Disclaimer: Much to my disappointment, I don't own Doctor Who, or anything to do with it, such as the lovely David Tennant.
The TARDIS was broken. Again. And the Doctor was fed up with it.
They had been floating in the void for 2 days now, while the TARDIS 'recharged'. He was sure she was fine though, and was just bluffing it. Maybe she was getting tired of all the rough journeys they'd been having, through parallel universes and next to black holes, and she hadn't liked being dropped into the centre of a planet one bit. Just the other day he'd accidentally materialised in the middle of a rather large nebula storm, involving lots of electricity and getting bashed about a bit by a few hundred meteors. He and Rose had loved it, being thrown around the TARDIS, brink of death and all that, great fun.
Not for the TARDIS, though. She'd been battered about quite a lot, and now he seemed to be paying for it. Well, maybe she deserved a rest. She was getting very old now, and had rather been pushed to her limits recently. 'Ok then,' he thought, shutting the panelling to the consol, 'you have your rest.' And he set off to go find Rose.
Rose was lost. The Doctor had been working non-stop over the last two days trying to get the TARDIS working, so she had decided to go exploring. It all started when she wondered whether it was actually possible to find the windows of the police box at the other end of the TARDIS, and instead of taking the easy path and simply asking the Doctor, she'd gone in search of them herself.
But now she was lost. She'd been walking for almost 12 hours now; she'd been timing on her watch. She was tired, hungry, annoyed and needed the toilet. She wondered if the Doctor had even noticed that she'd gone. Last time she saw him was almost a day ago, when he'd told her he needed another day fixing the TARDIS. First she finished off the film she was watching the night before, something about this girl on another planet falling in love with this alien that had abducted her. At first she'd wondered why she carried on watching it, then realised it was because it was so similar to her and the Doctor. But when she'd finished watching that she'd set out on her current mission. And was now well and truly lost.
She leant against a wall, and slowly slid down it until she was sitting down, and rested her head on her knees. She was sure she was either going round in circles, or just going deeper into the TARDIS. Either way, she was kind of buggered. Being lost and waiting for the Doctor to find her wasn't exactly that new to her, she just had never expected it to happen in the TARDIS. She leant her head back and closed her eyes, and slowly drifted off to sleep.
The Doctor was starting to get worried now. He'd searched everywhere he expected Rose to be, and everywhere he didn't expect Rose to be. He'd even looked in his own room, just at the slight chance she might be in there, and he was now running down random corridors looking for her. Normally the TARDIS would be able to find her, but that seemed to be one of the systems that were broken. He had absolutely no idea where to start looking for her. He tired phoning her, only to find her mobile lying on her bed. So now he was searching on pure instinct, trying to figure out with something that closely resembled logic where she might have gone.
Two hours. Two hours he'd been looking for her, with no success. Two bloody hours! "ROSE!" he yelled down another corridor, with no reply. "Rose where the hell are you, you stupid human!" He came round a corner, and was met by a junction, three corridors leading in different directions. "How is it possible for one person to get so lost?" he wondered to himself, before setting off down the first corridor that took his fancy.
Rose woke with a start. At first she wasn't sure why, then she realised it was because she'd toppled over. She picked herself up and stood, swaying a little, rubbing her eyes. Looking at her watch, she was rather angry when she saw that it had been two hours and the Doctor still hadn't found her. Well, now that she was awake, she might as well keep walking. Even if she was walking further away from the Doctor, at least she wasn't bored.
It wasn't long before she found something that interested her, though.