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Chapter 4 – In the Tardis

If Blade was impressed at the inner size of the Tardis, he didn't show it with anything other than a raised eye brow. Whistler on the other hand lived up to his name and let out a long whistle.

Rose stroked one of the coral support beams said gently "Hello old friend" and the console and lights flickered briefly in response, welcoming her back.

Rose, Mickey and Martha took the two on a tour of the great time and space travelling machine. Rose seemed to fit right back into the Tardis like she'd never been away.

While the Doctor disliked weapons he knew that in order to defeat the vampires, they would be needed. He thought about the way that the Tardis responded to Rose. The living machine had always had a close bond with Rose. Much closer than most companions at least. And he sensed the machine's disapproval at her being left behind a year ago.

Reinette came up to him and held him in her arms from behind. She rested her head on his shoulder.

"Let's go get some rest" she said suggestively but the Doctor pulled out of her arms and turned to face her placing his own hands on her shoulders.

"In a while, I've just got to correct the co-ordinates so we get there at the right time and place. It'll be a while" he said. Reinette pouted and left in a slight huff.

The Doctor's thoughts returned to Rose. She'd helped him find peace after the war; heal from the scars he'd had.

And then he'd promptly dumped her for a French tart, he thought angrily at himself. The one bright spark in his life and he'd thrown it away. And now she was back, maybe there was a chance.

He was determined to get her to love him again. And this time he'd would embrace that love and cherish her for the angel that she was.

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Blade was impressed at this place, a very hard thing. It was brilliant, everything thing you could possibly think of was here.

At present they were in a small lake sized swimming pool after leaving a massive garage of so many different vehicles it was impossible to count them.

Rose was at ease with herself, Blade could see. More at ease then she'd been since he'd known her. This place seemed to make her happy.

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After a couple of hours of going around the Tardis they found a room designed to used as a gym, but with a mat that the third Doctor had used to practised his Venusian Aikido.

Blade said "Rose let's get some practise in before we arrive" and Rose nodded and they went to opposite ends of the mat and removed their coats and any weapons they were carried and moved back onto the mat.

They then begin to exchange kicks and blows to each other as the others watched. The speed at which they moved amazed Mickey and Martha, but Whistler was slightly bored, at seeing the two spar, he saw it all the time.

After a few minutes Blade finally broke through Rose's defence and pinned her to the floor, using his greater body mass to hold her down and she conceded defeat.

They got up and Martha noticed how the sweat on Rose's skin made it glow and clothes cling to her shape even more than before if possible. Martha was unable to look away and stared at the other woman.

Rose noticed Martha looking and took a moment to observe Martha. Her skin looked soft and blemish free, her hair as dark as a raven's wing was loose and gently framing her soft face, with her dark brown eyes that seemed to twinkle. She'd removed her red leather jacket to reveal a grey t-shirt that clung t her slim frame firm breasts. And tight jeans showed her slender legs. She was a beautiful woman.

The two women felt …a certain warmth towards each other. They were both, feisty strong, compassionate and determined. The same qualities that they looked for in partners.

Mickey went to give Whistler and Blade the rest of the tour while Rose went to show Martha something she'd found when she'd last been on the Tardis or rather some thing that the Tardis had let her find. A place that even the Doctor had never found, the Tardis still kept some things to its self.

When they arrived at the simple wooden door with a picture of several five pointed stars around a planet with a ring like Saturn.

Rose said to Martha "Close your eyes"

Martha frowned and asked "Why?"

Rose grinned mysterious "You'll see"

Martha closed her eyes and Rose opened the door and guided Martha inside. When they had gone some way Rose said

"Open your eyes"

Martha opened her eyes to see a truly wondrous sight.

She was surrounded by a 3-D display of the stars. The little lights surrounded her and little comets would shoot past. Everywhere you looked for as far as you could see there were the beautiful lights.

As Martha gaped at the sight Rose slipped her arm around Martha's waist and whispered in her ear

"What do you think?" she asked huskily causing Martha to shudder

"It's beautiful" Martha replied breathlessly

Rose turned Martha to face her and said "Like you"

Martha reacted first and pressed her lips against Rose's and after second Rose let Martha's tongue meet her own and the two women lost themselves in their mutual passion.

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Some times later Rose and Martha made their way to Rose's old room to look at her old things, just chatting about their own lives and families, exchanged a kiss once or twice.

When Rose got into the room she was hit by a wave of familiarity, warm feelings of comfort and homeliness. It was just as she'd left it, some red hoodies and jeans hanging off the top of the bed and on the floor. Pictures of the ninth and tenth Doctors, Mickey, her mum Jackie, her dad Pete, Captain Jack, and a few other people that she'd met on her journeys with the Doctor or during her life before on her dresser.

She looked at the room and saw herself as she'd been six years ago, before Rienette came. A happy, healthy young human woman at the beginning of her life, travelling with the most amazing man she'd ever met.

But it faded as reality set in, she could never be that girl again.

She shook herself and went over to the jewellery box on her dresser; she kept a few personal mementoes that she'd obtained over her travels. She opened it and took a look at the trinkets inside.

There was a small silver cross worn by Gwyneth that was blown clear by the explosion, a small brooch given to her by Harriet Jones when the were inside the safe room at 10 Downing Street, the small alien instrument that Adam had given her after Van Statten had been mind wiped as a thank you for getting him on the Tardis, a pair of cufflinks that her Dad Pete had owned which her mum had given her when she was 15….

But then Rose noticed something was missing, a gold ring with a good sized ruby she'd been given by a poet she'd met called Arthur Smiths during the times of Henry the 8th. The young man had flirted with her shamelessly and ever written a poem for her. But then they'd left and he'd gone to the court of Henry the 8th. There was a copy of the poem he'd made for her.

Since he know Martha wasn't the dishonest type, she could see it in her eyes and that Mickey and the Doctor would never take something of hers there was only one suspect.

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Rienette had had her nap and was back in the control room sitting on the sofa next to the console looking bored. The Doctor was going around the console flicking switches and turning dials. Mickey was standing away from the may console talking about computers with Whistler and Blade was meditating on the small elevated gantry. Rose and Martha came in through the door and Rose looked pissed off.

Rose marched up to Rienette and grabbed her hand and looked. There was the ring alright. She pulled the ring off of Rienette's hand and snarled at her

"This is mine! How dare you steal from me" and Blade moved from his gantry to block the Doctor from interfering. Mickey, Martha and Whistler cast Rienette dirty looks.

"You can't talk to me like that!" the French woman screamed and went to slap Rose, but Rose caught her hand and started closing her own hand like a vice slowly crushing it. Rienette whimpered and Rose released the thief's hand and gave her a warning

"Cross me again and you die!" and the daywalker went over to talk to Mickey and Whistler.

"Why didn't you do anything?" Rienette asked the Doctor angrily as Blade let him pass.

"Let me look at your hand" The Doctor offered and gently took the offended hand and she whimpered but the Doctor could tell that the bone wasn't even bruised, Rienette really was weak. Rose hadn't even left a bruise and only a slight dark pink taint in the skin and she was whimpering like her arm was broken.

Rose would just grit her teeth and bare it if that. She was much stronger than the French woman and that inner strength is what he was attracted to; that and her compassion and heart.

Martha had those qualities too and was just as feisty as Rose. When they'd met he'd felt warmth towards her too. The same and yet different to the warmth he felt for Rose. He felt dishonest to Rose by having these feelings.

But getting a cold pack from the med kit he kept under grilling and putting on her hand he said for her to go to let the non-existent swelling go down.

As the Doctor looked at Reinette's retreating back and then shifted his gaze over to Rose and Martha who were talking to Mickey and Whistler and thought

'Why did I choose a harlot, over an angel? And why when a second angel had come his way, had he not protected her from the harlot?'

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