The Doctor and the Bad Wolf
– What if the Doctor and Rose had romantic feelings for each during his ninth regeneration but both refused to confirm them. The TARDIS saw a way to remedy this. AU End of S1 and on.
AN: So this is my first whofic and I've read a few like it but I don't think anyone has done something quite like this. I do not own anything the scripts I use to rewrite episodes and characters that I use from the awesomeness that is Doctor Who; they are all property of the BBC. I am just a fan-girl with ideas of how episodes could have been written a little differently.
Prologue
The TARDIS was upset with her thief and his pink and yellow companion. Over the past few months she had become fond of Rose Tyler, she was the first of the Doctor's companions that believed that she was alive when the Doctor told her so. She didn't question it, she just believed him. The TARDIS knew that the Doctor needed someone who had the blind faith and trust that Rose held for him.
Rose was also brilliant in her own ways, how could she not be? The Doctor had chosen her to be his companion and those were only the best and brightest. Not only that but her Doctor did something that he had never done before, he asked her twice to be his companion.
The TARDIS knew that Rose was special but she didn't know how special until the Doctor's thoughts were beginning to always contain thoughts of the human. This caused her to look closer at the thoughts of her human passenger. Rose's thoughts were also filled with the Doctor. She foresaw that their timelines were intertwined as those of true soul-mates. She had never seen this happen to her thief's timeline, even with his first Galifreyan wife. This caused the TARDIS to start to plan out how to get her passengers into situations that would end up with them together as they were supposed to be.
She began to hide things from her travelers and move rooms so that they would have to interact together, hoping to speed up their admission of their true feelings for each other. It also helped that a new traveler had joined them. Captain Jack Harkness was a huge flirt and this brought out the Time Lord's jealous side. She saw her thief start to become frustrated with her meddling and the new traveler's moves on Rose.
He finally snapped after a particularly embarrassing mishap of the Doctor walking into Rose's room while she was changing after a shower, the Doctor turned to his ship for an explanation.
"Alright, I know you're the one behind the ridiculous mishaps happening around here. Its bad enough with Jack who flurts with everything that moves, I don't need you testing my patience too," the Doctor sighed agitated. "Really did you have to move Rose's room to where the library is suppose to be? What have I done now? Did I forget to fix something for you or am I missing a warning call of some kind? Come on, you have my attention let me know what I've done," the Doctor said exasperated walking around the controls on the console.
The TARDIS showed him visions of Rose in a traditional Galifreyan bridal gown, images from some of his thoughts. She was stunning in the traditional red and gold of their home planet. The TARDIS hummed with approval of the image.
"Oh no, don't tell me that you are jealous of her. We've been together 700 years Old Girl!" the Doctor laughed.
The TARDIS just sighed at the misreading of her motives and emotions by her oldest ally. She decided a woman's mind might work out her actual motive. She blocked out her conversation from the Doctor as she reached farther into Rose's mind to allow the human to actually feel the ship's presence in her mind.
"Hello," Rose said as she felt the ship nudge her mind, "did he send you to apologize?"
The TARDIS sent Rose her sign for no, since she wasn't use to telepathy invading her mind and was not as practiced as the Doctor in understanding more subtle notions.
"Then why are you poking around in my mind? You know I don't like it."
The TARDIS sent her an apology and signaled she was leaving.
"Don't go, I didn't mean it about the telepathy, I'm just not used to it and I'm so frustrated! Can you block this conversation and what I say from him?" Rose asked as she laid on her bed.
The ship sent the concerned woman trusting waves and a feeling of almost motherly care.
"Okay, but you can't go telling him I said any of this," she paused. "I just really need to tell someone or I'm going to explode from frustration. ImightvefalleninlovewiththeD octor," Rose spit out burying her face in her bed. The TARDIS didn't need her to say it again she knew what her human traveler had said.
The ship hummed happily and wrapped Rose in comfort, love, and understanding.
"Thank you, I'm happy you understand but I doubt he could ever love a stupid ape like me," Rose cried at her seemingly unrequited love. The TARDIS tried to show her that she was wrong but Rose wasn't having it, she pushed the consoling ship out of her mind and the TARDIS was not about to break the trust of the human woman she was so fond of.
The TARDIS contemplated how to get these two incredibly thick people to see that they both loved each other. She was busy thinking of plans when a bright light engulfed the ship. She was too slow; the transmat had already taken her travelers.
AN: Don't hate me! This episode is the precursor to the season finale of season 1. Please review! I'm sorry if anything seems too out there or there are any big grammar or spelling mistakes.