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It was a couple of days before the Master reappeared in their tiny room. The Doctor and Rose had a chance to recover from their wounds. Rose finally started to feel like herself again. They discussed escape plans, going to planets the Doctor still hadn't taken her, and on a rare occasion the Doctor would ask her how she was doing.
"I'm fine," she replied rolling her eyes slightly at the Doctor.
He smiled at her, "No, really, Rose how are you doing?"
She frowned, he could always see through her responses. "I still get small headaches now and then and I have odd dreams. But Doctor, I really am fine, I am just ready to get back to the TARDIS and off this ship." Rose gave a small sigh.
"I may be able to help," the Doctor quipped, "but you would have to be ok with me going into your head, I won't push as hard as the Master did, I will just hideaway the rest of the time vortex further into like it used to be, it would help the headaches and dreams." The Doctor searched Rose's eyes for a response. As the Doctor started to move towards her she held up her hand and he stopped on the spot.
"Wait, if you hide it and the Master goes searching for it again won't it make it hurt more for me? He will be mad, he will hurt you again." Rose said looking at the ground, when she looked up at the Doctor, who was frowning a bit, tears threatened to spill out.
As the Doctor looked back at Rose, he rushed to her and pulled her into a hug. As soon as he did, Rose started sobbing, she could no longer hold back the tears. The Doctor scooped her up into her arms and carried her to the bed. He sat down next to her and held her while she sobbed into his shoulder.
"It will be all right Rose. We will get out of this and I'm here, I will always be here for you." The Doctor said quietly to Rose. He pushed back her hair out of her face and tucked it behind her ears. Roe's tears slowed as she took comfort in the Doctor. She was surprised that he was holding her as close as he was, but she was happy with it, it made her feel like he would be there to pick up the pieces if the Master hurt her.
"Doctor," She said as she looked up at him. "I am not sure how much longer we are going to be stuck here, but I am glad you are here with me." She snuggled a bit closer. The Doctor did not seem to mind as she got closer to him.
"Question, what happens if the Master does pull out the time vortex that you said is in my head? Will it do anything bad to me?" Rose asked.
The Doctor clicked his tongue, thinking. "Well, I don't think it would have adverse affects to you except maybe a very bad headache. But if the Master got it out, he could either use it to rewrite time, destroy planets, etc or the power would kill him, as it did me. However, this is less then what I pulled out, my hope is that it would be smart enough to hide from him even if he pulled it out. I am not sure how it works or what would happen if it got pulled out, but let us just hope that it doesn't happen." He glanced down at Rose. "Well at least you are feeling better. I see no more tears." He smiled at her. Rose smiled back.
"True, thank you for making me feel better. Do you have a plan in that head of yours yet?" Rose asked.
"Oh Rose, of course I do, in fact part of it has already been implemented, but best not talk about it, I bet we are being recorded."
Just then the door opened and the Master walked in. "Oh very right you are Doctor, of course you are being recorded. Now aren't you two all cute and cuddly and now I get to ruin it." As he walked towards the bed he shot the Doctor with his sonic laser in the stomach. The Doctor fell off the bed clutching his stomach.
"No! Why did you do that?" Cried Rose, she started to go to him when the Master grabbed her wrist.
"I needed some time alone with you dear Rose, it is much easier to just incapacitate him." He pulled Rose roughly off the bed and as she fought hard trying to go check on the Doctor.
"Stop resisting or I will just hurt him again, not sure if he could take much more without regenerating. And you know he is so weak after doing so." The Master smiled at Rose. She immediately stopped resisting and let herself be pulled along. As they got to the door, the Doctor groaned.
"Rose?" His eyes fluttered open just in time to see Rose being pulled out of the room by the Master. He immediately shot up, ignoring the screams of pain from his body and ran to the door, but it was locked and Rose was gone. He pounded on the door, but knew it was no good. He paced back and forth in the room and waited.
'What is he doing with her right now, is she ok, I am so stupid for not dodging his sonic laser' these thoughts raced in the Doctor's head. An hour and a half later Rose was tossed roughly back into the room. She fell on the floor in a heap.
The Doctor ran to her as the door shut once again. "Rose? Rose!" 'Oh come on,' he thought 'I will never forgive myself if something happens to her.' "Please Rose, wake up."
Rose gave a small moan and the Doctor sighed in relief. He gently picked her up, not knowing what was wrong with her and placed her on the bed. Rose's eyes fluttered before she opened to look at the Doctor.
"Hi," she said weakly.
"Save your strength, Rose." The Doctor responded. "Sleep now, I will watch over you, I promise." His eyes darkened. Whatever the Master did to Rose made the Doctor even more angry. He couldn't keep this up much longer before Rose died or the Doctor did something that could jeopardize the entire planet just to save her. 'But she is worth it,' he thought. 'She is my Rose and I am hers.'