A/N: Been forever since I updated this, I know. I'm sorry. Hope it's okay anyway!

"Now, that's not very nice. I'm not completely mad." The Doctor said indignantly.
"She's actually right, besides you look daft with one shoe." Rose smirked. He raised his eye brows and gave Rose a look that she knew too well before taking off the other shoe and slamming it into the bin.

"Anything else?" He asked in mock annoyance.
Martha shook her head but Rose stuck her tongue between her teeth in her typical manner. "Actually... Your hair's kinda stickin' up..." She rushed forward and flattened the offending lock of hair.
"That's better," she smiled up at him and he beamed back.

Martha coughed, bringing them out of their little world. "So what did you mean it was never living? And where's it from, planet Zavirax?" She asked and the duo sobered immediately getting back into the task at hand.
"It was just complete leather, all the way through. No flesh, no nothing." She looked puzzled.
"But, how is that possible? It was moving, about to kill us, but you say it weren't even alive."
"It sounds like shop window dummies all over again..." Rose muttered and the Doctor shared a knowing look with her.

"It's a slab, Martha. Basic slave drone, doing someone else's bidding. Some one's got one hell of a fetish!" He explained a bit more.
Rose didn't seem at all surprised and followed the Doctor to the scanner.
"But it was that woman, Mrs Finnegan. It was working for her!" Martha carried on talking even though the Doctor and Rose were barely listening.

"My sonic screw-driver..." The Doctor said sounding disbelieving, as he pulled the mangled and singed tube out of the equipment. Rose stared at it trying hard to keep a straight face.
"Just like a slave..." Martha continued to no-one.

"Ha! You can't blame this one on me now. This time you broke it." Rose sounded triumphant for some reason.
"I didn't break it, the stupid scanner did!" He defended still staring at the tool. Martha was still talking about Mrs Finnegan and a straw like a vampire.
"Don't blame inanimate objects you told me when it broke last time, and that weren't my fault then!"
"You sat on it!"
"I didn't sit on it, it was broken into little pieces! My butts not that big. It was your fault for shoving that junk on top of it!"
"It was not, my junk was no where near it!" Both their voices were high now, not particularly shouting, it was more teasing than shouting.

Martha stared at them, annoyed that they couldn't keep focus and they were ignoring her.
"Doctor!" Her voice sounded over them and they both turned to face her.
"Sorry," they both said at the same time. The Doctor was about to chuck the tool, but Rose beat him to it, snatching it from his hands and lobbing it over her shoulder where it clattered on the floor.

"You called me Doctor," He realized sounding pleasantly surprised. Martha just rolled her eyes.
"Anyway," She gave a stern look, "Mrs Finnegan is the alien, she was drinking his blood. If you were listening you would have heard: Blood, straw, like a vampire,"

Bossy this one, Rose thought but kept it to herself.

"Well, she must have been hungry... I mean what else could she be drinking blood for?" Rose inputted, unknowingly prompting the Doctor's chain of thought.
He looked up at the ceiling and the girls could hear the cogs of his mind turning, "unless... No...Yes, that's it...Wait a minute... YES!" He shouted loud causing Martha to flinch. Rose, however, wasn't surprised. She was too used to him doing stuff like that.
"Shape changer! Internal shape changer! She wasn't drinking his blood, she was assimilating it!" He yelled triumphant.
"What would I do without you?" He asked Rose rhetorically, she just looked clueless.
"What I do?"

He continued with his explanation, not answering Rose. "If she can assimilate Mr Stokers blood, she can be scanned and registered as human. We've go to show the Judoon. Come on!" He sped off with the girls on his heels.

-~DW~-

Crouched down behind a water dispenser was Rose, The Doctor and Martha were watching as another leather man march passed them. "That's the thing about slabs, they always travel in pairs."
"What like you two you mean?" Martha asked, with slightly green eyes.
"Yup, like us." He agreed looking at Rose.
"Yeah, it's better with two." Rose said looking right back.

Martha eyed the pair while they gazed at each other and felt yet another stab of jealousy.
"But three's a crowd, right?" She asked to herself.

"I never understood that saying you humans made up. I get the better with two one, but there was three of us with Jack and that was fine" He mused, and then decided he probably shouldn't have mentioned Jack. Rose always got a little upset at the mention of him, but the Doctor couldn't bring himself to say why he couldn't stand to be around the Captain. Mainly because that would mean telling Rose what she had done when she looked into the heart of the TARDIS. That could wait, no matter how often she pestered.

"I like that, humans, I'm still not convinced you're an alien." Martha muttered as they all came out of their hiding place.

When they stepped out, there was a Judoon right in front of the Doctor's face, red scanning tube at the ready. The Judoon pressed the button, "non-human,"
"Crap," Rose cursed,
"Oh my god you really are,"
"And again!" The Doctor said grabbing Rose's hand. The trio sped away from the space rhinos who were firing lazers at them now, and further down the ward.

They raced around several corners, practically flew up a set of stairs and threw themselves through a door, which he then locked.
This corridor was a much more pitiful sight. Patients were leaning against walls or lying on the floor, gasping for breath as the oxygen got less and less.
"They've done this floor," The Doctor observed as they stepped through, dodging people and strewn objects. "The Judoon are logical and just a little bit thick. They wont go back and check a floor they've already done... If we're lucky."

"When have we ever been lucky?" Rose asked as she and Martha walked over to a med student who was giving oxygen from a tank to a patient.
"How much oxygen is there?" Martha asked her friend.
"Not enough for all these people...We're gunna run out." The Doctor looked over at the crouching girls, with concern etched on his face.
"What about you two, are you alright?"

"I'm running on adrenalin," Martha replied but she still sounded breathless.
"Welcome to our world, right Rose?"
"Yeah..." Rose sounded a lot more breathless than Martha did but she still managed a smile.

"But what about the Judoon?" Martha asked, hoping they'd have trouble too.
"Nah, they're great big lung reserves. It wont slow them down."
"Lucky buggers." Rose muttered.

"Where's Mr Stoker's office?" He asked, Martha got up to show him.
"Through here..."

Hope it was okay for you! Sorry about my little attempts at humor, I'm not funny.

Dame-Rose x