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Doctor Who
The Impenetrable Abyss (The title may change, before the story is complete.)
Chapter 1
The TARDIS is being rather difficult to deal with as of late. It seems to intentionally disobey all the coordinates he would place into the console. It was becoming quite infuriating. He has enough to deal with without the TARDIS's blatant disobedience. The nightmares that have been tormenting Rose keeps him concerned enough already without the TARDIS's refusal to give into his desires. He has been trying to return Rose to her mother for weeks in hopes that perhaps some human remedy could cure her of these nightmares. Everything he has tried failed; this is his final option. These dreams have become so bad that she has been refusing to sleep.
The dark cloud which plagues her suspends itself heavily around the big blue box. It feels sick. It seems to have the ability to affect all that surrounds it, which could explain the TARDIS's recent acts of rebellion. The sleep deprivation that the faceless man seems to cause Rose has begun to affect her on multiple levels. She keeps talking about and to the faceless man, and about how much he terrifies her. She told him once it made her feel like she was going mad. There were a few times in the night that she thought she saw him watching her. She said it was like he was waiting for something, but she couldn't figure out what. Regardless of her fear of him, she once admitted to Tentoo, that she had this overwhelming need to go to the aid of this terrifying man.
The human Doctor walks passed Rose's room when the TARDIS gives him a concerned buzzing noise of alarm.
He can hear her talking to someone, but he knows the only other person in the TARDIS is himself. He listens, perhaps she is talking to the TARDIS.
"What do you want?"
Silence.
"I see."
Silence.
"What's happened to you."
Silence.
"You mustn't do that.
Silence.
The human doctor taps lightly on the door and gently pushes it open, "Rose? Sweetheart, who are you talking to?"
She only shifts her gaze to look at him. The circles under her eyes were beginning to remind him of deep bruises. Her hair disheveled and her skin pale, her smile to him is thin and tight-lipped. However, her eyes still sparkle like they always do when he walks into the room.
"Hello, Doctor."
Her frail hand reaches outward towards him as she lays down, her eyes pleading for his presence. He complies without complaint. It's not like he can do anything else for her since the TARDIS refuses to leave its current orbit.
He crawls onto the bed next to her and wraps his arm around her waist, pulling her close. He nuzzles the soft flesh of her neck, and his body instinctively curls itself protectively around her.
"You're trembling, love."
She laces her fingers in his and sighs contently.
"Was, it, here again, sweetheart?"
Rose only nods.
"Did he speak to you this time?"
"Kinda, but not really."
Tentoo pulls her tighter against him. "What do you mean?"
Rose yawns. Her trembling is starting to subside. "He doesn't talk, but somehow, I understand him. It's like I can hear his thoughts inside my head."
After a few moments, Rose's breathing comes slowly and steady, she was for the moment sleeping peacefully in his arms.
He nuzzles his nose into Rose's hair and breathes her in. "I need you, Rose. She needs you. I'll find a way to make this stop and get you back to her. I promise you, Rose."
He kisses the back of her head and slips out of their bed. He pulls the covers up to her shoulders and kisses her again. He walks towards the door and flips the light off. He briefly wonders how long he will have before she wakes up screaming.
The human Doctor stands in front of the console places in the coordinates to return to earth. The sound of the TARDIS gave a steady hum before it once again came to a stop. He walks to the door, coils his fingers around the handle, and stops. Tentoo takes in a deep calming breaths in hopes to feel the fresh inhale of the earth air in his lungs. He gives the door a faithful tug, and it opens ease. His hopefulness evaporates into nothingness when he stares out into space. The TARDIS never left the location in which it hovers. It only disappeared to reappear in the exact same spot.
Tentoo slams the TARDIS door in frustration. He sinks down against the console and pulls his fingers through his hair. He places his forehead in the heel of his palms and takes a few deep breaths to try and calm himself. His head throbs as he searches his brain for the ways he could return Rose to her mother. At this point, he feels like his Jackie's natural mothering instinct is his only hope to help his Rose recover, from what is ailing her.
The shattering cry of terror erupts through the stillness of the air. The human Doctor pushes all his pain and frustration aside as he forces his tired body up off the TARDIS floor. He climbs the stairs two at a time and finds himself standing in front of Rose's room.
The door opens with ease and suddenly the partial time lord couldn't move. There it is. This creature, a faceless creature, that has the form of a man. It's more like a shadow of a man and yet it appears solid before his very eyes.
He blinks for a second unsure of what is right before him. By the time his eyelids open again, the creature is gone. He shakes his head. Maybe his lack of sleep is starting to affect him too. Now he's hallucinating faceless creatures. Perhaps similar to what Rose has been having nightmares about. If the ones she dreams about look anything like the one, he just imagined no wonder Rose is afraid of the one in her dreams.
Her screams once again break into his thoughts, pulling him back to reality.
"Rose," he says soothingly, "I am right here. I am fine. I promise. You are safe here. I will always protect you."
He kisses the top of her head and crawls under the covers to hold her trembling form close to his. After a few moments, her body finally starts to relax. However, something new catches his eye. Something that has never happened in all the weeks that Rose has been stricken with foreboding nightmares. It for some reason alarms him a lot more than it probably should. With a thumb, he wipes away the clear liquid that has begun to roll down her cheeks.
There's this chapter guys. I hope you like it. Please review. Dont worry guys I haven't forgotten the other stories. I've just had some personal stuff going on and I needed a new story to help me process it...I know what direction I want these stories to go and I don't want to risk altering that direction. I hope to get more chapters up for those soon.