Parting's End

Chapter Ten: Forever with You

Rose felt the time lines, but she was so rusty in knowledge of how to be a Time Lady she once was ages earlier. How big the problem was or any possible clue to the reasons why sat in a foggy haze within her mind. However, her mind caught the finer details. “That’s Dad with Tony. Dad’s panicked and Tony is whimpering. Something has to be very wrong.”

“It better be for him driving like a maniac with your brother in the car!” Jackie snapped.

“Oh yeah, something is definitely wrong here. Jackie, Donna, Gailia get back on the TARDIS now,” the Doctor said in a powerful voice that the trio did not argue against as he went to his mate. “Rose focus to the side of your time sight, just out of the corner of your mental eye as it were.”

Then Rose saw black vehicles mixed with military transports and her heart knew these were trailing just behind her father and brother on a nearby road. Black she knew meant Torchwood, but she could only feel fear induced by their existence. These were no friends of her family and reminded her of the Torchwood responsible for the incident at Canary Wharf in the universe they left. Mixed with troops meant a containment and capture team who were not far enough away for her comfort.

“Love, they are following Dad and he knows it. Something is very wrong with this. What could have triggered this change?”

With a fluttering in her mind that worried and birthed guilt in his mate’s heart, the Doctor was concerned for the family of his Rose. “What did you not tell me yet? The thing you want to ignore and don’t matter anymore in your mind?”

Rose swallowed hard. “I stopped aging. We only just noticed that recently and no one else seemed aware. I did a blood test and I was no older than when you first regenerated in front of me.”

Dumbe shock and regret slid onto her face as she caught the obvious. “Oh hell, the blood test!”

Her mind saw a report and the man who wrote it. David Grant, who she spurned out of memory of her true love as much as the feeling of threat and deceit her heart caught from the man. He got hold of the test she labeled as a lost amnesiac with not certain age. Instead of accepting her ruse, he had a DNA test added on to discover it was her blood and her age. Then he had additional tests revealing the residue of Bad Wolf (not that the scientists would grasp what they saw) and how Rose did not belong in their universe.

“They want both you and Gailia as experiments similar to the crew that tore us apart at the Battle of Canary Wharf. I’m so sorry, Rose,” The Doctor began, but she would not allow him to blame himself. “No, you don’t. I made my choices then and now. Doctor, I love you and have for as long as we have known one another in this life as much as our befores. I’m so rusty with this! Will Dad make it?”

“Just so and we will be able to grab the bags too. But we have to move fast.” The Doctor was tensed for battle. No one was permitted to bring harm onto his lover or their child. He also noted the threat of her parents and brother imprisoned and used as bate and carrot to force compliance from Rose. The private plans of rape and impregnation held by Grant, the Doctor held to himself. If they had time, he might have taught the arrogant fool how his Rose was not born for those filthy fantasies.

The first car hit the beach and race their way without slowing until the car squealed to a halt alongside the couple and the TARDIS. Rose and the Doctor moved asd the trunk popped open seconds before Pete Tyler exploded out of the driver seat. “Rose! Go back inside! They’re—”

“We know, Dad. Grab Tony! We’re not leaving you three here to the so-called mercies of those fools.”

She grabbed more bags than once she might have managed to his surprise. Peter looked at the Doctor firmly. “Later an explanation. But now, can we manage to slip me into the other world?”