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That night Rose snuck out, taking an old shovel with her. She hailed a taxi a got in.
"Where to?" the driver asked.
"The cemetery," Rose replied. As the taxi made its way towards the destination, Rose thought her plan over in her head.
I'll dig up the Doctor's coffin, take his body, and hide it under my mattress, to prove to myself that he's really dead, she thought to herself. And while she admitted that the plan was a little extreme, it seemed the only way she could fix this mess. The taxi stopped, and Rose got out. She found the Doctor's coffin almost immediately. Then she started digging. The soil was hard and she was getting blisters, but she didn't care. At last she found the coffin, and she breathed a sigh of relief as she wiped her brow. She jumped down into the hole.
"Okay, it's just an ordinary coffin," she told herself. She paused, then added, "containing the most extraordinary man in the world, who I killed." She took a deep breath and lifted the lid. There was no body. Instead, Rose found herself looking into the time vortex, swirling beneath her in blue and red.
Is this what happens to Time Lords when they die? Rose wondered, but soon she didn't care. She found herself entranced by the power before her, mesmerised, almost hypnotised …
Rose woke up in bed.
"What happened?" she said out loud. "Why am I in my flat?" She then looked around her, but instead of walls, she found the giant faces of her mother and friends looking down on her, each repeating the same accusing words.
"You killed the Doctor, you killed the Doctor, you killed the Doctor…"
"Stop it, stop it!" cried Rose desperately. She approached the wall, and found that the images were like paper. She pulled each off the wall and scrunched them up. When there was silence once again, Rose sat down on her bed.
"Okay, I'm insane!" she admitted. "But at least I'm sane enough to know it." She opened up her locket and looked at the image of her new new Doctor.
"The only time I feel happy is when I'm in my dreams, with you," she said. It was with these words that she realised what she had to do. She saw the jar of honey sitting on her bedside table. Without hesitation, she picked it up.
"3 spoonfuls," she said. "Then I can dream forever." She got out a spoon and began eating, tears running down her face as she did so.
"One," she said, gulping down the honey. "Two." She brought the third spoonful to her lips.
"Goodbye waking world," she said. She was just about to eat it, when:
"Rose! Don't do it!" Rose looked around for the source of the voice, then realised it was coming from the Doctor in her locket. As she looked down at him, a large bee flew past. She shooed it away.
"Listen to me," the Doctor continued. "You don't want to lie in bed like a vegetable for the rest of your life. You were meant for so much more than that."
"But what am I supposed to do?!" wailed Rose.
"Fight it," the Doctor said.
"I can't!" cried Rose.
"Yes you can!" said the Doctor. "The Rose I know wouldn't give up this easily." Rose looked down at the Doctor. She could see how desperately he wanted her to be strong.
"Okay," she said, breathing out. "I'll try." The Doctor smiled. Just then the bee flew past again, its buzzing taunting Rose. She picked up the jar of honey.
"Go away!" she exclaimed, throwing the jar at the bee. It went straight through it, but instead of killing it caused it to split up into hundreds of tiny bees. They gathered around Rose, who was too scared to talk. She clutched her locket desperately. The Doctor started talking again.
"I don't know if you can hear me Rose," he said. "But there's something I want to tell you. I-I love you."
"I'm so scared Doctor!" said Rose. "Tell me what to do!"
"Just wake up Rose," said the Doctor, his voice desperate. "Please wake up."
"I don't understand!" exclaimed Rose.
"Please wake up Rose," continued the Doctor. "Please wake up."
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In Room 4B at London hospital, the Doctor sat beside Rose's bed. There were bags under his eyes and he hadn't shaved. His coat lay over Rose's shoulders, keeping her warm. He leaned over, holding her ever so gently beneath her sheets, which were stained with his tears.
"Just wake up," he pleaded. "Rose, please wake up." He heard a moan escape Rose's lips, and found her eyes very slowly opening. As soon as she saw him, she gasped.
"Doctor! You're alive!" she exclaimed.
"Rose! You're awake!" the Doctor returned. Rose frowned.
"Of course I'm awake. You wouldn't stop waking me," she replied. It was just know that she noticed her surroundings. "Um, where am I?"
"In a hospital," the Doctor answered. "I brought the TARDIS here right after the bee stung you."
"But the bee stung you, it barely touched me," said a confused Rose.
"Actually, the stinger went right through me, giving you all the poison," explained the Doctor. "Of course, that did leave me with a nasty hole in my stomach, but I took the TARDIS over to Torchwood 3, and Jack's mate Owen fixed me up (A/N For those of you who haven't seen Torchwood, Owen is a doctor who works at Torchwood). I would have had the doctors do it here, but I couldn't risk the whole alien thing being revealed." Rose nodded in understanding. Just then the others came through the door.
"Rose, you're awake!" exclaimed Jackie, running over to hug her daughter.
"Yeah," said Rose, smiling. "The Doctor was just saying how he had to go to Torchwood to get stitched up."
"Oh yeah?" said Jack. "Did he tell you that he had it done without anaesthetic?"
"What!" said Rose. The Doctor scratched the back of his head.
"Getting the anaesthetic prepared would have taken more time," he said. "And I didn't want to go regenerating on you. I figured you'd want to see the Doctor you know when you woke up."
"Or according to the doctors here, if you woke up," said Sarah Jane. "They said you were in one of the deepest comas they'd ever seen. They didn't know if you'd ever wake up."
"How long was I out?" asked Rose.
"2 weeks," said Shireen. "The Doctor never left your side." Rose looked up at the Doctor lovingly.
"And he talked non-stop," added Jackie. "But then again, there's nothing unusual there."
"I thought perhaps if you heard a familiar voice it would keep your head together, keep you fighting, you know," said the Doctor. "I mean, there's no actual proof that all that nonsense helps, but I gave it a try anyway. But who knows if it actually got through?" Rose smiled.
"It got through Doctor," she said, giving him a hug. "It got through."
The End
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