"Doctor! Stone!" Martha shouted as the lift doors opened.

"First floor, perfumery."

"I never thought I'd see you again." Tallulah cried running over to Laszlo.

"No stopping me." He said breathing quite heavily, tightly hugging Tallulah while the Doctor and Rita ran over to Martha and the drawings for the Empire States Building.

"We've worked it out. We know what they've done. There's Dalekanium on the mast."

"Oh, of course, there is." Rita groaned.

"And it's good to see you too, by the way." Martha grinned.

"Oh, come here." The Doctor pulled Martha into a hug while Rita watched with slight amusement. The door then dinged shut and the Time Lords ran over to it.

"No, no, no. See, never waste time with a hug." He told Martha. "Deadlock seal." He then groaned after trying to bring it back. "I can't stop it."

"Sadly neither can I." Rita sighed.

"Where's it going?" Martha asked.

"Right down to the Daleks. And they're not going to leave us alone up here. What's the time?" He asked.

"Er, 11:15" Frank replied.

"Six minutes to go. I've got to remove the Dalekanium before the gamma radiation hits."

"You mean we." Rita corrected him.

"Gammon radiation? What the heck is that?" Tallulah asked before the Doctor had time to protest over Rita.

Martha pulled them over and they looked at the view. "Oh, that's high. That's very. Blimey, that's high." The Doctor looked out.

"And we've got to go even higher. That's the mast up there, look. There's three pieces of Dalekanium on the base. We've got to get them off." Martha told them after she pointed up the ladder.

"That's not we, that's just me."

"Us" Rita corrected.

"No, Stone you are staying here with Martha. If that Gamma radiation hits-"

"It won't harm me, very much anyways. Doctor three parts, two Time Lords, two sonics, half the work, I am coming." She firmly replied.

"And I won't just stand here and watch you two," Martha added.

"Stone please stay here. Please" he now begged her, his hands on her shoulder looking straight into her eyes. She thought for a moment swallowed then answered nodding. 

"Okay, but any issues with it and I am coming straight up there dragging you down and doing it myself" she pointed a finger at him.

"Of course." He gave her a hug, Rita then saw him smirk from her humour and kissed the Doctors cheek. He lightly touched where her lips had been and frowned slightly, she had never done anything like that before, why now?

"What was that for?"

"For actually being my best friend for all this time and caring about me." She smiled at him and he smiled back.

"Well, I'm going" Martha protested. Rita then walked away towards the prints for the building and the Doctor quieted his voice to a whisper so Rita wouldn't hear. "No, you're going to have your hands full anyway. I'm sorry, Martha, but you've got to fight."

The Doctor climbed the ladder heading for the top of the building where the Dalekanium was attached to the mast. Martha and Rita paced around the area thinking. Their heads then snapped to the lift and noticed the dial rising showing that they were coming.

"The lift's coming up." Martha pointed out.

"I should have brought that gun," Frank muttered.

"Guns are never, ever the answer. Trust me I know all too well." Rita replied a little harshly.

"Tallulah, stay back. You too, Martha and you Stone." Laszlo warned them. "If they send pig slaves, they're trained to kill."

"The Doctor needs me to fight. I'm not going anywhere!" Martha shouted.

"Never let him hear you say that. Never let me hear it either for that matter," Rita told Martha.

"They're savages. I should know. They're trained to slit your throat with their bare teeth." Laszlo then went to hold up a hammer, he fell to the floor in pain leaning against the wall.

"Laszlo? What is it?" Tallulah asked running over to him.

"No, it's nothing. I'm fine. Just leave me." He waved her away.

Tallulah reached for his forehead and gave a small cry. "Oh, honey, you're burning up. What's wrong with you? Tell me." She demanded.

"Great. One man down, we ain't even started yet." Frank sighed.

"It's not looking good, Frank." Martha sighed.

"Nope."

"We're going to get slaughtered."

"Don't be like that Martha," Rita told her continuing to pace around. "Now, think, think, think." She started to hit her head. "Okay, bad idea because that actually hurt." She groaned.

"If I wouldn't know any better I think you're turning into him." Martha smugly

"Who?" She continued to rub her head. Her eyes then widened and she started to pace around even faster. "No, no, no." She waved her hands about. "That is a nightmare, even worse than the bloody pepper pots. One of him is bad enough, imagine two! Even worse if he was human! Double if he was part human!" She continued to pace around as Lightning began flashing and the storm began.

"Wait a minute. Lightening." Martha ran to the view.

"Yes, lightning Martha that is what it is called." Rita sarcastically replied. "Wait-" she paused. "Martha you are amazing!" She shouted running up to the woman laughing and shouting. "Come on then help find me anything metal, any and all things metal."

"Aw, you'll be all right, sweetheart." Tallulah cooled to Laszlo stroking his forehead. "Don't you worry." She then looked at the Time Lady and humans. "What the hell are you three clowns doing?"

"That's Time Lady and two humans." Rita corrected helping Martha move metal poles. "I don't see any clowns here."

"Even if the Doctor stops the Dalekanium, this place is still going to get hit." Martha explained. "Great big bolt of lightening, electricity all down this building. Connect this to the lift and they get zapped."

"Oh my God, that could work." Tallulah looked at them in amazement.

"Then give us a hand." Frank continued to bring metal poles over leading from the lift to outside lighting conductor.

"Is that going to work?" Tallulah asked placing one of the last pieces of metal down.

"It's got to." Martha huffed placing another.

"I've got it all piped up to the scaffolding outside."

"Let's just hope it does, if my calculations are correct and normally in desperate situations, they are this should all go according to plan." Rita explained moving over to the middle beside Martha and Tallulah who held on to Laszlo.

"Come here, Frank. Just sit in the middle and don't touch anything metal." Martha gestured him over to join the huddle.

"Yeah." He nodded.

They hastily watched the dial of the lift move up until hitting the top. The lift made a dinging noise and the door opened. There was a bright light and as Rita had said the electricity travelled down the metal and hit the lift, the pigmen screamed in pain and fell to the floor dead.

"You did it, Martha." Tallulah breathed.

"It was the Stone who gave us hope."

Rita froze. "And they all died, they were people, people who had lives and families and friends. Now that's all gone and we took it all away."

"No, the Daleks killed them. Long ago." Laszlo breathed.

"What about the Doctor?" Martha asked.

"Oh, the Doctor is going to hate me for this." She ran a hand through her brown hair then ran to the ladder starting to climb it. "Oh no, " she grabbed his sonic screwdriver and continued to climb shivering in the freezing cold that was even too cold for her. Stopping at the top she noticed him lying still beside the mast.

"Doctor!" Rita shouted quickly but carefully moving over to him. She sighed seeing his eyes slowly open. Sitting beside him she placed a hand through his hair stroking it softly. "You're getting too careless at your old age."

"Doesn't that make you old as well?" He chuckled going to move but then being forced back down by the Time Lady. "Oh, my head" he groaned.

"Yes sweetheart it still is as big as your ego" she chuckled.

"Oh hello." He looked up smiling.

"Hello to you too" she smiled back.

"Hiya" Martha stood over Rita and waved at the Doctor.

"You survived, then." He looked at them both.

"Of course we did." Rita chuckled. "Looks like you did as well, just about."

"Rita saved us," Martha replied. "She's turning into you, started hitting her head." Rita sighed pinching the bridge of her nose while shaking her head.

"Oh did she now?" The Doctor looked at the Time Lady smirking.

"It seems my parents may have been right when they continuously told me that you were a bad influence on me." She smirked back.

"Oh did your mother say that?" He asked.

"Of course she did. They completely hated anything and everything you did, even when it was something I suggested they blamed you."

"I would love to listen to both of your old stories all day but I can't help noticing there's Dalekanium still attached." Martha interrupted the two. Rita sighed as the Doctor jolted up.

"Let me guess you got in the way again. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest." The Doctor sheepishly grinned at her statement, she rolled her eyes and patted his head. "Come on then your head should feel better now."

"Hmm, it does" he hummed looking up a little. Rita frowned then realised what he meant, she slowly removed her hand away from his hair while her face turned a light pink.

"I think you also dropped this." She quickly changed the topic and took his sonic screwdriver out of her pocket and handed it to him. He nodded and slowly stood up.

They returned back down to the work office and the Doctor started to explain. "The Daleks will have gone straight to a war footing. They'll be using the sewers, spreading the soldiers out underneath Manhattan."

"How do we stop them?" Laszlo asked.

"The Doctor being himself got in the way and the gamma strike went zapping through him first."

"Yeah, but what does that mean?" Martha asked Rita.

"We need to draw fire. Before they can attack New York, we need to face them. Where can we draw them out?" He asked looking at the brunette. "Think, think, think, think, think. We need some sort of space. Somewhere safe. Somewhere out of the way. Tallulah!" He shouted pointing at her.

"That's me. Three Ls and an H." She smiled.

"Oh!" Rita jumped pointing at the Doctor then Tallulah. "That is clever!" She beamed. "You know I have never agreed with a Dalek before and most likely never will again but Sec was correct when saying you are a genius!"

"I don't understand?" Tallulah looked between the Time Lords.

"The theatre!" He shouted. "It's right above them, and, what, it's gone midnight? Can you get us inside?" He asked her.

"Don't see why not." She shrugged.

"Is there another lift?"

"We came up in the service elevator," Martha told him.

"That'll do. Allons-y!" He shouted.

"Andiamo!" Rita cheered.

"What?" Martha asked.

"It means let's go in Italian." Martha raised her brows at the Time Lady as the Doctor smirked.

"Dear Rassilon, you were right, this is terrifying." The Doctor laughed at her and Rita groaned. "Come on!" She shouted running to the lift Martha had pointed out.

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"This should do it. Here we go."

"There ain't nothing more creepy than a theatre in the dark." Tallulah shivered looking around the theatre. "Listen, Doctor, I know you got a thing for show tunes, but there's a time and place, huh?"

Laszlo started to breathe heavily and sat down in one of the chairs.

"Laszlo, what's wrong?" Tallulah sat next to him stroking his head.

"Nothing. It's just so hot." He panted.

"But it's freezing in here. Doctor, Stone what's happening to him?"

"Not now, Tallulah. Sorry." The Doctor said.

"We have to finish this, I promise we will try as soon as this is over. And I never make a promise I can't keep, we will try." Rita told her seriously before moving back over to the Doctor helping him.

"What are you doing?" Martha asked them.

"If the Daleks are going to war, they'll want to find their number one and two enemies." The Doctor looked at Rita who nodded bringing out her own sonic and held it in the air.

"We're just telling them where we are, come and find us pepper pots!" She laughed. "Pepper pots sometimes are very thick, almost as thick as Judoon." Rita explained. "They will come right here, right where we want them."

"Right where I want them." The Doctor went to correct here, Rita frowned in confusion.

"You two are going back." He told them.

"No way. Doctor if I go back they will just come and find me. I'm staying right here with you."

"I'm also staying." Martha crossed her arms and sat down.

"No." Both of the Time Lords said to her automatically.

"I'm telling the both of you to go. Frank can take you back to Hooverville." The Doctor told them both.

"And I'm telling you I'm not going."

"You have to go, I won't live knowing that they hurt you, Martha," Rita told her.

"Theta, before you protect I'm not going and that's it. Don't make me fight with you."

The Doctor sighed then looked at the brunette shaking his head. "Martha, that's an order." He firmly told her.

"Who are you, then? Some sort of Dalek?" Martha snapped.

"Martha!" Rita shouted. She then snapped her head in the direction of the doors as they were broken down and multiple people on either side marched down the walkway holding what looked like Dalek guns.

"Doctor! Stone!" Tallulah cried. "Oh, my God! Well, I guess that's them then, huh?"

"Humans, with Dalek DNA?" Martha asked.

"It's all right, it's all right. Just stay calm. Don't antagonise them." The Doctor told them.

"But what of the Dalek masters? Where are they?" Laszlo asked.

"The pepper pots are no doubt near, they wouldn't let us near their new creations with us on the lose," Rita told them standing beside the Doctor.

There suddenly was an explosion on stage and the group ducked behind the chairs. The two Daleks then appeared on stage with Sec kneeling with a chain around his neck crawling like a dog.

"The Doctor and the Stone will stand before the Daleks." He worryingly took the brunette's hand which he had fine to be slightly shaking. Giving it a squeeze he stood up with her and walked forward over chairs.

"You will die, Doctor, Stone. It is the beginning of a new age." One of the Daleks stated.

"Planet Earth will become New Skaro." The other said.

"Oh, and what a world. With anything just the slightest bit different ground into the dirt. That's Dalek Sec. Don't you remember?" The Doctor looked at him. "The cleverest Dalek ever and look what you've done to him. Is that your new Empire, hmm? Is that the foundation for a whole new civilisation?" He questioned.

"My Daleks, just understand this," Sec said. "If you choose death and destruction, then death and destruction will choose you."

"Incorrect. We will always survive." A Dalek screamed.

"Now we will destroy our greatest enemies, the Doctor and the Stone!" It shouted.

"But they can help you!" Sec shouted.

"The Doctor and the Stone must die."

"No, I beg you, don't." Sec cried.

One of the Daleks turned and pointed it's gun at Sec. "Exterminate!" It cried shooting Sec and killing him.

"Your own leader." Rita hissed. "The only creature that might have finally led the Daleks out of darkness, the one who could have helped you, remake the Daleks. But no you go and kill him because that's what you do, what you always have done, because you hate change." She shouted feeling some sympathy for Sec. He tried to actually change the Daleks, change them for the better.

"Do you see what they did? Huh? You see what a Dalek really is?" The Doctor asked the human Daleks.

"If you pepper pots just want us dead so badly why don't you give the new guys a go?" Rita hissed at them.

"The human Daleks." The Doctor announced.

"Their first blood being the Daleks biggest enemies." Rita encouraged.

"Go on, baptise them." The Doctor also encouraged widening his arms keeping his hand connected with Rita's, she copied doing exactly the same.

"Dalek-humans, take aim." A Dalek ordered, they then pointed their weapons at the Time Lords.

They waited a few moments and the Doctor then shouted. "What are you waiting for? Give the command!"

"Exterminate!" The Dalek ordered. The Doctors body tensed tightly squeezing Rita's hand as she tightly shut her eyes awaiting the pain.

"Exterminate!" It cried again. Rita slowly opened her eyes looking at the Doctor who winked at her, she remembered what he did and what she guessed earlier with him getting in the way.

"Obey. Dalek-humans will obey!" The Dalek screeched.

"They're not firing." Martha pointed out. "What have you done?" She looked at the Time Lords.

"You will obey!" The Dalek cried again. "Exterminate!"

A human Dalek then looked at the screaming Dalek and calmly asked: "Why?"

"Daleks do not question orders." The other stated.

"But why?" The human Dalek questioned again.

"You will stop this!" The Dalek shouted.

"But why?"

"You must not question!" It then screeched.

"But you are not our master. And we, we are not Daleks." The human Dalek flatly told the Daleks.

"No, you're not. And you never will be." The Doctor told them then turned to the Daleks. "Sorry, I got in the way of the lightning strike."

"Sorry I got in the way as well." Rita held up her hand using sarcasm to look apologetic before turning to the Doctor. "Before you went up I kissed your cheek didn't I?" She asked and he nodded. "Time Lord DNA and Time Lady DNA got all mixed up." She grinned as the Doctor started to grin as well understanding what she was talking about she then looked back at the Daleks. "Your buddies have got that little bit of freedom."

"If they will not obey, then they must die." The Dalek shouted and they began to shoot at the Human Daleks.

"Get down!" The Doctor shouted diving off of the chair pulling Rita with him down to the floor.

They all did as told safety hiding behind the theatre chairs as the Daleks and Dalek-humans shot at each other. The Doctor held a hand on Rita's head stroking it, her head on his chest trying to comfort her as they heard the multiple Dalek weapons firing.

"Exterminate! Exterminate!" The Daleks cried.

"I know Rita" the Doctor whispered telepathically to her as she squeezed her eyes shut. The noises still haunted her hundreds of years later. Still haunting her sleep and nightmares because of what those noises did to her.

"Destroy the hybrids! Destroy!" The Daleks screeched shooting at the human Daleks before one of them were exploded.

"Exterminate!" The other cried before getting exterminated itself.

The Doctor looked up and Rita removed her head from his chest as he poked his head up from the seats then stood up seeing what was the human Daleks destroyed. Rita followed her hand finding the Doctors again as she breathed out a sigh relieved that a lot of the people were alive and none of her friends was hurt.

"It's all right, it's all right, it's all right." The Doctor said to them. "You did it. You're free."

"You survived" Rita breathed. "We all did. The Doctor and I will keep you safe." She looked at him and he nodded in agreement.

They shot their heads back after hearing the high pitched screams and cries of the new species clutching their heads in pain before falling to the floor dead. "No! They can't! They can't!" Rita cried hiding her face in the Doctors chest. "They can't! They can't!" She sobbed.

"What happened? What was that?" Martha asked.

The Doctor coldly replied keeping an arm around Rita while staring at the bodies on the floor. "They killed them, rather than let them live. An entire species. Genocide."

"Only two of the Daleks have been destroyed. One of the Dalek masters must still be alive." Laszlo told him.

"Oh, yes. In the whole universe, just one." The Doctor hugged Rita.

"I'm coming with you Theta." She told him not looking up. "You know what they did. I do not want to remind you what they did." She told him.

"I know, I'm not letting you out of my sight until you're safely back on the TARDIS, that Dalek is going to be a savage that will do anything it can, four Daleks that are vulnerable are dangerous. One Dalek in the whole of the universe is too dangerous to just send you away."

"Thank you." She hugged him. "Even if you said no I would have followed you."

"I know you would which is also why I had to agree."

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The Doctor and Rita stood on the other side of the Laboratory hand in hand staring at the last Dalek in the universe. "Now what?" The Doctor asked.

"You will be exterminated." It screamed at them.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah we know that." Rita hissed stepping forward with the Doctor. "But just think about it for a moment Dalek-"

"Dalek what was your name?" The Doctor spoke over her.

"Dalek Caan." He replied.

"Dalek Caan. Your entire species has been wiped out. And now the Cult of Skaro has been eradicated, leaving only you. Right now you're facing the only two people in the universe who might show you some compassion."

"Because we have just seen one genocide. And we won't cause another." Rita added.

"Caan, let us help you." The Doctor stepped forward. "What do you say?"

"Emergency temporal shift!" It screamed, the cables attached to Dalek Caan detatched. The Time Lords lunged forward to grab the Dalek which disappeared.

"Ugh, I hate those bloody pepper pots." Rita groaned.

"Stone! Doctor!" They spun around to see Martha and Tallulah help a wheezing and struggling Laszlo. "He's sick." She cried.

They set him down. Martha stood beside him while Tallulah sat beside stroking his head.

"It's okay. You're all right." Martha Laszlo then looked up at the Time Lords who slowly walked over. "It's his heart. It's racing like mad. I've never seen anything like it."

"What is it, Doctor? Stone?" Tallulah asked. "What's the matter with him? He says he can't breathe? What is it?"

"It's time, sweetheart." Laszlo panted struggling to breathe at all.

"What do you mean, time? What are you talking about?" Tallulah began to cry her voice cracking.

"None of the slaves survive for long. Most of them only live for a few weeks. I was lucky. I held on because I had you. But now, I'm dying, Tallulah." He furiously coughed.

"No, you're not. Not now, after all this. Doctor, Stone, can't you do something?"

"Oh, Tallulah with three Ls and an H, just you watch us." He spun around Rita following him. She threw her jacket off which landed on the floor. "What do we need? Oh, I don't know." She spun around again facing the others, the Doctor grinned at her threw off his own coat standing beside her.

"How about a great big genetic laboratory Stone?" The Doctor asked. "Oh look, we got one."

"Laszlo, you hold on, because I made a promise that I would try, and I am not going to start breaking my promises now!" She shouted.

"There's been too many deaths today." The Doctor added. The two ran to different sides of the room and began to mix different liquids together. Rita pointed her sonic at a bunsen burner which then lit the Doctor doing the same on his side.

"This giving you any memories Doctor?" Rita asked as she continued what she was doing.

"Oh yes!" He shouted over his shoulder to her then turned back to the three on the ground. "Way too many people have died. Brand new creatures and wise old men and age-old enemies. And I'm telling you, I'm telling you right now, I am not having one more death! You got that? Not one."

"And neither am I!" Rita shouted.

"Tallulah, out of the way. The Doctor is in." The Doctor set down the liquids brought his stethoscope out and ran over to Laszlo.

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Standing on the outskirts of central park the Doctor, Rita, Martha, Tallulah and Laszlo patiently waiting for Frank to return with the news they were waiting for. Shooting their eyes up, they noticed Frank walking towards them with an unreadable expression on his face. "Well, I talked to them, and I told them what Solomon would've said, and I reckon I shamed one or two of them."

"What did they say?" The Doctor asked.

"They said yes. They'll give you a home, Laszlo. I mean, er, don't imagine people ain't going to stare." Frank told him, Laszlo nodded in response. "I can't promise you'll be at peace but, in the end, that is what Hooverville is for. People who ain't got nowhere else."

"Thank you." He said to Frank then looked at the Doctor and Rita. "I can't thank you enough." They smiled as Laszlo and Tallulah hugged.

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"Do you reckon it's going to work, those two?" Martha asked looking back at the city, standing just in front of the Statue of Liberty with the Doctor and Rita.

"I don't know. Anywhere else in the universe, I might worry about them, but New York? That's what this city's good at. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, and maybe the odd pig slave Dalek mutant hybrid too." They laughed at his last comment.

"The pig and the Showgirl." Martha said laughing.

"The pig and the Showgirl." The Doctor and Rita replied.

"It just proves it, I suppose," Martha said turning around and heading back towards the TARDIS. "There's someone for everyone."

"Maybe." The Doctor muttered quietly shifting his eyes over to Rita who still stood watching the city.

"Maybe not." She quietly replied. The Doctor shifted his gaze down to the ground sighing quietly.

"Meant to say, I'm sorry." Martha interrupted. Rita then turned around and looked at her frowning.

"Why are you sorry?" She asked walking towards the TARDIS.

"Just because that Dalek got away. I know what that means to you both." Rita swallowed nodding sadly.

"Thank you Martha." she gave the woman a hug softly smiling.

"Think you'll ever see it again?" She asked letting go of the brunette.

"Oh, I think we will, somewhere, somewhen we will find that Dalek, or it will find us." Rita smiled stepping into the TARDIS after Martha.

"Oh, yes. One day." The Doctor muttered looking out at the city before closing the door of the TARDIS after walking inside.

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I'm finally on holiday with no more exams! Hopefully, now I can dedicate more time to writing and hopefully (fingers crossed) I can catch up with my editing and uploading since I am currently writing 'A Christmas Carol' which is the Christmas episode between series 5 and 6 so I'm quite far ahead in writing. 

It is, however, quite nice to come back and reread and edit chapters I wrote around April/May time; I'm definitely going to try and catch up though.