S o m e t i m e s
A message can be sent more then once
Rose stared at the phone in her hand, unable to stop the smile that began to stretch across her face. It was him, it was really him. It was one word, and soon hope was overwhelming her.
It took three rings before some one answered. The phone sputtered and static crackled in her ear, but rose kept listening, hoping to hear his voice. Finally someone spoke.
"Hello?"
That was her doctor all right. The slightly confused voice was over powered by a curious bemusement. She could just imagine the look on his face trying to figure out who would be calling his TARDIS, all the while smiling a cheeky grin.
The static was back again, and Rose didn't have a chance to finish her sentence.
"Doctor, I…" and the line died. The battery has blown a fuse.
Of course the line would die quickly. It took an entire sun's power just to say good bye, one measly little battery wasn't going to last, even if it was TARDIS powered. But Rose still felt a new sense of hope. All was not lost.
Linda found Rose sitting on the Torchwood roof smiling happily to herself like a child who had completed a task for the first time. The cell phone in her hand looked like it had blown up, but the oddly unconcerned expression on her co-worker's face lead Linda to believe this was not a problem. She walked slowly up to Rose and tapped her on the shoulder.
"You get through to him?" Linda asked. She sat down beside Rose and noticed that her eyes seemed brighter then they had before.
"Sort of," Rose replied offhandedly. "He said hello, but I don't know if he heard me when I called out to him. The line went dead." Rose didn't stop smiling, and Linda felt the urge to as well. "I can't believe the TARDIS has that much power," Rose began to trail off.
"TARDIS?" Linda asked. He eyebrows raised in curiosity.
"Time and relative dimensions in space, TARDIS," Rose explained. Linda still looked confused. "It's a space ship that travels through time." Rose saw the questions bubbling before Linda could even ask them. "I should probably explain."
"That would be nice, yeah," Linda replied. Even if Rose sounded like a sane person when she spoke about different worlds, it was still nice to have a little background information. It was part of Linda's job at Torchwood. Collecting and reviewing information was something that came naturally to her.
Rose started from the beginning. From the first time the Doctor had told her "run" to the last time he said her name. She talked about slitheen and their home planet that was difficult to say. Rose told the story of the Daleks, Cyberman, and the war they started on earth. She had a sad smile on her face when she talked about the last goodbye on Dårlig ulv stranden.
"When I had the TARDIS's power in me, I sent this one message to me throughout time and space, it even made it over through the dimension." Rose laughed a bit at that. "I could see all that ever was and all that ever would be, but if only I was able to remember it, maybe I could have stopped myself from leaving the Doctor."
"If the power of the TARDIS is so strong, I don't see how you can't harness it in some way to bring you back," Linda said. She hadn't meant to say it out loud, but she was often told she had a bad habit of word vomit. Rose just laughed and shook her head.
"The Doctor closed off all the holes in the void. Even if I were able to get that message across to him, I'd basically have to ask him to undo everything he did." Rose shook her head again. "No, I can't do that."
"If all the holes are closed then how could you have called him?"
Rose looked up to see Jamie standing not to far away. He had a confused look on his face like the matter was really bothering him. When Jamie realized Rose and Linda where looking at him, he blushed furiously and looked away. "Its just, you know, that TARDIS thing seems a lot more powerful then you give it credit for."
"Jamie, she traveled around in the thing for over a year, I think she knows more about it then you." Linda said calmly. She then looked over to Rose again. "There's just one thing that I was wondering," she started. For some reason, Linda needed to know this one thing. "What was the message?"
It was strange, but ever since that day, Rose had not uttered those two words together. It wasn't a particularly hard phrase to avoid, but non-the less, it was almost heart breaking to say it. "Bad Wolf," she answered.
Almost instantly Jamie and Linda gasped. It couldn't have been, Linda thought to herself. It was almost impossible to fathom, but then again, so was all of Rose's stories.
"Bad wolf?" Linda repeated, teasing the way it sounded. It sounded right.
"Yeah," rose said, not sure what was wrong with her two companions.
"That's…no, well, maybe." Jamie was making less sense then usual, but for once, Linda could understand why. "But that's the name of Torchwood's latest project. You don't think…"
Rose hopped to her feet and seemed to smile even brighter then before. "Oh yes I do."
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A/N: sorry this chapter took so long to come out. I was on vacation and just got back a few days ago and I've been busy as hell. I know this one is a bit short, but oh well, it happens, right? Anyway, please review.