Here is Painful Words, next chapter up tomorrow!
Thanks LilyRose! You're awesome, and your useless editing makes me laugh so much!
Disclaimer: Nup! Don't own either!
XI
Painful Words
The Doctor woke up on the footpath of a London street. Artemis had made sure that the journey would be safer by making it go for hours, and yet he still ended up lying on the ground with a bump on his head. This time around, he wouldn't waste time walking the streets; he'd just hop in a taxi and get it to take him to the Tyler Mansion. Except there weren't any taxies. That was just his luck, now that he wanted a taxi there weren't any. Coat flapping around his ankles, he ran all the way to the park. Surprisingly there were no people on the roads. Not that the Doctor was complaining because all they did was stare and jump out of his way. He sat down on the same bench as before, running a hand through his hair and wondering what to do now. It seemed so unfair that he had come all this way and now he couldn't actually find her house. His head dropped with defeat, he stared at the ground, trying to come up with a plan, a solution. It's not like she had a tracking device in her skin that the Doctor could find her with. But she does have one on her, he thought, jumping up. He ran out of the park, pulling the sonic screwdriver from his pocket.
Her TARDIS key. He could find her as long as she still had her TARDIS key. He held the sonic screwdriver and turned it in a 360, listening and watching as it whirred and flashed. He sped off down the road, running with renewed enthusiasm and determination.
There it was. He had found it. It towered over him, though he was still outside the wrought-iron gates. The sonic screwdriver made quick work of the padlock and soon he was striding up the gravel drive, onto the veranda and knocking on the door. He waited, imagining the utter shock on Rose's face when she opened it. But she didn't. After five minutes, he knocked again. Still nothing. After knocking and waiting for fifteen minutes, he gave up and pulled out the sonic screwdriver again, but it wouldn't open, the door was wood. There were other ways to get into the mansion. There must be. He tried to remember where him, Rose and Pete had come on the night when the Cybermen gatecrashed parallel Jackie's 40th birthday. But then he realised, that they had escaped through the window. The window, he thought. He strode over to one of the windows and sonic screwdrived it, but it wasn't locked with a lock, but with a bolt. The sonic screwdriver couldn't move bolts.
He strode around the whole mansion, looking up to try and see a way in. After walking around all four sides, he concluded that the only thing he could do was climb the trellis to an upstairs window and hope that they were unlocked. Who would bother putting a lock on an upstairs window anyway? It seemed pointless, but knowing Pete and his large amount of money, he had got locks for them anyway, especially after the Cybermen. He began climbing the trellis, trying to avoid the grape vine that climbed up it.
It turned out that even the upstairs windows had bolts, so while the Doctor clung to the wooden trellis above a window, with his feet dangling off and kicking the glass, he wondered what to do, and how to get down. The Doctor decided to just kick the window until it broke and suffer the consequences. That's when Pete came out of one of the rooms with an armful of files which he immediately dropped and rushed to the window. Pete – recognising those Converses and pinstriped trousers – opened the window and managed to get the Doctor in. He was speechless for about a minute before he spoke.
"You said it was impossible!" Pete quietly exclaimed.
"Yeah, well… I'm very good."
"How did you even get here?" asked Pete.
"…It's a long story."
Pete nodded, "Sorry Doctor but I don't have time for a long story. I've got to get to work…I'll talk later. Promise you won't leave without saying goodbye?"
The Doctor nodded, "I promise."
"Good." He answered shortly. He picked up his files and began walking towards the stairs.
"Oh! Pete!" The Doctor rushed after him.
Pete turned around.
"Yes Doctor?"
The Doctor grinned sheepishly.
"Which one is Rose's room?"
Pete pointed to one of the bedrooms down the hallway then turned and walked down the stairs in silence.
The Doctor knocked twice on her door. But there was no answer for five minutes. So the Doctor called softly.
"Rose?" There was no answer to this either. So the Doctor opened the door silently and stuck his head in. There was no one there.
The Doctor pulled his head out of the room dejectedly. Where was Rose?, he thought. Pete would have said something if she wasn't here…
He stuck his head around again, and something stirred in the corner. The Doctor opened the door fully and walked a step into the room and saw that it was a heap under a blanket. Rose?
He crossed the room in a few strides and saw that it was indeed Rose, asleep.
Why would Rose be sleeping in the middle of the day?
Unless it wasn't the middle of the day. The Doctor glanced around for a clock, and found one on Rose's bedside table. Six am. Not exactly the middle of the day. The Doctor didn't have the hearts to wake her. He knew that she wouldn't wake up anytime soon so he got up and strode to the door, glancing once at the heap again before leaving the room.
He went down the stairs, not wanting to look in the other upstairs bedrooms in case one contained Jackie. It felt rather strange being in this house again, especially because he knew his way around the ground floor from being a steward at parallel Jackie's birthday. He grimaced at the thought.
He heard music coming from one room and so he wandered towards it. After taking one step into the room he was ready to walk straight back out, but Jackie had seen him. There was no escape now.
The room that had once been one of the lounge rooms had been transformed into a gym. Complete with gym equipment, a bookcase, a stereo which the music was coming from and Tony sitting in a high chair in the corner and clutching his little chubby hands over his ears. Jackie had glanced up from the screen on the treadmill and seen him. She was so shocked that she stopped running and the treadmill threw her off onto the floor. The Doctor stifled laughter at the sight. She got up and glared at him. Then she turned her back and strode over to the bookcase, pulling out a rather large edition of the Oxford Dictionary. She started towards him slowly, not saying a word, but the Doctor began to back away to the door. Then she lunged. She hit him on the head with the dictionary, and she didn't stop there. All the time she had been spending in this room was obviously paying off as she hefted the dictionary above her head and clouted him on the head again and again. The Doctor rolled into a ball with his arms over his head, but it did him no good. And as each blow came she shouted.
"You"
"Ow!"
"Leave"
"Ow!"
"And"
"Ow!"
"Say"
"Ow!"
"That"
"Ow!"
"You"
"Ow!"
"Can"
"Ow!"
"Never"
"Ow!"
"Get"
"Ow!"
"Back"
"Ow!"
"And"
"Ow!"
"Then"
"Ow!"
"You"
"Ow!"
"Waltz. In. Here. Like"
"Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!"
"Nothing's"
"Ow!"
"Happened"
"Ow!"
"When. She. Cried. Her. Eyes. Out. For. Months."
"Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!"
"MONTHS DOCTOR!"
"OW!"
Jackie was interrupted by the door opening. And in walked Rose.
Rose stared at them for one second, taking it all in, the Doctor crouched in a ball on the floor shielding his head with his arms, Jackie with the dictionary poised over her head and her mouth open ready to keep shouting. Then she ran to the Doctor.
Rose wrapped her arms around his tensed form. She saw briefly a look of absolute terror on his face directed at Jackie before she laughed.
LilyRose convinced me not to leave you with the running =D that would be a bit too mean! and I apologise for all the meanness of this chapter, it's just fun to fool you (I hope I did) and I apologise for making you think in the sneak preview that Rose was the one who fell off the treadmill not Jackie, it just turned out very conveniently that it said "she" not Jackie =D and I apologise for calling it Painful Words and you thinking that something bad was going to happen, what I meant was the Dictionary Bashing - Painful Words...ah ha ha ha ha
the next chapter shall be up tomorrow and LilyRose's alternate endings shall be in my profile!
Defying Sneak Preview
"She held eye-contact with the Doctor. Couldn't look away from his chocolate-brown eyes, the hundreds of years running through them. She lifted her chin, and held her head higher.
'I'm not going!' she exclaimed defyingly."
O.o!!!!!
What's going to happen!?!?!?!?!
The God of Purple =D