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Ok here's some stuff I need to remind you.
In my story Rose and the Doctor never went to the parallel world. So all of the cybermen and Doomsday stuff never happened. Jackie and Mickey are still in this universe etc.
BUT, like I said before, this chapter is complicated, and I don't feel it is particularly well written or any good, but pleeeease stick with it.
All the information is here, if not very well conveyed.
Sorry it is most surely my worst chapter to date, but please keep reading. The Doctor and Rose will be reunited shortly.
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Rose cried out in pain as her body hit the ground with a thud.
Opening her eyes a little and found herself in a lamp-lit street, rather similar to the one she had just been in, but something was different.
"What the hell?" she muttered, her eyes lifting skyward, as she took in the huge zeppelin that was blocking the light from the moon.
She suddenly felt a cool hand grasp hers and Rose turned to see Jenny staring at her, a worried frown crossing her features.
The young girl lifted Rose to her feet. "I know it's a lot to take in," said Jenny, staring at her mother.
Rose shook her head. "It's...it's...where the hell are we?"
"London," said Jenny, biting her lip.
"We don't have those things in London!" said Rose pointing at the floating monstrosity.
"We do here," said Jenny. "This is a parallel London, Mum. It's a parallel world."
Rose gaped. "W-What? Jenny...w-what are you talking about?"
"This place," said Jenny flinging out her arms, "it's in a universe parallel to yours."
Rose blinked. This couldn't be true.
Parallel universes didn't exist...did they?
"I don't understand..." said Rose gazing around. "It looks the practically the same...shouldn't it have like a purple sky or something?"
Jenny snorted. "Maybe some of its parallels do...but this one...it's almost exactly the same as yours."
"But...how is this possible..." Rose uttered, shaking her head.
Jenny touched her Mother's arm gently. "Every time you...or anyone else in this world makes a decision...a parallel world is created...a world which was altered just be that person's choice..."
Rose looked up and down the glistening street, trying to take it all in.
"But there was a problem," continued Jenny. "A problem we couldn't deal with one our own."
Rose frowned. "What kind of a problem?"
Jenny rubbed the back of her neck, in a gesture similar to the Doctor's. "The stars are going out," she said simply.
Rose stepped back. Her eyes rising up towards the heavens and sure enough the sky was mostly darkness with but a few glistening speck still covering the vastness.
"We needed the Doctor..." said Jenny quietly. "So we built this dimension cannon so that I could cross over and find you."
Rose lowered her eyes and stared at her daughter. "But if this is a parallel universe, surely there's another Doctor right? Why can't he help?"
Jenny let out a breath and took a long pause before answering. "The Doctor is this universe...h-he died."
Rose folded her arms across her chest. "A-And what about me?" she asked trembling. "I-Is there another m-me?"
But Jenny didn't need to answer the question, Rose saw the sad look that passed across her features.
A single tear slipped down her cheek.
Jenny slowly reached into her jacket pocket and pulled out a little blue diary.
"That's mine!" said Rose quickly, staring at the object as Jenny handed it to her.
"Yeah...we, um, recovered it..." she mumbled. "The last entry was on the 7th of July 2006..."
Rose gulped. "So that's when I-"
But Rose couldn't finish the sentence.
Jenny gave a quick nod and tugged Rose's arm down the street. "Come on," she muttered. "We need to get going."
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Rose gazed around at the empty streets unable to take any of this in.
In this universe she had died.
She didn't exist here any longer.
So many questions surfaced within her head, bubbling to the surface.
She felt a sharp pain in her arm as Jenny grasped it tightly pulling her along.
"Wait, cant we slow down?" said Rose struggling to keep up.
"There's a curfew, no one's supposed to be out after nightfall," said Jenny her eyes darting this way and that. "Besides, I thought you liked the running?"
Jenny cocked an eyebrow at her mother.
"Yeah I did...I do..." she mumbled awkwardly, gazing up the abandoned streets. "So what happened? To this place I mean, why is there a curfew?"
Jenny shook her head. "It a long story," she said in a whisper. "I'll tell you when we're out of the open."
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Rose and Jenny had been running in silence for an hour.
They had heard the sounds of dogs barking in the distance and Jenny had silenced her mother, backing her into the shadows as several military style vans had driven past.
Since then, the two girls had not spoken another word.
Fear pulsated through Rose's body.
This all felt like a dream.
Things were happening so fast she could barely take them in.
Jenny returning should have been a wonderful moment but it was instead overshadowed by this dismal universe.
"Quick in here!" came Jenny's voice cutting through her thoughts.
And in a second, Rose was ushered forwards into an alleyway. She watched as her daughter prised open a large metal door, to a building that once upon a time must have been a mechanics garage.
"Get inside! Hurry!" said Jenny tugging her Mother in.
As the young girl heaved the door shut Rose hit the light switch and gasped as she saw what was inside.
"The TARDIS!" exclaimed Rose, running towards the familiar blue box.
Her heat skipped a beat. It had been less that a day since she had seen it last, but it felt like an eternity.
"I thought you said the Doctor here had died?" she called back to Jenny.
"He has," said Jenny just as Rose wretched open the oh-so familiar doors, and a sorry sight met her eyes.
The wooden box was now just a wooden box.
"But it can't be!" she said in a whisper, placing her hand against the solid wood back.
She felt a cool hand grasp her shoulder and turned around to see her daughter staring at her with sadness in her eyes.
"I'm sorry," said Jenny, "but like I said, the Doctor died, and without him his machine-"
"The TARDIS," corrected Rose sharply.
"-okay, the TARDIS, well without him it just died..."
Rose turned back and stared at the old police box, now covered in dust.
"Jenny," said Rose quietly after a few moments, her voice crisp and commanding. "I need you to tell me what happened to the Doctor. This Doctor."
She turned around to see Jenny rubbing her face with her hand tiredly.
"Okay, I will, but first I need to start with what happened to Rose, this Rose," she said tapping the dairy that Rose still had clutched tightly in her hand. "I think you'd better sit down."
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Minutes later the pair were sat on upturned crates as a crackling fire burned in a small metal bin before them.
"We've studied this thing like you wouldn't believe," said Jenny, flipping through pages of the diary.
"Whose we?" snapped Rose. "Coz it's alright for you to 'av a look, but there are personal things in there...I don't want the whole world knowin'!"
"But this isn't your diary Mum, it's hers, don't you see?" said Jenny brandishing the book.
"Yeah well I thought you said I-...she travelled with the Doctor?"
"She did," said Jenny tiredly.
"So what happened to her?" asked Rose biting her nails.
Jenny let out a breath and stared into the flames.
"There was a great battle that took place in a place called Torchwood in Canary Wharf," stared Jenny.
"Torchwood?" spluttered Rose, but Jenny shook her head.
"Not Jack's Torchwood, this was different. When it was all done for Queen and country. Well anyway, Torchwood found a rift in time and space, they were trying to harness its power as an energy source. They would open the rift up in shifts several times a day, letting through all sorts of evil from various parallel Universes."
"Like what?" asked Rose, her eyes wide.
"Cybermen," said Jenny, shaking her head, "but I'll get to them later. Something else came through too, from the void."
"What's the void?"
Jenny sniffed. "It's the dead space between universes. Nothing can survive there. Except the Daleks."
Rose gasped.
"They came through on a ship and multiplied. Between them and the Cybermen all life on Earth could have been wiped out in a matter of hours. But the Doctor had an idea. He wanted to open the rift and reverse the polarity so everything that crossed over would get sucked into the void and trapped there," said Jenny.
Rose grinned. "Well isn't that good?"
Jenny shook her head. "Turn to page 40," she muttered grimly, nodding towards the diary.
Rose frowned but did as she was told and opened the diary to the assigned page and read.
Date: May...or maybe June 2006 (all this time travelling is making me confused)
The past few days have been a real eye-opener. The last time I wrote in here I was going to leave but now I'm thankful the TARDIS changed my mind for me. It took us to a parallel universe, that was almost the same as mine, except for the fact there were these metal men called cybermen running amok...
Rose finished the chapter before staring up at Jenny her eyes wide and frightened.
"So we went through, to the parallel universe," said Rose breathlessly. "And you said that anything that crossed over would get-"
But Rose couldn't finish.
She knew what had happened to her double from this universe.
"The Doctor had found some magna-clamps, so they thought they would be okay, but she lost her grasp and got sucked into the void," finished Jenny a tear slipping down her small cheek.
Rose placed her head in her hands. That had been her fate. To get sucked into nothingness.
"S-So what about the Doctor?" she asked quietly.
"He was inconsolable. His body was washed up in the Thames a few days later. He died saving the world again," said Jenny solemnly.
"That's terrible," said Rose shaking her head.
"Ever since both his and her death, this planet hasn't been the same. Alien threats came thick and fast once they knew that the Doctor was no longer here to defend it."
"So that's why it looks a warzone out there?" said Rose blinking tears from her eyes.
Jenny nodded.
"All of this happened, Mum, because the Doctor lost you," she said gripping her Mother's hand tightly. "And now I find that you're not together anymore."
Rose glanced away. "I just couldn't do it, Jenny. I'm just some silly human and he's...well he's..."
"A Time-Lord that would be so cut up over your death that he would let himself drown," said Jenny simply.
Rose sighed.
"Jenny, I just...I don't understand...why are you showing me all this?" said Rose shaking her head.
"Because we need the Doctor. Not just this universe but yours too, and to tell you the truth...without you around...I don't think he's going to last very long."
Rose closed her eyes and suddenly saw the Doctor's petrified face in her head. The same vision of the Doctor she had seen earlier on in the evening in the pub.
She had seen the true fear in his eyes.
He had been in danger.
Mortal peril.
Was that her fault?
Was all this because she left him?
Suddenly an idea struck her like a lightning bolt.
"It said I was leavin' him," she said flipping pages in the diary furiously, as she got to her feet and began to pace.
"What?" said Jenny with a frown.
"In here, before we were dragged across into that other parallel earth, it said that I- she was going to leave..." continued Rose, finally finding the page.
Date: I think its 2 May 2006 (Earth-Time)
Today was such an odd day. The Doctor left us. He was gone for five hours. He had crashed through the mirror and into 18th Century France to rescue Madame Du Pompadour from the clockwork droids. I didn't think he was going to come back. If I'm honest with myself, I think he loved her. To me she was nothing but rude and haughty, calling me a child, as if she was any better that me. But I guess the Doctor saw past all that. I just he felt that way about me. I wish he could see past the fact that I am just some stupid ape. But I don't think he can. I don't think he feels the same about me as I feel about him and it breaks my heart. He left us today, me and Mickey, bound off without a second glance, and it broke my heart. So much so that I don't think I can go through that again. So much heartache. So I have decided to leave, go back to earth, live a normal life. My bas are packed, I guess now all that's left to do is tell the Doctor. I'll write in here tomorrow, but now I have to be off. Rose x
Rose glanced up from the page, tears streaming down her face.
This Rose was going to leave him, leave the Doctor.
Something Rose had contemplated doing herself after that particular trip.
She had herself begun to pack her bags but had found a photo of her and the Doctor amongst her belongings.
It had been taken on Christmas day, when the Doctor had changed his face and become her new new Doctor.
But maybe this Rose hadn't seen it.
She pictured the photograph fluttering to the floor out of sight, a mistake that could have changed her life forever.
"She chose to leave," breathed Rose, as Jenny cocked her head to the side, staring at her mother. "It says in the next entry that the 'TARDIS changed her mind for her'. I don't know...maybe it tried so hard to keep her on board that it dragged them into a parallel universe so that she wouldn't leave."
"But it's just a machine?" said Jenny patting the side of the big wooden box.
But Rose shook her head. "No, no, this thing is brilliant," she said stroking the door handle gently, as she swore she heard a gentle purr echo from no-where.
So many thoughts swirled around in her head at this time.
She had left the Doctor and now his life was in danger.
This parallel universe had showed her that. Without her there to guide him, the Doctor was reckless and almighty.
But she was his Rose and he was her Doctor.
And she loved him.
Yes, she loved him.
Her heart leapt.
Rose face cracked into a huge smile and she turned to Jenny quickly, only to see spots appear in front of her eyes.
She swayed violently on the spot.
Rose tried to clutch onto the large wooden exterior of the TARDIS, but it was too late.
The last thing she remembered was her daughter crying out as blackness consumed her.
...
"I-I-Is she a-a-alright?" came a male voice from nearby.
"I don't know," echoed the voice of Jenny, as Rose felt a damp cloth being pressed to her forehead.
Her eyes fluttered open.
"W-What happened?" she said squinting up at the silhouettes of the three figures before her.
Jenny's face suddenly swam into focus. "Oh Mum, you passed out, I managed to catch you before you hit the floor. I guess the whole situation was a little overwhelming for you."
Rose murmured a fake response before pulling herself up into a sitting position and staring up at the new figures in the room.
"Mum, this is Lee McAvoy, he's one of our team," said Jenny gesturing to the man.
He was tall and broad and had a wash of curly black hair.
"H-H-How do you d-d-do," said Lee, reaching out and pulling Rose to her feet.
"And this is Abe, he's my...well my..." said Jenny awkwardly, pointing to her left where a sandy-haired male stood.
"We work together too," said the boy, a little younger than Rose, flashing Jenny a grin.
Rose gave him a weak smile and brushed herself down, before turning back to her daughter.
"Listen, I need to get back to the Doctor, get back to my universe," she pleaded earnestly.
Jenny's face cracked into a wide grin. "I was hoping I'd make you see sense. This world had gone to ruin without the you and the Doctor and I don't want your world to turn out that way too."
"Yeah," said Rose quickly. "If we go back through, we can find the Doctor and forget all about this place..."
But Jenny suddenly frowned, grasping Rose's shoulders. "No Mum, don't you see! Whatever's killing the stars in this world is powerful to break through to all the universes...and yours is next. The darkness is coming."
"Okay," nodded Rose with a gulp. "But the Doctor can help. He can sort this whole mess out and you can come back. We can be a family again."
But Jenny shook her head. "Listen, Mum, this universe is my home now, not that one..."
"B-But the Doctor and I-" continued Rose but Jenny cut across her.
"I know this world isn't the greatest, but it's where I belong," said Jenny her hand suddenly grasping that of the boy next to her. "I spent the past five years here, and this is where I want to stay."
Rose stared back and forth between Jenny and Abe, disbelieving. She was not going to let her daughter stay in this place. "Okay," she muttered, lying, "but aren't you going to take me back to my world. Help me find the Doctor?"
Jenny smiled and nodded, before handing Rose a small flat bronze object.
"We're all coming. If Dad does his job right he could end up saving us all," she said with a grin, handing out bronze buttons to Abe and Lee.
"Okay, are you ready," she said excitedly. "On the count of three."
"One"
"Two"
"Three..."
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Ok, I admit, this chapter wasn't the greatest. There was too much dialogue and not enough action.
But please let me know what you thought on it.
I am going to stay with my boyfriend for a few days and will not be able to update until next week...
But please do not lose faith after this monstrosity of a chapter.
I will be back soon!
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