A/N - Yay! Chapter 9! Sorry for the big gap where all the action is. I'm lazy and want to get to the mind blowing part. Your minds will be blown, promise. Well at least I hope so. Then I'm doing my "job" right xD. Someone kinda guessed what I'm going to be doing...I hope that they are the only one though...
Disclaimer : Still not mine...
One Month Later…
Rose sat up in her hotel room in Lincoln, Nebraska. The headache she's had for the last few days had yet to pass. She was sure it wasn't too serious, she knew that she couldn't die. She found out the hard way. She and the Doctor had visited the Americas, due to his shoty driving, they ended up in the middle of a battle in the Civil War. Sadly, their rifles weren't that accurate then and Rose found that out the hard way.
She had thought it was just something to do with the Silence, given how they mess with your brain, it's bound to do some damage. That made her look at her arm for the twentieth time that week. She had a blank spot for each tally, or group of tallies, on her arm, they agreed to mark their arms whenever they saw one, or more. A blank spot for each one, except for one. There was one blank spot that was there without a corresponding tally. The day after she noticed that blank spot, her headache began. It had grown in intensity over the last few days. Without contact with the others, however, she had no idea if they were having the same symptoms or not. She sighed, and got up from the bed to go about her daily activities. She had two months until she would see the Doctor again. He said this plan would be the best one. He had never explained it though. She shook her head to herself as she got ready for a shower.
Two months later…
Rose ran. She had to make it convincing. She knew that they were there, even if the only noise she could hear was her own breathing and her footsteps on the concrete of L.A.'s back alleys. Her head throbbed with the pressure in her skull. All she could do was ignore it as she hopped over the hood of a police car. She continued running until she reached a chain link fence, blocking the straight route she'd been taking. The alley opened to her left, but when she turned to go down it, she saw a Silent standing there. It rattled and pointed the middle of its three fingers at her. She stared right back into its hollow eyes. She felt no fear, she knew it wasn't attacking. She had seen and felt a Silent's attack before. It had happened right before her headache began. She quickly added a tally onto her exposed midriff, making a total of 910.
The sounds of sirens to her left caused her to turn. She tried to run but stilled at the sound of guns being cocked. Through the glare of the headlights, she could see two figures heading towards her. One she recognized as Canton, the other looked like a coroner. He held something in his hands, she tried to look shocked, but she knew what was going to happen.
"It's the end of the line Ms. Tyler." Canton called, pulling out his own gun.
"It's never over. Look at me and the Doctor. He always thinks he's rid of me." She laughed. She glared at him as he pulled the hammer back on his revolver. "Speaking of him, you know he's going to be very cross with you when he finds out right?"
"Oh, I don't think he'll be a problem." He smirked before he fired. While he was using tranquilizers with the other three, Rose had insisted on real bullets. She knew that she couldn't die and it would help in case anyone wanted to make sure that she was dead.
When Rose woke up, she was in a black cube with the Doctor kneeling over her. He smiled when he saw her eyes open, he was never too sure about this whole "fixed point in time" thing.
"Hello." He greeted her, brushing some of her hair out of her face.
"Doctor?" She asked. She was never sure that the Doctor ever had facial hair. With the two past bodies she had traveled with, they always seemed to never have any stubble. The Doctor she was looking at know really looked like he was imprisoned, his beard had grown out a couple of inches and so had his hair, which flopped over quite a bit now.
"That's what I said." Amy joked as she leaned against the wall of the cube. "He looks to be back to his raggedy man status."
"Oi. It's not that bad." The Doctor joked right back at her, running his hand through his beard. "I think it's rather-"
"Nope. Stop there, if you keep going with that sentence, we'll never be rid of it." Rory groaned.
"Where's River?" Rose asked, looking about.
"Yeah, about that…" Canton began. The Doctor stood up and turned to him. "She sorta "fell" off the fiftieth floor of a skyscraper."
The Doctor walked around the cube and leaned sideways, falling on an invisible TARDIS. She snapped opening the doors. "Don't worry, she does that." Rory helped Rose out of her body bag as they all shuffled inside. The Doctor was already asking Canton about the date and location this happened. "Amy, Rory, Rose please go and open all the doors to the swimming pool." He called out and they ran off to do their assigned duty. Not two seconds after they opened every door possible, River came crashing through, her body stretched into a backwards dive. Rose laughed when she realized that River knew the Doctor so well. A little too well, thank you very much, she thought as she helped River out of the pool. The Doctor came traipsing in, with a rather large and fluffy towel in hand.
"I think this is your noisiest entrance yet." He joked as he passed her the towel.
"You know me, love a grand entrance." She smiled as she began drying her hair. "I suppose I should get out of these clothes." She said, glancing down at her soaked dress. "I suppose my room is in the same spot?"
"Yes." He replied, nodding.
"Next to yours?" her eyes slid to Rose's face before they were back on the Doctor's.
"I thought I answered that with the first yes." He said, sounding annoyed. He turned and walked in the direction, Rose assumed, of the console room.
"You never know with the TARDIS exploding and the universe resetting. The rooms might've been shifted around a bit." She shot back before turning and heading to her room to change. Rose stared after her in shock. After everything she had gone through with the Doctor, before the universe reset, her room was never even in the same hallway as his. She doubted that this woman was anything but 'just a friend' to the Doctor. She wondered where her room was now, she had yet to find it. With the immortality she had gained, she had lost the need to sleep as much. She only slept a few hours every three weeks or so, and when she did it was usually in the library behind a book. She didn't have time to ask Amy or Rory anything about it though, for the Doctor was calling them to the console room.
Rose sat back in the jump seat, feeling the most guilt she had ever felt. After Canton had gone with the house's caretaker, it was her idea for her and Amy to split up. It was her fault that Amy was taken by the Silence and had God knows what done to her. At the moment, River was off somewhere in the TARDIS, the Doctor was saying farewell to Nixon and Canton, and Amy was walking over after reconciling with Rory.
"Scooch." She ordered Rose and pointed at her feet. Rose sighed and placed her feet on the floor, allowing the woman room to sit. Rose opened her mouth to apologize again but Amy held up a hand to stop her. "Oh no you don't." she said with a frown. "It wasn't your fault. It probably would've happened anyway, only they didn't have both of us." She paused while she grinned. "I would've loved to have seen what the Doctor would've done if both of us were taken." She paused again, thinking.
Rose took this chance to say, "Thanks and that would've been funny to see. He's never reacted well to things happening to me." Amy turned and gave her a hard look. "A-as well as his other companions. He takes good care of us." She added quickly, feeling her face begin to burn.
"You and him. What's the deal with you two?"
"What do you mean?" Rose tried to ask innocently. Tried to anyway.
"Oh come on. I've seen the looks you give him when he's not looking. Don't say there the looks good friends give each other. You and me know that friends would never give each other looks like that."
"We are just friends. While we are on the topic of the Doctor and his romantic life, do you know what is going on between him and River? I asked him a while ago but I don't think he gave an honest answer." She asked, changing the topic smoothly. Before Amy had the chance to answer, however, the Doctor came rushing in. River appeared at the same time, saying that it was time for her to go. He nodded and began piloting the TARIDS. They were soon back at River's jail cell and she and the Doctor were heading out, he instructed the others to stay inside.
"What if we want to say good-bye to River?" Rory asked the closed door, rolling his eyes. The scanner popped on as if the TARDIS was saying, this is the best you're gonna get. It had no sound with it but the three of them gathered around for no real reason. It was just something to do.
"So Amy, as you were about to say a little while ago?" Rose asked, turning her head slightly in Amy's direction, not taking her eyes off of the screen.
"Oh, right. Well, apparently, she's the Doctor's wife." She said, no idea of the amount that it effected Rose. What made it worse was that Amy had impeccable timing. Right when she said that, River pulled the Doctor in for a kiss. Rose felt her heart drop to her feet. The only redeeming factor was that the Doctor looked very uncomfortable. But Rose remembered what he had said about their time lines. This may have been the first time this has happened for him, but the millionth time for her.
Rose felt like a teenager again as she wandered the TARDIS hallways, looking for solace. She didn't care if she was being melodramatic, because she knew she was. She continued wandering, unsure of how far she had come. She stopped at the end of a hallway, a pink and yellow door stood in front of her. Her heart lurched when she recognized the familiar design. She opened the door and smiled when she found it in the same condition she had left it in all those years ago. She closed the door and fell onto her bed, hoping to dream of times when it was just her and him.
Angsty? Yes, I hope so. Thanks to everyone who reviewed and have been reviewing! I really do LOVE reading your reviews! Even if it's a question about a certain part that I didn't clarify that well feel free to review or PM me about it and I'll try to clear it up!
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