CHAPTER 29
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Mickey had gone home from his tour in Cardiff with Rose and Shareen and was ready to call it a night. Martha was already asleep, and he was getting ready to join her when suddenly he wasn't in his home at all! His surroundings had completely changed, and he was now standing in the middle of the Powell Estate. It was the middle of the night, and no one was about.
What is going on here? He thought to himself. Then it hit him. She was still mad! Rose was still angry about what he had said. She had only pretended to forgive him for Shareen's sake because she didn't want to ruin their day together.
Rose suddenly appeared in a shower of golden light a few feet away from him. He knew instantly that she was very angry with him, but that she was trying not to show it yet. She had a smile on her face to reassure him. He knew Rose very well, and he could tell that she was trying her best to stay calm. He was going to have to tread carefully here.
"Did you ever think that our lives would wind up the way that they are now when we were living here as kids? Could you ever have guessed it in your wildest dreams?" Rose said with a strained but cheerful tone to her voice.
Mickey didn't say anything. He wasn't sure if he should. He just stayed quiet.
Some of Rose's anger faded as her eyes turned fearful.
She said to him in a soft and gentle voice, "You know that I'm mad, don't you? I want you to know though that I would never hurt you. I would never do that no matter how mad I am. You don't have to stay quiet, Mickey. You don't ever have to be afraid to speak your mind around me."
She looked like she wanted to move closer to him, but then decided against it. She waved her hand, and a chair appeared out of nowhere on the ground for her to sit in. Another chair appeared beside Mickey, and he slowly sat down in it. He still wasn't sure what to do. He wasn't exactly afraid of Rose, but he also didn't want to be yelled at by her either.
Rose could see that he wasn't going to speak anytime soon so she decided to tell him how she felt about what he had said to her.
"You really hurt me, Mickey! I can't believe that you would doubt that I'm still me after knowing me all of my life. Can't you tell who I am? Don't you know just by listening to me speak? What you said wounded me down to the core of my soul!" Rose said in a very hurt voice. Tears started to fall down her cheeks.
As he had listened to her speak, Mickey finally realized for the first time with complete one hundred percent certainty that this was still the same Rose Tyler that he had known her entire life. He felt waves of grief come over him that he had hurt his friend so badly. He really had believed for a while that she might not be Rose, but that didn't excuse it though. He should have known. He had known her longer than anyone except for her mother.
"I am so sorry, Rose! When I saw you acting oddly, it made me think that you had been replaced after all, and that I was being had. I didn't want to disrespect you by pretending that you were still around if you weren't. It's because I love you so much that I didn't want to pretend that you were still you when I thought that you weren't. I was wrong though, and I should have known that. I am so, so sorry!" Mickey said as his voice shook with emotion.
Rose got up and put her arms around him as he kept repeating to her that he was sorry.
Suddenly they were both startled to hear a voice familiar to Rose speak to them.
"I'm sorry that I caused this rift between the two of you," the voice of Arkytior said.
Arkytior, the first Rose, appeared before them with her eyes glowing and surrounded by golden energy. The glow faded from her, and she stood there with a sad look on her face as she looked at the two of them.
Rose and Mickey both looked at her in absolute shock.
"Is that . . .?" Mickey asked Rose.
"Yes, that's me. The first me," Rose said to him with a nod and an expression of complete bewilderment on her face.
"She moves like you and has your expressions. That's how I knew. You really are the same person, aren't you?" Mickey said as that realization suddenly dawned on him.
"Yes, I am she and she is me. I'm also Rose Tyler too though. I am both of us put together with the main influence being my life as a human being," Rose said to him.
Mickey looked at her with a small smile on his face as he said, " "I am she and she is me"? Do you know how that sounds?"
Rose just gave him a grimace as she said, "I know, I know. I sound like a nutter! The brains of Time Lords just work differently, that's all. We just think differently than humans, and sometimes our thoughts come out all weird like that. That's the best explanation that I can give you."
"I think you're all just weird!" Mickey said with a grin.
Then, his face fell again as he said, "I'm sorry! I shouldn't have said that. You're already upset about me having said something stupid to you before."
"Yes, I am. I'm trying to forgive you for it, but I just can't yet. I know that I will eventually because you're my oldest friend, but I just can't yet," Rose admitted.
"This arguing is my fault. I shouldn't have kept taking control of you. This is your life now, Rose. I just wanted to do things again so badly. I hate being kept inside of your mind and watching you get to live the life that I could have lived if I hadn't have been such a coward!" Arkytior said to Rose.
"I'm sorry about what happened to you, and how you had to regenerate the way that you did before it was your time. It turned out good though, didn't it? Now I get the life both of us always wanted! Even if you can't live it yourself, you can still live it through me, right? After all, we're the same person!" Rose said.
"How can you be here if you're her?" Mickey asked Arkytior in confusion.
"I used Bad Wolf to project a mental image of myself that only the two of you can see. I may appear solid to you, but I'm actually not here at all. I only exist in Rose's mind now," Arkytior explained to him.
"I'm sorry that you died. You were very pretty, and you seem so nice," Mickey told her sincerely.
Arkytior smiled and so did Rose.
"Thank you! I guess I've just been trying to recapture my life. A life that's long gone now. Please don't ruin Rose's life because of my stupidity. It was me doing the things that seemed unlike her. She is very much herself now. I can guarantee you, Mickey, that she is near one hundred percent Rose Tyler and very, very little me. The only part of her that comes from me is my memories and my emotional attachments to them. She really is her own person, Mickey," Arkytior said.
Mickey nodded and said, "I realize now just how stupid I was being. I'm really sorry, Rose. Please forgive me. I hope that you do someday even if you can't now. I never want to lose you as a friend. I love you, Rose, and I always will!"
Rose put her arms around him and held him. He then put his arms around her, and the two of them held each other for a long time without speaking. Their silence seemed to do all of the talking for them.
Finally, Rose said, "I do forgive you, Mickey!"
She then broke away from him and smiled a genuine smile at him with no trace of anger in it anymore.
"We're okay now, Mickey," Rose said to him with a soft smile.
"What about us?" Arkytior said to her.
Rose turned to her with a smile too.
"We're okay too," Rose said to her.
"I won't bother you anymore, Rose. You won't hear from me again," Arkytior promised her.
"No! Don't do that. I don't mind talking to you or getting your advice occasionally. I just don't want you taking me over anymore without my permission. Do we have a deal?" Rose asked her.
"Deal!" Arkytior agreed with a smile.
"That sounds good. I'm sure I'll be hearing from you again in the future," Rose said with a grin.
"You can count on it! See you later, Rose! Good bye, Mickey!" Arkytior said to them with a smile as she faded away.
Rose turned to look at Mickey with a big grin on her face as her hearts were now healing once again.
"You thought she was pretty, huh? Was she prettier than me? Was she prettier than Martha?" Rose asked him with a cheeky grin.
Mickey started to look red faced and opened his mouth to speak but could say nothing.
"Maybe I should tell Martha about your new girlfriend," Rose teased him.
"Stop it! I was just trying to make her feel better. She was so sad!" Mickey said with a look of embarrassment on his face.
Rose turned serious as she said, "Yes, I know. Thank you! I appreciate it!"
Mickey looked confused.
"Is that coming from her or you?" Mickey asked her.
"Both!" Rose said with a mischievous grin on her face.
Mickey just shook his head and said nothing else as she gave him a short hug.
"It's time for you to go to bed now, Mr. Smith," Rose told him in a motherly voice.
"Yeah, I would love that. I really am exhausted right now," Mickey said.
"I can tell. You look like you're about to fall asleep any minute," Rose said to him with a small grin.
"Could you send me back home now?" Mickey asked her.
Before Rose could answer, they both turned in surprise as they heard a strange voice say, "Oh, don't go! Please stay! I want you to witness me defeat the mighty Bad Wolf and claim her body as my own."
There in front of them stood a woman in her late 20's with long blonde hair who was smirking at them.
"Hello, Rose Tyler! I've heard so much about you. I'm here to take your body now. Do you have any problems with that?" Sister of Mine said with a grin.
"I certainly do! I've had enough of people possessing me lately! It's not happening again. You can just go home right now, whoever you are!" Rose shouted at her.
"Oh, I'm sorry but I can't. You see I have to kill you so that I can live. I'll die without a Time Lord body and what better one than yours. I get to live forever and get my revenge on the Doctor at the same time!" Sister of Mine said with a chuckle.
"Oh, wonderful! Another one of the Doctor's crazies come back seeking revenge. Doesn't he have any nice, sane normal enemies?" Rose said as she rolled her eyes in annoyance.
Mickey just looked at her like she was the crazy one. This kind of thing really was just another day at the office for her, wasn't it?
Next: Rose vs. Sister of Mine. It's not just another day at the office! One of Sister of Mine's family members may decide to pay a visit as well!
