Smith, Stone and Jones - Three
Rita's eyes slowly opened as the Doctors body hit the floor. She moved her eyes up to see the Judoon in the doorway. 'Come on Martha' she thought trying to breathe as much as she could. Her eyes then drifted down to the Doctors body and she could swear that both of her hearts broke then and there at the sight. The Doctors skin was extremely pale.
"Now see what you've done. This poor man and his wife just died of fright." She quickly shoved the straw into her bag.
A Judoon then scanned the Doctor. The plasmavore didn't realise Rita was still alive. Just clinging on because she had to. For all the lives she lost. For them. For him.
"Confirmation. Deceased."
Rita's eyes began to water and her vision became blurry she reached and grasped his hand squeezing it tightly. 'No stop' she thought. Pressing her eyes shut as tight as she could the Time Lady let go of his hand and began to try as hard as she could, the brunette desperately began to pull herself over to the MRI scanner. She had to stop it because she knew the Judoon wouldn't. As soon as they realise it is Finnegan she would be dead and they would leave.
"No, he can't be." Rita heard the voice of Martha Jones behind her gasping and desperately trying to get through. "Let me through. Let me see him."
"Stop." A Judoon ordered her to stand back. "Case closed."
"But it was her." Martha cried out pointing at Mrs Finnegan. "She killed him. She did it. She murdered him."
"Judoon have no authority over human crime." One of them stated.
"But she's not human." Martha cried.
"Oh, but I am. I've been catalogued." Finnegan showed Martha grinning.
"But she's not! She assimi-" Martha's eyes then widened looking down at the Doctor. "Wait a minute. You drank his blood? The Doctor's blood?" Martha grabbed one of the Judoons scanners and pointed it at Finnegan then scanned her.
"Oh, I don't mind. Scan all you like." Mrs Finnegan spread her arms out as if she welcomed it.
"Non-human." A Judoon stated
Mrs Finnegan snapped her head at the Judoon and lowered her arms. "But, what?"
"Confirm analysis."
"Oh, but it's a mistake, surely. I'm human. I'm as human as they come." Finnegan smiled trying to get them to trust her.
"He gave his life so they'd find you." Martha cried.
"Confirm. Plasmavore, charged with the crime of murdering the child princess of Patrival Regency Nine."
"Well, she deserved it!" Mrs Finnegan snapped hissing at them. "Those pink cheeks and those blonde curls and that simpering voice. She was begging for the bite of a plasmavore."
"Then you confess?" The Judoon asked.
"Confess?" She scoffed at them. "I'm proud of it! Slab, stop them!" She snapped her head in the slabs direction which started to run at the Judoon but didn't get more than a few centimetres before being incinerated into carbon.
"Verdict, guilty. Sentence, execution." A Judoon stated.
Mrs Finnegan ran to the MRI scan stepping over Rita's body as she desperately continued to try and drag herself over to it. Finnegan then plugged in the MRI scanner and the magnetic overload sign appeared. Mrs Finnegan then cackled at the Judoon. "Enjoy your victory, Judoon, because you're going to burn with me. Burn in hell!" She screamed. Four of the Judoon then fired and incinerated Mrs Finnegan.
"Case closed."
"But what did she mean, burn with me?" Martha asked. "The scanner shouldn't be doing that. She's done something."
The Judoon then scanned the MRI machine and read the readings
"Scans detect lethal acceleration of monomagnetic pulse."
"Well, do something! Stop it!" Martha screamed.
"Our jurisdiction has ended. Judoon will evacuate." They turned to leave.
"What? You can't just leave it. What's it going to do?" Martha pleaded for an answer as they headed towards the exit.
"All units withdraw."
"You can't go! That thing's going to explode and it's your fault!" Martha screamed at the top of her lungs to them. She looked at the Doctor and Rita not knowing what on Earth to do. Her eyes then widened at the sight of Rita slightly moving. She rushed over to the Time Lady and bent down and started to plead for help.
"Stone! The machine! She did something to the machine and I don't know what to do! What do I do!?" She begged for help.
"The Doctor" Rita coughed out. "Please, try Martha" she begged pulling herself closer and closer to the machine.
Martha then jumped up running over to the Doctor and started to do CPR on his left heart.
One, two, three, four, five." She breathed into his mouth. "One, two, three, four, five." Her eyes then widened and she gasped. "Two hearts!" She switched to his right and started to repeat the process on that one now gasping for air. "One, two, three, four, five." She then breathed into his mouth again. "One, two, three, four, five." She took her last deep breath and gave it to the Doctor before collapsing to the ground coughing. A moment later the Doctor began to cough, his eyes extremely red and his skin still pale. "The Stone" Martha coughed out breathless and raised her arm which was shaking way too much over and pointed at Rita's body next to the MRI machine.
The Doctor noticed that the scanner has become critical, dragging himself over to the brunette. She looked up at him, her eyes showing pain and helplessness. "The scanner" she quietly whispered her voice extremely dry. "My left pocket" she coughed out. "Has my sonic... use it" She said closing her eyes to try and make her respiratory bypass system to work as it hadn't since she had hit her head making her whole body work at a slightly slower pace, not enough for all the oxygen she needed. The Doctor went into her pocket and grabbed the sonic and then pulled himself up to the machine. Coughing again he set the sonic to the correct setting and used it on the machine. He groaned when nothing happened and then noticed the cable Mrs Finnegan had connected. Placing Rita's sonic in his suit pocket he reached for the cables and pulled them switching off the machine. He then slid down the side and sat against the wall coughing a couple of times and then heading back over to Rita. He picked her body up and gave Martha a worried look. He began to carry Rita through the hospital and then felt her body move before she suddenly gasped for air.
"You're alive..." She looked up at him reaching for his cheek with her palm before gripping onto his suit and giving him a tight hug. The Doctor continued to walk allowing the Time Lady to calm down. He stopped by a window seeing the Judoon ships take off.
"Come on, come on, come on, come on, please. Come on, Judoon, reverse it." He said through gritted teeth then began to smile. Rita gently let go and moved her head.
"Rita" he laughed. "It's raining on the moon."
"You don't see that every day" she laughed hugging him again her hands around his chest and back, his right hand on her back gently rubbing it while his other arm was under her legs. There was a crash of thunder and a large flash and the hospital was back where it should exactly be.
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Once Rita had promised the Doctor multiple times that she could stand again he set her down only to be almost knocked to the ground by her tackling him into a hug yet again. "I thought you died!" She cried out. "Doctor your my best friend and I thought you bloody died" she then hit his arm and he winced in pain.
"But I'm still here aren't I?" He cheekily grinned at her. She gave a watery laugh and shook her head. "If you even try doing something like that again then you will die because I would have killed you myself!" She pointed at him showing that she was deadly serious.
"I'll keep a note on that" he nodded. "Oh also I have something of yours" he reached into his pocket and handed her the sonic.
"Ah, my sonic" She beamed. "I thought you were trying to steal it." she then cheekily grinned at him.
"Wouldn't even try, because you would then kill me" she gave a laugh at his joke.
"We should go now" he suggested looking around at all of the people beginning to come to. "Police and all that will turn up soon we don't want to be around for that" she nodded in agreement and they began to walk down the hospital corridor heading for the entrance.
"What about Martha?" Rita asked.
"What do you think?" He raised a brow.
"I think we owe her one" Rita gave out a chuckle linking her arm with his. "She did save your life and you saved everyone in this hospital and half the Earth"
"I guess we do, didn't she have a party to go to tonight?"
"We could also go and crash the party unless it's already crashing itself, I think I have a parallel world memory" she laughed.
"Let's go and crash a party then" they exited the building and headed towards the TARDIS. They looked back and saw Martha waving at both of them. After waving back they entered the TARDIS.
"Now" the Doctor headed towards the jump seat and stood across from it leaning on the console and crossed her arms.
"Now?" she questioned sitting in the jump seat.
"Is your head okay?" He asked a concerned look now on his face.
"Yeah" she shrugged. "It wasn't that hard of a push to the ground and it doesn't hurt that much anymore."
"Anymore?"
"Doctor" she laughed. "Honestly I'm completely fine, I'm not the one who was getting drained by a plasmavore. It's you that anyone should be worrying about."
He shook his head at her turning around to face the console. Now as dashing as you think I look in this suit." The Doctor joked gesturing to himself causing Rita to roll her eyes. "I'm going to change I like the long coat more and then we will pay a visit to Miss Jones."
"It would be a lie if I said I didn't" she grinned as the Doctor walked off. "I was wondering when you would ask that." She said over to him as he disappeared into the hall of the TARDIS heading to his room to change. She noticed the TARDIS had already another sonic screwdriver for the Doctor waiting. She grinned shaking her head at the new one with a lighter handle colour then the previous. The Doctor soon returned walking over to the console with the other suit on. She rolled her eyes noticing he hadn't done his tie. "Don't tell me you want me to do it" Rita groaned and he chuckled. "Sometimes you can just be so lazy" she rolled her eyes and helped him with his tie then walked over to where she had left his sonic picked it up then tossed it over to him while saying: "catch!" He taught it then laughed tossing it in his hand and watching it twirl in the air before catching it in the same hand again. He then pulled a lever and the TARDIS dematerialised and then materialised again only a few hours after the incident at the hospital as well as moving.
They exited the TARDIS and stood in an alleyway, hearing lot of shouting at the end of the main street.
"Sounds like you were right" the Doctor muttered to Rita and began to walk heading in the direction of the shouting and screaming.
"She didn't mean it, sweetheart. She was just saying you look healthy." A man who the Time Lords guessed to be Martha's father protested shouting at a woman to come back.
"No, I did not. I said orange." A woman snapped at the two.
"She isn't wrong there" Rita muttered looking up at the Doctor as they watched from just around the alleyway standing against the wall. "I see orange as well" she smirked and he just shook his head at her.
"Oh, I can't think why, after you stole my husband." Martha's mother snapped at the younger orange woman.
"I was seduced! I'm entirely innocent. Tell her, babe."
"And then she has a go at Martha, practically accused her of making the whole thing up." Martha's mother looked over at her. Martha sighed not wanting to get into an argument.
"Mum, I don't mind. Just leave it."
"Oh. I've been to the moon!" The orange woman sarcastically said over exaggerating with her arms. "As if. They were drugged. It said so on the news."
"I think we should take Miss orange and throw her out of the TARDIS, see who's been drugged then." The Doctor shot her a look to stop being cheeky, the Stone just grinned at him before turning to watch the argument again.
"Since when did you watch the news?" Martha's mother hissed. "You can't handle Quiz Mania."
Rita bit her lip to hold in a laugh. "I like her mother already, just don't kidnap her this time" she looked over at the Doctor who groaned at what she was referencing it too. "Trust me I won't, and she wasn't kidnapped"
"Sure" she grinned.
"Don't you dare!" They turned back to see Martha's dad shouting at the young orange woman storming off. "I'm putting my foot down!"
"You coming?" The orange woman asked.
"This is me, putting my foot down!" He then began to follow her.
Rita groaned. "This arguing almost as bad as the arguments I used to have with my bloody parents. Someday I will have to tell you the stories of what they started arguments over" Rita laughed at the thought.
"Seems you didn't agree with them" the Doctor pointed out.
"Oh, of course, I didn't" Rita seriously answered. "They were all for the high council and all of that where I just wanted to go, why have TARDISes if you can't go and see the universe, obviously they disagreed and insisted that I worked 24/7 just to try and get me on the high council. God, they thought they were better than everyone else and it honestly killed me that they thought that"
"You'll have to continue the story later, someone jut noticed us" the Doctor nodded over in a direction which Rita's eyes followed to see Martha watching them. They both smiled at her then turned to the alley walking back to the TARDIS
Martha followed in persistence, turning the corner they had a few moments ago and saw the two of them, both standing next to the TARDIS smirking at her. "I went to the moon today."
"A bit more peaceful than down here." The Doctor chuckled.
"I agree with you on that one" Rita chuckled as well.
"You never even told me who you two are." Martha looked between them.
"The Doctor."
"And the Stone"
"What sort of species?" Martha asked laughing a little. "It's not every day I get to ask that."
"We're Time Lords"
"I prefer Time Lady, however"
"Right! Not pompous at all, then." Martha shook her head at them.
"We just thought since you saved my life and I've got a brand new sonic screwdriver which needs road testing, you might fancy a trip."
"I thought of the idea, though, he doesn't get all of the credit" Rita grinned.
"What, into space?" Martha looked at them.
"Well."
She then shook her head. "But I can't. I've got exams. I've got things to do. I have to go into town first thing and pay the rent, I've got my family going mad."
"If it helps, we can travel in time as well." The Doctor grinned
Her eyes widened and she stared at them both. "Get out of here." She gasped
"We can," Rita told her.
"Come on now, that's going too far."
"He'll prove it." Rita stepped away from the TARDIS and the Doctor stepped inside.
"You'll love this" Rita grinned crossing her arms as the TARDIS started the dematerialise. Martha looked in awe as the TARDIS disappeared. She reached into where it had been and pulled her hand back when the TARDIS then rematerialised.
The Doctor stepped out of the TARDIS, tie in hand grinning. "Told you." Rita stepped next to the TARDIS again leaning beside it with her arms crossed rolling her eyes.
"No, but, that was this morning." Martha's eyes widened. "Did you? Oh, my God. You can travel in time. But hold on. If you could see me this morning, why didn't you tell me not to go into work?"
"Crossing into established events is forbidden" Rita glared slightly at the Doctor.
"Except for cheap tricks." He smirked at her. Rita then rolled her eyes.
"You had to go taking the tie off" She sighed. "I literally just did that up for you" she groaned stepping in front of him and doing it up yet again.
"And that's your spaceship?"
"His" Rita gestured to the Doctor continuing to do up the tie and speaking over her shoulder turning her head slightly so she could see Martha and what she was doing. "It's called the TARDIS. T-A-R-D-I-S. Oh you have no idea how long I have wanted to say that"
The Doctor chuckled at her shaking his head. "Time and Relative Dimension in Space." He said over Rita's head.
"Your spaceship's made of wood." She blinked. "There's not much room. We'd be a bit intimate."
Rita rolled her eyes a little and opened the door after finishing the tie then stepped inside. "Take a look."
The Doctor nodded for her to go in and her eyes widened and she looked in utter shock and awe mixed together. "No, no, no." She ran back out past the Doctor circling the TARDIS. "But it's just a box. But it's huge."
The Doctor and Rita stepped out the way leaning against the railing by the door.
"Wait for it" the Doctor whispered to the brunette.
"How does it do that?" Martha ran back inside. "It's wood. It's like a box with that room just rammed in." She poked her head out looking at the door then ran back in looking at the console. "It's bigger on the inside." She gasped. The Doctor and Rita both mouthed along.
"Is it?" The Doctor sarcastically said looking at Martha who walked around the console still full of awe. "I hadn't noticed. Have you noticed Stone?" He looked at her.
"Never noticed that before." She played alone humming. "Can't believe I missed something like that" she shut the doors and the Doctor took off his coat chucking it over one of the 'Y' beams. "Right then, let's get going." He ran over to the console and started to pull levers and pressed buttons.
"But is there a crew, like a navigator and stuff? Where is everyone?" Martha asked and Rita's face saddened slowly walking over towards the console herself.
"Just me and the Stone"
"All on your own?"
"Well, sometimes we have guests." He shrugged. "I mean some friends, travelling alongside. We had-" He stopped looking down at the ground. Rita sighed placing her hand in his. He moved his gaze over to her and sadly smiled.
"There was recent, a friend of ours." Rita swallowed thickly in, her voice soft and full of sadness "She's safe now, at home, her name was. Rose. It was me the Doctor and Rose."
"Not that you're replacing her." The Doctor added harsher than Rita would have liked pointing at Martha sternly reminding her.
"Never said I was." Martha protested.
"Just one trip to say thanks. You get one trip, then back home." He told her pointing to the doors of the TARDIS
"It's easier on our own." Rita sighed.
"He's the one that kissed me." She protested.
Rita groaned seeing this was coming. "Now you've done it, Doctor"
"That was a genetic transfer." He protested pointing a finger at Martha angrily wincing a little at the Stones words after a moment.
"And if you will wear a tight suit," Martha muttered referring to the suit from before.
"I gave him that blue suit!" Rita shrieked. "And that's just him being skinny."
"Didn't you say he suited it?" Martha raised a brow. Rita's eyes widened and then felt her face change colour going from her pale normal skin tone to a bright red.
"Now, don't!" The Doctor snapped at Martha seeing that Rita did not mean it like that and was looking very uncomfortable.
"And then you travel all the way across the universe just to ask me on a date to make her jealous."
"Stop it." He snapped at Martha again.
"For the record? I'm not remotely interested. I only go for humans."
"Oh, she definitely likes you." Rita laughed telepathically in his mind and he grumbled to her.
"Good. Well, then. Close down the gravitic anomaliser," he started pressing buttons.
"Fire up the helmic regulator." Rita joined in.
"And finally, the handbrake."
"Oh, turning it off now are we?" Rita asked cheekily.
"Cheeky" he raised his brows at her.
"Rude and not ginger" she threw back.
"Oh, course" he grinned. "Ready?" He looked over at Martha.
"No," Martha replied sounding a little scared.
"You might want to hold on," Rita warned.
"Off we go." The Doctor pulled the final lever and the TARDIS dematerialised with a sudden jolt. Rita held on to the console for her life laughing with the Doctor as the TARDIS travelled through the Vortex.
"Blimey, it's a bit bumpy." Martha grabbed onto the console as well standing next to Rita.
"Welcome aboard, Miss Jones." He grinned.
"It's my pleasure, Mister Smith." She laughed.
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