A short chapter, sorry, next one up tomorrow, possibly two but don't get your hopes up!

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Oh Peace Amidst Lies

As soon as they saw the Doctor and Rose appearing, Artemis and Foaly rushed over from the card game they had been playing. Foaly stopped when he saw Rose, deathly pale and not moving.
"Is she…?"
"She'll be okay." The Doctor told him.
"She just needs to rest."
The Doctor took Rose back to her old bedroom, and the others waited impatiently until he got back.
"Well?" asked Artemis.
"What happened?"
They cleared away the cards and sat down at the kitchen table. A mug full of tea popped into existence in front of the Doctor.
"Thanks." He told the TARDIS, looking up at the ceiling. The TARDIS hummed in response.
"Doctor?" prompted Artemis.
"Your design worked just fine Artemis-"
"Then why-?" began Foaly, but the Doctor continued like he never spoke.
"It took several hours for me to cross through the void, and I travelled through an entire universe that had collapsed and been pulled in, in this little transparent bubble of air. After finding Rose – which took some time – her parents let her come back on the condition that I take her to visit, and so we crossed the void again. But we noticed when we were almost here, that there was a rip in the bubble. It turned into a gaping hole, which the oxygen had been seeping out of, fine for me, but Rose…"
He threw a glance to the hallway.
"I tried to find the piece of bubble in the space behind us, and instead saw this creature with a hideous face, the creature was clinging to the bubble, I'm guessing that it was the one who ripped it.
Artemis and Foaly had been stunned into silence. The face kept swimming before the Doctor's eyes, in his mind. Looming out of the dark. Taunting him.
A face, thought Artemis, something that had tried to follow them here, from either Pete's World or the void itself…but what? And why?

It had been several hours, and the Doctor judged that was enough sleeping time for Rose. She hadn't come out of her room, but for once the Doctor was going to wake her up. He just found her again and brought her back and immediately she had to sleep, it was a bit unfair on his part. He needed to come to terms with the fact that she was back, she was back for good. She wasn't going to leave him, not now not ever. So that's why after he'd strolled the corridors of the TARDIS to her room, whistling, after he'd flung open the door, that's why he was so surprised to find her gone.

O.o!

Sorry about that cliffhanger but the next chapter shall be up tomorrow so not a long wait!

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"She was running, running from the past, running from the very thing she used to be."