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My parents are watching the Super Bowl right now, so they moved our parakeets downstairs so the baby wouldn't be affected by the noise of my mom shouting...

-Fang

Rose was laying in a chair in the library as the Doctor walked in. He glanced down to see the title of the book she was reading. A Guide to Gallifrey: Its Inhabitants and Language.

"Hello!" Rose said brightly in Gallifreyan, but still mangling the words.

"No, you pronounced it all wrong. Its hello." The Doctor told her, smiling at her attempts to learn his language. "Besides, it would be much faster if I would take the time to learn English... oh, I'm glad you didn't understand that..."

"Huh?" Rose muttered, not understanding the Doctor's fast, foreign speech.

"Uh... Be... Back... Later." The Doctor said in slow, hesitant English. Rose nodded. She smiled and said something in English (that language was so harsh!).

"Bye Doctor!" Rose said happily in English. He looked at her oddly then walked off.

I wonder what that look was for? Rose wondered. Maybe English sounds really bad to his ears. Maybe if Gallifreyan sounds musical and pretty to me, maybe English sounds harsh to him...

Rose shrugged and returned to her book.

A loud thudding on the TARDIS doors welcomed the Doctor as he walked into the main control room. He walked over to the outside monitor and looked out. What looked like a tall, grey man with a scorpion's tail was banging on the door. The Doctor's eyes brightened in recognition. It was Savos, one of his old friends from when he and the Nex hadn't been trying to kill each other.

"Doctor, let me in!" Savos called in Falopian, one of the most commonly used languages in the universe. Luckily the Doctor knew it too.

The TARDIS's door swung open and Savos stepped in. They swung shut after him as he ran over to the Doctor.

"So, why are you here?" He asked curiously.

"I was hoping you'd know, you see, we were dragged here through space and time. The Nex have disabled all of the TARDIS's outgoing signals, so the translator isn't working."

The two men turned as they heard a gasp and the glass shatter. Rose was standing amid pieces of shattered glass, staring at Savos in shock.

"Wait!" The Doctor called in Falopian, forgetting that Rose couldn't speak it. A strong, grey hand stopped him from running after her.

"What tongue does she speak?" The Nex asked him calmly. Savos was a Master-of-Tongues, he could speak hundreds.

"Old Earth English, and her name is Rose." The Doctor replied glumly.

"Let me go and help her, I can speak English." Savos told him.

"Okay, but... be gentle with her, she might be really scared." Savos nodded and strolled out of the control room to find Rose.

Rose was hiding in a small room that was sparsely furnished, with only a table and a small, metal chair. Suddenly, another chair appeared as the tall, grey man from earlier walked in.

"Rose?" He asked, speaking English but with a strange accent.

"What are you?" Rose asked, noticing a long, grey, scorpion-like tail flicking back and forth like a cat's.

"I am one of the Nex, a Master-of-Tongues, specifically. I am Savos, and I am pleased to meet you." The grey man answered, again with the strange accent.

"Rose. How are you able to speak English but the Doctor can't?"

"The Doctor only learns the languages most commonly used in the Universe, such as Falopian. I, on the other hand, have dedicated my life to learning all the languages I can."

"How many does he know? How many do you know?" Rose asked, her curiosity getting the best of her

"The Doctor knows about 5, including Gallifreyan. I know over one thousand." Savos told her honestly.

"So, do you know why we were pulled here, and why they disabled the translator?" Rose asked again, still curious about this scorpion-man who could speak thousands of languages.

"No, but I'm going to take the Doctor to someone who can tell him." With a flash of pain, Savos stuck his tail into Rose's arm, effectively knocking her out.

All Rose could see was Savos walking away.

"Hopefully you won't die. I'll need you later."

Did anyone expect that? Review please?

Some notes on stuff I've mentioned:

1) Yes, Falopian and the Nex are 100% made up by me, Fang

2) The Nex look exactly as I described them in the story: Tall, grey people with scorpion's tails.

3) The Doctor learns whatever languages that are most commonly spoken.

4) As for one of my reviews, let's just pretend, for the sake of this story, that the TARDIS translates Gallifreyan, okay? :D

Now, let me ramble about my grades. I got all A's in every subject except Spanish. Know why that bugs me? I can speak Spanish quite fluently and have been speaking it since kindergarten. Also, apparently I "exhibit talent" in Language Arts. Huh, I didn't know that...

-Fang