Memories
Rose
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The way that The Doctor had acted when she had asked what she had done scared her. It was bad enough that she had no memory of a good five or ten minutes of her life. But he was refusing to tell her. He was avoiding the question and lying to her.
What could she have done that was that bad?
She would be more persistent, but she was too scared to ask again.
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Together they wound their way through the towers. They were much emptier now, but even then they were still fairly crowded. It could have been that some of them left to do what they wanted under the pulses influence, they were injured, or they were running scared.
She would be running too if it weren't for The Doctor's firm, reassuring grip on her hand. The only way for this to end, was for them to stop it. They just weren't the kind of people to leave others in danger. They had to do it… even if it scared them to no end.
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Pretty funny wasn't it? They had faced Daleks and Cybermen and Slitheen… and yet it was their desires that scared them more.
Because it was true what the old medic had said. You get what you want… but at a cost.
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After climbing the first tower and finding absolutely nothing, with little over ten minutes left till the next pulse, things weren't looking good. And the less time they had, the more edgy The Doctor seemed.
Time kept slipping away from them as they climbed the third tower. And she too began to panic. What would happen when they heard the pulse this time? The Doctor would be affected too, no one would be there to stop either of them.
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"Excuse me," a member of staff stopped the two of them when they were just outside the top door.
"I'm sorry we don't have much time," The Doctor told him taking out the psychic paper. The guard looked at the paper and back to him.
"Sorry Sir but this will only take a moment…" When it became clear that this man was only going to hold them up The Doctor pressed the Sonic-screwdriver into her hand and made a subtle motion for her to go on.
So while he distracted the man, she unlocked the door and slipped in.
The room was full of TV monitors... security TV's. They weren't quite like the ones she was used to, where you could only just make out peoples faces. These were like those good HD TV's where every little detail could be seen clear as day.
But unfortunately, it still wasn't what they were looking for. Quickly she put on her lip-gloss before heading to the door. She was just about to leave the room when something on one of the monitors caught her attention.
It was her. Her and The Doctor. He was supporting her, and then a few seconds later he dragged her out the door. That had to have been about fifteen minutes ago, just after she been affected.
Which meant that it had what she had done on video! The Doctor may have lied, but the cameras wouldn't.
Eagerly she pointed the Sonic-screwdriver at the monitor and it wound itself back a few minutes…
She watched as The Doctor ran around looking at the computers, he looked at her as she must have said something. But she fell, in a second he was helping her to her feet. They said a few things to each other. And then she kissed him. At first he froze up in surprise, but it wasn't long till he was kissing her back.
… Kissing her back! He hadn't been under the pulse's influence!
A few more moments passed and all she could do was stare at the screen. She was flooded by so many different emotions she could barely tell which ones she was feeling.
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"Seen anything?"
She spun around in alarm at the sound of The Doctor's voice. Quickly she looked back just in time to see the two of them run out of shot on the monitor.
"Rose, are you okay?" he asked sounding concerned.
Still rather in shock she nodded. "I – I just saw what some people had done when they were affected…" she said weakly pointing to a different screen. "Look." She rewound it again, looking at some of the reckless things others had done. For a second she thought she saw The Doctor's eyes flash to the monitor with the two of them kissing, before he moved in to get a better look, conveniently blocking the screen from her sight.
"Wait what was that?" he said pointing to one of the screens. Taking the Sonic back he rewound it a bit, to just before the pulse went off. He stared at the screen intently until finally, in one of the rooms a light flashed at the precise second half the people in the park collapsed. "There!" he cried. "It's there! That room, tower… eight. Let's go!"
Excitedly he grabbed her hand and once again pulled her from the room. They sprinted down the stairs. They knew where it was now, they could finish it.
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But it was too late. A high pitch squeal rung in her ears and an impact in the air nearly made her stop dead.
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They had barely made it to the bottom of the stairs before her mind became foggier and foggier…
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And she remembered no more.