Love is blind
Rose, she was pissed, she was beyond pissed off, and she did not in the least appreciate the Doctor gallivanting off by him self, to god knows where. Rose was no longer in love with the Doctor, or so she told her self and others. That loved had died with the ninth Doctor. But just because she did not have the same feelings for this Doctor, it did not mean that she still didn't care or worry about him.
She hoped he hadn't gotten into trouble again; trouble seemed to follow the Doctor around, attracted to him like a moth was to a flame. Rose snorted at her thoughts, but knowing it was simply the truth. Rose turned when she sensed the Doctor, sensed another Time Lord. Naturally the only other Time Lord besides the Doctor was her self.
"Doctor" Rose exclaimed when she saw not only had he managed to return, he had also brought someone with him, or to be more precise a thing that resembled a man in the typical aristocratic French fashion with a creepy looking clown mask.
Whatever it was, it seemed to be ticking. It also seemed to be trying to dislodge a wickedly sharp and deadly looking spike edged knife from out of the wood work of the fire place. She and Mickey watched as the Doctor ran towards a wall, and took down what appeared to be a large kind of gun.
He took said gun using it to spray ice at the Clockwork man. It convulsed in a last, vain attempt to free itself before freezing completely. Appreciatively Mickey exclaimed "excellent, ice gun" The Doctor calmly threw the gun to Rose and said "it's a fire extinguisher, use it, there is bound to be more then one of those ticking creatures around this ship."
He added "I'm certain they, whoever or whatever they are, are responsible for the power flowing within this ship. But what they're using said power for, is something I'm still trying to figure out."
Rose eyed the extinguisher then the Clockwork man and finally commented "so I take it, those ticking abominations are responsible for the vast amounts power flowing within this ship, and said power is what opened the gateway between the fire place and this ship?"
The Doctor nodded "exactly. But I have no idea why they would create the gateway, only that it involves Reinette somehow. I'm still in the process of figuring out what they are wanting from her."
Rose frowned "what do you mean want from her? Did this abomination do something to that Child? Because I'm telling you no young and innocent child should be subjected to walking and ticking abominations like that" she gestured to the frozen Clockwork man.
The Doctor had to hide a smile. Rose was extremely loyal and protective of what she believed in. She was even fiercer now since she regenerated. Rose had a heart of gold, and a shit load of compassion, except for those who chose to torment innocents and weaker individuals.
The Doctor replied "it had been scanning her brain. It had travelled across two galaxies and hundreds of years to scan the brain of a child, but why? That is what I'm interested in finding out." Rose was appalled "why on Earth would they want or feel the need to scan a child's brain?" And to everyone shock and the Doctor's annoyance the clockwork man answered "she is not ready."
The Doctor frowned and said "Rose I don't wannna alarm you, but that working and ticking abomination as she referred to it as, wouldn't answer me when I tried asking it questions, and you didn't even ask it anything. It only answered Reinette when she directly asked it a question."
It was now Rose's turn to frown she looked thoughtful before turning to the clockwork man and asking "why answer me and Reinette, but not the Doctor?" The clockwork man replied "you and she are the same, he is not." Rose frowned and replied "what do you mean she and I are the same?" The clockwork man merely repeated "you and she are the same."
Rose sighed in annoyance and commented "yeah I got that. Well, ok now that is officially annoying. I hate it when someone repeats themselves over and over again without being asked to. Hell I even hate repeating my self."
Mickey frowned "since when have you had a problem with either you or someone else repeating them selves?" Rose replied with all certainty "like since now actually." She raised an eye brow at the Doctor in a silent question."
The Doctor sighed and nodded knowingly "I'm guessing you've just discovered a new personality quirk due to the regeneration it seems. You'll continue to discover new and different quirks and mannerisms as you go along for a while; don't worry about it, it will soon pass and you'll soon settle."
Mickey asked "anyway. So why is it dressed like that?" The Doctor replied as he walked over to the clockwork droid "a field trip to France, some kind of basic camouflage protocol - nice needlework, shame about the face."
The Doctor looked thoughtful before removing the wig. He exclaimed in delight "oh you are beautiful, gorgeous even. No really, you are, you're gorgeous! Look at that! Space age clockwork, I love it! I've got chills! Listen, seriously, I mean this from the heart - and, by the way, count those - it would be a crime, it would be an act of vandalism to disassemble you."
The Doctor put on his glasses to get a closer look as Rose and Mickey came closer to also examine the inner workings of the clockwork man. The Doctor studied the actual droid without the wig to cover and conceal what was truly underneath. It was an ornate clockwork mechanism, covered with a clear plastic egg shape.
The Doctor commented offhandedly with a smirk "but you know what, that won't stop me, no not at all." The droid creaked back into life and teleported away, as if it sensed what the Doctor was just itching to do to it.
Rose and Mickey blinked and looked around, and the Doctor stuffed the sonic screwdriver back into his pocket, walking swiftly back to the fireplace and preparing to go back to the other side.
Mickey asked "so where did it go?" the Doctor replied "Short range teleport, can't have got far, could still be on board." Rose nodded and added "and I take it you're going back behind the fire place, and your also going to insist that I and Mickey don't go looking for it, aren't you?"
The Doctor nodded and smirked "yes I am Rose. You'll regenerate; Mickey won't if anything lethal should occur, thank you very much. Mickey is a lot more fragile then you are." Rose grumbled something under her breath before smirking and placed a shield over her thoughts, causing the Doctor to scowl and silently curse, seeing as she putting up a shield had prevented him from reading her thoughts and finding out what she was planning as soon as he was out of sight and ear shot.
As soon as the Doctor had disappeared behind the fire place Rose's smirk grew wider and positively devious as she looked down at the fire extinguisher, weighing it up in her hands. She then turned to Mickey, who shook his head as it suddenly dawned on him what Rose was planning."
"He said not to go looking for it. I'm pretty damn certain that was exactly what he said" Mickey commented. Rose smirked and said mock seriously "yeah he did didn't he, and." Mickey grinned and shook his head before grabbing the other fire extinguisher off of the wall where the Doctor had gotten the other one from. Rose laughingly said "ah now you're getting it."
They both exited the room, carrying their fire extinguishers.