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Day 9
The Doctor knocked on Rose's capsule.
"What do you want? It's two in the morning, what are you doing awake at this hour?" Rose sighed exasperatedly.
"Getting Clara." the Doctor responded.
"How do you plan to do that? Pull her up the tube with your bow tie?"
"Yikes, you're grumpy in the morning."
"It. Is. Two. In. The. Morning. Of course I'm grumpy!" Rose screamed at the Doctor, making him want to cower in the corner. She was worse than Clara!
"It should be Ten having to deal with this." the Doctor complained.
"You know maybe it should."
"Why is that?"
"At least he would have the courtesy to leave me alone."
"I just need to bring Clara to where I can keep an eye on her!"
"Grab your girlfriend and drag her away then." Rose snapped and moved out the way so the Doctor could have access to Clara.
"I would move faster if I had your help." the Doctor pointed out as he moved Clara to the tunnel.
"I. Want. To. Sleep." she sighed and rolled over, pretending that the Doctor wasn't there.
"You won't be able to sleep unless you help me."
"Are you going to keep me awake all night?" Rose quirked an eyebrow, seeing if the Doctor understood.
"If you don't help, I will."
"How do you plan on keeping me awake?" Rose asked suggestively.
"I will talk to you until you become fed up with of my chatting. Then you would help. I've been told I can be quite an annoying person."
She moved towards him.
The Doctor stared at her confused.
"What are you doing?" he asked a panicked edge to his voice.
"Moving closer. What does it look like?"
"Why are you moving closer?"
"So that I can have a better look." she took his face between her hands, and moved his head so that she could view it from all different angles.
The Doctor squirmed out of the way and fled halfway up the tunnel.
"This isn't you Rose, what are you doing?"
That's when it clicked.
"Are you doing what I believe you're doing?" the Doctor asked.
Rose bit her lip and twirled her hair. "What do you think I'm doing?"
That's when the Doctor saw it, an earpiece.
"Being controlled!" he said triumphantly before taking off the earpiece. Rose shuddered and collapsed in a heap on the bed.
As the Doctor hauled Clara up the tunnel, he ran through the possible people who would try and control an innocent human.
Any Cyberman, any Dalek, any of his enemies would jump at the opportunity to control one of the Doctor's companions. Force the controlled do whatever they please, destroy him even!
That wasn't the case this time. Someone was trying to send him a message. Grab his attention, and do what exactly?
Did they want him realize who he actually needed in his life? He had his wife, but if it was that simple this wouldn't have occurred.
The Doctor examined the earpiece. It was something ancient, something alien, something that had been used to control the moves of hundreds of soldiers in the battlefield.
"In the Time War." the Doctor said after all the pieces of the puzzle clicked into place.
"Quite right," a voice sounded from outside the door. "I needed a way to know whether I had a future after the endless war ends."
The door swung open and there stood a man in a Victorian style waistcoat with leather jacket underneath. The Doctor gasped.
"No more." the Warrior warned, his face as serious as it was when he pressed the button to end the Time War.