The Withered Rose

Flashback

The Doctor, Idris's interface a.k.a  the TARDIS, Amy, Rory and River were standing in the console room, Rose was still in the medbay.

'What happened, Doctor?' asked Amy.

'Nothing, it's jus-' but the Doctor was interrupted by Rory before he could answer.

'First I have some questions. Who is she? Where are we? And what just happened? She was like flying!'

'Yes, Rory, in my previous regenarations, she used to travel with me. Rose Tyler. And once she took the time vortex in herself, and that form of her was called the Bad Wolf. I don't know what happened, I took it out of her. And then some things happened, and I - I - she was trapped in a parallel universe for some time, and then after some time she managed to come back to warn me for something. And then the Daleks did something, and while trying to stop them, a duplicate of me was created, a meta-crisis, so after I stopped the Daleks, I sent Rose back in the parallel world with her whole family, a TARDIS coral and the metacrisis, cause he was part-human and would age the same time as her. And then the universe fixed itself again so no one can travel between parallel worlds.'

'Uh, OK, yeah,' said Rory.

River had been silent for all this time - but now she finally spoke up. 'She loved you. You...... loved her.'

'No, I didn't - I did not - love her - she was just a friend. And I love you, you're my wife, and I love you more than anyone.' Suddenly they heard a beeping from far away in the corridor and they all turned towards it.

'Doctor, I think you should go and check,' said River. He left and River's hand emerged from behind her, holding a weird device.

'That'll keep him busy for some time. Idris?' River looked towards the TARDIS soul. Amy, and Rory didn't understand what she was trying to do for a moment, but then they did, and they themselves wanted to know the truth.

'I can't. It's not righ-' said Idris.

'Please. I need to know,' River insisted. The TARDIS shifted the room the Doctor was in to a very far place and made sure that he'll keep rotating in circles so he can't come until they want him to. She then closed her eyes and sighed.

Suddenly, a hologram of a man in a brown suit and - as Amy, Rory, and River thought - some really great hair appeared near the console. It was showing what had happened in the past, and the man seemed to be piloting the TARDIS hurriedly. He then started reading from a thick book labelled as the TARDIS manual; he was pacing around the room, anger and sorrow increasing every moment. He then ran to the doors, swung them open, and threw the manual out, closing the doors behind him.

'No, no, Rose,' he stood with his back rested to the door, slowly drifting down in a sitting position on the floor, which his knees up his chest and his face buried in his hands. A minute later, in which the Ponds, Idris, and the Doctor stood in their position, staring at the man, the screen on the console started beeping rapidly.

The hologramic man's head shot up, and he ran to the screen, where a picture of a girl which everyone knew to be Rose appeared. He frantically started hitting buttons and a 20 second countdown appeared on the screen. He started pacing up and down around the room again - 

'I love you, I love you, Rose Tyler, I love you,' he kept muttering. The countdown soon ended, and another hologram of a girl appeared. Idris didn't want to share their conversation, though, and it all disappeared in a whirly mist, but appeared in the same place a moment later.

'I - I love you.' said a crying Rose.

'Quite right, too. And... if it's my last chance too say it..... Rose Tyler -' Rose's hologram disappeared, a tear escaped the younger Doctor's eyes, 'I love you.'

And all the hologram's disappeared. 'My Wolf. My Wolf always loved My Thief,' said Idris.

'That was the Doctor's previous regeneration, wasn't it?' asked Amy.

'Yes mum, yes it was.'

'But you're his wife, he loves you, he said that.'

'I know he does, mum. I'm not worried about myself. I'm worried about Rose. What happened to her? What secret were you talking about?'

'I must keep my Wolf's secrets, unless she wishes to share them herself.'

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Author's Note

I saw Loki season finale. What. I ship Sylkie. Forever. For all time. Always. Give me season 2! And I got Three. New. Agatha. Christie. Books! My first ever Agatha Christie books!

1.) Murder On The Orient Express

2.) The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd

3.) And Then There Were None

There's a murder, a mystery and Agatha Christie. In the Doctor's words: 'Murder mystery with Agatha Christie!'

OMG OMG too many feels! I'll read them an drop a review for y'all. See ya!

~The Crappy Writer with a heart exploding with happiness

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