I am sitting in front of my empty fireplace when John walks in.
"Hey!" He says as he bounces towards me, looking handsome as ever. He holds out his arm, "ready?" I look at him confused. "Ready for what?" I ask, smiling up at him. "You, Missy, have a certain someone you need to visit." He says with a smile. I take his arm and rub my head as I think about the Doctor.
I feel as if I am walking into a whole new world. As I walk out to the other side or my silver door I see a giant, I don't know what it is, but I duck as it comes swooping past. "Rose Tyler." I look at John confused, Why did he say Tyler? Should that name mean something to me? He looks back at me with a grin on his face. "Rose, welcome to Torchwood!" I look around stunned. "I-I thought I was in a hospital!" As I say that everyone turns to look at me. It's if they have just seen the dead coming back to life. "H-hi I'm Rose." I stammer a bit, I don't like audiences. Everyone glances around the room before someone replies. "Hello I'm Gwen Cooper, second in command." Gwen reaches out her hand and I shake it and smile happily. "Oh come on guys do I have to introduce you guys for you?" Gwen states with joke and sarcasm running all through her voice. "This is Owen Harper, Ianto Jones, Toshiko Sato and-"
"Captain Jack Harkness." Jack beams in looking a little flirty.
"Jack, stop it." John says sternly. A little voice in my head tells me not to respond Jacks comment.
"I was just saying hello Doc-"
"Not this one, Jack." John snaps quickly and sternly. Wait was he about to say Doctor? Like The Doctor from my memories? I decide not to bring that up again, otherwise I might black out.
"Hey, nice to meet you all. So what is it you all do here?" I ask a little curious. John gives a little nod to everyone as if to say you can trust her. I look around when Owen, nope Ianto chimes in with some details. Well apparently that's the simplified version.
"We basically have this rift in space and time going through Cardiff. Where we come in, is we monitor anything that comes in or out of the rift." I blink trying to let the message sink in. "Whats a rift?" I suddenly realize that's a stupid question them and shut my mouth quickly. Jack smiles and nods at Ianto to continue. "A... a rift is like a... Um... Well... It's like a um... a you know.. one of those things." He can't seem to find the right words, I see Jack whisper something in Ianto's ear. Ianto facepalms himself and I can hear the slap from where I'm standing. "Plain and simple it's a crack in space and time and we get the shock wave." I giggle a bit because I think he's a little cute when he facepalmed himself. After a whle of laughing, giggling and teasing, John leads me to the door only to reveal a whole new world. I close my eyes for only a mere second as the light hurts my eyes after beng inside for so long. I re- open them to see birds in the air and I-I can smell chips. "I smell chips." John looks at me and laughs as he slips his hand into mine to leads me from the door of the Torchwood base.
We are drive in a black car. We drive up the road, up and down hill and around corners. After about 15, maybe 20 minutes, we arrive at a building. John opens the door and I walk inside. I walk cautiously up 2 flights of stairs. I am about to walk up the third flight when John grabs my hand and looks at the door behind him. "We're here." He looks at me and smiles sadly before knocking on the door. The door opens slowly to reveal a middle age woman with blonde hair and green eyes just like mine. She stares at me with wide eyes as a smile creeps up on her face.
I nearly fall over when she launches herself onto me and hugs me tight. "Woah! Hello-" John mouths to me Mum. I nod a mouth thanks. What! I shake my head letting the information sink in. I try to smile and sigh a bit. "Uh, hi, Mum." She pulls off of me and places a hand softly on my cheek, I try not to pull back. "Rose? " she says it like she's holding back tears. Jackie takes her hand away from my cheek and glares at John. She marches up to him, grabs him by the ear and drags him into her apartment.
I stand outside Jackie Tyler's door and can hear her yelling at John. I can't really figure out what they are saying. Suddenly I hear Jackie yell and slap John. Then everything goes quiet. I open the door and go inside. I know what I have to do. For every ones sake.
I walk through the hallway looking at the photos and taking in every bit of information about myself I can find. Finally, I take a deep breath and walk into the room John and Jackie are in. I walk a few steps in so they both can see me. I put on my best "happy to see you" smile and walk up to Jackie, my so called mum. "M-mum?" I'm no longer standing behind John, who is currently caressing his freshly slapped cheek. I'm actually standing between him and Jackie. I don't look back at John. I just lean forward and hug Jackie tightly. "Mum I'm sorry I didn't mean to leave you-"
I feel dizzy and my world is darkening.
Jackie and John help sit me down on the couch.
I'm falling back in time.
There's a lot I don't recognize. But one things for sure. I recognize the man in front of a blue police box holding a head. It's The Doctor. My Doctor. He's dressed in all black and has big ears. He look like he is trying to ask me something, but I can't hear his voice. I am trying to concentrate but there is no sound. Only a moving picture. The picture's changing.
We're in the same room as before and I'm on the ground. The Doctor is at the console in the middle of the room and is rambling on-
Wait, there's a voice! He's saying something about a place, Barcellona. He goes on to talk of dogs with no noses. Then, all of a sudden, he crouches over violently grabbing his chest, saying I was 'Fantastic' and so was he. Then a massive surge of orangie-yellow light erupts from his arms, legs and head. Is he changing? The light dims but the vision is gone and I have one new memory.
I open my eyes slowly to a very concerned Jackie and John. John is holding an ice pack on my head and making sure I am okay. I try to sit up but my head is throbbing. John holds the ice pack onto my head firmly and looks me dead in the eyes as if he's looking for answers. I nod my head and smile, as I tell him what happened in my dream he looks at me with wide eyes and and has gone pale.
"Alright?" I ask trying not to sound to shocked at his reaction. John just stares at me with sadness and fear all through his eyes. He's not moving just sitting there and staring at me wide eyed. I manage to sit up without going completely brain dead, lean up to John and kiss him on the lips.
Hey Guys, here is the next chapter. Sorry it took a while, I may have had a bit of writers block but found some inspiration on the camp I just came off of. Once again a special thanks to my 'Fantastic' friend, Heavenlyfxre, for editing this story (again). If you want to see what happens next let me know. If you have any suggestions for another story, let me know.
scarltejazzy :)
