Day Sixteen

I went out to the shed to talk to the TARDIS coral everyday. I poured my heart out to that little chunk of rock, and my (psychic?) dreams got more and more vivid. There's a saying here on earth, "absence makes the heart grow fonder", that I have found to be the most truthful thing I've ever heard. My head was constantly in a jumble. I felt confused, I felt sorry, I felt excited. And late at night, when I would lay in my bed, I felt full of a dull throbbing, a slow burning fire that I knew to be lust. My dreams were vivid, all right, and they were dreams I hoped I wasn't sharing with the Doctor. I blushed, thinking about a particularly graphic scene from the night before. The coral pulsed rapidly, and I got a text from the Doctor.

How did you sleep last night?

Well. Maybe he did see them.

Day Eighteen

I was at work when I got a call from Mum. She was yelling into the phone, not making any sense. I found Dad and we ran out to the car. We sped through the streets, and even though we passed several cop cars, we didn't get pulled over because of our torchwood car.

Dad and I ran inside and found Mum was fine and Tony was fine, but something was going on in the back yard. I went outside to find some aliens seemingly frozen in place outside of the shed. I ran inside, but the coral was fine. I called the Doctor and quickly filled him in. He explained that the coral must have time locked them ("Clever girl!" he had cooed) and the best thing to do would be to take them to a holding cell. He said to question them if we could, and if not to hold them til he got back.

We took them in. It took a while to translate (the coral wasn't grown enough to translate the way the other one did) but once we got it going it was easy enough to figure out. They had been in the area and felt the energy source and decided to check it out. I sent the Doctor a picture of them and he said it was ok to let them go.

Day Twenty One

We were do for new recruits. This was normally pretty interesting for me, because this was where I tended to run into duplicates from the other world, but on this particular day, I wasn't allowed to attend. Dad said he had an errand he needed me ro run. Something vauge about a package being delivered via zeplin that afternoon, and I was the only one he trusted to go pick it up.

I was mildly annoyed. As I left the new recruits filed in, and sure enough I saw a couple people who looked familiar. I got into the car and sped off, still upset. I turned on the radio and turned it up loud. Pretty soon I was feeling a little better.

The zeplin field was about an hour outside of the Torchwood facility. I finally got there but I got lost. There were no cargo zeplins docking that day, and Dad hadn't given me a contact name. I had pulled out my phone to call him when I got a call myself. It was the Doctor.

"Hello?"

"Turn around Rose Tyler."

I turned around and saw him across the way. We ran to each other and I flung myself into his arms. He held me close and I covered his face in kisses.

"I missed you so much!" he told me.

"Don't leave me again," I whispered.

"Then you've made your choice?"

"You." I told him.

"I love you Rose Tyler," he whispered.

"Quite right, too." I told him. "And I love you, too."