THE SCAVENGER HUNT
Chapter Thirty One The Doctor groaned and slowly opened his eyes. He noticed that he was lying on the bed inside the room, a rope was tied around his body securing his arms and his legs were tied together at the ankles. He tried to see outside the closed curtains but had no success. He felt the duvet rubbing up against his skin and noticed that he had no clothes on. “Where are you?” he yelled. “I demand you show yourself!” “Oh, I don’t think you’re in any position to demand anything, Doctor,” the Rose bot cooed from somewhere outside the curtains. “If you or your cronies have done anything to the real Rose or Martha or Donna…” “I’ve done nothing to them,” he heard her say. “As for my brothers and sisters, well, I can’t speak for them…” She fell silent and the Doctor tried to sense where the cybomat could be. His question was answered a minute later when the Rose bot suddenly jerked the right side curtain back and appeared to him completely naked, fully formed and anatomically correct. The Doctor was filled with conflicting emotions, disgust for this robot that had invaded his mind and turned his fantasies into warped nightmares but lust because after all, this was Rose’s body. He turned his head away, trying not to look at her bare body but she grabbed his face and jerked his head back towards her. “Don’t look away from me, Doctor,” she snarled at him. “You finally have Rose exactly as you want her and you will look at this body and long for it!” “You don’t know me that well, do you?” the Doctor sneered. She chuckled. “Oh, I know you perfectly well, my beloved,” she said, stroking his face. “I’ve been inside your memories, remember? Your innermost secret desires and this is what you want. You’ve always wanted it; you’ve just been too much of a pussy to tell Rose yourself.” She leaned in closer to his face. “I’ve been in all your minds, I was one of the very first onboard this ship,” she said sweetly. “I’ve scanned Rose’s mind and her innermost thoughts and she wants this as well. Too bad that two people who obviously want each other in a physical way can’t bring themselves to actually do it. But now, here I am, as eager to have sex as you and I’m ready to cater to your every desire, no matter how perverted and twisted they may be. So just pretend I’m the real deal and shag me.” “Sorry, you’ve mistaken me for some sort of wanton tart.” The Cybomat threw back her head and laughed at that. “Oh, Time Lord,” she said, shaking her head in amusement, “you think you’re so clever and in many ways, you are. But at the same token, you can be the stupidest being in the whole of creation at times. You don’t have a choice here, my darling; the ropes should have clued you in to that.” “Then kill me and stop banging on about my lack of libido,” the Doctor snarled at her. “Oh no no no no, I wouldn’t kill you. You’re far too important to us,” the Cybomat cooed as she pulled the duvet down to the end of the bed. She ran her finger from his Adam’s apple down to his navel, drinking in his body while the Doctor eyed her warily. He tried to turn his head again when she bent over towards it but he grunted when she jerked his head back to her face. “You will obey, Time Lord,” she said in a menacing voice. “Then tell me what you plan to do with me instead of playing these games of yours,” the Doctor growled. “You’re going to become my slave, Time Lord,” she purred in his ear. “Yeah, yeah, yeah, you’ve said that already. I’m asking how you plan to do it!” “Mmm, a forceful man who knows what he wants, I like that,” Rose said. The Doctor sighed angrily; frustrated at the game the Cybomat was playing with him. “Very well, my sullen slave, I will tell you exactly what shall happen to you,” the Rose bot said, leaning back up. She smirked when she touched his balls and the Doctor felt a shiver go through him that he failed to hide from the amused robot. “She is a part of you now, do you know that?” the Rose bot said casually. “The Bad Wolf entity entered both your bodies and some of the essence still lingers in both of you. You are connected to Rose Tyler, whether you like it or not.” She chuckled when she saw the Doctor contemplating that. “Oh yes, the energy of the Bad Wolf connects you both, we have seen it in your minds. That is why she returned to you, Doctor. She cannot stay away from you now just as you cannot be away from her. For the first time in your lives, Doctor, you are bound to another living soul and that is why in this life, you have fallen so deeply in love with her, far more deeply than you did in your previous life. You share a kinship with her, an energy bond with a simple human child. Think of it, the greatest Time Lord in existence has a soul mate in a backwards human girl. It is why we are fascinated with you, Doctor. You try to deny that you love Rose as deeply as you do but we know it is there because we have seen it in your mind. Oh, you love Donna and Martha and care for them deeply…but Rose is the one you cannot live without. Isn’t that right…Doctor?” The Doctor said nothing and the Rose bot smirked at that. “Coward,” she said gleefully. “The big, brave Time Lord can face an army of Daleks but can’t shag a human girl who he loves and loves him.” “That’s not your concern!” the Doctor snarled. “It is now. I’ve made it my concern,” the Rose bot said, running her finger down his cheek. “It just breaks my heart that you have the woman you love at your side and you can’t take your pitiful little relationship to the next level.” The Doctor said nothing as the Rose bot stared at him quietly. Then suddenly she let out a quiet chuckle. “I think I shall ask a few of my brothers and sisters to go get Rose Tyler and bring her here. I want her to witness what I’m about to do to you.” “Leave her alone!” the Doctor snarled at her. He gritted his teeth and fought against his restraints as the Rose bot closed her eyes and sent a telepathic message to her brothers and sisters. Whoever is near Rose Tyler, bring her to me, alive and unharmed. Follow my mental signal, she thought to the other cybomats. She opened her eyes and smiled sweetly at the Doctor. “Your beloved is on her way,” she said. “Leave me alone! Deal with me but not her!” The Rose bot laughed. “Too late, Time Lord, she’s coming. One of my sisters is bringing her now, apparently kicking and screaming. Seems she was in some sort of fairy tale simulation, Snow White, I believe? You better be glad I said something because she was seconds away from being forced to eat the poisoned apple. Then she would have died and I don’t think even your Prince Charming’s kiss could have saved her. “What about Martha and Donna, where are they? Ask!” the Doctor said frantically. “Mmmm, nah, I don’t care about them. They’re just extra appendages you keep round to shield yourself from being alone with Rose again. See, you realized when you were traveling with her that after the Bad Wolf, you found it hard to control yourself around her. Good job she was sucked into another universe before you ended up forcing yourself on her, hmm?” The Doctor glared at her silently as she laughed. “You should see what my brothers and sisters do for amusement. We act out all your weirdest, wildest fantasies and thanks to this scavenger hunt the others say you’ve been on, your companions have gotten to see more than their fair share of randy, rude behavior and I believe all three of them are nearly ready to knock your lights out because they think you’ve done this as some sick joke. I’m sure once Sweetie Pie comes in here, her first inclination will be to give you a knuckle sandwich so I best hold her back for you, eh?” She ran her hand down his chest as the Doctor listened in silent horror. “Oh! I almost forgot! We’re both naked and you’re tied up, what will your beloved think of that?” she said with a smirk. “Especially since she’ll know I’m a robot, seeing as how I’m a replicant of her. Just think, the woman you love thinking you’re into kinky sex with robot duplicates of her. I’m sure that image will go over like a lead balloon, huh?” She paused a moment and then let out a chuckle. “She is here. Your Rose is just beyond the door,” she said, pointing off to her left. “I should go let her in now, but first….” The Doctor struggled to get free as the Cybomat walked around the bed and pulled back all the curtains, revealing his nude body. The Doctor watched helplessly as the Cybomat strolled to the door and opened it. “Let me go!” he heard Rose yelling as she opened the door. Then there was silence and the Doctor guessed from the way the Cybormat was smirking that Rose was staring at her naked duplicate in shock. Then the Cybomat stepped aside and Rose was brought in, kicking and screaming by a hideous mutated version of Jackie Tyler that shocked the Doctor. Rose froze the moment she saw the naked Time Lord on the bed and then grunted when the Jackie bot shoved her violently to the floor before hurrying back out of the room. Rose got to her feet and stared at the Doctor’s naked body in disbelief as the Cybomat closed the door and leaned against it casually, watching everything in silent glee. “Doctor?” Rose said, coming towards him for a moment. Then she stopped and shook her head. “No, wait, this is another of those bleedin’ robot things,” she said angrily as the Doctor watched in silent anguish. “Look, I’ve had just about enough of this stupid simulation shit. I’m tired of being trapped in insane fairy tales that I can’t get out of and I’m sick of finding all these perverted Doctor robots. Now take me to the real Doctor this instant.” “Rose, it’s me, I’m the real Doctor.” Rage boiled in his brain when he saw Rose give him a skeptical look. “No, no, no, wait; you’re a robot because the Doctor would not be lying starkers on a bed with some perverted version of me in the room. This is another stupid simulation that I’m forced to go through before I’m let out into the real world.” “On the contrary, my dear template, he’s telling you the truth.” Rose spun around and glared at the Cybomat who was still leaning against the door. “What’d you call me?” Rose said, narrowing her eyes. The Cybomat smirked. “The template. That’s what you are, you know. At least for me. I looked into your mind while you were sleeping, looked at all your memories and created this body as a duplication of you. So you’re my template and as I said, that is the real Doctor.” Rose turned and the Doctor gave her a brave smile as she approached the bed. She sat down beside him and stared at the ropes. She reached out, intending to untie him. “I wouldn’t do that if I were you.” Rose jerked her head around and saw the Cybomat was now right behind her. “Let him go!” Rose demanded. The Cybomat laughed and the Doctor gasped when she suddenly seized her by the throat and pinned her to the bed while the Doctor struggled to get free. Rose gasped and gagged at the pressure on her throat while the robot stared at her with psychotic glee. “Let her go! Let her go now!” the Doctor bellowed, becoming more frantic with each passing second. “Did you enjoy the simulations my brothers and sisters enacted for you, Rose Tyler?” the Cybomat said as Rose grabbed her hand and tried to force it away from her throat. “We were responsible for them, not the Doctor. The brainless alien had no clue we were even on here, invading the sanctity of his time ship.” “What are you going to do to him?” Rose gasped out. The Rose bot raised her eyebrow and then chuckled. “I have you in a choke hold and could easily snap your neck and you’re asking about him?” she said gleefully. “You see, Time Lord, see how she loves you. She puts your miserable life above her own.” Rose stilled and grew quiet upon hearing that. She gasped when the Cybomat suddenly put her fingertips to her temples and Rose went still as the robot probed her mind. “NO, LEAVE HER ALONE!” the Doctor yelled. Then to his horror, Rose’s eyes snapped open and he swallowed hard when he saw her eyes were glowing, just like they did when the Bad Wolf was inside him. The Cybomat opened her eyes and smirked at the enraged look on the Doctor’s face. “See, the Bad Wolf is within her, but watch…Time Lord.” The Cybomat closed her eyes again and probed deeper. The Doctor watched, anguished, as Rose lay unmoving on the bed, her eyes glowing with the eerie golden light. His hearts raced inside his chest as he wondered if her brain was being fried by the entity but Rose seemed to be all right, just in a catatonic state. Then suddenly, he felt warmth spread throughout his body and his mind and suddenly he could hear Rose’s thoughts and feel her inside his mind, a sensation he hadn’t felt since the Master died on board the Valiant. Even though Rose appeared to be unmoving, her eyes staring blankly up at the wooden roof of the bed, the Doctor sensed her fear for him and her love. Hungry for her, he reached out and felt her mind, soothed by the sensation of the shared mind and the knowledge that his Rose loved him with all her heart. What they shared now was deeper than any physical love, it was a bonding of their souls and their essences and the Doctor suddenly realized what the Cybomat was on about when she said the Bad Wolf had connected them internally. He felt her fear inside her mind, her cries to him to help her and he closed his eyes, using this newly shared link to calm and soothe her, letting his silent love for her wash over her like a tidal wave and calm her fears for her and for him. Lost in the sensation of their shared love, he forgot about the Cybomat and loved her in a way that only two Time Lords can love, telepathically. Through the link, the link that only they shared, he lost his fear of being found out by Donna or Martha and let his soul speak for him, knowing that she would understand that he truly loved her, even without words. The pleasant sensation of her thoughts and feelings within his mind made him even hungrier for it and he bound himself to her, his beloved, and imprinted himself upon her soul, joining with her in a sort of spiritual marriage but much deeper and more meaningful than any Earth marriage could be. Rose responded in the same way, the Doctor amazed that she instinctively knew through the Bad Wolf link what to do to bind herself to him. The warmth of her love for him that radiated throughout his body and her whispered telepathic words of devotion nearly drove him over the edge. For a moment, he figured this was the Cybomat’s intention. Bring Rose in here and do this to prove her point about his desperate need for her but he realized he didn’t care. Inside his mind, Rose was safe from her evil and he harbored her and soothed her until she too no longer felt any fear. “Open your eyes, Time Lord, and see the truth,” the Cybomat said. For a moment, he didn’t obey but then he slowly opened his eyes and looked directly into a hand mirror the Cybomat was holding in front of his face. He stared in shock for a moment when he saw his glowing eyes that mirrored Rose’s own and then he gazed in silent fascination at the golden glowing orbs he now possessed. This was the link the Rose bot was talking about and it confirmed in his mind that Rose was truly his in every way. Then, to his horror, the Cybomat set the mirror down on the floor beside the bed, put his fingertips against Rose’s temples and severed the bond between him. The Doctor gasped as his eyes returned to their deep brown and he instantly lost all contact with Rose. His mind ached for the hollowness that he had felt almost continuously since Gallifrey was destroyed. The Cybomat stepped away as Rose snapped out of her catatonic state, as much in shock as he was at the loss of their link. She stared up at the roof of the bed for a moment in silence and then she began to cry softly, causing the Doctor’s eyes to mist up. He knew what was happening, the high Rose had felt from being psychically linked to him was gone and she was now doing what he did after the destruction of Gallifrey, falling into depression at the loss. “Rose,” the Doctor spoke softly. Rose turned her head and tears rolled down her cheeks as she whimpered and crawled to him. The Doctor offered no resistance as she clung to him, weeping softly as she tried to feel the same powerful and ecstatic sensations she had felt only moments before. The Doctor tenderly kissed her forehead, trying to soothe her as she held on tighter to him, not wanting to let go of the man she loved and who she now knew loved her far more than he ever let on. Over Rose’s head, the Doctor could see the Cybomat was watching her distress with psychotic glee and hate coursed through his mind. Then, for some reason, the Cybomat turned and left the room, leaving Rose free but he could hear the door locking behind her. Relieved that for the moment, Rose was safe from whatever her duplicate was planning, he turned her attention to her and watched with silent love as his soul mate came to her senses long enough to begin to untie him and free him from his bonds.
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