Feeling not rested at all, Rose stepped into the console room... hand in hand with the Doctor who refused to let her out of his sight for even one second. Had she known what awaited her ten seconds later, she would have pushed him away before stepping through that fateful door...
"You sinners! You disbelievers in the beauty of heaven! How dare you?! How dare you spitting into the face of the Almighty?!"
Jack's piercing voice was like a pack of ice being thrown inside your knickers. Not. Comfortable. At. All.
Feeling a headache approaching, Rose groaned and glared at Jack's index finger, which pointed accusingly at her mere inches away from her face. "What did we do now?! Holding hands a crime now? Too much skin contact for your drugged crazy self?"
"Y-You... y-you... y-you..." Jack stuttered, thinking about the incredibility of their crime.
"We what, you sorry excuse for a monk?! I can do what I want with my future wife! That's none of your business!" the Doctor said angrily, slapping Rose's ass to underline his statement and being kicked by her in return.
Suddenly, it dawned on Rose what Jack was thinking. "Wha-... No! Jack, the Doctor and I didn't do anything... naughty... in my room! He was just watching me sleep."
"Liar! I heard him breathing hard when I passed your door last night! And now you came here, looking like a... like a..." Jack's voice trailed off, when he noticed her look.
"Like a what?!" Rose half yelled, half growled, feeling every bit like her mother but not caring about it for once.
Jack shrieked in fear and hid behind the console. A few sparks flew around the room, making it obvious that the TARDIS shared Rose's annoyance at the two's behaviour.
Turning away from the cowering Jack (the sight was too pathetic...), Rose looked at the Doctor instead and asked with raised eyebrows, "Hard breathing? You did only watch me... right?" Rose complemented herself for the dangerous tone of her voice before using the same glare for the Doctor as she did for Jack. If the Doctor would be in his right mind, he wouldn't bat an eyelash at her accusing question, but this one looked like he was about to cry... Then her eyes wandered down to his trousers and back up, looking accusingly into the Doctor's blue ones.
"Doctor... you changed your trousers didn't-"
"Alright, Rose Tyler! You wanted to go to Transphilmonia, desert planet in the Quadros Galaxy, right?" he said suddenly, jumped to the console and transported them into the vortex.
Rose knew of course that he only wanted to change the subject, but for once, let it drop. Seriously, she could live without knowing the answer to that...
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A few minutes later, the TARDIS came to such an abrupt stop, that Jack and the Doctor were thrown across the room, while Rose was lucky enough to stand beside one of the columns, she always hold onto. She also had the feeling that the TARDIS chose exactly this moment to land because the Doctor and Jack were nowhere near something to hold.
Silently reassuring the TARDIS inside her head and gaining a thankful hum for it, Rose kicked the whimpering Jack through the doors (he still wore an ridiculous amount of clothes) and showed the Doctor with a very clear hand gesture what she would do to him, if he kept fingering her butt.
"Right. Same rules as yesterday, boys. Don't do anything stupid, just... just follow me and act normal." Rose knew in the same moment her words left her lips that this was an impossible thing to ask and was proved right when Jack passed out on the market place because the heat and the layers of clothes became too much for him. The Transphilmonians were a pretty helpful and polite folk as it seemed. As soon as Jack touched the ground, everyone on the place rushed to him, slapping his face gently and asking what was wrong with the chubby human (Rose had to laugh at that... Jack's ego was in for some surprises when she told him all about it later). Despite their friendly nature, they had yellow bodies with brown spots, slightly longer arms and feet than humans and big goggle eyes.
One of them approached Rose with a big smile (that showed some very impressing teeth...) and asked, "Is this your friend, miss?" When Rose nodded, he (or she?) continued. "I'm afraid, he isn't feeling too well... it looks like the Ungarish Pox to me. His face is all red... do you know of any such health problems, miss?"
Before Rose could answer, the Doctor intervened. "Nope! The big idiot is just wearing too many clothes, I bet. The clever little apes aren't really made for this heat."
The endearing name for her race, he used, startled Rose for a moment until she realised that he is still drugged by some alien insect.
Hearing the Doctor's words, the aliens peeled Jack's clothes off of him until he lay there in trousers and t-shirt. Thanks to a good positioned kick from the Doctor (the aliens gasped at the rudeness of such a gesture) Jack began to stir. Upon realising his state of dress, he jumped up and tried to hide his exposed skin. After bestowing some rather unkind words of the Transphilmonians going to hell and all that, Rose grabbed him by the ear and dragged him over to the Doctor so he could watch over him (and kick him once or twice again...). Rose went back to the aliens and apologised again and again and again, until one Transphilmonian hold up his hand and told her it was alright.
"Don't worry about it. This happens all the time... But let me ask you: Is something wrong with your friend? He seems strange..."
Rose sighed in relieve to finally be able to address their reason of being here. "Yes, he has been stung by either the Aerona bee or the Hanceldonian fly, which is why we are here..."
"Ah, yes! That explains everything of course! But... may I ask, if he showed any sign of extreme aggressiveness towards you?" the alien asked kindly.
"No, not at all... Why? Is that important?" Rose already felt the easy solution slipping through her fingers.
"Yes. The Aerona bee, whose origin is on our planet, effects the character much deeper than the Hanceldonian fly. It changes every little feeling... Love becomes hate and hate becomes love. If they are truly your friends, then they would at the very least show a certain dislike towards you."
"Then it has to be that fly? But that woman... she said it doesn't exist anywhere else than on their planet!"
The alien's... well, Rose thought it was his eyebrow... raised in wonder. "Really? That's strange... We had people here who were stung by it from all over the universe... I'm no specialist, but I thought it was a very common insect."
Rose gaped at him. If what he was saying was true, then that meant... "B-But... then she lied to me? She was so nice... Why should she lie?"
"Maybe you should ask that woman?" the Transphilmonian said, trying to be helpful.
"You bet, I will," Rose answered through gritted teeth before looking at her friends and groaning at the sight. "Doctor, stop it! You don't want to kill him..."
And with very murderous thoughts, she dragged them back to the TARDIS...
While watching the strange humans walking away, Toro (the alien) thought that at the very least, that Doctor showed an unusual degree of violence.
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I know, I'm mean to them but... it's sooo much fun :P
Not much more to go now ;)