A/N: I know new story and I have yet to finish the other ones! This one has been sitting happily on my computer though with 22k words just waiting for you to salivate over. I'm working very hard to get chapters up for this one today so let me know what you think! I look forword to reading your comments as always. As I said before back to you and bad wolf need to be fixed. I have to copy them onto the computer and re write them because i noticed there are some chapters that just do not flow no matter what you do. Its like I suffered from a brain melt down at two chapters between stories got messed up or something didn't get uploaded. Since I no longer have the origonal files I will never know. OK, my rant is done! Be sure to follow me on facebook and like my stories!
It was a simple trip, one he had made many times before in the past. Moon flowers, Rose had sworn up and down that there was no such thing. Being the Doctor and the time lord that he was. It was not something he could let her continue to believe. Moon flowers were real, and the sight of her standing among them would burn forever in his mind. It was on the walk back to the Tardis that he realized something was wrong with him. The fever had taken hold too quickly and it had taken him seconds after that to realize he was going to die from it.
"Rose, I'm so sorry…" His voice full of regret for things he never said or did with her. It was the same feelings he had when he had regenerated, only this time he sort of knew that he really wouldn't be coming back. He only hoped he at least finished what he was planning for her in this moment, because Jackie would kill him if he didn't.
"What could you possibly be sorry for Doctor? This place is beautiful; even better, we haven't had to run for our lives here either." Rose smiled and squeezed his hand. She wasn't sure what was wrong with the Doctor, but if she was honest with herself, he was scaring her a little. It had been a beautiful day filled with nothing but quite and beauty. She was honestly surprise he had managed to land the TARDIS in the right place and time to begin with.
"I know but Rose, we really need to get to the TARDIS and fast. I'll explain everything once were there." His face pained, his brain was finally starting to feel the beginning effects of the virus. Given his calculations they had somewhere close to twenty-five minutes before the virus took full hold at this point. It was this moment that he really wished his people were still around in the universe, or that he had been smart enough at least to keep some of the vaccine on the Tardis.
Rose nodded as the Doctor pulled her along at a much quicker pace then she had expected. It almost seemed like he really was running from something and it was something only he could see. They made it to the TARDIS, the Doctor dashed around the controls faster than Rose would have believed possible. The TARDIS groaned in protest as the Doctor slammed down the last lever of the De-materialization process. The TARDIS hummed and groaned as it threw its self through the vortex at an alarming speed.
"Rose, I'm sick. I seriously doubt though that I will be able to survive this. It's an ancient virus, one I had honestly thought died with my people. The TARDIS is taking us back to Earth and I need you to do something for me. I wouldn't ask this of you but you're honestly the only person I truly trust to follow through with it. When I die, I need you to burn my body. No one and I mean no one can get a hold of it. Do you understand?"
Rose blinked, he was dying? H-how did this even happen? Rose's mind was having trouble wrapping around the idea of the Doctors death.
"Wouldn't you just do what you did last time, and you know regenerate?"
"This is not something I can regenerate from. The whole process of the virus disables my ability to re-grow and create new cells."
The Doctor gasped and brought his hands to his head. The process was starting faster than he thought it would. He didn't want to go; he didn't want to leave Rose like this. Most of all, he wanted to tell her how he truly felt. Before He could reach out and hug her for the last time the control room of the TARDIS swam out of focus and he blacked out.
Rose screamed as the Doctor hit the grating. She grabbed him and pulled his limp form into her lap, tears and screams the only thing she was able to let out. Her eyes darting to the TARDIS central column, screaming at her to do something for the Doctor that they both loved with all their hearts. The TARDIS in return gave no answer as it landed in its usual spot at the edge of the Powell Estates.
Rose gently laid the Doctor's head to the floor and sprinted out of the TARDIS towards her mother's house. No matter how hard she tried though, she could not ease the tears that fell from her face. If it wasn't for the hand covering her mouth the entire estate would be looking out their windows wondering who was being killed. She didn't bother knocking when she reached her mother's flat; she charged right in and wrapped her arms around her confused mother.
"What is the matter with you? Did the Doctor dump you here or something?"
Rose's cries began with earnest once again at her mother's choice in words. She felt trapped and alone, for once in such a long time the Doctor was not there to save her from herself. What was going to happen to her now, to the TARDIS, to all of it? Before Rose could tell her mother everything that had happened, Mickey came rushing through the door towards her.
"I heard the TARDIS from the shops and came running. Rose babe, what's wrong?"
Rose released her mother and hugged Mickey. She had to get the Doctor out of the TARDIS and try to find a way to save him somehow. Rose refused to let this be the end because if the Doctor left her now, she really would have nothing left here but a job in a shop. The three A.M. street corner and a cab ride home was not going to happen to her, she didn't care what the Doctor thought was best for her. It had only been their second trip out together since the Doctor had regenerated, it was too soon.
Rose whipped her eyes and pulled Mickey towards the door, throwing her mother an 'I'll explain later look'.
"I need your help Mickey, there is something wrong with the Doctor and I really don't want to leave him in the TARDIS while I figure it out. Well, I hope at least that I will be able to figure it out."
Mickey shrugged and allowed Rose to pull him out of the flat. He wasn't really sure of what could be wrong with the Doctor that would make it necessary for him to be the one to help her. He promised he would be there for her though. It wasn't until Mickey saw the scorched sides of the old blue box that he realized something was really, really wrong. The Doctor treated the Tardis like it was his own child, tender full of love and most of all he would never let it sit in disrepair for any amount of time.
He watched as Rose pulled the Tardis door open, her hand ushering him to follow her. Once he was inside fully Rose pushed the door shut. Glancing around the console, Mickey didn't see the Doctor.
"Where is he then Rose?"
Rose took a deep breath before dragging him around the console to where the Doctor was on the floor. He looked pale; sweat was dripping on his face. To Mickey or anyone else he really just looked like he had a bad case of the flu.
"Can you help me bring him inside, please? I k-know you're not exactly on the greatest of terms with him…" Rose broke down into tears as she fell to her knees next to the Doctor. Mickey watched as she stroked a moist cloth over the Doctors forehead. He hated to admit it, but seeing Rose look at him he knew she truly loved him. He had a feeling the last time, when he had sent her back and they pried the heart of the TARDIS open.
"Well, shove over. I can't pick him up if you're in the way." Mickey gave her a small smile as he hoisted the Doctor over his shoulder. For a full grown main, he weighed less than a scrap of paper. Did the man ever eat? No wonder he was able to get sick so easily. Glancing around the console, Mickey frowned.
"Does he have anything you can change him into that breaths better? 'Cause he's sweating right through this suit."
Rose nodded and pushed Mickey towards the doors giving him a weak smile. He could tell she was trying so hard to hold it together. One wrong word and she was going to break, he only hoped that Jackie was going to be prepared for it when it happened.
"You take him upstairs and have mom help you get him situated, I'll run and grab him some stuff from the wardrobe." She led him out the door before turning around and closing it behind her.
A/N: Here ya go! Something new for all of you for the Doctor Who sections! Jamming out to Chameleon Circut while I wrote it, bing bang 2 and the Doctor is Dying!