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PS: I found this awesome Imogen Heap song called Half Life that totally makes me think of all of the unrequited love between the Doctor and his companions, especially Martha. Although, I don't think any of them would say it's a half life living on the TARDIS…..
Send me the link to any songs that remind you about the Doctor and I'll post them also.
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Here is chapter 3, with funny meetings, nefarious plots, and a terrible twist.-KMC
The Doctor and his companions followed in Rose's steady footsteps through one dark corridor after another, until they came to a lift. Again, she placed her hand on a panel and was granted access to the doors. Rose was quiet and contemplative, the Doctor was still a little pale, and Amy and Rory were still confused out of their wits.
The lift rose to the top level of the building, and as the doors opened, slurry of people met their eyes. Rose walked out into the chaos purposefully, but the Doctor and the newlyweds stopped to look around at the crazy scene in front of them. Amy and Rory were intrigued by the many humans using alien technology, but the Doctor was only assaulted with bad memories as he gazed upon the familiar walls of Torchwood Tower.
The room was in a panic, people running to and from computer screens, yelling across the room, trying to make sense as to what was happening and where it was coming from. The Doctor spotted Rose surrounded by a throng of people, all bombarding her with a slew of questions. Rose calmly and efficiently answered them all without appearing flustered or put out.
The Doctor thought about how much she had changed from that 19 year old that worked in the shops and lived with her mother. She was a leader now, and many of the most powerful and intelligent people in the world looked to her for answers. She didn't need him anymore.
Amy can running up to the Doctor and shook him out of his thoughts. "Doctor, if this is Torchwood, why haven't the Daleks and Cybermen attacked here? You would have figured that this would be the first place they would come."
"Why, Amy, that's definitely because…. Um…..wait one moment…."
Amy was completely shocked—for once the Doctor didn't know something. Maybe this Rose was something special.
The Doctor rushed over to Rose and pushed his way through the crowd surrounding her. "Excuse me…..Pardon me…..I really didn't intend to touch you there….Ah! Rose! "
Upon finally reaching his destination, Rose turned to find the Doctor with a large curious grin on his face, and she laughed internally at the boyish nature of this new regeneration. "Yes, Doctor?" she asked.
"Oh, just something small, practically doesn't even matter, but, why are we not dead yet?" the Doctor inquired.
Rose laughed heartily, "Oh! You haven't really seen this version of Torchwood yet, have you Doctor? Remind me to take you on a tour of the facilities after we solve this, you'd probably love the Pragly Puffers that took refuge here a few years ago, they make the most adorable pets…. But, anyway, the entire building is shielded from detection. Even the Daleks can't find us."
The Doctor looked more than stunned, "What do you mean shielded? By what?"
Rose drew him over to the central control panel, and said, "See this?" pointing to a block of electronic devices that was haphazardly wired into the mainframe. "We got this from a Sauntauran escape pod that crashed a few years back into the Thames. We wired it into the building, so it cloaks us from everything: scans, radar, radiation detectors…"
The Doctor looked at her with a huge goofy smile on his face, "Rose Tyler, you are magnificent! This is wonderful! Humans are so resourceful."
Rose smiled back at him, and felt a twinge in her chest. It felt just like old times, she pondered. Then, hearing a loud crash, she and the Doctor turned to find Rory standing over a shattered Beryllium Sphere, looking like a child who just got caught breaking his mothers favorite vase.
Rose smiled at the young couple and "Okay, Amy, Rory, it's time you met MY Doctor."
Amy followed closely behind Rose, excited to meet the man who the Doctor used to be. She wondered how much different he would be from her own raggedy Doctor, and if he would be as cute…
Rory, still characteristically confused asked, "I don't get it. How can an old version of the Doctor be here? It just…doesn't make sense."
The Doctor rolled his eyes while Rose laughed: "It is a bit confusing, and sometimes I'm not even sure I get it. Basically, the Doctor was able to pour his regeneration energy into an extra hand he kept "handy" in the TARDIS. Once Donna, another companion of his, touched it, a biological metacrisis occurred, creating a fully fledged, half human, half Time Lord version of the Doctor."
Rory stopped for a moment, the information clearly not entering his brain. "So, you mean…"
Rose stopped and faced him, "Basically, the Doctor made a human clone of himself and left it here with me."
"Ah. I see." Rory seemed to grasp this explanation, finally, and Amy patted him on the back lovingly while the Doctor just shook his head in amusement.
Rose led them through some of the offices of Torchwood, until she came to a set of big wooden doors reading:
Rose Tyler
Director
Torchwood
She pushed the handle open and the group was greeted with the sight of a spacious office, wall to wall covered with shelves containing books and alien artifacts. In the center of the room, backed by a floor-to-ceiling window overlooking all of London, was a great mahogany desk.
The chair behind the desk was turned facing the great window, but once the party had made it inside the office and shut the door, the chair swiveled around to reveal the human tenth Doctor, and with a large grin on his face he asked, "Did you miss me?"
Rose laughed in relief and hurried around behind the desk, where Ten stood to meet her. She threw her arms around his neck and he clasped her waist tightly, to the fascination and discomfort of Amy, Rory, and the Doctor.
Rose grabbed Ten by his lapel, and searched his face for any damage. "Did you make it here okay? Where's Ellie, is she alright?"
Human Ten grabbed her hands and held them to his chest. "Everything's fine. Ellie's in the safe house with Jackie and Tony, and Pete is already mobilizing global forces."
Rose looked into his face and smiled, "What would the world do without you?"
Ten gave her his most endearing crooked smile, "Weeeelllll, it would probably have perished quite a long time ago, but who's keeping track…"
Rory finally spoke up, "This one here is," pointing to the Doctor, "but we try to keep him away from too many museums…" Everyone turned to stare at him as if he were a Dalek amongst their midst. Rory chuckled awkwardly, unused to being the center of attention, but quieted down with a cough when Amy elbowed him in the ribs with a small shake of her fiery head.
The Doctor turned and faced his human counterpart. While Ten was much taller, the two seemed equally matched while eying each other. The silence lasted a few torturous moments, as the two who never closed their gabs stared each other down silently. Ten, still in his characteristic pinstripe suit after all these years, choose to break the ice first, "Doctor."
The Doctor, with unreadable eyes answered right back with, "Doctor."
The silence lasted a few more moments with Amy, Rose, and Rory on their toes in anticipation of what would occur between the two Doctors. Ten finally gave a small smile and said, "I like the bow tie."
With that, the Doctor stood a little taller and fiddled with his bow tie. He smiled a little and replied, "Thank you. I like the suit—not my style, but it looks good on you."
Ten beamed at that and chuckled, "Of course it does! Nice to meet you Doctor! Wearing the new face pretty well!"
He reached out and grabbed the Doctor's hand, and each shook vigorously with big goofy grins on their faces. It wasn't every day when the Doctor got to meet someone as intelligent as himself.
Amy, seeing the ice was finally broken, pushed Rory out of the way in order to get at Ten. "Doctor, you didn't introduce us!" Amy reached over and grabbed Ten's hand and shook it, giving him a flirty smile under her eyelashes. Once she let go, she stage whispered to the Doctor, "You used to look like him? Why did you ever change, he's gorgeous!"
Rory, finally shaken out of his silence by his wife's unabashed flirting cleared his throat and waked over, puffing out his chest and stretching to his full height; "And I'm her husband, Rory." While he stood eye to eye with Ten, he still seemed young and small next to the half Time Lord, half human Doctor.
Rose finally interjected, "While it's nice that everyone knows each other now, but every second we waste more people are getting hurt."
Ten perked up, "Oh, yes, about that. There have actually been no mortalities so far. The Daleks and Cybermen are stirring up chaos with their beams, but they are not actually killing anyone."
The Doctor immediately became intrigued, "What? They aren't killing anyone? What are they after then?"
Ten rubbed his eyes, and that was the first time the Doctor realized how much older Ten looked, with lines around his mouth and eyes and a few stands of grey in his thick head of hair. Ten sighed and replied, "I have no idea. It's almost as if their strategy of creating havoc is a cover-up for something bigger…"
At that moment, a visual link was suddenly established against one of the walls of the office. The sight that greeted them was a terrifying one; a Dalek and a Cyberman standing side-by-side without turning on each other. The Dalek spoke first;
"DOCTORS! The Daleks have waited long to meet you both once again."
The Cyberman, not wanting to excluded from the proceedings interjected, "Yes, Doctors, the Cybermen have also been waiting for you."
The Doctor stepped closer to the screen, and addressed his enemies, "Long time, no see. Been enjoying your time in the Void? I hear it's lovely in the summer. Now tell us what you've been doing and why."
The Cyberman approached the screen, "You locked us inside of the void, you and the Bad Wolf." The Dalek interrupted, "Then the Time Lord anomaly destroyed Davros and our troops in the other world. We had nothing in the Void, nothing but our hatred for the Doctor."
The company stood completely still as the Cyberman continued, "We decided to form a temporary alliance against you, and once we were able to hatch an escape from the Void, we were sure to bring the Doctor and the TARDIS from the other world."
The Dalek's eye stock drew very close to the screen, "We will make sure we purge all worlds of the Doctor, and so you two will be EXTERMINATED! The Cybermen will remain in this word, while the Daleks will return to take our rightful place as rulers of the universe!"
The Doctor's looked at each other, and something seemed to pass between them, something that looked like an exchange of ideas.
Ten walked forward to stand beside the Doctor, the only Time Lords left in all of reality facing their greatest foes. "You see, the problem with that is, you've now brought us together, and made it that much easier for us to defeat you."
The Doctor smiled at this and said, "Alone, we beat the two of you. With us working together, do you really think you stand a chance?"
The Dalek and the Cyberman remained silent for a moment, and then moved out of the frame. The Doctors smiled at each other, impressed at how easily they had frightened them away, when the Dalek and Cyberman returned, with more unexpected company.
Both Doctors' hearts dropped, and Rose uttered a soft scream when she saw who the Cyberman held in his grasp.
Ellie, seemingly asleep in the Cyberman's cold metal arms, was their ultimate bargaining chip. Ten, unable to speak moved forward to touch the screen where his sleeping daughter lay, while Amy rushed over to embrace a silently sobbing Rose.
The Doctor stood alone to face his most difficult dilemma, and the Dalek, even with no facial expression, seemed to be exuding satisfaction.
"Well, Doctors, what will you choose? The girl or the universe? Either way, we will get to see you suffer."
With that, the screen went blank and the room was left in silence.