Time Lord Hearts

By: Dame Rose Tyler

Note: Ok, is the first story I've ever had a beta on and I cannot thank the Alternative source enough for her help! This story is more then likely my best one yet. So I want lots of reviews. I have 20 or so pages done for this story already, they just have to be broken into chapters for you to enjoy. So let me know what you think, and be sure to read the Alternative Sources stories as well, which can be found in my doctor who community like from my profile.

-Later

Rose sighed as yet another day came and went without incident. Thoughts of the Doctor flooding her mind once more. She had waited for him that day on the beach, just like he had told her once; always wait five and a half hours. Well she waited, five and a half minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades even. Eventually time stood still around her as the world continued to spin beneath her feet.

Torchwood at one point had told her it was most likely caused by a mutation to her DNA from absorbing the time vortex. It wasn't until the Time Lords themselves had shown up that she realized what had happened. It seemed when the Tardis looked into her it granted her deepest wish. It granted her wish to be with the Doctor forever. So in the end it was the power she once had used to save the Doctor that now cursed her for eternity. She was a time lady now. Regenerations and everything included.

Her first regeneration was used in almost the same manner as the Doctors. The Salvigen had come to Earth with the intention of selling it for parts, and shortly after the call went out for bids the Sycorax war ship followed. She had learned the rules and regulations of the Shadow Proclamation by that point and was able to evoke its power. After she lost her hand in a battle against them, it was harvested to grow her own Tardis which took a course of thirty-five years. After that it was as if the knowledge of the Time Lords flowed through her veins like blood made of liquid gold.

Like all gifts in life, it came with a price. Her mother, Mickey, her whole family died before her eyes, and yet she remained ageless. She never really did understand what the Doctor had meant until she herself lived through it. He had told her once "Humans grow old and die. Imagine that happening to someone you…" He never completed the sentence but she knew the end of that sentence.

'Imagine that happening to someone you love.'

Rose shook her head and wiped the tears from her face.

Four-hundred and ninety-eight years since the Doctor had left her on that beach and just the thought of him still hurt her deeply. It wasn't really the thought of him that hurt the most. It was the thought of never seeing him again.

Turning her attention away from her thoughts and back to her work, Rose signed the last page of the Arcadians Peace Treaty. Taking over Pete's job after he had passed had been hard at first, considering she had no formal education. So being the head of Torchwood now was no joke to her, it was full of treaties, war, and conflict. Sometimes it was almost a never ending job, always working but that was ok. It reminded her of home.

"Jamison."

A tall, gangly young man walked into her office and stood before her in a military fashion.

"Yes Ma'm?"

"I'm heading home to pack now, you're in charge till I get back. You remember what I told you right?"

Rose looked him up and down questionably, as her fingers drummed across her desk.

"Yes of course. I'm not to call you unless there is void activity or a man identifying himself as the Doctor with a 60's style Police Call Box."

"Perfect. And what are you to do if this person shows up here?"

"Call your cell immediately to initiate set security questions to verify the Doctors identity."

Rose smiled and closed her briefcase. "Good, I'll see you in a week."

She wouldn't tell anyone who worked at torchwood now, considering the fact that no one knew her real name, but she lived in her Tardis just off the Tyler estate. She figured it was best that no one knew her true name or where she came from to avoid the unneeded questions that would follow. Aside from that if they discovered she was alien it would complicate things further, especially considering there was an extensive file on her up until she faked her death. So every day she would drive her car for show to the Tyler estate and end up walking up to her Tardis instead of the estate mansion .

It stood to the left of the large mansion, the chameleon circuit had it shaped as a large red wood tree. She had programmed the Doctors Tardis key into hers, so it not only open his Tardis but hers as well. Rose smiled as the Tardis greeted her with a warm hum.

"Ready for a trip? Of course you are, being cooped up in one place for so long must be hard, and I'm sorry it's been awhile since our last trip." Rose walked up to the counsel and turned on the monitor before proceeding to the jump seat.

"I'm sorry it's taken this long and we haven't had any off world trips. I'm still trying to come to terms with the Battle at Arcadia, the end of the time war here. I just wish there was another way we could have done that." The Tardis radiated a warm glow to try and comfort it's young master. Rose smiled in appreciation and pulled out her sonic screwdriver. It was yet another reminder of how much like the Doctor she had become over the years. She really had no choice it just kind of happened. Next thing she knew she was fending off enemies from Earth calling herself the Doctor. Eventually a young Time Lady came looking for her thinking that she was the actual Doctor. Romana was her name. She was a great help in the early years after that. Teaching her how to speak and read the language of the Time Lords. Even taught her about their history and how they came to be in that universe, or Pete's world as the Doctor had called it. Eventually though their adventures together had to come to an end after the Time War, because she was called home to deal with the clean up. Last Rose had heard she was teaching at the academy.

"We'll go off world after we go somewhere first."

Rose slumped back in the jump seat and twirled her screwdriver around in her fingers. Her thoughts once again drifted to thoughts of the Doctor, how he would fly around the counsel laughing like a mad man as he pulled levers and flipped switches. His Tardis was old, past retirement or restoration, but every time they landed Rose would rival in the feel of the Doctors hand in hers as they lied on the floor laughing.

Her Tardis looked mostly the same as his on the inside, right down to the mallet on the control panel. She kept the basic design of the golden pillars and metal grating. The only major difference was the small living room off in the corner. She told herself it was to make a companion, she had yet to take, feel more at home. Sometimes her thoughts would drift to the urge for a friend, but her heart refuse to let her have someone take the place of her doctor, or Romana for that matter. Besides she was still healing from the Time War, much like her doctor was when they met and would probably make poor company. The reality of it was she guessed it was more of a way to keep her humanity. A small piece of the world she grew up in and its traditions.

"Well, it's time to go I guess." Rose jumped up and began flying around the controls, pulling levers and flipping switches until the familiar hum the Tardis central column moving sounded throughout the room.

Well, Thats all for now, sorry about not updating the other stories lately, I have to retype all the chapters I was going to post. My hard drive on my laptop crashed, so I have to back and check where I left off to re-type the chapters. but yeah... other then that keep the reviews coming!

-peace out

*Dame Rose Tyler*