"Doctor!" Rose hissed, running over to him and shaking his frame violently. He would normally jump right up, but this time he groaned and rolled over. Of course. Just when she needed him most.
Rose huffed as the door handle jiggled. She threw the blankets off of the Doctor and reached into his pocket. Her fingers locked around his sonic screwdriver, pulled it out, and, remembering how the Doctor had taught her the basics of its operation, soniced the door handle, hoping that it would hold off the alien.
There was a loud thump, and the wood doorframe bent inward.
"Doctor!" Rose wrapped her arms around his waist and heaved him out of bed, dragging him across the floor as he slowly woke up, rubbing his arm across his eyes. In a few seconds, he jumped up out of her grasp, wide awake and alert.
"Rose! What-? Oh..." He leaned back against the wall and pressed his hands against his stomach. "I think I'm going to be sick again..."
"Not now!" She pointed at the door. "There's an alien trying to get in there. I soniced it, but it's going to bust through the door." She lowered her voice. "If we go through Mum and Dad's room, we can go out their door and be right next to the door of the condo."
The Doctor nodded, but at the same time took labored breaths. He had faint, dark circles around his eyes, and his face was flushed. His hands were clenched into fists, and his jaw was taut.
"Can you hold it at all?"
"I can try. Come on." He ran past her and grabbed her hand with the sonic in it. After maneuvering it into his other hand, he soniced the door that led to Mum and Dad's room. At the same moment, Rose heard the door to their room explode into a thousand pieces.
They ran through the room and out the door, going straight out the door of the condo after that. The Doctor whipped around and soniced it. "This door's thicker. That should hold it for a while." He breathed a long sigh, closing his eyes for a moment and biting his lip. "We have to keep going. Come on!" He began a mad dash again, taking the stairs instead of the elevator.
"Where are we going?" Rose panted as they burst through the lobby door and dashed straight through the middle, receiving odd looks.
"The beach. There are too many people there for them to pick either of us out. For the time being, we'll be-" The Doctor skidded to a halt as he came into the pool area, filled with several of the aliens like the one in the condo. "Safe," he muttered under his breath.
Rose scanned the area, looking for some sort of escape like she was sure the Doctor was doing. He squeezed her hand. "They're blocking every exit," he murmured.
"I know," she sighed. "What do we do?"
"Improvise."
As the aliens closed in, the Doctor lifted his sonic and turned around in circles, pointing it at them. They all produced those metal rods and continued trapping them in a circle. The Doctor and Rose were now pressed back to back.
"Plan?"
"Well..."
The Doctor jolted against her before he could get any further. Rose's limbs went numb for a shocking second, and then a blanket of darkness coated her vision.
