THE DOCTOR'S TRIPLE TROUBLE
Chapter Twenty Five Rose's heart began to race when she realized that she was completely helpless unless the Alternate Doctor moved her body. And she figured that he would just let her stand there and get her face scratched to ribbons for a laughed. But, she breathed a sigh of relief when the Doctor came up beside her and gave Sabessa a challenging look. "Didn't learn your lesson the last time?" the Doctor said. "Don't think for one minute that you'll be able to get to Rose without getting through me first." "Ah, there we go again, young love," the Alternate Doctor said as the orb came up beside Rose. "It's nice that the Commitmentphobe is protecting the woman he's too chicken shit to marry. And granted, I would love to see him protecting his sweetheart but I must interfere and tell you to back off, Sabessa." "You are going to die!" Sabessa said to the Doctor, ignoring his double. "You and this bitch of yours." "Pardon?" the Alternate Doctor said, moving the orb in closer to Sabessa. "I must be going deaf; did you just ignore what I said and carry on with threatening my prisoners?" "I'm no longer listening to you," Sabessa said to the orb. "I'm tired of you pushing my aside so you can dally with your little whore. I'm going to destroy all of them before I come after you!" "How unfortunate," the Alternate Doctor said. "I will just have to retaliate then. Rose, my dear, if you will?" The Doctor cried out with the others when Rose's hands gripped the sword swung it and cut off Sabessa's left leg near the thigh. Sabessa howled in agony as she fell to the ground and held what was left of her leg. Blood gushed out and began to pool around the stump as she moaned in agony. The Doctor made a move to help her but Rose's hand swung the sword, stopping just as the blade reached his throat. "No, Doctor Do-Gooder, you're not going to save the bitch. You make one move towards her and you'll end up legless alongside her," the Alternate Doctor said. "Now march!" The Doctor glared at the orb as he, Donna and Mara stepped past Sabessa. They took several steps when they heard a chopping sound and Rose crying out in anguish. They spun around and the color drained from the Doctor's face when he saw Sabessa's decapitated head beside her body and the stricken look on Rose's face as she stood beside her. "You bastard!" the Doctor said when the orb flew over to him. "I'm training her to be an assassin," the Alternate Doctor said calmly. "That was her first kill. You'll be her next victim if you don't move. Now go!" The Doctor sighed angrily. He turned and walked with Donna and Mara, listening in anguish to Rose quiet sobs. As he walked, he considered erasing that memory from Rose's mind when they were back in their TARDIS so she wouldn't remember killing someone. He glanced over his shoulder and his hearts ached when he saw the despair in her eyes. He slowed his pace and let Rose catch up to him. Ignoring the orb who had moved back with him. He leaned in close to her ear. "I can take that memory from your head, Rose, when we get away from here and back to the TARDIS," he whispered to her. "P…please," Rose stuttered. "I d…don't wanna remember that." The Doctor put his hand on the back of her head since he couldn't touch the electrified suit or touch her cheek since it was covered by the mask. He still was using his bypass system after having to take several deep breaths every so often since he couldn't keep from breathing indefinitely. He could sense Rose's despair and glanced at her. Rose's eyes were fixed to the ground. They were dull looking and the Doctor's heartbreak for her increased. He glanced at the orb and silently cursed his adversary for doing that to her. Finally, after a half hour, the four of them were walking back into the open door of the Alternate Doctor's TARDIS. As soon as they got inside, they didn't see the Alternate Doctor. As they looked around, Donna and Mara suddenly vanished in a flash of light. The Doctor turned to protest to the orb but the orb was nowhere in sight. Then the TARDIS door slammed shut and the lights dimmed. The Doctor's senses were on red alert as he looked around for something that might jump out of them. "Doctor, I'm free." He looked at Rose and noticed the electricity was gone and Rose was now moving her arms freely. She gasped when the sword vanished from her hand in the same flash of light that had enveloped Donna and Mara. "What's going on, what's he doing?" Rose asked the Doctor. "Dunno but I'm sure it won't be pleasant," the Doctor said. He walked with Rose towards the console but the moment he touched it, an electric shock made him jump back from the steel panels covering it. "He's electrified it so we can't use it," the Doctor said to Rose. "Bang goes that idea then." The lights dimmed even further and the Doctor took Rose's hand while his eyes tried to adjust to the dim light. Then when his vision had adjusted, the lights went out plunging them into complete darkness. The Doctor guided Rose into his arms, holding her from behind so no one could take her from him. The room was completely quiet except for their breathing and the Doctor strained to hear something, anything that would indicate someone was in the room with them. They stood there for a few minutes in the dark and the silence when suddenly… "BWAAAAA!" The Doctor and Rose yelled out when they heard the Alternate Doctor yelling behind them. The lights came up and they glared at him as he bent over laughing. "Oh, that was priceless," the Alternate Doctor said, holding on the console for support as he continued to laugh. "Nothing like a good scare to give me the giggles. You probably thought a monster was coming to get you, didn't you? You should have heard your girly little screams. Aaaah, that was fantastic." He slumped into his chair, still giggling, while the Doctor and Rose came over to him. "Where are Donna and Mara?" the Doctor said. "Oh, they're in a comfortable little cell back inside the TARDIS. My, my, you're quite taken with my former lover, aren't you? Into blue aliens now? Tiring of the doggies and need a Mollon for excitement?" "She's twelve," the Doctor said. "She is? No fooling? She looks much older that that. Ooops, s'pose I can add pedophile to my list of crimes, eh? Eh, it was worth it, she's a terrific lay. You oughta try her some time. But first things first…" He got up, snapped his fingers and a force field surrounded the Doctor and Rose while the Alternate Doctor walked to the console. "You know…the pair of you have given me food for thought," he said as he typed coordinates into his computer and began to start up his TARDIS. "What do you mean?" the Doctor said. "I mean, I have gotten a brilliant idea. Something to entertain me that involves the two of you," he said as the rotor started up. "And it will be beneficial for you and Rose as well." "Oh really, what is this idea then?" the Doctor said. The Alternate Doctor only chuckled in response and finished starting up his TARDIS. Once the TARDIS was on his way, he excused himself and left the room, leaving the Doctor and Rose imprisoned in the force field by the console. "What'd you think he's planning?" Rose asked. "Dunno, but I can't see anything he does being beneficial to us," the Doctor replied. "I know one thing, I'm tired of these bloody games of his." "You and me both," Rose said. They looked over when the Alternate Doctor came back into the room carrying a heavy red robe and Time Lord skull cap and frill. He laid it on the chair in front of his captives and with a cheerful whistle, left the room. "What's that?" Rose said. "Time Lord robes. What we used to wear back on Gallifrey." "That? That was clothing on your planet?" Rose said, looking over her shoulder at him. "For me, it was," the Doctor said. "I did wear other things but that was the normal outfit for Time Lords. He's a Prydonnian though, like I was." "What's that mean?" Rose said. "You know, Harry Potter?" "Of course." "It was the house I was in when I was at the Academy. Prydonnians were known for their cunning and several of my classmates became renegades like me." "Oh, so you're Slytherin then? I pegged you for a Griffindor," Rose said. "And you're a Hufflepuff but I wasn't going to mention it," the Doctor said, poking her side while Rose giggled. The Alternate Doctor came back into the room carrying a white silk kimono that was trimmed in gold with embroidered gold flowers along the bottom. He laid it on top of the Time Lord regalia and left the room again. Rose admired the kimono and the gold stitching. She now noticed there was a gold seal of Rassilon embroidered on the right side of the kimono that would rest over the breast. "That's beautiful. Did you wear that when you participate in the Prydonnian drag queen shows?" Rose teased. She glanced back at the Doctor and saw the shocked look on his face. "What is that?" Rose said. "It's a wedding kimono. A Gallifeyan wedding kimono. Rose, I suddenly have an inkling of what my double has in mind for us."
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