[IC] The Universe doesnt care (Me and Lynxoynx04)

[Magic223]

The Doctor sat alone at the TARDIS console. He had been so lonley and cut off from everybody. Since losing Rose a second time and having to take Donna home. He was just miserable and began the universe doesnt care.
"I'm alone ," He had been talking to himself and the TARDIS. He had barely talked to anybody. He didn't know that his metacrisis double had died. He was feeling lonley and miserable. His eyes closed and he fell asleep on the console.

The time lord hadnt moved his TARDIS much lately. He had barely travelled and looked a wreck. He really needed the company, He knew that having company meant that he lost people too easily. He didn't want to loose anybody again.
But he missed Rose everyday. He had tears in his eyes. Even his TARDIS was seeming miserable and made sad noises. The ship knew the Doctor was sad and miserable. The outside of the TARDIS seemed dirt. Even the Doctor's room was mess and other places of the TARDIS.
Though he still barely slept that much.

"Oh Rose..." He whispered. He had woken and was looking around. He didn't want to deal with this anymore. He hadnt even contacted Jack or anybody in ages. He knew Jack would have kept him company.
He just didnt want to bother Jack knowing he had a life.

[ladyonyx04]

Rose Tyler had never the chance when the meta-crises of her Doctor died on that beach unable to keep his Time Lord consciousness in a human body and had before death given her a gift over her daft alien love of her life. His real name and some of the knowledge that he had, including what had happened on Game Station Five. She was going to fight to get to her original universe and 'give 'im a proper Tyler smack he'll feel in his next regeneration' as said by her supportive mum. She never would have believed it, her mum fighting for her to get back to him.
"He's a proper mess he is, but he owns your heart and sweetheart, I got my happiness. Its time the universe let his royal self get it. If anyone deserves it more in any universe its him." And so she fought with every ounce of her being. If she could make the impossible happen once, she would bloody do it again.

It took a long while. Long enough to notice that she was aging a bit slow, despite her brother Tony getting older. She worked hard, making a device similar to the Captain whose life she had brought back permanently. She would get to her universe. It was all she could to keep herself from breaking down and crying, so she worked and barely had time for anything else. Once done she gathered the picture book her mum made, typed in the coordinates, hoping with every fiber of her being that this would work as she only just got it to work, she pressed the button being surrounded by a gold light and feeling like she was shot from a cannon, and seeing as she jumped universe to universe once already, this was saying something. She fell hard onto some surface or something, breaking the....wood she had landed on groaning and rubbing her blonde head. She had no idea where she was. Or when she was. She felt dangerously close to puking and passing out, and those were the only solid things in her head at the moment.
".....alright?" A welsh female voice asked probably close to where Rose had crashed. She tried to keep her eyes open, honest but her vision was swimming dizzily. Was the woman talking to her? She could have scoffed at herself. Sure the woman was. She bore a high similarity to Gweneth the girl who saved the world from the Gelth.
"No." Rose groaned once more feeling seriously disoriented. She needed a cuppa. Desperately. And probably something light to eat. Maybe a banana. She smiles a little goofily. Her Doctor would have adored her for thinking of his favorite snack, and she promptly fell in the darkness, but not before she heard the voice yell out, "JACK! COME HERE!" And then she passed out cold.

[Magic223]

The Doctor was shaking, He knew he needed somebody. He just doubted he could handle it. He lost everybody. His eyes didn't have that same spark of life as they used to. Really he didn't seem like the Doctor Rose once knew.
He had lost that spark. There wasn't much that made him happy anymore.
The time lord felt heart broken and even more than that. He walked to the console and decided to take the TARDIS to Cardiff Torchwood. Maybe he should just talk to Jack. But when he got there he extended his hand to the door and pulled back.
He couldn't. He sighed and sat against the door. Things weren't easy for him. Nor were they the same as they once were.

The Doctor wondered if anybody would notice and come to see if he was ok. Jack heard Gwen's voice and came running. He see's Rose collasped there "ROSE" He knelt down by her. He hadnt forgotten the blonde girl he used to travel with back when she was with the Doctor.
"But what is she doing here?"
JAck had not expected to see her again. He wondered if the Doctor knew that she was here. Would he even be happy about that after giving Rose a life with his double in the other universe. Had something happened. He hadnt seen the Doctor in years. He didn't know if the Doctor even wanted to see anybody. He had thought the Doctor looked sad the last time he had seen him.

[ladyonyx04]

"I dunno what's happened to her." Gwen said honestly confused by what had happened. It had been years since that Daleks in the sky fiasko, but day by day people were forgetting they ever saw anything which was worrying even her. "She just...appeared like a burst of gold light and look!" She said pointing out the device on Rose's arm which was identical to Jack's. How had the girl built that? Jack might not be forthcoming about his past, but that was an iconic thing he always had on his wrist not that Gwen knew what it did.

Ianto Jones opened the door a raised eyebrow and a small smile for the Time Lord that had saved their lives on more than one occasion. He had a cup of Jack's tea having been about to give it to the leader of Torchwood when Gwen had called him over after something crashed onto their meeting table, completely ruining it. Probably to check out what that gold light had been. "Are you coming in? I think you could also help with the sudden appearance of whatever that crash had been. I just prepared a pot as well." Being the go to guy for the domestics of this place, he usually had more of everything he prepared out of pure habit. Even pretending to be a civilian for a few short months after Torchwood one collapsed hadn't helped that. He moved aside as the Time Lord decided. "It was a rather odd color of gold light before a thunder crash sounded." He informed the Doctor knowing that the alien would want more details than what he originally gave him.

[Magic223]

Jack was looking at Gwen "Maybe she is looking for the Doctor?" he replied. He noticed she had a device much like his. He was looking around. He felt like he needed to help Rose. He picked her up.
The man then carried her to a bed in the medical area.
He was wondering if she was hurt or harmed in any way. The immortal didn't know what else to do.

"I don't know... I don't do much of that anymore...," The Doctor replied. He sounded sad. He was leaning on the doorway like he was weak. He rubbed his eyes a bit. Tears fell down his face. "The universe doesn't care what I do."
He slowly stepped out of the TARDIS. The time lord did want to see Jack. "I did come to maybe say Hi to Jack. But I'm unsure." There was pain in his eyes. Loss really had got to him. He knew Ianto would want him to help. He was sure Jack did as well.
He didn't have it in him to help anymore. Even his normally spiked up hair was flat and he just didn't seem like the time lord he once was.
The Doctor hadn't been sleeping well or even eating properly.

[ladyonyx04]

Ianto knew the look of someone lost, pretty certain he had that look too when he had lost Lisa to that Cybermen side of her. He smiles a bit sympathetically. "Well I'm certain Jack would enjoy seeing you again. Even if its not to help out and just a visit. It has been years since we saw you last after all." And none of the members currently were getting any younger. "And I think you could use some refreshment. Come." Ianto said as Gwen twiddled with her fingers worried for the passed out girl who looked no different than how she had been told from Jack.

"Say Jack what do we know about the other universe that the Doctor spoke of? Does it run on a slower linear line than us?" Gwen asks for that was a plausible explanation. She just wanted to understand cause that was she was in the team. The more sympathetic as she had a more working relationship in the facility.
"Stand aside, this is my job." Owen said to Jack letting the immortal know that the Rose character was in good if questionable hands. Owen was a womanizer too but not a big as one as Jack is. Tosh looked from her computer having a protégé by her side as she was not planning on working at Torchwood no longer getting on in the years and whatnot.
"Hello Doctor." She greeted pleasantly enough. "I believe Jack and Gwen went to the Med bay with whoever crashed on the table where Owen is Ianto." She informs having seen them go that way in her peripheral vision.
"Thanks Tosh." Ianto said knowing that soon he would have to search for his replacement too. "Would you care for a cup? Always plenty more." He offers.

{Must. Contain. Spoiler. Impulse. Grr.}

[Magic223]

The Doctor was looking at Ianto. He smiled a bit. "I know Jack likes it when I visit, I know I should do more, but I don't want to interfer with his life." He followed the man into the med bay. He was unhappy. It really showed.
He wanted to just cry and let out all his emotions.
The time lord was trying to resist breaking down if he could.
JAck backed away to let Owen help Rose "Yeah go ahead, shes a friend and is important to the Doctor." He looked around seeing the Doctor walk in. "Doctor.!" he rushed over and hugged his friend. He could see how broken The Doctor seemed "We found Rose Doctor... I don't know what she was doing."

"R...Rose." The Doctor's voice shook. He pushed Jack away a bit and rushed to the bed where Rose. He just cried . He fell to his knees. "Oh Rose... what are you doing here." He sobbed and had his head rested on the bed. He had thought she was safe and happy in the parallel world. He saw the device around her arm. He knew it was risky to travel that way. His eyes closed.
He really wasn't the same anymore.

[ladyonyx04]

"Well she's alright, just a big knot at her head where she hit it against the table, a little dehydrated and probably needing nutrients but other than this strange lyric less melody right where 'is second heart is, there's nothin' else wrong with her." Owen said having examined the girl his medical knowledge only second fiddle to their other members of Martha and her boyfriend Mickey. Or was it fiancée now? But knowing that the Doctor had a second heart thanks to Martha, he had been curious to see how it was that Rose hadn't been worse off with bleeding wounds, and in fact the ones she did have seemed to be healing themselves at a quicker rate than normal human capacity. Ianto gave Jack his beverage a caring smile to the immortal.

Rose felt like she had been knocked down by a car, while her head felt like someone dropped a dictionary on it as she came to consciousness. Her eyes fluttered open seeing the top of her Doctor's head not daring to believe that she had done it. And at the first try too! All her hard work. It amounted to something. She slowly reached out and pulled her fingers through his hair a wry little smile on her lips. "Not takin' care of yourself again. What am I going to do with you, you daft alien?" She asks softly knowing that she was here. Permanently. She owed it to the woman in her universe who had helped her out when she was out and working hard on the Vortex Manipulator.
"Whoever you're trying to reach with that, I have a feeling he desperately will need you too." The woman had said in answer to Rose's question of what she was doing. She saw the cup of tea in Jack's hands. "I could murder for one o' those." She said not actually meaning it, despite the training she had from her not really father, but becoming her father's Torchwood. She had only killed that Dalek because she knew there were no chances with that kind who were bred to kill anything not like them. Ianto smiles kindly at Rose.
"Certainly. I'll be right back." He said going up the stairs to fetch the lady her tea.

[Magic223]

The Doctor looked at her "Why are you here.? I thought,..," He trailed off. He didn't know what to say "Where is my metacrisis double?" He felt very weak. He closed his eyes again. He looked like he hadnt been having a good time lately.
He seemed comforted by Rose running a hand through his hair "I;m glad to see you, Thought I would never..," he had tears . He tried to stand but it seemed his body wouldn't let him now. His eyes just locked onto Rose.

JAck was looking at the Doctor. He then looked at Owen. He realized how terrible the Doctor looked. "Doctor I think you need some food and decent rest, If your going to refuse could always get Owen to make you."
He said grinning a bit. He puts a hand on his friends shoulder.
The Doctor looked at them, his eyes closed and he said nothing, He didn't want anything and was quite pale. The time lord was crying more. Even with Rose back he didnt seem able to bounce back to his happy self yet.
He knew Rose would worry about him, He groaned a bit and stayed where he was.

[ladyonyx04]

Rose continued to soothingly run her fingers through her Doctor's hair shaking her head slightly as she looked at him. "Time Lord consciousness and a human body don't mix well." She said softly as she softly places a kiss on his temple. She was worried about him. Worried sick actually rubbing her other hand across his back soothingly. She had never seen him cry before. He had looked very close to doing so the first time they were separated. But not actual tears on his face. She could always say it. His name. But she decided to do so later, when he was back to his maniac self again, jumping from one crisis to another, with maybe a few relaxing moments now and again. "I promised you forever my Doctor. I make good on my promises." She says softly instead knowing why he had chosen to leave her on that beach a second time as she had gratefully kissed that him as he said that the Doctor loved her more than he could ever say.

Ianto came back to the room having a cup of tea in his one hand and a plate of light snacks for Rose and the Doctor to have cause the both of them had looked as if they needed it. "Your tea and some nutrients for you two." Rose smiles her tongue touched smile at Ianto.
"You are a star Ianto Jones. I hope these non grateful people tell you." She teases motioning to Jack and Owen seeming to know them despite not being in this Universe long. She did, it had been during that time when Donna had turned right instead of left that she had met this team but hadn't been able to give her name. The wrong word at the wrong time could unravel so much during that overly sensitive time.

[Magic223]

"I was sure he would have surived... I thought it was only Donna who was at risk, Oh I am so sorry." He had hoped she would have had a normal life with his copy. Though he was still glad for her to be back."Though the universe really doesn't care Rose."
He slumped weakly where he was, not trying to get up as he barely could.
The time lord reached for her hand. "My Rose Tyler." He closed his eyes , he almost seemed unwell. He had dragged himself down so far and not done anything about it. He knew he hadnt really done that before. Least not that he remebered.

He closed his eyes ingoring the fact food had been brough to him. He was looking like he was not interested. He smiled weakly "Thanks Ianto... but I'm not hungry." He said after awhile. He shivered a bit and tries to pull himself up and closer to Rose , He ended up just collasping really.
He was shaking and wishing it would all just go away. he knew he couldn't feel better without help.
"I'm not well." was all he said. He wasn't going into details.
The time lord was breathing deeply and shaking.

[ladyonyx04]

"You better get better you daft Time Lord or I swear I will slap you." Rose said as she got up to help him onto the med bay with Owen taking the tea and some of the food taking them both in. Owen helped the determined woman to see this alien safe and sound. "The universe always cared. I came back to you after one try. I had to jump so many times in different realms and paraelle universes just to get to Donna! I saw you on a train, tried to call out but you didn't see me out of confronting a bunch o' frightened humans. And I can't be yours if ya don't get better. I have a few surprises in my sleeve. I want to share em with you." She said placing her hands on his face needing him to get better. She fought with her being to get to him tears in her whisky colored eyes. "But you gotta get better. Please." She pleaded. She didn't know enough about healing chronically depressed Time Lords. Her extended consciousness lightly knocked against his, asking for permission to enter, not at all really knowing what she was doing. But she once held the entirety of Time in her head thanks to the heart of the TARDIS, plus with those memories reawakened thanks to the meta-crisis she had been growing in tons of things lately like her intelligence and mental capabilities. She figured she was being helped by the Old Girl who was close.

[Magic223]

The Doctor smiled and looked at her when she called him a daft time lord. That was the Rose he knew. He just lay his head on her. He closed his eyes "I will get better now I have you here. " he whispered. He seemed very thin.
He knew he was very depressed, but it helped having her back. The time lord knew recovering would take awhile.
The time lord merely just lay his head on her and breathed deeply.
His two hearts seemed to beat faster. He was crying a bit more.
"I never thought I would see you again...," He looked so sad. "But I should have known you wouldn't give up,"

The Doctor's mind was so completly shut off. He couldn't even let Rose into his mind like that. He seemed to be feverish. He was muttering a bit and closed his eyes. He seemed very tired.
"You need to eat Doctor." Jack replied.
The immortal was worried for his friend too. He hadn't seen the Doctor like this .
The Doctor just shook his head and closed his eyes.

[ladyonyx04]

"I know you don't want to, but please get something in your stomach. I'd feel a lot better if it was even just broth soup!" Rose said with a small worried smile on her lips knowing that while she was there, she would make sure he'd get better and help him from his depressive mood. "I would never give up on you. I probably would have felt myself die if I didn't have something to distract myself from my own pain of losing you again. I love you. I have since you told me about your past while having big ears and a penchant for wearing leather." She informs him knowing he loved her too, and knew she would have to wait for the words to come from him. They had a lot more time now that she wasn't aging normally, and she'd probably have to ask the Old Girl why when she got home. That had been her home. With him, traveling across time and space seeing new things and aliens, helping, and generally running for her life as well as getting thrown in a prison or two. Inside the TARDIS where she belonged. She got the cool towel from Owen. "His people are deathly allergic to aspirin, So don't give him that." She warns the man glaring at Owen saying that if something bad happened to her Doctor, she'd hold him responsible. Twice. She then proceeded to wipe down the Doctor's flushed face, knowing that if he was showing that much color, he wasn't feeling well. She wasn't sure what to do, but thought this would help, or at least prayed to whatever god, would-be-god, demi-god was listening to her to get him well again.

[Haha, Eleven reference xD]

[Magic223]

The Doctor looked at her. "Ok Ok I'll eat something." He starts eating some of the food. He was not sure if he would regret that later, He seemed very uncomfortable. He knew how much Rose cared about him.
"I don't know what I would do without you."
He had a nasty fever as he lay there. He was sure that Jack was worried about him.
The time lord just sighed in relief when she wiped his face with the cold washcloth. He stayed close to her.
The Doctor was coughing slightly. He held onto her.

JAck was looking at them. He was worried for his friend, He knew the Doctor must be really miserable. He wondered what they could do to make the Doctor feel better. He knew being around Rose would help him.
"Oh Doctor." he replied. He was thinking "Do you want tea Doctor?" He knew Rose had said that sometimes helped the Doctor feel better.

[ladyonyx04]

"That might not be a bad idea. Besides it full of tannins. It helped him before, can't hurt to try again." Rose said looking at Jack leaving the bit about the Doctor's regeneration out. Even if Jack trusted his team, she wasn't about to go sprouting that Time Lords had a way of cheating death. She continued with her ministrations. "Would you mind terribly making another cuppa Ianto? I would appreciate it." Ianto smiles sweetly at Rose. He had the feeling that if he said 'no' she wouldn't mind and would ask someone else. But seeing as he was the only one to really know how the machines he used to make the beverages work without making the drink taste horrid, he was a good choice.
"Certainly. How does he like it?" He asked curiously and Rose told him.
"Thank you." She said with a grateful smile that took the years and weight that her eyes spoke of. He had a suspicion it was one of the few rare smiles that graced her lips as of late, which meant she hadn't had a reason to.
"Don't say that. I'm here now." Rose softly apprehends him caressing his cheek. She just hoped that had she not been here he would have found someone. He wasn't supposed to be alone. The universe needed The Doctor alive more than he needed her by his side. He saved so many lives and if he wasn't around that many more would suffer and die. But as she had said, she was there and not the universe or his stupidity would drive her from his side, at least not for very long. She'd find him, every time.

[Magic223]

The Doctor was looking rather pale. He didnt seem to move that much. His breathing had gotten heavier, The poor time lord looked very pale and ill. He was coughing and moaning. He was shivering more.
The time lord was unable to really eat anymore.
"Rose... I need you." he had his arms around her.
The time lord was all shaking and feverish. He needed to stay laying down.
"The TARDIS I think misses you too." He was just not feeling at all very good. He knew tea did help him sometimes.
JAck was looking at the Doctor. "You really should look after yourself more." He told him.

[ladyonyx04]

Rose, worried that he wouldn't rest otherwise, lay on the med bay with him, it big enough for the two of them since he had lost so much weight her fingers still caressing his skin as she continued to wipe his face off with the cool wet cloth. "I missed the Old Girl too. She became something like home to me during our traveling. Course she'd be nuthin' without 'er driver." She says with a coy smile. She then wrapped herself around the shivering Time Lord to share in her body warmth turning her head when she heard Ianto enter the med bay again. "Thank you again."
"Of course miss. We owe him our lives after all when the Earth got misplaced." For without the warmth of the sun the human race wouldn't have survived long. Gwen was curious about this relationship between her boss, the Time Lord and Rose. She would bet her entire savings that Rose had been the instigator of Jack and the Doctor's meeting. She wasn't sure where this intuition was coming from but she never questioned her gut instinct. Saved her butt on a number of times while working somewhere near a space rift. She decided that it didn't matter. Jack was here, had hired her out of the entirety of England and what did it really matter? If Jack wanted to talk, she always lent a listening ear before.
"Do you think you can drink the tea on your own?" Rose asks the Doctor warmly cause she was more than willing to help him out.

[Magic223]

The Doctor was laying there. His hearts were both beating at least. But he wasn't in the best shape either. He curled up in the blanket. He knew Rose would look after him. He was coughing. He wished he could tell Rose he loved her, But it wasn't that easy.
He just lay his head on her.
"I know you would.. I know how much the TARDIS became like a friend to you." He also missed travelling with Rose. Tears just slipped down his face. The time lord was going to need time to recover.
He sits up when the tea is brought to him. He sipped it slowly. He had been forcing himself to stay upright and walk for such a long time that now he was with Rose and JAck he just couldn't anymore. He was leaning on her.
Jack was looking at the Doctor and then at Rose. "You two can stay as long as you need."
He wondered if the Doctor would need anything else. "Do you need any more blankets ?" He asked them. He saw the Doctor shiver.

[ladyonyx04]

"Thank you Jack." Rose said grateful to him for not blaming her or the Doctor for his change in status of living. "Perhaps another small blanket and some pillows. I'll stay and look after 'im. Go and take care o' the world." She says kindly holding onto the Doctor, knowing he needed her close to him, and also wanting desperately to be close to him as well. She places herself firmly by his side, placing the cool wet towel close by in case she needed it. But for now she wanted nothing to stop her from mapping out his familiar features and from her messing up his flat hair. It should never be like that again. It was an echo of his emotions, she knew from watching him mess it up from exhilaration, worry, and just to mess it up so she would remark on it. She saw how much her opinion of him had mattered. He looked so down when he had first regenerated into this him when she hadn't believed it was him even though he changed RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER. She had been speechless and frightened of this man who was a stranger and yet familiar. But she had gotten over that quick. And once more began to travel with him because he was the same man she loved. He might not be able to say it, but she would waste no more time dancing around the subject. Let him know every chance they got for she wanted him to know he was cared for. Deeply. "I love you." She says softly in his ear content in the knowledge from his copy that he loved and needed her from the bottom of his hearts.