The specters glared at the trio of the Doctor, Rose, and Donna. With a few steps forward, the specters found that they were trapped behind a force field of some sort. That did not brighten their moods at all. Their faces contorted to something that was quite inhuman. The change reminded the Doctor of Weeping Angels, all anger and pain.

“Hey now, just calm down. No one is here to hurt you. We just want to talk.” The Doctor moved both of his hands up in a gesture of peace, trying to show them he meant them no harm.

Sheena, the Donna look-a-like, then spoke. “What reason do you have to want to speak with us? Why do you not let us suffer? Let us take out our rage until we can be free? ” She stood slightly away from the other two, close to Giaccimo’s elbow. She did not share kind of close contact with Giaccimo that Badona did, but it seemed that she cared for her dead husband, just not in a romantic way. It was almost the same kind of way the real Donna was with the Doctor.

“Can’t we just talk this out? Your rage is causing many people to suffer. Mainly us.” The Doctor said, pointing to his group. “We seem to have many similarities. Just look at our faces. We were just travelers on this planet, and with our astounding good-looks we seemed to have attracted some undue attention. We just want to help you. Please allow us to try.” His voice turned soft with the last few sentences, almost like a pleading child.

Badona spoke now. “Why should we give up on our rage? It is the only thing that ties us to this world. Since we were deprived of our lives too early, this is the only way for us thrive together. We never were able to survive in the mortal coil. Now, in our specter state, we are able to coexist as a family.” She gripped the tiny baby bundle closer to her body. “Now we are truly whole.” Sheena nodded in agreement. It seemed that the wife and the lover had reconciled after their deaths. Giaccimo just looked guilty and full of remorse standing between the two.

Rose’s heart ached at the sight of “herself” with a child. In this different world, she would have a child with “the Doctor.” It had been something that haunted her dreams back on Pete’s world, and she wondered if this was the baby she saw.

“We can try and help you though. Just like the Doctor said. There must be something we can do to help keep you all together.” Rose really did mean every word she spoke; she truly did want this to have a happy ending. Her eyes turned imploringly to the Doctor; he tried to give her a hopeful look.

“We might be able to configure a temporal shift so that we pull their spectral bodies into the physical world. I am not sure how their minds will react to the shift though. Also, they might not be able to completely manifest. It would be extremely dangerous, especially since their original body are now gone. They will have to be able to pull atoms from the surroundings to be able to have a physical body.” The Doctor tapped his fingers against his temples, trying to think.

The specters looked at each other warily. Donna picked up on their apprehension. “Don’t you worry about a thing. The Doctor is the most intelligent person in the galaxy. If anyone can do this for you, it’s him. You will be able to have the life you really wanted.” She tired to give them a reassuring smile.

Giaccimo finally spoke at this point. “We can’t come back. They will just end our lives again. Our society does not allow infidelity. They were going to kill us all anyways when they found out about the baby. It would have been much more horrible for Sheena and Badona. It would have been a long, drawn out death. I was trying to be merciful, and it caused the people who would have killed my family much misery. I did what I thought was best.” His eyes glistened with tears, emotion filled his every word. Both Badona and Sheena placed a reassuring hand on him.

Donna now turned to the Doctor, who was still deep in thought. “We can take them somewhere else, can’t we? Give them the life they really wanted? It’s the least we can do for ‘us.’”

Rose nodded in agreement. “Yes, we could do that. It would solve the locals’ problem, and give these people a proper life.” She just wanted to be able to give these people that domestic life that she will probably never have.

The Doctor was still entrenched in thought. He didn’t notice when Donna spoke, but once Rose chimed in he realized they were speaking to him. “Oh, um… I suppose we could take them to a hospitable planet, if this works.” He started to fiddle around with the box that was attached to the cones. The force field that surrounded the specters began to pulse and wavier. “You three sure about this?” He looked all of the specters in each of their faces. They all slowly nodded. “Ok here we go!”