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His hearts were pounding wildly as he reached the address where the Cybermen were. He put his hand on his chest, and felt the tattoo of his heart beats against his palm. The Doctor wasn't surprised. He had just run 3 miles in 10 minutes. He breathed heavily as he scanned the area.
He ended up outside a series of warehouses, surrounded by barbed wire. There were no sign of Cybermen outside of the warehouses, but when he had landed the TARDIS, the Doctor had found many Cybermen standing in formation inside what seemed to be some kind of storage unit. The Doctor was sure that they were in one, more, or possibly all of the warehouses.
His hearts returned to their normal speed, and he caught his breath. Adjusting his tie, he hurried around the barbed wire to a more unexposed place, meaning more hidden. He took out his Sonic Screwdriver.
"Setting 2428C." He whispered under his breath. He Soniced a wire and it tore easily. As he worked, he remembered how he told Rose to go fix barbed wire with a girl called Nancy in his last life. That was setting 2428D. 2428C tears barbed wire.
Remembering Rose, the Doctor sniffed. He missed her terribly, but he could never see her again. She was in another universe with her mother, Jackie, her father, Pete, and Mickey the idiot. He hoped she was happy.
The Doctor wondered if she missed him too.
The last wire tore, and the Doctor pocketed his Sonic Screwdriver. He managed to squeeze between the cracks. He felt a tug on his tie as it got torn off. He grunted at that, but managed to get to the other side. He was in!
"Oh, my favorite tie!" he mumbled, pulling the now ripped tie off the sharp wires. It was torn right down the middle. He groaned, pocketing the tie. It had been the tie he used to convince Martha that the TARDIS was a time machine. Oh well, old memories.
The Doctor hurried along the fence, around the warehouses. He wasn't exactly sure what he was looking for, but then again, he was making it up as he went along. Twice he thought he saw a Cyberman, and twice, he dived for cover. The pounding of Cybermen walking told him that a few were keeping watch. He gulped. If there were Cybermen in every one of these warehouses, then he was in trouble. There were at least fifty warehouses, spreading out in all directions!
He ducked between warehouses, when he realized just a second too late that he was spotted.
"Trespassers will be deleted!" came a robotic voice behind him. He turned and put his hands up. A single Cyberman had caught him at gunpoint, it's finger on the trigger. He really isn't a fan of those robotic things.
"Blimey, I hate guns." The Doctor said. The Cyberman didn't react.
"All trespassers will be deleted." It said again.
"I'm not a fan of them either," Came a familiar voice. It had an American accent, but it was a voice that the Doctor could never forget. The Cyberman went rigid, dropping the gun, which went off into the ground with a small pop. Electricity fried up it's joints, and the Cyberman collapsed, revealing a brunet man holding a electric pulsar on his right hand, and a gun in his left. "But they do help out with annoying robots." He finished.
The Doctor's mouth fell open.
"Jack?" he gasped.
"Hello, Doctor," Jack Harkness said. "Long time, no see."


"River?" Donna breathed. "How can you be alive?"
River didn't respond. She just watched as Donna surveyed her.
When Donna had met her in the Library, where there was something in the dark, River's hair had been pulled back into a bun. Now, her hair was down, and it was mighty poufy. It looked as if she had been electrified, making her hair stand on end. That was why Donna didn't recognize her instantly. She also physically looked different, younger almost. When Donna met her, she knew the Doctor. She didn't know how, and neither had he. Apparently, the Doctor knew River in the future. And River died in the Library. Donna saw her burned body. Donna found the Doctor staring at River's body. He had been crying. Donna got him out of the handcuffs, and the Doctor left her body where it was. He probably just didn't know what to do about it. But there River was, right in front of her, alive and well, and certainly not dead.
"How is this possible?" Donna whispered. "You were… dead." At that, River's eyes widened.
"I was what?"
"Donna, please stop talking now." The strange man said. Donna didn't listen to him.
"How are you… you died at the Library!"
"Library?"
"Donna-"
"I saw you! Oh my g-d, you were dead! You died in front of the Doctor-"
"What? Doctor, what is she saying? River, what's she talking about?" The other man demanded.
"Donna-"
"How can you possibly be ali-"
"DONNA!" the strange man shouted. Donna fell silent. She glanced at River's face. She was crying.
"Doctor, what's she talking about?" the other man asked. "Why is she saying that my daughter died?"
"Rory, please be quiet." The strange man said. The other man –Rory- fell silent. The strange man approached River, but she just backed away.
"I died in front of you?" River whispered.
"River-"
"Shut up." River snapped, not entirely angry. She turned to Donna. Donna stared back at the woman who should be dead. "Donna, is it?"
"Yes. But you know my name." Donna said quietly. "We met at the Library."
"Where I died?" River asked.
"Yes. You died saving the Doctor." Donna whispered. River nodded and turned to the strange man.
"I always knew you'd be my end." River said to him.
"River- you saw River die?" Rory asked the strange man. "You saw her die? When?"
"We don't meet in the right order." The strange man said. "The first time I ever met her was at the Library." He added in barely a whisper. River stiffened.
"Does this mean that the whole time you knew me, from the moment I was born, you knew how I was going to die?"
"Yes."
"Well, I'm going to die for a good reason." River sniffed, before pulling the strange man in for a kiss.
Rory just watched them, his face illuminated by his glowstick. Donna did the same.
She didn't know what to say.


"Rose is… dead?" He whispered.
"Correct." The Dalek said. Amy watched as the man looked up and glared at it with such anger that the she stepped back in fear. Even the Daleks moved back.
"And that is the decision that you will regret." He thundered. "Because if Rose Tyler is dead, then so are you." He yelled the last couple words before smacking a button, and breaking the connection. The Daleks disappeared, but they could still be heard behind the door.
The man walked around the room, kicking anything he could see. He would have even kicked Amy if he lost any more control, but he left her alone. He finally rested against the wall, and slid down, sobbing.
After a moment, Amy approached, cautiously. "Are you okay?" she asked him.
"No, I'm not!" he shouted, throwing his arms up. "Rose is dead. The Daleks killed her!" He cried even more.
Amy sat down with him.
"What's your name?"
"The Doctor." He murmured.
"Doctor what?"
"Just the Doctor."
Amy didn't think it was a good idea to contradict him. She chuckled slightly. "I have a friend called the Doctor too. He wears the most ridiculous bowtie. He thinks they're cool."
The Doctor chuckled weakly. "I think your describing my next body."
"What?" Amy asked.
"Nevermind." He sniffed, wiping his eyes, which were red. "What's your name?"
"Amelia Pond. Call me Amy." The Doctor glanced up at her.
"Amelia Pond?" He scoffed. "Sounds like something out of a fairytale." Amy chuckled again.
"That's what he says, the Doctor. My Doctor, I mean." Amy said. "That's why I chose Amy. Amelia was just a bit too fairytale." She smiled at him. When he didn't return it, her's slipped off her face.
"I'm sorry about Rose." She said quietly. The Doctor didn't respond.
They just sat in silence.


"Where did you come from?" The Doctor asked.
"You know, I've been alive so long, that I'm having trouble remembering," Jack joked. "Now come on." He started walking in the opposite direction. The Doctor blindly followed.
"Good to see you too." Jack said, powering up his gun as he peeked around a corner. There was a zapping noise, and the sound of metal clattering.
"Why are you in Hartford, Connecticut, of all places?" The Doctor questioned as Jack powered down the gun.
"Cybermen." He said simply. "Torchwood found something strange going on at the warehouses, so I've been living here, trying to figure out what was going on. All the workers stopped coming for g-d knows why, and the Cybermen took over, stealing people from the streets and upgrading them. They're living in secret, nobody knows about them, except me and my team." He explained. "And you. I'm the one who brought you here."
Before the Doctor could speak, Jack put a finger on his lips. He squeezed his hand, and the electric pulsar activated. Jack snuck around the side of the warehouse, and electrified a Cyberman standing guard at the fence. The Doctor just watched him, surviving as if he was in a zombie apocalypse. Jack beckoned him to follow. He put a finger on his lips, signaling for him to remain quiet, and he lead the Doctor around the warehouses, deactivating a few Cybermen during the journey. Within 20 minutes, Jack led him into an older looking building and up the stairs.
"We're safe," Jack proclaimed after shutting the door to a small room. There was a second door in the back of the room. He pulled up a chair from the corner, and sat. The Doctor spotted another chair, and pulled that one up too.
"So… where are you at in our timeline?" Jack asked.
"The last time I saw you was when Martha left."
"Same here."
"So we're at the same point?"
"I suppose."
They were silent for a moment.
"You said you were the one that brought me here." The Doctor said suddenly. "What does that mean?"
"The TARDIS got a distress signal, right?" Jack asked.
"Yes," The Doctor answered. "I followed it, and then the doors flew open, and Donna…" he trailed off midsentence.
"Donna?" Jack asked.
"My current companion, her name's Donna Noble." Jack raised an eyebrow.
"Where is she?" The Doctor glanced at him.
"I lost her. We followed that distress signal, and she fell out of the TARDIS." The Doctor looked up at him. "You sent it, didn't you?" he asked.
"Yes." Jack murmured. "And the age winds?" The Doctor didn't answer. Jack went on. "The age winds in the vortex would have aged her into nothing." He said quietly.
"I know." The Doctor replied grimly. "but…" Jack's head shot up.
"What?"
"According to my handy dandy Sonic, I've traced her. And I'm pretty sure she's alive, or it wouldn't have located her!" The Doctor cried happily. Jack sighed in relief.
"Oh my g-d, if she had died because of me-"
"But she's alright." The Doctor said. "I'm gonna sort out anything going on here, and then I'll find her. Apparently, she's at the core of the planet in 2346."
"I'm not gonna ask." Jack said. "But I think it's time you found out why I sent the distress signal."
"Why?"
"Because she fell out of the sky."
"What?" The Doctor question, bewildered. "She fell out of the sky? What does that mean?" Jack opened his mouth, then closed it. He stood up.
"I'm just going to show you." He said, kicking the chair back. The Doctor stood up. Jack walked towards the second door, and pushed through it. The Doctor followed.
The room on the other side of the door was like a small flat. There was a small stove, a sleeping bag on the floor, a chamber pot (empty, thank g-d), a small radio, a chair with books next to it, a med kit, food (no chips, though), a pile of Cybermen scraps, and a pile of weapons in the corner. Jack plopped his weapons onto the pile. He moved a curtain aside and revealed another door. He opened it.
On the other side was an even smaller room. It looked like a cupboard. When Jack moved aside, the Doctor gasped.
Lying on a bed, beat up, and bruised, was a sleeping Rose Tyler.