New, New Rose
By: Rowan Mcklain
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN DOCTOR WHO! I do however own a sonic screwdriver .
Ok, this is a little different and not that great. I'm still getting in the hang of writing about things other then Anime. So here a doctor who fic, I have another chapter I'll upload later if people like this, if not I'll take it and redo it. Other then that remember to read and review!
"Well that was certainly unexpected." Rose stood and brushed some dirt off her pants while taking in her surroundings. From the looks of things she had landed in the Tardis. She growls and smacked what appeared to be a sonic screwdriver.
"You where supposed to land in Cardiff, not the Doctor's Tardis." The screwdriver beeped in response and she sighed.
"At least tell me he's not here." It beeped again and she smiled.
"Good, lets go before he gets back." Rose pushed a few buttons and materialized inside her mom's old apartment. It was exactly the same way it was when she left. Why it was she didn't really know, but it made her smile. The screwdriver beeped from her pocket.
"Ok, I understand you don't like being compact." Rose pushed a few buttons and a replica of the Doctor's Tardis appeared in the living room. Rose walked up to the door and walked into it. Just as she closed the door to her Tardis, someone opened the door to her apartment.
Rose still completely unaware of the outside visitor had gone to her wardrobe to adorn some clothes appropriate to this time. Although her Gallfery robes were quite comfortable they stood out like a sore thumb. She also knew she couldn't risk the Doctor seeing her in them, then again her changes would be just as hard to explain. Along with the fact she now had her own Tardis. He thoughts were interrupted when her Tardis hummed in warning.
"What do you mean someone's trying to get it?" Rose jumped from her seat and headed to the control room. The monitor popped up with a man she would never forget banging on the door, his voice horse with emotion as he demanded in Gallferian to be let in. Rose smiled, well so much for easing him in gently, but then again he more then likely wouldn't recognize her now. Rose smiled at the memory of her first regeneration, the Doctor would have been proud. She had faced down and army of Daleks with her companion John. She came out mostly unscathed but suffered enough to have to regenerate.
"Well what do you think girl? Should we let him in?" The Tardis hummed and rose just smiled.
Walking up to the door she looked out the small window and smiled at the shocked face of the Doctor.
"I'll open the door in a sec, I'm a little bit indecent." Her Gallferian wasn't perfect and from the look on the Doctors face he knew it as well. So his response came in English.
"Ok, but I must warn you I have a ton of questions." She smiled and nodded.
"Yeah, I figured as much. I'll be back in a second."
She walked up and touched the controls which promptly shocked her.
"What?"
'Why did you lie to him?' Rose smiled at her Tardis, "I want to see what he thinks of the new me first. You know new face, new personality." Sighing Rose plopped down into the captain's chair and sighed. She ran her hand through her now dark brown hair and leaned back. She felt like she was walking into an army of Daleks, right now that sounded more appealing.
"Well, I guess it's now or never." Before Rose could even rise from her seat the Tardis opened the door for the Doctor. Who promptly ran in looking for what appeared to him to be another time lord.
He spotted her after a few second and ran up to her.
"You really are another time lord. How?" Rose just smiled and stood from her seat.
"Come on, I'm hungry and just got done with a war." The doctor raised and eye brow at her words but followed her deeper into her Tardis. Walking into the Kitchen she pushed a button for some chips.
"I can never get enough of these, even after the regeneration." She spoke just loud enough for the Doctor to hear and he smiled at her.
"So, as i was saying how?" Rose smiled again and laughed.
"Always one for business huh?" He nodded eager to find out about his new friend.
"Well, I guess it's hard to explain." He nodded and urged her on.
"I'm 800 years old, do you know how odd this feels to me saying that?" A tear gently spread down her face as she though of her mother and everyone dying.
"I'm from parallel Earth." The Doctor sat back in his chair.
"How? I mean how did you get here?" Rose smiled, he was going to love this later.
"I met some people from Gallfery and told them my tale. They put me through the academy and gave me a Tardis and sent me on my way." It was short and vivid, not the answer the doctor was expecting.
"Touchy subject?" His voice was calm and converting.
"Yeah, just a bit."
"So whats this war you just got done with?" Rose sighed as more tears ran down her face. It was her own time war, sadly it had ended the same as the Doctors, except she was the last one standing.
"The time war, except in my universe we used something far greater than the eye of harmony." The Doctor opened his mouth like a fish.
"What happened?" Rose sighed as her Tardis tried to comfort her with a gentle hum, the Doctor felt it to.
"Not good then." Rose shook her head.
"I saved the plant, but by that time the Daleks had destroyed all of my people. I was alone, thats when I remembered a," rose hesitated and pleaded with her Tardis to remain quite with the truth until she was ready. "Companion I had once. Rose was her name." With the mention of that one word the Doctor sucked in a breath.
"She was very vibrant, she told me all about you and your adventures. She loved you, so much."
Tears ran down her face yet again, but she still continued.
"What, happened to her?"
Rose smiled, this would hurt him but it was the truth.
"She became what she was meant to, the legend from before time. Bad Wolf, she died saving our planet." The Doctor stood and walked to the counter.
"Did she have a room on board your Tardis?" Rose smiled and nodded.
"Would you like to see it?" The Doctor nodded and Rose lead him down a corridor.
"By the way whats your name?" Rose smiled and laughed.
"Oddly enough the same as yours. The oncoming storm, Doctor, Jane smith."
He laugh, "Well this could get confusing, so um, just call me Theta."
Rose smiled, so he did have a real name. She stopped in front of a pink door which was next to the darker blue one. She smiled, old room, new room, all part of her personality change.
He walked up to it and breathed deep and opened the door. It was exactly the same as the one on his ship.
"It's the same." Rose smiled and nodded.
"God, I miss her so much." He crumpled onto the bed in the middle of the room, tears fell down his face. It was the first time Rose had ever seen him cry.
"Theta?" He looked up at her and smiled.
"If she was her, only different..." Rose hesitated before continuing. "Would you still love her?"
The Doctor smiled. "Rose is Rose, nothing or anything in time or space could change that for me."
Rose let out a breath she was holding and leaned against the door frame, which sent out a zap shocking her.
"Oi! You quit that!" The Doctor watched and laughed, "Got a temper does she?"
Rose nodded and mumbled, "among other things she likes to play match maker."
"So where are you headed?" The Doctor was quiet, she had her own Tardis and didn't need to travel with him. As if she read his mind she said something that amazed him.
"Well, I was hoping where ever it was we could go together, mine or yours." The Doctor smiled.
"How about a trip in yours? Mine needs to refuel for a few more hours." Rose smiled and nodded.
"Alright then to the control room."
For the first time the Doctor actually took a good look at it and became puzzled.
"You know, this Tardis looks a lot like mine." Rose swore under her breath.
"Even the controls are the same." The Tardis beeped in warning to Rose and she sighed.
'Tell him, or I will.' Rose growled and smacked the controls with a hammer.
"Oh, just sod off!" The Doctor looked at her oddly after her outburst.
"Problems?"
Rose sighed again and sat in the captains chair.
"I have to tell you something, it's important and I can completely understand if you want nothing to do with me ever again."
The Doctor blinked and continued to look confused.
"Theta you might want to sit down."
'Don't worry Doctor, you and my mistress are more connected then you think. After 800 years I may get to see her smile like she did when she got me'
"You know your Tardis is talking to me." Rose nodded.
"Yeah, because your programed in as the second pilot if anything should happen to me."
The Doctor was shocked say the least.
"Why? I mean was it because of Rose?"
She nodded, "Among other reasons yes."
'Stop beating around the bush and tell him!'
"Not so loud, we're not Deaf." The Doctor rubbed his temples.
"So continue." Rose pulled her hair in frustration.
"I wanted to tell you later, after you got to know me again. I am Rose."
There she had said it, it was done and the damage she figured irreversible.
When she finally had enough courage to look at him his face was blank.
"You, can't be Rose. She was human, I can feel you.." Rose sighed and leaned against the controls.
"Would it help if I took you somewhere to verify it?"
The doctor glanced at her.
"How? If you as old as you say you are a lot of time has passed in the other universe. Anyone who would know would be dead."
Rose nodded and smiled sadly.
"True, but when this happened me and my mom set it up so i could always come back for one day, in other words i won't cross my own time line. I can even take you to meet Roselin."
The doctor looked up at her, "Roselin was a goddess, a myth."
Rose nodded, "I know, trust me I know, but once you absorb the time vortex, anything is possible."
The doctor stood at stared at her.
"Give me a second I have to go check my Tardis and grab somethings."
Rose nodded and went on programing her Tardis for the return trip. This would be fun, he would get to see what happened. The Tardis hummed as rose sighed keying in the last quardnets.
"Yeah, I told you he wouldn't believe me." The doctor walked in quietly as Rose continued to talk to the Tardis.
"The valiant child, ha! I'm a big joke. 800 years and I still can't just let go." The Tardis hummed.
'He still cares my Rose.' She sighed and rubbed her eyes tiredly.
"Yeah, for someone who's not what she used to be someone who's lived his life stands in her place. I just wish they didn't have to die. This would be so much easier." Tears fell down her checks as she sobbed into a column of the control room. The doctor just stood there and watched.
"I wish he said it then, on the cold beach in Norway. This would be so much easier." The doctor stepped foreword.
"'ello, back and ready to see this proof of yours." He smiled. He knew it was her now, he just didn't want to believe that Rose had gone through it all.
Rose wiped her face.
"Right." Her hands ran over the controls as she smiled, like a child at Christmas. She began to dance around the control panel much like the doctor did, hammering pulling pumping levelers and switches.
"Hey, grab that control over there and turn it, the void is kinda hard to navigate with out Romna."
The doctor stared wide eyed at the name but quickly recovered when he saw rose stretch for the control which he quickly turned.
"Thanks." The Tardis shuddered as it crossed the void.
"Ok now that thats over quick recharge and we'll be off to Gallifrey. Until then lets go see my mum."
The doctor nodded.
"You sure you wont cross your own time line?"
Rose nodded. "Yes, she never mentions that I've been somewhere, she always just says she confused. Sometimes I'm 50, sometimes 800, sometimes older then that. She never tells me what happens though." The doctor nodded.
"Starting to believe me then?"
The doctor shrugged. Her Tardis just laughed at the exchange and Rose poked the column glowing in the middle.
"You young lady keep your opinion to yourself."
The doctor smirked. "Young lady? How olds your Tardis?"
"About 300 years old, got this one after my second regeneration. The first one well, i don't want to talk about it."
He nodded as Rose walked back towards the wardrobe.
"Aren't we going?" Rose nodded.
"Gotta change first so I'm ready, we aren't staying here long."
The doctor nodded and sat back in the jumper seat. Rose emerged a few moments later, Dressed in none other then her proper Galferian robes. The doctor however was speechless. This woman who claimed not only to be Rose was Lord President.
"Your?" Rose laughed.
"Well, yeah. When i regenerated they figured it was only right."
"If you don't mind why?"
Rose sighed.
"Me and john, my companion at the time, ran into some hostile things, the Daleks. Poor john lost his life. I lost my Tardis, she was really wonderful. Sentimental thing she was. I had some serious injorys and i actually at the time felt so horrible I tried to refuse to regenerate." The doctor stared at her, blinking. "Why would you just give up i mean you still have 11 regenerations left."
Rose sighed at sat down in the jump seat.
"I lost you, then my mom and everyone. My Tardis, i guess i felt why not. Actually it's kinda how I'm feeling now. Things are set up though so i can go and see most of them."
The doctor nodded, he knew how it felt to want to give up.
"Well lets go, sure mom's ready to break down the door."
Oh, how right she was, there was Jakie and mickey staring at rose.
"My god Rose sweetie, you said you weren't heading back till Christmas this year."
Rose nodded and smiled.
"Yeah well i ran into someone who needs proof, figured you where the first best proof i have."
Jakie smiled, "It's ok sweetie, did the war, it turn out ok?" Rose looked away and shrugged as she walked towards the house.
"Umm, hello Jackie."
"Oi! Doctor long time eh?"
'Yeah, what happened with the war? Has she said anything?" Jakie shook her head.
"All i know doctor is she came to see me right after and she just wonders. Sort of like you, except she goes through companions a little faster. Won't take them anywhere dangerous, and if they end up somewhere like that she drops them off right after words. Kinda closed off i guess."
The doctor nodded and walked towards the house. "Tea then?" Jakie nodded.