Butterfly Effect

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“Well, hello gorgeous.” Jack smirked at me.

I smirked back. “Oh Captain, my Captain.” I blinked. “I just saw you the other day. Where are we?”

Jack just kept smiling. “I don’t know, but I was just attacked by two androids on a TV show.”

I dropped my jaw. Sweet Merciful Storyline. “Please tell me you didn’t just drop off Margaret at Raxacoricofallapatorius, then go to Japan?”

Jack looked confused, then blinked. “Yeah, how did you know that?”

Oh no. No. Bad Wolf.

“Okay.” I took a breath. “Okay. We need to find the Doctor.”

The lift doors opened. “We just did.”

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“Hey, handsome. Good to see you? Any sign of Rose?”

The Doctor: “Can’t you track her down?”

Jack: “She must still be inside the games. All the rooms are shielded.”

The Doctor: “If I can just get inside this computer. She’s got to be here somewhere.”

(The Doctor is working on the console Adam used a century before.)

Jack: “Well, you’d better hurry up. These games don’t have a happy ending.”

The Doctor: “Do you think I don’t know that?”

(Jack hands over his wrist computer.)

Jack: “There you go, patch that in. It’s programmed to find her.”

The Doctor: “Thanks.”

Jack: “Hey, there.”

Lynda: “Hello.”

Jack: “Captain Jack Harkness.”

Lynda: “Lynda Moss.”

Jack: “Nice to meet you, Lynda Moss.”

The Doctor: “Do you mind flirting outside?”

Jack: “I was just saying hello!”

The Doctor: “For you, that’s flirting.”

Lynda: “I’m not complaining.”

Jack: “Muchas gracias.”

The Doctor: “It’s not compatible. This stupid system doesn’t make sense.”

(The Doctor gives the computer to Lynda and kicks the console. Jack takes off the front plate.)

The Doctor: “This place should be a basic broadcaster, but the systems are twice as complicated. It’s more than just television. This station’s transmitting something else.”

Jack: “Like what?”

The Doctor: “I don’t know. This whole Bad Wolf thing’s tied up with me. Someone’s manipulated my entire life. It’s some sort of trap and Rose is stuck inside it.”

“Room 407.” I said.

The three turned to me.

I gulped. “Rose is in Room 407.”

Lynda gasped. “Oh, my God, she’s with the Anne Droid. You’ve got to get her out of there.”

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The Doctor: “Come on, come on!”

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ANNE DROID: “Rodrick, in physics, who discovered the Fifteen Dash Ten Barric Fields?”

The Doctor: “Game Room Six, which one is it?”

Lynda: “Over here!”

RODRICK: “San Hazeldine.”

ANNE DROID: “No. the correct answer is San Chen.”

Jack: “Stand back, let me blast it open.”

The Doctor: “You can’t. it’s made of Hydra combination.”

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ANNE DROID: “Rose, in history, which Icelandic city hosted Murder Spree Twenty?”

Rose: “Reykjavik?”

ANNE DROID: “No, the correct answer is Pola Ventura.”

(Rodrick got two right, Rose got one.)

RODRICK: “Oh, my God! I’ve done it! You’ve lost!”

(The Doctor is working on the lock to the studio.)

The Doctor: “Come on, come on, come on.”

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Rose: “But I’m not meant to be here. I need to find the Doctor, he’s got to be here somewhere he’s always here! He wouldn’t just leave me!”

ANNE DROID: “Rodrick, you are the strongest link, you will be transported home with one thousand six hundred credits.”

RODRICK: “Oh, thank you, thank you so much.”

Rose: “This game is illegal. I’m telling you to stop!”

The Doctor: “Rose! Stop this game!”

“Rosita run!” I screamed.

ANNE DROID: “Rose, you leave this life with nothing.”

Jack: “Stop this game!”

The Doctor: “I order you to stop this game!”

ANNE DROID: “You are the weakest link.”

Rose: “Look out for the Anne Droid, it’s armed!”

I shoved Rose aside, just before the beam could hit.

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I glared at the Daleks.

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DALEK 2: “Alert. Alert. We are detected.”

Dalek: “It is the Doctor. He has located us. Open communications channel.”

DALEK 2: “The female will stand. Stand!”

(A holo-viewscreen pops into view with Floor 500 on it.)

Dalek: “I will talk to the Doctor.”

The Doctor: “Oh, will you? That’s nice. Hello!”

Dalek: “The Dalek stratagem nears completion. The fleet is almost ready. You will not intervene.”

The Doctor: “Oh, really? Why’s that, then?”

Dalek: “We have your associate. You will obey or she will be exterminated.”

The Doctor: “No.”

(Everyone looks at the Doctor.)

Dalek: “Explain yourself.”

“Doctor, don’t-”

A Dalek poked me with his plunger. I glared at it in annoyance.

The Doctor: “I said no.”

Dalek: “What is the meaning of this negative?”

The Doctor: “It means no”

Dalek: “But she will be destroyed!”

“Just get out of here!” I screamed at him. “I’ll be fine!”

“Be silent!” The Dalek ordered.

The Doctor: “No! Because this is what I’m going to do. I’m going to rescue her. I’m going to save Terra Song from the middle of the Dalek fleet, and then I’m going to save the Earth, and then, just to finish off, I’m going to wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!”

Dalek: “But you have no weapons, no defences, no plan.”

The Doctor: “Yeah. And doesn’t that scare you to death. Terra?”

Terra: “Yeah, Doc?”

The Doctor: “I’m coming to get you.”

(Transmission ends, courtesy of the sonic screwdriver.)

Dalek: “The Doctor is initiating hostile action.”

DALEK 2: “The stratagem must advance. Begin the invasion of Earth!”

DALEK 3: “The Doctor will be exterminated!”

Daleks: “Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!”

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Dalek: “You know the Doctor. You understand him. You will predict his actions.”

“No.” I growled.

Dalek: “Predict! Predict! Predict!”

DALEK 2: “TARDIS detected in flight.”

Dalek: “Launch missiles. Exterminate.”

Terra: “The TARDIS doesn’t have any defences. You’re going to kill him!”

Dalek: “You have predicted correctly.”

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The Doctor: “Terra, get down! Get down, Rose!”

Dalek: “Exterminate!”

(The Dalek fires and misses. Jack takes out the Dalek with the modified Defabricator.)

Rose: “You did it.”

(The Doctor hugs Terra.)

Terra: “You should’ve run away.”

The Doctor just kept a firm hold on me. “I wasn’t going to lose you.”

He ended the hug, and I was left giving him a perplexed look. Rose came barreling up to me before I could say anymore.

Rose: “Feels like I haven’t seen you in years.”

I nodded, patting her back. “Yeah. It does. You all right?” I asked her.

Rose smiled, then frowned. “You pushed me out of the way.”

“Of course I did.” I said. “You’re a part of my family, Rosita. I kinda have to take a metaphorical bullet for you.”

Rose’s eyes filled with tears. “But why? How did you know it wouldn’t kill you?”

I shrugged. “Saving the life of Rosita Tyler? I can’t think of a better way to go.” I blinked. “Well, except maybe dying of excitement. Can you imagine being so excited your heart just stops-” Rose hugged me, knocking the rest of my sentence out of my lungs. “Did the Big Bad Time Lord yell at you? Because, I have a way to fix that.”

“No.” Rose almost started to laugh. “No he didn’t.”

“Good. I’d have hit him hard enough for Jackie Tyler to wince.” I tried to cheer her up.

“Hey, don’t I get a hug?” Jack asked, in mock offense.

“Maybe if you’re good.” I teased. “I’d consider giving you a handshake.”

“I was talking to him.” Jack came up to me, and hugged me. “Welcome home.”

“Mmm.” I sighed. This place did feel like home, and they were all my family. “Thought I’d never see some of 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.”

“Well, that sucks.”

Rose: “You never explained. 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.”

The Doctor: “They went off to fight a bigger war. The Time War.”

Jack: “I thought that was just a legend.”

The 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.”

Rose: “There’s thousands of them now. We could hardly stop one. What’re we going to do?”

The 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!”

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The Doctor: “Is that it? Useless! Nul points. It’s all right, come on out. That force field can hold back anything.”

Jack: “Almost anything.”

The Doctor: “Yes, but I wasn’t going to tell them that. Thanks.”

Jack: “Sorry.”

The 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?”

Dalek Emperor: “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..)

The Doctor: “Rose, Captain, this is the Emperor of the Daleks.”

Dalek Emperor: “You destroyed us, Doctor. The Dalek race died in your inferno, but my ship survived, falling through time, crippled but alive.”

The Doctor: “I get it.”

Dalek: “Do not interrupt.”

DALEK 2: “Do not interrupt.”

DALEK 3: “Do not interrupt.”

The 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?”

Dalek 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.”

The Doctor: “So you created an army of Daleks out of the dead.”

Rose: “That makes them half human.”

Dalek Emperor: “Those words are blasphemy.”

Dalek: “Do not blaspheme.”

DALEK 2: “Do not blaspheme.”

DALEK 3: “Do not blaspheme.”

Dalek Emperor: “Everything human has been purged. I cultivated pure and blessed Dalek.”

The Doctor: “Since when did the Daleks have a concept of blasphemy?”

Dalek 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 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.”

Dalek 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!”

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The Doctor: “Turn everything up. All transmitters full power, wide open. Now! Do it!”

PAVALE: “What does this do?”

The 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.”

The 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.”

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

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The 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.”

The Doctor: “Give the man a medal.”

Jack: “A Delta Wave?”

The Doctor: “A Delta Wave!”

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.”

The Doctor: “And this place can transmit a massive wave. Wipe out the Daleks!”

Lynda: “Well, get started and do it then.”

The 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.”

WOMAN: “There’s five of us.”

The 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.”

The 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.”

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.)

Jack: “See you in hell.”

(Jack leaves.)

Rose: “He’s going to be all right, isn’t he?”

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Rose: “Suppose.”

The Doctor: “What?”

Rose: “Nothing.”

The 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?”

The 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.”

The 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.”

The Doctor: “No, but you could ask. Never even occurred to you, did it?”

Rose: “Well, I’m just too good.”

The 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?”

The Doctor: “Rose Tyler, you’re a genius! We can do it. If I use the TARDIS to cross my old timeline. Yes!”

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The Doctor: “Hold that down and keep position.”

Rose: “What’s it do?”

The 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.”

The Doctor: “Me too. Now, I’ve just got to go and power up the Game Station. Hold on!”

The Doctor grabbed my arm. I let out a yelp.

“Hey!” I yelled at him. “Don’t you dare think you can do this to me again!”

Nine just frowned at me, in what I knew as him apologizing. He tossed me into the TARDIS, and the doors closed behind me.

(The Doctor runs out and stops in the midst of his 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!  Let me out! Doctor, what’ve you done?”

“I’m gonna kill him.” I growled. I stopped my foot on the metal grating. “It was an empty threat last time, but this time I freakin’ mean it! The Doctor is gonna wish the Daleks get to him first!”

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HOLO-The Doctor: “This is Emergency Programme One. Terra, 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!”

I just glared at the hologram.

The 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 and Rose home.”

Rose: “I won’t let you.”

I kept glaring. Hell yes he was in a life or death situation. He threw me in here! I was gonna kill him if the TARDIS would take me back.

HOLO-The Doctor: “And I bet Rose is gonna be 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 with that boyfriend of your’s, Mickey. Can you do that Rose? Do that for me, Terra. Have a fantastic life.”

‘I can’t without you.’ I thought, as sappy as it was.

(The hologram flickers out.)

Rose: “You can’t do this to us. You can’t. Take us back! Take us 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, Terra, help me!”

“Rosita, the TARDIS won’t let you.” I said, my voice hard. “She always takes us where we need to go, almost never where we want to go.”

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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 began crying on his shoulder.

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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.”

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.”

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“He’s gonna die.” Rose snapped. “And you’re just sitting here lettin’ him!”

I stood up, glaring at the blonde. “No. That’s where you’re wrong.” With that, I marched towards the TARDIS. I knew how to fix this, how to fix him. Rose was taking too damn long.

“What are you doin’?” She yelled.

“The Doctor was trying to keep me away.” I called back. “But, he’s too late. He wants to fight the big bad wolf? Fine. Then I’ll bring it to him.”

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I raised a brow. “You comin’, or what?”

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“Stay back there Tyler!” I barked. Rose flinched. It wasn’t often I used my loud voice with her. “And don’t come out until I say.”

She seemed hesitant, but walked off into the TARDIS. “Give the Doctor one for from me.”

“Got it.”

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“Please.” I pleaded with the TARDIS. “Please, Sexy, you love him as much as I do. You know you do. I have to save him. Please, Sexy, please.” I almost started crying. “TARDIS please! Just open up your heart, so I can go and save him!”

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With heavy hearts, I walked to the TARDIS door.

There was a heavy metal clanging. Looking back, I saw the metal panel had fallen. The heart of the TARDIS was open.

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I walked out, feeling the power of Bad Wolf inside of me.

The Doctor: “What’ve you done?”

Terra: “I looked into the TARDIS, and the TARDIS looked into me.” I said in a sing song voice.

The Doctor: “You looked into the Time Vortex. Terra, no one’s meant to see that.”

Dalek Emperor: “This is the Abomination!”

Dalek: “Exterminate!”

(Terra stops the beam with her hand.)

“I’m the Bad Wolf.” I said, my voice an eerie calm. “I create myself. I take the words, I scatter them in time and space. A message to lead myself here.” I let out a mirthless smile. “Even through death.”

‘A girl, fallen by the hands of the Time Lords. She stood up, completely new.’

‘A woman lying in the floor, her hearts came to a stop. Her body glowed gold, landing her somewhere safe. Her body continued to glow gold, though.’

There. Now that they were taken care of...

The Doctor: “Terra, 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.”

“I need you safe. My Doctor.” I explained. “Protected from the false god.”

Dalek Emperor: “You cannot hurt me. I am immortal.”

Terra: “You are tiny.” I stated, throwing in a glare. “You have touched with forces far beyond your capacity of understanding. You have endangered MY PACK!” I shouted, feeling the Vortex swell in my fingertips. “No one hurts those I call family, no one hurts my pack!”

The Daleks started to glow in golden sparkles.

“Bad Wolf. Terra Song. The Empty Queen. It doesn’t matter what you call me, they all mean the same damn thing.” I growled, feeling my eyes glow brighter. “That I defend that which is Mine, the very thing you just tried to murder.”

Seeing those Daleks pointing at the Doctor ready to shoot set my blood on fire. It didn’t matter to me which one he was, they were all Mine. Love one, love them all.

“So, as any good mother would say, think you need a timeout!” I shouted.

With a fierce wave of my hand, the Daleks disintegrated into dust one by one.

(A Dalek disintegrates gently.)

Terra: “Everything must come to dust. All things. Everything dies. The Time War ends.”

Dalek Emperor: “I will not die. I cannot die!”

The Doctor: “Terra, you’ve done it. Now stop. Just let go.”

Terra: “How can I let go of this? I bring life.”

(Jack breaths again.) ‘Off in the next room, Jack sat up in a pile of dalek dust. He gasped, coming back to life for the first time.’

You could feel it in the air, the wrongness that was now in the station. Jack Harkness, Time Lord repellant. The Doctor: “But this is wrong! You can’t control life and death.”

Terra: “But I can.” “The sun and the moon, the day and night. They are both me. I burn like the sun, and sooth like the moon. But why do they hurt?”

The Doctor: “The power’s going to kill you and it’s my fault.”

Terra: “I can see everything. All that is, all that was, all that ever could be.”

The Doctor: “That’s what I see. All the time. And doesn’t it drive you mad?”

“I was born mad.” I sighed. “My head.”

The Doctor: “Come here.”

Terra: “It’s killing me.”

The Doctor held my face in his hands. “Terra, I think you need a Doctor.”

“I always will.” I said.

The Doctor kissed me, and I felt the power leave me. It went into him, keeping time going as it was.

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Terra: “What happened?”

The Doctor: “Don’t you remember?”

I glared at him, half tempted to slap him. “You sent me away.”

“You would’ve gotten yourself killed.” He reminded me.

“You said you wanted me to have a normal, fantastic life.” I went on. “How could I?”

The Doctor shrugged. I could see him make the tiniest gesture of pain. “I sent you back to your boyfriend.”

‘Don’t correct him, don’t correct him. Also, don’t beat him with a stick.’ I thought. “And if I didn’t want to be sent back?”

The Doctor just looked over the console. It was what he did when he was trying to ignore me, at least a little. “You should have just stayed with Mickey. Have a normal life, without me.”

My eyes widened. I backed up from where I was standing. I was shocked, truly and utterly shocked. Finding out River was Melody? Nothing. Jack was the Face of Boe? A few minutes of laughs. The Doctor knew I was a Traveler? Maybe something.

The Doctor thinking I was...with Mickey...

“You thought me...and Mickey...” I gagged. “Gross!”

“Your phone. It said M Smith when he called you.” The Doctor pointed out.

“Yeah, Matt Smith.” I corrected. “Matt Smith. Not Mickey! That dude is like a brother to me!”

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“Rosita!” I shouted, having enough of his arrogance for today. “Get your blonde behind in here!”

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“Goodbye, Terra.” The Doctor frowned.

I did too. “Arrivederci, Dumbo.”