Her Impossible Wolf

9

"Yeah, we can change that too, while we're here. Hold on, let me reset the exterior." She stumbled over to the control console and thumped a few buttons. "Should be reset now. Go and check it out!"
Rose exited the console room and was immediately in her family garden. "It's just a column!"
"Yeah, that's what they look like on their own. Bit boring isn't it?"
Rose re-entered the console room. "Yeah, it's quite boring. Why don't we change the inside now, so we can discuss the outside later?"
Clara nodded. "Do you want to pick it?"
Rose looked at Clara. "Seriously?" Clara nodded. "How do I do it?"
"Come and stand over here and picture the design you want. I'll plug you into the TARDIS's telepathic field. This'll scratch a little." She jabbed Rose with a cable as the Doctor had once done to her.
"Ow! That was more than a scratch!"
"Sorry. Keep thinking about that design and it'll change around us... Hopefully," Clara added, muttering.
"Hopefully?" Rose asked.
"Shh, just keep thinking about that design!" As Clara had hoped, the console room did change around them. The design became more coral and the floor became metal grates. A seat set also appeared near to the console, which Clara was glad of. Once the console room had appeared, Clara told Rose that she could stop thinking about it. "The deep connection should wear off in a day or two," Clara said. "I think," she added, smiling slightly.
"Tell me you're kidding," Rose said, noticing Clara's smile.
"Yeah, I'm just kidding. It only lasts a few minutes. That's why I was so interested in keeping you focused. I had you going though, didn't I?"
"You did, yeah. You better not make me look into the heart of another TARDIS though. I'm not doing that one again!"
"Don't worry. The only heart-related stuff I might ask you to do is keep an eye - or ear, even - on my heartbeats!"
Rose smiled. "That one I can do, Clara," she added. She noticed Clara start to sway ever so slightly and immediately guided her to the seats. "Don't overexert yourself just yet, or we'll have to go back inside."
Clara nodded as Rose sat beside her. "What made you pick this design, Rose?" she asked, curiosity getting the better of her.
"This was how the TARDIS always looked when I travelled with the Doctor. Right down to the funny two-hearted friend," Rose quipped.
Clara beamed, almost sheepishly, from her perch on the sofa-thing. "Aw thanks, Rose!" Clara replied. "You said you think I'm funny!" She looked around, as if she were about to tell Rose a secret. "It won't last long, my jokes get annoying pretty quickly!"
"Oh don't worry," Rose replied, grinning. "I've lived with a gobby, human version of 'pinstripe and sandshoes' for the last few years!"
"What do you mean?" Clara asked, intrigued. "Do you mean someone who looked like him?"
"Not really," Rose replied slowly, before sighing. "I guess I'd better explain, shouldn't I?"
"That might help," Clara said, nodding.
Rose turned on the sofa-thing to face Clara. "So, I have to get quite long-winded about this, so you understand it properly. You remember the stars disappearing, yeah?"
"Yeah, I remember that. The bee numbers had been decreasing too. I dunno why I remember that, but here we are."
"No, you're right. They're connected. Anyway. The proper Earth being moved through space threatened the void between our two realities, so a small team of us were sent through to the real Earth to try and fix it. Y'know, before it destroyed both Earths. It was a very family based thing. It was me, my mum and my ex who were sent through. So we started investigating.
"I found my friend Captain Jack - from the Blitz - already with the Doctor and his travel mate of the time. I'd seen her a couple times because I'd had to do recon missions to keep an eye on the void between our realities, and I'd bumped into her. And a Dalek shot the Doctor as we ran to greet each other. That last time we'd spoken, he'd been burning up a star so he could keep the link open long enough to say goodbye. We got him into the TARDIS and I thought he'd regenerate again, so I was helping keep others back.
"Oh! And, when we'd been fighting the Sycorax he'd lost a hand, but had still been mid regeneration-cycle, so he'd grown another. And somehow, he'd got his lost hand back. He regenerated enough to heal, then diverted the rest of the energy to the hand, so he wouldn't change face again.
"And then the TARDIS was taken up to the Dalek fleet ship. We were trapped in spotlight prison kind of things. Except Donna, who hadn't made it out of the TARDIS yet, and Jack, who was shot supposedly dead by the Daleks. I say supposedly because, after I healed him as Bad Wolf, he found that he literally could not die. I didn't know this at the time, but apparently the Doctor did, but anyway. Davros, he created the Daleks..."
"Yeah, I've met Davros. Slippery fella. Not literally, obviously. I'll let you continue..."
Rose smiled and shook her head gently, not at all annoyed by Clara's comment. "Anyway, Davros orders the TARDIS to be thrown into the heart of the ship or whatever,and we're horrified because Donna's inside it still!" Clara looked horrified, but said nothing, listening intently to Rose. "I don't know what happened to her then, but she did survive somehow.
"Anyway, we get a screen come up with another friend of the Doctor's - Martha. She works with UNIT now, and had been given this key, that was one of a series to be used to blow up the entire planet, should it fall into the wrong hands. I think she must've been right after me because, when she sees me she goes 'oh my god, he found you'! Then another screen comes up with Jack, Sarah Jane Smith and my ex Mickey, with Sarah Jane holding this pendant up, calling it a star or something.
"She says it'll destroy the fleet if they try and let off their weapon of mass destruction. They called it 'the reality bomb', which is a stupid name anyway if you ask me, but I was a prisoner, so I wasn't gonna argue, was I? But anyway, Davros is all like, you're all gonna watch me become all powerful and ruler of the universe. Y'know, your usual psychotic stuff from a guy who used his own body to physically build and rebuild the Daleks.
"Then Donna's back outta nowhere and she's got a copy of the Doctor and she's got all this Time Lord type knowledge and the other Doctor keeps mouthing off and stuff. Turns out that the jar holding the hand in, which was now full of Time Lord energy, had smashed, and she'd ended up being combined with Time Lord energy making something called the DoctorDonna.
"Basically, Donna and her human version of the Doctor gained control of the Daleks and reversed their master plan, and saved everyone. Then, because at some point Martha had been brought to the fleet, we all got into the TARDIS, which was unscathed, and we managed to tow Earth back into its rightful place, and return the other planets to where they should have been.
"After that, the Doctor dropped off Mickey, Sarah Jane, Martha and Captain Jack on Earth, and took me and mum back to Parallel Earth. He only convinced me to stay because the human version was enough like him to know what I needed to hear.
"He left as I... accepted the human him. I dunno what happened to them after that, but the human Doctor took the alias John Smith, seeing as the Doctor often used it anyway, and we started a life together, but still living here with mum and dad and little Tony."
"That's all kinds of mad," Clara commented, after a few moments silence to think about what Rose had just told her. "I wonder what happened to the others after you were left. Because some time between that and me meeting my Doctor, sandshoes lost Donna somehow and had the adventure with me and the other two Doctors."
"You could find out," Rose replied. "After you're better, I mean. When you return to the stars."
"Or we could," Clara supplied, noticing the ever so slight hint of dejection in Rose's tone. Rose looked up at her. "I mean, you don't have to decide now, obviously. You might go off me while I'm getting better and be glad to get rid of me. I'll shut up."