Book 1: Chapter 8

Hey so here is the second part of the last chapter. Hope you enjoy it. Also leave a review about who she should see next. since she is left on her own. Enjoy the story.

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We continued to back up but the patients were almost within touching distance. And since I was tired of waiting decided to say the line that the Doctor was going to say before him.

"Go to your room." I sternly say to them and they stand still.

"Go to your room. I mean it. I'm very, very angry with you. I am very, very cross. Go to your room!" I repeat louder and more firmer.

The patients hang their heads in shame and shuffle away.

"I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words." I breath out, and look at the Doctor as he stares at me. "What?"

"nothing, it's just, I was going, but you, you stole the words out of my mouth!" he exclaimed looking rather upset.

"So, I wanted to be the one to say it, and besides they were saying 'Mummy?' so hence I am a female if you didn't realize that before" I say to him rolling my eyes.

"Why are they all wearing gas masks?" Rose asks trying to change the subject.

"They're not. Those masks are flesh and bone." Jack tells her.

"How was your con supposed to work?" the Doctor asks Jack, turning away from me.

"Simple enough, really. Find some harmless piece of space junk, let the nearest Time Agent track it back to Earth, convince him it's valuable, name a price. When he's put fifty percent up front, oops! A German bomb falls on it, destroys it forever. He never gets to see what he's paid for, never knows he's been had. I buy him a drink with his own money, and we discuss dumb luck. The perfect self-cleaning con." Jack tells him emphasizing what he was saying with his hands.

"Yeah. Perfect." the Doctor tells him.

"The London Blitz is great for self-cleaners. Pompeii's nice if you want to make a vacation of it though, but you've got to set your alarm for volcano day. Getting a hint of disapproval." Jack tells the Doctor and I flinch at the word Pompeii, know what happens there with the 10th Doctor and Donna.

"Take a look around the room. This is what your harmless piece of space-junk did." the Doctor tells Jack and gestures to the room.

"It was a burnt-out medical transporter. It was empty." Jack tries to convince the Doctor.

"Rose, Harmony" the Doctor says.

"Are we getting out of here?" Rose asks.

"Yea, can we please go, or at least somewhere else?" I ask him.

"We're going upstairs." the Doctor tells us.

"I even programmed the flight computer so it wouldn't land on anything living. I harmed no-one. I don't know what's happening here, but believe me, I had nothing to do with it." Jack says still trying to convince the Doctor that it wasn't his fault.

"I'll tell you what's happening. You forgot to set your alarm clock. It's volcano day." the Doctor says to Jack.

"Hehe yea, volcano day, yay" I mutter sarcastically as a siren sounds.

"What's that?" Rose asks.

"The all clear." Jack tells her.

"I wish." the Doctor says and we start to run up the stairs.

"Mister Spock?" Jack questions the Doctor.

"Doctor? Harmony?" Rose says to him as the Doctor and me are on the next flight of stairs up.

"Have you got a blaster?" the Doctor asks Jack.

"Sure!" Jack responds.

Jack and Rose run up to join us outside a secure metal door.

"The night your space-junk landed, someone was hurt. This was where they were taken." the Doctor states at Jack.

"What happened?" Rose asks.

"Let's find out. Get it open." the Doctor says to Jack.

"What's wrong with your sonic screwdriver?" Rose questions him.

"Nothing." the Doctor tells her.

"Yea, he just wants to see what kinda of toy Jack has, you know men and their toys." I whisper to her and she giggles.

Jack's blaster disintegrates the lock.

"Sonic blaster, fifty first century. Weapon Factories of Villengard? " the Doctor asks him.

"You've been to the factories?" Jack questions him looking shocked.

"Once." the Doctor says to him.

"Well, they gone now, destroyed. The main reactor went critical. Vaporized the lot." Jack says to him.

"Like I said. Once. There's a banana grove there, now, Harmony's idea. I like bananas. Bananas are good." the Doctor says grinning.

"Yea we know, you and your bananas" I say to them. "Also with your fish fingers and custard…" I mutter to myself.

"Nice blast pattern." Rose complements Jack

"Digital." Jack says.

"Squareness gun." Rose says.

"Yeah." Jack responds.

"I like it." Rose tells him.

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There were filing cabinets, electronic equipment and a big mess in the room. And the observation window across the room was broken.

"What do you think?" the Doctor asks us.

"It's a mess" I say and look at him. "Reminds me of someone...you and your mess"

"Something got out of here." Jack states looking at the broken window.

"Yeah. And?" the Doctor tries to get Jack to think more.

"Something powerful. Angry." Jack says.

"Powerful and angry." I say looking at the child's crayon drawings scattered on the floor and a Steiff teddy bear.

"A child? I suppose this explains Mummy." Jack asks a question.

"How could a child do this?" Rose asks

The Doctor turns on a tape machine and it starts playing:

CONSTANTINE: Do you know where you are?

CHILD: Are you my mummy?

CONSTANTINE: Are you aware of what's around you? Can you see?

CHILD: Are you my mummy?

CONSTANTINE: What do you want? Do you know

CHILD: I want my mummy. Are you my mummy? I want my mummy! Are you my mummy? Are you my mummy? Mummy? Mummy?

"Doctor, I've heard this voice before." Rose states and I nod my head.

"We both have, it was like the kid up on the roof" I tell her.

"Me too." the Doctor nods.

CHILD: Mummy?

"Always are you my mummy?. Like he doesn't know." Rose asks.

CHILD: Mummy?

"Why doesn't he know?" she asks again.

CHILD: Are you there, mummy? Mummy?

CHILD: Mummy? Please, mummy? Mummy?

"Doctor? Harmony?" Rose asks us.

"Can you sense it?" the Doctor asks and grabs my hand.

"Sense what?" Jack asks confused.

"Coming out of the walls. Can you feel it?" I ask them lightly squeezing the Doctor's hand.

CHILD: Mummy?

"Funny little human brains. How do you get around in those things?" the Doctor says insulting someone or well people in general at this point.

"When he's stressed, he likes to insult species. " Rose tells Jack, and I nod along with her.

"Always insults other species, mainly humans" I further explain.

"Rose, Harmony, I'm thinking." the Doctor complains about us talking.

"He cuts himself shaving, he does half an hour on life forms he's cleverer than." Rose states.

"There are these children living rough round the bomb sites. They come out during air-raids looking for food." the Doctor thinks out loud.

CHILD: Mummy, please?

"Suppose they were there when this thing, whatever it was, landed?" the Doctor says.

"It was a med-ship. It was harmless." Jack tires again to convince the Doctor, even though it was his fault.

"Yes, you keep saying harmless. Suppose one of them was affected, altered?" the Doctor questions again.

"Altered how?" Rose asks as the tape runs out.

"I'm here!" the child, Jamie states.

"It's afraid. Terribly afraid and powerful. It doesn't know it yet, but it will do. It's got the power of a god, and I just sent it to its room." the Doctor says and his eyes go wide in realization.

"Doctor." Rose says.

"I'm here. Can't you see me?" Jamie asks.

"What's that noise?" Rose questions the sound of the end tape.

"End of the tape. It ran out about thirty seconds ago." I tell her with a little waver in my voice from being slightly scared.

"I'm here, now. Can't you see me?" Jamie asks.

"Harmony sent it to its room. This is it's room." the Doctor breaths out.

we turn around and see that Jamie is there.

"Are you my mummy? Mummy?" Jamie asks.

"Doctor?" Rose asks slightly scared.

"Okay, on my signal make for the door." Jack says and reaches for his blaster.

"Mummy?" Jamie asks confused.

"Now!" Jack says as he aims his blaster at the child, except it is a banana

"Mummy?" Jamie asks.

The Doctor pulls Jack's blaster from his belt and makes a nice square hole in the wall. "Go now! Don't drop the banana!" the Doctor yells at Jack as we run out of the room.

"Why not?!" Jack ask yells at him.

"Good source of potassium!" the Doctor and I yell back in sync.

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"Give me that!" Jack says as he grabs his blaster from the Doctor, or well more like snatches it back from the Doctor.

"Mummy. I want my mummy." Jamie says walking toward the wall.

Jack uses his blaster to repair the hole in the wall. "Digital rewind. Nice switch." Jack says to the Doctor.

"It's from the groves of Villengard. I thought it was appropriate." the Doctor says and I go and take the banana from him.

"There's really a banana grove in the heart of Villengard and you did that?" Jack asks us not believing him.

"Bananas are good. And Harmony wanted to" the Doctor says to him and then looks at me in horror as I start to eat the banana. "What!? I didn't say YOU could eat MY banana, now I have to get another one" the Doctor starts to rant.

The wall then starts to crack making Rose panic a little. "Doctor!" she yells.

"Come on!" he says.

"Mummy. Mummy. Mummy." the patients say as they come from the other direction that Jamie was.

"It's keeping us here till it can get at us." I say and move closer to the Doctor.

"It's controlling them?" Jack questions.

"It is them. It's every living thing in this hospital." I say to Jack and the Doctor nods.

"Okay. This can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic cannon, and as a triple-enfolded sonic disrupter. Doc, what you got?" Jack asks the Doctor.

"I've got a sonic, er. Oh, never mind." the Doctor starts but ends up changing his mind due to his embarrassment that his screwdriver isn't as cool as Jack's blaster.

"What?" Jack asks him.

"It's sonic, okay? Let's leave it at that." the Doctor says somewhat embarrassed.

"Disrupter? Cannon? What?" Jack questions stating off some sonic items.

"It's sonic! Totally sonic! I am soniced up!" the Doctor states.

"A sonic what?!" Jack yells at the Doctor.

"Screwdriver!" the Doctor yells back.

"Going down!" I yell just as Jamie breaks through the wall, grabbing Jack's blaster and point it at the floor making the floor disappear.

We fall down, then Jack takes his blaster away from me and repairs the hole in the ceiling.

"Doctor, are you okay?" I ask him.

"Could've used a warning. " I hear him mutter out.

"Oh, the gratitude." I say sarcastically. "At least we got out of there alive. You should be thanking me and in my defense, I did warn you I said 'Going Down' is that not enough warning for you?"

"Who has a sonic screwdriver?" Jack asks.

"I do." me and the Doctor says at the same time.

"Lights." Rose mutters trying to find a light switch.

"Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, ooo, this could be a little more sonic?" Jack says sarcastically.

"What, you've never been bored?" the Doctor says looking offended.

"There's got to be a light switch." Rose mutters feeling up the wall still looking for a switch.

"Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?" the Doctor asks Jack as Rose finds the light and all the patients sit up in their beds.

"Mummy. Mummy." they all say.

"Door." Jack says aiming his blaster at the door, but it doesn't work. "Damn it!" he yells.

"Mummy." the patients say.

"It's the special features. They really drain the battery." he states looking at his blaster.

"The battery?" Rose questions him.

I give up and get my screwdriver out of my pocket and open the door to the storeroom before the Doctor can.

"That's so lame!" Rose states at Jack about the battery.

"I was going to send for another one, but two someone's had to go blow up the factory." jack says sounding annoyed.

"Oi, it wasn't my fault, plus I haven't done that yet, so blame him" I say and point at the Doctor

"Oh, I know. First day I met them, they blew my job up. That's practically how he communicates." Rose says to him.

"Oi, Rose! that is a spoiler, I haven't done that yet, it's bad enough that has almost happened before, no tell me what happens. First it is impolite, second it's just rude." I tell her.

"Okay, that door should hold it for a bit." the Doctor says using his sonic to fix the door or whatever he did.

"The door? The wall didn't stop it!" Jack points out.

"Well, it's got to find us first! Come on, we're not done yet! Assets, assets!" the Doctor says trying to figure it out.

"Well, I had a banana until someone ate it, and in a pinch you could put up some shelves." Jack says and making a pointed look at me.

"Sorry, I haven't eaten in like a day. You can't blame my stomach for being hungry" I tell him.

"Window." the Doctor states ignoring my answer.

"Barred. Sheer drop outside. Seven stories." I tell him unenthusiastically.

"And no other exits." Rose states.

"Well, the assets conversation went in a flash, didn't it?" Jack asks.

"So, where'd you pick this one up, then?" the Doctor asks us.

"Doctor." Rose says to him.

"They were hanging from a barrage balloon, I had an invisible spaceship. I never stood a chance." Jack says to the Doctor.

"Okay. One, we've got to get out of here. Two, we can't get out of here. Have I missed anything?" the Doctor says turning around.

"Yeah. Jack just disappeared." I tell him and look over to where Jack was a few seconds ago.

"Okay, so he's vanished into thin air. Why is it always the great looking ones who do that?" Rose asks.

"I'm making an effort not to be insulted." the Doctor says trying not to be insulted.

"She meant men." I say to him.

"Okay, thanks, that really helped." he says back sarcastically.

The radio crackles into life and Jack's voice comes on. "Rose? Ladybug? Doctor? Can you hear me? I'm back on my ship." he says.

"Yea, thanks for a warning asshole." I tell him through the speaker.

"Used the emergency teleport. Sorry I couldn't take you." Jack says apologetically. "It's security-keyed to my molecular structure." he continues. "I'm working on it. Hang in there."

"How're you speaking to us?" the Doctor asks him.

"Om-Com. I can call anything with a speaker grill." Jack responds.

"Now there's a coincidence." the Doctor says.

"What is?" Jack asks.

"The child can Om-Com, too." I tell him.

"He can?" Rose asks us.

"Anything with a speaker grill. Even the Tardis phone." the Doctor says.

"What, you mean the child can phone us?" Rose asks a slight jump in her voice.

"And I can hear you. Coming to find you. Coming to find you." Jamie says.

"Doctor, can you hear that?" Jack asks the Doctor.

"Loud and clear." he responds.

"I'll try to block out the signal. Least I can do." Jack says to us.

"Coming to find you, mummy." Jamie says.

"Remember this one, Ladybug?" Jack asks me and I blush lightly as Moonlight Serenade comes through the radio. The Doctor then looks at me with a small frown.

"Our song." I say to him and look away.

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A little later, Rose is relaxing in a wheelchair while the Doctor is at the barred window with his ever-versatile sonic screwdriver, but I have to say, mine I way better, I mean first of all its purple, I don't know how it turned from green to purple, but it is purple, second it is like 11's so more advanced.

"What you doing?" Rose says glancing up at the Doctor.

"Trying to set up a resonation pattern in the concrete, loosen the bars." he says.

"That wouldn't help us though." I try and tell him. "Plus, you don't think he's coming back, do you?" I question the Doctor.

"Wouldn't bet my life." he states.

"Why don't you trust him?" Rose asks him.

"Why do you two trust him?" he sasses.

"He saved my life as well as Harmony's. Bloke-wise, that's up there with flossing. I trust him because he's like you. Except with dating and dancing." she says then looks at the Doctor's expression. "What?"

"You just assume I'm…" the Doctor starts to say.

"What?" Rose asks confused.

"You just assume that I don't dance." he says to her then looks at me as if wanting me to help him.

"What, are you telling me you do dance?" Rose asks jokingly.

"Nine hundred years old, me. I've been around a bit. I think you can assume at some point I've danced." he says.

"You?" I joke.

"Problem?" he asks.

"Doesn't the universe implode or something if you dance?" Rose ask jokingly.

"Yea, no I don't think it does" I say trying not to laugh.

"Well, I've got the moves but I wouldn't want to boast." the Doctor boasts slightly as Rose turns up the volume on the radio. It is still Moonlight Serenade.

"You've got the moves? Show me your moves" I say to him.

"Harmony, I'm trying to resonate concrete." the Doctor whines.

"Jack'll be back. He'll get us out. So come on. The world doesn't end because the Doctor dances." I say and hold out my hands, and the Doctor looks at my palms.

"Barrage balloon?" he questions and goes to look at Rose's hands as well.

"What?" Rose asks confused.

"You two were hanging from a barrage balloon." he states.

"Oh, yeah. About two minutes after you left us. Thousands of feet above London, middle of a German air-raid, Union Jack all over Rose's chest and the American flag all over mine." I say to him.

"I've travelled with a lot of people, but you're setting new records for jeopardy friendly." he says to Rose. "And you, you always do something like this very dangerous, surprised to see you not get hurt as much." he says.

"Is this you dancing? Because I've got notes." Rose says from the wheelchair.

"Hanging from a rope thousands feet above London. Not a cut, not a bruise." the Doctor says ignoring her rant about his dancing.

"Yeah, I know. Captain Jack fixed us up." I tell him.

"Oh, we're calling him Captain Jack now, are we?" the Doctor says like it is a fowl to use the word captain.

"Well, his name's Jack and he's a Captain." Rose points out.

"He's not really a Captain, Harmony, Rose." the Doctor tries to say.

"Do you know what I think? I think you're experiencing Captain envy. You'll find your feet at the end of your legs. You may care to move them." I say to him trying to get him to dance and making a poke of fun at him.

"If ever he was a Captain, he's been defrocked." the Doctor says and lets go of Rose's hands and grabs my to pull me closer to him as he wraps his arms around my waist, I then notice us being transported.

"Yeah? Shame I missed that." Rose says.

"Actually, I quit. Nobody takes my frock. Most people notice when they've been teleported. You guys are so sweet. Sorry about the delay. I had to take the nav-com offline to override the teleport security." Jack says offended.

"You can spend ten minutes overriding your own protocols? Maybe you should remember whose ship it is." the Doctor barks at him and lets go of my waist.

"Oh, I do. She was gorgeous. Like I told her, be back in five minutes." Jack jokes and winks at me making me roll my eyes.

"This is a Chula ship." the Doctor says looking around.

"Yeah, just like that medical transporter. Only this one is dangerous." Jack says.

The Doctor snaps his fingers and the golden glow envelopes his hands.

"They're what fixed Harmony and my hands up Jack called them er…" Rose starts to say.

"Nanobots? Nanogenes." the Doctor asks.

"Nanogenes, yeah." Rose says

"Sub-atomic robots. There's millions of them in here, see? Burned my hand on the console when we landed. All better now. They activate when the bulk head's sealed. Check you out for damage, fix any physical flaws. Take us to the crash site. I need to see your space junk." the Doctor says going on a ramble.

"As soon as I get the nav-com back online. Make yourself comfortable. Carry on with whatever it was you were doing." Jack says and starts working on the ship.

"We were talking about dancing." the Doctor states.

"It didn't look like talking." Jack says.

"It didn't feel like dancing." I say.

"And it diffidently wasn't dancing" Rose says.

"So, you used to be a Time Agent now you're trying to con them?" Rose asks Jack.

"If it makes me sound any better, it's not for the money." Jack tells her.

"For what?" Rose asks.

"because the Time Agency took something from him, right Jack?" I ask him

He nods at me "Woke up one day when I was still working for them, found they'd stolen two years of my memories. I'd like them back."

"They stole your memories?" Rose asks him confused.

"Two years of my life. No idea what I did. Your friend over there doesn't trust me, and for all I know he's right not to. Okay, we're good to go. Crash site?" Jack says.

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Once we got to the bomb site as Jack pointed out, yea it's not like there is this huge thing in the middle of the city.

"There it is. Hey, they've got Algy on duty. It must be important." Jack says to us.

"We've got to get past him." the Doctor says.

"Are the words distract the guard heading in my general direction?" Rose points out.

"I don't think that'd be such a good idea." I say to her.

"Don't worry I can handle it." Rose insists.

"I've got to know Algy quite well since I've been in town. Trust me, you're not his type. I'll distract him. Don't wait up." Jack says and walks over to Algy.

"Relax, he's a fifty first century guy. He's just a bit more flexible when it comes to dancing." the Doctor says.

"How flexible?" Rose questions.

"Well, by his time, you lot have spread out across half the galaxy." I say answering her question.

"Meaning?" Rose asks.

"So many species, so little time." the Doctor says.

"What, that's what we do when we get out there? That's our mission? We seek new life, and, and" Rose asks.

"Dance." the Doctor and I say at the same time.

Algy starts to retch, then falls to his knees before his face turns into a gas mask. Rose, the Doctor, and I notice this and run forward from the sidings.

"Stay back! " I yell at him.

"You men, stay away!" Jack orders the other men near him.

"The effect's become air-borne, accelerating." the Doctor states as the air raid sirens start up again.

"What's keeping us safe?" Rose asks.

"Nothing. It's air-borne that means we aren't safe" I tell her.

"Ah, here they come again." Jack says.

"All we need. Didn't you say a bomb was going to land here?" Rose asks Jack.

"Never mind about that. If the contaminants air-borne now, there's hours left." the Doctor says.

"For what?" Jack asks him.

"Till nothing, forever. For the entire human race. And can anyone else hear singing?" I answer him and ask everyone.

"Rock-a-bye baby, on the tree tops." Nancy sings off to the side and I remember that she is handcuffed so I go to get her.

"When the wind blows, the cradle will rock. When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall. Down will come baby, cradle and all." she keeps singing and I gesture to her to continue to sing as free her from the handcuffs.

"Rock-a-bye baby, on the tree tops. When the wind blows the cradle will rock." she continues to sing.

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We light up and uncover the spacecraft. "You see? Just an ambulance." Jack states.

"That's an ambulance?" Nancy questions Jack.

"It's hard to explain. It's from another world." Rose tries to explain to Nancy.

"They've been trying to get in." Jack says looking at the ship.

"Of course they have. They think they've got their hands on Hitler's latest secret weapon. What're you doing?" the Doctor questions Jack as he is keying in the access codes.

"The sooner you see this thing is empty, the sooner you'll know I had nothing to do with it." Jack says as a bang, sparks, and alarm start. The access panel has a red flashing light.

"Didn't happen last time." Jack says.

"It hadn't crashed last time. There'll be emergency protocols." the Doctor states looking at Jack like he was an idiot.

"Doctor, what is that?" Rose asks pointing to the patients start battering at the hospital doors.

"Doctor!" I scream at him.

"Captain, secure those gates!" the Doctor orders Jack.

"Why?" Jack questions.

"Just do it! Nancy, how'd you get in here?" the Doctor turns to Nancy.

"I cut the wire." she responds.

The Doctor nods and throws Rose his sonic screwdriver. "Show Rose. Setting two thousand four hundred and twenty eight D."

"What?" Rose questions.

"Reattaches barbed wire. Go!" he says waving her off.

After Rose and Nancy get back Jack gets the ambulance open. "It's empty. Look at it." he states and gestures to the empty

"What do you expect in a Chula medical transporter? Bandages? Cough drops? Rose? Harmony" the Doctor asks

"I don't know." Rose says

"Yes, you do." the Doctor tries to get her to think more.

"Nanogenes!" Rose exclaims eyes wide.

"It wasn't empty, Captain. There was enough nanogenes in there to rebuild a species." the Doctor says to Jack.

"Oh, God." Jack breathes out.

"Getting it now, are we? When the ship crashes, the nanogenes escape. Billions upon billions of them, ready to fix all the cuts and bruises in the whole world. But what they find first is a dead child, probably killed earlier that night, and wearing a gasmask." the Doctor says to him.

"And they brought him back to life? They can do that?" Rose asks in shock.

"What's life? Life's easy. A quirk of matter. Nature's way of keeping meat fresh. Nothing to a nanogenes." I say to her.

"One problem, though. These nanogenes, they're not like the ones on your ship. This lot have never seen a human being before. Don't know what a human being's supposed to look like. All they've got to go on is one little body, and there's not a lot left. But they carry right on. They do what they're programmed to do. They patch it up. Can't tell what's gasmask and what's skull, but they do their best. Then off they fly, off they go, work to be done. Because, you see, now they think they know what people should look like, and it's time to fix all the rest. And they won't ever stop. They won't ever, ever stop. The entire human race is going to be torn down and rebuilt in the form of one terrified child looking for its mother, and nothing in the world can stop it!" the Doctor says.

"I didn't know." Jack says to us.

The Doctor works on the ambulance while the patients approach and I try and move closer to him trying not to flinch as they start saying "Mummy. Mummy."

"Rose!" Nancy yells.

"It's bringing the gas mask people here, isn't it?" Rose asks.

I nod, "The ship thinks it's under attack. It's calling up the troops. Standard protocol." I say to her.

"But the gas mask people aren't troops." Rose points out.

"They are now. This is a battle-field ambulance. The nanogenes don't just fix you up, they get you ready for the front line. Equip you, programme you." the Doctor says to her.

"That's why the child's so strong. Why it could do that phoning thing." Rose says.

"It's a fully equipped Chula warrior, yes. All that weapons tech in the hands of a hysterical four year old looking for his mummy. And now there's an army of them." The Doctor says.

The patients surround us, outside the barbed wire.

"Why don't they attack?" Jack asks.

"Good little soldiers, waiting for their commander." the Doctor says.

"The child?" Jack questions.

"Jamie." Nancy corrects him.

"What?" Jack asks.

"Not the child. Jamie." Nancy tells him.

"So how long until the bomb falls?" Rose asks.

"Any second." Jack tells her.

"What's the matter, Captain? A bit close to the volcano for you?" the Doctor says to Jack.

"Don't joke about that" I say to him through gritted teeth.

"He's just a little boy." Nancy says starting to cry.

"I know." the Doctor says trying to comfort her.

"He's just a little boy who wants his mummy." She says.

"I know. There isn't a little boy born who wouldn't tear the world apart to save his mummy. And this little boy can." I say and reach for her hand.

"So what're we going to do?" Rose asks us.

"I don't know." the Doctor says to her.

"It's my fault." Nancy says.

"No." the Doctor tells her.

"It is. It's all my fault." She says again.

"How can it be your…" the Doctor starts then looks at the patients saying 'Mummy' over and over again then at me and I nod at him as he figures it out.

"Nancy, what age are you? Twenty? Twenty one? Older than you look, yes?" he says gesturing to Nancy as the bombs get closer.

"Doctor, that bomb. We've got seconds." Jack says to him.

"You can teleport us out." Rose says to Jack.

"Not you guys. The nav-com's back online. Going to take too long to override the protocols." he admits to us.

"So it's volcano day. Do what you've got to do." the Doctor tells Jack.

"Jack?" Rose questions as he disappears.

"How old were you five years ago? Fifteen? Sixteen? Old enough to give birth, anyway. He's not your brother, is he? A teenage single mother in 1941. So you hid. You lied. You even lied to him." the Doctor keeps talking to Nancy.

The bomb site gate opens and Jamie stands there. "Are you my mummy?" he asks.

"He's going to keep asking, Nancy. He's never going to stop." I tell her and gently place my hand on her shoulder.

"Mummy?" Jamie asks again.

"Tell him. Nancy, the future of the human race is in your hands. Trust me and tell him." the Doctor urges her.

Nancy and Jamie walk towards each other. "Are you my mummy? Are you my mummy? Are you my mummy?" Jamie asks her.

"Yes. Yes, I am your mummy." Nancy tells him.

"Mummy?" he asks

"I'm here." Nancy says back to him.

"Are you my mummy?" he asks again.

"I'm here." she repeats.

"Are you my mummy?" he asks again.

"Yes." she tells him

"Are you my mummy?" he asks again.

"He doesn't understand. There's not enough of him left." the Doctor says sadly.

"I am your mummy. I will always be your mummy. I'm so sorry. I am so, so sorry." Nancy says more boldly and hugs Jamie and a cloud of nanogenes surround them.

"What's happening? Doctor, it's changing her, we should…" Rose starts to say

"Shush! Come on, please. Come on, you clever little nanogenes. Figure it out! The mother, she's the mother. It's got to be enough information. Figure it out." I say softly.

"What's happening?" Rose asks again.

"See? Recognizing the same DNA." the Doctor says as Jamie lets go and Nancy falls on the ground.

"Oh, come on. Give me a day like this. Give me this one." the Doctor pleads as he removes Jamie's gas mask.

"Ha-ha! Welcome back! Twenty years till pop music - you're going to love it." he says picking Jamie up and laughing.

"What happened?" Nancy asks confused.

"The nanogenes recognized the superior information, the parent DNA. They didn't change you because you changed them! Ha-ha! Mother knows best!" I laugh and joke before the Doctor can and go up to Jamie.

"Oh, Jamie." Nancy says.

"Doctor, that bomb." Rose points out.

"Taken care of it." the Doctor says.

"How?" She asks.

"Psychology." i tell her with a smile.

The bomb hurtles towards us, and gets caught in Jack's light beam just before impact. Jack is sitting astride the bomb. "Doctor! Harmony!" he yells.

"Good lad!" the Doctor yells back.

"The bomb's already commenced detonation. I've put it in stasis but it won't last long." Jack tells us.

"Change of plan. Don't need the bomb. Can you get rid of it, safely as you can?" the Doctor tells him.

"Rose? Ladybug?" Jack calls to us.

"Yeah?" we both say.

"Goodbye." he tells us then vanish then reappear. "By the way, love the tee-shirts." he says and winks at us vanishing again. The spaceship sucks up the light beam and flies off. The Doctor summons some nanogenes to himself.

"What are you doing?" Rose asks him.

"Software patch. Going to email the upgrade. You want moves, Harmony, Rose? I'll give you moves." he says to us and throws the nanogenes to the waiting patients, who fall to the ground.

"Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once, everybody lives!" he yells happily, which for the ninth doctor is always a treat, which is why this was one of my favorite episodes, he seems so happy.

The patients then stand up again, back to normal.

"Doctor Constantine. Who never left his patients. Back on your feet, constant doctor. The world doesn't want to get by without you just yet, and I don't blame it one bit. These are your patients. All better now." the Doctor says to Constantine.

"Yes, yes, so it seems. They also seem to be standing around in a disused railway station. Is there any particular reason for that?" Constantine says back to the Doctor.

"Yeah, well, you know, cutbacks. Listen, whatever was wrong with them in the past, you're probably going to find that they're cured. Just tell them what a great doctor you are. Don't make a big thing of it. Okay?" the Doctor tells him and leaves.

"Right, you lot. Lots to do. Beat the Germans, save the world. Don't forget the welfare state! Setting this to self-destruct, soon as everybody's clear. History says there was an explosion here. Who am I to argue with history?" the Doctor says to no one in particular.

"Usually the first in line." I joke.

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Once we got back to the Tardis the Doctor started to talk "The nanogenes will clean up the mess and switch themselves off, because I just told them to. Nancy and Jamie will go to Doctor Constantine for help, ditto. All in all, all things considered, fantastic!" he says.

"Look at you, beaming away like you're Father Christmas." Rose jokes.

"Who says I'm not, red bicycle when you were twelve?" the Doctor says back to her.

"What?" Roses mouth opens to an 'o' shape like she couldn't believe it

"And everybody lives, Rose, Harmony! Everybody lives! I need more days like this." the Doctor says to us.

"Doctor." I say to him.

"Go on, ask me anything. I'm on fire." he replies.

"What about Jack? Why'd he say goodbye?" Rose asks him.

"He will be fine, nothing to worry, it's his life that he needs to live" the Doctor tries to brush it off, and I realize that he needs to save Jack, because it is a fixed point.

"No, we are going to save him" I tell the Doctor sternly.

"We can't, he did what he had to do, now leave it at that" the Doctor tries and avoiding it.

"No! We are not going to let him die! I don't care what you say, we need to save him it has to do with your future, mine as well, so shut it and go get him." I yell at him.

"Doctor, please you said everyone lives, so doesn't that include Jack?" Rose asks him.

He sighs "Fine" then goes and sets the Tardis to go to where Jack is.

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Once we got there I went out to the door and yell at Jack "Well, hurry up then!" I say to him with a smile on my face a he runs in.

Rose on the other hand was trying to teach the Doctor how to dance, "Okay. And right and turn. Okay, okay, try and spin me again, but this time don't get my arm up my back. No extra points for a half-nelson." She says to him.

"I'm sure I used to know this stuff. Close the door, will you? Your ship's about to blow up. There's going to be a draught." he mutters.

Jack shuts the door and the Doctor starts up the engine.

"Welcome to the Tardis." the Doctor says and gestures to the Tardis.

"Much bigger on the inside." Jack says.

"You'd better be." the Doctor jokes.

"I think what the Doctor's trying to say is you may cut in." Rose says trying to ease the tension.

"Rose! Harmony! I've just remembered!" the Doctor yells.

"What?" I ask.

The music changes from waltz to swing - Glenn Miller's In The Mood. "I can dance! I can dance!" he says happily.

"Actually, Doctor, I thought Jack might like this dance." I say to him as he tries to take my hand.

"I'm sure he would Harmony. I'm absolutely certain. But who with?" the Doctor jokes.

"With me, you get to dance with Rose," I tell him and push Rose to the Doctor and grab Jacks hand.

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After we finished dancing I decided to go make myself some food. While I was making food I heard someone come in and looked up to see it was Jack.

"Hey Jack" I say to him.

"Hello yourself, now what are you making that smells good?" he asks.

"just Mac and Cheese, since I am a horrible cook" I tell him.

"Well the Doc seems to be a bit stiff around me, do you know the reason why?" he asks and goes to sit on the counter.

"No, I couldn't tell" I said wondering why.

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After me and Jack finished eating my Mac and Cheese we went back to the console room to see the Doctor working on something.

"Oi, are you just fixing something that doesn't need fixing again?" I question him as he jumps and hits his head.

"Ouch! What, no I am so not doing that, why is it you always say I do." he asks as he come out from under the consol.

"I don't know, you always seem to be doing something or meddling with her, plus you are the one that blames her for your bad driving." I say to him starting to get angry at him being rude to me.

"You wouldn't understand why" he says

"Well, I might if you at least tried to explain it to me, not just brush me off, like you brush everything off. Just because I am younger and less experienced than you doesn't give you the right to make me feel as though I am worthless!" I yell at him.

"Well at least I'm not the one trying to save random people that you don't know." he says back to me.

"I didn't save someone random, I saved someone who is going to be very important to me one day. He is important in your life as well, but I can't tell you because it could cause a paradox!" I yell.

"This is exactly what I am talking about, you know all this information, but you won't tell me what that is! It's like you are just there but you rarely help out, just inputting your opinion. " he tells me.

"Oh, I am just there! I don't help you? Well fine, see if I care if you do something stupid, drop me off somewhere on Earth." I tell him.

"Fine" he says and pushes some buttons and we land somewhere.

"There you go, Earth, you can go." he says and turns away from me.

"Well fine, Jack can I borrow your physic paper please?" I ask him and he gives it to me.

"You don't have to leave because of me" he tries to tell me but I shake my head and hug him.

"It's not your fault, he just in a bad mood and is being RUDE" I say to him. "Also can you tell Rose that I left? Please" I ask him and he nods.

"Later Jack!" I yell and rush out of the Tardis not wanting to look back.