Full Circle

by Authora97

Rating: mature
Tags: Science Fiction, Adventure, Dark, Human, Sad, Romance
Length: 40975

Terra's Gonna die

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2016-02-20 03:58:20 UTC

New Earth

Third Person

The

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The Doctor: “It’s the year five billion and twenty three. We’re in the galaxy M87, and this? This is New Earth.”

Rose: “That’s just. That’s just-”

The Doctor: “Not bad. Not bad at all.”

Rose: “That’s amazing. I’ll never get used to this. Never. Different ground beneath my feet, different sky. What’s that smell?”

The Doctor: “Apple grass.”

Rose: “Apple grass.”

The Doctor: “Yeah, yeah.”

Rose saw that look in his eyes. He missed Terra, they both did. She had left so suddenly the other day, barely even a goodbye. She had liked the presents Terra left behind under the tree, a thing Terra did on every gift giving holiday.

Terra would love this, being with the Doctor. Rose didn’t know what exactly happened after Terra took in the Time Vortex, waiting out in the hall as the Bad Wolf told her to. Normally, she would ignore it, but something about how Bad Wolf said her name, her real name coming from Terra when it has been nothing but nicknames.

She would know what was going on, she would know the right words to say. Terra had met this Doctor, knew this Doctor. Terra would be giving her advice, or at least give the Doctor something to focus on. Terra had always been good at distracting him.

Something told Rose it would be even easier with this Doctor to be distracted by Terra.

The way the Doctor was looking out on the New Earth horizon, it told Rose that he missed Terra. He was so sad when he came back to the flat alone. Rose thought the two of them admitted their feelings for each other, started snogging, and then Terra was taken away. It would happen to those two.

Still, Rose knew her job. It was what Terra told her to do since Rose first agreed to come along with the Doctor. Rose Tyler needed to be the Doctor’s friend.

Rose: “It’s beautiful. Oh, I love this. Can I just say, travelling with you, I love it.”

The Doctor: “Me too. Come on.”

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Chip: “Human! She’s pure-blood human! Closer, closer.”

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The Doctor: “So, the year five billion, the sun expands, the Earth gets roasted.”

Rose: “That was your first date.” She teased him.

The Doctor: “We had chips. So anyway, planet gone, all rocks and dust, but the human race lives on, spread out across the stars. Soon as the Earth burns up, oh yeah, they get all nostalgic, big revival movement, but then find this place. Same size as the Earth, same air, same orbit. Lovely. Call goes out, the humans move in.”

Rose: “What’s the city called?”

The Doctor: “New New York.”

Rose: “Oh, come on.”

The Doctor: “It is. It’s the city of New New York. Strictly speaking, it’s the fifteenth New York since the original, so that makes it New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York. What?”

Rose: “You’re so different.”

The Doctor: “New New Doctor.”

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Cassandra: “Impossible. I recognize that child. Her face. Show me her face!”

Chip: “Closer, closer.”

Cassandra: “Face! Face! Face!”

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Rose: “Can we go and visit New New York, so good they named it twice?”

The Doctor: “Well, I thought we might go there first.”

(An elegant pair of curved skyscrapers standing apart from the city on their side of the river.)

Rose: “Why, what is it?”

The Doctor: “Some sort of hospital. Green moon on the side. That’s the universal symbol for hospitals. I got this. A message on the psychic paper.”

(Which says -Ward 26 Please Come. Bring Terra.)

The Doctor: “Someone wants to see me.”

Rose: “Hmm. And I thought we were just sight-seeing. Come on, then. Let’s go and buy some grapes.”

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Cassandra: “Rose Tyler! I knew it. That dirty blonde assassin.”

Chip: “She’s coming here, mistress.”

Cassandra: “This is beyond coincidence. This is destiny. At last I can be revenged on that little-”

There was a loud crackling noise, almost like thundr. Cassandra turned her gaze towards it, seeing a woman fall to the ground.

“Terra Song.” Cassandra growled.

The black haired woman sat up, clutching her bleeding stomach. “SON OF A B-”

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“Bit rich coming from you.”

The Doctor: “I can’t help it. I don’t like hospitals. They give me the creeps.”

TANNOY: “The Pleasure Gardens will now take visitors carrying green or blue identification cards for the next fifteen minutes. Visitors are reminded that cuttings from the gardens are not permitted.”

Rose: “Very smart. Not exactly NHS.”

The Doctor: “No shop. I like the little shop.”

Rose: “I thought this far in the future, they’d have cured everything.”

The Doctor: “The human race moves on, but so do the viruses. It’s an ongoing war.”

(Rose finally notices the faces of the nursing staff in their nun-like wimples and habits.)

Rose: “They’re cats.”

The Doctor: “Now, don’t stare. Think what you look like to them, all pink and yellow. That’s where I’d put the shop. Right there.”

(The Doctor walks into the lift alone.)

The Doctor: “Ward 26, thanks!”

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Rose: “Hold on! Hold on!”

The Doctor: “Oh, too late. I’m going up.”

Rose: “It’s all right, there’s another lift.”

The Doctor: “Ward 26. And watch out for the disinfectant.”

ROSE: “Watch out for what?”

The Doctor: “The disinfectant!”

Rose: “The what?”

The Doctor: “The disin-. Oh, you’ll find out.”

Rose: “Er, Ward 26, thanks.”

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SPEAKER: “Commence stage one disinfection.”

Rose got blasted, jumping back in shock. ‘Oh, I’m gonna kill him.’

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‘Oh, he’s gonna kill me.’

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“I can heal.” The flesh human said. “I have some supplies-”

“I need some Story damn peace and quiet, can I have that?” I snapped. The pain was getting worse, I reached into my bag and pulled out the Time Lord safe drugs I swiped from the TARDIS. The force grown man just stood around my makeshift medbay. “Are you just gonna stand there and watch?”

“Please, I can help.” The man stuttered. “Chip has knowledge on the medical supplies here.”

“And I’ve taken bullets out of me before.” I said, pulling out my medkit from my bag. “You just stand there and look pretty for me.”

The force grown clone blinked, confused. I used his distraction to get to work. I put on rubber gloves, and pulled out the various medical supplies I needed. It took a bit of work, but I was able to get the wound sterilized. Some more work, and a bit of twisting and turning, and the bullet popped out. It wasn’t that deep, thankfully, you could still see the back from the skin.

The bullet that killed the Master. I clenched it in my fist, shoving it into my pocket. It would’ve been easy to save him, but that meant changing The End of Time. He might not have had a failed regeneration, which meant he didn’t have the power to send the Time Lords back into the Time War. It hurt seeing him like that, but at the same time I couldn’t change it. If anything, I’d want to change Naismith’s end.

I pushed away that pain, focusing instead on my bullet wound. I had a new baby that needed me now, with the Doctor, just like we always hoped. Blythe would be safe with the Doctor-

Holy shit the next episode was Voyage of the Damned! Son of a bitch!

“I’m gonna kill him.” I grumbled, putting my hand over the wound. “If my baby gets anything worse than a papercut.”

My hand started to glow with golden regeneration energy. I winced as it left a slight burning sensation across my hand, and then my wound. Soon enough the hole in my stomach closed, I blew away the excess energy.

I shivered. “Woah. I just gave up five years. I can actually feel that I’ve lost five years.” Shaking my head, I pushed myself off the ground. “That’s a weird feeling. It’s like I’ve just sneezed really hard and my head is a bit spinny.”

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Cassandra: “I mean, you never know what your life is going to be like, ever. I’m bored with this drink. Anyway. Oh, hello darling! Now, don’t. Stop it.”

Terra: “No. No! No! I was just shot, I don’t need-”

Cassandra: “Peekaboo!”

Terra: “The trampoline of Platform One. Don’t you come anywhere near me, Cassandra.”

Cassandra: “Why? What do you think I’m going to do? Flap you to death?”

Terra: “Yeah, but what about Chip?”

Cassandra: “Oh he’s my pet.”

Chip: “I worship the mistress.”

Cassandra: “Moisturise me, moisturise me.”

(Chip sprays Cassandra.)

Cassandra: “He’s not even a proper life form. He’s a force grown clone. I modelled him on my favorite pattern. But he’s so faithful. Chip sees to my physical needs.”

Terra: “I hope that means food. How come you’re still alive?”

Cassandra: “After you murdered me.”

Terra: “That was your own fault.”

Chip: “The brain of my mistress survived. And her pretty blue eyes were salvaged from the bin.”

Terra: “What about the skin? I saw it. You got ripped apart.”

Cassandra: “That piece of skin was taken from the front of my body. This piece is the back.”

Terra: “Right! So you’re talking out of your a-”

Cassandra: “Ask not.”

“I always knew that you pulled your ideas out of there.” I laughed. “But to see it in real life.”

Chip: “The mistress was lucky to survive. Chip secreted m’lady into the hospital.”

Terra: “So they don’t know you’re here?”

Chip: “Chip steals medicine. Helps m’lady. Soothes her, strokes her.”

Terra: “I was really hoping she didn’t meant that kind of pet.”

Cassandra: “But I’m so alone, hidden down here. The last Human in existence.”

Terra: “Don’t start that again. They’ve called this planet New Earth, you useless flap of skin.”

Cassandra: “A vegetable patch.”

Terra: “And there’s millions of Humans out there. Millions of them.”

Cassandra: “Mutant stock.”

Terra: “They moved on, Cassandra. They just moved on, like they should. You stayed still. Now you’re here, in this rat nest, while they’re up there living their lives. What good did it do you?”

Cassandra: “Oh, I remember that night. Drinks for the Ambassador of Thrace. That was the last time anyone told me I was beautiful. After that it all became such hard work.”

Terra: “Well, you’ve got a knack for survival, I’ll give you that.”

Cassandra: “But I’ve not been idle, Terra, tucked away underneath this hospital. I’ve been listening. The Sisters are hiding something.”

Terra: “I already know.”

“What?”

“Rule Four. I know everything. These cats can’t hide from me anymore than a kite can hide from a breeze.”

Cassandra: “Oh these cats have secrets. Hush, let me whisper. Come close.”

Terra: “You must be joking if you think I’m coming anywhere near you.” (Energy grabs Terra’s hands, holding her still.)

Cassandra: “Chip, activate the psychograft.”

Terra: “I can’t move. Cassandra, let me go! What’re you doing?”

(Light streams down from a contraption overhead.) Cassandra: “The lady’s moving on. It’s goodbye trampoline, and hello beauty.”

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Rose glared at him. “I’m gonna kill you.” She growled. She whacked his arm. “Watch out for the disinfectant?”

The Doctor rubbed the sore mark on his arm. It was still sore from when she punched it in the hospital lobby. “Exactly. I told you about it.”

Rose rolled her eyes, then laughed. “Terra was right. You are rude.”

The Doctor: “Nice place. No shop, downstairs. I’d have a shop. Not a big one. Just a shop, so people can shop.”

(The nurse removes her veil.) Jatt: “The hospital is a place of healing.”

The Doctor: “A shop does some people the world of good. Not me. Other people.”

Jatt: “The Sisters of Plentitude take a lifelong vow to help, and to mend.”

(They pass an open cubicle.)

Clovis: “Excuse me! Members of the public may only gaze upon the Duke of Manhattan with written permission from the Senate of New New York.”

The Doctor: “That’s Petrifold Regression, right?”

Duke: “I’m dying, sir. A lifetime of charity and abstinence, and it ends like this.”

Clovis: “Any statements made by the Duke of Manhattan may not be made public without official clearance.”

Duke: “Frau Clovis! I’m so weak.”

Clovis: “Sister Jatt. A little privacy, please.”

Jatt: “He’ll be up and about in no time.”

The Doctor: “I doubt it. Petrifold Regression? He’s turning to stone. There won’t be a cure for oh, a thousand years? He might be up and about, but only as a statue.”

Jatt: “Have faith in the Sisterhood. But is there no one here you recognise? It’s rather unusual to visit without knowing the patient.”

The Doctor: “No, I think I’ve found him.”

“Oh my God. It can’t be.”

(A large face in a container by the picture window with a view of the city.)

Jatt: “Novice Hame, if I can leave this gentleman in your care?”

The Doctor: “Oh, I think my friend got lost. Terra Song. Could you ask at reception?”

Jatt: “Certainly, sir.” (Sister Jatt leaves.)

Hame: “I’m afraid the Face of Boe’s asleep. That’s all he tends to do these days. Are you a friend, or.”

The Doctor: “We met just the once on Platform One.”

“What’s wrong with him?” Rose asked, staring at the head sadly.

Hame: “I’m so sorry. I thought you knew. The Face of Boe is dying.”

The Doctor: “Of what?”

Hame: “Old age. The one thing we can’t cure. He’s thousands of years old. Some people say millions, although that’s impossible.”

The Doctor: “Oh, I don’t know. I like impossible. I’m here. I look a bit different, but it’s me, It’s the Doctor.”

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TANNOY: “Hope, harmony and health. Hope, harmony and health.”

(The Doctor brings Hame a cup of water.)

Hame: “That’s very kind. There’s no need.”

The Doctor: “You’re the one working.”

Hame: “There’s not much to do, just maintain his smoke. And I suppose I’m company. I can hear him singing, sometimes, in my mind. Such ancient songs.”

The Doctor: “Am I the only visitor?”

Hame: “The rest of Boe-kind became extinct long ago. He’s the only one left. Legend says that the Face of Boe has watched the universe grow old. There’s all sorts of superstitions around him. One story says that just before his death, the Face of Boe will impart his great secret, that he will speak those words only to those like himself.”

The Doctor: “What does that mean?”

Hame: “It’s just a story.”

The Doctor: “Tell me the rest.”

Hame: “It’s said he’ll talk to the wanderers. To the man without a home, and to the woman without roots. The empty Goddess and the lonely God.”

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Cassandra: “Look at me. From class to brass. Although, oh, curves. Oh, baby, it’s like living inside a bouncy castle!”

Chip: “The mistress is beautiful.”

Cassandra: “Absolutement! Oh, but look.” (The equipment that had been keeping flat Cassandra alive is fried.)

Chip: “Oh, the brain lead expired. My old mistress is gone.”

Cassandra: “But safe and sound in here.”

Chip: “But what of the Terra child’s mind?”

Cassandra: “Oh, tucked away. I can just about access the surface memory. She’s. Gosh, she’s with the Doctor. A man. He’s the Doctor. The same Doctor with a new face. That hypocrite! I must get the name of his surgeon. I could do with a little work. Although.” Cassandra cupped the breasts. “She’s at least got something in the front. Hmm.”

(The phone in Terra’s back pocket rings.) Cassandra: “Oh, it seems to be ringing. Is it meant to ring?”

Chip: “A primitive communications device.”

The Doctor: “Terra, where are you right now?”

Cassandra: “How does she speak?”

Chip: “Old Earth American.”

Cassandra: “Er, waz up?”

The Doctor: “Are you on New Earth? We’re in Ward 26 of the hospital.”

Cassandra: “I’m on my way, dude. I’m, like, coming now.”

The Doctor: “You’ll never guess. I’m with the Face of Boe. Have you met him yet?”

Cassandra: “Like, duh. That big old.” “Face.”

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The Doctor: “I’d better go. See you in a minute.”

Duke: “Didn’t think I was going to make it. It’s that man again! He’s my good luck charm. Come in. Don’t be shy.”

Clovis: “Any friendship expressed by the Duke of Manhattan does not constitute a form of legal contract.”

Duke: “Winch me up. Up! Look at me. No sign of infection.”

WAITER: “Champagne, sir?”

The Doctor: “No, thanks. You had Petrifold Regression, right?”

Duke: “That being the operative word. Past tense. Completely cured.”

The Doctor: “But that’s impossible.”

Casp: “Primitive species would accuse us of magic, but it’s merely the tender application of science.”

The Doctor: “How on Earth did you cure him?”

Casp: “How on New Earth, you might say.”

The Doctor: “What’s in that solution?”

Casp: “A simple remedy.”

The Doctor: “Then tell me what it is.”

Casp: “I’m sorry. Patient confidentiality. I don’t believe we’ve met. My name is Matron Casp.”

The Doctor: “I’m the Doctor.”

Casp: “I think you’ll find that we’re the doctors here.”

Jatt: “Matron Casp, you’re needed in Intensive Care.”

Casp: “If you would excuse me.”

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Chip: “This Doctor man is dangerous.”

Cassandra: “Dangerous and clever. I might need a mind like his. The Sisterhood is up to something. Remember that Old Earth saying, never trust a Nun? Never trust a Nurse. And never trust a cat. Perfume?”

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TANNOY: “Ambient temperature stands at fourteen degrees. This temperature is designed to promote healing and well-being.”

(The Doctor is going round all the cubicles. One has a person floating in midair.)

The Doctor: “There you are. Come and look at this patient. Marconi’s Disease. Should take years to recover. Two days. I’ve never seen anything like it. They’ve invented a cell washing cascade. It’s amazing. Their medical science is way advanced. And this one.”

(An man as white as his bed gown.)

The Doctor: “Pallidome Pancrosis. Kills you in ten minutes, and he’s fine. I need to find a terminal. I’ve got to see how they do this. Because if they’ve got the best medicine in the world, then why is it such a secret?”

Cassandra: “I can’t, like, believe it.”

The Doctor: “What’s, what’s. what’s with the voice?”

Cassandra: “Oh, I don’t know. Just larking about. New Earth, new me.”

The Doctor: “Well, I can talk. New New Doctor.”

Cassandra: “Mmm, aren’t you just.”

Rose’s jaw dropped.

(Cassandra grabs the Doctor and kisses him, long and hard.) Cassandra: “Terminal’s this way. Phew.”

The Doctor: “Yep, still got it.”

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The Doctor: “Nope, nothing odd. Surgery, post-op, nano-dentistry. No sign of a shop. They should have a shop.”

Cassandra: “No, it’s missing something else. When I was downstairs, those Nurse Cat Nuns were talking about Intensive Care. Where is it?”

The Doctor: “You’re right. Well done.”

“What about the-” Rose began.

“Quiet Rose, the grown ups are talking.” Cassandra scolded. Rose flinched back at the use of her real name. Had Terra ever called her by that? “Why would they hide a whole department? It’s got to be there somewhere. Search the sub-frame.

The Doctor: “What if the sub-frame’s locked?”

Cassandra: “Try the installation protocol.”

The Doctor: “Yeah. Of course. Sorry. Hold on.” (He uses the sonic screwdriver on the interface, and the whole wall slides down to reveal a corridor.)

The Doctor: “Intensive Care. Certainly looks intensive.”

(Their actions are noticed by Novice Hame.)

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Cassandra: “That’s disgusting. What’s wrong with him?”

The Doctor: “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”

(The Doctor closes the door and moves on to the next. It contains a young woman.) Cassandra: “What disease is that?”

The Doctor: “All of them. Every single disease in the galaxy. They’ve been infected with everything.”

Cassandra: “What about us? Are we safe?”

The Doctor: “The air’s sterile. Just don’t touch them.” (He closes the door.)

Cassandra: “How many patients are there?”

The Doctor: “They’re not patients.”

Cassandra: “But they’re sick.”

The Doctor: “They were born sick. They’re meant to be sick. They exist to be sick. Lab rats. No wonder the Sisters have got a cure for everything. They’ve built the ultimate research laboratory. A human farm.”

Cassandra: “Why don’t they just die?”

The Doctor: “Plague carriers. The last to go.”

Hame: “It’s for the greater cause.”

The Doctor: “Novice Hame, When you took your vows, did you agree to this?”

Hame: “The Sisterhood has sworn to help.”

The Doctor: “What, by killing?”

Hame: “But they’re not real people. They’re specially grown. They have no proper existence.”

The Doctor: “What’s the turnover, hmm? Thousand a day? Thousand the next? Thousand the next? How many thousands? For how many years? How many!”

Hame: “Mankind needed us. They came to this planet with so many illnesses. We couldn’t cope. We did try. We tried everything. We tried using clone-meat and bio-cattle, but the results were too slow, so the Sisterhood grew its own flesh. That’s all they are. Flesh.”

The Doctor: “These people are alive.”

Hame: “But think of those Humans out there, healthy and happy, because of us.”

The Doctor: “If they live because of this, then life is worthless.”

Hame: “But who are you to decide that?”

The Doctor: “I’m the Doctor. And if you don’t like it, if you want to take it to a higher authority, then there isn’t one. It stops with me.”

Cassandra: “Just to confirm. None of the humans in the city actually know about this?”

Hame: “We thought it best not.”

The Doctor: “Hold on. I can understand the bodies. I can understand your vows. One thing I can’t understand. What have you done to Terra?”

Hame: “I don’t know what you mean.”

The Doctor: “And I’m being very, very calm. You want to be aware of that. Very, very calm. And the only reason I’m being so very, very calm is that the brain is a delicate thing. Whatever you’ve done to Terra’s head, I want it reversed.”

Hame: “We haven’t done anything.”

Cassandra: “I’m perfectly fine.”

The Doctor: “She didn’t tell me what number she was on. That’s her way of saying hello. She called Rose by her name, and she never does that. And these people are dying, and as much as people think otherwise, Terra would care.”

Cassandra: “Oh, all right, clever clogs. Smarty pants. Lady-killer.”

The Doctor: “What’s happened to you?”

Cassandra: “I knew something was going on in this hospital, but I needed this body and your mind to find it out.”

The Doctor: “Who are you?”

Cassandra: “The last human.”

The Doctor: “Cassandra?”

Cassandra: “Wake up and smell the perfume.” (She squirts the vial up his nose, and he passes out.)

Hame: “You’ve hurt him. I don’t understand. I’ll have to fetch Matron.”

Cassandra: “You do that, because I want to see her. Now, run along. Sound the alarm!”

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The Doctor: “Let me out! Let me out!”

Cassandra: “Aren’t you lucky there was a spare? Standing room only.”

The Doctor saw the grin and hated it. He had seen Terra’s smile. It made everything part of her come alive. It made her eyes glow like sunshine. “You’ve stolen Terra’s body.”

Cassandra: “Over the years, I’ve thought of a thousand ways to kill you, Doctor. And now, that’s exactly what I’ve got. One thousand diseases. They pump the patients with a top-up every ten minutes. You’ve got about three minutes left. Enjoy.”

The Doctor: “Just let Terra go, Cassandra.”

Cassandra: “And waste such a perfect opportunity? I’m gorgeous. She’s a Queen. I could rule an entire bloody country with this.

Now hushaby. It’s showtime.”

Jatt: “Anything we can do to help?”

Cassandra: “Straight to the point, Whiskers. I want money.”

Casp: “The Sisterhood is a charity. We don’t give money. We only accept.”

Cassandra: “The humans across the water pay you a fortune, and that’s exactly what I need. A one-off payment, that’s all I want. Oh, and perhaps a yacht. In return for which, I shall tell the city nothing of your institutional murder. Is that a deal?”

Casp: “I’m afraid not.”

Cassandra: “I’d really advise you to think about this.”

Casp: “Oh, there’s no need. I have to decline.”

Cassandra: “I’ll tell them, and you’ve no way of stopping me. You’re not exactly Nuns with Guns. You’re not even armed.”

Casp: “Who needs arms when we have claws?” (Matron unsheathes her claws.)

Cassandra: “Well, nice try. Chip? Plan B.”

(Chip pulls a lever, and all the doors on that level open. The Doctor comes out along with a lot of dazed, diseased people.)

The Doctor: “What’ve you done?”

Cassandra: “Gave the system a shot of adrenaline, just to wake them up. See you!”

The Doctor: “Don’t touch them! Whatever you do, don’t touch!”

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Cassandra: “Oh, my God.”

The Doctor: “What the hell have you done?”

Cassandra: “It wasn’t me.”

The Doctor: “One touch and you get every disease in the world, and I want that body safe, Cassandra. We’ve got to go down.”

Cassandra: “But there’s thousands of them!”

The Doctor: “Run! Down! Down! Go down!”

TANNOY: “This building is under quarantine. Repeat, this building is under quarantine. No one may leave the premises. Repeat, no one may leave the premises.”

The Doctor: “Keep going! Go down!”

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The Doctor: “No, the lifts have closed down. That’s the quarantine. Nothing’s moving.”

Cassandra: “This way!”

(She leads the Doctor towards her lair. Chip gets cut off from them as more people approach.)

The Doctor: “Someone will touch him.”

Cassandra: “Leave him! He’s just a clone thing. He’s only got a half life. Come on!”

Chip: “Mistress!”

The Doctor: “I’m sorry, I can’t let her escape.”

Chip: “My Mistress!”

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Cassandra: “We’re trapped! What am I going to do?”

The Doctor: “Well, for starters, you’re going to leave that body. That psychograft is banned on every civilised planet. You’re compressing Terra to death.”

Cassandra: “But I’ve got nowhere to go. My original skin’s dead.”

The Doctor: “Not my problem. You can float as atoms in the air. Now, get out. Give her back to me.”

Cassandra: “You asked for it.” (Cassandra take a deep breath and blows energy out to the Doctor.)

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Terra

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Terra: “Imma kill that trampoline.” I garbled, sitting up. “76!”

“Terra!” Rose’s voice cheered.

Cassandra: “Oh, my. This is different.”

Rose: “Cassandra?”

Cassandra: “Goodness me, I’m a man. Yum. So many parts. And hardly used. Oh, oh, two hearts! Oh, baby, I’m beating out a samba!”

Rose: “Get out of him.”

Cassandra: “Oo, he’s slim, and a little bit foxy. You’ve thought so too. I’ve been inside your head. You’ve been looking. You like it.” (The diseased people burst in.) Cassandra: “What do we do? What would he do? The Doctor, what the hell would he do?”

Rose: “Ladder. We’ve got to get up.”

Cassandra: “Out of the way, blondie!”

WOMAN: “Please, help us. Help.”

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Third Person

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Rose: “If you get out of the Doctor’s body, he can think of something.”

Cassandra: “Yap, yap, yap. God, it was tedious inside your head. Hormone city.”

Rose: “We’re going to die if-”

“Biscuits!” Terra grunted, kicking at the cat. “Get off me!”

CASP: “All our good work. All that healing. The good name of the Sisterhood. You have destroyed everything.”

Cassandra: “Go and play with a ball of string.”

CASP: “Everywhere, disease. This is the human world. Sickness!”

(A diseased arm reaches up and grasps Casp’s ankle. She falls, screaming.)

Rose: “Move!”

TANNOY: “Maximum quarantine. Divert all shuttles.”

(The doors on the next level will not open.)

MAN: “Help us.”

Cassandra: “Now what do we do?”

Rose: “Use the sonic screwdriver.”

Cassandra: “You mean this thing?”

Rose: “Yes, I mean that thing.”

Cassandra: “Well, I don’t know how. That Doctor’s hidden away all his thoughts.”

Terra: “Cassandra, go back into me. The Doctor can open it. Do it!”

Cassandra: “Hold on tight.”

(The energy transfers.) Cassandra: “Oh, chavtastic again. Open it!”

The Doctor: “Not till you get out of her.”

Cassandra: “We need the Doctor.”

The Doctor: “I order you to leave her.”

(So Cassandra swaps back again.)

Cassandra: “No matter how difficult the situation, there is no need to shout.”

Rose: “Cassandra, get out of him!”

Cassandra: “But I can’t go into either of you, he simply refuses. He’s so rude.”

Terra: “I don’t care. Just do something.”

Cassandra: “Oh, I am so going to regret this.”

(Cassandra transfers to the lead woman on the ladder below them.)

Cassandra: “Oh, sweet Lord. I look disgusting.”

(The Doctor opens the lift doors.)

The Doctor: “(to Terra) Nice to have you back.”

Cassandra: “No, you don’t.” She jumped inside of Rose.

The Doctor: “That was your last warning, Cassandra!”

Cassandra: “Inside her head. They’re so alone. They keep reaching out, just to hold us. All their lives and they’ve never been touched.”

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Terra

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The Doctor: “We’re safe! We’re safe! We’re safe! We’re clean! We’re clean! Look, look.”

Clovis: “Show me your skin.”

The Doctor: Look, clean. Look, if we’d been touched, we’d be dead. So how’s it going up here? What’s the status?”

Clovis: “There’s nothing but silence from the other wards. I think we’re the only ones left. And I’ve been trying to override the quarantine. If I can trip a signal over to New New York, they can send a private executive squad.”

The Doctor: “You can’t do that. If they forced entry, they’d break quarantine.”

Clovis: “I am not dying in here.”

The Doctor: “We can’t let a single particle of disease get out. There is ten million people in that city. They’d all be at risk. Now, turn that off!”

Clovis: “Not if it gets me out.”

The Doctor: “All right, fine. So I have to stop you lot as well. Suits me. Rose, novice Hame, everyone! Excuse me, your Grace. Get me intravenous solutions for every single disease. Move it!”

(Everyone grabs drip bags while the Doctor collects a long piece of heavy silk rope and starts hanging them on his body.)

The Doctor: “How’s that? Will that do?”

Cassandra: “I don’t know. Will it do for what?”

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Cassandra: “The lifts aren’t working.”

The Doctor: “Not moving. Different thing. Here we go.” (He puts the sonic screwdriver between his teeth and runs.)

Cassandra: “But you’re not going to-” (He jumps and grabs the lift cable.) Cassandra: “What do you think you’re doing?”

The Doctor: “I’m going down! Come on!” (He attaches a round piece of equipment to the cable.)

Cassandra: “Not in a million years.”

The Doctor: “I need another pair of hands. What do you think? If you’re so desperate to stay alive, why don’t you live a little?”

FRAU Clovis: “Seal the door!”

(Cassandra is trapped with approaching disease.) Cassandra: “No!” Cassandra: “You’re completely mad. I can see why she likes you.”

The Doctor: “Going down!”

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Cassandra: “Well, that’s one way to lose weight.”

The Doctor: “Now, listen. When I say so, take hold of that lever.”

Cassandra: “There’s still a quarantine down there, we can’t-”

The Doctor: “Hold that lever! I’m cooking up a cocktail. I know a bit about medicine myself.” (The Doctor pours the contents of the drip bags into the lift’s disinfectant tank.) The Doctor: “Now, that lever’s going to resist. But keep it in position. Hold onto it with everything you’ve got.”

Cassandra: “What about you?”

The Doctor: “I’ve got an appointment. The Doctor is in.”

The Doctor: “I’m in here! Come on!”

Cassandra: “Don’t tell them.”

The Doctor: “Pull that lever!”

(All the diseased people in hotel reception start to shuffle towards the lift.)

The Doctor: “Come and get me. Come on!” The Doctor: “I’m in here! Come on!”

TANNOY: “Commence stage one disinfection.”

The Doctor: “Hurry up! Come on!” (The contents of the disinfectant tank are poured onto him.) The Doctor: “Come on, come on.” (The first of the humans join him, and get sprayed as well, then leave.) The Doctor: “All they want to do is pass it on. Pass it on!”

Cassandra: “Pass on what? Pass on what?”

The Doctor: “Pass it on!”

Cassandra: “What did they pass on? Did you kill them? All of them?”

The Doctor: “No. That’s your way of doing things.”

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The Doctor: “I’m the Doctor, and I cured them.”

(A woman hugs the Doctor.)

The Doctor: “That’s right. Hey, there we go, sweetheart. Go to him. Go on, that’s it. That’s it. It’s a new sub-species, Cassandra. A brand new form of life. New humans! Look at them. Look! Grown by cats, kept in the dark, fed by tubes, but completely, completely alive. You can’t deny them, because you helped create them. The human race just keeps on going, keeps on changing. Life will out! Ha!”

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The Doctor: “You were supposed to be dying.”

Face of Boe: “There are better things to do today. Dying can wait.”

Cassandra: “Oh, I hate telepathy. Just what I need, a head full of big face.”

The Doctor: “Shh! “

Face of Boe: “I have grown tired with the universe, Doctor, but you have taught me to look at it anew.”

The Doctor: “There are legends, you know, saying that you’re millions of years old.”

Face of Boe: “There are? That would be impossible.”

The Doctor: “Wouldn’t it just. I got the impression there was something you wanted to tell me.”

Face of Boe: “A great secret.”

The Doctor: “So the legend says.”

Face of Boe: “It can wait.”

The Doctor: “Oh, does it have to?”

Face of Boe: “We shall meet again, Doctor, for the third time, for the last time, and the truth shall be told. Until that day.”

The Doctor: “That is enigmatic. That, that is, that is textbook enigmatic. And now for you.”

Cassandra: “But everything’s happy. Everything’s fine. Can’t you just leave me?”

The Doctor: “You’ve lived long enough. Leave that body and end it, Cassandra.”

Cassandra: “I don’t want to die.”

The Doctor: “No one does.”

Cassandra: “Help me.”

The Doctor: “I can’t.”

Chip: “Mistress!”

Cassandra: “Oh, you’re alive.”

Chip: “I kept myself safe for you, mistress.”

Cassandra: “A body. And not just that, a volunteer.”

The Doctor: “Don’t you dare. He’s got a life of his own.”

Chip: “But I worship the mistress. I welcome her.”

The Doctor: “You can’t, Cassandra, you-”

(The energy transfer takes place and Rose collapses into the Doctor’s arms.)

The Doctor: “Oh! You all right? Whoa! Okay?”

Rose: “Yeah. Hello!”

The Doctor: “Hello. Welcome back.”

Cassandra: “Oh, sweet Lord. I’m a walking doodle.”

The Doctor: “You can’t stay in there. I’m sorry, Cassandra, but that’s not fair. I can take you to the city. They can build you a skin tank and you can stand trial for what you’ve done.”

Cassandra: “Well, that would be rather dramatic. Possibly my finest hour, and certainly my finest hat, but I’m afraid we don’t have time. Poor little Chip is only a half-life, and he’s been through so much. His heart is racing so. He’s failing. I don’t think he’s going to last.”

(Cassandra falls to her knees.) The Doctor: “Are you alright?”

Cassandra: “I’m fine. I’m dying, but that’s fine.”

The Doctor: “I can take you to the city.”

Cassandra: “No, you won’t. Everything’s new on this planet. There’s no place for Chip and me any more. You’re right, Doctor. It’s time to die, and that’s good.”

The Doctor: “Come on. There’s one last thing I can do.”

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Younger Cassandra: “Oh no, don’t. Stop it. Simply not true. Tiny. The beaches were so dismal, and the mosquitoes were-”

Cassandra: “Thank you.”

The Doctor: “Just go. And don’t look back.”

Rose: “Good luck.”

Younger Cassandra: “And if you actually see them, you’re shocked. But don’t quote me on that. Oh, naughty. À bientôt!”

Older Cassandra: “Excuse me, Lady Cassandra.”

Younger Cassandra: “I’m sorry, I don’t need anything right now. I’m fine, thank you.”

Older Cassandra: “No, I just wanted to say you look beautiful.”

Younger Cassandra: “Well, that’s very kind, you strange little thing. Thank you very much.”

Older Cassandra: “I mean it. You look so beautiful.”

Younger Cassandra: “Thank you.” (Chip’s body collapses. Lady Cassandra cradles him.) Younger Cassandra: “Oh, my Lord. Are you alright? What is it? What’s wrong? Someone get some help! Call a medic or something, quickly!”

WOMAN: “Who is he?”

Younger Cassandra: “I don’t know. He just came up to me. I don’t even know his name. He just collapsed. I think he’s dying. Someone do something! I’ve got you, sweetheart. It’s all right. There you are. There you are, I’ve got you. It’ll be alright. There, there, you poor little thing.”

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“There is just one more little thing that needs to be straightened out.

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“That.” I panted. The Doctor looked nearly as shocked as Rose did. “Is how Terra’s do it. Make note of it, there will be a test.”

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Pond Life

Partners in Crime

Long Game

Wedding of River Song

The

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“Theta!” I cheered, wrapping my arm around his. “80. Nice hat.”

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The Doctor: “Imagine you were dying. Imagine you were afraid and a long way from home and in terrible pain. Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, you looked up and saw the face of the devil himself. Hello, Dalek.”

DALEK: “Emergency. Emergency. Weapon system disabled. Emergency.”

(The Doctor opens up the top of the Dalek.)

The Doctor: “Hush, now. I need some information from your data core. Everything the Daleks know about the Silence.”

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The Doctor: “Gideon Vandaleur. Get him. Now.”

BARMAN: “Who says he’s here?”

(The Doctor drops the Dalek’s eyestalk onto the counter. A short while later, the Doctor is at a table reading Knitting for Girls when the cloaked figure sits down with him.)

The Doctor: “Father Gideon Vandaleur, former envoy of the Silence. My condolences.”

VANDALEUR: “Your what?”

The Doctor: “Gideon Vandaleur has been dead for six months.”

(The Doctor sonicks the figure, which is wearing the same style eyepatch as Madam Kovarian, and it goes rigid.)

The Doctor: “Can I speak to the Captain, please?”

(The small figure in the eye nods and runs.)

The Doctor: “Hello again, the Teselecta time-travelling shape-changing robot powered by miniaturised people. Never get bored of that. Long time since Berlin.”

CARTER: “Doctor, what have you done to our systems?”

The Doctor: “They’ll be fine if you behave. Now, this unit can disguise itself as anyone in the universe, so if you’re posing as Vandaleur, you’re investigating the Silence. Tell me about them.”

CARTER: “Tell you what?”

The Doctor: “One thing. Just one. Their weakest link.”

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The Doctor: “The crowd are getting restless. They know the Queen is your only legal move, except you’ve already moved it twelve times, which means there are now over four million volts running through it. That’s why they call it Live Chess. Even with the gauntlet you’ll never make it to Bishop Four alive.”

Gantok: “I am a dead man, unless you concede the game.”

The Doctor: “But I’m winning.”

Gantok: “Name your price.”

The Doctor: “Information.”

Gantok: “I work for the Silence. They would kill me.”

The Doctor: “They’re going to kill me too, very soon. I was just going to lie down and take it, but you know what? Before I go, I’d like to know why I have to die.”

Gantok: “Dorium Maldovar is the only one who can help you.”

The Doctor: “Dorium’s dead. The Monks beheaded him at Demon’s Run.”

Gantok: “I know. Concede the game, Doctor, and I’ll take you to him.”

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Gantok: “The Seventh Transept, where the Headless Monks keep the leftovers. Watch your step. There are traps everywhere.”

The Doctor: “I hate rats.”

Gantok: “There are no rats in the transept.”

The Doctor: “Oh, good.”

Gantok: “The skulls eat them.”

(The skulls on shelves turn to look at the visitors.)

Gantok: “The headless monks behead you alive, remember.”

The Doctor: “Why are some of them in boxes?”

(Nice boxes on pillars.)

Gantok: “Because some people are rich, and some people are left to rot. And Dorium Maldovar was always very rich.”

(The Doctor opens Dorium’s box. The blue head sneezes.)

The Doctor: “Thank you for bringing me, Gantok.”

Gantok: “My pleasure. It saves me the trouble of burying you. Nobody beats me at chess.”

(Gantok draws his weapon and moves forward, triggering a trap. He falls down into a pit of ravening skulls.)

The Doctor: “Gantok!”

(Gantok gets eaten, then the skulls turn their attention upwards. The Doctor sonics the pit closed again. Dorium opens his eyes.)

Dorium: “Hello? Is someone there? Ah, Doctor. Thank God it’s you. The Monks, they turned on me.”

The Doctor: “Well, I’m afraid they rather did, a bit.”

Dorium: “Give it to me straight, Doctor. How bad are my injuries?”

The Doctor: “Well-”

Dorium: “Ha, ha! Oh, your face.”

Dorium: “Oh, it’s not so bad, really, as long as they get your box the right way up. I got a media-chip fitted in my head years ago, and the Wi-Fi down here is excellent, so I keep myself entertained.”

The Doctor: “I need to know about the Silence.”

Dorium: “Oh. A religious order of great power and discretion. The sentinels of history, as they like to call themselves.”

The Doctor: “And they want me dead.”

Dorium: “No, not really. They just don’t want you to remain alive.”

The Doctor: “That’s okay, then. I was a bit worried for a minute there.”

Dorium: “You’re a man with a long and dangerous past, but your future is infinitely more terrifying. The Silence believe it must be averted.”

The Doctor: “You know, you could’ve told me all this the last time we met.”

Dorium: “It was a busy day and I got beheaded.”

The Doctor: “What’s so dangerous about my future?”

Dorium: “On the Fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the Eleventh, when no living creature can speak falsely, or fail to answer, a question will be asked. A question that must never, ever be answered.”

The Doctor: “Silence will fall when the question is asked.”

Dorium: “Silence must fall would be a better translation. The Silence are determined the question will never be answered. That the Doctor will never reach Trenzalore.”

The Doctor: “I don’t understand. What’s it got to do with me?”

Dorium: “The first question. The oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight. Would you like to know what it is?”

The Doctor: “Yes.”

Dorium: “Are you sure? Very, very sure?”

The Doctor: “Of course.”

Dorium: “Then I shall tell you. But on your own head be it.”

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Dorium: “It’s not my fault. Put me back. Ow! I’ve fallen on my nose. Have you got wi-fi here? I’m bored already and my nose is hurting. We all have to die, Doctor, but you more than most. You do see that, don’t you? You know what the question is now. You do see that you have to die.  Doctor, please, open my hatch. I’ve got an awful headache. Which to be honest means more than it used to. It’s like some terrible weight pressing down on my-”

(The Doctor has put Dorium’s box down upside down.)

Dorium: “Oh. I see.”

The Doctor: “Why Lake Silencio? Why Utah?”

Dorium: “It’s a still point in time. Makes it easier to create a fixed point. And your death is a fixed point, Doctor. You can’t run away from this.”

The Doctor: “Been running all my life. Why should I stop?”

Dorium: “Because now you know what’s at stake. Why your life must end.”

The Doctor: “Not today.”

Dorium: “What’s the point in delaying? How long have you delayed already?”

(The Doctor makes a telephone call.)

The Doctor: “Been knocking about. A bit of a farewell tour. Things to do, people to see. There’s always more. I could invent a new colour, save the Dodo, join the Beatles. Hello, it’s me. Get him. Tell him, we’re going out and it’s all on me, except for the money and driving. I have got a time machine, Dorium. It’s all still going on. For me, it never stops. Liz the First is still waiting in a glade to elope with me. I could help Rose Tyler with her homework. I could go on all of Jack’s stag parties in one night.”

Dorium: “Time catches up with us all, Doctor.”

The Doctor: “Well, it has never laid a glove on me! Hello?”

NURSE: “Doctor, I’m so sorry. We didn’t know how to contact you. I’m afraid Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart passed away a few months ago. Doctor?”

The Doctor: “Yes. Yes, I-”

NURSE: “It was very peaceful. He talked a lot about you, if that’s any comfort. Always made us pour an extra brandy in case you came round one of these days.”

Dorium: “Doctor? What’s wrong?”

The Doctor: “Nothing. Nothing. It’s just.”

(He puts the phone down and takes the TARDIS blue envelopes from his pocket.)

The Doctor: “It’s time. It’s time.”

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VANDALEUR: “Surely you could deliver the messages yourself?”

The Doctor: “It would involve crossing my own time stream. Best not.”

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The Doctor: “Actually, thinking about it.”

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“You give it to me.” I said.

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“You can’t make me go.” Past Me said, staring right into the eyes. “You can’t.”

He nodded. “We know.”

“He can’t make me go either.” Terra snapped. “If he is in there, tell him he can’t make me go.”

The Doctor frowned. I took the comm, passing it to him. “She won’t go until she hears from you.”

The Doctor took the comm, and looked out at the viewscreen. “Terra, I know.”

She glared at us. Man, I had good scary eyes. “Don’t make me go.” She nearly whimpered.

“It won’t be real, you know that.” The Doctor explained.

Past Me shook her head. “It will still feel real.”

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I let out an air I didn’t know I had been holding in. “It was actually a relief to land on the couch.”

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“That’s their bus.”

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Amelia: “This is it, yeah? The right place?”

Rory: “Nowhere, middle of? Yeah, this it.”

The Doctor: “Howdy.”

(They turn to see the Doctor lying on the hood of a big American car.)

Amelia: “Doctor!”

“Terra!” Rory said, coming up to me for a hug.

The Doctor: “Ha, ha! It’s the Pond.”

Amelia: “Hey!”

“Nurseboy!” I cheered, hugging him tightly.

The Doctor: “Hello, Pond. Come here.”

Amelia: “So, someone’s been a busy boy then, eh?”

The Doctor: “Did you see me?”

Amelia: “Of course.”

The Doctor: “Stalker.”

Amelia: “Flirt.”

Rory: “Husband.”

The Doctor: “Rory the Roman! Ooo, come here.”

Rory: “Hey, nice hat.”

The Doctor: “I wear a Stetson now. Stetsons are cool.”

(Then someone shoots it off him.)

River: “Hello, sweetie.”

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River: “Right then, where are we? Have we done Easter Island yet?”

The Doctor: “Er, yes! I’ve got Easter Island.”

River: “They worshipped you there. Have you seen the statues?”

The Doctor: “Jim the fish.”

River: “Oh! Jim the fish. How is he?”

The Doctor: “Still building his dam.”

Rory: “Sorry, what are you two doing?”

Amelia: “They’re both time travellers, so they never meet in the right order. They’re syncing their diaries. So, what’s happening, then? Because you’ve been up to something.”

The Doctor: “I’ve been running, faster than I’ve ever run. And I’ve been running my whole life. Now, it’s time for me to stop. And tonight, I’m going to need you all with me.”

Amelia: “Okay. We’re here. What’s up?”

The Doctor: “A picnic. And then a trip. Somewhere different, somewhere brand new.”

Amelia: “Where?”

The Doctor: “Space, 1969.”

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The Doctor: “Salud!”

ALL: “Salud.”

Rory: “So, when are going to 1969?”

Amelia: “And since when do you drink wine?”

The Doctor: “I’m eleven hundred and three. I must’ve drunk it sometime.”

(He takes a swig from the bottle and spits it out.)

The Doctor: “Oh, why it’s horrid. I thought it would taste more like the gums.”

Amelia: “Eleven hundred and three? You were nine hundred and eight the last time we saw you.”

The Doctor: “And you’ve put on a couple of pounds. I wasn’t going to mention it.”

(A strange figure is silhouetted on the skyline.)

Amelia: “Who’s that?”

Rory: “Hmm? Who’s who?”

Amelia: “Sorry, what?”

Rory: “What did you see? You said you saw something.”

Amelia: “No, I didn’t.”

The Doctor: “Ah, the moon. Look at it. Of course, you lot did a lot more than look, didn’t you? Big, silvery thing in the sky. You couldn’t resist it. Quite right.”

Rory: “The moon landing was in 69. Is that where we’re going?”

The Doctor: “No. A lot more happens in 69 than anyone remembers. Human beings. I thought I’d never get done saving you.”

(A truck pulls up nearby and W Morgan Sheppard gets out. The Doctor waves to him.)

Amelia: “Who’s he?”

River: “Oh, my God.”

(A figure in a NASA spacesuit is standing up to its knees in the lake.)

The Doctor: “You all need to stay back. Whatever happens now, you do not interfere. Clear?”

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The Doctor: “Hello. It’s okay. I know it’s you.”

The Doctor: “Well, then. Here we are at last.”

River: “I can’t stop it. The suit’s in control.”

The Doctor: “You’re not supposed to. This has to happen.”

River: “Run.”

The Doctor: “I did run. Running brought me here.”

River: “I’m trying to fight it, but I can’t. It’s too strong.”

The Doctor: “I know. It’s okay. This is where I die. This is a fixed point. This must happen. This always happens. Don’t worry. You won’t even remember this. Look over there.”

River: “That’s me. How can I be there?”

The Doctor: “That’s you from the future, serving time for a murder you probably can’t remember. My murder.”

River: “Why would you do that? Make me watch?”

The Doctor: “So that you know this is inevitable. And you are forgiven. Always and completely forgiven.”

River: “Please, my love, please, please just run!”

The Doctor: “I can’t.”

River: “Time can be rewritten.”

The Doctor: “Don’t you dare. Goodbye, River.”

(The Doctor winks, then shuts his eyes. The astronaut suit zaps him multiple times but he doesn’t die this time.)

River: “Hello, Sweetie.”

The Doctor: “What have you done?”

River: “Well, I think I just drained my weapon systems.”

The Doctor: “But this is fixed. This is a fixed point in time.”

River: “Fixed points can be rewritten.”

The Doctor: “No, they can’t. Of course they can’t. Who told you that-”

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Someone knocked on the door. “Doctor? Terra?”

We both groaned. “What?” The Doctor groaned.

“He requested to see the soothsayer.”

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I rubbed his hand. The Doctor smiled.

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Churchill: “Leave us. Tick tock goes the clock, as the old song says. But they don’t, do they? The clocks never tick. Something has happened to time. That’s what you say. What you never stop saying. All of history is happening at once. But what does that mean? What happened? Explain to me in terms that I can understand what happened to time.”

The Doctor: “A woman.”

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Churchill: “This is absurd. Other worlds, carnivorous skulls, talking heads. I don’t know why I’m listening to you.”

The Doctor: “Because, in another reality, you and I are friends. And you sense that. Just as you sense there is something wrong with time.”

Churchill: “You mentioned a woman.”

The Doctor: “Yes. I’m getting to her.”

Churchill: “What’s she like? Attractive, I assume.”

The Doctor: “Hell, in high heels.”

Churchill: “Tell me more.”

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Churchill: “But what was the question? Why did it mean your death?”

The Doctor: “Suppose there was a man who knew a secret. A terrible, dangerous secret that must never be told. How would you erase that secret from the world? Destroy it forever, before it can be spoken.”

Churchill: “If I had to, I’d destroy the man.”

The Doctor: “And silence would fall. All the times I’ve heard those words, I never realised it was my silence, my death. The Doctor will fall. Why are we here?”

Churchill: “This, this is the Senate Room.”

The Doctor: “Why did we leave your office?”

Churchill: “Well, we wanted a stroll, didn’t we?”

The Doctor: “I think I’ve been running. Why do you have your revolver?”

Churchill: “Well, you’re dangerous company, Soothsayer.”

(There is a single tally mark on the Doctor’s arm.)

The Doctor: “Yes. I think I am.”

Churchill: “Resume your story.”

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Churchill: “Why would you do this?”

(The postman delivers the invitation to Rory and Amy. River gets hers, too.)

Churchill: “Of all the things you’ve told me, this I find hardest to believe. Why would you invite your friends to see your death?”

The Doctor: “I had to die. I didn’t have to die alone. Amy and Rory. The last Centurion and the Girl Who Waited. However dark it got, I’d turn around, and there they’d be. If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best. My friends have always been the best of me.”

Churchill: “And did you tell them this was going to happen?”

The Doctor: “It would help if you didn’t keep asking questions.”

(There are three tally marks on his arm now.)

The Doctor: “(sotto) We don’t have much time.”

Churchill: “And this woman you spoke of. Did you invite her?”

The Doctor: “Yes, she was there. River Song came twice.”

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Churchill: “Well? What happened?”

The Doctor: “Nothing.”

Churchill: “Nothing?”

The Doctor: “Nothing happened. And then it kept happening. Or, if you’d prefer, everything happened at once, and it won’t ever stop. Time is dying. It’s going to be five oh two in the afternoon for all eternity. A needle stuck on a record.”

Churchill: “A record? Good Lord, man, have you never heard of downloads?”

The Doctor: “Said Winston Churchill.”

Churchill: “Gunsmoke. That’s gunsmoke. Oh, I appear to have fired this.”

(The Doctor has a spear.) The Doctor: “We seem to be defending ourselves.”

Churchill: “I don’t understand.”

The Doctor: “The creatures that lead the Silence. Remarkable beings. They’re memory-proof.”

Churchill: “But what does that mean?”

The Doctor: “You can’t remember them. The moment you look away, you forget they were ever there.”

(Four tally marks on his arm.)

The Doctor: “Don’t panic. In small numbers, they’re not too difficult.”

(But his other arm is covered in marks. They are hanging from the ceiling in a big cluster. A grenade rolls in. The Doctor knocks Churchill down. Boom, and soldiers enter.)

SOLDIER: “Go! Go! Go! Keep the Silence in sight at all times, keep your eye drives active.”

Churchill: “Who the devil are you? Identify yourselves.”

Amelia: “Pond. Amelia Pond.”

The Doctor: “No! She’s on our side. It’s okay.”

(Amy is wearing an eyepatch.)

The Doctor: “No. No, Amy. Amy, why are you wearing that?”

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The Doctor: “Amy?”

Amelia: “Those stun guns aren’t fun. I’m sorry. I wanted to avoid a long conversation. You need to get up, though. We’ll be in Cairo shortly.”

The Doctor: “Amy Pond. Amelia Pond from Leadworth, please, listen to me. I know it seems impossible, but you know me. In another version of reality you and I were best friends. We, we travelled together. We had adventures. Amelia Pond, you grew up with a time rift in the wall of your bedroom. You can see what others can’t. You can remember things that never happened. And if you try, if you really, really try, you’ll be able to-”

(He is gesturing with a model TARDIS.)

The Doctor: “Oh.”

(And on the far wall are her sketches - Dalek, Silurian, vampire, pirate, Weeping Angel.)

The Doctor: “Oh.”

Amelia: “You look rubbish.”

The Doctor: “You look wonderful.”

Amelia: “So do you. But don’t worry, we’ll soon fix that.”

(She holds up a tweed jacket.)

The Doctor: “Oh, Geronimo.”

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(A little later, shaved and dressed.)

The Doctor: “Okay, you can turn round now. How do I look?”

Amelia: “Cool.”

The Doctor: “Really?”

Amelia: “No.”

The Doctor: “Cool office though. Why do you have an office?! Are you a special agent boss lady? What’s that mean? Not sure about the eye patch, though.”

Amelia: “It’s not an eye patch. Time’s gone wrong. Some of us noticed. There’s a whole team of us working on it, you’ll see.”

The Doctor: “And you’ve got an office on a train. That is so cool. Can I have an office? Never had an office before. Or a train. Or a train slash office.”

Amelia: “God, I’ve missed you!”

The Doctor: “Okay. Hugging and missing now. Where’s the Roman?”

Amelia: “You mean Rory.”

The Doctor: “Mmm.”

Amelia: “My husband Rory, yeah?”

(She gets a drawing from her desk.)

Amelia: “That’s him, isn’t it? I’ve no idea. I can’t find him, but I love him very much, don’t I?”

The Doctor: “Apparently.”

Amelia: “I have to keep doing this, writing and drawing things. It’s just it’s so hard to keep remembering.”

The Doctor: “Well, it’s not your fault. Time’s gone wrong. Do you remember why?”

Amelia: “The lakeside.”

The Doctor: “Lake Silencio, Utah. I died.”

Amelia: “But then you didn’t. See, I remember it twice, different ways.”

The Doctor: “Two different versions of the same event, both happening in the same moment. Time split wide open. Now look at it. All of history happening at once.”

Amelia: “But does it matter? I mean, can’t we just stay like this?”

The Doctor: “Time isn’t just frozen, it’s disintegrating. It will spread and spread and all of reality will simply fall apart.”

(A soldier enters. Guess who.)

Rory: “Ma’am? We’re about to arrive. Eye drives need to be activated as soon as we disembark.”

Amelia: “Good point. Thank you, Captain Williams.”

The Doctor: “Hello.”

Rory: “Hello, sir. Pleased to meet you.”

Amelia: “Captain Williams, best of the best. Couldn’t live without him.”

(The Doctor compares him to his sketch, and laughs. Rory leaves.)

The Doctor: “No.”

Amelia: “What is wrong?”

The Doctor: “Amy, you’ll find your Rory. You always do. But you have to really look.”

Amelia: “I am looking.”

The Doctor: “Oh, my Amelia Pond. You don’t always look hard enough.”

Amelia: “Why are you older? If time isn’t really passing, then how can you be ageing?”

The Doctor: “Time is still passing for me. Every explosion has an epicentre. I’m it. I’m what’s wrong.”

Amelia: “What’s wrong with you?”

The Doctor: “I’m still alive.”

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Rory: “You have to put it on, sir.”

The Doctor: “An eye patch. What for?”

Amelia: “It’s not an eye patch.”

Rory: “It’s an eye drive, sir. It communicates directly with the memory centres of the brain. Acts as external storage.”

Amelia: “Only thing that works on them. Because no living mind can remember these things.”

Rory: “The Silence.”

(Held in individual tanks filled with liquid.)

Rory: “We’ve captured over a hundred of them now, all held in this pyramid.”

The Doctor: “Yeah. I’ve encountered them before. Always wondered what they looked like.”

Amelia: “Well, put your eye drive on and you’ll retain the information, but only for as long as you’re wearing it.”

The Doctor: “The Silence have human servants. They all wear these.”

Amelia: “They’d have to.”

Rory: “This way.”

(The Doctor puts the eye drive on.)

Rory: “They seem to be noticing you.”

The Doctor: “Yeah, they would.”

Amelia: “So why aren’t the human race killing the Silence on sight any more?”

The Doctor: “That was another reality. What are the tanks for?”

Rory: “They can draw electricity from anything. It’s how they attack. The fluid insulates them. And I really don’t like the way they’re looking at you.”

The Doctor: “Me neither.”

Rory: “Ma’am, I’m sure it’s nothing, but I should really check this out. They haven’t been this active in a while. You two, upstairs. Check all the tank seals. Then the floors above. Get everyone checking.”

SOLDIER: “Sir.”

Rory: “You go ahead, Ma’am.”

Amelia: “Thank you, Captain Williams. Doctor, this way.”

The Doctor: “Captain Williams, nice fellow. What’s his first name?”

Amelia: “Captain. Just through here.”

The Doctor: “Just give us a moment. Just need to check something, Ma’am.”

(The Doctor goes back to Rory. Amy speaks into a hidden microphone on her lapel.)

Amelia: “We’re in. He’s on his way.”

The Doctor: “The loyal soldier, waiting to be noticed. Always the pattern. Why is that?”

Rory: “Sorry, sir?”

The Doctor: “Your boss, you should just ask her out. She likes you. She said so.”

Rory: “Really, sir. What did she say?”

The Doctor: “Oh, she just sort of generally indicated.”

Rory: “What exactly what did she say?”

The Doctor: “She said that you were a Mister Hottie-ness, and that she would like to go out with you for texting and scones.”

Rory: “You really haven’t done this before, have you?”

The Doctor: “No, I haven’t.”

Rory: “See you in a moment, sir.”

The Doctor: “Yes. Yes.”

Amelia: “Come on, Doctor. Time for you to meet some old friends.”

Rory: “Attention all personnel.”

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“Attention all personnel. Please check all assigned containment units.”

(A lady in a white coat is watching a screen.)

KENT: “You were right. Just his presence in the building caused the loop to extend by nearly four chronons.”

(The clock now reads 05:02:57, 58, 59.)

The Doctor: “Hi, honey. I’m home.”

River: “And what sort of time do you call this?”

Kovarian: “The death of time. The end of time. The end of us all. Oh, why couldn’t you just die?”

(She is tied to a chair.)

The Doctor: “Did my best, dear. I showed up. You just can’t get the psychopaths these days. Love what you’ve done with the pyramids. How did you score all this?”

River: “Hallucinogenic lipstick. Works wonders on President Kennedy. And Cleopatra was a real pushover.”

The Doctor: “I always thought so.”

River: “She mentioned you.”

The Doctor: “What did she say?”

River: “Put down that gun down.”

The Doctor: “Did you?”

River: “Eventually.”

Kovarian: “Oh, they’re flirting. Do I have to watch this?”

River: “It was such a basic mistake, wasn’t it, Madame Kovarian. Take a child, raise her into a perfect psychopath, introduce her to the Doctor. Who else was I going to fall in love with?”

The Doctor: “It’s not funny, River. Reality is fatally compromised. Tell me you understand that.”

River: “Dinner?”

The Doctor: “I don’t have the time. Nobody has the time, because as long I’m alive, time is dying. Because of you, River.”

River: “Because I refused to kill the man I love.”

The Doctor: “Oh, you love me, do you? Oh, that’s sweet of you. Isn’t that sweet. Come here, you.”

Amelia: “Get him!”

(Soldiers grab the Doctor.)

River: “I’m not a fool, sweetie. I know what happens if we touch.”

(The Doctor grabs River’s arm.)

River: “Get off me. Get him off me! Doctor, no. Let go! Please Doctor, let go!”

WOMAN: “It’s moving. Time’s moving!”

(05:03 and counting.)

River: “Get him off me! Doctor!”

The Doctor: “I’m sorry, River. It’s the only way.”

(They flash back to the lakeside, then the soldiers pull him off.)

River: “Cuff him.”

The Doctor: “Oh, why do you always have handcuffs? It’s the only way. We’re the opposite poles of the disruption. If we touch, we short out the differential. Time can begin again.”

River: “And I’ll be by a lakeside killing you.”

The Doctor: “And time won’t fall apart. The clocks will tick. Reality will continue. There isn’t another way.”

River: “I didn’t say there was, sweetie.”

(In the storage area, a Silence puts its hand onto the glass of its tank, and it begins to crack. Captain Williams notices liquid dripping through to a lower level.)

River: “There are so many theories about you and I, you know.”

The Doctor: “Idle gossip.”

River: “Archaeology.”

The Doctor: “Same thing.”

River: “Am I the woman who marries you, or the woman who murders you?”

The Doctor: “I don’t want to marry you.”

River: “I don’t want to murder you.”

(Amy feels a drop on her head.)

The Doctor: “This is no fun at all.”

River: “It isn’t, is it?”

Amelia: “Doctor, what’s that?”

The Doctor: “The pyramid above us. How many Silence do you have trapped inside it?”

Kovarian: “None. They’re not trapped. They never have been. They’ve been waiting for this, Doctor. For you.”

Rory: “They’re out! All of them.”

(And the soldiers are getting slaughtered. Rory bars the door.)

Rory: “No one gets in here! Ma’am, my men out there should be able to lock this down. We have them outnumbered.”

Kovarian: “And you’re wearing eye drives based on mine, I think. Oops.”

The Doctor: “What do you mean?”

(Electricity surges through Doctor Kent’s eye drive. She screams.)

The Doctor: “Help her! Help her!”

(Soldiers are being affected, too.)

Amelia: “She’s dead.”

(The Doctor’s eye drive tries to zap him.) The Doctor: “Eye drives off now. Remove them.”

(Amy takes the Doctor’s eye drive off him, but then her own powers up.)

Kovarian: “The Silence would never allow an advantage without taking one themselves. The effects will vary from person to person. Either death or debilitating agony. But they will take you all, one by one.”

(Madame Kovarian’s eye drive starts to zap.) Kovarian: “What are you doing? No, it’s me. Don’t be stupid. You need me. Stop it. Stop that!”

The Doctor: “We could stop this right now, you and I.”

Kovarian: “Get it off me.”

The Doctor: “Amy, tell her.”

Amelia: “We’ve been working on something. Just let us show you.”

The Doctor: “There’s no point. There’s nothing you can do. My time is up.”

Amelia: “We’re doing this for you!”

The Doctor: “Then people are dying for me. I won’t thank you for that, Amelia Pond.”

Kovarian: “Get it.”

River: “Just let us show you.”

Amelia: “Please. Captain Williams, how long do we have?”

Rory: “Er, a couple of minutes.”

River: “That’s enough. We’re going to the Receptor Room right at the top of the pyramid. I hope you’re ready for a climb.”

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Rory: “I’ll wait down here, Ma’am. Buy you as much time as I can.”

Amelia: “You have to take your eye drive off.”

Rory: “Can’t do that, Ma’am. Might forget what’s coming.”

Amelia: “But it could activate any second.”

Rory: “It has activated, Ma’am. But I’m of no use to you if I can’t remember. You have to go now, Ma’am.”

Amelia: “Yes.”

Rory: “Now!”

Amelia: “Yes, thank you, Captain Williams.”

(Amy leaves, taking one last look back. Rory fights the pain to keep his gun hand steady as three Silence break through the door.)

SILENCE: “Rory Williams, the man who dies and dies again. Die one last time and know she will never come back for you.”

(Amy lets loose a machine gun at them.) Amelia: “Come on, you. Up you get. You alright?” (She takes his eye drive off.)

Kovarian: “Amy, help me.” (Her eye drive is hanging off.)

Amelia: “You took my baby from me and hurt her. And now she’s all grown up and she’s fine, but I’ll never see my baby again.”

Kovarian: “But you’ll still save me, though. Because he would, and you’d never do anything to disappoint your precious Doctor, or Terra.”

Rory: “Ma’am, we have to go, now.”

Amelia: “The Doctor is very precious to me, you’re right. And so is Terra.”

“And Terra’s telling you to kill the lady before I do.” I ordered. The two women glanced over at me. I walked up to Kovarian, leaning down to look her in the eye as Amelia previously did. “I was there on the fields, ya know. I remember the exact date your chapter broke off, swearing to take down the Doctor and I yourselves.”

My eyes turned cold. Kovarian flinched at it. “My baby died too. Not on your crappy Trenzalore fields. He died just before the Doctor and I arrived. Ripped out of me and murdered.” I paused, kinda losing focus a bit as I remembered that day. “Never even saw his face. Heard his voice. Did he have my eyes, or his father’s? Which of us did he look like? Oh, those thoughts have haunted me for centuries.” I snorted, still a bit lost in memories. “Harry Idris Song. Man, he would’ve been a great kid.”

A hand touched my shoulder. I glanced up, seeing Amelia look at me with tears in her eyes.

“The Doctor is very precious to us.” I said. “He’s the only reason the man that killed my boy is still breathing.” I glanced at Kovarian, grinning madly. “Do you wanna know how he got me to stop, Kovy? Cause he was kind, and loving, and he gives a shit about every single person he sees.”

Kovarian actually looked a bit scared. Good. Hope she was.

Amelia took over. “But do you know what else he is, Madame Kovarian? Not here.”

(Amy puts Kovarian’s eye drive back in place.)

Amelia: “River Song didn’t get it all from you, sweetie.”

(Amy takes Rory’s arm and they leave as Kovarian starts screaming.)

Amelia: “So, you and me, we should get a drink some time.”

Rory: “Okay.”

Amelia: “And married.”

Rory: “Fine.”

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The Doctor: “What’s this? Oh, it’s as timey-wimey distress beacon. Who built this?”

River: “I’m the child of the TARDIS. I understand the physics.”

The Doctor: “But that’s all you’ve got, a distress beacon.”

River: “I’ve been sending out a message. A distress call. Outside the bubble of our time, the universe is still turning, and I’ve sent a message everywhere. To the future and the past, the beginning and the end of everything. The Doctor is dying. Please, please help.”

The Doctor: “River! River, this is ridiculous. That would mean nothing to anyone. It’s insane. Worse, it’s stupid. You embarrass me.”

Amelia: “We barricaded the door. We’ve got a few minutes. Just tell him. Just tell him, River.”

River: “Those reports of the sunspots and the solar flares. They’re wrong. There aren’t any. It’s not the sun, it’s you. The sky is full of a million, million voices saying yes, of course we’ll help. You’ve touched so many lives, saved so many people. Did you think when your time came, you’d really have to do more than just ask? You’ve decided that the universe is better off without you, but the universe doesn’t agree.”

The Doctor: “River, no one can help me. A fixed point has been altered. Time is disintegrating.”

River: “I can’t let you die.”

The Doctor: “But I have to die.”

River: “Shut up! I can’t let you die without knowing you are loved by so many, and so much, and by no one more than me.”

The Doctor: “River, you and I, we know what this means. We are ground zero of an explosion that will engulf all reality. Billions on billions will suffer and die.”

River: “I’ll suffer if I have to kill you.”

The Doctor: “More than every living thing in the universe?”

River: “Yes.”

The Doctor: “River, River, why do you had have to be this? Melody Pond, your daughter. I hope you’re both proud.”

Rory: “I’m not sure I completely understand.”

Amelia: “We got married and had a kid and that’s her.”

Rory: “Okay.”

I threw the cuffs to Amelia. The startled ginger caught them.

“How did you-”

“Magician’s never reveal secrets.” I said, walking up to the Doctor

The Doctor: “Amy, uncuff me now. Okay, I need a strip of cloth about a foot long. Anything will do. Never mind.”

(The Doctor takes off his bow tie.) The Doctor: “River, take one end of this. Wrap it around your hand, and hold it out to me.”

River: “What am I doing?

The Doctor: “As you’re told. Now, we’re in the middle of a combat zone, so we’ll have to do the quick version. Captain Williams, say I consent and gladly give.

Rory: “To what?”

The Doctor: “Just say it.”

“Please.” I asked.

Rory: “I consent and gladly give.”

The Doctor: “Need you to say it too, mother of the bride.”

River gaped. “What are you doing?!”

The Doctor got up from the seat. “River, if the universe stops existing, so does she! I love her so much, River. I won’t let her die because you were selfish.”

“It will break her heart if you die.” River stated. “She’s my wife! I won’t do that to her.”

I shook my head. “It’ll break my heart if he dies, because no one bothered to listen to him.”

The Doctor turned to me, smirking. Then he turned back to the eye-door. “River, please. We have to. I can’t let Terra die like that.”

I could see River’s understand yet pissed look. “Yet you will let her die of a broken heart?”

The Doctor sighed. “River, I love her so much that I will die for her. It’s because of me the Silence put that thing on her arm. It’s because of me she has almost died time and time again! It’s my fault that she has no more family! Everything wrong with her is because of me! This is the least I can do!”

Amelia: “I consent and gladly give.”

The Doctor: “Now River, I’m about to whisper something in your ear, and you have to remember it very, very carefully, and tell no one what I said.”

“Look into my eye.” He whispered.

I waved at River, a giddy smile on my face.

The Doctor: “I just told you my name. Now, there you go, River Song. Melody Pond. You’re the woman who married me. And wife, I have a request. This world is dying and it’s my fault, and I can’t bear it another day. Please, help me. There isn’t another way.”

River: “Then you may kiss the bride.”

The Doctor: “I’ll make it a good one.”

River: “You’d better.”

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The Doctor wrapped his arms around me, protectively. He kissed my forehead. “I meant every word.”

I grabbed his hand, kissing the knuckles. “I know.” I looked into his eyes. “Just know, what happened to me wasn’t your fault. I would’ve made the Silence angry with me anyways, part of my charm.” I kissed him. “And, you were wrong. I do have family.”

“No you-” He started to argue.

“I have Max, I have Ruby, I have the TARDIS.” I kissed him again. “And I have you.”

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Dorium: “Who’s carrying me? I demand to know. I’m a head, I have rights. I want my doors open this time. I demand that my doors are open.”

(The figure opens his door and turns to leave.)

Dorium: “Is it you? It is, isn’t it. It is you, I can sense it. But how did you do it? How could you possibly have escaped?”

The Doctor and I took off our hoods, turning back to the blue head.

The Doctor: “The Teselecta. A Doctor in a Doctor suit. History said I had to be on that beach.” The Doctor said. “So we dressed for the occasion.”

I smiled, holding his hand. “And I wasn’t about to leave his side.”

“Barely got singed in that boat.”

Dorium: “So you’re going to do this? Let them all think you’re dead?”

The Doctor: “It’s the only way, then they can all forget me. I got too big, Dorium. Too noisy. Time to step back into the shadows.”

Dorium: “And Doctor Song, in prison all her days?”

The Doctor: “Her days, yes. Her nights? Well, that’s between the three of us, eh?”

Dorium: “So many secrets, Doctor. I’ll help you keep them, of course.”

The Doctor: “Well, you’re not exactly going anywhere, are you?”

Dorium: “But you’re a fool nonetheless. It’s all still waiting for you. The fields of Trenzalore, the fall of the Eleventh, and the question.”

The Doctor: “Goodbye, Dorium.”

Dorium: “The first question. The question that must never be answered, hidden in plain sight. The question you’ve been running from all your life. Doctor who? Doctor who? Doctor Who.”

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I kissed his cheek.

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Power of Three

Impossible Planet/Satan Pit

Nightmare in Silver

The

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Webley: “Welcome to my show. Webley’s World of Wonders. Miracles, marvels and more await you. I am Impresario Webley. You see before you waxwork representations of the famous and the infamous. Anybody here play chess?”

(The Doctor puts his hand up.)

Webley: “Perhaps you, young man?”

Artie: “Actually, I’m in my school chess club.”

“Could I play?” I asked, coming out of my hidey hole.”

Webley: “Ah. Follow me.”

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“84.” I said, incapable of hiding the small tremor in my voice.

The Doctor immediately took ahold of my hand, giving it a reassuring squeeze. I squeezed it back, letting him know I had been just as afraid as he had been. I had almost died, like really honestly died. Rose would have had to watch. Then, she would have to tell the Doctor that I died, and then anything good he had ever done to me after would have been from pity and not because of who he was.

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Webley: “Now, let demonstrate to you all the wonder of the age, the miracle of modernity.”

(Sitting by the chessboard is something covered in a satin cloth.)

Webley: “We defeated them all a thousand years ago, but now he’s back, to destroy you. Behold, the enemy!”

(Webley whips the cloth off a slightly tarnished silver coloured robot, which raises its head.)

The Doctor: “Cyberman! Get down!”

Webley: “No need to panic, my young friends. We all know there are no more living Cybermen. What you are seeing is a miracle. The six hundred and ninety ninth wonder of the universe, as displayed before the Imperial court, and only here to destroy you at chess.”

(The Doctor is scanning and investigating.)

Webley: “Careful now. An empty shell, and yet it moves. How?”

Angie: “Magic.”

Webley: “That might well be, young lady, but a single penny wins you five Imperial shillings.”

(Two tiny slim metallic bugs with a flashing blue eye are watching from a waxwork Blowfish head. Something is using them to watch the scene.)

Webley: “If you can beat this empty shell at chess.”

Artie: “I haven’t got a penny, but I’ve got a sandwich.”

Webley: “All right, take a seat. It is free of all devices, and yet it has never been beaten. Would you like to make the first move, young man?”

(Artie moves his King’s Bishop’s pawn one space. The Cyberman counters by moving its King’s pawn two spaces.)

The Doctor: “Oh no, Artie. No, don’t do that, it-”

(Artie advances his King’s Knight’s pawn two spaces. Up comes the Black Queen to end the game.)

The Doctor: “That’s a fool’s mate.”

Webley: “If you can tell me how it works, I’ll give you a silver penny.”

Angie: “I think you do it with mirrors?”

The Doctor: “Hmm. Mirrors. Clever girl. Well, let’s see, hey? Low tech. It’s a puppet. Monofilament strings, which means the brains are in.”

(The Doctor opens a door in the Cyberman’s chair to reveal a little man with a control box.)

Porridge: “Hello.”

The Doctor: “Hello.

Porridge: “I’m the brains.”

The Doctor: “Hello.”

Porridge: “Give us a hand.”

(The Doctor helps Porridge out of the small space.)

Porridge: “They call me Porridge. Oh, it’s good to be out of that box.”

Webley: “For you, Miss, an Imperial penny.”

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Webley: “I have not one but three Cybermen in my collection.”

(The exhibit is labelled The Great Enemy. The Doctor checks that they are inert. Angie looks at another waxwork, a tall man with a familiar face.)

Angie: “Is that the King?”

Porridge: “Emperor. Ludens Nimrod Kendrick, etc, etc, the forty first. Defender of Humanity, Imperator of known space.”

Clara: “He looks a bit full of himself.”

Porridge: “Don’t say things like that about the Imperial family. You can end up on the run for the rest of your life.”

Artie: “They don’t sound very nice.”

Porridge: “Go on. If the kids want to ride the Spacey Zoomer, then I can operate the gravity console.”

(Angie compares the image on the coin to the waxwork.)

Artie: “Angie!”

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Artie: “Wow!”

Clara: “Smile! Say, Spacey Zoomer.”

Artie: “Look at us, Doctor. We’re flying!”

The Doctor: “Having a good time?”

(Porridge turns off the anti-gravity.)

Artie: “I think that was the most fun I’ve had in my whole life.”

Angie: “It was (pause) okay.”

Artie: “Clara, I think outer space is actually very interesting.”

Clara: “Right. Wonderful day out, Doctor, but time to get the kids home.”

(The Doctor is scanning with the sonic screwdriver.) The Doctor: “Yeah. Er, no. Not actually ready to leave.”

Clara: “Why not?”

The Doctor: “I don’t know. Reasons.”

Clara: “What reasons?”

The Doctor: “Insects. Funny insects. I should add them to my funny insect collection.”

Clara: “You collect funny insects?”

The Doctor: “Yeah, I’m starting to, right now.”

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Angie: “How long do we have to stay here?”

The Doctor: “Not long. Have a nap. I’ll wake you when we’re ready to leave.”

Porridge: “Comfy?”

Clara: “Sleep well.”

Porridge: “Good night.”

(The Doctor turns the lights out as he leaves. Clara and Porridge follow.) The Doctor: “Don’t wander off. Now, I’m not just saying don’t wander off, I mean it. Otherwise you’ll wander off and the next thing you know, somebody’s going to have to start rescuing somebody.”

Angie: “From what?”

The Doctor: “Nothing. Nobody needs rescuing from anything. Don’t wander off. Sweet dreams.”

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Porridge: “Cybermen. Technologically upgraded warriors. We couldn’t win. Sometimes we fought to a draw, but then they’d upgrade themselves, fix their weaknesses and destroy us. It’s hard to fight an enemy that uses your armies as spare parts.”

Clara: “You beat them, though. Beat them or you wouldn’t be here. How?”

Porridge: “Look up there. That corner of sky? What do you see?”

Clara: “Nothing. It’s just black. No stars, no nothing.”

Porridge: “It use to be the Tiberion Spiral Galaxy. A million star systems, a hundred million worlds, a billion trillion people. It’s not there any more. No more Tiberion Galaxy. No more Cybermen. It was effective.”

Clara: “It’s horrible.”

Porridge: “Yeah. I feel like a monster sometimes.”

Clara: “Why?”

Porridge: “Because instead of mourning a billion trillion dead people, I just feel sorry for the poor blighter who had to press the button and blow it all up.”

The Doctor: “Clara, did you tell Angie she could go to the barracks?”

Clara: “You know I didn’t. She hasn’t.”

The Doctor: “She’s just gone in there.”

Clara: “Come on.”

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Clara: “Angie! Angie!”

(Clara and the Doctor enter.)

Angie: “She always has to turn up and spoil everything. I wasn’t doing anything. Why can’t you just leave me alone?”

(A big crash, and enter a Cyberman.)

The Captain: “Cyberman!”

Clara: “Angie!”

The Captain: “Attack formation.”

(The Cyberman moves faster than a blur while the platoon try to sort themselves out. A fat man - Ha-Ha - runs forward whilst another man with a pony-tail grabs a chair. The fat man gets swatted aside.)

The Captain: “No! Attack formation, quickly.”

(They start shooting at the Cyberman.)

CYBERMAN: “Upgrade in progress.”

Clara: “Angie!”

(The Cyberman moves through the group as if they are standing still and puts Angie over his shoulder, carrying her off.)

Clara: “Angie!”

The Doctor: “Clara. Clara!”

(He drags Clara back.)

The Captain: “That was a Cyberman. But they’re extinct.”

The Doctor: “Listen to me. I will get her back. The Captain, a word please. Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but I take it your platoon doesn’t do much fighting.”

The Captain: “What do you expect?”

Clara: “What?”

The Captain: “We’re a punishment platoon. It’s why they sent us out here, so we can’t get into trouble.”

The Doctor: “Right, right, well, okay. As Imperial Consul, I’m putting Clara in charge.”

(The Doctor pins the The Captain’s insignia on Clara’s jacket.)

The Doctor: “Clara, stay alive until I get back, and don’t let anyone blow up this planet.”

Clara: “Is that something they’re likely to do?”

The Doctor: “Get to somewhere defensible.”

Clara: “Where are you going?”

The Doctor: “I’m getting Angie, finding Artie and looking for funny insects. Stay alive. And you lot, no blowing up this planet!”

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The Doctor: “Artie?”

(He spots a mini-Cybermat and speaks to it.)

The Doctor: “Firstly, if anybody’s watching this, those children are under my protection. I’m coming to get them. And secondly, little metal machine, you are beautiful.”

(He sonicks it into dormancy and picks it up.)

The Doctor: “Not even a Cybermat any more, eh? Cybermites.”

The Doctor: “Now, there’s a local transmat link open to your home. If I can just find the frequency

(Zap.)

The Doctor: “Hey, that really shouldn’t have worked.”

Artie: “Doctor, help us.”

The Doctor: “Angie? Artie?”

(Both children are unresponsive.)

The Doctor: “Webley.”

Webley: “We needed children, but the children had stopped coming. You brought us children. Hail to you, the Doctor, saviour of the Cybermen!”

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Webley: “As the battle raged between humanity and the Cyberiad, the Cyberplanners built a Valkyrie, to save critically damaged units and bring them here, and one by one, repair them.”

The Doctor: “The people who vanished from the amusement park, they were spare parts for repairs.”

Webley: “We’ve upgraded ourselves. The next model will be undefeatable.”

The Doctor: “Nothing’s undefeatable.”

Webley: “We needed children to build a new Cyberplanner. A child’s brain, with its infinite potential, is perfect for our needs. But we no longer need the children. The Cybermites have been scanning your brain, Doctor. It’s quite remarkable.”

The Doctor: “Also completely useless to you. Cybermen use human parts. I’m not human. You can’t convert non-humans.”

Webley: “Well, that was true a long time ago. But we’ve upgraded ourselves. Current Cyberunits use almost any living components.”

I jumped in front of the Doctor, the Cybermites hitting me instead.

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Story damn, this hurt!

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Terra’s head snapped up, revealing intricate metal workings on the left side of her face and drifting towards the right.

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(They get inside and she screams. Terra acquires some silver components on left side of her face. She is now a split personality. Cyberplanner Terra will be designated Ms. Clever. Resistance is futile.)

Ms. Clever grinned. The Doctor noted the cold look in her amber eyes. “Incorporated. Yes. Ah. Unfamiliar pulmonary set-up. Nervous system hyperconductive. Remarkable brain processing speed. Ho, ho. Amazing.”

Terra: “Get out of my head!”

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(Terra confronts the Cyberplanner in cyberspace.)

Terra: “Stop rummaging in my mind. This stuff is highly private!” She grimaced. “And, also, ew. I looked weird as a half robot.”

Ms. Clever: “Just you try and stop me. Ooo, who’s Clara? Why are you thinking about her so much?”

Terra: “Enough.”

Ms. Clever: “Fascinating. A complete mental block. Highly effective.”

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Ms. Clever: “Relax, relax. If you just relax, you will find this a perfectly pleasant experience. You are being upgraded and incorporated into the Cyberiad as a Cyberplanner.

Terra: “Get out of my head!” Terra argued, whacking the side of her head.

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Terra: “What is this place, a network? A hive? The changelings would like you bunch. You’re getting signals from every Cyberman everywhere. Just how many of you are there?”

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Ms. Clever: “Oh, this is brilliant. I’m so clever already, and now I’m a million times more clever. And what a brain. Not a human brain, not even slightly human.” Ms. Clever paced around the room, testing her new body. “I mean, I’m going to have to completely rework the neural interface.” She stood on top of the table in the centre of the room, holding her arms up high. “But this is going to be the most efficient Cyberplanner!”

She frowned. “Not a great name, that, is it? I could call myself Miss Clever. So much raw data.”

Ms. Clever looked at the Doctor, laughing maniacally. “Time Lords. There’s information on the Time Lords in here. Oh, this is just dreamy!”

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Terra: “Right, I’m allowing you access to memories on Time Lord regeneration.”

(The ten known faces of the Doctor flash through behind them, as well as Romana and the Master.)

Ms. Clever: “Fantastic!”

Terra: “I could regenerate right now. A big blast of regeneration energy, burn out any little Cybermites in my brain, along with everything you’re connected to. Really don’t want to. I happen to like this face. Use this me up, who knows what we’ll get next?” I looked at Ms. Clever pointedly. I even pointed my finger to add emphasis. “But I can.”

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Ms. Clever rolled her eyes, pouting. “Stalemate, then.” She climbed down off the table. “One of us needs to control this head. We’re too well-balanced.”

The Doctor watched his wife’s body move, taking notice of how her posture changed when she was Ms. Clever versus Terra Song. Terra’s shoulders were more firm, confident. Ms. Clever almost had a cliche slouch. Terra frowned just a teensy bit, in pain from the Cyberman’s control. Ms. Clever was grinning and laughing like mad.

He hated when Terra did things like this, getting herself hurt when it was almost someone else. The Bad Wolf, Chloe Webber’s drawing, Cassandra’s psychografting, the execution in Venice, the Dream Lord, Amy and Rory. Those were just the ones he remembered off the top of his head.

The worst part was that the Doctor knew why she was like that, why she always leapt headfirst to protect people. She was always too hard on herself, picking at even the smallest of her own flaws. She kept pushing herself, trying to be the perfect person who could do no wrong, who protected instead of harmed, who loved instead of hated, who was warm instead of cold. She was trying to live up to the image of perfection her mother pushed into her head.

The Doctor would never say this to Terra’s face, but he was dreading meeting her mother. As of late, he didn’t not have a good record with mothers, and doubted Terra’s would be any better. Terra’s mother had put ideas in her head on being the perfect person, of having something to live up to.

And the thing in the Pit, it had thrown all of those insecurities back in her face. It made her feel worthless, that no matter what she did she would never be as good as her mother. The Doctor hoped that one day Terra would realize that she was a brilliant person all her own.

The woman winced. “What did you say?” Terra asked, shaking her head. the Doctor was brought back to the reality that his wife was now becoming a Cyberman. “No, no, no, no, no. I heard you. Rhetorical device to keep me thinking about it a bit more. Almost had me. Stalemate?”

==FC==

In the infinite cosmos that is my mind, Ms. Clever and I were debating our precarious situation.

Ms. Clever frowned at me, looking serious as ever. “We each control forty nine point eight eight one percent of this brain. Point two three eight of the brain is still in the balance. Whoever gets this gets the whole thing.”

Terra: “Do you play chess?”

Ms. Clever: “The rules of chess are in my memory banks. You’re proposing we play chess to end the stalemate?”

“You’d play the Doctor.” I said. “It’d be a real challenge, and I bet you want that just a bit more.”

Ms. Clever thought on it, looking like she was about to agree.

“To sweeten the pot.” I added. “You can also use your mites to take over the Doctor’s mind, should he lose.”

Ms. Clever seemed a bit pleased by this offer, darkly pleased. “You’d give up your husband that quickly?”

“Believe me when I say the only way you’ll survive killing me is if you kill him too.” I warned. “Winner takes all. No one can access the unclaimed portion of my mind, and no one touches the Doctor.”

“What?” Ms. Clever gaped at my new term.

“Oh. It wouldn’t do you any good to have the smartest man in the universe dead.” I said simply. “Plus, if you kill or harm him in anyway, I blow us both sky high.”

I held out my hand. “Do you agree to my terms?”

Ms. Clever looked down at my hand, taking it in her’s. “But will he?”

“Trust me, I’m his wife. He better.”

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Terra snapped back to attention. The Doctor ran to her side. “Alright. What’s the plan?”

“The two of us play chess over the point two three eight unclaimed percent of this brain.” Ms. Clever explained, her voice detached and cold. The Doctor glared at her, realizing it was the Cyberman talking. “Terra has also offered your brain with her’s.”

The Doctor kept up his angry look. He almost hated looking at Terra’s face with this much rage, like when they lost the Ponds, but he kept reminding himself this wasn’t his wife. It was a Cyberman.

Then he realized what Ms. Clever said at the end. “She did what?”

“She claims the only means for the continuation of the Cyberiad are to take both of you after my victory.” Ms. Clever explained. She grinned arrogantly. “That fool. It’ll almost be too easy.”

The Doctor thought over this new arrangement. Terra had some agenda, offering both their brains instead of just her’s. If they were playing chess, it would make sense for him to play. Terra had gotten better, the rare games the two would play showed her improvement over her long lifetime. Offering up his brain would be the only way the Cyberman would agree to the Doctor playing.

“I accept the terms.” The Doctor said, somewhat confident in his own victory. He couldn’t lose, it would mean losing Terra.

Ms. Clever scoffed. “You can’t win.”

Her head whipped to the side, coming back to reveal a look of pure determination. “Try us.”

Ms. Clever: “You understand, when I do win, the Cyberiad gets your brains and memories. All of it.”

The Doctor: “When I win, you get out of her head, you let the children go, and nobody dies. You got that? Nobody dies.”

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They had the chess board teleported in. The pieces had moved slightly with the change of location, but Ms. Clever quickly laid them out proper.

“There. That was easy.” She grinned at the Doctor, who only gave her a challenging look back. “The game has just started.”

“Doctor, why is there no record of you anywhere in the databanks of the Cyberiad?” Ms. Clever paused, then grinned again. “Oh, you are good. Oh, you’ve been eliminating yourself from history. You know you could be reconstructed by the hole you’ve left.”

The Doctor blinked. That idea had never come to him. “Good point. I’ll do something about that.” He moved his piece.

The game continued on for a few minutes, at a slow pace. Terra had come out during the brief instances where it was the Doctor’s move, only to have Ms. Clever force her way back. The Doctor would have stalled in between moves, but the longer they spent there the longer the children were in danger as well as Clara.

Plus, the faster the Doctor saved Terra, the more impressed she’d be.

Ms. Clever was the first to restart the conversation. “The rules of chess allow only a finite number of moves, and I can use other Cyberunits as remote processors. He cannot possibly win.”

Her head whipped around. The Doctor made a note to have Terra checked in the medbay after this for neck damage. “He can.” Terra said, smiling up at the Doctor. “We know things you don’t.”

She leaned over the table, toying with one of the pawns. “For example, did you know very early versions of the Cyber operating system could be seriously scrambled by exposure to things, like gold, or cleaning fluid?”

The Doctor smirked as he realized her plan. He started searching his bigger on the inside pockets.

“And what’s interesting is.” Terra explained to the Cyberman in her head. “You’re still running some of that program.”

Her head whipped again. Ms. Clever scoffed. “Really. That’s your secret weapon? Cleaning fluid?”

The Doctor: “Nope, gold.”

(And slaps the golden ticket onto his implants.)

Terra gasped, shaking her head as if waking up from a nap. She grinned at the Doctor. “Woah! Badda booma! I needed that.”

The Doctor: “Oh ho, ho! Like a charm. Right, you, Cyber Webley, and you kid things. I’ll bring the chessboard. Let’s get out of here.”

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The Doctor: “Argh! Don’t shoot, don’t shoot, we’re nice! Please, don’t shoot. Hey, Clara, you haven’t let them blow up the planet. Good job.”

Clara: “Did you get the kids? Are they alright? What’s going on?”

The Doctor: “Er, a bit of a good news, bad news, good news again thing going on. So, good news, Terra’s kidnapped the Cyberplanner and right now she’s sort of in control of this Cyberman.”

I tapped a finger on the intricate metal designs. “She calls herself Ms. Clever.”

Clara: “Bad news?”

The Doctor: “Bad news, the Cyberplanner’s in her head. And, different bad news, the kids are, well, it’s complicated.”

Clara: “Complicated how?”

The Doctor: “Complicated as in walking coma.” (He hides behind the chess board he is holding.)

Clara: “Please tell me you can wake them up.”

The Doctor: “Hope so.”

Clara: “Other good news?”

Terra: “Well, in other good news, there are a few more repaired and reactivated Cybermen on the way, and the Cyberplanner’s installing a patch for the gold thing. No, wait, that isn’t good news, is it?”

The Doctor: “Er, so, good news, I have a very good chance of winning my chess match.”

Clara: “What?”

The Doctor: “I’ll explain later. In a bit of a hurry. Get us to a table, and somebody tie her up! Need hands free for chess.”

“And immobilise me, quickly.” I warned, half glaring at Clara.

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The Doctor tightened the rope just the slightest bit more. “Right, that’s good. You won’t be able to move, but hands free. Good.”

“Is it bad that I like this?” Terra asked, looking down at her bindings.

The Doctor paused. “No idea.” He answered. Terra paused, then shrugged.

Clara: “You’re playing chess during a Cyberman invasion?

The Doctor: “And I’m winning.”

Terra’s head jerked, her head lowering towards her lap. She tore away the golden ticket, tossing the golden paper to the ground. Her eyes were cold, hard, and glaring at the Doctor. She was pissed about that gold ticket thing. Clara gaped at her friend in concern. “Actually, he has no better than a twenty five percent chance of winning at this stage in the game.” Ms. Clever smirked dangerously. She glanced at Clara. “Some very dodgy moves at the beginning. Howdy, flesh girl. Yee-haw. I’m the Cyberplanner.”

Clara: “Terra?”

Ms. Clever: “Afraid not. Ah’m working the mouth now. Biscuits on a Friday Mornin’. Oh, you should see the state of these neurons. She’s had some cowboys in here. Dozens of complete re-jigs.”

The Doctor frowned at Ms. Clever’s terminology. Nothing about Terra was rejectful.

Clara: “You aren’t Terra.”

Ms. Clever: “No, but I know who you are. You’re the impossible girl. Oh, they’re very interested in you.”

Clara: “Why am I impossible?”

Ms. Clever: “Oh you haven’t told her? You bad boy. Oh, dear me. Listen, soon we’ll wake. We’ll strip you down for spare parts, then build a spaceship and move on.”

Clara: “More Cybermen.”

Ms. Clever: “They’re waking from their tomb right now. You can either die or live on as one of us.” (Meanwhile, her right hand is writing Hit Me on a notepad.)

Clara: “The Doctor will stop you.”

Ms. Clever: “He couldn’t even stop this.”

Terra: “Argh! Ow! Oh, that hurt. You’ve been holding back on me!”

“Enough. Bit of pain, neural surge. Just what she needed. Thank you.”

Clara: “Why am I the impossible girl?”

The Doctor: “It’s just a thing in her head. She nicknames people. I’ll explain later.”

Clara: “Chess game. Stakes?”

The Doctor: “If she wins, Terra gives up her mind and mine, she gets access to all our memories, along with knowledge of time travel.”

“But, if he wins, she’ll break her promises to get out of my head and then kill us all anyway.” Terra blinked, then winced. “She mixed up the bad news/good news again, didn’t she?”

Clara: “That’s not reassuring.”

The Doctor: “No.”

Clara: “Please tell me you can fix whatever happened to the children.”

The Doctor: “Children. Yeah. They’re fine. I mean, right now their brains are just in standby mode.”

Clara: “That is not fine!”

Ms. Clever: “Listen, right now they have a much better chance of getting out of this situation alive than you do.”

Clara: “Which one of you said that?”

Ms. Clever: “Me. Cyberplanner. Miss Clever. Now, if you don’t mind, I have a chess game to finish, and you have to die, pointlessly and very far from home. Toodle-oo.”

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“He doesn’t really like you.” Ms. Clever taunted. “He just keeps you around out of guilt.”

I made a curious face. “Well, that’s not gonna work.”

“What?”

“My husband loves me.” I stated. “Nothing you say or do will make me question him.”

Ms. Clever tilted her head. “I can think of a few things.” She leaned forward. “He knows how to get that thing off your arm.”

“But he won’t because I still have days to play.” I smirked. Ms. Clever’s confidence fell for just a second. “He told me that himself. Nothing you say or do will make me stop believing that.”

“He’s been lying.”

“Rule One.” I reminded. “We both lie.”

Ms. Clever shook her head. “Ah, no.” She leaned forward. “He saw you die.”

“The Eternity Gate.” I shrugged. “I died, came back a Time Lady.”

“Oh? Is that what he told you?” Ms. Clever almost laughed. “No. You died long before that. On your 100th adventure, so the legend goes.”

I blinked. Okay. This was starting to win me over. “I die, and the manipulator comes off.” I shrugged nonchalantly. She would not win me over. “Was probably pretty painful too. Okay.”

“There is just one thing you should know.” Miss Clever said, smirking dangerously. “The one thing the Doctor really doesn’t want you to know.”

(The CyberDoctor gets jolted into cyberspace.)

Terra: “Stop that. I felt that.”

Ms. Clever: “Of course you did. It's time to get up. Wakey, wakey, boys and girls. Wakey, wakey.”

(Somewhere, a army of Cybermen activates and marches forward from their multilevel cryogenic tombs)

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Ms. Clever grinned at the Doctor. “One little mention of her, in one little file.” She leaned closer. “The day she dies.” The Doctor’s felt his body freeze. “It was a lovely day, a Saturday. According to the file on record, she loves Saturdays. Not her favorite day of the week, but definitely in the top two.”

The Doctor glared. “Don’t you dare tell her.”

Ms. Clever ignored the glare, giving a challenging smile back to him. “Alright, but on one condition. You’re going to call Clara back in here, and I’m going to destroy that bomb.”

The Doctor hesitated.

Ms. Clever rolled her eyes, letting out an almost disappointed sigh. “Well, I guess I’ll have to tell her.” Her shoulders slumped. “The death of Terra Song was the result of cardiac-”

“Oi, Clara!” The Doctor called out, using everything he had not to sound angry.

Ms. Clever grinned. “Good boy.” She purred. The Cyberman possessing Terra’s body leaned back in the chair, resting her arms on the rests. “My move.”

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Terra: “Hey! Clara, there you are. Now, quick rundown. What’s our weapons strength?”

Clara: “One big gun, five of those hand-pulser units and a shiny black bomb that implodes the planet.”

Terra: “Yeah. Yeah, that one. Now, tell me, does it happen possibly to have a remote triggery thing?” (Clara takes it from her jacket pocket.) Terra: “Brilliant. Pass it here.”

Clara: “No.”

Terra: “Why not?”

Clara: “In case you’re not you right now. Or even if you are, just in case.”

The Doctor: “Oh, don’t worry. Ms. Clever’s hibernating between moves right now. Shush.”

Clara: “Prove you’re you. Tell me something only Terra knows.”

“Oh Clara. Clara, Clara, Clara.” Terra sighed, looking deep into the companion’s brown eyes. “I suppose I’m the only one who knows how I feel about you. How funny you are. So funny. And pretty. And the truth is, I’m starting to like you in a way that is more than just-”

(She hits her.)

Terra: “Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Yes! It’s me. That really hurt. Biscuits on a Friday mornin’. How did you know that was her?”

Clara: “Because even if that was true, which it is obviously not, I know you well enough to know that you would rather die than say it. Finish your stupid game.”

“Actually, Clara. I hate to say she was right-”

(CyberDoctor grabs Clara’s arm.)

The Doctor: “What are you doing?”

Clara: “Terra, let go.”

Terra: “I can’t. She’s got control of the left arm. Argh, argh, no! No!”

(The CyberDoctor gets the remote trigger and destroys it.)

“I should’ve thought this through.” Terra commented.

Clara: “Doctor?”

The Doctor: “She got what she wanted. She destroyed the trigger. My move.”

Clara: “What do you mean, she got what she wanted?”

Ms. Clever: “He means, good news, boys and girls. They’re here!”

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Ms. Clever: “I’ve learned so much from you, Doctor. It’s been an education. But now, it’s time for the endgame.”

(More)

Ms. Clever: “They’re nearly here. Now, you can take my bishop and keep limping on for a little longer, or you can sacrifice your queen and get the children back. But it’s mate in five moves, and I get your minds.”

The Doctor: “Take my queen, and give me back the children.”

Ms. Clever: “Emotions. Can’t you see what a foolish move that was? You’ve lost the game.”

The Doctor: “Kids back now.”

(Angie and Artie crumple.) The Doctor watched, not noticing the slight twitch from Terra.

Ms. Clever: “Emotions, Doctor, all for two human children you barely know. And it was a pointless sacrifice anyway. So, Doctor, do you think the children’s death will affect your relationship with Miss Clara?”

(Porridge runs in with the bomb. Clara and the platoon are retreating under fire.)

Webley: “Welcome to Webley’s World of Wonders, children. Now presenting delights, delicacies, and death.”

Angie: “Doctor!”

(Porridge grabs at Webley’s leg with the hand-pulsar but gets thrown off, landing under the chess table. Sparks fly from Webley’s cybernetic bits.)

The Doctor: “Angie, are you okay? Just look after Artie, okay?”

The Doctor: “Your move. But before you take it, just so you know, sacrificing my queen was the best possible move I could have made. The Time Lords invented chess. It’s our game. And if you don’t avoid my trap, it gives me mate in three moves.”

Ms. Clever: “How? How?”

The Doctor: “Oh, come on. Call yourself a chess playing robot?”

Ms. Clever: “How!”

The Doctor: “You figure it out. Or don’t you have the processing power, hmm?”

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The Doctor: “What are you doing?”

Ms. Clever: “Doctor. Doctor, Doctor, Doctor, Doctor, Doctor, Doctor, Doctor. I’m pulling in extra processing power. Three million Cyberbrains are working on one tiny chess problem. How long do you think it’s going to take us to solve it?”

The Doctor: “That’s cheating.”

Ms. Clever: “No, no, no, no, no. Just pulling in the local resources.” Ms. Clever: “There’s no way you can get to mate in three moves.”

The Doctor: “Three moves. Want to know what they are?”

Ms. Clever: “You’re lying.”

(The Doctor picks up Porridge’s hand pulsar.) The Doctor: “Move one, turn on sonic screwdriver. Move two, activate pulser. Move three, amplify pulser. See you.”

(After a brief struggle with his other arm, the Doctor gets the pulser to the cybernetic implants on his face.)

Ms. Clever: “That’s cheating!”

(Clara, Brains and Ha-Ha run in. The Doctor sits up, and Terra is without implants.)

The Doctor: “Just taking advantage of the local resources. Ah, hello. Can someone untie her, please?”

Clara: “Do you think I’m pretty?”

Terra gaped at the girl from Blackpool, jaw dropping and rising. “Qu...Que...” She was trying to talk, the Doctor realized.

“Terra?” The Doctor said in worry. He went to her side, gently holding her shoulder. He brought out his screwdriver, scanning her. “Terra, what’s wrong with you this time eh?” His screwdriver buzzed, telling him the scan was complete.

Terra let out a wheezing noise. “Q-Queen.” She groaned.

The Doctor looked at his wife with worry after reading the results. No...no she can’t mean.

“What’s she saying?” Clara said.

“In the game, I sacrificed my queen to save Angie and Artie.” The Doctor explained.

“Wow. Great. What does that have to do with Terra?” Clara asked.

The Doctor frowned, trying not to panic. “The Queen is what people sometimes call Terra. The Doctor’s Queen.” He turned to Terra, who was starting to go pale. Clara’s eyes widened as she realized what that meant for Terra. “So, Ms. Clever installed a virus in Terra, deleting her from the inside.”

“The Cyberplanner’s killing her?” Clara asked, horrified.

The Doctor: “No. She’s out of her head and is being redistributed across three million Cybermen right now, and about to wake them all up, kill us, and start constructing a spaceship. The Cyberplanner just left a little something extra inside Terra to keep us from winning. We need to destroy this planet before they can get off it.”

“But what about Terra?” Clara asked, worried for her friend,

“Destroying the Cybermen should be enough to get rid of the virus.” The Doctor ran over to the bomb. He scanned it, hoping that there would be some way of blowing the planet. “Okay, it has a fallback voice activation.” He rolled his eyes. Just his luck, next they were going to tell him the only person who could do it was dead.

Ha-Ha: “The Captain, but she’s dead.” The Doctor thought he should just keep his big mouth shut.

Angie: “I think you should ask Porridge.”

Clara: “Why?”

Angie: “Well, he is the Emperor. I bet he knows the activation codes. Oh, come on. It’s obvious. He looks exactly like he does on the coin, and on the waxwork, except they made him a bit taller, but look, am I the only one paying attention to anything around here?”

Clara: “You are full of surprises. Porridge?”

Porridge: “She’s right.”

Clara: “So you can save us?”

Porridge: “We all die in the end. Does it matter how?”

Ha-Ha: “What do we do?”

Porridge: “I don’t want to be Emperor. If I activate that bomb, it’s all over.”

The Doctor: “And if you don’t, my wife will die in excruciating pain and agony. Isn’t that worth dying for?”

Porridge: “Doctor-”

The Doctor: “My wife is far more precious to me than this planet! Any planet! And if she dies today, I will find a way to blow this planet and every other planet in this galaxy myself.”

Porridge: “The bomb, the throne, it’s all connected. I just have to say this is Emperor Ludens Nimrod Kendrick, called Longstaff the forty first, the Defender of Humanity, Imperator of known space. Activate the Desolator. And it’s done.”

(The bomb is armed.)

Porridge: “It’ll blow in about eighty seconds. Easily long enough for the Imperial Flagship to locate me from my identification, warp jump into orbit, and transmat us to the State Room.”

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The Doctor: “Oh yeah. Nice ship. Bit big. Not blue enough. Listen, there is a large blue box at coordinates six ultra nineteen P. I need it transmatted up here right away.”

Porridge: “Right. Did you get that?”

(The officer nods and works her console. The Cyberman walk past Webley in the castle Throne room as the bomb countdown passes 11.)

Porridge: “And that’s that. Seventy six, seventy seven, seventy eight, seventy nine.”

(The planet goes KaBOOM, rocking the Imperial spaceship.)

I swayed on my feet, but the Doctor was able to catch me before I could fall. I looked up at him, smiling. “Hey.” I said weakly.

The Doctor looked at me in complete adoration. It would’ve made me blush if I wasn’t sore. He brushed back some of my black hair, holding the sides of my head. “Hello, dear.” He kissed my forehead.

“Ah.” I groaned, glancing over at Clara. “It’s like being a licked by an overexcited puppy, Clara. My head is covered in drool!”

Porridge: “Farewell, Cyberiad. You know, it was good to get away. Good to be a person and not to be lonely, or Emperor of a thousand galaxies with everyone waiting for me to tell them what to do.”

Artie: “Can’t you run away again?”

Porridge: “They’ll be keeping a close eye on me this time. That’s what happens when you’re Emperor. Loneliest job in the universe.”

Clara: “You don’t have to be lonely.”

Porridge: “I don’t. Clara, will you marry me?”

Clara: “What?”

Artie: “He said-”

Angie: “She heard what he said.”

Porridge: “You’re smart and you’re beautiful, and I’ve never met anyone like you before. And being Emperor won’t be as hard if you’re by my side. And you’d rule a thousand galaxies.”

The Doctor: “This sounds like an actual marriage proposal. Tricky. Now, if you want my advice-”

Clara: “You, not one word. This is between me and the Emperor. Porridge, I don’t want to rule a thousand galaxies.”

Porridge: “Yeah. Silly of me.”

Clara: “I’m really sorry.”

Angie: “But that’s stupid. You could be Queen of the universe. How can you say no to that? When someone asks you if you want to be Queen of the universe, you say yes. You watch. One day, I’ll be Queen of the universe.”

Porridge: “Of course, I could have you all executed, which is what a proper Emperor would do.”

The Doctor: “You’re not actually going to do that, though, are you? Oh, you’re. Hey?”

Porridge: “Go on, get out of here, all of you, before I change my mind.”

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Artie: “Thank you for having me. It was very interesting.”

The Doctor: “My pleasure. Thank you for coming. Now, I’ve got something for you. It’s not from me, it’s from the TARDIS. Ah. New phone.”

Angie: “Thanks.”

The Doctor: “You’re welcome.”

Angie: “Sorry I said this box was stupid.”

The Doctor: “Bye.”

Angie: “Bye. Thanks, Clara.”

Artie: “Thanks, Clara’s boyfriend and girlfriend.” (Angie and Artie leave.)

Clara: “Thank you, Doctor.”

The Doctor: “For what?”

Clara: “Kid’s day out. Getting us off the planet alive. Whatever you were doing with the Cybermen. Good night. See you next Wednesday.”

The Doctor: “Well, a Wednesday, definitely. Next Wednesday, last Wednesday.”

(Clara leaves.)

The Doctor: “One of the Wednesdays. Impossible girl. A mystery wrapped in an enigma squeezed into a skirt that’s just a little bit too tight. Oh yeah. What are you?”

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I shrugged, pretending not to care. “Ms. Clever showed me this file.” I let the info drop.

The Doctor paused in his excited jumping about. He looked up at me, clearly knowing what I was talking about. I gave him the look, warning that he better tell me the truth. He quickly avoided my gaze after that. “What kind of file?”

I took a breath, holding back any rage. He knew damn well what file! “Didn’t get to see the whole thing.” I admitted, and his shoulders relaxed slightly.

“Ah. Must not have been that important then.” The Doctor rushed over to my side, holding my hand before I could argue. Instead, I glared at him. “Psych! Now that’s a show we haven’t seen in awhile. Want to go watch it in the movie room?”

I took another breath. “Torchwood agent, and co-head of Torchwood Three, Meredith Gafford.”

His green eyes almost turned steely, his hand gripped mine tighter, his shoulders tensed back up. The name set off alarms in his Time Lord head. It did nothing to help his case.

“Ms. Clever threw in an extra bit.” I went on. “That you’ve been on a witch hunt trying to track Meredith down.”

If he wanted out of this intact, the Doctor would’ve looked ashamed of what he had done. He would’ve felt bad, and instantly have begun apologizing for that. Instead, he squared his shoulders. He was ready to defend his position on the matter, ready to defend his actions.

“She went missing in 20-10.” I went on. My hand went to my hips, the other gripped the console and glared at the Time Lord. “No warning. Just up and left the day after Christmas. Jack wrote that Meredith had been distant before the disappearance. In his words ‘it was like there was a shadow hanging over her head, and she couldn’t run fast enough’. Wanna explain, Chinny?”

“You shouldn’t have looked at that file.” The Doctor stated.

“You shouldn’t have looked at the file from the Teselecta.” I argued. “The one that had your death day in big white letters. Why do you get to look at your’s, but I can’t look at mine?”

The Doctor frowned, sternly. That face meant nothing good. “It’s too early for you.”

“I’m on 84!” I shouted.

“You don’t understand what she’s done.”

“Make me understand.” I walked closer to him, giving him my best pleading eyes. “Tell me why you’re doing this.”

“Why do you need to know so badly?”

“Because back in my world, there was no Meredith Gafford.”

“What?”

“There is a spinoff of Doctor Who called Torchwood. Jack doesn’t have a co-head. Meredith Gafford didn’t exist, so the girl you’re hunting is one of my friends!”

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The Caretaker

Daleks Take Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks

Lazarus Experiment

Time of the Angels/Flesh and Stone

Curse of the Black Spot

Night Terrors

Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead

Day of the Doctor (Eleven)

The Lodger

Time Heist

Closing Time

Idiot's Lantern

Kill the Moon

Twelve’s TARDIS. This was Twelve’s TARDIS. I could feel it. I loved his TARDIS.

The clangs of his boots echoed in the console room. Turning around, I saw him coming down the staircase. He was dressed up in his usual magician wear. He looked confused at me, like he was trying to remember something but couldn’t.

He knew. God dammit, he knew. For a thousand years, he’s been waiting for me. He wanted to have these kids. He was with me for three hundred years on Trenzalore, knowing that I was so far away from being the wife carrying a baby.

He’s made me feel like crap now. Now that I know Theta was always just waiting for his children. Maybe that’s why I could never fix him. I never knew how truly broken he was. He went into Trenzalore, knowing he would die, with a wife who wasn’t even his wife.

The Doctor is in for a surprise.

“Terra.” The Doctor greeted.

“Magician.” I snapped.

His blue-gray eyes widened. “No. No. You can just go right back.”

“Hmm?”

“Not when you’re angry. I really don’t like you when you’re angry.” The Doctor said, going back up the stairs.

“I have a surprise.” I said in a sing song voice.

The Doctor chuckled, still climbing the stairs. I smiled. “What news could you have that possibly surprises me?”

I raised a questioning brow. “How about, I’m the one having a baby?”

He stopped.

I could sense his thoughts. I could sense his hearts. I could sense his lungs. They had all stopped.

“Theta?” I asked, quietly. “Amore, can you please say something.”

The Doctor finally turned around.

Sweet Merciful Storyline. His face. His eyes were wide, and he looked like he was when he found out Missy was a Time Lady.

“What?” He whispered.

I gulped. This felt awkward. “I just did the Wire, way back when. You ran a scan afterwards, and it said I was pregnant.” I said. “98.”

The Doctor was coming down the stairs, still looking at me like I was a ghost.

“Please just say something!” I pleaded. “Anything.”

“You’re having a baby?” The Doctor finally said.

I nodded. “Yes. Me. Baby. Your’s too, idiot. Do I have to explain everything?”

The Doctor, the Last Time Lord, the Oncoming Storm, could not pick up his jaw. He was coming closer and closer to me, and I felt like panicking.

“Please. Just tell me something. Please. I need to hear you say something.” I pleaded. “I’m starting to get scared.”

Then, I got freaked out. The Doctor did something unexpected, but something I should have known was coming. The Doctor hugged me, so tight I feared finding bruises. I wrapping my arms around him, trying to hold him just as tight. We started laughing, happily, at one point.

His grip on me tightened. “Too tight. Too tight. Amore, you’re crushing me! And the baby!”

Suddenly, I was released. The Doctor was just looking at me in unbridled joy. “Pregnant! You! You’re going to have a baby!”

I gave him a ‘finally’ look. “Yes! What about that is so hard to get?”

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He put a hand on my stomach.

“I should kill you.” I said, happily. “Why didn’t you tell me about this?”

The Doctor just grinned, like the idiot he was. I rolled my eyes, smiling happily. “I didn’t tell you about Blythe either.”

I gave him a half-glare. “Hey. That was because that meant telling me I wound up with the Master. That’s a completely different-” I stopped myself. No fighting. Not a fighting time. Damn my hormones. I shook my head, laughing. “Story, you’re an idiot.”

The Doctor kept his hand on my stomach, grinning. “But your idiot.”

I smiled. “My idiot.” I put my hand over his, trying to feel the baby inside. “Our kid.”

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“Oh. 98 Clara.” I smiled kindly at her.

Clara: “Courtney Woods. Doctor, she has gone crazy.”

“Well, guess I know where I stand.”

“She’s uncontrollable. She took your psychic paper. She’s been using it as fake ID.

The Doctor: “To get into museums?

Clara: “No, no, no. To buy White Lightning or alcopops or whatever.

The Doctor: “I’ve no idea what you’re talking about. What, what is Courtney Woods?

Clara: “She’s one of my year tens. She was in the TARDIS.

The Doctor: “Doing what?

Clara: “Throwing up.

The Doctor: “Oh, her. Oh, that was ages ago.

Clara: “Look, she says that you told her that she wasn’t special.

The Doctor: “Rubbish.

Clara: “She says that’s what sent her off the rails.

The Doctor: “Pffff.

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Clara: “Doctor. I know, I know. But, you say something like that to somebody, it hurts. Especially if you’re somebody of her age, especially if you’re you. Doctor, it can affect her whole life.

The Doctor: “Bah.

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I grunted, feeling the familiar pain of Time Lady morning sickness.

Clara turned to me. “Are you alright?”

I nodded, wincing a little. “Yeah. That’s just the baby.”

“Oh. Okay.” Clara said, looking away.

To keep from laughing, I bit my lip. Clara soon stopped, turning to me with wide eyes. “What?”

“The baby. She likes hurting Mommy’s tummy the first trimester.” I groaned. “Just like her big sister.”

“You’re pregnant?!” Clara almost squealed.

I gave the Doctor a grin. “Every time. Do I have to explain it every time?”

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(Courtney is inside, at the console. The Doctor runs over to her.)

The Doctor: “Oi! Give over!

Courtney: “I got stuff to clean up with.

(She holds up paper towels)

The Doctor: “What?

Courtney: “And I got these from the chemist.

The Doctor: “Vortex manipulators?

(Magnetic bracelets on her wrists.)

Courtney: “Travel sickness.

The Doctor: “Good. Because I don’t like people being sick in my TARDIS. No being sick. And no hanky-panky.”

Clara: “Doctor!”

The Doctor: “Sorry, that’s the rules.”

Clara: “Look, Courtney, you’re not going to be needing those because you’re not going to be doing any travelling. Doctor, will you just, just tell her?”

The Doctor: “Tell her what?”

Clara: “(through clenched teeth) Tell her that she’s special.”

The Doctor: “Have you gone bananas?”

Courtney: “Do you really think I’m not special? You can’t just take me away like that. It’s like you kicked a big hole in in the side of my life. You really think it? I’m nothing? I’m not special?”

The Doctor: “(sotto) Pfft. God.” (normal) “How’d you like to be the first woman on the moon? Is that special enough for you?”

Courtney: “Yeah, all right.”

The Doctor: “Okay. Now we can do something interesting.”

(He sets the TARDIS flying.)

Clara: “Hey, Doctor!”

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(They step out of the TARDIS in full spacesuits into a storage area filled with cylindrical objects, some in racks. Some have a US flag on them, some have Cyrillic writing.)

Courtney: “This isn’t the moon. Where are we?”

The Doctor: “On a recycled space shuttle. 2049, judging by that prototype version of the Bennett oscillator.”

(They take their helmets off.) The Doctor: “Where’s the gravity coming from?”

Clara: “What are they?”

The Doctor: “About a hundred nuclear bombs.”

(An alarm sounds. The Doctor looks out through the airlock window.)

The Doctor: “Ah. We’re on our way to the moon. Check that. We’re about to crash into it! Hold on! Hold on!”

(They grab hold of cargo nets.)

Clara: “Why didn’t you just tell her you didn’t mean it?”

(The space shuttle belly-flops onto the moon’s surface and skids to a halt. The three person shuttle crew enter, lead by a woman.)

Lundvik: “Who the hell do you think you are?”

The Doctor: “Why have you got all these nuclear bombs?”

Lundvik: “I’m not going to give you another chance.”

The Doctor: “Oh? Well, you’re just going to have to shoot us, then. Shoot the little girl first.”

Courtney: “What?”

The Doctor: “Yes. She doesn’t want to stand there watching us getting shot, does she? She’ll be terrified. Girl first, then her teacher, and then me. You’ll have to spend a lot of time shooting me because I will keep on regenerating.”

(Courtney sits on the deck behind the big Russian bomb and sulks.)

The Doctor: “In fact, I’m not entirely sure that I won’t keep on regenerating for ever.”

Clara: “Doctor, what are you doing?”

(The Doctor is making slow steps backwards and forwards. He ends up doing bunny hops.) The Doctor: “Gravity test. So, it’ll be very time-consuming and messy, and rather wasteful, because I think I might just possibly be able to help you. You see, I am a super-intelligent alien being who flies in time and space. Are you going to shoot me?”

Lundvik: “No.”

The Doctor: “Good. Why have you got all these nuclear bombs? No, no, no. Easier question. What’s wrong with my yo-yo?”

(Just like the Fourth Doctor did once, he uses a yo-yo to test the gravity.)

Clara: “Doctor, it goes up and down.”

The Doctor: “Bingo.”

(The penny finally drops.) Clara: “Ah.”

The Doctor: “Ah ha. We should be bouncing about this cabin like little fluffy clouds. But we’re not. What is the matter with the moon?”

Lundvik: “Nobody knows.”

Clara: “Do you know what’s wrong with the moon?”

The Doctor: “It’s put on weight.”

Lundvik: “How can the moon put on weight?”

The Doctor: “Oh, lots of ways. Gravity bombs, axis alignment systems, planet shellers.”

Lundvik: “So it’s alien.”

The Doctor: “Must be causing chaos on Earth. The tides will be so high that they will drown whole cities.”

Lundvik: “Yeah.”

The Doctor: “So what are you doing about it?”

(Lundvik takes a case from the wall.)

The Doctor: “This?”

Lundvik: “That’s what you do with aliens, isn’t it? Blow them up?”

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(Helmets on, they open the airlock onto the moon’s surface. Courtney goes first. Okay, it is actually Lanzarote. At least they got to go on location - to the same place as in Planet of Fire.)

Courtney: “Wow. Wow! One small thing for a thing. One enormous thing for a thingy thing.”

Lundvik: “So much for history.”

(They leave the scorched and pretty much wrecked unnamed space shuttle and walk over to a modular settlement in a nearby crater. Courtney takes her mobile phone from a pocket and takes lots of photos, as a half-Earth hangs in the sky.)

Lundvik: “There was a mining survey, Mexicans. Something happened up here. Nobody knows what. That’s when the trouble began back on Earth. High tide everywhere at once. The greatest natural disaster in history.”

(They walk around the building. The airlock is wide open.)

Clara: “Cobwebs?”

Lundvik: “Henry, go back and prime the bombs.”

HENRY: “Er, is there any instructions?”

Lundvik: “There’s a switch on each of them. The light goes red.”

HENRY: “They won’t go off?”

Lundvik: “No, not till I fiddle with this thing.”

(The red case she has kept with her since she took it off the wall. Middle-aged Henry turns back, looking worried.)

HENRY: “Okay.”

Lundvik: “Shall we?”

The Doctor: “Is that the best you could get?”

Lundvik: “Second-hand space shuttle, third-hand astronauts.”

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(A remarkable lot of cobwebs for a building open to vacuum. They close the door to the corridor behind them.)

The Doctor: “How many people here?”

Lundvik: “Four. Minera Luna San Pedro. It was privately financed. They where doing a mineral survey up here.”

The Doctor: “Messages? Mayday? SOS?”

DUKE: “Pretty much all the satellites had been whacked out of orbit. They managed to send back some screams.”

The Doctor: “So then you came up here to rescue them with your bombs?”

DUKE: “Not quite.”

Lundvik: “They disappeared ten years ago.”

The Doctor: “Nobody came?”

Lundvik: “There was no shuttle.”

The Doctor: “You had one.”

Lundvik: “It was in a museum. They’d cut the back off it so kids could ride in it. We’d stopped going into space. Nobody cared. Not until-@

(Courtney screams.)

Clara: “Courtney!”

(Courtney has found a spacesuit hanging in a cocoon.)

Clara: “Oh, my God. Doctor, tell me there wasn’t anyone inside that thing.”

(He scans it with his screwdriver.) The Doctor: “I could, but it wouldn’t make it true.”

DUKE: “I’ll get some power back on.”

Clara: “Come on. Now, Courtney, come here. Don’t look. You all right?”

Courtney: “I’m okay.”

(The Doctor cuts the corpse down.)

Clara: “Hey. Look. Look at me. Look. It’s all right if you’re not.”

Courtney: “I’m fine. What did it?”

The Doctor: “Maybe something trying to find out how you’re put together. Or maybe how you tasted.”

Courtney: “Do we have guns?”

Lundvik: “Not unless you brought some.”

The Doctor: “Chicken, apparently.” (The settlement powers up.) The Doctor: “Save the air.”

(They take their helmets off. A few notes of that Psycho shower scene theme sound in the background. The Doctor powers up a computer console and looks at the survey records.)

The Doctor: “They didn’t find anything.”

Lundvik: “Eh?”

The Doctor: “The Mexicans. They didn’t find any minerals on the moon at all. Nada.” (He looks at photographs of the moon strewn on a table.) The Doctor: “Oh.”

Clara: “Oh?”

The Doctor: “Lines of tectonic stress.”

Lundvik: “That’s the Mare Fecunditatis. It’s been there since the Apollo days. It’s always been there.”

The Doctor: “No, no, no. These are much, much bigger. Sea of Tranquillity. Sea of Nectar. Sea of Ingenuity. Sea of Crises.”

Clara: “Meaning?”

(The lights flicker.) The Doctor: “Meaning, Clara, that the moon, this little planetoid that’s been tagging along beside you for a hundred million years, which gives you light at night and seas to sail on, is in the process of falling to bits.”

(Bang! Everything shakes.)

(There is a high-pitched sound and a scuttling noise.)

Courtney: “What the hell was that?”

Lundvik: “Duke, is that you?”

DUKE: “I don’t sound anything like that.”

Lundvik: “Can you try and get the lights back on?”

DUKE: “That’s what I’m doing.”

The Doctor: “Torch. Give me your torch. Whatever it is, it’s in here.”

(Sounds of running claws.)

The Doctor: “I think we’ve found your alien.”

(A giant space spider with luminous red knees heads for them down an adjoining corridor.)

The Doctor: “Back, back, back! We need a door. A door, a door!”

Clara: “Here! Here! The door’s locked.”

The Doctor: “Come on, come on! There’s no power to work it. Come on!”

Clara: “Doctor.”

(He drags them down behind the table.)

The Doctor: “Stay still. It’s sensing movement. It can’t see you. Fast movement. There must be another exit through there. Slowly. Slowly. Head to that exit. Slowly. Slowly. Slowly, slowly.” (They inch their way.)

The Doctor: “Gently, gently. When I say run, run.”

Lundvik: “Who made you the boss?”

The Doctor: “Well, you say run, then.”

Lundvik: “Duke!”

(The giant spider leaps on Duke as he comes in from another corridor.)

DUKE: “Argh!”

Lundvik: “Duke!”

(The locked door opens.)

The Doctor: “Run! We have power. Run!”

Clara: “Quick, it’s shutting.”

(The door slams shut, and Courtney is on the wrong side, because her feet are no longer in contact with the floor.)

Courtney: “Miss!”

Clara: “Courtney! Courtney!”

Courtney: “Miss!”

Clara: “Courtney! The power’s gone again.”

(Courtney is floating in mid-air.) Courtney: “It’s killed him. It’s coming in here! Doctor, it’s coming in here!”

The Doctor: “You’ll be okay!”

(Lundvik uses her communicator.) Lundvik: “Henry? Henry?”

The Doctor: “Courtney, look at me. Look at me! Courtney!”

(The spider is walking across the ceiling.) The Doctor: “Try and get to the door! Try and get yourself down here.” (The Doctor gets the glass pane out of the door.) The Doctor: “Courtney, grab my yo-yo!”

(She does, just as gravity returns and she drops to the floor. The spider rears over her and she screams, then reaches for something in her backpack.)

The Doctor: “Courtney!”

(Courtney stands and pumps something out of a bottle at the spider. The others re-enter.) Clara: “Courtney.”

Courtney: “Kills ninety nine percent of all known germs.” (The clean-up stuff she brought with her.)

The Doctor: “Good stuff, Courtney. Just don’t try that at home, okay?”

Clara: “You all right?”

Courtney: “Why did I just fly? This is nuts.”

(The Doctor scans the remains of the spider with his screwdriver.) The Doctor: “Did you say germs? Oh, God, this is incredible. Look at the size of it. It’s the size of a badger.”

Clara: “Doctor-”

The Doctor: “It’s a prokaryotic unicellular life form, with non-chromosomal DNA. Which, as you and me know. Well, not you and me. Well, you, certainly not. You and me, yes, scientists know, this is a germ. You flew because that one point three billion tonnes shifted. It moved. It’s an unstable mass.”

Courtney: “I’m scared, Miss.”

Clara: “Okay.”

(Lundvik has looked at what is left of Duke.) Lundvik: “He’d just had a grand-daughter. Elina. She was his first. He was my teacher. He taught me how to fly. We were both given the sack on the same day.”

The Doctor: “Which way to the Mare Fecunditatis?”

Courtney: “Please can I go home now? I’m really. I’m really sorry, but I’d like to go home.”

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(The Doctor leads them in single file.)

Lundvik: “Henry, come in. If you don’t mind, Henry, come in.”

Clara: “Doctor, this is dangerous now.”

“It was dangerous before. Everything’s dangerous if you want it to be.” The Doctor said. “Eating chips is dangerous, crossing the road. It’s no way to live your life. Tell her. You’re supposed to be teaching her.”

Clara: “Look, I have a duty of care, okay? You know what that is?”

The Doctor: “Course I know what a duty of care is. What are you suggesting? She’s fine. What are you, thirty five?”

Courtney: “Fifteen.”

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The Doctor: “Now, don’t touch anything.”

Courtney: “You got any games?”

The Doctor: “Oh, don’t be so stupid!”

Courtney: “Can I get reception up here?”

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(Lundvik is setting the triggers on the nuclear devices.)

The Doctor: “Get in.”

Clara: “Why are you shutting her in? We don’t need to stay, do we?”

The Doctor: “Eh?”

Clara: “It’s obvious, isn’t it? The moon doesn’t break up.”

The Doctor: “How do you know?”

Clara: “Because I’ve been in the future, and the moon is still there. I think. You know the moon is still there, right?”

The Doctor: “Maybe it isn’t the moon. Maybe it’s a hologram or a big painting, or a special effect. Maybe it’s a completely different moon.”

Clara: “But you would know.”

The Doctor: “I would?”

Clara: “If the moon fell to bits in 2049, somebody would’ve mentioned it. It would have come up in conversation. So it doesn’t break up. So the world doesn’t end. So, let’s just get in the TARDIS and go.”

The Doctor: “Clara, there are some moments in time that I simply can’t see. Little eye-blinks. They don’t look the same as other things. They’re not clear. They’re fuzzy, they’re grey. Little moments in which big things are decided. And this is one of them. Just now, I can’t tell what happens to the moon, because whatever happens to the moon hasn’t been decided yet. And it’s going to be decided here and now. Which very much sounds as though it’s up to us.”

Lundvik: “Neither of you are going anywhere. I’ve lost my crew. We were the last astronauts. This is the last shuttle, these are the last nuclear bombs. We’re the last chance for Earth, and you’re staying to help me.”

The Doctor: “Decision made.”

Clara: “Yeah.”

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(Looking down on the Mexicans’ survey and sample equipment.)

The Doctor: “What is killing the moon?”

Clara: “How can the moon die, though?”

The Doctor: “Everything does, sooner or later.”

Lundvik: “Can we save it?”

The Doctor: “Depends what’s killing it.”

Lundvik: “There are the other three.”

(They go down to the spacesuits in cobwebs near cracks in the crust.)

Clara: “Is it those germ things, then? Are they like cockroaches? Is it, is it an infestation?”

Lundvik: “Is it?”

The Doctor: “Well, I’ve only seen one of them. It would take an awful lot more to cause the moon to put on one point three billion tonnes.”

(A giant spider-germ comes out of its lair next to a spacesuit and jumps the Doctor.)

The Doctor: “Argh!”

Clara: “Doctor!”

(Clara tries the disinfectant spray.)

Lundvik: “It’s a vacuum. It won’t work.”

(They grab at its legs and get it off the Doctor’s faceplate. It scuttles back into its lair.)

The Doctor: “Well, that makes two.”

Clara: “Sunlight.”

Lundvik: “Sunlight?”

Clara: “If they’re germs. My nan says it’s the best disinfectant there is.”

The Doctor: “Shine your light down there.”

(Lundvik does. There are lots of the red-kneed germs.)

Lundvik: “Where have they come from?”

The Doctor: “Maybe they’ve been there all the time. It’s warmish. They’re multiplying, feeding, evolving.”

(They leave, rapidly.)

Lundvik: “Doctor, if the moon breaks up, it’ll kill us all in about forty five minutes.”

The Doctor: “I agree. Unless something else is going on.”

(He uses his yo-yo to get a sample from another fissure. It comes back wet)

Lundvik: “There’s no water on the moon.”

The Doctor: “It’s not water. It’s amniotic fluid. The stuff that life comes from. I’ve got to go down there.”

Lundvik: “Doctor.”

The Doctor: “Back to your shuttle. Get your bombs ready. You, get to the TARDIS. Get safe. Get Courtney safe. I will be back.”

(He takes germ killer spray from Clara.)

Clara: “What? No. Doctor. Doctor!”

(The Doctor jumps down into the fissure.)

Clara: “Doctor!”

Lundvik: “Will he?”

(Clara raises her arms in surrender, then lowers them and sighs.)

Lundvik: “Will he be back?”

Clara: “If he says so, I suppose he will.”

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Courtney: “Miss? Come in.”

Clara: “Courtney?”

Courtney: “I’m bored. When are you coming back?”

Clara: “We’re on our way. What you doing?”

Courtney: “Putting some pictures on Tumblr.”

Clara: “No! Courtney, don’t put any photos on Tumblr.”

Lundvik: “My granny used to put things on Tumblr.”

(A small moonquake makes them stagger.)

Lundvik: “There he is.”

(They have reached Henry. His helmet is open to the vacuum and he is a skeleton now. Clara looks across at the shuttle, on the opposite side of a ravine.)

Clara: “Was that where we landed? It looks so different.”

(Cracks form in the moon’s crust.)

Lundvik: “It’s going down.”

(The shuttle tumbles into the widening ravine.)

Clara: “Courtney! Doctor!”

Lundvik: “We going to have to take cover. We’re running out of oxygen.”

Clara: “Doctor!”

(He appears behind them.) The Doctor: “Today’s the day, humankind.”

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Clara: “Where’s the TARDIS?”

The Doctor: “She’s in the shuttle, isn’t she? She’ll turn up.”

Clara: “Last time you said that, she turned up on the wrong side of the planet.”

The Doctor: “You two have never gotten on, have you?”

Clara: “Look, we need to know where Courtney is.”

The Doctor: “Courtney is safe. Och. Well, do you have her phone number?”

Clara: “No, no, no. Of course I don’t have her phone number.”

The Doctor: “Well, what about the school? Does the secretary have her number?”

Clara: “I can’t. The secretary hates me. She thinks I gave her a packet of TENA Lady for Secret Santa. Look. Courtney’s posting stuff on Tumblr. Doesn’t that know where you are?”

Lundvik: “I don’t know. I’m not a historian.”

The Doctor: “Phone. I know what the problem is. Oh, she can’t post that. She can’t put pictures of me online.”

(He sonicks Clara’s phone then aims at a monitor up on the wall. Shades of the Three Doctors.)

Courtney: “Yeah?”

The Doctor: “You can’t put pictures of me online.”

Clara: “Are you okay?”

Courtney: “Er, I’m fine. What’s up?”

Lundvik: “You said you know what the problem is.”

The Doctor: “Yes, yes. It’s a rather big problem.”

Clara: “Okay, do you want to share it with the class?”

The Doctor: “Well, I had a little hypothesis. The seismic activity, the surface breaking up, the variable mass, the increase in gravity, the fluid. I scanned what’s down there.”

(He moves a mobile console and sonicks it, then creates a 3D projection of the moon.)

The Doctor: “The moon isn’t breaking apart. Well, actually, it is breaking apart, and rather quickly. We’ve got about an hour and a half. But that isn’t the problem. It’s not infested.”

Courtney: “What are they, then, those things?”

The Doctor: “Bacteria. Tiny, tiny bacteria living on something very, very big. Something that weighs about one point three billion tonnes. Something that’s living. Something growing.”

Clara: “Growing?”

The Doctor: “That.”

(He sonicks the image to show what looks very like a baby dragon curled up inside the moon.)

Courtney: “That lives under the moon?”

The Doctor: “No.”

Clara: “What?”

The Doctor: “That doesn’t live under the moon. That is the moon.”

Lundvik: “What the hell are you talking about?”

The Doctor: “The moon isn’t breaking apart. The moon is hatching.”

Clara: “Huh?”

The Doctor: “The moon’s an egg.”

Clara: “Has it, er, has it always been an egg?”

The Doctor: “Yes, for a hundred million years or so. Just, just growing. Just getting ready to be born.”

Clara: “Okay. So the moon has never been the moon?”

The Doctor: “No, no, no, no. It’s never been dead. It’s just taking a long time to come alive.”

Courtney: “Is it a chicken?”

The Doctor: “No!”

Courtney: “Cos, for a chicken to have laid an egg that big ”

The Doctor: “Courtney, don’t spoil the moment.”

Clara: “Doctor, what is it?”

The Doctor: “I think that it’s unique. I think that’s the only one of its kind in the universe. I think that that is utterly beautiful.”

Lundvik: “How do we kill it?”

Clara: “Why’d you want to kill it?”

Courtney: “It’s a little baby.”

Lundvik: “Doctor, how do we kill it?”

The Doctor: “Kill the moon?”

(Lundvik nods. He turns off the hologram.)

The Doctor: “Kill the moon. Well, you have about a hundred of the best man-made nuclear weapons, if they still work. If that’s what you want to do.”

Clara: “Doctor, wait”

Lundvik: “Will that do it?”

The Doctor: “A hundred nuclear bombs set off right where we are, right on top of a living, vulnerable creature? It’ll never feel the sun on its back.”

Lundvik: “And then what? Will the moon still break up? You said, you said we had an hour and a half?”

The Doctor: “Well, there’ll be nothing to make it break up. There will be nothing trying to force its way out. The gravity of the little dead baby will pull all the pieces back together again. Of course, it won’t be very pretty. You’d have an enormous corpse floating in the sky. You might have some very difficult conversations to have with your kids.”

Lundvik: “I don’t have any kids.”

Clara: “Stop. Right, listen. This is a, this is a life. I mean, this must be the biggest life in the universe.”

Courtney: “It’s not even been born.”

Lundvik: “It is killing people. It is destroying the Earth.”

Clara: “You cannot blame a baby for kicking.”

Lundvik: “Let me tell you something. You want to know what I took back from being in space? Look at the edge of the Earth. The atmosphere, that is paper thin. That is the only thing that saves us all from death. Everything else, the stars, the blackness. That’s all dead. Sadly, that is the only life any of us will ever know.”

Courtney: “There’s life here. There’s life just next door.”

Lundvik: “Look, when you’ve grown up a bit, you’ll realize that everything doesn’t have to be nice. Some things are just bad. Anyway, you ran away. It’s none of your business.”

Courtney: “Doctor, I want to come back.”

Clara: “Courtney, you’ll be safer where you are.”

(Lundvik enters the code to start the countdown on the bombs.)

Courtney: “Doctor, I’m sorry. I want to come back, okay? I want to help.”

The Doctor: “Ah, there’s some DVDs on the blue book shelf. Just stick one into the TARDIS console. That’ll bring you to me.”

Courtney: “Right.”

The Doctor: “And make sure you hang on to the console, otherwise the TARDIS will leave you behind.”

Clara: “So what do we do? Doctor? Huh? Doctor, what do we do?”

The Doctor: “Nothing.”

Clara: “What?”

The Doctor: “We don’t do anything. I’m sorry, Clara. I can’t help you.”

Clara: “Of course you can help.”

The Doctor: “The Earth isn’t my home. The moon’s not my moon. Sorry.”

Clara: “Come on. Hey.”

The Doctor: “Listen, there are moments in every civilisation’s history in which the whole path of that civilisation is decided. The whole future path. Whatever future humanity might have depends upon the choice that is made right here and right now. Now, you’ve got the tools to kill it. You made them. You brought them up here all on your own, with your own ingenuity. You don’t need a Time Lord. Kill it. Or let it live. I can’t make this decision for you.”

Clara: “Yeah, well, I can’t make it.”

The Doctor: “Well, there’s two of you here.”

Clara: “Well, yeah. A school teacher and an astronaut.”

The Doctor: “Who’s better qualified?”

Clara: “I don’t know! The President of America.”

The Doctor: “Oh, take something off his plate. He makes far too many decisions anyway.”

Lundvik: “She.”

The Doctor: “She. Sorry. She hasn’t even been into space. She hasn’t been to another planet. How would she even know what to do?”

Clara: “I am asking you for help.”

The Doctor: “Listen, we went to dinner in Berlin in 1937, right? We didn’t nip out after pudding and kill Hitler. I’ve never killed Hitler. And you wouldn’t expect me to kill Hitler. The future is no more malleable than the past.”

Clara: “Okay, don’t you do this to make some kind of point.”

The Doctor: “Sorry. Well, actually, no, I’m not sorry. It’s time to take the stabilizers off your bike. It’s your moon, womankind. It’s your choice.”

Clara: “And you’re just going to stand there?”

The Doctor: “Absolutely not.”

(The TARDIS arrives, and Courtney comes out.)

Clara: “Doctor?”

The Doctor: “A teenager, an astronaut and a schoolteacher.”

Lundvik: “Hang on a minute. We can get in there, can’t we? You can sort it out with that thing.”

The Doctor: “No. Some decisions are too important not to make on your own.”

Clara: “Doctor. Doctor? Doctor!”

(The Doctor goes into the TARDIS and shuts the door. It dematerializes.)

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“Get. Her. Back.” I growled at him, tears still pouring on my cheeks.

The Doctor kept his face stern. “Did you hear that woman? She was willing to kill the moon. Who knows what she would do if she found out about you. I am not going to risk my child!”

“You do not get to use that on me!” I shouted. “It is my child too, and I have already lost one. I won’t lose another one!”

The Doctor frowned.

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“Detonation aborted.”

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(The TARDIS materializes.)

The Doctor: “One, two, three, into the TARDIS.”

Lundvik: “What’s happening?”

The Doctor: “Let’s go and have a look, shall we?”

(The Doctor sets the TARDIS flying.)

Lundvik: “Bloody idiots. Bloody irresponsible idiots.”

(The Doctor walks over to her.) The Doctor: “Mind your language, please. There are children present.” He glanced at me. I nervously waved at him, my other hand resting on my stomach.

Lundvik: “You should have left me there, let me die. I wanted to die up there with the universe in front of me, not being crushed to death on Earth.”

The Doctor: “Nobody’s going to die.”

Lundvik: “Could you please let us see what’s happening?”

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(The TARDIS lands on a Lanzarote beach below a full moon in a bright blue sky with fluffy white clouds. The moon is falling apart as the baby spreads its wings.)

Courtney: “What’s it doing?”

(There is a faint image of a giant winged creature in the sky, making noises.)

The Doctor: “It’s feeling the sun on itself. It’s getting warm. The chick flies away and the eggshell disintegrates. Harmless.”

Clara: “Did you know?”

The Doctor: “You made your decision. Humanity made its choice.”

Lundvik: “No, we ignored humanity.”

The Doctor: “Well, there you go.”

Lundvik: “So what happens now, then? Tell me what happens now.”

(The Doctor turns his back on them and closes his eyes briefly.)

The Doctor: “In the mid-twenty first century humankind starts creeping off into the stars, spreads its way through the galaxy to the very edges of the universe. And it endures till the end of time.”

(He turns back to them,)

The Doctor: “And it does all that because one day in the year 2049, when it had stopped thinking about going to the stars, something occurred that make it look up, not down. It looked out there into the blackness and it saw something beautiful, something wonderful, that for once it didn’t want to destroy. And in that one moment, the whole course of history was changed. Not bad for a girl from Coal Hill School, and her teacher.”

Courtney: “Oh, my gosh. It laid a new egg. It’s beautiful. Doctor, it’s beautiful.”

The Doctor: “That’s what we call a new moon.”

(A blank white round thing in the sky waiting for fresh meteorites to start decorating its surface.)

Courtney: “You can be the first woman on that.”

The Doctor: “I think that somebody deserves a thank you.”

Lundvik: “Yeah, probably.” (to Clara) “Thank you. Thank you for stopping me. Thank you for giving me the moon back.”

The Doctor: “Okay, Captain. Well, you’ve got a whole new space programme to get together. NASA is er, it’s that way. About two and a half thousand miles. (to Courtney) You still got your vortex manipulators? I’ll give you a run home.”

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(Courtney and Clara come back upstairs from below the console after getting changed back into their school clothes. The Doctor is dropping books on the steps to the gallery.)

The Doctor: “Not that it’s any of my business, but I think you did the right thing.”

Clara: “Yeah, you’re right. It’s none of your business. Come on, Courtney, off you go. Double Geography.”

Courtney: “Can we do it again?”

Clara: “Go. Go, go. Chop chop.”

(Courtney leaves the TARDIS, and the Doctor sets it flying. Clara stops it.)

Clara: “Tell me what you knew.”

The Doctor: “Nothing. I told you, I’ve got grey areas.”

Clara: “Yeah. I noticed. Tell me what you knew, Doctor, or else I’ll smack you so hard you’ll regenerate.”

The Doctor: “I knew that eggs are not bombs. I know they don’t usually destroy their nests. Essentially, what I knew was that you would always make the best choice. I had faith that you would always make the right choice.”

Clara: “Honestly, do you have music playing in your head when you say rubbish like that?”

The Doctor: “It wasn’t my decision to make. I told you.”

Clara: “Well, why did you do it? Was it for Courtney, was that it?”

The Doctor: “Well, she really is something special now, isn’t she? First woman on the moon, saved the Earth from itself, and, rather bizarrely, she becomes the President of the United States. She met this bloke called Blinovitch”

Clara: “Do you know what? Shut up! I am so sick of listening to you!”

The Doctor: “Well, I didn’t do it for Courtney. I didn’t know what was going to happen. Do you think I’m lying?”

(Clara is crying with rage.)

Clara: “I don’t know. I don’t know. If you didn’t do it for her, I mean. Do you know what? It was, it was cheap, it was pathetic. No, no, no. It was patronising. That was you patting us on the back, saying, you’re big enough to go to the shops by yourself now. Go on, toddle along.”

The Doctor: “No, that was me allowing you to make a choice about your own future. That was me respecting you.”

Clara: “Oh, my God, really? Was it? Yeah, well, respected is not how I feel.”

The Doctor: “Right. Okay. Er.”

Clara: “I nearly didn’t press that button. I nearly got it wrong. That was you, my friend, making me scared. Making me feel like a bloody idiot.”

The Doctor rested a hand over my stomach, as if to cover the baby’s ears. I rolled my eyes at the childish gesture, smiling fondly all the same. “Language.”

Clara: “Oh, don’t you ever tell me to mind my language. Don’t you ever tell me to take the stabilizers off my bike. And don’t you dare lump me in with the rest of all the little humans that you think are so tiny and silly and predictable. You walk our Earth, Doctor, you breathe our air. You make us your friend, and that is your moon too. And you can damn well help us when we need it.”

The Doctor: “I was helping.”

Clara: “What, by clearing off?”

The Doctor: “Yes.”

Clara: “Yeah, well, clear off! Go on. You can clear off. Get back in your lonely, your lonely bloody TARDIS and you don’t come back.”

The Doctor: “Clara. Clara.”

Clara: “You go away. Okay? You go a long way away.”

(Clara slams the door shut behind her. The TARDIS dematerializes as she leaves the store cupboard, leaving a few papers flying around in the resulting breeze as the air rushes into the hole it has left.)

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It was ocean blue, going down to my knees and flowing. Just above my waist, I had some golden intricate belt. Underneath, I had some gray pants. Then there were some black boots. Around my upper arms, I had some more gold bands. Around my neck was a golden necklace. Finally, there was the Infinity Bag.

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The Doctor kissed me again. It was hard, and it was deep. I couldn’t help but moan.

Then, I jumped away.

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“Terra!” A voice cheered.

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“99.” I shrugged.

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Rose: “Mum, it’s us! We’re back!”

Jackie: “Oh, I don’t know why you bother with that phone. You never use it!”

Rose: “Shut up, come here!”

Jackie: “Oh, I love you!”

Rose: “I love you!”

Jackie: “I love you so much!”

(Jackie and Rose hug. The Doctor makes his way past.)

Jackie: “Oh no, you don’t. Come here!” (Jackie kisses the Doctor.) Jackie: “Oh, you lovely big fella! Oh, you’re all mine.”

The Doctor: “Just, just, just put me down!”

Jackie: “Yes, you are.”

(Rose hands over her rucksack.) Rose: “I’ve got loads of washing for you. And I got you this.” (A small ornate metal nick-nack.) Rose: “It’s from the market on this asteroid bazaar. It’s made of, er, what’s it called?”

The Doctor: “Bazoolium.”

Rose: “Bazoolium. When it gets cold, yeah, it means it’s going to rain. When it’s hot, it’s going to be sunny. You can use it to tell the weather.”

Jackie: “I’ve got a surprise for you and all.”

Rose: “Oh, I get her bazoolium, she doesn’t even say thanks.”

Jackie: “Guess who’s coming to visit? You’re just in time. He’ll be here at ten past. Who do you think it is?”

Rose: “I don’t know.”

Jackie: “Oh go on, guess.”

Rose: “No, I hate guessing. Just tell me.”

Jackie: “It’s your granddad. Granddad Prentice. He’s on his way any minute, Right, cup of tea!” (Jackie goes into the kitchen.)

Rose: “She’s gone mad.”

The Doctor: “Tell me something new.”

Rose: “Granddad Prentice, that’s her dad. But he died, like, ten years ago. Oh, my God. She’s lost it. Mum? What you just said about granddad.”

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I gasped, clutching onto my wrist. It burned, it burned like it hadn’t in a long time.

Jackie: “Any second now.”

Rose: “But he passed away. His heart gave out. Do you remember that?”

Jackie: “Of Course I do.”

Rose: “Then how can he come back?”

Jackie: “Why don’t you ask him yourself? Ten past. Here he comes.”

(An ethereal humanoid shape walks through the outside wall and stands next to Jackie.)

Jackie: “Here we are, then. Dad, say hello to Rose. Ain’t she grown?”

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(The Doctor and Rose run out of the block of flats.)

The Doctor: “They’re everywhere!”

(And no one is alarmed at the sight of them.)

Rose: “Doctor, look out!”

(One of the shapes walks through the Doctor. It is not a comfortable sensation.)

Jackie: “They haven’t got long. Mid Day shift only lasts a couple of minutes. They’re about to fade.”

The Doctor: “What do you mean, shift? Since when did ghosts have shifts? Since when did shifts have ghosts? What’s going on?”

Jackie: “Oh, he’s not happy when I know more than him, is he?”

The Doctor: “But no one’s running or screaming or freaking out.”

Jackie: “Why should we? Here we go. Twelve minutes past.”

“Terra!” The Doctor shouted.

My eyes shut, and I felt the Tyler’s carpet on my face.

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This was embarrassing. Sick on the job.

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“Terra?” A concerned voice asked.

I looked up, seeing Rose standing at the bedside. “Did I eat your mother’s cooking again?” I joked, weakly.

Rose didn’t find it funny. “You almost died. You had us all worried!”

“Meh, I almost died yesterday.” I said, remembering the Teller and Karabraxos. “What made today so special?” I hopped out of the bed, snapping my fingers in Rose’s face. “Ghosts.”

With the dramatics done for now, I walked out of the room to see the Doctor watching the news.

“You should go back to bed!” Rose said.

“I’ll do what I like.” I said, keeping my eyes on the TV.

The Doctor glanced up at me, then back to the news station. “Rose is right, Terra. You should relax. Take this one off.”

“I’m too stubborn to die.” I said. “Not from lack of trying, mind you.”

Jackie: “Oh, yes.”

The Doctor: “It’s all over the world.”

(Eastenders.) PEGGY: “Listen to me, Den Watts. I don’t care if you have come back from the grave. Get outta my pub! The only spirits I’m serving in this place are gin, whisky and vodka. So, you heard me. Get out!”

(The Doctor turns the TV off.)  The Doctor: “When did it start?”

Jackie: “Well, first of all, Peggy heard this noise in the cellar, so she goes down”

The Doctor: “No, I mean worldwide.”

Jackie: “Oh. That was about two months ago. Just happened. Woke up one morning, and there they all were. Ghosts, everywhere. We all ran round screaming and that. Whole planet was panicking. No sign of you, thank you very much. Then it sort of sank in. It took us time to realise that we’re lucky.”

Rose: “What makes you think it’s granddad?”

Jackie: “It just feels like him. There’s that smell, those old cigarettes. Can’t you smell it?”

Rose: “I wish I could, mum, but I can’t.”

Jackie: “You’ve got to make an effort. You’ve got to want it, sweetheart.”

The Doctor: “The more you want it, the stronger it gets.”

Jackie: “Sort of, yeah.”

The Doctor: “Like a psychic link. Of course you want your old dad to be alive, but you’re wishing him into existence. The ghosts are using that to pull themselves in.”

Jackie: “You’re spoiling it.”

The Doctor: “I’m sorry, Jackie, but there’s no smell, there’s no cigarettes. Just a memory.”

Rose: “But if they’re not ghosts, what are they then?”

Jackie: “Yeah, but they’re human! You can see them. They look human.”

Rose: “She’s got a point. I mean, they’re all sort of blurred, but they’re definitely people.”

The Doctor: “Maybe not. They’re pressing themselves into the surface of the world. But a footprint doesn’t look like a boot.”

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Rose: “According to the paper, they’ve elected a ghost as MP for Leeds. Now don’t tell me you’re going to sit back and do nothing.”

(The Doctor pops up from below the console floor wearing a backpack and holding a hose pipe like device.)

The Doctor: “Who you going to call?”

Rose: “Ghostbusters!”

The Doctor: “I ain’t afraid of no ghosts.”

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The Doctor: “When’s the next shift?”

(The Doctor puts three metal cones linked by wires on the grass.)

Jackie: “Quarter to. But don’t go causing trouble. What’s that lot do?”

The Doctor: “Triangulates their point of origin.”

Rose: “I don’t suppose it’s the Gelth?”

The Doctor: “Nah. They were just coming through one little rift. This lot are transposing themselves over the whole planet. Like tracing paper.”

Jackie: “You’re always doing this. Reducing it to science. Why can’t it be real? Just think of it, though. All the people we’ve lost. Our families coming back home. Don’t you think it’s beautiful?”

The Doctor: “I think it’s horrific. Rose, give us a hand.@

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My stomach lurched again. I let out a grunt of pain.

Jackie gently touched my arm. “Sweetheart, are you okay?”

I nodded. “Yeah, just feeling kinda sick.”

The Doctor gave me a sad look, then got back to work.

Rose held my shoulder. “You sure you’re alright?”

I rolled my eyes. “Yes! Fine! Just a little dizzy spell. It’s nothing.”

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(They plug the power cable into the TARDIS console. Jackie follows them in and closes the door. Neat trick with such a thick cable running through it.)

The Doctor: “As soon as the cones activate, if that line goes into the red, press that button there. If it doesn’t stop-”

(He hands her the sonic screwdriver.)

The Doctor: “Setting fifteen B. Hold it against the port, eight seconds and stop.”

Rose: “Fifteen B, eight seconds.”

The Doctor: “If it goes into the blue, activate the deep scan on the left.”

Rose: “Hang on a minute, I know. Push that one.”

The Doctor: “Close.”

Rose: “That one?”

The Doctor: “Now you’ve just killed us.”

Rose: “Er, that one.”

The Doctor: “Yeah! Now, what’ve we got. Two minutes to go?”

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(The Doctor activates the cones.) The Doctor: “What’s the line doing?”

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Rose: “It’s all right. It’s holding!”

Jackie: “You even look like him.”

Rose: “How do you mean? I suppose I do, yeah.”

“And there’s my cue to leave.” I walked out of the TARDIS, away from the Tyler domestic.

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The Doctor glanced over his shoulder, making sure Rose and Jackie weren’t listening. “You have a baby on the way. The last shift could have killed you.”

“Firstly, never assume I’d endanger my child’s life that easily. Secondly, I know what to expect this time so I can prepare.” I argued. “Lasty, I don’t exactly have a say in the matter.”

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“Doc. Shift.” I panted, trying to keep my head from spinning.

The Doctor: ”Here we go!”

Rose: “The scanner’s working. It says delta one six.”

The Doctor: “Come on then, you beauty!”

(In the playground, a ghost appears between the cones, and gets trapped. Jackie and Rose watch it on the scanner. The Doctor puts on a pair of red and blue 3D cardboard spectacles and makes an adjustment to his control box. An alarm sounds in the Institute.)

(The ghost is starting to writhe inside the field.)

The Doctor: “Don’t like that much, do you? Who are you? Where are you coming from? Whoa!”

(The ghost tries to break out of the field.)

The Doctor: “That’s more like it! Not so friendly now, are you?”

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The Doctor: “I said so! Those ghosts have been forced into existence from one specific point, and I can track down the source. Allonsy!”

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The Doctor: “I like that. Allons y. I should say allons y more often. Allons y. Watch out, Rose Tyler. Allonsy. And then, it would be really brilliant if I met someone called Alonso, because then I could say, allonsy, Alonso, every time. You’re both staring at me.”

Rose: ”My mum’s still on board.”

Jackie: “If we end up on Mars, I’m going to kill you.”

(The TARDIS materialises in Torchwood Loading Bay 2, and is immediately surrounded by armed troops. The Doctor watches them on the scanner.)

The Doctor: “Oh well there goes the advantage of surprise. Still, cuts to the chase. Stay in here, look after Jackie.”

Rose: “I’m not looking after my mum.”

The Doctor: “Well, you brought her.”

Jackie: “I was kidnapped!”

Rose: “Doctor, they’ve got guns.”

The Doctor: “And I haven’t. Which makes me the better person, don’t you think? They can shoot me dead, but the moral high ground is mine.”

(The Doctor steps outside and raises his arms. Yvonne runs in on her high heels.)

Yvonne: “Oh! Oh, how marvellous. Oh, very good. Superb. Happy day.”

(She starts clapping and the soldiers join in. The Doctor lowers his arms.)

The Doctor: “Er, thanks. Nice to meet you. I’m the Doctor.”

Yvonne: “Oh, I should say. Hurray!”

The Doctor: “You, you’ve heard of me, then?”

Yvonne: “Well of course we have. And I have to say, if it wasn’t for you, none of us would be here. The Doctor and the TARDIS.”

(More applause.)

The Doctor: “And you are?”

Yvonne: “Oh, plenty of time for that. But according to the records, you’re not one for travelling alone. The Doctor and his companion. That’s a pattern, isn’t it, right? There’s no point hiding anything. Not from us. So where is she?”

The Doctor: “Yes. Sorry. Good point. She’s just a bit shy, that’s all.”

(The Doctor reaches in through the slightly open door and grabs the first person he can.) The Doctor: “But here she is, Rose Tyler.”

(Oh no it isn’t.)

The Doctor: “Hmm. She’s not the best I’ve ever had. Bit too blonde. Not too steady on her pins. A lot of that.”

The Doctor: “And just last week, she stared into the heart of the Time Vortex and aged fifty seven years. But she’ll do.”

Jackie: “I’m forty.”

The Doctor: “Deluded. Bless. I’ll have to trade her in. Do you need anyone? She’s very good at tea. Well, I say very good, I mean not bad. Well, I say not bad. Anyway, lead on. Allons y. But not too fast. Her ankle’s going.”

Jackie: “(sotto) I’ll show you where my ankle’s going.”

Yvonne: “It was only a matter of time until you found us, and at last you’ve made it. I’d like to welcome you, Doctor. Welcome to Torchwood.”

(A massive warehouse area, with lots of crates, jeeps and trucks running around, and a flying saucer.)

The Doctor: “That’s a Jathar Sunglider.”

Yvonne: “Came down to Earth off the Shetland Islands ten years ago.”

The Doctor: “What, did it crash?”

Yvonne: “No, we shot it down. It violated our airspace. Then we stripped it bare. The weapon that destroyed the Sycorax on Christmas Day? That was us. Now, if you’d like to come with me. The Torchwood Institute has a motto. If it’s alien, it’s ours. Anything that comes from the sky, we strip it down and we use it for the good of the British Empire.”

Jackie: “For the good of the what?”

Yvonne: “The British Empire.”

Jackie: “There isn’t a British Empire.”

Yvonne: “Not yet. Ah, excuse me. Now, if you wouldn’t mind.” (A soldier hands Yvonne a very big gun.) Yvonne: “Do you recognise this, Doctor?”

The Doctor: “That’s a particle gun.”

Yvonne: “Good, isn’t it? Took us eight years to get it to work.”

The Doctor: “It’s the twenty first century. You can’t have particle guns.”

Yvonne: “We must defend our border against the alien. Thank you, Sebastian, isn’t it?”

SEBASTIAN: “Yes, Ma’am.”

Yvonne: “Thank you, Sebastian. I think it’s very important to know everyone by name. Torchwood is a very modern organisation. People skills. That’s what it’s all about these days. I’m a people person.”

The Doctor: “Have you got anyone called Alonso?”

Yvonne: “No, I don’t think so. Is that important?”

The Doctor: “No, I suppose not. What was your name?”

Yvonne: “Yvonne. Yvonne Hartman.”

(The Doctor picks up a black plastic step-stool with a handle on top.)

Yvonne: “Ah, yes. Now, we’re rather fond of these. The Magnaclamp. Found in a spaceship buried at the base of Mount Snowdon. Attach this to an object and it cancels the mass. I could use it to lift two tonnes of weight with a single hand. That’s an imperial ton, by the way. Torchwood refuses to go metric.”

Jackie: “I could do with that to carry the shopping.”

Yvonne: “All these devices are for Torchwood’s benefit, not the general public’s.”

The Doctor: “So, what about these ghosts?”

Yvonne: “Ah yes, the ghosts. They’re er what you might call a side effect.”

The Doctor: “Of what?”

Yvonne: “All in good time, Doctor. There is an itinerary, trust me.”

(The TARDIS is driven past on the back of a truck.)

Jackie: “Oi! Where are you taking that?”

Yvonne: “If it’s alien, it’s ours.”

The Doctor: “You’ll never get inside it.”

Yvonne: “Hmm! Et cetera.”

(Rose peeks out of the TARDIS. The Doctor gives her a little nod.)

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The Doctor: “All those times I’ve been on Earth, I’ve never heard of you.”

Yvonne: “But of course not. You’re the enemy. You’re actually named in the Torchwood Foundation Charter of 1879 as an enemy of the Crown.”

The Doctor: “1879. That was called Torchwood, that house in Scotland.”

Yvonne: “That’s right. Where you encountered Queen Victoria and the werewolf.”

Jackie: “I think he makes half of it up.”

Yvonne: “Her Majesty created the Torchwood Institute with the express intention of keeping Britain great, and fighting the alien horde.”

The Doctor: “But if I’m the enemy, does that mean that I’m a prisoner?”

Yvonne: “Oh yes. But we’ll make you perfectly comfortable. And there is so much you can teach us. Starting with this.”

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Yvonne: “Now, what do you make of that?”

Rajesh: “You must be the Doctor. Rajesh Singh. It’s an honour, sir.”

The Doctor: “Yeah.”

Jackie: “What is that thing?”

Yvonne: “We got no idea.”

Jackie: “But what’s wrong with it?”

Rajesh: “What makes you think there’s something wrong with it?”

Jackie: “I don’t know. It just feels weird.”

Yvonne: “Well, the sphere has that effect on everyone. Makes you want to run and hide, like it’s forbidden.”

Rajesh: “We tried analysing it using every device imaginable.”

(The Doctor puts on his 3D glasses.)

Rajesh: “But according to our instruments, the sphere doesn’t exist. It weighs nothing, it doesn’t age. No heat, no radiation, and has no atomic mass.”

The Doctor looked over at me, his eyebrows shot up in shock.

Jackie: “But I can see it.”

Rajesh: “Fascinating, isn’t it? It upsets people because it gives off nothing. It is absent.”

Yvonne: “Well, Doctor?”

The Doctor: “This is a Void Ship.”

Yvonne: “And what is that?”

The Doctor: “Well, it’s impossible for starters. I always thought it was just a theory, but it’s a vessel designed to exist outside time and space, travelling through the Void.”

Rajesh: “And what’s the Void?”

The Doctor: “The space between dimensions. There’s all sorts of realities around us, different dimensions, billions of parallel universes all stacked up against each other. The Void is the space in between, containing absolutely nothing. Imagine that. Nothing. No light, no dark, no up, no down, no life, no time. Without end. My people called it the Void. The Eternals call it the Howling. But some people call it Hell.”

Rajesh: “But someone built the sphere. What for? Why go there?”

The Doctor: “To explore? To escape? You could sit inside that thing and eternity would pass you by. The Big Bang, end of the Universe, start of the next, wouldn’t even touch the sides. You’d exist outside the whole of creation.”

Yvonne: “You see, we were right. There is something inside it.”

The Doctor: “Oh, yes.”

Rajesh: “So how do we get in there?”

The Doctor: “We don’t! We send that thing back into Hell. How did it get here in the first place?”

Yvonne: “Well, that’s how it all started. The sphere came through into this world, and the ghosts followed in its wake.”

The Doctor: “Show me.” (The Doctor walks out and turns left.)

Yvonne: “No, Doctor.”

(He turns round and goes right.)

“Terra-”

“I know.” I smiled, bittersweet. The Doctor looked at me in shock. “I know.”

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(Yvonne points the Doctor at the blank wall at the far end of the Lever room.)

Yvonne: “The sphere came through here. A hole in the world. Not active at the moment, but when we fire particle engines at that exact spot, the breech opens up.

The Doctor: “How did you even find it?”

Yvonne: “We were getting warning signs for years. A radar black spot. So we built this place, Torchwood Tower. The breech was six hundred feet above sea level. It was on the only way to reach it.”

The Doctor: “You built a skyscraper just to reach a spatial disturbance? How much money have you got?”

Yvonne: “Enough.”

(Jackie is looking out of a window.) Jackie: “Hold on a minute. We’re in Canary Wharf. Must be. This building, it’s Canary Wharf.”

Yvonne: “Well, that is the public name for it. But to those in the know, it’s Torchwood.”

The Doctor: “So, you find the breach, probe it, the sphere comes through six hundred feet above London, bam. It leaves a hole in the fabric of reality. And that hole, you think, oh, shall we leave it alone? Shall we back off? Shall we play it safe? Nah, you think let’s make it bigger!”

Yvonne: “It’s a massive source of energy. If we can harness that power, we need never depend on the Middle East again. Britain will become truly independent. Look, you can see for yourself. Next Ghost Shift’s in two minutes.”

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The Doctor: “Cancel it.”

Yvonne: “I don’t think so.”

The Doctor: “I’m warning you, cancel it.”

Yvonne: “Oh, exactly as the legends would have it. The Doctor, lording it over us. Assuming alien authority over the Rights of Man.”

The Doctor: “Let me show you. Sphere comes through.”

(He points his sonic screwdriver at her glass wall. It cracks.)

The Doctor: “But when it made the hole, it cracked the world around it. The entire surface of this dimension splintered. And that’s how the ghosts get through. That’s how they get everywhere. They’re bleeding through the fault lines. Walking from their world, across the Void, and into yours, with the human race hoping and wishing and helping them along. But too many ghosts, and-”

(He taps the glass and it shatters.)

Yvonne: “Well, in that case we’ll have to be more careful. Positions! Ghost Shift in one minute.”

The Doctor: “Miss Hartman, I am asking you, please don’t do it.”

Yvonne: “We have done this a thousand times.”

The Doctor: “Then stop at a thousand!”

Yvonne: “We’re in control of the ghosts. The levers can open the breach, but equally they can close it.”

The Doctor: “Okay.” (The Doctor goes back into her office and fetches a chair to sit on.)

Yvonne: “Sorry?”

The Doctor: “Never mind. As you were.”

Yvonne: “What, is that it?”

The Doctor: “No, fair enough. Said my bit. Don’t mind me. Any chance of a cup of tea?”

ADEOLA: “Ghost Shift in twenty seconds.”

The Doctor: “Mmm, can’t wait to see it.”

Yvonne “You can’t stop us, Doctor.”

The Doctor: “No, absolutely not. Pull up a chair, Rose. Come and watch the fireworks.”

ADEOLA: “Ghost Shift in ten seconds. Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two”

Yvonne: “Stop the shift. I said stop.”

The Doctor: “Thank you.”

Yvonne: “I suppose it makes sense to get as much intelligence as possible. But the programme will recommence, as soon as you’ve explained everything.”

The Doctor: “I’m glad to be of help.”

Yvonne: “And someone clear up this glass. They did warn me, Doctor. They said you like to make a mess.”

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Yvonne: “So these ghosts, whatever they are, did they build the sphere?”

The Doctor: “Must have. Aimed it at this dimension like a cannon ball.”

Rajesh: “Yvonne? I think you should see this. We’ve got a visitor. We don’t know who she is, but funnily enough, she arrived at the same time as the Doctor.”

(Yvonne turns her laptop so the Doctor can see Rose and Rajesh on the webcam.)

Yvonne: “She one of yours?”

The Doctor: “Never seen her before in my life.”

Yvonne: “Good. Then we can have her shot.”

“You hurt Rose Tyler, and I will not stop until Torchwood is a pile of ash.”

Rose’s jaw dropped. “You know my name?”

“Of course I know your name.” I said. “I like you very much.”

Yvonne: “Well, if that’s Rose Tyler, who’s she?”

Jackie: “I’m her mother.”

Yvonne: “Oh, you travel with her mother?”

Jackie: “He kidnapped me.”

The Doctor: “Please, when Torchwood comes to write my complete history, don’t tell people I travelled through time and space with her mother.”

(Clunk!)

Jackie: “Charming.”

The Doctor: “I’ve got a reputation to uphold.”

Yvonne: “Excuse me? Everyone? I thought I said stop the ghost shift. Who started the programme? But I ordered you to stop! Who’s doing that?”

(The levers are moving.)

Yvonne: “Right, step away from the monitors, everyone. Gareth, Addy, stop what you’re doing, right now. Matt, step away from your desk. That’s an order! Stop the levers! Andrew!”

(A scientist grabs one of the levers.)

Yvonne: “Stop the levers!”

The Doctor: “What’s she doing?”

Yvonne: “Addy, step away from the desk. Listen to me. Step away from the desk.”

The Doctor: “She can’t hear you. They’re overriding the system. We’re going into Ghost Shift.”

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My head started to spin. It felt like my body had turned into jello.

Before I could fall, I felt the Doctor keep me supported. “Terra, are you alright?”

My mind turned foggy, and hazy. I barely understood he was talking to me. I tried to tell him I was fine, but a low groan came out. My eyes started to close. The only thing I was doing right was breathing.

The Doctor guided me to a chair, sitting me down. My sight blurred, and all I saw was a giant white light shining in my eyes.

“Why is it killing you?” The Doctor asked.

“Your...people...” I panted. The Doctor paused in his movements, eyeing my warily. “Created in...vortex exposure.” The words were a struggle to get out, my heart heavy from all of the ghost shifts. “My people...same...in void.”

“Your people were exposed to the vortex, and became like this?” The Doctor gestured to all of me. I was able to give a weak nod.

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The Doctor cradled Terra’s head, laying her down on the ground. Her skin had turned sickly pale, and her eyes had fogged over. Her breathing had become ragged the longer the shift went on.

The Doctor: “It’s the earpiece. It’s controlling them. I’ve seen this before. Sorry. I’m so sorry.”

(He zaps Adeola’s earpiece with his sonic screwdriver. She screams, and so do Gareth and Matt. Then they collapse.)

Yvonne: “What happened? What did you just do?”

The Doctor: “They’re dead.”

Jackie: “You killed them.”

The Doctor: “Oh, someone else did that long before I got here.”

Jackie: “But you killed them!”

The Doctor: “Jackie, I haven’t got time for this.”

Yvonne: “What are those ear pieces?”

The Doctor: “Don’t.”

Yvonne: “But they’re standard comms. devices. How does it control them?”

The Doctor: “Trust me, leave them alone.”

Yvonne: “But what are they?” (Yvonne pulls one off Adeola. A rope of gray matter comes with it.) Yvonne: “Urgh! Oh, God! It goes inside their brain.”

The Doctor: “What about the Ghost Shift?”

Yvonne: “Ninety percent there and still running. Can’t you stop it?”

The Doctor: “They’re still controlling it. They’ve hijacked the system.”

Yvonne: “Who’s they?”

The Doctor: “It might be a remote transmitter but it’s got to be close by. I can trace it. Jackie, stay here!”

(Rajesh is on Yvonne’s laptop with the message Sphere Activated.)

Yvonne: “Keep those levers down. Keep them offline.”

The ghost shift ended.

Terra coughed, though it sounded more like hacking out a lung. The Doctor looked at her worriedly before running after the things he prayed to Rassilon weren’t in this building.

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My return to the world of the living was a painful one. Jackie had me cradled in her lap, brushing down on my hair. I groaned in pain, trying to force myself up.

“Terra, hold on.” Jackie advised against it. “You look like death.”

“Funny. That was my street name.”

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(Cybermen escort the Doctor and Yvonne in.)

The Doctor: “Get away from the machines. Do what they say. Don’t fight them!”

(The Cybermen activate their arm guns and shoot the scientists holding back the levers.)

Jackie: “What are they?”

CYBERMAN: “We are the Cybermen. The Ghost Shift will be increased to one hundred percent.”

(The levers move up.) COMPUTER: “Online.”

I lurched up, screaming in agony. The D

The Doctor: “Here come the ghosts.”

(The shadowy images appear as usual.)

Jackie: “But these Cybermen, what’ve they got to do with the ghosts?”

The Doctor: “Do you never listen? A footprint doesn’t look like a boot.”

CYBERLEADER: “Achieving full transfer.”

The Doctor: “They’re Cybermen. All of the ghosts are Cybermen. Millions of them, right across the world.”

(The ghosts solidify and form up in squads everywhere. People start to scream and run.)

Yvonne: “They’re invading the whole planet.”

The Doctor: “It’s not an invasion. It’s too late for that. It’s a victory.”

COMPUTER: “Sphere activated. Sphere activated. Sphere activated. Sphere activated.”

The Doctor: “But I don’t understand. The Cybermen don’t have the technology to build a Void Ship. That’s way beyond you. How did you create that sphere?”

CYBERMAN: “The sphere is not ours.”

The Doctor: “What?”

CYBERMAN: “The sphere broke down the barriers between worlds. We only followed. Its origin is unknown.”

The Doctor: “Then what’s inside it?”

Jackie: “Rose is down there.”

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Jackie: “What’s down there? She was in that room with the sphere. What’s happened to Rose?”

The Doctor: “I don’t know. I’ll find her. I brought you here, I’ll get you both out, you and your daughter. Jackie, look at me. Look at me. I promise you. I give you my word.”

CYBERLEADER: “You will talk to your central world authority and order global surrender.”

Yvonne: “Oh, do some research. We haven’t got a central world authority.”

CYBERLEADER: “You have now. I will speak on all global wavelengths. This broadcast is for humankind.”

(The Doctor puts on his 3D spectacles.)

CYBERLEADER: “Cybermen now occupy every landmass on this planet, but you need not fear. Cybermen will remove fear. Cybermen will remove sex and class and colour and creed. You will become identical. You will become like us.”

(Panic stations. The army sets up roadblocks and tries shooting at the Cybermen. A bazooka blows a Cyberman to bits. London burns.)

CYBERLEADER: “I ordered surrender.”

The Doctor: “They’re not taking instructions. Don’t you understand? You’re on every street, you’re in their homes, you’ve got their children! Of course they’re going to fight.”

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CYBERLEADER: “Units open visual link.”

(A Cyberman’s view comes up on Yvonne’s laptop.)

CYBERLEADER: “Visual contact established.”

DALEK 2: “Identify yourselves.”

CYBERMAN: “You will identify first.”

DALEK 2: “State your identity.”

CYBERMAN: “You will identify first.”

DALEK 2: “Identify!”

CYBERMAN: “That answer is (??) and illogical. You will modify.”

DALEK 2: “Daleks do not take orders.”

CYBERMAN: “You have identified as Daleks.”

Black Dalek: “Outline resembles the inferior species known as Cybermen.”

Jackie: “(sotto) Rose said about the Daleks. She was terrified of them. What have they done to her, Doctor? Is she dead?”

The Doctor: “(sotto) Phone.”

Jackie: “(sotto) What?”

The Doctor: “(sotto) Phone!”

CYBERMAN: “We followed in the wake of your sphere.”

(The Doctor phones Rose.)

Black Dalek: “Long range scans confirm the presence of crude cybernetic constructs on worldwide scale.”

(Rose answers her phone.) The Doctor: “She’s answered. She’s alive. Why haven’t they killed her?”

Jackie: “Well, don’t complain!”

The Doctor: “They must need her for something.”

DALEK 3: “We must protect the Genesis Ark.”

The Doctor: “The Genesis Ark?”

CYBERMAN: “Our species our similar, though your design is inelegant.”

(The Doctor looks at the scene on the laptop through his 3D spectacles.)

DALEK 2: “Daleks have no concept of elegance.”

CYBERMAN: “This is obvious. But consider, our technologies are compatible. Cybermen plus Daleks. Together, we could upgrade the Universe.”

DALEK 2: “You propose an alliance?”

CYBERMAN: “This is correct.”

DALEK 2: “Request denied.”

(The Cybermen ready their weapons.)

CYBERMAN: “Hostile elements will be deleted.”

(They shoot at the Dalek.)

DALEK 2: “Exterminate!”

(Dalek 2, Cybermen 0)

CYBERLEADER: “Open visual link.”

CYBERLEADER: “Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen.”

Black Dalek: “This is not war. This is pest control.”

CYBERLEADER: “We have five million Cybermen. How many are you?”

Black Dalek: “Four.”

CYBERLEADER: “You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks?”

Black Dalek: “We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek. You are superior in only one respect.”

CYBERLEADER: “What is that?”

Black Dalek: “You are better at dying.” I couldn’t help but laugh. Daleks vs. Cybermen. That was as funny as it was terrifying. “Raise communications barrier!”

The Doctor: “Lost her.”

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CYBERLEADER: “Quarantine the Sphere chamber. Start emergency upgrading. Begin with these personnel.”

(The Cybermen take Yvonne and Jackie.)

Yvonne: “No, you can’t do this! We surrendered! We surrendered!”

CYBERMAN: “This one. His increased adrenaline suggests that he has vital Dalek information.”

Jackie: “Stop them! I don’t want to go! You promised me! You gave me your word!”

The Doctor: “I demand you leave that woman alone! I won’t help you if you hurt her. Jackie, don’t fight. I’ll think of something.”

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CYBERLEADER: “You are proof.”

The Doctor: “Of what?”

CYBERLEADER: “That emotions destroy you.”

The Doctor: “Yeah, I am. Mind you, I quite like hope. Hope’s a good emotion. And here it comes.”

(A group of black-clad commandos pop into existence and take out the remaining Cybermen in the Lever room The CyberLeader walks out of the office and gets zapped too. It’s head explodes.)

JAKE: “Doctor? Good to see you again.”

The Doctor: “Jake?”

JAKE: “The Cybermen came through from one world to another, and so did we.”

(The Doctor has been using his 3D spectacles again.)

JAKE: “Defend this room. Chrissie, monitor communications. Kill one CyberLeader and they just download into another. Move!”

(The commandos run off.)

The Doctor: “You can’t just, just, just hop from one world to another. You can’t.”

JAKE: “We just did. With these.”

(Large yellow medallions on chains around their necks. He throws one to the Doctor.)

The Doctor: “But that’s impossible. You can’t have this sort of technology.”

JAKE: “We’ve got our own version of Torchwood. They developed it. Do you want to come and see?” (Jake presses his own button.)

The Doctor: “No!” (The Doctor and Jake vanish.)

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“Okay. We keep going up these stairs.”

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(Jackie answers her phone.) Jackie: “Oh, my God, help me.”

The Doctor: “Jackie, you’re alive. Listen.”

Jackie: “They tried to download me but I ran away!”

The Doctor: “Shush. Listen, tell me. Where are you?”

Jackie: “I don’t know. Staircase.”

The Doctor: “Yeah, which one? Is there any sort of sign? Anything to identify it?”

Jackie: “Yes, a fire extinguisher.”

The Doctor: “Yeah, that helps.”

Jackie: “Oh, wait a minute. It says N3.”

The Doctor: “North corner, staircase three. Just keep low, we’re trying our best.”

Jackie: “No, don’t leave me.”

The Doctor: “I’ve got to go. I’m sorry.”

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“Don’t you want to know what happened to the Emperor?” I said.

The Daleks and humans turned to me, surprised.

“Terra!”

“Hello Mickey the Idiot.” I gave him a polite wave. “Rosita Tyler. We leave you on your own and Daleks come back. This is why we can’t have nice things.”

Black Dalek: “The Emperor survived?”

Terra: “Till he met me. Because if you’re going to kill my friends, then you’re going to listen. I met the Emperor, and I took the Time Vortex and I pulled it into his head and turned him into dust. Do you get that? The God of all Daleks, and I destroyed him. Ha!”

Black Dalek: “You will be exterminated!”

(The Doctor is wearing his 3D spectacles again.) The Doctor: “Oh now, hold on, wait a minute.”

Black Dalek: “Alert, alert. You are the Doctor.”

Dalek: “Sensors report he is unarmed.”

The Doctor: “That’s me. Always.”

Black Dalek: “Then you are powerless.”

The Doctor: “Not me. Never. How are you?”

Rose: “Oh, same old, you know.”

The Doctor: “Good. And Mickity McMickey. Nice to see you!”

Mickey: “And you, boss.”

Dalek: “Social interaction will cease!”

Black Dalek: “How did you survive the Time War?”

The Doctor: “By fighting. On the front line. I was there at the fall of Arcadia. Someday I might even come to terms with that. But you lot ran away!”

Black Dalek: “We had to survive.”

The Doctor: “The last four Daleks in existence. So what’s so special about you?”

Rose: “Doctor, they’ve got names. I mean, Daleks don’t have names, do they? One of them said they-”

Dalek: “I am Dalek Thay.”

Black Dalek: “Dalek Sek.”

DALEK 3: “Dalek Jast.”

DALEK 2: “Dalek Caan.”

The Doctor: “So that’s it! At last. The Cult of Skaro. I thought you were just a legend.”

Rose: “Who are they?”

The Doctor: “A secret order above and beyond the Emperor himself. Their job was to imagine, think as the enemy thinks. Even dared to have names. All to find new ways of killing.”

Mickey: “But that thing, they said it was yours. I mean, Time Lords. They built it. What does it do?”

The Doctor: “I don’t know. Never seen it before.”

Rose: “But it’s Time Lord.”

The Doctor: “Both sides had secrets. What is it? What have you done?”

Black Dalek: “Time Lord science will restore Dalek supremacy.”

The Doctor: “What does that mean? What sort of Time Lord science? What do you mean?”

Rose: “They said one touch from a time traveller will wake it up.”

The Doctor: “Technology using the one thing a Dalek can’t do. Touch. Sealed inside your casing. Not feeling anything ever, from birth to death, locked inside a cold metal cage. Completely alone. That explains your voice. No wonder you scream.”

Black Dalek: “The Doctor will open the Ark!”

The Doctor: “The Doctor will not.”

Black Dalek: “You have no way of resisting.”

The Doctor: “Well, you got me there. Although there is always this.”

Black Dalek: “A sonic probe?”

The Doctor: “That’s screwdriver.”

Black Dalek: “It is harmless.”

The Doctor: “Oh, yes. Harmless is just the word. That’s why I like it. Doesn’t kill, doesn’t wound, doesn’t maim. But I’ll tell you what it does do. It is very good at opening doors.”

(The door to the laboratory blows in. Enter Jake and a Cyberman with all guns blazing.)

CYBERMAN: “Delete! Delete! Delete! Delete!”

DALEK 3: “Alert. Casing impaired. Casing impaired.”

The Doctor: “Rose, get out!”

Black Dalek: “Fire power insufficient! Fire power insufficient!”

(Rose stumbles. Pete helps her up.)

PETE: “Come on.”

(Mickey dives for his big gun.)

CYBERMAN: “Daleks will be deleted. Delete. Delete.”

Rose: “Mickey, come on!”

DALEK 3: “Adapt to weaponry.”

Black Dalek: “Fire power restored!”

(And kills a Cyberman. Mickey gets jostled and he puts out his hand to steady himself. It touches the Ark. He and Jake join the Doctor, Rose and Pete at an emergency blast door.)

(The Doctor closes the blast door.)

The Doctor: “Jake, check the stairwell. The rest of you, come on.”

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Mickey: “I just fell, I didn’t mean it!”

The Doctor: “Mickey, without us, they’d have opened it by force. To do that, they’d have blown up the sun. You’ve done us a favour. Now, run!”

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(Jackie is trapped between two squads of Cybermen on the stairs, so she runs into a corridor and meets two more.)

CYBERMAN: “You will be upgraded.”

Jackie: “No, but you can’t. Please.”

(The Cybermen are shot down from behind.)

Jackie: “Pete?”

PETE: “Hello, Jacks.”

Jackie: “I said there were ghosts, but that’s not fair. Why him?”

PETE: “I’m not a ghost.”

Jackie: “But you’re dead. You died twenty years ago, Pete.”

The Doctor: “It’s Pete from a different universe. There are parallel worlds, Jackie. Every single decision we make creates a parallel existence, a different dimension where-”

Jackie: “Oh, you can shut up. Oh, you look old.”

PETE: “You don’t.”

Jackie: “How can you be standing there?”

PETE: “I just got lucky. Lived my life. You were left on your own. You didn’t marry again, or-”

Jackie: “There was never anyone else. Twenty years, though. Look at me. I never left that flat. Did nothing with myself.”

PETE: “You brought her up. Rose Tyler. That’s not bad.”

Jackie: “Yeah.”

PETE: “In my world, it worked. All those daft little plans of mine, they worked. Made me rich.”

Jackie: “I don’t care about that. How rich?”

PETE: “Very.”

Jackie: “I don’t care about that. How very?”

PETE: “Thing is though, Jacks, you’re not my wife. I’m sorry, but you’re not. I mean, we both. You know, it’s just sort of. Oh, come here.”

(He puts down the gun and she runs into his arms.)

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The Doctor looks carefully inside the warehouse, then crawls over to a crate and grabs a pair of Magnaclamps before dodging laser fire to get back.)

Rose: “Come on, please.”

SOLDIER: “Cover me.”

(The Doctor looks back in again with his 3D glasses.)

Black Dalek: “Override roof mechanism.”

(The warehouse roof shutters start to slide back.)

Black Dalek: “Elevate.”

Rose: “What’re they doing? Why do they need to get outside?”

The Doctor: “Time Lord science. What Time Lord science? What is it?”

(The Ark and the Black Dalek glide up and out into Canary Wharf.)

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The Doctor: “We’ve got to see what it’s doing. We’ve got to go back up. Come on! All of you. top floor!”

Jackie: “That’s forty five floors up! Believe me, I’ve done them all.”

JAKE: “We could always take the lift.”

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(The Doctor gets to the window in time to see the Ark shooting out Daleks in all directions as it spins around.)

The Doctor: “Time Lord science. It’s bigger on the inside.”

Mickey: “Did the Time Lords put those Daleks in there? What for?”

The Doctor: “It’s a prison ship.”

Rose: “How many Daleks?”

The Doctor: “Millions.”

(The Daleks spread out over London as Cybermen clomp their way through the streets before stopping and shooting into the sky.)

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PETE: “I’m sorry, but you’ve had it. This world’s going to crash and burn. There’s nothing we can do. We’re going home.”

(Pete takes a yellow medallion from a commando.)

PETE: “Jacks, take this. You’re coming with us.”

Jackie: “But they’re destroying the city.”

PETE: “I’d forgotten you could argue. It’s not just London, it’s the whole world. But there’s another world just waiting for you, Jacks. And it’s safe as long as the Doctor closes the breach. Doctor?”

(The Doctor turns around, wearing his 3D spectacles.) The Doctor: “Oh, I’m ready. I’ve got the equipment right here. Thank you, Torchwood.” (The Doctor uses a computer terminal.) The Doctor: “Slam it down and close off both universes.”

COMPUTER: “Reboot systems.”

Rose: “But we can’t just leave. What about the Daleks? And the Cybermen?”

The Doctor: “They’re part of the problem, and that makes them part of the solution. Oh yes! Well? Isn’t anyone going to ask what is it with the glasses?”

Rose: “What is it with the glasses?”

The Doctor: “I can see, that’s what. because we’ve got two separate worlds, but in between the two separate worlds, we’ve got the Void. That’s where the Daleks were hiding. And the Cybermen travelled through the Void to get here. And you lot, one world to another, via the Void. Oh, I like that. Via the Void. Look.”

(He gives the spectacles to Rose.)

The Doctor: “I’ve been through it. Do you see?”

(Lots of speckles in the air around the Doctor.)

COMPUTER: “Reboot in three minutes.”

Rose: “What is it?”

The Doctor: “Void stuff.”

Rose: “Like er, background radiation.”

The Doctor: “That’s it. Look at the others. And the only one who hasn’t been through the Void, your mother. First time she’s looked normal all in her life.”

Jackie: “Oi.”

“But what about Terra?” Rose asked.

“It’ll probably drain me, most likely killing me.”

The Doctor: “But the Daleks lived inside the Void. They’re bristling with it. Cybermen, all of them. I just open the Void and reverse. The Void stuff gets sucked back inside.”

Rose: “Pulling them all in!”

The Doctor: “Pulling them all in!”

Mickey: “Sorry, what’s the Void?”

The Doctor: “The dead space. Some people call it Hell.”

Mickey: “So you’re sending the Daleks and Cybermen to Hell. Man, I told you he was good.”

Rose: “But it’s like you said. We’ve all got Void stuff. Me too, because we went to that parallel world. We’re all contaminated. We’ll get pulled in.”

The Doctor: “That’s why you’ve got to go.”

COMPUTER: “Reboot in two minutes.”

The Doctor: “Back to Pete’s world. Hey, we should call it that. Pete’s World. I’m opening the Void, but only on this side. You’ll be safe on that side.”

PETE: “And then you close it, for good?”

The Doctor: “The breach itself is soaked in Void stuff. In the end it’ll close itself. And that’s it. Kaput.”

Rose: “But you stay on this side?”

Mickey: “But you’ll get pulled in.”

The Doctor: “That’s why I got these.” (Magnaclamps) “I’ll just have to hold on tight. I’ve been doing it all my life.”

Rose: “I’m supposed to go.”

The Doctor: “Yeah.”

Rose: “To another world, and then it gets sealed off.”

The Doctor: “Yeah.”

Rose: “Forever. That’s not going to happen.”

(The building shakes.)

PETE: “We haven’t got time to argue. The plan works. We’re going. You too. All of us.”

Rose: “No, I’m not leaving here.”

Jackie: “I’m not going without her.”

PETE: “Oh, my God. We’re going!”

Jackie: “I’ve had twenty years without you, so button it. I’m not leaving her.”

Rose: “You’ve got to.”

Jackie: “Well, that’s tough.”

Rose: “Mum.”

COMPUTER: “Reboot in one minute.”

Rose: “I’ve had a life with you for nineteen years, but then I met the Doctor, and all the things I’ve seen him do for me, for you, for all of us. For the whole stupid planet and every planet out there. He does it alone, mum. But not anymore, because now he’s got me.”

(The Doctor puts a medallion around Rose’s neck and Pete presses his button.)

Rose: “What’re you-”

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Rose: “I think this is the on switch.”

The Doctor: “Once the breach collapses, that’s it. You will never be able to see her again. Your own mother!”

Rose: “I made my choice a long time ago, and I’m never going to leave you. So what can I do to help?”

COMPUTER: “Systems rebooted. Open access.”

The Doctor: “Those coordinates over there, set them all at six. And hurry up.”

(Rose goes to the terminal and takes her medallion off.)

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Rose: “We’ve got Cybermen on the way up.”

The Doctor: “How many floors down?”

Rose: “Just one.”

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COMPUTER: “Levers operational.”

Rose: “That’s more like it. Bit of a smile. The old team.”

The Doctor: “Hope and Glory, Mutt and Jeff, Shiver and Shake.”

Rose: “Which one’s Shiver?”

The Doctor: “Oh, I’m Shake.”

(The Doctor gives Rose a Magnaclamp and they put them on the walls by the levers.)

The Doctor: “Press the red button.”

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The Doctor: “When it starts, just hold on tight. Shouldn’t be too bad for us but the Daleks and the Cybermen are steeped in Void stuff. Are you ready?”

Rose: “So are they.”

(The Daleks are visible outside the window.) The Doctor: “Let’s do it!”

(They push the levers up then grab the Magnaclamps.)

COMPUTER: “Online.”

(A bright light comes out of the breach and a strong wind rushes into it, sucking the first Daleks through the windows and into itself.)

DALEKS: “Emergency!”

The Doctor: “The breach is open! Into the Void! Ha!”

(Cybermen all over the world are lifted off their feet and into the air. There is a steady stream of Daleks and Cybermen all being sucked through the one broken window into the Void.)

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(Rose’s lever moves a little.)

COMPUTER: “Offline.”

(The suction starts to decrease. Rose has to let go of the Magnaclamp to grab the lever and pull it, but she and it are being dragged the wrong way.)

Rose: “I’ve got to get it upright!”

(Somehow she manages it.)

COMPUTER: “Online and locked.”

(The suction builds up.)

The Doctor: “Rose, hold on! Hold on!”

(Rose is being pulled horizontally towards the Void. The Doctor cannot reach her as her fingers finally slip from the lever handle. Then Pete pops in, catches her and vanishes with his daughter in his arms. The wind dies down and the Void closes itself like paper down a plughole.)

COMPUTER: “Systems closed.

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Rose: “Where are you?

The Doctor: “Inside the TARDIS. There’s one tiny little gap in the Universe left, just about to close, and it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I’m in orbit around a supernova. I’m burning up a sun just to say goodbye.

Rose: “You look like a ghost.

The Doctor: “Hold on

(He uses his sonic screwdriver to solidify the image.)

Rose: “Can I

The Doctor: “I’m still just an image. No touch.

Rose: “Can’t you come through properly?

The Doctor: “The whole thing would fracture. Two universes would collapse.

Rose: “So?

The Doctor: “Where are we? Where did the gap come out?

Rose: “We’re in Norway.

The Doctor: “Norway. Right.

Rose: “About fifty miles out of Burgen. It’s called ‘Dårlig Ulv Stranden’.

The Doctor: “Dalek?

Rose: “Dårlig. It’s Norwegian for bad. This translates as Bad Wolf Bay. How long have we got?

The Doctor: “About two minutes.

Rose: “I can’t think of what to say!

The Doctor: “You’ve still got Mister Mickey, then?

Rose: “There’s five of us now. Mum, Dad, Mickey and the baby.

The Doctor: “You’re not?

Rose: “No. It’s mum. She’s three months gone. More Tyler’s on the way.

The Doctor: “And what about you? Are you

Rose: “Yeah, I’m back working in the shop.

The Doctor: “Oh, good for you.

Rose: “Shut up. No, I’m not. There’s still a Torchwood on this planet. It’s open for business. I think I know a thing or two about aliens.

The Doctor: “Rose Tyler, Defender of the Earth. You’re dead, officially, back home. So many people died that day and you’ve gone missing. You’re on a list of the dead. Here you are, living a life day after day. The one adventure I can never have.

Rose: “Am I ever going to see you again?

The Doctor: “You can’t.

Rose: “What’re you going to do?

The Doctor: “Oh, I’ve got the TARDIS. Same old life, last of the Time Lords.

Rose: “With Terra. I, I love you.

The Doctor: “Quite right, too. And I suppose, if it’s one last chance to say it, Rose Tyler-”

There was a metallic clang as the transmission cut off.

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“Zup Lucky, what’re you up to today?” I smirked, trying to hide any concern.

The Doctor pulled me towards the TARDIS, and for a split second I saw real fear in his eyes.

“What’s wrong?” I asked him.

Instead of answering me, the Doctor nervously looked around.

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The Doctor: “It’s fine. Everything’s fine. Nothing’s wrong, all fine. Excuse me. What day is it?

MILKMAN: “Saturday.

The Doctor: “Saturday. Good. Good, I like Saturdays.

Donna: “So, I just met Rose Tyler?

The Doctor: “Yeah.

Donna: “But she’s locked away in a parallel world.

The Doctor: “Exactly. If she can cross from her parallel world to your parallel world, than that means the walls of the universe are breaking down, which puts everything in danger. Everything. But how?”

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Donna: “The thing is, Doctor, no matter what’s happening, and I’m sure it’s bad, I get that but, Rose is coming back. Isn’t that good?

The Doctor: “Yeah.

(Bang! The TARDIS shakes.)

Donna: “What the hell was that?

The Doctor: “Don’t know. It came from outside.

(The Doctor opens the doors. There are just a few pieces of space rock floating nearby.)

Donna: “But we’re in space. How did that happen? What did you do?

(The Doctor checks the scanner readings.)

The Doctor: “We haven’t moved. We’re fixed. It can’t have. No. The TARDIS is still in the same place, but the Earth has gone. The entire planet. It’s gone.

Donna: “But if the Earth’s been moved, they’ve lost the Sun. What about my Mum? And Granddad? They’re dead, aren’t they? Are they dead?

The Doctor: “I don’t know, Donna. I just don’t know. I’m sorry, I don’t know.

Donna: “That’s my family. My whole world.

The Doctor: “There’s no readings. Nothing. Not a trace. Not even a whisper. Oh, that is fearsome technology.

Donna: “So what do we do?

The Doctor: “We’ve got to get help.

Donna: “From where?

The Doctor: “Donna, I’m taking you to the Shadow Proclamation. Hold tight.

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Donna: “So go on then, what is the Shadow Proclamation anyway?

The Doctor: “Posh name for police. Outer space police. Here we go.

(The TARDIS lands in an ordinary looking corridor somewhere in a complex built on three linked asteroids. They are greeted by an armed platoon.)

JUDOON: “Sco bo tro no flo jo ko fo to to.

The Doctor: “No bo ho sho ko ro to so. Bokodozogobofopojo.

(The Judoon come to attention.)

The Doctor: “Moho.

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(A silver-haired woman in a black gown is pacing.)

ARCHITECT: “Time Lords are the stuff of legend. They belong in the myths and whispers of the Higher Species. You cannot possibly exist.

The Doctor: “Yeah. More to the point, I’ve got a missing planet.

ARCHITECT: “Then you’re not as wise as the stories would say. The picture is far bigger than you imagine. The whole universe is in outrage, Doctor. Twenty four worlds have been taken from the sky.

The Doctor: “How many?. Which ones? Show me.

(He joins the woman at her computer screen.)

ARCHITECT: “Locations range far and wide, but all disappeared at the exact same moment, leaving no trace.

The Doctor: “Callufrax Minorr. Jahoo. Shallacatop. Woman Wept. Clom. Clom’s gone? Who’d want Clom?

ARCHITECT: “All different sizes. Some populated, some not. But all unconnected.

Donna: “What about Pyrovillia?

ARCHITECT: “Who is the female?

Donna: “Donna. I’m a human being. Maybe not the stuff of legend but every bit as important as Time Lords, thank you. Way back, when we were in Pompeii, Lucius said Pyrovillia had gone missing.

JUDOON: “Pyrovillia is cold case. Not relevant.

Donna: “How do you mean, cold case?

ARCHITECT: “The planet Pyrovillia cannot be part of this. It disappeared over two thousand years ago.

Donna: “Yes, yes, hang on. But there’s the Adipose breeding planet, too. Miss Foster said that was lost, but that must’ve been a long time ago.

The Doctor: “That’s it! Donna, brilliant. Planets are being taken out of time as well as space. Let’s put this into 3-D.

(Holograms of the missing planets start to fill the room.)

The Doctor: “Now, if we add Pyrovillia and Adipose Three. Something missing. Where else, where else, where else? Where else lost, lost, lost, lost. Oh! The Lost Moon of Poosh.

(With the last sphere added, the representations suddenly reorganise themselves.)

ARCHITECT: “What did you do?

The Doctor: “Nothing. The planets rearranged themselves into the optimum pattern. Oh, look at that. Twenty seven planets in perfect balance. Come on, that is gorgeous.

Donna: “Oi, don’t get all spaceman. What does it mean?

The Doctor: “All those worlds fit together like pieces of an engine. It’s like a powerhouse. What for?

ARCHITECT: “Who could design such a thing?

The Doctor: “Someone tried to move the Earth once before. Long time ago. Can’t be.

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(Donna is sitting on the stairs while the Architect and the Doctor confer. She hears a heartbeat pounding. A white-haired, pink eyed young woman offers a tray.)

ALBINO: “You need sustenance. Take the water, it purifies.

Donna: “Thanks.

ALBINO: “There was something on your back.

Donna: “How do you know that?

ALBINO: “You are something new.

Donna: “Not me. I’m just a temp. Shorthand, filing, hundred words per minute. Fat lot of good that is now. I’m no use to anyone.

ALBINO: “I’m so sorry for your loss.

Donna: “Yeah. My whole planet’s gone.

ALBINO: “I mean the loss that is yet to come. God save you.

(The servant goes up the stairs. The Doctor walks over to Donna.)

The Doctor: “Donna, come on, think. Earth. There must’ve been some sort of warning. Was anything happening back in your day, like electrical storms, freak weather, patterns in the sky?

Donna: “Well, how should I know? Er, no. I don’t think so, no.

The Doctor: “Oh, okay, never mind.

Donna: “Although, there were the bees disappearing.

The Doctor: “The bees disappearing. The bees disappearing. The bees disappearing!

ARCHITECT: “How is that significant?

Donna: “On Earth we had these insects. Some people said it was pollution or mobile phone signals.

The Doctor: “Or, they were going back home.

Donna: “Back home where?

The Doctor: “Planet Melissa Majoria.

Donna: “Are you saying bees are aliens?.

The Doctor: “Don’t be so daft. Not all of them. But if the migrant bees felt something coming, some sort of danger, and escaped? Tandocca.

ARCHITECT: “The Tandocca Scale.

The Doctor: “Tandocca Scale is the series of wavelengths used as a carrier signals by migrant bees. Infinitely small. No wonder we didn’t see it. It’s like looking for a speck of cinnamon in the Sahara, but look, there it is. The Tandocca trail. The transmat that moved the planets was using the same wavelength, we can follow the path.

Donna: “And find the Earth?. Well, stop talking and do it.

The Doctor: “I am.

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The Doctor: “We’re a bit late. The signal’s scattered, but it’s a start.

(The Doctor puts his head out of the TARDIS door.)

The Doctor: “I’ve got a blip. It’s just a blip, But it’s definitely a blip.

ARCHITECT: “Then according to the Strictures of the Shadow Proclamation, I will have to seize your transport and your technology.

The Doctor: “Oh, really? What for?

ARCHITECT: “The planets were stolen with hostile intent. We are declaring war, Doctor, right across the universe, and you will lead us into battle.

The Doctor: “Right. Yes. Course I will. I’ll just go and get you the key.

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(The time rotor stops wheezing.)

The Doctor: “It’s stopped.

Donna: “What do you mean? Is that good or bad? Where are we?

The Doctor: “The Medusa Cascade. I came here when I was just a kid, ninety years old. It was the centre of a rift in time and space.

(It is a multi-coloured nebula.)

Donna: “So, where are the twenty seven planets?

The Doctor: “Nowhere. The Tandocca Trail stops dead. End of the line.

Donna: “So what do we do? Doctor, what do we do? Now don’t do this to me. No, don’t. Don’t do this to me. Not now. Tell me, what are we going do? You never give up. Please.

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The Doctor: “Phone!

Donna: “Doctor, phone.

The Doctor: “Martha, is that you?. It’s a signal.

Donna: “Can we follow it?

(The Doctor dons his stethoscope.)

The Doctor: “Oh, just watch me.

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The Doctor: “Got it. Locking on.

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(Bangs and flames here, too.)

The Doctor: “We’re travelling through time. One second in the future. The phone call’s pulling us through.

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The Doctor: “Three, two, one.

(The Doctor and Donna scream as the planets pop into existence around them. The TARDIS stops shaking.)

Donna: “Twenty seven planets. And there’s the Earth. But why couldn’t we see them?

The Doctor: “The entire Medusa Cascade has been put a second out of sync with the rest of the universe. Perfect hiding place. Tiny little pocket of time. But we found them. Ooo, ooo, ooo, what’s that? Hold on, hold on. Some sort of Subwave Network.

(The Doctor and Donna take Harriet’s quarter of the screen.)

Jack: “Where the hell have you been?

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(The one where Donna was supposed to get married?)

Donna: “Like a ghost town.

The Doctor: “Sarah Jane said they were taking the people. What for? Think, Donna. When you met Rose in that parallel world, what did she say?

Donna: “Just, the darkness is coming.

The Doctor: “Anything else?

Donna: “Why don’t you ask her yourself?

(Rose is walking down the street towards them. The Doctor runs to her.)

DALEK: “Exterminate.

(The Dalek’s ray grazes the Doctor, but still lights him up and knocks him down. Jack appears and blasts the Dalek. Rose gets to the Doctor first.)

Rose: “I’ve got you. It missed you. Look, it’s me, Doctor.

The Doctor: “Rose.

Rose: “Hi.

The Doctor: “Long time no see.

Rose: “Yeah. Been busy, you know. Don’t die. Oh, my God. Don’t die. Oh my god, don’t die.

Jack: “Get him into the TARDIS, quick. Move.

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Donna: “What, what do we do?. There must be some medicine or something.

Jack: “Just step back. Rose, do as I say, and get back. He’s dying and you know what happens next.

Donna: “What do you mean? He can’t.

Rose: “Oh, no. I came all this way.

Donna: “What do you mean, what happens next?

(The Doctor right hand begins to glow.)

The Doctor: “It’s starting.

Jack: “Here we go. Good luck, Doctor.

Donna: “Will someone please tell me what is going on?.

Rose: “When he’s dying, his er, his body, it repairs itself. It changes. But you can’t!

The Doctor: “I’m sorry, it’s too late. I’m regenerating.

(The Doctor has golden energy streaming from his hands and head, and he, Jack and Rose believe he is regenerating. With an effort, the Doctor turns and points both hands towards his spare hand in the jar by the time console. It absorbs it and he is released.)

The Doctor: “Now then. Where were we?

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(The Doctor checks on his glowing spare hand.)

The Doctor: “There now.

(He blows on the jar and the glowing stops.)

The Doctor: “You see? Used the regeneration energy to heal myself, but soon as I was done, I didn’t need to change. I didn’t want to. Why would I? Look at me. So, to stop the energy going all the way, I siphoned off the rest into a handy bio-matching receptacle, namely my hand. My hand there. My handy spare hand. Remember? Christmas Day, Sycorax. Lost my hand in a sword fight? That’s my hand. What do you think?

Rose: “You’re still you?

The Doctor: “I’m still me.

(The Doctor and Rose hug. Donna turns to Jack.)

Donna: “You can hug me, if you want. No, really. You can hug me.

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(The power goes out.)

The Doctor: “They’ve got us. Power’s gone. Some kind of chronon loop.

(The TARDIS tilts with a jerk.)

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Jack: “There’s a massive Dalek ship at the centre of the planets. They’re calling it the Crucible. Guess that’s our destination.

Donna: “You said these planets were like an engine. But what for?

The Doctor: “Rose, you’ve been in a parallel world. That world’s running ahead of this universe. You’ve seen the future. What was it?

Rose: “It’s the darkness.

Donna: “The stars were going out.

Rose: “One by one. We looked up at the sky and they were just dying. Basically, we’ve been building this, er, this travel machine, this, this er, dimension cannon, so I could. Well, so I could

The Doctor: “What?

Rose: “So I could come back. Shut up. Anyway, suddenly, it started to work and the dimensions started to collapse. Not just in our world, not just in yours, but the whole of reality. Even the Void was dead. Something is destroying everything.

Donna: “In that parallel world, you said something about me.

Rose: “The dimension cannon could measure timelines, and it’s, it’s weird, Donna, but they all seemed to converge on you.

Donna: “But why me? I mean, what have I ever done? I’m a temp from Chiswick.

(The scanner beeps.)

The Doctor: “The Dalek Crucible. All aboard.

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The Doctor: “We’ll have to go out. Because if we don’t, they’ll get in.

Rose: “You told me nothing could get through those doors.

Jack: “You’ve got extrapolator shielding.

The Doctor: “Last time we fought the Daleks, they were scavengers and hybrids, and mad. But this is a fully-fledged Dalek Empire, at the height of its power. Experts at fighting TARDISes, they can do anything. Right now, that wooden door is just wood.

(Donna can hear a heartbeat thumping in her ears.)

Jack: “What about your dimension jump?

Rose: “It needs another twenty minutes. And anyway, I’m not leaving.

The Doctor: “What about your teleport?

Jack: “Went down with the power loss.

The Doctor: “Right then. All of us together. Yeah. Donna?

(Donna is staring at nothing. He snaps her out of it.)

The Doctor: “Donna?

Donna: “Yeah.

The Doctor: “I’m sorry. There’s nothing else we can do.

Donna: “No, I know.

Red Dalek: “Surrender, Doctor, and face your Dalek masters.

DALEK 3: “Crucible on maximum alert.

Rose: “Daleks.

Jack: “Oh, God.

The Doctor: “It’s been good, though, hasn’t it? All of us. All of it. Everything we did. (to Donna) You were brilliant. (to Jack) And you were brilliant. (to Rose) And you were brilliant. Blimey.

(The Doctor leads his companions out of the TARDIS. Donna is lagging behind.)

Red Dalek: “Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks!

DALEKS: “Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks! Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks!

(Donna stops inside the TARDIS, the heartbeat thumping in her ears. The Doctor looks up at the phalanxes of Daleks flying around.)

DALEKS: “Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks! Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks!

Red Dalek: “Behold, Doctor. Behold the might of the true Dalek race.

The Doctor: “Donna! You’re no safer in there.

(The TARDIS door slams shut, trapping Donna inside.)

The Doctor: “What?

Donna: “Doctor? What have you done?

The Doctor: “It wasn’t me. I didn’t do anything.

Donna: “Oi! Oi, I’m not staying behind!

The Doctor: “What did you do?!

Red Dalek: “This is not of Dalek origin.

Donna: “Doctor!

The Doctor: “Stop it! She’s my friend. Now open the door and let her out.

Red Dalek: “This is Time Lord treachery.

The Doctor: “Me? The door just closed on its own.

Red Dalek: “Nevertheless, the TARDIS is a weapon and it will be destroyed.

(A trapdoor opens under the TARDIS and it drops.)

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Then, we dropped.

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(The spare hand is lying on the floor, twitching. The golden energy surges out and builds a new body for it, which looks just like the old one.)

Donna: “It’s you!

Handy: “Oh, yes!

Donna: “You’re naked.

“Oh, yes.” The New Doctor and I said, though mine was more of a purr.

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Handy: “All repaired. Lovely. Shush. No one knows we’re here. Got to keep quiet. Silent running, like on submarines when you can’t even drop a spanner. Don’t drop a spanner! I like blue. What do you think?

Donna: “You are bonkers.

Handy: “Why? What’s wrong with blue?

Donna: “Is that what Time Lords do? Lop a bit off, grow another one? You’re like worms.

Handy: “No, no, no, no, no. I’m unique. Never been another like me. Because all that regeneration energy went into the hand. Look at my hand. I love that hand. But then you touched it. Wham! Shush. Instantaneous biological metacrisis. I grew out of you. Still, could be worse.

Donna: “Oi, watch it, spaceman.

Handy: “Oi, watch it, Earth girl. Ooo. I sound like you. I sound all, all sort of rough.

Donna: “Oi!

Handy: “Oi!

Donna: “Oi!

Handy: “Spanners. Shush. I must have picked up a bit of your voice, that’s all. Is it? Did I? No. Oh, you are kidding me. No way. One heart. I’ve only got one heart. This body has got only one heart.

Donna: “What, like you’re human?

Handy: “Oh, that’s disgusting.

Donna: “Oi!

Handy: “Oi!

Donna: “Stop it.

Handy: “No, wait. I’m part Time Lord, part human. Well, isn’t that wizard?

Donna: “I kept hearing that noise, that heartbeat.

Handy: “Oh, that was me. My single heart. Because I’m a complicated event in time and space. Must have rippled back, converging on you.

Donna: “But why me?

Handy: “Because you’re special.

Donna: “Oh, I keep telling you, I’m not.

Handy: “No, but you are. Oh. You really don’t believe that, do you? I can see, Donna, what you’re thinking. All that attitude, all that lip, because all this time you think you’re not worth it.

Donna: “Stop it.

Handy: “Shouting at the world because no one’s listening. Well, why should they?

Donna: “Doctor? Stop it.

Handy: “But look at what you did. No, it’s more than that. It’s like we were always heading for this. You came to the TARDIS. And you found me again. Your granddad. Your car. Donna, your car. You parked your car right where the TARDIS was going land. That’s not coincidence at all! We’ve been blind. Something’s been drawing us together for such a long time.

Donna: “But you’re talking like destiny. There’s no such thing. Is there?

Handy: “It’s still not finished. It’s like the pattern’s not complete. The strands are still drawing together. But heading for what?

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Handy: “It’s the planets. The twenty seven planets.

Handy: “Single string Z-neutrinos compressed. No way.

Donna: “What was it? Doctor, what did it do?

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(He builds a gizmo.)

Donna: “So what is this thing?

Handy: “It’s our only hope. A Z-neutrino biological inversion catalyser.

Donna: “Yeah. Earth girl, remember?

Handy: “Davros said he built those Daleks out of himself. His genetic code runs through the entire race. If I can use this to lock the Crucible’s transmission onto Davros himself

Donna: “It destroys the Daleks?

Handy: “Biggest backfire in history.

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(The gizmo is ready, and it looks like a gun.)

Handy: “Ready? Maximum power!

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(The TARDIS materialises and the new Doctor appears in the doorway.)

Jack: “Brilliant.

(Then he runs across the floor.)

The Doctor: “Don’t!

(Davros zaps the new Doctor. He drops the gizmo in pain.)

Davros: “Activate holding cell.

(Donna runs out of the TARDIS and grabs the gizmo.)

“Hello Dalek Crucible!” I cheered.

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(Davros zaps Terra, sending her flying backwards. Once again the gizmo drops to the floor.)

The Doctor: “Terra! Terra! Are you alright, Terra?

Davros: “Destroy the weapon.

(A Dalek obeys.)

Davros: “I was wrong about your warriors, Doctor. They are pathetic.

Rose: “How comes there are two of you?

The Doctor: “Human biological metacrisis. Never mind that. Now we’ve got no way of stopping the Reality Bomb.

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Davros: “Stand witness, Time Lord. Stand witness, humans. Your strategies have failed, your weapons are useless, and. Oh. The end of the universe has come.

RED DALEK [OC]: “Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. (An alarm sounds.)

Terra: “Mmm, closing all Z-neutrino relay loops using an internalised synchronous backfeed reversal loop. That button there.” (She presses a button on the panel she was thrown against.)

The Doctor: “Terra, you can’t even change a plug.

Terra: “You want to bet, Lucky?

Davros: “You’ll suffer for this.”

“I suffer every time you talk.” I snarked. “Your voice is really annoying.”

(Terra lifts a lever and Davros’ electrical zap travels up his arm.)

Davros: “Argh!

Terra: “Oh, bio-electric dampening field with a retrograde field arc inversion.

Davros: “Exterminate her!

DALEKS: “Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate.

(Terra works more controls on the panel.)

DALEK: “Weapons non-functional.

Terra: “Phwor. Macrotransmission of a K-filter wavelength blocking Dalek weaponry in a self-replicating energy blindfold matrix.

The Doctor: “How did you work that out? You’re

Handy: “Time Lord. Part Time Lord.

Terra: “Part human. Oh, yes. That was a two-way biological metacrisis. Half Doctor, half Donna, all me.

The Doctor: “The DoctorTerraDonna. Just like the Ood said, remember? They saw it coming. The DoctorTerraDonna.

Terra: “Holding cells deactivated. And seal the Vault. Well, don’t just stand there, you skinny boys in suits. Get to work.

Davros: “Stop them! Get them away from the controls.

Terra: “And spin.

(The Daleks spin around on the spot.)

DALEK: “Help me. Help me!

Terra: “And the other way.

Handy: “What did you do?”

Terra: “Trip switch circuit-breaker in the psychokinetic threshold manipulator.

Handy: “But that’s brilliant!

The Doctor: “Why did we never think of that?”

Terra: “Because you two were just Time Lords, you dumbos, lacking that little bit of human. That gut instinct that comes hand in hand with Planet Earth.” I grinned, looking over at Donna. “Right Donna?”

She seemed confused by the sudden attention. “What are you talking about?”

“You really think I got the brains from these two knuckleheads?” I waved at the two Doctors. Instead of looking offended, they turned to Donna with astonished smiles. “This all came from the Donna part of me.”

I grinned, suddenly. “Oh. I liked that. The Donna part of me.”

“But, I’m not-”

I hushed her. “Donna Noble, you are the most important woman in the universe.” I stressed. “At Adipose industries, who gave us that second capsule?”

Donna shrugged. “Me.”

“In Pompeii, who helped remind him that he could save people even amongst the pain?” I asked.

Donna seemed to be humoring me. “Me.”

“At the Messaline, who figured out it was a week long war?” I asked.

“Me!” Donna snapped. “But so what? Those were all accidents!”

I scoffed. “So was penicillin, and corn flakes.” The ginger still didn’t believe. “Donna, you are not nothing. You’re everything.”

These words apparently reached through to Donna. She smiled, brightly. I smiled back, turning back to the Doctors.

“Back to work.” I sighed, grinning smugly. “Oh, I can think of ideas you two couldn’t dream of in a million years. Ah, the universe has been waiting for me. Now, let’s send that trip switch all over the ship.” I smirked, holding up my hands. “Best hacker in the universe, sitting right here.”

Handy: “Ha!

(Jack runs into the TARDIS.)

Donna: “Come on then, boys. We’ve got twenty seven planets to send home. Activate magnetron.

Davros: “Stop this at once!

(Jack comes out of the TARDIS with the honking big guns.)

Jack: “Mickey!

Davros: “You will desist!

(Mickey points his gun at Davros, point blank range.)

Mickey: “Just stay where you are, mister.

Jack: “Out of the way.

(He pushes a spinning Dalek down a corridor, while Sarah and Rose manhandle another one.)

Sarah Jane: “Good to see you again.

Rose: “Oh, you too.

Terra: “Ready? And reverse.

(Donna and the Doctors pull out pairs of rods, and the planets disappear one by one.)

The Doctor: “Off you go, Clom.

Handy: “Back home, Adipose Three.

Terra: “Shallacatop, Pyrovillia and the Lost Moon of Poosh. Sorted. Ha!

Handy: “Ha!

The Doctor: “We need more power!

Rose: “Is anyone going to tell us what’s going on?

Terra: “He poured all his regeneration energy into his spare hand. I touched the hand, and he grew out of that but that fed back into me. But, it just stayed dormant in my head till the synapses got that little extra spark, kicking them into life. Thank you, Davros! Part human, part Time Lord, and then me. And I got one of his better qualities, his mind.”

“Oi!” Handy said. “You sayin’ my mind isn’t my best quality?”

I stopped what I was doing, leaning towards him and giving him a flirty grin. “I think your face is your best quality.”

Handy gave me a smug look back.

“You two!” The Doctor scolded. “Can we do the flirting thing later?”

“You said that to Shakespeare, and look how that turned out.” I argued.

Sarah Jane: “So there’s three of you?

Rose: “Three Doctors?

Jack: “I can’t tell you what I’m thinking right now.”

“It’s like someone peeked at my Christmas list.” I cheered, clapping my hands in my excitement.

The Doctor: “You’re so unique the timelines were converging on you. Human being with a Time Lord brain.

Davros: “But you promised me, Dalek Caan. Why did you not foresee this?

The Doctor: “Oh, I think he did. Something’s been manipulating the timelines for ages, getting Donna Noble to the right place at the right time.”

Caan: “This would always have happened. I only helped, Doctor.”

Then the Doctor grinned. “Getting Terra there too.”

I snapped my gaze to the Time Lord. “Hold on. You’re saying that he was the reason I was dressed in my pajamas when I met Queen Elizabeth?” I glared at the Dalek. “Ah’ll kill ya for that!”

Davros: “You betrayed the Daleks.”

Caan: “I saw the Daleks. What we have done, throughout time and space, I saw the truth of us, Creator, and I decreed, no more!”

(Jack runs into the TARDIS.) Jack: “Heads up!

Red Dalek: “Davros, you have betrayed us.

Davros: “It was Dalek Caan.

Red Dalek: “The Vault will be purged. You will all be exterminated.

(The Red Dalek zaps the control panel.)

Jack: “Like I was saying, feel this!

(Jack fires an extended pulse from his big gun and the Red Dalek explodes.)

The Doctor: “Oh, we’ve lost the magnetron. And there’s only one planet left. Oh, guess which one. But we can use the TARDIS.

(The Doctor runs into the TARDIS.)

Handy: “Holding Earth stability. Maintaining atmospheric shell.

Caan: “The prophecy must complete.

Davros: “Don’t listen to him.

Caan: “I have seen the end of everything Dalek, and you must make it happen, Doctor.

Handy: “He’s right. Because with or without a Reality bomb, this Dalek Empire’s big enough to slaughter the cosmos. They’ve got to be stopped.

Donna: “Just, just wait for the Doctor.

Handy: “I am the Doctor. Maximising Dalekanium power feeds. Blasting them back!

(Daleks start exploding all over the Crucible and all over the Medusa Cascade. The Doctor runs out of the TARDIS.)

The Doctor: “What have you done?

Handy: “Fulfilling the prophecy.

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The Doctor: “Do you know what you’ve done? Now get in the TARDIS! Everyone! All of you, inside! Run! In! In! In! In!

Handy: “Sarah Jane! Rose! Jackie! Jack! Mickey!

(Explosions are starting to wreck the Vault.)

The Doctor: “Davros? Come with me. I promise I can save you.

Davros: “Never forget, Doctor, you did this. I name you. Forever, you are the Destroyer of the Worlds!

(A wall of flames leaps up and Davros gurgles his last scream.)

Caan: “One will still die.

The Doctor: “And off we go.

(The TARDIS dematerialises. The Crucible goes KaBOOM!)

Sarah Jane: “But what about the Earth? It’s stuck in the wrong part of space.

The Doctor: “I’m on it. Torchwood Hub, this is the Doctor. Are you receiving me?

“This is Torchwood Headquarters.” I said. “My name is Meredith Gafford, how might I be of service today?”

Gwen: “Is Jack there?”

“Of course he is.” Meredith said. “If Jack died, I’d kill him, and he knows exactly why.”

The Doctor: “Can’t get rid of him. Jack, what’s her name?

Jack: “Gwen Cooper.

The Doctor: “Tell me, Gwen Cooper, are you from an old Cardiff family?

Gwen: “Yes, all the way back to the eighteen hundreds.

The Doctor: “Ah, thought so. Spatial genetic multiplicity.

Rose: “Oh, yeah.

The Doctor: “Yeah, it’s a funny old world. Now, Torchwood, I want you to open up that Rift Manipulator. Send all the power to me.

Ianto: “Doing it now, sir.

Donna: “What’s that for?

The Doctor: “It’s a tow rope. Now then. Sarah, what was your son’s name?

Sarah Jane: “Luke. He’s called Luke. And the computer’s called Mister Smith.

The Doctor: “Calling Luke and Mister Smith. This is the Doctor. Come on, Luke. Shake a leg.

LUKE: “Is Mum there?

The Doctor: “Oh, she’s fine and dandy.

Sarah Jane: “Yes! Yes!

The Doctor: “Now, Mister Smith, I want you to harness the Rift power and loop it around the TARDIS. You got that?

MR SMITH: “I regret I will need remote access to TARDIS base code numerals.

The Doctor: “Oh, blimey, that’s going to take a while.

Sarah Jane: “No, no, no. Let me. K9, out you come!

(K9 beams in beside Luke.) K9: “Affirmative, Mistress.

The Doctor: “Oh! Oh ho! Oh, good dog! K9, give Mister Smith the base code.

K9: “Master. TARDIS base code now being transferred. The process is simple.”

“Oh, that is so Lucky’s dog.” I joked.

The Doctor: “Now then, you lot. Sarah, hold that down. Mickey, you hold that. Because you know why this TARDIS always is always rattling about the place? Rose? That, there. It’s designed to have six pilots, and I have to do it single handed. Martha, keep that level. But not any more. Jack, there you go. Steady that. Now we can fly this thing. No, Jackie. No, no. Not you. Don’t touch anything. Just stand back. Like it’s meant to be flown. We’ve got the Torchwood Rift looped around the TARDIS by Mister Smith, and we’re going to fly Planet Earth back home. Right then. Off we go.

(The TARDIS takes the strain on the tow rope, then pulls Earth out of the Cascade. Everyone on Earth hangs on for the ride. Donna walks around the console, supervising the flight.)

Donna: “That’s really good, Jack. I think you’re the best.

(The TARDIS drops the Earth off by the Moon, and everyone celebrates.)

Jackie: “Good job!

(Donna pulls Jack off Sarah and hugs him herself. On Earth, the news tickers report the obvious, and fireworks celebrations happen without any set up or planning whatsoever.)

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(The Doctor unmends Jack’s teleport bracelet.)

The Doctor: “I told you, no teleport. And, Martha, get rid of that Osterhagen thing, eh? Save the world one more time.

MARTHA: “Consider it done.

(They both salute the Doctor, and he returns it. Jack and Martha walk away.)

Jack: “You know, I’m not sure about UNIT these days. Maybe there’s something else you could be doing?

(Mickey comes out of the TARDIS.)

The Doctor: “Oi, where are you going?

Mickey: “Well, I’m not stupid. I can work out what happens next. And hey, I had a good time in that parallel world, but my gran passed away. Nice and peaceful. She spent her last years living in a mansion. There’s nothing there for me now, certainly not Rose.

The Doctor: “What will you do?

Mickey: “Anything. Brand new life. Just you watch. See you, boss. Hey, you two!

(Mickey catches up with Jack and Martha.)

Jack: “Oh. Thought I’d got rid of you.

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“You saved Gray?” I asked the blonde woman, wondering what happened to us. I knew that she didn’t have on the manipulator. What I didn’t know was when.”

She just smiled. “I saved more than just Gray.”

I gasped. “Who?” I asked excitedly.

“Owen Harper and Tosh Sato.” Future Me answered.

I gasped. Future Me, without being confined by the manipulator, was able to do Torchwood. She had saved them both. I was really looking forward to hearing that she saved Ianto. Or, at least I hope she did. “Oh my gosh! You’re amazing!”

“And don’t I know it.” Future Me smirked, her green eyes glinting trouble. She winked at me. Was I flirting with myself? Screw it.

She was probably using those glasses as a shimmer. They added a blue tint to her eyes so the Doctor wouldn’t realize it was her. I wonder why she would do that.

Might as well play along.

I pretended to look her over, as if confused. “Who are you, again?”

“Meredith Gafford.” She answered.

My jaw dropped. Okay. This is like she wasn’t even trying. “Meredith Gafford?” Future Me nodded. “Wow.” I pretended to gap, like I had just figured out who she was. “Meredith Gafford. I’m meeting Meredith Gafford.” I frowned at her, trying to look apologetic. “Whatever the Doctor’s been doing to you, I’m sorry!”

Future Me just smiled kindly, shrugging it off. “No problem. He’s a bloody wanker when he’s on his own. No reason to beat yourself up.”

I squealed, still pretending to be excited. Okay I was, just not for the same reasons as the others. “You’re amazing! How did you do it?”

Future Me almost frowned, looking at the ground before looking at me. “Come on, you know I love my secrets.”

I groaned. That was a cheap way of saying spoilers.

“Terra.” The Doctor’s voice called out.

I looked over at the Doctor. He had just had some words with Sarah Jane, and was looking at Future Me with such distrust. It was like he didn’t like her.

He didn’t like me.

He ran up to the two of us, smiling at me. “How about you go into the TARDIS? We need to get Rose back.”

I frowned. He was trying to get me away from here. He wanted to yell at Future Me for something. Something he didn’t want me here to hear. “But, Meredith! Gafford!” I said as if it explained everything. Which, it kinda did.

“Terra, it’s alright.” Future Me said to me, giving me a kind look. It was resigned, too, like she had been expecting it. “You’ll understand soon.”

I smirked, skipping off towards the TARDIS. “I have a soon.” I giggled.

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The Doctor: “Just time for one last trip. Dårlig Ulv Stranden. Better known as

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(The TARDIS materialises on the beach of Bad Wolf Bay. The New Doctor and Jackie are first out.)

Jackie: “Oh, fat lot of good this is. Back of beyond. Bloody Norway? I’m going to have to phone your father. He’s on the nursery run. I was pregnant, do you remember? Had a baby boy.

Handy: “Oh, brilliant. What did you call him?

Jackie: “Doctor.

Handy: “Really?

Jackie: “No, you plum. He’s called Tony.

Rose: “Hold on, this is the parallel universe, right?

The Doctor: “You’re back home.

Donna: “And the walls of the world are closing again, now that the Reality Bomb never happened. It’s dimensional retroclosure. See, I really get that stuff now.

Rose: “No, but I spent all that time trying to find you. I’m not going back now.

The Doctor: “But you’ve got to. Because we saved the universe, but at a cost. And the cost is him. He destroyed the Daleks. He committed genocide. He’s too dangerous to be left on his own.

Handy: “You made me.

The Doctor: “Exactly. You were born in battle, full of blood and anger and revenge. Remind you of someone? That’s me, when we first met. And you made me better. Now you can do the same for him.

Rose: “But he’s not you.

The Doctor: “He needs you. That’s very me.

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“Ohh. Handy.” I decided.

“Handy?” The Doctor asked. “Why do I have to be Handy?”

I just looked above his head. “Stretch out your arms.” He did. “Because this girl needs a helping hand.”

A raspberry pink portal appeared above him. There was a small flash, then a woman was pushed out. She was wearing a black dress, with a raspberry pink skirt with a light black drape over it. She had on fishnet stockings, with black boots. Her neck had just two necklaces, a black choker with a pink heart, and a heart locket.

She fell from the portal, landing right in Handy’s arms. She looked fairly dizzy, but got over it once she saw who was holding her. “Hello.”

Handy just looked so confused. He looked at Terra, then me.

“Come on, that was funny.” I chuckled.

“What? Do I get not a greeting?” Terra scoffed. “How ru-”

He pulled her up, kissing her.

Terra looked surprised, but then got into it.

I turned to Rose. “Rosita, I can’t watch the Doctor alone. I need you to help him, help them.” I stressed. “He’s basically an overgrown child. And that version of me, she’s young. Help her, please.”

Rose nodded.

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“She broke a rule.” I grumbled, looking over the console for one last time.

“Who?” The Doctor asked, voice quiet.

I looked up at him, giving him a bittersweet smile. Meredith had broken a rule, the only rule Future Me’s had.

“She said I had a soon.”

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A sad laugh came out. “I’ve been bleeding out for an hour.”

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The Doctor held me tightly, as if holding me would fix me. I could only tearfully smile.

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“Don’t stop being a Doctor, okay?” I said. “Ten is absolute rubbish on his own, but you need to remember that you’re a Doctor.”

“No. No.” The Doctor said. “Cause you’re going to be here. You’re going to be fine. That thing’s broken before. You were fine.”

“It’s completely dead this time. Shorted out with the Metacrisis.” I snorted. “No chance of getting that deposit back now.” I joked.

The Doctor smiled, that heartbroken look in his eyes. “

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“These are my dying words, let me have some fun with it!”

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Terra: “I was going to be with you forever.

The Doctor: “I know.

Terra: “The rest of my life, travelling in the TARDIS. The Doctor Terra. No. Oh my god. I can’t go back. Don’t make me go back. Doctor, please, please don’t make me go back.”

The Doctor: “Terra. Oh, Terra Song. I am so sorry. But we had the best of times.”

“Yeah.” I hiccuped, feeling another tear fall. “Doc,

With a weak hand, I grabbed the back of the Doctor’s head. Before he could stop me I pulled him in for one last kiss.

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That was when it all went black.

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