To Love And To Love Again

To Love And To Love Again.


Much to her relief he did find someone. A beautiful dark skinned woman, by the name of Martha Jones. She was a medical student, and Mickey’s wife in the other reality. She wondered who she married in this reality, seeing as Mickey had been in the other reality with her parallel self.

The Doctor had met her when he had checked himself into a hospital as a patient undercover, after having sensed a disturbance. Rose had been incredulous when she saw the hospital being transported to the Moon of all places. Everyone had been in a panic, every except the Doctor, and surprisingly Martha.

The culprits for sending the hospital and its occupants to the Moon, had been a race of aliens that looked like rhinos, called the Judoon. They were intergalactic police. They had been looking for an alien who had killed a princess from another planet.

She had watched as the Doctor had kissed Martha, in order to complete a genetic transfer. She believed the Doctor should have found another way to do the genetic transfer. She had a feeling Martha would take it the wrong way.

She had watched as he had been drained of his blood, had even doused himself with radiation. She had sniggered when he had removed his shoes. And all of this had been endured to expose an alien, who was disguised as an elderly patient.

Eventually the hospital had been returned to earth after the Judoon had killed the alien responsible for sucking the blood dry of the alien princess.

Eventually Martha had agreed to go on one and only one trip with the Doctor, which naturally turned into one more, then another, until she was presented her own key to the TARDIS.

He took her to meet William Shakespeare. They had also encountered witches, The Carrionites, who had been into Voodoo, and had been killing people with the means of dolls.

Rose had cringed when Martha and the Doctor had been lying on a shared bed in a room. The Doctor had unknowingly done the most insensitive thing he could have. He mentioned her name, whilst lying beside a woman who was slowly starting to fall in love with him.

Rose knew she had been right in thinking it had been a bad idea for the Doctor to kiss Martha. Obviously the poor woman had taken it the wrong way like predicted. And worst of all, he was still hung up over herself, making the other woman feel inferior, like she was somehow completing with a ghost, her ghost.

After that was over, and the Carrionites had been stopped. They went to New New York, where the Doctor had taken her not long after he’d regenerated. But this was based in the future, and the planet was definitely not as it once had been.

She was stunned to discover that most of that adventure had taken place underground in a dark motorway. The air had been poisonous due to exhaust fumes, as so many cars had been trapped down there for so long.

She was horrified to discover some people had either died down there, or even been born down there. For example, a small family had taken the Doctor in, letting him ride with them.

The driver had been one of the cat people, it was a male. His wife had been human. She had given birth to a litter of kittens. The Doctor had cooed and awed over the kittens. He had even held one, which had caused Rose to smile gently at the sight.

As soon as the Doctor and Martha had managed to escape from the underground motorway, they had encountered the face of boe for the final time before he had died. He had been with a reformed Novice Hame. But before he had; he gave the Doctor some last parting words “You are not alone.”

Next she saw the Doctor and Martha encounter the Daleks in Manhattan, much to her horror. She was just as horrified to discover innocent men were being turned into mutated pig slaves.

Then she watched as they had returned to earth. They attended a presentation for a new science creation, known as the Lazarus experiment. It was a machine that could restore a person’s youth.

The scientist who had gone into the machine, he had come out looking like he was not a day over thirty. But there had unknowingly been consequences. His DNA had been mutated. Meaning he had been transformed from a human into some kind of huge monster, at an accelerated speed.

The monster had been taken care of inside of a church. She had been surprised as well as delighted to watch the Doctor play the organ. He had increased the sound waves with his sonic screwdriver. Apparently the creature had a problem with loud sounds.

After the monster had been taken care of, the Doctor, along with Martha and her sister Tish, had returned to where the experiment had been held. The Jones family had been waiting.

Rose had mentally cracked up when she saw Martha’s mother slap the Doctor across the face. And had been even more amused when the Doctor had complained “What is it with mothers slapping me? That’s twice now.”

What she saw next shocked her beyond belief. The Doctor and Martha had to go undercover in a boy’s boarding school, during the time leading up the Second World War.

The Doctor much to her amazement had been human. His Time Lord essence had been contained inside of an old fashioned pocket fob watch that had Gallifreyan symbols on it.

He and Martha had been hiding from a family of aliens, calling themselves the Family of Blood. They were after the Doctor’s remaining regenerations, in order to remain alive. The Doctor had turned human, and hidden along with Martha to lead the Family of Blood off their trail.

The Doctor had gone under the name John Smith. He had been a professor. He remembered nothing from his life as the Doctor. What he did know came to him in his dreams. He had wrote down and drawn what he had seen in a leather bound book. And had thought it was all nonsense, just apart of his active imagination in his dreams.

Only Martha, who had been undercover as the personal maid to John Smith, had been aware of the truth. She held onto the fob watch, and never opened it under the Doctor’s strict instructions.

But what neither the Doctor nor Martha had counted on was John Smith falling in love with Joan, the schools matron. She was a widower, having lost her husband due to the war.

In the end, the Family had found them. This meant Martha had to turn John Smith’s entire world upside down. In order to out smart the Family, John Smith had to agree to allow the Doctor to come back, and in order to accomplish this, he had to be the one to open the fob watch, releasing the Doctor’s Time Lord Essence.

Before the Doctor had taken over John, John and Joan had been give a brief glimpse of what could have possibly been had John Smith not really been the Doctor all along.

They saw themselves on their wedding day, and watched as they became parents for the first time. And had four children altogether, before John Smith aged and died in his wife’s embrace. Rose had been in tears, feeling real pity for the life John Smith and Joan would never be granted.

She had felt real pity for Joan, as she came face to face with the Doctor, the Time Lord, and not John Smith, human and her lover. Rose cringed when the Doctor had acted more alien then she had ever thought possible. As Joan had asked if he could changed back, and the Doctor had told her no, but he was willing to try if she came along with him.

Naturally Joan had turned him down, knowing it wouldn’t have been the same. Could have never even come remotely close to what she had with John. He was not the man she had fallen in love with.

So the Doctor and Martha had moved onto their next adventure. They next encountered the Weeping Angels. Rose had also dealt with these as well. It had been before she had met Peter and McKenna.

They had not realised how to deal with the Weeping Angels until after Torchwood had lost two of their employees. They had turned up the same day, but had looked several decades older, were elderly in fact. They had revealed that they had been sent back in time with no way of returning. This meant they had had to wait it out.

Rose observed other adventures, until finally she saw Jack’s return. She was horrified to discover he was in the exact same predicament as her. She realised with no small amount of guilt, that it has been her who was responsible for Jack not being able to die and stay dead.

He had been supposed to die on that satellite. But she had brought him back, but had no control over the vortex, and had unknowingly until now, brought him back immortal.

The Doctor, Jack and Martha went to the very end of the universe, where they encountered a new and terrifying breed of the human species. But that had not been the worst of it. No the worst had come when they discovered professor Yana, an old man, who was a genius, was in fact the Master.

Rose had been filled with rage, as the master had regenerated, and then stolen the TARDIS and turned her into a disgusting paradox machine. Rose felt sick for the TARDIS. The poor old girl must have been in pain and felt violated.

Rose had been incredulous and even more angered when she saw the Master had been passing himself off as Harry Saxon, the new prime minister. And had been brain washing the people of earth, with the means of a signal sent through brainwaves, urging the public to vote for him.

Rose had been anguished as she saw everything that had occurred on the Valliant during the year that never was. The Jones family were turned into The Masters personal slaves, all except for Martha who had managed to escape on the Doctor’s orders.

Jack had been tiered up inside of the boiler room. He was a mess, all filthy. The Master had unfortunately for Jack discovered his inability to stay dead. This meant he took immense and sick pleasure in finding the most painful and creative ways to torture and kill Jack.

Jack only managed to keep up even the smallest amount of strength due to the fact members of the Jones family, Tish in particular, would sneak him bits of food here and there when The Master wasn’t aware.

But that wasn’t the worst of it, wasn’t the part that had Rose screaming in anguish and rage at the sheer injustices of it all. No that had been watching The Master use a laser screwdriver to age The Doctor rapidly, until he looked to be a man in his late nineties, and was bound to a wheel chair. And much to Rose’s disgust, he was made to sleep inside of a tent.

Rose had almost broken away from the link between her, The Doctor and the TARDIS, when The Master did not stop there. No he went one more horrifying and violating step further, making Rose see him as a monster. He used the laser screwdriver to age the Doctor even more; to the point he resembled a fragile little creature.

Rose had mentally howled in rage like she had never known before, not even when Peter had died in her arms. The Master placed the tiny looking Doctor in a cage, very much like one a bird would have been placed in.

Rose had almost sobbed in relief when Martha had returned. She had marvelled at The Doctor’s genius. Martha had been sent away in the first place to spread the word all over the world, to give hope to others. That word simply being, Doctor.

The Doctor had not been idle that whole year that never was, oh no. He had spent that year unknown to The Master, tapping into a physic link to people all over the world.

She had watched with beaming pride, as everyone except for The Master started chanting the Doctor’s name. She relished the rage that came across The Master’s face, as The Doctor was released from the cage surrounded in a bright and blind glow of all colours imaginable.

She laughed mentally in delight, as he hovered in midair, and slowly started to expanded in height, and grow more youthful as the seconds went by, until he was back to looking like the Time Lord she knew and a part of her had always loved.

She had been stunned when The Doctor had stopped Martha’s mother from shooting The Master, only for Lucy to do it instead. She had hated The Master even more, when he had deliberately refused to regenerate to spite The Doctor. He knew it would leave The Doctor all alone again, the last of the Time Lords.

Rose had felt rage towards The Master, and deep pity for The Doctor, as she watched him cradling The Master in his arms, sobbing brokenly, while the others watched on awkwardly.

She had then watched as The Doctor had laid The Master’s corpse wrapped in what appeared to be some kind of cloth. And had set him a light, and watched him turn to ash.

She had been stunned as well as amused when The Doctor had dropped Jack back in Cardiff, so he could get back to his team at Torchwood three. Jack had mentioned off handily that during his time at the time academy, he had been nick named The Face of Boe.

Rose had been amused by The Doctor’s and Martha’s looks of stunned disbelief. And the Doctor had exclaimed “No!” Rose could hardly believe it herself. But she could tell Jack had not been joking, no matter how much like a joke he had made it sound.

She knew he had been telling the truth and made it to sound like a joke. The Face of Boe had told The Doctor he was not alone before he had died for the final time. To be allowed to finally rest in eternal peace.

Jack had meant The Master, when he had said you are not alone. Jack had been there when they found The Master. He had endured all of that torment and torture on the Valliant. He had known, and had been telling The Doctor what was to come, no matter how cryptic he had been.

She thought back to all of the times she had met The Face of Boe. The first time had been with the Ninth Doctor on platform five, during the burning of the planet earth. And the final time she met him had been on that ward at the hospital on New earth, with the Tenth Doctor.

She pictured The Face of Boe’s features, and realised with startling clarity, that it was Jack’s beautiful blue eyes, his cheek bones, nose and lips. No matter how wrinkled he had become, she could still see the old Jack in him.

Finally Rose had been saddened when Martha had decided to leave The Doctor. She understood her reasoning for doing so. She was in love with The Doctor, but had by then learned the hard way, that The Doctor was never going to love her way she had wanted him to, or the way she loved him.

And of course there was her family. She along with her family, Jack and The Doctor, and Lucy The Master’s wife, they were the only ones who knew what had occurred on the Valliant.

She knew she could not just leave her family behind and go off with The Doctor. Not after what they had all been made to endure. The only one to not know what had happened and escaped such trauma was her brother, Leo.

Martha had left after giving him her Superphone, telling him she expected a call from him from time to time, that he had not seen nor heard the last of her. she had then embraced him one last time. She had then exited the TARDIS, leaving the Doctor alone once more.