A/N: Sooooooo sorry for how long it took to update! This month has been crazy for me! But no more excuses. This chapter is shorter than the other ones but I think that it will flow better this way when I put the next chapter up. Thank you everyone for the kind reviews! It blows my mind that I have over 50 reviews! So thank you thank you thank you and I hope I haven't lost anyone cause of the time it has taken to get this chapter up. I know that writing wise I was excited when I got them back together when I did this, and I hope you do too, but don't worry the story isn't over yet! So sit back relax and I hope you enjoy! And as always reviews make my day, so much love to the main reviewers I have. And also I'm sorry if I haven't responded to some of the reviewers questions there are two reasons behind this one: this is my first story I've put up here and it took me long enough to figure out how to get this far but if you have a question I will try to answer it without giving any spoilers; and the second reason is I didn't know many people responded to peoples reviews so slap on the hand to me and I promise I will be better :-) Enjoy.
The Void
Chapter 9
"Because Rose Tyler I love you." He let out a sigh of relief. There he said it, now he just had to wait to see what she was going to do. Something that he hadn't planned on was that he was surprisingly more nervous waiting for her response.
Rose spun all the way around to face him, but still kept her distance.
"You what?" She had to ask again not believing that she actually heard him correctly.
"You heard me." He told her, worry slowly seeping in.
She walked slowly over to him their eyes locked the entire time. She wanted to believe him, but was too worried that he had said it just to keep her with him. Once she reached him she crossed her arms and studied him. She smirked a little when the Doctor started to squirm a little under her scrutiny.
"Say it again." She demanded him.
The Doctor sighed, he knew that he was opening a whole new door, and now that he had said it, but Rose hadn't, it made him that much more terrified. He didn't know how humans did this all the time it was completely nerve wracking.
"Will you stay?" He asked not wanting to get his hopes up.
"Depends on what you said the first time." She told him with a little smile.
The Doctor, glad to see a smile out of her, walked a little closer to her so they were standing inches apart and leaned into her to whisper into her ear.
"I said, because Rose Tyler I love you."
Rose grabbed him by the head before he had a chance to straighten his self up and brought him back to her where their lips finally met, and it was sheer bliss. She never thought once that he would be the one to say it first. Ever. It only made it that much better for her.
The Doctor was surprised at first when Rose grabbed him to kiss him, but as the kiss continued he realized exactly what he had been missing. He wrapped his arms around her to mold her to his body, not able to quite get enough of her. He knew that now there would be no going back now, and he was okay with that.
Rose returned the embrace, anything to have him closer to her. She was impressed that she hadn't had to stop to take a breath yet. She could feel their hearts beat together as they continued the long first kiss of many more to come she hoped. Her eyes flew open as she processed that last thought. She stopped the kiss and pushed the Doctor away and pressed her hands to her chest and her mouth dropped open when she felt two hearts there.
"What!"
The Doctor was confused at first when he was shoved away by Rose, but watching her in complete shock when she discovered that she came back a little different, made him want to bring her back into his arms.
"Its okay Rose, you are fine I promise." The Doctor tried to calm Rose down.
"I'm okay! Doctor I have two hearts!" Rose snapped back to him.
"I know. You are perfectly healthy I promise, lets just head back to the TARDIS and we can talk about it."
"Talk about it! You've known about this!"
"Weellllll yeah –"
"Doctor! Why wasn't that the first thing you told me when I woke up?"
"Is that what you would have really wanted? Oh Rose great to have you back from the dead, how unusual, oh and by the way you're not exactly human any more." The Doctor replied sarcastically.
Rose stared at him in shock with her mouth hanging open and marched back over to him.
"So let me get this straight. I have come back from the dead, only to come back 'Not exactly human any more' and you think that now is the time to mock me?" Rose asked him her arms now crossed and she was leaning slightly to the left, staring him down waiting for an answer.
The Doctor stared at her and rocked back and forth on his trainers while rubbing the back of his head looking very uncertain how to answer this.
"Rose can we please just go back to the TARDIS to talk about this?"
Rose paused unsure what was going to happen next, she wasn't able to wrap her head around that at the moment. She felt like her, but now that she knew that she was no longer human she could notice little changes, but what scared her is she had no idea how far those changes would go.
"I'm I okay? I mean I'm not going to have two heads or anything when I wake up in the morning and be a new shade of green? Because that would really clash with my hair." Rose asked trying to be brave about this new adventure.
"Nope." The Doctor told her shaking his head. "Well not green anyway, the two heads I can't guarantee."
Rose punched him in the shoulder playfully both of them smiled at each other while moving closer together.
"Would you still love me with two heads?"
"I would love you if you were a two headed, bald Poakian."
Rose smiled and drew him in for a short kiss.
"Alright then lets go back to the TARDIS and find out what fun things I can do then."
Rose and the Doctor continued hand in hand on their way back to the TARDIS making small talk with each other trying to avoid talking about anything too serious just yet.
Rose was mostly being quiet while listening to the Doctor babble on. She listened to him doing his nervous babble as she liked to call it, and while she knew that their relationship had just gone to a new level, one that to her knowledge, that he had not with a companion before, but she just wanted to understand more. The more she thought about it things began to fade out around her and was replaced with a room full of doors with several voices all of which sounded like the Doctors'. They were all talking so fast that she couldn't keep up with them. She just stood in the middle of the room letting the voices surround her loving the sound of his voice.
The Doctor could feel Rose at the surface of his mind exploring where she was. She was still walking beside him but he could tell that her concentration had fully gone to testing her psychic abilities so he decided to play with her for a moment.
"Rose"
She was startled out of her daze and stared at the Doctor as they stood outside the TARDIS doors.
"I'm sorry Doctor, what did you say? I must have spaced out for a second." Rose apologized.
The Doctor looked at her and shrugged.
"I didn't say anything." He responded with a smile, deciding that he was going to have fun helping Rose learn everything.
"Weird. Coulda sworn I heard you say something." She told him confused as he was opening the door to the TARDIS for her.
"Yeah well I could imagine that going from human to Time Lord will take a bit to get used to." He reassured her.
Rose stopped dead in her tracks in the middle of the entrance at what the Doctor just said. She knew she wasn't human but it didn't even occur to her that it was even possible to be Time Lord.
"I'm sorry Doctor, it sounded like you just said I was a Time Lord now." Rose asked him carefully.
"I did, but I guess the proper term would be Time Lady." The Doctor responded just as carefully.
"But how is that possible? I thought you were the last one left?"
"I was, and now I'm not." Came his simple reply.
Rose was stunned into silence. She had no idea what to say next.
"Rose I don't know how this happened, but I want to find out just as badly as you do, and I promise you we will. Together." He told her emphasizing that last statement by holding her hand.
Rose smiled up at him feeling her eyes getting a little teary and went to the Doctor to give him a hug, feeling even more content now than she ever though she had been in the past. She was Time Lord now and had the Doctor with her. It was almost perfect.
When they parted from each other they each grabbed the others hand and continued to walk back towards the kitchen hand in hand.
"Well at least Jackie is stranded in another universe. If she knew about this it would all be my fault and I would be in for another slap thats for sure."
"Stranded?" Rose stopped to ask, hurt clearly in her voice.
The Doctor could have slapped himself at that moment for letting it out like that about Jackie.
"Doctor what did you mean by stranded?" Rose asked again.
"Bugger." The Doctor muttered. There was no way this was going to end well.