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The Impenetrable Abyss
Doctor Who
Chapter 2
Tentoo, strokes Rose's damp hair, the perspiration glistens on her forehead. The whimper that escapes her lips at his touch disheartens him. He thought these terrors had to be some, sort of, parasite. Or perhaps, a manipulation from the Daleks or something from his many other enemies and yet all her scans and everything showed up normal.
He holds the TARDIS phone receiver to his ear listening, to its steady ringing. He becomes discouraged the longer the phone rings.
"Hello, Rose? Is that you?
"Hi, Jackie."
"Oh, hello, Doctor. Is everything alright?" She could hear the concern in his voice and which instantly alarms her.
"Jackie. Jackie, calm down. Rose is fine. I think…"
"If you let anything happen to my daughter..." she is getting more hysterical with every word.
He flinches at the sternness that suddenly exudes from her lips. "What do you mean…you think."
The Human Doctor rubs the back of his head, "Well, you see she's been having these nightmares…"
"Nightmares?" She releases long a sigh of relief, "You had me thinking she had been seriously, injured."
"Sorry," he says with a nervous laugh, "It's just they have been very…traumatic for her…"
Jackie's voice tightens, "Traumatic, how?"
"She's refusing to sleep if she does, she wakes up, screaming. She has started crying in her sleep, and she keeps talking about a faceless…."
The TARDIS suddenly, jars violently, knocking the partial Time Lord off his feet.
"Wizard."
When he climbs back to his feet, he once again grabs the receiver. He could hear Jackie calling his name.
"Yes, I'm here. I don't know what that was but…"
The clank of something behind him, causes him to freeze.
"Oh. My. God!" That familiar voice causes him to grip the receiver tighter.
"Jackie, I have to go." With that, he slammed the receiver back into place.
He turns slowly to find a fiery redhead's back standing in the TARDIS behind him.
"Donna…"
Her head jerks around and she stares at him.
"What are you…"
"What did you do?" she demands, "Who are you? Where in the bloody hell am I?"
Rose's scream echoes through the TARDIS.
"What was that? You've been abducting women! Haven't you!" She grabs her cell phone and begins to call for emergency assistance.
"Donna, wait!" he pleads, "Listen to me."
Flashes of her time with the Doctor, her Doctor, suddenly move across her memory. She flinches in pain.
"Donna!?" The Human Doctor is quickly at her side, "Donna, what's wrong?"
A flash, of regeneration colored light, burst, from Donna's head and her body slumps against Tentoo's slender frame.
He frowns deeply. He could recognize the 10th Doctor's protection techniques anywhere, and he knows exactly, what must have happened. The Time Lord DNA had been too much for her human body to handle. So the Doctor did what he had to do—he protected, his best friend.
He lifts Donna into his arms and carries her up the stairs to the extra bedroom. He places her on the bed and pulls the covers up to her shoulders. He closes the door behind him, concerned. When he goes to check on Rose, he sees her running toward him. The unadulterated panic in her eyes worries him.
"Rose? What's wrong? What happened?" He grips her shoulders and looks into her eyes. He tries to ignore the dark bruise-colored circles that surround them.
"He…he…" She leans her head into his chest, and his arms instinctively, coil lovingly around her.
"He who, Rose? The faceless man?" She nods against his chest. "What about him?"
"He's..." she lifts her head to look at him, "coming…"
"What do you mean he's coming?" Tentoo's eyebrows furrow together.
"The faceless man is coming." She stammers and grips, his clothes tightly, between her fingers. "I'm scared."
"I am here, Rose. You'll be safe." His mind wonders to where Donna lay in the room behind him. If he is coming here, from where ever he is, this could explain Donna's sudden appearance.
The TARDIS once again jolts forward with a loud crack, like something has crashed into it. The same thing happens, again, from a different side. The Blue Box is hit a total of four times before everything becomes deathly still. The partial Time Lord slowly climbs to his feet, and he helps Rose up.
"What was that?" Rose asks leaning into the Human Doctor's touch.
"I don't know," He say's looking toward the TARDIS door. "But, I intend to find out. Wait, here."
"You can't go by yourself."
"Please, wait here for me, Rose."
She lets out a sigh; she's too exhausted to fight with him." "If you are not back in five to ten minutes, I am coming to get you. Understand?"
Tentoo kisses Roses forehead, "Thank you. Oh, and by the way, Donna is in that bedroom."
"What!?" Rose turns to look at the door to her right.
He starts off towards the door quickly, before she finds the energy to change her mind and try to follow him.
Rose slips into the room where he told her Donna was. She stares at Donna in surprise. Is this the parallel world's version of Donna or is this woman in front of her Donna, Donna? Rose slowly reaches over and pokes the slumbering woman and jerks her hand back like she has just been shocked.
"Well," Rose says, softly. "At least, she's not a hallucination. How did she get here?"
A sound…a familiar sound…a dream like sound sent shivers up Rose's spine. It couldn't be, could it? There was no way.
She can feel it. The hair on her arms and neck slowly raise as the goosebumps lift on her arm.
A faint whimper escapes her lips as she continues to keep her eyes focused on Donna. Willing whatever is behind her to go away.
She can feel it, creeping closer. Tears rim her eyes as she whimper's a little louder.
For a second she thought she could hear it breathing. Was she, imagining it? Did the faceless man need to breathe?
Finally, she slowly starts to turn around.
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