A/N: this chapter will be Eva light, but there's a reason for that, hope you like it! :)

The Doctor, Rose, and I step outside the TARDIS into a dimly lit room. The Doctor and I had been piloting to the Horsehead Nebula when he took over to follow a distress signal. 

"So, what is it? What's wrong?" Rose asks curiously, linking her arm with mine.

"Don't know, some kind of signal drawing the TARDIS off course..." the Doctor trails off. 

"Where are we?" Rose asks. 

"Earth, Utah, North America; about half a mile underground," the Doctor answers.

"And... when are we?" Rose asks.

"Eva, time senses?" the Doctor prompts. 

I pause for a moment: "2012?" I ask. 

"Atta girl," he smiles, looking around the room. 

"God, that's so close, so Eva and me should be... 26," Rose mutters, making me smile. 

The Doctor flicks a switch and I blink in surprise when glass cases with alien artifacts are lit up.

"Blimey! It's a great big museum!" Rose exclaims, un-linking her arm from mine to look around. 

"An alien museum," the Doctor corrects. "Someone's got a hobby, they must've spent a fortune on this," he looks around. 

"Chunks of meteorite, moon dust..." I trail off before pausing when I see something that should not be here. 

"That's the milometer from the Roswell Spaceship," the Doctor mutters. 

"That's a mooncalf skeleton... how the hell did that get here?" I frown, still looking at it. "And look, they've got a stuffed Hippogriff and an empty dragon egg," I look around. 

"Someone's got a museum full of alien artifacts and you think they can't have stuff on magical creatures?" the Doctor raises an eyebrow at me. 

"Well... when you put it like," I roll my eyes. 

"That's a bit of Slitheen!" Rose exclaims and I turn and wrinkle my nose at the stuffed arm. "That's a Slitheen's arm, it's been stuffed," she gapes at it. 

"Ah! Look at you!" the Doctor mutters and Rose and I both turn, me scowling at the Cyberman head. 

"What is it?" Rose asks curiously. 

"An old friend of mine..." he answers and I raise an eyebrow. "Well, enemy," he corrects. "The stuff of nightmares reduced to an exhibit. I'm getting old," he sighs. 

"Aw, you think you're getting old," I tease, making Rose snort and the Doctor roll his eyes. 

"Is that where the signal's coming from?" Rose asks, coming to stand beside me. 

"Nah, it's stone dead," the Doctor shakes his head. "The signal's alive, something's reaching out," he stares at the Cyberman head. "Calling for help," he murmurs and touches the glass gently. 

I jump slightly when an alarm goes off and several security guards surround us, all aiming their guns at us. 

"If someone's collecting aliens and wizarding stuff, that makes you two Exhibits A and B," Rose whispers, grabbing my hand. 

I send Rose a smile, squeezing her hand, and the Doctor flashes the guards a grin. A tall woman with curly ginger hair in a tight ponytail leads us up to an elaborate office with some of the guards. 

"And this is the last... paid $800,000 for it," an English man, about mine and Rose's age was saying to an older man with dark balding hair and a goatee. 

I wrinkle my nose when I see he had a huge self portrait behind his desk. I look around the room and clench my teeth when I see a dragon skull in the corner. How dare they! The Doctor reaches over and grabs my hand, intertwining our fingers and I grab Rose's hand, pulling her to my side.

"What does it do?" the man, an American, asks as he takes it. 

"Well you see, the tubes on the side must be to channel something, I think maybe fuel-"

"I really wouldn't hold it like that," the Doctor interrupts English. 

"Shut it," Ginger glares at him. 

"Really, though, that's wrong," the Doctor says lightly. 

"Is it dangerous?" English asks, looking at it worriedly.

"No, just looks silly," he shrugs, making me snort. 

The Doctor lets go of my hand and reaches for the instrument. I tense and Rose tightens her grip on my hand when security immediately raise their guns. The American holds up his hand and gives the Doctor the instrument. 

"You just need to be..." he trails off, running his fingers gently over it and a soft melody comes from it. "... delicate," he smiles around at everyone while he plays. 

"It's a musical instrument," the American realizes. 

"And it's a long way from home," the Doctor nods. 

"Here, let me," the American stands and grabs the instrument from the Doctor, beginning to play it and I wince at the harsh sounds. 

"I did say 'delicate'," the Doctor reminds him. "Reacts to the smallest fingerprint, it needs precision," he explains and the American finally gets the hang of it. "Very good, quite the expert," he praises. 

"As are you," the American retorts, throwing the instrument aside, making me squeak indignantly as I watch it hit the ground. "Who exactly are you?"

"I'm the Doctor and who are you?" he asks, his voice taking on an edge. 

"Like you don't know," the American scoffs. "We're hidden away with the most valuable collection of extra-terrestrial and magical artifacts in the world and you just stumbled in by mistake," he raises an eyebrow. 

"Pretty much sums me up, yeah," the Doctor smirks. 

"The question is, how did you get in? 53 floors down with your little cat burglar accomplice," he eyes Rose and I pull her behind me. "Quite a collector yourself, she's rather pretty," he smirks before turning to me. "Evangeline Evans: the Dark Lady... my niece is a witch and she doesn't shut about the girl who helped defeat Lord Voldemort," he eyes me up and down and I wrinkle my nose. "You're much better looking in person," he smirks, reaching out and grabbing my wand from my hair. "Just in case you decided to try anything," he says lightly, handing it to a guard. 

"You may have my wand but I can still kick your arse," I glare at him. 

"Ooo, feisty, I might keep you," he smirks and the Doctor pulls me behind him as I tense and clutch onto his jacket, wincing at memories flashing in my mind. 

"This is Mr. Henry Van Statten," English cuts in quickly.

"And who's he when he's at home?" Rose asks, glaring at the man. 

"She's English too!" Van Statten exclaims happily. "Hey, little Lord Fauntleroy, got you a girlfriend," he smirks.

"Mr. Van Statten owns the internet," English explains. 

"Don't be stupid, no one owns the internet," Rose scoffs. 

"And let's just keep the whole world thinking that way, right kids?" Van Statten smiles. 

"So you're an expert on just about everything except the things in your museum. Anything you don't understand, you lock up," the Doctor sums him up, folding his arms. 

"And you claim greater knowledge?" Van Statten raises an eyebrow. 

"I don't need to make claims, I know how good I am," the Doctor says bluntly, making me smirk. 

"And yet, I captured you, right next to the Cage," Van Statten taunts. "What were you doing down there?"

"You tell me," the Doctor retorts. 

"The cage contains my one living specimen," Van Statten tells us, making me glare in disgust. 

"And what's that?" the Doctor asks. 

"Like you don't know," Van Statten scoffs. 

"Show me," the Doctor glares. 

"You wanna see it?"

"Blimey, you can smell the testosterone," Rose groans, making me snort loudly. 

"Goddard, inform the Cage: we're heading down," Van Statten orders Ginger, who nods. "You, English. Look after the girls. Canoodle or spoon, or whatever it is you British do," he orders English. "And you, Doctor with no name... come and see my pet," he smiles. 

"I'm coming with you," I say, grabbing the Doctor's hand. 

"Even better," Van Statten smirks. 

I roll my eyes and turn to English: "if anything happens to Rose on your watch, I'll turn you into a mouse and feed you to my owl," I smile innocently, making his eyes widen and Rose and the Doctor snort. "Be careful, doll," I tell Rose seriously. 

"You got it, babe," she smiles and I send her a wink. 

Van Statten leads the Doctor and I down to the Cage and stops outside of a huge, metal door. 

"We've tried everything," Van Statten tells us. "The creatures has... shielded itself but there's definite signs of life inside," he enters a code and the door to the Cage opens up. 

"Inside?" I frown. "Inside what?"

A man in an orange hazmat suit comes out of the Cage: "welcome back, sir," he greets his boss. "I've had to take the power down, the Metaltron is resting," he informs him. 

"Metaltron?" the Doctor raises an eyebrow. 

"Thought of it myself," Van Statten says proudly. "Good, isn't it?"

"If you're a child with a thing for transformers," I couldn't help but say, rolling my eyes and making the Doctor 'cough'.

"Well, I'd much prefer to find out its real name," Van Statten says, looking between the Doctor and I pointedly. 

"Here, you'd both better put these on," the man turn to us and offers us some large rubber gloves. "The last guy that touched it... burst into flames," he says with a sick smile, making me glare at him. 

"We won't touch it then," the Doctor says bluntly and I snort, seeing Ginger, Diana Goddard, smirk. 

"Go ahead, Doctor, Dark Lady, impress me," Van Statten mocks us. 

I roll my eyes as the Doctor and I head into the Cage. It was pitch black except for a soft blue lift in the corner. I look around and pale, seeing a tray of tools.

"They're torturing it..." I whisper to the Doctor, pulling my glove covered arms to my chest. 

The Doctor squeezes my shoulder before turning to where the alien is: "look, I'm sorry about this... Mr. Van Statten might think he's clever, but never mind him," he waves off. "We've come to help. I'm the Doctor and this is Evangeline Evans," he introduces softly. 

"Doc-tor... Evan-geline..." a robotic voice says slowly and sends chills down my spine as I freeze... brilliant, it recognizes me. 

"Merlin..." I breathe in horror. 

"Impossible," the Doctor whispers, staring in absolute shock.

"The Doctor?" 

The Doctor and I watch as lights come on, revealing a Dalek! 

"Oh, my... Doctor," I mutter, backing away as my hearts race. 

"Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!" the Dalek screams. 

The Doctor pushes me back against the door and bangs on it: "let us out!" he screams.

"Exterminate! You are enemies of the Daleks! You must be destroyed!"

"Please, let us out!" I scream. 

"Eva..." the Doctor breathes out and I frown, hearing a clicking. 

I look at the Dalek and it's gun wasn't working as it waves it around helplessly. The Doctor's face breaks into a grin and I breathe out in relief. 

"It's not working!" the Doctor laughs manically. "Fantastic! Oh, fantastic! Powerless! Look at you. The Great Space Dustbin! How does it feel?" he lunges at the Dalek and it strains against its chains. 

Seeing the chains... it froze me to the door as I watch the exchange between the Doctor and the Dalek, wrapping my arms around myself. 

"Keep back!" the Dalek screams, making me wince.

"What for? What're you going to do to me?" the Doctor scoffs, getting only silence in return. "If you can't kill... then what are you good for, Dalek?" he sneers as he circles it slowly and it's eye-stalk follows him. "What's the point of you? You're nothing! What the hell are you here for?" he demands. 

"I am waiting for orders," the Dalek says, making me frown... but it's the last one. 

"What does that mean?" I ask, staying by the door with my arms still wrapped around my body.

"I am a soldier, I was bred to receive orders," it tells me, it's eye-stalk swiveling to me. 

The Doctor instantly stands in front of it so it can't see me: "well you're never gonna get any, not ever," he informs it. 

"I demand orders!" the Dalek screams.

"They're never gonna come! Your race is dead!" the Doctor raises his voice. "You all burnt, all of you! Ten million ships on fire, the entire Dalek race wiped out in one second!"

"You lie!"

"I watched it happen," the Doctor says before swallowing hard. "I made it happen!" 

My hearts clench and tears well up in my eyes at the pain and guilt in his voice. It wasn't his fault... he had to save the universe from being destroyed by a sick and sadistic man's hatred. 

"You destroyed us?" the Dalek questions. 

I don't see the Doctor's face, but his pain radiated off of him as he backs away from the Dalek and turns his back to both of us: "I had no choice," he murmurs quietly. 

"And what of the Time Lords?" the Dalek asks. 

The Doctor pauses: "dead, they burnt with you," he mutters in a tight voice. "The end of the last great Time War, everyone lost," he glances at me briefly. 

"And the coward and the hybrid survived," the Dalek taunts. 

"Oh, and I caught your little signal... help me... poor little thing," the Doctor mocks in a high voice before he goes back to his normal voice. "But there's no one else coming cause there's no one else left," he says harshly. 

"I am alone in the Universe," the Dalek says sadly, lowering his eye-stalk.

I frown... sadly? Daleks couldn't sound sad; angry and hateful, absolutely, but sad? 

"Yep," the Doctor says coldly.

"So are the two of you," the Dalek says. "We are the same," it concludes. 

The Doctor spins around to the Dalek: "we're not the same, I'm not-" he growls before stopping. "No, wait. Maybe we are. You're right, yeah, okay. You've got a point. Cause I know what to do. I know what should happen. I know what you deserve," he spits at it, going over by a control panel. "Exterminate," he taunts, raising his eyebrows. 

My eyes widen as he pulls a lever and electricity engulfs the Dalek. I wince as it starts screaming out in pain... nothing deserves to be tortured, not even a Dalek. 

"Have pity!" the Dalek cries.

"Doctor, stop it!" I scream, rushing forward and pulling on his arm. 

The Doctor pushes me away from him roughly: "why should I? They never did," he glares at me before turning up the voltage. 

"Help me!" the Dalek screams in pain. 

"Stop it!" I scream, hitting his arm. 

Security bursts in and grab the Doctor and I, dragging us out and Van Statten walks up to the Dalek: "I saved your life, now talk to me! Goddamn it, talk to me!" 

"You've got to destroy it!" the Doctor screams as we're dragged out.

"You tortured it while it was begging for you to stop, for pity..." I whisper, pulling on my glove almost desperately. 

The Doctor glances down at my arm and his eyes widen, his face paling a bit as he realizes why I was upset: "Eva-"

"Doctor, you're better than that monster in there... 'never cruel', that's who you are," I mutter, making him wince as he stares at me.

Van Statten comes out and the guards release us on his command. Him, the Doctor, Goddard, and I head into a lift with a few guards. 

"The metal's just battle armor, the real Dalek creature's inside," the Doctor starts to explain as I continue to pull on my glove, tears prickling my eyes. 

"What does it look like?" Van Statten asks curiously. 

"A nightmare," I whisper, squeezing my arm. 

"It's a mutation," the Doctor mutters, glancing at me worriedly. "The Dalek race was genetically engineered, every single emotion was removed except hate," he explains. 

"Genetically engineered... by whom?" Van Statten asks, impressed. 

"By a genius, Van Statten," the Doctor retorts. "By a man who was king of his own little world, you'd like him," he glares.

"It's been on Earth for over 50, sold at a private auction moving from one collection to another," Goddard puts in. "Why would it be a threat now?" she frowns. 

"Because I'm here," the Doctor snaps. "How did it get to Earth? Does anyone know?" 

"Records say it came from the sky like a meteorite," Goddard says. "It fell to Earth on the Ascension Islands, burnt in its crater for nearly three days before anybody could get near it and all that time it was screaming. It must've gone insane."

"Must've fallen through time, the only survivor," the Doctor says bitterly. 

"You talked about a war?" Goddard asks. 

"The Time War," the Doctor nods. "The final battle between our people and the Dalek race," he grinds out. 

"But you two survived too," Van Statten points out. 

"Not by choice," the Doctor glares at him. 

"I was fighting a different war," I whisper, wrapping my arms around my body.

"This means that the Dalek isn't the only alien on Earth, Doctor, there's you," he smirks. "The only one of your kind in existence," he eyes him before turning to me. "And his little half-breed," his smirk widens. 

3rd Person POV:

The Doctor was chained against a rack, his leather jacket and his jumper taken away. He wasn't worried about himself, though. No, he was worried about Eva. As soon as the guard grabbed her and had her arms pinned, it was like she snapped. She screamed and fought desperately against them. Even more so when they took her shirt, leaving her in just her bra, and chained her in manacles that hung from the ceiling in the same room as him. After a few minutes of struggling she shut herself off and put up strong mental blocks that he couldn't break through to talk to her. She was hanging there, limp, looking broken and terrified as she kept wincing every few seconds. 

"Let her go!" the Doctor growls, pulling on his chains. 

"I think she's perfect just where she is," Van Statten smirks. "Now, smile!" he presses a button and the Doctor moans in pain as a laser runs over his bare torso. 

"Two hearts! Binary vascular system!" Van Statten exclaims, thrilled. "Is she the same?" he asks, turning the scanner to Eva and running it again. 

The Doctor strains against his chains again at her whimper of pain, although she was still in her frozen state: "leave her the hell alone!" he shouts angrily, his eyes flashing. 

"She is! Oh, I am so going to patten this," Van Statten laughs. 

"So that's your secret! You don't just collect this stuff, you scavenge it!" the Doctor glares. 

"This technology has been falling to Earth for centuries," Van Statten smirks, walking over to the Doctor. "All it took was the right mind to use it properly. Oh, the advances I've made from alien junk, you have no idea, Doctor. Broadband? Roswell. Just last year my scientists cultivated bacteria from the Russian Crater, and do you know what they found?" he asks and the Doctor glares at him angrily but he's curious. "The cure for the common cold. Kept it strictly within the laboratory of course, no need to get people excited. Why sell one cure when I can sell a thousand palliatives?" he smiles smugly. 

"Do you know what a Dalek is, Van Statten?" the Doctor asks. "A Dalek is honest. It does what it was born to do for the survival of its species, that creature in your dungeon is better than you," he sneers. 

"In that case, I will be true to myself and continue," Van Statten smiles, going back to the scanner.

"Listen to me, that thing downstairs is going to kill every last one of us!" the Doctor shouts frantically.

"Nothing can escape the Cage," Van Statten dismisses him. "Now, smile for me, Dark Lady, let's see how tough you really are," he smirks at Eva before pulling the lever on the scanner, now at a higher setting. 

The Doctor growls and shouts in anger as Eva whimpers in pain again, louder this time, but she refuses to cry out. 

"But it's woken up! It knows I'm here! It's gonna get out! Van Statten, I swear no one on this base is safe! No one on this planet!" the Doctor yells desperately.

Van Statten merely amps up the scan even more and smiles in satisfaction when Eva throws her head back, letting out a bloodcurdling scream that makes the Doctor's hearts nearly stop. All of a sudden an alarm blares through the base and the Doctor looks up, as does Van Statten. The American 'collector' stops the scanner and Eva slumps against her restraints, breathing heavily and sweating from pain. 

"Release me if you want to live," the Doctor grinds out darkly. 

The Doctor is quickly released and he instantly goes over to the Time-Witch, cupping her face in his hands: "Eva... talk to me, love," he says frantically, brushing her sweaty hair from her face. 

All he gets in reply is a whimper as she cringes away from his touch, seeming to not even realize where she is as she starts screaming for him to stop and to get away, not to touch her. 

"Get her out of those, now," the Doctor growls at Van Statten, the Oncoming Storm brewing behind his eyes.

Van Statten actually backs away a few steps at the rage coming off of the Time Lord. The guards quickly release her and her shirts put back on with difficulty as she was still fighting to get away. 

"I'm sorry," the Doctor kneels next to her and puts his fingers on her temples and she passes out, her breathing still erratic. 

The Doctor, who was carrying Eva in his arms, Van Statten, Goddard, and a few guards rush into Van Statten's office. The Doctor sets Eva down on the floor gently while Van Statten gets up video for the Cage. The Doctor rushes over addresses the guards there: "you've got to keep it in that cell," he orders. 

Rose suddenly pops up: "Doctor, it's all my fault!" she cries guiltily before frowning. "Where's Eva?" she asks. 

"She's unavailable," the Doctor grinds out, clenching his right hand into a fist as the left clutches onto the desk.

"Doctor, what's happened to Eva?" Rose demands, narrowing her eyes at him. 

The head guard, Bywater, shoves her out of the way before she can get an answer: "I've sealed the compartment," he informs them. "It can't get out, that lock's got a billion combinations." 

"The Dalek's a genius," the Doctor retorts, clutching onto the desk so hard his knuckles were turning white. "It can calculate a thousand billion combinations in one second flat."

On the video the Doctor, Van Statten, and Goddard can see the guards aim their guns at the door as it opens.

"Open fire!" Bywater orders and they all shoot at the Dalek, but it does nothing. 

"Don't shoot it, I want it unharmed!" Van Statten orders. 

"Rose, get out of there!" the Doctor calls. 

"De Maggio, take the civilians and get them out alive," Bywater orders a female guard. "That is your job, got that?" 

"You, with me," De Maggio orders and the Doctor breathes out when her and English, Adam, follow her. 

The Dalek goes over to the screen the Doctor was watching from and smashes through it, cutting off the image. 

"Abandoning the cage, sir," Bywater says over the comms. 

Goddard sits in front of the computer: "we're losing power, it's draining the base," she informs Van Statten before her eyes widen and a map of the US pops up. "Oh, my God! It's raiding entire power supplies for the whole of Utah," she gapes at the screen. 

"It's downloading," the Doctor says.

"Downloading what?" Van Statten asks. 

"Sir, the entire West Coast has gone down," Goddard says as the lights on the map go out. 

"It's not just energy. That Dalek just absorbed the entire Internet. It knows everything," the Doctor explains. 

"Sir, the cameras in the vault have gone down," Goddard informs him. 

"We've only got emergency power, it's eaten everything else, you've got to kill it now!" the Doctor rounds on Van Statten. 

"All guards to converge in the Metaltron cage, immediately," Goddard call into the comms. 

Over the comms the head guard could be heard giving order before gunfire was heard. 

"Tell them to stop shooting at it!" Van Statten orders. 

"It's killing them!" Goddard stares at him. 

"They're dispensable, that Dalek is unique," Van Statten retorts before turning to the comm. "I don't want a scratch on its body work? Do you hear me? Do you hear me?"

The gunfire fades and there was only silence in return. The Doctor glares at Van Statten in disgust before going over and checking on Eva. Her breathing had regulated and her pulses had evened out, but he didn't want to wake her until the Dalek was gone and they were back on the TARDIS. He was afraid she might go into another panic attack. 

"Doctor," Goddard calls him over and she shows him a map of the base on the computer. "That's us right below the surface," she points to a section of the map. "That's the cage, and that's the Dalek," she points to a blue dot moving along the corridor. 

"This museum of yours, have you got any alien weapons?" the Doctor asks. 

"Lots of them, but the trouble is the Dalek's between us and them," Goddard sighs. 

"We've got to keep that thing alive," Van Statten insists. "We could just seal the entire vault, trap it down there," he suggests. 

"Leaving everyone trapped with it?" the Doctor glares. "Rose is down there; I won't let that happen! Have you got that?"

Van Statten huffs and stands up as the Doctor goes back to the computer screen, giving his attention to Goddard again: "it's got to go through this area," he points to a space on the map. "What's that?"

"Weapons testing," Goddard replies. 

"Give guns to the lawyers, technicians, anyone; everyone," he orders. "Only then have you got a chance of killing it," he says darkly. 

Goddard nods and gets up, allowing the Doctor to take her place as she goes to give orders. Van Statten looks down at the unconscious Time Witch, eyeing her curiously: "what did you do to her? Do you have mind control?" he asks eagerly.

"Get away from her," the Doctor growls out, getting up and striding over to the American man. "You stripped her and chained her up and hurt her. You caused her to have a panic attack and I had to put her to sleep," he says in a deadly voice, clenching his fists as he stands in front of Eva protectively. "Now back off!" he suddenly shouts, making Van Statten raise his hands with wide eyes and go over to sit in a chair.

The Doctor runs his hands down his face before slipping his jacket off and laying it over Eva's small frame. 

Downstairs with Rose...

Rose was still running with De Maggio and Adam when they come up on a flight of stairs. 

"Stairs! That's more like it! It hasn't got legs, it's stuck!" she cheers.

"It's coming! Get up!" De Maggio orders. 

The three of them hurry up the steps and look over the railing to watch the Dalek. It stops at the bottom of the stairs and Adam breathes out a little in relief. The Dalek runs its eye-stalk over the stairs. 

Adam laughs down at it: "great big alien death machine, defeated by a flight of stairs!" he mocks. 

The Dalek looks up at them and De Maggio holds her aim on it: "now, listen to me. I demand that you return to your cage. If you want to negotiate, then I guarantee that Mr. Van Statten will be willing to talk. I accept that we imprisoned you and maybe that was wrong. But people have died, and that stops. Right now. The killing stops, have you got that?" she demands and the Dalek just watches her, silent. "I demand that you surrender, is that clear?"

The Dalek pauses, staring at them: "el-ev-ate," it levitates in the air and up the first set of stairs. 

"Oh, my God," Rose stares at it shock. 

"Adam, get her out of here," De Maggio orders. 

"Come with us, you can't stop it!" Rose begs her. 

"Someone's got to try! Now get out!" De Maggio pushes her and Adam up the steps. "Don't look back, just run!" she orders them. 

Rose and Adam run up the steps and down the corridor. Rose's heart sinks when the gunfire is cut off and De Maggio screams as she's killed. 

Van Statten's office...

The Doctor was back at the computer while Van Statten paces back and forth: "I thought you were the great expert, Doctor," he snaps, getting no answer. "If you're so impressive, then why not just reason with this Dalek? It must be willing to negotiate, there must be something it needs, everything needs something," he says desperately.

"What's the nearest town?" the Doctor asks, still not looking up from the computer. 

"Saltlake City," Van Statten blurts out in confusion. 

"Population?" the Doctor presses.

"One million," Van Statten frowns. 

"All dead," the Doctor finally looks up. "If the Dalek gets out, it'll murder every living creature, that's all it needs," he tells him. 

"But why would it do that!?" Van Statten demands furiously.

"Because it honestly believes they should die," the Doctor retorts simply. "Human beings are different, and anything different is wrong! It's the ultimate in racial cleansing and you, Van Statten, you've let it loose!" he glares at him before turning to the comm. "The Dalek's surrounded by a force field. The bullets are melting before they even hit home but it's not indestructible. If you concentrate your fire, you might get through," he tells the guards who were waiting for the Dalek. "Aim for the dome, the head, the eyepiece. That's the weak spot," he explains.

"Thank you, Doctor, but I think I know how to fight one single tin robot," the Commander brushes him off. "Positions!" he calls to his men. "Hold your fire! You two, get the hell out of there!" 

Weapon's Testing...

Rose and Adam rush across the room to the door on the other side. The Dalek slowly comes in and the two stop for a moment to watch it. Rose frowns though when the Dalek zooms in on her face with its eye-stalk and turns in her direction. Adam grabs onto her hand and pulls her away, but she stops again: "it was looking at me," she frowns.

"Yeah, it wants to slaughter us!" Adam pulls on her, trying to get her to follow. 

Rose pulls her hand away: "I know! But it was looking right at me," she insists. 

"So?" Adam scoffs impatiently. "It's just a sort of metal eye thing, it's looking all around!"

"I don't know... it's like there's something inside looking at me, like... like it knows me," Rose says shakily before they run off.

Van Statten's office...

"We've got vision," Goddard announces.

The Doctor stands and looks at the monitor, showing the Dalek and the guards: "it wants us to see," he grinds out. 

As the guards shoot at the Dalek, it states at the camera, not being affected by the bullets at all. The Dalek slowly levitates into the air and shoots the sprinkler with its laser. The floors get covered in water and the Doctor, Goddard, and Van Statten all watch in horror as the Dalek shoots the floors, electrocuting all of the men except for the Commander and one other. 

"Fall back! Fall back!" the Commander orders before he and his last man are both shot by the Dalek. 

The Doctor looks down, breathing heavily in shock and anger.

"Perhaps it's time for a new strategy, maybe we should consider abandoning this place," Van Statten suggests, staring wide-eyed at the now black monitor. 

"Except there's no power to the helipad, sir," Goddard says quietly, furious and shocked. "We can't get out," she glares. 

"You said you could seal the vault," the Doctor turns to Van Statten.

Van Statten goes over to the computer: "it was designed to be a bunker. In the event of nuclear war, steel bulkheads," he explains. 

"There's not enough power, those bulkheads are massive," Goddard tells the Doctor.

"We've got emergency power, we can re-route that to the bulkhead doors," the Doctor retorts. 

"We'd have to bypass the security codes, that would take a computer genius!" Goddard protests. 

"Good thing you've got me, then," Van Statten says simply.

"You want to help?" the Doctor asks incredulously. 

The only thing this man has cared about was keeping the Dalek alive and unharmed and now he wants to help? 

"I don't want to die, Doctor, simple as that," Van Statten retorts... ah, makes more sense. "Nobody knows this software better than me."

"Sir..." Goddard trails off, staring at the monitor.

The Doctor and Van Statten turn to look and see the Dalek standing in the middle of the weapon's testing area with the sprinklers still going. 

"I shall speak only to the Doctor," the Dalek announces. 

The Doctor slowly straightens himself, not taking his eyes off the Dalek: "you're gonna get rusty," he comments. 

"I fed off the DNA of Rose Tyler. Extrapolating the biomass of a time traveller regenerated me," the Dalek explains. 

"What's your next trick?" the Doctor asks. 

"I have been searching for the Daleks," the Dalek replies. 

"Yeah, I saw; downloading the internet," he walks around the table to be closer to the monitor. "What did you find?"

"I scanned your satellites and radio telescopes!"

"And?" the Doctor prompts.

"Nothing," the Dalek says before it's voice raises. "Where shall I get my orders now?" it asks, frightened. 

"You're just a soldier without commands," the Doctor taunts.

"Then I shall follow the primary order, the Dalek instinct to destroy! To conquer!" 

"What for? What's the point?" the Doctor asks, getting silence. "Don't you see? It's all gone. Everything you were, everything you stood for," he says. 

"Then what should I do?" the Dalek asks. 

"Alright then," the Doctor straightens. "If you want orders... follow this one: kill yourself."

"The Daleks must survive!" the Dalek protests. 

"The Daleks have failed," the Doctor sneers, his voice getting louder with each sentence. "Why don't you finish the job and make the Daleks extinct? Rid the Universe of your filth, why don't you just die?" he shouts the last word in complete anger and hatred. 

The Dalek stares at the camera silently for a few seconds: "you would make a good Dalek," it says before the monitor turns black. 

The Doctor stares at the monitor before he glances down at Eva and winces when her words from earlier float through his mind 'Doctor, you're better than that monster in there... 'never cruel', that's who you are...' he swallows thickly and turns to Van Statten: "seal the vaults," he orders. 

The Doctor and Van Statten work at the computers quickly, trying to re-route the power for the bulkheads. 

"I can leech power off the ground defenses, feed it to the bulkheads," Van Statten mutters. "It's been years since I had to work this fast," he smiles. 

"Are you enjoying this?" the Doctor demands, glaring up at him. 

"Doctor, she's still down there," Goddard tells him. 

"Get me a comms device," he orders her and she gets him one quickly, which he uses to phone Rose. 

"This isn't the best time," Rose snaps when she answers, panting as her and Adam run. 

"Where are you?" the Doctor asks quickly. 

"Level 49," Rose answers, seeing a big sign. 

"You've got to keep moving, the vault's being sealed off, bulkhead level 46," the Doctor explains quickly. 

"Can't you stop them closing?" Rose asks incredulously. 

"I'm the one who's closing them," the Doctor retorts.I can't wait and I can't help you! Now for God's sake, run!" he yells desperately. 

"Have Eva come and get us!" Rose shouts back. 

"She's unavailable," the Doctor glares at Van Statten as they work furiously. 

"You keep saying that, what the hell does the mean?" Rose demands. 

"Just run!" the Doctor shouts. 

"Done it, we've got power to the bulkheads," Van Statten says. 

"The Dalek's right behind them," Goddard gasps. 

"We're nearly there, give us two seconds," Rose tells the Doctor. 

"Doctor, I can't sustain the power, the whole system is failing," Van Statten says and the Doctor looks up at him. "Doctor, you've got to close the bulkheads."

The Doctor pauses, glancing back at Eva: "I'm sorry," he whispers to Rose before hitting the enter key. 

"The vault is sealed," Van Statten announces. 

The Doctor leaps out of his seat: "Rose, where are you? Rose, did you make it?" he asks frantically. 

"Sorry, I was a bit slow," Rose pants out, making the Doctor freeze in horror. "See you then, Doctor," she continues. "It wasn't your fault. Remember that, ok? It wasn't your fault," she says firmly. "And do you know what? I wouldn't have missed it for the world," she chokes out. "Take care of Eva," she whispers. 

"Exterminate!" the Dalek screams. 

The Doctor hears the laser and rips his ear-piece off: "I killed her," he says numbly. 

"I'm sorry," Van Statten mutters. 

"I said I'd protect her," the Doctor rounds on him. "She was only here because of me, and you're sorry? I could've killed that Dalek in its cell! But you stopped me!"

"It was the prize of my collection!" Van Statten protests. 

"Your collection?" the Doctor snarls. "But was it worth it? Worth all those men's deaths? Worth Rose?" he demands, only getting silence. "Let me tell you something, Van Statten. Mankind goes into space to explore. To be part of something greater," he glares. 

Van Statten stands, becoming passionate: "exactly! I wanted to touch the stars!"

The Doctor glares at him in hate and disgust: "you just want to drag the stars down and stick them underground underneath tons of sand and dirt! And label them! You're about as far from the stars as you can get," he growls before his face contorts in pain. "And you took her down with you, she was 19 years old," he whispers. 

Adam steps out of the lift and enters the office. The Doctor rounds on him: "you were quick on your feet, leaving Rose behind!" he glares. 

"I'm not the one who sealed the vault!" Adam shouts back. 

"Open the bulkhead or Rose Tyler dies," the Dalek announces suddenly. 

The Doctor turns to the monitors and he breaks out into a huge grin: "you're alive!" 

"Can't get rid of me, who else is gonna help Eva keep you in check," she smiles up at him, trying to lighten the mood as well as distract herself form her fear. 

"I thought you were dead," the Doctor says seriously. 

"Open the bulkhead!" the Dalek orders. 

"Don't do it!" Rose shouts. 

"What use are emotions if you will not save the woman you and Evangeline love?" the Dalek taunts.

The Doctor stares, stunned... a Dalek doesn't understand love? The Doctor turns to Van Statten: "I killed her once," he goes over to the computer. "I can't do it again," he says firmly, hitting the return key. 

"What do we do now? You bleeding heart, what the hell do we do?" Van Statten demands and the Doctor stares at him wordlessly.

"Kill it when it gets here!" Adam suggests. 

"All the guns are useless, and the alien weapons are in the vault," Goddard shakes her head.

"Only the cataloged ones," Adam retorts and Van Statten turns to him with his eyebrows raised and Adam turns sheepish.

Adam leads the Doctor to his workshop and the Doctor starts rifling through the weapons Adam had saved: "broken," he chucks one aside and takes out another. "Broken," he chucks it and takes out another. "Hairdryer," he scoffs, chucking it. 

"Mr. Van Statten tends to dispose of his staff, and when he does he wipes their memory. I kept this stuff in case I needed to fight my way out one day," Adam explains. 

"What, you in a fight? I'd like to see that," the Doctor snorts at the thought. 

"I could do," Adam retorts, offended. 

"What're you gonna do, throw your A-Levels at 'em?" the Doctor mocks before pulling a huge gun out. "Oh, yes. Lock and load," he holds it up. 

In the lift with Rose and the Dalek...

"I'm begging you, don't kill them, you didn't kill me," Rose pleas, watching the Dalek's gun twitch.

The Dalek spins it's eye-stalk to Rose so quick she has to jerk away: "But why not? Why are you alive? My function is to kill. What am I? What am I?" it demands. 

The lift opens up to Van Statten's office and the Dalek glides out with Rose behind it: "Don't move! Don't do anything, it's beginning to question itself," she says quickly before her eyes widen. "Eva!" she cries, rushing over to the unconscious Time Witch. "What's happened to you?" she asks worriedly. 

"The Doctor put her under some kind of sleep, but she's fine," Goddard assures her quietly, staring at the Dalek. 

The Dalek advances: "Van Statten! You tortured me! Why?" it demands. 

Van Statten backs away, stumbling in his fear: "I wanted to help you, I just... I don't know, I, I was just trying to help. I thought if we could get through to you, if we could mend you... I wanted you better, I'm sorry!" he screams as the Dalek backs him against the wall. "I'm so sorry! I swear! I just wanted you to talk!" 

"Then hear me talk now. Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!" the Dalek screams. 

Rose rushes over quickly: "don't do it! Don't kill him!" she pleas and the Dalek spins to face her. "You don't have to do this anymore. There must be something else. Not just killing... what else is there? What do you want?" she asks gently. 

The Dalek turns to Van Statten and then back to Rose: "I want freedom," it says. 

Rose and the Dalek head up to floor 01. The Dalek fires at the ceiling, making a hole and letting the sun shine through onto it. 

"You're out, you made it," Rose smiles. "Never thought I'd see the sunlight again," she laughs lightly in relief. 

"How... does... it... feel?" the Dalek asks before opening it's casing. 

Rose stares in astonishment at the little mutated Dalek inside. It was slimy and had tentacles and one eye. 

"Get out of the way," the Doctor's voice makes her jump. 

Rose turns around and stares at the Doctor with wide-eyed shock at the huge gun he was aiming at the Dalek. 

"Rose, get out of the way, now!" the Doctor shouts when she doesn't move.

"No! Cause I won't let you do this!" Rose stays in her place. 

"That thing killed hundreds of people," the Doctor glares.

"It's not the one pointing the gun at me," Rose glares right back, holding firm.

"I've got to do this! I've got to end it! The Daleks destroyed my home, my people! I've got nothing left!" the Doctor says harshly. 

Rose softens a bit at the pain in his voice: "look at it," she moves away from the Dalek. 

"What's it doing?" the Doctor frowns. 

"It's the sunlight, that's all it wants!" Rose explains. 

"But it can't..." the Doctor denies, his voice shaking. 

"It couldn't kill Van Statten, it couldn't kill me, it's changing," Rose tells him. "What about you, Doctor? What the hell are you changing into?" she glares at the gun in his hand. "Is that why Eva's asleep? So she doesn't see you as this; a killer?" 

The Doctor lowers the gun and looks at her, completely lost and hurt: "I couldn't... I wasn't..." his voice cracks as tears threaten to spill and he looks at the Dalek then back at Rose. "Oh, Rose... they're all dead," he says, sounding broken.

Rose's heart nearly breaks for the man in front of her as he looks so vulnerable, so raw with pain, anger, and guilt. 

"Why do we survive?" the Dalek asks. 

"I don't know," the Doctor swallows hard. 

"I am the last of the Daleks," it gets out with effort. 

"You're not even that," the Doctor shakes his head. "Rose did more than regenerate you. You absorbed her DNA. You're mutating."

"Into what?"

"Something new, I'm sorry," the Doctor says. 

"Isn't that better?" Rose frowns. 

"Not for a Dalek," the Doctor tells her gently. 

"I can feel so many ideas. So much darkness... Rose... give me orders! Order me to die," the Dalek closes it's eye. 

"I can't do that," Rose denies instantly. 

"This is not life, this is sickness," the Dalek says, making Rose's face scrunch up in pity. "I shall not be like you. Order my destruction! Obey! Obey! Obey!" it begs. 

Rose pauses: "do it," she orders, tears welling up. 

"Are you frightened, Rose Tyler?" the Dalek asks. 

"Yeah," she says thickly. 

"So am I, exterminate," the Dalek says in a weak voice.

Rose stumbles back and runs over to the Doctor's side as the Dalek replaces shuts it's casing. The Dalek levitates into the air and the golden knobs detach and surround the Dalek in a sphere. The sphere creates a forcefield and the Dalek implodes. The Doctor stares at it for a moment stunned before dropping the gun and pulling Rose into a tight hug, shocking her a bit. After the Doctor carries Eva back to the TARDIS and puts her in her room, waking her up, although she remained in a frozen state, he heads back outside to get Rose: "little piece of home," he looks at the TARDIS. "Better than nothing," he sighs sadly. 

"Is that the end of it? The Time War?" Rose asks hesitantly.

"I'm the only one left. I win. How about that," the Doctor says bitterly. 

"The Dalek survived... maybe some of your people did too, Eva's alive," Rose tries to console him. 

"Eva wasn't in the war," the Doctor tells her. "Besides, I'd know. In here," he gestures to his head. "Feels like there's no one," he mutters. 

"Well then, good thing I'm not going anywhere," Rose smiles up at him. 

"Yeah," the Doctor smiles back. 

"We'd better get out," Adam jogs up to them. "Van Statten's disappeared... they're closing down the base," he tells them and the Doctor turns, arms folded. "Goddard says they're going to fill it full of cement! Like it never existed!" 

"About time," Rose mutters. 

"I'll have to go back home," Adam sighs. 

"Better hurry up then. Next flight to Heathrow leaves at 1500 hours," the Doctor smiles, turning to the TARDIS door. 

"Adam was saying that all his life he's wanted to see the stars..." Rose looks at him, smiling. 

"Tell him to go and stand outside, then," the Doctor retorts.

"He's all on his own, Doctor, and he did help," Rose persists.

"He left you down there!" the Doctor argues. 

"So did you!" Rose reminds him. 

"What're you talking about? We've got to leave!" Adam stares at them. 

"Rose, he's a bit pretty," the Doctor looks at her pointedly. 

"I hadn't noticed," Rose smiles innocently and he raises his eyebrows, not believing her in the slightest. "If you're worried about Eva, I think she prefers physicians," she smirks. 

The Doctor rolls his eyes, his ears a bit red: "on your own head," he sighs, heading in the TARDIS. 

"What're you doing? She said 'cement'," Adam stares at him. "She wasn't joking, we're going to get sealed in," he tries, but Rose just winks at him and follows the Doctor in. "Doctor? What're you doing standing inside a box? Rose?" he asks, stepping inside the TARDIS.

The Doctor quietly put the TARDIS into deep space and left Rose to entertain Adam so he could go check on Eva. He knew that Bellatrix Lestrange had caused those scars on her arms, tortured her. Her reaction to being chained and him touching her to check if she was alright, though, that was something different and he wanted to know what it was.

A/N: Thanks for reading, let me know what you think! :*