With Starlight In Their Wake
This chapter is a bit more informative and ends in a semi-cliffhanger. It is a bit short but it's something. I am working on the next chapter of 'Guns and Roses' and 'Meant To Be' so they should be updated soon enough.
Also, are you excited about the 50th Anniversary episode? Do you think Moffat will do Rose justice? By the poster Bad Wolf will be involved. Will you be unhappy if Moffat doesn't give Rose justice and enough screentime? I honestly am dreading it because Moffat does not like Rose, look what he did in GITF.
Previously
"What's up Doc?" he asked but the Doctor still did not reply anything. Anxious, Jack walked over next to the Doctor and leaned to read the results.
One thing stood completely out.
"Oh my god..." uttered Jack.
Chapter 3
10 minutes ago
The Doctor gazed upon at the battered form of future Rose. After he had made sure that his Rose was asleep, he immediately came towards future Rose. He had double checked to make sure she was stable. Right now he set off the scan too find out if she had any internal injuries. While waiting, he caught her hand tentatively and tightened his hold on her. It was still disturbing him that he could not sense his future self anyway in this time line. Even though she was unconscious, somehow Rose seemed to have recognised him because she tightened her hold on his hand.
This momentarily surprised him and he smiled slightly.
So how was Rose here? Surely his future self would not abandon her, especially when she was this injured. When he heard a bell ringing, he looked at the screen where the results came up.
Startled, he let go of Rose's hand and looked at it with dread and cold filling him.
Vaguely, he heard loud footsteps, he recognised them being Jack's but he paid it no attention. He did not pay attention even when Jack asked a question. His eyes were trained onto the screen completely, because the results there had shocked the life out of him. He did not know how to feel about it.
It seemed that Jack seemed to have also noticed the results because he appeared shell-shocked.
"She's-god she's-"
"Pregnant" said it Doctor in an emotionless tone. He had no idea how to feel about that at all. That thought itself had baffled him as soon as he had laid his eyes on it. He had tried running to see what species the child was but for some reason the TARDIS would not show him the results. It did not make sense. It was baffling him, he did not understand why the TARDIS was hiding from him.
"She's WHAT!" shouted Jack startled and leaned forward to see what the Doctor was seeing. When his eyes finally fell on what he had seen, he leaned back. His appeared even more shell-shocked than previously.
The surprise in Jack's voice brought the Doctor out of his brooding. He turned around to speak to the Captain. If it hadn't been the pregnancy which had surprised him, then what did?
"What did you see?"
"You mean you haven't noticed? Have you seen this Rose's DNA?" Jack pointed in the screen.
This caught him off guard and he stared at Jack blankly. When Jack saw that expression he felt like banging his head against the wall. How on Earth could the Time Lord not notice that. He had seen it the second his gaze fell ontop of the screen, yet the Doctor hadn't obviously noticed.
The Doctor looked at the screen one more time quickly then back at Jack. He did not understand what he had missed.
"Her DNA Doctor!" Jack pointed.
Now more alert, Doctor looked at where Jack was pointing and froze. He hadn't noticed it the first time because he was still reeling from the shock that this future Rose was pregnant with someone else's child. He knew very well that she didn't belong to him. That one day she would leave him for someone who could give her what he couldn't give to her, like Jo. But he had avoided thoughts like that because she went very well with him. Yet the sight of this future version of Rose and her status meant that he would lose her very soon. Because this leather sporting future Rose looked barely over the age of 19. The only difference was that this Rose was slimmer, with leather jacket instead of a hoodie and her hair looked more naturally blonde.
So it was not a shock that he had missed details of her status but now he froze up in shock again. He did look at the DNA of future Rose and it made his blood cold.
Because the DNA of Rose, that he was seeing, was not that off human.
He had no idea what the DNA was off but definitely not of human. Eyes wide, he stood up and leaned closer over the screen. Methodically, he typed in and tried to find what the altered DNA was similar to but, again to his surprise, nothing came up.
"What DNA is that?" Jack wondered "I have never seen something like that even in my time in the Time Agency..."
"I am not sure, but when I try to compare it in my database I get nothing."
The Doctor typed it in again, to see what it was similar too but all he got was a blank screen. Suspicious he spoke to his adamant ship.
'Are you doing this? Preventing me from finding the species of the father and this mutated DNA?'
He did not get any answer, but the silence was loud enough. For some reason his ship was withholding those informations and he did not understand why.
"Doctor...do you think this Rose is an imposter to attack us? That DNA does not look like that of a human. This could be a trap, someone using her form to attack us. Do you think we should leave her?" Jack said it suspiciously.
As soon as the words left Jack's mouth, the TARDIS flickered lights disapprovingly. Mentally the Doctor could feel how protective the TARDIS was of this Rose. Although he had had the doubt, this reaction from his ship was enough to convince him this really was Rose. For some reason, the TARDIS was always extremely friendly with Rose. With any of his other companions, the TARDIS was just a presence in the background. She had never bothered showing the other companions just how sentient and alive she was. But with Rose the TARDIS showed her preference, alot. The TARDIS seemed to also favour Rose more than him! His ship adored her and it baffled him. But he had simply thought that since there werent any other TARDISes to bond with, she seemed to become attached to Rose the same way he became attached to her. Though there was a voice in his head that was convinced there was more to the bond between the TARDIS and his Rose.
If the TARDIS was therefore protective of Rose then it must mean she was real.
"She probably isn't, if she had been an imposter then my ship would not have been displeased with your suggestion Captain." The Doctor said it looking at the lights which had stopped flickering.
At this remorse flashed in Jack's face before he spoke up again.
"Okay...so she is our Rose. But why is her DNA so different?"
That was the million pound question that was looming over them. While they were quietly pondering, the Doctor saw Rose's hand move.
Seeing the movement, he walked closer towards her. He leaned over to check her condition out.
It was right then that her eyes opened.
Location Unknown
A silhouette of an unknown female figure was hunched over what appeared to be a device that resembled a laptop. She was shrouded in unusual darkness. Footsteps was heard and a woman with puffy curly dirty blonde hair appeared next to her.
"What's wrong? I could not find her where you told me she would be."
At this monotone voice spoke up.
"That's because you were too late. They found her, she is inside the TARDIS now."
"What do you mean? We separated her from the time he is in, there is no way he could find her this soon."
"He is a time traveller, his past incarnation stumbled upon her," the woman said it contempt in her tone.
At this the blonde woman's eyes went wide and her jaw was set.
"I will bring her."
"I know you will, you will have to because that is your job," the woman spoke in a cold tone.
