Chapter four. Took me a little longer this time, trying to plan out a story line for this chapter, I had to work around a bit on where I want this to go. I have the ending all planned out and a few of the last chapter's ideas swimming around my head, I'm just having problems working up to those chapters. So if anyone has any ideas, please let me know. I love hearing ideas from my reviewers. The first part of this chapter goes over how Donna and Rose are getting along in their first month of living together.
Anyway on with the chapter!
Disclaimer-I got my Doctor Who Poster in the mail, so I own a bit of Doctor Who.
Warnings- AU, Not been beta etc.
"Rose, Wake up I got something to show you!"
Rose snuggled deeper into her bed, ignoring the words of the red head that was trying to jostle her from her warm and comfy cocoon.
"Come on Rose, please" Donna asked; shaking the blanket covered form slightly, answered only by the grumbles of displeasure from the sleep monster.
Donna huffed and went down to the foot of the bed, grabbing a handful of bedding before swiftly yanking it off. Rose grumbled some more before wrapping herself up in her own body to keep warm. When that failed her she shot up and looked to the woman with a glare that could make The Oncoming Storm run and hide in fear.
"Oh don't give me that look, putting on your dressing robe and meet me out back"
Rose had realized that living with a morning person made life hell. Donna would be up and the crack of dawn making coffee and working on her own version of a sonic screw driver. After a half an hour she would become bored and run into Rose's room waking up the poor girl and asking if they could do something.
Rose had never thought Donna to be a morning person and grumbled about time-lord energy and mornings. After pulling herself up from the bed, she wrapped herself in her dressing gown and stumbled down the stairs. Looking around the kitchen and noticing that there was no tea, she sighed before pouring herself a cup of coffee; Adding three spoonful of sugar and a lot of cream before taking a sip. After finishing the cup, she decided to see what had Donna so excited and what she had founded that absolutely required Rose to be awake. Last week Donna has the urge to wake her up to show her that a flower in the garden had a steam that went in a zigzag. The week before that it was the way leaves had fallen from the tree and the week before that it was the way the front door squeaked when you opened it a certain way.
Rose found Donna to be a great friend and a wonderful person to talk to. She defiantly had The Doctor's energy and could go on for hours about one little topic. Rose once asked her if the shower had any hot water left and got a forty-five minute talk on the invention of the water heater and how they are different from the ones found on other planets.
But when Donna woke her up she was playing with fire around the devil. Rose had decided to get back at her a few times by short-sheeting her bed to slipping ice down her shirt when she was asleep. Rose would just grin and run the other way. One of these fights had ended with water all around the living room because Rose had decided to pour water on Donna and Donna had decided to grab the outside hose while Rose grabbed the one from the kitchen sink. Needless to say Wilfred was over the next day helping them dry out the living room before the mold started forming.
Donna had told Rose that it would be a good idea to wear the Necklace she was given. Donna couldn't explain it but she had told her that it just felt right. The air in the house seemed to shift ever so slightly when it was rested on her chest and Donna knew when she had taken it off because the air would become slightly stale and uncomfortable. Rose didn't noticed it but Donna had told her and Rose believed her. So the necklace stayed on Rose twenty four seven.
Donna told people that Rose was her little sister. Well relative speaking Rose was older than her now and Donna would smile and point out that she had almost nine hundred and fifty years of memories running through her head. Well not to complete strangers, they would think she was crazy and have her locked up. She would just smile and nod to complete strangers and she and Rose would walk off laughing after they got away. Donna figured that it was because of The Doctor's memories that made her care for Rose as a sister, but in truth Donna would have loved Rose whether she had The Doctor's memories or not. The DoctorDonna and the Bad Wolf. If that wasn't family then they didn't know what was.
Sarah-Jane stopped by a few times to see how everything was settling with them. She even had Luke with her one day when he was on break from college. Donna went over the makings of her new Sonic Screwdriver and compared it to Sarah-Jane's Sonic Lipstick. She revealed to Sarah-Jane that she was making Rose one for she birthday but told her to keep quiet about it. Sarah-Jane promised to keep her mouth shut.
Luke had enjoyed Donna long discussion of what they were doing and what would happen once the TARDIS was ready. Sarah-Jane and Rose just sat in the kitchen having their own little talks and leaving the brilliant minded to their own talks.
Wilfred had visited more times than the others, popping over once every other day to check up on everything. The first week, Donna's mum had stopped by a few times trying to apologize but Donna wanted nothing to do with her at the moment. She was still angry at her mother and Donna had gotten a look in her eyes that was similar to The Doctor's Oncoming Storm that Silvia would have to back down and Rose would lead Donna upstairs to calm her down and Wilfred would walk Silvia home. Donna figured it would take at least a century and a few near-death experiences to forgive her. Rose knew that she still loved her mum and it was just the stubborn side of Donna talking but she pulled Silvia aside and told her to give it a few months. If she knew her daughter well then she would understand why. Silvia agreed and knew Donna was well taken care of with Rose around.
"Please just call me if anything starts to go wrong" Silvia asked her one night with a pleading look only a mother could give.
"I will, I won't hide anything like that from you" Rose replied with a soft smile before offering a hug.
In the second week, Donna had come up with the Brilliant idea to visit Martha. Poor Mickey was in pain as the three girls jumped up and down and squealed with excitement when they found out that Martha had married Mickey. They stayed for dinner and talked about everything that had happen, what happened after the crucible, Donna losing her memories, Rose being left with The Doctor's clone. Martha had to restrain Mickey as he was threating to go after The Doctor with one of his guns. Martha had explained to them that last time they had saw The Doctor.
"We were fighting with a Sontran, we didn't know it at the time but he had us cornered. He just stood there with his mallet in his hand and a look of utter sadness. We knew it was good-bye" Martha said topping of the wine glasses around the dinner table.
"We haven't seen him since, no new regeneration or anything. I think it hurts him too much to go back to the past" Mickey added.
"I saw him too. It was New Year's Day 2005; he told me I was going to have a great year. I thought he was just some drunken bloke hanging outside." Rose smiled sadly "I woke up John, that what he was going by at the time, and asked him about it. He said he had no memory of it so I figured it was the end. I cried a lot that night. I didn't cry over the fact that he had died, I think I cried more over the fact that he did it alone"
The four of them shared a moment of silence before Donna had explained what had happened; Rose appearing in front of her, getting her memories back, their new house, and the TARDIS that was growing happily in their backyard. Rose and Donna had promised them a trip once they had run her in. Martha and Mickey were thrilled at the promise. They did miss time traveling even if it was only the short time that Mickey had and the tough time the Martha had.
Later that night Martha had opened up about the year that never was. She explained her travels around the world and the danger she faced every day. Donna had explained about the Meta-crisis that was killing her and in order to save her life The Doctor had to wipe her memories. Rose told the story of satellite five and The Bad Wolf. Mickey shuttered at the memory of seeing Rose look into that and all of a sudden disappear with the TARDIS, only not to return until Christmas with this new guy that passed out after wishing him and Jackie a Happy Christmas.
Not one of them noticed the gold stone the Rose wore around her neck pulsing faintly with a golden light.
They made a toast to being The Children of Time before they had decided to call it a night and keep in touch with each other. Rose had staggered into the house in utter exhaustion and begged Donna not to wake her up in the morning. Lucky for Rose, Donna had complied with the request and had a pot of tea ready when she woke up the next morning.
Rose smiled as she thought back on the last four weeks of living with Donna. She dumped out the rest of her coffee before heading to the back door. She ran into Donna who was telling her to cover her eyes. Agreeing to the red head's request she found herself covering her eyes with her hands and being lead out into the back yard by her elbows. Once they had stopped Rose had opened her eyes and found a Police box standing in the middle of the yard in all it blue and TARDIS-y glory.
"It seems she finally got her outer dimension in sync with the inner dimension. Just took the time stabilizers a few weeks to harmonize with the retro trans-dimensional bumpers and rectify the Worm-hole retractors. There's a bit on the inside if you want to talk a look" Donna said nodding her head towards the Police box.
Rose smiled before opening the door and stepping inside. It was still a bit small but it was growing. Corral supports were starting to form and the wires were starting to bunch together in the middle. The metal grating of the floor was still a bit rough and unfinished. Rose made out the faint outlines of hallways being formed at the other side. Rose was so deeply emerged in their growing TARDIS that she didn't notice Donna enter behind her.
"Give it another eight to ten weeks and she'll be ready to fly"
Rose jumped a bit not realizing that Donna had entered behind her. She placed a hand around her dressing gown and smiled.
"Will you teach me how to drive her? Once she stable enough of course" Rose asked, hope sparkling in her eyes.
"Sure, it's not that hard. One she is run in and all, I'll start teaching you." Donna said with a smile.
Rose grinned and hugged Donna before they two of them left the TARDIS; arms around each other shoulders, once again neither one of the noticed the light pulsing once again from Rose's necklace.
Sarah-Jane called later that afternoon and was wondering if they would be interested in joining herself, Martha and Mickey for dinner.
"Sarah-Jane wants to know if you want to go out for dinner" Donna whispered, her hand over the phone.
Rose only looked up and nodded her head, holding her thumbs up.
"Yea, we'll be there, seven? Alrighty see you then" Donna hung up the phone.
"I think we spend more time out then we do at home" Rose said fixing herself a peanut butter sandwich to hold herself over until dinner.
"And that's not a bad thing, I have itchy feet I'm surprised we haven't left the country yet" Donna said smiling.
"I know the feeling, in the parallel world I spend a few months out of the year traveling. It amazed me how little things were different in the world"
"Really like what?" Donna asked pouring herself a cup of coffee"
"The Boston tea party threw fabric instead of tea into the harbor, Mount Everest is twelve feet shorter, The Panama Canal doesn't exist over there, stupid stuff like that"
"I never understood why they didn't have a monarchy; by the time Queen Victoria was killed her children would have been old enough to take the throne" Donna pointed out
"Yea it wasn't that, the universe split from yours when Victoria chose to marry her cousin Alexander instead of Albert. Seeing as he wasn't as strong willed as Albert the monarchy fell into despair and Queen Victoria was informed that she would be the last monarch."
"That makes a lot more sense"
"Yea, I had to do a bit of history studying so I didn't sound like a complete idiot when I spoke to people" Rose replied shrugging her shoulders.
"Oh you could never sound like an idiot, after all you are brilliant" Donna said with a smile placing a cup of tea down in front of Rose
Rose only smiled softly and took a sip of her tea.
They met up at the restaurant, a nice little Italian restaurant tucked away in the corner. Rose, Donna, Sarah-Jane, Mickey and Martha swapped stories about the past. Martha explain how her engagement with Tom fell apart after he told her that he was going to stay in Africa and wanted Martha to join him. Martha however had no wish to leave England and they broke it off. Two weeks later Mickey and Martha had their first date.
Rose was pleased the Mickey had found someone; after all she wasn't the idle girlfriend to him. Leaving with a strange man in a blue box, returning a year later, still going off with that strange man, a still expecting him to come running when she called. Martha fell into the same category, having no relationship with the man she had a crush on because of Rose. Yup they were perfect with each other.
Rose and Donna left the restaurant first. It was raining out. Donna complained while Rose slipped off her shoes and went running into a giant puddle in the park across the street.
"What the hell are you doing?" Donna yelled.
"I haven't danced in the rain in ages, come on it'll be fun" Rose yelled back.
Donna smiled and removed her shoes and joined Rose across the street, both of them jumping into the giant puddle without a care in the world, Becoming soaking wet within seconds. Rose reached over and grabbed her hands and pulled her on to the grass before they both slipped in the mud, giggling like crazy teenagers.
Off into the corner, hidden by the building, a man in a beige trench coat watched the two of them danced in the rain. Of course Rose looked familiar to the Doctor but he shrugged it off. After all he had met a lot of people in his lifetime. He just figured it was Donna, enjoying some silliness with one of her friends. He turned around and headed back into the TARDIS. If he had waited two more minutes she would have seen Martha run over and join them, followed by Mickey, and finally Sarah-Jane, who was reluctant at first but couldn't help but jump in once she saw the fun they were having.
Donna and Rose stumbled into the house still giggling like mad. They were covered in mud and they were shivering lightly. Donna and Rose threw their shoes off to the side.
"Best time I've had in ages" Donna pointed out grabbing a towel from the closet and throwing one to Rose.
"I forgot how much I loved to run in the rain. I use to do it all the time back in Pete's world. Drove my mother nuts" Rose said grinning, running the towel through her hair.
"I keep forgetting that I'm only 37, with the memories and everything, sometimes I forget to have fun doing silly things" Donna replied squeezing her wet hair into the towel.
"Did you see the look on Sarah-Jane's face when she decided to join us? It was priceless"
"She was the one that tackled Martha into the mud" Donna said laughing
"We need to do that more often, now excuse me I would really love a hot shower" Rose said heading up the stairs.
"Me too" Donna said following behind her.
Oh how the TARDIS wanted to kick the Doctor. Stupid Time Lord and his inability to stay in one place for long. Two more minutes was all it would have taken. He would have seen Martha and he would have rushed over to see if Donna was alright and then found out but oh no he had to return to the TARDIS. She was reluctant to head into the time vortex and sat in silence and sulked. The Doctor noticed but gave up trying to get any information on why his beloved ship was mad at him.
"Oh well, time to start planning again." The TARDIS thought to herself.
Took me a bit longer to get this chapter done, I took a break from it for a while and worked on my other stories. I'm trying to figure out what to do for the next chapter so that one might take some time as well. But where I'm going with this depends. I think there's a good chance this might go into a not going to be finished folder. Enh I'll see how I feel about it once I'm done with the next chapter.
I changed the rules for the Parallel world because in my mind it didn't fit. Regardless on whether Queen Victoria was killed or not they still would have had a Monarchy. Her Eldest son was more then old enough to take the throne. So I did a bit a tweaking and had it so that Victoria married her Cousin Alexander instead of Albert. it makes more sense that way. well to me anyway.