November & December Test Drive Meme

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[bowties_and_fezzes]

Fake or not, this was ripping his hearts to shreds. He got a napkin and started awkwardly wiping her tears. He should say spoilers, he'd already said too much. And for all he knew, this conversation happened and was why she chose, because he told her she chose. Could he change things? Here? Now? If he had the right lie, could he change her choice? could he risk it?

For Rose Tyler, if this really was her, yes. He'd still find his Amelia, the Tardis would see to that. Probably Rory would join them to keep Rose and Amelia from ripping into each other, another buffer. Which meant everything would still happen for River well enough. And somehow he suspected River Song would understand about Rose. But could Rose understand about River? Sure. Sure she could. Micky traveled with them a bit. She'd loved them both, she'd understand him loving both her and River. So if he got her to make the other choice, there wouldn't actually be a paradox. He could get to keep Rose without hurting anyone else.

But what lie could he tell? What story could he spin? How could he make her make the other choice? Go back into the timeline and fix things the way they should have been fixed.

And then he realized that the best lie... was to say he lied. A lie so mixed with truth even River would have trouble sorting it. He fought the grin, kept his face serious. This could fix things, could fix everything.

"Because I lied to you," he said softly, taking her hands. "I told you that the other me needed you, was born for you. I didn't know then how to fix the situation, and I thought you would. You're like me, Rose," he was sure that bit would hit the ego and help. "You can find solutions best when it is darkest. I couldn't see any other way to help him, so I thought you would. But I know the way now. Neither of us figured it out then, but I've had two hundred year since to think." More, hush. "There were others there that could help him. Micky, your mom, Unit. Remember this, Rose. Send him to Unit, your father would help, then you could come back with me. We could fix all of this. Rose Tyler and the Doctor, in the Tardis, yeah?"

[bigbadrose]

"Torchwood," Rose covered her head with her arms and sniffled. "UNIT's stupid."

She tried to let the emotions calm down, stop tearing her to shreds, actually process them, analyze, think carefully.

"They always said it you know. Four and Three and 8. They said it even about 9. That I chose 10. I didn't want to. I didn't understand why I couldn't be everywhere at once here."

She fiercely rubbed a fist over her eyes and face and slowly got up and gave him a big hug again.

"I can't go and change it. If you remember it, that's how it happens. Otherwise it creates flaws and really could destroy the universes. I thought... I thought it was Fluffy and you getting to have Gallifrey back, just not me. I thought it was still a good thing and everything would be okay because you had friends and River and --"

Rose started bawling again and buried her face in his chest, hugging and clinging around his neck. "I never wanted to leave you!!!" Bawling. "I gave up everything for you over and over and over again. Family, friends, home, everything, I never looked back, never regretted it, and now you're saying it's for naught? What kind of rubbish is that??? Fluffy's right to reject the future!" Sniffles and hiccups.

[bowties_and_fezzes]

He rubbed her back helplessly.

"Hey, hey there, Rose. This is me, the Doctor. All this time I've had to reason things out, you think I'd tell you to change if I wasn't sure it would all work out fine? Trust me, trust the Tardis, we can make this work. Already worked out how. And you'll love the...."

Wait. Wait.

"What? What about Gallifrey?"

Just... what?

[bigbadrose]

Rose rubbed her eyes and sniffled more. "You get Gallifrey back," she said numbly. It wasn't fair. She always said she wasn't a planet or a whole people, but she was pretty damn fantastic. Now what, she had to compete with them? She couldn't. "The weapon to destroy it, either it took on being me, or I put myself inside it with Bad Wolf. So I've been in its head. In Rassilon's. Gallifrey comes back and Clara convinced Rassilon to give you more regenerations because he wanted to use your confession dial and the Master to trick you into explaining about the Hybrid." Gosh, talk about spoilers...

[bowties_and_fezzes]

"Wait... what? Clara? Who is Clara? You were in the Moment... no, think I would have remembered that, actually."

The Hybrid? How could Rose know about the Hybrid? Had he ever mentioned that? Not sure. Spent so long trying not to think about those days it is all a bit of a blur, all running and snogging her when she wasn't her and cat nurses and cybermen. He couldn't honestly say any more. But no... none of this made sense, none of it could be real.

But what if it was... Oh... To be able to fix things so Rose was back with him, without messing up anything else and get Gallifrey back? Undo what he'd done? No, that was a double paradox at that point. Too much. He'd have to choose. One or the other. But he couldn't choose. Wouldn't choose.

Then a thought occurred to him. Bit of a thought. Not a good sort of thought, but the led in the belly sort of a thought. Had Rose known that when she chose? Did she choose the other him... to trade herself for Gallifrey? To take that choice from him? He wasn't sure if he should be angry at that or relieved or thankful or just sad.

The question came down to if this was really Rose, because he needed fish fingers and custard. Or.. Oh! "Yorkshire pudding!" No, he was not explaining the thought process that got to that.

[bigbadrose]

"You don't even call that life the Doctor, how would you know?" she gave up and flomped onto the ground as a wolf.

At the last part she tilted her head and flicked her ears. "Is that a swear in another planet?" It could be, for all she knows. Belgium is.

[bowties_and_fezzes]

How... how could she know that? Unless she was either real and had done all that... or this trap was just really... really... weird.

"What? No. To eat."

[bigbadrose]

More ear flicks. "Okay. I want chips. Big surprise, I know."

[bowties_and_fezzes]

"Right. Chips and yorkshire pudding, good to have something to dip the chips in."

Yes. Yes he was going to do that.

[bigbadrose]

"No." She made a face. Extra comical as a wolf. "Well YOU can, but I want vinegar and pepper on mine! Weirdo!!"

somehow I missed when she transformed and was wondering at the icons, lol.

[bowties_and_fezzes]

"Oi! Just for that, you can't have any of my pudding!"

ROFL I was so amused that he didn't even notice the difference rofl

[bigbadrose]

"I don't want it!" she stuck her wolf tongue out at him.

Lol. Well he'll acknowledge it here, at least. And was a bit him to just ignore it before anyhow.

[bowties_and_fezzes]

"Now that is just rude. I go to all that trouble to invent Yorkshire pudding, and you don't want any and the Ponds don't believe me. Enough to make a man mad enough to think you've actually gone and turned yourself into a wolf. Though last I checked I wasn't that daft. Yet."

Yes it was XDDD

[bigbadrose]

"You invented it?"

Rose changed back and joined her seat. "I did for a bit, yeah. I was even speaking wolf, Mr. I speak every language under 5 billion different suns." Another tongue loll grin. "Bit like the whole Moment thing here, there was a chaos storm that made me a wolf, and the Doctor -- Fluffy and 9 I mean, were phoenixes."

:D

[bowties_and_fezzes]

"Of course I did. It is pudding, but savoury. How does everyone keep doubting that is me?" Seriously, people. A little appreciation, if you please. Banana daiquiris, Yorkshire pudding, he was just a font of good ideas and tinkering.

"Well of course you were speaking wolf, be a bit odd to be a wolf and speak Gaelic, even for Rose Tyler." have a hint of a grin there. "But what exactly this chaos storm thing, to make you an actual wolf anymyselves what now? Don't think they're flashy enough as it is, they had to go and set themselves on fire? No wonder I'd so much to do erasing myself from history."

[bigbadrose]

Rose giggled at that, "You did what?" bigger eyes.

[bowties_and_fezzes]

"I thought you'd heard me but maybe I erased that too. Never do quite know."

[bigbadrose]

Face palm. "Cute, but pretend I'm real and don't know what you're talking about, yeah?"

[bowties_and_fezzes]

A small shrug as he started bustling about to see what options they actually had for food, here. "I got a bit too big, too large, to noisy. Too known. So, took a few years bounced about on my own erasing myself through time. You know, same old."

[bigbadrose]

"You mentioned that a little, I think," her eyes narrowed. "Wanna talk about it?"

She stirred her bubble tea with a straw.

[bowties_and_fezzes]

"No. All done. Taken care of. Nothing for Rose Tyler to worry about." River knew. And the Ponds. Jenny and Vastra and Strax. No one else needed to know. Well, Moldivar knew, but they he'd been getting a..head.. of the game of late.

[bigbadrose]

Rose's eyes narrowed all the same.

"I didn't say I'd do anything about it. I offered to listen. Just because it's been dealt with doesn't mean it doesn't bother you. Fluffy's nightmares wake me up all the time"

[bowties_and_fezzes]

"Except we fix things for you to do things over, do them right, then this is all spoilers, and things I can't tell you yet," he said, booping her nose before spinning back to look over the options again, fussing with everything, putting things back in different places, tossing somethings to the side. "Besides, since when does Rose Tyler hear about something that bothers someone she loves that she doesn't do something about it, eh?"

[bigbadrose]

Face scrunch... and giggles... "Well... yeah... but... it's been getting me into trouble." A sad sort of admittance and she stirred her straw in her bubble tea. "And I don't want to be-- No offense, but like Fluffy. Makin' the whole of Earth dependent on him so it was all dominoes falling down from any little shake gone wrong, yeah?"

[bowties_and_fezzes]

"Yes, well, as I said, got too big. All fixed now though. Now it is all flying about and vampire fish and Weeping Angels and insane Daleks. You'll see, Rose Tyler, you'll see." He'll fix things so that she can stay with him without ruining anything else. He just had to do it. That was it. She was here and this was his second chance to fix things. Well, third chance. Fourth? ah, not like anyone was counting anyway.