AN:
Chapter Nine up! I must have been writing this for nearly a year if
not more so thanks to everyone who's been following this. I'm
sorry for the late update yet again, but I've moved house recently
so it's taken a while to get back into the swing of things.
I
hope you enjoy this chapter. The story is really starting to get
going now, like I say I hope you like it!
I'll update soon.
Beres xx
"What do you mean you've lose the Car Keys!!" Lynn shouted looking at her very sheepish looking Twins.
"Oh 'ere comes trouble." the Doctor whispered in Roses ear.
"As if there isn't enough going on already…" Rose replied laughing slightly, trying not to let that known to aunt nearby.
"Well I think you need to get looking Oliver!" another hysterical shriek came from Lynn having the Doctor in more stitches of laughter.
"Oh shut it…" Rose said poking him in the ribs, "I hope you're not going to do this when it's me doing that with our Baby."
"You don't even know you're pregnant yet…"
"All the same." Rose said looking at him, "Act your age."
"I need a Zimmoframe then…"
Rose just glared.
"I've got your TARDIS Doctor," Thorn said coming round from a corner which seemed to be the toilets that Rose had found rather useful during the night when her stomach had decided to keep her awake.
"So much for a TARDIS free weekend…" Rose muttered under her breath.
"Oh fantastic, you still had this?" the Doctor said holding Thorns key and swinging it in his face.
"I…" Thorn started but Rose interrupted him fairly quickly.
"He can fly the TARDIS!!" Rose shouted looking at the Doctor.
"Well he sort of.." the Doctor started but once again Rose interrupted him.
"He sort of what exactly?" Rose said putting her hands on his hips staring at him, frowning slightly.
"Travelled with me for a while.."
"A while? That's a bit of a understatement Doc…" Thorn said chuckling to himself.
"Long story, well maybe not. Actually it's more small than it is long but it's still too long a story to tell now. Although then again, long stories are pretty good fun. It's like when you're a kid and you go to some sleepover on Halloween and you all start telling ghost stories 'til gone midnight. Then
'course your Mother comes in and ruins the whole thing by telling you to "shut up" and go to sleep. Not that this story is one that I would have used at a sleepover. In fact it's not even a ghost story, it's just a little part of my life that I haven't told you about just yet…" the Doctor trailed off looking at Rose, noticing that Thorn had wandered off somewhere during his little ramble and Lynn was now attempting to put the tent down whilst the twins ran riot around her.
"BOYS!! IF YOU DON'T STOP DOING THAT THEN I'LL SHOVE THIS POLE SOMEWHERE YOU WON'T WANT IT!!"
Rose looked at the Doctor and took his hand, she knew there was more to this than what he was saying. He just wasn't going to tell her and let on that easily, he never did. He didn't ever tell her things like this, but she trusted him and she knew that there must have been some reason as to why he wasn't saying anything.
"Look my life isn't easy Rose…" he said looking at her, "There are things you don't know about, and you can't ever find out because it's too dark and dangerous and it might tear you to pieces. If I told you some of the things you'd run… and not come back."
"Don't talk like that.." Rose said looking at him, "I wouldn't run," she said gently putting her hand on his cheek gently, "So tell me.."
"Believe me, some things are best left hidden away." The Doctor said looking at her straight in the eye before he went striding off to Jackie, "We're off. Don't need the car now we've got the TARDIS, you can drive can't you? Good Rose!! Come on, we've got a hospital to visit!!"
Rose watched the Doctor striding off towards the TARDIS, thinking about what he'd been saying. But she still didn't think he got it sometimes, she should be someone he could tell anything to yet he still held things back from her.
"What does that mean?" Rose asked herself quietly before throwing her Mother an apologetic glance and heading back to the TARDIS.
She walked straight into the TARDIS closing the door after her. She saw the Doctor already prancing around the consoles in order to start the TARDIS up. Which when they were heading for a new destination certainly wasn't something unusual. However Rose knew there was something that he was hiding from her. His little speech that he'd given her merely moments before told her something was wrong. And she had a feeling it was something that was going to keep cropping up, whether it was something that was going to be resolved or not was another question entirely. But she could try at least, that was the main thing.
"Doctor…" Rose started before sighing in frustration when he interrupted her again.
"We're going to Glasgow," The Doctor said smiling at her completely unaware that he'd just interrupted her in mid sentence. "Not too far down the road really."
"What are we doing in Glasgow?"
"We're gonna buy some Grapes and visit a hospital." the Doctor said getting a load of sparks coming his way from the TARDIS when he'd hit the TARDIS with his mallet once again. Rose had often caught him doing things like this and called it the Mallet treatment, she was also able to have words with the Doctor about this subtly from time to time.
"Doctor…"
"We're
gonna get the Grapes from the little shop, well I hope it'll be
from the little shop. Hospitals really should have the little shop,
every hospital that is. Even the one on New Earth, you always know
it's gonna be a safe place if it's got a little shop there to
help it. And I'm certainly gonna take it to government if this
hospital doesn't have a little shop where I can buy the Grapes! It
gives relatives a little bit of a break I suppose, feel the need to
run from a dying relative then you can go on a little walk to the
shop and buy yourself some Grapes, or Bananas! Bananas are always my
favourite kind of food. Never ever gonna stop liking Bananas, when I
regenerate the next time, I'm not ever gonna stop liking Bananas I
owe that to myself and of course I owe it to the Banana!" he
trailed off when more sparks came his way, probably the TARDIS' way
of telling him to shut up.
"OW!!"
Rose could only laugh, "Well it serves you right!!"
"What do you…"
"Doctor for god sakes stop babbling and tell me why we're going to a hospital. Is someone sick?" Rose asked looking at him laughing gently at the shock of from the sparks a moment previously.
"Rachel Adams…"
"What the singer?" Rose asked taking the newspaper that had been offered to her.
"Apparently so, she saw something on that lake a few days ago…" the Doctor said but Rose cut him off again before he could finish his sentence.
"A girl from the house, Doctor she died the same year that.."
"The Windows were installed." the Doctor finished off for her. He smiled at her, feeling her presence in his mind. They had a knack for finding each others mind every once in a while. They both knew it happened, and liked the feeling of it. Even if it were just for a second, the presence of someone inside their minds was definitely apparent in his heads. Something similar had happened just before they were married, when they'd been in France waiting to catch the flight home. That had been the first time it had happened, well from what Rose could remember anyway. She'd certainly been conscious of someone being inside her mind as a secret unspoken understanding came between the pair of them. Rose had thought that possibly it would make the Doctor feel a little more loved, she knew that deep, deep down he was still a very lonely man.
"Do you think the murders have something to do with the windows Doctor?" Rose asked, breaking through her thoughts.
"Hard to say, but I suppose finding more out about this sighting wouldn't hurt. Might well give us some extra information on it anyway, in which case it could help us work things out in the long run that we might not be able to have done otherwise."
"But Doctor," Rose said, saying her thoughts before her mind could prevent her from doing so. "She only saw the girl on the lake, it doesn't mean she'll know anything."
"No but there's no harm in a little side tracked investigation now is there?!"
"Oh now it's all becoming clear!" Rose exclaimed laughing half heartedly, "You just want to investigate!"
"Now I never said I wanted to do that…"
"Ah but it's pretty obvious." Thorn interrupted, he was leaning against the side of the TARDIS' wall. It was almost as if he wasn't there and Rose was only aware of him there in her sub consciousness. It was like she'd forgotten he'd been there, as if he'd made her forget for a few minutes then all of a sudden comes walking back into her mind.
The TARDIS landed with a thump, which fortunately everyone aboard the time travelling machine had enough experience and sense to remember to hold onto the railings.
"Right well come on then…" Rose said getting her coat and pulling the Doctor with her to the front door before she went outside to investigate where they were.
"To Honour and Obey…" Thorn muttered hoping only the Doctor could hear him.
The Doctor laughed and nodded, "Tell me about it!"
"Oi!" Rose said poking her head through the door, "I heard that! And get a move on we've got something to investigate… honestly Doctor I thought you wanted to do this!"
"I do want to…"
"Then get a move on!"
"Rose calm down…" the Doctor said laughing slightly as he walked out into the street, he smiled softly and took her hand gently. "We're going. Geez.. Your hormones must be going all…"
Rose rolled her eyes and squeezed his hand gently, "So Glasgow's psychiatric ward yeah?" Rose grinned at him. "Sounds like trouble."
"Glasgow's psychiatric ward.." the Doctor echoed before grinning back at her, "What could possibly go wrong?"
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"Nine Hundred Years old, you've been all across the universe, faced aliens all over the place, seen terrifying things and saved planets. Ask you to do any of that, no problem what so ever. But ask you to show the physic paper to a nineteen year old year girl and you hide behind a lady with a zimmoframe, and claim you can't possibly face the woman behind the desk because she's eating a Pear!" Rose exclaimed looking the Doctor who was now helping the said lady up off the floor after he made her crash into a trolley full of food for the hospitals patients. However the Jelly that the Patients may have been looking forward to will have been slightly disappointed to know that their Jelly was half way up the wall thanks to a very sheepish looking Timelord.
Rose after the incident was now standing looking at the said Timelord, hands on hips secretly giving him signals to get his act together and get a move on.
Thorn was currently standing with the cleaner, apologising for his friends lack of co-ordination and tact at the situation.
"All because of a Pear…." the cleaner muttered to himself as he walked over to the walls and began scrubbing. "I'll give him Pears…"
"Don't worry Dear," the lady who'd been knocked down said smiling at him, being knocked seemed not to have bothered her in the slightest. "I don't like Pears either."
The Doctor grinned at the lady as she wandered back down the corridor and jumped when he felt a whack on his arm from Rose,
"What was that for?!"
"Get moving to the reception!" Rose said pushing him towards there, "She hasn't got a Pear near her now."
The Doctor gulped, he looked at the girl and coughed gently. She wasn't doing anything else but snogging her boyfriend, the Pear was one thing, but snogging Boyfriends was another. However the Doctor knew that if he turned around Rose would just make him come back.
"Ermm…Hello." the Doctor started but couldn't finish his sentence off because the reception girl seemed to be still snogging her boyfriend. When the Doctor tried to interrupt their little making out session neither the girl (who was in the Doctors opinion meant to be working) or the boyfriend heard him. They were too locked up in one another's tonsils.
He turned round looking at Rose, giving her a pained look. Rose just shrugged and turned back to talking to the lady the Doctor had just knocked over.
"Oi!!" the Doctor shouted looking at the pair of lusty teenagers. His sudden outburst much to his relief got their attention. The girl looked up at the Doctor and pushed her boyfriend off her in embarrassment.
"Sorry Sir, I was…"
"Yes, yes I know." the Doctor said quickly, "Just look something up for me and tell me where to go alright? Then you can snog your boyfriend here all you like!"
"Sorry Sir, what is it you want to look up?"
"Rachel Adams, I need to know what room she's in." the Doctor replied flashing the physic paper in front of the girls face. "I'm.. PC Plod."
"PC Plod?" the receptionist asked looking at him, clearly confused and not entirely convinced.
"I'm being serious! I'm PC Plod. And I've been sent to investigate Miss Adams' case so I'd appreciate it if you could tell me and my colleagues where she is being held."
"I'm sorry Sir, but I can't give that information out."
The Doctors response was cut short when a scream echoed through the small clinical reception room. He turned around quickly on the spot and felt his face drain of colour quickly when he saw Rose on the floor.
Her body was fitting, blood was spilling out of her mouth as she coughed. It didn't take him long for him to run over to her side and attempt to keep her still from the seizure. The fit started to die down and her body and it's jolts came to a stop. Rose opened her eyes almost instantly as she came back into consciousness, a look of panic in her eyes was obvious.
"It's alright…" the Doctor said stroking some hair out of her face gently, "You're gonna be fine. Just stay still for me love…"
"Oh my god!" the receptionist shrieked, "There's blood everywhere!!"
"Rose?" the Doctor said softly, "It's ok. You're going to be fine I promise…" the Doctor continued his comfort as Doctors and Nurses came over to help Rose.
Thorn turned to the receptionist looking at her, "Alright look, I know you're upset. I know what's just happened aint something pleasant. An' it certainly aint something that's expected to 'appen. But you listen here lil' Missy, either you give us the information or I'll make sure your boss knows jus' what you an' lover boy was doing here. Cos' believe me Sweetcheeks, I aint someone to mess with. So unless you want your lil' ass kicked I suggest you get us Miss Adams' room number. That clear?"
The receptionist looked at Thorn and nodded typing something into the computer in front of her. "Room 26."
"Why thank you Sweetcheeks." Thorn said turning back to the Doctor and watching him help Rose into a chair at the side, thinking to himself silently.
"It is beginning."
