So here is chapter 24 for you. Of course I hope you will like it.

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"That was a good idea, but I don't think it's what you thought," Rose said, disappointed in herself. Why didn't she know an answer? What was happening here?

The future Doctor looked innocently at her. "It was only decoration."

Rose nodded. "Anyway, let's see if we can find something from aliens here."

The Doctor gave her with a look that said ' We will find an answer'. Then he turned around and took out his sonic screwdriver, making sure that the other Doctor wouldn't see it.

But he still heard the beeping noises. "What's that noise?" the future Doctor asked.

The Doctor stuffed his sonic screwdriver back in his pocket. "Um... that's me...well, how I whistle." He started whistling.

Rose giggled. The Doctor grinned back to her and shrugged his shoulders. She danced her way over to him and opened the drawer the Doctor stood in front of. Her gaze fell on the silver info stamps. "Is that..." she raised her eyebrows.

The Doctor put on finger over his lips to show her to be quiet. He closed the drawer again and called to the other Doctor, "I think something could be in there."

The info stamps were filled with information about London. Because of that, Rose and the Doctor suspected that the cybermen must have landed on earth and ended up stuck here. They were in the wrong century and didn't have the right energy (to get back to where they belonged).

Rose and the Doctor stood next to each other and stared at the pictures that the info stamp projected at the wall. Meanwhile, the future Doctor sat down, seemingly not feeling very well. He was lost in his thoughts and the silver info stamp was firmly wrapped in his hand.

Rose noticed it and she knelt down in front of him. "Hey, is everything alright?" Her eyes wandered worriedly over him.

"I don't think so," the Doctor managed to say. He looked at the other Doctor with a meaningful glance.

"I have seen something like that already." The future Doctor shook his head and Rose could see that he was thinking about something that was so terrible that it was making him desperate.

"I saw something like that, in the night when I regenerated."

Rose stared to the ground, not wanting to believe that her Doctor would die soon. He would or? She had his new regeneration right in front of her. "You can't..." she whispered. She could feel through their Timelord link that the Doctor was really sorry.

"No, don't feel guilty for something that isn't your fault," He spoke to her through their minds.

She smiled weakly at him. She couldn't act like everything was alright when she didn't see their future anymore. Well, she was nowhere to see. Something must have happened.

She came back to reality when the other Doctor in front of her started talking again.

He clenched his hand into fists. "The cybermen have changed me...my life, everything!" his voice was trembling. "You were always there..." He stretched his arm out to Rose and laid his hand on her cheek. Rose didn't know how to react. She opened her mouth to say anything, but then she closed it again.

"And you, too," the future Doctor laid his hand on the Doctor's cheek, too. He looked between the two. "Who are you?"

Rose took his hand from her cheek but still holding it to calm him down. "We're your friends, I swear." she told him. "Then please, Rose and John... Help me." his voice broke away.

"Words we will never say no to,"Rose told him and her eyes met the Doctor's. He nodded, approving with a smile, and the future Doctor's expression filled with hope again.

Then the Doctor stood up. "But we won't discuss this in the house of a dead man. Time to go back to the TARDIS. Your TARDIS. But just one moment..." he started to run around and searching something.

Rose didn't understood what he was doing. She hopped up to her feet and asked, "What are you looking for?"

The Doctor took a quick look at her and then he continued his searching. "When info stamps are in that house, then there must be something to stamp." Rose stepped next to him, understanding what he meant.

In that moment, he opened a door and a cyberman stood behind it.

Both of them stared at it for a moment. "Ok, I think we should run!" the Doctor said and grabbed Rose's hand.

She grabbed the future Doctor with her free hand. "We have to go! Come on, Doctor!" She pulled the man with her and the Doctor pulled her with him.

The Doctor locked the door, but the cyberman crashed through it the moment they left the room. From all sides Cyberman stomped towards them. Rose pulled the two men to the stairs. "We can't pass!"

The Doctor grabbed a sword and stood protective before Rose and the other Doctor. "I'm a master with the sword. Don't come closer!" Rose remembered when he had won the sword fight with the Sycorax. But the cyberman had many other weapons. They could shoot him or something. She turned nervously around, trying to find a solution.

"Delete! Delete!" the cyberman cried.

The Doctor wasn't really successful at holding them back. "This is my last warning!" he shouted at them and swung the sword, but they didn't stop. Rose wanted to run to the Doctor, to help him, but in the same moment he turned around. "Hold her!" he shouted to the other Doctor.

He did so and pulled her with him up the stairs. "No! What are you doing!?" she cried as she tried to free herself but failed.

The Doctor walked backward, still with the sword in his hand. One cyberman nearly gave him an electroshock with his hand. The other one tried it too, but the Doctor defended himself with the sword. Rose could only looked at it in shock, didn't able to do anything. "Let me go!" Rose begged the future Doctor.

"Rose, think about our child!" the Doctor cried, trying to explain to her why she shouldn't come closer to the cybermen. She understood, but still she couldn't let him fight on his own. He always nearly died to save other people. But no one ever saved him.

The Doctor's attention went back to them. "Maybe I can help you. You're stuck here because you have no energy," the Doctor explained, but the cybermen didn't listen to him. Instead, they tried to kill him again but he blocked them. "Listen I'm the only on earth that can help you!" They still ignored him. Meanwhile, Rose stood at the end of the stairs, still held back by the future Doctor.

"I'm the Doctor!" the Doctor said to the Cyberman. Rose could hear the man behind her gasping in shock. The Doctor held the cyberman's arm with all his power away from him. "Look in your database. I'm the Doctor! Don't do anything to this man!" After a few seconds he added. "The Doctor, that is me!"

The future Doctor lost concentration and forgot about to hold Rose back. She burst down the stairs the moment the cyberman tried to shock the Doctor again. "No Rose don't-" Rose kicked with all her energy against the cyberman's chest.

His metallic hand grabbed her arm and before he fell down and she could hear a cracking sound. A horrible pain went through her arm . She ground her teeth together, trying very hard not to scream. It was almost impossible but somehow she managed it. The Doctor fell backwards to the ground.

Suddenly, the future Doctor destroyed the cyberman with a blue laser that shot out of the info stamp, causing their heads to explode. The Doctor hopped up to his feet. He laughed in relief and his gaze fell on the other Doctor. "Info stamps as a weapon against the cybermen! Only the Doctor would have this idea." His face changed into a typical Doctor grin. But the future Doctor didn't looked happy about this. He was pale and leaned against the wall, breathing heavily.

"I did this the last time, too," he murmured. The Doctors face became serious again. Rose tried not to show her pain.

Her arm was red with a hint of blue at the place where the Cyberman had put all his power into pulling her down the stairs with him. Her arm was broken. She pressed her lips together again trying to manage the pain.

The Doctor started talking again. "Everything is alright. I have to look at something." He took out a stethoscope and listened to the other Doctor's hearts.

The man in front of him looked up in confusion. "You said you were the Doctor. Why?"

"Um, that... Well... That was to protect you," he said, still listening to his hearts.

The future Doctor furrowed his brows. "You want to take the only thing away that I still have? My identity? Like these hellish creatures? They took something so important from me, but I just can't remember what!" he held back his tears and stared at the ground. He shook his head and his eyes met the Doctor's. "What is happening to me?"

"I don't know but we will find out." The Doctor put the stethoscope away. "Us three together."

The other Doctors eyes filled with hope again. They turned around to Rose to see if everything was alright, and she couldn't hold it back anymore. Her arms were swollen and she was bleeding. An unbearable pain went through her arms, causing her to gasp. The Doctors eyes widened in disbelief and shock. Rose turned away but he has already seen what the cyberman had done to her. He wanted to take her arm and look at it but Rose wouldn't let him. She refused to look at him.

"Rose-" he started to say but she interrupted him.

"You could have died. You know that..." she murmured. "I was only trying to protect you." Rose's eyes met his and he could see the pain in her eyes. "Ok then, I'llll ask you something. What if it had been me that fought against the cybermen? Would you just stand there? Could you?" She waited for his answer.

"No I wouldn't..." the Doctor answered. Rose shook her head and wanted to walk away from him but he grabbed her by the shoulder and took her into his arms. At first she tried to free herself, but he wouldn't let her go. She stopped then. "Rose, let me see your arms…" His hand wandered carefully to her arm and he could feel the dried blood. Rose didn't say anything. "Your arms are broken."

She put her hand over her arm. "Just...forget it."

The Doctor put his hand on her arms to and concentrated. Golden regeneration energy flowed from his hand into her arm. It healed.

"You wasted your lifetime for this," Rose said incredulously. She freed herself and walked away. The Doctor looked after her with sadness spread across his face.

The future Doctor looked after Rose and back to the Doctor. "How did you heal her arm? I saw it. It was broken," he asked. The Doctor didn't answer him and ran through his hair.

"That's a long story."

They returned to Rosita. Rose and the Doctor followed the future Doctor, who still didn't understand the couple. They say that he knew them, but he couldn't remember them, no matter how hard he tried to. And how could John Smith have healed Miss Tyler arm? But he knew one thing. They were hiding something from him.

Rose walked silently beside the Doctor. She didn't seem to be angry but didn't say one word to the Doctor since they have left the house of Reverend Aubrey Fairchild. On Rose arm still clung dried blood from the wound that was nowhere to be seen. She really didn't know why she has reacted like that when the Doctor had cured her broken arms. In that moment she didn't know what she should do or say to him. She was still somehow accustomed to being a human and not a Timelady. Everything was still new for her. It was as if it has been yesterday that her human body has died and she woke up as a Timelady.

And it just had shocked her and in the same time moved her that someone gave time of his life away, just to not see her in pain anymore. Rose had such a bad certain . A little voice in the back of her head always forced her to feel guilty.

Rose then noticed that the Doctor was looking at her. At first she wanted to ignore it but then the little voice said, 'Don't be childish! It's the Doctor, your best friend. And you love him!'

Rose then turned around to face him. "What?" she asked. By seeing the sad expression in his face, Rose felt even worse.

"Rose-" he started to say, but then Rosita ran right to them.

"Doctor, I thought you were dead!" The Doctor closed his mouth and stared to the ground. He rubbed over his chin and took one quick look at Rose that said ' Don't be angry with me' before his attention went to Rosita and the other Doctor, who was wrapped in the black woman's arms now.

"I thought I have lost you." Rosita smiled, glad to have the Doctor back at her side. The future Doctor freed himself from her arms and cleared his throat. He blushed a little bit. Rose couldn't help and smiled about that.

She glanced discreetly to her Doctor. He stood there with his hands in his pocket, alone, watching Rosita and the other Doctor and somehow looking like he felt unneeded. Rose hesitated, but then she walked up next to him. She held her hand out to him and wiggled with her fingers one time, like he did after the Sycorax had cut his hand off. At first the Doctor was surprised, but then he laced his fingers together with hers.

"You have been gone for so long," Rosita said to the other Doctor. She crossed her arms and her gaze fell on Rose. "He does that every time. That makes me very angry! Sometimes he just makes things that are just so weird!"

Rose chuckled." I know that from somewhere."

" Oi!" the Doctor next to her protested, causing Rose to laugh even more.

"Hey, what about the TARDIS?" the future Doctor interrupted them.

Rosita smiled and pulled him with her. "She is ready. Come on."

"Now it gets interesting," the Doctor whispered to Rose. "When I think about the sonic screwdriver, without sonic... well, just let's see." she shook her head, with a grin and pulled the Doctor with her.

They followed Rosita and the future Doctor into a stable. The future Doctor explained the couple that he would live here as long as they hunt the enemies. Meanwhile, he grabbed a bowl with water in it, to clean up the dried blood from Rose's arms. It was completely cured, which still confused him, but he didn't ask about that again. The future Doctor told them that all the suitcases were from Jackson Lake, the first person to get killed.

At the same time, the Doctor searched for something with his sonic screwdriver. Rose didn't understood what, but then he found an info stamp in a suitcase that belonged to Jackson Lake. "Is this info stamp important?" the future Doctor asked him.

"The answer to all this may be in your TARDIS. Can I see it?" the Doctor asked him. Rose and the Doctor stared questioningly at the other Doctor.

"Mister Smith and Miss Tyler, it would be a pleasure."

They followed him in the backyard. "This is my TARDIS!" the future Doctor pointed proudly at it. Rose and the Doctor eyes searched for the blue box but then they started to realize that he meant the big blue balloon. Their eyes widened in disbelief.

"But that's a balloon!" the Doctor exclaimed.

"No mister, it's a TARDIS," the other Doctor answered him.

"But..." Rose opened her mouth to say something, but she really didn't know what. Again, like the part with the sonic screwdriver without sonic.

"Rose when I not went mad in that moment, then I really see a balloon... You do, too or?" the Doctor whispered into her ear. She nodded slowly still a little bit shocked.

"One day I will be up in time and space with this TARDIS," the future Doctor raved.

The couple slowly walked over to him. The Doctor stroke with one hand over the part of the balloon. "Great," he grinned. "TARDIS," he rolled the word. Rose smiled, now thinking this TARDIS wasn't bad. "Somehow it's really beautiful."

The other Doctor stuffed some money in the hand of the man who had finished the work at the huge blue balloon. "You have a lot of money," the Doctor noticed.

He nodded "Well, you know that. From nothing comes nothing." He looked proudly at his balloon again. "One day I will fly away with it. You will see."

Rose started to realize. She could see it in how he behaved. "You were never up there, were you, Doctor?" she asked the future Doctor.

He shook his head. "But I will use the TARDIS, when London is saved again. Imagine that, Miss Tyler and Mister Smith, up in time and space." His eyes wandered up into heaven, lost in his thoughts. "It must be amazing."

Rose answered him knowing this dream already. "And a perfect plan to escape."

The Doctor stared at him with a meaningful look. After a few seconds of silence he added. "Did you ever ask you why are you running away?"

The future Doctor looked at him in confusion. "Well, I don't know, but I do it every day."

Rose and the Doctor's faces became serious. "Do you want to know why? Because I think I know it." Rose felt through their intertwined hands that he got tense.

She turned to face him, looking worried. "What do you mean with that? Do you know what's happened to him, I mean your future self? Well you know what I mean..." she whispered into his ear.

He leaned down to her. "Rose, he isn't me," he murmured to her. Rose opened her mouth to say something but the Doctor laid one finger over her lips and shook his head. Rose nodded understanding. The Doctor attention went back to the 'other Doctor'. He raised one eyebrow. "Do you want to know what I found out?"

Five minutes later Rosita, the other Doctor, and Rose sat in front of the Doctor. All three of them waited for him to explain everything. Rose still didn't know what he knew.

The Doctor held the info stamp firmly in his hand. "A long time ago not far away from here, Rose and I fought against the cybermen and defeated them. We send them in a place called the Void. You could compare it to sending them into nothing, or even hell. The cyberman fell through the time and end up in London. Now. Right here."

The ' future Doctor ' nodded and stared to the ground. "Yes, I have fought against them."

Rose suddenly started to realize what the Doctor wanted to say to her in the backyard. She compiled all information in her head and now she understood very well. Her eyes widened in shock. "And Jackson Lake was here in the same time with an info stamp in his suitcases..." Rose murmured.

"Right, good, Rose," he told her knowing that she understood. "He met the cybermen...Jackson Lake..."

Rose continued while she was thinking. "Like you he grabbed an info stamp..." The Doctors gaze fell on the man in front of him, who he no longer saw as his future self.

"But Jackson Lake is dead."

Rose stood up "Like you said Doctor. The answer is the watch." She looked at him and the Doctor nodded slowly with a smile. That was the Rose he knew. Always saying the right things and asking the right questions. She knelt down next to the confused man, who no longer knew who he really was. "Can I see the watch?" Rose asked carefully.

Rosita didn't understand why the watch was so important for them. He laid the watch in Rose's hand and she turned it around, so everyone could see it.

"Jackson Lake. " The Doctor read loud so they all could hear it.

I'm not happy with the end of this chapter but I hope you still liked it. :)

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