The Doctor's Newest Companion
Book Three: The Valiant Child
Disclaimer: I Don't Own Doctor Who, But I did create Lexi. You might want to go read the prequel to this.
Chapter Three
Lexi's POV
"Doctor," I said to get his attention, "Nothing's happening. Is it?" He grinned at me over his shoulder.
"Oh something is happening alright." He answered with a violent shudder. "Can't you feel it? Sense it? It's in the air and in your bones, feel it?" He shuddered again. "Something big."
"Like a gateway between two parallel universes created by an Omni-powerful human who looked into the heart of the TARDIS about four and half years ago?" Jack offered.
"Yeah something like that." The Doctor answered with an eye roll towards me. I giggled. Suddenly the earth shook violently. I closed my eyes tight and gripped on to the Doctor's sleeve, and he grabbed my elbow for support. Jack braced himself on one of the magnetic clamps that were still on the walls from the last time Rose had been here. "Something exactly like that actually." The Doctor said slowly astonishment thickening his voice. I opened my eyes and looked up.
Should have smiled in that picture
If it's the last that I'll see of you
It's the least that you could not do
"Oh!" It slipped from my mouth almost against my will. There was a golden, glowing gap in the mural that was about ten feet high and four feet wide. I squinted into the light; next to me the Doctor shielded his eyes by lifting a hand to his forehead. A silhouette appeared in the orifice. Then another taller figure appeared behind that one.
The shadow seemed to glide out of the backlighting and its face revealed.
"Rose." The Doctor rasped. She was glowing. Her eyes were glowing bright gold.
"Doctor, she's glowing." Jack pointed out, stating the obvious.
"It's the Bad Wolf. Rose? Rose, can you hear me?" The Doctor addressed Rose.
"I don't think she can hear you." The Doctor answered, but it wasn't the Doctor who said it. The second figure stepped through the gap. It was the Doctor. I realized that this must be the Human Meta-Crisis Doctor that Donna created. "Hello again." He addressed the Doctor and Jack. The Doctor nodded in acknowledgment and jack smiled and winked. I rolled my eyes.
"I'm Lexi." I introduced myself.
"John." I smiled. Of course he'd taken the name John Smith. He was still mostly the Doctor after all. "This is Rose."
"I know the story. Is she okay?"
"I hope so." He looked worriedly to Rose. Then he reached up and touched her arm lightly as the Doctor warned,
"Careful!" Rose let out a deep sigh at his touch and the golden light around her and filling the hole between the worlds seemed to flare for a moment. Then the light disappeared completely and Rose collapsed. John jerked forward to grab ahold of her and managed to catch her before her head hit the floor. He quickly knelt down and pulled her into his lap, placing his fingers to her neck to check for a pulse, while he all ran over.
Oh I will
Leave the light on
I'll never give up on you
Leave the light on
For me too
"Is she?" Jack asked what the Doctor and I were too afraid to.
"She's just unconscious. " John answered, "I think it blacked her out."
"Get her onto the TARDIS." The Doctor ordered softly. John picked her up carefully and we all started heading back to the TARDIS. "I'll run a full med scan. Come on! Allons-y."
"So you still say that then?"
"We'll just because you've gone all local. Look at you in your jeans and graphic t-shirt." The Doctor shuddered dramatically. We all burst into laughter at him. I smiled. This one of the reasons why travelling with the Doctor was so great, no matter how bad the situation was, Bad Wolf energy, Hole in the universe, Rose unconscious, you always felt safe enough to laugh at something.
Back to you
It always comes around
Back to you
I tried to forget you
I tried to stay away
But it's too late
Rose's POV
I was falling through the dark. I tried to grab on to something but I couldn't. Then I landed hard on a ground that I couldn't see through the dark. There was a loud click and an overhead spotlight shown down on me. I squinted into the dark around me and found that I was slowly starting to make out something in the dark. I gasped. It was Dalek Cann. He was exactly how he was when we'd met the last time, crazy. He looked directly at me with his one bulging eye and laughed.
"One will still die."
I'm so good at forgetting
And I quit every game I've played
But forgive me love
I can't turn and walk away
I groaned against the lights. My eyes hurt. I ran a hand over them and blinked.
"Rose?" John asked. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah." I answered sleepily, still rubbing at my blurry eyes. "Did I doze off? I don't remember." I opened my eyes fully. There were two Johns looking at me worriedly. "I think I'm seeing double." They both laughed.
"She's fine." John said.
"Hello Rose, long time, no see. What part of travel between parallel universes is impossible don't you understand? " The other one said with a mirthful smile.
"Doctor?" I asked cautiously. He nodded. So I'd somehow gotten back to the world I was born in, again.
"Hi." John rolled his eyes at us.
"Oh go on and hug. I promise not to get jealous." I laughed and jumped off of the med table I had been laying, and then sitting on. The Doctor wrapped me up in a great big hug.
Back to you
It always comes around
Back to you
I walk with your shadow
I'm sleeping in my bed
With your silhouette
"I missed you." He said.
"I missed you too." I said, and I wasn't lying. I love John but I still missed the Doctor a lot. "But you know who I missed the most? The TARDIS!" I laughed.
"Well come on into the console room and say hello then." I ran over and grabbed John's hand to pull him with us. When we got there, there were two people already there. One of them was Jack.
"Jack!" I exclaimed happily.
"Rosie!" He answered in his booming voice and opened his arms for a hug. I ran into his arms. As he released me I heard the girl I didn't know talking to the Doctor.
"Hey-a Doc. I set her into an easy orbit around the 1400's because I didn't really know where we were going." She said.
"Good girl." The Doctor replied. "I don't know where we are going ether." They laughed. I turned to them and walked up to the girl.
"Hi, I'm Rose." I introduced myself.
"Lexi!" She answered with a manic grin similar to the Doctor's. "I've heard all about you."
"How long have you been travelling with the Doctor?"
"About a year and a half."
"And you can fly the TARDIS?"
"Yep. He taught me five months ago." I shot a look at the Doctor. He shrugged.
"You never asked." He explained. Behind me, Jack laughed.
Over you
I'm never over
Over you
Something about you
It's just the way you move
The way you move me
Author's Note: Song: "Back to You" By: John Mayer
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