**Notes: So, this chapter gets this site caught up with the one I started posting this on. Now I'm just waiting for editing to get more to you. Soon, I promise! Eventually, I'll probably be following the show but with different characters and stuff, so I've been avoiding things like Gallifrey, Missy and the Xmas episode for now... I might drift away from the show eventually, since I'm not a big fan of the directions that Moffat tends to go.**

Chapter Seven – Lost

The next day, all three time travellers could feel an overpowering euphoria flowing through them. The Doctors could barely believe that anything so wonderful could ever happen to them. They felt completely undeserving of Rose and everything she was giving.

"What do you think, darling?" Evander asked while flicking switches on the console. "Shall we set the controls to random today?"

Rose grinned at him. It was delightful to see the change that had come over him just from having them here. "Feeling lucky today, are you?" Rose teased as she descended the stairs into the room.

Both Doctors smirked in response and Alex answered, "We're both feeling like the luckiest bastards in the universe today."

"Well then, random it is!" Rose said as she twirled the randomizer with a flourish.

The trio performed their usual dance around the console room. Rose was quickly learning how to pilot the TARDIS and every trip had her participating a little more confidently. They landed with the usual thump and smiled at each other excitedly. With a Doctor on each arm, Rose led them out on a new adventure.

Outside the doors of the TARDIS, they were greeted with an unfamiliar landscape. The sky was deep blue, but they couldn't see any moon or stars. While it was dark, it didn't give the impression of being night. The ground was paved with rough, grey stones and in front of them was a tall stone wall that appeared to go on forever in both directions with no turns or openings. Thinking this was odd, they all turned to look behind the TARDIS and found that there was another wall that seemed to run parallel to the other with approximately four metres between them.

"This is very strange," Alex said as he looked around confusedly. "Have you see anything like this place before?" he asked Evander.

"No, I haven't," he said thoughtfully. Suddenly they both doubled over in pain and cried out. There was a horrible burning in their minds and it was several difficult minutes before they finally managed to open their eyes to their worst nightmare; Rose was gone. They both reached out to her mentally, despite the pain they still felt, but found that they seemed to be in some sort of fog.

"Telepathic dampening field?" Evander speculated.

"It must be," Alex answered with his eyes still closed. He seemed to be forcefully trying to follow his connection to Rose. "She's alive, but she's scared and I think being cut off like this is hurting her too."

"I'm only getting vague feelings from her and even that's faint," Evander grumbled angrily. ~'Can you still hear me?'~ he thought towards Alex, but got no reply. "I don't think we can even communicate with each other."

Alex seemed to focus again and sighed as he opened his eyes once more. "You're right." Alex rubbed his hand over his face as he studied the wall in front of them again, looking for any indications of where they could get through. "She's that way, for sure," he said as he pointed straight towards the wall in front of them. "But how do we get to her? Only feeling strong emotions, we can't even send her reassurance. This shouldn't be possible with the kind of bond we share! Nothing should be able to block it." He was pacing angrily and Evander reached out to grab his arm.

"Enough of that, pretty boy!" the older Doctor admonished as he pulled him to a stop. "Rose needs us and worrying about what's possible or not, isn't going to help. Now, let's find a way through this bloody wall."

As he said it, a large set of wooden doors appeared in the wall in front of them and opened with a loud creak. The Doctors looked at each other with raised eyebrows before turning their attention to the newly revealed area. Through the doors, they saw a garden area and cautiously walked through the doors together.

The garden was surrounded by walls just like the one they had passed through and there were stone pathways running through the garden beds. While the shapes of the plants seemed to vary quite wildly, the colours were all exactly the same shades of grey and dark blue. The plants seemed as though they were thriving except that the whole colour scheme looked as if it were dull and filtered, just like their telepathy. There were no animals or insects and it was deathly quiet.

Rose had been looking at the tall stone walls and contemplating their importance when she suddenly felt herself transported. She immediately crumbled to the ground as a wave of nausea came over her and a burning pain flooded her mind. Rose curled up and clutched her head as she screamed. She expected her husbands to immediately come to her and somehow stop the pain, but they didn't. When she could finally bring herself to open her eyes, she was alone in a dark, wood panelled room. She was cushioned by soft, red carpet and tried desperately to reach for her Doctors telepathically.

She felt as though her link to them had been wrapped in cotton wool. She knew they were out there, somewhere, but couldn't push through to reach them. She felt their worry for her and frustration.

"Ok," she sighed to herself. "Let's see what I can do from here, then." Rose was not a damsel in distress that would wait around to be rescued. As she searched the room, she came to what looked like some sort of game board. There were strange symbols painted onto the smooth wooden surface. She was surprised that the TARDIS didn't translate the symbols, but thought that perhaps they weren't language at all. Then she remembered that her connection to her husbands had been almost completely cut off and maybe the translation matrix couldn't reach her mind either.

Rose touched the surface of the board and it immediately began to change shape as little square pieces of the board flicked into vertical positions and she was suddenly staring at a little wooden maze. It was similar to a marble game she had as a child where you had to tip the board to and fro to guide the marble through the labyrinth without it falling into the holes of the board. But there didn't appear to be any holes or marbles. There were, however, two game pieces that suddenly appeared at what she guessed was the start.

Looking over the rest of the board, there was a red cube, which she assumed was the goal for the game pieces. Rose reached for the brown game piece and tried to move it on the board, but found that she couldn't budge it at all. Unable to lift or even slide that piece, she tried grabbing the black piece and discovered that it was similarly stuck. She stared at the game board and wondered what she was supposed to do with it if she couldn't move the pieces around.

Pouting at the board in thought, she suddenly saw the two game pieces slide themselves into the maze and the little wooden squares that made up the labyrinth walls shifted into new positions around them. Rose was suddenly filled with dread, were those the Doctors? Was this game board to taunt her about their impossible search for her through an ever changing labyrinth? Who was responsible for this? Someone had started this game, put her husbands in danger and was making her watch.

The Doctors looked around the garden area for some villain to show himself and gloat over the hopelessness of their situation or lay out the rules for their inevitable torture, but there was no one to be found. The silence was overwhelming. There was no breeze, no animals, no foot steps, not even a grumbling monster to threaten them. The air didn't even smell like a garden. It smelled stale and dusty, as if the blossoming plants that they were seeing had dried out and died long ago.

They examined the area for any clues to what was expected of them to get Rose back, but found no written instructions or puzzles to solve. Seeing no other options, they moved towards the opening in the wall furthest from the entrance and found that they were faced with a maze of tall stone hallways standing between them and their wife.

"Up and over?" Evander asked as Alex wove his fingers together and braced himself to boost the other Doctor up. He put one hand on the wall and stepped into Alex's hands to reach up for the top of the wall, but hit an energy field and was knocked down by the shock to painfully land on his back. When Alex reached down to give him a hand up to his feet, they watched as the walls around them shifted and the passageway back to where they came in, disappeared.

"So," Alex began as he started pacing the small area. "We are telepathically cut off from our wife as we try to make our way through a labyrinth presumably to find her, there is a powerful force field blocking our escape, and the walls of the aforementioned labyrinth can change without warning. Am I missing anything?"

"I would say that's a fairly accurate assessment of the situation," Evander replied as he leaned against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest in a pose very reminiscent of the leather clad Doctor they had met recently. "Although, I might add that we don't know who is behind all this."

They felt Rose's mood shifting from her usual confidence in solving a problem to almost overwhelming worry and fear. The Doctors looked at each other with the Oncoming Storm swirling in both of their gazes.

"If we tried to link our minds together, do you think we might be able to reach her?" Alex asked.

"It's worth a try," Evander replied and they both reached for each other's temples.

The contact allowed their bond to each other to reestablish despite the telepathic dampening field and, as one, they reached towards Rose's mind. ~'Rose, love/darling! Can you hear me?'~ the dual voices of their minds called out.