Rose sat on the cold floor, her back pressed against the wall, River was only a few inches away on the other side. They were separated by a gap-another hallway, and from what Rose could tell, the Master was heading their way. The stomping of soldier's feet made her shutter, the two women stepped farther away from the gap and each other as the group of men passed them. Rose stiffened against the wall, her mind, her eyes, her breathing, her body, everything froze. "Roseie, sweet heart, where are you?" his voice cooed, Rose felt as if she might be sick right there, "I said, where are you!" his voice was cold and loud. Rose could feel it itching at the back of her throat, she needed to get something out, cough at least, she held her breath in hopes it would pass, the Master drew nearer and nearer to them. Rose sputtered as it took her over and collapsed to the floor, what was going on? She held her palms to the metal floor leaning on her knees and coughed, sputtered, spit. The slick liquid draining out of her mouth sliding past her lips, the warmth of it on her tongue staining her pink lips deep red. Blood. Rose opened her eyes staring at the now blood stained floor, she whipped her head to look up at River who stared at her wide eyed. Before either of them could acknowledge each other a pair of feet in black dress shoes stood in front of Rose and continued to speak, "hello, Rosie, dear, come along with me, we'll save you from this-" he looked at River and then back down at Rose "-wretched lady, come on now" The master reached down for Rose but she refused. He crouched down in front of her, "You have to learn to trust me, I'm not the bad guy" he pleaded.
The TARDIS landed and the doctor bounded down the steps to open his TARDIS and discover where the parallel Master had been hiding along with his Rose. "Should we split up?" Rory asked "no" the doctor spat turning on Rory, "no, not here-we don't know what he's like" The doctor explained. "Yea, but I thought you met this Master guy before?" Amy stated as she exited the TARDIS after Rory. "Yea-well, he's the parallel version, he might be different" the doctor convinced the couple. "Now, come along ponds!"
The Master grabbed Rose by her hands and pulled her up, as she faced River two guards came up from behind and grabbed River by an arm and started dragging her away. "River!" Rose fumbled trying to escape the Master's grasp. River pulled and pushed trying to gain freedom as she was dragged the opposite direction away from Rose "Rose!" River yelled. Calm down, you'll be fine, she'll be fine, the doctor will be fine, we'll be fine. River encouraged herself and stood up straight walking with her captors.
Rose crumpled to the floor, the Master holding her by both arms still, "I told you, she's wretched, she poisoned you" the master looked at the blood on the floor and back to Rose staring at the dried red on her lips. "No!-No" Rose cried, River wouldn't do that, "Yes Rose! She's jealous, she just wants the doctor, that's all she wants, she tricked you! Please, Rose, he's not even here for you-don't you think he would've come by now? Rose, I'm here, I'm here to help" The Master explained. He looked at her, into her deep brown eyes, the one's he'd first fallen in love with. The eyes he saw when he picked up the cans she knocked off the shelf, those deep brown eyes. His grip tightened on her arms as he thought about the other doctor and the new one he'd discovered, she would be his. His hands slid down her arms to her wrists. Her eyes were wet with tears, he'd gotten her, hit her right in the weak spot, he sat down and let her lean into him as he placed a hand on her head "I'm here, I always have been, when he runs away or leaves you behind, Roseie, my dear, I have and will always be here." The master finished.
Rose listened to every word, he's lying, he's a fake, he's not real, he's evil, Rose! But every word healed her more and more, and made her feel more and more. She sat and gazed at him as he spoke, he's always been there for me, he always will be she thought, a small smile perked on her lips and then fell. As he pulled her into him, she could breathe again, feel him around her, the world around her, she let herself go. She sniffed a bit and then let the tears fall, how could you do this? River and the doctor, that's how its s'posed to be, not you, this-this is what you are. She held onto his hand squeezing as pain filled her heart, she sobbed into the black suit coat he wore and he just whispered "it's okay" over and over letting her fall apart in his arms. He was there for her, even when the doctor wasn't he always had been even when the duplicate had left for a business trip, he really had always been there. But-he's here for me even now.
Room after Room the trio searched the building, the so called "Master" had been hiding in, "doctor!" Amy called "what?-and shut up." The doctor grinded his teeth, "we can't find anything" Amy complained and like it was planned a loud banging came from the last room just down the hall, The doctor looked up and a devilish grin playing on his face "really, you sure about that?" he then ran off after the sound with Amy and Rory following behind. He pulled out the sonic screw driver aiming it at the metal sliding door and it slid open with just enough time for the three of them to run through it. The doctor came face to Face with a tied up Jack Harkness, bringing back memories of the real Master. "There's no guards" Amy pointed out, "yes, suspicious" The doctor furrowed his eye brows and then moved to free Jack, using his sonic screwdriver. "Best get out of here quick then" The doctor directed and led everyone out of the cell quickly. "I'm gonna get a hold of my team and get ready to get us out of here" Jack claimed and the doctor nodded his head. "River, and Rose, they were taken I don't know where they are" Jack commented and the doctor didn't look back, he just walked forwards jaw clenched. Bastard, the doctor thought as his mind came to the conclusion of the Master.
Rose sat on the metal table as the Master cleaned her lip and gave her some water with who knows what in it. Why was she letting him do this? "Rose" He spoke looking at the floor, "yea..." Rose said quietly, "I'm sorry, truly, about-well, everything...I need to know...the plan, Bad Wolf , are you okay with it" Rose watched him as he continued to avoid eye contact. He wanted to use her-her power of bad wolf, to change the world to change time, force it to be his. She knew it was wrong, so very-very wrong, but deep down she felt pain for him, he had always been alone, no companion-no TARDIS, nothing. "I-I" Rose swallowed, she could die, she could be permanently hurt, scarred, mentally injured. She flinched as his cold hands grabbed hers, she slid off the table still holding his hands, he pressed her back against a wall and whispered "I know, I know what you're thinking, you don't have to be-but don't think for a second I wouldn't try and save you" the Master encouraged. He let his lips touch her skin and trailed a line down her neck and up again
This is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong! Rose screamed inside her head but nothing left her lips, she just rolled her head back against the wall and then her lips found his, she was kissing him. Rose! She cried inside her mind, she'd waited so long, for someone, for anyone to take her, make her feel loved, 85 years; she waited for something like this. A word escaped her "please" her voice hitched, tongue and tongue, mouth on mouth, lips pressed to lips, she sighed. Her body taking control as her fingers clawed at his shoulders wanting him closer, she didn't care who it was-not anymore, "please" she sighed again, a tear slipped from her eye her body quivered with sadness and she felt like she was going to collapse. The master opened his eyes to meet hers, her back still pressed against the wall "I, I love you" his words were calm. Rose blinked, those three words she had been waiting for, for more than a hundred years. She didn't hesitate or flinch, or stop, she just kissed him back. The metal door slid open.
Minutes later, the trio had found the infirmary, the last place they needed to check, the doctor flicked his sonic screwdriver and the door slowly slid open his hopes were almost gone when the door slid open completely he saw his Rose and the Master, against each other, holding each other, on each other, kissing! His hearts broke, split, fell. "Rose" He was barely able to manage her name, Rose looked up and still holding the masters hand pushed him back slightly, she gulped not sure what to say. She watched as the doctor just gapped at the pair, his eyes sad and wide, the colour drained from his face "I-" Rose could feel the water works coming on. Don't cry. "You're a bit late" the Master spoke, "yes, but she asked us not to come, I broke that promise though" the doctor huffed. "well, there was no point" the Master laughed, The doctor arched an eye brow confused, "Rose, I love you" The Master whispered into her ear and found her hand, watching the doctor to make sure he had seen. "Doctor" Rose cried, "Rose, why?" the doctor raised both eye brows, "he-he loves me, and-" she knew she sounded like a child, "Doctor, I've been waiting-85 years for someone-any one, to show me they love me" Rose gasped as she coughed. "I showed you that" the doctor begged, "yea...he told me-what I've been waiting for those-those three words" Rose concluded.
That's it? All she wants is those three words...but-but I can't tell her yet, this isn't the right time-or place, but what if she comes back to me? No...she'll come back if she loves me. "he's a liar, he killed my duplicate, he threatened you, Rose what makes you think he's any different?" the doctor stood up straight with an argument, Rose sniffled "you don't know do you?" the doctor glared sternly .
Amy and Rory only mere feet away stood watching how could she? Amy thought, that was the moment River busted through holding up a huge white gun, "let her go" Rivers voice was cold, let go of my husband's happiness and I won't shoot, keep her and I won't think twice.
River could see Rose's hand intertwined with the Masters, but she didn't lower the gun, she knew, her parents would be gone soon too, if the doctor had anyone left it was Rose, Rose dropped the Masters hand. "Remember what I said?" River reminded Rose and then nodded towards her parents, Rose quickly caught on, only to be stopped by the Master. "Rose, what I just said-what we just went through" The Master watched her as she kept walking "yea thanks" Rose tried to forget it, but how could she? "You could be the queen of the world if you stay with me, you could have everything, anything!" the Master begged grabbing her wrist. Rose turned on him and spat "I have everything I want-everything you want but you can't have!...I don't want to be queen of the world-I'm not a queen!" "Then what do you want?" The Master pleaded, "I have what I want, what I've always wanted, I'm not a queen, or princess or a women, I'm a lady-a time lady, and you don't deserve me, but thank you for helping me understand what I want." Rose yanked her arm way from the man and started to run towards the doctor who stood grinning tears in his eyes, only feet away from him, Rose came to a halt as a glass wall fell between them "noo!" The doctor screamed running for her "doctor!" she hit her fists against the wall, "if I can't have her no one can!" The master laughed wickedly, Rose knew he was a cheat but this was sick.
Amy and Rory ran after the doctor with River holding a gun up shooting the glass, but it wouldn't break. The doctor had her, right there; they were separated by an inch of glass. "Rose" he whined pressing his forehead against the glass she pressed her forehead to his staring up at him. "I'm so stupid...you can't forgive me for that" Rose sobbed. "He poisoned you, not me-but him" River explained. Rose looked at Amy who kept staring at her "what?" Rose questioned the red head, "do it" Amy demanded, Rose knew what Amy was talking about, "what?" the doctor gave Rose a bemused look as he quizzed her "what do you have to do?" "I'm different, then most time lords-ladies this might weird you out, but move away from the glass" Rose instructed them. Amy dragged the doctor away, Rose looked back at the other time lord "you're a selfish bastard" she smiled and then closed her eyes holding her palms to the glass focusing"
focus. Imagine it breaking. Shattering, cracking focus, breathe, smash. When Rose opened her eyes the glass was shattered and destroyed scattered on the ground, she ran as fast she could before anything could stop her and her arms found the doctor "I missed you" she cried into his shoulder "I missed you to, now run!" the doctor yelled and the five of them bolted from danger running for the TARDIS and easily escaped.
After having a small reunion, Rose found River "thank you" Rose thanked the curly haired women, "thank you" River bowed her head and Rose arched an eyebrow, "you keep him happy for me, we'll be gone soon, my family and I" River looked down. Rose made her jump a bit as she wrapped her arms around River. River returned the gesture and they both entered the console room, "where too now?" Rose smiled. They all knew the Master wouldn't be gone forever but for now they could ignore him, and Jacks team was still working on the case. "Manhattan?" Rory perked up, Rose could see a frown come upon Rivers face "naw-maybe another day" Rose decided and the doctor put in coordinates to drop River off before they would travel.
Rose sat in her room smelling the bed covers, no one had touched it, she changed her clothes and laid herself down, she turned her head to see the tall man walk in she grinned happy and joyful to be home. The doctor sat himself on her bed and pulled her into his arms, "don't do that again" he scolded, Rose laughed "okay" she responded "I'm serious he let his smile fall, "because Rose Tyler, I love you, and I'm not losing you not again" he stared into her brown eyes speckled with gold and grinned and gently placed his lips on hers, his Rose was home.
Did he just tell me he loves me?
Authors note: wow. Okay! Sorry it took so lonnggggggg to update but it's done—no not the story the story isn't finished but, for the next couple weeks I won't be updating as much, because I have exams coming up, and ect. So bare with me, its not summer break for me yet ;( but yea thank you for all the follows and favs! And please review what you though/think , ect.-luv lex