The Doctor's Significant
So this story is technically a crossover, but I'm not taking any characters from the other story, just the idea of an imprint and having a significant. (Significance/Shelly Crane). A significant is a person's soul mate that they meet when they imprint on a person. This imprint is triggered by a touch, and is immediately followed by a series of visions and shocks through the couple's bodies. Significants are able to read each other's minds and feel what the other feels, especially after they ascend a few days later. Once a couple is ascended they receive an ability that goes hand in hand with the other's (solving codes and making codes, detecting elements and calling elements,etc.). The most important part about significants is that they are completely and irreversibly attached to one another. It pains them to fight, to be without each other for extended periods of time, and to be intimate with other people.
Being a fan of both this story and Doctor Who, I thought it would be fun to create a universe where Rose and the Doctor imprint when he takes her hand and says, "Run!" So, without further ado, here is my remake of the story of Rose and the Doctor.
An alarm goes off in a small apartment in central London, followed by the groan of a very tired young woman. After several seconds of the unpleasant noise, a hand snakes out and slaps it off. And so begins the longest day of Rose Tyler's life.
As many long days do, it starts off with Rose running late. Again. On her way out the door she kisses her mum and grabs a cuppa, leaving with a rushed goodbye. Taking the subway to work she gets there just in time to start her 10 hour shift. The day passes tediously, with a short lunch break where she meets with her mate Mickey. Hours of folding clothes and helping people pass by at a slow pace until finally a woman's voice announces "THE STORE WILL BE CLOSING IN FIVE MINUTES, THANK YOU". Five minutes later Rose starts out the door, only to be stopped by one of the clerks holding a bag of cash.
She grumbles but starts upstairs in search of Wilson, a coworker in charge of Henricks staff lottery. After a few long minutes of looking throughout the dark storage floor, Rose starts to get annoyed. Where was Wilson? Who was locking the doors behind her and turning of the lights? She starts to threaten the empty room, finally realizing that this might be more than just a prank. Suddenly she sees movement in the corner of her eye, followed by a stretchy, leathery sound. Confused, Rose spins on her heel and finds a shop dummy approaching. "Alright real funny, I've got the joke now, you can stop." Then more appear out of the darkness, all seeming to be coming at her. Sensing the danger, Rose starts to back away, not taking her eyes off of them. They kept coming, more and more, all after her. She is cornered.
Just as she starts to accept her fate and closes her eyes in defeat, someone yanks her hood from behind and yells, "RUN!". Seeing no better escape routes, the terrified blonde follows the her odd savior. He guides her, still running, to the same elevator she came up on, barely avoiding the plastic dummies trying to get them. In order to make the door close, the leather clad man pulls off the arm of a well dressed plastic man. "You pulled his arm off." Now follows a brief argument on their attackers and the damage left behind. Rose is frustrated. The nameless man still won't tell her anything of use and keeps interrupting her every time she tries to ask. He dismisses her in an alley upon reaching the ground floor with a lot of fast words and stupid sounding excuses. Who was he? What were those things after her? Why was he about to blow up her workplace? And why did she feel a strange and intense attraction to this older man?
Just as she turns around to leave, completely flustered and a little sad, the door opens again and out pops the man in question. "I'm the Doctor by the way, what's your name?" He sticks out his hand and as she reaches to shake it she shares her name.
"Rose."
And then their hands connect and something strange happens that neither of them expect. A jolt goes through them both. A hard, almost violent jolt that send both fire and ice down their veins. Rose stops breathing for a moment when visions of sorts start to hit her. She receives flashes and glimpses of herself in the future, happy and in the Doctor's arms. Them going on adventures, them sitting around in a strange blue box, them just walking down a street. Together. Always the two of them, always together. Then the pictures are gone and she is left breathing again, heavy and fast. Meanwhile, the Doctor is experiencing the same type of pleasure and pain as he gets hit with the shocks of heat and sudden cold.
Then suddenly it's all over, no more images or jolts. Just the two of them, and a strange buzzing feeling in each of their heads. After a brief pause the Doctor says in great disbelief, "Oh my God, it's you." At his words, Rose snaps back into it and starts to back away, scared and confused, but also excited underneath it all. "What's going on, who are you, really? What are you? Why do I feel so strange?" All of her words come out fast and blurred, but the Doctor understands the point she's making. She is scared and confused, but she feels it too. That's all it takes for him to come forward and put his hands on either side of her face, "Breathe, Rose."
When his hands connect with her face Rose's anxieties disappear. She is no longer scared or fitful. She takes a deep breath and, despite only just meeting the man, leans into his arms and stays there for a moment. "Alright love, I swear I will explain everything that is going on to you soon, but right now I have to take care of these dummies." With that, he gently pushes her from his arms and goes back into the building. Several minutes later he runs out of the same door, grabs her hand, and sprints as far away as possible. Just as they reach the street an explosion occurs, no doubt from something the Doctor had done in there.
Seeing that his work was complete, the Doctor turns back to see a once again terrified Rose. "I'm so sorry this is happening the way it is, but trust me, it will all be okay." And with that, he leads her away from the burning building and towards a safe place to talk about what had just happened.