Disclaimer: Don't own Doctor Who. Did anyone say I did?
A/N: I'm finally posting a Dr Who fic. This is a series of long drabbles/short short stories that will be updated as the mood hits me. Right now I have 4.5 ideas (it is possible) with genres all over the map, with 3.5 being tragic angst and 2 being humor involving Jack. My math does work, shaddup!
Title: Uh… What?
Genre: Tragedy/Humor (that ALSO works)
Summary: Bad Wolf leaves one last present for the Doctor, and Romana's given up understanding everything that happens around him.
Uh... What?
It was a simple thing, to those who didn't recognize it. To those who didn't recognize it, it was merely another bit of alien technology crash-landed on Earth. Just one more piece of technology in a sea of so much more.
To Rose Tyler, it was more than just a piece of technology.
It was Mickey who called her in that day. Said that Torchwood had found something vaguely familiar to the both of them, something that was reading faint life signs but appeared to be machine. She asked him if it was a Dalek or Cyberman, but Mickey replied no. No, that it was something different, and that she'd better get down there.
She got down there. Because it was reading life signs it was stored in one of the cells, not with the rest of the alien technology. And Rose Tyler knew what it was right away.
It was a TARDIS, or part of one anyway. It lay on its side, the central column jutting out of the console, and below that gridded floor and iron bars keeping the circuitry and machinery in its proper place. The life signs were very faint, and Rose knew why. Because it was a heart without a body, and it was dying.
There was no way she could fix it. No way, and even if the Doctor were there she suspected they still wouldn't be able to fix it. So she wandered around it, comforting it as best she could. Until she came to the other side, at which point she froze.
Upon the side of the central column were words written in red paint. Not many, just two. Just two words that signified so much more. Bad Wolf.
All of a sudden a foreign but not voice started chanting it in her head. Bad Wolf Bad Wolf Bad Wolf Bad Wolf.
She knew what she had to do.
The console barely resisted at all this time, and once it was open the Time Vortex started spilling out. It flowed into Rose, glowing, and once it was done Rose looked up. "One last gift from me, Doctor."
She waved her hand, and then Rose Tyler was no more.
The TARDIS rocked suddenly while travelling through the Time Vortex. The Doctor held on, but at the last second he let go, landing on his behind. The TARDIS materialized somewhere as the Doctor slowly got up, holding his head. "My head hurts… I didn't hit my head, so why does my head hurt?" He walked over to the console screen, checking where they had landed. He hadn't planned on landing anywhere, just floating in the vortex… oh. What? The Doctor blinked several times, then hit the screen. Nothing changed. He blinked several more times. "What?"
About then was when the screen flickered, then changed to that of a video communication. "Well Doctor," the woman on the screen said, "I'm not even going to ask you what you just did, because knowing you it was something impossible. You've regenerated since the final order. Oh do stop gaping like that, you look like a fish."
"What!"
Yes, that was Romana at the end. I hope she's not too OOC, I haven't actually seen any of the old episodes. In case you didn't understand what the hell just happened, Rose using Bad Wolf brought Gallifrey back as a last gift to the Doctor, who then got a headache because all of a sudden all his people are back and Timelords are telepathic? I think so. And the TARDIS was probably hyperventilating somewhere in there. Don't ask, 'cause I don't know. Reviews please, they might save what's left of my sanity. TARDIS's hyperventilating indeed.