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As the Doctor started to flip a few switches again he looked at Rose, "Right then, Rose Tyler, you tell me. Where do you want to go? Backwards or forwards in time, it's your choice. What's it going to be?"
"Forward." Rose smiled brightly in excitement.
"How far?" The Doctor asked.
"One hundred years." The words were out of Rose's mouth before she could even think about saying anything else.
When the Tardis came to a stop the Doctor pointed to the door. "There you go. Step outside those doors, it's the twenty second century."
"Seriously?" Rose asked in wide eyed happiness.
"That's a bit boring though." The Doctor hummed. "Do you want to go further?"
"Fine by me." Rose laughed.
"Ten thousand years in the future." The Doctor said as they came to a stop again. "Step outside, it's the year 12005, the new Roman Empire."
"You think you are so impressive." Rose chuckled.
"I am so impressive." The Doctor protested.
"You wish." Rose smirked at him.
"Right then, you asked for it." The Doctor spun a thing on the console and pushed a few more buttons. "I know exactly where to go. Hold on!"
"Where are we?" Rose asked even if she knew exactly where they were; Satellite 5. "What's out there?"
The Doctor only gestured for her to step outside. As she stepped outside, she saw a huge window at the bottom of some steps, showing that they were in orbit around Earth.
"You lot, you spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to get killed by eggs or beef or global warming or asteroids. But you never take the time to imagine the impossible, that maybe you survive." The Doctor walked up behind her as she stood in front of the window, just watching the Earth. "This is the year five point five slash apple slash twenty six. Five billion years in your future, and this is the day," He looked at his watch. "Hold on." The sun flared up and turned red. "This is the day the Sun expands. Welcome to the end of the world."
As Rose and the Doctor started to walk towards what Rose remembered from the show was the big meeting room they heard a voice over the speakers.
"Shuttles five and six now docking. Guests are reminded that Platform One forbids the use of weapons, teleportation and religion. Earth Death is scheduled for fifteen thirty nine, followed by drinks in the Manchester Suit."
"When they say 'guests' it means people right?" Rose asked softly as they walked.
"Aliens." The Doctor said.
"Aren't aliens people?" Rose looked at him.
"Of course, they are." The Doctor smiled proudly at her.
"What are they all doing on…Platform one?" Rose wondered. "What is it all for?"
"This is an observation deck." The Doctor explained. "The great and the good are gathering to watch the planet burn."
"What for?" Rose watched as the Doctor used his sonic screw driver on a wall panel.
"Fun." The Doctor beamed.
They walked into a large area with a few display cases and a view of space to the front and above.
"Mind you, when I said the great and the good, what I mean is, the rich." The Doctor told her as they walked towards the big window.
"Doctor, why does the planet look the same?" Rose looked down on her home planet. "Shouldn't the continents have shifted?"
"They did and the Trust shifted them back." The Doctor bounced a little on his feet. "That's a classic Earth. But now the money's run out, nature takes over."
"How long's it got?" Rose smiled at him.
"About half an hour and then the planet gets roasted." The Doctor chuckled.
"There's no one down there, right?" Rose wanted to know.
"You don't have to worry, it's empty. Everyone has left." The Doctor reassured her.
"Who the hell are you?" A blue-skinned person with golden slitted eyes hurried towards them.
"Oh, that's nice, thanks." The Doctor hummed.
"But how did you get in? This is a maximum hospitality zone." The steward fretted. "The guests have disembarked. They're on their way any second now."
"That's me, I'm a guest. Look, I've got an invitation." The Doctor pulled out his psychic paper. "Look, there you see? The Doctor plus one. I'm the Doctor and this is Rose Tyler, she's my plus one. Is that alright?"
"Well, obviously." The steward blustered. "Apologies, et cetera. If you're on board, we'd better start. Enjoy."
"The paper's slightly psychic." The Doctor showed her the paper. "It shows them whatever I want them to see. Saves a lot of time."
"But it's just a blank piece of paper." Rose pointed out; a bit disappointed that she couldn't see anything.
"What?" The Doctor asked shocked.
"It's just a blank piece of paper." Rose repeated.
"We have in attendance the Doctor and Rose Tyler. Thank you. All staff to their positions." As Rose turned to watch a lot of small people appear, she missed the intrigued look the Doctor was sending her. "Hurry, now, thank you. Quick as we can. Come along, come along."
The steward started to introduce all the guest but Rose ignored him in favor of smiling at Jabe as she walked over.
"The Gift of Peace." Jabe handed over a small pot with a plant. "I bring you a cutting of my Grandfather."
As the Doctor started to pat his pocket for a return gift Rose stepped forward. "In return I give you a small pebble from the planet below." Rose pulled out a small stone out of her hoddie pocket and gave it to Jabe.
"That is a might gift indeed." Jabe bowed her head at Rose. "Thank you."
"From the Silver Devastation, the sponsor of the main event, please welcome the Face of Boe." The stewards said as the Face of Boe arrived.
Jabe and her companions left as Rose looked at the Face of Boe and if she remembered correctly, that was also the being who had once upon a time gone by the name Jack Harkness.
"It was very lucky that you had those stones in your pockets." The Doctor smiled at her.
"I don't know why I do." Rose lied quickly with a shrug. "I just felt this instant need since I woke up two days ago to collect small round stones."
"Do you often have these feelings of having to do something?" The Doctor asked softly.
"It happens." Rose tried to sound vague.
"And those these things you do help at a later date?" The Doctor looked at her seriously.
"Yes…" Rose said quietly.
Before the Doctor could ask any more questions The Moxx of Balhoon approached them in his pod.
"The Moxx of Balhoon." The Doctor smiled, not noticing Rose edging behind him.
"My felicitations on this historical happenstance. I give you the gift of bodily saliva." The Moxx said and spit the Doctor in the face.
"Thank you kindly." Rose stepped forward, trying not to laugh at the Doctor. "And in return I give you a pebble from the planet below."
As The Moxx leaves a group of black-robed figures glided up to them silently.
"Ah! The Adherents of the Repeated Meme." The Doctor said happily after he had dried his face from The Moxx's saliva. "We bring you a pebble from the planet below."
"A gift of peace in all good faith." A large metal hand held out a ball.
"And last but not least, our very special guest." The steward announced. "Ladies and gentlemen, trees and multiform, consider the Earth below. In memory of this dying world, we call forth the last Human. The Lady Cassandra O'Brien Dot Delta Seventeen."
"Oh, now, don't stare. I know, I know it's shocking, isn't it? I've had my chin completely taken away and look at the difference. Look at how thin I am. Thin and dainty. I don't look a day over two thousand. Moisturize me, moisturize me." Cassandra said as one of her attendants used a pump spray on her. "Truly, I am the last Human. My father was Texan, my mother from the Artic Desert. They were born on the Earth and were the last to be buried in its soil. I have come to honor them and say goodbye. Oh, no tears, no tears. I'm sorry. But behold, I bring gifts. From Earth itself, the last remaining ostrich egg. Legend says it had a wingspan of fifty feet and blew fire from its nostrils. Or was that my third husband? Oh, no. Oh, don't laugh. I'll get laughter lines. And here, another rarity."
Rose watched with disbelief as the rolled in a 50's jukebox.
"According to the archives, this was called an iPod." Cassandra explained. "It stores classical music from humanity's greatest composers. Play on!"
The Doctor started to nod along to Tainted Love by Soft Cell but stopped when he saw Rose run out. He sighed and went to follow her but was intercepted by Jade.
"Doctor?" Jade asked and as he turned towards her there was a flash. "Thank you."
The Doctor just smiled at her and went to find Rose. The special human he had brought with him. She was very different from most humans he had met; she saw everyone as people instead of humans and aliens. That she saw a blank paper when he showed her the psychic paper intrigued him but not as much as the gift she seemed to have about subconsciously knowing that she would need something.
After looking for a while he finally found Rose in the gallery where they had first seen the Earth through the window.
"You alright?" The Doctor asked as he sat down beside her.
"Yeah, sorry for running out." Rose smiled brightly at him.
"Got a bit much?" The Doctor assumed.
"Huh?" Rose looked confused then her face cleared. "No, I needed to get out of there before I started to laugh my ass off. They are so clueless about my time and that is hilarious."
"Yeah, a lot of things have gotten lost over the years." The Doctor nodded with a smile.
"How come they all speak English?" Rose looked at him. "Shouldn't they have their own languages? Please tell me humans didn't force English on them?"
"You just hear English." The Doctor reassured. "It's a gift of the Tardis. The telepathic field, gets inside your brain and translates."
"That is so cool." Rose breathed out with wide eyes.
The Doctor beamed at her with happiness even as the computer reminded them about the Earths death in twenty minutes.
"You are a very delightful person and very accepting of everything going on." The Doctor looked at her.
"What good would freaking out do?" Rose laughed. "And I've always believed in life on other planets, I mean, the universe is way too big for there only to be humans, right?"
"Fantastic." The Doctor beamed at her.
"Hey can I take a picture?" Rose pulled out her phone, which was old and had buttons, god she missed her iPhone. "Or is that against the rules?"
"You can take a photo, but most people will have to think it's a photo of a photo." The Doctor shrugged.
"Huh, look at that." Rose said after she snapped a picture of the Earth from orbit. "There's no signal. We seem to be a tiny bit out of range."
"Tell you what." The Doctor took her phone and pulled it apart. "With a little bit of jiggery pokery."
"Is that a technical term?" Rose chuckled.
"Yeah, I came first in jiggery pokery." The Doctor smiled at her as he soniced her phone and put it back together. "What about you?"
"Nah, I failed hullabaloo." Rose accepted the phone back and called her mom.
"Hallo?" Jackie answered.
"Mum?" Rose asked amazed that the phone could call through time.
"Oh, what is it?" Jackie asked. "What's wrong? What have I done now? Oh, this red top's falling to bits, you should get your money back."
Rose chuckled at her, as Alex she had found Jackie adorable if a bit clueless.
"There must be something, you never phone in the middle of the day." Jackie pointed out.
"I just called to tell you that I got a really good offer to go to Africa to help endangered animals." Rose lied quickly, feeling grateful that she remembered to grab her passport before the whole thing with the Doctor happened. "I leave in fifteen minutes and I might not be able to call because where we're going doesn't have any phone coverage."
"You're going to leave without saying goodbye?" Jackie sounded shocked and sad.
"I'm sorry mum, I really am, but this is a once in a lifetime opportunity." Rose told her softly. "Imagine all the jobs I can get when I come back with this on my resume."
"If you are sure, sweetie." Jackie hummed. "But promise you'll call when you can and send some postcards or something."
"I promise." Rose smiled. "Love you mum."
"Love you too." Jackie hung up the phone.
"That was epic!" Rose laughed as she looked at the Doctor. "That was five billion years ago!"
"Think that's amazing, you want to see the bill." The Doctor smirked then he frowned. "Why the lie about traveling to Africa, I can have you back five minutes after we left."
"I don't know." Rose frowned as she built on her earlier lie. "I just felt this need to say that, I guess."
Suddenly the whole space station shook and the Doctor looked around, "That's not supposed to happen."
They quickly made their way to the observation gallery and Rose could almost see the thoughts race through the Doctors head.
"That wasn't a gravity pocket. I know gravity pockets and they don't feel like that." The Doctor told the occupants off the room. "What do you think, Jabe? Listen to the engines. They've pitched up about thirty Hertz. That dodgy or what?"
"Seriously Doctor." Rose groaned. "She is a being of nature; you really think she would know what's going on with the engine just by listening?"
"She's right, the sound of metal doesn't make sense to me." Jabe smiled slightly at Rose.
"Where's the engine room?" The Doctor asked.
"I don't know, but the maintenance duct is just behind our guest suit." Jabe looked between the doctor and Rose. "I could show you and your wife."
"She's not my wife." The Doctor denied.
"Partner?"
"No."
"Concubine?"
"Nope."
"Prostitute?"
"Not to interrupt this very hilarious and riveting dialog but 'she' is standing right here. "Rose laughed at them.
"I'm sorry, Rose." Jabe apologized.
"That's okay." Rose assured her with a smile. "But should we go or?"
As they walked of Jabe pulled out a species identifier and aimed it at Rose. "Rose?"
"Huh?" Rose turned to her and Jabe snapped a photo.
"Thank you." Jabe nodded at her.
"No problem." Rose beamed. "Not that I know what I did."
They arrived at the maintenance duct when Jabe stopped with a "That's odd."
"What's odd?" The Doctor asked as he soniced the door to the maintenance duct.
"Nothing, let's solve one problem at a time, yes?" Jabe told him.
"Sounds like a plan." The Doctor agreed and the three of them walked into the duct.
"Who's in charge of Platform One?" Rose asked before the Doctor could. "Is there a Captain or what?"
"There's just the Steward and the staff." Jabe told them. "All the rest is controlled by the metal mind."
"You mean the computer?" The Doctor clarified. "But who controls that?"
"Skynet." Rose smirked at the Doctor who chuckled.
"What is Skynet?" Jabe looked between Rose and the Doctor.
"It's a computer program from an old Earth movie called Terminator." Rose explained. "Basically, Skynet was created as a defense program but gained sentience and decided to wipe out humanity."
"Oh." Jabe hummed then she told them who controlled the computer on Platform One. "The Corporation. They move Platform One from one artistic event to another."
"But there's no one from the Corporation on board." The Doctor hummed.
"They're not needed. This facility is purely automatic." Jabe said. "It's the height of the Alpha class. Nothing can go wrong."
"Murphy's law." Rose muttered quietly, not knowing that the Doctor could hear her.
"Unsinkable?" The Doctor looked at Jabe.
"If you like." Jabe bowed her head in a small nod. "The nautical metaphor is appropriate."
"You're telling me." The Doctor hummed. "I was on board another ship once. They said that I was unsinkable. I ended up clinging to an iceberg. It wasn't half cold. So, what you're saying is, if we get in trouble there's no one to help us out?"
"I'm afraid not." Jabe sighed softly.
"Fantastic." The Doctor beamed.
"I don't understand." Jabe looked confused. "In what why is that fantastic?"
"Ignore him." Rose patted Jabe on the arm. "He's a bit weird."
"So, tell me, Jabe, what's a tree like you doing on a place like this?" The Doctor asked as they walked.
"Respect for the Earth." Jabe answered.
"Oh, come on. Everyone on this platform's worth zillions." The Doctor scoffed.
"Well, perhaps it's a case of having to be seen at the right occasions." Jabe admitted.
"Wait, is this basically politics?" Rose asked shocked.
"More along the lines of in case your share prices drop?" The Doctor had started by explaining to Rose but then he had turned towards Jabe. "I know you lot. You've got massive forests everywhere, roots everywhere, and there's always money in land."
"All the same, we respect the Earth as family. So many species evolved from that planet. Mankind is only one. I'm another." Jabe told them. "My ancestors were transplanted from the planet down below, and I'm a direct descendant of the tropical rainforest."
"That is pretty amazing." Rose hummed wide eyed.
"Excuse me." The Doctor scanned a door panel marked 'Welcome to Platform One.'
"And what about your ancestry, Doctor? Perhaps you could tell a story or two. Perhaps a man only enjoys trouble when there's nothing else left. I scanned you earlier. The metal machine had trouble identifying your species. It refused to admit your existence." Jabe looked at the Doctor with something close to awe. "And even when it named you, I wouldn't believe it. But it was right. I know where you're from. Forgive me for intruding, but it's remarkable that you even exist. I just wanted to say how sorry I am." She put her hand on his arm, and the Doctor put his hand over hers. A tear dropped from his eye, then he got the door open.
"Time and War, War and Time, all mixed together." Rose murmured.
"What did you say?" The Doctor looked at Rose.
"I didn't say anything." Rose looked at him confused.
"You talked about war." Jabe told her.
"No, I didn't." Rose denied.
The Doctor looked at her intrigued as he finally got the door to the engine room open. The three of them stepped out on a catwalk that ran through a series of very large fans.
"Is it me, or is it a bit nippy?" The Doctor asked as he scanned a panel. "Fair do's, though, that's a great bit of air conditioning. Sort of nice and old fashioned. Bet they call it retro. Gotcha!"
"What the hell?!" Rose jumped back as a metal spider scuttled out and up the wall.
"Is it part of the retro?" Jabe wondered, sounding uncertain.
"I don't think so. Hold on." The Doctor aimed his screwdriver at the spider, then Jabe lassoed it. "Hey, nice liana."
"Thank you. We're not supposed to show them in public." Jabe admitted quietly.
"Don't worry, I won't tell anybody and neither will Rose." The Doctor promised as Rose nodded in agreement. "Now then, who's been bringing their pets on board?"
"What does it do?" Rose and Jabe asked at the same time making them smile at each other.
"Sabotage." The Doctor said darkly and then the computer was kind enough to remind them that the Earth would die in ten minutes. "And the temperature's about to rocket. Come on."
Smoke were filling the corridor and a glare were coming through a small glass panel in the door. The little assistants had gathered around the door when the three of them arrived.
"Hold on. Get back." The Doctor ordered and did the sonic thing on another small panel.
"Sun filter rising. Sun filter rising." The computer informed them mechanically.
"Is the Steward in there?!" Jabe asked horrified.
"You can smell him. Hold on, there's another sun filter programmed to descend." The Doctor said before running off.
Rose and Jabe looked at each other and with a nod decided to go to the Observation gallery to calm down the other guests.
"The metal machine confirms." Jabe told the others. "The spider devices have infiltrated the whole of Platform One."
"How's that possible? Our private rooms are protected by a code wall." Cassandra shirked.
"Summon the Steward." The Moxx ordered.
"I'm afraid the Steward is dead." Jabe informed them sadly.
"Who killed him?" The Moxx demanded to know.
"This whole event was sponsored by the Face of Boe. He invited us." Cassandra accused. "Talk to the face. Talk to the face."
"You know, the quicker you are at pointing fingers at others the more suspect you are." Rose glared at Cassandra.
"Easy way of finding out." The Doctor said as he took center stage. "Someone brought their little per on board. Let's send him back to master."
The Doctor put the spider down and Rose shuddered, she hated spiders. It quickly scuttled of to Cassandra and scanned her before scampering of towards the black gowned group.
"The Adherents of the Repeated Meme." Cassandra gasped overly dramatic. "J'accuse!"
"That's all very well, and really kind of obvious, but if you stop and think about it." The Doctor walked over to the Adherents and ripped the leaders' arm of when it tried to hit him. "A Repeated Meme is just an idea and that's all they are, an idea." The Doctor pulled one of the wires out of the arm and the Adherents collapsed. "Remote controlled Droids. Nice little cover for the real troublemaker." He gave the spider a little nudge with his foot. "Gon, Jimbo, go home."
"I bet you were the school swot and never got kissed." Cassandra sneered as the spider stopped by her. "At arms!"
"What are you going to do?" The Doctor raised his hands to his chest in mock fear as Cassandra's attendants aimed their sprayers at him. "Moisturize me?"
"With acid. Oh, you're to late, anyway. My spiders have control of the mainframe." Cassandra smirked, or at least she sounded like she smirked, she was just a piece of skin with make up on it. "Oh, you all carried them as gifts, tax free, past every code wall. I'm not just a pretty face."
"She's blind, isn't she?" Rose muttered and was shocked to hear a deep chuckle in her head, she turned her head and saw the Face of Boe winking at her.
"Sabotaging a ship while you're still inside it?" The Doctor looked unimpressed. "How stupid is that?"
"I'd hoped to manufacture a hostage situation with myself as one of the victims." Cassandra admitted. "The compensation would have been enormous."
"Five billion years and it still comes down to money." The Doctor said disappointed.
"Do you think it's sheep looking like this?" Cassandra glared. "Flatness costs a fortune."
"Arrest her, the infidel!" The Moxx squeaked.
"Oh, shut it, pixie." Cassandra retorted. "I've still got my final option."
"Earth Death in three minutes." The computer reminded.
"And here it comes. You're just as useful dead, all of you. I have shares in your rival companies and they'll triple in price as soon as you're dead. My spiders are primed and ready to destroy the safety systems. How did that old Earth song go? Burn, baby, burn." Cassandra said darkly.
"Then you'll burn with us." Jabe called out and Rose almost whistled the Mockingjay tune from the Hunger Games.
"Oh, I'm so sorry. I know the use of teleportation is strictly forbidden, but I'm such a naughty thing. Spider, activate!" Cassandra called out the order. "Forcefields gone with the planet about to explode. At least it'll be quick. Just like my fifth husband. Oh, shame on me."
"Safety system failing." The computer said.
"Bye, bye, darlings." Cassandra chuckled. "Bye, bye, my darlings."
"Heat level rising." The computer told them.
"Reset the computer." The Moxx said.
"Only the Steward would know how." Jabe told him.
"No. We can do it by hand. There must be a system restore switch. Rose, Jabe, come on. You lot, just chill." The Doctor swanned out of the room.
They arrived at the engine room just as the computer said, "Heat levels critical."
"Oh," The Doctor groaned indicating towards the other side of the fans which were spinning very fast. "And guess where the switch is."
"Heat level rising. Heat level rising."
The Doctor pulled a leaver and the fans slowed down but as soon as he let go they started to spin faster again.
"External temperature: five thousand degrees."
Rose grabbed the leaver and pulled it down before Jabe culled, she really wanted Jabe to survive and she was going to do her best to make that happen.
"Rose…" The Doctor looked at her with worry.
"Stop wasting time, Time Lord." Jabe ordered with a smirk.
"Heat level rising. Heat level rising."
"Get out of here, Jabe, I don't want you to suffer from the heat." Rose told her as she felt the heat from the leaver.
"If I stay away from the walls and avoid touching anything, I should be fine." Jabe reassured her with a kind smile. "I'm not leaving you here, alone."
"Heat levels critical. Heat levels critical."
The Doctor looked back at Jabe and Rose and then times his run past the second fan. Rose gritted her teeth in pain as she felt her hands burn and then she screamed as the leaver goes up again, taking the skin of her palms with it.
Jabe caught her as she collapsed to the floor in pain and then the two of them looked over just as the Doctor walk past the last fan and pull the reset breaker, calling out, "Raise shields!"
The Doctor ran over as Jabe helped Rose to her feet. Rose was shaking in pain with tears in the corners of her eye but she managed to smile at the Doctor, "Left it a little close there, huh?"
"I live on the edge." The Doctor smiled back. "Are you okay?"
"Stupid question." Rose chuckled.
The three of them returned to the observation gallery, with Jabe helping Rose along by letting her lean on her and leading her.
"I'm full of ideas, I'm bristling with them." The Doctor ranted as he paced in the observation gallery. "Idea number one; teleportation through five thousand degrees needs some kind of feed. Idea number two; this feed must be hidden nearby." He walked over to a display case and smashed the so-called ostrich egg to reveal a small device. "Idea number three; if you're as clever as me, then a teleportation feed can be reversed."
"Oh, you should have seen their little alien faces." The sound of her voice came through before Cassandra appeared back in the room again. "Oh."
"The last human." The Doctor sneered.
"So you passed my little test. Bravo." Cassandra fumbled. "This makes you eligible to join, er, the Human Club."
"People have died, Cassandra." The Doctor almost snarled. "You murdered them."
"It depends on your definition of people, and that's enough of a technicality to keep your lawyers dizzy for centuries. Take me to court, then, Doctor, and watch me smile and cry and flutter…" Cassandra started to simper.
"And creak?" The Doctor interrupted with a smirk.
"And what?" Cassandra asked.
"Creak." The Doctor said. "You're creaking."
"What? Ah! I'm drying out! Oh, sweet heavens. Moisturize me, moisturize me! Where are my surgeons? My lovely boys! It's too hot!" Cassandra called out.
"You raised the temperatures." The Doctor informed her.
"Have pity! Moisturize me! Oh, oh, Doctor. I'm sorry. I'll do anything." Cassandra begged.
"Karma comes for everyone in the end." Rose murmured.
"Everything has its time and everything dies." The Doctor looked at Cassandra with cold eyes.
"I'm too young!" Cassandra went splat.
A few hours later only Rose and the Doctor were left, looking at the asteroids that where once the earth as they floated past the red giant Sun.
"The end of the Earth. It's gone. We were too busy saving ourselves. No one saw it go. All those years, all that history, and no one was even looking, and you know what?" Rose turned towards the Doctor. "I wouldn't change a thing."
"You wouldn't?" He looked at her in surprise.
"If we or rather you, hadn't been here, these people would be dead and Cassandra would have gotten away with murder." Rose smiled at him. "And me losing the skin of my palms is a price I would gladly pay again."
"Come on, I have an infirmary in the Tardis." The Doctor smiled at her in wonder.
The Doctor led her back to the Tardis and then through several corridors until they reached what Rose would assume was the infirmary.
"Place your hands in here, palms up." The Doctor gestured to a weird looking box. "It will heal your hands."
"Thank you." Rose smiled and did as instructed. "Hey Doctor, what you told Jabe about the unsinkable ship."
"Yeah?" The Doctor leaned against the wall opposite her.
"I figured you meant Titanic." At the Doctors nod, Rose continued. "Does that mean we can't go on the Titanic? Because you meeting yourself would cause a paradox or something, right?"
"That's is completely right." The Doctor looked impressed. "How do you know about paradoxes?"
"I love Sci-fi movies and tv-series." Rose admitted with a blush.
Suddenly the box beeped making Rose jump.
"You can pull your hands out now." The Doctor smirked at her.
"That's amazing." Rose looked at her flawless hands, even the scar she had noticed on the back off her hand was gone.
"Rose, this gift you have of knowing things, how long have you had it?" The doctor asked softly after a while.
"I don't know." Rose shrugged. "Ever since I can remember."
"Can I try something?" The Doctor walked closer to her. "I want to look through your mind and see if I can find what is going on."
"Okay…" Rose said calmly while she was freaking out on the inside. What if he found out about her basically body snatching Rose?! "What do I need to do?"
"Just stand there, relax and close your eyes." The Doctor placed his hands on her face. After around five minutes the Doctor pulled back with a confounded look.
"What's going on?" Rose asked worried.
"I can't get into you mind." The Doctor murmured. "My people are basically touch telepaths and reading others minds is something we are masters off. I have never encountered someone, least of all a human, that I couldn't read."
"Is there something wrong with me?" Rose asked softly even though she was glad that he could find out about her body snatching.
"No, absolutely not." The Doctor told her. "But how sure are you that you are human?"
"Of course, I'm human!" Rose protested. "I was born on Earth and my mum is human and so was my dad."
"Do you remember the picture Jabe took of you in the maintenance duct?" The Doctor asked.
"The one where she muttered about something being odd?" Rose clarified.
"Yes." The Doctor nodded. "What was odd was that the device couldn't identify your species, it was inconclusive."
"So, what am I?" Rose murmured, sounding both sad and slightly worried.
"I don't know but that doesn't really matter, does it?" The Doctor smiled at her. "You're still Rose Tyler, aren't you?"
"Definitely!" Rose agreed with a laugh.
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