AN: Kettleness is a real place, and it is very near Whitby in north Yorkshire. And I remember it being very small and remote and very near the sea, but other than that I don't really know much about it.
Hope you enjoy, please R&R.
Chapter 3:
Rose woke up, in her own room this time, and wandered downstairs for breakfast. Once she finally managed to find the right way downstairs as the house had so many ways down stairs, she was able to eat her breakfast.
She was eating her toast quietly when the Doctor came in looking seriously at an old book; he had obviously been in the library at the other end of the house.
"What you reading" Rose asked as he sat down.
"It's called the history of Kettleness" the Doctor replied sitting next to Rose at the table. "Apparently Kettleness used to be where Artists in Yorkshire would come and paint the sea, in the early 20th century" the Doctor said.
"Oh well, it's certainly a place that an artist would like" Rose replied as Meg came in.
"Did you know that Meg, that Kettleness was somewhere that artists came?" Rose asked.
"No but that would explain a lot" Meg replied.
"What does that explain?" the Doctor asked.
"There's a little room upstairs full of paintings. I'll show you later if you like, but right now we have a fair to go to" Meg replied and so they left for the fair in the near by village.
When they got to the fair they had dressed up warmly and went on virtually anything they could see, except the roller coasters. Rose and Meg watched as the Doctor went over to buy tickets for the little cinema that was here, the rain had begun to fall so they had ran to the nearest building which also happened to be a cinema.
"So come on then tell me" Meg said looking at Rose.
"Tell you what?" Rose said
"I knew you were travelling with a man, but that's all I don't know the facts. I mean who he, where does he come from is" Meg asked.
"Well to be honest I'm not very sure" Rose lied she knew exactly where the Doctor came from but she didn't quite know how to explain how he's the last of his species.
"Really you've been travelling for two years" Meg said.
"Yeah, he's never very open about his past. He doesn't like talking about it much" Rose replied.
"Oh right" Meg said "Where did you meet him?"
"At work, the day it blew up" Rose said smiling at when they first met.
"Oh I heard about that. That was terrible, so many people lost their jobs"
"Don't I just know it" Rose said "I was one of them remember"
"Yeah course you were, but I mean you met him, you went off" Meg said looking down at the floor. "What's it like?"
"What's what like?" Rose asked.
"Travelling, instead of staying home and getting a job or doing you're A-levels" Meg said.
"It's fantastic, I've seen so many things that you wouldn't even imagine. And travelling with the Doctor is great" Rose replied.
"He's very special to you isn't he" Meg said.
"Yeah he is" Rose replied as the Doctor came back with the tickets.
"Ready?" the Doctor said ending their conversation and they walked into the film.
Meg could see the Doctor and Rose through the side of her eyes. She noticed that the Doctor had Rose's hand in his; she could tell that they were very close and the truth was she'd never seen Rose happier. When she was with Mickey she was happy, but not as happy as she was with the Doctor. Whoever he was, he was the best thing that ever happened to her.
When the end of the film had come about, the rain had stopped so they were able to go out without getting drenched. All the rides had stopped though so they started to make their way back to the house.
"So what was that room you were going to show us?" the Doctor asked when they got back.
"Oh yeah I'd forgotten about that" Rose replied.
"Look I'll show you" Meg said and they followed her up stairs and into a room, that looked like it had paintings on the wall. All the paintings were of the same place at the same time of day and every painting had a woman in it. The women in the painting, were all sitting in exactly the same place on a cliff over looking the sea, but all the women were in exactly the same place, and most had the same sad expression on their face.
"Hector Gustavo" Rose said reading the artists signature and then going to the next and the next and the next. "Their all by the same artist"
"I think he was the name of the man who lived here" Meg replied.
"Yes your right. It says in that book that Hector Gustavo was a devoted artist to this little village and used his wives in his paintings"
"Must have had a lot of wives" Rose said looking around the wall at the small room.
"Yeah" Meg agreed "Quite a few"
"Is it just me or do they all look so-" Rose said and thought about the right word to use "Sad, and white. This room is so white" Rose said looking at the walls.
"Yeah know what you mean" the Doctor said looking closely at one of the paintings.
"You alright" Rose asked notice the Doctor's face had gone slightly paler than normal.
"Yeah I'm fine" the Doctor replied. "This woman, she looks familiar for some reason. I just can't quite think why"
"DINNER'S READY" came a shout from down the stairs so they went down to meet the other members of the family.
Rose was walking down a path in a garden, a place she'd never been before. On a planet she'd never been too.
She was wearing her necklace that she'd been given, she looked around and saw that every woman was wearing one that she could see in sight.
Then all of a sudden the women and men had gone, and the necklaces were left on the ground burning the brightest red Rose had ever seen.
She could see a family in the distance; they were walking down the same path that she was on.
They were smiling, chatting, laughing, like any other normal family, but then they were gone. They were all gone, all of them were gone except the man.
Then she saw men running down towards her, they were heavily armed and wearing the necklaces again, but now they were bright blue.
Then the ground was on fire and all the people before her were burning, and shouting for their lives all except two, a man and a woman.
The woman looked to be behind bars, trying so hard to get out, but never getting there.
The woman was screaming for the man to let her free, hands were reaching out of the sky and trying to reach the keys from another man that was on the top of the prison.
Then the man she's first seen was next to her, he looked at her and she gasped when she saw who he was.
"DOCTOR!!!" the woman was shouting from the jail. "DOCTOR HELP ME"
"I can't Romana. I can't I'm sorry" the Doctor said back to the young woman behind the door.
Rose turned round to see the Doctor. Not the Doctor as she knew him now, but the old Doctor, the ninth Doctor. He was smiling at her, she wanted to reach out to him. Then there was lightning from the air and it struck him, turning him to dust.
She heard an evil laugh behind her; she turned round to see the man on top of the prison, throwing something to her. She caught it and realised it was a bottle of Aspirin.
Then she heard a gun shot and realised that the Doctor, the Tenth Doctor, had been shot.
He was lying on the fiery red floor, he was in pain and his wound was bleeding.
"DOCTOR!" Rose screamed and tried to run over to him, but he was getting further and further away from her as the ground began to shake and everything turned a bright white.
The Doctor was walking back from the kitchen looking for Rose. All the others had gone out for a drink at the local pub. Rose and himself had stayed behind, Rose was tried and the Doctor didn't want to go unless she was going.
He was wondering why that painting felt so familiar, he's never even been here before. He also wondered where Rose was, he hadn't seen her in an hour.
Then he heard her screaming, he began to run towards the screams that were coming from the lounge.
He entered the room at full speed, and saw that she was lying on the floor. Tossing and turning, she was having a nightmare.
Without a second thought he was down on the ground next to her, trying to wake her.
"Rose" the Doctor said shaking her to wake her up.
"Doctor!" Rose shouted still obviously in her nightmare. "No Doctor, come back! Don't leave me!" Rose shouted again.
"Wake up Rose" the Doctor said
"Come back" Rose shouted again.
"Rose, it's alright I'm here" the Doctor said "I'm here" he said again and she opened her eyes and sat bolt up right tears streaming down her face.
"What happened?" the Doctor asked pulling her into a hug, that she obviously needed.
"There were these people they disappeared then they were gone and this family. Then they disappeared too.
There were men, running and screaming for their lives. And a woman called Romana, and hands and you." Rose said but stopped when she said that.
"I thought you'd left me" Rose sobbed into the Doctor's shoulder as he held her close to him.
"No. It's okay it was just a dream" the Doctor said.
"Promise me you won't leave me again" Rose said and the Doctor somehow knew that this nightmare had the old him in it somewhere.
"I won't leave you" the Doctor said kissing her forehead "I promise" the Doctor said holding her close to him meaning every word of what he'd just said, but then it hit him, had she just said that the women's name was Romana?.