I know Rose and the 10th Doctor are beyond all reach now except on DVD, but they were so great together and I wrote this story ages ago. I ask your eternal forgiveness for anything and everything I get wrong. Please point out mistakes made in critical reviews as all pointless flamers will receive my strong displeasure. Everything is owned by the writers and the ONE

Lights flashed, the ground shook and wires sparked in the central hub of the TARDIS. The floor heaved and shocks loosened piles of dust from their remote corners, giving the impression the sealing was about to collapse. Amid the chaos two figures, dashed from one panel to another, attempting to stop the lurching movement of the ship. One a lively man wearing smart glasses and the other a blond girl in jeans and a T-shirt, "live bait" written across the front.

"Hit that green button Rose! Hard as you can!"

"What button?"

"THAT button!"

"Oh sure that's loads of help! Do you mean this squiggly one here?"

"NOT THAT ONE!!!!!!!!!" But before the Doctor had finished his warning Rose had already pushed the button. The TARDIS groaned and shrieked as if in pain while the shaking intensified Rose fell to the ground and started searching for something to hold on to. The Doctor went into full panic mode, flipping switches, pushing buttons, checking monitors and pulling levers so fast it was near impossible to realize what he was doing before he was onto something else. "I told you not to push that button!"

"Bollucks! It was the only green one on the board. If you'd been more specific-!"

"Too late too late!" the Doctor cut in, easily avoiding the blame. "Pull the black lever instead!"

"The all-black do-not-pull-no-matter-what-under-pain-of-death-lever!"

"Yes that's it! Pull it when I tell you too"

But you told me never to pull that lever you said the results could tear the TARDIS apart!!"

"Only if we still had the shields up now pull!"

"But-"

"PULL!!!"

Rose pulled the lever. Before any questions could be asked the TARDIS gave one final spin before completely blacking out.

Nothing stirred. The only sound came from the patch of darkness where Rose had fallen.

"Doctor?" She tentatively called from the dark. Her eyes searched desperately for light and movement. "What just happened?"

"Emergency landing" came his calm voice of the doctor from the other side of the room. "That lever was installed incase the time shields failed. Yes, traveling the time stream would be really uncomfortable without those shields. You alright there?"

"I feel like a scrambled egg." She answered, now picking her way around the control room towards his voice. "What happens without the shields?"

"We would have been erased from existence."

"Oh, that all" Rose was a little stunned by this statement, what would Earth be like if she never existed? What if the Doctor had never existed! That was something too scary to think of just now. Her voice shook as she said "Well at least it wouldn't have hurt"

"It would have felt like every molecule in your body being slowly ripped apart."

"That bad?"

"Yeah that bad" The Doctor took hold of Roses' hand and lead her through the darkness towards the door. Despite the earlier scare, she couldn't help feeling happy. "That lever forced the TARDIS to land in the first secure and available location. Unfortunately because we didn't prepare her for the jump she'll be completely shut down for a day or two."

"So you have absolutely no idea where we are?"

"Nope"

"But we could be anywhere. We could be on a Dalec ship or the moon!"

"You classify those as safe locations?"

"No, not really"

"Then we wont be there will we." The Doctors tone was patronizing, like a teacher explaining something to a particularly dense student, despite how much she hated this, she knew this was his round-about way of reassuring her. He reached out a hand towards a wall neither of them could see and stroked it lovingly. "Give the old girl some credit, her judgment's better then both of ours… usually" Rose kept her opinion of that statement to herself.

The Doctor lead Rose confidently through the dark until he finally stopped. "Ready?" He saw her nod in the dim light. He gently squeezed her hand before pushing the door open…