Okay sorry that it has been so long since I last posted. I was on vacation, so yeah; that was why. Anyway, back now, so I can post a lot more often. Here we go.
Back in the cell.
Rose was keeping track of the weird things-the Silence-with tally marks. It felt like an involuntary movement, like she was forced to do it. Not that she minded, it would be nice to know how many there were, seeing as she only knew that they were coming when another tally mark appeared on the wall. For some reason she'd been carrying a sharpie around in her pocket, although it was probably from her missing week. Rose wondered what she'd been doing that required a sharpie.
No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't seem to get out of the cell. She'd hit the walls as hard as she could, but they didn't budge. Not a single crack appeared in the glass wall, no dent in the other walls. There was still a cell across from hers, but she couldn't hear any sound. Not a creak. She sat down again, groaning in desperation.
"This is not how I planned to spend my weekend," Rose complained suddenly. There was a creaking behind her, and a soft chuckle. As she turned, Rose prepared for the weird Silence, her sharpie ready in hand to make another tally mark.
Instead of a white faced alien, however, she just saw a woman with an eye patch over her left eye. "Funny little creatures your kind are," the woman said quietly.
"My kind…Humans?" Rose asked. The woman looked human enough, so why did she say 'your kind' as if she wasn't the same? She could be Slytheen, but she was fairly small, and the Slytheen preferred larger bodies.
"No, companions of the Doctor," the woman said with another laugh, as if Rose were a highly amusing pet.
"What do you know of the Doctor?" Rose demanded. She raised her chin in defiance, but the woman just smirked.
"All in good time; I know that the Doctor likes to keep human pets, show them time and space, then abandon them. But he seems fairly fond of you. Why is that?" the woman demanded suddenly, all humor gone.
"Because I help him, I don't push him. I don't let him get lonely," as the woman's smile came back on her face, I pushed my chin back in the air again. "You would get lonely if you traveled through all of time and space all by yourself."
"Is that what you think? That he let you travel with him because he was lonely?" the woman asked, and Rose considered nodding, except for the fact that she felt that it was a trick question.
"What's your name?" Rose asked the woman, and she tilted her head, considering the question.
"Let me expose you to the sad, sad truth. The reason that the Doctor is still with you, that he didn't leave you like he left the others, is because you're too dangerous to be left alone," the woman smirked at Rose's confusion.
"Me? Dangerous? What makes me dangerous? I have no special skills, except for the fact that I will stop at nothing to protect my family and the ones I love," Rose sounded a lot braver than she felt. This woman was about to threaten one of the main things that Rose believed-that she was special to the Doctor.
"You don't know your own strength. Do you remember that day? That one fateful day when the Doctor regenerated into who he is now? It wasn't even in this universe. I know that you still hold some memory of that event," she asked Rose, and she searched her mind. She remembered the Daleks, being sent home and trying to get back to the Doctor to help. But then there was an invisible wall, blocking anything else. She didn't know what happened after that, nor would the Doctor tell her. All she remembered was waking up on the TARDIS, and the Doctor regenerating.
"What happened on that day, when he regenerated? Is it because I saw him regenerate? I can't be the first to," Rose was thoroughly confused by now. The lady wasn't making any sense.
"Do you remember what caused him to regenerate? He only does so when he's on deaths door," the woman informed me.
"I don't…" Rose trailed off. The Doctor had said something, something that she'd disregarded at the time because the Doctor was dying, but what was it? What had he said? 'I absorbed the Time Vortex, Rose, and nobody's meant to do that.' But why would he do that? "He said something about absorbing the Time Vortex," Rose admitted.
"Any idea why he'd do that?" the woman asked Rose, but she just shrugged.
"No. I'm sorry. Just let me go. I don't know why you'd think I'm dangerous, but I think that you've got the wrong girl," Rose gave up on getting any more information from the woman who was obviously not going to give it to her.
"Oh no, we can't let you go. You're too valuable a weapon. Figure out what happened that night, why you're powerful and dangerous. Then we'll talk," she told Rose with a wicked smile.
"Talk about letting me go?" Rose asked hopefully, although she knew that this woman wouldn't give up on getting her hands on whatever power that she thought Rose had.
"You'll certainly be leaving this cell, but you won't be heading back to your Doctor. You will be taken in somewhere…else," the woman says, and Rose punches the wall in anger. "Now, think on what we talked about. Tell me when you remember. Those words aren't just there for decoration," she hinted. "And my name is Vivian," Vivian left through an invisible door, leaving Rose to ponder her words as she banged on the glass, forming a plan.