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Chapter 10 – Recovery and Plans
Jackie sat at Rose's side for two whole days while the young blond slumbered, she won't move for anything, after the rest of the resistance realised this, they would bring her food and drink and moved Rose into a bedroom with a connecting bathroom so Jackie wouldn't have leave her daughter.
On the third day the blond girl finally stirred
Jackie immediately seized Rose's hand and asked "Rose? Rose can you hear me?"
Hearing her mother's questions Rose began to awaken her eyes slowly blinking open and her body tensing as she willed her body to respond to her commands
"Mum" Rose said weakly as she squeezed her mother's hand and Jackie looked at her daughter with tears in her eyes
"How are feeling sweetheart?" Jackie asked, gently stroking her daughter's head
"Thirsty" Rose croaked and Jackie poured a glass of water from a pitcher on the bed side table putting it to Rose's lips, where Rose slowly sipped the cool liquid letting it slip down her throat
Jackie thought as she did this 'You will always be my little girl Rose. Always'
The next few days were slow as Rose began to heal; her body had now finished adjusting but she needed to learn how to command her new Timelord physiology.
The Doctor tried to help but found his offers turned away by Blade and Whistler
"She needs to know how to handle her new abilities, I can help her with that" he said to Blade, who was standing in the way of the door
"She seems to be doing fine on her own" Blade said simply to the Doctor's growing aggravation
'This is my chance to make it up to Rose, I can't waste it' the Doctor thought to himself with growing annoyance at the obstacle
"She can now see time in a completely new way that she cannot comprehend or control, she now has telepathy and physical abilities that she cannot use properly without training" the Doctor told Blade "There is no one else in the world who can understand and show her how to manage it but me"
Blade didn't have time to react to that because Rose appeared from the door behind him
"Leave this to me Blade" she said quietly without even looking at Blade who merely raised his eyebrows but said nothing and walked out of the room they were in
Rose turned to face the Doctor and looked him straight in the eye
The deep brown eyes that were once filled with happiness and mischief now looked like the artic winter, cold and harsh made the Doctor almost shiver the words he'd rehearsed in his head disappeared as if never there
Rose meanwhile was looking into his eyes and wondering if the Doctor was delusional; if he thought he could just turn back the clock (figuratively speaking) and make things the way they used to be. She had learned how easily he could forget companions and how much of a hypocrite he was, the man who murdered billions across time and space, who looked down on common soldiers because they used weapons to kill.
For a moment the two just gazed into each others eyes, until the Doctor's blabbing mouth started up again
"Rose I meant what I said, you need to master your new abilities and I can help with that. Please just let me" he urged with a hint of desperation creeping into his tone
"I learned to control my abilities on the mental plane while I tamed my raging mind, a second here can be a lifetime there" Rose said without changing the blank uncaring look on her face or the cold in her eyes
"You spent a lifetime in your own head" the Doctor exclaimed
"I'm immortal Doctor, I' am patient" she said blankly and then looked away and gave a bitter chuckle "Its ironic, you leaving me behind would make me the companion that could have stayed with you forever, that you saying you could never love a human and that you couldn't stay with me because I would wither and die now applies to me" she said bitterly
"I can find a cure, make you human again-" the Doctor started but was cut off by Rose who suddenly grew angry
"YOU THINK I HADN'T THOUGHT OF THAT!" Rose yelled at him "BLADE HAS A CURE FOR HIMSELFTHAT A HEMOTOLAGIST MADE FOR HIM A FEW YEARS BACK FOR IF HE EVER WANTS TO GO HUMAN! BUT MY VAMPIRE GENES ARE ESSENTIAL NOW FOR MY GENETIC STRUCTURE TO STAY STABLE. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?" she asked him
"That if they were to be tampered with or removed it would kill you" the Doctor said
"Yes now your getting it" Rose said harshly "It may have been preventable if you had been there while I was changing, when there was enough human DNA for me to survive, but you weren't there and can't go back now on you own time stream" she finished looking away from him again
"Do you miss travelling with me?" the Doctor asked, hoping that on some level she still had some positive feelings for him
"Of course I do. It was the best time of my life, before Rienette showed up" Rose said exasperated
"You know that I wanted to take you to see the spinning Ice Moons of Aspadgo" the Doctor said
"And what are they when their at home?" Rose asked with some curiosity entering her eyes, surprised that he had so abruptly changed the subject
"Well there are six moons of the planet Aspadgo and all are covered in ice, they moved so quickly around the planet and there is no atmosphere so like comets they leave trails of ice and gases making these beautiful blue and white patterns that dance across the sky…" he explained to his captive audience who's eyes grew wider with each passing detail
Meanwhile in an underground bunker, located beneath a company known as H.C. Clements a scientist that once worked for Torchwood London before the vampires had taken it over was experimenting with a very powerful project
He called it Day Star
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