So if my calculations are correct then it is now 3 for eleven and 2 for 10.5. Next chapter Rose will choose so this is your last chance to vote. SO GO CRAZY! (Only one vote per person)
My Doctor/My Doctor
Chapter 10
Bad Wolf Returns
The light was blinding. No one could see a thing. Everyone froze in place, not sure if they were to move or not.
This all lasted for just a few seconds then everything went dark. Not pitch black but darker then it was before. The tenth doctor took a look around the familiar setting while Amy and Rory remained as lost as ever.
"Where are we?" asked Amy holding onto Rory's arm for support.
"We teleported, how?" went Rory.
"No." gasped the half doctor. Amy and Rory gazed at him with curious eyes. Amy's soon turned into annoyance as he wouldn't answer them.
"Where are we?" she walked to him angrily but she might have never said anything at all. The half doctor was too busy wrapping his brain around the impossible setting they had just landed in.
There was a groan from behind and everyone whipped their heads toward the sound.
"Doctor!" Amy flung herself at eleven who still remained on the ground.
"It's alright, it's alright I'm okay." But his body betrayed him as a sharp pained ebbed at the place he was stabbed. He rubbed the area instinctively.
"You don't look alright?" Amy worried.
"I'm fine, just sore. Tell me where did we end up—" Eleven finally gave a proper look at his new surroundings. It nearly blew in unconscious again. "Can't be."
"But it is." Said the other doctor. Eleven awkwardly stood, fighting the pain.
"But I don't understand. You were regenerating, there was nothing anyone could do I saw." Said Rory exasperated.
Eleven ignoring everyone took a few steps up, still lost in wander.
"Yeah and what happened to Rose?" asked Amy, half scared, half irritated. This finally woke the doctors up.
"Rose?" both said at the same time, turning their heads to look at Amy as if she had the answer.
"Speaking of which, where is she?" asked Rory, realizing the missing link just when everyone else had.
"She must be here someone." Said the half human, walking around searching for her.
"Maybe she'll have a trace on her." Said Eleven, taking out his sonic screwdriver.
"Doctor, either one of you, listen to me!" roared Amy.
"Maybe she passed out somewhere." Said a worried tenth looking behind a pile of rubble.
"Oh I'm not picking up anything." Said a frustrated eleven banging his screwdriver.
"Oi!" screamed Rory.
"Rose!" bellowed Ten.
"Talk to us!" called out Eleven.
Amy had had enough. She walked up before the doctors, blocking their paths. She looked them both dead in the eye.
"Now you two better tell us where we are and what the hell is happening!" Both doctors where taken back by the cross Amy. They looked toward each other hoping that the opposite would explain but in the end it was Eleven that spoke.
"In my ninth regeneration I had a huge battle with the daleks here on this very vessel..."
"Protecting Rose I tricked her back to her own time..." Continued the half.
"But she found her way back by looking into the heart of the Tardis creating herself, creating…"
"The Bad Wolf."
Amy had no idea the power of the Bad Wolf but it still made her shiver.
"She came here, to this very room and saved me from the daleks, but she couldn't control it."
"I had to take the power from her, killing my ninth self and turning into me."
"But what is this Bad Wolf?"
"Not sure." Said Eleven making his way around Amy, still searching. "She mentioned that she creates herself, that she scatters the words through time and space. But I'm not sure if she's apart of Rose or an entity attached to her. And if that being how could looking into the heart of the Tardis awoken it?"
"Well done doctor." Said Rose's voice over the air as if she was speaking on an intercom.
The others started looking every which way trying to find her.
"You won't find me."
"Where are you?" demanded the half doctor.
"Well I'm here, I exist among you. My atoms strung between the very fabric of reality, strewn upon time and space. I exist in the very nature of life."
"What have you done with Rose?" Eleven called out into the air.
"Whatever do you mean? I am Rose or at least a very part of her. Rose exists with me as I with her. We're inseparable."
"You are not Rose!" spat the half human.
"Oh yes I am. May I remind you?"
"Doctor?" Amy rushed back as the floor filled with smoke. Soon the scene changed and they stood in a living Room. There sat a normal Rose and the half doctor on a couch. A Christmas tree stood in the corner as snow was visibly falling from the window.
"You know what, this Christmas aint half bad." Said Rose wrapped in the other doctor's arms.
"No!"the present half doctor screamed but there was not answer from the bad wolf.
"I'm glad." The other doctor beamed at the woman in his arms who snuggled in closer.
"What is it you want, why are you here?" asked an angry eleven. Again there was no answer.
"You know what, I've got to use the bathroom." Said the other half doctor.
"Oh you and your bladder always ruin the best moment." Rose joked. The other doctor smiled at her, got up, and made his way to the loo. The present half doctor walked to the Rose on the couch and bent down to her level.
"You are so beautiful."
"Thanks." The once was normal Rose turned her head toward the present doctor who stepped back.
"No stop it!" he begged.
"But it's me; I'm still your Rose."
"No you're not Rose would not kill hundreds of Daleks!"
"You're yelling at me it hurt." The Bad Wolf pouted.
"No don't you do that. You're evil and vindictive!"
The bad Wolf said nothing but just sat back and looked hurt for she genuinely was. They locked eyes for a moment and just for a second the half doctor could see a true hint of humanity.
"That is enough!" bellowed Eleven, stomping his way back to them. "We want Rose back now!" In a blink of an eye, the Bad Wolf was standing literally centimeters apart from the full Time Lord. She rose ferociously angry but melted into sadness immediately upon standing.
"I did so much for you!" she cried. "I did so much for her!"Her voice shook with desperation. She began to glow again from all the changing emotions.
"What do you mean?" the doctor said more remorsefully. He may have disliked the Bad Wolf but he could stand seeing any form of Rose upset.
She grew hysterical, glowed brighter and brighter.
"You haven't even figured it out yet!" She yelled then the scene began to change again.
"No Stop!" But it was too late they were once again on Bad Wolf bay.
"I love you." Choked out Rose.
"Quite right to." Said his other self. "I suppose, I'll never get to say it again…Rose Tyler…" Once again he watched as Rose was left crying but this time she the Bad Wolf had taken over.
"You never said it!" she roared at the present doctor. "Why didn't you say it?"
"I regret, just me I regret it more than you know." He made his way to the hysterical, glowing Rose.
"No…no." she bent over weeping. Eleven lifted her chin ever so slightly. The Bad Wolf calmed just a bit.
"I'm so sorry. I did this to you. I'm sooo sorry." His voice cracked.
"That's not good enough!" And before his eyes she turned into a ball of light and threw herself into the Time Lord making him fall over. Already he was seeing visions in his head, memories of everything they were.
"I was here in everyone of these moment." She spoke in his head. "I watched you two fall in love. I felt her hurt, her pain when you left. But I am the Bad Wolf and I've been watching you even after you were gone, after you regenerated and forgot me."
"No never!"
"Silence!" The images she was showing in his head were burning his brain, too much of it and he would be fried for good.
"Stop, you're burning me and Rose. Her body's not meant to handle this, you'll kill her!"
"I can't stop." She weeped. "I don't know how."
"Just focus, just focus!" Newer memories started to appear, ones of his eleventh self, then Amy, then Rory. He noticed River never came up once. The others on the bay watched the full doctor twitch spastically on the ground. Amy was begging the other doctor to help but he didn't know how.
Then even new memories came up, ones of them in the colony.
"You were there?"
"Always." He watched himself head into the Tardis when he went through his memories, memories within memories. The doctor's head burned like fire. He began to scream.
"I showed you us. I showed you that we were meant to be."
"That was you, that was all you!"
"I love you."He screamed more, his face turning red. Then he began to go into memories that weren't his. He saw his tenth duplicate self going through woods, sketching on the trees, passing out. Another memory within memories. He felt like his head was about to explode.
And then things slowed down. It was one of Rose's memories. She was looking at her wounds in the mirror when her neck twitched.
"Ow." Then without warning she doubled over, clutching her stomach. She began choking, searching for air.
"No not now." She managed to say in horror. Then all of a sudden she was standing upright with those same glazed eyes.
"We're here, we did it." Her neck twitched again and she was Rose.
"But I didn't want it to happened like this."
"I didn't rip a whole in time just to give you your doctor for you to be ungrateful."
"You could have given me a little warning. I was in my lingerie!"
"That's not a thank you."
"Fine thanks. It is nice being in the Tardis again."
"See."
"I was wandering, when could I tell them about you?"
"When the time is right." There was a pause.
"You think he'll finally say it?"
"He has to, it is legend." Rose gave a big smile then doubled over once more, searching for air. She collapsed on the floor.
"I've come with your tea—oh!" The half doctor ran to Rose and placed back on the bed. "I told you not to get up." He said then the things changed. The image started getting less and less sharp. He was dying, really dying. He couldn't regenerate.
"No you don't. You don't die on me!"
"You have to stop." He said weakly.
"I know but I don't know how." She cried.
"Of course you don't. It's not up to you. I've finally figured you out. You don't exist because of Rose. You exist because of me. And in my dying words…I have to say…Rose Tyler I love you." He only had a second left to live but that's all the bad wolf needed. The doctor began to fall through levels, levels of his life. The first was his Tardis, then Amy's garden, radiation vent, the masters arms, and through han through till he hit rock bottom.
It didn't hurt though. It was as if the ground where as light as a feather like the ground didn't truly exist. He opened his eyes to see nothing but whiteness. He was scared he had ended up in the void but his qualms were quickly but to rest.
"Doctor." Came a female voice from not to afar. He quickly popped up, expecting to see smiling Rose but instead she looked troubled, scared even.
"Where are we?"
"At cross roads in time. We're literally riding along the void. But we don't have much time. The walls are closing in and if we don't act quick we'll be lost in the void forever."
"Can I please speak to Rose?"
"This is Rose. The Bad Wolf died as soon as you entered this place."
"I don't understand."
"The Bad Wolf, she was me, a part of me anyways. I lied when I met you. I told you I was just some normal girl who worked at a shop. I lied because I didn't to be the person I was. But when I knew you were in danger I couldn't just stand there and do nothing. So I separated the human me and the powerful me using the heart of Tardis. I created the Bad Wolf entity because I was too afraid to face myself." Rose's voice begun to shake. "But she wouldn't leave. She grew a mind of her own so quickly. Then she started doing things without my permission. Anything that I wanted the slightest thing she would get me but she would do it so wrongly. Like you for example, I wanted to see you again so badly that she ripped a whole in reality, messed with your Tardis just to get you to me. I couldn't control her. I tried to link her back to me but she refused. I often wondered why until you figured it out for me." Rose smiled and walked toward the full doctor who subconsciously stepped back. Rose frowned. "I created her because of you so I had to end her because of you. You saying I love you finally did it."
"What are you?" said Eleven backing away.
"It's me, Rose."
"No but what are you?" he said holding his hand out to keep her away. Rose held back tears.
"I don't know." She choked. "All I know is that a man came to me when I was little and told me I was something special. He said that I would be able to do things others couldn't. I was nine. Since then I saw that he was right. I could just will something like a message and sure enough it would be on some ancient cave in Africa that wasn't there just the day before. I don't know how or why but what I can tell you is that I'm Rose Tyler. The same girl you know, the same girl you love. I'm just a little stronger I promise that's the only difference. Please don't hate me." She cried looking down. She couldn't bear to look at his face. Then all of a sudden a strong hand lifted her chin.
"Rose Tyler, the most important person in all of the universe, well done." He smiled.
"You don't hate me?" she asked shocked.
"Never." He said simply then they were looking at each other with more love and passion thought possible. Then they were kissing, really kissing, hard and long. Tears of joy came from both beings. They both had been wanting this for ages.
Then Rose broke away.
"I can't be doing this."
"Why not?" he smirked. "I could go on forever." He was clearly on cloud nine.
"Did you forget where we are? The walls are coming in closer I have to choose!"
"Choose what?"
"Between you…or the other you."
"From the moment you two met the bad wolf had been holding back a paradox. The universe is not meant to have two of the same person meat in one time. This is where you have to split. I can only go with one of you."
"Choose him don't look at me." He said the words but he clearly didn't mean them. Rose stroked his face.
"Oh you, always the martyr. But this is my choice, I control my destiny."
There were rumbling sounds gaining pitch from all sides of them.
"Those would be the walls I have to choose now."
The doctor pulled Rose's hand from his face.
"Go I'll be fine he has no one besides I'll always have to the memory of you." Another tear rolled down his face. He broke more and more with every word. Rose cried even harder.
"No you won't. If I choose him you'll forget me. I would have never existed to you."
"What?" The rumbling got closer.
"But if I choose you, he'll cease to exist altogether."
"Rose!" he cried out.
"I have to choose and I choose…."
TO BE CONTINUED