Chapter 4: Essence

Jack merely took a swing of his glass of whiskey as he looked through some photos of him and Rose having a fun time while travelling with the Doctor. Rose...was the closest person to being a sibling to him than any person had ever been to him. His thoughts were broken when Gwen walked into his office.

"Jack, we've got something?" Gwen stated as he placed the photos down on his desk before getting up and following her to one of the briefing rooms, as he walked through a couple of cloister corridors, to where everyone was waiting for him.

"What've we got?" Jack asked as Martha activated the computer screen, showing CCTV footage.

"CCTV footage from the hospital, showing Rose Tyler's body being taken to the morgue" Martha answered as they watched the footage of an ME taking the 'body stretcher' to the morgue "from all three cameras."

"Three, I thought there were four cameras?" Mickey asked confused as Ianto passed Jack his coffee.

"The forth camera is at the entrance of the hospital, but first see this" Martha continued as she whined the tape forward before playing it. "This woman here comes out of the morgue, but there is no footage of her going in before hand or during the past few days."

Jack who had been watching the footage had quickly noticed that the woman seemed very weary of herself and her surroundings as she looked around as though she was afraid of something...or someone who might be following her as she continued to walk out of the cameras view. But for some unknown reason she looked quite familiar to him, as though the answer was staring him in the face but he just couldn't see it.

"And this is her leaving the hospital just after we found out Rose's body was missing" Gwen stated as Martha changed camera footages on the screen, showing the same woman leaving the hospital. "What do you notice that's different about her this time?"

"She's changed her clothes, do you think she's trying to confuse us?" Ianto asked questionably.

"Perhaps, find out about her, where she lives and who she is" Jack ordered, watching them scramble out of the room to find the answers they needed.

Rose slowly picked up her pace as she headed towards her destination, her old flat to be precise as it was where she used to live with her mother when she was working at the shop before she had met the Doctor. The last of the Time Lords, had shown her time and space before she was suddenly trapped in the parallel universe, twice. The second time with his human clone who was mostly human then time lord.

She had managed to catch a train home after she had found some money in her pocket. (She really had to thank whoever the person was who used to own these clothes).

Quickly she headed up the stairs that headed towards her home, the memory was slightly vague but she remembered where it was as she was now standing outside her door. Slowly she removed her house key from her chain that also held the Tardis key before placing it in the door.

Before she turned the key she took a quick look around, one of her many instincts she had gained over the years especially when seeing and knowing that there are places that aren't as safe as they seemed to be. But seeing as no one was around she turned back to her door, now only noticing a sold sign by the door. This sign suddenly made her feel slightly sad and hurt as she now knew that the flat would soon be her home no longer, quickly she pushed the feeling aside.

As she was about the push the door open another shot of pain ran up her body, this time much painfuller then before as some more gold air forced its way up her throat and out her month (it's quite painful). From what she remembered when the Doctor had changed, he had collapsed due to his change after he had regenerated and as she was having the same golden air that was now leaving her body like it had with the Doctor, she knew it wouldn't be too long before she did the same.

As the pain dispersed she slowly headed inside her flat. When she was inside she had quickly noticed that the flat was now empty, the walls and floor were now bare. Everything that was in and around the flat was now gone. Only the doors and the kitchen work top still remained in place ready for the new owners to move in.

Tick Tick Tick

A quite sound of a clock could be heard ticking as it was that quite and yet there was no clock to be seen anywhere throughout the flat. Slowly and carefully she followed where the sound was coming from.

Tick Tick Tick

She stopped as the sound of ticking seemed to be coming from a wall (yes a wall) in the living room. She leaned carefully against the wall, where she placed her hands and her head by the wall to try and hear where the sound was coming from. Slowly she followed the sound of ticking along the wall until she was standing by the window that over saw the Powell Estate.

Tick Tick Tick

The sound was definitely louder now, as she listened more closely before pulling away to have a closer look at the wall to see if there was any way to get to where the sound was coming from. There was a huge crack that ran around two bricks from the window. Carefully she place her hands on the bricks before pushing them to the side towards the window where they both came to a stop, both were half way in the air but that wasn't want caught her attention. It was what was inside the wall that had been hidden from the outside world. It was a small thick brown envelope.

Carefully she removed the envelope from the compartment it was hidden within, as she did so the bricks slowly moved back into place on their own accord while the crack faded away until it disappeared as though it was never there. The envelope was covered in strange symbols that looked somewhat familiar and strangely enough it was addressed to her. Slowly she prided it open before pouring its contents onto the window-still. The items appeared to be a key 'that looked like her Tardis key the Doctor gave her,' a screwdriver that looked sonic (think of the Doctors but has violet light instead of blue), a small like nurses watch and a letter. The watch was also covered in strange symbols like the ones on the envelope.

Rose looked at the items with confusion before noticing the envelope was slowly burning away into nothing 'not even a little speck of ash was left.' Rose had a slightly weary, confused frown on her face at this small discovery. Quickly she turned her attention to the letter which read:

Dear Rose

To my darling granddaughter, if you are reading this then I am no longer with you and the worst has happened. The Time War has taken our people the Galifreyans, 'the time lords' and the Daleks to their final battle over the universe and its creation to where everyone was lost along with our planet Gallifrey.

As I watched the war take a turn for the worst, one by one our people were being slaughtered through my eyes compared to the Daleks who had been winning the war from the very beginning, merely because we were made from flesh and blood while they were protected by their metal shells. I had no alternative but to take you away from the battlefield. I know that you might not forgive me for what I have done in order for me to protect you from not only the Daleks but also from the High Council Of Gallifrey as they now know that you were born differently compared to the rest of us Gallifreyans.

As the war continued, I watched you fight for what you believed in, with courage, fire and determination that many of us Gallifreyans wished they had. But you were so much different from everyone else, one of two Time Lords who had looked into the Untamped Schrism and continued running throughout the universe, having many adventures and becoming a part of history as it unfolded unlike the rest of us Time Lords who records events throughout time and space that unfolds around us and never meddle with time unless an incidents happens that shouldn't have happened.

I bet you are wondering why you are still alive but don't have any memories of your previous lives, this I will explain to you now. As the war progressed and worsened. I took you away from the war, Gallifrey and its solar system that existed outside time and space. The pain of seeing everyone dying from existence had almost destroyed you and yet you would not give up. I had only one alternative and that was when I dragged you into my Tardis, knowing you had such an adventures life ahead of you. But in order for me to conceal you from leaving Gallifrey so you wouldn't be found out by either the Daleks or the High Council from my crimes in which I had turned you into a human baby. Which is not as easy as it sounds, with the Chameleon Circuit, this is when I had managed to hide your memories within the watch 'known to be called a fob watch' that can hold a Time Lord existence as long as they are still living.

The pain in which I had felt after I had left you with the human couple the Tyler, felt as though I had left my very existence with you. The young couple had once had a child of their own but she had died of complications when she was born and they were kind enough to allow me to visit you throughout you human childhood. But due to the Time War and my serious injuries I would not be able to watch you grow up into a fine woman you would become in the coming future and as I am in my last regeneration, my time has come to an end.

I only hope my choice was the right one to choose, be safe and look up to the stars. Follow the stars to your heart where we will always be with you and lead you to your loved ones. The items here re your Tardis Key, Sonic screwdriver and your fob watch that holds your very existence.

Yours sincerely,

Grandfather Onimus.

Rose could feel tears slowly running down her cheeks as the letter also burned away into nothing, just like the envelope did. 'I'm a Time Lord...' As the information began to sink in, a few of her questions that she had been asking herself lately had been answered, like how she had managed to survive for so long without ageing, solving extremely hard calculations that would take years to solve with ease, speaking languages by heart that she had never spoke or heard of before without the need of a translator present and saying things in riddles that didn't make sense to other people throughout the years she had spent in the parallel universe.

Quickly she wiped away her tears before placing each object into her pockets. She stopped once she picked up the watch, slowly she began to stroke its strange markings carved onto it. As she did she noticed that she hear voices coming from within the watch itself. It wasn't long before she realised that the voices weren't reaching her by her ears but was speaking directly into her mind, like a telepathic response. If she ever told this to Jackie, she would probably say this; "Your blooming mad you are, just like him. Always moving around and never staying in one place..." But Rose had learned from past experiences that anything was possible and that there some things that you are meant to keep to yourself, like secrets that aren't meant to become public. Right now this strange watch was her top priority. As the voices continued to whisper...

Rose Tyler

Bad Wolf

Gallifrey

Creator Of Life

Wolf, Time Lady

Slowly she opened the watch and was suddenly surrounded by singing and golden light. When it slowly seeped within her, she had gained memories of the essence inside the watch as though the essence once belonged to her originally, like it had said in the letter. When it had finally all disappeared, Rose had begun to feel lightheaded making her feel dizzy as more golden air left her system, bringing back the pain once again making her hold her stomach. She had to lean against the wall to keep herself standing upright otherwise she would have fallen to the ground.

When the dizziness finally faded away along with the pain, the first thing she had noticed was the lightness of the room had changed, she opened the window and looked outside to see that the sun was setting over the Estate. The sky was bathed in many colours bringing out its beauty, the colours were mainly blues, purples, reds, oranges and yellows. Rose's eyes were bright with excitement and wonder. Excitement for being free to see such a sunset without having to be frozen in an ice prison to be kept away from everything and wonder of what everything was like here as she had once lived in this universe before being trapped. The main people she had been missing were Jack, Sarah Jane, the Doctor and of course the Tardis as it had felt like her home. Then again Time and Space was a large cosmos and you could meet any of them at any time, planet or space station.

'Beautiful...' was one of the many things that she had thought of as she placed the watch into her pocket with the rest of her unusual items. Before she could do anything else she collapsed, falling hard on the floor, the only thing she wouldn't know of until she was awake was that she was going to have one hell of a headache.

Nor had she noticed a large box appearing around her, trapping her inside before disappearing, taking her with it.

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