Howdy! Sorry it's been so long and sorry this chapter is kind of short, but i need to keep up with it as much as I can or I lose track of where I am going. This chapter was a bugger to write, but here it is and hopefully I will have a few more chapters up soon. At least one will be Charlie's Past Episode III, but I have far too much work. If any of you want to do my work, please feel free to do it all for me.
"What now?" Rose asked the Doctor, who was startled by the sudden appearance of Rose. His mind was still sensitive at the moment from the regeneration. It never took him this long before to recover after a regeneration. Thinking back, only his first regeneration was as natural as can be, as he had been forced to change once by his own people, poisoned twice by a spider and a disease, fallen from a satellite dish, forced again by the Rani, shot in the chest and not to mention his two recent regenerations. The point he was trying to make though, was that he recovered very quickly after most of them, bar his fifth regeneration when he tried to kill Peri.
"Doctor?" Rose asked but he was miles away. The Doctor ignored Rose and all the commotion around him and looked at a large painting at the end of the hall. It was a very beautiful painting, of a blonde haired women holding a rose, but there was darkness around her. It was titled "Protect the rose".
He came back down to earth when he felt a slap across his back. It had hurt.
"What was that for?" The Doctor asked and looked at Rose who was looking very serious.
"Bringing you back from wherever you went to." Rose said.
"That hurt mind. You hit my mole!" The Doctor said and Rose rolled her eyes. One of the first things this Doctor had told her was about his mole on his shoulder blade.
"Shut up about your mole, what the hell is happening?" Rose asked and looked about. There was guard at every exit and some people had started to cry.
"From what I had gathered, someone had tried to murder the Royals in their own room. Doesn't surprise me really, as they will always be targets, but I don't think anyone has gotten as close as that." The Doctor said, and once again, like many times before, Rose was lost.
"As close as what?" Rose said, hoping the Doctor would enlighten her.
"Well, the possible murderer was staring down at Marie Antoinette when she screamed. It scared him or her and ran for his or her life. Doubt we'll ever know who did it." The Doctor said but Rose had an idea.
"What if it was the same person who killed the poor man?" Rose asked and the Doctor turned his head.
"Exactly what I was thinking." The Doctor said.
"Yeah, right, whatever. You know I'm the brains of this operation. Who are your main suspects?" Rose said but the Doctor had dazed off again.
"Would it hurt you to be like Morse for a change?" Rose said.
"Who?" The Doctor asked, getting more confused.
"Morse, Jonathan Creek, Hutch, ANYTHING!" Rose said getting a little annoyed.
"I haven't the faintest idea, what you are going on about," The Doctor said and put his hand into his pocket and pulled out a white paper bag, "Jelly baby?". He held out the white paper bag and offered it to Rose.
"Anyway, I think it may have been one of our time agents." Rose said, and the Doctor became interested in this. He took out a green jelly baby and started chewing.
"What have you found out from the man and the woman you were speaking to?" The Doctor asked and Rose told him everything she knew. She told him about the secret mission which they were so reluctant to reveal and came up with another idea.
"Maybe their mission is to murder the King and Queen." Rose said, but the Doctor was not too sure.
"I know for a fact that the trio is not a happy trio at all. Gabrielle hates who she thinks is Jack and it has torn her friendship with Marie to pieces. It is likely that Gabrielle would do anything to stick to her mission, but I can't be so sure of this." The Doctor said.
"What do you propose we do?" Rose asked and took a jelly baby for herself.
"I propose we go back to the TARDIS and get some sleep, and try to solve this in the morning." The Doctor said.
"You don't need no sleep though!" Rose said as she remembered him mentioning that they never really needed to sleep.
"But you do though, and besides, I could kill for a cup of coffee or something right now." The Doctor said and Rose gave him this look.
"Figure of speech. It was a figure of speech. Now come Victoria." The Doctor said and stopped, knowing he had said the wrong name again.
"Rose." Rose automatically said.
"I knew that! I was just testing you!" The Doctor said quickly and they both walked back towards the TARDIS, hoping to find some more answers in the morning to this situation.
"Those Time Agents are real jerks you know that?" Rose said out of the blue as they both walked back down to the TARDIS.
"What makes you think that?" The Doctor said.
"Well, they stole two years of Jack's life to begin with, and then they go meddling with history." Rose said.
"So do we? I have been doing it for many years now. Like Mickey said before, if you look hard enough you can always find me in history." The Doctor said.
"But we don't do it as a job though. That is their lives." Rose said.
The Doctor said nothing and opened the TARDIS door when they found it again. It was very hard finding things in the dark, even something as big as the TARDIS.
The Doctor looked back up to Versailles and thought about what Rose had said. Maybe they were trying to kill the King and Queen of France. Maybe they were trying to bring an end to the revolution, or speed it up.
The Doctor took one last final look at Versailles and entered the TARDIS to ponder over the events that had happened this evening.