So chapter is the 2005 Children in Need Special. This is a shorter chapter but I promise the next one will be longer.
"6pm… Tuesday…." The Doctor was mumbling to himself as he worked on setting the right location. "October… 5006…. On the way to Barcelona! Now then… what do I look like? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, NO. Don't tell me."
I had to hold in a laugh at him. He was so different than before, but I felt the same way about him. Although, I am going to have to start paying better attention to what he says. He talks really fast!
"Let's see… two legs, two arms, two hands. Slight weakness in the dorsal tubercle. HAIR! I'm not bald!" His hands started to run through his hair and I know he was very excited about it.
"Oh – oh! Big hair. Sideburns – I've got sideburns. Or really bad skin. Little bit thinner… that's weird. Give me time, I'll get used to it," He said patting his stomach. "I… have… got… a mole. I can feel it. Between my shoulder blades, there's a mole."
I let out a small giggle at this. He beamed at me but keep going on and talking. "That's all right. I love the mole. Go on then, tell me. What do you think?" He turned to Rose and I.
Before I could say anything Rose asked, "Who are you?"
His face fell, "I'm the Doctor."
"No… where is he? Where's the Doctor? What have you done to him?"
"Rosie you saw him, he changed right there in front of us." I tried to put a comforting arm around her, but she shrugged it off.
"I saw him sort of explode, and then you replaced him, like a… a teleport or a transmat or a body swap or something."
She walked up to him and pushed against his chest. "You're not fooling me. I've seen all sorts of things. Nanogenes… Gelth… Slitheen… oh my, are you a Slitheen?" I rolled my eyes at Rose; none of what she just said could make a person turn into another person.
"I'm not a Slitheen."
"Send him back. I'm warning you, send the Doctor back right now!"
I could tell the Doctor was getting frustrated at Rose for not believing him. "Rose, it's me. Honestly, it's me. I was dying. To save my own life I changed my body. Every single cell, but… it's still me."
"You can't be," she whispered.
"Then how could I remember this?" The Doctor started and walked closer to Rose. "Very first word I ever said to you. Trapped in the cellar. Surrounded by shop window dummies… oh … such a long time ago. I took your hand…" he linked their hands. "I said one word… just one word, I said 'run'."
"Doctor."
"Hello." With him only being able to stay still for short periods at a time, the Doctor bound it over to the console. "And we never stopped did we? All across the universe. Running, running, running. One time we had to hop." To Emphasize his point he started to hop. "Do you remember? Hopping for our lives. Yeah? All that hopping? Remember hopping for your life? Yeah?! Hop? With the…. no." He finally stopped when he realized Rose was not happy.
"Can you change back?" She asked.
"Do you want me to?"
"Yeah," both the Doctor and I winced at this.
"oh…" it was obvious he was not excepting that answer.
"Can you?"
"No." I felt so bad for the Doctor and Rose, so I just tried to stay back and let the Doctor try and handle this. "Do you want to leave?"
"Do you want me to leave?"
"No! But… your choice… if you want to go home. Cancel Barcelona." He started fiddling with the console, "change to London… the Powell Estate… ah… let's say the 24th of December. Consider it a Christmas present. There."
"I'm going home?" Rose asked quietly.
"Up to you. Back to your mum… its all waiting. Fish and chips, sausage and mash, beans on toast – no Christmas! Turkey. Although… having met your mother… nut loaf would be more appropriate!" Rose gave the tiniest of smiles. "Was that a smile?"
"No."
"That was a smile."
"No it wasn't"
I knew the Doctor wanted so badly for Rose to be happy, but he really need to stop talking. "You smiled."
"No I didn't!"
"Oh, come on, all I did was change, I didn't…" The Doctor made a gagging noise and looked like he was in pain. I started to edge my way over to him. I didn't like when he is in pain.
Rose looked a little concerned for him and asked, "what?"
"I said I didn't…" once again he gagged and the TARDIS gave a shutter. "Uh oh."
"Doctor!" By this time I was right next to him trying to keep him steady.
"Eh… are you alright?" Rose asked and we watch as a stream of gold light came out of the Doctor's month. "What's that?"
"Oh, the change is going a bit wrong." The Doctor doubled over in pain.
"Look… maybe we should go back. Let's go and find Captain Jack, he'd know what to do," Rose said a little nerve.
"Gah, he's busy! He's got plenty to do rebuilding the Earth!" The Doctor still bent at the waist turned to the console spying a switch. "I haven't used this one in years."
"NO!" I tried to stop him, but he flipped the switch sending us all flying again the console.
"What're you doing?" Rose asked as she hung on to trying not to fall.
"Putting on a bit of speed!" The Doctor was pulling levers and turning knobs like a mad man. "That's it! My beautiful ship. Come on, faster. That's a girl! Faster! Want to break the time limit?" It was getting incredibly hard to hold onto anything.
"Stop it!" Rose yelled at him.
"Ah, don't be so dull – let's have a bit of fun! Let's rip through that vortex!" He said throwing he arm in the air.
"Doctor, please!" I whispered, that was all I really could do because most of my energy was going into staying upright.
He looked to me with sad eyes saying, "the regeneration's going wrong. I can't stop myself. Ah, my head." His face showed how much pain he was in as he put his head on the console. But suddenly he popped up, "Faster! Let's open those engines."
A bell started to go off and Rose asked, "What's that?"
"The Doctor is making us crash land," I yelled to her.
The Doctor gave a crazy laugh as Rose yelled at him, "well then, do something."
"To late, out of control. Oh, I love it! Hog dawy!"
"You're gonna kill us!" She yelled.
"Hold on tight, here we go! Christmas Eve!"
"Doctor!" I yelled as we waited for the crash. 'This was so much more fun to watch!'
Hope you enjoyed, I really had fun writing this one! Thanks so much for reading. Allons-y!
