Okay so I added more to this chapter again
in the vain hope it would make more sense as my later chapters have gotten away from me.
XD
Disclaimer: The story line and ideas are mine, the characters are not. BBC owns Doctor Who
Maybe I'm being a little selfish as I loved her too, but her place is here, not in some other universe where the doctor doesn't exist."
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Meanwhile in said other universe Rose Tyler was on her way to work. She had been stuck in the parallel universe for just over a year. After the day at Bad Wolf Bay she decided she couldn't handle her mother being over protective and telling her to move on, that if the Doctor said there was no way then she was wasting her time searching at Torchwood.
So Rose moved out and bought her own flat, it wasn't hard, even if her mother refused to give her money because she didn't want her leaving; Rose was second in charge and had a very comfortable salary. It's only thanks to the doctor she was seen as such an alien expert and so made sure never to forget him, how could she?
It was an ordinary day when Rose entered work, all her peers sending her a cheerful "Good morning Miss Tyler" even though she had told them each a number of times to call her Rose.
Sitting at her desk Rose settled herself in for another day of paperwork and mystery artefacts when she was surrounded by a bright light and a strange noise, and that's when reality slipped away and everything went black and the only sound to be heard was singing that was strangely familiar.
She appeared back at the mansion, thoroughly confused, but brought out of her thoughts at the sound of her mother's voice, "Rose! What are you doing back here love? Thought you were at work. Did you finally take a break like I've been telling you to for weeks? Rose?"
Rose looked at her mother, a strange feeling coming over her. "Mum, it's happening, I can feel it! I can go back, I can go home!" Her smile grew and Jackie knew exactly what she was talking about. "Well I'm glad you came to say goodbye." Rose looked puzzled by her reaction. "Oh we all knew it would happen sometime, you'd find a way back or find a way to leave for the stars, I could never keep you here."
"I don't have to go, I can stay, help you more with Lilly. I don't want to leave you." "No. you're going, you want this more than anything and just look at how happy you are! I will not stand around and watch you live a ghost, you go back to him, don't worry about us. I'll be sure to tell Lilly all about you, she'll know about her big sister who saves the world."
Tears were flowing from both women as they accepted what happened. Rose could feel the warmth growing and started to give in. "Tell Mickey I'm sorry, and I'm happy for him and Jake. There's a book in my room with all my adventures in them, would you give it to Lilly? I know how much she loves the stories." Jackie just nodded, unable to speak through her tears as she watched her daughter glow gold and fade. "I love you."
Jackie stood in the same spot before the cries of her baby snapped her out of it. Going in and picking up Lilly she quietened the child by talking to her. "Come on let's ring up daddy and uncle Mickey and Uncle Jake and tell them what happened." She walked towards the phone, taking comfort from the small child in her arms and dialled.
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Jack hadn't moved from his spot in front of the wall since he wrote 'BAD WOLF' on it 20 minutes ago. Martha knew better than to disturb him, but Donna wasn't as observant. "What does Bad Wolf mean?"
Jack did not move and when he spoke his voice was barely a whisper, as if he did not want to disturb anything. "If whoever they are could get me, maybe they could get Rose. All they need is a link, something that will make it easier to get to her."
"So Rose is linked to Bad Wolf?"
"She is the Bad Wolf, it's a long story and I don't feel like getting into it now, but as the Bad Wolf Rose made me immortal, she had the power of a God." Jack's voice trailed off at the end so that the last word was barely a breath.
Donna decided not to push any further, she wasn't stupid, that was all she was going to get and it would have to suffice.
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In the TARDIS the doctor walked around not noticing what was happening to his most recent companions.
At the moment he couldn't care less about anything outside the TARDIS, they had all left him in the end, even those that promised forever.
He couldn't bring himself to land the TARDIS anywhere, he just left it in the vortex, afraid he will meet more people and lose them. Sensing the Doctor's misery the TARDIS hummed lower and directed him towards the one room he would sit still in, Rose's room.
It was just as messy as she had left it, clothes and make-up everywhere, little nick-knacks they had picked up from other planets gracing every available space on her shelves. The only thing that had moved was the box full of photos that sat on top the bed.
The Doctor entered the room quietly, not wanting to disturb anything, and sat on the bed breathing in her smell he could almost pretend she was sitting next to him, trying to convince him to take her somewhere shopping, to which he would reply 'and where are you going to fit everything? Your room is full enough' but not without a smile tugging at his lips. For they both knew that the TARDIS had plenty of space and he was just trying to get out of being dragged shopping and he would, all he had to do was mention a planet with such a description that she could not refuse.
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After another 20 minutes of silence Donna decided to go exploring, but before she got even 4 feet away from her new friends Jack yelled over his shoulder "you won't go anywhere, it's all in your head remember? Simply put, doesn't really matter... I really thought it would have worked by now."
Jack stood up, rubbing his legs to get the feeling back into them. "It seems wishful thinking is not enough. We have enough on our hands anyway; we still don't know who's got us and have no way of contacting the doctor. Seeing as we are still here I'm assuming he hasn't been caught yet, probably still in the vortex. So he is safe for now, as long as he doesn't land anywhere, but we still need to let him know somehow, any ideas?"
The whole time Jack was speaking he didn't look at his companions, it seemed he was talking to himself, until he paced a few times then looked up expectantly at Martha. "I'm sorry Jack, I just don't know, I tried my phone but there isn't any signal." Jack nodded mutely processing this new piece of information.
"If only we could boost the signal or something" Donna mumbled and when Jack and Martha looked up at her she realised she should explain herself. "Well Martha said the Doctor fixed her phone so she could get a signal anywhere, and I hardly doubt that this is nowhere so we should get a signal, but maybe it just needs help?" Donna finished rather lamely at the look on Jack's face.
A minute passed with Donna feeling uncomfortable and a little bit stupid for ever saying anything until Jack looked up at her with a smile on his face. "Why Donna I do believe I'm starting to really like you!" "You like everybody" Martha pointed out unhelpfully, before she could stop herself "Yes but not everybody is as smart as Donna here, she is absolutely right, we have to be somewhere so your phone should work. The plus side to this theory is I have my little vortex manipulator here, which because the Doc fixed it I added some different functions. So if I just..." Jack left the sentence hanging while fiddling with what Donna assumed was the vortex manipulator but just looked like a wrist strap to her. "Aha! Martha chuck us your phone." Martha obeyed without a second thought and didn't dare to speak for fear she would break his concentration.
After 5 minutes of baited breath Jack dialled a number and raised the phone to his year. "Yes! Admit it I'm pretty darn brilliant, I've got a signal." Jack smiled like the cat that got the cream, a smile which both Martha and Donna returned eagerly. Jack's victory dance however was interrupted when someone on the other side picked up.
"Oh yea, Hey Doc. Sorry, hey Doctor, how are you?... wait! I do have something very important to tell you... just listen would ya?!" finally convincing the Doctor that it was worth while to listen to what he had to say Jack explained the situation, leaving out the bit about Bad Wolf and his hopes. Once he had hung up he looked to his friends, the cheesiest smile you could imagine gracing his lips, "you really are brilliant Donna, it worked!" "Obviously..." muttered Martha soft enough that no-one else herd. "Well I did do some temping in a communications place, learnt some stuff, the big head director guy was easy on the eyes and it helped pass the time" Donna explain albeit a little sheepishly.
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In TARDIS the Doctor was not happy. Not only had his peaceful state of mind been interrupted by a phone call but it had to be from Jack. The aliens were probably after him so he can't be too mad at Jack, he was just looking out for him. So now he had a reason to stay in the vortex he found he didn't want to be, how he hated irony.
Setting up a scan in the TARDIS was relatively easy as Jack had given him lots of information that could narrow it down from any aliens in existence to only a couple of hundred.
"Why won't they leave us alone huh?" the Doctor said with a sad smile, stroking the TARDIS. Receiving a slight change in humming as response the Doctor nodded and left the room, striding towards the library, he found he suddenly had some reading to do.
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Back in the room that resembled a London street, but its inhabitants knew otherwise, there was silence only broken by random movements made to keep comfortable.
Out of nowhere a bright light enfolded the room and temporarily blinded the group of surprised humans.
Jack was first to respond once the black spots had cleared from his vision.
Running towards the limp form that remained behind once the light had left Jack recognised the blond hair. He didn't realise he could move that fast but next thing he knows he sitting aside her checking her body for any injury.
Reaching for the pulse point at her neck he waited for an eternity before a faint, but very much there, pulse thrummed under his fingers.
"Martha, quick you're a Doctor help me keep her conscious!"
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Mickey had just entered Rose's office when she disappeared; contrary to his training he leapt forth grabbing at thin air hoping it was all an illusion.
'Shit! She's gone and I'm going to have to be the one to tell Jackie some weird alien has abducted her'
Mickey sat, head in his hands trying to make sense of what had just happened, half hoping rose had just taken the day sick and not told anyone, even if it meant he was going mad.
Mickey stood up suddenly, 'right, I can't just hang around waiting for her to appear, I have to find out what's going on' decision made he walked out the door and down to his office, 'Jackie may take pity and kill me faster if I have something, anything...' he added as an afterthought.
Mickey's office was nicer than Rose's, mainly because he used his and didn't expect to up and leave at any moment. His chair was also much more comfortable he concluded after happily sinking into it.
His office may be nice but it had nothing on his computer set-up, he was after all the top computer 'geek' as Rose loved to say, no matter how many times he corrected her, even he was starting to forget the real title. 'Snap out of it! This is Rose, you should be worried out of your mind.'
"But I'm not, why aren't I?" Mickey finished his thought aloud. Before Mickey had the chance to access the surveillance system his door burst open and in rushed one of the new recruits.
"Sir, we've had reports coming in thick and fast, sightings all over London, and as far as we can tell the whole country!" Mickey managed to make some sense of the sentence that was flown at him in less than 5 seconds.
"Well get someone on it, I don't know why your coming to me, I haven't done any sighting work since my first week."
"But sir, you don't understand it's not an alien, no-one has any idea what it is really, I got sent up to tell you cause I suggested it was just a prank."
"Spit it out then, if I must know about it then tell me," Mickey patience was quickly wearing thin and finally snapped when he looked at his screen and realised all recordings near Rose this morning were merely static, before he could do more then get up the rather shy recruit said something that made him instantly sit down again.
"Its 'BADWOLF' sir, it just appeared everywhere, I thought it was just some kids playing a prank, you know graffiti or something, but it seems to have appeared just in the last 20 minutes."
Well more editing makes this chapter my longest, and most annoying
not sure if it makes more sense now than it did before
ahh well…
