Chapter 8
The wild-hair Doctor said to Nine, "Is it so wrong to want to preserve the memory of Rose Tyler? Humans live such short lives. You of all people should understand."
Nine: "Of course, I understand. I understand perfectly. I understand that the world is made up of death and war and lose, but I also understand that you're more interested in protecting your own feelings than thinking about Rose. It was my responsibility to protect Rose and I know I might not have been prefect at it, but at least I tried. I tried to be honest. I never sugar coated it or pretended. I only ever lied to Rose the once, back at the Game Station cause I knew she'd never leave me—she's too stubborn! She's too human! And that's what makes her fantastic."
Ten: "Don't you get it! That's why I had to leave her. She can have it all here."
Rose: "Doctor—I didn't have it all. I didn't have you."
The two Time Lords were speechless.
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Meanwhile, in the waking world, Jackie Tyler entered her home with her toddler son in arm and a shopping bag in the other.
With a sigh, she said, "Now, let's get you down for your nap little man and then Mummy can go watch her soaps." Jackie then kicked the front door closed and kicked off her designer shoes off to the side of the hall.
Jackie really loved being rich. She never thought she'd see the day she could afford to live in such a posh mansion. Sometimes it was like a dream and she had to pinch herself to see if it were true, but every time had the same results. Sometimes she thought about the Doctor and how he had changed their lives and found herself thanking him.
Casually, she placed her bags onto a table and began to march barefoot through the living room to the main stairs, however she stopped dead in her tracks when she saw the group of people standing around like shop dummies.
"What the hell is going on?"
She looked about and saw Rose standing as still as stone standing next to Richard and oddly enough both Doctors. She circled around them two times before she reached out and poked Rose in the arm and gave her a tug.
"Rose! ROSE! Oi! Can you hear me? Sweetheart?"
Yet, Rose didn't move or react at all and it was beginning to unnerve her. She turned her head and scanned both Time Lords and pressed her bottom lip tight.
"God! It's that bloody Doctor! He's gone and done something to my Rose again. I better call up Pete. He'll straighten this out."
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Rose looked pleadingly at the two Doctors and asked, "Don't you want me? Haven't you ever dreamt about kissing me when I wasn't dying or possessed? Or do you only kiss French tarts?"
Nine: "French tarts? Wait, you kissed a prostitute?"
Ten: "Well…it wasn't technically that—exactly. She was the uncrowned queen of France."
Impatiently, Rose shouted, "Well, do you want me or not?"
"Yes" they replied in unison.
Rose: "God, it's like pulling teeth with you both."
Rose began to rub her temples to try and calm down. She almost forgot how mad the Doctor could be in any form. She was glad to know that they both wanted to be with her, but she was still unsure how committed they were willing to being. She knew it was silly to demand promises and it was unfair that their forever weren't the same, but she knew that. She had already asked Ten about that and she told him she'd willing give him her forever, but she never counted that he'd rather have her eternal memory than her actually self. Though, she did learn that Nine still felt personally responsible for her well being, but she wasn't a child anymore. She didn't want protection. She never wanted protection. She wanted love—she wanted a certain love in an uncertain world.
Before she realized what was happening she had approached Nine and said, "I never doubted you. Since, the moment we met I never doubted you. I knew you'd always come for me." She caressed the leather-clad man's cheek slowly; "You were my Doctor."
Then, she turned and faced Ten, "You told me you were the same—but it wasn't. You didn't need me like you used to, but I started wanting you like I hadn't before. I wanted more—I wanted there to be more between us."
Red: "Rose, what do you want?"
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