Chapter Eight: Divine Intervention

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Jack started to go for the TARDIS only to stop when the doors opened to let off the light of the Bad Wolf. The Goddess hidden within the light set a finger to her lips to keep he and the other Children of Time still. Time had run out but not arrived at the same time for her arrival in the battle. Gailia ran over to her Father and Aunt as the latter said, “come on then, you two. We've got twenty seven planets to send home. Activate magnetron.”

With ease, Jack sent a disabled Dalek down a corridor while Sarah and Jackie did the same to another. Sarah Jane smiled and shook hands with Jackie. “So you’re Rose’s mother then?”

“Oh, yeah. Known himself for long, you?”

“Most of my life.”

“He aged mine. Kept Rose out a full year without so much as a phone call!”

“Are you joking?” Sarah Jane asked in shock. “His driving is getting worse then.”

Davros shouted for them to stop, but their family simply had no idea how to once started. Rose sent large guns known to work on the Daleks to Jack and Mickey who covered the family. The truly mad scientist shouted. “You will desist!”

Mickey had his gun aimed on Davros at point blank range. “Just stay where you are, mister.”

Back at the panel, Donna beamed at her partners. “Ready? And reverse.”

“Off you go, Clom.” The Doctor cried out with a laugh.

Gailia giggled as she pulled out two rods before saying, “back home, Adipose Three.”

“Shallacatop, Pyrovillia and the Lost Moon of Poosh. Sorted. Ha!” the Doctor said in a pleasure he feared would never flow through his soul again.

Beaming up at her Daddy, Gailia said, “we are very good.”

“Yes, we are. Ha!” The Doctor shouted as he released another planet. “We need more power!”

Jackie went over in fear for her unnaturally glowing daughter. “Is anyone going to tell us what's going on?”

Donna left father and daughter to it as she went to answer that shaky question, hoping to not earn herself a Jackie Tyler special. The memory of her brother’s was enough—thanks.

“Well, himself there poured all his regeneration energy into his spare hand. When we were tossed about it went loose and broke all over Gailia and Rose just before the console opened and the energy in the heart of the TARDIS swept into Rose. That is what saved all of us by the way. I got to act as the diversion by getting to know what it is like to be so smarty-warty. Oh, that was terrible! I am never saying that again!” Donna complained as her expression soured—she looked as if the words were disgusting to taste.

The Doctor caught this last. “Say what?”

“Smarty-warty!” Donna called back over her shoulder.

A dirty grim birthed on his lips as he said, “you just said it again!”

“Brat! Get those planets moving!”

Pulling one more rod he grinned, “got only one left to go and waiting on you, sis. Finish up already.”

Donna shot the guy a raspberry before returning to the conversation as she drew him in at the same time. “Anyway! I was turned into a metacrisis human slash Time Lord or Lady … however that works out. All to keep the Daleks watching us rather than the obvious intervention by a time Goddess inside your almost wife.”

Jackie Tyler caught onto that last statement hard. “Almost what?”

“Daddy married mummy mind-to-mind, Grammy. But he did ask her to marry him right after too,” Gailia explained.

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