This was a really random fic I thought up after seeing a piece of fanart on deviantart. Can't remember the artist but still it was very good. Thank you for Megan who read through this and is sort of my Beta... although sort of not. Thanks anyway 3
Disclaimer: None of this is mine... sadly. :(
It had all started after they had got onto the TARDIS from Victorian Scotland. It had been an eventful day, and both Rose and the Doctor were exhausted. She slumped down in the seat, heaving out a sigh, before letting the Doctor sit down next to her, grinning.
"Oh come on Rose, where is the spirit in that?" He asked, lifting his hand and stroking her hair as she leant her head on his chest, listening to the steady pound of his hearts.
"A werewolf. Can you believe that? I saw an actual werewolf, and he was beautiful… apart from the fact that he was going to murder us." A smile crept up onto her face and the Doctor nodded, still in thought. His eyes glanced down and he suddenly noticed a tear in her T-shirt with a cut in the middle of it.
"What's that?" He asked, making her sit up.
"What?" She asked.
The Doctor pointed to the cut in her arm and she inspected it, gradually growing paler and paler. "Oh God, I didn't notice it before; too busy running away! You don't think it was the w-"
"We'll have to find out." The Doctor interrupts, dread rising up into his chest. "Let's go to the infirmary and I'll do some samples of the wound. Maybe it was just a splinter, but we have to make sure." The Doctor bit his lip and stood up, making Rose notice something as well.
"Did you always have a rip in that jacket?" She asked, making the Doctor turn around and then take off his coat to check. His brow furrowed as he saw the tear and then noticed that it had also gone through his suit and shirt.
"Oh God…" He mutters. "I love this coat."
"Bigger picture, Doctor!" Rose scolds.
"Oh right, yeah. We both have a cut, and mine is in the most inaccessible place available. Rose, you'll have to look mine over."
Rose sighed and walked into the infirmary, where the lights turned on immediately and Rose rolled up her shirt sleeve to show the Doctor her cut. It only took a quick swab and the Doctor rubbed it into a Petri dish and typed some things into the computer. He looked at it carefully and put on his black rimmed glasses, while Rose peered over his shoulder.
"What does it say?" She asked, bemused by the strange shapes and letters. The Doctor turned back to her, taking off his coat and suit in the process and draping them over the bed railing.
"It'll take half an hour to process the information. In the meantime, you can look at my cut." He smiled, rolling up his sleeve and revealing the gash.
Rose touched the cut tenderly and frowned. It was clearly a bite mark, where the werewolf must have nipped him, which made her heart fall. Already she knew that no splinter could make such a deep wound and that it was certainly the werewolf's doing. Nevertheless, she took a swab and gently wiped around the cut and copied what the Doctor had done, letting the computer do the rest.
As they sat, waiting for the results, Rose started to wonder what would happen if the results came back positive. "So what happens if it was the werewolf that bit us?" She asked, staring at an unimportant space in the floor, hoping that the Doctor had some sort of magical cure that could stop them from changing.
"I really don't know. The werewolf we met was manic, murderous and evil, but that doesn't mean every werewolf has to be like that. It messes with your mind, but if you know how to control it, maybe you don't have to change every time the moon comes out. If the swabs come back positive, I guess we will need to try and find some sort of way to stop us from turning into a wolf. Then again, becoming a werewolf isn't necessarily a bad thing." He smiled and looked over his shoulder at the computer, which was still analysing the results.
"How can being a werewolf be good?" Rose asked, stunned.
"Weell… I guess if we need to run away quickly, werewolves have a good stamina, and aren't affected by bullets. Besides, I think they are beautiful, although I would rather have a tame one." His eyes glinted as he looked at Rose.
"Oh no, I am not being your pet if I become a werewolf! No way. Never ever." She rested her head on his shoulder as the Doctor chuckled to himself.
"Oh well. Worth a try." He muttered.
Before they could carry on with their conversation, the computer bleeped and the Doctor ran over to it, staring at the results, his face falling with each line he read. He ran his fingers through his mop of hair and took off his glasses, slipping them into her pocket.
"Well?" Rose asked, impatiently.
"They're both positive." He said in barely an audible whisper.
Rose's face fell and she shook her head vigorously. "No way! Are you kidding me? My mum will freak if I suddenly turn into a wolf when we are out one night. She will probably have a heart attack! Please tell me there is a way to prevent this from happening."
The Doctor nodded absently. "Yeah I think so. But that doesn't stop you from turning into a wolf. In fact… if I am clever… really clever – which I am – I think I will be able to make you just change into a wolf if you choose to. No moon, no night." He grabbed the swabs from the Petri dish and started to fiddle around with them, adding mixtures and all sorts of things to them.
Rose watched as he worked carefully, absently sticking his tongue out of the corner of his mouth while he concentrated on pouring the liquid into a needle. She smiled, thinking that the Doctor had never looked so cute. This new regeneration was adorable. He produced two needles before raising his left arm up and injecting himself with the fluid. The Doctor didn't even wince, which stunned Rose, as she hated needles.
"So are you going to inject me?" Rose asked cautiously as the Doctor was about to leave the infirmary.
"I need to make sure this works first." The Doctor ran down the corridor until he reached a huge white door. He turned to Rose and pointed to a small screen at the side of the door. "Watch this. Make sure I don't turn into the type of werewolf we saw that man in Scotland turn into. Do not, I repeat, do not go inside here unless I give you the all clear. This is a deadlocked room and…" He started to press buttons until he saw the room darken inside. "Press this button as soon as the doors are locked. If nothing happens to me, then press the button again but don't go inside yet. I still need to-"
"Oh for God's sake, so much information." Rose groaned, making the Doctor smile.
"I will try and turn into a werewolf, but don't worry; it won't be one of those evil wolves, a sort of… tame one… if the injection is right, that is." With that, he opened the doors and he walked in, letting them close behind him. The Doctor gave the thumbs up to camera and Rose pressed the button.
She watched as a moon on the ceiling suddenly appeared and the Doctor stared up at it, watching with awe. He grinned and stared at the camera again. She pressed the button again and the moon gradually disappeared. How the hell did a moon end up on the ceiling? This could be bloody Hogwarts! Rose thought to herself.
Rose started to see the Doctor turn away from the camera and she watched in horror as he started to change. It wasn't as gruesome as the man in Scotland, but it scared her to death as she watched the man that she cared for deeply, grow into a monster. He had nearly doubled his original height, and his clothes hung loosely to him, rips all over. He looked back at the camera and stared with the same chocolate brown eyes that he had occupied as his Time Lord form.
"Oh my God." Rose whispered.
His fur hadn't changed colour. It was exactly the same as the on his head, but everything else had changed. The body structure, the face, nose, mouth… everything. She watched as he reversed the change and his body went back to his original form and she stood up, his clothes totally in rags. "You can let me out now!" The Doctor shouted into the camera.
Rose smiled and pressed down the lever, letting the door roll open and the Doctor walk through, his brown coat in his, as well as his suit. "Good job I took these off before I changed, otherwise I would've lost them forever." He looked down sadly at his shirt and trousers. "Luckily I have hundreds of shirts and trousers. But Janice Joplin gave me this coat. I'm not getting rid of this!" He grinned.
"So the injection – it works?" She asked.
The Doctor nodded. "Yup. But be careful when the moon is out. Be very careful. You will feel something in your head, wanting to change, but you have to resist. You can change at any time with this injection though. I reduced the power of the infection and so it won't overpower your bloodstream. Quite a fiddly process, really."
The Doctor lead Rose back into the infirmary, where he gave her the injection, and after a few minutes, she felt an urge to change in her head. "Woah… that feels… weird." Rose muttered, before collapsing in the Doctor's arms, her eyes starting to droop.
"Shh, Rose. It's okay, I've got you. I'll take you to bed, but it'll be okay. You'll feel fine in the morning." The Doctor soothed, picking Rose up and leading her to her room.
Rose blinked her eyes open and already she could feel heaviness on her. The dizziness earlier had subsided, yet she could still vaguely feel something at the back of her head, which bemused her. She looked down to see the Doctor's head resting on her stomach, eyes gently shut and breathing heavily. Rose let out a laugh, causing the Doctor to jump and stare blearily at her.
"Uh wh- uh?" The Doctor stuttered.
Rose laughed and climbed out of bed, looking at herself in the mirror. "Sorry about last night, I felt all dizzy. I feel fine now." Rose smiled, brushing down her hair and walking out her bedroom, with the Doctor in tow.
"Oh good, that's brilliant in fact. I mean, I was thinking…" The Doctor rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. "Do you mind turning into a werewolf?" He asked, feeling a little embarrassed to say it. Rose turned around and laughed, smiling gently.
"It would definitely be an experience. Just tell me what to do and promise me that I won't hurt you." The Doctor grinned brightly and walked forward.
"It will be your instinct not to kill me. We are too close to be able to hurt each other. Besides, if you feel any of that start to overcome you, you can just pull away quickly." He tugged on her clothes. "I think you had better dress in something larger so it doesn't rip and ruin."
Rose grinned and nodded. "I will just wrap myself in a duvet until I change. I haven't got any huge clothes." She ran back into her bedroom and undressed, then put the duvet around her shoulder and walked back out, smiling. The Doctor looked up and laughed as she was cocooned in her own duvet. "So what do I do?" She asked, jumping up and down excitedly.
The Doctor couldn't help but notice that she had kept her TARDIS key on, yet she had loosened the string so it wouldn't break when she grew larger. "Okay, you feel that urging sensation at the back of your mind?" Rose nodded slowly. "Let it go, Rose. Let it go and let yourself grow. It won't hurt, I promise."
Rose did as she was told and she closed her eyes, letting the barriers pass and she felt herself changing. It didn't hurt, but it felt incredibly abnormal. Her whole body was getting larger and she felt a prickling sensation all over her since. As it subsided she opened her eyes and was stunned to see herself looking down at the Doctor. "Woah…" She breathed.
"Brilliant." The Doctor laughed. "The TARDIS can translate you."
"Really?" Rose asked, surprised that her voice had become more throaty and gruff, yet it was still unmistakably her. She turned around and fell onto all fours with a thump before running to the nearest mirror to inspect her body. Rose gasped in shock as she looked at the difference.
Her eyes were still chocolate brown, but the fur was darker than her hair colour, more like a golden retriever colour. Rose turned around and inspected her tail, wagging it and she rolled onto her back, laughing hysterically, until she smelt the Doctor's presence. Rose stared up at him and grinned happily.
"Oh God, I have to show Mum!" She squealed, while the Doctor petted her head like she was an actual dog.
"Not at that size, you're not! Any chance you could close down some of the barriers in your head to make yourself smaller?" He asked.
Rose bit her lip and shrugged. "I can try." She mutters, closing her eyes and feeling herself shrink slightly until she found herself up to the Doctor's waist. "That's the smallest I can get." She said, still grinning.
"Fair enough. So you like this form?"
Rose nodded her head vigorously and ran into the console room, dancing around the control panels, barking delightedly. "It's brilliant! I can smell! I can hear! I can sense!" She rolled around on the metal grating, squealing happily. "My eyesight is a bit blue, but oh well." She shrugged.
The Doctor started to push down on the lever and the TARDIS started to wheeze and grind as it travelled through the time vortex. A strange sensation came up and Rose went cross eyes and lolled out her tongue, groaning slightly. "So dizzy." She muttered, looking up at the Doctor. "Hurry up and land."
"Ah yeah, you may be able to feel the TARDIS a little more with all these new senses. Anyway, here we are! 21st Century! Springtime! Ah already I can smell it!" He grinned and grabbed his coat, running through the door, with Rose in tow.
Rose sniffed and leant against the Doctor's legs. "Oh my God, it smells beautiful! There are so many things. I can smell it all! Sense it all! I have to see Mum-"
Rose was about to run off to the Powell Estate, but the Doctor grabbed her by the string from the TARDIS key around her neck. "Oh no. First we need to show her that it really is you. Wait here… have a wander around in the park or something. I'll be back in about half an hour." With that the Doctor ran off, with a mischievous grin plastered onto his face.
Rose watched him disappear down the street and giggled to herself then ran off into the park, to be greeted already with a curious dog. She stared down at him and watched curiously as it went round to her rear end and started to sniff. Rose perked up her ears and her eyes widened but it strangely felt right, so she did the same. It was weird, but she seemed to understand the dog after sniffing his backside, and she was totally bemused by how weird a dog's life was.
It was exactly half an hour and the Doctor returned to the TARDIS with a bag in his hand. He could see Rose running around in the park with the other dogs, acting truly like a natural. He laughed as she started to race the other dogs, always winning. She barked playfully, wagging her tail, then raised her head and started to howl. This was the Doctor's cue to go get her.
Rose already sensed the Doctor and she spun around, running over to him, jumping and pinning him down, licking his face happily. "Rose!" Doctor yelled, gasping for air as she smothered him with licks.
"Missed you." She whispered, nuzzling his face before sniffing the bag that he was grasping tightly in his left hand. He stood up and brushed down his suit, smiling at the eagerness. She was acting like a playful pup. "What's in the bag?" She asked.
The Doctor took out the object from the bag and brought it down to her level, making her stare. "R-O-S-E." She read the metal tag. Attached to the tag was a leather strip. She wagged her tail excitedly, jumping up and down. "A collar! It's so pretty."
The Doctor grinned and nodded, clasping it around her neck and fastening it to the right size before stepping back to admire his work. The TARDIS key hung loosely underneath the collar. "So how come you are giving me a collar?" She asked, sceptically.
"Weell…" The Doctor said, as they started to walk towards the Powell Estate. "I just thought Jackie would recognise you with the collar then. Oh! That reminds me! Wait here, I will get changed." He ran back to the TARDIS, closing the door behind him. Rose groaned and sat down on her rump, watching the door intently.
It took some time but finally the door swung open, to reveal a chocolate coloured dog, trotting through the park, with not a care in the world. His Sonic Screwdriver hung loosely around his neck, and he must've left his psychic paper back in the TARDIS. Rose hooted with laughter and ran up to him, pinning him down and nuzzling his face.
"You still look a bit wolfish." Rose said truthfully. "That's something I never thought I would say…"
"So do you. But your colour makes you look like a golden retriever. I managed to make myself smaller though, so that people actually think I am a dog, not a wolf." He wagged his tail and stood up, starting to trot through the park. "Anyway, let's go see your mother! She will definitely have a heart attack!"
"Oh God, I hope she doesn't hate me!" Rose sighed and they reached the Powell Estate with ease. "Will she be able to hear me speak?"
The Doctor shook his head, making his sonic screwdriver rattle with his vigorous movement. "The TARDIS will only translate it for me because… well because I'm not human. It's like the TARDIS won't translate animals." Rose nodded and reached the stairwell.
She let out a laugh and started to jump up the steps to her desired floor. She ran in front of her mother's flat and waited for the Doctor to catch up. "Funny really." Rose muttered. "I always hated walking up those stairs each day, but now it is a thrill to get my heart racing." The Doctor chuckled and nodded, while Rose stared up at the doorbell. "A bit too human to ring the bell." Rose chewed her lip before starting to scratch at the wood.
The Doctor watched, amused as he listened to Jackie shouting inside before opening the door. "Bloody 'ell!" Jackie screamed and took a step back. "Shoo! Shoo dog, shoo!" She yelled.
"Oh home sweet home." Sung Rose sarcastically before jumping, knocking Jackie to the floor and licking her face. "Missed you, mum!" She giggled. The Doctor just sat and watched as Jackie screamed and started to try and swipe Rose away; until the glint on her collar caught her eye and she read the tag.
Jackie's face froze and she peered behind Rose at the Doctor, and she caught sight of the Sonic Screwdriver. As quick as a flash, she jumped to the floor and ran up to the Doctor and tugged at the screwdriver. "You are bloody kidding me! What have you done to my baby?!" She cried, raising her hand to whack him. Jackie had failed to notice Rose had slipped in her room while she was shouting at the Doctor.
"Oh leave off him, Mum." Rose giggled, leaning against the door frame. Jackie immediately dropped the Doctors scruff and ran over to Rose, throwing her arms around her.
"Oh Rose! What happened? You were a dog… or something… now you're human… Rose?" Jackie started to babble away and the Doctor groaned and rolled his eyes, following them into the kitchen where Jackie started to boil the kettle.
Rose started to explain what happened to Jackie and when she was finished, she eyed the huge dog which was lying on the floor, dozing slightly. "Oh an' also, I am the only one that can understand him, and he is the only one who can understand me." Rose shrugged. "Pretty brilliant, dontcha think? I can become a dog… or a wolf!"
"This is going to take a while to get used to…" Jackie muttered.
Rose smiled and kissed her on the cheek before going back into her bedroom. The Doctor raised his head and stared at Jackie intently, lolling out his tongue and panting, innocently. Jackie glared at him. "You may be cute as a dog, but as soon as you turn back, you are gonna get a slap!"
The Doctor flattened down his eyes and stood up, walking towards Rose's room with his tail between his legs.
Rose had just about finished changing into a dog again when she heard scratching at the door. "Roooose! Jackie said she was going to slap me." Rose giggled and opened the door with her paw, letting the Doctor wander in.
"You two are just like two siblings squabbling sometimes." She laughed and jumped onto her bed, followed by the Doctor. The bed creaked from the weight and she nuzzled his neck, snuggling into his warmth. She rested her head against his chest and listening to the steady beats of his hearts. "You still have two hearts." Rose mused.
"I am still Time Lord, you are still human. Same amount of hearts no matter what." The Doctor answered and resting his head on the bed, letting Rose's body drape over his back and gradually fall asleep. The Doctor closed his eyes and yawned, before starting to drift off to sleep as well.
Jackie walked past Rose's bedroom and peered in, noticing the two of them cuddling up together. She couldn't help but think they looked absolutely adorable together. She watched them for a while before sighing and walking away to make her fourth cup of tea since hearing the wolf news.
Rose's ears pricked up as she heard a tap at the door. With a grunt, she pulled herself off the still sleeping Doctor and barked at the door. Why she did this, she wouldn't know, but it felt natural. Jackie ran into the room, followed by the now woken Doctor, who started to bark as well. Jackie shooed them away and opened the door, to reveal Mickey.
"Bloody hell! Since when did you 'ave dogs? I saw the TARDIS, by the park. I knocked but no one was there, 'ave you seen 'em?" Mickey babbled, talking about a hundred miles an hour.
Jackie eyes the two dogs that were sitting by her side and she sighed. "Look at her collar, Mickey." She said.
Mickey bent down and read the collar. "Rose." He muttered. "So why'd you name the dog after Rose?"
"Mickey the Idiot." The Doctor muttered, making Rose laugh.
"No Mickey." She groaned exasperatingly. "That's my Rose! She has turned into a dog… and so has the Doctor." Jackie glared down at the Doctor, making him yelp and hide behind Rose for safety.
"Oh you big puppy." Rose groaned.
Mickey shook his head. "No bloody way! Rose is human. She can't turn into a dog! It's impossible."
The Doctor groaned and padded into the living room, followed by Rose, then Jackie and lastly Mickey. Jackie started to explain what happened and Rose even changed back into a human to prove it.
"But... but…" Mickey shook his head and stared in awe at Rose. "What about him?" He asks, jerking his thumb in the Doctor's direction, making him look up.
"Well… he doesn't have any clothes to dress into, so he would be a bit… bare… if he changed back into a Time Lord." Rose blushed and stroked the top of his head, making a rough growl in the back of his throat. "You sound like a cat!" She giggled, making the Doctor laugh.
"Oh shut up." He grinned, nuzzling against her leg. He perked up his ears and ran to the window, nudging the curtain away and peering outside. He stared outside longingly. The sun had set and a huge moon beamed down on the estate. "Come on, Rose! Let's go outside!" The Doctor begged.
Rose sighed and nodded, going into her room to change. When she came back out, she looked just like a golden retriever and had her brand new collar dangling from her neck. Jackie let them out and stood outside, watching as they ran down the estate and howled to the moon, making people open their windows to see what the racket was about.
She stared up at the moon and leant against him, sighing. "It's so beautiful. No wonder wolves howl up at it." Rose muttered.
"You're right. You see it all so differently when you're a wolf." The Doctor licked the end of her nose and padded through the estate, back towards the park where Rose ran in front of him.
"Catch me if you can!" She yelled, making the Doctor laugh.
"I'll get you easily!" He shouted after her, and leapt into a sprint, catching up with her and pouncing, pinning the now laughing Rose. "I win." He whispers.
"I let you win!" She lied, squirming under his grip, but the Doctor managed to keep her down.
She finally stopped struggling and licked his nose tenderly, which the Doctor managed to return. It was much different from a kiss, but he wasn't sure how. He had only ever kissed Rose twice, and both of them, Rose wasn't really there. She couldn't remember the time when she absorbed the TARDIS, but the Doctor told her what happened, not telling her how he had taken the power out of her.
Finally the Doctor climbed off Rose and padded through the grass, sitting down beneath a tree where they could still see the moon. Rose followed him and sat down on her rump and stared up at the sky intently.
"How comes we have never been to the moon? You take me to all those places yet you have never taken me to our own moon." She whispers, finally lying down next to him to warm herself up. For some strange reason, the Doctor had a thicker coat than Rose. Maybe it was because of his huge hair…
"It's a bit dangerous really. People survey the moon and if they notice something different then we could be a bit screwed. Still, it spoils the mystery of it all if you go on it." The Doctor gave her a wolfish grin
Rose nodded and sighed, leaning against him and closing her eyes. "I love being a wolf." She whispered, as she felt a warm tongue groom her head.
"Me too, and I thought it was all danger and evil." The Doctor laughed and nuzzled into her fur. "Weird really. Instead it is all relaxing and playing."
She giggled and yawned, and already she was drifting in and out of sleep. The Doctor watched her and he knew she was too tired to talk. Rose was more like a cat than a dog. Cats sleep all day while dogs run and go literately mad. He mused what it would be like for Rose to morph into a cat and smiled.
She would be a beautiful beige kitten with playfulness in her, but after she has had too much she would just fall over and sleep. Yes, she would fit a cat perfectly. Then again, there were no such things as Werecats… that he knew of, so no chance there. He loved her as a dog… wolf… whatever.
No matter what she was, he would look out for her.
With that he closed his eyes and succumbed himself into a tireless sleep.
So there's the first chapter. What do you all think? Reviews give me the inspiration! Now I need to get on with the second chapter...