It's funny how he can get himself into these situations. He ate one banana, dropped the peel without realizing and he slipped on it (rather ungracefully). He tripped onto the TARDIS console and the TARDIS awoken, getting ready to take him somewhere the Doctor probably didn't want to be. He just closed his eyes and waited for Sexy to land.
When she did, and he was brave enough to open his eyes, The Doctor walked out of the TARDIS, expecting the worst. He didn't understand why, but he was in present day London. It took him a moment to realize his exact surroundings, but he was standing in front of the store where he first met Rose… By blowing up her workplace of course.
The Doctor smiled at the bittersweet memory and walked into the store. He was just walking through, thinking about Rose. He usually kept her out of his mind, as looking back hurt too much. A great mind gave him the idea for a 'mind palace' and he used it often. There was so much he had to keep out in order to keep going forward.
The Doctor wasn't really looking at the items, or the people. He was just walking and trying his hardest to keep a clear mind. He did catch a bit of a conversation not too far from him without meaning to.
"Excuse me," a weighty woman asked a clerk. "I can't tell the price of this dress." She didn't look amused as she held up a floral dress.
"What do you mean?" the confused and young clerk asked before taking a look at the tag. "That's funny…"
"So you see it too?" the weighty woman looked slightly relieved. "It's like that on every tag."
"Bad Wolf isn't even a brand I know of…" The clerk started to make her way to the cash register when the Doctor began to run towards them, jumping over a table of over-priced pants to get to them.
"May I see that?" The Doctor held out his hand expectantly, waiting for the dress. The woman reluctantly handed it over. He studied the tag carefully. Any place there was supposed to be a word or number, it had been replaced with "BAD WOLF." The Doctor was in disbelief. "Thank you…" He muttered before handing it back and turning around.
The signs that hung from the ceiling around the store that once said "SALE" or "SHOES" or "PLUS-SIZES" now simply stated "BAD WOLF"
He ran out of the store. All of the store signs, license plates, build boards… Anything with words, letters, or numbers on it, now seemed to scream "BAD WOLF". Even "POLICE BOX" and the instructions for the police box on the TARDIS had been replaced with "BAD WOLF".
Everybody seemed just as confused as he was, so he knew he wasn't totally crazy and he wasn't imagining things. This could be, as it was last time, a sign that Rose was coming back. The Doctor smiled slightly, but knew not to keep his hopes up too high. He went inside the TARDIS and saw that the controls were all locked in place. H was meant to be here. Or the TARDIS wanted Rose back just as badly as he did.
The Doctor exited the TARDIS and stood around. He couldn't do a thing but wait and see if she were to ever come back He wondered how long he would have to wait to see, but a car parking right next to him on the street rudely interrupted his thoughts. The Doctor just shrugged it off until…
"DOCTOR!" A voice called out his name. He turned around and was immediately hugged by none other than Captain Jack Harkness.
The Doctor laughed and returned the hug. "What are you doing here?" The Doctor enjoyed asking the first question.
"The Bad Wolf! There are signs everywhere, Doctor. All over the world there's mass confusion, but it all started here. I figured she's start with you." He smiled. He was proud of himself for figuring this out on his own.
"So you actually think she's coming?" He didn't even think about introducing Jack to his new face, but Jack didn't seem to mind. Knowing what Bad Wolf meant and a police box was enough validation for him.
"It looks that way!" Jack laughed, excited. The Doctor was just as excited as Jack was, but he hid it well.
"We just have to wait now… "She's a smart girl, she'll find us." He nodded and sat down on the steps into a store. Jack followed suit.
"Have you found anyone else since her?" Jack looked at the Doctor and knew what he meant.
"Kind of… It was complicated… She's dead now…" The Doctor sighed as he thought about River Song.
"Dead, or stuck in a parallel universe?" Jack raised an eyebrow, thinking about the Doctor's predicament.
"Well, stuck in a computer actually. She was saved." He nodded and Jack gave him a funny look. "Long story." He didn't feel like talking for once and Jack understood.
"What about you?" The Doctor turned it back over to Jack. "Still just flirting?" He smirked.
Jack shook his head solemnly. "It's complicated." The Doctor didn't dare push for more information.
Their friendship, while they were apart for so long, was undamaged. Neither of the two could really die with ease. They both had long lives ahead of them, but they had both been through a lot already. Emotionally, the pair was already spent. They had been through heartbreaks and losses, but they carried on.
There were things that just didn't need saying between the two.
After a moment of silence, The Doctor spoke. "You can spend the night in the TARDIS if you'd like to stay nearby. I'm not moving till I get some word from Rose." He nodded, thinking about how stubborn the TARDISI was being right now.
"That would be brilliant." Jack grinned, trying so hard to brighten the mood by using an older Doctor's catch phrase.
"Do you like bunk beds?" The Doctor asked. He had refused to get rid of them.
Jack looked at him and shrugged. "Sure, why not."
"You get bunk beds." He laughed. He had been lonely with Amy and Rory gone to live their lives and River dead. He was thankful for Jack and the prospect of Rose.
Now they just had to wait and hope that it wasn't just a hope, but the real thing.