Prompts : Sleigh and Elves

(Twelve x Rose)

The Doctor ran as fast as he could. He was on the planet North Pole and what started with a banal excursion ended in a chase. The North Pole planet was known for celebrating Christmas through-out the year and ther was the largest toy factory in the universe run by Santa Claus and androids elves. The factory was forbidden to any foreign person and when the androids realized that the Doctor had managed to get in, they set off on a race. And to make matters worse, the TARDIS was at the other side of the village. The Doctor looked behind him and saw that the elves were still running after him. He quickened his pace, hoping to shake off them. He stopped running when a sleigh pulled by reindeers stopped in front of him.

'Go on up !' The driver said.

The Doctor could not see what this person looked like because of the hood and the ski goggles. He only heard a female voice that was so familiar to him, but he preferred not to think about it for the moment. He got into the sleigh. It was the best way to escape these angry elves. They arrived in front of the TARDIS much faster than the Doctor if he had continued running. He went down the sleigh, but one thing intrigued him. How did this stranger know where to he went ?

'Who are you ?' He asked.

The stranger took off her goggles and pulled down her hood. For a few seconds, the Doctor wondered if he was dreaming. Maybe he had lost his mind. Or the elves had caught him and knocked him unconscious. Whatever it was, it was impossible.

'Hello doctor.'

'Rose ?'

Thousands questions crossed his mind.

'You were not easy to find,' Rose said.

The Doctor did not know what to say, which was new to him. He pointed his sonic to Rose and scanned her. He looked at the results. She was neither an android, nor an illusion, nor a ghost. She was real. He took Rose by the hand and took her inside the TARDIS. He paced, wondering for a moment if the sonic was not mistaken. Rose smiled, he hated not understanding.

'How ?' The Doctor asked. 'You were in Pete's world with my clone. You had to live together.'

'John,' Rose said. 'His name was John.'

Was, the Doctor thought. What had happened ?

'We lived together,' Rose said. 'A lifetime. He aged and died, but not me. I'm like the last time you saw me. Except that I can't age and I can't die.'

The Doctor understood what had happened.

'Bad Wolf,' he said.

Rose nodded.

'It took me a long time. Too much time to find you. But I never lost hope. '

The doctor smiled. He came up to Rose and kissed her. They were finally together. They were Rose Tyler and the Doctor in the TARDIS, as it should be.