Hello everyone, this was posted straight after, Parting of the Ways, I hope everyone is reading this because I love views.
I don't own 'Doctor Who?'
Sorry for spelling mistakes and poor grammar.
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Recap.
"Hello! Okay-oo." The man greets, He gulps. Rose stares at him with fascination as he runs a tongue over his teeth, brow furrowed. "New teeth. That's weird. So, where
was I? Oh, that's right! Barcelona." Rose just stares at him with undisguised shock. He grins.
He turns and looks over to Alexandra... and his smile drops, she was asleep in the chair... eyes closed breathing lightly...
He looks back at Rose. Not seeing the girl behind him stop breathing...
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The new Doctor dashes to the console and flicks a few switches, checking the monitor.
"6 PM... Tuesday..." He rambles, Rose watches, half concealed by a pillar. The Doctor turns a knob. Still neither noticing that Alexandra had stopped breathing
"October... 5006... on the way to Barcelona!" he straightens up and faces Rose, grinning as if extremely pleased with himself, "Now then... what do I look like?" he doesn't give her a chance to reply, "No, no no, no no no no no no no. No. Don't tell me." Rose looks completely bemused. "Let's see... two legs, two arms, two hands..." he tests his wrist, circling it, "Slight weakness in the dorsal tubercle." then his hands fly to his hair. "HAIR! I'm not bald!" Rose now looks shocked. The Doctor runs his hands through his hair gleefully. "Oh - Oh! Big hair!" he continues, he feels his sideburns, looks and sounds delighted "Sideburns - I've got sideburns! Or really bad skin. Little bit thinner..." at this he slaps his stomach "That's weird. Give me time, I'll get used to it." with the air of someone making a most wonderful discovery he exclaims, "I... have got... a mole. I can feel it." Rose is breathing heavily. She looks scared. The Doctor seems not to notice or the girl behind him. "Between my shoulder blades, there's a mole." now he rotates his shoulders, "That's all right. Love the mole." he grins at Rose as he says this, "Go on then, tell me." He commands standing straight up before Rose, ready for assessment. His hair is all ruffled but really good looking, "What do you think?"
"Who are you?" She asks timidly, The Doctor looks put out, crestfallen and slightly surprised,
"I'm the Doctor." He tells her,
"No... where is he? Where's the Doctor?" She asks, shaking her head, her voice rises, "What have you done to him?"
"You saw me, I- I changed..." he tries, he indicates over his shoulder to where he regenerated, inadvertently pointing to Alexandra. "... right in front of you and 'Lexa."
"I saw him sort of explode, and then you replaced him, like a... a teleport or a transmat or a body swap or something." Rose denies, The Doctor does not interject. He seems lost for words. Rose takes a few steps towards him. At arms length, she pushes him in the chest. "You're not fooling me." The Doctor rocks back on his heels as though he cannot believe what he is hearing. "I've seen all sorts of things. Nano genes... Gelth..." she looks at him darkly, "Slitheen..." The Doctor raises his eyebrows. "Oh, my God, are you a Slitheen?"
"I'm not a Slitheen." The Doctor states calmly,
"Send him back. I'm warning you, send the Doctor back right now!" she shouts at him,
"Rose, it's me. Lexa tell her!" He leans forward in his urgency to make her believe him but Alex doesn't reply. "Honestly, it's me." Rose stares at him, her chest
rising and falling very fast. "I was dying. To save my own life I changed my body. Every single cell, but... it's still me."
"You can't be." Rose whispers, the Doctor seems to notice that Alex hadn't said a word, but doesn't say anything against it, thinking that she was leaving it to him to explain, he takes a few steps closer to her, looking straight down into her eyes.
"Then how could I remember this? Very first word I ever said to you and 'Lexa. Trapped in that cellar. Surrounded by shop window dummies... oh..." looks away for a moment, reminiscing. Then he looks back into her eyes, "... such a long time ago. I took 'Lexa's hand and she took yours..." To emphasise this point, he holds up his hand, Rose glances briefly at it and then back up at his face. "I said one word... just one word, I said... 'run'." He gazes at her. Rose looks into his eyes, her own full of tears.
"Doctor." She whispers finally believing, The Doctor grins.
"Hello." He answers gently, Rose sighs in an almost exasperated fashion and stumbles backwards as the impact of what has just happened hits her. The Doctor spins to face Alex and walks over to her grabbing her shoulder and shaking her. "Come on, you can't sleep right now, we're going to Barcelona Lexa..." she flops forward and doesn't respond... the Doctor's grin slips off his face and he shakes her again, still nothing.
He leans her back on the chair and looks at her, her chest was still... not moving at all...
"Lexa? Alex? Alexandra!" he pays Rose no mind as he look over the girl sitting in front of him... dead. he shakes his head and places his hand to her neck. "No pulse!" He tries compressions but it doesn't work he works frantically, not wanting to believe that she was gone, she shouldn't be gone... He shakes his head from side to side, repeatedly muttering 'no' over and over as though his words will make everything better.
He turns away from her and looks blankly at the console. Rose rushes past him and shakes her but still there was no response,
"Cancel Barcelona. Change to... London... the Powell Estate... ah... 13th October. To take her home." he whispers looking at them both behind him, Rose is edging slowly closer the console away from her cousins body tears rolling from her eyes. "There." He steps back, his arms tucked under his armpits in an almost defensive manner his eyes full of tears. Rose looks at him, then back at the console. The TARDIS shudders as it changes direction.
"I'm going home?" she asks,
"I've got to take- Lexa back... you- you can, it's up to you. Back to your mum... it's all waiting. Fish and chips, sausage and mash, beans on toast- no, Christmas! Turkey! Although... having met your mother... nut loaf would be more appropriate." he says trying to lighten their spirits. Rose looks down quickly, to hide a smile as she lets out a strangled cry.
"Come on, all I did was change, I didn't-" He suddenly gags as the TARDIS shudders. Rose looks at him questioningly.
"What?" Rose asks, still trying not to look behind him to her cousin,and in doing so she misses something...
"I said I didn't-" The same thing happens again, more violently. He makes nasty retching noises. "Uh oh." he continues, Rose edges cautiously around the console.
"Er... are you alright?" she asked still ignoring her cousins body, trying to block out that she didn't seem to be coming back, A piece golden time vortex issues from the Doctor's mouth. "What's that?"
"Oh... the change is going a bit wrong and all." He gags again. He falls to his knees, his face contorted.
"Look... maybe we should go back. Let's go and find Captain Jack, he'd know what to do." Rose reasons,
"Gah, he's busy! He's got plenty to do rebuilding the Earth!" he says impatiently, lever catches his eye, "I haven't used this one in years." he mutters, He flicks it. The TARDIS shudders violently and they are both nearly knocked to their feet.
"What're you doing?!" Rose demands,
"Putting on a bit of speed! That's it!" He says crazily, He turns more knobs while Rose tries to maintain a more secure grip on the console.
"My beautiful ship! Come on, faster! That's a girl!" he shouts to the console, Rose looks distinctly alarmed. The Doctor looks and sounds violent, crazed. "Faster! Wanna to break the time limit?!"
"Stop it!" she yells, scared and slightly angry,
"Ah, don't be so dull - let's have a bit of fun! Let's rip through that vortex!" he says this still crazed a nasty edge to his voice, he catches her eye for a moment. His voice calms- "The regeneration's going wrong. I can't stop myself." grimaces in pain, "Ah, my head..." He violently springs up into standing position again, and his voice has gone back to being crazed.
"Faster! Let's open those engines!" he continues. A bell rings.
"What's that?" Rose questions scared as she looks around, the Doctor looks at the console as though he can't remember. Suddenly something slaps the Doctor on the back of his head.
"YOU IDIOT! WE'RE CRASHING!" A voice that shocks them both, a flash of red moves past them and to the console...
There running around the console was none other that Alexandra Maryanne Flame as she tried to stop the TARDIS from crashing...
"We're gonna crash land!" The Doctor shouts excitedly, Alexandra reaches over and hits his head again,
"Shut up you moron that isn't helping." He laughs manically.
"Oh god help us all." she mutters, Rose pushes out of her stupor,
"Well then, do something!"
"Too late! Out of control!" the Doctor shouts hysterically running around the console, "Oh, I love it! Hot dawg!" Alex pushes around the console and pulls him to her kissing him soundly on the lips, some sanity seems to return to him,
"You gonna kill us all." she mutters against his lips, he grins against her lips and reaches for a lever with her, pulling back he grins at Rose,
"Hold on tight, here we go!" Looking over at Rose, Alexandra see's she's scared, their eyes meet across the console, the Doctor grinning madly, Rose looked more scared than ever. "Christmas Eve...!" he shouts again. Alex groans and runs around the console again,
"I'm going to MURDER you after this!" she shouts, Rose stood looking at her cousin, there was almost nothing different about her... the only thing that had changed, was her 'Birth Mark' instead of black, it was pulsing gold...
The Mark of a Shadow Hunter...
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Did you really think I was going to kill her off? She's the main character, well as well as the Doctor...
Sorry for the shitty chapter, as you can tell, I can't write grief and sorrow very well.
Anyway, that's the end of 'Escaping Reality' next up is 'Ruin.'
Hope you enjoyed this.
SHADOW OUT!
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