Chapter Six

The water rushed around her as Rose came up for air then saw the Doctor a few feet in front of her. She swam as she reached out for him and took hold of the brown coat. She pulled him closer as she fought the water and headed for the shore. She pulled him up to the shore as Rose climbed up next to him and rolled him over.

"Doctor!" Rose shouted as she shook him then placed her head down on his wet chest. She didn't hear anything when she arched his head back as she tried to remember the CPR training she took in swim class at school and closed her eyes. She placed her mouth around his when she pinched his nose closed and breathed into him. She pressed down on the left side of his chest, did the same with the right side, when she breathed into him again, but he didn't wake up. She repeated the procedure two more times when she felt water going into her mouth and spit. She heard him coughing when she rolled him to his right side and the Doctor coughed the water out. She rolled him onto his back as he panted then laid her head down on his wet chest. She heard both of his hearts beating hard and fast in her ear in a matching rhythm as he looked at the sky and stroked her hair.

"Th-thank you," the Doctor whispered.

"You're welcome," Rose said when Ludo, Sir Didymus and Ambrosius came closer and she sat up.

"Is he alright?" Sir Didymus asked.

"Yes," Rose said when the Doctor reached into the pocket, took the billfold and the map out and sighed.

"They're all we-wet," the Doctor said, placing them back into the pocket.

"Don't talk," Rose said and stroked his wet hair back. The Doctor reached into the other pocket and felt the black rimmed glasses, but something was missing.

"Oh n-no."

"What?"

"I lo-lost my sonic sc-screwdriver."

"It's around here somewhere. Don't worry. We'll find it," Rose said as she stroked his hair and he sighed then coughed.

Ludo looked at them when he moaned while the Doctor looked at him and he tried not to laugh because Ludo was upside down.

"L-ludo, I'm a-alright. I'm no-not mad at you," the Doctor said and Ludo walked closer.

Ludo carefully picked the Doctor up when they walked along the riverbank and the Doctor placed his head against the soft fur. They walked onward when Rose turned and saw that the Doctor had closed his eyes. She walked to him when she checked him and he was asleep. They kept walking when Rose saw something sparkling in the sunlight and she ran down the riverbank. She smiled when she saw the sonic screwdriver sticking out of the sand and she picked it up. She dusted it off when she placed it in her pocket then walked back to them and they headed for the trees.

The sound of birds singing woke him when the Doctor slowly opened his eyes and felt something on his chest. He looked down when he saw Rose's hand resting on his bare chest and looked to his left. Rose slept next to him when her eyes opened and he smiled at her.

"You're awake!" Rose said as she snuggled closer and placed her head on his chest. His hearts thumped in her ear as she tapped her fingers to the beat while he looked at the ceiling.

"Where are we?" the Doctor asked.

"We found an abandoned house just down the beach. After Ludo broke…opened the door, I undressed you then put you to bed."

"You undressed me?"

"Not the first time."

"How long have I been asleep?"

"Three days," Rose said as she placed her head on his shoulder and stroked the hair on his chest.

"That tickles," he said with a small giggle.

"I kind of like it," she whispered and he blushed.

"Well, I would like to get up now," the Doctor said and Rose sat up.

"Your clothes are over there and, oh, I found your sonic screwdriver. Don't know if it works."

"Can you go and get me my clothes?" the Doctor asked and she nodded then got up. She walked to where his clothes were when she walked back to the bed and handed him his clothes. He went under the duvet as the duvet moved then he came out from under the duvet, looking at her. "What?

"Your hair is sticking up!" Rose said, laughing and he sighed. He smoothed his hair down as he watched her leave the room then got up. He carefully walked to the dresser when he saw the sonic screwdriver on the dresser and he picked it up. He turned it on as it made a beeping sound and he smiled, placed it down on the dresser and went to finish getting dressed.

"By the Great Mother and Father!" Mirror shouted when he tossed the crystal against the wall and stood up. "How can he be so lucky?"

Mirror walked down the hallway when he walked out onto a balcony and several hawcons turned and looked at him. Mirror waved his left hand when ghost like images of the Doctor and Rose appeared and he growled.

"Go! Bring me the blonde female!" Mirror demanded as the hawcons flew into the air and he smiled. Mirror walked to the doorway when he turned and watched the hawcon vanish from sight. "This is going to be interesting! Which one will you save, Doctor, your friend or Zeeni?"

The Doctor led the way as he held onto Rose's hand and the landscape changed from grass land to a canyon. They walked along as the Doctor looked up at the cliffs and the rocky ledges and frowned.

"What are you looking at?" Rose asked and the Doctor took the sonic screwdriver out and scanned the cliffs and ledges.

"We're being watched," the Doctor whispered.

"Where?" Rose asked, looking around.

"There!" the Doctor said, pointing and something moved on the ledge to their left.

"What should we do?"

"Don't move," the Doctor said when something swooped down onto the lower rocky ledge and he placed Rose behind him.

"What do we do?" Sir Didymus asked when something landed in front of them and he yelped.

"What is that?" Rose asked.

The hawcon looked at them when the Doctor aimed the sonic screwdriver at it and the claws clicked on the ground.

"Hawcon," the Doctor growled and Rose looked at the hawcon. The hawcon watched them when the hawcon made some clicking noises then flew into the air. The dust blew around them when the Doctor saw other hawcons and he took Rose's hand.

"Run!"

They ran as the hawcons flew after them and Rose screamed covering her head. They ran as the hawcons darted side to side, barely skimming the rock walls, and the Doctor fired the sonic screwdriver making the rocks over the hawcons explode. The rocks pounded the hawcons when one of the hawcons swooped down and grabbed Rose lifting her off the ground.

"Doctor!" Rose shouted as he took aim then felt something bump into his leg.

"Fire and you might hit her!" Sir Didymus said. The hawcon flew higher and higher until it gently dropped Rose onto the back of a strong looking hawcon then the hawcons flew out of the canyon.

"ROSE!" the Doctor shouted then sank to the ground. "I lost her!"

"We will find her, Doctor, or die trying!" Sir Didymus said as he took out the small sword and held it high over his head.

"Well, I don't know about that dying part, but you're right!" the Doctor said when he got up and they walked down the pathway.

"I will find you, Rose Tyler!" the Doctor thought and his hearts thundered in his chest.

The air was ice cold as Rose watched the landscape change and the wind whistled in her ears. The wings thundered around her when she saw the dark stone castle in front of her and blinked.

"What is that?" Rose asked as the hawcon headed for the dark stone castle and landed on the balcony. Rose got off when she felt something nudge into her and turned around, looking at the hawcon. "Oi, no need to shove!"

Rose walked toward the large glass doors when she opened the doors and walked inside. She walked down the long hallway as she looked around when she felt something bump into her back and she turned around.

"What?" asked Rose as the hawcon moved its head to the left and they went down the hallway. The hallway led to a large ivory door when she opened the door and walked inside the room. She looked around when she saw the throne at the back of the room and walked closer.

"Hello," Mirror said when he stood up then walked closer as Rose crossed her arms across her chest and frowned.

"Who are you?"

"Who do you think I am?"

"Nol?"

"Maybe"

"What does THAT mean!?"

"That's for you to figure out!"

"Where's Zeeni!?"

"What do you want with my daughter!?"

"She isn't your daughter! She's Jareth's!" Rose shouted and Mirror walked closer, locking eyes with her.

"NEVER say that name!" Mirror snarled when he went to slap her and Rose grabbed his wrist.

"Don't even think it. You hurt me and the Doctor will roast you alive."

"I am not afraid of your dear Doctor."

"You should be!"

"You want to see my daughter? Fine," Mirror said when he walked to the door and Rose followed him out of the room. They went down the hallway, down several stairs then down a long hallway and Rose looked at him.

"You put her down here?"

"Little wart bit me!"

"That doesn't give you the right to lock her up!" Rose said when they came to a door and he opened the door. Rose gasped when he shoved her inside the cell and closed the door. She turned as she pounded on the door and could just see him in the tiny opening in the door. "Let me out!"

"No!" Mirror said with a wild smile and walked away.

"Great," Rose sighed when she slid to the floor and looked at the shadows. The shadows blended around her when something moved in the darkness and she looked around. She found a rock to her left when she moved up the door and held the rock tightly in her hand. She watched the shadows when something stood in front of her and she looked down then blinked.