Chapter Seventeen
Rose, Martha and Donna stared at the Doctor in awe as he finished speaking. It had taken awhile to get through everything because not only did he tell Rose what the Bad Wolf had said, he also explained to Martha and Donna what had happened with the Bad Wolf previously.
"So, this Bad Wolf is inside me, has been inside me all my life?" Rose said.
The Doctor nodded as he took a sip of tea.
"Why me?" Rose said frowning.
The Doctor stared at her.
"What do you mean, why you?" he asked her.
"I'm nobody special."
The Doctor rolled his eyes and sighed.
"Rose, how many times do I have to tell you differently? I understand perfectly why the Bad Wolf chose you. I can see it, Rose, why can't you?"
"Dunno, I guess because I just grew up a normal girl." Rose said shrugging.
"So? Lots of heroic people have had humble beginnings." The Doctor said to her. "Rose, you are worthy to have the Bad Wolf inside you, trust me."
"I can't believe you actually destroyed an entire Dalek army…or I guess you didn't, the Bad Wolf did…geez, this is confusing." Martha said.
"I just have to ask," Donna said. "If we piss off Rose, is she gonna go all god-like on us and knock our blocks off? Cause if she is, I wanna go back home."
"No, the Bad Wolf doesn't work like that. If pissing her off brought it out, I would have seen it before now."
"Why, you piss Rose off before?" Martha asked.
"Well, yeah, we do occasionally irritate each other." The Doctor said staring at her with wide eyes. "We're just like any other couple. You ever get irritated by someone you were in love with."
"Yeah, you irritated me lots of times." Martha replied.
She snickered when the Doctor shot her a look.
"You were in love with the Doctor?" Rose asked.
Martha coughed nervously.
"Yeah, I was when I first traveled with him." She said sheepishly. "I mean, I'm sorry, but I just couldn't help falling in love with him. He's adorable."
"No argument there." Rose said taking a sip.
"I'm over him now though. I saw how useless it was to try to have a relationship with him. Of course, now that's been confirmed since apparently you are the Doctor's helpmate."
Rose giggled and poked the Doctor's side.
"Told ya you were never gonna get rid of me, didn't I?" she said.
"Yup, you've told me that approximately 5, 654, 666, 432 times now." The Doctor replied as Rose snickered.
Rose looked at Donna.
"What about you? You ever fancy the Doctor?" she asked her.
"No, I kinda lost interest the moment he referred to me as a pencil in a mug." Donna replied.
Rose stared at her for a moment and then looked at the Doctor.
"What?" she said to him.
The Doctor sighed.
"Okay, here's what we are going to do the minute we get back to the resort. We are all going into my room, shutting the door, ordering room service and then we are all setting down and bringing Rose Tyler up to speed on everything that has occurred since she left this universe." He said as the three women snickered. "I'm tired of getting these confused looks from her every two seconds and hearing "What?" after every other sentence. The confusion will be cleared up tonight, got that?"
"We're in for a long, long night." Donna said to Martha.
Martha glanced at Rose and then grinned at the Doctor.
"So, spilling the beans on everything includes the night we shared the bed in 1599?" she said with a devilish grin.
The Doctor blushed as Rose's jaw hit the table.
"You did what?" she said to the Doctor.
"Rose, it's not what you think!" the Doctor said.
"And the kiss we shared…or sorry…the genetic transfer in the hospital. That comes out in the open too?"
The Doctor coughed nervously as Rose glared at him.
"And there is the whole handling my knickers in my flat incident."
The Doctor froze as Rose leaned up next to him and breathed angrily on his face. Donna and Martha giggled as the Doctor turned and gave her a warm smile.
"I love you…helpmate?" he said nervously.
"Uh-huh, you better have a good explanation for what she just said, mister, or not even the Bad Wolf will be able to save you from me."
She sat back down as Martha and Donna laughed hysterically.
"Oh, Doctor, don't forget to tell her about putting the wedding ring on my finger." Donna said.
"DONNA, DAMN IT!" the Doctor said as Donna and Martha giggled.
He gulped as Rose leaned back up into his face and breathed angrily.
"Like I said, good explanations better be coming tonight, buster." She said.
The Doctor shook his head and muttered as Rose sat back down and grinned at Donna and Martha.
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The concierge looked up as the Doctor and his companions entered the hotel.
"Sir, there you are, Rudolk informed me that you disappeared after he tried to show you to your rooms and you haven't been back until now. Is there a problem with the rooms?"
"No, no problem here, we did have a few problems elsewhere that we had to get straightened out." The Doctor replied as they walked up to the desk. "I fully intend to use the rooms."
The concierge beamed.
"Very good, sir." He said.
He noticed Rose.
"Is she going to be staying here as well?" he asked.
"Yes, she will be staying in my room. This one actually is with me." The Doctor said.
The concierge smiled.
"Very good, sir, then perhaps you would like me to tell you what is in the room that would interest you and your charming companion?"
Donna and Martha giggled as the Doctor blushed.
"No, that won't be necessary. I know what's in there." He said. "We would just like to be shown to our rooms again."
"Very good, sir. Rudolk!"
Rudolk came around the corner and stopped short.
"There they are." He said to the concierge.
The concierge nodded.
"Yes, they explained what happened. Everything is alright. They just need you to take them up to their rooms again." He said handing him the key cards.
"Are they going to go to the rooms this time?" Rudolk asked looking at them.
"Yes, we're going to the rooms this time if it kills us." The Doctor said to him.
Rudolk nodded.
"Follow me then, I'll show you to your rooms…again."
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"Ah, this is what I'm talking about." Donna said settling down on the big, plush bed in the Doctor's suite. My feet feel better already."
"So do mine." Martha said settling down beside her. "I'm all ready for a night of reminiscing."
"So am I. I really do wanna know everything that's gone on. I've missed traveling with the Doctor so much." Rose said as she sat down across from them.
"I bet. I know how you feel." Martha said. " I took a break to take care of my family after we battled the Master and I'm glad I did it, but just the same I was so glad to come back."
"I guess I'm different." Donna said. "The first time I traveled with the Doctor, I couldn't wait to get away from him…which I will explain later tonight, but the second time…I don't know, I figured after meeting the guy twice perhaps I was meant to travel with him…and now after hearing that Bad Wolf talk about how it isn't an accident who travels with him, I suppose it really was supposed to happen. Anyway, I don't regret doing it now. Despite the unpleasant bits, it's been a blast. I can understand why you wept when you saw the TARDIS."
"I missed her so much. I love my mum, but the Doctor and the TARDIS are my true life and they always will be."
"Because the Bad Wolf made it that way." Martha said.
Rose smiled.
"Yup, I was born to travel the universe." Rose replied.
"Yes, you were."
She looked over as the Doctor walked up to the bed.
"Hey, Casanova, you been out putting a wedding ring on the maid?"
The Doctor eyed her as the three women snickered.
"No, for your information, I was down ordering us food for the night. However, if you're gonna be an ass tonight, I can go back down and order them to take it back."
"No, no, that's fine. I'm hungry and I love their food here. I'll be a good little helpmate."
"Good." The Doctor said sitting down beside her.
Rose lay back and put her head in his lap. The Doctor stroked her hair as she settled in.
"So, we gonna get started then?" Rose asked glancing up at him.
The Doctor nodded.
"Yes, I ordered a lot of food so it'll take awhile to get up here and---"
"You ordered my chips, yeah?"
The Doctor sighed as Rose giggled.
"Yes, Rose, Rassilon help me if I forgot to order that." He said.
He shook his head at Donna and Martha.
"Woman is chip crazy." He said to them.
"P'eh, look who's talking."
"I got hooked on them because that's all you would get to eat most of the time. I had to eat something to keep from starving."
"Uh-huh, you just keep telling yourself that."
The Doctor rolled his eyes.
"Anyway," he said. "I suppose we'll start right after the gap closed when I first met Donna…
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Rose chewed on a chip and giggled as the Doctor threw up his hands in exasperation.
"I didn't want to sleep on the floor, that's why!" he said to Rose.
"You slept on the floor when we first met, so why are you suddenly climbing into bed with a woman you just met." She teased.
The Doctor eyed her.
"Because I knew someday we would reunite and I wanted to piss you off and make you jealous."
"That's not the best part though." Martha said to Rose. "He actually mentioned you and blew me off in a real, nasty insensitive way!"
"Really? What'd he say?" Rose said.
Martha told her. Rose's mouth fell open as the Doctor groaned.
"Bloody Hell, Doctor, how mean can you get?" she said to him.
"Well, it was the truth! You do know the right thing to say to me."
"Yeah, but you didn't have to be a total arse saying that to Martha."
"THANK YOU!" Martha said throwing up her arms as Donna and Rose roared with laughter. "I am so glad you agree with me. God, it took all I had not to slap the insensitive git!"
They laughed hysterically as the Doctor's mouth fell open.
"Excuse me, Jones?" he said to her.
"You were, Doctor, you were insensitive to me. I barely knew ya and already you're going on about how I'm such a novice and oh, I'm so stupid I'll never be able to help you think like Rose can!"
Rose and Donna held their sides laughing as the Doctor put his arms over his chest.
"I didn't mean it like that." He said indignantly.
Well, that's what it sounded like to me. You made it sound like all you do is walk around in a daze saying "duh" until Rose here clues you in on what to do."
"Oh, he does, all the time." Rose said. "Thick as a log, he is."
"SHUT UP, TYLER!" The Doctor bellowed as the three women fell about laughing.
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Rose munched on a slice of bread as she stared at the Doctor.
"So, you were human." She said between bites.
"Yes, I was human."
"And you were unfaithful to me yet again."
The Doctor sighed as the three women giggled.
"Do I have to put a leash on ya and put blinders around your eyes to keep you faithful to me?" Rose asked.
"I didn't know who I was, Rose, I was John Smith!" he protested.
"Yeah, but you knew enough apparently to go drawing me in some book of yours which means that in the back of your head you were still thinking of me which means that you were cheating on me…yet again."
The Doctor eyed her as the three women giggled.
"You know, I'm starting to regret having this catch up session with you."
"I'm not. I find it enlightening. I'm finding out Reinette wasn't the exception to the rule here."
"Who's Reinette?" Donna asked.
Rose told them the story. When she finished they looked at him.
"Rose nearly got her head sliced off and you were getting drunk with some French whore?" Donna asked.
"Reinette wasn't a whore!" the Doctor yelled as the three women split their sides laughing.
"She wasn't eh, then what was she doing being a mistress to the king?" Donna said.
"Because that's what women aspired to in those days."
"They aspired to become royal French whores?"
The Doctor threw up his hands as the three women laughed.
"I didn't read about that tidbit in history class." Donna said to Martha and Rose as she reached for her bottle of juice.
"To be fair, Reinette was a nice woman." Rose said.
The Doctor breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank you, Rose."
Rose paused a moment.
"For a French whore." She muttered under her breath.
Martha and Donna laughed as the Doctor grabbed a handful of chips and tried to stuff them in her mouth.
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Rose stared intently at the Doctor.
"What?" the Doctor said.
"Nothing, just trying to picture you as an old geezer." Rose said.
She poked him in the arm.
"So I guess being old and decrepit was your excuse for making poor Martha walk around the bleedin' world then?" she said.
"Yes, I was depending on her to tell everyone she could about me so they could restore me to my young self again."
"And just grabbing the Master's laser screwdriver and reversing the setting, this thought never occurred to you." Rose said.
They giggled as the Doctor eyed her.
"Well, it would have been a more humane plan in my opinion than telling Martha to go walk the whole world. Poor girl, I'm surprised she didn't come back a skeleton. You must have dropped weight like mad!"
"Oh, I did, believe me." Martha said to her.
"Huh, so after you guys wrecked the paradox machine, everyone except you lot on the ship lost their memories about the whole thing. Gee, I wonder what happened to me in that time?"
"Knowing you, Donna," the Doctor said. "A Toclafane flew in your house trying to kill you and you shrieked at it and scared it away."
The Doctor's eyes widened as Donna let out a yell, leapt up and ran around the bed after him. Rose and Martha fell onto the bed laughing as the Doctor ran to the bathroom and locked the door as Donna pounded on the door screaming at the top of her lungs.
"LET ME IN, BUSTER, AND I'LL SHOW YOU WHO'S THE BIGGER SHRIEKER IN HERE!" she screamed at him as she pounded on the door.
"FOR RASSILON SAKE, DONNA, STOP IT BEFORE THEY THROW US OUT!" They heard the Doctor scream.
Donna stopped pounding and walked back to the bed laughing as the Doctor opened the door a crack and looked out. Shaking his head, he walked out of the room as Donna grabbed some cheese and sat back down on the bed.
"Sheesh, suddenly, I'm wondering if it's a good idea to bring you three along in the TARDIS with me." He said as the three women laughed hysterically.