WTS:Doctor Who

by Crazyfanperson

I love reading these fanfics where the doctor and his friends watch their show. So I thought I'd have a bit of fun and make my own, the gaps will probably be a bit long between chapters cause I've got like 11 series to go through as well as other stuff. I do have life. Oh! And disclaimer, I own none of this, all rights to the BBC x

15. The Doctor Dances

INT. HOSPITAL WARD 2

The gas-mask people are surrounding Rose, the Doctor and Jack. Then - the Doctor stares sternly around at them.

THE DOCTOR (as though addressing a disobedient child): Go to your room.

"Uh… What?" Amy asked, looking confused, along with nearly half the room. The doctors all placed a hand over their faces to hide their blush. Despite their escape in this situation being successful, it was slightly embarrassing. Rose and Jack both sniggered.

The gasmask people hesitate.

INT. DINING ROOM

Jamie hesitates.

INT. HOSPITAL WARD 2

THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Go to your room!

The gas-mask people cock their heads to one side.

INT. DINING ROOM

Jamie cocks his head to one side.

"They're all connected aren't they? Like a hive mind." Clara whispered to 12. He looked at her with surprise written on his face. She'd got it dead on. He then smiled and nodded causing her to smile too. Clara's intelligence never failed to impress.

INT. HOSPITAL WARD 2

Rose and Jack look at one another.

THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): I mean it! I am very, very angry with you. I am very, very cross! Go... to... your... ROOM!

He points violently in no particular direction, and miraculously, all the gas-mask people turn meekly away.

"Oh wow…" Said Martha. "That is either the most creative or most crazy thing I've ever seen."

Mickey laughed. "Let's face it, we've all seen much, much crazier."

Everyone else laughed in agreement. Life with the doctor: never a dull moment.

INT. DINING ROOM

Jamie turns to leave.

INT. HOSPITAL WARD 2

The patients and staff in the hospital climb back onto their beds.

INT. DINING ROOM

Jamie slowly opens the door and leaves the room.

INT. HOSPITAL WARD 2

The Doctor sighs with relief.

THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): I'm really glad that worked. Those would've been TERRIBLE last words.

Everybody burst out laughing. Even the doctors, feeling a lot less embarrassed mow.

"So true." Rose said in between giggles.

"I don't know what I'd want my last words to be but definitely not that." Said Amy.

"Hmm…" Mickey hummed, having calmed down. "I never thought about what I'd want my last words to be…"

Suddenly everyone was thinking it over. Some people were amused by what they thought. Others a bit disturbed. And some were even a little depressed…

OPENING CREDITS

By this point nearly everyone was whistling or humming along to the theme tune whenever the credits happened.

EXT. STREET

Jamie walks alone from the house into the dark night.

INT. DINING ROOM

Nancy watches him go from the window.

NANCY (sadly): Jamie...

She sinks to the ground with her back against the wall and sobs.

Everyone felt their hearts go out to Nancy. The poor girl… To be hunted by her own brother…

The doctors and Rose felt even more for her, since they knew Jamie wasn't really Nancy's brother.

Martha was actually the only person in room who wasn't an only child and she was trying desperately hard not to imagine what it'd be like if Leo or Trisha had been turned into one of those things. The very idea sent shivers up her spine and made her feel a bit sick.

INT. HOSPITAL WARD 2

Rose is sitting by one of the beds, looking at one of the gasmask people. Jack settles down in a chair.

ROSE: Why are they all wearing gas masks?

JACK: They're not. Those masks are flesh and bone.

THE DOCTOR: How was your con supposed to work?

JACK: Simple enough, really. Find some harmless piece of space-junk... let the nearest Time Agent track it back to Earth. Convince him it's valuable, name a price. When he's put 50% up front, oops! A German bomb falls on it, destroys it forever. He never gets to see what he's paid for. Never knows he's been had. I buy him a drink with his own money, and we discuss dumb luck. The perfect self-cleaning con.

THE DOCTOR: Yeah. Perfect.

JACK: The London Blitz is great for self-cleaners, Pompeii's nice if you want to make a vacation of it though, but you've got to set your alarm for volcano day.

He laughs at his own joke. The Doctor merely looks at him. Jack's laughter dies away.

A few people in the audience smiled but no one really felt like laughing. They weren't sure why but the atmosphere was becoming very tense…

JACK (CONT'D): Getting a hint of disapproval.

THE DOCTOR: Take a look around the room. This is what your "harmless piece of space-junk" did.

JACK: It was a burnt-out medical transporter, it was empty.

The Doctor looks darkly at him and walks off.

Jack sighed quietly and shifted his gaze to the ground as subtly as he could. He had forgotten about this incident a while ago but now that he was forced to watch it, he was also forced to relive the guilt of what he'd caused.

THE DOCTOR: Rose.

ROSE: We getting out of here?

THE DOCTOR: We're going upstairs.

Rose follows him. Jack gets up and calls after him.

JACK: I even programmed the flight computer so it wouldn't land on anything living, I harmed no-one! I don't know what's happening here, but believe me, I had nothing to do with it.

THE DOCTOR: I'll tell you what's happening. You forgot to set your alarm clock. It's volcano day.

A lot of people couldn't resist snorting.

"You got owned." Amy laughed, sending Jack a teasing grin, he was pleased to return it, grateful for the distraction from his guilt.

A siren goes off in the distance.

ROSE: What's that?

JACK: The all-clear.

THE DOCTOR: I wish.

The tension returned to the room.

He leaves the ward. Rose and Jack follow him.

INT. DINING ROOM

Upon hearing the siren, Nancy gets up and leaves the dining room.

INT. HALLWAY

Suddenly, a child wearing a gas-mask jumps out in front of her, and she screams and stumbles backwards.

Everyone in the audience jumped too.

but then the little boy takes the mask off.

They all breathed a sigh of relief. No one wanted to see Nancy get hurt, she seemed such a great person.

NANCY: I thought you were Jamie!

She leaves the house through the back door, the boy following her.

EXT. GARDEN

BOY: Dad! Dad!

Mr and Mrs Lloyd appear and Mr Lloyd angrily tries to shove her back into the house.

MR LLOYD: Ruddy kid.

NANCY: Get off of me. Get your hands off me!

MRS LLOYD (to the boy): Oi! You! Get in! Get in! (Points at Nancy) Get her in there. What has she nicked?

"Oh man." Said Donna, clearly concerned.

"I wouldn't worry." River reassured. "She seems like she can take care of herself. She smiled at the screen, impressed with what she'd so far seen of Nancy.

INT. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR

Rose and Jack run down a corridor looking for the Doctor.

JACK (calls): Mr Spock?

Everyone snorted. The doctor's all scowled, fighting a blush.

"Couldn't you have just told him the truth?" Clara asked through her sniggering.

"Where would be the fun in that?" Rose said teasingly, causing 10 to shove her playfully.

ROSE (calls): Doctor?

They dash past a flight of stairs. The Doctor pops his head around the banister.

THE DOCTOR: Have you got a blaster?

Rose and Jack skid to a halt and backtrack.

JACK: Sure!

They run up the stairs and find themselves standing outside a door.

THE DOCTOR: The night your space-junk landed, someone was hurt. This was where they were taken.

ROSE: What happened?

THE DOCTOR: Let's find out. (To Jack): Get it open.

Jack grins and points a blaster at the door. The Doctor stands back, beside Rose.

ROSE (quietly): What's wrong with your sonic screwdriver?

THE DOCTOR: Nothing.

"Aw… Embarrassed that you've only got a screwdriver?" River teased.

"Yeah, he knew my blaster was much cooler." Jack added.

"Oi!" 10 and 11 shouted. 12 just rolled his eyes.

"I'll have you know I prefer my screwdriver, unlike most other sonic devices it is totally harmless." Said 11.

"So." Jack continued, smirking. "You'd rather give me the opportunity to show off to your girlfriend than give me the opportunity to make fun of you?"

10 turned bright red.

"That is— No— You—" For not the first time in his life he'd been rendered speechless. Jack reclined smugly in his chair, he knew he'd won this time.

Jack's blaster cuts a perfectly square hole around the lock of the door and it squeaks open.

THE DOCTOR: Sonic blaster, 51st century. Weapon Factories of Villengard?

JACK: You've been to the factories?

THE DOCTOR (taking the blaster from Jack for a look): Once.

JACK: Well, they gone now. Destroyed. The main reactor went critical. Vaporised the lot.

THE DOCTOR (giving the blaster back): Like I said, once.

"Of course." Rory sighed.

"Can't you fix anything without making a mess?" River chastised. 11 just grinned at her.

THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): There's a banana grove there, now. I like bananas. Bananas are good.

He smiles pleasantly at Jack and enters the room.

Everyone chuckled. While Jack blushed a bit remembering the banana trick the doctor pulled on him. Oh god! They were going to show that weren't they… Guess the doctor would have an opportunity to pay him back for the embarrassment Jack'd just dealt him.

Rose goes up to Jack.

ROSE (looks at the perfectly square hole): Nice blast pattern.

JACK: Digital.

ROSE: Squareness gun.

11 smiled. He himself had adopted the phrase squareness gun for the sonic blaster. He'd almost forgotten where he got that phrase… He scratched his head tiredly, trying hard to get his memories in check. Lately he'd been contemplating just forgetting everything and starting over. Easier than dealing with the pain right? Why keep the past if it's only going to hurt him?

JACK: Yeah.

ROSE: I like it.

She goes into the room. Jack laughs, then follows her.

INT. THE ROOM

The Doctor switches a light on. The room looks as though it has been vandalised. The window is broken and there is stuff all over the floor.

THE DOCTOR: What d'you think?

JACK: Something got out of here...

THE DOCTOR: Yeah. And?

JACK: Something powerful. Angry.

THE DOCTOR: Powerful and angry.

Jack enters a room off the side. The floors and walls are covered with a child's drawings. There are a few toys on the floor and a little bed in the corner.

"Oh my god…" Donna whispered, placing her hand over her mouth. A lot of other people were also shocked. They knew there was something inhuman about the child but was he really this strong?

JACK: A child? I suppose this explains "mummy".

ROSE: How could a child do this?

The Doctor plays a tape of Doctor Constantine talking to the Child.

DR. CONSTANTINE: Do you know where you are?

THE CHILD: Are you my mummy?

DR. CONSTANTINE: Are you aware of what's around you? Can you... see?

THE CHILD: Are you my mummy?

DR. CONSTANTINE: What do you want? Do you know...

THE CHILD: I want my mummy. Are you my mummy? I want my mummy! Are you my mummy?

A lot of the companions began to feel sick. The child's voice was so chilling. It made them feel both sad and terrified at the same time. Martha and Mickey moved subtly closer to each other, as did Amy and Rory.

Every single one of the drawings covering the wall are of the Child's mother.

THE CHILD (CONT'D): Are you my mummy? Mummy? Mummy?

ROSE: Doctor, I've heard this voice before.

THE DOCTOR: Me too.

THE CHILD: Mummy?

ROSE: Always, "are you my mummy?". It's like he doesn't know.

THE CHILD: Mummy?

ROSE: Why doesn't he know?

Everyone else couldn't help but wonder as well. Except those who already knew the answer.

Everything's connected, River thought, it always is.

THE CHILD: Are you there, mummy? Mummy?

INT. DINING ROOM

Mr Lloyd enters the dining room and shuts the door behind him. He leans on the table, at which Nancy is sitting.

MR LLOYD: The police are on their way. I pay for the food on this table. The sweat on my brow, that food is. The sweat on my brow. Anything else you'd like? I've got a whole house here, anything else you'd like to help yourself to?

NANCY: Yeah. I'd like some wire cutters, please.

Mr Lloyd looks unpleasantly surprised.

A large majority of the audience couldn't help but snort at Nancy's smart remark. They all watched with silent anticipation, curious as to what Nancy was up to.

NANCY (CONT'D): Something that can cut through barbed wire. Oh, and a torch. Don't look like that, Mr Lloyd. I know you've got plenty of tools in here. I've been watching this house for ages. And I'd like another look round your kitchen cupboards. I was in a hurry the first time. I wanna see if there's anything I missed.

MR LLOYD: The food on this table...

NANCY: It's an awful lot of food, isn't it, Mr Lloyd?

Mr Lloyd's mouth opens and shuts again.

"Ooo…" Jack hummed. Everyone was sharing in Nancy's smugness, thoroughly enjoying the way she was putting Mr Lloyd in his place.

NANCY (CONT'D): A lot more than on anyone else's table. Half this street thinks your missus must be messing about with Mr. Avistock, the butcher. But she's not, is she? You are.

Mr Lloyd looks very uncomfortable, and he is starting to sweat. Triumphant, Nancy stands up.

Everyone burst out laughing, this was just too good.

"Ha! Owned!" Donna yelled.

NANCY (CONT'D): Wire cutters. Torch. Food. And I'd like to use your bathroom before I leave, please. Oh, look... there's the sweat on your brow.

Mr Lloyd agitatedly wipes the beads of sweat off his forehead with the back of his hand. Nancy goes over to the door and opens it.

"That was perfect, sweetie why didn't you take this one with you?" River asked, clearly very impressed by Nancy's skills and wits.

"She was very good." 11 agreed. "But she was needed where she was."

River nodded, satisfied with this answer. She was well aware that the doctor often encountered people who were amazing but were needed by other people more than they were needed by the doctor.

INT. THE ROOM

The reels of the tape spin.

THE CHILD: Mummy? Please, mummy? Mummy?

The Doctor is pacing around the room.

ROSE: Doctor?

THE DOCTOR: Can you sense it?

JACK: Sense what?

THE DOCTOR: Coming out of the walls, can you feel it?

Clara sighed in frustration. "And he's gone into "I understand what's going on but I'm gonna explain it in a way that makes no sense" mode." She said sarcastically.

"Yes!" "Exactly!" "I know right!" All the other companions exclaimed. The doctors all looked very affronted.

"He's still doing that? Even after a thousand years?" Rose asked Clara, who nodded with a roll of her eyes.

THE CHILD: Mummy?

The Doctor stops to look around at Rose and Jack.

THE DOCTOR: Funny little human brains, how do you get around in those things?

ROSE (to Jack): When he's stressed, he likes to insult species.

THE DOCTOR (still pacing): Rose, I'm thinking.

ROSE: Cuts himself shaving, does half an hour in life forms he's cleverer than...

Everybody snorted or sniggered quietly.

"I'm not always like that…" 10 grumbled.

"What? Clever?" Amy teased. "We've noticed."

"Oi!" 10 cried at the same time 11 cried "Hey!" and 12 rolled his eyes with his signature scowl. Everyone else who'd been chuckling quietly burst into full blown laughter at what she said.

THE DOCTOR: There are these children living rough around the bomb site. They come out during air-raids looking for food.

The tape begins to make a clicking sound.

THE CHILD: Mummy, please?

THE DOCTOR: Suppose they were there when this thing, whatever it was, landed?

JACK: It was a med-ship. It was harmless.

THE DOCTOR: Yes, you keep saying. "Harmless". Suppose one of them was affected, altered?

ROSE: Altered how?

THE CHILD: I'm here!

"Oh no…" River muttered, knowing full well what was going on. Everyone else in the room had stop laughing at this point and was starting to feel a little tense. There was this sense of foreboding in the room, like they all knew something bad was about to happen. Knowing the doctor, there probably was.

THE DOCTOR: It's afraid. Terribly afraid, and powerful. It doesn't know it yet, but it will do. (Small laugh). It's got the power of a god, and I just sent it to its room.

The people in the room might have laughed at that if they weren't beginning to feel very scared at this point.

The three of them suddenly notice the clicking as it grows louder.

ROSE (scared): Doctor...

THE CHILD: I'm here. Can't you see me?

ROSE: What's that noise?

THE DOCTOR (smile fading): End of the tape. It ran out about 30 seconds ago.

Everybody began to feel sick, bar the obvious. They all knew what was about to happen… Several had to keep repeating in their head that the doctor was here, he was fine, this was in the past so he had obviously survived.

THE CHILD: I'm here, now. Can't you see me?

THE DOCTOR: I sent it to it's room. This is its room.

He spins around and the Child is standing by the tape machine.

THE CHILD: Are you my mummy? (Cocks his head on one side, considering Rose). Mummy?

"Why me?" Rose moaned, dropping her head in her hands.

"Cause you're the only woman in the room?" Jack suggested.

"Thanks, that helps." Rose mumbled sarcastically. 10 laughed and slung his arm over her shoulder.

ROSE: Doctor?

JACK: Okay... on my signal... make for the door. Now!

He violently produces a banana and points it threateningly at the Child. The Doctor grins and produces Jack's sonic blaster, blasting a square hole in the wall.

The tension in the room lifted in an instant as everyone, once again, fell about laughing. Except, of course, for Jack who blushed and glared daggers at 11.

"Why are you glaring at me!" 11 asked defensively.

"You're the closest." He replied simply. "I'll get you back for that switch one day."

"Bring it on." 11 said with a grin.

THE DOCTOR: Go! Now! Don't drop the banana!

JACK (hopping through the hole in the wall with Rose and the Doctor): Why not?!

THE DOCTOR: Good source of potassium!

Everyone laughed again. Only the doctor could make everyone enjoy themselves when their lives were in danger.

INT. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR

The three of them find themselves back in a corridor. The Child approaches them from inside the room.

JACK (grabbing his sonic blaster off the Doctor): Give me that!

THE CHILD: Mummy?

Jack points the blaster at the wall, and it rebuilds itself, blocking the Child out.

THE CHILD: Are you my mummy?

JACK: Digital rewind. (Tosses banana back to the Doctor). Nice switch.

THE DOCTOR: It's from the Groves of Villengard, I thought it was appropriate.

JACK: There's really a banana grove in the heart of Villengard and you did that?

THE DOCTOR (simply): Bananas are good.

"Hell yeah they are!" 10, 11 and, surprisingly, 12 all said together.

The Child thumps the wall from the other side, cracking it.

"Oh my god!" Donna cried, while everyone jumped in shock.

"But he's just a child…" Rory said in confusion.

"Not anyone he's not," said River, "haven't you been paying attention?"

Rory chose to ignore her and go back to watching the episode.

ROSE: Doctor!

THE DOCTOR: Come on!

They rush down a short flight of stairs and down another corridor, before they encounter all the patients bursting out of the ward calling "mummy". They hastily backtrack, but they find the gasmask people coming from that direction too. They find themselves back at the point where they started, where the Child is breaking through the wall.

THE DOCTOR: It's keeping us here so it can get at us.

JACK (points the blaster in each direction in term): It's controlling them?

THE DOCTOR: It is them. It's every living thing in this hospital.

"What?" Clara asked as everyone looked at their respective doctors for information.

"Just watch the episode," 10 said, "it'll explain."

"Yeah, no spoilers." Said 11, sharing a grin with his wife.

JACK: Okay. This can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic cannon, and a triple-enfolded sonic disrupter. Doc, what you got?

"Okay," said 10 "I'd just like to make it clear, here and now, I don't like the term doc, it's the doctor."

"Sure thing doc." Jack said with a grin causing all the doctor's to scowl and glare at him.

The Doctor takes the sonic screwdriver out of his pocket, but Jack is not looking as he is too busy brandishing his sonic device at the gasmask people.

THE DOCTOR: A sonic, er... oh, never mind.

JACK: What?

The Doctor turns to face the other group of gasmask people, switching on his sonic screwdriver.

THE DOCTOR: It's sonic, okay? Let's leave it at that.

"Aw… Embarrassed are you sweetie." River teased.

"No!" 10 and 11 said, unconvincingly.

JACK: Disrupter? Cannon? What?

THE DOCTOR: It's sonic! Totally sonic! I am sonic-ed ugh!

JACK: A sonic what?!

THE DOCTOR: SCREWDRIVER!

"I'd just like to say, sonic screwdriver: cool." Said 11.

"Yeah, yeah, we know it is." Amy agreed, rolling her eyes fondly with a smile. She wasn't the only one smiling, everyone secretly agreed that they loved the sonic screwdriver.

Jack spins around. At that moment, the Child finally manages to punch through the wall. He begins to climb through the hole. Rose grabs onto Jack's wrist and makes him point the sonic blaster at the floor.

ROSE: Going down!

She blasts a hole in the floor. They all fall in a messy heap on the floor of the ward below.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief while some congratulated Rose on her quick thinking causing her to smile, pleased with the praise.

INT. HOSPITAL WARD

Jack hurriedly activates the digital rewind, closing the hole so they cannot be followed.

ROSE (CONT'D): Doctor, are you okay?

THE DOCTOR: Could've used a warning...!

ROSE: Ugh, the gratitude.

They get up and brush themselves off.

JACK: Who has a sonic screwdriver?

THE DOCTOR : I do!

ROSE (looking around): Lights!

JACK: Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks "oohoo, this could be a little more sonic"?

THE DOCTOR (indignantly): What, you've never been bored?

ROSE (still poking around): There's gotta be a light switch!

THE DOCTOR: Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?

"So is that why you created it?" Clara asked while a lot of people chuckled at the onscreen Jack and doctor's banter.

"Well, I didn't exactly create it, sonic screwdrivers have been used by Galifreyians for years I just spent a lot of time as a teenager modifying mine, I did use it on cabinets once but that wasn't the only reason I worked on it I had lots of uses in mind." 12 defended.

Rose finally finds a switch and turns the lights on. All the gas-mask people lying in the beds sit up and start calling "mummy".

JACK: Door.

They rush to the door as the patients start getting out of bed. Finding it locked, Jack tries to blast it open but his sonic blaster doesn't work.

JACK (CONT'D): Damn it!

He steps back, allowing the Doctor to use his sonic screwdriver instead. He whacks the sonic blaster angrily.

JACK (CONT'D): It's the special features, they really drain the battery.

ROSE: Battery?!

"Ha!" 10 cries, "my screwdriver doesn't use a battery."

Jack pouted and looked at the screen, ignoring him.

"What does power it then?" Amy asked.

"It's a bit too complicated to explain." 12 said.

"Just imagine a kind of infinite crazy space energy." 11 said.

"Okay…" Said Amy.

"Well it's nothing like that." He continued. At first Amy looked irritated but eventually couldn't help but laugh. Quite a few of the others ended up joining in.

The Doctor opens the door and they dash through it.

ROSE: That's so lame.

INT. STOREROOM

The Doctor slams the door shut behind them and locks it with his sonic screwdriver.

JACK (running to the window): I was gonna send for another one, but somebody's gonna blow up the factory.

He glares at the Doctor.

ROSE: Oh, I know, first day I met him, he blew my job up. That's practically how he communicates.

Everybody snorted.

"You can say that again, when I first met him he destroyed my garden shed." Amy laughed. 11 blushed at the memory.

"Oh yeah, when I first met him he drained the Thames to flood my job's basement." Donna added.

"I did what?!" 10 cried. Suddenly everyone was sharing information on what the doctor destroyed when they first met him. The doctors all tried to focus on the episode hoping to distract themselves from the embarrassment they were feeling.

THE DOCTOR: Okay, that door should hold it for a bit.

JACK: The door?! The wall didn't stop it!

THE DOCTOR: Well, it's gotta find us first! Come on, we're not done yet! Assets, assets!

JACK: Well, I've got a banana, and in a pinch you could put up some shelves.

"Where's MacGyver when you need him?" Mickey joked causing everyone to burst out laughing.

THE DOCTOR (going to the window): Window...

JACK: Barred, sheer drop outside. Seven stories.

ROSE: And no other exits.

JACK (settling comfortably into a chair): Well, the assets conversation went in a flash, didn't it?

The Doctor turns and eyes him for a moment, then looks at Rose.

THE DOCTOR: So, where'd you pick this one up, then?

ROSE (warningly): Doctor...

"Jealous…?" Amy said teasingly to 10.

"No!" He denied but the blush on his face made it much less convincing. "I am not jealous, I do not get jealous."

"Yeah, sure." Amy said, not sounding like she believed him in the slightest.

JACK: She was hanging from a barrage balloon, I had an invisible spaceship. I never stood a chance.

Rose looks ever so slightly uncomfortable.

"I think I won." Said Jack.

"Won what?" Asked Clara.

"Whatever the hell that was." He replied, gesturing to the screen.

THE DOCTOR: Okay, one, we gotta get out of here. Two, we can't get out of here. Have I missed anything?

There's a small blip sound. Rose looks in Jack's direction.

ROSE (in wonder): Yeah... Jack just disappeared.

The Doctor spins around to see Jack's empty chair.

"What?" Said half the people in the room in bewilderment. Some looked at Jack but he refused to give them any spoilers.

"Just pay attention, the episode will reveal all." He said.

"Oh yeah I just remembered." Said Rose, then without warning lobbed a pillow at Jack.

"Ow." He whined as it struck him in the head.

"That was for ditching us without saying anything."

INT. OUTHOUSE

Jim types on a typewriter. The other children are all crowded inside with him. Nancy enters.

NANCY: Thought as much. What are all of you doing here? Different house every night, I told ya!

JIM: We thought you were dead! Or you'd run off.

ERNIE: I didn't. I knew you'd come back for us.

Nancy squats down and empties her bag of supplies on the floor. Ernie looks at Jim with the typewriter.

ERNIE: Found that old thing in the junk. Thinks he can write now...

JIM: I'm writing a letter to me dad.

ERNIE: You don't even know where your dad is. And how're you gonna send it?

JIM (as though this is a ridiculous question): I dunno, stick it in an envelope?

ERNIE: You can't even read or write.

JIM: I don't need to, I've got a machine!

The typewriter pings.

NANCY (harshly, irritated): Will you stop making that noise!

A short silence. Jim looks crestfallen and Nancy's face softens.

NANCY (CONT'D): I'm sorry, Jim. On you go. You write a letter to your dad if you want to.

Jim continues typing.

Everyone kept silent throughout this scene. There really wasn't that much to say. It was really nice just to quietly watch Nancy's interactions with the kids.

ERNIE (to Nancy): I know we should've went somewhere else, but we need you, you see. For the thinking.

NANCY: And what if I wasn't here? What if one night, I didn't come back for you? There's a war on... people go out... they don't always come back, it happens. What would you do then?

Ernie furrows his brow, then takes the wire cutters from Nancy's hands.

ERNIE: Are they wire cutters?!

NANCY (standing, taking them back): I need you to think about that. Someone's gotta look after this lot!

ERNIE: Why? Are you going somewhere?

NANCY (putting the wire cutters into her bag): The bomb site. The one at the railway station.

"What…?" A lot of people whispered, suddenly curious. What was Nancy up to?

ERNIE (shocked): Why?

NANCY: The Child. That's where he was killed. That's where it all started. And I'm gonna find out how.

ERNIE (frightened) : He'll get you! And then he'll come for us, he always comes for us!

NANCY: No. Ernie, he doesn't. He always comes after me.

"Hey you know now that she mentions it the child does seem to always show up wherever she is…" Said Martha.

"Well he is her brother." Donna said, matter-of-factly.

"Oh he's much more than that…" River muttered to herself, having, of course, figured things out.

NANCY (CONT'D): There are things I haven't told ya... things I can't tell ya. As long as you're with me... you're in danger. Even right now, sitting here, you're in danger because of me.

ERNIE: You're the one that keeps us safe!

NANCY: You think so, Ernie? Then answer this: Jim is sitting there right next to ya. So who's typing?

The steady clicking of the typewriter continues, but no one is typing.

"Okay… That's scary…" Whispered Donna. Everyone else just nodded mutely, mesmerised.

It types words on the paper. The children look scared. When it stops, Nancy rips the paper out.

ERNIE (urgently): Is he coming?

NANCY: Ernie... as long as you're with me... he's always coming.

She turns to leave, dropping the piece of paper on the floor. She stops at the door.

NANCY (CONT'D): Plenty of greens. And chew your food.

She leaves. Ernie picks up the piece of paper and reads it. Underneath Jims incoherent jumble of letters and numbers, is typed the phrase "ARE YOU MY MUMMY", repeatedly.

INT. STOREHAND

Rose approaches the Doctor who is now sitting down and puts her hand casually on the back of his chair.

ROSE: Okay, so he's vanished into thin air. Why is it always the great looking ones who do that?

The Doctor peers up at her, giving her a look.

A large majority of the audience snorted at Rose's obvious lack of tact.

"Awkward…" Mickey sang, prompting Rose to reach over and give him a smack on the arm. She would have thrown a pillow but there were none left on their sofa, they'd all been thrown a Jack over the course of the episodes.

THE DOCTOR: I'm making an effort not to be insulted.

ROSE (waving her hand dismissively): I mean... men.

THE DOCTOR (smiling sarcastically): Okay. Thanks. That really helped.

"Yeah, everyone always goes on about how "different" the doctor is but he's a regular bloke deep down." Said Mickey.

"Excuse me," 10 said, "but there is nothing remotely "regular" about me."

"Actually I think he's right." Clara decided to add. There were a few other murmurs of agreement and the doctors all pouted trying to distract themselves by focusing on the screen.

An old radio springs to life and Jack's voice transmits through it.

JACK: Rose? Doctor? Can you hear me?

They both hurry over to the radio, the Doctor picking it up.

JACK (CONT'D): I'm back on my ship.

INT. JACK'S SHIP

On his ship, in the pilot's seat.

JACK (CONT'D): Used the emergency teleport. Sorry I couldn't take you.

"And you couldn't have said "hey Rose, doctor, I'm going to use my emergency teleport I'll help you guys as soon as I can"?" Rose asked, looking skeptically at Jack. He just showed her his usually smirk.

"Where would be the fun in that?"

10 and Rose each gave him a look but he just laughed.

INT. STOREROOM

The Doctor, in some confusion, holds the wires that have been ripped out of the radio.

INT. JACK'S SHIP

JACK: It's security-keyed to my molecular structure. I'm working on it, hang in there.

He twists a few knobs on the controls of his spaceship.

THE DOCTOR: How're you speaking to us?

JACK: Om-Com. I can call anything with a speaker grille.

A lot of metaphorical lightbulbs went off as the audience members understood a little more about the child's abilities. Question was… How was the child able to Om-Com?

INT. STOREROOM

THE DOCTOR: Now there's a coincidence.

JACK: What is?

THE DOCTOR: The Child can Om-Com too.

ROSE: It can?

THE DOCTOR (nods): Anything with a speaker grille. Even the TARDIS phone.

ROSE: What, you mean the Child can phone us?

THE CHILD (through radio, singsong voice): And I can hear you. Coming to find you. Coming to fiiiiind you.

Rose unconsciously gripped 10's arm a little tighter, suddenly remembering how scared she had been in that moment. The whole ordeal with the nanogenes and the gas mask people had been scary really. She felt more comfortable watching it from the safety of a sofa surrounded by friends but she could still feel the ghost of the fear she'd felt that day.

JACK: Doctor, can you hear that?

THE DOCTOR: Loud and clear.

JACK: I'll try to block out the signal. Least I can do.

THE CHILD: Coming to find you, mummy!

INT. JACK'S SHIP

JACK: Remember this one, Rose?

He flicks a switch, and Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade" plays through the radio.

INT. STOREROOM

Rose looks ever so slightly uncomfortable as the Doctor turns to look at her questioningly.

ROSE (a little embarrassed): Our song.

Jack sent a very smug look at Rose and seemed as though he was about to say something but was cut off by Amy's foot slamming on his toes causing him to yelp.

"Sh." She hissed, smirking. "We're trying to watch."

He rolled his eyes but didn't press the matter. Rose caught Amy's eye and mouthed 'thank you' at her. Amy nodded with a smile and went back to watching the episode.

The Doctor nods, but it seems as though he doesn't like this. Rose shifts from foot to foot, smiling embarrassedly.

10 and Rose both blushed heavily. 11 and 12 kept their heads down, trying not to draw attention to themselves. Everybody else began laughing at the obvious embarrassment of both the onscreen and offscreen Rose and doctor.

EXT. CRASH SITE ENCLOSURE (OUTSIDE THE WIRE)

Nancy approaches the bomb site, which has a sign on the fence surrounding it saying "KEEP OUT - RESTRICTED AREA". She hurries stealthily out of sight to where a hole in the fence has been mended quickly with barbed wire.

Everyone held their breath anxiously, the room becoming thick with tension.

She sets to work, cutting them loose with her wire cutters, all the while looking around nervously.

INT. STOREROOM

Rose shuffles around in the wheel chair, bored. The radio still plays "Moonlight Serenade". The buzzing of the sonic screwdriver in the background. Rose spins the wheel chair around in the Doctor's direction.

ROSE: What you doing?

THE DOCTOR (holding the sonic screwdriver up against the wall near the window): Trying to set up a resonation pattern in the concrete. Loosen the bars.

ROSE: You don't think he's coming back, do ya?

THE DOCTOR: Wouldn't bet my life.

"Well!" Jack exclaimed in mock offence. "You don't trust me? I am insulted."

"I trust you now…" 10 muttered. "It just takes a while to get past your cocky and selfish attitude. Besides you were a conman when I met you."

"I'm not selfish I just pretend I am." Jack defended. "Besides, talk about pot calling the kettle black." He muttered the last bit under his breath so only the people sat next to him heard. Those people being Amy and Rory, both of whom snickered quietly at his comment.

ROSE: Why don't you trust him?

THE DOCTOR: Why do you?

ROSE: Saved my life. Bloke-wise, that's up there with flossing.

"Yes!" Rory said. "I knew flossing my teeth was attractive."

"Yes." Amy laughed. "Very." She kissed his cheek.

The Doctor does not answer. Rose looks at him for a moment.

ROSE (CONT'D): I trust him 'cos he's like you. Except with dating and dancing.

The Doctor shoots her a look.

ROSE: What?

THE DOCTOR: You just assume I'm...

ROSE: What?

THE DOCTOR (vulnerable): You just assume that I don't... dance.

ROSE (grinning): What, are you telling me you do... dance?

THE DOCTOR: Nine hundred years old, me. I've been around a bit. I think you can assume that at some point I've danced.

"What's so weird about that?" Martha asked, not quite understanding. Everyone looked really uncomfortable.

"They're not talking about dancing so much as… Dancing…" Clara explained. Martha looked confused then realisation passed across her face as it finally clicked.

"Oh…" She said with a laugh.

Rose grins even more.

ROSE: You?!

THE DOCTOR: Problem?

ROSE: Doesn't the universe implode or something if you... dance?

THE DOCTOR (off-handed): Well, I've got the moves but I wouldn't want to boast.

Everyone burst out laughing and 10 and 11 looked like they might spontaneously combust at any moment. If they'd known that moment would be broadcast to all their friends they wouldn't have flirted quite so shamelessly.

12, by contrast, actually looked kind of smug.

Rose, still grinning, stops shuffling around in her wheel chair and gets up to turn the music up. The Doctor looks around, completely wrong-footed. Rose walks slowly forward, flirtatiously. He looks determinedly back to the wall. Rose holds her hand out to him.

ROSE: You've got the moves?

The Doctor looks back at her.

ROSE (CONT'D): Show me your moves.

"Did she just offer to have sex with you?!" Donna cried without thinking. Almost immediately Rose and all the doctors faces turned even more red and everyone fell over clutching their sides in uncontrollable laughter. Rose wouldn't deny she loved the doctor and had thought about him in that way before but this was not the time or the place for things like that. The doctor had thought the same thing but he was rather shy when it came to that sort of thing, as a stark contrast to his attitude towards anything else. 11 wouldn't deny it was the same for him and River.

THE DOCTOR: Rose, I'm trying to resonate concrete.

ROSE (not lowering his hand): Jack'll be back, he'll get us out. So come on, the world doesn't end 'cos the Doctor dances.

The Doctor snaps off his sonic screwdriver, replaces it in his jacket pocket and steps away from the window towards her, an odd expression on his face. He stands in front of Rose for a moment. He takes her hands, Rose staring up at him almost apprehensively. He turns her hands over and looks at them.

THE DOCTOR: Barrage balloon?

ROSE (completely lost): ... What?

THE DOCTOR (turning her hands over): You were hanging from a barrage balloon.

ROSE (remembering): Oh... yeah. About two minutes after you left me. Thousands of feet above London, middle of a German air-raid, Union Jack all over my chest.

The Doctor raises his eyebrows.

THE DOCTOR: I've travelled with a lot of people, but you're setting new records for jeopardy-friendly.

"What's jeopardy-friendly?" Clara asked.

"Well jeopardy means to be in danger, and friendly means to be nice and get along well with people." 10 explained.

"So basically you're saying she's danger prone." Jack deadpanned.

"I am not!" Rose said, insulted.

"Sure you aren't…" Mickey teased earning himself another smack.

He goes back to examining her hands.

ROSE: Is this you dancing? 'Cos I've got notes.

THE DOCTOR: Hanging from a rope a thousand feet above London. Not a cut, not a bruise.

He shows her her own hands.

ROSE: Yeah, I know. Captain Jack fixed me up...

THE DOCTOR: Oh, we're calling him Captain Jack now, are we?

ROSE: Well, his name's Jack and he's a captain...

THE DOCTOR (smiling in a self-satisfied sort of way): He's not really a captain, Rose.

"I am to." Jack said actually sounding seriously offended once. "I know I like a joke but I actually took my work in the time agency very seriously, I earned the captaincy they gave me."

"You're right." 10 conceded, 11 and 12 nodding also.

"We're sorry." 11 said. Jack nodded with a smile, satisfied.

ROSE: D'you know what I think? I think you're experiencing Captain envy.

The Doctor half nods, not denying this.

Naturally everyone began laughing again and the doctors all blushed. Well, really they'd been blushing throughout this entire scene. Like everyone in the universe, the doctor had his fair share of embarrassing moments. This was one of those moments.

He takes her hands and they begin to dance.

ROSE (CONT'D): You'll find your feet at the end of your legs. You may care to move them.

THE DOCTOR (now in rather intimate proximity): If ever he was a captain, he's been defrocked.

"What has being a captain got to do with frocks?" Rory asked. Quite a lot of people in the room were confused by this actually.

"Oh!" Martha cried. "I know this, we have it in UNIT as well. In the army, if you are chosen for a promotion you are allowed to wear the uniform of your new rank before your actual promotion. If Jack was defrocked it would mean they demoted him."

Everyone nodded in understanding.

"Yeah and it didn't happen, I quit the agency while I was still a captain." Jack insisted.

ROSE (smiling): Yeah? Shame I missed that.

"She's not talking about the official meaning of it is she?" Said Amy.

The others all laughed and Rose sent the people on their sofa a flirtatious and cheeky wink.

JACK: Actually, I quit. Nobody takes my frock.

INT. JACK'S SHIP

They look up in surprise, and somehow, they are standing in Jack's ship. They look around at their surroundings, now standing apart.

JACK: Most people notice when they've been teleported. You guys are so sweet.

Of course the laughter continued and Rose and the doctors blushed more.

JACK (CONT'D): Sorry about the delay. I had to take the nav-com offline to override the teleport security.

THE DOCTOR: You can spend ten minutes overriding your own protocols. Maybe you should remember whose ship it is.

JACK: Oh, I do. She was gorgeous.

Rose smiles.

So did everyone else, some even giggled.

JACK (CONT'D): Like I told her, be back in five minutes.

He ducks into a compartment underneath the console.

A few people felt a bit sorry for whoever Jack had stolen his ship from but didn't say anything.

THE DOCTOR (looking around): This is a Chula ship.

JACK (calling up): Yeah, just like that medical transporter. Only, this one is dangerous.

The Doctor snaps his fingers, and his hand is instantly surrounded by nanogenes.

"Before anyone asks." 11 began. "I've had experience with the Chula before, I know how their technology works."

ROSE: They're what fixed my hands up! Jack called 'em, um...

THE DOCTOR: Nanobots? Nanogenes.

ROSE: Nanogenes, yeah.

THE DOCTOR: Sub-atomic robots. There's millions of them in here, see? Burnt my hand on the console when we landed - all better now. They activate when the bulk head's sealed. Check you out for damage, fix any physical flaws.

Rose beams. The Doctor banishes the nanogenes with a wave of his hand and turns to Jack.

THE DOCTOR: Take us to the crash site. I need to see your space junk.

JACK (as though he's being nagged): As soon as I get the nav-com back online.

The Doctor looks mildly annoyed.

JACK (CONT'D): Make yourself comfortable. Carry on with whatever it was you were... (Gestures the two of them)... doing.

THE DOCTOR (innocently): We were talking about dancing!

JACK: It didn't look like talking.

ROSE: Didn't feel like dancing.

The Doctor looks at her, rather naively.

"You two really are hopeless." Jack said to Rose and 10 who both blushed.

"Jack could never compare to you really, you know that right?" Rose whispered to 10. He smiled and kissed her forehead.

EXT. THE CRASH SITE ENCLOSURE

Nancy creeps onto the bomb site, making an effort not to be seen. She makes it to the bomb but as she tries to remove the tarp the flood lights suddenly flash on, filling the entire site with light. She is caught.

The happiness in the atmosphere drained out as the episode's tenseness returned. Besides the panic everyone felt for Nancy, having been captured, some were also quite impressed with how far she got, she did actually make it to the bomb.

ALGY: Halt! Don't move!

The soldiers are pointing their guns at her. There is no escape route.

INT. JACK'S SHIP

Rose is sitting talking to Jack. Jack is in the pilot seat - the Doctor is sitting some way behind Rose, not taking part in the conversation.

ROSE: So, you used to be a Time Agent, now you're trying to con them?

JACK (fiddling with the controls): If it makes me sound any better, it's not for the money.

ROSE: For what?

JACK: Woke up one morning when I was working for them, found they'd stolen two years of my memories. I'd like 'em back.

"They stole your memories?" A lot of the companions said, along with the Rose onscreen.

ROSE: They stole your memories?

JACK: Two years of my life. No idea what I did.

"Still don't." Jack said, in one of his rare emotional moments. "But I've actually stopped caring at this point, all the years I've lived and the things I've done now, make those two years seem pretty insignificant. Guess I just moved on with my life in the end."

The Doctor watches him.

JACK (CONT'D): Your friend over there doesn't trust me. And for all I know... he's right not to.

"I trust you now." 11 said, reassuringly. Jack grinned at him happily.

The computer bleeps.

JACK (CONT'D): Okay, we're good to go.

The Doctor looks up.

JACK (CONT'D): Crash site?

INT. SHED

The door to a shed opens, and Agly enters with Nancy and another soldier. Another soldier - Jenkins, gets to his feet.

ALGY: As you were. Feeling any better?

JENKINS (feverishly): Just a turn, sir.

ALGY (to the soldier): Chain her up where Jenkins can keep an eye on her.

The soldier leads Nancy to a chair next to the table, sits her down, and starts to handcuff her to the table.

NANCY: No. Not in here. Not with him.

There is a scar on the back of Jenkins' hand.

"Oh no…"

ALGY: You shouldn't have broken in here if you didn't want to stay.

NANCY (urgently): You don't understand. Not with him.

ALGY: This is a restricted area, miss.

Jenkins looks at Nancy, clearly in discomfort. Nancy looks back, almost revolted.

ALGY (CONT'D): You can just sit here for a bit. We're going to have to ask you a few questions.

Nancy does not take her eyes off the trembling Jenkins. The soldier shows Algy Nancy's wire cutters.

SOLDIER: Found these, sir.

ALGY (taking and examining them): Very professional... A little bit too professional. Didn't just drop in by accident then, did you?

NANCY: My little brother died here. I wanted to find out what killed him.

ALGY (to the soldiers at the door): Take the men, check the fence for any other breaches and search the area. She may not have come alone.

SOLIDER: Yes, sir.

They leave. Algy makes to follow them.

NANCY (scared, pleading): Please! Listen, you can't leave me here.

The entire group, bar those who were there and knew what happened, were praying in their heads that he would listen to her. Though deep down, they knew he probably wouldn't…

ALGY: Watch her, Jenkins.

JENKINS: Yes, mummy.

Algy has turned to the door but does a double-take.

ALGY: Jenkins?

ALGY (rubs his sweating forehead, in severe discomfort): Sorry, sir, I... I don't know what's the matter with me.

NANCY (staring at Jenkins): Look... lock me up, fine. But not here. Please, anywhere but here!

Algy, not knowing quite what to make of this strange situation, shakes his head and leaves.

JENKINS: You'll be alright, miss. I'm just a little...

Nancy shakes her handcuffs, trying to free herself.

JENKINS (CONT'D): Just a little... just a little...

She shakes the handcuffs more persistently. He pants heavily.

JENKINS (CONT'D): What's the matter with you?

NANCY: Please, let me go.

JENKINS: Why would I do that?

NANCY: 'Cos you've got a scar on the back of your hand.

JENKINS: Well, yes. But I don't see what that's got to do with anything.

NANCY: And you feel like you're gonna be sick, like something's forcing its way up your throat.

Jenkins stares at her, still heaving. Nancy speaks desperately.

NANCY: I know because I've seen it before.

JENKINS (scared): What's happening to me?

NANCY: In a minute, you won't be you anymore. You won't even remember you. And unless you let me go, it's gonna happen to me too. Please.

JENKINS: What're you talking about?

NANCY: What's your mother's name?

JENKINS (clasping his throat): Matilda.

NANCY: You got a wife?

JENKINS (red in the face): Yes.

NANCY: Wife's name?

He stares at her, blank.

NANCY (CONT'D): You got kids?

Nothing. He's horrified.

NANCY (CONT'D): What's your name?

He mouths "I don't know", not being able to speak anymore.

Everyone was just staring at the scene, completely gobsmacked by what they were seeing.

NANCY: Please. Let me go. It's too late for you, I'm sorry. But please, let me go.

She is now almost crying with panic and desperation.

JENKINS: What d'you meeee...: (face contorted horribly, in a lot of pain). M... muuummee...

His jaw is forced open, as though something is about to emerge. Nancy screws up her eyes and looks away as he wails.

EXT. WASTE-GROUND/OUTSIDE THE CRASH SITE

The Doctor, Rose and Jack walk over the rail station near the bombsite. They peer over the barbed wire.

Jack fist-pumped with a cry of satisfaction, instantly forgetting the horrible scene they'd all just witnessed.

"You gotta admit that was a cool entrance, I gotta have music playing when I walk in more often." He said. A few people smiled, his enthusiasm making relieving some of the room's tension. Most just continued watching. They sensed the climax of the story was fast approaching.

JACK: There it is. (Spots Algy pacing up and down). Ay, they've got Algy on duty. Must be important.

THE DOCTOR: We've gotta get past.

ROSE: The words 'distract the guard' headed in my general direction.

JACK: I don't think that'd be such a good idea.

ROSE: Don't worry... I can handle it.

JACK: I've gotten to know Algy quite well since I've been in town. Trust me. You're not his type. I'll distract him. (Walks away). Don't wait up.

And off he goes. Rose and the Doctor look at each other.

"Don't worry, you can distract the guards next time." Jack said to Rose. She stuck her tongue out at him then laughed silently.

THE DOCTOR: Relax, he's a 51st century guy. He's just a bit more flexible when it comes to dancing.

ROSE: How flexible?

THE DOCTOR: Well, by his time, you lot have spread out across half the galaxy.

ROSE: Meaning?

THE DOCTOR (grinning): So many species, so little time...

ROSE: What, that's what we do when we get out there? That's our mission? We seek new life, and... and...

THE DOCTOR: Dance.

"Seriously?" Half the humans in the room said, all with incredulous looks on their faces.

"Yeah…" All the doctors mumbled awkwardly while Jack threw his head back in laughter.

"I've slept my way around the universe, I'll say that much." He said, still laughing.

He sniggers. Jack jumps down onto the rail track on the bomb site, where Algy is pacing.

JACK: Hey, tiger! How's it hanging?

Algy turns to Jack. He looks inquisitive.

ALGY: Mummy?

Everyone gasped. There had been no signs that he'd been infected.

JACK: Algy, old sport, it's me.

ALGY: Mummy?

JACK (smile fading): It's me, Jack.

ALGY: Jack? (Cocks his head to one side, observing Jack with child-like curiosity). Are you my... mummy?

And he coughs, falling to his knees. Before the very eyes of Jack, Rose and the Doctor, his face transforms into a gas mask. Jack is horror-struck. The other soldiers begin to hurry over.

THE DOCTOR: Stay back!

JACK: You men! Stay away!

Rose and the Doctor rush over to Jack, and Algy - who is lying on the floor, lifeless. Rose stares down at him in shock.

THE DOCTOR: The effect's becoming air-borne. Accelerating.

ROSE: What's keeping us safe?

THE DOCTOR: Nothing.

"Couldn't have come up with one of your clever lies?" River asked.

"I was a bit busy." 10 defended.

The air-raid siren sounds.

JACK (looking up): Ah, here they come again.

ROSE: All we need. Didn't you say a bomb was gonna land... Here?

Jack nods. Someone in the background is singing.

THE DOCTOR: Never mind about that. If the contaminants air-borne now, there's hours left.

"This is intense…" Donna muttered.

"Why did no one here about this?" Amy asked.

"Well in the end it was pretty contained, only in that area and once people were—Ah!" 11's explanation was suddenly cut off as he was shocked with blue electricity.

"Remember, no spoilers sweetie." Said River.

JACK: 'Til what?

THE DOCTOR: 'Til nothing. Forever. For the entire human race. And can anyone else hear singing?

It's coming from the shed in which Nancy has been locked up.

INT. SHED

NANCY: "Rock-a-by baby, on the tree tops, when the wind blows the cradle will rock... "

Jenkins, with a gasmask face, is fast asleep with his head on the table.

"Oh…" River hummed, impressed.

"That's brilliant." Said Martha.

NANCY (CONT'D): " When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all".

The door creaks open. Nancy turns her head sharply to see the Doctor poke his head into the shed. He motions for her to continue singing.

NANCY (CONT'D): " Rock-a-by baby... ". (Draws the Doctor's attention to her handcuffs) " ... on the tree tops, when the wind blows the cradle will rock... "

The Doctor approaches her, taking his sonic screwdriver out of his jacket pocket. He flicks it on and begins to unlock her handcuffs. Rose and Jack appear in the doorway. The handcuffs snap open, Nancy stands, and they all leave the shed, leaving Jenkins fast asleep.

Everybody breathed a sigh of relief now that Nancy, and indeed everyone else was out of immediate danger.

INT. CRASH SITE ENCLOSURE (INSIDE THE WIRE)

They go back to the bomb site, and the Doctor and Jack uncover the Chula med-ship, which has a tarpaulin over it, hiding it from view. Nancy and Rose watch.

JACK: You see? Just an ambulance.

NANCY: That's an ambulance?

ROSE (with a reassuring arm around Nancy): It's hard to explain, it's... it's from another world.

JACK (looking at the controls): They've been trying to get in.

THE DOCTOR: Of course they have.

Jack begins to enter the code.

THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): They think they've got their hands on Hitler's latest secret weapon. What're you doing?

JACK: Well, the sooner you see this thing is empty, the sooner you'll see I had nothing to do with it.

"I really didn't know…" Jack whispered, curling up a bit as his guilt returned.

The controls explode with sparks, and they all jump backwards. An alarm goes off.

JACK (CONT'D): Didn't happen last time.

THE DOCTOR: It hadn't crashed last time. They're the emergency protocols.

ROSE: Doctor, what is that?

A red light on the control panel flashes.

INT. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR

The Child is standing alone in the hospital corridor.

THE CHILD: Mummy?

"A distress call." River realised.

INT. HOSPITAL WARD

All the gasmask people inside the hospital climb slowly from their beds. As one, they make for the exits.

EXT. CRASH SITE ENCLOSURE (INSIDE THE WIRE)

ROSE: Doctor!

The gates at the other side of the bomb site are shaking.

THE DOCTOR: Captain, secure those gates!

JACK: Why?

THE DOCTOR: Just do it!

Jack obeys. The Doctor turns to Nancy.

THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Nancy, how did you get in here?

NANCY: I cut the wire.

THE DOCTOR: Show Rose. (Tosses his sonic screwdriver to Rose). Setting two thousand four hundred and twenty eight D.

ROSE: What?

THE DOCTOR: Reattaches barbed wire. Go!

"Oh sure," Donna said sarcastically, "you can reattach barbed wire but it doesn't work on wood."

"Oh I know!" "Right! That's so annoying." "He should really fix it."

A lot of people voiced their agreement.

"What do you want me to do, I can't make wood stop affecting sonic pulses." Said 10.

"I have actually been thinking of putting in a setting to counteract that…" Mused 11.

"Yeah, you'll forget about that." 12 said.

Jack slams a gate shut.

EXT. HOSPITAL

The gasmask people emerge from the hospital doors, marching as one, calling for mummy.

EXT. CRASH SITE ENCLOSURE (INSIDE THE WIRE)

The sonic screwdriver buzzes as Rose works on the wire, reattaching it. Nancy holds the two ends together as she fuses them. They finish one, start on another.

"Wow…" A few people whispered in awe.

"Like I said," said 11, "sonic screwdriver: cool."

NANCY: Who are you? Who are any of you?

ROSE: You'd never believe me if I told ya.

NANCY: You just told me that was an ambulance from another world. There are people running around with gas-mask heads calling for their mummies, and the sky's full of Germans dropping bombs on me. Tell me. Do you think there's anything left I couldn't believe?

"She makes a good point." Said Mickey.

Rose looks at her, getting the point.

ROSE: We're time travellers from the future.

NANCY: Mad, you are.

ROSE: We have a time travel machine, seriously!

NANCY: It's not that. All right, you've got a time travel machine. I believe ya. Believe anything, me. (Looks up at the sky). But what future?

Explosions in mid-air. Planes soar around, dropping bombs.

ROSE (having followed her gaze): Nancy, this isn't the end. I know how it looks. But it's not the end of the world or anything...

NANCY: How can you say that? Look at it.

ROSE: Listen to me. I was born in this city. I'm from here, in like, 50 years time.

NANCY: From here?

ROSE (smiling encouragingly): I'm a Londoner. From your future.

NANCY: But… you're not...

ROSE: What?

NANCY: German.

ROSE: Nancy, the Germans don't come here. They don't win.

Nancy furrows her brow.

ROSE (CONT'D): Don't tell anyone I told you so, but do you know what? You win.

NANCY: We win?

Rose nods, smiling. Nancy half laughs, finding this unbelievably good news.

"Well we all know you told her now." Jack teased. Rose groaned and dropped her head in her hands. 10 chuckled and playfully punched her in her arm.

"Now remember what I told you, don't interfere with fixed points in history." He mock scolded, earning himself light punch.

Like you're one to talk… 11 thought, recalling how his tenth form had broken the rules and changed fixed points.

ROSE: Come on!

They jump to their feet and head back to the Doctor and Jack.

EXT. CRASH SITE ENCLOSURE (INSIDE THE WIRE)

Jack opens the hatch of the med-ship.

JACK (to the Doctor): It's empty. Look at it.

Rose and Nancy join them.

THE DOCTOR: What do you expect in a Chula medical transporter? Bandages? Cough drops? Rose?

ROSE: I dunno.

THE DOCTOR: Yes, you do.

He mimes summoning the nanogenes.

ROSE: Nanogenes!

THE DOCTOR (to Jack): It wasn't empty, Captain. There was enough nanogenes in there to rebuild a species.

JACK (ashen, shaken, he gets it): Oh, God.

Jack brought his knees up to his chest hoping to sink into the sofa and disappear. Anything to get rid of this festering guilt.

"How did you not know that?" Martha asked him.

"I found it abandoned on a old battlefield, it looked empty when I checked, I scanned it but only for unrecognised elements because my ships a Chula ship it recognised the nanogenes." Jack muttered.

"Hey, we know you weren't trying to hurt anyone." Rose said comfortingly.

THE DOCTOR: Getting it now, are we? When the ship crashes, the nanogenes escape. Billions upon billions of them, ready to fix all the cuts and bruises in the whole world. But what they find first is a dead child, probably killed earlier that night and wearing a gasmask.

ROSE: And they brought him back to life? They can do that?

THE DOCTOR: What's life? Life's easy. A quirk of matter. Nature's way of keeping meat fresh. Nothing to a nanogene. One problem, though, these nanogenes, they're not like the ones on your ship. This lot have never seen a human being before. Don't know what a human being's supposed to look like.

Jack, Rose and Nancy are listening to him intently, processing this.

THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): All they've got to go on is one little body, and there's not a lot left. But they carry right on. They do what they're programmed to do, they patch it up. Can't tell what's gasmask and what's skull, but they do their best. Then off they fly - off they go, work to be done. 'Cos you see now they think they know what people should look like and it's time to fix all the rest. And they won't ever stop. They won't ever, ever stop. The entire Human Race is gonna be torn down and rebuilt in the form of one terrified child looking for its mother, and nothing in the world can stop it!

His voice has risen almost to a shout. Jack is abashed, shaken.

The current Jack was in much the same way but the people in the room were more than happy to reassure him he'd been forgiven for his mistake.

JACK (defiantly): I didn't know.

The Doctor fixes him with a cold stare for a few seconds, and then goes back to examining the med-ship, starting work with his sonic screwdriver Nancy stares into the distance, beyond the fence. The gasmask people have arrived, still calling mummy.

NANCY (scared): Rose?

Rose rushes to Nancy's side, following her gaze. The gasmask people stumble towards them over the rail-track. They are quite a distance away, but still too close. Rose rushes back to the med-ship, and looks again at the flashing red light on the control panel.

ROSE (to the Doctor): It's bringing the gasmask people here, isn't it?

THE DOCTOR: The ship thinks it's under attack. It's calling up the troops. Standard protocol.

ROSE: But... the gasmask people aren't troops...

THE DOCTOR: They are now. This is a battle-field ambulance. The nanogenes don't just fix you up, they get you ready for the front line. Equip you, programme you.

ROSE: That's why the Child's so strong. Why it could do that phoning thing.

THE DOCTOR: It's a fully equipped Chula warrior, yes. All that weapons tech in the hands of a hysterical four year old, looking for his mummy. And now there's an army of them.

"Holy hell…" Whispered Donna, voicing the thoughts of many. As always everyone was wondering how the doctor managed to turn this around, except those who already knew the answer. Rose actually smiled as she remembered, this was one of their better adventures.

"Haven't figured it out yet sweetie?" River teased 11.

He rolled his eyes and chuckled.

The gasmask people surround the fence. The four of them look around nervously.

JACK: Why don't they attack?

THE DOCTOR: Good little soldiers. Waiting for their commander.

JACK: The child?

NANCY: Jamie.

JACK: What?

NANCY (glaring at him): Not "the child". Jamie.

Everyone made a mental note to only refer to him as Jamie from now on. It did seem more respectful when they thought about it.

The Doctor looks at her.

ROSE: So, how long until the bomb falls?

JACK: Any second.

THE DOCTOR: What's the matter, Captain? Bit close the volcano for you?

NANCY: He's just a little boy.

THE DOCTOR: I know.

NANCY (upset): He's just a little boy who wants his mummy.

Everyone felt their hearts clench in sadness.

THE DOCTOR: I know. There isn't a little boy born who wouldn't tear the world apart to save his mummy. And this little boy can.

ROSE (loudly): So what're we gonna do?

THE DOCTOR: I don't know.

Rose sighs. Tears whell in Nancy's eyes.

NANCY: It's my fault.

THE DOCTOR: No.

NANCY: It is. It's all my fault.

THE DOCTOR (gently): How can it be your...

He suddenly breaks off. He spins around, looking at all the gasmask people positioned behind the fence, calling for their mummy, and then back at Nancy, who is sobbing uncontrollably. He stares at her.

THE DOCTOR: Nancy, what age are you? Twenty? Twenty-one? Older than you look, yes?

A bomb lands nearby. Rose and Jack flinch.

JACK: Doctor, that bomb. We've got seconds.

Another lands.

ROSE (to Jack): You can teleport us out.

The Doctor is paying them no attention, eyes fixed on the sobbing Nancy.

JACK: Not you guys. The nav-com's back online. Gonna take too long to override the protocols.

THE DOCTOR (eyes fixed on Nancy): So it's volcano day. Do what you've got to do.

ROSE (staring at Jack, betrayed): Jack.

Jack looks at her almost apologetically. He makes his decision and teleports himself out.

Anyone with in reach gave Jack a good smack.

"Ow!" He cried. "I wasn't really gonna abandon them." He protested.

"And you couldn't have just said that?" Rose asked. Jack shut up and turned back to the screen.

THE DOCTOR (to Nancy): How old were you five years ago? Fifteen? Sixteen? Old enough to give birth, anyway.

Nancy, still sobbing, glances up at him and then away again, shame faced.

Those who hadn't worked it out yet gasped at the news.

"Nancy's his mother…?" Martha said, shocked.

"Then she can save them." Said Clara.

THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): He's not your brother, is he?

Nancy shakes her head, tearful.

THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): A teenage single mother in 1941. So you hid. You lied.

Nancy nods, tears streaming down her face.

THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): You even lied to him.

The gates swing open. The Child stands at the forefront of an army of gasmask people, ready to charge.

THE CHILD: Are you my mummy?

THE DOCTOR: He's gonna keep asking, Nancy. He's never gonna stop. Tell him.

No answer. The gasmask people begin to walk forward.

THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Nancy... the future of the human race is in your hands. Trust me... and tell him.

Come on… Everyone thought, clenching their fists in anticipation.

Nancy sniffs, still tearful. The Child approaches them.

THE CHILD: Are you my mummy?

The Doctor gives Nancy a gentle push in the direction of the Child.

THE CHILD: Are you my mummy? Are you my mummy?

NANCY (whispers): Yes. (Stronger). Yes. I AM your mummy.

She faces him. The Child walks slowly forward.

THE CHILD: Mummy?

NANCY: I'm here.

THE CHILD: Are you my mummy?

NANCY (kneeling before him): I'm here.

THE CHILD: Are you my mummy?

NANCY (whispers): Yes.

THE CHILD: Are you my mummy?

THE DOCTOR (to Rose): He doesn't understand. There's not enough of him left.

Nancy looks at her little boy.

NANCY (tearful, sincere): I am your mummy. I will always be your mummy. I'm so sorry.

And she takes him into her arms, no longer caring what will happen. The nanogenes surround them, making them glow with a golden light.

A few people had tears in their eyes at the emotional scene before them.

"Dude are you crying?" Jack asked Rory.

"…No." He mumbled, unable to stop his voice from cracking. Amy laughed and put her arms around her fiancé, snuggling into his side, unintentionally causing her own tears to fall.

NANCY (CONT'D): I am so, so sorry.

ROSE (to the Doctor): What's happening?

Nancy, still hugging her little boy, has her eyes closed and is stroking his hair.

The group all smiled, most still crying.

ROSE (CONT'D): Doctor, it's changing her, we should—

THE DOCTOR (holding an arm out to silence her): Shh!

He stares intently at the two of them surrounded by the nanogenes, apprehensive and excited.

THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Come on, please. Come on, you clever little nanogenes, figure it out! The mother. She's the mother! There's gotta be enough information, figure it out!

ROSE: What's happening?

THE DOCTOR (pointing): See? Recognizing the same DNA.

Nancy falls away from the child to the ground, as the nanogenes disappear. The Doctor and Rose rush over, the Doctor staring down at the child, hardly daring to hope.

THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Oh, come on. Give me a day like this. Give me this one.

He reaches out to the gasmask... and removes it, revealing a perfectly ordinary, very sweet little boy underneath. Nancy stares in delighted wonder and the Doctor laughs ecstatically.

Everyone began celebrating. Jumping in the air, fist pumping and cries of happiness all round.

He lifts the little boy into the air, swinging him around.

THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Ah-ha-ha! Welcome back! Twenty years 'til pop music, you're gonna love it.

Everyone began laughing.

"Seriously?" Donna asked. "That was the first thing you said?"

The doctors looked a little sheepish.

"We kind of got caught up in the moment…" Said 10.

"Pop music is great though." Said Donna.

Not everyone agreed…

And he hugs Jamie, laughing.

NANCY (in wonder): What happened?

THE DOCTOR: The nanogenes recognised the superior information, the parent DNA. They didn't change you because you changed them! Haha! (Plonks Jamie down in front of her). Mother knows best!

NANCY (almost crying with happiness): Jamie...!

She pulls him into a hug. A bomb lands nearby.

ROSE: Doctor, that bomb...

THE DOCTOR: Taken care of it.

ROSE: How?

THE DOCTOR (gesturing Nancy, who has knelt down, and Jamie, who are hugging): Psychology!

The bomb plummets towards them... and is suddenly snatched out of the air by a blue forcefield emitting from Jack's ship. A moment later, Jack appears sitting on the bomb hovering in the tunnel of light. He calls down to them.

"Woah, woah, woah." Said Clara, the episode pausing itself. Well, more like Scar seeing Clara was going to say something and paused the episode. "I have questions. A: What has Jack jumping in and catching the bomb got to do with psychology? B: How did you know he was going to do that?"

"Ah, yes well…" 10 said awkwardly. 11 looked like he was about to say something but 12 got their first. Clara was his companion, he felt obligated to be the one answering her questions.

"I really don't know why I said psychology I think I was just showing off that I'd saved the day with the whole psychological, DNA, nanogene thing—"

"You didn't save the day." Amy cut in. "Nancy did."

"Alright, yes, fine, now as I was saying." He continued. "I kind of just had a hunch Jack would help us out. Like I said, eventually I trusted you." He turned to Jack as he said that last bit. Jack smiled, sincerely for a change.

JACK: Doctor!

THE DOCTOR: Good lad!

JACK: The bomb's already commenced detonation. I've put it in stasis but it won't last long.

THE DOCTOR: Change of plan, don't need the bomb. Can you get rid of it? Safely as you can?

"What do you mean change of plan?" Martha asked, "you weren't going to blow everyone up were you?"

"Only as a last resort, I had to protect the non-infected humans." 10 mumbled.

"What?!" Rose cried, giving him a good whack.

"Ah!" He hissed, though he knew he probably deserved it for not telling her he was considering blowing everyone, her included, up.

JACK: Rose?

ROSE: Yeah?

JACK: Goodbye.

And he disappears. Rose looks slightly let down, and then he reappears.

JACK (CONT'D): By the way, love the t-shirt.

He grins. Rose returns the grin, pulling the tee-shirt down shyly.

Everyone cheered.

"It is an awesome shirt, I wish I had one." Said Clara.

"I might get one with a Scottish flag on it." Amy added, laughing.

Jack disappears again. His ship zooms off into the night sky. The Doctor walks a few paces away, staring intently at his hands. He summons the nanogenes. They flutter around his hands.

ROSE: What're you doing?

THE DOCTOR: Software patch. Gonna email the upgrade. You want moves, Rose? I'll give you moves.

And he throws the nanogenes away from him, towards the gasmask people who are still milling around on the train track. The Doctor gives his widest grin as the gasmask people fall to the floor, the nanogenes surrounding them.

THE DOCTOR (CONT'D) (ecstatic): Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once. Everybody lives!

Naturally there was more celebrating among the group. It was very rare for the doctor to fight alien forces and be able to save everyone. They knew how it tore in apart that there were people he couldn't protect. It felt nice that for once there was a completely happy ending.

And the gasmask people get to their feet, except they are no longer gasmask people. They are restored to normal human beings. The Doctor bounds over to Doctor Constantine.

THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Doctor Constantine. Who never left his patients. Back on your feet, constant doctor! World doesn't wanna get by without you just yet, and I don't blame it one bit. (Gestures the former gasmask people milling around). These are your patients. All better, now!

DR CONSTANTINE (completely confused): Yes, yes... so it seems. They also seem to be standing around in a disused railway station. Is there any particular reason for that?

THE DOCTOR (beaming): Yeah, well, you know, cutbacks.

A few people chuckled. Now that the tension had past and everything had worked out they were all just enjoying the remainder of the episode.

THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): (Constantine nods as if this makes sense) Listen, whatever was wrong with them in the past, you're probably gonna find that they're cured. Just tell them what a great doctor you are. Don't make a big thing of it. Okay?

A lot of group members smiled warmly. He did seem like a good doctor.

He rushes back to Rose. An old lady, Mrs Harcourt, hobbles towards Constantine.

MRS HARCOURT: Doctor Constantine.

DR CONSTANTINE: Mrs Harcourt, how much better you are looking!

MRS HARCOURT (bewildered): My leg's grown back! When I come to the hospital, I had one leg.

DR CONSTANTINE (observing this): Well, there is a war on. Is it possible you miscounted?

Everyone had a little laugh.

THE DOCTOR (calling over them from on top of the Chula med-ship): Right, you lot! Lots to do! Beat the Germans, save the world, don't forget the Welfare State!

Constantine smiles. He and his patients begin to walk away, and the Doctor bends down to the control. He speaks to Rose.

THE DOCTOR: Setting this to self-destruct, soon as everybody's clear. History says there was an explosion here. Who am I to argue with history?

ROSE: Usually the first in line.

The Doctor looks at her and grins. She grins back.

The audience grinned also.

"Just can't let history run its course can you sweetie?" Said River. "Any sign of danger or excitement and you're getting involved."

10 looked offended, 11 looked amused and 12 actually looked proud.

INT. TARDIS

The Doctor and Rose enter the TARDIS, the Doctor still chatting away happily.

THE DOCTOR: The nanogenes will clean up the mess and switch themselves off, because I just told them to. Nancy and Jamie will go to Doctor Constantine for help, ditto - all in all, all things considered, fantastic!

Rose smiles at his enthusiasm.

ROSE: Look at you, beaming away like you're Father Christmas!

THE DOCTOR: Who says I'm not, red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve?

ROSE (startled): What?!

Everyone began freaking out, hounding the doctors to know if he was really santa. Eventually the doctors were able to calm their friends enough for 12 to explain.

"I am not, nor have I ever been santa, I found out accidentally about the red bike thing when I went back in time once to sort something else, I won't go into that now it's a long story. I was simply joking around."

THE DOCTOR (arms wide to embrace this): And everybody lives, Rose! Everybody lives! (Pings a switch on the console). I need more days like this.

ROSE: Doctor...

THE DOCTOR: Go on, ask me anything. I'm on fire!

ROSE: What about Jack?

The pleasant atmosphere in the room faded for a moment as everyone blinked. They hadn't thought of that, too caught up in the victory. Of course Jack was here, this was the past, he was fine.

The Doctor's smile fades, and he carries on working, as though he doesn't want to answer this.

ROSE (CONT'D): Why'd he say goodbye?

No answer. The Doctor stares intently at the console.

EXT. SPACE

Jack's spaceship soars through space.

INT. JACK'S SHIP

Jack clambers into the pilot seat.

JACK: Okay, computer, how long can we keep the bomb in stasis?

COMPUTER: Stasis decaying at ninety percent per cycle. Detonation in three minutes.

JACK: Can we jettison it?

COMPUTER: Any attempt to jettison the device will precipitate detonation. One hundred percent probability.

JACK: We could stick it in an escape pod.

COMPUTER: There is no escape pod on board.

JACK: Okay I see the flaw in that. I'll get in the escape pod!

"She just said there was no escape pod." Said Mickey.

"I thought she was just saying that to stop me putting the bomb in there." Jack defended.

COMPUTER: There is no escape pod on board.

JACK (voice rising): Did you check everywhere?

COMPUTER: Affirmative.

JACK (yells): Under the sink!

COMPUTER: Affirmative.

Jack nods, beginning to acknowledge his situation.

JACK: Okay. Out of one hundred... exactly how dead am I?

COMPUTER: Termination of Captain Jack Harkness in under two minutes. One hundred percent probability.

Jack sighs.

JACK: Lovely. Thanks. Good to know the numbers.

EXT. SPACE

The ship drifts along.

COMPUTER (voice-over): You're welcome.

JACK (voice-over): Okay then.

INT. JACK'S SHIP

JACK: Think we'd better initiate emergency protocol four-one-seven.

COMPUTER: Affirmative.

A drink appears on Jack's dashboard. He reaches out to take it, smiling. He sips it.

The group laughed. Only someone like Jack Harkness would have liquor as an emergency protocol.

JACK: Oo, a little too much vermouth. See if I come here again! (Laughs). Funny thing... last time I was sentenced to death, I ordered four hyper-vodkas for my breakfast. All a bit of a blur after that. Woke up in bed with both my executioners. (Eats an olive off a stick from his drink) Hmm, lovely couple. They stayed in touch! (Ponders this). Can't say that about most executioners. (Laughs again). Anyway. Thanks for everything, computer. It's been great.

The story about the executioners had everybody laughing again.

"You have to tell us that story sometime." Rose said.

"Love to but I can't remember what happened that day for the life of me." Jack laughed. "That's what happens when you get excessively drunk before an execution.

We pull back and back. The bomb ticks away... "Moonlight Serenade" in the background... continue to pull back, right through the doors of the TARDIS. Jack spins around. Rose and the Doctor seem to be in a rather awkward position inside.

ROSE (calling to Jack): Well, hurry up then!

"Oh, Jack's first time in the Tardis…" Said Amy, interested in his reaction.

Jack leaps to his feet and dashes into the TARDIS.

INT. TARDIS

Rose and the Doctor are waltzing around to "Moonlight Serenade". Rose is teaching the Doctor dance moves, making okaying noises as they dance. Jack looks around at the sheer size of the place, compared with the outside.

ROSE: Right, and turn...

He spins her around, getting her arm all twisted.

ROSE (CONT'D): Okay, okay, try and spin me again, but this time, don't get my arm up my back!

The Doctor looks sheepish.

ROSE (CONT'D): No extra points for a half-nelson.

"You were just messing with me weren't you?" Rose whispered to 10. He nodded and gave her one of his cheeky grins.

THE DOCTOR (rather put out): I'm sure I used to know this stuff. (To Jack) Close the door, will you. Your ship's about to blow up, there's gonna be a draft.

"Calm as ever in the face of danger." River commented.

"When you live a life like mine you get use to it." 11 shrugged, not realising the kind of bad memories his statement brought to 12's mind.

Rose grins and leans against one of the pillars. The Doctor flicks a switch and the engines start up.

THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Welcome to the TARDIS.

JACK: Much bigger on the inside...

THE DOCTOR: You'd better be.

That just confused everyone and made the doctors blush in embarrassment.

ROSE: I think what the Doctor's trying to say is... you may cut in.

They grin and she takes his hand, as if to dance with him.

THE DOCTOR: Rose! I've just remembered!

ROSE: What?

And "In The Mood" blares out of the speakers, wherever they are. Lights flash all around the room, and the Doctor moves towards Rose in time to the music, clicking his fingers.

THE DOCTOR: I can dance! I can dance!

ROSE: Actually, Doctor... I thought Jack might like this dance.

THE DOCTOR (unfazed): I'm sure he would, Rose. I'm absolutely certain. But who with?

Like the Rose on screen the audience all sniggered.

Rose sniggers and hops up the steps to take the Doctor's hands. It's almost as though he was only pretending he couldn't dance before. He spins her perfectly. Jack watches them with a big smile on his face as they dance around the console room, perfect partners. The Doctor suddenly throws her backwards over his arm, earning a whoop of delight from Rose. Jack averts his eyes, still smiling. Rose pulls herself up, and sags onto his shoulder, giggling.

Everyone who wasn't blind could see this was all part of Rose and the doctor's slow progression of falling in love with each other. Something which Rose and 10 did their best to ignore out of embarrassment. It didn't bother 11 and 12 because they had already moved on.

THE END

Everyone smiled, pleased there was a perfect happy ending for once.

NEXT TIME…

EXT. CARDIFF BAY, RESTAURANT

THE DOCTOR: And I was having such a nice day.

He holds up the paper and shows them the headline: New Mayor, New Cardiff, with a picture of Margaret Blaine.

Everybody groaned.

"Not here again…" Donna whined.

JACK V.O.: According to intelligence.

INT. TOWN HALL, LADIES TOILETS

Margaret unzips her forehead.

INT. TOWN HALL, STAIRCASE

JACK (CONT'D): the target is the last surviving member of the Slitheen family.

The Doctor looks at Jack as he's explaining this.

INT. TOWN HALL, LADIES TOILETS

Margaret pulls her skin suit down exposing her head.

JACK V.O (CONT'D): A criminal sect from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorious, masquerading as a human being, zipped inside a skin suit.

"You sure know an awful lot about it." Said Rory, turning to Jack next to him.

"Well all time agents have to have basic knowledge of all known universal criminals. All the major ones anyway. The slitheen family have been causing problems throughout the universe in their attempts to make money for years, so yeah, I know about them." Jack explained.

Her suit slips down past her waist.

INT. LORD MAYOR'S OFFICE

Margaret, in slitheen form, attacks Mr Cleaver. She raises her claw and hisses as he screams.

EXT. MILLENNIUM CENTRE SQUARE

MARGARET V.O.: This nuclear power station right in the heart of Cardiff city.

Mickey makes his way across Millennium Centre Square to where the TARDIS is parked in front of the silver water sculpture.

"Oh you're in this one," said Martha, looking at her husband.

"Yeah…" He muttered, "not one of my favourite adventures."

INT. TOWN HALL, EXHIBITION ROOM

Margaret is stood at a podium.

MARGARET (CONT'D): Will bring jobs for all.

THE DOCTOR: And it just so happens to be right on top of the rift.

Jack gestures to the model of the power station.

JACK: If this power station went into meltdown, the entire planet would go schwwwupboom!

EXT. RESTAURANT

The glass windows all shatter.

The group all jumped in their seats a bit.

EXT. CARDIFF BAY

A street light smashes and passers-by shriek.

MICKEY (yelling, bitterly): Oh, go on then, run!

Rose looked down, ashamed. She knew he was yelling at her.

EXT. CARDIFF MILLENNIUM CENTRE SQUARE

The Doctor's eyes widen with shock. the TARDIS is on the other side of the square. A huge bolt of lightening rips out of the TARDIS roof and into the sky.

THE DOCTOR: It's the rift. The rift's opening!

Storm clouds gather above the TARDIS.

River facepalmed. "What have I told you about messing with rifts in time and space."

"I didn't open it!" 11 protested, 10 and 12 nodding in agreement.

"Well nobody worry, we at Torchwood are keeping an eye on it for you."

11 and 12 both sent him grateful looks.

"What's Torchwood?" 10 asked.

"I would tell you but it'd probably be a pretty big spoiler and I don't really feel like getting electrocuted right now." Jack replied.

INT. TARDIS

THE DOCTOR: The whole city's gonna disappear!

Small explosions erupt from the console.

EXT. CARDIFF MILLENNIUM CENTRE SQUARE

THE DOCTOR V.O.: Time and space are ripping apart.

Rose runs into the square then freezes in shock at the sight of the TARDIS with the rift flowing out of it.

THE DOCTOR V.O. (CONT'D): Never mind Cardiff, it's gonna rip open the planet!

"Well, looks like an exciting episode." Said Amy. Everyone else just nodded, sitting back, ready to watch.