Dame Rose of TARDIS

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A/N: First fic. Be nice.

Chapter 1: Doomsday


"And you'll keep on changing. And in forty years time, fifty, there'll be this woman, this strange woman... walking through the marketplace on some planet a billion miles from Earth. She's not Rose Tyler. Not anymore. She's not even human..."

- Jackie Tyler, Army of Ghosts


The Doctor was slipping. It would only be a matter of time before he fell. "Three, two, one." He counted down till he would be in hell. He looked toward Rose one more time. Rose screamed as he was sucked into the void. Suddenly there was a flash and Pete Tyler caught the Doctor in his arms. The Doctor looked at Rose before he disappeared.

The suction stopped and the breach closed itself. Rose let go of the Magnaclamp and slid down to the floor, her two hearts racing madly. She hadn't even told him she was a Time Lord. That she was his fiancée back on Gallifrey. That she was the Vixen, the girl who the Doctor stammered around. All for one reason, she was scared to how he would react.


In the parallel world, the Doctor got up and walked to the wall silently. "Pete, is the breach closed?" He asked quietly.

Pete pressed the yellow button on the Dimension Jumper and said, "It's not working. You closed it, Doctor." The Doctor said nothing, just pressed his cheek and hand to the wall. In the other world, Rose did the same.

Jackie touched the Doctor's arm. "Come on, honey let's get us a cuppa, eh?" she choked. The Doctor silently followed.


As Rose entered the TARDIS, she collapsed on the floor. And she did just what the Doctor told her on the spaceship with the droids. She waited. Five and a half hours. Which turned into five and a half days. Which changed into five and a half weeks. Now Time Lords can go for a weeks without food, but now Rose was getting weak. She hadn't slept or eaten in months, despite the TARDIS nagging her. Now she lay trembling on the floor with a high fever and a frail and pale body. The TARDIS couldn't do anything except take her to help. And help was in only one place now. The TARDIS took her to the only place she knew could help Rose. Sarah Jane Smith's house.


First of all, Sarah Jane was shocked to see the TARDIS materializing in her living room. Then she knew something was wrong when the Doctor didn't step out and the TARDIS swung her doors open.

Sarah Jane cried out and ran in the TARDIS to help Rose when she saw her on the floor, pale sweaty and unconscious. Sarah Jane dragged Rose out and put her in her bedroom. She checked her fever and was horrified to see it so high. K-9 came in and Sarah Jane said to him, "K-9, scan Rose."

A red beam of light flashed over Rose as K-9's robotic voice said, "Affirmative Mistress. Scanning, scans complete. Medical scans show the Vixen's binary vascular system is failing of starvation and exhaustion."

Sarah Jane stammered, "It can't be, she died in the war. Scan again, K-9." K-9 did so and the results were the same. Sarah Jane murmured in realization, "She made herself human." She checked Rose's chest with a stethoscope, stunned to hear the familiar sluggish double heartbeat of her best friend back during her days in the TARDIS. "K-9, what medications do i giver her?" She asked, trying to save the woman whom she had grown to adore.

"I suggest tea and rehydrating Mistress Vixen to keep her out of danger." K-9 said. Sarah Jane changed Rose into a pair of pyjamas and did what K-9 had said for four days.

When Rose came into consciousness, Sarah Jane instantly hugged her and murmured, "You're okay. You're fine." She pulled back. "I thought you died."

Rose replied, "I didn't. I became human. The Doctor found me." She laughed bitterly at the irony. "I finally got the guts up to tell him who I am and he gets himself stuck in a stupid parallel world." Tears streamed down her cheeks. Sarah Jane pulled her into her arms again and muttered soothing words in her ear as Rose sobbed into her shoulder.

After three weeks, much to Sarah Jane's insistence of her staying, Rose was up and about. She headed off to the TARDIS after asking Sarah Jane to come with her, who refused and ordered Rose to come to her every time she needed her. Rose hugged her and went into the TARDIS.


Rose ran her hand around the console as the TARDIS cried. "I'll look after you. Don't worry. Just us girls, like old times. Now let's see if we can find a gap. I think there's time for one final goodbye." She said to the TARDIS, tears running down her cheeks, as she started up the engines. Suddenly there was a whirring noise and a sonic screwdriver was placed in front of her.

'The Doctor kept this for you. In case he ever found you again.' The TARDIS said in Rose's mind.

"Thank you. You didn't have to do this." Rose said with a sad smile, picking up her old screwdriver and running her finger over the gold part at the top of the black piece of metal. A small beeping was heard. "There it is there's still a gap. I'll have to orbit around a supernova to get it open enough that I can talk through it, though." There was a rattling in the TARDIS and Rose looked at the scanner and saw that the TARDIS was near a burning supernova.

'Least I could do.' Rose smiled again and started calling out to the Doctor.


A voice whispered, "Doctor." The Doctor was asleep in his bed in the guest room of the Tyler's mansion. "Doctor." He opened his eyes and bolted upright. "Last night I had a dream. I heard a voice and it was calling my name." "Doctor. Doctor... Doctor... Doctor... Doctor."

Still in their pyjamas, the Doctor, Jackie, Pete and Mickey sat around a roaring fire as the Doctor related his dream to them. "I had a dream, um..." "I told Jackie and Pete and Mickey. Anyone else would think I was mad. But not those three. They believed it. Because they know Rose Tyler. So they listened to the dream. She was calling me." The three of them listened to him intently.

It was still dark when the four of them left the house, fully dressed. "And that night, we packed up..." They loaded their luggage into the boot and jumped into the car. "Got into Pete's old Jeep and off we went." They drove away into the night. "Just like the dream said. Followed the voice... across the water... kept on driving hundreds and hundreds of miles. Because she's calling."


Pete, Jackie and Mickey stood by the Jeep as the Doctor walked on the beach in blue pinstripes and looked to the sea. Suddenly a whooshing was heard and a faded figure of Rose appeared.

"Where are you?" The Doctor asked.

Rose replied, "Inside the TARDIS. She misses you."

"You look like a ghost." The Doctor said smiling.

"Hold on." Rose pointed her screwdriver at the projector and the image cleared a bit. The Doctor stared at it in shock. "Doctor, it's me. It's Vixen. You probably don't believe me. But on our first date, we went to the Medusa Cascade. You were stuttering when I asked you what you would do if I kissed you. You stammered and I shut you up with a kiss. You squeaked and smiled, blushing."

"It's you. I can't believe it. You were Rose Tyler all this time." The Doctor reached toward her. "Can I-"He asked looking hopeful.

"You know you can't Doctor. I'm still just an image." She replied sadly. They stared into each other's eyes for a few seconds. "Where are we? Where did the gap come out?" She asked, painfully breaking away.

"We're in Norway." The Doctor said.

Rose looked thoughtful. "Norway. Right. Must have been one bloody hell of a journey." She said with that tongue between teeth smile of hers.

"Yeah. About fifty miles outside of Bergen. It's called Dårlig Ulv Stranden." He told her.

Rose asked surprised, "Dalek?"

The Doctor grinned. "Dår-lig. It's Norwegian for 'bad'. This translates to 'Bad Wolf Bay." The pair laughed at the irony. His face fell as he asked the next question. "How long have we got?"

"About two minutes." Her eyes shining with tears as she replied.

The Doctor asked, "You're alone, then?"

"Yeah. I asked Sarah Jane t come when I went to-"She decided not telling him about starving and waiting for five weeks. " To visit her." She finished." I might find somebody, though. You never know." She said.

The Doctor changed the subject. "There's five of us now, me, Jackie, Pete, Mickey- and the baby."

Rose looked at Jackie, "She's not-"

The Doctor replied, "Yes. Three months along. More Tylers on the way." His voice lowered to a whisper, "Bet you ten quid I'll have regenerated before the next six months are over."

Rose smiled. "So what are you going to do?"

The Doctor said, "Oh there's a Torchwood on this planet. I'm gonna be working there. Being the best alien expert on the planet. What about you?"

Rose replied, "Y'know, life in the TARDIS. Last of the Time Lords in the universe. I might save a few civilizations, help a few aliens, might even find a companion along the way."

The Doctor looked proud as he said, "The Vixen, Defender of the Universe."

Rose had a few tears rolling down her cheek. "Am I ever gonna see you again?"

The Doctor said regretfully, "You know you can't."

The tears were flowing freely now. "I lo-" she choked on her tears. "I love you." Rose says, heartbroken.

The Doctor smiled, "Quite right too. And I suppose if it's my last chance to say it, Vixen-" She then disappeared. Tears started falling heavily as he sank down on his knees. Jackie ran toward him to comfort him.


Rose rubbed her hands over her eyes, wiping the tears away. She took a deep breath and then turned her attention to the TARDIS console, pushing the buttons and levers as she walked slowly around it without any of her former enthusiasm. Suddenly, she looked up, eyes wide with shock. Standing by the door, with her back to her, was a bride.

"What?" Rose asked, astonished.

"Who are you?" The bride asked disdainfully.

"But-" Rose was dumbfounded as she looked around the TARDIS.

"Where am I?" The bride demanded.

"What?!"

"What the hell is this place?" The bride yelled.

"WHAT?!" Rose cried out.

A/N: So how'd I do? Please review. I'll try to upload as much as I can.