Butterfly Effect

by Authora97

Rating: mature
Tags: Adventure, Dark, Human, Sad, Romance, Science Fiction
Length: 40251

Things with the stuff

The Timelines are changing. Terra can feel them, now that she’s been turned into a Time Lady. She’s survived her first encounter with the Master, but at the cost of her first child. She’s got two more children. She’s falling in love with the Doctor. What will happen on Trenzalore? How can she survive Eleven’s death? How can she hide who (and what) she is from Nine and Ten? The ripple effects of her existence are driving her up the wall, what can Terra do to answer her own questions?
No. More Important. How can Terra keep the Doctor from breaking the gift of her hearts?

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2016-02-20 02:48:30 UTC

Vampires of Venice

The bastard did not.

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I gulped. “Roseanna, please. Don’t do this.”

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“Why should we?” Roseanna asked. “Why should we spare you?”

“Because the Doctor is coming, and you better hope I’m alive when he does.” I explained. “He tends to get emotional when this all happens.”

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Francesco brushed back a bit of my hair. “Actually, Mummy, I think I shall claim this one to be my bride.”

I glared at the man, panting. “In...your dreams, Nemo.”

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The Doctor just watched me. Didn’t ask any questions, didn’t try to intervene, just watched.

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Guido: “Where’s my Isabella?”

(Guido lifts the girls veils until he finds his daughter.)

Guido: “Isabella? Isabella, it’s me.”

I shoved Guido to the ground hissing at him. The man’s eyes widened.

(One of the girls knocks Guido down and bares her needle-teeth at him.)

WOMAN: “Girls, come along.

Francesco: “She’s gone.”

Guido: “Isabella! It’s me!

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The Doctor: “Hello, handsome.

(As he adjusts his tie in the mirror, girls in white robes appear behind him. They have no reflections.)

Vampire Girls: “Who are you?” We asked him.

The man excitedly looked over us. He froze once his eyes landed on me. He reminded me of the man from earlier. Terrified, horrified, all those other words. I wonder why.

“28.” I found myself saying.

The man frowned. “Terra? What are you doing over there?”

I blinked, tilting my head to the side. How did he know my name?

Vampire Girls: “I’ll ask you again, signor. Who are you?”

The man looked between us and the mirror. “How are you doing that? I am loving it. You’re like Houdini, only five slightly scary girls, and he was shorter. Will be shorter. I’m rambling.”

“Who are you?” My sisters and I asked.

The Doctor: “Why don’t you check this out?

(The Doctor holds out an ID card with William Hartnell’s photograph on it. The girls stare at it blankly, then the Doctor looks at it.)

The Doctor: “Library card. Of course, it’s with. He’s. I need a spare. Pale, creepy girls who don’t like sunlight and can’t be seen.” He looked at me. “Ha. Am I thinking what I think I’m thinking? But the city. Why shut down the city? Unless

Vampire Girls: “Leave now, signor, or we shall call for the Steward, if you are lucky.

The Doctor: “Ooo.

(The girls teeth turn into needles, and they start to advance on the Doctor, hissing.)

The Doctor: “Tell me the whole plan. (sotto) One day that will work. Listen, I would love to stay here. This whole thing. On one hand, I’m thrilled. Other hand, Oh, this is Christmas.

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Rory: “So, basically, both of our parents are dead from getting the plague. I’m a gondola driver, so money’s a bit tight, so having my sister go to your school for special people would be brilliant. Cheers.

Francesco: “Have we met?

Rory: “I’ve just got one of those faces.

Francesco: “I wasn’t talking to you.

Rory: “She’s got the same face, which is because she’s my sister.

Rosanna: “Carlo, explain yourself. Why have you brought me this imbecile?

(Carlo is the Steward.)

CARLO: “Signora, they have references from His Majesty the King of Sweden.

Rosanna: “What? Let me see.

(Rory steps forward with the psychic paper whilst Francesco circles Amy.)

Rosanna: “Well, now I see what got my Steward so excited. What say you, Francesco? Do you like her?

Francesco: “Oh, I do, Mother. I do.

Rosanna: “Then we would be delighted to accept her. Say goodbye to your sister.

(Carlo hustles Rory away.)

Amelia: “Tell Uncle Doctor I’ll see you both really soon, okay? I’ll be fine.

Rory: “Amy.

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CARLO: “There are clothes on the bed. Get changed and wait here.

Amelia: “Blimey. This is private education, then?

(Carlo leaves with all but one of the girls.)

Amelia: “Hey. Hello, I’m Amy. What’s your name?

Isabella: “Isabella.

Amelia: “Listen, we’re going to get you out of here, but I need you to tell me what’s going on. What is this place? What are they doing?

Isabella: “They er, they come at night. They gather around my bed, and they take me to a room with this green light and a chair with straps, as if for a surgeon.

Amelia: “What happens in there?

Isabella: “I wake up here. And the sunlight burns my skin like candle wax.

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The Doctor: “Push. Come on. There we are. Amy. Where’s Amy? Amy?

Rory: “I can’t see a thing. Just as well I brought this, then.

(Rory produces a tiny penlight, the Doctor pulls out a small light sabre.)

The Doctor: “Ultraviolet. Portable sunlight.

Rory: “Yours is bigger than mine.

The Doctor: “Let’s not go there.

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Rory: “If we cancel now, we lose the deposit on the village hall. The salsa band. Oh.

(The Doctor opens a nearby chest. It contains desiccated vampires.)

Rory: “What happened to them?

The Doctor: “They’ve had all the moisture taken out of them.

Rory: “That’s what vampires do, right? They drink your blood and replace it with their own.

The Doctor: “Yeah, except these people haven’t just had their blood taken, but all the water in their entire bodies.

Rory: “Why did they die? Why aren’t they like the girls in the school?

The Doctor: “Maybe not everyone survives the process.

Rory: “You know what’s dangerous about you? It’s not that you make people take risks, it’s that you make them want to impress you. You make it so they don’t want to let you down. You have no idea how dangerous you make people to themselves when you’re around.

Vampire Girls: “Who are you?

(Six girls have appeared. The Doctor waves his UV light at them.)

The Doctor: “We should run. Run.

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The Doctor: “Oh! Rory, come on.

(Rosanna, Francesco and Carlo run out.)

(They block the Doctor’s way.)

The Doctor: “Cab for Amy Pond?

Rosanna: “This rescue plan. Not exactly watertight, is it?

(The Doctor brandishes his UV light again.)

The Doctor: “Ah ha!

(Isabella and Amy run in.)

Amelia: “Rory.

Rory: “Amy.

Isabella: “Quickly, through here.

Rosanna: “Seal the house.

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Amelia: “They’re not vampires.

The Doctor: “What?

Amelia: “I saw them. I saw her. They’re not vampires, they’re aliens.

(The Doctor sonics the trapdoor hatch.) The Doctor: “Classic.

Rory: “That’s good news? What is wrong with you people?

The Doctor: “Come on, Rory. Move.

(Francesco and the vampires catch up to them, but are held back by the UV light. He sends the girls ahead of him.)

The Doctor: “Keep moving. Come on, guys.

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Isabella: “Quickly, quickly. Get out. Quick. Quick.

(But Isabella recoils as the sunlight touches her skin.)

The Doctor: “Come on. Run.

I threw my jacket over Isabella’s head, shoving her after the Doctor.

He gave me a wide eyed look. “Terra, what are you-?!”

“Trust me!” I yelled at him, slamming the door shut.

I faced my clan, giving them hard stares.

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CARLO: “And so in memory of the children lost to the Silence, the traitor is delivered to the arms of those she betrayed.

I was shoved into the water.

“Something touched my leg! They’re all around me. They bite!

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My manipulator beeped.

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The Doctor

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The Doctor: “Long way from Saturnyne, aren’t you, Sister of the Water?

Rosanna: “No, let me guess. The owner of the psychic paper. Then I take it you’re a refugee, like me?

The Doctor: “I’ll make you a deal. An answer for an answer. You’re using a perception filter. It doesn’t change your features, but manipulates the brainwaves of the person looking at you. But seeing one of you for the first time in, say, a mirror, the brain doesn’t know what to fill the gap with, so leaves it blank, hence no reflection.

Rosanna: “Your question?

The Doctor: “Why can we see your big teeth?

Rosanna: “Self preservation over rides the mirage. The subconscious perceives the threat and tries to alert the conscious brain.

The Doctor: “Where’s Terra?

Rosanna: “My turn. Where are you from?

The Doctor: “Gallifrey.

Rosanna: “You should be in a museum. Or in a mausoleum.

The Doctor: “Why are you here?

Rosanna: “We ran from the Silence. Why are you here?

The Doctor: “To get my Terra back. The Silence?

Rosanna: “There were cracks. Some were tiny. Some were as big as the sky. Through some we saw worlds and people, and through others we saw Silence and the end of all things. We fled to an ocean like ours, and the crack snapped shut behind us. Saturnyne was lost.

The Doctor: “So Earth is to become Saturnyne Mark Two?

Rosanna: “And you can help me. We can build a new society here, as others have. What do you say?

The Doctor: “Where’s Terra?

Rosanna: “Terra?

The Doctor: “The girl who saved my friend.

Rosanna: “Oh, deserters must be executed. Any general will tell you that. I need an answer, Doctor. A partnership. Any which way you choose.

The Doctor: “I don’t think that’s such a good idea, do you? I’m a Time Lord. You’re a big fish. Think of the children.” He whispered in her ear. “And, I’m taken.”

Rosanna: “Carlo? You’re right. We’re nothing alike. I will bend the heavens to save my race, while you philosophise.

(Carlo enters.)

The Doctor: “This ends today. I will tear down the House of Calvierri, stone by stone. Take your hands off me, Carlo. And you know why? Because you dared to lay a finger on someone I love.

Carlo: “Open the gates.

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She wasn’t dead. She couldn’t be.

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The Doctor: “You’re fine. Open wide.

(He pops a humbug into Amy’s mouth. Guido and Rory have got their own clothes back.)

The Doctor: “Argh. I need to think. Come on, brain. Think, think, think. Think.

Amelia: “If they’re fish people, it explains why they hate the sun.

The Doctor: “Stop talking. Brain thinking. Hush.

Rory: “It’s the school thing I don’t understand.

The Doctor: “Stop talking. Brain thinking. Hush.

Guido: “I say we take the fight to them.

The Doctor: “Ah, ah, ah.

Guido: “What?

The Doctor: “Ah. Her planet dies, so they flee through a crack in space and time and end up here. Then she closes off the city and, one by one, starts changing the people into creatures like her to start a new gene pool. Got it. But then what? They come from the sea. They can’t survive forever on land, so what’s she going to do? Unless she’s going to do something to the environment to make the city habitable. She said, I shall bend the heavens to save my race. Bend the heavens. Bend the heavens. She’s going to sink Venice.

Guido: “She’s going to sink Venice?

The Doctor: “And repopulate it with the girls she’s transformed.

Rory: “You can’t repopulate somewhere with just women. You need blokes.

Amelia: “She’s got blokes.

The Doctor: “Where?

Amelia: “In the canal. She said to me there are ten thousand husbands waiting in the water.

The Doctor: “Only the male offspring survived the journey here. She’s got ten thousand children swimming around the canals, waiting for Mum to make them some compatible girlfriends. Urgh. I mean, I’ve been around a bit, but really that’s, that’s eugh.

(Thump creak.)

The Doctor: “The people upstairs are very noisy.

Guido: “There aren’t any people upstairs.

The Doctor: “Do you know, I knew you were going to say that. Did anyone else know he was going to say that?

Rory: “Is it the vampires?

The Doctor: “Like I said, they’re not vampires. Fish from space.

(A window breaks. Vampires gather the doors and windows.)

Rory: “Aren’t we on the second floor?

(The Doctor waves his UV light at them, then uses his sonic screwdriver to reveal their true appearance.)

Guido: “What’s happened to them?

The Doctor: “There’s nothing left of them. They’ve been fully converted. Blimey, fish from space have never been so buxom. Okay, move.

Rory: “Come on.

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The Doctor: “Go, go, go, guys. Keep moving. Go, go, go.

Guido: “Stay away from the door, Doctor.

The Doctor: “No. Guido, What are you doing?

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“I’m not leaving you. What are you doing?

(The sonic screwdriver is useless.)

The Doctor: “Argh, bolted.

Guido: “Come on. That’s it, keep coming. Come on.

The Doctor: “Guido!

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“Are you the Doctor?” She asked me.

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Terra kissed me with all she had. Then, she broke down crying.

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Terra gasped, grabbing the tweed on my jacket. “She took my necklace.”

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The Doctor: “Rosanna’s initiating the final phase.

Amelia: “We need to stop her. Come on.

The Doctor: “No, no, no. Get back to the TARDIS.

Amelia: “You can’t stop her on your own.

The Doctor: “We don’t discuss this. I tell you to do something, Amy, and you do it. Huh?

(Amy storms off.)

Rory: “Thank you.

The Doctor: “You’re welcome.

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Terra

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Rosanna: “You’re too late. Such determination, just to save one city. Hard to believe it’s the same man that let an entire race turn to cinders and ash. Now you can watch as my people take their new kingdom.”

I growled. “Where’s my necklace?” I snapped at her. The Doctor held my shoulder, calming me down. “You asked him what he was willing to do for his race.” I reminded. I glared angrily. “I’m willing to burn for the things I love.”

“You got one warning.” The Doctor warned. “One. And Terra gave it to you. Expect nothing more from me.”

“Oh? Was that supposed to warn me off?” Roseanna asked.

The Doctor: “The girls have gone, Rosanna.

Rosanna: “You’re lying.”

The Doctor: “Shouldn’t I be dead, hmm? Rosanna, please, help me. There are two hundred thousand people in this city.

Rosanna: “So save them.

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I held his hand. “My necklace is still gone.”

The Doctor looked up at me, a ghost of a smile on his face. “You really love that necklace.”

“You gave it to me.” I explained.

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The Doctor: “Get out. I need to stabilise the storm.

Rory: “We’re not leaving you.

The Doctor: “Right, so one minute it’s all you make people a danger to themselves, and the next it’s we’re not leaving you. But if one of you gets squashed or blown up or eaten, who gets the

(The house shakes, knocking them off their feet.)

Rory: “What was that?

The Doctor: “Nothing. Bit of an earthquake.

Amelia: “An earthquake?

The Doctor: “Manipulate the elements, it can trigger earthquakes. But don’t worry about them.

Rory: “No?

The Doctor: “No. Worry about the tidal waves caused by the earthquake. Right, Rosanna’s throne is the control hub but she’s locked the programme, so, tear out every single wire and circuit in the throne. Go crazy. Hit it with a stick, anything. We need it to shut down and re-route control to the secondary hub, which I’m guessing will also be the generator.

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Rory: “There he is. Come on.

(The Doctor opens the brass ball to reveal clockwork.)

Rory: “Come on.

Amelia: “Come on.

(The Doctor finds a tiny switch and stops the mechanism. Instantly the rain ceases, the clouds vanish and birds start singing again. The people cheer and applaud.)

Rory: “You did it!

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“Terra, this belongs to you.” Rory held out his hand.

I gave him a curious look, before I saw what was in his outstretched hand. “Oh my Storyline!” I yanked it out of his grasp, holding it to my lips. I kissed it deeply, as if it were the Doctor himself.

“Francesco had it on.” Rory explained. “Amy said it was-”

“I don’t care.” I mumbled. “Good work, Nurse boy. Gold star.”

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The Doctor: “Now then, what about you two, eh? Next stop Leadworth Registry Office. Maybe I can give you away.

Rory: “It’s fine. Drop me back where you found me. I’ll just say you’ve

Amelia: “Stay. With us. Please. Just for a bit. I want you to stay.

The Doctor: “Fine with me.

Rory: “Yeah? Yes, I would like that.

Amelia: “Nice one. I will pop the kettle on. Hey, look at this. Got my spaceship, got my boys. My work here is done.

(Amy goes into the TARDIS.)

Rory: “Er, we are not her boys.

The Doctor: “Yeah, we are.

Rory: “Yeah, we are.

(Suddenly, Venice is empty of people.)

The Doctor: “Rory, listen to that.

Rory: “Er, what? All I can hear is silence.

I felt a shiver go down my spine. Silence. They’re the things that put the Manipulator on my arm. It hurt, it had legitimately hurt.

Meh, I got over it. I found a new target.

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I was wearing something else. It was basically Clara’s dress in Journey to the Centre, but TARDIS blue. There was a camisole of raspberry pink. My socks were knee high, and a sunshine yellow. My boots were brown, the same I wore in Rebel Flesh.

In terms of jewelry, I just had my infinity necklace on. My bag was also draped over my shoulder. What? I liked having my shit together.

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“You’re my companion now.” I told Rory. “My Doctor and my Nurse. My boys.” I said in a Scottish voice.

What? The Mistress had some cool lines!

“Companion?” Rory asked.

“I travel throughout all space and time.” I said, pointing at the Doctor. “His time, and his space. I need a double agent to spy on him and report to me.” I have him a confident look. “Can I count on my Nurse?”

Rory looked over at the Doctor, and then at me. “Yes.”

I smiled. “Perfect.” I hugged him. “You’re awesome Rory.”

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The Movie

The Snowmen

Smith, Song, and Jones

The

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It was like that daily download. The entire episode was replaying in my head, a dozen times. I remembered now. Was this going to happen every time?

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“31.” I said, hugging the Doctor tightly. I missed him. I missed this Doctor. He died last time I saw him, he was alone last time. He regenerated into Eleven, who I saw regenerated into Twelve. Then there was Seven, who I saw regenerate into Eight.

I am sick of my Doctors dying around me. It hurts my soul to have him die, to lose one man then gain another only to lose them too.

“Ah. I see.” The Doctor hugged me back. “You met the Master.”

“Yes.” I said, holding the Doctor tighter.

“I’m sorry.” The Doctor said. “He wasn’t the best.”

“Yeah.” I sniffled, pulling away from the hug to wipe away the tears. “Your seventh and eighth self were good though...really good.”

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“Okay. Then let’s go.”

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STOKER: “Now then, Mister Smith, a very good morning to you. How are you today?

The Doctor: “Oh, not so bad. Still a bit, you know, blah.

STOKER: “John Smith, admitted yesterday with severe abdominal pains. “Who are you?” Doctor Stoker asked.

I turned to the older gentleman. “Terra Song.”

“Jones, why don’t you see what you can find? Amaze me.”

I held out my hand. “Terra Song.”

Martha took my hand. “Martha.”

“Nice to meet you, Martha.” I said.

Martha: “That wasn’t very clever, running around outside, was it?

The Doctor: “Sorry?

Martha: “On Chancellor Street this morning? You came up to me and took your tie off.

The Doctor: “Really? What did I do that for?

Martha: “I don’t know, you just did.

The Doctor: “Not me. I was here, in bed. Ask the nurses.

“And I was here with him, in the bed.” I smirked.

“Not in bed, in bed.” The Doctor corrected, looking a bit embarrassed.

“Yes.” I sighed, forlorn. “Those nurses decided against it.”

Martha: “Well, that’s weird, cause it looked like you. Have you got a brother?

The Doctor: “No, not any more. Just me.

STOKER: “As time passes and I grow ever more infirm and weary, Miss Jones.

Martha: “Sorry. Right.

(Martha listens to the Doctor’s chest, and hears the two heartbeats. The Doctor winks at her.)

STOKER: “I weep for future generations. Are you having trouble locating the heart, Miss Jones?

Martha: “Er, I don’t know. Stomach cramps?

STOKER: “That is a symptom, not a diagnosis. And you rather failed basic techniques by not consulting first with the patient’s chart.

(Stoker gets an electric shock from the metal clip.)

Martha: “That happened to me this morning.

MORGENSTERN: “I had the same thing on the door handle.

SWALES: “And me, on the lift.

STOKER: “That’s only to be expected. There’s a thunderstorm moving in and lightning is a form of static electricity, as was first proven by. Anyone?

The Doctor: “Benjamin Franklin.

STOKER: “Correct.

The Doctor: “My mate, Ben. That was a day and a half. I got rope burns off that kite, and then I got soaked..

STOKER: “Quite.

The Doctor: “And then I got electrocuted.

STOKER: “Moving on. I think perhaps a visit from psychiatric. And next we have

(Martha and the Doctor exchange grins as she moves away.)

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Martha: “All right now, everyone back to bed, we’ve got an emergency but we’ll sort it out. Don’t worry.

(The Doctor draws the curtain around his bed as Martha and Swales go to the window.)

Martha: “It’s real. It’s really real. Hold on.

(Martha reaches to open the window.)

SWALES: “Don’t! We’ll lose all the air.

Martha: “But they’re not exactly air tight. If the air was going to get sucked out it would have happened straight away, but it didn’t. So how come?

(The Doctor has got dressed behind his curtain.)

The Doctor: “Very good point. Brilliant, in fact. What was your name?

Martha: “Martha.

The Doctor: “And it was Jones, wasn’t it? Well then, Martha Jones, the question is, how are we still breathing?

SWALES: “We can’t be.

The Doctor: “Obviously we are, so don’t waste my time. Martha, what have we got? Is there a balcony on this floor, or a veranda, or

Martha: “By the patients’ lounge, yeah.

The Doctor: “Fancy going out?

Martha: “Okay.

The Doctor: “We might die.

Martha: “We might not.

The Doctor: “Good. Come on. Not her, she’d hold us up.

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(They open the glass doors and step out. Each takes a deep breath.)

Martha: “We’ve got air. How does that work?

The Doctor: “Just be glad it does.

Martha: “I’ve got a party tonight. It’s my brother’s twenty first. My mother’s going to be really, really

The Doctor: “You okay?

Martha: “Yeah.

The Doctor: “Sure?

Martha: “Yeah.

The Doctor: “Want to go back in?

Martha: “No way. I mean, we could die any minute, but all the same, it’s beautiful.

The Doctor: “Do you think?

Martha: “How many people want to go to the moon? And here we are.

The Doctor: “Standing in the Earthlight.

Martha: “What do you think happened?

The Doctor: “What do you think?

Martha: “Extraterrestrial. It’s got to be. I don’t know, a few years ago that would have sounded mad, but these days? That spaceship flying into Big Ben, Christmas, those Cybermen things. I had a cousin. Adeola. She worked at Canary Wharf. She never came home.

The Doctor: “I’m sorry.

Martha: “Yeah.

The Doctor: “I was there, in the battle.

Martha: “I promise you, Mister Smith, we will find a way out. If we can travel to the moon, then we can travel back. There’s got to be a way.

The Doctor: “It’s not Smith. That’s not my real name.

Martha: “Who are you, then?

The Doctor: “I’m the Doctor.

Martha: “Me too, if I can pass my exams. What is it then, Doctor Smith?

The Doctor: “Just the Doctor.”

Martha: “How do you mean, just the Doctor?”

The Doctor: “Just the Doctor.”

Martha: “What, people call you the Doctor?”

The Doctor: “Yeah.”

“He’s the Doctor.” I encouraged. “He’s my partner in crime!”

Martha: “Well, I’m not. As far as I’m concerned, you’ve got to earn that title.

The Doctor: “Well, I’d better make a start, then. Let’s have a look. There must be some sort of

(He throws something out, and it bounces off -)

The Doctor: “Forcefield keeping the air in.

Martha: “But if that’s like a bubble sealing us in, that means this is the only air we’ve got. What happens when it runs out?

The Doctor: “How many people in this hospital?

Martha: “I don’t know. A thousand?

The Doctor: “One thousand people Suffocating.

Martha: “Why would anyone do that?

The Doctor: “Head’s up! Ask them yourself.

(Three massive columnar spaceships pass overhead, then land nearby. Columns of marching beings come stomping out.)

Martha: “Aliens. That’s aliens. Real, proper aliens.

The Doctor: “Judoon.

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(The Doctor and Martha watch it all from above.)

The Doctor: “Oh, look down there, you’ve got a little shop. I like a little shop.

Martha: “Never mind that. What are Judoon?

The Doctor: “They’re like police. Well, police for hire. They’re more like interplanetary thugs.

Martha: “And they brought us to the moon?

The Doctor: “Neutral territory. According to galactic law, they’ve got no jurisdiction over the Earth, and they isolated it. That rain, lightning? That was them, using an H2O scoop.

Martha: “What are you on about, galactic law? Where’d you get that from? If they’re police, are we under arrest? Are we trespassing on the moon or something?

The Doctor: “No, but I like that. Good thinking. No, I wish it were that simple. They’re making a catalogue. That means they’re after something non human, which is very bad news for us.

Martha: “Why? Oh, you’re kidding me. Don’t be ridiculous. Stop looking at me like that.

The Doctor: “Come on then.

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(The Doctor using his sonic screwdriver on a computer.)

Martha: “They’ve reached third floor. What’s that thing?

The Doctor: “Sonic screwdriver.

Martha: “Well, if you’re not going to answer me properly.

The Doctor: “No, really, it is. It’s a screwdriver, and it’s sonic. Look.

Martha: “What else have you got, a laser spanner?

The Doctor: “I did, but it was stolen by Emily Pankhurst, cheeky woman. Oh, this computer! The Judoon must have locked it down. Judoon platoon upon the moon. Because I was just travelling past. I swear, I was just wandering. I wasn’t looking for trouble, honestly, I wasn’t, but I noticed these plasma coils around the hospital, and that lightning, that’s a plasma coil. Been building up for two days now, so I checked in. I thought something was going on inside. It turns out the plasma coils were the Judoon up above.

Martha: “But what were they looking for?

The Doctor: “Something that looks human, but isn’t.

Martha: “Like the two of you, apparently.

The Doctor: “Like us. But not us.

Martha: “Haven’t they got a photo?

The Doctor: “Well, might be a shape-changer.

Martha: “Whatever it is, can’t you just leave the Judoon to find it?

The Doctor: “If they declare the hospital guilty of harbouring a fugitive, they’ll sentence it to execution.

Martha: “All of us?

The Doctor: “Oh yes. If I can find this thing first. Oh! You see, they’re thick! Judoon are thick! They are completely thick! They wiped the records. Oh, that’s clever.

Martha: “What are we looking for?

The Doctor: “I don’t know. Say, any patient admitted in the past week with unusual symptoms. Maybe there’s a back-up.

Martha: “Just keep working. I’ll go ask Mister Stoker. He might know.

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(Martha runs into the Doctor.)

The Doctor: “I’ve restored the back-up.

Martha: “I found her.

The Doctor: “You did what?

(The motorcycle men break down Stoker’s office door.)

The Doctor: “Run!

(They head down the stairs, but meet Judoon coming off and divert onto another floor, followed by a motorcycle man.)

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(They run in and the Doctor sonics the door lock. Then they get behind the radiation screen.)

The Doctor: “When I say now, press the button.

Martha: “But I don’t know which one.

The Doctor: “Then find out!

(The Doctor starts messing with the x-ray machine while Martha gets the Operator’s Manual from the shelf and starts reading. The man outside is battering the door off its hinges. It gets in and the Doctor points the x-ray machine at it.)

The Doctor: “Now!

(The leather-clad man gets a massive dose of radiation, and falls face down. Martha turns the machine off.)

Martha: “What did you do?

The Doctor: “Increased the radiation by five thousand per cent. Killed him dead.

Martha: “But isn’t that going to kill you?

The Doctor: “Nah, it’s only roentgen radiation. We used to play with roentgen bricks in the nursery. It’s safe for you to come out. I’ve absorbed it all. All I need to do is expel it. If I concentrate I can shake the radiation out of my body and into one spot. It’s in my left shoe. Here we go, here we go. Easy does it. Out, out, out, out, out. Out, out. Ah, ah, ah, ah! It is, it is, it is, it is, it is hot. Hold on.

(After a lot of jigging about, the Doctor throws his shoe into the bin.)

The Doctor: “Done.

Martha: “You’re completely mad.

The Doctor: “You’re right. I look daft with one shoe.

(So he gets rid of the other one.)

The Doctor: “Barefoot on the moon.

Martha: “So what is that thing? And where’s it from, the planet Zovirax?

The Doctor: “It’s just a Slab. They’re called Slabs. Basic slave drones. See? Solid leather, all the way through. Someone has got one hell of a fetish.

Martha: “But it was that woman, Miss Finnegan. It was working for her, just like a servant.

(The Doctor had left his screwdriver in the x-ray machine. It is totally fried.)

The Doctor: “My sonic screwdriver.

Martha: “She was one of the patients, but

The Doctor: “Oh, no. My sonic screwdriver.

Martha: “She had a straw like some kind of vampire.

The Doctor: “I loved my sonic screwdriver.

Martha: “Doctor?

The Doctor: “Sorry.

(He throws the screwdriver away.)

The Doctor: “You called me Doctor.

Martha: “Anyway? Miss Finnegan is the alien. She was drinking Mister Stoker’s blood.

The Doctor: “Funny time to take a snack. You’d think she’d be hiding. Unless. No. Yes, that’s it. Wait a minute. Yes! Shape-changer. Internal shape-changer. She wasn’t drinking blood, she was assimilating it. If she can assimilate Mister Stoker’s blood, mimic the biology, she’ll register as human. We’ve got to find her and show the Judoon. Come on!

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(The Doctor and Martha hide by the water dispenser as the other Slab walks down the corridor.)

The Doctor: “That’s the thing about Slabs. They always travel in pairs.

Martha: “What about you?

The Doctor: “What about me what?

Martha: “Haven’t you got back-up? You must have a partner or something?

The Doctor: “Oh. Humans. We’re stuck on the moon running out of air with Judoon and a bloodsucking criminal, you’re asking personal questions? Come on.”

Martha: “I like that. Humans. I’m still not convinced you’re an alien.”

(They walk into a Judoon and the Doctor gets scanned.)

JUDOON: “Non-human.” It turned to me. “Human hybrid.”

“Seriously, that’s what it says now?”

Martha: “Oh my God, you really are.”

The Doctor: “And again.”

(They run, and get round the corner before the Judoon fires its weapon. The chase is on. The Doctor and Martha run up the stairs.)

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(People are starting to slump to the floor.)

The Doctor: “They’ve done this floor. Come on. The Judoon are logical and just a little bit thick. They won’t go back to check a floor they’ve checked already. If we’re lucky.

(Swales is giving oxygen to a patient.)

Martha: “How much oxygen is there?

SWALES: “Not enough for all these people. We’re going to run out.

The Doctor: “How are you feeling? Are you alright?

Martha: “I’m running on adrenaline.

The Doctor: “Welcome to my world.

Martha: “What about the Judoon?

The Doctor: “Nah, great big lung reserves. It won’t slow them down. Where’s Mister Stoker’s office?

Martha: “It’s this way.

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Martha: “She’s gone. She was here.

(Stoker’s body is very white.)

The Doctor: “Drained him dry. Every last drop. I was right. She’s a plasmavore.

Martha: “What’s she doing on Earth?

The Doctor: “Hiding. On the run. Like Ronald Biggs in Rio de Janeiro. What’s she doing now? She’s still not safe. The Judoon could execute us all. Come on.

Martha: “Wait a minute.

(Martha closes Stoker’s eyes.)

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The Doctor: “Think, think, think. If I was a plasmavore surrounded by police, what would I do?

(He sees the sign to the MRI.)

The Doctor: “Ah. She’s as clever as me. Almost.

(Crash, screams.)

JUDOON: “Find the non-human. Execute.

The Doctor: “Martha, stay here. I need time. You’ve got to hold them up.

Martha: “How do I do that?

The Doctor: “Just forgive me for this. It could save a thousand lives. It means nothing. Honestly, nothing.

He kissed Martha. (The Doctor kisses Martha, long and hard, then runs away.)

Martha: “That was nothing?

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“What’s got you all ruffled?” The Doctor asked.

I don’t like sharing you.

“Nothing.”

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JUDOON: “Find the non-human. Execute.

Martha: “Now listen, I know who you’re looking for. She’s this woman. She calls herself Florence.

(The Judoon scans Martha.)

JUDOON: “Human. Wait. Non-human traits suspected. Non-human element confirmed. Authorise full scan. What are you? What are you?

(Martha gets a cross on her hand.)

JUDOON: “Confirm human. Traces of facial contact with non-human. Continue the search.

(He gives Martha a booklet written in alien.)

JUDOON: “You will need this.

Martha: “What’s that for?

JUDOON: “Compensation.

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JUDOON: “Scan him. Confirmation. Deceased.

(Martha runs in.)

Martha: “No, he can’t be. Let me through. Let me see him.

JUDOON: “Stop. Case closed.

Martha: “But it was her. She killed him. She did it. She murdered him.

JUDOON: “Judoon have no authority over human crime.

Martha: “But she’s not human.

FLORENCE: “Oh, but I am. I’ve been catalogued.

Martha: “But she’s not! She assimi. Wait a minute. You drank his blood? The Doctor’s blood? (Martha points a Judoon scanner at Florence.)

FLORENCE: “Oh, I don’t mind. Scan all you like.

JUDOON: “Non-human.

FLORENCE: “But, what?

JUDOON: “Confirm analysis.

FLORENCE: “Oh, but it’s a mistake, surely. I’m human. I’m as human as they come.

Martha: “He gave his life so they’d find you.

JUDOON: “Confirm. Plasmavore, charged with the crime of murdering the child princess of Patrival Regency Nine.

FLORENCE: “Well, she deserved it! Those pink cheeks and those blonde curls and that simpering voice. She was begging for the bite of a plasmavore.

JUDOON: “Then you confess?

FLORENCE: “Confess? I’m proud of it! Slab, stop them!

(The Judoon fries the Slab.)

JUDOON: “Verdict, guilty. Sentence, execution.

(Florence dashes behind the screen and plugs in the MRI scanner. The Magnetic Overload sign comes on.)

FLORENCE: “Enjoy your victory, Judoon, because you’re going to burn with me. Burn in hell!

(The four Judoon all fire and incinerate Florence.)

JUDOON: “Case closed.

Martha: “But what did she mean, burn with me? The scanner shouldn’t be doing that. She’s done something.

(The Judoon scans the MRI machine.)

JUDOON: “Scans detect lethal acceleration of monomagnetic pulse.

Martha: “Well, do something! Stop it!

JUDOON: “Our jurisdiction has ended. Judoon will evacuate.

Martha: “What? You can’t just leave it. What’s it going to do?

JUDOON: “All units withdraw.

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(Martha starts CPR on the Doctor.)

Martha: “One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five. Two hearts! One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five.

(Martha starts to gasp for breath. She takes a last deep lungful and gives it to the Doctor. He wakes and she collapses.)

Martha: “The scanner. She did something.

(Energy is playing all over the hospital. The Doctor crawls to the scanner controls then realises he doesn’t have a sonic screwdriver any more.)

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“You’re no help, whatsoever!” The Doctor yelled.

I growled at him. “Excuse me?

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“Cause that is the worse punishment I can think of.” I spat. I brushed my hands, as if I wiping off dirt. I held them up, backing away. “Our future, Doctor, it’s in your hands. You control the outcome now. You don’t think I help? Fine. I’ll show you what happens when I don’t help.”

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I flashed away, not noticing Martha come up the alleyway having heard all of our argument.

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I blinked my eyes open, trying to see where I had been left this time.

“A goddess!” A voice yelled.

Turning towards it, I saw a very familiar family.

“It’s Pompeii.”

Fires of Pompeii

They thought I was a goddess.

Me.

Terra.

It actually made me laugh. I had said the name Terra sounded like a vengeful goddess. Now, I actually was one.

They thought I was Terra. She’s basically the All-Mother. She gave birth to the Cyclops, the Titans, Saturn, and so many others. According to mythology, she killed her consort to keep him from hurting her children. She’s the one who gave the prophecy that Saturn would be killed by Jupiter.

I was Goddess of the Earth. Basically, I rule.

At first, they were all too eager to take me to Rome. How often did a Goddess come into their home?

I came up with a quick lie. I couldn’t leave. The gods had sent me here, as a way of punishment. I couldn’t leave Pompeii until a god came to release me.

It was so weird, being close to Caecilius. He looked just like Twelve. You know, except younger. Without any time with another Doctor in between, it was hard to split them apart. I had almost called him Doctor five times, today! It just felt like another adventure.

No. I could find a way back. I had to wait for the Doctor.

They know I’m waiting for someone. They say it’s Caelus, a sky god. My son and consort. I laughed. It wasn’t completely wrong. I cared over him like he was my own, but I don’t think of him as my son. He’s my husband. My lonely god, who falls from the sky. He brings thunder, like an Oncoming Storm.

He used to hate those kids of ours. Max and Jenny. He wouldn’t hurt them, ever. He loved them now.

He would bring down the heavens for me.

I will admit, I loved that now I could brag that my useless knowledge over Roman Mythology became useful.

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I would wait for Volcano Day. August 24th.

“No.”

“Oh, Mother Terra, but please!”

“I said no.”

The woman deflated. “Forgive me, Mother Terra, but why not?”

“Because I will not.”

Metella sighed. She had been trying to get me to gain some favor for Evelina in the Sisterhood.

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“Quintus.” I greeted the boy.

“Mother Terra.” He said curtly.

The two of us had reached a mutual understanding. We both knew what Metella was doing was wrong, yet we could not do anything. Metella cared too much about her rising status than her dying daughter.

It made me feel sick.

Quintus was in just as much disgust as I. That was his little sister. He didn’t want to see her get sicker, and sicker.

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“Hello Evelina.” I said, greeting the teenager.

The girl looked up at me, tiredly. “Hello Mother Terra.”

“Please, call me Terra.” I reminded the young girl.

Evelina just smiled kindly. “Hello...Terra.”

I smiled. “How are things? Your mother isn’t pushing you too hard again?”

Evelina shook her head, slowly. “No, Terra, she isn’t pushing me.”

“Evelina, do not dare try to justify what she is doing.” I instructed, going up to her side. I held her hand, the one covered with cloth. “Visions such as your’s should be coming naturally, not forced. You can’t rely on them. They’re just your psyche coming up with anything to stop your pain.”

The brunette roman just smiled kindly. “Thank you for your guidance, Terra, but I am promised to the Sisterhood now. I must prepare myself for that life.”

I gulped. “Just, don’t hurt yourself. I don’t want to lose my friend.”

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ROMBUS: “Announcing Lucius Petrus Dextrus, Chief Augur of the City Government.”

(A middle aged man wearing a cloak over the right half of his body enters.)

Caecilius: “Lucius. My pleasure, as always.”

Metella: “Quintus, stand up.”

Caecilius: “A rare and great honor, sir, for you to come to my house.”

(Caecilius holds out his hand, but Lucius does not take it.)

LUCIUS: “The birds are flying north, and the wind is in the west.”

Caecilius: “Quite. Absolutely. That’s good, is it?”

LUCIUS: “Only the grain of wheat knows where it will grow.”

Caecilius: “There now, Metella. Have you ever heard such wisdom?”

Metella: “Never. It’s an honor.”

Caecilius: “Pardon me, sir. I have guests. This is Spartacus and, er, Spartacus.”

LUCIUS: “A name is but a cloud upon a summer wind.”

The Doctor: “But the wind is felt most keenly in the dark.”

LUCIUS: “Ah. But what is the dark, other than an omen of the sun?”

The Doctor: “I concede that every sun must set.”

LUCIUS: “Ha.”

The Doctor: “And yet the son of the father must also rise.”

LUCIUS: “Damn. Very clever, sir. Evidently, a man of learning.”

The Doctor: “Oh, yes. But don’t mind me. Don’t want to disturb the status quo.”

Caecilius: “He’s Celtic.”

The Doctor: “We’ll be off in a minute.”

Donna: “I’m not going.”

Caecilius: “It’s ready, sir.”

The Doctor: “You’ve got to.”

Donna: “Well, I’m not.”

Caecilius: “The moment of revelation. And here it is.”

(As the Doctor takes Donna to the TARDIS, he looks back to see a stone tile carved as a circuit board has just been unveiled.)

Caecilius: “Exactly as you specified. It pleases you, sir?”

LUCIUS: “As the rain pleases the soil.”

The Doctor: “Oh, now that’s different. Who designed that, then?”

Caecilius: “My Lord Lucius was very specific.”

The Doctor: “Where’d you get the pattern?”

LUCIUS: “On the rain and mist and wind.”

Donna: “But that looks like a circuit.”

The Doctor: “Made of stone.”

Donna: “Do you mean you just dreamt that thing up?”

LUCIUS: “That is my job, as City Augur.”

Donna: “What’s that, then, like the mayor?”

The Doctor: “Oh, ha. You must excuse my friend, she’s from Barcelona.”

“Bring out the Goddess.” A voice demanded. “The one you have hidden from the world.”

I held my head up high. I walked into the parlor, seeing the oracle.

Lucius gave me a once over. “You are the one who claims to be Terra, Goddess of the Earth, and Mother to the Gods?”

“I do not claim.” I said, keeping my tone level. “I am Terra.”

The man scoffed. “To pose as a goddess is sacrilege.”

The earth shook. “To accuse a goddess of trickery is vile. My grandchildren are not very happy with you.” I kept my head up. “Who are you, to dare try and discredit me of myself?”

“Terra!” A voice cheered.

My eyes widened. I looked over, seeing Donna Noble standing just two feet away. The Doctor beside her.

“32.” I told him. His eyes shrunk. “This is your first real adventure, right Spartacus?” I asked Donna. She nodded, unaware of my rage towards the Doctor in this moment. I turned to the Romans. “She always wanted to join Spartacus on these journeys.”

The Doctor just looked at me in silence. Donna only innocently smiled, oblivious to the now occurring feud.

“They’re laughing at us. Those two, they use words like tricksters. They’re mocking us.” I heard from behind me.

I spun around, seeing my friend swaying behind me. “Evelina!” I cried out, rushing to catch her. I glared at Metella.

The Doctor: “No, no, I’m not. I meant no offence.

Metella: “I’m sorry. My daughter’s been consuming the vapors.

Quintus: “Oh for gods, Mother. What have you been doing to her?

Caecilius: “Not now, Quintus.

“I told you this stuff was making her sick!”

LUCIUS: “I gather I have a rival in this household. Another with the gift.

Metella: “Oh, she’s been promised to the Sibylline Sisterhood. They say she has remarkable visions.

LUCIUS: “The prophecies of women are limited and dull. Only the menfolk have the capacity for true perception.

Donna: “I’ll tell you where the wind’s blowing right now, mate.

LUCIUS: “The Mountain God marks your words. I’d be careful, if I were you.

The Doctor: “Consuming the vapours, you say?

Evelina: “They give me strength.

The Doctor: “It doesn’t look like it to me.

Evelina: “Is that your opinion as a doctor?

The Doctor: “I beg your pardon?

Evelina: “Doctor. That’s your name.

The Doctor: “How did you know that?

Evelina: “And you. You call yourself Noble.

Metella: “Now then, Evelina. Don’t be rude.

The Doctor: “No, no, no, no. Let her talk.

Evelina: “You both come from so far away.

LUCIUS: “The female soothsayer is inclined to invent all sorts of vagaries.

The Doctor: “Oh, not this time, Lucius. No, I reckon you’ve been out-soothsayed.

LUCIUS: “Is that so, man from Gallifrey?

The Doctor: “What?

LUCIUS: “The strangest of images. Your home is lost in fire, is it not?

Donna: “Doctor, what are they doing?

LUCIUS: “And you, daughter of London.

Donna: “How does he know that?

LUCIUS: “This is the gift of Pompeii. Every single oracle tells the truth.

Donna: “That’s impossible.

LUCIUS: “Doctor, she is returning.

The Doctor: “Who is? Who’s she?

LUCIUS: “And you, daughter of London. There is something on your back.

Donna: “What’s that mean?

Evelina: “Even the word Doctor is false. Your real name is hidden. It burns in the stars, in the Cascade of Medusa herself. You are a Lord, sir. A Lord of Time.

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Metella: “She didn’t mean to be rude. She’s ever such a good girl. But when the gods speak through her.

Donna: “What’s wrong with her arm?

Metella: “An irritation of the skin. She never complains, bless her. We bathe it in olive oil every night.

Donna: “What is it?

Metella: “Evelina said you’d come from far away. Please, have you ever seen anything like it?

(Donna strokes the dark rash on Evelina’s forearm.)

Donna: “It’s stone

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(Evelina has recovered, and is laughing as Donna puts on a purple robe and shawl.)

Donna: “You’re not supposed to laugh. Thanks for that. What do you think? The Goddess Venus.

Evelina: “Oh, that’s sacrilege.

Donna: “Nice to see you laugh, though. What do you do in old Pompeii, then, girls your age? You got mates? Do you go hanging about round the shops? TK Maximus?

Evelina: “I am promised to the Sisterhood for the rest of my life.

Donna: “Do you get any choice in that?

Evelina: “It’s not my decision. The Sisters chose for me. I have the gift of sight.

Donna: “Then what can you see happening tomorrow?

Evelina: “Is tomorrow special?

Donna: “You tell me. What do you see?

Evelina: “The sun will rise, the sun will set. Nothing special at all.

Donna: “Look, don’t tell the Doctor I said anything because he’ll kill me, but I’ve got a prophecy too.

(Evelina covers her eyes.)

Donna: “Evelina, I’m sorry, but you’ve got to hear me out. Evelina, can you hear me? Listen.

Evelina: “There is only one prophecy.

Donna: “But everything I’m about to say to you is true, I swear. Just listen to me. Tomorrow, that mountain is going to explode. Evelina, please listen. The air is going to fill with ash and rocks, tons and tons of it, and this whole town is going to get buried.

Evelina: “That’s not true.

Donna: “I’m sorry. I’m really sorry, but everyone’s going to die.

Donna: “Even if you don’t believe me, just tell your family to get out of town. Just for one day. Just for tomorrow. But you’ve got to get out. You’ve got to leave Pompeii.

Evelina: “This is false prophecy.

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Caecilius: “Doesn’t sound like Vesuvius.

The Doctor: “Caecilius? All of you, get out.

Donna: “Doctor, what is it?

The Doctor: “I think we’re being followed.

(The hypocaust grill flies off.)

The Doctor: “Just get out!

(Instead, they stand and stare as the floor around the hypocaust cracks, and the stone and fire creature appears. As it stands, it nearly touches the ceiling.)

Evelina: “The gods are with us.

The Doctor: “Water. We need water. Quintus. All of you, get water. Donna!

ROMBUS: “Blessed are we to see the gods.

(His god breathes on him, burning him to ash instantly.)

The Doctor: “Talk to me. That’s all I want. Talk to me. Just tell me you are. Don’t hurt these people.

(Donna is returning with a bucket of water when the Sisterhood grab her. Evelina sees them.)

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Donna: “You have got to be kidding me.

(Donna is tied to the altar, and Spurrina is standing over her with a knife.)

Spurrina: “The false prophet will surrender both her blood and her breath.

Donna: I’ll surrender you in a minute. Don’t you dare.

Spurrina: You will be silent.

Donna: “Listen, sister, you might have eyes on the back of your hands, but you’ll have eyes in the back of your head by the time I’ve finished with you. Let me go!”

Spurrina: “This prattling voice will cease forever.

(Promises, promises. Spurrina raises the blade.)

The Doctor: “Oh, that’ll be the day.

Spurrina: “No man is allowed to enter the Temple of Sibyl.

The Doctor: “Well, that’s all right. Just us girls. Do you know, I met the Sibyl once. Yeah, hell of a woman. Blimey, she could dance the Tarantella. Nice teeth. Truth be told, I think she had a bit of a thing for me. I said it would never last. She said, I know. Well, she would. You all right there?

Donna: “Oh, never better.

The Doctor: “I like the toga.

Donna: “Thank you. And the ropes?

The Doctor: “Yeah, not so much.

(He uses the sonic screwdriver to cut them and free Donna.)

Spurrina: “What magic is this?

The Doctor: “Let me tell you about the Sibyl, the founder of this religion. She would be ashamed of you. All her wisdom and insight turned sour. Is that how you spread the word, hey? On the blade of a knife?

Spurrina: “Yes, a knife that now welcomes you.

High Priestess: “Show me this man.

Spurrina: “High Priestess, the stranger would defile us.

High Priestess: “Let me see. This one is different. He carries starlight in his wake.

The Doctor: “Oh, very perceptive. Where do these words of wisdom come from?

High Priestess: “The gods whisper to me.

The Doctor: “They’ve done far more than that. Might I beg audience? Look upon the High Priestess?

(Two Sisters draw the veil aside to reveal that the High Priestess is living stone.)

Donna: “Oh, my God. What’s happened to you?

High Priestess: “The heavens have blessed me.

The Doctor: “If I might?

(She holds out her hand for him to touch.)

The Doctor: “Does it hurt?

High Priestess: “It is necessary.

The Doctor: “Who told you that?

High Priestess: “The voices.

Donna: “Is that what’s going to happen to Evelina? Is this what’s going to happen to all of you?

(Spurrina shows Donna her stone forearm.)

Spurrina: “The blessings are manifold.

Donna: “They’re stone.

The Doctor: “Exactly. The people of Pompeii are turning to stone before the volcano erupts. But why?

High Priestess: “This word, this image in your mind. This volcano. What is that?

The Doctor: “More to the point, why don’t you know about it? Who are you?

High Priestess: “High Priestess of the Sibylline.

The Doctor: “No, no, no, no. I’m talking to the creature inside you. The thing that’s seeding itself into a human body, in the dust, in the lungs, taking over the flesh and turning it into, what?

High Priestess: “Your knowledge is impossible.

The Doctor: “Oh, but you can read my mind. You know it’s not. I demand you tell me who you are.

(The High Priestess speaks with two voices, her own and one deeper, which takes over.)

High Priestess: “We are awakening.

Spurrina: “The voice of the gods.

SISTERS: “Words of wisdom, words of power. Words of wisdom, words of power. Words of wisdom

The Doctor: “Name yourself. Planet of origin. Galactic coordinates. Species designation according to the universal ratification of the Shadow Proclamation.

High Priestess: “We are rising.

The Doctor: “Tell me your name!

High Priestess: “Pyrovile.

SISTERS: “Pyrovile. Pyrovile. Pyrovile.

Donna: “What’s a Pyrovile?

The Doctor: “Well, that’s a Pyrovile, growing inside her. She’s a halfway stage.

Donna: “What, and that turns into?

The Doctor: “That thing in the villa. That was an adult Pyrovile.

High Priestess: “And the breath of a Pyrovile will incinerate you, Doctor.

(The Doctor produces a yellow plastic water pistol.)

The Doctor: “I warn you, I’m armed. Donna, get that grill open.

Donna: “What for?

The Doctor: “Just. What are the Pyrovile doing here?

High Priestess: “We fell from the heavens. We fell so far and so fast, we were rendered into dust.

The Doctor: “Right, creatures of stone shattered on impact. When was that, seventeen years ago?

High Priestess: “We have slept beneath for thousands of years.

The Doctor: “Okay, so seventeen years ago woke you up, and now you’re using human bodies to reconstitute yourselves. But why the psychic powers?

High Priestess: “We opened their minds and found such gifts.

The Doctor: “Okay, that’s fine. So you force yourself inside a human brain, use the latent psychic talent to bond. I get that, I get that, yeah. But seeing the future? That is way beyond psychic. You can see through time. Where does the gift of prophecy come from?

Donna: “Got it.

The Doctor: “Now get down.

Donna: “What, down there?

The Doctor: “Yes, down there. Why can’t this lot predict a volcano? Why is it being hidden?

Spurrina: “Sisters, I see into his mind. The weapon is harmless.

The Doctor: “Yeah, but it’s got to sting.

(He squirts the water at the High Priestess. Yes, it does hurt her.)

The Doctor: “Get down there!

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Donna: “You fought her off with a water pistol. I bloody love you.

The Doctor: “This way.

Donna: “Where are we going now?

The Doctor: “Into the volcano.

Donna: “No way.

The Doctor: “Yes, way. Appian way.

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Donna: “But if it’s aliens setting off the volcano, doesn’t that make it all right for you to stop it?

The Doctor: “Still part of history.

Donna: “But I’m history to you. You saved me in 2008. You saved us all. Why is that different?

The Doctor: “Some things are fixed, some things are in flux. Pompeii is fixed.

Donna: “How do you know which is which?

The Doctor: “Because that’s how I see the universe. Every waking second, I can see what is, what was, what could be, what must not. That’s the burden of a Time Lord, Donna. And I’m the only one left.

Donna: “How many people died?

The Doctor: “Stop it.

Donna: “Doctor, how many people died?

The Doctor: “Twenty thousand.

Donna: “Is that what you can see, Doctor? All twenty thousand? And you think that’s all right, do you?

(Something roars.)

The Doctor: “They know we’re here. Come on.

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The Doctor: “It’s the heart of Vesuvius. We’re right inside the mountain.”

Donna: “There’s tons of them.”

The Doctor: “What’s that thing?”

(He uses a monocular to look at some distant construct.)

Donna: “Oh, you better hurry up and think of something. Rocky fall’s on its way.”

The Doctor: “That’s how they arrived. Or what’s left of it. Escape pod? Prison ship? Gene bank?”

Donna: “But why do they need a volcano? Maybe it erupts, and they launch themselves back into space or something?”

The Doctor: “Oh, it’s worse than that.”

Donna: “How could it be worse? Doctor, it’s getting closer.”

(Lucius is on a ridge at the other side of the cavern.)

LUCIUS: “Heathens defile us. They would desecrate your temple, my lord gods.

The Doctor: “Come on.

Donna: “We can’t go in.

The Doctor: “Well, we can’t go back.

LUCIUS: “Crush them. Burn them.

(A Pyrovile rears up in front of them, so the Doctor extinguishes it with his water pistol. They run to the escape pod.)

LUCIUS: “There is nowhere to run, Doctor, and daughter of London.

The Doctor: “Now then, Lucius. My lords Pyrovillian, don’t get yourselves in a lather. In a lava? No? No. But if I might beg the wisdom of the gods before we perish. Once this new race of creatures is complete, then what?

LUCIUS: “My masters will follow the example of Rome itself. An almighty empire, bestriding the whole of civilisation.

Donna: “But if you’ve crashed, and you’ve got all this technology, why don’t you just go home?

LUCIUS: “The Heaven of Pyrovillia is gone.

The Doctor: “What do you mean, gone? Where’s it gone?

LUCIUS: “It was taken. Pyrovillia is lost. But there is heat enough in this world for a new species to rise.

The Doctor: “Yeah, I should warn you, it’s seventy percent water out there.

LUCIUS: “Water can boil. And everything will burn, Doctor.

The Doctor: “Then the whole planet is at stake. Thank you. That’s all I needed to know. Donna.

(The Doctor go into the escape pod, which contains the circuit boards. The Doctor closes the doors with his screwdriver.)

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It was time. Do I doom Pompeii?

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Donna: “Could we be any more trapped?”

(The Pyroviles breathe fire at the escape pod.)

Donna: “Little bit hot.”

The Doctor: “See? The energy converter takes the lava, uses the power to create a fusion matrix, which welds Pyrovile to human. Now it’s complete, they can convert millions.”

Donna: “But can’t you change it with these controls?”

The Doctor: “Of course I can, but don’t you see? That’s why the soothsayers can’t see the volcano. There is no volcano. Vesuvius is never going to erupt. The Pyrovile are stealing all its power. They’re going to use it to take over the world.”

Donna: “But you can change it back?”

The Doctor: “I can invert the system, set off the volcano, and blow them up, yes. But, that’s the choice, Donna. It’s Pompeii or the world.”

Donna: “Oh, my God.”

The Doctor: “If Pompeii is destroyed then it’s not just history, it’s me. I make it happen.”

Donna: “Doctor, the Pyrovile are made of rocks. Maybe they can’t be blown up.”

The Doctor: “Vesuvius explodes with the force of twenty four nuclear bombs. Nothing can survive it. Certainly not us.”

Donna: “Never mind us.”

The Doctor: “Push this lever and it’s over. Twenty thousand people.”

Yes. I will.

Because as horrible as it is, I am at least doing this with friends.

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The Doctor: “It was an escape pod.

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Donna: “Don’t. Don’t go to the beach. Don’t go to the beach, go to the hills. Listen to me. Don’t go to the beach, it’s not safe. Listen to me.

(A little boy is crying.)

Donna: “Come here.

WOMAN: “Give him to me.

(The woman picks up the boy and runs off.)

The Doctor: “Come on.

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Caecilius: “Gods save us, Doctor.

(The Doctor goes to the TARDIS.)

Donna: “No! Doctor, you can’t. Doctor!

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Donna: “You can’t just leave them!”

The Doctor: “Don’t you think I’ve done enough? History’s back in place and everyone dies.”

Donna: “You’ve got to go back. Doctor, I am telling you, take this thing back. It’s not fair.”

The Doctor: “No, it’s not.”

Donna: “But your own planet. It burned.”

The Doctor: “That’s just it. Don’t you see, Donna? Can’t you understand? If I could go back and save them, then I would. But I can’t. I can never go back. I can’t. I just can’t, I can’t.”

Donna: “Just someone. Please. Not the whole town. Just save someone.”

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The Doctor: “Come with me.”

With that deed done, I Jumped away.

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Doctor

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The Doctor: “It’s never forgotten, Caecilius. Oh, time will pass, men’ll move on, and stories will fade. But one day, Pompeii will be found again. In thousands of years. And everyone will remember you.

Donna: “What about you, Evelina? Can you see anything?

Evelina: “The visions have gone.

The Doctor: “The explosion was so powerful it cracked open a rift in time, just for a second. That’s what gave you the gift of prophecy. It echoed back into the Pyrovillian alternative. But not any more. You’re free.

Metella: “But tell me. Who are you, Doctor? With your words, and your temple containing such size within?

The Doctor: “Oh, I was never here. Don’t tell anyone.

Caecilius: “The great god Vulcan must be enraged. It’s so volcanic. It’s like some sort of volcano. All those people.”

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“And what of Terra?” Evelina asked. “Where is she?”

The Doctor frowned. “She left. She gets called away, by people who need her.”

Evelina just smiled. “She truly is an All-Mother.” The girl decided. “Caring for all of her children. She tried to warn me as well, saying my visions were false due to the smoke.”

“She told me that you get better.” Quintus said.

“She told me that my children would become heroes.” Metella added.

“And that I would bring a man eternal hope.” Caecilius said.

That was so Terra. Stranded in Pompeii, and she gave a family hope. She told them all she could, to try and save their souls.

“She said all of that?” Donna asked.

Evelina nodded. “She said she cares for all of us.” She looked right at me. “You are lucky to have her, Doctor.”

The Doctor was slightly caught off guard by that. “What? No. I don’t-”

“I saw the looks you gave to her.” Evelina went on. “It didn’t take my gift to show me the truth and do not think your looks were unreturned. You are the Caelus to her Terra.”

The Doctor shook my head, turning back to the chaos. “I’m no god.”

“Actually.” Caecilius began. “She said you were the kindest man she has ever known.”

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Terra

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Caecilius: “Metella, my love, have you seen that clasp? The beetle one. The Egyptians do love a scarab.

Metella: “Here we are. I was giving it a polish. Now calm down.

Caecilius: “If I get that contract for the marble granaries of Alexandria, we’ll be rich. You’ll see. Hold on there, Evelina. You are not going out wearing that.

(Her gown barely reached down to her knees.)

Evelina: “Don’t start, Dad. It’s what all the girls in Rome are wearing. See you later.

Caecilius: “Are you seeing that boy again?

Metella: “Oh, look at Quintus. My son, the doctor.

Quintus: “Mum, I’ve told you. I’m not a doctor. Not yet. I’m just a student of the physical sciences.

Metella: “Well, that’s a doctor to me. Give thanks to the household gods before you go, there’s a good boy. Come here, let me fix it. You’ve got that folded all wrong.

(Quintus kneels before the shrine.)

Quintus: “Thank you, household gods. Thank you for everything.”

“You’re quite welcome, Quintus.” I said.

The boy turned to me, momentarily shocked. He sighed, angrily, shaking his head. “Terra. Don’t do that.”

I laughed in response.

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Day of the Doctor (Ten)

Rose

Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (Lilac)

Bells of Saint John

Into the Dalek

Dalek

School Reunion

Death of the Time Lords

Asylum of the Daleks

The

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“Hey! Watch it!”

“Terra is acquired.” A robotic voice spoke.

I rolled my eyes. “Stupid metal cans of death.”

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Amelia: “Where are we? A spaceship, right?”

The Doctor: “Not just any spaceship. The Parliament of the Daleks. Be brave.”

Amelia: “What do we do?”

The Doctor: “Make them remember you. Well, come on then. You’ve got me. What are you waiting for? At long last, it’s Christmas! Here I am.”

(The Doctor closes his eyes tight, expecting to die. The organic Dalek speaks.)

Dalek PM: “Save us. You will save us.”

The Doctor: “I’ll what?”

Dalek: “You will save the Daleks.”

Daleks: “Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks.”

The Doctor: “Well.”

Daleks: “Save the Daleks.”

The Doctor: “This is new.”

Rory: “What’s he doing?”

Amelia: “He’s chosen the most defendable area in the room, counted all the Daleks, counted all the exits, and now he’s calculating the exact distance we’re standing apart and starting to worry. Oh, and look at him frowning now.”

(Dalek Darla is there.)

Amelia: “Something’s wrong with Amy and Rory, and who’s going to fix it? And he straightens his bow tie.”

Dalek PM: “We have arrived.

The Doctor: “Arrived where?”

Dalek PM: “Doctor.”

Darla: “The Prime Minister will speak with you now.”

The Doctor: “Do you remember who you were before they emptied you out and turned you into their puppet?”

Darla: “My memories are only reactivated if they are required to facilitate cover or disguise.”

The Doctor: “You had a daughter.”

Darla: “I know. I’ve read my file.”

(The Doctor walks up to the Prime Minister, who is the organic Dalek.)

The Doctor: “Well?”

Dalek PM: “What do you know of the Dalek Asylum?”

The Doctor: “According to legend, you have a dumping ground. A planet where you lock up all the Daleks that go wrong. The battle-scarred, the insane, the ones even you can’t control. It’s never made any sense to me.”

Dalek PM: “Why not?”

The Doctor: “Because you’d just kill them.”

Dalek PM: “It is offensive to us to extinguish such divine hatred.”

The Doctor: “Offensive?”

Dalek PM: “Does it surprise you to know the Daleks have a concept of beauty?”

The Doctor: “I thought you’d run out of ways to make me sick. Hello again. You think hatred is beautiful.”

Dalek PM: “Perhaps that is why we have never been able to kill you.”

(A hole opens in the middle of the floor. The Doctor and Darla walk back to it. A planet is visible.)

Darla: “The Asylum. It occupies the entire planet, right to the core.”

The Doctor: “How many Daleks are in there?”

Darla: “A count has not been made. Millions, certainly.”

The Doctor: “All still alive?”

Darla: “It has to be assumed. The Asylum is fully automated. Supervision is not required.”

Amelia: “Armed?”

Darla: “The Daleks are always armed.”

Rory: “What colour? I’m sorry, there weren’t any good questions left.”

Darla: “This signal is being received from the very heart of the Asylum.”

(Carmen comes over the speakers.)

White: “What is the noise? Explain. Explain.”

The Doctor: “Er, it’s me.”

Rory: “Sorry, what?”

The Doctor: “It’s me, playing the triangle. Okay, I got buried in the mix. Carmen. Lovely show. Someone’s transmitting this. Have you considered tracking back the signal and talking to them? He asked the Daleks. Hello? Hello? Carmen? Hello?”

Oswin: “Hello?”

I squealed like a little girl. “Soufflé Girl!”

The Doctor: “Come in. Come in. Come in, Carmen.”

Oswin: “Hello! Yes, yes, sorry. Do you read me?”

The Doctor: “Yes, reading you loud and clear. Identify yourself and report your status.”

Oswin: “Hello. Are you real? Are you actually, properly, real?”

The Doctor: “Yes, confirmed. Actually, properly, real.”

Oswin: “Oswin Oswald, junior entertainment officer, starship Alaska. Current status, crashed and shipwrecked somewhere not nice. Been here a year, rest of the crew missing. Provisions good but keen to move on.”

The Doctor: “A year? Are you okay? Are you under attack?”

Oswin: “Some local lifeforms. Been keeping them out.”

The Doctor: “Do you know what those lifeforms are?”

Oswin: “I know a Dalek when I hear one, yeah.”

The Doctor: “What have you been doing on your own against the Daleks for a year?”

Oswin: “Making soufflés?”

The Doctor: “Soufflés? Against the Daleks? Where’d you get the eggs?”

White: “This conversation is irrelevant.”

The Doctor: “No, it isn’t.”

The Doctor: “Because a starliner has crashed into your Asylum, and someone’s got in. And if someone can get in, then everything can get out. A tsunami of insane Daleks. Even you don’t want that.”

White: “The Asylum must be cleansed.”

The Doctor: “Then why is it still here? You’ve enough firepower on this ship to blast it out of the sky.”

Darla: “The Asylum forcefield is impenetrable.”

The Doctor: “Turn it off.”

Darla: “It can only be turned off from within the Asylum.

The Doctor: “A small taskforce could sneak through a forcefield. Send in a couple of Daleks. Oh.” (applauds) “Oh. Oh, that’s good. That’s brilliant. You’re all too scared to go down there. Not one of you will go, so tell me, what do the Daleks do when they’re too scared?”

White: “The Predator of the Daleks will be deployed.”

The Doctor: “You don’t have a Predator, and even if you did, why would they turn off a forcefield for you?”

Dalek PM: “Because you will have no other means of escape.”

Darla: “May I clarify? The Predator is the Dalek’s word for you.”

The Doctor: “Me? Me?”

Darla: “You will need this. It will protect you from the nanocloud.”

(Two humanoids put a wristband on the Doctor’s wrist.)

The Doctor: “The what? The nano what?”

Darla: “The gravity beam will convey you close to the source of the transmission. You must find a way to deactivate the forcefield from there.”

The Doctor: “You’re going to fire me at a planet? That’s your plan? I get fired at a planet and expected to fix it.”

Rory: “In fairness, that is slightly your M O. &

The Doctor: “Don’t be fair to the Daleks when they’re firing me at a planet.”

(Rory and Amy have wristbands put on them, too.)

The Doctor: “What do you want with them?”

White: “It is known the Doctor required companions.”

Rory: “Oh, brilliant. Good oh.”

The Doctor: “Don’t worry. We’ll get through this, I promise. Don’t be scared.”

(Amy’s Look could melt granite.)

Amelia: “Scared? Who’s scared. Geronimo.”

The Doctor: “Ha! Oi!”

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“Good morning, sleeping beauty.” I greeted Rory, surveying the Dalek prison.

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Rory: “Shush.”

(Other Daleks start to boot up, too, making sounds.)

Rory: “What? Sorry, what?”

Dalek: “Eg eg eg eg eg eg eg.”

Rory: “Eggs? You mean those things?”

(The roundels on the Dalek’s casing. Some have fallen off onto the floor.)

Dalek: “Egg.”

Rory: “I don’t, I don’t know what you want. Those things. Are those things eggs? This? You want this.”

Dalek: “Egg. Stir. Min. Ate.”

(Rory drops the ball.)

Dalek: “Exterminate.”

Daleks: “Exterminate.”

(One weapon blast just misses him. Rory tries to run the gauntlet.)

Dalek: “Emergency. Emergency. Exterminate. Exterminate.”

Oswin: “Run! The door at the end, run for it. They’re waking up, but they’re slow. The door at the end. Just run. Now! Now! Now!”

Daleks: “Exterminate. Exterminate.”

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Oswin: “So, anyway, I’m Oswin. What do I call you?”

Rory: “Er, I can’t remember. Er, Rory.”

“Terra. You can call me Terra.” I smirked up at the camera. That’s me, Terra Song, flirting with a Dalek.

Oswin: “Lovely name, Rory. First boy I ever fancied was called Rory.”

Rory: “Okay.”

Oswin: “Actually, she was called Nina. I was going through a phase.” “Just flirting to keep you cheerful.”

Daleks: “Exterminate. Exterminate.”

Rory: “Er, okay, any time you want to start flirting again is fine by me.”

“Amelia won’t be happy with that.” I commented.

Rory squinted, avoiding my gaze. “Doubt she would.”

“She better not be fighting with my nurse.” I warned.

“Your Nurse?” Oswin laughed. “Really?”

“Don’t like sharing. One of my flaws.” I admitted. “Oh, and earlier you called it a phase. Don’t.” I said. “Phase implies it’s over.”

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Oswin: “Hey there, beakie boy.”

Rory: “If it’s a straight choice, I prefer Nina.”

Oswin: “Loving this. The nose and the chin. You two could fence.”

“You call him the Chin too?” I smirked.

“Yes.” Oswin said, in a flirty tone.

“I only call him that when I’m mad.” I admitted. “His chin could poke an eye out.”

“Finally, someone agrees with me.” Oswin laughed. “There’s a door behind you.”

(The door rises and Rory runs through into a room with a large round platform in the middle.)

Oswin: “In there, quickly. Okay, you’re safe for now. Pop your shirts off, quick as you like.”

I grinned, taking mine off. “That’s good. Kinda like going without a shirt.”

Rory: “Why?”

Oswin: “Does there have to be a reason?”

“I like it too.” Oswin flirted.

“This room is hot, but only ‘cause I’m in here.” I added.

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Rory: “Oswin? What was that? That was close.”

(Rory runs in to see the smoking remains of Dalek shells.)

Rory: “Oswin? What happened? Who killed all the Daleks?”

(The Doctor enters from the other side, carrying Amy.)

The Doctor: “Who do you think?” He tilted his head. “And Terra Song, where is your shirt?”

I tried to look innocent, but I smiled and laughed. “Oswin told me to take it off.”

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Rory: “Will sleeping help her? Will it slow down the process?”

Oswin: “You’d better hope so, because pretty soon she’s going to try and kill you.”

The Doctor: “Amy.”

Amelia: “Ow.”

The Doctor: “Amy. Still with us.”

Rory: “Amy, it’s me. Do you remember me?”

(Amy slaps Rory.)

Rory: “She remembers me.”

The Doctor: “Same old Amy.”

Oswin: “Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract love, add anger. Doesn’t she seem a bit too angry to you?”

Amelia: “Well, somebody’s never been to Scotland.”

The Doctor: “What about you, though, Oswin. How come you’re okay? Why hasn’t the nanocloud converted you?”

Oswin: “I mentioned the genius thing, yeah? Shielded in here.”

The Doctor: “Clever of you. Now, this place. The Daleks said it was fully automated. Look at it. It’s a wreck.”

Oswin: “Well, I’ve had nearly a year to mess with them, and not a lot else to do.”

The Doctor: “A junior entertainment manager hiding out in a wrecked ship, hacking the security systems of the most advanced warrior race the universe has ever seen. But you know what really gets me about you, Oswin? The soufflés. Where do you get eggs for the soufflés? Seriously. Is no one else wondering about that?”

Rory: “No. Frankly, no. Twice.”

Oswin: “So, Doctor. I’ve been looking you up. You’re all over the database. Why do the Daleks call you the Predator?”

The Doctor: “I’m not the Predator, I’m just a man with a plan.”

Oswin: “You’ve got a plan?”

Rory: “That’s all he is.”

Amelia: “There’s a nose joke going if someone wants to pick that one off.”

The Doctor: “In no particular order, we need to neutralise all the Daleks in this Asylum, rescue Oswin from the wreckage, escape from this planet and fix Amy and Rory’s marriage.”

Amelia: “Okay, I’m counting three lost causes. Anyone else?”

The Doctor: “Oswin, there’s a Dalek ship in orbit.”

Oswin: “Yes. Got it on the sensors.”

The Doctor: “The Asylum has a forcefield. The Daleks upstairs are waiting for me to turn it off. Soon as I do, they’ll burn this whole world and us with it. So, Oswin, my question is this. How fast can you drop the forcefield?”

Oswin: “Pretty fast. But why would I?”

The Doctor: “Because this is a teleport. Am I right, Oswin?”

Oswin: “Yeah. Internal use only.”

The Doctor: “I can boost the power. Once the forcefield is down, I can use it to beam us right off this planet.”

Rory: “You said when the forcefield is down, the Daleks will blow us up.”

The Doctor: “We’ll have to be quick, yes.”

Amelia: “Fine, we’ll be quick. But where do we beam to?”

The Doctor: “The only place within range. The Dalek ship.”

Amelia: “They’ll exterminate us on the spot.”

Rory: “Ah, so this is the kind of escape plan where you survive about four seconds longer.”

The Doctor: “What’s wrong with four seconds? You can do loads in four seconds. Oswin, how fast can you drop the forcefield?”

Oswin: “I can do it from here, as soon as you come and get me.”

The Doctor: “No, just drop the forcefield and come to us.”

Oswin: “There’s enough power in that teleport for one go. Why would you wait for me?”

The Doctor: “Why wouldn’t I?”

Oswin: “No idea. Never met you. Sending you a map so you can come get me.”

Rory: “This place is crawling with Daleks.”

Oswin: “Yeah. Kind of why I’m anxious to leave. Come up and see me sometime.”

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Rory: “So, are we going to go get her?”

The Doctor: “I don’t think that we have a choice. Okay, as soon as the forcefield is down the Daleks will attack. If it gets too explody-wody in here, you go without me, okay?”

Rory: “And leave you to die?”

The Doctor: “Oh, don’t worry about me. You’re the one beaming up to a Dalek ship to get exterminated.”

Rory: “Fair point. Love this plan. What about Amy?”

The Doctor: “Keep her remembering, keep her focused. That’ll hold back the conversion.”

Amelia: “What do I do?”

The Doctor: “You heard what she said. They’re subtracting love. Don’t let them.”

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“Leave you alone on a Dalek ship?” The Doctor asked, looking horrified at the idea. “Not a chance, my dear.”

I gave the Ponds one last look. They better get back together, or I would kill them.

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Daleks: “Emergency. Emergency. Prepare to be annihilated. Emergency. We are the Daleks. We are the Daleks.”

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The Ponds

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Rory: “Okay, look at me. I’m going to be logical. Cold and logical, okay? For both of our sakes, for both of us, I’m going to take this off my wrist and put it on yours.”

Amelia: “Why? Then it’ll just start converting you. That’s not better.”

Rory: “Yes, but it’ll buy us time, because it’ll take longer with me.”

Amelia: “Sorry, what?”

Rory: “It subtracts love, that’s what she said.”

Amelia: “What’s that got to do with it? What does that even mean?”

Rory: “It’s arithmetic. It’ll take longer with me because we both know, we’ve always known, that. Amy, the basic fact of our relationship is that I love you more than you love me, which today is good news because it might just save both of our lives.”

Amelia: “How can you say that?”

Rory: “Two thousand years, waiting for you outside a box. Don’t say it isn’t true, you know it’s true. Give me your arm. Amy!”

(Amy slaps Rory.)

Amelia: “Don’t you dare say that to me. Don’t you ever dare.”

Rory: “Amy, you kicked me out.”

Amelia: “You want kids. You have always wanted kids. Ever since you were a kid. And I can’t have them.”

Rory: “I know.”

Amelia: “Whatever they did to me at Demons Run, I can’t ever give you children. I didn’t kick you out. I gave you up.”

Rory: “Amy, I don’t-”

“Terra was right.” Amy snapped, tears in her eyes. “She told me, a while ago, that nothing compared to giving the one you love up. She was right.” She glared at her husband. “So don’t you dare talk to me about waiting outside a box, because that is nothing, Rory, nothing, compared to giving you up.”

Rory: “Just give me your arm. Let me put this on you. Just give me your arm!”

Amelia: “Don’t touch me!”

(She is already wearing a wristband.)

Rory: “It’s the Doctor’s. When you were sleeping-”

Amelia: “That Time Lord. What’s the betting he doesn’t even need it.”

Rory: “Why didn’t he just tell us?”

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Terra

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The Doctor: “Oswin, I think I’m close.”

Oswin: “You are. Less than twenty feet away. Which is the good news.”

The Doctor: “Okay. And the bad which I suddenly feel is coming?”

Oswin: “You’re about to pass through Intensive Care.”

(The Daleks here are in cages.)

The Doctor: “What’s so special about this lot, then?”

Oswin: “Don’t know. Survivors of particular wars. Spiridon, Kembel, Eridius, Vulcan, Exxilon. Ringing any bells?”

The Doctor: “All of them.”

Oswin: “Yeah? How?”

The Doctor: “These are the Daleks who survived me.”

Dalek: “Doctor.”

DALEK 2: “Doctor.”

Daleks: “Doctor.”

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Oswin: “That’s weird. Those ones don’t usually wake up for anything.”

The Doctor: “Yeah, well. Special visitor. Okay, door, but it won’t open. I can’t be far away, though.”

Oswin: “Hang on. Not quite sure. There’s a release code. Let me just. Anything out there?”

The Doctor: “No.”

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Oswin: “Hang on, I’m trying to think.”

(One Dalek has been disarmed, literally, and chained up.)

Dalek: “Doctor.”

(It breaks its chains.)

Daleks: “Doctor. Doctor.”

The Doctor: “Oswin, get this door open. Oswin, open this door!”

Oswin: “I can’t!”

The Doctor: “Oswin. Just get this door open! Oswin! Oswin, please! Get this door open! Help me! Stop!”

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Oswin: “Oh, that is cool. Tell me I’m cool, chin boy.”

The Doctor: “What, what did you do?”

Oswin: “Hang on, I think I’ve found the door thingy.”

The Doctor: “No, tell me what you did.”

Oswin: “The Daleks, they have a hive mind. Well, they don’t, they have a sort of telepathic web.”

The Doctor: “The path web, yes.”

Oswin: “I hacked into it, did a mass delete on all the information connected with the Doctor.”

The Doctor: “You made them forget me?”

Oswin: “Good, eh? And here comes the door.”

(The door rises.)

The Doctor: “I’ve tried hacking into the path web. Even I couldn’t do it.”

Oswin: “Come and meet the girl who can. Hey, you’re right outside. Come on in.”

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The Doctor: “Oswin, we have a problem.”

Oswin: “No, we don’t. Don’t even say that. Joined the Alaska to see the universe, ended up stuck in a shipwreck first time out. Rescue me, chin boy, and show me the stars.”

The Doctor: “Does it look real to you?”

Oswin: “Does what look real?”

The Doctor: “Where you are right now. Does it seem real?”

Oswin: “It is real.”

The Doctor: “It’s a dream, Oswin. You dreamed it for yourself because the truth was too terrible.”

Oswin: “Where am I? Where am I? Where am I?”

The Doctor: “Because you are a Dalek.”

Oswin: “I am not a Dalek. I am not a Dalek! I’m human.”

The Doctor: “You were human when you crashed here. It was you who climbed out of the pod. That was your ladder.”

Oswin: “You mean? Human.”

The Doctor: “Not any more. Because you’re right. You’re a genius. And the Daleks need genius. They didn’t just make you a puppet, they did a full conversion. Oswin, I am so sorry, but you are a Dalek. The eggs, Oswin. The eggs for the soufflés. Where, where did it all come from?”

Oswin: “Eggs.”

The Doctor: “It wasn’t real. It was never real.”

Oswin: “Eggs.”

Oswin: “Stir. Min. Ate.”

The Doctor: “Oswin.”

Oswin: “Eggs. Stir. Min ate. Exterminate.”

The Doctor: “Oswin. No, no, no, Oswin. Oswin.”

Oswin: “Exterminate!”

The Doctor: “Listen. Oswin, you don’t have to do this.”

Oswin: “Exterminate!”

The Doctor: “Oswin!”

(Oswin is crying.)

Oswin: “Why do they hate you so much? They hate you so much. Why?”

The Doctor: “I fought them many, many times.”

Oswin: “We have grown stronger in fear of you.”

The Doctor: “I know. I tried to stop.”

Oswin: “Then run.”

The Doctor: “What did you say?”

Oswin: “I’ve taken down the forcefield. The Daleks above have begun their attack. Run!”

The Doctor: “Oswin, are you-”

Oswin: “I am Oswin Oswald. I fought the Daleks and I am Human! Remember me.”

The Doctor: “Thank you.”

“Run you clever boy, with your star, and remember.” Oswin said.

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The Doctor: “Right, go! Let’s go. We’re good. Let’s go. Oh, for God’s sake.”

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White: “The Asylum is destroyed.”

Dalek: “Incoming teleport from Asylum planet. We are under attack.”

White: “Prepare to defend. Defend. Defend!”

Dalek PM: “Explain, Dalek Supreme.”

The Doctor: “You know, you guys should really have seen this coming. The thing about me and teleports, I’ve got a really good aim. Pin-point accurate, in fact. Or, to put it another way-”

(The Doctor looks out of the TARDIS door.)

The Doctor: “Suckers!”

Dalek: “Identify yourself. Identify. Identify.”

The Doctor: “It’s me. You know me. The Doctor. The Oncoming Storm. The Predator.”

Darla: “Titles are not meaningful in this context. Doctor who?”

Dalek PM: “Doctor who?”

Daleks: “Doctor who?”

The Doctor: “Oh, Oswin. Oh, you did it to them all. You beauty.”

Daleks: “Doctor who? Doctor who?”

The Doctor: “Fellas, you’re never going to stop asking.”

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“Oswin Oswald.” I said. “You watch me run.”

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“Doctor who!” The Doctor cheered.

“Doctor who!” I cheered back.

“Doctor who!” The Doctor said, dancing about the console.

I started to dance. “Doctor! Who!”

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Forest of the Night

The Beast Below

It's Raining Cats and Dogs

Boom Town

Victory of the Daleks

Bad Wolf/Parting of Ways

The

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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.”

Let's Kill Hitler

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“I’M GONNA KILL HIM!”

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I turned, seeing Melody. “Mels.”

The woman gave me a wary look. “Terra Song?”

“Yes. Hello.” I waved, overly cheery. “Want to help me murder the Doctor? I’m in a mood.”

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“Wanna get murdered?” I asked, but my lip in excitement.

Mels smirked. “They said you liked danger.”

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“You’re hot.” I said, feeling tipsy. “Be my wife.”

Mels laughed. “You’re drunk.”

“Tipsy. Be my wife.”

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“First rule of money. Never use your own.” I revealed the money clip I pickpocketed.

Mels smiled, jaw dropped. “You are a bad girl.”

I winked at her. “Yep.”

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Laughing hysterically, I threw a water balloon filled with pink paint at the police car.

Getting back into my seat, Mels high-fived me.

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ALL: Argh!”

(They dive for safety as the Chevrolet Corvette skids to a halt by the TARDIS. A young woman gets out wearing a River Song type costume.)

Mels “You said he was funny. You never said he was hot.”

“Terra!” The Doctor cheered.

I turned to the man. I marched right up to him, giving him a hefty slap.

He grabbed his cheek. “What was that for?!”

“Bad Wolf.” I reminded. “49.”

The Doctor’s green eyes widened. He looked really scared. “Oh.”

I nodded.

The Doctor gave me an angry look back, as if just remembering his reason to be angry. “Well you never told me what really happened to you! You never said it was the Silence that did that to you!”

“Because you would get angry!” I argued. “Like it clearly has!”

Rory “Mels!”

Amelia “What are you doing here?”

Mels “Following you. What do you think?”

Rory “Er, where did you get the car?”

(Police sirens in the distance.)

Mels “It’s mine. Ish.”

Amelia “Oh, Mels, not again.”

Rory “You can’t keep doing this. You’re going to end up in prison.”

The Doctor “Sorry. Hello. Doctor not following this. Doctor very lost. You never said I was hot?”

Mels “Is that the phone box? The bigger on the inside phone box? Oh, time travel. That’s just brilliant. Yeah, I’ve heard a lot about you. I’m their best mate.”

The Doctor “Then why don’t I know you? I danced with everyone at the wedding. The women were all brilliant. The men were a bit shy.”

Mels “I don’t do weddings.”

(The sirens get closer.)

Mels “And that’s me out of time.”

(Mels pulls a gun on the Doctor.)

Amelia “Mels!”

Rory “For God’s sake!”

Amelia “What are you doing?”

Mels “I need out of here, now.”

(A helicopter is coming, too.) The Doctor “Anywhere in particular?”

Mels “Well, let’s see. You’ve got a time machine, I’ve got a gun. What the hell. Let’s kill Hitler.”

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The Doctor “You’ve shot it! You shot my TARDIS! You shot the console!”

Mels “It’s your fault!”

The Doctor “Argh! How’s it my fault?”

Mels “You said guns didn’t work in this place. You said we’re in a state of temporal grace.”

The Doctor “That was a clever lie, you idiot! Anyone could tell that was a clever lie.”

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The Doctor “Out, out, out! Everybody out. Don’t breathe the smoke, just get out!”

Amelia “Where are we?”

The Doctor “A room.”

Rory “What room?”

The Doctor “I don’t know what room. I haven’t memorised every room in the universe yet. I had yesterday off. Mels, don’t go in there.”

(The Doctor takes Mels’ gun away.) Mels “Oi.”

The Doctor “Bad smoke. Don’t breathe the bad, bad, smoke. Bad, deadly smoke because somebody shot my TARDIS!”

(Rory has gone to Zimmerman.)

Rory “Doctor. This guy, I think he’s hurt.”

Rory “No, hang on. No, he’s fine.”

(The Doctor puts the gun in a fruit bowl. It’s owner gets up from behind his desk.)

The Doctor “Ooo, hello. Sorry, is this your office? Had a sort of collision with my vehicle. Faults on both sides, let’s say no more about-”

(Then they sees who he is talking to)

The Doctor “It.”

Rory “Who?”

Amelia “Is that? No, it can’t be, Doctor?”

HITLER: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you have just saved my life.”

The Doctor “Believe me, it was an accident.”

HITLER: What is this thing?”

Amelia “What did he mean, we saved his life? We could not have just saved Hitler.”

The Doctor “You see? You see? Time travel, it never goes to plan.”

HITLER: This box. What is it?”

The Doctor “It’s a police telephone box from London, England. That’s right, Adolf. The British are coming.”

(Zimmerman stands up.)

HITLER: No, stop him!”

(The Doctor ducks as Hitler shoots Zimmerman.)

Rory “Sit still, shut up.”

(Amy goes to Zimmerman.) Amelia “Are you okay?”

(Carter uses the speaker.) ZIMMERMAN: Yes, yes. Yes, I’m fine. I think he missed.”

HITLER: He was going to kill me.”

Rory “Shut up, Hitler!”

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“Hitler.” I turned to Rory. “You, Nurse boy, take Hitler and put him in the cupboard.”

Rory blinked, but then sighed in resignation. “Right. Putting Hitler in the cupboard. Cupboard, Hitler. Hitler, cupboard. Come on.”

Hitler: “But I am the Fuhrer!”

Rory “Right, in you go!”

Hilter: “Who are you?”

The Doctor “Are you okay?”

Zimmerman: “Oh, I

Rory: “I think he just fainted.

The Doctor “Yes, that was a faint. A perfect faint.

Amelia: “Mels?

Mels ““Hitler.

“He’s a lousy shot.” I shrugged. “Ain’t he?”

Mels gave a tired laugh. “Yeah.” She lifted her hand, showing off a bullet wound.

Amelia: “Mels! Mels!

The Doctor “Rory!

Rory: “No, no, no, no! I’ve got to stop the bleeding.

Amelia: “How bad is it? Rory, what can we do?

Rory: “Just keep her conscious. Stay with us, Mels.

The Doctor: “Hey, look at me. Just hold on.

Mels: “I used to dream about you. All those stories Amy used to tell me.

The Doctor: “What stories? Tell me what stories. Vampires in Venice. That’s a belter.

Mels: “When I was little, I was going to marry you.

The Doctor: “Good idea, let’s get married. You stay alive and I’ll marry you, deal? Deal?

Mels: “Shouldn’t you ask my parents permission?

The Doctor: “As soon as you’re well, I’ll get on the phone.

Mels: “Might as well do it now, since they’re both right here. Penny in the air. Penny drops.

Rory: “What the hell’s going on?

The Doctor: “Back! Back! Back! Get back!

Mels: “Last time I did this, I ended up a toddler in the middle of New York.

Amelia: “Okay, Doctor, explain what is happening, please.

The Doctor: “Mels. Short for

Mels: “Melody.

Amelia: “Yeah. I named my daughter after her.

The Doctor: “You named your daughter after your daughter.”

Mels: “It took me years to find you two. I’m so glad I did. And you see? It all worked out in the end, didn’t it. You got to raise me after all.”

Amelia: “You’re Melody?”

Rory: “But if she’s Melody, that means that she’s also-”

Mels: “Shut up, Dad. I’m focusing on a dress size.”

River: “Oh! Oh! Oh! Whoa! Right, let’s see, then. Ooo, it’s all going on down there, isn’t it? The hair! Oh, the hair. It just doesn’t stop, does it? Look at that. Everything changes. Oh, but I love it. I love it! I’m all sort of mature.”

(She strikes a Mrs Robinson pose.)

River: “Hello, Benjamin.”

The Doctor: “Who’s Benjamin?”

River: “The teeth. The teeth, the teeth! Oh, look at them.”

(River pins the Doctor against Hitler’s desk.)

River: “Watch out that bow tie. Excuse me, you lot. I need to weigh myself.”

(She runs off into a side room.)

Amelia: “That’s Melody.”

Rory: “That’s River Song.”

River: “Who’s River Song?”

The Doctor: “Spoilers.”

River: “Spoilers? What’s spoilers? Hang on, just something I have to check.”

Rory: “Is anybody else finding today just a bit difficult? I’m getting a sort of banging in my head.”

Amelia: “Yeah, I think that’s Hitler in the cupboard.”

Rory: “That’s not helping.”

The Doctor: “This isn’t the River Song we know yet. This is her right at the start. Doesn’t even know her own name.”

River: “Oh, that’s magnificent! I’m going to wear lots of jodhpurs.

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River: “Well, now, enough of all that. Down to business.

(She has somehow got Hitler’s gun.)

The Doctor: “Oh, hello. I thought we were getting married.

River: “I told you I’m not a wedding person.

Rory: “Doctor, what’s she doing?

The Doctor: “What she’s programmed to.

Rory: “Where’d she get the gun?

The Doctor: “Hello, Benjamin.

(She picked it up from the chair.)

River: “You noticed.

(She tries to fire it, but the chambers are empty.)

The Doctor: “Of course I noticed.

(He took the bullets out while she was regenerating.)

The Doctor: “As soon as I knew you were coming, I tidied up a bit.

River: “I know you did.

(She spotted the gun in the fruit bowl.)

The Doctor: “I know you know.

(He turns the bowl and she points a banana at him instead.)

River: “Goodness, is killing you going to take all day?

The Doctor: “Why? Are you busy?

River: “Oh, I’m not complaining.

(She grabs a letter opener and he sonicks it away.)

The Doctor: “If you were in a hurry, you could’ve killed me in the cornfield.

River: “We’d only just met. I’m a psychopath. I’m not rude.

(She grabs Zimmerman’s automatic, but the Doctor has the clip.)

Amelia: “You are not a psychopath. Why would she be a psychopath?

River: “Oh, Mummy, Mummy, pay attention. I was trained and conditioned for one purpose. I was born to kill the Doctor.

The Doctor: “Demons Run, remember? This is what they were building. My bespoke psychopath.

River: “I’m all yours, sweetie.

The Doctor: “Only River Song gets to call me that.

River: “And who’s River Song?

The Doctor: “An old friend of mine.

River: “Stupid name. Oh, look at that. Berlin on the eve of war. A whole world about to tear itself apart. Now that’s my kind of town.” River reached over, wrapping her arm around mine. She dragged me towards the window.

“Woah-hey!” I said, shaking my arm in her grasp. “Let me go!” I turned back to the Doctor, praying the poison wouldn’t take effect.

“Sorry, sweetie.” River said. Though she clearly wasn’t, as River always sounded just a bit off. “But you and I are sticking together. Mum, Dad, don’t follow me. And, yes, that is a warning.”

The Doctor: “No warning for me then?”

River: “No need, my love. The deed is done and so are you.”

(The Doctor staggers.) I shook my arm, trying to punch River or at least get her to let me go.

“No!” I shouted, my arm moving to pry River away from me. “Doctor!” My voice came out as a plea, slightly in shock at seeing him dying. I couldn’t handle it so soon after Station 5, it might break me.

Amelia: “Doctor, what’s wrong?”

The Doctor: “What have you done? River!”

River: “Oh, River, River, River. More than a friend, I think.” She pouted at me. “And in front of you. Wow, has he no shame?”

The Doctor: “What have you done?

River: “It was never going to be a gun for you, Doctor. The man of peace who understands every kind of warfare, except, perhaps, the cruellest.”

“If you die, I’ll kill you!” I screamed at him, begging. ‘Please, Theta, don’t die. I can’t lose you.’

The Doctor looked over at me, struggling to hold himself up.

River: “Kiss, kiss.”

(River jumps out of the broken window.)

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Officer: “What are you doing here?

River: “Well, I was on my way to this gay Gypsy Bar-Mitzvah for the disabled, when I thought gosh, the Third Reich’s a bit rubbish. I think I’ll kill the Fuhrer. Who’s with me?

Officer: “Shoot her.

(Rory watches as the soldiers fire lots of bullets.)

Rory: “No!

River: “Tip for you all. Never shoot a girl while she’s regenerating.

(River blasts them with her golden energy then takes their weapons.)

River: “Ah! Now, that hit the spot. Thanks, boys. Call me.

(River gets on a motorbike.)

Amelia: “What are you doing?

River: “New body, new town. I’m going shopping.

(River drives away. A soldier come out on another bike.)

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“If the Doctor dies, you make an enemy of me.”

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(The elite of Berlin are wining and dining in style as a string quartet plays. Their pleasure is interrupted by a hail of bullets.)

River: “Ladies and gentleman, I don’t have a thing to wear. Take off your clothes.

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“River Song.” River commented, looking at me in the reflection of the mirror. “Terra Song. Are you related?”

“No. I checked. One too many days spent in the Enchanted Forest.” I remarked, looking around at the piles of German clothes. “She’s my wife.”

“Wife?” River chuckled. “Oh, the Doctor must not like her.”

“He’s a guy. Girl on girl action is the best thing ever. He never tells us to stop.”

“Really?”

“No idea. I’m not exactly looking at his face when I make out with my wife.”

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River: “Now, look at that. Now that’s fun from every angle.

(Amy enters. But which one?)

River: “Now dear, I told you not to follow me.”

I stood up from my seat, glaring at the robot. My feet stood firm on the marble ground, waiting for the time to run. If I wanted to protect River, I didn’t have much a chance unless I was fast.

River: “I might take the age down a little, just gradually, to freak people out.

Carter: “You killed the Doctor.”

River: “Oh yes, I know, dear. I hope you’re not going to keep on about it. Oh, regeneration. It’s a whole new coloring to work with.” (River is trying on a Luftwaffe uniform.)

Carter: “You killed the Doctor on the orders of the movement known as the Silence and Academy of the Question. You accept and know this to be true?”

River: “Quite honestly, I don’t really remember. It was all a bit of jumble.”

(Carter opens its mouth and a bright beam hits River’s head.)

River: “No! No! Get off me!”

The Doctor: “Sorry, did you say she killed the Doctor? The Doctor? Doctor who?”

River: “You’re dying and you stopped to change?”

The Doctor: “Oh, you should always waste time when you don’t have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule four hundred and eight. Amelia Pond, judgment death machine. Why am I not surprised? Sonic cane.

River: “Are you serious?

“Never knowingly. Never knowingly be serious. Rule twenty seven.” The Doctor winked at me. “You might want to write these down. Oh, it’s a robot. With four hundred and twenty three life signs inside. A robot worked by tiny people. Love it. But how do you all get in there, though. Bigger on the inside? No, basic miniaturisation sustained by a compression field. Ooo. Watch what you eat, it’ll get you every time. Amy, if you and Rory are okay, signal me.

The Doctor: “Thanking you.

Carter: “How’d you do that?

The Doctor: “Argh! I’m so sorry. Leg went to sleep. Just had a quick left leg power nap. I forgot I had one scheduled. Actually, better sit down. I think I heard the right one yawning.

(River tries to run. The Teselecta grabs her with its beam.)

“Don’t you touch her! Do not harm either of them in any way!” The Doctor yelled.

Carter: “Why would you care? She’s the woman who kills you.”

The Doctor: “I’m not dead.”

Carter: “You’re dying.”

The Doctor: “Well, at least I’m not a time travelling shape shifting robot operated by miniaturized cross people, which, I have got to admit, I didn’t see coming. What do you want with her?”

Carter: “She’s Melody Pond. According to records, the woman who kills the Doctor.”

The Doctor: “And I’m the Doctor. So what’s it to you?”

Carter: “Throughout history, many criminals have gone unpunished in their lifetimes. Time travel has responsibilities.”

The Doctor: “What? You got yourselves time travel, so you decided to punish dead people?”

Carter: “We don’t kill them. We extract them near the end of their established timelines.”

The Doctor: “And then what?

Carter: “Give them hell.

The Doctor: “I’d ask you who you think you are but I think the answer is pretty obvious. So, who do you think I am, huh? The woman who killed the Doctor. It sounds like you’ve got my biography in there. I’d love a peek.

Carter: “Our records office is sealed to the public. Foreknowledge is dangerous.

The Doctor: “Yeah, well, I’ll be dead in three minutes. There isn’t much foreknowledge left.

Carter: “Sorry, can’t do that.

Teselecta: “Records available.

The Doctor: “Question. I’m dying. Who wants me dead?

Teselecta: “The Silence.

The Doctor: “What is the Silence? Why is it called that? What does it mean?

Teselecta: “The Silence is not a species. It is a religious order, or movement. Their core belief is that silence will fall when the question is asked.

The Doctor: “What question?

Teselecta: “The first question. The oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight.

The Doctor: “Yes, but what is the question?

Teselecta: “Unknown.

The Doctor: “Oh. Well, fat lot of use that is, you big ginge. Call yourself a Records argh! Argh! Kidneys are always the first to quit. I’ve had better, you know.

The Doctor: “Amy. Rory. Amy. Can you hear me?

“What do we do? This is me. This is me actually talking. What do we do?

The Doctor: “Just stop them. She’s your daughter. Just stop them.”

Amelia: “How? How? How?”

The Doctor: “Just do it!”

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The Doctor: “Please. Now we have to save your parents. Don’t run. Now, I know you’re scared, but never run when you’re scared. Rule seven. Please.”

Amelia: “Doctor, help us! Doctor, please!

(The dying Doctor struggles to his feet and tries to make his way to the TARDIS. He can’t make it.)

Amelia: “Doctor! Help!

River: “Look at you. You still care.

Amelia: “Doctor, help! Doctor, help us! Please help us.

River: “It’s impressive, I’ll give you that.

The Doctor: “River, please.”

River: “Again? Who is this River? She’s got to be a woman. Am I right?”

The Doctor: “Help me. Save Amy and Rory. Help me.”

River: “Tell me about her. Go on.”

The Doctor: “Just help me.”

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“Don’t you dare.” I growled at him. “Not on me.”

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Amelia: “You can’t die now. I know you don’t die now.

The Doctor: “Oh, Pond, you’ve got a schedule for everything.

Amelia: “But it doesn’t make any sense.

Rory: “Doctor, what do we do? Come on. How do we help you?

The Doctor: “No. Sorry, Rory, you can’t. Nobody can. Ponds, listen to me. I need to talk to your daughter.”

(Rory and Amy move away from the Doctor, and let River approach.)

The Doctor: “Find her. Find River Song and tell her something from me.”

River: “Tell her what?” (The Doctor whispers in her ear.) “Well, I’m sure she knows.”

(The Doctor is dead.)

Then...it all stopped.

He was dead. This wasn’t like all the other times, when he regenerated. This had been his last body. There could be no regeneration this time, judas tree or not. The Doctor was gone. I knew he would come back, that River would use up her last regenerations to keep him alive, that in a few minutes he would be bouncing about this room with his usual carefree strut.

That didn’t stop this cold feeling growing in my chest in my hearts. That knowledge that I had seen the Doctor in the future after this, seen him partying with Clara and seen him lose the Ponds. He had been in the Dalek Asylum, and in the town Mercy. I had been with him on Trenzalore, and seen him die.

My Doctor would get up...or I wouldn’t.

The darkness was creeping in, worse than if Morgana was taking me over. I felt...empty. That is the only way to say it. The world was spinning around me, but all I could see was the Doctor’s dressed up suit. Our friends were talking behind me, but all my ears wouldn’t pick up any sound that wouldn’t be the Doctor’s sarcastic remarks. This was me when I was empty. This was me when my mate died.

This is the Empty Queen.

“Terra?” River’s voice broke through the growing madness. The madness the Silence put me through.

“What?” I snapped, gripping the Doctor’s hand tighter. It was colder than it usually was. Damn Time Lord Biology, making him cooler in death.

“You said the Doctor was worth it.” River commented.

Yes. Yes he is. Because as much as this hurts, I wouldn’t dare give any of it up. I wouldn’t take back a single day the Doctor and I had together.

“Just tell me.” River asked. “Is he still?”

“Totally.” I reached up, cupping his cheek in my hand. “Totally and completely.”

“Then please step back.” River asked, gently.

Daring myself to look, I saw her hands glow with golden regeneration energy. Taking my hands away from the Doctor would feel like cutting out stitches with safety scissors. I glared at River, feeling that Bad Wolf protectiveness. “You better bring him back, River.”

River nodded, walking closer. “I will.”

With great care, I let go of the Doctor’s hand. I took a shaky step away, quickly sitting down on the other side of the steps so I didn’t fall on my ass.

(River pours her golden regeneration energy into the Doctor, and he revives.)

The Doctor: “River. No. What are you doing?

River: “Hello, sweetie.

(River kisses the Doctor.)

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Amelia: “Hey.”

River: “Hey. Where am I?”

Amelia: “You’re safe now. Apparently, you used all your remaining regenerations in one go. You shouldn’t have done that.”

River: “Mother, I had to try.”

Amelia: “I know.”

River: “He said no-one could save him, but he must have known I could.”

The Doctor: “Rule one. The Doctor lies.”

NURSE: “She just needs to rest. She’ll be absolutely fine.”

The Doctor: “No, she won’t. She will be amazing.”

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Amelia: “So that’s it, we leave her there?”

The Doctor: “Sisters of the Infinite Schism. Greatest hospital in the universe.”

Amelia: “Yeah, but she’s our daughter. Doctor, she’s River and she’s our daughter.”

The Doctor: “Amy, I know. But we have to let her make her own way now. We have too much foreknowledge. Dangerous thing, foreknowledge.”

(His Teselecta biography is on the scanner.)

Amelia: “What’s that?”

The Doctor: “Nothing.”

(He turns it off.)

The Doctor: “Just some data I downloaded from the Teselecta. Very boring.”

Rory: “Doctor, River was brainwashed to kill you, right?”

The Doctor: “Well, she did kill me, and then she used her remaining lives to bring me back. As first dates go, I’d say that was mixed signals.”

Rory: “But that stuff that they put in her head, is that gone now? The River that we know in the future, she is in prison for murder.”

Amelia: “Whose murder? Will we see her again?”

The Doctor: “Oh, she’ll come looking for us.”

Amelia: “Yeah, but how? How do people even look for you?”

The Doctor: “Oh, Pond. Haven’t you figured that one out yet?”

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The Doctor didn’t look up from the console. “You were trapped there for three days.”

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I grabbed his tweed jacket. “Doctor, if you had stopped it, then I wouldn’t have what I have with you.”

The Doctor looked so confused. “But, we might have had a better chance if-”

“No.” I stopped him. “Our chances would not be better if they were linear. I love what we have. It’s fun, and it’s with you.”

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*SLAP*

“Youch!”

“Gah!” I hissed, my palm burning from that powerful slap. Marshall Eriksen taught me well.

The Doctor looked at me in almost angry shock. “Why did you-”

“Never say that to me again.” I bit my lip to stop from crying. “E-Ever! I don’t c-care what’s happening, just never say you’re going to...” I choked on my tears. “I don’t want a life without you. I came this close to losing you just an hour ago, ya know? I almost lost you on the Space Station and I had to take in the Time Vortex just to keep you from dying. I have nightmares about life without you. You’re my Mate, someone who I will always want there. Those were the worst two minutes of my life. I don’t want to hear about you d-dying, ever.”

The Doctor was still visible through my tears. He looked surprised at my reaction. He meant it only as a way to get information.

His eyes widened. I could see the self shock in his eyes. He genuinely couldn’t believe it. He had made me cry, just so that I would talk. He brought up his death, just so I would talk. He threw in my face that I knew everything about everything, just so I would talk.

The Doctor held my face, using his thumbs to brush away any of my forming tears. “Morgan, I just want to know why you wouldn’t tell me.”

“What would you have done, Theta?” I asked, trying to talk through my tears. “Hmm? Would you go there to make sure the Silence was taken down before I got there?”

The Doctor didn’t pause in his answer. “Yes! I wouldn’t want any of them there when you arrived! I wouldn’t let the Silence to do anything to you, to have something so precious to me!” He swore,

“Theta.” I held his hand in mine. “I love you.”

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I can’t stay in this outfit.

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I skipped down the street, a bright smile on my face. Oh, I just loved Christmas. “Simply having a wonderful Christmas time.” I hummed.

My dress was bright cherry red. It barely went to my mid-thigh. There was a thick black belt around my waist. I had some red and white bangles on my wrists. My boots were black, with white fluff on the edge. My head had a large red hat with a white puff ball. There was a candy cane colored bowtie around my neck.

It was basically a very sexy version of a Santa outfit. I was a very bad Santa.

Oh, I wished I had this on Trenzalore! Imagine the fun I could have had with Eleven with this! I could practically see him blushing already, as red as Rudolph’s nose.

Of course, now I would get to buy presents for everyone. Those could be done in a flash. There also might be some unresolved anger for his last moment. Eleven did explain it carefully, but I still felt hurt by it. If Ten wasn’t angry because I let Rose become the Bad Wolf, then what was he angry about? Me bringing back Jack? Me taking on the Vortex? Just what was it?

Who cares, it’s Christmas!

“Just hear those sleigh bells jing-a-ling. Ring ting ting-a-ting too.” I sang as I reached the Powell Estates. “C’mon it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you.”

I saw Mickey and Jackie, searching the alleyway. A faint smile spread across my face.

“Outside the snow is falling, and friends are calling you hoo. C’mon it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you.” I ran up to them, still singing my song.

“Just shut up a minute.” Mickey said towards Jackie and I, looking for the TARDIS.

I gave him a defiant grin. “Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up let’s go. Let’s look at the show.”

Jackie worriedly looked about. “Well, where is it then?”

“We’re riding in a wonderland of snow.” I skipped over to where the TARDIS would soon land. “Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up it’s grand, just holding your hand. We’re riding along with a song of a wintery fairyland.”

At that moment, the TARDIS appeared. It banged alongside many of the buildings, nearly hit a car, and then Jackie. Forget angry at his attitude, I might get pissed at his driving!

She finally stopped a few yards away from me, hitting the bins. I let out an excited yelp, laughing at his horrid driving. Oh, I was gonna give him one for when he came out!

...never mind. Ten was hot.

The Doctor walked out from the TARDIS, his body still clothed in Nine’s leather jacket and black t-shirt. His big brown eyes were looking about, wide in excitement and wonder. I knew that feeling, seeing the world with a new set of eyes. It was indescribable.

“Our cheeks are nice and rosy, and comfy cozy are we.” I sang, looking the Doctor over. Was it so wrong to say I liked him in this outfit almost as much as I liked the pinstripe? “We snuggle close together like two birds of a feather would be. Let’s take that road before us and sing a chorus or two.”

It didn’t help when the Doctor stumbled out of the TARDIS, stupidly looking around.

“C’mon it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you.” I sang, walking up to stand between Jackie and Mickey.

The Doctor spoke, and I chuckled. Ten’s excited voice was the best. “Here we are then, London. Earth. The Solar System. We did it.”

The Doctor caught sight of the three of us. His jaw dropped, and his eyes widened at me. I innocently waved hello. The Doctor looked positively flustered.

“51.” I said, delighted.

He was staring right into my eyes, I could feel it. I couldn’t help but giggle bashfully. I was still pissed at him, but the Doctor always seemed to be able to get that off my mind.

“Terra. Jackie. Mickey. Blimey!” The Doctor broke out of our trance. “No, no, no, no, hold on. Wait there. I’ve got something to say. There was something I had to tell you, something important. What was it? No, hold on, hold on. Hold on, shush, shush, shush, shush. Oh, I know! Merry Christmas!”

(The Doctor collapses. Rose comes out of the TARDIS.)

Rose: “What happened? Is he all right?”

“Yeah. Just unconscious.” I said, holding him up. Thank you, superior Time Lady biology.

Mickey: “I don’t know, he just keeled over. But who is he? Where’s the Doctor?”

Rose: “That’s him, right in front of you. That’s the Doctor.”

Jackie: “What do you mean, that’s the Doctor? Doctor who?”

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(The Doctor has been dressed in pyjamas and put to bed. Jackie comes in with a stethoscope.)

Jackie: “Here we go. Tina the cleaner’s got this lodger, a medical student, and she was fast asleep, so I just took it. Though I still say we should take him to hospital.”

Rose: “We can’t. They’d lock him up. They’d dissect him. One bottle of his blood could change the future of the human race. No! Shush!”

(Terra listens to both sides of the Doctor’s chest.) Terra: “Both working.”

Jackie: “What do you mean, both?”

Rose: “Well, he’s got two hearts.”

Jackie: “Oh, don’t be stupid.”

Rose: “He has.”

Jackie: “Anything else he’s got two of?”

Rose: “Leave him alone.”

(Rose and Jackie leaves. The Doctor exhales some of the TARDIS’s golden energy, which flies off into space.)

“We’re hanging the star above our tree. Don’t it look lovely? The lights and the tinsel sparkling for you.” “I’ve got the Christmas feeling, take it everywhere I go, and let that Christmas feeling grow.”

“So warm by the fireplace we glow, all cozy and happy.” “

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(Rose investigates the fridge.)

Jackie: “How can he go changing his face? Is that a different face or is he a different person?”

Rose: “How should I know? Sorry. The thing is I thought I knew him, Mum. I thought me and him were. And then he goes and does this. I keep forgetting he’s not human. The big question is where’d you get a pair of men’s pyjamas from?”

Jackie: “Howard’s been staying over.”

Rose: “What, Howard from the market? How long’s that been going on?”

Jackie: “A month or so. First of all, he starts delivering to the door and I thought, that’s a odd. Next thing you know, it’s a bag of oranges-”

Rose: “Is that Harriet Jones?” (Rose goes into the living room.)

Jackie: “Oh, never mind me.”

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Rose: “Why’s she on the telly?”

Jackie: “She’s Prime Minister now. I’m eighteen quid a week better off. They’re calling it Britain’s Golden Age. I keep on saying my Rose has met her.”

Rose: “Did more than that. Stopped World War Three with her. Harriet Jones.”

MAN [on TV]: “Prime Minister, what about those calling the Guinevere One Space Probe a waste of money?”

Harriet: [on TV]: “Now, that’s where you’re wrong. I completely disagree if you don’t mind. The Guinevere One Space Probe represents this country’s limitless ambition. British workmanship sailing up there among the stars.”

LLEWELLYN [on TV]: “This is the spirit of Christmas, birth and rejoicing, and the dawn of a new age, and that is what we’re achieving fifteen million miles away. Our very own miracle.”

NARRATOR [OC]: “The unmanned probe Guinevere One is about to make it’s final descent. Photographs of the Martian Landscape should be received by midnight tonight.”

(Out in space, the probe bumps into presumably either Phobos or Deimos. A hatch opens in the Martian moon and the probe is sucked inside.)

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I stood up. “You know, I think I’m gonna to go.”

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As I searched the store, I hummed a song. “I really can’t stay. I’ve got to go away. This evening has been so very nice.”

All the presents I had bought a while ago at a alien store. This was basically just buying the wrapping and food. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Santa-bots. I put them aside, focusing on Christmas shopping.

“My mother will start to worry.” I hummed, finding some nice raspberry pink wrapping. That was just the universe hating me. “My father will be pacing the floor. So really I’d better scurry. Well, maybe just half a drink more.”

My eyes went back to the bots, my senses going on high alert. I just needed a few more minutes to get the rest of my stuff.

“The neighbors might think.” I sang, starting on my search for some bows. “Say what’s in this drink? I wish I knew how to break this spell. I ought to say no, no, no, sir. At least I’m gonna say that I tried. I really can’t stay, baby, it’s cold outside.”

“I simply must go. The answer is no. The welcome has been so nice and warm. My sister will be suspicious, my brother will be there at the door. My maiden aunt’s mind is vicious but maybe just a cigarette more.”

“I got to get home. Say lend me a coat. You’ve really been grand, but don’t you see. There’s bound to be talk tomorrow, at least there will be plenty implied. I really can’t stay. Baby, it’s cold, baby, it’s cold outside.”

The Bots attacked.

Well, at least I had all my stuff.

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(Rose and Mickey burst in.)

Jackie: “So, save us a chipolata.”

Rose: “Get off the phone.”

Jackie: “It’s only Bev. She says hello.”

Rose: “Bev? Yeah. Look, it’ll have to wait. Right, it’s not safe. We’ve got to get out. Where can we go?”

Mickey: “My mate Stan, he’ll put us up.”

Rose: “That’s only two streets away. What about Mo? Where’s she living now?”

Jackie: “I don’t know. Peak District.”

Rose: “Well, we’ll go to cousin Mo’s then.”

Jackie: “No, it’s Christmas Eve! We’re not going anywhere! What’re you babbling about?”

Rose: “Mum. Where’d you get that tree?”

(The Christmas tree is now green.)

Rose: “That’s a new tree. Where’d you get it?”

Jackie: “I thought it was you.”

Rose: “How can it be me?”

Jackie: “Well, you went shopping. There was a ring at the door, and there it was!”

Rose: “No, that wasn’t me.”

Jackie: “Then who was it?”

(The tree lights up by itself and starts playing Jingle Bells.)

Rose: “Oh, you’re kidding me.”

(Sections of the tree start to rotate in different directions, creating a strong wind. It starts to move, chopping through a coffee table.)

Mickey: “Get out! Go, go! Get out!”

(Mickey picks up a chair to fend it off as Jackie and Rose run for the door.)

Rose: “We’ve got to save the Doctor.”

Jackie: “What’re you doing?”

Rose: “We can’t just leave him.”

Jackie: “Mickey!”

(The spinning tree shreds the chair legs.)

Jackie: “Leave it! Get out! Get out!”

Rose: “Mickey!”

Jackie: “Get out of there!”

Jackie: “No, leave him. Just leave him!”

Mickey: “Get in here!”

(Jackie does as the tree heads for them. She and Mickey pull a wardrobe across the door.)

Rose: “Doctor, wake up!”

(Rose gets the sonic screwdriver from the jacket pocket and puts it in the Doctor’s hand. The tree smashes through the door.)

Jackie: “I’m going to get killed by a Christmas tree!”

“Jackie!” I ran to the woman, hoping to protect her from the tree.

The tree hit me, throwing me at a wall.

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Their friend hit the wall with a harsh grunt.

“Terra!” Rose screamed, seeing her friend fall to the floor like a ragdoll. Her body draped over the various furniture.

Before she could move to help, the Doctor shot up from the bed. He aimed his screwdriver at the tree. It exploded, covering the ground in lightly burning fir tree needles.

The Doctor: “Remote control. But who’s controlling it?”

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After the Doctor passed out, Rose and Mickey put the Doctor back in bed.

When they got to his room, they found Terra lying in the bed already. Rose suspected Terra had woken up, then stumbled onto the bed before falling back asleep.

Rose frowned. From this angle, it was like the two had fallen asleep together, like this has been normal. She had hoped Terra would wake up soon to help. Rose needed all the help she could get. She didn’t know as much about aliens as the Doctor or Terra did.

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(Rose puts the suffering Doctor back to bed and mops his brow. Mickey has fetched his laptop.)

Mickey: “Jackie, I’m using the phone line. Is that alright?”

Jackie: “Yeah. Keep a count of it. It’s midnight. Christmas day. Any change?”

Rose: “He’s worse. Just one heart beating.”

REPORTER [on TV]: “Scientists in charge of Britain’s mission to Mars have re-established contact with the Guinevere One space probe. They’re expecting the first transmission from the planet’s surface in the next few minutes.”

LLEWELLYN [on TV]: “Yes, we are. We’re, we’re back on schedule. We’ve received the signal from Guinevere One. The Mars landing would seem to be an unqualified success.”

MAN [OC]: “But is it true that you completely lost contact earlier tonight?”

LLEWELLYN: “Yes, we had a bit of a scare. Guinevere seemed to fall off the scope, but it, it was just a blip. Only disappeared for a few seconds. She is fine now, absolutely fine. We’re getting the first pictures transmitted live any minute now. I’d better get back to it, thanks.”

Mickey: “Here we go, pilot fish. Scavengers, like the Doctor said. Harmless. They’re tiny. But the point is, the little fish swim alongside the big fish.”

Rose: “Do you mean like sharks?”

Mickey: “Great big sharks. So, what the Doctor means is, we had them, now we get that.”

Rose: “Something is coming. How close?”

Mickey: “There’s no way of telling, but the pilot fish don’t swim far from their daddy.”

Rose: “So, it’s close?”

Jackie: “Funny sort of rocks.”

NEWSREADER [on TV]: “The first photographs-”

Rose: “That’s not rocks”

NEWSREADER [on TV]: “This image is being transmitted via mission control, coming live from the depths of space on Christmas morning.”

(It’s an red-eyed ugly alien with a head like a goat’s skull. It growls and gurgles at the screen.)

NEWSREADER: “The face of an alien life form was transmitted live tonight on BBC1.”

NEWSREADER 2: “(USA) On the 25th of December, the human race has been shown absolute proof that alien life exists.”

NEWSREADER 3: “These remarkable images have been relayed right across the world.”

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Mickey: “Rose. Take a look. I’ve got access to the military. They’re tracking a spaceship. It’s big, it’s fast, and it’s coming this way.”

Rose: “Coming for what, though? The Doctor?”

Mickey: “I don’t know. Maybe it’s coming for all of us.”

(Mickey gets a clear image of four of the aliens. UNIT has an even bigger picture of more of them.)

Mickey: “Have you seen them before?”

Rose: “No.”

Rose: “I don’t understand what they’re saying. The TARDIS translates alien languages inside my head, all the time, wherever I am.”

Mickey: “So, why isn’t it doing it now?”

Rose: “I don’t know. Must be the Doctor. Like he’s part of the circuit, and he’s, he’s broken.”

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(Jackie has fallen asleep by the Doctor’s bedside.)

Rose: “The Doctor wouldn’t do this. The old Doctor, the proper Doctor, he’d wake up. He’d save us.”

Mickey: “You really love him, don’t you?”

(Rose turns to Mickey and they hug.)

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(A blank faced man is walking along outside the Tyler’s flat.)

SANDRA: “What is wrong with you? Jason? Jason?”

(Rose and Mickey come out.)

Rose: “Sandra?”

SANDRA: “He won’t listen. He’s just walking. He won’t stop walking! There’s this sort of light thing. Jason? Stop it right now! Please, Jason, just stop.”

(Rose and Mickey look down to see lots of people walking through the estate.)

SANDRA: “Jason, I’m talking to you! Just stop!”

(The controlled people all line up along the edge of the roofs.)

Mickey: “What do we do?”

Rose: “Nothing. There’s no one to save us. Not anymore.”

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(With Union flags draped either side, Harriet Jones, PM, sits in a panelled room at a desk with a photograph of Her Majesty on it for her broadcast to the nation.)

Harriet: “Ladies and gentlemen, if I may take a moment during this terrible time. It’s hardly the Queen’s speech. I’m afraid that’s been cancelled. (to an aide) Did we ask about the royal family? Oh. They’re on the roof.”

Harriet [on TV]: “But, ladies and gentlemen, this crisis is unique, and I’m afraid to say, it might get much worse. I would ask you all to remain calm. But I have one request. Doctor, if you’re out there, we need you. I don’t know what to do. If you can hear me, Doctor. If anyone knows the Doctor, if anyone can find him, the situation has never been more desperate. Help us. Please, Doctor. Help us. God help us.”

(Rose bursts into tears.)

Rose: “He’s gone. The Doctor’s gone. He’s left me, mum. He’s left me, mum.”

Jackie: “It’s all right. I’m sorry.”

(Suddenly, all the glass in the block of flats shatters. The Gherkin (St Mary Axe) also shatters, indicating that it is at least city-wide.)

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Rose: “Mickey, we’re going to carry him. Mum, get your stuff, and get some food. We’re going.”

Mickey: “Where to?”

Rose: “The TARDIS. It’s the only safe place on Earth.”

Jackie: “What’re we going to do in there?”

Rose: “Hide.”

Jackie: “Is that it?”

Rose: “Mum, look in the sky. There’s a great, big, alien invasion and I don’t know what to do, all right? I’ve travelled with him, and I’ve seen all that stuff, but when I’m stuck at home, I’m useless. Now, all we can do is run and hide, and I’m sorry. Now, move. Oh, lift him up.”

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(Rose and Mickey carry the Doctor while Jackie struggles with half a dozen carrier bags.)

Rose: “Mum, will you just leave that stuff and give us a hand?”

Jackie: “It’s food! You said we need food.”

Rose: “Just leave it!”

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Mickey: “No chance you could fly this thing?”

Rose: “Not anymore, no.”

Mickey: “Well, if Terra could do it so could you.”

Rose: “I know, but she told me not to. She said ‘try that again and the Universe rips in half’.”

Mickey: “Ah, better not, then.”

Rose: “Maybe not.”

Mickey: “So, what do we do? Just sit here?”

Rose: “That’s as good as it gets.”

Jackie: “Right, here we go. Nice cup of tea.” (Jackie has brought a flask.)

Rose: “Mmm, the solution to everything.”

Jackie: “Now, stop your moaning. I’ll get the rest of the food.” (Jackie leaves.)

Mickey: “Tea. Like we’re having a picnic while the world comes to an end. Very British. How does this thing work? If it picks up TV, maybe we could see what’s going on out there. Maybe we’ve surrendered. What do you do to it?”

Rose: “I don’t know. It sort of tunes itself.”

(There’s an odd pattern on the scanner.) Mickey: “Maybe it’s a distress signal.”

Rose: “A fat lot of good that’s going to do.”

Mickey: “Are you going to be a misery all the time?”

Rose: “Yes.”

Mickey: “You should look at it from my point of view, stuck in here with your mum’s cooking.”

Rose: “Where is she? I’d better give her a hand. It might start raining missiles out there.”

Mickey: “Tell her anything from a tin, that’s fine.”

Rose: “Why don’t you tell her yourself?”

Mickey: “I’m not that brave.”

Rose: “Oh, I don’t know.” (Rose steps outside and is grabbed by a Sycorax. She screams.)

Mickey: “Rose?”

(Mickey drops the open flask of tea near where the Doctor is lying.)

“Close the door!” Rose reminded him. Mickey, eyes wide, ran back with just enough time to close the door before a Sycorax grabbed him.

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I woke up in the TARDIS. The Doctor’s slowly rising body beside me.

“Terra?”

“Killer tree.” I mumbled, brushing sleep from my eyes.

I pulled myself up, him trying to help me. “I got it.”

The Doctor gave me a brief look. I slapped him.

“Oi!”

“I haven’t really have much time since the Space Station.” Was my explanation. “I’ve already slapped you, but I wanted to do it again. This face is fun to slap.”

The Doctor rubbed his cheek. “Are you sure you aren’t a Tyler?”

I laughed. “Very. A guy taught me how to give the Slap of a Thousand Suns.”

The Doctor’s eyes widened. “The TARDIS’ moved.”

I grinned, almost madly. “Wanna see?”

The Doctor grinned back. “Let’s go!”

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“Did you miss me?”

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(The Sycorax cracks his whip. The Doctor catches the end and pulls it out of his hand.)

The Doctor: “You could have someone’s eye out with that.”

Sycorax: “How dare!”

(The Doctor takes a thick club off another Sycorax and breaks it across his knee.)

The Doctor: “You just can’t get the staff. Now, you, just wait. I’m busy. Mickey, hello! And Harriet Jones MP for Flydale North. Blimey, it’s like This Is Your Life. Tea! That’s all I needed, a good cup of tea! Superheated infusion of free radicals and tannin. Just the thing for healing the synapses. Now, first thing’s first. Be honest, how do I look?”

“Different.” I shrugged, a smug smile on my face.

The Doctor: “Good different or bad different?

“Just...” I sighed, biting my lip. “Actually, can you do a short spin?”

The Doctor did so. I made sure to catch the glimpse at the rear.

“Yep. Different.” I nodded my head, looking up to stare into Ten’s eyes.

The Doctor: “Am I ginger?”

I walked up to him, reaching up to his hair. My fingers brushed through the Doctor’s hair. “No, you’re just sort of brown.”

The Doctor: “I wanted to be ginger. I’ve never been ginger. And you, Rose Tyler, fat lot of good you were. You gave up on me. Oh, that’s rude. That’s the sort of man I am now, am I? Rude. Rude and not ginger.”

“Generally, yes.” I teased. The Doctor smirked at me. “But it’s adorable, so I let it slide.”

Harriet: “I’m sorry. Who is this?”

The Doctor: “I’m the Doctor.”

Rose: “He’s the Doctor.”

“I’ve got a nickname for him all lined up and ready to go.”

Harriet: “But what happened to my Doctor? Or is it a title that’s just passed on?”

The Doctor: “I’m him. I’m literally him. Same man, new face. Well, new everything.”

Harriet: “But you can’t be.”

The Doctor: “Harriet Jones, we were trapped in Downing Street and the one thing that scared you wasn’t the aliens, it wasn’t the war, it was the thought of your mother being on her own.”

Harriet: “Oh, my God.”

The Doctor: “Did you win the election?”

Harriet: “Landslide majority.”

Sycorax: “If I might interrupt.”

The Doctor: “Yes, sorry. Hello, big fellow.”

Sycorax: “Who exactly are you?”

The Doctor: “Well, that’s the question.”

Sycorax: “I demand to know who you are!”

The Doctor: “I don’t know!” “See, there’s the thing. I’m the Doctor, but beyond that, I just don’t know. I literally do not know who I am. It’s all untested. Am I funny? Am I sarcastic? Sexy? Right old misery? Life and soul? Right handed? Left handed? A gambler? A fighter? A coward? A traitor? A liar? A nervous wreck? I mean, judging by the evidence, I’ve certainly got a gob. And how am I going to react when I see this, a great big threatening button. A great big threatening button which must not be pressed under any circumstances, am I right? Let me guess. It’s some sort of control matrix, hmm? Hold on, what’s feeding it?”

(The Doctor opens the base of the pillar under the button.)

The Doctor: “And what’ve we got here? Blood? Yeah, definitely blood. Human blood. A Positive, with just a dash of iron. Ah, but that means blood control. Blood control! Oh, I haven’t seen blood control for years. You’re controlling all the A Positives. Which leaves us with a great big stinking problem. Because I really don’t know who I am. I don’t know when to stop. So if I see a great big threatening button which should never, ever, ever be pressed, then I just want to do this.”

(He hits the button.)

Rose + Harriet: “No!”

Alex: “You killed them!”

The Doctor: “What do you think, big fellow? Are they dead?”

Sycorax: “We allow them to live.”

The Doctor: “Allow? You’ve no choice. I mean, that’s all blood control is. A cheap bit of voodoo. Scares the pants off you, but that’s as far as it goes. It’s like hypnosis. You can hypnotise someone to walk like a chicken or sing like Elvis. You can’t hypnotise them to death. Survival instinct’s too strong.”

Sycorax: “Blood control was just one form of conquest. I can summon the armada and take this world by force.”

The Doctor: “Well, yeah, you could, yeah, you could do that, of course you could. But why? Look at these people. These human beings. Consider their potential. From the day they arrive on the planet and blinking step into the sun, there is more to see than can ever be seen. More to do than. No, hold on. Sorry, that’s The Lion King. But the point still stands. Leave them alone!”

Sycorax: “Or what?”

The Doctor: “Or-”

(The Doctor takes a sword from an aide and runs back towards the TARDIS.)

The Doctor: “I challenge you.”

(General laughter.)

The Doctor: “Oh, that struck a chord. Am I right that the sanctified rules of combat still apply?”

Sycorax: “You stand as this world’s champion.”

The Doctor: “Thank you. I’ve no idea who I am, but you just summed me up.”

(The Doctor throws his dressing gown to Rose.)

The Doctor: “So, you accept my challenge? Or are you just a cranak pel casacree salvak?”

(This insult makes up the leader’s mind.)

Sycorax: “For the planet?”

The Doctor: “For the planet.”

(They clash swords.)

Rose: “Look out!”

The Doctor: “Oh, yeah, that helps. Wouldn’t have thought of that otherwise, thanks.”

(The leader is the more experienced swordsman. The Doctor retreats up a tunnel.)

The Doctor: “Bit of fresh air?”

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(And out into the daylight. The Doctor is driven back to the edge, and hit on the nose.)

The Doctor: “Stay back! Invalidate the challenge and he wins the planet.”

(The leader knocks the Doctor down then slashes. The sword and a hand fall to Earth.)

The Doctor: “You cut my hand off.”

Sycorax: “Ya! Sycorax!”

The Doctor: “And now I know what sort of man I am. I’m lucky. Because quite by chance I’m still within the first fifteen hours of my regeneration cycle, which means I’ve got just enough residual cellular energy to do this.”

(He grows a new hand.)

Sycorax: “Witchcraft.”

The Doctor: “Time Lord.”

Rose: “Doctor!” (Rose throws him another sword.)

The Doctor: “Oh, so I’m still the Doctor, then?”

Rose: “No arguments from me!”

“Go Lucky!” I cheered, loudly. “Woohoo!”

The Doctor: “Want to know the best bit? This new hand? It’s a fighting hand!”

(They fight again. The Doctor disarms the Sycorax and thumps both hilts into it’s abdomen, twice. It falls, right on the edge, overlooking London.)

The Doctor: “I win.”

Sycorax: “Then kill me.”

The Doctor: “I’ll spare your life if you’ll take this Champion’s command. Leave this planet, and never return. What do you say?”

Sycorax: “Yes.”

The Doctor: “Swear on the blood of your species.”

Sycorax: “I swear.”

The Doctor: “There we are, then. Thanks for that. Cheers, big fellow.”

Harriet: “Bravo!”

Rose: “That says it all. Bravo!”

The Doctor: “Ah, not bad for a man in his jim-jams.”

(Rose helps him on with the dressing gown.)

The Doctor: “Very Arthur Dent. Now, there was a nice man. Hold on, what have I got in here? A satsuma. Ah, that friend of your mothers. He does like his snacks doesn’t he? But doesn’t that just sum up Christmas? You go through all those presents and right at the end, tucked away at the bottom, there’s always one stupid old satsuma. Who wants a satsuma?”

(The Sycorax leader gets up, grabs his sword and runs at the Doctor’s back. The Doctor throws the satsuma at a control on the spaceship hull, a piece of the wing opens up and the leader falls to his death.)

The Doctor: “No second chances. I’m that sort of a man.”

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The Doctor: “By the ancient rites of combat, I forbid you to scavenge here for the rest of time. And when go you back to the stars and tell others of this planet, when you tell them of it’s riches, it’s people, it’s potential. When you talk of the Earth, then make sure that you tell them this. It is defended.”

(The TARDIS, Harriet, Alex, Rose, Mickey and the Doctor are beamed away.)

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Rose: “Where are we?”

Mickey: “We’re just off Bloxom Road. We’re just round the corner, we did it!”

The Doctor: “Wait a minute, wait a minute.”

(The spaceship flies away.)

Mickey: “Go on, my son! Oh, yeah!”

Rose: “Yeah! Don’t come back!”

Mickey: “It is defended!”

(Rose and Mickey hug, then Rose hugs Alex.)

Harriet: “My Doctor.”

The Doctor: “Prime Minister.”

(They hug.)

Harriet: “Absolutely the same man. Are there many more out there?”

The Doctor: “Oh, not just Sycorax. Hundreds of species. Thousands of them. And the human race is drawing attention to itself. Every day you’re sending out probes and messages and signals. This planet’s so noisy. You’re getting noticed more and more. You’d better get used to it.”

Jackie: “Rose!”

Rose: “Mum!”

The Doctor: “Oh, talking of trouble.”

Jackie: “Oh, my God! You did it, Rose! Oh!”

(Alex answers a phone call.)

Rose: “You did it too! It was the tea. Fixed his head.”

The Doctor: “That was all I needed, cup of tea.”

Jackie: “I said so.”

Rose: “Look at him.”

Jackie: “Is it him, though? Is it really the Doctor? Oh, my God, it’s the bleeding Prime Minister!”

The Doctor: “Come here, you.”

(Group hug.)

Jackie: “Are you better?”

The Doctor: “I am, yeah.”

Alex: “It’s a message from Torchwood. They say they’re ready.”

Jackie: “You left me.”

Rose: “I’m sorry.”

Jackie: “I had all the food.”

(Five green beams streak up into the sky, meet and fire out into space. The Sycorax asteroid ship goes KaBOOM!)

Rose: “What is that? What’s happening?”

The Doctor: “That was murder.”

Harriet: “That was defence. It’s adapted from alien technology. A ship that fell to Earth ten years ago.”

The Doctor: “But they were leaving.”

Harriet: “You said yourself, Doctor, they’d go back to the stars and tell others about the Earth. I’m sorry, Doctor, but you’re not here all the time. You come and go. It happened today. Mister Llewellyn and the Major, they were murdered. They died right in front of me while you were sleeping. In which case we have to defend ourselves.”

The Doctor: “Britain’s Golden Age.”

Harriet: “It comes with a price.”

The Doctor: “I gave them the wrong warning. I should’ve told them to run as fast as they can, run and hide because the monsters are coming. The human race.”

Harriet: “Those are the people I represent. I did it on their behalf.”

The Doctor: “Then I should have stopped you.”

Harriet: “What does that make you, Doctor? Another alien threat?”

The Doctor: “Don’t challenge me, Harriet Jones, because I’m a completely new man. I could bring down your Government with a single word.”

Harriet: “You’re the most remarkable man I’ve ever met, but I don’t think you’re quite capable of that.”

The Doctor: “No, you’re right. Not a single word, just six.”

Harriet: “I don’t think so.”

The Doctor: “Six words.”

Harriet: “Stop it!”

The Doctor: “Six.”

(The Doctor goes over to Alex and whispers in his ear.) The Doctor: “Don’t you think she looks tired?”

(The Doctor, Rose, Mickey and Jackie leave.)

Harriet: “What did he say?”

Alex: “Oh, well, nothing, really.”

Harriet: “What did he say?”

Alex: “Nothing. I don’t know.”

Harriet: “Doctor! Doctor, what did you? What was that? What did he say? What did you say, Doctor? Doctor! I’m sorry.”

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(The Doctor is picking himself a new outfit in the TARDIS wardrobe, and considers David’s Casanova costume. We hear the specially written Song For Ten by Murray Gold sung by Tim Phillips.)

SINGER: “When I woke up today and the world seemed a restless place, it could have been that way for me.”

(Mickey, Rose and Jackie are back at the flat having Christmas dinner. Mickey carves the turkey.)

SINGER: “Then I wandered around and I thought of your face that Christmas looking back at me.”

(The Doctor finds a brown pinstripe suit and long brown coat. He leaves the wardrobe past the old hat stand with a long scarf on it.)

SINGER: “I wish today was just like every other day. Cause today has been the best day.”

(The Doctor is back to a nice suit and tie after his recent aberration.)

SINGER: “Everything I ever dreamed. Then I started to walk, pretty soon I will run. And I’ll be running back to you. Because I followed my star, and that’s what you are. I’ve had a merry time with you.”

(The Doctor enters. The dinner progresses to the crackers.)

SINGER: “I wish today was just like every other day.”

The Doctor: “Oh, that’s yours.”

Rose: “It’s pink! Mum, it should be yours. Look, it’s Harriet Jones.”

(That television is never switched off BBC24, it seems.)

MAN [on TV]: “Prime Minister, is it true you are no longer fit to be in position?”

Harriet [on TV]: “No. Now, can we talk about other things?”

MAN [on TV]: “Is it true you’re unfit for office?”

(The Doctor puts on a pair of spectacles to watch the interview.)

Harriet [on TV]: “Look, there is nothing wrong with my health. I don’t know where these stories are coming from. And a vote of no confidence is completely unjustified.”

MAN [on TV]: “Are you going to resign?”

(The telephone rings.)

Harriet [on TV]: “On today of all days, I’m fine. Look at me, I’m fine. I look fine, I feel fine.”

Jackie: “It’s Beth. She says go and look outside.”

Rose: “Why?”

Jackie: “I don’t know, just go outside and look. Come on, shift!!”

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(The ground is covered with white flakes falling from the sky. Streaks of light cris-cross the sky.)

Rose: “Oh, it’s beautiful. What are they, meteors?”

The Doctor: “It’s the spaceship breaking up in the atmosphere. This isn’t snow, it’s ash.”

Rose: “Okay, not so beautiful.”

The Doctor: “This is a brand new planet Earth. No denying the existence of aliens now. Everyone saw it. Everything’s new.”

Rose: “And what about you? What are you going to do next?”

The Doctor: “Well, back to the TARDIS. Same old life.”

Rose: “On your own?”

The Doctor: “Why, don’t you want to come?”

Rose: “Well, yeah.”

The Doctor: “Do you, though?”

Rose: “Yeah!”

The Doctor: “I just thought, because I changed.”

Rose: “Yeah, I thought, because you changed you might not want me anymore.”

The Doctor: “Oh, I’d love you to come.”

Rose: “Okay.”

Mickey: “You’re never going to stay, are you?”

Rose: “There’s just so much out there. So much to see. I’ve got to.”

Mickey: “Yeah.”

Jackie: “Well, I reckon you’re mad, the pair of you. It’s like you go looking for trouble.”

The Doctor: “Trouble’s just the bits in-between. It’s all waiting out there, Jackie, and it’s brand new to me. All those planets, and creatures and horizons. I haven’t seem them yet! Not with these eyes. And it is going to be fantastic.”

Rose: “That hand of yours still gives me the creeps.”

(She takes hold of it anyway.)

Rose: “So, where’re we going to go first?”

The Doctor: “Er, that way. No, hold on. That way.”

(He points up.)

Rose: “That way?”

The Doctor: “Hmm?”

Rose: “Yeah, that way.”

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“That was incredibly reckless.” The Doctor scolded.

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I frowned, my bottom lip quivering. “Oh. Well. Yes.” I swallowed the lump in my throat. “I’ll...I’ll just go then.”

The Doctor just kept glaring.

“Just...just keep that corn stirred. If not, it’ll stick to the bottom.” My hearts were working overtime. “And, tell Rosita I’ll see her soon. Yeah.”

I started to walk off.

“Terra-”

“Sorry I’ve been a nuisance.” I said. “Sorry I’ll be a nuisance. Bye.”

“Ter-”

I ran out of the alley. I ran for what felt like an hour, but was really only ten minutes. I was in another alleyway, so I just hid next to a box.

I broke out into tears, barely aware of the manipulator’s beeping.

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This was Eleven. My Eleven. My Doctor, who shows me how much he loved me and never showed anything less.

“Morgan?” The Doctor asked.

The air rushed out from my lungs. I ran up to him, grabbing ahold of his arms. I looked deep into those green eyes, those gorgeous deep green eyes that were just so alive.

“Morgan, not that I’m not loving this.” The Doctor smirked, nervous. “Love the attention, really.”

Before he could say another word, I grabbed his purple tweed jacket. I pushed him back onto the console, pulling the Doctor down on my lips. He made a small startled noise, then quickly got the message. His hands stopped flapping about, reaching back to thread themselves into my hair to keep me as close to him as possible.

Storyline I loved his lips, I loved his tweed, his eyes. He was all Mine.

The word felt odd for a second, then almost seemed to fit into my mind like a puzzle piece. Mine. He was Mine. MineMineMineMineMine. Oh, I was turning into a Finding Nemo seagull and couldn’t find a fuck to give!

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“27.” I choked out.

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He pulled me closer to him. “My name is-” I gasped. The Doctor whispered one word in my ear.

I let myself fall into his shoulder.

He hugged me, holding me closer to him. “But I like it when you call me Theta.”

I smiled, kissing his shoulder. “Thank you.” I panted.

The Doctor chuckled. It rumbled in his chest and I felt like I was vibrating. Story, I missed Eleven. “Later. You need some sleep first.”

“I have found a ship.” A robotic voice said.

My eyes widened. I pulled myself off the Doctor, seeing Handles worked into the TARDIS console. “Handles.”

“Ah. I see you’ve met him!” The Doctor said, not even trying to move away. “Found him in a-”

“That’s not fair.” I whimpered, hugging the Doctor. “That is not fair.” I buried my face into his tweed jacket.

“Hey, hey, what’s not fair?” The Doctor asked me, pushing me away if only to look me in the eyes.

“I just lost Ten. I didn’t want to be brought here just so I could lose you too!” I whimpered. “That’s not fair.”

The Doctor brushed the hair out of my face. “Hey. You’re not going to lose me.”

I shook my head, gripping his tweed tighter. “Please, I can’t do this again. I only just got a second heart, it can’t stand a heartbreak like this. This is my first time seeing you since-” My sentence choked in my throat, making me push my face into his shoulder of only to keep him from seeing my tears.

There was a pause before he hugged me back. “Since the Ponds.”

My response was another sob. “Please. Please don't make me lose you! I just got you back!” I cried.

The Doctor held me tighter, rubbing his hand over my back. “Terra, you never lost me.”

“But-But I killed them! I killed them!” I cried. “You have to hate me for that!”

“I could never hate my Mate.” The Time Lord said.

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“Mate?” My eyes widened at the term.

“That was how you described it, yes.” The Doctor kissed my forehead. I was stunned. “Apparently it is a Traveller power you picked up some decades ago. Your soul bonding with mine after you attacked Dominic.”

The word came out as a growl. Subconsciously, he gripped my hand tighter. I pressed my head into his chest in an effort to calm him down, feeling his duel heartbeats against my cheek. It seemed to work. His grip on my hand lessened, the other hand petting my head.

Oh, if I could purr I would be.

“It weakened your manipulator, letting your Traveller magic loose.” It was so weird hearing the Doctor talk about magic. Yet as his deep British voice flew into my ears, I couldn’t find myself caring. “It allowed you to find your Mate.” He kissed my head. “To make it me.”

I hummed. ‘That sounds really nice.’

The Doctor let go of my hand and head, using both of his hands to cup my face. He pulled me up for a deep kiss, so deep I had to grab his shoulders for support.

‘It is.’ The Doctor’s voice floated in my head.

My eyes widened. I pulled myself off him, much to his displeasure. “Did you just hear my thoughts?” The Doctor pressed his forehead on mine. “Did I just hear your’s?”

He kissed me again, holding me against him so I wouldn’t pull away again.

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The Doctor: “Every ship I go on, they just shoot at me. Handles, I said, put me on a ship. I didn’t say, put me on a Dalek ship.”

(The Doctor is talking to a damaged Cyberman’s head attached to a stand on the console.)

The Doctor: “Don’t put me on a Dalek ship when I’m holding a broken bit of Dalek!” (The Doctor hits the head with the eye-stalk.) The Doctor: “Ow!”

Handles: “You did not indicate a preference.”

The Doctor: “Use your head.” (He takes it off the stand and paces with it.) The Doctor: “It’s not like you’ve got a lot of alternatives. They’re all here. Daleks, Sontarans, Terileptils, Slitheen. And they’re not even fighting, they’re just parked. Why?”

Handles: “The message was received throughout the universe.”

The Doctor: “Yes, yes, the message, the message. Even I can’t translate it. I mean, why is everyone here if they don’t understand it?”

“We’re here.” I reminded him,

The Doctor: “Well, you know, we’re OCD. What’s their excuse? What does this message mean?”

(The emergency phone outside rings. He puts the head back on its stand.)

The Doctor: “Oh, no. And remind me I’ve got to patch the telephone back through the console unit. This is getting ridiculous.”

Handles: “Attention. Information available.”

The Doctor: “Okay?”

Handles: “You must patch the telephone device back through the console unit.”

The Doctor: “No, no. No, no, no, no. No, not now. Remind me later.”

Handles: “When?”

The Doctor: “I don’t know. Just later. Just pick a time.”

Handles: “When?”

The Doctor: “I don’t know. Just any old time. When you think I’ve forgotten.”

Handles: “When?”

The Doctor: “Just pick a random number, express that number as a quantity of minutes, and when that time has elapsed, remind me to patch the telephone back through the console unit.”

Handles: “Affirmative.”

The Doctor: “How those Cyber-evenings must fly.”

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The Doctor: “Hello, the TARDIS.” There was a pause, and then his eyes widened. He looked to me, almost worriedly. “Uh. No. Sorry. Married. And she is none-too eager with sharing.” He visibly relaxed. I took a few steps towards him. “Oh. Well that’s a relief. I actually don’t like getting hit by my wife, for future reference.”

He shook his head. I rolled my eyes. Dang it. He didn’t say the rollercoaster line! That was one of my favorites. “Well, I hope the next one isn’t married.” “So?” “Yeah, I did that once and there’s no easy way to get rid of an android.” “Yeah.”

The scanner began to beep. (The scanner has picked up an unidentified new vessel in orbit. The Doctor drops the telephone receiver.)

The Doctor: “Handles, that’s a new ship. Okay, we’ll take the TARDIS this time.”

“Tell me she asked you to be her Christmas boyfriend.” I said, trying to sound angry. It was impossible. It was too funny to see him struggle. He was just so adorable, sometimes.

The Doctor picked up the phone. “Sorry, missed that last bit. Got to dash.” He pointed at me, just after hanging up the phone. “And yes, yes she did! You heard me say no!”

The Doctor: “Okay, don’t be alarmed, I come in”

(And sees Cybermen.)

CYBERMAN: “Alert. Alert.”

The Doctor: “Peace. No.”

CYBERMAN: “Intruder detected. The intruder will be upgraded.”

(Lots of Cybermen leave their cubicles and start shooting. Really bad shots again.)

The Doctor: “Argh! Sorry.”

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Clara: “I need you. I’m cooking Christmas dinner!”

The Doctor: “I’m being shot at by Cybermen!”

Clara: “Well, can’t we do both?”

The Doctor: “Argh! Yeah, why not?”

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“Wha...what?” I gaped.

The Doctor smiled, taking off the bowtie. “We both have to be naked when we go to Church. Come on.”

Despite it being almost a year since then, I still had harsh memories of Dominic’s bar. I refused to go into Tasha Lem’s Church naked.

“N-No.” I started shaking my head, cradling my arms around me. “No. I can’t. No.”

The Doctor took of his coat, tossing it onto the bed. He eyed me curiously, then it clicked. “Oh. Right. You, you’ve just had Ha-” He stopped himself from saying my baby’s name.

Either way, I still ended up crying. I fell to the floor, bursting out in tears again. The Doctor came up to my side, pulling me into his arms.

“Morgan, Morgan, I’m sorry.” He comforted. “I’m such an idiot. You can stay on the TARDIS while Clara and I go in.” The Doctor said, holding me while we sat on his bedroom floor. I, personally, loved how his body fit against mine. “I know it’s still sore for you.”

I didn’t reply, sobbing onto his chest. ‘Harry. Oh Story, I killed Harry. I killed the Doctors, and the Master, and Harry. Why? Why do I kill everyone I care about?’

The Doctor pulled me in his lap, draping my legs over his. My arms were still wrapped around me, my face pushing into his shoulder. He slowly began rocking me, almost like a child. His hand brushed down on my hair soothingly.

‘Morgan. Please. I love you. You don’t kill everyone you care about.’ The Doctor thought. ‘You’ll be perfectly safe. No one will have to see you without clothes but me.’

His comforting promise had helped, though I was still petrified at the idea of being in front an entire religious group, the Silence, and be naked. They were the people that put this thing on me, they took away Melody and turned her into a killer.

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Clara: “Doctor, I so need you.”

(The Doctor is without any clothing. Clara has to turn her back.)

The Doctor: “Clara!”

Clara yelped, turning her back on the Doctor. I almost laughed. “No, stop, stop, don’t move. Don’t do anything.”

The Doctor: “Why? What is it? What’s wrong?”

Clara: “You’re naked.”

The Doctor: “Yes, I am naked. I wondered if you’d notice.”

“Don’t complain. You’re the one that wanted a Christmas boyfriend.” I teased her, adding a small smile.

Clara: “Doctor, why are you naked?” Her eyes widened in disgust. “Please tell me I did not just walk into you and Terra-”

The Doctor: “Because I’m going to church.” He was fully clothed, though only to Clara. He winked brazenly at me, making me smile slyly. (Zap! and he is fully clothed again.) The Doctor: “Better?”

Clara: “Oh, that was quick.”

The Doctor: “Hologram clothes, projected directly onto your visual cortex.”

Clara: “So you’re still naked underneath?”

The Doctor: “Everybody’s naked underneath.”

Clara and I both scrunched up our faces in disgust. “Story, did you have to say that?”

Clara: “Urgh, don’t say things like that. It’s Christmas. Come and meet my family.”

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Clara: “Hello, so, er, here he is.”

The Doctor: “Hello, the Oswalds. Hello! Merry Christmas. Hello, hello.”

(Handshakes for Linda and Dad, air kisses for Gran, who is the only one to look directly at him.)

The Doctor: “Hello, handsome. Anyone for Twister?”

Clara: “So, this is the Doctor. My boyfriend. Isn’t anyone going to say hello?”

Gran: “Hello.”

(Her glass is empty again.)

The Doctor: “Excuse me a moment. Listen, I’ve got an idea to break the ice. Why don’t I project my clothes hologram onto their visual cortexes too?”

Clara: “So, to be clear, no one except Terra and me can see your clothes?”

“Terra and I.” I corrected. “And, I can’t see his clothes either.”

The Doctor: “Yes, and I’m starting to think it may be causing tension.”

Gran: “Are we playing Twister now?”

Clara: “Get in the kitchen.”

The Doctor: “Eh? Sorry.”

Clara: “Sorry. He’s Swedish.”

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Clara “Doctor, please.”

(He looks at the anaemic fowl in the over.)

The Doctor “Oh, that’s never going to work, is it?”

Clara “What’s wrong? Do you think it’s not done yet?”

The Doctor “I think a decent vet would give it an even chance.”

Clara “Okay. Well, use an app.”

The Doctor “An app?”

Clara “On your screwdriver. App it.”

The Doctor “Most certainly not. It doesn’t do turkey. Nothing does turkey. You’d need a time machine. What?”

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The Doctor “You can’t keep using the TARDIS like this.”

Clara “Like what?” (She is carrying the poor uncooked bird.)

The Doctor “Missed birthdays, restaurant bookings. And please, just learn how to use iPlayer.”

Clara “Ooo, vortex cooking?” (She lays the carcass in the workings below the console.)

The Doctor “Yep, exposure to the time winds. It’ll either come up a treat, or just possibly lay some eggs.”

Handles “Information available.”

Clara “What’s that?”

The Doctor “Oh, just a bit of a Cyberman. He’ll get us to the church on time.”

Handles “I have developed a fault.”

The Doctor “The organics are all gone, but there’s still a full set of data banks. Found it at the Maldovar market.”

Handles “Planet identified from analysis of message.”

The Doctor “Right, cool. Go on then. Okay, tell us, what is the planet? Go on.”

Handles “Processing official designation. Processing.”

The Doctor “Okay, in your own time, dear. Don’t rush.”

Clara “So why haven’t you just gone down there and had a look?”

The Doctor “It’s shielded. Even the TARDIS can’t break through it.”

Handles “Gallifrey.”

The Doctor “What did you say?”

Handles “Gallifrey.”

The Doctor “What are you talking about? Gallifrey? What do you mean?”

Handles “Confirmed. Planet designation, Gallifrey.”

(The Doctor grabs Handles and takes it to the scanner.) The Doctor “You see that? Gallifrey is my home. I know it when I see it. That is not Gallifrey.”

Clara “Doctor, are you okay?”

The Doctor “It’s not Gallifrey. Gallifrey is gone.”

Clara “Unless, unless you saved it. You thought you might have.”

(They look out of the TARDIS doors down at the white planet.)

The Doctor “Even if it survived, it’s gone from this universe. That is not my home.” (They go back inside.) The Doctor “It can’t be.”

(There is a big fog horn blast outside.)

Clara “What’s that?”

(They look out of the door again, at a big square Borg-style spaceship.) The Doctor “Papal Mainframe. It’s like a great big flying church. The first ship to arrive. They are the ones who shielded the planet. They can get us down there.”

(The Doctor bows to a large holographic face.)

Clara “A friend of yours?”

The Doctor “Tasha Lem, the Mother Superious.”

(The hologram beckons to them.)

The Doctor “Oh, she’s inviting us aboard.”

Clara “Why?”

The Doctor “Because I asked her. Swallow this.”

Clara “What is it?”

The Doctor “Your hologram projector. You can’t go to church with your clothes on.”

“Terra’s wearing clothes!” Clara argued. “And she’s coming!”

The Doctor and I exchanged a worried look. “Nah. She’s watching the TARDIS for us.”

“Making sure some idiot doesn’t come in and take her away.” I teased him, leaning against the console.

Clara pouted. “Why does she get to stay behind?”

I walked over to her, still leaning on the console. “Look. Manboy is just showing off to you. Let him.”

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“Am I being silly?” I asked the TARDIS. “I am just doing this for attention?”

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They faded back in, a reverse landing. The Doctor had taken off his wig revealing the egg head underneath. Clara was staring at him with wide eyes.

The Doctor: “The old key in the quiff routine. Classic.”

(He puts his wig on Handles.)

The Doctor: “Okay, homing in on the mysterious message. Ooo yes, I like that. The mysterious message.”

Clara: “You’ve shaved your head?”

The Doctor: “Yep. Clever plan to get us past the shield.”

Clara: “You got bored one night, didn’t you?”

The Doctor: “Yeah, tiny bit bored.”

Clara: “Is that what happened to your eyebrows?”

The Doctor: “No, they’re just delicate. Right, setting us down near the signal source. I’m going to turn the engines on silent. Don’t want to make a fuss.”

Clara: “Put it back on.”

The Doctor: “Why?”

Clara: “Your ears are like rocket fins.”

The Doctor: “I know.”

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Clara: “Oh, it’s good to be wearing clothes again. That’s so much better, don’t you think?”

(They are dressed for the weather. The Doctor scans everything with his screwdriver. The trees are decorated with lights so the village has electricity at least.)

The Doctor: “Now, what do we make of this place? It’s two o’clock in the afternoon. Must be very short days here. The message is coming from that tower.”

(Two residents walk towards them.)

The Doctor: “Hello! Hello, there. Right, we’re a couple and their friend from the next town. My name’s probably Hank or Rock, something like that.”

Clara: “Or Manboy?”

The Doctor: “Shut up. Hello, good to meet you. Nice snow.”

ABRAMAL: “Most pleasant to meet you too.”

MARTA: “Most pleasant. Most pleasant.”

The Doctor: “I’m the Doctor. I’m a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. I stole a time machine and ran away and I’ve been flouting the principal law of my own people every since. That wasn’t quite what I was meant to say!”

(Everyone laughs.)

“I’m a Queen from another reality and now I’m stuck-”

Clara: “I’m an English teacher from planet Earth, and I’ve run off with a woman and a man from space because I really fancy-”

MARTA: “I think, perhaps, you should stop talking till you get used to it.”

The Doctor: “Used to what?”

MARTA: “What did you say your name was?”

Clara: “Bubbly personality masking bossy control freak.”

The Doctor: “I’m wearing a wig! No, ah, I see. Yes, of course. It’s a truth field. Oh, that is so quaint. I haven’t seen a truth field in years. I’m wearing a wig.”

ABRAMAL: “No one can lie in this town. Especially this close to the tower.”

(The couple walk on.)

The Doctor: “Doesn’t that make life a bit difficult?”

MARTA: “Not at all.”

ABRAMAL: “Yes.”

The Doctor: “This town, what’s it called?”

MARTA: “It’s Christmas.”

The Doctor: “It’s July.”

MARTA: “No, the town. The town is Christmas. That’s what it’s called.”

ABRAMAL: “Be happy here. Be well.”

Clara: “How can a town be called Christmas?”

The Doctor: “I don’t know. How can an island be called Easter? Maybe it’s just nice here. I almost hate to find out what’s wrong.”

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The Doctor: “There you are. What took you so long?”

Clara: “What’s wrong? It’s only a crack in the wall.”

The Doctor: “I knew. I always knew it wasn’t over.”

Clara: “What is it?”

The Doctor: “A split in the skin of reality.”

(As he touches it, he is remembers other times the crack was there.)

The Doctor: “A tiny sliver of the 26th of June, 2010. The day the universe blew up.”

Clara: “Missed that.”

The Doctor: “I rebooted it, put it all back together.”

Clara: “That’s good.”

The Doctor: “Well, it was my TARDIS that blew it up in the first place. I felt a degree of responsibility. But the scar tissue remains. A structural weakness in the whole universe. Whoa! And someone’s trying to get through it from outside our universe, from somewhere else. Of course. Of course. It makes sense.”

Clara: “It does?”

The Doctor: “Yes. If you were trying to break through a wall, you’d choose the weakest spot. If you were trying to break into this universe, you’d choose this crack, because. No. If you were trying to break back into this universe. (to Handles) You said Gallifrey. Why did you say Gallifrey?”

Handles: “Analysis of message composition indicates Gallifreyan origin, according to TARDIS databanks.”

Clara: “You said Gallifrey was gone.”

The Doctor: “No. I said it was in another universe. The message is coming through here. The truth field is too, at a guess. If it’s the Time Lords. If it’s the Time Lords.”

(He takes a large round item from his trouser pocket.)

The Doctor: “Seal of the High Council of Gallifrey. Nicked it off the Master in the Death Zone. There is an algorithm imprinted in the atomic structure. Use it to decode the message.”

(He puts the Seal on Handle’s forehead.) Handles: “Message decoding. Message analysis proceeding. Information available. The message is a request for information.”

The Doctor: “It’s a question. Why can’t you just say it’s a question?”

I put a hand on his shoulder. “Doctor, calm down. Breathe.”

Handles: “It is being projected through all of time and space on a repeating cycle.”

The Doctor: “The oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight.”

Handles: “Warning. Translation will be available to all lifeforms in range. Translation follows. Doctor who? (slightly different voice each time.) Doctor who? Doctor who? Doctor who? Doctor who? Doctor who? Doctor who?”

The Doctor: “A question only I could answer. A truth field to make sure I’m not lying. If I give my name, they’ll know they’ve found the right place and that it’s safe to come through.”

Clara: “The Time Lords? Okay, so what then? If you answer the question and they come back, what happens?”

(The Doctor gives Clara a short round device.) The Doctor: “Er, you need to take this to the TARDIS and put it in the charger slot for the sonic.”

Clara: “Why?”

The Doctor: “Hell. All hell, that’s what happens if the Time Lords come back. There’s half a universe up there already, waiting to open fire. Now please, go to the TARDIS and just do as I say.”

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I held his hand.

“Terra, you should go.”

I shook my head, gripping his hand tighter. “I know you’ve done this with Amelia and Rory. I don’t forgive them for meeting the TARDIS without me, by the way.”

“We know.” The Doctor admitted sadly.

I reached a hand up, brushing his cheek with my hand. “Doc, I’ve told you once I’m following you around for all of your lives. I’m not leaving.”

“You’ll die.” He said, as if it was a mantra he had been telling himself.

I grabbed his other cheek, pulling him down to kiss me. My lips met his, and I showed him how determined I was to stay here with him. I stayed like that with him for a while. The Doctor grabbed my cheeks with his hands, pulling me just a little bit closer.

When we finally stopped a lifetime later, I spoke first. “We’re in a truth field.”

“You know that.” The Doctor said. “Now please go with Clara.”

“Do you want me to leave?” I asked him. He would either tell me the truth, or be quiet.

He didn’t say a word. I could see it in his eyes, though, that he needed me to stay. At the same time, he wanted me to go. The Doctor would just have to open his mouth and I would know.

“I know you want me to go.” I said. “But I know you need me to stay. All you have to do is open your mouth.”

The Doctor just kept looking at me with his sad, old, green eyes.

“Cause I told Clara to wait three minutes, then go.” I admitted. “If you don’t say anything in the next two minutes, I’ll leave, but you won’t see me for three hundred years.”

His eyes widened.

“And that’ll be for only one day.” I held up a finger. “Then, it’ll be centuries before you see me again. At least four, if I did the math right.”

The Doctor looked so close to talking.

“And then, on that day, that second day I return after I leave, you will die.” I said, still looking in his eyes. “You will die, in this very church, of old age, protecting the planet of Trenzalore and town of Christmas.”

I took steps back. “And you will have those days, if you don’t talk. Because Doctor, right now, I would do anything you wanted, if you asked.”

“I will never want you to go.” The Doctor blurted out. That made me reel back. It was a bit unexpected. Truth Field, you’re back on the good list. “I’ve never wanted you to go. Ever. Every time you left, I counted the seconds until I saw you again.” He kissed me. “I have loved you for so long, ever since you first showed up in our TARDIS.”

I sucked in my lips. He said ‘our’. The Doctor kissed me again.

“I have never wanted you to leave me. I can’t survive without you.” The Doctor kissed me. I almost started laughing happily. “You are Morgan Spencer. You’ve always kept my darkness away, simply by existing.” Another kiss. “Three centuries? How could I survive three minutes?”

The Doctor grabbed my cheeks, kissing me again.

“Clara’s left.” I said, pulling away from the kiss for a second.

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“Doctor!”

(The Doctor goes up to the bell chamber above the clock face, which is very open to the elements and appears to house just the one bell.)

The Doctor: “Mother Superious, there is only one thing I need from you. This planet, what’s it called?”

Tasha: “Trenzalore.”

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Tasha: “If you speak your name, the Time Lords will return.”

The Doctor: “If they return, they will come in peace.”

Tasha: “It doesn’t matter. They will be met with a war that will never end. The Time War will begin anew. You know that, Doctor.”

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The Doctor: “They’re asking for my help!”

Tasha: “And if you give it, war will be the consequence. I will not let that happen, at any cost. Speak your name and this world will burn.”

The Doctor: “No, this planet is protected.”

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The Doctor: “So, you lot, a quick word, thank you. Spot of news. Christmas has a new sheriff. Hello, everyone. I’m the Doctor.”

“And I’m Terra, your deputy!” I held his arm in my own.

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The Doctor looked against it. “Terra I-”

“Please.” I pleaded. “I want to know what happened.”

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“Get out of the way.”

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I gasped.

“See, Terra, I-” The Doctor began.

I cut him off with a deep kiss. “Have I ever mentioned that I love your speeches?”

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“But, what happened to me?” I asked him. “Why am I a Time Lady now?”

The Doctor brushed his hand thru my hair. It felt really nice, and relaxing. It was keeping me calm. He let out a sigh. “I’m sorry. It’s in your future. I can’t tell you.”

“Yeah.” I sighed, not wanting to move my head. It just felt really nice, knowing it was the Doctor that was so close to me.

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As we were talking, the Doctor had been lifting me farther up his lap. Soon, we were face to face. He kissed my forehead, I smiled happily, but I still liked the Doctor’s fingers in my hair.

“Can you put your fingers in my hair?” I asked him. The Doctor looked a bit confused, reaching up to hold my cheeks.

“Why do you like that so much?” The Doctor asked.

My smile stayed on my face. I grabbed his hands, dragging them towards my hair. “It makes me feel safe.” I admitted. “It’s lets me know it’s you, that I’m totally safe. You could never thread your fingers in my hair if we were nearly dead, or surrounded by aliens. When you do that, it tells me you feel safe too.” I smiled at him, seeing him give me a proud grin back. “That’s why I love it.”

The Doctor put on a thoughtful face. His hand brushing through my hair. I let out a happy laugh. “I like it too.” I couldn’t help but giggle.

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“Darn you. Always taking shortcuts.”

“While you all take the slow path.” The Doctor said, let out a sad laugh. His regret laugh. “I guess it was my turn. Karma finally caught up with me.”

I frowned. “Hey. I am going to kick you if you do that again.”

The Doctor kept that regret filled look. “Do what?”

“You know what.” I scolded. “You know exactly what. Don’t play that game with me. I know how it looks.”

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I looked up at him. “Doctor, could you please lie down with me?”

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“I have nightmares.” I admitted. Truth fields, gotta love ‘um. “I don’t have them when you’re there.”

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The Doctor leaned in, gently kissing my forehead. “Mine go away too.”

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I screamed, sitting up in the bed. The bed was empty, and cold. “Doctor!” I called out.

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The Doctor rushed to my side, holding my hand. “Hey. Hey. See? Right here. It’s okay.” He wrapped his arms around me, holding me close to his chest. I was practically shaking in his arms, starting to sob. “It’s all okay, promise.”

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“Tell me a story.” I pleaded. “Hearing you, being with you, I want to know more.”

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It had been months since we came here.

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The Doctor held my hands in his own. “I set out on a narrow way many years ago.” My eyes started watering. He was...he was singing to me? Holy crap he had a nice voice. “Hoping I would find true love along the broken road.”

The Time Lord walked me into the center of the room. He grabbed my hand, his arm resting at my hip. He kept his eyes on me, holding my gaze to his. I’m sure I had this dumbstruck look on my face. “But I got lost a time or two. Wiped my brow and kept pushing through. I couldn’t see how every sign pointed straight to you.”

My mind was drawing a blank. No wonder all those other chicks fell in love with him, he was too damn good at this! “You can sing.” Was what my brain spat out.

The Doctor kissed my forehead, starting to make us sway. I almost started laughing at how strange this all felt. Usually I was the one who serenaded him, singing any chance I got. How long had this been going on?

“Every long lost dream led me to where you are.” He lowered his head, brushing his lips on my forehead. My eyes closed at the content I felt. “Others who broke my heart they were like Northern stars, pointing me on my way into your loving arms. This much I know is true, that God blessed the broken road that led me straight to you.”

I looked up at him, smiling. “What did I do to deserve you?”

The Doctor let go of my hand, using it to brush some hair behind my ear. I giggled. He knew I loved that. “I ask myself the same thing every day.”

The two of us smiled at each other. I took his hand in mine, feeling a bit of pride as our fingers felt like they were molded for the other’s. “I think about the years I spent just passing through.” I sang, giving him a kiss on his cheek. “I’d like to have the time I lost and give it back to you, but you just smile and take my hand. You’ve been there you understand. It’s all part of a grander plan that is coming true.”

The two of us sang together, lightly swaying to the music playing in our heads. We kept holding our hands, eventually I paused to kiss his bowtie covered neck. The Doctor stuttered at that. In retaliation he held the back of my head, brushing my hair in his fingers.

At one point, we couldn’t hold in our feelings anymore. The kisses became closer together. He would start reaching up my shirt, his fingers lightly pressing on my skin. My hands made work to push his tweed jacket off of his shoulders.

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I thought over it. “I actually want some stuff.” I admitted.

The Doctor and Tasha turned to me. Tasha seemed a bit surprised. “What?”

“Off the top of my head, I would like a degree. I wanna be a professor, a real one.” I said. I thought it over. “I also need to know how to shield a planet.”

Tasha blinked. “Oh sweet Lord, you’re serious.”

“I don’t see a better opportunity.”

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“I’ve been here longer than anywhere else.”

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“You aren’t married?” The woman asked.

“No.” I answered.

“I’m married to a future version of her.” The Doctor answered.

I nodded.

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“Why not get married now?”

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The Doctor kissed me.

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I looked down, seeing a silver necklace resting on my chest. It had a simple chain, and the charm was shaped in an infinity.

“Terra.” The Doctor breathed. “For as long as you will be my wife, wear this.” He tapped the necklace. “It has a perception filter, so none of my past selves can have with you what I have.”

I smiled. “And that is?”

He rested his hand over my hearts. “Your hearts.”

I blushed. “Manboy, you are so possessive.”

“You’re mine.” The Doctor stated. “Totally and completely.”

I giggled. I grabbed the ring I would get to use. “And Doctor.” I pushed the ring onto his finger. “As long as you are alive, as long as I am in your life, I am not leaving you. I will love you with all my heart, hearts.” I corrected. The Doctor grinned. “At this point, I can’t stop loving you. You make me feel stronger, more confident. You were there for me at a very low point of my life, and I want to be there for all of your’s.”

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The Doctor walked in, dropping his jaw.

I folded my legs, showing off skirt. “Hello Doctor.” I said, getting into my role. “You said you wanted to see me after class?”

The Doctor grinned, and his green eyes darkened just so. “Yes. I need to speak to you about your behavior in class.”

I bit my lip, smiling. He liked it. The Doctor marched over to the desk. “How long have you had that skirt?”

“How long have we been here?” I countered.

The Doctor laughed. “I suppose we should talk about that as well.”

“Oopsy.” I pouted.

“Oh. No pouts on the wedding night. I can fix that.” The Doctor promised.

I kept my pout. He marched up to me, giving me a deep kiss. It was gonna be a fun wedding night.

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Century Two

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“That’s Professor Terra, to you.” I half scolded.

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The fire had killed four people. I was hurt, but I could tell the Doctor was heartbroken. I had held his hand, letting him hold me tight, kissing me, loving me. I could see he was still hurt.

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“Theta, it’ll be okay.”

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“The way I see it.” I began. “They never truly die. A part of them lived on in their children, their friends, the community. That family will never truly be dead, so long as we remember them.”

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“There was a survivor!”

The Doctor and I exchanged shocked glances. Someone survived?

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I held the boy’s hand. “What’s your name sweetheart?”

The boy looked up at me, sadness in his brown eyes. “Barnable.”

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“Happy Birthday, Barnable.” I said to my new son.

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Barnable: “There’s another one! Doctor, Doctor! There’s another one!”

CYBERMAN: “Incinerate. Incinerate.”

(An older Doctor, leaning on a cane, comes out of his Tower home.)

CYBERMAN: “The Doctor is required.”

(The Doctor throws a wooden rifle to Barnable.)

The Doctor: “There you go, Barnable.”

Barnable: “Thanks.”

The Doctor: “Working fine. Nice action. Don’t leave it out in the rain again.”

(A wheeled toy is tossed to another child.)

The Doctor: “Fixed the wheels and the antigrav.”

GIRL: “The anti what?”

The Doctor: “Yeah, may have gone a bit far. Now then, what do we have today? Don’t you move one step further. Wooden Cyberman. Nice. Like it.”

(He limps over to his foe.)

The Doctor: “Low tech, doesn’t set off the alarms upstairs.”

(There is a brief High Noon moment between the town sheriff and the newcomer, then the Doctor zaps it with his screwdriver before it manages to raise its creaky arm.)

The Doctor: “Only bit of tech allowed in. Got in before the truce. Now, I just sent an instruction to your firearm to reverse the polarity and fire out the back end. Now, as we’re standing in a truth field, you will understand I cannot be lying. If you like, you can scan my screwdriver, verify that’s the signal I sent.”

CYBERMAN: “Signal verified.”

(The Cyberman’s arm weapon turns around and fires its flamethrower through its chest.)

“Oh poor thing.” I poured. “Didn’t you hear? It doesn’t work on wood.”

The Doctor: “You send your friends up there a message from the Doctor. You tell them the Doctor stays.”

(He prods the Cyberman with his cane and it falls backwards.)

The Doctor: “Next.”

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The Doctor: “And there’s me arm-wrestling a Draconian. I remember that.”

The Doctor: “Christmas is defended.”

(He pins up children’s drawings of their defeated enemies in the Tower.)

The Doctor: “You’ve got to be the drunk giraffe. You’ve got to commit! Don’t be cool, guys. Cool is not cool.”

CHILDREN: “Cool is not cool!”

The Doctor: “And what’s the dance we’re doing?”

CHILDREN: “The drunk giraffe!”

The Doctor: “The drunk giraffe. Yeah, it is. Merry Christmas. Give me a hug. Bring it in.”

CHILDREN: “Yeah!”

(The Doctor mingles.)

The Doctor: “How’s the new barn?”

Barnable: “You’ve fixed the leak all right, but Mother says it’s bigger on the inside now.”

The Doctor: “Shush, they’ll all want one.”

(There is the sound of a wheezing time rotor.)

Barnable: “What is it? What’s that noise.”

(The TARDIS is trying to materialise.)

The Doctor: “Well. Where have you been for three hundred years? Ha!”

Barnable: “What’s that?”

The Doctor: “It’s my ship.”

Barnable: “Your what?”

The Doctor: “It’s my TARDIS. That’s how I got here in the first place.”

Barnable: “Does this mean you’re leaving?”

I held his hand, giving him an almost worried look. He could only stare at the TARDIS.

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The Doctor: “What are you doing here?”

Clara: “I was in space.”

The Doctor: “Well, you were in the time vortex. She must have extended the force field. No wonder. No wonder she’s late, dragging you around.”

Clara: “You tricked me.”

The Doctor: “I saved you.”

Clara: “You didn’t even say goodbye!”

The Doctor: “I’m furious with you!”

Clara: “Well, I am not even talking to you!”

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Clara: “Ha.” (She looks at the drawings and his workbench.) Clara: “Oh, Doctor, Terra. Fixing toys and fighting monsters.”

The Doctor: “The turkey isn’t done yet.”

Clara: “Is it still asking the question?”

The Doctor: “Oh, never stops. Come upstairs. It’s almost time.”

Clara: “What for?”

The Doctor: “Dawn. The light here lasts only a few minutes. You don’t want to miss it.”

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The Doctor: “Well, it’s a standoff. They can’t attack in case I unleash the Time Lords, and I can’t run away, because they’ll burn this planet to stop the Time Lords. Hey, after all these years, I’ve finally found somewhere that needs me to stick around. A town called Christmas. Could’ve been worse. Right, there you go, buddy. Comfy?”

Handles: “Comfort is irrelevant.”

The Doctor: “How’s that, is that better?”

Handles: “Affirmative.”

The Doctor: “You just take it easy, buddy. He’s getting old. I do my best for him, but I just can’t get the parts, you know. Hey, I know the feeling.”

(He is roasting marshmallows on the open fire.)

Clara: “Where did you get those?”

The Doctor: “I have a supplier. The pink ones are best.”

Handles: “I have developed a fault.”

The Doctor: “Hey, don’t you worry, Handles. You’re just dreaming. The sun’s coming up very soon. You just hang on in there.”

Handles: “I have developed a fault. I, I have developed a fault.”

The Doctor: “Hey, Handles. Come on. Come on. One more dawn, you can do it. You’ve got it in you. Come on, just hang on in there.”

Handles: “Attention. Emergency. Attention.”

The Doctor: “Handles, what is it? What’s wrong?”

Handles: “Urgent action required. You must patch the telephone device back through the console unit.” (Handles’ lights go out.)

The Doctor: “Come back. Handles? Handles. Oh. Thank you, Handles, and well done. Well done, mate.”

(The sun rises between the mountains, and birds sing to greet it.)

The Doctor: “What do you think of my new place? I come up here once a day for a few minutes, to remind myself of what it is I’m protecting.”

Clara: “It’s beautiful. Why did you send me away?”

The Doctor: “Because if I hadn’t, I’d have buried you a long time ago.”

Clara: “No, you wouldn’t. I would never have let you get stuck here.”

The Doctor: “Ha! Everyone gets stuck somewhere eventually, Clara. Everything ends.”

Clara: “Except you.”

The Doctor: “Have you been paying attention? I’m an old man now.”

Clara: “But you don’t die. You change. You pop right back up with a new face.”

The Doctor: “No, not for ever. I can change twelve times. Thirteen versions of me. Thirteen silly Doctors.”

Clara: “Okay, so you’re number eleven, so-”

The Doctor: “Ha. Are we forgetting Captain Grumpy, eh? I didn’t call myself the Doctor during the Time War, but it was still a regeneration.”

Clara: “Okay, so you’re number twelve.”

The Doctor: “Well, number ten once regenerated and kept the same face. I had vanity issues at the time. Twelve regenerations, Clara. I can’t ever do it again. This is where I end up. This face, this version of me. We saw this planet in the future, remember? All those graves, one of them mine.”

(The sun is setting.)

Clara: “Change the future.”

The Doctor: “I can’t.”

Clara: “You’ve got your TARDIS back.”

The Doctor: “Ha! You think I’m just going to fly away, abandon everyone?”

Clara: “Of course not. But you’ve been protecting this town for over three hundred years. Do you not think it’s anybody else’s go yet?”

The Doctor: “There is no one else to protect it.”

Clara: “It’s not going to be you for ever. It’ll end the same way, whatever you do.”

The Doctor: “Every life I save is a victory. Every single one.”

Clara: “What about your life? Just for once, after all this time, have you not earned the right to think about that? Sorry. Wrong thing to say. We shouldn’t be having an argument.”

The Doctor: “Clara, I’ve been having that argument for the last three hundred years.”

Clara: “But you didn’t have your TARDIS.”

The Doctor: “Ah. Yes, well, that made it easier to stay. True.”

(Thunder in the darkening sky.) Tasha: “Doctor!”

The Doctor: “Ah. Look who’s woken up.”

(The holographic face is in the sky.) Tasha: “The Church of the Silence requests parlay. Your rights and safety are sanctified.”

The Doctor: “I’ll be right up.”

Tasha: “I’m sending a transporter.”

The Doctor: “Nah, don’t bother. I’ve got me motor back.”

Clara: “It’s gone dark.”

The Doctor: “Yeah, well, the sun’s gone down.”

Clara: “Already?”

The Doctor: “Everything ends, Clara. And sooner than you think.”

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The Doctor: “Hmm. Are you guarding my TARDIS, Barnable?”

Barnable: “Are you coming back?”

The Doctor: “Oh, come on. You know me.”

Barnable: “I’ll wait.”

I kissed my son’s head. “Hey. We’re not ever leaving you behind.” I promised, and was determined to make sure (in case this happened again) that I stayed with Barnable.

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Clara: “She hasn’t aged much.”

The Doctor: “No, she’s against ageing.”

Tasha: “Approach.”

SILENT: “Confess.”

Clara: “What are those things?”

SILENT: “Confess.”

The Doctor: “Confessional priests. Very popular. Genetically engineered so you forget everything you told them.”

Clara: “Told who?”

The Doctor: “There you go.”

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==BE==

Tasha: “Satisfactory?”

The Doctor: “Where are the pink ones?”

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Tasha: “E numbers. You’re hyper enough as it is.”

Clara: “So, this is sweet. Middle of a siege and you two have little chats?”

Tasha: “She’s right. This situation cannot continue.”

The Doctor: “It can’t end, either.”

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Tasha: “Why did you ever come to Trenzalore?”

The Doctor: “Well, I did come to Trenzalore, and nothing can change that now. Didn’t stop you trying though, did it?”

Tasha: “Not me. The Kovarian Chapter broke away. They travelled back along your timeline and tried to prevent you ever reaching Trenzalore.”

The Doctor: “So that’s who blew up my TARDIS. I thought I’d left the bath running.”

Tasha: “They blew up your time capsule, created the very cracks in the universe through which the Time Lords are now calling.”

The Doctor: “The destiny trap. You can’t change history if you’re part of it.”

Tasha: “They found Terra’s vessel on a remote planet.” Tasha said, turning to look at me.

“Then they burned that manipulator onto her arm.” The Doctor seethed. “And if she ever takes it off, she’ll die.”

Tasha: “They engineered a psychopath to kill you.”

“Totally married her.” The Doctor and I cheered, adding a smirk.

The Doctor: “We’d never have made it here alive without River Song.”

“I’m not interested in changing history, Doctor. I want to change the future. The Daleks send for reinforcements daily. They are massing for war. Three days ago, they attacked the Mainframe itself.”

The Doctor: “They attacked here?”

Clara: “How did you stop them?”

Tasha: “Stop them? It was slaughter.”

The Doctor: “Why didn’t you call me? I could have helped.”

Tasha: “I tried. I died in this room, screaming your name.”

The Doctor: “No.”

Tasha: “Oh. I died. It’s funny the things that slip your mind. Ah!”

The Doctor: “No! No, no, no. Tasha, no, please, not Tasha. No. Fight it. Tash, fight it!”

(A Dalek eyestalk comes out of her forehead, then real Daleks enters.) Dalek: “Step away from the Dalek unit, Doctor.”

The Doctor: “You shouldn’t even know who I am.”

Dalek: “Information concerning the Doctor was harvested from the cadaver of Tasha Lem.”

The Doctor: “Bet she never told you how to break through the Trenzalore forcefield, though. She’d have died first.”

DALEK 2: “Several times.”

The Doctor: “Well, you’d better kill me, then. Go on. But before you do.” (He sonicks the message into the room.)”

VOICE: “Doctor who? Doctor who? Doctor who?”

The Doctor: “I’m a tough old bird. I’ll be ages dying. Way enough time to answer a question. And, oh dear, what happens then, boys?”

(Tasha grabs Clara’s neck from behind, and energy plays over her hands.)

Dalek: “You will die in silence, Doctor, or your associate will die.”

The Doctor: “Fine, go on, kill her. Kill her! See if I care. But tell me, what you are going to do next?”

Dalek: “See how the Time Lord betrays.”

Clara: “You’ll kill me anyway. What difference does it make? I’m not afraid. I’ll leave that to you.”

The Doctor: “You see, Tasha, that’s what I’m talking about. That is a woman! I always knew you were a bit spineless, you and your pointless church. Why did I ever rely on you? Never trust a nun to do a Doctor’s work.”

(Tasha turns on the Doctor, releasing Clara, and slaps him. Then she blasts the Daleks into flames.)

The Doctor: “And she’s back!” (The Doctor kisses Tasha’s forehead. The eyestalk goes back into her forehead leaving a scar.) The Doctor: “You never could resist a row.”

Tasha: “Kiss me when I ask.”

The Doctor: “Sorry. Married.”

The Doctor: “Right, get us back to the TARDIS. Can you do that?”

Tasha: “Yeah, but quickly, the Dalek inside me is waking.”

The Doctor: “Fight it.”

Tasha: “I can’t.”

The Doctor: “Listen to me. You have been fighting the psychopath inside you all your life. Shut up and win. That is an order, Tasha Lem.”

(The Doctor and Clara get into the confessional teleport booths.)

Tasha: “The forcefield will hold for a while, but it will decay, and there are breaches already.”

The Doctor: “Then this isn’t a siege any more, it’s a war. It’s all up to you now. Fight the Daleks, inside and out. You can do it, I know you can.”

Tasha: “Oh, I see. You’ve got your TARDIS back, haven’t you? Time to fly away.”

The Doctor: “Tasha, please. Please. Thank you.”

Tasha: “None of this was for you, you fatuous egotist. It was for the peace. Fly away, Doctor!”

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==BE==

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The Doctor: “It’s done.”

Clara: “What is?”

The Doctor: “Your turkey. Either that or its woken up.”

Clara: “Do you want some?”

The Doctor: “Go on, then.”

Clara: “Got any plates?”

The Doctor: “Do you know, I’ve even got Christmas crackers.”

Clara: “One thing. Give me those big sad eyes, look at me so I know you’re not lying, and tell me you will never send me away ever again.”

The Doctor: “Clara Oswald, I will never send you away again.”

(Clara kisses his cheek and goes down to get the turkey.) Clara: “Turkey smells good!”

The Doctor: “Yeah, smells great.” (The Doctor looks at young Barnable on the scanner.)

Clara: “Perfect.”

(He puts the device into the charger as Clara removes the well done turkey from the vortex cooker.)

Clara: “Merry Christmas.”

(When she comes back up the stairs -)

Clara: “Doctor?”

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I felt a hand on my back, and soon, I was right behind Clara.

I snapped around, towards the fading TARDIS.

“No!” I screamed.

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“I’m gonna kill him!” I screamed.

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TOY PENGUIN: “Merry Christmas, everyone. Merry Christmas, everyone.”

Linda: “Other fish in the sea, that’s what I’m saying.”

Dave: “Linda, I don’t think Terra wants to talk about it.”

Linda: “I’ve got a suggestion, that’s all. I’ve got a list of suggestions.”

Dave: “Linda.”

Linda: “You could make a boy band out of my list.”

“Boy bands are boring.” I grumbled. At least, I think they were. It was a little hard to remember boy bands.

Linda: “Of course you don’t, not at your age.”

Gran: “These crackers are rubbish.”

Linda: “I bought them.”

Gran: “I know.”

Linda: “They’re classy.”

Gran: “They don’t have jokes.”

Linda: “Exactly.”

Gran: “They’ve got poems.”

Linda: “They’re more dramatic crackers.”

Gran: “I like the jokes.”

Clara: “Tell us a joke, Gran. You know loads of jokes.”

Linda: “I think we’re probably talking about my list now.”

Clara: “Probably not.”

Dave: “Tell us how you met Dad. The thing about the pigeon.”

Gran: “I saw him on a pier on a rainy day.”

Dave: “No, no, not that one. The one about the pigeon.”

Gran: “I’d seen him before, lots of times, but he just looked so beautiful standing there.”

Dave: “The pigeon in the restaurant. You remember?”

Gran: “I wanted everything to stop. I wanted nothing to change ever again.”

(Clara starts crying.)

Gran: “If he could just keep standing there, so beautiful. A long time ago. Don’t hug me so tight, dear. You’ll break something.”

Linda: “Oh, that’s nice. Crying at Christmas.”

Clara: “Sorry.”

Gran: “I hope you made a wish.”

I stormed off towards the kitchen.

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“Three hundred years with him, Clara.” I admitted. “He left me, I made him promise not to push me away, and he did.” Tears filled my eyes. “We got married, Clara. Married. My husband loves me, and sent me away so I wouldn’t have to fight that war.”

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“We have a son.” I cried. “I didn’t even get to say goodbye. Now my boy is fighting in that war!”

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@

“I’m not from this reality.” I said. “My people, we’re not normal humans. We have the ability to cross through realities, mainly TV shows.”

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“I was raped.” I said. Clara’s was horrified at the news, covering her hand with her mouth. “Yeah. Had a baby because of it. He was born a few hours before we came to get you and you saw the Doctor naked.”

I winced, holding my hands together tightly. “He died, stillborn.” I half lied.

Clara hesitantly put a hand on my shoulder, but I was too emotional to shrug her away. “Terra, that’s awful.” I sucked my lips in, trying not to cry. “You were young, really young.”

“So were you, when you jumped into his Time Stream.” I said. “But I’m old, Clara, so very old. Five and a half centuries, I think. Still, not that old compared to others.”

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The TARDIS had come back.

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Dave: “Clara? What’s wrong, Clara.”

Clara: “Everybody just stay put.”

I saw Clara grab a cracker from the table, before following after me.

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Clara: “You can fly the TARDIS?”

Tasha: “Flying the TARDIS was always easy. It was flying the Doctor I never quite mastered.” She turned to me. “How did you do it?”

“A fez.” I answered. “He never says no to a fez.”

Clara: “What’s happened to him?”

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Clara: “What am I supposed to do?”

Tasha: “He shouldn’t die alone. Go to him.”

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==BE==

“Barnable?” The Doctor asked, turning towards me. His eyes widened.

I stood there, silent. Pissed. Let my bastard of a husband explain his sorry ass before I do the Dalek’s job and kill him myself.

He was so old now. He had thin white hair, making him look like Doc Brown. His favorite old purple tweed suit was over his body, worn with centuries of battle. His cane had been replaced some decades ago, but he still had the metal wolf figurehead I had made for him.

His breathtaking green eyes did their job. They were deeper, faded as if in a memory. He gazed at me, as if through me and at me.

“Oh, good job Doctor. You’ve finally lost it.” The Doctor grumbled. He shook his head at me, grinning. “You know what my wife would say?” I stayed silent. “Even in my imagination, you’re angry with me.” He remarked to himself. “My wife, would say that I was always loony.”

“Correction, I would say you were always mad.” I said the word with a British accent. “Mad as a hatter, why else wear a fez and a cowboy hat?”

The Doctor smiled, weakly. “Yes. That’s what she would say, and in that British accent she does. She loves those.”

“Yeah, it would be.” I couldn’t help but play in this game. He always made it too much fun. “What would she say next?”

The Doctor smiled fondly. “Threaten to murder me.”

“And just why would she do that?” I said, clasping my hands behind my back to keep from wringing his neck.

“I sent her away.” The Doctor said after a pause.

“Why?” I squeaked. “Why do that? She is your wife, your Mate. She would never do anything to hurt you. She loves you so much, after she felt like such a piece of shit. You made her feel so loved she forgot what hating herself felt like.”

The Doctor shook his head. “Yeah. She’d ask that too.” He commented, a wry smile on his face. It hurt to see it fall, changing to a thin line of determination. “But like I’ve told you, like I’ve been telling myself, because Terra.” The old man gripped his cane tightly, almost turning his knuckles white. Just saying my name did that, holy butterballs. “If she stayed, she would have to have fought in this war. I promised myself a long time ago that I would not force my wife into a war, if I had the chance.” The Doctor admitted. “I did what I did to keep her safe.”

I was still so mad, but I was nearly crying. He would totally make that kind of promise. The game stopped being fun when he made it personal. I couldn’t keep twisting around the truth field either. “And I promised myself I would never make you fight in another Time War.”

The Doctor frowned. He was confused by my change in character. “This isn’t that.”

“It’s still a ‘too long for you to be on your own’ war. I promised Amelia that I would never leave you alone if I could help it.” I explained. I let out an angered shout. “You sent me away. You sent Barney’s mother away!”

The Doctor frowned deeper. “It’s really you, isn’t it? Blimey.”

“Please, please just tell me, did my son ever think I abandoned him?” I went on my rant. “Did he know I would never have left him behind? He was my boy, our boy.”

“I told the truth.” The Doctor said. “I had to. I told Barney I sent you away.” He laughed, weakly. “He didn’t like that.”

“I should kill you.” I growled. “Screw the Daleks or the Cybermen. Screw how you actually die. I should kill you here and now.”

The Doctor smiled, faintly. “There’s that threat of death. I had missed how angry you would get at me.” He laughed, that regret filled laugh. “Were you always that beautiful?”

I growled. “If you think I’m beautiful now, I’m about to get gorgeous.” I seethed.

And just like that, I was enthralled by him all over again. He was smiling, that dazzling smile of unbridled joy. He couldn’t believe his old eyes. I had been dead to him for centuries, while he fought to make sure I stayed safe. The Doctor gave up any of our days so he wouldn’t need to see him as his warrior self, so I wouldn’t have to fight.

I walked up to his chair side, going for broke. I reached out to hold his hand. He didn’t flinch, not even a breadth. The Doctor stared down at our joining hands, letting out a pleased sigh.

The Doctor locked eyes with me, pulling our hands to his lips. “At least I could see you one more time.”

I pushed away a pained breath. “Clara.” I called back, eager to get the show moving along. The Doctor needed to be out of the room so I could save his ass and bring Twelve here.

The Doctor rolled his eyes. “Of course. Clara. You would have brought her along.”

“Technically Tasha brought us.” I corrected as the sound of Clara’s came into the room. “And Clara’s your friend, too.”

“You’re not my friend.” The Doctor said, a small smile on his face.

“I know.” I kissed his hand. “I’m your wife.”

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The Doctor: “Barnable? We were just talking about you.”

“Clara.” Clara: “Hello, Doctor.”

The Doctor: “Were you always so young?”

Clara: “Nah, that was you.”

The Doctor: “Ah.”

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Clara: “Merry Christmas.”

The Doctor: “Merry Christmas.”

(They try to pull the cracker, but his hand isn’t strong enough.)

Clara: “Hey, it’s okay. It’s all right, don’t worry.”

(She helps him make the cracker go bang.)

The Doctor: “Ah! Is there a joke? Ha?”

(Clara reads the slip of paper.) Clara: “Extract from Thoughts on a Clock by Eric Ritchie junior.”

The Doctor: “Is it a knock knock one? Those are best.”

Clara: “I don’t think so.”

The Doctor: “Well, read it. Go on.”

Clara: “And now it’s time for one last bow, like all your other selves. Eleven’s hour is over now. The clock is striking twelve’s.”

The Doctor: “I don’t get it.”

Dalek: “Doctor! The Doctor will be brought!”

(A huge Dalek Mothership hovers over the village.)

Dalek: “The Daleks demand the Doctor.”

(A young man runs in.) YOUNG MAN: “They’re here. The Daleks, we can’t stop them. They want you.”

The Doctor: “Oh, all right, Barnable. Are you Barnable?”

YOUNG MAN: “No, Doctor.”

The Doctor: “It’s okay, Barnable, don’t worry. I have got a plan. Off you pop.”

(The young man leaves to the sounds of explosions outside.)

The Doctor: “I haven’t got a plan, but people love it when I say that.”

Clara: “Doctor, what are you going to do?”

The Doctor: “Oh, I don’t know. Talk very fast, hope something good happens, take the credit. That’s generally how it works.”

Clara: “Doctor-”

The Doctor: “Not this time, though. This is it.”

Clara: “No!”

The Doctor: “Yes. We saw the future, Clara. This is how it ends.”

Clara: “Change it.”

The Doctor: “Ha.”

Clara: “Like Tasha said, change the future.”

The Doctor: “I could have once, when there were Time Lords. Not any more.”

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==BE==

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The Doctor: “No. You’re going to stay here. Promise me you both will.”

Clara: “Why?”

The Doctor: “I’ll be keeping you safe. One last victory. Allow me that. Give me that, my beautiful wife, and our impossible girl. Thank you. And goodbye.”

(He wipes away her tears and totters off up the stairs.)

The Doctor: “The trouble with Daleks is, they take so long to say anything. Probably die of boredom before they shoot me.”

Dalek: “The Doctor is required!”

Clara turned to me. “How do we stop it?” She asked.

“I don’t-”

“You said you knew the future, and the past. How do we stop them from killing him!” Clara shouted. “Please. Just tell me.”

My eyes wandered over to the crack. “If it’s always asking, then they’re always listening.”

(Clara goes to the crack in the wall.)

Clara: “Listen to me, you lot. Listen! Help him. Help him change the future. Do it. Do something.”

Dalek: “Doctor!”

Clara: “You’ve been asking a question, and it’s time someone told you you’ve been getting it wrong. His name, his name is the Doctor. All the name he needs. Everything you need to know about him. And if you love him, and you should, help him. Help him.”

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Clara: “Get inside! Come on, quickly. Get inside, quick.”

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==BE==

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Clara: “Doctor?”

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Clara: “Doctor!”

The Doctor: “Hello.”

Clara: “You’re young again. You’re okay. You didn’t even change your face.”

The Doctor: “Ha! It’s started. I can’t stop it now. This is just the reset. A whole new regeneration cycle. Ooo.”

(He finishes his custard.)

The Doctor: “Taking a bit longer. Just breaking it in. Oh. Oh. Gah.”

(He starts the TARDIS’ engines.)

The Doctor: “It all just disappears, doesn’t it? Everything you are, gone in a moment, like breath on a mirror. Any moment now, he’s a-coming.”

Clara: “Who’s coming?”

The Doctor: “The Doctor.”

Clara: “But you, you are the Doctor.”

The Doctor: “Yep, and I always will be.” (His hands are glowing.) The Doctor: “But times change, and so must I.”

(The Doctor sees a young Amy Pond run up the stairs, laughing.) The Doctor: “Amelia?”

Clara: “Who’s Amelia?”

The Doctor: “The first face this face saw. We all change, when you think about it. We’re all different people all through our lives. And that’s okay, that’s good, you’ve got to keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this. Not one day. I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me.”

(Then he sees a vision of a red-haired woman with black painted fingernails walk down the stairs to him.)

The Doctor turned to me, holding my hand. “Terra.”

“Manboy.” I said, holding back tears.

“You’ll be first this time, I swear.” The Doctor said. “You should have always been first.”

“Goodbye, Terra.” The Doctor said, cupping my cheeks in his hands.

“Goodnight, manboy.” I said, holding his hands.

The Doctor pulled me in, and I kissed him. I just loved him so much.

He looked his green eyes into mine. I didn’t want to see him go. “Terra, everything is gonna be okay.”

I nodded. He said it like he believed it, and that was all I needed. “Totally and completely okay.” I said.

The Doctor smiled. “Always is, with you around.”

I giggled, still feeling a bit sad. I was waiting for my manipulator to go off.

“Please don’t change.” Clara pleaded.

The Doctor suddenly reached out to me, almost as if to hold my arm in comfort. I looked at him in shock.

Then, he sneezed/regenerated.

When he popped back up, I was looking at Twelve’s face. The Doctor just stared at me with such wide eyes. Those new blue-gray eyes I hadn’t seen in so long.

He winced. “Kidneys! I don’t like the color.” He admitted.

“Of your kidneys.”

I Jumped away.

Hungry Earth/Cold Blood