A/N- So, this kinda took me a while, but not as long as Mentalgal, which isn't so bad when ya think about it. XD Ahh... What else? Oh yeah. There's not much Jane or Lisbon in this one, coz, you know... Lisbon got shot, and kinda has to stay in hospital (blame Mentalgal for that one too) Just blame her for pretty much everything. You love me more. XD Kidding!
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The Doctor wasn't ready for that. Not at all. He wasn't ready for human things like guns. He didn't like guns, but for some odd reason, humans felt safer when they had a weapon. It was something he would never understand. "Agent Lisbon, I, ah, hate to interrupt," The Doctor started, shifting his gaze from Jane to Lisbon and back again. "But can I ask where you put my box?"
Rose let out a small noise and when the Doctor turned to look at her, he saw her mouthing 'rude'. "Really?" Rose nodded. The Doctor frowned until it seemed to dawn on him. "Oh! Right! I'm glad you're okay too."
"Doctor, until I know exactly what's going on, you're not getting anything," Lisbon replied. At least we're not getting accused anymore, the Doctor thought. And I was just being polite, I could find the TARDIS whenever I like.
"Ah well, worth a shot. Come on then Rose. Let's leave these two to… Do whatever… We're just going to go get some chips." The Doctor replied. He'd just have to find the old girl himself.
"So what're we really doin' Doctor?" Rose asked once they were outside.
"We're going to get chips!" Rose gave him a disbelieving look so he continued, "We are! Then, we're going to find the TARDIS. I need to find out what that hand we found belongs to, and to do that I need my scanner, and to get that, I need the TARDIS, and to do that-".
"I Get it Doctor," Rose interrupted him.
"I have a good idea what it is, but I need to be sure." The Doctor smiled and took Roses hand as they walked towards the nearest chip shop.
"So what do you think it is?" Rose asked curiously.
The Doctor tilted his head a little to the left, "weeellll, when I say 'good idea' I mean a hunch."
"And by a hunch you mean?" Rose asked, starting to get the idea that the Doctor didn't know what it was. And that in its self worried her.
The Doctor stopped walking. "Are you starting to doubt me Rose Tyler?" Rose noted the worry in his voice and was quick to reassure him.
"No! I'm just…" Rose trailed off, and looked at the ground. The Doctor tilted her chin up so that she could see the worry in his eyes.
"What's wrong Rose?"
"I-… She got shot Doctor… And she's a trained agent! I jus'…" The tears that had been forming in her eyes spilt over and the Doctor pulled her into his arms. "'S jus' a shock that's all." The Doctor nodded and rubbed comforting circles on her back, and after a while, Rose mumbled something into his jacket.
"Sorry?" The Doctor asked softly, he was pretty sure he had heard her wrong.
"Nothin'. It doesn't matter." Rose said wiping at her eyes.
"Okay," The Doctor conceded, taking her hand again. But in the back of his mind, he knew he had heard her right. He knew what she had said. 'It could've been you y'know.'
***MeNtAlGrAcE***
"Where do you think they're really going?" Lisbon asked Jane after the pair had left.
Jane smiled a small smile, "to get chips." Although he knew that was the opposite of what they were doing. Jane didn't know what those two were, as much as he had trouble admitting it, even to himself, at least one of them weren't human. But he wasn't ready to tell Lisbon about his crazy theory. Not yet. They'd gotten pretty close and he wasn't about to risk that, because if he was wrong, she'd send him to a insane asylum as quick as she could. Jane didn't want that again, least of all because of Lisbon.
"You want to follow them don't you?" Lisbon asked, expecting a straight out yes. But instead she got a surprise. She could see hesitation in her consultant's eyes. Usually Jane would jump at the chance to do something like that.
"I've already got the others on it."
Lisbon gave him a look. Why wouldn't Jane want to do it himself? "Alright then, lets go." She said, attempting to get out again, but Jane pushed her back onto the bed.
"You, my dear Lisbon, aren't going anywhere."
***MeNtAlGrAcE***
The Doctor and Rose had finished their chips and payed (weeellll, psychically, but that was just a minor detail, the Doctor reasoned,) and were on their way to the TARDIS. The Doctor had used his sonic to lock onto the TARDIS' energy signal, so they had figured the TARDIS was in CBI evidence, much to the Doctors irritation. "An evidence locker isn't much of a hiding place is it? I mean, if they didn't want me to find it, wouldn't they put it somewhere a bit more… Mysterious?" The Doctor rambled as they walked in and flashed the psychic paper at the guard.
Then the voice of Cho came from behind them, "they came after the box, just like Jane said. You owe me ten bucks."
"Damn," Rigsby muttered, pulling a ten-dollar note out of his pocket.
"I was thinkin' it might have been because they wanted you to find it," Rose replied to the Doctors question.
"Yeah," The Doctor sighed and turned around to face the two agents. "We stumbled in by accident?" The Doctor tried lamely.
Cho pulled out his handcuffs and Rigsby did the same. "Doctor, Rose Tyler, you are under arrest for trespassing... Again." Rigsby said then read them their rights.
"You know this all seems a little bit familiar…" The Doctor said.
"Doctor?" Rose said.
"Yes Rose?"
"Be quiet."
***MeNtAlGrAcE***
"Agent Cho! What did I say about arresting these two?" Hightower demanded after the Doctor and Rose had been sitting in an interrogation room. Again. For almost an hour before Hightower had stormed in. But Cho, as always, kept a straight face. Lisbon would be proud, the Doctor thought.
"They were trespassing Ma'am, I had every right to arrest them."
"They are consulting. They're allowed to see the evidence," Hightower answered again, still annoyed.
"They didn't get permission from either Agent Lisbon or myself," Cho replied. He had been over the same conversation at least three times already in the space of five minutes with the Doctor and Rose.
"Uncuff them Agent Cho."
Cho turned to the pair of consultants, one of which was holding his cuffed hands out expectantly. "Yes Ma'am," Cho agreed grudgingly, after a long pause.
"Thankyou Agent Cho," the Doctor said with a smile as he got up to walk out of the room.
"Doctor! Can I speak to you for a moment?" Hightower asked before he had a chance to reach the door. Cho had left and Rose was standing in the doorway, not exactly sure what she was meant to be doing. Did she stay or go? She sent a questioning look to the Doctor who tilted his head slightly to tell her to stand next to him.
"This can't keep happening Doctor," Hightower said. "You need to be discreet, understood?"
"People are dead, and you want me to be discreet?" the Doctor asked and shook his head in disbelief. "What does that agency do to you people?"
Rose could see Hightower's jaw clench, "I understand that Doctor, but that doesn't change the fact that some form of alien is involved, and as a Time Agent it is my job to keep it from the general public, which includes my agents."
The Doctor looked at her, "Agent Hightower, you know a lot about me, don't you?" Hightower nodded. "Then you should know this as well. I don't take orders. Not from you, not from anybody." Rose knew if she looked into his eyes she would see that they had darkened. She knew what that meant, she only hoped Hightower did too.
That was the Oncoming Storm.
Soo? I know there's no action, but ya know, you just got some of that, and Mentalgal really is much better at it than me. xD I did give you a little fluff though!
Fun fact for everybody- This is the first mystery I've EVER been apart of writing. Just sayin'. :)
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