"Is this really you're best plan?" Rita whispered while hissing at the Doctor who was sneeking around like he was James Bond, moving from against the wall and slowly walking along.

"No but it's fun."

"You're an idiot" She hissed at him. "Our friends are down there with the bloody pepperpots and you think it's funny to walk around thinking you're James Bond!" She snapped whispering. He looked over his shoulder and sighed. "James Bond?" He raised a brow then looked down at himself seeing that he was pressed up against the wall moving along side it. "Good point, flag" He held out his hand and she groaned rolling her eyes and giving him the flag. "I don't understand why you couldn't just hold it, pockets bigger on the inside are not just to sound cool"

"God you are very snappy today." He whispered back and slightly poked his head around the corner.

"I have my reasons," She said under her breath.

"What was that?" He looked over his shoulder not hearing her.

"Nevermind" She shook her head, just wave the flag and get on with it" Rita groaned. He rolled his eyes and did what she said holding out the flag Rita had made earlier and waving it then popping out.

"Sorry. No white flag. I only had a sheet of A4."

"You had a sheet of A4?" Rita walked out from behind the wall sounding offended. "I  had a sheet of A4 paper I had to make it"

"Same difference." he gave her a cheeky smile then turned to the Cyberman. "Sorry, you were going to say something?"

"Do you surrender?" It asked them both.

The Doctor walked forward going face to face with the Cyberman and having to slightly look up at it. "We surrender unto you. A very good idea." He grinned.

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"Oh, it seems I can remember some of my 'human' memories" Rita muttered standing beside the Doctor just before they were about to head into the sphere laboratory. "Oh no." She mumbled her face draining of colour going almost as white as a sheet of paper if her skin wasn't already naturally pale.

"What's wrong?" He asked reaching for her hand to try and comfort her.

"It's the Ark" She gulped. "I didn't remember as a human. It's something" She shook her head desperately trying to remember. "A sort of prison, I think" The Doctor and Rita's heads shot up at the sound of a Dalek screaming exterminate behind the door.

"Keep trying to remember as much as you can, even little things but don't push yourself too much" He warned her then nodded and opened the door placing his 3D glasses on. "Oh now, hold on, wait a minute." He walked through the door letting go of the brunette's hand and placing his own in his pockets.

"Alert, alert. You are the Doctor." A black Dalek turned its eyestalk towards the Doctor.

"Sensors report he is unarmed." Another Dalek added.

"That's me. Always." He continued to grin walking about.

"Then you are powerless." It told him.

"Not me. Never. How are you?" he walked over to Rose giving her a hug.

"Oh, same old, you know." She nodded.

"Good. And Mickity McMickey. Nice to see you!" he bumped fists with him and smiled.

"And you, boss."

"Alert, Alert." The black Dalek screamed again diverting the three's attention to the door. "You are the Stone! Exterminate! Exterminate!"

"Oh am I?" Rita walked in. "Isn't that lovely" She grinned accepting the name they had given her. "But before you exterminate me and my friend's pepperpots, that's you lot by the way," She pointed at them, the Doctor blinked at her sudden confidence reminding him of a very old friend. "Don't you want to know how I'm here?" She raised a brow walking in front of them. "Because I certainly want to know how on Earth you managed to get me on your ship, because I clearly did not agree with the idea." She stood before the black Dalek. "So what happened hmm?" She hummed leaning into its stalk.

"You were the key!" It screamed.

"A Stone, a key, so many names" She hummed. "Why does he get all the cool ones though" She pointed at the Doctor. "But surely you must have known I was a human?" she moved her gaze to the Daleks again. "I know you're not that stupid."

"We were too late." The Dalek answered her question.

"Too late?" Her eyes widened a little. "Oh I see, You dragged me through a Parallel world at the wrong time, to the wrong ship. Sounds like him." She pointed at the Doctor yet again.

"Doctor?" Rose whispered. "What's going on?"

"She's a Time Lord"

"That's Time Lady thank you very much" She pointed to him walking over and standing beside the Doctor, Rose and Mickey frowned not understanding how it was possible. "I'll explain later though, not the best time."

"Social interaction will cease!" One of the Daleks shouted.

"Little late for that," Rita muttered.

"How did you survive the Time War?" The black Dalek directed at 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." He replied. "But you lot" He looked at the four Daleks. "Ran away!"

"We had to survive."

"Survive by trying to take what was an innocent human, dragging her through a parallel world to another than to make things worse you threw her on a Dalek ship in the wrong time as a sort of key what was she being used for?" He asked.

"I'm right here you know." Rita groaned crossing her arms.

"The key to win the war"

"What" He shook his head. "No offence Rita" he held a hand up. "But what is so special about her?"

"She was promised"

"Promised?" He frowned. "What do you mean by promised"

"The Emperor made a prophecy"

"A prophecy, right" He nodded. "And what did that say?"

"The Stone would end the greatest war."

"Right" He nodded. "But you're the last four Daleks in existence. So what's so special about you?"

Rose looked up "Doctor, they've got names. I mean, Daleks don't have names, do they? One of them said they..." She was cut off by the Daleks.

"I am Dalek Thay."

"Dalek Sek."

"Dalek Jast."

"Dalek Caan."

"So that's it!" He nodded then looked at Rita wanting her to try and think. "Any ideas?"

"The Cult of Skaro." She announced. "I thought they were legends, if you can even class them as legends"

"So did I" He hummed.

"Who are they?" Rose asked the pair.

"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."

"The only thing they do is shoot and scream" Rita hissed at the Daleks.

"But that thing, they said it was yours. I mean, Time Lords. They built it." He looked at them. "What does it do?"

"I don't know. Never seen it before." He shrugged looking at the Ark.

"I still can't remember everything thanks to whatever the pepper pots did, messed up my watch a little" She grumbled at them. "Clearly it worked enough to get me out"

"But it's Time Lord." Rose frowned.

"Both sides had secrets." He turned his attention to the Daleks. "What is it? What have you done?"

"Time Lord science will restore Dalek supremacy." One of the four Daleks answered.

"What does that mean? What sort of Time Lord science? What do you mean?" The Doctor asked.

"Time Lord science..." Rita mumbled "No" Rita gasped. "You can't"

"What?" He looked at Rita. "What's wrong?"

"Rose what did they tell you?" Rita looked at the blonde raising her brows.

"They said one touch from a time traveller will wake it up." Rita smiled smugly.

"Exactly" She grinned leaning into a Daleks eye stalk. "What can't the Daleks do?" 

She asked and the Doctor replied: "Touch. Sealed inside your casing." He leant in beside Rita gritting his teeth. "Not feeling anything ever, from birth to death, locked inside a cold metal cage. Completely alone. That explains your voice. No wonder you scream."

"The Doctor will open the Ark!" It shouted the Doctor scoffed leaning back, pulling the brunette with him. "The Doctor will not."

"The Stone won't either, oh I like that" Rita wiggled her finger. "Might actually keep that" She winked at the Doctor who tensed a little. 'No' He gasped in his mind.

"You have no way of resisting." The Dalek told them.

"Well, you got us there." He sighed then reached into his inside pocket on his suit. "Although there is always this." He brought out his sonic screwdriver and tossed it in the air then caught it.

"A sonic probe?" The Dalek asked.

"That's screwdriver." He told them.

"It is harmless."

"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." He then pressed it and the doors of the laboratory then blew off. The Doctor dived to the floor pulling Rita down with him as Jake entered with a Cyberman shooting their guns at the Dalek.

"Delete! Delete! Delete! Delete!" The Cyberman screamed firing at the Daleks.

"Alert. Casing impaired. Casing impaired." A Dalek screeched. The Doctor took the opportunity to get to his feet and run to the doors pulling Rita with him.

"Rose, get out!" he shouted.

"Firepower insufficient! Firepower insufficient!" The Dalek screamed.

Rose tried getting to her feet and running to the door but stumbled Pete saw her and ran to help her putting his arm around her and pulling the blonde to the door. "Come on." He shouted.

"Daleks will be deleted. Delete. Delete." The Cyberman announced.

"Mickey, come on!" Rose shouted for Mickey who had dived to the floor and began to shoot at the Daleks.

"Adapt to weaponry."

"Firepower restored!" The Daleks then started to shoot killing a Cyberman. Mickey got up to run put got knocked by a Cyberman and went to fall over but put out his hand to steady himself. He felt a slight burn and yelped before sprinting to the doors where the others stood waiting.

"Cybermen primary target." The Dalek announced.

The Doctor and Rita pulled the doors closed as Mickey ran through. "Jake, check the stairwell. The rest of you, come on." The Doctor ordered and they started to run through the corridor.

"I just fell, I didn't mean it!" Mickey protested.

"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!" He kissed the man's forehead and Rita let out a laugh.

So Time Lord?" Rose looked at Rita as they ran.

"Time Lady" She corrected the blonde.

"How?" Rose frowned running down the corridor.

"Rita" the brunette narrowed her eyes at the Doctor.

"Sort of a trick" she replied ignoring the Doctor. "You heard all that with the Daleks back there. "I somehow, don't ask me because I don't know escaped the Time War. Was sent to a Parallel universe and lived there then the stupid pepper pots brought me over and I met you guys." The Doctor tensed a little again at the mentioning of her not knowing how she 'escaped' "This watch" She reached around her neck and pulled it from under her shirt. "It can hold a Time Lord's essences which basically means it can hold us in the watch, this one was holding me, it's very complicated and hard to explain while running" Rita finished the conversation.

"Best leave it until later then" Mickey added.

"Yeah you know that was always a good idea,fireing" The Doctor said sarcastically narrowing his eyes at Rita. They ran down another corridor turning left and heard the cries of Jackie Tyler: "No, but you can't. Please." She begged. There were Cybermen blocking the way. Pete quickly grabbed the gun Mickey was holding and aimed it at the Cyfiringand causing them to blow up in smoke.

Jackie looked through the smoke and frowned. "Pete?"

"Hello, Jacks." He smiled through the smoke.

"I said there were ghosts, but that's not fair. Why him?" She cried looking at the Doctor who smiled a little at her joke.

"I'm not a ghost." He told her.

"But you're dead. You died twenty years ago, Pete."

"It's Pete from a different universe. Did Rose ever mention about Rita?" He asked and she slightly nodded. "There are parallel worlds, Jackie. Every single decision we make creates a parallel existence, a different dimension where-"

"Oh, you can shut up." She cut him off and he scratched the back of his head Rita let out a little laugh and shook her head while Rose held her hands to her mouth. "Oh, you look old." She said to Pete.

"You don't." He said to her.

"How can you be standing there?" She asked him.

"I just got lucky." He explained. "Lived my life. You were left on your own. You didn't marry again, or?"

"There was never anyone else." Pete nodded. "Twenty years, though. Look at me. I never left that flat. Did nothing with myself."

"You brought her up." Pete smiled. "Rose Tyler. That's not bad." The Doctor and Rita both smiled.

"Yeah." She nodded.

"In my world, it worked. All those daft little plans of mine, they worked. Made me rich." He explained to her.

"I don't care about that." She shook her head then asked. "How rich?"

"Very." He laughed.

"I don't care about that." She then paused again. "How very?" 

Pete sighed. "Thing is though, Jacks, you're not my wife. I'm sorry, but you're not." He then shook his head. "I mean, we both. You know, it's just sort of." He looked at her then flickered his eyes back to Rose for a moment. "Oh, come here." He sobbed a little throwing down the gun and running to her, she ran jumping into his arms and hugging him.

Rose sighed letting out a small laugh and then joined her mother hugging her.

"Come on to the warehouse!" Rita shouted and heading in the direction, The Doctor sprinted off catching up.

"Won't the Dalek's be there?" Rose shouting running after them.

"We need those magnaclamps!" The Doctor shouted over his shoulder running beside Rita.

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The Doctor opended the door and saw the hell doing on inside the warehouse. "Rita stay here" He ordered and dived to the floor heading over to the crate holding the clamps by crawling.

"Not on your own." She dived to the floor as well following him. "I thought I told you to stay!" He shouted looking back to see her close behind. "Not the time!" She shouted back kneeling against the crate and getting a clamp. The Doctor did the same and the two ran back towards the door. "Come on, please." Rose muttered to herself looking through the door.

The Doctor and Rita threw themselves into the door. "You could have got hurt!" The Doctor screamed in her mind. She winced in slight pain from the sudden outburst and he then apologised: "Sorry"

He turned around and placed his 3D glasses on looking in the warehouse through the doors watching what the Daleks were doing. "Override roof mechanism." The black Dalek ordered not caring about the bullets and lasers from the Cybermen being shot at it. The warehouse roof shutters then slide open just as the Dalek ordered.

"Elevate."

"What're they doing?" Rose asked then questioned again. "Why do they need to get outside?"

"Time Lord science. What Time Lord science? What is it?" The Doctor throught, Rita groaned in pain and reached for the wall holding her head. The Doctor looked over and held her arm. "Rita?" He asked looking at her worried. "What's wrong."

"The Ark" She squeezed her eyes shut. "I know what it is for. It's a prison. A Dalek prison. Bigger on the inside" She groaned. "I was-" She cried out in pain forcing herself to remember.

"Don't force yourself." He sternly told her.

She gulped then tried to calm her breathing. "I was forced to build it, they made me Doctor, the high council forced me to help build it," She pleaded for him to understand as he held her shoulders keeping her balanced, staring into his eyes filled with worry that he would hate her. "I didn't have as much of a role unlike some of the others, we were told if we didn't then we would be forced to regenerate if we told anyone not involved we were forced to regenerate. No one knew Doctor" She breathed. "I did this."

"No, you didn't," He told her grabbing her shoulders tighter to make her look at him. "You had no choice." He pulled her in for a hug then heard the Daleks cries. Taking the clamp in is hand and Rita taking the other he took the brunette's hand and they ran with the humans behind heading for the stairs. "We've got to see what it's doing. We've got to go back up. Come on! All of you. top floor!" He shouted over his shoulder.

"That's forty-five floors up! Believe me, I've done them all." Jackie stopped panting.

Jake then poked his head out smiling. "We could always take the lift." He grinned, they all then ran in following. The Doctor repeatedly pressed the button jumping up and down. "Come on! Come on!" He shouted looking up.

After reaching the top the Two Time Lords ran out heading to the window to see The Genesis Ark spinning at high speed shooting Daleks out above London.

"Time Lord science. It's bigger on the inside." He breathed telling the others.

"The perfect prison ship, but the high council didn't think what could happen to it" Rita spat.

"How many Daleks?" Rose asked.

"Millions." The Time Lords answered at the same time.

Pete walked away from the window shaking his head. "I'm sorry, but you've had it." He turned around speaking to the Doctor who also turned. "This world's going to crash and burn. There's nothing we can do. We're going home." He picked up the yellow disks throwing one to Jackie. "Jacks, take this. You're coming with us."

"But they're destroying the city." She protested against Pete.

He chuckled. "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." He looked at the Time Lord. "Doctor?"

The Doctor turned around from watching the window and the Ark with his 3D glasses on. Beaming. "Oh, I'm ready. I've got the equipment right here. Thank you, Torchwood." He ran to a computer terminal. "Slam it down and close off both universes."

"Reboot systems."The computer announced.

"But we can't just leave. What about the Daleks? And the Cybermen?" Rose questioned.

"They're part of the problem.

"And that makes them part of the solution." Rita added grinning at him the Doctor's hearts felt a slight pain with what she just did, he knew she was her and she had no idea. "Oh yes!" He forced an excited smile. "Well? Isn't anyone going to ask what is it with the glasses?" He gestured to his face.

"What is it with the glasses?" Rose asked laughing.

"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." he explained. "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 gave Rose the glasses. "I've been through it. Do you see?" She looked at the Doctor using the glasses and moved around a little beaming away.

"So have I" Rita jumped in moving around copying the Doctor.

"Reboot in three minutes."

"What is it?" Rose asked.

"Void stuff." He told her.

"Like er, background radiation." Rose guessed.

"Exactly like background radiation" Rita beamed.

"Look at the others." Rose turned around to look at the rest of them. "And the only one who hasn't been through the Void, your mother." He pointed at her. "First time she's looked normal all in her life." He commented.

"Oi."

"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."

"Pulling them all in!" Rose shouted.

"Pulling them all in!" The Doctor repeated with the same enthusiasm as Rose.

"Sorry, what's the Void?" Mickey asked.

"Basically hell" Rita shrugged.

"So you're sending the Daleks and Cybermen to Hell. Man, I told you he was good." Mickey looked at Jake laughing.

Rose then frowned. "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."

"That's why you've got to go." The Doctor told her.

"Reboot in two minutes."

"Back to Pete's world. Hey, we should call it that. Pete's World." He grinned. "I'm opening the Void, but only on this side. You'll be safe on that side." He reassured them.

"And then you close it, for good?" Pete checked.

"The breach itself is soaked in Void stuff. In the end it'll close itself. And that's it. Kaput."

"But you two stay on this side?" Rose looked at the Time Lords

"But you'll both get pulled in." Mickey added

"That's why we got these." He picked up the Magnaclamps and handed one to Rita. "I'll just have to hold on tight. I've been doing it all my life."

"About time I start" Rita smiled.

"I'm supposed to go." Rose sadly looked down.

"Yeah."

"To another world, and then it gets sealed off."

"Yeah." The Doctor moved over to a computer. Rita looked at the blonde sadly.

"Forever. That's not going to happen." The building then shook causing everyone to go slightly off balanced.

"We haven't got time to argue. The plan works. We're going. You too." Pete said to Rose and Jackie. "All of us."

"No, I'm not leaving them here." Rose protested.

"I'm not going without her." Jackie told Pete.

"Oh, my God. We're going!" He told them both. Rita slowly backed away knowing anything she said could make it worse.

"I've had twenty years without you, so button it. I'm not leaving her." Jackie snapped at Pete.

"You've got to." Rose told her mum.

"Well, that's tough." Jackie then snapped at her daughter.

"Mum."

"Reboot in one minute."

"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. He might have Rita but she's one of my best friends and I'm not leaving them." The Doctor's face looked hurt, he brought of the yellow disk from earlier and placed it around Rose's neck. Pete then slammed his fist down on his button around his neck.

The Doctor looked at Rita sadly. "You had to,trying" She told him. "Best save the world" She sighed moving over to the computer.

The Doctor opened his mouth to speak but Rita's eyes widened seeing Rose reappear.

"I think this is the on switch." The Doctor looked up from his computer. He marched over to Rose and held her shoulders. "Once the breach collapses, that's it. You will never be able to see her again. Your own mother!" He shouted at her.

Rose swallowed and spoke in a calm yet shaky voice. "I made my choice a long time ago, and I'm never going to leave you two." She looked at the Doctor whose face held an unreadable expression, the Time Lady's just the same before she looked at Rose is disbelief and slight disgust.

"Doctor when this is all sorted back I want you to take me to my time, I know that no one here knows me but still maybe I can do something."

"What?" He looked at her blinking.

"Even though the life I thought I had is a complete lie I still know what it is like to not have a family, to be completely alone with no blood related to your own ever since you can remember, it's horrible. I can't face you day after day knowing you made the choice to leave your family like that." She looked at Rose whose face fell with guilt. "I just can't, I'm sorry."

Rose swallowed thickly not realising how much effect she had on the Time Lady. "So what can I do to help?"

"Systems rebooted. Open access." The computer informed them.

"Those coordinates over there, set them all at six." He ordered her pointing at a terminal. "And hurry up!" He shouted.

"Doctor calm down" Rita thought trying to talk to him through her mind. She looked at the Doctor trying to see any signs that he received it but saw that he obviously didn't get the message since he looked angry typing away at another terminal.

"We've got Cybermen on the way up." Rose informed them.

"How many floors down?" The Doctor ran over to her and looked at the monitor.

"Just one."

"Oh!" Rita jumped in the air. "I remember!" She beamed the Doctor looked at her slightly confused. "Yvonne got 'upgraded' but she couldn't have been fully upgraded because she's down there right now shooting the Cybermen helping us, never liked her but just this once I do" She beamed.

"Rita you are brilliant!" The Doctor shouted.

"I know" She grinned.

"Cheeky" He raised his eyebrows at her.

"Levers operational."

"That's more like it. Bit of a smile. The old team." Rose smiled at them both.

"Hope and Glory, Mutt and Jeff, Shiver and Shake, the mysterious trio!"

"The mysterious trio?" Rose raised a brow.

"Maybe, the Doctor, Rita and Rose was better." The Doctor shrugged and ran into the office and handed Rose a Magnaclamp then ran back out and over to the wall placing it against. "Press the red button." Rose nodded doing just that. "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. Rita and I will have to share since we weren't planning on you being with us. Are you ready?" He asked her and she nodded.

"The pepperpots are." Rita looked out the window then grabbed onto the Magnaclamp.

"Let's do it!" The Doctor shouted and they pushed the lever then grabbed onto the Magnaclamps.

"Online." There was a sudden breeze and the wall lit up, the Daleks by the window screamed as they were sucked into the void. "Emergency!" One of them cried.

"The breach is open! Into the Void! Ha!" The Doctor shouted.

"Goodbye Pepper pots" Rita shouted laughing and watching the Daleks and now Cybermen getting pulled through the one broken window and straight into the void. Rita's eyes widened as she noticed the lever on Rose's side move slightly.

"Offline." The computer states and the breeze and the Daleks and Cybermen being sucked into the void slows down. "No!" Rita screamed as Rose let go of the Magnaclamp to grab the lever and pull it up.

"I've got to get it upright!" She shouts to them pulling on it to make the suction more powerful. She gave it one more push and it clicked into place starting the suction back up. The Daleks and Cybermen then are pulled in again screaming.

"Online and locked."

"Rose, hold on! Hold on!" The Doctor shouts then reached out his arm. Rita screamed watching the girl then get horizontally pulled. She held on to the lever until her fingers slipped. The Doctor and Rita both screamed out as the blonde who was pulled towards the void to be taken away forever.

Somehow Pete appears just before Rose was sucked in catching her and taking her back to Pete's world with his daughter in his arms. The wind then began to slowly die down until there was nothing left. The void closed on itself and closed for good trapping Rose in the Parallel World. Rita fell to the floor out of energy and being purely tired. She panted a few tears slipping down her face out of sadness quietly crying over her friend while the Doctor walked over to the wall and placed a cheek and hand against it. Rita slowly pulled herself over to the wall and leant against just staring. The Doctor turned around and slid down beside the brunette and pulled her into his chest holding her close as if he believed she would be taken next. After a few minutes of mourning the brunette stopped her face the same as the Doctors, the two of them looking completely broken, the Doctor from pain of Rose almost dying and Rita from being completely exhausted. They stood up together and slowly walked away from the wall, from Torchwood.

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Three days past and the Doctor mostly stayed in his room in the TARDIS, that was when Rita was either sitting in the jump seat of the console room deep in thought about her friend or who she was unless when she was in the Libary curled up by the fire reading anything and everything to get her mind off the what happened. When Rita was sleeping which was actually around every other day since she had lost a lot of energy from trying too hard with everything the Doctor sat in the console room trying to find something somewhere, just a gap big enough to say goodbye, to say sorry for being the reason she almost died multiple times. The Doctor sighed in the console room staring at the scanner and seeing nothing yet again until there was a beep. He jolted his head up and stared at it. "Of course!" he jumped up then ran around the console pressing buttons and flicking switches. "Rita!" He screamed running down the hall as fast as he could and then skidding to a stop by her bedroom door. He frantically banged on it hoping for the brunette to answer.

"Doctor what is-" He cut her off as she opened her bedroom door confused about his sudden outburst, he then dragging her away almost causing her to almost fall face first into the floor. "I found it!" He shouted over his shoulder. "A gap!" He ran around the console. "Just a small gap but it's a gap!" He looked at the brunette who slumped down in the jump seat. "Rita?" He looked at her sadly then softly spoke. "We're going to say goodbye to Rose" She jolted her head up and her eyes grew wide in realisation then jumped up and moved around the TARDIS watching the Doctor fly them to a supernova.

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Rose walked up the beach and an image of the two Time Lord's appeared. Rita smiled sadly at the blonde. "Where are you?" She asked them

"Inside the TARDIS." The Doctor replied. "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. We're in orbit around a super nova. We're burning up a sun just to say goodbye.

"You two look like ghosts." Rita chuckled a little at the blonde's comment while the Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver.

"Hold on" He used it pointing at the console as the images solidified.

"Can I" She went to give them both a hug and they sadly shook their heads.

"I wish" Rita looked at the blonde. "We're still inside the TARDIS, we're just images"

"Can't you both come through properly?" She asked.

"The whole thing would fracture. Two universes would collapse." The Doctor answered.

"So?" The Time Lords laughed at her comment.

"Where are we? Where did the gap come out?" The Doctor asked.

"We're in Norway." Rose told them and they nodded.

"Norway. Right." The Doctor nodded.

"About fifty miles out of Burgen. It's called 'Dårlig Ulv Stranden'."

"Dalek?" The Doctor looked at her and she shook her head.

"Had enough of the pepper pots" Rita muttered and they both laughed.

"Dårlig." Rose corrected the Doctor. "It's Norwegian for bad. This translates as Bad Wolf Bay." The Doctor chuckled at the name "How long have we got?"

"Two minutes." Rita told Rose who then sighed as Rose sniffed crying out. "I can't think of what to say!"

"You've still got Mister Mickey, then?"

"There's five of us now. Mum, Dad, Mickey and the baby." Rose told him.

"You're not?" He asked. Rita glanced at him for a moment then looked back at the blonde.

"No." She laughed seeing Rita's face. "It's mum. She's three months gone. More Tylers on the way."

"Have to get her to teach them the Tyler slap. Gonna miss him complaining about that." Rita chuckled.

"And what about you? Are you-"

"Yeah, I'm back working in the shop." She interrupted.

"Oh, good for you." He nodded.

"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." She smiled at them.

"Rose Tyler, Defender of the Earth." The Doctor proudly smiled then his face saddened a little. "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." 

Rita nodded sighing. "You and me both Doctor" He looked over at her sadly then looked back at Rose.

"Am I ever going to see you two again?" She sobbed.

"You can't."

"What're you going to do?" She asked her voice now breaking and her eyes becoming glassy.

"Oh, We've got the Tardis. Same old life, last of the Time Lords." He looked at Rita who nodded in agreement.

"On your own." A tear slipped out of her eye and rolled down her cheek. "I, I love you." She cried to the Doctor, Rita looked on sadly.

"Quite right, too." He gave a weak smile now tearing up himself. "And I suppose if it's one last chance to say it, Rose Tyler..." The projection vanished and the Doctor stood there broken. Rita looked at him sadly seeing a tear fall. She never saw him cry before, not in person. She let him be on his own to think about his thoughts, she looked down sadly at the floor not sure what to do or say anymore. She felt someone pull her and then looked up to see the Doctor hugging her his head on hers more tears leaving his eyes.

"Oh Doctor" He gave her a weak smile and she blinked not sure if he got the message. After a moment or two, he let her go and wiped his eyes then forced a smile at the brunette who sent one back. He started to press buttons on the console. Rita moved around sitting in the jump seat watching the Doctor and then looked towards the doors to see a woman dressed in... A wedding dress? With her back to the Time Lords. She froze and then the Doctor noticed her as well. "What" His mouth fell open and his eyes widened. The woman turned round and saw them both looking horrified.

"Oh!" She gasped.

"What?" The Doctor repeated then looked at Rita.

"How?" Rita questioned.

"Who are you?" She looked at the Doctor then at Rita. "And you!"

"But." The Doctor went to speak.

"Where am I, eh?" The woman looked around.

"What?" The Doctor repeated.

"What the hell is this place?" The woman shouted demanding an answer looking very annoyed.

"How?" Rita said again.

"What?"

It's over :( Bye bye human Rita. The mystery of how she got on board the Dalek ship has been revealed and solved (for now >:D) The second book in the Parallel series 'Remembering the Forgotten' will be on my profile shortly.