Chapter Four

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The Doctors eyes bulged as the flower pot men came towards Rose carrying shearers – human sized shearers – that they were carrying very carefully so that they didn't fall over. The Doctor gulped as he continued to watch, his mind racing for ideas.

Rose stood there tied to a post with strawberries sprouting out her arms facing flower pot men carrying shearers. She always thought that when she died it would be a brave, heroic death, battling monsters and saving planets – not death by pot men. She started having flashbacks of that girl in Charlie and the Chocolate factory where she blew up into a giant blueberry. She had always mocked that girl, laughing at her – but now she was the same; she was becoming a giant strawberry. Rose sighed to herself, this was most defiantly not how she wanted to die, and where the hell was the Doctor? Probably off testing some prize winning strawberries whilst she ripened. She looked around her seeing thousands of strawberries in a never ending room, even worse there was a mirror directly in front of her so she could see exactly how she looked as she became the favoured treat of Wimbledon fans.

On the other side of the mirror the Doctor stood looking through the glass. He knew he had to get out of the observatory and save Rose before she became entirely edible, he looked around the room for the door he had entered through but it had camouflaged into the wall.

Rose remained on her post and looked out across the room, she wasn't the biggest of the plants there were some towering, beyond strawberry plant height – that's when she knew something was wrong. Well wrong as in apart from the fact she was growing strawberries. Bill and Ben stopped in front of her, they looked at each other then raised their eyebrows at Rose. She tried to lean backwards on her post but she couldn't move.

'Doctor!' Rose yelled into the strawberry room but her yell was drowned out by the sound of ventilators and machines blowing carbon dioxide into the room. Rose started to cough at the gases that were entering her lungs, she was still human and her body was reacting to them.

'Rose!' the Doctor shouted at the glass as her watched her battling to breath. Alan watched the Doctor confused

'Why are you so attached to your offering?' Alan asked as he watched his strawberries ripen. The green berries were quickly become red and Alan couldn't wait to taste them. He knew that human strawberry plants produced the best berries by far – that's why he had so many strawberry rooms – and so many missing employees.

The Doctor couldn't answer Alan he just stared ahead trying to think of what to do.

'I want her back' the Doctor warned – his voice deep and unwavering.

'Well that's not possible. Why bring an offering if you are going to take it back with you?

'She's not an it – she's a human' the Doctor warned, his eyes glittering with anger, 'And I didn't offer her to you' . Alan raised his eyebrows

'That's what they all say…' he muttered. He then turned to the Doctor with his charming grin in place,

'Shall we go and visit you 'friend' then?' he asked. The Doctor eyed him suspiciously then gave into his charm

'Sure!' he nodded enthusiastically as he began to follow Alan out of a door that had miraculous appeared.

'Where off to see the strawberries, the wonderful strawberries of Alan' the Doctor began to sing to the Wizard of Oz tune.

Rose looked at the pot men and smiled sweetly at them, she knew they were her only hope of escape.

'Erm, hi there!' she began uncertain of what she was going to say.

'that's a lovely pair of shearers you have there…' she began

'God I'm talking to pottery' she mumbled to herself.

Meanwhile the Doctor was following Alan down a corridor as he continued to whistle to the songs in his head. Alan eventually stopped to unlock a door; the Doctor took advantage of this and ran in between his legs escaping his evil grasps. He turned around and stuck his tongue out at Alan

'Ner-nicky-ner-ner' the Doctor taunted before running down another corridor.

'How dare you!' Alan bellowed as he tried to close the door behind him, the Doctor glanced over his shoulder and shouted

'Catch me if you can!' before sprinting off into the darkness.

The Doctor felt as though he had been running forever, he finally stopped and leant against a wall trying to catch his breath. He pulled his suit jacket off and threw it over his arm; with his other arm he wiped the sweat off his brow.

'Oh Rose, where are you hiding?' he called out to the empty corridor. The ventilation shaft above him caught his words and carried them through the building into the Strawberry rooms.

'Doctor?' Rose shouted at hearing his voice, the humming of generators cut out the sound of her voice so Rose was helpless but to listen.

'Rosie, Rosie, Rose' he called out in a sing song voice 'Where are you hiding?' The Doctor rubbed his face knowing it was no use.

'Ah, Rose, what am I going to do without you?' he continued to talk to himself.

Without her? What did he mean without her? Rose strained to listen to what he was saying as she tried to shoot her strawberries at the pot men.

The Doctor had noticed a spider on one of the wall near to where he sat; he had no one else to talk to so he spoke to the spider – completely unaware that Rose was listening.

'You see I'm not just a crazy dude who sits in random corridors by himself. No – I am a crazy dude who sits in random corridors with a girl. Not just any girl – the most spectacular girl in all the universe' he informed the spider

'She also goes by the name Rose Tyler'

Rose grinned at his comment, she felt rude for listening but it wasn't her fault. She began to chew on her lip as she listened.

'Now you see Mr Spider, I need to get her back because…' the Doctor trailed off thinking

'Because I'm pretty much screwed without her' he stated, putting it simply.

Rose grinned as she listened to the Doctors words

'You hear that flower pot men? He needs me! Ha! Beware' she warned them as they continued to try and cut away at her.

The Doctor gazed inquisitively at the spider

'So, now you know my reasons – don't suppose you could give me direction?' he asked hopefully to the spider. When the spider just stared back blankly the Doctor shook his head.

'Thought not' he sighed to himself.

'Well it was lovely chatting to you but I really must run along now' he told the spider, he stood up to leave but paused at the sound of something. The humming that was coming from the grate above his head was starting to fade and he could hear some distant shouts.

'Doctor!' Rose yelled as loud as possible as the generators switched off. She had no idea why they had turned off, all she knew was that they had – she didn't know how long they would remain off either so she continued shouting hoping he was still by the grate.

'Doctor!' she shouted again, getting louder.

The Doctor paused and turned to look at the spider

'Did you hear that as well?' he asked as he pressed an ear to the grate.

'Doctor! Can you hear me?' echoed through the grate. The Doctor's face lit up and he turned to the spider.

'That's her!' he exclaimed as he pulled out the Sonic Screwdriver and started working on the grates' screws. Soon enough he was inside the ventilation shaft and crawling along.

'I'm coming Rose!' he promised her as he crawled through years of dirt and grim, staining his suit – but he didn't care, he had one thought on his mind – her.

He finally reached the Strawberry rooms and began kicking the grate until it gave way and smashed to the floor. He lowered himself to the floor, still holding onto the edge with his fingers as his legs flailed in the air

'Doctor, be –' Rose warned, but was cut off by the thud of the Doctor hitting the floor.

'I'm alright!' he called back to her, he started to run over to her but creatured began walking out of the bushes towards him. They were as tall as his waist and had bright orange hair in dread locks, their eyes were beady and green, each of them were dressed in overalls and there were hundred of them. The Doctor continued towards Rose trying to avoid the creatures but he was surrounded.

'What's this?' the Doctor sighed, 'The cabbage patch kids?'

Alan was in the doorway again

'Don't be ridiculous, this is Fifi and the flower tots' Alan informed him as the Doctor ran his hands through his hair.

'Great' the Doctor muttered, 'Blooming fantastic'

As soon as he'd said it sure enough the last buds on Rose began to bloom and flourish.

'How appropriate' Alan remarked as he began to cackle evilly again.


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