A/N: My first published Doctor Who Fic. Basically it's been begging to be written and I had to comply. Very hastily edited so I'm sorry for any glaring grammar or spelling issues. I hope you enjoy! Chapter 2 is written and being edited so it should be up by the weekend at the latest. The next part is much longer.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. I make no money. This is for pure enjoyment of playing with the situations and the characters.
**Starts off after the TARDIS has become stuck on the Dalek ship and they realize they have to exit.**
"Daleks, that's exciting isn't it?" the Doctor says, smiling at Rose and Jack. Rose smiles back at him, happy to see that ridiculously dorky grin. Happy to be back standing near the TARDIS, having her presence at the back of Rose's mind, she had come home. With Jack standing next to her, being his normal self, just smiling and making jokes.
"Just like old times."
"The three of us of have done it before," says Jack, grin getting wider as he looked from the Doctor to Rose.
"Well…" the Doctor's eyes fix on Rose again and her heart beats a bit as the TARDIS presses more firmly into her mind.
"You've done this before? Gone up against a Dalek empire?" Donna asks looking between the three, waiting for someone to include her.
"We did. Rose here knocked on the piggies door and when they wouldn't let her in, she vaporized them," explains Jack and Rose rolls her eyes at his reference. Donna just arches an eyebrow.
"Long story," the Doctor says and straightening his shoulders he turns and moves to exit the TARDIS, Donna and Jack following him. Rose looks around the TARDIS, saying goodbye in her head, before moving to follow them. But she stops dead as something calls to her. A familiar song is being sung. She turns her head and looks back to the console. It thrums happily and the light from the TARDIS flashes in sync with the song.
"Alright, all together," she hears the Doctor say as he steps out of the door into the space ship. Rose wants to follow him, but the TARDIS is getting louder. She takes halting steps towards the heart of the TARDIS and the song from her dreams pulses in her head and through her body.
"Doctor," Rose calls to him, but keeps her eyes on the pulsing light, and then her eyes are drawn to the hand in the jar. The golden light from the regeneration energy is still swirling around the hand. She swears the fingers wave at her.
"Rose," the Doctor is calling her, sounding frantic and Rose turns her head to the door. It slams shut on it's own and Rose rushes to it, pushing and pounding.
"Doctor? What are you doing? Don't you dare send me away again!" Rose called as she slammed her fists against the door. The wood doesn't bug, she tries the lock, but it won't slide. She yanks and the tears are forming.
"I didn't do it! I didn't!" the Doctor's muffled voice comes to her through the door. She hears him the arguing with the Dalek, but she moves from the door to the console again, the song is still thrumming in the background. She is nearly in tears as she begs the TARDIS.
"Please, he needs me. You can't do this to me again. Please."
In response, she is thrown to the floor as the TARDIS tumbles down the pit towards the core. The TARDIS shoots through the air and into the molten core with no protection and Rose doesn't know how to save the TARDIS or herself. Fires start and the walls explode around her. She falls to the floor, the grating digging into her knees. She starts to cry as the song explodes in her head again.
There on the floor in front of her etched into the grating are two words, Bad Wolf. Rose's tears stop suddenly as she runs her fingers over the words.
"I am the Bad Wolf," she says softly, and looks up at the TARDIS, it hums brightly again even as they are both being burned. The song hums in her head strongly and she is forced to look at the hand in the jar now bursting with light. She reaches out, gently touching the glass. Everything around her explodes. She shields her eyes and falls back. The TARDIS rocks violently and then the light starts to recede and the song in her head dies away. There on the floor lays a little boy with brunette hair spiked all over. He moans and sits up looking at Rose.
"Are you my mummy?" Rose just blinks. She wants to laugh hysterically. The phrase and the small voice throws her back to the time with the Doctor and Jack. There was another explosion behind her and the hysterical laughter dies in her throat.
"What?" She finally manages to ask as she calms down. She wonders if she has died. Maybe she's been dreaming again. Sometimes she has strange dreams where she is in the TARDIS and suddenly a bear walks in. Maybe she has just been dreaming. She knows it isn't a dream though.
"Are you my mummy?"
"Yeah," Rose answers him firmly as the little boy shakily stands up, naked and shivering.
Rose knows inside her in the deep, inside where the time vortex sleeps that she is. Besides who else was going to be the mummy to a hand in a jar that turned into a little boy? The little boy stands and awkwardly stumbles to the controls. He looks around curiously before flipping several switches and pushing a button; finally the TARDIS stops rocking and exploding and the familiar hum becomes the loudest noise as they slip away from the core quietly.
"I need clothes."