Thank you for the reviews. Winters Dawn, you think that Twelve has the best shot at rekindling a relationship with Rose? Well, so far it does appear that he is the only Doctor who seems to have any sense. But like you, I ship all the Doctors with Rose. Stay tuned for how I see that working out. :) And concerning Tentoo, I'm still coming to terms with him. Is he the Doctor, or is he human? I understand the Valeyard theory, though I won't go quite that far. I think he's good, but is he good for Rose? I'll be working out that theory here.

I don't own Doctor Who because I'm not English... or Scottish... or generally not from the UK. I'm just a dumb American

CHAPTER 9

The companions (minus Rose) had convened in the kitchen, where the TARDIS had expanded the table so that all of them could sit at once. The Doctor/Rose tension was getting ridiculous and they all just wished that the situation could be rectified. But no one had a clue as to how that would be possible! There was only one Rose, and there were currently FIVE Doctors, and none of them were willing to share.

"This has to be so hard on Rose" Mickey said. "I know she adores the Doctors - all of them. Unlike us, she doesn't see any real differentiation between them and views them as one and the same. I remember what it was like when Nine turned into Ten. He fell out of the TARDIS unconscious, and she insisted that that man was the same as the other. She sat by his bed, worrying all day." He paused, considering what he wanted to say next. "That was when I first really knew that it was over between us. I knew she loved him then. I mean, the man just changes his face, becomes a completely different person, and she's all: 'he's the same!' Bah! The only thing Nine and Ten have in common are that they are both insane!" Mickey surprised even himself with the outburst. He realized that he was still a little jealous of the Doctor. Even though he had Martha now, whom he adored, it still baffled him that Rose would trust that this stranger was the same man so completely. "Of course, it probably doesn't hurt that Ten is incredibly attractive." He muttered to himself. Martha leaned into him and wrapped her arm around him. She understood completely.

"It probably wasn't as easy for her to see him change as it seemed." Clara said, quietly. "In a way, I'm glad that the past Doctors were here when I met Twelve. It cushioned the blow for me a bit. I doubt I would have taken it so well otherwise, and as it is, I hope that whatever caused the TARDIS to malfunction and bring us all here doesn't get fixed, because I'm terrified of it just being him and me."

"I doubt that anything can be done, other than just to leave them to it to work out their own differences." Amy said, sadly. "That and offer support to them all, especially Rose. I agree that this has to be killing her." The others nodded in agreement.

"You have to admit, though. The Doctors arguing with each other and making jabs at each other is kind of funny if you really think about it." Martha said. "I mean, this takes talking to yourself to a whole different level!" Everyone laughed.

"It's the arguing that gets me, though." Clara said. "I was on an adventure awhile back with Ten and Eleven as well as a former face who isn't here, and those two got along fabulously!"

"Sweetie, Rose is the issue here." River commented. "They all did get along fairly well until she showed up. We all saw it!"

"So he's jealous of himself" Rory surmised. "Well, that's just weird. But then again, none of us have different faces to compete with. I'm not sure I'd be willing to share Amy with anyone: not even another version of myself. And I don't think that she'd share me either."

"But consider Rose's perspective on this as well." Martha interjected. "I mean, she's not in love with Nine, Ten, Tentoo, etc. If you ask her, she's in love with the Doctor. She loves each face equally. Don't the Doctors see that if she had to choose, she'd choose all of them? Don't they see that by fighting over her, they're hurting her?"

"Right! So how do we help them see that?" Mickey asked.

"I may actually have an idea that might help them along..." Jack said.

"Oi! You oversexed lummox! Will anyone like this idea but you?" Donna exclaimed, poking him with her finger.

"I don't think about sex all the time! Or even most of the time. Contrary to what you all seem to think. I care about Rosie and the Doc like a brother and sister, and I really want what's best for them. So, please hear me out."

Rose decided that it was time for bed. Tentoo made to follow but instead was greeted with the surprise of his life when she wouldn't let him enter the room and threw a blanket and pillow at him and slammed the door in his face, locking it behind her. He had really stepped in it this time, he knew. Cursing softly to himself to vent his frustration, he curled up on the floor outside of their room and tried to sleep.

Several hours later, Ten tripped over his human twin while wandering the halls on his own. "Hey, you ok?" He asked.

"Go away!" Tentoo rolled over and tried to ignore the time lord.

"She kicked you out? Oh, we've really gone and stepped in it, haven't we? This is very, very bad. Come on. Misery loves company, and we have plenty of both in the Doctor room."

He helped Tentoo to his feet and led him to the Doctors' room, where a fifth bed had materialized. Gloomily, Tentoo collapsed in a heap on his new bed, threw the covers over his head, and pretended to sleep. Eleven and Nine just stared at him, not neither of them knowing what to say. Twelve just sighed. The room that had once been the Doctor's private sanctuary was quickly becoming anything but.

Jack's plan involved several boxed sets of DVDs that he had bought when he visited a parallel universe. "This place was weird!" He said. "All our lives, or to be more specific, all the Doctor's lives, are regarded as fiction, err... science fiction to be precise. We're a show on the telly, and there are actors and actresses who look just like us. And they're famous! Like internationally famous! Just for portraying us on the telly! And they have clothing and action figures and toy sonic screwdrivers, and some of the very obsessed actually write fanfiction about us!"

The others regarded him skeptically. "What does this have to do with solving the Rose and Doctor problem?" Clara asked.

"We make them watch these old episodes, key episodes that highlight their relationship. Maybe it will remind them of how in love they are, and it will remind the Doctors that there really is no contest, and Rose loves them all" Jack replied.

"That'll never work." Mickey snorted.

"Got any better ideas?"

No one did, which is how the next day the entire TARDIS crew found themselves in the telly room watching Rose get attacked by shop dummies, Mickey turn into plastic (Martha thought it hilarious when her husband's head started to melt on the TARDIS console), and the Doctor ask a certain pink and yellow human to travel with him - twice.

No sooner had the on-screen Rose run onboard the on-screen TARDIS and the theme music started to play when the real TARDIS began to shutter and shake. Alarms were going off everywhere, and smoke filed the console room.

"Fantastic" came Nine's sarcastic comment, though his face lit up at the prospect of an adventure.

"Allons-y!" Ten and Tentoo sang out in stereo unison.

"Geronimo!" Eleven was ready for action again.

"Here we go again!" Twelve really hated catch phrases, but felt that he had to say something.

The companions followed the Doctors out of the smoking TARDIS and onto another strange new world.