doctor asked Jack. The immortal was grim. "Went down with the power loss." There was nothing else to it. The Doctor was resigned to his fate. "Right then. All of us together. Yeah. Donna?" Through the pain Jaime noticed Donna was staring off into space. It was starting and she couldn't do a thing to change it. "Donna?" "Yeah." She was snapped out of her thoughts. "I'm sorry. There's nothing else we can do." He was apologetic. "No. I know." Outside in the crucible the same Dalek gave another threat. "Daleks!" Rose sighed. "Oh god!" Jack said in an odd way and Jaime giggled at the way he said it. "It's been good though, hasn't it? All of us. All of it. Everything we did." He turned to Donna. "You were brilliant." Then to Jaime and she stared at him with watery eyes. "You've been brilliant and oh so brave!" She smiled weakly. Then to Jack. "And you were brilliant." Finally to Rose, his one true love. "And you were brilliant. Blimey!" He ended, rubbing the back of his head.
Leading his companions out of the TARDIS the Doctor didn't notice Donna lagging behind. For Jaime the pain and nausea got even worse as soon as she set foot on the crucible. She yowled out in pain, holding her head, stumbled a little way and fell to her knees. Jack went to help her but grimaced when she puked up. All he could do was comfort her. The Daleks were currently talking in unison and it just sounded far too loud for her own good. She puked up again and shuddered, letting out a moan. "BEHOLD, DOCTOR," shouted the red Dalek. "BEHOLD THE MIGHT OF THE TRUE DALEK RACE." "Donna, you're no safer in there." The Doctor noticed Donna hadn't come out, only the door slammed shut on its own.
"What?" He ran back to the TARDIS. "Doctor? What have you done?" Donna shouted. "It wasn't me. I didn't do anything!" The Doctor replied. "Oi, oi, I'm not staying behind." The Doctor angrily turned towards the Red Dalek. "What did you do?" "THIS IS NOT OF DALEK ORIGIN." It replied. "Doctor!" Jaime heard Donna cry and listened to the conversation between the Doctor and the Dalek. Nothing could be done, it was supposed to happen. Then she heard the TARDIS fall into the pit. "What did you do? Bring it back!" Shouted the Doctor. Jaime could feel the TARDIS's pain as well as the pain from all the Dalek hate. Again she yowled out in pain and fully collapsed to the floor, shaking. "It's going to be okay," Jack soothed the girl. "You'll be okay." The red Dalek was telling the Doctor that the TARDIS had been dropped into Z-Neutrino energy. "Let her go." Jack shouted but the Dalek wasn't listening and the Doctor was begging to be put in Donna's place. One of the other Daleks began to countdown the destruction of the TARDIS until it finally disappeared. "THE TARDIS HAS BEEN DESTROYED," the red Dalek stated. "NOW TELL ME, DOCTOR. WHAT DO YOU FEEL? ANGER? SORROW? DESPAIR?" "Yeah." The Doctor muttered and Rose held his hand.
"THEN IF EMOTIONS ARE SO IMPORTANT, SURELY WE HAVE ENHANCED YOU." It taunted. "Yeah? Feel this!" Jaime heard Jack shoot the Dalek, then seconds later he was zapped with the death ray and 'died'. "Jack! Oh my god!" Rose was shocked. "Oh no." "Rose, come here," the Doctor pulled Rose away from the body. "Leave him." "They killed him." "I know. I'm sorry. There's nothing we can do." "ESCORT THEM TO THE VAULT," the red Dalek instructed. "THEY ARE THE PLAYTHINGS OF DAVROS NOW." Before they were taken Rose and the Doctor helped pull an incapacitated Jaime up off the floor. Jack winked at the Doctor before they disappeared through the door.
Once they were in the vault the three were forcibly separated, so Jaime was sat on the floor between the Doctor and Rose. She was still feeling the effects of feeling Dalek emotions, though it was a little quieter down here. "Activate holding cells." Davros said and three bright white lights came down trapping Rose, the Doctor and Jaime in three individual cells. The teenager shivered, frightened and folded her arms. Davros chuckled. "Excellent. Even when powerless, a Time Lord is best contained." "Still scared of me then?" Taunted the Doctor. "It is time we talked, Doctor. After so very long." The withered brown skinned creature spoke. "No, no, no, no. We're not doing the nostalgia tour. I want to know what's happening right here," he continued his taunting. "Right now, because the Supreme Dalek said Vault, yeah? As in dungeon, cellar, prison." Rose watched her Doctor while Jaime only listened, now rocking back and forth. "You're not in charge of the Daleks, are you? They've got you locked away down here in the basement like, what, a servant? Slave? Court jester?" "We have an arrangement." Davros stated sheepishly and Jaime felt a hint of anger from him.
With a smirk the Doctor continued. "No, no, no, no, no, no. I've got the word. You're the Daleks' pet!" "So very full of fire, is he not." Davros snapped. "And to think you crossed entire universes, striding parallel to parallel to find him again." And Davros pressed a button on his controls. Before the Doctor could say anything else crackly blue lightning filled his cell and he cried out in pain, sinking to his knees. "DOCTOR!" Rose shouted, her eyes wide. "Leave him alone!" Jaime also stared, shocked. This never happened in the episode. "Stop it, you're hurting him!" Rose continued to shout. She couldn't do anything from her cell and neither could Jaime. Davros flicked the switch off and the blue crackly light stopped. The Doctor breathed a sigh of relief but was clearly in pain as he made it back to his feet. "Are you okay Doctor?" A concerned Rose asked. "Yep!" He popped the 'p'. "It'll take more than a bit of photon energy to keep me off my feet." He scowled at Davros who seemed to be smirking. "A little warning for the next time you want to prattle on." He said, scooting over to where Jaime sat.
The former Kalid looked down at her and the girl could feel a hint of of repulsiveness come from him. "Ahhh, Miss MacInarah," well, at least he was polite but she had to wonder how he knew her name. She hadn't supposed to have been here. "The most powerful child in the Universe." Oh crap! He knew about that? Her eyes widened and she scooted back a little. "Stand up when I'm talking to you." He said a little forcefully. All Jaime did was stare back at him. "I said stand up." Something in her snapped. If he wanted to talk to her then he could do it while she was sitting. "No!" She growled, getting her resolve back. "I won't." "Jaime!" The Doctor warned since he didn't want her getting hurt. Her refusal only made Davros angry and turned all Little Hitler on her. "You will stand!" He shouted but Jaime just laughed. "Make me!" She challenged. "You one armed wrinkly piece of shit!" "Jaime!" Rose gasped in surprise and the Doctor groaned and shook his head. She could feel Davros' hate and anger towards her.
"So be it." Davros snarled and flicked a switch. Her cell was suddenly filled with the same blue crackly lightning. "YOWAAGHHHH!" She cried out in pain, falling to her side. Every time one of the blue streaks of lightning hit a part of her body it stung painfully and she jerked in shock and hurt. "Stop that!" The Doctor shouted, listening to his...foster daughter?...screaming in pain. "She's only human, she won't last long. Take it out on me instead." But Davros wouldn't listen to him. "If she wants to stop it she can use her powers." He said before scooting over to Rose. "Just hold on there Jaime," the Doctor urged. "Just hold on." "And Miss Tyler." Davros said making the blonde look at him. She was disgusted by what he was doing to Jaime. "Leave her alone!" The Doctor shouted, hoping Davros didn't do the same thing to Rose. "She is mine to do as I please." The creature stated. "Then why am I still alive?" Rose spat. "You must be here. It was foretold. Even the Supreme Dalek would not dare to contradict the prophecies of Dalek Caan." "So cold and dark. The fire is coming. The endless flames." "What is that thing?" A confused Rose asked. "You've met before." the Doctor replied. "The last of the Cult of Skaro. But it flew into the Time War, unprotected."
Davros explained that Caan actually saw time, along with its infinite complexity and majesty. Not to mention he saw the Doctor, Rose and Jaime...even before she came to this universe. "This I have foreseen," the crazed Dalek stated. "In the wild and the wind. The Doctor will be there as witness, at the end of everything the Doctor and his precious Children of Time. And one of them will die." The Doctor stared at Caan, his anger boiling over. "Was it you, Caan?" He shouted. "Did you kill Donna? Why did the TARDIS door close? TELL ME!" "Oh, that's it," Davros taunted and the Doctor looked at him. "The anger, the fire, the rage of a Time Lord who butchered millions. There he is." The Doctor looked away, scowling. "Why so shy? Show your companion. Show her your true self. Dalek Caan has promised me that too." "I have seen." Caan gurgled. "At the time of ending, the Doctor's soul will be revealed." The Time Lord shifted uncomfortably, not liking the sound of this. "What do you mean?" He asked. "We will discover it together," Davros told him. "Our final journey. Because the ending approaches. The testing begins."
"Testing of what?" Asked the Doctor suspiciously. "The Reality Bomb." Is all Davros said before turning away. Rose and the Doctor exchanged glances. They didn't like the sound of that. "Behold the apotheosis of my genius." Davros now said, turning towards a screen that had turned itself on. They could hear the Supreme Dalek counting down. "That's Z-Neutrino energy, flattened by the alignment of the planets into a single string," the Doctor panicked. Of all the things he did in the past this just had to be the worst. "No, Davros, Davros, you can't! No!" But Davros still wouldn't listen and on the screen all the human prisoners were atomised into nothing. So much so it disgusted both Rose and the Doctor. "Test completed." Davros stated.
Even though she was still in a world of pain and screaming, though that seemed to be tapering off as she was listening. Jaime still understood what was happening. In the episode 'Journey's End' they had been actors and extras. But now they were actual real people the Daleks had just killed. And that angered her. "What happened?" Rose asked the Doctor but she got her answer from Davros instead. "Electrical energy, Miss Tyler," he replied. "Every atom in existence is bound by an electrical field. This Reality Bomb cancels it out. Structure falls apart. That test was focused on the prisoners alone. Full transmission will dissolve every form of matter." "The stars are going out!" Rose said in realisation. "The twenty seven planets. They become one vast transmitter, blasting that wavelength..." The Doctor confirmed, disgusted. "...Across the entire universe," Davros continued. "Never stopping, never faltering, never fading. People and planets and stars will become dust, and the dust will become atoms, and the atoms will become nothing. And the wavelength will continue, breaking through the rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade." Davros was becoming very excited to the point of having an orgasm. "Into every dimension, every parallel, every single corner of creation. This is my ultimate victory, Doctor! The destruction of Reality itself!"
The Doctor was grim. He had no way of stopping this, especially now that he didn't have the TARDIS. There was always the Sonic Screwdriver but he knew that wouldn't work and he didn't want to risk the chance of getting shot at by another Dalek. "Doctor!" The whispered voice of Rose caught his attention. "Doctor, look!" She was looking at Jaime's cell and the Doctor saw there was something odd happening. Though the photon energy was still shooting around in her cell it wasn't hitting Jaime anymore. In fact it was bouncing off her. "Oh, Force Field," he whispered. "She's got a Force Field. Well, it's more like a Shield but its protecting her from the Photon Energy." For Rose, the girl was just as mysterious as ever. It didn't really occur to Jaime why the blue crackly lightning wasn't hurting anymore as she sat up. All she was focused on was Davros after he killed all those people. The Doctor could see the anger on her face and knew he had to find a way to calm her down. "Jaime, Jaime!" He hissed only she wasn't listening.
"AAAARRRGGHHHHH!" Jaime screamed and it was so loud that Rose and the Doctor had to cover their ears. "What's going on Doctor?" She shouted, wincing. "It's a roar!" He shouted back. "She's roaring." Okay, that made sense...kind of! Rose thought. The roar was affective. At first it broke the Photon Energy then it broke the cell. "Woah!" She uttered but was annoyed that it hadn't affected her or the Doctor's cell. Davros stared at the teenager, amused. Ignoring all the aches and pains she was feeling Jaime stumbled to her feet, staring at Davros with a very angry expression.
"Caan warned me you would do this," Davros stated. "The all powerful Child of a different universe. With powers yet to be seen. Show me." "I could blow your mind in the blink of an eye!" Jaime snarled, thinking of all the things she could do to this...thing. "Don't do it, whatever he wants you to do don't do it!" The Doctor begged his foster daughter. "He wants you angry for a reason." She wasn't going to listen to the Doctor because she was too far into her anger and an odd wind was blowing around her. When she glanced at him he saw a deep anger and need for revenge. Was this because of him? Had he turned her into this or had that anger always been there? "Do it then, let me see what the all powerful Child can do!" Davros continued to taunt. "Stop calling me that!" Jaime growled, feeling the heat rising, then her hands were on fire. "Oh my god!" Rose uttered. The Doctor sighed. "The inner fire of your anger finally shows. What will you do Child?" Davros asked almost casually.
"I'll show you what I'll do." The teen snarled and threw a fireball at Davros. It hit him but it didn't affect him. Maybe it was because he was protected by his own shield. "What?" Jaime stared dumbfounded, her head pounding away. "Did I forget to mention I am well protected?" Davros said with a chuckle. "The Omni-Child tempers the winds of ire, storms will rage and fallacy's will be made," Caan laughed. "But the Fire-Bird will rise when the Omni-Child reaches her demise." "Omni?" Jaime muttered the lesser question and she noticed the Doctor looking shocked. He knew what that meant. "And it's time to dampen down this inferno." Davros said, held his hand out and before she could do anything else she was electrocuted, screaming out in pain.
Whatever that was it made every part of her body numb so that she couldn't move. The Doctor was shouting at Davros for hurting her even more so he got another bout of Photon Energy for his troubles. The former Kalid got his two Daleks to hold onto Jaime, dragging her to the other side of the vault. And if that wasn't enough Davros pressed something on his controls and smirked as Jaime screamed out in pain again. "What are you doing to her?" The Doctor continued to shout, getting annoyed and angry. Jaime could once again feel the hateful emotions of every Dalek in the Medusa Cascade. Only it was worse than ever. She dry wretched, stuck between the two Daleks until she passed out from the pain.
"What did he do to her, Doctor?" Rose asked, looking at the unconscious form of Jaime between the two Daleks. She saw worry etched on his face and it was clear he cared deeply about the girl from another universe with amazing powers. So where did that leave her? "The vault is blocked emotionally from the rest of the Daleks. Davros just opened up that block so now Jaime's feeling every hate filled emotion from the entire Dalek fleet." The Doctor explained, his expression was cold and angry, the anger aimed at Davros. "When a creature like that has so much power and so much anger it should be contained. Perhaps she will become my plaything later." Davros said which only angered the Doctor further. "You leave her alone!" He shouted. They were interrupted by a Dalek telling them there was an incoming message from Earth, seconds later Martha appeared on the screen.
"This message is for the Dalek Crucible. Repeat. Can you hear me?" The Doctor gasped and Rose frowned, wondering what was going on now. "Put me through." He said rather urgently. "It begins. As Dalek Caan foretold." Davros sneered and the crazed Dalek spoke again. "The Children of Time, and one of them will die." "Stop saying that. Put me through." "Doctor!" In Germany Martha could see the Doctor in the Crucible surrounded by bright light. "I'm sorry, I had to." "Oh, but the Doctor is powerless," Davros told her. "My prisoner. State your intent." Martha was grim at the news...so she really DID have no choice at this point. "I've got the Osterhagen Key. Leave this planet and its people alone...or I'll use it." She threatened. This left the Doctor very confused. "Osterhagen what?" He asked. "There's a chain of 25 nuclear warheads placed in strategic points beneath the Earth's crust. If I use the key, they detonate and the Earth gets ripped apart." He couldn't believe he was actually hearing this. "What? Who invented that? Well, someone called Osterhagen, I suppose. Martha are you insane?"
Ignoring his comment Martha explained why it was there in the first place and continued to threaten to blow up the Earth. That was until they were interrupted by a new message. Jack Harkness appeared on another screen. "...Captain Jack Harkness. Calling all Dalek boys and girls." He called and he was holding something in his hand. "Are you receiving me? Don't send in your goons, or I'll set this thing off." He too was threatening to blow up something. Meanwhile Rose was really REALLY confused. She'd seen Jack get shot by a Dalek and die. "He's still alive!" She said happily and noticed the others behind him. "Oh, my god. That's my mum." "And Mickey." The Doctor added, frowning. "Captain, what are you doing?" He asked in total disbelief. "I've got a Warp Star," Explained Jack. "Wired into the Mainframe."
The disbelieving Doctor enquired to where he would get one of those, to which Sarah Jane said it was hers. Then Davros and Sarah Jane had a short cold chat, threatening to open the Warp Star. At this point Jaime was awake and in pain from all the hateful Dalek emotions, so she'd only heard half of the conversation that was happening. She lay on the floor shivering and moaning with her hands over her head. But the Dalek emotions wasn't the only one she could feel. There was a feeling of great sadness, disgust, guilt and regret. This was from the Doctor and it came after all his previous companions threatened to do something catastrophic. "Now that's a ransom." Rose said and noticed the Doctor didn't say anything. "Doctor?" He had an odd scowl on his face. "And the prophecy unfolds." Davros taunted.
"The Doctor's soul is revealed," Jaime heard Caan also taunt the Doctor. "See him, see the heart of him." "The man who abhors violence, never carrying a gun. But this is the truth, Doctor. You take ordinary people and fashion them into weapons." Hearing all this Jaime wanted to shout at the former Kalid in a bid to defend the Doctor, but she couldn't do that because she was in too much pain and she couldn't move. She was no longer numb from the electric shock Davros gave her, just couldn't move for the pain. And because she couldn't defend the Doctor she was very upset, letting out a choked cry. "Behold your Children of Time," Davros continued. "Transformed into murderers. I made the Daleks, Doctor. You made this." "They're trying to help." He muttered pitifully. "Already I have seen them sacrifice today, for their beloved Doctor. The Earth woman who fell opening the Subwave Network." "Who was that?" The Doctor enquired. "Harriet Jones," Rose replied. "She gave her life to get you here." This just made the Doctor feel worse than ever and he began to remember everyone he met who died to help him, including Adric, Peri and Jenny. His wave of emotions reached Jaime and she knew she needed to be heard.
"How many more? Just think. How many more have died in your name? The Doctor. The man who keeps on running, never looking back because he dare not, out of shame. This is my final victory, Doctor. I have shown you yourself." She had heard enough. With a pained effort Jaime let out an emotion filled cry while using her arms to shakily lift herself from the floor. Suddenly Rose jerked in her cell and turned to Davros, scowling angrily. "That's not true!" Rose shouted. "Not true at all." The Doctor noticed something was wrong. "You know nothing about the Doctor." Rose sounded child-like, not to mention her accent had a North-Eastern England tinge to it. When he looked over at Jaime she had a look of fierce concentration on her face. She was using Rose as a way to speak up. "He's the nicest kindest man we've ever met unlike you and once we defeat you..." Rose stumbled back and gasped while Jaime fell back to the floor, groaning in pain.
Everyone listening was left confused except Davros and the Doctor. "What was that?" Rose gasped, shaking her head. It felt weird like when Cassandra possessed her. "That? That was Jaime using some sort of Psionic/Emotional possession." Rose looked offended. "And yet, that is not all of her powers." Davros was practically salivating at the thought of discovering all of her powers and even using her as a weapon...possibly against the Doctor. The Supreme Dalek had heard enough and managed to transmat Martha, Jack and the others into the vault. "I've got you, it's alright." Jack said after he caught Martha. "Don't move, all of you. Stay still." The Doctor shouted to the others so they wouldn't get hurt. "Guard them!" Davros ordered. "On your knees, all of you. Surrender." They did as they were told, a couple of extra Daleks turning up to guard them. "Mum, I told you not to." Rose told her mum off. "Yeah, but I couldn't just leave you!" She replied. "The final prophecy is in place. The Doctor and his Children, all gathered as witnesses. Supreme Dalek, the time has come. Now, detonate the Reality Bomb." Davros crowed. "You can't!" The Doctor continued to plead to the former Kalid but he knew he had no hope. "Davros! Just listen to me! Just stop!" Davros just laughed. Why should he listen to a Time Lord, especially not the Doctor. "Nothing can stop the detonation. Nothing and no-one."
Shaking with pain Jaime heard a sound, the most wonderful sound in the universe and it was getting louder. The Doctor noticed it too along with everyone else. "But that's..." He said, stunned. "Impossible." Davros hissed. Through watery eyes she watched as the TARDIS materialised into he vault, it's blue exterior blurry. The door opened and a figure in blue pinstripes stood in the doorway. The Metacrisis Doctor, which made her smile weakly. "Brilliant!" Uttered Jack, all sorts of thoughts running through his head. The blue Doctor ran out of the TARDIS, ignoring the warning shout from the brown Doctor, only to be electrocuted by Davros. The blue Doctor fell to the floor in pain. "Activate holding cell." And he was trapped in his own cell. Next came Donna and she picked the gizmo up the blue Doctor had dropped. "Doctor! I've got it. But I don't know what to do!" She too was zapped by Davros and she flew backwards, falling out of sight of everyone else. "Donna! Donna! Are you alright? Donna?" The brown Doctor shouted but got no answer. Davros got one of his Daleks to destroy the gizmo.
"I was wrong about your Warriors, Doctor. They are pathetic." Davros taunted. Rose decided to address the elephant in the room. "How come there are two of you?" "Human Biological Metacrisis." The Other Doctor stated and the brown Doctor nodded slightly. He could barely sense the other him in the back of his mind. Not to mention he could only hear one heartbeat. "Never mind that. Now we've got no way of stopping the Reality Bomb." The blue Doctor looked sheepish, then he noticed Jaime for the first time and how she was lying on the floor away from the others. She was shaking and looking at him through pain filled watery eyes. He wondered what happened to her. The Supreme Dalek began the countdown. "Stand witness Time Lord. Stand witness humans," Davros taunted. "Your strategies have failed, your weapons are useless, and, oh. The end of the universe has come."
"Mmm, closing all Z-Neutrino relay loops using an internalised synchronous back-feed reversal loop." Donna was at the controls. "That button there." And she pressed it causing the Reality Bomb to go into shut down. "Donna. You can't even change a plug." A surprised brown Doctor stated. "Do you want to bet Time Boy?" Donna smirked. "You'll suffer for this!" Davros shouted and tried to shoot Donna, only she flipped a lever and his electric went the wrong way, leaving him screaming in pain. "Oh, bio-electric dampening field with a retrograde field arc inversion." "Exterminate her!" Davros shouted only for Donna to flip more controls, rendering the Daleks useless and freeing the Doctors and Rose from their cells. "Phwor. Macro transmission of a k-filter wavelength blocking Dalek weaponry in a self-replicating energy blindfold matrix." Donna said as the Doctors stated. "How did you work that out?" The brown Doctor asked. "You're..." "Time Lord. Part Time Lord." The blue Doctor finished. "Part human." Donna added. "Oh, yes. That was a two-way biological Metacrisis. Half Doctor, half Donna." While all three Doctors were discussing this new phenomena, Jack and Mickey helped pick up a still incapacitated Jaime from off the floor, still holding her head and yowling out in pain.
"Who is she?" A confused Mickey asked, having never seen her before. "Jaime. She's from another universe," Jack explained. "She's been travelling with the Doctor." "So what's wrong with her?" "She's a very sensitive empathic. The Doctor explained it better." They walked over to the control panel. "Guys!" Can you do something for her?" Jack enquired of the Doctors. "What is it?" Donna asked, noticing how much in pain Jaime was in. "Ahh! Davros lowered an empathic block so she would feel the one emotion from all the Daleks." The brown Doctor clarified. The blue Doctor winced while Donna said something complex and flipped a switch. Immediately Jaime began to feel the difference and sighed. Though now she had a pounding headache. "Feel any better?" The blue Doctor asked and she nodded as she found her footing. "I'm okay." She croaked, using the control panel to lean on. "Stop them, get them away from the controls." Davros continued to shout, however Donna started to toy with the Daleks, making them spin different ways. "What did you do?" The blue Doctor asked. "Trip switch circuit-breaker in the psychokinetic threshold manipulator." "But that's brilliant!" Replied the blue Doctor. "Why did we never think of that?" The brown Doctor spoke up. Donna gave a long winded explanation on why she was better than the two Doctors, because she was human, had better compassion and a gut instinct when it came to planet Earth. "Ha!" Uttered the blue Doctor.
Jaime looked from one Doctor to the other out of curiosity. Of course in her universe they were played by the same actor, with a stunt double for back shots. But she was in this universe now and they really did look similar...well, apart from the blue Doctor having even spikier hair than normal. "Come on then, boys. We've got twenty seven planets to send home," Donna ordered the Doctors. "Activate magnetron." Moving away from the control panel Jaime noticed Jack run into the TARDIS and decided to walk a little way towards that, only to cry out in surprise when an out of control Dalek bumped into her. She almost would have fallen to the floor if she hadn't held onto its gun arm. Anger getting the better of her she pulled herself up and put her hands on its casing, concentrating fiercely through her pounding headache. Then, after what felt like hours. The Dalek moved away uttering a monotone 'EXTERMINATE' while an exhausted Jaime fell to her knees. "Oops, up you get!" Jack hauled her back to her feet, holding onto her. He had his big gun with him. "What did you do to it?" He asked as he watched the Dalek trundle out of the room.
"Gone off to kill its own." She muttered. Rose and Sarah Jane exchanged amazed glances, Jackie was confused and Mickey whistled in wonder. "That is some serious power you got there kid!" He said. "Stop this at once," Davros cried. "You will desist!" Mickey pointed his gun at Davros. "Just stay where you..." "AND YOU CAN SHUT UP TOO!" Jaime roared at the former Kalid causing everyone, including Davros, to cover their ears in pain. "MAYBE I SHOULD..." "Jaime!" The brown Doctor shouted. "Jaime!" She looked at the Doctor in brown. "Keep it calm and keep it down." She realised everyone was hurting, aware that her voice had gone loud again. "What the bloody hell was that?" Jackie asked as Rose and Sarah Jane pushed a Dalek away. "It's called an Enhanced Roar," the Doctor in blue helpfully informed making Jaime smile. She'd never known what it was actually called. "It can stun people into submission and even break things." He had the Doctor's memories, of course he could remember what abilities she had.
"Ready?" Donna enquired. "And reverse." The three Doctors began to send each planet back to where it properly belonged. "We need more power." The brown Doctor stated. "Is anyone going to tell us what's going on?" A bemused and confused Rose asked. "He poured all of his regeneration energy into his spare hand," Donna explained to everyone, though Jaime knew anyway. "I touched the hand, and he grew out of that but that fed back into me. But it stayed dormant in my head 'til the synapses got that little extra spark, kicking them into life. Thank you Davros! Part human, part Time Lord. And I got the best bit of the Doctor. I got his mind." "So there's three of you?" Sarah Jane asked. "Three Doctors?" Rose marvelled. "I can't tell you what I'm thinking right now!" Jack said and was hit across the arm by Jaime. "Ow! What was that for?" She just shook her head, a weak smile showing. "You're so unique the timelines were converging on you. Human being with a Time Lord brain." The brown Doctor explained.
"But you promised me Dalek Caan," Davros turned to the crazed Dalek. "Why did you not foresee this?" "Oh, I think he did. Something's been manipulating the Timelines for ages, getting Donna Noble to the right place at the right time." "This would always have happened. I only helped the Doctor." "You betrayed the Daleks!" Davros was clearly stunned. "I saw the Daleks," Caan began. "What we have done, throughout time and space. I saw the truth of us, creator, and I declared no more!" Looking at Caan for the first time she hadn't noticed before but it had quoted the War Doctor. He had declared 'No more' in 'The Day of the Doctor.' Also it seemed Caan was just like Sec after he turned himself into a human Dalek, realising how evil and bad the Daleks were. "Heads up!" She heard Jack shout.
The Supreme Dalek had entered the room. "DAVROS, YOU HAVE BETRAYED US." It stated angrily. "It was Dalek Caan!" Davros blamed. "THE VAULT WILL BE PURGED. YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED." The Supreme Dalek shot at the control panel, breaking it. "Like I was saying, feel this!" Jack shot at the Dalek...or at least tried to if his gun wasn't jammed. "What's wrong with this thing?" He muttered. "I think I've found the problem." He looked at Mickey who was looking at Jaime. She was holding both hands out. One aimed at his gun, blocking it, the other aimed at the red Dalek. The look of pure anger was back on her face. "What the hell are you doing now Jaime?" He shouted. "Oh my god!" Jackie cried. The Supreme Dalek began to lift off the ground and it couldn't do anything because its weaponry had been disabled. "WHAT IS HAPPENING? HELP, HELP!" Dropping her left hand from the gun Jaime focused her full attention on the Supreme Dalek. "What's she doing?" Rose asked no-one in particular. "I'm going to end your miserable existence." She growled and made her hand into a fist. Dents began to appear on the outer shell as it slowly crumpled from the outside. It was screaming in pain now as smoke began to emit from its grills. "Make her stop! Jackie cried, unnerved. Everyone else were staring at the Dalek as it continued to crumple.
"Jaime!" Someone stood in her view and making her lose concentration on the Dalek. It fell back to the floor with a dull clang, dead. "Jaime!" She looked at the Doctor, the brown one, as he lowered her arm. "Stop it!" He said, a very serious expression on his face. He was getting very worried now. "I know what Davros did to you was bad, but you're better than this!" "Sorry." She muttered, looking sheepish. The Doctor frowned. He could talk to her later but right now he had a bigger Earth sized problem. "Right!" He looked up at everyone else. "We've lost the Magnatron but we can use the TARDIS to get the Earth back to where it was." And he ran into the TARDIS.
"Holding Earth stability," the blue Doctor said. "Maintaining atmospheric shell." "The prophecy must complete." Jaime heard Caan state. "Don't listen to him." A panicked Davros said as the teen moved beside the Metacrisis Doctor and Donna. "I have seen the end of everything Dalek and you must make it happen, Doctor." "He's right!" The blue Doctor realised. "Because with or without a Reality Bomb, this Dalek empire's big enough to slaughter the cosmos. They've got to be stopped." "Just, just wait for the Doctor." Donna said. "I AM the Doctor." He replied tersely. "Maximising Dalekanium power feeds..." "Wait!" His hand was just above the the lever but he was unable to move it, then he realised that it was Jaime who was stopping him. She wondered how she was able to perform telekinesis with ease now when a day ago she still had trouble with it. Briefly she wondered if she could teleport things or herself without a problem.
"What are you doing?" This Doctor asked and she looked him in the eyes. "Yes, you ARE the Doctor..." Her hand went on top of his. "...but you don't have to do this alone. We're gonna wipe every stinkin' Dalek out of the sky!" She quoted and he grinned, understanding what she just said had been said by him at some point. "Blasting them back!" He said and they both pushed the lever. Daleks everywhere started exploding and once he heard the explosions the brown Doctor ran back out of the TARDIS. "What have you done?" He shouted when he saw the mess. "Fulfilling the prophecy." Both Jaime and the blue Doctor said at the same time. Both shivered, the events of Midnight still fresh in their minds. "Do you know what you've done? Both of you?" Realising that Jaime must have helped him. "Now get into the TARDIS! Everyone! All of you, inside! Run!"
The blue Doctor ran in first, followed by Jaime who avoided the scowl from the brown Doctor. "In! In! In! In!" He shouted to all his companions while the blue Doctor was name checking them all. Once they were in the Doctor tried to convince Davros to come with him in a bid to save him. But Davros wasn't listening. "NEVER FORGET DOCTOR," he shouted. "YOU DID THIS. I NAME YOU. FOREVER, YOU ARE THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS!" The Doctor slammed shut the TARDIS door. "One will still die and one will burn bright." Caan said as things exploded around him.
"And off we go!" A grim looking Doctor said as he dematerialised the TARDIS away from the exploding Crucible. Once again he couldn't save Davros from dying, and now other things were getting complicated. "But what about Earth?" Sarah Jane enquired. "It's still stuck in the wrong part of space." "I'm on it," he replied. "Torchwood Hub, this is the Doctor. Are you receiving me?" From her position on the jump seat Jaime listened as he talked to the two remaining members of Torchwood in order to activate the rift. She had her eyes closed and was massaging her temples in a bid to alleviate her pounding headache. She didn't want to have to take yet another painkiller. At least not yet. "Are you from an old Cardiff family?" She heard the Doctor ask Gwen, to which she replied that she was. "Ah, thought so. Spatial genetic multiplicity." "Oh yeah!" Rose uttered. Jaime smiled. In her universe Gwen Cooper and Gwyneth were played by the same actress. Same goes for Martha and Adeola. They were played by the same actress too.
Once the Doctor got the rift energy from Cardiff he called Luke and Mr Smith in Bannerman Road. Only it turned out the Zylok computer needed the base codes. "Oh, blimey, that's going to take awhile." The Doctor said. But Sarah Jane had an idea. "No, no, no. Let me. K9, out you come!" Opening her eyes the teen managed to get a look at the monitor just as K9 beamed in beside Luke. "Affirmative, mistress." The dog said making Jaime grin. The Doctor chuckled. "Oh, good dog!" He said. "K9, give Mr Smith the base code." "Master. TARDIS base code now being transferred. The process is simple." K9 replied. Now the process began in order to tow the Earth back home and she listened as the Doctor explained why he had trouble flying the TARDIS, getting everyone to pitch in, well except for herself and Jackie.
~Omni!~ something or someONE spoke in her mind. ~Omni!~ Jaime jumped in shock and looked around. *What? Who is it?* She replied back telepathically. *You're not the TARDIS, you feel different.* She let out a gasp. *Bad Wolf?* ~Yes. That would be me.~ Jaime's face paled and she moved off the seat and away from the others, frightened. *What do you want?* She even sounded scared. ~Don't be scared, Omni, I won't hurt you.~ Never the less she shivered. ~You mustn't let the Doctor leave Rose or The Other in the parallel universe. You must convince him to let them stay.~ Jaime frowned. *Why? And how am I supposed to do that?* ~You, of all people, should understand 'why', Omni. If he leaves Rose in the other universe then his catastrophic downfall begins.~ *I know what you mean.* Her mind was on the episode 'The Waters of Mars' and she shivered again. *I could try but I don't think he's happy with me right now.* ~Find a way Omni. Find a way.~ *Why do you keep calling me that?* She asked with a frown. ~Because that's what you are!~ Seconds later that force disappeared and she looked around to see everybody congratulating each other. The Earth was back in the Solar System and now she had a job to do. But how?
The Doctor in brown was busy hugging Sarah Jane and Mickey while the one in blue hugged Rose. What was it the Doctor told her to do if she wanted to contact a telepath? Oh, that's right...give them a knock. When she tried it she thought it would be hard but she actually found it incredibly easy. The Doctor in blue, feeling the telepathic tap, turned around and smiled at Jaime. She nervously smiled back as he approached her. "You remembered what I told you!" He happily said. "Well, the other me that is." He quickly corrected. "Yeah," she nervously replied, feeling something for him. Why was that? "Also, you quoted what I'd said to the Daleks on the Game Station. Does that mean those events were part of that TV show in your universe?" Jaime nodded. "They were called..." She gasped in understanding. "...'Bad Wolf'..." The Doctor raised his brows. "...and 'The Parting of the Ways'." She knew what she had to do now. He was frowning at her. "Why did you help me anyway?" He asked, meaning when they blew up the Daleks in the Crucible. "Because I wanted to!" She replied and looked over at the brown Doctor. He was now talking to Jack and Donna. Looking back at the blue Doctor she asked; "Can I trust you?" He raised his brows at this. Well this was interesting. "Of course. I only have one heart and I'm part human but I'm still the Doctor...right?" Jaime smiled, took his much warmer hand and pulled him into the corridor, away from other ears and eyes.
"In my universe, in the situation we're in now, the episodes were called 'The Stolen Earth' and 'Journey's End'." "Right...and?" He wondered what she was getting at. "Well...the Doctor decides to leave Rose and you in the parallel universe." "If that's his choice then I..." "But you don't like it!" Jaime interrupted. "I can feel it. It scares you that you'll be stuck on the slow path without the TARDIS." The blue Doctor furrowed his brow, letting the information sink in. Yes, it did scare him and he was unnerved by it. "Of course, you're empathic. I think you're in need of some protective shielding." She sighed, annoyed. "Okay, what exactly happened?" "Let me show you." He let her put her hands on his temples. "I hope this works." She closed her eyes and showed the Metacrisis Doctor the events of Bad Wolf Bay, from arriving to the Doctor and Donna leaving. Jaime stepped back and waited for his reaction. "That coward!" The blue Doctor said. "He couldn't even say it to her." "I know. I think what Davros said affected him quite a lot. He just got scared." "So what now? I just leave with Rose?" Jaime shook her head. "I'm not finished. Things get really bad for him and he messes with a fixed point in time." His eyes were wide. "What? What do you mean?" Once again Jaime give him visuals, showing him the events of what happened in 'The Waters of Mars'. "No!" The Doctor stepped back and she dropped her arms to her side.
"He can't, he just can't." "I know. The worst thing about this is that Adelaide kills herself to right the Timeline. But I don't want to be left alone with him. Not when he becomes the Time Lord Victorious." The blue Doctor looked at her with a rather unnerved expression. "I'm sure this is going to cause a paradox. Anyway I'm not not sure what I can do. He probably won't listen to me." 'Think, think!' Jaime thought. 'What to do.' An idea came to mind. 'Aha!' "He can't make you leave if we can feel each other." She said, pointing to her head. "Oh?" The Doctor raised a brow. "A friendship bond? Do you think your mind could handle that?" She nodded. "And how are we supposed to do that? I'm only half Time Lord so I'm not sure i can even do what he can do." A smile graced her lips. "If I can telepath and touch telepath surely I can bond us." Without another word she placed her hands on his temples again and they both closed their eyes. The whole thing was quick and painless and it did work because now they could feel each other. "Wow!" The Doctor gasped. "Since when were you able to do something like that without any trouble?" Jaime shrugged. "I don't know." "By the way you really should do something about that headache." The Doctor added as they walked back to the console room. "How're you even standing?" She shrugged again and smiled grimly. "I've lived with them my whole life. It's not that bad to be honest."
Once they were back in the console room Jaime saw Rose looking at the Doctor from across the room. Jaime sighed. "Thanks to Bad Wolf I have to play Cupid." She mumbled with a shake of her head. The things an invisible and mighty powerful entity was making her do! "Rose!" She called and ran up to the blonde while the blue Doctor returned to the console to talk to Donna. "You've got to talk to him." Rose smiled. "What do you think I've been trying to do! I haven't had a moment alone with him. Anyway, aren't you and him..." Jaime's eyes widened. "No! We're not..." She shook her head. "He's my guardian...since I have no-one else in this universe." She thought of her mum, still in her universe screaming for her daughter. "To be honest he's like the father I never had." Rose snorted and Jaime smiled. "But don't tell him I said that." "Scouts honour." Rose replied, then she noticed Sarah Jane and the Doctor leave the TARDIS. "Oh yeah, we've landed." Jaime walked off towards the door to follow the Time Lord and his former companion.
Outside, church bells were ringing and children were playing, but a world wide clean up was going to be needed after what the Daleks did. The Doctor and Sarah Jane were marvelling all this, then she was about to speak when the door opened again and Jaime stepped out. "Hello!" Sarah Jane said to the strange girl with an amazing power. The girl just smiled nervously and hugged the Doctor. She needed it after what Davros did to her. Despite his annoyance that she helped the other Doctor to destroy the Daleks he hugged her back. Sarah Jane smiled at this. "You know, you act like such a lonely man. But look at you. You've got the biggest family on Earth." Sarah Jane hugged the Doctor, squashing Jaime between them. "Oh!" The older woman realised. "Got to go. He's only fourteen. It's a long story..." "Yes, same here!" He called back, meaning Jaime. Sarah Jane smiled again when she realised that the young girl was not just another companion. "And thank you!" The two watched Sarah Jane run to get back home to Luke. "I loved watching her TV series." Jaime said, almost to herself and the Doctor blinked in surprise, looking at the teen. "What TV series was this?" He asked. "In my universe she had her own TV series called 'The Sarah Jane Adventures..." The Doctor smiled at this. Good old Sarah Jane! "But it ended in 2011 when the actress who played her died. I think it was cancer." His heart skipped a beat and Jaime looked up at him. "That's not going to happen to Sarah Jane is it?" She sounded upset. "She's a nice woman." The Doctor squeezed the girl tight. "No, probably not." He reassured but looked grim,
They heard the doors open and Jack and Martha stepped out. "Jack!" Jaime squealed and jumped him, making Martha quickly get out of the way. She still had no idea who this strange girl was. "Thank you, thank you!" She said, hugging the immortal. "No problem darling," he replied, smiling. "I take it you're feeling better." She nodded. "And the Doctor helped you to control your abilities?" "Yeah. I only lose control of them when I'm scared or angry..." She could feel the Doctor's apprehension on the last thing she mentioned. "I guess I need to work on that." She added sheepishly and Jack laughed. The Doctor grabbed Jack's arm and be began to sonic the Vortex Manipulator. "I told you, no teleport. And Martha, get rid of that Osterhagen thing, eh? Save the world one more time." "Consider it done." She replied. Jaime watched as the two walked away. "You know, I'm not sure about UNIT these days," Jack said to Martha. "Maybe there's something else you could be doing?" "Huh, maybe!" Martha replied with a chuckle. "By the way, who's the girl?" She asked, looking back at Jaime. "Oh, that's Jaime..." Jack answered.
The door opened once again and they watched as Mickey exited the TARDIS. "Oi, where are you going?" A confused Doctor asked. "Well, I'm not stupid," Mickey replied. "I can work out what happens next." A wave of emotions was felt from the Doctor making Jaime shift uncomfortably. "And hey, I had a good time in that parallel world, but my gran passed away. Nice and peaceful. She spent her last years living in a mansion. There's nothing there for me now, certainly not Rose." She could feel that wave of emotions again. "What will you do?" The Doctor asked Mickey. "Anything." He replied. "Brand new life. Just you watch. See you, boss, Jaime." "Bye Mickey!" She uttered and watched as he ran after Jack and Martha. "Hey, you two!" They looked around just as Mickey caught up. "Oh. Thought I got rid of you. Jack said in a rather cheeky way. The Doctor watched them for the moment.
"Come on Jaime," he suddenly said. "Time we got going." They re-entered the TARDIS and the Doctor ran to the console, flipping a switch and setting the Co-ordinates for the next journey as the time machine dematerialised. "Just time for one last trip. Darlig Ulv Stranden...better known as..." Jaime took hold of the blue Doctor's left hand, then she, him, Rose and Jackie glanced at each other before rolling their eyes. The brown Doctor didn't notice the exchange as the journey became slightly rough. The journey didn't take long and the first three out if the door was the blue Doctor, Jaime and Jackie. The brown Doctor narrowed his eyes when he noticed that Jaime and the Metacrisis were holding hands.
"Oh, fat lot of good this is!" Jackie said when she saw where the TARDIS had landed. "Bloody Norway?" Jaime looked at the beach, listening to the cry of gulls and the crash of waves. She couldn't believe she was on Bad Wolf Bay. "I'm going to have to phone your father," Jackie continued. "He's on the nursery run. I was pregnant, do you remember? Had a baby boy." "Oh, brilliant. What did you call him?" The blue Doctor asked. "Doctor." His brows raised. "Really?" Jaime laughed at this. "No, silly. She called him Tony." She said and Jackie looked freaked. "How do you know that?" She asked. "Oh!" The teen felt a bit sheepish. "I'm a little bit psychic." "A LITTLE bit?" The blue Doctor teased. "Hold on," Rose spoke, looking around. "This is the parallel universe, right?" "You're back home." The brown Doctor told her, noting the strange interaction between Jaime and the Metacrisis. "And the walls of the worlds are closing again, now that the Reality Bomb never happened," Donna explained. "It's dimensional retroclosure. See, I really get that stuff now." "No, but I spent all that time trying to find you..."
*Its now or never!* Jaime thought and didn't realise she telepathed the thought to the blue Doctor. He squeezed her hand in reply. "I'm not going back now." "And you won't have to!" She butted in quickly. "Excuse me?" The brown Doctor looked at his foster daughter and she felt his anger and surprise. Then everyone was looking at her making her feel very nervous. "For the love of sanity Rose, tell him what the Werewolf said to you in the cellar." Rose's eyes were wide and both Doctors were confused. "How'd you know about that?" She asked. "I just do, okay. But the thing is you don't need to be scared about telling him." "What's going on?" A confused Doctor asked. "Especially after your mum went on about you not being human." Both Doctors were now confused but the brown one was looking at Rose. "I was just being selfish." Jackie dismissed. "When was this?" The Doctor asked. "It was when we were finding out what the ghosts were." Rose answered. Jaime hoped she was getting through to everyone. "And I would say there's something about you after you pushed me out...sorry about that." "I panicked, especially after what happened with Cassandra."
Jaime's face turned red and she continued on. "Rose, the last time you were on this beach you told the Doctor you loved him...and I believe that cos I can feel it." She looked at the brown Doctor wondering if she was going to be in his bad books if this didn't work out well. "Doctor!" He looked at her and she gulped. "You can't deny it either. As soon as you saw her on that street I felt the love and adoration you have for her. And don't make some excuse about wanting to be alone. Yes, you did things you're not proud of...but Davros didn't know you as well as we do...because you're better than him in more ways than one. But for the love of sanity just say the damn words!" The Doctor looked annoyed now. "What about him? He destroyed the Daleks. In fact you helped him. He's too dangerous to be left on his own." "You made me!" The blue Doctor reminded and Jaime looked up at him with a nervous smile. "Exactly. You were born in battle, full of blood and anger and revenge..."
"And I can make him better!" Jaime butt in before the Doctor could say any more. It was like the Timelines were battling each other. "I can make John better..." "John?" Both Doctors said at the same time. "I can make John better, just like Rose made you better." The Doctor didn't really believe that. She had a hidden anger, made worse by her abilities. "Doctor! I think you've got something to say to Rose." Jaime said and looked up at the Doctor she called John. "I want to go back inside. This world feels and smells really wrong." Stunned, the Doctor watched as the blue Doctor and Jaime returned to the TARDIS.
"Doctor?" Rose caught his attention and he looked at her with a frown. "Do you have something to say to me?" She asked, happy that Jaime did this for her but also a little nervous in case the Doctor rejected her. "What did the Werewolf say to you?" He counter-asked. 'Ah!' "It was before he changed. I tried talking to him but he sensed something was wrong. He said I had something of the wolf about me and that I required the sun while he needed the moon." "Why didn't you tell me?" "I was scared and I was unsure what it meant." She said. "And what did you mean by not being human?" He enquired from Jackie. "I was being selfish." She replied again. "I mean, you and Rose were always going swanning off and I was just sat in that flat lonely day in, day out. But not anymore because I've got Peter and Tony." At this the Doctor looked conflicted.
"But mum and Jaime have got a point," Rose spoke up. "There is something different about me. I've felt different ever since you took the Vortex out of me. When I started working for Torchwood here I got injured quite a lot but I noticed I was healing quicker than normal." He was frowning as if he was trying to work out a tricky equation. "Doctor! I'm 26 years old but I still look 19." Now he looked stunned at this. "What?" He uttered. "I checked with the Torchwood medics and they found...strange anomalies...in my blood. Things that shouldn't be there." "You stopped ageing?" The Doctor asked and Rose nodded, looking more than a little worried. Then the Doctor turned away, deep in thought. Rosie's heart skipped a beat, thinking he was going to reject her. "Doctor?" When he turned back to her he was grinning happily. "Oh, Rose Tyler," he said. "I love you!" And he pulled her into a hug, loving the smell if her hair. "About blimmin' time." Jackie muttered.
In the TARDIS the blue Doctor and Jaime were sitting on the jump seat, and he'd just about managed to stop the teenager from hyperventilating. It worried him a lot when seconds into entering the TARDIS she'd started to become breathless, while various items in the console room started floating. Now calm enough Jaime took a deep breath and said; "I didn't think it was going to work!" The Doctor looked at her with a slight smile. "You did pretty well. Even though I'm only half Time Lord I could still feel the Timelines shifting. That was a close call." Jaime smiled at him, slowly beginning to feel something for him. "By the way, what did you mean by that world feeling and smelling wrong?" He asked and she shrugged, frowning. "I don't know. It just gave me a really bad feeling." "Do you think something might be happening?" He asked, eyes wide. She shrugged again. "It's the same feeling I got before 9/11 happened. Same thing for 7/7." The Doctor understood what those dates meant. Not to mention her abilities made her sensitive to the world.
"Ah!" He said with a grim smile. They sat in silence for a moment until the blue Doctor spoke up again. "John!" He suddenly realised. "You called me John. Why did you do that?" Jaime looked rather sad. "Why? Don't you like it?" "I'm surprised is all." "Okay, how about David. You look like a David!" The Doctor looked at her with an incredulous expression. "Now you're naming me after an actor?" Her face turned red but the blue Doctor grinned. "No, I like it." He said. "John David Smith. Doctor John David Smith." Jaime was happy he liked his new name but her expression turned sad.
"Do you know what's going to happen to Donna?" She asked and J.D nodded, his expression even more grim. "There's never been a Human/Time Lord Metacrisis before and a human having a Time Lord mind will only end in disaster." She sighed sadly. "But you knew what would happen to her," the Doctor said. "On Shan Shen you knew where she would be, then you called her a fixed point." "That's because she is. From the very moment she appeared on the TARDIS she was a fixed point in time." The teen replied, head pounding and trying to stay on track of one subject. "If Rose hadn't fallen into the parallel world then Donna would have died and wouldn't have become a companion, then the Daleks would have won. I couldn't stay or help Donna because it was supposed to happen." "And I wouldn't even exist." John said thoughtfully.
Once again they went quiet and Jaime stared into space in her own little world. That was until the door opened and the blue Doctor watched as Donna, the Doctor...and Rose returned back to the TARDIS, the new couple had their arms around each other. He smiled at this and had to shake Jaime from her daydream. The girl grinned very happily as the brown Doctor raced to the console and pulled the lever in order to dematerialise from the parallel universe. "Are you sure your mum will be okay?" The Doctor asked, after all they had just left Jackie alone on Bad Wolf Bay. "She'll be okay," Rose replied. "Dad will send a Zeppelin to pick her up." The Doctor grunted at this while Rose turned to Jaime. "Thank you!" She whispered to the girl only she seemed to be staring at Donna. The ginger from Chiswick was striding around the console, smiling, and Jaime knew it was about to happen and that just upset her. She jumped up off the seat.
"Donna!" The ginger looked at her with a smile. "Yes?" Rose and the Doctors were watching. "I know we hardly know each other...but you've...you were amazing!" Donna grinned and was surprised when the teenager hugged her. "I wish I'd met you a lot sooner rather than later. I'm really going to miss you." She frowned. "Why? Where are you going?" This brought a sob to the girl and she ran out of the console room. A confused Rose followed after her. Meanwhile Donna just shrugged and continued to circle the console, naming things on the control panel she hadn't known before. Still sobbing Jaime continued to run down the corridor because watching it happen in person was bad enough. She had really liked Donna even though she'd been scared of her the first time they met. "Jaime, wait!" Rose called, catching up with the teenager, stopping her. "What is it?" "She's going to break," Jaime cried. "Any moment." Still confused as ever Rose asked; "what do you mean?" "Donna having a Time Lord mind is going to cause her to break and then she'll die if she doesn't get help." "Oh my god!" The blonde was shocked. "How do you know this?" Jaime just sobbed. "She's just so happy right now and I can't bare to watch it happen. It's awful...just so..." She fully broke down so Rose gathered her into a hug.
Back in the console room the Doctors exchanged glances while keeping their eyes on Donna. John could sense that Jaime was highly upset and he was beginning to feel the same way. Of course Donna was a part of him and he liked her, not to mention she'd helped bring him into this world. "I thought we could all go to the planet Felspoon," Donna finally spoke up. "Just because. What a good name, Felspoon. Apparently it's got mountains that sway in the breeze. Mountains that move. Can you imagine?" "And how do you know that?" The Doctor asked, leaning against one of the coral struts. He was also keeping his eyes on John, for any sign of trouble. "Because it's in your head. And if its in your head, it's in mine." "And how does that feel?" He asked, scowling when he heard John sigh. "Brilliant! Fantastic! Molto bene. Great big universe packed into my brain." The Doctor in blue smiled sadly. "You know you could fix that Chameleon Circuit if you just tried hot wiring the fragment links and superseding the binary, binary..." Donna got stuck on the word, making the two Doctors go to her. She gasped and Jaime, feeling her confusion, sobbed harder. "I'm fine," Donna continued. "Nah, never mind Felspoon. You know who'd I like to meet? Charlie Chaplin. I bet he's great, Charlie Chaplin. Shall we do that? Shall we go see Charlie Chaplin? Shall we? Charlie Chaplin? Charlie Chester..." Once again again Donna got stuck, naming off Charlie's before rhyming words with 'fiction'. This time she gasped in pain and Jaime could feel that too. "Oh my god!" Donna uttered, doubling over in pain.
"Do you know what's happening?" John asked from her left side. She looked at him, fear in her eyes. "Yeah." "There's never been a Human/Time Lord Metacrisis before now." The Doctor spoke up. "And you know why?" "Because there can't be." Pain, fear, confusion, sadness, desperation. That's what Jaime could feel right now. Crying loudly she and Rose sunk to the floor. "I want to stay." A scared Donna said, then they all looked over at the doorway when they heard Jaime crying. That set John off sniffling. The Doctor frowned. "What's wrong with her?" Donna asked. "Look at me," the Doctor said. "Donna, look at me." She did, eyes wide. "Jaime's an Empath, remember. She can feel everything right now, including your pain." She looked hurt as if his words stung her. The crying was heard again and Donna knew she was unintentionally hurting the teenager. But she wanted to stay, she couldn't leave him or the other Doctor. "I was going to be with you forever." She told the Doctor. "I know." She turned to the other Doctor. He was crying too, his eyes red. "Tell him!" Donna said. "Tell him I can stay." John looked at her with a sad smile. "I can't Donna. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!" The crying from both Jaime and this Doctor made Donna realise she was hurting people. She sighed and shook her head. "I was going to be the Doctor-Donna." She practically whispered. "I was going to stay with you all, travelling in the TARDIS." The Doctor gently turned Donna back to him, seeing her resigned to her fate. "Donna. Oh, Donna Noble," he put his hands on her temples, ready to wipe her mind of him. "I am so sorry. But we had the best of times." She looked him in the eyes, smiling sadly. "The best. Goodbye." "Goodbye Doctor," Donna replied. "I had fun travelling with you and I have no regrets." He also smiled sadly and then he melded with her mind, ignoring her gasp, and wiped every trace of him from her mind.
Losing consciousness Donna was caught by John and gently lowered her to the floor. The Doctor took this time to set the course for Chiswick, listening to Jaime's wailing and John's sad sobs. The teen couldn't feel any of Donna's emotions anymore, aware that something else had been changed by her, although unintentionally. "You bonded with her didn't you?" John looked up at the Doctor, his eyes red. The Doctor in brown wasn't even looking at him, just fiddling with the controls. "It was Jaime's idea," John replied. "She's the one that did it." Now the Doctor did look at him, surprised. "How? She barely has control of half of her abilities." The Doctor in blue didn't know. The Doctor in brown sighed. "So she called you 'John'. That your name I suppose?" "John David." John replied and the Doctor raised his brow. "She named you after that actor?" An indignant look appeared on John's face. "No. I named myself." "Oh, did you indeed." The Doctor didn't believe him and he was annoyed over the fact that John had let her bond with him. Just WHAT had she been thinking? The TARDIS landed with a thud. "We're here." He muttered. "Need any help?" John asked. "No." Came the reply and he watched as the Doctor carried Donna out of the TARDIS. Moving towards the door the Doctor in blue sobbed silently. The Doctor was at the Noble's house explaining what happened to Donna and how she saved the universe. Soon enough he made his leave and John could sense that the Doctor was standing outside.
Opening the TARDIS door he found that it was raining hard. "An atmospheric disturbance." He muttered, noticing the Doctor was talking to Wilf Mott. "...oh, Doctor? What about now?" Wilf asked, hoping the Time Lord was going to be okay. "Who've you got? I mean, all those friends of yours." "Oh, I've still got Rose," the Doctor replied. "And Jaime." Though he wasn't too sure about that one right now. "Who's that?" Wilf was looking over at the TARDIS. "Is that the other you, you mentioned?" The brown Doctor looked back at the blue Doctor, who waved sadly at Wilf. "Yes. That's him." The Doctor replied. "I'll watch out for you," Wilf said suddenly. "All of you." "You can't ever tell her." The Doctor warned him. "No, no, no. But every night, Doctor, when it gets dark, and when the stars come out, I'll look up on her behalf. I'll look up at the sky, and think of you all. All four of you." The Doctor smiled sadly, his hearts breaking for the old man. "Thank you!" He said and trudged back to the TARDIS, walking past the blue Doctor wordlessly. John took one last look at Wilf before closing the door.
When he turned back to the console he saw that the Doctor had taken off his jacket after dematerialising and was now leaning on the console with a sad expression on his face. Going off into the confines of the TARDIS John went looking for the other two occupants. Rose still held onto a wailing Jaime, wondering if this was what it was like to be empathic, to be upset while feeling other people's emotions. "There, there...shush!" Having no idea how to calm an empath down. They were joined by the blue Doctor and Rose looked at him as he crouched. "Go to him!" John told Rose and with understanding she nodded and walked away. "Doctor!" Jaime cried and hugged him. He hugged her back, feeling their emotions merge as one. Rose re-entered the console room, noticing that Donna was nowhere to be seen and the Doctor was leaning on the console in thought. Going over to him she took his hand, noticing him jump, and pulled him into a hug. "Doctor!" Rose whispered, voice shaking. He hugged her back tightly, his eyes closed and hearts still heavy. In two different rooms on the TARDIS four people cried over the loss of a friend.