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Chp. 5: Bad Wolf and the Oncoming Storm
Rose, was running for her life. Again. After twelve years, she was running flat out trying to escape something behind her that wanted her imminent demise. And she was loving every minute of it. During the "doctorless years" Rose had kept running up as an exercise. She knew that when the Doctor did come back (as she had always believed he would) she would need to be in good running shape. Rose had also dragged a non-to-pleased Amelia with her. Because of this both Rose and Amy were keeping a good distance from Prisoner Zero. Rory had not had that benefit and was falling behind. Rose and Amy kept dragging him with them trying to keep him from doing stupid things like look behind him. After crashing through the door to the coma patients, Rose and Amy began to barricade the door. Rory was panting on the ground. Too quickly Prisoner Zero came in. A text message saying one word arrived. Duck. Immediately Rose pushed Amy and Rory to the ground, just as a ladder came through the window.
A fire truck. He had stolen a fire truck.
Coming in, the Doctor and Prisoner Zero had their show down. This was the part Rose knew he lived for. When he could claim center stage and have everyone bask in his achievements. She loved the Time Lord, but that did not stop her from acknowledging that he had an ego that could fill up the void. He was such a curious mix of self confidence and utter self loathing that made him so darn attracting. Watching him shine though was everything she remembered. He had that lovely glint in his eye that made him look years younger, which always seemed to turn to try to catch her eye to see if she was proud of him. Like a child trying to catch the attention of the girl he liked. And she was proud. He was her amazing, brilliant, mad Doctor, who she always chose first.
"…two minutes to spare. Who the Man?" the Doctor cried out. The looks of horror, at what he said ran across the faces of Rory and Amy. Rose looked like she was going to laugh. Feeling slightly embarrassed (despite what he said to others about time lords never getting embarrassed). "Right never saying that again." Rose merely smiled at him happy and proud, destroying any unhappy feelings.
That was until Prisoner Zero brought out plan B, with another psychic link. Rose. At first the Doctor didn't understand who he was seeing. Rose was on the ground but instead of a Rose standing in front of him, he saw a man with large cheek bones, brown hair, and a ragged suit standing in front of him. "Who is that?" The Doctor questioned out loud. A small sense of jealousy running through him at the thought of Rose dreaming of another guy.
"That's you. Don't you know what you look like?" Rory asked looking confused.
"Long day." The Doctor replied. So Rose dreamed of him, even in this new form. Some part of him was worried that Rose would miss his last incarnation too much and leave him. Now, the new one was who she dreamed about, unless…could it be she heard him?
"Poor Rose," the alien said with such a hard version of Rose's voice it made him want to destroy it. Rose should never sound so uncaring and cruel. It was what had tipped him off when Cassandra had taken over her body. "How long has she waited for the man she loves? All she could think about was you, you know. About why you never came. You should have heard her cry when she thought no one could hear her. It sounded like part of her heart and soul had been torn from her. Poor girl, lost all alone, with no power at her disposal whatsoever," the creature crooned.
The Doctor was seeing red. Anger was coursing through his two hearts. Anger at himself, for making a stupid mistake and leaving her all alone for so long, at the creature for using Rose and her feelings.
A feeling like none other pulsed through the Doctor. He had such a feeling of anger being swept away by the desire to protect, heal, and love. It felt like…Rose. Then he noticed Rose was beginning to glow. It was a beautiful rich gold, like one would see emanating from a young, healthy star or sun, giving guiding light to those around it. He had seen her look that way only a twice before, when Bad Wolf was emerging. Bad Wolf with her desire to protect and heal, even if it meant doing the impossible. Bad Wolf which always emerged to help him. Rose was reacting to her powerless state and his anger. She was protecting him. But Bad Wolf, was powerful, too powerful for Rose to handle. Yet anyway. Running over to Rose he put his hands to her temples. He ignored Rory's and Amy's cries of "What the Hell!" and "Rose!"
"Rose, love, focus on me and my voice. I'm going to send you what prisoner zero looks like. Focus hard on it. Only on that picture understand?" He began to think hard on the sight he knew must be prisoner zero (he had figured out its race deductively earlier). Using his own slightly psychic power and his connection to Rose and Bad Wolf, he thought hard, feeling her mind do the same. Together they forced Prisoner Zero into its real form just in time for the Antraxi to pick him up.
Rose opened her eyes blinking up at him. She had stopped glowing and her eyes were slowly fading from molten gold back to chocolate brown. Then she smiled up at him. "Hey," she whispered.
He kissed her. "Hey," he whispered back when he was done.
As Amy and Rory began checking Rose over to see if she was alright, the Doctor furiously began to make a phone call. Rose in hand he began to walk up to the roof, after grabbing random clothes at a pit stop. After all, every new incarnation needed its own signature outfit, it was time to find his, out with the raggedy.
On the roof the Doctor stood holding Rose's hand as she leaned close against him. As the Anthraxi came down Rory and Amy shifted backward, but Rose, having seen her own share of these situations merely gripped the Doctor's hand more tightly, to signal she was there with him. This almost had him grinning like a fool, but right now, was not the time. He needed to be the one thing she helped contain, The Oncoming Storm. "Tell me is this world a threat to the Anthraxi?"
"No." the alien admitted.
"Now tell me, is this world protected?"
Images began flashing showing pictures of creatures he had faced before and after Rose. Soon those images changed first to previous incarnations then to Rose with him and they walked through his last incarnation with Rose at his side.
"Hello I'm the Doctor and this is Rose. And basically. Run." And run they did.
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