Remembering the Forgotten [2] (The Parallel Series) ✓

Smith, Stone and Jones - Two

They walked out of the room after Rita forced the Doctor to tidy up after the mess he had made with the computer. Martha then bumped into them panting breathing loudly with panic on her face.

"I've restored the back-up." The Doctor told her.

"I found her." She breathed.

"You did what?" He asked. The Doctor then saw the slab behind her and widened his eyes. "Run!" He shouted grabbing Rita's hand as well as Martha and pulling them down the hospital corridor. They then sprinted down a set of stairs and turned left and ran. The Doctor and Rita skidded to a halt seeing the Judoon climbing the stairs they were about to head down. The Doctor pulled on the brunette and diverted onto another floor after seeing another set of stairs.

They continued running down the corridor the Doctor then pushed them down another corridor and then into a room. The Doctor sprinted to the x-ray machine. While Martha ran behind the radiation screen. Rita shut the door and locked it with her sonic.

"When I say now, press the button." The doctor ordered Martha as Rita looked through the window in the door to see where the slab was.

"But I don't know which one!" Martha frantically looked at all the buttons

"Then find out!" He shouted at her while messing with the x-ray machine. "Stone can you see it?" He asked her.

"Not yet" she replied then noticed him running and pulled down the blind. "It's here now!" She said loudly running to stand beside the Doctor.

There was a loud banging on the door, no doubt it was the slab trying to get in.

"I don't know which one!" Martha shouted. Rita ran in and behind the radiation screen just before the slab jabbed its arm into the door causing the last of the hinges to come off and the door to fall to the floor.

"Now!" The Doctor shouted. Rita slammed her hand down on a yellow button and radiation filled the room. The slab fell to the floor after having a massive dose of radiation.

"What did you do?" Martha asked.

"He killed it, increased the radiation by five thousand percent." She then whistled "That's a lot. Have fun expelling that" She teased.

"But isn't that going to kill him?" Martha looked at in concern.

"Nah, it's only roentgen radiation." The Doctor waved it off shrugging. "We used to play with roentgen bricks in the nursery."

"You mean you did" Rita laughed. "I remember my childhood. Partly" She shrugged. "Remember enough to know that my parents only cared about one thing and that was how clever I was, prophecy or not with the pepper pots. My parents wanted their daughter to be the best and thought me playing around was wasting theirs and my time."

"You remember all of that?" The Doctor looked at her.

"Of course I do, it's slowly coming back unlike the parallel world 'episode' memories but it is coming back to me. Anyways enough about my boring childhood, you were explaining something Doctor."

"Oh yes," he nodded "It's safe for you to come out." He nodded at Martha. "I've absorbed it all. All I need to do is expel it." Rita stepped out and bit her bottom lip forcing herself not to laugh at the Doctor jumping up and down in the spot. "If I concentrate I can shake the radiation out of my body and into one spot." He gritted his teeth groaning and scrunching his face up in pain. "It's in my left shoe. Here we go, here we go. Easy does it." he then started to hop on the spot kicking his shoe, Rita could not longer help herself by laughing her head off. "Out, out, out, out, out. Out, out." He then shouted in pain. "Ah, ah, ah, ah! It is, it is, it is, it is, it is hot. Hold on." He then ripped off his shoe opening the bin and throwing it in. "Done."