A/N: Hello again everyone! Welcome to my second Doctor Who fanfiction, with chapters! As a heads up for future chapters, this fanfiction is going to be pretty dark. I'm still not the best writer in the world, but I'm starting to get better, so wish me luck! This is just the prolog; an actual Chapter will be up next. This takes place after the 9th Doctor regenerated.

Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who. If I did, the 9th Doctor would have been in the 50th anniversary.

Prolog

Rose Tyler held on for dear life as the new man before her tried to pilot the TARDIS. Where had her Doctor gone? This couldn't be him could it? Suddenly the man before her, the Doctor, grabbed his head and yelled in agony.

"The vortex!" he yelled, "I can't get rid of it!"

Rose grabbed the Doctor by his shoulders to support him "What do you mean you can't get rid of it?" she panicked.

"I mean I can't get rid of it!" The Doctor looked at Rose, as his still golden vortex-filled eyes widen in realization of something important. "The watch, get the watch!"

"What watch?"

"There's a silver pocket watch in my bedroom, on my dresser, now hurry and go get!" Rose quickly made her way to his room, running faster with each agonizing cry the Doctor was making. The TARDIS made his room quickly accessible for Rose who frantically looked for the watch. The dresser was messy with many tools and random machine parts which she guessed was for the TARDIS. Her panic made her overlook the watch multiple times and relief flooded her when she finally found it. She picked up the watch and shoved it in her pocket and ran back to the console room as fast as her legs could carry her.

"I have the watch, now what do I do?" she asked frantically.

"Give it here!" The Doctor opened the pocket watch as a golden light flowed into the watch. After a few moments, the light was gone as the Doctor's eyes turned into a dark brown. He then proceeded to close the watch and collapse.

"Doctor!" Rose steadily helped the Doctor up. "What the bloody hell happened?"

"I sealed the vortex in the watch. It's similar to the way you can seal the memory of a time lord. The TARDIS refused to take back here energy since it was used by an outside force." As the Doctor explained as he began to pilot the TARDIS again.

"Where are we going?"

"To dispose of the vortex, it's too dangerous for us to keep on here." The TARDIS then came to a violent halt, causing Rose and the Doctor to fall to the ground.

Rose slowly got up. "Where are we?" she asked nervously.

The Doctor, still weak from his regeneration, dragged himself to the TARDIS doors and opened them. Outside of the TARDIS was a pile of what appeared to be space rock clocked with a thick red dust. "We are at the Medusa Cascade, and that," he pointed to the space rocks, "is the destroyed plant Aargon. The red dust is a toxic radiation that can kill you in an instant, not even time lords dared to go there; therefore, this is the perfect place to hide the vortex." The Doctor swung his right arm back and threw the watch as hard as he could into the dead planet. "There we go all taken care of." He smiled but then turned to Rose with a serious expression. "Rose, even though the vortex is unreachable no one can know where it is. Do you promise not to tell anyone at all? The consequences will be disastrous if you do."

Rose nodded her head, "I promise."

The Doctor gave her a weary smile. "Good, now the past events and my regeneration, I'm probably going to pass out at any second, so why don't we get you home? I do believe it's almost Christmas."

A/N: and that's the prolog folks! I've been quite busy but I'll get the next chapter up ASAP. No flames, but constructive criticism is welcome and appreciated. Leave a comment and let me know what you think! Lots of love!

GhostGirl15(: