It's Far From Over: Pete's World (2/3)
Title: It’s Far From Over: Pete’s World
Rating: T
Genre: sci-fi, adventure, drama, romance, het, AU
Fandoms: Doctor Who & Torchwood
Characters: Rose Tyler, the Doctor (10.5, 10.2, Handy, or whatever else you want to call him), AU!Gwen Cooper, AU!Jack Harkness, mentions of others
Pairings: Rose/10.5, AU!Gwen/AU!Jack
Summary: Rose & her Doctor in the alternate reality
Author notes: This was written as a backstory for my Multi-Crossover fic 'It's Far From Over'. It can be read on its own, but will end in a bit of a Cliffanger (which will be solved in the Crossover story).
Setting: The story is set in the Alternate reality after the events of Doctor Who season 4.
Word count:: ~ 1858 (part 2)
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the characters or fandoms. I wish I did. I don’t make any money with this! I just write for fun and hope someone else will enjoy it, too.
Spoiler Warnings: Doctor Who up to the end of season 4. Not much for Torchwood, since it is all AU for it.
Other Warnings: This is more of a series of ficlets than a whole story. It shows what Rose and 10.5 have been up to in the alternate reality.
There will be a character death.
Like always I do write from multiple points of views to give more insight into the different characters. Don’t like it -> don’t read it! No need to complain about it.
I’m German and my English isn’t and probably never will be perfect. I hope I don’t make too many mistakes. Feel free to point out errors so I can learn and improve.
Thank you to my beta landiana24 for betaing this! :-)
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When: 4 months after the events in Cardiff
Where: AU London
“Nooo,” the Doctor screamed, cradling Rose’s body in his arms. This could not be happening! He couldn’t lose her, and especially not now, so shortly after she had finally come around and realized that she might love him, too, that he wasn’t just a copy, but the man she always wanted.
Unfortunately, it was happening: Rose was dead. There was no pulse, no spark of life left in her body. He held her close for a moment longer as tears ran down his face, allowing himself to feel the grief and let it consume him. Then he reluctantly let go of her, stood up and turned away. He couldn’t lose even more time now. The aliens that killed her and Jack were getting away. He would not let that happen! They had to pay for what they had done, even if it was the last thing he did.
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Rose gasped, taking a deep breath. Then she sat up and looked down at her chest in shock and confusion. The aliens had shot her! She remembered the pain as bullets hit her and blood started to flow. Her shirt was still soaked in it, so it had happened, but she felt fine now. There was no pain, none at all. There were no wounds either, she concluded after pulling her shirt up. How? How could this happen? Had the Doctor done this? No, he couldn’t have. He was powerful, even in this half-human form, but not that powerful.
The Doctor, she thought startled and looked around. Where was he? He had been there before she lost consciousness. She remembered the look on his face as she slipped away. If she hadn’t already been sure that she was dying that look would have told her. Remembering the love, hurt and desperation in it took her breath away. He really did love her, and she loved him, too. She no longer cared that he wasn’t the real Doctor. He was real to her, and he was the part of the Doctor that loved her. That was good enough for her. No, it was better than good. It was amazing, they were amazing together. Being with him was everything she had ever hoped for, everything she imagined and more. She loved him. But she hadn’t told him. She needed to, she realized. First she had to find him though. Where was he? Why did he leave her? He would never leave her willingly… unless he thought she was dead. Was that what happened? Did he think she was dead? Or had he been captured by the aliens and taken away against his will? No matter what happened, she needed to find him!
Rose’s hand went up to her ear, ready to tap her ear piece, but it wasn’t there. She must have lost it in the fight with the aliens earlier. And her mobile was back in the car, she realized. She had forgotten it in her haste to go after the aliens. They were the ones that had killed Jack. After months of searching for them they had finally found them. Maybe that had made her a little too eager to get to them and not careful enough. She sighed. Well, without a radio or mobile she would just have to look for the Doctor.
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After searching for about ten minutes Rose heard gunfire. She ran down the corridor of the building she was in and opened the door at the end of it. Then she froze and had to watch in horror as the Doctor was hit by multiple shots.
“Nooo,” she called running towards him, not even caring if she was hit as well. As she ran she was faintly aware that the alien left the room, but she couldn’t worry about that right now. The Doctor was all that mattered.
Sinking to her knees next to the Doctor Rose leaned over him, much like she had done back home, when that Dalek shot the real Doctor.
“Doctor,” she said desperately and quickly pulled off her jacket. There was so much blood. She had to stop it.
Hearing her voice the Doctor stirred. “Rose?” he asked, his voice sounding weak. “You’re… here?”
“Yes, I’m right here. Just hold on, okay? Where’s your phone? I’m going to call for help.”
“But how? You were… dead,” he said as if he hadn’t even heard what she was saying.
“I’m fine. Don’t worry about me. In fact, don’t worry about anything. I’m going to take care of you. You’ll be fine,” she promised while pulling the mobile out of his pocket.
“It’s too late, Rose,” the Doctor mumbled. “I’m… sorry. I should have been more careful. I thought… you were dead.”
“It’s not too late!” Rose exclaimed, her eyes tearing up. “Don’t even think like that!” She opened the phone, but the Doctor’s hand closed around hers, stopping her.
“I love you,” he whispered, then stilled.
“No, no, no!” Rose shouted. “Doctor! You can’t die on me. You have to do something! Regenerate!” She no longer cared if he changed, as long as he didn’t leave her, but she knew that this Doctor couldn’t regenerate. He only had one life… the life he had wanted to spend with her. “No, don’t leave me,” she pleaded before shaking him slightly. “You can’t leave! I’m not going to let you!”
As tears ran down her cheeks Rose noticed that she was starting to glow. She didn’t know how, but her hands were bathed in a yellowish light, as was the rest of her body. Bad Wolf! Could it really be? The Doctor said he pulled it all out of her, but somehow she all of a sudden knew that that wasn’t true. He might have pulled most of Bad Wolf out of her, but not all of it. Something had survived inside of her, just enough that it wouldn’t kill her. It had been dormant, and now that she really needed it, it had awoken. Without even consciously thinking about it she placed her hands on the Doctor’s lifeless form. It took only a few seconds, then his eyes snapped open and he took a deep breath.
“Doctor,” she said, feeling relieved… and tired. She slumped down slightly, putting her hands on the ground to hold herself up.
“Rose… what… what happened? How?”
“Bad Wolf,” she whispered, then lost consciousness.
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The Doctor sat on a chair, watching Rose as she slept in her bed. She looked peaceful and not as pale anymore as she did when she collapsed. He had been concerned about her at first, but her pulse and breathing were steady. She had only been exhausted. Not that that was surprising. She had brought him back to life after all. No, Bad Wolf had brought him back. He wasn’t sure how Bad Wolf could still be inside of her, he thought that he had removed it all from her, had even died to keep her safe from it. But apparently he had missed something. A part of Bad Wolf must have remained. How could he not have seen it? Had it kept itself hidden for all this time? Was it maybe dormant and undetectable? Had his death caused it to wake up? Or was it Rose’s death? She had died as well after all. When she found him he had at first thought that he must have been mistaken before, that she had only been wounded. But now he didn’t believe that anymore. She had died, and came back, just like Jack, and just like he would do from this day on, whenever he died. He was immortal now, too. He could feel it in every cell of his being. He had become a fixed point in time. It still felt wrong to him, but luckily Jack had managed to convince him that just because his timelord instincts thought that something was wrong didn’t mean that it actually was. Like Jack put it, he had simply been prejudiced, and over time that feeling of wrongness would surely fade. After all, staying with Rose couldn’t be wrong. She had already lost him too many times, he never wanted to do that to her again, and now he never would have to. He could stay with her forever… if she wanted him to, a tiny part of his brain added, the part that still wasn’t sure if Rose actually wanted him, or if she still just saw him as a copy of the man she loved.
“Doctor?” Her voice pulled him out of his thoughts.
“Rose,” he said with a smile and went over to the bed, sitting down next to her and gently brushing a strand of hair behind her ear.
“You’re alive,” she said looking up at him and feeling immensely relieved. For a moment she had feared that it had just been wishful thinking that Bad Wolf had taken over and helped her save him.
“Yes, I am, and I am never going to leave you again,” he quickly promised seeing the look on her face.
“Never?” she asked as a tear ran down her cheek.
“Never,” he agreed and wiped the tear away with his thump.
Rose smiled whilst taking his hand and intertwining their fingers. “Does that mean… did I… I mean, are you like Jack now? The Jack back home…”
“Yes,” he answered.
Rose looked up at him, feeling a little uncertain. “What about me? Am I immortal, too?” She was the one who made him immortal, she didn’t want to have done that to him and then leave him, especially after everything he gave up for her.
“I don’t know,” the Doctor admitted. “I think so, but… you feel different.” He wasn’t really sure how to explain it. Jack was a fixed point in time, and so was he. Rose now felt similar to that, but not quite the same.
“Different how? What does it mean?” she wanted to know.
“That you’re special?” he offered with a smile. Yes, that definitely fit. Rose was the most special person he had ever met, and not just because of Bad Wolf. In his opinion Bad Wolf could only ever have started to exist because Rose was special.
Rose smiled, liking the way he said it.
“I’m not really sure if you are a fixed point in time, but I don’t think Bad Wolf will let you die. I guess that would make you immortal, too. And you did come back to life yesterday.”
“Yeah, I did,” Rose agreed. “Sounds pretty immortal to me. I guess that means you’ll be stuck with me forever.”
The Doctor snapped to attention at her words and a wide smile appeared on his face. “Forever with you seems like a pretty good deal to me.”
Rose laughed and pushed herself up into a sitting position. “I love you,” she said smiling. “And I mean you.” She poked him in the chest. “You’re my Doctor.”
The Doctor smiled happily, then leaned in and kissed her.
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( Part 3)
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