Yes, there's more. And I know I skipped a big scene in chapy one, but I wanted to do a thing with it. You'll see... :-)
Chapter Two -o- Q & A
The first thing Rose realized when her eyes opened was that everything seemed to look a little different. This was her room, she recognized her stuff. But it was all still a little odd to her. She sat up and noticed how very, different she felt too. She felt something in her chest, something very new, so she put her hand to her chest and smiled. Two hearts, 'Wow' she thought putting both hands over her hearts. This was definitely new, new and very interesting. She understood what happened to her, probably better then the Doctor did. She could remember things now, things she had forgotten after the Doctor took the Vortex out of her. The TARDIS had spoken to her, told her what it planed to do, even asked her permission, sort of. Rose reached up and felt her hair, it was long, down to her lower back now, and she found she kind of liked it so long. She looked around her room and for the first time wished she had a mirror in here. She didn't want to have to go to the bathroom; she might run into the Doctor.
'The Doctor' she thought taking inventory of herself, very new experience. 'What did he think of all this?' She could feel like never before, it was like a whole world was open to her, and this was just her body. 'Was he mad or sad or was he happy? Could he be happy to finally have someone else to travel with, forever' Rose thought smiling as she stood up, a little wobbly, new feet and all. 'Forever,' she thought smiling as she walked back and forth a few times, getting a feel for everything new. Then she stopped and frowned 'Will he still want me' the thought popped into her head very unexpectedly. 'I am, after all, totally new, new everything. I'm not really Rose Tyler, at least not the one he fell in love with.' She sat down on her bed as tears swam in her eyes. 'So easy to tears now' she thought a little amused by herself. This new everything was going to take a little getting use to. And all of a sudden her head felt very heavy and she needed to lie down again. She stared at the ceiling for only a moment before she was asleep again.
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The Doctor was standing outside of her room looking at her door. He wasn't sure what he was going to say to her. He wasn't really any closer to telling her what happened. She was going to be scared and confused and he didn't have any answers for her, at least no good answers. He was sure this had something to do with the Vortex, and he was sure that it wasn't a one time thing, but other then that he had no idea how it happened. He reached up to knock and stopped, for the third time now. He shook his head and took a deep breath. He knocked but was met with silence. 'She's still sleeping' He thought wondering if he should go in or not.
He finally decided on going in, just to check on her. He opened the door slowly and stepped in. She was lying in bed, on top of her covers; she must have been up since he left her in here. He walked over to her and pulled up a chair and sat down next to her bed. She looked so different; her long red hair was falling all around her shoulders and face, she was on her side with some of the covers pulled to her chest as if cuddling with them. Her face was longer and thinner then it had been all of her face was more defined now. He reached out and tucked a piece of hair behind her ear so he could see her better. She smiled and he pulled his hand away.
"'Ello" She said opening her eyes to smile at him.
"Hi" He said smiling back at her. He had been right before, her smile, even with a different mouth, was the same. She sat up and he noticed she moved a little different now, slower. She took a deep breath and he knew, 'here it comes' he thought steadying himself.
"Doctor" She said looking him in the eyes with her now piercingly green eyes.
"Yes?" he asked noticing the small flecks of gold in the green around the edges, they had to be the prettiest green eyes he had ever seen.
"Am I...ginger?" She asked with such a serious look on her face the Doctor couldn't help but smile. He laughed as he let out the breath he had been holding. He nodded his head as she smiled.
"Yes in fact you are" He said looking disapproving now. "And let me tell you, I'm a little jealous" Rose laughed and nodded her head and he smiled. It was so odd for him, but he now knew how she felt when he regenerated for the first time. Different but exactly the same, it was a little easier for him to see then it had been for her.
"How do I look?" She asked putting her feet down on the floor.
"Haven't you seen yet?" he asked looking around her room. "Ah, no mirrors" He stood up and held out his hand to her. "Come on Rose, I'll show you just how beautiful you are" She took his had a dark blush braking out over her cheeks as she stood up.
"How's Jack?" She asked as they left her room.
"He's ok" The Doctor said smiling back at her. "He's worried about you"
"I'm fine" She said smiling brightly at him. He could see it though, the doubt behind her eyes, they'd have to deal with that, and soon.
"He'll be glad to hear it" The Doctor said nodding his head. "We'll fine him right after I show you"
"Ok" Rose said nodding her head. He stooped a few minutes later and turned around to look at her.
"Close you eyes"
"What?" She asked smiling at him.
"Come on now, it's not very often I get to show you your new self" He said smiling so convincingly at her she nodded.
"Alright" She said closing her eyes. He took her hand as lifted it up; she smiled when she felt his warm lips kiss the top of her hand. Then he pulled her along whistling a song she couldn't quite place. Then he stopped and pulled her forward so she was standing in front of him. She felt his hands on her shoulders and she knew, even though she couldn't see him, that he was smiling.
"Ok, open your eyes" he said squeezing her shoulders. She opened them slowly; afraid of what she might see. She looked herself up and down twice before she could really take it in.
"I'm tall" She said looking back at him.
"Almost as tall as me" He said nodding his head. She looked back at the mirror and ran her hands over her cheeks. There was still a light blush to her cheeks and they were warm to the touch. She pulled her hands away from her face and looked down at them. She hadn't really looked at anything when she woke up the first time.
"Clean" She said looking down at her palm. "Totally unscarred" She took a deep breath and smiled. "I had this scar" She said turning away from the mirror now. "On my hand right here" She said pointing to her right hand under her middle finger. "I got it when I was about 10, I fell off of a swing at school, slashed my hand on a rock on the ground, my mum always said- She stopped talking and looked up at the Doctor. He had been waiting for that, but he would have done anything to get that look off of her face.
"Oh God" She said shaking her head. "Oh what is she going to think?" She asked looking down at her hand again. "I don't...I'm not..." The Doctor nodded his head as she looked up at him. "What am I going to do?" She asked as tears filled her eyes.
"We'll find a way to tell her, she'll understand. She'll see, at least your still here with us" Rose nodded her head but she knew it would not be that easy.
"This is so..." Rose shook her head as the tears began to fall. "I fell so different. Like I don't even know-
"Who you are?" The Doctor finished for her and she nodded her head. She realized then that he knew. He knew exactly how she was feeling. He knew what was going on inside her mind and body. He had done this over and over. And now she felt horrible about the way she had acted with him when he'd changed.
"Will this feeling go away?" She asked looking up into his eyes.
"In time" he said nodding his head. "You're a different person now Rose, you'll just need to find out who that is" He took her hand and smiled at her. "But you'll have plenty of help along the way." She nodded her head and whipped the tears off her face. Then she put her arms around him and buried her head in shoulder. His arms came around her and she sighed. She could do this; she could do anything as long at the Doctor was with her.
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Jack looked at the array of food on the table and sighed. He may have gone a little overboard here. There was food from every place, time and plant he could think of. He had been cooking for the better half of the day waiting for Rose to wake up. The Doctor had been working on finding out what had happened to Rose and Jack was just getting in his way so he decided to cook. It was a talent he picked up from his mother and one that not very many people knew about him. He heard foot steps coming towards the kitchen and looking around at all the food and smiled. The Doctor and Rose walked though the door and he blinked. He had seen her when she had changed, but it was a little different to have her standing there.
"Hi" She said looking up at him shyly. The look on her face said it all; she was worried about him and the Doctor. Worried they may not like her now, or that they'd treat her different. He smiled and looked around at all the food.
"Well I didn't have anything to do, thought you might be hungry-
"So you cooked everything in the kitchen?" She asked looking around at all the food. "Jack I have two hearts now, no two stomachs" He looked over at her and she smirked. She looked over at the Doctor and smiled. "Now that whole two hearts, that's going to take some getting use too"
"I would imagine" The Doctor said nodding his head.
"Right, well I didn't know what you'd like" Jack said smiling at him. "I mean from what the Doctor has said everything to nothing of what you liked before could change"
"Oh?" Rose said looking over at him.
"Well you saw how I was" he said smiling at her. "Rude and all" She laughed and nodded head. She didn't feel rude; she did however feel hungry. She took a deep breath and one sent caught her nose and she looked around. She took another breath and walked over to something sitting on the table. It was this pink goo with little green onion looking things in it.
"What is this?" She asked looking down at it. She really wanted to try it, almost couldn't stand there with out eating it.
"It's a dessert" Jack said smiling at her. Rose looked up at the Doctor who smiled. She sat down took the spoon off the table and tried it.
"Wow" She said smiling. "This is really good; do I even what to know what it's made of?"
"Nope" Jack said sitting down across from her as the Doctor sat down next to her. They were both watching her eat and she smirked.
"Would you two just ask your questions before you both have an aneurysm" She said, ok that was a little rude, she wondered if that was her or just run off from the Doctor. She didn't look up to see the looks on their faces. She found she didn't need to, not for the Doctor anyway, she knew he was smirking. There was a small buzzing in the back of her mind now, and she was sure it was the Doctor. He had once said he'd feel it if there were any other Time Loads left, this must be what he meant.
"Do you know?" The Doctor asked as she pushed the bowl away from her.
"It was the TARDIS" She said looking up at the ceiling. "She told me, when I had the Time Vortex in me, she explained what she was going to do, how she was going to do it, then she asked me if it was ok" She said looking down at her hands.
"Did this happen before or after you showed up at Satellite 5?" Jack asked looking at Rose. Before Jack went to cook, before he started getting in the Doctor's way, The Doctor had explained to him more about Rose taking in the Time Vortex. How she saved the world.
"Before, after, during" Rose said shaking her head and shrugging her shoulders. "I'm not really clear on that. I still don't really remember much about it. But I do know the TARDIS did this"
"And you agreed to it?" The Doctor asked and she looked up at him. She could see the shock on his face.
"Yeah" She said nodding her head. "The TARDIS could see, she sees so much more then you- we give her credit for. She could see how much we needed each other. But she could also foresee the problems there. So when I presented her with an option she took it."
"Wow" Jack said nodding his head. "That's...wow"
"Yeah" Rose said nodding her head a small smile on her face. She looked up at them and her head began to ach a little. "I think I need to lie down again" She said putting her hand on her forehead. She stood up and looked down at the half eaten dessert.
"Ok" The Doctor said nodding his head. He stood up and reached out to help her.
"I'm fine" she snapped pulling her arm away. "Sorry" She said looking up at him. "I just need to lie down"
"Ok" he said nodding his head. She turned and walked out. Jack and the Doctor watched her go. Jack looked up at the Doctor when she was gone. The Doctor looked a little worried.
"What is it?" Jack asked as the Doctor watched where she had just left.
"Nothing" He said shaking his head. He turned around and smiled. "Where to next then? That is, if your coming with us?" The Doctor smiled at him and Jack nodded.
"I just have a few things to take care of" Jack said standing up. "I'll be back in..." He looked down at his watch. "Three hours"
"Ok. When she wakes up I'll fine out where she wants to go" The Doctor said smiling at him.
"Ok" Jack said nodding his head. "See you in a few then"
"Right" The Doctor said nodding his head. Jack smiled then walked out. The Doctor stood there for a moment and waited. After a second he walked out into the control room to look a few things over.
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Rose lied her head down on the bed and wondered why she had snapped at the Doctor like that. Was she just touchier now? But that didn't feel right, something was wrong, inside her. She couldn't find it, but there was something. She turned over as she thought about it, should she tell the Doctor? Had something gone wrong with her regeneration? If it had he'd be the one person who would know what to do. She rolled back onto her back and smiled shaking her head. She was fine, she was just tired, she was just making something out of nothing. She closed her eyes and thought about where they should go next. She was asleep in seconds.
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"Doctor?" She called as she slipped out of the room. She looked around and smiled a small sly smile. There was no one around. She was sure of it. This was new, this body, so different. With each step she took she could feel new things in her body. She took a deep breath and reveled at how it felt to breathe. She walked towards the control room hoping no one would be there. She just had to get a look at this fantastic ship. She peeked her head around the corner and smiled at the emptiness of the large round room. The ship was humming lightly and there was a buzzing in her mind that was a little irritating. She walked over to the control panel and ran her hands over the smooth surface. She didn't know how to fly it, not yet anyway. But she would learn. He would teach her and then she would know. How wonderful to have control over something as wonderful as this. She spun around suddenly when she heard foot steps coming from behind her. She closed her eyes and sighed, 'soon' she thought, 'soon.'
"Rose?" The Doctor said and her eyes flew open.
"Doctor?" She said looking around the room in confusion. "What happened?" She asked looking from the room to him. "How'd I end up in here?"
"You don't remember?" he asked a worried look on his face now.
"No" She said shaking her head she thought back. "I was asleep" Then it came to her and she smiled. "I must have been sleep walking" She said nodding her head.
"I've never seen you do that before" he said still looking worried.
"I did do, when I was younger" She smiled at him. "Mum had a hell of a time with it" She said smiling then she sighed and looked up at him. "We're going to have to tell her soon"
"I know" He said nodding his head. "Soon" He walked over to her and put his arm around her shoulder. "You should go back to bed"
"Right" She said nodding her head a smile. "Maybe...maybe you could stay in there with me to make sure I don't go wondering off again?"
"Of course" he said nodding his head a smirk on his face. He let go of her shoulder "I love spending the night with you Rose"
"Thanks" She said smiling at him as she took his hand.
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She didn't want to go now. There was something about this place. She could feel it as they walked in. Something very wrong, not that she knew what it was but it was there. She almost said something. Almost turned to them and told them. But she thought how silly it was, to be scared of a place. There was nothing wrong. Nothing scary, it was just a room, just an auction room.
"When does it start?" Rose asked looking around at the stuff up on the stage. There were all kinds of things, paintings and sculptures of things she had never seen before. There was furniture and dishes of all shapes and sizes. And then at the end there was some kind of big metal machine. Rose assumed that was the Power amplify thing the Doctor and Jack had been talking about, she thought so only because there was nothing else that looked like a power amplifier, not that she knew what it would look like. She was guessing. She was sure she was right though.
"In about an hour" Jack said smiling down at her. "Right now people are encouraged to go around and take a look at everything. Find out if there's anything they want."
"Right" Rose said nodding her head. "Do we have any money?" She asked looking up at the Doctor.
"Planning on buying something?" He asked smirking at her.
"Maybe" She said shrugging her shoulders. "I've never been to an auction before. Might find something I can't live without"
"Right" The Doctor said nodding his head. "Well you bid on anything you like, I'll let you know if you go to high"
"Fantastic!" Rose said nodding her head. She walked up to the stage and looked around at everything. There was a set of plates and cups that had the most interesting design on them, she was sure they were moving but couldn't tell how it was being done. She thought he mum might like them, and it was coming up on mothers day, at least, she was sure she could talk to Doctor into going back for mothers day. She turned around and saw the Doctor and Jack talking about something so she turned back to the plates and wondered how much they'd go for.
"Do you like them?" A voice said over her shoulder and she jumped a little. She turned and smiled at the tall dark haired man standing behind her.
"I do yes" She said nodding her head. "I've never seen anything quite like it"
"Yes, they are quite rare" He said nodding his head. His hands were behind his back and he was smiling at her in a way that made her want to kick him in the shin.
"Will you be biding on them?" He asked looking around at everything. "Or was there something else you liked?" he asked following her eyes as they went to the power amplifier.
"Nope" She said shaking her head. She wanted to go back to the Doctor now; she looked down at them. There was something about this guy, something off.
"Do you know those two?" he asked looking down at Jack and the Doctor.
"Yeah, they're my friends" She said nodding her head.
"How...fantastic" he said dragging the word out. That had to be one of her favorite words, only because the Doctor said it so much, but the way this guy said it made her want to never hear it again. Rose smiled uncertainly and turned around to head back the Doctor when she felt a hand on her arm.
"I think you should stay up here with me" He said the grip on her arm tightening. She opened her mouth to yell out for the Doctor when she felt something push into her back, something hard and cold, like a gun. Rose watched as Jack and the Doctor said something Jack laughed and then he turned and walked back out the way they had come.
"Ah, one down" he said sneering as he turned her around and looked across the room and another man standing across the stage. She saw him pull out a gun of some kind and point it at the Doctor.
"Doctor, Down!" She screamed out, and without any kind of hesitation the Doctor fell to the floor as the first bullets flew passed the place his head would have been. The other gunman shot the other two men in the room while trying to shot the Doctor. The man holding Rose pulled her so she was in front of him reached back with his gun hand and slammed it into her face. Stars burst in front of Rose's eyes and everything went fuzzy in her head. She looked down and could see the Doctor start to speak, he was saying things, things that were making the man lower his gun. Now or never, do or die, she brought her arm forward and then thrust it into his abdomen. Then she turned around and (hopefully) broke his nose when she kneed him in the nose. She turned to find the Doctor again and didn't understand the look on his face. Or why he seemed to be screaming her name.
"Rose!" She was being shaken. She sat up with such a force that she knocked heads with the person hovering over her trying to wake her. "Rose?" he said rubbing his head.
"Doctor?" She asked as tears welled in her eyes.
"I'm right here Rose" he said gathering her in his arms.
"They shot me" She said trying to hold back the tears. "I died!" She said sounding so unbelieving.
"I know" he said rocking her a little. "I'm so sorry" After a minute she pulled back and looked at him.
"What did you say to him?" She asked a very curious look on her face despite the tear stains.
"Say to who?" He asked looking at her.
"The gunman" She said leaning her head on his shoulder now. "He lowered his gun enough so I could hit him"
"Oh, that" The Doctor said nodding his head then he rested his chin on the top of her head. "I was hypnotizing him" He said smirking at the look that was sure to be on her face now.
"You can do that?" She asked pulling away to look at him.
"Sure can" he said sounding a little proud of himself.
"Is it like the 'you are getting sleepy' stuff?' She asked very interested in this thing that was taking her mind of everything else.
"No" he said shaking his head. "That's all trickery and a little fake, I really do it, got in their minds and stopped them."
"Oh" She said nodding her head. "Wow" He nodded his head and she laid her head back on his shoulder. She looked down at her hands for a moment and then up at him.
"I can't tell what's different about me" She said shaking her head, changing the subject. That didn't sound right. "I mean-
"I know what you mean" He said nodding his head a smile on his face. "It's different each time. I mean, you might not change a lot once then be completely different the next time. And your personality doesn't always have to change by leaps and bounds. Also how you are will have a lot to do with who you're with when you change."
"So I might be very much the same?" She asked nodding her head.
"Well aside for the long red hair, big green eyes and new face, you seem to be the same, maybe a little different" He brushed some of her hair back from her face and smiled.
"Ok" She said nodding her head. That would do for now. She wanted to look a little more closely at herself later. But she was sure a lot of the things, personality wise, would pop out at her when she least expected them.
"Where are we going next?" She asked looking towards her door.
"Well I thought we might let Jack decide" The Doctor said smiling at her.
"He's coming with us?" She asked excitedly. She pulled away from his and smiled. "Now you'll have a back up when we go to tell my mum" She said smirking a little at him, she was better but he could still see the worry in her eyes.
"No amount of people could save me from you mum" He said shaking his head. "She'll have my head"
"She won't be that bad" Rose said shaking her head.
"She will" He said nodding his head. "You'll see"
"Big baby" She said standing up and stretching. "Ok, so when do we leave?"
"When Jack gets back" He said smiling at her.
"Which is...when?" She asked smirking at him.
"In about an hour, I think" He said smiling at her as he too stood.
"Can we go somewhere before we see my mum? I don't really care where, somewhere exciting and far away?" Rose asked and he could see and feel the uncertainty coming off of her.
"Course we can" he said nodding his head. "We'll just ask Jack when he gets back then we'll be off"
"Fantastic" She said nodding her head smiling.
"Anyone here?" Jack called out walking towards Rose's room.
"Where do you want to go?" Rose asked coming out of the room pulling the Doctor behind her. It was still a bit of a shock every time he saw her, but he was sure it was lessening every time too.
"Backwards" He said smiling as she dragged the Doctor towards him. "Let's go to the past, way back"
"Ok" The Doctor said nodding his head a big smile on his face. He kissed Rose on the top of the head and then let go of her hand. "Back we'll go" He smiled at them then walked off towards the control room.
"Did you see that look on his face?" Jack asked looking over at Rose. She was smiling, mostly happy he could see. There was still something in her eyes he couldn't identify but he was sure she was working through it. And he was sure she knew, if she needed him, he was there for her.
"Yeah" She said nodding her head. "That's a good look, something fun is going to happen"
"That did not look like a good look" Jack mumbled to himself as he followed after Rose.
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"Ok" Jack said slamming the TARDIS door behind him after Rose and the Doctor were safely inside. "When I said to the past I meant like two maybe three hundred years, not two or three million years" Jack said looking at Rose who was breathing hard but had a smile on her face that made him think of the Doctor.
"I think he's rubbing off on you" Jack said to Rose then looked to the Doctor.
"Could be" Rose said nodding her head as she looked up at the Doctor. Her long red hair was now in tangles, with leafs and sticks in it from when she fell running from the very large hungry dinosaur. She stood up and started picking things out of her hair.
"Though I think from now on I'm going to braid my hair before we go out. Or put it in a bun..." She trailed off and smiled. "So many things I can do with it now" She said smiling at the two of them.
"I'm going to go take a shower" She said looking at the Doctor. He nodded and she sighed. "See you in a bit?"
"Yeah, I'll let you know when we get there" The Doctor said nodding his head as he headed towards the control panel.
"Thank you" She said nodding her head.
"Where are we going next?" Jack asked walking over to the Doctor.
"Earth, 2006" he said putting it into the computer.
"Why?" He asked pulling himself up onto the side bar.
"Rose needs to see her mum" The Doctor looked over at him and Jack understood. She had to tell her what had happened.
"How's her mum going to take this?" He asked he's never met Rose's mum, though he had heard she'd slapped the Doctor once.
"I'm going to go with not well" He said fiddling with something on the panel. He looked up at Jack and Jack winced at the look on his face.
"That bad huh?" Jack asked jumping down with a smirk on his face. "Well, good luck to you then"
"Oh you think so huh?" The Doctor said and Jack turned around and looked at him. "She wants you to meet her mum, you're coming with us" The Doctor said and Jack could see he was enjoying this.
"Nope, think I'll stay here for this little adventure" Jack said shaking his head. HE took a few steps towards the doors and the Doctor chuckled.
"Ok, but you get to tell Rose that" The Doctor said turning back to the control panel. Jack cursed under his breathe and shook his head, he'd go, but he didn't have to be happy about it.
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Half an hour later the Doctor knocked on Rose's door then opened it and walked in. She was sitting on her bed a frame in her hands. He sat down next to her and looked at the picture. It was one of her and her mum taken a good five years ago. Rose was smiling and Jackie looked to be giving her bunny ears. He put his arm around her shoulder and she looked up at him.
"Is she going to hate me?" She asked looking from the picture to him.
"No" He said shaking his head hoping with everything he had that he was right, that Jackie wouldn't hate her or him for that matter. Though he'd take her hate any day if it meant Rose didn't getting it. "She'll understand, it may take a while but she will."
"I don't know what I'm going to say" She said looking down at the picture again. She was doing a good job at holding back the tears and the Doctor smiled.
"I'll help you, I promise" He said squeezing her shoulder a little.
"I know you will" She said nodding her head and sighing. "I can do this" She said standing up. "I can"
"Course you can" he said nodding his head and standing up. He reached over and took her hand and gave it a light squeeze.
"Thank you" She said smiling at him hoping with everything she had that he was right. She didn't know what she'd do if her mum didn't understand.
"You two coming?" Jack said appearing at the door. "I mean, if you've decided you want to stay that's fine too"
"Scared of my mum Jack?" Rose asked smiling up at him. "You can stay if you really want to"
"I'm not scared" he said shaking his head. "Just if...you're not ready"
"Right" She said nodding her head. "Let's go" She said leading the Doctor out by the hand Jack right behind them.
A/N- So what do you think so far? And no, Rose has no idea that she was out of bed. She thinks she was sleep walking...so, hummm? What could that mean? And how will her mum take it when she finds out? And what about Micky? So many questions...hehehehe
