I Found A Little Blue Box

Rose Tyler

•July 2nd 2004•

I roamed around, a lost 5 year old on the streets of London. I had visited with my family on summer vacation. I had followed the ice cream truck far away from the plaza where the rest if my family was. I had wandered down to a stretch of shops and was now surrounded by strangers

"Are you lost?" I looked up to the face of a blonde teenage girl.

"Where are your parents? Her accent was thick, she clearly lived around here.

"I followed the ice-cream truck."

She laughed and took my small hand in hers.

"Come on, let's go find your mum."

I had been told before not to trust strangers, but something told me that she was good. She looked around.

"Were you in the Plaza?" She pointed behind us. I nodded. She kneeled down so that she was level with my face.

"What's your name sweetie?"

"Teaganne."

"My name is Rose, okay?"

"Rose, like a flower!"

"Yes! She laughed and lead me into the plaza.

•2012•

Again, I was in London for summer vacation. My cousin had made the Olympics as a gymnast and we came to support her. We heard the torch was going to pass by on a road near where we were staying, so we went to watch. After the torch has passed, I heard a familiar voice.

"Rose?"

"I'm sorry, do I know you?"

"When I was five you helped me find my parents. In 2004."

"Oh yes! Teaganne wasn't it?" She grinned at me. "How old are you now?"

"Thirteen."

"Miss Tyler," A voice called her aside.

"Um... nice running into you again!"

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"Rose..." I rolled her name around my tongue for the first time in awhile.

"Tyler... Rose Tyler!" I busted open the doors before he could leave.

"Rose Tyler." He looked up with a strange look in his eyes.

"What did you say?"

"Rose Tyler."

"Did you know her?"

"She helped me find my parents when I was five years old and lost on the streets of London... " He smiled at that.

"And I met her again at the 2012 Olympics..." His face lit up.

"I remember that! I carried the torch to the stadium!"

"You what?!"

"I carried the torch!"

"No you didn't, I saw the torch bearer run by, that's where I found her."

"He collapsed."

"Why were you there?"

"Ooh it's a long story."

"It's weird... it had been six years since I had seen her, yet she looked almost the same..."

"Time travel."

"What?"

"Rose Tyler... the same Rose who traveled with me."

"So...you were the one who brought her there?"

"That wasn't even all that long ago for me..."

"I want to come with you."

"No, no, Teaganne."

"I want to help you."

He sighed. "You can't."

I scoffed. "Course I can."

"Do you happen to know anything about parallel universes?" Oh joy, I think he's getting cocky. "No, you don't! So I suggest you leave me alone and let me wallow in my own sadness She isn't coming back."

His voice cracked and he hid his face.

"D-Doctor?" He lifted his teary eyes. "Tell me about Rose."