Rose

I closed the door behind him and walked back to the main control room. The Doctor was going to kill me. Bringing a random stranger into the TARDIS without his permission what was she thinking. I couldn't help it though I knew what it was like to lose family and I knew Nico wasn't lying but he might not. I walked into the control room and found the Doctor leaning against the railing watching me walk in. My pace slowed.

"Hi there so we heading to Germany" I asked carefully.

"You know Rose" he said calmly "I really thought you were smart I thought you were different from the rest of the stupid buffoons on earth but apparently I was wrong" he yelled slamming his hands down on the railing. I flinched. "I mean really, how you can be so thick as to let some kid you just met in the middle of some forest in New York of all places into the TARDIS is beyond me. You did see the knife he was holding right. He could easily get up in the middle of the night and slit our throats, and then the TARDIS would be in the hands of a mental crazy person who could go through time destroying reality causing paradox after paradox until we cease to exist." He slammed his hand on the railing again.

"Well someone cut himself shaving this morning" I muttered under my breath.

"I did not!"

"The kid was lost and alone in the forest by himself. His sister just died and some person tried to murder him. Whatever happened to the Doctor that only interferes when children are crying? Was that just a one-time thing?" I was trying not to yell now but he was making it extremely difficult.

"You ever think the psychopath just might be lying. You did hear hm going on and on about gods and satyrs. People do lie in the real world Rose. Maybe I need to drop you back off at home so you can get another dose of reality. I'm sure your mother would enjoy a visit." He was threatening to send me home of all the nerve.

"Doctor he wasn't lying. You don't need some kind of emotion reading scan to know that. That ten year old boy has been truly hurt. I know what it's like to lose someone you love. Someone who's close to you whether it's a family member or a friend. It hurts something inside of you breaks."

"Rose you don't need to tell me what it's like to lose someone you love." His voice was calm now. "I've lost everyone I have ever known, and you know what makes it worse? When their deaths are your fault." He was rubbing his forehead as if trying to get rid of a headache.

"Well another reason why I brought him on the TARDIS was because of all that talk about gods. I was hoping maybe she could do a truth scan see what's wrong with him or if he's telling the truth. For all we know we've crossed into another dimension where gods exist."

The Doctor sighed "maybe you aren't so thick after all."

"I'll take that as a complement."

"I'll have the TARDIS run a scan on the surrounding environment ounce we land in Germany. Then when the kids gotten some sleep we'll talk to him."

"O good you are no longer calling him the psychotic maniac. I really do think you cut yourself shaving this morning. You've been Mr. Cranky and negative all day today. Going on and on about all the races your better then. You really are full of yourself sometimes aren't you?"

"Rose Tyler I only speak the truth. I am better than all the races in the universe. I mean really how could you not think I was better than the Daleks murdering scum, and the Macra, and the Auton, and the Nestene, and the Silurian, and the Sontaran ugh definitely the sontaran I mean I know they are a great warrior nation but really they look like napoleon was messing around with a potato one night and they were the result. I'm also better than the Gelth, and the Sycorax, and the Graske, and the Pelushi, and the…"

"You know what Doctor I'm going to go to bed so I can get some sleep." Really I just didn't want to hear him continue to rant on like that. He could go on forever, trust me I know.

"Have fun" he waved me off and went back to messing with the TARDIS controls still muttering the names of races he was better then. I slightly remember the time when I wasn't sure he knew what he was doing. The time didn't last long. It really it only lasted for about five minutes when he popped up at my mum's apartment pocking his head through the cat door.

I started walking down a hallway and pictured the door to my room. I stopped walking and opened my eyes. There in front of me was the door to my bedroom. That's how I navigated the TARDIS hallways. I found that if I pictured the door to the room I wanted to go to then it would appear. Almost as if the TARDIS read my mind, which of course it did.

It wasn't really that disturbing knowing that the TARDIS was in my head. It was actually kind off helpful considering it translated other languages for me. It's also a relief knowing I don't have to sit through hours of classes learning all those languages like I did for Spanish. I still couldn't speak Spanish after all of those classes. It was probably because the teacher Mr. Martine put me to sleep so easily. I mean with his long boring monotone voice and his…

Gahh. My thoughts were rambling on just like the Doctor did sometimes. It only happened when I was stressed. I was definitely stressed about this Nico problem. What if we really were in another dimension? If the gods really did exist did that mean my dad was in the underworld ruled over by Hades? Would he be in the Fields of Asphodel, or the Elysian? So many questions were running through my mind it made me dizzy. Maybe sleep would help. I opened the door to my room. There was a large bed a wardrobe and a door that led to a bathroom. Nothing fancy. Everything was just almost exactly like my mums apartment.

After a quick shower I got in an old shirt and some sweatpants and crawled into bed, and fell asleep instantly.