Sorry that this got out a bit late... I was baking cookies.

It was finally the day. The day of the great announcement. The day of the ball.

Rose woke up to find that her clothing had been changed and that she was in a different room. She was laying on some type of surgical bed and she felt very sleepy. When she tried to lean her head up to get a better look at her surroundings her body screamed in protest. She plopped back down onto her pillow and decided to look around from there.

The room was steel, just like the rooms from where they asked her the questions. But with her laying on a medical bed it reminded her about the time that she was at Demons Run. She didn't like to think about it, she barely remembers most of it but sometimes when she sleeps some parts bleed through her memory.

There was also a trey of bloody gauze and some surgical tools next to her. She doesn't see any change in her body that might be obvious, but she feels mentally drained.

But then there was a squeak of a door, and then heavy footsteps. Rose turned her head to look over at the person and saw a man. Not just any man, a monstrous one.

"Ahh, you're awake." He smiled, and walked to her side. Rose struggled against her weak body, but only managed to move her arms a little. "Ooo, I see you're trying to move. Best not do that. See when you were misbehaving I had a sudden stroke of... mmm... lets call it brilliance."

He circled Rose and her eyes followed his every move. She decided not to move her neck as much, because it was the part of her that pained her the most. "See, if you decide to... I don't know, run away then all I have to do is pull out my little magic wand." He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a small black device. It looked like a walkie talkie but it had more buttons on the front.

Rose was beginning to feel her body responding to the spike of adrenaline and she was beginning to feel her legs regain their fluids. She had also pinpointed where the door was and was readying herself. "This." He motioned to his hand. "Will make all of our troubles go away, so you don't have to." He chuckled.

Earlier that morning the prince met up with a sniper and told him who to shoot (Rose), where to shoot (her heart), and where to aim from (the balcony). It was the perfect plan. This way he could have her rid of and trap many more women all in the same night. It's like killing two birds with one stone.

Of course no one but him and some castle royalty knew about his plans, not even Rose.

Finally Rose could feel her nerves tensing up and getting ready for a sudden departure. She then quickly knocked the tray over that was next to her. The prince, destructed by this noise, looked over at the spilled medical equipment on the ground. Rose darted towards the door and thanked Rassilon that there was a doorknob on the inside. Somehow on this planet, it was possible for there to be only one doorknob on one side of the door.

But when Rose grabbed the cool metal of the knob she fell to her knees in pain. "Nah, nah, nah..." The prince sung to her. "See, I was just getting to the best part. I had my people make what's called a... well even if I told you what it was called you wouldn't know what it is, so let's describe it as a chip. A tiny micro chip." He walked over to Rose's switch ring body and then let go of the button that he was holding down.

Rose's pain numbed, along with her body. It felt as if someone was pricking every nerve in her body with a scolding hot needle. She has felt that kind of pain before, just not in a long time.

"I told my people that I wanted to train you like a dog for tonight (apparently they have dogs here), of course. So I had them place this chip into your spinal cord. And with a push of a button... well you saw... Or felt as I should say. But let me go into further detail with this." He knelt down and brush a strain of hair from her face. "If you try anything funny tonight. Like you refuse to say or do anything. You will get it."

But with this line, he grabbed her by the hair and forced her eyes onto his. "Or if you embarrass me, you will regret it for the remainder of your life." And with that short speech he walked from the room and left

Rose shaking on the arctic ground.

After a short period of time two old women came into the room and took Rose a dragged her to another room. Rose was still feeling nauseous and dizzy from her apparent surgery and torture, so when the women sat her down in front of a mirror, Rose couldn't see herself straight in it.

But when her vision finally cleared a bit, she saw an unrecognizable women in it. Rose leaned in closer and touched her face.

It was her.

She had dark circles under her eyes and her hair was matted and dirty.

"This one actually has some natural beauty in her." One of the women said, observing Rose.

"Yes, never had a blonde one before, though. Its a shame that's going to have to change." The other one replied. "We'll, lets get started."

They stood Rose up and stripped her new clothing off until she was naked.

(DON'T WORRY, THIS ISN'T A MATURE SCENE)

They pushed her into another room, but this one was smaller and they had tiny holes along the walls. The women watched from a small window in the door and then the water started.

Now Rose knew why their skin was so red. The water was boiling hot. It burned her skin, and no matter what she screamed at the women the water didn't get any cooler.

When that was done they pulled her out and dried her from head to toe. Rose looked down at her skin and saw that it was now the same shade of red as the aliens skin was.

But she really hoped that they wouldn't cut off one of her fingers, just because they only had four instead of five.

They didn't.

But they did inject her with more unknown chemicals. The first one was into the face. Rose thought of it as a kind of Botox, but it wasn't.

She saw that it made her dark circles disappear, and made her face plump up. But made her extremely blurry eyed. Almost as if it added an extra layer to Rose's eye, it was like a fogged window was placed in Rose's path of vision.

Next they put her into clothes. She wore a sort of night gown that went to the the floor.

Next they did something to her hair. They gave her another shot and this one was in the head. "Ow." Rose jerked her head away from their grasp and rubbed her scalp. Then slowly she saw her hair turn from light blonde to a dull brown. It's like her hair before she added peroxide to it.

Rose gasped at the changed woman staring back at her through the mirror and already decided that it didn't matter.

The Doctor loved her blonde hair, and now he was gone. She was too quick to decide his death, but if a Time Lord got a shot to the head, chances are that they couldn't regenerate. Plus, Rose couldn't feel anything in her mind anymore. That might be the telepathic blocker from the castle but Rose didn't like the chances.

The next four hours were a blur. They did her hair, makeup, and they put her in a dress. She looked like another person. If it wasn't for her eyes she wouldn't have recognized herself. The dress was more Victorian, it was a deep green and had a corset to along with the outfit.

Rose found that when she wore a corset it made it harder for her to run away. Which was not good with the position she was in.
The suns where barely set but Rose heard movement from the window. She moved to the opened window and peered out. There were people gushing into the palace for the ball.

Rose sighed. "Is she ready?" Somebody called from behind her.

"Yes, we're done with her."

"Good." There were footsteps, and then a man came into her vision. "Ma'am." He addressed her, he looked like a guard, but a bit more dressed up. He stuck out his arm and Rose had no choice but to take it in hers and let him lead her from the room.

They walked down several flights of stairs and into a smaller room which had double doors. Then the man turned to her. "You will walk in on your que. You will

then take the princes hand and lead the the first dance with him. If you struggle or try to run... you know what will happen." Then he touched her shoulder.

"Good luck." Then he left.

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Delihe watched as the Doctor got dressed into his formal suit and tie. "What if you get hurt? And how are you going to get in?"
The Doctor brushed back his hair. "Well, I'll just use my psychic paper to get in and if I get hurt ill just regenerate, no biggie."
"Regenerate?" Delihe stood up from his chair. "What about your wife? She won't recognize you you."

"I hope so, but lets not get ahead of ourselves." The Doctor or walked over to his side. "I'll be fine. And if I don't return then... then I don't know what's going to happen to this planet."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, eventually there won't be any women on this planet. No women, no reproducing, no population to replace. Your race can die within a century." The Doctor explained. Delihe lost some emotion through the Doctor's words and nodded.

The Doctor made his way to the door and turned around. Delihe saluted him, just like Wilfred did when he went to Donna's wedding. And once again the Doctor didn't return the action and then he turned back around and exited the small house.

As he walked up to the grand palace he thought about the past 48 hours and all of the possibilities he had to take action and fix this. He had to somehow stop this prince and rescue Rose safety, all in one night. He knew he could do it, he had to do it.

When he reached the gate eh saw that castle was lit up with lights. There were people flocking in from the outside in. He took another step and a hand soon stopped him.

"I.D. Please." The guard said to him in a monotone voice, he seemed not to recognize him.

"Oh, ah, here you go." The Doctor held up his blank piece of paper and showed it to his face. He took a single look and reached behind him and pulled out a red mask.

"Here you go, sir."

"Uh, thank you." The Doctor took the mask from him. "Why red?"

"Because you are from the Huit galaxy. You get the red one then." Then he walked away and did the same to another guest.

The Doctor looked at his own physic paper. He saw that it read: 'Sir Doctor: Huit galaxy, Yellow system'.

The Doctor snapped the elastic band of the mask around his head and walked through the large doors. He didn't get asked once about who he was, which was the plan, but what wasn't according to plan was that the Doctor couldn't see the prince or Rose anywhere.

The room was greatly decorated and people were mingling amongst each other. There was banners hung from the tall pillars and they were green and bejeweled with their national flag. Everyone was wearing masks and they were all different colors. Then, the Doctor saw a balcony, with a single person sitting in it; it seemed as if they were waiting for something.

He walked further into the room and was offered a drink at least three times. And on the third time he finally to the drink in his hands, but didn't take a single drink from it.

"Ladies and Gentlemen!" A loud voice boomed from the front of the room. There was a little platform there with two golden chairs sitting in the middle of the floor. "Welcome to our annual, sometimes not so annual, Matching ceremony!" The audience clapped and cheered. It's almost as if they didn't know what was happening or what was going to happen.

"This year we had multiple, beautiful, young women come into this very room, and some left... crying." The man at the microphone nodded and the guests awed. "Yes, but after a couple broken hearts our prince had finally came down to our top ten." And with this the prince stepped into view and every erupted with applause, except for the Doctor, of course.

These people were being deceived, that's why nobody tried to stop this before, they weren't telling them the whole truth. But the prince raised his hands in the air and waved at the people. "Now if you were here last year, then you know that we and selected three beautiful women, but this year is something new. Something that has never happened on this planet before!"

The audience was getting restless, some whispered to each other and others exchanged looks of excitement. "Because this year, is a very special year, we believe that our prince has found the one. So, we present to you, for the very first time the one and only new princess!"

The announcer motioned over to a pair of double doors where two guards were standing on either side. They pulled the doors opened and then emerged a women who the Doctor has never seen before.

Sorry if there was a couple typos in there, I really didn't have enough time to review the whole thing :(