The TARDIS was resting, she didn't usually have such a rest but this time, she was allowed to have a little tiny bit of a rest. The architecture inside was something only someone could dream about sometimes, the winding walls creeping up and up indefinitely. The console beeped and flashed silently as she sat quietly in the cupboard that she'd been quickly parked in. The TARDIS' occupants having been quickly vacated once they'd gotten what they needed.
The Doctor stood at the edge of the room near the bed, watching as Shareen fussed over Roses blood pressure. He really didn't like hospitals, and this was exactly why. Whenever he went inside a hospital, something happened. It didn't matter what, but usually something bad would happen.
And this time it just happened to be Rose almost dying on the spot, well not exactly almost dying but whatever had happened wasn't usual. They'd managed to sneak Rose out of the hospital and into the TARDIS, the Doctor insisting that they seek medical attention for what had just happened. However not trusting himself to investigate further, he'd gone to someone he knew had medical experience, but also knew it was someone that Rose trusted. Which was something he thought she defiantly needed.
Shareen.
"Your blood pressures fine, I don't know what happened earlier to be honest. Have you been feeling strange at all lately?" Shareen asked looking at Rose.
Rose stayed quiet for a moment, had all this had something to do with seeing the future? "No.. nothing strange."
Shareen nodded looking at her friend carefully before replying, "Ok."
"Doctor?" Rose asked looking at him, "Could you get some Tea for us? I'm seriously thirsty!"
"Are you sure Teas a good idea, might want to just stick to water..."
"No, I'd really love a cup of tea about now." Rose replied smiling at him, squeezing his hand gently.
He nodded and bent down to kiss her cheek before exiting from the room quietly.
"What's up with him?" Shareen chuckled sitting down on the chair next to where Rose was. "He's not usually so quiet."
"He'll be worrying." Rose said sitting up gently, laughing slightly. "He's changed."
"Has he?"
"Well yeah, since I first met him anyways." Rose replied smiling at the memories, "He was so... damaged when I first met him. And he never talks, I mean he talks all the time but he doesn't ever say..."
"I get what you mean. Adams forever doing things like that, complains when I tell him to let go of things." Shareen replied laughing slightly, "What are men like eh?"
Rose laughed softly, "I know... but he said... the Doctor that is. He said he couldn't tell me something and that... well it terrifies me in some ways but in others... it just heightens who he is you know."
"What do you mean?" Shareen asked looking at her.
"He's not just an everyday kind of man you know. He's more than that... oh Shareen if you could have seen some of the things he's done then you'd know just what I mean."
"Rose?"
"I mean, he's shown me so much. He's taken me all over the place and it's..."
"You really love him don't you?" Shareen said looking at her smiling softly. "That drunken night in Paris really was a night of revealing things... wasn't it?"
Rose looked at Shareen wondering what she was on about. She'd known that the Doctor and Rose were a couple, in fact she'd known that for rather a long time. But something in the way Rose was describing him was making Shareen feel slightly more uneasy about the whole situation.
"Who is he?" Shareen questioned, looking at her. "Who is he really?"
"He's..." Rose hesitated. "He's just a man. Like everyone else, but he's a man that's shown me so much, I swear. He's the most wonderful man in the universe and you know what Shareen?"
"What?" Shareen asked looking at her gently.
"I can't tell him a thing."
"What are you talking about?" Shareen asked looking at her. "Rose what's wrong? You've gone white as a sheet..."
"I can see him." Rose said, another vision threatening to come into vision. "I can see him there, laying on the floor..."
"Rose?" Shareen asked getting up and looking at her carefully. "Rose can you hear me?"
"He's all alone... no one else to help him anymore. There's no one coming, because of his sins. Because of his weaknesses to do what was right. And they're coming Shareen, they're coming for him. I can see them, I can see him."
"Rose?!" Shareen shouted taking her friends hand, "You're freaking me out, what are you talking about? The Doctors safe, he's in the kitchen getting Tea for us all..."
"He's so close, closer than we expect. He's moving through the corridors..." Rose said closing her eyes. "A tall man, he's familiar, and yet I can't work out who it is. But I swear to you Shareen Mitchell, he's so so close, closer than we could even expect." Rose opened her eyes, a single tear coming down her cheek as she got up from the bed despite Shareen's hesitations to it. She smiled at Shareen and touched her cheek gently, "Hard times are coming Shareen Mitchell. You look after yourself yeah Never mind me, you make sure you and Adam are safe?"
"Rose what are you talking about?"
"It's coming closer and closer by the second, and I can't say a word." Rose said taking Shareen's hand gently. "Promise me you won't say a word Shareen?"
"You're ill Rose... you're hallucinating..."
"I'm not hallucinating, I swear to you: I'm not going mad." Rose replied softly, "I'm scared... I'm so scared because I know what's coming. I've seen it, in my dreams. I never knew until a moment ago that they were leading up to this, they were warning me. Warning me about what was going to happen..." Rose looked sharply up at Shareen, pain in her eyes were evident. "He's coming back, I need to stop him from going there."
"Rose what are you talking about?" Shareen asked looking at her, "You're not making sense."
"It's coming Shareen... it's coming, it's so close... it's all beginning now. I swear it's so close. He's going to go, he'll go so soon..."
"What's coming?"
"Doomsday." Rose whispered as she ran out of the room before Shareen could protest.
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The kettle whistled loudly in the TARDIS' kitchen, almost sending the Doctor off the ladder he'd gone up to fix the light bulb that had cottoned out a moment before. A cold temparature in the TARDIS and a light bulb going out wasn't something that happened often to the Doctor. He mumbled to himself, something about fuses and light bulbs aboard the TARDIS but to the normal naked Human ear it would have been inaudible. A figure crouched hidden, the Doctor completely unaware of this little fact despite the TARDIS' defences.
The door to the kitchen creeked open, the Doctor looked round and smiled seeing her. "Shouldn't you be in bed?" he asked concern written across his face.
"I'm fine..." Rose said quietly looking at him, striding over in a few steps and wrapping his arms round his waist gently. "I love you."
The Doctor chuckled, wrapping his arms back around hers and holding her close. "I know you do." he replied, kissing her head again gently. "I love you too..." he heard a small sniff coming from near his chest and looked down.
"Why do I have a feeling that's not just hormones?" He asked looking at her, kissing her head gently. "What's the matter?"
"Don't ever leave me Doctor... promise me you'll hold on."
The Doctor laughed gently, looking at her. "What do you mean hold on? Hold onto what..." he touched her cheek gently wiping the tears away, "I'm not going anywhere." he said softly, a slight unease at the way she was looking at him causing him to think again. "What's wrong?"
"Doctor..."
"Rose what's going on? I'm not daft... you were like this the other night and then earlier in the hospital..."
"Shhh..." Rose said gently pressing a kiss to his lips to quieten him, the tears still silently coming down her cheeks. "Nothings going on... I'm fine."
"You're not fine though..." the Doctor said looking at her, "Rose what's going on?"
Rose took a deep breath, she knew this would hurt him. Perhaps more so than she would imagine but she also knew the time had come to tell him the truth. The truth about when her Grandma died, the truth about her dreams and suspicions, the truth about everything.
"Doctor... I keep seeing things. The day that Gran... I saw her Doctor, I saw her. She was in the Bathroom just as she died... and then I've been having dreams. So many dreams... and..."
"Rose what are you talking about?"
"I keep seeing the future." Rose said softly, before sniffing again. "I'm sorry Doctor, I'm so sorry, but you're gonna die."
AN: Oh things are getting going now aren't they? Haha. Ps, Preview!!
Anyways, I hope you like this chapter. I've had a right brain wave for this story so things are coming together quite nicely now.
And I would love to just dedicate this chapter to my lovely friend (You know who you are! :D) Scarlets Angel. (Check her Lost fic out it's brilliant!) Without whom I would never have learnt that a Water Lettuce looks like a Cabbage, or was it the other way round? Ha-ha.
And thanks to rosemariontyler08, your review (And everyone else's.) got me into writing mode again. Thanks for that, and I will continue to write it don't worry. J
Anyways, thanks for being paitent with me through all of this. I know things have been going slowly, but they should start speeding up again now.
Let me know what you think, thanks.
Beres xx
Chapter 11: TBN:
"And what's that supposed to mean exactly?" the Doctor said looking at her, rage, fury? Every emotion that could be described was flowing through both they're blood streams. "Exactly what I said." Rose replied coldly, "Besides you're just as bad... you never talk yourself! When have you ever come to me and told me something that you hold dear to your heart really Doctor?!" "Rose..." "No Doctor, you answer me this? Why won't you tell me things?! Am I that untrustworthy?! Please enlighten me because I can tell you now, I'm not any better off knowing you than anyone else in the universe!" "It's because I don't..." "Don't what?!" "Don't love you!!"