Previously:
Down on Earth, Martha walked up a hill watching in horror as the red angry sky let more and more Tocalfane out. She cringed as she heard the screams of people from the city before she set off to do her duty…she was going to walk round Earth for a whole year, she only hoped that Rose's plan was going to work.
It was the first week on the Valiant when he came.
Rose was pretty much locked up in a bedroom for the duration of that week, the Master coming every night in attempt to win her over and always ended up having his wine dumped over his head much to the Jones's amusement. Her clothes, the jeans and t-shirt had been taken away and she had been given robes…Galifreyan traditional robes, many layers of soft cotton in white. She looked a lot like a snow queen in them Tish said when she delivered her meals. Apart from her plan which took an hour tops each day, Rose didn't have much to do, she hated the fact she was locked in some fancy room while Jack was in horrible conditions down below and Martha's family was in servant headquarters which weren't very nice.
It was late evening when the Master came in for his regular attempt to seduce Rose, he kept saying he could very well hypnotise her into it but he likes the challenge and besides what use is having a Time Lady if she can't think for herself. He strolled in with his usual confidence.
"Rosie my dear" he said holding his arms out to her, she stood where she was glaring at him. He put them down still grinning insanely. "Now I know you hate me for locking you in this bedroom but I need to have something to insure that you won't try to escape and go after your little pet. Since the Jones family aren't close to you and Jack can't die I have no leverage…till now that is" he clicked his fingers and two guards came in dragging a man with them.
A very familiar man….a man that shouldn't be there, that couldn't have been there. He looked up at her and whispered "Rose…"
"Doctor" Rose whispered falling to her knees so she was eye level with him, her hand reached out to touch his cheek, when she felt his warm – warm? Time Lord's body temperatures were cooler than humans – cheek, she gasped. He was real. "How?"
"I was bored" the Master said "Earth politics are sooooooooooo boring and slow, so to amuse myself I nicked a few things from Lazarus, used that lovely hand that Jack left for me and voila made myself a clone…few downsides though, he's not Time Lord, he's human. I had to throw in some human DNA for it to work and they became dominant. So now I have a Doctor toy to play with and you Rosie Pose will do everything I tell you or he'll die, sounds fair?"
Rose didn't say a word; she just kept staring at the Doctor in a mix of shock and horror. He was here, yet it wasn't him. He was a human clone version.
"Well I got to go, I decided to spend time with my wife and queen while you and the Human Doctor here can play catch up, bye, bye kiddies play nice" the Master said waving his guards to follow him.
As the door slammed shut. The pair of them stared at each other in silent horror. Neither dared to speak, Rose nervously bit her lip and dropped her hand from his cheek, breaking eye contact as she looked down at her lap.
"Rose, what happened?" the Doctor, Human Doctor, whatever he was asked "one minute I was fighting the Sycorax leader the next I wake up to find the Master leaning over me and you dressed up in Galifreyan clothes. What happened?"
"Your hand got cut off" Rose whispered "you re-grew it, fought the leader, saved the world, picked out some new clothes and had Christmas dinner with us." That Christmas felt like a lifetime ago for her. We went back to travelling, then there was this war…and you, Mum and Mickey got trapped in a parallel world. I travelled on my own, met Martha and took her along with me, met Jack who apparently had your hand the whole time and that was when we found the Master."
"What happened to you Rose? You're so old and cold, what happened to you?"
"I have no idea what you mean" Rose said flatly before she got up and turned away from him. She ignored him for the rest of the night.
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She had managed to keep ignoring him for the next two months. This was hard, since they had to share a room, however now the Master was sure that Rose won't leave the Valiant, Rose was allowed to wander round the Valiant, and she often chose to spend her time with Jack in the cells.
"He's lot like our first Doctor" she said one afternoon "sad, alone, depressed. He can't stand being human; it's driving him insane I can tell. I hear him at night crying out for the TARDIS, for Galifrey and for you and me"
"Then why do you ignore him and avoid being with him?" Jack asked.
"Because…he can spend the rest of his life with me but I can't spend the rest of mine with him. He'll wither and die" she felt tears prickle in her eyes; she was quoting him, how unfair was that?
"Blasted chains, if it weren't for these I'll hug you" Jack said yanking his wrists.
Rose gave him a watery smile and a peck on the cheek. "I don't know what I would have done without you Jack"
"You would have been a pancake on a London street in 1941 that's what" Jack grumbled good naturally.
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It was probably about two weeks after that particular chat with Jack when the Doctor cornered her in their room.
"Why are you doing this?" he asked quietly.
"Doing what?"
"Ignoring me, avoiding me. I know you had a hard time adjusting to the regeneration but I never thought you would be like this"
"It has nothing to do with the fact you regenerated" Rose said stiffly.
"Is it because I'm human?" he shot out immediately.
"Partially" Rose admitted looking down at her feet.
"So now that I can no longer offer you time and space you want nothing to do with me?" the Doctor snarled.
"It's not that" Rose whispered "you are the man who I fell in love with. The man who held my hand in that basement and told me to run, the man who took me to the end of the world, the man who gaped at me when I wore a dress, the man who blew number 10 Downing Street, the man who held me after my father died, the man who did everything he could to keep me safe"
He opened his mouth but she held a hand up to gesture him to not interrupt him.
"But you have the face of a man who broke my heart again and again" she said tearfully "you have the face of a man who took me to New Earth where we got possessed by Cassandra, the face of a man who took me to meet Queen Victoria only to get us banished and Torchwood set up, the face of ta man who introduced me to Sarah Jane, the face of a man who left me for Madam De Pompadour, the face of a man who is gone forever, trapped in the parallel world with my Mum and Mickey"
"Rose" he whispered.
She closed her eyes in an attempt to stop the tears but it was too late, she can feel one roll down her cheek and another and another. She then felt his hands on her cheeks, his thumbs wiping her tears away before he ducks down and presses his lips to hers in a chaste kiss.
It was that night she tells him everything he had missed in complete detail.
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Rose knew that the peace on the Valiant couldn't last. Soon enough the Master would try to pursue her again, soon he'll be bored of whoever or whatever he was tormenting. She didn't realise exactly what he had been after till she entered Jack's cell to find him sobbing.
"Jack? Jack what happened? What's wrong?"
Jack lifted his face up to reveal red puffy eyes and tears flowing freely down on his cheeks "he killed Toshiko, my Toshiko" he said.
"Who's Toshiko Jack?" Rose asked gently.
"She was part of my team, she was a genius, my protégé you could almost say, I adored her, and she was…family."
Rose cupped Jack's face "I'm so, so sorry" she whispered "just eight more months, eight more months"
"How long though, will it be before he kills my Owen, Ianto and Gwen? I can't lose them"
Rose swallowed; there was nothing she can say to reassure Jack about his team.
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"Rosie Pose" the Master said "have I told you how gorgeous you look tonight?"
"Piss off!" Rose snarled.
"Now, now Rosie what language is that…are you made that I killed your Jack's little nerd?"
"What do you want?" Rose demanded.
"You, me last of our kind. What else do you think I want?" the Master leaned in to her "I want to take you dancing" she slapped him. He had invaded the memory banks and used everything she and the Doctor have said and done against her, he deserved that slap.
Later that day the Doctor had disappeared only to be returned badly beaten up, the message was simple; Rose obeyed the Master and the Doctor wouldn't be harmed.
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It was Christmas, when the Doctor went into a rage. He threw the vases against the wall, he pushed the items that the Master had given to Rose off of the vanity desk and paced the room tugging his hair.
"Please calm down" Rose pleaded "you have to calm down"
"Why should I?" the Doctor snarled grabbing hold of her shoulders roughly. "Tell me why I should be calm when you're with him like that."
"Why does it matter, as long as you're safe" Rose whispered looking to the side.
"Look at me" the Doctor said in a dangerously low voice. She didn't, she was scared and ashamed to. "LOOK AT ME!"
She turned her gaze slowly to his, she inhaled sharply, his eyes were so dark that they were practically black and his face was white in fury. "It angers me" the Doctor hissed clutching to her tightly, so tight that she's sure she'll have bruises on her shoulders. "Because we have never…because you don't…and on top of that…"
"I didn't think that you would have…" Rose trailed off.
Suddenly his lips crash on to hers and he pushes her up against the wall, his hands fiddling with the clasps on her robes as her hands entwine themselves into his hair as she opens her mouth to accept his tongue. He pulled away a bit and panted heavily.
"I have always wanted you" he whispered "I love you, I love you so much"
A small part of Rose's heart broke, he never dared to even hint such a thing let alone tell her. Was it because he was human now? How can she do this, he was going to age and die…
"I love you too" she whispered before pulling his head down for another kiss.
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He made her swear on the TARDIS, her life and his to never go to the Master's bed no matter what the Master does to the Doctor. Nearly every week she had to nurse the Doctor from the injuries the Master had given to him.
The pair of them managed to escape the guards to visit Jack again; once again he was crying…this time both Owen and Ianto had been killed. After comforting him, they headed back into their room where the Doctor smacked his fists into the wall.
"How can we do this?" he snarled "how can we sit up here and be comfortable while the world below us are dying?"
"It won't be like this for long" Rose whispered "I have a plan"
"And how many people will die in the meantime?" the Doctor shouted.
"Many…but then they'll be saved"
The Doctor let out a bitter laugh "you can't resurrect millions of people Rose"
"You'll be surprised with what I can do"
"I feel so useless" the Doctor whispered.
Rose took his hands and kissed his knuckles tenderly "you're far from useless"
They spent the afternoon making desperate love, the Doctor ended up snuggling his head into her breasts during the afterglow and he froze. He only just worked out what was happening, he should have realised when her skin was cooler than his, when she spoke like him...but now as he listens to Rose's double heartbeat he finally realised…he felt a tear slip down his cheek and onto Rose's skin. He had never given into his temptations because she was human and he was a Time Lord and now the roles were reversed…life wasn't fair at all.
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Rose stepped into Jack's cell and stared at the dirt covered man, she sighed.
"Don't pity me Rose" Jack spat out.
"They have killed you more than usual" Rose whispered.
"Because I was furious, I screamed and tried to break out and kill them all the sick bastards"
"What have they done Jack?"
"they killed her…but they did more than kill her, they brought her up her alive and raped her in front of me, killed her before me" Jack broke down into sobs and Rose tried to hug him, though it was more awkward. "She reminded me of you, Gwen Cooper, she was so much like you and now she's gone"
Rose stroked Jack's hair murmuring "one more month, it'll be ok, just one more month" over and over again.
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A month went by and they pulled a revolution only to have it stopped and Jack being shot once again by the laser screwdriver, the Jones family had a severe beating though not as bad as Rose and the Doctor…the beating was aired on the TV and Rose knew Martha was watching this.
The night was excruciatingly slow; she knew the Master was down in London to drag Martha back up. She sat there on the edge of the bed clinging to the Doctor's hand tightly.
"It's going to end in the morning" Rose whispered "the Master won't have the chance to actually conquer the rest of the universe"
"So why are you so scared?" the Doctor asked.
"Because I don't know what's going to happen to you" Rose said tearfully, the Doctor pulled her in for a hug and pressed a kiss on her temple.
"I love you, no matter what happens"
"I love you too"
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The Master had them all in the conference room, stood in the same place before as he destroyed the gun UNIT had developed.
"What a terrible companion" the Master said "useless! Looks like you don't have the Doctor's knack for picking the best Rosie my dear. Oh well can't be perfect can you?"
Martha suddenly started to giggle.
"What's so funny?" the Master asked.
"Did you really think that, that was it? That I would foolishly let myself be caught out like that?" Martha asked.
"Well you are a stupid ape" the Master said causing both Rose and the Doctor to flinch.
"Do you even know what I was doing travelling round the world?" Martha asked.
The Master shrugged "tell me" he said sitting down on the stairs.
"I told a story" Martha said simply "that's all, no weapons just words. I did what Rose said and travel round the continents and found people and then I told them my story. I told them about Rose and everything she has done and then I told them to pass it on so everyone would know about her"
"Faith and hope, is that all?" the Master asked smiling in disbelieve.
"No" Martha said "because I followed an instruction just like Rose said" the Jones family stared at Martha in disbelieve "that if everyone thought two words at one moment then-"
"Nothing would happen" the Master said loudly interrupting Martha. "Is that your weapon, prayer?"
"Right across the world, two words, one thought, one exact moment with fifteen satellites" the Master rose up slowly with his eyebrows high in his hair line.
"What?"
"The Archangel Network" Jack said grinning.
"A telepathic field where every human is thinking the same thing at the same time at the right moment and those two words are…Bad Wolf"
The countdown reached to zero and suddenly a silver light caught the Master's eye, he turned round to see Rose glowing silver.
"No, no, no, don't you dare. Stop it" the Master said.
"Bad Wolf" Jack said grinning insanely.
"Bad Wolf, Bad Wolf" Francine and Tish whispered under their breaths.
"Bad Wolf, Bad Wolf" the crowds below shouted.
"Bad Wolf" Martha said smiling widely.
"Bad Wolf" the Doctor whispered in Rose's ear.
"Stop it! Just stop it!" the Master shouted.
Everyone kept chanting the two words even Lucy the Master's wife joined in.
"I had a whole year to tune myself into the psychic network and to integrate myself into the matrixes"
"I order you to stop!" the Master bellowed.
Everyone kept chanting the two words.
"One thing you can't do is stop them thinking" Rose snarled. "Now you seem to have forgotten that I am connected to the TARDIS, I have been since I was nineteen. Using my connection with the TARDIS and the new connection with the Archangel Network I can break the paradox machine"
"NO!" the Master held up his laser screwdriver at Rose who merely waved her hand and sent it flying our of the Master's hand.
"I am Rose Tyler, Bad Wolf and I break the paradox machine" Rose shouted waving her hands in what Jack thought was silly gestures.
Inside the TARDIS the paradox machine slowly snapped away, breaking off. Suddenly everyone else was flung to the floor and everything began to spin round quickly.
One of Rose's hands was taken by the Doctor and the other by Martha. "Time is averting!" she shouted as they began to spin faster and faster. She laughed gleefully on the top of her voice with Martha and the Doctor giggling with her.
Suddenly everything stopped spinning and papers fluttered everywhere. Rose stood up slowly her hand still holding the Doctor's which seemed to have gone limp, she turned to see that the Doctor wasn't there anymore that she was holding just a hand. She dropped it in horror and felt her chest tighten…the Doctor he was made in the year that she…
"Rose?" Martha said quietly.
"We gone back one year and one day" Rose said flatly "its two minutes past eight in the morning. The year never happened; it is the year that never was. Just a fairytale, a nightmare" or a tragic love story in her case.
"What about the spheres?" Martha asked.
"Trapped back at the end of the universe" Rose said surprised that she can even speak, but then again her voice sounded monotone.
"But I can remember it" Francine said wonderingly.
"We were at the eye of the storm" Rose's voice choked at the word storm. "We'll be the only ones that ever know"
The Master got up and began to run towards the door only to be caught by Jack. "Whoa big fellow, where are you going? You're going to miss the party. Cuffs" the guard handed Jack a pair of cuff and he handcuffed the Master. "So what do we do with him?"
"We kill him" Clive said.
"Execute him" Tish agreed heatedly.
"That's not always the solution" Rose said quietly, though a huge part of her wanted to kill the Master as well…but like she said before, the Doctor wouldn't have wanted that.
"Oh I think so" Francine said holding a gun up "because of all those things still happened, because of him. I saw them"
"Go on" the Master whispered "do it"
Rose walked up to her slowly and took Francine's wrist gently "Francine, you're better than him" she whispered, Francine let out a muffled sob before dropping the gun and clinging onto Rose sobbing properly. Martha then took Francine out of Rose's arms and Rose turned round to face the Master.
"You didn't answer the question. What are you going to do to me?" the Master asked.
"You're my responsibility" Rose said quietly though she would love him to disappear forever.
"You can't trust him" Jack hissed.
"I'm not an idiot Jack" Rose said "the only thing I'm going to do is lock him up in a room in the TARDIS…forever"
"You're just going to keep me?"
"I don't want to but the Doctor would never want me to become a murderer for your sake" Rose turned to talk to the other Jones's when suddenly a gunshot could be heard. They turned to see Lucy holding the gun. Jack went and took it out of the woman's hand and he held the practically cationic woman to his chest as she stood there wide eyed.
Rose stared at Lucy for a while; she couldn't blame the poor woman. After all she fell in love with a maniac that obviously abused her, that seeked out another woman right before her nose and never actually said a kind word to her. Rose couldn't bring herself to care about the Master, she just walked towards the door with all intentions to scream and cry in the TARDIS when she felt someone grab hold of her ankle beneath her robes. She looked down to see the Master shivering on the floor.
"Always the woman isn't it? You're a bunch of cunning snakes"
"Yes we are" she then kicked him off of her and carried on walking.
The moment she entered into the TARDIS she fell to the floor sobbing, shivering, and screaming. The year that never was, he never was, he never kissed her, he never declared his love for her, he never held her, he never made love to her, he never was.
She felt someone pick her up and hold her to them and from the smell she knew it was Jack.
"He never was, he never was Jack, and he never was" she repeated as he rubbed small circles on her back.
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She had the Master and the Doctor's hand cremated together, she built the funeral pyre herself and she stood there alone, the fire reflecting in her empty hazel eyes, making them look amber.
The next two days she spent it fixing the TARDIS, Martha stood there watching Rose finish up. Rose now wore black jeans, emerald green t-shirt and a black leather jacket, her hair was pulled up in a ponytail and she had oil smudge on her cheek. To anyone else Rose looked young and lively, to Martha she looked old and tired.
"I can't stay here" Martha blurted out causing Rose to look up at her. "I'm sorry Rose, I loved travelling with you but I can't stay here"
"Why not?" Rose asked.
"My family needs me, after everything that happened…well we're going family counselling to sort things out and I can't travel with you anymore not after this"
"I'm sorry" Rose whispered "you're mother was right, I am dangerous"
"Yes but I knew that on the first day, I chose this life and I knew the consequences could be grave…I need to stay here, be with my family…I'm sorry"
"No it's all right I understand" Rose said "if it was me I would do the same" except she wouldn't if it was her and the Doctor she would stay with him but she'll visit her mother more often…but then again she was in love with the Doctor, it's not like Martha was in love with her.
"I got your number in my phone" Martha said waving it in the air "so when I call, you better answer missus"
"Don't worry I will" Rose said smiling, she then held her arms out and the two girls embraced.
"I'm going to miss you Rose"
"Me too" Rose whispered "take care Dr Jones, make me proud"
"I will" Martha promised beaming at her as she walked out the TARDIS backwards and slowly. The moment the door shut behind her Jack turned to face Rose.
"No" Rose whispered "please no"
"I have to go home Rose, they need me as well. I spent a year hearing about them being dead, watching one of them being murdered before my eyes. They're my family as well"
"I need you!" Rose shouted "I can't be on my own, please just one more adventure and then I'll take you home. I promise"
"One more adventure and I go home. If I don't then I'll knock you out and drive the TARDIS myself" Jack said warningly.
"Just one more adventure" Rose promised.