Chapter Five

Eleven, Ten and Rose were in the control room. Rose sat on the leather bench near the control panel while Eleven and Ten were playing with the controls. Nine ran off somewhere, no one knew where. Ten and Eleven were shouting back and forth at each other.

"Why would the TARDIS do this?!" yelled Eleven.

"If I knew I would tell you!" Ten shouted angrily.

"I know that!"

"Then why did you ask?!"

"I think out loud!"

"Do I do that a lot?" asked Ten.

"Yes, Amy tells me it's annoying," replied Eleven with a sly smile.

"Poor Amy," muttered Rose. Eleven glared at her, his expression softened into a sad smile.

"It looks as if the TARDIS is being spoken to in some way," observed Eleven.

"How do you know that?" asked Ten.

"Spacey wacey stuff you don't understand yet. Go run along now," fathered Eleven. Ten and Rose walked off and rolled their eyes at Eleven. They walked down a hall in the TARDIS and Ten grabbed Rose's hand.

"Doctor, if the next version of you doesn't have me around, what happened to me?" Rose asked sadly. Ten stopped in his tracks and faced Rose.

"Would you have just left?" asked Ten.

"I would never."

"Then why would you have left?" asked Ten.

"I don't know, but if I did leave then that means we won't be together for very long," Rose struggled to say. She started to tear up as she said, "I never want to go."

"I don't want you to go either," replied Ten sadly. Rose threw herself into his arms and he clung to her tightly. He rested his chin on her head and stroked her back as she buried her face in his chest.

"Rose Tyler, I will keep you by my side for as long as I live. I promise."

Meanwhile, Amy and Rory were walking around aimlessly and talking about how bizarre the whole ordeal was.

"Who do you suppose that handsome man was that the TARDIS picked up?" Rory asked Amy.

"That's The Doctor, it's just a younger version of him," explained Amy.

"No not him, I meant the man we picked up in Cardiff, Captain Jack. Who do you think he is?"

"I dunno, but he is…" Rory glared at her. She stumbled on her words, "A good guy."

"Thank you for refraining to say hot," Rory replied. Amy laughed. "But seriously," continued Rory, "When and how did The Doctor meet him? Maybe he's had hundreds of people travel with him. What happened to all of them?"

"I dunno…" Amy trailed off.

"Maybe they even died! He puts us in a lot of danger!"

"Don't say that," said Amy gravely.

"Why? When you met him, you didn't know a single thing about him and you agreed to go away with him! A strange man in a bloody blue box!"

"I was seven years old!"

"Still, you were going to fly away with him."

"Then I grew up and now I know he's trustworthy."

"Trustworthy, yeah right. Did you even know about Captain Jack or Rose or those two other versions of him? What about them?"

"Why don't we just ask him!" exclaimed Amy. They both ran off to the control room and faced Eleven suspiciously.

"What do you two need?" asked Eleven without looking up from the control panel.

"We want to know about Captain Jack," demanded Amy.

"Amy, you're married to Rory, remember?" replied Eleven without breaking his concentration.

"Yes I am, I also want to know how there are two other versions of you and what happened to Rose and Captain Jack and how we don't know who they are. What happened to them, Doctor?" asked Amy.

"I regenerate, Amy. My body repairs itself by completely changing my face and personality but it's still me. All Time Lords can do it. That's why there are two other versions of me. Rose left to be with her family and I left Captain Jack a long time ago, but he found his way, are you happy now?" explained Eleven quickly.

"How many others were there?" asked Amy.

"A lot," The Doctor said vaguely.

"Where did you meet Rose?" asked Amy. This question finally got Eleven to look up at Amy.

"I met her a long time ago, in 2005."

"What about Captain Jack?"

"I met him during World War Two."

"But we went to that time, why didn't we see him?"

"I can't go back in my own personal timeline."

"When did Rose leave?"

"She left at the battle of Canary Warf, now stop asking questions," spat The Doctor. Amy backed away and left quickly with Rory. The Doctor sat at the control panel and thought about all the pain he suffered when he lost Rose and the joy of seeing her face again and knowing he had to find a way to make everyone forget this ever happned.