A/N thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read, review and follow. This will be a 11/rose fic eventually. Thanks Godric'sGrl01 for taking pity on me and becoming my beta. Thanks Jerri for your support, and thanks to the grammar Nazi's over in whofic for the links on punctuation, and other grammar.
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Chapter 2
Rose spent all afternoon learning to meditate with K'anpo, to help clear her mind, and organise her thoughts in preparation to learn how to shield her mind. She got the concept, but clearing your mind is much easier said than done, she keeps thinking about not thinking of anything, and projecting it much to K'anpo's amusement.
Even his TARDIS was laughing at her. "If you think it's so bloody funny you try it," Rose yelled at his TARDIS, who was doing a very good impression of an inanimate wardrobe who never had a single thought in its life.
'Oh little sister, it's not you, I find this whole concept of meditation funny.'
K'anpo was looking at Rose as if she had gone mad.
"What! Your TARDIS was laughing at me."
"TARDIS although semi-sentient, cannot communicate with others because of how they are constructed."
"I can hear her just fine; I've been able to talk with The Doctor's TARDIS as well."
'And tell him to watch who he calls semi-sentient.'
"She also resents being called semi-sentient, just because they don't naturally perceive time in a linear fashion, doesn't mean they aren't as sentient as you and me. Although a certain type 40 could have told me, it's not normal to be able to talk to her. No wonder she didn't want me telling the Doctor I can communicate with her."
"What are you? You're not human, or Time Lord."
"I'm the Bad Wolf," Rose replied simply. She honestly didn't know herself.
'A TARDIS consciousness inside a human, with Time Lord TNA structure. You are a child of the TARDIS, and although you are limited in this form, you are less so than so-called Time Lords. You are the Bad Wolf. You created yourself to protect the Doctor, but there are things you need to do here first.'
Rose didn't know what to make of what she was just told; she certainly didn't want to advertise it to the Time Lords. Giving K'anpo a look that clearly said to drop it, she sighed, and sat back down to meditate.
A week later, and after one brief interval where she had to hide in the TARDIS while the guard came looking for her, later. Theta hadn't told them anything, but they decided to check everywhere the boy was known to hang around. How they didn't notice the TARDIS she has no idea.
Rose had mastered the basics of meditation, and organising her thoughts. She also named K'anpo's TARDIS Matilda. She didn't really know why it just seemed as good a name as any when Matilda explained that, like a Time Lord, a TARDIS doesn't give out her soul name to just anyone, and she doesn't have any other name. TARDIS don't need them, they just know who they are speaking to when talking to each other, so she asked Rose to give her one.
"Alright you are ready to learn mental shielding now. To start you need to visualise the most impenetrable object you can imagine. The stronger the better but the less weak points the stronger it will be, for example you could imagine a brick wall but the mortar that holds the bricks is a weak point, not as hard to break through. Okay so let's start, and nod when you're ready, then I'll try and get through. Don't be discouraged if it doesn't work the first time, it takes a lot of practice to mount a good defence."
With what she thinks is some gentle prodding from Matilda, Rose remembers the first time she entered The Doctor's TARDIS, and the Doctor had said not to worry the assembled hoards of Genghis Khan couldn't get through those doors. She smiled, and pictured the big blue police box she knew, and loved then put her thoughts on the inside of the TARDIS, but something else happened she felt his TARDIS presence in her mind.
'Sexy?' Rose reached out and asked using the Doctor's nickname for her.
'My wolf! It was good to hear from you!'
Rose sent some mental laughter her way, 'You mean it is good, tenses again. Matilda doesn't have a problem with them.'
'Well Matilda is just a show off.'
'Don't worry Sexy I'll always love you best, but how am I talking to you? You're in another universe.'
'I am the same soul no matter what universe my box is in. I have a box in that universe at the moment in the museum; my Thief needs to steal me yet. Just don't tell the Time Lords about our multi-universal properties it's a secret. You imagined your mind inside of me, and that's one way for us to talk because of our connection. Don't worry; I'll never let that old meddler of a monk get in your mind dear. Here's how you do it.'
The old girl showed Rose a concept she couldn't put into words of how to have a multi-layered shield, with her deepest secrets in the very core where it was impenetrable, yet she can see everything outside her shield just fine like it was glass. She could even choose who to let in, and how deep.
Rose gave a smirk and nodded to K'anpo. The Monk tried to get past her shield, but just couldn't get past the big blue box no matter how hard he tried; even using touch which enhanced Time Lord telepathy he couldn't break the outer layer of her shield.
"How can I not get past that? It's just a wooden box from Earth 1960s."
Smiling wide with her tongue in teeth grin Rose laughed. "It's not really a police box, it's a TARDIS."
"Genius, no one will get into that. Never thought of it before. Now we need to practice how fast you can take it down, and put it up again."
She ended up spending 50 years with the old Monk, she didn't know how exactly, but she knew she had a very long time to spend in this universe, and the TARDIS part of her will always bring her back to when she left Pete's World. She also wasn't ageing. K'anpo taught her everything he knew about mental shields, attack, and also using psychic energy, but mostly they debated philosophy. She read a lot of his books on the subject, and they debated them. It wasn't something she would have enjoyed much before when she was human, but now she had learned patience for the subject, and started to enjoy it. It was after a long discussion on the subject of the power of a name, and how people can be controlled using it that she started to be known as The Bad Wolf or Wolf for short.
K'anpo, and Matilda, weren't her only company during that time; she learned how to tap into the TARDIS gossip network, so she knew everything that is going on. Wolf also talked to her favourite old girl; she'd give her updates on her Doctor some times, as well as past exploits. Wolf was left in hysterical giggles at the story of how she got stuck as a police box; she'd done it deliberately because the Doctor was showing off. He's still not realised there is nothing wrong with the chameleon circuit, although he's tried lots of times to fix it. Besides she likes being a police box.
Theta came to visit often on his days off from the Academy; he still loved to hear stories, even when he grew up physically, she's not sure he will ever grow up mentally. He also brought his best mate Koschei, who everyone said had gone a little mad from looking into the Untempered Schism.
There were trips in Matilda all over the universe, with more observing and less run for your life than Rose would have liked, but she learned all about fixed points and tipping points, and all the rest about the laws of time along the way.
She also went to the small village about a half-day's walk away from the cave. There were two distinct classes in Gallifreyan society; the Time Lords who almost all came from 'the houses' they were the ruling class, then there was the ordinary people just known as Gallifreyans. Very few of them became Time Lords; only if they find a child among them young enough with lots of potential hovering around them did they get to attend the Academy, and got mostly only the most menial positions amongst them. While the Time Lords ruled the world the Gallifreyans were treated as peasants, and did all the necessary tasks like farming, building, making clothes, and everything else you could think of. They were nice people, very open, and friendly, and more than willing to hide her when they heard the Time Lords were after her because they didn't like the Time Lords due to how they treat them.
It was when Theta was arranged to marry someone he didn't like, and he begged Rose to run away with him that Rose decided to move on leaving Theta behind breaking her heart in the process. He may not be her Doctor but she did genuinely love this one, just not the way he wanted her to. Also she could see it was a fixed point there was nothing she could do about it which was what she told Theta.
So as the Bad Wolf, she wandered around all over Gallifrey seeing wonderful things, getting to know the people. She helped take in the harvest, learned to ride antigravity motorcycles, helped build a children's hospital from the ground up, sewed clothes in what could only be described as a sweat shop, and everywhere she went she left things better than before by helping where she could. Due to the TARDIS gossip network she was always able to stay one step ahead of the Time Lord's very persistent guards. She became something of a legend among the ordinary people.
It wasn't until Theta ran away from Gallifrey with his granddaughter Susan, and became the Doctor 150 years later that The Bad Wolf became distracted enough for the Time Lords to finally catch up with her.
