Chapter 26: Fear Her

"I think this should be the last one for tonight." Ten speaks up as they all make their way back to the couches. "Then we can watch till the end of my time with Rose tomorrow. I think we are going to need a break after that and you lot can take the rest of the day to keep getting to know each other better."

"Good idea. It's not like we are on a time limit." Jack shrugs. Everybody agrees to this and settle back into the same positions as before. Mickey grabs the remote and presses the button.

The bunting is out for the 2012 Olympic and potholes are being repaired with new tarmac.

"We are going to the Olympics?" Rose asks excitedly. "Do we actually get to see any of it?" She adds as an afterthought.

"Indeed, we get to see all of it." Ten assures her.

"Brilliant." She beams.

The young mother pushes her pram past two boys kicking a football on the tiny front lawn while Dad washes the car. On the lamp post is a missing persons poster - Jane McKillen. The scene is watched from an upstairs window by a young girl. An old woman wheels her shopping bag along the pavement nervously. The young girl's mother puts the rubbish out. The mother asks the old woman if she is alright. Maeve states she is not. The woman offers to call a doctor but Maeve says a Doctor can't help. Then she starts yelling to get the boys inside.

"Well I can see her being upset if one girl is missing but there are plenty of people watching those boys." Martha frowns.

The dad points out they haven't done anything wrong but Maeve insists it is happening again.

"Maybe she can sense something. Some humans do have a sixth sense it's just very faint." Nine shrugs.

Trish looks up to her daughter's window then goes back inside number 53. Upstairs Chloe is singing as she looks out the window. Then she sits down and starts drawing. Maeve insists the kids are not safe. The dad points out they are in the garden. Chloe is still singing and drawing a picture of one of the boys. Outside he suddenly vanishes.

"She's drawing people into thin air?" Donna blinks in astonishment.

"Pretty sure human kids can't do that." Martha points out.

"Alien child?" Jack offers. This isn't something he has ever heard of.

Chloe finishes the picture, and the boy on the paper runs forward, screaming silently.

"So she's pulling them inside the picture then." Rose guesses.

The Tardis materialises in the Tardis-sized gap between a pair of cargo containers. For once, she gets the door on the wrong side. The Doctor can't get out.

Everybody sniggers and both Doctors pout. "I got exactly where and when I was aiming for." Ten reminds them.

"Makes a change." Mickey rolls his eyes.

He turns her ninety degrees while a train whizzes along the track between the open ground and the housing estate. Rose checks out a Shane Ward Greatest Hits poster on one of the containers. She notes this must be in the near future. As they walk down the street Rose sees the Olympics banners and is excited.

"2012? Isn't that the year you met Van Statten in?" Sarah-Jane asks. Ten nods stiffly.

"So two sets of us walking around at the same time? Do you end up running into yourself?" Rose asks.

"Sometimes. It's rare because I remember where not to go most of the time but nobody's perfect, not even me." Nine smirks.

"Never thought I'd hear you admit to that." Martha laughs.

The Doctor is talking about this history of the Olympics as Rose notices a missing person's poster. She calls to him but he is too busy talking about edible ball bearings to listen. Finally he comes over and they see two different kids have gone missing. He also notices it is very cold.

"Well it must require a lot of energy to take those kids and put them in pictures. Maybe it uses heat to replenish its energy." Jack suggests.

Rose asks why a person would do this.

"Some people are just sick Rose, however it's not always a person." Nine reminds her.

"Well, I know that now." She rolls her eyes.

The Doctor asks why she thinks it's a person. A woman puts out her rubbish and goes straight back inside. There is no one else about apart from the council roadmenders and their white van. Rose comments that it has the whole street scared.

"Well I would be too if I was near something that can snatch people into thin air." Martha points out.

She turns to ask the Doctor something but he has run up the street to investigate the front lawn and its goal. He holds his hand out over the grass. A man in a Mini drives into the road, and the engine gives out. One of the road menders comes over to help. He says that is the fifth one today.

"So it snatches kids and makes cars cut out? What can this thing possibly want?" Donna asks in confusion.

"And why is it only taking kids?" Sarah-Jane adds.

The two men start pushing the car. Rose helps. After a bit the engine restarts and the driver drives off. Rose asks if this happens a lot and the bloke tells her it's been going on all week. Rose realises it's since the kids started disappearing. The Doctor is still holding his hand over the ground a bloke asks what his game is. The Doctor replies snakes and ladders.

"Rude." Rose chides with a slight smirk. "That's not what he meant." Ten grins and rubs the back of his neck sheepishly.

The road worker tells Rose that everything is supposed to be perfect because the Olympic torch is coming right by the end of the street.

"So that's going to be the clue to fix this mess then or at least important in some way. Given what we've seen of all the others, anything mentioned this much is important." Sarah-Jane points out.

Maeve comes over and says it takes them when they are playing. Rose asks what takes them and Maeve continues that all the kids were snatched in the blink of an eye. Tom's dad has the Doctor backing away onto the road.

"Making friends already I see." Jack snickers.

"Well, to be fair, I'd be suspicious of strangers poking around when kids have gone missing." Sarah-Jane shrugs.

The Doctor tries to tell him he is a police officer while fishing in his pockets for the psychic paper. He then points to Rose, calling her his colleague but the man points out she looks even less like a police officer than the Doctor. The Doctor replies she is in training, it was either this or hairdressing.

"Oi!" Rose protests. Ten winks at her charmingly.

"First thing that came to mind."

"You really should just let me do the talking." She rolls her eyes.

"Probably." Nine agrees, with a smirk at his future self.

The Doctor brandishes his psychic paper in front of Tom's dad. Trish has come out of her house now and asks what they are going to do. Maeve states the police have knocked on every door. Tom's dad tries to say that kids run off sometimes.

"Not usually three from one street that soon after each other. Nor do they usually vanish into thin air." Donna rolls her eyes.

"Well you thought vanishing into thin air and ending up on the TARDIS was some kind of prank." Ten points out with a grin.

Maeve points out she saw them vanish with her own eyes, whatever is taking the kids is on the street.

"She's good." Nine nods approvingly.

The Doctor starts to say something but is cut off by a woman suggesting he starts with the council worker, who protests he is only fixing things up for the Olympics. They all start shouting at each other. The Doctor keeps trying to talk without success until he finally yells for everyone to put their fingers on their lips, which they eventually do.

"About time." Martha sighs.

"Well he's gotta have practise shutting people up so he can do all the talking himself." Donna laughs.

"Oi!" Ten pouts.

The Doctor points out that three kids have gone missing in six days. Maeve makes a gesture as if wanting to say something and the Doctor allows her. She begs them to help whether they are police officers or not.

"Well she has her head on straight and got her priorities sorted." Rose nods. "Good for her."

Rose looks up at Chloe in the window. Trish notices and goes back inside. Later, the Doctor is back at Tom's house, sniffing. Rose offers him a hanky and he asks what the smell reminds her of. She guesses metal, looking pleased when she gets it right.

"Impressive you can smell anything with those human noses of yours." Nine sighs.

"Yeah, yeah, you have superior biology." Rose rolls her eyes.

Going between two lots of back gardens. The Doctor states that one of the kids cycled in one end and didn't come out the other. Part of the way down he notices something again telling Rose to look at the hairs on the back of his manly hairy hands.

"Manly hairy hands?" Donna sniggers.

"Yes." Ten nods, sticking his nose in the air in a haughty manner. "I'm very manly I'll have you know." Nine snorts.

"Manly might be stretching it a bit far, pretty boy."

"Oi!"

Rose notes the smell again, like burnt fuse plug. The Doctor states that whatever it was used an awful lot of power. Chloe watches a ginger cat in her front garden, then settles down to draw again.

"Not the poor cat." Mickey frowns.

Trish goes into Chloe's room, telling her she has to come down sometime. Chloe brushes this off, saying she's busy. Trish states she must have used up half a rainforest by now. Chloe is drawing the cat on Dale's picture. He is now sitting in the bottom left corner.

"He's definitely moved." Sarah-Jane raises an eyebrow.

"So they are still alive within the picture then? I wonder what they can see." Martha wonders with a frown.

Trish asks why Chloe drew Dale so sad and Chloe replies he made himself sad.

"No, I'm pretty sure you made him sad by capturing him and sticking him in a picture." Donna snaps.

Chloe seems to think he needs more friends. Trish asks if she has seen the TV. Trish clicks on Chloe's laptop, and News24 comes on with its live Countdown to the Games.

"Great, give her more ideas of people to kidnap. Her mum must know something is wrong with her daughter." Martha rolls her eyes.

Trish tries to get Chloe to talk to her but Chloe keeps dismissing her, finally threatening to draw Trish.

"Seriously? What can it possibly want all these people and animals for?" Rose asks.

Outside, Rose calls someone a beautiful boy. The Doctor is pleased by this, saying he is experimenting with backcombing until he realises Rose is talking to the ginger cat. He looks unimpressed.

Everyone bursts out laughing except the two Doctors.

"So, you claim not to be a cat person because of the nuns, what you really mean is, you hate cats because Rose likes them more than you." Jack snickers loudly.

"Of course not." Ten scowls.

"Rose obviously likes me more than a stupid cat." Nine adds.

"Weellllll…" Rose begins with a smirk.

"OI!" Both Doctors turn to pout at her.

She looks at the Doctor, sees his face and asks what. He tells her that he's not a cat person as being threatened by one in a nuns uniform takes the fun out of it.

"Of course that's the problem." Sarah-Jane teases with a wicked smirk.

The cat goes inside cardboard box. Rose follows over but the box is empty. She calls the Doctor over and the smell is clearly very strong. The Doctor identifies it as ion residue. Rose asks if the cat has been transported and he says they need to find the source of the power.

"Not many things use ionic power." Nine frowns, thinking hard. "Especially in a quantity high enough to simply pluck living things out of thin air."

In Chloe's bedroom she complains that the pictures still complain even though she has given them loads of friends. She says they are lucky to be all together.

"Well I'd moan if I were confined to a picture too, regardless of how many friends I have." Donna scowls.

"You'd moan anyway." Ten winks.

"Watch it Spaceman." She glares at him.

As she draws the lead of the pencil snaps. In frustration she draws a large scribble. At the top of the close are the narrow three story houses with the integral garage next to the front door. Rose hears a noise coming from one of them. Rose moves over to it. She listens at the door and there is a loud bang. She chants that she is not going to open it.

"Of course you're going to open it." Jack laughs.

"Could at least call me first." Nine grumbles.

"What if it was just another stray cat?" Rose asks.

"With your luck? I doubt it." He states.

The door is unlocked. Rose gently opens it and a big ball of scribble knocks her down. The Doctor comes running. He calls for Rose to stay still, then he points his sonic screwdriver, and the ball becomes hand-sized. Rose grabs it.

"What the hell? Is that the kids scribble?" Mickey asks in confusion.

"So she can pluck things out of thin air and stick them into drawings and she can bring her drawings to life. Good to know she can reverse it but why a scribble?" Sarah-Jane frowns.

"Maybe it doesn't have complete control over its powers." NIne suggests. "Or it was an act of frustration."

The Doctor asks if she is ok and they hug. Then he states he'll give her a fiver if she can work out what it is because he has no idea.

"Even if I did, you'd never pay up." Rose laughs.

"Oh ye of little faith." Ten retorts.

"Experience has taught me to have little faith in your ability to pay up." She smirks.

Rose says he just killed it but he points out it was never actually alive, just animated by energy. Back in the TARDIS the ball is under analysis. The Doctor looks at the results and tells it to get out of here. Rose asks what it says as the Doctor uses the eraser end of a pencil on the ball, and rubs some of it out. He states it is the same material as an HB pencil. Rose asks if that means she was attacked by a pencil scribble.

"Well, that's different at least." Rose looks at the screen in amusement.

The Doctor corrects that it is a scribble creature brought into being with ionic energy. He states that whatever they are dealing with can create as well as take, before asking why it would make a scribble creature. Rose suggests it might have been a mistake as you scribble over something you want to get rid of, like a child's picture. She realises it's probably the girl. The Doctor calls out 'of course' excitedly before frowning in confusion and asking what girl.

Everybody sniggers loudly.

"Good thinking there, Rosie." Jack grins.

"Good job spotting that girl too." Sarah-Jane adds with a smile. Rose flushes a light red but smiles back at them both.

"My clever little human." Nine smirks down at Rose fondly.

Rose says that something about the girl gave her the creeps and even her own mum looked scared of her. The Doctor smirks slightly as he asks if she is deducting. Rose grins back saying she thinks she is. He asks if it's a copper's hunch and she asks for permission to follow it up.

"Gods, you two are such flirts!" Donna groans in mock exasperation. "How on Earth you two weren't a couple before now is just ridiculous."

The Doctor rings the doorbell, then rattles the letterbox. Trish eventually answers the door. He introduces them before asking if they can see her daughter. Trish declines and the Doctor says ok before the two begin walking off. They don't get far before Trish calls to them, asking why they want to see Chloe.

"I feel bad for her. It's gotta be hard being terrified of your own child. Especially if she realises that can't be just Chloe, something is possessing her." Rose grimaces sympathetically.

"And it's not like ordinary police officers would be able to help." Sarah-Jane adds with a nod.

The Doctor says that there is some interesting things going on on the street and he thought.

"Oi! It was my idea." Rose glares at Ten with mock indignance.

"It was indeed." He acknowledges with a proud smile.

He corrects himself that they thought she might like to give them a hand. Rose calls out they are sorry to bother her. The Doctor agrees, they will just let her get on with things on her own. As they start walking away again, Trish calls for them to wait. She asks if they can help Chloe and the Doctor agrees he can.

"Definitely not without help this time." Ten sighs.

The television is on inside the house. Trish explains that Chloe spends most of the time in her room, not responding when she tries to talk to her. Rose asks about Chloe's dad. Trish states he died a year ago. Rose apologises and Trish tells her she wouldn't be sorry if they'd known him. The Doctor suggests they go and say hi but Trish wants to check on her first.

"Not a lot of point asking for help if you won't let them see her." Donna frowns.

"She's just scared." Jack points out gently. "They are complete strangers to her."

The Doctor asks why Trish is afraid of her and Trish starts telling them how good of a kid Chloe is. Rose interrupts to ask if she can use their loo.

"Sneaky." Mickey smirks.

Trish nods and Rose leaves as she continues to say how great Chloe is. She adds that she is saying these things because she wants the Doctor to know before he sees her as Chloe isn't herself at the moment. Rose goes upstairs, and hides in the airing closet as Chloe comes out of her room and goes downstairs. She goes into Chloe's room and sees the wall covered in drawings, including Dale and the cat. There is a noise from the wardrobe, and she knocks over a jar of coloured pencils. When she's picked them up again, Dale is scowling.

"Is he trying to warn you?" Martha asks curiously.

"Maybe." Rose shrugs. "I'm curious as to how they can make themselves bigger or small in the picture. It was his whole body before, now just his face."

Chloe is getting herself a drink of milk from the fridge. The Doctor wanders in and says hi. Chloe introduces herself and the Doctor tries to talk to her. She suddenly says that they don't stop moaning. Trish starts to say something but Chloe cuts her off saying she tries to help them but they don't stop moaning.

"She isn't helping them. How can she possibly think that she is?" Rose asks in frustration.

The Doctor asks who doesn't stop moaning and Chloe says they can be together. Trish moves towards her but Chloe tells her not to touch her. Upstairs the doors to the wardrobe rattle again. Rose opens them.

"Must you always do that when I'm not there?" Nine blew out a breath of exasperation.

"Yep. More fun that way." Rose grins at him and he rolls his eyes.

"Of course it is." He mutters sarcastically.

A wind blows in her face. She parts the clothes to see a drawing of a bearded, yellow-eyed man.

"Is that supposed to be her dad?" Sarah-Jane asks in horror.

"I think so." Nine grimaces. "Trish did say he wasn't particularly nice."

Downstairs Chloe tells the Doctor she is busy and starts to head upstairs when Rose calls for him. He dashes past Chloe and up the stairs. He helps Rose shut the doors and she tells him to look at it. He declines, looking at the other pictures instead.

"Wise call given that those things can potentially come to life." Jack mutters.

Trish asks what the hell that was and Rose states it was the face of a man. Trish asks what face, going to open the doors again and Rose tells her it's best not to. She then asks Chloe what she has been drawing and she replies it's her dad and she drew him yesterday.

"Why would she want to?" Martha wonders with a frown. "If she wants everyone to get along and have friends that seems like an odd choice."

"Maybe that drawing just took on a life of its own. It's the only one that seems to actually speak, not to mention the breeze it created." Mickey notes.

"Great, that's just what we need. The pictures getting lives of there own, considering they will probably be pretty angry at being stuck in pictures." Rose sighs.

Trish asks why she would draw her dad and Chloe confesses she dreams about him. Trish says she thought they were putting the matter behind them. Chloe states they need to stay together and Trish agrees but Chloe says not her, but them. Rose asks if Trish has seen what the pictures can do. Trish suddenly asks who gave her permission to come into the room.

"Pushing them away isn't going to help." Jack frowns.

"True, but confessing to most people you saw your daughters pictures moving would get you taken to a mental institution." Donna reminds him.

"I forget humans were so intolerant back then." He sighs.

The Doctor asks Chloe about the drawings but Trish continues to try and get rid of them. Rose points out that the drawing spoke and that Chloe has power. Trish tries to deny seeing anything until the Doctor steps in saying that he is help. The Doctor absentmindedly starts eating marmalade from a jar with his fingers.

"Really Spaceman?" Donna rolls her eyes. Ten grins sheepishly.

"I was hungry."

Rose coughs and shakes her head. He pauses, realises what he is doing and puts it back.

"Good job someone sensible is there." Jack sniggers.

Rose states the pictures are alive and Chloe is putting them there. The Doctor tells her that they are being put into a holding pen of ionic power. Rose asks about the man in the wardrobe and Trish protests he is dead.

"He might be but the picture isn't." Sarah-Jane breathes sadly.

"With ionic power, Chloe wouldn't need to just snatch living kids, she could draw anything and bring it to life just like the scribble." Nine mutters. "That one seems to be taking on a life of its own though, I don't think Chloe is the one bringing it to life."

"What else could it be?" Rose asks.

"Not sure." He shrugs.

Rose turns away muttering that he has a very loud voice for a dead bloke.

They all laugh.

The Doctor guesses that if living things can become drawings then it could work in reverse. Trish admits Chloe got the worst of it when her dad was alive. Rose asks how a twelve year old girl could be doing this and he suggests they find out. Upstairs, Chloe is sitting on her bed. She does the Vulcan salute when the Doctor enters.

"It's not that hard." Donna rolls her eyes. Ten sticks his tongue out at her.

He puts his fingers on her temple and she rolls her eyes up. He lays her back on the bed. Trish starts to move forwards but Rose holds her back, telling her to trust him. The Doctor talks to whatever is possessing Chloe and finds out it is an Isolus.

"Oh of course." Nine groans.

"What's an Isolus?" Mickey asks.

"I'm about to explain." Ten gestures to the screen.

"It sounds like a child." Martha notes.

"It is." Ten tells her.

The Isolus talks as the Doctor explains to Rose and Trisha what an Isolus is. He also explains that while they travel they create make believe worlds out of ionic energy.

"Wow. That's some pretty awesome entertainment." Jack whistles.

"Playing forever in whatever world you want." Mickey mutters a little enviously.

The Doctor realises there was a solar flare that made the Isolus crash to Earth. He asks where the pod is and there is a memory of a tiny white flower-like being flying into Chloe's room and then into her mouth. The Isolus explains the pod was drawn to heat and it was drawn to Chloe.

"Two lonely kids." Sarah-Jane realises sadly.

The Doctor tells the Isolus he understands but says it can't steal more friends. A crash from the wardrobe. A red glow and the door shakes. Chloe is shaking. The Doctor asks Trish how to calm Chloe down. She is confused and he clarifies, asking what she does to calm Chloe down when she has nightmares. Trish states that she sings and he urges her to do so. She sits beside Chloe and begins singing. Chloe falls asleep, and the wardrobe falls silent.

"It's feeding off her negative emotions." Nine guesses.

Downstairs they are collecting all the pencils they can find. Trish admits Chloe bore the brunt of her dads temper when he'd had a drink. Rose asks if they talked about it once he died and Trish states firmly she didn't want to.

"Well I doubt Chloe really wanted to think about it either but they both needed to. It's hard to put behind you if you just ignore it." Martha says.

"Especially if Chloe got the worst of it. She probably needed to talk about her nightmares." Sarah-Jane sighs.

Rose suggest that is why Chloe feels so lonely and she realises the Isolus won't stop. The Doctor says it is desperate to be loved and is used to a big family. About 4 billion.

"That's a little bigger than just big." Rose mumbles.

"Yeah, that's most of the planet." Mickey agrees.

Chloe is watching the television on her laptop.

"And she can see a huge crowd of people." Jack winces.

"We just took all her pencils." Rose points out.

"This is you guys. Nothing ever goes as planned." Donna reminds her with a smirk. Rose groans at this.

Downstairs the Doctor states they need the pod as he and Rose leave the house. Rose asks if it would have been destroyed in the crash but he points out it is still sucking in all the heat. Chloe watches them leave through the window.

"Don't tell me it's going to be stupid enough to take away the only people that can help?" Jack moans miserably.

"Still here." Ten waves cheerfully.

Trish is on the telephone as Chloe sneaks out. Rose and the Doctor head back into the TARDIS as Chloe watches.

"Not my TARDIS." Nine scowls.

The Doctor is building a gizmo. He and Rose debate about whether the Isolus is really at fault. Rose states it seems like a kid throwing a temper tantrum.

"It has just been separated from its entire family." Jack reminds her.

"And now it's taking other kids from theirs." She points out.

Chloe returns to her room and pulls the head off a doll to reveal her secret stash of pencils.

"Fantastic." Rose sighs in annoyance.

The Doctor asks for gum and Rose spits hers out as they continue talking. He admits he was a dad once.

"Really?" Martha asks in wonder. Ten nods stiffly.

"It's been mentioned I was a grandfather once. Kind of have to have kids for that to happen." Nine snaps, not appreciating the reminder. Rose rubs his arm gently, snuggling closer to him. His arm tightens around her automatically.

The Doctor uses Rose's chewing gum to fix a component in place, then closes the lid on the glass globe containing the gizmo. He keeps talking, ending with how sometimes you just need a hand to hold. Rose is holding her hand out so he takes it, grinning.

"Well I want to be that for you, but I'm pointing at the screen." Rose tells him. She does then reach out and take Ten's hand again, having dropped it to comfort Nine.

She laughs and states she is pointing. The scanner is registering an energy source. It says the pod is in the street and he proclaims that everything's coming up Doctor.

"Oh dear." Jack snickers. "Not for long then."

Chloe starts drawing the Tardis.

"Oi!" Nine protests unhappily. Rose chuckles.

The Doctor and Rose leave the TARDIS as he starts describing what the pod would look like. Chloe starts drawing the Doctor.

"Just fantastic. Couldn't be me could it? No it had to be the one who actually knows what he's doing." Rose groans.

Rose is talking when there is a crash. She turns and the Doctor is gone, as is the TARDIS.

"No need to take my ship too." Ten grumbles.

"Of course you'd be more worried about the ship than yourself." Rose rolls her eyes.

"Well, I've got you to get me out of this mess." He shrugs.

"I wonder why she didn't take Rose as well." Sarah-Jane frowns.

"I'm just glad she didn't." Nine scowls.

Rose hammers on Trish's door. She lets her in and Rose runs upstairs. Trish calls that she has taken all the pencils. Rose bursts into the room and snatches the picture of the Doctor and the TARDIS. Chloe tells her to leave her alone as she wants Chloe Webber. Rose tells her to bring him back but she refuses. She points out he was the only one who could help.

"So she wants Chloe more than her family now?" Jack frowns in confusion.

"Stupid, bratty children." Rose mutters.

The Isolus repeats that it loves Chloe. Rose says she knows. Then she tells the picture than she will get the Doctor out of there.

"I had complete faith in you." Ten smiles warmly.

She goes outside as Kel is admiring the latest bit of tarmac. Rose goes over and talks to him, asking him to think about six days ago. He says that is when he filled in the pothole for the first time. She mutters about hot, fresh tar. He says it's blended to a secret council recipe as Rose runs towards the van.

"That's my clever Rose." Nine grins proudly. "Always spotting those details."

He calls after her he doesn't keep it in the van.

"Why on Earth would she want a secret tarmac recipe?" Jack scoffs, looking amused.

"Well, it is secret. I could sell it." Rose laughs.

She climbs in the van as he tells her it is a council van and to get out. Rose grabs a pickaxe from the back of the van. Kel tries to stop her as she starts digging up the pothole. She finds the tiny spaceship. Kel asks what it is. Rose tells him it's a spaceship before adding it's not a council spaceship.

They all laugh.

ROSE: It's a spaceship. Not a council spaceship, I'm afraid. Chloe bars her bedroom door with a chair. She grabs a pencil from under the mattress, and begins to draw the Stadium and its occupants.

"I said don't leave her alone." Rose grumbles.

"That kid has way too many pencils." Jack mutters.

Rose runs into the house calling that she has found it. Trish comes in and Rose says she told her not to leave Chloe. Then the Olympic crowd vanishes. Kel comes in and Rose tells him to shut up, pointing to the TV. Rose states it still won't be enough.

"Clearly these pictures aren't helping her feel less lonely though. Why bother taking more and more when they don't like her, or help her feel less lonely?" Martha asks.

"It doesn't know what else to do." Nine shrugs.

Chloe opens an atlas and prepares to draw the Earth. She states they will have them all. On the TV the voice says something about the battle of Torchwood.

"What?" Rose asks as Ten stiffens.

"Nothing." He mutters quietly. She gives him a look that states she clearly doesn't believe him.

Rose calls to Chloe from outside. Chloe rips down some pictures and starts drawing on the wall. Rose breaks the door down with the pickaxe. Rose gets a hand through to push the chair away and come in. The Isolus says that if they stop Chloe then it will let the drawing of her father out.

"See, it's being a selfish little brat." Rose scowls furiously. "It's lonely so it's going to kidnap an entire planet."

Rose holds out the pod but Chloe states it is dead. Rose points out it needs heat and she replies it needs more than that. Rose asks what and Kel points out on of the pictures moved. The picture of the Doctor now has a picture of the Olympic torch too. Rose realises he drew it not the Isolus.

"Wow. You can draw things from inside there? That's cool." Jack grins. Ten smirks smugly at him.

On screen the commentator is saying that the torch is now far more than a torch as it is a beacon of love. Rose realises what the Doctor was trying to tell her. The pod needs love as well as heat.

"Brilliant." Nine grins.

Rose pushes her way through the crowd at the end of the close. A policeman won't let her get any closer. Chloe has coloured in Europe and Africa, and is starting on the Atlantic. Chloe's dad is still trying to get out. Outside, the pod is chittering and Rose realises it felt something. She dashes closer, whispers for it to feel the love and then throws it. It flies into the flame of the Torch. The Torch Bearer staggers briefly then carries on. Rose cheers wildly.

"Nicely done." Mickey grins. "I never knew you were such a good shot."

"Thankfully it can fly." Rose laughs.

The Isolus stops drawing and says it can go home now. It says goodbye to Chloe before leaving. Chloe runs and hugs Trish. Kel and Rose hug, though Kel is confused. Back down the Close, the missing children reappear and run to their parents. Rose looks desperately for the Doctor but can't see him. She mutters that all the drawings have come to life before dashing back towards Trish's house.

"Oh dear." Sarah-Jane winces.

"Is he back, as a real thing now?" Mickey asks.

"Not quite. The other pictures were once real people. That drawing is just from Chloe's nightmares. So while it has come to life, it's not a real human being." Nine explains.

There is a red glow in Chloe's bedroom. Chloe and Trish are walking down the stairs when the front door slams shut, then the other doors, too. Rose calls for them to get out but they can't. She asks if the Doctor is in there. Rose tries to assure Chloe it isn't real like the others, as it is just energy left from the Isolus.

"Nice parting gift." Jack mutters.

Trish calls for her to help them. Rose tells them Chloe can get rid of it. Chloe protests that she can't. Trish assures Chloe she'll never be alone again and Rose calls for them to sing. Both of them start singing and the red glow fades.

"Good job again, Rosie. You're on a roll." Jack grins, holding up his hand for an air high five which Rose gives with a laugh.

Later Kel walks up to Rose, saying that maybe her friend has gone somewhere. She asks who is going to hold his hand now. Back inside, the crowd on TV have returned and Rose still can't find the Doctor. Then the torch bearer collapses and the Doctor appears to pick it up and carry on.

"You bloody sod. How the hell did you get there anyway? Everyone else appeared where they were taken." Rose scowls at him

I may have taken the TARDIS." He admits.

"And you couldn't be bothered to let me know you were ok first?" She demands. "It's not like it's a time machine or anything!"

The spotlight follows the Doctor as he runs up the red carpet to the lower cauldron. He whoops with joy then lights the gas. The flame runs up to the main cauldron and ignites the proper Olympic flame. The Isolus pod zooms up into the night sky.

"I'd better hit you when you get back." Rose mutters, though she is smiling slightly.

"It's alright. You did." He laughs.

Later, out on the street Rose walks up to the Doctor. She holds out a fairy cake with silver sugar ball decorations on. He is very pleased by this and Rose confesses she thought she had lost him as she hugs him. She asks what now and he says they are going to the games which is what they came for. She asks for a hint. Then she states they keep trying to split them up but they never will.

Everybody winces at this statement.

"I'll find a way back." Rose states.

"Rose…" Ten begins, pain in his voice as well as warning.

"I will." She insists firmly. "I wouldn't stop until I found a way back." He gives her a weak smile.

He says don't say never ever. Rose states they will always be ok but the Doctor says there is a storm approaching. The screen goes black.

"Right. Bedtime." Ten announces. They all stand up in ones and twos. A few hugs each before they disappear into their own rooms until only the Doctors and Rose are left. Jack made sure to give each of them an extra big hug before disappearing.

"Are you sure you're gonna be ok to watch what's next?" Rose asks Ten anxiously.

"No. I'll never be ok to watch that again. Living it once was more than I care for. However, if we want to fix it, gotta watch it."

"You could sit out. The others would understand." Rose offers.

"No. I'll manage. Might need a few cuddles though." He tries for a cheeky smile. Rose laughs, partly at the comment and partly as Nine's expression.

"I'm sure we can manage that." She grins. Then she pulls him into an incredibly tight hug. He clings to her desperately before finally letting go. Something that never gets any easier. Then he goes through the door to his own bedroom. Soon after, Rose and Nine go into theirs.