Door 16 out of commission. The computer repeated

"The earthquake. This section collapsed." He explained, Rose not believing him tried to give him some hope.

"But it's got to be out there somewhere." She looked through the porthole not seeing anything but rock.

"Look down." He told her. She did so and saw nothing, pitch black nothingness, the Doctor ran back the way they had come passing Rita standing there guilty not knowing what to do or say.

He reached the control room and the Doctor starting speaking fast and practically begging Zach. "The ground gave way. My Tardis must've fallen down right into the heart of the planet. But you've got robot drills heading the same way."

Zach knew what the Doctor was asking and automatically declined. "We can't divert the drilling."

"But I need my ship. It's all I've got. Literally the only thing." He begged Zach.

"Doctor, we've only got the resources to drill one central shaft down to the power source, and that's it. No diversions, no distractions, no exceptions. Your machine is lost. All I can do is offer you a lift if we ever get to leave this place, and that is the end of it." He walked off leaving the control room.

"I'll er, put you on the duty roster. We need someone in the laundry." She walked off not liking the awkward situation she was currently in seeing the anger on the Doctor's face.

Open door 1. Close door 1.

"You knew didn't you," He said not looking at Rita who was standing not facing him. He didn't sound angry... he sounded soft and calm.

"Yeah, I did" She slowly nodded.

"And you blame yourself. " He told her already knowing that she was blaming herself. "Don't" He said pausing for a moment. "It's a fixed point that you couldn't have changed, the TARDIS would have just ended up on one of the other 3 storages causing the TARDIS to still be lost." She didn't reply and only walked off. He sighed to himself.

"She'll listen, Doctor, she just needs time" Rose whispered looking at the brunette for a moment.

"It's always time" He groaned. "I've trapped you here."

"No, don't worry about me." She told him just before the room slightly shook.

"Okay, we're on a planet that shouldn't exist, under a black hole and no way out. Yeah, I've changed my mind. Start worrying about me." The Doctor pulled her into a hug, he couldn't help but stare at the door Rita exited through compleatly ignoring the room shaking around him.

She felt guilty and wasn't listening to him, Rose said that she would listen and need time, but how much? How long until she'd listen and won't blame herself for them being stuck? She knew that they got out of it alive and back on the TARDIS but she knew what happened next, she knows what happens after the Olympic games and meeting Chloe Webber. She didn't want to say goodbye to Rose they had become such great friends, but she wanted to meet Donna and Martha and see Shakespeare and all those amazing things in the universe that she hadn't seen yet. But could she? Could Rita Stone live with knowing the pain and suffering both the Doctor and Rose Tyler would have to go, though? Best mates dare her even say lovers split apart in two two different universes, never to be seen again.

Of course there was Donna and the Meta-crisis where she would see the blonde again if she was still traveling with the Doctor unless he hated her for not telling him what happened to Rose and allowing it to happen to her, he would probably try and take her back to her universe, if the TARDIS could get to Pete's world then he could take her back to her world.

She sighed sitting inhabitation three alone thinking about the future over and over, what was she going to do? She couldn't change that big of an event in history, but she didn't want to say goodbye to the blonde yet. It was too soon, too early and it terrified her. Doomsday was always an 'episode' Rita could never survive without breaking down. The laughter of the Doctor and Rose joking about Ghostbusters to the tears of the blonde against the wall when separated. She knew this was coming, she always did right back at the very start when the Doctor asked if she wanted to stay with them.

She sat there in silence hearing the Ood in what looked like a kitchen. Rose was getting something to eat and no doubt head her way asking if she wanted anything. She felt like a child sulking over a broken toy, the Doctor told her it wasn't her fault but she couldn't help feel it was. Just as she suspected the blonde walked over her tray still in hand. "Rita do you want anything?" She said softly.

"No I'm fine thanks,relising" Rita said colder than she meant while not looking up at the blonde, Rose worried about the brunette just as much as Rita worried about her. Hearing the footsteps of Rose slowly walk away she breathed out a sigh.Not realising the Doctor was watching Rita, his eyes warm and soft sadly watching her blame herself for the mess they were currently in, why though? She knew they would get out of it alive. So why was she being like this?

The Doctor and Rose look up at the same time as Ida noticing the lights flickering in habitation three. "Zach? Have we got a problem?" She asked in the wrist-comm.

"No more than usual. Got the Scarlet System burning up. Might be worth a look." He suggested.

Ida looked at them all. "You might want to see this. Moment in history." She told them then opened the shutters allowing the black hole to be viewed and an odd red cloud on the edge being sucked in to the black hole.

"There." She pointed to it, the Doctor and Rose followed her hand, Rita looked up for a moment not needing to know where it was due to already knowing. "On the edge. That red cloud. That used to be the Scarlet System. Home to the Peluchi, a mighty civilisation spanning a billion years, disappearing forever. Their planets and suns consumed." They watched as the last of it was sucked in. "Ladies and gentlemen, we have witnessed its passing."She went to close it but the Doctor stopped her.

"Er, no, could you leave it open? Just for a bit. I won't go mad, I promise."

"How would you know?" He smiled at her a little and she gave in leaving it open. "Scooti, check the lockdown. Jefferson, sign off the airlock seals for me." She ordered opening door 18 and then leaving, Jefferson and Scooti left using doors 17 and 19.

"I've seen films and things, yeah. They say black holes are like gateways to another universe." Rose looked at the Doctor

"Not that one." He told her looking up at the black hole. "It just eats."

"Long way from home." She sighed.

The Doctor looked to the left of the black hole then pointed in the direction. "Go that way, turn right, keep going for er, about, er, five hundred years, and you'll reach the Earth."

Rose took out her phone from a pocket and switched it on then sighed. "No signal. That's the first time we've gone out of range. Mind you, even if I could. What would I tell her?" He didn't reply and just looked at the black hole. "Can you build another Tardis?" She asked.

"They were grown, not built. And with my own planet gone, we're kind of stuck." He pursed his lips.

"Well, it could be worse. This lot said they'd give us a lift." She thought aloud the Doctor looked at her frowning his brows a little.

"And then what?"

She shrugged. "I don't know. Find a planet, get a job, live a life, same as the rest of the universe."

The Doctor thought. "I'd have to settle down. Get a house or something. A proper house with, with doors and things." He looked disgusted shriviling up his nose at the thought. "Carpets. Me, living in a house. Now that, that is terrifying."

"You'd have to get a mortgage." She mocked him grinning.

"No." He protested.

"Oh, yes."

"I'm dying. That's it. I'm dying. It is all over." He joked.

"What about me? I'd have to get one, too. I don't know, could be the same one." She mumbled. "We could both, I don't know, share." She looked at him but he wasn't looking at her. His eyes were looking at the other side of the room at the brunette twiddling her thumbs. Oh Doctor Rose thought to herself. She always saw the looks, they didn't even realise they were doing it but she saw it alright, she didn't blame them either. How could she? They were both her best mates and it wasn't like she was with the Doctor or anything she didn't own him sure she liked him a little but she wasn't his to own.

She did, however, feel a slight pang of jealousy. She did know the Doctor first after all. What changed? was it him changing? because he said he was completely the same at Christmas with only a few changes. "Maybe" he mumbled eyes still fixed on the brunette not realising he was not staring at her. He looked away most likely now noticing what he was doing and looked down out of embarrassment. "I promised Jackie I'd always take you back home." He muttered still looking at the floor.

"Everyone leaves home in the end." His head snapped up at her words.

"Not to end up stuck here."

"Yeah, but stuck with you two, that's not so bad." She smiled a little.

"Yeah?" He asked.

"Yes." She nodded. Rose's phone than rang, the Doctor and Rose both looked at the phone frowning, she answered the call placing it beside her ear.

"He is awake." A raspy voice on the other end speaks. She threw the phone down and the Doctor looks at her confused.

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The Doctor Rose and Rita walked down the stairs towards Danny wanting to know as much about the Ood as they could.

"Evening." The Doctor smiled.

"Only us." Rose told him.

"The mysterious trio. How are you, then? Settling in?" Danny asked.

"Yeah. Sorry, straight to business, the Ood how do they communicate? I mean, with each other." He asked Danny.

"Oh, just empaths. There's a low-level telepathic field connecting them. Not that that does them much good. They're basically a herd race. Like cattle."

"But they're not cattle" Rita pointed out looking at the Ood sitting on benches like school children.

The Doctor looked over to Rita, she seemed better than earlier as if she was 'normal' maybe she was just putting up a show so no one questioned her or repeatedly asked if she was okay? "This telepathic field. Can it pick up messages?" He asked Danny

Rose began to explain. "Because I was having dinner, and one of the Ood said something, well, odd."

"Hmm. An odd Ood." Danny hummed.

"And then I got something else on my er," She looked at the Doctor for help, he slightly nodded at her to go on. "Communicator thing."

"Oh, be fair. We've got whole star systems burning up around us. There's all sorts of stray transmissions. Probably nothing. Look, if there was something wrong, it would show. We monitor the telepathic field. It's the only way to look after them. They're so stupid, they don't even tell us when they're ill."

"They probably don't say because they're not instructed to. To be told every single thing you do then be expected to let you guys know when they're sick and not instructed to tell you is a little different than how they normally live" Rita said to Danny who didn't respond not expecting her to say that with how quiet she had been since the TARDIS' disappeared.

The Doctor smiled at her a little then walked over to the monitor. "Monitor the field. That's this thing?" He asked looking over his shoulder at Danny who nodded. The screen showed the words Reading basic: 5

"Yeah. But like I said, it's low-level telepathy. They only register basic five."

"Not basic five" Rita replied not even looking at the screen.

"How would you know that? You haven't even looked at the screen." Danny frowned at her.

"Doctor, is that at basic 30?" She asked ignoring Danny's question.

"Yeah, basic 30" He looked back.

"But they can't. How did you?"

"Not the time to explain that" She replied.

"Doctor, the Ood." Rose looked over the railing above the Ood who now had their heads raised. "What does basic thirty mean?"

"Shouting" Rita replied.

"How do you know all of this?" Danny asked.

"I know things!" Rita shouted knowing that she couldn't ignore his questions forever. "If I know things I might as well tell them!" She lowered her voice no longer able to hide her guilt or pain behind an act anymore. "What's the point if I keep my mouth shut all the time?" She snapped her head over to the Doctor. "The TARDIS is gone because I kept my mouth shut, people have died because I have kept my mouth shut before!" Her fists clenched and she breathed deeply looking down at the ground, eyes burning with guilt, fury and rage.

"Rita" The Doctor slowly walked over to her cautiously. "It's not your fault listen to me, please" He pulled her into a hug resting his head on hers. "Calm down, it's not your fault" he spoke softly and very, very calm.

She breathed deeply. "Something's shouting at them, that's the only secret I can think of at the moment." She spoke through her voice cracking a little.

"That's all we need at this moment" He murmured his chin still on her head.

"But where is it coming from?" Danny asked turning to Rita then seeing how distressed she was at the moment and turned away. A single tear rolled down her cheek. her head resting against the Doctors chest.

"I just don't want to see people die because of something I could have prevented" she mumbled only loud enough for the Doctor to hear.

Danny then looked at Rose. "What did it say to you?"

"Something about the beast in the pit." She answered his question.

"What about your communicator? What did that say?"

"He is awake," said Rose the Ood then stood up there globes lighting up.

"And you will worship him." They said in sync.

"What the hell?" Danny gasped.

The Doctor let go of Rita still standing next to her, he leant on the railing. "He is awake."

"And you will worship him." The Ood repeated.

"Worship who?" He asked getting no reply he questioned them again. "Who's talking to you? Who is it?" he shouted.

"We have to get back," Rita told them.

"No one is leaving until we find out what is happening to the Ood.

"We have to find Scooti," Rita said through gritted teeth whispering to the Doctor. "We have to. go" She said to Danny this time

"No one is going anywhere" Danny spoke calmly his eyes wide and very serious.

"We have to go because I am the only one who knows what happens if we don't!" She shouted in Danny's face. "You might think I don't but I do, I know everything that will happen and you know I do because you watched me do it!" She looked over at the Doctor. "I asked him if the monitor was at basic 30, that wasn't a guess," She told Danny, "I was not guessing at all."

"We are not leaving" He firmly told her.

There was a shake causing everyone to become unbalanced. Emergency hull breach. Emergency hull breach. The computer repeated

Danny looked over at Rita. "Which section?"

"Everyone, evacuate eleven to thirteen. We've got a breach. The base is open. Repeat, the base is open" Zach shouted through the comm. They all run from the Ood habitation to habitation three, the base shaking violently causing it hard for them to run. Open door 19 The computer spoke as they all ran through Close door 19.

Zach shouted through the comms and gritted his teeth trying to stop himself from falling to the floor from the base shaking. "I can't contain the oxygen field! We're going to lose it!"

"Come on! Keep moving!" Jefferson shouted holding the door open against the air being sucked out. They ran though and Jefferson pulled Toby in before sutting and sealing the door. Breach sealed. Breach sealed.

"Everyone all right?!" The Doctor asked looking at Rita and Rose then the rest of the people "What happened? What was it?"

Oxygen levels normal.

"Hull breach" Jefferson panted hands on his knees. "We were open to the elements. Another couple of minutes and we'd have been inspecting that black hole at close quarters."

"That wasn't a quake. What caused it?" The Doctor asked

"Something broke" Rita whispered to him and Rose.

"We've got everyone here except Scooti. Scooti, report. Scooti Manista? That's an order. Report." Jefferson spoke into the comm.

"She's all right," Zach reassured them. "I've picked up her biochip. She's in Habitation three. Better go and check if she's not responding. She might be unconscious. How about that, eh? We survived.

Not all of us Rita thought.

"Habitation three. Come on. I don't often say this, but I think we could all do with a drink. Come on." Jefferson instructed the four of them to follow to find Scooti

The Doctor looked at Toby on the ground looking panicked, he crouched down a little beside him "What happened?"

Toby looked at him and stuttered his words. "I don't. I don't know. I was working and then I can't remember. All that noise. The room was falling apart. There was no air" Rose helped him up comforting the man. 

"Come on. Up you get. Come and have some protein one." She rubbed his back walking off with the man.

"Oh, you've gone native." the Doctor scrunched up his nose at her.

"Oi, don't knock it. It's nice. Protein one with just a dash of three."

"You okay?" the Doctor asked Rita walking dow the corridor.

"Better, would be even better off this piece of rock, but it'll do" He nodded in agreement.

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They looked around the room not seeing the woman anywhere. "I've checked Habitation four. Can you hear me?" Ida spoke though the comm.

"There's no sign of her. The biochip says she's in the area. Have any of you seen Scooti?"

"No, no, no, I don't think so." Toby shook his head.

"Scooti, please respond. If you can hear this, please respond. Habitation six." Ida begged the woman to answer.

"Nowhere here. Zach? We've got a problem. Scooti's still missing." He told the captain.

"It says Habitation three," Zach told them.

"Yeah, well, that's where I am, and I'm telling you she's not here."

"I know where she is" Rita muttered looking up. The Doctor and Rose followed the brunette's gaze.

Rose then gasped covering her mouth, the woman was dead being sucking into the black hole. "Oh, my God." she managed to breath out.

The rest of the people looked up seeing Scooti inch closer to the black hole. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." The Doctor watched the woman slowly move closer towards it.

"Captain." Jefferson spoke into the wrist-comm not looking away from the black hole. "Report Officer Scootori Manista PKD, deceased. Forty three K two point one."

Ida walked towards the lever to close the shutters and pulls it to close. "She was twenty. Twenty years old."

"For how should man die better than facing fearful odds? For the ashes of his father and the temples of his Gods." said Jefferson watching the shutters close.

Ida walked over to them holding a hand up for hush. "It's stopped." She listened.

"What was that? What was it?" Rose asked.

"Point Zero, they reached it" Rita answered Rose's question.

"I know what you're thinking" Rita pointed to the Doctor as Ida and the others walked off towards the control room. "Don't be an idiot not that you will listen to me, but be carfull" He grinned at her and Rose frowned.

"What do you mean Rita?"

"He wants to go down, well he will he has too"

"Oh so first you tell me not to be an idiot then you want me to go down?" He raised a brow.

"Never said don't go down, just don't be an idiot I know what you're like" She smirked at him.

"No way" Rose shook her head. "You can't go down there we need you up here"

"Rose he has to go down," Rita told her.

"Rita's right" The Doctor nodded in agreement with the brunette. "Plus you got her she knows what happens here and she says I need to go down so I got to go"

"What happens if he doesn't?" Rose asked turning to Rita.

"I don't know" she shrugged. "All I know is that he has to go down there"

Rose then slowly nodded at Rita, the Doctor walked off to go and find Ida to find where the suits were kept.

"How do you do it" Rose blurted out as they walked off heading to the drilling area knowing that the Doctor would be going there after finding a suit.

"What do you mean?" Rita asked.

"Knowing what will happen and it all"

"I don't" Rita admitted. "I just have to live with it. Some of the things I don't know, like that time the Doctor almost became a king of a planet" She chuckled at the thought of the Doctor in a crown and sitting on a large thrown. "I didn't know that, I don't know everything but a lot of the things I do and honestly it scares the crap out of me but I live through it because I have to" She shrugged not thinking much of it now, believing her meltdown earlier on was pathetic of her. "And sometimes I lose it" She muttered.