Samuel reluctantly released the Doctor from his chair and quickly shut off the camera that was recording everything in the room. The Doctor instantly ran over to Rose and hit his fists on the force-field until it was lowered, when he picked up Rose's limp body and pressed a kiss to her forehead. "We'll be okay, Rose," The Doctor whispered to her, smiling at the fact that she seemed overall unharmed, just tired.

"They'll kill me, you know," Samuel said to the Doctor, pressing more strange switches on his machine.

"You can come with us... But listen, Samuel, that machine..." The Time-Lord began, getting a crazy idea that was almost impossible. Key word: Almost.

"My machine? What about it?"

"How many people can it affect at once?"

Julian Turantez was in a field of thousands of lillies and roses, dancing about with his many other co-workers who worked for the Silence. Obviously, something was wrong, they had been on duty five minutes ago, but they were all too absorbed in this little world to notice a thing. They had been happily flitting about for several long hours before Julian looked up and noticed the sky was a strange black color, even though the sun was shining. He said something to his friend Terrance, and with those words, the world fell apart beneath their feet.

"What just happened?" Julian grasped his head, getting a handful of long black hair.

"That was a dream. Someone's escaped, or playing a rude prank," Terrance replied, already ordering the guards with the hand motions they had all learned so very well when preparing for this job.

"Think it's the Doctor?"

"I know it's the Doctor."

Samuel, Rose, and the Doctor sprinted down the hallway, trying to ignore the blaring alarm that lit up in their faces in every hall. Samuel manuvered the hallways like a pro, knowing where to turn left, right, or keep going straight. If they didn't have this man with him, Rose and the Doctor would never have been able to escape. The place was not unlike a labyrinth, with doors everywhere and shadows of guards lurking. It wasn't an easy task keeping your feet silent and still moving quickly, especially while holding an unconscious girl.

The Doctor's mind fizzed with all the extra energy it had gotten from Rose's, and left him much perkier and happier than he had been before. Which, of course, shouldn't be right at all, in fact he should be depressed and filled with anxiety. It disgusted him how much joy he had from abusing all her energy.

"How close are we?" The Doctor whispered after they had been running for about ten minutes.

"Almost there, but there will be a few guards at the exit," Samuel muttered back, pulling a gun out of the holster on his pants and smiling at the Doctor.

"I'm not a big fan of guns," The Time-Lord whispered back, eyes filled with concern.

"It's just a stun-gun, no worries."

After they had knocked out three guards and escaped the building, (setting off another six alarms) it was the Doctor's turn to lead the way. He sprinted towards the humming of the TARDIS that was guiding him, and handed Rose cautiously to Samuel so he could unlock the doors to the police box. The guards from the facility were close behind them, and Samuel mumbled words of rude encouragement to the Doctor. Finally, the Doctor opened the doors and they all rushed inside, slamming them shut behind them.

The Doctor noticed Samuel's shocked face at the inside of his ship and immediately took Rose from his arms. "Woah... It's... Bigger on the inside."

"Didn't you already know that? Knowing so much about me and Rose and all," The Doctor replied, still not completely have forgiven Samuel, as much as he tried. After all, the man had just saved Rose's life. Oh, and his.

"Yes but, seeing it... Clover would love this," Samuel smiled brightly, ducking his head around every alley of the ship, exploring.

"Want the grand tour? I warn you, it takes a while, the TARDIS is infinite."

"Sure!" Samuel said excitedly.

"Alright, but first, let me get Rose somewhere safe."

Rose was laid down on her bed and tucked in nice and soft. Too embarrassed to change her out of her normal clothes, she was still wearing them, but luckily she still looked comfortable. The Doctor was a little reluctant to leave her, even if he did love giving the tour of the TARDIS, because he wanted to be there when she woke up.

Surprisingly, after he had finished showing Samuel the kitchen, swimming pool, library, boxing room, zoo, mountain-climbing room, and a few other important rooms, Rose was still asleep. The second he sat down at her bedside, brushing her blonde hair out of her face, she stirred. "Doctor?" She mumbled, her eyes still shut but her face calm.

"Hello," He said happily, not pulling his hand away. Rose was okay. She was okay, and he had gotten her out. Thank Rassilon for that.

"Hello," She replied sleepily, putting her hand on top of his that was on her face.

"You okay?"

"Yeah," Rose sat up and held both his hands in hers now. "Listen, though, Doctor, we need to talk."

The Doctor's face paled immediately beyond his will. She was going to ask to leave, wasn't she? She'd leave him all alone on the TARDIS, stuck with Samuel for the rest of his life. No more Rose Tyler on the TARDIS. Problem was, it would probably be best for her. Even if he ju-

"I'm not going to ask to leave," Rose read his mind and raised an eyebrow, laughing when the color came back to his face. "It's just, back there... In that facility. We kind of saw some disturbing stuff... About each other."

The Doctor nodded slightly, not exactly sure where she was heading with this. He definitely hadn't seen anything disturbing about her, he already had the faint idea that one of her fantasies would be a humany life with him. That was one of his, too, of course.

Rose was silent for so long the Doctor thought she was done talking, until tears welled up in her eyes and she spoke again. "And... I love you."

And with those words, reality melted away.

Author's Notes: Okay! Just to clarify! That was the ending! Yes, I know, it's very evil. Heh. But you can look at it a few different ways. I'll leave you to debate with yourself what those ways are. Anyways, I may make a sequel (or possibly an epilogue of some sort?) to this some day, but I highly doubt it. I'd also like to make a shout-out to Sunsetsoccer who, for one is awesome, and secondly loves this story. You're awesome.