Last time: "They're more advanced. Angrier." Koschei paused, his lips turning into a hard line. "It'll be worse."
Pain. Blinding pain. Screams echoing against white walls. Laughing. Mocking. Screaming. So much screaming. Koschei… Help… Where is it coming from?
Me… The screaming is coming from me.
Rose's eyes flashed open and she pulled against the restraints that bound her to the wall. She looked around wildly, and realized she was in a white room.
She screamed and thrashed against her restraints. "NO!" She yelled, her throat hurting from it. A door panel slid open and in walked a man. A very big, very threatening man who most definitely wasn't a human. His skin was a dark grey with white markings on his face and chest. He was wearing what looked like cargo shorts and a utility belt filled with objects that Rose knew way too familiarly. Tamul.
Rose's breathing got heavier and her mind filled with horrible flashbacks of the last time she was in his presence.
Tamul smiled and laughed, "Is the wolf scared?" He asked, his deep voice vibrating against the chamber.
Rose composed herself and glared at him, then smiled bitterly, "Wow." She said, her voice raw. "I let you guys go the first time and you capture me again." She said, trying to act braver than she was.
"Oh please." He said, walking closer. "You're trapped." He said with a teasing whisper. Rose tensed and leaned away but he stepped closer until they're faces were centimeters away. "You're not getting away this time." He leaned closer so he was whispering in her ear, "And when your friend comes to try and save you?" He paused, leaning back so they were staring each other down, "We'll kill him."
Rose glared, a fire starting in her eyes as she smiled bitterly. "Over my dead body." She said through gritted teeth before pulling her head back and snapping it forward, head-butting the man in front of her.
The pained cry she heard was more than enough to make up for the hurtful pulse of blood in her head.
Tamul stumbled back, an alien curse leaving his lips as a hand went to cradle his head. He growled and then chuckled bitterly, "You're going to regret that later."
Rose tried not to let her fear seep into her expression but she knew too well that he was definitely going to keep his promise.
Rose didn't know when she had passed out or even if she had been drugged but when her eyes popped open to reveal new surroundings she knew she had been unconscious. She tried to recollect what had happened but the only thing she remembered was seeing Tamul leave the room clutching his head and then… black.
She observed her new surroundings with caution. She was strapped down to a white chair with what looked like some kind of white metal. She could feel the chair pulsating under her with some kind of power. She saw a white-tinted glass dome surrounding her and off to one side a platform stemmed out made of the same white metal. It led to a black door that looked to be pretty thick. Rose asked herself why for a second before pushing the thought away in favor of thinking of an escape plan.
However a loud hissing sound brought her attention back to the door. It looked like someone was opening it. The door pushed out from the wall and opened to the side. In walked someone wearing what looked to be an advanced version of a hazmat suit with a tool belt around their waist. The door closed behind them with a slight whoosh as they walked forward.
The glass dome that separated her from the stranger slid open letting the person in only to close behind them with a deafening hiss.
Fear settled in her stomach like ice. Rose sat up straight in the chair, her chin jutted high in the air to show she wasn't scared even though she was terrified.
The stranger was staring right at her and, with how small the dome was, was way too close for comfort. The person pressed something on their wrist and the black tinted face screen that had previously left Rose unable to tell who it was vanished to reveal the face of Tamul smiling happily.
Rose wasn't aware that this much fear could exist in her and as it flooded her body she pleaded in her head with some hope, please hurry Koschei.
The Doctor wasn't aware this much anger could exist in him. He had almost been this angry with Amy not even two days before but this anger… This one was reserved for Rose. It was as though his body was burning cold with it. "How much longer Koschei?" He asked, his voice barely keeping steady as he gripped the railing with white knuckles.
"Two minutes." Koschei answered, all emotion gone from his voice and face. He was staring at the Tardis console watching the coordinates switch from place to place as it calibrated itself to the ring's location. Worry and anxiety flooded his entire being as his brain replayed the events of the last time this happened. He tried to push the thoughts away but they kept pushing their way to the front of his brain along with the haunting words, Koschei! Help! And it was the one time that he couldn't…
Koschei shuddered as he recalled the broken way Rose had said those words. He could still remember exactly as it had happened.
*Flashback*
Koschei had been chained to the wall in the white room for at least two days. Rose had been strapped to the white chair in the middle of the room for longer. Koschei speculated they had waited until he had woken up willfully while they started on Rose as soon as they could. Blood caked her body like a second skin and each breath she took was shallow and forced, as if someone was performing CPR on her at all times. Her eyes had been closed for the two days Koschei had been in there and his voice seemed to be lost in those two days. He longed to call out for her, to let her know she wasn't alone but, alas, his voice was gone. The door to the room opened and Tamul walked in with the same tool belt he had been wearing whenever he came in. Koschei pulled against his chains and his face contorted with rage as he saw Tamul smile at him and turn to Rose. He pulled out a small knife that seemed to gleam happily under the bright light that illuminated the room. And all at once, Koschei found his voice, "STOP!" He yelled and even he surprised himself with the sound of his own voice.
The loud noise broke the rooms silence like a hammer against glass and Rose's eyes shot open. Gold light flowed in her irises and she spoke, "Koschei!" She screamed, her arms moving weakly at her sides as she struggled to break free of her bounds. "Help!" She yelled and Koschei almost burst into tears at the sound of how broken and damaged she sounded.
Tamul had looked between the two of them and then smiled at Koschei in a way that made his skin crawl. He held the knife to Koschei throat and Koschei locked eyes with Rose who only watched in surprise as Tamul pressed the knife hard enough to draw blood. Rose's shocked expression lasted a second more before her eyes glowed with rage. Koschei had never seen her that angry and the look she had was enough to make even him feel scared. Gold light shot out of her hands like a bullet and around her the chair seemed to disappear and she was floating. Her eyes glowed with the anger only Bad Wolf could possess and she walked forward and stared down Tamul's shocked expression. She had grabbed him by his neck and, if Koschei wasn't there giving her the 'don't do it' look he thought she probably would've crushed his throat to dust in her hands, but instead she had punched him hard enoughzz to knock him out and then gotten Koschei out of the chains and out of the spaceship and into the Tardis. Rose had passed out as soon as they had gotten into the Tardis.
And when Koschei had asked her how she had done what she had done, she had said she didn't remember. Koschei had been glad she hadn't.
But now, as Koschei and the Doctor floated helplessly in the Time Vortex, Koschei wished Rose had known so she could burn all the things that had done this into dust. A ring from the Tardis console broke him out of his reverie and he refocused his attention on the screen. The Doctor was beside him in a second. "Where is it?" He asked desperately as he searched the screen.
The coordinates flashed across the screen, "In the Galar Galaxy." Koschei said, already running around the console pulling and pushing levers as fast as he could. And the Tardis lurched forward, speeding as fast the machine could toward their beautiful Bad Wolf.