The Oncoming Storm wandered slowly down the corridor unaware of the Bad Wolf's red eyes watching him. After a few minutes he reached a dead end and the Oncoming Storm turned confused.
"It stops here," he said to the Bad Wolf whose eyes had turned back to their normal golden colour.
"Odd," she said her voice misty and more ethereal than normal. If the Oncoming Storm noticed anything he didn't comment on it.
"So do you think we should head back?" He asked her. "Our 'worst nightmare' doesn't seem to be here!"
"Guess again," the Bad Wolf's eyes glowed fiery red again and she walked towards him hand outstretched ready to close around his throat.
"Hey," the Oncoming Storm backed away, straight into the wall. The familiar silver glow began to ebb and the Doctor seemed to come back to his senses. Obviously the Oncoming Storm wasn't good in quick thinking situations.
"Rose?" The Doctor looked confused until the Oncoming Storm supplied the memories of the last day. "Rose, listen to me, whatever is inside you, you have to fight it!"
Rose simply shook her head.
"My mind has been opened to who you are," she said her tone that of someone else. It was no longer her own voice. "You must be destroyed before you destroy me."
"Rose, fight it, use the Bad Wolf to out the foreign entity," the Doctor said grabbing Rose's hands and keeping them away from his neck.
"No," Rose replied and struggled harder trying to wrap her fingers round the Doctor. Then suddenly she collapsed again on the floor, groaning and rolling about.
She looked up at the Doctor, tears streaming down her face, the Bad Wolf gone.
"Help me," she said desperately. The Doctor knelt beside her, stroking her hair gently. "The Bad… Bad Wolf is keeping it under control… But my body can't… can't cope with three different life forces."
"I know, I know," the Doctor put his hands on either side of her head and Rose groaned again as the mysterious entity left her and transferred into the Time Lord. Rose tried to sit up but the Doctor didn't let her.
"Are you ok?" She asked weakly. The Doctor nodded.
"Yeah, Time Lord mental barriers are stronger than yours," he said, lifting her up into his arms. "Do you remember what happened?"
"Yeah the Bad Wolf gave me access to the memories, right before she…" Rose's eyes widened. "I can't feel her."
"You will," the Doctor replied, heading up the corridor with Rose. "Give yourself time to heal."
Rose closed her eyes, trying to ignore the pounding headache that was creeping up on her not very subtly.
"What about Joshua and Jacob?" She asked trying to keep hold of her consciousness and certain memories.
"Well if the Oncoming Storm and Bad Wolf had thought to ask their hosts, they might've realised there's a very simple way of dealing with them and their so called boss, especially since I've heard of her before," the Doctor replied. "But we'll think about that after we've got back from the TARDIS and dealt with this… "
He didn't finish his sentence and Rose guessed the Doctor didn't really know what they were dealing with. She clung tighter to him her eyes tight shut as sleep began to claim her already tired mind.
She awoke when she felt the Doctor let her go. Opening her eyes sleepily she saw that the Doctor had put her down on one of the beds in the infirmary of the TARDIS and was now tapping at the computer which was in the corner.
He was tapping at the keys preparing something though Rose, who was still disorientated couldn't really think what.
"What are you doing?" She asked confused.
"Designing a container for our guest," the Doctor replied, looking up at her and smiling slightly. "You ok?"
"Yeah," Rose said rubbing her face with a hand. "I think. It's all a bit hazy…"
"That'll be the Bad Wolf," the Doctor said leaving the computer and walking over to an odd looking contraption which he placed on the floor. "She'll be 'rebooting' your systems. Right…"
The Doctor stood straight and blew out gently, the same way he'd done when he removed the Time Vortex from Rose. The black and red cloud that left him was then quickly contained within an almost invisible force field. It was only the blue tinge and the cloud within that made it possible to imagine where the edges of the force field were.
"There we go, mister nasty contained," the Doctor left the cloud where it was and wandered over to Rose, pressing a cool hand to her forehead. "You're burning up. We'll wait for you to recover before we sort anything."
Rose nodded, pulling herself up into a sitting position.
"Are you ok now?" She asked glancing at the cloud.
"Yup, never better," the Doctor said his hand slipping for Rose's forehead down to her own hand. His fingers wrapping around hers.
"The Bad Wolf loves the Oncoming Storm you know," she said suddenly. The Doctor looked up.
"Yeah, I know," he replied.
"And I love you," she continued.
"I know," the Doctor said again, leaning forward and kissing her lightly.