I am really annoyed cause all the notes I'd written here have gone and I refuse to write them again, so very briefly, and also this chapter is short again, they are very inconsistent...ah well

1. thanks to anyone who has read/reviewed/story alerted

b) Thanks to LilyRose xD for her pointless editing and comments

iii. Next chapter shall be up tomorrow (5th of April)

* I have a really bad cold so feel sorry for me

# My list is rather odd...oh well, just read it!

VIII
Glimpses

There was white. Everywhere. Nothing but white stretching on and on forever. A never ending nothing. Swallowing up colour, temperature, sound. He had expected it to be black, enveloping blackness swallowing up any life that dared to try and cross it. But this was worse. With black darkness, you knew there are shadows, that there were dangers, though you didn't know where. With this white darkness, he was still unsure if it was actually dangerous or not. That's how it worked; it lulled you into a false sense of security, seeming harmless because it was bright. But he knew, knew not to trust it, not for a second, because that would be when it got dangerous. And then it was gone. And for a second he thought he was on the TARDIS console floor, because he was on something hard, flat and cold and it hurt. Then he realised he could see the sky. There's no sky in the TARDIS, he thought. That's when the zeppelin came into his line of sight, and he realised that the void-crossing button had worked; he was in Pete's World.

His pain at hitting his head on the road forgotten, the Doctor bounced up excitedly. He glanced around, trying to assess where he was. He realised he was in London when he saw the writing on the side of the taxi which swerved to avoid him, the driver shouting at him to get off the road. Only after he had moved out of its way, he realised that he should have just gotten into it and got it to take him to Rose. He shrugged to himself, and strode along the footpath, pausing at intersections before making a split-second decision and going one way randomly. As he strode along, looking purposeful, people jumped out of his way, like they had in the shopping centre. As he had done before, he ignored them. Striding down one street and up the next, looking like he knew where he was going.

After several hours of this, he finally faced the fact that he had no idea where the Tyler Mansion actually was. His excitement was beginning to wear off, and as he sat down on the footpath, he sighed. Because he had never even dared to allow himself to think that one day, he might be able to come back, he had never imagined that once he had crossed the void, that he would be unable to find her house. Of course, he could always just go to Torchwood 1, but he had already ruled this out for the way he had been treated in its parallel counterpart. He decided he couldn't sit on the footpath while he worked out how to actually find her. So he set off for a proper place to think. He passed several cafes, and considered briefly, sitting and thinking in one of those, but they would probably throw him out after only a few hours. He wandered around the streets aimlessly until he stopped at a park.
Not even pausing to admire the scenery, he strode across to a vacant bench and sat down on it. He retreated into his mind, trying to figure out how to find her. He began to get frustrated after only twenty minutes. He pulled on his hair and roamed his eyes around the park as if the plants could help him. Spotting a little toddler running across the park, he smiled briefly. He watched the blond boy stumble through the long grass, running arms outstretched towards a female figure. The boy tugged on the bottom of the woman's jacket, the highest point he could reach, and when she turned around, the Doctor's jaw actually fell open.

That's when he saw her, standing there. It was Rose. There she was, smiling at her brother Tony as she picked him up. The Doctor stood up abruptly, his mouth still open. He closed it with a snap, but continued to blink in shock for a few seconds. That's when Rose looked up, and saw him.

Yes another cliffhanger for you! Sorry about that! But the next chapter shall be up tomorrow, I PROMISE! so you don't have long to wait for it

Seeping Through Sneak Preview

"For a second, everything was white. Then it receded, the colour seeping through the whiteness until they realised where they were."

not a very good sneak preview, I know, but I've got big plans for this story, so just you wait!

a random note that I shall put here: Captain Thomas, Captain Leslie, Captain Bob and Captain Didi you (if you are still alive) are absolutely amazing! You guys are heros! Jo-Jo Bless You Legends!

got no idea why I put that there but it really needed saying....moving on

Thanks to LilyRose xD for being generally irritating and for obeying my command and writing a new chapter in her story The Doctor Down Under, go read that!

Reviews shall make my cold and headache go away!

The Sniffling God of Purple