Chapter 10

"Time is repeating itself." Rose said, as Claire came back in the room, on the verge of tears. "But how? Why?"

"I know." The Doctor volunteered. "You know, Rose I once told you about paradoxes?" She nodded. "There are three of Claire and Danny in this present time. Five year old you and then two… nineteen year old you. Then there's a fifteen year old him and a twenty-nine year old him. The maximum is usually two, so it's too much for the grand design to cope with, too much information, being compressed, so it has to rewind and start again, sort of… go over the past like a tape recorder. So it never happened."

"How far will it go?" Claire asked. "To delete itself?"

"No, not deleting," he shook his head. "More… clearing out the memory. It should be just a temporary measure. The Time Lords will sort it out."

Rose started pacing again. "So it's like… we have to work out it's heading forward in time or already gone back?"

"No." the Doctor said simply. "We know it's working forwards, so if time was only damaged a few minutes ago but it's already zoomed straight from our fight in 1987 to 2025 now… it's already moved thirty-eight years."

"Wait, so I was ONE in 1987 and it's only been a few minutes… less than half a year to till I don't exist, Doctor." She stopped. Claire had vanished. "Me next." Rose said sadly. She could almost feel herself fading away. "See you soon." It's too late. She thought. Even the Doctor can't save me now.

But the Doctor got out the Sonic Screwdriver from his inside pocket. "What are you doing?" she asked quickly.

"We can hide in the TARDIS. It should keep you grounded here if you stay in there." He explained.

"We don't know where it is!" she cried. "We don't have the key!"

"Don't need it!" he said, flicking the switch. It materialised loudly and using the screwdriver opened the door. She ran in and felt herself feeling more focused. He slammed the door behind them and said, "Feeling better?"

"That was SO close." She said, both of them breathing out in relief. It felt good to be back in the TARDIS after all this time. "What about Adam? Jack?" she asked.

He sighed, wearily. "You're worried about Adam? He tries to kill us! He's gone now anyway. Faded away like Claire. And besides, he built that building and if he never existed –"

"It was never built so that would have vanished too!" she finished.

"Yep." He started the engines. "Good thing the TARDIS got here just in time."

"What do we do now?" Rose wondered aloud from the chair. "What happened to Jack and the others?"

"Danny… I don't know." The Doctor replied vaguely.

"And Jack?"

"No idea."

"So glad I've got you." She muttered, loud enough for him to hear.

"Don't." He told her sternly, turning away from the controls to face her. He still looked cool when he leant on the panel like that. Stop it! She mentally told herself off.

"Don't what?"

"You've said that before. It should have been deleted."

"When did I say it?" She asked.

"When the Slitheen's ship crashed into Big Ben.

"Oh." She paused, trying to think of something to say. "How long till time gets sorted out?"

"About twelve hours."

"That's ages." She jumped out her seat and headed for the bedrooms.

"Where are you going?" he called after her.

"I want to see what happened to my room." She yelled over her shoulder. The Doctor stayed in the control room as she entered her old room.

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