The Raggedy Man and the Big Bad Wolf

by Raven Jadewolfe

Left stranded without the Doctor for a second time, she searches for a way back home. During a mission for Torchwood though, she encounters a strange glowing crack which catapults her back into her original dimension...and into a young girl's bedroom. Language, adult situations, violence. Multiple pairings. Some OCs. I also desperately tried not to rehash episodes. Fluffy.

2. Chapter 2

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It takes some time, but eventually she finds a cash machine which she then utilizes a trick of the Doctor's-overloading its circuits-to get a stack of cashy money. Afterwords she raids a couple of snack machines then wanders the rain slicked streets until she happens upon an abandoned, but structurally sound, garage hidden in a copse of trees on the towns outermost fringes. Once securing the stone building and fitting it with a portable perception filter to keep away unwanted visitors, she wearily slides off her bulky pack, empties her jacket and trouser pockets, and begins the arduous process of taking inventory of the supplies she had brought with her across the void.

While her hands are busy, she gingerly sifts through the other Doctor's murky, star filled memories that perpetually dance at the back of her mind, trying to determine where he would be cavorting about during this time period, but nothing helpful or familiar surfaces.

"Should be safe from any paradoxes for a while then, that's a relief," she murmurs to herself, then smiles as she gently extracts her most precious cargo from her bigger on the inside rucksack, a large cylindrical glass tube that holds a swirling, multi-hued mist that largely obscures the cinder block sized piece of coral tucked inside, "Hello Beauty, how are we holding up? That jump couldn't have been easy on you."

A gentle glow starts wafting from inside the container, the light-stronger than she's ever seen it- pulsing in time with her heartbeat as she feels the barest nudge brush her own mind. "Oh, you know where we are, don't you? I know the big parallel universe couldn't kill you, but there's nothing better for a baby Tardis than being back home, is there?"

The light flares momentarily, as if in agreement, then fades to a subdued tone while Rose ticks down the long list of scans with her sonic. When she is finished, she places the tube on a workbench and gives it an affectionate pat, "Looking good little one. I was worried that the crack might have had some lingering residual effects on you, but I guess you are still young enough to not get sick like your mum did. Maybe now that we're almost where and when we need to be, you will be able to grow big and strong while we wait for the right Doctor, our Doctor, to show his face."