Chapter 5: Learn

Everything seemed to whirl around them. Rose felt positively ill as the world around her spun and a great breeze threw her hair madly. Her head was throbbing and she tried to blink away the dust from her eyes, doing her best to watch the sight.

Both Time Lords stood there, each hand placed upon another, both their eyes glowing bright as some sort of power was being transferred through their hands. Everything seemed to revolve around them, the sun, the Moon...the whole Universe. Centred around two beings. Two beings of immense power and capabilities. Two beings that in some way; controlled the Sun, the Moon and the Universe. They had the most generous gift in their hands, the golden sands of time.

There was a sudden white light and everything went silent. Rose's head went into agonising pain and tears pricked at her eyes. But she still kept her watering eyes on the event in front of her. The two figures were both enveloped in the white light. Rose couldn't see them and had to close her own eyes as the light seemed to get brighter and brighter. She tried to scream, but something invisible had her throat, stopping her from making a sound.

Then, it all ended. To quick for Rose's liking; as it was just like a quick camera shot. One moment the whole world was away in a great white light and then it was gone. No bang, no immense flash, no nothing. It was like a silent movie, where the moment where it all changed there should have been a few words saying 'And then...' or 'What happened next...' Her headache was beginning to numb, just as bad as her leg was. She could see that the blood has seeped through her jeans. Joy, these were her second best jeans...

Rose flicked her eyes up to the Doctor and the girl. The Doctor looked blown away, slightly flabbergasted and tired. But there was no grin on his face. Rose was reminded of the first few seconds of his regeneration at Christmas, when he'd looked slightly shell shocked and worried. But that was an understatement compared to now. Rose wouldn't have been too surprised if he keeled over now and then. She saw that his hands weren't glowing anymore, but his eyes seemed to be sparkling than average eyes. But those eyes had, perhaps, a bit more giveaway to sparkle. After all, they had seen things that no man or woman had ever imagined in their wildest day dream, seen things that would make grown men scream in terror and things that would make even the most macho man break down in solid tears.

The girl was looking the same as the Doctor, though slightly unsteady on her feet. Her hands were no longer glowing, though they were shaking. Her eyes looked somewhat glazed over, as though in a slight daze. Rose's eyes felt like they were on fire, but she kept that to herself. Neither of them said anything.

Then, Rose broke the silence.

"Doctor?" Her voice was weak, but audible and it snapped the Doctor out of his daydream and brought him back down in earth with a heavy thud. It seemed to make the girl come out of something too, but she still stared coldly forwards, not at anyone or at anything, but she seemed to be recalling something, as though suddenly seeing something she hadn't seen before.

"Rose?" He turned down to face her. "Oh yeah, sorry, brain convulsing." He looked down and spotted the blood on her jeans.

"How did that get there then?" He asked, kneeling down beside her and carefully rolling up the leg, drawing a sharp intake of breath. "Ouch."

"At least it's not you who has it." Rose groaned.

"For you, I would take any wound." The Doctor said. Rose smiled at his serious face.

"Likewise."

Rose was about to ask what had just happened. But then the girl gasped out loud, bring both her and the Doctor's attention to her.

"All gone..." She muttered. "Just like that." The Doctor glanced down at Rose and stood up.

"Nothing's left. Apart from us." The girl said, looking into the Doctor's eyes. She could see the tears glimmering in the corners of his eyes, saw the darkness of his iris deepen even further. He suddenly opened his arms wide and the girl fell into them, tears slipping heavily down her cheeks.

After a while, the sobbing had stopped and the girl had pulled away. Looking up into the Doctor's sorrowful face, she asked one question.

"Who are you?"

The Doctor. A single name that would be cemented into her life for the rest of eternity. Tess could only look to the ground as he said this. It made no sense. She had never met him, yet she knew who he was. It was as though he was a childhood book, forgotten, yet familiar.

Now she could only reflect upon the sudden memories that had come to life as she walked behind the Doctor and Rose. She could see the odd drop of blood in the grass as Rose hobbled towards the blue box the Doctor had called the TARDIS.

Tess could be slightly amazed at herself. Why wasn't she running around screaming? Why wasn't she running home, though to a family of breakages, yet to a place she could call home? Now, apparently, it was being left behind. Why wasn't she in tears, missing the arguments? Why the heck did she feel calm about this? But something was overflowing her mind. Memories, short and long, snuggling deep into the gaps of her memory. Everything had seemed normal, almost natural to her.

She kept on wanting to hit herself, wake up, see that this was all some seriously weird dream, but her arm was already red from where she had pinched it over and over again. It hurt.

As the two in front stopped to unlock the door with what looked like a plain and ordinary key, Tess glanced round to the pile of Garthes. They were still struggling madly and one began to roar angrily, in a bottomless frustration. Tess frowned and continued listening.

"YOU SHALL SUFFER! THE GARTHES WILL HAVE YOU HEADS!" Tess winced. Now it was speaking muffled, but nevertheless, English. She flicked her eyes to the TARDIS. It was translating.

Wait...How did she know that?

It was those weird calculations in her head once more, piling on top of each other, figuring out everything that was in sight. Yet again, this seemed normal. Normal as the sky above them.

Then again, Tess thought, is the sky even normal?

A click and a creak of a door opening told Tess that the TARDIS had been opened. The sound of footsteps on metal followed. Hesitantly, Tess walked forwards and into the open door.

It was as though she was entering paradise. A paradise of green glowing lights and bronze metal shaped and crafted with such craftsmanship it would have brought tears to the odd man's eye. Everything seemed so unusual, but understandable in here. If given the chance, Tess would have turned every dial, pulled every lever, pressed every button and so on. But she kept her ground and waited for Rose and the Doctor.

Ah, at least there wasn't too much of a cliffie there.

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