AN - Hi :) Okay, I recently found myself obsessed with OC Time Lady stories and decided to try one out for myself. A few warnings before your start reading - this will eventually be a Doctor/OC fic so the Doctor won't be ending up with Rose or River. Rose isn't going to be very pleasant during this story, mainly because I think by the end of the first series she was in love with the Doctor and wouldn't take an appearance from another woman very well (like with Sarah Jane). And before any of you think I hate Rose because of the way I portray her, you couldn't be more wrong since I am actually a fan of Rose - so this is completely new to me.
Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who (unfortunately)
This starts right after Rose ran out of the chip shop, just before she realises she can get back. Hope you enjoy it :)
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Rose finally stopped running when she arrived in a car park, close to the estate and, thankfully, even closer to the TARDIS. She broke down in tears as she sat on the bench, unable to hold them away any longer. How could her mum and Mickey expect her to just get on with her life while the Doctor is out there fighting? She couldn't do that. She needed to be with him, even if it meant that she died with him. She would be willing to make that sacrafice, for him.
And she hated feeling so useless stuck on Earth.
She looked to her left to see Mickey walking over to her, so she quickly wiped away her tears and pointedly stared in the opposite direction.
Mickey came to a stop right next to her. "You can't spend the rest of your life thinking about the Doctor." He told her.
"But how do I forget him?" she repied quietly.
"You've got to start living your own life. You know, a proper life, like the kind he's never had. The sort of life you could have with me." Mickey tried but Rose's attention had already wandered somewhere else. It was those words again, the same words that kept coming up all the time.
She stared in astonishment at the words 'BAD WOLF' that had been spray painted on the floor in huge letters. Rose stood up and walked over to them before looking around, seeing the words written all over the walls aswell.
"Over there. It's over there aswell!" Rose said, starting to get excited as she ran over to the wall.
Mickey followed, extremely confused. "That's been there for years! It's just a phrase! It's just words!"
"I thought it was a warning... maybe it's the opposite. Maybe it's a message. The same words written down now and two hundred thousand years in the future." A huge smile spread across Rose's face as she spoke. "It's a link between me and the Doctor! Bad Wolf here... Bad Wolf there!"
"But if it's a message, what's it saying?" Mickey asked, trying to understand but Rose was already running in the direction of the TARDIS.
"It's telling me I can get back!" Rose called over her shoulder at him. "The least I can do is help him escape!"
Mickey sighed heavily before running after her. When he finally made it to the TARDIS, Rose was stood at the console, looking the happiest he'd ever seen her.
"How do you expect to get back if neither of us can drive the TARDIS?" Mickey asked.
"All the TARDIS needs to do is make a return trip." Rose insisted. "Just... reverse."
"Yeah, but we still can't do it."
"The Doctor always said the TARDIS is telepathic. This thing is alive. It can't listen."
Mickey frowned. If it can listen why hadn't it helped already? "It's not listening now, is it?"
Rose just shook her head dismissively, she didn't want to hear his negativity. Especially now when she knew she had a chance to save the Doctor. "We need to get inside it. Last time I saw you, with the Slitheen, this middle bit opened," Rose explained, patting the part of the console she was stood in front of. "And there was this light... and the Doctor said it was the heart of the TARDIS. If we can open it, we can make contact. I can tell it what to do!"
Mickey could see that he wasn't getting through to her but he had to keep trying. He didn't want to loose her. "Rose..."
"Mmm?"
"If you go back, you're going to die." He told her quietly.
"That's a risk I've got to take." She said confidently. "'Cos there's nothing left for me here."
"Nothing?"
"No." Rose said firmly, avoiding his eyes.
Mickey flinched. He'd already guessed but to have it confirmed hurt alot. Trying to maintain as much dignity as he could, he said, "Okay, if that's what you think... let's get this thing open."
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Rose silently prayed for this to work, as she watched the chain attatched to the console strain as it was pulled. "Faster!" Rose called out to Mickey over the loud screeching of his car. The console refused to budge. "It's not moving!" She chewed her lip as the chain shuddered... and snapped.
She let out a yell of frustration, kicking the console before slumping into the pilot seat. So much for the great plan, she thought to herself bitterly.
She stayed that way for a while, just staring at the console in her own little world. She didn't even notice her mother standing in front of her until she spoke.
"It was never going to work sweetheart." Jackie said softly. "And the Doctor knew that. He just wanted you to be safe."
"I can't give up." Rose insisted once again.
"Lock the door, walk away."
"Dad wouldn't give up." Rose threw at her. Jackie took a step back, looking like she'd just been slapped. She took a moment to compose herself before speaking.
"Well, he's not here, is he?" she whispered as Rose stared at her. "And even if he was, he'd say the same."
"No he wouldn't." Rose protested. "He'd tell me to try anything. If I could save the Doctor's life... try anything."
"Well, we're never gonna know." Jackie shrugged, trying to hide how much pain she was feeling just by talking about her husband, hoping Rose would drop the subject.
"Well, I know." Rose said, hesitating for only a moment before adding on. "Because I've met him."
Jackie's head snapped up to look at her. "Don't be ridiculous."
Rose sat up straighter, looking Jackie in the eye. "The Doctor took me back in time, and I met Dad."
"Don't say that." Jackie pleaded, shaking her head in disbelief.
"Remember when dad died? There was someone with him." Rose said, her voice beginning to crack as she tried to stop herself from crying. "There was a girl. A blonde girl. She held his hand..." Jackie just stared at her and Rose began to get frustrated. "You saw her from a distance, mum! You saw her! Think about it! That was me. You saw me - "
"Stop it." Jackie said abruptly.
"That's how good to Doctor is - "
"Stop it! Just stop it!" Jackie shouted, before turning to run out of the TARDIS leaving Rose alone, sobbing. As soon as Jackie was out, the door slammed shut, making both Tyler women jump.
"Rose?!" Jackie called through the door, banging on it with all her might. "Rose, what's going on?! What's it doing?!"
Rose jumped to her feet, her excitement from before starting to build up again. She had told Mickey that the TARDIS could listen, had the TARDIS realised what they were trying to do? Was it trying to get them back to the Doctor?
The console that Mickey and Rose had spent the last few hours trying to get off fell to the floor easily, the light from the heart of the TARDIS filling the room. Rose laughed happily, almost skipping in delight... but she stopped dead when she had a chance to actually look at the console. A figure had appeared, standing in front of the console, slowly becoming more solid in front of her eyes until she could see that the figure was a woman.
The woman was shorter than her and appeared to be the same age, but Rose couldn't make out most of her features because of the light so she couldn't decide whether she was beautiful or not. But the thing that stood out to Rose the most was the woman's eyes. They were gold and as bright as the heart of the TARDIS.
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"It's ready!" The Doctor exclaimed to himself happily. His happiness faded though, as Daleks filed into the floor, surrounding him. "You really wanna think about this." He told them calmly. "'Cos if I activate the signal, every living creature dies."
"I am immortal." The Emperor Dalek bellowed, his voice echoing in the room.
The Doctor raised an eyebrow at the image of the screen. "D'you wanna put that to the test?"
"I want to see you become like me. Hail the Doctor, the Great Exterminator!" The Emperor mocked, and the Doctor's teeth clenched together as his anger built.
"I'll do it!" He threatened, putting his hands on the lever.
The Emperor wasn't fazed. "Then prove yourself, Doctor. What are you, coward or killer?"
The Doctor's hands tensed on the lever as he prepared himself to do it. He took a deep breath... and let go. He couldn't kill all of those innocent people, even if it would get rid of the Daleks.
He turned to look at the Dalek Emperor. "Coward. Any day."
"Mankind will be harvested because of your weakness."
"And what about me? Am I becoming one of your angels?" the Doctor asked sarcastically.
"You are the Heathen. You will be exterminated."
"Maybe it's time." He took a deep breath as he closed his eyes, waiting patiently for them to shoot. However, his eyes snapped back open when he heard the sound of the TARDIS engines.
"Alert! TARDIS materialising!" One of the Daleks exclaimed, as the Doctor spun around in shock. How had Rose managed to drive the TARDIS?!
Once the TARDIS had full materialised the doors flew open and a blinding light filled the room. The Doctor threw his hand in front of his face, blocking the light as he tried to see what was happening. Someone was standing in the doorway, but no one he had ever seen before. His eyes narrowed as he tried to get a better look at her.
The woman had long, dark brown hair which was blowing slightly in the gold light of the time vortex. She was extremely pale, which contrasted with the brightness of the light, and was very small. The only part of the woman - though she could be seen more as a girl - he could clearly see was her face as the rest of her body was clouded and blurred from a golden mist.
"Who are you?" he asked her confused. "What are you doing on my ship? What have you done?"
"I was sent to help." She replied. Her voice was quiet, so much that he had to strain to hear her.
"Sent? By who?"
The woman's reply was interrupted by Rose, who squeezed past her to get the Doctor. She ran into her arms and held on tightly, not sure whether to be afraid of the Daleks or the woman.
"Rose." The Doctor breathed in relief, holding her closer to him for a moment before pulling away so that he could look at her. "Who is she?"
"I don't know. Some of the console broke off and she appeared." Rose explained quickly, refusing to let go off the Doctor completely. She kept her arms around him tightly.
The Doctor's eyes widened as he looked back at the woman. He recognised the light now, in fact he couldn't believe he hadn't realised before. "She came through the time vortex." He stated.
"This is an abomination." The Emperor boomed.
"Exterminated!" One of the Daleks shot at the woman who merely held up her hand, stopping the bolt in it's tracks before sending it straight back at the Dalek, destroying it.
The Doctor stepped towards the woman, gently removing himself from Rose's arms. "You have to stop this." He told her, looking at her intently. "It will destroy you if you don't."
"I am here to save you only," the woman told him. "It was the only purpose I was put on this world."
The Doctor shook his head. "Don't ever say that. You could have a life." He told her, urgently hoping to get through to her, but the woman stared straight ahead.
"My purpose is to save you, and I will. I'll take the words..." she waved her hand and the words 'Bad Wolf' on the wall rose from it and floated away. "And scatter them in space and time. A warning, so that this moment will always happen."
"You've got to stop this! You've got to stop this now! You won't be able to survive, the time vortex is too strong."
The woman suddenly looked at him suddenly and both he and Rose stared. The woman's eye momentarily changed to brown, they held so much warmth that both of them felt calmer despite the whole situation.
"You need to be safe." She told him firmly, trying to convey how important this was before she looked back at the screen, her eyes changing back into gold. "Protected from the false God."
"You cannot hurt me." The Emperor mocked. "I am immortal."
"You are nothing." The woman snapped, glaring at him. She raised her hand once again and, to the Doctor's and Rose's amazement, the Daleks disappeared into dust. "Everything must turn to dust... all things. Including you."
"I will not die. I cannot die!" But even as he said these words, the Emperor slowly disappeared until there was nothing left.
"Okay, now let it go." The Doctor pleaded.
"I can't. I can see everything. All of time and space. There are some things that need to stay a certain way."
The Doctor was getting more and more desperate by the minute. "What, like you dying?!"
"No, his team needs him." She replied, though no one understood what she meant.
The Doctor moved closer to her, ignoring Rose when she tried to stop him, until he was stood right in front of her. "I understand. I can see all of time too. But don't you see, if I get this out of you then you can go on. You can live a normal life."
"No I can't." She moved her arm, which became clearer and solid once it was out of the mist, to take his hand. She pulled his hand towards her, into the mist, and placed it on her chest. The Doctor's eyes widened in shock.
"No." He gasped, unable to believe what was happening. Torn between joy and agony. "You can't be." He stared at her for a moment longer before pulling his hand out of her grip and placed both of his hands on the side of her face, looking into her eyes as a smile appeared on his face. "Well, there's no way I'm going to let you die now." He told her, before moving his face closer to her until their lips met.
Rose, who had been watching in confusion, felt her heart drop as she watched them kiss. No, she thought to herself, that should be me! She stared at them, barely noticing that the light was leaving the woman through the Doctor.
When the Doctor pulled away, the woman fell to the floor unconconscious before anyone had a chance to catch her. The Doctor calmly bent down next to her as she lay on her stomach, brushing a strand of hair off her face as he smiled down at her. Rose clenched her teeth together, not only was the woman naked but the Doctor was staring at her as if she was the moment important person in the whole of creation. How had this all gone so long?
The Doctor seemed to notice the woman's lack of clothing at that exact moment because he quickly slipped out of his leather jacket and wrapped it around her. He looked down at her once more before standing, turning to the TARDIS, and he slowly exhaled. The time vortex that he had pulled out of the girl streamed out from his mouth and into the TARDIS. Finally, everything gold disappeared and the TARDIS doors closed.
The Doctor stumbled backwards slightly and Rose rushed to his side, grabbing him incase he fell. He looked at her and smile softly in thanks before moving away from her once again, bending down to pick up the woman.
Rose watched in silence even though all she wanted to do was ask all the questions that were running through her head. She followed him into the TARDIS and watched as he placed the woman onto the floor and put the TARDIS into flight. She continued to watch him as he walked around the console, lost in his own thoughts, pushing buttons here and there until she could finally no longer take the silence.
"Who is she?" she asked quietly.
He stopped and looked down at the woman again. "I don't know." He said simply, looking away quickly when he saw that she was starting to stir. Rose glared down at her before moving to sit on the pilot's seat, wanting to get as far away from the stranger as possible.
"Good morning," the Doctor said brightly as the woman looked around confused. "How're you feeling?"
The woman stared at him. "Erm... okay, I guess. What exactly happened?"
"Don't you remember?"
"I remember that I needed to save you but... other than that I don't have a clue."
The Doctor stared at her, trying to work out who and what she was. "What's your name?" he asked, hoping that she'd have a name he'd recognise, or atleast a name he could look up.
"Lucia, I think."
"You think?"
"I can't be one hundred percent sure." She admitted, noticing Rose roll her eyes in annoyance.
The Doctor looked a little disheartened as he looked back down at console, before turning to Rose with a smile. "Rose Tyler," he said happily, making her look up at him. "I was gonna take you to so many places. Barcelona, not the city Barcelona, the planet. You'd love it. Fantastic place, they've got dogs with no noses." Rose forced a smile while Lucia, listening carefully to what was being said, laughed with the Doctor. "Imagine how many times a day you end up telling that joke, and it's still funny!"
"Then, why can't we go?" Rose asked, not really that bothered.
"Maybe you will. And maybe Lucia and I will. But not like this." The Doctor smiled. Rose frowned, both out of confusion and the fact that Lucia had been included.
"You're not making sense."
"I might never make sense again! I might have two heads. Or no head!" The Doctor laughed while Rose nodded with a bemused smile on her face and Lucia smiled sadly, knowing what was coming and blaming herself. "Imagine me with no head! And don't say that's an improvement..." His smile faded and he became serious. "But it's a bit dodgy, this process. You never know what you're gonna end up with - " He was cut off as he was propelled backwards with a blast of golden light. Rose went to rush to his side but was stopped by Lucia who was holding her back.
She pushed her away with a look of disgust on her face but before making her way to the Doctor, only to be stopped once again. "Stay away!" He yelled, clutching his stomach as though he had been punched.
Rose stopped, staring at him with wide eyes. "Doctor, tell me what's going on."
"He absorbed all the energy of the Time Vortex. No one's supposed to do that." Lucia explained before she turned to the Doctor. "You really shouldn't have done that, I would have been fine."
"I wasn't going to take the chance." The Doctor gasped, screwing up his eyes in pain. "Every cell in my body is dying."
"Can't you do something?" Rose asked, looking between the Doctor and Lucia.
The Doctor smiled. "Yeah, I'm doing it now! Time Lords have this little trick, it's... sort of a way of cheating death. Except..." he looked her in the eye and gave her a sad smile. "It means I'm going to change. And I'm not going to see you again. Not like this. Not with this daft old face." He laughed, knowing he was scaring her and trying to make her feel better. "And before I go - "
"Don't say that!" Rose exclaimed.
"Rose - " Lucia began, but cut off when Rose glared at her.
"Before I go," the Doctor continued, not having noticed the exchange. "I just want to tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what?" Rose shook her head and he grinned. "So was I." He glanced at Lucia who smiled at him for the last few moment before suddenly he convulsed and throws his arms out as he regenerates. Rose staggered back to Lucia's side, shielding her eyes from the heat and the light.
Meanwhile, Lucia watched, all traces of her smile gone. He should have left her, even if she would have died. He should've let her burn so that he could live. She looked down, unable to watch the damage she had caused, when all too soon the golden glow disappeared and she knew it had finished. She reluctantly looked up to see that the Doctor was now taller and younger, with a lot more hair. A completely new man.
He looked surprised for a moment before looking up at the two girls. "Hello, okay-ooh." He frowned, running his tongue over his teeth. "New teeth. That's weird. So, where was I?" he asked before smiling widely. "Oh, that's right! Barcelona."
He then began to run around the console, pressing certain switches and checking the monitor. "6pm... Tuesday..." he muttered as he worked, more to himself than to anyone else. "October... 5006... on the way to Barcelona!" He straightened up as he turned to the girls, looking extremely pleased with himself. "Now then... what do I look like?"
Lucia glanced at Rose but she seemed too shocked for words, so Lucia opened her mouth to tell him but he cut her off before she had the chance. "Rude," she muttered to herself.
"No, no no, no no no no no no no no. No. Don't tell me." He said quickly, either ignoring her comment or not hearing it. "Let's see... two legs, two arms, two hands," he twisted his wrists, testing them out. "Slight weakness in the dorsal tubercle." Before his hands flew to his head and his eyes widened with glee. "HAIR! I'm not bold!"
"Well, not anymore." Lucia sent him a smirk, laughing when he pulled a face at her before continuing.
"Big hair!" He hands trailed down to the side of his head. "Sideburns! I've got sideburns... or really bad skin." He looked down at the rest of his body. "Little bit thinner." He commented, patting his stomach. "That's weird. Give me time, I'll get used to it." He gasped, rotating his shoulders slightly. "I... have got... a mole. I can feel it."
Lucia rolled her eyes at him and glanced at Rose again, who looked on the verge of having a panic attack. "Are you okay?" she asked her quietly, but the blonde shook her head, backing away until she was almost hiding behind one of the pillars.
The Doctor was, of course, oblivious. "Between my shoulder blades, there's a mole. That's all right. Love the mole." He grinned at the girls, straightening up to face them. "Go on then, tell me. What do you think?"
"You look great." Lucia told him with a forced smile. Yes, she did think he looked great but she still couldn't help but think that this was wrong. That it was all her fault.
The Doctor grinned widely. "Really?" Lucia nodded. "Thanks."
"Who are you?" came a quiet and timid response from Rose, making both of them turn in her direction.
The Doctor looked disappointed. "I'm the Doctor."
"No," Rose shook her head. "Where is he? Where's the Doctor? What have you done to him?!"
"Rose, that's him. That's the Doctor." Lucia took a step towards her but Rose backed away even more, glaring at her accusingly.
"You saw me, I-I changed..." the Doctor said quietly, indicating over his shoulder where he just regenerated. "Right in front of you."
"I saw him explode, and then you replaced him, like a... a teleport or a transmat or a body swap or something." Rose invented quickly while the Doctor watched her, looking hurt. She stepped forwards and pushed him in the chest. "You're not folling me. I've seen all sorts of things. Nano genes, Gelth, Slitheen." Her eyes narrowed at the last one and she stared at him suspiciously. His eyebrows shot up while Lucia looked between the two of them confused. What the hell was a Slitheen?! "Oh my god, are you a Slitheen?"
"I'm not a Slitheen." The Doctor told her calmly.
"Send him back!" Rose shouted. "I'm warning you, send the Doctor back right now!"
"Rose, it is him." Lucia said slowly, pleading with her to listen but all it did was turn Rose's anger on to her.
"And you!" Rose spat. "You're in on this too."
"It is me." The Doctor cut through before Rose could say something to upset Lucia. "Honestly, it's me. I was dying. To save my own life I changed my body. Every single cell, but... it's still me."
Rose stared at him. "You can't be." She whispered.
The Doctor took a few steps towards her and Rose, though looking like she wanted to move, stayed where she was. "Then how can I remember this?" he asked, looking her straight in the eye. "Very first word I ever said to you. Trapped in that cellar. Surrounded by shop window dummies... oh, such a long time ago. I took your hand..." as he said this, he took her hand and Lucia looked away, feeling that she was intruding on a private moment. "I said one word, just one word. I said... 'run'."
There was silence after that and Lucia held her breath until Rose whispered, "Doctor."
"Hello," the Doctor replied gently before taking off to run around the console again. "And we never stopped, did we? All across the universe. Running, running, running... One time we had to hop. Do you remember? Hopping for our lives." He hopped madly up and down on one spot and Lucia burst out laughing. The Doctor smiled at her and guestured her to join in. His happiness was too much to resist and before she knew it she was hopping, the two of them laughed together. The Doctor looked back at Rose, hoping to get as much enthiusiasm as Lucia. "Yeah? All that hopping? Remember hopping for your life? Yeah?! Hop? With the..." the Doctor trailed off at Rose's lack of reaction, and his hopping subsided. Lucia, not wanting to look stupid by hopping by herself, stopped too. "No?"
"Can you change back?" Rose asked.
"Do you want me to?" he frowned.
"Yeah."
"Oh." The Doctor frowned, looking very hurt.
Rose looked hopeful. "Can you?"
"No." He glanced briefly at the floor. "Do you want to leave?"
Rose looked shocked and Lucia sighed. What did the girl expect when she seemed truly upset by this new Doctor. "Do you want me to leave?" she asked.
"No!" The Doctor replied quickly. "But... your choice, if you want to go home." He moved to the console again. "Cancel Barcelona. Change to... London, the Powell Estate... let's say the 24th December." He glanced at her. "Consider it a Christmas present."
Lucia bit her lip as she watched as Rose edge closer to console and the Doctor set the TARDIS to Earth. All she wanted to do was intervene, to tell them both to stop being so stupid because she could see that the Doctor didn't want Rose to leave and Rose obviously didn't want to leave either. But she was worried that she would get in the way and make things worse. She felt like an intruder. Hopefully one day that feeling will go away.
"I'm going home?" Rose asked.
The Doctor shrugged. "Upto you. Back to your mum... it's all waiting. Fish and chips, sausage and mash, beans and toasts, no Christmas! Turkey! Although, having met your mother, nut loaf would be more appropriate."
Rose looked down quickly to try and hide her smile, making both the Doctor and Lucia smile widely. Maybe this was the start of Rose accepting him.
"Was that a smile?" Lucia teased.
Rose shook her head, though the smile was still there. "No."
"That was a smile..." the Doctor agreed.
"No, it wasn't." Rose said firmly, looking up again to show that she was no longer smiling. The Doctor sighed.
"Oh, come on, all I did was change. I didn't - " he cut off suddenly, gagging.
Rose looked at Lucia questioningly but all the girl could do was shrug. She had never seen a regeneration before, so she wouldn't be much help.
"What?" Rose asked him.
"I said I didn't - " the same thing happened again, more violently this time. "Uh oh."
"Doctor, are you alright?" Lucia asked, concerned as she rushed to his side while Rose causiously edged closer. The Doctor had no chance to reply as a piece of golden time vortex floated out of his mouth. Rose, recognising it as the same thing that had appeared when Lucia had, shot her a look as if she was causing this.
"The change is going a bit wrong." The Doctor muttered as he gagged once more, falling to his knees in pain.
"Look," Rose started nervously. "Maybe we should go back. Let's go and find Captain Jack, he'd know what to do."
"Gah, he's busy!" The Doctor said impatiently. "He's got plently to do, rebuilding the Earth." A lever on the console catched his eye. "I haven't used this one is years." He reached over to it and, before Lucia had a chance to stop him, flicked it. The TARDIS shuddered violently, Rose and Lucia nearly being knocked off their feet.
"What are you doing?!" Rose exclaimed.
"Putting on a bit of speed! That's it!" The Doctor raced around the console looking crazed while Rose and Lucia tried to hold on, the shaking getting worse by the second. "My beautiful ship! Come on, faster! That's a girl! Faster! Wanna break the time limit?!"
"Doctor, stop!" Lucia yelled, pressing a few buttons to try and reverse everything the Doctor was doing when she was suddenly thrown backwards onto the floor. She looked up to see the Doctor looking at her in regret and Lucia realised that he'd pushed her away from the console. His face suddenly switched back to being crazed, as if nothing had even happened, as he continued with what he was doing.
"Doctor!" Rose yelled and he rolled his eyes.
"Ah, don't be so dull. Let's have a bit of fun! Let's rip through the time vortex!" He looks at her, his expression softening for a moment as he told her, "The regeneration's gone wrong. I can't stop myself. Ah, my head..." he grimaced in pain as Lucia managed to get herself back onto her feet and joined them at the console. "Faster! Let's open those engines!"
Rose looked around anxiously as a bell rang. "What's that?" she asked Lucia, knowing she'd get a more sane answer from the girl than from the Doctor.
The Doctor laughed manically as Lucia replied calmly, "We're gonna crash."
"Can't you stop him?!"
"It's too late." Lucia frowned, watching the Doctor practically dance around the console. "At this point, he's too out of control and might do something stupid and dangerous."
Rose's eyes widened. "Like crash the TARDIS, for instance?!"
The Doctor hopped in the air excitedly as he giggled like a school girl. "Oh, I love it! Hot dawg!"
"Your gonna kill us!" Rose yelled at him.
The Doctor ignored her. "Hold on tight, here we go!" He looked up and his eyes met Lucia's. He smiled at her softly and, despite the possibility of dying at any moment, she smiled back.
AN - Hmmm, so who is Lucia and how did she end up in the TARDIS? Please review and let me know what you think :) Next up... The Christmas Invasion!