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Yawning lightly and stretching a bit, Rose slowly blinks her eyes open and takes in her surroundings. She is in her room on the TARDIS, lying in her bed with Jack and the Doctor on either side of her. Grinning sheepishly from embarrassment, Rose asks, "So how'd we get out?"
This has both Jack and the Doctor furrowing their brows in confusion. She... She doesn't remember? The Doctor ends up the one to speak. "You don't remember?"
She shrugs. "I haven't the foggiest. All I remember is a huge pain in my head and then passing out. How did you two manage it, and where's the Master?"
At a loss for words, the Doctor looks closely at Rose, causing her to blush and look away... towards Jack while he explains uncomfortably, "Um... Rose, he's dead. You sort of started glowing gold, told him off, and... You placed your hand on his chest and the gold energy seemed to seep from you to him. Then, after you unlocked us, you passed out. You talked about him fully awakening you."
Rose pales as his words sunk in. "I... I killed him?" And, after that fact finishes sinking in, Rose begins to hyperventilate.
Desperately trying to calm her down, the Doctor fumbles in his pockets and pulls out a paper bag and hands it to her, making her breathe into it while saying, "Calm down, Rose. It's alright, I promise! Rose?"
Interrupting the Doctor's babbling, Jack begins calmly, "Rose, listen to me. For over one hundred years, you worked for Torchwood in the alternate Universe. You can tell me that you haven't once killed someone or something. And this is the exact same thing-you killed someone destructive, murderous, and insane. And, just like always, you saved innumerable lives by doing so. Just please realize that you did what you had to and it's done. Over. And it's right."
Letting Jack's words wash over her and realizing the truth in them, Rose calms down and begins to breath normally.
After a bit of silence, Rose speaks out, "How long was I out?"
Jack and the Doctor exchange a look that confuses Rose before the Doctor responds, "Just an hour. Actually, you should probably sleep a bit longer. It's been a long day."
Rose is curious to know whatever they aren't telling her but she is sure that they won't say right this moment. Yawning lightly, she replies, "Sure, Doctor. Good night Jack, good night Doctor." Then the two men leave her room, waving and calling their good byes as they exit.
Once in the hall, the two men look to each other with tense expressions. "She doesn't remember. I'm betting that she doesn't know anything about what she said in her sleep," says Jack.
The Doctor shakes his head. "You're probably correct. But we can worry about that later. For now, you should rest also. Good night Captain." Jack watches the Doctor turn and walk away, resisting the urge to ask him if he'd be sleeping at all that night, knowing that he wouldn't. Looking down at his feet, his mind traveling one hundred miles per minute, Jack walks towards his own bedroom aboard the TARDIS.
~~~Bad Wolf~~~
Bad Wolf lives,
Only while the Valiant Child survives.
When her Doctor fears,
She is awakened,
Legend is alive.
Three hundred years gone,
Still yet to come,
The Valiant child will die in battle soon,
And the Universes all mourn with great sacrifices.
From his fear she was born,
From his fear she awakened,
From his fear she will die,
From his fear she will rise.
The Oncoming Storm,
His lesson of Demons Run long forgotten,
Harsh with despair,
Hard and Cold.
When Doctor means Soldier,
This is the time,
And that is the cause.
Three hundred years gone,
And still yet to come,
The Valiant Child will die in battle so very soon,
When the Storm has come.
The Valiant Child,
The Eye of the Storm,
The Bad Wolf is Legend.
The Oncoming Storm,
Soon to arrive,
In to battle he rushes,
The Doctor will cause wounds.
When Doctor means Soldier,
all will be lost.
Valiant Child, Bad Wolf, and Legend,
Unify as one,
Awoken.
She is our hope,
She is our last chance.
But the Eye of the Storm,
When down on her knees,
Is to be swallowed whole.
Only Storm Remains.
~~~Bad Wolf~~~
Somewhere far, far away:
"We've come home, Doctor," comes the voice of an enemy long forgotten. And when no one can see them, they run.
Hi! Oh my, that was a very foreshadow-y chapter! Please let me know in a review if you liked it, and go ahead and take a guess at what some of it means! I'll update soon! Sorry it was so short!