I Found A Little Blue Box

Bad Wolf

THE DOCTOR

As hard as she tried, Teaganne couldn't find anything that could be of any use. Its hopeless... She's gone... Rose Tyler... The woman I had met oh so long ago in that shop basement was now trapped forever in a parallel universe. 

Teaganne requested to stay for the night. Her parents were out of town and wouldn't be back until noon the next day, so I obliged. I had the TARDIS create her a temporary bedroom close to the console room - as I would be spending most of my night there - so I could monitor her.  I usually don't sleep much anyway. I'm a Timelord, and don't need half as much sleep as a human. I was too dazed from today's events to sleep anyway.

I began to tinker away at the TARDIS console. She never really needed fixing, but there wasn't much else that could keep my mind from wandering.

After midnight, I heard a soft, echoey voice inside my head. The telepathic voice of the TARDIS. Doctor... I came out from under the console and stood up, alarmed. The TARDIS hardly ever 'speaks' to me. This must be urgent. Yes? I telepathically asked. Timelords are centered on telepathic connection. They can sense when another Timelord is near. My head had been empty for a very long time. Doctor... the TARDIS repeated. I reached my hand out and touched the pillar in the middle of the room that was the connection to the main power source. What is it? I asked curiously. The cool glass buzzed with life and excitement beneath my hand as the TARDIS responded, Bad Wolf.

With those two words, countless memories came flooding to my mind. The grafity that a little boy had spayed onto the TARDIS back at the Powell Estate when I had first met Rose... The lettering written on the Nazi bomb... The company running the space station... I then thought of Rose after she had looked into the heart of the TARDIS - and what she had said 

"I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words; I scatter them in time and space. A message to lead myself here."

The last bit started to ricochet around my mind.

"A message to lead myself here..."

Was Rose still connected to the TARDIS? But I took it out of her... I flashed back to my final day in my ninth regeneration.

~The Parting Of The Ways~

The Tardis doors flung open to reveal a bright gold light. Out of the light a silhouette appeared. A silhouette of Rose Tyler. Gold energy snaked out of the TARDIS and disappeared into the air.

"What have you done?" an alarmed Doctor asked.

"I looked into the TARDIS," Rose turned to the Doctor. "And the TARDIS looked into me."

"You looked into the Time Vortex! Rose, no one's ment to see that!"

The Dalek emperor spoke from the view screen behind the Doctor. "This is the Abomination."

"EXTERMINATE!" Daleks screeched from all over the room. One shot at Rose, but with the newly found power of the TARDIS inside her, she deflected it.

"I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words, I scatter them in time and space." She reached her hand up toward the words 'BAD WOLF' written on the wall as they faded. "A message to lead myself here."

"Rose, you've got to stop this!" the Doctor tried. "You've got to stop this, now! You've got the entire vortex running though your head. You're gonna burn!"

"I want you safe," Rose pleaded. "My Doctor. Protected from the false god." 

"You cannot hurt me," The emperor corrected her. "I am immortal."

"You are tiny!" Rose's voice began to crack. "I can see the whole of time and space. Every single atom of your existence, and I divide them." Rose raised her hand, sending energy to a Dalek near her, turning it to dust.

"Everything must come to dust." Her voice cracked again and sparkly, golden tears began to fall down her cheeks. "All things. Everything dies. The Time War ends."

All of the Daleks crumbled into piles of dust, including the emperor.

The Doctor looked at Rose, "Rose, you've done it. Now stop, just let go."

"How can I let go of this? I bring life."

"But this is wrong!" the Doctor tried again, "You can't control life and death!"

"But I can!" Rose quickly corrected him. "The sun and the moon, the day and the night."

She took a shaky breath, "But why do they hurt?"

"The power's gonna kill you and it's my fault."

"I can see everything. All that is, all that was, all that ever will be."

The Doctor perked up and stepped closer to her. "That's what I see, all the time! But doesn't it drive you mad?"

"My head..." Rose cried, confirming his question.

The Doctor reached out his hands to Rose. "Come here."

"...it's killing me!"

"I think you need a Doctor!" The Doctor took her shaking hands in his and stepped closer to her. He leaned down, and kissed her. The energy from the TARDIS transferred through Rose and to the Doctor. After the energy had left her, Rose passed out in the Doctor's arms.

-END FLASHBACK-

TEAGANNE

I woke up in a large room [room description here] Where was I? Then I remembered, I was in the TARDIS. I quickly threw off the covers of the bed and scampered out of the room and to the left, but then remembered the way to the console room and went back to the right. I walked onto the grating of the dimly lit console room and watched as the Doctor darted here and there mumbling strange phrases as though he were having a one sided conversation. 

"Doctor?" I asked cautiously.

"Teaganne!" He stopped in the middle of his rambling, his arms full of loose, foreign metal and gadgets. "Brilliant! You're finally up!"

"Did you even sleep?"

"I'm a Timelord, remember? I hardly need sleep!"

"Fine. What are you doing then?" He set down his gadgets and skipped over to me, practically jumping over the main console.

"Last night, the TARDIS spoke to me."

"Wait, your ship spoke to you?"

"Yes, but that's not the point! The point is that she-"

"She?"

"Yes, she! Now, let me finish!"

I widened my eyes at his sudden harshness and raised my hands in surrender.

"Sorry." He dazed of in what seemed a bit of a flashback. "Rude and not ginger..." he mumbled.

"What?"

"What?" His eyebrows darted up and his chocolaty brown eyes opened wide. Then he remembered. "Yes, right! the TARDIS spoke to me last night."

"What did 'she' say?" 

He grinned. His lips curling back, showing off his teeth. And his eyes sparkled with something , I wasn't quite sure what... Hope? His eyebrows bounced with each word, "Bad Wolf!"