After reading Adrift, written by G. K. Materson, I wanted to write my own Doctor gets stuck in France fanfic. So, here we are.
Please note that this fic will be heavily inspired by Adrift, and I mean no disrespect to its talented author by drawing inspiration from it.
Single point of departure: Reinette never had the fireplace from her childhood bedroom moved to the Versailles. Thus, the Doctor had no way of returning to the Rose, Mickey, and the Tardis.
Rose paced back and forth along the metal floors of the 51st century space ship, waiting for the Doctor's return. It had already been five and a half hours, and the blond girl could only hope the Time Lord would return soon.
Through the open doors of the Tardis, Rose could hear Mickey Smith, her ex-boyfriend and other traveling companion, panicking.
Rose closed her eyes as Mickey called out to her. "Rose, what do we do if the Doctor can't come back through?"
Rose sighed. "He will come back," she answered forcefully. "He always comes back," she whispered to herself, before entering the Tardis.
The glow of the Tardis's lights were muted, the usual humming subdued, and Rose knew the Tardis was desperately missing the Doctor, she could sense it through the connection that had been there since the events of the Game Station, ever since she looked into the heart of the Tardis.
"It's alright, old girl," Rose told the Tardis, patting the console in a soothing manner. "He'll come back for us. Well, he'll come back to you," she said bitterly, recalling the way the Doctor had left her for Madame de Pompadour, without any thought towards Rose or Mickey.
"He's not coming back, Rose!" Mickey argued from the console seat. "He's gone, and we're stuck here."
Unnoticed by Mickey, Rose's eyes flashed gold, and she let out a muted growl. "We are not stuck here!" Rose told the man. "We are going to get off this spaceship! The Doctor will get us out of here."
But the Doctor didn't come back. According to the Tardis, months passed, and each day Rose grew a little less hopeful, and Mickey did less and less to disguise his angry mutterings, cursing the Doctor for abandoning them.
"Wolf…"
Rose jolted upright, the sheets pooling around her waist as she looked around, trying to discern who had been speaking. There was no one in her room on the Tardis.
"Wolf!" The voice repeated more urgently, the humming of the Tardis growing louder in Rose's mind.
Rose got out of bed, and padded barefoot through the halls of the Tardis, until she reached the console room.
The lights grew brighter as she stroked the coral, the humming's volume increasing even more.
"Is that you, old girl?" Rose asked.
"Yes, my Wolf."
"Tardis, what do I do?" Rose questioned the Tardis, her desperation clear to anyone who had been listening, but there was only the Tardis. Mickey was safetly ensconced in his room, unknowing of what was transpiring elsewhere in the Tardis.
"You are my sister, Wolf. We are connected in a way even my thief could not understand."
"The Doctor took the Time Vortex out of me!" Rose protested. "Besides, I'm nothing special. Just a stupid little ape he left at the first sign of something better."
"My Wolf, you are more than a stupid little ape, as you put it. You are my Wolf, you are my sister. We are one, you and I. Let me in, sister. Let me guide you."
"How?"
"Open your mind, Wolf."
Images flashed through Rose's mind as her eyes swirled with gold light, the power of the Time Vortex running through the human girl's head.
Rose stretched out her hands, making wide sweeping motions, levers flipping, as though touched by invisible hands, buttons being pressed by an invisible force, screens flashing with light as the Tardis's engines wheezed.
Mickey burst into the console room, skidding to a halt as he saw Rose, her entire form illuminated by gold light. A dreamy smile covered her face as the Tardis traveled, guided by the girl's mind alone.
"Rose?" Mickey yelled, trying to reach the girl, only for tendrils of golden light to hold him at bay.
"Goodbye, Doctor," Rose whispered as they hurtled through space. "I hope she was worth it."
I promise I am not abandoning my other DW stories! I swear it! I just had inspiration for this new story. I can't promise it will be updated regularly, but I do promise that I will finish it one day, no matter how long it takes.
Please, do take the time to tell me what you thought, even it is as simple as telling me that you liked it.
~kshadow