Chapter 2 - A Familiar Face
Rose could recognise that familiar Northern English voice anywhere. The familiar figure dressed in his creased black leather jacket walked over to them armed with a sonic screwdriver. It was the Ninth Doctor.
"Doctor! It's… it's Rose!" Rose said to the Ninth Doctor
"Oh yeah" The Ninth Doctor gave a grin "Who's Rose?"
"Your companion, remember all the places you took me!" Rose replied getting annoyed thinking he was joking
"Nope sorry, never met you two in my life" The Ninth Doctor replied "I am confused how you two got in here, how'd you get a TARDIS key?"
"Because I'm the Doctor" The Tenth Doctor cut in
"Are you barking? I'm the Doctor" The Ninth Doctor shouted walking over to the Tenth Doctor
"We both are, I'm a future regeneration of you." The Tenth Doctor replied
"That explains the TARDIS key, I suppose" The Ninth Doctor reasoned standing back
The Ninth Doctor began slowly walking around in circles talking to himself.
"How strange, I barely regenerated a few days ago and I'm already meeting my future regeneration, which future regeneration of me are you?" The Ninth Doctor asked
"I'd rather you found out for yourself" The Tenth Doctor replied being careful
"What's with the Early Mongolian Empire clothes, are you going to see Genghis Khan?" The Ninth Doctor asked
"Well… we were but, the TARDIS went so off course, landing right beside a previous regeneration can't be coincidence" The Tenth Doctor explained
"You're right there, you could give's a hand I suppose" The Ninth Doctor grinned
"Okay, what can I help you with?" The Tenth Doctor asked
"Well, I've been tracking this… time travelling assassin" The Ninth Doctor explained "well he's sort of an assassin of assassins"
"An assassin assassin?" Rose questioned almost with a laugh
"Yeah, he assassins assassins before they can assassinate, I just followed him from Dallas November 22nd 1963, where he tried to snipe Lee Harvey Oswald moments before he hit Kennedy"
"Isn't that a good thing though?" Rose stated
"Oh yeah, in some ways morally it's good, but it does a lot of damage to time, it could change the whole of history of this tiny planet, some of these assassinations were sad for the people at the time, but all of them happened for a reason."
"How did you track him?" The Tenth Doctor asked
The Ninth Doctor explained "It all started when I travelled to Earth at the beginning of the fifty-first century, I noticed something was wrong right from the start, the paper headlines were different, the most famous assassination of the entire century that supposed to have happened that year… just didn't happen, the assassination of Prince Haz Duzxloy, completely eliminated from history!"
"Whoa, whoa… that is unimaginable!" The Tenth Doctor exclaimed in disbelief "that case inspired so many detectives! The mysteriousness of how nobody had ever seen the room where the murder took place, how the body had no marks of any sort, how there was no murder weapon, that was the only murder in the fifty-first century that wasn't solved until the fifty-second century"
"What are you two blabbering on about?" Rose asked
"Precisely how I knew this assassin of assassins was a time traveller" The Ninth Doctor continued completely ignoring Rose "even more the Prince was telling the papers the story of how he survived, he said the murderer had knocked him out in his house, took him to that room, but then suddenly a man had teleported into the room and blew him away with a shotgun. So I contacted the time agency, they told me some time equipment had been stolen that very day, however it was after the assassination, it had been stolen by one of their previous agents, I got the information from them, racked my mind for every major assassination and tracked him back in time, any major assassination and he's been there, he's doing them in chronological order too, all I need to do is convince him to stop doing it, or follow him even further back in time, could even go back to as far as Julius Caesar"
"Who is this assassin?" The Tenth Doctor asked
"The most mysterious man on Earth, nothing matches with him, he wears a long dark futuristic coat, he drives a car from the nineteen thirties and his weapons are all from different times in history" The Ninth Doctor replied
"So where are we just now?" The Tenth Doctor asked curiously
"Out there is Washington D.C. April 14th 1865, early morning, the day Abraham Lincoln was assassinated" The Ninth Doctor answered "well if it works out right, he will be"
"Well what are we waiting for?" The Tenth Doctor replied "let's go!"
"Hang on, you better change into more suitable clothing" The Ninth Doctor explained
Rose and the two Doctors stepped out of the TARDIS, into the morning air and back into the other TARDIS. Rose put on a black off-the-shoulder gown she remembered she wore once when she was in the Victorian Era. When they came out, the two TARDIS's were completely surrounded by a dozen men on horses who had loaded muskets aimed towards them. At once Rose and the two Doctors held their hands up.
"Oh hello" The Ninth Doctor grinned waving
"I'd stop that if I was you" The Tenth Doctor replied to the Ninth Doctor's surreal cheeriness.