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Chapter 10 - control
He studied the small clear try beneath his microscope intensely.
He was thankful that he always decided to keep a bottle of his blood after he regenerated, it gave him something to compare it too.
The slide he studied held a small drop of his own blood, fresh from a fue hours ago.
Something had definitely changed. He swapped back and forth from each slide of blood, comparing the tiny detales that a human would probably never have noticed.
This wasn't good.
Something inside him was changing. And as if he was being possessed, like that boy and the werewolf. This was actually him changing.
His mind raced through all the possibilities, all the different out comes and what could be done to prevent things from going further.
A sound from beside him made him jump.
A banana was sitting to the right of him on his desk. He looked up to find Rose with a very worried expression on her face.
"You okay Doctor?" She asked "You been in ere for hours."
She was fully dressed and made up. She must had been right because he had started studying in the middle of the night when she was sleeping. He must have been missing for a while for her to get worried about him.
He sighed. He didn't have time for this right now, he had been infected by some weird human mutation disease and the last thing he wanted right now was to be bombarded with questions from a worried Rose Tyler. Even if his mind had adopted a new more.. lustful way of seeing her. It was still annoying for the moment.
"Yes." He said, in an irritable tone. "I'm fine."
He went back to looking into his microscope, she pulled herself up and sat on the desk.
"You're such a liar, Doctor. Just tell me, you been acting weird for ages. I thought you were okay when we went to the beach, but then, don't know you started acting weird again.'
He didn't look up and she sighed.
"Doctor?"
"Rose, not now."
"Why not now?"
"I'm busy." He was feeling more and more irritable and he really just wished she would stop nagging him.
"Why are you looking at these?" She picked up one of the clear slides from beside him and held it up.
"Rose! don't touch!" He said taking it back from her hands "Can't you just leave it? Its nothing."
"Its obviously not nothing though, is it? you're sick, arnt you?"
He sat back in his chair, looking very tired and annoyed. His eyes were much darker than before. He grabbed a fist full of hair as he spoke.
'Well, I can handle it. Even if i did tell you, its not like you would understand now is it? Its not like you understand human biology let alone time lord, even at a GCSE level."
His brain played back what he had just said.
he looked at Rose to see the hurt and shock register on her face.
He felt a warm rush of regret flow through his entire body.
"I see how it is." She said, stepping down. "i'm too stupid to understand, better save it for someone with more GCSE's then." She walked out of the room in a hurry
"Rose, wait! i'm sorry"
She slammed the door.
Why did he say that? He was angry for no reason and Rose had to pay for it, his best friend in the world and he had just called her stupid. She was only trying to help him.
He held his head in his hands. He really needed to sleep, to control himself.
He felt like he had the hormones of a teenage girl, either angry for no good reason or just horny.
How very human.
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She sat in the on the small metal steps of the console room facing the TARDIS doors, with her head resting on a metal pole.
He couldn't have meant what her said, could he? Granted she wasn't a genius. No one was compared to the Doctor. And did it really matter that she left school early? Try naming a sixteen year old who wasn't stupid when it came to choosing a career path.
She knew he was sick, he had to be. He was looking so pale and tired, like he hadn't slept for days.
But every thing the Doctor had just said seemed a little harsh.
"Rose?" came a voice from behind her "Rose, i'm so sorry."
She ignored him.
"I really didn't mean any of that, I just wasn't thinking straight."
It was quiet for a moment. She heard him press some buttons on the console and the TARDIS gave a large shift into flight.
He came and sat next to her.
A moment passed and the TARDIS sounded like it had landed.
Another moment passed and he stood up to open the doors of the TARDIS. He sat on the edge with his legs hanging off.
She was curious to where they were so she followed and sat beside him.
They were hanging in space, with a massive ball of fire sitting just outside the doors.
She was once again, speechless.
They were sitting in front of a sun, and the temperature was perfect, it didn't even hurt her eyes.
The doctor scooted closer to her and pointed to a small blue dot in the distance.
"Know what that is?" He asked.
"No. I didn't study the universe in high school like some"
He ignored her comment and carried on.
"That's me and you, sitting on a beach eating chips about a day ago."
She let out a small gasp.
"and that is the star you were looking at from that planet."
She looked up at the magnificent massive ball of fire that filled the sky.
It looked nothing like the elegant small diamond she remembered. It was even more breath taking and unimaginable.
"How come we aint burning?" She asked.
"Its the TARDIS" He said "She's protecting us from burning or falling or even hurting your eyes"
She took a moment to take in the spectacular vue.
"I'm sorry" The Doctor said, placing his hand on hers.
"Its okay" She said "I understand, well, i don't but, i do try. An i know you haven't been sleeping properly and stuff. You just get me worried you do"
He smiled at her and said 'Wave'
So they both looked down at the small blue dot and waved at them selves, laughing.
"So am i forgiven?" He asked.
"apology accepted!" She laughed and he wrapped his arms around her into a hug.
He felt stupid from not being able to control his anger, like it would be easy now to have just said thank you for caring, or have hugged her then.
He remembered how tired he was, and how thirsty.
The reminder made his throat burn with dryness and the scent of Rose only made it ten times worse. The longer they hugged the more it bothered him. He pulled back and stood up.
"Uh..I'm just gonna get a drink"
and she was left to wait for his return, swinging her legs through empty space from the TARDIS.
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more soon :)