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The Doctor ran from the control room when heard screams from down the hall. He quickly stopped in front of Rose's door and pushed it open to find her kicking and screaming in sleep. He ran over to the bed and shook gently.

"Rose wake up. Wake up. Wake up sweetheart." he told her.

Rose screamed and shot up from the mattress, and the Doctor pulled her into his arms. She buried her face into his chest and her body shook with silent sobs.

"It's all right Rose. It's only a bad dream." He told her gently and ran his fingers through her hair. "What happened?"

Rose shook her head and held onto his suit jacket as he held her close. "Metal men telling me that I will be deleted."

The Doctor's body stiffened. He knew that they were. They were Cybermen. He rocked her side to side. "What else happened?"

Rose laid her head sideways to listen to his hearts beat against his chest. She closed her eyes. "I was captured and you couldn't get to me. They were holding you back. Something about a place called "Torchwood."

He bent his head down and kissed her gently on the top of the head and held her closer to him. He sighed heavily and realized that he hadn't gotten all of the Time Vortex from her body like he thought. He would have to look into it. He felt her breathing even out. He looked down an saw she had fallen back to sleep. He slowly lowered her down on the mattress. He pulled the covers back over her sleeping form and he rose from the bed.

The Doctor pulled out his stethoscope put the earpieces in his ears. He huffed on the round piece and carefully stuck it under her shirt. He found her heart beat on the left side. Then he moved it over to the right side and found another heart beat. He closed his eyes and pulled it out from under her shirt. He quietly left the bedroom closing the door behind him.

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The Doctor rested his hands on the control panel of the TARDIS in thought. He knew that his peoples' bodies didn't change over night. It was from being contently exposed to the Time Vortex. He realized that Rose's body had been altered by her looking into the Heart of TARDIS. It got him wondering if she was a Time Lady. It was a very good possibility.

"Ole girl what has happened to Rose?" whispered the Doctor as he stroked the console gently.

The only thing he received was a flashing light to the response of his question. He sighed heavily and pulled up a nearby leaver.

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Rose bounced off the last step and fully into the control room. She heard tinkering down below. She smiled and walked over to railing and leaned forward slightly and found the Doctor working on the controls.

"Morning!" said Rose brightly.

The Doctor looked up and smile, "Morning!" He turned his attention back to the wires that were in his hands. "Ouch!" He nearly yelled when the TARDIS shocked him. "I guess she's telling me to leave her wires alone."

"Then I'd do as she says unless you want to get zapped." said Rose with a laugh and skipped over to a coral railing and wrapped her arms around it. "You don't need a fixing this morning do you girl?" asked Rose gently rubbing the coral beam. The TARDIS flashed her lights gently. "See, I told you!"

The Doctor walked up the steps and tripped landing on the floor. "Ouch! Ok, ok I get it. You don't want me to tinker this morning." he hopped on one leg while rubbing his left knee. "Ok I give up. I can't win an argument when you two gang up on me. I'm out numbered by two women!" He touched the leaver only to get zapped. "Ouch! You are touchy today."

Rose smiled and walked up to the Doctor and took his left hand into her. She gently ran her fingers over the red marks that the TARDIS left behind.

The Doctor hissed, Owww. Oww." He said at the small burns.

"You're such a big baby." said Rose.

"No I'm not! It burns." whined the Time Lord.

Rose lifted his hand to her mouth and kissed his slightly burned fingers. "There is that better?" She asked.

"Ah, ah," He said dumbly and shook his head, "I mean yea."

She slowly let go of his hand and kissed his forehead. She smiled skipped her way over to the captain's chair and flopped down on the bouncy seat. She watched the Doctor look at his fingers. He shook his head and looked over at the blonde.

"How about the toy store? You told me we could go to the toy store!"

Rose laughed, "Ok to the story store!"

The Doctor pulled down a leaver and said, "Allons-y!"

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The couple stepped out of the TARDIS, and the Doctor beamed at the large store. "This is the largest planet of toys!"

Rose looked around and saw millions of toys that were serrated by the items. The bears were one part of the store while the games were on the other. They were all dived by girls and boys toys.

The Doctor grabbed Rose's hand and pulled away from the time machine. She couldn't help but let out a large laugh when she realized how much of a big kid he was at heart.

"Scooters!" yelled the Doctor and quickly grabbed one. "Come on."

Rose smiled when she saw a bike instead and she quickly got on it and chased after the Doctor. He looked back and stuck out his tongue and turned the corner.

"Yippee a race track! I'll raced you!" said the Doctor with huge smile.

Rose quickly passed the Time Lord and stuck out her tongue. "You've got to catch me first!"

He smiled when he finally saw the finish line. He quickly passed Rose and ran cross the finish line beating the blonde. The Doctor jumped off the scooter and gave a bow to Rose as she got off the bike.

"You are the winner!" said machine behind the Doctor. "Pick a toy!"

He bounced over to the shelf and looked at all the toys. He smiled a choose yellow teddy bear with brown eyes holding a red rose. He turned around and smiled.

"This is for you." said the Doctor holding it out of his companion.

Rose smiled and took the bear from the Doctor. "Thank you!" She kissed his cheek and hugged the bear. "We need find you a toy!" She held out her hand. He smiled and clasped his around hers.

"Oh I know!" he said happily and they ran down the ales of toys.

The couple stopped in front of a big life size bowling pens and ball. "You get inside it while the other player pushes you! Come on let's get it. It will be fun!"

Rose could only laugh as she watched the Doctor grabbed a large box that contained the bowling items, and they ran their way back to the TARDIS with their toys in hand.

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Rose sat on the floor in an empty large room watching the Doctor step up his large bowling pins. She laughed when the pens kept on falling down on top of him. He slowly stepped back and admired his handy work.

"Rose get inside the ball!" said the Doctor bouncing on his feet.

She sat her teddy bear down on the floor and crawled into the ball. He closed it and pushed the ball down the alley listening to Rose squeal as she rolled down knocking the pens down in one roll.

Rose got out of the ball slightly dizzy. "That was fun! My turn!" She turned and fixed the pens and rolled the ball down next to the Doctor. "Get inside, look out you'll get dizzy!"

He smiled and quickly got into the ball. Rose smiled, her tongue between her teeth and she pushed the ball. She laughed hearing him scream as he rolled down the alley. Rose knocked down three pins.

"I get to roll again Doctor!" said Rose and rolled him back and pushed the ball again only knocking over one.

"I'm getting very dizzy!" said the Doctor as he rolled back down the ale knocking over the rest of pens.

Rose watched in amusement as he got out of the ball only to fall down onto the floor. She busted out into a fit of uncontrollable laughter when he tried to stand up only to fall back down onto the ground.

The Doctor rolled over onto his back and laughed daring not to move until the room stopped spinning. Rose crawled over and laid down next the man and smiled. It had been awhile since had been bowling, but human bowling was a good laugh.

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