CHAPTER 2

I do not own Doctor Who, and I am making no profit off of this.

Martha Jones was waiting outside of the Blaidd Drwg Publishing Company when she was surprised to see a pink sports car with Rose Tyler and a brunette woman in it come driving up to her. She was sure that Rose would use the TARDIS.

"Hey, Martha!" Rose said as she parked the car.

Rose and the other woman got out of the car, and Rose locked it with some kind of remote control device that Martha had never seen before.

"Why didn't you come in the TARDIS?" Martha asked her as she looked at the car with a smile on her face. Only Rose would drive something like that.

"I came in my TARDIS, Martha. That's it right there," Rose said as she pointed to the car.

Rose grinned as she pointed the remote at the car, and it morphed into a pink police box.

"I suppose you would rather it look like that?" Rose said with a snicker.

Martha gaped at her in surprise for a second and then shook her head.

"I think the sports car is probably the better choice," Martha said with a grin.

"I think so too. Sports cars are cool!" Rose said, and then she immediately clamped her hand around her mouth as her eyes widened in surprise.

"Oh, no! Did I just say that sports cars were cool?!" Rose said in a shaky voice.

Martha couldn't help but laugh as she said, "I believe you did!"

"Oh, this is bad! He's infecting me! I'm going to start going around wearing bow ties and talking a hundred miles an hour now!" Rose said as she pretended to be worried.

Then she immediately morphed from a frown to a face wide grin.

"Oh, well! There are worse fates I suppose," Rose said with a snicker.

She changed her TARDIS back into a car and introduced Martha to Ileana. She didn't mention that Ileana was a vampire. She didn't want a repeat of Colonel Mace's reaction to her.

"It's nice to meet you, Ileana," Martha said as the two women shook hands.

"It's very nice to meet you too, Martha. I'm sure that you've seen some times with the Doctor," Ileana said with a smile.

"You've met the Doctor?" Martha asked.

"Oh, yes. I met him a long time ago," Ileana said enigmatically.

Rose glared at her, and she didn't say anything more.

Martha wondered if Ileana was a Time Lady. She only looked about eighteen so she didn't look like she could have met anyone a long time ago. It wasn't any of her business though so she didn't pry any further.

She led the two women into the publishing company while Rose took note of its name. It was surely a clue that she was supposed to be here. Her future self must be sending her a message.

"What's wrong, Rose?" Martha asked her as she noticed the expression on her face.

"It's the name of this company. It's Welsh for Bad Wolf," Rose explained.

Martha looked surprised and said, "Did you . . .?"

"Not yet. I must do it in the future," Rose said.

"Time Lords!" Martha said as she smiled.

"Is that a critique?" Rose said with an answering grin.

"No. Just an observation that Time Lords are strange," Martha admitted with a smile.

"I can't imagine where you got that idea from!" Rose quipped.

Ileana laughed at the exchange between the two of them. She loved how Rose always made everyone feel so at ease around her.

As they entered the building, Martha explained what happened to the two of them.

"I was here on official business for UNIT. This publishing company is printing a book of memoirs for one of the most famous authors in the world, Verity Newman. She's had several attempts on her life lately from a source that was undeniably alien. On one tour, she was rushed to the hospital with a sudden heart attack when she's had no history of any heart problems before. On another tour, her leg suddenly broke in front of witnesses for no reason whatsoever. It just cracked right in front of hundreds of people! On her last tour, she had sharp pains all over her body that sent her to the hospital. After each occasion, she fully recovered a day later every time. I've seen things like this happen before," Martha said.

"Carrionites," Rose said.

Martha nodded as she said, "That's right. I ran into them with the Doctor when they were trying to use Shakespeare to destroy the world. The Doctor stopped them though and trapped them in an orb that he put in the TARDIS."

"Oh, yeah! Will told me about that. I didn't really believe him though. I thought that he was just using that story to hit on me with. Looks like I owe him an apology," Rose said with a laugh.

"Why didn't you believe him? It's not like things like that never happen in your life," Martha asked confused.

"Well to hear him tell it, he saved the whole day by himself. He never even mentioned the Doctor or you. That's why I didn't believe it. Will is a genius but come on! There's no way he defeated them by himself!" Rose said.

"Well he did come up with the words, but the Doctor gave him the idea to defeat them with words. I gave him the last and most important word," Martha said with a proud grin.

"Both of you met Shakespeare?" Ileana asked jealous.

"Yes. He's great if you can get past the constant flirting," Rose said with a grimace.

"That's for sure. He never stopped with me," Martha said with a fond smile.

"I've really got to travel with you some time. I have a feeling I'm missing a lot," Ileana said with a small smile.

"Anytime, Ileana," Rose said seriously.

Ileana nodded. She might take her up on that sometime. Right now though, they had to get back to the investigation.

"What did Verity Newman write? I've never heard of her for her to be so famous," Rose asked.

Martha hesitated. She had wanted them to get the Doctor. She really didn't want to tell Rose about John Smith and Joan Redfern.

"What is it, Martha?" Rose asked concerned at Martha's sudden silence.

"Verity Newman wrote a book based on a journal that she found that had been written by a man named John Smith that her great-grandmother knew in 1913. It was a book called A Journal of Impossible Things. It was also based on the writings of her great-grandmother, Joan Redfern. She wrote several things in her own journal about this man," Martha started to explain.

"She knew The Doctor," Rose said simply.

"Yes. He used the Chameleon Arch on himself when he was traveling with me to make himself human in order to hide from some aliens, and that's when he wrote the book as a way of coping with the memories that kept leaking out of his mind that he didn't understand. Joan Redfern met him during this time," Martha said as she explained further.

"The aliens were the Family of Blood, weren't they?" Rose asked.

Martha nodded.

"Sister of Mine told me some of the story, but I didn't know that there was someone else involved. Were they. . .? Did they. . .?" Rose asked hesitantly. She couldn't make herself finish those questions.

"As far as I know, nothing happened between them. They were in love though. Joan fell out of love with him when he changed back. She only thought of the Doctor as the man who killed John Smith," Martha said.

She knew that this must be killing Rose. She was so sorry to be the one to have to tell her about it.

"It was when he thought I was trapped forever. Also he forgot me anyway because he wiped his memories. It's okay," Rose said as she saw the look on Martha's face,

"He didn't forget. Not completely. He drew a picture of you in his journal. He thought that you were a figment of his imagination though like everything else in there. I think that he thought that he was going mad," Martha said sympathetically.

Rose couldn't help but be hurt. She knew that he had been confused and had his mind wiped, but she still felt pain. She couldn't help it. Now she had to protect a descendent of this woman. It just seemed to be a slap in the face. She knew that it was probably nothing, and that it was likely very innocent; but she couldn't help feeling so incredibly jealous right now of someone who had died a long time ago. She had to get that under control right now.

Martha looked at her with sadness. She knew what was going through her mind right now. She wished that she could help her somehow.

"Why do you think that the Carrionites would want to kill this woman? The book is about the Doctor not them," Ileana asked in order to change the subject.

"It has some information about them that the Doctor wrote down including some pictures that he drew of them. The Carrionites don't want that kind of information being spread out to the general public maybe? That's the best that I can come up with," Martha said with a frown on her face.

"That doesn't sound like a good enough reason to me," Ileana said.

"To me either," Martha admitted.

"Who was the man that drowned? What was his connection to all of this?" Rose asked as she finally regained her composure.

"He worked for the publishing company. He was one of its executives. He had been one of the people behind getting Verity's original book published. He was at a tour for her memoirs when he suddenly started choking and fell over dead. When the medics said he had water in his lungs and had drowned to death, I thought of the Carrionites immediately. They killed a man just like that in Shakespeare's time. That's when I decided to try to call in the Doctor," Martha said.

"Instead you got me," Rose said in a low voice.

At that moment, a woman came toward them on her way about her duties. She looked nervously toward them for a second and then looked away. She hurriedly walked by them as if she were scared to death of them.

Rose and Ileana both noticed something not right about her immediately. Ileana knew a werewolf when she was around one. She could identify her with her heightened senses. Rose felt a tugging at her as if she were in the presence of a kindred spirit. They were both wolves Rose realized without Ileana having to tell her.

Martha noticed them look at Victoria Collins suspiciously as she hurried down the hall.

"What is it? She works here and so far she doesn't check out as suspicious in any way," Martha said.

"There is one thing about her that I bet you didn't find out," Ileana said.

"What's that?" Martha asked.

"She's a werewolf," both Rose and Ileana said at the same time. They looked at each other in surprise that they had both come to the same conclusion separately.

"What?!" Martha asked in disbelief.

"You there!" Ileana shouted at Victoria.

Victoria turned around and saw the look on their faces. They knew! She realized with horror that they knew what she was.

"Please! I've never hurt anyone. I've developed a way to keep myself trapped so that I don't get out at night. I do admit that I'm getting worse lately, but I just need help to keep me under control. Don't kill me!" Victoria pleaded with them as she shook in terror.

Rose instantly felt sorry for her and knew in her gut that this woman was not involved with the murder.

"We're not going to do anything to you. We're here investigating a murder. Obviously you have nothing to do with it though. We can help you with your problem though if you want," Rose offered.

"How do you know she isn't involved?" Ileana asked her. Martha wanted to know the answer to that as well.

"Do you really have to ask?" Rose said as her eyes glowed gold.

Victoria suddenly fell down on her knees before Rose and laid her head on the floor. She didn't know why she was doing it but something compelled her to.

"Why are you doing that? Get up!" Rose said as she felt very uncomfortable.

Victoria got up and said, "I don't know why I just did that. I just had this feeling like I had to. It's like a member of a wolf pack honoring its pack leader. That's the best explanation for the feeling that suddenly came over me. There is something of the wolf in you as well, isn't there? I can feel it."

Rose said nothing. This whole thing just kept getting weirder and weirder. She suddenly wasn't so sure that she was going to enjoy this case after all anymore.

Next: Someone who feels that they must make up for the terrible things that they did in their past enters the case as they try to help Rose, Ileana, and Martha to keep Verity Newman safe. It's someone who was just seen recently in one of my other stories. Can you guess who?