CHAPTER 10

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Author's Note: This story features the Tenth Doctor and Rose. It takes place in the universe of War of the Guardians and Children of the Wolf and is a prequel story to them. In the timeline of the television show, it takes place after The Satan Pit.

Everyone got into the TARDIS, and the Doctor took them all to safety just before the entire house would have caved in.

"I'm taking all of you somewhere safe. I'll handle Dracula by myself," the Doctor said with a serious expression on his face.

"No, you're not. You're not going anywhere without me, mate! I'm going to!" Rose said with a fierce expression on her face. She wasn't being left out of things ever again.

"You're not going. I'm never losing you again after I've finally found you again!" the Doctor shouted at her in a combination of anger and fear.

"What are you talking about? You've never lost me. I came back to get you at the Gamestation," Rose said confused.

"I know that you don't remember, Rose. I hope that part of you will though. Part of you must know that I don't want anything to happen to you again. I would die if I ever lost you again, Arkytior!" the Doctor said to her as he used her real name at last.

Rose's eyes opened in remembrance as she heard her real name being mentioned out loud by him for the first time in so long. She exploded with golden energy as the Bad Wolf reemerged once more.

"Hello, Theta!" Bad Wolf said with a smile, and then she kissed him passionately.

After she pulled away from the kiss, the Doctor stood there in a daze and asked, "Arkytior? Rose?"

Bad Wolf smiled as she said, "Both, Doctor. In this form, I am both of them. I am more Rose though than Arkytior. That's who I have been for the last 20 years, and that's who I want to be. I want to stay Rose. It doesn't mean that I'm not still your wife though. We are one and the same, Theta."

"You understand now then why I don't want you to go back. I don't want to lose you again," the Doctor pleaded with her.

Bad Wolf laughed at him gently as she said, "You always were a little oblivious to what was right in front of you, weren't you? I'm more powerful than you could possibly imagine. I can help you defeat them. If you left me behind, then you would certainly be crushed. I'm the one who has to go to save you, my Doctor. You've got it the other way around!"

He smiled at that. He couldn't argue with the logic that she was using, but he still didn't want to endanger her. He would never feel right about that now. Now that he knew who she really was.

Bad Wolf turned to Lily, and she recognized her immediately.

"Hello, mum! I'm so glad that you get to be with me in the future, and I'm so sorry that you had to go through so much pain before then. I love you!" she said as she put her arms around Lily and hugged her tightly.

"I'm so glad to see that you remember me. I thought that I would have to go this whole time hiding myself from you. You don't know how hard it's been to keep from speaking to you as your mother," Lily said with a sense of relief.

"I'm sorry, mum! You do know that I won't remember you once I return to being Rose again though, don't you? I won't remember being Arkytior either. I'm not supposed to know yet. Neither are you, Doctor. Mum will have to remove your memory of who I really am once this is all over," the Bad Wolf said.

The Doctor looked horrified as he said, "No! I don't want to forget. I want to remember. If things keep going the way that they are, I will try to leave you because I'll want you to have a normal human life. I won't remember that you're a Time Lady. I'll lose you again. You can't let that happen!"

She wrapped her arms around him as she said, "You won't lose me! Not for good anyway. We will be together in the end. I'll always make my way back to you no matter what, Doctor! The universe itself won't be able to keep us apart. We will run together forever!"

The Doctor smiled as she said that. He trusted that she knew what she was talking about. She was the Bad Wolf after all.

Finally Ileana spoke to her, "You're the one who made me then. You're the complete version of Rose."

"Yes, my friend. I am Rose as she will someday be, and I created you both to save Elisabeta and to give myself a much needed ally against Dracula. You have many abilities, Ileana. One of them is to be able to turn other vampires into vampires like you. You will be the first of a new species of vampire. A species of the undead that will protect humanity instead of destroy it," the Bad Wolf told her.

"You want me to convert them to my side then. Will they be like me and have all weaknesses removed?" Ileana asked.

"No. They will all be the same as they were except that their original personalities will return, and their hunger will change from humans to vampires. Otherwise they will be just like any other vampires. None of them will have abilities like yours. That would only happen if they were already connected to the Vortex," The Bad Wolf explained.

"Why am I so special then? I wasn't connected to this Vortex," Ileana asked confused.

"I wanted you to be special. You're a very warm and caring person, Ileana. I could think of no one better to be the only true Temporal Vampire on Earth. I don't want the rest of them to have such power. Only someone that I can trust," the Bad Wolf explained.

"Why do you trust me? I'm nothing special," Ileana asked honesty.

"I've seen into your heart. I know that you're a good person. You're wrong about not being special. I've seen your future. It changed when I saved you. You are going to do great things and so will your children," The Bad Wolf said as she winked at her.

"Children?" Ileana said in utter shock.

"You'll see," Bad Wolf said with a wide grin.

Elisabeta smiled from behind her. She hoped that what Bad Wolf said was true. She wanted her sister to be happy so badly.

Van Helsing looked at Ileana with a questioning gaze. He wondered how a vampire could have children. There weren't supposed to be able to. Then again he supposed that Rose could do whatever she wished. After all, she had kept Ileana a normal person on the inside and given her no vampire weaknesses after all, hadn't she?

He wondered briefly if he might have some hand in her future. He looked toward Rose for a moment, and his heart leaped when she winked at him and gave him one of her face wide smiles.

Could he dare hope that what he was thinking might become true? He wondered that to himself as he looked at Ileana, and she looked at him with the same questioning look.

Bad Wolf smiled to herself as she watched them begin to wonder about what might be. She knew that she shouldn't have mentioned the children, but she didn't say who Ileana would have the children with. They seemed to have already come up with the answer to that question themselves, didn't they? She just had to give them a little nudge in the right direction to make sure of it.

"It's time, Doctor. Dracula must be stopped. We must go back and defeat him here and now and in doing so insure his final destruction," the Bad Wolf said with a solemn look on her face.

What only she and Lily knew though was that this time would not be his final destruction. He would return later. What happened here though would eventually lead to his final end.

The Angel would make sure of it.

Next: Rose, the Doctor, and their allies return and fight against a horde of thousands of vampires out to destroy them.