I followed 'Marie" into the T.A.R.D.I.S' library, she was picking things up and slamming them back down. "Theta, how can you manage to be around these…? Stupid beings?" she asked as she threw down a pillow.
"Marie…" I started only for her to whirl around armed with another pillow.
"Don't," she said as she pointed it at me. "Call me any name that could be humans!"
"Well what would be better? Eiema? I thought you've tired of it."
"How can one grow tired of their given name? Especially is no one's uttered it since…." She grew quiet, dropping the pillow she sank to the floor. "Why don't they listen?" her eyes were full of tears as she looked up at me.
Sighing, I sat as close to her as I felt shed allow. I was shocked when she got closer and laid her head on my shoulder. "Humans aren't very good at listening. I tell them all the time to stay by me and not run off and as soon as I turn to point something out their gone." She started to giggle through her tears. "How did you get here Eiema? The Shadow Proclamation put a stop to traveling between universes when Pete's world closed." I swallowed and forced myself to ask, "Is she…"
Eiema's giggles quickly stopped. "No, I've checked. There's never been a Rose here, at least not one we would have known and recognized. This is the only alternate you can get to and every time I come between them the possibility of ever coming through again shrinks."
"How did you even manage to get here the first time and who's this him?"
Eiema stood and made her way towards the balcony above the pool. "One day something fell out of the vortex," she bent down and pulled something out of her boot. "At first we thought it was something alien, but the more I studied it, I learned different. I opened it and started talking to Artie, he thought I had killed an agent and he started yelling. I put my wrist over it to keep Jack from hearing it. I probably shouldn't have used the wrist with the vortex manipulator on it. One second I was in Cardiff, the next I was in the Warehouse with a very cross Artie."
"I'm sure he was very pleased to see you." I laughed standing to walk towards her.
"Yes, so pleased he might have lost a few minutes of his life." She grinned.
Stopping right behind her I asked once again. "Who's him?" her face fell, she grabbed her locket and opened it, sending a Gallifreyan lullaby throughout the room. She pressed a small button and the locket projected tons of pictures. Eiema swept her hand across the images until she landed on one with two people, her and," Canton?"
"No, well not technically, it could his doppelganger." She closed her eyes for a second, when she opened them love was written all over her face. "This is Benedict Valda; he was the only one who knew what I was here. I loved him, but he died."
"How?"
"He sacrificed himself; he died so a woman we thought was part of our team could kill every human. All because he daughter was killed." Tears began to run down her face. "How were we to know?"
I pulled her tom me trying to hug her tears away. "You couldn't." Stroking her hair I could feel each tremor and heartbeat.
"Her hand on my back started to vibrate, I lifted my head off hears and raised my eyebrow. Her face brightened with her smile s she pulled out of the hug and lifted her hand to show the thing she pulled out of her boot.
"Pete, what's up?"
"Oh God, are you crying because I ate your cookies? I'm so sorry, they were just so de…"
"Stop! Pete do I ever get angry about you eating my cookies?"
"No, but…"
"Just tell me what the matter is."
"There's been a ping. A big one."
All the happiness on Eiema's face quickly disappeared. "Alright, be there in a minute." She closed the thing and turned towards me. "Let's go Doctor, time to save the world again."
