A/N: Hello! To those of you following me: I'm sorry that I haven't done ANYTHING in the past couple months. I've been absorbed by the Whovian fandom and this is what has come out of it. I'll let you know that this fic has: *River Song voice* "Spoilers" through the episode of "Journey's end". It will feature the Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, and the Metacrisis tenth Doctor, known to me as "Hand-Man". This is the first attempt at a Doctor Who fanfiction that I have posted online, and is a practise run, in a way. PLEASE review with constructive criticism, as I have a difficult time writing for the Doctor and need to know how to get him in character. I'm also experimenting with feelings and a bit of romance, so I would love to know how I do, and how I can improve. One last thing, I'm an American, so I will be using American English and am not very familiar with British slang, so please forgive the lack of it. Thank you so much for reading, I hope you enjoy.
Edit 10/19: Second chapter has been sent to my beta and will be up soon!
"Rose, would you like to see something?" The human Doctor asked, gesturing to a screen. "I think she'll finally let me use the analyzer!" He was referring to the way that the newly grown TARDIS rejected the two of them. The Doctor had explained that it was probably because the ships generally shared a telepathic bond with a time lord, and the fact that the Doctor was mostly human irritated her.
The interior of the new TARDIS was beautiful. A single glass column rose from the center of the room and was filled with a dimly glowing gold liquid with lethargically moving bubble inside, giving the impression of a large lava lamp. A donut-shaped control panel encircled the column with many levers, buttons, switches, and the like. The walls around the circular room were a brick-like texture and were a deep navy blue color. A curved orange couch took up a lot of room along the walls, and two high arches held the doors to the outside world and the expansive hallways of the new TARDIS and a deep red illuminance filled the room, as the TARDIS wouldn't allow the Doctor to change it from the angry color. The exterior of the ship was currently a port-a-potty, a sad replacement for the dark blue police box, but this TARDIS has chosen her own disguise, and the Doctor couldn't convince her to change it for the time being.
She has taken three years to grow, which was a major accomplishment as the Doctor himself has approximate it would take at least seven, and three weeks to let them inside. Two months later they had just been allowed their first trip the night before. Rose remembered the beautiful town in Italy, but had forgotten the name overnight. It was a beautiful place, but she would have prefered going there on an actual date.
To her disappointment, her and this Doctor's relationship had hardly changed at all. Since they had left Bad Wolf Bay they hadn't shared a single kiss and she continued to be his best friend, one of his only friends, but always wondered if the words "I love you" whispered into her ear on the bay were true, or if all he was looking for was a good friend. Not that that wasn't enough. She had jumped through dimensions countless times in her search for him when all they had shared before was friendship. She loved him with all her heart, but she would never push him to do something he was uncomfortable with. It was amazing to be with him, the Doctor, and never did she think a second of her time with him was wasted. His brilliant mind, exuberant movements, and adorable ignorance about common life were an amazing thing to be around, but still she wished slightly for something more.
She made her way over to him from the couch and smiled. She watched him fiddle around with the screen and controls until, with an oddly protestive-sounding noise from the engine, a small panel opened, revealing a flat scanner inside of the control console. "HA!" the Doctor cheered and quickly turned on Rose. His eyes went to her shirt. A smile graced his lips as he teased her "excited to go back to the World War Two Blitz?" He asked, remembering the last time he had seen her in that shirt. The night he first had danced with her, and when he experienced the first moment of pure joy since after the Time War. "Just this once, Rose, Everybody lives!" Then afterwards, holding her hand and showing off his dancing skills to her. Enjoying the moment, seeing her smile brilliantly, Jack's humbled look when faced with his dancing skills, happiness.
"Never again." she replied with a small smile. "So, Doctor, what does this thing do, exactly?" she said, indicating to the analyzer.
"Weeell," he drew out the "eh" sound. "I'll show you!" He pulled a grin and searched her shirt for a second before plucking a single hair from it. It was short and dark. "What do you reckon? A cat? A dog? What about a rabbit or hedgehog?"
She giggled "Why would I have hedgehog fur on my shirt, silly?"
His words came faster as his excitement grew. "Oh, I don't know. Thought i'd ask, no harm in that. Now, to test it out!" He grinned and sealed the hair in the panel. "One," he flipped a switch. "Two," he started typing something in to a keyboard. A pause. "Three!" He hit a single key.
immediately the screen started to show a moving circular text that Rose couldn't read. She knew it was Gallifreyan. The Doctor read the screen for a few seconds before his mouth fell open in surprise. Immediately he started typing furiously. "How in the world would Rose have gotten that on her shirt? Nononononononono, this is wrong! What? You can't be telling me that!" he scolded the screen.
"Doctor, what's happening?" Rose asked, hoping for, but not expecting a straight answer.
His hands flew to his hair in frustration. "How could this-" he was cut off as the ship gave a tremendous shudder. Rose automatically grabbed on to the nearest thing she could to stablize herself, the Doctor. He spread his feet to try and retain his balence, but after a few more jerks he was floored, Rose beside him on the ground. They held one another through the worst tremor yet, and then the TARDIS stilled. Immidiately the Doctor pushed himself to his feet and went back to the screen, typing again. This time, Rose saw a colorless 3d model of a man on the screen, but didn't examine it further, as the Doctor has dashed away from it and produced a white bedsheet from somewhere.
"Stay here, Rose! he commanded, running with the sheet towards the door to the inner rooms of the TARDIS. "Don't leave the room!"
"Bu-"
"Stay put, I mean it!"
instantly insulted at being treated like a child, Rose immediately made to follow him, but came to a halt at the door. He had shut it behind him and she wasn't sure how to open it. She quickly spotted a couple controls near the side of the door and started pushing buttons. A toaster fell to the floor behind her, and some really weird music started to play before the door slid open and she dashed through, following the sound of the Doctor's footsteps.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed, please remember to review about anything you noticed that I did wrong. Thank you!
Edit 10/19: Second chapter has been sent to my Beta and will be up soon!
