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A/N at the bottom of page, apologies included for the delay
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Part 2/15??
There was only so long that she could look at the computer screen before it all became a jumble of numbers and words. She had been sitting at the computer trying to sort out the astronomical mess that the world was in for almost 12 hours and she still wasn't any closer to knowing anymore then what she originally knew about the rift.
Coffee was shoved in front of her line of vision; the coffee was attached to the hand of Mickey.
"Coffee?" he asked, putting it in her hand before she could reply.
"Thanks Mick" she said quietly.
"You look horrible Rose, you should get some sleep, or at least take a break for a bit. You'll be no use to anyone if you collapse from fatigue" he said the tone that he reserved for telling her that she was working her self too hard.
"I will not collapse from fatigue" she imitated him in a low voice "I'm fine, so don't worry about me."
"Rose you have been working for 12 hours straight, you got up once to get a coffee and that was five minutes into starting and since then you've been working on this damn computer; you have to give it a rest some time." he said firmly but patiently as he put his hands on her shoulders "Come on Rose go and have a bit of sleep, just a few hours and then you can spend as long as you want.." at her sceptical look he stopped and changed his mind "alright until I think you need to rest again" he smiled down at her.
"Mick, if I don't get this worked out, then the rift will.."
"I know, suck the Earth in, Pete already filled me in, but there are other people working on this too; your not alone in this alright?" he squeezed her shoulders and then pulled her out of her chair. "Alright up now and off to bed with you, I'll wake you up if any thing big comes up and you're the only person that can fix it" he mocked pushing her lightly towards the temporary quarters.
"Anything Mickey, anything at all I don't care what it is, but you come and get me you hear!" she shouted after his retreating back. Sighing she made her way to the makeshift beds, collapsing softly on it; she quickly feel asleep.
Rose…
She was in complete darkness, but suddenly when her name was called it exploded in golden light occasionally streaked by blue and red. She put her hand in the river of gold and it felt warm and comforting.
Rose…
She suddenly looked up and there was the Doctor, before he regenerated, with a soft smile on his face looking down at her with unguarded emotion in his blue eyes.
"Doctor" she brought her hand to his cheek, he closed his eyes and lent into it bringing his own hand up to cover hers.
"Hello Rose" he said in his beautiful northern accent.
Rose!
She didn't take her eyes from the Doctors, savouring the grey blue that she was drowning in.
ROSE! WAKE UP!
Suddenly she felt a pulling sensation and the Doctor started to fade away his smile never wavering.
She sat up quickly with a shout, knocking her head on the bed above hers.
"Ow" she moaned, bringing her hand to her forehead, she rubbed her eyes and felt that her eyelashes were slightly damp from unshed tears. Privately cursing her self for almost losing control she looked to see the person that had woken her up. Mickey was standing above her with a worried look on his face, frantically hopping on his feet.
"What Mickey" she said groggily the remnants of sleep still there and the dream slowly fading away until there was nothing but a blur of feelings and sensations left.
"There is something that you need to see, I mean really need to see" he said already walking quickly out of the door.
Rose jumped out of bed, careful not to hit her head again and grabbed her coat to follow Mickey.
He was waiting for her in the car that had taken her to the 'tornado'; they really need to get a better name for it she thought to her self.
"Mickey care to explain what this is all about" she said as he drove them to the 'tornado'.
"You'll see when we get there, it appeared about 5 mins before I woke you up, you must have been tired it took me a while to wake you" he said looking over to her.
"Not really. I didn't feel all that tired, but I guess I must have been, because I just shut down when my head touched the pillow" she murmured absentmindedly into the window.
"You're working to hard, I've said this before to you and you still don't listen, your going to burn you self out if you keep going like this" he reached over and squeezed her shoulder comfortably.
She didn't say anything to him, she didn't want to say that almost burning herself out was the only way to keep sane and above that line that was an emotional reck. She tried to remember the dream that she had, she knew that it was the same dream that she was always having when she went to sleep. Yet she never remembered what happened in them, she always made her self frustrated trying to think about it.
"We're here" said Mickey cutting through her thoughts.
They both got out of the car. The 'tornado' was no longer in sight, yet millennium square was bathed in a blue light giving it an enthralled look.
She felt the change almost instantly; the rift energy was stronger now, but so was the other energy. Except this time she recognised it and the object across the square confirmed the feeling that she was getting.
It was the TARDIS and she was feeling the vortex that had brought it here.
Feeling a presence behind her she turned. Mickey had a smile on his face.
"Told you that you needed to see it" he flicked his hand towards it "go on see if anyone's home, I can see that you're dying to"
She ran off towards the TARDIS only stopping when she was a few inches from the door, sliding the key that she couldn't part with from her neck she gingerly opened the door.
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It was eerily quite, the only sound that could be heard was the sound of her feet hitting the grating.
She looked around trying to site the Doctor in the mess of the crash. Fires had erupted in the TARDIS making it harder to breathe even though the space was infinite; wires hung emitting sparks into the console room.
Suddenly Rose heard a noise of someone getting up, but before she could turn around two strong arms wrapped around her waist trapping her against a well muscled chest. Before she could react something that she never thought she would ever see again came into focus.
The blue grey eyes of her first Doctor.
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"Who are you?"
The shock of hearing his voice was almost too much, Rose was thankful that she was being held up by someone or she knew by now her knees would have given way at the sound of his voice.
Clearing her throat Rose did what Torchwood training had instilled in her.
She looked him straight in the eyes and spoke in a clear and rehearsed tone.
"I am Rose Tyler, as the head of the negotiations and informant department of Touchwood, I ask you now to unhand me" she spoke to her captor.
"Rose Tyler, oh is that so, see thing is Miss Tyler, Head of negotiations and informant department of Torchwood. You're not Rose Tyler, that there behind me is Rose Tyler" he indicated the younger Rose that was standing away cautiously a few meters behind the Doctor.
"Well I'm sure even you can spot a temporal paradox when you see one?" she turned her gaze from her past self and once again looked into his eyes challenging him.
"Temporal Paradox, really, so your Rose's future self then, find that hard to believe, Head of negotiations and informant department of Torchwood. Doesn't sound like Rose to me"
"Look, I know right now you have no right to trust me, your thinking about your companion's safety. I; at the moment have no choice but to trust you either because to me, you being here is impossible, in so many ways" she whispered slightly sagging against the muscled chest.
He continued staring at her for a long moment.
"Let her go Jack" he said quietly
Jack
"Jack?" she said quietly as he came to stand by the Doctor and Past Rose, who had moved forward to stand next to the Doctor.
"So you're from the future but you don't know me, I'm hurt" Jack said in his usual flirting manner.
Rose chuckled to her self "it's not that, just seeing you is… well… overwhelming at the moment. Things are very different for me now." She said sadly taking in the man she had come to think about as her brother.
"So you said to trust you, how can we believe that you are who you say you are" the Doctor folded his arms over his chest.
"I have proof" she said simply, she pulled out three items.
Her TARDIS key from around her neck, her jiggery poked phone and finally a photo.
"The key is real, the phone still works at least I think it still works haven' really had the chance to test that, and the photo is not a fake you can get the TARDIS to check it if you'd like" she handed all of her items over reluctantly to him.
He pulled out the sonic screwdriver and ran it over all three of the items. When he was finished he handed all but the photo back to her.
"When was this taken?" he asked her simply; testing her.
"On Garadox 19.5 apple/7, we had just stopped a major revolution and Jack was off shagging the chieftain's daughter. We didn't know where he was, but we weren't too bothered because we both knew that he would turn up eventually. We were walking around the market place as Jack suddenly appeared at took a photo with my camera. Safe to say you weren't to happy about it, but it was a good day and you let it pass" she smiled at the memory thinking back to how surprised she was that the Doctor had let her keep the photo.
The first thing that left the mouth of the Doctor was not what she had been expecting.
"You shagged the Chieftains daughter, the same chieftain's daughter that helped fuel the revolution; of the same chief that allowed us to stay the night because we had helped him save his people. That Chieftain's daughter" he angry spat at Jack, who looked as smug as Rose remembered he did the time that her Jack had told her Doctor what he was doing.
"Well I'm guessing that you've just come from there then" chuckled Rose as Jack winked at her indicating the angered TimeLord.
"He was going to find out eventually I suppose" shrugged Jack.
Rose walked up to the Doctor and took the photo from him replacing it in her pocket carefully.
All laughter stopped when the Doctor again turned his attention to the future acclaimed Rose.
"So you are who you say you are. What I don't get is that this is not the universe that we should be in and unless the TARDIS has pulled you along for a ride; then I know that you shouldn't be here" he studied her as she walked around the TARDIS console and ran her hand along it.
"TARDIS didn't pull me along for the ride. Been in this universe for a while now, 5 years to be more accurate. As I said before, it is impossible for you to be here, in this universe. We are in alternate universe as we speak, one that is only slightly different then the one that you and I have come from" she faced the three of them, yet she kept a hand on the console seeking comfort.
"How'd you get here then" he asked her accusingly while looking at the hand that had come to rest on the console. She looked around seemingly distracted with the mess that surrounded them all.
"That is a story that I have tried to forget for many years, while trying to get on with my life. Thing is I only travelled with you for 2 years of my life, though it could have been more. For 2 years I saw and did things that I would never have dreamt possible, and in an instant that was all taken away from me because I had to try and save the world" she took a deep breath and turned at looked at them all, tears glazing her eyes.
"You regenerate not too long from now, you die and then you change, scared me half to death mind you. For a year I travelled with the new you doing exactly the same thing as you lot do. Except there is no Jack, to me Jack died, that would be the reason I looked so shocked when I saw you Jack. Anyway like I said we travelled for a year, and then things got bad, something really bad happened and I got trapped in this universe and the Doctor is still off travelling in the other" a few tears feel down her face as she remembered the Goodbye and Bad Wolf Bay.
"I didn't just lose the opportunity that day to travel around the universe, I lost my best friend, I lost a life that I had grown to love and a home that always felt right. I go day by day trying to forget that life, and everyday I remind my self that I have to cope because he only ever asked one thing of me and that was to have a fantastic life, for him" she suddenly broke down falling into the captain's chair.
12 hours with little sleep, the emotional upheaval that she hadn't been able to unleash at Bad wolf bay, the emotional trauma of seeing Jack, The TARDIS and the Doctor again and then to add having to relay the story of how she came to be here; was too much for Rose for one day.
Two strong arms wrapped around her, having forgotten what it felt like to feel Jacks arms around her, Rose started a fresh wave of tears for her lost friend.
"Its alright the Doctor will help you, don't know how yet, but he will. Very good at this sort of thing." he pulled back a bit tilting her head up with his hand. "You going to be alright?" he asked her smiling while wiping away her tears.
"I'll be fine, needed a good cry I suppose, be right as rain in a sec just you see" she beamed at him trying to convince him that she was ok.
He sighed and whispered in to her hair line "haven't changed have you? Still strong and resilient" he pulled her in for another hug which she returned ten fold.
"Love You Jack" she whispered into his neck.
"Love You too Sweetheart" he whispered back, because even after a few weeks with the Doctor and Rose he had become to see Rose as a little sister, and had grown to love her as such.
"Right" the booming voice of the Doctor echoed round the dead TARDIS. "We have three problems as I see them. One we are in an alternate reality, two we have a temporal paradox and three the TARDIS is dead." He looked over to future Rose
"Have I missed anything out?" he asked her as she was standing up and moving towards the doors of the TARDIS.
"Four the rift is still trying to open it self even if the initial danger is over, there is something still trying to come through. Oh and a few things that Rose should know" Rose looked over to her past self, who had been quiet all during this discussion.
"In this universe Pete Tyler never died, Mum; our mum married him when she also got trapped in this universe. Mickey is also trapped here with mum and me and is living with his boyfriend Jake. I also have a little brother around 4 named Jack Pete Tyler." Younger Rose just looked at her older counterpart trying to absorb all of the information.
"If you want you can stay in here, no one is forcing you to go out there. I understand how difficult this is for you at the moment; I went through exactly the same thing about three times before I came here." Rose walked over to her younger counterpart who looked at her apprehensibility.
"Nah its fine, just warn me when I'm going to see my dad, yeah?" Rose smiled at her younger self and nodded.
She turned to the Doctor and Jack who were standing a bit away giving the Rose's some privacy to talk out what they had to.
"Don't say too much, you've just appeared out of something that we have been trying to work out for the past twelve hours. So there will be questions from Torchwood, let me do as much as the talking as possible when I take you back to main head quarters in London." she lead them out of the TARDIS and she scanned the area for Mickey.
She didn't have to look far "Blimey! How the hell are we going to explain that one to the president?" Mickey was openly staring at the Doctor and younger Rose while throwing suspicious glances at Jack.
"One bridge at a time Mick." She noticed that he was still staring "Mick don't be rude" he turned to look at her. "I need you give dad a call and tell him I'm gong to be arriving in London with some guests, tell him who they are if you need to but not too much detail, can't have too many people knowing about this. I need you to also check the flow of energy and give me a call on the progress every half hour." She made sure that she had all of Mickey's attention before she said the next bit.
"If anything else comes through tell me immediately understand Mickey, this has already escalated far beyond what we were expecting." She pulled Mickey to the side and spoke in hushed tones not wanting to be over heard.
"Take the TARDIS somewhere safe, we can't have the lot down London in salvages getting their hands on her" She rested her hand on his shoulder trusting him to take care of the one thing that meant the world to the Doctor.
"Will do." He looked past her shoulder and an annoyed look passed over his face "Come on, he's giving me that stormy look that he used to give me" Rose looked over and sure enough the Doctor had the look on his face that he reserved only for Mickey, she smothered a grin.
She turned back to the three that were standing close to the TARDIS doors.
"Okay you three we are off to Torchwood, we have a meeting with the Director."
She lead them to one of the SUV's that was parked a little further down the square.
TBC..
RIGHT PEOPLE:
Sorry
bout the wait, my life has been soooooooooooo busy lately not time
for writing at all, and when I did have time I didn't really feel
like it.
Will
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