Wanderer of Time: Silence Begins (doctor who)

Chapter 49: Companions' Farewell

At first, Rose merely stood there in shock, blinking away rapidly. She sort of held her arms on the Meta-Crisis Doctor's arms, somewhat leaning into the kiss. The next thing they knew, Rose slapped the Meta-Crisis Doctor harshly across the cheek as she hastily pulled away in alarm.

"What the bloody hell do you think you're doing?!" she shouted at him angrily, appearing to be unnerved by someone suddenly kissing her, as well as actually finding herself to have enjoyed the kiss. She wiped at her mouth, feeling strange as her heart had sped up the moment he had kissed her. The new Doctor backed up from her, holding his cheek and looking completely stunned, his eyes speaking of being greatly hurt by having been yelled and slapped by his lover. The Doctor glared at his counterpart while everyone else just appeared to be shocked by what they had seen.

"I'd like to know the same damn thing!" the Doctor yelled, storming up to the Meta-Crisis Doctor. "Why are you kissing Rose?!"

"What, you jealous or something?" the Meta-Doctor snapped in a hateful retort.

"Jealous?!" the Doctor and Rose exclaimed together while everyone else around the control room gazed on with great confusion. Not sure what was going on exactly. That is, everyone save for Wanda and Donna.

"Oops. We forgot to explain that part," Donna said to Wanda, gaining everyone's attention.

"Yeah, that part sort of slipped our minds," Wanda mumbled lightly, feeling a guilty twist in her hearts. Seeing the way Rose had acted . . . it made Wanda fear for the worst for the outcome of Rose's and the Meta-Crisis Doctor's life.

"What part? Explain it to us," the Doctor said sternly.

"Well, you see . . . I'm not sure what happened exactly," Wanda started to explain. "Right before Donna touched the hand and created the metacrisis, I touched the TARDIS console, which zapped me with some sort of energy. Which then transferred said energy into the hand. From what I gathered, Fred here has my memories from the show I watched on the telly. Which means, basically . . . he's the Doctor from my universe, from the alternate timeline."

They all stared either in shock or simply with blank expressions while the TARDIS rocked from the every growing destruction outside the ship. Wanda frowned at them. Seriously, they did not have time for this. They were about to go up in a ball of flames and the Earth still needed to be put back into proper place.

"Look, we can talk about this later. Right now, we need to get a move on before the rain of destruction catches up with us," Wanda said quickly, snapping everyone out of it as they heard a massive explosion outside. The Doctor shook his head, trying to clear it from a massive forming headache.

"Okay, then! Off we go!" he exclaimed, going over to the console and sending them off. Everyone sort of shook off the surprise information of the Meta-Crisis Doctor. Letting it drop for now. Rose scooted away from the new Doctor and over to Wanda, holding onto the Time Lady's arm tightly, staring warily and heatedly at the new Time Lord. Wanda patted the girl's arm, feeling guilty in knowing she was the one to cause Rose stress. And seeing the way the Meta-Crisis Doctor stared away sadly, made Wanda's guilt even worse. Was there any way she could fix this for them both? She only hoped that she could think of some way to help them later after they had saved the Earth.

The all stood around the console as the TARDIS engine whooshed and the ship shook as she left the exploding Crucible. Each companion and Time Lord holding onto an edge of the console as they flew off.

"But what about the Earth?" questioned Sarah Jane, looking at the Doctors. "It's stuck in the wrong part of space."

"I'm on it," said the Doctor. He flipped a lever, turning on the scanner to call Torchwood. "Torchwood Hub, this is the Doctor. Are you receiving me?"