The Doctor started coming to after being knocked out by Cassandra in Rita's body. His vision was a little blurry for a few moments but he was ok. Then he noticed where he was. "Let us out! Let us out" He started to bang on the inside of the green pod door.

"Aren't you two lucky there was two spare? Standing room only" The Doctor could just about see the outline of Rita's body outside of the pod.

"Doctor!" Rose screamed she must have woken up.

"You've stolen Rita's body." The Doctor stated.

"Over the years, I've thought of a thousand ways to kill you, Doctor." Cassandra laughed a little "And now, that's exactly what I've got. One thousand diseases. They pump the patients with a top-up every ten minutes." She looked at her wrist pretending there was a watch there. "You've got about three minutes left. Enjoy."

"Just let Rose and Rita go, Cassandra." "Rose? ha no, the brunette I will." Cassandra laughed "As soon as I've found someone less common, then I'll junk her with the waste. Now hushaby. It's showtime." Cassandra then walked away from the pod slowly disfiguring Rita's shape.

"Anything we can do to help?" Jatt and Matron walked down the walk way.

"Straight to the point, Whiskers." Cassandra mocked the cats "I want money."

"The Sisterhood is a charity. We don't give money. We only accept." Casp explained to Cassandra who proceeded to roll her eyes quite bored of the cats.

"The humans across the water pay you a fortune, and that's exactly what I need." Cassandra crossed her arms "A one-off payment, that's all I want." she then thought for a moment "Oh, and perhaps a yacht. In return for which, I shall tell the city nothing of your institutional murder." Rita mentally slapped the woman for her uncaring nature. She knew that Cassandra definitely had a heart somewhere (even if it was no longer her original heart) but the woman had to find it herself which annoyed Rita as she wanted to help but was unable to do so with the amount of energy she had left as well as knowing that the 'episode' had to continue as normal "Is that a deal?" Cassandra asked the cats. 

  "I'm afraid not."  Casp declined the offer like Rita knew she would even without watching the episode no one would be silly enough to fall for that sort of a plan.

"I'll tell them," Cassandra threatened. "and you've no way of stopping me. You're not exactly Nuns with Guns." 'Big mistake'  Rita thought managing to gain some strength "You're not even armed." Cassandra scoffed ignored Rita's comment.

"Who needs arms when we have claws?" Matron unleashed her claws making Cassandra panic darting her eyes around the area before turning to Chip

"Well, nice try. Chip? Plan B" Chip then pulled a lever opening all of the pod doors on that level including the Doctor and Rose.

The Doctor jumps out of his pod and then helps Rose and next turning to Cassandra "What've you done?" 

"Gave the system a shot of adrenaline, just to wake them up." Cassandra turned and ran in the opposite direction "See you!"

The Doctor turned back to the cats, he pointed and shouted: "Don't touch them! Whatever you do, don't touch!" he then grabbed Rose's hand and Chased after Cassandra and Chip.

The Doctor and Rose follow Cassandra and Chip down the hall until hearing a scream and the doors on every single one of the other pods opening allowing all the people to roam free.

   "Oh, my God." Cassandra gasped skidding to a stop just as the Doctor and Rose caught up.

"What the hell have you done?!" He shouted at her scanning the area for an escape.

"It wasn't me!" Cassandra cried out in panic as the people carrying every disease ever slowly walked closer and closer.

"One touch and you get every disease in the world, and I want that body safe, Cassandra." The Doctor shouted and then noticed the path to the stairs were free he grabbed Rose's hand again "We've got to go down!" He shouted at her while running over to the stairs.

"But there's thousands of them!" She cried out yet again.

"Run!" He ordered Cassandra and Chip down and then running down with Rose. "Down! Down! Go down!" The Doctor, Rose, Cassandra and Chip all ran down the stairs while the infected people followed. "

"Repeat, this building is under quarantine. No one may leave the premises. Repeat, no one may leave the premises" A voice though the speaker informed everyone while the group continued heading down the stairs.

"Keep going! Go down!" The Doctor told Cassandra and Chip knowing that Rose would most likely not object.

The group continue to travel down the stairs, the Doctor and Rose only a few stairs behind Cassandra and Chip.  Cassandra then noticed a lift and started to run for it "No, the lifts have closed down." The Doctor stopped "That's the quarantine. Nothing's moving."

Cassandra frantically looked around trying to see another way hearing the people closely behind her.  "This way!" She shouts pointing to the direction of what was her lair and then heading for it Cassandra ran ahead of the others only really caring about herself. The Doctor turns around to see Chip had stopped and started to panic as the infected people approach cutting off the exits and leaving him trapped 

"Someone will touch him." The Doctor shouts as Cassandra continued to run.

"Leave him!" Cassandra shouted over her shoulder causing Rose to gasp in horror at how rude the woman was being "He's just a clone thing." She rolled her eyes at the blonde and then added: "He's only got a half life. Come on!" She ordered the pair to follow.

Chip slowly backed away and begged Cassandra "Mistress!" his face drained of colour as he watched the woman run in the opposite direction.

"I'm sorry," The Doctor reaches out an arm unable to help while Rose looked at the man with the pity Cassandra never had "We can't let her escape." She added her eyes watering with tears. Chip never deserved this even if he did help Cassandra take Rita's body he didn't deserve death. The pair turned and ran after Cassandra hearing Chips cries begging for his Mistress behind them.

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The trio ran through an arch and entered Cassandra's lair the Doctor shutting the open door behind him. Cassandra headed straight for the back door not looking back at the pair or mourning after what definitely looked like Chips death.  "We're trapped!" Cassandra gasped leaning against the back door that held some of the many infected humans behind it. "What am I going to do?!" She cried out. 'Always about yourself isn't it Cassandra?'

"I have had enough of you and you comments kid!" Cassandra shouted like a psycho. The Doctor and Rose frowned at the woman's screams. "All you do is comment about everything 'Cassandra you're so rude, 'Cassanda you're disgusting'" She huffed, the Doctor and Rose stared at her looking very confused.

"Rita?" Rose questioned in disbelieve stepping closer to the brunette.

"God she's so annoying, I have better things to worry about like getting the hell out of here" Cassandra rolled her eyes. Rita grinned or would have if she wasn't trapped in her own mind.

"Well, for starters," The Doctor stepped towards the woman and stood next to Rose "you're going to leave that body." he said darkly then pointed his sonic "That psychograft is banned on every civilised planet." He shouted, "You're compressing Rita to death." He shot daggers at the woman with his eyes.

"But I've got nowhere to go." Cassandra countered "My original skin's dead."

"Not my problem." The Doctor said sharply "You can float as atoms in the air. Now, get out." He ordered before pointing his sonic screwdriver at Rita's body threatening and then darkly said: "Give her back to me."

"You asked for it." Cassandra rolled her eyes before breathing heavily and leaving Rita's body. Rose ran up to the brunette and caught her before she could fall to the floor.

"Oh god" Rita groaned holding her head to try and stop the agonising pain burning her.

"Where did she go?" Rose frowned helping Rita stand up.

"Take a guess" Rita rolled her eyes, pointing at the Doctor while getting pissed off at Cassandra.

"Oh, my." Cassandra who was in the Doctors body gasped "This is different." She looked down at the body she was occupying.

"Cassandra?" Rose frowned, narrowing her eyes.

"Goodness me, I'm a man." She ignored Rose, Rita rolled her eyes and tried to hold the smile slowly forming on her lips, even when her life was at risk and the Doctor was trapped inside his own mind she could not find this pretty entertaining "Yum. So many parts." Cassandra grinned at the pair before her "And hardly used." She raised her eyes up and down at them both making the pair wrinkle their noses  "Oh, oh, two hearts!" Cassandra then gasped making the stupidest movement ever "Oh, baby, I'm beating out a samba!" 

"You have had your fun now Cassandra, now leave him alone." Rita hissed at the woman having enough of her childish behaviour.

"Oo, he's slim," Cassandra looked down at the Doctors body slowly moving a hand down his side "and a little bit foxy." She grinned and raised her eyebrows up and down at the pair yet again. "You've thought so too." She began to walk over to Rita who proceeded to roll her eyes denying it all and not showing any emotion, Rose looked at the brunette trying not to laugh "I've been inside your head." Cassandra mocked "You've been looking. You like it."

"That's enough Cassandra" Rita growled at how stupid the woman was making her look. Rose would not let her live this down. Suddenly before Rose or Cassandra could make any comments the back door burst open allowing all of the infected people to walk right in.

"What do we do?" She looked at the pair wide-eyed in panic then proceeded to wack Rose's arm "What would he do?" She looked between the pair "The Doctor, what the hell would he do?" She screamed.

"Ladder, come on!" Rita ordered grabbing Rose's hand and headed for the ladder.

"Out the way! Blondie," She shoved Rose to the side "And you! Brunette" Rita groaned also being shoved to the side she rolled her eyes and thought: At least she wouldn't get him killed now Rita then let Rose head up the ladder next.

"Please, help us. Help." Rita could hear the begging of the people below who had begun to slowly climb the ladder chasing the trio.

"If you get out of the Doctor's body, he can think of something." Rose continued the conversation after the outburst of infected people earlier.

"Yap, yap, yap. Just like that one" Cassandra pointed to Rita who groaned at her "God, it was tedious inside your head. Complaint city."

"Maybe you should just leave me and my friends alone then!" Rita shouted, Cassandra looked at the brunette in horror which made Rita feel guilty, she knew what Cassandra would do in the end and also felt bad because it felt like she was shouting at the Doctor and not Cassandra. "Sorry" she mumbled " But we're going to die if-" Rita jerked her head down to see Matron the nurse cat clawing at her red vans.

"Those were my favourite!" Rita shouted down at the cat. "Get off!"

"All our good work." Matron spat  "All that healing. The good name of the Sisterhood. You have destroyed everything."

"It was never just healing Matron!" Rose shouted. "You created people to use as lab rats and then killed them!"

"Go and play with a ball of string," Cassandra added mocking Matron.

"Everywhere, disease." Matron argued ignoring Cassandra "This is the human world. Sickness!"

"Matron!" Rita gasped as one of the infected people reached up and grabbed Matron causing her entire body to suddenly burst out with boils. Matron screamed out and let go of the ladder as well as Rita crying out in pain, falling to her certain death.

"Move!" Rita shouted up at Cassandra darkly causing the woman to jump a little and scurry up the ladder. Rose looked down at Rita for a second her face soft and saddened Rita nodded up at Rose telling her she was ok before the pair climbed up after Cassandra. Just before the trio reached the exit they heard a voice on the speakers: Maximum quarantine. Divert all shuttles. 

"Damn it" Rita mumbled thinking to herself on what was going to happen next.

"Now what do we do?" Cassandra looked down at them both, still inside the Doctors body.

"You have to get out of him Cassandra, it's the only way," Rose told the woman.

"No way, I'm not going back in her, Complaint city" She gestured to Rita who groaned.

"Cassandra its either that or you open it with the Sonic Screwdriver and I don't see you figuring how to do that!" Rita spat up at the woman.

"You mean this thing?" Cassandra scrunched her face up and held the screwdriver as if it was a dirty sock.

"Yes she means that thing!" Rose shouted up.

"That Doctor's hidden away all his thoughts." Cassandra moaned "I have no idea what to do"

"I told you that you wouldn't know. Why does no one ever listen!" Rita grumbled. "You have to go back into me Cassandra the Doctor can open it. Do it!" Rita ordered.

"Hold on tight." Cassandra groaned. Rita braced herself and surely enough she began to feel compressed in her own mind yet again.

"I'm a kid yet again." Cassandra moaned

'I'm 19!' 

"Yes, yes whatever" Cassandra waved Rita off "Now open it!" She looked up at the Doctor who was groaning and just getting used to being back in himself like normal. 

"Not until you get out of her." The Doctor narrowed his eyes at her.

"We need the Doctor." Cassandra protested against him.

"I order you to leave her" He commanded

Cassandra breathed in and then entered the Doctors body yet again.

"Cassandra!" Rita shouted.

"No matter how difficult the situation, there is no need to shout." Cassandra rolled her eyes. 

"Get out of him Cassandra only he can help!" Rose ignored her shouting up at the woman.

"But I can't go into her, he simply refuses, he isn't going to budge if I try you either" She gestured to Rose "He's so rude." She mumbled.

"Tell me about it" Rita muttered, "But that isn't the point!" Rita glared. "Get out of him! I don't care what you do, just do something!"

"Oh, I am so going to regret this" Cassandra had a disgusted look on her face. She then breathed out giving the Doctor his mind back for the last time and then entered the leading infected woman on the ladder.

"Oh, sweet lord." Cassandra gasped "I look disgusting!" She screamed in horror.

"Doctor now!" Rita shouted up, he nodded and soniced the lift door allowing them to exit. The Doctor climbed out and then helped Rose up and then turned to Rita who had just about got herself out, the Doctor grabbed her hand and helped her.

"Nice to have you back" He smiled at Rita.

"No, you don't," Cassandra muttered switching out of the woman and back into the brunette who then felt to the floor.

"That was your last warning, Cassandra!" The Doctor stared at her annoyed and angry at the selfish woman.

Cassandra ignored his warning and began to mumble. "Inside her head. They're so alone. They keep reaching out, just to hold us. All their lives and they've never been touched." She looked up at the Doctor and then looked at Rose guilt plastering her face. The Doctor offers her a hand not commenting on what she had just said, she accepted the hand and the trio started to walk through Ward 26.

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"We're safe! We're safe! We're safe! We're clean! We're clean! Look, look." The Doctor and Rose show there hands to Clovis who had charged at the trio with a metal stand ready to defend herself.

"Show me your skin!" She ordered. Cassandra grinned and took the opportunity to show every inch of skin possible that was deemed 'appropriate'.

 "Look, clean. Look," The Doctor spoke and Rose showed her arms again "if we'd been touched, we'd be dead." The Doctor informed her. Clovis lowered the metal stand and breathed a deep sigh of relief. "So how's it going up here?" he asked. "What's the status?"

"There's nothing but silence from the other wards, "Clovis told the three as they started to walk. "I think we're the only ones left. And I've been trying to override the quarantine." Rose and the Doctor frowned at that.

'No you can't!' Rita thought with the little amount of energy she now had remaining.

"ooh, she doesn't like the sound of that" Cassandra shook Rita's head and tutted.

Clovis looked at the brunette confused at what she was babbling on about before continuing: "If I can trip a signal over to New New York, they can send a private executive squad."  

"Rita's right,  you can't do that." Rose nodded in agreement. "If they forced entry, they'd break quarantine."

"I am not dying in here," Clovis told them firmly

Neither of us will" Rose told her.

"We can't let a single particle of disease get out. There are ten million people in that city." The Doctor pointed in the direction of what he guessed was New New York. "They'd all be at risk. Now, turn that off!" He ordered Clovis

"Not if it gets me out." Clovis looked at the Doctor seriously.

"All right, fine." He turned around "So I have to stop you lot as well. Suits me." He then turned to the rest of those in the ward "Rose, novice Hame, Rita, everyone! Excuse me, your Grace." He nodded at the Duke "Get me intravenous solutions for every single disease. Move it!" The Doctor ordered everyone while he himself colected up a long piece of what looked like heavy silk, attaching it to his body he then instructed the others to hand over the solutions and then begins to attach them to his body.

"How's that? Will that do?" The Doctor thought out loud.

"I don't know. Will it do for what?" Cassandra asked as the Doctor starts to walk away, she and Rose follow him over to one of the lifts which he soniced and the lift doors open he pokes his head out and looks down.

"The lifts aren't working," Cassandra stated the obvious while the Doctor was messing with the lift.

"Not moving. Different thing." He pointed out and then walks away from the lift "Rose stay here and make sure nothing gets in or out." The Doctor passed Rose who looks over at him and nodded, watching what he is about to do.

"But you're not going to-" Cassandra begins to ask before getting shocked by the Doctors actions.

"Here we go." He mumbles to himself and then turned around facing the lift head on before placing his sonic screwdriver between his teeth and running at full speed, launching himself, grabbing the lift cable and making sure he was secured so he would not fall.     

"What do you think you're doing?!" Cassandra asked in shock running over to him Rose doesn't seem fazed by this at all and just grins, Cassandra then looks over at her grinning.

He removed the screwdriver from between his teeth to speak while attaching something to the cable "I'm going down! Come on!"

"Not in a million years! She protested "Plus why can't blondie?!"

"Rose" He corrected Cassandra "needs to stay up here and make sure these lot." He gestured to everyone in the ward "stay in and not try to leave or let anything in and I cannot trust you, Cassandra, no way are you leaving my sight in my friend's body, plus" he added again.  "If you're so desperate to stay alive, why don't you live a little? " He finished his speech and raises his brows at her.

"Seal the door!" Cassandra and Rose heard Clovis speaking. Rose then rushed over to help and Cassandra saw the horror of the infected people again, knowing she would most likely be safer with the Doctor she jumped grabbing on to the Doctor to stop her falling to her death.

"You're completely mad." Cassandra gasped looking down wide-eyed  "I can see why she likes you." She mumbled.

The Doctor ignored her comment and exclaimed: "Going down!" He allowed the wheel attached to the cables of the lift to drop down the shaft. Cassandra screamed in terror and the Doctor then screamed in joy clearly full of adrenaline.

"Well, that's one way to lose weight." Cassandra pointed out. "If she even had some" She looked down at Rita's body. "God she's almost as skinny as you" She raised her brows and chuckled at her own comment a little.

The Doctor ignored this and told the woman what she had to do. "Now, listen. When I say so, take hold of that lever." He pointed to the lever on top of the lift they had landed on.

"There's still a quarantine down there, we can't-" Cassandra began to speak before getting interrupted.

"Hold that lever! I'm cooking up a cocktail." The Doctor started to rip open the solution packets and pour the liquid in the lifts disinfectant tank. "I know a bit about medicine myself." he continued to pour all of the remaining liquid solutions in the tank. " Now, that lever's going to resist." He poured the final packet "But keep it in position. Hold onto it with everything you've got."

"What about you?" Cassandra asked holding the lever ready for the command. The Doctor then soniced the lift until the window about it opened allowing access. 

"I've got an appointment." he then jumped in. "The Doctor is in." He soniced the lift door and it then opened allowing some of the infected people outside to notice and begin to head his way. "I'm in here! Come on!" He announced allowing all of them to now notice him in the lift.

"Don't tell them!" Cassandra hiss at him through the gap of the lift.

 "Pull that lever!" He ordered. Cassandra followed his order and pulled on the lever with all of her strength.

"Come and get me. Come on" He encouraged them all

  Commence stage one disinfection.  

The Doctor grinned "Hurry up! Come on!" he said as all of the solutions mixed with the disinfectant began to pour on him. "Come on, come on."  The first few people now entering the lift. The solution started to clear and cure them of all of the diseases they had being given by the Sisterhood. The now cured people then exit the lift. "All they want to do is pass it on." He started to jump up and down in joy "Pass it on!"

"Pass on what?" Cassandra asked, still holding the lever in place "Pass on what?"

"Pass it on!" The Doctor repeated continuing to jump up and down.

 "What did they pass on?" Cassandra repeated for the third time "Did you kill them?" She asked. 'No'  Rita thought unable to communicate any longer knowing that she was most likely close to dying now not being able to take being trapped in her own head any longer than a few more minutes.

"No." He helped Cassandra down from the lift shaft "That's your way of doing things." He walked out the lift and smiled at what he had just done, curing and helping all of these people who were once trapped like rats in a lab.

"I'm the Doctor, and I cured them." A young woman walks up and then hugs the Doctor. "That's right." He cooed "Hey, there we go, sweetheart." The Doctor then pointed at a man "Go to him. Go on, that's it." He encouraged the woman over to the man softly "That's it. It's a new sub-species, Cassandra. A brand new form of life. New humans!" He beamed ecstatic "Look at them. Look! Grown by cats, kept in the dark, fed by tubes, but completely, completely alive." He burned with happiness for these people "You can't deny them because you helped create them. The human race just keeps on going, keeps on changing. Life will out! Ha!" He watched the new humans help one another.      

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The Doctor and Cassandra still in Rita's body walk through the empty ward trying to find Rose.'Rita' the brunette heard a soft calm voice that definitely wasn't Cassandra in her head. 'It's ok she can't hear me neither can the Doctor, only you, I'm giving you longer to manage with Cassandra in your head so you can speak to me and survive this'

'Jack?' Rita thought. 'Thank you'

'It's been a long time my friend you look so young'

'And you so old' Rita mentally sighed wishing she had her own body back so she didn't have to worry about Cassandra hearing what she or Jack was saying even when she knew that the woman couldn't.

"The Face of Boe!" The Doctor interrupted the girls thought spotting the face in the ward with Rose by his side. "You were supposed to be dying." He placed a hand on the tank and then looked at Rose who nodded telling him she was fine.

'There are better things to do today. Dying can wait.'   Boe spoke to trios minds.

"Oh, I hate telepathy. Just what I need, a head full of big face."

'I have grown tired with the universe, Doctor, but you have taught me to look at it anew.'   

"There are legends, you know, saying that you're millions of years old." He smiled at Boe.

'There are? That would be impossible.' The Face of Boe spoke as if it was something he didn't already know.

"Wouldn't it just." The Doctor looked up at The Face of Boe knowing that these legends could possibly be true. "I got the impression there was something you wanted to tell me."

'Not just you Doctor, but it is a great secret'

"So the legend says." The Doctor chuckled watching The Face of Boe wind him up.

'It can wait.'  He said while thinking that he needed to wait for the right moment and this moment was not it knowing it was too soon.

"Oh, does it have to?!" The Doctor moaned, sighing while nodding.

'We shall meet again, Doctor, for the third time, for the last time, and the truth shall be told. Until that day' he paused 'goodbye his precious stone' The Face of Boe spoke only to Rita once again and then beamed away to the unknown leaving nothing behind.

"That is enigmatic." The Doctor shook his head and grinned That, that is, that is textbook enigmatic." His face then fell and he turned to Cassandra "And now for you."

"But everything's happy. Everything's fine. Can't you just leave me?" She begged looking between the Doctor and Rose.

"You've lived long enough. Leave that body and end it, Cassandra." The Doctor spoke calmly.

"I don't want to die." Cassandra's voice began to crack.

"No one does." Rose softly spoke to the woman.

"Help me." She looked up at the pair. Pleaded in her eyes.     

"We can't."

"Mistress!" The Doctor and Rose looked up while Cassandra turned around to see Chip run in a smile plastered on his face.

"Oh, you're alive."

"I kept myself safe for you, mistress." Chip walked over beaming proudly at the woman. The poor man cared for her so much yet she didn't blink an eye at him.

"A body. And not just that, a volunteer."  Cassandra grinned at the pair obviously hinting to them that she was going to use Chip.

"Don't you dare." The Doctor warned her "He's got a life of his own."

"But I worship the mistress." Chip basically encouraging Cassandra "I welcome her." he smiled at Cassandra.

"You can't, Cassandra, you-" It was too late and Cassandra had already let Rita go freeing her from her own body allowing her to not be compressed to death in her own mind. From feeling so weak Rita headed straight for the floor however if it wasn't for the Doctor catching her Rita most definitely would have.

"Oh! You all right?" The Doctor asked helping her stand before she started to crash to the ground again "Whoa! Okay?" he gasped slightly as he caught Rita before she collided with the cold floor.

"Yeah" Rita groaned feeling her head pounding. "Hi" She looked up at the Doctor and smiled genuinely happy to be back controlling her own body.  

"Hello." He grinned. "Welcome back." He helped her stand on her own two feet. Rose then rushed over to the brunette to help keep her balanced on the side the Doctor was not holding.

"Oh, sweet Lord. I'm a walking doodle." Cassandra gasped looking down at her arms.

"You can't stay in there." The Doctor told her "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." He gently let Rita go as she gained the strength to be able to finally stand on her own.

"Well, that would be rather dramatic." Cassandra scoffed "Possibly my finest hour, and certainly my finest hat, but I'm afraid we don't have time." Rita's face fell knowing what was going to happen she walked over near the woman ready to be able to catch her before she fell. 

"Poor little Chip is only a half-life, and he's been through so much." Cassandra's face also then fell "His heart is racing so. He's failing. I don't think he's going to last." Cassandra then falls, Rita caught the woman and gently lets her down to the floor.

"Are you all right?" The Doctor asked.

"I'm fine. I'm dying, but that's fine." Cassandra looked at Rita in the eye and smiled sadly knowing what would happen. "You knew didn't you?" She asked softly not looking away. 

Rita slowly nodded a tear falling down her cheek as rude and selfish the woman was at times Rita definitely knew from the moment that she ended that 'episode' that Cassandra was kind and cared.

"I'm sorry Cassandra" Rita sighed. "I tried to warn you at the start, I said that we- the Doctor" she corrected. "Could help, but stubborn you didn't listen." Rita gave out a small laugh.

"It's ok Rita" she blinked not expecting Cassandra to say her name since she only addressed her as the kid or brunette throughout the day. "You tried and that's what matters"

"I can take you to the city." The Doctor interrupted their conversation.

"No, you won't." Cassandra declined the offer "Everything's new on this planet. There's no place for Chip and me anymore." She sighed "You're right, Doctor. It's time to die, and that's good."  

"Come on. There's one last thing I can do." The Doctor turned around and began to head for the TARDIS and then stopped waiting for Rita and Rose.

"Rose you go on with Cassandra a second I need to talk to Rita" Rita blinked at the Doctor and frowned then turned to Rose who nodded and helped Cassandra.

"Are you okay?" he asked her once Rose had left.

"I told you I was-"

"About her" He interrupted and glanced in the direction Rose and Cassandra went in. "You knew this was going to happen Rita and I know what that can do to someone." He glanced down knowing too well that Rita knew what he was talking about.

"I'll be fine" She told him truthfully nodding. "I promise"

"I know" he smiled back and offered his hand trying to at least comfort her knowing what she was going through right now as the pair headed in the same direction as there friend had just left in.

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Rita stayed in the TARDIS while the Doctor and Rose exited to take Cassandra to the last time she was called a beautiful woman. Rita sighed at the thought she never realised it was this hard knowing the future she was going to have to stop being so sensitive if she was going to survive what was to come.

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A/N: Thank you for reading and voting. What do you think of Rita at the moment? Do you think I should write some of these in first person or keep it how it currently is?