A Time Lord And Lady
Rose, she felt as if her brain was going to explode. Her head was killing her; it hurt like nothing she could have ever imagined.
She walked towards the Doctor, leaving the big blue old fashioned police box behind. The heart of the TARDIS showed her everything that ever was or ever could be. It showed her the horrors and joys of past present and future events.
The Doctor watched his young companion and friend, surrounded in a bright blinding golden light. He watched with a mixture of horror and awe.
She to him was a goddess; she always looked like a goddess to him. But currently she truly was in the literal sense of the word term and whole meaning, a goddess.
The TARDIS spoke using Rose as her host "I looked into the TARDIS. And the TARDIS looked into me. I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words, and scatter them over Time and Space, a message to meet myself here."
The Doctor shook his head, hardly believing what she was saying. It was unreal. "I want you safe, my Doctor, protected from the false god."
The Doctor wondered what half she was saying meant. He understood the part of her wanting to keep him safe and the part about the false god.
He listened as she went on "I can see the whole of time and space, every single atom of your existence and I divide them.
Everything must come to dust, all things, everything dies. The Time War ends. How can I let go of this?"
The Doctor was on edge, every word that came out of her mouth sent him reeling. He knew she could not hold the entire time vortex in her for much longer. She was human; humans were by no means equipped to deal with something of that magnitude.
He knew if he did not act and act quickly then she would be dead, that he did not doubt. He would not allow that to happen, even if it were the last thing he ever did.
"I bring life. The sun and the moon, the day and night, but why do they hurt? I can see everything, all that is, all that was, all that ever could be."
She finished before the Doctor quickly took action "My head. It's killing me." That did it that had the Doctor moving to stand in front of her.
He took hold of her and gently brushed aside a lock of hair from her face and told her lightly, but also with a deep sadness under laying his words "I think you need a Doctor."
He knew without a doubt that this would kill him. He knew not even he was supposed have that kind of direct contact with the time vortex. And he was a time Lord.
He knew he would without a doubt regenerate. He just wished it were not happening so soon. He wished he was given more time to explain the concept of what and how regeneration worked, to Rose.
What he did next was something he had wanted to do for some time. He just wished it was on more pleasant and pleasurable terms.
He leaned forwards and cupped her face with the palms of his hands. He then gently captured her lips with his own, in a gentle and loving kiss. It was to be their first and also their last kiss, at least with him in his current body, that is.
He gasped slightly as he felt the time vortex leaving Rose and transferring into him self. He could feel it coursing throughout his entire being, it was overwhelming.
After a few more moments he pulled away. He looked up and was horrified at what he discovered.
The time vortex had left her. But she had not ceased to stop glowing. If anything she was glowing even brighter.
He stared in sheer horror when Rose threw her head back and her mouth opened in a silent scream, as her entire body appeared as if it had caught on fire.
He tried to get closer but the heat radiating of her was tremendous, plus the time vortex that currently flowed through him, had weakened him considerably. He could feel his inner cells wasting away to nothing.
He watched in transfixed horror has Rose's straight blond shoulder length hair shifted into fiery red curls that flowed down her back.
Within seconds it was over. He blinked at the sight that met him, and felt his jaw go slack. For there standing in front of him was a different version of Rose. That did and didn't look like her.
Not a lot had changed, except for the fact; her nose was slightly pointed her cheek bones were slightly higher. Apart from that her features remained the same.
The main changes were to her hair and eyes and even her skin tone seemed to be slightly paler.
Her hair was now fiery red and was in soft bouncing curls that flowed down her back. Her eyes were bright, almost emerald green. No human could ever have eyes of that colour.
Rose had regenerated, but how? She was human, or so he thought. What had the TARDIS done to her? That was what went through the Doctors head.
The Doctor quickly caught Rose as she passed out cold. He quickly, or as quickly as he could manage, carried her into the TARDIS.
He had just entered the TARDIS when he heard someone calling out to him. He turned after putting Rose down on the floor.
He turned to see the last person he ever expected to be alive and running towards him. The person was none other then Jack Harkness.
The Doctor swayed and said weakly "Jack I thought you were dead, I saw you, I saw you die. How can you be standing in front of me?" Jack quickly made his way over to Rose and said "I did as well, apparently I'm not."
He took one look at Rose and gasped. He asked fearfully "what happened to Rose? She looks so different. She does and she doesn't look like Rose. Her features apart from her nose and cheek bones and hair have not changed at all."
He added taking in the Doctor for the first time since he entered the TARDIS. "Doctor are you ok, you don't look so good?"
The Doctor staggered back slightly, and held a hand up silently telling Jack to stay where he was, and not come any closer, when he made to get up and walk towards him.
The Doctor managed to release the time vortex back into the TARDIS. He then staggered back and braced him self against the main console.
He could feel his inner cells breaking down, his body was dieing. He was going to regenerate, it was inventible.
The Doctor gasped and doubled over. "Doctor" Jack called out alarmed." The Doctor gasped out "stay where you are, and don't bloody come closer whatever you do."
Jack turned when he heard Rose starting to wake behind him. He asked "Doctor what's happening to you?"
The Doctor looked up and noticed Rose was a wake he watched as she slowly rose to her feet with Jack's help.
He told them both when he saw he had both Jack's and Rose's attention." I took the time vortex from out of Rose and I took it into my self."
He added when he saw Rose's eyes widen in horror as her memories came back to her at break neck speed and she realised what had happened, or at least the general gist of events.
"No one was ever supposed to touch or see into the vortex, at least of all a human. Not even I can with stand such raw power and knowledge and I'm a Time Lord for Christ sake."
He clenched his teeth in agony as another bolt of hot white agony ripped throughout his entire being, before continuing.
"Because I took the vortex into me, my body is dieing. I don't have much time to explain. But I'll try."
He went on "I'm going to regenerate. Once this body dies completely, I will gain a new body. It is a Time Lord trick; which helps us cheat death."
Jack frowned "I've heard of such a thing happening, but I always thought it was a myth, a mere legend."
The Doctor shook his head "apparently not, seeing as you're about to witness the real thing any bloody time soon, let me tell you that. I can't stop it, it has already begun, I can feel my body dieing, and it is inventible."
Rose shook her head, tears flowing down her face. "But I can't lose you" she said in a distinctive Scottish accent.
Rose's eyes widened and she clamped a hand over her mouth at the sound of her own voice. Jack's eyes widened, while the Doctor looked on knowingly and sadly.
The Doctor explained "you have regenerated Rose. It was the only way the TARDIS could prevent you from dieing. She gave you a new life, and made some adjustments to your genetic biology."
He quickly added "I'll explain more to you later on after I've regenerated. But know this. I'm sorry I never told you sooner about my ability, and now also yours as well, to regenerate."
He added sadly "I never expected to regenerate so soon. But know this, you were both fantastic. I have never and never will regret asking the two of you to travel with me.
I am so glad I met the two of you. You were both fantastic. And you know what, so was I."
He added "I want you to both go on and have wonderful lives, or in your case Rose I suspect multiple lives."
He finished "I love you both." He turned to Rose "I wish I could have explored a closer relationship with you. I think I've been in love with you since I first met you."
Rose let out a sob and choked out in her new accent "I love you too, ever since you first took my hand and told me to run."
Jack had tears streaming down his face, as he watched as the Doctor smiled lovingly and sadly at Rose.
Both Rose and Jack looked on horrified as the Doctor suddenly arched his back and his head fell back and his mouth opened in a silent scream, as his body caught on fire.
They watched as his body burned away and began to shift. They watched in horror as his features began to shift. As his hair began to grow longer on his head and his facial features shifted to resemble someone else.
And as quickly as it had begun it was over. The Doctor straightened and blinked disoriented, before he turned to face his stunned companions.
Jack asked uncertainly "Doctor? Is that really you?" He frowned for a moment as if in thought, before his memory began to return or least some of it.
He nodded confirming that it was indeed him. He frowned and moved his tongue over his teeth, when he noticed how strange they suddenly felt.
He nodded and said "new teeth, well that's interesting."