Sorry I've taken so long with up update! My chapter notes ended up in the wash lol!
thanks to everyone that reveiwed the first chapter!
Kat
oh and just to mention a week later. The new Doctor...Matt Smith. I did watch Ruby in the Smoke and the Shadow in the North, but I can't remember him in it at all!
The white horse thundered the mirror shattering glass and Rose holding on for dear life.
"Hi" she spoke up nervously waving in the direction of Reinette and the other guests while pulling herself together.
"You're not the Doctor!" Reinette announced as she wasn't expecting this child to come to her aid.
"I know" said Rose sarcastically now regretting jumping through the window already.
"Just here to fix the clock" smiled Rose as she hopped down from the horse ran up to nearest droid and pulled of its mask.
"She is complete!"
Rose laughed. The clockwork droids didn't take it too kindly and edged closer.
"Forget it. It's over. For you and for me!" Rose sighed
"The link with the ship has been broken...you can't get back, your essentially useless now...nothing else left to fix... and just how long do you think you've got left?" Declared Rose
"God I sound like the Doctor" she added placing her hands on her forehead and laughing out of desperation.
She then continued on with her rant
"How many ticks left in that clockwork heart? A day? An hour? It's over. Accept that. I'm not winding you up."
The clock work droids looked in the direction of the time window, now a brick wall had taken its place...there was no way back.
The clockwork droids obeyed her in the end and fell silent. They had frozen still like statues, and then one slumped forward and falls over smashing to pieces on the ground.
"Just cogs and gears in the end!" Rose whispered while watching the dismantled droids on the ground then looking up at the broken mirror.
"Talk about seven years bad luck. Try three thousand..."
A solid brick wall and time and space now divided the Doctor and Rose Tyler...not forgetting Mickey of course.
Rose kept thinking that she'll never get to see them again, not even her mother. How would Jackie react when the Doctor takes Mickey home and learns that her only daughter has to spend the rest of her life with French aristocrats? She'd definitely give him more than just a slap Rose mused.
The King of France and members of staff helped the distressed and ushered them out the ballroom, leaving Reinette alone with Rose.
"Child why did the Doctor not come" she asked quite forcefully
Rose kept her eyes fixed on the broken mirror knowing that the Doctor would be watching on the other side.
"He's busy" she replied and wiped a tear from her cheek. She then turned around to face Reinette.
"The names Rose by the way...If I'm going to be trapped here for eternity, please call me Rose...and I am not a child" she snapped rudely, Rose was not in the mood to be spoken down to by someone who'd she had just saved.
"My sincere apologies Rose"
Rose laughed trying to cover up her pain.
"There were many doors between my world and yours. Can you not use one of the others?" asked Reinette
"No, the Doctor said that once one window had been smashed all the other would disconnect. So you might find a few more torn tapestries and broken mirrors...I'll pay for the damage" shrugged Rose
"What the hell do I do now? Get a job? Oh god what if the TARDIS stops translating...I can't speak French!" Rose panicked.
"For one that apparently cannot speak French, your French is perfect" retorted Reinette silently laughing.
"No. No there's got to be away back... I can't leave him on his own" she said knowing that the Doctor would dump Mickey back on the Powell estate.
Rose searched deep in her jean pockets and out her mobile.
Then kissed it
"Rose, what is that thing?"
"Salvation I hope" she smiled and dialled Mickey's number.
"Doctor! Doctor!" asked Mickey the idiot still trying to get the mute Time lord to answer him.
"Where's Rose, I went back to the TARDIS during you're 'Lovers tiff'" added Mickey who then realized that the Doctor had been crying.
"She's gone" The Doctor simply said looking away from the broken window then gazing at the stars through a window on the roof of the ship.
"What do you mean by gone?" snarled Mickey who had enough of the Doctor's lack of answers of moody attitude.
"I mean gone! Jumped through the bloody time window!" spat the Doctor furiously pointing at the shards of glass.
"I couldn't stop her I'm sorry Mickey"
Mickey could not accept the Doctor's apology so he flung his right fist out of rage into the Doctor's face, coursing the Time lord to fall to the ground again clutching a bloody nose.
"You did this, I knew Rose travelling with you was dangerous...you bastard, you killed her!" shouted Mickey.
Then Mickey's phone rang.
"You going to answer that or just beat me up instead" moaned the Doctor wiping his nose on his sleeve.
"You shut up!" said Mickey retrieving his mobile out of his pocket.
"Rose?"
"Rose?" stuttered Mickey completely astounded that even from across time and space, Rose could stop him from trying to beat up the Doctor.
"Hi" Rose responded
"Mickey can you put the Doctor on, I need to speak to him"
The Doctor bolted up from the ground and grabbed the phone from Mickey.
"Rose, are you OK?" he asked her completely losing himself to fear as he had no idea what had happened to her after she jumped through the window.
"Yeah, I'm fine. What about you?" She replied
"Worried to death, you know the usual" he joked trying to lighten up the conversation as it may be one of their last.
"You sound weird Doctor!"
"Oh that was your Mr Mickey, broke my nose...the idiot! But don't fret, I'll be fine" he said feeling glad to that Rose was still being Rose and worrying over him.
"Rose did you stop them?" He urged feeling anxious again.
"I told them that they were trapped...got the message in the end" sighed Rose knowing that statement included herself as well.
"I'm so sorry Rose"
"No! Doctor don't be. You've done nothing wrong. This was my choice, I didn't want you to go, and the rest of the universe needs you...not me. So just don't lose sleep over me, I'll be all right" ranted Rose who didn't want the Doctor to wallow in grief.
"I need you!" muttered the Doctor to himself, but Rose had heard him.
"I can't come and get you, not without coming part of events, I might even cause a paradox!" said the Doctor holding back his sorrow, but knowing that Rose could easily pick up on it anyway...she never seized to amaze him.
"I know this is my last chance to say it. Rose Tyler I..."
The Doctor never got to finish his declaration of love. Mickey's mobile had died on him.
"She's gone" he sighed. The Doctor gave the phone back to Mickey then turning away to look at the stars again sensing that Rose was looking at the same sky.
"He's gone" Rose told Reinette while wiping her eyes now looking up at the nights sky through one of Versailles many windows.
"Ah. You have my deepest sympathy Rose" Reinette replied
"What are you going to do now? One is most grateful for saving one's life; you can stay here if you like, rather than facing the Bad Wolf of society on your own!" Reinette offered trying to ease Rose's suffering.
"BAD WOLF" smiled Rose