Hi everybody. Here's my new series of Tenth Doctor one-shots. Hope you enjoy, and feel free to send me prompts/ requests.
First up, here's a missing moment from 2.05 Rise Of The Cybermen. This is after Mickey and Rose leave and the Doctor has to choose which one to run after.
Offside
"Rose! Rose!" the Doctor screams, careering after her.
"He's my dad,"
"You can't, y-...I told you to stay where you were!" he splutters.
"I was just-"
"I know what you were doing, madam," he snarls, "And you damn well shouldn't be doing it!"
"Don't call me madam!" she protests, insulted, "You're not my great-aunt!"
"I'm staying with you. Making sure you don't do anything you shouldn't,"
"What about Mickey?"
"Two hearts, unfortunately not two bodies," he mumbles, then rounds on her, "Did you two plan this? Splitting up so I'd have to let one of you go off on your own?"
"No,"
"You did, didn't you? I always say don't wander off, and-"
"And we always do. And we find something interesting, something helpful, something you would have missed,"
"Or you get yourself lost, or kidnapped, or killed," he glowers.
"Never got myself killed," Rose points out.
"No, but you got yourself caught and drugged by droids. And that was just the last time," the Doctor shoots back waspishly.
"Blimey, someone got out on the wrong side of bed this morning,"
"You think I'm being grumpy? I told you not to do anything and you and Mickey-boy...conspire against me,"
"Conspire? Who are you, Stalin?"
"Rose, I don't tell you to do not not do things for the sake of being bossy. I tell you do to or not do things for your own good. I'm a Time Lord-"
"And sometimes that goes to your head,"
"No, it means that I have a responsibility to the Time Lords, to the laws of time and to the protection of reality and relativity. Not to mention my responsilibity to you and Mickey,"
"You're not our babysitter,"
"Really? Because you're the one acting like a child,"
"Well what if it was you?" she bursts out, "What if we are on the parallel world of your planet, Doctor? What would you do then?"
He blinks at her a moment, taken aback.
"You'd go and find them. Your...everyone you lost during the Time War,"
"Rose, don't," he says through his teeth.
"You would,"
"I wouldn't! The Time War is locked, okay? I can't go back,"
"Doctor, he's my dad. He married Mum, they're happy like they should have been. I've got to see that. Just see it, see them happy together,"
"Rose, we've got involved with your father's timeline before and look what happened then,"
"This Pete Tyler isn't my father though. That's what you keep telling me,"
He sighs, running a hand irritably through his hair. "Twenty-four hours. I am not leaving your side, d'you understand me?...Humans," he adds darkly under his breath.
They walk in silence for a few moments before he asks in the same cross tone, "Go on then, you might as well tell me: where's Mickey gone?"