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Get ready to stick it to Rule Number One!

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❝ Hey! I’m not that bad of a driver. ❞

Yeah. She is. More so with the new systems, it seemed, but she’d get the hang of them. She was just so used to the twelfth Doctor’s TARDIS that it was going to take some time to get used to these ones. That was all. She was usually pretty good about it.

❝ I’ll find something. Give me my fez back, River. ❞

“You might try asking nicely,“ River placed a hand firmly on top of the hat, like a lady at the beach, with a sun hat, so it couldn’t be snatched away. “Although, it is such a horrid little hat. I’m afraid you will have to ask very nicely.“

Fez

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     “Afraid not.” The Doctor placed his hands on his hips and leaned in. “In all technicalities, I’m the last of my faces. There is no reset, no second chance. Nothing.” The Doctor walked towards the other slowly. “I’m headed directly to my death, mate. Anyone calling themselves ‘Doctor’ is an impostor. Do you know why?”

“You just said why, ‘headin’ t’your death’,” Ryan shook his head, “Only, that’s m’friend you’re talkin’ about and she’s no impostor. Don’t know what happens, just what she’s told me. But she’s the Doctor. Just as much as you."

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     “Of course not, you’re only human.” The Doctor scanned every piece of the ship that he could with his shades, numerous errors lighting before his eyes as he pressed into deep thought. Firstly, this wasn’t a human ship. Though there were plenty of aliens that looked like humans, with minor differences. Secondly, the technology that shattered through the ship was Sontaran. The Doctor knew by the specific burn patterns scattered across the bridge.

       “Friend?” The Doctor chuckled. “Yes, you were getting very friendly back with scrawny git with sandshoes. Where’s he then? Did he not have the willpower to tell you off about crossing a universe?”

“Seriously, did you just call y'self a git?“ A smile twitched at the corner of her mouth, and she caught her tongue between her teeth, cheekily, “You’ve changed. There was a time when you could go an hour on you bein’ so superior t’... well, just ‘bout everyone.” The cheekiness was gone, a bite in her voice as she stepped over to him to begin a unbolting an access hatch. 

“I haven’t found you ‘til now, wasn’t lookin’ - shouldn’t you remember not meetin’ me again after...? You’re the one who left me there, a universe away. As signals go, that one’s bright and flashin’. ‘Sides, s’not my fault m’here.”

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OOC

Haven't been around much lately, but I do have drafts saved. Hopefully, I will have a chance to do replies soon.

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I swear I'm still around, but I also got 9 pages of my script written tonight, so...

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     “Ooh, good question.” The Doctor waved a finger in the other’s face. “Eleven? Twelve? Leaning towards eleven, my personal favorite.” The Doctor smiled at the other. “So, may I ask, who’s the Doctor now?” His smile faded, eyes watching the other’s sternly. “There shouldn’t be anymore. I’m the last.”

Eleven. Eleven faces, Eleven Doctors. What did that make his Doctor, then, if he was right and there was one in between? The thirteenth, at least. “What d’you mean ‘who’, she’s still you, yeah? Just different body.” Like picking a new skin after getting beat by a video game. Starting again. “She said once, somethin’ ‘bout a second chance, if that means anythin’?“

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Let me be brave. Let me be brave...

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#that’s it that’s the show

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     With pain in his hearts at her wish, he turned and began a stroll towards the TARDIS. It was alright though. It was ok. In the end, it was always him and his old girl. His first and his last companion. When The Doctor heard her shouting, a smug grin crossed his face that he dared to expose. He threw on his sonic shades, brows raised as he walked with pride towards her.

       “Called it.”

“Don’t go gettin’ all smug on me,“ Rose said, her arms folded over her chest. “M’not the shop girl you met all those years ago, Doctor. Engines aren’t my specialty, that’s all.” She’d headed Torchwood on her world, met races that didn’t even exist in this reality, but she’d never been in research and development. That had been for those content to stay in a lab, instead of touching the stars, though she had picked up a few pointers along the way.

Rose stepped back and, hesitantly, retreated to the open hatch of the crashed ship, ducking inside. It took a moment for her eyes to adjust. The entire ship was on emergency power, for they hadn’t dared to risk the engines breaching if they pushed her to full power. The captain caught her arm, “Who is that man?”

“Old friend,“ Rose assured her. “S’alright, you can trust him. He’s good people, even when he is a bit of a tosser.“

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Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS x Hell Bent

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     The Doctor listened intently and carefully. Though the words stung his hearts, he quickly accepted all the facts that left her lips. “It wasn’t so long ago that you’d run off in my TARDIS, was it? ‘Least not for you.” He spoke softly. The Doctor raised his hand at her. “Are you gonna do the same thing too now, Rose? Save a planet and then run off? Hmph.” The Doctor stepped back. “If you can take care of these people, the threats they’re under, and save the world, go for it. I’ll pop off if you don’t think you need my help, Rose. It’s been 1100 years. I can’t be stuck on the same person forever.”

“Ten years. Might not seem like much t'you, but it is to us lowly humans.“ It was like talking to a stranger, and after a thousand years, perhaps he was. She searched his face for some suggestion of the man she had known and loved. “Go on, then! I was doin’ fine alone.“ she batted his hand out of her face and spun around to stomp back towards the crashed ship. Let the Doctor go back to whatever young girl he’d found to flatter him, let him fly off into the universe and leave her again. But then, if there was someone with him, where were they? He... he wasn’t alone, was he?

Halfway back to the ship, Rose stopped and turned around, arms folded over her chest. “The engines,” she shouted, “D'you think you can get them workin’ again?”

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Timelines

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The Doctor had told him to meet back at the TARDIS, which had seemed like it would be simple. How many blue boxes could there be on a rusted, abandoned alien spaceship? It wasn’t Paris in 1920, as the Doctor had promised, that was certain. Having found the TARDIS, tucked away in a corner, a corner he was almost sure hadn’t been where they parked earlie, Rory slipped his key into the lock. The ship let out a hum, as if hesitant, then the door swung open. 

He stepped inside - “Amy, Doctor...” - and froze. The entire TARDIS had turned to silver metal, railings crowning the center console. Gone were the golds and oranges and reds of the familiar old ship. Realizing that his breath had caught in his throat, Rory slowly backed away, then heard a voice somewhere from the depths of the ship. Swallowing, he stepped further inside, distracted momentarily by the Gallifreyan writing along the top of the console. 

The voice paired with the sound of footsteps on the stairs, and Rory spun around, eyes wide and mouth hanging open. It was a woman. In a sundress. Apparently she hadn’t been planning for a trip to a rusted spaceship either. “Hi,” he managed, “Sorry to... er... drop in on you like this. Would you mind explaining what’s happening?”

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Headcanon

How Rose Came Home

A few months after Rose was left with John on that beach, they began to live together, married in everything but formality. Together, they headed that Earth’s Torchwood and, for a short time, everything seemed like they’d both found a purpose, side by side. Then came the invasion, or what they believed to be an invasion. In his determination to protect Rose, John’s actions led to the deaths of several of the aliens, who they later learned were not invaders but instead colonists, lost and afraid. In bringing about a peace, he threw his life away to appease the guilt. 

Rose was left alone. For the next eight years, she headed Torchwood alone, becoming an expert on alien tech. Though her work, Pete’s Earth came to be defended by shielding technology, a fleet of ships forming in orbit destined to see the human race into the stars. 

Then she was pulled from her home, into a Gallifreyan tribunal, and accused of meddling with the history of another universe. Her achievements were torn down, all records of Torchwood erased. Believing that Jackie was the Jackie of that universe, they wiped her memory of her daughter and did the same to all of those who had ever known Rose on that world. Rose was granted mercy, and sent back to her own world, to the Powell Estate - in 2105, rather than 2005. A clerical error.

On this foreign world, Rose adapted easily and went in search of the only person she knew would still be there. Jack. He wasn’t hard to find; as it turned out, she’d visited him years previously and warned him she’d be dropping in for a visit. Although she stayed with Jack for several months, Rose became restless and, borrowing and fixing his Vortex Manipulator, ventured back out into the universe.