When Approaching an Ancient
Abby Ebon
Disclaimer: Incase anyone has forgotten- I do not own Stargate: SG-1 nor Doctor Who belongs to me I'm using this for my- and hopefully your entertainment. Enjoy- but do not sue. Thank you.
When they went back at the base they found out what had happened, the Doctor seemed to take it well. Then he shut himself up in the TARDIS and Rose knew him better then to think he was just 'fixing' the TARDIS.
She knew that his thoughts had to be on what the Gadmeer had offered him. His people back, that he would be the last no longer, the mental connections with his people. Something he had let slip when they had encountered the last of the Daleks.
At least she hoped he had been referring to a mental like with his people, which made her wonder if her Doctor was physic. If he was she hoped that humans were too 'primitive' for him to understand- as much as she would be in awe of such a connection with him. The thought of having no secretes- or privet thoughts, would indeed be an annoying thing for her.
She hadn't been surprised when the door to the TARDIS had been locked- this was a military base after all. Though that let her know that the Doctor wanted to be left alone, and she would let him think- at least for a little while.
The rest- SG-1 and Hammond seemed surprised that he wasn't hovering over her. She knew her Doctor too well to be worried that he might abandon her here- after all he had admitted he loved her.
Therefore she decided she was hungry and knowing the Doctor he hadn't eaten sense they had gotten here, and that would mean the Doctor was probably hungry too.
Now…If only she could find the cafeteria.
"Excuse me, Rose wasn't it?" It was Daniel, she nodded and he grinned continuing.
"I was wondering if you or the Doctor were hungry." Daniel asked with an earnest expression on his face, Rose wondered if he was physic too. Could be, after all the man had pretty much diverted an alien race and people from being destroyed and reunited the people with their home planet.
Granted he had help from the Gadmeer, but still the man deserved a fair amount of credit in her opinion.
"Yes actually, but I don't know where the cafeteria is, could you take me there?" Rose asked with her best grin, Daniel nodded, and Rose could of sworn she had seen a light flush color his skin but when she looked again it was gone.
Rose didn't know why but she was unsurprised to see the rest of SG-1 in the cafeteria and that Daniel was leading her to their selected seats. It seemed she would be sitting between Carter and Teal'c for Daniel had settled between O'Neill and Teal'c.
"So how long have you been traveling with the Doctor?" Carter asked attempting and failing to sound nonchalant. Daniel got up again apparently going to get her food.
"Well I don't really know time somehow feels like it flies by when I'm with the Doctor. My mom told me I had been gone for a year once even though it seemed like only a day had passed for me." Rose tried to explain, though she was very unwilling to go into details.
"You must have seen some pretty amazing stuff if the TARDIS can go through both time and space. Ever been on another planet?" Jack asked, toying with his food.
It was obvious they were trying very hard not to let her feel as if she was being interrogated, and from the way they were letting her answers go without questioning it further spoke worlds about what they wanted to drill her on.
"Sometimes, but they aren't really like the one we came from, one of the ones that was my favorite had a yellow sky and purple clouds. The sun was crimson and huge in the sky it had two yellow twins though- and it had an unbelievably beautiful sunrise and sunset." Rose babbled as Daniel appeared again and set soup and a sandwich- with grape juice before her. So she deducted it was lunch.
"Oh, did you ever run into the inhabitants? Did the Doctor ever tell you its name?" Carter asked looking eager to learn more. Rose was partly glad the Doctor never had as she shook her head in a no. She was happy that they hadn't asked when- 70 billion years in the future wouldn't have been very helpful information.
"Have you ever heard of a Goa'uld before?" Teal'c asked, again an easy question, she quickly shook her head and bit into her sandwich. Carter and Daniel glanced between each other.
They must be wondering how it was that the Doctor, who she traveled with had heard of Goa'uld and perhaps encountered them, yet had never mentioned them to his companion.
Were they really so dense as to believe the Goa'uld were the only dangerous aliens in the universe? Perhaps they had yet to encounter them, but Rose hoped that she would never get so caught up in one enemy as to forget the others.
"So what do you know?" O'Neill asked apparently having surpassed his patience with the lack of information. Rose took a page from the Doctor's book- when you don't want to answer grin, make a joke of it- and run or walk quickly away.
"Don't know what do you know?" Rose asked with a raised eyebrow as she hurriedly left the cafeteria, bringing the soup with her for the Doctor while leaving the rest for SG-1 to clean up.
Rose had a feeling that if she had stuck around much longer she wouldn't have gotten the 'baby interrogation' much longer. The TARDIS was still locked, but she had no need to knock for the Doctor had given her, the other key to the TARDIS.
Slipping it out of her pocket and glancing around to ensure no one was watching- which no one was. Rose entered the TARDIS, and wasn't surprised to see the Doctor fiddling with the TARDIS's connections.
"Doctor I brought soup!" Rose called, as she turned to set it down. She wasn't surprised to hear his footsteps come closer and for him to settle onto his chair with the soup, stirring it occasionally with the spoon she had brought along.
"Thanks Rose." He whispered it, but it echoed surprisingly well and she heard it none the less.
"No problem Doctor, how are you doing?" Rose asked as she looked around the TARDIS, which she never got tired of doing. Beautiful and eerily as it was, it felt more like home then anywhere else she had ever lived.
"I'll be alright I just never thought I'd hear that from a Gadmeer. Never, thought I'd ever see a Furling again." The Doctor muttered as he sipped from his soup, Rose wondered if the Doctor would choose to let the Time Lords rest or to bring them back. Either way she'd support him.
"So did you find the cafeteria alright?" The Doctor asked, glancing at the soup as if realizing it was in fact there, then to her in time to see her slightly upset expression. Rose knew he'd know something had gone wrong and wouldn't let things go until she told him.
"Daniel led me there; he was real sweet- got me the sandwich and soup." Rose had she been anyone else would have caught the flash of jealously that spread across the Doctor's face for an instant.
"The rest of the SG-1 was there too, and I sat there, didn't think they'd be so insistent to know what I know. Though if the truth be told, I don't know too much." Rose hurried to reassure him that Daniel wasn't the problem- as her Doctor looked about ready to go find him and do something unpleasant.
At this news the Doctor looked angry. Rose tilted her head at him a curious expression spreading across her face.
"I told them to leave you out of this." The Doctor grumbled upset that they had dared question Rose. Rose didn't have anything to say to that so she remained silent waiting for the Doctor to finish his soup so they could go out.
The Doctor knew though that if he was honest with himself he knew there was more to it then that.
The Doctor was upset with himself that he had let her far enough out of his sight to get questioned. Although he knew Rose wouldn't have stood for being shut up in the TARDIS while he brooded.
AN: Hope this double post makes up for the long wait.
