Chapter 7
Honesty and Discoveries
Rose had finished her shower and dried off, she pulled her long hair around to the front of her body and began to brush her hair, as she did she felt a slight tingling sensation on the back of her neck as the chain attached to her TARDIS key rubbed. She turned her head to the side to try and catch whatever it was in the mirror, she could barely see it, but noticed that it looked like an intricate variation of a figure eight.
"TARDIS, how did I get this, I don't remember getting a tattoo or anythin?"
"That child is the Seal of Rassilon, the symbol of the Time Lords."
"But, why do I have it, I know you said that I was like the Doctor but..." the TARDIS interrupted as she spoke.
"Rose, you have no idea just how special you are, not just to the Doctor and myself, but to the Universe. You carry the Seal of Rassilon not only because it represents your people, but because you and the Doctor are the last of your kind, it is also represents that power you both hold."
"Power? But I don't have any power, I'm sorry TARDIS, I know I should understand but I don't." she could feel the sting of tears in the back of her eyes.
"It is alright, Rose, I did not expect you to understand, tell me child how is it that you believe you returned to us?"
"I don't know, I just assumed that it was you."
The TARDIS hummed with great amusement at this notion.
"I am truly flattered that you believe me to possess such great power, but no it was not I"
"Then how?"
"You, Rose, you brought yourself here."
"But how could I have done that? I mean the Doctor once said that only the Time Lords could move between dimensions, well back when there were more than one that is."
"That is true, dear one, and you, the clever thing that you are called out to the most powerful thing in all of creation, you alone called forth the spirit of Rassilon himself. Your loyalty and most importantly your love awakened the God of the Time Lords. You Rose Tyler bear the mark of the creator. You and the Doctor represent all that was, all that is and all there ever could be, you are the past, the present and the future. The Bad Wolf and the Oncoming Storm together for all eternity."
Rose sat silently thinking, the song that was it, that was how she did it, she poured all her thought and feeling and sent it out to anyone who would hear it, the sheer magnitude of everything that had happened, slowly seeping in, a lot to absorb really, besides, its not everyday that you get marked by the God of all Time and Space, and are told that you represent the future of a nearly all but dead species. She thought about it a little more and then looked up into the ceiling as she spoke to the TARDIS.
"Well then, I think it's time I went and found his high n mighty Time Lordliness and slap im'."
The TARDIS hummed in amused and affirmation, and Rose left her room to find the Doctor.
She found said Time Lord jammed as far as he possibly could get under the console, the TARDIS had taken quite a liking to randomly zapping him for being such a jerk, Rose smiled when the TARDIS told her this. He hadn't noticed her leaning back on console on the opposite site of the rotor, and she marvelled at the expletives coming from his mouth, in the past the TARDIS had just downright refused to translate for her, along with the data on the monitors, which she now understood perfectly well, this wasn't the TARDIS choice not to let her see the monitors, the Doctor had asked her not to translate any Gallifreyan to her or anyone else on board. Rose didn't have any choice now, not that she was upset, not at all in fact, she found it incredibly entertaining that she knew what he was saying, while he himself remained completely oblivious to it. She also wasn't willing to part with the fact that she could feel his emotions and could now fly the TARDIS on her own, without his help, a gift from the TARDIS as long as she promised to not beat her with that damned mallet, and try to stop him too if she could.
Finally he emerged from under the console and leaned heavily against it as he stroked the Time Rotor. Rose couldn't help herself.
"Would you two like to be alone?" Rose asked cheekily, biting down on her tongue.
The TARDIS shook as though she was laughing, remembering when Rose had told her about herself and Sarah Jane, and the look of absolute horror on his face after walking in on them laughing at his expense.
The Doctor glared up at the TARDIS as he recalled the events of that particular moment.
"Very funny, why is it that whenever two of my companions are in the same room there's always a laugh at my expense."
He looked at Rose through the green of the rotor, he couldn't imagine another time when she had looked more beautiful. She began to make her way around the console, trailing her fingers along the cool metal as she came to stand at the Doctor's side. He just stood as though he was glued to the spot and watched her, not knowing what he had done to deserve her, because he knew he didn't.
"Why don't you let me decide that Doctor?" she said cautiously taking his hand and locking his fingers in between her own.
"Are you reading my thoughts Rose Tyler?" he said with a hit of amusement.
"No, I just know you is all."
It was a down right lie, and she knew it. He seemed to realise this and a smirk began to creep across his face as he reached over to tuck a piece of her hair behind her ear.
"Then tell me, Rose" he paused for a moment as he dropped his head to brush his lips across her earlobe and continued.
"Why is it that I don't believe you?"
She closed her eyes as a tingle ran up her spine, her body shuddering slighlty as his cool breath rushed across her ear and neck.
He laughed and pulled back to look at her face just as her eyes flew open. Two can play at that game she thought as reached for his tie, and pulled him gently towards her so that her lips were mere millimetres from his own. She did nothing just contented that she could feel his double pulse quicken at her close proximity and could quite clearly hear the galloping beat of his two hearts. For a moment she could have sworn he was going to close the distance between them, but true to form he backed away stuffing one hand in his trouser pockets, the other defaulting through his hair to rest on the back of his neck as he began to babble.
"So, now that your back where should be go first, we could go back to New Earth, shame what happened there though, nearly the entire population where wiped out by emotions, well, when I say emotions what I mean is patches working much to the effects of those emotions but more drug related in presentation of symptoms, Bliss it was called if I remember correctly, Oh and we saw the Face of Boe again, quite sad actually, we watched him die, huh, turns out Jack won't live forever."
He turned to face Rose who remained motionless, save for the tears that streamed down her face and she turned to run out of the console room.
"Rose?"
"Rose! Wait!"
She stopped, but didn't turn around. He spun around and began pacing up and down beside the console, streaming line after line in his native tongue as he tried to find the words to explain to her why he was doing what he was doing, he loved her and he was trying to protect her from himself, from what he did, what he's capable of.
"I know you are, alright I know!!! I know your just tryin to protect me but I've said it before and I'll say it one last time, I love you and I'm never gonna leave you, so let me decide!!! I know what I want and that's you!!! It's time for you to decide what it is that you want!!!"
"What??!!!"
"You heard me Doctor, tell me what you want!!!!!" she screamed back at him.
"No no, I heard that but how did you kno..." he was cut off and as she spoke, it was the most beautiful sound, a sound he hadn't heard bar from his own lips in nearly 300 years.
"Héru S hir -eva Q lúme S lú. Yallume -eva cín Q nostale. Nin Ereb Meen, Nin Meleth, Nin Gald, Estel. Le Nin Mellon, Nin Ore, Nin Amar.."
She sighed and repeated it to him so the meanings would not be lost in translation.
"Lord of Time. Last of your kind. My lonely one, my love, my light and hope.
You are my friend, my heart, my home."
He was completely dumbfounded, speachless to say the very least, which for him he thought 'that was a first'. Rose felt this thought wash over her.
"I'll say it is" she said.
"Now please just tell me, Doctor, do you want me or not, cause I've waited a hundred years for you, but I can't wait any longer."
She waited for him to speak, but after a few moments of silence she was sure that she had got her answer and turned to walk away.
"I want you, Rose."
"What?" she said barely above a murmur.
"I want you if you'll have me, but I have to warn you my life is dangerous, I'm dangerous, I can't protect you from everything Rose."
"Of course I'll have you ya stupid git!! I didn't rip through the void just because I felt like it. For 120 years I've lived a meaningless and empty existence because I didn't have you, You have to be the dumbest intelligent person in the whole of Time and Space Doctor."
She was rewarded with that big heart melting, god damn sexy grin of his. And she ran towards him and launched herself into his arms.
"Oh God I've missed you Rose." he whispered into her ear holding her tighter.
"I love you, My Doctor." she breathed into his shoulder not willing to let go in case he should slip away..
"I'm not going anywhere, I love you too Rose, my dear sweet Rose."
As soon as she heard those words, those three little words her heart soared, holding tight to him, her family, her life as her eyes closed she drifted off to sleep.