Chapter Two

The light faded and Rose reeled back as she tried to make her eyes see again. It took a moment for her sight to return, but even then it wasn't much good because the room she was standing in was pitch black.

"Hello? Is anyone there?" she called out hesitantly.

She gasped as a bright light was switched on and she was momentarily blinded again. Blinking, she held her hand up to her eyes and looked around. Finally, her eyes adjusted to the light and she saw two aliens standing in front of her. They were reptilian in nature with dark purple skin and reptilian yellow eyes. Both of them were wearing long, black robes with a wide gold stripe down the front. They flicked their tongues in and out tasting the air around them.

"Who are you?" Rose asked.

"I am Triton and this is Pelios. We are Arcadians." The alien hissed.

"Arcadians. Why does that sound so familiar?" Rose muttered.

Then it hit her. The Cult of Skaro back at Canary Wharf. When the Doctor was talking to them...

I was there at the fall of Arcadia. Someday I might even come to terms with that.

"Arcadia. That's your home world, isn't it?" Rose said to them.

"Very good, Rose Tyler." Triton replied.

Rose frowned.

"Wait, how do you know my name?"

"We know much about the Doctor." Pelios said.

Rose's heart stopped. These Arcadians knew her Doctor? Could they be from the other dimension?"

"You have traveled with him." Pelios added.

He lifted his hand and extended it in front of him. Rose gasped as her body began to glow with a golden aura.

"You carry an imprint of the artron energy from his ship." Pelios said. "That is how we were able to track you."

He lowered his hand and the glow stopped.

"But, if you know the Doctor, then that means you are from the other dimension?" Rose asked.

"Correct, Rose Tyler."

"Then, how did you get here? The Doctor said travel between the voids would destroy both universes."

"We have ways of crossing the void harmlessly. Our kind harnessed the secrets of void travel millennia ago." Triton said. "The Time Lords were not the only ones capable of that kind of travel."

"Then, why are you here? What do you want with me?" Rose asked.

"Revenge!" Triton said.

Rose frowned.

"Revenge? I've done nothing to you. I've never even met you until now." She protested.

"We want revenge against the Doctor for what he did to our planet." Pelios said.

Rose's heart leapt to her throat.

"Wait! I know that the Doctor fought on your world in the Time War and-"

"Precisely, it was because of him and his petty Time War that our world was reduced to fire and rubble." Triton said.

"No wait, listen, the Doctor did what he had to do to save the universe. He regrets what happened to your world, I know he does. I heard him say so."

"We are not concerned with how he feels. We only wish to see him suffer for what he did." Pelios hissed. "It was because of him that I lost my mate and my offspring."

"As did I." Triton added. "The Doctor gave no thought to us or our kind. All he cared about was destroying the Daleks any way he could. He rampaged through our cities and villages leaving devastation in his wake. And then he moved on not caring about the lives that were lost or the families that were destroyed. He cares for no one except himself."

"That's not true. The Doctor is sorry, really he is." Rose said desperately. "Please, you have to believe me. He mourns all the lives that were lost in the Time War."

"Odd, he didn't stop to mourn after he got done leveling my village." Pelios sneered. "He just walked away without a second look."

"Oh God, Doctor, that can't be the truth." Rose murmured to herself. "You aren't like that. You wouldn't just destroy a village without a good reason. They have to be lying."

She looked at Triton and Pelios who were regarding her silently.

"Why did you abduct me? Where do I fit in all this? I wasn't even with him during the Time War. I didn't know him then."

"It doesn't matter if you knew him then or not. What matters is you are valuable to him." Triton said.

Rose's heart skipped a beat.

"No, please, if you're thinking of killing me to get back at him, please reconsider." Rose pleaded.

"We will not kill you." Pelios said.

"Then, what will happen to me?"

"You will be taken back over the void with us. You will become bait to lure the Doctor into our trap and then we shall have our revenge." Triton said.

"No, please, leave him alone." Rose said. "I've changed my mind. Kill me, just don't hurt him."

Her eyes widened as Triton walked towards her. She tried to back away, but Triton raised his hand and she felt herself being dragged towards him. An unknown force pulled her to his hand. It closed around her neck and she stood still trying not to flinch as Triton stared at her with his cold, reptilian eyes.

"After the destruction of our world, we started tracking the Doctor's TARDIS with our ship. For the longest time, he managed to elude us by traveling through time and space. But, finally we located him by a supernova. He was using the energy from it to send a transmission. A transmission to you. We listened in while he was telling you goodbye and we heard you tell him that you love him." Triton said.

Rose's blood ran cold. She swallowed hard as Triton leaned in to her face.

"You care for him and I suspect he cares for you just as deeply or he wouldn't have destroyed a sun to get in contact with you. Wouldn't it be a shame if he lost you the same way we lost our families?" he hissed.

"No, don't do this to him. He did what he had to do. He had to save the universe. You're not the only planet that was affected."

"We don't care about the other planets. We don't care about the Doctor or the Daleks or you. We care about our kind and anyone who hurts and destroys our kind will be hurt and destroyed in turn. The Doctor made a fatal mistake when he picked our planet as a battlefield. Now, he will reap the consequences of his actions and we will watch as the destroyer of our world is himself destroyed."

She gasped as Triton tightened his grip around her throat.

"And you will help us to bring about his destruction and then…you too will die."

Rose closed her eyes in anguish. She had dreamed about being reunited with the Doctor, but not like this. She wished more than anything she had some way to warn him. She knew as soon as he learned that she was being held captive, there would be nothing to stop him from trying to rescue her.

She gasped as Triton threw her to the floor.

"We go now to cross the void. Until that time, you will stay in here as our prisoner." Triton hissed.

She gasped when he put his hands against the sides of her head.

"Now sleep, doomed mate of the Doctor."

Rose felt electricity course through her head and then her world went black. Her eyes rolled up in her head and she fell back to the floor unconscious.

Pelios came up beside Triton as he stared down at her.

"Will the Doctor come for this human child?" he asked Triton.

Triton nodded.

"He will come. She is precious to him. He will not let her be sacrificed. We have what we came for and now our revenge can finally begin. Come, my brother, it is time to put our plan into motion and when it is all done, the Doctor will lay dead at our feet at last."