The TARDIS materialized in the 21st century in the Powell Estate, just short of where Rose and Jackie live, no one of the three realizing how long it's been since Rose had last seen Jackie and vice versa. The Doctor, Virgo, and Rose all got out with the Time Lady locking the door.
It was a beautiful day with the sun shining, all nice and proper, with the kids singing nursery rhymes and telling their parents how much they appreciate and love them so, and a gentleman picking up some trash and putting it in the can, then striking a pose that a hero would make.
That was a lie. It was cloudy with no singing kids or a gentleman improving the environment or happy and appreciative parents; just a guy sitting on a trashcan reading the newspaper, somehow missing the fact that a giant, blue box had just appeared a little ways away from him.
"How long have I been gone?" Rose asked the Time Lords, smiling a bit at the sight looking familiar from when she left.
"About twelve hours," the Doctor told her.
"Yeah, right," Virgo scoffed as she scratched the back of her head. "This is him actually getting to a specific time period. We're probably a year off or something like that." The girls shared a laugh while the Doctor just pouted.
"I'll have you know, I am capable of getting to a specific time," the Doctor countered calmly. "I could do that if you're not distracting me all the time."
"Distracting you?" Virgo laughed in confusion (she does that when she's confused, just laughing it off makes her feel better). "In what way do I distract you? What, do you think I'm just glowing so brightly that you can't see the controls?"
"You keep stealing stuff off me, so I'm looking at my jacket while trying to drive the TARDIS perfectly at the same time," the Doctor waved her off with the roll of his eyes. "It's not easy doing that."
"Whatever you say," Virgo mumbled, then turned to Rose. "Why are we stopping here again?"
"I just want to see my mum," the human shrugged, gesturing to the flats behind her. "I won't be long."
"What're you going to tell her?" the Doctor asked her with raised eyebrows, kind of curious to what her excuse to Jackie will be. Not really, a lie again.
"I don't know," Rose said sarcastically. "I've been to the year five billion and only been gone... what, twelve hours? No, I'll just tell her I spent the night at Shareen's. See you later." She ran toward the building complex, but then turned on her heel for this: "Oh, and don't you two disappear on me."
Virgo gave her a thumbs up, then Rose proceeded to run back to her flat, the Time Lady just noticing that the Doctor was walking to a concrete pillar that held a bunch of fliers for one specific topic. She followed him with a frown, curious as to what the fliers said, but also concerned that it could be a bad thing.
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Rose entered her flat, throwing some keys to the side table against the wall and shut the door, "I'm back! I was with Shareen. She was all upset again. Are you in?"
Jackie walked into the foyer with wide eyes and a cup of tea in her hand, nearly having a heart attack when she saw her daughter. She looked close to crying with shaky hands with an absolutely mesmerized face.
"So, what's been going on?" Rose asked her mother, assuming that Jackie had probably just watched a sad movie or something. "How've you been? What? What's that face for? It's not the first time I've stayed out all night."
Jackie was still in shock, so she didn't try to catch the cup as it fell to the wooden floor, shattering it to pieces, not even wincing when some pieces flew into her bare feet.
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The Doctor and Virgo widened their eyes after they read the fliers, then the two of them were dashing off to warn Rose before she got up to meet her mother. Why? The flier was a missing poster for her, apparently missing since March 6th, 2005.
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"It's you," Jackie breathed, emotional that her daughter was finally back under her roof after so long.
"Of course it's me," Rose started to frown, knowing that a sad movie wouldn't have this effect on her... Did the Doctor get the date right? Of course he did... right?
"Oh, my God, it's you," Jackie pulled her daughter into a bone-breaking hug, still not minding the broken glass. "Oh, my God." Now that Jackie was out of view of the room, Rose could see the kitchen table held stacks upon stacks of missing posters, all of them having her face on it. She gave a silent gasp, but did widen her eyes physically and just froze from trying to console Jackie.
Okay, it was settled. She was going to get Virgo to team up and try and throw the Doctor in a supernova, regardless of the 'last of the Time Lords' story.
The Doctor barged in through the door just when Jackie started to sob into Rose's neck, the said girl not even bothering to see who it was.
"It's not twelve hours, it's twelve months," he panted. "You've been gone a whole year... Sorry."
Virgo finally got into the room, apparently panting harder than the Doctor. She laid a hand on the wall and leaned on it, just getting some energy back.
"I don't do stairs," she glared at the Doctor, who was looking at her in concern. "That's going to be my downfall one day: stairs. We're going to get trapped on a planet full of stairs while a zombie's chasing us, and if he touches you, you'll cease to exist. Can I have a water?" She directed that question to Rose, who was still not looking at either of them, still in shock at the posters.
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Jackie had eventually gotten over the shock... which the shock was probably better, because she just turned into a mother full of rage which was mainly directed at Virgo, since that had been the last person that Rose was with before she vanished. She was only yelling at the Doctor part of the time because he seemed to be associated with the Time Lady... which was true, but not in that sort of sense.
And so, Jackie was pacing around the room, lashing out while a police officer was sitting on a chair, trying to understand the situation through her ramblings with a notepad and pen.
"The hours I've sat here, days and weeks and months, all on my own," Jackie glared viciously at Virgo and Rose, who was sitting on a chair by the table, sipping on a bottle of water that her daughter had provided for her. Virgo was just letting the woman let out her emotions, completely understanding that Jackie would feel as though the two of them had kidnapped her only daughter, the last remaining link to her dead husband. "I thought you were dead, and where were you? Travelling! What the hell does that mean, travelling?! That's no sort of answer. You ask her. She won't tell me. That's all she says: travelling."
"That's what I was doing," Rose told her calmly, the travelling bit entirely true, but was it a lie if she wouldn't say it was time and space travelling?
"When your passport's still in the drawer?" Jackie scoffed and pointed in the general direction of Rose's room. "It's just one lie after another!"
"I meant to phone," her daughter sighed, getting frustrated that she had to give a little fib or two so that the officer wouldn't arrest Virgo and, perhaps, the Doctor. "I really did, I just... forgot."
"What, for a year?" Jackie argued with her. "You forgot for a year?! And I am left sitting here... I just don't believe you. Why won't you tell me where you've been?!"
"Actually, it's my fault," the Doctor stepped forward, hoping that he could improve the situation a bit. "I sort of, er... employed Rose as my companion."
"When you say 'companion,' is this a sexual relationship?" the policeman asked, shocking everyone except for Jackie.
"No!" both Rose and the Doctor immediately denied that, hoping to dismiss any further thoughts from the police officer's mind. That is just... ew.
"Then what is it?" Jackie cried, desperate to know what happened to Rose, but all they were doing was talking in riddles. "Because you," she pointed a finger at Virgo, "you waltz in here, all professional and promising, and the next thing I know, she vanishes off the face of the Earth! What, did you find her on the internet? Did you go online and pretend you're a DI?"
"What did she do?" the officer asked Jackie and pointed at Virgo, who now looked sheepish at that bit of information that Rose's mother had just given away. Oh dear.. "Did she impersonate a detective inspector?"
"It was a joke!" Virgo blurted out before Jackie could confirm it. "I was just messing around a bit... it was a laugh." The officer just looked at her sternly. "Oh, come on. You can't arrest me for something so small that happened a year ago. Common sense." She took another sip at the water with the shake of her head.
The police officer sighed, writing down the impersonation on the notepad, reminding himself later to keep an eye on her.
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A little while later, Jackie and Rose were sharing an emotional reunion in the kitchen that involved tears and tight hugs, the anger in Jackie just turning her into an upset woman.
"Did you think about me at all?" she cried, pulling away to see Rose sniffle in guilt.
"I did," she nodded, only semi-true, but only saying it just to make her mother feel better. "All the time, but..."
"One phone call," Jackie shook her head at her. "Just to know that you were alive."
"I'm sorry," her daughter apologized sincerely. "I really am."
"Do you know, what terrifies me is that you still can't say. What happened to you, Rose? What can be so bad that you can't tell me, sweetheart? Where were you?"
Rose could only swallow back a sob and gazed at the floor, unable to even begin to describe Henrick's or the Autons or the TARDIS. Maybe one day, she will understand... but definitely not today of all days.
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Tears were gone by the time the Time Lords caught Rose sitting by herself on the rooftop of the Powell Estate. They were feeling guilty about making Jackie go through a whole year without knowing where her only daughter was (and neither of them were brave enough to go up to her to even apologize), so the best thing for them to do is to just hang around Rose until something happens.
"I can't tell her," the said person shook her head in defeat. "I can't even begin... She's never going to forgive me. And I missed a year! Was it good?"
"This is... what, 2006 now?" Virgo frowned in thought. "Nothing really is happening. 2078, now that's a brilliant year to be in: the mastery of hover cars. 'Number one car in the 21st century.'"
"You're so useless," Rose rolled her eyes with a sigh.
"Well, if it's this much trouble, are you going to stay here now?" the Doctor asked her, hoping that she won't go just because of a pesky mother worrying about her.
"I don't know," she shrugged absently. "I can't do that to her again, though."
"'Course you can't," Virgo nodded in agreement.
"Well, she's not coming with us," the Doctor shook his head, grimacing at the thought of Jackie asking where they were going in the TARDIS. He'd probably end up dropping her off on a planet in which its soul purpose was to make you have an enjoyable paradise experience and never come back for her while he, Rose, and Virgo were off gallivanting across the galaxy.
"No chance," Rose agreed, also not enjoying the idea.
"I don't do families."
"I think we should," Virgo commented casually, surprising both people at how she would think that having Jackie on the TARDIS would be a good idea. "It could spice things up a bit. If not Jackie, then at least Mister Mickey. Families are healthy pieces in your life, and I don't see why you should abandon them." She nudged the Doctor's shoulder. "900 years of time and space, and you never even considered a mother as a companion?"
"It's just... weird," the Doctor grimaced with the shake of his head. "They're always complaining about safety and hygiene."
"When you say 900 years...," Rose stared at them with a pointed look.
"That's my age," the Doctor nodded, then gestured to Virgo. "She's 883."
"You're 900 and 883?"
"Yeah."
"Okay," Rose tapped the roof with her hands, a little weirded out at how two people who look forty and thirty are actually 900-years old. "That is one hell of an age gap. Every conversation with you just goes mental. There's no one else I can talk to. I've seen all that stuff up there, the size of it, and I can't say a word. Aliens and spaceships and things, and I'm the only person on planet Earth who knows they exist."
As if life wanted to defy the little human, on cue, a horn honked behind the trio and as they turned their heads, a giant flying saucer flew above their heads and toward the rest of London. It just barely missed hitting Tower Bridge, made a little U-turn around St. Paul's, made a giant scar in Big Ben's face, then landed into the Thames River. Big Ben chimed once before everyone on the rooftop could sense that the police and fire department would be going mental right about now.
"Oh, that's just not fair," Rose muttered, watching the smoke from the distance.
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The time travelling trio made it as far as they could go on foot toward the Thames before the military and some of the police force and news people were flooding the scene, blocking off the roads, annoying the drivers as a result.
Many of them were getting out of their cars and turning away from the scene, just going home on foot, giving up on trying to get their cars to turn around. If their car got towed away in the morning, they could always get it back after they've finished murdering the aliens. They just had to crash-land right when they were on their way to work or the grocery store to pick up some milk for a newborn baby at home. Fantastic, that is.
"It's blocked off," the Doctor stated the obvious, the three of them standing on the sidewalk to avoid grumpy drivers.
"We're miles from the centre," Rose shook her head in disbelief, disappointed that they couldn't get a good look at the spaceship. "The city must be gridlocked. The whole of London must be closing down."
"I know!" the Doctor beamed excitedly. "I can't believe I'm here to see this. This is fantastic!" Rose eyed him oddly while Virgo was scanning past the tanks, trying to see what was happening behind the scenes.
"Did you know this was going to happen?" the human asked him.
"Nope!"
"Do you recognise the ship?"
"Nope!"
"Do you know why it crashed?"
"Nope!"
"Oh, I'm glad I've got you."
"This isn't supposed to happen," Virgo crossed her arms and pursued her lips, staring at the tanks in suspicion (only because she couldn't stare at the spaceship in suspicion). "The human race aren't supposed to confirm that aliens exist today. They confirm it later in the future, so that means that someone's messing with history... or that humans are just incredibly stupid."
"Well, let's go and see it," Rose shrugged, not denying the fact that humans could be stupid when they wanted to be. "Never mind the traffic, we've got the TARDIS."
"Better not," the Doctor shook his head quickly. "They've already got one spaceship in the middle of London; I don't want to shove another one on top."
"Yeah, but yours looks like a big, blue box. No one's going to notice."
"Humans are observant, too," Virgo said. "Anyone can come to an emergency like this, and many, many people will be on the lookout. The TARDIS is good where it is right now."
"So, history's happening and we're stuck here," Rose summed up, disappoint coloring her voice.
"Yes, we are," the Doctor confirmed with a smile, not minding a little break from investigating.
"We could always do what everybody else does: we could watch it on TV," the human suggested. The Time Lords shared a glance with each other then nodded, both of them curious as to what news forecasters would have to say about the incident.
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And on a TV, they did. The three of them were currently sitting at the Tylers' flat, watching the news. The Doctor and Rose were sitting on the couch and Virgo was sitting on the armchair with a rubix cube, trying to solve it. She had gotten one side of it completed, but would have to change it again, so really, she hadn't solved it at all.
"Big Ben destroyed as a UFO crash lands in Central London," the reporter on the TV said on screen. "Police reinforcements are drafted in from across the country to control widespread panic, looting and civil disturbance. A state of national emergency has been declared. Tom Hitchinson is at the scene."
The screen flipped to a man with short blonde hair and a black, heavy coat, "The police are urging the public not to panic. There's a help line number on screen right now if you're worried about friends or family."
The Doctor switched the channel to an American news station, where a black woman was sitting at a desk, papers in her hands.
"The military are on the lookout for more spaceships," she reported. "Until then, all flights in North American Air Space have been grounded."
The Doctor flipped back to the original channel.
"The army are sending divers into the wreck of the spaceship," Hitchinson said. "No one knows what they're going to find."
Back to the American.
"The President will address the nation live from the White House, but the Secretary General has asked that people watch the skies."
Jackie came over with some mugs in her arms. She gave one to Rose and her friend, Ru Chan, but paid the Time Lords no mind at all. She did, however, stare at Virgo carefully to make sure that she wouldn't do anything to Rose.
"I've got no choice," Jackie shrugged at Ru's questioning expression at her.
"You've broken your mother's heart," Ru sneered at Rose, who didn't even bother to defend herself, just staring at the floor in guilt.
"I'm not going to make them welcome," Jackie shook her head as she sipped on her tea, sending glares to the back of the Doctor's and the side of Virgo's heads.
"I cradled her like a child," Ru placed a hand on her chest.
The Doctor rolled his eyes at them. "Oi, I'm trying to listen."
Meanwhile, the screen changed to a reporter standing at 10 Downing Street, as well as a dozen other reporters. "... his current whereabouts. News is just coming in. We can go to Tom at the Embankment."
Back to Hitchinson.
"They've found a body. It's unconfirmed, but I'm being told a body has been found in the wreckage. A body of non-terrestrial origins. It's being brought ashore."
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A little while later, Jackie was throwing a party to welcome the aliens to Earth (not the Time Lords). The Doctor was still at the TV, paying close attention, and Virgo had figured out nearly the entire cube, so she was tuning everything out so she could try and solve it before the Doctor had enough of the humans in here.
Hutchinson was also still reporting, "A body of some sort has been found inside the wreckage of the spacecraft."
Jackie slid down on the couch and sat next to Rose. "Oh, guess who asked me out," she told her. "Billy Crewe." Rose barely acknowledged her, so Jackie sighed and walked away.
"... brought to the nearest shore. Unconfirmed reports say that the body is of extraterrestrial origin. An extraordinary event unfolding here live in Central London. The body is being transferred to a secure unit mortuary, the whereabouts is yet unknown. The roads in Central London are being-"
A toddler had managed to climb on the Doctor's lap and managed to press a button that would change the channel. The screen turned into a baking show, where a man seemed to make an edible spaceship.
"And when you've stuck your fins on, you can cover the whole lot in buttercream," the man said on screen as he worked on his masterpiece. The Doctor and the toddler were now wrestling each other for the remote. "Oh, look at that. Then, ice it any colour you want. Here's one I made a little earlier. And look at that, your very own spaceship, ready to eat! And, for something a little extra special-"
The Doctor yanked the remote out from the toddler's hands and switched it back to News 24.
"... Albion Hospital. We still don't know whether it's alive or dead. Whitehall is denying everything, but the body has been brought here, Albion Hospital. The road's closed off. It's the closest to the river."
The Doctor set aside the remote and put the toddler on the floor and gently pushed him away. "Go on."
"Come here, sweetie," Virgo gently pulled the adorable toddler and lifted him up to her lap and gave him the rubik's cube. "We can solve this together, you and me. That's what you do, right? You put kids on laps and give them something to play with?" She looked at Rose for confirmation, and she merely shrugged. It was... close?
"I'm being told that General Asquith is now entering the hospital. The building's been evacuated. The patients have been moved out onto the streets. The police still won't confirm the presence of an alien body contained inside those walls."
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General Asquith walked down a corridor with two other military men, guns in their hands, locked and loaded. They were off to see a scientist/physician to see to the body that had been found in the wreckage in the Thames.
He entered a room, finding that Scientist Sato was studying her notes on a clipboard, hoping to impress the General and maybe, just maybe, earn a little smile from him because he hardly ever smiled these days. She liked smiles. Smiles and science were her territory.
"Let's have a look, then," Asquith told her, and she pulled back the white sheet to reveal something... unexpected. "Good God! And that's real? It's not a hoax or a dummy or a-"
"I've x-rayed the skull," Sato cut him off, not interested in the shock portion of the conversation. "It's wired up like nothing I've ever seen before. No one could make this up."
"We've got experts being flown in," Asquith sighed, a bit disgusted. "Until they arrive... get that out of sight." He waved his hand and walked out of the room, uncomfortable with the image that that was what aliens, apparently, looked like.
"Excuse me, sir?" Sato followed him out the room, causing him to stop in his tracks. "I know it's a state of emergency, and that's a lot of rumour flying around... but is it true what they're saying about the Prime Minister?"
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"Mystery still surrounds the whereabouts of the Prime Minister. He's not been seen since the emergency began," Andrew Marr announced on the television, which was still on at the Tyler flat. The Doctor was getting itchy with impatience with all the humans around. "The opposition are criticising his lack of leadership, and..." The reporter turned his head to a black car that seemed to mean business. The door opened to reveal a large man in a blue suit. Dozens of reporters turned to the camera while others tried to get the man to say something, and photographers flashed their cameras.
"Oh, that's Joseph Green, MP for Hartley Dale. He's Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on the monitoring of sugar standards in exported confectionery. With respect, hardly the most important person right now."
And that's when the Doctor finally had enough information from the television and annoyance from the humans to get out of the flat and head downstairs. Rose chased after him, wondering what he was going to do now, while Virgo was staying inside the flat, teaching the toddler a Gallifreyan nursery rhyme about the Time Lords ruling the universe in peace. The toddler, of course, had no idea what was happening in the rhyme... but it was a good beat, so he didn't care.
"And where do you think you're going?" Rose called after the Doctor, seeing him walk toward the TARDIS that now had graffiti on it: 'Bad Wolf.'
"Nowhere," the Doctor lied, knowing exactly where he was going. Hint: the news said something about a hospital and an alien corpse. "It's just a bit human in there for me. History just happened and they're talking about where you can buy dodgy top-up cards for half price. I'm off on a wander, that's all."
"Right," Rose nodded slowly, not at all buying the whole 'wandering' thing. "There's a spaceship on the Thames and you're just 'wandering.'"
"Nothing to do with me," he defended himself. "It's not an invasion. That was a genuine crash landing; angle of descent, colour of smoke, everything. It's perfect." Too perfect.
"So?" Rose asked, not sure where he was going with this.
"So, maybe this is it: first contact. The day mankind officially comes into contact with an alien race. I'm not interfering because you've got to handle this on your own. That's when the human race finally grows up. Just this morning you were all tiny and small and made of clay, now you can expand. You don't need me. Go and celebrate history. Spend some time with your mum."
Rose still thought he was lying, so she crossed her arms stubbornly, "Promise you won't disappear?"
The Doctor turned around on his heel and reached for something in his pocket, "Tell you what." He gave her a shiny key. "TARDIS key. It's about time you had one. See you." He gave her one last smile before going back to the TARDIS, leaving Rose no choice but to go the opposite direction and head back to her flat where her mother was waiting with open arms.
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The young Tyler got inside, about to say, "I'm back!" when, as she walked past Jackie's bedroom, she heard the sound of crying and a hushed voice trying to console the sobbing person. Rose furrowed her eyebrows, thinking that Jackie was probably the one who was crying her eyes out and probably Ru or something was trying to make her feel better, so the teenager's heart started to break again from the guilt settling on her. She turned her head to the door, where the sobbing and voices were coming from, and rested her hand on the door handle and listened intently, verifying that it was Jackie because she didn't want to barge in there if it wasn't her.
She squinted and pressed her ear against the door, trying real hard to listen because they were talking so quietly and the person who was crying sounded like they were crying into a pillow or shoulder or something like that. When she couldn't make anything out at all, she slowly opened the door a crack, just enough for one eye to see into the room. She nearly gasped at what she saw in there.
Virgo was the one crying and Jackie was the one trying to comfort her! What?!
Rose was about to step in the room and to get Jackie out of there, but stopped when Virgo started to talk, reminding her that she should probably try and figure out what was wrong by listening to what they were saying first before barging in like she knew exactly how to fix it.
"I thought you said you knew feeling!" Virgo cried into a pillow (their backs were to Rose, so they didn't know that she was eavesdropping on them). "You say that, and you just go out and say you don't understand."
"I understand what having a baby is like, I never said anything about trying to hide it," Jackie soothed the Time Lady by running her fingers through her braids.
Rose tried her hardest not to gasp, but didn't bother to hide the fact that her eyes were wide and mouth gaping like an idiot. Did she just say... no, no, no, no, that's impossible. Virgo would tell her that if she was... right? Right? No, no, she must have misheard her mother... yes, that was it. She misheard her.
"You know what the worst part is?" Virgo sat up from lying down on a pillow, wiping away a stray tear that rolled down her cheek, but it made no difference as another one came travelling down on the other side. "I have actually told him that I was pregnant, I distinctly remember it. It was in some barn or shack thing on our planet, there was a box on the ground, there were some people there, and I don't know why it's all so blurry, but I remember it, and... he doesn't, and I don't know why. I tried giving him hints to trigger his memory back... but he just doesn't remember, and now I can't tell him because I don't know what he'll do with it once it's born." She cried into her hand and squinted her eyes shut, two more tears falling down, causing Rose's heart to break for her.
Rose really shouldn't be listening right now, she should have stayed outside and gone with the Doctor and maybe see Mickey... but... wow. This was too amazing and mind-blowing (maybe not mind-blowing, but it was very surprising).
"I'm terrified everyday, because everyday it's growing bigger and bigger and soon it'll be noticeable... and I don't know what'll happen then," Virgo crashed back into the pillow, just hugging it in closer to her body as if it's her life support system, and Jackie just rubbed her back, letting her cry. "I don't know if he's going to kill it, I don't know if he'll make me give it to some human family, I don't know if he'll let me raise it. I don't know!" She threw the pillow on the floor and grabbed Jackie's shoulders, her arms visibly shaking. "What do I do?! Please tell me because I don't know anymore!"
"You know what you should do?" Jackie raised an eyebrow at her. "Tell him. Go run out those doors and tell him now, and if he's not going to let you keep it, you fight. Have you got that? Just fight for your kid, no matter what steps in your way."
Virgo sighed and removed her hands from her shoulders and crashed on the bed again, not to cry, but just lie on her back and stare at the ceiling.
"Maybe I'll tell him once we're better friends," she shook her head in thought. "I just want to feel safe, but I love the travelling at the same time, and I love-" She stopped herself and closed her eyes, making Jackie give a little chuckle.
"You love him," she said, making Rose scream in her mind at what was happening right now.
Virgo grabbed her pillow again and placed it on her face, not hugging it in, just... letting it sit there, "I don't know. Yes? It's complicated. I'm scared of him, and I love him. What am I supposed to do? I shouldn't even be asking you, should I? We took your daughter away from you for a whole year, and you're trying to help me."
"I may still be mad at you, but I haven't lost my manners," Jackie waved her off, just wanting to help her, forget the Rose case. "I'll just say this: the sooner you tell him, the less he'll be angry and the sooner you feel relieved, the more happy you'll be."
Virgo just shook her head, the two of them staying silent for a few moments before the Time Lady suddenly sat up and got off the bed.
"May I use the bathroom?" she asked Jackie, who nodded her approval. Virgo gave her a thankful smile as she walked around the bed and toward the door, Rose quickly running out from view and into the living room, jumping behind the couch so that Virgo wouldn't see her.
When the said woman got out of Jackie's room, she was frowning at the door. She could have sworn Jackie had shut it entirely... She just scoffed and walked into the hall, just needing to be alone and wash her face to get rid of any signs of tears. She didn't want the Doctor to get a hint that something was killing her slowly and painfully.
When she was sure that Virgo was gone, Rose stood up and stared at where she had left in horror. Does she seriously think that the Time Lady could hide this from the Time Lord for long? It would start to show eventually... right? Assuming that the location of the baby was the same and the amount of time it took for it to pop out was the same... well maybe plus or minus two or three months.
Well, she had her work cut out for her. Two things she needed to do. One: get the Doctor to be more safe with the adventures. Two: eventually confront Virgo and get her to tell the Doctor as soon as possible.
Let the madness begin.
A/N: o.o And there we have it! Secret revealed (to you guys, anyway, and to Rose and Jackie)! I feel so stupid right now XD I love my made-up scene, but I don't know how it sounds in other people's heads, and for all I know, it could be confusing, but Rose did eavesdrop on them in mid-conversation, so things will be a little vague. But at least the title makes more sense, eh? Eh? *nudges arm*
Thank you for following, favoriting, and reviewing, as always, it's very much appreciated! Probably worth it since we got a little confession about two things :)