Amnesia Part 20

Chapter Twenty

Owen was sent to find Saxon. He had a tranquilizer pill dissolved in a cup of tea and was going to offer it to their new teammate. Meanwhile, everyone except Lucy, Donna and the Doctor came out of the TARDIS. Jack promised to knock on the door when Saxon was sedated.

"Man, this has been one hell of a day," Jack said to Gwen as he flopped down on the sofa.

"So that's him," Gwen said. "That's the Doctor you kept searching for."

"The one and only, what'd ya think?" Jack asked.

"He's nice. A bit younger than I thought he'd be but I like him."

"You have no idea," Jack said. "He's magnificent. Worth the trouble of finding him."

"And now he's traveling around with the Prime Minister's wife," Gwen said with a grin.

"Well, I wouldn't count the Master as a real Prime Minister and I have a feeling she feels the same now," Jack said. "She was sadistic but not as sadistic as him. Besides, she wised up."

"You hope," Gwen said.

"I think she's reformed," Jack said. "And if she hasn't, the Doctor will take care of her."

"And the other one?" Gwen said.

"Don't know who she is but she seems nice if a bit opinionated," Jack said with a shrug.

"Well, you found a kindred spirit then," Gwen teased.

Jack playfully punched her shoulder and chuckled.

It was an hour later before Owen finally came into the room and told everyone that Saxon was now asleep. Jack leapt up, walked to the TARDIS and knocked on the door. Donna opened it and stared at him but didn't let him in.

"What's the password?" she finally said to the perplexed man.

"What?" Jack said.

"What's the password?" Donna said.

"Um…ginger?" Jack said.

"Nope."

"TARDIS."

"Nope."

"Let me the hell inside before I break your face off the rest of your skull?" Jack said.

"Nope."

By now he could hear the Doctor giggling behind her. Donna quickly stepped back when he pushed on her and muscled his way into the console room. The Doctor was sitting on the jump seat with Lucy.

"Bad form. You're not a member of my entourage anymore which means you must have a password to get in," the Doctor said.

"Whatever. I'm just telling you that your buddy is off in dreamland now so if you want to do your work, better hop to it."

"He's quite bossy, you notice that?" the Doctor said to Lucy. "This was a problem when he traveled with me full time. Doctor, do this, Doctor, do that, nag, nag, nag, whinge, whinge, whinge. I wish I'd thought of chaining him to the wall for a year. Could have calmed him down."

"Will you shut up and go see to your buddy," Jack said.

The Doctor let out an exaggerated sigh and got up from the seat.

"Lucy, Donna, stay here and amuse Jack while I see to my buddy but be careful because Jack has a very broad definition of amusement," he said.

Jack flipped him off as he went past him to the front door.

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After an hour, Janet came back into the lounge. Everyone looked at her while she sat down.

"I used the special tracking software our Lord left for us and found two traces of artron energy in the London area," she said to them. "One of them is located in Ealing and the other is in Peckham."

"Do we investigate both?" Leo said to Trefusis.

"Yes. There are eight of us, we'll divide up into four groups. One group will go to Ealing and the other to Peckham," she said. "Let's hurry before the Time Lord finds us."

Trefusis divided up the cult members into groups of four. She headed up the group going to Peckham while Leo headed up the group going to Ealing. They promised to call each other if they found Rose Tyler before all of them headed out of the flat.

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Rose sat with her mother while they ate supper. Jackie was making small talk, gossiping and talking about her day but Rose's mind was a million miles away. Her mind kept flashing back to unfamiliar memories, first of the man with the military haircut but now she saw memories of herself with a younger man as well. A gangly man with brown tousled hair that gave her heart palpitations whenever she thought of him. She also saw snatches of worlds that couldn't possibly be Earth and creatures that were both strange and wonderful at the same time. She also had this deep urge to find this tousled hair man even though she couldn't think why she'd want to find him, especially since she couldn't recall his name or how she knew him.

"Rose?"

Rose snapped back to reality and she looked at her mother. Jackie had a worried look on her face.

"Are you alright, love? You had an odd look on your face like you were remembering something," she said.

"I was just…thinking, mum," Rose said, shaking her head.

"About what?"

Rose glanced at her. She suspected her mother knew more than she let on. She still didn't believe the whole coma story but she also suspected if she confronted her mother and asked her to explain these images she was having, she wouldn't do it. So for the moment, she kept silent and shrugged.

"About work," she said. "Just thinking about how to get outta here."

"Outta where?" Jackie said.

"London, basically," Rose sighed.

She glanced at her mother. Her mother averted her eyes but there was a moment where Jackie stiffened and once again her suspicions about her holding back the truth were given a bit more validation. There were times when she really resented her mother and this was one of them. But she kept silent again and ate more of her burger, deciding to let her mother think what she wanted to think about her desire to leave. After she finished eating, she put her dishes in the sink and after Jackie told them she'd do the washing up, Rose decided to have a bath and go to bed.