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Previously on The TARDIS Call.
"Brace yourself Time Lord, I'm gonna make an honest man out of you"
Rose said with a cheeky smile, she grabbed him by his tie and they both disappeared inside the darkness of her room.
Chapter Fourteen: "The Morning After"
Rose woke up a bit uncomfortably from the sore muscles between her legs, from all that extra 'exercise' the night before, not knowing how long she had been asleep…wait, that wasn't right. She did know, she knew exactly how long had she been asleep, seven hours, fifteen minutes, sixteen seconds, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, ok ok that was enough, this insanely accurate sense of time was something she would have to get used to.
"Uhmm"
The murmur under her brought her back to the here and now. Back to the Time Lord currently sleeping under her cheek, she slowly move her hand over his chest where her Gallifreyan name had been carved over his left heart, where their vital life forces had been tied, where their time lined twined, where she marked him as hers.
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"I Rose Tyler, the Bad Wolf, Soteria, claim you as mine from this day to the end of time, I'll walk at your side with your hand in mine."
She said his name,—the name he had whispered in her mind before they had started all this— and smiled when she saw the emotions pass through his eyes, she had named him as hers initiating their bonding.
"I accept your claim Soteria, I'm yours as you are mine, all my tomorrows all my yesterdays are yours for as long as I live, and I'll walk at your side with your hand in mine."
"Forever"
They both whispered theirpromises, as the words left their lips they were covered with the golden energy of time itself. The Doctor kissed her hard and hungrily, trying to take their minds off of the momentary pain that was to come. Rosewhimpered as she felt a part of her leaving her chest as a new part entered, feeling the circular pattern craving itself over her left heart.
"What's this?" she asked, was this normal? Was that supposed to happened?
"It's my name, over your heart" he smiled and lent in to kiss the golden swirling mark "I've got one too see?"
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The Doctor wiggled in his sleep, bringing her closer to him. She sighed, feeling perfectly content with herself. Unlike earlier when she had been so nervous. When he entered her mind to tell her his name, she felt covered by his love for her as she let the shields built during her Torchwood training fall granting him entrance to her mind. A spark of insecurity came at the thought that once bonded he would be able to intrude in her mind and read her thoughts.
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"Are you sure?"
The Doctor asked nervous, and Rose smiled at the small movement in his fingers as he was unsure about touching her temples and chare his name with her.
"I'm sure Doctor" she said with a small smile, taking his hands in hers "Not because I change and I'm gallifreyan now, I'm sure because I'm Rose, and you are the Doctor"
He smiled as Rose took his hands and place his fingers on her temples, slowly he covered her in his love for her, asking for access to her mind.
"Wait, you aren't going to read my mind all the time now are you?"
"I'll be able to read your feelings unless you invited me into your mind, but reading your mind all the time? Of course not! Imagine that? You would never be able to give me a surprise, and I rather like surprises, the good kind mind you, like 'here I made you a banana cake' kind of surprises, not the 'there's a Dalek behind the court—'"
She kissed him softly cutting off his rambling "Surprise?"
He chuckled before kissing her once more.
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She thought about everything that happened the night before, still not believing that it had all happened that she finally had the Doctor all to herself. Taking advantage of this rare calm minute to internalize and comprehend it all; including how frustrated she felt at the beginning when he hadn't let her touch him.
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"I'm supposed to convince you that you should claim me and not other Time Lords" he insisted with a filthy smile on his lips.
"I'm already con—oh my!"
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Oh and did he even convince her. He convinced her several times before she even got him out of his clothes, she smiled at the memory of what came after, when it was her turn to make him gasp and forget how to talk.
"What's that?" she whispered to herself as the discarded clothes on the floor caught her eye, she saw something white poking out of her pocket. Carefully so as to not wake up the Time Lord sleeping at her side, she tiptoed around the bed to find two letters in her pocket.
"That's right"
Mickey had given her these letters before he left, saying that they were from Jackie to the two of them; with the letters in hand she went back to bed.
"What is it? What happened?" the Doctor asked waking up from the bittersweet feelings he was getting across the newly formed link, which pushed away all those feelings of contentment she was had before.
"It's from mom" she showed him the letter with her name on it.
He hugged her against him, trying to make her feel better, he knew she hadn't had a moment to think about her family and apparently it was finally getting to her, whispering soothing words into her mind he held her while she read her letter.
My little Rose,
I'm writing this from beside your bed, as you lay expelling those puffs of golden dust from your lips. I'm terrified that I will lose you to this mad quest of yours; But right now I'm more terrified that I will really lose you if you don't go, I don't think I'll be able to handle you how you were when we first came here, so sullen and depress, you weren't my Rose. I haven't see you so alive since you came back from that mad world talking about purple sky and red trees, lately I've been thinking you were never born to be a normal beans on toast human being.
I can't pretend I understand what is happening or how to help you, other than with support and by holding your hand when things go sour. I hope that when you read this himself is next to you, where he belongs (Who could have been a gentleman and come looking for you himself!).
Rose chuckled between the tears at her mom's words, and the Doctor just rolled his eyes.
It makes me so sad knowing that I won't be there with you when you get married or when you become a mom yourself, or just when you want to talk to someone because that aliens of yours is been a git.
Rose…just…
Be happy sweetheart, that is all I ever wanted, and if you are happy with him, then I'm happy for the two of you.
I'll make sure that Tony knows how brave and incredible his big sister was, Pete is as sad as I am thinking about letting go of the daughter he was just getting to know and love.
With all my love,
Mom.
After Rose finished reading the letter she just stay there, hugging the Doctor as the tears fell down her cheeks, she would never see her mum again, or her little brother or the Dad she was just getting to know.
"Tell me about them" the Doctor asked, rocking her softly and sending soothing thoughts to her, trying to stop her tears. "About Tony what is he like? About your mom the great Jackie Tyler in her big mansion, I bet she doesn't let anyone make the tea"
Rose chuckled and started talking about her family, about how Tony got lost in the mansion once, and how much he loved those tales about the mad man in a blue box.
"You told him about me?" the Doctor questioned eyebrows rising to his forehead showing his surprise.
"Yeah, he liked the Slitheen and the werewolf the most" she smiled fondly at the memories.
Rose told him about how even if Jackie had staff to do everything in the house, she didn't let anyone make her tea. She talked about the hours she spend training in Torchwood, how she refused any gun training but accepted a Taser for protection; she told him of Sunday lunches in the Tyler mansion and mandatory Saturday pub nights with Mickey and Jake for almost a year.
She talked about the places she visited on her first trip with the cannon and how scared she had been of failing, she talked about going to sleep at night thinking that tomorrow would be the day she would find her way back to him.
"How about you, tell me what you did"
Rose asked and after a minute he started talking, about the planets he visited, about how he met this annoying ginger woman.
"She appeared in the middle of the TARDIS, out of nowhere! Just when our transmission cut off"
"She just appeared there?"
"Yes! And she slapped me, twice!"
Rose smiled when he talked excitedly about ridding a Segway and how they should get one for the TARDIS because sometimes getting from point A to point B took too much time; he told her how he almost died that day with Donna, because he didn't want to keep living.
"I'm glad you didn't die" she said holding his hand.
"Me too" he smiled at her and kissed her softly.
He talked about meting Martha and a hospital on the moon, about the Daleks in Manhattan and about been human.
"He dreamt about you, even as a human with no memories of who I was, I still dreamt about you"
Rose smiled sheepishly at his words and kissed him pulling him closer to her; they spent hours just talking about their time apart and about what they would do in the future, who they would visit and maybe finally going to Barcelona.
"Could you get that?" Martha asked when she heard the doorbell.
Mickey opened the door to find two smiley faces at the other side.
"Hi!" the Doctor and Rose exclaimed at the same time, and entered the house he had been living in with Martha for the last couple of months without asking for permission. They both hugged him and started chatting with Martha about the house and linear life.
"Why are you looking at me like that Mickey boy?" The Doctor asked about the strange look Mickey was giving him.
"You sound weir…domestic"
"Ja!" Rose exclaimed in the Doctor's face "They noticed, you own me ten quid!"
"Fine" he mumbled unhappy with the result of their latest bet.
They all shared a pleasant meal and chatted about traveling, and living on Earth, about Mickey and Martha working for UNIT –which the Doctor accepted all the credit for with a big smile on his face-, Rose and the Doctor hide how long had it been for them since the last time they saw Martha and Mickey, but they really didn't need to know about those little detours they took.
Rose took her time to talk with Martha while they did the dishes. Rose apologized for the Doctor's behavior when the two had travelled together and for the fact that Martha lived in her shadow for so long. But Martha didn't hold any grudges against her, she no longer had feelings for the Doctor, and Rose felt that she had gained a new friend at the end of the conversation if Martha's words were any indication.
"I'm so glad you found each other"
"And I'm glad you found Mickey as well"
They hugged once more and Martha went to talk to the Doctor while she said good bye to Mickey.
"So, Smith and Jones?" he asked with a smile.
"Yeah" Martha smiled flushing.
"Thank you Martha Jones, thank you so much for taking care of me" he hugged her hard, lifting her off the floor with a big smile on his face "We can always take you two for a spin if you want"
"Maybe some other time" she smiled hugging him back.
"What's this?" the Doctor asked looking at the brown box with the letters Adipose Industries sitting on Martha's counter.
"Is for my neighbor, they delivered it today but she wasn't home" Martha explained "It's this weird way of losing weight, they said 'the fat just walks away'" she imitated the cheerful voices from the TV commercials.
"Mhm" the Doctor looked at the box suspiciously; he used his sonic to open it and started to go through the things in the box. "I'm gonna have to take this with me"
"Is it alien?" Martha asked suddenly curious about it.
"Yep" he popped his P "Rose!" he called the woman who was still saying good bye to Mickey.
"What is it?" she asked walking to them. "Did you knick that?" she asked pointing to the box.
"Borrowed" he enunciated the word "Anyway, we have work to do" the Doctor smiled taking her hand.
"I'm not going to be a dinner lady again am I?" she complained.
"Nope" he grinned. "Alons-y!" he ran with her down the hall laughing as this would be their first adventure since Rose was back with him.
"Like old times!" Rose laughed, doing her best to keep his pace.
"Like the best of times!"
The End
And
Beginning of As the Wolf Howls.
In the next couple of days I'm gonna upload the first chapter of "As the Wolf Howls", the next part of the series "The TARDIS Pack", is gonna be season four-ish with a lot of changes, and will find out who River is, and some other surprises I have down my sleeve, hope to see you all of you there!
Cheers!
-Emily Kattalakis.