Thrills

Chapter Six: A Pirate's Life

Rose and the Doctor get bored and decide to be pirates instead! No, not really, but they do go in a boat. Sort of. You have to read it. Do so now.

I filled my official FF notebook writing this chapter. I've started a new one now. It's very amusing.

Disclaimer: Never have owned Doctor Who. I don't own it now.

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It towered above them. The first hill of the coaster. It was extremely high for a roller coaster that travelled. The whole roller coaster was extremely scary for a roller coaster that travelled. Rose, however, had been on worse - this one didn't go upside down or spin at all. She clutched the cold metal safety bar, unable to wait until their boat set off.

The trains they'd seen before were actually, on closer inspection, trains of boats. The roller coaster had a name to match - 'The Seven Seas'. It seemed to match the track, with hardly a flat stretch in sight. Everything seemed to bump about on hills, from tiny little lumps to towering great mountains. Or waves.

"I love you humans," the Doctor said, as the train set off, "You build such amazing roller coasters."

Rose was curious. "What other ones have you been on?"

"Not many, really ... well, replace the word 'many' with 'any' -"

"You love roller coasters yet you've never been on one?"

"Something like that, yeah. They look good, though, that's what I'm going by ..." The Doctor whistled at the height of the hill they were beginning to climb, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"It's just ... if this is your first roller coaster, maybe we should've tried you with a smaller one?"

"It'll be fine, I travel in the TARDIS, don't I? Too late now, anyway."

It really was. Their boat was teetering on the top of the hill.

"We'll go over in a second," Rose hissed.

They began to tip slowly over the edge ... but as soon as the last boat had done the same the whole train was shooting towards the ground.

"Whoooooooooo!" Rose screamed. She glanced at the Doctor, her hair blowing into her eyes, and saw his knuckles were white on the safety bar.

At the bottom of the hill, she slid her hand on top of his. He grinned and took hold of it. Shyly, Rose smiled back at him.

"You OK?"

"Yeah, fine. I just didn't know what to expect."

Sure enough, he was fine for the rest of the ride.

They began to climb another hill. This one was quite small, but steep, and on the way down the track twisted to one side.

Rose clung to the Doctor's hand tight. They'd held hands lots of times before, but Rose had a feeling this time was different. It was probably just her tummy going up and down with the roller coaster.

It went up and down a lot.

The twisting hill was a lot of fun. Rose felt as if she would tumble out of the boat, but she stayed firmly locked under the safety bar. There were two more big hills to look forward to, but her favourite parts were the ones where the hills were two or three at once. There was also a lot more twisting. Rose kept making sure the Doctor wasn't frozen to his seat in terror, but he seemed to be enjoying the ride as much as she was.

He was still holding Rose's hand at the last hill.

"Yep, I definitely love you humans! This has been so - what's the word? Oh, you know what I mean!"

"It's not over yet!" Rose pointed out.

They had stopped momentarily on top of the hill.

"Are you ready?" The Doctor asked with a grin.

"Always," Rose replied. As the boat began to descend, she groaned, "This is what I hate about being in the front. You don't go fast until all the rest of the cars get over the e - aaaaaaaaaaargh!"

Rose left her stomach at the top. It only came back when the fleet of boats pulled into the 'harbour' - in other words, the place the passengers got off.

The Doctor climbed out of the boat first, then helped Rose out after him. They were still hand in hand.

"I could do that again," The Doctor said, watching the boarding passengers in the queue with jealous eyes.

"I dunno - I'm in the mood for something different, really," Rose eyed the rides around her, "Something scarier."

"You mean like the catapult?"

"Not that scary ..."

"What kind of scary then? You mean sort of like scary scary or fun scary?"

"Something along the lines of fun scary sounds good ... I'm in the mood for spinning."

"I know a great ride that spins, you'll love it, I know." The Doctor pulled Rose off, "And I'm sure you'll have been on it before..."

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A ride that spins and she's probably been on ... review with your guesses if you want!