This chapter was so much fun to write! I think it's going to be the best chapter in this whole story!

This chapter is dedicated to my sister… because she asked me to.

I OWN NOTHING

Chapter 9

The Doctor – 1st person

"Rose!" I yelled. "Nothing's impossible with her!"

I picked her up bridal style. Her eyes fluttered open. "Hey." She whispered.

"Sh… sleep love." I said. She closed her eyes.

I brought her into the TARDIS and walked into the infirmary. I laid her down on one of the beds and pulled the covers over her.

I walked out of the infirmary and got the family. I brought them to their punishments. They wanted to live forever? I gave them that.

I walked back to the infirmary to find Joan, Martha, and Tim standing around Rose.

"I think I should come and check on her tomorrow." Said Joan.

"No, I think we'll be fine." I said.

"I'm the only one who's actually trained here." Said Joan.

I sighed. "Oh… fine! Come at 9:00 a.m. on the dot!"

Joan nodded. "I need to go, come on Tim."

They walked out of the infirmary and into the control room. "Wait! Don't… oh you'll find out." I said.

Joan opened the doors and froze. We were still in space, hovering above Earth. "I should probably get us back to 1913." Joan closed the doors and I pressed a few buttons on the console.

After a little bit of shaking, I walked over to the doors and opened them. "I think John Smith needs to resign." I said.

A few minutes later we arrived at the school. I straightened my long brown coat and walked into the headmaster's office. (If you didn't see it, Rose brought all the people back to life and fixed history. Some remember the incident, like the headmaster for example.)

I sat down across from the headmaster. "Mister Smith, you seem to have been involved with this mess, and I don't know how, but there are people that were dead that are walking in this school right now." Said the headmaster.

"First of all, I'm not John Smith, I'm called the Doctor. Long story." I added when the headmaster opened his mouth. "Most people don't remember what happened, thanks to Rose, but people who were in the thick of it remember. Like you and the school boys, for instance." I said.

"But what actually happened?" He asked.

"Extra-terrestrial life forms. They take over the human body. Rose took care of fixing history, I took care of the family." I said.

"And how do you have this knowledge?"

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

"Try me."

"You'll think I'm insane."

"No I won't."

I sighed. "Extra-terrestrial life form." I said, gesturing to myself. "I do this kinda stuff every day."

"I… um… I…" Stuttered the headmaster.

"Don't even bother." I interrupted. I stood up and pushed in my chair. "Just say that Mister John Smith, Miss Rose Tyler, and Miss Martha Jones have resigned." I gave a quick nod and left the room.

By the time I got back to the TARDIS, the sun had gone down. I pushed open the doors and found Martha sitting in the captain's chair, reading a Harry Potter book.

"Good choice." I said, nodding to her book. She smiled at me.

"Thanks."

I walked down the hall and into the infirmary. Rose was still asleep, her hand hanging off the side of the bed.

I pulled up a chair next to her bed. I sat down and grabbed her hand. "Hey Rose. Did you miss me?"

She mumbled something and turned over on her side. I smiled and kissed her forehead. "Goodnight Rose."

*The next morning*

Martha came into the console room. She still looked half asleep. "What time is it?" She asked.

"I don't know, we're floating in the vortex right now." I said, flipping a few switches. I took a sip of my coffee.

"Is that coffee?" Asked Martha.

"Yeah, thought I'd try it out. It's pretty good." I said.

"Doesn't Joan need to check on Rose?" She asked.

"Oh… yeah." I pressed a few buttons and flipped a switch.

The TARDIS wasn't as shaky as usual. It seemed like she was trying to be extra gentle.

We landed in 1913 at exactly 9:00 a.m. Martha walked out of the console room and down the hall.

About a minute later, there was a knock at the TARDIS door. I ran over and threw it open. (The caffeine was starting to get to me.)

"Hello Joan!" I said happily.

She nodded. "Doctor." She stared at me for a few seconds. "You look so different in… that." She nodded to my coat.

"Don't insult the coat." I said. "C'mon, the infirmary's this way." I led her down the hallways and into the infirmary.

Martha was already there, using my stethoscope to check Rose's heartbeat.

We walked up to her. If she noticed us, she didn't show it. She moved the stethoscope over a bit. "That's odd…" she mumbled.

She moved it over some more and gave a little gasp. "Martha? What is it?" Asked Joan, fumbling for Rose's wrist. Joan felt her pulse, and gasped. "There's something wrong with her heart!"

Martha quickly regained her composure and looked at Joan. "Oh, no, her heart's fine." She said, turning to me. "Both of them."

I dropped my cup, and coffee went everywhere. I snatched the stethoscope out of Martha's hand and put it on.

I felt the left side of her chest, then her right. Two heart beats. "But that's impossible…" I whispered.

Rose's lips parted a bit and a little golden wisp of energy floated out. "There's the proof…"

"But… then you're not the last Time Lord." Said Martha.

"Forever… she promised me forever. And now that's going to happen." I whispered, a small smile forming on my face.

"How long will she be out?" Asked Martha.

"Oh, only about three more hours. She's in a healing coma, those last about a day." I said.

"So that glowing light… the 'bad wolf', it changed Rose? She… she's like you know?" Said Joan, directing the last part at the Doctor.

"Oh yes! Rose Tyler, that fantastic girl!" I said, jumping up and giving Rose a kiss on the forehead.

"But… what if she doesn't like it?" Asked Martha.

I automatically stopped jumping around. "I didn't think about that… we'll just have to see. I need to check something in the console room. I'll be right back."

I walked out of the infirmary and into the console room.

"What's going to happen?" I asked the TARDIS.

"She looked into the vortex, through my heart. She's tied to my life force. When I die, she dies." Said the TARDIS.

"And you die… when I die." I whispered. "Oh, you magnificent ship."

We took shifts sitting with Rose. When Martha sat with her, I took Joan on a tour of the TARDIS.

"Joan… would you want to travel with me?" I asked her.

"I… I don't think I can. Looking at you every day would be a nightmare. Because… even though you are John… in a way… you aren't, if that makes any sense." She said.

I nodded. "I understand."

"So, that whole 'bad wolf' thing. What's that about?" She asked.

"About a year and a half ago, there was this battle. I sent Rose home so she would be safe, but she tried everything to get back. So eventually she looked into the heart of the TARDIS, and since the TARDIS is telepathic, she got her wish. She made it back to the battle, and defeated it with a flick of her hand. But it was killing her, all that energy, so I had to take it out of her by…" I trailed off.

"By what?" Asked Joan.

"I had to kiss her, ok? She doesn't remember it so it doesn't matter. And the reason she called it 'bad wolf' is because those two words followed us everywhere. And when she looked into the heart of the TARDIS, she scattered those words across time and space, every time there's trouble. And that pub was called Bad Wolf Pub. And that's why I look like this, because I took the time vortex out of her and it almost killed me…" I finished.

I took Joan back to the infirmary, trying to avoid any more awkward conversations.

I walked in and sat next to Rose. I was just in time to see her eyes flutter open. "Hey, sleepy head." I whispered.

"Hey…" She said quietly. I smiled and one side of her mouth twitched upwards. "I'm tired and my head is pounding."

She frowned and put her hand on the left side of her chest. Her frowned deepened and she put her hand on the right side of her chest.

Her eyes widened and she grabbed onto my arm. "Doctor! Hear… hearts!" She said, pointing to her chest.

She started flailing around, trying to get out of the bed. I gently pushed her back down and laced my fingers with hers. "I know. Sh… its fine. I'll explain later."

"Tell me now."

I stroked her cheek with my thumb and she calmed down a bit. I tightened my grip on her hand.

"Fine. When you became the Bad Wolf again, it killed you, but only for a little bit. I don't know how, but you died and came back to life. And when you did, the time vortex started changing you. Two hearts… your like me."

"So… I'll regenerate?" She asked.

"No… since you looked into the heart of the TARDIS, and that's what changed you, you're tied to her life force. You'll die when the TARDIS dies… and that's when I die." I said.

She looked shocked for a second, and then a smile spread across her face. She launched herself at me and wrapped her arms around my neck. I fell off of the bed and she landed on top of me.

"Forever!" She yelled, bursting into a fit of happy laughter.

"I was scared that you wouldn't like this!" I said, trying- and failing- to hold in my laughter.

"I get to spend forever with you! Why wouldn't I like it?"

"Ahem." I heard next to me. I turned to see Martha and Joan looking at us awkwardly.

"Oh… yeah." I mumbled. I stood up and helped Rose up.

I looked at Martha, and then at Rose. "I forgot to say… I'm sorry. I'm so very sorry. And Rose, I'm sorry you had to go through all of that, me not knowing who you were."

Rose wrapped her arms around me. "I'm glad you said that." She said happily.

She shivered a bit. "Why is it so cold?" She complained.

"Oh, that's a side effect from the healing coma. You lost a bit of energy, and that can make you cold." I said. I took off my coat and put it on her. "Here, use this."

She put her arms through it and smiled. "I feel like a little girl in her daddy's clothes." She said.

She was right, the coat was huge. The sleeves covered her hands and the bottom of the coat was on the floor.

"It looks cute." I said. The words had left my mouth before I even thought about what I was saying.

I looked away awkwardly. After a few moments of silence, I grabbed Rose's hand and dragged her to the console room.

Rose Tyler – 1st person

Everything felt so strange. I was still trying to process the fact that I was a Time Lo- Lady.

I ran my hand across the console. "Doctor, I know how to drive the TARDIS." I whispered.

He smiled at me. "This is going to be fun."

I looked at the screen on the console. "Doctor… I thought the TARDIS didn't translate Gallifreyan."

"It doesn't. You can read it." He said, coming to stand next to me.

"There's the date, and over there is the time. And are those coordinates?" I asked. He nodded. "It says November 27, 1913." (The slanted words are either two people talking telepathically or someone speaking in Gallifreyan)

"Yes, and you just spoke Gallifreyan, and I am right now." Said the Doctor. It still sounded like English, but his voice was different. The words weren't correct, it just sounded different.

"I'm speaking Gallifreyan! Right here, right now! It feels so weird, like I'm not speaking English even though it sounds like it! And I have a different accent too!" I exclaimed, skipping around the console.

I looked over at Joan and Martha, who were staring at us. "I thought the TARDIS translated everything." Said Martha.

"Everything except Gallifreyan!" The Doctor said happily, peeking out from the other side of the console.

"That was Gallifreyan?" Asked Martha, and I nodded.

"It's such a beautiful language." Whispered Joan.

"And now I'm not the only one who understands it!"

"I think I should be going." Said Joan. She walked over to the TARDIS doors and opened them.

"Joan!" I called, and she turned to look at me. "I'm sorry for everything you've gone through. Find someone you love, will you do that for me?" I asked.

She nodded. "Good luck, Matron." I said.

"And to you, Miss Tyler." And with that, she left the TARDIS.