The Doctor and Rose bolted out of the TARDIS. The source of the screaming was nowhere. They kept on running down the street until they found it. A group of people were surrounding a girl covered in blood and scars. In the background both time travelers could see a grotesque monster running into an old warehouse.

"What happened here?" Rose asked.

"My friend, we were just walking down the sidewalk, and she fell with this cuts, and she-she was bleeding, and-and," her friend sobbed, unable to go on.

"We'll find out what happened," Rose said and pulled the Doctor away, "How could they not see that monster?"

"I don't know," the Doctor answered momentarily dumbfounded, "Allons-y!" He grabbed her hand, sending chills up her spine. For some reason she felt closer to the Doctor than she ever had before, not just because of the kiss, but she just felt closer. She felt the Doctor pull on her arm and she took off running. They followed the monster into the old warehouse.

"Anyone here?" The Doctor called. Rose hit him on his shoulder. He opened his mouth, but Rose heard clearly in her head, what was that for?

She blinked a few times before answering, "Haven't you seen the movies. You never call out everyone here unless you want the monster to eat you."

"Well," the Doctor said slowly, "Okay fine sorry. Let's go."

"Wait, Doctor," Rose said. The Doctor stopped and looked at her impatiently.

"I want to talk about the kiss," Rose said, "in the TARDIS." The Doctor stopped breathing for a moment, and a spark of emotion spiked through his eyes. For some reason Rose thought she could hear the Doctor's heartbeat in her head.

"What about it," the Doctor tried and failed to ask.

"Well, why did you kiss me?"

"I-uh-well-uh," the Doctor stammered, "Because I well," he hung his head, "like you. I mean really like you."

Rose stared at him flabbergasted; he's never really shown emotion like this. She continued staring until she realized that she needed to answer.

"Well-I-uh," Rose answered, or tried to anyway. She sighed and put her hand under his chin, lifting it to face her. Then she threw herself on him and kissed him full on the mouth. He took a step backward, surprised then put his hands on her waist and pulled her closer. They broke away as it suddenly dawned on them what was going on.

"Well, that was unexpected," the Doctor answered. Rose opened her mouth to reply but what came out was a sort of scream in pain. She swayed forward and the Doctor automatically caught her.

"Rose what is it," the Doctor said, "What do you see?"

How did you know that? Rose thought but couldn't say. It took all she had but she finally choked-out, "Fire. A beautiful place with an orange sky; then fire, just fire."

The Doctor inhaled a sharp breath, and then he closed his eyes. Slowly Rose's breathing became regular.

"Doctor what was that?" Rose asked.

He just shook his head, "Tell you later, but first let's go catch that monster." He set her on her feet and then they were running, up the stairs and into the attic. The huge monster was standing there snarling a bloody snarl. On the ground were the remains of a few humans. Rose gasped. The Doctor looked on the scene in shock. Rose looked at the monster and realized that she could barely see it like it wasn't quite solid.

"Doctor that monster isn't quite solid, is it?"

He looked closer, "It is solid, why would you think…that?" He was looking at Rose like something just dawned on him.

"That monster is invisible to the human eye," the Doctor explained, "I can see it because I'm an alien, and you can because you're connected to my mind."

"What?" Rose asked, confused.

The Doctor just shook his head and continued, "So what are you? What do you want? Where did you come from?"

The creature didn't she answer just jumped towards the wall leaving a giant hole. Rose and the Doctor quickly ran to the hole. The monster was nowhere to be seen.

"Where'd did it go?" Rose asked. The Doctor didn't answer; he just shuddered.

"What's wrong?" Rose asked but she felt it too, and she shuddered. In her mind the answer came to her. The monster was tearing a whole through the space-time continuum, just so it could teleport away.

"How did it tear a hole in the space-time continuum?" she asked.

"You knew that?" the Doctor said, "Come on back to the TARDIS!"

~~back at the TARDIS~~

"So what did you mean when you said that I was connected to your mind?" Rose asked.

He sighed, "Out there did you feel and know stuff you know you can't possibly know?"

Rose nodded, "Yeah."

The Doctor sighed, "When a Time Lord falls in-uh-love their minds connect to create a telepathic bond."

Love? Rose thought, He loves me?

"But I'm human," Rose said, "My brain can't do that weird Time Lord thing."

"Yes it can," the Doctor protested, "In fact the bond has already been created. It's automatic."

"Okay," Rose unbelievingly.

"Okay what did you see?" The Doctor asked.

"I saw that fire, I thought I heard your heartbeats, your voice inside my head, and I knew that the creature ripped a whole in the space-time continuum and that it didn't feel good."

"Well this bond thing connects our minds together in a psychic link, and that way the 2 people could speak together, have the same thoughts, feel the same way all in their head."

"Cool," Rose said, "So what was that fire?"

The Doctor's eyes grew cold and distant, "Gallifrey." Rose didn't say anything; she decided to let it drop. She suddenly burst out in tears.

"Rose?" the Doctor asked, "What's wrong?" He pulled her into a hug and rubbed her back.

"Sorry," she choked out, "It's just those people, and I've never seen anything as messy as that, it was horrible."

"I know I know," the Doctor murmured.

"It was so scary and so terrible and-," she was cut off from another sob.

"I'm sorry," the Doctor said.

"It's okay, so what do we do about the monster?" Rose asked.

"We'll track it down and stop it," the Doctor answered.

"Can we wait until morning? I can't take seeing that again," Rose asked. She felt the Doctor nod.

"Come on," he said. He grabbed her arm and helped her back to her room. They quickly made it to her room and went inside. She lay down gratefully and closed her eyes. The Doctor turned and walked towards the door.

"Doctor can you stay with me tonight?"

"Sure," he answered and sat down on the chair next to her bed.

"No I'm meant up here," Rose explained. The Doctor's breath caught in his throat, and slowly he nodded.

"No shoes no jacket," Rose ordered. The Doctor rolled his eyes and pulled off his shoes and took off his jacket.

"Happy?" The Doctor asked as he slid in next to her.

"Very," Rose said. She quietly slipped into the land of dreams…or nightmares.

Rose knew she was dreaming. She knew that this wasn't a dream that her mind thought up. So where had it come from? She watched in interest as a boy around the age of 16 walked the halls of a fancy looking school. Suddenly, two taller boys were in front of him. They were talking but Rose couldn't hear the words, then one of the taller boys punched to shorter boy hard in the face. He fell back clutching his nose, which was obviously broken now. He glared at the bullies gathered his books and ran off.
The scene changed.
Now there was a figure of a man watching down onto the planet he dearly loved. Rose couldn't see his face, but she could feel his despair. She looked down and gasped. Beautiful red grass and silver-leafed trees were erupting with flames. It was a beautiful scene, to beautiful for what she was watching. She knew where she was, and she knew she didn't want to see this. She couldn't wake up and she was forced to watch as the planet died. She couldn't stop the tears that were falling down her face.

Rose woke crying. She looked over at her Doctor. His eyes were closed and he was opening and closing his mouth like he was trying to say something.

"Doctor?" she asked. He didn't reply he just laid there slightly shaking now. She was surprised when a small groan escaped his lips. Rose couldn't stand seeing him like this, and even though she was awake she could still see some of the worst visions imaginable. She shook him and when that didn't work she kissed him. After a while he jerked up making them bang their foreheads together.

"What was that?" the Doctor asked.

"You were having a nightmare," Rose said.

"How do you know I was having a nightmare?" the Doctor asked.

"Well, you were shaking and groaning I think that means nightmare," Rose replied.

"Well okay then," the Doctor accepted, "What were you dreaming about?"

"I don't know exactly," Rose said and she described her dreams to the Doctor."

"That's exactly what I dreamed about. We had the dream because our minds are bonded now."

"Is that a good thing?" Rose asked.

"What do you mean?" A confused Doctor asked.

"Well you're a Time Lord; I thought that they didn't like anyone invading their mind?"

"Well if someone's trying to corrupt our mind, but Time Lords all have a telepathic link with each other anyways, so it has been kind of lonely in my head without the feeling of all of the other Time Lord's minds."

Rose nodded, it sort of made since, sort of. "I'm sorry."

"It's fine, anyway let's go find us a monster!" he jumped up and went to the control room.

Rose sighed and followed him.

So that was chapter 2 and I hoped you all found it molto bene (means much good in Italian). So please review! Please.

~~timelord99~~