A Time Lord And Lady
When they reached the medical bay, Rose and the Doctor had both released breaths full of the golden mist from earlier, they were both getting weaker.
Jack was starting to feel more then a little anxious to say the least. He was in the company of a recently regenerated Time Lord who looked just about ready to keel over.
Then on top of that Rose was now more then likely a newly created and regenerated Time Lady, who seemed to be about to follow her male counter parts example and keel over.
Once The Doctor had ran his sonic screwdriver over Jack's form, and discovered all was well with the ex- time agent. Apparently dieing and coming back to life hadn't seemed to have fazed him all that much.
The Doctor then did the same with Rose and sighed and nodded "yes, just as I suspected. The TARDIS had rearranged your entire biology. She has exchanged your human genes and D.N.A, and replaced them with Gallifreyan."
Rose sighed and asked "so you mean Jack was right, I really do have to hearts? And of course I am no longer human, meaning I'm now a member of your race, if not by default?"
The Doctor nodded and sat on the end of the bed and placed his face in his hands. He mumbled through his hands.
"I am so sorry Rose. I was supposed to keep you safe like I promised your mother that I would. But instead you end up giving up your humanity for me, and for that I hate my self."
It seemed that her personality had also changed to an extent. Previously she did not have a fiery temper. But apparently she did now, if what she did next was anything to go by.
She bolted off of the bed, revealing her new alien reflexes. She moved quicker then Jack thought possible.
She then walked up to the Doctor and raised her hand and slapped him across the face, making the slap that Jackie Tyler had given his previous incarnation, look and feel like a love tap.
The Doctor yelped and raised his hand to his abused cheek and growled "WHAT THE FUCKING HELL WAS THAT FOR?" his Scottish accent more pronounced in his indignant anger.
The Doctor never usually swore in less truly riled, no matter whatever incarnation he is at the time, especially not in English that is.
Rose growled back in an equally angry Scottish drawl "that my dear and idiotic Doctor was me slapping some well needed sense into that thick skull of yours."
She continued on "How dare you blame your self, and presume my own actions were any fault of yours. I did what I did, because I love you, I wanted you safe. I couldn't bear it if you were killed."
She went on "I told the TARDIS that I wanted you safe no matter what. That I didn't want you to be alone anymore, I told her I wanted to be with you for always. I guess she took me literately."
She sighed and told him "don't you ever dare blame your self, don't even think it. Can't you understand that I love you?"
She finished "I am still me; I may now be an alien, but just because I am no longer human, it dose not mean my humanity has gone. I have not entirely lost my humanity, I am still me, I still want to help save the world, I still care and I can still love."
She lowered her voice to an almost whisper "just because I am no longer human dose not mean that I still don't know how to act like one."
The Doctor saw the tears that were slowly streaming down her cheeks. He quickly took her into his arms and held her against him, and buried his face in her now longer red curls, as he shed a few tears of his own.
Jack smiled sadly, knowing things for a while weren't going to be easy. It was going to take time before the three of them managed to get back into the flow of things.
He suddenly grimaced having had a thought. "Ah, I hate to intrude and spoil such a tender moment here boys and girls, but what about your mum Rose? What are you going to tell her?"
The Doctor pulled away "Oh for crying out loud, somebody bloody kill me like right now, have mercy please" the Doctor exclaimed in a mixture of irritation and more then a little anxiety.
Rose looked like she was going to be sick, while Jack was caught between being terribly amused and sympathetic.
The Doctor began to pace, swearing in his own native language. Rose hissed something in the same language.
Far too caught up thinking of the different scenarios that could occur when she told her mum what had happened, that she did not notice she had cursed in an alien language?
Naturally the Doctor and Jack had. The Doctor raised an eye brow and smirked in amusement. While Jack was caught between amusement and wonder over what she could have possibly said.
Jack asked "Erm Rose since when can you speak an alien language?" The Doctor grinned manically "That dear Jack is not just any alien language that is Gallifreyan."
He explained "It appears when the TARDIS changed her genes and D.N.A it also gave her the ability to speak Gallifreyan, as she rightfully should."
He finished "She is a Gallifreyan, so why should she not be able to speak the language of her new ancestors?"
The Doctor asked Rose something in Gallifreyan, he grinned happily. She returned the grin and replied in kind.
Jack smiled at the sight the paired made holding a conversation that only they could understand. They both looked delighted, like someone who had discovered something new and something wonderful.
Jack hated to interrupt them but he knew they needed to discuss how they or at least Rose was planning to enlighten her mum to her new life.
"So how exactly are you going to tackle your mum Rose?" Rose grimaced and replied "there is only one thing for it, we will have to go to her and explain the situation, and hope she doesn't disown me and try to maim the Doctor."
Said Doctor snorted and replied cynically "wouldn't bloody put it passed her, she has never liked me and made no secret of that fact either."
He suddenly smiled brightly "I know" He said "how about we go for Christmas? It should be coming up in a day or so on earth in your time."
He added wistfully "Besides with it being Christmas and all, perhaps she'll excise some of that season cheer and good will and spare us."
He had smirked then and added dryly "But then again the likely hood of that ever coming to pass is as solid and less likely then me ever regenerating and ending up with ginger hair."
That did it Rose and Jack both doubled over and cracked up laughing loudly. Then with that both the Doctor and Rose pass out cold.
Jack winced as they both hit the floor, and watched as more of the golden mist floated up from their mouths and into the air.
He sighed and picked up Rose and placed her on one of the beds. He then lifted the Doctor, a much easier task then it would have been previously, seeing as the Doctor was lighter in his new form.
He placed the Doctor on the bed beside Rose, before he climbed into another bed next to the one they were on.
He was a sleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.