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Rose Tyler – Time Agent

By Tangerine Alert

Chapter 4 - Chase

"Dalek ship status?"

"Locked down in cargo bay, fields neutralised."

Rose leant into the chair before the claxons started.

"TARDIS in-flight, attempting the breach fields."

Rose swore again and grabbed the controls roughly entering the vortex, positing it sideways to the flow of the vortex time winds.

The claxons ceased.

"We'll stay here for a bit, start tracing the TARDIS for comms."

The console stopped groaning.

"She jumped her ship into the vortex."

"Well that was some ride Doctor, but what ever Rose has got the TARDIS didn't like it."

"Simple temporal barriers, no match. You still got the silhouette of her ship?"

"Yeah…but maybe we should…"

"Should what?"

"Well she's obviously not wanting to stop and say hi, do you want to come in?"

The Doctor glared at him, he passed the comp over.

"Now we just slide into the vortex under minimal power, go to zero and drift to it, the ship…"

"And then?"

"A quick hop as we hit the shield…"

"And if we hit the shield?"

"No need to worry at minimal power."

Rose was going over the other incidents that had been uploaded to her that needed looking into, there were over 300 events, people or situations that needed looking into.

Leaning over to her fruit basket she grabbed an apple relishing the crisp flesh she stared at the swirling mass of the vortex.

She looking back down at the force and temporal fields they were all strong, leaning back she smiled. It was great to see her mum again. And Jack…and the Doctor, if he weren't so hell bent on interfering.

She glanced out the window and saw a small blue box, the light however wasn't flashing, then the claxons started as it started to flash.

"TARDIS in fields, re-materialisation in progress, breach in progress, TARDIS rematerialising."

"Location in ship?"

"Rear deck."

Rose walked calmly down to the rear of the ship, sonic blaster and a standard laser/stun gun. She watched the TARDIS grind into existence, the door opened and the Doctor walked out.

"Yes?" Rose said pointing the stun gun at him and the sonic blaster at Jack.

"Rose I'm so glad…"

"That…?" She asked not moving the gun.

"That we could…" He looked at Jack who shrugged.

"That you succeeded in breaching my ship's shielding?"

"That I could find you to talk…"

"I think you'll find that you left first, I was standing there when you grabbed Jack, not that Jack minded I'm sure and dragged him off to the TARDIS."

"Rose don't you want to come back and travel with me and Jack?" The Doctor said pleading. "We searched for you, followed every avenue that we could, traced the Bad Wolf over time and space."

"And? Aside from crossing your own timeline?"

"You know about that…?"

"I try to avoid it, it's meant to be a big no-no, meeting yourself."

"We didn't meet ourselves, we hid in a ventilation shaft." Jack joked.

"Bet you liked that."

"Rose please…I missed you…I thought you were dead." The Doctor stepped forward, Rose motioned with her gun to keep him with the doors of the TARDIS.

"Would you really shoot me?"

"You try to force your way onto me ship, not once but twice, I could have shot you out of the vortex."

"But?"

"I didn't."

"We can help you with whatever you need." The Doctor said looking around. "What sort of ship is this, looks like it was fixed up by a good engineer."

"That would be me Doctor, and no I won't tell you."

"Rose we just wanna…" Jack trailed off.

"Take me away, get me to travel with you? I have my own travels Doctor, I thought you'd be happy with me, I took what I learnt what I wanted…to help, to make it better…"

"And the power of the vortex? The TARDIS? Did that depart?"

"That's what's got you so worried?"

"Did it?"

"Mostly…" She looked crossly at him. "See you've got me confessing now, I'm not the girl who saved her dad when he should've died, Doctor, I saw the moons, the planets, the stars…I felt them move, and I decided I, I wanted to do something to help time…to stop people mucking with it…"

"I just wanted for you to travel with me, with us together, me and Jack…some fun, come on when was the last time you had fun?"

Rose looked at him and considered.

"Have you still got my things?"

"Still packed in your bag like you left em." Jack smiled.

"Fine, just a quick look around…" The Doctor grinned and walked into the TARDIS followed by Jack, as soon as the Doctor's back was turned she shot him. Jack spun around mouth open.

"You shot him!"

"It's only a stun."

"That fills me with confidence."

"Can you get my bag?" Jack nodded and ran off backwards. Rose walked over to the console and found the recording button.

"Doctor, and Jack…If you're seeing this then you're trying or about to try…"

Rose and Jack were standing by the TARDIS doors.

"I'll demat from around the TARDIS leave you to drift…thanks for…"

"Not shooting you after you shot him?" He jabbed his thumb back at the Doctor.

"Yeah…and everything…"

"Everything?"

Rose hugged him. "Maybe we can meet, some time for a friendly beverage somewhere…"

"Where we won't get shot?"

"Unlikely, but maybe…" She hugged him. "It was good to see you again…but…"

"You've got your life, a job, things to do…"

"People to stop…"

"And you'll let the occasional scammer pulling a Pompeii to get away?"

"Only if they're as handsome and have as nicer arse as you."

Jack gave her one last hug. "You better go before he wakes up."

"Bye."

Rose put her back pack down on the ground and watched as Jack closed the TARDIS doors, she guided the ship into the vortex and dematerialised from around the TARDIS.

The Doctor groaned, and slowly woke up. Someone handed him a bottle of water.

"Rose?"

"Nope Jack."

"Jack, who shot me?"

"Rose."

"On full stun, I feel like I've been eating the Sahara."

"It does that." Jack said smiling.

"We've got to start tracing her ship…"

"I wouldn't…"

"Why?" Jack pointed to the hologram showing Rose.

"Doctor, and Jack…If you're seeing this then you're trying or about to try and find me, or do something else stupid.

I'm not going to apologise for stunning you, trust me there are worse things I could have done.

You once said I should go out and live my life…this is my life and I'm living it. Don't you think the first thing I could have done was go back to Sat 5 just after I left and join you and Jack again. I didn't though. I have my life now, friends, enemies…the whole thing.

I want you to go on living, I'm not telling you to forget me, but stop chasing me, stop trying to hunt me down…

I love both of you, and maybe at some point we can meet on some unassuming station, moon or planet and have a drink of some kind…"

The hologram flickered out.

"How did she know how to use the console?" Jack asked, The Doctor shrugged as he chugged down the water.

The Traveller emerged from the vortex.

"Where are we?"

"Temporal Coordinates…"

"Earth standard."

"Year 1969…"

Rose glanced over at the her ever increasing list for something in 1968, there was something about someone in the clean up following that thing with the Great Intelligence.

"What a naff name. Fine lets head for London."

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Well that's the end of RT: Time Agent 1, as with Doctor Who (the new series) I've included a teaser for the next instalment.

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