Chapter 2! Ok dudes here it is! Ok I have to admit I have used a line from the new book 'nightmare of Black Island' 'because I love that line soooo much lol! Cookie to who ever spot it first! That you ALL for reviewing and do it loads more now so yer! Read and enjoy!
Chapter 2: Last Man Standing
Here's the last man standing
Step right up, he's the real thing
The last chance of a lifetime
Come and see, hear, feel ... the real thing
The Doctor sat alone, once again, in the green glow of the TARDIS. It had only been a day since he had said goodbye to the woman he loved on some beach in Norway but he was already dying inside.
-'Rose Tyler I-"He usually got on fine when he was alone. The peace after the storm.
-"You alright?"
-"Cause I am, I'm always alright"
But not this time. This time the storm had raged through him breaking both his hearts and leaving him feeling more vulnerable, lost and totally alone than ever before.
He didn't know what to do with him-self, he couldn't go anywhere, he didn't want to, it seemed like the huge balloon inside him, which kept him inflated, had burst. In the end he wondered off in to the TARDIS and found himself outside her room. He pushed the door open and hesitated before entering. Everything was the same. Her bed was unmade, make-up and bottles of God knows what strewn over her dressing table. It would have probably hurt less if it had all gone.
He made his way over to her bed and sat down. His sitting position soon altered to him laying his head down on her pillow and curling up.
"Rose"
He ached all over and for the first time in his life, just wanted to sleep. He held his own hand and breathed in the sweet scent of flowers and summer days that always surrounded Rose. It was almost as if she was with him there, but she wasn't, she never could be. A single tear squeezed from his closed eyes and slid down his face soaking into the lilac fabric of the pillow. He just couldn't go on without her.
At Torchwood everything was chaotic, people were running around and yelling but one man, Freddie lynch had been waiting for Rose Tyler to slip up for years. As soon as the emergency alarm had sounded he had gone in to her office and studied a small red 'emergency' button set behind a picture of the Milky Way on one wall. He was known for his thirst for power and burning ambition throughout the company. As people rushed around in a state of panic he stood there weighing his chances. He didn't know what the button did, but it was for use in an emergency, It could bring help! He could be a hero! He pushed it. Nothing happened.
The Doctor fell off the bed as a sudden jolt sent everything inside the TARDIS flying, including a glass framed photo of Rose, the Doctor her mother and Mickey on Christmas day, which smashed as it came it to contact with the floor. He spared it a sad glance before finding his feet and sprinting into the control room.
"What the hell's happening?" no one answered but he felt better for saying something. Just as suddenly as the movement had started, it stopped and all went still. He checked the scanners and gaped at the readings the monitor was showing him.
They hadn't moved, not one inch, they were still floating in clear space some way to the left of the star the Doctor had burnt just yesterday. The tinniest of lights began to flash nest to the Doctor's hand.
"What? Why are you flashing? You're not meant to flash! If I wanted you to flash I would have put you somewhere flashier! But- distresses call? Oh someone else can do it for a change!" he snapped and turned away reaching a hand to his hair. It started to flash faster and, as if deciding for him the TARDIS lurched again and began to head for the source.
Jimmy turned his grey eyes and looked deep into Aine's own intense brown ones. "Aine" He leaned in closer so that she could feel his hot breath on her cheek.
"Aine"
"Aine!"
Aine was in the middle of double French not completely paying attention to the gibberish her teacher was sprouting, so it was hardly surprising when she was jerked from her daydream to have the entire class staring at her that she was a little put out. As well as her French teacher, Mrs Williams, Mr Kelly who was her physics teacher stood at the door. He smiled at her and nodded to her bag. Confused Aine grabbed it and headed out of the classroom behind him. She wondered what she had done this time and hitched her bag further up her shoulder uncomfortably as they neared the head office.
Whatever she was expecting it wasn't this, now sitting in the back of her granddad's car she was still in shock. She glanced out the window at the towering form of Torchwood Tower and was still on auto-pilot as they walked up to the automatic glass doors with the large 'TT' over them. She wondered off as Pete got involved in a large argument with the woman at the desk and jabbed at the lift button.
She had been to her mum's office before and this time when she arrived her mum would be at her desk complaining of being disturbed and usher her away just as she had countless other times. The lift pinged and the metal doors slid open. A tall man in a pinstriped suit stood there holding a blue torch to the button panel looking slightly surprised.
"Um…" he swallowed and looked at her uncomfortably, "it's out of order"
"Yer whatever well I ain't climbing 44 sets of stairs" Aine replied and pushed past him into the wood panelled box. He looked her up and down and shrugged his shoulders before turning away eyebrows raised. Aine stabbed the button for the 44th floor and leant against the wall tapping in impatience.
The Doctor leant against the opposite wall to the teenager and began to hum a song that had been in his head since he had visited Earth with Rose three days earlier.
"Listen I get enough of that bloody song from my mum and I ain't in the mood right now so, don't mean to be rude but shut up yeah?" the Doctor raised his eyebrows at her last comment and then took in what she had said. He hadn't even thought that that song had been released yet but then again he hadn't bothered to check the year when he had landed. Another thing that fascinated him was the girl standing opposite him. He hadn't thought that Torchwood catered for teenagers and so her very presence intrigued him.
"So why are you here then?"
"Not that it is any of your business but I'm going to see my mum, meant to be head of this place"
So she was Yvonne's daughter, he had thought that she reminded him of someone but she didn't seem much like her mum.
"So why are you here? Work here or summin'?"
The Doctor had had no wish to set foot in Torchwood again after the happenings of the last 72 hours but when the TARDIS had pulled him down here he had decided he might as well check it out, especially considering Torchwood's reputation.
"Um yeah, guess you could say that."
The lift suddenly shuddered and the lights blinked out. A voice floated to him from across the other side of the room.
"Ok I believe you, faulty lift!" he smiled for the first time since-
She reminded him of Rose so badly. He shook of the memories and took the sonic screwdriver from his pocket. After fiddling around a bit the lift shuddered back to life and carried on up towards the 44th floor.
Lloyd Signo rubbed his temple once again,
"Fredric we don't even know if she is dead," The two men turned round the corner and continued up the corridor past the lifts just as one of them pinged announcing the arrival of its occupants. Lloyd hoped to God that it was the backup he had called for earlier as he had sent the message over an hour ago and they still hadn't turned up.
"We shouldn't be making speculations, Miss Tyler is fantastic and we can't afford
to-…"
"Yes, well fantastic is one word, not one I myself would use but- if you ask me Mr Signo that woman was an accident waiting to happen and she has happened! I mean after all that business with her depression-"
"We will not discuss Miss Tyler's personal life and that is that Mr Lynch now if you will excuse me…" Lloyd turned on his heel and walked straight into a man coming out of the lift.
"I am so sorry Mr-"
"Doctor… Smith, Doctor John Smith"
"Right yes" Lloyd looked at the man that he had sent flying, he was tall with messy hair and side burns wearing a pinstriped suit and plimsolls. A teenager wondered out of the lift and looked around, it was a while before Lloyd recognised her, Rose kept a picture on her desk but it was very out of date by the look of things.
"Aine? What are you doing here?"
The teenager shrugged and mumbled something about seeing her mum, what was he going to tell her? Thankfully the Doctor man stepped in to save him.
"Hi yeah, listen, I was called here, not completely sure what for but, Ta Da!" he spread his arms wide and grinned maniacally. Right now Lloyd didn't care who he was but welcomed the opportunity to loose Fredric and stop his constant questions.
"This way please, Aine it's probably best you wait here with Fredric," He enjoyed the look of alarm on the young man's face at the prospect of being left alone with a teenage girl and turned to leave, only to be blocked by Aine herself.
"I'm not staying anywhere I'm going to see my mum!" Lloyd sighed.
"you can't Aine, she- she's… In the middle of an important meeting, I'll tell her you're here when she comes out." And before she could argue he grabbed hold of the Doctor's elbow and steered him down the corridor.
There you go chapter 2! I am in the middle of typing up chapter 3 and in that one the Doctor FINALY realises that Aine is Rose's daughter! Stay tuned!