Chapter Seven:
The night sky illuminated over the large house, Scottish sunsets had always been a favourite of Roses. She could remember sitting in the familiar campsite every year and just watch the sunsets lowering and hoping she'd get up in time to catch the sunrise the next morning. She always liked the way the colours would flow into each other and create unknown illuminations of the original colour. She always thought it was a unique thing to watch, there was never a Sunrise or Sunset that was the same. No matter what she did or where she went she would never see the same one twice.
She watched as the Doctor (who still happened to be complaining about his foot and the fork incident) scanned the area around the house. He sighed in frustration; they'd stayed behind hiding in a bush whilst the caretaker locked the house up for the night. Rose wasn't quite sure how they'd get back to where they were staying that night, and she had a funny feeling that her Aunt was a little more cautious since the sudden outburst from Jackie when they were having tea earlier.
"You know when you actually need to do something, and find out strange things. The one thing that isn't here turns out to be the most important." The Doctor grumbled as he looked up at the Stain Glass windows. A light inside was illuminating the pictures onto the ground, like a disco ball on the wall in the middle of a full blown party.
"You need the TARDIS don't you?" Rose asked laughing slightly; it really would have been a lot easier had the TARDIS been here with them. In fact the Doctor seemed to be growing much more infuriated by the fact that they couldn't do much. For starters they wouldn't be able to go back and see how the windows arrived in their destination in the first place.
"Well let's get the car and drive back..." Rose said looking at him already knowing what he was going to say, "There's no reason why we can't do that."
"Won't that Aunt of yours have something to say about that?" he said looking at her, "I've already heard her going on about how she doesn't agree with the wedding anymore and that she thinks you could do a lot better for yourself."
Rose looked at him; there was something more to
this that was for sure. Maybe Jackie had quickly had a word with him
whilst she was trying to calm Lynn down. It was just fortunate that
Rose hadn't let the twins hear, if they had there'll have been
murder to pay. She walked over to him and wrapped her arms round his
middle, kissing his shoulder gently.
"What is it?" she asked softly, feeling him relax a little bit beneath her arms.
"I'm just... maybe she's right." The Doctor replied looking at her. "I'm not human Rose..."
"I don't care." Rose said looking at him, "You're the man I fell in love with and that's all that matters to me. So Lynn has a little problem with accepting you as you are... it is not going to make me love you any less. And if you think for one split second I'm going to be leaving you... you've got another thing coming."
"I didn't mean it like that... I don't want rid of you..."
"I know you don't, just don't go getting any ideas about leaving me on Earth just because my Aunt thinks it's what I should do. It's my life; I'll live it the way I want. And what I want is a life with you..."
Rose trailed off, hearing a bang coming from
inside the house. She looked at the Doctor and saw him slump on her.
"Doctor?" she said shaking his body that had slumped against
her limply. "Doctor what's wrong? What is it?" she was starting
to panic. She lowered him to the ground, he was pale. So pale, a
wound in his chest had appeared; blood spilling out of him at what
she was sure was a speed far too fast for that of a human.
"Doctor? Talk to me..." she said looking at him, cradling his
head and kissing him softly. He gripped her hand obviously in pain.
"Rose..."
"Shh I'm here... it's alright. Everything's going to be alright..." she said soothing him softly. She looked round for any sign of someone being around willing someone to come and help however looking round it seemed that everything and everyone had vanished completely. They were in what seemed to be a courtyard, not unlike the one they'd been in for the last six hours however it seemed to be getting longer by the second. Doors and walls started appearing all over the place but Rose couldn't care for that. All she could care for was the man beneath her, he'd been shot. By some unknown danger and now he was paying the consequences. Everything around their perfect little world was fading faster than anything else in the universe.
"Rose..." he croaked, his voice betraying him more than anything else. He was obviously in a great deal of pain that was for sure. "I can't..."
"Don't be silly, you can Doctor. You have to..." Rose said softly, squeezing his hand unable to hold back the tears that had been threatening to fall. "You're going to be fine
you hear me..." she said looking at him. However something in his eyes and in her gut was telling her otherwise. There was something about the whole situation that didn't feel right.
"The baby..." he said softly. "Call him Theta..."
"Baby?" Rose asked looking at him. "Doctor there isn't a baby..." she trailed off thinking about it. Maybe there was, maybe that's why she'd been so addicted to Custard Creams for the last few days. But she couldn't possibly be pregnant, she'd know if she were pregnant wouldn't she? He must have been delusional from the gun shot.
"Sweetheart there isn't a baby..." she said softly holding him closer to her.
"Rose..." he said looking at her willing her to understand what was going on, "I..." he trailed off looking at her. He looked at her and smiled softly his hand reaching up to her cheek and wiping the tears away.
"Don't leave me..."
"However much of a Cliché this is but I'd rather it were me..." he trailed off feeling the pain worsen and looked at her. Something told her this wasn't going to end happily for some reason. "Rose... I can't stop it. I'm going..."
"Don't talk like that..." she looked at him and kissed him passionately. "I... Doctor... I love you."
He smiled softly at her holding her hand, "Quite right too..." he broke off pausing in mid sentence for a minute. "And I suppose... if it's my last chance to say it. Rose Tyler..." he didn't finish his sentence.
He was dead.
"No..." Rose whispered bringing his body closer to hers, she watched him closely waiting for the orange glow to surround him and bring the man she loved back from the dead.
Nothing happened. She must have been sitting there for at least half an hour watching him for any sign of life left. But there was nothing, no fleshy pink in the cheeks, no soft breathing as his chest rose and fell in a deep slumber. He was gone and wasn't coming back.
Rose held him close to her, tears came one after the other in what seemed like an waterfall, which wasn't surprising what so ever, anyone else would if it had happened to them.
A light appeared somewhere down the courtyard, footsteps could be heard getting closer and closer towards them. Rose held the Doctor closer to her as everything started shaking. She heard a loud bang much like the one that had killed The Doctor. Something wasn't right though. The Doctor didn't just die like that, he wasn't human. He didn't give up on life and die at the fire of the bullet. Rose didn't get to dwell much more on her thoughts before everything went black.
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"What
do you mean?" Rose asked looking at the tall man before her. His
combat boots and long black hair tied neatly into a ponytail at the
back of his hair reminded her slightly of Lara Croft just without the
big bust and English accent.
"I mean just one thing Rose, only
one thing. There's a motto out here and I think it's very true
for the times we're living in, because you see this aint the world
you from Rose Marion Tyler of the Powel Estate. Out here it's
rough, and you've gotta survive it."
AN:
I'm back! Yay!
College has finished or nearly will be by the
time I've posted this chapter anyway. My course finishes very early
this year, which means I can concentrate on finishing this and I am
pleased to say I will be posting a lot more over the summer.
So
let me know what you think, oh this chapter made me cry when I was
writing this, are any of you like that or am I just too sensitive to
this sort of thing?
Let me know what you think.
Update again
soon I promise.
Beres
xx
