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Chapter Nine-

When Rose got to the wardrobe room she couldn't stop herself from covering her face and blushed deeply as she leaned against the door, her mind racing over what had just happened. She had always dreamed and fantasized about doing that with him on the console, but never in her entire life did she ever believe he would actually do that. And what made it even better that it was her leather clad Doctor that had done it! She felt the TARDIS giggle in her head.

Rose sighed and shook her head. She had to get ready for their date in 1869 Cardiff instead of 1860 Naples. Rose pushed off the door and walked through the wardrobe room in search for that beautiful dress once more. She had loved it the first time she had worn it, loved the way the Doctor had looked at her. She wanted to see what his reaction to her in that dress would be this time around now that he wasn't holding himself back any more.

Finding the dress and slipping into it wasn't nearly as hard as it had been the first time, now that she knew how to do it. After quickly doing her hair and make up, Rose checked herself in the mirror making sure the black and maroon off the shoulder dress was sitting right and that her boobs weren't popping out. Her eyes caught the mark on her neck that the Doctor had made and rolled her eyes. As much as she wanted to keep it there, she knew that in this time period that mark would be too scandalous.

She spent five minutes covering the mark, and by the time she made it back to the console room the Doctor had gotten bored and started to tinker. Hearing her approach, the Doctor looked over at her and dropped his screwdriver in shock as his mouth dropped open. Rose blushed and smoothed the skirt of the dress down.

"Blimey." The Doctor breathed out, his eyes raking up and down her.

"Don't laugh." Rose told him even though she knew he never would, his reaction was similar to his first one, only that time he hadn't dropped his screwdriver. She wondered if he would add the 'for a human' part to his complement or not.

"You look beautiful." He told her.

"Considering I'm human?" Rose asked slightly insecure. It had hurt her quite a bit when he had told her that the first time seeing as she had spent time trying to make herself look as good as she could for him. She had picked out the dress with him in mind and everything. And when he had looked at her like he had she had thought it had worked, but then he had added that 'for a human' bit and it had taken everything in her not to cry. She had never told him, but after that, whenever he had complimented her look her mind would always whisper 'for a human' after it, and she never truly felt beautiful after that.

"Rose, you are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen, and I've seen quite a lot. I've seen the creation of the universe, I've seen almost every sunrise and sunset. I've seen the start of millions of species. And nothing I've ever seen can compare to your beauty." The Doctor told her climbing out from underneath the console to take her head in his hands. "And I doubt I'll ever find anything as beautiful as you, and whoever made you believe you aren't beautiful is a blind idiot." He finished with a soft kiss to her lips. Rose teared up as his words finally killed that stupid voice in the back of her mind and she finally felt beautiful again.

"Aren't you going to change?" Rose asked after taking a moment to collect herself. The Doctor looked down at himself in confusion, before spotting the fallen screwdriver.

"I've changed my jumper!" He told her as he quickly climbed back under the console and grabbed his screwdriver, shoving it into his pocket. "Come on." He said before climbing back up to her.

"You stay there, you've done this before." Rose told him rushing to the doors, she had loved doing this the first time and she would be damned if she didn't get to do it again this time. "This is mine." She told him as she stepped out of the TARDIS and into the breath takingly beautiful snow covered alley, it was just a beautiful and breath taking as before. She smiled to herself as the snow beneath her feet crunched as she slowly walked around letting herself take in everything.

"Ready for this?" The Doctor asked as he slipped a cloak over her shoulders allowing Rose to realize how cold she was. She quickly tied the cloak and pulled it close to try and warm up some. "Here we go." He smiled at her as he offered her his arm and she gladly took it smiling back at him. She would enjoy this peaceful time with him before they had to deal with the Gelth, and maybe this time they hopefully wouldn't fight each other, but something in her whispered that she would be disappointed in her hope. "History."

Rose allowed the Doctor to lead her out of the alley way and snuggled close to him as the wind and the cold hit them as she took in everything from the people to the horse drawn carriages. It was just as she remembered it, and just as cold too. The Doctor led her over to a paperboy and bought a paper, and Rose had to bite her tongue from laughing as he finally realized where he had landed them.

"I got the flight a bit wrong." The Doctor told her, his voice holding disappointment and anger.

"I don't care." Rose told him truthfully.

"It's not 1860, it's 1869." He told her.

"I don't care." Rose told him once more.

"And it's not Naples." He told her slightly embarrassed.

"I don't care." Rose told him again, already knowing where they were.

"It's Cardiff." The Doctor told her looking as if he was expecting her to be angry with him.

"Well then, let's go see what happens in 1869 Cardiff, shall we?" Rose asked causing him to smile widely at her. They continued walking arm in arm as Rose leaned her head on his shoulder knowing that in just a few short minutes their quiet night out would be interrupted. And, a few minutes later, screams cut through the air like she expected it to.

"That's more like it." The Doctor cried out happily tossing the newspaper over his shoulder as the two of them took off toward the scream at a run. They came to the theatre and Rose tried to keep her grip on the Doctor's arm hoping to not get separated form him this time. But her hand was dislodged from his arm by one of the many frightened theatre goers and she lost him in the crowd. "Rose!" The Doctor yelled for her.

"I'm fine! Go! I'll catch up with you!" Rose called to him before allowing herself to be pushed backwards with the crowd rather than waste the energy fighting her way through them. She would make her way into the theatre once the crowd had thinned. As she waited outside the theatre for the crowd to thin enough she caught sight of Gwyneth and Sneed loading the woman into the back of the hearse and ran over to her. "What are you doing?" She demanded even though she knew the answer.

"Oh!" Gwyneth called out in shock trying, and failing, to use her body to block Rose from seeing the woman's body. "It's a tragedy, miss. Don't worry yourself, me and the master will deal with it." Rose saw Sneed quickly slip behind the hearse and knew what he was about to do. "Fact is, this poor lady has been taken with a brain fever. We have to get her to the infirmary."

"You're lying, I know she's dead. Just like I know this isn't the first time this has happened." Rose told Gwyneth before her body reacted to the man behind her long before her brain had realized it had moved. One second she was staring down Gwyneth and the next, she was holding Sneed's arm behind his back and him on his knees in front of her with her growling at him. "Mr. Sneed. I must say it is very rude to drug someone who is only trying to help you with your little problem."

"Problem, Miss?" Sneed stammered out his eyes wide as he frantically looked around, either for a way out or trying to spot how many people had noticed him being taken down by a woman. "We-we have no problems. We are just trying to help this dear lady. Sick she is, you know."

"Right, and you trying to knock me out instead of just telling me that is common now a days is it?" Rose asked.

"Right, well, you see." Sneed stumbled out and Rose rolled her eyes before taking pity on the man who was just trying to do the only thing he thought he could do and released him. The second he was released, Gwyneth was by Sneed's side in an instant helping him up. "So, who are you then, Miss? To disturb us in this time of urgent need?" Rose bit back the urge to roll her eyes and smile at him as he tried to turn this around on her. Part of her was waiting for him to tell her she wouldn't understand, being a simple female that she was.

"My name is Rose and I'm a friend." She greeted him with a small, professional smile and a nod of the head. "I work for a man called the Doctor. We are very aware of your problem with the deceased being restless. We can help." Rose nearly laughed when the pair of them looked at her in shock, but she swallowed down the laugh and kept the professional smile on her face.

"And how exactly can this man help us?" Sneed asked softly as he closed the back door of the hearse. "Is he... is he from the Church?" Rose glanced back towards the theatre knowing that the Doctor would run out of there any minute now, she needed them here long enough for him to arrive. It would be hard enough to explain to him why she had stopped them without her having been in the theatre to witness them taking the woman.

"No, but I assure you that he has plenty of experience in dealing with the unknown." Rose told them.

"Ah, a detective than." Sneed nodded.

"Doctor, actually." Rose corrected him with a smile. "A very learned man. He and I can help you."

"Rose!" The Doctor called out to her in both excitement and worry. She looked towards the stairs of the theatre and saw him jogging down the steps towards them with Charles Dickens following him. She found it funny to watch Charles continue to rant and deny what he had seen with his own eyes. That was so the Charlie Boy she remembered so fondly. A smile bloomed over her face as she turned to address him and went to take a step towards him. Her heart stopped when her foot slipped sending her crashing to the cobblestone.

"ROSE!" Was the last thing she heard before her temple connected with the ground with a hard thud. And as everything faded away into darkness, the only thing floating through her mind were the words 'Of course'.

When Rose opened her eyes again she was confused for a couple of seconds as to why she was in her room sitting at her vanity. Shouldn't she with the Doctor helping him with the Gelth? It wasn't until she noticed that her reflection's eyes were glowing that she realized she was dreaming.

"I wouldn't really call this a dream." Her reflection told her smiling wolfishly at her.

"Then what would you call it?" Rose asked.

"A way to converse with you in a way you'll truly be able to understand me." Her reflection told her.

"What do you mean?" Rose asked and her reflection sighed in annoyance, but Rose got the feeling that the annoyance wasn't aimed at her.

"I have been trying to converse with you for a while, ever since you gave birth to me-"

"Gave birth!?" Rose gasped out in shock. She had given birth to this thing? When? How? She had never been pregnant! At least, as far as she knew. Her reflection laughed at her.

"Yes, gave birth, at least not in the way you're thinking. You created me. Half of me is you. Your body gave me life." Her reflection told her confusing and scaring her. "Oh, I'm not explaining this well am I?"

"No." Rose told her reflection.

"I am Bad Wolf." Her reflection told her and Rose could have sworn she heard what sounded like a wolf howling somewhere off in the distance. "Normally when I try and talk to you, you never fully understand me. You get the gist what I'm trying to inform you, but never the whole thing. Like with Jack!"

"I understood what you meant about Jack, we made him the way he is now." Rose told Bad Wolf who growled at her.

"No! Not the Face of Boe Jack! I'm talking about back in the flat when you wanted to talk to the Doctor about me but couldn't! I tried telling you to go find Jack at Torchwood or even to call him to talk to him but you did understand me and just shoved me away!" Bad Wolf told her with a huff.

"Sorry." Rose told her and Bad Wolf waved her apology away.

"It's quite all right. I know there is, what you would call, a language barrier between us. It's a dance we have to figure out along the way. But it'll get easier for you to hear and understand me once you combine with the TARDIS once more, and a little more of me is left inside you." The Bad Wolf told her proudly confusing her.

"What do you mean?" Rose asked and Bad Wolf tilted her head.

"Surely you understand that this body will have to go through looking into the heart of the TARDIS to save the Doctor. Rose Tyler looking into the heart of the TARDIS is a fixed moment in time, and must happen." Bad Wolf told her.

"No, I knew I would have to go through that again. But what do you mean about you being left inside me?" Rose asked.

"Oh, not all of me. Your brain and body wouldn't be able to handle all of me, all that will be left is the amount that your body and brain can handle. Which, thanks to me, is a lot more this time around than last time." Bad Wolf told her proudly.

"You're still not making any sense!" Rose growled at her and Bad Wolf sighed.

"After we safe the Doctor he turns right around and saves you by taking the Time Vortex out of you and releasing it back into the heart of the TARDIS. And doing that kills him. But he didn't get all of the Time Vortex out of you, there was a little piece left in the very back of your mind." Bad Wolf explained.

"And that piece was... I mean is you." Rose said and Bad Wolf nodded.

"Yes, it was small but the longer you traveled with the Doctor inside the TARDIS the bigger is slowly became. As it grew it began to slowly change you to be able to handle holding it. You didn't notice the changes at first, and it probably would have taken you years to realize had you not met the Wire. You're not just faster, or stronger, or able to hold your breath longer. You're smarter and heal faster, you're able to feel and hear the TARDIS in a way not even the Doctor can. And you understand languages that are only spoken, read, and written by one other person." Bad Wolf told her with a smirk and Rose opened her mouth to ask what else had changed when Bad Wolf began to speak once more. "But we don't have time for that, and I didn't ask the TARDIS to bring you here to talk about what you will learn over time."

"Then why did you bring me here?" Rose asked.

"To tell you that Gwyneth must die tonight. And you must fight with the Doctor. He needs to know that he can be wrong and we'll be there for him even when he is wrong." Bad Wolf told her and Rose sighed.

"I see." Rose said before closing her eyes in slight annoyance, and when she opened them once more she found herself laying down staring into the worried blue eyes of the Doctor.