I'm so so so so so so SO uber sorry about how long it took me to update. Just there was vacation which equals skiing and lots of occasions parties and... oh I've been busy. But, despite the fact that I have a Biology test on Monday I decided to update. Thank you, however, for remaining forever loyal.
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All six of them were running like mad to get to the blue box. They weren't sure when the effects on the cybermen would ware off and they didn't really want to find out. Eleventh Doctor lead the way with his key in the ready position. Everyone dodged the cybermen as they struggled to keep up with the two Doctors.
Finally they arrived to the familiar blue box. The Eleventh Doctor snapped several times but when the door didn't open he fumbled with his keys and pushed open the door. He held the door open as everyone piled in. He turned around and saw River in the hands of a cyberman.
"RIVER!" He ran towards her, sonic at the ready. The cyberman holding River was slightly moving some of his finger. The Doctor looked at his wife and saw the pain in her face.
"Don't touch it!" she managed to spit out.
"They're waking up" He looked at his sonic for the results. "Seventy two seconds."
"Until?"
"Until all the cybermen regain their power. Okay, this'll take twenty to fifty seconds..." He said while sonicing the Cyberman's hand. "Bare with me."
"What are you doing?"
"Isolating its finger from its body so that for five seconds we are able to move them. When I say 'go' pull your hand free and get. Inside. The TARDIS."
"And you?"
"I'll be right behind you." Somehow, River couldn't believe him.
"Doctor, the cyberman are rising. In the distance, the Doctor could hear the faint cries of the public and the yells of the cybermen yelling 'DELETE' as they terrorized the streets.
"We still have twenty nine seconds until this one wakes up. Okay, GO!" River pulled her hand free and ran towards the TARDIS. She stopped and looked bak for a second. Just long enough to see the Doctor running towards her and the cybermen awaking. She opened the doors and ran inside.
The Eleventh Doctor was about to go in the TARDIS when he noticed Rose still standing outside.
"Rose! What are you doing? Get inside!"
"Sorry. Yeah " she said finally coming back to Earth.
"What were you doing?"
"Nothing. It's just... After all this time, coming back to my own universe... I expected this to be just as I remembered it. My apartment has been sold. My friends think I'm dead, so I've got no friends either. You've got yourself another girlfriend. And you've changed your face again. Now it's just so nice to see something that I remember. Something that'll never change. Your little blue box."
Eleventh Doctor stared at Rose. The Cybermen's cries reminded both of them where they were and what happening. He pushed open the door and followed Rose in.
"Doctor, don't you dare do that again!" River said. "You said you'd be right behind me!"
"I was. But I wasn't going to leave Rose-" He turned towards Rose to gesture to her. "...Rose?"
"You changed it" Rose hissed.
"I did what?"
"The TARDIS! " she yelled. "The one thing I thought would never change. Well, congratulations! You've managed to destroy my last hope."
"I like it" Amy said trying to make things better.
"Shut up! No one asked for your opinion!"
"Hey! Don't talk to her like that!" Rory yelled.
"Rose, leave them alone. Just sit down and calm down for a while" Eleventh Doctor suggested. Rose stared at him before slapping him. She then stormed off towards one of the doors.
"Where are you going?" Eleventh Doctor asked.
"To the library!" Rose said.
"That's the wardrobe."
"AAAAGGGGGHHHHHH! YOU CHANGED EVERYTHING!" She then continued to storm off into the wardrobe. The Eleventh Doctor looked at his three companions with a pleading look.
"Fine, fine! We'll go talk to her" Amy said pulling Rory along with her. River stared at her Doctor before agreeing.
The Eleventh Doctor sat down next to his duplicate.
"Sorry about her" Tenth Doctor said. "She was just... expecting something different."
"Yeah. I talked to her. Why isn't she happy in the parallel world? I thought she had gotten everything she wanted."
"Welll... it seemed like that at first. She had her dad, her mum, majority of her friends and... me. But she didn't have her adventures anymore. And she didn't have her Doctor." The Eleventh Doctor opened his mouth to speak but the Tenth Doctor hushed him. "Yes, she has me. But there's something we forgot. Half Doctor. Half Donna."
"Oh-"
"So that's when I decided to grow the TARDIS like you had suggested. It was a big surprise for her and we went on loads of adventures. It seemed that our problems were solved. But not really. Only ever when we were on adventures was she happy with me."
"So once you heard about the cybermen-"
"We headed straight for them. What better way to spark our relationship than a bit of danger?"
"It can't really affect her this much, can it?"
"I hear her talk to Jackie. Sometimes she doesn't even call me Doctor anymore. To her, I'm 'Duplicate'."
"But Donna's personality doesn't really show..."
"I try my best to hide it."
"I'm sorry, mate" Eleventh Doctor said while patting Tenth Doctor's back . "Maybe now that she sees that I'm much worst... things'll get better..."
"Hopefully."
Rose ran through the wardrobe, fighting the tears that threatened. She knew that the Doctor had sent his new companions after him. She hid behind the rack of clothing trying to stop the tears.
"Hey" the red-headed Scottish girl called out to her. "Are you alright?"
"What do you think?" she spat, her voice cracking.
"Well, I don't see any reason for a reaction like that."
"How would you feel? If you had spent two years with him, fell in love with him and then got sent to a parallel world without him. Then, finally you get back into your own world with your own Doctor only to get sent back to your parallel universe with a duplicate. Then you come back only to see that you've been replaced! That everything you knew got replace?"
"It's not his fault, you know."
"No? Then whose fault is it?"
"The TARDIS was destroyed" River cut in. "He needed to repair it. He was dying. He needed to regenerate. He met me and fell in love. And if you love him, you'll let it go. As for your friends, I'm sorry they think you're dead but those are some risks you have to take."
"Shut up. I don't want to hear from you right now."
"Hey! Don't talk to my daughter like that!" Rory yelled.
"Your what?"
"Our daughter" Amy said.
"Your what?"
"Look, I of all people know what it's like to experience a complicated, heart breaking relationship with the Doctor. But it's worth it. No matter which Doctor you have. Be happy with what you have. A human Doctor that you can spend the rest of your life with. You couldn't have that with this Doctor."
"Oh, and you can?"
"As a matter of fact, I can. I'm a Timelady." And for the first time, Rose smiled. "If you don't mind, I'm going to go see if the Doctors need any help." River walked away before Rose could interrupt her again.
"Well, this all makes sense now. Everything. You guys are Timelords, aren't you?" Rose said.
"She is. We aren't."
"But... how?"
"Long, long story" Amy said rolling her eyes.
"So they can live happily ever after because they are of the same species. But I can't."
"What are you talking about? You've got your human Doctor, made for you. why can't you realize what you have. He's probably closer to your Doctor than you think. Because, judging from what I've seen so far, these two Doctors are completely different people."
When Rose didn't respond, Amy looked at Rory and shrugged. She had tried. That was all she could do. So with Rory's hand in hers they left Rose to be alone for a while.
Rose stared off into space as she remembered her Doctor. He was a different man to the current Doctor. A very different man. And that wasn't the man she had fallen in love with. Meanwhile, the 'Duplicate' of her Doctor was a close as anyone could get.
So she stood up, realized what a fool she was being, and walked out of the wardrobe. She faced the two Doctors who were eagerly awaiting her. She sat down on the couch that they were sharing and squeezed in between them.
"I... may have overreacted..." Rose said quietly. She looked into the Tenth Doctor's eyes and then leaned her head on his shoulder. The Eleventh Doctor stood up quickly.
"Right. Now that all this is sorted out, let's get you to the parallel universe, shall we?"
