I'm looking up a lot of information about Classic Who for the chapters, so if anything is inaccurate from my research I apologize.

I literally feel so delulu rn. How tf do you get a job. Anyways, hope you enjoy y'all. Also this chapter is a bit goofy. Hope you don't mind.

Warnings:Nothing different from the other chapters, I think. Though, there is heavy shipping between 9 and Jack. And spelling errors cause I can't be bothered to check for them.


"Why do you think the middle Doctor hates me?"

River looked up from her sonic screwdriver, the Doctor gave it to her on Darillium and she hasn't gotten tired of playing with it. She felt like she understood him and how much he loves his sonic much more now-her old sonic trowel was admittedly a lot more clunky and useless compared to the sonic screwdriver. And she couldn't help but be surprised when it was Rose in front of her, who asked that question. "Why would you ever think that?"

Rose shifted and looked away. River was intimidating, despite how calm she looked and sounded. "Well, it's just... The other two don't really seem to mind me. I mean, the oldest one, 11, is always a bit tense when he talks to me, but 10 just rarely speaks to me. And 9 doesn't really care because he hasn't technically met me yet, but 10 just seems like he hates me. He barely acknowledges my presence. He can barely even look at me."

"I can understand." River smiles slightly. She knew all about Rose, it wasn't as hard to pull the story out of the Doctor as she thought it would be, but she knew it caused him great pain. The pain was only eased by the Doctor knowing she was still with him, a human version, but still him. "Me and the Doctor have a complicated relationship, as I'm sure you could gather. But the Doctor doesn't hate you, nor me. I think you should just wait. You know you and 9 are close, and I know for a fact you only are closer after he regenerated into 10. Some things are painful, and I believe the Doctor has gone though something with you, that gave him quite the scare, and he's nervous."

"Yeah, but he's just being plain rude at this point!" She responds indignantly.

River puts her hand on Rose's arm and squeezes it gently. "Rose, the Doctor isn't human. It's not excusing his actions, but he processes emotions differently than you." She sighs deeply, knowing that wasn't the only reason the Doctor was acting the way he was, but she was very against giving out spoilers. "Whatever happened with you and him was probably so painful, he couldn't allow himself to be reminded of the pain."

She nods slightly and relaxes a little. "I guess. Maybe the whole time travel thing is making it difficult?"

"Yes, it must be." River smiles, and she's instantly reminded that Rose is 19. Just barely an adult when she began traveling with the Doctor. Of course it would be difficult for her to understand, it's difficult for older adults to understand as well. "Why don't you go back to your seat? I'm sure the next episode will begin soon."

Rose nods and goes back to her seat, her and Mickey speaking quietly until they were joined by Jack and Donna. Rory, Amy, and Martha were all speaking and the Master was sulking in his chair as the Doctors spoke to each other animatedly, building a small gadget that had almost forgotten about.

The screen flickered to life and everyone quieted and returned to their seats.

[Spaceship]

DALEK: You know the Doctor. You understand him. You will predict his actions.
ROSE: I don't know! And even if I did, I wouldn't tell you.
DALEK: Predict! Predict! Predict!
DALEK 2: Tardis detected in flight.
DALEK: Launch missiles. Exterminate.
ROSE: You can't! The Tardis hasn't got any defences. You're going to kill him.
DALEK: You have predicted correctly.

The Master laughed slightly and rolled his eyes. "Haven't you already died by Dalek? It would be so sad for you to be killed the same way twice."

9 scoffed and crossed his arms over his chest. "You've also been executed by a Dalek, idiot."

"Well, at least I'm not under threat of it happening twice."

10 groaned, but it sounded more like a sob. He was getting so tired of listening to himself argue with the Master. "I didn't regenerate because I was killed by a Dalek again."

11 cleared his throat and grinned slightly. "Not yet."

"Wait, what?" He sat up and looked at his future regeneration with wide eyes. "Seriously."

11 just gave a noncommittal shrug, while the humans were all wondering how the four Time Lords could be so calm talking about how they died, as if that wouldn't be a traumatic event. They wondered if it was just something they got used to, as they kept living because of regeneration.

[Tardis]

JACK: We've got incoming!
(The Dalek missiles strike the Tardis, and there is a big fireball in the vacuum of space. Neat trick.)
JACK: The extrapolator's working. We've got a fully functional forcefield. Try saying that when you're drunk.
DOCTOR: And for my next trick.
(The Tardis materialises around Rose and the nearest Dalek.)
DOCTOR: Rose, get down! Get down, Rose!
DALEK: Exterminate!
(The Dalek fires and misses. Jack takes out the Dalek with the modified Defabricator.)

Rory can't help but let out a small chuckle when the Dalek misses, despite his nervousness at the scene. "Aren't Daleks supposed to be all "perfect" and never miss?"

"Maybe it's their weakness." Donna smiled sarcastically. "I mean, they can't possibly see all that well with that weird little eye piece, can they?"

Mickey grinned, and nodded. "Pathetic, really."

9 sighed and rubbed his forehead. It was pitiful how often Daleks tended to miss, especially when their main hard drive is literally never missing, but he thinks that him and the Master have rubbed off on the humans too much. The humans were underestimating them because of their mocking of the species.

ROSE: You did it.
(The Doctor hugs Rose.)
ROSE: Feels like I haven't seem you in years.
DOCTOR: I told you I'd come and get you.
ROSE: Never doubted it.
DOCTOR: I did. You all right?
ROSE: Yeah. You?
DOCTOR: Not bad, been better.
JACK: Hey, don't I get a hug?
ROSE: Oh, come here!
JACK: I was talking to him.
(Jack hugs Rose anyway.)

Jack sat up and smiled at the Doctor, batting his eyes childishly. "Hey, Doctor. I'm still a bit angry at you, but I'll forgive you for everything if I can have a hug."

"No." 9 rolled his eyes. As much as he would like a hug from Jack, the headache still persisted and wasn't going to go away fro a long time. Besides, he might like the hug from Jack a little too much, and he didn't want the immortal man to get any ideas.

Jack pouted and groaned, slumping in his seat. Of course, he'd already forgiven the Doctor, but he is still a bit mad about what happened.

JACK: Welcome home.
ROSE: Oh, I thought I'd never see you again.
JACK: Oh, you were lucky. That was just a one shot wonder. Drained the gun of all its power supply. Now it's just a piece of junk.

[Spaceship]

EMPEROR [OC]: Patience, my brethren.

[Tardis]

ROSE: You said they were extinct. How comes they're still alive?
JACK: One minute they're the greatest threat in the Universe, the next minute they vanished out of time and space.
DOCTOR: They went off to fight a bigger war. The Time War.
JACK: I thought that was just a legend.
DOCTOR: I was there. The war between the Daleks and the Time Lords, with the whole of creation at stake. My people were destroyed, but they took the Daleks with them. I almost thought it was worth it. Now it turns out they died for nothing.

The Master grins sharply and he glares at the Doctor. "You killed the rest of us for nothing? Now, I always hated them, but both of us... both of us still had people."

10 turns to the Master, a furious look on his face. "I had no choice. You know that. You would have done the same in my position!"

"No, I don't think I would." He gestures to 11. "He knows what I did, rather than fighting in the war. Even if I didn't do it, I would have just let the fighting go on. Helping neither side."

9 scoffed and raised an eyebrow. He crossed his hands over his chest and glared at the insane Time Lord. "Really? You wouldn't have helped anyone. Not even your own-"

"Don't you dare!" The Master stood and stalked toward the Doctor, only being stopped by the oldest regeneration. He struggled and only succeeded in getting wrestled back to his seat. He didn't even attempt to continue to yell at him. It was three against one, and the three were all the same person and equally stubborn.

ROSE: There's thousands of them now. We could hardly stop one. What're we going to do?
DOCTOR: No good stood round here chin wagging. Human race, you'd gossip all day. The Daleks have got the answers. Let's go and meet the neighbours.
ROSE: You can't go out there!

Despite his anger, the Master can't help but take the opportunity to talk about about the human. He lowers his voice conspiratorially and leans into 11. "You would think the human would know better by now. Shouldn't it realize that your TARDIS is better?"

The Doctor rolled his eyes gently pushed his enemy away. "She has a name. And Rose is certainly not an 'it.'"

Rose blushed and looked away. She didn't exactly know why she was the topic of conversation for the two of them, but it was embarrassing to hear her name. Mickey took her hand in his own, barely repressing an amused smile at her reaction.

[Spaceship]

DALEKS: Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!
(The Dalek rays are stopped by a forcefield extending a good three metres out from the Tardis.)
DOCTOR: Is that it? Useless! Nul points. It's all right, come on out. That forcefield can hold back anything.
JACK: Almost anything.
DOCTOR: Yes, but I wasn't going to tell them that. Thanks.

"Wow. That one's even more idiotic. I can almost see why you would keep them as pets. Wonderfully stupid. You can mold them however you'd like, and they'd be none the wiser." The Master chuckled and looked at the Doctor with something akin to amusement.

10 grit his teeth and glared at the other Time Lord. Surprisingly, it's 9 that spoke up. "I don't mold them. I travel with them."

"No." A sharp grin makes its way to his face. "You change them. They can be perfectly fine, and then you show up. You make everything better for a bit, until you ruin them. And it's all for your... boredom?"

"That's not how it is-"

"Yes it is. You know it's true. You pretend you're this good man. You hide behind your name, but I know the truth. You aren't a hero, Th-"

11 lurches forward and grabs the Master, putting his hand over his childhood best friend's mouth tightly. "Oh, no you don't. Don't you dare. Don't you ever dare try."

River raised her eyebrows as she looked at the scene. She couldn't deny how endearing it was-watching the Doctor take control like that. She bit back a grin, hoping that she would have a chance soon to try out something like that with 10. 11 was wonderful at it when a certain mood struck hm and 12... well, she could hardly keep him from doing so. Maybe she'd find him after they all went back and she finished up with her job in the Library.

After a few tense moments, the Doctor finally let go of the Master, who was still grinning, but he made no move to attempt to speak further.

JACK: Sorry.
DOCTOR: Do you know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek Homeworld? The Oncoming Storm. You might've removed all your emotions but I reckon right down deep in your DNA, there's one little spark left, and that's fear. Doesn't it just burn when you face me? So tell me. How did you survive the Time War?
EMPEROR [OC]: They survived through me.
(The lights come up to reveal a large apparatus, which on closer inspection is an exploded giant Dalek casing, and a blue-skinned one-eyed mutant is happy for everyone to see it sitting there as if on its throne...)

Rory stared at the screen, looking mortified. "Oh, that is disgusting."

Everyone else didn't actually seem to bothered by the image of the Dalek, but Amy nodded in agreement looking away. Surprisingly enough, the Master looked back at the the two of them approvingly. "I think you two might be the best humans I've met. Daleks are terrible." He nudged 11, smirking. "Maybe I should try out the whole human thing. There might be some good ones out there, sometimes."

"Ugh." He pushed the Master away again, this time a little rougher. He didn't want to be reminded of Lucy, especially since he wasn't entirely just what the mad Time Lord really thought of her.

DOCTOR: Rose, Captain, this is the Emperor of the Daleks.
EMPEROR: You destroyed us, Doctor. The Dalek race died in your inferno, but my ship survived, falling through time, crippled but alive.
DOCTOR: I get it.
DALEK: Do not interrupt.
DALEK 2: Do not interrupt.
DALEK 3: Do not interrupt.
DOCTOR: I think you're forgetting something. I'm the Doctor, and if there's one thing I can do, it's talk. I've got five billion languages, and you haven't got one way of stopping me. So if anybody's going to shut up, it's you! Okey doke. So, where were we?

Martha shivered slightly at how quickly he could change up his emotions. His ability to make himself always look and sound dangerous to his, probably greatest, enemy, no matter what his tone of voice is. She looked around and could tell that the others were thinking similar things. When she focused on the Master; however... she saw a proud gleam in his eye. She swallows and looks away. Maybe Zachariah shouldn't have brought the Master in. She's already seen the anger the Doctor displayed around him, and that's exactly what he wants. It worries her.

EMPEROR: We waited here in the dark space, damaged but rebuilding. Centuries passed, and we quietly infiltrated the systems of Earth, harvesting the waste of humanity. The prisoners, the refugees, the dispossessed. They all came to us. The bodies were filtered, pulped, sifted. The seed of the human race is perverted. Only one cell in a billion was fit to be nurtured.
DOCTOR: So you created an army of Daleks out of the dead.
ROSE: That makes them half human.
EMPEROR: Those words are blasphemy.
DALEK: Do not blaspheme.
DALEK 2: Do not blaspheme.
DALEK 3: Do not blaspheme.

Donna shuddered at the repetitiveness of the Daleks. It was creepy and made them sound like a cult. A cult! That's what they were. Just a really self driven and obsessive cult that has an unnatural need to be 'pure.' The thought both comforted and simultaneously made Donna more nervous.

EMPEROR: Everything human has been purged. I cultivated pure and blessed Dalek.
DOCTOR: Since when did the Daleks have a concept of blasphemy?
EMPEROR: I reached into the dirt and made new life. I am the God of all Daleks!
DALEKS: Worship him. Worship him. Worship him.

The Master didn't hide his mocking laugh. As if he would ever, but it was different. Usually when he laughed at something, it was someone getting hurt or someone being dumb-by his standards. But him laughing at the Daleks serves him no purpose to give himself a higher standing, if he had one in the first place. "Did-did those stupid tin boxes seriously think you of all people would worship the emperor? I've never seen Daleks more idiotic. Must be the human in them."

Ah, There's the insult they'd all been expecting. Donna, unsurprisingly, is getting fed up with the Master at this point. "Do you have the ability to not be prejudiced for like, one minute?"

He merely rolled his eyes and scoffed at her. "And why should I listen to you? A tiny, insignificant human that becomes a pet for a Time Lord, until he gets bored of you."

11 tensed and took a sharp breath. Donna was not insignificant. She's amazing. Always was, and always will be. And he certainly had never gotten bored of her. "You don't know a thing about her. She's the most important woman in the universe."

"I'm sure you say that about all your pets."

"No, seriously." He stared at his enemy for a moment, chuckling as if he finds the situation humorous. "She is literally the most important woman in the universe."

Donna swallowed and ignored the flush of red heating her face. She'd never been complimented like that. Never so seriously, and definitely not like that. She mumbled a 'thanks' which the Doctor had definitely heard, and grinned proudly. Maybe he could build up Donna's self worth by the time they left.

DOCTOR: They're insane. Hiding in silence for hundreds of years, that's enough to drive anyone mad. But it's worse than that. Driven mad by your own flesh. The stink of humanity. You hate your own existence. And that makes them more deadly than ever. We're going.

"Does it make you more deadly, Doctor?" The Master asked derisively, in a deceptively low voice. It sounds like he's only keeping himself quiet in an attempt to get the Doctor even angrier than before.

The youngest of the three regeneration's stiffens, while the oldest gives a noncommittal shrug, and the last just shales his head. "I'm not mad like the Daleks were. You however...I'd say you're even more like one than I. Aren't you, Master." He says the other Time Lord's name in the same way he'd talk about a Dalek, and it infuriates the crazed alien.

"I am not some lowly, disgusting, tentacle heap of mutated parts that doesn't feel a thing except hatred." He makes to stand, to get better access in case he decides to hurt the man he once called a friend, but already knows that 11, annoyingly enough, would easily overpower him. Probably because he did something to his last regeneration. Or, maybe because of something he hadn't done.

The Doctor, deciding he may as well let it go, mutters to himself, "Could have fooled me," resulting in the other the other two covering their amused smiles.

EMPEROR: You may not leave my presence.
DALEK: Stay where you are.
DALEKS: Exterminate!
(The Doctor, Rose and Jack go back inside the Tardis. The Daleks start shooting at the forcefield again.)
DALEKS: Exterminate! Exterminate!

[Tardis]

DALEKS [OC]: Exterminate! Exterminate! Worship him! You will be exterminated!

[Floor 500]

(The Tardis materialises.)
DOCTOR: Turn everything up. All transmitters full power, wide open. Now! Do it!
PAVALE: What does this do?
DOCTOR: Stops the Daleks from transmatting on board. How did you get on? Did you contact Earth?
PAVALE: Well, we tried to warn them, but all they did was suspend our license because we stopped the programmes.
DOCTOR: And the planet's just sitting there, defenceless. Lynda, what're you still doing on board? I told you to evacuate everyone.
PAVALE: She wouldn't go.
LYNDA: Didn't want to leave you.
WOMAN: There weren't enough shuttles anyway, or I wouldn't be here. We've got about a hundred people stranded on Floor Zero.

[Floor Zero]

RODRICK: Listen, listen. My name's Rodrick. I won the game! Where's my money? Is anyone listening? Where's my money?!

"That's really all he cares about?" Rose demanded, and Mickey takes her hand in his, but it does nothing to calm her down. "He just played a 'game' where he assumed the losers died, and all cares about is money. He doesn't care that he's in danger of dying himself, he just cares about if he's rich!"

Martha shook her head, happily agreeing with Rose. "It's not like he'd get the amount of money he was supposed to win anyways. I bet they tax even more in his time than they do ours."

"Exactly! He wouldn't even get rich off it. He's just scrapping for a every piece of money he can get just because he can!"

Rory winced, and he could tell that Martha was also wanting to protest. From what they'd seen of this future, Earth was much more expensive and obviously took a lot of money to live in. They could relate with the struggle for money, having gone through medical school and the cost burning away all of their hard earned money. It was worth it to do what they wanted, but extremely hard to keep up with. Even still, Rose had a right to be angry at Rodrick, so they wisely decided to not play devil's advocate.

[Floor 500]

PAVALE: Oh, my God. The Fleet is moving. They're on their way.

[Spaceship]

EMPEROR: Purify the Earth with fire. The planet will become my temple and we shall rise. This will be our paradise.

[Floor 500]

(The Doctor is pulling bits out of the conduits.)
DOCTOR: Dalek plan. Big mistake, because what have they left me with? Anyone? Anyone? Oh, come on, it's obvious. A great big transmitter. This station. If I can change the signal, fold it back, sequence it, anyone?
JACK: You've got to be kidding.
DOCTOR: Give the man a medal.
JACK: A Delta Wave?
DOCTOR: A Delta Wave!

River's eyes widened. She hadn't thought that the Doctor would go that far. And it was so dangerous-there's no possible way he could safely direct the Delta Wave to only take out the Daleks. He'd take Earth and the rest of humanity with them. That would be another two genocides added to his previous ones. She partially wanted to admonish the Doctor, but the older two didn't look bothered, well, not as bothered as would look if he actually committed another two genocides at once. She assumed the only reason the youngest didn't look too worried either was because of his future selves.

ROSE: What's a Delta Wave?
JACK: A wave of Van Cassadyne energy. It fries your brain. Stand in the way of a Delta Wave and your head gets barbequed.
DOCTOR: And this place can transmit a massive wave. Wipe out the Daleks!
LYNDA: Well, get started and do it then.
DOCTOR: Trouble is, wave this size, building this big, brain as clever as mine, should take about, oh, three days? How long till the Fleet arrive?
PAVALE: Twenty two minutes.
(Later, after some rerouting of bits and pieces.)
JACK: We've now got a forcefield so they can't blast us out of the sky, but that doesn't stop the Daleks from physically invading.
PAVALE: Do they know about the Delta Wave?
JACK: They'll have worked it out at the same time. So, they want to stop the Doctor. That means they've got to get to this level, five hundred. Now, I can concentrate the extrapolator around the top six levels, five hundred to four nine five. So they'll penetrate the station below that at level four nine four and fight their way up.
PAVALE: Who are they fighting?
JACK: Us.
PAVALE: And what are we fighting with?
JACK: The guards had guns with bastic bullets. That's enough to blow a Dalek wide open.

Jack winced. He spoke much too soon, there. But, he did perk up slightly. The best part was coming up, and he couldn't wait to see the Doctor's reaction. The other two gave each other a look, and smirked at their youngest regeneration. So they were rooting for him, too...

WOMAN: There's five of us.
DOCTOR: Rose, you can help me. I need all these wires stripping bare.
WOMAN: Right, now there's four of us.
JACK: Then let's move it. Into the lift. Isolate the lift controls.
(Pavale and his colleague run off.)
LYNDA: I just want to say, er, thanks, I suppose, and I'll do my best.
DOCTOR: Me too.
(They shake hands and Lynda moves away.)
JACK: It's been fun, but I guess this is goodbye.
ROSE: Don't talk like that. The Doctor's going to do it. You just watch him.

"Not all the time..." 10 muttered to himself, silently glad that 11 wasn't going to interfere with his self deprecation. Then again, he probably wouldn't have interfered if he had heard. He could never tell. His future self was erratic. Much too happy, but also quick anger.

JACK: Rose, you are worth fighting for. (kisses her) Wish I'd never met you, Doctor. I was much better off as a coward.
(Jack kisses the Doctor.)

9's face went bright red, and Jack grinned to himself. The best part-and it seemed the Doctor was flustered. He turned to himself and glared at his giggling regenerations, as if it was their fault he was feeling this way. "You just had to watch me try and defend myself against his advances when you knew I'd see this, didn't you?"

11 nodded happily, completely satisfied with himself. "Yes. And I believe your Captain is awaiting his answer."

He just sank into his seat, covering his face with his hands. He didn't want to face this right now. But he couldn't exactly run... Unless he went to the empty room! Sitting up, ready to bolt in there, he sees 10 manhandling the Master into the room-probably so neither of them could ruin this. Damn. The humans, and River, watched with baited breath as Jack stood and offered his hand to the nonplussed Doctor. Hesitantly, he took the offered hand and stood as well.

"Jack... it's not a good idea for you." 9 finally said, pulling his hand away.

the immortal man pouted, and crossed his arms over his chest. "Why? I'm immortal, you may as well be immortal. I can't die, so you'd never lose me. It seems like a pretty great idea to me."

The Doctor shook his head and sighed. "That's not what i mean. I'm not anything you'd want in a partner. Especially not after all I've done."

"Ah..." He nodded, pretending as though he understood. "You don't think you're good enough for me because of what you did in the Time War? Well, let me tell you... To me it sounds like you did what you had to do-"

"No. I mean-yes, but... no. I used to... have a family. And I lost them. I'm not a good man. I've done terrible things. But I'm also not ready for it again. I don't think I will be for a long time." He glances at 11 and then over to River. There had to be something between them. But it seemed he didn't know yet, in the future. Or he knew, just wasn't sure. Or maybe he was scared. It could be all of them.

Jack only shrugged and gestured to the screen. "We're going to be here a long time. May as well try while we're here, right?"

The worst part was, he made a good point. After a minute of consideration, the Doctor rolled his eyes and nodded. "Fine. Zachariah, can-"

Before he could finish, 9's chair disappeared, and was replaced by a love seat, that the two sat in, Jack hugging the Time Lord's arm like a lovesick teenager for a bit, until even he got tired of the act and settled in to sitting normally, his hand in the Doctor's-who was wearing a faint smile on his face. The headache that was associated with Jack's wrongness was pretty faded, now. Thankfully.

10 burst out of the room, looking around wildly. "No! I missed it! Now I have to wait for the memories that probably won't come until after-" He was cut off by 11 giving his own memories to 10, who smiled gratefully.

Donna sniffed as her own chair turned into a recliner. Though, she couldn't be too mad at being alone. She has a recliner now.

The Master walked out of the room, grumbling to himself about how wrong and disgusting this all was, but not daring to speak up about it.

JACK: See you in hell.
(Jack leaves.)
ROSE: He's going to be all right, isn't he?

[Floor Zero]

(Jack stands on a pile of crates and fires a machine gun into the air to get some attention.)
JACK: One last time! Any more volunteers? There's an army about to invade this station. I need every last citizen to mount a defence.
RODRICK: Don't listen to him. There aren't any Daleks. They disappeared thousands of years ago.
(The Floor Manager volunteers.)
JACK: Thanks. As for the rest of you, the Daleks will enter the station at floor four nine four and as far as I can tell, they'll head up, not down. But that's not a promise. So here's a few words of advice. Keep quiet. And if you hear fighting up above, if you hear us dying, then tell me that the Daleks aren't real. Don't make a sound. Let's go.
(Jack, Lynda and the few volunteers all get in the lift.)

"Reason 1 why this was a good idea. I give amazing pep talks that you definitely need." Jack stated and nudged the Doctor, who rolled his eyes and didn't bother to say anything.

[Floor 500]

ROSE: Suppose.
DOCTOR: What?
ROSE: Nothing.
DOCTOR: You said suppose.
ROSE: No, I was just thinking. I mean, obviously you can't, but, you've got a time machine. Why can't you just go back to last week and warn them?
DOCTOR: As soon as the Tardis lands in that second, I become part of events, stuck in the timeline.
ROSE: Yeah, thought it'd be something like that
DOCTOR: There's another thing the Tardis could do. It could take us away. We could leave. Let history take its course. We go to Marbella in 1989.
ROSE: Yeah, but you'd never do that.
DOCTOR: No, but you could ask. Never even occurred to you, did it?
ROSE: Well, I'm just too good.
DOCTOR: The Delta Wave's started building. How long does it need?
(They run over to a console.)
ROSE: Is that bad? Okay, it's bad. How bad is it?
DOCTOR: Rose Tyler, you're a genius! We can do it. If I use the Tardis to cross my own timeline. Yes!

Despite how frustrated the Master was with the Doctor, he furrowed his eyebrows. that just didn't make sense. That would never be the solution. And despite appearances, his enemy isn't an idiot. He looks over at the other Time Lord (lords?). He had no idea if the Doctor on screen was being serious or not, and he could see the moment the 9th realized what he was doing and tensed. But what was the Doctor planning in that moment?

[Tardis]

DOCTOR: Hold that down and keep position.
ROSE: What's it do?
DOCTOR: Cancels the buffers. If I'm very clever and I'm more than clever, I'm brilliant, I might just save the world. Or rip it apart
ROSE: I'd go for the first one.
DOCTOR: Me too. Now, I've just got to go and power up the Game Station. Hold on!
(The Doctor runs out and stops in the midst of his mares-nest of cables. He looks back at the Tardis then points the sonic screwdriver at it. The engines start.)
ROSE: Doctor, what're you doing? Can I take my hand off? It's moving.
(Rose runs to the door.)
ROSE: Doctor, let me out!

Oh. That makes much more sense, the estranged Time Lord supposes. Send his companion (pet?) back to its (her?) time so she'd be safe. just like the Doctor.

Rose's eyes widened and she stood. "That's why you pretty much ignore me! You sent me back to keep me safe, and accidentally abandoned me, and you're embarrassed about it."

10's took a sharp breath, looking down to the floor in front of him. He hadn't even realized he'd been acting pretty cold to Rose. But abandoned? He hadn't abandoned her. Not yet. But he hadn't abandoned her in the first place. Had he? He can't go back for her. He burned up a sun just for her to see a projection of him. How could he have gone back and save her? But he hadn't abandoned her. No, he could never. she saved him from himself. he'd never abandon her willingly.

11 swallowed and looked down. He could already feel the inner turmoil that his younger self was going through. He was going through it himself. Hadn't he abandoned Rose the second time around? but she couldn't stay with him. She'd made herself a big person in that alternate world, she couldn't just leave it. Besides, she has him with her. A human version of himself. Someone who can be buried next to her. So he hadn't abandoned her... not really.

"No." 9 looked over at his older self in shock, surprised that 10 was the one to speak up. "That's not why."

Hearing the strain in his voice, Rose faltered. She had no doubt the Doctor was telling the truth, but... Oh, god... the real reason must be so much worse. She sat back down quietly, needing to think this over for a bit.

[Floor 500]

ROSE [OC]: Let me out! Doctor, what've you done?
(The Tardis dematerialises.)

[Tardis]

(A hologram appears.)
HOLO-DOCTOR: This is Emergency Programme One. Rose, now listen, this is important. If this message is activated, then it can only mean one thing. We must be in danger. And I mean fatal. I'm dead or about to die any second with no chance of escape.
ROSE: No!
DOCTOR: And that's okay. Hope it's a good death. But I promised to look after you, and that's what I'm doing. The Tardis is taking you home.
ROSE: I won't let you.
HOLO-DOCTOR: And I bet you're fussing and moaning now. Typical. But hold on and just listen a bit more. The Tardis can never return for me. Emergency Programme One means I'm facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do. Let the Tardis die. Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it. No one'll even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years, the world'll move on and the box will be buried. And if you want to remember me, then you can do one thing. That's all, one thing. Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life.
(The hologram flickers out.)
ROSE: You can't do this to me. You can't. Take me back! Take me back! No!
(Rose tries to use the controls, but the engine stops. She runs outside into the Powell Estate, then back inside.)
ROSE: Come on, fly. How do you fly? Come on, help me!

10 looks at the ground guiltily. Rose hadn't told him she'd reacted like this. Though, maybe that whole part was just a bit fuzzy because of her absorbing the Time Vortex. Rose just blushed in embarrassment. Why did they have to see her breakdown on screen? it was so embarrassing.

Silently, the rest of the humans wondered if they'd react like that, if it had happened to them. They really couldn't know. They haven't had their adventures with the Doctor, yet. Maybe they would. Or maybe they'd just accept it.

[Powell Estate]

(Rose finally gives up and goes outside. Mickey comes running down the road.)
MICKEY: I knew it! I was all the way down Clifton Parade, and I heard the engines. I thought, there's only one thing that makes a noise like that. What is it?
(Rose hugs him, in tears.)

[Floor 494]

JACK: Rose, I've called up the internal laser codes.

[Floor 500]

JACK [OC]: There should be a different number on every screen. Can you read them out to me?
DOCTOR: She's not here.

[Floor 494]

JACK: Of all the times to take a leak.

[Floor 500]

JACK [on viewscreen]: When she gets back, tell her to read me the codes.
DOCTOR: She's not coming back.

[Floor 494]

JACK: What do you mean? Where'd she go?

[Floor 500]

DOCTOR: Just get on with your work.
JACK [on viewscreen]: You took her home, didn't you?
DOCTOR: Yeah.

[Floor 494]

JACK: The Delta Wave.

[Floor 500]

JACK [OC]: Is it ever going to be ready?

River stiffened. of all the times for her to be right about something, she wished it wasn't now. The Master smirked. This is going to be fun.

EMPEROR [on viewscreen]: Tell him the truth, Doctor. There is every possibility the Delta Wave could be complete, but no possibility of refining it. The Delta Wave must kill every living thing in its path, with no distinction between human and Dalek.

"But that won't happen, right? Because you talk about how humans spread out among the stars." Martha took a breath, trying to calm herself down. This was happening so far after her time, she didn't have to worry about it. But she's still concerned for the people there, alive.

"Time doesn't go in a straight line. there fixed and flux moments. there's no telling what moment is fixed, or what moment is flux." 9 hated how vague he had to be, but... well, him being vague was the best he could do. it was terrible, sometimes. Not being able to assure someone of something.

[Floor 494]

EMPEROR [OC]: All things will die

[Floor 500]

EMPEROR [on viewscreen]: By your hand.
JACK [on viewscreen]: Doctor, the range of this transmitter covers the entire Earth.
EMPEROR [on viewscreen]: You would destroy Daleks and Humans together. If I am God, the creator of all things, then what does that make you, Doctor?
DOCTOR: There are colonies out there. The Human Race would survive in some shape or form, but you're the only Daleks in existence. The whole Universe is in danger

[Floor 494]

DOCTOR [OC]: If I let you live.

[Floor 500]

DOCTOR: Do you see, Jack? That's the decision I've got to make for every living thing. Die as a human or live as a Dalek. What would you do?
JACK [on viewscreen]: You sent her home. She's safe. Keep working.

[Spaceship]

EMPEROR: But he will exterminate you!

[Floor 494]

JACK: Never doubted him.

Jack turned to 9 and grinned, leaning into the alien slightly. "I never, ever will."

The Time Lord just rolled his eyes, knowing there was no way that could be true, but he still smiled. This was... nicer than he thought it would be.

[Floor 500]

JACK [OC]: Never will.
DOCTOR: Now, you tell me, God of all Daleks, because there's one thing I never worked out. The words Bad Wolf, spread across time and space, everywhere, drawing me in. How'd you manage that?
EMPEROR [on viewscreen]: I did nothing.
DOCTOR: Oh, come on, there's no secrets now, your worship.

[Spaceship]

EMPEROR: They are not part of my design. This is the Truth of God. (The Doctor looks up at the BadWolf Corporation sign on the wall.)

[Cafe]

(Whole chickens turn in a rotisserie. Jackie and Mickey are eating their meals out of polystyrene containers. Rose isn't hungry.)
JACKIE: And it's gone up market, this place. They're doing little tubs of coleslaw, now. It's not very nice. It tastes a bit sort of clinical.
MICKEY: Have you tried that new pizza place down Minto Road?
JACKIE: What's it selling?
MICKEY: Pizza.

Rose rubbed her forehead with her hand, and sighed. Seriously, mum?

JACKIE: That's nice. Do they deliver?
MICKEY: Yeah.
JACKIE: Oh, Rose, have something to eat
ROSE: Two hundred thousand years in the future, he's dying, and there's nothing I can do.
JACKIE: Well, like you said two hundred thousand years. It's way off.
ROSE: But it's not. It's now. That fight is happening right now, and he's fighting for us, for the whole planet, and I'm just sitting here eating chips.
JACKIE: Listen to me. God knows I have hated that man, but right now, I love him and do you know why? Because he did the right thing. He sent you back to me.
ROSE: But what do I do every day, mum? What do I do? Get up, catch the bus, go to work, come back home, eat chips and go to bed? Is that it?
MICKEY: It's what the rest of us do.
ROSE: But I can't!
MICKEY: Why, because you're better than us?
ROSE: No, I didn't mean that. But it was. It was a better life. And I don't mean all the travelling and seeing aliens and spaceships and things. That don't matter. The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life. You know he showed you too. That you don't just give up. You don't just let things happen. You make a stand. You say no. You have the guts to do what's right when everyone else just runs away, and I just can't
(Rose runs out of the cafe.)

But is that worth the loss? 10 thought bitterly, and shook his head. There's noe point dwelling on the issue. There too many possibilities and answers and reasonings, that it even makes his own head spin.

[Observation deck]

JACK: Right, Lynda, you are my eyes and ears. When the Daleks get in, you can follow it on that screen and report it to me.
LYNDA: Understood.
JACK: They'll detect you but the door's made of Hydra Combination. It should keep them out.
LYNDA: Should?
JACK: It's the best I can do. How long till the Fleet arrives?
PAVALE: They've accelerated.
JACK: This is it, ladies and gentlemen. We are at war!
(Daleks stream out of the flying saucers towards Game Station. Or Satellite Five, if you prefer.)

[Powell Estate]

MICKEY: You can't spend the rest of your life thinking about the Doctor.
ROSE: But how do I forget him?
MICKEY: You've got to start living your own life. You know, a proper life, like the kind he's never had. The sort of life that you could have with me.

The Master stiffens, suddenly feeling defensive over the Doctor. "He has had a normal life. Until you filthy humans made him obsess. And now look at him. Disgusting."

"Master." 10 stated firmly, with a tired sigh. "What happened, happened. My actions do not excuse you, no matter how much you try to justify them. Our old life is gone. Let it go before it ruins you more than it has."

That struck the insane alien for a long moment, and he stopped breathing for long enough that his respiratory bypass had to kick in. He took a breath and looked away, the drumbeats getting louder. He doesn't know a thing. He doesn't understand.

(Then Rose notices large letters painted on the tarmac of the play area.)
ROSE: Over here. It's over here as well!
MICKEY: That's been there for years. It's just a phrase. It's just words.
ROSE: I thought it was a warning. Maybe it's the opposite. Maybe it's a message. The same words written down now and two hundred thousand years in the future. It's a link between me and the Doctor. Bad Wolf here, Bad Wolf there.
MICKEY: But if it's a message, what's it saying?
ROSE: It's telling me I can get back. The least I can do is help him escape.

[Floor 499]

JACK: Stand your ground, everyone. Follow my commands. And good luck.

[Observation gallery]

LYNDA: You were right. They're forcing the airlock on four nine four.
(The whole satellite shakes, and the Daleks stream in.)

[Tardis]

ROSE: All the Tardis needs to do is make a return trip. Just reverse.
MICKEY: Yeah, but we still can't do it.
ROSE: The Doctor always said the Tardis was telepathic. This thing is alive. It can listen.
MICKEY: It's not listening now, is it?
ROSE: We need to get inside it. Last time I saw you, with the Slitheen, this middle bit opened, and there was this light, and the Doctor said it was the heart of the Tardis. If we can open it, I can make contact. I can tell it what to do.

11 gasped, and put a hand to his chest. That's how she'd done it? Without even looking at them, He can tell his other selves and River are equally as horrified as him. Even the Master is a little disgusted by it, but also doesn't really have any ground to stand on, considering what he's planning on doing to the TARDIS.

MICKEY: Rose.
ROSE: Mmm?
MICKEY: If you go back, you're going to die.
ROSE: That's a risk I've got to take, because there's nothing left for me here.
MICKEY: Nothing?
ROSE: No.
MICKEY: Okay, if that's what you think, let's get this thing open.

[Observation deck]

JACK [OC]: Okay, activate internal lasers. Slice them up.
(The Floor Manager does so.)
LYNDA: Defences have gone offline. The Dalek's have overridden the lot.
(The Floor Manager and other volunteers start shooting at the approaching Daleks. The bullets are absorbed into a forcefield around each Dalek.)
FLOOR MANAGER: You lied to me! The bullets don't work!
(She gets exterminated.)

[Tardis]

(Mickey has fastened a heavy chain to the tow hitch on his Mini. The other end is fastened to the Tardis console. He drives forward slowly, trying to pull it open.)
ROSE: Faster!

10 makes a sound that sounds a gasp and a squeak, and he swallows, shaking his head. That image is going to be burned into his head forever. Jack genuinely can't tell if the Doctor is just being dramtic or if he's actually pained to this happen to his TARDIS, but he puts his hand on 9's shoulder for support anyways.

[Powell Estate]

(Jackie watches as the Mini burns rubber fruitlessly.)
MICKEY: Come on!
ROSE: It's not moving!
(The chain breaks. Rose kicks the console in frustration.)

Mickey raises his eyebrows when he sees no outward reaction from the Doctor. "So what, kicking is okay, but everything else is bad?"

11 shrugs and huffs out an amused breath. "It would be hypocritical of me if I said kicking the console was bad."

Of course. Mickey thought sarcastically and rolled his eyes, but didn't say anymore on the topic.

[Observation gallery]

LYNDA: Advance guard have made it

[Floor 500]

LYNDA [OC]: To four nine five.
DOCTOR: Jack

[Floor 499]

DOCTOR [OC]: How're we doing?
JACK: Four nine five should be good. I like four nine five.

[Floor 495]

DALEK: Identify yourself!
ANNE DROID: You are the weakest link. Goodbye!
(Anne vapourises three Daleks in quick succession.)

[Floor 499]

JACK: Yes!

[Floor 495]

ANNE DROID: You are the weakest link
(The next Dalek to enter blows her head off.)
ANNE DROID: Goodbye.

Rory sniffs and turns to Amy, tears in his eyes. "It said goodbye, Amy. It died and it said goodbye."

She can't help but chuckle and wrap her arms around him comfortingly. That was the silliest thing to get sad at, but it's just the thing that would get Rory teared up.

DALEK: Proceed to next level.

[Observation gallery]

LYNDA: They're flying up the ventilation shafts. No, wait a minute. Oh, my God. Why're they doing that? They're going down.

[Floor Zero]

DALEKS [OC]: Exterminate! Exterminate!
(The Daleks enter and cause panic.)
DALEKS: Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate.
RODRICK: You can't! You don't exist! It's not fair! I won the game! I should be rich! I'm a winner! You can't do this to me!
DALEK: Exterminate.

[Observation gallery]

(Lynda turns off the sound on the console.)
LYNDA: Floor Zero. They killed them all.

Rose was about to get angry at that man again, but sobers immediately at his death. She feels kind of stupid, now. He was just trying to survive, too, despite how cruel he seemed.

[Tardis]

JACKIE: It was never going to work, sweetheart. And the Doctor knew that. He just wanted you to be safe.
ROSE: I can't give up.
JACKIE: Lock the door. Walk away.
ROSE: Dad wouldn't give up.
JACKIE: Well, he's not here, is he? And even if he was, he'd say the same.
ROSE: No, he wouldn't. He'd tell me to try anything. If I could save the Doctor's life, try anything.
JACKIE: Well, we're never going to know.
ROSE: Well, I know because I met him. I met Dad.
JACKIE: Don't be ridiculous.
ROSE: The Doctor took me back in time, and I met Dad.
JACKIE: Don't say that.
ROSE: Remember when Dad died? There was someone with him. A girl, a blonde girl. She held his hand. You saw her from a distance, Mum. You saw her! Think about it. That was me. You saw me.
JACKIE: Stop it.
ROSE: That's how good the Doctor is.
JACKIE: Stop it! Just stop it!
(Jackie runs out.)

Despite his general annoyance at Jackie, the Doctor felt terrible for her. he knew how it felt to lose your spouse, especially one that you were generally at odds with. you still loved them, but... you were so angry at them before you lost them. Nobody deserves that loss, and the guilt that goes with it.

[Floor 500]

DOCTOR: Lynda! What's happening on Earth?

[Observation deck]

LYNDA: The Fleet's descending. They're bombing whole continents. Europa, Pacifica, the New American Alliance. Australasia's just gone.

[Spaceship]

EMPEROR: This is perfection. I have created Heaven on Earth.

[Floor 499]

JACK: Floor 499, we're the last defence. The bullets should work if you concentrate them on the Dalek's eyestalk. I've got the forcefield at maximum so Dalek fire power should be at its weakest.
PAVALE: I'm only here because of you. I joined the Programme because you were on it.
WOMAN: Am I supposed to say, when this is all over and if we're still alive, maybe we could go for a drink?
PAVALE: That'd be nice.
WOMAN: Yeah, well, tough.
(But she gives him a wink and a smile.)

Jack frowned and looked at the ground. He wished they could have lived. They would have been so happy together. Maybe, if there's an afterlife out here, the two of them are together. 9 gently took Jack's wrist and squeezed it lightly, bringing him out of his reverie.

[Powell Estate]

MICKEY: There's got to be something else we can do.
ROSE: Mum was right. Maybe we should just lock the door and walk away.
MICKEY: I'm not having that. I'm not having you just, just give up now. No way. We just need something stronger than my car. Something bigger. Something like that.
(A big yellow recovery truck comes round the corner and stops by the Tardis. Jackie was driving.)
JACKIE: Right, you've only got this until six o'clock, so get on with it.
ROSE: Mum, where the hell did you get that from?
JACKIE: Rodrigo. He owes me a favour. Never mind why, but you were right about your dad, sweetheart. He was full of mad ideas, and it's exactly what he would've done. Now, get on with it before I change my mind.
(Jackie throws the keys to Mickey.)

[Floor 500]

JACK: Open fire!
(The Doctor hears the gunfire and rushes to plug in a massive power cable. The defenders are firing through slits in pieces of bulkhead.)
PAVALE: It's not working!
JACK: Concentrate your fire! Eyestalk, two o'clock!
DALEK: My vision is impaired! I cannot see!
WOMAN: We did it!
(And promptly gets exterminated.)
PAVALE: No! No!
(Pavale shows himself, firing over the top of the barricade. Guess what happens to him.)

Well that's just idiotic. The Master though, but wisely didn't speak up, knowing the humans would probably eat him alive. Probably sensing his thoughts, 11 shoots him a half-hearted glare. which means... the Doctor understands why the human did it, but also agrees with his enemy. Interesting.

[Observation gallery]

LYNDA: I've got a problem
DALEK [OC]: Human female detected.
LYNDA: They've found me.

[Floor 500]

DOCTOR: You'll be all right, Lynda. That side of the station's reinforced against meteors.

[Observation gallery]

LYNDA: Hope so! You know what they say about Earth workmanship.
(A Dalek with an oxy-acetylene torch instead of sink plunger starts cutting through the door. Then she turns to see four Daleks rising up outside the big window. One fires, breaking the glass. Lynda screams, just once.)

Donna sucks in a sharp breath. Oh, she wanted to kill those Daleks just as much as the Doctor, now. Lynda was sweet. Sweet people don't deserve to die like that.

[Floor 500]

(Jack backs in, firing at Daleks.)
JACK: Last man standing! For God's sake, Doctor, finish that thing and kill them!
EMPEROR [on viewscreen]: Finish that thing and kill mankind.

[Powell Estate]

(Once again, Jackie watches as Rose and Mickey use a chain to try and pull the Tardis console open.)
ROSE: Keep going!
JACKIE: Put your foot down!
ROSE: Faster!
JACKIE: Give it some more, Mickey!
ROSE: Keep going!
JACKIE: Come on, come on!
ROSE: Keep going!
JACKIE: Give it some more!
(The console burst open. Rose looks inside and golden energy streams into her eyes.)
MICKEY: Rose!
(The Tardis doors slam shut on him, and the Tardis dematerialises.)

Again, the Doctor all dramatically expressed their pain at seeing his (their?) TARDIS treated like that, and even River and the Master wince in sympathy. that must have hurt her. Rory nudges Amy and shows her the Things the Doctor Needs More than an Apology For. Under the last entry, he's written: People messing with his ship. Amy snorts and nods.

[Floor 500]

JACK: Doctor, you've got twenty seconds maximum!
(The Tardis hurtles through time, all the time sending energy into Rose.
Jack runs out of bullets. He throws away the machine gun and takes out a pistol. Then that too is empty.)
DALEK: Exterminate.
JACK: I kind of figured that.
(The blast throws Jack back into the lift.)
DOCTOR: It's ready!
(The Daleks enter from all sides.)
DOCTOR: You really want to think about this, because if I activate the signal, every living creature dies.
EMPEROR [on viewscreen]: I am immortal.
DOCTOR: Do you want to put that to the test?
EMPEROR [on viewscreen]: I want to see you become like me. Hail the Doctor, the Great Exterminator.
DOCTOR: I'll do it!
EMPEROR [on viewscreen]: Then prove yourself, Doctor. What are you, coward or killer?
(But he cannot throw the final switch.)
DOCTOR: Coward. Any day.

The Master groans and slumps in his seat. For a moment he thought the Doctor would have actually done it. It would have proved to be so fun. But of course, he just had to pretend to be 'good.'

EMPEROR [on viewscreen]: Mankind will be harvested because of your weakness.
DOCTOR: And what about me? Am I becoming one of your angels?
EMPEROR [on viewscreen]: You are the heathen. You will be exterminated.
DOCTOR: Maybe it's time.
(The Doctor closes his eyes, and the Tardis materialises behind him.)
DALEK: Alert! Tardis materialising!
EMPEROR [on viewscreen]: You will not escape!
(The Tardis doors open. Rose is silhouetted in a blinding golden light. Energy tendrils snake outwards.)
DOCTOR: What've you done?

Looking at the screen, even though it's not real. the Time lords and River can't help but tare with awe. They'd never seen anything like a person absorbing the Time Vortex, and it was enough to silence even the most insane and evil of people. They were almost in awe. She was like an actual god. If she had the capacity to survive, she would have been one. And, despite how they would usually feel about it, the five of them would happily let her be one.

The humans, of course, were shocked, but didn't exactly understand what was going on and why the others were looking at the screen as they were. Eventually, they snapped out of it, but couldn't bring themselves to explain what exactly had been going through their heads.

ROSE: I looked into the Tardis, and the Tardis looked into me.
DOCTOR: You looked into the Time Vortex. Rose, no one's meant to see that.
EMPEROR [on viewscreen]: This is the Abomination!
DALEK: Exterminate!
(Rose stops the beam with her hand.)
ROSE: I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words, I scatter them in time and space. A message to lead myself here.
DOCTOR: Rose, you've got to stop this. You've got to stop this now. You've got the entire vortex running through your head. You're going to burn.
ROSE: I want you safe. My Doctor. Protected from the false god.
EMPEROR [on viewscreen]: You cannot hurt me. I am immortal.
ROSE: You are tiny. I can see the whole of time and space. Every single atom of your existence, and I divide them.
(A Dalek disintegrates gently.)
ROSE: Everything must come to dust. All things. Everything dies. The Time War ends.
(The Daleks crumble.)

Rose's jaw drops. Did she really just... "I just... committed genocide with a wave of my hand."

10 swallowed and shook his head, and couldn't bring himself to look at her as he spoke. "No. that was Bad Wolf."

"But... aren't I Bad Wolf?"

"No. You and Bad Wolf... look the same. You share a body, and similar goals. But Bad Wolf is ultimately just a message. You are so different."

Rose just gave him a blank stare, not understanding a thing he just said, but decided to just let it go. He knew more than her, anyways.

[Spaceship]

EMPEROR: I will not die. I cannot die!
(The spaceship disappears in a golden wave.)

[Floor 500]

DOCTOR: Rose, you've done it. Now stop. Just let go.
ROSE: How can I let go of this? I bring life.
(Jack breaths again.)
DOCTOR: But this is wrong! You can't control life and death.

"So... wait. When you left, did you still think I was dead, or did you know I was alive?" Jack looked at the Doctor imploringly, and decided he wasn't going to get angry at him for whatever it was. He'd already done that bit.

Sighing, 9 tired to put his thoughts together in a way that would make sense to Jack. "I... assumed you must have been. But I didn't want to wait and see if I was wrong, or to wait and see if I was right. Either way it... it couldn't have been good, so i ran."

The immortal man nodded, accepting the answer and not asking for further explanation. He understood... mostly.

ROSE: But I can. The sun and the moon, the day and night. But why do they hurt?
DOCTOR: The power's going to kill you and it's my fault.
ROSE: I can see everything. All that is, all that was, all that ever could be.
DOCTOR: That's what I see. All the time. And doesn't it drive you mad?
ROSE: My head.
DOCTOR: Come here.
ROSE: It's killing me.
DOCTOR: I think you need a Doctor.
(The Doctor kisses Rose. The golden energy transfers from her eyes to his, then she faints in his arms. The Doctor exhales the energy back into the Tardis and its doors close.
Jack picks up a handful of Dalek dust from the floor, then runs when he hears the Tardis engines. He's too late. It dematerialises, leaving him stranded.)

9 winced at the cheesy line that was also somehow just what he would say. he almost felt guilty because of Jack, but he seemed to already understand and didn't expect an apology. he wouldn't have wanted one, anyways. Seeing the Doctor kiss someone was admittedly pretty hot.

[Tardis]

ROSE: What happened?
DOCTOR: Don't you remember?
ROSE: It's like there was this singing.
DOCTOR: That's right. I sang a song and the Daleks ran away.
ROSE: I was at home. No, I wasn't, I was in the Tardis, and there was this light. I can't remember anything else
(The Doctor's skin is darkening.)
DOCTOR: Rose Tyler. I was going take you to so many places. Barcelona. Not the city Barcelona, the planet Barcelona. You'd love it. Fantastic place. They've got dogs with no noses. Imagine how many times a day you end up telling that joke, and it's still funny.
ROSE: Then, why can't we go?
DOCTOR: Maybe you will, and maybe I will. But not like this.
ROSE: You're not making sense.
DOCTOR: I might never make sense again. I might have two heads, or no head. Imagine me with no head. And don't say that's an improvement. But it's a bit dodgy, this process. You never know what you're going to end up with
(The Doctor double over in pain.)
ROSE: Doctor!
DOCTOR: Stay away!
ROSE: Doctor, tell me what's going on.
DOCTOR: I absorbed all the energy of the Time Vortex, and no one's meant to do that. Every cell in my body's dying.
ROSE: Can't you do something?
DOCTOR: Yeah, I'm doing it now. Time Lords have this little trick, it's sort of a way of cheating death. Except it means I'm going to change, and I'm not going to see you again. Not like this. Not with this daft old face. And before I go
ROSE: Don't say that.
DOCTOR: Rose, before I go, I just want to tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? So was I.

The Master and River roll their eyes, because of course the Doctor makes a speech right before he regenerates.

(Golden light burst out of the Doctor's body. This is not a nice quiet regeneration of the usual kind. Everything changes very suddenly and the tenth Doctor is standing there. Everyone say Hi! to

David Tennant using a South London accent instead of his natural Scottish burr.)

Amy gasps in shock and covers her mouth, Rory and Martha both not being able to help wondering exactly how Time Lords could do that biologically, and Mickey and Rose can't help but think that it's simply beautiful. It looks painful, but... the regeneration itself just looks so beautiful. Jack grinned at the screen. He just thought it was so awesome that his new... what were they? Partners? Lovers? Well, whatever he was, it was just so awesome to see this.

DOCTOR: Hello. Okay. Ooo, new teeth. That's weird. So, where was I? Oh, that's right. Barcelona.

"Really? your first words were about your teeth?" 9 gives 10 an unimpressed look, and he glares at him defensively.

"They were new! It was weird, I've never has such nice teeth." He just rolled his eyes in response.

They were all silent for a minute, not knowing exactly what to say, before the screen lit up. With a loud static shriek, words flickered on the screen: Error during playback. Minisode loading... Please stand by.


I'm not entirely sure where to get the transcripts for all the minisodes, so only some are going to be put in, unfortunately.