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Rose was leaning back in the sofa holding a pack of ice against her head, Donna was sitting beside her while Martha was busy stitching up the wounds the Doctor got while fighting of the alien.
Peter and Mickey were in the basement, locking the alien up until it would wake up again and Jackie was upstairs checking on John.
Even though everybody was busy doing something else the same thing was on their minds though.
The events of that evening and the events that may lie in the future because it was very certain that this alien wasn't the only one of his group.
"You okay?" The Doctor asked while turning to Rose who nodded.
"Yeah just a bit shaken. It's going to take more than one alien who takes me by surprise to take down this girl. I've had worse."
The Doctor smiled letting memories of other events when things got really close go through his mind.
Still, it only took one second, one second and things could go really wrong.
He wasn't planning to lose her again.
Martha stood up and walked towards Rose, checking on her one last time.
"I think you might have a light concussion so that means bed rest for you missy. Not allowed to run with the aliens for two weeks or so. Doctor's orders."
"Two doctor's orders." The Doctor responded.
"And when did your orders stop me from doing anything?"
At the same time Jackie entered the room again.
"Since they're your mother's orders as well." She then turned towards the Doctor. "How the hell is it possible? We manage to have years… years that didn't include any major alien-things and you're back for a day or two and here they are. You're just one big pack of trouble aren't you?"
She was about to slap him but the fact that he was still wearing his suit that was ripped and had blood scatters on it stopped her from doing that.
He already had enough for one night in her opinion.
"I'm not trouble, that thing downstairs is trouble. I'm just the man who cleans up the trouble."
"Well that thing downstairs is dead." Pete said while entering the room followed by Mickey.
"I'm sorry doctor."
At first the doctor was disappointed to say the least, if they had managed to question the alien he might have found a way to get him, Rose, Donna and Martha away from here safely.
But than again who said the alien would say anything if they had the chance.
"It's not your fault." The Doctor spoke while looking at Mickey. "I'm going to take a look on it, seeing if it's really dead. Than I think it's best we prepare ourselves, I bet that he wasn't just the only one of them."
Pete, Donna, Jackie and Mickey jumped up to take care of that and soon only Martha and Rose were the only one left in the room.
There were a few moments of silence before Rose decided she would be the first one to speak.
"I… I didn't had a chance…to euhm…thank you."
Martha looked up and stared at Rose wanting to say something but Rose hadn't finished talking yet.
"You were there for the Doctor when I wasn't there, you made sure he wasn't drifting alone in the universe all by himself. Thank you so much for that."
Martha stared at Rose and smiled.
This Rose truly was a sweet girl, maybe Donna was right indeed.
It might be hard but the least she could do was an effort.
"You never truly abandoned him. You were always there, he would mention you, or sometimes he would go real quiet and have this look in his eyes, I'm sure he was thinking of you then and you were in his dreams as well. I know because there was this time he had to turn into a human form to escape some aliens. He had forgotten completely who he was or who I was or anything from his life before that. He was convinced that he was John Smith, history teacher in 1915. But he kept this diary because sometimes his true life would come back to him in his dreams and in there, there was a picture of you he had drawn himself. He had forgotten who he was but it wasn't strong enough to take the dreams he had about you away from him."
Okay, so maybe that speech was a bit too much of an effort but it helped though.
Because Rose was staring at her, there was a thankful look in her eyes alongside a few tears that had appeared.
"Thank you."
Meanwhile downstairs in the basement the Doctor was looking at the corpse in front of him, lying on the floor.
"Guess you're not going to tell me anything isn't big fellow?"
He went down on his knees and stared at the creature, there was no doubt about it that it was dead.
He got up again when he noticed something on the creatures arm, a bracelet identical to the ones the Slitheen wore.
The Doctor started to think, the Shivereen weren't exactly known for using the skins of their victims while the Slitheen did and than there was the fact that the Shivereen were using the same technology.
The Doctor took his sonic screwdriver and tried to open the creature's skin, discovering a dead Slitheen underneath it.
"Guess I was wrong, there never even were more Shivereen where there?" he asked to no one in particular.
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"So Slitheen are disguising themselves into other creatures now?" Mickey asked the Doctor. "Well that can't be good right?"
Everyone had gathered in the living room again where the doctor had told the story.
"No, Mickey, that's not good at all. It means they're up to something big, and with big I mean XXL big. I suggest we all take a good night of sleep, because I have this idea that we're going to need our energy in the future."
The Doctor had his arm around Rose who was resting her head against his shoulder.
"I'm going to call Jake first, we might need his help."
"Good idea."
Once everyone was upstairs the Doctor walked to Rose's bedroom again, she was lying in her bed, right awake.
"You okay?"
"Yeah just can't sleep because of this head ache."
The doctor nodded and went to sit on the side of her bed.
"You need to rest. I'm not going to send you battling Slitheen. Just stay in bed okay. You have a concussion, that's not the same as some cold you know."
Rose smiled at him and grabbed his hand.
"I promise, just stay with me tonight okay."
The Doctor nodded, and went to lay beside her, taking her in his arms.
"Doctor?"
"Yes?"
"I'm not going to battle any Slitheen but you must promise me to be really careful, If something would happen to you I'd never forgive myself."
"Rose you know me, I'm Mr. safety."
They both started to laugh.
I made Martha's character a bit more friendly towards Rose because they can't keep arguing with the threat that's there.
Hope you liked it :p
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