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A Question of Time	By : Wolverinegal Category: 1 through F > Doctor Who Views: 6173 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
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(Author's Note: Chapter 13. How unlucky� I don�t know if I actually believe that. Think about it� you don�t really get that many thirteen! I mean sure, you get an occasional Friday the 13th � but most of the buildings where I live don�t have three floors, let alone thirteen or more!),/i>

Time marched ever on, even inside of the TARDIS� so the young Time Lady known as Rachel Harkness grew up.

She�d started the quest for her own style, cutting her hair and getting red highlights in her dark brown hair, which fell past her shoulders when she wasn�t wearing it up in a ponytail. While visiting the planet of Barcelona, where dogs had no noses, Rachel had gotten her ears pierced and wore silver hoops the Master had gotten her as a birthday present for her �sweet sixteen� when they�d gone to a grand party at the height of New New York�s decadence.

The Duke Of Manhattan and the Face of Boe had been there�as well as hundreds of royalty and minor lords and ladies. Thanks the Psychic Paper, the Time Travelers had gone to the part as Royalty, which Rachel still laughed about. Sir Doctor and Sir Master of Gallifrey (which everyone thought was an island nation on a nearby world) their Consort Jack Harkness (Jack had been laughing about that for weeks) and daughter, Lady Rachel. The only one who�d gotten sort of pissed at the arrangement was Ianto, who ended up being Rachel�s personal servant.

As Rachel grew, it became clearer and clearer that she was indeed her fathers� daughter. Although Jack believed that Rachel looked more like the Doctor than anyone else, Rachel was more like a complex mix of her three parents.

Sometimes Rachel was the spitting image of the Doctor, spouting long strings of techno-babble and bouncing around the controls of the TARDIS like some sort of hyperactive puppy. But then something would anger her and she�d turn into a sort of female version of the Master, radiating power and a sort of aura which made humans and other species feel the need to follow her advice. Not that she needed to intimidate anyone, since in the blink of an eye she became Jack�s younger sister, flirting with everyone and charming the most secret of information out of the most silent of strangers.

Ianto liked to joke that the young woman dressed as if her parents' clothing had been thrown together into a pile and somehow managed to breed. Perched on her nose were �brainy specs� which practically never left her face, tricking people into thinking that she really needed them. She�d dug out the leather jacket the Doctor had worn in his ninth incarnation and wore the battered black leather over a white wife beater and patched blue jeans, held up by plain black suspenders. On her feet were black converses and on her hands were fingerless black gloves.

Rachel�s right arm was always graced with a wrist band that the Master and the Doctor had created for her. It was basically a copy of the one Jack had gotten from the Time Agency, but with some Time Lord technology thrown in. The other thing Rachel always wore was a long chain necklace which held a watch and a key.

The watch, which appeared to be a antique pocket watch, had been a gift from Ianto. The watch kept track of the hour, minute and second, like any good watch� but it also showed the day, month and year. The Doctor had fiddled with it so that it would adjust to whatever point in time and space the TARDIS ended up in. The key, which hung next to the watch was Rachel�s TARDIS key, which the Master had carved his daughter�s initials on in a elegant cursive script.

Shortly after Rachel�s sixteenth birthday, Sarah Jane Smith (who Rachel had always called Aunt Sarah and whom the TARDIS Family visited every chance they could get) contacted the Doctor to tell him that Torchwood was looking for someone to head up Torchwood Three, the Cardiff branch of the organization responsible for the Incident at Cannery Warf�

Due to sheer stupidity, Torchwood hadn�t realized that Harold Saxon was the Master, and thought that he�d just retired to be with his family� which meant the Doctor and the Master could effectively hand pick the new head of Torchwood Three.

The Doctor had been going through the TARDIS� computers, looking up old companions of his, when Ianto did something that had taken everyone by surprise. He�d stepped forward and asked that he be the one that �Harold Saxon� recommend for the job.

The only reason that Ianto had given to the Doctor, the Master and Jack was that he needed a change of location, a chance to live �normally� for a while and a bit of time on his home planet. The Time Lords and Jack had accepted this explanation, never once thinking that that the man they�d known for close to seventeen years could be lying to them.

The real reason behind Ianto�s sudden desire to leave the TARDIS was Rachel. It had all started on a small island on an uninhabited planet, many light-years away from Earth. The Time Travelers had been there on holiday and Ianto had found himself sitting on the beach with Rachel, dripping wet form a swim in the silver oceans. The two were watching the sun set while the Master, Jack and the Doctor had some� alone time.

The two were laughing and joking with each other when, for reasons that Ianto still didn�t understand, he�d suddenly leaned forward and kissed the young woman whom he�d practically raised� but the thing which surprised Ianto the most was when he found that Rachel was kissing him back!

In the aftermath of that fateful kiss, Ianto and Rachel had found themselves shivering on the beach, staring at each other with only the illumination of the stars, for the planet had no moon. Without moving from the beach, without moving from their positions, mere inches from each other, as if they would lean forward once more and kiss each other again, the two had the first real conversation of their relationship.

Even though it was extremely strange, even though Ianto thought he should have been creeped out by the fact that he was in love with someone whom he�d seen born� the relationship seemed to be like himself and Jack --- unable to die. So the relationship continued, in secret at least. Rachel, Ianto and the TARDIS kept the information away from the Doctor, the Master and Jack.

Rachel and Ianto kept the relationship secret because they thought that it wouldn�t last long enough to bother her parents. The TARDIS kept the relationship secret for her own reasons, which she didn�t share with anyone.

It was because of his relationship with Rachel that Ianto had left the TARDIS. Try as he might to deny it, Ianto was bringing to understand, as the TARDIS did, that there was more to the relationship then met the eye. So he�d distanced himself from Rachel and her family in order to clear his mind and figure out what he wanted to do with the eternal life that the TARDIS had given to him.

Rachel had been there when Ianto had asked the Doctor to give him the position as head of Torchwood Three� she�d kept her emotions under control, but silently she�d asked the TARDIS to give her some alone time with the man she--- well the man she loved. The TARDIS had obliged, for when Ianto walked back into her hallways she�d sent him around and around in circles until he found himself face to face with Rachel.

After a long and heated conversation, the Time Lady and Immortal Human had parted amid promises to keep in contact. With only the TARDIS as a witness, Ianto had promised Rachel he�d return and kissed her one last time.

So the TARDIS family dropped Ianto off in Cardiff, just one day before Rachel�s eighteenth birthday. Although he didn�t know of their relationship, the Doctor knew his daughter was sad to see Ianto go. The TARDIS had picked up some strange readings, so the Doctor decided to have a little father-daughter adventure, just him and Rachel.

So the two left the Master and Jack in the TARDIS and took off --- only to end up checking into a nearby hospital.

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Rachel was bored with a capital B. She and the Doctor had spent the last night in the Hospital, Rachel complaining of stomach troubles while the Doctor�s Sonic Screwdriver kept the Humans Doctors from finding anything too alien. Now they were waiting for the Medical Students, the Doctors in training, to come around and have a look� the two had yet to find anything out of the ordinary except the strange energy readings which had lead them to the hospital in the first place.

The Doctor gently tapped Rachel�s arm and the young Time Lady face instantly took on a slightly sickly look just as the medical students crowded around her bed. �Now, then Miss Smith, a very good morning to you. How are you today?� The teacher, Doctor Stoker asked, smiling down at Rachel.

�Not so bad.� Rachel shrugged. �Still a bit, you know� blah.�

�Better, but still not all right.� The Doctor added.

�Rachel Smith, admitted by her father yesterday with severe abdominal pains.� Doctor Stoker explained to his students before singling out one of them. �Jones, why don�t you see what you can find? Amaze me.�

The young woman he�d singled out had dark black hair swept up in a ponytail� her nametag read �Martha Jones�. She walked over to Rachel�s side, looking at the Doctor. �Wasn�t very clever, running around outside while your daughter�s sick.� she remarked, drawing a look of confusion from the Doctor and Rachel.

�What?� the Doctor blinked.

�This morning, on Chancellor Street. You came up to me and took your tie off.�

�Really?� The Doctor looked over at Rachel. �What did I do that for?�

�I don�t know. You just did.�

�Not me, I�ve been here with Rachel, ask the nurses.�

�That�s weird, it looked just like you. Have you got a brother?� Martha asked, as she leaned closer to Rachel.

�Not anymore,� the Doctor almost whispered, and Rachel saw the pain in his eyes before he pulled a white lie over the Medical Student�s eyes: �Just me and Ray.�

�As time passes and I grow ever more infirm and weary,� Doctor Stoker sighed and �Miss Jones� leaned down and put a stethoscope on Rachel�s chest, her face twisting in confusion, she slowly moved the stethoscope to the other side of Rachel�s chest. The Doctor bit back a laugh and Rachel winked at the confused young woman.

�I weep for future generations, can you not even locate the heart?� Stoker sighed, walking around the bed. �And you rather failed basic techniques, by not consulting the patient�s chart!� Doctor Stoker went to do just that, only to have it shock him and suddenly all the medical students were remarking on how that had happened to them. Only to have Stoker wrote it off as a thunderstorm moving in. �Lightning is a form of static electricity. As was first prove by, anyone?�

The Doctor couldn�t resist. �Benjamin Franklin!� he replied.

�Our mate Ben, that was and a half.� Rachel smiled at the memory. �You got rope burns off that kite!� The Doctor smiled along with his daughter, the two amused by the confused looks of the humans.

�And then I got soaked!� the Doctor added.

�And then you got electrocuted!� Rachel laughed as Doctor Stoker and his medical students walked away.

�I think perhaps a visit from psychiatric,� Stoker whispered to one of the students as they moved on, Martha Jones looking back at Rachel and �John Smith�.

Suddenly the signals, the strange energy readings which had lead Rachel and the Doctor to the Hospital intensified. The entire Hospital began to shake like the TARDIS on a difficult landing. When the shaking stopped the Doctor and Rachel practically ran over to the windows�

It was dark, as if it was night ---but it wasn�t night. They were on the Moon. The entire hospital had somehow been transported to the moon! �What the hell?� Rachel whispered, turning towards her father.

�Better get dressed,� the Doctor replied, passing Rachel a bag of her clothing, so she could get out of the hospital nightgown. �Time for an adventure!�

As Rachel changed, Martha Jones walked back into the room and looked out the window. �It�s real,� she whispered, her voice slowly rising. �It�s really real!� She moved to open a window, only to be stopped by another of the med students.

�No!� the terrified woman cried. �We�ll lose all the air!�

Rachel bit back a laugh at that as Martha shook her head. �No, cause it�s not exactly airtight. If it was going to get sucked out it would have happened right away but it didn�t. But why?�

�Very good point!� the Doctor stepped forward as Rachel whipped the curtain back, revealing herself fully dressed to Martha. The Doctor moved to stand by his daughter�s side as the two slowly walked forward.

�Brilliant in fact,� Rachel noted.

�What was your name?� the Doctor asked.

�Martha, Martha Jones,� she answered.

�Well then Martha Jones,� the Doctor rushed towards the windows and looked out at the moon, Rachel close behind him. �Question is� how are we still breathing?�

�We can�t be!� the nearly hysterical woman practically screamed.

�Obviously we are, so don�t waste our time,� Rachel sighed.

�Martha, is there a balcony on this floor? Or a veranda?� The Doctor asked.

�By the patients� lounge, this way,� Martha said before leading the Doctor and Rachel down the halls of the Hospital.

Rachel and the Doctor soon found themselves standing in front of the balcony, Martha right behind them, and slowly they stepped out, finding themselves able to breathe.

�We�ve got air,� Rachel noted, looking up at the Earth, which was suspended among the stars.

�How does that work?� Martha asked, also looking around.

�Just be glad it does,� the Doctor replied.

�Mr. Smith, I promise you, we will find a way out... If we can go to the moon then we can get back,� Martha didn�t notice the look upon the Doctor�s face when she called him �Smith�.

�It�s not Smith, that�s not my real name,� the Doctor noted, looking around at the balcony.

�Who are you then?� Martha asked, an eyebrow raising.

�I�m the Doctor.�

�So am I, if I ever pass my exams� so it�s Doctor Smith?� Rachel bit her lip to stop her laughter at Martha�s response.

�No, just the Doctor.�

�How do you mean, just the Doctor?�

�Just the Doctor,� Rachel answered for her father, who was still looking around at balcony�searching for something.

�People call him �the Doctor�?� Martha asked and Rachel nodded. �Well as far as I�m concerned you�ve got to earn that title!�

�Better get started then,� the Doctor smirked, bent down and picked up some gravel, before he threw it out, away from the Hospital.

It didn�t get far before smacking into a sort of invisible force-field.

�There you go! Like a bubble sealing us in,� the Doctor remarked.

�But then that�s the only air we�ve got,� Rachel realized and the Doctor�s face froze. �And when it runs out��

�Martha, how many people in this hospital?� the Doctor asked the human woman they had found themselves with.

�Don�t know, a thousand?� She answered, not understanding.

�A thousand people� all suffocating,� the Doctor whispered, but before he could say anything else a group of tower like spaceships flew overhead, landing a small distance away form the Hospital.

�Seems like we�ve found our captors,� Rachel noted.

�Aliens!� Martha gasped. �Real proper aliens!�

�Those are Judoon, aren�t they?� Rachel asked her father, who nodded.

�They�ll have to go through the main entrance,� the Doctor realized, before running off, followed by Rachel and Martha Jones.

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As the Doctor had said, the Judoon had no choice but to enter the hospital through the main entrance. So the Doctor, Rachel and Martha watched from a balcony as the Judoon (which looked like American Football players with Rhinoceros heads) started to scan the patients, Doctors and Medical Students� apparently they were checking their species, which meant they were searching for someone who wasn�t human.

�That�s not good,� Rachel whispered.

�What are Judoon?� Martha asked, turning toward the Doctor.

�They�re like police, well police-for-hire.�

�More like interplanetary thugs,� Rachel added.

�They brought us to the moon?� Martha whispered in amazement.

�Neutral territory. According to Galactic Law, they�ve got no jurisdiction over the Earth,� Rachel explained.

�So they isolated the Hospital,� the Doctor finished for his daughter. �That rain and lightning ---that was them using a H20 scoop.�

�Galactic Law?� Martha smiled, thinking the Doctor was joking. �Where did you get that from?�

However the Doctor and Rose were starting to slip away� so Martha followed them. �They�re making a catalogue. That means their after something non-human,� the Doctor explained, more to Martha then to Rachel, who had probably guessed all this at the same time he had.

�Very bad news for us,� Rachel whispered and Martha blinked.

�Why?� Martha asked, completely confused she stared over at Rachel and the Doctor, who just stared back. �Oh you�re kidding me!� Still the two didn�t speak. �Don�t be ridiculous!� Another pause. �Stop looking at me like that!�

�Come on then,� the Doctor slipped away, running through the halls away from the Judoon with Rachel and Martha following him. The three slipped into an office and the Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver to hack the computers.

�What is that thing?� Martha asked.

�Sonic Screwdriver,� Rachel answered and Martha rolled her eyes.

�If you�re not going to answer me properly---�

�No, it really is!� The Doctor cut Martha off. �It�s a screwdriver and it�s� sonic.�

�So what else have you got? A laser spanner?� Martha laughed.

�He did, but it was stolen by Emily Pankhurst,� Rachel answered for her father.

�Cheeky woman,� the Doctor laughed before he smacked the computer, which wasn�t responding to his Sonic Screwdriver. �What�s wrong with this computer?!?�

�Judoon must have locked it down,� Rachel sighed.

�Judoon platoon upon the moon�� the Doctor absent mindedly rhymed, running a hand through his hair as he tried to figure out what was wrong with the computer.

�We weren�t even looking for trouble!� Rachel sighed, sitting down next to her father and starting to explain to Martha. �We were just in the neighborhood, just wandering and we noticed these plasma coils around the hospital.�

�The lightening, that was a plasma coil. It had been building up for two days,� the Doctor added, still fiddling with the computer.

�So we check in, thinking something was going on inside,� Rachel sighed. �Turns out the plasma coils were the Judoon up above.�

�But what are they looking for?� Martha asked, looking between Rachel and the Doctor.

�Something that looks human, but isn�t,� Rachel shrugged.

�Like you?� Martha was joking, but the two took the question seriously.

�Like us but not us,� the Doctor replied.

�Might be a shape changer� that would explain the scans and lack of photo,� Rachel sighed. �You see, if the Judoon declare the hospital guilty of harboring a fugitive� they�ll sentence it to execution.�

�An entire hospital?� Martha gasped.

�Oh!� the Doctor cried out as the computer changed to show words which Martha couldn�t read, but he and his daughter could. �Do you see? They�re tick. Judoon are thick! They are so completely thick!�

�They wiped the records,� Rachel realized, staring at the screen. �That�s clever� for a Judoon at least.�

�But we don�t know what were looking for!� The Doctor sighed, leaning back in the chair. �Maybe� any patient admitted in the past week with unusual symptoms?�

�Doctor Stoker might know,� Martha realized. �Keep working on that and I�ll go find him.�

The Doctor and Rachel found themselves bent over a computer, waiting for Martha and getting nothing out of the technology, even when they used both their Screwdrivers together. Then Martha ran back in, trying to get away from what appeared to be a man in leather and a motorcycle helmet.

�This way!� the Doctor yelled, leading them into a X-Ray Room. �Martha, when I say now, throw the switch!�

�I don�t know how to operate this thing!� Martha objected.

�Then figure it out!� Rachel yelled as she struggled to help her Father with the machine.

�Ray, behind the screen!� the Doctor yelled as he shifted the machine to point at the door. Rachel dived behind the screen with Martha, just as the Doctor yelled �Now!�

For a second you could see the Doctor�s skeleton� and then the thing which had been chasing them fell to the ground. �What did you do?� Martha asked.

�Increased the radiation by 5,000 percent,� the Doctor explained.

�Killed him dead,� Rachel added, stepping out to look at the thing which had been chasing them.

�But won�t that kill you too?�

�Nah, it�s only roentgen radiation,� Rachel noted.

�Used to play with roentgen bricks in the nursery.� The Doctor sighed before he started to sort of bounce on the heels of his feet. �I�ve absorbed it all� now I just need to expel it, shift the radiation out of my body and into one spot.�

Martha blinked as the Doctor began to hop around on his right foot. �He�s shifting the radiation into his left shoe.� Rachel leaned over to explain, fighting down laughter as she watched her father hop about like a complete loon.

�Ah! Itches!� the Doctor almost squeaked, before it was done and he pulled off his shoe, throwing it into the trash.

�You�re completely mad,� Martha deadpanned, drawing a giggle from Rachel.

�You�re right� I look daft with one shoe!� Without further discussion the Doctor pulled off his other shoe and tossed it away. �Barefoot on the moon!� He laughed, wiggling his toes.

�So, what is that thing?� Martha asked, turning to the leather creature which had been chasing them.

�It�s called a Slab. Completely leather all the way through, basic slave drones,� Rachel explained as the Doctor pulled his sonic screwdriver out of the machine and found it was burnt out.

Martha, meanwhile was explaining about one of the patients she�d seen: Miss Finnegan, an elderly lady who had sucked out Doctor Stoker�s blood with a straw. �She�s a shape changer!� The Doctor realized. �An internal shape-changer! She wasn�t just drinking the blood, she was assimilating it!

�That means the scans won�t pick her up!� Rachel realized. And the Doctor nodded. �We�ve got to find her and show the Judoon!�

So they were off once more, running and hiding from the second of the Slabs since, as the Doctor noted, Slabs always travel in pairs.

�But what about you two?� Martha asked.

�What do you mean?� Rachel frowned.

�Don�t you have backup, a partner or something?�

�We do� sort of.� The Doctor answered, turning to look at Rachel. Instantly the young woman pulled back her sleeve to reveal her wristband and punched in a few buttons� only to curse violently in a language Martha had never heard before.

�The Judoon are blocking it somehow, we�re on our own,� Rachel explained.

�I�m still not convinced you�re an alien!� Martha sighed as they stood up and went round a corner, only to find themselves face to face with several Judoons, one of which had his scanner pointed at the Doctor�s face.

�Non-human!� The Judoon barked and Martha gasped.

�Oh, my god� you really are!� Martha whispered.

�And again!� the Doctor yelled, grabbing Martha�s hand, they took off running.

When they stopped the next time, Martha was breathing heavily. �We�re starting to run out of air�� she whispered before looking up at the two of them. �Why aren�t you out of breath?�

�Alien body� different lung structure,� the Doctor explained. �What about you� alright?�

�Running on adrenalin,� Martha replied.

�Welcome to our world,� Rachel smiled. �Now where�s Mr. Stoker�s office?�

�This way,� Martha stood and took the lead. Soon they were in the office, the Doctor bending over the body of Mr. Stoker.

�Drained him dry, every last drop,� the Doctor whispered. �I was right� she�s a Plasmavore.�

�What�s she doing on Earth?� Martha asked, closing Mr. Stoker�s eyes.

�She�s on the run, must be hiding, like Ronald Biggs in Rido de Janeiro,� Rachel answered.

�But she�s still not safe, so what�s she doing now?� the Doctor thought aloud as he walked back out into the hallway. �Think, think, think� If I was a wanted Plasmavore, surrounded by police� what would I do?�

�Doctor,� Rachel called out, pointing to a sign which said MRI

�Oh �� The Doctor sighed. �She�s as clever as us� well almost.�

Then there was a crashing at the doors of the hallway, where the Juddon were entering that floor of the hospital. �We need more time!� Rachel bit her lip as she looked around. �I�m not human enough to confuse them��

�Martha!� The Doctor turned to Martha, speaking as fast as he could. �I�m so sorry, please forgive me for this� it means nothing at all but it could save a thousand lives.�

�What?� Martha blinked and Rachel did the same, both women confused.

Then the Doctor darted forward and kissed Martha, before pulling back and grabbing Rachel�s hand, practically pulling her along as Martha stared after them.

�That was nothing?� she whispered as the two rounded the corner and entered the MRI room.

There the two Time Lords found Miss Finnegan was bent over the machine. The Doctor instantly pulled Rachel into his arms like a frightened parent and started to babble�

�Have you seen?� He gestured towards the door, but still held Rachel close. �There are these things! These� great, big space rhino things! I mean rhinos form space� and we�re on the moon!� As the Doctor babbled Rachel did her best to look shell shocked.

�Great, big space rhinos with guns! On the Moon!� the Doctor repeated. �I only came in to get her tonsils out!� The Doctor gestured at Rachel. �All fixed now, perfectly good treatment, the nurses were lovely��

Rachel slowly sank to the ground, making herself shake as the Doctor continued his ramblings. �I said to my wife, �I�d recommend this place to anyone��but then we end up on the moon! And did I mention the rhinos?�

�Hold him!� Miss. Finnegan shouted and a Slav stepped forward from behind a curtain. The Doctor did not struggle as Rachel made herself look horrified, all the while trusting her father to have a plan of some sort.

And indeed he did. First part of the plan was to all the information he could out of Miss Finnegan. She�d increased the MRI�s settings to 50,000 tesla. Her plan was to fry the brainstems of everything in 250,000 miles, which meant she�d destroy half the Earth. And all this was so she could escape.

Then he�d tricked her into thinking that the Judoon were increasing their scans, meaning that she would have to take in more blood, and since the Doctor was the only other one in the room whom Miss Finnegan thought was human ---she feasted on him.

Rachel didn�t have to fake a scream when Miss Finnegan stabbed her straw into the Doctor�s neck, however she had to keep herself from leaping at the Plasmavore. She stayed on the ground, screaming until the Judoons, followed by Martha entered the room� and scanned the Doctor, pronouncing him �dead�.

Martha screamed out that Miss Finnegan had murdered the Doctor� and then Rachel dashed forward, pointing a scanner at Miss Finnegan, which due to the Doctor�s blood made Miss Finnegan show up as alien.

�Confirmed, Plasmavore! Charged with the crime of murdering the Child Princess of Padrivole Regency Nine.�

As the Judoons pointed their guns at Miss. Finnegan, the Plasmavore dashed back and activated the MRI before she was executed by the Judoon� who ran like scared robots when they realized what had been done to the MRI.

Rachel and Martha bent over the Doctor, Rachel desperately trying to wake up her father� although Martha was starting to feel the effects of the dwindling air supply. Rachel sprung up, trying to stop the MRI from exploding while Martha gave CPR to the Doctor.

�TWO HEARTS!� Rachel yelled over her shoulder and Martha changed her CPR, she managed to get the Doctor up and moving. As Martha Jones passed out the Doctor was starting to feel the lack of air, thanks to his blood being drained, so most of the work was left up to Rachel as her father fought to stay awake.

�Come on, Judoon�� she whispered looking out a window in the hallway where the two of them had managed to crawl. �Come on, please reverse it��

Then it started to rain and the crack of thunder and the flash of lightening could be seen.

�It�s raining on the moon,� Rachel whispered to her father. �We�re going back!�

The jolt form Moon to Earth was better then that from Earth to Moon. While Martha ran to find her sister, Rachel helped the Doctor back to the TARDIS� where the Master and Jack were waiting, both having felt the pain the Doctor had gone through� and his almost death.

Much later that night, the Doctor set the TARDIS down in a alleyway near where Martha Jones was attending a party� and the Doctor and Rachel stood where Martha could see them, drawing her over to the TARDIS.

�I went to the moon today,� Martha whispered.

�Bit more peaceful than down here,� the Doctor replied, leaning on the TARDIS as Rachel stood by his side.

�You two never even told me who you are!� Martha said as she walked closer to the TARDIS.

�The Doctor� and my daughter is Rachel Harkness,� the Doctor replied, looking over at Rachel.

�But what sort of species?� Martha asked, laughing slightly. �It�s not every day that I get to ask that!�

�We�re Time Lords,� Rachel replied.

�Not pompous at all then!� Martha joked.

The Doctor frowned before changing the subject. �Well, I just thought� since you saved my live and I�ve got a bran new Sonic Screwdriver which needs road-testing, that you might fancy a trip.�

�What into space?� Martha blinked as Rachel nodded. �But I can�t! I�ve got exams, I�ve got things to do!�

�Well,� Rachel smiled. �If it helps, we can travel in time as well.�

Seeing that Martha didn�t trust them, the Doctor sighed. �Very well, I�ll prove it! Ray, be back in a bit.�

Then he stepped inside the TARDIS and it vanished, only to reappear a few seconds later. The Doctor strolled out, his tie in his hands. �So that�s why I did it,� he said, smiling at Rachel.

�But that was this morning!� Martha gasped. �You can travel in time!� She frowned suddenly. �Then why couldn�t you have told me not to go into work? Or captured the Plasmavore?�

�Crossing into established events is strictly forbidden,� the Doctor replied.

�Except for cheap tricks,� Rachel added, drawing a smile from her father.

�So this is your spaceship?� Martha asked.

�Called the TARDIS. Time and Relative Dimensions in Space�� The Doctor explained, opening the door and letting Martha in.

The Doctor and Rachel waited a few seconds for Martha to say what everyone said� �It�s bigger on the inside!�

Rachel stepped in and the Doctor closed the door, throwing his coat over one of the pillars of the TARDIS as he walked to the center.

�But is there a crew? Like a navigator or something?�

�Or something,� Rachel replied as the Master and Jack walked out of the back rooms. �There�s just our family onboard.�

�Your family?� Martha looked over at the two new additions.

�The Master, another Time Lord.� Rachel pointed at her second father. �And Jack, a human from your future.�

�We�re also Rachel�s parents,� Jack added as he walked over to the Doctor.

�What? But your men! And I thought the Doctor was Rachel�s father!�

�Alien, remember?� Rachel smiled at her parents. �I�ve got two dads and a mom that�s a male human� it happens.�

Martha was struck dumb by Rachel�s words and watched in silence as the Doctor, the Master and Jack began to space themselves out around the TARDIS controls. �So� one trip to say thanks, then back home!� the Doctor smiled as he started to adjust.

�Well, you�re the one who kissed me.� Martha smirked as the Master and Jack shot the Doctor a look.

�That, was a genetic transfer!� the Doctor protested.

�Well for the record� I�m not interested. I only go for humans!� Martha crossed her arms and smirked before Rachel pulled her over towards the jump seat, telling her to hang on before she joined her parents at the controls of the TARDIS.

�Now then!� The Doctor smiled wildly as he began to punch keys. �Close down the Gravitic Anomalyser!� He threw a switch.

�Fire up the Helmic Regulator,� the Master added on, pumping a mechanism a few times.

�And finally�� Jack smiled as he pressed down another lever. �The Handbrake.�

�Are you ready?� Rachel asked Martha.

�No!� Martha replied.

�Good answer,� Rachel laughed and punched a button� and the TARDIS was off, throwing Martha Jones back into the jump seat.

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