Rose is alive! Well, of course she is. I couldn't kill her. Could I? Nah.
Every time I read the last bit of the last chapter it always reminds me way too much of his speech in Bad Wolf or POTW or whichever one it was. I think I subconsciously nicked it from there. Oh well.
Wow! Chapter 10! That's scary, I didn't realise how far on this story was getting.
Disclaimer: I can watch the whole of Doctor Who… all that is, all that was, all that ever will be… but I don't own it.
Rose was getting rather scared. She'd had a bunch of human alien things advance on her telling her she was going to be disposed of, and next thing she knew she was in what looked disturbingly like an incinerator.
But the Doctor would get her out. He had to. He always did. He wouldn't let her die.
She was sure she could feel something odd, like a signal or something. But she had no idea what it was. It was probably just her imagination. What it actually was, was a signal scanning her mind for any reason they might need her. So far it hadn't found anything, and there was therefore no reason for her to be kept alive.
So she wasn't.
She couldn't help but think that the temperature was starting to rise, which wasn't a good thing considering she was in an incinerator. She looked around nervously, as the temperature continued to rise. "No…" she whispered, looking desperately round the room for a way out, but there was on sign of a door. "No!" She ran up to the nearest wall and banged her firsts against it, but all that earned her were a couple of burnt hands. She ran backwards and blew on the burnt skin, while the temperature got progressively higher.
Suddenly flames burst out from the walls, and she screamed, instinctively moving away form the walls, but she was surrounded. "NO!" she screamed, the heat of the flames running through her. Sweat that ran down her face got mixed with tears. "No, you can't…" she begged into thin air, as the temperature raised to unbearable levels. "No! Please! Doctor! HELP!" She started to break down into tears, as it felt like her skin was boiling.
"Doctor…" she cried, as she felt as if she was going to set on fire, "Doctor help me… don't leave me please…" Just as she felt as if she was going to faint from the heat, it suddenly stopped. She looked around herself, as the room temperature started lowering again. She breathed a sigh of relief, then grinned and almost started laughing. She knew the Doctor would get her out. She never doubted him.
What she didn't know was that it wasn't the Doctor who saved her.
The Doctor and Susan materialised in a corridor. He'd set the teleport for random, and hoped they wouldn't materialise somewhere terribly inconvenient for them, but the corridor was fine. He looked down one way then the other, but neither gave him much clue as to where to go.
He pressed another button on the sonic screwdriver.
"There we go," he said, turning around to look at Susan, suddenly grinning, "took out the teleport. They won't be whisking us away any time soon." Then his grin fell and he turned serious again. "You ok?"
"Are they…" she spoke quietly, her voice trembling slightly.
"Yes, I think they are."
"But I thought they were just a legend."
"So did I. But it would make sense them being here now, with the Time Lords gone. But what I don't understand is how they managed to watch me like that, and how they knew I would be the last surviving Time Lord."
"Maybe they didn't. Maybe they're just trying to scare us."
"Maybe. I hope so," he walked away from her, and started to look at the walls, running his hands over them, "I thought I recognised the ship from somewhere," he looked up to the ceiling, and walked over to the other wall, "It's exactly the same as in the myths." He looked around some more, then frowned, and looked back round.
"Susan, have you got a phone?" he asked.
Rose staggered around a bit, as she re-materialised again. Couldn't they think of a better form of transport?
She looked forward at the person in front of her, and jumped whe she realised who it was.
It was the same man that had told her before that she was going to be 'disposed of'.
"You are needed."
She blinked, surprised. Then she remembered that he was going to kill her.
"Oh, right, so now I'm needed, whereas before you were going to kill me without a second thought?" she shouted.
"That is correct."
"And you can stop talking like that!" His sounding like a robot was starting to really annoy her. "So, who are you? What are you doing here? And why am I suddenly needed?"
"My name is Tyhedra. We are here to claim our rightful place in the universe. You are needed because you have the power."
"What? What power? What are you talking about?"
"You have the power. Once we extract it out of you, you will be disposed of."
"Can't you just let me go once you've got whatever power it is your talking about?"
"No."
"Well why the hell not?"
"Why would we?"
Rose could see this argument was useless.
"Once my friend gets here your gonna be sorry," she said, trying to sound intimidating.
"Ah yes, the Doctor. He said he was going to save you. He won't, though. It is your destiny to die here."
"Shut up! You don't know the Doctor." Tyhedra started to laugh, but it wasn't an evil laugh. He was genuinely amused.
"We know the Doctor better than he knows himself."
"What?"
"We have been watching him all his life. We have been waiting. We have brought him here. And he will die here."
"SHUT UP!" she yelled, and gave him a slap Jackie Tyler would be proud of. As he staggered back, she ran past him as fast as she could, straight towards the thing that looked most like a door. She searched for a way to open it, hysterically hitting the door and the wall. She was about to throw herself against it, when it opened. Half expecting to suddenly feel his hand on her shoulder, she threw herself out the door and ran down the corridor, adrenaline rushing through her.
She didn't get far, when she heard her phone going off. She pulled it out of her pocket, almost dropping it from running so fast and shaking with fear, pressed a button and put it to her ear.
"Doctor!"
The Doctor breathed a sigh of relief when he heard her voice down the phone.
"Rose! You're ok!"
"Only just! I was nearly incinerated!"
"Ok ok listen, where are you?"
"I dunno, in a corridor somewhere."
"Ok listen, stay where you are, don't move unless you have to. I'm going to trace the signal with the sonic screwdriver. I'm coming to find you."
Rose heard the sound of the sonic screwdriver, followed by static and the phone cutting off. She put it back in her pocket nervously, and waited.
The Doctor whirred the sonic screwdriver, then looked up suddenly. "That way!" he said, pointing the opposite way down the corridor. He grabbed Susan's hand and they started running. He held the sonic screwdriver out in front of him, and it lead them down the correct corridor when they came to a junction. Soon it was leading them up a flight of stairs, and to a large metal door. Only thing was, the Doctor couldn't seem to get it open.
Rose was very anxious, and felt so vulnerable, just standing in the middle of the corridor, not being able to move. There wasn't even anywhere to hide, nothing to hide behind. And when you had a load of aliens running after you trying to kill you, this wasn't exactly the best position to be in. But at least the Doctor was coming.
Suddenly she heard a noise, and it sent a chill down her spine. Footsteps. Lots of footsteps. And they were getting closer. Oh god, they'd found her. And if they hadn't found her yet, they sure as hell were about to.
She started shaking, as she had no idea what to do. Maybe if she ran the Doctor would know she'd moved. Not that she really had much of a choice.
Then she saw shadows round the corner, and she knew it was time to move. She broke out into a run, trying to be quiet at first, then giving up as she heard her footsteps echo down the corridors. The footsteps got faster. Oh great, now they defiantly knew she was there. She just had to run, and hope.
They were catching up with her, she could hear them. She felt breathless as she ran, worry and panic rising inside her. She looked behind her, and saw the men catching up fast.
Then she ran into something.
She stumbled backwards, and fell down. She stared up at the metal door in front of her for just a second, before jumping up and throwing herself at it. She banged against it, just as she had with the other door, but this one refused to open.
"No!" she shouted desperately, "let me through!" suddenly she turned, and saw the men in front of her, just as she had before when she was first taken out of her stone cell. She pressed her back against the door as if trying to get away from them, as they advanced on her. She whimpered slightly, as they came closer and closer. She clamped her eyes closed, waiting for them to kill her, or extract whatever power they seemed to want, or grab her and take her away.
Just then the door opened behind her and suddenly and arm was wrapped round her waist pulling her backwards.
