I'm back by popular demand! This is the sequel to YANA that I promised, but never wrote. Sorry it's taken me so long to do this, but I'm doing it now, that must account for something, right?
The Doctor walked around the console, looking at what repairs he needed to do. He took down the shields and started to rebuild the little things that needed it.
"Stop that! Stop it! What was all that about, eh?" He taps the time rotor. "Eh? What's your problem?"
"Doctor, are you talking to the TARDIS again?" The Rose calls out from deeper inside the machine.
"Yes! Now let me concentrate!" He calls back. As he goes to investigate the controls, the fifth Doctor appears on the other side of the console.
"Right, just settle down, now." The other Doctor tells the machine. Going in opposite directions around the console, they bump into each other.
"Excuse me." The Doctor mumbles, thinking it was the Rose.
"So sorry." A very masculine and Not-Rose voice answered. The two Doctors stop and look at the other.
"What?" The current Doctor asks in shock.
"What?" The other Doctor repeats.
"What?" The Rose says as she enters the console room and sees the multiple Doctors.
"Who are you?" The older Doctor asks them, flickering his eyes between the two Time travelers.
"Aw, brilliant! I mean, totally wrong, big emergency, universe goes bang in five minutes, but... brilliant!" The current Doctor, who for the sake of our sanity we will now be calling Ten, rambled.
"I don't think this is very funny." The Rose grumbles.
"I'm the Doctor, who are you?" The older Doctor, or Five as we will now be referring to him as, asks angrily. Ten grins.
"Yes, you are, you are the Doctor." He repeats, chuffed.
"Yes, I am, I'm the Doctor." Five repeats, exasperated.
"Oh, good for you, Doctor. Good for brilliant old you." Ten crows, still chuffed. The Rose shakes her head at him.
"Is there something wrong with him?" Five asks the Rose.
"Everything." She answers with a sigh. Five frowns at both of them.
"Ooo, there it goes, the frowny face! I remember that one! Mind you," he grabs Five by the face and squishes his cheeks, "it's saggier than it ought to be," he fiddles with Five's sideburns, "hair's a bit greyer, that's 'cause of me, though, two of us together has shorted out the time differential, should all snap back in place when we get you home," he grabs him by the lapels, "be able to close that coat again. But never mind that, look at you! The hat, the coat, the crickety cricket stuff, the... stick of celery, yeah... Brave choice, celery, but fair play to you, not a lot of men can carry off a decorative vegetable." Ten comments, looking down at said vegetable. The Rose looks down at it too and bursts out in laughter.
"Shut! Up!" Five snaps, snatching off his hat in anger. "There is something very wrong with my TARDIS, and I've got to do something about it very very quickly, and it would help, it really would help, if there wasn't some skinny idiot ranting in my face about every single thing that happens to be in front of him! Or a blonde bimbo laughing her arse off!" Five yells at them. The Rose sobers and stares at the older (or, would it be younger…) version of the Doctor.
"Oh, okay. Um, sorry. Doctor." Ten apologizes.
"Blimey, I'm glad you changed." The Rose whispers in his ear.
"Thank you." Five turns back to the console.
"Aw, the back of my head!" Ten exclaims, far more excited than he should be. The Rose sighs again.
"What!?" Five demands.
"Sorry, sorry, it's not something you see every day, is it, the back of your own head. Mind you, I can see why you wear a hat... I don't want to seem vain, but could you keep that on?" Ten requests, seeing the bald spot on the older Doctor's head.
Five whirls to face them. "What have you done to my tardis? You've changed the desktop theme, haven't you? What's this one? Coral? It's worse than the leopardskin." He puts on a pair of half-moon spectacles, and turns back to the console.
Ten starts bouncing in excitement. "Aw, and out they come! The brainy specs! You don't even need them! You just think they make you look a bit clever!" He says in excitement.
"Looks like you haven't changed that much." The Rose mutters. A klaxon sounds in the TARDIS.
"That's an alert. Level five. Indicating a temporal collision! It's like, two TARDISes have merged, but there's definitely only one TARDIS present." Five explains. As he rushes around pressing buttons, Ten and the Rose stroll across, leaning on the view screen, watching him. "It's like two time zones at war in the heart of the TARDIS. That's a paradox. Could blow a hole in the space-time continuum the size of…" Five trails off and Ten shoves the viewscreen across into his eyeline. "Well, actually, the exact size of... Belgium. That's a bit undramatic, isn't it? Belgium?" Five comments, staring at the screen.
Ten pulls the sonic screwdriver out of his pocket. "Need this?" He asks, holding it up for Five to see, hoping that he realizes who he is.
"Nah, I'm fine." Five dismisses. The penny doesn't drop.
"Oh no, of course." Ten does a rather swish flipping and catching move, and puts the screwdriver back in his pocket. "You mostly went hands free, didn't you, like 'eh, I'm the Doctor, I can save the universe using a kettle and some string, and look at me, I'm wearing a vegetable'." The current Doctor mocks.
"Oi! That was you at one point." The Rose reminds him, nudging his side. Five stalks over and stands nose to nose with Ten.
"Who are you?" He questions.
"Take a look." Ten tells him softly. There's a pause as Five looks him over.
"No. Oh, no." Five mutters, his eyes widening.
"Oh, yes." Ten begins to smile.
"Uh..." The Rose starts, not liking where this is going.
"You're... oh, no..." Five complians.
"Here it comes... yeah, yeah, I am..." Ten starts to agree. The Rose bites her lip to keep herself from laughing.
"A fan." Five finishes with disgust. The penny still hasn't dropped. Ten keeps nodding.
"Yeah... What?" Ten backtracks, his eyes widening. Something on the console beeps.
"Level ten, now. This is bad. Two minutes to Belgium!" Five turns to look at the console, ignoring the aghast Doctor and snickering Rose behind him.
"What'd'ya mean, a fan? I'm not just a fan, I'm you!" Ten practically screeches. The Rose continues to snicker.
"Okay, you're my biggest fan. Look, it's perfectly understandable, I go zooming around space and time, saving planets, fighting monsters, and being, well, let's be honest, pretty sort of marvellous..." Ten nods in agreement and the Rose shrugs. "So naturally, now and then, people notice me. Start up their little groups. That LINDA lot. Are you one of them? How did you get in here? Can't have you lot knowing where I live." Five mutters.
"Listen to me, I'm you. I'm you with a new face." Ten slaps his own cheeks. "Check out this bone structure, Doctor, cos one day you're gonna be shaving it." Ten tells the past Doctor.
"He's not lying." The Rose adds. A bell sounds in the distance and all three Time Lords turn in shock.
"The cloister bell!" Five gasps.
"Yep, right on time. That's my cue." Ten mutters, going to work on his TARDIS.
"In this limit, we're gonna generate a black hole strong enough to swallow the entire universe!" Five tells them in alarm.
"Yeah, that'd be his fault. Decided to rebuild the TARDIS and forgot to put the shields back up!" The Rose says with a pointed look at her Doctor.
"Your TARDIS and my TARDIS, well, the same TARDIS, different voyages in the same time stream, collided and wurp, there ya go, end of the universe, butterfingers, but, don't worry, I know exactly how this all works out, watch." He fiddles with the console. "Venting the thermo buffer... Rose, can you floor the helmic regulator." The Rose does as he asks and Ten moves to one last switch. "And just to finish off, let's fire those zyton crystals."
Five pulls Ten's hands away from the controls. "You'll blow up the TARDIS!" He warns him.
"Only way out." Ten assures him.
"Who told you that?" Five demands.
"You told him that." The Rose butts in. Ten hits the controls, and the TARDIS whirls through the time stream. Everything fades to white, then returns.
"A supernova and a black hole at the exact same instant." Five starts, amazed.
"Explosion cancels out implosion." Ten continues.
"Matter remains constant!" The Rose finishes.
"Brilliant!" Ten gives the Rose a high five.
"Far too brilliant. I've never met anyone else who could fly the TARDIS like that.
"Sorry, mate, you still haven't." The Rose tells him.
"Oi!" Ten protests. The Rose grins at him and winks.
"You didn't have time to work all that out. Even I couldn't do it!" Five protests. Ten shrugs at him.
"I didn't work it out. I didn't have to." Ten tells him. Realization dawns on Five's face.
"You remembered." The penny drops.
"Because you will remember." Ten confirms.
"You remembered being me, watching you doing that... You only knew what to do because I saw you do it." Five explains.
"Wibbly wobbley..." Ten starts.
"Timey wimey!" They both finish.
"My god. I'm so glad Nine never met you, he'd kill you." The Rose mutters, remembering Rose's first Doctor. The tenth Doctor raises his hand for a high-five, but there aren't any takers. The Rose just shakes her head at him. Another alarm sounds and he leaps for the console.
"Right! TARDISes are separating. Sorry Doctor, time's up, back to long ago. Where are you now? Nyssa and Tegan? Cybermen and Mara and Time Lords in funny hats and the Master? Oh, he just showed up again, same as ever." Ten rambles.
"Oh, no, really? Does he still have that rubbish beard?" Five asks in regards to the Master. Ten shakes his head.
"No, no beard this time." He reassures him, then pauses and thinks. "Well, a wife." He adds. The Rose smacks him. Five begins to fade out of the TARDIS.
"Oh. I seem to be off. What can I say? Thank you. Doctor." Five tells him with a smile. "And I never did find out your companions name. I'm not going to remember, so what's the harm?"
"You've met me before, many times. But for now, you can call me the Rose." She tells him enigmatically.
"Thank you." Ten tells his past self.
"I'm very welcome." Five answers as he disappears. The tenth Doctor flips a switch on the console and the fifth Doctor reappears. Ten picks up Five's hat which was left on the console.
You know," Ten comments as he hands him the hat. "I loved being you. Back when I first started at the very beginning, I was always trying to be old and grumpy and important, like you do when you're young. And then I was you. I was all dashing about and playing cricket and my voice going all squeaky when I shouted, I still do that! The voice thing, I got that from you!" The fifth Doctor smiles and puts on the hat. "Oh!" Ten puts his foot up on the console. "And the trainers! And..." He pulls a pair of glasses from his pocket and puts them on. "Snap! Cos you know what, Doctor? You were my Doctor." Ten tells his past self with a smile. Five raises his hat to him.
"To days to come." The fifth Doctor says.
"All my love to long ago." The tenth Doctor says back. The fifth Doctor disappears. Ten smiles at where he was.
"Oh, Doctor? Remember to put your shields up." Five's voice tells him. "And Rose? Keep him sane!" The voice disappears, leaving the Rose and the Doctor alone again.
"Well, as much fun as that was, I'd really rather not meet any more of you." The Time Lady tells her lover. The Doctor laughs and hits a button on the console, starting the process of putting the shields back up. The Rose and the Doctor fall to the floor as something crashes into the TARDIS. They cough and wave their hands to clear the dust from their faces. The Rose looks up and reads the name of the ship.
"What?" The Doctor asks no one in particular. He picks up a life saver and reads the name. "What?" He looks up at the ship and confirms what he read to be true. "What?" He says again. The Titanic just crashed into the TARDIS.
There you have it! Hope everyone enjoyed! Same rules apply here as they did to YANA. One review gets you the next chapter once it's written!