Here's your chapter, nice and quick.
The funeral was held 2 days later. Rose wrote an obituary and asked her local priest to read it. At first he kept asking her what "Daleks" and a "TARDIS" and "Gallifrey" were, but in the end he just read straight from the paper. She managed to track down a number of the Doctor's old companions, Sarah Jane and K-9 included. The funeral was attended by them, Jackie, Mickey, Jack, and a few of Rose's friends. As the priest spoke, Rose sat in the front row in her black dress, crying her eyes out.
"It's all my fault!" she cried.
"No it's not," said Jack, comforting her. "I caused the bees to go crazy."
"Jack, think about it," said Rose. "The Doctor died trying to protect me. The bee wouldn't have even been in the TARDIS if I hadn't stopped when they attacked you. We were only on the run from them in the first place because I wanted to get some royal jelly, when the Doctor specifically told us no detours. And we were only there in the first place to get honey for my mum, because of her stress caused by me." She finally stopped, but having realised exactly what she'd done, started crying again.
After the service they all gathered around the Doctor's coffin, and Rose was reminded of him immediately after his regeneration. He'd been so still, so helpless. Except … this time it was for real. This time he wasn't coming back. She broke down again.
"Just think of it this way," said a red-eyed Sarah Jane. "When he was alive, he had the pain of being the last Time Lord. He was the bringer of destruction, the Lonely God. In death, he's been released of his burden. Now he can be with his people again." Behind her, K-9 piped up.
"The scientific probability of an afterlife is highly unlikely, Mistress," he said. "However, in Master's case I hope this theory can be disproved." Rose couldn't take it anymore. She ran out of the church and back home. She threw herself onto her bed and just let the tears flow. It was then that she noticed the jar of space honey that she'd collected for Jackie. It had certainly worked in relieving her mother's pain.
"Maybe it'll work for me too," she said through her tears. She found a spoon, and ate a spoonful.
"Mm, not bad," she commented. She ate a second, and suddenly her head started spinning.
"Whoa, I feel weird," she said. She shut her eyes, but when she opened them again she had no idea where she was. She looked all around her, and realised that she was floating in space somewhere. And floating in front of her was the Doctor's coffin. It opened, and the Doctor stepped out, a grin on his face.
"Hello Rose," he said cheerfully.
"Doctor?!" exclaimed Rose. "But … you're meant to be dead!"
"Nope, I'm better than ever," said the Doctor. "Check this out." He took out a banana, and took a big bite. He then lifted up his shirt to reveal the large hole in his stomach, where the piece of banana had just come through. He picked up the same piece again and repeated the action. Rose laughed.
"Impressive," she commented. "But it still proves my 'you are dead' theory."
"Then I'll prove I'm alive, by telling you something only I could know," said the Doctor. "There's a surprise for you in the TARDIS. My bedroom, second drawer down on the right of my bed." The drawer in question appeared, and the Doctor opened it. He took out a flat blue box with a white bow around it.
"Wow, it's beautiful," said Rose. "Can I open it?"
"Of course you can," said the Doctor. "There's just one thing I need you to do." Rose nodded. "I need you to wake up."
"Wake up?" said a confused Rose. "But I'm not …"
Rose woke up in her bed.
"Whoa," she said.
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Rose had waited for the others to come back from the funeral to tell them the news. Now she, Jackie, Jack, Mickey, Shireen and Sarah Jane were walking through the TARDIS, until she approached the Doctor's bedroom.
"In my dream, the Doctor said there was a surprise waiting for me in his bedroom," she explained. "If it's here, then he must still exist in some form." She approached his bed, and looked at the chest of drawers to its side. She held her breath and opened the drawer. It was empty. She sighed.
"I was so sure … oh wait, it was the second drawer." She tried again, and to her delight the box was in there. There was a small card attached to it, reading TO ROSE, LOVE THE DOCTOR.
"Open it!" exclaimed Shireen. Rose did so, and inside she found a heart-shaped silver locket. Inside there were 2 pictures – one of her old big-eared, leather jacket-clad Doctor, and on the other side was her new, boyish Doctor.
"That proves it," she said. "The Doctor is alive somewhere, and he's reaching me in my dreams!" The others looked unsure about the matter.
"Rose, that seems kinda unlikely," said Jack.
"Not to mention weird," added Mickey.
"But can't we scan my brain or something?" asked Rose. "Maybe the Doctor's brainwaves could have been mixed in with mine or something?"
"What the hell could we use to do that?" asked Jackie. Rose's gaze fell onto the top of the chest of drawers, where a spare sonic screwdriver was resting.
"Sarah, do you think you could operate that?" she asked.
"Oh, um, maybe," said Sarah Jane. She picked up the screwdriver. "If I remember correctly, the setting for scanning brainwaves is 53742-B. If the buzzing goes high-pitched, then there are irregularities." She aimed the screwdriver at Rose's head and pressed down. It buzzed, but in its usual low pitch. Sarah Jane moved it around at all different angles, but the reading was the same.
"Nothing," she said.
"But my dream … the sonic screwdriver can't disprove that," defended Rose. "How could I have known the gift was in the drawer?"
"Easy," said Mickey. "He told you about it before he died."
"But then through the trauma, you forgot about it," finished Jack.
"A-are you saying … I'm going crazy?" stammered Rose. Immediately everyone started shaking their heads.
"Of course not," assured Shireen. "You've just got a lot on your mind." The smiling faces of the others suggested that they agreed with this theory. But looking around at them, Rose wasn't too sure.
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