Phew. This is it! Finally. Oh, I so wished to show this to you guys. I had an idea of it some days ago, and was breaking my head thinking how best to present it and then earlier chapters gave me a headache too. But here it comes!
I thought I was dying to post Doomsday here, but it seems not only! This one is really...Well. Not sure what it is "really", but it is the first chapter which I truly like. And I hope so will you! I tried! But...tell me anyway, if I messed up. Like, seriously, do tell me. Better truth than lie.
Okay then! Here it goes.
The TARDIS was shaking violently, throwing Rose and Jimbo on the ground as they were not holding onto anything. The whole ship was trembling with great force, as the Doctor and Jack watched the monitor with visible horror in their eyes.
"It can't be," Jack exhaled. "Those ships...they were destroyed!" he yelled out in agony.
"What Daleks got to do with TARDIS' alarm?" Rose shot a question towards the Doctor as she was lost about the whole situation.
"They're teleporting us into space," the Doctor said absentmindedly while working on the console.
"What? But doesn't it take a lot of power to do that...and what for?" With everything constantly changing she really didn't know what to expect anymore.
"Oh they are clever." The Doctor began in a dark mocking voice. "They've decided to strike first, before we could even react. As soon as we hit space, a missile comes flying at us."
Rose's face twisted in worry. They can't just die like that. There's gotta be something they could do...And then she remembered the forcefield.
"Doesn't the TARDIS has some sort of forcefield to protect herself?" Rose asked softly.
"Oh yeh, she does or more like could have." The Doctor grinned at her. "And we're going to create just that!" he exclaimed and suddenly turned to Jack. "Hold that down!" he ordered.
They worked on fusing the tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator, which Margaret had left them previously, into the TARDIS. Rose looked at the situation in anticipation together with Jimbo, who seemed to be just as lost of what was going on. They went towards the pillars to hold onto them, as the TARDIS shook fiercely once more.
"The extrapolator's working. We've got a fully functional forcefield," Jack announced proudly."Try saying that when you're drunk." He joked.
"What was it?" Rose asked, feeling a slight turbulence on the ground.
"The Daleks just launched a few missiles at the Tardis, but the forcefield of the extrapolator protected us," the Doctor answered her all smartly. "However, we were too deep in the teleportation when we created the forcefield." He narrowed his eyes a bit. "We made contact with the base of the Daleks. It's drawing us in."
"What?" Rose's eyes widened. "Well, can't we fight it?"
"Nope," the Doctor said lightly.
"So we're going straight into the Daleks' mother core?" Jack half-joked.
"With full speed," the Doctor finished. And with a big thud, they landed.
There was a moment of silence, echoing inside the console room, before the Doctor broke it.
"No good stood round here chin wagging. Human race, you'd gossip all day. The Daleks have got the answers. Let's go and meet the neighbours," he said nonchalantly while making his way towards the doors.
"Hold on. Doctor!" Rose tried to catch up with him but he was already outside.
"Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!" The Daleks started to shoot as soon as the Doctor stepped outside. Unlucky for them, the rays were stopped by a forcefield, extending a good three metres out from the TARDIS.
"Is that it?" The Doctor mocked. "Useless! Nul points." He turned back to the doors. "It's all right, come on out. That forcefield can hold back anything."
"Almost anything," Jack corrected him as he stepped out. Rose stood just beside him together with Jimbo. The Doctor pressed his lips together, eyes widening.
"Yes, but I wasn't gonna tell them that. Thanks," the Doctor said through his teeth.
"Sorry."
"Do you know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek Homeworld? The Oncoming Storm," the Doctor said darkly as he went towards the Daleks. "You might've removed all your emotions, but I reckon right down deep in your DNA, there's one little spark left." He paused. "And that's fear." Daleks moved a bit uncomfortably. "Doesn't it just burn when you face me?" He looked straight at them. "So tell me. How did you survive the Time War?"
"They survived through me." A low robotic voice echoed somewhere in the distance as the lights come up to reveal a large apparatus, which on closer inspection looked like an exploded giant Dalek casing, with a blue-skinned one-eyed mutant happy-for-everyone-to-see-it sitting there as if on its throne.
"Rose, Captain, this is the Emperor of the Daleks," the Doctor announced in a soft voice, his eyes locked on the creature in question.
"You destroyed us, Doctor. The Dalek race died in your inferno, but my ship survived, falling through time, crippled but alive."
"I get it." The Doctor nodded simply.
"Do not interrupt. Do not interrupt. Do no interrupt." Daleks started echoing one another.
"I think you're forgetting something," the Doctor began nonchalantly. "I'm the Doctor, and if there's one thing I can do, it's talk. I've got five billion languages, and you haven't got one way of stopping me. So if anybody's going to shut up, it's YOU!" he shouted at them harshly, making the Daleks back away a few meters. "Okey doke. So, where were we?" Now in a more lighter tone.
"We waited here in the dark space, damaged, but rebuilding. Centuries passed, and we quietly infiltrated the systems of Earth, harvesting the waste of humanity. The prisoners, the refugees, the dispossessed. The bodies were filtered, pulped, sifted."
Rose watched him talk with disgust visible on her face. Every nasty alien thing just waits to get their hands on the dead. Jack was taking calming breaths himself. It was disturbing to listen.
"So you created an army of Daleks out of the dead," the Doctor stated.
"That makes them half human," Jack stated.
"Those words are blasphemy."
"Do not blaspheme. Do not blaspheme. Do not blaspheme." Another round of Dalek echo.
"Everything human has been purged. I cultivated pure and blessed Dalek."
"Since when did the Daleks have a concept of blasphemy?" the Doctor asked the emperor in bewilderment.
"I reached into the dirt and made new life. I am the God of all Daleks!" emperor continued on and on.
While watching him, Rose couldn't help but feel the words inside her head. "You are tiny." She didn't fear him. Somewhere deep inside she could feel strength over the emperor.
"Worship him. Worship him. Worship him." Another echo.
"They're insane. Hiding in silence for hundreds of years, that's enough to drive anyone mad. But it's worse than that. Driven mad by your own flesh. The stink of humanity." The Doctor shook his head with pity and disgust in his eyes. "You hate your own existence. And that makes them more deadly than ever. We're going," he announced, sparing a look at the emperor.
"You may not leave my presence," Emperor called out to them as the group started making their way back.
"Stay where you are. "Exterminate!"
With everyone inside, the Doctor leaned his forehead on the doors. He could hear another wave of echo coming through.
"Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!"
The TARDIS landed on the floor 500 once again. The Doctor moved outside first just to see Lynda sitting there, patiently waiting for their return.
"Turn everything up. All transmitters full power, wide open. Now! Do it!" the Doctor instructed the crew as he went further inside the room.
"What does this do?" the man of the staff asked.
"Stops the Daleks from transmitting on board. How did you get on? Did you contact Earth?" the Doctor asked in a hurried voice. They had to move fast.
"Well, we tried to warn them, but all they did was suspend our license because we stopped the programmes." The man looked at the Doctor.
"And the planet's just sitting there, defenceless," the Doctor stated. "Lynda, what're you still doing on board?" he asked her softly. "I told you to evacuate everyone." He turned back to the man, accusation clear in his voice.
"She wouldn't go." The man defended himself.
"Didn't want to leave you," Lynda answered softly. Rose looked at the girl with guilty eyes. The poor girl. She was so young. Too young for her life to end here, so cruelly at that too. She closed her eyes.
"There weren't enough shuttles anyway, or I wouldn't be here. We've got about a hundred people stranded on Floor Zero," the staff woman announced.
"Oh, my God. The Fleet is moving. They're on their way," the man announced, gulping at the thought of what it meant to them all.
"Dalek plan. Big mistake, because what have they left me with?" The Doctor was rushing about the room, taking cables outside the consoles. "Anyone? Anyone? Oh, come on, it's obvious." The Doctor looked at everyone expectedly. "A great big transmitter. This station." Jack looked at him shaking his head in disbelief. "If I can change the signal, fold it back, sequence it, anyone?"
"You've got to be kidding."
"Give the man a medal!" the Doctor exclaimed, beaming at everyone.
"A Delta Wave?" Jack asked.
"A Delta Wave!" the Doctor exclaimed with enthusiasm.
A Delta Wave. Rose felt her lips start to quiver. She had to press them together to stop herself from saying anything stupid. So she just clenched her fists tightly until they were already turning white.
"What's a Delta Wave?" Lynda asked.
"A wave of Van Cassadyne energy," Jack began. "It fries your brain." He gestured. "Stand in the way of a Delta Wave and your head gets barbequed." He looked at the Doctor incredulously.
"And this place can transmit a massive wave. Wipe out the Daleks!" The Doctor talked with energy filling him.
"Well, get started and do it then!" Lynda urged them.
Rose could only thank Lynda for being so active now. The last time she was here, Rose felt annoyed by her presence, as she just had to interrupt Rose's thoughts. But now, she didn't wish to say anything. And Lynda was her saviour.
"Trouble is, wave this size, building this big, brain as clever as mine, should take about, oh, three days? How long till the Fleet arrive? " the Doctor asked the man.
"Twenty two minutes," the man answered, after checking the monitor.
The Doctor worked on a flash speed to get the cables out. And soon they were in his hands. He just grinned at the group.
"We've now got a forcefield so they can't blast us out of the sky, but that doesn't stop the Daleks from physically invading." Jack talked while watching the monitor.
"Do they know about the Delta Wave?" the man asked.
"They'll have worked it out at the same time," Jack answered him. "So, they want to stop the Doctor. That means they've got to get to this level, five hundred. Now, I can concentrate the extrapolator around the top six levels, five hundred to four nine five. So they'll penetrate the station below that at level four nine four and fight their way up."
"Who are they fighting?" the man asked.
"Us," Jack stated simply. "Now, the guards had guns with bastic bullets. That's enough to blow a Dalek wide open."
Rose looked sideways. It was hard for her to watch all this. This was the deadliest battle she had experienced or will be experiencing since the whole timeline reset thing.
"There's five of us," the woman stated sneering.
"Rose, you can help me. I need all these wires stripping bare." The Doctor called out for her from behind, still sitting with his cables.
Now she understood why she was left behind with him. Even if back then the Doctor might have still had some sort of hope left, he wouldn't risk the chance of not reaching her in time of danger. He may have already thought of a way to send her back.
"Right, now there's four of us," the woman stated.
At the same moment Jimbo walked up in the line to stand as a fifth.
"Oh no no, sorry buddy, but you can't come with us. They are way beyond your canines," Jack joked. However, his laughter stopped soon enough, when in a flash of a second Jimbo jumped on top of the console, landing gracefully at that, a pair of sharp nails appeared out of his clutches as he swung them at Jack to take hold of his weapon.
Click.
Seconds later a sound of a weapon being loaded echoed inside the room as Jimbo was holding it firmly in his grip, pointed at Jack. Everyone was stunned for a second, and Jack started to say something, when their little friend turned sideways and blasted the nearest table into dust, tossing the weapon back to Jack moments later.
"Wow," Jack just exhaled, while starting to make a nervous laugh. Jimbo just made a satisfied sound.
"Alright then. I guess we weren't so well informed about each other," the Doctor stated nonchalantly while getting out of the trance, and moving back on the cables.
Rose watched the whole scene in amusement.
"Then let's move it. Into the lift. Isolate the lift controls." Jack instructed the crew.
With the man and his colleague out of the way, Lynda just came up to the Doctor to tell her thanks. They shook hands and the girl began to move away, when Rose caught her into a hug. It seemed to startle Lynda, as she went stiff for a second, but soon eased up and hugged Rose back.
"Thank you," Rose whispered to her faintly, her voice slightly trembling.
Lynda broke off of her embrace and just smiled nervously. Not sure how to react to all this. Seconds later, Jack gestured for Rose to move slightly bit away to the corner of the room.
Rose went up to him with a questioning look.
"This is it, isn't it?" Jack gave out a sad laugh.
"What is?" Rose asked him questioningly.
"We're not gonna win that easily, are we?" Rose began to say something, but Jack interrupted. "I know you were eager to keep this all a secret. But is there any tips you could possibly give me to use while I'm there?" He chuckled a bit.
"Oh, Jack. I don't know... This was the last time I saw you," she said faintly, her face was full of pain.
"Oh." Jack looked up a bit, putting his lips together. "Guess it's my end then." He shrugged.
"NO! Jack, no!" Rose shouted at him in a whisper. "I never saw you again, but the Doctor told me you were busy rebuilding the Earth, so."
"Heh. Like anyone is gonna believe that." Jack snorted. "Neat way of speaking of my honourable death." Jack smiled at her, while Rose was looking frantically at him, scared for her dear friend.
"What are you two up to down there?" The Doctor called out for them.
"Someone is getting impatient," Jack sang and both Rose and him chuckled. "But I'm glad. That means you survive, Rosie." Jack cupped her face. "Remember, you were worth fighting for." As he kissed her quickly and went towards the Doctor.
"It's been fun," Jack joked while looking at the Doctor who just gave him an understanding smile. "But I guess this is goodbye." Rose walked up to the two of them.
"Wish I'd never met you, Doctor." Jack joked. "I was much better off as a coward." He told him sincerely while cupping his face into his both hands and kissing him lightly. Rose gave her last tight hug for Jimbo.
"See you in hell." Was Jack's last words to them as he disappeared out of their sight, with a smaller figure walking right beside him.
Back on the floor 500, the Doctor and Rose were working on stripping the wires bare. She was supposed to work fast but Rose could feel herself move slower and slower by each second.
"Stripping the wires bare, we got one great adventure here." The Doctor joked. Rose made a faint laugh sound.
"I suppose TARDIS would have worked it out faster than me," Rose said, making the Doctor smile at her.
"There's another thing the Tardis could do." He began softly. "It could take us away. We could leave. Let history take its course. We go to Marbella in 1989."
"Yeah, but you'd never do that." Rose could feel a lump make its way towards her throat, her heart began to quicken.
"No, but you could ask." Everyone did. But not you. "Never even occurred to you, did it?" Never you. He looked at her fondly.
"Well, I'm just too good," she said softly, pressing her lips together. And I'll not let you die here alone with the Daleks.
"The Delta Wave's started building." The Doctor dropped the cables and made his way towards the monitor. "How long does it need?"
He looked at the console, pressing the buttons frantically. Seconds later his face shadowed, eyes closed.
Rose had to suppress the sob from coming out. She couldn't watch him like that. All hope lost.
He sighed, and placed his head down. She could tell now - he was gathering his thoughts of what he should do. And seconds later, he made a decision. His head shot up and he turned to face her, his face filled with a huge grin, unseen energy emitting through his body.
Stab.
If any other time it was hard to force a smile, then this time it was just humanly impossible. While her Doctor was beaming lively at her on the outside, underneath him he was telling her goodbye.
"Rose Tyler, you're a genius!" He placed a quick, but tender kiss on her forehead, it being his last contact with his beloved human. Rose closed her eyes at the touch, savouring the gesture just as dearly.
"We can do it." He looked at her with excitement, his hands on her shoulders. Rose gave it all to form a smile on her face. "If I use the Tardis to cross my old timeline. Yes!" And with that he ran towards the TARDIS to unlock her.
He dashed about the console, pressing some buttons and switches. "Hold that down and keep position." He instructed her.
She couldn't move. She was forcing herself with all her might. But she just couldn't. Her hands were trembling and she just wanted to hug him tightly and tell him to stop. To not send her away.
"Rose! We don't have time. Now hurry up." He shook her thoughts away as the sound of his steps moving away could be felt by her.
She didn't even notice how she extended her one hand and tugged onto his jacket's sleeves. The Doctor came to a stop. It took him a hesitant second, but he turned to face her, with a a big smile on his face.
"Rose." He cupped her face. Rose looked deep into his eyes. "Everything's going to be alright. I've just got to go and power up the Game Station." And he let go of her face. Rose slowly loosened her grip on his jacket. She had to. As much as it killed her, she had to let go of him. And she was going to be the one to kill him. Because in this current situation, nobody in the universe could help them - except for Bad Wolf herself.
"Hold on!" the Doctor shouted out and dashed towards the doors.
He was nearing them at a fast speed. The Doctor was already one feet outside, when Rose made a decision she thought she would not be making anytime soon.
She will tell him. If that was the last thing she could do for him – she will tell him.
In a flash she slipped her fingers from the button they were holding just seconds back, and ran towards the doors.
And then, everything started to move in a slow motion.
Rose's one hand was placed on the TARDIS door's knob, with them already half opened and the Doctor was standing further away in the room with his sonic screwdriver in his hand pointed right at the TARDIS. Rose had her mouth half open, trying to form a word, and the Doctor's finger was already putting half the pressure on the button to press. He could see from the corner of his eye, that another movement was present in the room. Which was previously not noticed by either of them.
His face twisted in horror when he realized what that was. Before anyone could even form a thought of how to begin to stop the current things from progressing, the Dalek with an already pointed camera eye towards the TARDIS, where Rose now was standing completely unshielded, cried "EXTERMINATE" while shooting the beam right into her chest, making her collapse inside with doors closed shut millisecond later and the TARDIS dematerializing before the Doctor's very eyes.
The Doctor stood there motionless, his mouth half open, expression blank. Everything what just happened, took place for only three seconds max, for human measurements, but the Time Lord could repeat the events over and over again in his head, making it slow down each time as he remembered.
He could remember every slight movement. Every last breath or thought forming its way on her face. He could remember her desperate expression pointed right at him, wanting to tell him something, just before her face twisted into shock and agony.
He extended his hand slowly into the air where he could still feel the energy of the universe present seconds ago. He didn't stand there for long. Quickly enough, his legs gave out and he was kneeling in front of the place where his home and Rose just stood. He placed his hands on the ground, wanting to feel them, trying to convince himself that this is all just a horrible nightmare and he just had to extend his hand to feel the both of them here safe and sound.
But there was nothing.
There was nothing there anymore. Even the last bits of the universe energy were fading away. It was just a cold ground. Everything dear to him just faded away, together with Rose's life.
The Doctor was unmoving. He didn't feel like moving at all. And as he blocked all the background sounds out, whether it was done consciously or not, he just stayed there, kneeling besides thin air.
Somewhere in the deep distance of his mind he could barely grasp something shouting at him, making orders to him. Something like "The-Doctor-Will-Stand-Stand."
It sounded funny. All that buzzing. Who could make such a sound. He didn't respond to any of it. However, he was brought back to life by a nudge on his shoulder. He looked up and then a realisation hit him.
"You killed her." He looked at the Dalek in front of him, at first in disbelief but steadily his expression started to grow more dark.
"I was sending her home and you just killed her!" He didn't even know how or from where, but he felt his legs regain their strength as he stood face to face with the Dalek.
"SHE-WAS-NOT-NECESSARY!" it announced, shaking.
"Don't you dare say that!" His voice deadly. He was burning with fury, the Oncoming Storm, and who knows what he would have done if a hundred more movements wouldn't have disturbed his vision.
The army of Daleks made their way to the Doctor, moving dangerously from all sides, cornering the Doctor in the middle. He could see from the corner of his eyes that the Delta Wave was ready, but somehow he didn't feel like moving. Only Jack's voice coming out of the the radio speaker took his attention for a slight moment.
"Doctor? Can you hear me? I am not sure, but I think they may have already moved to floor 500. I'm cornered and it's just about time. But I just wanted to say one last thing." Jack took a deep breath. "Jimbo is gone. He passed away in my arms, Doc. It was already his time. He volunteered to come with me knowing that. He wished to die with honours."
With Jack's words hitting the Doctor's consciousness, he made a hopeless laugh sound.
"YOU-WILL-BE-EXTERMINATED!" the emperor on the screen announced.
"Maybe it is time," the Doctor agreed softly.
"Doctor? What are you saying? What about Rose? Rose, can you hear me?" Jack questioned him in a frantic voice.
"She's gone," the Doctor said faintly, his expression blank again.
"Wh-" Jack began, but he was cut short. "They killed her."
There was a silence of a few seconds before the Doctor continued in a low monotone voice. "I sent her into the TARDIS, to bring her safely home, and instead I'm brining her family her corpse."
The Doctor could hear Jack's breath hitch after the last sentence, and some cursing going on, growing into violent outrage at the Daleks in front of him, when everything was silenced by a loud - "EXTERMINATE".
The Doctor just closed his eyes and held his hands up to the sides. Awaiting for his fate.
Everything happened in a flash of a second. Rose still couldn't fully understand what was going on. She was dying, wasn't she? She was hit by the Dalek and now just laying still inside the console room, awaiting death.
It was surprising that she was still breathing, even if it was shallow and she couldn't move her body at all. One may count it as sheer luck, but she knew better. It was just one more curse by the universe. To let her feel how her own life fades away. To let her remember the Doctor watching her as she was shot. Now she has really done it. She will be the destroyer of his, in the most cruel way possible.
Her eyelids were getting heaver and heaver. It was hard to keep them open, so she didn't even bother to force herself anymore. She just waited for darkness to consume her. And moments later it did.
Rose felt herself slowly regain conciousness. At first her body was still and unmoving, but by each second she felt her fingers, hands and legs come back to life. Now was the time to open up her eyes to see what situation was she in.
Her eyelids fluttered slightly, as they steadily worked their way to open up. Rose found herself surrounded by some sort of yellow light. She couldn't properly see what it was yet, but she only saw light.
Her vision started to become more and more focused and she could almost identify her surroundings. Or so she thought. But she couldn't, because nothing made sense of what she was seeing. She closed her eyes again. Took a few deep breaths. And shot her eyes open.
Her mouth fell open in bewilderment. "You've got to be kidding me!" she exclaimed. What she saw, that bright yellow light, was none other than the light bulb from her workshop basement. And the creatures making their way towards her, were the same Living Plastic of 2005. Just once more?
She couldn't believe it. Just couldn't. She was dying inside the TARDIS and now what? She is back again in 2005? Is that what was meant to happen? Each time she dies, she just pops up at Henrik's and gets to redo her timeline all over again? Over and over, the never ending cycle.
She wanted to shout at someone. Why must it happen to her? Not being able to tell her Doctor about everything she has experienced was bad enough. But twice? She wasn't sure she could handle that. No. She could, she would do anything if it meant for her to be with the Doctor. But she was not so sure the Doctor himself would keep her. She would surely mess things up this time.
While Rose was deep in her thoughts, the Living Plastic were dangerously moving towards her. Just a few inches and she is going to get strangled by them.
But well, she didn't really care much. At the worst - she dies. And then gets to repeat it once more. So who cares, really? She just wanted to think now. Of course, she would prefer to do that alone, not while being cornered to the cold wall and awaiting her death, but the universe doesn't seem to be that friendly. In fact, it just keeps messing up with her.
And then, happened what had to happen. She felt a familiar hand take hers into his, as the words echoed inside her head. "Run."
And she did run, but she didn't look at the man in front. She had her eyes half closed, locking them on the ground. She couldn't see him. It was just too much. Not now. Not yet.
The man took her into the lift and she placed herself in the corner, with her eyes closed, never making a peek.
She could hear how the plastic hand tried to make its way inside, while being stuck in between.
"Oh, hello there!" the man exclaimed. "Waving, are we? Okay, keep it up." It seemed like he was having a conversation with the hand. "That's interesting, you could probably go for the Olympics! If you think about it, I might even be able to get you there. But no no no. On other hand, that would not be a good idea. You would mess things up, wouldn't you?" he cried.
The hand must have nearly opened the lift, because the man decided to take some action. "Okay, that's about enough. Now come here." He was pulling the hand with all his might. "Just just just a bit more... and one and two and bam" He giggled. "There you are. Safely pulled out. Brr. Glad I'm not the one at the receiving end this time. Not a good feeling when your hand gets severed, isn't that right?" He seemed to ask someone.
"Oi. Rose Tyler. Fat lot of good you were. I had to do all the work with the hand by myself. What are you up to with your eyes closed shut?"
Her eyes shot open. Her mouth fell open milliseconds later. "Wha-"
"The hand, see?" He waved it. "Oh, those old memories just come rushing RIGHT at me." He began to talk with enthusiasm, more so than the previous time." My poor little hand." He waved his fingers. "But this fighting hand is brilliant! Roar! And everyone runs away." He beamed at her.
"Bu-...you-...wha-.." Rose shuttered, pointing at him.
"But. You. What. Okay, come on, what's more? Come on, say it!" He urged her, watching her expectedly.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Rose exhaled.
"Oh." His expression twisted to an unhappy one. "Not happy to see me?" He looked at her with puppy eyes. Rose just looked at him with horror.
"Aww. And here I thought I would get a warm welcome. Never gonna happen is it? Okay okay. Don't say anything. You are confused, right? You are. Weeeell, obviously, it is kinda strange. But what isn't in this day and time?" He stopped to consider. "Blimey, I talk like an old senile man. But maybe I am!? No no no, I'm not. Young young. Yeh. Good. Okay!" He cleared his throat. "Right then, what do you want to know?"
Rose was stuck into shock. Just when she thought the world couldn't get any weirder it made sure to prove her wrong! The Doctor being in the Henrik's together with her again was wrong enough, but Her Doctor being here? The him looking all foxy and all, as Cassandra stated, in his pinstripes suit and converses? And lets not forget the great hair. He really did have great hair. Oh, boll. She felt her head spin.
"How come you are here?" she asked. "It is 2005, isn't it?" she looked at the Doctor who was just grinning all happily at her.
"Oh it is!" he exclaimed "I would say it is March 26th of 2005 and around 7 pm, 23 minutes and 43, 44 seconds."
"Bu-..." Rose shook her head in disbelief. "But how are you here? I only met you, the this you" She pointed at him with her palm. "At Christmas!"
"You remember," he said in a sweet voice.
"Of course I do!" Rose cried.
"That's great then." He smiled at her tenderly. "You shall meet me very soon," he said in a low soft voice.
"What? But I'm meeting you like about now." She laughed nervously.
"No." His voice firm. "This is not real."
And the next second, the darkness consumed Rose Tyler once again.
Rose felt power. Great power consuming her and showing her its capabilities. The golden warm light filled her mind. It was burning. Burning like the sun. And she could see and hear everything. Even with her eyes closed.
In a flash she opened her eyes, just at the time when the TARDIS doors opened up for her. She saw how her Doctor watched her in utter disbelief. Millions types of emotions ran through his face - relief, confusion, pride, worry, pain, care. He fell backwards as he watched her. She was like the Goddess in his eyes. She found her way back to him, and now was one with his magnificent ship.
The light surrounding her, flew her a few meters towards the Doctor. Like she didn't weight anything at all.
"What have you done?" The Doctor looked at her wide-eyed.
"I looked into the Tardis, and the Tardis looked into me." Her voice echoed inside the room like it was not of this Universe.
"You looked into the Time Vortex. Rose, no one's meant to see that." His voice and face was filled with worry for his dear human.
"This is the Abomination!" the emperor of the Daleks stated.
"Exterminate!" One of the Daleks shot a beam towards Rose, but the ray was stopped by Rose's single hand. As her eyes started to glow into golden light, she send the beam back to where it came from.
"I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words, I scatter them in time and space." She gestured her hand towards the sign of Bad Wolf Corporation, and they flew away "A message to lead myself to you."
"Rose, you've got to stop this. You've got to stop this now." He looked at her frantically. He just got her back, he couldn't lose her again. "You've got the entire vortex running through your head. You're going to burn." He tried to reason with her. She had to understand. He wouldn't lose her again.
"I want you safe." Rose looked at the man she loved from all her heart, through time and space, with tender eyes as she spoke the words. "My Doctor. Protected from the false god."
"You cannot hurt me. I am immortal," emperor exclaimed.
"You are tiny." Rose's voice was that of the Higher Being. "I can see the whole of time and space. Every single atom of your existence, and I divide them." Her eyes began to glow again as she disintegrated the Dalek gently, making it disappear into the golden dust.
"Everything must come to dust. All things. Everything dies." Little by little every single Dalek started to disintegrate into the golden gentle dust. "The Time War ends."
"I will not die." The emperor tried to resist. "I cannot die!" But the power was too much for him. His spaceship disappeared into dust together with him inside it. Like it never was.
Everything disappeared. The threat, the Daleks, the Time War, even death.
"Rose, you've done it. Now stop. Just let go," the Doctor pleaded her. He wanted her safe.
"How can I let go of this? I bring life."
Somewhere on the other side of the game station, Jack breathed air again.
"But this is wrong! You can't control life and death!"
"But I can." Rose just told him simply. Because life was just one small part of her power. And the Doctor understood it from her eyes. He couldn't say anything back.
"The sun and the moon, the day and night. But why do they hurt?" Her voice sounded faint at the end. It was the second time for her to experience this power, but it still hurt so much.
"The power's going to kill you and it's all my fault." The Doctor couldn't bare the pain he was feeling. He was loosing her again. And both times, all because of him.
"You are not at fault. The things that must end, will end, and the new beginnings will start. My Doctor. You are going to live again." She smiled at him gently. Her expression changed a bit, when she felt pain consume her. "My head."
The Doctor stood up to stand next to her. "Come here," he told her gently.
"It's killing me." She smiled at him sadly.
"I think you need a Doctor." With these words the Doctor placed his lips gently on hers, giving her a tender kiss that of a whole time and space, while transfering the deadly power straight to himself. He wouldn't let her perish.
From all that power Rose fainted in his arms. He placed her down on the ground with so much tenderness, like she was made of glass and could shatter any minute. He wanted her safe, and he will make sure of it.
His eyes were shinning gold. The one and only God of the universe. The Last of the Time Lords. But he couldn't keep the power. He chose to put it back to its rightful place. He exhaled the energy back into the TARDIS. It slowly flowing inside. When he was done, he only felt free. He didn't have any regrets.
He bent down to his beloved human to stroke her face gently, before taking her into his both hands and returning home - to the TARDIS.
Rose fluttered her eyes open. Which seemed to become a hourly routine to her by now. As she absorbed the view ahead. She was back in the TARDIS. The Doctor has done it again. She killed him again. But there was also a new sensation she felt. Something she didn't feel the previous time. She felt life. She felt a steady heartbeat which was not hers.
She sat up slowly, turning to face the Doctor, who was looking seriously at the controls.
"Doctor," Rose said softly.
"You are awake." He smiled at her, she smiled back at him sadly. He saw how his left arm began to glow. "Rose Tyler." He chuckled. "I was going take you to so many places. Barcelona. Not the city Barcelona, the planet Barcelona. You'd love it. Fantastic place. They've got dogs with no noses." He laughed, Rose just smiled at him fondly. "Imagine how many times a day you end up telling that joke, and it's still funny."
"We will go there," Rose said softly.
"Maybe you will, and maybe I will," he said in a light voice. "But not like this." He smiled sadly at her.
"As long as it's you and me." Rose looked at him with reassurance. And for a moment, the Doctor didn't feel all that scared about what was coming.
"I'm going to change, Rose. I absorbed all the energy of the Time Vortex, and no one's meant to do that," he sang. "Every cell in my body's dying," he said seriously.
"I'm sorry." She couldn't suppress the sob. The Doctor looked at her in bewilderment. "No. Don't be. I chose this. Except...this process is a bit dodgy. You never know what you're going to end up with. Gah."
The Doctor clutched his stomach as a golden light exploded inside him.
"Doctor!" Rose ran to him.
"Stay away!" he warned her.
"Doctor." Rose could only call out for him with tears falling down her cheeks.
"Time Lords have this little trick, it's sort of a way of cheating death. Except it means I'm not going to see you again. Not like this. Not with this daft old face. And before I go-"
"Don't say that." Rose shook her head. She didn't want it to end like this.
"Rose," he repeated softly. "Before I go, I just want to tell you, you were fantastic." He looked at her proudly. "Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? So was I." They smiled at each other sadly and this was it. Her last chance. So she made it.
She walked over to him, the Doctor looking at her with worry, to not to hurt her. She placed her one hand on his chest, another on his shoulder, as she kissed him on his cheek tenderly, saying it all she could with this one last touch. "Thank you," she whispered, before backing away.
And then, he exploded. His both arms, legs, head - everything disappeared into the golden light. A new face replaced her Doctor. With the one she thought she would never see again. Be it a year ago on that fateful beach or today, just moments ago.
She was back to him. And he was back to her.
"Hello." He looked lost. She couldn't help but grin at that. "Okay. Ooo." He stopped mid-sentence. "New teeth," he stated faintly. "That's weird. So, where was I? Oh, that's right. Barcelona." And with that he gave her one of his gorgeous grins, making Rose grin all the more.
to be continued...
A/N: Yep, it is long. In fact, it is the longest so far. 7k+! Wow, it is my record. Lol.
Thank you thank you for reviewing the previous one! I know, it was a little bit sloppy. But I hope this one will make up for that :P