CHAPTER 36
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The Doctor and Rose did not tell the others the good news. They merely told them that they were all going somewhere to start planning for the return of the Time Lords, but they didn't say where exactly.
The Doctor kept smiling the whole way there as the TARDISes traveled through the Vortex.
"Okay. What's up?" Amy said as she looked at him suspiciously.
"What do you mean?" The Doctor said as he looked a little too innocently at her.
"I know you, and I know that smile. You don't smile like that unless you're up to something! What is it you're not telling us?" Amy demanded.
"Not a thing, Pond. You're much too suspicious!" The Doctor said, still with that way too innocent smile on his face.
"Right!" Amy said with a frown.
Rose quickly thought of a way to change the subject as she held out a gift that the TARDIS had just recently given her in her hand for everyone to look at.
"Look at what the TARDIS made for me!" she said as she showed off her new sonic screwdriver.
It looked just like the Doctor's sonic except it had a pink light on top of it.
Rose turned the sonic on, and the light shined through the console room.
Everyone looked at it now, and their attention was totally drawn to it as The Doctor and Amy's conversation was forgotten.
"I love that! Can I get one too?" Donna asked.
The Metacrisis, who was on the monitor, quickly said, "You still owe me a screwdriver! I think that you should be more concerned with that first."
"Pipe down, Spaceman! You'll get your precious screwdriver. I want a pink one first though," Donna said with a growl.
"Me too, mum! I want one. I love it!" Jenny called out.
You're an excellent distraction maker as always, Rose! The Doctor thought to Rose through their link where only they could hear it.
Maybe I'm a little too good. The TARDIS is going to be angry with me because now all of the Time Ladies are going to want a pink screwdriver too. She's going to be working overtime on them! Rose thought back to him with a frown.
She didn't want to think about an angry TARDIS. The last time that she had been mad at her, she couldn't find the bathroom or the kitchen without having to search an hour for them. The TARDIS deliberately kept hiding them from her for over a month. She shivered at that memory. She actually thought that she could hear the TARDIS laughing at her some of those times.
I did not! An unknown voice said in Rose's head.
You didn't what? Rose thought to the Doctor.
What? He thought back to her.
She could tell that he had no idea what she was talking about.
It was me! The voice said again.
Rose realized that it was the TARDIS!
Since when did you start speaking to me, and how come the Doctor can't hear you? Rose thought at the timeship.
I started speaking to you now that you've become a Time Lady and can properly hear me. As for him, I can't speak to him because he isn't connected to the Vortex like you are. The TARDIS explained.
So you're going to be popping into my private thoughts now? Rose asked her annoyed.
Of course not! It was just that your last thoughts were broadcast so loud that I couldn't fail to pick up on them. You've really got to put your psychic shields up better, Rose. You're too rusty at it! The TARDIS admonished her.
Excuse me! I've only been at this again for less than a day now! Rose thought back.
I don't want to fight with you, Rose. I just thought that you should know that I could hear you and so could anyone else with a modicum of telepathic ability. And I didn't laugh at you! The TARDIS said.
Yes, you did! Rose said
Did not! The TARDIS shot back.
"Did too!" Rose shouted out loud as everyone turned to look at her like she was totally insane.
"Who are you talking to?" The Doctor asked with concern.
"The TARDIS! She keeps saying that she wasn't laughing at me that time when she kept hiding the kitchen and the bathroom from me, and I was telling her that she did," Rose explained.
"The TARDIS speaks to you?" Amy asked in shock.
"Yes, she does now. She said that it was because I'm a Time Lady now and connected to the Vortex. That's why you can't hear her Doctor," Rose explained.
"You get to speak to her, and all you can do is argue with her like a little kid?" The Doctor asked her with a frown. He would love to get to speak to her.
"She started it!" Rose said with a grin.
"You do sound like a flipping kid, Rose," Donna remarked to her with a grin.
"I guess I never did grow up!" Rose said with a grin.
"I hope you never do!" The Doctor said with a shiver at the thought of it.
"I don't think that you ever have to worry about it," Rose said with a wide grin on her face.
That's for sure! The TARDIS chimed in to her thoughts again.
"Stop doing that! Get out of my head!" Rose yelled at the console.
The Doctor just gave her that funny look again.
"Be glad that you can't talk to her or hear her, Doctor! She won't shut up!" Rose said with a growl of rage.
The Doctor just started laughing at her. He sent memories of Idris, the body that the TARDIS had inhabited one time, to her through their telepathic link. Rose received images of Idris trying to bite The Doctor as she constantly chattered away without stopping. Rose now started laughing too.
"That's her alright!" Rose said with a grin.
"You poor girl!" The Doctor said with a slight smirk.
"Thanks!" Rose said.
"I wasn't talking to you!" The Doctor quipped.
Rose hauled back and slapped him in the face, and the noise of it resounded through the console room!
"Ow! Why did you do that?" The Doctor yelled as he rubbed his face.
"That was for taking her side!" Rose said with a large grin on her face.
"You're just like Jackie!" The Doctor said as he kept rubbing his cheek.
"In what way do you mean? Be careful how you answer," Rose said with a small grin.
"In the way that you are both quite lovely!" The Doctor said thinking quickly.
"Good answer!" Rose said, still grinning.
She quickly hugged him and whispered, "Sorry!" into his ear.
He just laughed at her. She knew that he wasn't upset.
"Did I teach you nothing, Rose? Never apologize for putting him in his place!" Lily said smirking.
The Doctor just glared at her with a mock pout on his face.
"If you lot are quite finished acting up, I believe that we are about to come out of the Vortex any minute now," Donna called out to them.
Exactly a minute later, the monitor showed them all a picture of their destination as they came out of the Vortex. Some of them instantly recognized the planet and gasped. The others had no idea what they were looking at.
"What planet is that?" Amy asked.
"Welcome to Gallifrey, Pond!" The Doctor said with a huge smile that never ended.
"How?" Romana asked in shock.
"I brought it back. You can't have Time Lords without having a home for them," Rose said with as wide a grin as the Doctor's.
She was so glad that she could give him his home back! She knew that it was her home too, but she really thought of the Earth as her home now more than Gallifrey.
The TARDISes all materialized on the surface of the planet at once and for the first time since the Time War a group of Time Lords set foot on Gallifrey!
Everyone looked around them in amazement. It was all just like it was. Even the animals and the trees with the silver leaves were back. The sky was orange and the grass was red. In the distance were vast mountain ranges capped in snow. The Citadel still stood in the distance, intact and undamaged. The only thing missing was the other Time Lords. They were the only sentient beings on the whole planet.
The Doctor couldn't stop himself as he began to scream at the sky in joy! The other Time Lords that had once lived on Gallifrey were all excited as well. Even the Time Lords, Jenny and Donna, who had never lived here felt a strange pull on them from the planet. It was like the planet itself was alive and was welcoming them all back.
"The Citadel is just like it was before the Time War except for their being no Eye of Harmony. I didn't want to try to recreate that without help because I was afraid I might blow the whole place back up again. That's where you'll come in handy, Omega. I need you to recreate the eye. I've even got your stellar manipulator ready for you to use once more," Rose said as she snapped her fingers and the Hand of Omega appeared next to Omega floating in the air beside him.
It had been this stellar manipulator device that Omega had used to turn a star into a singularity or Black Hole which was placed under the Panopticon. This was located inside the capital and was used to power all of the Time Lords' technology including the TARDISes.
It was in creating the Eye of Harmony that Omega became trapped in the antimatter dimension that he had been in until recently thanks to Rassilon, the evil founder of the Time Lords' civilization, sabotaging his machinery. Rassilon then proceeded to take the credit for creating the Eye for himself.
This time there was no Rassilon to trip him up so Omega should be able to recreate his experiments in creating the original Eye with no problems as soon as they found a suitable star with no planets full of life around it. At least Rose hoped there would be no problems anyway.
After this, they would be able to use the Eye of Harmony to reestablish the quantum force field that protected the planet from physical attack and the transduction barrier which prevented others from teleporting onto the planet.
Now with a base to start from, the Time Lords were ready to reestablish themselves in the universe. They still had to get some recruits from the other time traveling planets and to establish good relationships with the rest of the universe. In order to do that, Rose needed a Lord President and a High Council. She already had someone in mind to be Lord President. She just hoped that they would be willing to take the job.
That was all in the future though. Right now they just stood on the surface of the planet and relaxed as they basked in its twin suns.
Next: The rebuilding of Gallifrey and the Time Lords continues, and Rose offers one of her friends the Presidency.