The Time Shadow |COMPLETED|

Chapter 13

"What?" her eyes brusque opened.

What was he talking about? So much travelling aboard the TARDIS and he comes to jokes like this? It was absurd. Ten months were way too much, and the question was, why would she fall into a coma? No. It was impossible, and the fact that he said it, made it even crazier than it could be. The Doctor lied. Lied before, lied every time and will still lie to protect the humanity; but such a lie was completely unacceptable.

Rose sighed, smiling with candor.

"Stop that aberration." she said, pulling out and turning towards the console. "We all know that is impossible."

"Rose."

"I mean it, Doctor. This is not the time for joking."

"You are hungry." the man faced her, crossing his arms.

"What?"

"You feel like you haven't been eating for ages, and your blood is rushing faster than it ever did before. You have got a slight headache and feel a bit feverish. You woke up dizzy and the first thing you thought about was taking a shower."

"Wait, how-"

"Rose. Your hair is longer than has ever been before." he amiably grabbed her hand and squeezed it. "Come with me."

Shereen entered a very wide open room, computers and wires and flickering lights all over the place. She waited quiet long before she got to step inside; three doctors kept complaining about work and how they wanted to deny the access to a woman called Elizabeth. And she had to listen to their stupid and boring talking.

Gosh, this world stinks. , she thought to herself opening a monitor. Why do I have to live here? They should've brought me with them.

The woman took a look on the walls. Big written and jumping inside her interest, stood "Photex" and around it sketches and notes about it. She inspected it, the words of a virus and its function opening her mind. The plan was simple. Once released, the Photex had to do its job on its own; but the hardest part of it was to decrease the radiations. Otherwise, it could only just blow up the whole planet.

Shereen laughed mockingly, amused by the plans of Torchwood. So..that was it? Only some walking zombies? They could've done so much with the prototype. Ghosts, for example. Ghosts don't need a body to come back; but the zombies do. What about those whose coffin was disintegrated? How would they come back? Through what? Walking robots? It was a stupid plan, but she wasn't gonna stop it. No, no. She was curious about the facts and what had to happen after.

The woman's attention quickly grabbed onto something that looked important, and she took it into her hands. It was the code for destroying the virus if something too bad happened. Marked with red, she noticed the numbers and tried to memorize them. '10041999'. Yes. Humans were and will be forever idiots. No wonder Rose chose to leave with the Doctor. This planet was stinking enough to push her away, in that little blue box.

"Hands up!" a voice echoed through the room from behind. Shereen stood, and by raising her hands turned around. A man, dressed up in black from hands to feet, pointed with a gun, which into her eyes didn't look human at all. Maybe alien technology. "Talk, or I'll shoot." he coerced.

"Oh, you are talking to me?" she tried to play demure. "That's such a shame, officer..Looper. Officer Looper, that's a nice name. Never heard it before. Is it a code name?"

"Don't play games with me, miss! You will follow."

"And if I don't?"

"Then I'll shoot. And I'm telling you, you wouldn't want your head blown up by this thing."