Chapter 52: The Judoon Platoon on the Moon

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Danni stared out of the window, watching the rain pour outside as the Doctor played some card game with himself on the pull-up table in front of him. He had tried to teach her the rules, but there were so many and he got frustrated with her inability to keep up with what he was trying to teach her so he just decided to play against himself. It was quite funny really, because he was currently losing.

"How are you losing to yourself again?" Danni asked him, not taking her eyes off the window.

"It's not my fault I have a fantastic hand. I mean, look at this," he showed her the seven cards in his second hand, "two sevens. How am I supposed to beat that?" Danni shrugged.

"I dunno, have you got a seven and a nine?" He looked down at his cards, taking her sarcastic comment as a serious suggestion and grinning.

"Yeah, I do." He beamed at her, "You're getting better at this." She rolled her eyes and sat up straight in the plastic chair.

"Did you know that rain is only over the hospital?" She told him, wanting to move on. As much as she loved spending time with him, watching him play a ridiculous card game was not a good use of their time. The quicker they moved on, the quicker he could meet Martha properly.

"What do you mean?" He asked, playing the seven and the nine onto the table.

"I mean, if you walked off the hospital ground there wouldn't be any rain. It's literally just on the hospital." He stopped what he was doing and looked out the window, his interest off the cards.

"Really?" Danni nodded and he climbed off the bed and walked over to the window, "Well would you look at that." He opened it as much as it would allow him, which wasn't much at all, and tried to look at the sky, "It's got its own micro climate. Why would that happen?" He closed the window, his hair speckled with rain drops then walked over to the bed, grabbing his dressing gown and pulling it over his pyjamas, "Come on, let's do a little investigating." He held out his hand and she took it with a smile. He helped her out of the chair and they headed down the corridors, peaking into each room as they went. Most were just filled with patients and the main talk was of the sudden downpour but nothing out of the ordinary. They walk past the staff room for the doctors and Martha is in there on her phone. The Doctor glanced in, a serious look on his face as he searched for some sort of clue and Martha stopped what she was saying to stare at them. The Doctor ignored her, moving on to the next room but Danni stopped to wave.

"Hi Martha!" She called happily before skipping off to the Doctor, "She's lovely, you know?"

"There's no water demons, or Saturnyns or even a Flounder here." He replied, ignoring her question, "So why the change in weather?" They headed back into the original room and the Doctor sat on the edge of his bed.

"I think you should look at the rain." Danni told him, watching it change direction, "I think we're about to move." He turned and his eyes widened as he saw the rain outside.

"It's going up!" He exclaimed, "Why would it..." The ground shook and a bright light filled the room as the rest of the room let out screams of terror. The Doctor grabbed Danni and pulled her onto the bed as the ceiling cracked and dropped dust over the pair. The light dulled and it was now dark outside. He jumped off the bed and ran to the window, looking at the landscape outside. Danni joined him, grinning.

"We're on the moon!" She exclaimed, "I always wanted to go here."

"That was a H2O scoop." He deduced, "The rain wasn't to change the climate, it was a way to move us up here. But why?"

"I'm sure it's nothing good." Danni replied, "We should get you back into bed. Last thing we want is whoever it is to spot the last Time Lord in existence." He nodded.

"You're right, I'm pretty spectacular. Would just stand right out." He hopped back into his bed with a smirk and she giggled at the proud look on his face.

"Well, I wasn't going to say anything..." She told him, sitting down and picking up the cards in the spare hand, "What if I do this?" She pulled out a Two of Diamonds and a Jack of Hearts and played them on the table. The Doctor groaned and chucked his hand down in defeat.

"How did you do that?" He exclaimed and she shrugged, picking up all the cards and shuffling them.

"No idea. Let's try again."

~0~0~0~

Martha dashed through the hallways, her colleague Swales following her, past all the screaming patients and doctors who were failing to cope with the impossible move the hospital had made. They were on the moon, she could understand their hysteria, but it wasn't very helpful. She dove into an empty side room and up to the window, looking out at the moon's surface and the Earth hidden partially in shadow. How did this even happen? She ran back out into the crowd and headed down the corridor, looking for the two people from before. That Mr Smith and his girlfriend seemed to know more than they were letting on; Mr Smith had two hearts! Maybe he had something to do with this, or maybe he knew what had happened. She didn't know but it was the best place to start.

"Have you seen -" An elderly woman started to asked her but she just shot her an apologetic look as she rushed back.

"I'm sorry, I can't." She told the woman as she and Swales burst into the room with Mr Smith in. The patients were all over the room, sobbing and panicking as Martha made her way through them all, "All right, everyone back to bed, we've got an emergency but we'll sort it out." She told them calmly but authoritatively. The Doctor watched her closely as Danni stood up and followed the two women. He pulled the curtain closed around the bed while Martha headed straight to the window, looking out in amazement.

"It's amazing, isn't it?" Danni asked her.

"It's real." Martha replied in shock as Swales began to cry, "It's really real. Hold on!" She reached up to open with window.

"Don't!" Swales begged in tears, "We'll lose all the air!" Martha frowned.

"But they're not exactly air tight." She argued, letting go anyway if only to calm her down, "If the air was going to get sucked out it would have happened straight away, but it didn't. So how come?"

"Very good point!" The Doctor exclaimed as he pulled the curtains back, now fully changed into his blue suit and trainers. Danni pouted slightly, wishing he'd let her stay to watch him get changed. She blushed, thankful no one could here her thoughts, she sounded just like a bloody fangirl, "Brilliant, in fact." The Doctor continued with a frown on his face as Danni blushed for no apparent reason, "What was your name?"

"Martha." Danni and Martha answered at the same time, Martha looking down at the girl, who seemed a bit flushed.

"And it was Jones, wasn't it?" Martha nodded, "Well then, Martha Jones, the question is, how are we still breathing?" He jogged over to the window, looking out to see if he could see anything that would give him any indication to how they were still breathing.

"We can't be!" Swales sobbed and he shot her an annoyed look.

"Obviously we are so don't waste my time." He snapped back.

"Oi, rude!" Danni scolded him with a sigh. No manners, these Time Lords.

"Martha, what have we got? Is there a balcony on this floor, or a veranda, or...?" He continued.

"By the patients' lounge, yeah." She confirmed. He turned to her, a serious look on his face.

"Fancy going out?" He asked her. She stood up straight and nodded.

"Okay."

"We might die." Danni pointed out from her side. Martha turned to her with a shrug.

"We might not." The Doctor grinned.

"Good!" He praised, "C'mon. Not her, she'd hold us up." He pointed to Swales as he dashed off. Danni took Martha's hand and lead her after him.

"Don't worry, he's always like this." She explained, "Like a child in a sweet shop, there's no stopping him. You've just got to try and keep up."

~0~0~0~

Martha and the Doctor paused at the doors to the balcony, each looking at the other before pushing one door open each. The Doctor stepped out first onto the balcony, Danni after him as Martha stared in awe.

"We've got air!" Martha whispered as she stepped out with them, as if she was afraid someone might take it away from them if they heard her, "How does that work?"

"Just be glad it does." The Doctor replied, meaning he had no idea. The three headed over to the edge and looked out towards the Earth. Danni smiled softly to herself, the sight of the planet being so far away, so small in the expanse of space around them made her feel calm, collected. As always, the sight of the universes wonder made anything she was feeling insignificant, reducing her fears the Doctor was ignoring her down to a dull idea in the back of her head.

"I've got a party tonight. It's my brother's twenty-first. My mother's going to be really ... really.." Martha trailed off, her voice catching in her throat. Danni took her hand and Martha squeezed tightly back.

"You okay?" The Doctor asked her gently, seeing her becoming overwhelmed.

"Yeah." She replied quickly with a nod.

"Sure?"

"Yeah." Martha repeated as she looked back outwards.

"Want to go back in?"

"No way." She told him confidently with a small laugh, "I mean, we could die any minute, but all the same - it's beautiful."

"You think?" He asked her, leaning on the edge of the concrete barrier.

"How many people want to go to the moon? And here we are!" She held out her arms in happy disbelief. How could they be here?

"Standing in the earthlight." He confirmed.

"It's so much prettier than the last time I saw it from this angle." Danni stated, "It was covered in smog and was so dull." The Doctor leant on one of his arms as he turned to face her. She was staring intently at the sight, mouth in the smallest of smiles.

"It certainly is different." He agreed and she nodded, her hair illuminated by the little light from behind them in the hospital.

"It's shining." She whispered. Martha watched them, the ginger girl staring at their planet while Mr Smith stared at her, almost like he didn't notice he was watching her. A tear rolled down the girls cheek, but her gaze never wavered.

"What do you think happened?" Martha asked, changing the conversation and startling him out of his thoughts. He turned with a cough to face her.

"What do you think?" He asked her quietly as Danni let go of her hand to wipe her cheeks. She had to stop crying all the time, it was getting ridiculous. She had been coping so well with everyone, settling in the best she could but lately she had been feeling... well, sad she supposed. It was hard to put a label on, really. It was probably all in her head.

"Extraterrestrial." Martha settled on with a nod, "It's got to be. I don't know, a few years ago that would have sounded man, but these days? That spaceship flying into Big Ben - Christmas - those Cybermen things." She paused and looked out at the planet again, wondering if that was Great Britain she could make out on its surface, "I had a cousin. Adeola. She worked at Canary Wharf. She never came home."

"I'm sorry." He told her sincerely and she shrugged.

"Yeah."

"We were there." He told her and Danni blinked in surprise, she had been there? "In the battle." They all stood there, deep in their own thoughts, staring outwards.

"I promise you, Mr Smith, Miss Fielding, we will find a way out." Martha told them, resolve in her voice, "If we can travel to the moon, then we can travel back. There's got to be a way." The Doctor pushed off and walked over to the side of the balcony, looking outwards.

"It's just Danni." Danni corrected gently.

"And it's not Smith, that's not my real name." The Doctor admitted. Martha frowned, suddenly suspicious and tilted her head to look at him.

"Who are you, then?" She asked.

"I'm the Doctor."

"Me too, if I can pass my exams." She glanced at the Earth again; if she ever got home, "What is it, then, Doctor Smith?"

"Just the Doctor." He replied, walking over and looking over the edge again. There was nothing there, just the surface of the moon, so it wasn't going to be easy then.

"How do you mean, just the Doctor?" She wrinkled her nose, what kind of name was that?

"Just... the Doctor."

"What, people call you 'the Doctor'?"

"Yeah."

"Like I said," Danni told her, patting her hand, "Just go with it, makes everything a lot easier. Everybody else does." Martha shook her head.

"Well, I'm not. As far as I'm concerned, you've got to earn that title." She told him shakily. She hated not having control over the situations she was in, that's why she loved being the mediator of her family even though she complained about it constantly. This man was obviously not a doctor like she was trying to become, so he had to show her exactly why he was called that.

"Well, I'd better make a start, then." He replied, impressed as Danni shifted on the spot. He never looked at her like he was impressed, "Let's have a look." He looked down and picked up a small pebble of the ground, "There must be some sort," He chucked the stone and it bounced of a surface with a blue shimmer, "of force field keeping the air in."

"If that's like a bubble sealing us in, that means this is the only air we've got. What happens when it runs out?" She looked up at him for answers.

"How many people in this hospital?" He asked her and she shrugged.

"I don't know, a thousand?" She replied. His eyes widened.

"One thousand people. Suffocating."

"Why would anyone do that?" She cried, horrified.

"They're not trying to." Danni spoke up, tired of being ignored. She may not be as impressive as the Doctor, but she sure as hell could have some input, "That's not their aim."

"What do you mean?" Martha asked her.

"I mean, them sealing off the hospital isn't to suffocate the people inside, they don't want to kill anyone."

"Then what do they want?" The ground began shaking again, whatever was holding the gravity together in the bubble reacting to what was approaching.

"Head's up! Ask them yourself." They looked and saw large spaceships hovering in the sky above them. Long, grey cylindrical ships headed towards the moon's surface and landed in front of the hospital. Large lines of what appeared to be soldiers dressed in a similar grey headed marched to the hospital.

"Aliens. That's aliens. Real, proper aliens." Martha breathed, amazed. She's kept up with all the information of aliens and other life forms since Adeola had died but to actually see them?

"Judoon." The Doctor stated like the name put a dirty taste in his mouth, "Come on!" He rushed back into the hospital.

"Told you." Danni sighed, "Like a child." She grabbed Martha's hand again and pulled her after him.

~0~0~0~

They quietly made their way onto a platform overlooking the main reception, watching the Judoon scan the people below with a blue light before moving on, going through the entire crowd who were crouching and flinching away in fear. The Doctor looked over the room then smiled as the shop in the corner caught his eye.

"Oh, look down there, you've got a little shop. I like a little shop." He pointed over, speaking in a quiet tone.

"Oh yeah!" Danni replied just as quietly, "We'll have to go later." He nodded.

"Never mind that!" Martha admonished, "What are Judoon?"

"And more importantly are you going to teach me how to speak Judoon?" Danni interrupted.

"Wait, you speak Judoon?" Martha asked him and he nodded.

"I speak everything."

"Including horse." Danni told her, "Remember Arthur?" The Doctor grinned as he thought back to the horse he found on a satellite.

"Oh Arthur, he was a good horse. Wish I could have kept him."

"You know the TARDIS wouldn't have liked that. They can be quite messy and she has a hard enough time dealing with you."

"Excuse me." Martha snapped, "Judoon, remember?"

"Yes, right, sorry." The Doctor apologised, bringing them back into the moment, "They're like galactic police. Well, police for hire. More like interplanetary thugs."

"And they brought us to the moon?" Martha asked, confused. What they were didn't really explain anything.

"It's neutral territory." Danni told her.

"According to galactic law, they've got no jurisdiction over the Earth, and they isolated us. That rain? Lightning? That was them, using an H2O scoop." Martha shook her head, no that didn't make any sense either.

"What's that about 'galactic law'? Where'd you get that from?" She turned to see the Doctor and Danni had moved and were now crouched down a couple of feet away. She moved over to them, "If they're police, are we under arrest? Are we trespassing on the moon or something?"

"No." He turned to her, a smile on his face, "But I like that. Good thinking." He looked back to look back out at the Judoon, "No, it's more simple. They're making a catalogue, it means they're after something non-human, which is very bad news for me."

"Why?" He looked at her, "Oh, you're kidding me." She looked at him in disbelief as he raised an eyebrow at her, "Don't be ridiculous." He didn't stop staring and she started to feel uncomfortable, like he wasn't lying, "Stop looking at me like that."

"Come on, then." He stood up slightly and moved slowly away. She turned to Danni.

"Are you..." She trailed off, 'are you' what? Human? An alien?

"Nah, I'm human." Danni replied, "He's the alien. A good one, though, so don't worry." She followed the Doctor and Martha watched them go for a moment before following them out.

~0~0~0~

Martha came back into the office the Doctor and Danni had stopped at, having just checked outside to see the progress the Judoon had made. The Doctor was sat at the desk shining a blue light at the screen while Danni was sat on the desk next to the keyboard, her legs swinging in the air.

"They've reached third floor." She told them, "What's that thing?"

"Sonic screwdriver." He told her, not looking away from the screen as the computer flew through the system, checking the data as it did.

"Well, if you're not going to answer me properly!" Martha exclaimed, slight offended he had so blatantly lied to her. He turned to her, surprised at her reaction.

"No, really, it is." He held it up, "It's a screwdriver, and it's sonic. Look." She turned to Danni, still not quite believing him. He had just told her he was an alien, and while she could believe him, she felt that Danni might just be able to convince her that he wasn't trying to wind her up.

"No, it really is a screwdriver." Danni told her.

"What else have you got? A laser spanner?" She asked with a laugh, moving over to the ginger girl.

"I did, but it was stolen by Emily Pankhurst, cheeky woman." He replied vaguely, turning back to the computer and using the screwdriver. Nothing happened and he smacked the monitor, "Oh, this computer! The Judoon must have locked it down. Judoon platoon upon the moon." He rhymed, rubbing his face in frustration before turning to the two girls, "Cause I was just travelling past, I swear, I was just wandering, I wasn't looking for trouble, honestly, I wasn't, but I noticed these plasma coils around the hospital, and that lightning, that's plasma coils, been building up for two days now, so I checked in, I thought something was going on inside, it turns out the plasma coils were the Judoon up above." Danni frowned.

"You didn't tell me about the plasma coils." She replied, slightly hurt.

"I didn't think you'd..." He trailed off, eyes wide at he was about to say and her mouth fell open slightly.

"You didn't think I'd understand?" She finished for him slowly.

"I didn't say that." He defended too quickly, confirming her suspicions and causing her to move away from him, "I wasn't go to say that."

"Yes you were." She exclaimed angrily, "You were going to say you didn't think I'd understand because you think I'm just some stupid little girl!"

"I've never said that!"

"No, you're right." She laughed harshly, "It was 'you selfish little girl' on New New Earth, wasn't it? Just before you told me you wished I'd just go home. I'll give you that, it's in the future you call me a stupid little girl."

"You remember that?" He asked quietly, looking slightly guilty. She nodded, looking away, not wanting to tell him she dreamt of it, dreamt of him in his three incarnations demanding she went home.

"So, the Judoon? They're looking for something, aren't they?" She replied instead. He didn't reply, reaching forward to touch her but thinking better of it and turning back to the screen instead.

"But what were they looking for?" Martha prompted, sensing something deeper going between the two. Danni refused to look at the Doctor, who looked remorseful and like he just wanted to hug her better.

"Something that looks human, but isn't." He replied, typing on the computer again, trying to find some sort of anomaly in the patient files.

"Like you. Apparently." Martha pointed out.

"Like me. But not me." He retorted, still typing away. There must be something he could use on this system.

"Haven't they got a photo?" Martha suggested.

"Might be a shape-changer." He pointed out. He clicked quickly through the mass of patient files he had opened, each one blank.

"Whatever it is, can't you just leave the Judoon to find it?"

"If they declare the hospital guilty of harbouring a fugitive, they'll sentence it to execution." He explained, maybe he'd have to find the back way in.

"All of us?" Martha exclaimed, horrified. But they hadn't done anything wrong.

"Oh yes. If I can find this thing first... Oh!" He exclaimed angrily, pushing himself backwards as he chucked the mouse at the keyboard, "Just that they're thick! Judoon are thick! They are completely thick! They wiped the records. Oh, that's clever." A symbol appeared on the screen, red with a black shape in it. The Judoon 'keep out' symbol.

"What are we looking for?" She asked, trying to calm him down. He reached up and ran his hands through his hair.

"I don't know." He admitted, "Any patient admitted in the past week with unusual symptoms. Maybe there's a back-up." He picked up the monitor, seeing a black box connected at the back with a cable running out, connecting it the file server.

"Just keep working. I'll go ask Mr Stoker, he might know."

"Be careful." Danni called after her as she left to find her teacher, the Doctor not looking up as he soniced the box, trying to get access to the system.

"I will." Martha promised, the door slamming behind her.

"He won't." Danni said quietly.

"Whatever it is got to him already?" The Doctor asked, surprised.

"I don't know when." She told him with a shrug, "But I know it's between us going up to the moon and Martha going to look for him."

"I'm surprised you didn't say anything." Danni stood up and walked over to the window, looking out at the moon and the stars outside. It didn't have the same effect the doorway of the TARDIS did.

"I forgot." She whispered, "I forgot about him. It happens sometimes, I guess I can't remember everyone but I wish I could." He watched her as she continued to look outside. She looked so sad, so defeated, "I'm sorry."

"Don't be, you can't expect to remember everything."

"No, about Rose." She told him, "I'm sorry I didn't go instead of her. I'm sorry that she took the Vortex then you had to regenerate. I just couldn't take the chance that I couldn't hold it, or that I would jump before I got back or... I dunno, I just knew it worked with Rose and she'd be okay. I didn't mean to make you hate me." He stopped what he was doing and stood up, walking over to her and standing next to her with his hands in his pockets.

"I don't hate you."

"But you did." She retorted, "On New New Earth, you hated me. In 1950 you didn't like me, you kept telling me to put some shoes on." He grinned at the memory despite at how sad she sounded.

"Ha! I remember that," He looked down at the floor, "You're wearing them now, I see." She nodded.

"I try and keep them on now." She told him, blushing in embarrassment, "I don't want you shouting at me again." They stood in silence, staring out the window. She could tell he wanted to say something, he kept looking down at her then changing his mind. He hated the fact he made her so sad, he knew he hadn't been acting too kindly towards her but he hadn't realised just how much it had affected her.

"I'd better see if I can find a back-up." He told her, sounding reluctant and she nodded.

"Good idea." She told him, "Martha will be back soon."

~0~0~0~

Martha dashed out of Mr Stoker's office just as the Doctor and Danni ran out of the office. She rans straight into the Doctor, him catching her before the slammed into each other.

"I've restored the back-up." He told her happily.

"I found her." She countered.

"You what?" He asked, amazed as two Slab men smashed their way through the doorway at them, "Run!" He shouted, grabbing Danni's hand out of reflex. She grabbed Martha's and the three ran down the hallway, jumping over patients and into a stairwell. They headed down, only stopping when they came across a Judoon regiment heading upwards. The Doctor pulled them through another door and onto the fourth floor. The Slabs continued to follow them, Danni letting go of both their hands as she struggled to keep up, the lack of oxygen already affecting her ability to run. They turned corner after corner, the corridors seemingly deserted as the Slabs kept their pace, just moments behind them.

"In there!" She panted, pointing down a small corridor which had a sign indicating 'Radiology'. The Doctor pushed the pair towards the shielded part of the room with the controls in it.

"When I say 'now', press the button." He told the pair. Martha looked at the mass of buttons, having no idea what any of it did.

"I don't know which one." She cried.

"Then find out!" He retorted, shutting the door and heading to the x-ray machine suspended from the ceiling in the middle of the room. Martha looked around helplessly as Danni moved to the controls, looking at the buttons and dials with a frown. Martha grabbed the Operations Manual off the shelf and tried to quickly flick through it.

"What about the big yellow one?" Danni asked her, pointing to the button as the door broke down and a Slab stepped in front of the Doctor.

"You sure?" Martha asked her urgently and Danni shrugged.

"There's no red one." She reasoned, hoping she was right as well.

"Now!" The Doctor shouted and Martha slammed her hand on the button with a scream. The Doctor aimed the machine at the Slab and it was flooded with radiation, continuing until the machine ran out. It stood straight for a moment then fell to the floor, rigid and with a thud as its helmet hit the hard surface.

"What did you do?" Martha asked, amazed.

"Increased the radiation by five thousand per cent. Killed him dead." He replied, looking down at it slightly sadly. He didn't like to kill anything, even if it was just a lump of leather.

"Isn't that likely to kill you?" She gasped, suddenly worried.

"Nah, it's only radiation." He brushed off as if it was just water and she gaped at him while Danni rolled her eyes at his dismissive attitude, "We used to play with roentgen bricks in the nursery." He looked at them and smiled, "It's safe for you to come out, I've absorbed it all." He twitched as Martha stepped tentatively out into the room, Danni following her with an amused look on her face, she knew what he was about to do, "All I need to do is expel it." He began bouncing up and down on the spot, "If I concentrate I can shake the radiation out of my body and into one spot. It's in my left shoe. Here we go, here we go, easy does it..." He began to hop, shaking his foot as Martha watched, mouth open, baffled at what he was doing, "Out, out, out, out, out. Out, out, ah, ah, ah, ah. It is, it is, it is, it is, it is hot. Ah - hold on." He yanked his shoe and sock off and chucked them into a yellow bin, "Done."

"You're completely mad." She declared.

"You're right. I look daft with one shoe." She stared as he took the other one off and chucked it into the bin. He then took off his sock and flexed his toes, "Barefoot on the moon!" He declared. He turned to Danni, "You're right, this is so much better than wearing shoes." She grinned and laughed in disbelief and he beamed, happy he'd made her happy. He hadn't meant to tell her off, he wanted her to put shoes on because it had been chilly and he hadn't wanted her to get sick.

"I told you so." Danni cheered as Martha walked over to the Slab, crouching down beside it.

"So what is that thing? And where's it from? The planet Zovirax?" She asked.

"It's just a Slab." He explained, "They're called 'Slabs'. Basic slave drones, see? Solid leather, all the way through. Someone has got one hell of a fetish."

"Spoilers." Danni stated without thinking, before blushing furiously. Martha smiled at her suggestively as the Doctor coughed, turning slightly pink as well as he stood up and walked over to the x-ray machine.

"It came with that woman, Mrs. Finnegan." Martha told them, saving them from the embarrassing moment, "It was working for her. Just like a servant."

"My sonic screwdriver." He said sadly as he pulled it out of the hole he had placed it in, the end warped and burnt.

"She was one of the patients, but -"

"My sonic screwdriver!" The Doctor cried again, touching the end and flinching as it burnt him.

"She had a straw like some kind of vampire." Martha exclaimed, trying to get him to listen.

"I loved my sonic screwdriver!" He told her, showing them the screwdriver in horror.

"Doctor!" Martha and Danni shouted at once. He chucked the screwdriver over his shoulder.

"Sorry." He told them sheepishly before smiling as he realised something, "You called me 'Doctor'." He told Martha.

"Anyway!" She said loudly, trying to bring him back on track, Danni was right, he was like child, "Miss Finnegan is the alien. She was drinking Mr. Stoker's blood."

"Funny time to take a snack. You'd think she'd be hiding. Unless – no." He looked upwards as he thought about it, "Yes, that's it, wait a minute. Yes!" Martha jumped slightly at his exclamation, "Shape-changer. Internal shape-changer. She wasn't drinking blood, she was assimilating it."

"And that means?" Martha prompted.

"If she can assimilate Mr Stoker's blood, mimic the morphology, she can register as human. We've got to find her and show the Judoon. Come on!" He grabbed Danni's hand again and they headed out to find the Judoon before it was too late.