Okay so in the next week I might not be updating at frequently as I have been because of Harry Potter and all (I'm got big plans ) Also I've decided to merge this one. I hope you don't mind. So here you go…

My Doctor/ My Doctor

Chapter 4

The Lost Colony

The tenth doctor duplicate awoke with a strange sense of vertigo. Just yesterday he was struggling to make a simple sonic screwdriver and now he was abroad the Tardis with his newly regenerated self and his companions. All ready he'd encountered aliens, escaped death, and saved several lives. He was loving every minute of it, that was until he opened his eyes to see a still unconscious Rose.

What had the shadow done to her, he thought. He was contemplating on whether the situation was worse than either doctor realized but then she stirred.

It wasn't just a simple stir that some did while in a comma but a stir to make oneself comfortable. This could only mean one thing…she wasn't still in a comma, she was sleep.

The doctor breathed a sigh of relief and squeezed her hand tighter. He hadn't meant to wake her up that's exactly what he did. She moaned lightly, trying to bring herself to the light.

"Rose?" he said.

"Doctor?" she whispered lightly.

"You alright?"

"I'm fine." She winced as she tried to bring herself upright. He offered her help but she politely refused.

"How do you feel?"

"Other than the feeling that I just had the wind knocked out of me repeatedly…like I said, fine." She winced again.

"You don't have to push yourself."

"Look I've gone through worse than this, you know that."

"I know but you won't even open your eyes." Rose sat awkwardly stiff. Her hands were clenched into fists and her eyes where tightly shut.

"It's just going to burn you know, the light."

"You have to open them." He pressed giving her the go ahead.

Second by second she opened her eye lids ever so slowly. When they where full and open, the half human was shocked by what he saw but quickly wiped the look of his face to no avail. She'd seen all.

"What?" she asked alarmed.

"Oh nothing just…amazed by your beautiful eyes." He lied swiftly. She eyed him judgingly only to decide to just go with it.

"Whatever, help me up."

Once up, he assisted her down the hallway and into the main room where it was dimmer than they'd ever seen it. Rory and Amy stood at the center waiting for something to happen and the full doctor at the far edge working on some repairs with his back to them all, not once turning around.

"Ah finally." said Amy spotting Rose. "Maybe now I'll get some answers."

"Take it easy, she's still not alright."

"I'm fine."

"Oi, stop babying her she's obviously alr—" Both Rose and the half doctor had made their way to Amy when she saw her eyes. She'd already given an involuntary gasp before she realized (By the half doctor's many hints behind Rose's back) that she was supposed to keep cool. Once again Rose saw everything.

"Okay what's going on? There must be something you're not telling me."

"It's your eyes." Said the full doctor, speaking for the first time since Rose's rejection just that night. He made his way to her. "Your pupils are silver but don't be alarmed. It's just a side effect from what happened last night. It'll go away in a few hours but I'm betting anything that you were afraid to open your eyes this morning because of the light. That's why I've dimmed it in here for you."

"Why are my eyes silver?"

"Do you know the expression or the common phrase 'I can look into your eyes and see your soul'? Well here it's applied quite literally. Your soul was taken over by an outside force causing your soul to go all wippy wappy—yes I just made that up. It's simply just trying to fit its way back. It shows through the eyes because the eyes are man's most dangerous and ingenious portal especially yours Rose Tyler." By now he was face to face with her, only inches apart. He caught a whiff of her hair and by impulse pulled in. But he was a Time Lord, not human. His nerve and mind always ruled over impulse and he leaned away.

"Now," He continued, turning away and working his magic with the controls once more. "the Tardis is up and ready so we're good to go. Where to I'm leaving up to you." He stopped just before pulling a lever, the one that would take them anywhere in the universe at any time. He was speaking to all of them. Rose whom was caught up in that same second he was, was still fluttered from the sudden disconnection.

"Let's see, we've been to Paris, London in the future, London in the past, on board a pirate ship, and I've met Vincent Van Gough. What else could possibly top any of that?" said Amy.

"I can think of a few." Said Rose.

"Well obviously we haven't done as much." Said Rory.

"I know, let's put it on filter. That way none of us will know what's out there." Said the full doc with a big fake grin. He knew at one point Amy and Rory where gonna want to know about Rose and everything about her. Though he usually supported getting his ex and current companions to become close, this time he wasn't so sure.

He pulled the lever and off they went, each holding on to their own object. Once they landed Rose was the first out the door, completely abandoning the half doctor's support. She stumbled on the way but made it just the same.

"I don't get it." She said, looking out with difficulty. Her eyes burned like she was starring directly into a sun. The others where soon behind her.

"Ah, behold ladies and gentlemen, one of the first colonies in the new world aka America." The eleventh doctor smiled full heartedly, pleased with the turnout.

"We should find out which one, not all had too much luck. It might not be safe here." Said the half.

"Well then what are we waiting for? For two years I've been stuck in normal human life. I need this." Said Rose, once again taking the first step not realizing what she said as the half doctor winced at the 'stuck in a normal human life'.

So it does bother her, he thought. He wandered how long it would be before she'd be leaving him for the other.

They all followed her out as she led the way to the settlement. Wood houses started to grow by number around them. It wasn't long for Rose realized she didn't know where to go.

"Umm, I thought that the captain's house would be all different and stuff—"

"Don't worry I'll take over from here." Both doctors said at the same time. They looked each other in the face.

"No I will."

"I'm the full Time Lord here, I think I should lead."

"You've been leading long enough, let others have their chance."

"Guys?" interrupted Amy but was ignored by both.

"Chance, we give you a chance and we'll all die."

"Guys?" interrupted Rory.

"Now now Rory just hold up I'll take us to the leader in just a moment."

"Oh no you won't."

"You don't even have a proper screwdriver."

"Yeah but it's one that saved all our lives."

"Oh that was luck."

"Look why don't just talk about what's really going on."

"Really what is going on?"

"SHUTUP!" roared Rose.

"Rose?" said both.

"Neither of you will be taking us to the captain because he's already here…along with everyone else." So they where, muskets at the ready, completely surrounded by them.

"Oh." Was all said the full.

"Well then." Said the half.

"Identify yourself strangers." Said the obvious leader.

"I am the doctor." They said at the same time.

"We are the doctor." Said the full. "And we come in peace."

"You're doctors?" he said with relief. "Everyone put you weapons down; we've got ourselves two healers."

"How can we trust them boss? Who's to say they're not one of them?" said one of the settlers, none had put their weapons down

"I don't know about you but they sure don't look like Indians to me." The guys stepped forward with his hand out. "Don't mind these men, their just scared that's all. The name's Ralph Lane, how 'bout yours?"

"The doctor, just the doctor." He shook his hand. Both doctor looked at each other in fear. Fear at the very name that signified which colony they'd landed in…

"Come and take a walk with me doctors and friends… and for God's sake put your weapons down." His men hesitantly disarmed. The woman stood at their doorsteps, tentatively looking from behind the door.

"We appreciate it." Said the full.

"Follow me." Ralph said and on they went. Rose walked alongside the full Time Lord with the half trailing behind. Their hands were touching but neither allowed themselves to hold the other's hand. Inside Rose was an emotional wreck. He felt as real as the half doctor she'd come to know even with a new face. She looked up at him to just sneak a glance. He met her gaze as they locked eyes. Rose swore she could see a hint of regret there along with something that had never escaped his lips, at least not to her. That very same thing that got away from him that day upon the beach…

Lane led them to a lesser populated area, where the crops grew. It didn't take the non-doctors long to see that something was wrong.

"Where are the crops?" asked Rory.

"Came in the wrong season, can't plant anything." Said Lane.

"How are you eating?" asked Rose horrified. Ralph for the first time noticed her eyes and was first taken back but quickly got over it and went on.

"We aren't but only very little." Children are getting sick, grown men too weak to go out hunting. Now we're living in fear cus of those damn Indians." His voice shook with sorrow. "I'm supposed to look after these people while John's gone but I just don't know what to do." He hung his head in shame. A tear ran down his face.

"John White, you mean? He's already gone?" Spoke the half Time Lord. Things were looking worse and worse.

"Yes…yes…he, he went to England…"

"It's okay we'll help." Said Rose putting her arms around his shoulders. The half doctor whispered in her ear.

"I need to talk to you in private right quick." He didn't wait for her to respond but simply started walking off. None of the others notice, too caught up in their own emotions. Rose trailed along after him with Eleven's eyes watching her every move.

"We can't stay here."

"Why not, we can help these people?"

"This is the lost colony. If White's already gone then at any moment something's going to happen."

"What?"

"No one knows that's why it's called the lost colony."

"Well how much time we got?"

"I don't know, records say John came back two years after he left. Who knows how soon or far away it happened afterward."

"We can't just do nothing."

"Rose, do you want to become lost like the rest of these people?"

"No but—"

"We're going back to the Tardis Rose; I'm not having anything happen to you."

"I'm a big girl I can take care of myself." At that moment screams and hollers were being heard not too far off. The rest were already running towards that direction.

They were expecting it to be that moment and that it was too late, but instead arrived to see the opposite. The villagers were chasing off the natives.

"And stay off!" Yelled one of the men.

"What the blazes happened here?" asked Ralph.

"The Indians sir, took something but I don't think it was something of ours."

"What it look like?"

"A blue box."

"What?" screamed the half doctor.

"No, no, no, no, no." went the full. Both chased after the natives but to no help at all.

"What now? We're stuck on this island were something big is going to happen at any moment without a Tardis!"

"You've survived all this time without one; you can wait a bit more."

"Doctor, what are we going to do?" asked Amy.

"Simple, we're going to have a visit with the natives."

TO BE CONTINUED