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Chapter Forty-nine:  Sancutary

I have been in worse positions than cowering behind a desk with a gun and a man willing to defend me with his life and I have come through them all. Yet this time something feels extraordinarily different. This time I feel like I might really die. The screams below me in the hub are wrenching and I can smell the iron of blood and the sulfur of gunfire and the strange astringent smell coming from the EMP bombs as they detonate against the cybermen's casing.

And then the desk we are hiding behind is lifted by a cyberman and tossed over the railing. Owen leans forward so that he is blocking me from view. He raises his weapon and fires but not before the cyberman gets off a shot. The laser goes through his shoulder and out, singeing across my head. I smell the burnt hair before I feel the pain.

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Chapter Forty-five:  Cardiff

When the TARDIS materializes in Cardiff it does so in an alley behind some sort of travel agency. The Doctor turns on the view screen and carefully scans the area. “I wonder why she landed here,” he muses. “I was aiming for the Millennium Center.”

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Chapter Thirty-six:  Telling

We arrive on Earth, materializing behind the Powell Estate. When we left my mum had informed me that she was letting Dr. Jones stay in my room so she could be closer to the recovery effort, otherwise we would have landed the TARDIS in my room.

I am suddenly nervous. Telling my parents that I’m pregnant is not particularly something I want to do. My mum likes the Doctor, though she had her issues in the beginning and my dad respects him. But no parents want to hear that some older guy has knocked up their baby girl. Especially when last Mum knew, the Doctor and I hadn’t even slept together.

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Chapter Thirty-two:  Mate

I step in front of the Doctor. “You will not harm my mate.”

“He does not concern me unless he interferes.”

I feel a feral grin come onto my face. My Doctor will always interfere. A light green mist begins to exude from the Sower in front of me, his presence expanding and encompassing my body. It strengthens around me, blocking the Doctor physically from me.

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Chapter Twenty-one:  Home

“Rose?” it grates out. “Rose?”

“What?” I manage when I recover from my shock, but my heart does not stop pounding in my ears. I feel the adrenaline dump into my system and every human instinct I have screams for me to run. I stay still.