The void, Time Lords and saving people.
Chapter eight:
Disclaimer sadly
Ok how about in the first chapter, where Rose said 'and opens where ever I want with a click of my fingers,' she said 'and comes where ever I want with a click of my fingers' and her TARDIS said basically. please? Thanks. XD
Rose froze at this, eyes widening in panic and one hand clenched into a fist by its self.
'Torchwood? He's in charged of Torchwood? Oh Jack, why?' She thought sadly.
"To-Torchwood?"she stutter weakly.
Jack frowned at this reaction "yeah, got a problem with that?" He asked.
Her anger flared at this and she glared at her friend, past events and alcohol probably not the best mix for this situation.
"You better believe I have a problem with them Captain and it's called Canary Wharf " she spat and started walking away from him.
The Captain stood there in stunned confusion for a few seconds before running after her, "hey wait, you said you would explain!"
Quickly catching up, he grabbed her forearm in a vice like grip, not letting go even when she struggled and kicked at him, her panic with the situation rising fast, and dragged her into a narrow dead ended alley way that was near by. Pulling her to the brick wall at the end and all but pined her to the wall by her arm and the other hand pining her by her neck, his own frustration getting the better of him.
"Alright kid, fun and games are over, tell me who you are and how you know me," he demanded in a low voice.
Which Rose just snorted at and glared at the Captain , "like I'm going to tell you Torchwood boy," she spat.
He pressed a little harder on her neck at that for a second but then released her arm and throat and griped her coat, lifting he so she was eye level with him and pined her arms against the wall with his elbows, getting right up in her face.
"Tell me" he growled.
"No" she spat back.
"Why not?"
"You would never believe me."
"Try me," he challenged.
With an eye roll and a sigh, she decided to tell, and then threaten bodily harm if he tells another soul, "Rose."
"Rose who?" he growled out, annoyed with her evasiveness.
Said Time Lady almost smirked at that, "Rose Tyler."
Jack jumped back like he had been burned, eyes wide, 'it can't be, she's dead, b-but the name a-and she knows me, wait, no, she could be any one,' he thought to himself, jack then glared at her, growling alittle and having to clench his fists and dig his nails in to his palm to keep the oncoming emotions connected to that name at bay.
"No, s-she's dead, a-and you don't even look like her, why-" he paused to let out a sigh, brain kicking back in to sence , "if you are who you say then prove it, you have thirty seconds" he said coldly
"Prove it? Prove it, prove it, prove it, move it, hove it, ch-ove it wait no that's not a word," she said distractedly.
"Twenty seconds" he said impatiently.
"Right yes, sorry, proving who I am, well, I guess when we first met during the London blitz would do it," she said casually, shrugging her shoulder off handedly but closely observing Jack, not missing the quick, quiet intake of breath showing his surprise. "I ended up hanging from a barrage balloon in the middle of a German air raid with a union jack t-shirt on and you had an invisible space ship parked next to Big Ben, I never stood a chance. You caught me when I fell, you fixed up my rope burn with nanogenes, you thought me and big ears were time agents and tried to con us in to buying a Chula war ambulance that you thought was empty.
Your version of 'business' was taking me on top of your spaceship, drinking champagne and dancing to Moonlight Serenade, we stopped the world from becoming gas masked zombies calling for there mummies and every one lived."
As she talked she started pacing along the back wall of the alley, speaking fondly of that one adventure that no body died, that made the Doctor so happy. She turned back to Jack, with her tongue -in-teeth grin, to see his completely stunned, wide-eyed look that couldn't hide the happiness.
"You know I'm still on the ropes about that adventure, I'm not to so sure meeting the Doctor was the best life choice, and for you Rosie, defiantly not, I mean a barrage balloon, seriously?" He asked teasingly, moving over to his friend, and crushing her to his chest with a tight hug.
Rose let out a laugh as she returned the hug as best she could, "well, I do try," she said back when he realised her.
"I can see that, and tonight facing down that thing, I'm not sure if its bravery or stupidity any more." Still holding her by her upper arms and grinning like an idiot.
She laughed at that and rolled her eyes "oh well sorry, I thought you kind of liked this planet in-tacked."
"Ah well, it's had a good run."
The both burst out laughing and Jack pulled her back in for another hug, gentler though, resting his cheek on her hair and sighing heavily.
"Rosie, the Doctor told me what happened at Canary Wraf, you fell in to the void, your suppose to be dead, so how are you alive?" He murmured to her.
"Bad wolf saved me, turned me in to a Time Lady and made me a TARDIS out of the key the Doctor gave me for his," she said into his shoulder.
Jack frowned a bit at this "I didn't know it could do that, but wait," he pause moving her back so she could look a her, "I thought Bad Wolf was gone?"
Rose shrugged "so did I, but she said that there were small traces of the time vortex left in me that were building over time and activated by a life threatening situation with no way out."
"She?"
"Dream world with bad wolf, who looks like me, and the consciousness of my TARDIS."
"Right..." He trailed off, shaking his head, "any way, let me make some calls, I still need this mess cleared up and then we can go find the Doctor, I can't wait to see his reaction," he said bordering on exited.
Rose looked away at this, "actually Jack, I would rather not have the Doctor know who I am just yet."
"What? Why not," he asked shocked.
"Well like you said, he thinks I'm dead, and if he found out who I am he would probably never let me out of the TARDIS again, now after being in the one place for eight hundred and fifty years, just the thought makes me twitchy," she sighed and turned away completely, "I know that it is completely selfish of me to do that to him, but at the moment, I can't help, I just..." She trailed off as she felt a comforting hand grip her shoulder gently.
"It's ok Rosie, I get it, you need your own adventures by your self for a while," he said as he turned her towards him, "it's not that I agree with this in the slightest you daft old alien, but I can't truly under stand it ether so it's not my place to force you to tell him but, oh so short one," he paused for emphasis, and because of the hard kick to his shin from Rose, "you and me are going to find him, just so I can see what he does when he finds another 'Time Lord', or lady in your case, that isn't trying to concur the universe."
"What?"
"Long story."
"Alright then," she shrugged, " any way, I guess I should let him know I'm alive."
"Right, yes, good plan," he paused and frowned, very confused, "wait, nope, you've lost me, what?"
Rose had to laugh at this "the Sontarans attack has happened yet?"
"The Sontaran attack where they tried to gas the planet with the help of some idiot genius but were blown up by some insane person that also died? Yeah, that happened two days ago."
"Oh, I'm classified as insane now?" She asked in mock offence tilting her head to the side.
Jack stared at her for a few seconds before it clicked "oh..."
"Yeah."
"Did he know that..."
"Yeah" she sighed, running a hand through her hair.
"Roooose," he complained.
"I know, I screwed big time, but I'm going to fix it and you can come to, as soon as you're done here we can track 'im down, alright?" She asked, avoiding eye contact with him.
"Fine Rosie," he said rolling his eyes.
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Once the mess in the bar had been cleaned up and the witnesses had been dealt with, Jack wandered on back to the little alley Rose decided to stay in until it was over. When he got there, she was sitting on the ground using a sonic screwdriver to burn markings on the ground.
"Again with the sonic screwdriver, I mean seriously, who has them," he said, rolling his eyes.
"Well, me and the Doctor, come on then," she started as she got up, "lets go find him shall we?"
"Yeah good idea, so where's your TARDIS?" Jack asked.
Rose just smirked, raising both arms and clicked with both hands. Behind her, she heard the doors of her ship swing open "right here," she said, stepping to the side and motioning for the surprise ex-time agent to enter.
Once he was in, Rose followed closely, closing the doors and moving towards the console, leaving Jack to walk around the room in awe.
"But there was nothing there before, how did you do that?" He said as he stood next to Rose as she started a tracking scan for the Doctor.
"I guess you aren't going to take 'its complicated' are you." She said with a sigh and an eye roll.
"Nope" he said grinning, "you just made your TARDIS appear out of nothing, you can make it appear where ever you want, that would have come in so handy on so many adventures it's not funny, so yeah, I'm interested, shoot me." He said in mock irritation.
"Thought so, well..." She trailed off, moving round the console, "it not that simple you see, when the Bad Wolf turned me into a Time Lady, she also left me with some extra... stuff, along with what Gallifreyans can already do. I have stronger mental abilities, able to see some actual details in time lines, though only with a physical connection, sense time passing accurately and some other things, but one of the really cool thing she left was slight control of the time vortex.
I can't take out a fleet of Daleks with a wave of my hand or even make my TARDIS's physical form appear, what I can do is open it's doors open in shadows."
"Isn't that the same thing though?" He asked.
"No its not, 'cause as you saw before, there was nothing there. 'Cause you see, when I land my TARDIS in shadows, it has no form but my bit of control of the vortex allows me to bring it where I want, doors open. It's impressive yeah but I don't know if it will be completely reliable 'cause if light hits where I parked it, I won't be able to call on it, in the light, it's a normal TARDIS, physical form and all."
"Hmm.. well then, very complicated."
"Very, even Bad Wolf and my TARDIS didn't really know how it worked for the first few months, which is saying something," she said, laughing a little.
She was distracted though when the scan for the Doctor finished with a ding. She grinned manically and started running around the console, putting in the needed time/space coordinates to find her Doctor again.
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Once they had landed, and Jack had picked himself up after the excessively bumpy ride.
"And I thought you would be a better driver that the Doctor," this remark earned him a smack up side the head, "Oi! What was tha- holy what the hell!" He yelled jumping back, completely freaked out when he saw the gas masked Rose.
"Oh don't be such a wuss, come on Captain," she said trying not to laugh at his reaction and walked out the door with the slightly stunned ex-con man following.
They had landed in a pipe and machinery filled corridor that smelled of flowers, there was enough light in said corridor so her TARDIS had gone to its physical form but Rose wasn't really worried about that, she was trying to figure why she could smell flowers.
"Nice look Rosie, very you," Jack said as he closed the doors and patted them, "the new you any way, but- hay where are you going?" He asked when Rose started to walk off.
He soon fell in step with her, quickly catching sent for this setting. Soon enough they came to where the smell was strongest, through a large doorway to brighter lit room with plants poking from the other side, as they crept closer to the edge of the opening, they heard two loud noises followed by the sounds of loud foot steps and guns, the pair cautiously looked around the wall separating them from the lush garden and to see what was happening. Inside, the Doctor, Donna, a dark-skinned woman and a short-ish blond girl stood in the middle of the room with a large glass ball filled with swirling green and gold gasses on a sort of pedestal thing with tubes in built. The noises they heard before, Rose was pretty sure, were from the two groups of soldier, one human and one kind of fish sort of thing, the Time Lord was in the middle of them taking with his arms out.
"Stop! Hold your fire!" He yelled, turning between the two groups.
"What is this, some kind of trap?" An older looking man in front of the human group that was holding a hand gun and pointing it at the Doctor demanded.
"You said you wanted this war over," he said looking pointedly at the older looking man.
"Want this war won," he said gruffly and Rose instantly got a bad feeling about him, so did Jack if him tensing up was anything to go on.
"You can't win, no one can, you don't even know why you're here, your whole history, it's just Chinese whispers, getting more distorted the more it's passed on," he paused his speech as he held both hands out to the globe thing.
"This, is the Source, this is what you're fighting over, a device to rejuvenate a planet's ecosystem. It's nothing mystical, it's from a laboratory, not some creator, it's a bubble of gases, a cocktail of stuff for accelerated evolution. Methane, hydrogen, ammonia, amino acids, proteins, nucleic acids. it's used to make barren planets habitable, look around you, it's not for killing, it's bringing life, if you allow it, it can lift you out of these dark tunnels and into the bright, bright sunlight, no more fighting, no more killing," the Doctor said, looking between both groups.
The Doctor picked up the sphere and rested it on his shoulder as he continued talking. "I'm the Doctor, and I declare this war is over!" He announced, making her grin, and through the globe on the ground.
When it hit the ground, it smashed and released the stuff in side and everyone watched in awe as it slowly rose up in to the air and dispersed , all the soldiers, both fish thing and human lowered their guns and put them on the ground, all except the old guy.
"What's happening?" The blond asked the Doctor as she walked up next to him.
"The gases will escape and trigger the terraforming process," he said still looking round.
"What does that mean?" She asked
"It means a new world," he replied looking down at her lovingly and she giggled a but grinned, which to Rose looked a lot like the Doctors.
And then, of course, something had to go wrong.
Ok I'm gonna stop here because the demons are telling me to. Love it, hate it, jokes on you, you read it.