Chapter 3
Once they'd walked into the TARDIS the Doctor had instantly ran to the console a look of awe on his face.
"She's beautiful" he gasped, Rose felt a smile tug at her lips. Tentatively he reached touching the console, the TARDIS groaned in recognition. The Doctor grinned then turned to Rose
"Can I look around?" he asked Rose, she doubted that he'd listen to him if she said no
"Er…Sure" she said watching him as he span on his heel disappearing into the TARDIS.
Rose dragged her hands down her face: she felt totally confused. Had someone rewound the Doctor? He was mentally and physically younger.
"What can we do?" she asked the TARDIS getting no reply.
The Doctor walked slowly down the corridor. That human, what was her name? He couldn't remember…. But she was strange and so sure that she knew him, he hadn't even been to Earth before.
'Something's happened and now you're a teenager' she'd said, he frowned probably just a delirious human….
He attention was drawn back to reality as the TARDIS groaned at him again.
"What?" he asked it, he wasn't really old enough to try physic linking with a TARDIS. And last time he tried it he'd been unconscious for a week. So he probably shouldn't go there again…. He shrugged the jacket off it was annoying him now, his arms weren't quite long enough for it to be practical. He ignored the TARDIS as it moaned again. It suddenly rocked sideways throwing him into a door.
"Stop it…" he snapped then trailed off as something new caught his attention, the door he'd fallen. There was a sign on it old and battered with gallifreian scrawled across it. It read 'The Doctor'.
"You're a TARDIS You're just playing stupid mind games with me!" he walked away quickly.
Rose quickly wiped her eyes as the Doctor walked back in. He ditched the brown jacket somewhere, and untucked his shirt
"Is something wrong?" he asked frowning
"No" Rose said looking away from him
"I'm not stupid. I can tell something is wrong"
"I'm fine" she said turning back to look at him, he watched her intently for a moment as if he could see in to her soul
"What's your name again?" he asked her
"You don't know?" Rose asked her voice cracked
"I forgot" he said simply
"Rose. Rose Tyler"
"Nice to meet you Rose" he smiled and then went to the doors completely unfazed by recent events.
"Can't we just sleep in the TARDIS?" the Doctor said frowning at Rose
"No"
"Why not?"
"I have my reasons"
"Which would be?"
"I don't want to be crushed to death or suffocated or sucked into a black hole or disintegrated in my sleep"
"I said sleep, I wasn't going to touch the console"
Rose looked him "Yeah. Of course"
The Doctor humphed folding his arms over his chest.
"Very mature" Rose muttered
He started walking off to his right …away from her
"Where are you going?" Rose snapped, flinching internally when she realised how much she sounded like her mother
"To look at the big map. It's pretty obvious that you haven't a clue where you going and me looking younger than you means that you're not going to ask my opinion on the matter so if I stand by a map and point at a hotel your brain might get the idea to go there instead of wondering aimlessly around the planet from hell"
"If I needed help I'd ask a local" Rose snapped, the Doctor raised one eyebrow and pointed one finger at an arrow on the map reading 'hotel'
"Yeah the most expensive hotel in the area" she said hotly
"Not the most expensive" he rolled his eyes " Anyway I've got a physic credit card."
"A what?"
"Let's just say unlimited money."
"So you're going to lie and steal from people"
"Pretty much. They still get money so all's good"
"Whatever" was Rose's mumbled comeback she quickly looked at the map then marched off, this time in the right direction. The Doctor smirked behind her, stuffing his hands in his pockets he strode after her.